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From CNN:
Michelle Obama’s ex-top aide texted the Jussie Smollett prosecutor early in the case. Some want that investigated
By Ray Sanchez, CNNUpdated 11:14 AM ET, Sat March 30, 2019
(CNN) Tina Tchen’s longtime friend wasn’t surprised the former Obama administration aide helped connect Jussie Smollett’s family with a top Illinois prosecutor. …
Getting the right person to take those sort of concerns seriously has been a hallmark of Tchen’s career, highlighted by a stint as then-first lady Michelle Obama’s chief of staff and now by her work leading a probe of workplace culture at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In case you are wondering how to pronounce “Tchen,” commenters suggest:
Cha-Ching!
Back to CNN:
“Long before Black Lives Matter, long before Time’s Up, long before #MeToo, we were aware of how difficult it is to be believed as a woman, as a gay, as a black,” Tchen’s friend, Marilyn Katz, said.
Not surprisingly, one of David Horowitz’s organizations knows all about Katz’s long career, which appears to go back to SDS rioting in Chicago during the late 1960s Days of Rage.
“Our whole lives have taught us that lesson.” …
On that same day, another person, identified by Foxx’s office as a Smollett family friend, texted the prosecutor to ask whether they could talk by phone, the records show. “Tina Tchen gave me your number,” the friend wrote.
Hours later, Foxx responded by text to the family friend, whose identity is redacted in the public records.
That’s interesting. I was under the impression that this was a member of Smollett’s big family of well-connected entertainers/leftists. But the redacted identity of this “family friend” could be interesting.
“Spoke to the superintendent earlier, he made the ask. Trying to figure out the logistics. I’ll keep you posted,” the prosecutor wrote.
“Omg this would be a huge victory,” the family friend responded.
Who uses “Omg”? Is Jussie’s influential family friend a 16 year old girl? I searched through the Twitter accounts of Kamala Harris and Michelle Obama to see if they use “Omg” but didn’t find any examples. So I must conclude that the intervening Smollett family friend is Moon Unit Zappa.
Those who know Tchen, an Ohio native and the daughter of a psychiatrist from China, point to a career marked by equity and empathy in rendering her apparently limited involvement in the Smollett case not unexpected.
“I don’t know if we’ll ever know the truth of the situation,” Katz, a Chicago public relations adviser and political activist, said of the Smollett case. “My first impression is that Tina and I — long before #MeToo — are women who worked on the anti-rape movement and changing police attitudes towards rape victims.
“We’re old enough to have known when police don’t believe black people and police don’t believe women and police don’t believe gay people,” she said.
Besides her stint as the former first lady’s chief of staff, Tchen, a longtime Democratic activist, also worked as an assistant to former President Barack Obama and as executive director of the White House Council on Women and Girls.
“Tina always really wants to make sure that she is connecting people and making sure the work she’s doing is front and center in her life,” said Jordan Brooks, who worked for Tchen at the White House and is now managing director of the nonprofit, The United State of Women.
As leader of the Workplace Cultural Compliance practice at the legal and financial services firm Buckley, Tchen now is conducting a “top-to-bottom external review” of workplace culture at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is reeling from allegations over its own treatment of minority and female employees.
Tchen “is someone who seeks practical solutions and … I think it’s been a consistent thing that I have seen her do in different iterations of her career,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of National Women’s Law Center.
Noted Katz: “Nobody ever puts Tina up to anything — let’s be really clear.”Katz met Tchen when they and others in the 1980s founded the group, Cook County Democratic Women, Katz said. Members still gather to celebrate each other’s birthdays and to press their positions in the public square.
Those coequal aims, she said, reflect the kind of personal and policy priorities Tchen seems to have acted on in the Smollett case.
“If anything happened, we would call someone we knew and say, ‘I’m concerned about a friend. Can you make sure that it’s on the up-and-up?'” Katz said of the political organization. “We would call each other and say, ‘I’m worried about something. What do you think or can you help?’ — without thinking about it.”
If you can’t see that all the members of an organization with “Cook County Democratic” in the name are always on the up and up, I don’t know what’s wrong with you.
Seems to me a little bit like how only African American journalists could get into the recent Savannah mayoral meeting. Are no hetero guys allowed to be quoted about just how amazing Tchen is?
Groupthink, anyone?
Women,blacks and homosexuals are the most reliable groups we have! They are staunch proponents of telling the truth,consequences be damned. Hallmarks of integrity,I say!
Can someone tell me how you pronounce “TChen”? I don’t watch TV, much less CNN, so help me out here with some phonetics or something. I would have a hard enough time with Tennessee Coates, if I gave a Tshit about him enough to have a reason to say it.
Thanks in advance.
Cha-ching! is pretty close.Replies: @Bubba
Which PR firm has been hired to clean up the mess after the string of defamation lawsuits against the SPLC, or is this the PR approach: distraction via a “workplace culture” controversy, bringing the media-created MeToo grievance culture to mind, rather than all of those smear tactics used against individuals?
I recall people saying similar things about Jussie.
And Fielding Mellish is a warm, wonderful human being.
Follow the link to Katz’s PR firm and you’ll see she employs Aaron Black and Robert Creamer, the Obama/Clinton flunkies who gave us all those riots at Trump rallies back in ‘16, as revealed on hidden camera in those Project Veritas interviews.
So obviously nothing Katz says should be taken at face value.
Groupthink, anyone?Replies: @Father O'Hara
It says women,blacks and homosexuals have a history of being seen as not credible. How bigoted!
Women,blacks and homosexuals are the most reliable groups we have! They are staunch proponents of telling the truth,consequences be damned. Hallmarks of integrity,I say!
Does CNN just spontaneously decide to put out a bunch of slobbery praise from Tchen’s fan club when she gets connected to the Smollett dumpster fire?
Perhaps the “family friend” that Tchen was shilling for in the first place is now having CNN carry his/her water as well.
Enquiring minds want to know.
Thanks in advance.Replies: @larry lurker, @MikeatMikedotMike, @Desiderius, @Olorin
I’m guessing you just ignore the T.
Anybody know why it’s spelled that way? I’m guessing it’s an attempt at a Wade-Giles romanization of what would be Chen in Pinyin. Or maybe a French-style romanization a la Tchaikovsky.
The English ch sound doesn’t exist in French, ch makes an sh sound instead. Adding a t to sh sound gives something close to the English and presumably Chinese ch.
The biggest group of French-speaking Chinese were the Chinese in Vietnam.
Her parents, educated people, wisely fled the PRC to the US when the Communists came and saved themselves from decades of Maoist agony. So I don't think that there was any intermediate country (France or Vietnam) with different Romanization rules involved. It's just an idiosyncratic spelling of Chen.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @larry lurker
In case of an emergency, beak the glass and go back to a civil rights march in 1962.
