The best ever rap song, with a lyrical sentiment we can all affirm.

Is calling Ilhan Omar's loyalty into question racist?

https://twitter.com/ahnafkalam/status/1120360477417074688

De Bolshevik strikes again.

“The biggest source of emissions in New York City is buildings,” De Blasio began. “We are putting clear, strong mandates. The first of any city on the earth to say to building owners, ‘clean up your act, retrofit, clean up.’ If you don’t, there’s serious fines, $1 million or more for the biggest buildings. This mandate is going to guarantee we reduce emissions.”

De Blasio took that a step further, saying that future construction projects in New York would look very different. “We are going to ban the glass and steel skyscrapers which are inefficient,” he explained. “If you want to build one, you can take steps to make it energy efficient.”

Then Scarborough challenged the mayor on his own carbon footprint, noting that he often took a full motorcade across town to a gym rather than finding one closer to avoid the excess emissions.

De Blasio responded by claiming that the motorcade was simply part of the cost of being mayor, and said that he preferred to use a gym that kept him “connected” with where he came from.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/22/de-blasio-defends-gas-guzzling-motorcade-ban-skyscrapers/

I'm not surprised by De Bolshevik's answer. I am surprised that Mornin' Joe brought up his motorcading.

Oberlin will get their day in court.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/04/putting-social-justice-warfare-on-trial-gibsons-bakery-lawsuit-against-oberlin-college-heading-to-trial/

In South Bend.

White said that he remembers seeing the city’s previous mayor, Steve Luecke, around his neighborhood. But Buttigieg, he said, has stayed away.

“I ain’t ever seen the dude,” White said. “Tell him to chill with us for three or four days.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/south-bend-poor-say-democrat-pete-buttigieg-left-them-behind.html

Like he has time to chill with the brothers. Running for president is hard and stuff.

Easter-worshiping extremist duking it out on an infidel:

https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/1120381284017037312

Long, somewhat rambling, read. But thought provoking.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/20/the-trump-doctrine-big-think-america-first-nationalism/

A few days ago, fifty-two years after it first came to us and was so warmly embraced by all sentient people, I finally *heard* the flurry of four bass harmonics which begin the very first beat of Penny Lane. You can play it back in slo-mo: By some milliseconds, they're the first thing we hear.

(I personally suspect Big Mac omitted the word "In" or "On" to allow the listener to concentrate on his fingertips.)

(…As if he didn't have enough going on that afternoon.)

I am nothing if not educable.

Iran's hacking group seems to have been...hacked.

NEARLY THREE YEARS after the mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers began disemboweling the NSA's hackers and leaking their hacking tools onto the open web, Iran's hackers are getting their own taste of that unnerving experience. For the last month, a mystery person or group has been targeting a top Iranian hacker team, dumping their secret data, tools, and even identities onto a public Telegram channel—and the leak shows no signs of stopping.

https://www.wired.com/story/iran-hackers-oilrig-read-my-lips/

I am thankful Omar and her family and countless others were able to escape to neighboring Kenya while we fought to protect those left behind, but I simply cannot comprehend her attitude towards those of us who fought to protect her country and countrymen from warlords who plunged Somalia only further into violence and starvation. I am glad that Omar can now enjoy the very freedoms we fought to protect, like the freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion affirmed in the U.S. Constitution, but I don’t understand why she uses those freedoms to slur the men and women of the U.S. military who made her security and liberty a reality.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/23/fought-battle-mogadishu-heres-ilhan-omar-gets-wrong-black-hawk/

She must be real nice.

https://twitter.com/litxrallybri/status/1120035257309433856

More defamation suits. But not from Covington, but Chicago.

“Let me make one thing perfectly clear,” Gloria Schmidt said at a press conference this morning, “the Chicagoan brothers told the truth.” Schmidt gave the press conference Tuesday morning to announce that her clients, the Osundairo brothers, had filed a federal lawsuit against two attorneys representing Jussie Smollett.

https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/23/osundairo-brothers-file-lawsuit-jussie-smolletts-attorneys/

@sixclaws If she's a piece of work, her father towers head and shoulders above her in the piece of work category.

But in any event, yer shoe's untied!

Standing up to the crybullies:

Drawing the Line, At Last

"Stop apologizing and say these things instead
Over-apologizing might seem harmless, but it can undermine your authority and confidence."

https://www.fastcompany.com/90334544/how-to-stop-apologizing

Funny thing is, from what I could see, it doesn't say anything about not apologizing to people who try to guilt-trip you.

From an old thread:

In the humor collection "Pulling Our Own Strings," one editor was Mary Kay Blakely, who wrote an essay about why women need to start a strike on saying 'I'm sorry.' It was very eye-opening, and a one-sentence summary might be: "Learn to substitute the words 'that's a shame' at least four out of five times."

Excerpt:

"At home, when your son moans that he's late for the school dance and you haven't washed his shirt yet, don't say 'I'm sorry.' Remind him that you possess perhaps the only equal-opportunity washing machine in the neighborhood - it works for anybody who pushes the buttons. At work when the chair of the meeting asks for someone to take the minutes and everybody turns to you, the only woman in the room, don't say 'I'm sorry.' Demonstrate your knowledge of biology and remind them that shorthand skills are not genetic in women. The next time your family itemizes the services not rendered, don't say 'I'm sorry.' Suggest that someone else will have to pick up the slack. When the Hare Krishna makes a plea for money at your door, don't say 'I'm sorry.' Mention that a few adjustments in his attire might result in landing a paid position."

> he has time to chill

If you make a butt joke about Buttigieg on Twitter, they'll freeze your account.

"At home, when your son moans that he's late for the school dance and you haven't washed his shirt yet, don't say 'I'm sorry.' Remind him that you possess perhaps the only equal-opportunity washing machine in the neighborhood - it works for anybody who pushes the buttons. ~ lenona at April 23, 2019 3:26 PM

My mother could have given lessons on that. From the age of 14, we were responsible for doing our own laundry. She did only her own and with that of my father and anyone still under 14.

She worked, so she got the machine on the weekend. We were expected to work our laundry around her schedule.

If you make a butt joke about Buttigieg on Twitter, they'll freeze your account. ~ Crid at April 23, 2019 9:03 PM

They'll freeze your butt off?