vdare--2020-08-08--Susan Rice vs. Kamala Harris: At Least Harris Didn't Murder Gadaffi

With Karen Bass , an obscure L.A. Congresswoman , starting to fade in the Biden Veep hunt due to her Fidel Castro-worship likely being inconvenient in the purple state of Florida , the two most prominent Black Women left appear to be Obama Administration foreign policy maven Susan Rice and California Senator Kamala Harris .
Neither appear to be close to 50 % sub-Saharan by DNA .
Harris is half Tamil and her Stanford economics professor father is from the Malcolm Gladwellish mulatto middle-class of Jamaica .
( Harris is also half-Jamaican . )
Rice has a white husband and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president of the Stanford Young Republicans , is pale ( although he has slightly sub-Saharan features ) .
She is from W.E.B .
Du Bois ’ Talented Tenth ( or , more likely , Talented One Percent ) .
Rice isn ’ t an absurd choice for VP .
Unfortunately , her track record is poor : Libya , 2011 .
As the 2011 Libyan Civil War progressed , the United States and its allies offered a choice for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his aides : step down from power or face an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the toughest rhetoric toward Gaddafi , criticizing his denials of atrocities against his own citizens as “ frankly , delusional ” .
[ 55 ] In a closed-door Security Council meeting in April 2011 , Rice reportedly stated that Gaddafi loyalists engaged in atrocities , including terrorizing the population with sexual violence , and that Gaddafi ’ s troops has been issued Viagra .
[ 56 ] Together with National Security Council figure Samantha Power , who already supported the U.S.-led military intervention in Libya , and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ three overcame internal opposition from Defense Secretary Robert Gates , security adviser Thomas E. Donilon , and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan , to have the administration advance a UN proposal to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and authorize other military actions as necessary .
[ 18 ] [ 57 ] On March 17 , 2011 , the UK , France and Lebanon joined the U.S. to vote for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 while Brazil , Germany , and India joined permanent Security Council members China and Russia in abstaining .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ gaining approval for the resolution .
[ 18 ] [ 58 ] Clinton said the same day that establishing a no-fly zone over Libya would require the bombing of air defenses .
Rice said , “ we are interested in a broad range of actions that will effectively protect civilians and increase the pressure on the Gaddafi regime to halt the killing and to allow the Libyan people to express themselves in their aspirations for the future freely and peacefully ” .
[ 59 ] The No-Fly Zone obviously meant that the mighty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ murder ( as it turned out , by sodomization ) of Col. Qadaffi .
In turn , the murder of Gadaphee , who had made a deal with Italy ’ s Berlusconi to reduce sub-Saharan migration thru the Mediterranean , led to to the ensuing migrant crisis .
So Rice ’ s record of decision-making is catastrophic .
On the other hand , Rice ’ s private life appears to have been decorous : her one marriage at age 28 , two kids , still married .
In contrast , Kamala Harris started @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of politics while serving in various positions under master politician Willie Brown .

With Karen Bass, an obscure L.A. Congresswoman, starting to fade in the Biden Veep hunt due to her Fidel Castro-worship likely being inconvenient in the purple state of Florida, the two most prominent Black Women left appear to be Obama Administration foreign policy maven Susan Rice and California Senator Kamala Harris.
Neither appear to be close to 50% sub-Saharan by DNA.
Harris is half Tamil and her Stanford economics professor father is from the Malcolm Gladwellish mulatto middle-class of Jamaica. (Harris is also half-Jamaican.)
Rice has a white husband and her Trump-supporting son, right, the president of the Stanford Young Republicans, is pale (although he has slightly sub-Saharan features).
She is from W.E.B. Du Bois’s Talented Tenth (or, more likely, Talented One Percent).
Rice isn’t an absurd choice for VP. Unfortunately, her track record is poor: Libya, 2011.
From Wikipedia:
As the 2011 Libyan Civil War progressed, the United States and its allies offered a choice for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his aides: step down from power or face an international response. Rice offered some of the toughest rhetoric toward Gaddafi, criticizing his denials of atrocities against his own citizens as “frankly, delusional”.[55] In a closed-door Security Council meeting in April 2011, Rice reportedly stated that Gaddafi loyalists engaged in atrocities, including terrorizing the population with sexual violence, and that Gaddafi’s troops has been issued Viagra.[56] Together with National Security Council figure Samantha Power, who already supported the U.S.-led military intervention in Libya, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who came to support it, the three overcame internal opposition from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, security adviser Thomas E. Donilon, and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, to have the administration advance a UN proposal to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and authorize other military actions as necessary.[18][57] On March 17, 2011, the UK, France and Lebanon joined the U.S. to vote for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 while Brazil, Germany, and India joined permanent Security Council members China and Russia in abstaining. Rice and Clinton played major roles in gaining approval for the resolution.[18][58] Clinton said the same day that establishing a no-fly zone over Libya would require the bombing of air defenses. Rice said, “we are interested in a broad range of actions that will effectively protect civilians and increase the pressure on the Gaddafi regime to halt the killing and to allow the Libyan people to express themselves in their aspirations for the future freely and peacefully”.[59]
The No-Fly Zone obviously meant that the mighty U.S. was committed to the overthrow and murder (as it turned out, by sodomization) of Col. Qadaffi. In turn, the murder of Gadaphee, who had made a deal with Italy’s Berlusconi to reduce sub-Saharan migration thru the Mediterranean, led to the ensuing migrant crisis.
So Rice’s record of decision-making is catastrophic.
On the other hand, Rice’s private life appears to have been decorous: her one marriage at age 28, two kids, still married.
In contrast, Kamala Harris started her career by learning the true essence of politics while serving in various positions under master politician Willie Brown.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-08--NYT: Remember What We Told You About the Peaceful Protests? Well, Never Mind ...

From the New York Times news section : Abolish the Police ?
Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren ’ t So Sure What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish ?
Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone .
SEATTLE — Faizel Khan was being told by the news media and his own mayor that the protests in his hometown were peaceful , with “ a block party atmosphere.
” But that was not what he saw through the windows of his Seattle coffee @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sidewalks .
He saw roving bands of masked protesters smashing windows and looting .
The NYT won ’ t call them Antifa yet in the hopes that readers assume these are the terrifying white supremacist wreckers they ’ ve heard so much about and thus not be offended by this article by not getting the point .
The CHAZ/CHOP zone on Capitol Hill was the gay district , so the gay business owners are mad .
To get into his coffee shop , he sometimes had to seek the permission of self-appointed armed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ erected .
“ They barricaded us all in here , ” Mr. Khan said .
“ And they were sitting in lawn chairs with guns.
” For 23 days in June , about six blocks in the city ’ s Capitol Hill neighborhood were claimed by left-wing demonstrators and declared police-free .
Protesters hailed it as liberation — from police oppression , from white supremacy — and a catalyst for a national movement .
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police , the Black Lives Matter movement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguing that the criminal justice system is inherently racist .
NYT in December 2020 : Remember what we told you about the “ killing ” of George Floyd ?
Well , never mind … … That has left small-business owners as lonely voices in progressive areas , arguing that police officers are necessary and that cities can not function without a robust public safety presence .
In Minneapolis , Seattle and Portland , Ore. , many of those business owners consider themselves progressive , and in interviews they express support for the Black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worry that their businesses , already debilitated by the coronavirus pandemic , will struggle to survive if police departments and city governments can not protect them .
On Capitol Hill , business crashed as the Seattle police refused to respond to calls to the area .
Officers did not retake the region until July 1 , after four shootings , including two fatal ones .
Now a group of local businesses owners — including a locksmith , the owner of a tattoo parlor , a mechanic , the owners of a Mexican restaurant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city .
The lawsuit claims that “ Seattle ’ s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood , leaving it unchecked by the police , unserved by fire and emergency health services , and inaccessible to the public ” resulted in enormous property damage and lost revenue .
The Seattle lawsuit — and interviews with shop owners in cities like Portland and Minneapolis — underscores a key question : Can businesses still rely on local governments , which are now rethinking the role of the police , to keep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tense in Seattle , where the city government not only permitted the establishment of a police-free zone , but provided infrastructure like concrete barriers and portable toilets to sustain it .
… Many are nervous about speaking out lest they lend ammunition to a conservative critique of the Black Lives Matter movement .
In Portland , Elizabeth Snow McDougall , the owner of Stevens-Ness legal printers , emphasized her support for the cause before describing the damage done to her business .
“ One window broken , then another , then another , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sidewalk in front of the store every morning .
Urine to wash out of our doorway alcove .
Graffiti to remove , ” Ms. McDougall wrote in an email .
“ Costs to board up and later we ’ ll have costs to repair.
” … .
One mid-July morning in the neighborhood , workers in orange vests were mopping off the sidewalks and power-spraying graffiti off the sides of buildings .
Two window repair guys said they had their hands full for weeks .
Shattered street lamps were being unscrewed and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teams wandered around , armed with handguns and rifles .
Some wore official-looking private security uniforms .
Others wore casual clothes and lanyards identifying their affiliation with Black Lives Matter .
A third group wore all black with no identifying labels and declined to name their group affiliation .
When a tall man in a trench coat and hiking boots walked over to question Mr. Khan , the man spread his coat open , revealing several pistols on harnesses around his chest and waist .
He presented a badge on a lanyard that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” His name is Rick Hearns and he identified himself as a longtime security guard and mover who is now a Black Lives Matter community guard , in charge of several others .
Local merchants pay for his protection , he said as he handed out his business card .
( Mr. Khan said he and his neighbors are now paying thousands of dollars a month for protection from Iconic Global , a Washington State-based private security contractor . )
Mr. Hearns has had bad experiences with the police in his own life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but he was appalled by the violent tactics and rhetoric he witnessed during the occupation .
He blamed the destruction and looting on “ opportunists , ” but also said that much of the damage on Capitol Hill came from a distinct contingent of violent , armed white activists .
“ It ’ s antifa , ” he said .
So , we are finally told that the armed white guys are “ antifa ” ( but not Antifa ) 1,337 words into the article : the usual NYT practice of delaying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gotten bored and moved on from the article .
“ They don ’ t want to see the progress we ’ ve made .
They want chaos.
” Many of the business owners on Capitol Hill agreed : Much of the violence they saw and the intimidation of their patrons came from a group these business owners identified as antifa , which they distinguished from the Black Lives Matter movement .
“ The idea of taking up the Black movement and turning it into a white occupation , it ’ s white privilege @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Khan said .
“ And that ’ s what they did.
” Antifa , which stands for anti-fascist , is a radical , leaderless leftist political movement that uses armed , violent protest as a method to create what supporters say is a more just and equitable country .
They have a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest , including the current protests in Portland .
But Rep. Jerry Nadler said Antifa was just a myth !
When the occupation in Seattle started in early June , Mayor Jenny Durkan seemed almost amused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Love , ” she said .
After President Trump took aim at the governor of Washington State and Seattle ’ s mayor on June 11 , Ms. Durkan defended the occupation on Twitter as “ a peaceful expression of our community ’ s collective grief and their desire to build a better world , ” she wrote , pointing to the “ food trucks , spaghetti potlucks , teach-ins , and movies.
” The lawsuit by the small-business owners , filed by the firm Calfo Eakes on June 24 , seizes on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city knew what was happening and provided material support for the occupation .
…

