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Archive for 2017
June 2, 2017
I’M RUNNING OUT OF POPCORN: Kathy Griffin’s attorney Lisa Bloom accuses Keith Olbermann of mansplaining how to stand up to Trump.
Meanwhile, “Griffin feels ‘betrayed’ by Anderson Cooper after CNN firing:”
Sources said Griffin had expected CNN “golden boy” Cooper to stand by her, but the news network swiftly announced she was fired from the NYE broadcast with Cooper, which they’ve done together for 10 years.
TV insiders say respected newsman Cooper had no choice but to condemn Griffin’s disturbing photo shoot, in which she held up a faux severed and bloody head of President Trump.
After the controversial image of Griffin went viral, sparking widespread backlash, Cooper tweeted, “For the record, I am appalled by the photo shoot Kathy Griffin took part in. It is clearly disgusting and completely inappropriate.”
But a source said, “Kathy totally misjudged this. She truly believed that Anderson would stick up for her. She considered him a friend. While she has nobody to blame but herself, she feels somehow betrayed.”
Griffin and Cooper’s annual New Year’s Eve train wreck hurt CNN’s reputation enough; beyond Cooper cutting his ties with Griffin, obviously Jeff Zucker was not looking forward to being reminded of her disastrous meltdown by half of Twitter every January 2nd.
As John Podhoretz wrote today, Griffin learned a hard lesson in weaponized outrage.
BEN RHODES’ BLOB SWINGS INTO ACTION: The New York Times Learned the Name of the New CIA Operations Head for Iran, and Guess What Happened Next?
WEIRD, GIVEN THAT WE’VE HAD OVER 50 YEARS OF TRIUMPHANT FEMINISM: “More than 36 percent of teenaged girls in America are depressed or have suffered a recent major depressive episode, according to a study published in Translational Psychiatry. For boys, the rate is 13.6 percent.”
NANCY PELOSI GOES FULL THEOCRAT: “By invoking Pope Francis on climate change, Nancy Pelosi unwittingly confirms that the climate mania is indeed a matter of religious fanaticism, especially since she exhibits medieval ignorance about the subject by confusing greenhouse gases with ‘the air we breathe.’ Or maybe the sainted Ms. Pelosi doesn’t exhale poisonous carbon dioxide with every breath? However crude and boorish Trump may seem at times, it becomes clear why he won when you consider what he is up against.”
TUCKER CARLSON ON PARIS ACCORD FALLOUT: ‘What You’re Watching Is A Priesthood Defending Its Faith.’
Related: Nancy Pelosi goes full theocrat; claims Trump dishonoring God by pulling out of Paris Accord.
I’m so old, I remember when leftists believed there was nothing more important than a wide separation between church and state.
CHRONIC NERVE PAIN: Sensory neurons switch roles to transmit pain signals. “In conditions involving chronic nerve pain, just the slightest touch can result in intense pain. How this might occur has long been a mystery. It is known that certain sensory neurons only transmit “pleasant tactile” sensations, such as soft touch, whereas other neuron types are responsible for transmitting pain. The researchers in Sweden discovered that nerve damage can cause the sensory neurons, previously unrelated to pain, to start transmitting pain signals.”
BRENDAN EICH AND MEMORIES PIZZA WERE UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Kathy Griffin learned a hard lesson in weaponized outrage.
As Ace says, the right has to emulate the tactics of the left. It’s the only way the left will change its behavior.
REMEMBERING TIANANMEN SQUARE’S “TANK MAN”:
The meaning of his moment–it was no more than that–was instantly decipherable in any tongue, to any age: even the billions who cannot read and those who have never heard of Mao Zedong could follow what the “tank man” did. A small, unexceptional figure in slacks and white shirt, carrying what looks to be his shopping, posts himself before an approaching tank, with a line of 17 more tanks behind it. The tank swerves right; he, to block it, moves left. The tank swerves left; he moves right. Then this anonymous bystander clambers up onto the vehicle of war and says something to its driver, which comes down to us as: “Why are you here? My city is in chaos because of you.” One lone Everyman standing up to machinery, to force, to all the massed weight of the People’s Republic–the largest nation in the world, comprising more than 1 billion people–while its all powerful leaders remain, as ever, in hiding somewhere within the bowels of the Great Hall of the People.
Even though Time Magazine published the article, reading it’s worth your time.
SO YOU’LL BE ABLE TO BE A WIREHEAD WITHOUT WIRES: Researchers Invent New Method for Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation.
SHE CHOSE…POORLY. Flashback: In December of 2016, since-retired comedienne Kathy Griffin said, “You know a lot of comics are going to go hard for Donald, but my edge is that I’ll go direct for Barron.”
I’m so old, I can remember when prominent leftists at least paid lip service to the notion that family members of politicians should be treated as “civilians.”
BRIDGET JOHNSON: 3 States Launch Climate Alliance to Abide by Terms of Paris Accord.
GAY LAW PROFESSOR STEPHEN CLARK files charges against Alamo Drafthouse for women-only Wonder Woman showing.
VIRGINIA GOVERNOR TERRY MCAULIFFE: Trump Withdrawing from Paris Accord ‘One of the Dumbest Decisions I’ve Ever Heard’. “I think the motive is he’s trying to protect the oil barons in this country.”
McAuliffe should really update his objects of Two Minutes Hate for the 21st Century.
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MEH, HE’S NOT THAT MUCH OLDER: ‘He broke me’! Kathy Griffin cries that she’s the victim of ‘older white guy’ Donald Trump.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: Today Show Panel Horrified at Trump ‘Blowing Up’ Climate Deal.
—NewsBusters, today.
Chaser: NASCAR, NBC Sports Group reach landmark deal.
—NASCAR.com, July 23, 2013.
HMM: Poland finds other body parts in coffin of president killed in 2010 crash.
The April 2010 crash near the western Russian city of Smolensk – the worst such disaster for Poland since World War Two – has left Polish society deeply divided over the cause despite the previous, centrist government’s conclusion from its own investigation that pilot error was at fault.
Poland’s current government under the Law and Justice (PiS) party, led by Lech Kaczynski’s twin brother Jaroslaw, took direct control of the prosecutors office and moved to re-examine the Smolensk crash after coming to power in late 2015, saying the previous investigation was not conducted properly.
Deputy Prosecutor General Marek Pasionek told reporters that in 12 of 24 coffins reopened since last year, bodies had been swapped in two, one contained half the body of another person while nine other caskets held scattered remains of other victims.
He said the coffin of Archbishop Miron Chodakowski contained only the upper half of his body while the lower half belonged to late General Tadeusz Ploski.
In the coffin of General Bronislaw Kwiatkowski there were 14 body parts belonging to seven other people, Pasionek said, adding that post-mortems would be finished by April next year.
In Moscow, the Kremlin and Russia’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to calls and emails asking for comment.
“Today we know that there was no diligence in (the post mortems conducted in Russia). There was nonchalance in the best case, and ill-will in the worst case,” Magdalena Merta, the widow of Tomasz Merta, a senior culture ministry official who died in the crash, told the Polish state agency PAP.
Developing…
SCIENTIST: Lesbianism Evolved To Turn On Men. This sensible and highly scientific finding has produced a swarm of science-deniers. Sad!
UPDATE: “Scientist: Lesbians are evolutionarily useful. Lesbian: No we’re not.”
THIS IS CNN: CNN Panel Explodes When Anthony Weiner Is Simply Mentioned.
Maybe there’s a good reason — other than well-deserved disgust — that the Left doesn’t want to talk about Weiner.