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She reassured Marxist questioner who wondered if BLM was sufficiently “ideological” and was not about to be “coopted” by lesser organizations with more modest goals. “We are Marxist-trained,” she says.
For her, as for Ado Annie in “Oklahoma,” it’s apparently “all er nothin’.”
In Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, the monument to Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is defaced in the name of social justice:
In early September 1575, Cervantes and Rodrigo left Naples on the galley Sol; as they approached Barcelona on 26 September, their ship was captured by Ottoman pirates, and the brothers taken to Algiers. Rodrigo was ransomed in 1577, but his family could not afford the fee for Cervantes, who was forced to remain. Turkish historian Rasih Nuri İleri found evidence suggesting Cervantes worked on the construction of the Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex, which means he spent at least part of his captivity in Istanbul.
This may be the first time in history that anyone but a few disgruntled nobles took the hammer to Miguel de C.
Of course, he was a white guy.
Oh, by the way: Facebook would not accept this link, told me if violates “community standards.” I tried to set them straight, but probably failed.
Barr sharply criticized Berman for his conduct Friday after a new nominee was named, saying the prosecutor had “chosen public spectacle over public service.”
Well, he’s just paving his way to a big-bucks book contract, no? Spectacle works.
You get elected by winning the nation as a whole? Not in our system. It’s in the states, stupid.
“. . . [M]ost pollsters believe that, on balance, state polls are overstating the scale of Biden’s advantage. That was precisely the problem in 2016: The national polls were largely accurate, to within the margin of error. But there were too few state polls, and many of those that were conducted failed to collect accurate data, especially from white voters without college degrees in key swing states,” the outlet reported. “And those issues haven’t been fixed.”
Courtney Kennedy, director of research at the Pew Research Center, told Politico that concerns from 2016 are still valid.
Remember how flabbergasted the network and the two cable outlets were on election night? Well . . .
President Trump’s top aides, plus Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and what seems like the entire Congressional GOP, plus Conservatism Inc., have taken the knee before the Floyd Hoax riots–echoing the Left’s Narrative that police must be handcuffed, law rewritten, and “institutional racism” abolished. Only Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton has stood up for the Silent Majority of Americans who want the riots, and rioters, put down. And maybe Trump himself, in a few hesitant tweets. He better stop hesitating. His re-election depends on it.
As for the “Floyd Hoax,”
To keep the matter in perspective, remember:
- It’s far from clear that the police officer who arrested George Floyd did anything wrong, or that Floyd died from the police officer’s actions.
- Black are not “disproportionately” stopped, arrested, beaten, or shot, compared to their level of criminality.
- They are actually stopped, etc. less than they should be—the result of police already exercising “restraint” in policing blacks, for fear of being called racist.
Now, as a fish always rots from the head down, let’s start with the doings at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Etc. etc. here.
You could spend a day looking at the linked sources which my friend Nicholas Stix supplies in this extended argument for the Democrat Party’s role in our current run of riots.
A sample:
“[The attack on the 2017 Unite The Right Rally
at]Charlottesville was comprised of your typical Antifa black-bloc measures,” a Project Veritas reporter said. “There were multiple chapters of Redneck Revolt that went to Charlottesville and acted as the militia wing of the anti-fascist movement.”And Project Veritas has also released video of operatives for RefuseFa, an Antifa affiliate, bragging about contacts with high-tech tycoon Steve Wozniak’s Electronic Frontier Foundation, billionaire leftist and failed presidential candidate Tom Steyer, and Hillary Clinton’s campaign operatives.
Hearing MR’s talking points reminded me of Robert Reich, [Email him] economics professor at University California, Berkeley and Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary. In 2017, recall, Reich suggested that the rioters who tried to stop a speech at Berkeley by Milo Yiannopoulos weren’t Antifa thugs, but instead Trump supporters in cahoots with Yiannopoulos and Breitbart.com.
Three paragraphs do not an article make. Judge for yourself if you will.
Let us now praise godly singing . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Ephrem the Syrian (c. 300-373) was a native of Nisibis, in Roman Mesopotamia, and was very probably the head of the catechetical school of that city until its capture by the Persians. He subsequently became a monk near Edessa and there spent most of his life writing commentaries on the Bible and composing hymns. Ephrem’s hymns, written in his native Syriac, kept his people free from heresy and won for the saint the title of “Harp of the Holy Spirit.” His hymns to the Virgin Mary, in particular, form an important contribution to Catholic dogma.
Hymns can do that, which points up a main complaint about the mass of the ’70s until now: they flirt with sentimental nonsense, blurring doctrine in favor of a mostly sweetness-and-light contribution to what Catholics believe.
“Well, first of all,” Trump responded, “nobody has been tougher on Russia or China than I have. Nobody even close. China’s paying us billions of dollars a year. They never gave us 10 cents [before], and [Joe] Biden’s son walked away with a billion and a half dollars to manage, making hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars on it.
“So nobody has been tough on China and nobody has been tough with Russia like I have. And that’s that’s in the record books. And it’s not even close. The last administration did nothing on either.”
It’s rebuttal by comparison, with previous administrations and more specifically with his ridiculous but leading-in-the-polls opponent.
Two mayors ago, in July of 2008, the talk was of moving cops to where the gangs are, etc. . . .
Hoo boy, am I dumb. When Mary Mitchell called for more cops in black gangsters? neighborhoods ? ?on the South Side where most of the shootings have occurred? ? I simply asked, rhetorically, To do what? Can they get aggressive, or is that what causes riots (smaller things have caused riots), as Mitchell said, agreeing with Daley?
?[T]he mayor is right about one thing,? she wrote.
Community activists would have gone berserk had Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis ordered police to stop every white T-shirt, cap-cocked-to-the-side, medallion swinging, pants-sagging black and brown youth in and around the Taste.
“You have to be cautious. You can’t just send a hundred policemen and — say if it’s Gang X African-Americans — and start grabbing every African-American [in the area]. You’d have a full-scale riot,” the mayor said on Tuesday.
Had police harassed even one person who fit the profile of…
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