I Just Heard A Rumor

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Hello. I hope all of you had a terrific Thanksgiving. How are things at the mall this Black Friday Eve? While you’re fighting over that 80″ HDTV, ponder the following:

I have information from an unverifiable source (!?) that names may begin to drop tomorrow and this weekend in @PizzaGate.

If you don’t know what PizzaGate is, then you’re probably better off not knowing. If you do know, then keep reading. (If you’re part of it, remember that you’re better off with a millstone around your neck).

Now I have no idea what kind of revelations might be coming, if any are really coming at all. The people involved and their … uh … political friends have been extremely depressed and disarranged lately. There may be some under the bus throwing. Or, this could be criminal investigation related.

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Pizza, ping-pong, and millstones…

Rumors on that front have proven problematic lately. Of course, the NYPD and the FBI do still have open and active files. So do most agencies in the West.

Police from Canada to Norway to Haiti have been working a web of related cases for a decade. Some few of the hundreds of arrests so far have had slightly political tinges. For example, one of Obama’s (the man with NO scandals) financial supporters, “Boy Bugger” Bean, was arrested in 2014 in Oregon. Then, of course, there was Jeff Epstein. And, just damn him.

Again, there are no guarantees that this is even a story. But, if it is, then it will be extremely interesting. It will also be interesting, if it happens, to see the reaction from the MSM. Remember them? The same group that thinks Jews and Asian porn stars are white supremacists. Yeah.

Happy Thanksgiving! Grab me a Christmas tie if they’re on sale. No clip-ons, please.

PS: I wasn’t going to do an evening post but this one wrote itself. I must admit I’ve been nervously watching for ISIS. And I am THANKFUL there is nothing (direct) to report there.

Tie De Jure

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Christmas neckwear 2016 continues.

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Almost forgot today. Simple, smiling Frosty. Technically I suppose this is or could double as a “winter” tie. It’s the thought that counts, right?

I may start a collage or something – ties of the week – so I don’t forget.

Anyway, happy Thanksgiving Eve, America. Cheers to the rest of the world.

Snowflakes, Diversity, And The Two Americas

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When it comes to opinion of the state of American academia, Walter Williams is our laureate. Today he recounts more snowflake meltdowns of the student, faculty, and administrative varieties.

In a previous column, I cited an article on News Forum For Lawyers titled “Study Finds College Students Remarkably Incompetent,” which referenced an American Institutes for Research study that revealed that over 75 percent of two-year college students and 50 percent of four-year college students were incapable of completing everyday tasks. About 20 percent of four-year college students demonstrated only basic mathematical ability, while a steeper 30 percent of two-year college students could not progress past elementary arithmetic. NBC News reported that Fortune 500 companies spend about $3 billion annually on training employees in “basic English.” Many of today’s college students are not only academically incompetent but emotionally so, as well, and do not belong in college.

These college snowflakes and their professors see themselves as our betters and morally superior to ordinary people. George Orwell was absolutely right when he said, “There are notions so foolish that only an intellectual will believe them.”

Schools, lower and higher, use to teach and not indoctrinate nor coddle. No more. I found a relatively recent article from Great Schools on the snowflake enabled and enabling phenomenon of cultural diversity.

Students who attend schools with a diverse population can develop an understanding of the perspectives of children from different backgrounds and learn to function in a multicultural, multiethnic environment. Yet, as public schools become more diverse, demands increase to find the most effective ways to help all students succeed academically as well as learn to get along with each other. Teachers are faced with the challenge of making instruction “culturally responsive” for all students while not favoring one group over another. A 2007 study by Public Agenda and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality found that 76% of new teachers say they were trained to teach an ethnically diverse student body but fewer than 4 in 10 say their training helps them deal with the challenges they face.

Diversity is needed to foster diversity. In turn that allows for more … diversity. No-one can render (or spell) the quadratic though they inevitably feel better about themselves. Progress. The comments, many of them, following the pure-BS article were enlightening, with many calling the concept what it is – Marxism.

