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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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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Sometimes, when you push the envelope, the envelope pushes back.

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

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 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.

Babylon Bee.

Let’s all get on the same page.

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.

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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Wow, that’s even worse than Trump Cooties.

I sense a blockbuster movie in the offing….

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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.

ZMan is unhappy.

The best maneuver in the Progressive playbook is to select the leaders of their opponents. They focus their attention on one soft target, making that person the symbol of their cause. That person then becomes the easily mocked and ridiculed leader of the opposition. For example, they turned the alt-right into a joke by cultivating Richard Spencer as the face of the movement.

In the case of the Koch brothers, the Left was happy to make them the bad guys, as they were never going to be a threat. Instead, they would pour millions into conservative operations, which would happily purge themselves of social conservatives and skeptics of global capitalism. That neocon – libertarian sandwich that was conservatism, became the other slice of the Progressive sandwich that controls American politics. The choice is a libertarian warmonger or a Progressive fanatic. That’s democracy!

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Still think Google isn’t evil?

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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Leave no virtue unsignalled.

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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.

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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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.

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

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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A lightning strike is God telling you to go do something indoors. Watch Netflix or something.

ZMan cuts to the chase.

In this case, the relationship is easy to sort. U.S. imports from China totaled $539.5 billion in 2018. U.S. exports were $179.3 billion. That export total is about 7% of all U.S. exports for 2018. Put another way, the U.S. market is about 5% of the Chinese economy, assuming the fake Chinese economic numbers are even close to reality, which is surely not the case. The Chinese market is less than one percent of the U.S. economy in 2018. Imports are about 3% of the U.S. economy.

So all of the hair-on-fire in the news is with respect to only 3% of our economy.

This is why Trump is playing hardball. He believes he has far less to lose than the Chinese in a trade war. Even if all trade with China comes to an end, the cost to the U.S. economy is not going to be devastating. In fact, it will be hardly noticed. Much of that trade will be replaced with other cheap labor countries, as it is not really trade in the conventional sense. America’s economic relationship with China is about off-shoring manufacturing to dodge labor, tax and environmental laws.

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Good news for those of us who do craft work.

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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.

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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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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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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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

Babylon Bee.

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

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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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.

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?

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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Slumming among the proles used to be more gratifying.

I’m surprised that a reporter actually wrote about it, and astonished that it actually got published.

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Here’s a rule of thumb: Words ending in “ism” tend to generate more heat than light. Try to avoid getting burned. Try to avoid burning others.

We know what they’re talking about, of course — ‘nationalism’ is the label being applied to What Trump Voters Like, as opposed to ‘patriotism’ which is What Trump Opponents But Not Yet Democrats Like.

Sometimes it’s hard to keep up without a scorecard.

John Hinderacker at Power Line suspects that it is.

The Babylon Bee, which describes itself as “Christian news satire,” has been engaged in a running battle with Snopes.com, a liberal “fact check” site that serves mostly as a mouthpiece for the left. Snopes has repeatedly undertaken, with a straight face, to “fact check” Babylon Bee stories that are obviously humorous. This has given rise to considerable ridicule, but some suspect that Snopes has a more sinister purpose in mind: to give liberals at platforms like Facebook an excuse to downgrade or even ban the sharing of Bee posts. The humorless left has nothing like the Bee, and would like to get rid of it.

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I can think of no circumstance under which I would own bonds or a bond fund.

Katharine Hayhoe Attacks Greta Thunberg’s Climate “Shaming” Crusade

New study offers roadmap for detecting changes in the ocean due to climate change

Green Technology’s Dark Side

Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change

Blacklist by Nature follows defamation by BioScience: journals reject ethics of science

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It has always been considered bad form to point out that the German Nazis had a conscious environmental quotient to their ideology, but what’s this? The Washington Post noted yesterday that two of the recent mass shooters—the New Zealand shooter last year and the El Paso shooter two weeks ago—embraced environmental themes, fusing them together in fact with anti-immigration views. The Post is shocked and befuddled at this seeming anomaly (though to be fair, the Post notes as briefly as possible: “Ecofascism has deep roots. There is a strong element of it in the Nazi emphasis on “blood and soil,” and the fatherland. . .) But this is only anomalous to clueless liberals, who suffer cognitive impairment when it comes to imagining the connection between the anti-natalism of the “population bomb” mentality and seeing immigration as a driver of population growth.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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On Tuesday morning, syndicated talk-radio host Chris Plante mocked “National Panhandler Radio” for having some seriously high salaries for a taxpayer-subsidized network that begs for listener donations in pledge drives. Plante cited tweets by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi from the latest IRS 990 form for nonprofits revealing the high salaries of NPR stars.

Plante marveled first at Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon, who is a one-day-a-week anchor and yet made $479,578. Farhi reported this was a 16 percent pay increase. Plante underlined “That is more than the President of the United States” for one day’s work, and insisted he would love to get a job with that much pay for that little on-air time.

Being a Voice of the Crust pays pretty well. Ask Paul Krugman.