Thursday Morning Breakfast For The Brain

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Toxic Masculinity: ‘Journalist’ Writes Boston Globe Column Urging Waiters to Pee, Bleed On Kirstjen Nielsen’s Food

Via Red State

I wrote earlier today about The Resistance™’s campaign to starve outgoing DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a job in the private sector. Their rationale is Nielsen’s participation in the so-called “child-separation” southern border immigration policy.

In that piece, I noted that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) in particular was using her Twitter bullhorn to encourage her over-1 million followers to treat Nielsen as a “pariah” in her private life:

Left wing columnists, activists, and academics have also piled on this week, suggesting that Nielsen and other Trump administration officials should be “shunned from public life.”

Well, the flames have been sufficiently fanned and now the even more uhinged among them are weighing in, too. One in particular is Luke O’Neil, a freelance writer based in Massachusetts.

In today’s Boston Globe, O’Neil gave his .02 on the issue, starting off with some regrets from his days as a waiter (bolded emphasis added):

One of the biggest regrets of my life is not pissing in Bill Kristol’s salmon. I was waiting on the disgraced neoconservative pundit and chief Iraq War cheerleader about 10 years ago at a restaurant in Cambridge and to my eternal dismay, some combination of professionalism and pusillanimity prevented me from appropriately seasoning his entree. A ramekin of blood on the side might have been the better option, come to think of it. He always did seem really thirsty for the stuff.

Sounds charming, doesn’t he? Unfortunately, it gets worse.

In the last paragraph, after whining about Nielsen’s tenure as DHS Secretary, agreeing she should be shouted out of restaurants, and basically calling her a murderer, he posted this suggestion to wait staffs across America, to do what he hadn’t done all those years ago when he had the chance (bolded emphasis added):

As for the waiters out there, I’m not saying you should tamper with anyone’s food, as that could get you into trouble. You might lose your serving job. But you’d be serving America. And you won’t have any regrets years later.

Read the entire article HERE.

Sharpton, Reparations, and the Democrats

Via The American Thinker

It’s time to close the bank of white guilt.

Candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential primary election appeared at the National Action Network (NAN) annual conference. There they all bowed down at the altar of white guilt. One after another the mostly white candidates kissed the ring of the founder and leader of NAN, and the new pope of the Democratic Party primaries, the Reverend Al Sharpton. As Sharpton watched over his flock, each presidential aspirant professed support for a policy that fits squarely within Sharpton’s lifelong modus operandi — using America’s original sin of slavery to shake dollars out of Americans suffering from white guilt.

Many know the reverend as the well-coiffed and bespoke talking head on the liberal MSNBC news talk show, “Politics Nation.” However, before his made-for-TV makeover, Sharpton was a notorious race hustler and anti-Semite who played a central role in one of the biggest race hoaxes in modern times. He championed the 15-year-old black girl Tawana Brawley, who falsely accused six white men of rape, and actually got a judgment for defamation entered against him. He stoked anti-Semitic riots in Crown Heights, which led to the killing of a Jewish scholar, and in Harlem, which led to the shooting of four employees of the Jewish-owned Freddy’s Fashion Mart before it was set on fire, burning to death seven more.

Moving from the streets to the boardroom, Sharpton formed NAN with its motto of “No Justice. No Peace.” Through NAN, he perfected the art of the shakedown — no peace unless NAN received “just” compensation. Sharpton would accuse major American corporations of racism and use the threat of boycotts to coerce companies into making financial contributions to NAN or to himself personally. Sharpton is using similar tactics in the world of politics. He supports a bill sponsored by Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX), titled the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act.” The bill calls for “apology and compensation to begin the long-delayed process of atonement for slavery.”

Read the entire article HERE.

Ken Starr says Hillary Clinton DID trigger Vince Foster’s suicide when she humiliated him in front of White House staff

Via The Daily Mail

Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, is the New York Times bestselling author of The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, The Secrets of the FBI and The Trump White House.

Ken Starr purposefully left out the finding that Hillary Clinton had ‘triggered’ the suicide of President Clinton’s Deputy White House Counsel in his final FBI report to spare her feelings, DailyMail.com can reveal.

FBI agents investigating the death of Vince Foster learned he was set off after Hillary attacked and humiliated him in front of other White House aides a week before he took his own life on July 20, 1993.

But for what were then unexplained reasons, Starr elected to conceal the FBI’s finding that Hillary’s tirade triggered Foster’s suicide when he wrote his final report on the matter.

At a reception for authors participating in the 2019 Annapolis Book Festival last weekend, I asked Starr why he omitted the damaging FBI finding.

At first, he beat around the bush, citing well-established facts indicating that Foster was already depressed before Hillary lashed into him at the White House meeting.

But when pressed, Starr admitted he ‘did not want to inflict further pain’ on Hillary by revealing that her humiliation of Foster a week before he took his own life pushed him over the edge.

Read the entire article HERE.

Busted: Thousands Of Amazon Employees Listening To Alexa Conversations

Via Zero Hedge

Amazon employs thousands of people to listen in on what people around the world are saying to their Alexa digital assistant, according to what is sure to be a Congressional hearing-inspiring report by Bloomberg, which cites seven people who have worked on the program.

While their job is to “help improve” NSAlexa – which powers the company’s line of Echo speakers – the team “listens to voice recordings captured in Echo owners’ homes and offices,” which are then transcribed, annotated and fed back into the software in order to try and improve Alexa’s understanding of human speech for more successful interactions. In other words, humans are effectively helping to train Amazon’s algorithm.

The listening team is comprised of part-time contractors and full-time Amazon employees based all over the world; including India, Romania, Boston and Costa Rica.

Listeners work nine hour shifts, with each reviewing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift according to two employees from Amazon’s Bucharest office – located in the top three floors of the Romanian capital’s Globalworth building. The location “stands out amid the crumbling infrastructure” of the Pipera district and “bears no exterior sign advertising Amazon’s presence.”

While much of the work is boring (one worker said his job was to mine for accumulated voice data for specific phrases such as “Taylor Swift” – letting the system know that the searcher was looking for the artist), reviewers are also listening on people’s most personal moments.

Read the entire article HERE.

Gillette image of plus-size model in bikini sparks outrage

Via CBS News

Gillette is making waves with a photo it tweeted of an obese woman posing on a beach in a bikini, with her curves and cellulite on full display.

The razor maker last week posted the image of Anna O’Brien, a plus-size fashion, fitness and lifestyle blogger, under its @GilletteVenus handle, captioning it, “Go out there and slay the day.” Some Twitter users said the ad glamorizies obesity and that Gillette is “irresponsibly” promoting an unhealthy lifestyle for profit.

“This woman will die of heat disease before @potus completes his second term. I hope she’s just as happy and carefree for her last 6 years of life. Everybody should live themselves, but lets not call it healthy,” one twitter user wrote.

Some commenters defended O’Brien while keeping their aim focused on Gillette. “There’s no reason to be rude or unkind to someone who is obese and there is no reason @GilletteVenus should be encouraging life threatening obesity.

Read the entire article HERE.

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