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Anything that makes it difficult for cars to get through makes it really tough for emergency vehicles.

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At first, no one claimed to know how 24 boulders lining sidewalks to crowd out homeless camps in a San Francisco neighborhood appeared recently, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

But now some residents say they collected $2,000 to buy and place the boulders to deter homeless people — whom they accuse of selling drugs, setting fires and starting fights — from setting up tents on the sidewalk, KGO reported.

“Since the rocks, it has helped,” said neighbor Ernesto Jerez, KTVU reported.

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Hammertech.

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Democratic “exit tax” proposals in 2012 (Charles Schumer) and 2015 (Hillary Clinton) had me remembering the Reichsfluchtsteuer, the 25% tax that the Nazis imposed on Jews trying to flee Germany in the 1930s.

Now the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who back a “wealth tax” — Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders — are also both backing Reichsfluchtsteuer-style proposals. “Sanders’ wealth tax plan includes a steep “Exit Tax” similar to that proposed by ewarren,” an economic policy reporter at the Washington Post, Jeff Stein, tweeted yesterday.

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Hammertech.

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My, what a surprise.

38-year-old Sherikia L. Hawkins, a city clerk for the city of Southfield, has been charged with a variety of different election crimes, including falsifying and forging public records. The indictment against Hawkins stated that ballots from the 2018 midterm elections in Hawkins’ precinct were found in the trash. State police investigated and found that records had been altered for almost 200 voters.

Judging by the name, I’d guess she’s a Woman of Color.

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I recently completed a book defending free speech. Emerald Press scheduled it for publication but then decided not to proceed.

Ace of Spades is on the case.

All of a sudden we’re supposed to put public policy in the hands of the most ignorant and impulsive portion of the population. Yeah, that’ll end well.

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Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen! Which will be the next Public Health Crisis, now that Climate Change has turned up a loser?

I’m voting for Mexican Food. Visit Chipotle and tell me I’m wrong.

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The House is staying busy now that the August recess (such as it was) is over. One of the latest items of business was having the House Judiciary Committee approve that new red flag law everyone has been talking about. But they ran into a bit of a snag when Republicans offered an amendment that would have allowed the addition of anyone whose name appears in a law enforcement gang database to the list. Even if that might sound like common sense to you, the Democrats on the committee found reasons to object and defeated the amendment.

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There’s a reason it’s called the Turd World.

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You mean it doesn’t?

Cheap Gas Is Killing Nuclear, Green Power May Finish the Job

MSNBC: Climate Protestors with Nooses Around Their Necks

Exposing Junk Climate Science

UK: Eating meat could be banned like smoking, says top barrister, as he calls for new crime of ‘ecocide’  Britain is going insane.

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I’d add that hairstyle to the list.

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The following video from Italy makes it clear that the human traffickers are coordinating with NGO migrant ferries when they transport people to a rendezvous just off the coast of Libya.

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More and more women are flocking to plastic surgery to correct a devastating condition known as “resting bitch face”, according the New York Post.

“Resting bitch face” is a condition wherein you look – well, bitchy – due to your normal, everyday facial expression. It’s also sometimes just referred to as simply “being from New York City”.

Maxine Waters, call your office.

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Abolish ICE thugs in Colorado want to see the homes and families of immigration enforcement officials set aflame.

Denver communists want alien detention facility employees dead, swinging from nooses with broken necks.

Both groups are brazenly using Facebook to spread their inflammatory and violent messages.

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Abolish ICE thugs in Colorado want to see the homes and families of immigration enforcement officials set aflame.

Denver communists want alien detention facility employees dead, swinging from nooses with broken necks.

Both groups are brazenly using Facebook to spread their inflammatory and violent messages. So, where is Silicon Valley — whose top companies partner with the Southern Poverty Law Center smear machine to de-platform conservatives, pro-lifers and Donald Trump supporters — to stop the open borders left’s escalating hate?

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Be careful not to step in the diversity, it’s hell getting that stuff off of your shoes.

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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.?

Raise your hand if you want your health care provided by the equivalent of the Post Office.

Reading.

[wicked witch voice] What a world, what a world.

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Not a headline you want to see.

Bethany Mandel.

Seldom do I read a piece about the state of education in this country without remarking to myself and my husband how glad I am to be homeschooling. There’s a remarkable piece in The Atlantic by George Packer this month about one father’s journey through New York City’s public schools that made me do it again. What’s remarkable is how clearly the author illustrates how everyone in the public school system in New York, from teachers up to the Mayor himself, have made a conscious decision to sacrifice education on the altar of Progressivism.

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People of Color behaving badly. I blame Trump.

