CNN IS REALLY TAKING THAT WHOLE “RESISTANCE” THING FAR TOO SERIOUSLY. CNN Endorses Cuckolding: ‘Can Be a Largely Positive Experience.’
Well, now we know that the C in CNN stands for “clickbait.”
Archive for 2018
January 25, 2018
FASTER, PLEASE: New Findings Could Save Lives of More Stroke Patients.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: President Oprah? She Says Nope, Brah.
NIKKI HALEY SKEWERS MAHMOUD ABBAS AT UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING:
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley launched a broadside Thursday at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, accusing him of indulging in “outrageous” conspiracy theories about Israel and lacking what is needed to secure peace in the region.
Haley made the remarks at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the Middle East. She pointedly contrasted Abbas with leaders like the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, whom she cited as a leader “willing to step forward, acknowledge hard truths, and make compromises.”
“Where is the Palestinian Anwar Sadat?” she asked.
She cited a speech earlier this month in which Abbas tore into Israel and the U.S., rejecting any American role in talks.
“We will not accept for the U.S. to be a mediator, because after what they have done to us — a believer shall not be stung twice in the same place,” Abbas said, according to The New York Times.
Responding to U.S. threats to pull funding for the Palestianian Authority, he said: “Damn your money.”
Sounds fine with me; let’s take him at his word on this one.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW, THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF STONEHENGE? AND WHAT WOULD THEY SAY TO US, IF WE WERE HERE, TONIGHT? Victor Davis Hanson: Will Unfinished Train Overpasses Become California’s Stonehenge?
LAWSUIT: HARVEY WEINSTEIN’S ASSISTANT WAS MADE TO ‘CLEAN UP THE SEMEN ON THE COUCH.’
Harvey Weinstein made his assistant clean semen off the couch after his sexual encounters, according to a new lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court. Sandeep Rehal, who worked at The Weinstein Company for two years between 2013 and 2015, claims she felt demeaned and terrified while working for the disgraced film mogul.
Weinstein even made the then-26-year-old type down e-mails he dictated while naked, according to the suit.
Artist’s recreation of Weinstein dictating memos for his next film project:
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: How People Change Their Love Lives According to Money.
STEPHEN KRUISER EXPLAINS why he day drinks. “Today I held a little protest for free menstrual protects…And I say menstrual not feminine because menstruation should not be gendered. Some men get periods.”
I HOPE THEY’RE ALL THERE: DOJ office says it has found missing text messages of FBI officials.
NO. If You’re a Purist About Scotch Whisky, You Might Find This Hard to Swallow.
The making of Scotch whisky has long followed a precise formula enshrined in law and precedent. Scotch must be distilled in Scotland from water and malted barley and aged in the country at least three years in oak casks. It should come out at least 40% alcohol by volume.
Now Diageo PLC, the world’s single biggest producer, wants to water down some of those rules, part of its attempt to arrest Scotch’s declining market share. Last year, it formed a secret task force to explore ways to change some industry rules about how Scotch must be made.
One idea was to finish aging Scotch in old tequila barrels instead of the sherry, cognac or port casks traditionally used. Another was to create a “Scotch whisky infusion,” a new category of flavored or low-alcohol blends sold under existing Scotch brands.
Diageo’s efforts to win over the Scotch Whisky Association, which lays down rules for distilling the spirit—at least on its tequila-barrel idea—are already on the rocks.
“There is not a single chance of a change of the rules,” says Gavin Hewitt, a former British diplomat and onetime chief executive of the SWA. “Whoever is saying that is talking through a complete hole in their head.”
Well, good. While it might goose sales in the short term, brand dilution in pursuit of marketshare is a huge mistake in the longterm.
I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: U.S. Upgrades Its Biggest Non-Nuclear Bomb.
A fourth upgrade to the Boeing Co. bomb, the GBU-57, has been completed and the existing inventory is being retrofitted, Captain Emily Grabowski, an Air Force spokeswoman, said in an email. The modification “has improved the performance against hard and deeply buried targets,” she said.
Bombs known as bunker-busters have been in the Air Force’s arsenal for years for potential attacks against buried targets. The GBU-57, which is six times bigger than the 5,000-pound bomb the Air Force has had for years, could be used if the U.S. decided to hit underground nuclear or missile facilities in North Korea, as tensions persist over Kim Jong Un’s growing nuclear arsenal.
