Blog Heap o'Links for October 2018

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Political Theater

‘I’ve Been Used To Spread Messages I Don’t Believe In’

…Kanye confirmed to TMZ that his tweets were in reference to Blexit, and emphasized that he did not mention President Donald Trump at all.…

“I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine. I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it,” he stated.…

Hmmm.
11:19am CDT Wed 2018 Oct 31 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Ace of Spades

…Midweek and with 6 days left to go until the Midterms, the Democrat-Left-Media complex has suddenly found religion - - to use as a convenient combination cudgel and shield with which to bash the President and all of us who support him.…

JJ's news is broad-ranging and in-depth. It's spooky.
10:27am CDT Wed 2018 Oct 31 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Ace of Spades

…What a horrible morning. I just don't think I have it in me to write about the senseless massacre of 11 people at a synagogue celebrating both the Sabbath and the beginning of a new life. Obviously, as a Jew this hits me particularly hard but that said, whenever something like this happens in any house of worship (or school for that matter), it just sickens me.…

7:59pm CDT Mon 2018 Oct 29 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day exactly one year ago the Mueller witch-hunt filed his first charges.… What we now know is there was no Russia collusion, this whole thing is a farce designed to embarrass Trump and Republicans in general.

Vic's got links to share.
10:01am CDT Sun 2018 Oct 28 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1964 Ronald Reagan delivered his famous Time For Choosing a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. Well Goldwater went down to LBJ thanks to help from the MFM.

Vic's got the news JJ won't touch today ('cause JJ takes the weekends off but VNN does not!)
11:01am CDT Sat 2018 Oct 27 :MW
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Digital Terrorism

…Analysts are quick to stress that online terrorist recruiting efforts remain a problem and that popular platforms such as Facebook and YouTube need to do more to combat the messages, but the days of the Islamic State’s state-of-the-art propaganda and recruiting mission online seem to have ended.…

10:57am CDT Fri 2018 Oct 26 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1775 King George III went before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.

The VNN supplement to the Morning Report
8:49am CDT Fri 2018 Oct 26 :MW
Ace of Spades

…in almost less than a day, what started out as a spate of foiled terror bombings aimed at prominent Democrats and others of the Leftist bent has now become an amateurish-looking hoax. …

JJ covers the world better than that paint store logo.
8:26am CDT Fri 2018 Oct 26 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Ace of Spades

…Wow. Less than two weeks to go to the Midterms and surprise, surprise! Multiple bomb threats aimed at key Democrat leaders and media outlets yesterday. It's kind of funny really. Not ha-ha funny but just blood-pressure-raising funny; after dozens of violent incidents including a mass assassination attempt on GOP lawmakers, assaults, harassment, intimidation, incitement and hate speech aimed not just at political leaders on the right but average citizens - all of which have been ignored, excused or even justified by the alleged responsible leadership of the aforementioned - now those on the receiving end are taking all of it with dead seriousness. Like I said, funny.…

Newspapers? Where JJ's going we don't need… newspapers.
10:47am CDT Thu 2018 Oct 25 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1931 the George Washington Bridge opened to public traffic. The initial toll was set at 50 cents in either direction for passenger cars. That is equivalent to $8.30 today.

Vic's News Network delivered to your doorstep, ad-free.
12:25pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 24 :MW
Ace of Spades

…the army of foreign nationals looking to crash our borders, after a 24-hour pause (or so they say) to memorialize one of their brave, honored dead... who croaked after falling off a truck (wait, aren't they all on foot? /sarc) is continuing ever-northward. The administration has been absolutely unequivocal in stating that no one from this rabble will be allowed to enter the country. …

Got distracted from blog-heaping this weekend. Getting caught up today. Somewhat. Maybe. Here's JJ, anyway.
9:06am CDT Wed 2018 Oct 24 :MW

President Donald Trump

Smiling Trump

…As Trump nears the two-year mark of his historic election and conducts political rallies around the country, during which he talks up his wins in hopes it will energize Republican voters, the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

They include 173 major wins, such as adding more than 4 million jobs, and another 116 smaller victories, some with outsize importance, such as the 83 percent one-year increase in arrests of MS-13 gang members.…

7:20pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 24 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Ace of Spades

…The premeditated and preplanned invasion of thousands of migrants from Central America to and through our borders continues to remain the top story.…

