National Security Advisor, Herbert Raymond McMaster, via Fox News:
President Trump’s national security adviser said Sunday that the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend “meets the definition of terrorism.”
H.R. McMaster told ABC’s “This Week” that “anytime that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it is terrorism.”
In the real world, definitions are like a sword, they cut in both directions. Granted apparently James Fields Jr. drove the car that killed Heather Heyer. Therefore by General McMaster’s standards, the question isn’t who drove. The question which actor[s] attempted to initiate violence to induce panic? There are media reports of counter-protesters(George Soros thugs) pelting Fields car with rocks, and video of Soros thugs hitting Fields’ car with aluminum baseball bats.
Nobody carries a aluminum bat to a riot to play nine innings of baseball. I contend these bats were carried as weapons, and have footage of the bats being used as weapons, link(graphic). Did Fields hit Heyer in an attempt to injure or kill her, or was he fleeing from an armed mob in fear of his life?
More over, Jason Kessler’s march while distasteful to some was legal and was ordered by the court to be protected. So why did both the governor, Clinton toadie Terry McAuliffe, and the mayor, one Michael Signer, allow an unlicensed Soros mob to attack a legal protest?
Addendum: Stephen Green, Instapundit, just called Mayor Signer a possible fellow Soros conspirator:
There was plenty of time to prepare, and it was pretty clear what was happening, but the police just stood by. I think it’s quite possible — as with previous events at Berkeley and Chicago — that the Democratic mayor wanted to see violence against the marchers, and withheld police protection to facilitate it. I hope the Department of Justice will look closely at the decisionmaking here, and bring charges if appropriate.
So why did Mayor Signer fail to act, incompetence, indifference, or willful spite? Eric Holder isn’t around to protect corrupt mayors anymore.
The answer the answer of the left to gun violence is to create gun-free zones.
So why isn’t their answer to North Korea declaring America a missile free zone?
So here we are six months out from the election and the campaign promise of repealing Obamacare hasn’t happened.
The obvious question is why.
The answer is For Better or Worse we have Republicans in Congress who do not believe the Ronald Reagan Axiom that government isn’t the solution, government is the problem. Where has the majority of Americans believed that government doesn’t belong anywhere near Healthcare, the people that they elected and re-elected apparently don’t share that view.
Frankly the whole problem could be solved with a one line bill… And turning the mess over to the free market where it belongs. The thing is they haven’t offered such a bill. That it won’t get support from Democrats is a no brainer. Trouble is it won’t get support from Republicans either.
Trouble is, we are supposedly represented by morons who don’t believe in the free market. They believe in government.
What other conclusion is there to draw?
And by the way this is precisely what I told you would happened when this abomination was put into play.
Yes, they’re not kidding.
As a little bit of trivia the only 10 minutes silence song that I remember as being in my collection is a B side of an ill-fated comeback attempt from Rich Dodson who you may remember from the Stampeders from 1971’s ” Sweet City Woman”… He entitled The Cut “John Lennon remembered”
Upon playing it, I remember deciding to play the whole thing through to see if the whole side was silent. It was.
A different time, I guess.
This dog may bark but she will not hunt ,from Washington Examiner:
Hillary Clinton’s pastoral adviser urged her to keep her head up following her unexpected Election Day loss in November and compared the election to Good Friday, the day Jesus was crucified.
“It is Friday, but Sunday is coming … This is not the devotional you wish to receive this day. While Good Friday may be the starkest representation of a Friday that we have, life is filled with a lot of Fridays,” wrote United Methodist City Society Executive Director the Rev. Bill Shillady in an email to Clinton obtained by CNN. “Friday is the day that it all falls apart and all hope is lost. We all have Fridays. But, as the saying goes, ‘Sunday’s coming!'”
To the so-called Reverend Bill Shillady if Mrs. Clinton was the Second Coming of God’s Son, and Election Day was her Good Friday, when then did Mrs. Clinton fail to ascend to Heaven on the following Friday?
The People’s Republic of China has drawn a bright red line that even Kim Jun-Dung would be foolish to ignore:
BEIJING (Reuters) – If North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States then China should stay neutral, but if the United States attacks first and tries to overthrow North Korea’s government China will stop them, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Friday.
President Donald Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric toward North Korea and its leader on Thursday, warning Pyongyang against attacking Guam or U.S. allies after it disclosed plans to fire missiles over Japan to land near the U.S. Pacific territory.
Memo to Kim, your next hissy fit may be your last.
The sad part of this is how predictable all of this was.
In 2013, Obama not only downplayed the Defense Intelligence Agency’s intelligence report about Korea’s mini nukes — he attempted to discredit it. The White House media echo chamber was — as always — happy to go along with the ruse.
And lest we forget, this whole thing was started several years ago with Bill Clinton providing his communist Brothers in North Korea two nuclear reactors and the pile of cash.
And then there is a Iran as well.
