Trump to Push Palestinians to End Payments to Terrorist Families
3rd May 2017
Something that no Democrat anywhere has tried to do.
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3rd May 2017
Something that no Democrat anywhere has tried to do.
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3rd May 2017
A spate of attacks against medical staff have led to strikes and protests across India by doctors demanding better security measures in public hospitals.
In Mumbai, a trainee doctor was reportedly beaten by the relatives of a 60-year-old patient who had died from a chronic kidney disease. Three people were arrested in connection to the attack – the third reported in just one week in the area.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Third World….
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3rd May 2017
Well, once adults riding bicycles became a thing, I suppose this was inevitable.
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3rd May 2017
It is if you’re hungry.
Most people have been perpetually reminded since childhood that breakfast is a must. But in recent years, nutritionists and scientists have called this crucial eating time into question. And despite a plethora of research, the scientific community still hasn’t come to a solid conclusion as to when the best time to eat your first meal of the day really is.
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3rd May 2017
Are campus leftists getting dumber?
It sure seems that way. For example, a black activist stabbed four students yesterday at the University of Texas, murdering one. That’s just kind of vile and moronic.
The trend is the reverse of a half century ago when the radicals tended to outwit the establishment. Today’s campus left seems brutish and stupid, inclined to butchery and hurt feelings.
Hurt feelings leading to butchery has defined the Left since at least Marx.
Leftism in the 1960s tended to be led from the intellectual top down. For example, during 1967’s long hot summer, the highbrow New York Review of Books put a diagram of how to make a Molotov cocktail on its cover.
Today, however, much of the energy on the left is at outlets such as Teen Vogue and Cosmopolitan.
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2nd May 2017
The biter bit.
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2nd May 2017
And just as dopey.
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2nd May 2017
While much ink has been spilled in the past week assessing President Trump’s first 100 days in office, the Democrats’ abysmal performance has largely escaped scrutiny. So let’s review their record.
I guess the Cool Kids aren’t all that golden after all.
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2nd May 2017
When a Coke and a smile just won’t cut it….
I didn’t hate that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad as much as a lot of people did, but in retrospect, maybe it was a bad idea to appeal directly to the idiots who pick fights with cops.
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This could be a branding opportunity. Pepsi Cola: It’s a Riot!
Obviously this isn’t Pepsi’s fault.
Oh, yes it is. Their female Person-of-Color CEO is all in for Diversity and its discontents. This is chickens coming home to roost.
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2nd May 2017
Middle school teacher Yvette Felarca, a prominent BAMN organizer, repeatedly abused her position as an educator to push left-wing activist causes, the school district claimed.
Despite repeated warnings, the district says, Felarca continued to try to recruit students into her radical organization, including during work hours. Felarca frequently tried to bring students on school-sponsored trips to BAMN-related activities, which the district claimed were attempts to “indoctrinate” the students, according to Berkeleyside.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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2nd May 2017
Democrats — best politicians money can buy.
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2nd May 2017
A left-wing May Day protest in Portland, Oregon devolved into a riot on Monday, as law enforcement struggled to maintain order.
And the browshirts of the Left are on the march. And yet Trump is supposedly the New Hitler.
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1st May 2017
AlGore must have held another fund-raiser.
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1st May 2017
A more accurate headline would be ‘Republicans in Congress, Despite Having Won the Election, Agree to Keep Funding Democrat Programs Like the Quislings They Are’.
Rush Limbaugh summed it up on his program today. ‘What’s the use of even voting Republican? We won the House, we won the Senate, we won the Presidency, and they’re all acting as if we lost. Planned Parenthood is funded, sanctuary cities are funded, Obamacare is still hanging around our necks, and the only thing that didn’t get funded was the Wall. I keep waiting for these guys to do something Republican and it doesn’t happen.’
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1st May 2017
According to Hodjat, the system grabs unused computer power from “millions” of computer processors inside data centers, Internet cafes, and computer gaming centers operated by various companies in Asia and elsewhere. Its software engine, meanwhile, is based on evolutionary computation—the same genetics-inspired technique that plays into Aidyia’s system.
