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On the Fact that None of the Thousands of Female Survivors of Castro's Torture-Chambers Have Ever Been Interviewed On "The View", "The Talk", or Even On Ms. Winfrey's Oxygen Network
Too busy combating such evils as "mansplaining" and the mythical wage-gap, I guess. http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/14/when-barbara-walters-was-charmed-by-fidel-castro/
On the Fact that When Apartheid Ceased In South Africa and the Black Population Became Enfranchised, Poaching Became a Regular Practice In the Country and the Population of Many Endangered Species Precipitously Fell - https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/thorny_issues/poaching_crisis_in_south_africa
Needless to say, the Apartheid government got zero credit for their solid conservation record (as opposed to the way that the legacy media gushed over the murderous Castro's environmental record which was little more than a slowdown of economic activity) because as we all know, race trumps everything (never minding the fact that the well-being of blacks went up exponentially under white rule and has gone back down under black rule)…...and it forever will, it seems.
Note to British Fascists (Theresa May, Front and Center)
FREE TOMMY ROBINSON
On the Fact that Some Judge In Great Britain Apparently Wants Knife Manufacturers to Make Their Products Duller (so as to Not Be so Lethal When a Knuckle-Dragging Goon Uses One as a Stabbing Device)
Common sense knife reform?
On Rosanne Barr's Show Getting Axed After the Woman Called Obama Ramrod, Valerie Jarrett, an Ape
It was probably a prudent business decision by ABC (being that it was certainly a moronic comment and one bound to scare off sponsors) but being that one of the main cheerleaders in getting Ms. Barr shit-canned was Wanda Sykes, who had previously referred to Trump as an orangutan, I can't help but think that the rules pertaining to this shit remain a wee-bit ill-defined - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYMy4Cy0_TE
On John McCain Now Admitting that the Iraq War Was a Serious Mistake
That is soooooooooooooooo John McCain, a) flip-flopping and b) sticking it to his own party right before kicking the bucket. Of course it would have been much better if he had recognized the idiocy of the venture (as Ron Paul clearly did) prior to arguing for it but if a deathbed confession is the only option that the fellow has at this point, yeah, I'll take it. RIP, John.
On the Fact that if the U.S. Was so Pro-Batista In the 1950s, Then Why Did We Punish the Schmuck with an Arms Embargo, Put Heavy Diplomatic Pressure On Him to Resign, Deny Him Exile In America, and Refuse to Even Allow the Fellow to Set Foot On U.S. Shores?
The straight-to-the-point answer of course is that we weren't......and instead supported Castro. In fact, the only fellow in the Eisenhower administration who strongly opposed Castro was the Ambassador to Cuba, Earl Smith...……….Of course the strongest evidence of America's pro-Castro stance is the fact that the regime was granted diplomatic recognition ALMOST IMMEDIATELY (yeah, good ole Ike and company apparently bought Castro's bullshit about not being a communist, wanting new elections, etc.). But, hey, if you want to continue with this romanticized narrative of Castro standing up to the big, bad Americans (and, yes, we eventually turned on the SOB), who am I to stop you?
On the Israel Versus Gaza Fiasco
I've been quite critical of Israel lately (Netanyahu's constant lies about the Iranian nuclear program, the fact that they're always dragging us into these bullshit conflicts, etc.) but on this one they're more or less in a no-win situation. I mean, do they let hordes of low IQ barbarians storm into their country and terrorize their citizens, or do they use lethal force to stop them and risk global condemnation (or worse; sanctions, etc.)? It's certainly not a decision that I'd want to make and the only advice that I could give Israel at this point would be to build another wall (just like the one on the West Bank) in that while it wouldn't stop the rocket attacks or the tunnel digging, it would avoid a lot of what we've been seeing on the news recently......which would be positive.
On Tommy Robinson Getting Arrested and Thrown In Prison by British Goons Simply for Covering an Event In a Public Space (the Bullshit Charge Being "Breaching the Peace")
And to add to the tyranny, the fascistic judge who sentenced Tommy also instituted a media blackout in which sites like the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Independent, RT, and even the BBC deleted all of their articles pertaining to the issue. This is some real scary shit, folks, and if the politicians on this side of the pond are even contemplating something like this, they probably need to reconsider and think about those 300,000,000 firearms still in circulation...….If you're catching my drift...……………………………………………………………………….P.S. And, yes, the event that Mr. Robinson was covering was the trial of that grooming gang that raped, assaulted, and molested HUNDREDS of young girls (a horrible sequence of events that the British government did its best to sweep under the carpet because they didn't want to upset the Muslims)…….For the record.
On the Fact that that Idiot, Rachel Maddow, Actually Asked James Clapper (the Heavyweight Champion of Liars but I Digress) if Any of that Ludicrous Bought and Paid for Piss Dossier Has Been Proven NOT to Be True
Is this woman seriously that moronic as to think that charges against a citizen don't have to be proven (beyond a reasonable doubt) and that it is up to the person being charged to DISprove them? I mean, I could just as easily spout off that it hasn't been disproven that Ms. Maddow had bangin' hot sex with a tranny orangutan last night and so therefor I'm going to continue to imply that the chick did (providing that I had the same lack of morals, that is)…….You see what I'm sayin'?
On the Fact that the Guy Who England Jailed Last Year for Leaving Several Bacon Sandwiches Outside of a Mosque Was Recently Found Dead Near His Jail Cell - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4075328/Man-jailed-leaving-bacon-sandwiched-outside-mosque-dead-prison-half-way-12-month-sentence.html
Gee, I wonder who offed the guy. Something tells me that his name might be Muhammed (this while 'ole Theresa May continues to sleep like a puppy).
On the Fact that You Apparently Need Racial Sensitivity Training to Pour a Cup of Coffee These Days
And all because those two clowns were loitering in that Philadelphia Starbucks (not buying anything and taking up a table that paying customers could have used), were asked to leave a) by the management and b) by the police, and refused to comply. Unreal (the fact that the country has become so utterly cucked that it's mind-boggling at this point).
On the Fact that Leftists Like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer Are Seemingly Reserving More Caustic Verbiage for the NRA than They Are for MS-13, a Slope-Headed Goon-Squad that Murders People for the Most Frivolous of Reasons (Many of the Victims Being Minorities Themselves)
Look, I get it. The NRA can be a little unyielding at times but to hammer those folks (6,000,000 law-abiding U.S. citizens) more than you do an outfit that makes al Qaeda look tame and civilized - yeah, I don't know, maybe that boner for hating Trump has gotten a wee-bit too rigid.
On the Fact that it Was the Often-Maligned Warren Harding Who Pardoned Eugene V. Debs and it Was the Often Praised Woodrow Wilson Who Tossed the Poor Schmuck Into the Brig In the First Place (Simply for Speaking Out Against Wilson's Moronic War-Whoring - Not Just Into the European Theater but Into Latin-America, too)
Mr. Harding also scored light-years higher when it came to peace, prosperity, and liberty (his one giant wart of course being protectionism) but, alas, he doesn't get much credit for that, either (those court-historians - gotta love 'em!!).
Saturday Joni Break - Edition 14
Almost forgot!!
On the Fact that a Hacker Named, "Big Fish", Recently Claimed to Have Gotten Into the Comet Ping Pong Computer, Found Child Pornography, and Forwarded the Evidence to the D.C. Police Department and the F.B.I.
Here's one of his interviews with YouTuber, Titus Frost, where in it he a) shows documentation of his correspondence with Officer Marcus Stevens of the D.C. Police Department and b) claims that he is willing to dox himself if a legacy media outlet grants him an interview...….Watch the thing and you be the judge...…………………………………………………………………………..P.S. It is also vital to point out that shortly after this guy contacted the authorities we had that Edgar Maddison Welch fiasco where some loser walks into Comet Ping Pong with a gun, fires one bullet, and it magically goes straight through the computer which was locked in a closet.........….Yeah, stew on that one for a while.
On Late-Night Talk-Show Hosts
Not enough uniformity of thought.