Her comment belies the fact that all the key decision makers in Smollett’s case are black. I understand now why nobody believed them.
Overdue for a Don Quixote to wrap this sumbitch up.Replies: @Dieter Kief
Thanks in advance.Replies: @larry lurker, @MikeatMikedotMike, @Desiderius, @Olorin
“Can someone tell me how you pronounce “TChen”?”
Cha-ching! is pretty close.
https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline__699w__no_aspect/public/harvard_16x9.jpg?itok=LCjQDCfI
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/descendants-sue-harvard-ownership-slave-photos
Here’s Trump’s appointee as the Chicago US Attorney:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/meet-us-attorney
He was captain of the Harvard football team while majoring in “General Studies” and clerked for the most conservative member of the 7th Circuit.
Nailing Smollett, the Nigerians, and Kim Foxx would sure show he’d make a fine member of the 7th Circuit too.
What’s up with the Tchen spelling? That seems like the way a classy Hong Kong businessman would spell Chen in 1930.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQL_vo4Czk
Like if a Black-and-Tan demanded to know your given name during the Troubles and just to be an arse you said "Caomhainn" instead of Kevin. Then he caved your skull in with a truncheon for impertinence.
Don't believe me? Every Picture Tells a Story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyGa29zIqk
Don't it? Maybe I'm thinking of a different hot Chinawoman, that time, during the Year of the Cat.
That's some excellent drumming, too!Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Oleaginous Outrager
“I don’t know if we’ll ever know the truth of the situation,” Katz, a Chicago public relations adviser and political activist, said of the Smollett case.
^^^
Perfect example of media bias and it shows how the media twists a story to fit “the narrative.”
First, the reporter gets a PR adviser and “activist” who is TOTALLY unrelated to the case and uses him as the voice of authority. Then, they use a quote from the guy that is totally at odds with the facts.
In this case, we do, in fact, know the “truth of the situation” because there is Smollett’s check to the Nigerian brothers as well as surveillance footage of them buying supplies for the hoax! The Internet allows people to actually see the surveillance footage. How long will the media be able to keep up this charade?
In the old days, my editor would have thrown me out of the newsroom if I had presented him with a PR-related source for a crime story. I could hear him now: “What the &*#$ does this have to do with the story you idiot??!! He’s pushing an agenda!!” These days, editors force their writers to avoid seeking truth and write to pre-scripted ideas instead.
Here’s a fun phrase to throw around: “the correlation between hate crimes and diversity.”
French transliteration could be the answer.
The English ch sound doesn’t exist in French, ch makes an sh sound instead. Adding a t to sh sound gives something close to the English and presumably Chinese ch.
The biggest group of French-speaking Chinese were the Chinese in Vietnam.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/meet-us-attorney
He was captain of the Harvard football team while majoring in “General Studies” and clerked for the most conservative member of the 7th Circuit.
Nailing Smollett, the Nigerians, and Kim Foxx would sure show he’d make a fine member of the 7th Circuit too.
What’s up with the Tchen spelling? That seems like the way a classy Hong Kong businessman would spell Chen in 1930.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f4/60/eb/f460eb80d24cf8a4ab57651f238f406f--vintage-street-styles-fashion-street-styles.jpgReplies: @Cortes, @guest, @Achmed E. Newman, @Reg Cæsar, @Oleaginous Outrager, @donut
Here’s a classic US Chen
Beto: “we are a country of immigrants and asylum seekers and refugees”
What about explorers, Indians, colonists, pioneers, settlers, pilgrims, volkwanderers, conquistadors, indenturees, and slaves?
Just thank god you gotta outa china should always be the first response to revolting parasites like this.
No other industrial nation has to deal with a payoff tax on an institutionalized level, much less listen to the drivel. No wonder they are, "killing us. "
# mass immigration
Thanks in advance.Replies: @larry lurker, @MikeatMikedotMike, @Desiderius, @Olorin
TAHM HAYgen
“Yamnaya son, won’t you come, and wash away the Tchen? Yamnaya son, won’t you come, won’t you come?”
Living through a fin de siècle is turning into a real drag.
Overdue for a Don Quixote to wrap this sumbitch up.
sounds like one of the Dem prez candidates was somehow involved n the hoax
Perhaps the "family friend" that Tchen was shilling for in the first place is now having CNN carry his/her water as well.
Enquiring minds want to know.Replies: @Desiderius, @dvorak
Chinese/Qatari bidding war for CNN’s rotting corpse.
What about explorers, Indians, colonists, pioneers, settlers, pilgrims, volkwanderers, conquistadors, indenturees, and slaves?Replies: @Desiderius, @Anonymous
None of that would be possible without the furries.
https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/02/23/furry.jpg?x=1200&y=794
“Those who know [funny name lady]…point to a career…in rendering her…involvement…not unexpected.”
Oh, that clears things up.
Congrats on jamming a “not un-” onto the end of a sentence already full of deception.
What a nice bunch of people, always willing to help each other. I sure do hope they get to put that half-billion SPLC money to good use.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/meet-us-attorney
He was captain of the Harvard football team while majoring in “General Studies” and clerked for the most conservative member of the 7th Circuit.
Nailing Smollett, the Nigerians, and Kim Foxx would sure show he’d make a fine member of the 7th Circuit too.
What’s up with the Tchen spelling? That seems like the way a classy Hong Kong businessman would spell Chen in 1930.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f4/60/eb/f460eb80d24cf8a4ab57651f238f406f--vintage-street-styles-fashion-street-styles.jpgReplies: @Cortes, @guest, @Achmed E. Newman, @Reg Cæsar, @Oleaginous Outrager, @donut
Maybe a sort of de-Anglicization or “self-Othering.”
Like if a Black-and-Tan demanded to know your given name during the Troubles and just to be an arse you said “Caomhainn” instead of Kevin. Then he caved your skull in with a truncheon for impertinence.
Furries?
It took me a few seconds to get that. Do you mean, then, that Miss Ka-Ching (thanks, Mike and Larry) is the Blue-Squad peacetime consiglieri (or whatever)? I think the Hildabeast, or any of the Clintons, have enough experience putting hits on people to be the wartime consiglieri. Where do I find a consiglieri, on Craigslist, or is it another job that Americans just won’t do?
Yet another troublesome Asian in our midst.
Peterike’s Law: every day more proof.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/meet-us-attorney
He was captain of the Harvard football team while majoring in “General Studies” and clerked for the most conservative member of the 7th Circuit.
Nailing Smollett, the Nigerians, and Kim Foxx would sure show he’d make a fine member of the 7th Circuit too.
