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And after that they can do the IRS. Works for me.

And then they could move the country to renewable energy based on unicorn farts. (Hey, if wishing can make it so….)

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I’m not sure I’d want this person driving my bus. Just sayin’.

(Of course, what’s breaking one more law to a Clinton?)

Steven Hayward turns over a rock.

Case in point is the left’s new It Girl, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who embarrassed herself last week with her extraordinarily ill-informed comments on unemployment (unemployment is low because most people are working two jobs!) and Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians (I’m not really an expert on geopolitics, Occasional-Cortex explained).

Now it is one thing to hear this from a hopped-up left-leaning activist, who exist in great numbers. But as our gimlet-eyed friend who runs Neo-neocon notes, Ocasio-Cortez boasts of graduating fourth in her classfrom Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences with a dual degree in  . . . economics and international relations. Let that sink in. Fourth in her class, and she’s a blithering idiot on both economics and international relations. If she’s the fourth-ranked graduate from BU’s College of Arts and Sciences, I’d hate to see who came out on the bottom. If BU has any self-awareness at all, they ought to be asking themselves “What went wrong?”

I really love the tag ‘Occasional-Cortex’.

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And the Eurocrats are clutching their pearls.

(As is, of course, the New York Times, although in a quieter way. [cue ominous theremin music].)

Steve Sailer points out the flaws: Two definitions of “democracy:” “rule of majority” vs. “rule by the Democratic Party”

The MAGA Hat That Wasn’t There

Liberal Reporters Blame Trump For Obama’s Mistakes With Russia

Hillary Clinton Slams Trump Over Meeting With Putin  Well, thank God she never met with the guy. Oh, wait….

Tinfoil Hats: ABC Becomes a Home for Trump/Russia Conspiracies  Everybody needs a home.

‘Trump Chicken’ dressed as a prisoner to sail around San Francisco  Where do they get the money for all this nonsense? Tom Steyer?

Stelter Boasts Trump/Russia Conspiracies Now in America’s ‘Bloodstream’  Much like HIV.

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The Scots are not to be messed with.

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As a former professor and current facilitator and consultant, I am in a position to give white people feedback on how their unintentional racism is manifesting itself. In this position, I have observed countless enactments of white fragility. One of the most common is outrage: “How dare you suggest that I could have said or done something racist!” Although these are unpleasant moments for me, they are also rather amusing. The reason I’m there in the first place is because I have been hired specifically to do just that; I have been asked to help the members of the organization understand why their workplace continues to remain white, why they are having so much trouble recruiting people of color, and/or why the people of color they hire don’t stay. They want to know what they are doing that is unsupportive to people of color.

Welcome to the New World Order. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Good thing they got rid of that white racist regime, or who knows what would be happening now.

Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

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Geez, what was the guy thinking? ‘Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!’

“The security staff were not happy for me to read it as they claimed I was on private property. I quoted to them that there is a constitutional position, the Epistle Dedicatory, that encourages The Bible to be read in the Church of England and on its land.”

That was from a time when the Church of England was Christian. Sadly, that was then, this is now.

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Why? The assumption here is that ‘cinema’ needs to be ‘truly representative’, an assertion for which neither evidence nor argument is offered. In this most politically correct of all possible worlds, if there are an insufficient number of ‘women and writers of color’ in film criticism, presumably not enough of them have stepped up to the plate and opinionated, and if it’s anything that women and writers of color do not lack, it’s opinions.

The market works, even when you pretend that it doesn’t.

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‘Far-right’ is, of course, a tendentious phrase beloved of Voices of the Crust practicing ‘journalism’. They would never, ever, ever say that someone was ‘far-left’, especially if it were true.

Every time I see Steve Bannon, I think ‘homeless guy, possibly schizophrenic, current or former drug addict’. That’s really not a good look for him. I don’t know whether that’s a deliberate choice on his part or whether he’s just too lazy to dress like a gentleman, but it does not inspire confidence; I would be hesitant to give money to any organization with which he is affiliated other than as a patient.

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MSNBC appears to be the National Home of all of the light-skinned Negroes in D.C. I guess the M stands for ‘mulatto’.

CPS is apparently too occupied arresting people who let their kids walk to the park by themselves (as I did every day for about fifteen years without incident) to do something about people raising gender-ignorant kids. Pity.

