Ruminations – 11aug20 (updated 13aug20)

George Rebane

Countering imported BLM demonstrators.  Given that BLM has shown its true colors as a political ‘black lives don’t matter’ movement created to transform the country into a socialist state, and demonstrating their violent methods in other towns and cities, I suppose it’s not surprising that people in Nevada County are turning out to defend home and hearth from imported 'protesters', no matter how many like-minded local leftists join them.

‘Mayhem Continues, Protest Narrative Crumbles’  The lamestream media has done it damnest to foist the Big Lie that the country’s riots, burnings, shootings, lootings, … are just “peaceful protests” of people seeking “social justice” in the wake of George Floyd’s death.  None of them admit to the existential evidence generated nightly across the land, and none of them admit to the greater political purpose of a socialist revolution to which the various factions of rioters readily admit and publish.  And this selective blindness is dutifully aped by our local leftwing loonies as demonstrated in these pages and elsewhere.  (more here)

‘Fighting Back Against the Woke Corporation’  The country’s mega-corporatists are doing their best to sell rope to our socialist cum communist revolutionaries in Congress and the streets.  Today their size is such that “Corporate power can enforce cultural conformity—through marketing, through lobbying, through firing.”  Is this not the perfect time for some unwoke, say retailer like Walmart, to make the big move against the market dominance of Amazon?  Just advertise that you are not woke and that you are a capitalist corporation which makes its profits by putting the interests of its customers (not the list of “stakeholders”) first.  For millions of us it will then quickly become the go-to place for online shopping as it builds up its SKU inventory. (more here)

[Update]  The NC BOS defeated the most recent version of the draconian covid ‘urgency ordinance’ at the end of a very lengthy meeting late this afternoon.  The best the proponents could do was to reduce – yes, reduce – the fines for violating the mask, gathering, and dining-in provisions to $500, $2,500, and $5,000 for the first three offenses.  The heroes of the session were Supervisors Ed Scofield and Susan Hoek with their no votes.  If covid ever becomes an ‘urgent matter’ in Nevada County, the BOS can always revisit such an ordinance.  In the interval, let’s respect the common sense of our residents who are well aware of the pandemic’s dangers.

[12aug20 update]  'Black' is a categorical political identity.  Kamala is advertised by the lamestream as being ‘black’.  Her ancestry is way more complex than that, and returns us to the question of how much Negroid blood qualifies one as black or African-American. (more here) In legal terms she’s classified as black if that’s how she wants it.  But what fraction of Negroid ancestry should our society demand before accepting such a politically beneficial de juris racial classification?  (more here) We answered that question for Elizabeth Warren’s Indian ancestry.  Today the answer is ‘whatever works’.

AP News suckers our local Union again.  AP (All Propaganda) is an unabashedly leftwing fake news outfit that still manages to bamboozle the news editors of most of the country’s newspapers.  The latest piece – ‘Virus surge make the United States weak link in global economic recovery’ - that appears in the 12aug20 Union is utter editorial bullshit passed off as news copy.  At best it should appear on the newspapers’ op-ed pages.  But the fact that it passes off as news goes a long way to explain why today’s Americans have such a low opinion of journalists and journalism.  Did any of them ever take a critical thinking course in journalism school?  (The article on Union’s page A6 could not be found on the AP site, nor on the Union’s website.  It looks like a piece of fluff propaganda passed down to small town newspapers that need to fill some real estate in their print editions, and are not that alert or savvy about what qualifies as real news.  You can read it if you look in the print edition on their website – try here.)

[13aug20 update]  President Trump is finally putting some balance into his C19 ‘science team’ with the invitation to a couple of physician scientists who are part of the cohort of thousands of such professionals that has a markedly different take on what our proper response policies should be for this highly politicized pandemic.  Perhaps there now will be some meaningful backroom discussions between Fauci et al and the newcomers.  (more here and here.  H/T to reader.)

Comments

[L]

What I see taking form here (as well as in China) is not communism on the Soviet or Cuban or Venezuelan model, but the modern left's biggest bugaboo. Yes, friends, we are watching the return of the good old fashioned alliance of elite governance and compliant capitalists aka Fascism. It resembles the NSDAP program in many particulars.

For what it's worth, Fascism is probably a little 'better' than communism in that it is more likely to be economically viable. For the tenants, it still resembles an ant farm, albeit one where mandatory vacations are available...

[Scott O]

re Gregory 10:26 under the Sandbox posting -
"Floyd, when he was on his feet, was asked by an officer if he had taken anything and he clearly responded no."
I found this in an article written by Jim Goad. Some of it supposedly from the transcript. I'll wait until trial before I vouch for it:
"Due to Floyd’s bizarre behavior, police suspected he was on PCP.

Kueng: You got foam around your mouth, too?

Floyd: Yes, I was just hooping earlier.

“Hooping” refers to the act of inserting something into your rectum, either to hide as contraband or as a way to administer drugs. Since an autopsy concluded that the level of fentanyl in Floyd’s blood was higher than the average level of fentanyl in overdose victims, it’s reasonable to suggest that’s what he meant by “hooping.” It doesn’t make sense that one would start foaming at the mouth by inserting a small pistol in your rectum, but then again, I wouldn’t know because I’ve never tried it."

