Football Saturday!

What's this week's game of the year? Gotta be Alabama (1) v. LSU (3).

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[henry]

As I watch the neighbor spread manure on his field (wind from east..no aroma gets here), I reflect that his manure is good for the world and productive. Unlike a feces flinger from CA.

[Captain Hate]

Let me know what you think, Jack. I gave it 4 out of 5 stars on Goodreads, and I'm a hard grader on contemporary fiction.

[Momto2]

Mother of 3 shoots intruder:

https://video.foxnews.com/v/5857179049001/?#sp=show-clips

[maryrose]

DrJ:
My husband grew up in Hinsdale near Chicago for the Chicago sound and I grew up on the East side of Cleveland for the Cleveland sound.
We lived near a place called Five Points.
I always thought that had s gangster sound to it.
In the Movie “The Sting” Robert Redford talks about Five Points and getting out of there.
Jimmyk:
What is that place in New York called “Red ( something)

[maryrose]

I just thought of it : Red Hook.
I always thought that was a cool name.

[Captain Hate]

Ewok sidebar:

Surprise! Shep Smith running Obama's rally in full, live
If Fox ever fires him maybe he can get a job blogging at Hot Air
As I watch Obama, I am reminded of how depressed I got under Obama's eight long years, and how I cannot bear to hear this Stuttering Clusterfuck of a Miserable Failure's droning voice.
And I remember, too, the NeverTrumper motherfuckers who conspired to give us Obama's Third Term, starring the corrupt Hillary Clinton, and called us crazy and racist for daring to say, "I object to that scheme." I will never forgive them, and I will never stop reminding everyone that they preferred Obama over a Republican (Trump).
As a friend points out, these people were always scolding us, speech-policing us, telling us what we could not say about Obama, because it would be impolitic, and yet not only do they N E V E R lecture their liberal Twitter Palz about calling Trump a RUSSIAN FUCKING AGENT, TRAITOR, AND LITERAL HITLER FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, but they frequently join in on that at a slightly lower level.
It is PALPABLY PLAIN that they kind of liked Obama, at least compared to the Nefarious Trump, and would rather have Obama as president still than Trump.
They are traitors and liberals -- they always have been; their primary adversary has always been the conservative wing of the party, not the Democrats -- and should never be forgiven nor permitted an inch of power or influence in this party again.
Shep Smith, who is essentially a NeverTrumper (they share the exact same politics), is currently wetting himself over the "Big Gun" of Obama

[henry]

On that local feed Miss M posted... some Montana State dweeb is really trying to sell Trump is not liked. I hope his husband rewards him for it.

[henry]

Hahahaha, they split to "20-30 protestors" outside the airport in Bozeman. Like they can't count that high.

[Miss Marple]

I like how this local professor on the Montana station tells us that the president isn't popular and then is forced to admit that his approval in Montana is 54% which is higher than the national average.

20-30 protesters who mostly are verklempt about his "animosity" and insults.

Professor also says rallies have no effect. HA!

[Captain Hate]

We lived near a place called Five Points

Is that where Collinwood High is at the intersection of East 152, Saint Clair and another street I can never remember?

My oldest daughter used to live in the Red Hook part of Brooklyn. I usually had to give the cabbies instructions how to get to her place off the BQE because it was a confusing mix of one way streets.

[gentlejim]

Good for that SC mom protecting her kids. I don’t want anyone going through the trauma of killing someone, but too bad she didn’t hit center mass.

Off for a walk in the woods.

[Jack is Back!]

Watch the NYC Marathon tomorrow. They run through Gowanus/Park Slope which is the neighborhood to the east of Red Hook. Where the Cunard ships come in and leave. Lots of funky shops and restaurants.

[henry]

Three guys with feathered headgear behind Trump. Haven't seen that before.

[Miss Marple]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-03/baltimore-amazon-warehouse-collapses-it-just-sounded-bombs

[Clarice Feldman]

My goodness, what a poem, jmh!!

[Miss Marple]

henry,

I daresay you wouldn't see those feathered headdresses around Indianapolis!

[Bernardi Dr la paz]

Oh the graffiti artist called himself abram Ali, should have been Ibrahim but still.

