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No gesture is too petty for the Party of Hate.

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Well, she does kinda look like one.

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Except, of course, that sea levels haven’t risen, nor will they in my lifetime or yours.

But now the Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum could be lost through flooding and erosion caused by climate change, a major study has found.

The ancient towns are among dozens of World Heritage sites at risk from sea-level rise in the Mediterranean as the climate warms, researchers at the University of Kiel, in Germany, have warned.

Emphasis added to point out the dishonesty.

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I really like the New Lindsey Graham.

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They’ve tried this ‘brown tide’ trick before and it has never worked. It certainly won’t work with Trump.

You’d think they’d try something else.

UPDATE: If Democrats Take Control Of Congress Expect A Caravan Of Illegal Immigrants To March On The Border Every Week, Says Former ICE Director Tom Homan

I believe it.

The Other McCain tells the story.

Everybody involved in this story is a Democrat.

The accused, Al Alvarez, is Latino and looks it.

The accuser, Katie Brennan, is Irish and looks it.

Prediction: Somehow this will be spun to be Trump’s (or at least Republicans’) fault.

Bad boys, bad boys, whacha gonna do….

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Great. Perhaps now all of the pot-heads will head north and we’ll be rid of them.

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But still: Everybody Hates Trump. The newspapers all say so.

The Other McCain asks the obvious question.

Notice the word “suggests.” At most, Warren has less than 1.6% Native American ancestry and, as for “family lore,” this test indicating the possibility of a very distant non-white ancestor — she’s so white, she would have qualified for membership in the Bund Deutscher Mädel — absolutely does not confirm the tales Warren has told. She claims that her parents eloped because of anti-Indian prejudice in Oklahoma: “My daddy’s parents, the Herrings, were bitterly opposed to their marrying because my mother’s family, the Reeds, was part native American.” Whether or not her paternal grandparents were “bitterly opposed” to her father marrying her mother, it could not have been because the Reeds were “part native American,” as a 1/32nd non-white ancestry (i.e., 96.9% white) would not be apparent and, contrary to her telling, the remote ancestor she claimed was Cherokee was identified as white in census records. If the Senator is asserting that her father’s parents were extraordinarily ignorant, we’ll take her word for it, but this tells us nothing about the alleged ancestry of her mother’s side of the family.

President Trump To Lesley Stahl In Contentious ’60 Minutes’ Interview — ‘I’m President And You’re Not’

The Media Lie about Trump, Again

Alec Baldwin Calls For ‘Lawful’ Overthrow Of Donald Trump

5 most worrying things Trump said during his 60 minutes interview  None of them worry me.

Lesley Stahl Says Trump is ‘So Much More Confident’ As President Than After The Election  Winning does that for you.

Will Elizabeth Warren’s DNA results help her claim Trump’s scalp?  Oh, I’m sure she’ll CLAIM it, but she’s made a lot of claims so far; it’ll just get lost in the rest.

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And some of them still don’t know them.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Nature doesn’t care. It’s got nothing but time.

Filling gaps is what it loves to do. I’ll bet the process is already begun.

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Note that there isn’t a Democrat in the group.

It’s unconscionable that they didn’t include Elvis.

Trump just does this because he enjoys the sound of Cloud People heads exploding.

Can’t say that I blame him. Wish I’d thought of it.

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Guess they took their shoes off this time.

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Now that’s comedy.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Tractor overturns are the leading cause of farm fatalities.

That never happens with oxen. Or mules. Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Note to self: Avoid New York.

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Warren shared the results of her DNA test with the Boston Globe which was conducted by a Stanford researcher. “The results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor,” the researcher said in a summary of Warren’s ancestry findings, adding that the ancestor was likely in her genealogy “in the range of 6-10 generations ago.”

Warren’s results show that she possibly ranges from 1/32nd Native American to 1/512th Native American.

So she’s as much Indian as Cory Booker and Jamala Harris are black. That’s certainly close enough for Democrat work.

 The results could temper attacks from President Donald Trump in the upcoming 2020 presidential elections, where Warren is seen as a likely candidate.

Oh, I wouldn’t count on it.

