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From NBC Chicago:
Halloween Weekend Marks Deadliest This Year With 17 Dead, 41 Wounded
At least 17 people, including four teenagers, were killed and 41 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday evening and Monday morning, making it the city’s deadliest weekend of the year.
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Spooky. The ghost of Halloween future for the country came to visit Chicago.
Assuming current trends continue.
You’d have thought they were busying themselves with playing Scrabble and beating non-minority opponent after non-minority opponent.
I believe that one reason for the success may be due to the general lack of opportunity for smarts in the black Africa. Perhaps because of corruption, kleptocratic policies, lack of opportunity, patronage, etc, Africans who are intelligent can only find an outlet for their intelligence in dominating board games.
Regardless, I am not satisfied by the pervasive contention that scrabble ability does not correlate strongly with IQ.Replies: @bomag
O/T: Another classic for the ‘Death of the Quality Press‘ folder…
http://time.com/4551711/hillary-clinton-emailgate/?xid=homepage
But it is another nail in the coffin of the MSM. Within a couple of years the likes of "Time" won't exist even online. Its passing will be unmourned.
As classic MSM, Time feels itself susceptible to attack for any random violation, such as using the term "history". Rabid leftist professors teaching perfectly useless fields of study, like a rogue prosecutor, can always find an offensive phrase. Therefore, the implicit contract is "we will give one of you unfettered access to our pages to write whatever she wishes, and you will refrain from attacking us". Discerning readers are expected to know not to take her seriously. In fact, the only reason anyone would read anything Robin Lakoff had to say is 1) you're a student and forced to, or 2) you're worried about her effect on other people more weak-minded.
In the end, the only real losers are the taxpayers of California and the US who are coerced into supporting her professorship, and of course, her students, who spend valuable time and energy learning her useless garbage.
Something similar was printed in the Financial Times last week, also by an American institutional feminist, though not by anyone I'd ever heard of. She said men (implying "white") were being deviously sexist when they say, "I'd vote for a woman, just not this one."
Yeah, like I couldn't vote for Michele Bachmann in the 2012 caucus. I did so with vigor. (She was second-best to Tom Tancredo on my top issue, and unlike Tom, she had legs.)
I can imagine what lefty Brits think of that line applied to Mrs Thatcher. Who was usually above such whining.Replies: @Coemgen
As Mooch and Hussein hosted a White House Halloween party and put on a performance of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. They look really into it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3891874/Barack-Michelle-Obama-perform-Michael-Jackson-s-Thriller-dance-hand-candy-kids-White-House-Halloween-party.html
Lots off photos.
We lost some aspiring scrabble players.
(NB: These are all cross-refs to the current unz.com article arguing that Scrabble is the hardest of all games, and the best players are disproportionately African.)Replies: @res
The website Hey Jackass! has a weekend body count of 17 dead and 44 wounded, defining the weekend as 12 pm Friday through 6 am Monday.
http://heyjackass.com
Stay fetal, Chicago
Now that’s a crappy career choice!
Do two-star generals like John Rossi, with a new job in front of them, generally commit suicide just before they’re due for a third star?
(BBC had a neverTrump RINO guy called Richard Painter on this morn btw, abusing Trump and voting for Hillary. Ex-Bush appointee. BBC coverage of FBI is “how guilty is Comey?”. Guardian front page today is UK security head banging on about the Russian threat.)
Reading reddit accounts of him, apparently he was a fanatic. Just a guess, but maybe the MIC failed to find a way to reason with him. If so, very sad.
OT
Anyone noticed how Wikileaks twitter feed contains the most egregious typos? More than you’d expect. Is it deliberate? Or is someone doing it on a mobile with fat fingers?
“After legal, Congressional action CIA finally releases volume V of Bag of Pigs”
I wonder if Ecuadorian Embassy comms are monitored 24/7? Would not be surprised.
It's a little ironic to think back to Watergate, and consider that it was the media who made that revelation of corruption happen.
Now it's the media itself that's corrupt and is getting exposed by WikiLeaks, and it's the media itself that's fighting this exposure tooth and nail, like the Nixon WH.
Once, the media Watergated, now, they are getting Watergated. And so it should be.Replies: @candid_observer, @Lot
Seriously, Steve, I know I'll never match your inimitable, effortless style, but can I guest-write your next Taki's column just this once? OK, that's never gonna happen, so in lieu of that let me 'umbly submit the sketch of what I would write if I ever did get that juicy guest columnist slot:
* 2016 as the first true Internet media election
* Trump (hat-tip to Heartiste) as the ultimate Internet troll, having a long record of skewering other people's sacred cows (e.g. Obama's birth record) on Twitter long before his run for President
* Troll-ism- i.e. anonymous, variously construed online anti-social behavior, as the last refuge of political correctness, given the absurdly draconian sanctions for political incorrectness these days in "meatspace" (Watson, Summers, Richwine)
* Clinton as the ultimate 90's-era old media candidate, using a combination of TV morning show personal styling, expensive set-design**, and pre-packaged Aaron Sorkin/Bloodworth-Thomason-esque star scriptwriter zingers to wage her campaign
* Trump campaign by-comparison quite crude in style, exactly matching the meme (basically political cartoons for people who can't draw) and crude do-it-yourself YouTube aesthetic of Web 2.0/millennial generation, Pepe-bait being the ultimate example of this
* Trump getting a "little help from his friends" from the various parts of the Internet's underworld, including 4chan/Wikileaks/Russian hackers/Kim Dotcom
* Clinton, by contrast, naive and lumbering when it comes to understanding and employment of online tools; view of it seems stuck in the Hanks/Ryan - AOL - YOU'VE GOT MAIL-era
* rise of piracy and demand for free content maybe signally the end of 90's-era high media aesthetic - MTV-style music videos rarely made now, film declining as a medium except as advertisement for toys and merchandise; media much more ephemeral, just-in-time
* Pirate Party, whose sole platform seems to be decriminalization of online media sponging, on the verge of winning Icelandic elections and has been big in Sweden for over a decade now; ultimate expression of "1st World problems" syndrome in ultimate Whitetopia of Scandinavia, but for how much longer will this last with millions of "undocumented children" from the global South on the move?
*** her election night party venue is an honsest-to-God, freakin' all-glass ballroom to suggest her breakin' of the you know whatReplies: @Clyde, @Joe Schmoe, @Olorin
Was this the trick or the treat?
http://time.com/4551711/hillary-clinton-emailgate/?xid=homepageReplies: @Verymuchalive, @AndrewR, @RonaldB, @Reg Cæsar
Gilbert, even at its peak, I would never have classed ” Time ” as part of the Quality Press. But, you’re right, this piece by a Jewish Feminist from UCB is ludicrous self-parody. It would never appeared in “Time” when it was a proper magazine, employing proper journalists, who were required to deal with difficult things called “facts”.