[Miss Marple]

Lines are already forming outside President Trump’s #MAGARally this evening in Pensacola, Florida. With temps in the 60s and no clouds in sight, this may rival Houston in size & intensity as @RepDeSantis fights to the wire against @AndrewGillum for governor in the sunshine state. pic.twitter.com/0cbozxLPrh

— TruNews™ (@TruNews) November 3, 2018

Video at link.

[maryrose]

Captain:
Totally agree with your above post.
Remember when we were forbidden to utter Ibama’s middle name Hussein because it is Muslim and too much like Saddam ZHussein.
Obama lookedunhinged when he talked about a military stunt at the border.
He needs to go back and fight for his library in Chicago.
White guilt elected him in 2008.
Fraud and cheating did it in 2012 and spying on the Tea Party and denial of permits.

[Miss Marple]

I discovered the Indians in head dresses are the 4 Crow elders.

The Crow reservation has a huge coal mine! There is lots of coal mining in Montana - big strip mines on the plains.

[maryrose]

Captain:
That is exactly where it is located.
I want to say Nottingham is the street you are wondering about.
I caught the bus for high school right on that corner every day for four years.

[maryrose]

JIB and Captain:
How cool is that neighborhood called Red Hook.
Is it expensive to live there?
OL:
Where did your daughter live?

[Miss Marple]

From the comments at CTH:

Do you guys understand how incredible it is to see the Crow elders behind Trump? I hope VSGPDT says something about how they have been used by the Ds in this state for so many years – worse than the African Americans. For these men to be visibly at this rally is beyond amazing.

[henry]

Crow elders? cool! thanks Miss M!

[Old Lurker]

Maryrose...75th & Broadway

[maryrose]

I just want to say those voters in Georgia can vote but the signature they give must be used for future reference.
Also if they haven’t voted in a while they need to bring a utility bill or identification.
Some will end up voting a provisional ballot.

[maryrose]

OL:
Now that is right in the heart of the action.
My girlfriends and I saw a Broadway show ,The Book of Mormon and then went out for a late night snack afterwards.
Great city to visit.
Don’t think I could live there.

[maryrose]

Prediction:
55 or 56 Senate for Repubs
2 or 3 extra in the House to hold it.
I am still hopeful Detroit and the rest of Michigan come home for James.
I would love to oust Menendez.
Don’t believe the polls.

[maryrose]

Obama projecting his side’s paranoia and insanity and anger on the Repubs.
He was never my president.

[Jack is Back!]

Maryrose,

Its got a seaside village feel believe or not. Lots of old warehouses from the 19th century. Cheaper than Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights.Great Views of the City. Governor's Island is a stone's throw away across the Buttermilk Channel. If you work in the Battery of Manhattan there is the Carey Tunnel from Red Hook to Manhattan.

[Jane]

I just listened to about a 1/2 hour of CNN Newsroom. It was pretty amazing. Lots of questions about how Trump's language was causing such awful behavior, and when was he going to stop. One democrat said that he couldn't believe Trump didn't come back to DC and introduce an immigrant bill which they would gladly pass, instead of sending the military out to get those nice people.
No one bothered to ask him why he would vote for the bill now, when he wouldn't before.

CNN, the half news station.

[jimmyk]

75th & Broadway

OL, that's about 100 yards from me. You never wanted me keep tabs on her? :)

[Miss Marple]

Air Force One descending into Bozeman over the Bridger Mountains:

[maryrose]

Those Bridget Mountains are gorgeous!
JMH:
I liked your poem.
JIB:
Red Hook sounds like a place I would like to explore.

[maryrose]

Jane:
I have a game I play where I click unto CNN or MSNBC to check on their headline.
Without fail a negative, nasty or untruthful statement is printed there.
Every single time.
I now know who the bad commentators are on sight or as they are introduced.
They make outrageous statements to get their names in the news cycle.
Watch very little news weekend before Election Day.
Back in the day we always had a Kairos retreat this weekend so all news was blacked out. We will all survive and thrive after Tuesday.
No Dem willl ever match the crowds that President Trump gets.
Sacrificial lamb for 2020 will be Booker or Biden

[maryrose]

Bridger Mountains

[--------peter]

I've spent a few hours wandering around Red Hook, which name comes from the Dutch for Red Corner, or point. There was a pretty cool liquor store I used to frequent. They exhibited all their many types of gin in an antique bathtub. Also a pretty cool place that restores antique Vespa scooters. There's only one bus line that goes into that neighborhood, so it has a sort of isolated feel to it. There is a huge public housing project, built in the 1940s that held the neighborhood down for decades, but the rising real estate values in Brooklyn gentrified the place quite a bit. It was a pretty rough place in the 1970s and you wouldn't have wanted to go there at night if you didn't know where you were going.