I stumbled upon that drivel while researching something at Great Schools in the wake of the Chattanooga school bus crash. A diverse bus driver demonstrated to diverse students the blessings of nonconformity to oppressive traffic norms and laws. “Y’all ready to die,” he asked the kids. Some did. As those parents and the community grieve for their dead children they can at least take comfort in the multi-cultural panacea of their establishment. GS rated the Woodmore Elementary a “1 out of 10” school, by the way.

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Demonstrated diversity in education. CNN.

Far better and more prestigious institutions are also afflicted blessed with diversity of various persuasions. Phillips Academy of Andover, home of the Addison Gallery, for years hosted a diversity hire as their chief medical officer. Part of his celebrated otherness was a predilection for pedophilia. According to The New York Times, the school says the hundreds or thousands of children in his care were never in danger. Diversity is never a danger.

Of course, according to The Times, pedophilia is but a minor mental disorder, one in need of treatment and understanding rather than punishment. One wonders in the author of that story, a law school professor, really meant “celebrating” instead of “understanding”.

Still, some in our backwards, patriarchal societies continue to oppress and hound the disordered. Dr. Keller of Andover was arrested in 2012 in a vicious international persecution of pedophiles. That case sprang from others dating back years. And the investigations continue even now. Stunning, almost unbelievable, revelations about world-wide Satanic pedo-faggotry possibly influenced the 2016 presidential election.

The Times vows more honest reporting in the future. They also admit that now, amid all the dishonesty and diversity, there exist two Americas. This proposition is easily demonstrated, geographically and electorally, with maps and graphs. However, conceptually, it goes much deeper.

The two Americas consist of those who get it – the reality of substance versus fluff and hysteria – and those who either do not or who would obscure away reality in favor of an agenda. More plainly, there is: America of the Americans and anti-American Amerika. Diversity and the snowflake generation are both causes and symptoms of the divide.

The conflict spills into every corner of society. The diverse, alarmed, and anxious cast of Hamilton lectured Mike Pence on being diverse, alarmed, and anxious. These being the same people who violated New York’s human rights laws with their non-white only casting calls. And the same actor who delivered the keynote rant formerly praised Saint Patrick’s Day as a good time for raping white women. Well, at least he’s not wrapping buses around trees.

Most telling is the substance versus the imagery. The multi-culties, while decrying appointment based on things like skin color, only seek appointments based on things like skin color. Walter Williams facially meets their requirements, being a black man. Further and most importantly, Williams adds true diversity via his reasoned dissenting thoughts on intellectualism and society. That kind of diversity the pedo-culties do not like. Is theirs an aversion to reality?

Risky Banking Business

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Just last week I told you about Citi’s criminal plans to prohibit cash. It’s part of the greater scheme to steal your wealth in addition to a great inconvenience.

Now, this week, news comes that Citigroup is the riskiest bank in America.

A global financial regulator declared three of America’s largest banks sources of higher risk to the world’s financial system compared to last year, requiring them to hold more capital as a sort of insurance against failure and the resulting ripple effects across the global economy. The announcement on Monday came less than two weeks after banking industry deregulation-friendly candidate Donald Trump won the presidential election.

The Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board (FSB) will, starting in January 2018, require Citigroup Inc. to have a 2.5 percent capital buffer—the second-highest risk bracket—compared to last year’s 2 percent requirement, and Bank of America Corp. needs to keep 2 percent of its capital available, above last year’s 1.5 percent. Morgan Stanley, however, was moved to the lowest risk bracket, with a capital buffer of just 1 percent, down from 1.5 percent last year.

This move is intended to shore up banking reserves and protect the public from future bailouts. Rest assured however that if the time comes, your taxes will be made readily available to the banksters.

At least the warning is out. The entire banking industry is in roughly the same shape it was in back in 2008. As to Citi’s perdicament, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bank.

Now, here’s a better, happier story:

More Christmas Tie!

