Probably the same people who knew in their hearts that Jeb Bush or some other reasonable person would easily take the Republican nomination.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/donald-trump-conversation-politics-dark-898465
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
It's a snarky interview. The writer is smarter than Trump, which is why he works for The Hollywood Reporter, and Trump ... Well, he's Trump.
Friday, June 3, 2016
Hey, let’s be like Europe!
Or, If you like your independence, you can keep your independence.
EU bureaucrats to Poland: Dudes, about that Constitutional Court of yours …
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2016/06/mil-160602-ec01.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e1734%2eye0ao05v9c%2e1lep
(I read the whole thing, but: I didn’t go to law school; nor am I European. Recent news stories have the more western-located government spokespersons and the EU bureaucrats all in a tizzy over Poland and Hungary electing “ultra-conservative” parties to parliaments.)
“But Poland’s justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, claimed the commission was using the rule of law issue to force Poland to ‘take tens of thousands of refugees and migrants’.
“’The commission intervenes when it is convenient for the commission,’ he said, accusing Brussels of blackmailing Poland to force the country to take more than the 7,600 Syrian migrants agreed.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/01/poland-gets-official-warning-from-eu-over-constitutional-court-changes
(You knew the downtrodden, war-fleeing, pacifist refugees were involved somewhere.
(Serbia doesn't want any refugees crossing its land. Maybe Hungary and Serbia remember Muslim invaders; Poland, too, since it was a Polish army that saved Europe from Muslim invaders in 1683. Western Europe was too busy with internal problems then to pay attention to the Muslim threat.)
EU bureaucrats to Poland: Dudes, about that Constitutional Court of yours …
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2016/06/mil-160602-ec01.htm?_m=3n%2e002a%2e1734%2eye0ao05v9c%2e1lep
(I read the whole thing, but: I didn’t go to law school; nor am I European. Recent news stories have the more western-located government spokespersons and the EU bureaucrats all in a tizzy over Poland and Hungary electing “ultra-conservative” parties to parliaments.)
“But Poland’s justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, claimed the commission was using the rule of law issue to force Poland to ‘take tens of thousands of refugees and migrants’.
“’The commission intervenes when it is convenient for the commission,’ he said, accusing Brussels of blackmailing Poland to force the country to take more than the 7,600 Syrian migrants agreed.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/01/poland-gets-official-warning-from-eu-over-constitutional-court-changes
(You knew the downtrodden, war-fleeing, pacifist refugees were involved somewhere.
(Serbia doesn't want any refugees crossing its land. Maybe Hungary and Serbia remember Muslim invaders; Poland, too, since it was a Polish army that saved Europe from Muslim invaders in 1683. Western Europe was too busy with internal problems then to pay attention to the Muslim threat.)
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Dalai Lama: Send refugees back to home countries
Wait, wait! Isn’t he the symbol of peace and love and correct thinking and kumbaya?
“The spiritual leader told a German newspaper this week that ‘too many’ refugees are seeking asylum in Europe and putting the identity of some countries at risk.
“’Germany cannot become an Arab country,’ he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview. ‘Germany is Germany. There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult.’”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-has-too-many-refugees-says-refugee-dalai-lama-2016-06-01?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
Link at www.fark.com
(Why the surprise? The major problem in Tibet is too many immigrants from China.)
“The spiritual leader told a German newspaper this week that ‘too many’ refugees are seeking asylum in Europe and putting the identity of some countries at risk.
“’Germany cannot become an Arab country,’ he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview. ‘Germany is Germany. There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult.’”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-has-too-many-refugees-says-refugee-dalai-lama-2016-06-01?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
Link at www.fark.com
(Why the surprise? The major problem in Tibet is too many immigrants from China.)
Ukraine removing vestiges of Communist past
Nathan Bedford Forest believed next on schedule.
By Vitaly Shevchenko BBC Monitoring, Zaporizhya
“Ukraine has been trying to break free from its communist past, and the campaign is changing the face of whole cities.
“Zaporizhya is typical of eastern Ukraine in that it was full of communist monuments and street names. But new laws say they must be removed because they symbolise the country's repressive past.
“The campaign has triggered controversy, with critics saying that it is a crude assault on Ukraine's past.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36396854
Gone in Zaporizhya are Lenin Lake, Lenin Dam, Lenin Square, Lenin Avenue and a big statue.
Mostly photographs.
Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/06/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-612016/#more-39837
By Vitaly Shevchenko BBC Monitoring, Zaporizhya
“Ukraine has been trying to break free from its communist past, and the campaign is changing the face of whole cities.
“Zaporizhya is typical of eastern Ukraine in that it was full of communist monuments and street names. But new laws say they must be removed because they symbolise the country's repressive past.
“The campaign has triggered controversy, with critics saying that it is a crude assault on Ukraine's past.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36396854
Gone in Zaporizhya are Lenin Lake, Lenin Dam, Lenin Square, Lenin Avenue and a big statue.
Mostly photographs.
Link at http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/06/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-612016/#more-39837
Yeah, you’ll look
(It's really a G+ rating. I just invented that, so there'll be something between G and PG-13. Or whatever the next one is.)
