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In response to my review of Clint Eastwood’s movie Richard Jewell, iSteve commenter utu contributes this from the Daily Mail:

Newborn kidnapped from a Chicago hospital in 1964 is found living in rural Michigan – 53 years after FBI reunited his biological parents with the WRONG baby

Here’s the story from WGN in Chicago, which did the investigative reporting.

 
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  1. On the other hand, there’s an interesting piece in the Washington Post today (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-clint-eastwood-blew-the-story-of-1996/2019/12/18/837225cc-21b5-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html) by Kevin Riley, editor in chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who persuasively (to me, anyway) points out factual distortions in the Jewell movie that indicate a bias against the paper’s journalists. I wake up every morning and start swearing at the NYT, but I hate it as well when moviemakers twist things.

    • Replies: @Barnard
    @tono bungay

    That is a weak defense, his three points of contention are:

    1. Kathy Scruggs never slept with sources. They admit Scruggs was a hard partying drunk who lived a reckless personal life. They have no proof one way or the other if she ever traded sex for scoops from law enforcement. Not bragging about doing this in the AJC office is not proof it never happened. Only a sap would take their word for it that she would never do that.

    2. She never jumped the back of the lawyer's car as he was leaving Jewell's apartment and demanded an interview. Who cares. Are they arguing the public is well served by these aggressive media swarms?

    3. It was an AJC reporter and not Jewell's lawyer who walked from the payphone to the park to prove it was impossible for Jewell to have made that phone call and find the bomb in the park one minute later. I seriously doubt his legal team never checked on this. It wouldn't be surprising if they spoon fed it to the AJC and Riley is either leaving that part out of the story or the reporter never divulged where the idea came from in the first place.

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution smeared Jewell because the FBI wanted him smeared. They didn't question the FBI narrative until it was obvious they had nothing on Jewell. In the 1996 front page hit job naming Jewell a suspect, Scruggs wrote: "Richard Jewell, 33, a former law enforcement officer, fits the profile of the lone bomber." At this point in time, there were so few bombings similar to this one it was impossible to have a "profile" of a bomber. She was simply printing what the FBI wanted with total indifference to how it would impact Jewell. Riley is lying and spinning like a typical manipulative press scumbag. He is doing everything he is accusing Eastwood of doing in the movie.

    https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/presumed-guilty/

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    , @Thea
    @tono bungay

    She was known around the office as a “police groupie” and she wrote the crime beat. She used to “date” the FBI informant who gave her the Jewell story. It may have been more subtle and tacit than quid pro quo but she clearly used sex to help make connections and write stories.

    , @J.Ross
    @tono bungay

    Congratulations, you completely misunderstood what was happening.

  2. Some say FBI stands for Flashy But Incompetent.

    • Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
    @Redneck farmer

    You can't deny they look great in movies & TV shows.

    Replies: @RVBlake, @Dr. X, @El Dato

    , @Prester John
    @Redneck farmer

    It's not limited to the FBI either. Read "The Fifty Year Wound" by Derek Leebert. The incompetence of the CIA will make your hair stand up.

    Replies: @Desiderius

    , @Bill Jones
    @Redneck farmer

    We need an SBIFI
    A States Bureau of Investigating Federal Investigators.

  3. @Redneck farmer
    Some say FBI stands for Flashy But Incompetent.

    Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Prester John, @Bill Jones

    You can’t deny they look great in movies & TV shows.

    • Replies: @RVBlake
    @Bardon Kaldian

    In "X-Files", FBI agent Fox Mulder did a stellar job battling vampires and extra-terrestrials. Perhaps the FBI should direct their energies in that direction.

    Replies: @Kronos

    , @Dr. X
    @Bardon Kaldian

    All the movies and TV shows today portray them as black men and white females...

    , @El Dato
    @Bardon Kaldian

    "Die Hard" has something to say about this.

  4. ” . . . by Kevin Riley, editor in chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who persuasively (to me, anyway) points out factual distortions in the Jewell movie that indicate a bias against the paper’s journalists. ”

    I have no doubt that the film was not a perfect rendition of events. The entire film is bias against journalists in this case and for good reason. The advances examples of distortions don’t change the overall, press of the film.

    That the media as routine follow the lead of law enforcement. In many ways Mr. Jewell was lucky — most targets of the media have few defenders and even less resources than Mr. Jewell.

    And I am not sure why the article’s writer did not cite article in which the iournal openly challenged the FBI narrative. And it would be interesting what other news outlets followed that line of rationale profferred.

  5. After recent events/revelations (especially), I’m one of the last who would defend the FBI — but to be fair(er), you should have included this part of the linked story in your post:

    It was decades before DNA testing, and law enforcement thought the boy they found had ears similar in shape to the Fronczak baby. Newspaper accounts at the time quote Dora Fronczak as saying “that’s my baby, it’s Paul!” The Fronczaks raised the baby as their own.

    Then, in 2014, our sister station KLAS-TV reported the person who thought he was Paul Fronczak had taken a DNA test that proved he wasn’t.

  6. Immediately after reading this story, I thought of the film Changeling:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling_(film)

    And, to my surprise, the director was… Clint Eastwood

  7. OT

    Britons have no right to ask whether a transgender person is male or female, rules employment judge in landmark ruling AGAINST tax expert who was sacked for tweeting ‘men cannot become women’Employment tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45 — She had questioned plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender

    The Central London Employment Tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45, on Wednesday over ‘offensive’ tweets questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.

    Miss Forstater, who worked for the Centre for Global Development, was let go by the think tank after sharing her views on reforms to Gender Recognition Certificates.

    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views – that there are only two biological sexes and it is not possible to change between them – could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.

    I don’t know why more Canadian men have not de jure identified as women — they would all save thousands every year on car insurance, there is not a damn thing an insurance company could do about it, and it is not clear how it would otherwise affect their lives — ? — some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.

    Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance

    David, 24, called an insurance company last year for a quote on a new Chevrolet Cruze he planned to buy — and learned he’d be charged $1,100 less per year if he were female, … So he did some research and learned he could easily change his gender with a doctor’s note. … “It was pretty simple,” he said. “I just basically asked for it and [said] that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted.” … He then changed the gender on his driver’s license, called the insurance company — and saved about $91 a month, according to the outlet. … His only motivation was to get a cheaper deal.

    • Replies: @Achmed E. Newman
    @eah

    Great advice, Eah, that I wish I had about oh, a few decades ago. Here I am, taking my auto insurance advice from a prissy British lizard.

