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Funny how that works.

John C. Wright provides a musical interlude.

Kinda lame,  but headed in the right direction.

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When they signal their virtue, the Democrats expose their distance from voters’ concerns about the economic, legal and cultural consequences of immigration. Of course, the Republicans are also doing little more than signaling their virtue by shouting about law and order, and sticking it to the Mexicans. But while the Democratic strategy is cynically foolish, the Republican strategy is cynically effective. The domestic politics of the migrant caravan may be a double act of inanity and cynicism, but the electorate will not applaud the actors equally. The Democrats are cueing up the Republicans’ electoral punch line.

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No doubt in order to ship them off to camps with Rachel Madow (a fate worse than death).

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Gone, but not forgotten.

This dish was one of the cornerstones of my childhood, along with such Heartland classics as ‘Chicken in Gravy Over Rice’ and ‘Sloppy Joes’.

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I’m impressed.

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Donald Trump says the U.S. plans to withdraw from the 1987 INF nuclear arms-control treaty that everyone agrees Russia has been violating for a decade. Yet somehow this is said to be reckless behavior by—Donald Trump? Welcome to the high church of arms control in which treaties are sacrosanct no matter the violation.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Note to self: Avoid Canadian rappers.

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A Real Economist dukes it out with the Magic Negro.

Just for the record, I detest shrimp.

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Heh.

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Two water-centric tech organizations, The Skysource and Skywater Alliance, teamed up to develop a shipping-container-enclosed device that can turn water vapor (i.e., humidity) into drinking water at a significantly cheaper rate than other, similar technology or techniques like desalination. The group’s technique recently won the $1.50 million Water Abundance XPRIZE, a two-year competition devoted to coming up with energy-efficient ways to harvest fresh water from the air.

I wonder whether that would work in Texas.

The prize-winning version is powered by biogas, making it easy to operate almost anywhere. The biofuel gassifier creates renewable energy cheaply from cast-offs like wood chips, coconut shells, and dead plants, vaporizing the material to generate power. The system also generates a lot of heat, which is good for pulling water out of the air—think of how humid it is in the summer versus the winter. In the process of generating energy, the biogassifier also creates biochar, a type of charcoal that can improve soil fertility.

We got plenty of biogas in Texas. We can start with Austin.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Judging by the impact it’s having on the U.S. midterm elections, I suspect the RNC.

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The Voice of the Crust who wrote this article, of course, thinks this is a Bad Thing, and I’m not sure that that ship has already sailed, but assuming that this is not just more Cloud People OMGTHESKYISFALLINGBECAUSEOF TRUMPHITLER panic, it would be Yet Another Trump Step in the Right Direction.

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The world’s most popular fruit is facing extinction, and scientists are racing to use gene-editing to save it. To succeed, they’ll need to overcome an even bigger problem: opposition to GMO crops.

‘Blight’ is God telling you to eat something else.

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Enviro-Nazi finagling laid bare.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Note to self: Don’t take food advice from supermarkets and chefs. They are NOT your friends.

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Benghazi survivor Kris “Tanto” Paronto had a few choice words for those who have been critical of President Donald Trump’s response to the death of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Turkey’s Saudi Arabian Embassy.

Addressing his tweet to the “leftist journalists & liberalists” who are angry about the Trump administration’s handling of the situation, Paronto asked, “Where in the hell were you when @BarackObama left 30+ AMERICANS to die in Benghazi Libya including an Ambassador?”

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Makes you wonder why this is appearing in a British newspaper.

Ms Jones will become the first out lesbian, first Filipina and first Iraq war veteran from Texas to serve in Congress if elected

Yeah, that sure sounds like a focus on ‘issues, not party’.

Sounds more like a ‘Narrative, not qualifications’ strategy to me.

Richard Johnson is shocked, shocked I tell you….

Notice that most of his finger-pointing is at Republicans.

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Notice that all of these are to non-proglodytes using their (or anybody else’s) music.

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As they have been for 500 years, starting with ‘sola scriptura’.

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Hey, you work with what you got.

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Ah, the Jewish mother! She, no doubt, is the source of Jewish zeal. A Jewish mother is a nuclear reactor of energy that is measured in megatons. It is no wonder that her children are blessed with zeal. To mention one example of this, I am acquainted with a woman in Israel who has 10 children, works full time as a physician, and observes the Sabbath, too.

