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Archive for 2019
May 14, 2019
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? THR: Mel Gibson comeback stays on pace with edgy comedy about … wealthy “Rothchilds.”
There are a few points not noted in either report. First, the Rothschilds are an ancient Jewish family of bankers who at one time were the wealthiest private citizens in the world. They were the 19th century equivalent to J. Paul Getty and the Rockefellers, and the descendants are still among the world’s wealthiest people. They are also the subject of a number of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about world Jewish control, which practically anyone with an e-mail inbox has seen in one form or another. The family name itself practically substitutes for explanations of these kooky conspiracy theories.
D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8), who posted to his Facebook page in March of 2018 that the city’s then-recent snowfalls were caused by “Rothschilds controlling the climate,” will no doubt be first in line for a ticket.
DAVID HARSANYI: Rashida Tlaib’s Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist.
As the Peel Commission Report, a British paper recommending partition in 1936, noted, “the Arabs have benefited by the development of the country owing to Jewish immigration, this has had no conciliatory effect. On the contrary… with almost mathematical precision the betterment of the economic situation in Palestine meant the deterioration of the political situation.”
Even Palestinian “moderates” like Musa Alami told Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion “he would prefer the land to remain poor and desolate even for another hundred years” if the alternative was collaboration with Jews. Neither Alami nor Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the Palestinian cause, nor the father of modern terrorism, Yasser Arafat, nor his protégé, Mahmoud Abbas, ever shared in their deprivations of their people. It was the opposite, in fact. Palestinian leaders have always enriched themselves on this conflict.
“Why can’t we all be free and safe together?” It’s a good question. Long before the Holocaust, every single major Jewish Zionistic organization, even the right-wing ones, saw the Jewish state as giving equal rights to the Arab population. As they do today.
Read the whole thing.
BECAUSE IT WANTED TO BE, FOR CORRUPT REASONS: Byron York: Why was FBI so wrong in Trump-Russia wiretap warrant?
IT’S NOT TRUMP WHO’S CALLED EVERY POLITICAL OPPONENT A RUSSIAN SPY: Liberal Media Scream: Journo compares Trump to McCarthy, wants GOP to denounce.
I love that it’s a “Journo” who’s making this overtly political — and laughably false — claim. And they wonder why people don’t trust them.
FAKE NEWS, TENNESSEE EDITION: No Verifiable Evidence So Far Confirms NewsChannel 5 Report ‘FBI Investigates Controversial Voucher Vote.’ Well, stay tuned but it did seem to fit the teachers’ union narrative awfully well.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF HOLLYWOOD INTERRUPTED AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Felicity Huffman pleads guilty to fraud after paying official to cheat on daughter’s university entrance exam. “She faces a possible jail term and will be sentenced on September 13. Prosecutors have recommended in a plea agreement that she be jailed for between four and 10 months, and that she pay a fine of $20,000.”
BUT THE NARRATIVE! Women behind almost half of individual Trump contributions in first three months of year.
More than 45 percent of the itemized individual contributions to Trump’s campaign for the first three months of the year came from women, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks money in US contests.
Woman accounted for nearly $1.5 million in Trump contributions. The president collected almost $1.8 million from male donors, bringing the total to more than $3.2 million.
Individual donations were a small portion of the president’s total fundraising haul for the first quarter. He raised $30.3 million from January to March, FEC fillings show.
Among the Democratic candidates, only two raised a higher percentage of their donations from women: New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and California Sen. Kamala Harris.
Women handle much of a typical family’s day-to-day finances, even in a traditional “male-run” household. If the economy stays strong into 2020, that could be your silent majority right there.
THESE TRULY ARE THE END TIMES: Domino’s launches revolting ‘Hawaiian Spaghetti Pizza.’
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update.
THE LAST WITCH TRIAL IN SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS: When do you figure the last witch trial in Salem, Massachusetts was held? 1693? 1695? Maybe as late as 1701?
Try 1878. That’s closer to our time than it is to the time of the original Salem witch trials. Just in case you ever doubted it, that’s evidence that really bad ideas come back over and over again. Like socialism.
On this day in 1878, Lucretia Brown was given her first day in court against Daniel Spofford. Brown claimed that as a result of her adherence to the practices of Christian Science she had been cured of the spinal injury she had suffered as a child. But, she alleged, owing to the malicious intent of “mesmerist” Daniel Spofford, she had suffered a relapse. In other words, Spofford had intentionally destroyed her health by thinking malicious thoughts about her.
