Archive for 2017
June 8, 2017
“EVERYTHING IN MODERATION:” Not as good a piece of advice as it sounds?
COCONUT OIL: Yesterday’s Killer Is Today’s Superhero.
NEWS YOU HOPEFULLY CAN’T USE: Counterfeit pills and how to avoid them.
Central Georgia officials say there are reports of six more overdose cases – possibly related to fake Percocet pills.
Four people have died so far. Now a new warning is coming out from an Atlanta pharmacist. Experts tell 11Alive News that any time you buy drugs off the street, you could be handing down your own death sentence.
“She was coming around, but she’s gone,” Corey Bailey said.
Bailey lost, Amirrah Gillens, the love of his life, early Monday morning. Bibb County officials said Gillens is one of four people who died from a dangerous street drug masquerading as the painkiller Percocet.
There is an opioid epidemic, but driving it underground doesn’t seem to be helping much.
THIS IS DISTURBING: Moderate drinking may dull aging brain.
HATEFUL CNN HOST’S TWEET CALLING FOR RAPE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS:
Some of CNN host Reza Aslan’s other disgusting and hateful tweets are mysteriously disappearing. The cable network star drew controversy when he called Donald Trump a “piece of shit” last weekend. He lamely “apologized” and declared, “That’s not like me.” Except, of course, it is.
Yet, some of Aslan’s old hateful tweets are no longer on his page. On August 21, 2012, he tweeted, “Just to be clear I was indeed wishing someone would rape congressman Todd Akin. I’d hate to be misunderstood.” That tweet is gone. Here’s a screen shot:
Victor Davis Hanson explores the bang-up past couple of weeks at CNN, the “Crude News Network:”
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was forced to confess that he was both “crude” and “unprofessional” when, during an-on-air panel discussion, he cut off Trump supporter Jeffery Lord with the following putdown: “If he took a dump on his desk you would defend it. I mean, I don’t know what he would do that you would not defend!” What a strange simile for an anchor to use in front of a national audience.
Then there was the macabre photo moment of comedian Kathy Griffin—a CNN New Year’s Eve show co-host with Anderson Cooper—hoping to recapture fading attention by holding, in ISIS fashion, a gruesome bloody decapitated model of Donald Trump’s head. Like Anderson Cooper, Griffith later apologized, but given that she was not so central to CNN, she was expendable and so let go. Her dismissal helped spark her subsequent whiny rant that she was now herself a victim of an untoward backlash from the Trump family. (The passive-aggressive Griffin herself once ridiculed Sarah Palin’s Down’s Syndrome child with “Oh, Palin, ur goin down so hard, you’d better just stay in Wasilla w ur “retarded baby”).
After the recent savage terrorist attacks in London, CNN’s “religion” scholar, Reza Aslan (heretofore infamous largely for eating cooked brain tissues with self-described religious cannibals in India), wrote: “This piece of s— is a not just an embarrassment to America and a stain on the presidency. He’s an embarrassment to humankind.” Aslan is channeling the vulgarity of other journalists, which in turn has brought the inner vulgarian out of politicos like Tom Perez, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Burton and other Democratic grandees.
These vulgar anti-Trump biases of journalists and celebrities on CNN are not new. We remember, for example, the December 2016 hot-mic, off-camera video joke of CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux and her producers about the idea of President-elect Trump’s plane crashing. CNN, we also recall, was one of the first networks to air the existence of the fake-news dossier about Trump’s supposed sexual escapades in Moscow last January. The list of unhinged statements by CNN panel members and anchors could be expanded, but the point is not bias per se, but what accounts for the recent emphases on the grotesque (beheading chic, references to feces on a desk, scatology like “piece of s—t”)?
The answers are many. Propriety has largely vanished from American discourse, a legacy of the 1960s when “f—k” and “s—t” superseded old expletives like “damn”, largely because of the supposed revolutionary shock effect on polite, staid society. Now a coarsened culture has become indifferent to commonplace obscenity and we are in a downward spiral of always seeking the next scatological or sexual one-uppance.
And then add to the above Bill Maher, star of CNN’s sister network surviving his on-air N-bomb last week, something that ordinarily would terminate the career of any white media figure not named Quentin Tarantino.
The left wants the rest of us to believe that Trump is some sort of strange aberration from an otherwise genteel elite society, when in fact he was created by the increasingly profane media overculture, and his mere presence in the White House is driving leftists into even cruder levels of discourse and violence. Or as Glenn writes, linking to Rod Dreher’s recent post titled “The Storm Before the Storm,” “The thing is, you don’t get Hitler because of Hitler — there are always potential Hitlers out there. You get Hitler because of Weimar, and you get Weimar because the liberals are too corrupt and incompetent to maintain a liberal polity.”
