Diogenes' Middle Finger

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The World Through The Bottom Of A Champagne Glass

"Rules on immigration and refugees are made by safe people. These are the people who help run countries, who have nice homes in nice neighborhoods and are protected by their status. Those who live with the effects of immigration and asylum law are those who are less safe, who see a less beautiful face in it because they are daily confronted with a less beautiful reality—normal human roughness, human tensions. Decision-makers fear things like harsh words from the writers of editorials; normal human beings fear things like street crime. Decision-makers have the luxury of seeing life in the abstract. Normal people feel the implications of their decisions in the particular."

"The decision-makers feel disdain for the anxieties of normal people, and ascribe them to small-minded bigotries, often religious and racial, and ignorant antagonisms. But normal people prize order because they can’t buy their way out of disorder." - Peggy Noonan, WSJ

Ima Just Not Feelin' It.

Monday, September 14, 2015

Diogenes' Early Predictions for the 2016 Presidential Election

DMF's State-of-the-Art Eco-friendly Clean Coal Fired Mainframe

DMF- Utilizing the massive power of DMF/MFNS new computer system, we undertook the scouring of the interwebs to collect as much information as possible from polling organizations, opinion pages, on-line polls, blog post (both left and right) advice columns and from newspaper pundit's drivel for the purpose of analyzing the present political landscape and boldly predicting the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

We gave the collected info to our crack team of ~~semi-competent~~ analyst made up of primarily the staff, the photoshop department, the MFNS foreign and domestic news bureau reporters, the window washers and the bearded guy who hangs out behind the building. They labored for many arduous hours, drinking and cussing while pouring over the mountains of info to come to a solid set conclusions and predictions.

Although it's still very early, we are confident our findings gleaned from the available information will hold up in the future, especially in light of the present political trends. These finding are not scientific, cause we ain't scientist. Therefore, all disclaimers are hereby claimed.

You can read our projections of who the eventual parties nominees will be, and the election prediction after the jump......

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A Good Monday Morning

Sunday, September 13, 2015

Is Poetic Justice on the Horizon?

"There's a bigger story hidden inside the New York Times report that 'a special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account -- including one about North Korea's nuclear weapons program -- ... contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.' The review was undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which presumably originated the material. They concluded that the material had originally been given the U.S. government's highest secrecy classification. Even if one of Clinton's aides stripped the markings (a felony), Secretary Clinton surely knew satellite intelligence and North Korean nuclear deployments are the U.S. government's most highly classified information.

"The media correctly saw the news as political trouble for Hillary, but they missed two other crucial elements of the story. Somebody high up in the intelligence community leaked that story. And Hillary faces far more than political trouble. She's being fitted for an orange jumpsuit. ...

"The intelligence services remember how seriously the Department of Justice dealt with former CIA directors John Deutsch and David Petraeus, who mishandled documents. They will demand equal treatment here. They will keep the heat on by leaking to the press. The Times story shows the faucet is already open. ...

"If Hillary's political troubles keep piling up, she won't make it to the general election. If her legal troubles keep piling up, she's going to wish the next president was Gerald Ford." - Professor Charles Lipson, University of Chicago