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

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This is an interesting ‘space’, as the tech writers say. For some reason, even though I am notorious among my friends for being boring and unadventurous when it comes to food, I am strongly attracted to meal delivery services like Blue Apron. And my native indolence responds to the appeal of Amazon Fresh and Instacart, although the economics don’t work out for two people who eat out more often than not. Still: Interesting times.

Steve Sailer cuts to the chase.

PBS Guests Fret ‘Dangerous’ Trump, ‘Militant’ Sessions, FNC Jabbing Al Gore

U.S. Park Police Tear Down Anti-Trump Camp  ‘Occupation’ being the Politically Correct euphemism for ‘trespassing’.

Poll: Trump Is HATED In D.C. And Is At Over 40 Percent Approval In Several Key States  That sounds about right.

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Hah! Knew it all the time.

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A ‘deadbeat dad’ is somebody who doesn’t support his children, not somebody who plays the beta male at home. All this aside from the fact that people of Rees-Moggs class have servants to do that sort of thing; I doubt that his wife has changed any more ‘nappies’ than Kim Kardashian.

Harriet Harman is a real piece of work — like most Leftists, an unabashed hypocrite.

Here’s what she says: ‘Harman is a committed feminist, having said, “I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.”‘

Here’s what she does:

In 1996, Harman sent her younger son Joseph to St Olave’s Grammar School, Orpington, a selective grammar school, whereas she had sent her elder son Harry to the Roman Catholic London Oratory School, a grant-maintained school. Harman said of St. Olave’s: “This is a state school that other children in my son’s class will be going to… And admission is open to every child in Southwark irrespective of money or who their parents are”. In fact, no child in Southwark was eligible to apply for admission to St. Olave’s Grammar School, places were solely awarded based on academic ability and only to children from the London Borough of Bromley. No other children from her son’s class or school went to St. Olave’s that year or any other year. Neither did her son have to pass the entrance exam taken by all other pupils.

(This from that notorious right-wing source Wikipedia, so obviously it Can’t Possibly Be True.)

The Tory MP, who has emerged as one of the favourites to become the party’s next leader, quickly responded by saying he would “lose little sleep over Harriet Harman’s disapproval”.

Exactly right. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

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Female hypergamy breaks out even among the proglodyte delusional.

(I could make a catty comment here about dickless Democrat, but I’m too high-class to do so.)

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Only to be expected — there are Democrats everywhere (even in Texas, which is why there was looting in Houston after hurricane Harvey).

‘Wait a minute, you have no evidence that these are Democrats.’ Really? Look who favors ‘redistributing income’ from those who earn it to those who don’t (and who make up the ‘Democrat base’).

All Democrats are looters at heart, even when they pretend to be ordinary citizens. When you seen crime breaking out where gangsters live among law-abiding citizens, it’s not too far a stretch to guess who’s behind it.

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And rightly so.

I should get paid more than my ugly brother, and this has proven to be the case.

Of course, I’m a lawyer and he’s not, so this example is not ‘on all fours’ (as we lawyers say), but the underlying principle is still the same.

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Democrats may be cunning and unprincipled, but they can’t match people from a culture that has been cunning and unprincipled for millennia.

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The debate over the morality and efficiency of so-called “price gouging” during natural disasters and other emergencies provides a unique opportunity to explore some of the most fundamental ideas in economics. Understanding those ideas is important not just for the economics of emergencies, but for how market economies operate in more normal times and why they are superior to the alternatives.

The biggest advantage of market economies is the way in which they tie together how we decide who will get to purchase and consume goods with the way in which those goods are supplied. Market prices are not only a good way of determining who should get goods. They also work to encourage people to supply more or less of the good depending on how much in demand those goods are.

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The laws of economics are not suspended in an emergency, no matter what the laws of politicians attempt to do. When goods are more scarce, they will be costly to obtain, whether those costs are in terms of money or something else. The importance of letting market prices do their job and determining who gets what is that this process is also the way in which we make sure that there is stuff to be allocated in the first place. The only way to make sure we have sufficient production is to let market prices determine consumption.

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The first argument, which nobody in these degenerate modern times ever mentions, is that it is fundamentally immoral, because it steals from one group of people in order to give unearned income to another group of people. The primary motivation for this institutionalized theft, in a quasi-democratic state like America, is to buy the votes of the underclass under the Clever Plastic Disguise of Compassion. ‘He who robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.’

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For both good and ill, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is the closest the Republican Party has to the opposite of Donald Trump. He is the moral conscience that promises to check the president’s excesses, and he is the hypocritical Washington lifer whose cynical rhetoric and interventionist passions helped create the Trumpian backlash in the first place.

Trump has accomplished more in six months as President than McCain has in 30 years in the Senate.

That ought to tell you all you need to know.

