Daily Mail: Ted Cruz declined to answer a question on Monday about whether he has ever been unfaithful to his wife Heidi.
‘Senator Cruz,’ DailyMail.com asked him, ‘can you please swat down more definitively this National Enquirer piece by telling us on the record that you’ve never been unfaithful to your wife?’
The National Enquirer published a story last Wednesday that speculated about five women with whom the Republican presidential candidate was rumored to have had extramarital affairs.
Cruz has batted down the specifics of the story on numerous occasions since it appeared in supermarket checkout lanes.
But instead of making a blanket declaration that he has been faithful during the entirety of his 14-year marriage – a move that would effectively end the vicious news cycle – Cruz stood silently as campaign surrogate Carly Fiorina leapt in to intercept the question and change the subject.
Shocking! Some Europeans are standing up for their own identity and for keeping out those who are not a good fit. Wow, some Europeans have a sense of their own self-interest.
The Guardian from 2010: Authorities remove all remaining immigrants out of Rosarno for own protection after locals unleash bloody ethnic cleansing.
Rosarno in southern Italy had, by last night, been turned into what one politician termed the world’s only entirely white town after a bloody ethnic cleansing that produced scenes reminiscent of the old American deep south.
As bulldozers got to work to obliterate shacks belonging to the itinerant crop-pickers who had fled, the last of more than 1,000 such workers were being removed from the area for their own protection.
After two days and nights of violence that began with the apparently motiveless shooting of two African workers, the number of injured stood at 53, comprising 18 police, 14 local people and 21 immigrants, eight of whom were in hospital.
Some of the crop-pickers had been shot; others had been beaten with metal bars or wooden clubs as local people took indiscriminate vengeance after a riot of Thursday in which more than 100 Africans caused extensive damage in the town to protest at the shootings.
Those who fled included several hundred people who had agreed to be taken to government-run centres after reportedly being given assurances they would not be deported if found to be illegally in Italy.
Blog: No, I’m not talking here about prejudice. One of the mixed blessings of studying the Alexander Technique is that you lose your tolerance for moods and behaviors that don’t serve you. Yesterday a student of mine reported that she was full of ease after doing the Constructive Rest practice, when her husband called her over to review some photos on his laptop. As soon as she’d spent a minute craning over his shoulder to see the screen, her shoulder hurt worse than ever. I explained that once we open up stuck places, going back to the old patterns of tension becomes intolerable. Muscles that have finally come even the least little bit free from old tensions are loathe to return — and will let you know! A once-comfortable sofa becomes a nighmare of collapse. Curling up with a book is muddying and unpleasant. Pressurizing (stressing) oneself becomes abhorrent. We can no longer abide our old ways of being, of thinking, of responding.
Of course, we always retain the right to engage in those old habits of thought and deed. But no longer can we claim ignorance of the effects, or our complicity. All the ways we’ve rationalized or ignored our mistreatment of ourselves, in fact our prejudices against life, just don’t hold water.
It may not seem fun to lose the illusion of those old comforts… Freedom is not for the faint of heart.
An attractive young woman messages me: “Luke? Help! How strange it is sometimes to experience much more positivity and attention from others after simply losing nearly 20 pounds. I am receiving some calls from guys who were dismissive of me before, more catcalls, and today a random dude in a restaurant sent over a drink and offered to pay my bill. I am not bragging, but am mentioning this to share how hurtful and upsetting it feels at times. People can be so superficial. More or less I’m the same girl I feel, but now am slimmer and a touch more healthy. It feels unfair.
It’s a struggle. I trying to solve this. I know you will have something of an off kilter answer. I am interested.”
That’s how the world works. Just as when a guy makes a million bucks, he becomes more attractive to women.
Embrace reality. Swallow the red pill.