Three B-2 bombers were deployed to Guam this month in what the Air Force said was a planned rotation. Grabowski declined to say whether the GBU-57 also been sent to the Pacific region.
Bigger, please.
THIS IS PRETTY MUCH THE 21ST CENTURY I’VE COME TO EXPECT: Fake Celebrity Porn Is Taking Over The Internet And No One Is Safe.
SPARE THE ROD AND…: The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has just released a study (PDF link) on the effect of Obama-era suspension policies required by the Department of Education that coerced school districts into enacting softer discipline policies. Surprise, surprise – the policies had a negative impact on test scores in Wisconsin public schools.
TAMARA KEEL: Back From The Dead And Ready To Party. “This year at SHOT Show, you couldn’t swing a Miami Classic shoulder holster without hitting a maker with a 10mm offering in their booth.”
HUH, HOW ABOUT THAT: The Photo That Never Saw The Light of Day: Obama With Farrakhan In 2005.
A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, but did not make public because he believed it would have “made a difference” to Obama’s political future.
The photographer, Askia Muhammad, told the Trice Edney News Wire that he “gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy.”
“But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was President, it was kept under cover,” Muhammad said.
Asked whether he thought the photo’s release would have affected Obama’s presidential campaign, Muhammad said, “I insist. It absolutely would have made a difference.”
But of course. As Jim Treacher once said:
So when will the L.A. Times finally release the Rashid Khalidi video?
VIERDE AMENDEMENT: Dutch Police To Seize Clothing, Jewelry From ‘Youths’ Who Can’t Explain How They Got It. “We’re going to undress them on the street.”
Once again, the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
WELL, IT IS A DEN OF CREEPY RAPISTS AND PEDOPHILES AND THEIR PROCURERS AND ENABLERS AFTER ALL: 20 minutes of movie trailers — yes, I went to the movies — left me feeling utterly creeped out by Hollywood. “Notice how they all have strong female characters at the center but everything is paranoid, violent, and sexual. This is what Hollywood gives me? I felt like I was dragged into the mind of one of the sexually abusing Hollywood producers. . . . Hollywood is sick. Evil. Corrupting our soul.”
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
IF IT MOOS, TAX IT: Enviros Push Meat Tax.
Excise taxes on beef, pork, and chicken could be the next big thing in a state and local tax environment that’s already comfortable with “sin tax” regimes aimed at cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and gambling and is adapting quickly to special levies on sugar-sweetened beverages, greenhouse gases, and marijuana.
While there are no current legislative proposals imposing state or local surcharges on meat, a growing number of public health, environmental, and animal rights advocates are bullish on tax schemes addressing the mounting social costs of meat production and consumption.
Fine, but only in exchange for an even larger tax on foods masquerading at meat.
FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers develop synthetic, bacteria-killing virus.
WINNING: Campbell Soup to close Toronto plant, move production to U.S.
Smart economics trumps dreamy good looks, apparently.
WELL, YES: The Russia ‘Fake News’ Scare Is All About Chilling Speech.
David Harsanyi:
If you genuinely believe that Donald Trump’s distasteful tweets are attacks on the foundations of free expression, how can you not be alarmed by a pair of powerful elected officials demanding social media companies hand over information about their users? What would they say if the president had sent a letter to Google insisting they give the executive branch an “in-depth forensic examination” of his political opponent’s searches?
As it turns out, reports today say that Twitter’s internal analysis found that it was mostly Americans, not creepy Slavic mind-control robots, who were behind the hashtags. Not that it really matters, anyway. If a group of Americans have a legitimate issue to rally around, how are they supposed to control what outsiders do? It’s not as if #ReleaseTheMemo was a secret or illegal. Republican politicians were openly using it.
Yet, if Feinstein and Schiff had their way, Twitter and Facebook would have moved to quash the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag for what turned out to be apparently solely partisan reasons. Sounds like a power that can be abused. Even if the two had been genuinely troubled by Russian hashtags — yes, suspend your disbelief — the source of fake news is not always easily discernible. Sometimes it comes to you from an anonymous Russian bot, and sometimes it’s retweeted by a prominent journalist.
Democrats have manufactured panic over amateurish Russian propaganda to not only claim that Vlad Putin was “meddling” in the election, but also to argue that interference had the power to turn the election to Trump. With this risible idea in hand, they have created paranoia about social media interactions and rationalized infringements on expression.
It’s always about rationalizing infringements on what the proles are allowed to read, say, or do.