Breaking News & Off Topic Links (7/26/2019)
[By DRJ]
This post is for everyone who wants to share a link to a breaking news story or to an interesting news story/blog post that is not related to a current post. Put your link in the comments and, if you want, a brief discussion of why it is important or interesting. Discussion about any links is welcome here, too.
From now on, off-topic links left in the comments at my posts may be deleted so please put those links here.
— DRJ
Well, if you want something off topic, here is Kurt Loder’s review of Quinten Tarantino’s newest movie.
https://reason.com/2019/07/26/review-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/
I remember Loder from MTV, where he served as a video critic, but he also wrote for Rolling Staone. I consider him one of the more astute critics of music and cinema.
Gawain's Ghost (b25cd1) — 7/27/2019 @ 3:00 amhttps://www.citizenfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cartoon-impeach.jpg
mg (8cbc69) — 7/27/2019 @ 3:29 amhttps://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/chip-roys-epic-rant-drops-mic-storms-out-of-hearing/
mg (8cbc69) — 7/27/2019 @ 3:33 amWhy I love Texans.
Ha, ha, ha, ha! Only in Minnesota. https://nypost.com/2019/07/26/republican-aiming-to-unseat-ilhan-omar-charged-with-felony/
nk (dbc370) — 7/27/2019 @ 3:46 amhttps://www.ajc.com/news/national/massachusetts-teen-reels-700-pound-tuna-hours/fpLwLpCOqjYyCKlG4qUNPJ/
mg (8cbc69) — 7/27/2019 @ 3:47 amFish On!!
She went to loon a tick university, nk.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/27/2019 @ 3:50 amExcellent links. It is an amazing world we live in.
DRJ (15874d) — 7/27/2019 @ 4:41 amMahalo on this format, DRJ.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/27/2019 @ 4:55 amYes they made it a happy story kind of,
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 4:59 amI’m glad, mg. I may do these posts every couple of days so they are easier to find. I would never find all these topics on my own and many offer good posting ideas. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to post on everything but at least this way we can all share them. Also, it is fascinating how varied everyone’s interests are.
DRJ (15874d) — 7/27/2019 @ 5:01 amThe ASAP Rocky story keeps drawing me back in. The Swedes are lecturing Trump on the Rule of Law in the US and Sweden, and now this:
DRJ (15874d) — 7/27/2019 @ 5:28 amAh yes the Scandinavian paradise where their most recent Serbian russian and east African residents make things lively.
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 5:37 amFrom the same link:
This is annoying. Blame racism, even though the difference in outcomes is obvious. The white suspect plead guilty and was presumably fined (and maybe deported and banned from re-entry? I don’t know but it appears Canada may have). Rocky is not pleading guilty so he must await his day in court, where he might prevail. Is the difference racism, or it is Sweden’s ‘no bail’ rule?
DRJ (15874d) — 7/27/2019 @ 5:47 amI hold no brief for Mr. Meyer, if Stockholm wants him, they can keep him:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-mueller-was-trying-to-hide-11564094510
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 5:48 amHow many times have they lectured us about Gitmo or the death penalty
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 5:53 amhttps://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/the-week-in-pictures-mueller-time-edition.php?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=sw&utm_campaign=sw&fbclid=IwAR2zFs0fXEbfPjizDfGdx_QDxyLL81EOMiGQpqqEKFCAs1fQBh–JAueUpQ
1. USA
mg (8cbc69) — 7/27/2019 @ 6:05 am2.Sweden
Where will President Trump obstruct Justice next?
