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FUNNY HOW STUFF LIKE THIS IS ALWAYS LEFT OUT WHEN IT’S COVERAGE OF A LEFTY EVENT: Lost in the media’s reportage of Quentin Tarantino’s using rhetoric scripted by Black Lives Matter is the fact that the Rise Up October event at which Tarantino spoke was organized by revolutionary communists who advocate the armed overthrow of the United States of America.

WAR ON BOYS: “I don’t understand treating the football team differently. They’re the ‘the center of the sexting ring’? It sounds like a huge group of students — female and male — were communicating, sending selfies voluntarily. It’s obvious that the authorities won’t accuse them all of felonies. I can’t see any justification for treating the boys differently from the girls or for demonizing the football team.”

Because the football team is a symbol of the hated masculinity.

I’M NOT A LAWYER, BUT I PLAY ONE FOR A TV NETWORK: General Counsel For Al Jazeera Appears Not To Have A Law License.

AND YET PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT THOUGHT OBAMACARE WOULD BE EASY: A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online. “Heaving under mountains of paperwork, the government has spent more than $1 billion trying to replace its antiquated approach to managing immigration with a system of digitized records, online applications and a full suite of nearly 100 electronic forms. A decade in, all that officials have to show for the effort is a single form that’s now available for online applications and a single type of fee that immigrants pay electronically. The 94 other forms can be filed only with paper.”

Innovation At The Speed Of Government!

SIERRA LEONE: Finally Ebola-Free?

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Court records: City of Oak Ridge employee kept wife virtual prisoner under Sharia law. “A city of Oak Ridge employee paid the bride’s father $2,000 for his daughter in a forced marriage in Africa, court records allege, and then kept her as a virtual prisoner in their Oak Ridge home.”

HE’S JUST ANOTHER WHITE GUY SCAMMING PEOPLE OF COLOR: Black Activists Turn on Shaun King for Collapse of ‘Justice Together’ Org, Financial Irregularities.

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE: Hilton is the latest hotel suspected of blocking customers’ personal Wi-Fi.

It always seemed improbable that Marriott was the only one. Last year the hotel chain paid $600,000 to America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to settle a complaint that it had blocked customers’ personal wireless modems and hotspots at “at least one” of its hotels, forcing customers to sign up for expensive in-house internet access instead. Now Hilton has found itself in hot water over the same charge. In August 2014, the FCC received a complaint from a customer alleging that the Hilton hotel in Anaheim, California, was also blocking visitors’ Wi-Fi hot spots unless they paid $500 to access the hotel’s own wireless service. The FCC says it has also received similar complaints involving other Hilton properties. . . .

Other than Marriott and Hilton, two other firms have been charged in connection with blocking guests’ Wi-Fi. In August 2015, Smart City Holdings, a telecoms firm, was fined $750,000 for blocking hotspots at several convention centres across America where it was providing internet access. The commission recently also said it intended to fine M.C. Dean, a technology firm, $718,000 “for apparent Wi-Fi blocking at the Baltimore Convention Centre”.

More power to the FCC’s elbow. After Marriott was caught, it lobbied for a change in the law that would allow it to interfere with its guests’ connections. Fortunately it backed down in the face of widespread incredulity.

Don’t mess with my personal wi-fi.

MICHELLE GOLDBERG ON Bernie Sanders’ Problematically Sexist Supporters. “[Sanders has] unleashed a minor plague of progressive white men confidently explaining feminism to the rest of us.”

UNEXPECTEDLY: Great news: the EPA’s new smog rules will only cost 40 times as much as they said.

ANALYSIS: LIKELY TRUE. “The advent of modern polling seems to be crippling the process it was intended to analyze.”

DONALD TRUMP ‘SNL’ EPISODE BEATS HILLARY’S RATING BY 47%: “Trump gave ‘Saturday Night Live’ its largest rating of the season this weekend, beating the previous high: The episode hosted by Miley Cyrus with special guest Hillary Clinton. Trump’s episode was seen by 47 percent more viewers, according to Nielsen.”

Related: “Review: Trump on SNL Was Dull, Unfunny.” “Feels like they deliberately underwrote this show,” Greg Gutfeld theorizes.” “They deliberately wrote nothing, as a protest. It’s like a restaurant cook spitting on someone’s food.”

WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST, FACE THE NATION HOST STRICKEN WITH MYSTERIOUS CASE OF COLLECTIVE AMNESIA:

Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius blasted the GOP presidential candidates for daring to complain about the biased questions asked during last month’s CNBC debate.

Moderator John Dickerson teed up Ignatius by playing a clip of President Obama who mocked the Republicans’ debate complaints which prompted the Post columnist to declare the American public want someone who does more than “whines about media coverage.”

Really? Because for the last six years, we’ve seen constant headlines such as these:

• WhiteHouse.gov Plays Media Critic: Calls Krauthammer’s Washington Post Column ‘Wholly Inaccurate.’
• White House Defends Attacks on Fox News: ‘They Will Say Anything.’
• Video: White House Emails MSNBC During Joe Scarborough Show.
• Vice President Joe Biden accuses ‘people’ of very bad journalism.
• White House uses Twitter to bully critics.
• Sharyl Attkisson Testifies: If You Cross The Obama Administration, You Will Be Attacked and Punished.

Oh, and as a casual aside, John Dickerson, the host of Face the Nation, wrote a column at the start of 2013 for Slate, when it was still owned by the Washington Post, advising Mr. Obama to “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.” It carries the alternative headline, “Why Obama Should Seek To Destroy the Republican Party.”

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SKYNET SMILES: This Surveillance Drone Never Needs To Land.

WHAT AIRPORTS LOOKED LIKE IN THE 1970s. Downside: Dull late-period modernism, ubiquitous earth-toned color schemes. Upside: Better-dressed passengers — and most importantly, no giant Ministry of Truth-style CNN monitors. (No CNN at all of course; it wouldn’t be invented until 1980.) Advantage — something I very rarely say — 1970s.

IN WHICH I AM REPROVED ON GENDER EQUALITY by Delaware State Senator Karen Peterson.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Oxford University Releases Map of Acceptable (and Taboo) Touch Zones.

THIS IS BASICALLY AN ADMISSION THAT MUCH OF THE STUDENT BODY IS MENTALLY ILL: Yale administrators apologize for not creating “safe spaces” on campus. “So it’s no longer good enough to admonish the actual practitioners of controversial speech (assuming there’s anything controversial actually taking place.) Now the faculty needs to go on the chopping block if they don’t proactively go out and squelch any offensive thoughts.”

So far, my covert plan to bring down the Ivy League using moles from within is working beautifully.

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