    , @Lurker
    @eah

    I just read that out to Mrs Lurker and she pointed out that eventually it wont matter what sex people are, we'll all end up paying higher rates as if everyone were a man.

    Replies: @eah

    , @eah
    @eah

    link


    Charity worker @MForstater was sacked for stating publicly that transgender women cannot change their biological sex (surely an indisputable statement of scientific fact). She lost her employment tribunal. These two paragraphs of the judgement are disturbing beyond words.
     
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMIe2eeXsAY1h00.jpg
    , @Don't Look at Me
    @eah

    "Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance."

    He can also get cheaper life insurance. But his long term care insurance would cost a lot more.

    , @Stan d Mute
    @eah


    some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.
     
    I have no idea why anyone, Canadian or otherwise, would cooperate with government and/or corporate minions in identifying himself as a deplorable white male. For over thirty years I have been counted in the Census as a Pygmy. Whenever I am asked my race, I reply “Pygmy.” Now that they’re expanding their insanity to include sex (not “gender”), I think I will become a “Pygmy female.”

    Stop cooperating and enabling your own dispossession!
    , @Yngvar
    @eah


    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.
     
    She lost. Some philosophical beliefs are more protected than others. Clown world.
  8. I’ve known a number of FBI agents who left the agency for politics and business. Their focus was always on looking good in a suit. It is a good guess that’s how they got hired and that’s who they hired: clean-cut, good breeding from a respectable family, good dresser, good verbal ability, a joiner not a loner … someone who would fit in at the local golf club or at a corporate Christmas party.

    I found the lot rather dull. It was all about appearances. Being bright and knowing what they were doing never entered the picture. Not impressed.

    • Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
    @TheJester


    I found the lot rather dull. It was all about appearances. Being bright and knowing what they were doing never entered the picture. Not impressed.
     
    This is because the FBI is a microcosm of modern American society. Modern American society promotes conformity of thought, action, and appearance while punishing the opposite.
  9. We love the FBI!

    Please Mossad don’t murder me.

  10. @Bardon Kaldian
    @Redneck farmer

    You can't deny they look great in movies & TV shows.

    Replies: @RVBlake, @Dr. X, @El Dato

    In “X-Files”, FBI agent Fox Mulder did a stellar job battling vampires and extra-terrestrials. Perhaps the FBI should direct their energies in that direction.

    • Agree: donut
    • Disagree: Kronos
    • Replies: @Kronos
    @RVBlake

    For every Fox Mulder you’ll have ten mysterious “Old Smokeys.” Essentially, you sit around smoking all day and people pretend to ignore you.

    https://alchetron.com/cdn/cigarette-smoking-man-42c83552-d97a-48cd-8c47-356935381aa-resize-750.jpeg

  11. Mike Tre [AKA "MikeatMikedotMike"] says:

    Very fair of you to give the commenter “utu” some recognition. He spares no opportunity to refer to you as a “moron HBDer” (summarizing) in other parts of the website.

  12. @eah
    OT

    Britons have no right to ask whether a transgender person is male or female, rules employment judge in landmark ruling AGAINST tax expert who was sacked for tweeting 'men cannot become women' -- Employment tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45 -- She had questioned plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender

    The Central London Employment Tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45, on Wednesday over 'offensive' tweets questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.

    Miss Forstater, who worked for the Centre for Global Development, was let go by the think tank after sharing her views on reforms to Gender Recognition Certificates.

    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views - that there are only two biological sexes and it is not possible to change between them - could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.
     
    I don't know why more Canadian men have not de jure identified as women -- they would all save thousands every year on car insurance, there is not a damn thing an insurance company could do about it, and it is not clear how it would otherwise affect their lives -- ? -- some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.

    Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance

    David, 24, called an insurance company last year for a quote on a new Chevrolet Cruze he planned to buy — and learned he’d be charged $1,100 less per year if he were female, ... So he did some research and learned he could easily change his gender with a doctor’s note. ... “It was pretty simple,” he said. “I just basically asked for it and [said] that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted.” ... He then changed the gender on his driver’s license, called the insurance company — and saved about $91 a month, according to the outlet. ... His only motivation was to get a cheaper deal.
     

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Lurker, @eah, @Don't Look at Me, @Stan d Mute, @Yngvar

    Great advice, Eah, that I wish I had about oh, a few decades ago. Here I am, taking my auto insurance advice from a prissy British lizard.

  13. The FBI (purely by accident) did the right thing in this case. The baby’s real biological parents were a violent cop with mob ties and his alcoholic wife.

  14. I’m just wondering if the FBI interviewed the real Paul Fronczak about the kidnapping.

    “Well, it was 53 years ago. and I was only 7*, but I remember being blindfolded and driven up old US-41 in a new Red Ford Falcon wagon. A big argument ensued about my ransom, whether twelve hundred bucks was too high and then they got into it about Barry Goldwater and the election.

    I hope that helps.”

    .

    * months

  15. Honestly, the incompetency of the FBI is unbelievable!
    It also failed to reunite this child with its rightful presidency.

    53 years from now Hillary will be discovered to be still grousing about it….

    • LOL: Redneck farmer
    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @Ano

    Anybody want to bet me $5 that HRC gets into the 2020 race? Loser pays Steve.

    Replies: @Hail, @Ano

    , @anon
    @Ano

    There aren't many children with a face you can hate, but Hillary's is one of them.

    Replies: @Don't Look at Me

  16. @Bardon Kaldian
    @Redneck farmer

    You can't deny they look great in movies & TV shows.

    Replies: @RVBlake, @Dr. X, @El Dato

    All the movies and TV shows today portray them as black men and white females…

  17. Anonymous[378] • Disclaimer says:

    I’m one of the last who would defend the FBI — but to be fair(er), you should have included this part of the linked story in your post:

    It was decades before DNA testing, and law enforcement thought the boy they found had ears similar in shape to the Fronczak baby.

    Exactly! The Famous But Incompetent always gets their man, whether he’s the right one or not!
    The NYPD used to have a saying (a long time ago): “The FBI couldn’t find a [n-word] in Harlem or a ch*nk in Chinatown.”

    “I don’t call you “son” because you’z mine, I call you “sun” because you shine.”

  18. The FBI has been dirty for a very long time, maybe since the beginning. The Boston FBI framed four innocent men, two were sent to death row, for a Chelsea murder they did not commit back in 1965. The G-Men responsible for it were Zip Connolly and John “Vino” Morris. Both of them were on the payroll of the local mafia.