What’s up with the Tchen spelling? That seems like the way a classy Hong Kong businessman would spell Chen in 1930.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f4/60/eb/f460eb80d24cf8a4ab57651f238f406f--vintage-street-styles-fashion-street-styles.jpgReplies: @Cortes, @guest, @Achmed E. Newman, @Reg Cæsar, @Oleaginous Outrager, @donut
Whoaa, where’d you get that picture, Lot? I’m pretty sure that’s that same girl that I met on the Peking Ferry – she came up on deck and bit my neck. We were both feeling pretty merry.
Don’t believe me? Every Picture Tells a Story:
Don’t it? Maybe I’m thinking of a different hot Chinawoman, that time, during the Year of the Cat.
That’s some excellent drumming, too!
but watch out cuz Shanghai Lil never used the pill, she claimed that it just ain't natural.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Autochthon
The plot sickens! Chicago racketeering and corruption remain a constant year after year.
Those who know Tchen, an Ohio native and the daughter of a psychiatrist from China, point to a career marked by equity and empathy in rendering her apparently limited involvement in the Smollett case not unexpected.
Definitely a candidate for this years’s Worst Sentence to Appear in a News Article award. Among other things, I’m trying to figure out what “a career marked by equity” means.
I think it's an exercise in extreme self-righteousness to have these vapid words to throw around for your friends and pretend that your opponents are a bunch of exclusive meanies. Like how Jordan Peterson was dis-invited from Cambridge because they are a place of (now use your best high-pitched, snobbish voice) of inclusion and equity. We must exclude you on the basis of our inclusiveness.
Perhaps the "family friend" that Tchen was shilling for in the first place is now having CNN carry his/her water as well.
Enquiring minds want to know.Replies: @Desiderius, @dvorak
American Communists are all connected and intermarried, in politics, journalism and academia.
An investigation of the Jussie-gate scandal needs to be held with the participants in it testifying under the penalty of perjury.
“peacetime”
No justice, no peace. Who are these Clintons you speak of?
Yeah, plus she’s an honorary black. Hagen was an honorary Sicilian.
The striking lack of irony, given the context, is a typical–but typically small–consolation for those of us who dare to pay attention.
^^^
Perfect example of media bias and it shows how the media twists a story to fit "the narrative."
First, the reporter gets a PR adviser and "activist" who is TOTALLY unrelated to the case and uses him as the voice of authority. Then, they use a quote from the guy that is totally at odds with the facts.
In this case, we do, in fact, know the "truth of the situation" because there is Smollett's check to the Nigerian brothers as well as surveillance footage of them buying supplies for the hoax! The Internet allows people to actually see the surveillance footage. How long will the media be able to keep up this charade?
In the old days, my editor would have thrown me out of the newsroom if I had presented him with a PR-related source for a crime story. I could hear him now: "What the &*#$ does this have to do with the story you idiot??!! He's pushing an agenda!!" These days, editors force their writers to avoid seeking truth and write to pre-scripted ideas instead.Replies: @Mr McKenna, @ben tillman
Hey look at that squirrel over there
Cook County-to-English translation: make it go away, quickly.
That paragraph reminds me of the brilliantly written Chicago mafia boss Remo Gaggi in Casino; superficially unassuming and diffident in his pronouncements, but speaking in a language well understood by his cronies and subordinates, and ultimately the most ruthless of them all. Don’t let the understated Midwestern-ness distract you from the substance.
Gee, it kinda sounds like they’re a tribe.
Nobody seems to be commenting on the pretty unnerving detail that the source of Family Friend’s “Omg this would be a huge victory” is the prospect that the case would be taken from the Chicago PD by the FBI, who would now oversee the investigation.
Granted, the intelligence agencies have rarely been held in lower esteem by the public; but the inference behind that “OMG” is that the FBI is now a high-tech cesspool of unscrupulous, low-character party hacks, and the agency a partisan rogue state within a state, whose primary task is ruthless enforcement of the new ruling ideology. That’s dangerously close to pitchforks-and-torches stuff.
Don't believe me? Every Picture Tells a Story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyGa29zIqk
Don't it? Maybe I'm thinking of a different hot Chinawoman, that time, during the Year of the Cat.
That's some excellent drumming, too!Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Oleaginous Outrager
https://www.unz.com/isteve/fight-racism-by-paying-attention-to-me/#comment-3116937
Comment #371 (the indexing is off by several comments).
(Oops, I wrote "slant-eyed" lady. It's slant-eyed and I'm stickin' to it!)Replies: @PiltdownMan
Overdue for a Don Quixote to wrap this sumbitch up.Replies: @Dieter Kief
a) Are you musing about the real Don Quichotte = the fictional character? And your remark “Fin de siècle” refers to – – – our “début du siècle” as an end of sorts? Hm. So – you have hopes for a satirical novel?
b) “(…) is turning into a real drag.” – – -“what a drag it is, getting old – kids are different today/ I hear every mother say…” Jagger/Richards are the ones who hit the sweet/sour spot of our times quite often, I must say. (oh- this is not (!) meant as a reference to you personally).
* - all our our absurd Civil Rights Reenactors running around have well and truly immanetized their eschaton and now they're left with nothing to do but to keep immanetizing it over and over at the expense of the local windmills which they imagine to be the white devils of their fever dreams. Maybe Elwick, McGrath, Sailer, et al are serving as our collective Cervantes.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dieter Kief
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/meet-us-attorney
He was captain of the Harvard football team while majoring in “General Studies” and clerked for the most conservative member of the 7th Circuit.
Nailing Smollett, the Nigerians, and Kim Foxx would sure show he’d make a fine member of the 7th Circuit too.
What’s up with the Tchen spelling? That seems like the way a classy Hong Kong businessman would spell Chen in 1930.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f4/60/eb/f460eb80d24cf8a4ab57651f238f406f--vintage-street-styles-fashion-street-styles.jpgReplies: @Cortes, @guest, @Achmed E. Newman, @Reg Cæsar, @Oleaginous Outrager, @donut
Thanks in advance.Replies: @larry lurker, @MikeatMikedotMike, @Desiderius, @Olorin
My ignorance of masstainment over the past 15-plus years is vast indeed Ach, but a quick bit of Duck fu points me to this, which may supply pronounceatorial help.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/T%27Challa_(Earth-616)
To wit: seems everyone in Wakanda has a capitalized consonant and apostrophe in their name.
Further suggestions may be forthcoming from T’Genius.
And why innit spelled W’Kanda?
At least the part of the article shown here was clearly written and readable. Pretty rare nowadays.
Granted, the intelligence agencies have rarely been held in lower esteem by the public; but the inference behind that "OMG" is that the FBI is now a high-tech cesspool of unscrupulous, low-character party hacks, and the agency a partisan rogue state within a state, whose primary task is ruthless enforcement of the new ruling ideology. That's dangerously close to pitchforks-and-torches stuff.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @anon, @Buffalo Joe, @The preferred nomenclature is...