Retro-added Oct 24.
8:57am CDT Tue 2018 Oct 23 :MW
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Political Theater

Ted Cruz

…Barkeep, rustle me up a "Beto"

*pours shot of jamison, calls it tequila* …

4:29pm CDT Fri 2018 Oct 19 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Ace of Spades

…The two big stories are the fallout from this apparent liquidation by the KSA of Washington Post taqqiya-pimp cum "journalist" Jamal Khashoggi and the completely phony migrant caravan crisis at the Mexico-Guatemala border that is heading our way.…

JJ's report for today. I failed to blog JJ and Vic the past couple of days. If I can find my way to it, I'll retro-enter them, but the news just moves on and sometimes so do I.
10:22am CDT Fri 2018 Oct 19 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Ace of Spades

…Thursday and as the Midterms approach, the Democrat-Left violence and intimidation is ramping up. …

Retro-entered on the 24th - sorry.
8:47am CDT Thu 2018 Oct 18 :MW
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Political Theater

Cross-Eyed Elizabeth Warren

A descendant of 17th-century Powhatan princess Pocahontas called on Sen. Elizabeth Warren to apologize for appropriating Native Americans' heritage for political and occupational gain.…

8:38pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 17 :MW

Digital Tyranny

Wordpress W

…“Evil WordPress shadow-bans Whatfinger News,” by Dr. Eowyn, Fellowship of the Minds, October 13, 2018…

8:33pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 17 :MW
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Bartlesville - prairie frontier town

…According to an affidavit, an officer reported to the scene of a domestic incident and noticed an iPhone sitting on the porch of a residence. The phone had six holes resembling the appearance of bullet holes. A female victim told the officer that Moore had become upset with her and fired six shots at the phone.…

9:23pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 17 :MW
Price Tower

A social media post claims someone is killing rapists in Bartlesville and police want to make it clear, it's fake news.

This is the second fake news post in Bartlesville in the last month.…

9:02pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 17 :MW

Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!

Cannabis leaf

An Oklahoma woman has been charged with marijuana possession, despite having a valid medical marijuana license.… pulled over for a broken rear brake light.… 49-year-old single mom of three boys has had four back surgeries and says she lives in constant pain. So, when medical marijuana became legal, she went out got her medical marijuana license.… “The officer asked if I had anything on me and I said I have a little bit of weed but I have my ID. He just didn’t care. He said I just couldn’t possess it…” officer told her since there are no dispensaries open yet, the weed is illegal. But in a motion to dismiss the charges, Gist's attorney argued [the law] says, "a license holder can legally possess up to three ounces of marijuana."

“Nowhere does it say you have to get it from the dispensary…"

8:56pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 17 :MW

Educating Ourselves

Dr Piper

At the Oklahoma Wesleyan University autumn Board of Trustees meeting, OKWU President, Dr. Everett Piper, shared his plans with OKWU leadership for his June 2020 retirement from the University.

“Oklahoma Wesleyan University owes Dr. Piper a huge debt of gratitude for the amazing turnaround in the financial health of our school since his arrival 16 years ago,” said OKWU Board Chairman, Roger Metcalf. “Even more important is the spiritual vitality that Dr. Piper has helped us experience. Practically everyone who knows anything about OKWU knows of the 4 P’s that Dr. Piper implemented shortly after his arrival. We thank God for sending Dr. Everett and Marci Piper to us and are grateful for their leadership and service to OKWU!”…

8:07pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 17 :MW
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Political Theater

Nelson Muntz laughs

…Local talk radio show host Chris Stigall had a hilarious observation. Daniels raised a half million dollars for her legal fees, and mostly Democrats donated through GoFundMe.

Now those same leftists will be realize their money is going directly to Trump.…

11:54am CDT Tue 2018 Oct 16 :MW
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Political Theater

…I told her that all else aside, the media that worshipped Yeezy for fifteen years would turn on him like a rabid like a rabid dog immediately. She thought I was crazy.

She called me the next day, shocked at what they were saying, and asking how I knew it would it happen. …

Great story on enlightening a friend.
7:14pm CDT Mon 2018 Oct 15 :MW
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Political Theater

Leavenworth O'Brien is upset that Der Trumlenfuehrer referred to Robert E. Lee a great man:

The racism in the GOP runs deep. https://t.co/Iq2dLcQW5D

- Soledad O'Brien
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"I am very happy to take part in this unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee.