    For decades the FBI covered this up. Horse Face Bob Mueller was part of the cover-up. Two of the men died in prison, but the other two were later exonerated when the crooked FBI officials were finally revealed. The men were released and sued the government. Mueller, then head of the FBI, stonewalled the process, denying these men information needed in their case.

    The mass media promotes the notion of the FBI being this highly professional law enforcement organization using the latest technology to catch super-criminals. In reality it is as corrupt and incompetent as a 1970’s NYC police precinct. Other than framing opponents of the system, it has no useful purpose.

    The inability of the political class to punish the people involved in the seditious plot to overturn the last election means the FBI will only get worse. Armed with secret courts and surveillance data, they are free to play the hardest of hardball politics.

    • Agree: ben tillman, TWS
    • Replies: @Nice Man
    @The Z Blog

    All I really need to know about the FBI I learned from Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

    https://youtu.be/KIT-aCOypjM?t=34

    Starring Peter Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page...

    Tonight's Episode

    THE DOSSIER

  19. @Redneck farmer
    Some say FBI stands for Flashy But Incompetent.

    Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Prester John, @Bill Jones

    It’s not limited to the FBI either. Read “The Fifty Year Wound” by Derek Leebert. The incompetence of the CIA will make your hair stand up.

    • Replies: @Desiderius
    @Prester John

    If you have to have a secret police incompetent beats competent.

    Replies: @BB753

  20. @tono bungay
    On the other hand, there's an interesting piece in the Washington Post today (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-clint-eastwood-blew-the-story-of-1996/2019/12/18/837225cc-21b5-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html) by Kevin Riley, editor in chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who persuasively (to me, anyway) points out factual distortions in the Jewell movie that indicate a bias against the paper's journalists. I wake up every morning and start swearing at the NYT, but I hate it as well when moviemakers twist things.

    Replies: @Barnard, @Thea, @J.Ross

    That is a weak defense, his three points of contention are:

    1. Kathy Scruggs never slept with sources. They admit Scruggs was a hard partying drunk who lived a reckless personal life. They have no proof one way or the other if she ever traded sex for scoops from law enforcement. Not bragging about doing this in the AJC office is not proof it never happened. Only a sap would take their word for it that she would never do that.

    2. She never jumped the back of the lawyer’s car as he was leaving Jewell’s apartment and demanded an interview. Who cares. Are they arguing the public is well served by these aggressive media swarms?

    3. It was an AJC reporter and not Jewell’s lawyer who walked from the payphone to the park to prove it was impossible for Jewell to have made that phone call and find the bomb in the park one minute later. I seriously doubt his legal team never checked on this. It wouldn’t be surprising if they spoon fed it to the AJC and Riley is either leaving that part out of the story or the reporter never divulged where the idea came from in the first place.

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution smeared Jewell because the FBI wanted him smeared. They didn’t question the FBI narrative until it was obvious they had nothing on Jewell. In the 1996 front page hit job naming Jewell a suspect, Scruggs wrote: “Richard Jewell, 33, a former law enforcement officer, fits the profile of the lone bomber.” At this point in time, there were so few bombings similar to this one it was impossible to have a “profile” of a bomber. She was simply printing what the FBI wanted with total indifference to how it would impact Jewell. Riley is lying and spinning like a typical manipulative press scumbag. He is doing everything he is accusing Eastwood of doing in the movie.

    https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/presumed-guilty/

    • Replies: @Jim Don Bob
    @Barnard

    The AJC is the only media outlet that did not settle RJ's defamation suit against them. They dragged it out well past his death in 2007 and the Georgia Supreme Court dismissed it in 2012 saying something like the AJC thought it was true at the time.

    Journos are upset with the sex for info scene, because journos never do that. Except that there is a babe still employed at the NYT (Ali Watkins?) who slept with a Senate staffer for three years. He is awaiting trial on charges of leaking classified information.

    Replies: @R.G. Camara

  21. @eah
    OT

    Britons have no right to ask whether a transgender person is male or female, rules employment judge in landmark ruling AGAINST tax expert who was sacked for tweeting 'men cannot become women' -- Employment tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45 -- She had questioned plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender

    The Central London Employment Tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45, on Wednesday over 'offensive' tweets questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.

    Miss Forstater, who worked for the Centre for Global Development, was let go by the think tank after sharing her views on reforms to Gender Recognition Certificates.

    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views - that there are only two biological sexes and it is not possible to change between them - could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.
     
    I don't know why more Canadian men have not de jure identified as women -- they would all save thousands every year on car insurance, there is not a damn thing an insurance company could do about it, and it is not clear how it would otherwise affect their lives -- ? -- some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.

    Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance

    David, 24, called an insurance company last year for a quote on a new Chevrolet Cruze he planned to buy — and learned he’d be charged $1,100 less per year if he were female, ... So he did some research and learned he could easily change his gender with a doctor’s note. ... “It was pretty simple,” he said. “I just basically asked for it and [said] that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted.” ... He then changed the gender on his driver’s license, called the insurance company — and saved about $91 a month, according to the outlet. ... His only motivation was to get a cheaper deal.
     

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Lurker, @eah, @Don't Look at Me, @Stan d Mute, @Yngvar

    I just read that out to Mrs Lurker and she pointed out that eventually it wont matter what sex people are, we’ll all end up paying higher rates as if everyone were a man.

    • Replies: @eah
    @Lurker

    Tell Mrs Lurker the price would presumably fall somewhere in the middle and then it would be the ladies' turn to be pissed because men would pay less than before but women would pay more.

    Similarly, people are hoping it will be soccer moms who put the hammer down on this bullshit of "transgender" girls (aka in Saneland as boys) competing against and beating the crap out of girls in sports.

    Come to think of it, and considering how an amateur team of young adolescent boys trounced the US women's national soccer team not long ago, it would be pretty cool to see a team of "transgender" girls do the same -- some absolute madman should organize that.

  22. OT:

    Perfect example of how an SJW foodie worships their particular aspect of shallow materialism:

    https://www.eater.com/2019/12/16/21003452/japan-kissaten-traditional-cafes-pizza-toast-travel

    I would advise the gentle reader to TL;DR it as I did.

  23. @Barnard
    @tono bungay

    That is a weak defense, his three points of contention are:

    1. Kathy Scruggs never slept with sources. They admit Scruggs was a hard partying drunk who lived a reckless personal life. They have no proof one way or the other if she ever traded sex for scoops from law enforcement. Not bragging about doing this in the AJC office is not proof it never happened. Only a sap would take their word for it that she would never do that.