[Jane]

Via Insty: ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Carolla and Prager ask, What if we all stopped apologizing?

I saw this last night on Tucker. Carolla said "I watch you every night Tucker and I wish you would stop saying: "I'm not a racist, I have daughters, I am pro-women" and stuff like that." (Not a direct quote obviously). And then he said: Why should you have to say that. Why do you have to defend yourself when you don't need a defense.

Tucker's reply was: "You have just changed my show forever."

I totally agree with Carolla. Why do we have to prove to adversaries what we are, and have always been. I don't do a lot of that stuff, but I'm not doing it anymore.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

So Trump has more Indians on his side than Fauxcahontas? How.

[Jane]

I'm very very nervous about Tuesday - especially in Florida. I hope I am am as shocked as I was 2 years ago.

[henry]

Jane, I don't know what to expect Tuesday. But the sun is out, fall colors are magnificent (where trees retain leaves), and beer & ammo are plentiful. Thus I am happy going into Tuesday.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Every summer we make a point of exploring some part of NYC that we haven’t really been to before. We’ve walked across the Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn Hts, the Williamsburg bridge to Williamsburg. Maybe Red Hook is next.

[Dave Seville]

My comment;

You people really can't think of a more more worthy cause or people more in need of help than this knucklehead?

remains the only one at Little Green Scumballs gof***me page. :)

[Jack is Back!]

Be ready to celebrate, that is always my approach. There is an old saying in the Expat community: Expect the worst, be pleasantly surprised.

I lived that for 35+ years, and it works.

They just played Last Post at the Wolves v. Spurs game. In the UK, Armistice Day or our Veterans Day is celebrated from the 1st of November until the 11th.

Got your poppy yet?

My family lost 4 during the Great War to End All Wars.

[JMHanes]

Miss Marple:

Golly, I know exactly where that is! I've done that flight into Bozeman so many times. I right clicked the photo to open in a new window, and saved it from there.

This was news to me though (and shame on me for that!):

"The Crow reservation has a huge coal mine! There is lots of coal mining in Montana - big strip mines on the plains."

It made me think about all the interesting things I've learned about places in this country that I didn't know much about, before Trump started taking his (our) campaigns there. That's such a big part of what he does. I know he's campaigning, but when he goes places he showcases what people are doing there, and he seems to actually connect with them in a really down to earth way, beyond the usual campaign shout outs that all politicians do.

I did know there was major reservation land in Montana, which is where my daughter regularly goes bird hunting. You have to pay for an Indian guide and his dog, to do that. Fortunately, she has trained her own dog, because the guide's dog was seldom seen. Apparently, he did his roaming so far afield that he didn't flush the birds that were actually in range. I always check out where she's going on Google Maps, and now I know what some of those strange formations that you see in the satellite views are.

[narciso]

Seems like pinnette is overmatched:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poq5ZrAc7pk&feature=youtu.be&t=4090

[Jack is Back!]

jimmyk,

It is time warp from the UWS that is for sure but it is coming around. Take the water taxi over and stroll Van Brunt Street. Lots of good oyster places. I would wait until late spring or summer so you can sit outside at some of the joints.

[henry]

Got your poppy yet?

My family lost one.. to mustard gas. Named Jack btw. Corporal Jack Steele of Shamokin, PA. When I was 20 years old, my grandmother in her Parkinsons haze thought I was her brother Jack. We looked alike at that age, sadly he never got older.

[Miss Marple]

Thank you for the correction, maryrose!

I guess I am going to have to get my glasses checked. I honestly didn't notice that, even though I did preview twice!

Named after Jim Bridger, famous mountain man and explorer.

[Jack is Back!]

