Breaking News and Off-Topic Links (8/24/2019)
[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.
Discussion about any links is welcome here, too.
— DRJ
jews are right to wary about what tlaib suggests, and Pelosi approves of
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/08/90th-anniversary-of-arab-massacre-of-jews-in-hebron-and-safed/
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 7:19 amits a law from 1952, but what does that have to do with it,
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/22/judge-carlos-murguia-rules-law-against-encouraging/
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 7:23 amThank you for the Washington Times’ link, narciso. It sounds like you think the Judge is wrong. Do we want to criminalize speech? My preference is to focus on overt acts, such as knowing someone is not here illegally and offering them a job. But, for most of us, it is hard to know with certainty whether someone is here illegally.
DRJ (15874d) — 8/24/2019 @ 7:35 amthe passage in contention:
After they were convicted of conspiring with supervisors to violate the law, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in a similar case that encouraging immigrants to be in the country illegally is protected speech under the First Amendment.
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 7:42 amUnless they did something more than words, isn’t it protected speech? Or is encouragement not speech to you?
DRJ (15874d) — 8/24/2019 @ 7:52 amthey obviously did, even the times is week on the details,
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 7:54 amIt took me a while, but I found a link Haiku is sure to like: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a28804088/reason-liam-hemsworth-filed-divorce-miley-cyrus/
nk (dbc370) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:05 amI find her a very sad sort, nk, but she was already at one dunham of sanity,
https://www.theepochtimes.com/hong-kongs-pro-beijing-camp-softened-its-tone-after-trump-links-trade-talks-with-chinas-handling-of-hong-kong_3048205.html
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:09 amMaybe they did more, maybe they didn’t, but “obviously” isn’t enough for me to decide.
DRJ (15874d) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:09 amThere are exceptions, nuances, and penumbras, but the basic test for contest restrictions is “clear and present danger”, and the legal analysis in a nutshell (or if you’re taking the bar exam) is “if there’s doubt, the government loses”.
nk (dbc370) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:16 amit’s because the copy writers are too lazy to actually look at the court transcript,
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cornell-scholar-cited-in-nyts-1619-series-charged-with-fabricating-quotes-evidence/
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:16 amthis was the original case, that was four years ago,
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/kansas-drywall-contractor-and-5-others-indicted-13-million-illegal-alien-conspiracy
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:21 amFrank Luntz
@FrankLuntz
Justice Ginsburg was successfully treated for a pancreatic cancer tumor at the
@Sloan_Kettering
Cancer Center in NYC.
Sloan Kettering has a 23-story treatment facility named after David Koch, who donated $150 million in 2015 and battled prostate cancer throughout his own life.
harkin (58d012) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:26 am__ _
so where does judge murguia, find it a mere act of speech, but definitive action,
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:28 amThey were indicted for money laundering but the Judge specifically refused to find them guilty of money laundering:
The Judge also dismissed the bank fraud counts. I haven’t found the facts and charges that they were convicted on and don’t have time to look now.
DRJ (15874d) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:36 amI’ll try to look later. The case is U.S. v. COUNTESS, Case No. 14-20143-CM. Link it if you find it.
DRJ (15874d) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:38 amit went back to the same judge,
https://ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2014cr20143-104
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:45 amthe Canadian menace, which Nathan phillips feared, will not be thwarted,
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753713699/keystone-pipelines-alternate-route-gets-the-go-ahead-from-nebraska-court
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 9:07 amLike the Seinfeld episode The Comeback , where George Costanza can’t think of a snappy comeback at the moment, it took me a while to find a transcript of the President’s follow-up remarks on Jewish “disloyalty”. From Dana’s 8/21 post quoting Phillip Klein:
Was he talking about disloyalty to America? Disloyalty to Trump? Disloyalty to Israel? Disloyalty to Jews? No matter which way one wants to interpret this comment, it’s sickening coming from an American president — all the more bizarre coming as he has been unleashing a barrage of attacks on Tlaib and Omar for anti-Semitism.
Among the litany of anti-Semitic remarks made by Tlaib and Omar, the most horrific involved accusations of dual loyalty (see background here and here). Accusations of dual loyalty have been at the center of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews for centuries. Yet here is Trump throwing out the “disloyalty” charge.
One potential interpretation is that he was suggesting it would be disloyal to Israel to vote Democrat. But American Jews are first and foremost American, not Israeli. Suggesting that Jewish votes should be determined primarily by U.S. policy toward Israel is to their faith by voting Democrat, he needs to shut right the heck up, because he is in no position to criticize somebody’s relationship to their faith.
