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Early in his talk show career, David Letterman said,

"I have an arrangement with Al Sharpton. I call him 'Reverend.' And he calls me 'Admiral.'

"You MUST buy tickets! You MUST!"

The North Korean approach to marketing can only produce the cued applause of a party conference.

Theoria asked "And when did we vote to be a minority in our own country?

When middle class American whites decided to stop having children. We voted by not raising enough kids in two-parent households, and by ceding the raising of the few children we do have to day care centers instead of households.

By doing that, we sentenced ourselves to eventual minority status. It's really that simple. No politician in the GOP would dare to stand up today and declare out loud "Stay together and have more babies to win in 2050!" yet that's exactly the message that needs to go out.

Yeah...

Well, if you actually READ the State Dept requirements, it also lists the following as three of the ten criteria:

•Evidence that your work has been displayed at artistic exhibitions or showcases
•Evidence that you command a high salary or other significantly high remuneration in relation to others in the field
•Evidence of your commercial successes in the performing arts

So. Her photos were in Sports Illustrated. #1 satisfied. She got well paid for it, because SI pays better rates than anyone for their Swimsuit issue. #2 check. And she was continually hired as a model, which count as performing arts. #3 done. So, CBS needs to learn actual reporting. And as for Mr. Morrison, just what were his credentials for getting elected in the first place? Nobody seems to scrutinize those jobs anymore.

Actually, instead of slogging your way through a lot of hearsay and nonsense, try starting with some authentic, basic source materials that are respected and recommended by both Masons and non-Masons alike.

https://www.amazon.com/Freemasons-Dummies-Christopher-Hodapp/dp/1118412087

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiot-Guide-Freemasonry-2nd/dp/1615642374/r

Before streaming, before TCM, before AMC, before VCRs and film rentals, and before internet access to all of the knowledge and trivia in the world, every town’s classic movie fans relied on local hosts like Tom Hatten in Los Angeles (or Dave Smith’s ‘When Movies Were Movies’ in Indianapolis) for their weekly dose of knowledge of the great films that came before us. Tom Hatten introduced us to Hope and Crosby’s Road pictures, Rathbone’s Sherlock, the inside scoop on Bogart and Bacall, and endless anecdotes from Hollywood lore like WC Fields filling in his fish pond after Anthony Quinn’s child fell in and drowned. Before we all became self-proclaimed experts by looking at Wikipedia, Tom Hatten and so many more movie hosts were our collective Hollywood knowledge base.

Requiescat in pace, old friend.

Reverse-engineering how "black people felt demeaned" a century ago is the very worst example of the Howard Zinn brand of collective guilt-mongering. They might very well have felt that way, or some may have, while most may not, or vice versa. Much more LIKELY is that the majority of blacks who encountered things like the "Abraham" sequence in "Holiday Inn" rolled their eyes with an "Oh, brother..." sigh, thinking "Stupid white people."

Demeaned? Unikely. And they laughed the loudest at Richard Pryor blacking up Gene Wilder in 'Silver Streak.'

The difference today is that 50% of American society raised on collective guilt and the original sin of racism walks around like an open sore, just itching to find offense, hatred, bias, and all of the other sores they've been raised to hunt down like bloodhounds. Two generations of being told "You mustn't say 'hate', honey" and "Be sure you're becoming to everyone, honey" has now become the adults who act like squalling toddlers. And God help us all, because these imbeciles will decide whether to keep our life support machines running...

We are no longer living in the America of our Founders. Thanks to the public education system and the terrorists who took it over for their own ends, we are now living in Howard Zinn's America. Millennials were raised on his bile and twisted writings in their so-called 'textbooks' all across the country. And woe are we who are now consigned to a future governed by these throngs of historically illiterate toddlers who occupy positions of power, influence, and control.

“Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

In socialist France... Gas is $7.06 / gallon. Electricity is $0.17 / kWh. Taxes are high. "There's no god, but Allah."

Meanwhile, today in Texas... Gas is $1.69 / gallon. Electricity is $0.11 / kWh. Taxes are low. And there's money left for Christmas.

"Transition doesn’t have to make me happy for me to want it. Left to their own devices, people will rarely pursue what makes them feel good in the long term. Desire and happiness are independent agents..."

True enough. And when people are suffering with an addiction to something that is personally destructive, the medical community and society as a whole have historically always felt it incumbent to either find a way to prevent them from hurting themselves and/or others, to find a therapy to wean them from that addiction, or to deny them access to it altogether. The inverse opposite of this past philosophy has now been tossed into the ash heap, and every addiction of any kind is now to be catered to, supplied, and even celebrated. Right is wrong. Black is white. Up is down.

“Should have been an International Park.”

With bike paths...

