WEIRD HOW WHEN IT MIGHT HAVE HURT VIRGINIA’S DEMOCRATIC GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE, TALKING ABOUT THIS STUFF WAS RACIST. ‘People here live in fear’: MS-13 menaces a community seven miles from the White House.
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December 21, 2017
I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Why New Blood Pressure Guidelines Could Lead to Harm. “The results were significant, with fewer patients in the intensive therapy group having an acute cardiovascular event or death. The evidence was so compelling that the trial was stopped early, so the results could be announced sooner rather than later. This decision itself brought a fair amount of media attention to its findings. The fact that those in the intensive therapy group also had more adverse events, like hypotension, syncope and acute kidney injury, got less attention.”
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Slump in sales of superhero comics threatens Disney, Netflix and others.
(Classical reference in headline.)
WELL, GOOD: Trump first president to protect electric grid from EMP, cyberattacks. But if you read the story, he’s really just getting the ball rolling.
LIFE IN THE POST-ANTIBIOTIC ERA: Superbugs Are Nearly Impossible to Fight. This Last-Resort Medical Treatment Offers Hope. Phages have been the Next Big Thing since I was a kid.
I SENSE ANOTHER FLAMEWAR BREWING: The 10 Best Holiday Specials and Movies.
DO NOT ASK DIFFICULT QUESTIONS, COMRADE: Is California Already In Recession?
JORGE RAMOS MAKES HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE 2020 TRUMP CAMPAIGN: Jorge Ramos Says He’s Now Having the ‘Worst Time’ of His Life in U.S. And note this:
Nearly a year into the Trump presidency, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos says he’s experiencing “the worst moment I’ve had in the 34 years I’ve been living in the United States.”
“With Donald Trump there, I have never been treated so badly. I have never been insulted so much. We’ve never been attacked so much, nor have they tried to run us out as much as now,” Ramos vented in an interview with the Spanish radio network Cadena SER.
Ramos, who proclaimed himself “if not an enemy, an opponent” of Trump in the interview, complained about the massive blowback he has received since deciding to use his media platforms to openly oppose the choice of over 62 million American voters in last year’s U.S. presidential election.
“Now the social media networks are terrible,” Ramos told his Spanish radio interviewer, Javier del Pino. “Before if someone wanted to insult you, they had to do it in person or by sending you an anonymous letter. Now they do it through the social media networks and the daily insults – you can enter my Facebook or Twitter and they are there all the time,” lamented Ramos.
How dare you peons speak with me – I’m a reporter!
Flashback: Stelter, Tur clash with Jorge Ramos on being ‘Stand-Ins for Democrats:’
At a recent National Press Club panel on the current state of the U.S. news media, the fireworks really erupted when Ramos objected to a statement made by Tur, in which she basically exhorted journalists to uphold core journalistic standards.
KATY TUR, CORRESPONDENT, NBC NEWS: Continue to report on the facts. Be as fair as you possibly can be. Be partial to the truth, and don’t be alarmist when it’s unnecessary.
JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: May I, uh, disagree?
After interrupting Tur for apparently advocating a much too orthodox approach to the practice of the profession, Ramos proceeded to urge the attendees at the National Press Club event to favor instead his ‘holy war’ approach to covering Trump.
JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Our position, I think, has to be much more aggressive. And we should not expect the Democrats to do that job. It is our job. If we don’t question the president, if we don’t question his lies, if we don’t do it, who is gonna do it? It’s an uncomfortable position…
BRIAN STELTER, HOST, CNN’S RELIABLE SOURCES: You’re almost saying we’re a stand-in for the Democrats.
“Almost.” Just think of them as Democrat operatives with bylines (and in Ramos’ case, a daughter who was employed by the Hillary campaign) and it all makes sense.
Who want to aggressively “question the president…question his lies,” but dive for the fainting couch when their viewers return the favor.
WELL, THAT SUCKS: Cancer survivors often face another hurdle: faster aging. “We’re now struggling with our own success. This only comes up as a product of how well we’re doing in terms of cancer mortality and increasing the population of survivors. Now we have to deal with the consequences. Sure, you’re alive and that’s great, but there are consequences.”
SOCIALISTS ARE NOTHING IF NOT POLITICALLY CRUEL: Bernie Sanders Targeted A College For Needy Students To Embarrass The GOP For A Few Hours.
J CHRISTIAN ADAMS: 8 Great Last Minute Christmas Gifts for Children.
IT’S PHILIP K. DICK’S WORLD; WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT: Annual sex robot convention is axed from London’s Goldsmiths university over fears it would provoke a terror attack by Muslim extremists.
“As a Sex Doll owner I have to say — we shall never be deterred by terrorists,” someone named “Jack Lovedoll” (I’m fairly certain that’s a nom de droid) replied to the news on Twitter. “As the saying goes within the Sex Doll community: ‘The only thing we have to fear is actual human contact itself.’”
Heh, indeed.™
BYLINES OF BRUTALITY: Reporter gets five years in prison for threatening Jewish centers.
(Classical reference in headline.)
MSNBC’S JOE SCARBOROUGH IS CLAIRVOYANT. HOW ELSE COULD HE READ GOP MINDS? Forget all that stuff you’ve heard about the emails FBI counter-intelligence chief Peter Strzok exchanged with his girlfriend in which both demeaned Donald Trump. And forget that the wife of a former associate deputy attorney general worked for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous “dirty dossier” on Trump.
In fact, just forget everything you’ve heard, including the FEC records about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s staff of Democratic contributors who are investigating allegations that Trump colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016. Believe only what you read in approved media like the New York Times, Washington Post and Huffington Post. They always make Mueller’s unimpeachable virtues clear, no matter the fact pattern.
And Scarborough? Well, the former Republican congressman from Florida, is even beyond those august media outlets, thanks to his uncanny ability to discern exactly what Trump’s defenders are thinking and why they do what they do. That talent is why Scarborough can say things like this, as reported earlier today by LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst:
“It seems to me that they’re just throwing whatever they can, like monkeys throwing poo against the wall. Last week, it was ‘Textgate’ scandal. So they move on to something else. What exactly is the scandal? They’re making things up every week.” Thanks, Joe, that explains a lot. Republicans are apes and criticism of Mueller is a bunch of …
Isn’t it sad that Republicans and conservatives are so intolerant and mean-spirited?
REVIEW: 2018 Infiniti QX80: “Infiniti launched the QX80’s predecessor, the QX56, when environmentalists were torching Hummers and energy experts claimed peak oil would dry out the world’s reserves within decades. During the 2004 model year, its first, gas prices crested at more than $2 per gallon, prompting more predictions that big SUVs would soon be extinct. Exactly none of that happened.” I think they mean more than $4 a gallon. But yeah. Sadly, the QX80 gets mixed marks.
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POTENTIAL BOMBSHELL: Did President Obama Read the ‘Steele Dossier’ in the White House Last August?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Is the Pence Rule the Only Surefire Way to Stay Out of Trouble?
It must be high up there, considering how much the left mocked him over it, pre-Pervnado.
CHANGE MORE OF THE SAME: Cuba Postpones Historic Handover From Castro to New President.
TAX PROF: AT&T’s Tax Cut Bonus Isn’t Just A Gimmick.
If it is, money in your pocket is a pretty good gimmick.