From the New York Times news section:
Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone. By Nellie Bowles
Aug. 7, 2020 SEATTLE — Faizel Khan was being told by the news media and his own mayor that the protests in his hometown were peaceful, with “a block party atmosphere.” But that was not what he saw through the windows of his Seattle coffee shop. He saw encampments overtaking the sidewalks. He saw roving bands of masked protesters smashing windows and looting. Young white men wielding guns
The NYT won’t call them Antifa yet in the hopes that readers assume these are the terrifying white supremacist wreckers they’ve heard so much about and thus not be offended by this article by not getting the point.
would harangue customers as well as Mr. Khan, a gay man of Middle Eastern descent who moved here from Texas so he could more comfortably be out.
The CHAZ/CHOP zone on Capitol Hill was the gay district, so the gay business owners are mad.
To get into his coffee shop, he sometimes had to seek the permission of self-appointed armed guards to cross a border they had erected. “They barricaded us all in here,” Mr. Khan said. “And they were sitting in lawn chairs with guns.” For 23 days in June, about six blocks in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood were claimed by left-wing demonstrators and declared police-free. Protesters hailed it as liberation — from police oppression, from white supremacy — and a catalyst for a national movement. In the wake of the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, the Black Lives Matter movement is calling to defund the police, arguing that the criminal justice system is inherently racist.
NYT in December 2020: Remember what we told you about the “killing” of George Floyd? Well, never mind …
… That has left small-business owners as lonely voices in progressive areas, arguing that police officers are necessary and that cities cannot function without a robust public safety presence. In Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland, Ore., many of those business owners consider themselves progressive, and in interviews they express support for the Black Lives Matter movement. But they also worry that their businesses, already debilitated by the coronavirus pandemic, will struggle to survive if police departments and city governments cannot protect them. On Capitol Hill, business crashed as the Seattle police refused to respond to calls to the area. Officers did not retake the region until July 1, after four shootings, including two fatal ones. Now a group of local businesses owners — including a locksmith, the owner of a tattoo parlor, a mechanic, the owners of a Mexican restaurant and Mr. Khan — is suing the city. The lawsuit claims that “Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services, and inaccessible to the public” resulted in enormous property damage and lost revenue. The Seattle lawsuit — and interviews with shop owners in cities like Portland and Minneapolis — underscores a key question: Can businesses still rely on local governments, which are now rethinking the role of the police, to keep them safe? The issue is especially tense in Seattle, where the city government not only permitted the establishment of a police-free zone, but provided infrastructure like concrete barriers and portable toilets to sustain it. … Many are nervous about speaking out lest they lend ammunition to a conservative critique of the Black Lives Matter movement. In Portland, Elizabeth Snow McDougall, the owner of Stevens-Ness legal printers, emphasized her support for the cause before describing the damage done to her business. “One window broken, then another, then another, then another. Garbage to clean off the sidewalk in front of the store every morning. Urine to wash out of our doorway alcove. Graffiti to remove,” Ms. McDougall wrote in an email. “Costs to board up and later we’ll have costs to repair.” …. One mid-July morning in the neighborhood, workers in orange vests were mopping off the sidewalks and power-spraying graffiti off the sides of buildings. Two window repair guys said they had their hands full for weeks. Shattered street lamps were being unscrewed and replaced. A confusing array of security teams wandered around, armed with handguns and rifles. Some wore official-looking private security uniforms. Others wore casual clothes and lanyards identifying their affiliation with Black Lives Matter. A third group wore all black with no identifying labels and declined to name their group affiliation. When a tall man in a trench coat and hiking boots walked over to question Mr. Khan, the man spread his coat open, revealing several pistols on harnesses around his chest and waist. He presented a badge on a lanyard that read “Black Lives Matter Community Patrol.” His name is Rick Hearns and he identified himself as a longtime security guard and mover who is now a Black Lives Matter community guard, in charge of several others. Local merchants pay for his protection, he said as he handed out his business card. (Mr. Khan said he and his neighbors are now paying thousands of dollars a month for protection from Iconic Global, a Washington State-based private security contractor.) Mr. Hearns has had bad experiences with the police in his own life. He says he wants police reform, but he was appalled by the violent tactics and rhetoric he witnessed during the occupation. He blamed the destruction and looting on “opportunists,” but also said that much of the damage on Capitol Hill came from a distinct contingent of violent, armed white activists. “It’s antifa,” he said.
So, we are finally told that the armed white guys are “antifa” (but not Antifa) 1,337 words into the article: the usual NYT practice of delaying un-PC facts until after most readers have gotten bored and moved on from the article.
“They don’t want to see the progress we’ve made. They want chaos.” Many of the business owners on Capitol Hill agreed: Much of the violence they saw and the intimidation of their patrons came from a group these business owners identified as antifa, which they distinguished from the Black Lives Matter movement. “The idea of taking up the Black movement and turning it into a white occupation, it’s white privilege in its finest definition,” Mr. Khan said. “And that’s what they did.” Antifa, which stands for anti-fascist, is a radical, leaderless leftist political movement that uses armed, violent protest as a method to create what supporters say is a more just and equitable country. They have a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest, including the current protests in Portland.
But Rep. Jerry Nadler said Antifa was just a myth!
When the occupation in Seattle started in early June, Mayor Jenny Durkan seemed almost amused. “We could have the Summer of Love,” she said. After President Trump took aim at the governor of Washington State and Seattle’s mayor on June 11, Ms. Durkan defended the occupation on Twitter as “a peaceful expression of our community’s collective grief and their desire to build a better world,” she wrote, pointing to the “food trucks, spaghetti potlucks, teach-ins, and movies.” The lawsuit by the small-business owners, filed by the firm Calfo Eakes on June 24, seizes on such language, pointing out that the city knew what was happening and provided material support for the occupation. …
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-08--Our Last Election?, Kris Kobach, Remembering The Bomb,Etc.

