WELL, IT IS NO ATLANTIS! ‘Lost continent’ found under Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.
Archive for 2017
February 5, 2017
THE DYSTOPIC IS LOOKING FOR EXAMPLES: More Examples of Weaponized Empathy.
NOT ERRORS, DISTORTIONS: Errors From The Press Are Piling Up In The Opening Weeks Of The Trump Administration.
I WAS CRITICIZING THE ARGENTINIAN SOCIALIST BEFORE IT WAS FASHIONABLE: Conservative criticism intensifies against Pope Francis.
THAT’S CRAZY TALK RIGHT THERE: Forget Milo. Why Not Have Real Debates on College Campuses?
IN THE EMAIL FROM KATY HUTH JONES: Treachery and Truth.
AH, GOOD OLD RUSSIA: Russia: Everything Old is New Again… Again.
THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF THE LIBERAL ANTIFADA: Burning down Berkeley’s love of free speech.
Yes, the guest was Milo Yiannopoulos — a performance artist who specializes in shocking the liberal academic bourgeoisie. And he planned to provoke — to denounce the school’s “sanctuary” policies and call for the prosecution of school officials who supposedly endanger other students with those policies. But if the only “threat” was a speech, no one had to attend.
The city’s mayor, Jesse Arreguin, promoted the censorship drive, tweeting that afternoon: “Using speech to silence marginalized communities and promote bigotry is unacceptable. Hate speech isn’t welcome in our community.” That all but invited the area’s notorious “black bloc” radicals to join in and make it a riot — complete with assaults on suspected Trump or Milo supporters.
Which left Arreguin pleading, “Destruction and violence are contrary to progressive values and have no place in our community.”
DUH. HAVING FAILED TO MAKE US DISARM IN THE FACE OF AN AGGRESSIVE USSR, THEY CONTINUE THEIR WAR AGAINST AMERICA: The Doomsday Clock is a Measure of Liberal Hysteria, not Armageddon.
SICKLY FANTASIES OF ETERNAL, SELF DRAMATIZING ADOLESCENTS: Resistance Is Facile.
SPEAK UP FOR SILENCE: Be Like Library Man.
VILE PROGS ALWAYS PROJECT: Progressive Sexism.
February 4, 2017
CHANGE: Argentina’s Trump-Like Immigration Order Rattles South America. “Argentina is so used to celebrating immigration as a cornerstone of society that a 19th-century saying — to govern is to populate — remains in use to this day. But in an abrupt shift coinciding with the immigration restrictions put in place by the Trump administration, President Mauricio Macri has issued a decree curbing immigration to Argentina, with his government declaring that newcomers from poorer countries in Latin America bring crime. The measures announced by Mr. Macri in recent days made it much easier to deport immigrants and restrict their entry, prompting irate comparisons to President Trump and igniting a fierce debate over immigration. . . . But opinion polls in Argentina showed widespread support for limiting immigration, and some say the new decree does not go far enough.”
LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS: NBC links to story headlined “Holocaust Victims’ Violins Restored and Teaching Younger Generation of Musicians,” with tweet that reads, “Holocaust victims’ violins restored to teach younger generation of Muslims.”
As Michael Walsh quips in response, “Looking forward to young Muslims performing Mendelssohn, Copland, Bernstein, Bloch, Gershwin, et al.”
Heh, indeed.™
ANNALS OF PEARL-CLUTCHING: Eric Posner condemns Trump for mocking judge; forgets Lincoln went way further.
Well, and I remember when Obama attacked the Supreme Court to its face during a State Of The Union Address, over Citizens United. But that was different because shut up.
WELL, TO BE FAIR, NEITHER CAN ANYONE ELSE: CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill Can’t Name One Example of Right-Wing Rioters on Campuses.
WELL, TO BE FAIR, NANCY PELOSI AND GUN CONTROL GROUPS LIE A LOT: Nancy Pelosi and gun control groups claim that Neil Gorsuch sides with ‘felons over gun safety.’ “PolitiFact explains why this is unfounded, and I think that’s absolutely right.”
