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October 15, 2018
“INAPPROPRIATE AND WRONG:” CHEROKEE NATION OFFICIAL SLAMS WARREN OVER DNA CLAIMS. “Meanwhile, to drive home the fact that this has backfired spectacularly on her everywhere else, note that she’s already become an Onion punchline…You’ve gotta f*** up awfully badly as a staunch progressive to get the Onion dunking on you, especially when you’re trying to dunk on Trump yourself.”
Related: Why Elizabeth Warren’s Lies Are Good For America: “So let’s all appreciate Elizabeth Warren’s contribution to the demolition of America’s corrupt affirmative action regime. It is long past time that we stopped classifying each other by race and bestowing benefits on that basis. Warren’s message is liberating: we are pretty much all Indians, or Hispanics, or African-Americans now. So let’s move on.”
OPEN THREAD: Was there any news worth discussing today?
HE’S ACTUALLY WORKING FOR TRUMP, ISN’T HE?
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: Communist Party Backs Kyrsten Sinema in Race for Flake’s US Senate Seat.
They’re also backing Robert “Beto” O’Rourke in Texas.
Earlier:
● Arizona Dem Kyrsten Sinema summoned witches to her anti-war rally.
● Does CNN Turning On Kyrsten Sinema Mean the Democrats Are Calling It Quits In Arizona?
● Sinema “associated with a prominent 9/11 truther and told a radio host that she didn’t care if he joined the Taliban.”
● Sinema in 2010: My state is the “meth lab of democracy.”
● Sinema in 2011: “I want to talk to you about some of the things that I think that you can do to stop your state from becoming Arizona.”
● Sinema in 2003: Sinema’s anti-war group blasted ‘U.S. terror,’ depicted soldier as skeleton on flyers.
In sharp contrast, during that same decade, Martha McSally, Sinema’s GOP opponent, was leading a squadron of A-10s against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
BLUE WAVE: ABC: Generic Ballot In Battleground Districts Is … R+1? Nice poll, kid. Don’t get cocky.
Related: Salena Zito: A Republican red tide is pushing back against the Dems’ blue wave. “If people like Westbrook and Vogel coalesce around the GOP, the Democrats could be in trouble. And if the Democrats keep supporting people who claw at the doors of the Supreme Court in protest, or harass Republicans and their families at dinners, or talk nonstop about impeachment or echo Hillary Clinton’s sentiment that: ‘You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for,’ then they may do what I thought unlikely: stop their own blue wave mid-flow.”
YOU WON’T GET RICH BY EATING THE RICH: The Left Believes in Trickle Up Poverty
Sarah’s not as mad as yesterday but read it anyway.
THAT’S SAD: Nobody Can Agree About Antidepressants.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Benny Johnson lays out ‘every time Elizabeth Warren has lied’ about her heritage in epic thread.
AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE. The De-Civilizing Process:
In his new book, “In Pursuit of Civility”, British historian Keith Thomas tells the story of the most benign developments of the past 500 years: the spread of civilised manners. In the 16th and 17th centuries many people behaved like barbarians. They delighted in public hangings and torture. They stank to high heaven. Samuel Pepys defecated in a chimney. Josiah Pullen, vice-principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, urinated while showing a lady around his college, “still holding the lady fast by the hand”. It took centuries of painstaking effort – sermons, etiquette manuals and stern lectures – to convert them into civilised human beings.
Reading Thomas’s book on a train recently I was gripped by a terrible realisation: everything our forebears worked so hard to achieve is now reversing. A process that took centuries has been undone in just a few decades.
While linking to a post by “Tax Prof” Paul Caron titled “Paying The Price For Breakdown Of The Country’s Bourgeois Culture,” Glenn noted in August, 2017 that “Bourgeois culture is bad because it limits the flexibility of the elites. When the middle class was ascendant, it had the power to force bourgeois norms on elites, and even many of the poor. This led to social goods that people miss now, but it was also experienced as confining by those so constrained.”
CHEROKEE NATION OFFICIAL: ELIZABETH WARREN’S DNA TEST IS ‘USELESS,’ ‘INAPPROPRIATE AND WRONG.’
“A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship,” Hoskin Jr. said in response. “Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation.”
Hoskin Jr. went on to say that the use of a DNA test was “inappropriate and wrong.”
“Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong,” he said. “It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”
You know what that means, right?
UPDATE: People out there in Trumpland don’t seem to be tired of winning yet:
JOHN HAWKINS: 25 Reasons I’m Not a Democrat.
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THE DEMOCRATS’ STRATEGY OF SENDING WOMEN AFTER TRUMP ISN’T WORKING OUT SO WELL: Stormy Daniels lost her defamation suit against Trump & now she has to pay his legal fees. WaPo has the full story.
ENDORSED: Rebuild Penn Station — and Rectify a Crime against Architecture.
And from myself (with a cameo from Don Draper), back in 2009: Lead Us Not Into Penn Station.
I STOPPED BELIEVIN’: The 10 Most Overrated Hit Singles of All Time.
TIME FOR ANOTHER “I’M NOT A WITCH” AD: Arizona Dem Kyrsten Sinema summoned witches to her anti-war rally.
Emails obtained by the Washington Examiner show Sinema inviting a prominent group of feminist witches in Arizona called Pagan Cluster to celebrate International Women’s Day and to protest the war in March of 2003. Code Pink protesters wore pink, obviously enough, and the Women in Black wore black. But Sinema encouraged the witches to wear “colorful clothing and come ready to dance, twirl, and stay in touch with your inner creativity and with the Earth.”
The Sinema campaign would not say why she invited the witches or clarify why she thought members of the occult deserved a seat at the table during discussions concerning war and peace. The witches in question, it should be noted, claim to practice only nonviolent magic. Per the about section on their webpage, theirs is a peaceful and democratic kind of sorcery.
As opposed to the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn, who brags that her hexes are so powerful, she’s killed at least three people.
Earlier:
● Does CNN Turning On Kyrsten Sinema Mean the Democrats Are Calling It Quits In Arizona?
● Sinema “associated with a prominent 9/11 truther and told a radio host that she didn’t care if he joined the Taliban.”
● Sinema in 2010: My state is the “meth lab of democracy.”
● Sinema in 2011: “I want to talk to you about some of the things that I think that you can do to stop your state from becoming Arizona.”
● Sinema in 2003: Sinema’s anti-war group blasted ‘U.S. terror,’ depicted soldier as skeleton on flyers.
In sharp contrast, during that same decade, Martha McSally, Sinema’s GOP opponent, was leading a squadron of A-10s against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Concealed-Carry for Beginners: Tips for Continued Training.
