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'You're Heartbroken Because You Failed': Randy Quaid Pens Forceful Open Letter to Meryl Streep http://ijr.com/2017/01/774380-youre-heartbroken-because-you-failed-randy-quaid-pens-forceful-open-letter-to-meryl-streep/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=ods&utm_term=ijamerica

 

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Actor Randy Quaid has performed in over 90 films and has been nominated for just about every prestigious film award under the sun.

After Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech about President-elect Donald Trump, Quaid penned an open letter to her on his Twitter account.

Although he “empathizes” with the actress' feelings over the lost election, Quaid wasn't willing to overlook the hypocrisy of her speech.

His letter called out the “bullying” that occurs within their own industry:

“You stated in your speech that 'when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.' You’ve got bullying galore going on right in front of you, but either you’re pointedly ignoring it or you just don’t have a clue.”

Streep recently acted in the film “Florence Foster Jenkins” with Hugh Grant, who, like Quaid, has had his own experience with “fake news” denigrating his character. Something Quaid claimed Streep knows nothing about:

“How nice it must be not to have a breath of fake negative press ever written about you, or lies manufactured against you by dishonest media attacking your character, your spouse, and your career.”

Then, he detailed how he was “bullied” by the very people she praised in her speech. Quaid wrote that he:

had his home stolen by a Warner Bros exec who used a forged deed
was falsely arrested to cover up for an exec's crime
had lucrative contracts cancelled over media lies and misrepresentations from “anonymous sources”
had his passport illegally revoked by Hillary Clinton's state department because the corrupt judicial system took payoffs from Time Warner
was cast as a lead in a musical - then was falsely accused of character traits that actually belonged to the role he was playing
woke up one day to read a fake news blog that accused his wife of groping 32 men on a film set
While Streep claimed to be a voice for those who are voiceless, Quaid wondered where she was when he was being attacked:

“When all of these things happened to me, no one in Hollywood, including you, came to my side. Forty years in the business and not one brave soul stepped forward to put in a good word affirming my professionalism and character.”

Unlike many people who have praised her speech, the actor used his voice to call out the real reason he thinks the actress is upset. He wrote:

“The reason you are heartbroken is not because Hillary lost. She was always a lost cause. The reason you’re heartbroken is because you and many other celebrities who share your beliefs realized on November 8th that the corporate media agenda has failed you and you failed it.”

Quaid claimed the “biggest shocker” to Hollywood was that their voices don't matter when their fans realize how big the country's problems are. He wrote that the public wants “trust” and doesn't like “being lied to by NBC and CNN, you or anybody else.”

He went on to describe what artists should be celebrating:

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I keep reading about this picture. I just have to say: Apparently the artist has never seen a pig. The picture looks more like a horse to me. I know what pigs look like. I lived on a pig farm for 47 years. I know explicitly what pigs look like. And they don't look like horses!

 

Edited to say: Sorry,, be patient with me,, I've spent too much time in the Infimary lately. I'll get back in the groove in a day or two.

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The Week in Pictures: Transition Edition
Steven Hayward

January 14, 2017

Do you realize that by the time the next Week in Pictures gallery is posted, Barack Obama will be an ex-president? Woo-hoo! (That is unless Rosie O’Donnell indeed persuades Obama to declare martial law.) I recall the Reagan transition in 1980-81 very well, but this one has been even more fun to watch. Buckle up: there isn’t enough WD-40 in our universe to keep the unhinged left from squeaking.

 

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This is what happens when you elect Trump.

 

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And finally. . . Trump’s new Victoria’s Secret Service detail?

 

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Clinton Global Initiative to be discontinued

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Date of Notice: 1/12/2017

Event Number: 2016-0132

Rapid Response Specialist: Stuart Goldberg

Reason Stated for Filing: Plant Layoff

Company:
The Clinton Foundation
1271 Avenue of the Americas, 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10020

County: New York | WIB Name: NEW YORK CITY | Region: New York City

Contact: Veronika Shiroka

Phone: (646) 775-9184

Business Type: Social Advocacy Organization – Clinton Global Initiative

Number Affected: 22

Total Employees: —–

Layoff Date: 4/15/2017

Closing Date: —–

Reason for Dislocation: Discontinutation of the Clinton Global Initiative

ERNUM: 86-83268

Union: The affected workers are not represented by a Union.

Classification: Plant Layoff

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My Head Hurts....BAD

 

 

@Valin!

 

Everything is now viewed and judged through the prism of ideology and political correctness. Bad habits are hard to break...especially if you don't even consider them bad. Unless liberals are "in their environment" they're bitchy little weasels and without a sense of humor (or balance)...second only to Islam. Which may be why they love it so much that they're willing to bring hundreds of thousands of them into a culture that may as well be from outer space to them. I've often thought that the resentment & disdain that Progressive Socialists feel for high testosterone males in American culture...makes them turn to Islam for new male role models. So piqued, that their hatred of the male American "ideal"...causes them to go against every aspect of self-preservation...and choose an "ideal" that would roll over the top of them...and their strong feminist women, before they shut their lights out. That they can remove themselves willingly from the evolutionary chain, might have been predicted...based on their repeated choice of Progressive Socialist ideology...over...every...other...thing. Including common sense.

