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The only way to ensure that you can always have reliable access to safe drinking water is by using the Pure2Go Traveler’s Kit.

Especially useful in places where the U.N. has sent ‘peacekeepers’ to rape and spread disease.

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You think California housing is unaffordable now, just hold their juice and watch this.

I’d leave too.

Nets Spend 13 Mins on Stormy, Ignore House Dem Accused of ‘Child Sex Abuse’

WATCH: Morning Joe Turns Into Sarah Sanders Hate-Fest  Which really isn’t all that different from any other day.

CNN Cillizza: Sarah Sanders Should Quit Her Job  Actually, Cillizza should quit his job.

California School’s Mural Depicts Trump With Severed Head [VIDEO]  Of course it does.

Valerie Jarrett: Obama Should Get Credit For Good Trump Economy  Yeah, he like TOTALLY passed a tax cut and revoked all those piss-ant regulations.

Christians Share Stage With Muslim Extremists At Council on American-Islamic Relations Fundraisers

WashPost Disses Trump, Tries to Dismiss 2.9% GDP Growth Rate  Pretty soon the growth rate and the unemployment rate will meet in the middle — then they’ll really be confused.

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Heh.

ZMan keeps his eyes on the prize.

One of the stranger bits of the current year is how people all over the ideological map are claiming to be “woke”, “aware” and “red-pilled” despite believing things that directly contradict things other “woke”, “aware” and “red-pilled” people believe. The millennial Jewish girl is woke about the patriarchy, while her last boyfriend is red-pilled on the JQ, mostly from having dated her. The concept, having clarity of “what’s really going on” used to be exclusive to conspiracy theorists, but now it is common in outsider politics.

The truth is, the truly woke understand that the current crisis is not a dispute between tribes or a dispute about facts. It is a moral war where one side controls the moral paradigm and imposes their will on the rest of us, in the teeth of objective reality. The current fight is about control of public morality, not public institutions. Facts and reason only play a supporting role in this fight. Being right on the facts helps win respect, thus giving one moral capital. The point of the game being to define public morality.

The horror….

From the lunch counter to the bathroom counter, from Whites Only toilets to Whites Only toiletries. Yes, racism lurks everywhere and a singer named Halsey has heroically called it out in the high-end hotel sector.

A note about Halsey: The name is just Halsey. She is yet another victim of the horrible “name flu” that swept through communities of aspiring pop singers in the 2000s, leaving Rihanna, Beyoncé and so many others to face life with truncated monikers. Furthermore, she is not to be confused with WWII Admiral William “Bull” Halsey. Bull Halsey, you see, was pretty heroic himself, though he had the benefit of not just two but three names (counting “Bull”), and admittedly the Battle of Leyte Gulf pales in comparison to the Battle of Lady Dove.

She looks pretty white to me. Where’s the beef?

I’ve been traveling for years now and it’s been so frustrating that the hotel toiletry industry entirely alienates people of color,” she said. “I can’t use this perfumed watered down white people shampoo. Neither can 50% of ur customers. Annoying.

Well, you could always do what I do, and bring your own shampoo. I doubt that you make less money than I do and so can’t afford it.

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North Korea has set its clocks forward thirty minutes, joining South Korea on the same time zone, North Korean state media reported a little after midnight Saturday.

“This is the first step in the process of reconciling the national after the historic reunion at the third North-South summit and bringing the North and South together,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported, revealing the standard times of North and South Korea are now the same. The decision to reset the clocks came after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met for the first time on April 27 at a landmark summit on South Korean soil.

North Korea turned its clocks back half an hour in 2015 as a rebuke of the time standards set in place by the “wicked Japanese imperialists.” The South Koreans did the same thing in the mid-1950s, but the country later switched back to encourage bilateral trade between Japan and South Korea.

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But of course Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING since he was elected. Maybe even before.

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Who knows? It might work. There are a lot of ‘woke’ judges out there.

