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Cue handwringing by the Usual Suspects.

With this single policy Trump has my vote for as long as he wants it. The American taxpayer is not the ATM for the world’s useless people.

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I am always wondering where they get these wonderful sets for British movies and recently stumbled on this resource.

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Wow, those strict gun control laws really work, don’ t they?

President Trump Confounds the Press

Chris Hayes Compares The Republicans’ Deadline Given To Kavanaugh’s Accuser To Her Actually Getting Raped  Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

MSNBC Guest Calls Trump Admin ‘Monkeys Throwing Excrement’

Fugitive accused of threatening to shoot Trump on Facebook arrested after huge manhunt  Funny, I didn’t see this in any of the American news outlets.

New Poll Says Hillary Would Win In A 2016 Do-Over  Sure, run Hillary again. I dare you.

Kavanaugh’s Accuser Considered Fleeing The Country Over His Supreme Court Nomination, Her Husband Says  This person appears to be mentally unbalanced.

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This points up a couple of elephants in the room that (so far) the European-model academic world has been ignoring:

1. Other cultures don’t buy into the myth that ‘intellectual property’ is actually a thing rather than a slickly-presented government-granted monopoly.
2. Other cultures also don’t see the point of the 18th-century German ‘research university’ model that requires somebody wanting a doctorate (which, as the world itself suggests, is merely a teaching qualification) to make some sort of ‘original contribution’ to the field — which is why so many doctoral dissertations are, however original, so narrowly focused as to be worthless, when they aren’t sophisticated attempts to game the system.

Anyone who’s been in graduate study with Asian students knows that they think nothing of engaging in what Europeans would consider blatant cheating and plagiarism. Their values are not our values, and probably look pretty silly to them.

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Hint: Nothing good.

Yet another reason why I refuse to fly.

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As North Carolina grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, transportation officials in the state are attempting to secure the use of a U.S. government-owned vessel, the Cape Ray, to transport supplies to the port of Wilmington. With the city temporarily transformed into an island by recent flooding, the roll-on, roll-off ship—or “ro-ro” in maritime parlance—will enable trucks filled with needed goods to drive aboard.

It’s a good thing the ship is government-owned—under private ownership the Cape Ray’s provision of relief supplies would be illegal. This absurd situation is due to a nearly 100-year-old law called the Jones Act. Passed in 1920, the law mandates that ships transporting goods between two points in the United States be U.S.-owned, crewed, flagged and built. The Cape Ray, however, was built in Japan.

Even if officials sought the private sector’s help and a Jones Act-compliant ro-ro ship to transport the trucks, none are available. According to data from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) there are only seven ro-ro ships in the entire Jones Act fleet. The closest one to North Carolina, the Delta Mariner, isn’t even an ocean-going vessel but rather operates on the Tennessee River. The other six vessels ply routes between the West Coast and Alaska or Hawaii.

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On cue, the fridge’s door slowly swung open, spreading a fan of milky light across the linoleum floor. From where one expected to see racks and crispers, two wide-eyed teenagers emerged. Behind them, down the refrigerated rabbit hole, a glowing white corridor plunged into the unknown.

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Let the finger-pointing begin.

ZMan does a deep dive.

Since the dawn of human settlement, the point of the state has been to maintain the power and position of the people in charge by protecting the interests of the people. The king gets to be king, and all that comes with it, by defending his people from threats. This requires a low time preference as the king expects to be king tomorrow and maybe even have his heirs sit on the throne when he is gone. Even a republican form of governance is designed to serve the interests of the property holders, who obviously have long term interests.

The managerial class that has subsumed western public institutions, exists to expand and protect the interest of these petty cliques, at the expense of the public. It’s not just parasitic, in terms of undermining the middle and working classes. It is parasitic within its own institutions. Since what matters is status within the clique, which has a transactional relationship within the institution it occupies. No one within the clique can think long term about the good of the institution. All they can do is borrow the language of the institution.

ZMan has been doing some very interesting analysis of late.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Brett Kavanaugh is supposed to teach a class at Harvard. These students want him investigated first.  Oh, please.

Yale Law dean: Reports that professor groomed female clerks for Kavanaugh ‘of enormous concern’  Scraaaaaaape that barrel.

Kavanaugh Confirmation A Display That GOP Is Nothing But ‘Ignorant White Men,’ Says ‘Morning Joe’ Guest

Kellyanne Asks Reporters Why They’re Not Covering Death Threats Against Kavanaugh’s Wife, Daughters  Because it’s not part of the Narrative, obviously.