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My Head Hurts....BAD

 

 

@Valin!

 

Everything is now viewed and judged through the prism of ideology and political correctness. Bad habits are hard to break...especially if you don't even consider them bad. Unless liberals are "in their environment" they're bitchy little weasels and without a sense of humor (or balance)..

 

 

 

Which Is Why I Get So Much Pleasure Making Fun Of Them

 

 

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I Knew Chelsea Manning in Basic Combat Training. Here’s the Story You Haven’t Heard. http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/01/i-knew-chelsea-manning-in-basic-combat-training-heres-the-story-you-havent-heard/

 

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January 2017 – as one of his final acts in office, President Obama yesterday commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning down to just four years with a scheduled release date of 17 May 2017. For supporters, it must have been an unbelievable victory, and for her critics, an outrage. For those that have known her, there’s an added dimension of anecdotes, personal interactions, and concrete memories of her conduct, all of which color the quality of that commutation. She is a hero to some, a traitor to others. Either she was an idealistic do-gooder who was intent on revealing state-sponsored human rights violations while exposing the darkest corners of the U.S. Government, or she was a coward suffering delusions of grandeur who invented enemies to blame, lashed out at her own country, and revealed nothing but her own self-sponsored narcissism. Which one is accurate? Let me tell you a story.

In the Manning saga, the debate has always been over her state of mind leading up to and during the theft and dissemination of that classified information. There is no debate regarding the basic facts of what she did and what was done with her. During her 2009-2010 deployment to Iraq, she stole diplomatic cables, daily intelligence reports, and combat footage; she fed that information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, then separately admitted to as much to a grey-hat hacker named Adrian Lamo, who in-turn contacted U.S. Army Counterintelligence. She was convicted in 2013 on 17 original charges and four more amended charges, including violating the Espionage Act, for her role in illegally disclosing over 700,000 pages of classified documents. To date, Manning has been tried, convicted, imprisoned, and as of yesterday, scheduled for release.

As such, Manning has been a specter in the background of the Obama presidency and a central figure in national debates about everything from Iraq War policy, to the security practices of the Intelligence Community, to the weaponization of information, all the way to conversations about how the LGBTQ community is treated both in and outside the military. Likely few-to-none would have predicted such an unassuming person would be at the center of so much controversy. That is, unless you met her when she first joined the Army and she started down a trajectory toward infamy. In hindsight, maybe it was obvious.

Chelsea Manning and I enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Surge in the fall of 2007 and attended the same U.S. Army Basic Combat Training (BCT) at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. As new recruits, we were assigned to Charlie Company, 82d Chemical Battalion, 3d Chemical Brigade. Training began 12 OCT and for me, it ended 14 DEC. For Manning, however, graduation from Charlie Company never came. Her problems began the moment she arrived on station.

During Reception and Integration, Drill Sergeants conducted what is known as “the Shark Attack”: the company’s entire Drill Sergeant cadre descends on a busload of new recruits to welcome them to their home for the next nine weeks. It is intense and it is intentionally disorienting. If the recruit displays any emotion, non-verbal reaction, or any appearance of weakness, they will immediately receive the unrelenting attention of the Cadre. They probe for mental weakness and emotional triggers, assessing who will likely need the most shaping, molding, and mentoring. To ensure sufficient stress during this event, our Cadre’s Shark Attack was enabled by a simple instruction: hold your duffel bag in front of your face. Do not let it drop below your eyes.

Every recruit had the same packing list with the same items in that green duffel bag. They all weighed the same amount. Whether you were 6’4” or 5’4”, male or female, all recruits had to carry their own weight. Understand, that no one breezes through this exercise – everybody hurts, everyone drops their bag at least once, and everyone pays the price for it, including myself. During this exercise, Manning’s problem wasn’t that she was too small or not strong enough. The problem was, she quit. As the rest of the platoon faced one way, gritting their teeth and baring it, whispering words of encouragement to each other, she stood at an about-face the opposite direction, and said she simply could not pick up her own bag.

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Quite a tale and some good background on this...person...

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The Week in Pictures: Regular Saturday Edition

Steven Hayward

January 21, 2017

 

Aw come on, this is just too much fun. So here’s a short bonus round to enjoy while we get ready for the NFL conference championships tomorrow. Many thanks, by the way, to the many Power Line readers who turned out in Austin yesterday to hear my lunch talk at the University about Ronaldus Magnus, which I’ll lead off with. But note, in the second pic, that Trump has indeed restored the Oval Office correctly.

 

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WSC where he belongs

 

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California right now.

 

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And Finally....

 

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