From Hill via Clayton Cramer:
Hilary Clinton on Thursday decried the spread of fake news online, calling it an “epidemic” that Congress should take action against.
“The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year — it’s now clear the so-called fake news can have real-world consequences,” Clinton said during a speech on Capitol Hill.
Some Democrats have argued the spread of anti-Clinton fake news online contributed to her electoral loss to Donald Trump.
The issue has received renewed attention this week after a gunman entered a pizzeria in Washington that was at the center of a false viral conspiracy theory that alleged it was home to a pedophilia ring operated by Clinton and her inner circle.
Reax:
Not sure what she means. Discussion of Benghazi, or her rapist husband? If she’s upset about rumors on social media, perhaps she’ll take action against how most of her younger voters get misinformed? Regardless, any form of expression that isn’t libelous, slanderous, or treasonous is protected by the First Amendment, including burning Old Glory. Lies are largely a matter of opinion in the political sphere.
What it means is that Mrs. Clinton has lost yet another election is a still seething mad about it.
Fake news is any news which puts the democrats in bad light but which they can not spin If it were not for fake news, Mrs. Clinton would not make any news. News faked by Mrs. Clinton includes making a fortune on cattle futures by reading the Wall Street Journal, the idea that somehow TWA flight 800 blew-up due a electrical spark in an empty fuel tank, the idea Mr. Clinton was getting B.J. from an intern as merely some “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”, the idea sniper fire in Bosnia, that the Clinton left the White House, with the china but were otherwise “dead broke”, but somehow bought two mansion and that her practice of storing official government records on her private computer was approved, by somebody who Mrs. Clinton could not recall.
Other notable fake news stories: Dim Won’s promise “If you like your doctor,l you can keep your doctor, the very idea of an Obama economic recovery, the idea that the late Fidel Castro deserves credit for never having on election in over sixty years and the United Nations is not merely a social club for unelected dictators.
Billy Beck says today:
“The saddest life is that of an aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success disgraceful.”
(H.L. Mencken)
There was a time in my life when Col. John Glenn was an indisputable hero to me. I was alive when he did enormous things.
Then; he went and got himself elected to the United States Senate.
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I remember a lot. That’s what history is for.
Billy I’m sure will be a little uncomfortable with this. But I can’t help but wonder if his governmental record wouldn’t have been a great deal better if he’d managed to steer clear of the Kennedy family. He could have done a lot of good.
But because he ended up as a Democrat he ended up doing a lot of bad. Defending the Clinton’s for example? Unconscionable. Of course he got paid off rather handsomely for that, at Clinton Whitehouse urging NASA put him back into space at age 77. Remember that one?
Jerry Saperstein notes Glenn’s passing and says;
I lived during the last days when it was possible for the United States to celebrate people as heroes, before the Fascists put their doctrines of political correctness, racism and racial quotas and Balkanization and divisiveness in place.
John Glenn was a hero. Sure, as an “astronaut” he was mostly a manufactured hero, but there was never any doubt of the man’s personal courage, He was a greatly flawed man as all men are, but back then we accepted human frailties without demonizing the man.
John Glenn is now gone at age 95. Undoubtedly public school teachers indoctrinate their innocent victims to believe that the original “Mercury Seven”, all white males, was the product of racism, misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia and who knows what else.
Those of us who came before the Fascists took over will remember John Glenn and the others as brave, patriotic Americans.
Godspeed, John Glenn. You can’t even use that word any more.
All true. Sadly, I suspect and suppose the political correctness that Jerry correctly decries was created in no small part with the help of John Glenn himself as Senator John Glen.
Because of his space exploits John Glenn deserved richly the adulation of a Nation. Because of what he did with it and the power that resulted from it sadly he no longer deserves it… And has not for many years, now.
In short I honor the man he was, not the man he became
Me, elsewhere…
?As far as I can see the primary issue with the United Nations is that they seem dedicated to the proposition that all cultures are created equal… and that they give that misbegotten and extraordinarily dangerous idea the power of government.