From the Chaos Manor blog:

From Jerry’s son Alex:

I’m afraid that Jerry passed away
We had a great time at DragonCon
He did not suffer.

Bio here.

UPDATE: Great obit here.

Steve Sailer looks atstereotyping of white women in a black on-line magazine.

Four of the five refer to proglodyte white women; it’s not surprising that a black guy can’t make distinctions.

Actually, these are pretty funny (although, if I white guy did this about black women, this guy would be the first to cry ‘RACISM!’).

Yet Another Anonymously Sourced Trump-Russia Story Falls Apart

Facebook’s role in Trump’s win is clear, no matter what Mark Zuckerberg says  The proglodyte search for sinners and heretics proceeds apace.

Donald Trump’s Daca decision, not Hurricane Harvey, could tear Houston apart  Well, no, it couldn’t, because nothing will change for at least six months and maybe not even then. But feel free to panic, snowflakes.

New Yorker Writer Tries, Fails to Escape Trump in Alaskan Wilderness

Jennifer Lawrence: Hurricanes Are Punishment For Electing Trump Or Something

Colbert Throws Nazi Salute On The Late Show  Presumably he thought it was funny.

‘Sociopath’ Trump and ‘Nazi’ Republicans Deserve ‘Extinction’

Kasich Wants To Recruit Republicans For Anti-Trump ‘The Daily Show’  Kasich has taken over from McCain as leader of the “Blue Dog” Republicans.

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The headline is a lie. I didn’t bother to read the article; any article that starts with a lie can’t be trusted.

I listened to Rush on the days he talked about Irma, and he always said that it was a serious situation; not once did he say that it was a hoax, or anything like that.

You want an example of ‘fake news’, well, this is even worse.

The author’s name is Shehab Khan — wonder what his (her?) agenda is. (I think I can guess.)

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University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax argued in an editorial that many of the problems plaguing American society—opioid abuse, unemployment, inner-city violence—can be traced to “the breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture.”

Wax and her co-author suggested the “re-embrace” of cultural norms such as education, marriage before children, and respect for authority by Americans would “significantly reduce society’s pathologies.”

The firestorm that followed the editorial’s publication culminated in 33 members of the Penn Law faculty publicly denouncing Wax in an open letter published in The Daily Pennsylvanian. The professors did not engage Wax’s arguments on the merits, but instead spoke of their concern for an ideal educational experience in which people “respect one another without bias or stereotype.”

In other words, she was subjected to a Two Minute Hate for ThoughtCrime by those who love Big Brother.

Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Recently Almighty God smote the city of Houston as punishment for its pathetic lack of zoning laws. I am an expert in zoning laws, having spent roughly 4,000 hours playing Sim City in high school instead of losing my virginity.

Going forward, Houston can either embrace zoning and place itself in the steady hands of technocrats who designate where bodegas, trailer parks and whatnot go, or it can stick with the present organic model, letting a bunch of mouth-breathing humans organize the city from the bottom up.

I know what Sim City would do.

Turn-based strategy games typically follow the Centrally Planned Economy of which the Soviets were so fond. That doesn’t really train you for real life, unless your ambition is to become a Faceless Bureaucrat in some future Democrat Oceania. But they are a lot of fun, and (among other things) demonstrate quite plainly that a centrally planned society will crash & burn nine times out of ten, and the tenth time is still pretty grim.

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The Crust protect their own.

Curious about the ‘Deep State’? This is it.

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On a par with the typical Democrat methodology of ‘fixing’ things by making them worse: Obamacare, minimum wage, light rail, affirmative action, ‘diversity’, etc.

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Hey, I guess there really is something to this biology stuff, after all.

Reality exists, even when you don’t want it to.

I can’t wait to hear what Scott Adams has to say about this.

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And you lost to her in the primaries, Bernie. Where does that put you?

This Quiet, Island Boarding School May Be An ISIS Factory In Disguise

ISIS is planning a wave of attacks against Western targets to boost morale following defeats in Syria and Iraq, intelligence official warns

Paris Terror Suspects Built Bombs In Plot To Blow Up Banks

Foiled Virginia Attack Brings Total US Terror Plots to 97 Since 9/11

ISIS is Using Low-Tech Means to Inflict Large-Scale Terror  It’s not that hard to do.

Philadelphia Mom Who Wanted To Join ISIS Sentenced To Eight Years In Jail

French Police Discover ‘Bomb Factory’ In Paris, Arrest Two

While defeat of Isis dominates global attention, al-Qaeda strengthens in Syria

German authorities fight to stop teenage Isis bride being executed by Iraqi authorities

Why is the Control of Imams So Difficult?

Burma laying landmines near Bangladesh border ‘to prevent return of Rohingya Muslims’

French Minister Warns of the Dangers of Salafism — In 1928

Jihad in a Moscow High School?