On the Fact that Even Though Those Esteemed Philosopher High-Priests Over at Vox (and by, Esteemed Philosopher High-Priests, I of Course Mean, Low-Brow Sophists Who if They Didn't Have Bromides to Spout Would Fall Totally Mute) Have Now Admitted that Trump Was Talking About MS-13 with that Animals Line and Not About Mexican Immigrants In General, Instead of Apologizing and Moving On, They've Decided to Double-Down and Hammer Trump for Dehumanizing These Poor Bastards
Yeah, they apparently believe that by talking this way, Mr. Trump is providing some subliminal message to his vast army of white supremacist supporters that it's perfectly acceptable to go out and slaughter Hispanics (I guess)…...and possibly even minorities in general. Seriously, this is what they believe...……………………………………………………………………...P.S. And it isn't just the absurdity of their reasoning that's a problem here...….in that in addition to that you have the absolute lack of consistency regarding the application of it; the fact that they never blitzed Hillary for calling black criminals "super-predators", for making that moronic and demeaning Gandhi joke, or for labeling 25% of the country "deplorable"...….And they certainly didn't take Black Lives Matter to task for proclaiming that cops were "pigs" (talk about dehumanizing) and that they should be "fried up like bacon". But whatever.
On How the Left Should Handle Trump
a) Work with the guy when you can (infrastructure, family leave, trade with China, and other areas of overlap). b) Oppose his ass when you can't. And c) try to field a better candidate in 2020 (which shouldn't be hard since the last one was one of the most toxic pieces of crap EVER). That would be my advice at least (you know, as opposed to impeaching him over total bullshit, having an aneurysm whenever the fucker speaks, etc., etc.).
On Dariel Alarcon Ramirez
Yeah, this fellow (who was only 17 at the time) was one of Che Guevara's Troops on that fateful day in Bolivia. But instead of cowardly surrendering with a fully loaded pistol like Che did, this youngster fought 'til his ammo ran out and when that happened courageously escaped to Chile (ultimately finding his way back to Cuban soil). Of course, being that Mr. Ramirez eventually defected from Cuba and became one of the Castro regime's sharpest critics, it is highly unlikely that Hollywood leftist directors like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Redford, and Tarantino will be making a movie about HIS LIFE.
On Buffoonish Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Dragging Some Young White Chick On Stage to Sing with Him Only to Browbeat Her When She Sang the Lyric, Nigger (and, Please, Keep In Mind Here that Lamar Penned the Fucking Song)
The thing was either a set-up or an occasion of pure serendipity in that the imbecile got to race-bait in front of his (perplexingly) adoring fans. Either way he looks like a chutzpah-intoxicated dildo and what do you say that we just ignore the schmuck? That's what I'm gonna do.
On the 1940 Movie, "Boom Town", Starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, and Hedy Lamarr
It was a decent film. I just want to know how they met the damned payroll (the fact that it had four of the biggest stars of the studio era all in their prime).
On the 1962 Cuban Plan to Use Scores of Incendiary Devices and 500 Kilos of TNT to Destroy Macy's, Gimbel's, Bloomingdale's, Grand Central Station, and Several Other Targets In New York City
Yeah, this could have potentially been more destructive than 9/11 in that the Castro brothers and Che had planned this for the day after Thanksgiving; the busiest shopping day of the year. Thankfully the F.B.I. had snuffed it out in time and tens of thousands of deaths were averted...……….So, ya' still think that Castro is some sort of great hero, leftists? Please tell me that you don't.
On Insane Race-Baiter, Michael Eric Dyson, Trying to Convince a Recent Debate Audience that "America Is One Giant Safe Space for White People"
What a fucking asshole. I mean, does he really think that those poor white families from the Alleghenies who live hand to mouth live in a safe space? Or how 'bout all of those white students who got passed over by lesser qualified black kids for college admission - were they operating in a safe space? And does Professor Dyson know that when you control for population, a black person is 27 times more likely to violently attack a white person than vice versa (stats from the F.B.I. and major police departments)? Safe space, my ass.
On the Fact that Lesser Well-Off Conservatives from Red States Give a Higher Percentage of Their Income to Charity than Do More Affluent Liberals from Blue States - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/giving-back-_n_3781505.html
So YET AGAIN, it's all about the virtue-signaling; talk a good game but when the rubber hits the road, yeah, not so much...……….Oh well, as long as we have the government, right?
On the Fact that Global Warming Catastrophists Tend to Be Less Eco-Friendly In Their Everyday Lives than Global Warming Skeptics - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494418301488#!
Oh, do I ever love this one; appeal-to-authority droolers like DiCaprio lecturing ordinary folks on their "carbon footprint" while they themselves constantly fly on private jets, party their brains out on 500 foot gas-guzzling yachts, and participate in an industry (the movie business) that bellows out more CO2 than anything this side of the Military Industrial Complex. Talk about leftist hypocrisy, huh?
On the Fact that the Anti-McCarthy Hysteria (Everyone from the Gonzo Reporter, Drew Pearson, to President Eisenhower Himself Joined the Bum's-Rush) Got so Great In 1953 that They Even Attempted to Portray McCarthy Associate, J.B. Matthews, as Some Sort of Anti-Protestant Bigot Whose Ultimate Goal Was to Stain Every Protestant Minister In the U.S. as a Communist Collaborator (Never Minding the Fact that Matthews Wasn't Just a Protestant Himself BUT A FORMER METHODIST MINISTER!!!)
It was one of the greatest smears in American political history (the harsh fact is that Matthews bent over backwards to point out that the vast majority of Protestant pastors were good, decent, patriotic Americans but that apparently wasn't enough for the haters) and the fact that the court historians are still spewing this bullshit narrative is unconscionable (though, no, not surprising).
On Wealthy British Celebrities Like Lily Allen, Bob Geldof, and Benedict Cumberbatch Proclaiming Several Years Ago that They'd Be Willing to Take In Some Migrants and, Yeah, so Far, Not a Single One Has
I keep thinking back to that Seinfeld episode when Jerry told that bitch at the airport, "You're good at taking the reservations, you're just not good at holding them and that's the most important part of the reservation."......Same thing with virtue-signaling in that any moron can say that they stand for something......but if they fail to follow through…….You see what I'm saying?
On the Fact that if it Wasn't for Obama's Bullshit PROMISE Program Which Attempted to Bring Down the Arrest Rates In Various School Districts, Nikolas Cruz Would Have Been Arrested Multiple Times and Because of that Wouldn't Have Been Able to Purchase a Gun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqCy-48A0a4
So it's Obama whose got the blood on his hands and not the NRA. How rich is that?
A little long but gorgeous nonetheless.
On the Fact that (According to Humberto Fontova's Book, "The Longest Romance") the Script for Steven Soderbergh's Biopic, "Che", Was Based Almost Exclusively On Mr. Guevara's Diaries that Had Since Been Republished by Cuba's Propaganda Ministry
Which of course explains why the dude's greatest "accomplishment", the mass slaughter, torturer, and imprisonment of thousands of dissidents, was left on the cutting-room floor. Way to go, Mr. Soderbergh.
On the Fact that Starbucks Has Apparently Decided to Let Anyone Use Their Bathrooms Now
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? I mean, it's not as if bums, freeloaders, drunks, drug addicts, and homeless people are going to go in there and make a mess or anything (causing Starbucks to hire more staff, jack up prices, etc.). And even if they did, so what that the paying customers will have to wait in line to use the bathroom? They're only the customers after all. Yes sir, I say, great job, Starbucks!
On the Fact that Even Though Anybody with an IQ Comparable to that of Ground Chuck Could Have Easily Ascertained that Mr. Trump Was Referring to MS-13 When He Put Forth the Term, Animals, and NOT to Immigrants In General (Just Like When Hillary Used the Phrase, Super-Predators, to Describe Black Gang Criminals and Not All Blacks), All of the Usual Suspects (Leftist Democratic Politicians, Lowbrow Media Outlets Like Salon and Vox, etc.) Are Trying to Convince Us Otherwise In What Is a Patently Obvious Try to Further Their Narrative that Trump Is Some Sort of KKK Hitlerite
It never fucking ends; the scrutiny, the pettiness. And like I said before, there are legitimate criticisms but this shit is just making fair-minded people angry and alienated...….Yeah, like they care.
On Whether or Not I Bludgeoned James Clapper with a Two-by-Four
Not wittingly.
On the Fact that London's Murder Rate Has Recently Surpassed that of New York City's and the Media Is Bending Over Backwards Trying to Come Up with a Reason for it Other than the Obvious One - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/03/londons-murder-rate-higher-than-new-york-citys/480860002/
Oh, and this didn't even include the deaths from terrorism or the disparity would have been even more pronounced...….Way to protect Western Civilization there, England.
On Tommy Robinson Getting Bounced from Twitter Simply for Stating a Damned Fact (Namely that 85 to 90% of the Arrests for Grooming Young Girls Into Rape Gangs Are Muslim Men)
This while they continue to allow Hamas to have an account...….Seriously, Hamas. HAMAS!!
