Ace of Spades turns over a rock and some really ugly stuff crawls out.

I’m waiting for somebody to be fired or go to jail.

Not holding my breath, however.

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What would Van Jones know about morals? He’s a Democrat.

Where is the concern for the morals of the parents who are dragging their children into illegal immigration?

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Trump extended his hand to shake the general’s. The general, though, used his hand to salute Trump. The president saluted back, as the general extended his hand to Trump. Then, the two finally shook hands, as Trump had intended.

Thus, Trump was merely responding in kind to the gesture of respect paid him by the general. If the Saudi king had bowed first the Obama and Obama had bowed back, you would have some equivalence. In that event, I doubt that Trump or anyone else would have criticized the then-president.

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The U.N. ‘Human Rights Council’ is worse than a joke, usually containing several of the countries with the worst rep for human rights abuses.

Wouldn’t mind seeing us pull out of the U.N. entirely.

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Now, imaging the Connected Home.

Now, imagine hackers taking control of your Butt Pressure Washer.

Now, be very afraid.

No, it’s not a Trump metaphor.

John Hinderaker reads it so you don’t have to.

Evidently many FBI employees at senior levels (as reflected in Attachments G and H) were working hand-in-glove with Democratic Party reporters. It isn’t hard to deduce the purpose of these constant communications.

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The IG’s report exposes a corrupt and politicized FBI and Department of Justice. And so far, we are seeing only half of the story, at most. No one has yet looked into the Democrats’ “Russia” tale or any partisan corruption linked to Bob Mueller’s farcical “investigation.” Given DOJ’s bitter refusal to cooperate with the Congressional committees that have constitutional oversight responsibilities over that Department–has anyone tried to justify DOJ’s stonewalling? If so, I haven’t seen it–we can assume that the damning documents that have been produced so far are only the beginning. Most likely, they provide only an inkling of the information the Justice Department, apparently still dominated by Obama holdovers, is withholding from Congress, or perhaps has already destroyed.

Kimmel Mocks Summit as Two Kids ‘Signing Each Other’s Yearbooks’ Before Summer Break  That describes half of the Obama Presidency. Waiting for Kimmel to grow up can get boring.

Wait, What? Matthews Compares Republicans to Jonestown Followers, North Korean Soldiers

NY Daily News Urges NHL Champion Capitals Not to Visit President Trump  Yeah, you might catch Trump Cooties, and who wants that?

NBC, ABC Blame Trump for Facility Where Immigrant Kids Are Like ‘Animals In Cages’  Animals don’t get the big-screen TVs, of course.

Pelosi: ‘I Just Don’t Even Know’ Why There Isn’t An Uprising In This Country  After all, nobody she knew voted for Nixon.

Trump Derangement: Left Invents New Standards for Teaching About POTUS  President who?

Scarborough Compares Trump Administration to Nazis, North Korea  It’s all he’s got.

MSNBC’s Brzezinski: President Trump Is ‘Very, Almost Caveman Like’; ‘Fred Flintstone Running the Country’  They’re running out of names; this is an obvious repeat.

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Apparently there is no such thing as a ‘Catholic school’ any more, just sad remnants of a proud history.

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Part of the answer is found in what Iggy Pop had in common with Pat Buckley, his sometime dinner-party hostess in Gstaad: fashion. Weinstein is out of fashion. Weinstein may have been a fearsome figure in Hollywood, but he also has long been a figure of fun. Tom Cruise gave the second-best performance of his storied dancing career as the Weinstein-inspired Les Grossman in the closing credits of Tropic Thunder. It was not a loving parody. It’s been a long time since Polanski’s was a name to conjure with, and his épater la bourgeoisie sexual-outlaw shtick is out of fashion in a Hollywood that as a matter of social norms might be characterized the way Gilbert Osmond described himself in Portrait of a Lady: not conventional, but convention itself. The soi-disant radicals of Hollywood Anno Domini 2018 remind me of the ladies in “Nasty Woman” t-shirts I see shopping at my local Whole Foods, checking out the $59.99/pound wild-caught river salmon while Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes is on the gently modulated in-store sound system singing: “I pray every single day for a revolution,” as if the Hollywood multimillionaire who went on to produce Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” and Pink’s “Get the Party Started”—and the crowd at Whole Foods—wouldn’t be the first one up against the wall come the revolution. I’ve got some bad news for you, Sunshine: You aren’t fighting the Establishment. You are the Establishment.

