Does anyone have anything they want to discuss? I am stuck in this place where I just don't care what is happening in the world. So, help a person out here, and help me care again.
Anyone heard any good jokes lately?
Anyone heard any good jokes lately?
Trump gave a couple good speeches about Western values (notably he also called out Russia) which reassured conservatives and allies abroad. He also made some concrete policy moves to back up his talk.
ReplyDeleteAfter a lengthy meeting with Putin (which depending on who you listened to was either very friendly or very stern Trump announced that there was going to be a ceasefire in Syria and that the US and Russia would work together on cybersecurity. I'll give you one guess as to which proposal was laughed out of the room and eventually dropped.
The brief bit of good news got little positive coverage in the liberal media, which focused more on him having Ivanka rather than some cabinet member represent him during a minor meeting and framed his defense of the West as racist.
The thing that sucked all of the oxygen out of the room is the fact that over the weekend Trump's oldest son eventually admitted (he denied the meeting, then lied about its purpose, then finally admitted the truth) that he and a couple senior Trump people held a meeting with a Russian lawyer who stated that the Russian government had damaging info about Clinton it wanted to share with Trump. Trump Jr states that his father knew nothing of the meeting ('Where are you going with my senior advisors son?' 'None of your damn business dad!) and that it wasn't a big deal since the Russian didn't have anything really juicy and were more interested in getting sanctions for the murder of opposition figures lifted.
Ordinary week.
Also, a judge in Bev's neck of the woods a judge freed a man who attacked a female cop in a police station with the goal of seizing her gun and murdering a bunch of cops. He didn't succeed (he injured the female officer but didn't get her gun) so the judge apparently figures its no big deal.
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Cops say Kurdel Emmanuel, a mentally-troubled 29-year-old man, tried Saturday to wrestle the gun from a female officer who fought him off in a Brooklyn precinct house.
WNBC-TV reported that when Emmanuel was interviewed after his arrest he told police he wanted to kill a cop.
On Sunday, Emmanuel appeared before Brooklyn Judge Loren Baily-Schiffman on assault, attempted robbery and attempted criminal possession of a weapon charges.
Prosecutors requested a $250,000 bond. Instead, Baily-Schiffman released him on his own recognizance.
Anthony - As if the cop-assassination wasn't bad enough. It has also been reported that he went to an ER in the Bronx and told them again that he wanted to kill cops...and they didn't admit him for "observation". Just let him go. So he could have been stopped 2 times except for stupid people in key places who did stupid stuff. I hope the family sues the judge and the hospital.
ReplyDeleteThe Gov & Mayor are blaming this on the "atmosphere of hate". Well, Cuomo anyway. DeBlasio has been in Hamburg paid for by some political organization (but swears it was for the benefit of the people of NYC) to protest at the G-20. He graciously waited until the funeral arrangements were set before announcing 90min before boarding the plane, the he was going...for the benefit of NYC people. Oh, he's running for reelection by going to Germany...oh, I just don't care. Sad part is that he will be reelected. Ugh...
The Gov & Mayor are blaming this on the "atmosphere of hate".
ReplyDeleteWell, they're not lying. They're just not being very specific.
Al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State, may be dead.
ReplyDeleteThe US Central Command's response to the reports: "We strongly advise ISIS to implement a strong line of succession, it will be needed."
Also, the Iraqi government declared victory in Mosul, so that is some other good news.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, I agree. The news has started to feel like it's on total repeat.
ReplyDelete"Trump tweeted something in the wee hours! Unpresidential!"
"Russians have been spotted outside of Russia! Election hacking!"
"Manbabies hate the latest feminist thing! Sexism!"
"Violence in the streets! Don't rush to judgement!"
"Harsh words on twitter! DO rush to judgement!"
Then pause for another thinkpiece from a hard-left occupy trans feminist POC perspective on how woefully and deeply divided America is by class/race/gender/pizza toppings and how it's almost certainly white male conservative Tea Party #MAGA alt-right Republicans' fault.
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ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to stick David Brooks in a sack and beat him with a bat for clicking 'send' on this paragraph:
ReplyDeleteI’ve come to think the structural barriers he emphasizes are less important than the informal social barriers that segregate the lower 80 percent.
Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican.
American upper-middle-class culture is now laced with cultural signifiers that are completely illegible unless you happen to have grown up in this class. ... Their chief message is, “You are not welcome here.”
http://nyti.ms/2u4bxp1
Tryanmax - I LOVE that David Brooks wrote that down and was so sincere about thinking that unless you have a college education, you couldn't possibly know what salami on bread could possibly be. It's so cute! And by "cute" I mean, so wonderfully condescending and arrogant AND the NYT editors let it be published! I am surprised that he didn't question whether the poor woman had ever seen an indoor toilet or water running out of faucet!
ReplyDeleteWhat's so funny is that the stupid peasants and deli owners who make the stuff in the first place started selling it at a premium to those fancy pants "upper-middle class culture" warriors who interpreted common food with Italian names for special foreign delicacies. And the deli owners/peasants are laughing all the way to the bank.
Kit - The Iraq govt declaring victory in Mosul is great news for ever how long it lasts.
ReplyDeleteMy youngest son just got to Fort Bliss, TX (El Paso). He wants to know what idiot put a fort on the surface of the sun.
ReplyDeleteCritch - God Bless and keep your son safe. As for Ft. Bliss on the sun, tell him to take heart, it gets almost downright freezing in the winter...oh, in "Texan" that means about 80 degrees.
ReplyDeleteHow hot does it get in Texas over the summer? I was in Peshawar,Pakistan during a heatwave. It hit 135 degrees.
ReplyDeleteAnthony - I have never known it to ever get THAT hot in Texas. REmind me never to go to Pakistan in the summer...ever.
ReplyDeleteThe summer of 1980 was the hottest I remember in Texas - topped 117 degrees in Dallas with a long stretch over 110 degrees. (That was caused by Mount St. Helens eruption earlier that year, btw). But it is desert country
I nominate David Brooks for the Billy Madison Puppy Who Lost His Way award since I feel all the dumber for having read it. God have mercy on his soul.
ReplyDeleteThe investigation into Bernie Sanders' wife for a shady land deal is looking grim for Sanders.
ReplyDeletehttps://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2017/07/10/heat-is-on-federal-prosecutors-honing-in-on-bernie-sanders-and-his-wife-over-land-swap-n2352866
A federal investigation into a land deal led by Jane Sanders, the wife and political adviser of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has accelerated in recent months — with prosecutors hauling off more than a dozen boxes of records from the Vermont college she once ran and calling a state official to testify before a grand jury, according to interviews and documents.
A half-dozen people said in interviews in recent days that they had been contacted by the FBI or federal prosecutors, and former college trustees told The Washington Post that lawyers representing Jane Sanders had interviewed them to learn what potential witnesses might tell the government.
Tryanmax: I'm in for the Brooks blanket party. I say we beat him until we get tired then we shove a salami sandwich up his a__.
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The hottest I ever saw was in Qatar in 2016...it hit 120F under the wing of the planes...the hottest I remember in Missouri was the summer of 1980 and it hit 110F...
ReplyDeleteMy son is training to help run a military prison somewhere...where it's hot...
That should have read 2006, not 2016..
ReplyDeleteBev, DeBlasio has real nerve showing up at that funeral. If it had been my family, I would have taken his ass apart.
ReplyDeletetryanmax, This is the problem with elitists. They really do think the rest of the world is full of children who need them to protect them. I wonder if Brooks would know how to fix a car?
ReplyDeleteAnthony, That's interesting about Sander's wife. The MSM seems convinced that the whole issue is over because they proved that a lawyer who supports Trump started the whole thing... so it must be fake, right?
ReplyDeleteAfter reading several *pained* twitter defenses of Brooks, my opinion has changed very little. I come from working class roots but I myself would rather buy tickets to RENT than Wrestlemania. I know exactly how it goes for people who unwittingly cross one of those invisible class markers and end up in two worlds. Brooks handled it terribly. There was once a version of Brooks who didn't know mortadella from bologna (that's a joke) but he forgot who that guy was. He wasn't there when he was called upon.
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