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Friday, August 28. 2020

Friday morning links

 Instead of Playing Video Games, This 12-Year-Old Is Running a Mushroom Farm in His Basement


Cool vid:  Footage of WWII smoke curtain used to hide naval ships during battle


 What’s the history of the vicious The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?


 Watch Out Cable: 42% of Consumers Plan to Cancel Their TV Subscription


NBA Season Reportedly Up In The Air After “Ugly” NBA Players’ Meeting On Boycott


 As Sports Media Cheers On Athlete Boycotts, Fans Will Walk Away


The mob comes for the art world, On “purity spirals” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.



When we left you in June to enter our annual state of aestivation, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the principal author of the New York Times’s malignant fantasy known as “The 1619 Project,” had just won a Pulitzer Prize. The world was looking forward to the end of the shutdown caused by the Chinese virus—remember “Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread”?—and the return of normality...



 Yale lecturer suggests America is racist because Nikki Haley doesn't go by first name


VDH: What Is the Violence in American Cities All About?


 "Any Excuse To Riot" - Minneapolis Descends Into Chaos Over Police Shooting "Fake News"


 Minneapolis: Rioters Loot Stores in Response to Black Man Shooting Himself


New Documents Show George Floyd Had ‘Fatal Level’ Of Fentanyl In His Body At Time Of Death


 Homeland Security Secretary Says Antifa ‘Absolutely’ Meets Definition Of Domestic Terrorist Group


 CNN praises Melania Trump for addressing coronavirus and racial unrest in RNC speech


Don Lemon: “The Rioting Has Got to Stop… It’s Showing Up in the Polls”. Forget about the people who have been killed, the businesses, homes and livelihoods ruined, it’s about the polls. 


Turmoil Consumes Chamber Of Commerce As It Backs Democrats


 Romney 2012 Staffers Unite Behind Effort To Elect Joe Biden


 Pelosi Comes to Slow Joe's Rescue: 'I Don't Think There Should Be Any Debates'


 VICE PRESIDENT PENCE’S SPEECH


 Europeans Discover the Myth About 'Safety Nets' the Hard Way


 The dean of America’s intellectual pro-Israel defenders has died


Pax Ottomanica: A review of “God’s Shadow”: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by Alan Mikhail.

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Unless my count is off, this should be Day 169 of Fifteen days to [Slow the Spread/Flatten the Curve/&c., &c ...].
#1 Phil, Jr. on 2020-08-28 09:01 (Reply)
The timing is good. The information on the early seeding of the riots is now starting to come out. The Federal undercover agents are now starting to root out and arrest the state-line crossers (Federal offenses) as they did last night in Kenosha. Just in time for election decision-making, it will become painfully obvious that the riots, the burnings, the lootings, have all been professionally organized and have capitalized on events in a way that is opportunistic - not idealistic.
#2 Aggie on 2020-08-28 09:16 (Reply)
re NBA Season Reportedly Up In The Air After “Ugly” NBA Players’ Meeting On Boycott

This utterly amazes me. Players want to kill the season and for what?

They are strangling the golden goose in order to showcase their wokeness.

If they really wanted help they would find other ways to do it.
#3 feeblemind on 2020-08-28 09:17 (Reply)
It's all about the posturing. Fun and games until all of a sudden the paychecks get affected...
#3.1 JLawson on 2020-08-28 10:27 (Reply)
Being woke, doesn’t mean you're smart. I think it’s the exact opposite.
#3.2 B. Hammer on 2020-08-28 10:57 (Reply)
I really wish I watched the NBA, NFL, and NASCAR. Then when I stopped watching, I would be making a contribution, albeit a small one, to their demise. As it is, I am just a cheerleader for disaffected sports fans who have been turning off their broadcasts - thankfully, given the recent ratings, it's clear there are already a lot of people making that contribution.

I would add that if I owned an NBA team, I would fire every member of the team who didn't want to play - that is their job after all - and hire new players who want to play.
#3.3 mudbug on 2020-08-28 11:57 (Reply)
You should take a look at hurling, here in Ireland. All amateurs, no politics, total commitment and the best field sport in the world...by a distance.
#3.3.1 DeGaulle on 2020-08-28 15:10 (Reply)
yes, but wacky scoring!
#3.3.1.1 Dennis D on 2020-08-28 16:05 (Reply)
Great links today. Thanks.
#4 Jack on 2020-08-28 09:50 (Reply)
The only reason we still had cable was because some sports were only available there. Last night's virtue signalling by the NHL was the last straw. We're pulling the plug.
#5 itsatax on 2020-08-28 10:31 (Reply)
I just saw this NHL business. I agree with you. I’m done.
#5.1 B. Hammer on 2020-08-28 11:03 (Reply)
We cut it about four months ago. I miss Gutfeld and Ingraham, but that's about it. Got Pluto instead: when things get too absurd, there's always MST3K re-runs ...
#5.2 Phil, Jr. on 2020-08-28 19:44 (Reply)
The STUPID is STRONG in these ones.
#6 Sam L. on 2020-08-28 10:39 (Reply)
The Elders of Zion

So what is the difference between Henry Ford and Jessie Jackson?

