Hey, Media, You Started It | Klavan On The Culture

Hey, Media, You Started It | Klavan On The Culture
"Jim Acosta has the sadz. 
The untalented little man who rudely shouts unimportant questions at important people while in the employ of the ninth most trusted name in news out of ten, got heckled at a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida. Sad panda. 
The hecklers chanted "CNN sucks," which, okay, is true, but they were none too polite about it.
Acosta didn't like it. 
He reported, "Honestly, it felt like we weren’t in America anymore."
But, like virtually everything Acosta reports, this is just a reflection of his small-minded biases. 
The fact is, having a group of people scream at you and denigrate you is exactly what it feels like to be in America — if you don't happen to be a coastal elite. 
It has felt this way for the last twenty years at least. 

• Every television show you watch, every movie, every woman's magazine, every comedian, and, yes, every news program tells you you suck. 
• Your country sucks. 
• Your culture sucks. 
• Your religion and your morals suck. 
• And you personally are one of those dumb-ass racists who clings to his Bible and talks funny.
• If you believe your country should vet its immigrants, you're racist. 
• If you voted for Donald Trump, you're racist. 
• If you make a joke about Barack Obama on Facebook, you're racist twice. 
• If you think motherhood is a woman's highest calling, you're sexist. 
• If you take it ill when Islamists blow you up in the name of their nasty little god, you're Islamophobic. 
• If you know that a man is a man even if he says he's a woman, you're transphobic.
•  If you think it's fair to debate whether homosexual actions are moral or not, you're homophobic.

Every day. 
From every outlet. 
All the time. 
And now people are angry. 
Wonder why.
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says he told Trump his anti-press rhetoric could lead to violence. 
But the media's anti-Trump rhetoric already has led to violence: public officials rat-packed and bullied, Trump supporters harassed, White House spokes-lady Sarah Sanders having to live under guard. 
And yet when Sanders pointed this out to Look-At-Me-I'm-Jim Acosta, Acosta stormed out of the room. 
Hell, if he doesn't want to hear the truth, he could just stay home and watch CNN..."
This article gets even more on point from here.
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Could be true!-----New Russian campaign to trick Democrats in 2018 elections

New Russian campaign to trick Democrats in 2018 elections
"The National Intelligence Agency has found evidence that the Russians have begun a massive campaign of subversive billboard advertising to undermine the Democratic Party in the 2018 elections. 
Billboards across the country funded by covert untraceable contributors are advertising that the GOP (Republican Party) is the political party of communism.
"This is very confusing to our voters, many of whom will now vote for the GOP rather than for us," said one concerned Democratic Party officer. 
"We are certain that as a consequence of this Russian influence operation, our base will switch parties and vote Republican in the mistaken belief that the GOP supports Soviet-style totalitarian socialism."
"As a result of this election fraud, many of our supporters who usually vote for the destruction of America, will instead be tricked into voting for a strong America. 
We cannot allow this to happen," a Democratic intelligence source told CNN.
"I've always supported communism," said ex-CIA chief John Brennan. 
"And this conflation of our sacred symbols with the Republican Party feels like a blasphemy to me and my comrades in the intelligence community. 
This is not who we are!"
The Democratic Party has called for a formal investigation into these new dirty tricks aimed to undermine our democracy."
Heh!

Trump SLAPS Turkey With Sanctions For Holding American Pastor | The Daily Caller

Trump SLAPS Turkey With Sanctions For Holding American Pastor | The Daily Caller:

President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Turkey for continuing to hold an American citizen working as a Christian pastor in the country, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Wednesday.
“We’ve seen no evidence that Pastor Brunson has done anything wrong,” Sanders said, adding that the sanctions are actions made from the “president’s direction” and “the Department of the Treasury is sanctioning Turkey’s minister of justice and minister of interior.”

