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Justifiable Homicide: Black youth in peril, 'An Executive Decision' -Part 2 Continued | AfricanAmerica.org
Justifiable Homicide: Black youth in peril, 'An Executive Decision' -Part 2 Continued
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BY THE HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN | LAST UPDATED: SEP 30, 2014 - 11:59:30 AM
What's your opinion on this article?
[Editor's note: On November 4, 2007, live via a national webcast from Mosque Maryam in Chicago, Illinois, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan continued his series speaking to Black, Red and Brown youth about the plans and aims of the wise of the United States of America to destroy them, as well as the conspiracy that youth have become caught in to aid in their own destruction. The following is the last of several excerpts from that address. Visit http://store.finalcall.com to order this important lecture in its entirety.]
Do you believe that there is a God? You do? This magnificent thing called creation didn't just pop up; there is a Creator behind it. Well, if there is a God, is there a Devil? And if, in the Book of Psalms it says, "Ye are all gods, children of the Most High God," are there groups of devils that are children of the most high Satan? According to the Book of Revelations, if, when the seventh angel sounds his trumpet, the mystery of God will be finished, then the revelation of one is the revelation of the other, because if the mystery of God is finished, then the mystery of Satan and his devils is also finished. I want to introduce you to God, and also introduce you to Satan that has planned our destruction and how we can beat the plan.
The U.S. government's desire for world depopulation
In a national security memo dated April 24, 1974 titled, "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for the United States Security and Overseas Interest," Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, indicated: "Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the Third World." Depopulation—to depopulate something means: "To ravage, to ruin, to reduce the population of, especially by violence, disease, etc." Mr. Kissinger continued, "The United States economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries"—this means they are going to destroy the population of mainly Third World countries.
The policy paper titled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses," is the "white paper" of the neoconservatives in their Project for a New American Century. On page 60 it states: "The art of warfare will be vastly different than it is today. Combat likely will take place in new dimensions. Advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes, may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
A genotype is, "A race or a kind; it is the fundamental constitution of an organism in terms of its hereditary factors." This means that these wisescientists of death are making pathogens, which is something that can cause a disease. They are creating this as a means of depopulating our planet of undesirables, a process called culling the population. To cull means: "To pick out; to select in order to discard or destroy; to discard or destroy unwarranted parts; something rejected as not being up to standard." So, if you are poor and ignorant; if you are Black or Brown, you are being selected for destruction.
Means and methods of depopulation
What is the method that they are going to use to depopulate?Through civil wars in which depleted uranium and Agent Orange are used. Currently, there are 39 states in America that have already been polluted by depleted uranium. Look at thetarget areas: El Salvador—what is there in El Salvador that America wants? It is oil. America already has a military base, embassy, and CIA operatives working to kill off the Indigenous population so that nobody can threaten their takeover of oil.
Another method is disease infection through bio-weapons such as Ebola and AIDS, which are race targeting weapons. There is a weapon that can be put in a room where there are Black and White people, and it will kill only the Black and spare the White, because it is a genotype weapon that is designed for your genes, for your race, for your kind.
Look at this, the crops contaminated with altered DNA that sterilizes the consumer. I know you all love McDonald's and Wendy's, and all of the fast food stores that are predominately in the Black and Latino community, but how do you kill a fool? You kill him through his natural desire to eat, and you kill him and her through their taste buds. It tastes good, but it is not good.
The forced sterilization programs that are going on right now among Native Americans are also going on among you with new birth control devices. It's not an accident that when I was coming up there was no sex on television; when you saw a man and a woman enter a room, a nature scene would come up and then you were left to your imagination. Today, there isn't anything left to the imagination.
The U.S. government is killing people by toxic food, water, air and medicine. Turn on your TV and just stop a moment and count the number of food and pill commercials. The pharmaceutical companies are marketing death by making medicines to make us sick, so as to make more money out of treating our illnesses before we die. Well, they're going to kill you anyway, but they're going to get rich in the process of killing you with your pains.
Then, the U.S. government creates mass hysteria: "Oh my God, the terrorists are coming! We'd better kill them over there before we have to fight them over here. The terrorists are coming!"—and you are sitting there in your house terrified because the TV is just herding you like sheep.
From 1932-1972, wicked White scientists inflicted Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama with syphilis. They knew that these Black men had syphilis, but did not let the men know that they were being used. The men copulated with many Black women, spreading syphilis through our community, and when they became terribly sick, those "doctors" would never treat the men for syphilis. Thirty years later; 40 years later, the truth comes out.
What kind of mind could take you in a room and give you an inoculation that you think is one thing, but it is something else? See, nobody could do this but a devil. I'm not talking about some spook devil—I'm talking about a real devil that can breathe and has hands and a brain to think evil!
I don't want anyone to think I'm a racist; if any of you that are here that think of yourselves as White, don't look at me like I'm a hater, because everything I say, I can prove it and will die on it! I'm not against any race; I am against the evil that men of that race are planning against my people.
Selective breeding: The rulers and the ruled
In the Bible, Paul said, "We war not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's up in high places." What I want to do is bring the high places right down so you can look at these people.
Bertran Russell, a British philosopher and mathematician, said: "Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and the ruled will increase until they become almost two different species."
Then there is Margaret Sanger, who in 1939, began to target Blacks by creating what is called the "Negro Project" to promote birth control and sterilization specifically within the Black community. She supposed it would help solve the problem of "Southern Negro poverty"—see how they put a nice face on murder?
Ms. Sanger said that in order to carry out the plan, she sought the support of prominent, Black ministers and political leaders: "The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal." We don't want to get the word out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it occurs to any one of their more rebellious members.
It is dangerous to be a preacher today that's going to be an apologist for a system that is destructive of your people; it is dangerous to be a political leader who is an apologist for the conspiracy and the conspirators after you know.
The Black community's civil war
The world is at war, and some of us know and some of us don't. The Bible teaches that the people in the days of Noah were boogying, partying and having a good time when the end came. And the homosexuals in Sodom and Gomorrah, they were also having a good time when the end came. The enemy today has got you, now, bumping and grinding, but the end is in sight and he keeps you away from seeing by partying and looking at yourself. In the 1960s, we knew who the enemy was.
In the 1960s, we could turn on the TV at night and see Martin Luther King Jr.; we would see the Civil Rights leaders; Bull Conner. We would see fire hoses and dogs and cattle prods. And we'd see the enemy beating our people down. We knew who the enemy was! But two generations later, you go in the Black community now and ask them, "Who is the enemy?" We have become the enemy to one another.
When you look at the murder rate in the Black community, this is civil war. In one year, out of the 20,000 homicides throughout America, 46 percent of them were "us killing us." That means in one year, nearly 9,000 young Black men died from murder—not by a White police force, but by us. Look at all of the funerals that are happening inside the community right now. Mothers, you are taking your son, your daughter to their final resting place because of gang conflict; it was something going on in the community. How can a White policeman's killing of a Black Brother warrant more response from Black community leaders than our shooting of one another?
The enemy is watching the disunity of Black leaders, who argue and fight each other in the public. The enemy says, "Oh well, what the hell, they're not united, so let's show them that we ain't got no fear of what they are doing."So they took Mychal Bell of The Jena Six, picked him right back up on an old charge and sentenced him to 18 months in jail. That is a horrible miscarriage of justice. So Father Michael Pfleger, Harry Belafonte, Reverend Al Sharpton and others decided to have a march on the Justice Department, because the Justice Department is really failing Black people. It's true. I sent a message to them, stating that I will join them in a march on the Justice Department because it has failed, but I said, "Look at the statistics: It is not them killing us from the police side of this thing—it is us killing us. So, I don't mind marching with you to the Justice Department, but let us mobilize our people and let us go in our community and get our young people and stop them from the senseless killing of one another, and then fight to give them jobs and opportunity."
See, if we do that, then our marching is not a race thing; it's a justice thing. But if you're not willing to confront the murder and mayhem that's going on in our own community, then you're not serious. Perhaps you are looking to get some points by maybe going to the Justice Department, but after the march is over, the Justice Department will say, "Well, them Negroes ain't together. Let's murder some more," because we're not serious about White people's murder of Blacks if we don't stop murder among ourselves.
More Black men have died in one year than U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq have died in five years. Every night on the news they are telling us the number of U.S. soldiers that have died on a daily and monthly basis. In one month, the highest death toll may have been around 100. But ask yourself: How many young Black men died in one week, in one month, in the 'hoods throughout America? See, there isn't anyone focusing on that. This is a silent, civil war going on that is being ignored that has mothers and grandmothers taking their babies to the cemetery.
President's right to declare Federal Martial Law
Brothers and Sisters, you are a beautiful people. We just have to work as hard as we can to make the devil's plan unsuccessful. The scripture teaches, "If God had not shortened those days for His elect's sake, no soul would be left alive." That is how dark it is going to get. The next type of war is urban conflict, and what they are doing in Baghdad, Iraq right now is what they are going to do in the inner cities of America—kick in your doors, well armed, looking for weapons.
Let me tell you what is about to go down: All law enforcement inside the United States must be by police, sheriffs and the National Guard, but when federal troops come in, that violates the "Posse Comitatus Law." In a stealth maneuver, President George W. Bush, on October 17, 2006, signed into law that which would make it easy for him to declare Federal Martial Law. He did this by revising the Insurrection Act, which is a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States.
President Bush seized this power under executive orders. The Federal Martial Law states that if there is any major public emergency, the President may employ the Armed Forces, including the National Guard, in federal service to restore public order and to enforce the laws of the United States when as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident or any other condition. In any state or possession of the United States, if the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the state or possession are incapable in maintaining public order, then in order to suppress the disorder in any state, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy the President can declare Martial Law that suspends the Constitution.
The following are Executive Orders that Pres. Bush, as well as presidents before him—Carter and Bush, Sr.—have signed into law:
Executive Order 10999: Federal seizure of all means of transportation including cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports and water ways—this means in an emergency, your car or truck doesn't belong to you anymore; the government can seize your car and say they need it.
Executive Order 11000: Federal seizure of American people for work forces under federal supervision, including the splitting up of families if the government so desires—this means that if such a thing happens, they can pull us all in and put us to work on whatever project the government says, you have no authority to resist. To resist is death.
Executive Order 11001: Federal seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, both public and private.
Executive Order 11002: Empowers the Post Master General to register every single person in the United States. "No more draft; we're just taking you now."
Executive Order 11003: Federal seizure of all airports and aircraft.
Executive Order 11004: Federal seizure of all housing and finances—that the government would take your house; take your money, this means your bank account is not yours. What you thought you had hidden in a safety deposit box is not yours.
The United States government has the authority to enforce relocation, meaning if they think you need to be relocated like they did the Native Americans on that long march, they'll just do it. They can establish new locations for population; relocate communities and build new housing with public funds. Seize all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities. And if you resist— forced vaccinations; they can force you to take a needle.
What you are seeing is the development of a police state. So the next coming months and years are going to be difficult, and that is why we have to work to save our youth.
I believe that we can take our young people off the street, bring them to the mosque or to the church, not to make you a Muslim or a Christian or whatever, but to just give you some hope. Some of you don't realize, even if you don't go to school, that there are skills that you could be taught that could be useful in rebuilding the inner cities. Take the craftsmen; those who know plumbing, roofing, brick masons, electricians, and let us take our skilled people and teach the young people a trade. It's so simple, but it can be done! Teach all these young Brothers a trade that they can use now and watch how you're going to use it. Look at all of the vacant lots our cities; we should go to our city council leaders and say, "We want to put our young people to work. Give us the lot and we'll go to work building low cost housing units, selling it to our people, putting the money in a treasury that belongs to the youth." Then when the young people develop enough money, they can start buying property in the community where they live. When this happens, this makes those social engineers say, "These Negroes are foiling our plans," because we can offer our youth a GED that means something; we can offer our youth a college degree that means something. Our youth don't have to lie around here thinking that there is no hope. There's plenty of hope! But we've got to go back home now and begin to change the way we think and the way we act.
Thank you for reading these words. As-Salaam Alaikum.
"I'm just trying to make a way out of no way, for my people" -Modejeska Monteith Simpkins
AFRICAN AMERICA IS AT WAR
THERE IS A RACE WAR ON AFRICAN AMERICA
THERE IS A RACE WAR ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
THERE IS A RACE WAR ON BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA
AMERICA'S RACISTS HAVE INFILTRATED AMERICAN POLICE FORCES TO WAGE A RACE WAR AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA
THE BLACK RACE IS AT WAR
FIRST WORLD WAR: THE APPROXIMATELY 6,000 YEAR WORLD WAR ON AFRICA AND THE BLACK RACE
BLACK YOUTH ARE IN PERIL UNCONSTITUTIONAL EXECUTIVE ORDERS POLICE STATE DICTATORSHIP MARSHALL LAW IN THE UNITED STATES FORCED CONSCRIPTION Federal seizure of housing and finance Federal seizure of airports and aircraft Federal seizure of ALL transportation Federal seizure of people for workforce [FORCED LABOR] | SLAVERY Federal seizure of health-education-welf AUTO-REGISTERED FOR MILITARY Executive Order Justice Department authority to enforce relocation relocate communities Seize all railroads-inland waterways forced vaccinations take your house | take your money
