[NY Post] Keiran Lee may be one of the most successful male pron stars in the world -- but he says when it comes to satisfying his own wife, he can be a flop between the sheets.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun Online, he revealed: "At home with my wife I have to apologize, I am pathetic in bed.
Lee, 33, whose real name is Adam, has slept with thousands of women and even appeared in all his glory as a giant billboard on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard. His career may simply be peaking. I recommend he run for public office in California.
[The Hill] The messy and contentious rollout of the executive order blocking entrance for refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations has dented the stock market surge enjoyed by President Trump since his election. Nothing at all to do with the Dems blocking Trump nominations and perpetuating gov't gridlock. Nothing at all.
Ever since winning the White House in early November, Trump has ridden a wave of stock market success as investors prepared for the business-friendly policies that could come from a Washington controlled entirely by the Republican Party.
But the messy rollout of the order, which barring people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya from traveling to the U.S. for at least 90 days and suspending refugee admissions from all countries for four months and from Syria indefinitely is taking its toll. The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen roughly 225 points, or 1.1 percent, in the two days of trading since Trump announced the travel ban on Friday evening. And corporations, long wary of attracting Trump’s ire, began to speak out against the policy as protests popped up at airports across the country.
The selloff is a modest chip in the roughly 1,500-point rally the Dow has enjoyed since Trump won the election. But it shows that while the private sector eagerly awaits tax cuts and trimmed regulations, there could be agenda items from this White House that are seen as a setback. I'll take the 'ding' as well as the long view, and buy a little more ARLP (resurgent coal industry).
"When you have these mishaps, if that’s what you want to call it, at the White House, that gets people a little worried," said IHS Global Insight Economist Chris Christopher. "But for the most part things are holding up relatively well."
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..... don't forget the economic ties , direct and indirect, to the politicians. Those ARE extensive I'd bet.
Yes, quite extensive no doubt. They (the pols) are somehow exempt from the Wall Street insider trading laws levied against the deplorables. All arrive Washington economically comfortable, but leave multi-millionaires. Can't possibly be their inherent frugality and thriftiness.
[Hurriyet Daily News] It seems that Kurdish-origin voters are going to play an important role in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s upcoming referendum for a shift to an executive presidential system, while the Kurdish problem is also gaining importance in efforts to find a lasting peace in Syria. The latter concerns not only Turkey’s internal balances but also the overall political equation in the Middle East.
At the regional level, a major byproduct of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq in 2003 was the development of an autonomous Kurdish region in the north, bordering both Turkey and Iran. Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was established by the traditionalist Masoud Barzani-led Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), while the modernist Kurdistan Patriotic Union (PUK) leader Jalal Talabani was made president of Iraq. That was considered one consequence of the Iraqi Kurdish parties’ collaboration with the U.S.-led occupation forces after the Turkish Parliament rejected taking part in it.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] It has recently been revealed that the terrorist who featured in a propaganda video for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Hasan Aydin, who was seen with two kidnapped Turkish citizens, of which one was a soldier, was caught on April 2, 2012 and was released after eight months in prison.
Aydin was tried together with Ilhami Bali, the person in charge for borders for the organization, in an al-Qaeda case involving eight other defendants. The case, which opened in 2012 and ended in 2015, ruled Aydin should be sentenced to six years and three months in prison.
It was determined that Aydin was running a mobile dealership in the southern province of Adana and had obtained phone lines using other peoples’ identities to use for the communications of ISIS.
In the same case file, there is information that Aydin had met al-Qaeda’s Syria administrator Marouf Ossi in Adana and had picnicked together.
What I’m trying to draw your attention to here is that, while his trial was ongoing, Aydin was released at the end of eight months, on Dec. 3, 2012.
Al-Qaeda is a terror network and it has carried out atrocious massacres in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , and Aydin is a person who is known to be a member of this terror organization, who has forged telephone lines under other names so that members of the organization can communicate easily, and who has been able to meet the group’s Syria commander in Turkey.
Somehow the court had not taken into account his membership to a terrorist organization, and released him at the end of his eighth month in prison. This ruling was done in a country where people could be held in jail for years for even the most minimal of crimes.
This is not the only time Aydin has been protected by invisible hands. Mind you, these are happening in a country where even elected deputies are being jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and put in prison while their trials are still ongoing.
He is known to have entered Syria with his family four months after his release.
On the other hand, there is the fact that ISIS’s Syria emir is able to enter and exit the country easily, and meet with members of his organization in Adana and have picnics with them. These guys would easily walk in and out of Turkey and carry out activities in Turkey.