Millennials ranked as worst tippers, and no wonder -- they're socialists - Washington Times

Millennials ranked as worst tippers, and no wonder -- they're socialists - Washington Times
"A recent CreditCards.com survey shows millennials, or those between the ages of 18 and 37, are the worst tippers in the nation.
Really, that’s not a surprise.
This is the same group of people who’d rather live in socialist, fascist or communist nations than a capitalistic one, according to different surveys.
...Fast-forward to June 2018, and there’s this: “Millennials are most likely to stiff servers. 
Ten percent of Americans ages 18 to 37 say they routinely leave no tip.
Nearly one in three leaves less than a 15 percent tip at restaurants. …
Overall, just 21 percent [of all adults surveyed] favored higher food prices and no tipping,” CreditCards.com reported.
How are the two matters connected?
By an entitlement mindset and by some deep-seated hypocrisy.
By a thought process that goes, “I’m alive, and therefore I’m owed [insert product or service here].”
By a secular moral compass and cavalier work ethic that goes, “Let somebody else pay.”
Card-carrying socialists think they’re owed free health care, free education, free child care. 
They think they have a right to a job, a right to a home, a right to a certain standard of living — and that it’s the government’s responsibility, the taxpayer’s proper role, to provide.
Their manner of approaching money?
It’s all about the fair share — which is pay code for thee, not me.
Enter, lousy tippers, defined in this context as those who refuse to tip for reasons other than poor service..."
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The Bulls*** Web | VodkaPundit

The Bulls*** Web | VodkaPundit

"Ever wonder why a high-speed internet connection doesn't always result in high-speed web browsing? 

The answer is what tech writer Nick Heer calls "The Bulls*** Web."

A little history for you from his recent post on the topic:

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten to twenty seconds for a basic news article.

At the time, a few of my friends were getting cable internet. It was remarkable seeing the same pages load in just a few seconds, and I remember thinking about the kinds of the possibilities that would open up as the web kept getting faster.

And faster it got, of course. When I moved into my own apartment several years ago, I got to pick my plan and chose a massive fifty megabit per second broadband connection, which I have since upgraded.

So, with an internet connection faster than I could have thought possible in the late 1990s, what’s the score now? A story at the Hill took over nine seconds to load; at Politico, seventeen seconds; at CNN, over thirty seconds. This is the bulls*** web.

The biggest culprit is Javascript, and the damnable fact that (if you ask me, anyway) browsers aren't mere web browsers anymore. 

... also enabled websites, search engines, ads, media platforms, and social media platforms to track your every click and hover..."

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U.S. Workers Get Biggest Pay Increase in Nearly a Decade - WSJ

U.S. Workers Get Biggest Pay Increase in Nearly a Decade - WSJ:

U.S. workers received their biggest pay increases in nearly a decade over the 12 months through June, a sign the strong labor market is boosting wages as employers compete for scarcer workers.
The Labor Department’s employment-cost index rose 2.8% in the year to June compared, the government said Tuesday. Wages and salaries, which account for about 70% of all employment costs, also rose 2.8% from a year earlier, the strongest gain for both measures since September 2008.

Why is so little plastic actually recycled? | ScienceNordic

Why is so little plastic actually recycled? | ScienceNordic
"A group of Danish and Swedish researchers have now tackled this exact question. 
Their answer? 
Money.
Recycling is not just about consumers separating used plastics, paper, metal and glass into the right bin. It’s all about markets for our used goods.
A group of researchers decided to figure out why most plastic that is recycled in the Nordic countries eventually finds its way into the trash.  
The bottom line answer is simple: It’s just not profitable enough to use recycled products..."
Read on.

Frenzied, Angry Mob Turns on Reporters in a Dangerous Physical Altercation #Throwback Thursday | Trending

Frenzied, Angry Mob Turns on Reporters in a Dangerous Physical Altercation #Throwback Thursday | Trending

...it's obvious that the already near-peak resentment among the Trump base of the hated MSM is reaching new highs lately...

But yelling at the press is not unique or new in American politics, and in fact, compared to the past, this week's display of displeasure for Acosta and co. was positively mild.

Let's go on a Throwback Thursday trip to 2008. 

This is video I captured myself during the Recreate 68 protest march at the DNC in Denver. (Language Warning)

That is a Fox News crew covering the protest.(2008) 

I was watching as the crowd figured out who they were and went from zero to zeroing-in in a matter of minutes. 

At the center are reporter Griff Jenkins and his camera crew. 

The guy holding the camera had it shoved forcefully into his face, leaving a bleeding wound on his nose. 

It was an ugly scene.

But you may not remember it. 
No president was asked about it. 
No Democrat candidate was made to disown it. It didn't get much press..." 