AND NOBODY HAD TO RESIGN THIS TIME: Justice Dept. appeals federal judge’s ruling halting immigration order.
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SCOTT ADAMS: Berkeley And Hitler:
Speaking of Hitler, I’m ending my support of UC Berkeley, where I got my MBA years ago. I have been a big supporter lately, with both my time and money, but that ends today. I wish them well, but I wouldn’t feel safe or welcome on the campus. A Berkeley professor made that clear to me recently. He seems smart, so I’ll take his word for it.
I’ve decided to side with the Jewish gay immigrant who has an African-American boyfriend, not the hypnotized zombie-boys in black masks who were clubbing people who hold different points of view. I feel that’s reasonable, but I know many will disagree, and possibly try to club me to death if I walk on campus.
Well, that possibility does undermine the interest of alumni in donating.
Plus:
Yesterday I asked my most liberal, Trump-hating friend if he ever figured out why Republicans have most of the Governorships, a majority in Congress, the White House, and soon the Supreme Court. He said, “There are no easy answers.”
I submit that there are easy answers. But for many Americans, cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias hide those easy answers behind Hitler hallucinations.
Yep.
ED MORRISSEY: Republicans Exhale With Trump’s Supreme Court Choice of Gorsuch.
“Think of the Supreme Court,” the Republican Party repeatedly urged skeptics of Donald Trump during the general election in 2016. Conservatives who found themselves lost at sea in a cycle dominated by grassroots populism and the tenacious popularity of the billionaire candidate riding its wave fretted whether they would find themselves locked out, regardless of which candidate won the election. Republican leaders and the Trump campaign insisted that conservatives had only one chance left to save the Supreme Court from a progressive takeover, and eventually conservatives cast their bets on Trump.
This week, that bet paid off – and perhaps more robustly than conservatives might have hoped. Trump had long pledged to name his first Supreme Court pick from a list of 21 names, consisting of well-regarded judicial conservatives that had been recommended from sources like the Heritage Foundation and activists with whom the campaign consulted. Still, having been burned in the past on nominees from better-established politicians – such as George H. W. Bush’s appointment of David Souter or George W. Bush’s initial selection of Harriet Miers – many conservatives had low expectations that Trump would stick to his list once the political realities of Washington DC emerged. Instead, Trump fulfilled his campaign promise.
He’s actually done rather a lot of that.
MAN THROWS HOMEMADE EXPLOSIVE INTO PASADENA CHEESECAKE FACTORY:
An unknown man threw a homemade explosive device into a Cheesecake Factory in Southern California Thursday as patrons dined on the American fare.
“This evening an incendiary device exploded within our Pasadena restaurant,” The Cheescake Factory said in a statement, according to ABC News. “Thankfully, none of our guests or staff was injured. Law enforcement is actively investigating the incident and we hope to reopen in Pasadena on Friday, as usual.”
After the apparatus was tossed and detonated, the restaurant filled with heavy smoke.
The device contained gunpowder, the Star-News said. Police said it was not a pipe bomb, not a Molotov cocktail, had no projectiles, no shrapnel and nothing was ejected.
“It could be a dissatisfied customer, a disgruntled employee,” Pasadena Police Lt. Mark Goodman said, according to the Star-News.
Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek said the device was more like a firecracker than a bomb. Still, he said police are taking the incident seriously, according to the Star-News.
Local authorities notified federal agencies out of an abundance of caution, but don’t know if the incident was intended to be an act of terrorism, the Star-News said.
The man was seen fleeing the area on foot.
Police described the man as being Latino or Middle Eastern, about 6 feet tall, of thin build and with a heavy beard. He wore all black clothing and a black beanie, the Star-News said.
Some things simply aren’t done – nobody steps on a church in Peter Venkman’s town, and nobody should mess with the Cheesecake Factory that gave Penny her first job after leaving Nebraska.