03m16s Our last election ?
( Victory , defeat , or chaos ? )
26m51s The rudest you can be @ @ @ @ @ Brit lefty lets fly . )
32m02s Signoff .
( With an old favorite .
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03m16s Our last election? (Victory, defeat, or chaos?)
10m53s What's the matter with Kansas? (Kris Kobach falls.)
15m37s Immigration follies. (Public charge rule no, foreign doctors yes.)
22m21s Remembering the Bomb. (A reading recommendation.)
25m06s New frontiers in space exploration. (A poop scoop.)
26m51s The rudest you can be about suburbia. (Old Brit lefty lets fly.)
29m15s A win for the Boston Bomber. (Kritarchs strike.)
32m02s Signoff. (With an old favorite.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! But only just, listeners, only just.
Radio Derb, as regular listeners will know, comes to you from the outer-outer eastern suburbs of New York City, from the bosky environs of northern Long Island. The Derbs like it here. We have no wish to live anywhere else.
There is, however, a downside to boskiness … boskitude … boscagity … boscaciousness … whatever; there's a downside. The downside is, that when a storm with 60-mile-an-hour winds comes through, it creates havoc with the boscage. Big heavy branches from the trees come down; here and there the trees themselves come down.
When the boscage comes down it brings down with it the utility wires that, in defiance of the warning in my April Diary, are strung high along every street. Sometimes when the wires come down they bring the nearest utility pole down with them. Whether they do or not, you've lost power and cable service for however long it takes the utility repair guys to max out their overtime.
So it was on Tuesday this week as Hurricane Isaias paid a visit. I powered up my portable generator (that's the background hum you may be able to hear); but we get internet service from the cable company, along with TV and landline phone, and cable service was also down.
So, nothing much about the world outside coming into my house since Tuesday. For news this week my sole sources have been my daily delivery of the New York Post, car radio, and some scraps via my wife's & son's smartphones, which seem to work intermittently.
My apologies therefore that this won't be a full Radio Derb, even if I can file it on schedule, which is iffy as at early Friday evening, still with no power or internet service. We're doing our best here.
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02—Our last election? I'm starting to worry about this November's election.
I'm still guessing it'll be a win for the Democrats: either a total win, Senate and White House both, or a partial win, one or the other but not both—what we logicians call an "exclusive 'or'," and what we Latinists call an aut, not a vel.
A total win looks more likely, based on the polls and the fact that twice as many Republican Senators as Democrats are up for re-election. The least likely outcome seems to be complete Democrat defeat, Trump holding the White House and the GOP holding the Senate. That's my best guess right now.
All that is worrying enough, Heaven knows: some angry negress as Vice President, Attorney General Beto O'Rourke, Alexandra What's-her-name with the scary lipstick as Secretary of State, Bernie Sanders at Treasury, Surgeon General Marianne Williamson, … It's a nightmare, all right.
A Democratic win, total or partial, is my Number Two Worry, though. Number One is chaos.
Unless there is some really major change in the national mood, this will be a close election. It's also likely to be one with widespread mail-in voting. Put those two things together and the result in November may be no result—none that the nation can agree on.
Mail-in voting works like this. State election officials mail out a ballot to every registered voter. The mailer includes a pre-stamped return envelope. The voter marks up the ballot, signs it, puts it in the return envelope, and mails it back. When it hits the post office, they stamp it with a postmark that includes the date, then deliver it.
For the vote to be valid, that postmark has to be no later than Election Day. There is also some time limit—typically seven days—within which the ballot has to be received by the vote-counters.
You can already see possible problems. Check your last few items of mail. I dug out five; I could read the postmark date on four of them but the postmark on the fifth was too faint and smudged. And that was private correspondence from individuals: pre-stamped return envelopes from government offices often don't get postmarked at all.
As for a seven-day limit on the ballot being checked in at election HQ, that's dependent on (a) USPS and (b) the efficiency of state workers.
You see where I'm heading with this? To chaos, that's where.
This is no fevered worst-case fantasy, either. Here in New York we've been living with these issues since our Democratic primaries back on June 23rd. Mail-in voting was allowed. Thousands of those ballots have been disqualified—as many as a quarter in some precincts. Quote from the New York Post, August 5th, quote:
Some lacked a postmark or a signature or arrived late, even though voters mailed them with sufficient time.
End quote.
This week a federal judge ordered a re-count of those thousands. So now, as with everything else in our public life today, it ends up in the courts. Further quote from the Post, quote:
The laws … are technical, complex, and hard to comply with, no matter how good the bureaucrats or how experienced the voters are with the system.
End quote.
So six weeks after the vote, results are still up in the air. And this has just been one party's primary for a handful of congressional seats. Imagine this nationwide, in a full general election.
To assist your imagination, recall if you can the fuss over Florida's Presidential vote in the 2000 election. The phrase "hanging chads" mean anything? That dragged on for five weeks as I recall, and had to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court at last.
And there was just one result in one state at issue there. And that was twenty years ago, before the old WASP virtues of honor and forbearance were denounced as "toxic masculinity," before reasoned discourse in the public square gave way to screeching hysteria and statue-smashing.
Twenty years ago: back when a decent seasoning of conservatives could still be found in college and law-school faculties, in media outlets, federal bureaucracies, and corporate boardrooms. Cracks were visible twenty years ago, but we were still a grown-up nation, which is no longer the case.
If there is widespread mail-in voting and the race is close, there will be chaos: not just in Florida this time, and not for any puny five weeks. The nation's business will grind to a halt, probably for months.
At the end of it all, shall we still be a nation? Shall we still have a constitution? Will this be our last election?
I'm starting to worry.
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03—What's the matter with Kansas? The New York Post, though handy to skim through while I eat my breakfast, is still a tabloid, with not much deep detail about politics, or about anything. I therefore wasn't very surprised that they didn't run any news about Tuesday's GOP Senate primary in Kansas.
The interest here for National Conservatives was that Kris Kobach was running, in a tight race with an establishment Republican. Kris is one of us, so I had my fingers crossed for him.
My son checked for me in one of his smartphone's lucid moments on Wednesday. No, he reported: Kris Kobach lost.
That's a blow. Of course, holding National Conservative positions, especially on immigration, Kris was up against the entire GOP establishment and their financiers in the cheap-labor lobbies. Kris is smart, capable, and personable: but with all that donor money thrown into defeating him, it was an unequal contest.
What has happened here, though? Four years ago in the GOP Presidential primary, sixteen shills for the GOP establishment went up against one maverick saying National Conservative things—just the things Kris Kobach says. Republican primary voters gave a collective finger to the establishment bots and went for the maverick. Now they're voting establishment again, at least in Kansas.
The thing people were saying was, with control of the Senate on a knife-edge, Kobach as a candidate for Senator in the general would be too much of a risk. Primary voters would go with the safer choice, as apparently the Kansas primary voters did.
But why didn't that logic apply to the Presidential vote four years ago? Why weren't GOP primary voters back then muttering: "I like Trump and the things he says, but he's not going to win over any Democrats. Best stick with the RINOs." They weren't muttering that; they took a chance. Kansas GOP primary voters this week declined to take that same chance.
Why? Because the danger is greater this time, the Democrats crazier? Well, they are, for sure. Hillary Clinton is a model of good sense and sober judgment by comparison with any of the swivel-eyed opportunists and fanatics on Joe Biden's Veep list. By comparison with Biden himself, Hillary is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Or was 2016 some kind of aberration? Is the old GOP, the GOP of George W. Bush, John McCain and Paul Ryan, the GOP of endless inconclusive wars, open borders, and trillion-dollar no-hoper social programs like No Child Left Behind, is that GOP back in style? Have the disturbances and distortions of the last few months—the pandemic, the Anrifa riots—left GOP voters yearning for earlier times, for what the great Warren Harding called "normalcy"?
I don't know the answer. I do know, however, that a nation that has no place in its legislatures for a smart, honest, principled patriot like Kris Kobach is a nation with some deep systemic problems.
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04—Immigration follies. Here's a couple of immigration topics from the Post.
First, a federal appeals court has upheld a decision last October by a local kritarch on non-citizen use of public benefits.
The issue here was a new rule, brought in earlier this year by the Department of Homeland Security, denying green cards—that's permanent resident-alien status—to aliens who use Medicaid, food stamps, and other types of public assistance. So this is part of the larger "public charge" issue. Should a foreigner who is going to be a charge on the public fisc be given permanent-residence status?
The common-sense reply to that is: Of course not. Why on earth would a country want to import welfare cases?
The kritarch, name of George B. Daniels, begged to differ, and this week's ruling from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals supports him. This new DHS rule, said the court, has already had an irreparable chilling effect on noncitizen use of public benefits.
My dictionary defines the word "irreparable" as "cannot be repaired or mended." Without thinking very hard at all I can rather easily come up with a course of action that would mend that chilling effect once and for all, and save taxpaying citizens a ton of money into the bargain. I guess I'm not cut out to be an appeals court judge.
And then, in the August 6th Post, there is a good op-ed by someone named Esther Raja, bylined as, quote:
A graduate of Xavier University School of Medicine and an advocate for America's unmatched medical graduates.
End quote.
The word "unmatched" there refers to people who have graduated medical school but can't find jobs. You wouldn't think there could be such people, but there are—more than six and a half thousand of them, according to Ms Raja—2,000 new ones this year alone.
The wrinkle here is, that before you can practice medicine in the U.S.A. you have to complete a residency—basically a form of postgraduate on-the-job supervised training, usually in a hospital. Those thousands of Americans Ms Raja is writing about completed medical school, got their MD, but can't find a residency so they can go ahead and become practicing physicians.
Meanwhile, guess what? Yes: Residencies are being handed out to foreigners on guest-worker J-1 visas: more than four thousand this year alone.
Why? Well, there are financial incentives for hospitals to take foreign doctors in as residents. Some foreign governments, the Saudis for instance, pay hospitals the cost of the residency. That's pure gravy for the hospitals
And then, to get his J-1 visa, the foreigner must also pay fat exam and certification fees to something called the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. That outfit took in almost $90 million in 2018.
And then there's a sort of chain-migration effect. A lot of the administrators of hospital residency programs originally came in themselves on J-1 visas, and they favor their fellow-countrymen. What are the main offending countries here? See if you can guess.
The remedy for the second of these two styles of immigration-abuse is straightforward: Stop issuing J-1 visas to foreign MDs seeking residencies.
The remedy for the first—for the judicial nullifying of the "public charge" rule—is for Congress to pass some firm legislation on the issue. Since there is zero hope of Congress doing that, or of impeaching any of these out-of-control kritarchs, the only fallback is for the Executive, in this case DHS, to go full Andy Jackson and just ignore the damn judges.
I suppose there would be mighty constitutional ructions if the Executive did that, but this may be what it takes. With Congress sunk in uselessness, the legislators all bought and paid for by special interests, the battle for our rights and liberties is between Executive and Judiciary. I'm rooting for the Executive.
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05—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: August 6th is of course Hiroshima day. Seventy-five years ago we dropped the big one on that city. Three days later we dropped another on Nagasaki. The Japs folded; the war ended.
The dropping of those bombs is one of those issues where there's a wide range of opinions held by highly argumentative people; not just opinions about the rightness or wrongness of the bombings, but even about their utility. Were they necessary to end the war? Some said, and still say, that they weren't; that continued conventional bombing, together with a good blockade, would have done the job eventually.
Others argue that it wasn't the atom bombs that pushed the Japanese to surrender; it was Stalin's declaration of war against Japan on August 8th that really scared them.
And so on. If you have what you believe to be an original theory to do with the dropping of those bombs, I can guarantee that some scholar came up with your theory, and probably wrote a book about it, at some point in the last 75 years. Please don't email in and challenge me on that; I'm pretty sure I've had all the theories argued at me one time or another.
If you want to brief yourself on the major points of view, I recommend the August issue of that excellent magazine Chronicles, now under the editorship of the learned and wonderfully opinionated Professor Paul Gottfried. This issue runs four good-length articles by four different writers, each stating a different point of view on the dropping of the atom bombs.
Where am I on this? The one of those four articles I found closest to my own view was number three, by Michael Scheuer. What's his position? Read the August issue of Chronicles and find out. Better still, take out a subscription; it's a very worthy magazine.
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Item: What, actually, is the point of space exploration? people still sometimes ask. I'm happy to supply at least part of the answer. Here it is: penguin poop.
See, there has been an erroneous assumption about the number of emperor-penguin colonies in Antarctica. It had been supposed, based on reports from ground level, that the number was fifty.
Wrong! A European satellite called Sentinel-2 has been scanning Antarctica for tell-tale smudges on the ice that would indicate large amounts of penguin poop. They found those smudges for the fifty known colonies, and also for eleven more.
So the bottom line here, so to speak, is that there are in fact 61 emperor-penguin colonies.
I am quite sure that in more than sixteen years of reporting on the world's affairs, that is the first time Radio Derb has ever done a story about penguin poop. I just wish we could have gotten to it before the New York Post did. Then we would have had a scoop: a poop scoop. [Groan.]
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Item: In last week's podcast I passed some comments about suburbia, and about the fad among 1960s lefties like Pete Seeger for mocking the dullness and conformity of suburban life. A friend, an ex-Brit like myself, emailed in to remind me of one of the strongest expressions of this sentiment. It comes from either the 1930s or 1940s, so the speaker was way ahead of his time.
This was Aneurin Bevan, one of the fiercest British socialists of that period—a Member of Parliament and the architect of Britain's National Health Service.
In 1952 Bevan published a book titled In Place of Fear, stating his political beliefs at length, with many quotes from his own speeches and writings. Historian David Kynaston, in Chapter Four of his book Family Britain 1951-1957, notes the following, quote:
One particularly striking pre-1945 passage—attacking suburbia as [inner quote] "an aesthetic monstrosity, an ethical crime, an economic nightmare, and a physical treadmill" [end inner quote] was in the event dropped from the book.
End quote.
"An aesthetic monstrosity, an ethical crime, an economic nightmare, and a physical treadmill." If any higher level of vituperation than that has ever been aimed against suburbia, I'd be interested to hear of it.
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Item: One more case of kritarchs run wild, this one concerning the Boston Marathon bomber, 27-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
You remember the story: the worst domestic terror attack since 9/11. This was at the Boston Marathon in April 2013. Two brothers, immigrants from Chechnya, let off home-made bombs near the finish line, killing three people and mutilating over two hundred others. When cops chased them down, the brothers threw pipe bombs at the cops, and shot one MIT campus security guy dead.
The older brother died in a police shoot-out. The younger was arrested, tried, found guilty on all charges, and sentenced to death in 2015.
Well, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out the death sentence along with three of the other charges this vermin was convicted on. The grounds for their doing so were nit-picky and technical—so much so, it took them two hundred and twenty-four pages to justify their ruling.
The bomber will stay in jail on life sentences from charges that weren't vacated, assuming those charges don't get annulled by some other panel of equally compassionate and punctilious jurists.
Tsarnaev's parents came here as tourists in 2002. They applied for asylum and were granted it, although subsequent inquiries have found no evidence they were under any danger of religious or political persecution where they came from.
I'd like to see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev executed. If that can't be managed, though—and under the present kritarchy it plainly can't—can we at least levy some penalty, not necessarily capital, against the damn fool federal employee who granted asylum to his parents?
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06—Signoff. I'm afraid that's all I can manage in my present straitened circumstances, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening; and should you hear of any 60-mile-an-hour winds headed your way, mind where you park your car. A neighbor of mine in the next street over had a tree fall on his.
I hate to grumble—you know I do—but I must say, so far I am not liking 2020. Riots; pandemic; a hurricane; and that worrisome election coming up.
I find myself at last in a mood of weary resignation; and of course I have just the song to go with that mood. Over to you, Carson.
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-08-08--The Woke Are After the Poetry Foundation's $250 Million