You got it right. Some of us have had the same thought, but strangely we haven’t bothered to say anything about it. Must be something they’re putting in the water. (I’m joking.)
Obviously the assumption made clear by the OMG is that these people can use the FBI to fix problems. Isn’t that kind of what is proven by the Russia Hoax?
Regarding how low We The People now hold such parts of our government — and in general anything and everything that steers the world — many of us are now at the “aw fuck it” stage and may never again believe or trust anything or anyone in any position of influence, be it government, corporate, media, academic, financial, etc. etc. It seems to us that we are and always have been powerless, and that the world is built on lies, deception and control, and perhaps always has been.
We hold no hope or belief any longer. The more you know, the more you know you don’t matter.
My father was a first generation American. He had nothing going for him except willingness to work hard and keep out of trouble. He had no contacts, no status, and no pull.
He managed to buy a house, raise three kids, always own a automobile, keep out of crushing debt, get medial care when needed. He had no education beyond a year of high school. I was able to complete college, work a few years and return to law school and get a job in a 250 person New York City law firm. I'd say he was treated pretty squarely by the system.
Even present day America seems to me much less corrupt than places like latin America, Mexico, Japan, China, India.Replies: @Anonymous
Don't believe me? Every Picture Tells a Story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmyGa29zIqk
Don't it? Maybe I'm thinking of a different hot Chinawoman, that time, during the Year of the Cat.
That's some excellent drumming, too!Replies: @PiltdownMan, @Oleaginous Outrager
I understand you fell in love with a slant-eyed lady by the light of an eastern moon,
but watch out cuz Shanghai Lil never used the pill, she claimed that it just ain’t natural.
... that "slant-eyed" is the lyric. Thank you.
I do know a Shanghai Connie though. She's the one who moved from Shanghai to the San Fran. Bay area and has complained to us that there are too many foreigners there.
https://youtu.be/Q0IrjFamL2c
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/meet-us-attorney
He was captain of the Harvard football team while majoring in “General Studies” and clerked for the most conservative member of the 7th Circuit.
Nailing Smollett, the Nigerians, and Kim Foxx would sure show he’d make a fine member of the 7th Circuit too.
What’s up with the Tchen spelling? That seems like the way a classy Hong Kong businessman would spell Chen in 1930.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f4/60/eb/f460eb80d24cf8a4ab57651f238f406f--vintage-street-styles-fashion-street-styles.jpgReplies: @Cortes, @guest, @Achmed E. Newman, @Reg Cæsar, @Oleaginous Outrager, @donut
I tried to look it up and Google asked me if I meant “Kitchen”.
It’s really like you are getting a soundbite from inside the meandric halls of nepotism inside some dystopian fascist organization.
OMG, who uses Omg without the comma for a pregnant pause?
Tchen is the kindest, sweetest person as long as you don’t cross her.
For the likes of Tchen we all count as an imminent threat so the pre-emptive war doctrine is in full effect. Times up for white men.
Definitely a candidate for this years's Worst Sentence to Appear in a News Article award. Among other things, I'm trying to figure out what "a career marked by equity" means.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @stillCARealist, @Father O'Hara
She received equity instruments as her reward for f*** ing things up.
This must Steve Sailer have taken by surprise because the FBI investigations were a big reason in his eyes that now, you know: Mr. Smollett would be in dire straits (and might even be put in jail).
It's like they want us to see jurisprudence taken out back and shot in the head.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @guest
"This must have taken Steve Sailer by surprise, since he thought the involvement of the FBI in the investigation was a good reason to believe that Mr. Smollett would be in dire straits, and might even face jail time."Replies: @Dieter Kief
Why the hell does any First Lady have a “chief of staff”? Or for that matter, any taxpayer funded staff at all?
Of course Michelle isn’t the first. And she may not have been the only First Lady to take a $500,000 shopping jaunt to Europe with her friends at taxpayer expense, but Michelle Obama illustrates that the royal treatment of the “First Family” is out of control.
If the First Lady wants a staff, let the political parties fork up the money. And when the President’s family wants to fly, have them fly commercial and ride in the airborne cattle cars with other Americans when they are not with the President. They can just show up at the gate unannounced and get on. A couple of SS Goons in tow should be the only expense to the taxpayers.
Thank you, and you, Peter Ike. That was very recent, and then there was another comment I hadn’t read very much the T-Coates one I made too. However, I’m about 2 years ahead in my touting of this great romantic Rod Stewart song.
(Oops, I wrote “slant-eyed” lady. It’s slant-eyed and I’m stickin’ to it!)
but watch out cuz Shanghai Lil never used the pill, she claimed that it just ain't natural.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Autochthon
[AGREED]
… that “slant-eyed” is the lyric. Thank you.
I do know a Shanghai Connie though. She’s the one who moved from Shanghai to the San Fran. Bay area and has complained to us that there are too many foreigners there.
Moon Unit Zappa? Fer sure, fer sure.
Who uses “omg”? Every gay, Rachel Maddow worshiping Prog ever.
Granted, the intelligence agencies have rarely been held in lower esteem by the public; but the inference behind that "OMG" is that the FBI is now a high-tech cesspool of unscrupulous, low-character party hacks, and the agency a partisan rogue state within a state, whose primary task is ruthless enforcement of the new ruling ideology. That's dangerously close to pitchforks-and-torches stuff.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @anon, @Buffalo Joe, @The preferred nomenclature is...
“Mulder, do you realize what this means?”
Apparently that empathy only extends to non-whites. She didn’t get involved with James Fields who was unjustly convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Tina Tchen is just another member of the “model minority” to cast her political lot with the black and brown conquistadores in America.
Her Chinese name is 陈远美 (Chen Yuanmei in pinyin). Chen in pinyin was written as Ch’en in Wade-Giles. However, in the past, Chinese names were often transliterated informally by ear and not according to the rules of any official Romanization system. I’m guessing that’s what happened here. All Romanizations are approximate (thus Pinyin zhang is W-G chang but really it’s neither) but Chen happens to coincide very closely with the way that ch sounds in English.
Her parents, educated people, wisely fled the PRC to the US when the Communists came and saved themselves from decades of Maoist agony. So I don’t think that there was any intermediate country (France or Vietnam) with different Romanization rules involved. It’s just an idiosyncratic spelling of Chen.
Moon Unit? For goodness sake, you’re old. She’s in her fifties.
