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Posts Tagged ‘Media Watch’
Greg Gutfeld on the Trump/Biden Rumble
Sunday, March 25th, 2018LinkSwarm for March 23, 2018
Friday, March 23rd, 2018After making noises about vetoing the liberal-provision-packed omnibus spending bill, President Donald Trump signed the bill anyway. This is certainly a bad and base-depressing move, but shouts that this has “doomed” Republicans in this year’s midterms are premature.
Some links:
I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend. There will be an official contact handover on 4/9.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2018
Moral Relativism https://t.co/9r9z45Nlg4 pic.twitter.com/BK4GKO7SI5
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) March 22, 2018
Starting next year they may become subject to new import regulations that will significantly complicate the process of buying old books, prints and manuscripts from sources outside the EU. The purpose of the changes is to combat the looting and smuggling of antiquities and prevent the financing of terrorism through the illicit trade in cultural goods. While the need for the new regulations is presented almost entirely in relation to the war on terror, the sweeping new rules themselves will be applied comprehensively and include no provisions for exempting goods from areas which are free from armed conflict or terrorist activities.
The new regulations apply to a broad range of cultural goods, but none will be impacted more adversely than books. The new procedures are as follows:
If a book, engraving, print, document or publication of “special interest” that is more than 250 years old is presented for import in any EU member state the owner or “holder of the goods” will be required to submit a signed importer statement to customs authorities in the country of entry. The statement must include a declaration that the books have been originally exported legally from their source country. However, in cases where the export country (distinct from the source country) is a “Contracting Party to the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property” then the holder of the books must provide a declaration that they have been exported from that export country in accordance with its laws and regulations. Needless to say, while the proposal specifies books and documents of “special interest” it does not give any more explicit criteria for defining what this means and the notion of “special interest,” on its own, is sufficiently vague and subjective to include, in practice, virtually any book that someone might want to import.
To end on an up note: Happy National Puppy Day!
Twitter Blocks Users From Tweeting Link To “8 Stubborn Facts on Gun Violence in America”
Thursday, March 15th, 2018I tried to Tweet out a link to this Daily Signal piece on “8 Stubborn Facts on Gun Violence in America”…when I discovered that I couldn’t.
Twitter has once again decided that there’s information its users should not be allowed to share.
Try it yourself, and see if the secret block has been lifted or not.
In the meantime, here are the eight points in the article, each backed up with supporting data:
- Violent crime is down and has been on the decline for decades.
- The principal public safety concerns with respect to guns are suicides and illegally owned handguns, not mass shootings.
- A small number of factors significantly increase the likelihood that a person will be a victim of a gun-related homicide.
- Gun-related murders are carried out by a predictable pool of people.
- Higher rates of gun ownership are not associated with higher rates of violent crime.
- There is no clear relationship between strict gun control legislation and homicide or violent crime rates.
- Legally owned firearms are used for lawful purposes much more often than they are used to commit crimes or suicide.
- Concealed carry permit holders are not the problem, but they may be part of the solution.
Read the whole thing.
Edited to add: I can now tweet this link from my home computer…but I still can’t post it from my iPhone.
Netcraft Confirms It: Slashdot is Dying
Friday, March 2nd, 2018It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Slashdot is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when posters confirmed that the site had not been updated since March 1 and that much of the functionality (including login) was broken. Coming on the heels of a yet another slew of Social Justice Warrioring posts about women in tech, this news serves to reinforce what we’ve known all along. Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict Slashdot’s future. The handwriting is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for Slashdot, because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for Slashdot. As many of us are already aware, Slashdot continues to lose readership. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
(Supposedly parent SourceForge is undergoing a widespread DDOS attack, but for longtime Slashdot readers, the “Netcraft confirms it” meme was too tempting to pass up…)
3/3/18: Edited to add:
We've been having site performance/uptime issues including a DDOS earlier in the week (Slashdotted?). DevOps working round the clock until we're back at full capacity. No ETA but hopeful for sometime Saturday. Rumors of our demise are greatly exaggerated. Thanks for your patience
— Slashdot (@slashdot) March 3, 2018
3/3/18, 9:30 PM CST: The front page has finally started updating again, but some stories still seem 404, and there’s no story about the outage itself, which is odd…
3/4/18: They’ve now put up a story about the outage. Evidently the DDOS attack happened during a hardware migration.