A palate cleanser:
https://youtu.be/mQKRAJTgEuo
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 6:25 amA worthy exemplar of the new, Trumpian GOP.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/27/2019 @ 7:05 amAnalysts: North Korea has ramped up production of nuclear material, missiles during diplomacy with Trump
Quoting a paywalled WSJ article:
This is why putting an imbecile in the Oval Office is dangerous.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/27/2019 @ 7:15 amNote shes a special ed teacher, and she’ll get nowhere in the primary, now van Jones the 9-11 denialist he got to be clean energy czar
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 7:38 amNothing suspicious here:
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 7:39 amhttps://nypost.com/2019/07/24/fbi-agent-brother-to-cop-accused-of-murder-for-hire-plot-dead-by-suicide-sources/
DRJ @11 & 13. That’s why when I travel, I always carry The African-American Race Card.
nk (dbc370) — 7/27/2019 @ 8:52 am“The African-American Race Card: Never break a bottle over somebody’s head without it.”
At Quillette, there is a longish but good piece on Boris Johnson by a fella who had known him since ’83 during his days at Oxford. There are many interesting observations, but one thing you can say is that he’s not thin-skinned like our current president:
But a major similarity is that Boris gets away with a lot of stuff just on the sheer force of his personality. If he were a communist, he’d be the next incarnation of Hugo Chavez. We’ll see if he restores England to its rightful place on the world stage.
Paul Montagu (dbd3cc) — 7/27/2019 @ 11:43 amToby young’s quite a character, a prickly one.
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 12:23 pmAgain you’ve confused him with Jeremy Corbyn, KGB and stb (Czech intelligence) asset.
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 12:24 pmIn reaction to Rep. Cummings subpoenas for White House emails and texts, Trump just launched his latest bigot eruption:
So if a person wants to live there, he/she is not human? At least Trump didn’t tell Cummings to go back to his s**thole district and fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which he came. As Randy Newman would tell you in a song, the Baltimore area is not a great place. However, Trump is sketchy with the facts.
Mataconis:
Paul Montagu (dbd3cc) — 7/27/2019 @ 12:35 pmI won’t hold my breath for Ben Carson to pipe up and say, “Mr. President, I live in this district that you call a ‘disgusting, rodent and rat infested mess.’”
Paul Montagu (e70a29) — 7/27/2019 @ 1:30 pmMurder so extreme there was a series named after it, well two if you count the wire, corrupt mayors and prosecutors who allow ‘room to destroy’ but you’re right no rats
Narciso (f848af) — 7/27/2019 @ 1:41 pmYou are wickedly clever, nk.
DRJ (15874d) — 7/27/2019 @ 3:15 pmhttps://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/cant-stop-laughing-at-this/
mg (8cbc69) — 7/28/2019 @ 2:59 amhttps://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-americas-worst-drivers-20190625-story.html
mg (8cbc69) — 7/28/2019 @ 3:05 amAnother Gold Medal for Baltimore.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/why_liberals_are_dying_out.html
mg (8cbc69) — 7/28/2019 @ 3:24 amThe left is disturbed.
Well, this is the test case in the box diagonally opposite in the matrix box of race of the American traveler and likeability of the foreign victim and government involved: http://abc7chicago.com/who-is-finnegan-lee-elder/5424001/
urbanleftbehind (60bae8) — 7/28/2019 @ 3:43 amWell in that light
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/impeachment_dreams_die_wall_gets_built.html
Narciso (f55044) — 7/28/2019 @ 5:45 amNews you can use:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/middleeast/seized-tanker-crew-shipping-rules-intl/index.html
nk (dbc370) — 7/28/2019 @ 6:58 amhttps://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/07/what_must_obama_be_thinking_as_dems_support_muellers_contention_that_an_expresident_can_be_prosecuted_for_crimes_committed_while_in_office.html
mg (8cbc69) — 7/28/2019 @ 8:53 amOne, the timing of Trump’s bigot-eruption tweet makes sense.
Two, Trump’s use of “infest” or its variation is exclusively directly at brown-skinned people, minority communities or countries where most of its inhabitants are brown-skinned.
Paul Montagu (dbd3cc) — 7/28/2019 @ 9:20 amThree, the irony here is that Trumps son-in-law is literally a Baltimore slumlord, thus contributing to this town’s “infestation”.