OT, just gonna leave this here:
Breakaway Pro-EU Labour and Tory MPs Form CUK Party
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The big surprise is not that it’s currently looking as though Smollett is going to get away with it. The big surprise is that Clown World, Chicago Division is going to let him get away with it after charging him with 16 counts, or whatever it was. That is such a huge blunder. I mean it’s an optical nightmare. And after you expose the guy in a press conference, condemn him, and charge him with a litany of crimes, to then go and drop all charges because back-room deal…
It’s like they want us to see jurisprudence taken out back and shot in the head.
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Perfect example of media bias and it shows how the media twists a story to fit "the narrative."
First, the reporter gets a PR adviser and "activist" who is TOTALLY unrelated to the case and uses him as the voice of authority. Then, they use a quote from the guy that is totally at odds with the facts.
In this case, we do, in fact, know the "truth of the situation" because there is Smollett's check to the Nigerian brothers as well as surveillance footage of them buying supplies for the hoax! The Internet allows people to actually see the surveillance footage. How long will the media be able to keep up this charade?
In the old days, my editor would have thrown me out of the newsroom if I had presented him with a PR-related source for a crime story. I could hear him now: "What the &*#$ does this have to do with the story you idiot??!! He's pushing an agenda!!" These days, editors force their writers to avoid seeking truth and write to pre-scripted ideas instead.Replies: @Mr McKenna, @ben tillman
We also know the truth because Smollett phone calls with the brothers from the phone records he gave the police.
I don’t think readers got the reference to the original “The Manchurian Candidate” in Steve’s headline.
The novel marked the end of the age/cycle/era/world* that it ridiculed, and not without some fondness.
* – all our our absurd Civil Rights Reenactors running around have well and truly immanetized their eschaton and now they’re left with nothing to do but to keep immanetizing it over and over at the expense of the local windmills which they imagine to be the white devils of their fever dreams. Maybe Elwick, McGrath, Sailer, et al are serving as our collective Cervantes.
I'd love to read such a novel. It would have to encompass Steve Sailer. - Why doesn't he publish the book with his best-of essays and miscellaneous pieces he spoke of? I do hope not because of fear.Replies: @Desiderius
Jurnee’s text to Kim Foxx, in limerical form:
Cops treat Jussie unsatisfactory
Please bring in the Feds and get back to me
If you do this for me–
OMMFG!
It would be such a MF’n victory!
Tchen is the kindest, sweetest person as long as you don't cross her.Replies: @Desiderius
No that’s Trump.
For the likes of Tchen we all count as an imminent threat so the pre-emptive war doctrine is in full effect. Times up for white men.
What about explorers, Indians, colonists, pioneers, settlers, pilgrims, volkwanderers, conquistadors, indenturees, and slaves?Replies: @Desiderius, @Anonymous
*Asian immigrants workin a shakedown play in the diversity rackets.
Just thank god you gotta outa china should always be the first response to revolting parasites like this.
No other industrial nation has to deal with a payoff tax on an institutionalized level, much less listen to the drivel. No wonder they are, “killing us. ”
# mass immigration
Granted, the intelligence agencies have rarely been held in lower esteem by the public; but the inference behind that "OMG" is that the FBI is now a high-tech cesspool of unscrupulous, low-character party hacks, and the agency a partisan rogue state within a state, whose primary task is ruthless enforcement of the new ruling ideology. That's dangerously close to pitchforks-and-torches stuff.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @anon, @Buffalo Joe, @The preferred nomenclature is...
ragno, hmmmm, interesting .
The perfect solution to the Smollett debacle is to have Trump appoint Robert Mueller to do an in depth investigation, with full supoena power.Dems’ heads would explode.
I’d like to know what’s really going on down in Montgomery.
The official story, so far still only insinuated by the SPLC (and faithfully aped by the NYT, et al.), is that Morris Dees was fired for raycissekcis. A week or so later, CEO Richard Cohen resigned as an act of contrition and noble responsibility-taking for Morris Dees’ raycissekcis workplace abuses. Tina Tchen is brought in to do what exactly? View surveillance video? Take depositions? Take a red pencil to the employees manual? Fire all the white guys?
It’s a near certainty that Morris Dees’ raycissekcis had nothing to do with any of this. The guy is 82 and rarely goes to the office anymore. Moreover, while there are lots of anonymous complaints by SPLC staffers online about the “toxic” work environment at the SPLC, the only person identified by name is Richard Cohen, and the backstabbing and politics in the workplace are what the complaints mention–not one word about raycissekcis.
On top of that, the number four person at the SPLC, Rhonda Brownstein, resigned the same week Richard Cohen did. Same goes for Alan Howard, the SPLC chairman of the board. He, too, resigned right about then.
So why bring down a corrupt insider from Chicago . To reenforce the anti-Gentilic narrative against Dees? Doesn’t seem the best way to do that.
Or could it be to strip the place of everything of value, then let it collapse with the half-billion in assets safely out of reach of the feds? That seems way more plausible. And Tchen apparently has the juice to keep the feds at bay (assuming our Gmen and Tmen still look into things like that) while everything is liquidated. Poor Morris is going to wake up one of these days with his glorious palace –an empty shell–as ruined as his reputation, and the people who conspired to take it away from him will be long gone, enjoying the fruits of his life in someplace that doesn’t extradite–like Israel.
But not quite old enough to consider the possibility that blacks, women and gays can lie as much as anyone else.
Granted, the intelligence agencies have rarely been held in lower esteem by the public; but the inference behind that "OMG" is that the FBI is now a high-tech cesspool of unscrupulous, low-character party hacks, and the agency a partisan rogue state within a state, whose primary task is ruthless enforcement of the new ruling ideology. That's dangerously close to pitchforks-and-torches stuff.Replies: @Buzz Mohawk, @anon, @Buffalo Joe, @The preferred nomenclature is...
Exactly this and the scariest part of the whole pile of s–t.
Maoist bloodlines. Now juxtapose them with the financial capital bloodlines that came out of Europe and do a network analysis to see if there’s any crossover. There is.
* - all our our absurd Civil Rights Reenactors running around have well and truly immanetized their eschaton and now they're left with nothing to do but to keep immanetizing it over and over at the expense of the local windmills which they imagine to be the white devils of their fever dreams. Maybe Elwick, McGrath, Sailer, et al are serving as our collective Cervantes.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dieter Kief
“Civil Rights Reenactors”, good one! Did you make that up, Desiderius? Either way, I’ll have to use it some time.
2011 reference: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/08/tent-cities-are-springing-up-all-over.htmlReplies: @Desiderius
OT: AOC is ticking off her constituents. Anyone trying to contact her office in Washington is just getting voice mails that direct them to her website.
