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Maybe we ought to move out capital, as well. To Denver, say. And give D.C. back to Maryland.

That would frost some butts.

UPDATE: Indonesia Plans to Move Its Capital Out of Jakarta, a City That’s Sinking

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Here are the two little problems with “taxing the rich” to pay for trillions of dollars in new freebies:
1. Taxing the super-rich won’t really move the needle much when the federal government spends $4.7 trillion annually.
2. Trying to double the taxes they pay from 35% to 70% will only push them to increase their their spending on political adjustments that cost a fraction of the proposed taxes they will pay if they do nothing.

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Maybe we could have them play basketball instead.

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“He shared with me condolences on behalf of the United States of America,” Rabbi Goldstein added. “We spoke about the moment of silence. And he spoke about his love of peace and Judaism and Israel. He was just so comforting, I’m really grateful to our president for taking the time and making that effort to share with us his comfort and consolation.”

Guess he didn’t hear Joe Biden about Charlottesville.

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Amazing how that works.

Notice the weaselly blaming of some wayward division of the NY Times? Let’s face it…some editor or editors thought it was just fine, and that speaks volumes about the current (and past) tone at the Times. They hate religion (except Islam), they hate Judaism, they hate Israel, and they withdrew the cartoon not because they realized that it was an out-and-proud example of their Jew-hate, but because they got called out on it.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

–George Orwell, “1984”

Halithos anesti.

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Nursing, like any labor-intensive field, depends on practice for it’s expertise. It’s easy for a kid in his basement to write programs, but less so for him to learn how to start an IV.

But Ms McRae is also concerned that programmes like Lambda School, though well-meaning, risk undermining existing educational institutions by offering a quicker route to work.

I fail to see how this is a Bad Thing.

The kind of intense optimisation which Lambda espouses cannot, she worries, replace conventional learning, which strives to create not just capable workers but rounded individuals.

Liberal arts, maybe; nursing, not so much. I don’t care if the nurse treating me is a ’rounded individual’, I just want to know that she (or he) is a good nurse.

This ’rounded individual’ bullshit was fine when it applied to the children of the upper-middle class; nowadays (a) that’s not why people go to school, for the most part, and (b) schools don’t do that worth a shit any more.

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That was then — this is now.

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I am not making this up.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

Energy Returned On Energy Invested: Real(ish)Things That Don’t Matter, Part Trois

Robert Redford: Earth at ‘Irreversible Tipping Point’ on Climate Change  And he is, of course, an expert … oh, wait….

Weather porn about Texas, a lesson for Earth Day 2019

Extinction Rebellion activists glue themselves to London Stock Exchange and climb on train at Canary Wharf

Basic Science: 4 Keys to Melt Fears About Ice Sheets Melting

Another dodgy Earth Day ploy hyping flawed and failed “species extinction” propaganda

A Green New Deal Smackdown Omnibus

Lefty Guardian Columnist: ‘Declare Capitalism Dead’ for Earth’s Sake

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What is it with San Francisco and excrement?

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Joe Biden is now the Creepy Porn Lawyer candidate.

ZMan teaches us a little history.

Outside of the various hives on the modern Left, it is generally assumed that the natural progression of democracy is toward some form of dictatorship. What starts as a sensible idea by sensible people leads to an expansion of the franchise to include a majority of people, who are not sensible. This inevitably leads to instability. The system first breaks down into factionalism and then becomes both corrupt and inept. The solution is the man of will, who will cut through the process and impose order on the chaos.

This is why the Founders were steadfastly opposed to democracy. They knew their history and their political philosophy. They also understood human nature. It is also why both sides of the Progressive order have rewritten history to have the Civil War as the second founding. Ben Shapiro cannot sing the praises of democracy if the authority to which he is appealing was opposed to it and to him. It turns out that democracy not only corrupts the present it must corrupt the past in order to legitimize itself.

Ace of Spades has the scoop.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

ZMan has some word salad for lunch.

Labels are important in social discourse, as they are shorthand for a collection of ideas, arguments and images. It’s why the Left always makes its first assault on something by corrupting its labels. If they can anathematize the label, then they effectively discredit the people and ideas associated with it. It is a form of the aphorism often mistakenly credited to Stalin, “No man, no problem.” Similarly, social movements often first try to establish their name and symbols, before fully explaining what it is they are championing.

Statists are excellent at smears. ‘Islamophobia’, ‘price gouging’, ‘windfall profits’, ‘black market’, ‘profiteering’, etc.

