TOM FRIEDMAN, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Maps show 500 suspected ‘re-education’ camps and prisons where China is locking up and torturing its Muslim minority.
Archive for 2019
November 20, 2019
TORPEDOES CIRCLING AROUND: Trump Now Beating Democrats in Wisconsin as Support for Impeachment Plummets. “In the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin, Donald Trump leads the top 4 Democratic presidential contenders by 3-8 points. The significance is that the same poll released in October had Trump trailing all those candidates badly.”
HE’S A REAL PRIZE: DNA Test Confirms: Hunter Biden Cheated on His Dead Brother’s Widow. “The child’s mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts, cited the DNA test in a motion filed Wednesday. Roberts is demanding child support from Hunter Biden, who notoriously took high-paying jobs in Ukraine and China while his father was the Obama administration’s point person in both countries. . . . The former VP’s son had previously denied all allegations that he was the father of Roberts’ child. In May 2019, Roberts had filed a petition for paternity, child support, and a request for Biden to foot the bill for the child’s health care, the Daily Beast reported. She said she and Biden had conceived the child, who was born in August 2018. This is far from the first scandal involving the VP’s youngest son. In 2017, Hunter Biden finalized his divorce from his wife of more than 20 years, Kathleen Biden, after she accused him of spending money on drugs and strip clubs. Later that year, he started dating Hallie Biden, widow to his late elder brother Beau Biden and mother to his niece and nephew. He broke up with Hallie Biden in April 2019. This means the child now linked to Hunter by DNA was conceived during his relationship with his late brother’s widow.”
THEY WERE ELECTED TO CONGRESS? They Had Half Their Brains Removed. Here’s What Happened After.
CHARLIE MARTIN: The Game’s Afoot in Ukraine: Burisma Reportedly Indicted for Money Laundering.
Now things start to stack up. We’ve seen that Vindman has close ties to the previous Ukrainian government, dating back to Yanukovych and his successor Petro Poroshenko, while this alleged money-laundering scheme was taking place. The connection to the Franklin Templeton Fund is interesting because John Templeton, Jr. was a major Obama campaign donor, and Thomas Donilon, who was Obama’s National Security Advisor before Susan Rice and is now the chairman of BlackRock Investment Institute, a major owner of Franklin Templeton stock.
As an aside, remember how it was just shocking and unprecedented for Trump to use a personal representative? Here’s a quote from Donilon’s official bio:
Mr. Donilon served as the President’s [Obama’s] personal emissary to a number of world leaders, including President Hu Jintao and President Xi Jinping, President Vladimir Putin, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Now, a little graft in the amount of a few million dollars is one thing, but $7.5 billion is real money, and a friend in the NSC could be really helpful. Especially with a couple friends in CIA and another one in an executive office in the West Wing.
Well, stay tuned and let’s see what develops. But yeah, it could explain why Vindman was scared and “literally shaken” by Trump’s phone call asking for an investigation into corruption.
FROM AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Poll: Majority Want Impeachment Hearings To Continue As Long As Possible So Congress Will Be Too Busy To Meddle With Our Lives.
HERE’S THE SOROS LINK TO THE IMPEACHMENT: Rudy Giuliani tells Glenn Beck all about it.
NO DEMOCRATIC DEBATE DRUNKBLOG TONIGHT due to it being the VodkaWife’s birthday. As she does every year on this day, she’s just turned 24.5 years old. So if you’ll excuse me, I have dinner to make and wine to pour.
Over at the PJMedia mothership, Tyler O’Neil and others will publish hot & fresh debate items throughout the night, which I’ll link to in between glasses.
THE LEFT TURNS ON EVERYONE EVENTUALLY: Thanks Obama, but these patronising lectures are getting old. The former president has been disparaging the activist left again, this time to a meeting of wealthy Democratic donors. But, as he used to believe, change is much needed. The change that’s mostly needed is the addition of 20 or 30 IQ points, plus some experience in a real job, to the activist left. And even Barack can see that.
BURISMA FOUNDER ACCUSED OF STEALING UKRAINIAN STATE FUNDS: Reuters report is sure to spark reappraisal of the impeachment effort by Adam Schiff. Not.
NOTHING I NEED, HAPPILY: Platelet Rich Plasma for Hair Loss.
One of my medical friends in Knoxville is very big on this stuff.
GOOD LUCK — THEY’D BE DRUMMED OUT OF THE PARTY POSTHASTE. Wanted: A Dem Presidential Candidate Who Defends Individualism, Capitalism, Non-Interventionism. Sorry, Reason folks, Trump’s as close as you’re going to get.
I’LL TAKE “ASTONISHING HEADLINES JUST BEFORE A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE FOR $500,” ALEX: Hunter Biden fathered Arkansas woman’s baby, DNA test reveals.
As “Comfortably Smug” tweets, “The Dem who wishes Joe Biden congratulations on his newest grandchild at the debate tonight instantly wins this is the rule.”
UPDATE: While the rest of the media is downplaying that today is Joe Biden’s birthday, the Washington Free Beacon is not messing around: On 77th Birthday, Grandpa Joe Biden Welcomes Sixth Grandchild.
CHANGE: Why Kanye West Is Leaving California and Taking Yeezy With Him. “For entrepreneurs and visionaries, California’s regulatory climate is more than just frustrating—it’s innovation-killing.” It’s weird how California’s establishment seems not just indifferent, but actively hostile, to the very things that once made California special.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Today Is Tampon Tax Day At Two Dozen Law Schools.
DAVID SOLWAY: Feminism as Gender Terrorism: The Mortal Vendetta Against the Male Sex.
Impossible to excerpt, so you’ll just have to click over.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The World Is Falling Apart: It Always Is. “I keep an old map on my office wall, bought for nearly nothing at a used bookstore and then lovingly framed. It’s a National Geographic print from 1942, covering ‘Asia and Adjacent Areas.’ The legend informs you: ‘International Boundaries as of Sept. 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland.’ A map of the same super-region published just three years later would look much different. One published just 20 years after that would be far different still. The changes have kept coming and keep coming even as I write this. I keep that old map over my desk because I love old maps, and I love old maps because they remind us that Bob Dylan got it wrong: The times are always a-changin’.”
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