The officers had called the ambulance long before he was dead. If George Floyd had co-operated, he might be alive - but there are so many things he did wrong that it's hard to speculate.

[paul emery]

George

Can you provide documentation as to the number of BLM protestors on Sunday were "imported" and the group that organized their transport and handled communications.

[Gregory]

SO 1040am

Silly me, I thought "hooping" was a reference to basketball. In fact,thinking some more, I still think it was a basketball reference.

Virtually all of the events held out by BLM as needing justice before they'll allow peace would have been avoided by the 'victim' had they just decided not to fight the authority telling them to stop the scat they're doing.

One big exception... the tragic slaying of Breonna Taylor by cops executing a "No-knock" warrant. No Knock warrants are evil. The mayor of Louisville has banned them in his city now, and their Senator Rand Paul has introduced a bill to do the same in any federal jurisdiction or by any police department that accepts federal money.

This has been an evil for a long time... and even filthy rich heirs to a fortune made in toilet paper have been killed in no-knock raids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Donald_Scott

[paul emery]

This is part of the statement by Nevada City Police Chief Chad Ellis concerning the Sunday incident in Nevada City:

"Over the course of the day, I have had the opportunity to review several different video clips of the conflict provided to me by the community. I was both appalled and disappointed by the behavior of the counter-protesters.

The counter-protesters waived the thin blue line flag as a show of support for the police, however the actions and behavior did nothing more than put the community in danger. It appeared they were using the flag to show unity and connection with the police which was a falsehood.

The Nevada City Police Department had 3 officers on duty at the time of the protest. Given the extremely volatile situation the officers attempted to manage the crowd and prevent any additional escalated violence. During the incident officers were instructing individuals to contact the police and file reports at a later time as they were inundated with the situation at hand.

The aggressive behavior by the counter-protesters towards the Black Lives Matter protesters which comprised of many women and children will absolutely not be tolerated. I also met with a Nevada City Council member today who was present at the incident and assaulted by the hostile counter-protesters."

Here is a link to his entire statement:

https://yubanet.com/regional/statement-by-nevada-city-police-chief-chad-ellis/

[Scott O]

Gregory 11:15 - 'hooping' is a new one to me as well, before I read the article.
And yes - I've complained about no-knocks as a process that was bound from the beginning to cause needless deaths. I can't believe they're still using them.
If Breonna Taylor had been white, you wouldn't even have heard her name. The leftys should explain why they only protest against police misconduct when the victim is non-white.
Remember - "justice for everyone or it's justice for no one."
All lives matter.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 111pm - Do you think it's time to move such a 'national dialogue' about the country's future off the streets, and into a calmer environment with a table and chairs?

[Todd Juvinall]

So if the BLM is violent everywhere else in America and loots and burns and kills police and residents, Mr. Ellis is surprised that locals might feel the need to be aggressive to defend the place? Sorry, that does no wash and appears to be an apology for the BLM thugs. Sort of reminds me of a person in the zoo goading the tigers and is surprised when it jumped the fence and ate him. Don't mess with the tigers. Lastly, maybe the aggressive locals kept the thugs from burning down Nevada City? How would he react to that? As we have seen elsewhere women, white women Millenials, have been the perps of violence.

[Gregory]

golly, Punch... no arrests at the time?

you keep us up to date with any real movement.

[paul emery]

George

Sure. This is a time of social unrest that needs wise and careful leadership to resolve in a peaceful and productive manner. Do you think Trump is up to the task as our President?

[Robert Cross]

Here come the brownshirts.....Yes "L", it is fascism but it is not coming from the left as you have been led to believe by the wealthy elite behind the whole thing. The thugs were wearing "trump" regalia not
Biden or Obama or anything resembling or intimating left leaning ideology.

George 1:27 --I think people on both sides of the street are tired of 'table and chair' discussions that go nowhere. That is why they are out in the streets in the first place. The average American, I bet, has more in common with those they perceive as being on the opposite side of the street. The children of spoiled children greed mongers and their hired politicians and their media pundit goons seek to divide not unite... and so far have been very successful as current events suggest. The focus needs to change from differences to similarities in any discussion of a way out of this mess. "Getting to Yes" and Collaborative Problem solving approaches are better than bullying.

[Gregory]

Bobbie 212pm

If Biden/Harris lose to the GOP ticket, will you accept Trump/Pense as the lawfully chosen heads of the executive branch of the federal government?

[Scott O]

Paul 1:58 - "This is a time of social unrest that needs wise and careful leadership to resolve in a peaceful and productive manner."
'Social unrest' is actually left-wing violence condoned by the Dems. It is a poorly disguised ruse to further the 'get rid of Trump' agenda. One of the founders of BLM actually stated that in an interview.
There are surely lots of side issues and there's always a gaggle of anarchists primed for trouble, but really - this is mostly just TDS. It will continue as long as Trump is in office.

[Scott O]

Booby X 2:12 - "The average American, I bet, has more in common with those they perceive as being on the opposite side of the street."
Hah - I'll take that bet.
Anyday.
The 'average' American has little use for spoiled brats destroying and looting.