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Banning guns has apparently shifted violent crime to using knives.

Whoda thunkit?

At least the perp wasn’t a ‘white nationalist’.

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Entering the United States is a ‘human right’? Since when?

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This illustrates one of the problems with the attitude that the government must regulate all areas of human activity otherwise WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! Just watch any news program and one of the worst things people can say (watch their body language) about some activity is that it’s ‘unregulated’, as if ‘unregulated’ means rabid dogs wandering the street and zombies coming after you.

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Did you know that there was an ‘International Seabed Authority’? Whence comes their jurisdiction? Areas outside of the territorial waters of a nation-state are the common heritage of mankind, free for whoever wants to use them.

Basically it’s another U.N. power grab. I’m curious as to what would happen if a private company were to ignore what they had to say and went to work. Nothing good, I suspect.

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Well, you know, you work with what you got.

Somebody notify David Hogg. He’s probably looking for something to do.

“Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.”

— Anthony Bourdain

Preach it, brother.

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I foresee lots of lawsuits under the ADA for people such as myself whose hips hurt if they have to stand for more than about ten minutes at a time.

One of the disadvantages of working for a hip & trendy company is that you have to suffer through all of the latest fads.

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Well, if it wasn’t a thing, the cards wouldn’t sell, would they?

Notice that they didn’t call it an insult to black husbands.

NBC Whines and Frets About NoKo Summit, But Defends Iran’s Deal One thing we know didn’t happen: Trump didn’t delivery huge pallets of dollars to Kim. So we’ve got that going for us.

Irony Alert! Matthews Claims Trump Came Off ‘Like a Kiss Butt’ to Kim, Only Likes Dictators

CNN Panelists Whine About Menu for North Korean Summit

How anti-Trump hysteria helps the president on North Korea

Trump-Kim summit: Propaganda trailer blamed on wrong film company as National Security Council accused of ‘harebrained amateurism’  This is why advertising works: Most people are too dim to recognize persuasion when they see it.

Sen. Schumer: Trump ‘Legitimized A Brutal Dictator’  Oh, like Iran? Which didn’t stay bought?

Mika Compares Trump To Fred Flintstone, Tweets To ‘Writing Things On Stone’ Hey, Fred had a job where at the end of the day he had produced something.

Mark Sanford Loses Primary; NeverTrumpers, Get This, Freak Out and Begin Calling for a GOP Wipeout in the 2018 Elections

Joy Behar Says GOP Trump Supporters In Midterms Are ‘In A Cult’  I guess she forgot ‘Barak Hussein Obama, Um, Um, Um’

Morning Joe: ‘The GOP Has Devolved Into Trumpist Cult’  As opposed to the anti-Trumpist cult at Morning Joe.

Kathy Griffin Calls Kevin Hart A ‘Pu**y’ For Not Condemning Trump  Oh, the misogyny!

Why does the commentariat so despise Trump’s success?

Salon Finds Psychiatrist to Diagnose Trump as Insane  Hey, money talks.

CNN’s Rye Slams Pro-Trump Evangelicals as ‘Sick’ and ‘Heartless Human Beings’  Gee, Angela, they might say the same about you — but they’re Christians, and so they won’t.

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What do you think that the chances of a government-funded quango would find the opposite? Less than zero, I suspect.

A better term than ‘landmark’ would be ‘midden’.

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Look for … the Union label….

Ace of Spades has the skinny.

This doesn’t just make economic sense. It makes customer-service sense, too. With the country no longer insisting or even urging a proficiency in English (even among native English speakers), the most frustrating part of any visit to McDonald’s is the lengthy back-and-forth with an order-taker trying to get them to understand the words that have come out of your mouth.

I have had that experience.

Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

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No matter how often it is ignored, reality always intrudes.

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Sure! Open the borders! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?

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A University of Connecticut professor named Felix Coe demands that all visitors who enter his office, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, remove their shoes and say “bismillah” (“in the name of Allah”) before they are allowed to enter. If they refuse, they are curtly ordered to get out.

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Heh.

Ace of Spades lets go.

