Archive for October, 2018
25th October 2018
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“I want to make sure that Andrew Gillum knows that inviting his failed presidential candidate is the WORST mistake of his campaign,” the DeSantis email said. “I want Hillary Clinton’s visit to be a kiss of death.”
A Newsweek article linked that rhetoric to the bomb sent to Clinton, despite the fact that there is no evidence to link the two.
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25th October 2018
Kevin Williamson turns over a rock.
You may remember the case: After the 2016 presidential election, there were many reports of hate crimes, the general idea being that these were the work of Trump enthusiasts and those inspired by Trump’s electoral victory. The words “HEIL TRUMP” were painted on an Episcopal church in Bean Blossom, Ind. Tongues were clucked, tuts were tutted, and the culprit turned out to be the church’s liberal staff organist, David Stang. “Stang stated that he wanted to mobilize a movement after being disappointed in and fearful of the outcome of the national election,” said Theodore Adams, a local prosecutor.
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25th October 2018
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24th October 2018
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24th October 2018
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Gone, but not forgotten.
This dish was one of the cornerstones of my childhood, along with such Heartland classics as ‘Chicken in Gravy Over Rice’ and ‘Sloppy Joes’.
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24th October 2018
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24th October 2018
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Their answer is, of course, ‘welcome them with open arms and your checkbook’, but they can’t say that in public and still depend on getting elected.
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24th October 2018
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Cutting down on foreign aid again.
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24th October 2018
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They see nobody making any serious effort to stop the first one, so naturally there is a second one.
There will be a continuing series of these ‘caravans’ until they are stopped.
Notice how none of these ‘caravans’ are headed south to Venezuela, Workers’ Paradise.
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24th October 2018
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24th October 2018
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24th October 2018
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The anti-American folks in the media always seem to choke when it comes to doing what they want to force other people to do. If you want an awkward silence, ask Paul Krugman how much he pays in taxes.
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24th October 2018
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Sellout.`
I was married for a number of years to a pagan witchcraft cult leader. It’s less interesting than you would think.
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23rd October 2018
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After doing some investigative work, it can now be revealed that the Pueblos Sin Frontera (People Without Borders/PSF) — the group that organized a caravan back in April — has a track record of links with the international Quaker movement, historical Democratic Party donors, U.S. government bureaucrats, and perhaps even a senior Mexican diplomat.
I hadn’t realized that there were groups organized for the express purpose of flooding the U.S. with Latin American immigrants.
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23rd October 2018
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23rd October 2018
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My, what a surprise.
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23rd October 2018
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A total of 521,090 people were either arrested or deemed inadmissible at U.S. ports of entry along the border, according to Customs and Border Protection figures released Tuesday. That compares to 415,517 in fiscal year 2017, a year that saw historically low levels of illegal immigration in the months after President Donald Trump assumed office.
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23rd October 2018
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Donald Trump says the U.S. plans to withdraw from the 1987 INF nuclear arms-control treaty that everyone agrees Russia has been violating for a decade. Yet somehow this is said to be reckless behavior by—Donald Trump? Welcome to the high church of arms control in which treaties are sacrosanct no matter the violation.
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23rd October 2018
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Curioser and curioser.
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23rd October 2018
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Even as it moves into Mexico, the illegal caravan has well over 1,000 miles to travel. There’s not enough time to get to the border by the November 7 election. So don’t be surprised if trucks, buses and cars “unexpectedly” show up to give them a lift most of the way across Mexico.
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23rd October 2018
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Let that be a lesson to us all. Don’t mess with beavers.
Soon to be a major motion picture, I have no doubt.
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23rd October 2018
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I guess Fox reporters are better at being border guards than the ICE guys.
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23rd October 2018
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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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23rd October 2018
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Note to self: Avoid Canadian rappers.
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23rd October 2018
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Indeed we don’t.
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23rd October 2018
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A Real Economist dukes it out with the Magic Negro.
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23rd October 2018
ZMan brings us up to date.
One of the stranger things about this age is that even the fiercest critics of the ruling class are finding it hard to keep pace with the ruling class confirming their claims. Make some exaggerated statement about the Cloud People and before you have had a chance to defend it from critics, Cloud People have taken to social media to prove your point. It’s a cliché to say that satire is dead, but it really does feel that way. How can you satirize people who are everything you mock them for being, plus some extra to make the point?
