BUT… BUT… BUT THE VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY MADE ALL THIS UP: Clinton’s Health.
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AN UPDATE ON THE LATEST NORTH KOREAN MISSILE VOLLEY: According to UPI, Japanese radars and other sensor systems failed to identify the “incoming tracks” of the three missiles North Korea launched on September 5. If the Japanese tracking systems had correctly identified the missiles flight paths, the report says Japan would have tried to intercept the missiles. The missiles landed inside Japan’s maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). So stay tuned.
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Report: Immigrant take jobs, hours of low-skill Americans.
UN COMMISSIONER DEALING IN WEAPONIZED PARANOIA: UN Commissioner Warns of ‘Weaponized’ Populism from Wilders, Trump, Farage Turning ‘Into Colossal Violence.’
After #Brexit and #Texit, how ‘bout #UNEXIT as well? (Or will that be covered under #Texit?)
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE: Getting A Hickey Can Cause A Stroke, So Maybe Stop Sucking On Each Other’s Necks.
WHY ARE THESE OBSTRUCTIONISTS PLAYING POLITICS WITH AMERICANS’ LIVES? Senate Democrats Block Zika Bill Over Planned Parenthood Provisions. What’s really amazing is that that’s a New York Times headline that doesn’t blame Republicans.
GOOD PARENTING: Teaching Kids To Use Knives.
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CHURCHES USED TO WORK TO REMEDY THIS: The Health Effects of Growing Old, and Lonely. “In Britain and the United States, roughly one in three people older than 65 live alone, and in the United States, half of those older than 85 live alone. Studies in both countries show the prevalence of loneliness among people older than 60 ranging from 10 percent to 46 percent.”
OF COURSE THEY DO: Big Book Contracts Await the Obamas.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: NRA endorses Democrat Koster, not Republican, for Missouri governor.
The NRA’s political action committee cited Koster’s record as a state senator and attorney general, including his support of a sweeping bill to expand gun rights that Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed this year. The gun rights group also highlighted that Koster supported a concealed guns law in 2003 when he was a state senator, as well as a more recent constitutional amendment aimed at making gun-control restrictions subject to strict legal scrutiny.
“Chris Koster has never wavered from his Second Amendment beliefs. For over 17 years, he has fought to preserve the constitutional rights of law-abiding Missourians,” PAC chairman Chris W. Cox said in an email.
But his Republican opponent:
[Eric] Greitens is a former Democrat and first-time GOP candidate who’s touted his military service and gun rights support. In one of his most attention-grabbing campaign ads, he shoots a big gun and causes a fiery explosion.
Missourians are fortunate that no matter who wins in November, their next governor will be much stronger on the 2nd Amendment than Jay Nixon.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: Fox News ‘Has Not Felt Like Home … For Years’
LOST HILLARY: Hillary Talks About Government in 2006.
MAYBE THEY WERE ROBO-CURIOUS: ‘I’ve met some women who were into me because of the doll’… Man reveals the truth of his two year ‘relationship’ with a sex robot. Nobody tell notorious robophobe Matthew Yglesias, who is likely to find this story even more triggering than most: “He seems to have a particular fear of fembots, the analysis of which I will leave to the professionals.”
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is modern traffic enforcement all about dollars instead of safety?
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: The questions about Hillary Clinton’s health are absurd.
—Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post, today.
Chaser:
McCain’s health has long been a topic of discussion in the campaign due to his advanced age — he will be 72 by the time of the November election — and his past medical problems.
McCain himself regularly pokes fun at both his age and his wounds; “I’m older than dirt and I have more scars than Frankenstein,” he jokes with audiences.
But, the Arizona senator’s campaign is well aware that concerns about whether he is well enough and up to the job are potentially perilous for a candidate seeking to win the age versus experience battle with youthful Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the fall.
To that end, the McCain campaign knew this day would inevitably come. What was out of their control was what the records would say. Picking how the release of the records would be played in the media, however, was under their control and they sought to control it.
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* TGIF: It’s become a tried and true policy in Washington that bad news tends to break late on Fridays. That’s because sharp flacks know that the attention of the American public tends to linger to movies, bars, sports and other distractions right around noon on Friday. (That is, of course, not true for The Fix who retains his laser-like focus on politics 24 hours a day, seven days a week.) By releasing the documents on a Friday — and a Friday before a long, holiday weekend no less — the McCain campaign is relying on the fact that average voters are either already on their way to Memorial Day destinations or heading there in their minds.
The story will get major play no matter what — McCain is the Republican presidential nominee after all — but the audience for the stories is likely to be lower than if the documents were dropped on a Monday or Tuesday for example. (Interesting sidenote: The Fix spoke to Serbian reporters and editors yesterday and confirmed that the Friday afternoon document dump exists even in Serbia!)
—“McCain’s Health: What It Means,” Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post, May 23, 2008.
Related: “Is it true that John McCain’s injuries as a result of being tortured as a POW are the real reason he does not send e-mails (using a keyboard is painful for him)? Or is Barack Obama’s ad portraying him as a computer luddite true?”
—“McCain’s War Injuries and Computers,” “FactCheck.org,” September 17, 2008.
THE LATEST IN I.P. INSANITY: Warner Brothers reports own site as illegal.
Film studio Warner Brothers has asked Google to remove its own website from search results, saying it violates copyright laws.
It also asked the search giant to remove links to legitimate movie streaming websites run by Amazon and Sky, as well as the film database IMDB.
The request was submitted on behalf of Warner Brothers by Vobile, a company that files hundreds of thousands of takedown requests every month.
Warner Brothers has yet to comment.
The self-censorship was first spotted by news blog Torrent Freak, which said Vobile had made some “glaring errors”.
In one request, Google was asked to remove links to the official websites for films such as Batman: The Dark Knight and The Matrix.
This is no doubt all bot-driven.
DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A CLINTON: “A criminal organization masquerading as a political party, as the saying goes, Bubba Division. How would you like to make $18 million for a do-nothing job?”, Michael Walsh asks.
I’d rather it stay a do-nothing job, but if the Clintons win, next year, a lot of corporations who paid Bubba his millions will start wanting a return on their investments – and they’ll get it, just as Obama doled out hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds to such enviro-boondoggle sinkholes as Solyndra, Fisker, Nevada Geothermal, A123, etc.
(Classical reference in headline.)
30 SECONDS OVER OCEANIA: How A Cakemaker Became An Enemy Of The State – “The entire episode takes, maybe, 30 seconds. When Phillips declined to participate in celebrating the wedding of David Mullins and Charlie Craig that day, his life was upended in ways that people who argue passionately about the culture war on social media or political blogs might not fully appreciate.”
Read the whole thing.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, WE’D RETURN TO THE PRE-BROWN ERA. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Cal State LA offers segregated housing for black students.