All over the United States we recognize him as a great leader of men, as a great general. But, also, all over the United States I believe that we recognize him as something much more important than that. We recognize Robert E. Lee as one of our greatest American Christians and one of our greatest American gentlemen."
--
Franklin D. Roosevelt
72 - Remarks at the Unveiling of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Statue, Dallas, Texas.
June 12, 1936

11:58am CDT Sun 2018 Oct 14 :MW

Nah... you dont want to do that

#SaturdayMorning

11-second video at link
9:50am CDT Sun 2018 Oct 14 :MW
Sad Hillary

…“Hillary Clinton is the kiss of death and she represents the part of the Democratic Party that led to historic losses and that elected Donald Trump president,” one leading Democratic strategist told the Washington Examiner.

“Democrats don’t want her to campaign for them because everywhere she goes she carries this stench of death and is the only political figure in America that is less popular than Donald Trump,”…

That last remark is pretty strange considering Trump's incredible popularity — must mean :less popular among Democrats!"
9:16am CDT Sun 2018 Oct 14 :MW

Digital Tyranny

No Twitter

And it gets weirder on twitter: apparently they are also now suspending accounts that are posting info about the sketchy Kashoggi disappearance/suspected murder --- anyone who disputes Turkey's version of events.

I don't know enough about this to know who's propaganda and who's reporting the facts, but it sure looks sketchy that twitter is taking a very pro-Turkey approach to censorship. …

9:31am CDT Sun 2018 Oct 14 :MW
No Twitter

This is just....wow. Twitter apparently suspended Pastor Brunson's account --- yesterday. WTF? Didn't want him to thank DJT via twitter upon returning to US soil?

https://twitter.com/BrunsonPastor

Because they couldn't put him back in prison.
9:25am CDT Sun 2018 Oct 14 :MW

Trump Derangement

Herschel Walker

Went to bed appalled over @donlemon despicable behavior laughing at @TaraSetmayer and @Bakari_Sellers awful remarks about Kanye West’s visit with @realDonaldTrump!! Woke up wondering why @CNN doesn’t take all three off the air? #SHAMEFUL #CNN https://t.co/MwGWIfh8so

— Herschel Walker (@HerschelWalker) October 11, 2018

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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day last year a gun shop agreed to pay the city of Milwaukee and two police officers $6M in a civil suit because they sold a gun to someone who was buying it for an 18 year old yoot who could not legally buy it.…

Don't neglect the news just because JJ snoozes. Read Vic News Network!
9:11am CDT Sun 2018 Oct 14 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1307 hundreds of Knights Templar in France were simultaneously arrested by agents of King Phillips, to be later tortured into a "confession" of heresy.…

Missed Vic's news links; retro-entered for the 13th.
1:19pm CDT Sat 2018 Oct 13 :MW
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Know the Enemy

Puckered Holder

… “Michelle always says — Michelle Obama, I love her … she always says that, you know, when they go low, we go high.”

“No,” Holder asserted. “When they go low, we kick them.”

The audience cheered and laughed in response.…

6:31pm CDT Fri 2018 Oct 12 :MW

Trump Derangement

…"Kanye West is what happens when Negroes don’t read," CNN’s Bakari Sellers said.

CNN’s Tara Setmayer declared West to be "the token Negro of the Trump administration," adding that "no one should be taking Kanye West seriously" because "he clearly has issues, he’s already been hospitalized."…

…mental health professionals have condemned CNN for using West's prior mental health hospitalization to attack him and for stigmatizing mental health.…

6:25pm CDT Fri 2018 Oct 12 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1892 the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. Despite endless legal challenges by radical atheists and other AH's it has been upheld in courts at every turn. However, there probably aren't very many schools that still have students recite it.

