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HELTER SKELTER                           Provoking Racial Unrest

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PREFACE: It's been my theory that because the media have promoted, protected and advanced the Democrat Party agenda for so long, any ability their advocates once had for rational thinking and  debate have atrophied beyond repair.  This revelation occurred while watching a give and take on the newly created Fox News.  Some Democrat, guesting I think on Fox and Friends, had his misstatement of fact thrown back in his face.  The look on his face was one of utter, "deer in headlights" astonishment.  Really.  This had never happened before.  Nobody had ever called him out for a lie.  In quick order, of course, FOX NEWS got the full Alinskey.  In just a few months core, mind numbed Democrats had been convinced that FOX NEWS was  a radical right-wing attack on the established order;  not to be trusted, believed, nor watched.  TODAY It's been a long time since I bothered to clock-in at Democrat.COM.  They hold a special place in my heart because someone on the site once dismissed a factual argument I made because I "was a paid Republican operative."  I never see them referenced anywhere, but they're still on my working menu. Here's what I saw. A State of Disunion, so to speak. Bob Fertik's picture Everyone sorta knows "Libertarians" are first and foremost about individual rights. But what are those rights exactly? Individual Rights. Because individuals are moral agents, they have a right to be secure in their life, liberty, and property. These rights are not granted by government or by society; they are inherent in the nature of human beings. It is intuitively right that individuals enjoy the security of such rights; the burden of explanation should lie with those who would take rights away. So property rights are pretty darn important to libertarians like Rand Paul, right? [BUT no one else?] In fact, Rand Paul got into deep doodoo over property rights and the Civil Rights Act when he argued Southern restaurant owners had the right to refuse to serve lunch to blacks if they wanted. I don't like the idea of telling private business owners — I abhor racism. I think it’s a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant — but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. So given the importance of property rights, it was a pretty serious betrayal of those rights when Rand Paul stole Warner Music's music copyright to "Shuttin Detroit Down." How do you deal with that ... enhanced water?  Answer: You can't.

OUR WORLD WAR

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OUR WORLD WAR Our World War - Episode 1 by limukohou I was, I think, 2-3 years-old when my recently widowed Mom came home early from work and took me to see, for some mysterious reason, a WWI war movie.  Maybe to experience something of what my late dad had experience at the Bulge?   I remember this because I later had my first ever nightmare. In the dream there were looped visions of great, huge, sepia toned balloons rolling around in sepia colored mud. It recurred several times, and I never associated it with the movie.  It wasn't until 40 years later, or so, that I was watching an old WWI war movie and BANG.  There was my nightmare.  The giant bubbles were great boxy tanks rolling over trenches.  Mud and dirt and smoke.  I've later tried to find that movie again,  but no. Anyway, I was a WWII guy with little interest in the Great War.  It's only recently that I, and it seems the world, have developed a fascination for The Great War.  This first episode of the  BBC's OUR WORLD WAR may be the best.  Certainly there are none more innovative.  On Netflix and others.

John Fk'n Kerry

Report: Kerry Told Iran He Wishes ‘U.S. Had a Leader like Iran’s Supreme Leader’

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Meet Martin O'Malley

Martin O'Malley O'Malley highlighted the fact that Maryland has the highest median income* in the country, and cited his record of signing laws that legalized same-sex marriage, gave in-state college tuition to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, and making it easier for illegal immigrants to obtain drivers licenses. "That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to," he said. [Face the Nation] That raison d'etre is so utterly bizarre that I'm otherwise left speechless. *As near as I can tell, Maryland's economy is 75% government salaries and 22% service industry.

BLUE BLOODS

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Blue Bloods ... a 2010 era cop drama with 1950 values. Five stars. The series BLUE BLOODS follows the Irish-American Reagan family of police officers with the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Francis "Frank" Reagan (Selleck) is the Police Commissioner. He was a U.S. Marine Corps officer and a Vietnam veteran before he joined the NYPD. He is a 9/11 First Responder, a widower whose son Joe was murdered in the line of duty, and has three other adult children—Danny, Erin, and Jamie. All the women are hot. Looking for the next dinner hour series we found Blue Bloods.  It's a CBS series which explains why I'd never heard of it. I no longer watch anything raw on the "Peoples Networks."  The 5th (and evidently last) season just ended, so there are lots of episodes.  After the first few episodes MoSup was hooked.  Me?  I thought it a little too, I don't know, bland?  However, as usually happens with a new series the writers expand personalities and tweak the characters. I've always liked Tom Selleck and Donnie ( Mark too) Wahlberg so there's that.  Anyway, here's what I'll say.  After episode 4 or 5 I noticed that I could not remember an instance where Blue language was used. None.  Which meant I hadn't missed it at all. I also noticed that I  felt good after we watched our nightly two episodes. I felt at home with them.