magazine was founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe , one of the great literary editors of American history .
In June 1915 , Poetry unveiled a new poet to the world with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S .
Eliot .
One of Monroe ’ s innovations was that poets should be paid a non-negligible amount of money .
She did a lot of fundraising , such as talking wealthy Chicagoans into paying for 5-year subscriptions upfront .
She actually preferred traditional 19th Century verse , but was brilliant at picking the best of cutting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , philanthropist Ruth Lilly of the Eli Lilly fortune donated 9 figures into the Poetry Foundation , which publishes Poetry magazine .
Its current endowment of approximately a quarter of a billion dollars is approaching half the size of the Southern Poverty Law Center ’ s legendary lucre .
So , not surprisingly , the Woke have had their claws out for all that Poetry wealth .
Hence , an announcement by Poetry magazine : We ’ d like to share some updates on the next issues of Poetry magazine .
This September @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of continuous publication and will not print a monthly issue for the first time since its founding by Harriet Monroe in 1912 .
Magazine staff made this decision to put people before production .
We are acting in part out of necessity , and in majority out of respect to our community , poets , and staff .
The manifold violence of our world demands more from us .
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine must be agents of antiracism to build a more loving , supportive , and inclusive community .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which we have exalted and continue to profit from .
We are committed to understanding that history better in order to dismantle its structures and reparate the magazine ’ s debt to Black people , Indigenous people , other people of color , members of the LGBTQIA+ community , disabled people , and other marginalized groups of people who have been exploited , sidelined , and tokenized in support of white dominant culture .
This pause is a necessary part of Poetry magazine ’ s reckoning with the deep-seated white supremacy of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issue is a small gesture symbolizing our desire to do better .
We will use this interim period to : Interrogate and reconfigure the magazine ’ s editorial processes , power structures , and hiring practices , in coordination with staff , consultants , and community input I love how the Woke use the verb “ interrogate ” because it always reminds me of Gestapo Major Hochstetter in Hogan ’ s Heroes :