[Scott O]

Booby X 2:12 - " The focus needs to change from differences to similarities in any discussion of a way out of this mess. "Getting to Yes" and Collaborative Problem solving approaches are better than bullying."
Great comedy from the left.
This sort of blather is exactly what I expect from idiots like Booby.
Nothing but empty platitudes.
And just what are our 'similarities' Booby?
I've got 2 ears and a nose - you?
Look dude - we've been around this barn before several times on this blog and you leftys have always run off and hid.
You want to talk?
Fine.
First principles. Your idea of what a govt should do.
And not do.
And if your basic principles aren't the same as mine, please give me the names of these evil-doers who caused us to have differences.

[Paul Emery]

Seems like nobody is supporting Trumps ability to lead us in this time of social unrest. Was not the Tea Party formed out of social unrest?

[Scott O]

Yeah, Paul - the local Tea Party went into town and started looting and burning.
Great parallel.

[Gregory]

punchy 245pm

It sounds like a majority of folks posting here are supporting Trump's ability to lead (or in my case, I'm supporting him as the only president we have at the moment). You and Boobie are the outliers.

President Harris? What will the Progessives think about that?

[Scott O]

Paul seems to think the folks out there rioting and looting have some sort of viable, coherent set of issues that CAN be dealt with by reasonable conversation and presidential leadership.
Good luck with that.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 August 2020 at 02:45 PM

Seems like nobody is supporting Trumps ability to lead us in this time of social unrest. Was not the Tea Party formed out of social unrest?

Most of us don't need to be "hand held" quite as much as those of you on the progressive side Punch.

[fish]

Posted by: Wine Aunt | 11 August 2020 at 02:12 PM

Here come the brownshirts…..

You can always be counted on to emote the hardest Bertie……!

[L]

Rx @ 2:12- my reference wasn't to yesterday's dust-up in Nirvana Silly. It was to the BLM and Antifa thugs who are, without exception, creatures of the extreme left.

My theory is that their chief bankroller, good old George Soros, fell truly in love with his first employers, the Nazis of Budapest where he did faithfully serve their interests. Apparently he was much impressed with their efficiency and brought his admiration with him when he somehow was admitted to the US instead of serving a term for collaboration with the Hitler crowd. Funny how that happened...

[Bill Tozer]

Daily quotes

https://patriotpost.us/articles/72646-tuesday-short-cuts-2020-08-11?
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Scott O sez”
“Paul seems to think the folks out there rioting and looting have some sort of viable, coherent set of issues that CAN be dealt with by reasonable conversation and presidential leadership.
Good luck with that.”

Yep, in Chicago the looting frenzy was portrayed by one defender of the Biden voters who driving cars through store front windows and loading up on Louis Vuitton bags as “reparations”. Us deplorables have simpler tastes.

https://patriotpost.us/memes/72635-you-aint-democrat-2020-08-11?

https://patriotpost.us/memes/72637-thats-racist-2020-08-11?

[Todd Juvinall]

Who is this pal of yours Paul Emery? Called Ryan Brpdoe of Clark Street in NC? He is posting some really nasty stuff on your pal Keachie's VENTS FB page. Glad to see you support that slander just as I suspected.

[Paul Emery]

Never heard of him Todd. What makes you think he's my friend?

By the way word is you were driving one of the cars with the QAnnon flags Sunday night.

[Todd Juvinall]

Oops, named Brodie. Actually Paul Emery you are diverting your participation in carrying a BLM banner on Broad Street. Why would you do that as a so called "journalist"?

[Don Bessee]

Ya as if we didnt know it -

Black Lives Matter holds rally in Chicago to support those arrested after looting, unrest
“That is reparations,” a BLM organizer said.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/black-lives-matter-holds-rally-chicago-support-arrested-looting-unrest

Washington Post accused of ‘sounding like Antifa's publicist’ with glowing feature on Portland protesters

https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-antifa-publicist-glamorous-feature-portland

;-)

[paul emery]

Who saw me carrying a banner on Broad Todd? I wasn't even in town that night. Can you document your charge Todd?

[George Rebane]

RobertC 212pm - You can go beyond empty blather with your "needs to change from differences to similarities" by adding some useful similarities to the list I started here -
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2020/08/e-pluribus-unum-still-really.html

[Don Bessee]

The lesser of 4 evils? Really -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/11/flashback-kamala-harris-i-believe-biden-accusers/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/11/kamala-harris-4th-most-liberal-senator-backed-green-new-deal-medicare-for-all/

Bernie supporters, progressives trash Biden-Harris ticket: A 'middle finger' to the base

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-supporters-progressives-journalists-trash-biden-harris-ticket

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-bidens-vp-pick-scrutiny-prosecutor

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Will she pay reparation's? -

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/07/10/kamala-harris-ancestors-owned-slaves-too/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

“I wasn't even in town that night.”

Probably up in Portland sitting in the back of the van loading nails into commercial fireworks. You know, the Biden voters.

[Scott O]

Don B. 5:27 - No, she wants you to pay reparations.

[Scott O]

George 4:49 - Good try. We've been there before many times. They can't put anything in writing because 'it depends'. It's all situational.

[Walt]

So Emery is a BLM ... OK O ponytail,, answer this.. If "black lives matter",,,, does yours? Better be careful how you answer that.

