Liberals Regret The Dan Rather Interview that "Normalized" Kid Rock
"You run deep, Hoss."
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Saturday, July 22, 2017
Dilbert is right - the MI Senate race is going to be high on entertainment value.
Well worth 50 minutes of your time with a nice opening statement of his Christian faith. If you're a Republican who believes our politicians have to look, act and talk like Stepford Politicians, you'll have to find an old Mitt Romney video to watch.
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ALTHOUSE: " BRILLIANT POSITIONING BY KID ROCK"
Kid Rock:
Dinner time at my house. What do you think Schumer is spoon-feeding Stabenow tonight?
(It's been a long time since Ann Arbor when I used to drink Stroh's.)
Athouse Blog
From Obama Voter Althouse:
"The American news media’s respect for tech CEOs and foreign-policy experts are the photographic negative of their overwhelming contempt for Dumb Donald."
"These things don’t happen because the journalists that remain are liberals. It happens because so many of them are part of the same class – an exalted and privileged class."Althouse Blog
On this day in 1861,
On this day in 1861, the Union army was routed at Bull Run (aka Manassas) by Confederate forces in the first battle of the Civil War just 30 miles outside Washington, D.C., disabusing the North of any notion that there would be a quick end to the “Southern insurrection.” At a critical point in the battle, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. Jackson closed a gap in the Rebel lines and withstood a series of Union attacks, earning him the nickname “Stonewall.” The battle was watched by politicians, socialites and others who gathered as if they were attending a picnic. The Union retreat was so disorderly that second-guessers believe the Confederates could have proceeded into D.C. had they chosen to pursue. The Union army suffered what was then considered a massive 3,000 casualties while the Confederates suffered 2,000 casualties.
In a little known coincidence, much of the battle of Bull Run was fought in the front yard of the farm home of Wilmer McLean, who later moved from the area and reestablished himself in Appomattox. His Appomattox home was the “courthouse” where Lee surrendered to Grant. After the surrender, Union soldiers took almost all of McLean’s furniture and other artifacts to save as mementoes.
REBELS ROUT YANKS AT BULL RUN
In a little known coincidence, much of the battle of Bull Run was fought in the front yard of the farm home of Wilmer McLean, who later moved from the area and reestablished himself in Appomattox. His Appomattox home was the “courthouse” where Lee surrendered to Grant. After the surrender, Union soldiers took almost all of McLean’s furniture and other artifacts to save as mementoes.
Friday, July 21, 2017
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
On this day in 1969,
TEDDY KENNEDY KILLS MARY JO KOPECHNE IN CAR ACCIDENT LEAVING HER TO DROWN
TEDDY KENNEDY KILLS MARY JO KOPECHNE IN CAR ACCIDENT LEAVING HER TO DROWN
On this day in 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, off the east coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The celebration was in honor of the dedicated work of the Boiler Room Girls, and was the fourth such reunion of the Robert F. Kennedy campaign workers. Robert's brother Ted Kennedy was there, whom Kopechne did not know well.
Kopechne reportedly left the party at 11:15 p.m. with Ted; according to his own account, he had offered to drive her to catch the last ferry back to Edgartown, where she was staying. She did not tell her close friends at the party that she was leaving, and she left her purse and keys behind. Kennedy drove the 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off a narrow, unlit bridge, which was without guardrails and was not on the route to Edgartown.
The Oldsmobile landed in Poucha Pond and overturned in the water; Kennedy extricated himself from the vehicle and survived, but Kopechne did not and died in the submerged vehicle eight days shy of her twenty-ninth birthday.
Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities until the car and Kopechne's body were discovered the next morning. . .
The captain of the local fire department testified at the inquest:
It looked as if she were holding herself up to get a last breath of air. It was a consciously assumed position.... She didn't drown. She died of suffocation in her own air void. It took her at least three or four hours to die. I could have had her out of that car twenty-five minutes after I got the call. But he [Ted Kennedy] didn't call. . .
Farrar testified later at the inquest that Kopechne's body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted that to mean that Kopechne had survived in the air bubble after the crash, and he concluded that:
Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim's side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.[
Farrar believed that Kopechne "lived for at least two hours down there."
A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury. He received a two-month suspended sentence. . . .
