Legal and Illegal

The Times settles an argument no one is making:

The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant

The Trump administration’s first year of immigration policy has relied on claims that immigrants bring crime into America. President Trump’s latest target is sanctuary cities.

“Every day, sanctuary cities release illegal immigrants, drug dealers, traffickers, gang members back into our communities,” he said last week. “They’re safe havens for just some terrible people.”

They quote Trump mentioning "illegal" immigrants, and one might wonder just what sort of sanctuary legal immigrants are granted in a sanctuary city, but the rest of the article is about all immigrants, legal or otherwise. That certainly pins down the question of whether tech engineers on H1-B visas are a crime risk. As to why Trump might need a border wall to keep out legsal immigrants, don't ask.

They do provide a fun chart:

I know they will like this chart too:

1993 was a peak year for crime, so baseline games are being played here. Still, case closed, right?

Comments

[DrJ]

I'm not CH, but many of Sierra Nevada's products come in cans. That includes Pale Ale, Torpedo, and their more specialized brews.

I don't know if you can get them all where you are, but the most popular ones are distributed pretty widely.

[narcisocenfl]

Isn't this miss mcturtles bailiwick?

https://babalublog.com/2018/03/31/u-s-airlines-jump-at-chance-to-take-over-unprofitable-and-abandoned-routes-to-apartheid-cuba/#comments

[rich]

great gift.

no beer for me tonight.

[rich]

dogfish head has some of their more popular ( 60 min IPA and Sea Quench) in cans ... I've got some bottles of their 90 Minute ...

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

henry, Captain Hate,

I am on the internet and used to watch Fox a lot, although not anymore.

I noticed a couple of years ago how certain phrases crept into stories and broadcasts, but this goes beyond what I had observed.

As far as I am concerned, any reporting on television is not to be trusted, and most newspapers as well.

It's why I get my news from people on Twitter. Sounds loony, but they do have independent voices.

[Captain Hate]

Buckeye,

Sierra Nevada is putting a lot of their beers in cans. I don't know if you get Evil Twin beers out of Brooklyn down there but they can a lot of their stouts. Platform cans their beers exclusively and they have a Columbus brewery.

And if you want to completely wreck your cortex: Ten Fidy by Oskar Blues.

[Captain Hate]

On the same wavelength with DrJ means it's a good night.

[narcisocenfl]

So interestingly Mueller's second scalp Dr zwaan, is the son in law of one of the oligarchs suing steele and fusion gps by proxy, so Mueller is running interference for those two parties.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Ha!

[hoyden]

Bacon works for folks not partaking in beer.

[GUS]

Rich and Capn', I'm not suggesting that Ingraham was smart, I'm suggesting that the businesses who chose to side with PIGG, are cowards. Ingraham had something to lose. PIGG does not.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--The mistake was apologizing.--

Damn right.
Since when does making fun of some dumbass, pencil-necked, teenage dickcissel require an apology?
Apologizing just reinforces this idea the left has a new untouchable spokesjerk group of sanctimonious punks.

I was in a checkout line this morning and saw that Time cover with the band of dorks and ENOUGH across their picture. Couldn't have put it better myself.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

If the Dems think that merry band of teeny boppers chanting about banning guns is going to help them at the polls they still haven't learned the lesson Billy Boy Clinton did.

[clarice feldman]

Me? I just want Hogg to keep talking if you get my drift.Just as I want Pelosi and Hillary to keep it up.

[GUS]

Has PIGG got his own show on CNN yet??

[GUS]

This young lady won't get MFM fawning attention.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/31/teacher-anti-trump-rant-georgia-student-records-teacher-ripping-maga-make-america-great

[narcisocenfl]

Well hes like malachite from children of the corn.

[clarice feldman]

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-monitoring-possible-north-korean-military-base-syria/

[narcisocenfl]

I wondered why Mueller had gone after an obscure associate at the London office of skadden now it makes sense.

[Captain Hate]

I'm not suggesting that Ingraham was smart, I'm suggesting that the businesses who chose to side with PIGG, are cowards.

Maybe but they have a responsibility to their shareholders and they might not think it's a good idea to be identified with either side in this.