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When you have to live by someone else's rules, regulations and laws, you sure as hell aren't free. Who are these Rhesus cousins???? Does England rule this joint?? Some damn "King"? How'd we get here to become "slaves" in the first damn place? Why don't they pay us so we can get the fuck out???? What are we "protecting" when we fight THEIR wars??? If we're "American" why do they call us and treat us like Niggers?? Where's your papers that state you're a citizen???? Have you ever taken the oath??? I never have. Are you sovereign? What the hell is that??? Whatever it is, we're not!!!!! What is this violent place when it gets right down to the real nitty gritty?????? There really is no name.
Pale folks, set us free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We've had ENOUGH of YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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KocoliciousA1
ummmm it's ALWAYS been an executive order to justify MURDERING black people since the end of slavery. Nothing's change except our OWN people do it to us too. By way of gangs...which transformed into music moguls like P. Diddy....Jay Z, They were ALL gangs members killing each other across the country. Tupac and Biggie did it. So we SERIOUSLY need to talk about that Minister F. Not just what massa is doing to us but what we are doing to ourselves. Is why I removed ALL respect of those who refer to themselves as N$ggers. Wasted focks. Poison to our community. As is why I NEVER stop to support the brothas selling those pies on the corner....cuz those pies? Are full of lies. Got in an argument with a supposedly brotha who refer to himself as a nigga...bragging about what rap has done and how much money folks are making on it. Bah bah bah. And I said to him. Rap music murdered two and one half generations of young black folks and replaced dancing with dead bodies. And I went on to say that his generation have absolutely no respect for my generation and won't listen. And "this is why son yall are dying like flies...cuz can't nobody tell yall shit. And look where not listening is getting you.....in the grave." He couldn't debate cuz what I say is true and the proof is all the funerals around this nation black folks have been attending to caused by "n$ggers." So that's why I ain't gonna Black LOVE nobody that won't love him/herself or their community. Too many folks died for their freedom and civil rights..and they are sooooooo ungrateful. So fock em. But! This is just me. Just sayin. But!
The only "rap" I listened to is Eminem's "rap" against Orange Anus Mouth; the rest is noise to me. Thank God for this contraption, because I can watch the Tavares, Johnny Mathis, AAron Neville, Billy Ekstein, go back to the 20's and listen to the Ink Spots if I want, the BeeGees, the Doobie Brothers; whether alive or dead, people who can/could SING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never been a fan of "musical noise," whooping and hollering and words that make no damn sense whatsoever with profanity thrown in, for what I don't know.
Where I am, "brothas" don't sell pies on the streets. Farrakhan's folks are nowhere in sight here. Maybe up the road or down the road 50 miles each way is a different story. 200 miles down the road in New York, is definitely a different story. This state's not black correct. Maybe that's why I never attended "segregated" schools. Whites everywhere!!!!! We did have many Orange Anus Mouth's Pappy Renters and every now and then a Klan rally in a park here and there. Whitie acts the same everywhere he is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rap didn't murder 2 generations, young black men murdered 2 generations. If they're crazy, they're crazy and that's what they are!!!!! They like being locked up in cages like the gorillas whites think they are and being put in caskets and graves. If they didn't, they wouldn't do the things they do. Nobody can make you do a damn thing YOU DON'T WANT TO DO. Nobody!!!!!! Everything starts WITH YOU!!!!!
Some of these women claiming rape by these nasty actors and "moguls" went back for seconds. What the hell is that about?? Rape my behind, Jesus Christ and his Mama's going to know about what happened and I'd never want to see the bastard ever again unless in court. Women had better learn how to Lorena Bobbitt those peckers and throw them in the green, green grass of some damn where.
Perhaps if these "actresses" didn't look like a bunch of Call Girls during Academy Award time, or whatever they're awarding themselves at some time or another, so many peckers wouldn't be standing at attention or trying. The men think they're attending a Stripper Show. All in the name of "beauty" until the phony witches take off those $60,000 dresses and million dollar jewels and remove all that Halloween Paint. Show the real "them" and scare the complete shit out of e.v.e.r.y.o.n.e.
I don't go to movies anymore. Don't know WHERE those actor/actress mouths have been while trying to look all lovey dovey during love scenes. Probably had their tongues up someone's ass the night or even a few minutes before. Pretty Woman was it for me. I'll settle for Fred Astaire's dancing on TCM.
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I hear ya my sista. Rap literally means rape of African American music history...except that OUR music from gospel to soul music is sooooooooooooooo strong....it will wrap rap around its ankle and stoop on it at the same time. Cuz it's like a SNAKE. Sneaking pretending it's music. Not music. And I agree Minister F and his boys are just flapping gums. Where were they when ALL these young black men were killed across the country? Why didn't they demonstrate? Since you know Minister F has ALL the answer. But he is just like some black men and I say men loosely....talking all that shit and scatter like flies when the po po arrives. So this is why I don't listen to him. He ain't saying nothing. And what bothers me to is seeing all those black women sitting behind him with head wraps on their heads being submissive. I hate that.....cuz it is BLACK WOMEN who free black people....it is BLACK WOMEN who got black people their civil rights...so there is no way on god's green earth....a black woman should SIT ANYWHERE behind a black man who never lifted a finger to fight for his community. We did the hard part. Now these fools? All they wanna do is talk. Well..Minister F? Talk to the hand. But!
That's how women get raped 3 times by the same Porky Pig-looking mf; following the bastard around looking for money. They get the money and some pencil dick thrown in for good measure. They're lucky they're still breathing. Damn fools!!!!!!
Yep you're right. And it's something sick about a male not man who rapes his own women and destroys his community-then wanna blame it on massa. And it's something sick about a male who want to degrade the very person who not only gave him life but potty trained his ass....I didn't see any of his so-called brothers volunteering to do it. So. Women raised men to disrespect them? No these men turn on the women who give them live to prove to the enemy they have worth. The enemy? Don't give a fock. But these sick men....never realize it even while sitting prison for life. And still? They wanna throw the women who are the only one who will be writing them letters....under the bus. So What kind of crazy is this? But!
There is NO explanation for the "crazy" so-called "men" harbor these days. They're crazy world-wide. Nothing but a bunch of murderers. The fuckers rape during war. How they manage that, I'll never know. Sex would be the last thing on my mind if bullets and bombs were dropping all around my black ass. No one can take a bath; everyone must smell like unwashed Grizzlies just before they're raped and shredded into spaghetti.
Every war these bastards fight, they leave their babies all over the foreign lands, to wonder who their fathers were for the rest of their lives. White/Black Japanese, Korean, wherever the hell wars are fought. Sperm left everywhere. A country's only as "great" as the people that live there. Are you positively sure America's the "greatest" country in the entire world? Says who, besides yourselves???? When folks are bat shit crazy, nothing's "great" about anything. Just thank God YOU managed to live another day no matter WHERE you are. NOTHING'S GUARANTEED FOR ANYONE!!!!!!!
I just heard it's new thing kid thugs are doing now? Killing over music called "drill" music-which is in a gang group there is one member who can rap. They are depended on him to make it big as a "rap" star and take them with him. But in the meantime, they terrorize their own neighborhoods and if some other black gang is playing their drill music in their hood-that is a sign of disrespect so they shoot to kill. Aint that a bitch? Black folks are demonstrating about black lives matter and these fools are killing each other. Which is why do not like N$GGERS they are the poison of the black community. They are ignorant, uneducated bullies...the lil Wayne types that talk BIG shyt in their hood...but scatter like roaches if they even see a black and white police car. I call these mofos COWARDS. Some crack head didn't raise her/his kids and this is the fallout. Drill music. You believe that shyte? N$ggers never cease to amaze me. They are in fact child soldiers. Working for massa by killin their own. So guys remember that. The new thing is drill music. It's used to be what color shoe string, do rag, of team shirt. Now it's focking drill music. Our ancestors are ROLLING double ROLLING over in their graves pissed off. But!
It's not music, it's drill NOISE. All the singers are in their 70's, 80's heading toward their 90's or deader than door nails. These young, ignorant niggers are brain damaged from birth. They can't think for themselves, always following some damn fool like themselves, can't talk worth a damn, can't read, have no semblance of education, pants hanging off the heads of their peckers, fucking each other in the ass, heading to the white man's gorilla cages they love so much. They need to be rounded up and thrown off Mount Dinali/McKinley (whatever the name is). People need to stop fucking if these are the only kinds of children they can bring forth. There are more than enough killers and murderers in the world. When it gets right down to it, that's all the "Military" is, the "Police" force, the "Militia", the "Klan". White men lose their fucking minds every 20 seconds, black men are right up there with them. Stop fucking and let the animals take over. They have more sense than humans. They kill to eat and do a damn great job of that!!!
Man just kills to kill. Kim Jong Un has something in store for the whole fucking world. It's not going to be cool when the entire world looks like California Wildfires at the same damn time. Keep messing with the Orange Tangerine with the Mouth of Anus. Everyone's anus is going to be laying out on the earth detached from its owner shredded into Nuclear Spaghetti.
I agree my sista. The fabulous Fats Domino just died. Now he was a musician and a singer. Music is suppose to inspire. But now? Rap has murdered hip hop and replaced dancing with dead bodies. I don't KNOW how so called brothas can't see that. They are so busy trying to make those dollars they don't EVEN know or even realize that SOON...real soon....they are gonna be SOLD for those SAME dollars. Pitiful. But!
They can't spend the dollars once those bullets hit them in the chest and ass. Their money will be spent burying their black asses in caskets 6 feet under. Biggie's not here; Tupac's not here; a whole bunch others are not here. Black men are dumber than a box of rocks, especially the young ones. It wasn't always like that; but it's beyond horrendous now. Malcolm X wasn't old, Martin Luther King wasn't old, Muhammad Ali wasn't old. They didn't take any shit. Martin Luther King was the kindest of the 3. Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X would stop me in my tracks whenever they appeared on TV. Muhammad Ali was born in January 1942. How do I know that????? WWII had just started a few days before his birth. No TV, Cell Phones, Video games, just newspapers and hanging with the neighbors, greeting the ice man and milk man and numbers man. The green stamp books, the daffodil phones, the 4 digit telephone numbers, the party lines, playing outside, a little fella showing me his belly button that wasn't his belly button (it was a tad longer than a belly button, but I told my mother; (I was young and an only child, what did I know; had nothing to compare), Jackie Robinson taking all that shit for the Dodgers Baseball Team. Joe Lewis, Gigantic Philco Radios, Beulah; Amos & Andy (two white men that had the black vernacular down pat), radio shows; Call for Philip Morris (cigarettes)!!!!!!! Sweetheart soap, Halo Shampoo, Ipana Toothpaste. Good fucking days, fucked up in the head white folks and all. Better than today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When we were young, they told us to duck under our desks if bombs should ever drop; that was dumb, of course, but they won't be telling kids that shit these days. Couple of breaths of that Nuclear shit and it'll be all over; quick, fast and in a damn hurry. Hail to the Orange Tangerine Anus Mouth and Kim Jong Un. There's always an asshole around to follow assholes.
Koco, you know I remember Fats Domino. I damn near remember the Ink Spots. I'll play them on YouTube every now and then. Every now and then, I'll watch BoJangles or black people from the 40's dance on YouTube.
Also, the handsomeness of Billy Ekstein, Harry Belafonte, The Tavares, Johnny Mathis, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Dells, Elvis was handsome when he first appeared on the scene, The BeeGees, Smoky Robinson, etc. Black and White makes no difference to me. Handsome was handsome; singing was singing. I like Barry Manilow, Tony Bennett, Willie Nelson, Liberace, Pavrotti. Have CD's by them all. I doubt there's a tattoo among them, dead or alive. If there was, I didn't see them. I'm not into music where I can't understand a damn word that's sung without "MF" or some other profanity thrown in for good measure. I'm not into that at all!!!!
I can listen to Johnny Mathis sing "Laura" 50 times a day non-stop, no interruptions. I've been listening to him ever since he appeared on the scene in 1956 or so. I have two CD's by Blake Shelton on The Voice, also. Another handsome dude that can sing!!! Let me not forget Chris Stapleton/Justin Timberlake singing "Tennessee Whiskey". I'm a little bit country along with my Soul and I don't apologize. I'm in a country state in the North East. Raised with Doris Day!!!!! I like Liberace right along with Ahmad Jamal.
I'm not into that murder music either. However, there are academic professors trying to insist to look beyond the words and see the message. I told one of them that words are powerful so no I'm not looking for no message cuz there isn't one. These fools wanna call women out their names and use profanity cuz for the most part? THEY CANNOT READ!!!! Or write. There's this guy in Cali called Nipsey Hussle from the Los Angeles area who bought a Fatburger franchise...a popular burger joint in the hood. But on the custom t-shirt? He spelled Crenshaw wrong. You think that fool noticed? Hell no. And the employees probably were too afraid of losing their jobs to say anything. But that's where the poison in our black culture is going. Taking ownership to something that doesn't belong to them....like African American music and then squat and shyte on it as if it is nothing. I am insulted to say the least. I am so embarrassed by this new generation of young black fools. Hopefully the real black folks in this youth generation will find a way to eliminate these monsters and black people can begin to progress again. Cuz we are being sabotaged by our OWN young people. They don't get it and that's the REAL shame.
And yes I like some of those artists you mentioned. And as a child, Elvis Presley was someone we all looked up to in our household. He was the shyte back then. We didn't have anyone else to slobber over. And yep he was handsome as hell to be a white guy but I heard he has Native American and some black in him-which his family denied but you can see it. Not too many white man with dark hair look that good. I don't know many.....YOU. Elvis was before his time as why he was sooooooooooo popular. See music if it's real? Will inspire you not incite you to kill. That's not music. And I really do feel sorry for this generation in terms of the music they are forced to hear.
I got in a debate about sampling. Which I call the stealing of other people's music. Chick said rappers were paying for those samples. I said NO THEY WERE NOT!!! In the beginning hoodrat DJs and Black record moguals BULLIED black artists so much....that these artists were too scared to protest. But not James Brown. He said mofo yall gonna give me my money. And not gonna use my shyte unless I say so. And guess what? They paid him. He set the stage for others to get their money too. And the reason why he was so successful? He wasn't AFRAID of those ignorant fools. Plus he was the catalyst to the Black Power movement....so they had to give it to him. As why I always say especially in this time and place....you have to be BOLD with your shyte and not allow ANYONE to dim your LIGHT. James Brown didn't. And neither should any one else. This is the time to scream OUR VOICE, stand in our truth and be seen as PROUD Black folks. Cuz those ignorant ass rappers who STOLE black beats are the REASON why black culture is failing today. Those mofos right there are the CANCER in the black community. They set the stage for cultural disrespect and I hate their mofo asses soooooooooooooooo much I can even look at them when I see them on the street cuz they have brought soooooooooooooo much harm to our neighborhoods that was once kinda safe. They are the ones who need to be lynched, tarred and feathered like massa used to do us during Jim Crow but of course the opposite is happening....they are honored by the monsters who held us in slavery....cuz now they ie, these rapping fools are holding us hostage by their dysfunctional murder incite music called rap. But!
