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NAACP Says MLK’s Vision Can’t Be Achieved Without Fighting Global Warming

15th January 2018

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This is like the perennial proglodyte attempt to characterize Jesus Christ as a socialist revolutionary. Uh, no.

Unfortunately, ‘civil rights’ is the only tool in the NAACP toolbox — when all you’ve got is a hammer, every situation looks like a nail.

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South Africa Will Formally Protest Trump’s ‘Sh**hole’ Comment

15th January 2018

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This is like putting Iran on the Human Rights Council. Read the front page ofany South African newspaper for a week, and ‘shithole’ will seem like a compliment. Migration from South Africa to Detroit would be a step up, especially for black people.

For an eyewitness, see Telling the Hard Truth – by Dave Freer

My friend Sarah Hoyt pointed me to a self-righteous fury spewing from the South African ANC (the political party which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid) about the idea of South Africa being a shit-hole and bad America was. I was born there, and eventually migrated to Australia, of which I am now a proud citizen, and which I love, and try my best to pay back for its enormous generosity in taking us in.  Now, South Africa is a beautiful country, with some fine people… but the ANC have presided over it now having one of the highest murder and rape stats of any country in the world not at war.  Corruption is endemic, and racial hatred – both white on black and black on white – if anything is worse than at the end of apartheid. Public Health is in a sad state, and education isn’t much to write home to mother about, principally because ‘writing’ might be challenge, and mother (adult education is a neglected disgrace) still can’t read. There are squatter camps, squalor, mud huts without toilets in the bush. Electrical grids are failing, potable water is a major problem. There are good patches of course. There are things which have improved. But it’s only not a shit-hole when compared to places like Zimbabwe. Any criticism from it is like a serial child rapist and murderer complaining about you saying ‘shut up’ to your kid.

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Of Crudeness and Truth

15th January 2018

Andrew Kalvan tears off the bandage.

Let’s state the obvious. Some countries are shitholes. To claim that this is racist is racist. They are not shitholes because of the color of the populace but because of bad ideas, corrupt governance, false religion, and broken culture. Further, most of the problems in these countries are generated at the top. Plenty of rank-and-file immigrants from such ruined venues ultimately make good Americans—witness those who came from 1840s potato-famine Ireland, a shithole if ever there was one! It takes caution and skill to separate the good from the bad.

For these very reasons, absurd immigration procedures like chain migration, lotteries, and unvetted entries are deeply destructive. They can lead to the sort of poor choices that create a Rotherham. Trump’s suggestions—to vet immigrants for pro-American ideas and skills that will help our country—are smart and reasonable and would clearly make the system better if implemented.

So, when it comes to the Great Shithole Controversy of 2018, my feeling is: I do not care, not even a little. I’m sorry that it takes someone like Trump to break the spell of silence the Left is forever weaving around us. I wish a man like Ronald Reagan would come along and accomplish the same thing with more wit and grace. But that was another culture. History deals the cards it deals; we just play them. Trump is what we’ve got.

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The Corrupt Politics of Low-Income Housing

15th January 2018

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The rent is too damn high—so each year Congress appropriates billions of dollars to address the nation’s collective housing needs. The programs vary from loans to tax credits to straight-up subsidies, but a common feature is that federal taxpayers pony up the dough and then a motley collection of state-level politicians, financing agencies, and housing authorities decide how it’s spent. Can you guess where things go wrong?

In theory, oversight is provided by bureaucrats in Washington tracking every dollar and by local leaders increasing their re-election prospects by providing housing assistance to their constituents as effectively as possible. In practice, the feds turn a blind eye to inefficient uses of the funds while local officials gleefully engage in politically advantageous graft.

When the kids at tReason magazine aren’t lecturing us on behalf of proglodyte morality, they can do some good reporting.

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On January 15, 1919, Boston’s 2.3 Million Gallon Molasses Flood Killed 21 People

15th January 2018

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Thought for the Day

15th January 2018

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Associated Press: People Don’t Trust the Media, But We Can’t Figure Out Why

15th January 2018

John Hinderacker of PowerLine documents a ‘You can’t make this stuff up’ moment.