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The cover for ‘1984’ was obviously done by famous SF artist Kelly Freas — his style is unmistakeable.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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A convenient reference for when your local Leftist gets froggy.

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Saw that comin’. Kanye is a Revisionist, and therefore must be destroyed. The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners marches on.

NBC Pumps Up the Hype for Possible Subpoena Fight Between Trump and Mueller

Washington Post: “We knew little about Trump by Election Day”  Yeah, we all knew how much he hid from the public.

Raging Matthews Proclaims He’s ‘Hungry for a Verdict’ in Mueller’s Russia Probe  I’m sure he is.

Worst of the Month: Helping Hillary, Freaking Out Over Fox News and Trump’s Threat To Democracy

‘Morning Joe’ Tries To Shame Rudy Giuliani For Defending Trump  Oh, like that will work.

Colbert Applauds Avenatti for ‘Using the Media’ to Trash Trump: ‘You’ve Been on CNN Like 60 Times’

Reporter Screams At Trump About Stormy Daniels At National Day Of Prayer Ceremony  Pure class.

April Ryan Claims Giuliani Doesn’t Know ‘What Lawyers Do’ [VIDEO]  Uh, April, Rudi has forgotten more about being a lawyer than you ever knew.

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I mean, really.

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I thought this was one of the things that the school was supposed to teach. Are they getting rid of the books because the students can’t read them?

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Amazon has paused development of its 17-story building in Seattle amid a debate over a city tax hike that would cost the e-commerce giant an estimated $20 million annually.

“I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sub-lease all space in our recently leased Rainer Square building,” said Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesperson.

The “head tax” would charge 26 cents per employee per hour for Seattle-based companies with $20 million or more in annual sales, affecting 585 of Seattle’s largest businesses. There are more than 45,000 Amazon employees in Seattle and its expansion in the city would have created 7,000 new jobs for the company.

Seattle’s bureaucrats needs to learn that their dicks aren’t long enough to get into a pissing contest with Jeff Bezos. He may be a liberal, but he never forgets that he’s running a business.

UPDATE: Seattle May Hit Peak Progressivism With a Literal Tax on Jobs

Scott Adams has the key.

“We’re going to learn to watch MSNBC as if it were a comedy about people who don’t understand things.”

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One recent winter, I decided to find out. Working with sleep researchers Derk-Jan Dijk and Nayantara Santhi at the University of Surrey, I designed a programme to go cold-turkey on artificial light after dark, and to try to maximise exposure to natural light during the day – all while juggling an office job and busy family life in urban Bristol.

The discoveries I’ve made have revolutionised my attitude to light – and how I live my life during the night and day. I now make simple, daily choices that can transform how I sleep, how I feel and perhaps even my cognitive abilities. Could you be doing the same?

Sorry, but ‘using candles’ isn’t ‘living without artificial light’.

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Obama got rolled. But you knew that.

Environmental group to carve Donald Trump’s face into the side of Arctic iceberg  I’ll believe it when I see it.

Morning Joe Jokes About Trump Having An STD  They’re scraping the bottom now.

The View Turns Into A Trump Hate Fest — Meghan McCain Reminds Them About Trump’s Approval Ratings

Tin Foil Mika Brzezinski: Maybe Trump ‘Raided’ Doctor to Cover for STD!

Now we know the truth: Donald Trump is the unhealthiest individual ever elected to the presidency  Really? Less healthy than Kennedy? Less healthy than Roosevelt? Really?

Spike Lee: Trump Is ‘On The Wrong Side Of History’ [VIDEO]  Still working from the old memo, I see.

MSNBC Legal Analyst: America Will Be ‘Authoritarian Dictatorship’ If Trump Refuses Mueller Subpoena  I do not think those words mean what you think they mean.

CNN’s Hill Suggests Wearing Trump Hat Worse Than Saying ‘F the Police’  For the Party of Hate, that’s probably true.

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Black Lives Matter is just another Swamp Creature out there spreading hate.