Rush has been very successful by being controversial while skewering public figures. The one time he screwed up was when he made that dumb bint, Sandra Fluke, the target of his ire. Nobody cared about Fluke, as was proven when she got slattered in the donk primary for some dog catcher status position in Mexifornia. But, even though she was obviously coached by some Soros funded SJW finishing school on how to make an irritating pest out of herself, she was a nobody and the usual MFM clowns went, in unison "OMG RUSH IS PICKING ON THAT POOR GIRL OMGWTFBBQ". Obviously there was no negative long term impact on Rush, but it was a temporary annoyance to deal with, significant only in that it kept him from talking about something more important.

The Laura situation is similar albeit on a smaller scale.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I do not know if this is a reliable web site. However, because the news is important, I am going ahead and posting the link.

I will be up for a while so will keep look-out for stories which confirm or deny this one.

http://www.therisingwasabi.com/japan-pm-shinzo-abe-resigns/

[narcisocenfl]

Yes but having tasted blood, they will go for another target, just like throwing general Lynn to the wolves no good will come of this.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adelsteinjake/2018/03/29/school-scandal-may-get-japans-pm-expelled-can-abenomics-survive-without-abe/#5e87d9d47c26

This doesn't say he's resigned, only that he is in trouble.

[narcisocenfl]

There's a Forbes piece that suggests something along those lines, but it seems unlikely.

[GUS]

Capn, I understand completely that the purpose of a Capitalist venture, is to make money for the share holders. Unfortunately we have seen time and time again, where CEO'S and Company Presidents, VIRTUE SIGNAL, because they miscalculate what the public and their share holders want. It posturing, and it's theirs to do as they see fit. I think they are phonies and I think that they are wrong.

[narcisocenfl]

That's the one.

[GUS]

Miss Marple, I saw that report about Shinzo. I guess he allowed CHINA to get 20% of Japan's URANIUM, and then made the BROKER of that deal a member of his FAMILIES SLUSH FUND BOARD.

Or was that someone else?

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Excellent story on a guy in NY throwing off the mantle of the fraud of modern art and training up young Old Masters.

[GUS]

""If somebody is adjudicated mentally defective or has been committed to a mental institution, he is prohibited from possessing a firearm under federal law.""
Everyone who knew Nikolas Cruz recognized that he had mental competency issues. NO ONE DID A THING.
He had dozens of interactions with POLICE.
This does not include the HIGH SCHOOL dysfunction.
Obama and Arne Duncan made policies that DETERRED schools from punishing or labeling TROUBLED/PROBLEM students.
So the FULL COMMIE wants more restrictions on YOU and ME.
Read this.... ACADEMIC CLOWNS. Take a moment and read about ARNE DUNCAN, and who he is.
{{{Duncan attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools[7] and later Harvard College, where he played on the basketball team and graduated magna cum laude in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in sociology. His senior thesis, for which he took a year's leave to do research in the Kenwood neighborhood, was entitled "The values, aspirations and opportunities of the urban underclass".}}}

[clarice feldman]

G'night.

[GUS]

Great story Ignatz. The guy has talent at an old craft. Susan's back...... very nice.

[GUS]

Good night Clarice!!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Ignatz,

Thanks for posting that great article on the artistic realism/Old Masters movement. Gives me hope!

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I need to go to bed. I will check in the morning for stories on Abe, but right now I consider it nothing but a rumor.

Nytol!!

[GUS]

David Hogg's mother is a supporter of PLANNED PARENTHOOD..A.k.a. the DEATH HUT.

Let that sink in. Wee Davey Pigg's Mother, supports the killing of BABIES.

[narciso]

I include the link in the lun, very realistic, in light of his background

[Captain Hate]

Hogg's been brought up terribly imo.

Congratulations to jimmyk, DrJ and any other Meechigan fans and best wishes Monday night against that Villanova machine. Not a big fan of the NCAA having these games on Easter weekend.

[sbw]

Ig, thank you for the pointer to Jacob Collins. Loved it.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Did Master Hogg apologize for his unhinged rant calling NRA members murderers and pathetic f***ers?

Oh I forgot when he's talking he's the nation's conscience. When he's being talked to he's just a wittle kid.

[daddy]

Finally got to ExDem's link to the Afghan Ambassador's comments on Trump versus Obama:

Trump continually asked “How can you win? What does Afghanistan need to win?” in reference to our fight with terrorism. Trump wants to win. Sincerely. All the Obama administration wanted to do was not lose.

Read the whole thing.

[narciso]

I think that assumes too positive an outlook for them, they dismissed the rise of Islamic state as The jayvee team as if that would go away, even if BaghdAd had fallen, they would have deflected and blamed it on bush.