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My meager posting of late has little to do with the ennui that once caused me to, every few years,  publicly announce that I quit blogging, only then to return.  Now I'm plagued with so many things I want to say that I don't know where to start, so instead I watch movies, go read stuff, or indulge in whatever else seems easy at the time.  Just thinking out loud here boss.  As one is wont to do while drinking ale at 10:00 in the morning.

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HELTER SKELTER                           Provoking Racial Unrest

PREVIOUSLY Baltimore's Little Italy (Balamur's Lil-itly) comes to mind here (obviously).  As related by a resident, during the free-for-all rioting that followed MLK's assassination in 1968; when downtown business's in cities across America were being burned, residents of Baltimore's Little Italy section did something that's stayed with me.  The residents, as if acting with a single mind, showed up on the streets bordering their enclave, armed to the teeth with assorted instruments.  If that was not message enough, Black gangs approaching were told in no uncertain terms that to cross the street would end with them being kilt dead.  While the nearby Jewish section known as Corned Beef Row, on Lombard Street west of Central Avenue, was ravaged, and never recovered, no Italian restaurant was burned, and nobody had been hurt.  Interestingly,  Nancy D'Alessandro's family would almost certainly have participated.  It's what came to mind. Made me proud. What we think of men today is far different from what men used to be, and what men were meant to be. Men were once warriors and farmers. They were leaders and kings. They were strong, smart, and dangerous. They conquered and they defended. There was a time when the TV remote wasn’t yet invented and the sword was handled in its stead. A time when a man’s ambition determined how high he would rise, how many men he would lead, and how many lands he would conquer. Conquer. 8 Lessons in Manhood Them's my thoughts.  My DNA says my forebearers were Nordic stock who invaded Britain.  Whatever it is, I still have a semblance of Alpha male left.  Enough that watching what's happened to my country in the past 20 years (especially) leaves me unsettled and itchy.  Cannot help it. Now, more pointedly, when I see Al Sharpton's imported Helter Skelters looting stores in Baltimore, and attacking cops (many of whom were sent in unarmed by the city's mayor), I just cannot come to grips with why the police, and store owners, are not on the roofs shooting the sumbitches dead?  Like Little Italy residents did in 1968. I would. And it would be lawful as long as I was protecting my business, or family from an imminent threat.

Aladdin

Here's some handy information for ROKU users.  Yesterday g~daughter  said she'd like to watch the movie Aladdin.  Being g~parents, we of course wanted to comply.  All MoSup could find after doing a ROKU wide search were two.  One (Amazon) was $2.95, but was in Spanish or some other foreign thing.  The other was something other than the Disney.  I Googled online and found that YouTube had several choices, including one in HD.  I went back to ROKU, scrolled down to YOU TUBE and there it was.  I was waiting for instructions on how to pay an anticipated  rental fee when it started playing. Sumbitch!!  Later: she grew tired of it half way so I'm glad it was free.

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Clarkson's Back?

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Jeremy Clarkson to 'start again' with new car show We don't know where or when, but Jeremy Clarkson will return to television with a new car show.   The news comes by way of his Sunday column in The Times, and helpfully summarized by Britain's The Week. Whether he'll enlist Richard Hammond and James May to join him on the venture is one of the many unknowns about the project, but given that neither is under contract to the BBC, the idea of "the lads" sharing a stage again is hardly inconceivable.    (Via DougM) Again, I think Top Gear had pretty much run its course, although I'm a huge fan of Jezzer, Hammond and May. I think if they scrapped the by now stale celebrity/medium priced car race around the track bit; and the by now stale Stig (especially the "Some say he's ... ) bit, it could be a hit anew. Stig could be replaced with German driver Sabine Schmitz doing  punishment spankings, or being  spanked herself.  While she's nude.  You can do that on Brit telly. My favorite parts were the round table where the lads discussed the news and criticized the nanny state for mucking things up.  The "race" segments are mostly by now predictable and boring.  On the other hand some, like the race to the North Pole, Source of the Nile, Vietnam and USA, etc. segments are classic, so there's that.  I would watch. What are your format ideas?