But it is another nail in the coffin of the MSM. Within a couple of years the likes of “Time” won’t exist even online. Its passing will be unmourned.
(BBC had a neverTrump RINO guy called Richard Painter on this morn btw, abusing Trump and voting for Hillary. Ex-Bush appointee. BBC coverage of FBI is "how guilty is Comey?". Guardian front page today is UK security head banging on about the Russian threat.)Replies: @AndrewR, @Anonym
Lots of so-called successful people with apparently bright futures off themselves, just like lots of people with apparently miserable lives keep going. The choice to die is no less rational than the choice to live. Only one person knew what MG Rossi felt and thought, and that person can never tell us now.
http://time.com/4551711/hillary-clinton-emailgate/?xid=homepageReplies: @Verymuchalive, @AndrewR, @RonaldB, @Reg Cæsar
That skypette is literally insane. And a supposedly reputable magazine published that. Words fail me.
All her life, she's been rewarded for being a crazy leftist. As with any doomsday cult, she gets rewarded for offering crazier and crazier items to the faithful. Expect the literal vat of purple kool-aid. She and her ilk are eagerly embracing the figurative vat with their policies of no kids, race replacement, etc.
Go read Second City Cop (http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com ] for details.
For several days Chicago has been mobilizing thousands of police and support personnel to handle the predicted World Series rioters. Horsies, too. They spent millions of dollars on overtime for lots of stand-around-and-wait.
Unfortunately, there was no one left to cover the ghetto.
As SCC pithily put it, “While all the Third Watch was over in Wrigleyville, the hood went up.”
Go to SCC and read the last week’s worth of blog posts.
The world is poorer by 17 aspiring rappers who, some people said who claim to have known them, were about to start getting their lives together, and probably had been thinking about enrolling in college.
So what does this do to the weather theory of black behavior where black homicides are usually attributed to high summer temperatures? It’s the end of October and it wasn’t hot. The numbers are off by the way. If one is going to call it “Halloween Weekend” then perhaps Halloween, which fell on a Monday, should also be included which would add another three dead and nineteen wounded for that day alone to the total. Since a scrabble player is a terrible thing to lose then perhaps packages of scrabble games could be distributed through the local welfare offices so as to get them interested in something besides gangbanging. Who knows, we could impress the world with our scrabble depth. We’ve tried Operation Head Start and Midnight Basketball which haven’t worked out so let’s try Operation Midnight Scrabble.
That latest Chasala intelligence piece was actually interesting. I see HBD as the best description of our world but the piece received a lot of poorly written responses.
I believe that one reason for the success may be due to the general lack of opportunity for smarts in the black Africa. Perhaps because of corruption, kleptocratic policies, lack of opportunity, patronage, etc, Africans who are intelligent can only find an outlet for their intelligence in dominating board games.
Regardless, I am not satisfied by the pervasive contention that scrabble ability does not correlate strongly with IQ.
Acquaintances who travel the Third World often report instances of individuals and groups who are smart and innovative, yet they are surrounded by squalor. There seems to be a suite of traits and characteristics that a critical mass of the populace needs to possess in order to build and maintain a modern, attractive state.Replies: @Yak-15
Still funny though
New polls:
USC – Trump +4
ABC – Trump +1
Rassmusen – Tied
UPI – Clinton +1
IBD – Clinton + 1
If you average them together, Trump is +0.3 nationally.
Also, Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida.
https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStats
indicates "Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida"?
I must be missing something...Replies: @JohnnyWalker123
You forgot to add the funeral encomium: “They were loving fathers, sons, and brothers — each one of them — who devoted their lives to helping others in need.”
OT: If the SJWs want to attack a really privileged group they should go after the goodlooking… Hollywood is the worst!
And still blacks fear the police more than they fear one another. Supposedly.
The late Lawrence Auster once asked a question no in the MSM ever does. Auster asked "Who considers the police and law enforcement the enemy?"
His answer was "the criminals."Replies: @Chris Mallory, @melendwyr
They would never treat their 'banging family members like they do the average police officer.
Intro vitae: “Robin Lakoff is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Language and Woman’s Place.” She was a student of Chomsky’s.
All her life, she’s been rewarded for being a crazy leftist. As with any doomsday cult, she gets rewarded for offering crazier and crazier items to the faithful. Expect the literal vat of purple kool-aid. She and her ilk are eagerly embracing the figurative vat with their policies of no kids, race replacement, etc.
“And still blacks fear the police more than they fear each other. Supposedly.”
The late Lawrence Auster once asked a question no in the MSM ever does. Auster asked “Who considers the police and law enforcement the enemy?”
His answer was “the criminals.”
"Law enforcement" has declared war upon the American people. It is well past time we neutered the jackbooted thugs.Replies: @jake
In our world, anyone can be declared a criminal. And even the nominally innocent can run into corrupt cops.Replies: @David In TN
USC - Trump +4
ABC - Trump +1
Rassmusen - Tied
UPI - Clinton +1
IBD - Clinton + 1
If you average them together, Trump is +0.3 nationally.
Also, Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida.
https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStatsReplies: @Anonymous, @Abe, @res, @JohnnyWalker123, @Jim Christian
I don’t know how you figure that, since all they are reporting is the party registration of the voter.
To hell with the Cubs, they will always be losers. Chicago is going to have 700+ murders for the first time since the 1990’s! Now that’s an accomplishment!
Second City my foot!
USC - Trump +4
ABC - Trump +1
Rassmusen - Tied
UPI - Clinton +1
IBD - Clinton + 1
If you average them together, Trump is +0.3 nationally.
Also, Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida.
https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStatsReplies: @Anonymous, @Abe, @res, @JohnnyWalker123, @Jim Christian
The ABC poll, BTW, had the most lop-sided pro-Hillary spread of +12 just over a week ago…
Michael Brown was described as a college student in the first reports after his death. He was enrolled in a technical program to become a hip hop producer. The press wanted you to assume he was enrolled somewhere like Saint Louis University.
For several days Chicago has been mobilizing thousands of police and support personnel to handle the predicted World Series rioters. Horsies, too. They spent millions of dollars on overtime for lots of stand-around-and-wait.
Unfortunately, there was no one left to cover the ghetto.
As SCC pithily put it, "While all the Third Watch was over in Wrigleyville, the hood went up."
Go to SCC and read the last week's worth of blog posts.Replies: @bomag, @George, @Jim Christian
Libertarians like to crow about our coming age of no limits on the resources we can bring to bear on any problem. But I’ve been lied to many times. As we cram more people on the planet, I notice that we run out of water in Syria; cops in Chicago; phosphorus in Florida; and other things.
(BBC had a neverTrump RINO guy called Richard Painter on this morn btw, abusing Trump and voting for Hillary. Ex-Bush appointee. BBC coverage of FBI is "how guilty is Comey?". Guardian front page today is UK security head banging on about the Russian threat.)Replies: @AndrewR, @Anonym
Apparently Rossi saw “very promising potential for something we already have” in new ways, for less money and time than developing new weapons. I bet the weapons contractors just loved his noble parsimony.