    2. She never jumped the back of the lawyer's car as he was leaving Jewell's apartment and demanded an interview. Who cares. Are they arguing the public is well served by these aggressive media swarms?

    3. It was an AJC reporter and not Jewell's lawyer who walked from the payphone to the park to prove it was impossible for Jewell to have made that phone call and find the bomb in the park one minute later. I seriously doubt his legal team never checked on this. It wouldn't be surprising if they spoon fed it to the AJC and Riley is either leaving that part out of the story or the reporter never divulged where the idea came from in the first place.

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution smeared Jewell because the FBI wanted him smeared. They didn't question the FBI narrative until it was obvious they had nothing on Jewell. In the 1996 front page hit job naming Jewell a suspect, Scruggs wrote: "Richard Jewell, 33, a former law enforcement officer, fits the profile of the lone bomber." At this point in time, there were so few bombings similar to this one it was impossible to have a "profile" of a bomber. She was simply printing what the FBI wanted with total indifference to how it would impact Jewell. Riley is lying and spinning like a typical manipulative press scumbag. He is doing everything he is accusing Eastwood of doing in the movie.

    https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/presumed-guilty/

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob

    The AJC is the only media outlet that did not settle RJ’s defamation suit against them. They dragged it out well past his death in 2007 and the Georgia Supreme Court dismissed it in 2012 saying something like the AJC thought it was true at the time.

    Journos are upset with the sex for info scene, because journos never do that. Except that there is a babe still employed at the NYT (Ali Watkins?) who slept with a Senate staffer for three years. He is awaiting trial on charges of leaking classified information.

    • Replies: @R.G. Camara
    @Jim Don Bob

    Female reporters almost routinely sleep around to get information and get ahead. As part of the Epstein saga a story quoted a number of young women NOT in Epstein's sex slave dungeon from the early 2000s who were nevertheless sleeping with lots of Epstein's friends and/or dating them and/or were mistresses.

    The women in the article demanded to remain anonymous---because many of them became rich and famous later based on their soft prostitution then---those men bounced their careers up.

    I had a career once that had me working with a politician accused of crimes, and I accompanied him to court on occasion. This guy was in his 50s and fat. After each day in court the local media swarmed him for statements. I noticed a young pretty blond thing in her 20s amongst the swarm who was considered a "rising star."

    After we walked away from one scrum, noticing I noticed her, he whispered to me, "That blond? She's slept with half of city hall. Including me. How do you think she got the story about______ (something about another councilmen being on the take)?"

  24. OT: Will the Trump Administration increase the tariffs on Vibranium?

    Wakanda listed as a US trading partner on Department of Agriculture website

    • LOL: donut
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  26. Anon[250] • Disclaimer says:

    OT

    CityLab, in a tangent in an article about a new NYC public trash can design, talks litter prevention:

    The city also came up with a few amusing anti-littering campaigns during the latter half of the 20th century. These included a talking trash bin called Lively Louie (the voice was provided by a live person hiding behind the receptacle) and a cartoon character named Phil D. Basket. None effectively changed public behavior, though. “There has not been enough research done on the socio-cultural understanding of how we [litter],” says Nagle.

    Nagle is skeptical that the litter basket’s redesign will change people’s behavior, but she says these competitions aren’t futile. At the very least, they help raise public awareness, especially at a time when civic pride and protecting the environment are increasingly among people’s top issues. “Any kind of effort like this is always one piece of a larger strategy,” she says, adding that the city needs to better enforce anti-littering rules while amping up public education about waste.

    Indeed. And in Spanish.

    https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/12/nyc-garbage-trash-can-design-contest-plastic-metal/603352/

    • Replies: @orionyx
    @Anon

    Better enforcement of litter laws will have disparate impact, as anyone who has driven through a 'hood knows, and that will lead to calls for enforcement to be abandoned just where it's most needed.

  27. @Redneck farmer
    Some say FBI stands for Flashy But Incompetent.

    Replies: @Bardon Kaldian, @Prester John, @Bill Jones

    We need an SBIFI
    A States Bureau of Investigating Federal Investigators.

  28. @Anon
    OT

    CityLab, in a tangent in an article about a new NYC public trash can design, talks litter prevention:

    The city also came up with a few amusing anti-littering campaigns during the latter half of the 20th century. These included a talking trash bin called Lively Louie (the voice was provided by a live person hiding behind the receptacle) and a cartoon character named Phil D. Basket. None effectively changed public behavior, though. “There has not been enough research done on the socio-cultural understanding of how we [litter],” says Nagle.

    Nagle is skeptical that the litter basket’s redesign will change people’s behavior, but she says these competitions aren’t futile. At the very least, they help raise public awareness, especially at a time when civic pride and protecting the environment are increasingly among people’s top issues. “Any kind of effort like this is always one piece of a larger strategy,” she says, adding that the city needs to better enforce anti-littering rules while amping up public education about waste.
     
    Indeed. And in Spanish.

    https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/12/nyc-garbage-trash-can-design-contest-plastic-metal/603352/

    Replies: @orionyx

    Better enforcement of litter laws will have disparate impact, as anyone who has driven through a ‘hood knows, and that will lead to calls for enforcement to be abandoned just where it’s most needed.

  29. @TheJester
    I've known a number of FBI agents who left the agency for politics and business. Their focus was always on looking good in a suit. It is a good guess that's how they got hired and that's who they hired: clean-cut, good breeding from a respectable family, good dresser, good verbal ability, a joiner not a loner ... someone who would fit in at the local golf club or at a corporate Christmas party.

    I found the lot rather dull. It was all about appearances. Being bright and knowing what they were doing never entered the picture. Not impressed.

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

    I found the lot rather dull. It was all about appearances. Being bright and knowing what they were doing never entered the picture. Not impressed.

    This is because the FBI is a microcosm of modern American society. Modern American society promotes conformity of thought, action, and appearance while punishing the opposite.

  30. @Prester John
    @Redneck farmer

    It's not limited to the FBI either. Read "The Fifty Year Wound" by Derek Leebert. The incompetence of the CIA will make your hair stand up.

    Replies: @Desiderius

    If you have to have a secret police incompetent beats competent.

    • Replies: @BB753
    @Desiderius

    It's not the only secret police in town! So their results don't really matter.

  31. @Desiderius
    @Prester John

    If you have to have a secret police incompetent beats competent.

    Replies: @BB753

    It’s not the only secret police in town! So their results don’t really matter.

