Everyone loves having everything delivered to their door. I do. But there’s nothing quite like going to the mall for a pair of jeans, finding the huge wall of pants all neatly stacked, with all the different options — slim, boot cut, high rise, relaxed, tense, lying waistband size for the days you feel bloated, and so on. They still don’t have your size, but if they did, you could try them on.
Not me. I like the fact that shopping online allows me to fulfill the basic male function of Hunt Shirt, Kill Shirt, Get Shirt Delivered In Two Days For Free.
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I’d be tempted to pull the police out and let the street thugs settle it amongst themselves. Let Black Lives Matter step up to the plate and enforce the peace.
But nobody listens to me.
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The theme the anti-Trump camp is pushing — again, a sweet-sounding political claim that defies real-world experience — is that an honest person has nothing to fear from a prosecutor. If you simply answer the questions truthfully, there is no possibility of a false-statements charge.
But see, for charging purposes, the witness who answers the questions does not get to decide whether they have been answered truthfully. That is up to the prosecutor who asks the questions. The honest person can make his best effort to provide truthful, accurate, and complete responses; but the interrogator’s evaluation, right or wrong, determines whether those responses warrant prosecution.
‘BlacKkKlansman’ Screenwriter: ‘We’re Making The Comparison That Donald Trump Is No Different Than A Member Of The KKK’ Assembly-line hate. The ought to call it Birth of Another Nation.
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Fracking causes earthquakes — just ask the nearest proglodyte.
Earthquakes can cause islands to rise.
The solution to global warming, therefore, is obvious. Just frack the living Hell out of places threatened by the rapidly rising sea levels that all good climatistas are warning us about, and everything will be shiny.
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Times readers called the couple heroes. No, the heroes are not these poor fools who stumbled into an ISIS-controlled area; the heroes are the soldiers from the U.S. and elsewhere – most of them a decade or so younger, and centuries savvier, than Austin and Geoghegan – who, while the two 29-year-olds were on a year-long cycling holiday, were risking their lives to beat back ISIS. What, then, is the moral of this couple’s story? In the last analysis, it’s a story about two young people who, like many other privileged members of their generation of Americans, went to a supposedly top-notch university only to come away poorly educated but heavily propagandized – imbued with a fashionable postmodern contempt for Western civilization and a readiness to idealize and sentimentalize “the other” (especially when the latter is decidedly uncivilized). This, ultimately, was their tragedy: taking for granted American freedom, prosperity, and security, they dismissed these extraordinary blessings as boring, banal, and (in Austin’s word) “beige,” and set off, with the starry-eyed and suicidal naivete of children who never entirely grew up, on a child’s fairy-tale adventure into the most perilous parts of the planet. Far from being inspirational, theirs is a profoundly cautionary – and distinctly timely – tale that every American, parents especially, should take to heart.
SWPL Cloud People think that the world is their petting zoo in which they can feel good about themselves and suffer no disappointment that can’t be solved by Right Thoughts and a little Virtue Signaling.
When such people come up against reality, it usually ends badly.
The key features of Jeong’s worldview are an obsession with whiteness and its alleged sins; a commitment to the claim that we live in a rape culture; and a sneering contempt for objectivity and truth-seeking. These are central tenets of academic victimology. From the moment freshmen arrive on a college campus, they are inundated by the message that they are either the bearers of white privilege or its victims. College presidents and the metastasizing diversity bureaucracy teach students to see racism where none exists, preposterously accusing their own institutions of systemic bias. “Bias response teams,” confidential “discrimination hotlines,” and implicit-bias training for faculty and staff roll forth from university coffers in wild abandon.
UC Berkeley’s Division of Equity and Inclusion until recently hung banners throughout campus reminding students of their place in the ruthlessly competitive hierarchy of victimhood. One particularly lachrymose entry, featuring a female black and a Hispanic male student, urged the presumably “non-diverse” sector of Berkeley to “create an environment where people other than yourself can exist.” This year’s White Privilege Conference, a nationwide academic gathering, featured panels on “Breaking the Chains of Capitalism and White Supremacy,” the “Whiteness of Law,” and “How Whiteness Kills.” The journal Cultural Studies of Science Education ran a perfectly standard article this year on how notions of merit and scientific truth are simply covers for white supremacy and racism, while the Feminist Journal of Geography argued that the convention of academic citations bolsters the status of those who are “white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.”
