Probably the same people Obama said got Obamacare.
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Latest NY Times religion gaffe said chaplain rescued statue of Christ from Notre Dame when he actually rescued the host
Excellent article outlining the Times' chronic ignorance of the Christian faith:
New York Times hits new low with mortifying Notre Dame correction
The modus operandi of progressivism is to take everything beautiful and shit all over it
Because only the future can be good, therefore everything from the past is evil, including Obamacare which no Democrat running for president in 2020 is defending, and even "Edelweiss" by Rogers and Hammerstein. Yes, a song from a beloved old musical.
“Edelweiss” is original to the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, “The Sound of Music,” and dates back to 1959. More recently, a version of “Edelweiss” was used by the Amazon series, “The Man in the High Castle.”
The series, based on a novel by Phillip K. Dick, takes place in an alternate version of the United States in the 1960s. In the show’s version, the Axis powers won World War II and have split up the United States as German states and Japanese states.
So the version of “Edelweiss” used by the series is meant to sound creepy and uncomfortable. Those unfamiliar with the origins of the song might even think it was supposed to sound like a German folk song now being sung in a zombie-like chorus in the fictionally occupied United States. ...
While the Amazon series created its own version of the song that guts its emotional sentiment and original purpose, “Edelweiss” was written for “The Sound of Music” as a tear-jerking tribute to Captain von Trapp’s homeland of Austria.
In the musical, based on a true story, the von Trapps are forced to flee their homeland following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. The captain was no fascist, and while he loved Austria and its beautiful, pillowy, alpine flowers greeting him every morning, he knew he must escape to preserve his integrity and protect his family.
In “The Sound of Music,” Captain von Trapp singing “Edelweiss” is one of the most emotional musical numbers of the entire film. He attempts to softly strum a guitar and deliver the lyrics to a small crowd but becomes overwhelmed with emotion when he reaches the line “bless my homeland forever.” His family joins him on stage to help him finish. That night, they flee Nazi persecutors who are trying to recruit the captain into the Nazi war effort.
The namesake flower of the song is also associated with anti-Nazi Austrian Resistance groups, like the “Edelweiss Pirates,” which was comprised mainly of children and teens. Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, both Jewish and fiercely anti-Nazi, wrote the song at a later point in the musical production because they felt Captain von Trapp’s patriotism needed to be underscored.
Friday, April 19, 2019
One shot for every . . .
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Black woman, 25-35, still sought in 2:25 AM smash-up of Rally's Hamburgers March 27 after it ran out of chocolate ice cream
The St. Louis area’s two busiest criminal prosecution offices are undergoing a much-needed review of cases involving low-level offenders with an eye toward reducing incarceration as the preferred instrument of deterrence. Kimberly Gardner and Wesley Bell promised reform when they campaigned for their respective jobs as chief prosecutors in St. Louis city and county. ... Bell told the editorial board last month that he wants to reserve criminal prosecution and imprisonment for the “worst of the worst.”
Methinks 'twill be a hot summer in the city this year.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Western civilization wasn't built on the "Judeo-Christian" heritage until the "Judeo" was added in the mid-20th century
The addition of "Judeo" is largely due to the post-war victors' response to and feelings of guilt for the Holocaust, but is also bound up with the post-war enthusiasm for ecumenism which remembered how Protestants and Catholics of many stripes fought side by side with Jews in the allied forces of the west to defeat Hitler.
The France which started to build the Notre Dame Cathedral in about 1160 thought so little of Jews it took away their property and expelled them from time to time.
Pete Bootyjudge is turning out to be not the sharpest knife in the drawer
So sorry, Indiana. So sorry, US Naval Intelligence. So sorry, Harvard, Oxford, Cecil Rhodes.
Hm, so it was the Republicans who knocked off Scalia! Amazing! Only a US Naval Intelligence officer could know that.
Monday, April 15, 2019
National Review's Kevin Williamson goes all-in for thorough-going materialism
By any meaningful standard of measurement, these are, materially speaking, the best years the human race has ever experienced—and the best years the American people have ever experienced, too. Health, wealth, safety, freedom, opportunity—never better.
Unless you were one of the approximately 1.5 billion aborted in the world since 1990.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Anthony Bialy forgets "supporting Arab spring", which destabilized the Middle East and North Africa and flooded the west with refugees
. . . and unconstitutional executive orders, record number of Supreme Court slapdowns, Attorney General held in contempt of Congress, bailouts of big businesses and banks while millions lost their careers, savings and homes, rock-bottom interest rates for eight years depriving savers, insurance companies, pension funds and states of needed income . . ..