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The following video and its accompanying article from Samhällsnytt showcase a blatant call for a race war against whites by blacks in Sweden. It’s important to note that the outspoken young man featured in the video has Swedish citizenship.

It doesn’t get any clearer than this, yet the Gutmenschen of Sweden continue to pretend that everything is fine and dandy in the Humanitarian Superpower. Except for climate change, of course, but Greta’s going to take care of that.

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They could always just call and ask. I have nothing to hide.

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The whole point about being a union official is practice for being a Democrat politician: How to make noises about helping the oppressed while living high on the hog.

Funny how, despite White Privilege, so many of these guys are African.

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Like other reliable Voices of the Crust, the Guardian sees its job as sounding the alarm about things that normal adults would never notice. The problem is that ‘raising awareness’ is virtually indistinguishable from ‘panicking at nothing’.

Violent, isolationist and misogynist desires course through games – and push rightwing ideologies on players

‘Beware, Comrades! You are being threatened by unseen forces that only the Party can detect and from which only the Party can defend you! Place your fate in our hands if you want to survive the coming apocalypse!’

Games are ideological constructions which push a set of values on the user. Like television and film, they often support the ideologies of their context: in the Bush years, American games endorsed aggressive foreign policy; since Brexit, British games advocate isolationism or nostalgia for empire – and the prominence of anti-Islam games in the 2000s tells it all.

Translation: Games are about situations that most people want to play rather than what Social Justice Warriors would like to see dealt with. Shooting monsters is more fun than saving the planet from plastic straws.

First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of “aliens” (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).

Translation: Games deal with the desires of normal people, not Leftist ideologues. And we really hate that.

Games are designed so that people will buy them, and so cater to normal people’s desires; from a proglodyte perspective, What Normal People Want are Rightwing Ideologies. I take comfort in that.

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Unfortunately, not by the neck.

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This is what happens when Africans run your country.

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The money funded a lavish lifestyle for the president and his circle, with €114,000 spent on crocodile skin shoes, €2.3 million splurged on watches, and hotel stays in Paris that cost up to €11,000 a night.

 

The French-trained former paratrooper has been dogged by corruption allegations, with accusations that he plundered state finances in order to buy cars and expensive homes in France.

This is what happens when Africans run your country.

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As the second week of preliminary criminal hearings against undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt continue to reveal gruesome admissions of baby body part trafficking in a San Francisco court, mainstream media outlets remain uncharacteristically silent about an important First Amendment case.

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The 20-year-old, identified only as Ryan, awoke one morning to an “intense pain” in his right testicle and lower abdomen.

Around 8:00am he called NHS 11, triggering a chain of missed signs and wrong diagnoses eventually resulting in emergency surgery and the loss of his testical – six days after he first sought help.

How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

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What you are about to read in this article is likely to make you very angry. Once upon a time, the primary mission of our hospitals was to help people, but today they have become vicious financial predators. Many Americans try very hard to avoid visiting the hospital because of what it might cost, but if an emergency happens there is no choice. They often get us when we are at our most vulnerable, and they never explain to us in advance how much their services will actually cost. And then eventually when the bills start arriving we discover that they have charged us 30 dollars for a single aspirin or “$2,000 for a $20 feeding tube”. It is a giant scam, but they have been getting away with it for decades, and so they just keep on doing it. And many hospitals go after those that are not able to pay their ridiculous bills extremely aggressively.

I recently had a negative experience at a hospital. The whole attitude is that the patient’s time is of ABSOLUTELY NO VALUE. You just have to set there and wait for them to get around to telling you what is going on, and pay whatever it is they decide to make you pay. They tell you it’ll be an hour and four hours later you’re still waiting? Too bad.

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Chicago has been losing people for years now, but Los Angeles and New York City have also found themselves on the decline. Both cities had been seeing domestic outmigration (people moving out of the city to other parts of the country) for several years, but foreign immigration into the two cities have long made up for it.

But new census data show that Los Angeles County is seeing a net loss of about 13,000 folks, and New York’s Bronx, Kings, and Queens counties (all containing parts of New York City) have seen a combined net loss of about 40,000 people, based on census data released back in April.

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And they’ll party like its 1999 until most of them lose their gigs because the companies can’t afford to ’employ’ them all because of raised costs.

I wouldn’t be surprised if one or both of the companies just took a look at the numbers, realized they can’t make a profit under these new regulations, and just shut up shop in the state, throwing all of the snowflakes out of work. That would really be a win, wouldn’t it? Certain for the businesses that Uber and Lyft are ‘disrupting’; those people would really party. And the snowflakes would be sitting on the curb with empty pockets saying to themselves “Wait a minute — I thought we won.”