TOLERANCE: Gay Trump supporters denied entry into Charlotte Pride Parade.
“I’m very proud of my country, proud of my president, and was once proud of my community,” said Brian Talbert, who said he’s proud to be gay and proud to be a republican.
His truck has a Trump-Pence bumper sticker and ‘Not a liberal’ sign on the back window.
“I’m very proud of my vote. I don’t regret my vote. I will vote for Donald Trump again. I’m proud of my president. I don’t think I should be vilified because I’m proud of a U.S. president as an American.”
Talbert said he and a fellow gay republican sent in an application to Charlotte Pride so they could have a float in this year’s Charlotte Pride Parade.
“It was going to be fun. We wanted to be energetic. We wanted to show that we weren’t the racist, bigot; misogynistic…We wanted to show that we are Americans, love our country and our president. We wanted to be there to celebrate gay pride. Everything fell into place except being able to celebrate who I am,” he said.
Talbert said Charlotte Pride sent him an email denying his application for a float.
Why is “Republican” spelled consistently with a small r?
Anyway, “Celebrate Diversity” morphed into “Conform, proles!” so slowly that I hardly even noticed.
SKUNK BAXTER AND I ARE ON THE SAME PAGE HERE: U.S. government should reduce impediments to commercial space innovation.
Recently, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation space subcommittee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee have held hearings on ways to streamline regulations and encourage commercial innovation.
The government needs to quickly address these impediments to private sector innovation because it will need to employ small satellites and advanced technologies to address growing threats from potential adversaries, said Jeffrey “Skunk” Baxter, a national security consultant who often leads wargame red teams and a founding member of American jazz rock band Steely Dan.
“I want to stop looking at small satellites as exotic animals,” Baxter said. “Come back to Earth and look at small satellites as utility. As we get into the concept of conflict, we are going to need a lot of them.”
He’s right.
FORGET IT, JAKE — IT’S TURTLE BAY: UN Secretary-General Launches Slanderous Attack on Israel.
ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE LEFT’S COMEY HEARING CRAZINESS:
Incredible! Not just the hype and the too-early drooling for blood, but the disregard for the demands of working life for active, engaged American adults. Everything will be available on the internet this evening. Who are these people going public with their plan to take off from work and drink and watch a congressional hearing? This strikes me as utterly deranged (as well as creepily privileged). How is looking deranged and economically privileged going to draw in the ordinary Americans you’re going to need if you’re going to get this Destroy Trump bandwagon rolling?
Well, it’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome for a reason, and like most derangement syndromes it mostly affects the economically privileged.
WEIRD. “CONFUSED CHAOS” IS JUST WHAT PUTIN WANTS.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Michigan State House Passes Concealed Carry Without Permits Bill.
Jazz Shaw:
While the idea of more accessible concealed carry is something I support, I’ll confess that even I have a few reservations about another of the bills in this Michigan package. Currently you need to have some basic firearms training to carry but this new proposal would remove that requirement. I understand how gun rights supporters bristle at the idea of any restrictions and the states have given them good reason to be suspicious. States like New York (among many others) have used the training requirement as cover to make it massively more expensive to obtain a permit, and in places like Washington, DC you often can’t even find a certified Firearms Training Instructor to meet the requirement.
The training should either be free or only charge a modest fee, with sufficient instructors available to meet the demand. But eliminating the requirement entirely is worrisome.
Firearms training used to be done at home, and from a fairly early age — and in my home it still is. But in states where that has fallen out of favor, whether due to previous gun control laws or lack of access to shooting ranges, maybe the state does have a legitimate interest in ensuring that carriers have at least some basic level of training.
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COMEY HEARING “MUCH ADO ABOUT LESS THAN NOTHING,” Roger Simon writes:
The American people — even and especially those too clueless to realize what is happening — are being dissed unimaginably by their own representatives. Too bad we can’t sue the government, because we certainly have grounds to.
We have the worst political class in American history, to coin an Insta-phrase.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: “How did someone who likes Black Lives Matter and hates Trump get a security clearance?” Charlie Martin explains “How Reality Winner Got a Clearance.”
IN MEMORIAM: StrategyPage honors Torpedo Squadron 8 and its heroic airmen. The memorial names all of the U.S. Navy fliers in the squadron that sacrificed itself at Midway. Ensign George Gay was shot down but survived. Everyone else in the squadron was killed in the squadron’s desperate attack on the Japanese fleet. These men were all genuine heroes and deserve our thanks. The battle’s 75th anniversary was this week (June 4-7, 1942). After the war Gay became a pilot for TWA.