Poetry magazine was founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, one of the great literary editors of American history.
In June 1915, Poetry unveiled a new poet to the world with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.
One of Monroe’s innovations was that poets should be paid a non-negligible amount of money. She did a lot of fundraising, such as talking wealthy Chicagoans into paying for 5-year subscriptions upfront. She actually preferred traditional 19th Century verse, but was brilliant at picking the best of cutting-edge modernist poetry.
Then in 2003, philanthropist Ruth Lilly of the Eli Lilly fortune donated 9 figures into the Poetry Foundation, which publishes Poetry magazine.
Its current endowment of approximately a quarter of a billion dollars is approaching half the size of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s legendary lucre. So, not surprisingly, the Woke have had their claws out for all that Poetry wealth. Hence, an announcement by Poetry magazine:
September Pause, October Return
BY THE EDITORS
Dear Reader, We’d like to share some updates on the next issues of Poetry magazine. This September, Poetry is breaking from its legacy of continuous publication and will not print a monthly issue for the first time since its founding by Harriet Monroe in 1912. Magazine staff made this decision to put people before production. We are acting in part out of necessity, and in majority out of respect to our community, poets, and staff. The manifold violence of our world demands more from us. The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine must be agents of antiracism to build a more loving, supportive, and inclusive community. We cannot escape Poetry’s history, which we have exalted and continue to profit from. We are committed to understanding that history better in order to dismantle its structures and reparate the magazine’s debt to Black people, Indigenous people, other people of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, disabled people, and other marginalized groups of people who have been exploited, sidelined, and tokenized in support of white dominant culture. This pause is a necessary part of Poetry magazine’s reckoning with the deep-seated white supremacy of our organization. We know one missed issue is a small gesture symbolizing our desire to do better. We will use this interim period to: Interrogate and reconfigure the magazine’s editorial processes, power structures, and hiring practices, in coordination with staff, consultants, and community input
I love how the Woke use the verb “interrogate” because it always reminds me of Gestapo Major Hochstetter in Hogan’s Heroes:
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vdare--2020-08-07--MEMO FROM MIDDLE AMERICA: Calling Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK)—The Left Hates WHITES, Not Just Con

MEMO FROM MIDDLE AMERICA: Calling Congressman Frank Lucas (R-OK)—The Left Hates WHITES, Not Just Confederates. AOC Says So!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blurted it out : America ’ s problem isn ’ t rogue white cops who unfairly persecute blacks , as the Floyd-Hoax riots and ensuing municipal destruction suggest .
It ’ s white men themselves—and Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats are going to do something about it , at least symbolically ( for now ) .
House Democrats have passed a bill , with significant RINO support , to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol building ’ s National Statuary Hall Collection .
But Ocasio-Cortez wants not just Confederates gone—white men must go , too .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ We have 100+ statues and portraits in the Capitol .
Almost all of them are of white men , ” the woman known as Occasional Cortex huffed on Twitter referring to St. Damien of Molokai .
“ Every single statue there could be of a canonized saint and that *still* doesn ’ t change the fact that the erasure of women & BIPOC [ “ Black , Indigenous and People of Color ” ] from American history is a feature of white supremacy.
” And there you have it .
Everything we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is about one thing : hating whites .
It ’ s not about black lives , or slavery , or Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy or even Catholic saints such as Damien who gave their lives for “ indigenous ” people but are somehow viewed as “ a feature of white supremacy.
” Of course , anyone who hasn ’ t been asleep for the last 10 years would have known it—including the 72 Republicans who , in a shameful surrender to Floyd-Hoax hysteria , joined all the Democrats in voting to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GOP representatives think their vote will gain them some “ strange new respect ” in the Leftist media , or a higher share of the minority vote ?
Maybe—they are the Stupid Party .
But they ’ re WRONG .
The collection ’ s statues , two from each state , get the seal of approval from the state legislatures .
Virginia ’ s , appropriately , are George Washington and Robert E. Lee .
John Winthrop and Samuel Adams represent Massachusetts .
But on July 22 , 2020 , the House approved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down again : It if becomes law , the measure would remove 12 statues from the Statuary Hall Collection , all Confederates , with the exception of John C. Calhoun , a States Rights supporter who died in 1850 .
He ’ s on the chopping block , too .
Because “ racism.
” The bill would also prohibit any future donations of likenesses of “ persons who served as officers or voluntarily with the Confederate States of America or of the military forces or government of a state while it was in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ House vote is a gauge of our ruling political class : The yeas were 305 , the nays , 113 .
The GOP ’ s Senate leadership has , thankfully , expressed no interest in a comparable measure [ House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol , By Heather Caygle , Politico , July 22 , 2020 ] .But every single House Democrat voted to remove the statues .
The vote not only demonstrates the lockstep , Woke Leftism of the Democrats but also the extinction of old-fashioned conservative patriots from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defenders of history and sanity : Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama , District 5 ( with Numbers USA rating , A+ ) .
He defended the Yellowhammer State ’ s statue of Confederate Gen. “ Fighting Joe ” Wheeler : ( Alabama ’ s other statue : Helen Keller , a Leftist later in life but a daughter of the South nonetheless ) .
Brooks ’ point : Many outstanding leaders of the Confederacy were also outstanding American leaders—before and/or after the Civil War .
Why doesn ’ t Wheeler ’ s subsequent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you , Rep. Brooks .
We need more Republicans like you .
On the other hand , we don ’ t need more Republicans like the 72 who voted for the measure .
It if weren ’ t for them , the measure would not have passed with the necessary two-thirds of members .
What were they thinking ?
!
Rep. Dan Crenshaw , a former Navy SEAL war hero who wears two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart , should know better .
He explained his vote in a “ Republican History @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Facebook : It takes guts and brains to be a Navy SEAL , which raises the question how one can do something so stupid .
The people bringing down our statues and erasing our past aren ’ t doing it in the name of Republicans vs. the Democrats .
They hate our history and heritage , and , as AOC made clear , they aren ’ t going to stop at Confederates .
For example , why did Rep. Frank Lucas , who represents Oklahoma 3 , vote for it ?
Were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wondering , as they drove their combines across the fruited plains , “ those statues must come down !
” Not at all .
A member of Lucas ’ staff told a constituent that Democrat Rep. James Clyburn ’ s speech demanding the purge moved Lucas to vote for it .
Is Clyburn now Frank Lucas ’ s muse ?
Is Lucas aware that Clyburn called federal agents Nazis just a few days before the speech that so inspired Lucas that he voted against his own people ?
[ House Majority Whip Clyburn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gestapo police , by Brian Flood , Fox News , July 20 ] .
That brings us back to AOC , who blurted out the truth : The white boys got ta go , and Hawaii ’ s choice for its statue , obviously was not a Confederate , shows why .
Saint Damien was a Belgian Catholic priest who lived in the leper colony for more than a decade , serving the lepers and eventually dying of leprosy himself .
Hawaiians consider him a hero , which is why they picked him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we select figures to tell the stories of colonized places , it is the colonizers and the settlers whose stories are told—and virtually no one else , ” she wrote on Instagram .
“ Check out Hawaii ’ s ” [ 'White supremacist culture ' : AOC decries statue of Catholic saint by Nicholas Rowan , Washington Examiner , July 31 , 2020 ] St. Damien lived and died with Molokai ’ s lepers when Hawaii was an independent kingdom , so one wonders how he was a “ colonialist , ” but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who wants to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement continued : “ It 's not radical or crazy to understand the influence white supremacist culture has historically had in our overall culture and how [ it ] impacts the present day.
” And while she was at it , she slammed Arizona ’ s statue of the late Barry Goldwater because he opposed welfare on principle and voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act on the grounds that it was unconstitutional [ Barry Goldwater explains his vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ YouTube , September .
26 , 2009 ] .
It probably hasn ’ t occurred to the AOC , but white men have built this country since they founded it , and are responsible for most of its achievements , whether in war or in peace , whether in math , science , or business .
Of course , most of the statues in the Capitol will represent white men .
Nor has it occurred to AOC that she directly benefits from the men she hates .
A white man designed the building @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nostrums .
White men wrote the Constitution to which she swore loyalty , along with the parliamentary procedures she pretends to understand .
Not to put too fine a point on it , but she works for anti-white revolution in the air conditioning thanks to a white man .
And yet to AOC and too many others , the white man ( except , oddly , her white boyfriend ) is the enemy .
That ’ s the situation we face , my friends .
We ignore it at our peril .
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In 2005 , Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard .
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blurted it out: America’s problem isn’t rogue white cops who unfairly persecute blacks, as the George Floyd riots and ensuing municipal destruction suggest. It’s white men themselves—and Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats are going to do something about it, at least symbolically (for now). House Democrats have passed a bill, with significant RINO support, to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol building’s National Statuary Hall Collection. But Ocasio-Cortez wants not just Confederates gone—white men must go, too. Bye-bye, Historic American Nation.
“We have 100+ statues and portraits in the Capitol. Almost all of them are of white men,” AOC huffed on Twitter, referring to St. Damien of Molokai. “Every single statue there could be of a canonized saint and that *still* doesn’t change the fact that the erasure of women & BIPOC [“Black, Indigenous and People of Color”] from American history is a feature of white supremacy.”
We have 100+ statues and portraits in the Capitol. Almost all of them are of white men.
Every single statue there could be of a canonized saint and that *still* doesn’t change the fact that the erasure of women & BIPOC from American history is a feature of white supremacy. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 2, 2020
And there you have it. What we’ve seen since the George Floyd riots began is hatred for whites. It’s not about black lives, or slavery, or Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy or even Catholic saints such as Damien, who gave their lives for “indigenous” people but are somehow viewed as “a feature of white supremacy.”
Of course, anyone who hasn’t been asleep for the last 10 years would have known it—including the 72 Republicans who, in a shameful surrender to George Floyd hysteria, joined all the Democrats in voting to banish Confederate statues.
Did these 72 GOP representatives think their vote will gain them some “strange new respect” in the Leftist media, or a higher share of the minority vote? If they do, they’re WRONG.
The Capitol's National Statuary Hall collection of statues, two from each state, get the seal of approval from their state legislatures. Virginia’s, appropriately, are George Washington and Robert E. Lee. John Winthrop and Samuel Adams represent Massachusetts.
But on July 22, 2020, the House approved H.R. 7573 to drive old Dixie down again:
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library and to remove certain statues from areas of the United States Capitol which are accessible to the public, to remove all statues of individuals who voluntarily served the Confederate States of America from display in the United States Capitol, and for other purposes.
It if becomes law, the measure would remove 12 statues from the Statuary Hall Collection, all Confederates, with the exception of John C. Calhoun, a States Rights supporter who died in 1850.
He’s on the chopping block, too. Because “racism.”
The bill would also prohibit any future donations of likenesses of “persons who served as officers or voluntarily with the Confederate States of America or of the military forces or government of a state while it was in rebellion against the United States.”
The House vote is a gauge of our ruling political class: The yeas were 305, the nays, 113.
The GOP’s Senate leadership has, thankfully, expressed no interest in a comparable measure [House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol, by Heather Caygle, Politico, July 22, 2020]. But every single House Democrat voted to remove the statues.
The vote not only demonstrates the lockstep, Woke Leftism of the Democrats but also the extinction of old-fashioned conservative patriots from the party of Andrew Jackson.
Among the defenders of history and sanity: Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, District 5 (with Numbers USA rating, A+). He defended the Yellowhammer State’s statue of Confederate Gen. “Fighting Joe” Wheeler:
[T]he only Confederate general to later become a United States general. General Wheeler oversaw Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War & served in the Philippines in 1900. General Wheeler’s service was so respected by America that he earned the right to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. [Alabama Will Not Be Dictated To: Congressman Mo Brooks Celebrates & Defends Alabama’s U.S. Capitol Statues, Brooks.House.gov, July 24, 2020]
(Alabama’s other statue: Helen Keller, a Leftist later in life but a daughter of the South nonetheless.)
Brooks brings up an important point. Many outstanding leaders of the Confederacy were also outstanding American leaders—before and/or after the Civil War. Why doesn’t Wheeler’s subsequent service to the U.S. count?
Then Brooke delivered this zinger:
I reject cancel culture, historical revisionism, socialism, and fascism. I support freedom and liberty. I support federalism and a state’s right to decide for itself who it should honor.
Thank you, Rep. Brooks. We need more Republicans like you.
On the other hand, we don’t need more Republicans like the 72 who voted for the measure. It if weren’t for them, the measure would not have passed with the necessary two-thirds of members.
What were they thinking?!
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL war hero who wears two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, should know better. He explained his vote in a “Republican History” vs. “Democrat History” post on Facebook:
Republicans won the civil war. That’s our history. Democrats have a long list of segregationists & KKK members. That’s their history. I’m glad to help them confront that racist past & voted to remove these Democrat statues from positions of prominence.
It takes guts and brains to be a Navy SEAL, which raises the question how one can do something so stupid. The people bringing down our statues and erasing our past aren’t doing it in the name of Republicans vs. the Democrats. They hate our history and heritage, and, as AOC made clear, they aren’t going to stop at Confederates.
For example, why did Rep. Frank Lucas, who represents Oklahoma 3, vote for it? Were Lucas’ core constituency of wheat farmers thinking, as they drove their combines across the fruited plains, “those statues must come down!”
Not at all.
A member of Lucas’ staff told a constituent that part of the reason for his vote was that Democrat Rep. James Clyburn’s speech demanding the purge moved Lucas.
I'm not for destroying any statue.
I'm here to ask my colleagues to very properly and lawfully return these people to their proper place.
Put them where they can be studied, where people will know exactly who and what they were.
But do not honor them and do not glorify them. pic.twitter.com/APDa9AyRqb — James E. Clyburn (@RepJamesClyburn) July 22, 2020
Is Clyburn now Frank Lucas’s mentor? Is Lucas aware that Clyburn called federal agents Nazis just a few days before the speech that so inspired Lucas that he voted against his own people? [House Majority Whip Clyburn compares federal agents in Portland to Nazi Gestapo police, by Brian Flood, Fox News, July 20].
That brings us back to AOC, who blurted out the truth: The white boys gotta go, and Hawaii’s choice for its statue, obviously was not a Confederate, shows why.
Saint Damien was a Belgian Catholic priest who lived in a leper colony for more than a decade, serving the lepers and eventually dying of leprosy himself. Hawaiians consider him a hero, which is why they picked him for the Capitol.
“Even when we select figures to tell the stories of colonized places, it is the colonizers and the settlers whose stories are told—and virtually no one else,” she wrote on Instagram. “Check out Hawaii’s” ['White supremacist culture': AOC decries statue of Catholic saint by Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, July 31, 2020]
St. Damien lived and died with Molokai’s lepers when Hawaii was an independent kingdom, so one wonders how he was a “colonizer,” but that little fact aside, the woman who wants to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement continued: “It's not radical or crazy to understand the influence white supremacist culture has historically had in our overall culture and how [it] impacts the present day.”
And while she was at it, she slammed Arizona’s statue of the late Barry Goldwater because he opposed welfare on principle and voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act on the grounds that it was unconstitutional [Barry Goldwater explains his vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Firing Line (1966), YouTube, September 26, 2009].
It probably hasn’t occurred to the AOC, but white men have built this country since they founded it, and are responsible for most of its achievements, whether in war or in peace, whether in math, science, or business. Of course, most of the statues in the Capitol will represent white men.
Nor has it occurred to AOC that she directly benefits from the men she hates. A white man designed the building in which she disgorges her Cultural Marxist nostrums. White men wrote the Constitution to which she swore loyalty, along with the parliamentary procedures she pretends to understand.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but she works for anti-white revolution in the air conditioning thanks to a white man.
And yet to AOC and too many others, the white man (except, oddly, her white boyfriend) is the enemy.
That’s the situation we face, my friends. We ignore it at our peril.
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-08-09--"West African Family Enslaving Suburban Kids In Chicago"

