Read it.

These programs are set up to help people who can’t get a loan through normal means.

Well, there’s a reason they can’t get a loan through normal means: They’re bad risks. Duh.

It would appear that they only thing government employees are really good at is wasting money. (Not their money, of course….)

Read it.

Donald Trump is right. The system is rigged. Rigged against Americans at the lowest end of the economic scale. In short, individuals on various subsidies find themselves trapped in government dependence—with little hope of escape. Never before had I seen such a clear explanation of why our social welfare system ensnares—rather than protects—those on its rolls.

Read it.

Bring it on. Send us your wretched refuse, and we’ll make their asses rich. It’s what we do.

Watch it.

Note that the perp is a ‘person of color’.

Of course the newspaper can’t Notice that, because that would be raaaaaaacist.

Joe Bob Briggs brings the buzz.

Hi, I’m Jocelyn, and I’m passionate about cloud storage!

As founder and CEO of MeCloud, I’m excited to be bringing a consumer-facing enterprise team to application design while using my 35 years as a Certified Life Transformation Coach to establish a soul connection between digital technology and the divinity dwelling inside your hidden Truth Spirit.

What we do at MeCloud is take a large variety of codebases and use them to drill down into all cognitive and fiscal aspects of your current life, employing Oprah’s SuperSoul litmus test to turbocharge your results strategy. Cost of the initial two-day workshop, taught by leading low-carb branding influencer Vicki Wolverton, is $199, and we also provide a 20 percent discount on Wisdom Keeper journals that will last a lifetime, or at least until they’re uploaded to your personal asteroid address on MeCloud!

French policeman stabbed during terror arrest connected to car packed with gas canisters near Notre Dame

Syria conflict: At least five killed after explosion in Jarablus, say Turkish security sources

The silent devastation of Daraya: Capture of suburb is a big step towards Assad winning the battle for Damascus

Isis reportedly evacuates headquarters in last Aleppo stronghold as Turkish and Kurdish forces advance

Why Aleppo Matters: Syrian Army Just Broke Islamist Stronghold

ISIS-Crazed Teen Church Bomber Actually Received Direct Orders From ISIS

Boko Haram descends into in-fighting as reports emerge of deadly clashes between rival Islamist factions

Afghanistan: Blood Money Keeps Traditions Alive

Women’s group calls for Sharia courts to be banned in India to stop inequality and human rights violations

American-trained sniper becomes Isis’s new minister of war

Egyptian Lawmaker Stuns With Justification Of Female Genital Mutilation

Iraq expels Saudi ambassador for refusing to denounce cousin who died fighting for Isis

Germany Hires Pool Security Guards To Stop Refugees From Touching Women

Terror plot fears after gas cylinders found in car parked near Notre Dame cathedral in Paris

Isis propaganda magazine calls on followers to kill Cheshire florist and ‘shed the blood of disbelievers’

‘Iranians are not Muslims’, says Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti

Police Report: UK Woman Was Raped, Honor Killed By Her Ex-Husband As Her Father Stood Guard

Can the Islamic State challenge Pakistan’s militant landscape?

Fake antiquities flood out of Syria as smugglers fail to steal masterpieces amid the chaos of war

Isis’ new magazine Rumiyah shows the terror group is ‘struggling to adjust to losses’

These 4 ISIS Suicide Bombings Could Signal New Strategic Pivot

Iraq: The Curse That Keeps On Killing

Iran’s top leader charges Saudi Arabia with murdering hajj pilgrims

Twin bombings near Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry kill 24

Isis suicide bomber detonates car in Shia district of Baghdad in latest terror attack in Iraq

War against Isis: Security services bracing for possible return of thousands of jihadists as group loses territory

Kabul attacks: Third explosion hits Afghanistan capital hours after twin suicide attack by Taliban kills 24

Kabul bombing: Scores killed and injured as double blasts rock Afghanistan’s capital

Documents Show ISIS Has An ‘Increasingly Sophisticated’ European Network Ready To Attack At Any Time

Syria bombings: Isis claims responsibility for five suicide attacks on government-held and Kurdish cities

Algeria: Where Have All The Islamic Terrorists Gone

At least 38 killed in series of bomb blasts across Syria

Turkey will never allow ‘artificial state’ in northern Syria, says country’s prime minister

Isis ‘cut off from rest of world’ as rebels expel Islamists from Turkish border

Turkey launches fresh incursion into Syria

Senior Islamist leader executed in Bangladesh for war crimes committed during conflict with Pakistan

Syrian war: More Turkish tanks cross border into al-Rai as operation against Isis and Kurds enters ‘new phase’

Isis affiliate claims responsibility for Davao attack as Philippines President declares ‘state of lawlessness’

Syrian Kurds vow to fight to the death to stop Turkey ‘invading’ their territory. I’m sure the Turks will accommodate them.