The video is nine years old, but the title is as good as tomorrow.
http://www.theonion.com/video/evangeline-lilly-wins-best-wet-t-shirt-fight-scene-14193
It was a great night for women and for the men who write for them.
(Stumbled across while reading The Onion review of Captain America – The Civil War. SPOLIER ALERT from a movie seen 28 days ago: The movie sucks.)
The video is nine years old, but the title is as good as tomorrow.
http://www.theonion.com/video/evangeline-lilly-wins-best-wet-t-shirt-fight-scene-14193
It was a great night for women and for the men who write for them.
(Stumbled across while reading The Onion review of Captain America – The Civil War. SPOLIER ALERT from a movie seen 28 days ago: The movie sucks.)
Reality of transgenderism bathroom rights bites head of Georgia ACLU
Interim director Maya Dillard Smith quit after her two daughters encountered “three transgender young adults, over six feel (tall) with deep voices” in a woman’s bathroom. Maya Dillard Smith also gave as a reason for her resignation her realization “that the ACLU has become ‘a special interest organization that promotes not all, but certain progressive rights’ and that the ‘hierarchy of rights’ the ACLU chooses to defend or ignore is ‘based on who is funding the organization’s lobbying activities.’”
Or, follow the money.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/06/aclu-leader-quits-after-daughters-encounter-men-in-the-womens-restroom.php
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
Next thing you know, people will be leaving the Southern Poverty Law Center because it has outlived its usefulness and is now only a mouthpiece for Progressive/Democratic propaganda.
Or, follow the money.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/06/aclu-leader-quits-after-daughters-encounter-men-in-the-womens-restroom.php
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
Next thing you know, people will be leaving the Southern Poverty Law Center because it has outlived its usefulness and is now only a mouthpiece for Progressive/Democratic propaganda.
Los Indios Tabajaras
When the two men had the hit song Maria Elena, I read they were Indians who found a guitar in the jungle …
My first thought was not “Why was a guitar in the jungle? Did it fall from an airplane? No. If it had fallen from an airplane, it would have been smashed going through the trees or when it hit the ground and the two Indians would have found pieces of the guitar. One would have asked, ‘Why is there a broken guitar here?’ The other would have said, ‘Beats me. We’ve got a pig to track.’ ‘Right,’ the first Indian would have said. ‘Hey, bet we can use these steel strings.’”
I did not think any of that when reading of two Indians who found a guitar in the jungle and they then taught themselves to play. I wondered: Why wasn’t the guitar warped? You put any kind of laminated wood in the jungle for a few days, it warps. Heat and humidity work quickly on glue. And jungles have ants, ants that would feast on glue, given a nice laminated guitar that suddenly appears. And if the guitar was warped, Dos Indios would have had one heck of a time getting proper sound from it.
Wikipedia says of Natalicio and Antenor Lima: “… most stories have them becoming accomplished guitar players after finding a guitar near Ceara, Brazil.” Wikipedia also says, “Their beginnings are not clear …”
Or, per http://www.allmusic.com/artist/los-%C3ndios-tabajaras-mn0000346592/biography
“Indians from the Tabajara tribe, they left Ceará with their people in 1933, traveling on foot the almost 2,000 km to Rio de Janeiro. During the three years spent on the journey, they collected a number of regional musics. In Rio de Janeiro they were registered and baptized by the lieutenant Hildebrando Moreira Lima, from whom they took their Christian names.”
Why did the Ceara leave their homes and travel to Rio de Janeiro? Did somebody say, “Hey, let’s go to Rio! They got good beaches there!”
Anyway, here’s a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQheOglFos
My first thought was not “Why was a guitar in the jungle? Did it fall from an airplane? No. If it had fallen from an airplane, it would have been smashed going through the trees or when it hit the ground and the two Indians would have found pieces of the guitar. One would have asked, ‘Why is there a broken guitar here?’ The other would have said, ‘Beats me. We’ve got a pig to track.’ ‘Right,’ the first Indian would have said. ‘Hey, bet we can use these steel strings.’”
I did not think any of that when reading of two Indians who found a guitar in the jungle and they then taught themselves to play. I wondered: Why wasn’t the guitar warped? You put any kind of laminated wood in the jungle for a few days, it warps. Heat and humidity work quickly on glue. And jungles have ants, ants that would feast on glue, given a nice laminated guitar that suddenly appears. And if the guitar was warped, Dos Indios would have had one heck of a time getting proper sound from it.
Wikipedia says of Natalicio and Antenor Lima: “… most stories have them becoming accomplished guitar players after finding a guitar near Ceara, Brazil.” Wikipedia also says, “Their beginnings are not clear …”
Or, per http://www.allmusic.com/artist/los-%C3ndios-tabajaras-mn0000346592/biography
“Indians from the Tabajara tribe, they left Ceará with their people in 1933, traveling on foot the almost 2,000 km to Rio de Janeiro. During the three years spent on the journey, they collected a number of regional musics. In Rio de Janeiro they were registered and baptized by the lieutenant Hildebrando Moreira Lima, from whom they took their Christian names.”
Why did the Ceara leave their homes and travel to Rio de Janeiro? Did somebody say, “Hey, let’s go to Rio! They got good beaches there!”
Anyway, here’s a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQheOglFos
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