Turkish police kill suspected suicide bomber

Palestinian Settler-Colonialism

ISIS Has 50,000 Active Twitter Accounts At Any Given Time  But if you mock ISIS they’ll shut your Twitter account in a heartbeat.

Nigerian Gunmen Kidnap Priest And Murder Him In Cold Blood, Attack Another Priest Driving And Riddle His Car With Bullets

University Investigates Student Who ‘Puts Minority Students At Risk’ By Mocking ISIS

British Student Who Mocked ISIS On Facebook Probed For ‘Hate Crime’

UK ‘a breeding ground’ for jihadist terrorists, warns Met Police chief  And what are they doing about that, if anything?

Turkey’s Mass Persecution of Christians and Kurds in Diyarbak?r

Police criticised for telling women to ‘run in pairs’ after jogger raped in German park

Isis urged undercover BBC reporter to launch terror attacks in London Bridge and Westminster

US May Have Missed Chance To Blow Away Hundreds Of ISIS Fighters

French Police Officers Injured During Clashes With Migrants

Muslims Angered After Islamic Gang Rape Warnings Posted In UK  The ThoughtCrime of Noticing.

Iran Will Destroy Any US Spy Aircraft That Enter Its Air Space  Well, they can try.

Close To 60 Syrian Militia Fighters Came To Germany As Refugees

‘They’re There Today’: ISIS Fighters Return To Tunnels 5 Months After MOAB

Victims of Turkey’s Islamization: Women

Burma: Rohingya children ‘beheaded and burned alive’ as refugees continue to flood into Bangladesh to escape violence

Notorious ISIS Preacher Living In Jamaica Indicted In New York

Bomb squad called after man shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ on Ryanair flight – getting him and his friends thrown off

Police officer ‘throws himself on suicide bomber to protect colleagues’

These Lethal U.S. Anti Tank Missiles Are Showing up in ISIS Arsenals

EU Anti-Terror Chief Says Islamist Terrorists May Turn To Cyberattacks Within 5 Years

Why reading Jihadist poetry might help combat extremism  Uh, don’t hold your breath.

Tajikstan passes law ‘to stop Muslim women wearing hijabs’

UK home to up to 25,000 Islamist extremists who could pose threat, EU official warns  Oops! ThoughtCrime!

Bangladesh struggles to cope with influx of Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing brutal crackdown in Burma

Burma: More than 100 Rohingya Muslims massacred in Rakhine state, reports claim

Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, a History

Jihadism Transformed: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Global Battle of Ideas

Inside the Islamic Republic: Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran

Are Returning Jihadists a Major Threat?

The Islamic State’s Virtual Caliphate

An Allahu Akbar August

Is Al-Azhar University a Global Security Threat?

I have no respect for anyone who uses ‘gender’ as a verb, and give what they say no credence.

You have been warned.

Late Night Likens Trump to Dracula, Hitler; Invokes ‘White Supremacy’

Group wants Kid Rock Detroit concerts canceled  Because supporting Trump is a violation of their civil rights, or something.

Masha Gessen schools you haters on the Zeroth Amendment  Trump’s ‘agenda’ is ‘hateful’ because, well, Trump.

Trump Must Go, But the Disruption Must Stay  Yeah, explain again how that works….

Here in South Korea, people fear Donald Trump more than Kim Jong-un

MSNBC Analyst Says Network Shouldn’t Pay Him, Because He Can’t Explain Trump [VIDEO]  Would that they all felt that way.

Tens of thousands of witches around the world join forces every month to cast a ‘binding’ spell on Donald Trump and ‘protect’ the world from his actions  With results as you see them. Perhaps they’re the problem.

New York politician campaigns to rename Donald Trump park after Heather Heyer  I have to agree with her, this is a ‘no brainer’, since she obviously has no brain.

Donald Trump doesn’t realise Ivanka ‘isn’t that impressive to people’, says political analyst  Why that ought to matter is, of course, never explained. I suspect that Trump doesn’t give a shit whether political analysts find Ivanka impressive.

Wife Of Trump Org Ethics Attorney Arrested For Having Sex With Prison Inmate  And of course this wouldn’t be news without the Trump connection.

Are Facebook Ads Part of the Russia-Trump Conspiracy Theory?

George Clooney on Trump’s ‘Both Sides’ Phrasing: ‘A Great Crime’  When you only see one side, I suppose it is.

Chelsea Handler Claims Trump Has Broken More Laws Than ‘Dreamers’  I’m waiting for a list. I’m waiting.

Coates: Trump Presidency Is A ‘Negation’ Of Having A Black President  Since having a black President is all about race all the time, as we saw under Obama, I say that’s a good thing.

MSNBC’s Wallace: GOP Haven’t Shown a ‘Conscience,’ ‘Soul’ on Trump  So what? Wallace hasn’t shown a ‘brain’ ‘intelligence’.