Mohamed El-Erian is also tired of this "stupid sh--"
Jamie Dimon Is Right to Raise the Alarm
Bloomberg Opinion Article
From Grant's Interest Rate Observer
Bull sightings
Courtesy of today’s Wall Street Journal: the old-school, tried-and-true (to its proponents) “Dow Theory” is signaling higher equity prices. The theory, which holds that new highs in the Dow Jones Industrial Average should be confirmed by corresponding highs in the Dow Transports in order to portend a healthy bull market, has flashed a yellow light to investors through the spring as the broad Industrial average repeatedly made new highs without confirmation from the Transports. With the latter group riding an 11% advance from mid-May, both indices notched fresh highs on Friday.
File it under: For what it’s worth.
Obama Voter Althouse:
The "Breaking News" concept hits a new low.
And that's not one of these articles that reports on the existence of a report in another publication. USA Today makes no mention of the Politico article that I blogged first thing this morning, "Is the President Fit? Donald Trump is the least athletic president in generations. Here’s why it matters."Althouse Blog
As Kevin said in the comments to that earlier post: "Is this what's left to them after the collusion with Russia effort failed? Bullying Trump about his weight?"
Did some memo go out? This is the talking point — Trump is fat??!!
Monday, July 17, 2017
Obama-Voter Althouse:
WaPo scratches its head at poll showing the Don Jr. “smoking gun” hasn’t budged opinion about Trump and collusion with Russia
Maybe you shouldn't have cried wolf all those other times. Or was this one another crying of wolf? You squandered your credibility, trying so hard to get Trump. You built up our skepticism and our capacity to flesh out the other side of any argument against Trump.Althouse Blog
FWIW
Breaking: Lynch Ordered Manafort’s Phone Tapped During Veselnitskaya Meeting
I'm not sure about the source for this but there are at least two interesting tidbits here, one which does not appear to be getting any attention. The first is that the tapping may have been illegal. The second is that others involved in the campaign could have participated via conference call. Others? The "others" could be really big news.
ArticleAccusations have arisen that the meeting was part of a wider setup to achieve a FISA warrant to wiretap phones of the Trump campaign during 2016. President Trump himself has accused the FBI under Loretta Lynch of wiretapping his campaign.Now, a former Trump campaign official reports that Paul Manafort’s phone was subject to FISA wiretap during the infamous meeting.If true, this FISA warrant would have been carried out under Loretta Lynch, Attorney General to Barack Obama. Former FBI Director James Comey has testified under oath to instances of collusion between AG Lynch and the Clinton campaign during 2016, as well as obstruction of justice in the Clinton investigation. . .FISA transcripts of the meeting in June 2016 may have also served the basis of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, now headed by Bob Mueller.Other senior members of the Trump campaign may have participated in the meeting via conference call.Update: This would have been illegal, as FISA court denied Obama’s June 2016 request.
During Bastille Day Weekend Migrant Suburbs Saw 900 Cars Burned in Scenes of ‘Intolerable Urban Violence’
Article
Border Patrol union chief praises 'miraculous' drop in illegal immigration under Trump
Article & InterviewThe significant downturn in the number of illegal border crossers between the U.S. and Mexico is "nothing short of miraculous," National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd said on C-SPAN Monday."As far as the Trump administration's efforts on immigration, this is something they campaigned heavily on," he said. "At six months, where we are on meeting those promises, we are seeing nothing short of miraculous. If you look at the rhetoric that President Trump has given, it has caused a number of illegal border crossings to go down. We have never seen such a drop that we currently have.""There's a vibe, there's an energy in the Border Patrol that's never been there before in 20 years that I've been in the patrol," Judd added in a separate Fox News interview.
I'm all in favor of Jamie Dimon-speak
Candor from Central Bankers is Overdue
When did you last hear mandarins speak clearly about radical monetary policy?
The truth, yet unspoken from on high, is that radical monetary policy begets more radical monetary policy.James Grant, Financial Times
Oh well.
Wikileaks Emails Show DNC Staffers Wrote Questions for CNN's Blitzer's 4/16 Trump Interview
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Sunday, July 16, 2017
On this day in 2009
On this day in 2009, Democrat President Barack Obama damaged police-African American relations by accusing white Boston police officer James Crowley, a certified police trainer in diversity and racial profiling, of “acting stupidly” when he arrested Obama’s personal friend, African-American and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, for disorderly conduct.
Crowley had previously gained some notice for being one of two police officers who had administered CPR, including mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, in a failed attempt to revive African-American and Boston Celtics basketball star Reggie Lewis, who died on the court during practice.