Many would say that we are a year into the liberal press’s fact-bending, Trump-bashing orgy. But that doesn’t seem to occur to the AP. This is one of those articles where the AP quotes six or eight seemingly random people from across the country. You always wonder how they come up with “truck driver Chris Gromek,” “Democrat Kathy Tibbits of Tahlequah, Oklahoma,” “Victoria Steel, 50, of Cheyenne, Wyoming,” and so on. This article’s cast of characters seems reasonably well-balanced, but the AP’s commentary isn’t.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

14th January 2018

Labour’s Emily Thornberry brands Donald Trump a ‘racist’ who does not understand trade deals  I’d put my confidence in somebody who does deals for a living over a socialist who pretends to understand ‘trade’ but only understands socialist dogma on trade.

CNN’s King Slams Trump as a ‘Racist’ With a ‘Horrible Dark Reflex’  More reflexive trash-talk. There is no evidence that Trump might be a racist other than the delusional tea-leaf readings on the Left.

Rand Paul Has One Simple Rebuttal For Dems Calling Trump Racist  ‘“You can’t have an immigration compromise if everyone is out there calling the president a racist,” he said. “They’re actually destroying the setting… in which anything meaningful can happen on immigration.”’ Democrats are destroying any chance of getting what they want by spending their time scooping up Proglodyte Pokemon Points.

Maxine Waters: Republicans Will All ‘Pay A Price’ For Not Being Against Trump Scene: Kindergarten Recess Maxine Waters: ‘You’ll be sorry! Just wait!’

Palestinian leader denounces Donald Trump’s diplomacy as ‘slap of the century’  Like being called ugly by a toad.

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Why Is Liberal California the Poverty Capital of America?

14th January 2018

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Because that’s what socialism gives you: A fat cat upper class and a grindingly poor underclass. Since the LA Times is written by proglodytes, the cannot even see the reality, but wander around scratching their heads about where all the shithole parts of this city came from.

Looks at any grindingly poor area in America and you will see Democrat political fingerprints all over it.

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Jennifer Rubin Melts Down, Asks If People Against Amnesty Are ‘Raised By Wolves’

14th January 2018

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The Anointed just can’t understand why everybody resists accepting their leadership in everything.

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Comic Convention Bans Christian Conservative Actor Kevin Sorbo for Friendship With Hannity

14th January 2018

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The proglodyte politicization of every aspect of life proceeds apace.

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Thought for the Day

14th January 2018

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Understanding Abrogation: The Koran in Reverse Chronological Order

14th January 2018

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An anonymous emailer contacted us about a version of the Koran which has been compiled in reverse chronological order, so that abrogating verses appear before abrogated ones. The abrogated passages are struck through, to make it clear that they no longer apply. There is also a system of color-coding to provide the reader with additional information.

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Not National News: Costco Pushes Back Against Seattle’s Sugary Drink Tax

14th January 2018

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he City of Seattle probably didn’t expect pushback from Costco, seen by many on the left as retail’s “anti-Walmart,” after its “sugary drink” tax of 1.75 cents per ounce went into effect January 1. But that is exactly what has happened.

In moves the national press, which largely supports such taxes, has thus far ignored, Costco is itemizing the built-in cost of the tax on its Seattle store’s shelf tags, and informing customers that they won’t pay the tax if they shop at one of two other Costco stores outside Seattle’s city limits.

The use of taxation for ‘social engineering’ purposes, rather than for purely raising government revenue, is one of the characteristics of the Progressive era. It is an indulgence in economic ignorance beloved by activist politicians who are sure and certain that they know better how the common people ought to act than the people themselves do.

Of course, they are wrong. And unfortunately, it divides consumers into two classes: those who can afford to shop outside of the jurisdiction imposing the tax, and those who can’t. Hence it is ‘regressive’ in the purest sense, targeting the poor and being merely inconvenient for the not-poor.