Trevor Noah Compares Trump to Killer Asteroid, AIDS, and Godzilla  Trump hasn’t yet compared Trevor Noah to a tree stump, but it’s coming.

Jennifer Lawrence: ‘Mother Nature’s Rage’ Directed at U.S. Because of Trump  And of course an actress is on intimate terms with Mother Nature. Seriously, do people actually listen to this drivel?

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Multiple Harvard University professors have been arrested after blocking traffic to protest President Trump’s gradual rollback of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program, which legal experts said was on constitutionally shaky ground.

Really? Really? Is anybody’s mind going to be changed by this stunt? Is there anybody in the country who is unaware of what the typical Harvard Professor’s position is on this subject? Does it accomplish anything other than irritating people inconvenienced by this crap?

Somebody needs to remind these aging hippies that the Sixties were over a while ago.

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Very ironic when you consider that they were all Democrats.

Even more ironic when you consider that it was the election of a Republican President that triggered secession.

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Where were these guys when it’s Chinese and Mexicans doing it? At least the Russians are here legally.

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For those of you who like that sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you’ll like.

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An excellent idea. It’s been a joke since the day it passed. Why encourage disrespect for the law by having a law that nobody respects?

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The real question is, does Trump still think Ryan is a trustworthy negotiating partner?

I suspect not.

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Well. There it is.

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And it probably gets the gas mileage of an M-1 Abrams, measured in gallons per mile.

Still … I want one.

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, they invent new ways to be biased.

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

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Reminder: Don’t fly United. Just don’t.

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But they have no hesitation ‘siding with Dems’ on issues ranging from DACA to Obamacare.

Sounds to me as if Trump has more reason to be livid than they do.

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Americans are witnessing the power of private individuals and businesses to solve pressing problems stemming from Hurricane Harvey. From the boaters and monster truck drivers engaged in search and rescue operations to local stores opening their facilities to displaced families, there’s no shortage of examples of private individuals and businesses stepping in to assist Houston in its recovery.

It’s a good thing the private sector didn’t wait for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to do all the work, because the government would have been unable to handle everything on its own. It’s true of many disasters. Recall the tremendous support during the Katrina disaster of 2005. The American people stood on their own as an example of endurance and generosity—even more remarkable than the federal, state and local governments’ responses.

Severian does some analysis.

As Marxism is Calvinism minus God, so modern “social justice” ideology is Marxism minus Marx.

Calvinism’s two fundamental tenets are:

1. mankind’s total depravity, and
2. predestination

Only a tiny fraction of mankind is destined to be Saved; you’ll know you’re one of them if you hate the rest of humanity almost as much as you hate yourself.  Since this is not a psychologically sustainable creed, even for such world-class haters as the Puritans, in practice Calvinism was endless, frantic displacement activity – the famous “Protestant work ethic.”  Drop God, and Puritans become Yankees — dour, hectoring pharisees who call you a whore while they’re fucking you over to make a few bucks.

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Well, maybe.

UPDATE: So much for that Voynich manuscript “solution”

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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The quest to restore the American elm has been underway for more than half a century. Today, with help from The Nature Conservancy’s Christian Marks, success is closer than ever—which is good news for our floodplain forests, as well as our urban communities.

 

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We have the technology.

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I have a question: If Nazis are hateful and worth being beaten up whenever seen because of all the people other Nazis killed, how come Muslims aren’t hateful and can’t be beaten up whenever seen, given all of the people other Muslims have killed? You can’t have it both ways, although proglodytes seems to think it’s their right.

ZMan looks at the New Russian Enemy (not to be confused with the Old Soviet Enemy, which wasn’t cool).

For the last few years, the American ruling class has been obsessed with Russia. The Bear Scare in DC over Trump’s alleged ties to Putin is just one ridiculous element to the obsession.  At some level, even the dullards in the media know it is nonsense, but the Cloud People are convinced that the public shares their hatred of the Russians. China and Israel are much more involved in our elections, but they are not suitable bogeymen, in the minds of our betters. To them, the Russians are the scariest of scary monsters.

The Russia-Trump story is just a sideshow, of course. The neocon insistence that we start World War 3 over Ukraine is much more representative of the ruling elite’s hatred for the Russians. Steve Sailer has done yeoman’s work documenting the neocon warmonger’s efforts to stoke the fires of Russophobia. It’s not just the neocons. The Left has gone down a similar path, accusing Putin of being the new Hitler and claiming he has plans to invade Europe. The public face of the ruling elite is sure that Putin is very bad.

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Because he’s a crook, so he just HAS to be a Republican. He just HAS to be.

Reality check: Whenever you see a report on a crooked politician, it’s a good bet that it’s a Democrat.