“Just Alex From the Bronx,” doesn’t even have an office in the Bronx.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-31/her-heart-isnt-bronx-aoc-ignores-constituents-pleas-help-while-pushing-green-new
There’s a layer of activists in any constituency who keep up a constant stream of contact with their congresscritter, and the residents of the Bronx are complaining they can’t reach her at all. Total shutout. They’re saying she’s too busy being a media darling to bother with her district and its concerns.
The feds seem to be pretty corrupt now, and places like Chicago and NJ have been known to be moderately corrupt for awhile, but to say everything important was always fixed is an overstatement.
My father was a first generation American. He had nothing going for him except willingness to work hard and keep out of trouble. He had no contacts, no status, and no pull.
He managed to buy a house, raise three kids, always own a automobile, keep out of crushing debt, get medial care when needed. He had no education beyond a year of high school. I was able to complete college, work a few years and return to law school and get a job in a 250 person New York City law firm. I’d say he was treated pretty squarely by the system.
Even present day America seems to me much less corrupt than places like latin America, Mexico, Japan, China, India.
That just can't be done even in Southern European countries. They're corrupt but not that corrupt.
I've heard that it's possible to do that in Mexico, definitely not in Chile or most other South American mostly or largely Euro countries.
Brazil is said to be corrupt too but the biggest obstacle for most people is Portuguese. Apparently, despite the languages being somewhat mutually intelligible, it's substantially tougher to learn Portuguese well enough you are not blatantly marked as an outsider, and that's a big deal with them.Replies: @Jack D
Why would you want to bid for CNN? I don’t think the Chinese would bid for it, they’re too smart, let Qatar have it, were they the ones who bought Gore’s network?
b. nowhere to go but up
c. global name recognition, much of it independent of and oblivious to their self-beclowning under Zucker.
This was CNN:
https://youtu.be/vNrRViYbXu4
You hire men like that again you're back in business.
Cha-ching! is pretty close.Replies: @Bubba
Indeed! And here’s more of that cha-ching for ya!
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/descendants-sue-harvard-ownership-slave-photos
Definitely a candidate for this years's Worst Sentence to Appear in a News Article award. Among other things, I'm trying to figure out what "a career marked by equity" means.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @stillCARealist, @Father O'Hara
Yeah that sentence jumped out at me too. Give me a break. Empathy and equity. What pointless, meaningless words that are supposed to make her sound like such a person of eternal justice. Maybe she’s God?
I think it’s an exercise in extreme self-righteousness to have these vapid words to throw around for your friends and pretend that your opponents are a bunch of exclusive meanies. Like how Jordan Peterson was dis-invited from Cambridge because they are a place of (now use your best high-pitched, snobbish voice) of inclusion and equity. We must exclude you on the basis of our inclusiveness.
While that character was based on a real-life gangster who was born in Illinois, he wasn’t Midwestern in any real sense. Apart from his parents being Sicilian immigrants, he grew up in Al Capone New York mafia culture. They took territory on the plains, but they weren’t of them. Think Roman soldiers surrounded by Britons, or Normans surrounded by Saxons.
That style of speaking, where they only say as much as they have to and everything is understood without them having to say it explicitly, I assume comes from the culture of secrecy. Omerta and all that. In Goodfellas you can tell Paul Sorvino is boss because he’s the guy who doesn’t have to talk. He doesn’t say but two words a day and never uses a phone.
Her parents, educated people, wisely fled the PRC to the US when the Communists came and saved themselves from decades of Maoist agony. So I don't think that there was any intermediate country (France or Vietnam) with different Romanization rules involved. It's just an idiosyncratic spelling of Chen.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @larry lurker
Or pretentious. Weyl and Possony discovered that Clarkes and Smythes were overrepresented in Who’s Who, compared to mere Clarks and Smiths.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/meet-us-attorney
He was captain of the Harvard football team while majoring in “General Studies” and clerked for the most conservative member of the 7th Circuit.
Nailing Smollett, the Nigerians, and Kim Foxx would sure show he’d make a fine member of the 7th Circuit too.
What’s up with the Tchen spelling? That seems like the way a classy Hong Kong businessman would spell Chen in 1930.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f4/60/eb/f460eb80d24cf8a4ab57651f238f406f--vintage-street-styles-fashion-street-styles.jpgReplies: @Cortes, @guest, @Achmed E. Newman, @Reg Cæsar, @Oleaginous Outrager, @donut
You know for myself I imagine history in black+white images , to me it seems remote . When I was young I would look at a picture like this one labeled as HK in the 30’s and I would try to imagine that you could pick any person frozen in that moment and then follow them to see what happened with them . These people , that woman and the guy behind her in the ill fitting suit what if you could just select them and follow them from that moment on , what was their fate ? We know now that there was a nightmare ahead of them , how did they fare ?
Did you mean:
“This must have taken Steve Sailer by surprise, since he thought the involvement of the FBI in the investigation was a good reason to believe that Mr. Smollett would be in dire straits, and might even face jail time.”
* - all our our absurd Civil Rights Reenactors running around have well and truly immanetized their eschaton and now they're left with nothing to do but to keep immanetizing it over and over at the expense of the local windmills which they imagine to be the white devils of their fever dreams. Maybe Elwick, McGrath, Sailer, et al are serving as our collective Cervantes.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Dieter Kief
Oh – you don’t expect somebody to write this novel but rather believe, we – just like Don Quichotte?! – live in it.
I’d love to read such a novel. It would have to encompass Steve Sailer. – Why doesn’t he publish the book with his best-of essays and miscellaneous pieces he spoke of? I do hope not because of fear.
The novel was brilliant in part because Cervantes was living in a world plagued by an age which had outstayed its welcome and which was shown the door in large part due to the novel itself.
Here’s hoping Sailer is performing a similar function for our world.Replies: @Dieter Kief
"This must have taken Steve Sailer by surprise, since he thought the involvement of the FBI in the investigation was a good reason to believe that Mr. Smollett would be in dire straits, and might even face jail time."Replies: @Dieter Kief
No, actually. I did not mean it, vinteuil. Don’t know why I wrote it. That is so long ago, see? Sorry to have discommoded ya.
YourEnglish really isn't bad at all. Definitely better than my German. Possibly even better than Google Translate.Replies: @Dieter Kief
I'd love to read such a novel. It would have to encompass Steve Sailer. - Why doesn't he publish the book with his best-of essays and miscellaneous pieces he spoke of? I do hope not because of fear.Replies: @Desiderius
He’s publishing it every day.
The novel was brilliant in part because Cervantes was living in a world plagued by an age which had outstayed its welcome and which was shown the door in large part due to the novel itself.
Here’s hoping Sailer is performing a similar function for our world.
If I look at Steve Sailer and Franzen's Karl Kraus, it almost looks, as if Karl Kraus was the closest Franzen could get near Steve Sailer, without actually writing about him.