CNN’s All-Republican Woman Panel on Kavanaugh Accusation Doesn’t Go The Way They Thought It Would  Sometimes people who live in the Narrative forget that others don’t.

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New Voices School of Academic and Creative Arts in New York City can no longer hold auditions to determine who can attend the school due to a diversity plan passed by Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday.

Acceptance into the school will be based on a lottery system, the New York Post reported Friday. Half the spots will be set aside for low-income, English learners and homeless students.

The bill aims to increase diversity in Brooklyn’s 15th district by forcing schools to forego academic criteria like auditions, test scores and grades. The bill affects 11 middle schools, the Post reported Thursday.

Apparently requiring actual talent is something-ism.

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Further proof that SJWs have no sense of humor.

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

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And if you believe that one he’ll tell you another one.

I’d be happy to chip in for his plane ticket.

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Trails of blood were left as Che Stephens, Luca Sanni and Imani Pobi Da Silva, who are now all aged 18, become embroiled in the dangerous and bloody knife fight which left Sanni with a life threatening injury.

Welcome to Londonistan.

Be careful not to step in the diversity.

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Didn’t know that sushi was a big thing with black people. Huh. You learn something new every day.

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I am not making this up.

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Whenever you read about ‘rising sea levels’, you need to remember that they aren’t actually rising; they’re just ‘projected’ to rise, and so OMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE. But probably not.

Whenever you hear a Third World bureaucrat complain about how his country is going to be drowned and disappear forever because of First World climate change, it’s code for ‘give us money and we’ll shut up about it’.

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Nobody does proofreading any more. Just read a newspaper and you’ll see.

Steve Sailer points out that there is nothing new under the sun.

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I guess it didn’t work.

For Islamic Terrorists, Jihad Does Not Stop When Jailed

When Islam Dominates France, So Will the Arabic Language

Mental Illness and “Allahu Akhbar!” at the Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport

Sweden refuses to deport Palestinian who firebombed a synagogue for fear he will be Israeli target

Former British soldier jailed for nearly 8 years in Turkey after being accused of fighting against Islamic State  Didn’t know that was a crime in Turkey.

Islamophilic Billboards Defaced by Islamophobic Vandal in Quebec

How Yazidi refugees are using drones and helium balloons to collect evidence of genocide

Palestinian Teen Stabs US-Israeli Citizen To Death At West Bank Mall  You know, as they do.

Protestors shut down election offices in Afghanistan ahead of vote delayed by three years  Democracy is not a Muslim value.

Saudi human rights activist attacked by men ‘shouting about Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman’ in London

Car of Peace Charging Into a Crowd Gathered for Bullfighting

Palestinian Authority Rushes Payment to Terrorist’s Family Hours After Attack Kills Father of Four  At least that money will no longer be provided by the American taxpayer.

Is Germany Colluding With Islamic Terrorists?

Italian Priest Kidnapped In Niger, Radical Islamic Groups Suspected

South Sudan army burned civilians alive, ran them over and swung children into tree trunks, says Amnesty  Africans being Africans. Nothing to see here.

India makes Islamic ‘triple-talaq’ instant divorce punishable by up to three years in prison  Heh.

NIGERIA: Terrorists Terrorizing Terrorists

Westminster attacker Khalid Masood attended same mosque as terrorists who planned to blow up Bluewater

Indian village bans Muslim names for children, public prayer and beards after row over dead calf 

Westminster inquests: Khalid Masood’s ‘chilling’ handwritten notes made days before terror attack revealed in court

A Cornucopia of European Cultural Enrichment

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Undercover agents from the conservative activist group Project Veritas filmed GAO auditor Natarajan Subramanian talking about his affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and admitting that he uses federal time to do DSA-related tasks.

“I break rules every day,” Subramanian says in the video. “At any point, I can get fired for stuff I do with DSA.”

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Keep your fingers crossed.

Snoop Dogg launches expletive-ridden attack on ‘racist’ Donald Trump and Kanye West

Insiders claim Trump feels angry and unprotected as president attacks Jeff Sessions for ‘sad’ performance as attorney general  At least, they hope he does.

Democratic Senator Calls On FBI To Investigate ‘Witness Tampering’ Against Kavanaugh Accuser  In other words, she’s being subjected to the same form of harassment that non-progressives get every day.

