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  • Ikeishi! Ikeishi buadda, japalai!!!

    This is in regard to Melania Trump’s choice of yellow Timberland boots on her trip with Pres. Trump to visit the troops during the Christmas holidays. The noise that has been generated over them consists of not just gossip, but blatant lies.

    There was something posted on Twitter about racism on her part in this egregious spatter of pejoratives, based on her choosing to wear those boots.

    From Business Insider:  https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-timberland-boots-visit-troops-iraq-2018-12

    That’s on one of those ‘turn off your ad blocker’ deals, so read it if you wish.

    The “racist” nonsense comes from a now-defunct site called Naha Daily, which in 2014 claimed falsely that Timberland’s CEO said he didn’t want blacks or Latinos in his boots. They admitted that it was completely made up out of whole cloth – a lie, in plain English, but people are now digging it up and pointing the finger at it and saying ‘Aha!’ and making themselves far worse than they pretend Mrs. Trump is.

    According to Snopes, the false remarks originated from a December 2014 article from the now defunct site Naha Daily, which cited the shoe company’s CEO saying he did not want to see “Blacks and Latinos” in the boots.

    Snopes reported that a disclaimer on the Naha Daily’s site said that its content was “based off current events [in 2014] in urban culture and entertainment” and was “completely fictional.”

    Got that? Completely fictional.

    It is something that some moron cooked up in 2014, posted on his website, and then added a disclaimer that it was all made up out of dust bunnies and hot air and is completely fictional. Naha Daily is out of business, but this trash still shows up.

    Because there are enough imbeciles on the internet to populate a small planet like Mars, this disclaimer is disregarded by them as an inconvenient fact. They ignore it and subsequently carry the lie forward, using it against someone who had nothing to do with the source of the lie.

    They do this out of pure hatred toward someone who has done nothing to them but exist.

    Because they are addicted to trash, they got all excited when  Mrs. Obama was recently seen in a yellow split-front drapey dress that would not look good on a bone-thin runway model, wearing thigh-high streetwalker glitter boots with it. If you dare, take a look. And don’t say I didn’t warn you.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/leftists-mock-first-lady-melania-for-wearing-timberland-boots-but-they-loved-michelle-obamas-streetwalker-thigh-high-glittery-boots/

    Melania Trump, on the other hand, wore sensible boots on her Christmas trip to visit troops overseas, but people still won’t lay off her.

    Yes, she’s made some faux pas. We all do that, but this obnoxious trash is grasping at straws, acting out their roles as schoolyard bullies because they think it’s okay.  They have the maturity of freshly-laid eggs. And even if the hen sat on them, they’d still turn out to be rotten.

    I have never seen such hatred manifested toward someone simply because she exists and has done nothing to deserve it.

    This poisonous, festering slop has consequences for the people who generate it and perpetuate it. Employers expect their hirees to behave like adults in an adult world. Everything is investigated now.  People who do these things are telling potential employers that they are not reliable, won’t be good workers, and won’t focus on doing their jobs.

    Would you like fries with that?

    Oh, yeah, the title – The first word starts with “F”, and the last word starts with “A”.  And it means the same thing in another language that it means in English.

  • Indonesia’s tsunami death toll now over 400 as officials warn that more deadly waves possible

    Christmas tsunamiThe death toll from Indonesia’s Christmas-time tsunami continues to rise, as officials warn that additional volcanic landslides could trigger more deadly waves.

    Posted by Leslie Eastman

    On the other side of the world, Sicily’s Mt. Etna puts on a Christmas show.

    At least 429 people died, more than 1,400 were injured and another 158 are missing as of Tuesday morning, more than two days after the wave came crashing ashore on the northwest coast of Java, one of the large islands comprising the country, officials said.

    The threat did not disappear with the waves themselves, as officials were warning residents and tourists to stay as far away from coastal areas as possible on Monday because continued volcanic eruptions from Mount Anak Krakatau could potentially trigger a second devastating tsunami.

    More than 600 housing units and at least nine hotels were destroyed or badly damaged in the tsunami, according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of public relations for the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency. He said more than 16,000 people have been displaced.

    “In our initial report on the disaster, I noted that members of a popular “boy band” were filmed being hit by the wave. Only the lead singer appears to have survived, and the wave claimed his 26-year old wife’s life as well.”

    The lead singer of the local group “Seventeen,” Riefian Fajarsyah, included a video of himself stroking his bride’s white coffin in a heartbreaking Instagram post from the back of a hearse.

    “How can I live without you, Dylan Sahara?” Fajarsyah, 35, wrote of his wife, to his 1.9 million followers.

    Eerie video footage had shown fans clapping and cheering at the band’s beachside performance in Java on Saturday night — seconds before a huge wave smashed onto the stage.

    The frontman’s wife, an Indonesian actress and TV-personality, was one of the dozens of people swept away by the wave.