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Koco, I'm too damn old to listen to these young, uneducated Black, Negroes, Niggers, Jigaboos, whatever they're called; whoop and holler on a CD that I've spent ten dollars or more on.
Cary Grant was the handsomest white man that ever lived, I think. Rock Hudson was no slouch either. Both of them had dark hair. Cary was from England, no telling what was flowing through his genes. In "The Bishop's Wife", when he looked up into the church towards the end of the movie, he looked like a GOD!!! He was absolutely beautiful!!!!!
Oprah said she knew some Presley's. So yeah, Elvis was probably touched by the tar brush as so many of them are!!!!!! It's funny, Africans in America are fucked up with white blood, but Whitie's pure as snow. Just another of their lies. If they're not touched, they damn sure have 43 million black relatives. We're all "cousins" and shit!!!!!!! Daughters, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, the whole nine yards. Whites are excellent lying like rugs when it comes to "race." They fuck everything, leave sperm everywhere, walk away and become SAINTLY (in their minds). We know the deal.
I just came from Dialysis. Going to go to YouTube, check out Nikki and Jaimie, Ava and Louis, my favorite singers and see what folks are talking about for awhile. One black dude was talking about a white dude he'd seen on the news last week or so and said homeboy "looked like a sex toy in a suit!" I damn near died on that one. Damn near needed oxygen from laughing so hard.
Talk to you later Koco. Take care!!!
I forgot about those two. They weren't not in my generation although I did see their films but they didn't touch me in the way Presley did. I think the music and the way he danced were so much like black culture that was the real connection for me. Today? There is a war against black people. And they are using MUSIC which was our salvation during slavery against us. For me? That's the justifiable homicide child soldiers are playing into. Every conspiracy against us? Have a coon involved. So I am not surprised about anything that is done to sabotage us. The thing is? I know massa and his boys don't like us, want us in the country now that we have built America's foundation...but I will not EVER accept child coon soldiers being a part of the genocide. That I will blast them on...everytime I get a chance. Maybe one day before its over......they'll have a woke up moment. Cuz those n$ggers are deep in a coma sleep. But!
When I was 14, I received 7 of Elvis' records for my birthday and thought I'd hit the damn lotto. My young buddy and myself were flapping all over the floor with glee. I have his records now. CD's of course; the 33 and 1/3 or whatever they were called are long gone; as is my 14th birthday.
Cary Grant was born in 1904 and Rock Hudson was born in 1925. Not my generation either, but TMC is my favorite movie channel when I want to look at a movie; which isn't very often. I like the old musicals, with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, etc. I'm not into folks slaughtering each other like they have nowadays. Slobbering all over each other with homosexuality a KNOWN past time and present time too. I can't watch them kiss without puking. They might have "grabbed a pussy" or kissed one, or something else, the night before the shooting of the movie scenes. Didn't think like that years ago, because people kept their business to themselves. Today, that no longer applies.
Every time I go to YouTube and someone answers my post here, I receive a message at the bottom of my screen from AfricanAmerican.org. That's cool as can be!!!!
Koco, where did all the other posters go??????
Sista Norland wrote: Koco, where did all the other posters go??????
I have no idea. Although there is always a lot of guests here reading but never posts. Brotha RR comes in now and then. And Brotha DK? I think it may be work related because I heard talk about having to go out of town for work. And from time to time Brotha Raptor makes an appearance. It truly think it's because there are not any new folks to debate with. Most know where we stand. But I don't come here to debate. I come to share and get thing off my chest in terms of discrimination and betrayal and mostly to keep folks aware about what is going on in areas near me.
I have found in the past that a lot of folks wanna be nasty and disrespectful so they come on sites to satisfy their thirst for confrontation. But the true ones will be back or are here but just being flies on the wall.. Sista Negrospiritual drops in from time to time too. So I'm sure with what is going with the current Prez? Folks will come back. They always do. But!
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If we could meet each other here personally, I'll bet we'd have a natural ball. We're like family. We say what we say. and that's what we say!!! We understand the crapola of the day. We're cool!!!!
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Scientists from Goethe University, the University of Basel and the Research Centre Point Sud opened a unique postgraduate academy in Bamako (Mali) on Monday
FRANKFURT. Strengthening basic research in African countries – this is the goal of the new postgraduate academy in the Mali city of Bamako – in particular in the humanities and social sciences. The academy, which was financed by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and conceived by scientists from Frankfurt and Mali, was ceremonially opened on 2nd March.
Despite great progress, the francophone African countries still receive scant consideration in the global production of knowledge. Especially in the humanities and social sciences, there is greater focus on the need for problem solving in politics and development industries – to the detriment of the potential for developing these fields. Professor Elisio Macamo from the University of Basel, one of the two founding directors, described the situation during the opening ceremony: "In politically-oriented discourses, science sees itself as obligated to provide solutions for human problems, and practical utility becomes the benchmark for determining the validity of knowledge." In fact, the debate about the extent to which science is required to produce relevant knowledge leads to a dilemma that has made the discussion very difficult. "Scientists, especially in Africa, are caught between communicating useful knowledge while simultaneously watering down scientific standards on the one hand, and maintaining scientific standards while simultaneously risking irrelevance on the other," says Macamo.
In a context which in public opinion is particularly characterised by "seemingly obvious problem areas" which are to be solved with the help of the scientific repertoire learned at universities, what role does basic research play in the humanities and social sciences? This is a question also asked by Professor Mamadou Diawara from the Institute for Ethnology at Goethe University, who founded the new academy together with Macamo and scientists in Mali. The conceptual and methodical development of the disciplines themselves are often neglected in the process. It is of more importance, however, to understand the problems thoroughly and formulate the right questions. Unfortunately, this is far from being a given. According to the scientists, the excess of "applied research" in the service of development politics leads to Africa increasingly falling behind in the production of global knowledge, a phenomenon particularly evident in francophone Africa, which is the focus of the project.
The "Pilote African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA)" developed by Goethe University, the University of Basel and the research centre Point Sud in Bamako explicitly does not see itself as decolonial project. "We're not looking for an African science that does everything differently than the so-called European science. On the contrary, we want to free scientific vocabulary from these kinds of intellectual corsets," Macamo explained. PAPA intends to strengthen basic research in the humanities and social sciences. Fifteen early career scientists from eight countries began their work in research following the opening of the academy. Professors Mamadou Diawara and Elisio Macamo are responsible for the scientific leadership. The academy's training programme is designed to encourage scholarship recipients to engage in a critical dialogue with their discipline, area studies, and their identity as scientists to address fundamental epistemological questions. After concluding the three-year PAPA cycle, the carefully selected junior researchers will return to their native institutions to teach and research at a different level. Twice a year, the fifteen selected early career researchers and up to four established scientists in Bamako will take part in two-week workshops in Bamako. A mentoring programme will connect high-level researchers and award winners at their native institutions. In addition, a strong network is to be created for scientists and teachers from francophone African countries who live both inside and outside of Africa to exchange ideas and develop joint projects. The project will be funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation for its first three years.
The event was ceremoniously opened by the Mali Minister for Education and Research, Professor Mamadou Famanta, and the German ambassador in Mali, Dr Dietrich Fritz Reinhold Pohl. The renowned Senegalese philosophy professor, Soulyemane Bachir Diagne from Columbia University, New York gave a lecture entitled "La question de l'Universel et les Etudes Postcoloniales". Diagne also spoke in opposition to the radicalism of post- and decolonialists: "Of course we don't want to burn down the colonial libraries – we want to use and criticise them." He also spoke in opposition to "experience science," in which research on certain segments of the population can only be carried out by its own members, since all others are supposedly unable to understand their life reality. "The idea that the everyday problems of black women can only be studied by black women is absurd. This approach would quickly put an end to science," says Diagne. The opening ceremony ended with his brilliant lecture and a discussion with the fellows that lasted for over an hour.
The event continued in the afternoon at the research centre Point Sud which has been financed by Goethe University since 2012 as part of a DFG-programme. There, participants met the early career researchers who work at the centre. In the evening, the launch of the project was celebrated to traditional kora music.
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PAPA0001: Professor Mamadou Diawara (left) and the Minister for Education and Research, Professor Mamadou Famanta, at the opening in Bamako. (credit: Stefan Schmid)
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Highlights of the News
Donald John Trump is still our president.
ITEM 1: The Hill reported, "President Trump on Thursday confirmed the death of an al-Qaeda leader in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.
Trump said the U.S. carried out a successful counter terrorism operation that killed Qasim al-Rimi, the founder and leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an affiliate of the terrorist group. The strike also killed a deputy of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, though the White House did not specify who."
Donald Trump. Helping terrorists collect their virgins since 2017.
ITEM 2: Wolf Richter reported, "The biggest standout in the US trade data released today by the Commerce Department is China (I combined the data for China and Hong Kong because a lot of merchandise is transshipped and/or invoiced via Hong Kong): The US trade deficit with China plunged by 18% from a record of $388 billion in 2018 to $320 billion in 2019, which was where it had been in 2016.
"US exports to China fell by $20 billion (to $137 billion) but US imports from China plunged by $89 billion, to $457 billion, the lowest since 2013. This 16% plunge in imports was a result of the threatened and actual US tariffs imposed on imports from China. In response, Corporate America rerouted its supply chains through other countries. In percentage terms, it was the biggest plunge in imports from China in at least three decades. In dollar terms, it was the steepest plunge in US-China trade history."
The trade deficit -- loss -- is still too big but President Trump is making progress.
ITEM 3: CNBC reported, "China on Thursday announced that it will halve tariffs on hundreds of U.S. goods worth about $75 billion.
"Retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. goods will be cut from 10% to 5%, and from 5% to 2.5% on others, according to a statement from China's Ministry of Finance. The adjustments will take effect from 1:01 p.m on Feb. 14, it said, without specifying which time zone it was referring to.
"The cuts apply to about $75 billion worth of imports from the U.S. that was slapped with tariffs on Sept. 1, 2019, according to a separate statement on the ministry's website.
"After the cut, duties on U.S. crude will be reduced to 2.5%, from 5%, and the tariff on soybeans will be trimmed by 2.5%."
They need us more than we need them.
ITEM 4: OAN News reported, "Court Filing Shows Hunter Biden Earned $156 Million From Ukraine Corruption."
It is a video report.
Now do John Kerry's stepson. Chelsea. Democrats have a pay-to-play foreign policy. Ukraine may have laundered the kickbacks from Obama giving Iran $150 billion.
ITEM 5: The Los Angeles Times reported, "Following a series of sweeping actions to expand access to voting in recent years, a California lawmaker is pushing to require voters to cast a ballot in future elections.
"The proposal, introduced in the state Assembly on Tuesday, would be unprecedented and probably challenged in court should it ultimately become law. It would place the burden for determining the civil penalty and the ultimate punishment on the secretary of state, California's chief elections officer."
Forcing people to vote is what Saddam Hussein did. It is a favorite tactic of dictators.
ITEM 6: Miranda Devine wrote, "Only a mutual loathing of Donald Trump preserved a façade of unity and purpose for Democrats during impeachment.
"But all that did was deliver the president record high approval ratings and unite Republicans around him, reborn as street brawlers.
"Even Republicans skeptical of Trump's tweets and combative tone now see clearly what he's been up against."
Nancy has united Republicans and divided Democrats. Great job, Botox Lady.
ITEM 7: Newsweek reported, "Support for former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg among Democratic and Independent voters in New Hampshire is gaining as the 2020 field gears up for the state's primary next week, the latest polling data shows."
The story also said, "Wednesday's figures put Sanders at 31%, Buttigieg at 21%, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren tied at 12%, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 11%."
Gay is the new black.
ITEM 8: Yahoo News reported, "The Treasury Department has complied with Republican senators' requests for highly sensitive and closely held financial records about Hunter Biden and his associates and has turned over 'evidence of questionable origin' to them, according to a leading Democrat on one of the committees conducting the investigation.
"For months, while the impeachment controversy raged, powerful committee chairmen in the Republican-controlled Senate have been quietly but openly pursuing an inquiry into Hunter Biden's business affairs and Ukrainian officials' alleged interventions in the 2016 election, the same matters that President Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani unsuccessfully tried to coerce Ukraine's government to investigate."
Money laundering is the allegation. Democrats have their pants around their ankles right now. This is the third act of the impeachment.
ITEM 9: National Review reported, "Attorney General William Barr has issued a memo requiring the FBI to obtain approval from Barr himself before conducting any investigation into any 2020 presidential election candidate.
"'In certain cases, the existence of a federal criminal or counterintelligence investigation, if it becomes known to the public, may have unintended effects on our elections,' Barr wrote in the memo, which was obtained by the New York Times. The attorney general went on to emphasize that 'we also must be sensitive to safeguarding the department's reputation for fairness, neutrality and nonpartisanship.'
"The memo establishes certain requirements for the FBI and other agencies under the purview of the Justice Department to meet before opening a 'politically sensitive' criminal or counterintelligence investigation against candidates or donors. Barr must personally give approval for investigations into presidential and vice presidential candidates, as well as their respective senior staffs."
The era of the FBI as the KGB is through. Democrats hardest hit.