UPDATE: Uber lays off 435 people  And so it starts.

UPDATE: Uber’s Layoffs Continue As Cost Cutting Reigns At The Former Unicorn King

Walter Williams.

Just when we thought colleges could not spout loonier ideas, we have a new one from American University.

They hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their “labor” rather than their writing ability.

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The people who have made an industry out of destroying ordinary people’s lives over old social media posts and out-of-context comments are very upset that it’s happening to them. The New York Times, clearly worried by the recent exposure of blatantly anti-Semitic tweets posted by one of its reporters, and clearly worried that even more embarrassing material is in reserve, tried to stop the hemorrhaging with a rambling article demonizing the independent journalists who uncovered the tweets.

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Business executives are as prone to fashion trends as teenage girls. Unfortunately, their mistakes cost their shareholders quite a bit (not themselves, though).

Procter & Gamble’s latest revenue report shows the multinational corporation is doing just fine. One of its blue chip brands, however, is not. The consumer goods company took a serious financial shave on Gillette, announcing an $8 billion non-cash write-down on the world’s leading shaving brand, which P&G purchased for $57 billion in 2005.

In a rightly-ordered society, whoever came up with this lame-ass ad campaign would be thrown out in the street. But that society is not this society.

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“The pundits were wrong! You CAN buy votes with other people’s money! Are these people stupid or what?”

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The available evidence suggests that it is.

In her confrontation with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over guns used in Chicago crimes, which, as Cruz pointed out in response to the Dayton and El Paso shootings, occur in a city which has its own mass murder equivalent virtually every weekend, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed guns brought in from Republican-controlled states.

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Hypocrisy has a new poster child for what Lightfoot fails to note is that what is important is not where the weapons came from, but what happened to the gun criminals and gangbangers afterword, if apprehended at all, which in Lightfoot’s Chicago has been virtually nothing.

‘These guns come from YOUR states!’ ‘Yeah, but the criminals are from YOUR city.’

Funny how Texas cities (even the ones run by Democrats) don’t have this much of a problem with gun crime.

Must be something about proximity to the Canadian border.

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Labor unions are working with allies in state legislatures to counteract a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated mandatory union dues and fees for government employees, according to a new report from a free-market think tank.

My, what a surprise.

Labor unions depend for their effectiveness upon force — force exercised against employees to join and stay in and obey the union, and force against employers to squeeze out the money on which they feed. This is, I suspect, why labor unions have such an affinity for the Democrat party; both are essentially a small clique of bureaucrats leading around a herd of sheep for whom they pretend to be working.

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Yang is absolutely correct that automation is going to be replacing the jobs of many people in the very near future, and he is absolutely correct that new solutions unlike anything ever tried before are going to be necessary to help address this problem. But his plan, and indeed all the most publicized plans which involve the implementation of a universal basic income, will necessarily lead to an oppressive oligarchic dystopia unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.

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We lost 2,977 lives (net of the 19 hijackers who don’t matter) in the Sept 11th attacks. We now lose 50,000 people per year to opioid overdoses. That’s almost 7 deaths per hour every day every year. China is responsible for 90% of fentanyl coming into our country.

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Had he been a Democrat, of course, he would be praised for watching out for the welfare of Disadvantaged People.

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Those cities are virtually all left-wing sanctuary cities, and inside them were some real sickos getting sanctuary – hand choppers of west Africa, depraved monsters who went around torturing villagers and burning villages in central Africa, thugs and brutes of Central America, someone hideous from Colombia (still waiting for news if it was some Marxist narcoterrorist from FARC, although Colombia has a panoply of bad guys), and inhuman bureaucrats who forced unwilling women in China into abortions against their wills, in the name of the state and its population control.

Every one of these beasts benefitted from sanctuary city policies now existing in every blue city, defended with ferocity by its leftwing establishmentarians. This is what sanctuary cities, in the end, end up giving sanctuary to.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Most of us who came of age in the 1970s revered the university—even as it was still reeling from 1960s protests and beginning a process that resulted in its present chaos and disrepute.

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Last year, to prove a point, a group of people from the French nationalist organization Génération Identitaire set up a cordon on the border between France and Italy, in the Maritime Alps where “refugees” were wont to enter France illegally. Now three leaders of the Identitaires have been sentenced to six months in jail for the action.

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That sure sounds like an Act of War to me.

“We will be forced to open the gates. We cannot be forced to handle the burden alone,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Thursday while demanding that European countries give political support to his controversial ‘safe zone’ plan in northern Syria.

I have an idea: How about closing your fucking border?

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Apparently the Hippocratic Oath no longer applies in modern health care.