Mexican Jew, but works for Trump? She's obviously a white supremist flashing secret Nazi code signs!

Yeah, well, but maybe her OTHER grandfather was Robert Byrd!

Or so say some of the more deranged (if such a distinction can be made) anti-Kavanaugh hysterics.

“Kavanaugh’s former law clerk Zina Bash is flashing a white power sign behind him during his Senate confirmation hearing. They literally want to bring white supremacy to the Supreme Court. What a national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law.
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Her husband points out:

Over at Powerline, some perspective:

You have to squint carefully, but tHere it is: the "okay" dog whistle

And here ARE STILL MORE RACISTS. WE'RE DOOMED, I TELL YOU DOOMED!

Let the circus begin

Tomorrow is opening day on Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. The first day is entirely devoted to various senators speechifying. with no questions directed to or answered by the judge, so it will be entirely worthless, but from Wednesday on, the hearings may provide some rich entertainment.

Minnesota's junior senator, Amy Klobuchar claims to have read 156,000 document relating to or written by Kavanagugh, and they prove that he is a sexist, racist person entirely unfit to serve on the Supreme Court. Powerline's Scott Johnson points out that, even if the senator had spent just 2 minutes reviewing each document, she'd have had to spend 24-hours a day for 205 days to get through them: Kavanaugh was nominated 55 days ago. Klobuchae also  claims that she can't reveal single document to back up her claim because they're all "secret": they aren't.

So Klobuchar is (once again) proved a liar. That certainly won't stop her from repeating her lies during her speech tomorrow, but she'll have to be specific if she dares to question Kavanaugh directly during the following days. I'm betting she won't.

Another Senate clown, Hawaii's Mazie Hirano, does intend to question Kavanaugh, on the issue of Judge Alex Kozinski's alleged sexual harassment of women. Kavanaugh clerked for Kozinski twenty-five years, ago, for one year, and none of the claims against Kozinski involve incidents occurring a quarter-century ago; Hirano served on the Senate Judiciary Committee for four years with her colleague, Al Frankin during his sexual predation period and said nothing 

Hirano will have another problem with this line of questioning: the testimony of Kavanaugh's female clerks — all of them.  Paul Mirengoff reports:

“Kavanaugh is poised to win big on the issue of how he treats female law clerks. Severino reminds us that a majority (25 of 48) of Judge Kavanaugh’s law clerks have been women, and every one of them not precluded from doing so by her current employer has endorsed Kavanaugh. The female former clerks cite the mentoring and support he provides not just during the clerkship, but as they advance in the legal profession. Indeed, according to Severino, 20 of Kavanaugh’s female law clerks have gone on to clerk at the Supreme Court.

No wonder all of his former female clerks (again, excluding the ones who can’t because of their employment status) signed a letter to Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Feinstein describing Kavanaugh as “one of the strongest advocates in the federal judiciary for women lawyers.””

(North) mid country bargain?

31 Baldwin Farms North has sold for $1.7 million. It started at $2.8 million in August, 2017, and the town has appraised it at $2,734,100, so $1.7 would appear to have been a deal, but I'm not so sure that was. It's an obsolete 1965 home (with failed pool) on 2.5 acres which, to me, suggests land value only,* and $1.7 strikes me as a high price for a building lot in this neighborhood. Propane heat, Parkway and Western school districts; none of those are popular right now.

* I note that the new owners have immediately listed it for rent at $6,500, which indicates, to me, that they'd like to cover their carrying costs while obtaining the necessary permits to raze and rebuild. As a rental, this wouldn't be a bad deal at somewhere around that price.

Who you gonna believe, Slate, or your own lying eyes?

Slate: 2 years on, Trump still doesn't use a computer. 

That computer to his left is presumably used by an assistant, who transcribes the president's constant crayon drawings into Tweets. 

To TDS victims, anything is believable, and is.

Tough sale

7 Cherry Valley Road, asking $1.295, reports a contingent contract after 8 years. Started at $1.980 back in June, 2010, and its price dropped fairly quickly, but between the house itself, which requires either a complete re-do or a bulldozer, and the proximity to the Merritt Parkway, this four-acre lot lacked appeal.

