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I did not know that.

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“New ideas normally do sound ridiculous,” Miller says from his office at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, about an hour south of Anchorage in a valley popular with backcountry adventurers. The organization, which Miller founded two decades ago, houses hundreds of displaced or orphaned animals and has worked on big projects like reintroducing the Wood Bison to the Alaskan wilderness and repatriating condors from the San Diego Zoo. But what’s got Miller excited these days is training and breeding Kayla and Kasper, the two wolverines he’s recently acquired.

“Anything you can train a dog to do, you can train a wolverine to do, five times quicker,” Miller says.

Miller is fully aware that his plan sounds a little ridiculous. When I emailed him to ask about his idea, he felt compelled to defend it preemptively. “One hundred years ago, people who suggested using dogs for avalanche victim search were thought to be crazy,” he wrote. “I hope your readers understand that we are professional and serious.”

Kindling Cracker.

iPin Spatial Ruler. Get it quick before Apple pulls the earphone jack.

Ikea Utility Cart.

Portable Flamethrower.

Indexing Flat Pry Bar.

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Last week a young “Belgian” made headlines by appearing in a video on the streets of Verviers where he called for Christians to be slaughtered. The 15-year-old’s father is a well-known imam who was already facing deportation. Now it is possible that both father and son may be deported.

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But what about all those Christian lynch mobs who attack Muslims!!!

Oh, wait….

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Gee, this whole fence idea is getting kinda popular over in Europe.

Maybe Barack Obama, who thinks we ought to be more like Scandinavia, will take the hint.

Nah….

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials admitted mine waste leaked from a water treatment plant near the scene of last year’s Gold King Mine blowout.

Democrats investigating Democrats: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

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Paul Wolfowitz was one of the most infamous hawks of the Bush II era, a deputy secretary of defense who pushed hard both for the Iraq War and, in general, for “democracy promotion” by military means.

Well, hawks of a feather stick together. It’s not surprising that an international buttinsky would vote for another one.

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A spokesperson for Open Society Foundations told The Daily Caller that the group was trying to “boost democratic practice” by secretly funneling $135,000 to foreign government officials.

Of course they were.

As originally reported by TheDC, from July 2013 to February 2015 OSF secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to four key staffers working for the prime minister of Moldova, including chief of staff Eugen Sturza. The organization, which is controlled by liberal billionaire George Soros, worked around Moldovan laws by funneling the money through a German non-profit.

Inconveniently, Moldova doesn’t have a Clinton Family Foundation.

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Beheadings, mass executions, public hangings and torture — it’s all part of the massive drug war next door.

Mexico’s drug wars have claimed more than 80,000 lives between 2006 and 2015, according to analyst estimates in the 2015 Congressional Research Service report.

So, let’s just open up the border and let them all come up here! What could possibly go wrong?

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The real divide in politics pits the people who think government looks like The West Wing against the people who think it looks like Yes, Minister. The soaring principles of The West Wing did sometimes turn up in Yes, Minister (and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister), but by the end of each half-hour they had usually been buried in a committee or snuffed out in a seedy bargain. The result may not have been an inspiring vision of good government, but it was one of the wittiest TV shows of the 1980s; this week, sadly, saw the death of Antony Jay, the British broadcaster who co-created and co-wrote it.

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Teach … your children well….

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The judges released 32.9 percent of 5,530 illegal aliens charged with crimes since Oct. 1, 2015. That’s the highest percentage since at least 1998, according to Executive Office of Immigration Review data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).

“They’re not giving them a legal status, but they’re letting them stay,” Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “So it’s like a de facto amnesty.”

If an immigration judge decides not to order a person’s deportation, the illegal immigrant may stay in the U.S. after serving any prison time determined in a criminal court.

Laws that are not enforced are no longer laws, just literature.

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A new kind of virus is making scientists rethink how infection works. This virus, found in mosquitoes, is broken up into several pieces. If the mosquito doesn’t come into contact with at least a few pieces, it won’t get infected.

This shakes up our existing knowledge, which is that once you come in contact with any part of a virus you get the full infection. In a study published Thursday in the journal Cell Host and Microbe, scientists describe how this new virus — named Guaico Culex after the Culex mosquito found in Guaico, Trinidad — works.

