I ask the secretary: “How was your weekend?”
She replies: “What do you want?”
Ahh, she knows me well.
Thesokorus: “You just need more levels of duplicity is all. You can do it!”
Miriam: “Yup! That is the common reply to your out of character-nice greetings. I get a chill down my back when you greet normal people (aka not female models) in a nice way.”
Daily Caller: The Democratic mayor of Petersburg, Va., has denounced all critics of his leadership as racist Republicans in a bizarre email replete with many grammatical errors.
Petersburg, a city of just 32,000 people, is battling severe budgetary issues. It has an expected budget deficit of $12 million and over $19 million in unpaid bills. The city is even in danger of losing its garbage pick-up service because of missed payments to the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority.
But Mayor W. Howard Myers says the many people critical of his administration are simply racists out to take him. And he makes his claim in a leaked email that are suggests he is barely literate in the English language.
The grammar of the letter is so atrocious that at times it’s difficult to deduce what Myers actually wants to say. Some of the most baffling lines include:
“Our economic and financial development is in crisis and until this Council set aside the foolishness of one and Facebook cronies, we will not be able to move forward.”
“No one Council member does it alone as always regurgitated
I will as the representative of Ward 5 and as Mayor duly to my right hand, serve the Public without blemish and from scare tactics from a few racists and Republicansupporters.”
“Vote your conscious not your election. “
“Please be advised and understanding of the significant pressures we as Council Members are being adhered too, as well as being bullied and forced to make unlike leadership decisions.”
At the end of the letter, Myers declares in all caps “I AM PETERSBURG.”
Daily Mail: ‘I don’t come to rob your country’: First Romanians to arrive in Britain following changes to EU migrant rules insist they are looking for work after being greeted at the airport by Labour MP Keith Vaz
Labour MP even bought some a coffee to find out why they are here
Romanian Victor Spiresau told him he would send his cash back home
‘I don’t come to rob your country. I work and then go home,’ he said
Mr Vaz says Britain should hold referendum on number of EU migrants
Companies advertise 5,000 jobs to recruit Romanian workers
Adverts promise cash daily and say command of English ‘unnecessary’
Today 4,896 jobs advertised in England, but less than 150 in rest of Britain
Comment: A couple of years later the married MP is found consorting with Romanian rent boys:
Mirror: Keith Vaz hid real identity from male escorts: ‘My name’s Jim and I sell washing machines’
MP Keith Vaz tried to hide his real identity from two male escorts by telling them he was a washing machine salesman named Jim.
He blurted out the pseudonym as he was about to engage in sexual activity with two Eastern European male escorts.
As they discussed sex, the men asked the married Labour MP about his work.
Mr Vaz said: “These are industrial washing machines, that I sell. Industrial. For big – for hotels.”
He went on to say the machines were used to clean towels in bulk.
Minutes later, as the men said they undressed, one of the escorts asked Mr Vaz: “What’s your name, by the way?”
He replied: “Jim”, then spelt it out letter by letter, saying: “J-I-M.”
But Mr Vaz had already been rumbled because one of the escorts said he recognised the famous and powerful MP from his frequent appearances on television.
Mr Vaz gave the false moniker at his meeting with the men eight days ago.
It followed a string of text messages in which details of the late-night rendezvous – timings, venue and financial arrangements – were discussed.
* If Trump somehow pulls through, the cover of the NY Post on the day after the election should have a picture of stunned Hillary with the caption “Schlonged!!!!!”
* It’s really kind of astonishing (in a completely predictable way) how the press lets Hillary Clinton get away with portraying herself as being totally concerned with cybersecurity and keeping our country’s secrets safe.
* Yes, wouldn’t a decent reporter ask a simple follow up question along the lines of, “can you explain what medical diagnosis you have been given for your cough and what is the treatment for it?”
Under sharia law, which my wife Huma endorses, she could be stoned for leaving me. She should think this through. pic.twitter.com/62CAVPsKg0
— Anthony Weiner (@AnthonyVVeiner) August 30, 2016
* If Hillary collapses, she can still win by theft. She has 194 Electoral Votes no matter what. Add Ohio (18), Pennsylvania (20), Florida (29), and Virginia (13), and she is at 274. With Kaine on the ticket, a brilliant choice, the “Red State” of Virginia may turn blue, and Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida are stealable.