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23rd October 2018
The Other McCain looks at the ‘creative class’ cargo-cult mentality.
One of the Bad Ideas of recent years that bothers me most — because it is both widely believed among the elite and easily demonstrable as wrong — is Richard Florida’s theory of the “Creative Class” … The problem is that this is a reversal of cause and effect. Prosperity attracts artists and intellectuals to a city, but they are not the ones who create the basis of prosperity. Ancient Athens was famed for its architecture and philosophy, but its prosperity was due to the success of the Athenians in commerce and in war. Through the Aegean port of Piraeus, the ancient Athenians developed a vast merchant empire, establishing colonies throughout the region, as far as modern-day Turkey and Italy, and the wealth obtained by trade enabled the Athenians to equip a powerful army and navy. The Athenians were an adventurous, enterprising and warlike people, and it was these qualities that made their city wealthy, thus attracting the artists and philosophers. Richard Florida’s “creative class” theory gets this causation exactly backwards, confusing certain traits of wealthy places (especially tolerance of homosexuality) as the reason those places became wealthy.
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23rd October 2018
Just for the record, I detest shrimp.
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23rd October 2018
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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
Early voting has already started in Texas.
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23rd October 2018
Steve Sailer does a pre-vote run-up.
The New York Times is angry that Trump is trying to distract voters from the real issues, such as America’s ongoing BBQ Becky Crisis, with his crazy talk about irrelevancies like “the border” and “national identity.”
Apparently nobody at the New York Times has seen the picture of the Migrant Invasion Force tromping through Mexico (hey, what a great name for a song).
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23rd October 2018
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Another fine piece of civility brought to you by the Party of Hate.
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23rd October 2018
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23rd October 2018
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What’s Mexico going to do with all of them when they get turned back?
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22nd October 2018
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That’s very white of him, as we used to say.
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22nd October 2018
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‘You can change this world, or it can be run by … entitled, rich white old men’
Like, say, Tom Steyer.
Or, say, George Soros.
Or, say, Michael Bloomberg.
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22nd October 2018
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22nd October 2018
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Two water-centric tech organizations, The Skysource and Skywater Alliance, teamed up to develop a shipping-container-enclosed device that can turn water vapor (i.e., humidity) into drinking water at a significantly cheaper rate than other, similar technology or techniques like desalination. The group’s technique recently won the $1.50 million Water Abundance XPRIZE, a two-year competition devoted to coming up with energy-efficient ways to harvest fresh water from the air.
I wonder whether that would work in Texas.
The prize-winning version is powered by biogas, making it easy to operate almost anywhere. The biofuel gassifier creates renewable energy cheaply from cast-offs like wood chips, coconut shells, and dead plants, vaporizing the material to generate power. The system also generates a lot of heat, which is good for pulling water out of the air—think of how humid it is in the summer versus the winter. In the process of generating energy, the biogassifier also creates biochar, a type of charcoal that can improve soil fertility.
We got plenty of biogas in Texas. We can start with Austin.
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22nd October 2018
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Reporters? Look for evidence? Who has time for that?
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22nd October 2018
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Note to self: Avoid stupid people.
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22nd October 2018
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Note to self: Avoid monkey in India.
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22nd October 2018
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Hopefully with better rivets and more lifeboats.
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22nd October 2018
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I’m looking fora #MeToo shirt….
A lioness has killed the father of her three offspring, suffocating her mate by locking her jaws onto his neck at the Indianapolis Zoo in an attack not fully understood by zoo staff.
Indianapolis sometimes has that effect.
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22nd October 2018
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I am not making this up.
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22nd October 2018
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So those celebrities on the billboards with the milk mustache are all Nazis.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that.
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22nd October 2018
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Yeah, those horrid circumstances in Honduras really resonate, don’t they.
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22nd October 2018
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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
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22nd October 2018
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Good timing. Early voting just started in Texas.
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22nd October 2018
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22nd October 2018
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Well, see, there’s the disadvantage of tattoos.
And what’s he going to do if they get back together again, as often happens? Geez, guy, think it through.
(Although, from the look of him, I think she dodged a bullet there. But still.)
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