    Her body was identified at a hospital late Monday, according to local reports.

    The group’s drummer, Wisnu Andi Darmawan was also found dead Monday — as the group’s bassist Muhammad Awal Purbani, guitarist Herman Sikumbang, manager Oki Wijaya and crew member Rukmana Rustam were laid to rest.

    The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred on 26 December, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra. Named the Boxing Day tsunamis, communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean were seriously affected, and the tsunamis killed an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries.

    One would think an early warning system of wave buoys and other observation systems would have been installed after this disaster to predict potential tsunami activity. Or perhaps they were and the indications were just missed. A tragic occurrence either way.

    The rest of the article, including Etna’s eruption, can be viewed here: Legal Insurrection

  • Tucker Carlson’s Daughter Harassed at Restaurant

    Tucker CarlsonMan approached teenage daughter and said: “Are you Tucker’s whore? He then called her a ‘f***ing c**t.”

    Creepy Porn Lawyer Michael Avenatti wants Tucker or others charged for defending her
    Posted by Mike LaChance

    Keep it classy Dems. Caution, NWS language ahead.

    Tucker Carlson is already dealing with the fact that an Antifa mob showed up at his house and terrorized his wife, but now there has been another incident. While dining at a country club in Virginia with two of his children, one of his daughters was allegedly harassed by a patron who made positively vile comments to her.

    It was so bad, the man’s membership in the club was ultimately revoked. And now the creepy porn lawyer is “investigating” the incident.

    Proceed with caution, the language in this story is reprehensible.

    Natasha Korecki and Quint Forgey report at Politico:

    Avenatti takes on Tucker Carlson after bar incident involving Fox News host’s children

    Michael Avenatti, who was once dubbed a “creepy porn lawyer” on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program,
    claimed Saturday he’s “investigating an alleged assault … committed by T. Carlson” stemming from an incident at a Virginia restaurant.

    The attorney, who is exploring a 2020 presidential run and rose to national prominence by representing porn star Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump, posted video on his Twitter account Saturday showing Carlson in a verbal altercation at a country club and asks for help in identifying other people involved in the incident.

    Carlson, in a lengthy statement provided through Fox News, said the incident began when a man at the club last month verbally harassed his teenage daughter on her way back from a bathroom and called her a “whore” and “cunt.”

    He acknowledged that his son then confronted the man and threw wine at him. But Carlson maintains neither he nor his son assaulted the man involved. Avenatti disputed that account, saying it’s an “absolute lie.”

    This reprehensible behavior goes far beyond a group of idiots chanting and yelling at people having a meal with friends and family, so it’s hardly surprising the Creepy Porn Lawyer is involved. The debacle may be viewed at the Legal Insurrection site.

  • Critic Pans Hunter Killer Movie

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    This image released by Lionsgate shows Gerard Butler in a scene from “Hunter Killer” (Jack English/Lionsgate via AP)

    Still haven’t seen the movie, but it seems my prediction after viewing the trailer was pretty much correct- it’s an underwater Top Gun. If you recall, Top Gun was loud, flashy, fast paced, and completely filled with bullshit. It was so bad without meaning to be that folks who actually know something about aviation, would either look on in horror or point-and-laugh. It was critiqued by Ward Carroll, an actual F-14 RIO who was moved to pen 79-cringe-worthy-technical-errors-in-the-movie-top-gun.

    But I digress. Lindsey Bahr, of The Associated Press has this to say about Hunter Killer:

    There are so many good movies in theaters right now — thoughtful, artistic, well-acted and well-told movies that studios preciously save for this time of year with the distant hope of Oscar gold in their future. The Gerard Butler submarine movie “Hunter Killer ” is not one of those movies — it is bombastic and garish, ridden with clichés, preposterous politics and diplomacy, and frenetic, video game energy.

    And it’s so often so unintentionally silly that it’s actually kind of a fun watch.

    The film starts out confusingly. An American submarine is torpedoed by a Russian sub in Russian waters, but back in the U.S., all they know is it’s disappeared, and they’ve got to go find it. The man for the job, Rear Admiral John Fisk (Common) concludes, is Captain Joe Glass (Butler), who we’re told is not like the other guys. He “never went to Annapolis.” Why that makes him especially qualified for this mission will basically remain a mystery, other than the fact that he’ll readily disobey orders and go rogue at any opportunity. He’s seen stuff, guys, and not in a Naval Academy classroom.

    We meet him in the middle of nowhere, in snowy terrain about to shoot a CGI buck across a glassy lake with a bow and arrow. But then he looks to the right of the buck and sees its CGI family close by and decides to lower his weapon. This moment lets the audience know a few things: a) That Joe Glass has empathy and b) that this movie has no subtlety. The next thing we know a military helicopter is swooping down to pick him up and take him to his sub.

