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Yesterday, some irate supporters of Sanders circulated a #Never­Warren hashtag. #WarrenIsASnake also began trending.

Warren deserves this treatment. Contrary to her angry post-debate statement to Sanders that he called her a liar on national television, Sanders’s denial that he ever said a woman can’t beat Donald Trump is just as consistent with the notion that Warren simply misunderstood his comment on the subject. Warren was not justified in going nuclear.

In any case, Warren should not have berated Sanders, and refused to shake his hand, while the cameras were still rolling and CNN was still picking up sound. Sanders was spot on when he advised her, “let’s not do this right now.”

The poor judgment Warren displayed by going nuclear over a comment with an innocent explanation, and with the cameras still rolling, is yet another reason to expect the worst from a Warren presidency.

Who could dislike Professor Umbrage?

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This does not appear to be a satire.

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For many of today’s children, that privilege is disappearing. American children have less independence and autonomy today than they did a few generations ago. As parents have become increasingly concerned with safety, fewer children are permitted to go exploring beyond the confines of their own backyard. Some parents have even been prosecuted or charged with neglect for letting their children walk or play unsupervised. Meanwhile, child psychologists say that too many children are being ushered from one structured activity to the next, always under adult supervision—leaving them with little time to play, experiment, and make mistakes.

The Ocean Is Warming at a Rate of 5 Atom Bombs Per Second, Scientists Warn

Climate Change to Alter Death in the Anthropocene… Or Something Like That

Telemundo Now Blaming Suicide and Violence on Climate Change

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How funny it is when silly political correctness gets tangled up. The latest case has been a description of the Spanish actor Antonio Banderas (in magazines such as Vanity Fair and Deadline) as one of the few candidates “of color” nominated for an Oscar.

This same ultra-racism affects discussions of Megan Markle, who is ‘black’ only to proglodytes.

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Architects, builders, and sustainability advocates are all abuzz over a new building material they say could substantially reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the building sector, slash the waste, pollution, and costs associated with construction, and create a more physically, psychologically, and aesthetically healthy built environment.

The material is known as, uh, wood.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Especially among rich liberals who whine to the press about how they aren’t taxed enough.

CNN Touts Climate Alarmists Blaming Skeptics for Wildfires

Environmental Groups Sue Govt Over Calif. Oil, Gas Leasing

Venice Canals Nearly Empty As Tide Falls Drastically | NBC News  Boy, those rising sea levels are scary.

Rupert Murdoch’s Son James Furious at Media Empire’s “Climate Denial”

1D Model of Global SST Shows 40% of Warming Since 1979 Due to Early Volcanic Cooling

In Iowa, Democrats tell farmers no new jobs until Greta Thunberg is happy

Green Issues Top Davos Attendees’ Worries Ahead of Summit

Half of sea turtles have ingested plastic, study finds, as Greenpeace warns they could become extinct

Merchants of Thirst

Has the Aussie Government Surrendered to Climate Activists?

AmGreatness: Australia Was Set On Fire by Environmentalists Who Prevented Prudent Land Management, Not By “Global Warming”

Quant Legend Seeks $1.5 Billion For New Fund Dedicated To Fighting Climate Change  How to get rich: 1. Find a trend 2. Figure out a way to monetize it.

While NOAA/NASA claims 2019 as the “second warmest year ever”, other data shows 2019 cooler than 2005 for USA.

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The Iran deal was never meant to stop Iran from building a bomb—it was supposed to delay it until disaster happened on someone else’s watch.

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All while being one of those little plastic thingies that is destroying the planet.

The Guardian wags its finger.

Telling people what they can throw out and recycle is important, but corporations and governments that are in the business of growth do not want to address the real problem: the vast and escalating quantity of plastic and other stuff that people buy, use a bit and then throw away. Along with celebrities, “influencers” and PR companies, they seek to create needs for things we never knew we wanted, and then manipulate us to buy more of everything. Bombarded by advertisements, we are then persuaded that the more we binge-shop, the more fulfilling and satisfying our lives will be.

Hear that? All of you unenlightened people are being shits but it’s not your fault — you’re just puppets in the hands of Bad Guys who make you do Bad Things. (Like vote for Trump.)

Victor Davis Hanson. (A real farmer.)

I grew up with an entire local network of clubs and get-togethers, and ferried my grandparents to periodic meetings of the Walnut Improvement Club, Eastern Star, the Odd Fellows, Masons, the Grange, and Sun-Maid growers. They exchanged gossip, of course, but also vital folk and empirical information on irrigation, fertilizers, and machines.