Trump’s most standard path to victory involves every state Bush won twice, minus Virginia, which gets him to 268, just short (which is why Kaine was such a brilliant choice, Hillary now needs only to win every state GOre or Kerry won plus her VP’s home state). Then picking up ME’s 2nd CD sends the election to the House (unless there is a Hillary mole among his electors), where he probably wins.
Any other state would do and his best chances are the three “purple” states Bush won once (New Mexico (5), New Hampshire (4), Iowa (6), plus the Rust Belt states Michigan (16) and Wisconsin (10)). If he loses Ohio and Florida and gets all of those, he is at 262, so he would need Virginia or Pennsylvania (20) as well, but those are unlikely because Governor McAuliffe in VA or the Philly machine will look the other way while votes are manufactured.
If Trump can win Ohio and Florida, he might lose Colorado (9) and still win with Wisconsin or Michigan or 2 of the purple states. I think his chances are good even if he loses one of those two states — but he has to count on GOP governors Kasich in Ohio and Scott in Florida to not allow shenanigans. I expect Kasich, much as he hates Trump, still won’t want to allow Democrats to steal votes in his state, so this seems achievable. With Florida’s history, there will be extra scrutiny there, and although they use dubious electronic technology I really doubt that the GOP there has allowed the Dems to hack it.
So the map changes surprisingly little. Colorado and New Mexico may have really turned blue, but Michigan or Wisconsin or NH+Iowa make up for that. I think Ohio will resist attempted fraud and go to Trump. Florida as usual is the wild card. Without it, and factoring in the likely losses of Colorado and NM, he would need Michigan plus Wisconsin plus NH-or-Iowa plus either VA or PA, very unlikely, but maybe Colorado isn’t so blue as all that.
Prediction: Trump wins the popular vote (because the theft will be concentrated where it will do the most good), but needs Florida for the win, and the Supreme court is tied 4-4 this time around….then someone dies.
If a Jew puts leftism before Judaism, he will work more for left-wing causes than Jewish ones. If he puts his Jewish identity first, he will do more Judaism than leftism. The more left a Jew goes, the more likely he is to be uncomfortable with Israel as a Jewish state.
Jews are a key part of the Coalition of the Fringe in America, but in many respects, they don’t have much in common with other members such as blacks, latinos, and Muslims. Indeed, these groups often have clashing interests. Witness the easy hostility between blacks and latinos, between blacks and Jews, between Muslims and Jews. What unites these groups is hatred of white power.
A Barnard College sophomore recently articulated the sad choice many progressive Jewish students face on campuses around the country. In a Columbia Spectator op-ed, she called on Barnard’s student government to not support a sexual assault prevention group — a group she herself had once helped lead.
She took this stand because the group had “officially taken on an anti-Israel stance… publicly denounc[ing] Israel on social media and collaborat[ing] with anti-Israel student groups, such as Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine.” By choosing to condemn Israel, the group had “effectively politicized anti-sexual violence work on this campus,” she wrote. “Doing so is detrimental to the cause and unfair to pro-Israel survivors.”
Much has been written about the rise of intersectionality, and how the academic theory claiming that all forms of oppression are connected, when applied to the real world, has encouraged the formation of coalitions between American progressives and pro-Palestinian activists. But it has also led to the erosion of traditional ties on which Jews have long relied.
For the first time, American Jews are beginning to see real ripples of BDS — the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — take hold off campus. National conferences of Presbyterians, Methodists and Quakers have considered BDS resolutions. Jill Stein, who, in this wild election year, has received more attention than might ordinarily go to the Green Party candidate for president, proudly touts support for BDS on her website.
And perhaps most prominently and provocatively, the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of 50 Black Lives Matter groups, released a platform calling Israel an “apartheid” state guilty of “genocide” against the Palestinians, and endorsing BDS — giving Israel the dubious distinction of being the only foreign country called out by name in a document that otherwise focuses on racial discrimination in the United States.
New York Times: Across the Philippines, the killing of some 1,300 drug suspects in the last two months has frightened hundreds of thousands of people like Ms. Bongol into turning themselves in. Officials cite the estimated 687,000 people who have surrendered, which vastly exceeded expectations, as evidence that Mr. Duterte’s deadly campaign is succeeding.