See earlier The Immigrants Who Bring Their Slaves To America , And The Press That Does n't Want You To Know and “ Not Reporting Race ” —MSM Promoting False Consciousness About Race And Crime , With Help From Cathy Young .
The Breaking911 headline says Suburban Chicago Family Forced West African Kids Into Forced Labor : Feds , August 6 , 2020 .
My headline above reverses that .
Both are true : the slavers are Beninese living in America legally , the slaves are Beninese illegal immigrants .
Everyone involved is a black African .
CHICAGO — Three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ labor trafficking conspiracy charge for allegedly forcing two undocumented West African teenagers to work in the Chicago suburbs .
Nawomi Awoga , 71 , of Hazel Crest , and her two daughters , Marina Oke , also known as Marina Fandohan , 34 , of Country Club Hills , and Assiba Lea Fandohan , 31 , of Hazel Crest , are charged with conspiracy to conceal , harbor , and shield from detection two children from the West African country of Benin , according to an indictment returned in U.S. District Court in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defendants with forcing labor through threats of serious harm to a victim or another person .
According to the charges , Awoga coached the victims , then age 14 and 12 , in Benin to lie to U.S. immigration authorities about their family relationships in order to obtain tourist visas , and then accompanied them into the United States .
Once in the U.S. , the defendants harbored the victims in residences in the Chicago suburbs of Country Club Hills and Hazel Crest while the victims were forced to provide labor and services @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the indictment states .
The indictment [ PDF ] makes it explicit that Nawomi Awoga is Beninese national .
Benin is a traditional slave-trading country , and is one of the places that many post 1619 African-Americans came from in the past , before American abolished slavery 155 years ago .
Remember that both the custom of slave-holding , as well as the slaves , were products of Africa .
They 're not only being charged with `` Forced labor '' ( 18 U.S. Code § 1589 ) but with `` Bringing in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. Code § 1324 ) which is to say , employing illegal alien labor .
Reading between the lines , I 'd suggest that what may have happened is that their actual parents allowed them to be smuggled into America so that they could get American education and possibly legal residence , in return for helping out around the house a little ( as with the Restavek system in Haiti ) and the Awoga family altered the deal .
This fits two very familiar tropes here at VDARE.com : Immigrants committing slavery in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the race of the victim , but not the victimizers .
See the links at the top , or the tags directly below , we have a lot of material on this .

