Archive for October, 2018
3rd October 2018
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Electing Trump is like having your car detailed — a lot of crap that has snuck into nooks and crannies of the government are being cleaned out.
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3rd October 2018
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Sounds like a win-win. Go for it.
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3rd October 2018
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Except that she can’t, of course. But there are a lot of affluent virtue-signaling Democrat nutcases out there, so good luck to her. As my grandaddy used to day, a Democrat and his money are soon parted.
“For many years I served as the president of Planned Parenthood … and I saw first hand what happens when politicians put their own ideological agenda ahead of the health and wellbeing of women and young people,” Cecile Richards said in a video posted Tuesday. “Frankly, that’s what Ted Cruz has done his entire political career.”
Said ‘young people’ not including unborn babies, of course.
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3rd October 2018
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Thank you, minimum wage.
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3rd October 2018
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Well, why not?
As George Carlin famously said, if you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck out there will buy it.
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3rd October 2018
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Used to be, two northern states, Illinois and New York, took top prize for vivid geographic divergence on matters of political and cultural reality. What had machine-run Chicago to do with the all those prairie-dwellers downstate in the Land of Lincoln? Or sophisticated Manhattan with the upstate provinces north of Yonkers? Not much. More and more, that’s the way things feel in Virginia. It’s not the first time the state has pulled itself apart. It happened, literally and permanently, back in 1863; the counties west of the Allegheny Mountains, not much invested in slavery and distant from the capital in Richmond, sided with the Union and went their own way, hence West Virginia.
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3rd October 2018
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Not even Russia requires that.
Note to self: Avoid New Zealand.
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3rd October 2018
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Over the past few months, The Heritage Foundation team has been traveling the country to explain the benefits of tax reform. Below, we answer the most frequently asked questions about last year’s tax cut and the effort to pass Tax Reform 2.0.
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3rd October 2018
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3rd October 2018
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Can I get an Ay-men?
‘Jazz hands’? Sounds like cultural appropriation to me.
Alternative: Just sit there with a bored expression. Totally appropriate.
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3rd October 2018
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‘Funding’ is bureaucratspeak for ‘you give us money and we’ll pass a small part of it along’.
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3rd October 2018
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I know it’s around here somewhere….
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3rd October 2018
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3rd October 2018
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By getting rid of politicians who steal (which is why, in the modern world, we have famines) and the vehicles that encourage them to steal (like the World Bank)? I’ll believe it when I see it.
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3rd October 2018
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No, I haven’t read the actual article. I’m afraid to.
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3rd October 2018
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For over a decade the Chinese army has been stressing accurate shooting in general. That means more time in basic training is devoted to shooting and rifle use in general. That is one reason China recently increased army basic training from three months to six. The three month course proved inadequate for many recruits. By doubling the basic training a lot of problems are solved. For one thing, no one graduates from the six month course without being physically fit and competent in basic military skills (including how to “act and look like a soldier.”) That last item has been an issue in China and the West were too many volunteers show up overweight and out of shape.
Don’t know how long basic training for infantry is in the U.S. these days but when I went through Navy boot camp in 1968 it was eight weeks. We got to fire a .22 rifle a few times and watched an instructor fire a .45.
UPDATE: Why do snipers open their mouth when about to shoot?
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3rd October 2018
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Perhaps we could have an FBI investigation. Or at least play one on TV.
Where is Raymond Reddington when you really need him?
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3rd October 2018
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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.
Just remember that.
Absolutely nothing.
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2nd October 2018
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Ideology is all well and good, but it’s the money that does the talkin’.
Even Democrats gotta eat.
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2nd October 2018
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Hey, fair’s fair.
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2nd October 2018
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There are 40 September ice extent minima “on record”… How is the 6th lowest out of 40 the continuation of a “spiral” or anything else?
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2nd October 2018
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2nd October 2018
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Funny, I don’t see a flamethrower here….
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2nd October 2018
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Note to self: Avoid the Left Coast.
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2nd October 2018
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
Note to self: Avoid bowling alleys.
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2nd October 2018
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But ought not to come as a surprise to anyone.
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2nd October 2018
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Democrats, doing what they do best.
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2nd October 2018
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Will the Usual Suspects stop complaining? No, they will not.
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2nd October 2018
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Civil war is coming. Pick your side.
It will start in Europe but the U.S. will not escape unscathed.
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2nd October 2018
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2nd October 2018
ZMan peers behinds the curtain.
The game began when Mitch McConnell decided to schedule the hearings and vote on the nominee before the election. He calculated that it was good politics for the Republicans and tricky politics for the Democrats. They have half a dozen Senate seats up this time in very Trump states. Now, McConnell correctly figured that the Democrats would have to go nuclear on the nomination, so he and the GOP brain-trust convinced Trump to go with the cleanest guy on the list. Kavanaugh had been vetted many times, so he was safe.
That was the first mistake by McConnell. Despite being in Washington for a lifetime, he somehow failed to notice that the Left never abides by its own rules. When their rules work against them, they either ignore them or make up new rules, swearing that the new rules are ancient traditions handed down by Moses. That’s what they did here by hiring the Jewish lesbian to troll for middle aged women willing to swear Kavanaugh assaulted them in the time before anyone could verify. They were going to #metoo him into withdrawing.