Other viruses have all their genes packaged together. Guiaco Culex has five genes packaged separately, and a mosquito needs to come in contact with at least four different pieces for anything to happen. The fifth one seems to be optional, or could control how deadly the virus is, study author Jason Ladner told NPR.

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No weed for me, then — I’m lazy enough as it is.

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I believe it was one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers who said ‘Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.’

Perhaps this is government policy now.

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Appearing on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Assange was asked “how high does the corruption go in DC… is that why [Clinton] is untouchable” to which he replied, “Depending on how you defy corruption all the way to the top, obviously.”

I mean, no surprise to say that,” Assange added. “What’s happening is a form of elite immunity. Now, Hillary Clinton, her administration with Obama, has prosecuted more journalists and journalist sources including us and our alleged sources all under the Espionage Act, than all previous presidents combined.”

Looks as if Assange has committed the crime of Noticing. Bad boy!

Freeberg nails it again.

If we discuss this cultural shift honestly, we have to see it for what it is. You simply aren’t supposed to do any enforcing; you aren’t supposed to confront evil. You’re only supposed to go through the motions. More rules, more rules, more rules…don’t ever enforce anything. It makes the people who’ve already decided not to do any enforcing, look bad.

The rules are always aimed at the same places. Soft, rule-abiding types. They may go along enthusiastically, racked by guilt, or they may go along the way I do, full of resentment. But an uprising is unlikely, so this is the soft, fatty tissue — the yummy part. No claws, no thorns, none of that messy back-fighting stuff. It’s quick, it’s easy, it’s popular. Hey you homeowners, don’t water your lawns, because drought! And hey you law-abiding gun owners, it’s high time we passed some (more) rules against you! Someone who is not you just shot up a school.

We seem to be living in the age of “Go after the ones who didn’t do it.” I’m not sure how we got here, or how to get out of here. But, we’re here. If we really do want things to get better, that’s our first step. We have to break free of that diseased mindset. People are looking for ways they can vote in elections to make things better, and that’s the answer to that question. Skip that step, the rest of the effort isn’t going to matter much.

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Enter San Francisco, where officials often don’t play by the normal economic rules. No metropolitan area is more closely identified with the burgeoning high-tech economy than the Bay Area. Yet in June, three of the city’s 11 supervisors proposed a 1.5-percent payroll tax that would be imposed specifically on technology companies that earn $1 million in gross receipts.

This “tech tax” was designed to raise money to battle the city’s homeless problem. But the economic rationale was epitomized in a statement by the bill’s author, Supervisor Eric Mar: “The rapid tech boom in our city and region threatens our city’s ability to thrive and prosper,” he said, in a Guardian report. “Five years after the boom, it’s time for San Francisco to ask the tech companies to pay their fair share.”

Just to make it fair, we’re going to make sure that everybody in the race who can run more than 10 miles per hour has to carry a crippled person on his back.

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Hungary became one of the first European countries to build a border fence in October when the daily refugee influx was more than 6,000. In just one day, the fence brought down the number of illegal entrances to below 100.

Don’t they listen to Hillary? Don’t they know that fences are raaaaaaacist?

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And the shits just keep on comin’.

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Well, that’s one way to get your point across.

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Macaroni and cheese is one of those dishes — beloved by all Americans — that transcends geographical location or history. We eat it from sea to shining sea. It’s a nostalgia-inducing classic, the perfect compliment for everything from BBQ, to burgers, to Hennessy. It thrives in dank college dorm rooms and upscale restaurants. Point being, mac and cheese can do it all.

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Harry’s not the only one whose wand sometimes acts up.

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Gunmen have attacked a charity-funded boat rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean Sea, shooting at international aid workers before boarding the vessel.

The Bourbon Argos, which is operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), was patrolling around 24 nautical miles north of the Libyan coast when a speedboat approached.

Those on board failed to identify themselves or answer radio contact, then opened fire from around 500 metres away as rescue workers sought refuge in a designated safe area.