At a press gaggle before he left for Europe, Trump confirmed he met disloyalty to Israel. Case closed.
Ripmurdock (5d142d) — 8/24/2019 @ 9:19 amCorrect press gaggle link
Ripmurdock (5d142d) — 8/24/2019 @ 9:27 amOdd how this story got so little play.
No comment from Ms. Omar and Ms. Tlaib.
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/24/2019 @ 9:27 amNo, this time I did not go looking for it for Haiku.
Space Lesbians In Spousal Spat. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/nasa-astronaut-bank-account-first-criminal-allegation-space/index.html
Yeah, sure, we’re gonna conquer space.
nk (dbc370) — 8/24/2019 @ 9:50 amYou’re a saucy one, nk.
They certainly do get a lot more attention than their waning influence would seem to indicate…
“There is a little dance that goes on nearly every day on Twitter. It usually starts with a pro-Trump conservative attacking a Never Trump conservative by suggesting their anti-Trump program is pointless and can only serve to help a Democratic Party lurching to the left. Next, the Never Trumper typically responds that if they are so irrelevant, why are pro-Trump conservatives so obsessed with them?
A fundamental misunderstanding is at work here. Nobody really thinks Never Trumpers are irrelevant. In fact, they and their views are all over the place. The Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and many other prominent left-leaning media outlets ensure that Never Trump pundits maintain relevance by plastering them all over our nation’s news commentary.
So, yes, Never Trumpers certainly have relevance, but there is something arguably much more important that they do not have: a constituency. The vast majority of conservatives and Republicans outside of the media and the Beltway approve of the job President Trump is doing. This is why, ultimately, ideas like running Joe Walsh against Trump are so silly and derided.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/23/the-empty-relevance-of-never-trump/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2019 @ 9:55 amDarn you nk, I was just about to post that. Read it last night but there wasn’t an open thread.
Dave (1bb933) — 8/24/2019 @ 9:55 am“Inflated statistics, altered quotes…
A Cornell University scholar cited in a recent New York Times piece tying slavery to capitalism was previously found to have inflated statistics, invented facts, and altered quotes, according to fellow academics in his field.
In an October 2016 paper, scholars Alan Olmstead of the University of California Davis and Paul Rhode of the University of Michigan harshly criticized the research of Cornell’s Edward Baptist presented in Baptist’s 2014 book “The Half Has Never Been Told.” In the book, Baptist argues that modern capitalism still contains many of the remnants of slavery and America’s current economy is still influenced by the exploitation of slaves.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cornell-scholar-cited-in-nyts-1619-series-charged-with-fabricating-quotes-evidence/
More on the subject here (I vote “race hustling”):
http://www.bookwormroom.com/2019/08/23/the-1619-project-scholarship-or-race-hustling/
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2019 @ 10:03 ambut of course:
http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/1619-project-pulitzer-center-education-programming
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 10:47 amwhen does this become troublesome:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-says-40-were-shot-at-kent-state-in-1970-when-four-students-were-killed
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 10:54 amNow this is what you call devotion to one’s mother.
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/24/2019 @ 11:00 amWhat a gig. Starbucks has a $1.6 billion debt but pays zero interest for it. It really is too bad that a self-made billionaire and fairly brilliant businessman like Howard Schultz could hardly launch a presidential campaign while a plurality of Republicans nominated a con man.
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/24/2019 @ 11:08 amMystery solved: Why there’s braille on those Lime and Bird scooters (they’re not “how to ride” instructions).
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/24/2019 @ 11:11 ammoving on,
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/the-anniversary-nobody-wants-to-talk-about-20190823-p52k0z.html
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 11:16 amwell thoughtcrime is eternal
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1164597218453667841
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 11:30 amhttps://beachgrit.com/2019/08/apocalypse-over-300-man-eating-great-whites-force-closure-of-60-beaches-on-u-s-eastern-seaboard/
mg (8cbc69) — 8/24/2019 @ 12:16 pmThe seals are the issue. Not only do they attract Great Whites they destroy the chain of baitfish and more.
Seals, sea lions and otters in CA. The more the numbers grow, the more great whites.
People used to dive the Farallons for ab and lobster. Now it’s white shark HQ.
harkin (58d012) — 8/24/2019 @ 1:50 pmI think the title is misleading:
https://saraacarter.com/two-women-from-queens-charged-with-plans-to-make-weapon-of-mass-destruction/
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 2:31 pmwell that’s a debatable point
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/22/1519-project-spanish-explorers-ended-mass-murdering-cult/
narciso (d1f714) — 8/24/2019 @ 2:34 pmRelated to your link @ 35, the two women from queens, narciso. These Velentzases are also from Queens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velentzas_crime_family
nk (dbc370) — 8/24/2019 @ 8:38 pm34… “Seals, sea lions and otters in CA. The more the numbers grow, the more great whites.”