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/926232483598913544
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1021498887582965762
‘Two, Trump’s use of “infest” or its variation is exclusively directly at brown-skinned people, minority communities or countries where most of its inhabitants are brown-skinned.’
Paul Montagu (dbd3cc) — 7/28/2019 @ 9:20 am
Good lord.
This has to be self parody.
Munroe (0b2761) — 7/28/2019 @ 9:29 amNope, just a fact.
Paul Montagu (dbd3cc) — 7/28/2019 @ 9:41 amCummings stewardship of baltimore, has to be considered,
And the threads suggested sandman wasnt wronged and the pageant authorities were in the right when they fired miss Zhen because of her views that seems odd.
Narciso (a0a0bf) — 7/28/2019 @ 9:50 amHis strategy is obvious.
History rhymes…
‘The Great Silent Majority’ is listening.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 7/28/2019 @ 9:57 amAnd watching.
And white.
Trump made this attack, not for itself, but because he wanted to push aside any claim that conditions of detainees near the border was bad.
There’s truth to his claim (although Cummings district extends beyond the problem areas) but he wasn’t complaining that Cummings wa ignoring this – it was just a kind of false tu quo quo.
And Elijah Cummings isn’t the mayor of Baltimore.
Sammy Finkelman (fbd892) — 7/28/2019 @ 10:02 amWhy does Trump say “at the border?”
He can’t admit these are locatiosns controlled by the U.S. government?
On Face the Nation Mulvaney said it wasn’t true about feces, and when Trump sid investigate that meant Elijah Cummings’ committee should investigate (Baltimore) corruption
Sammy Finkelman (fbd892) — 7/28/2019 @ 10:06 amMuch more pressing problems in blue cities around the country. EPIC BLUE FAIL.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2019 @ 10:07 amTrump is very sensitive to any criticism of his immigration enforcement policy because there is some merit to it. And that’s what sets him off. He doesn’t react that way when he is criticized over something he is more comfortable with. This is true even when there are some problems with the criticism, Because even if the charges were corrected there are still things he is not comfortable with defending.
This is really an attempt to change the subject. But the Democrats, at large, don’t want to say so. And they want to change the subject too.
Sammy Finkelman (fbd892) — 7/28/2019 @ 10:13 amIt’s sort of like; If you are against miserable conditions for immigration detainees then you are for “open borders.” And that’s sort of true.
Sammy Finkelman (fbd892) — 7/28/2019 @ 10:16 amA criminal terrorist much like the ice bomber, walked out of prison based on a lie against Quayle, secured economic support and political legitimacy, based on perceived persecution, has bought the silence of most of the presence and the acquiescence of law enforcement on both coasts, is still party to criminal conspiracy but your obsession is with the right,
Narciso (a0a0bf) — 7/28/2019 @ 10:18 am“And Elijah Cummings isn’t the mayor of Baltimore.”
He should be thankful for that. Lately, most of them don’t remain in office long before being removed for corruption
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 7/28/2019 @ 10:31 amAh Newsweek the publication that rationalized anarchist terrorists and is overvalued at a dollar. They went all five years ago over a punl drug dealer, whose unfortunate passing set half the city ablaze with Obama providing the bellows
Narciso (a0a0bf) — 7/28/2019 @ 10:36 amhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/25/opinion/honduras-corruption-ms-13.html
The economy there can’t improve unless the gang taxes are reduced.
Sammy Finkelman (fbd892) — 7/28/2019 @ 11:37 amI found out that the upcoming Democratic debates on July 30 and 31 can be heard on the radio.
On Bloomberg radio 1130 AM in New York and they aheva few other stations, one on San Francisco.
The debates apparently start at 8 pm, not 9 pm.
Sammy Finkelman (fbd892) — 7/28/2019 @ 12:22 pmGmail Sammy Finkelman
Morning Jolt: The Russian Hackers Who Didn’t Hack Anything
2 messages
Jim Geraghty Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:18 AM
To: sammy.finkelman@moondog.com
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-russian-hackers-who-didnt-hack-anything
So that’s what maybe could have hapepned in Illinois – except that the hackers did not try to change anything.
