Between a cool shower on a hot day and a hot one on a cold day.
For grass-roots conservative Republicans — mocked by the Beltway’s imperial punditry and lied to again and again by the GOP establishment — what could be sweeter than this?
Source: To stop Trump, GOP establishment must rally around Cruz – Chicago Tribune
They slipped by, did they not?
Dutch authorities identified about 30 war crimes suspects, a third of them Syrians, among the 59,000 people who applied for asylum last year, the immigration minister said on Monday.
Among them ten Syrians, who said
the Syrians could not be sent home because international treaties prohibit forced repatriation to a country where there is ongoing conflict….
Stuck with them.
Source: Dutch find ten Syrian war crime suspects among Muslim migrants
Being inveterate laudatores temporis acti as they are, literally “praisers of times past,” or longing for the good old days.
You have to wonder: Are daily newspaper people ever struck by the fact that a movie about what they do is so much more popular than they are?
Spotlight, Tom McCarthy’s movie about The Boston Globe’s 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative series on child molestation among Catholic clergy, was two things. It was a really great movie, and it was a delicious opportunity for self-back-patting by old ink-stained wretches.
Like myself.I watched. I patted. But since the Oscar ceremony, it has taken me a month or more to figure out why the discussion of the movie within my craft inevitably leaves me so sad and lonely. Oh, now I remember. It’s not the movie. It’s the craft.
Read the rest here: The Last People to Understand Spotlight Are Newspaper People | Dallas Observer
. . . enunciated by Glenn Reynolds:
Free markets offer insufficient opportunities for graft.
It’s a shame. Hustlers the world over find it takes too much hustling.
It’s not in his game plan . . . Not that we thought it was, but consider Drudge’s report tonight.
AZ SHERIFF UNLEASHED: Obama ‘handcuffed’ Border Patrol…
‘Manipulated data’…
‘Had agents assigned to low traffic areas’…
‘Attempted to quiet dissent’…
He is one crafty hombre, our president.
The “truth” about Bill Clinton’s affairs and alleged affairs would “destroy” Hillary Clinton’s political career, declared Paula Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who sued President Clinton for sexual harassment.
Source: EXCLUSIVE – Paula Jones – Truth About Bill’s Women Would ‘Destroy’ Hillary’s Political Career
My favorite comic book.
Created by Beau Willimon. With Kevin Spacey, Michel Gill, Robin Wright, Kate Mara. A Congressman works with his equally convincing wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, they make two wrongs, says Jim Goad, reflecting on white and black complicity in black slavery.
Nearly all modern historians agree that the scenario depicted by Alex Haley in Roots—that of white raiders penetrating the African interior to rout African villages for slaves—is fraudulent.
Instead, European slave traders nearly always bought slaves from African vendors at coastal markets.
We hear much about the brutal “Middle Passage” across the Atlantic Ocean, but almost never about the estimated 10 million or so indigenous Africans who perished while being marched to the sea in chains and yokes by their African captors.
Goad gives close to a dozen samples of mostly African blacks condemning black slavers, then concludes:
I have endlessly more respect for modern African leaders who are willing to acknowledge their ancestors’ role in slavery than I do for modern ethno-masochistic whites that try, against all evidence, to isolate guilt only on the white side and smear all whites from here to eternity with the invisible shit stain of guilt.
I also have far more respect for these African leaders than I do any modern American blacks who blame whites, and only whites, for every last drop of black suffering.
Read all about it here: Did Africans Sell Africans Into Slavery? Let’s Ask Some Africans – Taki’s Magazine
. . . and we got talking. Told her I take a Republican ballot, we got talking some more and guess what? She asked whom I’d vote for in the president’s race, I said “leaning toward Trump.” Guess what? So is she. If he’s on the ballot in November, he has her vote.
Will he do what he says he’ll do? We don’t know, she said. But we don’t know what the others will do either, I said. Exactly, she said.
Locally, she’s Dem, you see. But Trump is saying all the right things. He has so many businesses going, if economy goes bad, his businesses will too. (He has skin in the game.)
Romney should have butted out, she said. Me too.
How many like her will go for Trump while supporting local Dems?
Blithe Spirit 