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Monday, August 31. 2020

Monday morning links

 A Century Later, the Versailles Treaty Still Haunts Our World


 Brewing Mesopotamian beer brings a sip of this vibrant ancient drinking culture back to life


CDC's Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics - Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)


Related:  CNN and Twitter Target President Trump and The Gateway Pundit – Won’t Allow Us to Share the Actual COVID-19 Numbers from the CDC Website that Don’t Fit Their Narrative


Yeah:  Oops: It Looks Like the Vast Majority of Positive COVID Results Should Have Been Negative


 It seems that the Wuhan virus’s risks have been grossly exaggerated


‘Compassion’ isn’t a fix for homelessness — it’s just virtue signaling


NY Is Hemorrhaging Cash — But De Blasio, Cuomo, Unions Refuse To Face Reality



 Why Arizona Looks Like Ground Zero in Battle Over Election Integrity


Mass election mailings could completely destroy the credibility of any election this fall. Watch for it. 


 The Left Is Racing to Get 'Woke' Enough, But Who Is in Charge of the Clattering Train?


Facts About Police Behavior Matter. The News Division of The Wall Street Journal Charged The Journal’s Opinion Staff With “Disregard of Evidence”... It Was News Which Was Guilty of That Charge


 NBC News: Looting Proves Black America Deserves Reparations Or Something


 Democrats Blame Trump for Violence After Months of BLM and Antifa Riots


We are curious about who is paying/supporting these people


 CNN Guest: It’s Okay For Protesters To Gather In D.C. Today During A Pandemic Because Their Cause Is Important


 Trump Slams "Do Nothing Democrat Mayor Of Portland" After Wheeler Blames President For Violence


 Team Biden Notices That People Don’t Seem To Like Riots


 Colorado Man Yelled ‘Black Lives Matter’ Before Stabbing A Stranger, Now Charged With A Hate Crime


Jared Kushner on How American Diplomacy Created the Conditions for the Israel-UAE Deal - An interview with the senior adviser to the president on the thinking behind the deal, and America’s role in the Middle East.

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re Colorado Man Yelled ‘Black Lives Matter’ Before Stabbing A Stranger, Now Charged With A Hate Crime

Oh boy . . . .

We have long had the cry Allahu Akbur before a fanatical attack, and now we have this.

One wonders if there is much difference in either's psychological profile?
#1 feeblemind on 2020-08-31 09:52 (Reply)
"We may never know this young man's motive . . . ."
#1.1 Texan99 on 2020-08-31 14:59 (Reply)
Re: Protestors in D.C.

"It’s one thing for store owners to protect their businesses, as some have done during these riots: That’s a form of self defense, by people rooted in the community. It’s another for yahoos to jump into situations far beyond their ken or control."

https://nypost.com/2020/08/27/vigilantism-like-rioting-violates-the-social-order/

What the rioters (I mean "protestors") are doing all over the country is challenging anyone to defy them. And Washington D.C. loves that. Washington believes that rioting cements the argument that only communism will provide the economic justice that women and minorities deserve. So the rioters are heroes, while adult white men who try to stop them are criminals. It's like Superman's Bizzaro World, where everything is upside down.

That's why Washington constantly vilifies white men as "vigilantes". A vigilante is a stupid white person who doesn't understand the world well enough to take any kind of action. On government employees, like Cops, understand.
So remember, white men are nerds; and black men are cool. Which side do you want to be on?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241760/
#2 Ron Liebermann on 2020-08-31 11:23 (Reply)
"CNN and Twitter Target President Trump
and The Gateway Pundit – Won’t Allow Us to
Share the Actual COVID-19 Numbers from
the CDC Website that Don’t Fit Their Narrative":I despise, detest, and distrust CNN. Twitter, too.

It seems that the Wuhan virus's risks have been grossly exaggerated: Surprahz, surprahz...

‘Compassion’ isn’t a fix for homelessness — it’s just virtue signaling." It's SO MUCH easier...

NY is hemorrhaging cash — but de Blasio, Cuomo, unions refuse to face reality: Couldn't happen to nicer, smarter guys, but they aren't nicer or smarter.

I lived in AZ for 5 years. 50 years ago. It wasn't nuts, then...

The Left Is Racing to Get 'Woke' Enough, But Who Is in Charge of the Clattering Train?: Nobody. The Left claims "Not US!! No, no, no, no, NO!!!!1111!!!!!

NBC News: Looting Proves Black America Deserves Reparations Or Something: Why I despise, detest, and distrust NBC.

Democrats Blame Trump for Violence After Months of BLM and Antifa Riots: Of course they do. Liars, one and allllllll.

CNN guest: It’s okay for protesters to gather in D.C. today during a pandemic because their cause is important: CNN lies, as do its "guests".

Trump Slams "Do Nothing Democrat Mayor Of Portland" After Wheeler Blames President For Violence: Trump hasn't been anywhere near Portland.

Team Biden notices that people don’t seem to like riots: A semblance of some intelligence, though not much.

