A still of Peter Lorre from a great film: M?

Andrew for now the fifth time and almost word for word you repeat the same mealy-mouthed statement "NED did not fund GDI's activities in the U.S." This is a devious obfuscation of reality. What NED did do was fund GDI with full awareness that GDI was running a censorship operation in the U.S media market. This amounts to a distinction without a difference. I have given numerous links on this thread that exposes the NED/GDI/Censorship connection and here is another link " https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3148525/embattled-state-department-office-funding-censorship-groups/. The following sentence is an excerpt from this link "Moreover, the report argues the National Endowment for Democracy, a State Department-funded nonprofit group that awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to GDI, “violated its international restrictions by collaborating with fact-checking entities in assessing domestic press businesses’ admission to a credibility organization." The report referred to is the The Congressional report titled "Instruments and Casualties of the Censorship-Industrial Complex" . The report stated the following "The NED grant documents show that the NED was aware of the GDI’s work in the U.S. media market at the time of funding." Here is the House Committee report in full. https://smallbusiness.house.gov/uploadedfiles/house_committee_on_small_business_-_cic_report_september_2024.pdf...At this point Andrew it is clear that no amount of evidence that I provide will sway you because truth is obviously not your main priority nor does it appear to be a central part of your value system. This is perhaps the primary distinction between us. To the best of my abilities I always try to reach my conclusions based on facts and evidence regardless of my own personal ideology or agenda. It is quite clear that you reach your conclusions based on your own personal ideology or agenda regardless of the facts and evidence. This is the biggest take away from our exchange on this thread.

NED did not fund GDI's activities on the U.S. There is zero evidence of that. This exchange demonstrates, yet again, that MAGA thinking is unAmerican and that people who hide behind fake names are cowards.

There is an analogy to be made here Andrew but it is not in the convoluted and nonsensical example that you laid out. The better comparison is between GDIs censorship campaign which targeted conservative news outlets and the Fast and Furious operation where firearms were sent to Mexican drug gangs resulting in hundreds of deaths including a U.S Border Patrol agent. Both of these operations were reprehensible and were aided or orchestrated by their benefactors in the former case NED which funded GDI with full knowledge that it was conducting censorship operations and in the later case using the ATF during the Obama administration and under the direction of AG Eric Holder... As a U.S taxpayer my tax dollars funded both of these nefarious operations which I am outraged by... Could you please put the tired pseudonym argument to rest. My semi-anonymous identity is immaterial to the discussion at hand. It is obvious that as a defense mechanism you are using your objection to pseudonyms as a diversionary tactic in order to distract from NEDs culpability in the GDI censorship controversy.

Let's say he tells you his name is Ed Jones? That will somehow make you happy? Doubt it. You imply legal action against people in the comments section - granted it's an empty threat - yet you want them to divulge their names? So bizarre.

You pay taxes to USG? Ok, so you are responsible for "Fast and Furious" by your logic. Are you secretly Eric Holder? All that MAGA masculinity, but lacking the courage to state your name.

You have done it again Andrew. For the fourth time on this thread and almost word for word is the statement "NED did not fund GDI's work on the U.S." I have to give the NED attorney's credit, they have done a good job of keeping you on script and because NED's funding of GDI was not earmarked to go towards GDI's censorship operation the way the statement is phrased shields NED with a layer of separation and plausible deniability even though at the time of NED's funding of GDI it was quite apparent that GDI was censoring conservative U.S news outlets. It wasn't until this indefensible funding scheme was exposed and NED got caught that they then cut ties with GDI. And you refer to this behavior as exemplary? Once they were caught NED had no other option but to cut ties with GDI and had they not been caught it's reasonable to believe that the NED to GDI funding/censorship scheme would have continued.... As far as my using a pseudonym if I listed my real name on my comments say 'Sam Smith' or 'John Jones' the two words you would likely say is "who's that?" And you would be correct in thinking that. I am not a journalist or a publicly prominent person so unlike yourself or others on this site that post articles and then comment using their real names or derivations of their real names for me to use my real name would be for the most part irrelevant to the discussion on this topic.

In the late 70's, my fellow junior programmers and I would spend some lunch hours smoking joints on Dutch Street. We called it Dutch Alley though, which makes me think the city street sign had this downgraded classification for a few years. A burger joint near the John Street end had windows and possibly an entrance on Dutch Alley. I do not remember its name, but an advertisement, painted on the building above the windows, touted "the burger with a college education". This apparently referred to The College of Insurance, a school of underwriting and actuarial science, then located in upper stories over the shops on John St.

I recall epic team dodgeball matches in the gym on days when rain or snow blocked outdoor recess. I understand it is no longer a suitable game in public schools, as it requires trying to hit the opponent with the ball. Another argument for school choice vouchers.

Just let me know if you want to sue me - one of those "internet researchers" - Andrew. I'll provide you with my full name. But with your thin skin, maybe you should publish work only where it can't be critiqued by "potentially libelous" commenters?

Is logic now illegal? NED did not fund GDI's work on the U.S. and took exemplary steps afterwards to cut ties to GDI to fully address all concerns. I note that NED's incredible work assisting dissidents is of no interest to the internet researchers posting above under pseudonyms.

Andrew, there has been no refutation by you of the evidence provided by the investigative journalists which I linked to in a previous comment that exposed NED funding of GDI and GDI running a censorship operation targeting conservative U.S news sources which was backed up by U.S Senator Grassley in his letter to NED. These facts have been well established which is why NED cut funding to GDI once the scheme was exposed. But instead of addressing these glaring facts you state that "NED did not fund GDI’s work on the U.S" and you stated this in three different comments on this thread almost as if you were coached to say that by a NED affiliated attorney. I see what you are doing here Andrew. By creating a separation between NED and GDI and GDIs censorship operations against certain U.S news outlets you are trying to absolve NED of any culpability. I am not a lawyer and perhaps this sleight of hand approach using slithery legalese as a maneuvering tool might work in a courtroom but it doesn't fly in the court of public opinion and particularly among those who think logically and rationally.... Let me put this as succinctly as possible. I U.S citizen Crestrider pays thousands of dollars every year in taxes. The U.S sends those tax dollars to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars to fund NED. U.S funded NED then sends hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund GDI. GDI sets up a censorship operation targeting conservative and libertarian news outlets. As Senator Grassley pointed out GDIs censorship operation was no secret and knowing what GDI was up to NED continued to fund GDI probably because they were simpatico with the corrupt ethos of GDI. As a consumer of news from these censored news outlets I U.S citizen Crestrider and tens of millions of people like me who value the freedom of information are justifiably outraged that our tax dollars funded an organization like NED that purposely violated the principles of the first amendment.. As for lawsuits the people who knowingly perpetrated this censorship operation on U.S news outlets using U.S taxpayer money and in clear violation of the first amendment should be brought before the courts and those that support and defend this corrupt racket should be publicly lambasted.

So the nation is insolvent now? Must have missed that one. And at what point will DOGE bring it to solvency?

Urban progressives who finally discovered markets were good for charter schools and getting a cab were called Ubertarians for a bit. Maybe we need a new word for the ones who have no discovered that government is why the rent is too damn high.

Activists, the hectoring, scolding voices of the progressive movement, are what have wrecked the Democratic Party. What they need is leaders who can override the activists.

Love the irrelevant comments.

I wrote more about space oligarchy: https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/oligarchs-in-bed-with-autocrats-would?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=tn2fl&triedRedirect=true

Perhaps I'm liberty-curious and liberty-flexible. And besides, don't "liberals," including RINOS, believe you should accept government control of your life if the government is giving you housing and a full belly? It's really just what you asked for all Americans, but out of hospitality the illegals get it first.

