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Friday, September 4. 2015

Friday morning links

Image to celebrate Labor Day weekend, which seems to begin today


What Is America’s Worst Restaurant Chain?


F*ck Your Rules: Why I’ve Decided I’m Going to Have Fun All The Time (h/t Insty)


MSNBC to Expand Morning Joe One More Hour


Watched the show once, at the gym. Not bad.


Environmental Waste - Tom Steyer’s $1 billion “green-jobs” initiative is a bust.


Ted Cruz talks sense on climate


‘Water Shortages Are Manmade’ Economist Says - The answer to drought: let prices rise.


The Importance of Intellectual Property Protection to the U.S. Economy


Glenn Reynolds: Ordinary Americans lead the way on racial healing


America needs no racial healing. I have never seen or experienced any racial problems in my life, except those ginned up for election seasons.


Poverty Among Whites Demands Philanthropy's Attention - Four in 10 poor Americans are white


Do they want "help"?


How much smokier can a gun get?


A guy with bad hair calls the MSM political reporters to a press conference...


Hillary’s Campaign Has Already Begun to Derail


Hillary May Just Be Dumb


From  Bush is a “very low-energy kind of guy”:



 One of the many reasons people detest Boehner and McConnell is this very same thing: lack of energy. They must have done something to get to their present positions—something rather Machiavellian, I’d imagine. But it certainly doesn’t come across in anything that would give people the impression that they will fight for them. They don’t just fail to walk the walk, they fail to talk the talk.



Europe sells the hangman's rope - again


Okamoto condoms: objects of desire for Chinese tourists in Japan


Iran Commander: We’re Getting Prepared to Overthrow Israel


Kafka in Caracas


Netanyahu and AIPAC: Right to Fight

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Hillary’s Campaign Has Already Begun to Derail ... The lurid revelations about the Clinton Foundation proved that it was not so much a charity as a huge laundering operation.

Rating: A
Charity percentage : 89 %
https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478
#1 Zachriel on 2015-09-04 09:21 (Reply)
It must be really hard work being an Official Hillary Apologist these days.

I certainly don't envy you.
#1.1 JJM on 2015-09-04 10:13 (Reply)
do they pay you for this pathetic shilling?

Charity Navigator, which rates thousands of charities, won't rate the clinton foundation because its business model is too bizarre. possibly because the hildabeest's charity sells influence to big donors, often foreign governments and often involving arms sales, possibly because it has been described as a family slush fund.
#1.2 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-04 13:09 (Reply)
Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz: Charity Navigator, which rates thousands of charities, won't rate the clinton foundation because its business model is too bizarre.

Charity Navigator won't rate the Clinton Foundation because it doesn't fit their model; however, Charity Watch has given them an A rating.
https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478
#1.2.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-04 14:19 (Reply)
LOL. Did they know when rating this 'charity' (which ripped off Haiti, by the way) that the Clintons made most of their 'charitable' donations to their own Foundation? What a racket.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/half-of-clintons-charitable-giving-in-2014-went-to-their-own-foundation/
#1.2.1.1 MissT on 2015-09-04 14:25 (Reply)
MissT: Did they know when rating this 'charity' (which ripped off Haiti, by the way) that the Clintons made most of their 'charitable' donations to their own Foundation?

Most of Bill Gates's charitable donations went to the Gates Foundation. So?
#1.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-04 15:44 (Reply)
when you repeat yourself and drop challenges, you concede the point, loser.

the clingon foundation sells influence and is a family slush fund.
#1.2.1.2 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-04 16:45 (Reply)
Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz: the clingon foundation sells influence and is a family slush fund.

We provided some support for our claim, merely that the Clinton Foundation was rated A by Charity Watch. In reply you make unsupported claims.
#1.2.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-05 08:42 (Reply)
no, you keep repeating yourself and ignoring challenges, because that's what you do when you have nothing.
#1.2.1.2.1.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-05 17:40 (Reply)
Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz: the clingon foundation sells influence and is a family slush fund.

We made a claim, which we supported. You also made a claim, but did not provide support. That's the difference.
#1.2.1.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-06 10:10 (Reply)
Worst restaurant chain? Kudos for pointing out how disgusting Olive Garden is. Even worse, my hometown used to be overrun w/ Italian Restaurants run by Italians. Now "Olive Garden" wins the annual "Best in town" award.

But how about adding "Panda Express" to that list. Another staple at airports and malls, it serves slop on top of rice that smells and tastes like smoke. I'd choose Sbarro over PE any day.
#2 DrTorch on 2015-09-04 09:29 (Reply)
"Poverty Among Whites"

A somewhat strange article. One of his quotes "there are few organized groups, other than extremist right-wing hate organizations, that advocate for better conditions among the white poor."
Where did that come from? What extremist right-wing groups? Is the author a card carrying member of the SPLC? Where are these phantom "extremist right-wing" hate organizations?

Another quote "What’s more, the history and ongoing horror of discrimination and prejudice against minorities overshadows the suffering faced by other Americans."
Again, where did this come from? what "ongoing horror"?? Is he talking about the thugs who committed crimes and were shot by police and citizens in self defense? Is he the only person in America who fails to see through this subterfuge and election politics?

This article appeared to be a hit piece more than something informative on white poverty.

If you want to reduce poverty stop helping! The federal government cannot constitutionally do what they do anyway so just stop it. If the states want to provide walking around money, food and housing to their citizens at least that would be constitutional. Stupid but it would be legal under our laws. Stop giving them free stuff. How stupid do you have to be to fail to understand that the reason people choose to egt on welfare for life is because it's a pretty good gig. Beats working, sit at home get high and pump out dependents. WE have created most of the poverty with our stupid policies. Just stop it.
#3 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-04 10:23 (Reply)
"...stop helping." Correctomundo!
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both."--James Dale Davidson
#3.1 mary on 2015-09-04 10:46 (Reply)
It was definitely a strange article! Read it once and had no idea what it was saying, then rereading the article I realized I misunderstood the intent. This quote was the key (italics are mine):

"While many nonprofits represent minority constituencies, there are few organized groups, other than extremist right-wing hate organizations, that advocate for better conditions among the white poor."

This article wasn't about concern for impoverished white people. It's literally a call for Leftists community organizers to start targeting poor whites for conversion to Leftist ideology.
#3.2 L.B. on 2015-09-05 09:32 (Reply)
This article should be a Friday link.

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/mardy-fish-us-open/
#4 Joel on 2015-09-04 10:57 (Reply)
F*ck Your Rules

written like a 12 year old.
#5 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-04 13:13 (Reply)

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