Attacks across Iraqi capital kill 15

UK to fight prison radicalization by isolating known jihadists. Good luck with that.

Proof of life: North American couple held by Afghan terrorists issues plea in new video

Copenhagen attack: Isis claims responsibility for shooting that injured two police officers in Christiania

Suicide bombers kill at least 13 in attacks on Christian colony and court in Pakistan

Samia Shahid ‘honour killing’: British woman was raped before being strangled to death, police say

Check it out.

A free browser extension for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox that exposes the role money plays in Congress and highlights key election races. Displays on any web page detailed campaign contribution data for every Senator and Representative, including total amount received and breakdown by industry and by size of donation. Puts vital data where it’s most relevant so you can discover the real impact of money on our political system.

Check it out.

Read it.

Oops.

Read it.

As an exercise, you might test the TBB (threaten, bribe, bamboozle) hypothesis. See if you can find any significant government activity that does not fit under one or more of these three rubrics.

Read it.

Israelites crossing the Red Sea:

FRAGILE WETLANDS TRAMPLED IN LABOR STRIKE
Law Enforcement Officials Slain While Pursuing Unruly Mob

Read it.

A group of students and parents from Minnesota filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the federal government and their school district for allowing a transgender student who was born male but identifies as female into the girls’ locker rooms, showers, and restrooms.

The lawsuit is the latest in a series of challenges to the Obama administration’s bathroom mandate issued in May that requires public schools and universities nationwide to give transgender students full access to school facilities based on their gender identity instead of their biological sex. Schools that do not comply with the administration’s guidance could face legal action or loss of federal funding.

More: Trans Student Twerks In Girls’ Bathroom, Parents File Lawsuit

Read it.

How do birds migrate thousands of miles, and how does a burrowing mole rat know which way is up? The answer lies in the animals’ ability to detect magnetic fields–an idea that was long controversial but is now well established. But so far the mechanism that gives animals (and possibly humans) this capability isn’t well understood. Some researchers have suspected that certain types of chemicals might be involved, but they weren’t sure which ones or how to find them.

Now, a team of Chinese researchers has discovered a protein complex—a “chemical compass,” as the scientists call it—that lines up with magnetic fields, according to a study published today in Nature Materials. The complex might hold the key to animals’ magnetic-sensing power.

Read it.

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

Although fasting diets have been criticised by nutritionists for being unhealthy, new research suggests starving the body kick-starts stem cells into producing new white blood cells, which fight off infection.

Scientists at the University of Southern California say the discovery could be particularly beneficial for people suffering from damaged immune systems, such as cancer patients on chemotherapy.

Read it.

Shock gave way to relief this summer as America’s political establishment—rattled by Donald Trump’s success in winning the Republican nomination—reassured itself of his inevitable defeat come November. For a moment Trump seemed to have created a new style of politics, one that threatened to mobilize working-class voters against the establishment in both parties. But in the weeks following the Democratic National Convention, as Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers remained comfortably ahead of Trump’s, pundits discounted the risk of class war.

…

But there’s another side to the Trump phenomenon that is less about Trump or his voters than about the elites they are against. Resistance to the bipartisan establishment keeps growing, and even if Trump loses to Clinton in a landslide, he has carried the rebellion further than ever before by winning a major party’s nomination.

Read it.

It’s no surprise that inequality in the U.S. is on the rise. But what you might not know is that math is partly to blame.
In a new book, “Weapons of Math Destruction,” Cathy O’Neil details all the ways that math is essentially being used for evil (my word, not hers).

From targeted advertising and insurance to education and policing, O’Neil looks at how algorithms and big data are targeting the poor, reinforcing racism and amplifying inequality.

I am not making this up. I wish I were. (I wonder what the weather is like on their planet?)

Apparently, for Voices of the Crust, when reality disagrees with ideology, reality gets two to the head.

Read it.

A decade after the advent of Netflix and well into the Internet age, one lender was still betting big on video cassettes: the federal government’s Small Business Administration (SBA).