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Once that “serious consideration” was undertaken, the house of cards fell, and Americans got back their right to keep and bear arms. Perhaps the neatest illustration of the change can be found in the work of Harvard’s Laurence Tribe. In the 1978 edition of his American Constitutional Lawtextbook, the Second Amendment is mentioned only in a footnote, and cast solely as a means by which “to prevent such federal interferences with the state militia as would permit the establishment of a standing national army and the consequent destruction of local autonomy.” The 1988 revision contains the same characterization. The 2000 edition, by contrast, confirms that the provision represents an individual right. “The amendment achieves its central purpose,” Tribe maintained, “by assuring that the federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. . . . That assurance in turn is provided through recognizing a right . . . on the part of individuals to possess and use firearms in defense of themselves and their homes.”
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That hardly seems fair. Of course, it might be another one of those ‘hate hoaxes’. But I should think that action ought to be deferred until an investigation is conducted.
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The following video is the final message from a Dutch woman named Willie Dille, who committed suicide shortly after recording this video. Ms. Dille was a city council member in The Hague for the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV).
Significantly, she names as the instigator of her gang-rape an ethnic Dutch politician, Arnoud van Doorn, evidently a convert to Islam. Mr. Doorn allegedly arranged the attacks and threats as a method of political intimidation.
Her death was reported as a suicide, and then a rumor went around that she had been murdered. However, as far as I know, she really did kill herself (which is more than understandable, given the dire circumstances in her life)
First, these countries are not technically socialist. By the YDSA’s definition, socialism entails a centrally planned economy with nationalized means of production. Although these countries have high income taxes and provide generous social programs, they remain prosperous because of their free-market economies.
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Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s reelection campaign chairman, Michael Soliman, is a lobbyist for Middle Eastern country Qatar, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer Friday.
Soliman, 39, has worked for years for Menendez, who is the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The public relations firm Mercury Public Affairs where Soliman is a partner has received at least $100,000 a month from the Qatari embassy since 2015, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The close shave Republicans experienced in Ohio this past week revived Democratic hopes of a landslide this November. Losing by less than 1 percent in a solidly GOP district is certainly a moral victory. Of course, 218 moral victories in November would keep them in the minority.
Funny how that works.
How can a Democratic wave give Republicans more Senate seats? For one thing, Democrats are defending 24 seats and ten in states won by President Trump. The GOP is only defending nine seats, including one in a state won by Hillary Clinton.
On average, the President’s party loses just one seat in the first mid-term, ranging from a 9-seat loss in 1994 to a 4-seat gain in 1962. Why so few? The 6-year term means that the political landscape six years previous has a significant effect.
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This is who Democrats are. This is what Democrats believe. This is what your friend or relative who votes for Democrats is actually voting for — political violence against anyone who disagrees with them, so that Democrats are free to commit assault in the name of “social justice,” to deny the constitutional rights of citizens who vote Republican.
Make no mistake. This slap-on-the-wrist sentence of Eric Clanton signifies an endorsement of anti-Republican violence by the Democrat Party officials who control California, in the same way that California’s “sanctuary state” law signifies hostility against American citizens.
If Republicans were like Democrats, one would catch Eric Clanton alone and beat the crap out of him with a bike lock. Fortunately for him, Republicans are not like Democrats.
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Conservative women lined up to challenge New York Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to a debate on Thursday. Their challenges came after she dismissed a similar challenge from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro as sexist (“just like catcalling”), claiming that he had “bad intentions.”
Proglodytes keep forgetting that most of the quality in their Oppressed Minorities are on the other side.
Cant is generally a smokescreen for won’t … or daren’t.
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