[GUS]

Daddy the Afghan Ambassador mentioned that OBAMA'S CLOWN POSSE were COLLEGE BOYS.
Trumps people are RESULTS oriented.

No shyte Sherlock.

[daddy]

Me? I just want Hogg to keep talking if you get my drift.Just as I want Pelosi and Hillary to keep it up.

Clarice,

Rush, on I think Thursday's Show, was playing B'rer Rabbit "Please don't throw me in that briar patch" by saying over and over again that what he was most afraid of was Hogg and Hillary joining forces and hitting the road together to do their speeches as a team. Rush was pleading for that not to happen (just like B'rer Rabbit) as he said it would surely lead to a monumental landslide for the Dem's and a crushing defeat for the Repubs in the mid terms. I don't think his tongue could have been planted more firmly in cheek.

[Abadman]

At the risk of bringing down the wrath of JOM commenters

I don't thing Laura Ingram should lose her show and Hogg is a total A hole, but she was wrong. Period.

I don't do twitter, but it seems a place that brings out the worst in people, trying to be witty in a sound bite.

I doubt she would have ever said that to his face, because it is just a dick move.

She won the college application lottery, he didn't. She is probably a much smarter, and better person than he is, except for when she pushed post on that tweet.

I am not a particularly good or nice man, and there is certainly a part of me that would like to see his someone rhetorically or physically beat the smug smirk off of his face.

But is should be for the bullshit he is espousing, not what life is dishing out for him.

[narciso]

True, but its not about Laura as it wasn't about beck or O'Reilly or rush, the sooner we understand this the sooner we can be on offense

[Abadman]

ps.

Happy Easter everyone

I for one am counting/dependent on God's grace.

[GUS]

Abadman, I love you my brother. HOGG is NOBODY.
Laura Ingraham, means nothing to me, BUT, she is RIGHT.
The cards fall where they may.
How are you my friend???

[Captain Hate]

I don't do twitter, but it seems a place that brings out the worst in people, trying to be witty in a sound bite

Here, here.

Miss Marple uses it well to get news items unavailable elsewhere but so many annoying dickholes (Lent is over, Happy Easter) make obnoxious asses out of themselves under the guise of thinking they're witty instead of something that rhymes with it.

[narciso]

The whole thing keyed off Alison camerota amazed this little exercise didn't earn him a blank check to any college he chose. It was weak tea compared to what John Lott and beck ted Nugent has doubled down

[Abadman]

narciso,

Agreed, but the best offense is a good defense. It is hard to be on the offense, when doing something indefensible

[GUS]

Capn', Miss Marple is to TWITTER, what you used to be to THE SUNDAY LIBTARD FULL COMMIE BULL SHIT SHOWS.
I understand why you stopped being my conduit....you are correct nearly all of the time CAPN, and you know that I respect you.

[narciso]

Indefensible like calling all nra members complicit in mass murder,
Doubtful.

[GUS]

Narciso, I think you mean MURDERING MOTHERFUCKERS.
and PIGGLY WIGGLY said that his PARENTS could not use the CONSTITUTION, and if his parents couldn't FUCKING use the Constitution TO HIS SATISFACTION, then HE WOULD. Etc etc. The boy is being foisted by SOROS, and the MFM, licks SORO'S balls as usual.
Money talks. LITTLE BOY HOGG, will have his tiny ass kicked.

[sbw]

but she was wrong. Period.

Abadman, when the script is “Attack! Attack! Attack!” it doesn’t matter whether Ingraham is right or wrong. They don’t care.

They know that people like you will reflect on the merit of the accusation.

The Left expects resonable people to devour themselves.

Once you recognize the tactic you can laugh derisively at it.

Kyle Kashuv just did. After Hogg tweeted, “Where is Laura Ingraham's apology to LeBron James?”

Kashuv responded, “Oh, I see how this goes... You ask for a finger and take the whole arm, right? Is he finally admitting this is all about politics and character assassination, and not about kid survivors?”

Recognize it. Label it. Make fun of it.

I replied: “.@KyleKashuv, wise before your time, versus @davidhogg111, old before his time. Humility versus ego. Community versus the collective. Thought versus dogma. Balance versus rage. Humanity versus politics. Future versus the past. ...”

[narciso]

Take this Twit:

https://mobile.twitter.com/ezlusztig/status/980147118328266753

[GUS]

Abadman. What is the "indefensible" that you allude to????