Amazon will rue the day they decided on the NYC area. These shrieking proglodytes will make their lives a living hell and tie them up in court for years as they try to acquire land, get permits, and start building. It will cost them twice as much as it would if they had picked Indianapolis, Nashville or somewhere else. Look what Obama is dealing with in Chicago with his own private monument. The neighborhood is tying them up in knots - and that’s where they supposedly love him.

I think you guys missed the point of my recap. I assure everyone, I am not engaging in Soros-style trolldom. The list shows what utter pig swill this whole addled accusation snorted up by Avenatti is. No rational human being could read this declaration and give her account ANY credence in reference to ANYTHING involving Kavenaugh.

Obviously Swetnick reached out to Avenatti because all the good, high quality reputable attorneys were busy finding out if Spartacus Booker really did violate Senate rules...

Let's recap:

1. Julie is two years older than Brett and Mark and their classmates, so she's repeatedly hanging out with younger kids (or is a "super-senior"). A 17-19 year old female from a different school hanging out with 15-17 year old students. Think back to your own high school parties and ask how common this was.

2. She's from a public high school at least a half hour drive away from Brett's posh private school. While not at all unheard of, it's nevertheless rare from crossover socializing like this in tony high school parties.

3. She attends ten parties between 1981-83, witnessing "gang rapes," and continuing to attend.

4. She claims Brett and Mark are continually spiking the punch and arranging the gang rapes.

5. She accuses 15-17 year old Brett of inappropriately grabbing and fondling of girls, and attempting to get them to expose parts of their bodies.

6. She accuses teenaged Brett of grinding against girls (please see archive film footage of dancing styles in the late 1970s through the early 1980s, and note whether this was the common styles, reciprocated by female dance partners).

7. She alleges that she was raped in 1982 as part of one of these alleged gang rapes that allegedly regularly took place at the ten parties she allegedly attended. Neither Brett nor Mark are alleged to have participated in the actual rape.

8. And yet despite this terrible allegation, she continued to attend parties with the very same people, including 15-17 year old Brett and Mark, for another year.

If true, surely the streets of Maryland would be littered with the numerous other victims of these gang rape parties Julie alleges happened, and there must be a flood of them who came forward over the last three months to make their own complaints against Brett once he was nominated.

And clearly Julie was so traumatized that she would have immediately told others of her ordeal and immediately stopped attending these rape parties.

And surely Julie was so repulsed by Brett's nomination to the Supreme Court that she rushed to tell this allegation to anyone and everyone back in July, or when Trump released his pre-election list of potential nominees for the future court.

“O Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.” -Shakespeare

Soros' fine hands are all over this. Whoda thunkit?

The article you quoted had a link down in the text to the Gannett-owned paper in Delaware in which Timmons once again old this story. The story was supposedly in yesterday’s paper. Yet, the link to it is now dead just a day later, and the paper’s site itself seems to have purged her story today. t doesn’t show up in a search anywhere.

Oh noes! Conservatives in the Church! Shock and horrors! Wherever did they come from?!

Funny. It's the same sort of sentence that used to appear in the 1950s in various organizations, except it was Communist infiltrators back then. Now it's Conservatives.

I could pick a better century out of a hat, blindfolded.

Mitt Romney is calling on Americans to “categorically and consistently reject racism and discrimination”...

Because our deplorable half of America has been presumably embracing racism and discrimination until Saint Mitt gave us this stern lecture, right? And meanwhile, do allow him to whip out photos of his parents posing with famous Negroes to prove his own saintliness (see his personal website from which this maudlin polemic is taken).

The Left, the Press, the Never Trumpers and all the rest continue to get it wrong when they fall into lockstep with this "you're all racists" smear, and I suspect they will have stepped into a slop bucket when the November election results come in. (David Brooks pulled the same crap this week on PBS, with the same arrogant supposition that Trump is all about "white identity.") They haven't figured out that Trump’s America has no color, because he grew up in a post-1960s society that taught us all we were supposed to be color-blind. But the Left and the Never Trumpers are damned, bound and determined to keep pounding the race drums, to keep trying to divide us, to carve us into ever tinier clots of squalling toddlers, endlessly complaining how offended everyone is. The Left and the Never Trumpers are firmly rooted in their belief that 50% of this country is inhabited by brown skin-hating, white supremacists, and that our President has tapped in to our inner brown shirts.

Well, 26% of American blacks support him now, and that number keeps rising, as does the percentage of pro-Trump hispanics.

So it's utter pap.

America is a child of the Enlightenment, and skin color hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it.

Yep, a half of a century ago. And today, we’re hitching rides on Russian rockets because we don’t even have the ability to launch humans into space anymore. And for some of our own rockets for satellite launches, we’re buying old, surplus Russian rocket motors because we can’t or won’t manufacture our own anymore.