IIRC, "under God" was added later.
10:21am CDT Fri 2018 Oct 12 :MW
Ace of Spades

…Here comes the weekend so let's dive right in…

JJ has more news to peruse than you can stick a shake at.
9:18am CDT Fri 2018 Oct 12 :MW
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Spacecraft

…two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft en route to the International Space Station was forced to make a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday when their rocket failed in mid-air. U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely without harm… made what NASA called a steep ballistic descent to Earth… Moscow immediately suspended all manned space launches… Footage from inside the Soyuz had shown the two men being shaken around at the moment the failure occurred, with their arms and legs flailing. Ovchinin, the Russian cosmonaut, can be heard saying: “That was a quick flight.”…

2:54pm CDT Thu 2018 Oct 11 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1767 surveying for the Mason-Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania was completed. This border between MD and PA later became the defacto border between the Northern States and the South. I would say that demarcation should shift South a great deal and include the Eastern 1/3 of VA in the North now.

Vic's got links and thoughts about them, starting here.
1:01pm CDT Thu 2018 Oct 11 :MW
Ace of Spades

…The big story and one that is the now as yet non-orchestrated but growing campaign of political terror aimed at the enemies of the Democrat-Left-Media complex and its constituents.…

JJ reads everything, and brings the best to us. Quite a job!
9:41am CDT Thu 2018 Oct 11 :MW
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WW1 - still with us

Black and white silent film footage from World War I has been transformed by Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson into a 3D colour movie to mark the centenary of the end of the conflict.…
painstakingly restored and coloured hours of archival footage and paired it with historical veterans' interviews… included using lip readers to decipher what soldiers were saying in the century-old film and inserting new matching audio recorded with actors.

…"They Shall Not Grow Old" -- will be unveiled for the first time at the London Film Festival next week…

1:49pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 10 :MW

Fun Can Be Fatal

A Medieval knight re-enactor has impaled himself with his lance during a performance and died…

5:17pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 10 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1871 Mrs O'Leary's cow burned Chicago to the ground. The fire lasted from October 8 through 10. Nobody knows what happened to the cow. It wasn't noos. Nobody also remembers that the whole story was concocted by a newspaper reporter who lied about the whole thing. So even in 1871 you could not believe anything the MFM put out.

Vic's hot links for today start here.
6:11pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 10 :MW
Ace of Spades

…Leading off, in the aftermath of the attempted character assassination of now Justice Kavanaugh, we are witnessing a ramping up of the already unhinged rhetoric and physical violence, 100% of which is coming from the Democrat-Left-Media complex, academia and other quarters.…

Catch up on all that matters and what JJ thinks about it.
1:12pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 10 :MW
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Fortuitous Coincidence

…He and his wife adopted her from China when she was 5 and brought her back to their home in Indiana. She was born with only one finger on each hand… As fate would have it, the student in the back seat… works with an engineering group [which] 3D-prints robotic hands—and had been searching in vain for a child who needed one.

10:03am CDT Tue 2018 Oct 9 :MW
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Energy

If you care about global warming, you must like wind power, right? But what if wind power itself ends up contributing to a warmer climate? That appears to be the case, according to a new study.…

7:42pm CDT Tue 2018 Oct 9 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

… On this day in 1936 The Hoover Dam) began to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles. It was originally called the Boulder Dam after its location but its name was changed by an act of Congress.

Let Vic guide you to new understandings of the news.
1:22pm CDT Tue 2018 Oct 9 :MW
Ace of Spades

…Tuesday's here and as Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh starts his first day on the Supreme Court, there's still a whole lot of fallout politically both in a tactical sense as we are now four weeks out from the Midterms and in the long run in terms of what is now an open assault on the rule of law, the very nature of the law itself in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and a political movement and its party that seeks nothing less than permanent and absolute power by any and all means at its disposal.…

JJ doesn't just present the news; he delivers it with vigor.
10:12am CDT Tue 2018 Oct 9 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1967 communist terrorist and criminal Che Guevara and his men were captured in Bolivia. He was executed by firing squad the next day.

Talk about swift justice! Vic's news links follow here.
11:08am CDT Mon 2018 Oct 8 :MW
Ace of Spades

…Happy Columbus Day! And what an incredible week - yet again - it has been as the insane national nightmare that was the all-out effort by the Democrat-Left-Media complex to destroy an honorable and decent man in order to gain both political advantage and more crucially preserve the major vehicle by which they advance their policy agenda against the will of the people has failed. And spectacularly.…

JJ's ways are dark and mysterious. How does he manage all those words?
10:05am CDT Mon 2018 Oct 8 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1985 four muzzie terrorists from the Palestine Liberation Front led by 'peaceful statesman' Yasser Arafat hijacked the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt. They shot and then dumped the body of an American Jew in a wheelchair off the side of the ship into the ocean. Italian authorities allowed the terrorist to escape to Yugoslavia. The Europeans once again proved to be unreliable in fighting terrorism much to the displeasure of RR.