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Aiding, Abetting, And Harboring: A Coming Education?

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Donald Trump was elected, partly, to avert a civil war. And part of his appeal was securing America’s borders and repatriating illegal aliens and terrorists. People it seems tire of criminals entering the country to compete for scarce jobs and to loot the welfare office. They are incensed by hoards of “refugees” of a totally alien culture bent on turning Omaha into Paris or, worse, Damascus. “Build the wall!,” they chanted at rally after rally.

Now that Trump is headed for the highest office, it remains to be seen if he will follow through. One sign that he might do so is his pick for Attorney General: Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Under existing law Trump and Sessions will have great power to tame immigration.

The other side refuses to lie down, even after their electoral beating this month. Their tenacity is to be commended. Like their criminal friends and constituents, their leaders have vowed to evade the law. The mayors of “sanctuary cities” across the nation declare they will allow illegal immigrants to stay in spite of the coming crackdown. Sessions may have a harsh answer for them.

The Senator has indicated he may well use his coming authority to strip said cities of federal funding. He also has a more drastic option at his disposal (or, he will).

8 U.S.C. § 1324 makes aiding, abetting, and harboring illegal aliens a felony:

Any person who …

knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation …

[Or who] aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,
shall be punished…

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both…

Being a mayor or city official is not an exemption to “any person” as contemplated by the law. And certain circumstances elevate some violations to 20-year felony status.

This law is currently used as infrequently as the general prohibition against illegal entries (probably much less – if at all). That may change.

The change might also affect colleges and universities, many of which allow illegal aliens not only to attend classes, but to do so at discounted tuition rates. This is a slap in the face to legal immigrants, native citizens, taxpayers, and the rule of law.

Two schools in Georgia recently contemplated caving to criminal protesters and to allowing illegals cheap access to what passes for education (not a guarantee for anyone). Numerous administrators and faculty members at the schools support the idea – probably because they stand to gain financially from the enrollments (the law and the taxpayers tossed aside).

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And our money? And our laws? And our civilization? Townhall.

Perhaps they will reconsider their positions in the face of possible “harboring” prosecutions. If not, they could have five good years during which to reflect.

Top Ten Disadvantages Of Fitness

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Another of my favorite sub-topics here is fitness. The site first really came into being on the heels of my great weight loss of 2012-2013. I frequently tout the advantages of getting in shape and staying in shape. However there are drawbacks.

Here I have tried my best to explain some of those healthy health-related problems. The following are both comical and serious. They are based on my own observations over the past four years. Here goes:

One. Fatophobia.

Once upon a time I was the epitome of the jolly overweight American. I thought to myself, then, that I wore it well. I didn’t. Others don’t either. When you’ve been there and come back, these things are very noticeable.

Two. Reverse fatigue.

Millions of Americans report chronic fatigue syndrome. This illness is real. And it’s curable. It’s caused by inactivity. Strangely, working out – over doing it – leads to some of the same symptoms. However, these are largely self-curing. It is something to beware of. Listen to your body.

Three. Rotating injuries.

This is part age-related and part over doing things. Curls on Monday lead to sore biceps on Tuesday, just in time for benching. That means a sore chest on Wednesday (with lingering arm issues too), just in time for breaking the back. The really sad thing is that one comes to enjoy it all.

Four. Beat up hands.

I lift and box. Both sides of my hands are constantly smashed up. At least there’s symmetry.

Five. Constant advice seeking.

Over a year or two you go from “Wow, You’re losing weight!” to “Hey, are you sick?” to “Can you give me some pointers?” I’m always happy to help. This is only irritating when I realize I really need to get my fitness book out. Demand is obviously there.

Six. No eating out.

Most restaurant food is garbage. Thus I almost never eat out anymore. And I don’t miss it. Until I do. Something about a double bacon cheeseburger. Gnome-sayin?

Seven. Getting hit on.

Yes, sweetie, I have guns.

You don’t have to touch them. (But it’s okay if you do.) I’m a crazy magnet so this gets complicated. If you shape up, get a stick.