It used to be that the United Nations was about Peace by way of individual freedom. To that end was perhaps the most important action the United Nations has ever taken… The creation of the state of Israel.
I can’t think of a better measure the deterioration of the United Nations that this one action is the very one it’s loudest and most powerful members have been trying to reverse for the last seventy years or so. That would include most recent administration of the United States.
I will say this again. I am firmly convinced that as to usefulness of the United Nations as it has evolved the cause of World Peace and Freedom would be best served by dropping a bomb on Turtle Bay.
I add this link for your reading and consideration.
Bob Tis, St Augustine Record, has his head stuck up the late Fidel Castro’s ground temperature posterior.
Our Junior Senator loves to hate the Castros. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 so this hate for the communists that hijacked his parent’s homeland was probably something he first encountered in his crib.
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One of the greatest indignities that Fidel Castro cast upon the Cubans was limiting their freedom of speech to protect his socialist experiment.
But it was hardly surprising last week when Rubio tried to do the same thing to the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Rubio blasted the young politician for suggesting that Fidel Castro was a “remarkable” leader.
Disagreeing with Junior Trudeau is not the same as imprisoning or even executing your dissents. Not that Tis would know as much, much acknowledge it.
I do think it is important to note that Fidel’s first attempt at public life was to run for Cuba’s National Assembly, a campaign that was going great until the heavily U.S.-funded dictator, Fulgencio Batista, shut down the Cuban electoral system. It was only then that the Castro brothers, Che Guevera and few dozen others settled on revolution as their chosen path.
Ok Castro attempts to gain political power through the front door and is stymied by some American tax dollars and one Cuban dicator. So Castro gains power and denies is fellow citizen any democratic right for sixty years. Making Batista evil does not magically make Castro good.
It might be lost on Rubio that his native country was founded by revolutionaries, as well
Revolutionaries who negotiated a peace treaty with Great Britain, established a constitution government, one which still conducting free elections, and something Cuba has not seen in over sixty years.
First the Big Mac inventor dies at 98.
Now this…
Peng Chang-kuei, the Taiwanese chef who invented General Tso’s chicken, a dish nearly universal in Chinese restaurants in the United States, died on Wednesday in Taipei. He was 98
Hmmm
The inventor of the Big Mac just passed on, at age 98.
Read that again to yourself. Quietly. Let it sink in.
Gee. Who would have expected this, except those who heeded our warnings?
President-elect Donald Trump is apparently losing his luster, according to conservative political commentator Ann Coulter.
Coulter, one of Trump’s biggest supporters, made headlines throughout the campaign season for her controversial remarks on immigration policy, with some criticizing her for being racist and xenophobic.
Coulter, who has made it clear her staunch support of Trump was mostly contingent on his hard stance against illegal immigration, expressed that she wasn’t so hopeful her candidate of choice would follow through on his promises. She sent out a tweet on Friday expressing her discontentment with Trump, who doesn’t take office until January.
Says Coulter on Twitter:
Sounds like the big sell-out is coming. Oh well. The voters did what we could. If Trump sells out, it’s not our fault.
Yes, it is, Annie, my dear.
Let’s take inventory.
he is we now understand, not going to build the wall, won’t rid us if Obamacare, will raise taxes, and under Trump we now know we won’t see Hillary Clinton prosecuted.
And now this.
Yes, it is your fault Annie. All of it. You share the blame with all of his supporters who ignored the warnings.
Yes…
You were warned about this repeatedly and urgently. You ignored all of it. This one’s no place else but in the lap of the Trump supporters such as yourself.
Put the dunce cap back on and go take your seat in the corner on the big stool.
And stay there until such time as you explain to us why anyone should ever listen to the likes of you, Hannity and the rest, ever again.
Billy Beck, elsewhere…
I’m actually going to cite That Woman Whose Dread Name Should Never Be Mentioned In Polite Company:
It was Ayn Rand who gave me my first clue to this. Her concept of “pressure-group warfare” is incisive and crucial to all this. The logic is impeccable and conclusive.