From the New York Times Editorial Board:
The term was coined in 2008 by Richard Spencer, a white supremacist whose National Policy Institute says it is “dedicated to the heritage, identity and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.” Through his online writings and YouTube channel, Mr. Spencer is a key player in the social-media universe where this core group of Trump supporters get their “news,” from sources with which most people aren’t familiar. A quick scan shows that immigration is not only their most important issue, it’s pretty much their only issue.
“Immigration is a kind of proxy war — and maybe a last stand — for White Americans, who are undergoing a painful recognition that, unless dramatic action is taken, their grandchildren will live in a country that is alien and hostile,” Mr. Spencer wrote in a National Policy Institute column.
Infowars is another website that puts immigration front and center. The site was created by the radio commentator/conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who is the source of Mr. Trump’s false claim that thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrated 9/11, and on whose show Mr. Trump said: “Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.” Infowars called Mr. Trump’s slashing anti-immigrant rant on Wednesday “an excellent speech sure to win him support from those who’ve been conned by the lying media into thinking he’s some evil demon creature when the truth is he’s a man with a heart of gold.”
Mr. Trump says he isn’t signaling the alt-right when he says of immigrants, as he did again on Wednesday: “We have no idea who these people are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse. Watch what’s going to happen, folks. It’s not going to be pretty.” Or when he said — in a line widely quoted on alt-right websites — “There is only one core issue in the immigration debate and it is this: the well-being of the American people.” Mr. Trump’s white supremacist followers don’t take his disavowals too seriously. After all, he has enthusiastically retweeted bogus crime statistics and incendiary imagery from these websites and hired one of their biggest lights, Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News, to manage his campaign.
There aren’t enough of these people to put Mr. Trump in the White House. But his candidacy has granted them the legitimacy they have craved for years. For the first time, a candidate is using a major-party megaphone to shout the ideas they once could only mutter among themselves in the shadowy fringes of national debate.
Steve Sailer writes: From the New York Times:
Obama Says Colin Kaepernick Is ‘Exercising His Constitutional Right’
By DANIEL VICTOR SEPT. 5, 2016President Obama said Monday that Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is “exercising his constitutional right” by refusing to stand during the national anthem, a decision that has created considerable controversy since he first took the action 10 days ago.
While noting the meaning of the flag and the national anthem, the president said there was a long history of sports figures making political statements.
“I think he cares about some real, legitimate issues that have to be talked about,” President Obama said during a news conference in China. “And if nothing else, what he’s done is he’s generated more conversation around some topics that need to be talked about.”
Speaking of sports stars being allowed to exercise their constitutional rights, here are a couple of other New York Times articles, but these are from 16 years ago:
BASEBALL; Baseball Orders Tests for Rocker
By JACK CURRY
Published: January 7, 2000Baseball has ordered John Rocker, the Atlanta Braves pitcher, to undergo psychological testing before deciding whether he will be disciplined for the disparaging remarks that he made about gays and minority-group members in a magazine article last month.
And from a few weeks later:
BASEBALL; Baseball Suspends Rocker Till May for Comments
By MURRAY CHASS
Published: February 1, 2000Commissioner Bud Selig, saying John Rocker had dishonored Major League Baseball by disparaging many groups of society with his harsh comments in a magazine interview, suspended the Atlanta Braves’ No. 1 relief pitcher yesterday for 73 days, marking the first time a baseball player has been disciplined for speech. …
Selig said that Rocker could not participate in spring training with the Braves, a 45-day period, and could not play during the first 28 days of the season. The commissioner also fined Rocker, a 25-year-old Georgian, $20,000 and ordered him to undergo sensitivity training. …
”Major League Baseball takes seriously its role as an American institution and the important social responsibility that goes with it,” Selig said in a statement. ”We will not dodge our responsibility. Mr. Rocker should understand that his remarks offended practically every element of society and brought dishonor to himself, the Atlanta Braves and Major League Baseball.”
Rocker, who initially gained notoriety by lashing out at Mets fans during the National League Championship Series last October, expanded his target group in a Sports Illustrated article in December. He disparaged an assortment of foreign people — ”I’m not a very big fan of foreigners,” he said, adding, ”How the hell did they get in this country?”– as well as gays and others.
In between, I had written in the National Post of Toronto:
by Steve Sailer
National Post
1/10/00In the grand tradition of the Brezhnev regime, Major League Baseball is forcing Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker to undergo psychiatric testing for expressing dissident political and social opinions.
Rocker is on the rack for the neo-Orwellian crime of hating New York. “It’s the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the [Number] 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you’re [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It’s depressing.”