My daughter and her boyfriend were over in Santa Cruz last weekend and they got to talking with one of his law enforcement contacts who told them that the drones they’ve been flying over the area beaches have been spotting a larger than normal number of what appear to be juvenile great whites swimming near the surfline… amongst the boogie boarders.
I know a few guys who still surf Santa Cruz in their late 50s/early 60s and they’ve told me that area surfers are used to seeing large, dark shapes swimming under them… not that big of a deal.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 8/24/2019 @ 9:16 pmhttps://www.conservativereview.com/news/judge-whose-sister-heads-la-raza-rules-130-year-law-encouraging-illegal-immigrants-unconstitutional/
Judge whose sister runs La Raza overturns law prohibiting encouraging criminal activity. Our robed oligarchy is overdue for a comeuppance.
NJRob (4d595c) — 8/24/2019 @ 10:25 pmAs if we needed another reason to hate Fidel Castro, comes the communist dictator’s crocodile.
The Swedes should turn that reptile into their Cuban Ambassador’s briefcase and luggage ensemble.
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/25/2019 @ 3:11 pmyou miss the point, montagu, the castros are the crocodile, yet the likes of dan rather and tom brokaw, slobber over them like a dead uncle,
narciso (d1f714) — 8/25/2019 @ 3:15 pmlike so,
narciso (d1f714) — 8/25/2019 @ 3:45 pmhttps://babalublog.com/2019/08/25/new-york-times-tries-to-spin-blame-away-from-castro-dictatorship-for-missing-data-on-cubas-2017-zika-outbreak/
Just a thought -I constantly see this CBD stuff everywhere advertised to cure darn near everything. Will it work on Global Warming?
mg (8cbc69) — 8/25/2019 @ 4:20 pmIf Trump wants to impact the Chinese without taxing ourselves with tariffs, he could send home a whole raft of Chinese nationals in STEM academia, including this guy (after he pays his debt to society):
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/25/2019 @ 5:04 pmYeah, an idiot who stands too close to a croc tank in Stockholm definitely brings to mind Rather and Brokaw.
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/25/2019 @ 5:06 pmAnother Obama artifact gets shot down. This time, it’s their expansive attempts to take more control over the WOTUS.
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/25/2019 @ 5:22 pmI can’t believe it, I mean I can believe it, but I can’t believe it. Trump asked his advisers about stopping hurricanes from hitting the US by nuking them.
Colonel Klink (Ret) (6e7a1c) — 8/25/2019 @ 6:11 pmAccording to sources… Trump is vulgar, clumsy, transparent and hilarious. He’s liable to say almost anything at any time. Normal people find this refreshingly amusing and enjoy watching the media tear itself apart. They accept this over the usual bullschiff and soaring rhetoric to nowhere.
Colonel Haiku (1aa46f) — 8/25/2019 @ 6:29 pmThe Higher Education Apocalypse continues… https://lidblog.com/antifa-college-professor/
Colonel Haiku (1aa46f) — 8/25/2019 @ 6:43 pm“According to sources”
Was the source John Barron?
Davethulhu (bc6fa6) — 8/25/2019 @ 7:07 pm47. Colonel Klink (Ret) (6e7a1c) — 8/25/2019 @ 6:11 pm
That’s not how you stop hurricanes.
As explained in the book Superfreakonics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow 2009) pages 158 to 163 mainly, and also in their blog, you stop (or rather, prevent) hurricanes with a picket fence of several thousand large floating rings, between 30 snd 300 feet across, made up of old truck tires, filled with foam concrete and lashed together with steel cable that has along flexiblee cylinder affixed to the inside deployed in the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern seaboard of the United states and in the Yucatan Channel between Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula
The effect of it is to draw warm water up to the top of the ocean hydraulic head) thus cooling te surface of the ocean below 26.5 degrress Clesius, and preventing hurricanes from forming.
Each ring should cost about $100 (say in the low 6 figures in total) plus the cost of towing them there asnd achoring the floats.
http://freakonomics.com/2012/11/06/another-look-at-an-unorthodox-hurricane-prevention-idea
A patent has been granted on the idea. It may be owned now (at least in part)by Bill Gates and Nathan Myhtvold. Myhrvold has also proposed cooling the earth with sulfur.
Of course these idea make too much sense (if there is areason to do anything at all) We have to suffer doing things that will not work,
Sammy Finkelman (c95a5a) — 8/25/2019 @ 7:41 pmAnd it wasn’t long after that Tillerson called Trump a “f**king moron”.
