BLUF: [Da Tech Guy Blog] Chicago, like other Midwestern cities, was settled first by New Englanders and upstate New Yorkers, white Anglo-Saxon protestants mainly. But Irish people fleeing the Potato Famine and seeking work on such projects as the Illinois & Michigan Canal, along with Germans, were the first wave of immigrants to Chicago. My great-great grandfather, another John Ruberry, was part of this wave. But the Irish already knew English and the arguably more numerous Germans initially did not. Which meant that the Irish were able to qualify for government jobs. Then some of them made the logical next step‐run for political office.
The eighteenth-century Irish were unwilling subjects of the British Empire‐they viewed government as an alien force and many didn’t see anything wrong with stealing from that government. Old habits are hard to break‐and many Irish-Americans saw public service as an opportunity to stuff their pockets with bribes and kickbacks‐and to place their friends and relatives in other government positions. Or to offer other friends and relatives government contracts, who might reward their patrons with "gifts."
[Guardian] The revered producer has been at the centre of pop since the days of Roxy Music. But don’t ask him about the past ‐ he’s more interested in how to reorder society. Lengthy and provocative.
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Interesting - while I think Frank Zappa had the most IQ in the music industry, I'd place Brian Eno up there. Not sure the exact place, though. Have at it on this one, fellow Rantburgers - I'd like to see what the general opinion is on this one.
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The left is a leach that has almost drained the patient. You gotta give the patient a chance to recover before you can suck the blood again. Some on the left know this.
[GruntWorks11b] I know you don't know me. I know you don't even think about me and when you do, it's probably not anything nice. I'm the evil hegemonically masculine patriarchal oppressor to you feminists. I'm the jackbooted statist thug to you dope smokin' long-haired hippies. I'm "The Man" to you racial activists. I'm the idiot who joined the military because I "wasn't smart enough" to go get a liberal arts degree like you know-it-all 20-year-old college dipshits; and for some reason you hate me for that. I'm that guy with the rifle who signed on the dotted line for $24K a year so that you budding Marxist fucksticks could have the freedom to complain about me and the manner in which I provide it. I have a little message for you.
I see you there, in Portland... In Chicago... In San Francisco... In Bumfuck Directional School Liberal Arts College... You're having your temper tantrums because ever since mommy dropped you off at Daycare 20 years ago you've been throwing them to get your way. Now you're super pissed about the results of a presidential election where the other guy (and the only guy in the race for that matter) won.
I'm not here to talk politics, or explain the Electoral College, or to tell you what hypocritical douchebags you are for doing the things you're doing. No. I have a much simpler conversation to have with you. See, I read what you post on Twitter, Facebook, and your various internet blogs. I see you on the news breaking things, setting fires, and assaulting people of the opposite political belief. I see you there with your fat ugly unshaven feminist women and black power slogan screaming race baiters, throwing rocks and bottles at the lines of police officers trying to keep order in your own cities. I know your rhetoric. I know all your identity politics stems from the Marxist activists and 'intellectuals' who have pushed the American left farther left than ever before. I know you believe your "progressive" views are the supreme moral authority on every single issue and somehow this perception allows you to justify your totalitarian social views and hypocritical violent outbursts. You profess to hate half this country for their alleged bigotry while carrying signs that say "Love Wins!"
I also know you're a coward.
I know this because you keep screaming, and blogging, and protesting, and even rioting... but you won't start this "uprising" you keep going on and on about. If you really believe that your cause is just, that the majority supports you, and that the United States needs to be overthrown to make way for your Progressive social utopia of sunshine and free shit... pick up a gun and start your revolution like every other communist group in history. See, I come from an organization that spent the better part of the last century training to fight a bunch of little commie heathens, and I have a pretty healthy respect for any Ivan who was willing to pick up an AK47 and parachute onto the continent ready to overthrow the USA. That takes some guts. You're not like him though. You're quite different actually. Ivan was in shape. You're a bunch of 'fat acceptance' advocates who complain airline seats are too small for your 9,000 calories per day diet. Ivan was a proud masculine man. You have drag queens and fat feminist women with green hair. Ivan grew up mining coal and hunting wolves in the Urals. You want socialism because you're upset that you can't get a 6-figure job at age 24 with the bullshit arts degree you spent all that loan money on and haven't done a day of physical labor in your life. Ivan was a veteran of Stalingrad, Afghanistan, and a dozen bush wars. You think "Call of Duty" is too violent and sexist. Ivan packed an AK47 and knew how to use it. Those among you leftists now who even have weapons ditch them after you rob the liquor store or 7/11 and go hide out at your aunt's Section 8 housing. You don't have the discipline Ivan did, at least he used the sights. Ivan killed jihadists by the thousands. You make excuses for them and want to invite them into our country.