[Don Bessee]

Its who she is -

Flashback: Kamala Harris compared ICE to KKK in Senate hearing

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-ice-kkk-senate-hearing

;-)

[Walt]

I wonder if she "swallowed for Biden" to get that job too.
She did for Willie Brown to "move on up".

[Walt]

Come out of the basement Emery!! Hear Cammy?
She wants Trump banned from Twitter....... There is a word for that... wait a minute,, it will come to me,,,, Oh.. YES!! It's called,, FASCISM! Now how bout that??
Look at the bright side... Biden didn't pick "MAD" Maxine Waters.

You still have to to answer up.. Are you PRO "BLM"? If you are, that makes you anti cop. Make your stand Emery.
I am PRO POLICE.. I amd PRO law and order. YOU?
You should know how this works by now.... If you refuse to specify,, it will be understood your NOT.

[paul emery]

Walt

Gregory supporting cops that kneel on peoples necks till they are strangled to death after pleading numerous times "I can not breathe" is not being pro cop it is being pro thug.

[Scott O]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-biden-harris-hollow-ticket
I think Carlson is correct to a point but he misses the fact that there's a reason the Dems want 'hollow' candidates. That's why they want hollow people. Why have principles or core beliefs? It just gets in the way. Put the moistened finger in the wind and go with it. It turns out Rice pissed off too many of the wrong people. Including (mostly) Clinton.
Harris does have a lot of baggage to unload. Let's see how the 'tough top cop of CA' sings a tune now.
The song until election day will be 'reparations'!
Votes don't come cheap these days.

[paul emery]

Walt, Don, Scott

Nevada City's Chief of police just wrote “I was appalled by the behavior of the counter-protesters.”

Do you support the Chief in his investigation into what happened Sunday Night?

[Walt]

Still on that load of shit? The drugs kicked in and he OD-ED.
Only you (well not really) will hold all cops responsible for the actions of one.
Yup, a NeoCommie through and through.. Thanks for informing us of your anti police stance. the notation has been made.
Will KVMR like that news?

[Scott O]

Paul 7:38 - Would you like to have me slander you as well?
Lay off it.
If you're too frightened to honestly answer a question, just admit it.

[Walt]

Old geezers are thug bait Emery,, They don't care about political affiliation. What makes you believe your immune from a Nevada City tweeker looking for a quick score?
Now I wonder how fast you would be looking for a cop to do justice? Oh.. Wait! That would be hypocritical.
Yaa.... Chew on that one for a while.

[Scott O]

Paul 7:43 - "Do you support the Chief in his investigation into what happened Sunday Night?"
Investigate all he wants - when have I said anything to the contrary?
I saw the vid. Idiots on both sides having a tussle.
The only ones that got trouble were looking for it.
When are you going to answer questions, Paul?

[Barry Pruett]

Kimala Harris. Too good to be true. She annoys the hell out of nearly every woman that I know. 😂😂🤷🏻‍♂️

[Gregory]

punchy 738pm

I don't support the former Officer Chauvin... at best, he's guilty of depraved indifferencebut not murder in the 2nd. But if they go for murder 2, they may end up with nothing and then the BLM monster will really be mad.

But the whole excuse for the recent BLM excess is a lie. Floyd was dying from a fentanyl overdose from before the cops showed up.

I realize that is completely outside the realm of possibility by todays friscoid Democratic Party, but those are the facts. Now, think back to all the other times I hit you with an opinion that you hadn't even considered... was I right or was I wrong. Hmmm?

[paul emery]

Walt writes "The drugs kicked in and he OD-ED." 7:44
So Walt believes that Floyd died of an OD and was not strangled. Thanks for the clarification.

[Scott O]

Oh lord - just wait until the trial. I read the piece in Nat Rev - 'depraved indifference' will be the best they can do. There's zero evidence of racial animus, zero evidence of intent - he F'ed up in procedure while the perp died of an overdose.
George was complaining he couldn't breathe before his neck was compressed.
Paul can't process facts but the court can.
At least the trial won't happen until after the election.
Let the fun begin.

[Walt]

Yes Emery,, off duty cops are reading who says what. Who is on their side and who is not. Hummmm "if" a local sheriff deputy happened to peruse these pages,,, care to ponder the opinion said cop would make of you? and Me,, for that matter?
Now how bout all the anti cop posts on The Union slime pages?
It's what I would do. Or anyone else with half a lick of sense.

So you go right ahead with your anti cop lean. Justify it any way you care to. Just don't ever ask for their help to save your sorry ass.

[Walt]

YES EMERY!!! THE SOMEBITCH DIED FROM AN OVERDOSE!!!!
SORRY THAT'S NOT POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT FOR YOU!!!
I SEE YOU APPROVE OF KANGAROO COURTS!!

[Scott O]

Paul - "So Walt believes that Floyd died of an OD and was not strangled."
That's what the evidence suggests so far.
What evidence do you have of the contrary?
Has there been a verdict? I wasn't aware the trial had even started.
Paul seems to be looking for a rope and and a tree.
Are trials in a court of law too tiresome for you, Paul?