“So with Trump meeting with Whoa! Fat in Singapore, I’m being buried in an avalanche of whataboutism. That is, Trump haters on both sides of the aisle are squealing about how conservatives would be flipping out if Obama sat down with Kim. But this is one of those “all things being equal” false equivalencies. Because things are definitely not equal here. Trump has lots of experience negotiating deals; in fact, he actually wrote a book on the subject. Obama, on the other hand, was a feckless incompetent. Obama’s idea of a deal was to suck up to the Iranian mullahs and give them truckloads of cash with which they could use to ramp up their military capacity and nuclear research. Also don’t forget the Bowe Bergdahl fiasco where we gave up five big-league terrorists for one traitorous scumbag. In what universe is that a good deal? Trump, however, is negotiating from a position of strength: he’s giving Li’l Kim reasonable alternatives after threatening to blow him up. There’s an iron first in that velvet glove. The only contents of Obama’s glove was a limp wrist and a sweaty palm.”

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This online tool purportedly lets you know, for a given zip code, what fruits/veggies are in season and local sources, plus a subscription service that gives you a weekly e-mail telling you what’s in season for the selected area.

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CAROLYN OLSON HAS A ROW-CROP farm in southwest Minnesota. There, she grows organic corn, soybeans, and alfalfa, among other crops. As with most farmers, organic and otherwise, she constantly fights against weeds. In Minnesota, lamb’s quarter, Canada thistle, and water hemp can threaten crops, she says. But for the last 15 years, Olson has had a weapon in her arsenal: a flame weeder, a contraption that combines farm machinery with firepower worthy of a heavy metal show.

We have the technology.

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Cellphones with cameras appear to be an amazing tool for Natural Selection. Better living through technology.

Also: British-Australian couple fall to their deaths ‘while taking selfie’ in Portugal

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Identity politics has engulfed the humanities and social sciences on American campuses; now it is taking over the hard sciences. The STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and math—are under attack for being insufficiently “diverse.” The pressure to increase the representation of females, blacks, and Hispanics comes from the federal government, university administrators, and scientific societies themselves. That pressure is changing how science is taught and how scientific qualifications are evaluated. The results will be disastrous for scientific innovation and for American competitiveness.

Saw that comin’.

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“Three states will get us better infrastructure, better education and lower taxes,” Tim Draper, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who sponsored the ballot measure, said in an email to The Times last summer when he formally submitted the proposal. “States will be more accountable to us and can cooperate and compete for citizens.”

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Of course, X-ray vision would come with a downside, in that you’d be spraying all your surveillance targets with radiation. So researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, actualizers of all things science fiction, have taken a different tack to seeing through walls: radio waves. By flinging ultra-low-power radio signals, 1,000 times milder than standard Wi-Fi, they can not only detect humans behind a wall, but track their movements in fine detail.

‘Hardball’ Panel: ‘Wannabe Despot’ Trump Likes Kim More Than Allies; Wants to ‘Fulfill His Fantasy’  Non-nuclear North Korea? That’s a fantasy I’d like to see fulfilled.

CNN’s Ana Navarro: ‘I Hope’ Trump Walks Into A Den Of Lions  He does, sweetie, every day when he faces the press.

Chelsea Handler: America ‘Is Russia’ With Trump ‘Running Our Country’  But I thought progs loved Russia….

CBS: Trump Going into Summit as More of a ‘Deal-Breaker’ than Deal-Maker  I guess they’ve forgotten all the prisoners he’s gotten released. Oh, and there’s the tax cut — that was a pretty big ‘deal’.

Chris Hayes: Trump Not ‘Burdened by Caring’ About Outcome of Summit  Another instance of what Scott Adams calls the ‘mind reader hallucination’.

Boot Discards Trump-Kim Summit as Something ‘Any Previous President Could Have’ Done  But didn’t, Max, that’s the point.

CNN Host Fears Trump Is Too Jetlagged to Know What He’s Doing  Scraping the bottom of the barrel, now.

Trump-Kim denuclearisation agreement prompts scepticism from experts: ‘Really weird’ They’re not used to an American President winning.

Glum MSNBC: Just Because Summit Hasn’t Happened Before, ‘Doesn’t Mean It’s Historic’  Nothin’ to see here, move along, move along….

‘Bachelorette’ Gets Interrupted For Trump’s North Korean Summit, Fans Flip Out  A girl has to have her priorities.

Trump Wins, and the Left Complains

Nancy Pelosi Not Satisfied With Trump’s Deal With Kim Jong Un

Chris Matthews: Dems, Media Must Remind America What Decency, Morality Is In Trump Era  By demonstrating the opposite, evidently.

Soros Denounces ‘Narcissist’ Trump, Will Spend $15M on Midterms

MSNBC Guest Insists Trump-Kim Meeting Is Not ‘Historic’

In A Presidential Race With Trump, Alec Baldwin Says, ‘I Would Absolutely Win’ DC, maybe.