The armed men then boarded the Bourbon Argos and searched the vessel, which had no refugees on board at the time, for almost an hour.

Joe Bob Briggs brings the heat.

Only two athletes in history have won medals in six consecutive Olympic Games.

Only two.

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Let’s face it, though, nobody was gonna go out of their way to congratulate Kimberly Rhode, because Kimberly Rhode carries a shotgun.

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Media outlets just love to tell people how to think.

How can over 90% of Native Americans be wrong? Well, according to USA Today, it’s when they say that the word Redskin is not a slur. Badly needing a comeback to the Washington Post poll in May, where American Indians resoundingly rejected the idea of the term ‘Redskin’ as a slur, USA Today decided to seek out an expert to tell American Indians just how silly and wrong they are.

So, naturally, they went and sought out someone connected to the federal government.

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Sometimes the old ways are best. Or maybe not.

At least it won’t stir up the fever swamps into more anti-gun agitation.

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Somebody check Sandy Berger’s pants.

(Bear in mind that the Daily Mail is a tabloid. But bear in mind also how the Monica Lewinsky story broke.)

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An intramural battle among culture-enrichers took place recently on the streets of Rotterdam. Kurdish immigrants staged a street protest against the oppression of their ethnic fellows in Turkey. They were confronted with a forceful Turkish counter-protest, and a pitched battle ensued, requiring vigorous police intervention.

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Saw that comin’.

If it’s going to take the destruction of a political unit’s economy to bring these idiots back to reality, better it be D.C. than real people.

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A Turkish family poisoned themselves and more than 20 guests at a dinner party they threw to celebrate recovering from food poisoning.

Wife and mother Asiye Erdal served an animal the family had sacrificed to show gratitude to God for helping them recover from the earlier illness, but ended up hospitalising everyone present.

Four people remain in intensive care in the northern Turkish province of Tekirdag, Anadolu news agency reports.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

Alattin Erdal, Ms Erdal’s husband, said he was confused by the family’s misfortune.

“We don’t get it. First we were poisoned and then sacrificed an animal for God as a sign of gratitude for gaining our health back. Then we were poisoned once again, as well as the neighbours. May God save us from the worst,” he told Anadolu. “Food poisoning became our nightmare.”

Perhaps God is trying to tell them something.

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USA Today’s sports editor, David Meeks, and reporter Taylor Barnes actually went to the gas station, looked for damage, talked to witnesses and reviewed surveillance videos. What they discovered by simply asking questions, something journalists used to do, was what Lochte and the others told officials actually happened.

They found no damage to the bathroom – the mirror and soap dispensers were still intact or had been replaced not by new equipment but filthy, old equipment complete with crusty old soap. The door was old and undamaged, not kicked in.

Through actual journalism, the USA Today team saw all the surveillance videos, and even though the bathroom door was in frame, there is no footage of the swimmers entering, exiting or kicking it. Unable to gain entry to the bathroom, they’d relieved themselves behind the building, then went back to their cab. That’s when it gets interesting.

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But that’s contrary to the Narrative, so you won’t see it in any of the Crust’s news outlets.

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A freed ISIS hostage, who shared a cell with Mueller, described one instance to CNN in which her and Mueller, “were completely black from the beating. They beat us with everything: cables, belts and wooden sticks.”

Meanwhile Mueller’s parents were trying to secure her release and contacted any organization they thought could assist them. Mueller’s parents told ABC News Doctors Without Borders refused to speak with them, even though they were negotiating the release of seven of their personnel from ISIS. The organization even refused to speak with an FBI case agent trying to facilitate Mueller’s release.

Individuals are of no importance in pursuit of the One World Order.

If that had happened to my girlfriend, I would go hunting MSF people, starting at the top and working my way down. But that’s me.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

David Cole turns over a rock.

Consider it one of this summer’s most underreported stories. In what’s described as “one of the largest civil rights indictments in L.A. history,” an old-school Mexican gang—one of the original Mexi gangs that date back to the pre–World War II era—ran a ruthless campaign to keep “niggers” out of its neighborhood. The Big Hazard gang (also known as Hazard Grande) runs the streets in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood in East L.A. As of 2010, Boyle Heights was about 94% Latino, owing in no small part to the fact that Big Hazard had an unwritten rule about not tolerating black residents. In recent years, however, blacks had slowly been making inroads into the community, so Big Hazard decided to put a little fire and brimstone behind its unwritten rule.