UPDATE: Boston Globe Correction Casts Doubt On Liz Warren’s Ancestry Claims

UPDATE: Elizabeth Warren Proudly Releases Test Results Proving She Has Less Indian DNA Than the Average Non-Indian White Person  Always knew she was a white supremacist.

UPDATE: Experts, Indigenous Americans, Dispute DNA Tests As Proof Of Native Ancestry

UPDATE: MSNBC’s Craig Melvin Mocks Liz Warren: ‘I Might Be Just As Native American As She Is’

UPDATE: Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test shows she isn’t Native American, makes her the butt of jokes once again

Perhaps I ought to name this post Today in Elizabeth Warren’s DNA Test.

Joel Kotkin chronicles the slide.

Feudalism was about the concentration of wealth and power in a relative handful of people. Historically, California created fortunes for a few, but remained a society with enormous opportunity for outsiders, whether from other states or countries. One of Pat Brown’s biographers, Ethan Rarick, described his leadership as having made the 20th century into “The California Century,” with our state providing “the template of American life.” There was an American Dream across the nation, he noted, but here we had the California Dream.

This proud legacy is threatened, as we point out in our study to be released Monday. Today California is creating a feudalized society characterized by the ultra-rich, a diminishing middle class and a large, rising segment of the population that is in or near poverty. Overall our state now suffers one of the highest GINI rates — the ratio between the wealthiest and the poorest — among the states, and the inequality is growing faster than in almost any state outside the Northeast, notes liberal economist James Galbraith. The state’s level of inequality now is higher than that of Mexico, and closer to that of Central American banana republics like Guatemala and Honduras than it is to developed states like Canada and Norway.

Proglodytes whine a lot about ‘income inequality’ but ignore the fact that the places with the greatest income inequality are all run by Democrats. California? New York? D.C.? Bluer than blue.

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How about those rich people, shirking their Fair Share again? The swine….

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

It’s coming. Feel the Bern….

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Cool.

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Looks as if Portland is the new Munich.

Revealed: Secret Service Foiled ISIS Assassination Attempt On President Trump

Sen. Bernie Sanders Calls Trump A ‘Pathological Liar’ After Being Asked If He Agrees With Calls For Incivility  That wasn’t the question, Bernie.

Trump Rips Media For ‘Distorting’ Comments On Robert E. Lee  You know, as they do.

Donald Trump suggests ‘Mad Dog’ James Mattis could soon leave post  No, he didn’t. They asked about Mattis and Trump was noncommittal. Fake news in action.

Trump hints defence secretary Jim Mattis could resign: ‘He’s sort of a Democrat’  They hope, they hope, they hope.

NBC Issues Correction Over Trump’s Robert E Lee Comments

Lileks.

It’s a cliché now: Thrill-kill millennials have ruined another beloved part of American culture. They’re relentless! They have no pity. You almost wish they would take requests.

“Hey, young tech-savvy cohort, could you do something about those salad bags that can’t be opened without tearing them across the middle, resulting in all the lettuce falling on the floor?”

“We’re on it, Pops.”

Two months later, there would be a headline: “Bagged salad sales fall as millennials decide to hand-shred their own arugula.” Wait, no, I didn’t want you to kill the bags, just make them easier to open.

“Sorry, Pops, you weren’t that specific. Besides, we don’t have time to go back and change things. We have to eliminate bank tellers by noon tomorrow.”

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Perhaps because ‘humanities’ are turning into ‘socialisties’ in most universities, and nobody is interested.

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The food industry is grappling with just how far to bend to consumer whims about chemicals—even when those whims seem clueless. And this is giving America’s food scientists indigestion.

“There’s a level of psychological stress,” says John Coupland, a former president of the Institute of Food Technologists, a professional association.

Food scientists refined the recipes for many common packaged foods over decades to reduce spoilage, contamination and costs. Now some of the same researchers say they are being told to get rid of ingredients just because consumers can’t pronounce them.

Bake your own bread and cook your own food and it’s not a problem.

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Police in the United States are being advised not to look at iPhone screens secured with Face ID, because doing so could disable facial authentication and leave investigators needing a potentially harder-to-obtain passcode to gain access.