Reading reddit accounts of him, apparently he was a fanatic. Just a guess, but maybe the MIC failed to find a way to reason with him. If so, very sad.
Don’t forget that these yutes were also fathers: to heaven alone knows how many bastards with heaven knows how many different mothers.
In NYC, in the mid to late ’90s during the Giuliani era, when the crime rate was coming down, the Yankees appeared in the WS in 5 out of 6 years. Even the cops were a bit surprised that, essentially, no violent crimes were committed during the games. Even the criminals were otherwise occupied watching the WS.
The idea of a bunch of boyz in the hood rackin’ up some tiles is LOL funny, but it does give new meaning to the phrase “came from a hard scrabble background.”
(NB: These are all cross-refs to the current unz.com article arguing that Scrabble is the hardest of all games, and the best players are disproportionately African.)
All of this would be irrelevant except that the BL(don’t)M violence in the ghetto is spilling out into previously safe(ish) places.
It’s no longer funny when cars on the Eisenhower Expressway (Chicago’s main artery to the western suburbs) are getting swiss-cheesed.
It’s no longer funny when sketchy people target visitors to the Magnificent Mile and Lakefront parks for robbery and murder.
This is the trend that will eventually matter. It’s not the 1000 dead street corner dealers and 200 dead kids-in-the-hood who were accidental backstops for the impromptu shooting galleries; it’s the fifteen dead tourists and ten dead suburbanites visiting the city whose bad luck will prompt a crackdown sooner or later.
Life is cheap in most of Africa and other places. People whose ancestors hail from such places carry that legacy with them, like it or not, and if they largely keep it to themselves, no one can or will do much about it.
That story broke down, but not before it became permanently part of the narrative.
http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Illinois/Cook-County-IL/Peter-M-Fabbri.236067.html
He wasn't your next door neighbor on his way home from a 'wine tasting.' The story was always unbelievable. There are plenty of other details that don't make sense.
The late Lawrence Auster once asked a question no in the MSM ever does. Auster asked "Who considers the police and law enforcement the enemy?"
His answer was "the criminals."Replies: @Chris Mallory, @melendwyr
Of course now days the answer would be “Anyone who has eyes that can see and ears that can hear.”
“Law enforcement” has declared war upon the American people. It is well past time we neutered the jackbooted thugs.
The only question of pertinence is, Will Chicago’s finest politicians attempt to deal with the problem in place, or will they simply attempt to scatter the problem to other places via manipulating Section 8?
Rockford, IL is the most violent medium sized city in IL, and 6th most violent in the nation, because in the past, Chicago’s politicians chose Plan B.
Conditions (poverty, poor education, the drug trade) don’t make people violent. Violent people create those condition. Concentrating them is the next safest thing to incarcerating them for most of their lives. Dispersing them is the worst possible action, but it’s often the most politically attractive one.
Anyone noticed how Wikileaks twitter feed contains the most egregious typos? More than you'd expect. Is it deliberate? Or is someone doing it on a mobile with fat fingers?
"After legal, Congressional action CIA finally releases volume V of Bag of Pigs"
I wonder if Ecuadorian Embassy comms are monitored 24/7? Would not be surprised.Replies: @candid_observer, @Abe
Well, typos aside, WikiLeaks is doing an admirable and courageous job exposing institutions and people who need exposing.
It’s a little ironic to think back to Watergate, and consider that it was the media who made that revelation of corruption happen.
Now it’s the media itself that’s corrupt and is getting exposed by WikiLeaks, and it’s the media itself that’s fighting this exposure tooth and nail, like the Nixon WH.
Once, the media Watergated, now, they are getting Watergated. And so it should be.
It's not just that all of the damaging revelations that have come forth about Hillary.
It's that everybody in the entire leadership of that campaign now has to worry that they, themselves, are going to be thrown in jail. And how do they communicate? By email? Big Gulp.Replies: @Thea
USC - Trump +4
ABC - Trump +1
Rassmusen - Tied
UPI - Clinton +1
IBD - Clinton + 1
If you average them together, Trump is +0.3 nationally.
Also, Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida.
https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStatsReplies: @Anonymous, @Abe, @res, @JohnnyWalker123, @Jim Christian
Can you please explain how https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeE
indicates “Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida”?
I must be missing something…
https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStats
There are 16,000 more Republicans who've voted than Democrats. That's what I meant.
(NB: These are all cross-refs to the current unz.com article arguing that Scrabble is the hardest of all games, and the best players are disproportionately African.)Replies: @res
Make sure you check out Fanhar’s comment on that article. It appears Chanda is either being careless or playing a bit fast and loose with the data he presents.
USC - Trump +4
ABC - Trump +1
Rassmusen - Tied
UPI - Clinton +1
IBD - Clinton + 1
If you average them together, Trump is +0.3 nationally.
Also, Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida.
https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStatsReplies: @Anonymous, @Abe, @res, @JohnnyWalker123, @Jim Christian
Red Oak/Google Consumer surveys – Clinton +1
Just more evidence of the disgusting racism of baseball, Steve.
Obviously when the basketball and football teams are playing in a championship series or games, all those guns stop Erupting, the streets cease Being Mean, the ZIP codes are no longer Bad, and…
…oh. Wait.
It's a little ironic to think back to Watergate, and consider that it was the media who made that revelation of corruption happen.
Now it's the media itself that's corrupt and is getting exposed by WikiLeaks, and it's the media itself that's fighting this exposure tooth and nail, like the Nixon WH.
Once, the media Watergated, now, they are getting Watergated. And so it should be.Replies: @candid_observer, @Lot
Another consequence of WikiLeaks: the Hillary campaign must now be in utter disarray.
It’s not just that all of the damaging revelations that have come forth about Hillary.
It’s that everybody in the entire leadership of that campaign now has to worry that they, themselves, are going to be thrown in jail. And how do they communicate? By email? Big Gulp.
I too trust the company of Eric “I want to be your outside campaign coordinator” Schimdt for honest polling.
Black homicide rates — is it racist to talk about it? See:
http://fosterspeak.blogspot.com/2016/10/from-moral-blackmail-to-political.html
Anyone noticed how Wikileaks twitter feed contains the most egregious typos? More than you'd expect. Is it deliberate? Or is someone doing it on a mobile with fat fingers?
"After legal, Congressional action CIA finally releases volume V of Bag of Pigs"
I wonder if Ecuadorian Embassy comms are monitored 24/7? Would not be surprised.Replies: @candid_observer, @Abe
It’s notorious Internet pirate, oft-time troll, and always lard-bucket Kim Dotcom, of course!