  32. • Replies: @Father O'Hara
    @The Wild Geese Howard

    At first I thought you meant Gina Rodriguez. She was on s TV show and was famous in the latin community. I had never heard of her til it came out she sang a line of a song with the N word and put it online.
    This is a different one,this is the pretty girl.
    Very amusing.

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

  33. @tono bungay
    On the other hand, there's an interesting piece in the Washington Post today (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-clint-eastwood-blew-the-story-of-1996/2019/12/18/837225cc-21b5-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html) by Kevin Riley, editor in chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who persuasively (to me, anyway) points out factual distortions in the Jewell movie that indicate a bias against the paper's journalists. I wake up every morning and start swearing at the NYT, but I hate it as well when moviemakers twist things.

    Replies: @Barnard, @Thea, @J.Ross

    She was known around the office as a “police groupie” and she wrote the crime beat. She used to “date” the FBI informant who gave her the Jewell story. It may have been more subtle and tacit than quid pro quo but she clearly used sex to help make connections and write stories.

  34. J. Edgar Hoover was ahead of his time … shabat goy, faggot, deep stater.

    • Replies: @Don't Look at Me
    @Anon

    Please explain what Shabat or Shabat Goy means. All I could find were some Jewish last names.

    Replies: @J.Ross

  35. Better the abandoned be given to the Fronczaks than given to the horrors of the foster home group home system.

    • Replies: @Hhsiii
    @Alden

    In Newark, no less.

  36. On a different topic, Borris is not even waiting for the ink of official results to dry before he turbocharges the replacement off Polish another eastern Europeans in UK with Indians:
    https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/new-uk-plan-to-fast-track-hiring-of-indian-doctors-nurses/story-1pKZDCpVBVz9sAX3YxTIaK.html

  37. @Lurker
    @eah

    I just read that out to Mrs Lurker and she pointed out that eventually it wont matter what sex people are, we'll all end up paying higher rates as if everyone were a man.

    Replies: @eah

    Tell Mrs Lurker the price would presumably fall somewhere in the middle and then it would be the ladies’ turn to be pissed because men would pay less than before but women would pay more.

    Similarly, people are hoping it will be soccer moms who put the hammer down on this bullshit of “transgender” girls (aka in Saneland as boys) competing against and beating the crap out of girls in sports.

    Come to think of it, and considering how an amateur team of young adolescent boys trounced the US women’s national soccer team not long ago, it would be pretty cool to see a team of “transgender” girls do the same — some absolute madman should organize that.

  38. “Immediately after reading this story, I thought of the film Changeling:”

    Only difference —- that was LA’s finest, child services and LA’s mental hospital.

    An astute reference.

  39. Good news: the entire Soviet television iteration of Sherlock Holmes, which is the best ever produced, is on YouTube.
    Better: it has English subtitles.
    Tvoyu mat’, Vanya, you had one job: they posted it as one file. One twelve and a half hour long file.
    Url is deliberately broken (see above), so to view, delete the spaces:
    h ttps:// http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v= rbW2SJ0Kf8I

  40. @eah
    OT

    Britons have no right to ask whether a transgender person is male or female, rules employment judge in landmark ruling AGAINST tax expert who was sacked for tweeting 'men cannot become women' -- Employment tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45 -- She had questioned plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender

    The Central London Employment Tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45, on Wednesday over 'offensive' tweets questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.

    Miss Forstater, who worked for the Centre for Global Development, was let go by the think tank after sharing her views on reforms to Gender Recognition Certificates.

    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views - that there are only two biological sexes and it is not possible to change between them - could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.
     
    I don't know why more Canadian men have not de jure identified as women -- they would all save thousands every year on car insurance, there is not a damn thing an insurance company could do about it, and it is not clear how it would otherwise affect their lives -- ? -- some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.

    Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance

    David, 24, called an insurance company last year for a quote on a new Chevrolet Cruze he planned to buy — and learned he’d be charged $1,100 less per year if he were female, ... So he did some research and learned he could easily change his gender with a doctor’s note. ... “It was pretty simple,” he said. “I just basically asked for it and [said] that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted.” ... He then changed the gender on his driver’s license, called the insurance company — and saved about $91 a month, according to the outlet. ... His only motivation was to get a cheaper deal.
     

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Lurker, @eah, @Don't Look at Me, @Stan d Mute, @Yngvar

    link

    Charity worker @MForstater was sacked for stating publicly that transgender women cannot change their biological sex (surely an indisputable statement of scientific fact). She lost her employment tribunal. These two paragraphs of the judgement are disturbing beyond words.

  41. This new commenting system wouldn’t be so bad….if comments got approved quickly. I have a few sitting in limbo and its dragging me down.

  42. @Jim Don Bob
    @Barnard

    The AJC is the only media outlet that did not settle RJ's defamation suit against them. They dragged it out well past his death in 2007 and the Georgia Supreme Court dismissed it in 2012 saying something like the AJC thought it was true at the time.

    Journos are upset with the sex for info scene, because journos never do that. Except that there is a babe still employed at the NYT (Ali Watkins?) who slept with a Senate staffer for three years. He is awaiting trial on charges of leaking classified information.

    Replies: @R.G. Camara

    Female reporters almost routinely sleep around to get information and get ahead. As part of the Epstein saga a story quoted a number of young women NOT in Epstein’s sex slave dungeon from the early 2000s who were nevertheless sleeping with lots of Epstein’s friends and/or dating them and/or were mistresses.

    The women in the article demanded to remain anonymous—because many of them became rich and famous later based on their soft prostitution then—those men bounced their careers up.

    I had a career once that had me working with a politician accused of crimes, and I accompanied him to court on occasion. This guy was in his 50s and fat. After each day in court the local media swarmed him for statements. I noticed a young pretty blond thing in her 20s amongst the swarm who was considered a “rising star.”

    After we walked away from one scrum, noticing I noticed her, he whispered to me, “That blond? She’s slept with half of city hall. Including me. How do you think she got the story about______ (something about another councilmen being on the take)?”

  43. @Bardon Kaldian
    @Redneck farmer

    You can't deny they look great in movies & TV shows.

    Replies: @RVBlake, @Dr. X, @El Dato

    “Die Hard” has something to say about this.

  44. @Ano
    Honestly, the incompetency of the FBI is unbelievable!
    It also failed to reunite this child with its rightful presidency.

    https://i.redd.it/brl7de7vj0ny.jpg

    53 years from now Hillary will be discovered to be still grousing about it....

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @anon

    Anybody want to bet me $5 that HRC gets into the 2020 race? Loser pays Steve.

