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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

30th August 2019

Climate Catastrophe News Cabal Ramps Up

This picture spoke a thousand words about ‘climate change’ – until it didn’t @CNN @BBC @AlGore

YouTube ‘Corrects’ Conservative Comic on Global Warming

 

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Can California Really Ban Natural Gas In New Buildings?

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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Facts, Logic Banned From Next Democratic Debate for Being Tools of the Alt-Right

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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Thought for the Day

30th August 2019

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

29th August 2019

Snyder: Experts Brace For Apocalyptic Future As Earth’s Forests Burn

No U.S. Warming Since 2005

NBC Joins CBS, Fails to Include Inconvenient Tidbit About Global Warming Teen’s Voyage  Why spoil the show?

Holidaymakers face flight chaos as Extinction Rebellion splinter group target drones at Heathrow

Prepare to retreat before climate change!

The most dangerous thing about the Amazon fires is the apocalyptic rhetoric

The Amazon Scam

Aussie Government: UNESCO Should NOT cite Climate Risks to the Great Barrier Reef

 

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Vegans Could Be Lacking Crucial Nutrient for Brain Health, Warns Expert

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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Utopia Under a Tent or a Waterfall?

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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‘Gay Gene’ Ruled Out as Huge Study Shows Environment Is Major Factor in Homosexuality

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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The Mythical Trump Hydra

29th August 2019

Victor Davis Hanson.

Trump! Is there anything he can’t do?

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The Last Hurrah

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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Thought for the Day

29th August 2019

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Top Baby Names in England and Wales for 2018 Revealed

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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‘Fastest Woman on Four Wheels’ Jessi Combs Killed Attempting to Break Her Own Land Speed Record

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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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

28th August 2019

The Great Amazon Fire Fraud

Canadian Alarmist Naomi Klein Demands DNC Host TV Climate Debate

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns That ‘Diseases Could Escape’ From Frozen Glaciers Due To Climate Change

Exposing The Four Fallacies Behind Bernie’s New-New ‘Green New Deal’  If the planet were only 16 years old.

Climate change melts billions of tons of ice in Greenland fifty years earlier than predicted   Neptune comin’ fer ya, Barack!

Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study

Russia discovers five islands as climate change melts Arctic ice

Big Ag Is Sabotaging Progress on Climate Change

Fires in the Amazon have given us a lot to worry about, but the Earth’s oxygen supply isn’t one of them

The problem with Greta Thunberg’s sea crossings

Selective and Misplaced Outrage at Brazil’s President Bolsonaro over Amazonian Fires

 

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Democrats’ White Male Problem

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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Rich Families Are Legally Separating From Their Kids to Pay Less for College

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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Nation’s Progressives Check News to See What They’re Boycotting Today

28th August 2019

Babylon Bee.

Let’s all get on the same page.

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Twitter Troll and Proud Grifter-Racist Saira Rao: For Some Reason My White Friends I Am Always Accusing of Racism Have Stopped Inviting Me Out For Fro-Yo

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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Thought for the Day

28th August 2019

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

27th August 2019

Sometimes, a Greener Grid Means a 40k% Spike in Power Prices

Why can’t we stop climate change? We don’t empathize with our descendants  No, we don’t believe the kooks.

Climate Change Could Leave Obama’s Possible New Mansion Underwater, According To Researchers Funded By Obama Admin  I doubt that he’s worried.

Court declares Obama’s EPA “Waters of the United States Rule” unlawful

Andrew Yang’s $4.9 Trillion Climate Plan Is 3,000 Words Shorter Than Bernie Sanders’s $16.3 Trillion Climate Plan

The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered Once It’s Gone  Betcha it can.

Vox’s Zack Beauchamp: Democracy threatens climate, planet and democracy!  Not to mention democracy.

Brazil Rejects $22 Million In Rainforest Aid From G7 Leaders

Creator Of Global-Warming’s Infamous “Hockey Stick” Chart Loses ‘Climate-Science’ Lawsuit

NASA camera captures Amazon fires  Note that the ‘fires’ are south of the Amazon and many appear to be out to sea.

NBC Touts JFK Granddaughter’s Climate Activism, Calls Her a ‘Journalist’

7 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Save the Amazon Rainforest  1. Shut up about it.

 

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Cornell Study: Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro ‘Infect’ People With Alt-Right Beliefs

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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The Banana as We Know It Is Doomed

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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Thought for the Day

27th August 2019

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Google Is Burying Alternative Health Sites to Protect People from “Dangerous” Medical Advice

26th August 2019

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Still think Google isn’t evil?

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

26th August 2019

How the Media Help to Destroy Rational Climate Debate

Hulu Rom-Com Remake Shrieks ‘We’re All Gonna Die of Climate Change!’

CNN: Trump is Worse than Hitler, Mao and Stalin Combined Because Climate Change

Bill Maher Absurdly Explains Scenario in Which He Would ‘Vote’ for Trump  As if Trump needed – or wanted – his vote.

The Movement To Stop Having Babies To Fight Climate Change Is Going Mainstream, And AOC Might Be Getting On Board  Good. I shudder to think of her reproducing.

Iceland grieving a dead glacier could help us better face the climate crisis  Yeah, such political theater is always productive.