It also is the root of ‘black markets’, because criminals are very adept at arbitraging these situations of government-imposed market distortion. I predict that the second effect of this tax (the first being non-poor people doing their shopping outside of the Seattle jurisdiction) will be lawbreakers smuggling untaxed ‘sugar drinks’ into the very areas from which politicians are trying to exclude them, thereby (a) canceling the effect of the tax, (b) avoiding any increase in tax revenue (because people aren’t paying the tax), and (c) encouraging a scofflaw attitude toward government. The whole history of tobacco taxes is rife with examples of this behavior, which politicians make a habit of ignoring, and the ‘war on drugs’ shows what happens at the extremes of such behavior.

This can only end badly for Seattle.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

13th January 2018

MSNBC’s Johnson: ‘Terrorist Sympathizer’ Trump Is ‘Enemy,’ ‘Danger’ to Minorities  Surely you could froth at the mouth if you try.

Jimmy Kimmel: Trump’s ‘S***hole’ Comment Shows He Is Racist  Well, no, it just triggers your confirmation bias.

Deranged MSNBC: GOPers Are ‘North Korean Soldiers’ Led by ‘Sniveling’ Carson, ‘Pathetic’ Ryan

African Union demands Donald Trump apologise for ‘sh**hole’ comments  Fine, if they apologize for being shitholes in the first place.

CNN’s Don Lemon Calls Fox News ‘The Trump Channel’  I was wondering when someone from the Clinton News Network would get around to that.

ROYAL WEDDING: Trump ‘to be snubbed’ by Harry and Meghan – but OBAMA could be invited  *sigh* Trump has absolutely no reason to be invited to the ‘Royal Wedding’, nor any reason to go if he were. Harry and Obama did an interview, and if they want to invite him it will be purely personal.

‘AM Joy’ Couldn’t Handle This Black Pro-Trump Pastor’s Arguments  Minorities who refuse to toe the Party Line are creatures with whom the DemLegHump Media are unable to cope.

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Chelsea Manning Files to Run for U.S. Senate in Maryland

13th January 2018

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And why not? A state that will send an imbecile like Joe Biden to the Senate for thirty-six years will not shrink from electing a convicted felon pervert.

Good luck for it getting a seat on any Senate committee that needs a security clearance.

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Of Home Truths and Shitholes

13th January 2018

Roger Kimball at American Greatness pulls back the curtain.

And here we come to a second curiosity in the preening and ecstatic outrage over the president’s comment. Everyone, near enough, knows that he was telling a home truth. It was outrageous not because he said something crude that was untrue. Quite the contrary: it was outrageous precisely because it was true but intolerable to progressive sensitivities.

In other words, the potency of taboo is still strong in our superficially rational culture. There are some things—quite a few, actually, and the list keeps growing—about which one cannot speak the truth or, in many cases, even raise as a subject for discussion without violating the unspoken pact of liberal sanctimoniousness.

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South African Leftists Ransack H&M Stores Over ‘Racist’ Ad

13th January 2018

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Another opportunity for blacks to do a bit of comfort looting with politics as cover.

This happens all the time in the U.S., and are called Race Riots because only one race is rioting. You will not see the KKK or the Aryan Nation conduct this sort of smash-and-grab fest, because they’re actually interested in politics as opposed to politics-as-an-excuse-for-theft. The Usual Suspects will wring their hands about these poor oppressed people attempting to gain empowerment in the only way available to them, while we cynics note that political empowerment appears to grow from the screen of a 65″ TV.

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CNN’s Symone Sanders Attacks MLK’s Nephew Because He Doesn’t Think Trump Is Racist [VIDEO]

13th January 2018

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Apparently, being a fat ugly black woman will not only get you a seat in Congress, it will also get you on TV. Who knew?

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Feminist Scholar Analyzes History Of Pelicans And ‘Racialized, Sexual Violence’

13th January 2018

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I am not making this up.

Logan O’Laughlin, a gender studies graduate student at the University of Washington, conducted a lecture titled “Queer Toxic Ecologies: Analyses and Implications of the Pelicans of the BP Oil Spill” at the University of British Columbia.

The workshop description explains that oil-stained pelicans represented the massive impact of the BP spill.