Jews are amazing.

Tyler Cowen does some analysis.

Conservatives are using identity politics to destroy liberalism from within.

Actually, conservatives have little to do with it. Proglodytes are doing it all by themselves. The system they’ve built is disintegrating because of its own internal contradictions.

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Bellingcat is an independent group of exceptionally gifted Leicester-based internet researchers who use information gleaned from open sources to dig up facts that no other team of journalists has been able to discover.

Or, Bellingcat is a sophisticated front used by western intelligence agencies to disseminate stories that would be considered tainted if they came from an official source.

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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.

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Want to know ‘why Brexit’? This is why.

Steve Sailer deconstructs some memes.

I realize I am a horrible extremist, unlike the folks who pronounce so confidently in the New York Times, but it would seem to me that DNA can tell us some things about human identity, which is an interestingly complex subject.

For example, Honolulu preppy Barack Obama may well have had less “lived experience” while growing up of being an African American than did Rachel Dolezal, who grew up with black (adopted) siblings. But Obama had the DNA (and a 150,000-word memoir explaining that his “Story of Race and Inheritance” was all about his “Dreams From My Father”), while Dolezal didn’t have the DNA.

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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.

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Domenico Lucano, the mayor of Riace in Calabria, was arrested earlier this month and placed under house arrest, accused of irregularities in handing out tenders for council contracts and of arranging a marriage of convenience for an African migrant woman.

Oops.

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Very true. Trump has done everything he said he was going to do, and the country is in great shape. If Republican candidates can leverage that into a win, then they deserve to lose.

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Well. There it is.

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Ben Sasse is one of the most entertaining guys in the Senate. I will willingly watch him in an interview, which I will not do for any other Senator since Phil Gram retired.

That having been said, he is rapidly turning into a younger version of Mitt Romney, i.e. a garden-variety inside-the-Beltway establishmentarian. I find that sad.’

On an unrelated note, my primary care physician looks like Sean Hannity’s younger brother. Ought I to be worried?

Ace of Spades is in tune with the zeitgeist.

NPCs have no agency; NPCs don’t think for themselves; NPCs don’t perceive, process, or understand; NPCs arrive at the same worldview not because it’s authentic to their experiences, but automatically. As a descriptor, it suggests that those to whom it applies aren’t even human, but are rather, functionally, robots, or clusters of computer code. That this has resonated as widely as it has is funny, but also a little scary.

I was unfamiliar with this term but I welcome it as another tool in the ongoing endeavor to capture the unique combination of simple-mindedness and inflexibility of the modern proglodyte.

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The money likes Bevo Beto, the people like Cruz. Ask yourself why.

Sort of a metaphor for politics in America.

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Well, she does kinda look like one.

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I really like the New Lindsey Graham.

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But still: Everybody Hates Trump. The newspapers all say so.

The Other McCain asks the obvious question.

Notice the word “suggests.” At most, Warren has less than 1.6% Native American ancestry and, as for “family lore,” this test indicating the possibility of a very distant non-white ancestor — she’s so white, she would have qualified for membership in the Bund Deutscher Mädel — absolutely does not confirm the tales Warren has told. She claims that her parents eloped because of anti-Indian prejudice in Oklahoma: “My daddy’s parents, the Herrings, were bitterly opposed to their marrying because my mother’s family, the Reeds, was part native American.” Whether or not her paternal grandparents were “bitterly opposed” to her father marrying her mother, it could not have been because the Reeds were “part native American,” as a 1/32nd non-white ancestry (i.e., 96.9% white) would not be apparent and, contrary to her telling, the remote ancestor she claimed was Cherokee was identified as white in census records. If the Senator is asserting that her father’s parents were extraordinarily ignorant, we’ll take her word for it, but this tells us nothing about the alleged ancestry of her mother’s side of the family.

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And some of them still don’t know them.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Note that there isn’t a Democrat in the group.

It’s unconscionable that they didn’t include Elvis.

Trump just does this because he enjoys the sound of Cloud People heads exploding.

Can’t say that I blame him. Wish I’d thought of it.

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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.?

It’s coming. Feel the Bern….