[Walt]

(large type for the visually challenged Emery)

[Walt]

Oh Almost forgot... Emery rule #19 No conviction no crime.
The officer has NOT BEEN CONVICTED Emery!!
Rules get changed as needed? Move that goal post. That's the Fascist way.

[Scott O]

Barry - yeah, that's a good point. Girlies that sleep their way up in the world don't make a good impression with housewives or women in the work force.
I used to read the Chron darn near every day back then. It will be a real hoot to see them try to re-write the history of Ms Harris.

[Walt]

Emery still dodging the questions.... Nothing new there.

Now how many disparaging comments were thrown at the BLACK Pro cop man? Does HIS "Black life" matter? Or does that only apply if you vote Liberal?

[scenes]

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/08/11/28726021/district-attorney-mike-schmidt-to-limit-criminal-charges-against-protesters

"Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt has announced a new policy that will limit the types of charges pressed against protesters in Portland.
Schmidt announced at a Tuesday press conference that he is only pressing charges against protesters arrested for assault, theft, or property damage. That means he'll be dropping lesser charges that the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) often arrests protesters for, such as rioting, disorderly conduct, and "interfering with a peace officer"—a catch-all term for not following orders or bothering a cop. The policy will apply to all protest charges dating back to May 29, when the protests began."

https://www.amazon.com/Maos-Last-Revolution-Roderick-MacFarquhar/dp/0674027485

"Crucial in making possible the widespread mob violence of the autumn of 1966 was Central Document Zhongfa [1966] 410; Mao ratified it and it was issued on August 22. Consisting of a report to Mao and the party center from the Ministry of Public Security titled “Mobilizing the Police to Suppress the Student Movement Is Strictly Prohibited,” it ruled that
not under any pretext is it permitted to mobilize the police to interfere with
or suppress the student movement . . . the police, we reaffirm, must stay out of
the schools . . . and not arrest anyone in the course of the movement, unless
that person is a counterrevolutionary of whom it can be proved that he has
murdered, practiced arson, poisoned people, engaged in sabotage, or stolen
state secrets and so forth, in which case he should be dealt with according to
the law."

[Scott O]

Walt 8:17 - It's called 'situational ethics'. Please refrain from the crude term 'moving the goal post'.

[Walt]

@ Scott 8:26
🙄🤷‍♀️🤦‍♂️

[Don Bessee]

The voter suppression machine she be to the left and bernie bros and has such fine judgement like this. She got jucied -

https://www.foxnews.com/us/flashback-kamala-harris-jussie-smollett-an-attempted-modern-day-lynching

;-)

[Don Bessee]

How group think destroyed generations of free thought -

A new study that was published Harvard lecturer Pippa Norris claims that leftist professors are unlikely to understand the experience of their conservative colleagues. According to Norris, leftist professors are more likely to believe that “there has been little or no change in respect for open academic debate and pressures to be politically correct.” In 2018, a separate study revealed that nearly 80 percent of academic departments at top universities are exclusively staffed by Democratic faculty members.

According to a report by Campus Reform, a new study out of Harvard University suggests that leftist professors are unlikely to appreciate the significance of the ideological imbalance on American college campuses. In fact, many of the professors deny that universities around the country are facing a free speech crisis.

Breitbart News reported in May 2018 that nearly 80 percent of academic departments at America’s top colleges have zero Republican professors. The study analyzed the political leanings of over 8,000 tenure-track professors at America’s top 51 colleges.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/11/harvard-research-leftist-profs-dont-believe-universities-face-free-speech-crisis/

;-)

[Scott O]

scenes 8:25 - In all fairness - maybe he knows what judge they would have appeared in front of. Why spend all the money to prosecute and see the judge just throw all the charges out?
Just sayin' - I don't actually know, but I've seen it happen.
He only has so much budget for the year and prosecutions cost money.
I'm not happy either.
The power to prosecute can be the power to destroy and the wholesale failure to prosecute can cause the public to lose faith in the system.
If he's an elected official, the public can vote their interests.
What will end up happening is the quality of their police will diminish to nothing more than ex-droogies looking for a bit of the old ultra-violence or a bunch of useless donut dunkers at the coffee shop.

[scenes]

re: ScottO@8:56PM.

He just started the job.

https://multco.us/multnomah-county/news/meet-multnomah-countys-new-district-attorney-mike-schmidt

In other news.

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/08/11/ronald-mcdonald-house-near-lurie-childrens-hospital-was-among-looters-targets/

"Vandals struck the facility at 211 E. Grand Ave. near Lurie Children’s Hospital as families were sleeping inside. Several windows were smashed, and the front door had to be boarded up.

For a while, residents were placed on lockdown while the commotion was happening right outside."

[Scott O]

scenes - He was a school teacher? Looks to be a soy-boy. Probably just incompetent. That county gets what it deserves.

[Bill Tozer]

REPORT: Chicago Prosecutor Dismissed Thousands Of Felony Cases Including Gun Crimes Cases

According to the Tribune, Foxx’s office has dismissed “thousands” of felony cases, including gun cases, sex assault cases, attacks on police officers, and even homicides. In all, “25,183 people had their felony cases dismissed” per the Trib.