On the Islamic Golden Age
And by, Islamic Golden Age, we of course mean, the wholesale slaughter and enslavement of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans, Zoroastrians, etc.. Just to be clear.
On the Fact that the Left Claims to Be Pro-Science While Simultaneously Attempting to Convince Us that Human Evolution Stopped 100,000 Years Ago as Various Populations Adapted to Markedly Different Environments
When one worships at the altars of radical egalitarianism and radical environmental determinism, could you possibly expect different?
On the Fact that it Now Seems as if Senator Paul Will Vote for Mike Pompeo to Be Trump's Next Secretary of State
Suffice it to say that I'm a wee-bit disappointed in that a) Pompeo is a neocon war-hawk and torture apologist and b) I had truly thought that Rand was the one (and possibly only) individual on Capitol Hill who actually had some principles......and for him to back-peddle and capitulate like this is extremely disheartening. Oh well, at least we still have his father around (no longer in office but still doing solid work with Daniel McAdams on the Liberty Report) to inspire us.
On the Fact that (According to David K. Johnson's Disturbing Book, "The Lavender Scare") the Marshall/Acheson State Department Bounced 99 Suspected Homosexuals from Their Ranks In 1947 Alone
So these bozos were more concerned about gay guys (I guess that they were worried about these dudes being blackmailed or something) than they were with Communist collaborators. How fucking pathetic is that?...…………………………………………………………………………….P.S. And, yes, a certain number of them weren't even gay but rather the victims of rumor and innuendo or perhaps they simply had a friend who was homosexual...….This was the real witch-hunt.
On the Fact that In a Free and Open Society, Criminal Acts Are Investigated, Not Citizens
Yes, there has to be a predicate crime before you go after someone......and, no, being an obnoxious, unstable, ultra thin-skinned, boorish, prevaricating, uncouth, and sexist real estate developer from New Jersey isn't a crime...….At least not yet.
On this Nauseating Image
Nah, there's no incestuous relationship between the leftist media jocks and the Democratic political elite. Where would anyone get an idea like that?
On the Strange Rumor Floating Around the Internet that Hillary Clinton Suffers from the Neurological Disease, Kuru; a Malady Found Predominantly In Cannibal Populations and Which Causes Tremors, Unsteadiness, Weird Eye Movements, etc.
Yes, the battle-axe has been to spirit-cookings (per the Wikileaks releases) but I strongly suspect that the blood consumed at those retarded events is more along the lines of V8 juice than the high octane stuff of Vlad the Impaler (though, yes, with the Clintons, Bushes, etc., you can never be fully sure).
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On NBC News's Recent Hit-Piece On Jordan Peterson, Claiming that the Fellow Is Some Big Alt-Right Avatar While Shamelessly and Preposterously Mischaracterizing Pretty Much Everything About Him
Just when you think that the media can't get anymore vile and idiotic, they pull some creepy stunt like this. And do these assholes simply not realize that literally anybody can hop onto YouTube, watch a couple Peterson videos, and realize within a few minutes that they're lying (Professor Peterson eschews identity politics completely and has actually been a target of the alt-right; guys like Millennial Woes and Henrik Palgrem, for example)? Apparently not, huh?
On the Fact that 56% of White Males In the U.S. (Yes, Those Dreaded White Males) Are Considered Free Speech Absolutists (Meaning that They're Willing to Let Pretty Much Everybody Have a Voice In the Public Square) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC2xU_efdzU
And here are the numbers for the other demographics; black men - 39%, black women - 31%, Hispanic men - 31%, Hispanic women - 23%, Asian men - 39%, Asian women - 32%, Muslims of both genders - 25%. Pretty revealing, huh? And while, yes, I still have some degree of sympathy for the leftist bromide, "fear of the other", if in fact those "others" (a significant percentage of them coming from the third-world these days) are a legitimate threat to your cultural values and way of life, is not a little fear acceptable? I'm just askin'.
On the Fact that No One Knows More About the Iran Nuclear Program than Gareth Porter and Scott Horton and These Two Have Consistently Claimed that the Program Was Always About Electricity and Never About Building a Bomb AND that the Iranians Have Always Been Fully Cooperative with the I.A.E.A. In Terms of Inspections, etc.
And arguing on the other side you have Benjamin Netanyahu who's been lying through his teeth for over a quarter century. Seems like an easy choice to me……………………………………………………………………………….…P.S. And no, you don't need a PhD in engineering or physics to know that uranium enriched at 3.6% (or even at the 20% that Iran did for a while for medical isotope purposes) is nowhere remotely sufficient to make a weapon (you're looking at 90% for that). You just need common sense and the ability to put aside propaganda, that's all.
On the Fact that Rosie O'Donnell Has Apparently Violated Campaign Finance Statutes at Least Five Times - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5695913/Rosie-ODonnell-illegally-exceeded-campaign-contribution-limits.html
And so the slanthead is going to prison, right? I mean, you can't send D'Souza to the big house for dishing out too much moolah and not this leftist imbecile.......At least not in a fair society.
On the Fact that Those Satellite Images of Netanyahu's Which Supposedly Show Where Iran's Secret Nuclear Facility Is Didn't Appear to Show Any Security Personnel Guarding the Damned Thing
Yeah, it's so top secret that even the guards can't find it, I guess.
On the Fact that the Money Given to Iran as a Part of the Nuclear Deal Between Them and the U.S.A. WAS THEIR MONEY (the Assets that Were Frozen by Carter After the Iran Hostage Crisis of '79) and, so, No, the Deal Didn't Cost the U.S. Taxpayers a Fucking Dime
The easiest thing on the planet to fact-check but when you combine neocon and Zionist propaganda with a low-information citizenry, bullshit like this has a tendency to linger. Sadly.
On the Fact that (According to Gareth Porter and Scott Horton - Probably the Two Greatest Foreign Policy Experts In the Country) Not Only Was Iran Eager and Willing to Help the U.S. After 9/11 (the Fact that They Hated al Qaeda as Much as We Did, Wanted to Establish an Economic Relationship with the West, etc.), They Were Even Willing to Stop Providing Support to Hezbollah and Hamas but the Bush Administration Pulled Ryan Crocker from the Negotiations and Decided that Iran Was Just too Evil and Toxic to Deal with
Yeah, as opposed to Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Abrams, Rumsfeld, Adelman, etc. who are just such angels. Give me a fucking break.
On the Fact that Not Only Did the Shiite Army In Iraq (Armed and Trained by the Gold Old U.S.A.) Turn Tail and Run When ISIS Came Barreling Down On 'Em, They Left Pretty Much All of Their Weapons Behind for ISIS to Scoop Up and Use to Murder Noncombatants In Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.
More blood on America's hands. Just what we needed, huh?
On the Fact that the Saudis Are Slaughtering Far More Civilians than Assad Is and Yet Presidents Trump and Macron and Prime Minister May Don't Appear All that Morally Offended by it
Yeah, I guess that not all "red lines" are created equal.
On the Fact that the Two Major Sources for the Claim that President Assad Gassed His Own People Last Month Are the Terrorist-Affiliated Outfit, the White Helmets, and the Syrian-American Medical Society Bankrolled by the U.S. State Department
And those folks would never lie, right (and by, never, I of course mean, perpetually, habitually, and with great enthusiasm)?
On the Fact that if the Libertarian Party Had the Foresight and Good Sense to Nominate Someone Really Smart and Knowledgeable Like Tom Woods, Ben Powell, or Scott Horton and Were Able to Get that Person On the Debate Stage with President Trump and Elizabeth Warren (for Example), it Would Be an Absolute Massacre and the Two Main Parties Would Finally Have to Shoulder Some of that Richly Deserved Humiliation
And yes, that music in the background is John Lennon's "Imagine", in that I considered it most appropriate. Sadly.
On the Fact that London Police Are Instructed to NOT Pursue a Criminal if He's Taking Off On a Moped While Not Wearing a Helmet - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3101028/Take-helmet-police-won-t-chase-Scotland-Yard-reveals-lets-motorbike-crooks-away-die-fall-off.html
So break the law (by not wearing your damned helmet) to break the law (robbery, battery, etc.), in other words. Yeah, those British really got a handle on it, don't they (with this particular edict coming straight from the pea-brain of Theresa May herself, I've heard - love it!!)?
On the Movie, "The Little Hut"
The only question IS, do you want to see Ava Gardner damn near naked for 90-something minutes......or do you not? I personally do and I'm even willing to endure the pomposity of Stewart Granger and David Niven to achieve it.
