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Friday, December 28. 2018

Friday morning links

Photo: Christmas Eve moon over the Maggie's HQ after church and a late Christmas Eve party


Bill Ballou: Mariano Rivera not getting this writer’s Hall of Fame vote


Interesting. He's right that people always loved Mariano 


 6 Unexpected Ways Depression Can Impact Your Social Life & How To Spot The Signs


Jews on the Prairie - The rise and fall of Beersheba, a Jewish agricultural colony that brought immigrants to Kansas in the 1880s


 Mizzou Official Claims Tall Men Asking Out Short Women Could Constitute Sexual Misconduct


What about tall women going after small men? 


 WRONG AGAIN: Obama and Gore Said Global Warming Would Cause More Severe Tornadoes – 2018 Was First EVER with NO VIOLENT TORNADOES


 ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A MEMBER OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS?


 John Kerry's Family Fights to Keep Peasants Away from Ancestral French Villa, Claiming Terror Threat


The cost of the wall is nothing compared to the yearly cost of illegal immigration


Steyn considers concept of lone wolves 


Michael Walsh:  Sweet Shutdown, Roll On


Williamson:  Does the U.S. government do more harm than good?


The FBI and DOJ Were Working to Protect Hillary Clinton a Lot Longer Than Generally Discussed…


 Byron York: When Democrats embraced the 'Southern Border Fencing Strategy'


 Tom Friedman is having a bad old time 'getting' Trump


Althouse is no Trumper, but this:



 I'll just add that I can barely read the news these days (and I absolutely cannot watch it on TV). The negativity toward Trump is so relentless, cluttering up everything. It's crying wolf times a thousand. If anything is worth taking seriously, I'm afraid I won't be able to notice.


For better or worse, Trump is now Trumpier than ever

After 60 years of revolution in Cuba, cracks in leadership emerge


 Beijing continues its South China Sea imperialism and ups the military ante.


Commies are always imperialists 


China To Take Over Kenya's Largest Port Over Unpaid Chinese Loan


Clever technique. China knew they'd never be able to pay the loan


Ecuador fell into the same trap 


 Taiwan’s growing role


Kim’s last chance

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Althouse:
Harping and carping; pissing and moaning;
hectoring and lecturing; chiding and scolding;
are all part of the human condition.
Another subcategory are those who compulsively and pointlessly correct others.
Couple this with chicken little, hand wringing, crying wolf, ankle biting, piling on, gossiping and you have today's media; just the current manifestation of the old crones, who have been with us since the beginning of time. The difference is that, if you follow media, it is 24/7 and in your face all the time. I suspect that the 24/7 phenom requires a lot of filler.
In addition to this being some opportunist's revenue stream, consumers bear a lot of the blame. I don't know how or if consumers came to be dominated by neurotic cat ladies and adolescents or if it is a matter of not being able to resist watching a train wreck.
I don't think this has as much to do with Trump as it has to do with today's media technology and the infantalization of the public.
#1 FromtheAlthouseblog on 2018-12-28 08:57 (Reply)
Communists have to be imperialists, or subsidized by one. They can't compete in a free market, and most of them aren't quite efficient enough to seal their borders so that no workers can escape and no commerce (or even knowledge of prosperity) can get in.
#2 Texan99 on 2018-12-28 10:28 (Reply)
Balmier winters, increased food production, greening of deserts, lower fuel consumption, and now fewer tornadoes.

Global warming is simply amazing!
#3 Rusty on 2018-12-28 10:30 (Reply)
Labor unions. What's not to like??

Seasonal UPS Workers Had Almost Entire Paychecks Handed Over To Union:

Sheila O’Malley of Charlestown couldn’t believe it when she opened her paycheck from her seasonal job at UPS. “I was shocked,” she told the I-Team. She worked 41 hours that week, many of them during the overnight, and ended up with just $14.52.

Sheila assumed it was a mistake and the money would be refunded. In part, because Sheila, like other thousands of other seasonal part time UPS workers, signed an agreement to pay the $500 Teamsters union initiation fee in $32.00 weekly installments. But UPS told her it wasn’t a mistake.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/12/20/i-team-seasonal-ups-workers-entire-paychecks-teamsters-union/
#4 feeblemind on 2018-12-28 11:41 (Reply)
Can anyone verify this? Muslim conductor? Really?

Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands attended a concert in the capital, Amsterdam.

The Guest Conductor, who just happens to be Muslim, proceeded to give the Queen a lecture on the "beauty" of Islam.

The entire orchestra got up and walked out, refusing to be associated with someone lecturing their Queen. The staff of the music hall escorted the conductor off-stage, and after questioning, out of the building.

http://www.safeshare.tv/w/cqjiYhtiXs
#5 feeblemind on 2018-12-28 12:16 (Reply)
feeblemind: The Guest Conductor, who just happens to be Muslim, proceeded to give the Queen a lecture on the "beauty" of Islam.

He wasn't the conductor, but a Muslim missionary who interrupted the event. The orchestra was asked to leave the stage for security reasons, but returned after a security sweep.
#5.1 Zachriel on 2018-12-28 13:19 (Reply)
I hate to think that my relationship with my wife of almost 40 years began with an act of sexual misconduct since she's only 5'2" and I'm almost 6'.
#6 Randy on 2018-12-28 12:21 (Reply)
Kerry can't stand having French peasants looking down their noses at him. HIM!! He ran for POTUS!! He's rich!! The noive of duh peasants!!!!!

Tommy Friedman can't stand TRUMP. Bummmmmmmmmmer, Tommy.
#7 Sam L. on 2018-12-28 12:41 (Reply)
I wonder if that's it. I think John Kerry's insufferable snobbery simply cannot stand to see mere peasants enjoying the seaside at the expense of his pristine view of the beach, from his Boudoir. It perturbs the predestined order of his lofty thoughts and this blemishes the magnificence of his reflection.
#7.1 Aggie on 2018-12-28 16:07 (Reply)
Musical selection for you BD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ZL5AxmK_A
#8 Taxman on 2018-12-28 12:46 (Reply)
Re China loans:
If anyone bothered to learn their history, they'd have seen that this was the same play the French used to effectively recolonize Mexico during the 1860s, in contravention of the US Monroe Doctrine (Although the US was busy with another bit of unpleasantness at that time) and put Archduke Maximillian on the throne of the Second Mexican Empire. Effectively the French banks put Mexico so far into debt that they foreclosed on the entire country.
#9 Another Guy named Dan on 2018-12-28 14:06 (Reply)
Re "Tall Men Asking Out Short Women Could Constitute Sexual Misconduct"
Do these busybodies realize that on the average most men are bigger and taller than women?
#10 Ray on 2018-12-28 16:53 (Reply)
Are those the reflections of police car lights bouncing off the license plates at Maggie's HQ?
#11 Gene on 2018-12-29 21:57 (Reply)

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