SOS (Shusssh)

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SONG OF THE SOUTH Kids born after Gerald Ford was president, or thereabouts, have never seen this great Disney film.  Several years ago I bought on eBay a British video tape (still legally sold in England) that had been modified from PAL to NTSC format. A great movie that fell pray to the professional lobby of perpetually offended race baiters; Disney yanked it from US distribution. I wonder if kids today, who have race pounded into their little noggins daily, will find it as delightful and unoffensive as my kids did?  (Putlocker won't work on Apple without a lot of work)

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"Dishonest" Obama by Malik Obama This is the first of two articles on an interview with President Obama’s half-brother Abongo “Roy” Malik Obama conducted via Skype with film director Joel Gilbert. The first article focuses on Malik Obama’s charge that Barack Obama exploited the family in Kenya for political purposes and now has abandoned them. The second article examines the family foundation Malik helped established in Barack Obama’s name and allegations Malik managed funds for the Muslim Brotherhood. “He says one thing and he does another,” said Malik Obama, speaking from his home in Kisumu, Kenya, via Skype with filmmaker Joel Gilbert. “He’s not been an honest man, as far as I’m concerned, in who he is and what he says and how he treats people,” Malik said of his half-brother, noting their relationship was once “very close.” Gilbert, producer of the documentary “Dreams From My Real Father,” which presents a theory that Obama’s mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who was a member of the Communist Party, was the president’s biological father, asked how that made him feel, as the oldest brother in the family. Malik explained the original title of the book was “Where My Father Lies Buried,” a title later changed to “Claims of Inheritance” before it was published as “Dreams.” Malik said Barack sent him a copy of the pre-publication manuscript that included Barack’s handwritten edits, because “he felt like as a representative of his dad, his only elder brother, I should go through the book just to make sure that everything was OK.” “It was a tedious process, and so I just did the best I could,” Malik said. Unwelcome Malik said the problems with his relationship with his half-brother began when Malik attended the first presidential inauguration, Jan. 20, 2009. Gilbert asked him if he felt treated with honor. “No,” Malik answered. “I didn’t feel like we were actually welcome and treated well. I didn’t feel that we were really a part of his program. Gilbert commented that the way the family was treated sounded “very awkward.” “Yeah, not even then, even up til now, it’s like that,” Malik answered. “If I need to see him, then I have to really make an effort and when I go, I do go, then I go in through the back door or at night. This last visit when I went my aunt died in Boston, I really was crushed and broken.” In “Dreams from My Father,” Barack Obama explained that he first learned his father in Kenya had died when he was attending Columbia University in New York City and his Aunt Zeituni called him from Kenya with the news. Gilbert asked Malik if he had asked President Obama for some funds to help bury Zeituni in Kenya. “Yes I did,” Malik responded. “I told him that she’s our aunt, she’s your father’s sister, she loved you very much, and we need to do something for her. We need around $20,000, and he said that was too much and that it seemed like she deserves what she got. DNA test? In the Skype interview, Malik Obama acknowledged he had watched a DVD copy of Gilbert’s documentary, “Dreams From My Real Father,” which the filmmaker sent to him. In the film, Gilbert posits his theory that the “Frank” mentioned 22 times in “Dreams from My Father,” now known to be Communist Party agitator Frank Marshall Davis, is Barack Obama Jr.’s biological father. Gilbert says the emphasis of his film is Davis’ influence on the young Obama as a mentor, but he maintains there is strong evidence to support his theory that Davis was the real father. Gilbert’s circumstantial evidence for a Davis paternity – including intimate magazine photos he believes Davis took of Ann Dunham and mention of Davis’ reference in a novel to a sexual relationship with a teen – has been challenged, but Gilbert contends the theory still is plausible. He argues further that “the body of my entire film is about many pieces of evidence.” Regarding the nude photos, he disputes the contention that the model in the photos was published before Ann Dunham came to Hawaii. Davis’ photos appeared in many titles of vintage men’s magazines throughout the 1960s, he said, and publication dates listed in a 1998 retrospective collection are inconsistent with original magazine dates. He argues further that Ann Dunham’s front teeth and recessed teeth are a match to the magazine model. Regarding the reference to an “Anne” in Davis’ novel, “Sex Rebel,” hand-written letters have surfaced in which Davis confirms the book was autobiographical “non-fiction.” In the interview, Gilbert asked Malik if he believed Barack Obama Jr. had a resemblance to Davis. “There’s a great resemblance,” Malik agreed. “I think Frank Marshall Davis and Barack do look alike.” Malik referenced the facial moles and pigmentation spots that appear to indicate a genetic link between the two men. Gilbert then asked Malik if he thought Obama Jr. resembled Obama Sr. “Not really, I don’t,” Malik replied. “Your movie definitely puts a lot of questions in my mind.” Gilbert asked Malik if he would “like to see or do a DNA test one day to know for sure.” “That would really prove whether we are related or not,” Malik responded. “Yes. I would be willing to do that. I don’t know how I’d deal with it, if it really came out that he is a fraud or a con.” “It might be the reason why he made such a big deal about you politically, but personally he doesn’t feel the bond,” Gilbert suggested. “I’m agreeing,” Malik said. “Yeah, I agree with that, because it’s hard to understand how somebody can make such an about turn and make a big play about where he comes from and then once he gets what he gets, wants nothing to do with that place anymore. “We need an explanation, and if you can provide the explanation, it would be better for all of us so we won’t be hanging, hoping for nothing,” Malik continued. “That’s what I really feel for my people … because they keep hoping. Maybe they’re hoping for nothing,” he said. “Because he doesn’t mention it [his African family roots] anymore, where he comes from or who his relatives are. He doesn’t say any of those things anymore. “It’s really disappointing, Joel, but that’s life. We live with it and move on, and we wait for the truth to come out.” Gilbert asked Malik what he would like to see happen next in his relationship with President Obama. “I’d like to see him be for real, not be so deceptive,” Malik answered. “He should live up to his word and be the leader that we expected him to be,” he said. “If he truly is my father’s son, then he needs to behave in a way that if my father was back, was alive, he would be proud of him, because although my dad went through what he went through, he would never abandon his family.” [Full] Csimon: It is my firm belief that Frank is his biological father — Frank Marshall Davis, Black Communist ( card-carrying ) out of Chicago. Stanley sent Barry to be raised as a teen by his FATHER. Hence, the endless hours of ‘Frank’ discussing politics with what would otherwise be just a neighborhood kid. It appears I've focused on Frank Marshall Davis at least 8 times before, so this makes 9.  To what purpose?  Continuity I guess.  I've for a long time felt it more likely than not, that Obama's father was Davis or Malcolm X, with Davis making more sense.  To give Obama his due, he, like you and me,  take as gospel what our parents tell us about our birth.  Of course at some point we'll probably have to produce an actual birth certificate, and what happens if  it doesn't square with what we were told?   There is unquestionably a problem with Obama's papers.  We know this for certain because he's issued several different certificates, all reliably shown to be bogus; so why? One answer might be that if a young man is being groomed for a high stakes political presence, the revelation that one's father was an avowed and active communist might create something of a roadblock.  Whatever the answer, we know that Barry whatever-his-name is an avowed communist intent on destroying the United States. Joe Stalin might just as well be living on Pennsylvaia Ave.