00:0500:00

00:29
“[T]he Tribune found that Foxx’s higher rates of dropped cases included people accused of murder, shooting another person, sex crimes, and attacks on police officers — as well as serious drug offenses that for decades have driven much of Chicago’s street violence,” the outlet said.

“For the three-year period analyzed, Foxx’s office dropped 8.1% of homicide cases … Under Foxx, the office dropped 9.5% of felony sex crime cases,” the Tribe notes. “Foxx’s office also increased the rate of dropped cases for aggravated battery and for aggravated battery with a firearm. And under Foxx, the percentage of cases dropped for defendants accused of aggravated battery of a police officer more than doubled, from 3.9% to 8.1%.”

The dropped cases, of course, include that of Jussie Smollett, who inked an unofficial “plea deal” with Foxx’s office just weeks after being charged with seventeen counts of lying to police investigators, stemming from Smollett’s claim that he was the target of a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood in January of 2019.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-chicago-prosecutor-dismissed-thousands-of-felony-cases-including-gun-crimes-cases

Hmmm. George Soros loves that Chicago prosecutor. So does Michelle Obama. Soros loves that sugar almost as much he loves the pony soldier dog faced bitch Wretched Gretchen, Gov of Michigan.

‘Whitmer Imposes Implicit Bias Training on State Workers’
But according to the Democrats' gross narrative, only the white ones are "racist."
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It’s all the Republicans fault.
https://patriotpost.us/memes/72636-lori-lightfoot-2020-08-11?

[Bill Tozer]

BLM ADVOCATES LOOTING
The American press has a long history of sanitizing radical leftist movements. These days the main beneficiary of the press’s airbrush is Black Lives Matter, a racist, Marxist organization that sponsors, in reporters’ words, “mostly peaceful” riots. As with other far-left groups, BLM does not hide its true colors. It just relies on the press to misreport them.

Last night’s looting in Chicago was horrific. No respectable organization could defend such rampant criminality. But Black Lives Matter Chicago advocates looting and more looting, as the Chicago Sun-Times reports:

“The mayor clearly has not learned anything since May, and she would be wise to understand that the people will keep rising up until the [Chicago Police Department] is abolished and our Black communities are fully invested in,” [Black Lives Matter Chicago] said in a statement.
***
On Monday morning, CPD Supt. David Brown said the shooting led to a wave of overnight looting downtown and on the Near North Side that resulted in two people being shot, over 100 arrests and 13 injuries to officers. Though Brown characterized the looting as “pure criminality,” Black Lives Matter Chicago said those involved were actually protesting.

“Over the past few months, too many people — disproportionately Black and Brown — have lost their jobs, lost their income, lost their homes, and lost their lives as the city has done nothing and the Chicago elite have profited,” the group’s statement reads. “When protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not ‘our’ city and has never been meant for us.”

BLM made its advocacy of looting explicit with this banner at the group’s demonstration yesterday:....”

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/blm-advocates-looting.php

[The Estonian Fox]

Bill T @11:07 PM

I think I went to the wrong web address.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/blm-advocates-luting.php

Took me to a different BLM website, also complaining about losing their jobs: Black Luting Musicians. Their sign was similar though:
"Our futures have been luted from us. Lute back."

At last, some peaceful comments from a BLM group.

[Barry Pruett]

I am so proud of Ed and Sue for standing up to county staff and informing them who is in charge. The people. On another note, somebody is going to get a earful soon. 😂😂

[Todd Juvinall]

Hey Paul Emery I heard the BLM are going to return and if you work it right you can loot some stores for those goods you never were able to get on your paycheck. So get ready. And the police chief of NC won't pay you any heed.LOL!

[paul emery]

Todd

You are stating publicly that I am going commit a crime for my own personal gain.

[fish]

Uh oh......sounds like somebody might be sitting this one out......

'It's the middle finger to BLM and progressives': Outraged left turns on the Biden-Harris ticket and slams Joe's choice of self-styled 'top cop' and her stringent record as California AG

If only there was some way to track what people were thinking about this. You know....a random sample of people could be called and their response tabulated so a statistical analysis could be performed on their responses.

Oh well, it's probably not necessary and who knows how accurate the results would be......never mind!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8618433/Outraged-left-turns-Biden-Harris-ticket-slams-Joes-choice-self-styled-cop.html

[Don Bessee]

They really are coming for you -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/12/portland-residents-worry-as-protests-spread-to-residential-neighborhoods/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

A drop of golden sunshine.

ATLANTA PROSECUTOR LOSES BIG IN PRIMARY

“I’m happy to report that Paul Howard, Fulton County, Georgia’s district attorney, has gone down to crushing defeat in his primary race. Howard, who has been the DA for more than two decades, lost his runoff race with Fani Willis by more than 45 points.”

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/atlanta-prosecutor-loses-big-in-primary.php

[Todd Juvinall]

So Paul Emery you are getting ready eh?

[Bill Tozer]

Schools to reopen? Whatz up with dat?

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tucked the posture shift into a Saturday response to Trump’s latest executive orders, saying “these announcements do…nothing to reopen schools,” as if Democrats have been all along supporting school reopenings instead of the opposite. Just a few weeks ago, Pelosi was on TV bashing Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for encouraging school reopenings, saying, falsely, “Going back to school presents the biggest risk for the spread of the coronavirus. They ignore science and they ignore governance in order to make this happen.”

