30th August 2019
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30th August 2019
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In the state’s rush to go green, the Public Utilities Commission is reviewing a proposal to achieve a state of “decarbonization,” a radical shift likely to lead to banning natural gas as an energy source in new homes and commercial buildings and replacing it with electricity.
No longer could restaurants connect to natural gas in new buildings — even though 98 percent of chefs in one survey preferred gas over electric. Nor could natural gas be used to heat water, dry clothes, and fuel furnaces, pool and spa heaters in newly built homes.
Hey, guys, plenty of room (and natural gas) in Texas.
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30th August 2019
Babylon Bee.
Now that the ten candidates have been finalized for the next Democratic presidential debate, the ground rules for the debate are being decided. One early rule is to ban all use of facts and logic from the debate, as they’ve increasingly been a tool of far-right extremists and have fallen out of favor with the Democrats’ progressive base.
Uh, that’s been true since the 1960s….
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30th August 2019
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29th August 2019
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29th August 2019
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This will surprise absolutely no one who has actually encountered a vegan in the flesh, if you’ll pardon the expression.
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29th August 2019
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I had my six-month dental cleaning and check-up. I didn’t expect to see the same hygienist. At my last visit, she was planning a move, possibly to Portland but I told her she may want to re-think that. She got back yesterday and said parts of Oregon were beautiful, breathtaking, the waterfalls, cool breezes, deep emerald green forests and didn’t want to leave. They hiked every day. She grew up here in Florida and is ready for a change. What she wasn’t ready for was Portland. She said she’d never seen anything like it, and was shocked by the enormous homeless population. Tents everywhere. “They don’t bother you, she said, or panhandle”. But “you couldn’t help but feel ill at ease,” walking from the donut shop with a bag of fresh-baked donuts. She walked by a young man at 7:15 AM, shooting up in broad daylight. Drugs that come in from Mexico and China. She said another’s face was beaten to a pulp. The smell was awful. But Oregon she said, was truly breathtaking…
Well, just stay out of Portland. Problem solved.
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29th August 2019
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So having gay people raise kids is going to work out really well. I see.
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29th August 2019
Victor Davis Hanson.
Trump! Is there anything he can’t do?
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29th August 2019
ZMan prognosticates the coming fight.
The 2020 presidential campaign will be two sides of the 60’s Boomer culture, facing off against one another in one final battle. The male side, represented by Donald Trump, is nostalgic for an America that no longer exists. Trump sees himself as this generation’s Ronald Reagan. Instead of morning in American, though, it is dusk in America. His tenure is a cargo cult of sorts. He and his supporters seem to think if they carry on like it is 1985, it will suddenly become 1985. Trump is pure nostalgia.
Warren is the feminine side of this battle. Unlike Trump, she is not pining for a return to Reagan’s America. She is all of the liberal Boomers in the 80’s and 90’s, who talked about the terribleness of Reaganism, while enjoying the benefits. Just as Boomer feminists talked like Betty Friedan, but lived like June Cleaver, this side of the Boomer political culture publicly hated Reagan and the 80’s economic boom, but privately benefited from it. The conscience of the 60’s was always forgiving.
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29th August 2019
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29th August 2019
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Although Oliver did rank top nationally, unlike Olivia, it was not universally popular. For the second year in a row Muhammad was the top boys’ name in London, Yorkshire & the Humber, and the West Midlands, while Harry was top in the North East for boys for the third year running.
Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity.
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29th August 2019
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
Sometimes, when you push the envelope, the envelope pushes back.
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28th August 2019
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28th August 2019
Audacious Epigone takes a look.
Two pale stale males together continue to dominate Democrat presidential primary polling. In a field of nearly twenty candidates, Biden and Sanders together garner nearly half the support of likely voters. And Morning Consult’s most recent release reveals that things will remain tricky for the party of the POC ascendancy even if the insiders are able to sabotage Sanders again….
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28th August 2019
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Rich people didn’t get to be rich people by being stupid.
Actually, really rich people don’t do this sort of thing. It’s the barely-rich and almost-rich who need to game the system.
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28th August 2019
Babylon Bee.
Let’s all get on the same page.
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28th August 2019
Ace of Spades brings the heat.
Quick refresher on who this meaningless person is: She invented a scam by which white women would take her out for dinner, and, as entertainment, she would yell at them about racism.
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28th August 2019
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27th August 2019
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27th August 2019
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Wow, that’s even worse than Trump Cooties.
I sense a blockbuster movie in the offing….
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27th August 2019
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DOOMED I TELL YOU!
Ever notice that publications, once they get ‘woke’, all descend into the same hair-on-fire fear-mongering?
Nothing is ever a problem; it’s always a ‘crisis’.
Nothing is ever threatened; it’s always ‘doomed’.
This is for the same reason that newspapers used to run scary headlines: No scare, no readers; no readers; no money.
Simple, really.
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27th August 2019
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26th August 2019
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Still think Google isn’t evil?
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26th August 2019
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26th August 2019
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Leave no virtue unsignalled.
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26th August 2019
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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?
Bernie does.
So does Fauxcohontas.
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26th August 2019
Kevin D. Williamson has written a great book, full of sharp observations and tying everything together nicely.
