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October 19, 2018
#BELIEVEALLWOMEN: Brooklyn woman falsely accused Parma Heights police chief of rape, investigators say. “A 41-year-old woman faces felony charges after she admitted to investigators that she fabricated a rape allegation against Parma Heights Police Chief Steve Scharschmidt, according to officials. Sylvia Davis of Brooklyn came clean about her allegations after state agents confronted her with multiple inconsistencies in her story as well as cellphone records that showed Google searches that included the phrase ‘can you go to jail for lying about a cop raping you,’ prosecutors said.”
WORRIES AT THE NEW YORK TIMES: What if the Republicans Win Everything Again? Total victory for the G.O.P. would mean Trump unleashed.
Related: “Anyway, R+6 in the Senate is, if not crazy, pretty close to it. But it says something both about the awfulness of this map for Democrats & where things have gone since Labor Day that it’s October 19 & R+6 is still not a possibility you could totally rule out.”
Well, don’t get cocky, kids. If you care, you should be volunteering and donating.
OPEN THREAD: Because this is a community.
GREAT MOMENTS IN CORPORATE SPOKESMANSHIP: Keira Knightley Forbids Daughter to Watch Disney Classics.
Knightly has been paid millions to co-star in Disney’s long-running Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, including a reported almost four million simply to make a cameo in last year’s Pirates movie, Dead Men Tell No Tales. As Stephen Miller tweets, “Everything else aside it has to be great for Disney to shell out millions to a star for a film franchise just to have them turn around and call you sexist.”
BLASTING HOLES IN CLOUDS WITH LASER BEAMS — NOW THAT’S THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED! Scientists want to blast holes in clouds with laser to boost satellite communication.
CHRISTINE ROSEN: Kavanaugh And The Assault On Men.
Kavanaugh was confirmed and now sits on the high court, but the tenor of the debate surrounding the process that put him there revealed that the cultural mainstream has now fully embraced two key ideas about men that were once relegated to the radical feminist fringe:
1) Maleness itself is a disease requiring treatment or elimination.
2) Masculinity itself has produced a “rape culture” and violent patriarchy that will stop at nothing to maintain power.
The wide acceptance of these ideas will have parlous long-lasting consequences for the country.
So rather than accepting these ideas, we should mock them, and those who promote them.
SAUDI MEDIA SAYS KHASHOGGI ACCIDENTALLY RAN INTO A FAST-MOVING FIST: He died when a conversation he was having with 15 Saudi visitors to the country’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, unaccountably became heated. Words were said, punches were thrown, fists went flying and, ooops!, we killed him.
BREAKING: CNN JOURNALIST COMMITS ACTUAL JOURNALISM. Watch: Dana Bash Doesn’t Let Beto O’Rourke Get Away With Avoiding Question About His Support for Trump’s Impeachment.
Related: “No one in Texas wants this. He’s running for president, not senate.”
And he’s got a shot! Video: Beto O’Rourke supporters can’t name any of his accomplishments.
He’s definitely got a shot:
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts.
—Headline, New York Times, yesterday.
● Chaser: Sarah Palin sues New York Times for tying her PAC ad to mass shooting.
—AP, June 28th 2017.
● Hangover: Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism.
—Headline, New York Times, August 12, 2017.
TO BE FAIR, GRANDMA WAS RIGHT ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS: Grandma Was Right: Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors.
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DEM ACCUSES GOP CANDIDATE OF BEING PREJUDICED AGAINST KOREANS: GOP Candidate Has Two Korean Kids.
And, of course, there’s no shame: “As of Friday afternoon, Schiff has not responded to MacArthur’s statement, deleted his tweet or issued an apology. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
#BELIEVEALLWOMEN: Claire McCaskill’s husband was accused of abuse by ex-wife. “Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s husband was accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife, and his company once victim-blamed a woman who sued for sexual misconduct, Fox News has learned. A graphic protection order once filed by Joseph Shepard’s ex-wife even alleged he hit her, tripped her and ‘peed on’ her.”
THIS IS CNN: Louis Farrakhan Uses CNN Contributor Marc Lamont Hill to Promote $260 Music Box Set.
Louis Farrakhan is using a photo with CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill to promote a $260 box set of music on his Nation of Islam website, TheWrap has learned.
Hill, a political commentator for CNN touted on the site as “one of the leading intellectual voices in the country,” told TheWrap that he was not aware his image was being used for commercial purposes and will ask for its removal.
“I don’t want to be used to promote anybody’s materials,” he said. “I am going to ask for it to be taken down as I don’t think it’s consistent with my values and my professional standards.”
The professional standards of the graphic designer who made the ad’s headline practically illegible are also pretty questionable.
I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN POLITICAL ILLUSTRATIONS WERE REPORTED AS HAVING KILLED IN ARIZONA. “Arizona Republic editorial cartoonist Steve Benson on the McSally vs. Sinema [Arizona Senate] Race:”
“Gabby Gifford’s district. Remember when a full week of news cycles were focused on how the use of crosshairs on a Palin mailer was beyond the pale? How did we get here? I’m seriously asking how,” Lyndsey Fifield of the Heritage Foundation asks. And as another Twitter user notes, “Shooting down an American jet might not be the image Kyrsten Sinema wants.”
NOBODY SHOULD GET COCKY IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE: Politico: Say, Republicans might hold onto the House after all.
(Link safe; goes to Hot Air.)
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The 5 Keys to Surviving Attacks from a Social Media Mob.
NEWS YOU CAN USE. AT LEAST, I HOPE YOU CAN. What To Do If You Actually Win The $900M Mega Millions Jackpot. And remember: InstaPundit cheerfully accepts donations in any amount!
OLD AGE HAVING A GO AT YOUTH: As Boomers Retire, Should We Expect an Elder-Led Revolution?
(Classical reference in headline.)
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: There’s Still One Way to Stop Brett Kavanaugh: Magic.
THE LEFT ISN’T GOING TO LIKE LIVING UNDER THE NEW RULES THEY’VE CREATED: Are We Still Believing All Women Or Was That Just for the Kavanaugh Hearings?
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Physical activity lowers death risk from heart disease, study says.