[Abadman]

GUS
Hogg is wrong because he does not engage people on their ideas, he attacks them personally.

Ingram did the same thing.

The thing about principles is that eventually they cost you something.

I don't think Hogg is right, I just think, in this instance, Ingram was wrong.

I say this as someone who has seen His smart accomplished kids, including my daughter in medical school, get turned down by "elite" colleges

[GUS]

Why are WE afraid to beat the shit out of SORO'S and his PUPPET Commie characters??? Seriously, why is it VERBOTEN to RIP and DESTROY, the tactics of the FULL COMMIE LEFT?? It's the same tactic that MUZZIES USE....PUT CHILDREN in the way of DEFENSE or TRUTH.
Seriously. What the FUCK?? Why is DAVEY PIGG of limits to CRITIQUE or HUMILIATION??? Is it because.....THAT'S NOT WHO WE ARE????

[Abadman]

justifying being a douche, because the other gut is a douche, gets one nowhere. Your, fighting a pig/Hogg and the pig /Hogg likes it.

[narciso]

He excised the only person who were in a position to save his classmates lives, those four sheriff deputies. I guess that travismickasham a few counties over has me in a bad mood

The largest single terrorist attack since 9/11 happens and the accessory walks cree.

[GUS]

Abadman, no offense, but, we are not fighting the pathetic PUSSY DAVEY HOGG, we are fighting the COMMIE, FULL COMMIE cash laden SOROS et al.
Nobody was beating up on the PATHETIC ASSHOLE DAVID HOGG. Laura Ingraham didn't RAPE little BO-PEEP.
This is a FUNDED fight, and TRUTH MATTERS.
The moment DAVID HOGG'S mommy and DADDY find this FUCKTARD in harms way, they can end this.
THIS SHIT IS REAL.

[narciso]

Take these other yutzes in the comment section

https://mobile.twitter.com/FoxNews/status/980239468715302912

[Abadman]

Gus

in the immortal words of Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse

Be nice- Until its time not to be nice.

When/if push comes to shove, I believe my track record indicates I'll be there.

I will not derive much happiness or satisfaction, but I will be dedicated and through

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--Ingraham wrote that Hogg had been “Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA...totally predictable given acceptance rates.)”

That's it?
That's the indefensible comment she loses advertisers and has to to take a week off over?
Are you kidding?
She should indeed have apologized...for not kicking his scrawny, constitution hating prog ass harder.
This is Lewis Carroll territory.

And if I hear the little shit described as a "survivor" of the shooting one more time I'm going to wretch. Just how big is the radius of survivors? Hiroshima sized?

[GUS]

Fair enough Abadman. I have a track record too.
I do not intend to be a victim any more.
HOGG is a creation of those who would RAPE your family.
There is no doubt about that. Do what you must, and I will likewise.
God bless you.

[narciso]

They succeeded in the UK and Australia, 20 years ago, but they won't do it here.

By contrast the unfortunate incident in baton rouge and recently in Sacramento, that on a permaloop.

[sbw]

Abadman, we don’t have to use Leftist tactics. Neither do we have to apologize when the Left chooses to weaponize what is said.

Learn from history; don’t let it terrorize you.

[GUS]

Ig, people back off, because they believe that those who are shitting on them, are SINCERE.
Total FUCKSTIX HORSE SHIT. The RAPIST uses whatever he has, to gain ACCESS to the RAPE.
I'm not a fucking fool.

[narciso]

So 49 dead because the bureau was looking the other way, because of this pashtun whitey bulger who had a get out of jail free card?

[Abadman]

Narciso,
We are talking past each other.

I do not dispute Hogg is an ass and has done and said indefensible things about other people.

But, And this is for you too GUS, She, made it personal, it is now harder to beat Hogg up for his Ideas and actions.

I'd say fight Smarter, not harder, But at the end it was just a cheap shot at him. It was not smart or hard, it was just DUMB. no matter how satisfying.

[GUS]

Narciso, ENOUGH, some skinny guitar pick looking MOTHERFUCKER has CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC etc etc etc telling us that WE ARE MURDERERS......THE MISFIT JUVENILES who SLAUGHTERED high school kids, is YOUR FAULT MOTHERFUCKER, and if you and their parents can't use DEMOCRACY to their CLOWNISH SATISFACTION.....they, and their pimple faced friends, and SOROS, and STEYER and other COMMIE LEFTIST CLOWNS, WILL ram shit down your throat.
AND IF Laura Ingraham fights back.......SHE IS GUILTY of an UNFORCED MOTHER FUCKING error?????