Eight. Clothes don’t fit.

Now we come to the serious problems. I lost and rearranged 80 pounds. I lost about a foot off of my waist. I now have three outfits that fit properly and I hate shopping. This is a plus if you learn to embrace minimalism.

Nine. Can’t handle the booze.

Gone forever are the days of killing a bottle of Bowmore to warm up for a night of drinking. I have nothing at all against alcohol yet I find myself going weeks and even months without it. Two beers and done these days. And I really don’t miss it at all. Scotch and beer snobbery greatly contributed to the former girth. Maybe it’s not really a drawback.

Ten. Intolerance to cold.

This is by far the worst. Like a blubber-coated walrus, I used to happily go out in the snow in shorts. I have skied in a t-shirt. Now, when it drops into the sixties I feel compelled to sweater up. My hands hurt. This makes winter outdoor blogging problematic. On the plus side, the 100 degree days aren’t quiet as bad.

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Chris Bray.

Yet and still, all of these issues beat sluggishness, breathlessness, and diabetes. It’s like a Nick Kershaw song come true – the grass really is (a little) greener over here. Join us. Bring gloves…

Can Dak Prescott Save The NFL? (Dunno But My Predictions Are Uncanny)

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Maybe. Maybe not.

The NFL has taken a ratings beat down this season. Some of it has to do with Colin Kaepernick’s antics and ilk. Colin isn’t completely to blame. The fan base suffers from fatigue after years of watching the whole sport drift to the left, now closer to Stalinism than to soccer. Many have completely written it off. I did.

Okay, my write-off is not complete. I’m watching a few SEC games right now.

This week, Daniel Holloway and Variety looked into the subject. Specifically, they cited Dak and Dallas as possible saviors of a ruined season.

In a season that has seen the NFL’s broadcast partners dogged by depressed ratings, last Sunday brought a welcome jolt. Fox’s second game of the afternoon — for most homes the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers — was the most watched of the season, drawing 28.9 million viewers. That evening, NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” featuring the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, drew 22.5 million viewers, the most for any primetime football game this season.

That was enough to slow the bleeding, but not stop it. Ratings for week 10 games were still down an average 6% from one year ago. Considering that all other weeks this season saw percentage declines in the double digits, however, it was a moral victory — one that could become a winning streak in week 11, which begins tonight with the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers on “Thursday Night Football.”

Like most of the press and the establishment, Variety misses the real point. Football was quintessentially American. Then it was hijacked. The hijackers are still in control. Most former fans will not return to a League and a sport that view them as hostile aliens and idiots, “deplorables” good for buying tickets and jerseys and for little else.

Then again, the press misses a lot of stuff these days. They were blindsided by Trump’s win. Never saw it coming. Wasn’t even a possibility. They were preoccupied with Comrade Clinton’s ascension over the feeble objections of the basket-dwellers. I saw that train coming, calling the electoral vote with 95% accuracy – 2 months early. Really, it was kind of hard not to see it.

It’s much the same, maybe exactly the same, with football. The press elite were preoccupied with Comrade Roger’s foolish war against NE. That the people grew tired of pink-clad felons standing around for TV timeouts in a debased PC playground never occurred to them. And, again, I saw it all first. I hailed Prescott as the possible hero of the season one week into the preseason (even after Dallas and Dak lost the first scrimmage against the Rams).

Dak is electric and just a darned good quarterback. MSU, 2014, anyone? But can one player salvage a whole industry? Who can say? (I lean towards “no”). There’s much else that must change. It’s the same with Trump. In both cases we now have “our guy”. That’s great but now we must see delivery. We must ditch the same sort of afflictions that plague football and America.

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USA Today.

Hope abounds though the greater questions and concerns are still out there. Time will tell.

By the way, for major stories in 2016, that’s: Perrin, 2 – Media, 0. I offer my services to Zuckerberg for rooting out all that fake news. I won’t hold my breath.