One reason the alt-right was easily smashed by the Progressive establishment is that they chose symbols that had already been anathematized by the Left and their team name had no intrinsic meaning. They would have been better off dressing as circus clowns, rather than prep school Nazis. They thought they could break the taboos against fascism by irreverently breaking the taboo, but instead they simply ended up playing a well-known role in the Left’s morality play. From there it became easy to demonize the name “alt-right.”

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All the wierdos you’d find in California, without California’s taxes.

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And who could blame them?

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It’ll never happen, but I could see a number of states getting rid of their mega-behavrioral sinks. New York comes immediately to mind.

Q: Why wear camouflage on board a ship?

A. So you can hide from the Chief when he wants you to work.

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Don’t mess with Mr Bun.

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Good luck with that.

Steve Sailer points the finger.

Polymath Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, has a new book coming out: Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change.

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The future of agricultural work has arrived here in Florida, promising to ease labor shortages and reduce the cost of food, or so says the team behind Harv, a nickname for the latest model from automation company Harvest CROO Robotics.

Harv is on the leading edge of a national push to automate the way we gather goods that bruise and squish, a challenge that has long flummoxed engineers.

ZMan slaps the elephant in the room.

Those who have tried to engage with hardcore civic nationalists or evangelical patriots will have experienced a strange phenomenon where they appear to be strangely blind to certain topics. For example, the story about the black seeking out and throwing a white child over a third floor railing at the Mall of America. These super-normies respond to it by blaming communism or democrats. It’s as if the facts cause their code to reboot and they start repeating whatever they saw on Sean Hannity the prior evening.

If you press them on the obvious racial angle, they get flustered and either change the subject or break into a different chant about how America is an idea. It’s an odd thing that suggests these people have some sort of shunt in their consciousness that prevents them from seeing certain aspects of life. It’s not just a matter of self-censorship in order to avoid taboo subjects. Something seems to have been altered in their brains that prevents them from seeing anything that contradicts the colorblind fantasy.

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Funny how the Drive-By Media aren’t covering this.

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Romney needs to be reminded which side he’s (supposedly) on.

Audacious Epigone does a deep dive.

The top five states in terms of relative search volume for “whiteness” reveal it to be something liberal whites appear to be the most interested in….

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If you’re interested.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term of office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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But you have to realize that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term of office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Support for the Tories is plunging following Theresa May’s latest Brexit can-kick (a six-month extension until Halloween), and as cross-party talks for a Brexit compromise stall, it appears Nigel Farage’s newly formed Brexit Party is emerging as the biggest winner from all the Brexit chaos.

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Because Seattle’s Democrat government, like all Democrat governments, detests the businesses that pay its bills.

They ought to move to Austin.

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I know that rabbits have shorter, rounder ears.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

I’d be okay with raising taxes on rich Democrats.

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CRB: Some people say that Trump has a blue collar sensibility. Do you see that?

NP: I do see it and even before Trump—long before Trump—actually going back to when I was in the army in the 1950s, I got to know blue-collar Americans. I’m “blue collar” myself, I suppose. I’m from the working class—my father was a milk man. But in the army I got to know people from all over the country and I fell in love with Americans—they were just great! These guys were unlike anybody I had ever met in New York or in England or France. They were mostly blue-collar kids and I think Trump has, in that sense, the common touch. That’s one of the things—it may be the main thing—that explains his political success. It doesn’t explain his success in general, but his political success, yes. Also—I often explain this to people—when I was a kid, you would rather be beaten up than back away from a fight. The worst thing in the world you could be called was a sissy. And I was beaten up many times. Trump fights back. The people who say: “Oh, he shouldn’t lower himself,” “He should ignore this,” and “Why is he demeaning himself by arguing with some dopey reporter?” I think on the contrary—if you hit him, he hits back; and he is an equal opportunity counter puncher. It doesn’t matter who you are. And actually Obama, oddly enough, made the same statement: “He pulls a knife, you pull a gun.”

Matthew Continetti points out the benefits.

The Democratic field, which could boast more than 20 candidates by end of summer, is reaching absurd proportions. A tragedy of the commons looms. Too many Democrats grazing on the same limited resource — the non-Sanders primary vote — will help Bernie win the nomination. Why are Democrats willing to take such a risk?

Sanders provides a clue. His tax returns confirm that 2016 made America’s most famous democratic socialist a wealthy man. He might be a cause-oriented-politician — Moulton too — but for many officeholders a presidential campaign is above all an excellent business opportunity. Cable appearances build notoriety. Fundraising enhances professional networks. Losing candidate often emerge with television contracts or book deals. No one had heard of Andrew Yang before he launched his (long shot) bid. Now he’s been on The Daily Show and Tucker Carlson Tonight.