What gives? For one thing, New York’s richest people have fled during the lockdowns. If their kids’ tony public schools don’t offer personal instruction or look likely to maintain the chaos of rolling lockdown brownouts, those wealthy people have better choices. They can stay in their vacation houses or newly bought mansions in states that aren’t locked down. They can hire pod teachers or private schools.

And the longer they stay outside New York City and start to make friends and get used to a new place, the less likely they are to ever return. Cuomo is well aware of this.

“I literally talk to people all day long who are now in their Hamptons house who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house, and I say, ‘You got to come back! We’ll go to dinner! I’ll buy you a drink! Come over, I’ll cook!’” Cuomo revealed in a recent news conference. “They’re not coming back right now. And you know what else they’re thinking? ‘If I stay there, I’ll pay a lower income tax,’ because they don’t pay the New York City surcharge.”

Reopening means swimming against their anti-Trump base and teachers union donors’ full-court press to amp school funding and slash teacher duties. That means the below-surface financial and political pressure Cuomo, Pelosi, and Schumer are under to make this kind of a reversal must be huge. It’s likely coming from not only internal polling but also early information about just how many people have left New York and New York City, as well as interpersonal intelligence from their influential social circles.“

https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/11/why-democrats-have-started-to-cave-on-reopening-schools/
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And since I am on schools....one lady’s opinion

‘Deep Inside, Rioters Are Angry That They Never Learned Anything But Lies’
Our institutions have stolen critical knowledge from young people and replaced it with the poison of identity politics and political correctness.

“I suspect many members of today’s street mobs have a secret in common: At some deep level, they know they are awash in ignorance of core knowledge. Claiming to be “woke” is cover for the ignorance educrats have systematically instilled in them.

For decades, leftist academics have attacked the study of history and real humanities, and now an Illinois legislator has openly called to abolish the study of history. Recent episodes of Bible burning in the streets of Portland indicate the trashing of America’s cultural memory is well past the boiling point.”

https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/10/deep-inside-rioters-are-angry-that-they-never-learned-anything-but-lies/

[Bill Tozer]

Sound famaliar?

'Residents of Chicago Neighborhood Eject Black Lives Matter Protesters'

"Several activist groups had organized a march leading to the 7th police precinct in Englewood. However, an organizer later told Fox 32 that groups decided to leave after confrontations with nearby residents left them feeling “unsafe.”

If you ain’t from Englewood, get the f*** out of here!” resident Darryl Smith shouted at the protesters. Residents engaged in pushing matches with some of the protesters."

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/residents-of-chicago-neighborhood-eject-black-lives-matter-protesters/

I don't FEEL safe, lol

[Gregory]

OK... looking at George Floyd's autopsy report, he had ingested a bunch of fentanyl, some say larger than a fatal dose even for folk with a history of use.

Chauvin, when he arrived on the scene, apparently called for the ambulance/EMT expecting an overdose, and kept Floyd down. Not by strangulation (Punchy has that wrong) but by a compression of his right side carotid artery with his knee. The left carotid is enough to keep the brain alive. It doesn't affect the breathing, doesn't compress the airway.

I've not seen any mention of the drugs administered by the EMTs... if they didn't give him a dose or three of narcan/noxolone, we have a place to point fingers, not that the lack of a treatment outweigh the responsibility we all have of not taking fatal doses of anything.

I'm now thinking Chauvin may be blameless, in a criminal sense. But the country and the world are convinced they witnessed a black man being strangled.

[Don Bessee]

Its about the kids, no its not -

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/08/12/ronald-mcdonald-house-was-one-of-the-chicago-looters-targets/

;-)

[Walt]

Better pass the memo on to Emery..No one else will.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/12/democrats-media-nyt-george-floyd-riots-violence-portland-chicago-seattle/

"Democrats and their media organs are finally admitting the riots are not only violent but could aid in President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts."

So keep up organizing those protests Emery.. Trump thanks you.

[Walt]

Here we go again with the protests.. Cops on the way to Brunswick and Sutton. LIBS causing hell with traffic again?

[Don Bessee]

Not so fast comrades, you have a federal consent decree to live up to -

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-police-cuts-potential-federal-pushback

;-)

[Todd Juvinall]

I got a call that if you plugin ANTIFA.com it takes you to Joe Biden's site. I tried it just now and it has been taken down and under construction. Those hackers are quick.

[Don Bessee]

Those mutha mullahs are back at it -

https://www.foxnews.com/world/iranian-forces-commandeer-tanker-persian-gulf

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Thats going to be a problem for the socialist dems and their new red guard -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/12/donald-trump-promotes-v-shaped-economic-recovery-during-coronavirus-pandemic/

;-)

[Scott O]

If you're bored and want real comedy, head over to Crabb's place and check out the comments.
Crabb has joined Emery on the fainting couch over the dust up on Broad St.
"...while Nevada City police stand around with their thumbs up their arses."
Well gee Bob - we thought the police were the problem.
It gets even better - "How this ever got so out of control is unforgivable, and I expect heads will roll if there are no arrests."
I saw way worse in jr high. A little push and shove. Stupid on both sides and everyone that wanted trouble got it.
Crabb and the left have absolutely no idea. None.
If they think a bit of argy-bargy on the town square is bad, wait til they get a taste of what middle America will eventually do.
Crabb sits idly by while the BLM banner is raised over riot, arson, looting, mayhem and destruction on a large scale and then cries big crocodile tears because there was a little push and shove in NC.