Symone Sanders Is Ready To Say Kavanaugh Is Guilty Before Hearings

Woman Who Claimed She’d Heard About Kavanaugh Attack Recants and Admits She Lied; Says She Felt “Empowered”  Lying will do that for you.

CNN’s Jim Sciutto Spreads Fake News About Offer To Kavanaugh’s Accuser

California Governor Jerry Brown Re: Trump: “Something’s Gotta Happen to This Guy”  I’m pulling for re-election.

Al Green says Trump’s ‘harm to society’ are new grounds for impeachment  Uh, I don’t see that in the Constitution….

WaPo White House Bureau Chief Tweets Story Smearing Kavanaugh As Sexist Frat Bro

Bill Clinton’s Former ‘War Room’ Director Quietly Advising Kavanaugh Accuser  All a set-up.

The Death Threats Mrs. Kavanaugh Is Getting Will Churn Your Stomach  Denocrats, Party of Hate.

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Only one? I can think of half a dozen.

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After less than 10 years in the classroom, Common Core could soon be on its way out.

The Obama administration introduced Common Core in 2010, imposing burdensome new standards and tests in an attempt to create uniform educational content across the nation. Despite loud objections from parents, teachers, school leaders, and state officials, 46 states ultimately adopted the standards due to a combination of funding carrots and regulatory sticks.

But over the past few years, states have begun to reclaim their authority to set educational standards. Approximately a quarter of participating states have either downgraded their participation or withdrawn completely from the two new testing consortia introduced by Common Core.

Having a single set of educational standards sounds like a good idea — let’s find out what kids need to know and make sure everybody is pulling in the same correct direction right? But what it does is introduce a Single Point of Failure, i.e. if ideologues get control of whoever is in charge of determining those standards, POOF instant indoctrination. This is why ideologues try to get everything pulled up to the Federal level, because it’s easier to capture a Federal agency bureaucracy than to slog through fifty states doing so.

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Why not? We’ve already got the Borg wandering among us.

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On the other hand, people still look for their horoscopes in the newspapers (the few that are left), so I suppose we really shouldn’t be surprised.

A reminder: Half of the people in the country are below average in intelligence, by definition. If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.

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Welcome to Londonistan.

Be careful not to step in the diversity. It’s Hell getting that stuff off of your shoes.

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No worries, cobber.

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The editor at the New York Review of Books has resigned over his decision to run a column by former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi — a once-celebrated Canadian journalist who was acquitted of sex crimes. Ghomeshi was the center of a highly-publicized Toronto trial that rocked the Canadian media establishment.

In his article, Ghomeshi stated, “I’ve become a hashtag” to describe his life since that trial.

But Ian Buruma says he will not apologize for running Ghomeshi’s article that focused on the #MeToo movement, saying, “I have now myself been convicted on Twitter, without any due process.”

Buruma made the comments in an interview with the Dutch publication Vrij Nederland. He was obliquely referring to Ghomeshi’s experience: acquitted by a Canadian court on a series of sexual assault charges by still presumed guilty on social media.

CBC News fired Ghomeshi long before his acquittal and never rehired him.

Apparently accusation=proof in the new Hunt for Heretics and Sinners.

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And about time, too.

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Of course. The definition of Democrat includes an compulsion to spend other people’s money.

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Now here is the mildly — let’s call it annoying — news: The publication date is March 5, 2019. So you are going to have to wait to get your hands on the tome (which, VDH tells Yours Truly, is going to be a sizeable work), counting the days while reminding yourself that all good things come to those who wait….

Breaking: Kavanaugh’s Accuser Says She Won’t Testify Until The FBI, Which Has Already Declined to Investigate Her Non-Federal-Jurisdiction 37 Year Old Allegations, Completes Its Investigation, Sometime After a Democrat is President  Which tells you everything you need to know about this scam.

“Cut Bait”: As the Kavanaugh Nightmare Escalates, Trump Is Gripped with Uncertainty as Ivanka Suggests Cutting the Judge Loose  At least we hope so! (Trump ‘gripped with uncertainty’? What have these people been smoking?)

Bob Woodward’s Trump book Fear sells 1 million copies in a week  TDS can be profitable.

Ohio police launch 100-officer manhunt for fugitive who threatened to ‘put a bullet’ in Donald Trump’s head  Let’s guess: Not a Republican.

Jack Black calls Trump a ‘piece of s**t’ at Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony  Because they just have to.

Brett Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Has Pundits Rushing To Defend Her Before She Testifies  Scraaaaaaape that barrel.