    Based on the book “Firing Point,” this is the first Hollywood film from South African director Donovan Marsh, and he does cook up some captivating action set pieces, like navigating a submarine through a fjord of mines, or even just an old fashioned, ridiculously over the top shootout, which may have you laughing, rolling your eyes or even cheering (as a fair amount of people were in my screening), but it’s never boring.

    There’s more at The Navy Times if one can stand it. I’ll wait until it’s available on NetFlix to spectate in private, and I look forward to the comments from our resident
    Bubbleheads.

  • Megyn Kelly’s NBC future in doubt as Peacock Network airs rerun of troubled morning show

    NBC News’ highest-paid star Megyn Kelly’s status with the Peacock Network is up in the air and she will miss the remainder of the week after a turbulent 48-hour span that essentially pitted her own network against her.

    Multiple news organizations have reported that the future of “Megyn Kelly Today” is in doubt. Kelly — who reportedly makes $23 million per year — found herself in hot water with colleagues and NBC executives after making a comment about blackface Halloween costumes on Tuesday.

    “Given the circumstances, Megyn Kelly Today will be on tape the rest of the week,” an NBC News spokesperson told Fox News.

    Kelly’s comments were reported on both “NBC Nightly News” and “Today,” leading to much speculation that NBC News executives hoped to put a spotlight on the controversial rhetoric as a way to separate with the veteran journalist. NBC colleagues quickly became her biggest critics when Craig Melvin called her comments “racist and ignorant” and Al Roker said she “owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country.”

    Kelly offered a heartfelt apology to open her show on Wednesday and received a standing ovation from the in-studio audience. But NBC News chairman Andy Lack condemned Kelly’s comments during a previously scheduled town hall event for his news division staff on Wednesday.

    Everywhere she goes…controversy follows.  She is the best example of an attention whore who will do anything to be noticed.  I have to admit that  I enjoy watching her career go down in flames.  I wonder how much of that $25 million contract they will end up giving to her.   I know a few parasites who call themselves lawyers that might help her burn through some cash.

    Source: Megyn Kelly’s NBC future in doubt as Peacock Network airs rerun of troubled morning show | Fox News

  • Another Bit of Embarrassment To Explain

    Unless you’ve been asleep or out in the boonies, it’s mid-term campaign season again. As you can see, there are lovely campaign workers everywhere. Persistent folk, they are. Reasonable in their approach, also.

    And here we have candidate Claire McCaskill from Missouri admitting that she’s strongly advocating gun control but not in her campaign rhetoric. She has to get votes, you know, to get the job.  The article from Daily Wire has a video of her admitting strongly to her stance on gun control, when her campaigning appears to suggest just the opposite.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/37173/people-just-cant-know-claire-mccaskill-goes-down-ryan-saavedra?utm_medium=email&utm_content=101618-news&utm_campaign=position1

    You see, the object of Democrat political campaigning is to lie your ass off to get the job, and then reveal your real agenda.

    Someone, some Democrat politician is objecting in the video to the undercover effort to get the truth out of this mendacious bimp and her bunch of followers. I guess his objection is to the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which clearly states that we have freedom of the press. Now, they would argue that it means only printed material but it was written before the Age of Electronic Media, and yes, it does apply to undercover news collection.

    By comparison, if it’s okay for ABC News to expose an eye doctor doing unnecessary surgery on eye patients and bilking Medicare for several million dollars in the 1990s, then why is it not okay for an undercover journalist to expose this blatant hyprocrisy to the light of day?

    While some of you thought that I had gone overboard with my bit of satire on how to resist the Fascist Tits Gun Grabbers down the road, the objective is and should always be to thoroughly embarrass these frauds publicly as much as possible, to show them for the lying sacks of absolute crap they are, which is clearly demonstrated in the Daily Wire undercover video.

    I lean toward that, rather than toward the alternative suggestion, which involves the wasted energy and wasted resources generated in the course of violence.

  • Believe in something.

    Believe in something.

    I wanted to give a short update on things in general.

    It has taken many of us to fill the void.  Most of what we needed to do behind the scenes has been taken care of.  TSO will finish the legal stuff here shortly.  I realize that there have not been a lot of posers posted lately, that is on purpose and my fault.  I apologize for the lapse but there are reasons for it.   We will be back to exposing these fake and embellishing frauds very soon.  Believe me, it’s not like there is a sudden shortage of them.

    I make more than my share of mistakes.  I realize things are not running as smoothly as they were when Jonn was alive…but we are getting there.  I post what seems to serve the mission Jonn set for this blog.  Yes, some articles are probably a bit of old news to some of you and other articles may be on the edge of acceptable to some others.

    It’s all I can do some days to stop a certain woman with a gravy ladle from turning the site background pink and posting pictures of kitty cats chasing rainbows.   This is going to hurt a little…she has done a remarkable job of keeping up with things behind the scenes.  Thank you, Gravy Lady.  You are the best EX I could ever hope for.

