NOTORIOUS RBG: An emailer notes that Congress could admonish her via a House/Senate resolution that could pass by simple majority, and that the President couldn’t veto.
Archive for 2016
July 13, 2016
GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: New York Post: FBI Agents Tell Us Lynch and Clinton Struck a Deal on That Plane.
DON’T LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS. WATCH WHAT HE DOES: Making it worse? Day after Obama trashed cops at Dallas memorial service, look who he’s meeting with. “Among those attending Obama’s meeting today on policing: Lynch, Deray McKesson, LA Mayor Garcetti, Sharpton, heads of IACP, NAACP, NAPO,” Josh Lederman of AP tweets.
As Jim Hoft noted earlier this week at Gateway Pundit:
McKesson was a lead full-time paid protester in Ferguson, Missouri during the riots and looting. He later was became a lead activist in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray riots. DeRay McKesson and the other Ferguson and Baltimore protest leaders were trained in Soros-funded agitation…Last week DeRay was just awarded a job with the Baltimore school district in human resources making $165,000 a year.
That’s after McKesson unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Baltimore and taught a course at Yale, “featuring reading material such as, The Problem of Whiteness,” Jazz Shaw wrote in February at Hot Air. Additionally, the course’s syllabus also brought new meaning to the phrase “liberal arts” when it covered “In Defense of Looting.”
More Shaw:
When you fold that in with a career as a substitute teacher and regular feature on MSNBC talking about rioting, you have a world class resume of someone prepared to take on the massive budget challenges of a nearly bankrupt city and the social unrest which regularly threatens to see it burned to the ground. He’s also been a resident of Baltimore “for several months” now so he’s got the favorite son thing going for him.
I love Tom Wolfe, but I missed the memo: how did Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and Bonfire of the Vanities become how-to guides for the 21st century government?
FAT-SHAMING IS BACK IN NOW? SJWs PROTEST OVERWEIGHT CHARACTER IN DISNEY FILM: “The moral: leftists are never, never, never satisfied.”
THE FERGUSON EFFECT IS REAL: Are the activists who deny the increase in the national crime rate spurred by physical and political attacks on police…Crime Change Deniers?
WELL, IT’S NICE OF NBC TO FINALLY ADMIT THEIR BIASES, as they dub Rudy Giuliani as the “far-right former mayor” in a piece titled “Here Are the Republican National Convention Speakers We Know Of:”
I screencapped this passage, in case someone from NBC went in and airbrushed the piece, which they’ve since done after a backlash on Twitter. But note that this appeared in an allegedly a straight news article, not a rant by a fire-breathing MSNBC socialist. Rudy Giuliani is a good man who saved New York from becoming the next Detroit or Newark. But if you think the moderate pro-gun control, pro-choice Republican is on “the far-right,” it speaks far more about your worldview than his. And it was nice of NBC to finally triangulate where they view themselves as fitting in on the political spectrum. Take a bow, fellas.
FBI AGENTS IN HILLARY INVESTIGATION HAD TO SIGN NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT: If this report is accurate it’s truly awful. Comey sold out.
DIETING: Artificial sweeteners may trick people into being hungrier, study says.
Researchers in the new study say, however, that while reduction of sugar consumption can be healthy — so replacing real sugar with something else should be beneficial — the effects of using chemicals in unhealthy foods rather than replacing sugar-sweetened foods with those carrying natural sugar had not previously been explored.
“These findings further reinforce the idea that ‘sugar-free’ varieties of processed food and drink may not be as inert as we anticipated,” Herbert Herzog, a professor at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, said in a press release. “Artificial sweeteners can actually change how animals perceive the sweetness of their food, with a discrepancy between sweetness and energy levels prompting an increase in caloric consumption.”
I won’t eat or drink anything with them, because they taste horrible and aspartame gives me a wicked headache.
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL, POST-BREXIT EDITION: How Boris Johnson was brought to his knees by the ‘cuckoo nest plot.’
SO, BASICALLY, IT’S LIKE MSNBC: This is the most detailed image of the Orion Nebula ever captured: It’s filled with failed stars.
I THINK MY NEXT USA TODAY COLUMN will be entitled Calling Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Notorious RBG” Is Cultural Appropriation And That’s NOT Okay! Okay, maybe that’s a troll too far even for me. Or maybe not!
FOLLOW THE MONEY, IF YOU CAN:
Cause of Action Institute (CoA Institute) today filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the United States Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for failing to produce records about its role in the federal government’s multi-million dollar agreements with big banks over their allegedly faulty residential mortgage securities practices. HUD has failed to produce relevant documents for more than a year after CoA Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information.
