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The Amazing Disappearing Media Narrative

by coldwarrior ( 103 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, DOJ, Donald Trump, Elections 2016, Open thread, Politics at April 4th, 2017 - 8:08 am

American Spectator has a good read about the Trump / Russia… what is the word that I am looking for…. ah, yes Nontroversy.

Get yinz some popcorn!

The media’s biased coverage of Obamagate continues to shift. First, reporters feigned outrage that Trump would dare to say that the saintly Barack Obama had spied on him. Never mind that Trump’s assertion sparked off their own reporting — reports clearly based on criminal leaks from Obama aides spying on Trump. But now reporters are pursuing a new line of attack against Trump, which can be translated as: Yes, Obama spied on you — and good for him. Take a look at this headline from a column at Slate magazine hastily run after the revelation that top Obama aide Susan Rice had snooped on Trump and his associates: “I Hope Susan Rice Was Keeping Tabs on Trump’s Russia Ties.”

Look how far the progressive champions of “civil liberties” have fallen. These are the same liberals who call Nixon a monster for having justified political espionage on specious national security grounds. Could anyone imagine Slate running a column lauding Richard Nixon for spying on Daniel Ellsberg?

How did we find out about Susan Rice’s role in Obamagate? Not from the mainstream media at first, but from a pro-Trump blogger named Mike Cernovich, who says he found out about the Rice story from a disgruntled staffer at a publication unwilling to publish it. In other words, he pulled a Matt Drudge. On Sunday night, Cernovich wrote that he had “been informed that Maggie Haberman has had this story about Susan Rice for at least 48 hours, and has chosen to sit on it in an effort to protect the reputation of former President Barack Obama.”

PLEASE READ THE REST, it is worth it

Paging Susan RIce, call your lawyer….

A Monday Open

by coldwarrior ( 104 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at April 3rd, 2017 - 8:05 am

What propaganda will come out today?

Saturday Lecture Series: Lexical Distances

by coldwarrior ( 128 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, History, saturday lecture series at April 1st, 2017 - 6:00 am

Good Morning All! Welcome to the Saturday Lecture Series. Today’s Lecture is a very interesting one.

This lecture is about the relationships that languages in Europe have. The Lexical distance is defined as the more words that they share, the closer they are, and this is graphically represented here in this map.

Here is an excerpt of the article, please click here to read it in its entirety.

A Finn and a Spaniard walk into a bar. How do they strike up a conversation? It would be exceptional for either to speak each other’s language. And it would be rare for both to be fluent enough in French, German, Esperanto or Russian – all languages which once had the ambition to become Europe’s lingua franca.

No, that Finn and that Spaniard will talk to each other and order drinks in English, the true second language of the continent. Also, the bartender is probably Irish anyway.

Europe’s defining trait is its diversity. Europeans don’t have to travel far to immerse themselves in a different culture. And if each only spoke their own language, they wouldn’t even be able to make heads or tails of it.

Or would they?

PLEASE READ THE REST HERE as it explains each node on the map

Further reading on a similar subject

Have a great Saturday! It’s an open thread

A Cartoon Observation

by coldwarrior ( 55 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at March 31st, 2017 - 8:04 am

I have a cartoon observation. The girls (ages 7 and twin 5s) have a morning routine that started a few months ago. After the morning bathroom routine is finished they run downstairs and put on the TV while I get their breakfast. They have every channel known to man at their fingers and at least 15 morning kids show options. So what do they pick every day, and I mean every day?

They pick the old Warner Bros / Loony Tunes every time. Now mind you, they found these on their own. They actually LAUGH at and ENJOY these cartoons. The only other cartoon that they laugh at is SpongeBob. No other cartoons or kid’s shows get this kind of reaction from them. I guess it’s because Bugs isn’t trying to preach a lesson at them and the act of defying gravity for that split second makes the Coyote damned funny.

Now if I can just figure out why most women don’t Find the Three Stooges hysterical. Those guys are comedy GOLD!

It’s an open thread.


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