Actually there is a big difference; Jessie Jackson never did anything useful or productive and he spent his entire life spreading his bitter anti-white sentiment whereas Mr. Ford may have held anti-semitic views you have to search to find them.

Every public person spouts their own bile. Bette Midler comes to mind. Isn't the things she spews worse than Henry Ford? SO you have to wonder why Ford, who died 75 years ago is being brought up. What about the 'squads' tweets? Talk about anti-semitic. Are they part of the "elders of Zion"??? What about Cher's tweets? Many of them are too disgusting to write here. How does she compare with Henry Ford? At least she did create something; music. Doesn't compare with the Model T but is far more than Jessie Jackson ever gave the world. So again I ask why this drum beat about what Henry Ford believed? Some people believe in little green men from other planets too. I just don't get the need to socially assassinate Henry Ford 75 years after he passed away.
#7 OneGuy on 2020-08-28 10:41 (Reply)
NBA season reportedly up in the air after “ugly” NBA players’ meeting on boycott: I'm good with them shooting themselves in the feet.

As Sports Media Cheers On Athlete Boycotts, Fans Will Walk Away: As I said above...

The mob comes for the art world: Conservatives will be blamed.

Yale lecturer suggests America is racist because Nikki Haley doesn't go by first name : Idiocy is EVERYWHERE. The STUPID is STRONG in Yale.

What Is the Violence in American Cities All About? Well, all I can say is, when you have a democrat mayor and a Democrat governor, you are a two-time loser, and should make plans to "get out of Dodge".

"Any Excuse To Riot" - Minneapolis Descends Into Chaos Over Police Shooting "Fake News": See comment above.

"CNN praises Melania Trump for addressing coronavirus and racial unrest in RNC speech": SOMEONE's gonna be fired for that.

Don Lemon: “The Rioting Has Got to Stop… It’s Showing Up in the Polls”: The CLUEBAT has hit its target.

Turmoil consumes Chamber of Commerce as it backs Democrats: As well it SHOULD.

Romney 2012 staffers unite behind effort to elect Joe Biden: This is why I've never sent money to the RNC or GOP. Can't trust them.

Europeans Discover the Myth About 'Safety Nets' the Hard Way:
The STUPID was STRONG in these ones, too..
#8 Sam L. on 2020-08-28 11:07 (Reply)
The WNBA players are wearing shirts with 7 bullet holes in the back to protest the Jacob Blake shooting. They did not say if the players also raped a 15 year old girl, committed domestic assault and fought with police while armed with a knife in the celebration of Jacob Blake's life's work.
#9 OneGuy on 2020-08-28 11:41 (Reply)
For Don Lemon it is all about obtaining political power...Dead people and dead businesses are not important. A true marxist.

The Chamber of Commerce under Donahue represents only one class of business and that is the corporatists that desperately need to do business with China regardless of the cost to labor in the US. Trumps tariffs and trade agreements defeat the tariff free importation of cheap chinesium products. The corporatists will sell their sole to get back to the good old days of Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
#10 indyjonesouthere on 2020-08-28 15:19 (Reply)
soul
#10.1 indyjonesouthere on 2020-08-28 15:21 (Reply)
Re: Professional sports.

The NFL, NBA and MLB already lost me. NASCAR lost me with the Bubba Wallace hoax. All that was left was the NHL.

And they lost me yesterday with their stupid boycott in support of the NBA.

So, that's it. An entire lifetime of following sports - fanatically, at times - is over.

Thanks, assholes.
#11 jimg on 2020-08-28 16:42 (Reply)
Kamala Harris wants to mandate a nation wide Mask requirement. Why?

It is interesting that so many of our politicians who get up on a stage and talk down to us about wearing a m ask and social distancing are not wearing a mask and social distancing.

IMHO If any politician, scientist or 'expert' mandates wearing a mask they must wear it too 24/7. I honestly get the impression that they do indeed intend that their rules and laws are for the hoi polloi and not for them.
#12 Anon on 2020-08-28 18:19 (Reply)
re: VDH-City Violence-"The point of the mob is to wipe out what it cannot create. It topples what it can neither match nor even comprehend."
Dalrymple put it this way: In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
#13 Kyle A. on 2020-08-29 15:10 (Reply)

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