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Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign adviser, unloaded on Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday during a closed-door interview as part of the panel’s Russia investigation.

“God damn you to hell!” he said at one point in the interview, according to the Washington Examiner.

Caputo was upset over his mounting legal expenses, which he said clock in at more than $125,000.

“Today, I can’t possibly pay the attendant legal costs and live near my aging father, raising my kids where I grew up,” Caputo said during his three-hour interview. “Your investigation and others into the allegations of Trump campaign collusion with Russia are costing my family a great deal of money — more than $125,000 — and making a visceral impact on my children.”

“Forget about all the death threats against my family. I want to know who cost us so much money, who crushed our kids, who forced us out of our home, all because you lost an election,” he added. “I want to know because God damn you to hell.”

The Party of Hate claims another scalp.

UPDATE: Caputo’s complaint

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On Tuesday, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a public interest law firm, filed suit on behalf of several small-time landlords who are concerned about the financial and personal safety risks of being unable to screen tenants for past wrongdoing.

The PLF’s complaint claims that the Seattle law violates landlords’ due process rights under the 14th Amendment by imposing an “unreasonable, overbroad, and unduly burdensome” regulation. The complaint also says the law runs afoul of the First Amendment by denying landlords access to publicly available records.

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This month marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most destructive books of the last century, The Population Bomb, by Paul Ehrlich.

The 1968 doomsday bestseller generated hysteria over the future of the world and the Earth’s waning ability to sustain human life, as Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich offered a series of alarming predictions that turned out to be spectacularly wrong, creating the enduring myth of unsustainable population growth.

Ehrlich prophesied that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s (and that 65 million of them would be Americans), that already-overpopulated India was doomed, and that most probably “England will not exist in the year 2000.”

In conclusion, Ehrlich warned that “sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come,” meaning “an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.”

If these musings had been received for what they actually were—the wacky theories of a crackpot academic—all would have been well. But The Population Bomb sold some 3 million copies and influenced an entire generation.

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Well, well, now, we wouldn’t want to point any fingers….  It is, after all, the Party of Hate.

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Apparently not all Canadians are as polite as they pretend to be.

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Scorecards! Getcher scorecards here! You can’t tell the victims without a scorecard!

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Marino Menegazzo’s specialty is hammering gold into sheets so fine you can destroy them with a breath of air. His workshop, a nondescript brick building in a corner of old Venice, was once the home and studio of Titian, Italy’s immortal Renaissance painter. Come visit with a man who might be the world’s last true master of handmade gold leaf.

Steve Sailer rushes in where proglodytes fear to tread.

To be precise, enumerating Jews is not allowed in a critical or neutral context, such as Weisman’s 2015 Iran Deal article. It’s fine to celebrate Jewish contributions, but don’t mention the Jewish role in an objective manner.

One reason is that in an era obsessed with rooting out “systemic racism” via white-counting, Jews tend to be numerically overrepresented in most of the better sorts of jobs (as the Weinstein #MeToo scandals have demonstrated).

On the other hand, the percentage of Jews in Congress has been falling in recent years. With Al Franken getting #MeToo’d on rather tenuous charges, the Senate is down to eight Jewish members (only four times their share of the national population). In politics, diversity is beginning to take a toll on Jewish numbers, with, for instance, my old Representative Howard Berman being forced out of office after thirty years by the belated creation of a Mexican district.

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Weisman begins his book not with his 2015 lambasting by other Jews, but with him tweeting in 2016 a Robert Kagan op-ed about the dangers of Trumpian fascism. (Weisman doesn’t mention the irony that Kagan’s wife, diplomat Victoria Nuland, played a sizable role in the 2014 violent overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government, with far-right ultras leading the putsch.)

He was shocked to receive replies putting his name and Kagan’s name in triple parentheses to point out their Jewishness. While endless clickbait articles are churned out on topics like #OscarsSoWhite theorizing that white overrepresentation in good jobs can only be explained by a vast racist conspiracy among white people, the similar overrepresentation of Jews relative to gentiles is simply not discussed in polite society. White Privilege is currently an American mania, but the analogous concept of Jewish Privilege barely exists.