The point was to remind us that “we” (i.e., the vanishing rural classes) needed to stick together—especially given glimpses of what the country would be like in the 21st century. When one of us died or got sick, people showed up with flowers, food, and offered help—whether the use of a tractor, or truck or hired man to “get you through this.”

Now? Zilch.

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They compare textbooks by the same publishers but customized to suit the predilections of Texas and California.

Guess which one they thought was better.

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Assuming, of course, that she enjoys lowbrow underclass entertainment. The assumption here is that the sort of people who work at WalMart like things like UFC and Vegas.

It strikes me that a good use for 1%-style wealth is tracking down people who have been fucked over by our ruling class and their managerial drones and dumping money on them. People in prole jobs who nevertheless treat their employer’s property like their own and resist being robbed are a good target demographic.

Joel Kotkin.

Perhaps nothing so animates the progressive Left today as the notion of an increasingly race-conscious society, segregated by ethnic identity and dismissive of the traditional ideal of assimilation. If this seems ironic, it should—in the not-so-distant past, this was a position embraced by the reactionary Right, particularly in the Jim Crow South. Today, however, progressives support separate dorms for African-Americans and promote restricted “safe spaces” for minorities and other designated victim groups. Indeed, it’s hard to pick up the New York Times—even its arts, sports, or travel pages—without seeing race-based analysis and reportage. The Times’s racial obsession reached new intensity with the “1619 Project,” which overstates the role of slavery in American history and economic development.

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Well, they can take comfort in the fact that the UK’s strict gun control laws (so strict that their Olympic pistol team has to practice in other countries) are keeping everybody safe.

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In the past five years, almond milk consumption in the United States has exploded over 250 percent. The lower-calorie, vegan milk alternative is a staple in grocery stores and coffee shops across the country now, but its booming popularity comes at a heavy environmental cost. According to a new report from the Guardian this week, the titanic and growing demands of the California almond industry are placing a huge strain on the hives of bees used to pollinate their orchards, wiping out billions of honeybees in a matter of months.

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The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

—G.K. Chesterton, The Thing (1929).

David Cole points out some inconvenient truth.

Some of you might remember Anthony Stokes. He was a 15-year-old DeKalb County, Ga., hood rat with a bum ticker who kept getting passed over for a heart transplant because of his “high risk” lifestyle, which included burglary, weapons charges, arson, and neglecting to take his prescribed meds.

Seeing how donor hearts aren’t found on trees (or in Dollar Trees), doctors were reluctant to give a young crime lord in training one of the precious organs. So Anthony’s granmoms or auntie or whoever the hell was raising him went to the local civil rights shysters screaming racism. Social justice gorgon Tara Culp-Ressler, managing editor of ThinkProgress, ginned up a media campaign, which soon went national. Anthony was given his heart transplant in record time by doctors who were basically told, “Perform this operation or you’re Mengele.”

Anthony Stokes was now armed with a new, healthy heart with a kickin’ beat. He was also armed with a variety of handguns, one of which he used on an old lady whose front door he kicked in during a brazen home-invasion robbery. After shooting at his elderly victim but missing, Tony carjacked a passerby, ran over a pedestrian, and lost control of the vehicle, smashing full-speed into a SunTrust Bank sign, closing his personal account for good.

This same dynamic was responsible for the economic disaster of 2008. Political pressure was brought to bear on mortgage lenders to give money to people who wouldn’t be able to pay it back, merely because of the ‘disparate impact’ on Fashionable Minorities — with results that everybody knew would happen but that nobody could afford to admit.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Rather than fight with chemicals, which bacteria will almost always develop resistance to, the researchers set out to find ways to physically attack the bugs. After all, humans, for example, could evolve resistance to mild poisons over time, but not being stabbed.

The team’s solution was to use magnetic, liquid metal nanoparticles. When exposed to a low-intensity magnetic field, these droplets change their shape, with their edges becoming sharp enough to puncture cell walls and biofilms – the sturdy, sticky substance that colonies of bacteria build to protect themselves from antibiotics.

Popular Science.

Unless it arrives in the form of an APDS penetrator rod. Then you can worry.

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No, that would be the Democrats, the party of Secession, the KKK, and Jim Crow.

Democrats have never gotten over the fact that Republicans freed their slaves.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #394

Will eco-activists kill billions to save the world?

Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right When He Blamed California’s Wildfires On Land Management

UCLA Prof: “We Need To Seriously Question Ideal Of Private Home Ownership”

Paper praising models’ predictions proves they greatly exaggerate

Critics’ Choice Awards Meal Goes Vegan for Climage Change: ‘Amazing Message’

2019 Alaska aerial survey found the most polar bears since 2012 – dozens of fat healthy bears

Ocean Cleaning Device Succeeds in Removing Plastic for the First Time  As Scott Adams says, when we are faced with a problem we tend to invent a way to fix it.