ITEM 10: The Constitution requires the president to hand in a report each year. The law requires the speaker to preserve the House copy.
pic.twitter.com/QhTWvcY4Ke
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2020
The people will hold Democrats accountable for not firing her.
ITEM 11: Guess Adam Schiff ain't the only one in the No One Knows Zone.
Nobody on Jeopardy knows who Clown News' @JakeTapper is. 😂 pic.twitter.com/7y3vXGsPDa
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) February 6, 2020
Just a reminder that Wolf Blitzer lost on Jeopardy, baby.
ITEM 12: Business Insider reported on the Harvey Weinstein trial that his lawyer, Donna Rotunno, cross-examined Jessica Mann.
ROTUNNO: You told the jury the threesome was horrifying because it was something you didn't want to do. I would like you to read the note from your phone to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
MANN: Do I have to?
The story said, "After a long pause, Mann began reading the years-old post, describing a threesome with an unnamed 'older man' and an Italian woman, seemingly the same one she mentioned in her testimony.
"Loaded with jokes, expletives, and erotic descriptions of the woman's body, the written version characterized the encounter as exciting, not upsetting. At one point it compared Mann to a '14-year-old boy about to lose his virginity.'"
Weinstein may be a creep but that does not make him a rapist. The presumption of innocence was a marvelous discovery. Let's not lose it to the mob.
ITEM 13: The Daily Caller reported, "The Department of Interior finalized a rule Thursday expanding drilling rights in Utah two years after President Donald Trump reduced the size of a pair of national monuments in the area.
"Trump cut the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in 2017, which created a firestorm of criticism from activists who said the president's decision hurt Native American communities.
"Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase contain vast amounts of oil, gas and coal, as well as grazing land local ranchers hope to use for cattle.
"The areas excluded from monuments are protected by federal environmental laws, acting DOI assistant secretary Casey Hammond said in a statement."
Ah, the work that gets done when everyone is arguing over a telephone call to Kiev.
ITEM 14: Breadline Bernie learns the truth about socialism.
Democrats simply taxed the delegate rich.
ITEM 15: The Wall Street Journal (no links for pay sites) reported, "Why, when women earn the majority of college degrees and make up roughly half the workforce, do so few occupy the chief executive job?
"Women today lead 167 of the country's top 3,000 companies. That's more than double the share a decade ago, but still under 6%.
"For many, the barrier isn't only a glass ceiling at the very top, but also an invisible wall that sidelines them from the kinds of roles that have been traditional stepping stones to the CEO position."
Enough of this nonsense.
Men and women are treated equally in the workplace. That has been the law for nearly 60 years. The numbers show women can become CEOs. That they don't is a matter of their choices, usually to have children. How many women have founded a Fortune 500 company?
That so "few"women are CEOs is not a societal problem.
ITEM 16: I am convinced J.B. White was the model for Scott Evil.
Why call a convention of the states?
Let the states govern state elections but pass a federal law that to vote in *federal* elections, voter ID is mandatory.
The states will fall in line. https://t.co/0l3ewBQdG4
— J.B. White (@RattlerGator) February 7, 2020
He cut to the chase like he was directing Bullitt or Fast and Furious.
ITEM 17: Fox News reported, "Two of President Trump's biggest allies on Capitol Hill have been selected for top GOP roles on a pair of committees.
"The House GOP Steering Committee met Thursday and recommended that Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan serve as ranking member of the powerful House Judiciary Committee effective March 12, and that North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows take Jordan's spot as Oversight Committee ranking member for the remainder of this Congress, Fox News has confirmed.
"The full conference now has to ratify the recommendation, which was first reported by The Hill. Current House Judiciary Committee Chairman Doug Collins, R-Ga., will step down from that post as he pursues a Senate seat."
Setting things up for a good and productive second term.
ITEM 18: No Q Report reported, "FiveThirtyEight projects Bernie Sanders to win EVERY remaining primary. Then again, they also gave Hillary Clinton a 71.4% chance of winning the general election in 2016, so take their projections with a grain of salt."
I am hardly a fan of N8 Ag, but I agree with Nate Silver on this one. Democrat voters are too impatient for incremental socialism now. They want to go full communist and that would be Bernie.
ITEM 19: The Intercept reported, ""Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign plagiarized portions of its plans for maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure, and mental health from research publications, media outlets, and a number of nonprofit, educational, and policy groups.
"The Intercept found that exact passages from at least eight Bloomberg plans or accompanying fact sheets were direct copies of material from media outlets including CNN, Time, and CBS, a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the American Medical Association, Everytown for Gun Safety, Building America's Future Educational Fund, and other organizations."
You would think that with $50 billion to spend he could do better than this.
Posted by Don Surber at 2/07/2020 07:00:00 AM
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zregime February 7, 2020 at 7:22 AM
There was no Iowa caucus. It didn't happen. Back to work, comrades!
lyn5 February 7, 2020 at 11:29 AM
Democrats blamed Trump supporters for flooding the Iowa caucus hotline that some dummy posted online.
Schlongtavious Lardmaster February 7, 2020 at 7:44 AM
1 - have the liberals learned a lesson? I heard no complaining over the killing of a terrorist.
10 - Besides impeachment, of all the Democrat's mistakes, Pelosi's performance at the SOTU address may have been the biggest.
11 - Blitzer got blitzed on Jeopardy. The biggest loser.
MEANA55 February 7, 2020 at 8:41 AM
He finished $4,600 in the hole, and they had to spot him $1,000 so he could play in the final.
LG February 7, 2020 at 12:36 PM
He lost on Jeopardy, ba-by,
Ooooh, oooh, oooh.
PrincetonAl February 7, 2020 at 7:53 AM
#19 "plagiarized ... Everytown for Gun Safety"
How can you plagiarize your own work? I want the guy to fail, but I laugh at this criticism. It's just other campaigns sniping jealously because they don't have access to $49 billion.
Besides, all Democrats just copy their plans from approved socialist playbooks. If they don't - they get banned from the Party for original thinking (see: Gabbard, Tulsi)
Why take the risk of an original thought banning? Best to just copy previously-approved Party newspeak.
When every Democrat plagiarizes, none plagiarize.
(Only Republicans can be accused of such a crime).
#17. Isn't Mark Meadows stepping down from his congressional seat? Hopefully, he'll stay engaged in the second term of Trump.
JerseyJim
Bob Grenier (@bubbanear) February 7, 2020 at 9:18 AM
No, it's Mark Walker (NC-6) who is not running for re-election.
Mark Walker will likely run for the Senate seat supposedly being vacated by Richard Burr. Walker will be a MUCH better Senator than Burr has been.
Yes, you are correct. Mark Meadows is stepping down at the end of his term: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mark-meadows-to-leave-congress-at-end-of-term
You know, it doesn't seem like very long ago the odometer over on the right said 7 million pageviews; Don's readership is doing better than the Dow Jones!
---Fred
#18 is something I never considered until reading your take. I think Bernie will run the table in the primaries. President Trump's economy will depress democrat turnout, leaving the decision up to the foaming-at-the-mouth leftards.
#19 Heinlein had Jubal Harshaw deliver a line in Time Enough for Love that has served me well over the years. He deliberately left a scansion error in a poem he he was writing for pay. When his steno called him on it, he said to leave it in since once the editor pisses in the work, he will like the taste better and will be more inclined to buy it. How flattered would a news outlet be to see a candidate pick up its pet platform planks verbatim and run with them?
Per your #19 comment: Someone I used to work with called this the "hairy arm syndrome." If I'm remembering the story correctly, artists who painted portraits of royals would paint everything as perfectly as they could--except for one arm, which they intentionally made too hairy. When the royals saw the finished work, they felt a need to criticize something (no matter how perfect it was), so they would, of course, complain about the overly hairy arm. Then the artist would go fix his intentional mistake, and the royals were happy.
If Donald Trump is my president, then he should act like it.
Yes I agree. The treasonous scum who launched a coup against a sitting president should be tried and hanged.
B.S.G.
President Trump doesn't need to act like anyone or any thing.
On the other hand, Democrats should act like Americans, but they never will.
Donald Trump IS your president. And he IS acting like a president.
I think of him as a 21st century version of Cyrano de Bergerac:
"But what would I have to do? Cover myself with the protection of some powerful patron? Imitate the ivy that licks the bark of a tall tree while entwining itself around its trunk, and make my way upward by guile, rather than climbing by my own strength? No, thank you.
Swallow insults every day? Crawl till the skin of my belly is rubbed raw? Dirty my knees and make my spine as supple as an eel's? No, thank you.
Develop the art of sitting on both sides of a fence at once? Pay for an ounce of favor with a ton of flattery? No, thank you, no, thank you, and again, no, thank you.
I prefer to lead a different kind of life. I sing, dream, laugh, and go where I please, alone and free. My eyes see clearly and my voice is strong. I'm quarrelsome or benign as it suits my pleasure, always ready to fight a duel or write a poem at the drop of a hat. I dream of flying to the moon but give no thought to fame or fortune. I write only what comes out of myself, and I make it my modest rule to be satisfied with whatever flowers, fruit, or even leaves I gather, as long as they are from my own garden. Then if I should happen to gain some small success I'm not obliged to render any of it unto Caesar. In short, I scorn to be like parasitic ivy, even though I'm not an oak. I may not rise very high, but I'll climb alone!"
The Old and Unimproved Dave February 7, 2020 at 2:48 PM
He's not that good an actor.
Nobody is.
President Snowflake bestows avowed racist Rush Limbaugh with a Medal of Freedom award while 100-year Tuskegee airman sits nearby. AWM everyone stand and cheer.
So racist one of his top people Bo Snerdly who is black has worked for him 25+ years.
Citation of his racism, please. I'll wait.
Freddie Sykes February 7, 2020 at 11:30 AM
I will admit that the optics are off in that, while Nancy started rips on the speech during the SOTU, she waited until after the speech to finally tear it up... but this video is still very powerful.
President Trump made Democrats attend a ceremony that honored Rush. How cool was that?!
Hey Unknown:
To quote Surber, do your own research but here you go. And this does not include his numerous anti-Latino, anti-women, anti-gay statements. But check out his last statement on smoking and enjoy the Trumpenfreud.
"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"
"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."
"I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn't deserve."
"Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
"You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray. We miss you, James. Godspeed."
"Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing."
George Steinbrenner Was A "Cracker Who Made African-Americans Millionaires"
Obama & Oprah Are Only Successful Because They're Black
"I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs."
Drumroll please ....
"That is a myth. That has been disproven at the World Health Organization and the report was suppressed. There is no fatality whatsoever. There's no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke. It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick, and it will not kill you...Firsthand smoke takes 50 years to kill people, if it does. Not everybody that smokes gets cancer. Now, it's true that everybody who smokes dies, but so does everyone who eats carrots ... I would like a medal for smoking cigars, is what I'm saying."
So? If he's been smoking for 50 years, it took that long, just.as he says. And he's not dying from secondhand smoke. And he did get a medal for smoking.
Tom February 7, 2020 at 2:11 PM
Speaking of doing your own research, you definitely need some help if you think any of this is true. It took me about 2 minutes to find the Snopes edit on all of this - and they decline to call any of it true because there's no source. Looks like you can make shit up with the other losers in your basement.
Greg February 7, 2020 at 7:45 PM
"It's true! I know it's true...'cause I saw it on TV"---John Fogerty, Centerfield.
BLBeamer February 8, 2020 at 12:58 AM
Hey, if Barack Obama can give a medal to an actual sexual predator (Harvey Milk) why can"t Donald Trump give one to a make-believe racist?
The Gipper Lives February 7, 2020 at 10:32 AM
Elizabeth Warren came in fifth in Pocahontas County.
However, after the results were run through the Clinton/Booty-Boy App, she came in 1,024th.
Gargoyle "Gar" February 7, 2020 at 10:36 AM
#7: Dems choose their candidates in back rooms and then act like their constituents voting matters. They chose Hillary long before the caucus in 2016 and had to do some serious manipulation to make sure she "won" over Bernie. Their choices always lean toward how they are going to spin the election so to win via some social justice facade. They have had to change tracks a few times, but I see them trying to front-run and manipulate it so that the gay-man is their candidate so they can try to use social justice as their platform....again. 2008 it was vote Obama or you're a racist. in 2016 it was vote Hillary or you're a sexist. If Pete gets the Dem mafia's nod to run, it'll be vote Pete or your a homophobe.
Super delegates are not democratic. That's another reason why I left the Democrat Party in 2008.
xxx February 7, 2020 at 12:04 PM
Re#7>>> The hypocrisy of Buttigieg is bald-face evident...If anyone notices, his declarative love for his husband Chastain(sp?) [saw a few minutes of CNN Townhall last night with Buttigieg speaking adoringly of his spouse to the audience there, and the TV viewers tuning in...] is strangely devoid of photo ops, of his domestic life; a case in point, that his spouse did not join him on stage at his Monday night caucus victory speech.
The media is also complicit, no Vanity Fair spreads (e.g. Beto O'Rourke) of his lifestyle at home. It appears we're being subjected to a reporting blackout, à la FDR in the wheelchair.
It is probable that the lib media knows that the hiding of Buttigieg's alternative lifestyle, increases the likelihood of an easier acceptance of him as a candidate. Make no mistake, Buttigieg understands this as well and is the 'omission' to the media's 'commission'. Zbest
cdr164bn February 7, 2020 at 12:09 PM
Possible that if Bernie looks like he's going to be the candidate that he has ANOTHER heart attack. That's how they roll.
"Forcing people to vote is what Saddam Hussein did. It is a favorite tactic of dictators."
The darnedest places also have compulsory voting: https://www.aec.gov.au/faqs/
Miranda Devine's dad Frank made a lot of sense in his day, and so does she now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090704171637/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25727311-601,00.html
"Just a reminder that Wolf Blitzer lost on Jeopardy, baby."
"That's right, you lost.
And let me tell you what you didn't win
A twenty column set of the Encyclopedia International,
A case of Turtle Wax, and a year's supply of Rice-A-Roni,
The San Francisco Treat.
You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people.
You brought shame and disgrace to your family name for generations to come.
You don't get to come back tomorrow.
You don't even get a lousy copy of our home game. You're a complete loser!"
hjggg February 7, 2020 at 4:26 PM
You really have to admire the stable genius and giant gonads of PDJT.
He made all the attending Demorats at the SOTU attend Rush Limbauh's awards ceremony.
I'd bet not one commie lib saw that coming.
Deplorable Me February 7, 2020 at 5:04 PM
I can't help but think that perhaps this Iowa kerfuffle was PLANNED. Follow me here, but for how long have people complained about Iowa being first? What is now at risk? I think there needs to be a WHOLE lotta questions asked about this. I fail to believe this is just a "bad" app episode. I will not accept the fake news narrative.
JeremyR February 7, 2020 at 10:17 PM
The Iowa democrat party would not willingly participate. There is a prestige factor. They got state delegations punished for jumping line.
Chris February 7, 2020 at 6:39 PM
This may redound to the republicans' advantage. Many don't vote now in places like nyc because it's pointless. Same with disappointed democrats. Maybe if they had to vote they might find that there are many more of them than they thought.
Could be someone forced to vote that had somewhere else to be decides to vote the a-holes out of office.
Chollaman