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Wisconsin Police State USA PATRICK FREY ON WISCONSIN’S DIRTY DEEP STATE DOINGS: This is one of the creepiest articles I have ever read. It reminds me of my experience being SWATted — having armed police rush into my home in what looked like retaliation for my speech. Yet in the case described in the article, the SWATting is actually being carried out . . . by the government. In Wisconsin, citizens had cops bust into their homes with battering rams. Property was taken from their homes, in full view of the neighbors — and in some cases officers mocked them. Then the citizens were told that they could tell nobody about what had happened. If they did, they could go to jail. All for exercising their First Amendment rights. Essentially, for being conservatives. And on Twitter, some lefties — including allegedly reputable outfits like the Alliance For Justice — are celebrating it. Alliance for Justice? More like “Alliance for Just Us.” Related: “America, land of the free, home of battering-ram home invasions of conservative critics of state officials.” UPDATE: Kevin Williamson: Every time a local grand jury investigating a police department comes to a decision that some politicians don’t like, there is a call for a federal civil-rights investigation. In Wisconsin, we have a clear and obvious case of out-of-control authorities conducting a campaign, possibly criminal, of police suppression targeting people for their political beliefs, a gross violation of their civil rights. Where’s the investigation? Question for the lawyers here: Isn’t this a case for the Civil Rights Act of 1871, a.k.a. the Klan Act? That act forbids any state or local authority acting under color of law from depriving U.S. citizens of their civil rights under federal law. This seems like an obvious remedy to me. Well, the Klan was a bunch of Democrats concerned about the locals getting uppity, too. ANOTHER UPDATE: In the comments, Prof. Stephen Clark observes: Every Democrat should repeatedly be asked whether they support the police state tactics used by Democrats in Wisconsin. As with Rand Paul every media interviewer should be asked by candidates to answer the same as the price for continuing the interview. Wisconsin Democrats should be made into a public embarrassment for Democrats generally. Behavior of this kind will cease only when it carries a global political cost. Indeed. Excellent point. (Via Insta Pundit)