Tuesday, April 23, 2019

WaPo's far-right obsession beyond New Zealand inflames Notre Dame and Sri Lanka coverage, might as well be making everything about the Jews



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
My toilet's clogged. Wait until the far-right hears about THIS. My plumber's name is Scharfman.

Saturday, April 20, 2019

Dear New York Times: Beyond the 500 million or so living in Canada, US and Mexico, where are these "billions of people"?

Probably the same people Obama said got Obamacare.

Rod Dreher: Progressives ruin everything they touch

See below earlier today.





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

Two UK headlines, summer 2018, epitomize how far the English have fallen



Mueller found no evidence of Manafort connection to Russian interference in US election


Glenn Greenwald indicts DC and media promoters of baseless, dangerous conspiracy theories


One shot for every . . .

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Pontius Pilate: "I find no fault in this man"


Real retail in Mar 2019 y/y is growing at less than half the rate it was in Aug 2018


Too much fiber, obviously


Wow, really? Now THAT'S weird.


Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Couldn't agree more with Chef Zilli: Every Wednesday night it's pasta around here but somehow it always tastes like Wiener schnitzel


Millions of Americans disappointed as annual Lyrids meteor shower fails to wipe out DC




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.

Stephen L. Miller is Q


Nancy Pelosi says a glass of water with a "D" next to it would win in her own or Alexandria Occasio-Cortez' district




Monday, April 15, 2019

Ilhan Omar sure does say radically contradictory things on a regular basis


New national poll by Emerson has Bernie ahead by 5 over Biden, no one else even close


I know, I know! The Tsarnaev brothers filed their taxes, right?


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

Pelosi: Like five people said something


Cher is woke, becoming a Bernie bro on immigration


As long as Trump dumps the illegals legally, they're fine with it

:-/

107 years ago tonight at 23:40 hours some ship in some ocean hit something and sank two hours and forty minutes later, killing a bunch of somebodies


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?

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.

Friday, April 12, 2019

Stock market return in the last 22 years has underperformed the previous 126 years by 15.3%


James Comey: "I've never thought of court-ordered electronic surveillance as spying"


It all depends on what the meaning of "is" is, remember?

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.