The SBA repeatedly financed people’s plans to open Blockbuster Video stores in the late 2000s, when it was obvious to nearly everyone that such businesses were a sure ticket to bankruptcy.

Unsurprisingly, taxpayers ate the cost every time–part of $18 billion taxpayers lost through defaulted SBA loans to failed businesses in the last 15 years.

The findings come from a new report by OpenTheBooks.com, a non-profit government-spending watchdog and research group, examining how often SBA loans are not repaid.

Read it.

The SEIU thugs lose one. God Bless Texas.

Read it.

Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Read it. And watch the video.

Hillary? A huge lie? Say it ain’t so!

Read it.

Amazon.com Inc. teamed up with Wells Fargo & Co. in July to promote private student loans as a benefit to members of one of its services. Instead it walked into a political firestorm.

Politics ruins every good thing.

Read it.

Under a Massachusetts civil rights agency’s interpretation of new anti-discrimination law, churches can be forced to let biological males who identify as transgender women use the women’s bathroom.

Recently passed legislation amending the state’s anti-discrimination law to include protections for “gender identity” will take effect Oct. 1.

The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, which enforces the state’s anti-discrimination laws, recently published a “Gender identity guidance” that lays out what will be legally required of employers and “agents of places of public accommodation.”

The guidance was published Sept. 1 but has gone unreported by the media until now. The commission confirmed that the version of the guidance online is the “final edition.”

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Read it.

This ought to have been done years ago.

Truckers have been subject to hijacking attempts from migrants who want to get smuggled into the United Kingdom. People use rocks, shopping carts and tree logs to stop cars and trucks so they can jump on board.

Nothing that an automatic weapon couldn’t fix. Oh, wait, Europeans aren’t allowed to do that.

“When you put walls up anywhere in the world, people find ways to go round them,”François Guennoc of Auberge des Migrants, a French aid group working in Calais, told The Guardian. “It’s a waste of money. It could make it more dangerous for people, it will push up tariffs for people smugglers and people will end up taking more risks.”

That’s why you shoot them instead. (duh) Then they get the message.

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the hard questions.

Hillary Clinton’s disastrous Labor Day raises the question: If Donald Trump were as bad as she says, shouldn’t Hillary drop out so a better candidate could beat him?

But first… Why is Trump outsmarting Hillary? And what’s this “alt-right” she’s denouncing?

Hillary has been doing almost nothing but politics for over 40 years, while Trump has had a lot of other fun stuff to think about. Shouldn’t she be dominating him on the issues? How is this a close race?

Read it.

We might object to the phrase crony capitalism for two reasons:

First, because cronyism is in some ways the antithesis of capitalism. The freedom to compete and the freedom to fail that are central tenets of capitalism are severely compromised by cronyism when in the former case powerful politicians intervene to shield their friends in business and finance from competition, and in the latter intervene again to save them from bankruptcy or occasionally from criminal prosecution. Of course, these friends in turn are no disloyal slouches and they later show themselves to be supremely appreciative by underwriting, financially and otherwise, those same politicians who had all but guaranteed their continued dominance in normal times and their survival against bad odds in times of distress.

Second, because cronyism is just as prevalent, or arguably more prevalent, in a socialist system than in a capitalist one. Socialism is made popular by charismatic figures appealing to the idealism of some voters but wherever it succeeds in establishing itself, its anonymous toiling bureaucrats turn out to be expert cronies of the very first order, if we are to judge by the experience of many countries in the past century.

Read it.

It’s a lie, of course. They always say it, but never do it. Such teases.

But wouldn’t it be nice if they did?

Read it.

Now a team at MIT has come up with an innovative approach that, unlike most traditional desalination systems, does not separate ions or water molecules with filters, which can become clogged, or boiling, which consumes great amounts of energy.

Instead, the system uses an electrically driven shockwave within a stream of flowing water, which pushes salty water to one side of the flow and fresh water to the other, allowing easy separation of the two streams.

Read it.

Disgruntled LSU Tigers fans have started a GoFundMe account with the goal of raising enough money to buy out Les Miles’ contract.

Is. This. A. Great. Country. Or. What.

Read it.

Philadelphia officials can’t ban political or religious speech at the airport just because it might make some visitors uncomfortable, says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The decision is a victory for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been told that city policies prohibited its ads from appearing at the Philadelphia International Airport.

Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Read it.

What goes around comes around.

If black people can be persuaded to segregate themselves, maybe Mexico can be persuaded to pay for the border wall.