Cuomo Cuts Off Moore After He Suggests Kavanaugh Attacked More Than One Woman

Al Gore Suggests Trump’s Presidency Should Be ‘Terminated Early For Ethical Reasons’

CNN Reads Play-By-Play Of Trump’s Alleged Sexual Encounter With Stormy Daniels From Her Book

Democrats Get What They Demanded On Kavanaugh, Immediately Demand Something Else  Saw that comin’.

Segment On Brett Kavanaugh Goes Off The Rails And Ends With Discussion On White Suburban Women

Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford ‘receiving vicious harassment and death threats’  I don’t doubt it. This is an obvious desperate Democrat set-up. She ought to be ashamed of herself.

Media Falsely Claims Trump Called The FBI ‘A Cancer’

Gov Jerry Brown: ‘Something’s Got To Happen To’ Trump, People Must ‘Get Rid Of Him’  Good luck with that.

Jake Tapper Devotes Segment of Show to Trump’s Penis  You can’t make this stuff up.

Ukrainian president sues BBC for libel over claim he paid to meet Donald Trump

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Of course they do. It’s difficult to buy vote with taxpayer money except in the form of earmarks.

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Traditionally, elastic fei chang fen noodles are made of sweet-potato starch reserved in a steaming-hot broth with pig intestines. The resulting noodle soup is then garnished with bean sprouts, scallions, peanuts, chili oil, and vinegar.

It is the unique preparation, however, by which the street vendor creates his noodles that caught our attention. By combining starch and liquid, he creates a non-Newtonian fluid: a liquid that does not flow with constant viscosity but with a viscosity that changes in response to shear forces, which are forces that push in opposite directions along two distinct parallel lines. Simply put, non-Newtonian fluids can behave as both a liquid and solid. When you apply shear forces to non-Newtonian fluids, you’re met with resistance—try punching such mixtures, and you might come away with a bruise or two. In contrast, Newtonian fluids (like water) have a relatively constant viscosity, despite shear forces and flow rates, which allow them to flow in predictable ways.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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State and federal programs aim to ensure minority-owned businesses can compete for government contracts after generations of institutional discrimination. A Lynnwood man long identified as white is using DNA ethnicity estimates to claim minority status.

Whenever there is a government program or benefit, people will crawl out of the woodwork and try to game the system.

Yet some who qualified for the program acknowledged they had never been disenfranchised. A Yakima man who qualified for both the state and federal programs said he is about 6 percent African American, looks Caucasian and has never encountered discrimination. Since 2014, the program has helped him win millions of dollars in contracts.

Former Federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy lays out what’s happening in the Kavanaugh kerfuffle.

Well, whaddaya know: Late last night, the partisan Democratic attorneys retained by the putative victim, Christine Blasey Ford, delivered a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the Judiciary Committee chairman, contending that before any hearing at which she is summoned to testify takes place, there must be a “full investigation by law enforcement officials [to] ensure that the crucial facts and witnesses in this matter are assessed in a non-partisan manner.”

My personal favorite part of the missive is the lawyers’ complaint that, based on published reports, it seems that some of the senators have already “made up their minds” about Professor Ford’s story. This takes some gumption, coming from Democratic activists who are working in tandem with Democratic senators who decided to vote against Judge Kavanaugh long before the hearing started. The lawyers utter this tripe while in the middle of a transparent gambit to block the nomination by delaying it interminably — or at least until after the November election.

What a crock.

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The real problem with education is that the school system is stuck in the ‘factory model’ from the Middle Ages that pushes through an age-batch of kids every year and hopes that one size fits all. And the real problem with the age-batch process is that teachers spend most of their time working with the laggards in hopes of getting a reasonable chance for every kid to move forward with his or her age-batch, which leaves the bright kids (and even a lot of the normal kids) bored rigid and looking for trouble to get into.

Some ‘progressive’ schools are using resources like Khan Academy to ‘flip’ the school day: Kinds watch well-crafted instructional videos at home and then spend the school day working through exercises and projects, with teachers available to ‘coach’ those with difficulty. But you won’t see any major public school adopting this model because (a) the teachers aren’t qualified to do that and (b) that isn’t what they signed up for, as their unions will be quick to tell you.

What we really need is individualized instruction where somebody could be fifth grade in English and fourth grade in French and seventh grade in math and nobody has a problem with that. But it isn’t going to happen so long as government schools are the Microsoft of elementary education and educational unions are the Facebook of government schools.

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People of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?

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Oh, yeah, that’ll work.