    • Replies: @Hail
    @Jim Don Bob

    Betting markets today have the following implied chances of winning the D nomination:

    Biden 25-28%
    Sanders 17-20%
    Warren 17-20%
    Buttigieg 14-18%
    Bloomberg 8-13%
    Hillary 6-10%
    Yang 4-14%
    Klobuchar 2-4%
    Gabbard 1-4%

    , @Ano
    @Jim Don Bob

    Sorry, but I can't afford to lose $5.
    Plus, I believe it when 'sources close to Hillary' say she will not run until she has a 'guarantee' she will win (the presidency that is; not just the nomination).

    Perhaps save your $5 to donate to the Clinton Foundation- in the event she becomes Madam El Presidente. You don't want to be on the wrong side of Queen H, sorry, I mean of history now, do you?

  45. But you need to win over a herd of screaming morons — can you do that with your “science”?

    “Maya Forstater is a researcher in the United Kingdom who recently lost her job for stating the scientific and indisputable fact that men cannot turn into women. Forstater went to court to win back her job but an employment judge ruled against her this week, declaring that Forstater’s belief in biological science is ‘not worthy of respect in a democratic society.’”

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets

    Mamma mia, I predict an earthquake of scientific illiteracy!

    • Replies: @Don't Look at Me
    @J.Ross

    Time to raise the Jolly Roger and start ... well, you know.

    Replies: @Dtbb

    , @Joe Stalin
    @J.Ross

    "Mamma mia, I predict an earthquake of scientific illiteracy!"

    If your prediction is wrong, to the FEMA camps you will go!


    Scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to warn of earthquake

    A court in L'Aquila, Italy, has sentenced defendants to six years in prison despite lack of any reliable way to predict quakes

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/22/scientists-convicted-manslaughter-earthquake

     

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

  46. @RVBlake
    @Bardon Kaldian

    In "X-Files", FBI agent Fox Mulder did a stellar job battling vampires and extra-terrestrials. Perhaps the FBI should direct their energies in that direction.

    Replies: @Kronos

    For every Fox Mulder you’ll have ten mysterious “Old Smokeys.” Essentially, you sit around smoking all day and people pretend to ignore you.

    • Agree: RVBlake
  47. Hey Steve,

    Did you hear about the fellow who just got sentenced to 15 years in prison, for burning a political banner? No, not in North Korea, but in Ames, Iowa. He burned a “Pride” flag.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50861259

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Kevin O'Keeffe

    Thanks.

  48. @tono bungay
    On the other hand, there's an interesting piece in the Washington Post today (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-clint-eastwood-blew-the-story-of-1996/2019/12/18/837225cc-21b5-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html) by Kevin Riley, editor in chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who persuasively (to me, anyway) points out factual distortions in the Jewell movie that indicate a bias against the paper's journalists. I wake up every morning and start swearing at the NYT, but I hate it as well when moviemakers twist things.

    Replies: @Barnard, @Thea, @J.Ross

    Congratulations, you completely misunderstood what was happening.

  49. @The Wild Geese Howard
    OT:

    White Hispanic liberal pop star catches flak for past racist tweets:

    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/12/19/pop-star-camila-cabello-deeply-ashamed-after-racist-blog-posts-revealed/

    Replies: @Father O'Hara

    At first I thought you meant Gina Rodriguez. She was on s TV show and was famous in the latin community. I had never heard of her til it came out she sang a line of a song with the N word and put it online.
    This is a different one,this is the pretty girl.
    Very amusing.

    • Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard
    @Father O'Hara


    This is a different one,this is the pretty girl.
    Very amusing.
     
    Camila Cabello is quite the dish.

    Gratuitous pic:

    http://www1.pictures.stylebistro.com/gi/Camila+Cabello+Updos+Loose+Braid+rfxRSKkTlk9x.jpg

  50. @eah
    OT

    Britons have no right to ask whether a transgender person is male or female, rules employment judge in landmark ruling AGAINST tax expert who was sacked for tweeting 'men cannot become women' -- Employment tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45 -- She had questioned plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender

    The Central London Employment Tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45, on Wednesday over 'offensive' tweets questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.

    Miss Forstater, who worked for the Centre for Global Development, was let go by the think tank after sharing her views on reforms to Gender Recognition Certificates.

    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views - that there are only two biological sexes and it is not possible to change between them - could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.
     
    I don't know why more Canadian men have not de jure identified as women -- they would all save thousands every year on car insurance, there is not a damn thing an insurance company could do about it, and it is not clear how it would otherwise affect their lives -- ? -- some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.

    Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance

    David, 24, called an insurance company last year for a quote on a new Chevrolet Cruze he planned to buy — and learned he’d be charged $1,100 less per year if he were female, ... So he did some research and learned he could easily change his gender with a doctor’s note. ... “It was pretty simple,” he said. “I just basically asked for it and [said] that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted.” ... He then changed the gender on his driver’s license, called the insurance company — and saved about $91 a month, according to the outlet. ... His only motivation was to get a cheaper deal.
     

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Lurker, @eah, @Don't Look at Me, @Stan d Mute, @Yngvar

    “Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance.”

    He can also get cheaper life insurance. But his long term care insurance would cost a lot more.

  51. @Kevin O'Keeffe
    Hey Steve,

    Did you hear about the fellow who just got sentenced to 15 years in prison, for burning a political banner? No, not in North Korea, but in Ames, Iowa. He burned a "Pride" flag.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50861259

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    Thanks.

  52. @J.Ross
    But you need to win over a herd of screaming morons -- can you do that with your "science"?

    "Maya Forstater is a researcher in the United Kingdom who recently lost her job for stating the scientific and indisputable fact that men cannot turn into women. Forstater went to court to win back her job but an employment judge ruled against her this week, declaring that Forstater’s belief in biological science is 'not worthy of respect in a democratic society.'"
     
    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets

    Mamma mia, I predict an earthquake of scientific illiteracy!

    Replies: @Don't Look at Me, @Joe Stalin

    Time to raise the Jolly Roger and start … well, you know.

    • Replies: @Dtbb
    @Don't Look at Me

    Like this?
    https://youtu.be/lNlYBNTCBG8

  53. @Anon
    J. Edgar Hoover was ahead of his time ... shabat goy, faggot, deep stater.

    Replies: @Don't Look at Me

    Please explain what Shabat or Shabat Goy means. All I could find were some Jewish last names.

    • Replies: @J.Ross
    @Don't Look at Me

    Here, water carrier; properly, a temporary volunteer servant who performs tasks which religiously practicing Jews are forbidden from doing for themselves at certain times (eg, run an electrical appliance on a Saturday).