Saturday Night Live’s Colin Quinn commented, “I hate Rocker, but I have to admit the guy has ridden the 7 train.”
Of course, when the charge is “multicultural insensitivity,” the fact that one is telling the truth only worsens one’s guilt.
No doubt, baseball commissioner Bud Selig and the rest of the thought police will be shocked, shocked, to learn from the shrinks that a young closer whose job is to intimidate batters by throwing 95 mph fastballs right under their chins is hot-headed and hostile.
But the rest of us should be shocked by the chilling effect that “sensitivity” is having on free speech.
It doesn’t appear that in the current ten days of controversy over Kaepernick that anybody has previously brought up the Rocker analogy, even though they have obvious parallels beyond the obvious Who? Whom? differences
Update: As commenter Hepp suggests, in parallel to Obama defending Colin Kaepernick in China, here is Obama denouncing Donald Sterling in Malaysia for what Sterling said in private:
COMMENTS:
* Has President Barry ever had a Sister Souljah moment? Seems like he’s too insecure about his black brother bonafides to risk offending a constituency that might finally recognize he’s not really authentically one of them.
Whatever the obstacles to blacks overcoming their tough situations, too few are willing to stick their necks out to coach these citizens that most of their challenges are homemade and that the key to any change is in their grasp.
* Kaepernick is mulatto AND was adopted and cared for by nice white parents, so he has to signal blackness extra hard. (I assume all veteran iSteve readers understand the phenomenon of mulattoes always identifying with their deadbeat black fathers as well as being the most vocal and obnoxious activists, compounded by a slight boost of intelligence.)
Of course Obama, a fellow mulatto let down by blacks and uplifted by whites, took time out to speak about Kaepernick.
* The US flag’s days might be numbered. When they banned the Rebel battle flag, people pointed out that no slave ship ever came here flying that banner. The US banner flew over many slave ships though.
Kaepernick just confirms that the left really does dislike the US flag because to them it does represent white America. What’s the point of changing the composition of the nation and chipping away at the Constitution that they publicly think is flawed if you are not going to change the symbols and emblems?
We’ve already seen the renaming of buildings, streets and other public places. We are about to see Andy Jackson taken off the $20. So why not, in their words, come up with a flag that represents the new America?
Now of course this would be a drastic move given our current demographic makeup. We still need to be further along with the population replacement. But Kaepernick and BLM show that some of the left are becoming impatient with the pace of change. After all it is supposedly set in stone that their side has won. So why do they have to wait?
Personally I wish they would demand a new flag today. It would push many over to the Trump side.
ABCNEWS: A group of men wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit, a motorbike helmet and a Muslim niqab have tried to enter Parliament House in Canberra to argue in favour of a nationwide ban on the burka.
They were met by a security official outside the building, who advised the men that the helmet and the KKK hat were not allowed inside.
He told the protester wearing the niqab that his face would have to be revealed during the normal security screening process.
The media was unable to witness the security process, but all three men emerged without their head coverings.
“It seems that you’re allowed to wear a full-faced covering into Parliament if you’re a Muslim woman, but no other group is allowed to have that same privilege,” Sergio Redegalli told reporters.
“We, as males, are not allowed to wear any face coverings in Parliament House.”
Because they are such an imitative society, they even copied the practice of the American doctors who came over during the Korean War and then they made those American practices aka Jewish practices standard.
Virtually no circumcision was performed before the year 1945 as it is against Korea’s long and strong tradition of preserving the body as a gift from parents.[36] A 2001 study of 20-year-old South Korean men found that 78% were circumcised.[37] At the time, the authors commented that “South Korea has possibly the largest absolute number of teenage or adult circumcisions anywhere in the world. Because circumcision started through contact with the American military during the Korean War, South Korea has an unusual history of circumcision.” According to a 2002 study, 86.3% of South Korean males aged 14–29 were circumcised.[38] In 2012, it’s the case of 75.8% of the same age group. Only after 1999 has some information against circumcision become available (at the time of the 2012 study, only 3% of Korean internet sites, using the most popular Korean search engine Naver, are against indiscriminate circumcision and 97% are for).[36] The authors of the study speculate “that the very existence of information about the history of Korean circumcision, its contrary nature relative to a longstanding tradition, its introduction by the US military, etc., has been extremely influential on the decision-making process regarding circumcision.”
