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Tuesday, May 29. 2018

Tuesday morning links


Image above stolen from American Digest, who also has a sensitivity-training video 


How to Fail Today's Starbucks Racial Sensitivity Training


Photos:  The Fading Battlefields of World War I


Colorado: Maggie's Farm "medical" marijuana 


Doom and gloom in the USA: "It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion."


 The Clinton Foundation Is Back! Win Chardonnay With Hillary Or A Caribbean Trip With Bill!


 Media, Former Obama Officials Use Pictures From 2014, 2016 to Attack Trump on Immigration


 REVEALED: Joseph Mifsud – The Man Who Set Up Papadopoulos – Is Member of Soros-Funded European Council on Foreign Relations


The crisis of Assault Knives in the UK 


 Tommy Robinson will be the UK’s tipping point


 Britons Rage Over Robinson Arrest As Mass Protests Break Out Worldwide

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:22 | Comments (18) | Trackbacks (0)

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Doom and Gloom in the USA: These folks been loading up on downers.

Brits and Knives: The Insanity LIVES!!!1111!!!!!

Brits, Muslims, and Tommy Robinson: This will end up worse...well, far, FAR worse than we can imagine.
#1 Sam L. on 2018-05-29 10:09 (Reply)
CommonDreams has been like that a long time. "Things aren't going the way we want - Western Civ's all gonna collapse! Everything's hoorible! Trump's worse than Hitler!"

They're virtue-signallers to the max. I gave up on rational thought out of them around... 2000 or so.
#1.1 JLawson on 2018-05-29 10:31 (Reply)
That Chris Hedge guy is intense, as in intensely deluded. But, he's a Harvard grad, so I suppose he should be running things.
#1.2 XRay on 2018-05-29 11:03 (Reply)
Mr. Hedges apparently doesn't know we DON'T live under a democracy (50% of the vote + 1 = mob rule), but a constitutional republic where the citizens elect representatives to run the government. If we could make certain that only citizens vote, they vote once only and the dead were not raised for every election, it would help restore legitimate governance. Perhaps I have lived in Chicago too long, but I have never seen an election free of voter fraud.

Another step to regaining our republic would be to ban all Ivy League graduates, most especially those from Harvard, from participating in the system ever again. They have screwed it up beyond easy repair while lining the pockets of the corporate boardrooms and Wall Street. I might exclude U. of Penn as Catherine Austin Fitts graduated from Wharton and may be the premier analyst of our economic failures and how to start correcting them.
#1.3 jma on 2018-05-29 16:04 (Reply)
The 'ivy league' has been a most destructive force on the United States. Should be the first thing checked on a candidate, 'graduated from...'. And decide from there.
#1.3.1 XRay on 2018-05-29 17:59 (Reply)
There is a message in the Starbucks fiasco. The city should not be sued for having to arrest someone who is trespassing and refuses to simply leave. Starbucks shouldn't be over reacting to a simple and sane policy that simply says our facilities are for our customers. Every inner city business knows that the homeless and thugs are a problem and can hurt your business. Should all inner city businesses just give up? Will it lead to closing of stores? No good will come of this capitulation. Those two men may well have been innocent patrons but once they were asked to buy something or leave and they refused they were 100% wrong. And then to insist on being arrested rather than to simply comply with the law makes me wonder if they didn't plan this all along.

It appears to be Starbucks intent in this to accuse all of their employees and most of their customers to be racists in need of retraining. I do not like or accept these characterizations and neither should the employees. They should consider this their first warning. Time to look for another job. Your employer doesn't value you.
#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2018-05-29 10:11 (Reply)
Starbucks is corporate America getting what it so richly deserves as they continue pedaling political correctness in trade for profits.
#2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2018-05-29 13:23 (Reply)
Also in the news is this piece of common sense.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/05/29/atkins-diet-may-cause-heart-failure-major-new-protein-study/

I recommend lifestyle carnists and other food faddists read the whole thing for much more than the title implies.
#3 Meh on 2018-05-29 10:36 (Reply)
"Tommy Robinson will be the UK’s tipping point"


In our dreams.


His arrest will be noted on page 58 when he's finally released.
#4 JamesG on 2018-05-29 10:59 (Reply)
Is 58 the obituary page? Unfortunately for the guy that is probably what will happen being incarcerated with the latest scourge of so called humanity infiltrating Europe.
#4.1 JC on 2018-05-29 11:07 (Reply)
"🎶 No stems, no seeds that you don't need,
Maggie's Farm has, [inhaling noise], far out weed! 🎶"
#5 sixtyville on 2018-05-29 11:33 (Reply)
Well done, sir/madam.
#5.1 XRay on 2018-05-29 18:03 (Reply)
QUOTE:
American Digest, who also has a sensitivity-training video

Looks like Roseanne Barr is going to have time for that sensitivity training, after all!

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#6 Zachriel on 2018-05-29 16:01 (Reply)
Yep, kinda like that Joy Reid chick at MSNBC making fun of queermos.

Oh, wait!
#6.1 drowningpuppies on 2018-05-29 19:24 (Reply)
Roseanne Barr was a darling of the left when her original show was on, and someone the left abhorred when with her new show it was revealed she was a Trump supporter.
But she didn't move Right. As she mentioned on one of the late night shows she's not a Republican, and other than for Trump, has no real positive waves for the current administration.

She's kinda like Comey -- both sides switched wanting to burn her for heresy.
#7 OldFert on 2018-05-29 18:37 (Reply)
Roseanne is playing a marketing game, just like Caitlyn and Kanye are. None of them really believe what they are saying, it is just to get publicity. It's the necessary shock factor for American viewers.
#7.1 Jim on 2018-05-29 22:28 (Reply)
Your joy about this makes no sense even though it is fake news.
#8 Anon on 2018-05-29 22:31 (Reply)
Judging from Colorado's prices for medical marijuana, Connecticut needs more competition.
#9 lonetown on 2018-05-30 20:51 (Reply)

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