“But what do these pelican images tell us about gender, race, and sexuality in ecological contexts?” O’Laughlin asked in the description. “Utilizing feminist discourse analysis of pelicans in post-spill popular media and historical analysis of pelicans as the state mascot of Louisiana, this presentation articulates how this bird is symbolically and materially implicated in a history of racialized, sexual violence.”

Something tells me this guy is ‘gender fluid’.

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Thought for the Day

13th January 2018

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John Wick TV Spin-Off Will Focus on Notorious Hotel The Continental

13th January 2018

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From what I’ve seen of it, I wouldn’t mind living at The Continental. Don’t have a lot of gold coins to spare, unfortunately.

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Trump’s Tax Reforms Won’t Bring Back Offshore Money – He Is Just Creating Another Tax Haven in the US

13th January 2018

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So all that money will be coming here rather than Switzerland or Luxembourg or the Caymans? I’m good with that.

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Seattle Times: Why Have Seven Decades of Gap-Closing Failed in Seattle Schools?

13th January 2018

Steve Sailer brings the news that you probably won’t see in your local paper.

Asians, who are as numerous as blacks in Seattle public schools, have no color, apparently. They’re invisible-colored.

‘People of Color’ ™, of course, means black people (and not just any black people, but American black people; actual black people from, say, Africa don’t count).

It’s too bad Seattle doesn’t have any philanthropic billionaires to solve this problem.

Yup, it sure is. Perhaps they could import some from Texas.

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What do Trump, Obama, and Lindsey Graham have in common?

13th January 2018

Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine blog finds that his bullshit alarm has gone off.

don’t know whether President Trump called any countries “s***holes” yesterday. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if he disparaged certain countries, as is his wont, and he may well have done so profanely.

If he did, and if doing so hurt America, then Sen. Durbin and others in the room should have kept Trump’s statement to themselves. No patriotic American would hurt this country’s international standing just to embarrass the president or in the hope of gaining a little leverage in negotiations (which, I’m pretty sure, Durbin has failed to do).

But patriotism has never been Dick Durbin’s long suit. During the Bush administration, he compared American soldiers to Nazis, Soviets, and Pol Pot. (See video below).

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Buoyant, Long-Term, About Immigration Policy—and Trump’s Right: They ARE [Outhouse] Countries

13th January 2018

John Derbyshire says what everybody knows.

Since the earthquake in 2010, international groups have spent millions of dollars on a plan to build eight open-air sewage treatment plants across Haiti. Seven years on, only one of the eight is operational.

Way to go, international groups. Keep practicing, and someday you might be as inefficient as a government.

A rainstorm on Good Friday last year filled the streets and alleys of one Port-au-Prince neighborhood with 3 feet of raw sewage. Seven people drowned in it. A guy interviewed for the NPR report got an infection that still hasn’t gone away

Sounds like a shithole country to me.

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Indian Americans: America’s Shithole Success Story

12th January 2018

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The arrested adolescents at tReason magazine are some of the worst Blame America Firsters around, and Shikha Dalmia is one of the worst.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

12th January 2018

NYT Columnist Bret Stephens Likens Trump to Venezuelan Strongman Hugo Chavez on Morning Joe  Except for the confiscation of business property and the people starving and the ruling by decree, I totally see the resemblance.

‘The View’ Whines ‘Dictator’ Trump ‘At War’ With Media, ‘Actively Trying to Kill Press Off!’  Yeah, look at all those dead ‘journalists’ lying around.

Whoopi Goldberg Thinks Trump Is ‘Actively Trying To Kill The Press Off’  Well, she’d be one of the first to go.

CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Calls Trump A ‘Racist’ Live On-Air  Hey, ‘everybody knows’ that.

Dem Congressman: ‘We Are Traumatized As A Nation’ By President Trump  I think he meant to say ‘entertained’.

CBC Chair: Trump Comments ‘Further Proof’ His Agenda Is ‘Make America White Again’  Yeah, that’s why he keeps pushing for legislation to send black people back to Africa. Oh, wait….