  54. @eah
    OT

    Britons have no right to ask whether a transgender person is male or female, rules employment judge in landmark ruling AGAINST tax expert who was sacked for tweeting 'men cannot become women' -- Employment tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45 -- She had questioned plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender

    The Central London Employment Tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45, on Wednesday over 'offensive' tweets questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.

    Miss Forstater, who worked for the Centre for Global Development, was let go by the think tank after sharing her views on reforms to Gender Recognition Certificates.

    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views - that there are only two biological sexes and it is not possible to change between them - could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.
     
    I don't know why more Canadian men have not de jure identified as women -- they would all save thousands every year on car insurance, there is not a damn thing an insurance company could do about it, and it is not clear how it would otherwise affect their lives -- ? -- some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.

    Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance

    David, 24, called an insurance company last year for a quote on a new Chevrolet Cruze he planned to buy — and learned he’d be charged $1,100 less per year if he were female, ... So he did some research and learned he could easily change his gender with a doctor’s note. ... “It was pretty simple,” he said. “I just basically asked for it and [said] that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted.” ... He then changed the gender on his driver’s license, called the insurance company — and saved about $91 a month, according to the outlet. ... His only motivation was to get a cheaper deal.
     

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Lurker, @eah, @Don't Look at Me, @Stan d Mute, @Yngvar

    some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.

    I have no idea why anyone, Canadian or otherwise, would cooperate with government and/or corporate minions in identifying himself as a deplorable white male. For over thirty years I have been counted in the Census as a Pygmy. Whenever I am asked my race, I reply “Pygmy.” Now that they’re expanding their insanity to include sex (not “gender”), I think I will become a “Pygmy female.”

    Stop cooperating and enabling your own dispossession!

  55. @Don't Look at Me
    @Anon

    Please explain what Shabat or Shabat Goy means. All I could find were some Jewish last names.

    Replies: @J.Ross

    Here, water carrier; properly, a temporary volunteer servant who performs tasks which religiously practicing Jews are forbidden from doing for themselves at certain times (eg, run an electrical appliance on a Saturday).

  56. @Father O'Hara
    @The Wild Geese Howard

    At first I thought you meant Gina Rodriguez. She was on s TV show and was famous in the latin community. I had never heard of her til it came out she sang a line of a song with the N word and put it online.
    This is a different one,this is the pretty girl.
    Very amusing.

    Replies: @The Wild Geese Howard

    This is a different one,this is the pretty girl.
    Very amusing.

    Camila Cabello is quite the dish.

    Gratuitous pic:

  57. @Alden
    Better the abandoned be given to the Fronczaks than given to the horrors of the foster home group home system.

    Replies: @Hhsiii

    In Newark, no less.

  58. The FBI? Ok, another Chicago story. I got a voice mail from a Mr. John K— who said he was with the FBI and wanted to talk to me. Of course, I was freaked out, but I felt better after calling a lawyer friend who insisted that the feds don’t cold-call people and that it was a prank.
    I called the guy. He confirmed who I was, and asked about my Iranian neighbor Ali. I sized the guy up in my mind, and I asked So you’re FBI? Mind if I ask where you’re from? He said Chicago. I asked where’d you go to high school. He said St Ignatius.
    By then I was half-trolling half-raging, and I said, Yea, you sound like a south sider. In fact, you’re reminding me of another southside Catholic boy who joined the FBI. I’m thinking of Robert Hanssen, the communist spy.
    We paused a moment, and then I told him that Hanssen, like all high-stakes posers, should have been lined up and shot. Like you should be.
    Another pause. Then I said, Now listen a—hole, I’m going to call the real FBI and tell them about you. You’re going to jail, bitch. Unless, as I suspect, you’re standing in my gangway laughing right now, in which case I’m going to break your neck.
    He said, well Mr.—, I would not be averse to that, if it puts you at ease. I replied Yep, I’m doing it now. End of the line MFer! Click.
    I called the FBI with the name and number. They said, Yes, he’s with us.
    Oh.
    I called the guy trying to think what to say, but before I got past “Officer…” he went full diplomat and profusely insisted it was his burden to apologize. The issue turned out to be a tenant of my neighbor’s who wanted to become an agent. I did vouch for this ROTC ramrod, who really stood out in this neighborhood we called DeParty, after the school.
    We talked about the city a little more, and then, just before I hung up, he said “One last thing, Robert Hanssen wasn’t a communist. He was addicted to fooling people. It’s different”.
    So there you go. The FBI cold-calls people. Live and learn.

  59. @Jim Don Bob
    @Ano

    Anybody want to bet me $5 that HRC gets into the 2020 race? Loser pays Steve.

    Replies: @Hail, @Ano

    Betting markets today have the following implied chances of winning the D nomination:

    Biden 25-28%
    Sanders 17-20%
    Warren 17-20%
    Buttigieg 14-18%
    Bloomberg 8-13%
    Hillary 6-10%
    Yang 4-14%
    Klobuchar 2-4%
    Gabbard 1-4%

  60. @Don't Look at Me
    @J.Ross

    Time to raise the Jolly Roger and start ... well, you know.

    Replies: @Dtbb

    Like this?

  61. @The Z Blog
    The FBI has been dirty for a very long time, maybe since the beginning. The Boston FBI framed four innocent men, two were sent to death row, for a Chelsea murder they did not commit back in 1965. The G-Men responsible for it were Zip Connolly and John “Vino” Morris. Both of them were on the payroll of the local mafia.

    For decades the FBI covered this up. Horse Face Bob Mueller was part of the cover-up. Two of the men died in prison, but the other two were later exonerated when the crooked FBI officials were finally revealed. The men were released and sued the government. Mueller, then head of the FBI, stonewalled the process, denying these men information needed in their case.

    The mass media promotes the notion of the FBI being this highly professional law enforcement organization using the latest technology to catch super-criminals. In reality it is as corrupt and incompetent as a 1970's NYC police precinct. Other than framing opponents of the system, it has no useful purpose.

    The inability of the political class to punish the people involved in the seditious plot to overturn the last election means the FBI will only get worse. Armed with secret courts and surveillance data, they are free to play the hardest of hardball politics.

    Replies: @Nice Man

    All I really need to know about the FBI I learned from Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

    Starring Peter Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page…

    Tonight’s Episode

    THE DOSSIER

  62. @J.Ross
    But you need to win over a herd of screaming morons -- can you do that with your "science"?