Read it. And watch the video.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign allegedly fed former Senate Committee on Foreign Relations chairman Bob Menendez questions for Hillary Clinton to debunk ahead of the committee’s January 2013 hearing on the Benghazi terror attack, reports Fox News’ Catherine Herridge.

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

Read it.

Sources close to the investigations suggest that there was massive and repeated government theft of public funds, going on for over a decade. The theft of public money along with widespread Wall Street fraud associated with the islands bond issues, resulted in $39,000,000,000 in bondholder losses.

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

The Puerto Rico Power Authority (PREPA), one of the world’s largest government owned utilities has been burning No. 6, sludge oil for over a decade.  The authority has been billing its citizens for the higher grade No. 2. Oil.  The payments for this oil have been wired off shore and then kicked back to government officials family members.  The difference in cost between No.2 and No. 6 oil is approximately 58%.  In some years the overpayments exceeded $1.6 billion dollars.

Indeed — a banana republic without any bananas.

Read it.

Cash—the familiar, anonymous paper money and metallic coins that most of us grew up using—isn’t just convenient, it’s also a powerful shield for our autonomy and our privacy. That’s the argument of cash advocates of course—but also of those economists and government officials who want to abolish the stuff. Cash’s power to protect people from meddling and tracking motivates both parties, either to shore up our defenses against the state, or to squish them under their thumbs.

No link because the article itself isn’t really worth reading, but I found the headline illustrative of our degenerate modern age.

Whenever you see the words ‘Naked Selfie Twitter Feud’ you know that the End Times are here.

Read it.

While it is true that ‘the squeaky wheel gets the grease’, that depends on the wheel in question being a necessary part of the process.

That which is not a part of the process but nevertheless sqeaks is merely an annoyance. Squeaky wheels get grease, but annoying insects get swatted.

Watch it.

Perhaps this is God telling him to go into another line of work.

Read it.

Perhaps I’m revealing too much about myself here, but I don’t find Bridget Jones ‘lovable’; at best I find her tedious.

The world is full of self-indulgent people being praised for kinda-sorta dealing with problems they wouldn’t have if they weren’t so self-indulgent. I fail to see any reason to watch a movie about one. It would be like watching a movie about someone who, through carelessness, shoots himself in the foot and then ‘valiantly struggles’ to deal with the result for the next two hours. My impulse is to say Own Damned Fault and move on.

Read it.

A miniature donkey can change your life. Ten of them can change it a lot.

I am not making this up.

Read it.

A report last year from the Russian news agency TASS turned up on Reddit Thursday, stating that baseball bat sales in Russia soared in 2014 even though the sport has struggled to gain traction there.

Russians bought 500,000 baseball bats but purchased only one pair of baseball gloves and one ball, according to Moscow traffic police chief Viktor Kovalenko, who reportedly suggested that the bats were often used to resolve traffic disputes.

Read it. And by all means listen to the song, even though it will apparently erase significant portions of your genome.

(I realize that this admission will totally destroy any small hipster cred I may have accumulated, but I like the song.)

Steve Sailer reminds us of the grim facts.

Black Lives Matter … unless you don’t get caught.

Read it.

How about that Global Warming, eh? We may be doomed, but at least we’ll have full stomachs.

Read it.

What do they know that Western governments don’t? (Or won’t admit….)

Read it.

Several major developments in the Middle East will keep the region a wellspring of Islamic terror and a source of inspiration for Islamist radicals for the foreseeable future. Attempts to perpetrate acts of terror against the “enemies of Islam” should be expected to continue.

Read it.

This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry.

Happy Labor Day.

Jim Goad isn’t buying what the MSM are selling.

According to the professional pundits who are paid to dictate reality to us, Donald Trump is clearly an evil Satanic Nazi demon who will eat your babies and summon a nuclear holocaust.

Oh, and he’s also a fear-monger.

…

I’m starting to notice a pattern here—Trump’s legions of naysayers always manage to sound far more bombastic and insane than Trump ever does. For all their claims about his “fear mongering,” it’s readily apparent who’s hysterically and desperately flailing in their attempts to stir a giant boiling rancid vat of fear here. Listen to the fear. Observe the hyperbole. Everything Trump’s critics say is far more unhinged and fearful than anything he says.

Read it.

English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition. For a normal language, spelling at least pretends a basic correspondence to the way people pronounce the words. But English is not normal.