He then squatted and emptied his bowels over the result, leaving no page unsmeared. I’m sure he breathed a great sigh of relief when he was done, but that doesn’t help those of us who are presented with the result.
Seriously – I couldn’t finish it. Like trying to eat a steak that had been boiled in cat urine, eventually you get to the point where you ask yourself ‘Why am I doing this?’. It’s just not worth it.
Look, I like Kevin Williamson. He hates a lot of the same people I hate, and he’s a very clever writer when he can resist the urge to make his opponents his spittoon. I don’t even mind his reflexive Trump Derangement Syndrome in most cases; like most of the National Review crowd, he can’t bear to live with the fact that some rube from Long Island has succeeded in doing many of the things that St Ronald Reagan couldn’t, and the dyed-in-the-Buckley snobbery is about all that the NR remnant have left. Kevin can be an excellent writer when he can repress his literary Tourettes syndrome, but in this case he apparently didn’t even make an effort. I’m a Navy vet; I can take strong language if it’s appropriate to the situation, but this I-can-be-more-Twittery-than-thou performance is just a good read spoiled.
Don’t waste money buying it. Get it from a public library if you have to. Photocopy the pages, go over it with a black marker redacting where Kevin decided to leave no potty-mouthed slur unspewed, and you’ll wind up with a delightful read (if you’re willing to go to that much work), having shrunk it by about a third.
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26th August 2019
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Here’s a pro tip, liberal dummies. If you are going to normalize the hatred of political opponents and express open joy at their demise, the savvy play is to be the political faction that possesses and knows how to use AR-15s and not the one that agonizes over its pronouns.
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26th August 2019

With thanks to Dave Zincavage, who knows more than you and me put together.
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25th August 2019
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25th August 2019
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A lightning strike is God telling you to go do something indoors. Watch Netflix or something.
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25th August 2019
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25th August 2019
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Good news for those of us who do craft work.
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25th August 2019
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Some years ago, Dr. Tim Ball wrote that climate scientist Michael Mann “belongs in the state pen, not Penn State.” At issue was Mann’s famous “hockey stick” graph that purported to show a sudden and unprecedented 20th century warming trend. The hockey stick featured prominently in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report (2001), but has since been shown to be wrong. The question, in my view, is whether it was an innocent mistake or deliberate fraud on Mann’s part. (Mann, I believe, continues to assert the accuracy of his debunked graph.) Mann sued Ball for libel in 2011. Principia Scientific now reports that the court in British Columbia has dismissed Mann’s lawsuit with prejudice, and assessed costs against him.
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24th August 2019
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24th August 2019
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Markets work, even when you don’t want them to — or attempt to forbid them.
The reason for that is because markets are self-organizing. When two people want to trade: Poof! A market.
The reason socialism never works is that it is not self-organizing; it always has to be imposed, by force.
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24th August 2019
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Apparently a lot of the San Francisco homeless are from Texas. How they ‘know’ that is not explained.
Now, why would somebody move from a place where they can’t get a handout to a place where they can? It’s a puzzle.
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24th August 2019

Bicyclists, like protesters, often forget that the people they are pestering could terminate them with very little effort.
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23rd August 2019
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Yeah, because running after a fucking dog is very aerobic.
Given a choice between arterial plaque and picking up dog poop every day, I’ll take the plaque.
I can take Lipitor in my recliner without breaking a sweat.
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23rd August 2019
Babylon Bee.
Is that what he’s been spreading? Didn’t smell like wealth to me.
At publishing time, Obama was seen fashioning a stack of hundred-dollar bills into a makeshift barrier to stop the oceans when they rise from climate change.
Think ahead, that’s the key.
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23rd August 2019
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The Deep State merry-go-round in action.
And if a Democrat were elected President, they’d go back on the government payroll.
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23rd August 2019
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Yeah, they kept saying the wrong things.
“I think it’s specifically intended to silence dissent,” Irene Knapp, an engineer at Google, said. “This is the end of the important parts of Google’s open culture.”
Oh, ya think?
UPDATE: Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards
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23rd August 2019
Babylon Bee.
I wonder whether that is the appropriate mechanism for white people to apologize for theirs.
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23rd August 2019
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22nd August 2019
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22nd August 2019
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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?
But maybe with a Chick-Fil-A next door for … you know….
UPDATE: Cannabis oil too expensive to prescribe to epileptic children on NHS, advisory body finds
When the taxpayer foots the bill, there’s a limit to the care you can have. Sorry.
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22nd August 2019
Kevin D. Williamson looks at Ben Shapiro.
In this Jordan Weissmann column about Trump’s talk of Jewish “disloyalty,” it probably is worth noting that Ben Shapiro, who is quoted complaining about “bad Jews,” is a practicing Orthodox Jew. The kind of detail that matters, at least a little bit, no?
My question is: How much longer must Shapiro practice in order to have a reasonable shot at going pro?
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22nd August 2019
Babylon Bee.
A new study surveyed everyone on planet earth and found that of all the 7.7 billion people on the planet, you are definitely the most oppressed one.
Take whatever action you deem appropriate. (No, you can’t get paid for that.)
In a rare fit of laziness, Snopes hasn’t fact-checked this yet.
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