    "Maya Forstater is a researcher in the United Kingdom who recently lost her job for stating the scientific and indisputable fact that men cannot turn into women. Forstater went to court to win back her job but an employment judge ruled against her this week, declaring that Forstater’s belief in biological science is 'not worthy of respect in a democratic society.'"
     
    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets

    Mamma mia, I predict an earthquake of scientific illiteracy!

    Replies: @Don't Look at Me, @Joe Stalin

    “Mamma mia, I predict an earthquake of scientific illiteracy!”

    If your prediction is wrong, to the FEMA camps you will go!

    Scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to warn of earthquake

    A court in L’Aquila, Italy, has sentenced defendants to six years in prison despite lack of any reliable way to predict quakes

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/22/scientists-convicted-manslaughter-earthquake

    • Replies: @Steve Sailer
    @Joe Stalin

    The Italian justice system seems to be run by people who believe in the evil eye.

  63. @Joe Stalin
    @J.Ross

    "Mamma mia, I predict an earthquake of scientific illiteracy!"

    If your prediction is wrong, to the FEMA camps you will go!


    Scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to warn of earthquake

    A court in L'Aquila, Italy, has sentenced defendants to six years in prison despite lack of any reliable way to predict quakes

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/22/scientists-convicted-manslaughter-earthquake

     

    Replies: @Steve Sailer

    The Italian justice system seems to be run by people who believe in the evil eye.

    • LOL: Dan Hayes
  64. @Ano
    Honestly, the incompetency of the FBI is unbelievable!
    It also failed to reunite this child with its rightful presidency.

    https://i.redd.it/brl7de7vj0ny.jpg

    53 years from now Hillary will be discovered to be still grousing about it....

    Replies: @Jim Don Bob, @anon

    There aren’t many children with a face you can hate, but Hillary’s is one of them.

    • Replies: @Don't Look at Me
    @anon

    Really?

    https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ggZa3rN_QZE/W0ICAcWv1vI/AAAAAAADNho/ug7U6eNfG9YqUapGO-r3kGHoZ5uqRR1VACLcBGAs/s1600/young-hillary-clinton-13.jpg

    I'd hit that.

  65. @Jim Don Bob
    @Ano

    Anybody want to bet me $5 that HRC gets into the 2020 race? Loser pays Steve.

    Replies: @Hail, @Ano

    Sorry, but I can’t afford to lose $5.
    Plus, I believe it when ‘sources close to Hillary’ say she will not run until she has a ‘guarantee’ she will win (the presidency that is; not just the nomination).

    Perhaps save your $5 to donate to the Clinton Foundation- in the event she becomes Madam El Presidente. You don’t want to be on the wrong side of Queen H, sorry, I mean of history now, do you?

  66. Possibly the greatest achievement of the FBI was “Project Megiddo”. See:
    “Project Megiddo” or “Why James Bowery Should Run the FBI”

  67. @eah
    OT

    Britons have no right to ask whether a transgender person is male or female, rules employment judge in landmark ruling AGAINST tax expert who was sacked for tweeting 'men cannot become women' -- Employment tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45 -- She had questioned plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender

    The Central London Employment Tribunal case upheld the sacking of tax expert Maya Forstater, 45, on Wednesday over 'offensive' tweets questioning government plans to allow people to self-identify as another gender.

    Miss Forstater, who worked for the Centre for Global Development, was let go by the think tank after sharing her views on reforms to Gender Recognition Certificates.

    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views - that there are only two biological sexes and it is not possible to change between them - could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.
     
    I don't know why more Canadian men have not de jure identified as women -- they would all save thousands every year on car insurance, there is not a damn thing an insurance company could do about it, and it is not clear how it would otherwise affect their lives -- ? -- some Canadian should organize a mass campaign for this to show the absurdity of and undermine this gender nonsense.

    Man legally changes gender to get cheaper car insurance

    David, 24, called an insurance company last year for a quote on a new Chevrolet Cruze he planned to buy — and learned he’d be charged $1,100 less per year if he were female, ... So he did some research and learned he could easily change his gender with a doctor’s note. ... “It was pretty simple,” he said. “I just basically asked for it and [said] that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted.” ... He then changed the gender on his driver’s license, called the insurance company — and saved about $91 a month, according to the outlet. ... His only motivation was to get a cheaper deal.
     

    Replies: @Achmed E. Newman, @Lurker, @eah, @Don't Look at Me, @Stan d Mute, @Yngvar

    The case was viewed as a test of whether gender critical views could be protected philosophical beliefs under the 2010 Equality Act.

    She lost. Some philosophical beliefs are more protected than others. Clown world.

  68. Is it even possible to disband the FBI? As I understand it there is so many laws and regulations that requires the existence of the Bureau that law enforcement — federal and state — would be cast into turmoil and chaos if it was to disappear.
    The creation of agencies are a prerogative of the president, but the dissolution of them seems that much a harder task.

    • Replies: @anarchyst
    @Yngvar

    Yes, the FBI, ATF, DEA and other "alphabet agencies" are ALL unconstitutional and should be abolished.

    I realize THAT will never happen, but the next best thing would be for sheriffs in every county in the united States to refuse to cooperate or even allow the feds to operate in their jurisdictions.

    You see, here in the united States, the sheriff is the chief "law enforcement agent" in his respective jurisdiction and CAN refuse permission for federal agents to operate in his jurisdiction. The feds MUST ask for permission in order to conduct operations in every county but Washington DC.

    Multiply this by every county in the united States and you have effectively neutered the feds.

  69. @anon
    @Ano

    There aren't many children with a face you can hate, but Hillary's is one of them.

    Replies: @Don't Look at Me

    Really?

    I’d hit that.

  70. @Yngvar
    Is it even possible to disband the FBI? As I understand it there is so many laws and regulations that requires the existence of the Bureau that law enforcement -- federal and state -- would be cast into turmoil and chaos if it was to disappear.
    The creation of agencies are a prerogative of the president, but the dissolution of them seems that much a harder task.

    Replies: @anarchyst

    Yes, the FBI, ATF, DEA and other “alphabet agencies” are ALL unconstitutional and should be abolished.

    I realize THAT will never happen, but the next best thing would be for sheriffs in every county in the united States to refuse to cooperate or even allow the feds to operate in their jurisdictions.

    You see, here in the united States, the sheriff is the chief “law enforcement agent” in his respective jurisdiction and CAN refuse permission for federal agents to operate in his jurisdiction. The feds MUST ask for permission in order to conduct operations in every county but Washington DC.

    Multiply this by every county in the united States and you have effectively neutered the feds.

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