According to press reports, Gates had just returned from a long trip overseas, was tired, and both he and his driver had trouble getting his front door open. After entering through a back door and then exiting, Gates and his driver forced their way into the front door, damaging the door.
After a neighborhood resident reported a possible break-in at Gates’ house, Crowley arrived at the scene, went up to the front door, and asked Gates to step outside. Crowley explained he was investigating the report of a break-in in progress.
Gates asked, "Why, because I'm a black man in America?"
Gates then threatened Crowley by saying he did not know who he was "messing with."
Crowley asked Gates for a photo ID so as to verify he was the resident of the house. Gates initially refused, but then supplied his Harvard University identification card. However, Gates went on to repeatedly shout requests for Crowley’s identification.
Crowley then told Gates that he was leaving his residence and that if Gates wanted to continue discussing the matter, he would speak to him outside.
Gates replied, "Yeah, I'll speak with your mama outside."
Gates stepped onto his front porch and continued to yell at Crowley, accusing him of racial bias and saying he had not heard the last of him. On the 9-1-1 dispatcher audio recordings, a man's loud voice is heard in the background at several points during Sgt. Crowley's transmissions.
Crowley warned Gates that he was becoming disorderly. When Gates ignored this warning and persisted in his behavior, and likewise ignored a second warning from Crowley, Crowley informed Gates that he was under arrest.
Obama’s insertion of the presidency into a local police matter and his characterization of Crowley’s behavior, with no criticism of Gates’ behavior, set off a national uproar which he later attempted to mollify with a White House Beer Summit in the Rose Garden.
Dilbert: The Best Analysis Yet of The Trump Jr Meeting w/ THE RUSSIANS (and a Side Bar About Kid Rock)
Scott Adams BlogObama Voter Althouse: "Trump is the Most Tone-Policed Person in the World."
Tone-policing is just about the same thing as what I've been calling "civility bullshit." (It's my observation that calls for civility are always bullshit. It's always because of what you are saying, because if the civility enforcers agreed with you, they'd be celebrating your passion.)
I want to stress that men get tone-policed too. The most tone-policed person in the world is Donald Trump.
Althouse Blog
A good start.
Berkeley student who cried racial profiling & mistreatment is arrested for hate crime, vandalism
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One of the best trades ever
American Greatness Article
Goodbye Joe Scarborough . . . Hello, Kid Rock
Joe Scarborough is out and Kid Rock is in.Joe made official his departure from the Republican Party this week, following in the footsteps of other pundits such as George Will and Bret Stephens. Good riddance. Meanwhile in Michigan, Kid Rock announced he would seek the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent do-nothing Democrat Debbie Stabenow.Scarborough’s departure from the GOP the same week Kid Rock threw his trucker cap into the ring nicely illustrates the current political fault lines.The 2016 election was about who rules in America. Will it be an aloof, self-interested class of patrician mandarins who attend the same schools, have the same accents, and repeat the same noxious pieties? Or will the American people rule themselves? Those were the stakes. Those continue to be the stakes.Scarborough is a fitting avatar for the striving, elite careerist eager to demonstrate his moral and cultural superiority over average Americans while Kid Rock revels in redneck cool.The contrast between the two is striking.Scarborough is at home in Washington. Kid Rock lives in Detroit.Joe curries favor with coastal elites. Kid Rock is at home in the middle of the country. And it’s no wonder: He’s travelled the country by bus and minivan on more than 25 tours with legends like Lynyrd Skynyrd and David Allen Coe.Kid Rock has the long, stringy hair of ’70s rock gods while Scarborough wears a Ken doll bouffant—a requirement for male TV anchors so hackneyed that it has become a stock punchline.Perhaps most striking is the music. Kid Rock plays straightforward American rock and roll. Scarborough sings Britpop retreads steeped in the sort of hipster self-regard that is unbecoming in a 20-year-old student at a small liberal arts college let alone in a middle-aged man.
American Greatness Article
Chechen President on Alleged Torture of Gays: There Are No Gay Men in Chechnya
ArticleChechnya’s president responded to reports alleging that gay men are being tortured in the country by saying that there is no torture taking place because there are no gay men in Chechnya.“This is nonsense,”Chechen President Razman Kadyrov told HBO reporter David Scott in an interview. “We don’t have those kinds of people here. We don’t have any gays. If there are any, take them to Canada.”. . .“Take them far from us so we don’t have them at home. To purify our blood, if there are any here, take them,” Kadyrov added.
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