Update: And! And! Benghazi!
How could I have forgotten Benghazi?
Update: And! And! Benghazi!
How could I have forgotten Benghazi?
Reza Aslan's worthless PhD never screened for "cite" vs. "site", you know, as in scholarly citation
Fortunately the examination committee of Twitter is pointing out the underlying intellectual shortcomings, of which misuse of "site" is only a signal.
Saturday, April 13, 2019
It's an outrage that Bernie Sanders himself has been sucked up in this evil proliferation of millionaires, just like Biden
Who will save us from this invisible hand making people rich all over the place?
John Dryden sums up Ilhan Omar
Poor refugees, at first they purchase here;
And soon as denizen'd, they domineer.
-- John Dryden
Got a text message at 5:49 AM telling me Michigan has accepted my tax return
I got up and made coffee.
Friday, April 12, 2019
Reuters headline, and I quote: "S.African township squalid despite 25 years of black rule"
S.African township squalid and neglected despite 25 years of black rule:
The shocking conditions in which people like Ditsela live are a big
problem for the governing African National Congress (ANC), which faces
mounting public anger over its failure to improve the lives of millions
of the poorest citizens, 25 years after the end of white minority rule.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Bernie makes millionaires safe for the world just as ancient citizen of Tarsus made Pharisaism safe for the world
It all depends on eliminating the cut with these people.
One side clearly has the upper hand in the Semite wars, and good for them, but take it outside please, we have enough division without either of them
Amerika für Amerikaner Ausländer heraus!
LOL: NYT's Maggie Haberman keeps covering for Obama by NOT mentioning indicted Greg Craig was his White House Counsel in year one
Never trust a guy with two first names. Or the NYT.
The Maoist Bob Bauer succeeded Craig. Greg. C'mon, you know who I mean.
Hillary in 1993 was today's mean girl Amy Klobuchar, humiliated Vince Foster as hick lawyer in front of staff one week before suicide
Ken Starr left the information out of his FBI report so as not to further hurt Hillary.
Never trust a liberal to do the right thing.
EXCLUSIVE: Ken Starr says Hillary Clinton DID trigger Vince Foster's suicide when she humiliated him in front of White House staff and admits he omitted the finding in FBI report because he didn't want to 'inflict further pain' on her:
'Hillary put him down really, really bad
in a pretty good-size meeting,' Copeland said. 'She told him he didn't
get the picture, and he would always be a little hick town lawyer who
was obviously not ready for the big time.'
Indeed, Hillary went so far as to blame
Foster for all the Clintons' problems and to accuse him of failing them,
according to Clemente, who was also assigned by the FBI to the Starr
investigation and who probed the circumstances surrounding Foster's
suicide.
'Foster was profoundly depressed, but
Hillary lambasting him was the final straw because she publicly
embarrassed him in front of others,' said Clemente, who, like Copeland,
was speaking about the investigation for the first time.
'Hillary blamed him for failed
nominations, claimed he had not vetted them properly, and said in front
of his White House colleagues, ''You're not protecting us'' and ''You
have failed us,'' Clemente said. 'That was the final blow.'
After the meeting, Foster's behavior
changed dramatically, the FBI agents found. Those who knew Foster said
his voice sounded strained, he became withdrawn and preoccupied, and his
sense of humor vanished. At times, Foster teared up. He talked of
feeling trapped.
LOL: Senate Democrats suddenly upset about unfounded spying allegations three years into Russian collusion hoax
The DOJ looks set to investigate the investigators.
Chicago's Kim Foxx let Jussie Smollett off the hook, turns out she let a convicted murderer go free
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx lets Derrion Albert killer off the hook:
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The family of 16-year-old Derrion Albert wants to know why one of the men convicted in his murder is now free. The 16-year-old Fenger High School honors student was on the way home from school when he was caught in the middle of a gang fight and killed in 2009. The I-Team has been looking into the Cook County State's Attorney decisions in the wake of the Jussie Smollett case and uncovered that the Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx decided not to pursue a stiff prison sentence for one of the attackers shortly after she took office. Cook County prosecutors charged four teens involved in the gang melee that led to Albert's death as adults. Three were convicted of murder at trial. One pleaded guilty. All are serving prison sentences.
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