JUST NBC THE MAGICAL THINKING! MSNBC reporter Ron Allen under fire for claiming Obama’s Paris climate change agreement is designed to STOP storms like Matthew.
Of course, when it comes to magical thinking, it’s a something of a folie à deux. Why do we even need further “climate change agreements,” when Obama promised us that his mere nomination as Democrat nominee for POTUS in 2008 was “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal?”
OUT: WI-FI. IN: BOD-FI. Sending Passwords Through Your Body Could Be More Secure Than Transmitting Them Over The Air.
UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT: Toronto’s ‘beer thrower’ ID’d as award-winning journalist.
VIDEO: Weather Channel Reporter Says Haitian Kids are Eating Trees and Causing Deforestation.
Can we get a factcheck on this, please?
THE WASTE LAND: It’s National Poetry Day, but these days, The Noble Art Is Not So Noble, David Solway writes, discussing that artform’s long slow painful slide into PC irrelevance.
It certainly would be interesting to be a fly on the wall if T.S. Eliot and Maya Angelou actually were talking shop and comparing the state of the art during their heydays.
WE SURE ARE HEARING A LOT ABOUT THIS ALL OF A SUDDEN: How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos.
If only we had some sort of voting system that was immune to foreign hackers.
BUT OF COURSE: Huma Abedin Email Attacked Jewish Group.
Huma Abedin, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, urged former President Bill Clinton in 2009 to reject a speaking invitation before the American Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC), asking his assistant in an email, do “u really want to consider sending him into that crowd?”
Abedin’s comment about “that crowd” has sparked anger and consternation among Jewish and non-Jewish leaders who consider it hostile to Jews and to the State of Israel. Her comments are raising uncomfortable questions about Abedin’s past and her family’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Appalling” is how Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, described the email, adding that it, “shows hostility toward Jews and Israel in light of the fact that ‘that crowd’ gives huge ovations to White House speakers.”
Klein pointed to the Abedin family’s ties to a radical Islamic group, saying, “it makes me think about the allegations about her parents and other family members who were associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.”
In tonight’s performance of The Wilson Administration, the role of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson will be played by Huma Abedin.
A MILLENNIAL SPEAKS: Yes Hillary, Some Of Us Live In Our Parents’ Basements – Because Of Your Failed Policies.
Hillary said “Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement. They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don’t see much of a future.”
Hillary wants to make this election about anything other than the future. Tax returns from decades ago, beauty pageants, or an old appearance on the Howard Stern show are all topics she’d rather focus our attention on instead of promoting solutions to the issues we face every day.
The real issue of this election is not whether Donald Trump has always said friendly things. He hasn’t. Nor is the real issue of this election whether Hillary Clinton has been friendly with the truth. She isn’t. But this is what we continue to hear day in and day out.
What else does Clinton have to run on? Her seat-warming years in the Senate? The Russian reset? Libya?
Anything?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Start A Fire With A Pencil And Jumper Cables.
THIS WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly Are Publicly Fighting Over Trump Now.
FROM MY COLLEAGUE MAURICE STUCKE, AND OXFORD’S ARIEL EZRACHI: The Rise of the Machines – How Automated Digital Assistants Can Reduce Competition (and the Cash in Your Wallet).
STRANGERS IN OUR OWN LAND: The non-citizen voter fraud disaster.
Daniel Horowitz writes:
According to Pew, there were over 1 million immigrants in Virginia as of 2014. In 2013, according to the Census, the number of non-citizens in the state was 427,535, but given the fast pace of new immigration to the region, that number has likely grown. If a random sampling from just eight counties showed over 1,000 non-citizens registered to vote, one can easily speculate that thousands more are registered statewide.
This random sampling on non-citizens voting dovetails well with a 2014 study from three prominent political scientists who found that up to 6.4% of all non-citizens participated in the 2008 elections and up to 14.7% voted. Given the population of non-citizens in the state, that is potentially a very impactful number for any close election.
It’s probably nothing. I keep reading that voter fraud is a myth.
EVACUATE: Hurricane Matthew intensifies to Category 4 as it approaches Florida. It’s good that all the predictions of nonstop monster hurricanes post-Katrina didn’t come true, but the paucity of big storms hitting land in that era means that there are a lot of people in the impact zone with no experience.
STEVEN COHEN: Why Colombia Said No to Peace.
When he first arrived in the Putumayo Department in the early 1990s, Hesmar could still appreciate what the FARC seemed to stand for. “The state didn’t exist here, so they were the ones who served that function,” he says. “They would meet with the communities to share their ideals. Who’s not going to agree with schools and roads and health care?” But then the rebels got deeper and deeper into the drug trade, then deeper and deeper into extortion. Their justice became harsher and less discerning. One afternoon, his wife’s teenage daughter brought a police officer to their house without Hesmar’s knowledge, and the rebels tied him to a tree for two weeks—only sparing his life after his friends came to beg for it. To punish an uncooperative businessman, the guerrillas set fire to his gas station, blowing up an entire neighborhood, along with Hesmar’s cart. Hesmar’s wife was pregnant at the time, and for a while, he wasn’t sure what he would do to sustain his family. “They pretend to be for the people, but it’s always the poor who end up suffering,” he says.
Colombians didn’t say no to peace; they said no to a bad deal with narco-communists.
DON’T SUGARCOAT IT, TELLS US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL, MICHAEL: Michael Walsh on “Obersturmbannführer Kaine: Little Eichmann, Catholic Heretic.”
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER WEEK: This Week in Clinton Corruption for October 6, 2016.
IN THE MAIL: From Kenneth L Bennight Jr, Nacho Perez, Private Eye.
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REMEMBERING THE BLEACHBIT TIMELINE: On September 7 FBI Director Jim Comey had the temerity to write a “memo to staff” where he touted the Bureau’s honesty and competence. A month has passed and it’s confirmed that the FBI’s investigation of Hillary’s crimes was not simply incompetent, it was rigged. Comey ought to be impeached.
LET’S HOPE SO! SpaceX, Boeing Starting New Space Race?
Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons-like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space-travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less. And Boeing intends to be a key player in the initial push to send humans to Mars, maybe even beating Musk to his long-time goal.
“I’m convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket,” Muilenburg said at the Chicago event on innovation, which was sponsored by the Atlantic magazine.
It might seem presumptuous to say “Faster, please” when we already have two private American firms competing to see who can put humans on Mars first, but…
Faster, please.
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1246.
WHEN ISIS ATTACKED IN KURDISTAN: A former Australian MP visits the war zone. His trip to Iraqi Kurdistan included a visit to the Yazidi town of Sinjar.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
Shot: “Is America’s Tax System Fair?”, asks Amity Shlaes, the author of the best-selling history of FDR’s Great Depression, The Forgotten Man, in a new video at Prager U:
Chaser: “IRS subjects tea party groups to new round of scrutiny, publicizes tax return data,” the Washington Times reported on Monday.
Flashback: Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies in 2009.
WASHINGTON POST: How Rob Portman Pulled Away In Ohio.
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