Environmentalists Want To Take Your Food, Your Home, And Your Children

Climate change: No one left to defend the camels

Obama Official: “Americans Choosing Trump would Send the Signal that they Don’t Care about the Climate”  As, indeed, some of us don’t.

ZMan reminds us of some inconvenient truth.

In every human society, large or small, there are people who don’t fit in with the main of the society. At the extreme end, these are criminals and subversives. At the more benign end there are oddballs and eccentrics. In small numbers they are harmless, just as long as they don’t form up into an organized whole. A criminal organization is a collection of people, who are no threat as individuals, but as a group they become a threat to the society. They become an alien body.

Human society is an organism. Like any organism, it must always be aware of threats to its existence, internal and external. A group of people inside society that is either hostile to the whole or merely alien to the whole must be treated as a threat. Since self-preservation is the prime directive of any organism, the most prudent approach is to treat the alien as hostile. To do otherwise risks making an error and allowing a hostile alien inside the society. That is a pointless risk.

Oh, Bob, you’ll be amazed at the number of things that will come up for you to do….

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The tech giants have as much money and influence as nations. So what if we reported on them like countries? What would Apple be? A liberal China…

That pays a good dividend and has a robust stock-option program.

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Chinese expansionism doesn’t always involve reviving, or inventing, territorial claims along their borders. Chinese efforts to annex the South China Sea and large areas on their Indian border get a lot of diplomatic, military and media attention but there is another kind of Chinese expansion that, while less noticed, is becoming a serious economic and political problem for the countries the Chinese have been allowed to invade economically. There are growing number of countries that allow Chinese investment on a large, multi-billion dollar, scale.

Such large investments come with conditions, and that’s where the trouble begins. The Chinese insist that they must bring their own Chinese workforce. This includes demands that these new visitors can establish their own Chinese settlements and then stay when the project is over. The new visitors must be allowed to start businesses. This sort of thing results in the Chinese establishing a permanent economic presence and control over a growing percentage of the local economy. This does not always end well, with the Chinese being driven out of the country along with any more Chinese investment. One reason for building a large navy and military air transport fleet is to provide armed escorts for Chinese bill collectors and diplomates.

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The Labor Department issued an official rule on Sunday that corporations are only liable when they directly control the policies of their franchisees, effectively rolling back Obama administration policy that had tried to benefit unions, the Washington Examiner reported.

The Obama administration attempted, through the so-called joint employer rule, to have franchiser corporations be legally responsible for workplace violations by their franchisees, even if those were legally independent businesses.

With Democrats, it’s never about who is at fault, it’s always about who they can soak.

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Seeing how the government performs in other areas, I’m not going to trust it for my livelihood.

Ask disabled veterans how well the VA serves their medical needs, for example.

UK Anti-Terror Police Listed Extinction Rebellion in a Guide to Prevent School Atrocities

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According to an Election Data Services analysis of the Census Bureau report, “The population projections point toward a ten [congressional] seat change over 17 states across the nation by year 2020.”

Seven states are projected to gain one or more congressional seats after the 2020 election; 10 states are projected lose one seat.

The red-state leader is Texas, with a projected pickup of three congressional seats following the 2020 census — and that after gaining four congressional seats after the 2010 election. Florida will pick up two seats, and Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain one, according to the analysis.

All 10 losing states — Alabama, California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia — lose only one seat.

Of the seven states gaining seats, five voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Of the 10 states losing seats, five voted for Trump and five for Hillary Clinton.

Do we really face a climate cat–astrophe?

Plants growing around Everest as ice melts on Himalayas  OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.

Italian plan to create world’s largest ski network in Dolomites leaves environmentalists aghast

Carbon Sequestration

Democrats: 100% Clean Energy by 2050, because “Australia is Burning”

Say Bye Bye Trees: Climate Scientists Finally Claim We Passed a “Tipping Point”

Roger Federer issues non-committal reply to Greta Thurnberg fossil fuel criticism  OK, doomer.

The Amazon stores tons of carbon. Climate change-fueled wildfires could ruin that.

ZMan reminds us of how proglodytes work.

One of the best observations Orwell had about totalitarian society is had to have an opponent, against which everyone must rally. It was not just a practical opponent, like another country. The forever bad guy had to have a spiritual dimension. In opposing the bad guy, the members of the society established their commitment to the cause and thus their standing in society. Emmanuel Goldstein in the Novel 1984 and Snowball in the novella Animal Farm are his famous examples.