Neither Kraus nor Franzen got Heine, though, unfortunately (Heine loved to laugh a lot, an ability which Franzen and Kraus don't marvel at (especially Kraus), - and Heine loved Don Quichotte). If I'm not totally wrong, Franzen shied away from Steve Sailer. And in not publishing his book, Steve Sailer shies away from the wider public. In between is a wide range of public space, which might lie fallow. - - I hope that sounds not too dark - - - I'll open the window now and listen to the night owl, over at the woods, what she has to say. b) Hope brings eternity - Irish saying.Replies: @Desiderius
but watch out cuz Shanghai Lil never used the pill, she claimed that it just ain't natural.Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Autochthon
All these invocations of the Oriental dragon lady and no live for The Golden Child? Or, at least, Mary, the original attitude adjuster?!
The novel was brilliant in part because Cervantes was living in a world plagued by an age which had outstayed its welcome and which was shown the door in large part due to the novel itself.
Here’s hoping Sailer is performing a similar function for our world.Replies: @Dieter Kief
a) Ok – then why did he publicly speak about this book? I would love to read it. And it would help him too – and the public, I’d hold. It still makes sense to somehow concentrate your thoughts in a 300 or 400 p. book. I only hope that he does not avoid to publish such a book because he in one way or another fears what would happen. My feeling is: Nothing grave or bad. But maybe a few good things.
I am reminded of Karl Kraus, when I think about his work. Jonathan Franzen should rather write about Steve Sailer than about Kraus, whom he did not really get. What he got right is, that Kraus was ferociously against the press of his time and that he was fearless and never ran out of ideas.
What he did not get at all was that Kraus was – unlike Steve Sailer – a prisoner of his dark – and narrow! – worldview. That he as an ex-Jew (conversed Catholic) with sympathy for the Austrian aristocracy who fought against the not least Jewish Austrian establishment, was astonishing, but not worth mentioning for Franzen, if I remember right.
If I look at Steve Sailer and Franzen’s Karl Kraus, it almost looks, as if Karl Kraus was the closest Franzen could get near Steve Sailer, without actually writing about him.
Neither Kraus nor Franzen got Heine, though, unfortunately (Heine loved to laugh a lot, an ability which Franzen and Kraus don’t marvel at (especially Kraus), – and Heine loved Don Quichotte).
If I’m not totally wrong, Franzen shied away from Steve Sailer. And in not publishing his book, Steve Sailer shies away from the wider public. In between is a wide range of public space, which might lie fallow. –
– I hope that sounds not too dark – – – I’ll open the window now and listen to the night owl, over at the woods, what she has to say.
b) Hope brings eternity – Irish saying.
If I look at Steve Sailer and Franzen's Karl Kraus, it almost looks, as if Karl Kraus was the closest Franzen could get near Steve Sailer, without actually writing about him.
Neither Kraus nor Franzen got Heine, though, unfortunately (Heine loved to laugh a lot, an ability which Franzen and Kraus don't marvel at (especially Kraus), - and Heine loved Don Quichotte). If I'm not totally wrong, Franzen shied away from Steve Sailer. And in not publishing his book, Steve Sailer shies away from the wider public. In between is a wide range of public space, which might lie fallow. - - I hope that sounds not too dark - - - I'll open the window now and listen to the night owl, over at the woods, what she has to say. b) Hope brings eternity - Irish saying.Replies: @Desiderius
It’s the wider public’s move, not Sailer’s. He’s the respectable one. They’re running out of excuses.
A Tentacle (Yentacle) in action.
Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx pens explosive op-ed saying she welcomes an investigation into her handling of the Jussie Smollett probe and insists the case against the Empire star wasn’t as strong as first suggested
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6867077/Kim-Foxx-says-welcomes-investigation-claims-states-case-wasnt-watertight.html
OMG! Now Moon is implicated? She probably was texting from The Galleria while getting her toenails done.
Definitely a candidate for this years's Worst Sentence to Appear in a News Article award. Among other things, I'm trying to figure out what "a career marked by equity" means.Replies: @Redneck farmer, @stillCARealist, @Father O'Hara
She got a lot of equity,and after the SPLC she’ll have a lot more!
Here’s a 2002 reference, but it looks like an accidental joke: https://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142712
2011 reference: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/08/tent-cities-are-springing-up-all-over.html
It does work nicely to put such people in their place without being mean about it. So the millions of adherents to Niceanity can use it without harshing anyone's mellow. Then if the Reenactors get mad they're the ones being divisive.
Her parents, educated people, wisely fled the PRC to the US when the Communists came and saved themselves from decades of Maoist agony. So I don't think that there was any intermediate country (France or Vietnam) with different Romanization rules involved. It's just an idiosyncratic spelling of Chen.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @larry lurker
That was half a test to see if the Agree button works – I’m posting often enough lately that it does. Thanks.
SPLC will be totally black by Christmas. Top to bottom.
a. weak competition
b. nowhere to go but up
c. global name recognition, much of it independent of and oblivious to their self-beclowning under Zucker.
This was CNN:
You hire men like that again you’re back in business.
2011 reference: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/08/tent-cities-are-springing-up-all-over.htmlReplies: @Desiderius
It seems like a natural thing, too bad they didn’t run with it.
It does work nicely to put such people in their place without being mean about it. So the millions of adherents to Niceanity can use it without harshing anyone’s mellow. Then if the Reenactors get mad they’re the ones being divisive.
(Oops, I wrote "slant-eyed" lady. It's slant-eyed and I'm stickin' to it!)Replies: @PiltdownMan
AEN, I’m happy to listen to that song several times a week-as I did when I was in eighth and ninth grade. Thanks for re-posting.
How long will it be before they come for Rod Stewart? It’s only a matter of time. All those happy, laddish years with the Faces need to be punished!
I’m pretty sure the song has been banned on FM radio. No way it can get airplay with those lyrics.
Since the advent of the old iPod I gave up on radio for music and just don't listen to any radio music format. I have what I like on my music devices.Replies: @guest
Totally off topic:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2019/02/20/nipsey-hussle-opportunity-zone-real-estate-mogul-blueprint/#70703aff6364
He tweeted about having enemies, and was shot dead a few hours later:
https://pitchfork.com/news/nipsey-hussle-shot-in-los-angeles-report/
It is tough being a black entrepreneur.
I'm sorry for whoever loved this rapper, but I feel the same way I do whenever a Picasso painting gets stolen. What a relief!Replies: @DuanDiRen
Heard it last week. Syncopation rivals How Many More Times.
OT: The Dem Deep State appears to be rallying around Peter Buttigieg, who has the worse name ever for a gay guy. It’s going to become the laughingstock of the campaign. Considering that all he is right now is mayor of South Bend, Indiana, the Dems have reached dart-at-phonebook territory. They may set the all-time record in digging around for a Dark Horse candidate.