Roberta Berzero is a Legal Officer at the World Bank, Special Litigation Unit - Directorate of Operations of the Integrity Vice-Presidency (as of April 2013). She is a former associate of the dispute resolution group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Rome and Vienna offices), where she focused on investment and commercial arbitration. After two periods of study in the Republic of Argentina (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina) and France (Université Paris X), she completed her legal education at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (July 2008). Roberta also holds a LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies from the New York University School of Law (May 2009) and is a prospective Ph.D. candidate at University of Rome3.
Before joining the World Bank Group and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Roberta worked as an intern at the European Commission in Brussels, at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York, at the Beijing Arbitration Commission in Beijing and in a leading Chinese law firm in Shanghai. Roberta speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish and has conversational knowledge of German.
The World Bank Group is not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development. The Integrity Vice- Presidency (INT) shares in the World Bank Group's overall mission of poverty reduction. Within the Bank Group it is INT's role to detect and deter fraud and corruption in the use of the Group's financial resources.
As one of two Directorates in INT, the Directorate of Operations (INTOP) is tasked with professionally identifying, investigating, litigating and resolving cases of fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion and obstruction in World Bank-funded projects. Within this framework INTOP's Special Litigation Unit (SLU) follows an innovative concept that transforms Common and Civil Law prosecutorial functions into an administrative and public international law setting.