See earlier The Immigrants Who Bring Their Slaves To America, And The Press That Doesn't Want You To Know and “Not Reporting Race”—MSM Promoting False Consciousness About Race And Crime, With Help From Cathy Young.
The Breaking911 headline says Suburban Chicago Family Forced West African Kids Into Forced Labor: Feds, August 6, 2020. My headline above reverses that. Both are true: The slavers are Beninese living in America legally, the slaves are Beninese illegal immigrants. Everyone involved is a black African.
CHICAGO — Three family members have been indicted on a labor trafficking conspiracy charge for allegedly forcing two undocumented West African teenagers to work in the Chicago suburbs. Nawomi Awoga, 71, of Hazel Crest, and her two daughters, Marina Oke, also known as Marina Fandohan, 34, of Country Club Hills, and Assiba Lea Fandohan, 31, of Hazel Crest, are charged with conspiracy to conceal, harbor, and shield from detection two children from the West African country of Benin, according to an indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The indictment also charges the defendants with forcing labor through threats of serious harm to a victim or another person. They were arrested Monday. According to the charges, Awoga coached the victims, then age 14 and 12, in Benin to lie to U.S. immigration authorities about their family relationships in order to obtain tourist visas, and then accompanied them into the United States. Once in the U.S., the defendants harbored the victims in residences in the Chicago suburbs of Country Club Hills and Hazel Crest while the victims were forced to provide labor and services for the defendants’ financial gain, the indictment states.
The indictment [PDF] makes it explicit that Nawomi Awoga is a Beninese national.
Benin is a traditional slave-trading country, and is one of the places that many post 1619 African-Americans came from in the past, before American abolished slavery 155 years ago. Remember that both the custom of slave-holding, as well as the slaves, were products of Africa.
They're not only being charged with "Forced labor" (18 U.S. Code § 1589) but with "Bringing in and harboring certain aliens" ( 8 U.S. Code § 1324,) which is to say, employing illegal alien labor.
Reading between the lines, I'd suggest that what may have happened is that their actual parents allowed them to be smuggled into America so that they could get American education and possibly legal residence, in return for helping out around the house a little (as with the Restavek system in Haiti), and the Awoga family altered the deal.
This fits two very familiar tropes here at VDARE.com: Immigrants committing slavery in the US, and the media reporting the race of the victim, but not the victimizers. See the links at the top, or the tags directly below, we have a lot of material on this.


vdare--2020-08-09--Inheriting the Ivy League: the Market for Educated Egg and Sperm Donors

Egg and sperm banks like to open offices near famous colleges in order to conveniently harvest the gametes of students most in-demand by their customers .
This may sound like the Pseudoscience of eugenics , but , well , you aren ’ t supposed to think about that .
From the Harvard Crimson , a long , informative article that details how much Harvard students can make as egg and sperm donors .
Inheriting the Ivy League : The Market for Educated Egg and Sperm Donors … The premium some intending parents place on elite education has great import in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a great extent is governed solely by the demands of the free market — a stark contrast to the situations in other countries , like Canada , where it is illegal to compensate egg and sperm donors beyond reimbursing any expenses they incur .
On their websites , American sperm and egg banks tout as badges of honor the names of their donors ’ prestigious colleges and universities — including , in nearly all instances , Harvard ’ s .
Intending parents , meanwhile , are willing to pay .
While it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. , compensation for gamete donation is legally taxable income .
Five-digit compensation sums for egg donors with specific traits , like extensive or brand-name educational backgrounds , are fairly established practice , with some compensation values edging up and above $ 100,000 .
Sperm donors , who often donate continuously over several months , are usually compensated by-donation and can earn $ 1,000 or more per month .

Egg and sperm banks like to open offices near famous colleges in order to conveniently harvest the gametes of students most in-demand by their customers. This may sound like the Pseudoscience of eugenics, but, well, you aren’t supposed to think about that.
From the Harvard Crimson, a long, informative article that details how much Harvard students can make as egg and sperm donors.
Inheriting the Ivy League: The Market for Educated Egg and Sperm Donors BY SONIA F. EPSTEIN AND POLINA N. WHITEHOUSE, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS
APRIL 30, 2020 … The premium some intending parents place on elite education has great import in the U.S. fertility industry, which to a great extent is governed solely by the demands of the free market — a stark contrast to the situations in other countries, like Canada, where it is illegal to compensate egg and sperm donors beyond reimbursing any expenses they incur. On their websites, American sperm and egg banks tout as badges of honor the names of their donors’ prestigious colleges and universities — including, in nearly all instances, Harvard’s. Intending parents, meanwhile, are willing to pay. While it’s illegal to sell human tissue in the U.S., compensation for gamete donation is legally taxable income. Five-digit compensation sums for egg donors with specific traits, like extensive or brand-name educational backgrounds, are fairly established practice, with some compensation values edging up and above $100,000. Sperm donors, who often donate continuously over several months, are usually compensated by-donation and can earn $1,000 or more per month.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-09--George Floyd And The Dunbar Number: Are Elites Dealing With It Better Than Normal  People?

Jul 14 , 2020 With the collapse of the private sphere , potent private emotions collide with public affairs Martin Gurri , Visiting Research Fellow An unconquerable anger has gripped the democratic world .
The public seethes with feelings of grievance and seems ready to wreak havoc at any provocation .
The spasm of fury that swept the United States after the death of George Floyd cost 19 additional lives and $ 400 million in property damage .
… Many books and articles have tried to explain this surge in anger .
… The Harvard Gazette ’ s recent “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Racist Roots ” can stand in for an Amazonian stream of similar articles .
Anger is a huge story and thus a fat analytical target .
Most of these explanations have some merit to them .
However , all take it for granted that the anger is justified—the analyst ’ s job is simply to discover a cause commensurate with its enormity .
… Arnold Kling , to my knowledge , stands virtually alone in suggesting that the tide of political anger need not have matching political causes .
He has wondered , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been diverted by the web into the public sphere .
Kling brings up an interesting number : 150 .
Roughly speaking , that is how many persons you can remember before names , faces , and situations begin to get fuzzy .
It ’ s often called the “ Dunbar number , ” after British anthropologist Robin Dunbar , who first identified this cognitive boundary in a 1992 paper , and it probably represents the hard-wiring in our minds of some maximum hunter-gatherer band size .
Has this Dunbar number theory ever been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but I mostly see it used in an “ As everybody knows ” sense .
Each of us carries along , in our everyday activities , a band of 150 people whom we can identify with fair accuracy .
This humble Dunbar world provides the stage for the drama of most human lives and is the source of the most authentic human emotions .
From ancestral times , the pursuit of happiness has played out almost entirely within this domain .
Kling has noted a strange development : the shock of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the verge of collapse .
Historically , he writes , the “ sub-Dunbar ” public concerned itself mostly with “ family , friends , and co-workers.
” Elites in the “ super-Dunbar ” world ran the “ government and large organizations.
” He goes on : But new media have caused the two spheres to collide .
The public feels itself on the same playing field as the elites .
Anyone can comment on Twitter .
So people who never used to think much about the super-Dunbar world are now trying to take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concludes , “ you feel a lot more sense of ownership of what ’ s going on in public life , and you care about it a lot more.
” Strong personal feelings have been torn loose from the private sphere and become attached to the distant world of events .
Or , perhaps , the opposite has happened as well : elites in the “ super-Dunbar ” got exposed to criticism when they went on Twitter , and thus went crazy .
For example , the insanity in the mainstream media of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supposedly posed by the Alt-Right ( compared to the complete lack of attention to the much larger Antifa ) may be largely due to journalists being laughed at on Twitter .
A lot of people can ’ t deal well with criticism .
They feel like they are about to be attacked by a mob and murdered when they get a few dozen tweets making fun of them .
I think that ’ s a better application of this Dunbar Number : If people get 76 negative responses on social media , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the majority of my tribe of 150 has spoken out against me !
I will be made an outcast and forced to wander alone in the wilderness.
” The Floyd protests fit into this pattern .
The terrible events in Powderhorn Park , Minneapolis , were local and fleeting but took place before a battery of cell phone cameras—and at once became global and searchable .
The public experienced a digital murder .
Because it was visual , it felt personal .
Because it felt personal , the most violent emotions were aroused @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one ’ s private circle : an idealized friend .
Because his death was searchable , it turned into a recurring nightmare , a wound that could not heal .
Social media rage , which feeds on itself , soon forgot the actual events and demanded cosmic and abstract judgments .
This was not about George Floyd after all .
This was about a monstrous injustice called “ systemic racism.
” OK , but once again , is there any evidence that elites of the “ Super-Dunbar ” dealt more rationally with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them came out and said : “ Look , there are 20,000,000 black guys in America .
That ’ s a huge number .
There is always one of that 20,000,000 doing something knuckleheaded and winding up dead .
You can ’ t let yourself go insane over some drugged-up bouncer in Minnesota .
We may feel emotionally like we live in a tribe of 150 , but we don ’ t .
It ’ s actually a huge country , so restrain your out-of-control emotions and think sensibly .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ make you believe that George Floyd or Emmett Till is representative .
Don ’ t fall for the statistically nonsensical Narrative.
” I sure haven ’ t heard many elites from the “ super-Dunbar ” pointing that out .