What we’re seeing here is the result of a concerted effort on the part of Democrats to make America weaker and our enemies stronger. And longtime readers will remember that I said so at the time.
Sure sure all the screaming about the Russians, it turns out that the source of the data leaks was one of their own.
Gee, big shock.
Now, is anyone surprised?
Moreover, is anyone surprised that the mainstream press is spending so little time on this story?
“But, the damn Russians….”
Why is the Trump justice department still fighting the release of documents indicating the harassment by the IRS against conservative groups?
Because Trump isn’t a conservative.
Gotta keep the storyline intact…
“What the discovery of Alesi shows is that this group was close to the origin of living apes and humans and that this origin was African.”
Well, no.
What it shows, is that evolutionary biology is the old global warming.
The year 1968. Traveling through the South with my family. All you could hear was Wichita Lineman. They played it on every station and every format.
Glen singing and on guitar… Including that famous middle break on that song… Carol Kaye playing bass in her rather distinctive Style and Jim Gordon on drums… And of course Al delor y who did so much to develop Glens recording sound, particularly his early solo work. But I think today of the B side of that single. And I think you’ll see why.
As Jeff Foxworthy might has said: You might be neurotic is you are neurotic about being thought of as neurotic. Google CEO Sundar Pichai needs to fires himself. Pichai fired the heretofore Unknown Male Engineer, one James Damore, for the sin of arguing “by advancing harmful gender stereotypes”, from Verge:
The memo has clearly impacted our co-workers, some of whom are hurting and feel judged based on their gender. Our co-workers shouldn’t have to worry that each time they open their mouths to speak in a meeting, they have to prove that they are not like the memo states, being “agreeable” rather than “assertive,” showing a “lower stress tolerance,” or being “neurotic.”
Evidently Pichai argues wymen are ton neurotic to handle being thought of a being a member of a neurotic class, thus Pichai advances a harmful sexual stereotype, and therefore Pichai needs to fire himself, now.
Reax, Professor Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:
This is a pretty chilling development. It completely proves the Senior Engineers point about the shaming and shut-down culture that surrounds discussions of discrimination and diversity.
Pichai fired Damore for suggesting the men and women are different, telling males that their perceptions of unfair treatment do not matter because some wymen would be offended by Damore’s essay. Protect wymen. Tell men to suck it up.
An unknown male engineer(UME) for Google (soon to be former engineer?) wrote a letter, from Gizmodo:
I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions. If we can’t have an honest discussion about this, then we can never truly solve the problem.
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UME then proceeds to write a long, nuanced, detailed and supported memo questioning Google’s current concept of diversity. It is above my pay grade as a mere radar technician so distill UME’s point to a few sweet words. So let me be blunt, UME seems to saying, at length that Google should not concoct a number out thin air and then proceed to call it gospel. Maybe fifty percent Google’s payrole should go to members of the fifty-three percent of the population which is genuine(Bruce Jenner need not apply) female? If so why and how would promote the company? In tepid response, Google’s Vice President of Diversity, Integrity & Governance one Danielle Brown, wrote:
Many of you have read an internal document shared by someone in our engineering organization, expressing views on the natural abilities and characteristics of different genders, as well as whether one can speak freely of these things at Google. And like many of you, I found that it advanced incorrect assumptions about gender. I’m not going to link to it here as it’s not a viewpoint that I or this company endorses, promotes or encourages.
Diversity and inclusion are a fundamental part of our values and the culture we continue to cultivate. We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company, and we’ll continue to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul. As Ari Balogh said in his internal G+ post, “Building an open, inclusive environment is core to who we are, and the right thing to do. ‘Nuff said. “
Brown seems to be saying, we have made up our minds, please do not bother us with any facts to the contrary, now shut up and toe the company line.
When the moron reporter Jim Acosta attempted to ambush Stephan Miller, off the top his head, Miller decimated Acosta’s argument that poetry ought to conflated with policy. For her part, Brown offers to Miller like rebuttal. Brown refuses to attempt to explain Google’s personnel policy but simply demands it be enforce. So why did Google hire a vice president that doesn’t known her own job?
Author’s note: this article is not about felines.
Female researcher calls women catty. Cat fight breaks out, from Atlantic:
In 2011, Kim Elsesser, a lecturer at UCLA, analyzed responses from more than 60,000 people and found that women—even those who were managers themselves—were more likely to want a male boss than a female one. The participants explained that female bosses are “emotional,” “catty,” or “bitchy.” (Men preferred male bosses too, but by a smaller margin than the female participants did.)
Hat tip and loads of reax, Professor Althouse.
Personally, I find the concept of evolutionary biology useful. That is say that biologically we are still cavemen and cave women. Men and women are different, not better or worse just different, because each sex has adapted to different roles. Men are hunters. Women gather and nurture. Each role is essential. The professor’s thread does nothing to shake my theory, but does provide plenty of amusement.