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Promethean (Flesh and Clockwork): Prometheans suffer lingering mental effects from their creation rites. The flesh prometheans have a personality made from an amalgam of souls, cobbled together from various creatures. Clockwork prometheans have the luxury of a solitary mind, but the creation rites cause them as much torment as they do to their flesh-bound cousins.
Raijin: When an outraged spirit of one slain by the undead lords of Abaddon possesses a survivor filled with desires for revenge, the two form a powerful and terrifying force, a raijin. A synergy of life and death, it can reach into the netherworld and manifest some powers of the dead in the physical world.
Uzamati: The only uzamati trait that stands out in their normal form is the purple irises of their eyes. But, when an uzamati phases out, all semblance of normalcy disappears. They melt into pure negative energy, becoming twisted in the process: Their skin turns a deep purple and exudes a strong glow. Their bodies become slightly transparent and gaunt as a skeleton.


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Facebook Inc. (FB) Rubbishes "Lizard Squad" Hacking Claim For Network Outage
Published on January 27, 2015 at 6:42 am by Viraj Shah in News, Tech
Giant social networking platform Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has rubbished suggestion that an outage experienced early Tuesday morning was the work of a third party as earlier alleged. The outage affected other services offered by Facebook including photo sharing platform Instagram and dating service Tinder.
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) in a statement maintains that the outage was down to an internal software networking error and that there was no data loss as a result of the entire ordeal. The company was reportedly initiating some changes on its configuration systems where something went wrong causing the outage. The downturn comes just a day before Facebook posts its quarterly earnings.
The outage affected user's access on PC's as well as Facebook mobile app and lasted nearly an hour after which everything returned to normalcy. Users who tried to login into their Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) accounts during the ordeal were greeted by the message 'Account Temporarily Unavailable.' The mobile app was also affected with users blocked from loading any new posts.
Users on Instagram, on the other hand, could not load their accounts home page or bring up any recently loaded images. The latest outage is the biggest since Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) went offline in 2010 for two and half hours. When Facebook returned online users in Asia were still complaining that it was taking too long to load their homepages.
Earlier, there had been reports that the Lizard Squad hacking group was behind the attack having successfully gained access to the Malaysia Airlines website over the weekend. This was after a Twitter account purporting to speak for the group claimed responsibility for the outage.
The hacking group has already carried out a string of high-profile outages with notable ones being attacks that took down Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Xbox Live network last month, as well as Sony Corp (ADR) (NYSE:SNE)'s Play Station Network.
The outage on the other hand meant that Facebook was the top trending topic on Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) with the hashtag 'Facebookdown.'
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"Growth hacker" is a new word for most but a long held practice among the best Internet marketers. He is, one whose passion and focus is pushing a metric through use of a testable and scalable methodology.
With mass media fading away and the onslaught of mass customization & niching on the web, marketing as we known it for the past 100 years has died. People are awash with mounds of data and marketing fatigue is at an all-time high.
Users are drowning and won't pay attention to the next best widget, regardless of how good it is. Distribution is now the number one problem that faces every product and every startup.
Growth hacking appeared as the modern way in the age of Web 2.0 to reach a market and distribute an idea. Instead of classic marketing, which typically interrupts your day, a growth hacker uses "pull"; he or she understands user behavior provides value immediately to persuade.
A growth hacker wraps messaging into the fabric of the lives and thoughts of users. A growth hacker will leverage across disciplines, pulling in insights from behavioral economics and gamification, to find the right message to pull in users.
The essential characteristic of a growth hacker is creativity. His or her mind is the best tool in their war chest. A growth hacker looks beyond Adwords or SEO for distribution. Traditional marketing channels often mean high cost per acquisition and low lifetime value due to high saturation. In an age of social users, the right growth strategy with the right product-market fit will lead to massive scale through viral loops.