On the Fact that Bobby Kennedy Came Within a Hair of Being Joe McCarthy's Chief Counsel During the Latter's Stint as Chairman of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations (Losing Out to an Even Younger Phenom In Roy Cohn)
The court historians never know quite what to do with the exceedingly close association between the Kennedy family and McCarthy......and if this situation had come true, yeah, they would have needed some straightjackets for sure.
On the Fact that (According to the M. Stanton Evans Volume, "The Politics of Surrender") In a January, 1949 Speech, Congressman John F. Kennedy Absolutely Shredded Suspected Pinko Collaborators (Owen Lattimore, John K. Fairbank, the People at I.P.R., etc.) and Strongly Denounced the Truman/Acheson/Marshall/Jessup Policy of Full Capitulation In China
And please keep in mind here that this speech took place a full year before McCarthy took his oath of office as a U.S. Senator. Hmm, I guess that some rabid anti-Communists are little easier to digest than others (the Eastern, elitist ones obviously being the preferred models).
On the Fact that (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTxvmKHYajQ&t=17s) for Almost a Decade, Hemophiliacs with the HIV Virus Had an Exceedingly Low Mortality Rate and it Wasn't Until a) the Link Between HIV and Full-Blown AIDS Was First Announced and b) Doctors Started Pumping These Patients Up with AZT (Perhaps the Most Toxic Drug Ever Invented) that the Death Tally Started to Rise Exponentially
So it seems that the stress of the diagnosis in 1984 and the pharmaceutical protocol established in 1987 were more critical to the demise of these patients than the virus ever was. Interesting.....................................................................................................P.S. And no, this isn't necessarily to proclaim that the HIV virus isn't involved at all, just that there seems to be a myriad of other factors at play here in addition (rampant drug use, sleep deprivation, resistance to antibiotics, malnutrition, multiple STDs, etc.). That's all.
On Jeremy Scahill (a Legitimate Journalist) Going On Fake News CNN the Other Day and Eviscerating Those Cork-Soakers for Their Nonstop Anti-Assad War-Mongering Propaganda
Let's just say that I savored every minute of it, with the only downside being the fact that sane reporters like Scahill (never mind independent journalists such as Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett who've actually spent months on the ground in Syria) probably won't be on again any time soon.
On the Fact that Classic Film Star, Linda Darnell, Actually Started Receiving Leading Lady Roles at the Age of 15
So Ole Tyrone (Power) Was Robbing the Cradle In Some of Those Flicks Then. That's disturbing (though, yes, par for the course in Hollyweird).
On the Fact that Convicted Child Rapist and Fugitive from Justice, Roman Polanski, Is Currently Threatening to Sue the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences In Response to Them Having Just Bounced His Ass from the Club
Gee, I wonder if Meryl Streep is going to give him another standing ovation. Probably, huh (the fact that the bim has pretty much zero moral compunction and is driven instead by some lunatic ideology that has abused children at the bottom of its pecking order, yada yada)?
On the Embarrassingly Unfunny Samantha Bee Recently Touting New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, as Some Sort of Heroic Antidote to Trump (Who She Obviously Despises) and All the While the Asshole Was Apparently Sexually Abusing Women 24/7 (and We're Supposed to Believe All Women, Correct?)
And how will Bee respond? I strongly suspect that she won't and will simply move on to the next great SJW circle-jerk (biodiversity and how Trump is destroying that, perhaps). It's how she rolls, for Christ.
On the Fact that (According to the M. Stanton Evans Book, "Blacklisted by History") Senator Benton and His Colleagues Were so Desperate to Bounce Joe McCarthy from the Senate, Not Only Did They Start Looking at the Dude's Finances, They Also Started Examining the Finances of His Family, His Staffers, and Even Some of His Supporters and AND They Took this Fishing Expedition All the Way Back to the Mid-1930s - More than a Decade Prior to McCarthy's Election to the Senate
Yeah, there was a witch-hunt alright, with Senator McCarthy being much more the victim of it than the perpetrator (the real villains of course being the liberal Democrats on the hill and the shameless, leftist mediaites).
On the Fact that Even Though the Indictments of Keith Raniere and Allison Mack Clearly Show 18 U.S. Code 1591 (the Sex Trafficking of Children) and, AND 18 U.S. Code 1594 (Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking of Children), the Legacy Media Has Virtually Been Ignoring this Aspect of the Case and Instead Has Been Focusing On the Maltreatment of Adults
Yeah, for some reason these vile bastards don't want the information out there.......Hmm, I wonder what that could be. https://artvoice.com/2018/04/20/allison-mack-indicted-sex-trafficking/#.WvKHW0mG_cs
On the Fact that Many of the Same SJWs Who Are Currently Hammering People Who Oppose Gay Marriage as Homophobes, Nazis, and Retrobates NEVER SAID A DAMNED THING When Obama and Hillary Had the Same Exact Position Until Quite Recently (What - Seven, Eight Minutes Ago?)
It's all about being on the right team. Simple (and pathetic) as that.
On the Fact that Race and Gender Are Far Greater Predictors of Gun Violence than Mental Illness Is and Yet No One Would Dream of Denying Men and Blacks the Right to Purchase Firearms Based Solely Upon These Demographics
The country has made a lot of progress on a great many fronts but the stigma regarding mental illness still remains quite strong (coming to the fore again in this gun debate). Sadly.........................................................................................................P.S. One possible compromise here is something called the gun-violence restraining order in which family members who think that one of their relatives might be a threat to himself or others can contact the authorities to have his or her weapons temporality taken away (at least until the person gets some help). While not a perfect solution, it's a positive one and I believe that Senators Nelson and Rubio are actually working on it as we speak.
On the Imminent Death of John McCain
I don't derive pleasure from anyone dying (save of course for fellows like Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc.) but being that this guy supported every damned war over the past half Century and was only getting warmed up, I cannot help but think that that at least a few folks will be sleeping a little easier when this guy kicks. I'm just sayin'.
On the Fact that Congressman Eric Swalwell of California Is Proposing a Mandatory Buy-Back of "Assault Rifles" (Defined Entirely by Their Cosmetic Features) and Is Threatening Prosecution to Those Who Fail to Comply - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPfbrtp6ZqM
So those politicians who say that they aren't going to take your guns......might be lying? It surely seems that way
On the Claim by Some that Folks Only Go to Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown Because They Can't Make it Into Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia
Yeah, there's probably an element of truth there but it's very unfortunate in that the differences are microscopic at best (prestige and elitism being the more critical factors, I would assert). In fact, one could make a case that you're better off going to one of the "other" four in certain circumstances; Penn's Wharton Business School being arguably the finest in the country, the fact that a higher percentage of Cornell Law graduates pass the bar on their first attempt than their counterparts from Columbia, the plethora of bangin' hot Asian chicks at Dartmouth (I'm serious, don't laugh), etc.............................................................................................Of course, if you really wanted to tip over the apple court, you could head South and go to Duke, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, etc. in that those are awesome schools, too.
On the Fact that Jewish Donations Make Up 50% of the Total Amount to Democrats and 25% of the Total Amount to Republicans (this Despite the Fact that Jews Make Up Only 2% of the U.S. Population) - http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/new-study-explores-the-jewish-vote-and-reasons-behind-its-liberal-identity/
Explains a lot, wouldn't you say (the fact that we continue to be Israel's bitch in the Middle East year after year, fight these moronic wars, etc.)?
On the Fact that Whether its Peter Duesberg and AIDS, Judith Curry and Global Warming, Michael Behe and Evolution, Brion McClanahan and History, Germar Rudolph and the Holocaust, Richard Gage and 9/11, etc., if You Are an Academic Who Challenges the Intellectual Imperialism (a Term First Coined by the Author, James Everett Kibler) of the Mainstream, You Will Be Attacked Continuously, Mercilessly, and Quite Possibly Be Ruined - it's How They Roll These Days
And that's why faculty are afraid to speak up on college campuses these days. There's just way, way, too much to lose.
On Al Gore Saying that "the Debate Is Over" Versus Albert Einstein Once Having Said that, "the Important Thing Is to Never Stop Questioning"
Hm, let's see here, who do I listen to; possibly the greatest thinker of the 20th century (with apologies to Richard Feynman) or some crony capitalist dirt-bag politician whose knowledge on virtually everything is substandard at best? Yeah, that's a super tough one - NOT!!