Seriously, Steve, I know I’ll never match your inimitable, effortless style, but can I guest-write your next Taki’s column just this once? OK, that’s never gonna happen, so in lieu of that let me ‘umbly submit the sketch of what I would write if I ever did get that juicy guest columnist slot:
* 2016 as the first true Internet media election
* Trump (hat-tip to Heartiste) as the ultimate Internet troll, having a long record of skewering other people’s sacred cows (e.g. Obama’s birth record) on Twitter long before his run for President
* Troll-ism- i.e. anonymous, variously construed online anti-social behavior, as the last refuge of political correctness, given the absurdly draconian sanctions for political incorrectness these days in “meatspace” (Watson, Summers, Richwine)
* Clinton as the ultimate 90’s-era old media candidate, using a combination of TV morning show personal styling, expensive set-design**, and pre-packaged Aaron Sorkin/Bloodworth-Thomason-esque star scriptwriter zingers to wage her campaign
* Trump campaign by-comparison quite crude in style, exactly matching the meme (basically political cartoons for people who can’t draw) and crude do-it-yourself YouTube aesthetic of Web 2.0/millennial generation, Pepe-bait being the ultimate example of this
* Trump getting a “little help from his friends” from the various parts of the Internet’s underworld, including 4chan/Wikileaks/Russian hackers/Kim Dotcom
* Clinton, by contrast, naive and lumbering when it comes to understanding and employment of online tools; view of it seems stuck in the Hanks/Ryan – AOL – YOU’VE GOT MAIL-era
* rise of piracy and demand for free content maybe signally the end of 90’s-era high media aesthetic – MTV-style music videos rarely made now, film declining as a medium except as advertisement for toys and merchandise; media much more ephemeral, just-in-time
* Pirate Party, whose sole platform seems to be decriminalization of online media sponging, on the verge of winning Icelandic elections and has been big in Sweden for over a decade now; ultimate expression of “1st World problems” syndrome in ultimate Whitetopia of Scandinavia, but for how much longer will this last with millions of “undocumented children” from the global South on the move?
*** her election night party venue is an honsest-to-God, freakin’ all-glass ballroom to suggest her breakin’ of the you know what
hello? Margaret Thatcher
Golda Meier
Indira Gandhi
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth I
Boudicca
heck, thousands of years ago, Nefertiti
And thousands more female rulers in various places.
Hillary is an idiot. There is no glass ceiling and never was.
http://time.com/4551711/hillary-clinton-emailgate/?xid=homepageReplies: @Verymuchalive, @AndrewR, @RonaldB, @Reg Cæsar
“Danegeld” is the only rational explanation for this unhinged diatribe on their pages.
As classic MSM, Time feels itself susceptible to attack for any random violation, such as using the term “history”. Rabid leftist professors teaching perfectly useless fields of study, like a rogue prosecutor, can always find an offensive phrase. Therefore, the implicit contract is “we will give one of you unfettered access to our pages to write whatever she wishes, and you will refrain from attacking us”. Discerning readers are expected to know not to take her seriously. In fact, the only reason anyone would read anything Robin Lakoff had to say is 1) you’re a student and forced to, or 2) you’re worried about her effect on other people more weak-minded.
In the end, the only real losers are the taxpayers of California and the US who are coerced into supporting her professorship, and of course, her students, who spend valuable time and energy learning her useless garbage.
A testament to how the “African-American communities” of Chicago and other large cities suffer from the massive “over-incarceration” of black males. I would assume that virtually all of the criminals who committed these murders and shootings were male recidivists who should have been in prison, most of them with histories of crime and violence that began at age 13 or 14 or 15 who should have been buried in prison long ago.
It's a little ironic to think back to Watergate, and consider that it was the media who made that revelation of corruption happen.
Now it's the media itself that's corrupt and is getting exposed by WikiLeaks, and it's the media itself that's fighting this exposure tooth and nail, like the Nixon WH.
Once, the media Watergated, now, they are getting Watergated. And so it should be.Replies: @candid_observer, @Lot
You might saw that of Snowden, who limited what he released and exposed official US lawbreaking, but hacking and publishing the entire email accounts of private citizens and huge droves of classified US documents is justly criminal.
Criminals in New York like the Yankees.
I said I didn't believe all of this media hype about long-suffering cubs fans because in my life it didn't seem like the cubbies really had fans--not like the Philadelphia eagles, eg, whose fans would literally kill for an NFL championship.
She said of course not because the real proletariat who might care about whatever sport would be on the south side of Chicago.
of course new York (whose "urban" population is more likely to be Yankees than the middle class Jewish fans of the Mets) also has more prole ethnicities who follow baseball.Replies: @Eric Novak
It's not just that all of the damaging revelations that have come forth about Hillary.
It's that everybody in the entire leadership of that campaign now has to worry that they, themselves, are going to be thrown in jail. And how do they communicate? By email? Big Gulp.Replies: @Thea
I really believe that some people close to her have been sabotaging her.
To think, if it came down to Sanders v. Bush, I’m likely not alone in thinking I’d have voted Sanders out of spite.
I would vote Sanders over Bush. I can't stand the Bushes nor political families.
Lots off photos.Replies: @stillCARealist
Michael Jackson? Don’t they know what a sick pervert that guy was? How does his music still get played without a morality lecture?
Early vote update: black turnout is down, hispanic turnout is up, and white turnout is up for both democrats and republicans. Basically what you’d expect from replacing a black democrat at the top of the ticket with a white democrat, and a Republican who has stopped Hispandering.
The upshot of this is that Nevada and Colorado are probably lost causes now for Trump, and the GOP will face downballot losses in Texas and western states with much larger Hispanic than black populations. Conversely, states with blacks but not many hispanics Trump should do well in, giving more confidence in my call that he wins IA, OH, and NC.
It also means that the lack of an expensive “ground game” contrary to my and others’ expectations, is not much dampening GOP turnout. (They still should have focused more on turnout. Steve Hsu has a profile on his blog of the physicist who ran the poll-beating Brexit campaign which we can only read with envy at our peers in the UK).
Florida has a lot of hispanics and blacks both. I still think Trump will lose Florida, but am less confidant with the new turnout data, I’d guess something like a 0.5% Hillary win. But compared to the data we had on the 30th, Trump has a clearer path to win: Florida + PA.
My new favorite trade on predictit is Buying Trump Wins NC shares for only 40 right now.
My old favorite was buying Trump wins UT for only 50. That worked out well, he’s up to 72 now. I am still worried that Mormon turnout will be bigger than predicted so I put in a sell order or half my large position at 77, I don’t want to get greedy.
I also managed to get some Trump wins AZ shares for about 55 a few weeks ago and am also selling those for a profit in the 70’s. The huge Dem surge in turnout in California has me very worried about any exposure to GOP in western states. Romney won AZ by such a large margin I don’t think it could go for Hillary this time, but NC presents a much better opportunity.
I also have a big GOP keeps the Senate position, purchased slightly below current prices. I tend to think the various anti-Trump people who also are not too fond of Hillary will split their votes in places like NC, IN, OH, and NH. I will sell off some of it in the 50’s if it goes that high, otherwise I am keeping it until the election results come in. Since a tie is broken by the VP, you have to consider the presidential election in that market.