JMH,

The Crows and others actually have a huge lobbying organization called Coalition of Energy Tribes. I got to know them in DC. Larry Echohawk's sister was one of the directors. If you don't know Larry, lyle and eric in boise do:)

Larry was the AG of Idaho at one time, and regardless of his political leanings was a great guy to have a drink with when he came to DC.

[Miss Marple]

My dad's father served but made in home. He was the one who was a pressman for the Indianapolis Star.

He started work at the paper before the war, and in fact, hung the first edition front pages in the window of the building He vividly remembered hanging the front page the night of the Titanic's sinking.

[narciso]

they take the speaker in the bertold brecht story seriously,

https://www.steynonline.com/8962/despising-the-citizenry

[narciso]

some stories in cloud atlas, were more developed, the far future dystopia, and mid range post apocalypse, were among those,

[GUS]

I was on the CROW reservation a little over a year ago. I have a friend who is CROW. Montana is nearly NEARLY as beautiful as WYOMING.

[Pinandpuller]

State and Main is Alec Baldwin's Primary Colors.

Wink Wink mr narciso.

And David Mamet is pretty conservative.

[Pinandpuller]

...Latin America’s problems are legion.

The region, “which boasts just eight percent of the world’s population, accounts for 38 percent of its criminal killing.” Last year, the “butcher’s bill … came to around 140,000 people … more than have been lost in wars around the world in almost all of the years this century. And the crime is becoming ever more common.”

So writes the Economist earlier this year, in an exposé aimed at “shining light on Latin America’s homicide epidemic.”

Tucked into these frightening facts about a killer culture is a timid admission: The Problem—Latin America’s murder trends—could be exported to the neighbors.

By the by—and just so you know—Latin America’s crisis of crime “has been mounting.” El Salvador, for instance, had the highest murder rate in the world: 81 to 100,000. By the early 2010s, “the bloodshed in some cities had reached a pitch.”

Referred to by demographers also as a “youth bulge,” this “demographic bulge” is the crème de la crème comprising the caravans. Their exodus is from the slum-dog cities of Latin American, where the crime is heavily concentrated, and where “people are crowded into … shantytowns and favelas.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/ilanamercer/2018/10/26/the-caravans-cometh-making-america-great-no-more-n2532211

[narciso]

Bill macy, comes up in that film, over alec baldwin, baldwin always plays a jerk, like in the departed when he Sullivan's (Connelly) inattentive supervisor, in the last mission impossible, he almost came up as noble, that didn't last long,

[GUS]

Looks like FAT BOY has slept off the FLEISCHMANNS.

Hey FAT BOY DANA WARD, did you have your OREO OMELET yet????

[Miss Marple]

So, narciso, you're saying he is type cast?

[--------peter]

narciso @ 3:53, who is pinnette?

[narciso]

the bone clocks was totally incomprehensible, which means someone will try to adapt it to film, and do it poorly, Sebastian faulks tried his own variation on cloud atlas, with limited success,

[Pinandpuller]

TFW you realize Anderson Cooper interned for the CIA

For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

[Miss Marple]

You know, one of the reasons I never go to lefty sites is that I am afraid insanity is catching.

[Miss Marple]

Pinandpuller,

How was the deconstruction of classical art used against the Russians? If you ask me, it harmed OUR culture!

[Captain Hate]

How cool is that neighborhood called Red Hook.
Is it expensive to live there?

I haven't been there in about 15 years. Red Hook is a pretty big area which includes neighborhoods like Carroll Gardens which was John Gotti territory I was told. My daughter had a fairly inexpensive apartment she shared until the front of the building fell off (seriously, not kidding!) after which she obviously had to find some new digs quickly. She was in Manhattan after that.

[narciso]

it's the shortest line between two points, miss marple, Pinnette is the oleaginous david frum, who had the hapless task of debating bannon,

[JMHanes]

"Judge Orders Evidence to Be Gathered in Emoluments Case Against Trump"

LOL! Exhibit A in Ass-Backward

[GUS]

Lefty sites??? Go to a hate fest with a circle jerk half time show???? These people are FULL COMMIES and IMBECILES.

[Miss Marple]

Odd story. It makes clear who is NOT carrying out the attacks on Jews in NYC, but for some reason the story doesn’t identify who IS carrying out the attacks... https://t.co/pIinTbZasv

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) November 3, 2018

Link goes to another of Ari's tweets which highlights a New York Times article saying that NOT ONE of the anti-semitic crimes in the last 22 months have been linked to a far right group. Not one.