To most buyers: now it turns out that someone likes it. In fairness, I thought the house was salvageable and the Merritt noise well buffered, so if someone wanted a starter home at a reasonable price (which I'm guessing will be below $1.1), the buy makes sense.

I wouldn't want to try a $4 million spec house here, however.

Stevie Wonder: "Global warming causes stupidity"

protesting against transgenders?

Headline lifted from this author, who reports on blind boy Stevie blaming Aretha Franklin's pancreatic cancer on global warming.

It's official: the country has gone totally insane

This is a leftist's brain on drugs

NASCAR racer loses sponsor because his father used "the N word" in an interview in 1982

“NASCAR Xfinity driver Conor Daly has lost one of his sponsors because of a racial slur made by his racing driver father in the 1980s before he was even born.

Lilly Diabetes said in a statement on Friday that it was pulling sponsorship of Conor’s No.6 car in the NASCAR Xfinity race at Road America, citing the racially insensitive remark made by his father Derek Daly that surfaced this week.

The company said in a statement that its sponsorship was intended to raise awareness for treatment options and resources for people living with diabetes.

’Unfortunately, the comments that surfaced this week by Derek Daly distract from this focus, so we have made the decision that Lilly Diabetes will no longer run the No. 6 at Road America this weekend,’ Lilly said.”

“In a statement, Derek said he admitted to using the slur during the interview. Derek, who had just moved to the US at the time, said the term had a different meaning and connotation in his native Ireland.

He said he was ‘mortified’ when he learned how the term was used in America and has never used it since then.

His 26-year-old son wasn’t born when he made the comment.”

Newsweek might have been right: the governing majority might well be socialists come November. Get out and vote.

"It's the cherokee way! And il Duce's"

Elizabeth Warren espouses what I fear is the sentiment of most of our under-60 citizens have been trained to believe since entering school:

Pocahontas' latest proposal for reforming our economic system

And her inspiration? Where's ANTIFA here?

So what's left to do, if policing is banned and morals are rejected?

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, having ordered the police to step down, now under fire for suggesting that black citizens assert moral authority to stop the mayhem.

“After one particularly violent weekend earlier this month when more than 70 people were shot, Emanuel deflected questions about police staffing and strategy. Instead, he ignited a firestorm when he said there needs to be a politically incorrect conversation about character and values.

“This may not be politically correct,” he said, “but I know the power of what faith and family can do. … Our kids need that structure. … I am asking … that we also don’t shy away from a full discussion about the importance of family and faith helping to develop and nurture character, self-respect, a value system and a moral compass that allows kids to know good from bad and right from wrong.”

He added: “If we’re going to solve this … we’ve got to have a real discussion. … Parts of the conversation cannot be off-limits because it’s not politically comfortable. … We are going to discuss issues that have been taboo in years past because they are part of the solution. … We also have a responsibility to help nurture character. It plays a role. Our kids need that moral structure in their lives. And we cannot be scared to have this conversation.”

Rev. Gregory Livingston of Newhope Baptist Church in Chicago slams Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s leadership.Video
Would a change in leadership curb crime in Chicago?

Critics quickly called him out for what they dubbed tone-deaf comments, in which he seemed to be blaming the victims.”

Those "victims" are gang members (and unfortunates in the way of those shooters' poor aim — rather than impose totally worthless gun control laws, the city should offer free weapons training). If black Chicagoans want to save their young men, they might want to reconsider their "Black Lives Matter" campaign — it wasn't cops that shot 70 of them in a single weekend — and pass out copies of Denzel Washington's movie, "The Equalizer", where, paraphrasing, he tells a young hood, "I don't care whether your mother was a crack whore, your papa was a pimp, what you have is choice". A renewal of moral teaching might help.

An unfair competition

nothing to see here, move along, move along

Hartford hotels are the cheapest in New England "vacation centers". I went to school in Hartford back in the late 70s. Other than Mark Twain's house, there was absolutely nothing of interest in the city then, and I'm sure (though I've never returned) there's less so now. If prices are set by supply and demand, there's probably one lost, befuddled family  of vacationers for every thousand hotel rooms in that blighted city, and they probably check out by midnight on the first day.