If you are the type who wants to rack up frequent flier miles on your CC and make a low-risk 4% profit bet, you can also buy Hillary wins NY for only 93. With fees, your profit is only 1.9%, but that’s pretty good for a weekend and you get those sweet miles that are worth another 2% or so.
For several days Chicago has been mobilizing thousands of police and support personnel to handle the predicted World Series rioters. Horsies, too. They spent millions of dollars on overtime for lots of stand-around-and-wait.
Unfortunately, there was no one left to cover the ghetto.
As SCC pithily put it, "While all the Third Watch was over in Wrigleyville, the hood went up."
Go to SCC and read the last week's worth of blog posts.Replies: @bomag, @George, @Jim Christian
I think Chicago should raise taxes and use the money to pay pensions.
My wife used to live on the south side of Chicago.
I said I didn’t believe all of this media hype about long-suffering cubs fans because in my life it didn’t seem like the cubbies really had fans–not like the Philadelphia eagles, eg, whose fans would literally kill for an NFL championship.
She said of course not because the real proletariat who might care about whatever sport would be on the south side of Chicago.
of course new York (whose “urban” population is more likely to be Yankees than the middle class Jewish fans of the Mets) also has more prole ethnicities who follow baseball.
My old favorite was buying Trump wins UT for only 50. That worked out well, he's up to 72 now. I am still worried that Mormon turnout will be bigger than predicted so I put in a sell order or half my large position at 77, I don't want to get greedy.
I also managed to get some Trump wins AZ shares for about 55 a few weeks ago and am also selling those for a profit in the 70's. The huge Dem surge in turnout in California has me very worried about any exposure to GOP in western states. Romney won AZ by such a large margin I don't think it could go for Hillary this time, but NC presents a much better opportunity.
I also have a big GOP keeps the Senate position, purchased slightly below current prices. I tend to think the various anti-Trump people who also are not too fond of Hillary will split their votes in places like NC, IN, OH, and NH. I will sell off some of it in the 50's if it goes that high, otherwise I am keeping it until the election results come in. Since a tie is broken by the VP, you have to consider the presidential election in that market.
If you are the type who wants to rack up frequent flier miles on your CC and make a low-risk 4% profit bet, you can also buy Hillary wins NY for only 93. With fees, your profit is only 1.9%, but that's pretty good for a weekend and you get those sweet miles that are worth another 2% or so.Replies: @res, @anonguy, @5371
It looks like you are doing a good job playing the prediction markets, so maybe I should have more faith in what you are saying, but that Hillary wins NY bet feels too much like picking up nickels in front of a steamroller to me (particularly with shoes left to drop in the next week).
I mean ahead 16,000 votes by party registration. We’re assuming rough percentages of Republicans and Democrats will vote for their nominee. Independents are more difficult to assess, but there’s some evidence they might skew toward Trump in regular voting and Clinton in early voting.
The upshot of this is that Nevada and Colorado are probably lost causes now for Trump, and the GOP will face downballot losses in Texas and western states with much larger Hispanic than black populations. Conversely, states with blacks but not many hispanics Trump should do well in, giving more confidence in my call that he wins IA, OH, and NC.
It also means that the lack of an expensive "ground game" contrary to my and others' expectations, is not much dampening GOP turnout. (They still should have focused more on turnout. Steve Hsu has a profile on his blog of the physicist who ran the poll-beating Brexit campaign which we can only read with envy at our peers in the UK).
Florida has a lot of hispanics and blacks both. I still think Trump will lose Florida, but am less confidant with the new turnout data, I'd guess something like a 0.5% Hillary win. But compared to the data we had on the 30th, Trump has a clearer path to win: Florida + PA.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @Jim Christian, @Charles Erwin Wilson
Trump needs Colorado and Nevada. I think he can win both. I’m more concerned with NC. Lots of early voting for Clinton there.
indicates "Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida"?
I must be missing something...Replies: @JohnnyWalker123
This link works better.
https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStats
There are 16,000 more Republicans who’ve voted than Democrats. That’s what I meant.
My old favorite was buying Trump wins UT for only 50. That worked out well, he's up to 72 now. I am still worried that Mormon turnout will be bigger than predicted so I put in a sell order or half my large position at 77, I don't want to get greedy.
I also managed to get some Trump wins AZ shares for about 55 a few weeks ago and am also selling those for a profit in the 70's. The huge Dem surge in turnout in California has me very worried about any exposure to GOP in western states. Romney won AZ by such a large margin I don't think it could go for Hillary this time, but NC presents a much better opportunity.
I also have a big GOP keeps the Senate position, purchased slightly below current prices. I tend to think the various anti-Trump people who also are not too fond of Hillary will split their votes in places like NC, IN, OH, and NH. I will sell off some of it in the 50's if it goes that high, otherwise I am keeping it until the election results come in. Since a tie is broken by the VP, you have to consider the presidential election in that market.
If you are the type who wants to rack up frequent flier miles on your CC and make a low-risk 4% profit bet, you can also buy Hillary wins NY for only 93. With fees, your profit is only 1.9%, but that's pretty good for a weekend and you get those sweet miles that are worth another 2% or so.Replies: @res, @anonguy, @5371
This is really awful advice, you shouldn’t be doing this to the unsuspecting.
“Chicago is going to have 700+ murders for the first time since the 1990’s!”
Second City my foot!
“Chicago is going to have 700+ murders for the first time since the 1990’s!”
Second City my foot!
I get the sense that, other than Dodgers fans, baseball fans are relatively law-abiding people.
Edit: How do I insert a link? I had assumed it would be like BBS here.
Thanks.
Dodgers fans: https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dodger-stadium-fight-20151013-story,amp.html?client=safari
Seriously, Steve, I know I'll never match your inimitable, effortless style, but can I guest-write your next Taki's column just this once? OK, that's never gonna happen, so in lieu of that let me 'umbly submit the sketch of what I would write if I ever did get that juicy guest columnist slot:
* 2016 as the first true Internet media election
* Trump (hat-tip to Heartiste) as the ultimate Internet troll, having a long record of skewering other people's sacred cows (e.g. Obama's birth record) on Twitter long before his run for President
* Troll-ism- i.e. anonymous, variously construed online anti-social behavior, as the last refuge of political correctness, given the absurdly draconian sanctions for political incorrectness these days in "meatspace" (Watson, Summers, Richwine)
* Clinton as the ultimate 90's-era old media candidate, using a combination of TV morning show personal styling, expensive set-design**, and pre-packaged Aaron Sorkin/Bloodworth-Thomason-esque star scriptwriter zingers to wage her campaign
* Trump campaign by-comparison quite crude in style, exactly matching the meme (basically political cartoons for people who can't draw) and crude do-it-yourself YouTube aesthetic of Web 2.0/millennial generation, Pepe-bait being the ultimate example of this
* Trump getting a "little help from his friends" from the various parts of the Internet's underworld, including 4chan/Wikileaks/Russian hackers/Kim Dotcom
* Clinton, by contrast, naive and lumbering when it comes to understanding and employment of online tools; view of it seems stuck in the Hanks/Ryan - AOL - YOU'VE GOT MAIL-era
* rise of piracy and demand for free content maybe signally the end of 90's-era high media aesthetic - MTV-style music videos rarely made now, film declining as a medium except as advertisement for toys and merchandise; media much more ephemeral, just-in-time
* Pirate Party, whose sole platform seems to be decriminalization of online media sponging, on the verge of winning Icelandic elections and has been big in Sweden for over a decade now; ultimate expression of "1st World problems" syndrome in ultimate Whitetopia of Scandinavia, but for how much longer will this last with millions of "undocumented children" from the global South on the move?