In the simplest terms, this means it creates a large and random collection of digital stock traders and tests their performance on historical stock data. After picking the best performers, it then uses their “genes” to create a new set of superior traders. And the process repeats. Eventually, the system homes in on a digital trader that can successfully operate on its own. “Over thousands of generations, trillions and trillions of ‘beings’ compete and thrive or die,” Blondeau says, “and eventually, you get a population of smart traders you can actually deploy.”
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1st May 2017
When it comes to political speeches, great ones are few and far between. But ordinary political speeches, those given in U.S. congressional floor debates, for example, are numerous.
They are also remarkably similar. These speeches tend to follow a standard format, repeat similar arguments, and even use the same phrases to indicate a particular political affiliation or opinion. It’s almost as if there is some kind of algorithm that determines their content.
That raises an interesting question. Is it possible for a machine to write these kinds of political speeches automatically?
Today, we get an answer thanks to the work of Valentin Kassarnig at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who has created an artificial intelligence machine that has learned how to write political speeches that are remarkably similar to real speeches.
I always suspected that Rachel Madow was a robot.
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1st May 2017
They call themselves Righteous Noahides: non-Jews who believe in Orthodox Judaism. According to Jewish theology, there are laws that Jews must obey, the 613 mitzvot, but then there are seven laws for children of Noah—everyone else in the world. They are: Do not deny God; do not blaspheme; do not murder; do not engage in incest, adultery, pederasty, or bestiality; do not steal; do not eat of a live animal; and establish courts.
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Noahidism now encompasses communities around the world, especially in Great Britain, the Philippines, Latin America, Nigeria, Russia, and the United States. According to Rabbi Michael Schulman, who runs Noahide website AskNoah.org, the Philippines may have the most developed community, with well over 1,000 adults and their children living in a collection of agricultural towns. They run Hebrew schools, community meetings, and even a national summit.
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1st May 2017
People of Color being violent and victims in San Diego. No doubt Trump is to blame.
UPDATE: Looks like the perp is a white prole. What black people need to do now is ask ‘Why do they hate us?’ (Hey, that’s what they say when Muslims do it.)
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1st May 2017
Joel Kotkin finds it tedious.
In the wake of the Trumpocalypse, many in the deepest blue cores have turned on those parts of America that supported the president’s election, developing oikophobia—an irrational fear of their fellow citizens.
The rage against red America is so strong that The New York Time’s predictably progressive Nick Kristoff says his calls to understand red voters were “my most unpopular idea.” The essential logic—as laid out in a particularly acerbic piece in The New Republic—is that Trump’s America is not only socially deplorable, but economically moronic as well. The kind-hearted blue staters have sent their industries to the abodes of the unwashed, and taken in their poor, only to see them end up “more bitter, white, and alt-right than ever.”
Maybe they know something that the Cloud People don’t.
The red states, by electing Trump, seem to have lost any claim on usually wide-ranging progressive empathy. Frank Rich, theater critic turned pundit, turns up his nose at what he calls “hillbilly chic.” Another leftist author suggests that working-class support for Brexit and Trump means it is time “to dissolve” the “more than 150-year-old alliance between the industrial working class and what one might call the intellectual-cultural Left.”
‘Alliance’? More accurately ‘clientage’.
The fondest hope among the blue bourgeoise lies with the demographic eclipse of their red-state foes. Some clearly hope that the less-educated “dying white America,“ already suffering shorter lifespans, in part due to alcoholism and opioid abuse, is destined to fade from the scene. Then the blue lords can take over a country with which they can identify without embarrassment.
Not while they’re the ones having all the abortions they won’t.
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1st May 2017
A government watchdog withheld at least 14 reports that revealed department-wide problems that allow fraud and waste at a cabinet-level agency, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group has learned.
The reports concern issues plaguing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), including felons illegally living in federally-funded homes, tax fraud and millions of dollars sitting in unused bank accounts for years. The department’s 2017 budget is $48.9 billion and it has 8,375 employees.
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1st May 2017
If you’re interested in that sort of thing — which I am.
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