The terrorist, who was apprehended, had managed to be released in a very short time and was able to cross into Syria.
All these point out to the era that this country had gone through; for the sake of "toppling Bashir al-Assad," the activities of jihadist turbans were tolerated. During the same time, these terror organizations were able to set up their cells in Turkey, were able to recruit new turbans and gain new sympathizers.
If today we have a damned ISIS terror hanging above our head, one of its reasons, date back to those days.
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Article describes the Big Data tools used by the Trump campaign.
[Vice] The approach that Kosinski and his colleagues developed over the next few years was actually quite simple. First, they provided test subjects with a questionnaire in the form of an online quiz. From their responses, the psychologists calculated the personal Big Five values of respondents. Kosinski's team then compared the results with all sorts of other online data from the subjects: what they "liked," shared or posted on Facebook, or what gender, age, place of residence they specified, for example. This enabled the researchers to connect the dots and make correlations.
Remarkably reliable deductions could be drawn from simple online actions. For example, men who "liked" the cosmetics brand MAC were slightly more likely to be gay; one of the best indicators for heterosexuality was "liking" Wu-Tang Clan. Followers of Lady Gaga were most probably extroverts, while those who "liked" philosophy tended to be introverts. While each piece of such information is too weak to produce a reliable prediction, when tens, hundreds, or thousands of individual data points are combined, the resulting predictions become really accurate.
Kosinski and his team tirelessly refined their models. In 2012, Kosinski proved that on the basis of an average of 68 Facebook "likes" by a user, it was possible to predict their skin color (with 95 percent accuracy), their sexual orientation (88 percent accuracy), and their affiliation to the Democratic or Republican party (85 percent). But it didn't stop there. Intelligence, religious affiliation, as well as alcohol, cigarette and drug use, could all be determined. From the data it was even possible to deduce whether someone's parents were divorced.
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Facebook reminds me of the scene in, I think, the movie Brazil where the car drives down the road, and the road was one continuous wall of billboards. Beyond the billboards, wasteland.
My parrot, the adorable hook-bill Oscar-Wood, distracted me, but essentially, Donald Trump is destroying Barack Hussein Obama's legacy of statism, Islamism, globalism, elitism, post-modernism, and blackism. And I'm loving it.
She does her best work after a glass or two of Gabriëlskloof.
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Depending on the Sitzpinkler Republicans in Congress, Champ's legacy might not survive a month of Trump's presidency. For the most bestest man in the world (just ask his mom) that would be a daunting prospect.
...Here is the key and central point: Foreign Nationals outside the US have no Constitutional protections.
...Persons who are not US citizens and who are not physically present on US territory are called "foreigners." There are about seven billion of them. They have no Constitutional protections at all for the simple reason that they are under the sovereign authority of the entity wherever they may be located.
...But wait, there's more! The president enjoys that actual power right now without consulting with Congress in the slightest. Title 8, Section 1182 of the U.S. Code provides in relevant part:
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
[Breitbart] Mainstream media networks devoted 57 times more coverage to President Donald Trump’s temporary "ban" on travel from seven terror-prone countries than they did to President Barack Obama’s permanent ban on Cuban refugees to the U.S.
That’s according to a NewsBusters investigation, which also found that "[b]etween them, ABC, CBS and NBC only spent 68 seconds during their news coverage the following morning" after Obama ended the "wet foot, dry foot" policy for Cubans. Coming just on the heels of the raid in Yemen, perhaps 'Bannoning' was actually the goal.
[Daily Caller] Prince Faisal bin Hussein told GOP North Carolina Congressman Mark Walker the Jordanian government could not vet Syrian refugees, The Washington Examiner reports.
Walker, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, was in Jordan at the time of the comment for a fact finding mission. The U.S. Department of State reportedly tried to tell Walker that the vetting process was thorough, just hours before Hussein told him, "we can’t vet these people."
The United Nations High Committee on Refugees believes 655,000 Syrian refugees currently reside in Jordan, dispersed across multiple camps.
Hussein’s comments echo the security concerns expressed in the executive order by President Donald Trump Friday that indefinitely suspended the Syrian refugee program. The suspension came just days after news broke that the FBI is revetting Syrian refugees allowed into the U.S. that must be revetted.
BLUF: [Breitbart] Whether you believe in an immortal soul or not, babies are precious.
You may not like some of the grim imagery associated with the anti-abortion movement, and you may find the pictures of dead babies carried by protesters to be tremendously distasteful, BUT THAT IS THE POINT.
Abortion SHOULD be considered terrible. The left knows it, and that is why they do their best to make people think babies are just lumps of cells that magically become humans upon birth.