On the Fact that Former McGill University Professor, Mark A. Wainberg, Held Several Drug Patents and Routinely Received Grants from a Number of AIDS Drug Manufacturers; GlaxoSmithKlein and Bristol-Myers Squibb Just to Name Two
Gee, I wonder if that had anything to do with him wanting to arrest eminent scientists like Kary Mullis (a Nobel Prize winner) and Peter Duesberg simply for questioning the HIV equals AIDS hypothesis.......I mean, if its all about following the cash.......
On the Fact that at the Same Time that the Truman Administration (the Major Participants Here Being Marshall, Acheson, and Jessup) Was Providing Assistance to the Anti-Communist Forces In Greece, They Were Doing the Absolute Opposite In China by Not Only Hanging Chiang Kai-shek Out to Dry On the Mainland but by Facilitating His Ouster Once He and His Troops Retreated to Formosa
The Communist elements in the Truman State Department had long had Chiang (not an angel by any stretch but certainly better than Mao) in their crosshairs and they did literally everything in their power (including calling for a cease-fire when the Commies were clearly losing and labeling Chiang's situation a "lost cause" when by most measures it wasn't) to destroy him. Fortunately for the fellow he had a few more lives left and when Formosa became Taiwan he became its first President.
On the Fact that Even Though Ezra Klein Has Recently Admitted that Affirmative Action Has More Than Likely Caused a Mismatch Problem for Countless Minority Students (Black Students at Cornell and MIT, for Example, Are In the Top 10% of Math Students In the Country but Are In the Bottom 10% at These Two Schools) but Instead of Recalibrating this Top-Down and Interventionist Approach of His, He Advocates Doubling-Down On Brain-Dead and Fucking with These Minorities EVEN MORE (the Opposite of What Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, and Jack Kennedy Advocated, In Other Words)
And what simpletons like Klein further fail to recognize is that blacks in America had actually been making solid progress prior to the civil rights/Great Society/affirmative action era (literacy climbing from less than 5% after the Civil War to over 50% by 1900, the poverty rate declining from 87% in 1940 to 47% in 1960, etc.) and that it wasn't until do-gooders like him started fucking with the black community that these pathologies started to emerge. But hey, when the only tools that you have are hubris and faux government benevolence, I guess that doubling-down just comes naturally (though, yes, I would be far more prone to accept the advice of the Manhattan Institute's Jason Riley when he echoed out in one his recent books, "Please, Stop Helping").
On the Fact that Suspected Child Sex-Trafficker, Allison Mack, Was Recently Released On Bail
Not so certain that that was a good idea in that a) she could book or b) she could end up murdered (the fact that she could implicate a lot of powerful people and in order for that not to happen......ka-boom!!). Hopefully the authorities are keeping a good eye on her.
On Music Critic, Alex Ross (He Peddles His Wares at the New Yorker), Once Having Roasted the Chicago and Philadelphia Symphonies for Not Performing Enough Compositions by Females
He does realize, doesn't he, that 99.9% of classical music was written by fellas' and that you'd have to dig pretty deep to find stuff written by chicks (the fact that there isn't a female Mozart or a female Chopin or a female Bach or a......)? I certainly hope that he does 'cause this is fucking retarded, abject SJW lunacy, etc..
On the Odds of President Trump Going Into a Room with Robert Mueller for 12 Hours and Not Spewing Forth at Least a Few Incorrect Statements
I'm not a gambling man but I would definitely take some action on that one, noooooooooooooooo doubt (the fact that Trump shoots the shit 24/7). Hopefully (for him) Trump listens to his legal team and steers clear of Mr. Mueller (the fact that if Mueller snags him in any sort of inconsistency - even if it's harmless - yeah, that's not going to be good for Trump).
On the Fact that Feminist Talking-Head, Susan Estrich, Once Accused Former L.A. Times Editorial Chief, Michael Kinsley, of Sexism for Not Having Enough Female Writers On Staff
Yeah, it was a nice try but what Estrich failed to point out is that women as a general rule do not show much of an interest in the field of editorial writing (87% of Wikipedia entries are made by men, for example - source, Heather MacDonald) and so, no, the odds of achieving anything even remotely approaching parity are bubkas. I mean, I know that we live in a fact-free universe these days but to constantly look for sinister shit for every single disparity in society is not just boring and stupid but dangerous as well (the fact that everybody suffers when bean-counting takes precedence over merit) and it needs to come to a screaming halt. It really does.
With and assist from Don Henley.
On the Fact that Educators Are Legally Obligated to Report the Abuse of Children to Authorities and Look at How this Dirt-Bag Union Boss Responds to Just Such a Scenario
I was a state school teacher in Connecticut for four and a half years and I remember a situation quite similar to this (it more along the lines of neglect than physical abuse but still...). The teacher was a bad apple and the union worked out a deal where the individual just sat in a room by herself for several months AND STILL GOT PAID!! Unreal
On this Sneaking Suspicion of Mine that the West Is Planning to Replace Assad with the Same Dude Who Replaced Gaddafi
You see what I did there? Yeah, huh?
On the Fact that a Recent Poll In Israel Showed that the Jews of that Country Strongly Opposed (by a 69 Point Margin) the Taking In of Any Syrian Migrants and Refugees (Many of the Migrants Aren't from Syria but that's a Separate Issue) - http://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-few-israelis-willing-to-take-in-syrian-refugees/
My first reaction was, can you blame them? But then I examined the findings a little closer and when I found out that by an 8 point margin these same subjects said that they SUPPORTED the influx of migrants and refugees into Europe, yeah, I got a little pissed off, to say the least.......Immigrant restrictions for me, but not for thee, I guess
On the Fact that In the Surface-Thinking Matrix of Vox News's Low-Brow Editor, Ezra Klein, it Is No Big Deal if a Person's Reputation Gets Dragged Through the Mud (and Yes, I'm Referring to Sam Harris and Charles Murray and Their Situation), Just as Long as that Person Has Solid Paying Job and Isn't Hurt Financially
So feel free to denigrate Klein and company (and quite a motley crew it is) with innuendo, straw-men, red-herrings, cherry-picking, sophistry, rhetorical devices, loaded jargon, and flat-out lies, I guess.
On the Fact that (According to the M. Stanton Evans Book, "Blacklisted by History") When it No Longer Became Conceivable for Ambassador, Philip Jessup, to Deny His Association with the Known Communist Front Group, The National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights, the Fellow at that Point Proceeded to Assert that the Strident and Well-Known Anti-Communist Senator, Paul Douglas (a Democrat from Illinois) Was Also a Member
Jessup was a very clever fellow (the Paul Krugman of his era, let's say). Yes, Mr. Douglas had been a member of this outfit but what Jessup failed to disclose was that Douglas had kicked these cork-soakers to curb in 1940, well before the McCarthy hearings and well before even the House Committee On Un-American Activities has labeled them a Communist front group in 1943, 1944, and 1947. Not that we should ever let facts get in the way of a good smear OF COURSE!!
On the Fact that, Gee, What a Huge Surprise, All of the Usual Suspects (Ben Shapiro, Sean Hannity, etc.) Have Decided to YET AGAIN Buy Hook, Line, and Sinker Mr. Netanyahu's Propaganda About Iran and Their Nuclear Program............Never Minding the Hard Fact that the Fellow's Been Lying About this Same Topic for Well Over Two Decades Now
And did you notice that Netanyahu was giving the speech in English and not in Hebrew? Yeah, he knows who is real audience is.
On the Fact that (According to the Paradigm-Shifting Book, "White Cargo", by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh) During the Final Decade of British Rule In America Approximately 900 Convicts a Year Were Still Being Sent by Authorities to the Colonies for 7, 10, 14, and Even Lifetime Indentured Sentences
So there's 9,000 white slave laborers just in that one decade alone............and all essentially forgotten by the court historians.......A little too narrative-exploding, I guess.
On the Fact that the Communists at the American Peace Mobilization Had Long Lobbied Against U.S. Intervention In WW2 and Had Even Tarred President Roosevelt as a War-Monger for Quite a Spell but BUT When the Nazis Attacked Russia In 1941 the Bastards Did a 180 and Became Some of the Biggest War Advocates In the Country
If there was ever any mystery as to where their allegiances rested, mystery solved, wouldn't you say?
On the Fact that that Cunty, Low-Rent Dumpster-Fire Comic (I Forgot Her Name Already and Have Zero Desire to Look it Up) Who Insulted Pretty Much Everybody at the White House Correspondent's Dinner the Other Night Actually Went On the Trevor Noah Show After the 2016 Election and Wept that Hillary Lost
You know who didn't weep after Miss Hillary losing? All of those starving children in Libya and Haiti who are suffering in no small measure due to the war-monger's malfeasance, hubris, psychopathy, greed, incompetence, etc..............But the first female President - yeah, they don't care.