Vic rolls out the news links.
10:26am CDT Sun 2018 Oct 7 :MW
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Opposing Tyranny

Swaggering Graham
Graham's swaggering, tie-straightening swagger walk set to dozens of snippets of music. My favorite is James Brown.
6:29pm CDT Sat 2018 Oct 6 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was murdered by 'peaceful' muzzies.

Vic's news for today begins with that grim reminder.
6:31pm CDT Sat 2018 Oct 6 :MW

President Donald Trump

MUST WATCH: Woke Lindsey Graham is on fire again!
"If Donald Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize, liberals all over the world will jump out of buildings."

AND "(Obama) won (the peace price) for not being Bush"

Video at link
6:23pm CDT Sat 2018 Oct 6 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Ace of Spades

…The weekend is here, thank G-d, and once again I feel drained, revolted, frightened and relieved all at once.…

Don't take life so serious, JJ. It ain't no-how permanent.
10:19am CDT Fri 2018 Oct 5 :MW
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US Judicial Branch

…So here's a funny tidbit. I know someone who works for SCOTUS on their administrative staff.

Apparently, justices on the court have to serve on the various administrative committees, and the committee that they're on is determined by their tenure.

Guess what committee is reserved for the junior-most justice?

The Party Planning Committee.

I swear I'm not making this up.

1:40pm CDT Thu 2018 Oct 4 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day last year Trump had one of the few hits against him that I have. He announced that the US would bail out that socialist Democrat run territory of Puerto Rico which legally had gone bankrupt.…

Vic brings news, views, and an attitude.
11:03am CDT Thu 2018 Oct 4 :MW
Ace of Spades

…Thursday at long last and there may be light at the end of the tunnel with the Kavanaugh confirmation/character assassination; hopefully not from the headlight of an oncoming train. …

JJ's got all the news that gives you fits.
10:19am CDT Thu 2018 Oct 4 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1789 at the request of Congress, George Washington proclaimed a Thanksgiving Day for that year. This started the Thanksgiving Day tradition in the US. Some localities had already celebrated a harvest festival at various locations in the Fall. Those became the nationwide Thanksgiving Day. But it was not yet a national holiday every year everywhere.

Vic has some links and thoughts to share, starting here.
1:16pm CDT Wed 2018 Oct 3 :MW
Ace of Spades

…for the first time in a very long time, maybe ever, the Mueller Russia Collusion Flea Circus category is missing. That right there is telling.…

What's not news is new, that's how canny a reporter JJ is.
8:22am CDT Wed 2018 Oct 3 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1959 Rod Serling's anthology series The Twilight Zone premiered on CBS. The first episode was 'Where Is Everybody?. This was probably one of the all time best TV shows and certainly one of the favorite ones of myself and my brothers.

Who knew, nearly sixty years later, we would be living in a political Twilight Zone. Episode title: Derangement Epidemic.
9:20am CDT Tue 2018 Oct 2 :MW
Ace of Spades
Mr Sefton has some good advice for our Senators:

… the fate of a decent, honorable man with impeccable character and a decades-long track record of excellence as a jurist, as well as his family, hangs in the balance so for that reason alone, the GOP better not screw this up. Do not let Dems speak, do not let them introduce new "evidence," letters, what-have-you, bang that friggin' gavel when they open their bloody cake-holes and get this goddam vote done. Period.…

8:47am CDT Tue 2018 Oct 2 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1940 the Pennsylvania Turnpike, opened to traffic. It is credited as the first superhighway in the United States. I drove from MD to OH on this highway back in 1970. It was in ghastly shape then.…

Vic's news, what's left after JJ took all the headllines.
2:20pm CDT Mon 2018 Oct 1 :MW
Ace of Spades

…It's the first Monday in October, the start of a brand new term of the Supreme Court but thanks to the absolutely disgusting political hit job inflicted on the nation and on decent, upright and completely innocent Brett Kavanaugh and his family, the court will be short one justice.…

Starting the month off right with a huge dose of JJ's news & views.
1:34pm CDT Mon 2018 Oct 1 :MW