They prey on vulnerable women who are pregnant, while at the same time brainwashing the youth to praise abortion.
I’d like to remind you that many of the great people in history were born as orphans or adopted. People like Julius Caesar, Bach, Steve Jobs, Aristotle, Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon and Bill Clinton.
What if some of these people hadn’t existed? Don’t say anything about Bill Clinton... without him we wouldn’t have had Sick Hillary’s hilarious campaign!
I call on everyone in this room and the many thousands of people watching at home to reject the cultural conditioning favoring abortion that we are all exposed to. You have already rejected so much, like the lie of campus rate epidemics and the gender pay gap.
I’m asking you to go a little farther... because Western Civilization needs more babies, not fewer.
h/t Instapundit
I’ve spoken at great length on the matter of Weaponized Empathy. It is the primary weapon of the modern Left. Indeed, it so completely dominates their tactical thinking that everything else in their arsenal pales in comparison. Defeating this weapon ought to be the foremost on the mind of any opponent of the Progressive Left.
...What is Weaponized Empathy? It is the deliberate hijacking of your own moral standards, your ability to empathize with your fellow man, in order to force you to serve someone else’s narrative. It is, in essence, a highly sophisticated form of guilt-tripping designed to turn you into a slave.
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It's quite a racket. Choose any field of human endeavor. There will be winners and losers. Side with the losers, declare your moral superiority and issue demands. Rinse and repeat.
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Very good points but not really anything new to the regulars here on Rantburg.
We have seen the 'Green Helmet Guy' trotting around the dead girl from photo-op to photo-op twirling his finger saying 'keep rolling'.
Not to mention the selective reporting and outright lying in the media ("hands up dont' shoot!" comes to mind) in order to rouse the weak-minded rabble.
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Peer pressure from baby adults. Bucked that crap back in grade school.
Four magic words:
Not My Effn Problem.
Funny timing deal. Wife and I were discussing child and sleepovers, or lack of. Wife replies, "Good. I don't want her liking everyone or everyone liking her. Some people are worth pissing off."
[PJ] The venerable Atlantic has already taken a lot of heat for this disgraceful article (see the world-class appendage of corrections at the end) but it's worth taking a brief look at to illustrate just how morally awful the pro-abortion crowd has become:
One of the first measures that Republicans in the 115th Congress proposed was the "Heartbeat Protection Act." On January 11, a group led by Steve King of Iowa introduced a bill that would require doctors nationwide to "check for a fetal heartbeat" before performing an abortion, and prohibit them from completing the procedure if they found one. In December, Republicans in the Ohio state legislature put forth a similar measure. Governor John Kasich vetoed it, observing that such a law would almost certainly be struck down as unconstitutional, but approved a 20-week abortion ban.
Opponents of the heartbeat bills have pointed out that they would eliminate abortion rights almost entirely--making the procedure illegal around four weeks after fertilization, before many women realize that they are pregnant. These measures raise even more elementary questions: What is a fetal heartbeat? And why does it matter?
The idea would have been unthinkable before the advent of a technology developed in 1976: real-time ultrasound. At six weeks, the "heartbeat" is not audible; it is visible, a flickering that takes place between 120 and 160 times per minute on a black-and-white playback screen. As cardiac cells develop, they begin to send electrical pulses that cause their neighbors to contract. Scientists can observe the same effect if they culture cells in a petri dish.
Doctors do not even call this rapidly dividing cell mass a "fetus" until nine weeks into pregnancy. Yet, the current debate shows how effectively politicians have used visual technology to redefine what counts as "life."
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Recently attended the ultrasound "big reveal" of our next great-grandson. He was then at approximately 10 weeks and most assuredly registered a heartbeat. And movement. And so-on.
But he is easy prey for PP and the ghouls that have sold their souls to support it.
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I've long felt the pro-life crowd should push for mandatory ultrasounds before an abortion. For the safety of the mother or whatever. Studies have showed that mothers were less likely to abort when they saw the ultrasound. It'll still be their choice, but it'll be a better educated choice.
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.
[The Hill] The messy and contentious rollout of the executive order blocking entrance for refugees and travelers from seven majority-Muslim nations has dented the stock market surge enjoyed by President Trump since his election.
[Daily Caller] Prince Faisal bin Hussein told GOP North Carolina Congressman Mark Walker the Jordanian government could not vet Syrian refugees, The Washington Examiner reports.
[PJ] The venerable Atlantic has already taken a lot of heat for this disgraceful article (see the world-class appendage of corrections at the end) but it's worth taking a brief look at to illustrate just how morally awful the pro-abortion crowd has become:
