The 11 Obama "assassination attempts" include (not making this up)
- a Hispanic man shot 25 rounds at the White House from his truck when Obama was in another state
- an accountant was at a waffle house when he said he wanted to kill Obama
- an extremist Irish Islamist gave an interview to a major newspaper and said he wished that he could assassinate Obama
- a "death ray" plot in which 2 rednecks planned to use x-rays to kills Obama (and also Jews)
- a Walking Dead actress sent Obama a letter with ricin in an attempt to incriminate her husband
A few days ago, I asked @JeremiahDJohns where the data from this chart came from.
I dug around and found out. It turns out that, surprise surprise, the data was tortured to produce this result.
Link in the replies
No, FEMA is not screwing blue states. The OpenFEMA data has been carefully manipulated, boiling 2,500 disaster declarations down to a set of 45 data points that would push the narrative that Politico wanted to push
Oh look, another high-profile anti-homeschooling article
There is a 100% chance that this article will cite the Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE), which is an organization started by angry atheist ex-homeschoolers
I found out about CRHE b/c I went to college with one of the founders. The org basically emails journalists and says "you should write an article about how bad home schooling is, we will help you write it".
Then the "journalists" write the article that the CRHE requested.
It is so reliable, it's astonishing. Every single freaking time. Every single freaking article. Their "expert" is ALWAYS someone from the CRHE.
Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live
Ebert was a gem and I will never hear a word against him. He loved movies. He loved stupid movies and brilliant movies. He loved trash and genius. He loved watching directors pour their heart out onto the screen, even if they failed.
"Ebert was a woke lib" I don't give a shit
Ebert is the guy who pointed me to @MarkSteynOnline b/c he saw that Steyn was a good movie critic. Ebert recognized that in Steyn b/c Ebert wasn't a hack. He was a hard-core liberal but he knew movies and he respected them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates and I agree that there is a line. When people cross the line, conversation between the two sides is no longer possible. That line for both of us is the dehumanization of others.
For me, that means celebrating their death, believing that the world is a better place without them
For Coates, that means "hurling epitaphs" at people
I read through it, scan down to a table where I'd like to investigate the source. I click "Get the data" and I get... the same table, but in Excel format