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By non-citizens, that’s true. Ellison wants to give the vote to every warm body that wanders across the bofder.

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Everything you need to know in one article.

If you ever win the lottery, don’t go there. Just … don’t.

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Sounds good to me. We all know that discrimination is taking place; the difficulty is getting them to admit that it’s unlawful.

Politico Editor: Trump Body Language Reveals Possible Russia Collusion  Well, the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter is aligned with Mars, so obviously Trump colluded with the Russians. That’s plain as the nose on your … face.

Biden Thinks Trump Immigration Policy ‘One Of The Darkest Moments’ In US History  Biden wants to make sure that everybody remembers he is a moron.

Bernie Sanders slams Trump for being ‘tougher’ on immigrant children than on Putin  Well, Putin isn’t staying in the U.S. contrary to law, for one thing.

Hysterical Media Outlets React in Horror to Trump… Yet Again

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It is with such scare tactics aimed at Low Information Voters and Stupid People that politicians accrue power and consequent wealth. ‘WE MUST DO SOMETHING!’ is the cry, to which the politician responds, ‘Absolutely! I’ve got just the program here! Pay no attention to the fact that the funds will wind up primarily in the pockets of my friends and political colleagues….’

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The lawsuit, brought by the NRA along with the Second Amendment Foundation and two city residents, was filed late last week in King County Superior Court in Washington state, which has a regulation prohibiting cities from issuing firearms regulations.

“Seattle simply can’t break the law to adopt an ordinance as a political statement,” Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb said in a statement.

I bet they think they can.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen: Was this offender against Domestic Tranquility more likely a Democrat or a Republican?

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Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen: Is the boss a Democrat or a Republican?

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Nwaubani Ogogo was a slave trader who gained power and wealth by selling other Africans across the Atlantic. “He was a renowned trader,” my father told me proudly. “He dealt in palm produce and human beings.”

A useful reminder that there would have been no slave trade without black African suppliers.

The British tried to end slavery among the Igbo in the early nineteen-hundreds, though the practice persisted into the nineteen-forties.

Yet that never seems to get mentioned. Wonder why that is.

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So if you want a brain that can be molded like Play-doh, get tripping. The Democrats will thank you for it.

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Democrats have never really forgiven Republicans for freeing their slaves.

You know the drill. Find the black man in this picture:

For reference, here is a picture of an actual black man:

The preamble to the United States Constitution:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

How do Democrats stack up?

… to form a more perfect Union…

Secession is a Democrat idea. The secessions that triggered the Civil War were Democrats reacting to the election of the first Republican President. The current talk of secession in Blue States like Vermont and California in reaction to another Republican President is merely the latest step in that Walk of Shame. Republicans accept the results of elections, even when there is hanky-panky going on; Democrats refuse to accept any election where they lose. When Lyndon Johnson and Richard Daley stole the Presidential election for John F. Kennedy in 1960, Richard Nixon was advised to challenge it in the courts; he refused. When Florida was certified for George W. Bush in 2000, the first stop Al Gore made was the courts. Donald Trump’s win in the Presidential election of 2016 may not have been technically a landslide, but it was far from close; nevertheless, the people who Just Can’t Believe That Dick Won have been doing their best ever since to overturn the result. (Democrats turn out to be Not Very Democratic. Ask Bernie Sanders.)

… establish Justice …

The essential characteristic of ‘social justice’ is that it isn’t justice, it’s a perversion of outcomes to favor a particular political side that is called ‘justice’ because distorting the language (a) makes them feel good about themselves and (b) is a well-polished tool in their political playbook. Giving special privileges to black people just because of their skin color isn’t justice, it’s racism straight up. Refusing to enforce the law against illegal immigrants isn’t justice. Forcing people to do things contrary to their religious beliefs to serve a political agenda isn’t justice. Every political machine in every big city that had one (and has one) was and is run by Democrats — just look at Chicago, Detroit, and New York.

… insure domestic Tranquility …

Look for the riots and civil disturbances in America today (Hell, since forever) and they’re caused by Democrats. There is no civil disturbance in this country that doesn’t have Democrats behind it. Everybody knows this but nobody dares to say it because the mob will come for them. Potential mob violence is such a cornerstone of Democrat ideology that elected Democrat officials, like Maxine Waters, can sound the call in public and suffer no serious consequences.