Colorado man yelled ‘Black Lives Matter’ before stabbing a stranger, now charged with a hate crime: A RIGHTEOUS Bust!
#3 Sam L. on 2020-08-31 11:34 (Reply)
We got spooked bad by China media's release of what they were doing to fight Covid. They sure ACTED like this was an extinction-level plague. Dems didn't take it seriously, Trump did - and I'm not going to fault him on it because by the data they had at the time they had to do a lot of stuff quickly before it DID catch fire here in the US like it apparently did in China. (And it did in NYC - but FFS it was stupid to put infected patients in nursing homes. Co-Morbidity Bingo there...)

Trouble is, a bureaucracy does not like to EVER admit they can be wrong, and the media is worse. Recall the few times Trump tried to say that this might not be so bad? Or that we could start reopening? The Dems and the media started SCREAMING that Trump wanted people to DIEEEEE! Makes me think he was the 'Covid Only' numbers and was going... "Maybe we overreacted'.

IMO, YMMV and all that, the Dems saw this whole damned mess as a flippin' godsend. Get everyone locked down, KEEP the country locked down, crash the economy, make sure that everyone possible was dependent on government largess in the form of jacked up unemployment benefits, establish random-sendout mail-in voting because it wouldn't be 'safe' to go vote in person, and win in November with the promise of 'Making Things Better'. They just had to keep the narrative going that COVID-19's a killer a bit longer, and they'd have won.

But the 'Rona's burning itself out and the economy's doing a lot better than anyone would think at this point.

CDC hasn't covered itself with glory here. The "It's a Covid death if the person died with Covid" reporting parameter caused a lot of ... um... 'enhancement' of the overall numbers. It'll likely be another year before it all shakes out and we'll knows just how far off we were - at which point it's not really going to matter.
#3.1 JLawson on 2020-08-31 14:18 (Reply)
Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots

QUOTE:
A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.

https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots/
#4 feeblemind on 2020-08-31 12:23 (Reply)
Re: NY Is Hemorrhaging Cash

QUOTE:
...Yet both Cuomo and de Blasio seem to want to keep the economy down, as they fantasize about a federal bailout — and, in the mayor’s case, borrowing billions and saddling future generations with debt...


I think it is about more than hoping for a Federal bailout. New York contributes substantially to the US GDP. Depriving Trump's economy of New York's contribution would dramatically depress the growth rate. This is also about trying to hurt Trump's re-election chances.
#5 mudbug on 2020-08-31 12:56 (Reply)
From the Way-Way-Wayback Machine (1975):

"PRESIDENT FORD TO NEW YORK CITY: DROP DEAD"
#5.1 Jim on 2020-08-31 14:21 (Reply)
I'm really hoping for a replay!
#5.1.1 mudbug on 2020-08-31 14:22 (Reply)
"Brewing Mesopotamian beer brings a sip of this vibrant ancient drinking culture back to life"

Wait, that link doesn't go to the Babylon Bee?
#6 Jerryskids on 2020-08-31 16:15 (Reply)
re: A Century Later, the Versailles Treaty Still Haunts Our World

That's a good analysis. We need to be reminded of that history, before we (America) try to fix every problem in the world.
#7 The Switchel Philosopher / The Switchel Traveler (Link) on 2020-09-01 06:38 (Reply)
re: Brewing Mesopotamian beer brings a sip of this vibrant ancient drinking culture back to life

This is a fascinating article by Professor Tate Paulette! Well worth the time to read.

Crikey, Bird Dog, so many interesting links today! So little time.
#8 The Switchel Philosopher / The Switchel Traveler (Link) on 2020-09-01 06:51 (Reply)
re: Facts About Police Behavior Matter. The News Division of The Wall Street Journal Charged The Journal’s Opinion Staff With “Disregard of Evidence”... It Was News Which Was Guilty of That Charge

This is an important article, and it's interesting to read about the internal divisions in the WSJ. Even here in rural Vermont we are dealing with this issue. Yesterday the Vermont League of Cities and Towns (I'm on their board) released this statement: Perspectives on Police Reform.

What to do about our current unrest? Instapundit has written recently about a theme that resonates with me: the difference between the Democratic National Convention (negative) and the Republican National Convention (positive); and how Trump is saving America from a race war. See this and this. Ann Althouse gets at the same theme in her thoughtful post yesterday about Biden's speech in Pittsburgh.

The Republicans have a positive message about race. More people need to hear it. Perhaps one way to get the message out in a way that independent and Democratic voters will listen is to use the lessons of "Hamilton."
#9 The Switchel Philosopher / The Switchel Traveler (Link) on 2020-09-01 07:30 (Reply)
Versailles Treaty

In 1999, AP decided to do a most important event of the 20th century. Easy, I decided. World War I. But, no. People with more letters than mine after a degree decided the Hiroshima bomb as most important. Well, if not for WWI, there would not have been a Hiroshima bomb. Nor a world-war in 1939. Versailles was a true account of winners decide who gets what. Interesting to speculate: What would have happened in the Middle East had there been no Versailles line-drawing on maps of sand? Tribal warfare, tribal trade, a continuation of 16th century, 15th century lives.
#10 SgtBob (Link) on 2020-09-01 18:15 (Reply)

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