So we play by THEIR RULES NOW???? FUCKING PUSSIES.

[GUS]

No Abadman, I'm sorry. You are criticizing the person who DID fight. You are not criticizing the DEMON. You are capitulating to the LEFT. We must be NICE, otherwise, they will say WE AREN'T BEING NICE.
I'm sorry friend. You are WRONG.

[narciso]

My only regret is they haven't pulled media matters tax exempt status as well as other elements of the Brock org.

[narciso]

They had nothing on Cyndi archer just like there was nothing on Carter page, but they leveraged that against other players they really wanted.

[narcisocenfl]

Yes I know we are supposed to abide:
http://biblehub.com/cev/romans/12.htm

But when we can't even get accountability much less justice...

[Abadman]

Ignatz,

would you say that to any of your friends kids?

Yea, he is a whiny douche, stop the presses. If you are really concerned about winning you don't beat Hogg up in a back alley. Expose him as the clueless kid he is.

This is harder less satisfying and likely doomed to failure. But it is not guaranteed like attacking him personally is.

All Ingram has done is INSURED he will be described as a survivor again, but your the smart one here.

God if it comes to a fight I've seen too much for it just to be to wipe the smug look off someone or ones faces

[narcisocenfl]

Its not about Laura, they would have targeted anybody when they found an opening like hannity has found out, the feckless wallabies from down under who are like the progressively more useless Getty offspring would see to that.

[Abadman]

Gus
We will just have agree to disagree.

She did not fight. How did what she did advance the argument for the 2nd amendment?

As soon as it required any cost to her she went belly up. If she really believed what she wrote why did she back down. That is not fighting that's being a smart ass.

For example:

I seriously doubt I would ever find reason to call you a motherfracker.

But If I did You could beat my ass silly and I'd still call you a MF. Believe it or not, been there done that in Junior High.

I'm sure you have taught your son doing the right thing is sometimes hard. So if your in a fight and you kick the guy in the balls to win say you kicked him in the balls and don't apologize. say he was biting and gouging you in the eyes all you want, but own kicking him in the balls. And don't complain when people call you a dirty fighter.

[JimNorCal]

Not ashamed to wrap himself in the American flag.
From chess.com:
Fabiano Caruana won the FIDE Candidates' Tournament in Berlin, becoming the first American grandmaster to challenge for the world chess championship since Bobby Fischer.

Caruana will play Magnus Carlsen for the world chess championship in November.

[narcisocenfl]

How about that, well we'll just agree to disagree.

[Abadman]

Narciso,

I don't dispute they are looking for targets, All the more reason not to serve one up on a silver platter.

Ingram is supposed to be smart, again this is not about Hogg. This is about Ingram offering her throat to the wolves she surely knows are circling all around her

[Abadman]

"How about that, well we'll just agree to disagree."

Narciso,

Sorry about that. Pretty much a bold faced lie. Iv'e never been good at agreeing to disagree.

[narcisocenfl]

Its like with Seth riches parents, they absolurly don't care who killed their son, by all indications, but we know who they do have animus for.

[narcisocenfl]

Its an honest differnce of opinion, lets leave it at that, good night.

[Abadman]

narciso,

good night to you and GUS as well.

GUS

Hope you still want to visit when you are out my way. The door is always open, and the beers usually cold.

[daddy]

China’s Underground Christians Feel Betrayed by Vatican Deal with Beijing

Maybe the Pope's playing 4 D chess.

[Ralph L]

paddleboaters-at-dc-cherry-blossom-festival-find-dead-body-in-tidal-basin

Swell.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | March 31, 2018 at 08:20 PM

I imagine he did.

[Ralph L]

A similar incident took place in April 2013, when a corpse was found in the water of the Tidal Basin.

Serial killer with a very long cooling off period?

[Jack is Back!]

Good Morning, JOM.

Remember MM's 4:02pm above with a photo of screwdrivers, scissors and knives confiscated in raids in the Regents Park section of London?

Here's why:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/london-murder-rate-beats-new-york-as-stabbings-surge-f59w0xqs0

Now I am off to the kitchen to prep my gratin and lamb. Later.