Jews breed for intelligence, yet the results of this strategy, however obvious it may be to the BadThinkers who are guilty of Noticing, cannot ever be mentioned without drawing the Proglodyte Inquisition down upon you. (The same thing applies, although not as rigidly, to the Chinese culture of achievement.)

Joel Kotkin speaks truth to glower.

In the past, wrote historian Kevin Starr, California “was a final frontier: of geography and of expectation.” Today in the Trump era, California remains a frontier, but increasingly one that appeals largely to progressives. “California,” recently suggested progressive journalists Peter Leyden and Ruy Teixeira, “today provides a model for America as a whole.”

To them, California remains the “harbinger” of “new America” and “the most active front” in the battle to exterminate Trumpism. Yet this enthusiasm should be curbed somewhat by paying attention to what is actually happening on the ground here.

Tyler Cowen, a Real Economist, shows you a better way.

If inequality is a corollary of innovation, then policy makers must choose their priorities carefully. It is better to focus on innovation, hoping that over time prices will fall and a greater equality of access will follow. If we focus too much on equality, we will think we are failing exactly when progress is rapid, and succeeding when progress is slow.

The push for ‘equality’ is driven by zero-sum thinkers — if there’s only a fixed amount of pie, they want it to be evenly divided because doing so ensures that they get at least as much as anyone else. But life is not zero-sum, because of trade: if I trade you a widget for a loaf of bread, we are both better off (otherwise we wouldn’t have traded). Being better off is the goal, not being no worse off than the next guy.

I don’t care whether Steve Jobs has billions so long as I am better off in a world with Steve Jobs than in a world without him. (And I am, by a bunch.)

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John Hinderaker at Powerline is optimistic.

Trump has two big things going for him: he is compiling a very good record, and he gets to run against a Democrat. The Democrats are so tone-deaf, as a party, that they genuinely did not realize that in Hillary Clinton, they were nominating a uniquely terrible presidential candidate. If they were smart, they would nominate someone next time who can compete with Trump’s populist appeal. But they don’t have anyone like that, and if they did, he could never get the nomination.

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The Democrats have another problem, too: cracks are appearing in the wall that has kept African-Americans on their plantation. Led by Candace Owens and Kanye West–who so far, at least, is standing up against extraordinary pressure–a wave of independent thinking is flowing through the black community. This, the Democrats can’t tolerate. Their electoral calculations count on getting a ridiculous percentage of African-American votes–something like 90%. But that is an absurd, unnatural number. A party that wins a demographic group 60/40 is doing very well. To win 80% or 90%, cycle after cycle, defies gravity. It can’t continue.

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As most inhabitants of totalitarian societies soon learn, the way to make yourself safer is to denounce somebody else.

The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners marches on.

Lileks.

Okay, here’s my question for the hopeful hippies, then: if this marvelous free tool that broke down all the rules empowered the dolts and crazies and jerks, would it have been so bad if civility had been held up as a virtue and profanity discouraged? It would’ve broken down eventually, because there are always elements of the culture that want to break old norms for the joy of it, or because they are tools of existing power structures. But the lefty side of the culture spent the last half-century demeaning all the “phony” rules of decorum and applauding the poke in the sternum, the F word, the humiliation of the ideal of self-restraint, and this is what you got. You thought everyone would be hippies and hippies would be mellow. You got a hundred million Abbie Hoffmans. Great job!

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Perhaps it would have been different had it been a minority or female child. Then you wouldn’t be able to shut them up.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Madame BitterBeerFace apparently thinks that freedom of speech is only for the Party of Hate.

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Last night I went with my oldest child to see the latest Avengers movie, Avengers: Infinity War, and was struck by the villain of the piece: Thanos. Up until this point, Thanos has been more of a background, shadow villain; someone who supports the active villainy of others through advice and henchmen but refusing to get his hands dirty. (Mild spoilers ahead.)