A non-libertarian statement if I ever I heard one.

They probably get more to eat in the El Salvador prison than they would on the street in Caracas.

This piece says the alleged Tren de Aragua were "sent to an El Salvador prison" (correct), "sent home" (incorrect), and "sent to Venezuela" (incorrect). It's like reality shifts with each paragraph.

I find this piece laughably irrelevant and uninformed. Elon, Tulsi, RFK Jr. etc. are pushovers with no goals or principles you can just boss around? Flattering and manipulating foreign leaders and dictators to get them to do what we want is "sucking up"? (I'm not sure most liberals are smart enough to see it could be something else.) Americans should be enslaved by international agreements made by Biden, Obama etc. because "we promised." Please keep it up. You and Jasmine Crocket will have the GOP sweeping every office in 2026.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/08/04/a-rare-ideas-night-as-2-candidates-for-president-debate/39426ddc-3c49-433b-aa0d-c9aac52d104c/

As presidential candidate Ed Clark said in his 1980 debate with Barry Commoner, we could be "one big happy company."

A loving/moving biography of Les Baxter: https://lesbaxter.com/pages/biography

This is great. please add a blusky link one of these days.

Just saw it yesterday. She was terrific.

Kamala Harris makes a surprise SNL cameo appearance on the weekend before the election and gets rewarded with a slobbery kiss from SNL and their informal endorsement. Unlike the SNL portrayal of Kamala from early in October where she was humorously mocked this appearance was a cringe inducing fawning over her by SNL which came across as contrived and particularly unfunny ..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-rqlU4ZWw...I'm sure this Kamala SNL appearance and portrayal by Maya Rudolph got Howard Sterns full approval though.. .For a minute there I thought SNL was getting back to it's roots of prioritizing comedy and being funny but I guess I jumped the gun on that. For SNL it is back to their primary objective of being left wing propagandists..

There was a time when the politically incorrect Howard Stern tested the social boundaries with his unique and edgy form of humor. In recent years Howard Stern has become a tyrannical establishment weasel. During the Covid-19 epidemic he said "When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it's mandatory to get vaccinated? F--- 'em. F--- their freedom. I want my freedom to live," He said this months after the data proved that the Covid vaccine did not prevent people from getting infected or from becoming infectious... In this recent butt kissing interview with Kamala Harris he criticized SNL comedian Maya Rudolph"s mocking portrayal of Kamala saying " I hate it. I don't want you being made fun of." How dare comedy get in the way of his political agenda. What a sad pathetic stooge Howard Stern has become.

Their best album. I will never stop listening to it.

Decades ago, I was at a party in my uncle's Manhattan high-rise apartment when the building suddenly filled with smoke and we had to evacuate down the stairs. My uncle grabbed a Picasso lithograph, and I grabbed a big tray of roast beef.

Great pic of Riverrun. Really miss that place!

In college I had a bartending job at Steak and Ale. Tips were good so I always had a couple hundred bucks in my wallet. It felt good to be a student and be able to walk into any restaurant that I felt like dining at. I rarely did that, but it was still a good feeling to know that I could.

As former Friendly's waitress of the year, Friendly's is always a yes. Wattamelon roll FTW

Loved Friendly's growing up in NJ. Fribble, hot-dog on toasted buttered roll, and fries was a great way to go. I also miss the diners with jukeboxes. After a night of drinking, your party could get anything from breakfast to a hot open-faced turkey sandwich at one place at 2 AM. Diners are considered a theme restaurant here in Texas and a poor facsimile at that. I like Five guys fries but they obviously don't compare to Nathan's fries. I always thought Roy Rodgers was best quality of those chains but haven't seen one in decades and good riddance to Arthur Treachers! If you're going with fried food, why choose fish? Last time I had Ritz crackers was when my girls were young, and they would suck/drool them soggy while in their car seats. Good cracker though, when dry

Oh I see it's Booker. Is that another child? How big is your tribe?