From the Mercatus Center:
Looking-Glass Politics Jul 14, 2020
With the collapse of the private sphere, potent private emotions collide with public affairs
Martin Gurri, Visiting Research Fellow An unconquerable anger has gripped the democratic world. The public seethes with feelings of grievance and seems ready to wreak havoc at any provocation. The spasm of fury that swept the United States after the death of George Floyd cost 19 additional lives and $400 million in property damage. … Many books and articles have tried to explain this surge in anger. … The Harvard Gazette’s recent “Why America Can’t Escape Its Racist Roots” can stand in for an Amazonian stream of similar articles. Anger is a huge story and thus a fat analytical target. Most of these explanations have some merit to them. However, all take it for granted that the anger is justified—the analyst’s job is simply to discover a cause commensurate with its enormity. … Arnold Kling, to my knowledge, stands virtually alone in suggesting that the tide of political anger need not have matching political causes. He has wondered, instead, whether extreme private emotions have been diverted by the web into the public sphere. Kling brings up an interesting number: 150. Roughly speaking, that is how many persons you can remember before names, faces, and situations begin to get fuzzy. It’s often called the “Dunbar number,” after British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who first identified this cognitive boundary in a 1992 paper, and it probably represents the hard-wiring in our minds of some maximum hunter-gatherer band size.
Has this Dunbar number theory ever been tested? It’s quite popular, but I mostly see it used in an “As everybody knows” sense.
Each of us carries along, in our everyday activities, a band of 150 people whom we can identify with fair accuracy. This humble Dunbar world provides the stage for the drama of most human lives and is the source of the most authentic human emotions. From ancestral times, the pursuit of happiness has played out almost entirely within this domain. Kling has noted a strange development: the shock of the digital has brought the Dunbar world to the verge of collapse. Historically, he writes, the “sub-Dunbar” public concerned itself mostly with “family, friends, and co-workers.” Elites in the “super-Dunbar” world ran the “government and large organizations.” He goes on: But new media have caused the two spheres to collide. The public feels itself on the same playing field as the elites. Anyone can comment on Twitter. So people who never used to think much about the super-Dunbar world are now trying to take part in it. Ultimately, Kling concludes, “you feel a lot more sense of ownership of what’s going on in public life, and you care about it a lot more.” Strong personal feelings have been torn loose from the private sphere and become attached to the distant world of events.
Or, perhaps, the opposite has happened as well: Elites in the “super-Dunbar” got exposed to criticism when they went on Twitter, and thus went crazy. For example, the insanity in the mainstream media of the last 4 years about the threat supposedly posed by the Alt-Right (compared to the complete lack of attention to the much larger Antifa) may be largely due to journalists being laughed at on Twitter.
A lot of people can’t deal well with criticism. They feel like they are about to be attacked by a mob and murdered when they get a few dozen tweets making fun of them. I think that’s a better application of this Dunbar Number: If people get 76 negative responses on social media, they worry, “Oh, no, the majority of my tribe of 150 has spoken out against me! I will be made an outcast and forced to wander alone in the wilderness.”
The Floyd protests fit into this pattern. The terrible events in Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, were local and fleeting but took place before a battery of cell phone cameras—and at once became global and searchable. The public experienced a digital murder. Because it was visual, it felt personal. Because it felt personal, the most violent emotions were aroused. Floyd seemed like a member of one’s private circle: an idealized friend. Because his death was searchable, it turned into a recurring nightmare, a wound that could not heal. Social media rage, which feeds on itself, soon forgot the actual events and demanded cosmic and abstract judgments. This was not about George Floyd after all. This was about a monstrous injustice called “systemic racism.”
OK, but once again, is there any evidence that elites of the “Super-Dunbar” dealt more rationally with the George Floyd whoop-tee-doo? How many of them came out and said:
“Look, there are 20,000,000 black guys in America. That’s a huge number. There is always one of that 20,000,000 doing something knuckleheaded and winding up dead. You can’t let yourself go insane over some drugged-up bouncer in Minnesota. We may feel emotionally like we live in a tribe of 150, but we don’t. It’s actually a huge country, so restrain your out-of-control emotions and think sensibly. It’s just the power of The Megaphone to make you believe that George Floyd or Emmett Till is representative. Don’t fall for the statistically nonsensical Narrative.”
I sure haven’t heard many elites from the “super-Dunbar” pointing that out.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-08-09--Cornell Gave TENURE To A Guy From The Dominican Republic On An H-1B Temporary Non-Immigrant Visa

On Twitter , Professor Ariel Ortiz-Beboa [ Tweet him | Email him ] complains that he ca n't get his visa renewed , because the Trump Administration is n't printing the visas .
He 's retweeting a WaPo opinion piece by Catherine Rampell that says , according to her `` How the Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones—by , uhh , literally turning off the printers that print the documents . ''
[ How the Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones , July 9 , 2020 ] This is just whining , these are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brimelow in his National Review cover story of 1992 , by John Derbyshire in later National Review stories of 2001 and 2002 , and very familiar to anyone who 's ever sent , for example , a gun permit to ATF for approval .
Ortiz-Beboa is from the Dominican Republic , where spent two years as `` Special Assistant to the Minister '' in their Ministry of the Evironment , and according to him , is on an H-1B Non-Immigrant Visa , not even a Green Card .
Why would Cornell give tenure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a guy who they ca n't even be sure would be allowed in America next year ?

On Twitter, Professor Ariel Ortiz-Beboa [Tweet him | Email him] complains that he can't get his visa renewed, because the Trump Administration isn't printing the visas.
He's retweeting a WaPo opinion piece by Catherine Rampell that says, according to her "How the Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones—by, uhh, literally turning off the printers that print the documents" [How the Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones, July 9, 2020].
This is just whining, these are standard bureaucratic delays, noted by Peter Brimelow in his National Review cover story of 1992, by John Derbyshire in later National Review stories of 2001 and 2002, and very familiar to anyone who's ever sent, for example, a gun permit to ATF for approval.
Ortiz-Beboa is from the Dominican Republic, where he spent two years as "Special Assistant to the Minister" in their Ministry of the Evironment, and according to him, is on an H-1B Non-Immigrant Visa, not even a Green Card.
Why would Cornell give tenure, essentially a lifetime appointment, to a guy who they can't even be sure would be allowed in America next year?


vdare--2020-08-09--20 Shot (1 Fatally) At Massive Black Block Party Near U.S. Capitol

Earlier : The “ Leaded Law ” And Mass Shootings—Poor Black Marksmanship Is Saving Lives and Minorities Not Social Distancing : 400 Plus Person Party In East Bakersfield Scene Of Mass Shooting ( With No One Killed ) At least 20 people shot , one fatally , at a party attended by hundreds in Southeast Washington A 17-year-old was killed and an off-duty D.C. police officer was fighting for her life after authorities said at least 20 people were shot when a dispute broke out early Sunday at a cookout attended by hundreds of people in Southeast Washington .
D.C. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fire from different locations about 12:30 a.m. on Dubois Place in the Greenway neighborhood , sending panicked partygoers racing for cover and others screaming for friends and relatives .
The dead teenager was identified as Christopher Brown .
… Videos posted on social media show revelers partying shoulder-to-shoulder near Dubois and 34th streets .
After the shots , some victims fell while others scattered ; the crime scene sprawled for blocks , with police marking 170 pieces of evidence .
Police said nearly 100 bullets were fired .
The party and the tragedy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that flout Mayor Muriel E. Bowser ’ s order that prohibits groups larger than 50 people and requires those older than 2 to wear a mask when they leave home and are likely to come into contact with others .
The mask requirement , one of the strictest in the nation , was toughened recently after cases began to spike .
More than 115 people have been slain in the District this year , a 17 percent increase over this time in 2019 , which ended the year with a decade high .

Earlier: The “Leaded Law” And Mass Shootings—Poor Black Marksmanship Is Saving Lives and Minorities Not Social Distancing: 400 Plus Person Party In East Bakersfield Scene Of Mass Shooting (With No One Killed)
From the Washington Post:
At least 20 people shot, one fatally, at a party attended by hundreds in Southeast Washington
Peter Hermann, Michael Brice-Saddler and Clarence Williams
August 9, 2020 at 3:48 p.m. PDT
A 17-year-old was killed and an off-duty D.C. police officer was fighting for her life after authorities said at least 20 people were shot when a dispute broke out early Sunday at a cookout attended by hundreds of people in Southeast Washington.
D.C. police said at least three shooters opened fire from different locations about 12:30 a.m. on Dubois Place in the Greenway neighborhood, sending panicked partygoers racing for cover and others screaming for friends and relatives.
The dead teenager was identified as Christopher Brown. …
Videos posted on social media show revelers partying shoulder-to-shoulder near Dubois and 34th streets. After the shots, some victims fell while others scattered; the crime scene sprawled for blocks, with police marking 170 pieces of evidence. Police said nearly 100 bullets were fired.
The party and the tragedy that ensued revived questions about large gatherings that flout Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s order that prohibits groups larger than 50 people and requires those older than 2 to wear a mask when they leave home and are likely to come into contact with others. The mask requirement, one of the strictest in the nation, was toughened recently after cases began to spike.
More than 115 people have been slain in the District this year, a 17 percent increase over this time in 2019, which ended the year with a decade high.