Friday, August 31, 2018

Exclusive: Whose Kind of Town is Chicago Now?


So much for having a full discussion. Asking people to look at contributing factors of personal conduct that measurably result in dependency, fatherless homes, abuse, crime, violence and the like is evidently something only a hater would presume to bring up. The problem is, those very conditions hardly encourage the investors and employers the angry voices are demanding deliver them prosperity. [More]
Forget it Jake. It's Chi-Town.

Blowhard

NYT's Blow Explodes On CNN Guest: 'This Guy Should Not Be Allowed' On TV [More]
No Enemy of the Republic should! And Blow is just the arbiter of the limits of acceptable discourse.

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Dachte!

Tell me more about this:
In a new memoir, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow opens up about abuse he has suffered, and inflicted in his life.
"Inflicted"?

So a #CharlesBlowMeToo hashtag is not out of the question?

The Trump Slump

With a Friend in the White House, Gun Sales Sag [More]
I dunno -- there's only so many guns people are going to buy because the good ones aren't cheap and they last.

Of more concern to me are the oblivious, stupid and lazy f***s who use this as an excuse to continue being parasites off the efforts of the people out there doing something. The times have never been more dangerous in terms of what could happen next.

[Via Mack H]

#MarxForOur Lives BranchesOut

Parkland student Hogg and De Blasio link young voter registration to gun safety [More]
"Mayors for Our Lives"?

Remember when De Blasio's bitter rivalry with Bloomberg had him holding out on joining MAIG? This looks like a calculated swipe.

But it is an opportunity to start a whole new expose effort...

The developing list is here.

[Via Mack H]

The Building Permit Loophole

Jacksonville Fire Marshall Insanely Blames The Madden Tournament Shooting On.... Building Permits [More]
It makes as much sense as all the others...

[Via Mack H]

No Need to Know

The document the PAC released, which is part of the SF-86, revealed that Spanberger had once taught at a private school in Northern Virginia called the Islamic Saudi Academy, which later fended off controversy after a valedictorian was charged with aiding al-Qaida. That aspect of her résumé had not been made public until Tuesday. [More]
Gosh, we're really sorry for releasing that information. Why would any voter need to know about that?

It's not like that has any bearing on her commitment to disarm them.

[Via Mack H]

Coming Soon, to an Entry Point Near You

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is under formal investigation for "kidnapping" after he refused to allow illegal migrants to disembark from a ship at a Sicilian port. [More]
Don't doubt there are those in this country who would make it a capital offense.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Standing Aside Enough

Chapel Hill police chief told officers to 'stay way out' as Confederate monument was toppled; one officer put on leave amid concerns over tattoo [More]
Yeah, well, not putting themselves on the line is kind of an "Only Ones" trademark, as Columbine and Parkland demonstrated.  So is taking the politically expedient course, as the manufactured tattoo "controversy" demonstrates.

The "progressives" don't want anyone opposed or not useful to them to be employable. They don't want them to eat.  Surprise.

Nobody thought this would be limited to "social media," did they?

So trumpeting the SPLC characterization of Three Percenters helps win herd approval for the economic ostracizing. And I'm sure the Town Manager and Council will have no interest in understanding what the philosophy really stands for, or would dare to correct the record if they did.

[Via Michael G]

In a Class of His Own

Calif. teacher arrested for road rage and armed robbery, had loaded gun in classroom during arrest [More]
Any bets on the guy's politics?

Regardless, the grabbers using this to disallow all teachers choices on exercising their rights is just as logically fallacious and evil as exploiting individual criminal abuses to disarm everyone.

[Via Jess]

HERESY!

Yet Red Sox President Sam Kennedy says the team has spoken to Martinez about being more cautious on social media. [More]
Why?  I thought athletes' "First Amendment rights" extended to the field...

Or is that only for "approved" sentiments and positions?

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Excluded Enough

St. Louis’s top prosecutor, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, has a so-called “exclusion list” of 28 police officers and will refuse to prosecute suspected criminals if any of those officers are deemed critical to such prosecutions. [More]
It's fair to ask if we're dealing with lying thugs, with a political operative that places race hustling above public safety, or with a combination of both.

  [Via bondmen]

Where All That 'Commonsense' Leads To

Speaking at a townhall in Texas, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was detailing the differences between himself and his challenger, Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke, when he began, “On the Second Amendment—” prompting a gun rights supporter to interrupt, “Come and take it!” That triggered an apparent O’Rourke supporter, who had been heckling Cruz, to yell out, “Oh, we will!”[More]
I don't suppose anybody at Fairfax is interested in correlating that with this...?

[Via bondmen]

Speaking of Spiritual Wickedness in High Places...

First came the stunning revelation that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington and friend to presidents, had for decades been a predator-priest who preyed on seminarians and abused altar boys, and whose depravity was widely known and covered up. [More]
So his "pastoral concern" for "the lives of 21 children" may have had a self-interest component...?

When 'Only Ones' and 'Authorized Journalists' Collide

The officer responds by saying, “That doesn’t supercede HIPPA.” [More]
Decapod crustaceans take precedence?

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Withdrawing Enough

Former KC-area police officer robbed a bank at gunpoint, federal prosecutors say [More]
Don't they make these guys sign a non-compete agreement?

[Via bondmen]