On the Fact that Seven Years of Indentured Servitude In the Caribbean (Circa the Early 18th Century) Ultimately Proved Equivalent to a Death Sentence for Hundreds of Jacobite Prisoners Captured During the Stuart Uprising of 1715
Gee, I wonder if Mr. Stampp found THIS "peculiar".......if he even knew about it.
On the Attempt by the Virginia House of Burgesses to Free Some of the Indentured Servants and to Even Provide Them with Some Land
It sounds noble but if you look at it closely you'll see that most of the land was in the Western frontier and, so, yeah, the real purpose of having these former convicts in that area was essentially to create a bulwark against Indian attacks.......Pick your poison, I guess...............................................................................................Sources - "White Cargo" by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh and "Present State of Virginia" by Hugh Jones (circa 1724).
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On Rosanne Barr's Show Getting Axed After the Woma...
On John McCain Now Admitting that the Iraq War Was...
On the Fact that if the U.S. Was so Pro-Batista In...
On Tommy Robinson Getting Arrested and Thrown In P...
On the Fact that that Idiot, Rachel Maddow, Actual...
On the Fact that the Guy Who England Jailed Last Y...
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On the Fact that Global Warming Catastrophists Ten...
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On Wealthy British Celebrities Like Lily Allen, Bo...
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Strategic corporate social responsibility
Corporate social responsibility is vital to our future development as it will control many of the excesses and mistakes that might otherwise be made by businesses around the world. However, having an appropriate and active strategy in this realm can also boost a company's competitiveness. New research published in the International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, looks at how a business might more effectively develop such a strategy to the benefit of us all and to the benefit of its bottom line. Sarah Margaretha Jastram and Zara Berberyan of the Hamburg School of Business Administration in Germany, point out that there are many well-documented advantages to strategic corporate social responsibility. Despite this, however, they point out that there is a dearth of coherent models to guide managements towards developing such a strategy [...]

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Hawkish Message Concealed within Dovish Decision
Thursday 14th Sep 2017
Discussion and Analysis by Charles Porter:
This afternoon, the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee published what at first sight appeared to be a Dovish decision. However, concealed amidst the interest rate and quantitative easing headlines were more Hawkish undertones. The market, to a significant extent, internalised these comments as a signal of an imminent, before-year-end, monetary policy tightening.
Inflation statistics released on Monday began to entice market sentiment in favour of a rate hike. However, at midday, the headline interest rate, the Bank Rate, was held at 0.25%. Accommodative monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing was also retained at £435bn. However, an actual rate hike was probably never a credible reality this time around. On the back of high inflation, the pound revalued strongly earlier this week despite the lack of hiking sentiment. Therefore, markets may reasonably have been anticipating a turn towards a future rate hike, rather than an actual stimulus reduction. In fact, if we regard futures markets, a divisive probability of a future hike sided with no immediate hike.
What would traditionally represent an accelerating probability of a rate hike in the future is a swing in the vote towards a hike. Because the Monetary Policy Committee comprises of nine members and the previous decision saw only two members vote in favour of a rate-hike, a division in excess of 7-2 would satisfy the expectations that markets priced in over the previous two days. However, Michael Saunders and Ian McCafferty remained the only two members of the Committee to vote in favour of a hike. This was in line with our expectations.
Alone, therefore, the composition of the decision and the lack of movement itself would have forced a selling off of Sterling because expectations were underwhelmed. The empirical reality of the event at midday today, however, was a strengthening of sterling across all major currencies. The driver of this move was a set of idiosyncratic comments contained within the minutes from the Committee's meetings.
These minutes detailed two currency-appreciating statements. Perhaps the most significant of these two observations was the admonition that if inflation continues to surpass forecasts (as Monday's announcement attested to) then "monetary policy could need to be tightened" sooner "than current market expectations". This signals to all markets alike that they have undervalued the probability of UK monetary policy tightening, inducing a flow of capital into the Pound and thus an appreciation.
This movement was reinforced by a second, previous, statement within the Committee's minutes. The conditional feature of the Committee's admonition, cited above, was, if current above-forecast trends persist. The second statement lends support to this conditionality. Specifically, the minutes confessed that the Bank of England expects October's CPI inflation figure to exceed 3%; a critical and exaggerated figure within the British Political Economy. The mandate of the Bank demands that if inflation, the central concern of monetary policy, moves more than 1 percentage point from the targeted 2%, the Bank must explain itself via letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Therefore, the verification of an antecedent to tightening and a normatively important price level movement install confidence within financial markets that future stimulus curtailment is a reality. The immediate aftermath of the Bank's publications showed a strong appreciation of the Pound Sterling. Whilst the revaluation against the Euro was stronger than with respect to the Dollar, both immediate shifts were in excess of 1 percent. Gains continued throughout the afternoon, improving the position of individuals selling Sterling.


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From the Dot Watch App - Functions – Study Braille, you can type any message on your smartphone to display it in braille on the device. Try this method of learning the Braille with the Dot Watch.
While the device is paired with your smartphone, you can call up the smartphone by pressing both the "Select Button" and the "Home Button" twice at the same time in quick succession. The smartphone will vibrate with alarming sound. Use this function to easily locate your smartphone.
Once the remaining battery level is down to 20% and 10%, the device will vibrate 3 times and displays its battery status. Battery charging is recommended at this time.
With the Dot Watch, you can check the content of text messages, application notifications, social media notifications, and etc., as well as its sender, and the time of receipt.
1) Upon receiving a notification, the device briefly vibrates twice.
2) Press the "Select Button" to begin reading the notification - in the order of the application name, sender information, contents, and timestamp.
There are two ways of reading the notifications.
- Press the right "Touch Sensor" once to display the next 4 characters of the message. Press the left "Touch Sensor" to read the previous 4 characters. When at the end of the message, vibration will occur to notify that it is the end of the message. Here, press the "Select Button" to go back to the beginning of the message.
- Note that the "Touch Sensors" are programmed not to work while the pins are still in the movement; therefore, pressing the "Touch Sensors" repetitively while the pins are still moving may cause the sensors not to fully respond. In this case, give it about one second, and scroll again.
- Auto Scroll is a way to read the notification without having to use the "Touch Sensor". Press the "Select Button" while reading the notification to begin auto-scrolling. Press the "Select Button" once more to go back to the "Touch-Assisted Scroll Mode".
You can use the Auto Scroll in a variety of ways depending on your reading skill.
From the Dot Watch App – Settings – Display Output – Auto-scroll Speed, you can customize the speed of the auto scrolling. Also, you can choose between whether to refresh 1 character or 4 characters of the message at a time, under "the Number of Cell(s) Auto-scrolled".
When at the end of the message, vibration will occur to notify that it is the end of the message. Here, press the "Select Button" to go back to the beginning of the message.
While reading the notification, if you feel a need to save the message, press and hold the "Select Button" to save. You can check your saved messages through the Dot Watch App, under Functions – Saved Message.
Up to 100 smartphone notification messages can be stored in the device. Notification messages are displayed in the following order: name of the app, sender information, notification content, and timestamp. If no notifications are found, "none" [dots 1,3,4,5/ dots 1,3,5/ dots 1,3,4/ dots 1,5] (⠝⠕⠝⠑) is displayed.
1) From the "Standby" status, turn the Dot Crown downward once to browse notification messages – "noti" [dots 1,3,4,5/ dots 1,3,5/ dots 2,3,4,5/ dots 2,4] (⠝⠕⠞⠊) will appear on the display.
2) Press the "Select Button" and turn the "Dot Crown" to check the notification numbers in the latest received order.
3) Press the "Select Button" to view the message.
4) While reading the notification, turn the "Dot Crown" up or downwards to access next or previous notification message.
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The device will vibrate and the alarm number will be displayed as it goes off.
[Braille Mode] the alarm number is shown in braille.
[Tactile Mode] the first alarm is indicated as (⠯⠽⠀⠈) and the second alarm is indicated as (⠯⠽⠀⠠).
From the "Standby" status on your Dot Watch, turn the Dot Crown upwards twice to navigate to the Bluetooth Connection Status Menu. Press and hold the "Home Button" to reset all the Dot Watch settings.