Of course, modern totalitarian states are almost always the result of some mass movement that swept to power. Their ascent was either based on their promise to reform or their ability to demolish the prevailing order. Eric Hoffer noted that “mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.” The bogeymen in the Orwell novels were such devils. They were the center of the moral universe for the totalitarian society.

Steve Sailer.

The New York Times, of course, think’s this is a SCARY THING.

Of course, anybody who works at the NYT would die of mortification if one of their offspring decided to join the military.

Black recruits tend to be the children of blacks who served. A 1994 book about recruiting by Moskos made the point that even by then there were a lot of two or three generation black families in the Army (less so in other branches), typically specializing not in combat but in supply paperwork jobs that could then transition to a civilian government job, with an ideal path of collecting two nice pensions. It’s a pretty sensible way to go through life.

Maybe that’s how Trump got black unemployment figures so low.

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The conventional mixture is usually three-quarters gold and one-quarter copper, with a density of about 15 g/cm3. That’s not true for this new lightweight gold: its density is just 1.7 g/cm3. And nonetheless it is still 18-carat gold. How was this miraculous lightness achieved? Instead of a metal alloy element, van ‘t Hag, Mezzenga and colleagues used protein fibres and a polymer latex to form a matrix in which they embedded thin discs of gold nanocrystals. In addition, the lightweight gold contains countless tiny air pockets invisible to the eye. The researchers’ study on this process has just been published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

Everythin’ goin’ be plastic bye and bye….

Misinformation Campaign Targets Australia Wildfires  Claim the ‘climate change’ alarmists.

Jane Fonda Saves the Planet From Herself

How I Was Manned

Viking runestone reveals fear of climate catastrophe, scholars find

Tom Steyer to Climate Change Refugees: Come to the US  Where you can do jobs Americans won’t do.

America’s Climate Friendly E-Scooter Carnage

#COP25 hypocrites line up for beef burgers while lecturing us on the climate dangers of meat

Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right When He Blamed California’s Wildfires On Land Management

Joaquin Phoenix Says He ‘Flew Plane Out’ To DC To Join ‘Fight’ Against Climate Change

“Being American is bigger than just the paperwork.”

— Scott Adams

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The most densely populated city on Earth had only one postman. His round was confined to an area barely a hundredth of a square mile in size. Yet within that space was a staggering number of addresses: 350 buildings, almost all between 10 and 14 stories high, occupied by 8,500 premises, 10,700 households, and more than 33,000 residents.

Smitty at The Other McCain is ahead of the fashion curve.

I don’t know — I kinda like Dave Chapelle.

If life can be said to have an “operating system”, then humor is the test cases that pretty much everybody writes. Except feminists.

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Free training sessions at synagogues in the wake of a machete rampage in Monsey, N.Y., and a wave of other anti-Semitic attacks after being offered by a training academy run by veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces.

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Pass the popcorn.

CNN covers all of the important news.

Have you ever asked yourself: Do I have a fat tongue?

It’s not a idle query. If you are one of the one billion people globally who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, having a fat tongue could be a key reason you snore, choke, gasp or stop breathing periodically during the night, ruining your sleep and potentially your health.

Yet another thing to worry about.

The Cult of Climate ‘Science’

How to build a circular economy that recycles carbon  “The right way to think about and support carbon capture and utilization.” You’re too stupid to think for yourself, so you need some 20-something ‘journalist’ to tell you how to think.

Bernie Sanders Attacks Bezos, Backs Amazon Climate Activists  Of course he does.

“Reckless and Selfish”: Aussie Politicians Urge Climate Activists to Cancel Protest

Ocean acidification a big problem — but not for coral reef fish behavior

How Long Will Australia Be Livable?

We save lives and crops every time a coal plant closes  Popular ‘Science’.

Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis?  Hunt: Yes.

Chamber of Commerce Moves Left on Climate Change

Why plastics may not always be the worst option for the planet

Are Australia Bushfires Worsening from Human-Caused Climate Change?  Yeah, if you call arson ‘human-caused climate change’.

Montana Glaciers 1, Climate Hysterics 0

Australia Is Burning: Blame The Greens & The Arsonists

Australia’s Severe Wildfires Were Predicted by the Government over a Decade Ago

UK: National Trust to forest vast swathes of farmland under plans to go carbon zero

The solutions to climate change and obesity could be found in our cities

‘Montana Glaciers 1, Climate Hysterics 0’? Check the Score