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If you want to connect with me, find me on Facebook or Twitter. I'm on other networks too, but spend most of my time on these two. I look forward to connecting with you and getting to know you and your business.
I love coffee, Arsenal football club, New York Yankees baseball and The Dallas Cowboys! I have also been known to take an interest in Formula One Motor Racing, The Tour de France, The Olympics and other major sporting events.
I'm passionate about WordPress, and I've been using it to develop modern and impressive websites for myself and a few clients for 12 years.
I'm also experienced with other platforms such as WooCommerce for shopping websites and Mailchimp, Webmaster Tools, Twitter and Facebook to name but a few.


Dave Hickman, whether he knows it or not, has cursed Brian Brohm much more than a losing season ever could. How did Dave do this, you ask? By comparing him to Brady Quinn. Yuck.
Last January he was Brady Quinn.
He goes on to talk about draft stock, but the damage is done. You don't just come back from being compared to Brady Quinn. Even before Quinn existed, quarterbacks were being compared to him. Andre Ware, David Klingler, Akili Smith, etc. All once and future Brady Quinns.
What did you just ask me you sniveling reporter? Of course, Brian Brohm wishes he would've gone pro after last season. That is a ridiculous question to ask me, BRIAN BROHM. Brian Brohm passed up being a top 5 draft pick to come back to win the national championship and the Heisman Trophy.
Now because of that idiot, The Krag, I, Brian Brohm, does not have a shot at either of these goals. All Brian Brohm got from returning to this trash heap of a University is a wicked nasty case of the crabs. OOOPS, I probably should've kept that to myself.
What do I, Brian Brohm, think about West Virginia? Brian Brohm, thinks they are a bunch of horse loving idiots, that smell like manurer, and have Napoleon syndrome because they will always be the second best university in the state. Oh no, Brian Brohm has messed up again, those were his thoughts about the Louisville alums.
Brian Brohm asks you all to forget about what he just said. This interview stuff is tough, whew. Brian Brohm now wishes to be referred to as B squared.
B squared will not respond until you refer to him as B squared. No one, no one, FINE this interview is over. WVU is going to kill us, I just hope I get my stats.
Sure this "article" is from last year, but I think it's worth mentioning. Of course this is just one "boi's" opinion, but if he says Brian Brohm is dreamy, who is going to argue with him? Not me.
The Cardinals' 6′4″ blonde quarterback is on the Maxwell Award Watch list…or is it Walter Camp…we look into his dreamy eyes and forget. Thank whomever you worship to for giving us at least one reason to watch Big East football! Brohm will have to step up to the plate against Miami and West Virginia this season.
Named one of "Out Magazine's 10 Athletes We Wished Played for Our Team", Quinn tops just about every Heisman Trophy Watch list. And that's not the only thing we wished he topped. That alone gets Brady on our list of players to watch this season! Plus being #10 doesn't hurt either…it's such a popular number these days.
Ohhhh, sexual innuendo. So sassy.