Bernie Sanders On Trump Comments: ‘We Will Not Tolerate That Type Of Moral Inadequacy’  Where does a senile socialist get any room to speak of ‘moral inadequacy’?

CNN host Don Lemon calls Donald Trump ‘racist’ for calling Haiti and African states ‘s***hole countries’  I guess ‘speaking truth to power’ is only a thing when Democrats do it.

African Union calls Trump ‘s***hole’ comments unacceptable ‘given how many Africans arrived in US as slaves’  Sold by other Africans. They never mention that part.

North Korea says Fire and Fury book signals Donald Trump’s ‘political demise’  Uh, no.

Donald Trump’s ‘s***hole countries’ remark is only the latest example of his racist rhetoric  Uh, no. His ‘rhetoric’ is racist only in the eyes of people who can’t see anything else. Remember, if you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re he dog.

CNN’s Symone Sanders: Trump Comment ‘Just Straight-Up Racist’  Uh, no, but yours are.

Trump’s ‘Shith**e’ Comment Really Hurt Anderson Cooper’s Feelings  Poor snowflake. It’s Hell being a rich gay guy.

CNN Analyst Goes On Racial Slur Filled-Rant Against Trump’s ‘S***hole’ Comment  Trump triggers the deplorable.

John Legend Makes Racist Claims Against Trump Following Leaked ‘S***hole’ Comment  All they need is an excuse, any excuse, and what they ‘always knew was true’ comes out like a sewer pipe.

Dem Rep Says Trump Presidency Is A ‘Threat To Entire World’  Certainly a threat to THEIR world.

Dick Durbin Says Trump Totally Said ‘Sh**hole’  And Democrat Senators are FAMOUS for telling the truth.

Morning Joe: ‘Evil’ Nazi-Lover Trump Wants ‘Aryan’ Immigration Policy  Only in your dreams, Joe. Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, you’re the dog.

Colbert Jokes America Is the Real ‘S***hole’ Country Since Trump Is President  Certainly since Colbert was given a TV show.

Brinkley: ‘Heart of Stone’ Trump Most Racist Since Woodrow Wilson  Oh? More racist than Franklin ‘Lock up all the yellow people American citizen or not’ Roosevelt? More racist than Lyndon ‘Those niggers will vote for us for a hundred years’ Johnson? The Memory Hole claims another victim. (Oh, and remember that Wilson was a Democrat. Just sayin’.)

Terry McAuliffe Fantasized On Air About Dealing A Blow To Trump  I’d love to see him try it. Seeing a Secret Service agent put two in his head would go viral.

CNN Contributor Shouts ‘Are You A Racist?’ At Trump After Signing Proclamation Honoring MLK  The term ‘clueless’ is sometimes totally inadequate.

Donald Trump ‘repeatedly’ referred to ‘s***hole countries’ in White House meeting says Democrat Senator Dick Durbin  I think he was referring to Missouri, Senator.

A year on, there is no indication that Donald Trump has the capacity to grow  ‘Grow’ being newspaper-speak for ‘become more progressive’.

Hillary Clinton Blasts Trump’s ‘Ignorant, Racist Views’ About Haiti  Somebody must have pulled her string again.

Maxine Waters: Trump Is A ‘Hopeless And Ignorant Bigot’  Although not as much of one as Maxine Waters. When didn’t you ever see her hug a white person?

Steven Spielberg: Trump Administration ‘Distorts The Truth’, Offers ‘Alternative Facts’ This from the producer of the Democrat fairy tale THE POST.

John Lewis Claims Trump’s ‘DNA’ Makes Him Racist  Gee, that sounds pretty racist to me.

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Quotation of the Day

12th January 2018

[Michael Wolff] looks as if he were raised among the Mole People. — Jonah Goldberg, The GloP Culture podcast

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Notorious Racist President Trump Signs Law Creating National Historic Park for Martin Luther King Jr.

12th January 2018

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Yeah, that’s totally racist.

In related news, Democrat Party designated National Historic Honey Wagon.

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Scholars Claim That Statistics ‘Serve White Racial Interests’

12th January 2018

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Science is racist! I knew it!

