Archive for 2017
December 24, 2017
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study finds online interest in sex rises at Christmas, with more births nine months later.
NBC: IS THE FIRST AMENDMENT TOO BROAD? THE CASE FOR REGULATING HATE SPEECH IN AMERICA.
And you thought NBC just hated the Second Amendment. And your kids.
HOLLYWOOD IN DECLINE: Even with ‘Star Wars’ surge, moviegoing could hit 22-year low. Blame bad sequels, rising ticket prices and streaming.
Well, that’s part of it. Also, the scandals and the politics have damaged Hollywood’s brand.
UPDATE (From Ed): There’s also the One Reason Media Refuse to Cite for Bad Box Office, which, predictably, the L.A. Times doesn’t cite in the first link above.
JOAN WALSH ANNOUNCES MOVE TO CNN AFTER BEING DUMPED BY MSNBC.
Finally, CNN is taking bold steps to straighten out their hard left bias…
WE ALL SAW THIS COMING, DIDN’T WE? Days after iPhone battery fiasco, lawsuits against Apple begin to mount.
A HEART-WARMING TALE: Woman pulls gun, foils robbery. “The robber and his two friends took off running. Penbrook police officers found and arrested them at 26th and Brookwood streets, and they recovered a BB gun from one of the youths. The three juveniles from Harrisburg were charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery. No shots were fired during the incident and no one was injured.”
RUH-ROH ROSIE! Twitter has ‘second thoughts’ about Rosie’s creepy attack on Ben Shapiro.
Just wait until Rosie discovers this old dead fella named Saul Alinsky and the fourth of his “Rules for Radicals.”
WAR ON CHRISTMAS UPDATE: Are You Kidding Me? Liberal Rag Says Hallmark Christmas Movies are a Bastion for Trumpian White Nationalism.
More or less so than Thomas the Tank Engine, or Trump himself wishing Americans Merry Christmas?
THE STORY OF A Charlie Brown Christmas.
When the animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on CBS in 1965, both the television network and the show’s own producers expected it to be a disaster.
A simplistic plot and animation style that betrayed the project’s shoestring budget. No laugh track. Actual children providing the voices, almost all amateurs who had never acted before. Piano music — Vince Guaraldi’s jazz with a dash of Beethoven — dominating the soundtrack.
And then there was that part where Linus read a Bible verse. A Bible verse — in a Christmas special! The horror!
Read the whole thing.
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WAR ON CHRISTMAS UPDATE: University of Minnesota: Christmas guidelines ‘ill-advised.’
The University of Minnesota has condemned a recent document that discouraged a host of holiday practices, saying its creation was “ill-advised.”
As Campus Reform recently reported, the school’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resources Sciences (CFANS) put out a set of recommendations that encouraged its employees to “recognize holidays in ways that are respectful of the diversity of our community.”
“Consider neutral-themed parties, such as ‘winter celebration,’” the flyer suggested, adding that “decorations, music, and food should be general and not specific to any one religion,” even discouraging the use of “bows” and “wrapped gifts.”
Susan Thurston Hamerski, media contact for CFANS, told Campus Reform at the time that the guidelines were used for conversations among faculty and staff, claiming that they are “not policy” and “not for distribution.”
Now, the university itself is taking additional measures to distance itself from the document, saying that “the actions of a single employee, whose attempt at a diversity training session was, to be blunt, ill advised,” and “does not constitute a policy on the part of the university.”
“We do not have such a policy, would never implement such a policy, and any representation otherwise is incorrect,” the university told Campus Reform in a statement. “Again, the University of Minnesota does not have a Religious and Diversity Holiday policy and has no intention of introducing such a policy.”
Well, good, because that was stupid.
WHY ARE LEFTY MEDIA OUTFITS SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY AND ABUSE? At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment: A media company built on subversion and outlandishness was unable to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women, two of its founders acknowledge.
Maybe the name should have been a tip-off.
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SO MUCH FOR THE COOL PROFESSIONALISM OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: Bundy mistrial highlights why right distrusts the feds.
As Washington conservatives question whether partisan FBI officials working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller have stacked the deck against President Donald Trump, a criminal case in Las Vegas points to the sort of federal prosecutorial abuses that give the right cause for paranoia.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the infamous 2014 Bunkerville standoff case against rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and co-defendant Ryan Payne, on the grounds that federal prosecutors improperly withheld evidence. . . .
Navarro’s decision apparently was a reflection on federal officials. It follows release of a memo by BLM investigator Larry Wooten that described “a widespread pattern of bad judgment, lack of discipline, incredible bias, unprofessionalism and misconduct, as well as likely policy, ethical and legal violations among senior and supervisory staff” in the BLM’s Office of Law Enforcement and Security.
Wooten wrote that he had seen “excessive force,” described officers grinding Bundy’s son Dave’s face in gravel and opined that federal officials were intent on commanding “the most intrusive, oppressive, large scale and militaristic cattle impound possible.”
In an apparently partisan reference that used a term Hillary Clinton designated for Trump supporters, Wooten wrote that a federal prosecutor said, “Let’s get these ‘shall we say Deplorables.’”
(Likewise FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who worked on Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, shared texts in which they called Trump a “loathsome human.” Mueller removed Strzok after he learned of the texts.)
Wooten also wrote that the Bundy case “closely mirrors” the circumstances behind the trial of former Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska.
In 2008, federal prosecutors indicted Stevens, a Republican senator, for failing to report that an oil contractor had paid for renovations on his Alaska cabin. A jury convicted Stevens, who then lost a re-election bid.
Only later did the case fall apart after a Department of Justice probe found prosecutors had withheld exculpatory evidence. Attorney General Eric Holder, who inherited the case after President Barack Obama won the White House, asked the courts to throw out the conviction.
Remember this when people talk about the patriotic, nonpartisan professional civil servants at the DOJ.
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THEIR BRAND OF POLITICS DOES POORLY AMONG THOSE WHO ARE FINANCIALLY SELF-RELIANT: WSJ: The Democratic Party Is Rooting Against The American Worker And Our Country’s Success.
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THEY HAVE COMPLETELY LOST IT: S.E. Cupp Tells Obama Flack Ben Rhodes to ‘Try Therapy’ After He Fantasizes About Dead Republicans.