You all have your reasons for hating America and whether or not I agree isn't even relevant. I took an oath as did all of my brothers and sisters in uniform to defend this country against all enemies foreign AND domestic. I will always protect your rights to free speech and expression through lawful and civil protest whether or not your cause is something I believe in. However, you seem to believe revolution and violence are the answer now, and that makes you a domestic enemy of the United States I protect and serve. Do it and I'll teach you how we make the fuckin' green grass grow. You keep saying you want a revolution, secession, a new Civil War and the election of "Racist/sexist/homophobic/Republican/Nazi/xenophobic/dictator/Islamophobic/rich guy asshole" Donald Trump is the catalyst for you to take action and destroy every evil you perceive this country to stand for...
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If CNN sees this they'll lead with "Pro-Trump, Pro-Russian Soldier Threatens Mainstream Citizens who are Just Exercising their Civil Rights."
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With all the violent tweeting and adamant expressions of "resistance", it is odd that the vanguard of the proletariat have not taken arms against this sea of troubles etc. I think the now fashionable post modern view that words do actual violence to their target has caused an odd disconnect between means and ends. Thus a tweet seems equivalent to a long burst from a .50 cal MG. The war is on but it only in dreams. One doubts they will ever find a real trigger.
[AmericanThinker] The print edition of Friday’s Washington Post, on the last page of the A Section, contained a full-page advertisement featuring a “painting” of an arresting Muslim woman in an American flag hijab. The image appears to be the work of Shepard Fairley, the artist who created the now iconic (if illegally copied) Obama Hope picture of 2008. It is a clever and insidious piece of leftist/Islamist propaganda put out by a far-left organization called the Amplifier Foundation, which obviously hopes it will become as well known and popular as Fairley’s Obama image. It is worth examining for its tricks and illusions, as a cautionary example of how far the left can go, and how effective it can still be, in the age of Trump.
Image can be seen at the link, along with the examination.
Nor does it appear that the organization that produced and published the image is a small proletarian band of brave liberal artists as their website implies. Full back page ads at the Washington Post are not cheap, running $28,954 for a weekday edition. That shows the organization is backed by someone with serious cash on hand.
The image was clearly prepared and published to support the Women’s March on Washington, another far left propaganda stunt promoted in the mainstream media as an organic grassroots movement, but which is much more deliberate and insidious. The Amplifier Foundation appears to be heavily involved in the enterprise. This image was created and distributed at considerable expense to promote an anti-American leftist agenda that if carried to its philo-Islamist fruition would be extremely harmful to American women. This is quite good evidence of unseen hostile leftist financing such as George Soros or the like. Since the left is now back in protest mode rather than in executive control, we can expect to see a lot more like this.
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first use of American Flag as Hijab was at least as far back as 2015 - it was featured on FoxNews.
I doubt wearing an American Flaq as any part of ones clothing would go well with serious Islamic scholars. This is because it shows loyalty to a nation outside of the world of Islam.
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[DAWN] THE thana is an exceedingly grim place in Pakistain. Rather than being an integral part of the community, the local cop shoppe is a place to be feared. The main reason for this is the police’s extensive use of physical violence including torture while dealing with suspects. As reported in this paper on Monday, a video of coppers assaulting two individuals in Lahore’s Thokar Niaz Baig area that made it to the TV channels has once again exposed the brutish methods employed by our law enforcers. As per the report, the police had signalled the two men -- on a cycle of violence -- to stop, and when they refused to comply, the officers gave chase and thereafter gave the two suspects a hiding. Indeed, in these days of rampant militancy and violent crime, law enforcers are under tremendous pressure and at times have to apply force against dangerous suspects. But these are exceptional circumstances, whereas physical violence has been an insidious part of Pakistain’s thana culture as far back as memory serves. In fact, as a Human Rights Watch report released last year notes, police brutality is a countrywide problem. And as some law-enforcement experts have pointed out, the culture of police brutality happens to be common across South Asia.
Perhaps the main reason our law enforcers employ such dreadful tactics is that our policing model -- for the most part -- is a remnant of the colonial age, ill-suited to protect and serve the populace of a modern state. As experts have repeatedly said, until the policing model changes, it will be nearly impossible to wipe out the use of torture by police personnel. Instead of a policing model that dates back to the days of the Raj, community policing is the need of the day, through which coppers can take citizens into confidence and use modern scientific methods to pursue cases. Employing violence has failed to make Pakistain safer, and has only widened the chasm of mistrust between the people and the police.
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[Right Wing Granny] The idea that Israel belongs to anyone except the Jews does not hold water historically. The British named the area of Israel Palestine as an insult to the Jewish people who lived there‐it had nothing to do with there being a state of Palestine. Such a state never existed.
