Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Livid NC Rep. Mark Meadows yells at Speaker Paul Ryan on House floor
The chairman of the conservative House Freedom
Caucus angrily confronted House Speaker Paul Ryan over immigration
legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., approached
Ryan during a vote and began an animated discussion that lasted roughly
half a minute. Both men pointed fingers at each other and reporters in
the gallery could hear Meadows say, "I'm done! I'm done!" Meadows then
turned and walked away while Ryan resumed chatting with other members.
More @ Fox
Tom Foolery
Very popular in Vietnam. Even for sale at TSN airport the last time I was there.
There are neither Confederate monuments to be torn down in Japan nor Battle Flags to be lowered . . . but if there were, there could well be some Japanese who might wish to protest such symbols.
While my wife Rieko would certainly not be among them, when she was attending high school one of her standard 1953 English text books contained an excerpt from Chapter Seven, “The Mother’s Struggle,” in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Life Among the Lowly.” Since, in Japan, any alternate view of life in the South has been confined almost exclusively to the translations of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel “Gone With the Wind” and the film version of her book three years later, Stowe’s distorted picture of the ante-bellum South undoubtedly made a lasting impact on the minds of many young Japanese. Given that the events leading up to the South’s secession and the ensuing War Between the States had received virtually no press coverage in Japan at the time, Stowe’s 1852 work of abolitionist propaganda has had an unusually long history in the country.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
$outhern Poverty a Poor Choice for America
Via Cousin John
In a normal nonprofit, $3.3 million would take a big bite out of any organization's bottom line. But then, there's nothing "normal" about the $477 million dollar Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) -- including its methods, which has the "hate" labelers backing up or crawfishing as we would say in Louisiana.
Earlier this week, conservatives everywhere cheered the comeuppance for SPLC in its legal battle with Muslim Maajid Nawaz, who was listed -- ironically enough -- as an anti-Muslim extremist on the group's website. In its suit for defamation, Nawaz and his Quilliam Foundation won, forcing the SPLC to fork over a multi-million dollar settlement, complete with a voluntary apology. As usual, Morris Dees' group had no real basis for the label other than its disagreement on policy grounds.
Although SPLC has been forced to withdraw or retract other groups and individuals from its lists before (Dr. Ben Carson, for one), this mistake was quite public and, in many ways, quite costly.
"It's a shame that it took impending litigation for the Southern Poverty Law Center to finally set the record straight and admit it was wrong all along," said Nawaz's attorney. Imagine, NRO pointed out, "if everybody whom the SPLC has erroneously smeared over recent years -- the individuals, the groups, the scholars and activists -- took this precedent to launch legal actions of their own?" After all, Douglas Murray went on, "The SPLC has a vast endowment of tens of millions of dollars. But going by this precedent, if everybody decided to correct the lies that the SPLC has taken upon itself to spread over recent years, then the SPLC, which failed to shut itself down when its work was done, could be shut down by the very people it has spent recent years trying to shut up. Which would not just be poetic, but justice too."
Fry them.
In a normal nonprofit, $3.3 million would take a big bite out of any organization's bottom line. But then, there's nothing "normal" about the $477 million dollar Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) -- including its methods, which has the "hate" labelers backing up or crawfishing as we would say in Louisiana.
Earlier this week, conservatives everywhere cheered the comeuppance for SPLC in its legal battle with Muslim Maajid Nawaz, who was listed -- ironically enough -- as an anti-Muslim extremist on the group's website. In its suit for defamation, Nawaz and his Quilliam Foundation won, forcing the SPLC to fork over a multi-million dollar settlement, complete with a voluntary apology. As usual, Morris Dees' group had no real basis for the label other than its disagreement on policy grounds.
Although SPLC has been forced to withdraw or retract other groups and individuals from its lists before (Dr. Ben Carson, for one), this mistake was quite public and, in many ways, quite costly.
"It's a shame that it took impending litigation for the Southern Poverty Law Center to finally set the record straight and admit it was wrong all along," said Nawaz's attorney. Imagine, NRO pointed out, "if everybody whom the SPLC has erroneously smeared over recent years -- the individuals, the groups, the scholars and activists -- took this precedent to launch legal actions of their own?" After all, Douglas Murray went on, "The SPLC has a vast endowment of tens of millions of dollars. But going by this precedent, if everybody decided to correct the lies that the SPLC has taken upon itself to spread over recent years, then the SPLC, which failed to shut itself down when its work was done, could be shut down by the very people it has spent recent years trying to shut up. Which would not just be poetic, but justice too."
More @ FRC
Anthony Bourdain: Did Global Cultural Icon Kill Himself or Was He “Suicided”?
