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Thursday, May 9. 2019

Thursday morning links

Pogo toon via Lileks 


Mongolian Couple Died of Plague After Eating Raw Marmot


Marmot sushi? I prefer my woodchucks medium rare 


HOW TO PUNISH A PEDOPHILE SEX OFFENDER


 NPR Host Fear Mongers: Climate Change Will Cause Human Extinction, “Everyone You Love Will Die!”…


When? 


American Physiological Association Creates Climate Change Guide For Unhinged Warmists



He misspelled "psychological," but otherwise it's amusing


 TWO-THIRDS OF MILLENNIALS DON’T KNOW WHAT AUSCHWITZ IS


Steyn: The post-free speech world 




LATIN AMERICA IS COLLAPSING AND TAKING AMERICA WITH IT. They’re dragging us down even as we try to rescue them


 The Asylum System Is Breaking The Border


 Feds released 168,000 illegal immigrant family members into communities


Crisis: Border Arrests Top 100,000 For Second Straight Month, Highest Since 2007


 My Life In the Berkeley Prog MoshPit of the Sixties


Democrats Aren’t Returning to Normalcy


 Christopher Steele Made Damning Pre-FISA Confession; FBI Retroactively Classified


Yes, Russia Russia was a scam from the beinning 


 Mueller Mounted A Full-Court Press To Block Release Of Comey’s Memos; Here’s Why


 Mitch McConnell: Mueller cleared Trump — now get over it


Somebody said the Mueller report was like losing the election again. This will never end. 


Old news:  Trump Discussed His Business Losses on The Apprentice!


And in detail in his book. He learned a lot from his mistakes


71 things to love about Israel - What made my Israeli heart a little bigger this year? Our humor, brashness, kindness, the intrinsic sense of family, and that dust that gets everywhere


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What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City in 1901

The corner of 23rd Street and 6th Avenue was renowned for its gusty breezes that might allow a man to catch a glimpse of a woman’s stockings. In this staged scene we see Alfred Abadie, an Edison cameraman, and Florence Georgie strolling along when Georgie has a Marilyn Monroe type moment.

Some compared the sequence to the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. The image of Monroe’s thighs exposed under her billowing skirt entered American popular culture.

This film was restored by the Library of Congress and was copied at 16fps from 35mm. It offers a fascinating glimpse of what Manhattan looked like at the turn of the 20th century. The clothes and vehicles are fantastic!
https://www.vintag.es/2019/05/what-happened-on-23rd-street.html
#1 feeblemind on 2019-05-09 08:51 (Reply)
Since there is an article about Berkeley today, here is an Edison trolley video of Berkeley in 1906. If you advance to approximately 1:40, you will see they had whack jobs in Berkeley even then.

A trip to Berkeley, Cal. 1906

Anyone who has lived in Berkeley knows exactly where this is (the latter part at least).
#1.1 Jim on 2019-05-09 15:00 (Reply)
Great little film. Amazing how these things survive. Thanks for sharing.
#1.2 Pocono pam on 2019-05-10 01:03 (Reply)
What Epstein did was terrible but it wasn't pedophilia nor was it particularly unusual. Men's interest in post-adolescent girls is called hebephilia and seems to be very common. Men rarely have affairs with women their own age but usually seek out younger women.
#2 FRP on 2019-05-09 09:05 (Reply)
I think you might need to read up a little bit more. Pimping out post-pubescent 13 year-olds to your friends on your private jet (or island) is nothing short of pathologically predatory. It is not only unusual, it is a disgusting and disgraceful misuse of wealth and position, and a betrayal of a grown man's responsibility to protect the young in our culture. Epstein is a monster; he should not be walking around free.
#2.1 Aggie on 2019-05-09 10:13 (Reply)
Agreed Aggie. It is legally wrong, but then the age of consent is set rather arbitrarily.

It wasn't that long ago in the great sweep of history, when the hormones kicked in it was time to get married.

I believe the age of consent is still 16 in the UK. In the USA, there were states that allowed marriage to girls as young as 14 with parental consent.

The point is we have a long history of legally allowing young girls to have sex.

With the advent of #metoo and the perceived lengthening of adolescence, with 'children' as old as 25 being carried on their parents health insurance, perhaps we should raise the age of consent to 25??
#2.1.1 feeblemind on 2019-05-09 13:15 (Reply)
Nice response to something I didn't say. What I said was that what he did was not pedophilia which involves pre-adolescent girls. From the article, it looks like almost all of them were of legal marriage age and in some states were of the age of consent. Nowhere did I suggest or imply that it was okay.
#2.1.2 FRP on 2019-05-10 08:53 (Reply)
I concur with Aggie. This isn't an instance of somebody making a big deal about a May-December relationship between adults. There are plenty of nubile 18 year-olds with ... flexiblity. Targeting under-18's is purely predatory.
#2.2 Christopher B on 2019-05-09 12:17 (Reply)
The folks complaing about what people don't know didn't know Hitler wasn't elected Chancellor' he was appointed by Hindenburg.
#3 Robert Sendler on 2019-05-09 10:12 (Reply)
Climate Change: What's been occurring since the earth's atmosphere developed.

Democrats Aren’t Returning to Normalcy: When were they EVER "normal"?

Mueller Mounted a Full-Court Press To Block Release of Comey’s Memos; Here’s Why: Can I trust anything from CNN? No.
#4 Sam L. on 2019-05-09 11:14 (Reply)
Pogo is one of my favorites. Wisdom and humor that has stood this test of time.
#5 Novadog on 2019-05-09 18:12 (Reply)
Good piece by Steyn.

Thanks for posting.
#6 feeblemind on 2019-05-10 12:31 (Reply)

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