I will bet cash money on who they HAVE been linked to, which the Times doesn't tell us.

[Frau Schmeissen Sie das Schwein 'raus!]

JOM is like the sidewalks of San Francisco today. There's too much psychopathic carp, and it reflects poorly on TM who graciously provides this place.
Killfile does not protect visitors.

[narciso]

its as smart as when all the top company men, consumed lsd and said trust us it's safe, hence mk ultra project, also when Copeland and eigelberger said after their previous experience with Nasser, there's a fellow we would like to meet, he comes from Tikrit,

[Pinandpuller]

No

[narciso]

well the fellow from the intercept, miss winner, a tip, run run away, too late, was responsible for half of that adl report,

[Miss Marple]

Frau,

That's why I post a lot early in the morning.

[Miss Marple]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/chinese-women-pay-give-birth-california-maternity-mansion/story?id=17862251

If you ask me, this is more dangerous than the illegal Mexicans having birthright citizenship.

In my experience, most Mexicans like this country and are hard workers. My son has a lot of Mexican friends (here on work visas) and my daughter has married one (whom she is working on getting into the country legally).

Of course I am not talking about the Central Americans with the embedded gang members currently working their way north.

The women who are going to this "birth mansion" are part of the Chinese oligarchy, and will retain their Chinese loyalty. This is not good thing, given China's long-term plans.

[--------peter]

I was just asking if the reference was to John Pinette, apparently yes. Did not know Frum was fat.

[Captain Hate]

Seems like pinnette is overmatched

Such a pathetic mutt. I'm no fan of Bannon but he thoroughly thrashed him.

[Pinandpuller]

Dipping in The Blue Ink

[Miss Marple]

peter,

He did't start out fat but over the years he has packed on the pounds. I was actually quite shocked when I saw a photo of him a year or so ago.

[Bubarooni]

Just got back from Chicago.

My oldest daughter graduated from I.U. this past May and has landed her first real job up in the Windy City.

Loaded up a U-Haul on Thursday night. Drove up to Chicago yesterday morning and moved her into an apartment just north of Downtown.

When we 'moved' her to I.U. it was a total distance of about 8 miles so this seems a little different, like my first one has truly left the nest.

Went to the West Loop last night afterwards and had great beer and tacos at a place called Cruz Blanca. Quite outstanding to be honest.

Spent the night at a hotel on the Maginificent Mile called Aloft. Pretty swank and we had night caps at their bar which was pretty nice to boot.

I'm feeling a bit melancholy over the whole thing to be honest.

[maryrose]

MM:
You had it right wrt the name of the mountain range.
By mistake I wrote Bridget Mountains.Glad you had a great time at the rally.

[Pinandpuller]

I spent a week on the Crow Agency during Fourth of July helping fix up a church. It's a fairly depressing place. They had a nice community center where we went swimming every day.

There's an incredibly depressing "park" at the edge of town close to the river I think. One of the last time I went to Billings we stopped there to eat some sandwiches and it was basically sand blowing around crummy tables. The only other thing I remember was idiots going to Sturgis standing on their seats on the interstate at 80 mph, and dragging their feet on the pavement.

There is a casino now.

[GUS]

Bubarooni, congrats on raising a fine daughter. I dread my son leaving the next. But that's what life is about.

[henry]

Bubarooni, Chitown lurker is close to there, an I am 60 miles north. If your daughter needs help, let us know! (btw, next time you are in the neighborhood, neither of us is far away. This I know as my brother did an PhD, JD at U Chicago). Seriously, we are nearby at need.

[Jack is Back!]

bubarooni,

Keep her close even if she is now independent. You did a good job, and glad you were able to take care of yourself at the restaurant and bar:)

[henry]

that should be MBA, JD.

[Pinandpuller]

Jane

Carolla and Prager have a documentary coming out.

It's on campus free speech I believe.

Here's Tucker on Carolla's show. I know a lot of Adam's stories so you might find more novelty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnqT1Hg8qo

It's good to listen to driving around or folding laundry if you know what I mean.