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Now, when I say the story has been “underreported,” I don’t mean there’s been a blackout (pardon the term). The story has received obligatory coverage in all the usual fish rags, from the Times of L.A. to the one in New York. But what’s missing is the outrage. Big Hazard’s activities were tolerated (to say the least) by the local Latino population. Was there perhaps some fear of speaking up against the gang? Sure, but still, it’s a local gang, made up of local boys. Where are the calls for the neighborhood to undergo “racial sensitivity training”? Where are the black leaders locking arms and marching through the streets in defiance? Where are the garment-rending op-eds and monologues from leftist journalists, hosts, and pundits?

Has anybody angrily confronted Edward James Olmos (who was born in East L.A.) about how he has a “responsibility” to go down to Boyle Heights and lecture his fellow Mexican Angelenos about the evils of racism? Of course not. In short, as you don’t need me to tell you, there has been no outrage because whites aren’t involved (except as, you know, the lawmen trying to bring justice to the blacks of East L.A., but don’t think for a moment that any black person is going to give whites any kudos for that).

Steve Sailer parses things for us.

We’re always being told that white flight occurred because whites succumb to irrational Stereotypes about blacks being crime prone, so, logically, these black families are saving a bundle by living by in safe yet low rent neighborhoods. You could, for example, save your money on housing and send your kids to private school.

I guess, however, because the NYT describes black neighborhoods as “segregated” it mean it’s a bad thing. “Segregated” is the mirror image of “diverse,” which is a good thing. NFL starting cornerbacks are “diverse,” while East St. Louis is “segregated.”

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The working definition of a poor person in modern America is somebody who can’t afford to get away from other poor people.

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Documents exposing billionaire George Soros’ agenda have been public for more than a week, but that ranked lower than a cute seal, according to ABC’s Good Morning America.

Can’t blame them — the seal is a lot cuter than George Soros. Come to think of it, a tree stump is a lot cuter than George Soros.

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The big enrollment drop at MU has been brewing for months, but finally became a reality this week with the start of fall term on campus. MU’s freshman class this year has some 4,799 students, a drop of over 1,400 from last year, when freshmen numbered 6,211. Overall enrollment is down by over 2,200, a drop of about 7 percent, according to preliminary numbers released by the school.

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The decline is wreaking havoc on the school’s budget, which has a hole of about $30 million. To contain costs and reflect its shrinking population, the school has already shuttered several dormitories.

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As reported in the news feed on Monday, a woman boarded a bus in Brussels and attacked two passengers with a machete, wounding them both. After leaving the bus she attacked a third victim in a fast-food restaurant. She refused to follow police instructions (presumably “Drop that knife!”) and was shot and wounded.

Early reports gave no details about the woman, but the use of a machete suggested that there may have been an Allahu Akhbar factor in the attack. Later accounts described the woman as an “Asian”. The Belgian media do not usually follow the British protocol of using the code word “Asian” for Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, so it was hard to say for sure which nationality was meant.

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

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And well they might.

I once toyed with the idea of writing a short story about an alien civilization that had an institution whose name translated as ‘Aesthetics Police’ in which the ambassadors from Earth kept getting whacked because they were so monumentally f’ugly.

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That’s pretty rude.

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That’s odd. It’s never bothered them before.

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And as a result there are fewer murderous Muslims in the world.

Would that every government expenditure brought such a return on investment.

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Known as resistant starches, they naturally occur in certain carbohydrate-rich foods such as beans and legumes, whole grains and even rice and potatoes.

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“While we should reduce the amount of sugar in our diet, we should base our meals on starchy carbs. There is strong evidence that fibre, found in whole grain versions of starchy carbs for example, is good for our health.”

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Probably similar to what Hulk did to Iron Man in the first Avengers movie.

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And it is supremely important that every child get a college degree for free at taxpayer expense because it just is.