Individualism (the original American ethical/political impulse, no matter how badly it was served in the Constitution — e.g.: black slavery) vs. collectivism can never be mediated at the polls. Those two sides will end up fighting to the death.
Right now, they’re trying to avoid this by way of elections, but the nearly even division of the country as manifest at the polls is important. What’s happening is that these most-general principles are holding virtually subconscious sway, at the cost of smaller issues at the edges which might otherwise seem like opportunities for “compromise”. (I quote that word because that’s not what either side really wants. That’s code for “enemy submission”.)
There isn’t going to be any compromise over this basic conflict. Reason is going to be the only peaceful resort.
I see little hope of that.
What we’re talking about here in the end is a Clash of cultures, and not just ideologies.
At the end of the day, this experiment in Freedom called America was only possible with the assumption that everyone was of a like mind to the founders as regards individualism. That is at its root a cultural idea and ideal.
I suggest that it is time for us to recognize that there are some cultural Concepts which are completely and utterly incompatible with the ideas of Freedom that this country was founded upon.
If you’re going to ask which concepts are incompatible as such I would suggest that it is no accident that radical Islam and the radical left have come down on the same side of most issues.
Given the 50-50 balance that Billy speaks of, and the tendency of the left to capitulate to those people whose ideologies are incompatible with freedom, I too am pessimistic about the chances of this being resolved at The Ballot Box.
I fear that the only way out of that box is less than Pleasant to say the very least.
Hmm.
Don’t look now, but maybe a scientific consensus exists concerning global warming after all. Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies. By contrast, a strong majority of the 1,077 respondents believe that nature is the primary cause of recent global warming and/or that future global warming will not be a very serious problem.
So ABC News reports that it was a Christmas party what brought on the San Bernardino attack last year.
2 points to notice here. First, it wasn’t Islam, it was Christianity caused the problem. At least so says the news report. Notice also the time of year mere weeks from Christmas when this report is released.
Will Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama publicly shame ABC News for her fake news report attempting to blame the San Bernardino Islamic terror attack on Christmas decoration, ABC News:
Authorities believe the terror attack on Dec. 2, 2015 in San Bernardino may have been triggered by a mandatory training session and lunch replete with holiday decorations including a Christmas tree which shooter Syed Farook was forced to attend.
Poor innocent peace loving Islamic militant just snaps, for no apparent reason:
The video shows Farook adjusting the sights on his rifle and then firing his weapon at paper torso silhouette targets, one of which was later recovered in the shooters’ vehicle and led authorities to the range.
“They had high powered weaponry, they had lots of ammunition. They had bombs at their disposal,” said Chief Burguan.
And the media wonders why the public neither trusts nor believes them.
So it would appear.
So, where is all the whining about connections to the evil empire we heard about Ted Cruz’ wife?
Uh huh.
And, yes, I’ll say “I told you so”.
Funny, I can vaguely recall when Carrier was a New York State company. Ah, those were the days. I digressed. Back, Little Donny delivers on a campaign promise, New York Times and Little Bobby Reich upset, via Red State:
One of the promises Donald Trump made during his campaign was he would keep companies from moving jobs overseas or into Mexico. One company, Carrier, was going to move 2,000 jobs to Mexico. According to the New York Times, Carrier arranged a deal with President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice-President Elect Mike Pence to keep 1,000 of those jobs in the state of Indiana:
Little Bobby’s reax:
“I think it’s pretty clear Carrier did this because the public relations cost to them was far greater than the short-term savings,” said Robert Reich, a prominent liberal Democrat who served as secretary of labor in the Clinton administration. “Even though it’s political theater, these are real people and the longer they are employed at Carrier, the better.”
Sadly, it appears that Little Bobby did not get the memo from J. Forbes Kerry that air conditioning, except in and for the State Department is evil and must be eliminated.
The Snark of the Day, Neo-Neocon:
In what comes as no surprise to any human being on earth (with the possible exceptions of President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, and Obama would be pretending), the attacker has been identified as a recent Somali refugee and a student at Ohio State University. His name is Abdul Razak Artan
I say, let us purge our nation of all unvetted Islamic immigrants. What say you?
