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This week, some thoughts on the Khashoggi murder, a deep dive into the Catholic Church scandals with the great Rod Dreher, and our mid-term preview with Ricochet’s newest podcaster, Lahnee Chen (subscribe to his show!). Also, you thought we weren’t going to give our take on Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test? No way, Chief.
Music from this week’s podcast Bad Blood by Taylor Swift
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CHA-vez. HYU-go CHA-vez.
In Spanish the CH is identical to the English CH. Only the French pronounce an initial CH as SH.
Podcasters,
I’m putting this video up one more time just because I like it.
Come from behind and pass’em on the outside. Works for me.
Regards,
Jim
I was very disappointed with the discussion on the Catholic Church. I guess Mr. Dreher is a friend of the podcast and I know y’all love to promote each others books and that he has done yeoman’s work on reporting on the disgusting homosexual abuse scandal, but come on, the guy is an apostate. Can’t you at least find a Catholic (Phil Lawler, Ed Pentin, Robert Royal, etc., etc.) to add some heft to your discussion. He wasn’t even able to answer basic questions on the options on dealing with the Pope and the scandal.
And as the Vigano testimonies have proclaimed, the main cause of this crisis – homosexual predation in the priesthood – was not even mentioned by Mr. Dreher. This was a missed opportunity to inform your audience.
For those who want to know the real story, join us at the Ricochet Catholics Group.
Come on, aren’t you satisfied that now James has to say “neandartal?”
Let’s help James with his song:
My daughter took charge of the order,
My daughter took charge of the meal….
My daughter took charge of the order…
Please bring back my daughter to me! (from Brazil.)
That’s an excellent shot of James Lileks….
That, according to the Elizabeth Warren standard, most whites are actually Native Americans, is a nifty observation that hadn’t occurred to me.
Well, and Qatar is (should be) kuh-TAR since we’re, you know, speaking English.
#petpeeve
Most media people I hear, seem to say it “gutter.” Which doesn’t make sense to me. But the whole foreign-places-names things is pretty messy. Mostly what seems to happen is the left thinks that saying names “properly” proves that they’re “more enlightened” or something. (At least when it comes to pronouncing names of places that they support for also being leftist, or something.) James has commented on that too, including on Northern Alliance Radio Network podcasts in the past. But really, even if you think it matters to say “Bejing” instead of “Peking” or “Mumbai” instead of “Bombay” etc, that’s just scratching the surface. Because. when you really look at it, you have to remember things like that Germans don’t call Germany “Germany.” They call it Deutschland. And so forth.
It is discrimination against Koreans that home chef doesn’t include dog.
But if it comes in a box, it includes cardboard, so the North Korean diet is covered.
Yup, that’s pretty much how I see it. I about lost my mind during the 2006 Winter Olympics which NBC officially (in their logo and everything) called the Torino Olympics. The city is called Turin. I would have loved to see the network do a story on the Shroud of Torino.
All of your shows are good.
This one is great.
My favorite Olympics nonsense, in particular, is when the US reporters refer to black athletes from Ghana or something, as “African-American.” Hilarious.
I’ve been ‘de-minoritied”! When I first took an Ancestry DNA test I came back as 78% Italian+ 5.5% Jewish, some North Saharan, and smidgens of other areas…….I got a notice that a refined data base now has me as 97% Italian and a mere 3% Caucasus. Oy Vey! I was feeling smart, pleased to have come from a people with so many Nobel Prizes and a great basketball playing heritage as well.
Now I need extra points on achievement tests and can no longer jump as high!
Any suggestions on how not to waste my future?
Here’s a case of an Olympic gold medalist celebrating too soon twice in a race.
Nobody wanted to post the math? Well, fine. If @roblong is 10% native American, and Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren is .1%, then Rob is 100 times more native American than she is