I thought Hillary was out of race, but I’m beginning to think the delegates might bolt to her at the convention if the other candidates keep going down like dominos.
It appears the nomination of twits like Al Gore and John Kerry were actually early signals that the Dems were running out of decent candidates as the party became nuttier and more extreme.
My father was a first generation American. He had nothing going for him except willingness to work hard and keep out of trouble. He had no contacts, no status, and no pull.
He managed to buy a house, raise three kids, always own a automobile, keep out of crushing debt, get medial care when needed. He had no education beyond a year of high school. I was able to complete college, work a few years and return to law school and get a job in a 250 person New York City law firm. I'd say he was treated pretty squarely by the system.
Even present day America seems to me much less corrupt than places like latin America, Mexico, Japan, China, India.Replies: @Anonymous
Was chatting with a friend who got back from Argentina recently. He was impressed that Buenos Aires was a clean, relatively safe, fairly modern city, but he also said that the legal system was quite corrupt. He ran into an expatriate American who told him that getting permanent legal residency was possible but the government paperwork was so onerous he found it cheaper to pay a lawyer with certain key connections and he was issued an entirely new Argentine identity-new birth certificate, passport, all the trimmings. Apparently it was in the $50K range.
That just can’t be done even in Southern European countries. They’re corrupt but not that corrupt.
I’ve heard that it’s possible to do that in Mexico, definitely not in Chile or most other South American mostly or largely Euro countries.
Brazil is said to be corrupt too but the biggest obstacle for most people is Portuguese. Apparently, despite the languages being somewhat mutually intelligible, it’s substantially tougher to learn Portuguese well enough you are not blatantly marked as an outsider, and that’s a big deal with them.
Crappic rock stations have a variable filter for what they’ll play. “Start Me Up” with it’s clearly audible outro of “you’d make a dead man come” passes muster for some reason but other songs with milder comments are banned.
(The lyric is stolen from old hokum blues records of the 30s, specifically Lucille Bogan’s “Shave ‘Em Dry”)
They do what consultants tell them and I bet the consultants are magically paid by record companies or song publishers. Moldies and crappic rock formats generate millions a year in payments to songwriters and they mostly all seem to play the same tracks. I’m guessing someone somewhere is paid off.
Since the advent of the old iPod I gave up on radio for music and just don’t listen to any radio music format. I have what I like on my music devices.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2019/02/20/nipsey-hussle-opportunity-zone-real-estate-mogul-blueprint/#70703aff6364
He tweeted about having enemies, and was shot dead a few hours later:
https://pitchfork.com/news/nipsey-hussle-shot-in-los-angeles-report/
It is tough being a black entrepreneur.Replies: @stillCARealist
I watched the linked video. what utter trash. Do kids really find that noise pleasurable? No singing, no harmony, the rhythm never changes, the words are completely stupid. Just ugly guys grabbing their crotches and strutting around showing off their bling and tattoos.
I’m sorry for whoever loved this rapper, but I feel the same way I do whenever a Picasso painting gets stolen. What a relief!
The memorial vigil is going as expected: 6 stabbed, so far.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://fox40.com/2019/04/01/los-angeles-police-respond-with-riot-gear-to-massive-crowd-at-nipsey-hussle-memorial/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjPtPvlnLHhAhV1yosBHXsoCFQQFjADegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw1vYOQXGL-139_KOsuTzueU&cf=1
sad to see that Asians are in on this anti-white stuff too now
Mayor Pete actually seems pretty dece but his schtick would be a lot more convincing if he worked his way up and paid his dues. Would also make him a better president.
I find a different quote from that movie to have more sinister relevance to the Current Year:
“You couldn’t have stopped them; the Army couldn’t have stopped them. So I had to.”
Whoever that nameless hero is, assuming we’re lucky enough to have him emerge, trust our Fourth Estate/Fifth Column to Emmanuel Goldstein the poor s.o.b. without the slightest prompting from on high.
Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to pass the time by playing a little solitaire.
That just can't be done even in Southern European countries. They're corrupt but not that corrupt.
I've heard that it's possible to do that in Mexico, definitely not in Chile or most other South American mostly or largely Euro countries.
Brazil is said to be corrupt too but the biggest obstacle for most people is Portuguese. Apparently, despite the languages being somewhat mutually intelligible, it's substantially tougher to learn Portuguese well enough you are not blatantly marked as an outsider, and that's a big deal with them.Replies: @Jack D
It’s much easier to go from Portuguese to Spanish than vice versa.
It's like they want us to see jurisprudence taken out back and shot in the head.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @guest
They are too stupid to use this as a means of stamping on our faces. Even so, they certainly want “to see jurisprudence taken out back and shot in the head.”
It's like they want us to see jurisprudence taken out back and shot in the head.Replies: @Charles Erwin Wilson, @guest
Yeah, they look foolish. There’s no rational explanation for not getting a plea deal. Even if there’s no penalty, you gotta leverage him into admitting he lied. That is, if you hold the public trust in any regard whatsoever.
Since the advent of the old iPod I gave up on radio for music and just don't listen to any radio music format. I have what I like on my music devices.Replies: @guest
While “dead man cum” is audible, I don’t think most people’s brains process it correctly.
Does anyone remember all of the talk about Obama being a closet gay? Just spiteful opposition rumor-mongering, I thought, but maybe, just maybe, Jussie assisted the first lady in her marital duties. If so, Jussie would have a handle on the Obamas, and it could well be the Obamas pulling the strings. It definitely would have to be someone powerful and well-connected to make players like Cha-Ching jump at their bidding.
I'm sorry for whoever loved this rapper, but I feel the same way I do whenever a Picasso painting gets stolen. What a relief!Replies: @DuanDiRen
Not really my cup of tea, but to each their own.
The memorial vigil is going as expected: 6 stabbed, so far.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://fox40.com/2019/04/01/los-angeles-police-respond-with-riot-gear-to-massive-crowd-at-nipsey-hussle-memorial/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjPtPvlnLHhAhV1yosBHXsoCFQQFjADegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw1vYOQXGL-139_KOsuTzueU&cf=1
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No, DK, it is I who am sorry to have inconvenienced you.
YourEnglish really isn’t bad at all. Definitely better than my German. Possibly even better than Google Translate.
YourEnglish really isn't bad at all. Definitely better than my German. Possibly even better than Google Translate.Replies: @Dieter Kief
Fine. Just don’t take my English hostage to my occasional sloppiness, Vinteuil. I scribble along often times late at night after a long day of work – and I like that better than lying around on my ass, totally watching television – (?? – – Ron Padgett!).