BLM is a political fraud by the Democratic Party:

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/07/09/how-many-people-have-to-die-because-of-the-blacklivesmatter-movement-n2190241

This piece makes a start, but there's been a lot more behind-the-scenes activity at BLM, coordinated, funded, and promoted, from the get-go, at the very highest levels -- including numerous White House visits. For the Marxist left, BLM is a long-term, multifaceted, strategic project.

Black lives don’t matter. How do I know this? Because if black lives really mattered, blacks would stop killing each other. Blacks would stop committing genocide against themselves by aborting more children than they allow to be born. Blacks would stop consigning generations to poverty by having the majority of their children out-of-wedlock. And blacks would stop treating education as punishment and instead treat it as an opportunity.

http://www.bookwormroom.com/2016/07/08/black-lives-dont-matter/

Nice article IRA

ISIS uses US made weapon to down Russian helicopter in Syria (yes, you do need a program to keep track of the players):

It said insurgents from the Islamic State group hit the airmen’s Mi-25 assault helicopter with a U.S.-made TOW heavy anti-tank missile, a weapon that uses guidance from a ground station.

The high-tech system is in service with the U.S. military.

“According to information we have, the terrorists used an American TOW,” Interfax quoted the unnamed source as saying.

http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/report-us-missile-brought-down-russian-helicopter-in-syria-1.418435

Tho I object to calling it a "high-tech system" since TOW = Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided. It isn't fire & forget. And it has been reverse engineered by the Iranians from their stocks.

Myron Magnet is disapoint:

I also remember how civil rights zeal turned into zealotry. We made the integration of our schools, and then the closing of the black-white achievement gap, our principal educational goal for half a century, with the unintended consequence that we neglected actual education and turned urban schools into machines for perpetuating black failure.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/americas-worst-president-14640.html

I predict he will be labeled a racist:

When the president praises the Black Lives Matter demonstrators, as if they alone of his fellow countrymen know that platitudinous truth, he is only reinforcing black grievance, when his proper role is to convince ghetto blacks that their lives matter enough for them to take responsibility for them, to stop going around with chips on their shoulders and Glocks in their waistbands, to be fathers to the children they beget, and to set for them an example of the responsible citizenship that is theirs for the asking, thanks to the efforts of so many of their countrymen, white and black, living and dead.

Mizzou Mark Two?

https://reason.com/blog/2016/07/11/university-might-expel-student-who-criti

the plot thickens:

www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/10/leaked-document-says-2000-men-allegedly-assaulted-1200-german-women-on-new-years-eve/

I hated that movie.

...Except for Heike.

...And Martine.

Heh. Sixclaws "Mizzou MK II" linkie names one university admin as Pettee.

Not sure how to pronounce that, but "petty" comes to mind. And now I can't get it out of my head.

Meme: what is it good for?

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/238323/

Things could get interesting in Cleveland next week:

Unruh explained that "28 committee members are required to pass a minority report, which then goes to the convention floor for all delegates to vote on. It then requires a simple majority to pass." She added that she does "have the 28 votes required for the minority report," continuing, "Not everyone who is with us is willing to be public yet, due in part to the threats being made by Trump's campaign and the RNC itself."

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7337/exclusive-dump-trump-rnc-delegate-leader-we-have-daily-wire

That McCutcheon kid's had a fun life story. She wrote her autobiography at age 24, thus eliding discussion of the bankruptcy that was to happen when she was 37.

Oh, I bet you didn't know this was a federal crime:

http://fusion.net/story/322602/password-sharing-illegal-rules-federal-court/

Damn. I'm going down. I really would have thought the munitions exports I did back in the 90s was going to send me to ADX Florence .

Questions for gun grabbers, such as Matt Damon who want someone not Matt Damon to go door-to-door and take your firearms:

Who is going to disarm black people?

If the NRA is a “whites only” club (it’s not and never has been) then why does it support the rights of all Americans to bear arms?

If black on black crime using guns isn’t a problem, then why call for disarming Americans?

But back to my original question, because it really matters to me. Just who does the left think should march into cities like St. Paul, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Dallas, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, and take the guns away from the gang bangers. Just how would that be accomplished without a massive loss of life? Does anybody really think that a phalanx of body-armored paramilitary police can accomplish this in even one city?

http://theresurgent.com/if-gun-control-is-the-answer-who-will-disarm-blacks/

Education bubble. This not the first time we've seen these issues come up in California, but it is a recent article, so:

A state audit in March reinforced what many California parents already suspected: On a constant hunt for more revenue, the prestigious University of California system gave favorable admissions treatment to thousands of higher-paying out-of-state and foreign students, to the detriment of Californians.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/us/public-colleges-chase-out-of-state-students-and-tuition.html?_r=1

You just thought the Iraq War was over. Note that these troops aren't there in an "advisory" role. They're there to fight.

Triggered at altitude:

@BFischerMartin @FridaGhitis
Listen here sugartits, maybe just chill out & marvel at the man made technology that you're privileged to enjoy

— Smittie (@smittie61984) July 11, 2016

Hmmm..."man made" will probably anger the feminists more than "sugar tits".

Instapundit has a column regarding global climate change:

Likewise, it’s hard to expect Americans to accept changes to their own lifestyles when the very people who are telling them that it’s a crisis aren’t acting like it’s a crisis. So I have a few suggestions to help bring home the importance of reduced carbon footprints at home and abroad:

...

Obama makes a great point about setting the thermostat at 72 degrees. We should ban air conditioning in federal buildings. We won two world wars without air conditioning our federal employees. Nothing in their performance over the last 50 or 60 years suggests that A/C has improved things. Besides, The Washington Post informs us that A/C is sexist, and that Europeans think it’s stupid.

In fact, we should probably ban air conditioning in the entire District of Columbia, to ensure that members of Congress, etc. won’t congregate in lobbyists’ air-conditioned offices.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/11/hypocrisy-climate-change-emissions-consumption-gina-mccarthy-mccabe-dicaprio-lamar-smith-taxpayer-epa-column/86940890/

Oh, my, this might be YUGE!

Fed. judge rules that Virginia delegate to convention cannot be bound to vote for Trump on first vote.

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) July 11, 2016

"Just who does the left think should march into cities like St. Paul, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Dallas, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, and take the guns away from the gang bangers?"

Dude. The other problem being who's gonna venture into the deer camps and shanty towns and disarm those folks? There's a section in the backwoods around here where if you drive into streets they think they "own" they have erected their own road signs and warnings to "trespassers" who are just driving on the road and warnings about what they're gonna do when they find the sumbitch who killed their dog. I could hear banjos on that road.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Not a bad way to get "free" money, especially if the wives have no rights. (We do the same thing so ...)

"In total, a polygamous household can claim more than $17,000 in welfare over the course of a year."

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/25/britain-rewards-extra-benefits-to-polygamous-immigrants/#ixzz4E9DU7Bfv

Cousin, what do you do for a living?

Saw this via Cosh and thought "If someone had ever bought her a pair of contact lenses, her career would have been stopped cold," but that appears to have been what happened anyway.

Good 'un.

SantaMonicaHenge doesn't happen until Novemb...

Fuckit. We don't care. It's always more beautiful here than where you live.

This is great, but there are going to be problems when the kid reaches puberty.

Crid, I'm a software contractor specializing in embedded systems. I've been doing work for the Army and NASA for decades.