I think a quote from something previously published is:
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 7/28/2019 @ 1:37 pmsammeh, strikingly these reports don’t understand how these databases work, much less when the data is uploaded to local servers, you can add data from local terminals to update info, but the central server is something else again,
narciso (d1f714) — 7/28/2019 @ 1:50 pmIt would have been a more persuasive “shot across their bow” if they’d all been found floating face down in the Neva River.
Dave (1bb933) — 7/28/2019 @ 1:57 pmRelease the Kraken.
“I was very happy to see that Devin Nunes brought that up,” Papadopoulos said. “A man named Charles Tawil gave me this money [in Israel] under very suspicious circumstances. A simple Google search about this individual will reveal he was a CIA or State Department asset in South Africa during the ’90s and 2000s. I think around the time when Bob Mueller was the director of the FBI.
Munroe (0b2761) — 7/28/2019 @ 1:59 pmhttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/papadopoulos-heads-to-greece-to-retrieve-10k-in-safe-as-senate-investigators-request-bills
55. This gets a bunch of things wrong. Mueller wouldn’t pverlap with something like that very much.
The FBI does not deal with foreign intelligence – it deals with intelligence matters within the Unuted States, which means mainly counter-intelligence. That’s how they split up things between the FBI and the CIA.
Now this FBI counter-itelligence mandate is separate from criminal investigations, and a lot that is obtained that way cannot be used to prosecute anyone.
During World War II, the FBI also handled Latin America but now the FBI is strictly limited to operating within the United states. Sometmes for some purposes both the FBI (running the investigation) and the CIA (technical work outside the United States) are involved.
Bob Mueller was Director of the FBI from 2001 (a week before the Sept 11 attacks), through 2013.
Sammy Finkelman (fbd892) — 7/28/2019 @ 6:33 pmnarciso @53.
Maybe some people don’t want other people to understands, but want to argue there is a danger of tampering.
It makes sense that all they could do is falsely update voter data – and they could probably do that by mail, as well. Well, maybe the could skip that step with computers.
Except somebody maybe would notice that too many of them had happened, and nothing had been sent to them that would cause the change in voter registraton data to be inputed.
Sammy Finkelman (fbd892) — 7/28/2019 @ 6:43 pmMr Tawil’s side of the story
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-named-by-trump-russia-probe-convict-dismisses-absurd-spy-allegations/
I went to college with someone named Tawil. But he was a Palestinian. His father was a doctor who worked for the WHO in Syria (late 70s).
Kishnevi (14a2e1) — 7/28/2019 @ 6:57 pmWhy do so many of Trump’s associates resemble Eric Ambler’s Arthur Simpson?
nk (dbc370) — 7/28/2019 @ 7:07 pmFound my Tawil. He looks nothing like what he did 40 years ago. Bit I suppose that goes for most people.
Kishnevi (14a2e1) — 7/28/2019 @ 7:18 pmhttps://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/21155383-rabi-n-tawil
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/charlie-daniels/charlie-daniels-if-america-ever-given-national-enema-nozzle-should-be
mg (8cbc69) — 7/29/2019 @ 8:58 amThat is a very good article by Charlie Daniels, mg. Very good indeed.
nk (dbc370) — 7/29/2019 @ 9:16 amThank you.
nk (dbc370) — 7/29/2019 @ 9:17 amhttps://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/07/29/complete-chaos-wokeback-mountain-war-shifts-house-dems-main-campaign-arm/
mg (8cbc69) — 7/29/2019 @ 9:34 amlol.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/07/28/blame-taxes-sharks-but-there-are-still-cape-rentals-found/AJAj9aO3AyIoXmg32JKc3L/story.html
Way to go Govna Baker – tax happy hack.
mg (8cbc69) — 7/29/2019 @ 1:33 pm