ill deal with Paris and with the higher ed meltdown later

I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN WORDS MEANT SOMETHING: And not whatever a crazy cakes reporter thinks they mean. Melissa Harris-Perry to Guest: ‘Hard Worker’ Is Offensive Term Due to Slavery, Working Women.

IF YOU’RE HEARING DOG WHISTLES, YOU’RE THE DOG: MSNBC Host: When Republicans Say The Phrase ‘Hard Worker’ They’re Being Racist.

Huh — I thought “lazy” was the racist word, besides words like “golf” and “Chicago.” Man, the pages you have to keep ripping out of your Newspeak Dictionary as the updates come in.

PRESIDENT PISSY: Man Who’s Whined About Fox News for Seven Years Accuses Republicans of Being Thin-Skinned.

His premise is incorrect anyway. If Obama had stood up to Putin the way Ted Cruz stood up to John Harwood, our foreign policy might not be such a complete debacle.

1. oklahoma IF the win the last three

2. Clemson.  duh

3.  Alabama.  because i think theres a rule that tou MUST have an SEC school

4.  Buckeyrs.  see also FSU 2014

Baylor will lose to the Sooners.  same for TCU.  Stanford/notre Dame winner should be the clear #5

in the NFL its Pats v Bengals and Cardinals v Packers shades of 2010

a little late NOT THE ONION: Hillary Clinton Campaign proffers “How to be Hillary for Halloween” tips:

HILLARY VOWS: I’ll go further than Obama in granting amnesty to illegals:

This clip comes from her speech at Saturday night’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Iowa, incidentally, the other highlight of which involved her baselessly smearing Bernie Sanders as sexist for complaining about her “shouting” over gun control. I can’t think of two more representative soundbites to sum up the case for Hillary 2016, such as it is, than whining about phony bias against women and trying to outdo Obama in pandering to minority voters. Exit question: Does she actually refer to illegals as “law-abiding” here?

George Orwell, call your office.

Hillary Had No State Department Computer. Was She Ever Really Sec. of State?

ANDREW KLAVAN: HILLARY LIES GREAT!

The left cheered Hillary’s testimony as one of her best campaign appearances and “presidential,” not because she told the truth, not because her lies were plausible, but because her lies were well-delivered. Her performance was the sort of thing an ordinary stupid voter might fall for. So like…  hooray.

Tapscott is right that lying is our biggest political and media problem — but only commentators on the right think it’s a problem at all. To those on the left, it’s a feature not a bug. The leftwing media are living in a post-modern world where words mean nothing, truth is relative and owning the winning narrative is all.

And it could well be enough to drag her over the finish line. Read the whole thing.

HILLARY CLINTON (OR A REASONABLE ONION-OGRAPHIC SIMULATION): I AM FUN:

Did I mention that I enjoy free time? Free time is when I generally have the fun I have mentioned above, and when I am the most fun myself. This is not to say I am not fun at other times, because I can be fun in any context as long as it is not inappropriate to do so. But I have found that free time is among the best times for fun. Do you agree? Perhaps this is yet another way in which you and I are similar.

You have seen how fun I can be, and that I do not take myself too seriously. Because of this, I am relatable.

I have completed my argument, but I would like to reiterate the fact that I take pleasure in having fun and being fun, just like the majority of Americans. Americans such as yourself. Now that I have presented adequate evidence for the existence of my fun, accessible nature, there will be no need to revisit this subject going forward. Thank you.

I am fun.

Well, I’m sold.

FIVE CAN’T-MISS HILLARY EMAILS FROM NEW BATCH: “And, as we see, Ben Affleck was able to contact Hillary directly (as we learned in the recent Benghazi hearing, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens did not have her contact info).”

As Stephen Miller tweets, the ad writes itself, doesn’t it?

HILLARY HECKLED, CNN HARDEST HIT: Suzanne Malveaux Acts Shocked that BLM Protesters Interrupted Hillary.

Hillary’s lame response? “‘I’m actually going to get to some point that prove that black lives do matter,’ is the best improvisation [Hillary] could come up with,” Steve Hayward adds at Power Line.