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Scientists Are Making Carbon Fiber From Plants Instead of Petroleum

12th January 2018

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Carbon fiber is the Superman of materials. Five times stronger than steel and a fraction of the weight, it is used in everything from tennis racketsto golf clubs to bicycles to wind turbine blades to passenger airplanes to Formula One race cars. There’s just one catch: Carbon fiber is made from oil and other costly ingredients, making the end product exceptionally expensive. That’s why carbon fiber shows up in race cars but rarely makes it into minivans.

That could change. Scientists say it may soon be possible to make carbon fiber from plants instead of petroleum, driving down costs, making the material more widely available for use in cars, planes and other vehicles.

Carbon fiber is made from a chemical called acrylonitrile. Currently, producers make acrylonitrile from oil, ammonia, oxygen and an expensive catalyst. The process produces a lot of heat and yields a toxic byproduct. And, because acrylonitrile is made from petroleum, the cost of carbon fiber tends to rise and fall with the price of oil

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This Smart Dishwasher Can Wash Your Dishes and Cook Seafood

12th January 2018

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

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How to Think Like a Medieval Monk

12th January 2018

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

They may have been founded in 1098, but the Cistercian order in France still managed to anticipate one of the most exciting discoveries of modern science. Known as the “white monks” because of their habits of undyed sheep’s wool, the Cistercians envisaged religious life as a process of cultivation. Pioneers of hydraulic engineering and large-scale agriculture, the white monks described their spiritual transformation in just the same way, creating fertile fields in the garden of their souls, plucking out vices like weeds and watering their flowering virtues with tears of grace.

Less of a pest than a medieval friar, who spent his time wandering around getting in people’s faces.

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Brexit: British People Flock to Apply for French Citizenship

12th January 2018

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Good riddance, I’d say.

No worries, mate, the government will just import more Pakistanis and Somalis to make up the difference. (Hey, it worked for Tony Blair….)

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Man Survives Bear Attack With 41 Stitches Across His Face

12th January 2018

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Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes … well….

He’s going to look pretty badass once those heal up, though.

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Why We’ve Let Actors Become Our Moral Guides

12th January 2018

Jonah Goldberg cuts to the heart of the matter.

The most recent Golden Globes ceremony has already been excoriated for being a veritable geyser of hypocritical effluvia, as the same crowd that not long ago bowed and scraped to serial harasser and accused rapist Harvey Weinstein, admitted child rapist Roman Polanski and that modern Caligula, Bill Clinton, congratulated itself for its own moral superiority.

The interesting question is: Why have movie stars and other celebrities become an aristocracy of secular demigods? It seems to me an objective fact that virtually any other group of professionals plucked at random from the Statistical Abstract of the United States — nuclear engineers, plumbers, grocers, etc. — are more likely to model decent moral behavior in their everyday lives. Indeed, it is a bizarre inconsistency in the cartoonishly liberal ideology of Hollywood that the only super-rich people in America reflexively assumed to be morally superior are people who pretend to be other people for a living.

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Tucker Carlson on Trump’s ‘s—hole’ Remark: Why can’t you say that?

12th January 2018

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“An awful lot of immigrants come from this country from other places that aren’t very nice,” Carlson continued. “Those places are dangerous, they’re dirty, they’re corrupt and they’re poor, and that’s the main reason those immigrants are trying to come here and you would too if you lived there.”

But hey, truth is foreign to both our political class and our chattering class.

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This Is a Test

12th January 2018

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Here’s the test: If you were forced to live in another country, would you choose Norway or Haiti? Any sensible person — and perhaps even a leftist — would choose Norway.

That’s it, in a nutshell. Even Dick Durbin would pick Norway, and he knows it as well as you do.

The historical fact that Democrats are trying to hide under the rug is that all of the immigrants that made American great were from Asia and Europe, not Africa, not South America, certainly not from Mexico. Democrats depend on the fact that nobody is learning Real History in their government schools in order to do this short of shuck-and-jive.

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Democrats Love ‘S***hole’ Countries, and They Want America to Become One

12th January 2018

The Other McCain lets loose.