    So many others have stepped up as well.  Your submissions have been very, very, very helpful.  AW1Ed  is exactly the kind of person you want around when the shit hits the fan.  He is thoughtful, well organized and the epidemy of what a team player should be.  A huge ATTABOY goes out to Ed.

    I have been trying to get a certain Lawyer to do her job for a change.  I don’t think she likes me much.  I tried to introduce myself to her.  Caragh Fay pretends she is the authority on all things Beirut from time to time.  Seems to me Caragh Fay likes to do it when there is something in it for her.   Maybe she is just sweet on me…hard to tell at this point.

    The Soviet may be correct about me when I try to multitask.  She claims I can talk to people and piss them off all at the same time.  I just get a little pissy when a lawyer who has made millions off of the blood of my dead brothers seems to think its ok to ignore the needs of so many others.  How can someone know I am an Asshole without knowing me?  Is it really that obvious?

    In response to a recent comment,  yes I do get embarrassed sometimes…but its not over anything to do with this blog.  I try to read all of the comments, you people have issues too.  Never met a better group of deplorable trouble causers in my life.

    Forgive us if the content sucks or just gets thin from time to time.  Most of us do have another life.  Best regards to all, and most of all… THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN SOMETHING.

     

    The Village Idiot

     

     

  • Will the Real Secret Squirrel Please Stand Up

     

    Either someone does not know that April Fool’s Day is 6 months behind us, or there is trouble, my friends, trouble right here in Foggy Bottom. Someone is stirring the pot in an odd way.

    From WaPo:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/22/white-house-distances-itself-reports-that-trump-could-target-facebook-google-twitter-with-new-executive-order/?utm_term=.14bfc0495582

    The White House sought to distance itself Saturday from reports that President Trump is considering an executive order that would subject tech giants like Facebook, Google and Twitter to federal investigations into alleged political bias.

    For weeks, top tech com­panies have been on edge, fearing that the Trump administration could seek to regulate the industry in response to the president’s tweets attacking social media sites for silencing conservatives online. Their worst suspicions seemed to come true Friday night, with the emergence of a draft executive order that called for nearly every federal agency to study how companies like Facebook police their platforms and refer instances of “bias” to the Justice Department for further study.

    But three White House aides soon insisted they didn’t write the draft order, didn’t know where it came from and generally found it to be unworkable policy. One senior White House official confirmed the document had been floating around the White House but had not gone through the formal process, which is controlled by the staff secretary.

    Asked about the document, Lindsay Walters, the deputy White House press secretary, said of the digital age ‘who dun it’ on Saturday: “Although the White House is concerned about the conduct of online platforms and their impact on society, this document is not the result of an official White House policymaking process.” – Washington Post article

    CNBC also has an article here:

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/22/white-house-prepares-order-directing-antitrust-probe-of-tech-companies-report.html

    • The White House is reportedly working on a memorandum for President Donald Trump to sign that would direct government agencies to “thoroughly investigate” whether social media companies such as Google or Facebook have violated U.S. antitrust laws, Bloomberg reported Saturday.
    • Social media company leaders, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter chief Jack Dorsey have denied that their platforms are politically biased.

    The White House is reportedly working on a memorandum for President Donald Trump to sign that would direct government agencies to “thoroughly investigate” big tech companies like Google and Facebook, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, who have fended off accusations of political bias against conservatives. – CNBC article.

    In the WaPo article, is this: “Aides at the White House said all week that the National Economic Council – which would have been tasked under the draft order to help agencies probe online bias – didn’t write it and didn’t know where it came from. Likewise, the Office of Science and Technology Policy had nothing to do with creating this draft.”

    The document has been floated to tech companies, e.g., Book of Face and Giggles, as well as attorneys at so-called “white shoe firms” in Washington, DC.

    In the WaPo article, there is a statement that the first anyone had heard of it at all came from an e-mail sent by or through Yelp.

    You can draw your own conclusions about this.

    However, since Bloomberg News reported it first and it subsequently appeared elsewhere in WaPo and CNBC’s newsfeeds, then in my humble opinion it does not land the production of this “draft” in the laps of the people at Bloomberg News or any of the other news feeds.

    If it was done as a joke, it is in the same poor taste that is frequently manifested by the idiots on the lefthand side of the Mugwump fence. If it was done by any news source and forwarded to the media feeds through Yelp, it just compounds the fact that it is a lie.

    In view of this attempt at forging a White House document, I will add that I now suspect whoever created this “draft document” is the same person, self-described as part of The Resistance, who created the so-called “op-ed” published by the New York Times.

    If that is the case, then the media have just been hosed but good. The joke is on them.

    I hope they enjoy baloney sandwiches.