[anonamom]

Blessed Easter to you JiB!
To all who celebrate it.

No Clarice's Pieces this morning, but there is this:

But what about this Jesus?

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/the_resurrection_of_jesus_an_inconvenient_fact.html

JiB, I am living vicariously through that lamb and gratin today---

[anonamom]

Re: Laura Ingraham's tweet; Twitter in general.

It is a horrendous format. Truly brings out the worst in people. Very, very reactive, unless great restraint is practiced.

Remember that when they let Microsoft's AI bot have an account, they had to pull it at 23 hours because of the awful things it was posting:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist

FTR: I didn't think what she said was particularly offensive at all. Being mother of a son (white male version) who had "better" numbers than Hogg and was rejected by eight colleges, wait listed at five others, I found it to be factual.

[anonamom]

MM---
IRT my Twitter feed---I NEVER see things in my feed from the majority of people I follow.

Browsing who I follow this morning, I realize have not seen any tweets of Kim Strassel, Sharyl Attkinson, Sarah Carter, Laura Ingraham, the many Congress people I follow---for AGES!

What is that all about?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Good morning, and a Blessed Easter to all.

We will be going to my retired teacher sister's home for a luncheon. My son has to work today, grandkids will be at other grandparents' home, and my brother and sister-in-law will be in Cincinnati with their two daughters and families. So, a smaller group but I am still looking forward to a family gathering.

Regarding Twitter, it is best not to interact with most of the people, because you make yourself a target to the Left. I have had a couple of stalkers that I have had to block, and usually just read the Tweets for news and interesting observations.

[Jack is Back!]

anonamom,

Maybe during the Tridium they don't tweet out of respect to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. My theory on the demise of Master Hogg is that he is now starting to p**s more than the NRA members and those who believe in the Constitution but now I see he is going after McRino.

I am wondering who is paying for his protection and safety because he has that permanent smirk of outrageous righteousness which invites a left hook.

Lamb is in the oven. I use an old recipe from Patricia Wells: Layered potatoes, onions and tomatoes sprinkled with chopped garlic and thyme on each layer, then drenched in white wine and olive oil. Since this leg is about 8 lbs. I am cooking it for at least 2.5 hours. I could have slow cooked it but then I would have to wait to put the gratin under it.

I put the lamb on a rack over the gratin to catch all those juices. You have to turn it every 1/2 hour and baste it from time to time. The hardest part is all the prep work.

Zelig Passen/Happy Easter

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

anonamom,

Sounds like either they have been shadow-banned or that they have been "unfollowed" for you, in much the same way I was made an unwilling follower of Megyn Kelly.

Put their names in the "search twitter box, one at a time, and go to their pages. Check to see if the "follow" box is still affirmative.

As I said the other day, Twitter is messing with peoples' accounts.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy?CMP=share_btn_tw

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

https://nypost.com/video/bizarre-midair-ufo-sighting-freaks-out-plane-passengers/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter

This is a video.

[anonamom]

Hogg's call for the boycotts prompted me to see how Target is doing these days:

https://www.afa.net/the-stand/culture/2018/03/target-still-struggling-since-bathroom-policy-announcement/

But the Chic Fil A one completely backfired.

And Freakonomics says they are a very mixed bag:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/do-boycotts-work-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/

[RattlerGator]

I don't know that it's a horrendous format, anonamom. It always seemed preferable to me when compared to Facebook. It allows me to separate wheat from chaff while also mixing in a majority of like-minded to follow. Further, it then also allows me to mix in a minority who think differently, come from different places, etc.

This back and forth by Abadman, Gus and Narciso was an interesting read. Because there *is* something about this punk David Hogg that has me simultaneously thinking the more the nation sees and hears of this fool, the better it is for us, while also thinking that I truly want to get medieval on his azz and remove him from the national scene.

That sort of very human nexus gets highlighted on Twitter, regularly. It is an emotional and intellectual crossroads. And because all of us are walking, talking contradictions . . . sparks will fly (hello, Abadman, Gus & Narciso). And when a Rorschach test such as David Hogg shows up, look out.

I suppose that's why I'm attracted to Twitter. As an online Commons, it can be very messy and loud and fractious. Even as its proprietor attempts to manipulate us, such is easier said than done with a walking, talking contradictory and sinful species.

Thus, the birth / life / death / and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

[Davod]

Clarice's Faithless in holy week.

www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/faithless_in_holy_week.html