What was being discussed, of course, was a matter of government policy. The president’s characterization of which countries are favored by current policy was crude, but essentially accurate.

And that’s the key. Democrats want more immigration from countries where they are used to corrupt, oppressive government, because that’s the sort of government Democrats want to install in America, and these sorts of immigrants are seen as the kind that won’t push back against it, as (for example) Tea Party Republicans would.

We need to save American citizenship from becoming the Participation Trophy for the Third World. It’s that simple.

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Just Because It’s Your Job to Make People Watch You, Doesn’t Mean You Have Something to Say

12th January 2018

Freeberg gets down to the nitty-gritty.

The interesting question is: Why have movie stars and other celebrities become an aristocracy of secular demigods? It seems to me an objective fact that virtually any other group of professionals plucked at random from the Statistical Abstract of the United States — nuclear engineers, plumbers, grocers, etc. — are more likely to model decent moral behavior in their everyday lives. Indeed, it is a bizarre inconsistency in the cartoonishly liberal ideology of Hollywood that the only super-rich people in America reflexively assumed to be morally superior are people who pretend to be other people for a living.      — Jonah Goldberg

Exactly. We’d be better off throwing a pair of dice to figure out what’s right vs. what’s wrong, than we are turning to the acting profession for moral guidance. This is a profession — never forget this — that relies on pretending false things are true.

The problem is, as Goldberg points out above, we’ve overshot the mark. We’ve passed the point where we see entertainers as a lodestar for where our society is going, for where it ought to go. And it’s not lost on me that we’ve pivoted, in many cases, from figuring out what’s right & true, to figuring out what’s inevitable…as in, right or wrong, this is where it’s going, better get on board or get left behind…

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Why People Walked Differently in Medieval Times

12th January 2018

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Hey, if you had no access to modern toilet paper, you’d walk differently too.

Recorded in Germany’s History Park Bärnau, an open-air museum that explores life between the 9th and 13th centuries, this video by Roland Warzecha illustrates the mechanics of movement in Western Europe prior to 1500. (Warzecha runs a martial arts school devoted to historical European swordsmanship in Hamburg.)

Think Jar-Jar Binks.

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Thought for the Day

12th January 2018

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Which Medieval Battle Role Would You Be Given?

12th January 2018

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I’m always suspicious of such things, since I think they do more to reveal the prejudices of the creator of the test than actual reality.

I would of course be a Herald, standing off to one side with the other side’s Heralds totting up points, waiting until things were over so I could help identify bodies and decide what to call it. Oh, and making snarky remarks during the fighting, that’s also key.

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University President Resigns Under Pressure for Not Firing Prof Cleared by Three Investigations

12th January 2018

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University of Rochester’s president announced his resignation Thursday under pressure from activists who faulted him for not firing a professor accused of sexual misconduct, even though three separate investigations found no cause to do so.

A former Obama administration official enlisted to probe the charges for a third time concluded that “the complaints’ narrative—framed through the language of sexual predation and retaliatory animus towards women—is largely without factual basis” and that there was “no evidence… of a hostile work or academic environment for any female graduate students.”

Instead, the final report from former Securities and Exchange Commision chair Mary Jo White’s law firm says a federal complaint against professor Florian Jaeger contained misrepresentations, and faulted his accusers for behavior including “engaging in ‘vigilantism’” and “breaching confidentiality.”

Incredible.

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ISLAMOCOPIA FRIDAY: What’s New in the Religion of Peace

12th January 2018

In Their Own Words

Financial Desperation Leads ISIS to Sell its Own Coins Online  Crowdfunding the jihad. How modern.

“Youth” Charged With Attempted Murder for a Knife Attack on a Swedish Cop

‘Sharia Police’ gang face retrial after German supreme court overrules original verdict

Decision to allow Saudi Arabia’s women to attend football matches shows progress – but offers no clear end goal

As Attacks On Jews Rise in Europe, Anti-Semitism is the New Cool

Sessions Creates Hezbollah Narcoterror Unit

Zainab Ansari killing: Parents of murdered eight-year-old criticise Kasur police as Pakistan protests turn violent

ISIS Inspired Terrorist Indicted For NYC Bombing

Pakistan TV anchor hosts show with daughter to protest rape and murder of 8-yr-old

Terrorism knows no religion. If you don’t count Islam.