Gun-Grabbing Democrats Get High On Their Own Supply Again
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018Having learned nothing from the failure of polling in 2016, Democrats are once again mistaking their inordinate domination of major news outlets with a groundswell of support for gun control.
With various polls and liberal-packed CNN town halls theoretically showing gun control to display an overwhelming popularity that it’s never evidenced at the ballot box, Democrats are poised to make the same mistake they have every previous time this topic came up: They’re getting high on their own supply.
Let’s remember what senate seats are up for reelection in 2018:
Which of those Republican seats do you think are going to be enthused for gun bans? Tennessee? Mississippi? Texas?
Conversely, which Democrat-held senate seats in states Trump won are more likely to remain blue thanks to gun control? Montana? North Dakota? Missouri? Michigan?
I’m sure Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the state that gave all of 26% of it’s vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016, is just dying to run on gun control.
Months after the click-bait articles and breathless “blood on your hands” accusations have faded, gun owners will be going to the polls, and they’ll remember the politicians who promised to disarm them if ever given the chance…
Greg Gutfeld Reviews the Winter Olympics
Tuesday, February 20th, 2018Since I didn’t comment on the “Let’s tongue North Korea’s brutal dictator’s brutal sister” incident, here’s Greg Gutfeld doing it for me:
Trump Derangement Syndrome: Max Boot Edition
Monday, February 19th, 2018Once again we have a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that’s beyond parody, this time from “conservative” Max Boot:
Imagine if, after 9/11, the president saw the attack as a political embarrassment to be minimized rather than as a national security threat to be combated. That’s roughly where we stand after the 2nd-worst foreign attack on America in recent decades. Me: https://t.co/MatJYEJO9g
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) February 19, 2018
If you find yourselves comparing a terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 people with thirteen trolls stirring up trouble online, maybe it’s time to step away from the Internet…
Twitter Suspends PolitiBunny
Thursday, February 8th, 2018Another conservative voice silenced for Tweeting While Conservative:
Sam asked me to let you all know SHE DID NOT DEACTIVATE!! She has been suspended. We do not know why. We are pretty sure it was someone not being able to deal with her making them look stupid.
PLEASE TWEET SUPPORT TO FREE @politibunny— Artist_Angie: Sensei of Sarcasm (@Artist_Angie) February 8, 2018
Sorry tweeps, I've moved to research and complaint mode over #FreePolitiBunny (@politibunny suspension). When they fix it back to your normal programming. pic.twitter.com/fFRDdmVpfH
— Russian Agent BunnyBot #FreePolitiBunny (@evil_bun_bun) February 9, 2018
Dear @Twitter @TwitterSupport @jack Please reactivate the @Politibunny account. The people who mass reported her did so as a vendetta; can you please look at THEIR actions? They are horrible in their treatment of women. #freepolitibunny #freethefoo
— Pam D (@lifebythecreek) February 9, 2018
Sick and wrong. #FREEPOLITIBUNNY @TwitterSupport
Do you support hatred of women simply for their ideas?
What the heck is wrong with you?
Unsuspend her and apologize. pic.twitter.com/hldyiokdVm— Dr. Plasma's Rules for Life (@plasmarob) February 9, 2018
Conservative Tweet @PolitiBunny, AKA Sam, AKA “The Foo,” is a happy conservative warrior and constant Twitter presence, far more sinned against than sinning. We had policy differences (she was #NeverTrump in 2016), but she always seemed pretty reasonable, so it seems odd that Twitter suspended here.
Or it would, if Twitter were not so fond of suspending conservative Twitter users for no reason at all.
I just dropped Sam a line to get her take. I know she suffered another false suspension in 2015.
See the #FREEPOLITIBUNNY and #freethefoo hashtags for more details.
Update: @PolitiBunny has been unsuspended and is tweeting again.