Like Brown, Spofford had been an early adherent to Christian Science. But he’d had a falling out with Mary Baker Eddy earlier in 1878. Some believe that Eddy was behind Brown’s lawsuit; others disagree. At this point, no one knows for sure.
What’s clear is that Eddy herself was a believer in what she called “malicious animal magnetism” or “MAM,” which was the ability to harm others using only one’s thoughts as a weapon. That’s what witches do, you know.
The newspapers of the day loved the story, especially the part about its being filed in (or rather very near) Salem.
Mercifully, the court did not have the same financial stake as the newspapers in keeping the story going. Brown’s lawsuit failed.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: CNN: Will Trump’s July Fourth Rally ‘Foam at the Mouth’ With Calls ‘for Violence?’
Flashback: CNN Threatens To Reveal Identity Of Reddit Man Who Made Trump-CNN Bodyslam Meme If He Disobeys Them – a CNN doxxing published on July the fourth, 2017.
DANIEL GREENFIELD: Trump Has Officially Trolled Dems Into a State of Madness.
He may have driven them crazy, but they were already close enough to walk.
A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK OBSERVES, “THE PRESS HAS BECOME A PITILESS INQUISITOR THAT CANNOT LIVE UP TO ITS OWN REMORSELESS STANDARDS.” Andrew Marr: I was a fool to grope a colleague… but I was suffering from exhaustion. “The photographs, taken at 2.30am in a Soho street, showed him placing his hand down the back of his companion’s jeans while nuzzling her neck and attempting to move in for a drunken kiss.”
This sort of thing used to be treated as a breach of etiquette, not as a public scandal. #MeToo ensures that nothing is private, nothing is forgivable, and context doesn’t matter. Except, you know, when lefty politics demands otherwise.
DISPATCHES FROM A REMARKABLY SCANDAL-FREE ADMINISTRATION: Obama White House Tracked FOIA Request For Hillary Emails That Was Improperly Denied.
The emails, which were provided to Judicial Watch, show for the first time that the Obama White House was aware of the Clinton-related FOIA request, which the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) submitted to the State Department in December 2012.
The State Department denied the request in May 2013, claiming that no responsive records existed. That despite officials at the State Department, the White House and even President Obama himself knowing that Clinton used a personal email account for government business.
The State Department’s inspector general determined in a report released on Jan. 7, 2016 that the State Department’s denial of the CREW request was “inaccurate and incomplete.”
It is not clear from the emails why the White House was interested in the request. But Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton has a theory.
“These documents suggest the Obama White House knew about the Clinton email lies being told to the public at least as early as December 2012,” he said in a statement.
Of course they did.
LAND OF THE WOKE HYPOCRITES: Homelessness in Hollywood.
WELL, THE PEOPLE NEED TO BE KEPT IN THEIR PLACE: In Florida, vouchers win ground, but courts may have ultimate say.
Ms. Parks, who is African American, has, with the help of Florida’s tax credit scholarship for families with limited resources, parlayed her children’s struggle in public schools to success at two private schools, Mount Zion Christian Academy and Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg.
The choice and autonomy have been empowering, she says, for her children – and for herself as a single mom. “It’s hard for some people to know their worth and know what they are able to do [for their kids],” she says by phone. “Vouchers help parents to understand that and be more heard, and that is an amazing thing.” . . .
In 2006, the private-school portion of a previous effort was struck down by Florida’s Supreme Court. But after his election last fall, Governor DeSantis named three conservative jurists to the state’s highest court, creating an all-Republican-nominated top bench that could act as a shield for legal challenges to this new law. In that way, Florida’s decision to test constitutional boundaries infuses a larger national debate about school reform – and the very nature of “public” schools.
The new test reflects “a more clear-cut partisan divide in the courts, where courts have traditionally tended to rule simply on questions of church and state and where now conservatives … see this as a matter of economic freedom, of making a choice,” says Christopher Lubienski, who studies school choice policy at Indiana University Bloomington.
Traditionally, the judiciary, composed almost exclusively of the educated upper-middle-class, hasn’t cared much for empowering ordinary citizens. That may be changing.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Emerald Trash Heap — Seattle is overwhelmed by garbage and filth, but the city’s leaders won’t admit it.
May 13, 2019
HE SHOULD BE HECKLED EVERYWHERE. HE’S A PUTZ. De Blasio holds press conference at Trump Tower — and gets heckled. “Trump supporters joined in the noise heckling the mayor with a steady stream of ‘Boos’ and ‘You s—ks’ as he tried to shout over the din. ‘Worst mayor ever,’ read one sign held by a protester as the mayor rode up and down an escalator.”