Celebrities, Politicians Share Misinformation As They Spread Fear Over Amazon Fires

Fire in the Minds of (Climate) Men

‘Climate Emergency’? Dems won’t allow presidential climate debate  Can’t imagine that there would be enough disagreement for a debate.

BBC’s nature Prom tells children they are in the midst of mass extinction to ‘amplify discussion’

 

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Apple Donating Money to Preserve Amazon Rainforests Following Devastating Fires

26th August 2019

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Leave no virtue unsignalled.

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UK: Soaring numbers of pensioners left ‘stranded’ in hospital for weeks

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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Review: The Smallest Minority

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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Get Ready For Apocalypse Ruth

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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Thought for the Day: It’s Important to Know These Things

26th August 2019

With thanks to Dave Zincavage, who knows more than you and me put together.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

25th August 2019

We know how to build an all-renewable electric grid

Climate Change: What’s the Worst Case?

Epic planet-saving hubris from @LuxuryLondon

Let the Hate Flow: Climate Activists Celebrate the Death of David Koch

British University Bans Beef Because A Fashion-Expert Declared A “Climate Emergency”

DNC Votes to Avoid “Single Issue” Climate Change Debates  Don’t want to make them look too silly.

Day After Stating No Link, NY Times Blames Amazon Fires on Global Warming  Is there anything it can’t do?

 

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PGA Tour Under Scrutiny After Lightning Strikes Injure Spectators

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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Thought for the Day

25th August 2019

Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip for August 19, 2019
Me, too.

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America Is Obsessed With Beef. But It Has No Use for Hides, So Leather Prices Plunge

25th August 2019

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Good news for those of us who do craft work.

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Michael Mann Refuses to Produce Data, Loses Case

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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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

24th August 2019

More Wildfires Are Burning In Angola & Congo Than Brazil

Climate Claim: Large Scale Evacuation Planning Needs to Start Now  Californians have already started.

Sea Level Rise? President Obama Just Bought a Beachside Property

Bernie Sanders Demands Nationalization of US Energy Production to Fight Climate Change  Let’s nationalize Bernie, instead. He could generate enough hot air to melt Greenland all by himself.

 

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Gun Sellers Exploit Loophole in Facebook’s Marketplace to Sell Guns Online

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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California Governor Blames Texas for California’s Policies That Caused the Homeless Crisis

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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Thought for the Day

24th August 2019

Pearls Before Swine Comic Strip for August 17, 2019

Bicyclists, like protesters, often forget that the people they are pestering could terminate them with very little effort.

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Dog Ownership Is Associated With Better Cardiovascular Health

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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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

23rd August 2019

Brazilian President Accuses Green NGOs of Setting Fire to the Amazon Rainforest

UK Govt Committee: End All Private Vehicle Ownership Because Climate Change  Airstrip One goes IngSoc.

MSNBC Defends $16 Trillion Sanders Climate Plan: ‘Price to Not Doing Anything’

Friday Funny: Extinction Rebellion Conference Report

Claim: Climate change could pose danger for Muslim pilgrimage

Amazon Fires and the Horrifying Science of Deforestation

 

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Obamas Promise to Spread Their Wealth Around New $15 Million Estate

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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15 Former Spooks Who Work at CNN and MSNBC Now

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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Google Doesn’t Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore

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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Progressive Church Allows Anyone to Interrupt Sermon With a Point of Personal Privilege

23rd August 2019

Babylon Bee.

I wonder whether that is the appropriate mechanism for white people to apologize for theirs.

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Thought for the Day

23rd August 2019

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

22nd August 2019

Agreeing With The Boss - Dilbert by Scott Adams

China Criticises Australia for Not Doing Enough about Climate Change  This from the greatest polluting nation on earth.

Environmentally-Hypocritical Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous

The Economist: The World’s Poor Are Eating More Meat Which Means They’ll Live Longer and Healthier Lives But It’s Very Sad Because of Global Warming Plus: Slavery-Shaming from the New York Times and Nation of Islam

The Green New Deal: Less About Climate, More About Control

Forbes Toes the Line on Climate

The “Lungs Of The Earth” Are Being Burned Away As Unprecedented Wildfires Absolutely Ravage The Planet Women and minorities have hair on fire, etc.

Developing nations surging energy use shatters UN & California’s climate alarmism crusade

Bernie Sanders Says His $16-Trillion Green New Deal-Like Plan Will Create 20 Million Jobs  Mostly in offices administering welfare payments for people thrown out of work.

US To “Drown The World” In Oil  I thought we were supposed to run out of oil next week or something?

Jon Meacham Anoints Al Gore a ‘Prophetic Voice’ on Environment

Chuck Todd: ‘Nothing Better’ Than Being ‘Attacked by Donald Trump’  That and getting paid. Todd’s salary is reported to be ‘over $750,000′, which is a good deal for playing Scott Adams’ ‘Dale’ character on national TV.

This London Pub Might Be the Most Ethical Bar in the World  “Ethical”, of course, meaning Dances With Socialism.

Climate Crusading Youngsters Erupt After DNC Officials Reject Global Warming Debate

 

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UK: Prue Leith brought in to bring an end to ‘inedible’ NHS hospital food

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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Details, Details

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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Study Confirms You Are Most Oppressed Person On Planet

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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