*** her election night party venue is an honsest-to-God, freakin' all-glass ballroom to suggest her breakin' of the you know whatReplies: @Clyde, @Joe Schmoe, @Olorin
Good list there!
For several days Chicago has been mobilizing thousands of police and support personnel to handle the predicted World Series rioters. Horsies, too. They spent millions of dollars on overtime for lots of stand-around-and-wait.
Unfortunately, there was no one left to cover the ghetto.
As SCC pithily put it, "While all the Third Watch was over in Wrigleyville, the hood went up."
Go to SCC and read the last week's worth of blog posts.Replies: @bomag, @George, @Jim Christian
And the downside would be…? Just a little community activism. It obviously works for them.
http://fosterspeak.blogspot.com/2016/10/from-moral-blackmail-to-political.htmlReplies: @Jim Christian
Deplorably racist..
It's no longer funny when cars on the Eisenhower Expressway (Chicago's main artery to the western suburbs) are getting swiss-cheesed.
It's no longer funny when sketchy people target visitors to the Magnificent Mile and Lakefront parks for robbery and murder.
This is the trend that will eventually matter. It's not the 1000 dead street corner dealers and 200 dead kids-in-the-hood who were accidental backstops for the impromptu shooting galleries; it's the fifteen dead tourists and ten dead suburbanites visiting the city whose bad luck will prompt a crackdown sooner or later.
Life is cheap in most of Africa and other places. People whose ancestors hail from such places carry that legacy with them, like it or not, and if they largely keep it to themselves, no one can or will do much about it.Replies: @Jim Christian, @Anon
There will be no crackdown, hell there won’t even be a story in the news. They wouldn’t want to scare people away from tourism..
My old favorite was buying Trump wins UT for only 50. That worked out well, he's up to 72 now. I am still worried that Mormon turnout will be bigger than predicted so I put in a sell order or half my large position at 77, I don't want to get greedy.
I also managed to get some Trump wins AZ shares for about 55 a few weeks ago and am also selling those for a profit in the 70's. The huge Dem surge in turnout in California has me very worried about any exposure to GOP in western states. Romney won AZ by such a large margin I don't think it could go for Hillary this time, but NC presents a much better opportunity.
I also have a big GOP keeps the Senate position, purchased slightly below current prices. I tend to think the various anti-Trump people who also are not too fond of Hillary will split their votes in places like NC, IN, OH, and NH. I will sell off some of it in the 50's if it goes that high, otherwise I am keeping it until the election results come in. Since a tie is broken by the VP, you have to consider the presidential election in that market.
If you are the type who wants to rack up frequent flier miles on your CC and make a low-risk 4% profit bet, you can also buy Hillary wins NY for only 93. With fees, your profit is only 1.9%, but that's pretty good for a weekend and you get those sweet miles that are worth another 2% or so.Replies: @res, @anonguy, @5371
Perhaps you’re looking for a day traders’ message board.
USC - Trump +4
ABC - Trump +1
Rassmusen - Tied
UPI - Clinton +1
IBD - Clinton + 1
If you average them together, Trump is +0.3 nationally.
Also, Trump is ahead by 16,000 in votes cast in Florida.
https://countyballotfiles.elections.myflorida.com/FVRSCountyBallotReports/AbsenteeEarlyVotingReports/PublicStatsReplies: @Anonymous, @Abe, @res, @JohnnyWalker123, @Jim Christian
Sorry, the race to 270 is out of reach for the Trumpster. Too many formerly reds immigrated into a complete state of the blue death. Virginia, North Carolina to name just a couple. Then there is the emptying of Puerto Rico into Florida. They are instantly eligible, IIRC…
Hip-hop, eh? I had read he was going to be an air conditioning tech. I remember thinking, he could case his customers and tip his friends to the really good scores and the homes with the best looking white women and girls to rape.
The upshot of this is that Nevada and Colorado are probably lost causes now for Trump, and the GOP will face downballot losses in Texas and western states with much larger Hispanic than black populations. Conversely, states with blacks but not many hispanics Trump should do well in, giving more confidence in my call that he wins IA, OH, and NC.
It also means that the lack of an expensive "ground game" contrary to my and others' expectations, is not much dampening GOP turnout. (They still should have focused more on turnout. Steve Hsu has a profile on his blog of the physicist who ran the poll-beating Brexit campaign which we can only read with envy at our peers in the UK).
Florida has a lot of hispanics and blacks both. I still think Trump will lose Florida, but am less confidant with the new turnout data, I'd guess something like a 0.5% Hillary win. But compared to the data we had on the 30th, Trump has a clearer path to win: Florida + PA.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @Jim Christian, @Charles Erwin Wilson
Forget NC AND Virginia. Maybe Florida, Puerto Rico is emptying into Central Florida..
And, sadly, necessary.
http://time.com/4551711/hillary-clinton-emailgate/?xid=homepageReplies: @Verymuchalive, @AndrewR, @RonaldB, @Reg Cæsar
No one talks about the emails of Elizabeth Warren. (Who, by the way, is almost literally a red Herring.)
Something similar was printed in the Financial Times last week, also by an American institutional feminist, though not by anyone I’d ever heard of. She said men (implying “white”) were being deviously sexist when they say, “I’d vote for a woman, just not this one.”
Yeah, like I couldn’t vote for Michele Bachmann in the 2012 caucus. I did so with vigor. (She was second-best to Tom Tancredo on my top issue, and unlike Tom, she had legs.)
I can imagine what lefty Brits think of that line applied to Mrs Thatcher. Who was usually above such whining.
The late Lawrence Auster once asked a question no in the MSM ever does. Auster asked "Who considers the police and law enforcement the enemy?"
His answer was "the criminals."Replies: @Chris Mallory, @melendwyr
What about when the police ARE the criminals? Or would be, in a world of sane laws.
In our world, anyone can be declared a criminal. And even the nominally innocent can run into corrupt cops.
BTW, I've encountered cops I didn't like very much.