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/25/2019 @ 7:42 pmIt’s asteroids that are supposed to be able to be stopped by nuclear weapons, not hurricanes. (although that might not really work, at least if not done correctly)
https://science.howstuffworks.com/asteroid-nuclear-bomb.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/science/asteroids-nuclear-weapons.html
Sammy Finkelman (c95a5a) — 8/25/2019 @ 8:06 pmhttps://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-is-pretty-damn-funny/
mg (8cbc69) — 8/26/2019 @ 11:35 amInteresting behind the scenes look at the latest riot in Portland. Looks like someone got video evidence of Alt Right getting ready for the fight and heading out with intentions of doing just that.
Time123 (daab2f) — 8/26/2019 @ 11:56 amhttps://thespun.com/college-football/espn-miami-florida-tv-ratings-overnight
mg (8cbc69) — 8/26/2019 @ 12:38 pmIt has started.
This may be the last Breaking News post unless another blogger picks it up and continues it.
Unfortunately, I have to bench myself as a guest blogger because my posts are interfering with Patterico and the bloggers who post such great content here. Patterico offered to let me write drafts on old news (not breaking news) to be posted by others when/if they decided to post them. I tried it for a day but it didn’t work for me. My point in returning to blogging was to post timely breaking news stories. I will also follow my own advice and submit guest posts if I feel the urge.
I enjoy blogging here and had an especially fun time the last 3 months. I will continue to enjoy reading and commenting and maybe even submitting a guest post here. Patterico makes it all possible. My heartfelt thanks to him.
DRJ (15874d) — 8/26/2019 @ 1:49 pmNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But seriously, WTF are you on about with this “interfering” stuff?
Dave (1bb933) — 8/26/2019 @ 2:00 pmDRJ:
You mean there is an order snd a schedule to them?
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 8/26/2019 @ 2:00 pmWired has an article saying that the idea of using nuclear bombs on hurricanes is old, but it can’t be as old as they imply, beause the proponent says it was rejected because it was “politically incorrect”
Those words “politically incorrect” cannot be more than ten years old, if that, which means that if Jack Reed is less than about 95 years old he cannot have made that proposal 65 or so years ago. So he must have made that later, maybe in the 1980s, or in the 1990s, long after Project Plowshare, and long after the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty.
I notice the WIRED article gives no dates.
The idea however, has been around for awhile, enough so that NOAA has dedicated a webpage to debunking it.
https://www.wired.com/story/nuking-hurricanes-polar-ice-caps-climate-change
And the idea is doubly crazy, because even supposing you coild divert a hurricane, you couldn’t know where you could divert it to and you never knwow where exactly it is going in the first place!So you couldbe accused of having diverted it toward a populated area.
Somehow this idea got to Senator Cotton and then to Donald Trump.
All the while while a perfectly good method of preventing hurricanes is not looked at.
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 8/26/2019 @ 2:11 pmToday, for the firt time I saw an example of US. cureency that is dated later than the Obama Administration.
I saw a Dollar bill that was Series 2017 that had the nameof the current Secretary of the Treasury on it. It was from Cleveland.
I had read that Steven T. Mnuchin’s signature is a just a line, but it looks like he printed his name. Not cursive or script.
Sammy Finkelman (102c75) — 8/26/2019 @ 2:14 pm47. Colonel Klink (Ret) (6e7a1c) — 8/25/2019 @ 6:11 pm
Trump has now denied it. Said it never happened, and it was fake news and the idea is ridiculous.
The sources were anonymous.
Sammy Finkelman (c95a5a) — 8/26/2019 @ 6:05 pmThankless Lawyer Job of the Day: Being Devin Nunes’ attorney and arguing that a couple of parody Twitter accounts that mocked him were “comparable to giving a person a gun.” The good news is that parody is protected by the Constitution, and Nunes will continue to be a fool for needlessly throwing good money at lawyers for a suit that will get tossed. It should get tossed with prejudice.
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 8/26/2019 @ 8:23 pmYer slipping, Snopes…
https://babylonbee.com/news/monkey-with-typewriter-produces-reasonable-alternative-to-green-new-deal
Colonel Haiku (1986ab) — 8/26/2019 @ 9:05 pmThis is sad, DRJ. Patterico must want more Trump bashing articles.
mg (8cbc69) — 8/27/2019 @ 1:02 amThere’s not a little dissonance to put forward breaking news on an August 24th Breaking News post, but the GOP Texodus continues:
Paul Montagu (a2342d) — 9/5/2019 @ 7:14 am