I may have to get one of these. For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, the current state of the law is that passcodes are covered by the 4th Amendment while face-id and touch-id aren’t. Police can force you to touch or face a phone to unlock it, but to get your passcode they need a warrant.

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Insert favorite Belgian joke here.

Thank God it wasn’t a Pole or we’d never hear the end of it.

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The counter-invasion proceeds.

Apparently, all it takes to be ‘far-right’ these days is to object to your country being swamped by foreigners.

Can you really call it a ‘war’ when nobody is getting shot at?

Hyperbole appears to be official media policy in Britain.

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I wasn’t aware that Maine had anything that anybody else wanted. Maple syrup? Trees?

Two of Maine’s biggest industries,  lobster fishing and tourism, are facing a consumer boycott following Ms Collins’ key vote in the most hotly contested appointment to the Supreme Court since that of Clarence Thomas in 1991.

First World problems.

“Dear Susan Collins – I really struggled with this but my tourist $ just voted against ever visiting Maine while you remain in office,”  he tweeted.

If electing Collins will keep proglodytes out of Maine, I’ll send a contribution.

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I guess there aren’t any hipster hunters in France.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Note to self: Avoid kangaroos.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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Now, these are from CNN so you’ll want to see corroboration before you believe them.

I must say, this is looking good for Trump — there’s nobody in the top 5 that he couldn’t pound into the ground like a tent peg.

The Other McCain breaks it down.

It is not the case that America’s politics have become more divisive because the Republican Party has moved further right. Liberal pundits, commenting from within their ideological cocoons, habitually apply labels — “far right,” “extremist,” “white nationalist,” etc. — to depict the GOP as beholden to a dangerous fringe, but this is just paranoid propaganda. The typical Republican voter in 2018 is actually no more “extreme” than his father was in 1988. Nor is the policy agenda of the GOP now any more “far right” than it was in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The cause of the increased partisan divide is not that the Republicans have moved right, but that Democrats have moved left.

What happened, when did it happen and why did it happen?

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If this succeeds, the rest of the ‘national universities’ are going to be right in front of the crosshairs.

Unlike white people, Asians are not guilty about what they are — not being descended from slave-owners — and have the money behind them to pursue this.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

Minnesota, maybe.

Why would anyone want his state’s top law enforcement officer to be in favor of violent crime? One would think, no one could be that foolish. Yet in Minnesota, the Democratic Party has nominated Keith Ellison, who has repeatedly endorsed cop-killers, who regards Antifa as the legitimate voice of the Democratic Party, and who wants Minnesota to be a sanctuary for violent criminals, for Attorney General.

The AP Defends the Democrats’ Mobs

Biden says Trump is ‘trashing American values’ and undermining institutions to ‘amass power’  Uh, no, that was you and the Magic Negro.

Bill Maher: Political Correctness Is ‘Our Problem,’ Offers Astronaut Scott Kelly Apology On Churchill As Proof  Except that he’s as bad as any of them.

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A film star, the head of Interpol and one of China’s wealthiest investors have gone missing after apparently falling afoul of the Communist Party. The message to Chinese citizens is clear: No matter who you are, the party can get you.

Never forget that China is still a Communist dictatorship.

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A North Carolina high school principal was replaced after she asked a student to take off his Trump jersey at a patriotic-themed football game.

Cindy Gordon, the former principal at Harnett Central High School, asked Matthew Collins, 18, to remove the jersey because it was political, according to WRAL Friday. The front of the jersey read “USA” in red, white and blue and the back of the shirt had the word “Trump” with the number “45” written below.

When you push the envelope, sometimes the envelope pushes back.

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From what I can tell, the term “employee engagement” was popularized by Gallup over a decade ago. They define it as “those who are involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace.”

The last time I felt that way about a job was in the Navy fifty years ago, chiefly because we got to kill people and break things. Working in IT is fairly pallid by comparison, although much more remunerative.

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Not that bad. I do it all the time.

If someone becomes important to me, I’ll eventually learn the name. If not, why waste the storage?

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And did you know about it before this? I didn’t. Can’t say that I missed them, either.