In our world, anyone can be declared a criminal. And even the nominally innocent can run into corrupt cops.Replies: @David In TN
You didn’t understand (assuming you are capable of doing so) Lawrence Auster’s point. The criminal types and their enablers are against police and law enforcement when the latter are 100 % honest.
BTW, I’ve encountered cops I didn’t like very much.
Anonymous, Close, but you should have said…Stay feral, Chicago.
Jonathan, .For want of a baseball glove, a young black male died. Of course, he needed a bat, ball and father too.
anonymous, Some of the shooters may have spend the summer in the slammer, just catching up now.
Actually, Buffalo Joe, Anonymous should have said “Stay fecal, Chicago.”
SMK, good comment. In Cleveland, about 16 days ago, a 20 year old black male shot a 15 year old East Indian youth in the head during an armed robbery. The 15 year old, who was working the counter at his uncle’s sandwich shop died almost immediately. The shooter, Daveon Perry, in an unusual turn of events, pled guilty to numerous felony charges and received a Life in Prison with no parole just two weeks after the murder. The pertinent point, that mirrors your comment: Perry was released in 2015 for good behavior, after serving four years on a gun conviction and in August 2016, he was released on no bond in an armed robbery. In October, he basically executes an innocent victim. This is what many thugs do with second and third chances.
I believe that one reason for the success may be due to the general lack of opportunity for smarts in the black Africa. Perhaps because of corruption, kleptocratic policies, lack of opportunity, patronage, etc, Africans who are intelligent can only find an outlet for their intelligence in dominating board games.
Regardless, I am not satisfied by the pervasive contention that scrabble ability does not correlate strongly with IQ.Replies: @bomag
I agree that the Chasala piece was interesting and could use some better responses.
Acquaintances who travel the Third World often report instances of individuals and groups who are smart and innovative, yet they are surrounded by squalor. There seems to be a suite of traits and characteristics that a critical mass of the populace needs to possess in order to build and maintain a modern, attractive state.
http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htm
Steve, thought you meant the Yankees are criminals.
It's no longer funny when cars on the Eisenhower Expressway (Chicago's main artery to the western suburbs) are getting swiss-cheesed.
It's no longer funny when sketchy people target visitors to the Magnificent Mile and Lakefront parks for robbery and murder.
This is the trend that will eventually matter. It's not the 1000 dead street corner dealers and 200 dead kids-in-the-hood who were accidental backstops for the impromptu shooting galleries; it's the fifteen dead tourists and ten dead suburbanites visiting the city whose bad luck will prompt a crackdown sooner or later.
Life is cheap in most of Africa and other places. People whose ancestors hail from such places carry that legacy with them, like it or not, and if they largely keep it to themselves, no one can or will do much about it.Replies: @Jim Christian, @Anon
“It’s no longer funny when sketchy people target visitors to the Magnificent Mile and Lakefront parks for robbery and murder.”
That story broke down, but not before it became permanently part of the narrative.
http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Illinois/Cook-County-IL/Peter-M-Fabbri.236067.html
He wasn’t your next door neighbor on his way home from a ‘wine tasting.’ The story was always unbelievable. There are plenty of other details that don’t make sense.
A prole white buddy I knew from summer camp (born to single mom) was from the South Side of Chicago. As a grade-schooler he claimed allegiance to the Cubs, but by the time he was in high school he acted as if someone had kicked the crap out of him for naively saying that, and he realized he was supposed to root for the White Sox.
Apparently the Pentagon is a bit worried. Note at time 2:16 “ethnic and racial differences are forced to live together”
I don’t think Clinton is ahead by much if at all in early vote in NC. The vote is more white than ’12 and about 73% of voters are over 45 with 45% being over 60. I think Trump wins the South with the exception of VA. He wins OH & IA but after that he stalls. He needs at a surprise best bet is WI or MI or CO but all are very tough.
Something similar was printed in the Financial Times last week, also by an American institutional feminist, though not by anyone I'd ever heard of. She said men (implying "white") were being deviously sexist when they say, "I'd vote for a woman, just not this one."
Yeah, like I couldn't vote for Michele Bachmann in the 2012 caucus. I did so with vigor. (She was second-best to Tom Tancredo on my top issue, and unlike Tom, she had legs.)
I can imagine what lefty Brits think of that line applied to Mrs Thatcher. Who was usually above such whining.Replies: @Coemgen
In the link to Liz Warren’s bio it’s noted that she became interested in why Americans were becoming bankrupt in the 70s. It does note that “lost jobs” were somehow related to this. That is, bankruptcy follows the loss of a job. Why did Liz skip ahead to studying bankruptcy instead of focusing on the reason for a large number of bankruptcies: i.e., massive loss of jobs that paid “living wages?” Why didn’t she investigate what happened to those jobs? I know, I know, this is a rhetorical question but I have to ask it – if only to underscore how cynical Liz Warren is.
Warren is a law professor not an economist, so studying personal bankruptcy is a relevant field for her.
I will agree that she pulls up short when the implications of her research start to get politically incorrect. For example, she acknowledges the high cost of “good schools,” but doesn’t want to touch what makes them good.
yup
I would vote Sanders over Bush. I can’t stand the Bushes nor political families.
Seriously, Steve, I know I'll never match your inimitable, effortless style, but can I guest-write your next Taki's column just this once? OK, that's never gonna happen, so in lieu of that let me 'umbly submit the sketch of what I would write if I ever did get that juicy guest columnist slot:
* 2016 as the first true Internet media election
* Trump (hat-tip to Heartiste) as the ultimate Internet troll, having a long record of skewering other people's sacred cows (e.g. Obama's birth record) on Twitter long before his run for President
* Troll-ism- i.e. anonymous, variously construed online anti-social behavior, as the last refuge of political correctness, given the absurdly draconian sanctions for political incorrectness these days in "meatspace" (Watson, Summers, Richwine)
* Clinton as the ultimate 90's-era old media candidate, using a combination of TV morning show personal styling, expensive set-design**, and pre-packaged Aaron Sorkin/Bloodworth-Thomason-esque star scriptwriter zingers to wage her campaign
* Trump campaign by-comparison quite crude in style, exactly matching the meme (basically political cartoons for people who can't draw) and crude do-it-yourself YouTube aesthetic of Web 2.0/millennial generation, Pepe-bait being the ultimate example of this
* Trump getting a "little help from his friends" from the various parts of the Internet's underworld, including 4chan/Wikileaks/Russian hackers/Kim Dotcom
* Clinton, by contrast, naive and lumbering when it comes to understanding and employment of online tools; view of it seems stuck in the Hanks/Ryan - AOL - YOU'VE GOT MAIL-era
* rise of piracy and demand for free content maybe signally the end of 90's-era high media aesthetic - MTV-style music videos rarely made now, film declining as a medium except as advertisement for toys and merchandise; media much more ephemeral, just-in-time
* Pirate Party, whose sole platform seems to be decriminalization of online media sponging, on the verge of winning Icelandic elections and has been big in Sweden for over a decade now; ultimate expression of "1st World problems" syndrome in ultimate Whitetopia of Scandinavia, but for how much longer will this last with millions of "undocumented children" from the global South on the move?
