Wired Science, once a mainstay of technical journalism, is become a wholly-owned Voice of the Crust. This is in line with a general Left-ward drift of tech companies and the reporters/pundits who write about them and their activities.

Anybody who actually pries into the ‘science’  behind the Climate Change Alarmist industry will soon recognize that it’s merely politics with a scientific paint job, like ‘Soviet science’.

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A Heritage Foundation podcast addressing the most important issue of our times.

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If you’re at all curious about the Twitter Twist-o-thon, this is a good summary.

‘Politics is a team sport. If you’re a Crimson Tide fan, you don’t cheer for Auburn, and if you’re a Republican, you don’t want Democrats to win.’ — The Other McCain

That really says everything that needs to be said.

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Scott Adams has been saying that for years.

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Like Uhlmann’s law of legislative analysis:

If an Act of Congress has a long title—lock up the children and run for cover.

Or Uhlmann’s Razor:

When stupidity seems a sufficient explanation, there is no need for recourse to any more elaborate analysis.

Uhlmann’s Razor also has a corollary known as Uhlmann’s First Law of Historical Causation:

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

And my personal favorite:

When evaluating the soundness of any moral proposition, law, rule, or regulation, however popular, to ascertain its true meaning, read it aloud slowly in a German accent.

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Scorecards! Getcher scorecards here! Ya can’t tell the victims without a scorecard!

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler suggested the Obama administration told the authors of the latest National Climate Assessment (NCA) to emphasize “worst-case” global warming predictions.

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The platform caused an uproar on November 25 when it permanently banned conservative pundit and former Marine Jesse Kelly without explanation. On November 27, the radio host’s account was conveniently restored to Twitter, again without explanation. The Federalist reported that the House Energy and Commerce Committee was looking into Twitter. Only after that story was reported did Twitter reinstate the account.

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My, what a surprise.

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And about time, too.

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Of course. She’s a black female Democrat. To the apparatchiks belong the spoils.

The Other McCaine is on the case.

No doubt he was just looking for a better life, free from the oppression at home.

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Lies don’t get much bigger than that.

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Andy Ngo refers to the cable series Portlandia in the conclusion of his chilling Spectator USA column “What’s the matter with Portland?” He writes: “The city has gained a comic reputation as a bastion of wokeness due to the comedy sketch show Portlandia. That’s way off the mark. Real life Portland is much, much worse, and it’s no joke.” His column is published at the Spectator USA together with the related video below (which is also posted here on his YouTube channel).

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In her Minneapolis Star Tribune op-ed on the FBI’s just released 2017 Hate Crimes Report, Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar presents herself as a sort of apostle of love. Omar decries the increase in reported hate crimes. However, she immediately attributes this increase to President Trump. As Omar puts it in her first paragraph: “The culture of intolerance spread by President Donald Trump has clearly emboldened racist individuals to acts of violence.” Something tells me that Omar’s message of love is a thinly disguised invitation to hate — to hate President Trump and his supporters, anyway

Democrats: Party of Fear, Party of Hate, Party of Death.

ZMan is pessimistic.

Georgia is one of the places to watch isf you want to get a partial glimpse into the future, as it is 61% white, but a growing portion of its white population is from outside the south. The Atlanta area has grown like a weed and much of the growth has come from attracting outsiders. A big chunk of those outsiders are Hispanics, so the state has a little bit of everything, as far as demographic challenges. As a result, it will be one of the first states to realize democracy cannot work in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.

I am not as pessimistic as ZMan, but it’s useful that we have Georgia as a test-bed to show us what can happen if the demographics go the way people are predicting.

This story from the past election is a good example of something that pale-folk will come to realize all over the country. That is, you can run out of places to hide. Georgia “solved” the problems of Atlanta by allowing the better parts to secede from the city proper, thus avoiding the challenges of being pale in a diverse city. This concept was applied to other areas that found themselves with a pale tax base, governed by a vibrant majority. Instead the residents fleeing the jurisdiction, the jurisdiction fled the people, so to speak.

A lot of places (New York, California) won’t allow that option.

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Apparently the First Female Senator From X is a good thing when she’s a Democrat, but a bad thing when she’s a Republican. And if the Democrat she beat is a black guy, well, Katy bar the door….

UPDATE: MSNBC Hosts Express Gratitude For Panel That Called Hyde-Smith ‘A Racist, A White Nationalist’

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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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You will notice that they do not try this in Texas.

The Other McCaine declines to get personal.

David French published a rather strange column at National Reviewentitled “The White-Supremacy Surge” that drags, among others, Milo Yiannopoulos, Allum Bokhari, Steve Bannon, Mytheos Holt, Corey Stewart and Rep. Steve King. Because I know David French and like him, despite his #NeverTrump politics, I don’t want to engage in ad hominem insults, as calling him a “cruise ship conservative” wouldn’t solve anything and would fail to accomplish my educational mission.

French cites an increase in “right-wing” racial violence as somehow linked to the sort of politics he despises, and doesn’t seem to have spent much time wondering about the connection between the two phenomena. Let us stipulate that the vast majority of racial violence, whatever its target or whoever its perpetrators, is committed by people who could justly be labeled losers or kooks. If racial violence usually reflects some combination of personal failure and mental illness, what does this tell us about the underlying causes of the “surge” French laments?

