Sometimes, just sometimes, the normally gloomy Zero Hedge site offers some cheerful news and today they out-do themselves and offer two 'smiley' news reports which I am delighted to pass on to my American friends.
The first refers to the Covington High School incident in which some pupils of this private, Catholic college were alleged to have confronted a Native American agitator taking part in a demo whilst provocatively wearing 'Make America Great Again' hats made famous by 'The Donald'. This was seized upon by the left wing media and their usual chorus of muppets as an example of almost 'Hitler Youth' activity by the sons of the rich and a torrent of abuse was aimed at the young students concerned. To no-one's surprise, except the dimwits in the (il)liberal media, an investigation has shown the charge to be entirely false. Today, we learn that the 'WaPo', one of the main 'shit-stirrers', has been slapped with a $250 million defamation suit on behalf of Nicholas Sandman, the pupil who was mostly vilified.
Apparently, letters warning of imminent legal action have also been sent to, amongst many others, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN), The Guardian, National Public Radio, Bill Maher, Elizabeth Warren and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseum!
My second piece of good cheer concerns that monstrous example of inflated ego, the proposed Obama Library in Chicago. Apart from being hideously ugly and almost totally useless there are severe doubts concerning the legality with which Chicago city land was 'acquired'.
The land, previously owned by the Chicago Park District, was, er, 'gifted' to the Obama Foundation for - wait for it! - $1, or '10 cents a year for 99 years'!
Happily, this being America, "A federal judge in Chicago ruled on Tuesday that a lawsuit aimed at scuttling President Obama's $500 million library may proceed, according to the Associated Press."
Yaaay! a couple of wins for the good guys.
Posted by: thud | Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 12:13
Heap big good news, for once.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 12:19
Liberals, in their on going effort to 'smash racism' etc etc, will settle for several days of wrong headlines in support of their shifting narratives before the story blows up. Comes under the "too good to check" heading. What liberals are doing is actually an effort to erase opposition.
About the Obama's unsightly 'library'...as I have said, it belongs in Havana or Caracas or the like.
Posted by: Whitewall | Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 13:20
Golly, the media exaggerated or got a story wrong. That could happen anywhere except Fox News. In the US land is granted or leased at a token rate all the time. So let's just see how the suit comes out. Wish upon a star and keep your fingers crossed!
Regarding ugly architecture, everyone everywhere is a critic:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/galleries/london-ugliest-buildings/
Posted by: Bob | Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 16:09
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2019/02/its-happened-again.html
Posted by: JK | Wednesday, 20 February 2019 at 16:28
Mathematically challenged person of the year.
Posted by: terrapod | Friday, 22 February 2019 at 01:28