Given the climate in the world in which the beautiful people live, this seemed like a clever ploy to Feinstein and Schumer. After all, they could count on the cucks in the GOP to run screaming into the darkness at the first sign there was heresy afoot. In other words, they never thought they would have to actually produce witnesses. That’s why Feinstein leaked the anonymous letter she was holding since the summer. She figured all she needed was a good whisper campaign run by the fake reporters in the media.
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2nd October 2018
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Apparently The Social Construct That Is Race affects even newborn babies. Who knew?
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2nd October 2018
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I sure would like to put Maxine Waters on ice. She could use some serious cooling down.
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2nd October 2018
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Well, if it reduces the noise level, I’m all for it.
Note the assumption that everyone present will wish to applaud whatever is going on. Resistance is futile.
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2nd October 2018
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Steve looked at each phone screen, pulled his round-rim glasses up so they rested on his forehead, stared again closely, then put his glasses back down and returned each phone to the table in front of him. Then he expressed himself. I was left wishing I had a plastic bag in my pocket to clean up my work.
I went back to comb through fonts with colleagues, and in a couple of days, we discovered Helvetica Neue. This Neue (German for “new”) version had subtle improvements that made every letter look perfectly sharp on the new screen. Steve approved it on sight.
So I guess he was right.
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2nd October 2018
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What do you want to bet that she was included just so they could say that?
If the Nobel Committees weren’t notorious for political correctness that wouldn’t be an issue. They’ve nobody to blame but themselves.
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2nd October 2018
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I’ve always been suspicious of coconuts.
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2nd October 2018
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Authorities said the makeshift weapons were created by Gregory Rodvelt, who was forced to forfeit his property as part of an elder abuse case involving his mother.
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2nd October 2018
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Heartburn, here it comes.
A lot has been written about how the internet undermined and destroyed media. What we are seeing today may be the more important story, however, which is the tech industry is explicitly buying out the media, particular culture making elite media institutions.
This was illustrated again when it was recently announced that Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff is buying Time magazine for $190 million. Jeff Bezos already owns the Washington Post. Steve Job’s widow owns the Atlantic. These are all people who have essentially infinite funds to sustain these over the long term – as vanity projects if necessary. How many high status print publications are left to acquire? The New Yorker is owned by Condé Nast, which reportedly hemorrhages money, though is owned by a very wealthy family. The WSJ is already in corporate hands, so should be buyable at some point. The NYT is still family controlled for the time being. Broadcast media is tougher but might ultimately share the same fate. (Foreign elite media is a different story than the US).
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2nd October 2018
Steve Sailer reports on the latest tragedy.
Cue hand-wringing; women and minorities hardest hit, etc. etc.
Chetty has refined his methodology somewhat over the years, but my in-depth 2015 analysis of his work, “Moneyball for Real Estate,” remains the best introduction to what he’s doing right and what problems remain.
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2nd October 2018
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Landowner Edward Poitevent’s lawyers went before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to argue against an Obama administration decision to label his land “potential backup habitat” for an endangered species of frog that hasn’t been seen there in decades.
That’s only part of the problem. Should the frogs be relocated to Poitevent’s land in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, today, they wouldn’t be able to survive.
“If you put the frog back on there today, it would die,” Poitevent told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an on-camera interview ahead of oral arguments in the case Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
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1st October 2018
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Bias? What bias?
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1st October 2018
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My, what a surprise.
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1st October 2018
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Nobody remembers the word ‘Comintern’ any more.
House lawmakers sent a letter Monday to the environmental group Earthjustice demanding documents regarding its ties to foreign officials and environmental activists, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The letter from top Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources is the fourth sent to environmental groups over their ties to foreign governments. It’s the second letter related to environmental opposition to the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, Japan.
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1st October 2018
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1st October 2018
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I guess he did it while sleepwalking.
Scraaaaaaape that barrel.
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1st October 2018
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The next time you drive past one of those road signs with a digital readout showing how fast you’re going, don’t simply assume it’s there to remind you not to speed. It may actually be capturing your license plate data.
They’d be stupid not to. This seems like a pretty obvious idea.
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1st October 2018
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Georgetown Professor C. Christine Fair tweeted over the weekend that “entitled white men” should have their corpses castrated and then fed to pigs.
Fair, an associate professor in Georgetown’s Security Studies program, tweeted, “Look at thus [sic] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogated entitlement.”
Don’t think I’d want to send my kids to that school.
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1st October 2018
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When you’re engaged in shooting the cows, you don’t want any of the foam to get on you.
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1st October 2018
Victor Davis Hanson turns off the lights.
The coordinated effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court required the systematic refutation of the entire notion of Western jurisprudence by senators and much of the American legal establishment. And there was no hesitation in doing just that on the part of Senate Democrats, the #MeToo movement, and the press. And I write this at a moment in which conservatives and Republicans still control the majority of governorships, state legislatures, the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court and the presidency—a reminder that culture so often is far more powerful than politics.
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