‘The View’ Bashes Trump for Meeting Kim Jong-un: Went ‘Too Far!’

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s meeting was like something out of Team America: World Police  The ‘movie’ she’s watching must be very ugly.

Donald Trump’s dictator complex

Trump-Kim summit was ‘purely a reality show’, senator says  And you know how senators feel about reality….

Ivanka Trump’s tweet about ‘Chinese proverb’ sends countless people down digital rabbit hole  She’s learning from her dad — sucking that air out of the room….

Flashback: Media Predicted NoKo Summit Wouldn’t Happen  They are such experts at prediction.

Rob Reiner: ‘There’s No Line’ Too Far When It Comes To Attacking Trump  Of course! He’s Hitler! He’s Satan! There are no lines when it comes to Satan/Hitler!

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Well, he’s white, anyway. Wonder how he feels getting hoisted on his own proglodyte proclivities?

Feel the Bern….

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Thank you, minimum wage activists.

I’m waiting for the drive-thru to get one.

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Ranked-choice voting means that voters rank the candidates based on preference rather than voting for one candidate. If one candidate is the first choice of a majority of voters, that candidate wins the primary. If not, the candidate who receives the least first-choice votes is eliminated. The votes of those who ranked the eliminated candidate first are given to their second choice candidate and the counting resumes until one candidate receives a majority.

This is the system pioneered by Australia. It works as an ‘automatic runoff’ that guarantees that the person eventually elected represents the preference of a majority of those voting. The Yale Political Union used this system when I was an undergraduate and it is very straightforward and easy to administer.

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Among whom not even the boldest of us would include her.

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Ordinarily I don’t like treatments of The News As Parable  — just report the damned news! — but this analysis piece sums up the comic nature of the current ‘Russia! Russia!’ investigation very nicely.

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For those who haven’t been paying attention, a ‘rescue boat’ is a ship run by a First World bleeding-heart NGO (in this this case, the Aquarius) that ‘rescues’ illegal migrants as soon as they get out of the territorial waters of wherever they’re coming from and delivers them to whatever European country they’re trying to invade.

Imagine the Sierra Club driving vans that pick up illegal aliens from just inside the U.S. border and cart them to Los Angeles or Santa Fe.

David Cole is fed up.

Every five or six months, the world is forced to pay attention to this endless quagmire for one reason or another. More often than not, the flashpoint is Gaza. Gaza shells Israel, Israel kicks the shit out of Gaza; Gazans attack Israeli soldiers, Israeli soldiers shoot Gazans, etc., etc. And every time, world leaders and NGOs put on their carin’ caps and give high-minded speeches about finding a solution.

Maybe it’s time we admit that there’s no solution.

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If you increase the price of something, people buy less of it.

If you increase the price of labor, people will buy less of it.

if you increase the minimum wage, people will lose their jobs.

If people lose their jobs, poverty increases.

This is Econ 101, people.

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Feel the Bern.

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Trump is right that Canada imposes very high tariffs on dairy products that limit U.S. participation in the Canadian market, though the exact percentages vary depending on the product and when it is imported.

Canada heavily regulates its dairy industry with a supply management system that impacts production and sets target prices for dairy products. As a part of that system, it uses set tariff rate quotas (TRQ) for imports. Dairy products imported before a quota on a product is met are subject low tariffs or no tariffs, while products imported after the quota are subject to tariffs ranging from 201.5 percent to 313.5 percent.

“As a whole, the 270 percent figure though represents a strong ballpark for the various exorbitant tariff rates that limit US dairy access to the Canadian market,” Shawna Morris, trade policy vice president at the U.S. Dairy Export Council, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email.

‘Mommeee! Johnny hit me back!’

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Yeah, when it’s good news for America it’s bad news for the proglodytes. That’s why they’re always rooting for our enemies. But you knew that.

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The Washington Post has a long article about unsolved killings in American cities. It studied homicide data from 50 cities, encompassing 52,000 such crimes. In the process, it identified areas where killings are frequent but arrests are rare. These “areas of impunity” are located in poor neighborhoods where minorities (almost always African-Americans) reside.

Well, for one thing, they tell us that the DemLegHump Media are more interested in the occasional rampage by loner white kids on suburban white schools than in the horror that black kids have to live through every day. The Crust looks at the black Undercrust as a source of political power through their votes, not as an actual constituency whose interests they need to address.