[Walt]

Lets get it right Scott,, Emery and Crabby are vaperlocked the Right is fighting back.. "WE" ain't supposed to be doing that.

[scenes]

"Well gee Bob - we thought the police were the problem."

The hullaballoo is something to behold. When is the last time that the NCPD appointed a special investigator because somebody hit somebody? Look at the craziness because somebody selectively posted a still image of an NCPD officer walking along with the evil people.

The great irony of our age (or one of them) is this:

. AntifaBLM works particularly well when law enforcement is used to protect their actions.
. AntifaBLM wants to get rid of law enforcement.

Heck, you'd think they'd be thrilled. The entire point of these 'protests' is to elicit a response. If you quietly marched up and down Greenhorn Rd., no one would care and there'd be no Nazis to boycott, get fired, or be outraged about. At a gut level, this is all about the addictive nature of outrage.

[Gregory]

Up top, GR wrote,"Did any of them ever take a critical thinking course in journalism school?"

Of course they did, but Critical Thinking since the 60's has been the Marxist inspired postmodern dialectic version, devoid of the logic demanded by the white male patriarchy. In their world they CAN have their own opinions and their own facts.

[scenes]

re: Gregory@9:06AM Aug 13, Year Zero.

It would be an interesting exercise to rewrite AP 'newscraft' in a just-the-facts format. Perhaps there's a place out there for an anonymous group (due to copyright) to put up a website containing that.

It would probably cut the word count in half, but then there'd be more space for actual quotes. Associated Press would do well to look at their archives for how articles were written in days of yore.

Example. I'm thinking about how a bonafide news person would rewrite that.

https://hosted.ap.org/theunion/article/14a2ceda724623604cc8d8e5ab9890ed/trump-widespread-mail-voting-hard-without-funding-usps

[Bill Tozer]

True colors. Feed the beast first and foremost. All other considerations are secondary.

REPORT: Minneapolis Forcing Riot-Wrecked Businesses To Pay Property Taxes Before Getting Permits To Rebuild

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-minneapolis-forcing-riot-wrecked-businesses-to-pay-property-taxes-before-getting-permits-to-rebuild

[George Rebane]

NC police doing a "complete investigation" of anything makes one recall Comedy Central and Keystone Kops. But on a more serious note, has anyone run across any data on the composition of the Nevada City BLM demonstrators? How many were locals vs the number of imports? A good place to begin a complete investigation.

[Don Bessee]

Bad news for the TDS set, we warned you it would end up like 1968 -

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/08/13/poll-voters-say-growing-level-of-violent-protest-is-important-their-vote-november/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Did hell freeze over? -

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/08/13/trump-announces-peace-deal-between-israel-uae-full-normalization/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Get Woke go broke -

The NFL has not yet played a game, but if the first episode of the fan’s first look at the league this season in any indication, fans are not anxiously anticipating its return.

HBO’s Hard Knocks, has been the show that has given fans the first real glimpse of NFL action for years. However, ratings for this year’s debut drew a mere 273,000 viewers, a massive drop from the 705,000 viewers who tuned-in for last year’s season premier.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/08/13/ratings-crash-for-hbos-hard-knocks/

;-)

[Don Bessee]

Another sport gets a reality check for its self involved players -

“I think it was disgusting. I think it was absolutely disgusting,” Cannon said, according to MLSSoccer.com. “You got fans booing you for people taking a stand for what they believe in. Millions of other people support this cause and we discussed with every other team and the league what we’re going to do and we’ve got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that? Honestly, for lack of a better word, it pissed me off. ... You can’t even have support form your own fans in your own stadium. It’s baffling to me.”

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/fc-dallas-reggie-cannon-blasts-fans-booing-knelt-national-anthem

;-)

[Don Bessee]

The masters of the universe always have a thumb on scale -

Nick Pacilio, the former press secretary to Kamala Harris, recently chosen as former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate, has reportedly secured a communications role at Twitter where he could be part of the decision-making process when censoring tweets by President Donald Trump.

In a recent article, National Review reporter David Harsanyi noted that Nick Pacilio, Kamala Harris’ former press secretary, had been hired to a communications role at Twitter. Pacilio’s hiring was first noticed when he tweeted about the removal of a tweet posted by the official account of President Trump’s re-election campaign.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/13/twitter-hires-former-kamala-harris-press-secretary-nick-pacilio-to-comms-role/

;-)

[scenes]

lol. Perfect.

@JoeBiden had to read from a script when he told @KamalaHarris she was his pick
https://twitter.com/NewsPolitics/status/1293293102069878784

https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/11/bidens-staff-gave-him-a-script-so-hed-know-why-he-was-calling-kamala-harris/

[Paul Emery]

George

Where did you get the information that the protestors were "imported"?

[Paul Emery]

Scenes

At least Joe can read and I'll bet you he can pronounce Yosemite.