Here's another one. (More language warning.)

Oh, also, here's another one. (Language warning some more.)

...Oh, I forgot, here's one more. (Even more language warning.)

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#1 This day 1954-----*The Crew Cuts* - Sh Boom

Why is Trump fighting the trade war?

Why is Trump fighting the trade war?
"Why is Trump fighting the trade war?  
Here's why.
Critics of Trump's trade policies think everything is okay if we don't do anything.  
The chart below shows that everything is not okay if we don't do anything.
This is a chart of capital spending in the U.S. from 1968 through to the present.  
It is a straightforward presentation of monthly data from the Commerce Department.  
There is nothing clever, nothing tricky about this presentation or about the time frame chosen.  
The Commerce Department started this series in 1968.  
It superseded another series on capital spending.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce.
Why is this chart important?
It is a death sentence for America.
...Why is this growth in capital spending important?  
Even in our increasingly service-oriented economy, it is capital spending – the stock of capital equipment – that sustains our standard of living.  
Healthy capital spending is critical to – really identical with – a thriving economy.  
This is why the flat capital spending that America has experienced since 2000 is so grave a condition.
...The only person in public life who understands this chart is Donald Trump.  
...Among other things, this chart is the opioid epidemic – the despair created by permanent unemployment.  
The lack of capital investment is what has created the regions where people have dropped out of the workforce and thus are no longer counted as being in it..."
Much here, read all!!

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Venezuela's Democratic Socialist President: Our Economic Model Has 'Failed' | Daily Wire

Venezuela's Democratic Socialist President: Our Economic Model Has 'Failed' | Daily Wire:

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro admitted on Tuesday that the economic models of his democratic socialist regime have "failed."
"The production models we've tried so far have failed and the responsibility is ours, mine and yours," Maduro told his United Socialist Party-controlled congress, AFP reports.
"Enough with the whining," he said later, AFP reports. "We need to produce with or without (outside) aggression, with or without blockades, we need to make Venezuela an economic power. ... No more whining, I want solutions comrades!"

The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick? - The New York Times

The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick? - The New York Times
"To better understand one of the most heated U.S. policy debates, we created a tournament to judge which of these nations has the best health system: Canada, Britain, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland, France, Australia and the U.S.
...“Medicare for all,” or “single-payer,” is becoming a rallying cry for Democrats.
This is often accompanied by calls to match the health care coverage of "the rest of the world." But this overlooks a crucial fact: The “rest of the world” is not all alike.
The commonality is universal coverage, but wealthy nations have taken varying approaches to it, some relying heavily on the government (as with single-payer); some relying more on private insurers; others in between.
Experts don’t agree on which is best; a lot depends on perspective.
But we thought it would be fun to stage a small tournament.
We selected eight countries, representing a range of health care systems, and established a bracket by randomly assigning seeds..."
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History for August 4

History for August 4 - On-This-Day.com
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 - Poet, Louis Armstrong 1901 - Musician, singer, Raoul Wallenberg 1912 - Sweedish humanitarian during World War II


John Riggins 1949 - Football player, Barack Hussein Obama 1961 - 44th President of the United States, Jeff Gordon 1971 - Race car driver, Jeff Gordon


1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."


1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.


1821 - "The Saturday Evening Post" was published for the first time as a weekly.


1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.


1972 - Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting George Wallace, the governor of Alabama. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.


1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for "causing unnecessary suffering to an animal."


1987 - The Fairness Doctrine was rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission. The doctrine had required that radio and TV stations present controversial issues in a balanced fashion.


1991 - The Oceanos, a Greek luxury liner, sank off of South Africa's southeast coast. All of the 402 passengers and 179 crewmembers survived.

Millennials ranked as worst tippers, and no wonder -- they're socialists - Washington Times

Millennials ranked as worst tippers, and no wonder -- they're socialists - Washington Times:

Fast-forward to June 2018, and there’s this: “Millennials are most likely to stiff servers. Ten percent of Americans ages 18 to 37 say they routinely leave no tip. Nearly one in three leaves less than a 15 percent tip at restaurants. … Overall, just 21 percent [of all adults surveyed] favored higher food prices and no tipping,” CreditCards.com reported.
How are the two matters connected?

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