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He established the Woman's Hospital of New York, the first of its kind, which became an incubator for progressive concepts in surgery. Years later— noting that cancer patients could not be admitted to hospitals due to the misconception that cancer was a communicable disease—Dr. Sims opened the New York Cancer Hospital, which evolved over time into the Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases (now known as Memorial Sloan Kettering).
His reputation continued to grow both nationally and internationally. He operated in the U.S. and in Europe. He was widely decorated and acclaimed, serving as president of the American Medical Association in 1875 and the American Gynecological Society in 1879.
He has been recognized as the father of the specialties of gynecology and infertility.
Dr. Sims, who died in 1883,
was an inquisitive innovator,
an able and talented surgeon,
and a humanitarian. It has been
said that he advanced surgery
as much or perhaps more than
any other U.S. surgeon who
lived in the 19th century.
Today, there are some health care scholars who may discredit parts of our heritage, largely based on a lack of information.
Therefore, when remembering historical pioneers and their achievements, it is important to note the circumstances of that particular period of history.
Some have written that because Dr. Sims operated on slave women without anesthesia or proper informed consent, he should be disclaimed rather than applauded. However, that view misses the point of what Dr. Sims accomplished in the mid-19th century. Anarcha and others should be celebrated for their contributions just as Henrietta Lacks—an African-American woman whose cells were unwittingly used to create the first human immortal cell line in the 1950s—has been acknowledged for her role in the evolution of medicine. ♦
American College of Surgeons Archives. Available at: facs.org/about-acs/ archives. Accessed November 19, 2016.
Cutter IS. Landmarks in surgical progress. International abstract of surgery. 1928. Available at: catalog. nyam.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail. pl?biblionumber=228180. Accessed November 19, 2016.
Massachusetts Medical Society. Marion Sims and his silver sutures. N Engl J Med. 1945;233:631-633.
Marr JP. James Marion Sims: The Founder of the Woman's Hospital in the State of New York. New York City, New York: The Woman's Hospital; 1949.
Shingleton HM. The lesser known Dr. Sims. ACOG Clin Rev.
2009; 14( 2): 13-16.
Sparkman RS. J. Marion Sims: Women's surgeon and more. Bull Am Coll Surg. 1975; 60( 3): 11-17.
Ward GG. Marion Sims and the origin of modern gynecology. Bull N Y Acad Med. 1936; 12( 3):93-104.
Abell I. J. Marion Sims: An appreciation. SMJ. 1933; 26( 12).
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Bearing Witness and Becoming a Source
Drones have been in the news a lot this month, but that coverage hasn't always been easy given the incredible secrecy around the drone program. While hearings on Capitol Hill and leaked memos shed some much needed light on the program, there is still a lot more we don't know.
Over at the Huffington Post, Michael Calderone has a good piece on where journalists are turning for details and in-depth information on drones. Calderone's article focuses on the work of Bill Roggio at The Long War Journal and his work tracking drone statistics, but the story is part of a larger trend of individuals bearing witness and becoming sources for newsrooms that increasingly have less capacity for the long, sustained work of tracking these kinds of details:
"While the use of drones is perhaps the most controversial foreign policy issue of President Obama's second term, major media outlets have been outsourcing the collection of strike data to three lesser-known news-gathering entities. The covert U.S. drone war in Pakistan and Yemen has been notoriously difficult to track over the years, making The Long War Journal's statistics -– along with those compiled by theNew America Foundation and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism -– essential for news organizations that haven't been independently tracking each strike or number of suspected militants and civilians killed."
In October of 2011 I began tracking journalist arrests at Occupy Wall Street protests when New York Times journalist, Natasha Leonard, was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. By the end of the month ten journalists had been arrested, and a month later that number was over thirty. Police interference with press around the US became a major story for much of 2011 and the first half of 2012. Continue reading →


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5 myths and truths about public washrooms
Jennifer GoldbergUpdated: Jul. 16, 2019
Paranoid about the bacteria and viruses lurking in public restrooms? Find out what you really should be worried about and what's just a myth
Public washrooms can be unpleasant places to say the least, but are they unhealthy? We asked microbiologist James Scott of the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health to help us separate washroom facts from fiction. Read on to find out if your fears about public washrooms are justified.
1. You're more likely to catch an illness in the washroom than anywhere else
Myth. "An elevator would be a more hazardous place than a public washroom," says Scott. That's because airborne viruses travel in small, poorly ventilated spaces that put you in close proximity to a lot of people. However, most public washrooms are spacious and well ventilated. "Those two facts make the washroom a difficult place for [airborne] viruses to transmit from one person to another, " says Scott.
Viruses and bacteria that do lurk in the loo, such as E. coli and norovirus, are shed in fecal matter and through improper hand washing, get picked up on your hands and ingested. Sounds disgusting, but Scott says that for a healthy person, these bugs cause little more than the unpleasant symptoms of the stomach flu.
2. Covering the toilet seat before you sit down is a good idea
Truth. Blame it on Community-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (CA-MRSA), a new drug-resistant strain of bacteria that, in some populations, can be transmitted by the skin and may result in skin infections.
"While I've never read a case report of a toilet seat being involved in the movement of CA-MRSA from one person to another, it's absolutely plausible because one of the places [the bacteria] like to hide is in our groins," says Scott. CA-MRSA can also survive on surfaces for long periods of time. So while your risk of contracting CA-MRSA from a toilet is very low, Scott says it's better to be safe than sorry by putting down a barrier between you and the seat.
3. Flushing before you sit down makes the toilet more sanitary
Truth. Water that's been sitting in the toilet bowl for a while is an ideal environment for bacteria to multiply. "If you're sitting down to pee, you're disrupting the surface of the water, which creates a mist that carries bacteria," says Scott. When the water evaporates, the bacteria become dust that you can inhale. Flushing cleans the bowl, which might wash away some of the bacteria.
4. Washing your hands in a public washroom is counterproductive because the fixtures and surfaces are covered with bacteria
Myth. Proper hand washing, even in a filthy public washroom, improves your hygiene, says Scott. Here's how to do it, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada:
1. Wet your hands with warm water.
2. Put a small amount of liquid soap on your hands.
3. Rub hands together for 20 seconds to produce a good lather. Take care to scrub up your wrists and backs of hands, between your fingers and under your nails.
4. Rinse your hands with running water for at least 10 seconds.
5. Grab a paper towel to fully dry your hands. Use that towel to turn off the taps. Do not touch the taps with your clean hands.
6. Grab another piece of towel and use it to open the washroom door.
5. It's safer to flush the toilet with your foot than with your hand
Myth. "If there's anything in the bathroom that's going to have a lot of bacteria on it, it's the toilet handle," Scott says. However, he strongly cautions against the acrobatics required to use your foot to flush. "There's probably greater risk of injury from slipping and falling if you're standing on one leg to flush the toilet than from touching the handle. It's safer to use a wad of toilet paper to press the lever," he says.
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Marty Walsh calls on local artists for Hyde Square public art project
Catherine Lindsay
A map showing the potential public art locations in Hyde Park	—City of Boston / Department of Public Works
If you're an artist who wants to leave their mark on Boston's urban landscape, now's your chance.
Artists and residents are invited to submit proposals for a public art project in Jamaica Plain's Hyde Square, Mayor Marty Walsh announced in a statement Tuesday.
The Public Works Department, Boston Art Commission, Hyde Square Task Force, Hyde Jackson Square Main Street, and local residents have released a Request for Proposals (RFP) asking professionals to present their vision for the space.
"As we continue to invest in public art across the city, we look forward to engaging the community in opportunities that embrace the diversity of people and cultures that make up each Boston neighborhood," Walsh said.
The mayor's office said that all professional artists, artisans, landscape architects, or teams with experience in public art and project management are eligible to apply. Professionals from Jamaica Plain, Hyde, and Jackson Square neighborhoods are also encouraged to submit their ideas.
The Boston Art Commission said proposals that celebrate the multi-generational and diverse culture of Hyde Square will be the most successful. The deadline for proposals is September 14 at 5 p.m. and one artist will be chosen by early fall for the $100,000 project, according to the statement.
The public art plan is part of a larger project where Hyde Square will be reconstructed to increase sidewalk widths, enhance safety, add lighting, and overhaul landscaping. The selected artwork will be implemented with the planned restoration of the square in fall 2017, the commission said.
For more information, visit the Boston Art Commission website, or view the full RFP here.
TOPICS: Arts
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RICHARD WHITCOMB ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME NOMINATION FORM
The purpose of the Richard Whitcomb Athletic Hall of Fame is to honor and recognize athletes, teams, coaches and supporters who have demonstrated prowess in the field of athletics and in their support of St. Luke's School.