… provide for the common defence …

Name a year since 1945 that the Democrats haven’t called for cuts in military spending so that they can spend more on Free Stuff for their canaille.

… promote the general Welfare …

The Democrats are the poster child for the classic Special Interest. The Democrat ‘base’ is full of special interest groups who don’t care if the rest of the nation is screwed just so they benefit. Black people. Sexual perverts. Enviro-Nazis. ‘Animal rights’ activists. ‘Renewable energy’ lobbyists. Trial lawyers. Union officials. Government employees. This that and whatever kind of  ‘activists’. You name it, and if they want to fuck everybody else for their own benefit, they’ll find a home in the Democrat party.

.. secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity …

The core belief of the Democrat party is ‘force everybody to do it our way’. Every policy promoted or piece of legislation introduced by a Democrat is designed to reduce individual liberty. No, you can’t sell what you want; you have to sell what we allow you to sell. No, you can’t refuse to sell particular products or to particular people; you have to sell what we tell you to sell to the people we tell you to. No, you can’t charge what you want to rent that apartment; you have to charge what we tell you to charge. No, you can’t start a business without jumping through the hoops we require and paying us for the privilege. No, you can’t keep the money you earn, you can only keep what we allow you to, and you’d by-God better thank us for the privilege.

Democrats fail to act according to the Constitution in almost every respect. They are, at their core, as part of their essential nature, un-American. 

I love exercise. I can watch it all day.

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This is what vegetarianism comes to.

John Derbyshire is always worth reading.

One theory I hear a lot is that it is Cold War backlash from the Left. Our Leftists can’t forgive the Russians for having ceased being communists. There was the Soviet Union, marching forward into the radiant future under the banners of Marx and Lenin, an inspiration to Leftists everywhere … then suddenly they were pulling down the statues and selling off state enterprises.

To add insult to the Left’s injury, the Russians—well, some of them—returned openly to Christianity. And not only did they drop actual Marxism, they showed no enthusiasmfor Cultural Marxism, marginalizing homosexuals and feminists and keeping themselves overwhelmingly, shamefully, white.

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Those “independent fact checkers” at Snopes threw a red flag at conservative websites like the Daily Wire for a “mixture” of truth and falsehood on the question “Is San Francisco Registering ‘Illegal Aliens’ to Vote?” You have to get a kick out of the objection to the I-word and the A-word. They prefer “non-citizens.” We wouldn’t call their site “non-partisan.”  This is their breakdown, and as you can see, they object to what it sounds like, not how accurate it is:

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As George Orwell illustrated in his classic novel 1984, one of the things that proglodytes are always doing is re-defining words to mean what they want them to mean in place of what they actually do mean.

The prevalence of the phrase ‘gay marriage’ is a good example. The prevalence of the term ‘capitalism’ is another.

The technique doesn’t originate with Marx, of course, but with Proudhon, who said ‘All property is theft’, the equivalent of saying ‘All life is murder’; nonsense on its face, but the sort of nonsense that soi-disant intellectuals love because it makes them feel smarter than all the unwashed out there.

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The columnist in question is Max Boot, who is a ‘conservative’ only in relation to the rest of the proglodytes at the Washington Post. Like George Will, he is an Establishment Crustian and his ‘conservatism’ is only about as deep as Michelle Obama’s love of America.

Instagram Censors Conservatives, But This Trump Lynching T-Shirt Is Totally OK

Indignant Cuomo Claims Trump ‘Hates’ America, Wishes Ill on Media  I doubt Trump hates America as much as Cuomo. And I’ve wished ill on the media for over twenty years; Trump is kinda late to the party.

Mea Culpa: protesting (against) Donald Trump and other Americanisms

NYT’s Stephens Demands Bolton, Pompeo Resign for the Good of the Constitution, Stick It to Trump  No, I don’t think that will happen. From what fantasy realm do these weenies get the idea that their ‘demands’ will have any effect?

NYT’s Maggie Haberman Hammers Trump For Extending Invite To Putin  If you call yelling and stamping her feet ‘hammering’. I could believe that she hammered the floor, and maybe her keyboard — but Trump? I doubt he even noticed.

CNN Panel: Trump Treating the Presidency as a ‘Playpen’  How does that differ from CNN treating the airwaves like a litter box?