The majority of that land that was originally given to Israel was given to Jordan. After the war in 1948, the Armistice Agreements left Jordan in control of the West Bank. In 1950, Jordan annexed the West Bank and gave all residents Jordanian citizenship. Until the 1967 War, the people living in the West Bank were considered Jordanian citizens. As I have noted in previous posts, Walid Shoebat stated, "One day during the 1960s I went to bed a Jordanian Muslim, and when I woke up the next morning, I was informed that I was now a Palestinian Muslim, and that I was no longer a Jordanian Muslim."
So where am I going with this? Pamela Geller posted an article on her website on January 12 about a court case in the Court of Appeal of Versailles France.
[Free Beacon] Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader condemned Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.) on Sunday for softening his stance against Israel.
Nader said Ellison’s tamped down anti-Israel rhetoric was an attempt to placate establishment political leaders as part of his effort to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the Observer reported.
Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, has complained that Israel controls U.S. foreign policy while lauding Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
Speaking at the Progressive Unity Summit, Nader said Ellison no longer embodied one of the "top progressive legislators in the Congress" as he did five years ago. The 82-year-old environmentalist accused Ellison of attempting to pull support from DNC chair opponent Thomas Perez, who served as labor secretary under the Obama administration.
"When he started running for the chair of the DNC, he began changing: toning down his opinions, not repeating progressive positions," Nader said. "Then he said that, because he was losing ground to the establishment who wanted former Secretary of Labor Perez to be the chair, he said, well he would quit his seat, won’t be a part-time chair, starts backing off on Israel-Palestine issue."
"So I think, do we have the real Keith Ellison or do we have a transformed, conditioned Keith Ellison so desperate for the position that he’s forgotten a lot of his own former courageous stands and is willing to spend the lot of his time raising money from Democratic Party fat cats, which is the prime occupation of the chair of the Democratic National Committee," Nader continued.
The DNC will elect a successor to current chairwoman Donna Brazile next month. Nader predicted that Perez would easily win the slot.
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Mr. Nader is of Lebanese descent, Greek Orthodox version. And he's of a certain age, so he'll have been fed Jew hatred in Sunday school and Israel hatred at home and by his Progressive friends at Promceton and Harvard.
One of the most striking things about Donald Trump’s accession to the presidency has been the over-the-top reaction of his opponents. One would need a heart of stone not to laugh at some of the expressions of dismay exhibited by Democrats, such as the now-famous protester who simply screamed "Noooo!" as the oath was taken, or Madonna saying she "thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House."
But in fact, this reaction to an election loss -- by anyone, to any candidate -- is not entirely irrational. Elections matter, after all. In fact, these days they matter too much. In the wake of the 2008 election, writer Jerry Pournelle observed: "We have always known that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. It's worse now, because capture of government is so much more important than it once was. There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long time -- not during most of your lifetimes, and for much of mine -- and it will probably never be true again."
In other words, if Americans increasingly find it intolerable that their political opponents control the government, that’s because government controls too much.
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Omaha Beach and a 100 meters of flat sand without a stick of cover...takes a very special person to even get out of the boat much less try running across the sand to the cliffs...I still can't believe they did that...after all of my experiences, I still stand in awe of Omaha Beach
[VictoryGirlsBlog] A hypocrite is defined as a person who "acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings." Examples of hypocrisy have been plentiful in the news recently. Just in case you weren’t sure, here are thirteen signs you might be a hypocrite.
Heather Wilson is the nominee. New Mexico is her home. She served her nation and her state, in the Air Force, and as one of New Mexico's U.S. Representatives.
The question is, do the issues she advocated in her loss to her Democratic rival more closely align with yours?
(And, mods, if this doesn't work, remember, it's my first post.)
Looks great! We'll be looking forward to more of your posts.
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Was my old district. Was an assistant the prior Trunk Rep who died in office. Basically a blue district. Held off several challenges till she till she backed Bush's drug plan (the slippery slope to Obamacare). Unsuccessfully ran in the primary for the Senate. My location was subsequently gerrymandered to the safe southern Trunk district.
After Trump’s victory in the presidential elections, the hashtag #NotMyPresident trended on Twitter for several days.
The proponents of the hashtag argued, among other things, that Trump was an illegitimate president because:
1. He was racist/sexist.
2. Russians Interfered with the elections.
3. Trump lost the popular vote.
On a completely unrelated note, the annual football Superbowl will take place on Sunday the 5th of February, 2017.
The football match which will take place at the NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas, will see the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons compete for the prestigious cup.
A few hours ago, the hashtag #NotMySuperbowl begun trending on Twitter. The hashtag was meant to satirize the #NotMyPresident hashtag, and it does a pretty good job it it.
Whether you are personally a Trump fan or not, there’s no denying that these are genuinely funny: See at the link
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.
[Free Beacon] Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader condemned Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.) on Sunday for softening his stance against Israel.
After Trump’s victory in the presidential elections, the hashtag #NotMyPresident trended on Twitter for several days.