Iran drug law change could mean 5,000 Iranians are spared death penalty

“Moderate” Palestinian Factions Praise Father’s Murder as an “Operation”

Muslims to become US second largest religious group by the year 2040, says new research

Rohingya crisis: Myanmar security forces responsible for killing of 10 Muslims, admits Army chief

Terror Threat Forces Christmas Closure of Ancient Egyptian Monastery

99 Percent of “Palestine Refugees” Are Fake

Gay Imam plans to open Australia’s first LGBT-friendly mosque  I’d love to see what he pays for life insurance.

Saudi Arabia allows women to attend football matches for the first time Hooray.

“Austrian” Man Recruited a Boy Assassin for ISIS

Iran’s Ongoing Attempt to Set Up a West Bank Terrorist Outpost Exposed

Refugees are ‘Muslim invaders’ not running for their lives, says Hungarian PM Viktor Orban

Taking a Machete to Meals on Wheels

Pakistan frees Islamist cleric who helped Taliban against US

Viktor Orbán: “We do not view these people as Muslim refugees. We view them as Islamic invaders.”  And so they are.

Isis-supporting couple planned Christmas terror attack after meeting on online dating site  Funny thing about these potential terrorists always being People of Color ™. What are the odds?

Iraqi security forces returning displaced civilians from refugee camps to unsafe areas

Stand-off between Afghanistan president and local governor foreshadows next year’s election

What We Get For the Hundreds of Millions We Give To Terrorists  Abuse, mostly.

Iran bans English being taught in primary schools

Saudi Arabia military camp targeted with ballistic missile fired from Yemen

American Islamist Charity Openly Partners with Designated Terrorists

Media Is Still Portraying Islamic Terrorists as ‘Aggrieved’ Victims

Kashmir bomb attack: Four police killed after rebels fighting against Indian rule detonate explosive

Of Course: Islamic Terrorist’s Wife Knew About His Orlando Massacre Plans  The family that slays together, stays together.

Abukar Ibrahim Accused Of Attacking 73-Year-Old Meals On Wheels Volunteer With Machete In Vermont  She was probably not wearing a hijab, the slut.

Miloš Zeman: “The culture of these migrants is basically incompatible with European culture”

2 people injured in explosion outside Stockholm subway

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Bonus Bonus!

12th January 2018

Steven Hayward connects the dots.

Further to my post earlier today about how the corporate tax cut is extending benefits immediately to workers and consumers, Yahoo finance has put together a rundown of the 81 companies that have announced bonuses or new employee benefits because of the tax change.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

11th January 2018

Michael Wolff and the Death Rattle of Trumpophobia  Lord Black of Coldharbour understands the dialectic.

MSNBC Guest Compares Trump To Mao And Stalin

‘Fire And Fury’ Author Michael Wolff Finds Unlikely Ally In North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un

Scarborough: Media Is ‘Reflexively Anti-Trump’  Not really news, but at least they’re waking up to it.

Joe And Mika: Impeach Trump

Tom Hanks: ‘Tyrants’ Like Trump ‘Denigrating’ the Media Is ‘A Threat to Us All’  All of the Hollywood plastic people, perhaps. That ‘all’ doesn’t include you, Ordinary Citizen.

Robert De Niro: ‘The World Is Suffering From The Real Donald Trump’  Yeah, somebody who makes his living pretending to be somebody else really knows the Real Donald Trump. Sure, I believe that.

Forgot to Laugh: Anderson Cooper Compares Trump to Wile E. Coyote and Mr. Ed

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The New York Times Wants T\to Know Whether Liberals Plan on Donating Their Pussy Hats to a Museum

11th January 2018

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Put ’em right next to the hula hoops and pet rocks.

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Princeton Study Tosses Cold Water On Method Used For Measuring Climate Change

11th January 2018

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Damn that reality! It keeps interfering with our agenda!

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