*** her election night party venue is an honsest-to-God, freakin' all-glass ballroom to suggest her breakin' of the you know whatReplies: @Clyde, @Joe Schmoe, @Olorin
Shows how stupid Hillary is.
hello? Margaret Thatcher
Golda Meier
Indira Gandhi
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth I
Boudicca
heck, thousands of years ago, Nefertiti
And thousands more female rulers in various places.
Hillary is an idiot. There is no glass ceiling and never was.
Not the American pastime anymore?
Inquiring whether or not LBJ’s Great Society‘s burden on society may or may not have precipitated the misery index malaise of the 70s was probably too politically tenuous too.
Btw, Liz Warren puts on a nice show as a kindly cat lady in public but her U.S. Senate campaign against Scott Brown was nasty. The ground game/whisper campaign against incumbent Senator Scott and, especially, against his attractive wife and lovely daughters was particularly bad (they got the “Palin treatment”). Of course, Liz was a political neophyte (imagine, political neophyte to Senior U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth within one year or so). Her ground game likely was not really her operation but some DNC malfeasance. However, she hasn’t disappointed. She’s exactly the carpet-bagging rubber-stamp with a thin resume that we were expecting.
If they really feared the police they wouldn’t scream in their face at every encounter whether they are the victim a witness or the suspect. They wouldn’t commit crimes then dare the police to arrest them.
They would never treat their ‘banging family members like they do the average police officer.
Rockford, IL is the most violent medium sized city in IL, and 6th most violent in the nation, because in the past, Chicago's politicians chose Plan B.
Conditions (poverty, poor education, the drug trade) don't make people violent. Violent people create those condition. Concentrating them is the next safest thing to incarcerating them for most of their lives. Dispersing them is the worst possible action, but it's often the most politically attractive one.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson
Agree. And still angry that I can’t use the Agree button.
The upshot of this is that Nevada and Colorado are probably lost causes now for Trump, and the GOP will face downballot losses in Texas and western states with much larger Hispanic than black populations. Conversely, states with blacks but not many hispanics Trump should do well in, giving more confidence in my call that he wins IA, OH, and NC.
It also means that the lack of an expensive "ground game" contrary to my and others' expectations, is not much dampening GOP turnout. (They still should have focused more on turnout. Steve Hsu has a profile on his blog of the physicist who ran the poll-beating Brexit campaign which we can only read with envy at our peers in the UK).
Florida has a lot of hispanics and blacks both. I still think Trump will lose Florida, but am less confidant with the new turnout data, I'd guess something like a 0.5% Hillary win. But compared to the data we had on the 30th, Trump has a clearer path to win: Florida + PA.Replies: @JohnnyWalker123, @Jim Christian, @Charles Erwin Wilson
Trump will win. Save your pessimism for later.
The theory still holds. Weather was beautiful all of October, and Halloween had us handing out candy to more Trick or Treaters than we’ve seen in decades. Indian Summer continues, with today’s high 74F.
I said I didn't believe all of this media hype about long-suffering cubs fans because in my life it didn't seem like the cubbies really had fans--not like the Philadelphia eagles, eg, whose fans would literally kill for an NFL championship.
She said of course not because the real proletariat who might care about whatever sport would be on the south side of Chicago.
of course new York (whose "urban" population is more likely to be Yankees than the middle class Jewish fans of the Mets) also has more prole ethnicities who follow baseball.Replies: @Eric Novak
Anyone who grew up without a MLB team in his or her region of origin, but grew up with WGN on cable, is a Cubs fan. You can see thousands of young professional transplants standing in the intersection of Clark & Addison during the playoffs and World Series, to support their team. The Yankee’s tag line “America’s Team” is empty NYC bragging. The Cubs have been in most middle-class American homes since the early 1980s.
Seriously, Steve, I know I'll never match your inimitable, effortless style, but can I guest-write your next Taki's column just this once? OK, that's never gonna happen, so in lieu of that let me 'umbly submit the sketch of what I would write if I ever did get that juicy guest columnist slot:
* 2016 as the first true Internet media election
* Trump (hat-tip to Heartiste) as the ultimate Internet troll, having a long record of skewering other people's sacred cows (e.g. Obama's birth record) on Twitter long before his run for President
* Troll-ism- i.e. anonymous, variously construed online anti-social behavior, as the last refuge of political correctness, given the absurdly draconian sanctions for political incorrectness these days in "meatspace" (Watson, Summers, Richwine)
* Clinton as the ultimate 90's-era old media candidate, using a combination of TV morning show personal styling, expensive set-design**, and pre-packaged Aaron Sorkin/Bloodworth-Thomason-esque star scriptwriter zingers to wage her campaign
* Trump campaign by-comparison quite crude in style, exactly matching the meme (basically political cartoons for people who can't draw) and crude do-it-yourself YouTube aesthetic of Web 2.0/millennial generation, Pepe-bait being the ultimate example of this
* Trump getting a "little help from his friends" from the various parts of the Internet's underworld, including 4chan/Wikileaks/Russian hackers/Kim Dotcom
* Clinton, by contrast, naive and lumbering when it comes to understanding and employment of online tools; view of it seems stuck in the Hanks/Ryan - AOL - YOU'VE GOT MAIL-era
* rise of piracy and demand for free content maybe signally the end of 90's-era high media aesthetic - MTV-style music videos rarely made now, film declining as a medium except as advertisement for toys and merchandise; media much more ephemeral, just-in-time
* Pirate Party, whose sole platform seems to be decriminalization of online media sponging, on the verge of winning Icelandic elections and has been big in Sweden for over a decade now; ultimate expression of "1st World problems" syndrome in ultimate Whitetopia of Scandinavia, but for how much longer will this last with millions of "undocumented children" from the global South on the move?
*** her election night party venue is an honsest-to-God, freakin' all-glass ballroom to suggest her breakin' of the you know whatReplies: @Clyde, @Joe Schmoe, @Olorin
Lord Odin…I beseech thee from the depths of my nausea…please do not let this refer to something involving her and Huma….
Acquaintances who travel the Third World often report instances of individuals and groups who are smart and innovative, yet they are surrounded by squalor. There seems to be a suite of traits and characteristics that a critical mass of the populace needs to possess in order to build and maintain a modern, attractive state.Replies: @Yak-15
La Griffe calls this “Smart Fraction Theory”
http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/sft.htm
"Law enforcement" has declared war upon the American people. It is well past time we neutered the jackbooted thugs.Replies: @jake
And wouldn’t every Crip, Blood, Gangster Disciple, Latin King, Florencia 13, Barrio Azteca, MS-13, Trinitario, Hermano de Pistolero, etc just love that.