Islam vs. Dogs

Luton Town CEO tells fans to stop chanting Tommy Robinson’s name

The club CEO says he accepts "everybody holds their own independent opinions" but asks fans to "temporarily overlook those views".

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/luton-town-ceo-tells-fans-to-stop-chanting-tommy-robinsons-name-11473614

And again:

Trump connects with Rand ‘at gut level’

Enemies on the 2016 campaign trail, the Kentucky senator and the iconoclastic president have developed a quiet Washington friendship.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/08/rand-paul-trump-russia-putin-768472

He infuriates West Wing aides who have had to scramble to win his support for key votes, but Rand Paul has the ear, and the affection, of the most important person in the White House: President Donald Trump.

Once bitter rivals on the Republican campaign trail, the Kentucky senator and the commander-in-chief have bonded over a shared delight in thumbing their noses at experts the president likes to deride as “foreign policy eggheads,” including those who work in his own administration.

When Trump dismissed national security adviser H.R. McMaster in March, replacing him with John Bolton, he told McMaster, “Look, he’s a hawk, you’re hawk, I can handle you guys,” according to a White House aide. While Trump tolerates his hawkish advisers, the aide added, he shares a real bond with Paul: “He actually at gut level has the same instincts as Rand Paul.”

Paul has quietly emerged as an influential sounding board and useful ally for the president, who frequently clashes with his top advisers on foreign policy. The Kentucky senator's relationship with Trump, developed via frequent cellphone calls and over rounds of golf at the president’s Virginia country club, became publicly apparent for the first time on Wednesday when the senator announced he had hand-delivered a letter to the Kremlin on Trump’s behalf.

Both Paul and Trump routinely rail against foreign entanglements, foreign wars, and foreign aid — positions characterized as isolationist by critics and as “America first” by the president and his supporters. [...]

Of note:

Rand Paul’s Comeback

The Kentucky senator is a favorite of the president. In Trump’s Washington, Paul, and some of his friends, are power players unto themselves.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/rand-paul’s-comeback-28682

“...[S]hould Trump continue to buck the neoconservative establishment, discussion has swirled in recent days of an even larger role for Paul—in the cabinet or on the ticket. ...”

@mn5
The movie is one of my greatest guilty plesasures. If I stumble across it on tv I’ll stay ‘til the end. (Lots of great debuts in the film too, but whatever happened to the ticket scalper?)

Dazed & Confused is the same. I love the American high school movie genre.

Nice vintage press photo on eBay of Michael Jones kicking an Italian in the mouth. (That’s what the caption says.) From a seller in Iceland. (The Iceman in Iceland.)

EBay link

@salacious-crumb said in Music Reviews:

Brother listens to Ted Newgant for the first time.

Joe Rogan & Henry Rollins on Ted Nugent

@antipodean said in Religion, Morality and Political Correctness on campus:

Be interesting if anyone's prepared to voice concerns about Saudi Arabia, particularly from Canada...

They’re just letting us know that they know that we know that they did it.

Awesome. If Dennis Rodman can do it... why not?

Brother listens to Ted Newgant for the first time.