The case was closed on the cause of his death before any autopsy or investigation
The sudden, unexpected death of Bourdain, 61, a beloved, effective international diplomat on behalf of humanity, certainly merits investigating.
Some oddities of this case: The only proof he killed himself is one official announcing he had committed suicide; his body was cremated before his family got to see the body and without the conducting of an autopsy; he was the latest in a growing list of celebrities reportedly killing themselves using the bizarre method of hanging from a doorknob; his girlfriend was a self-professed witch; he had been targeted by Hillary Clinton’s operatives; and he had taken on the Mossad. With all of that, isn’t it just common sense to ask a few if not a lot of questions?
More @ Musings From Mystic Maverick
Hungary approves "STOP Soros" law, defying EU, rights groups
Via Billy
TOUGH STANCE IS VOTE-WINNER
Hungary's parliament on Wednesday approved a
package of bills that criminalises some help given to illegal
immigrants, defying the European Union and human rights groups.
* New law aims to punish NGOs helping illegal immigrants
* Rights groups say it contravenes European law
* PM Orban cultivates tough anti-immigrant image
* Hungary is home to very few refugees
* Germany regrets Hungary decision to press ahead (Adds German reaction)
The legislation narrows the scope for action by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), making their workers liable for jail terms for helping migrants to seek asylum when they are not entitled to it.
TOUGH STANCE IS VOTE-WINNER
* New law aims to punish NGOs helping illegal immigrants
* Rights groups say it contravenes European law
* PM Orban cultivates tough anti-immigrant image
* Hungary is home to very few refugees
* Germany regrets Hungary decision to press ahead (Adds German reaction)
The legislation narrows the scope for action by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), making their workers liable for jail terms for helping migrants to seek asylum when they are not entitled to it.
More @ Thomson Reuters
Peter Fonda: ‘Lying Gash’ Kirstjen Nielsen Should Be ‘Whipped’ Naked in Public
As I've mentioned before, dueling should be made legal and there would be a 99% reduction of these vile comments.
Actor Peter Fonda deleted his sexist a Twitter tirade calling United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen a “gash” who should be “put in a cage” Fonda also deleted his vile attacks on President Donald Trump’s son, Barron, calling for him to be raped and taken from his parents.
The profane Easy Rider actor jumped to his Twitter account on June 19 to attack Nielsen in the most personal of terms calling her a “gash,” a word that serves as a stand-in for the abusive word c*nt.“Kristjen Nielsen is a lying gash that should be put in a cage and poked at by passersby,” Peter Fonda tweeted. “The gash should be pilloried in Layfayette Square naked and whipped by passersby while being filmed for posterity.”
The actor who on June 20 Rush Limbaugh called the epitome of “obscure” actors desperate to be better known, also attacked Donald Trump’s youngest son Barron saying that he hoped the boy would be raped by pedophiles.
On June 20, Fonda uncorked the following all-caps Tweet reading:
WE SHOULD RIP BARRON TRUMP FROM HIS MOTHER’S ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL WILL STAND UP AGAINST THE GIANT ASSHOLE SHE IS MARRIED TO. 90 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE STREETS ON THE SAME WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY. FUCKNext, the actor, who only quit doing illegal drugs after his daughter staged a personal intervention, posted a third tweet demanding that activists target the children of ICE agents.
Naturally, Fonda deleted all three of these unhinged tweets — as did documentary filmmaker Josh Fox and singer Nancy Sinatra, both of whom endorsed Fonda’s tweets.
More @ Breitbart
Obama's Child Detention Photos You Have Not Seen
One of those photographs was used to create a viral social media firestorm claiming it was “children ripped from the arms of their parents by Donald Trump,” and comparing Trump to Hitler — even though the photo in question was taken when Obama was in charge.
There were no outrageous claims of “children ripped from the arms of their parents by Barack Obama!”
More @ The Patriot Post
Trump and the Invasion of the West
Trump may be on the wrong side politically and emotionally of this issue of separating migrant kids from their parents.
But on the mega-issue—the Third World invasion of the West—he is riding the great wave of the future, if the West is to have a future.
"It is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," says former first lady Laura Bush of the Trump administration policy of "zero tolerance," under which the children of illegal migrants are being detained apart from their parents.
"Disgraceful," adds Dr. Franklin Graham.
"We need to be . . . a country that governs with a heart," says first lady Melania Trump. "No one likes this policy," says White House aide Kellyanne Conway, even "the president wants this to end."
And so it shall—given the universal denunciations and photos of sobbing children being pulled from parents. Yet striking down the policy will leave America's immigration crisis still unresolved.
More @ Chronicles
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