Who will we make fun of when the French are gone?
They are replacing a fundamental and productive segment of society with barbarians.
Those French Jews who can leave the country, leave. Most departures are hasty; many Jewish families sell their homes well below the market price. Jewish districts that once were thriving are now on the verge of extinction.
Peter Thiel’s Warning to Silicon Valley.
“Silicon Valley is a one-party state,” Mr. Thiel said last month during a debate at Stanford University. “That’s when you get in trouble politically in our society, when you’re all in one side.” He’s right.
Via Drudge.
Some old Black and White photos from the Battle of the Somme have been colourized.
Horrors of the Somme brought to life: Soldiers haul heavy guns through the mud and devastation and wait nervously in the trenches during WWI’s bloodiest battle in incredible colourised photos.
VDH:
There have been wild reports that the United States is considering a “bloody nose” preemptive attack of some sort on North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. Such rumors are unlikely to prove true. Preemptive attacks usually are based on the idea that things will so worsen that hitting first is the only chance to decapitate a regime before it can do greater damage.
But in the struggle between Pyongyang and Washington, who really has gotten the upper hand?
Seems the FBI is too busy playing politics to do its job.
Revelations that the FBI had been warned about Florida high school shooter Nikolaus Cruz fit an all-too-familiar pattern, in which apparent law enforcement errors have preceded mass murders.
Patrick Brown is suing CTV. Hope he gets plenty. And I hope he gets to the bottom of this setup.
Patrick Brown has made good on a promise to launch a lawsuit against CTV over a bombshell sexual misconduct story he says is full of “lies.”
“I am suing CTV,” Brown said in a Facebook post Thursday morning. “My lawyers are talking to CTV.
Red wine may have to make room on its pedestal for craft beer, a new study suggests. Tasty, independent and produced on a small scale, craft beer is booming in Canada. And according to Michael McCullough, an associate professor at California Polytechnic State University, it may be better for you than a glass of red wine.
No wonder. The NHS is one of the biggest employers in the world. In 2012, it was just behind China’s People’s Liberation Army and Indian Railways. Compare the population of Britain to those two countries and you have the answer: it’s a bloated bureaucracy with cash-for-life parasites running it. Who has money for actual health care?
Government is, by definition, bad at running things. But if a country’s government decides it’s going to provide health care, and if the people want it to, have at it. Good luck. But in order to give publicly run health care even a chance to work, the government must ensure that the resources will be there. And in order to ensure that, it must take certain steps. For one thing, it must curtail immigration by people who will burden the welfare system. It must stop pouring cash down the foreign-aid rathole. And so on. The list of things that need to be done is pretty obvious.
But Britain hasn’t done any of these things. In the future, accordingly, its welfare rolls are destined to swell — and the NHS is destined to become increasingly overburdened. Queues will grow even longer; rationing will become more severe; British subjects will find themselves being denied care because of their advanced age, their excessive weight, their smoking or drinking habits — or their lack of connections.
Meanwhile in Ontari-owe (the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower).
How cool is that? Uh, gee, I wonder who pays for that?
Patrick Brown was judgemoored several weeks back. He is now fighting back. Akin to Alison Redford, Brown is CINO. Nevertheless, no one deserves to be pilloried on accusations alone, which is why we have the rule of law.
Brown has encouraged his accusers to follow that path: “If you truly stand by your allegations, then I urge you to contact Barrie Police and have them lay charges … These types of allegations should be dealt with in a proper and fair forum.”
However, the lawyer of the woman who has since changed her story, says Brown is trying to “dictate to a survivor what her healing path should be.” As well as, “By daring my client to go to the police, Mr. Brown destroys the credibility of his self-proclaimed support for women who have suffered sexual mistreatment.”
Wow. A man’s life and career have been destroyed and this fluff is the best the lawyer can come up with? Brown should sue CTV and his accusers’ asses off.
It’ll be interesting to see who was behind this when the whole truth of the matter comes out, if, indeed, it ever does.
With just a year to go in his sentence for wiretapping and other crimes, Pellicano speaks for the first time in detail about star clients like Michael Jackson and the late studio chief Brad Grey, those who turned their backs on him (“Rats are worse than child molesters”) and his showbiz legacy (“People got away with a lot because of me”).
Heh heh. Always knew there wasn’t something quite right about him. Trashy art for a trashy pres.
And no, I certainly don’t think it’s his final disgrace:
It was his final disgrace.
After Years of failed policies and anti-American speeches it should come as no surprise that this would be his farewell to the White House.
Obama opened his administration with an apologetic speech to Muslims in Cairo.
He ended it with his trendy jungle portrait.
A heart-warming story apropos for the day.
An Arkansas man who walked 11 miles to and from work each day to support his young daughter is trading in his walking shoes for a set of wheels thanks to his coworkers.
Dennis Miller reacts to the incessantly grating Robert De Niro:
VDH:
The FISA-gate, Clinton emails, and Uranium One scandals are sort of reaching a consensus. Many things quite wrong and illegal were done by both Hillary Clinton and her entourage and members of the Obama agencies and administration — both the acts themselves and the cover-ups and omissions that ensued.
Remember, in the FISA-gate scandal such likely widespread criminal behavior was predicated on two premises: 1) certainty of an easy Clinton victory, after which the miscreants would be not only excused but probably rewarded for their zeal; 2) progressive hubris in which our supposedly moral betters felt it their right, indeed their duty, to use unethical and even unlawful means for the “greater good” — to achieve their self-described moral ends of stopping the crude and reactionary Trump.
Candidate Donald Trump may have promised to extricate us from Middle East wars, once ISIS and al-Qaida were routed, yet events and people seem to be conspiring to keep us endlessly enmeshed.
Whether the rationale is the need to wage a war on terror involving 76 countries or renewed preparations for a struggle against peer competitors Russia and China (as Defense Secretary James Mattis suggested recently while introducing America’s new National Defense Strategy), the U.S. military is engaged globally. A network of 800 military bases spread across 172 countries helps enable its wars and interventions. By the count of the Pentagon, at the end of the last fiscal year about 291,000 personnel (including reserves and Department of Defense civilians) were deployed in 183 countries worldwide, which is the functional definition of a military uncontained. Lady Liberty may temporarily close when the U.S. government grinds to a halt, but the country’s foreign military commitments, especially its wars, just keep humming along.
Sid Vicious involved in launch of Russia collusion investigation?
A name long associated with the Clinton machine has surfaced as a behind-the-scenes figure in the Trump-Russia collusion story, prompting some to speculate that the investigation began at least partly as a dirty tricks operation.
Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton loyalist from the days of Bill Clinton’s presidency up through Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns, was identified by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., as a source of anti-Trump information passed to the FBI through the State Department. The information is believed to have played a role in the FBI’s launching of the collusion probe that is now in the hands of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Blumenthal has long been known as an attack dog for the Clintons, so ferocious a defender that he earned the nickname “Sid Vicious.” As Dick Morris, former adviser to the Clintons (although he has since become a critic) puts it, “If [Bill Clinton] is caught shoplifting for the tenth time, Hillary would have Sidney blame the store’s cameras.”
Galileo arrives in Rome for Inquisition:
On this day in 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei arrives in Rometo face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. Put under house arrest indefinitely by Pope Urban VIII, Galileo spent the rest of his days at his villa in Arcetri, near Florence, before dying on January 8, 1642.