Dear L Dotters.
We are heartbroken. Our beloved Lucianne passed away peacefully and surrounded by loved ones in her own home, the way she wanted. But she has left a whole in our lives that we can never fill completely.
Lucianne was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. She was also a patriot who expressed her love of this country with both political fierceness and penetrating wit.
Used to visit her site every day. She had a good site concept and was one of the first conservative 'news aggregators' that brought forth articles that didn't fit the mainstream narrative.
Hopefully those folks still there carry this work on.
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But she inflicted Jonah Goldberg on the world. The score is neutral.
Posted by: Big Brother Is Sniffing You ||
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive and well in Memphis, despite an earlier report erroneously claiming he had passed away.
After claiming that he had died, TMZ then reported that someone claiming to be Lewis' representative had incorrectly informed them Lewis had passed, which turned out to not be true.
Lewis - whose first hit was the 1957 track Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, followed by the iconic song Great Balls Of Fire - recently sparked health concerns among fans when it was revealed that he had been suffering from the flu.
A representative for Lewis told Page Six: 'He's alive. TMZ reported erroneously off of a bulls—t anonymous tip.'
Lewis' recent health issues forced the star to miss his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame after catching the flu.
His team posted a photo of the musician in bed as he received the award from Kris Kristofferson, who accepted the gong in his honor.
Accompanying the photo was his acceptance note, where he expressed his 'heartfelt sadness and disappointment' at not being able to attend the ceremony in person.
'It is with heartfelt sadness and disappointment that I write to you today from my sick bed, rather than be able to share my thoughts in person,' began his acceptance note.
'I tried everything I could to build up the strength to come today - I've looked so forward to it since I found out about it earlier this year. My sincerest apologies to all of you for missing this fine event, but I hope to see you all soon.
'To be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame is the highest honor in Country music. Through over 60 years singing music professionally, country has always been the genre where I felt the most at home - between my fellow artists, the radio and the industry players -- some of them anyway.'
'I am honored to be going into that Hall of Fame rotunda with some of my heroes - Hank Williams Sr., Jimmie Rodgers and the like - not to mention so many amazing friends who have been so good to me through the years.
'Thank you all for your support and love and for electing me into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and most of all, thanks to God for allowing me to experience this honor while I am still here.'
'Since I could not be in-person with you today, I have asked one of my closest and dearest friends to accept this great honor for me - and he's no stranger to this process: the legendary, Kris Kristofferson.'
Nicknamed The Killer, Lewis's pioneering music career began in the 1950s and both Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Beatle Paul McCartney have named him as their inspiration.
In one interview, Jagger said: 'Jerry Lee Lewis is a pioneer who introduced the world to a whole new level of showmanship.'
Elvis Presley once said that if he could play the piano like Lewis, he would stop singing.
Lewis is famed for his showmanship — he once played a burning piano — a turbulent private life and seven marriages.
Lewis was in the first class inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, and he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame last week.
Got ta find a way to chill out the masses "in These Trying Times" So a "New Normal" needs to be used for a few years. An of course Banning weed usage "Discriminates and is Racist" .
[ZeroHedge] In a number of German states, the country’s main conservative opposition party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), is already listed as a "potential threat" to democracy and is being monitored by security services. However, in Bavaria, the party just won at least a partial victory against similar surveillance efforts.
The Administrative Court of Munich has blocked the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s main domestic intelligence service, from monitoring the Bavarian state chapter of the AfD party. In other states like Thuringia, the BfV can read all emails and monitor the telephone calls of all AfD members without a warrant, but the Munich judges blocked these methods in Bavaria. The judges found that such an operation "severely interferes with the party’s activities with the risk of clandestine spying."
In addition, the BfV is prohibited from making public statements claiming the AfD was threatening democracy or the German constitution.
There is "the danger of an impairment of the equal chances of the party in particular regarding the future federal state election campaign," the court ruled. However, the party must accept "at least to be observed from publicly accessible sources."
Currently, there is a push to list the entire AfD as suspects in an anti-democracy case at the federal level, essentially putting the entire party structure under surveillance. In addition, politicians from a wide range of parties, including the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens, the Left, and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), have pushed for an outright ban on their electoral rival during a time when, according to polling, the AfD has exploded in popularity,
However, the Munich court only issued an interim ruling, and proceedings are still ongoing. The judges indicated that they want to "carry out their own evaluation of the material submitted, which comprises several thousand pages."
The Bavarian Interior Ministry can also appeal the decision within the next two weeks.
The AfD expressed its support for the decision. If only in America we could get such a ruling.
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1) What is the point of having a national intelligence service if they can't just do whatever they want?
2) If they were any good, how would you know what they are up to?
3) I would be interested in hearing EC's take on this.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