[Miss Marple]

Bubarooni,

That was me when my daughter moved to Milwaukee with her first husband, the lefty moocher who talked her into taking out huge student loans for a masters in library science, including for LIVING EXPENSES so that he could paint without having to hold down a job. (Her undergrad was entirely paid for.)

Now, here I am living with her and my son has moved in as well!

[Pinandpuller]

How.

Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | November 03, 2018 at 03:32 PM

I see what you did there, and I like it.

[Clarice Feldman]

Do these people sound like they think they're winning?Zac Petkanas
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“Democrats should be walking away with the midterms. That they are not is because they have consistently underestimated the president’s political gifts, while missing the deeper threat his presidency represents.” https://nyti.ms/2CUie17
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[Pinandpuller]

How was the deconstruction of classical art used against the Russians? If you ask me, it harmed OUR culture!

Posted by: Miss Marple | November 03, 2018 at 04:20 PM

They never asked Senator Kennedy about an Art Gap.

Yoko Ono is probably an FSB colonel.

[GUS]

Why on earth would the FULL COMMIES be "supposed" to walk away with victory. They have no PLATFORM other than HATE and COMMUNISM. They've thrown any pretense into the shitter.

[Jack is Back!]

And Clarice, it is interesting that the BBC decides to interfere in our elections by posting that carp.

But then I spent 6 years watching them. It was as if all the scholars at OxBridge decided to invest in Soviet studies and import it to the UK media.

[Pinandpuller]

Pinnette was also gay and is currently deceased FWIW. His Cruise Ship Buffet bit is real dark in retrospect.

But he was in the last episode of Seinfeld so there's that.

[DrJ]

Michigan is up by two touchdowns, the hot-and-sour soup is great, and the Singaporean curried noodles are a delight.

Life is good.

[Pinandpuller]

#walkaway>walking away

[Bubarooni]

Well, the best thing about the move was I hired a couple of strapping young guys to move the stuff outta the U-Haul and up the stairs/elevator into the apartment.

It cost $100 to hire Jabree and Carlos thru U-Haul for 2 hours to do the dirt work but it was definitely worth it. They busted their azzes to get it done.

My Mom has recently downsized from about 6200 sq ft to 2500 sq feet and donated some really fine furniture to get My Girl started out. A big, nice leather sectional, a massive, solid oak entertainment center and a true Persian rug she dropped $4k on a decade ago. I know when I was 22 y.o. I had nothing to compare!

A couple of hard chargers, I slipped the movers an extra $50 in cash when The Better Half wasn't watching.

My Back thought the $150 was well spent.

To me, it constitutes a confirming data point that I'm getting smarter as I'm getting older.

[Pinandpuller]

He got thirty days more than OJ:

The shattered widow of a CitiBike rider fatally struck by a Coach USA bus poured her heart out in court describing her family’s anguish Thursday as a judge sentenced the driver to the maximum — of just 30 days in jail.

Sasha Hanegby, who lost her husband June 12, 2017, when Dave Lewis slammed into Dan Hanegby, sobbed as she recounted the devastating loss.

“How does a mother sit her children down and tell them their father will never return?” she asked in Manhattan Criminal Court, tears streaming down her face.

https://nypost.com/2018/10/25/bus-driver-who-fatally-struck-cyclist-gets-30-days-in-jail/

[Miss Marple]

Advice on how to avoid getting in trouble on Twitter:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1058795372749971456.html

[Pinandpuller]

It's got to be the only explanation. What's the medical version of Birthers?

A black doctor from Boston says she was racially profiled when flight attendants grilled her over her credentials while she assisted a sick passenger.

Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford was on a flight home from Indianapolis on Tuesday when she noticed the woman next to her was hyperventilating. Stanford – who is a physician at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital – was already aiding the passenger when a flight attendant stopped by and asked Stanford if she was a doctor, CNN reported.

Stanford told the flight attendant that she was a doctor, but a second flight attendant then came by and asked for Stanford’s medical license, which Stanford presented.

Stanford claims that both flight attendants came back a third time to ask her if her medical license truly belonged to her. Stanford believes the flight attendants questioned her credentials because she is a black woman.

“I don’t understand why there was a dialogue there,” Stanford told the Boston Globe. “I showed them my license twice, and they still didn’t believe it was mine. None of that was taken into account, and I thought that was quite frustrating.”