Now, in this latest installment, his long-game strategy is revealed: he wishes to save the universe by murdering half of its inhabitants, thereby decreasing the demand on all the resources so that the surviving group will have an easier time of it. I have heard this argument before, both in fiction and reality, but this time the rationality of Thanos stood out in a new way to me. As the megalomaniac explained his rationale for his actions, he reminded me of nothing else so much as Great Britain’s National Healthcare Service, especially as concerns Alfie Evans.

The NHS has argued repeatedly that it acted in the best interests of 22-month-old Alfie Evans. How did it choose to act? By overruling the rights and desires of his parents and Alfie’s own right to life by removing this little boy from his respirator and nutrition. Thus, he died, over days, gasping and starving.

The NHS’s officials claim they had the right to let Alfie die because they could not see a way to treat or cure him. It could think of no better way of dealing with this “problem.” Instead of taking up other countries’ (such as Italy’s) offer to take over Alfie’s care, they preferred that if he was going to die, he had better do it on their terms. Not on his terms, since Alfie was too little to ever have an opinion on this serious topic. Not his parents’ terms, when they were begging the doctors not to do this and visiting the Pope personally to implore his help. Not in the worldwide community’s terms, which echoed the same offers of help they proffered before when Charlie Gard, another little boy who also died at the behest of the NHS, was struggling for life. No, it is purely on the NHS’s own terms. They claim, however, that this decision really was in his best interests.

‘Believe us, Comrade, it’s in your own best interest.’

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Message: ‘Black people aren’t smart enough to work for Apple, but we want to appear as if we’re trying extra hard.’

The Congressional Black Caucus is an explicitly racist (note the name) and effectively partisan (no Republicans are allowed, even if black) group composed of those people, mostly mulattos that satisfy the paper-bag-and-ruler test, who have successfully ridden the race-hustle component of Party of Hate machine politics into a cushy taxpayer-funded position of wealth and power.

If you want an afternoon’s entertainment, put ‘corrupt black representative’ into Google and start reading.

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The most fun thing about SOFIC is trying to figure out which of its 11,000 attendees can kill you with his bare hands. The second most fun thing about SOFIC is the expo floor: 95,000 square feet of tanks, radios, rovers, ropes, tactical wet suits, parachute simulators, carbon-fiber rifles, search-and-rescue Sea-Doos, underwater breathing apparatuses, “pyrotechnic products” that look uncomfortably like cartoon bombs, and at least one snow motorcycle. It’s like the annual sales conference for James Bond’s Q Branch: The CIA has a booth. So do General Dynamics, Glock, and Raytheon. There are photos of airplanes for sale. Planes!

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North Korea is apparently doing the same on its side of the border.

And Trump just keeps on winnning….

Severian looks back in … well, dyspepsia.

When I got to college, back in the early Clinton years (effectively, 1988-2003), there were three generations of tie-dyed hippie dorks wandering around in search of something to protest.  There I was, thinking hey, it’s 1990, shouldn’t the Tyrell Corporation have a booth at the job fair?, and yet every academic I ran into was still going off about Agent Orange and acid rock.  Left-wingers in 1992, including 18 year old college freshmen, all looked like Left-wingers from 1967.  It was all Vietnam, all the time, to the point where Bill Clinton was some kind of hero for having dodged the draft.

(Remember that?  And wasn’t it a hoot when, just 8 short years later, George W. Bush was some kind of commie scumbag for having dodged the draft?  Or remember the “brutal Afghan winter?”  Good times.  If you’re not old enough to remember this stuff, I’m sure you get the point from the context — the Left spent the entire W. era trying to make the War on Terror into Vietnam II.  John McCain was still humping that chicken on the campaign trail in 2008, when most of his torturers from the Hanoi Hilton had keeled over from old age).

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The Left is eating its children. Maybe some of them will wake up before being fully digested.