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namespace skiplist {

template <typename KeyType, typename ValueType>
struct SkipNode {
  KeyType key;
  ValueType value;
  size_t level;
  SkipNode **next;
  SkipNode() : key(), value(), level(0), next(nullptr) {}

  SkipNode(const SkipNode &) = delete;
  SkipNode &operator=(const SkipNode &) = delete;
};

template <typename T>
class Iterator {
public:
  Iterator() : ptr(nullptr){};
  explicit Iterator(T *p) : ptr(p){};
  Iterator &operator=(T *p) {
    ptr = p;
    return *this;
  }

  Iterator &operator++() {
    ptr = ptr->next[0];
    return *this;
  }

  Iterator operator++(int) {
    Iterator temp = *this;
    ptr = ptr->next[0];
    return temp;
  }

  bool operator!=(const Iterator &rhs) const { return ptr != rhs.ptr; }

  bool operator==(const Iterator &rhs) const { return ptr == rhs.ptr; }

  bool operator==(const T *p) const { return ptr == p; }

  bool operator!=(const T *p) const { return ptr != p; }

  operator bool() const { return ptr != nullptr; }

  operator T *() const { return ptr; }

  T *operator->() const { return ptr; }

  T &operator*() const { return *ptr; }

private:
  T *ptr;
};

template <typename Key,
  typename T,
  typename Compare = std::less<Key>,
  typename Allocator = std::allocator<std::pair<Key, T>>>
class SkipList {
public:
  typedef Key key_type;
  typedef T mapped_type;
  typedef std::pair<Key, T> value_type;
  typedef Compare key_compare;
  typedef Allocator allocator_type;
  typedef SkipNode<Key, T> node_type;
  typedef size_t size_type;

  typedef Iterator<node_type> iterator;
  typedef Iterator<node_type> const_iterator;

  typedef typename std::allocator_traits<Allocator>::template rebind_alloc<node_type> node_allocator;
  typedef typename std::allocator_traits<Allocator>::template rebind_alloc<node_type *> next_allocator;

  SkipList() : size_(0), head_(create_node()), compare() {}

  ~SkipList() noexcept {
    iterator node = head_, temp;
    while (node) {
      temp = node;
      node = node->next[0];
      destroy_node(temp);
    }
  }

  // Move Ctor
  SkipList(SkipList &&s) noexcept : size_(s.size_),
                                    head_(s.head_),
                                    compare() {
    s.head_ = create_node();
    s.size_ = 0;
  }

  // Copy Ctor
  SkipList(const SkipList &s)
    : size_(s.size_), head_(create_node()), compare() {
    iterator snode = s.head_, node = head_;
    next_allocator nl;
    node_type **last = nl.allocate(s.level() + 1);
    head_->level = s.level();
    nl.deallocate(head_->next, 1);
    head_->next = nl.allocate(level() + 1);
    for (int i = level(); i >= 0; i--) {
      last[i] = head_;
    }
    snode = snode->next[0];
    while (snode) {
      node = create_node();
      node->key = snode->key;
      node->value = snode->value;
      node->level = snode->level;
      nl.deallocate(node->next, 1);
      node->next = nl.allocate(snode->level + 1);
      for (int i = snode->level; i >= 0; i--) {
        node->next[i] = nullptr;
        last[i]->next[i] = node;
        last[i] = node;
      }
      snode = snode->next[0];
    }
    nl.deallocate(last, level() + 1);
  }

  // Copy Assignment
  SkipList &operator=(const SkipList &s) {
    if (this == &s)
      return *this;
    SkipList tmp(s);
    return *this = std::move(tmp);
  }

  // Move Assignment
  SkipList &operator=(SkipList &&s) noexcept {
    this->~SkipList();
    size_ = s.size_;
    head_ = s.head_;
    s.head_ = create_node();
    s.size_ = 0;
    return *this;
  }

  size_type size() const { return size_; }
  bool empty() const { return size_ == 0; }
  size_type level() const { return head_->level; }

  iterator begin() noexcept { return iterator(head_->next[0]); }
  const_iterator begin() const noexcept { return iterator(head_->next[0]); }

  const_iterator cbegin() noexcept { return iterator(head_->next[0]); }
  const_iterator cend() const noexcept { return iterator(); }

  iterator end() noexcept { return iterator(); }
  const_iterator end() const noexcept { return iterator(); }

  template <typename K, typename V>
  iterator emplace(K &&key, V &&value) {
    iterator node = head_;
    next_allocator nl;
    size_t update_size = level() + 1 + 1;
    node_type **update = nl.allocate(update_size);
    for (int i = level(); i >= 0; i--) {
      assert(static_cast<int>(node->level) >= i);
      while (node->next[i] && compare(node->next[i]->key, key)) {
        node = node->next[i];
      }
      update[i] = node;
      if (node->next[i] && !compare(node->next[i]->key, key) && !compare(key, node->next[i]->key)) {
        nl.deallocate(update, update_size);
        throw std::runtime_error("conflict");
      }
    }

    node_type *n = create_node();
    n->key = std::forward<K>(key);
    n->value = std::forward<V>(value);

    size_t newlevel = getRandomLevel();
    if (newlevel > level()) {
      newlevel = level() + 1;
      node_type **newnext = nl.allocate(newlevel + 1);
      for (size_t i = 0; i < newlevel; i++) {
        newnext[i] = head_->next[i];
      }
      newnext[newlevel] = nullptr;
      nl.deallocate(head_->next, head_->level + 1);
      head_->next = newnext;
      head_->level = newlevel;
      update[newlevel] = head_;
    }
    nl.deallocate(n->next, 1);
    n->next = nl.allocate(newlevel + 1);
    n->level = newlevel;

    for (int i = newlevel; i >= 0; i--) {
      if (update[i]) {
        n->next[i] = update[i]->next[i];
        update[i]->next[i] = n;
      }
    }
    ++size_;
    nl.deallocate(update, update_size);
    return iterator(n);
  }

  iterator insert(const value_type &value) {
    return emplace(value.first, value.second);
  }

  iterator insert(value_type &&value) {
    return emplace(std::move(value.first), std::move(value.second));
  }

  iterator find(const key_type &key) const {
    iterator node = head_;
    for (int i = level(); i >= 0; i--) {
      while (node->next[i] && compare(node->next[i]->key, key)) {
        node = node->next[i];
      }
      if (node->next[i] && !compare(node->next[i]->key, key) && !compare(key, node->next[i]->key)) {
        return iterator(node->next[i]);
      }
    }
    return end();
  }

  size_t count(const key_type &key) const {
    return find(key) ? 1 : 0;
  }

  void erase(const key_type &key) {
    iterator node = head_;
    next_allocator nl;
    size_t update_size = level() + 1;
    node_type **update = nl.allocate(update_size);

    for (int i = level(); i >= 0; i--) {
      while (node->next[i] && compare(node->next[i]->key, key)) {
        node = node->next[i];
      }
      if (node->next[i] && !compare(node->next[i]->key, key) && !compare(key, node->next[i]->key)) {
        update[i] = node;
      }
    }
    node = node->next[0];
    if (node == end()) {
      nl.deallocate(update, update_size);
      throw std::out_of_range("skiplist::erase");
    }
    assert(!compare(node->key, key) && !compare(key, node->key));

    for (int i = level(); i >= 0; i--) {
      if (update[i]) {
        assert(node == iterator(update[i]->next[i]));
        update[i]->next[i] = node->next[i];
      }
    }
    nl.deallocate(update, update_size);
    destroy_node(node);
    --size_;

    if (level() > 0 && head_->next[level()] == end()) {
      head_->level--;
      next_allocator nl;
      node_type **newnext = nl.allocate(level() + 1);
      for (size_t i = 0; i <= level(); i++) {
        newnext[i] = head_->next[i];
      }
      newnext[level()] = nullptr;
      nl.deallocate(head_->next, level() + 2);
      head_->next = newnext;
    }
  }

  void erase(iterator it) {
    erase(it->key);
  }

  mapped_type &operator[](const key_type &key) {
    iterator node = find(key);
    if (node == end()) {
      mapped_type value;
      node = emplace(key, value);
    }
    return node->value;
  }

  mapped_type &at(const key_type &key) {
    iterator node = find(key);
    if (node == end()) {
      throw std::out_of_range("skiplist::at");
    }
    return node->value;
  }

  const mapped_type &at(const key_type &key) const {
    iterator node = find(key);
    if (node == end()) {
      throw std::out_of_range("skiplist::at");
    }
    return node->value;
  }

#ifndef NDEBUG
  void dump() const {
    std::cout << "====== level: " << level() << " size: " << size_ << std::endl;
    for (int i = level(); i >= 0; i--) {
      std::cout << "====== level " << i << std::endl;
      auto node = head_;
      while (node->next[i]) {
        std::cout << node->next[i]->key << " : " << node->next[i]->value
                  << std::endl;
        node = node->next[i];
      }
    }
  }
#endif

private:
  size_t size_;
  iterator head_;
  Compare compare;
  static size_t getRandomLevel() {
    size_t level = 0;
    while (rand() % 2) {
      ++level;
    }
    return level;
  }
  static iterator create_node() {
    node_allocator al;
    next_allocator nl;
    node_type *ret = al.allocate(1);
    al.construct(ret);
    ret->next = nl.allocate(1);
    ret->next[0] = nullptr;
    return static_cast<iterator>(ret);
  }
  static void destroy_node(const iterator &node) {
    node_allocator al;
    next_allocator nl;
    nl.deallocate(node->next, node->level + 1);
    al.destroy(static_cast<node_type *>(node));
    al.deallocate(static_cast<node_type *>(node), 1);
  }
};

} // namespace skiplist
} // namespace guoxiao


Born 1970, Japan. Now lives NSW.
My work draws on 19th century Japanese textiles and portraiture to explore themes such as self, history, culture, and environmental issues. In this work, as a reference to the catastrophic Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown in 2011, the relationship between Japanese society and nuclear power is contemplated. Ningyō means traditional doll in Japanese.