Cause of Action Institute President & CEO, and former federal judge, Alfred J. Lechner, Jr.: “Taxpayers deserve to know why the money from these agreements is going to third parties and not being returned to the Treasury Department. The Obama administration should be held accountable when agencies like HUD make decisions behind closed doors and fail to produce timely relevant documents in accordance with the law.”
The most transparent administration in history.
NOW OUT FROM DAVID DRAKE, Death’s Bright Day.
GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL: 12 Mosquito Havens Lurking in Your Yard.
One of the recommendations is to use the Mosquito Dunks I’ve recommended here before.
PC DISEASE SPREADING AT REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION: A giant billboard promoting a Christian movie, “God’s Not Dead 2,” was planned for display during the GOP convention in Cleveland, but then the advertising firm involved caved because mentioning divine judgement is “incendiary” in a generation raised on the myth that people have a right never to be offended by words in the commercial or news media.
“The billboard, 32 feet high and 60 feet wide, would have been draped over a downtown Cleveland building with a photo of actress Melissa Joan Hart and the quote, ‘I’d rather stand with God and be judged by the world than stand with the world and be judged by God,’” according to Kaitlin Collins of the Daily Caller.
“However, after much negotiation, the billboard company Orange Barrel Media has decided the message is too ‘incendiary.’ (Side note: the movie stars Mike Huckabee.),” Collins said, citing the Hollywood Reporter. “According to emails obtained by the Hollywood Reporter, the billboard company said it didn’t like the ‘judged by God’ message because it was ‘too political’ and ‘way too incendiary.’”
How long before presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is asked his position on the position?
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Associated Press now referring to Ginsburg as “Notorious RBG:”
A couple of years ago, “AP [was] Under Fire for Using Hashtag Backing Wendy Davis Abortion Filibuster.”
More recently, “The AP [let] its lib mask slip with this [anti-Trump] tweet about Elizabeth Warren.”
AP is really dropping the mask these days, as the last vestiges of a near-century old practice of mass media “objectivity” finally fall. Keep these examples in mind, the next time AP runs a think piece complaining about readers becoming, as Spinal Tap’s manager would say, more “selective” about where they consume their news.
SHE WAS JUST “EXTREMELY CARELESS,” WHICH AS WE KNOW MEANS SHE’S ENTITLED TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Elizabeth Holmes to remain at Theranos despite federal ban and gross negligence.
DIE HARD DIRECTOR HATES ‘STUPID ILLUSION’ OF ‘MASCULINE’ CAPTAIN AMERICA, COMIC ‘FASCISM:’
Veteran director John McTiernan spewed venom at the Captain America films, saying comic book movies are made by “fascists” and promote a “cult of hyper-masculinity.” The man behind such films as Die Hard and Predator talked to the French website Premiere and derided the action genre: “They are comic book adaptations. There is action but not of human beings, these are films made by fascists.”
I’d ask why Democrat-controlled institutions are such cesspits of fascism, but you could write whole books on that topic…
SPEAKER RYAN CALLS FOR A LOT OF THINGS: Speaker Ryan Calls for End to Hillary’s Security Briefings.
That’s nice. Who’s actually going to stop them?
ANALYSIS: SAD BUT TRUE. Even at a funeral, dividing the nation is apparently good politics.
On Tuesday, during the memorial service for the five murdered Dallas police officers, President Obama began the speech eloquently. But it sadly once again became a political dividing tool when he made the absolutely outrageous statement that teenagers can get a hold of a Glock more readily than a book or a computer.
Harmony, brief as it was, immediately became a social media free-for-all. He just could not help make it about his political beliefs with a whopper of a lie. Has he never heard of a library? Did he think politics really belonged at a memorial service? With an entire nation grieving and watching an entire city and police force grieving in front of him, for some odd reason, he felt the need to go there.
Someone should have reminded him he was not speaking at a campaign rally. There is a time and place for politics. A funeral service to help heal racial divides is not the time or the place to stoke political divides.
In short, we are letting the race hucksters make a three ring circus of our lives, our communities and our relationships with each other and we have become willingly audience members pinned to our sides to exit from the show.
That’s Salena Zito, and of course you’ll want to read the whole thing.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Obama Administration Urges Judge To Dismiss Suit That Calls War Against Isis Illegal.
AN INCENDIARY WHITE BLACK LIVES MATTER SPOKESPERSON. BECAUSE WHY NOT? Dallas Reverend Receives Fame, Threats Over Words at Fatal Protest. Well, we’ve had white Democrats in white robes stirring up racial hate for over a century.
FORGET THE PETER PRINCIPLE – MEET THE FRANKEN PRINCIPLE: Al Franken Wants to Save You from Pokémon Go.
In retrospect, Al’s entire life has been leading up to this moment. Though I’m old enough to remember when Franken posed as a do your own thing libertine on the earlier, funnier Saturday Night Live, before becoming just another socialist busybody.