WHAT DIFFERENCE, AT THIS POINT, DOES IT MAKE? S.E. Cupp: Clinton shrugs off the deaths of 300,000 veterans.

Related: Hillary Clinton accused of flip flopping, waffling, by… Eliot Spitzer.

Plus: Hmmm: White House will block release of Hillary e-mails to … Barack Obama. Nothing to hide, I’m sure.  they were probably discussing transparency.

IF THE REPUBLICAN ISLAND SHRINKS ANYMORE: There won’t be a blue district outside NYC and Chicago. Whose Shrinking Island?

OH, LIGHT BRINGER, SON OF THE MORNING MEDIA, HOW HAST THOU FALLEN: The Obama Legacy: Over 1,000 Democratic Seats Lost to Republicans.

LATEST DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SCIENCE THEORY: BARACK OBAMA AIN’T NOBODY SPECIAL:and Rand finally listens to me Rand Paul: “If you want less income inequality, move to a city with a Republican mayor.”

The Top Ten of 1925

my list

Blogger Q&A: What is Your Favorite Horror Comedy?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Stamp Out Cultural Marxism In A Single Generation, from Brandon Smith at the Zero-Hedge econoblog

HE WHO CONTROLS THE NARRATIVE CONTROLS THE FUTURE: The myth at the heart of Palestinians’ dilemma.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Hits All-Time High.

ANNALS OF OBSOLESCENCE: Terry Teachout writes that some technologies merely make our lives easier. Others are far more transformative — and not everyone can adapt:

This distinction isn’t as widely understood as it should be. Most new technologies make our lives easier without changing them other than superficially. The compact disc, for example, was a convenience, not a revolution. Unlike the iPod, it didn’t alter our relationship to the world of music. The answering machine, by contrast, really did transform the way in which we used the telephone by making it possible to screen incoming calls. As soon as that possibility became a reality, the place of the telephone in daily life underwent a profound change, and never changed back.

Not everyone is open to such change. Sooner or later each generation comes to a great technological divide, a chasm that most of its aging members are unable or unwilling to cross. For my mother, who was born mere weeks before the Great Depression, that chasm was the invention of the personal computer. She owned an answering machine—I bought it for her—but she never screened her calls, nor did she learn how to use a computer. When the PC became a routine part of American life, she was officially old. The world had passed her by.

 

SHARYL ATTKISSON: Hillary Clinton’s public vs. private Benghazi facts. “Hillary Clinton presented one set of Benghazi facts to her own family; another to the family of the victims and the American public.”

I’M BEGINNING TO THINK THAT SHE’S JUST NOT ALL THAT UPSET WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE WHO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY: Hillary: hey, that VA scandal wasn’t that big of a deal.

JUST WHAT WE NEED IN A PRESIDENT, RIGHT: Benghazi hearings show that Clinton lives in a bubble of deniability.

MARTIN O’MALLEY: ‘CLINTON HAS CHANGED HER POSITION ON VIRTUALLY EVERY DEFINING ISSUE.’ Curiously, he doesn’t mean it as a compliment, despite appearing on Democrat house organ MSNBC

shot: IT’S A BAD ONE: The FBI & Hillary’s e-mails: A Lois Lerner precedent?

chaser: IRS’ LOIS LERNER SKATES; AN UGLY PRECEDENT IS SET: “IRS officials now know they can go after any political opponent they want, ruin them any way they wish, swing an election — as occurred with Lerner’s actions — and get away with it,” Investor’s Business Daily notes:

The Top Ten Films of 1965

Interesting article this week over at smartfootball.com   should the comitee aelect the four BEST teams or the nost DESERVING teams   my subtitle?  undefeated?  so what? 

alabama loss to ole miss?  count em out  but theyARE one of the four best teams

clemson?  undisputed

baylor?  no schedule?  no respect  beat somebody good and well talk

tcu?  legit  and will be moreso after a win at okie state today

oklahoma?  see alabama above

ohio state?  schedule issues but that vanishes as the month wears on

florida and notre dame?  that single loss looms large

best teams: oklahoma, clemson, alabama and the baylor/tcu winner on 11/27

most deserving: clemson tcu ohio state and the winner of alabama/lsu