Nominees must exemplify the highest standards of sportsmanship, ethical conduct and moral character. A person can qualify for the Athletic Hall of Fame under one or more of the following categories:
1. Athlete - A St. Luke's School graduate who participated in St. Luke's School athletics for a minimum of 2 years, and having earned a letter in a particular sport or sports. In addition, received "All-Conference/District/Sectional/State/New England/National Honors" if the recognition was available at that time. OR a St. Luke's School graduate who participated in St. Luke's School athletics and competed in college athletics or has attained a profession in athletics. The athlete must have been out of St. Luke's School for a minimum of ten (10) years. Please note that the committee reserves the right, if desired, to place more emphasis on an athlete's accomplishments during their time as a student at St. Luke's than their collegiate or professional accomplishments.
2. Coach - Coaches at St. Luke's School, past or present, with a minimum seven (7) years of service to the St. Luke's School Athletic Department and St. Luke's School community.
3. Team - A St. Luke's School team which has attained record status or New England or National recognition and competed a minimum of (10) years prior.
4. Friend - Those who have provided meritorious service or served as a loyal friend to the athletic program.
These are minimum qualifications required for nomination for consideration by the SLS Athletic Hall of Fame Selection Committee.
*Name of Nominee
(ex: John Smith '89)
*Nomination Category
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*City, State, Zip Code
*St. Luke's School years attended
(ex: 1985-1989)
Secondary School (if not SLS alumnus)
*Undergraduate College
(Name of School, City & State, Years Attended, Year of Graduation, Degree)
ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INFO & TESTIMONIAL
Career Athletic Participation at St. Luke's School
[provide details concerning performances, years played/coached/supported, records held, etc. to the best of your ability]
Honors and Recognitions Received (ex: All-FAA, All-NEPSAC, team captain, other SLS clubs & awards)
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Post High School Athletic Achievements and Participation
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In addition to the above information, briefly describe why you feel this nominee should receive this honor (ex: nominee's personal character, enthusiasm for sport, career accomplishments, etc.)
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Batman (1943, Lambert Hillyer)
For the majority of Batman's fifteen chapters, the serial has a set formula when it comes to the action. Batman (Lewis Wilson) and Robin (Douglas Croft) get into fist fights with the same five or six thugs. Croft gets beat up early while Wilson takes on at least two of the villain, then two or three of the thugs beat up Wilson. They either put him in danger, triggering the chapter's cliffhanger, or Croft just wakes up and helps him. Or, in the subsequent chapter's resolution at the beginning, Croft wakes up and helps him.
Even on the rare occasions it's something different, elements of the formula remain. Screenwriters Victor McLeod, Leslie Swabacker, and Harry L. Fraser don't have much plotting ingenuity. Especially not for fifteen chapters. Other variations to the fight and cliffhanger formulas include whether or not Wilson abandons Croft to the thugs or, you know, whether or not Wilson kills someone. Sometimes he means to kill them, sometimes it's incidental. The only time he ever stops to worry about it is when it's bad guys–as opposed to when he kills an innocent civilian through his ineptitude–and, in that case, the bad guys turn out to be dead anyway.
Not much of a role model, this Batman, despite being an official government agent. Or, maybe, because of it.
In addition to Wilson's careless crimefighting, he's not really good at investigating. Despite fighting the same group of thugs throughout the serial–and even bringing some of them to his "Bat's Cave" for rather ineffective interrogation–Batman doesn't even discover his adversary's identity until the final chapter. He's dreadfully bad at his job.
The villain of Batman is J. Carrol Naish. He's playing an evil Japanese scientist, in full yellowface. The serial is exceptionally racist. Even as wartime propaganda, Batman is a lot to take. The first chapter narration makes special mention of the just internment of Japanese Americans. It, and the way the serial's heroes are, you know, heroic for their stupid ignorance when they meet Naish, is astoundingly gross. The racism does not, however, distract from the serial's utter stupidity. Sometimes, though not with Naish's thugs, it manages to be gross and stupid. Usually it's just stupid, with occasional flakes of racism.
The worst part of it? Naish gives the best performance in the entire thing. Even though he's a conniving villain, out to use a giant radium gun to wreck havoc (it's actually entirely unimportant as the serial progresses), Naish gives the role a lot more characterization and personality than anyone else gives theirs'. He even figures out Batman's secret identity at one point.
Besides Naish, the best performances are from Charles Middleton and William Austin. Middleton is a radium miner, which seems likes it's going to be important in the middle chapters of the serial. It's not, but it does at least give Batman a chance to get off the backlot and go on location in the mountains. Director Hillyer does a little better with those exteriors. He never does well, but he does do a little better there.
But Middleton's not around for long and, even if he were, it's doubtful the screenwriters would give him anything to do. Middleton as bearded, folksy mountain man brings energy to Batman, something the serial sorely lacks. Hillyer doesn't direct the actors' performances–at least, one hopes he doesn't, because then it'd be even worse–and Wilson and Croft aren't engaging. Croft even less than Wilson.
The one time Wilson and Croft do get energized is opposite Austin, who plays Alfred the butler. Austin drives Wilson and Croft around town most of the chapters, whether they're crimefighting or not. Occasionally, he gets roped into helping them in the crimefighting, which is usually at least mildly amusing. Austin's got fine comic timing. Timing is another thing Batman tends to lack. Editors Dwight Caldwell and Earl Turner are better than anyone else on the crew, but Hillyer's a lousy director and James S. Brown Jr.'s photography is rarely competent. Lots of bad day for night in Batman. Lots.
Shirley Patterson plays Wilson's love interest, who just can't figure out why Batman is always around once Wilson leaves the room (or vice versa), and she's got almost nothing to do. The serial treats her like an annoyance or a victim or a damsel in distress. Wilson usually just treats her like a pest, condescending or dismissing her. For a while, those moments are actually Wilson's best as an actor. Until he puts on a fake nose and pretends to be a thug to get in with the gang. Shockingly enough, Wilson's engaging during those scenes. It's a downright treat when he skips the Batman costume for a chapter to (stupidly) investigate in his disguise.
Some of Naish's thugs actually give decent performances–Robert Fiske the most, but also George J. Lewis and Warren Jackson. Competency helps a lot in Batman. There's not much of it, so when someone isn't terrible, it's a big deal.
Sadly, Charles C. Wilson is atrocious as the moron police chief who occasionally pops up to answer Wilson's questions about bad guys the Batman has apprehended. Even though Naish spends at least half the chapters assuming Batman has died (in the lame cliffhangers), he's still too savvy to get taken down by the bumbling "heroes."
The script has no character development, no character relationship development (it's not like Wilson treats Patterson any differently as things go along, he always treats her like crap), it does nothing with Naish's various schemes, just kills time. In the end, only the first two and last two chapters are relevant to the narrative. The rest could be chucked… if only we could be so lucky.
But we aren't. And Batman trucks along, its best chapters never even registering mediocrity, Austin and Middleton's contributions for naught, Naish's relative success a debasement.
Though Lee Zahler does eventually get to some good music, albeit only in the last couple chapters.
1943, ⓏⒺⓇⓄ, Batman, Batman movies, Directed by Lambert Hillyer, Film, Serial
Douglas Croft, George J. Lewis, Gus Glassmire, J. Carrol Naish, Lewis Wilson, Shirley Patterson, William Austin
Batman (1943) ch03 – The Mark of the Zombies
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Batman (1943) ch09 – The Sign of the Sphinx


Startups and tech companies in New South Wales scooped up more than twice as much funding as those in Victoria and Queensland in the last financial year, according to Techboard's first country-wide funding report — and Australia's other states are trailing even further behind.
The Techboard Australian Startup and Young Technology Company Funding Report 2017/18 tallied up funding received by startups and tech companies under 10 years old, including venture capital, angel investment, public funding, debt facilities, ICOs, equity crowdfunding and more.
Generally, the report showed a gradual increase in VC investment over the course of the year, with a spike in the third quarter. Equity crowdfunding also saw a slight upward trend, although it only accounted for 0.2% of the total funding.
ICO activity increased up until Q3, before levelling off in the last quarter of the financial year.
The report found of the $3.5 billion raised in total, 44.6%, or $1.58 billion, was allocated to startups in New South Wales.
By comparison, Victorian companies bagged less than half of this amount, taking home $783.8 million, or 22.1%, of the total funding.


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