CNN’s David Gregory Says Trump Is ‘Naive’ And ‘Arrogant’ To Think He Can Negotiate With Putin  Yeah, David Gregory is sure the guy I go to when I want to know about negotiating with Putin. I suggest that Gregory is naive and arrogant to think that Trump is going to take what he says seriously.

It’s no longer safe to leave Trump alone in the negotiating room with Putin, but there’s little we can do to stop it  Yeah, newspaper editors know more about negotiating with Putin than Trump. Sure, I believe that.

Number Of Americans Who Believe Russia Is Biggest Threat ‘Too Small To Represent With A Number’  And all fo them are ‘journalists’.

MSNBC Contributor Suggests People Who Don’t Think Trump Is ‘In The Bag’ For Putin May Be ‘Impaired’  Given the choice between this nimrod and Trump, I think I believe Trump.

Evan McMullin: It’s ‘Extremely Dangerous’ That Many Americans Support Trump On Russia  I’m sorry, every time I see Evan McMullin I think ‘Egg McMuffin’ and the linkage with ‘cheap and nasty’ is automatic and unconscious.

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Hey, they could have asked us and we woulda told ’em.

Given a choice between war-torn Syria and New Jersey, I’m not sure which I would pick.

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Jeez, what were they thinking….

Steve Sailer sounds the alarm.

As white people ever more often get hammered in the national media — with potential lifelong effects on their employability — for a single Type I (false alarm) error involving calling the cops on black people who turn out to be law-abiding, it’s only natural to look to Artificial Intelligence to get you out from under the vast amount of hatred hunting for Evil White People. “Hey, it wasn’t me who called the cops, it was the AI system!”

It turns out that Artificial Intelligence programs are designed to (shock) learn from experience.

And sometimes that ‘learning from experience’ causes them to profile black people as potential criminals.

This is the Blue Whale in the bathtub. For say, teenage males, the difference in criminal propensity between African-Americans and Asian-Americans is between one and two orders of magnitude. If you reduce AI’s dependence on “ethnicity, gender, income,” you are pretty much dead in the water when it comes to public safety, especially if “age” gets added to the list as another “sensitive attribute.” Everything else, such as measuring the body language of the individuals or their vocabularies, will have massive Disparate Impact problems.

Well, we can’t have that. Forget Science, we want Diversity! Even if we all get mugged and murdered because of it.

The problem is that when it comes to crime, reality is biased.

Reality is what sticks around even after you pretend it isn’t there.

UPDATE: Another Becky gets fired  Apparently natural intelligence is just as corrupt and wacist.

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Good luck with that.

“If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” — Babylonian Talmud

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Well, I’ve always thought so.

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I don’t buy organic foods. In fact I specifically avoid doing so. It’s not my place to tell anyone else what to do, but I’d like to lay out three, seriously considered factors that have shaped my personal stance on organic:

1. Informed confidence that we are safe buying “conventional” foods
2. Recognizing that some of the best farming practices from an environmental perspectiveare not always allowed or practical under the organic rules
3. An ethical problem with the tactics that some organic advocates and marketers employ which seriously misrepresents their “conventional” competition

Just in case you were wondering what all of the excitement was about.

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In that case, I’ve got it nailed.

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An understandable mistake.

Find the black woman in this picture:

For reference, here is an actual black woman:

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Ability to pick Foster’s out of a lineup will no doubt figure prominently.

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is making plans to move the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Washington, D.C., to a city in the West.

Excellent move. With modern technology, there is no reason for all of these Federal bureaucrats to work in D.C.

I’m thinking that Helena, Montana, would be a good location for BLM.

Flint, Michigan, would be appropriate for the EPA.

Ace of Spades nails it.

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Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj rejected housing illegal immigrants through the European Union’s migrant center plan.

“We are absolutely opposed to Europe officially wanting us to accommodate illegal immigrants the EU does not want to take in,” Sarraj said in an interview with German news publication Bild, according to Reuters.

Well, then, why don’t they stop them at the Libyan border? For the same reason Mexico doesn’t, I suspect.

The plan was proposed by Italy in June to calm tensions between western European countries, who are divided over how to process and handle the large number of people seeking asylum and entering as refugees.

Uh, how about putting them on a plane, landing the plane in Libya somewhere, and kicking them out the door?

Scott Johnson at Powerline finds some hidden gems.

I’m not a big fan of Twitter but there are some people who can play it like a guitar.