For those who don’t recognize the name, David French is a cuck who often writes for National Review and, not coincidentally, hates Trump and anybody on the Right who doesn’t kiss Crustian ass. (Stacy McCaine may be polite but I’m not.)

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Everyone in Sudan assumes that next year President (dictator) Omar al Bashir will run for a seventh term. However, the economic decline that began last in 2017 has accelerated. The escalating economic crisis could become a political crisis that topples even an entrenched dictator like Bashir who has been in power for three decades. Moreover 2019 looks rather dire. Inflation is increasing. Economic analysts think hyperinflation is a possibility. Bashir of course blames U.S. sanctions, but those are being relaxed. Bashir’s critics blame his regime’s mismanagement and corruption. Critics point to the 2017 North Islamic Bank embezzlement scandal as an example. At least $230 million was stolen. Sudan has also borrowed a lot of money. It currently owes somewhere between from $55 billion to $60 billion, roughly 120 percent of GDP. Sudan owes China at least $10 billion and is in no position to pay back the debt. The loss of oil income is certainly a major factor in Sudan’s economic decline. When South Sudan became independent, it got most of the oil fields (roughly 75 percent of Sudan’s oil production). However, Sudan still has the pipelines and major oil port (Port Sudan). The truth is, government mismanagement has contributed to the loss of oil and oil transport income. When oil prices were high Bashir’s regime didn’t spend the oil revenue on modernizing its industrial and agricultural sectors. It didn’t spend much on upgrading its oil service industry. Instead Sudan spent the petrodollars on war (Darfur, civil war with southern Sudan) and military-related projects. A lot of government contracts went to businesses owned by government officials. Just how much is murky. At the moment the UN and EU estimate Sudan has around two million internally displaced people (many in the Darfur region and 900,000 refugees. About six million people are on the edge of starvation. In 2019 Sudan is supposed to have a national election. It could have another rebellion

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The German government has apparently become disenchanted with the two million culture-enrichers it has welcomed into the country since 2015. Now it’s offering to pay them to leave — and support them for a year after they get back home.

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Rich people are waking up to the fact that, despite paying most of the taxes, they’re not getting their ‘fair share’ of government services. So for mail (UPS/Fedex), law enforcement (private security guards), and now fire-fighting, they’re going direct rather than depending on a government that can’t or won’t provide services.

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The coffee shop is quiet, probably as quiet as it can be while still being occupied. Even at its slowest and most hushed, the average background noise level hovered around 73 decibels (as measured with my calibrated meter).

That’s not dangerous—noise levels become harmful to human hearing above 85 decibels—but it is certainly not quiet. Other sounds that reach 70 decibels include freeway noise, an alarm clock, and a sewing machine. But it’s still quiet for a restaurant. Others I visited in Baltimore and New York City while researching this story were even louder: 80 decibels in a dimly lit wine bar at dinnertime; 86 decibels at a high-end food court during brunch; 90 decibels at a brewpub in a rehabbed fire station during Friday happy hour.

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‘Marshall Plan’ meaning ‘You gringos send us a lot of money’.  Good luck with that.

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‘In some buildings, there are more Black Lives Matter posters than there are actual black people.’

And there you have the Crust, naked and afraid.

Racist Don Lemon: Trump is waging a war on reality

The Young Turks Call John Kelly A ‘Coward’ Who Ushered In An Era Of ‘Fascism’ In America  They can’t call him Hitler because they’re saving that for Trump.

Tom Arnold’s Inflammatory Anti-Trump Tweets Prompt Visit By Secret Service

First They Came for Confederate Generals, Then for Black Conservatives

Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez: Economic Migrants Who Turned Down Offers of Asylum From Multiple Countries to Rush the US Border and Throw Rocks and Border Patrol Agents are Just Like the Jews Fleeing Nazi Germany

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A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Fish and Wildlife Service was wrong to designate a 1,500 acre tract of land in Louisiana as a “critical habitat” for the endangered dusky gopher frog, even though the species has not lived there for decades.

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Another #PsychicNewsNetwork ‘As an X I am automatically an expert on Y’ article from a Voice of the Crust.

Needless to say, the author’s knowledge of white Christian women and Trump supporters is of a comic-book level. But progs eat it up because of confirmation bias. And the author got paid — what’s not to like?

Like reading old articles in PRAVDA, it’s amusing.

The Guardian is the voice of the Left in Britain.

This isn’t a parody; they’re actually serious.

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According to data from DHS, there has been a 110 percent increase in male adults showing up at the border with children. Further, DHS separated 507 illegal immigrants between April 19 and September 30 because they fraudulently claimed they were part of a family unit.

170 family units were separated because DHS found no familial relation — 139 of the people in those fake families were children. Eighty-seven family units were separated because a person posing as a child turned out to be 18 years or older.

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Apparently Max Boot has tired of pretending to be conservative and is polishing his friendship with the mammon of iniquity.

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In the 1920s and 1930s, a banker named Pat Munroe in the small town of Quincy, Florida noticed that even during the depths of the Great Depression, otherwise impoverished people would spend their last nickel to buy a glass of Coca-Cola.  With good returns on capital, and a once-in-a-century valuation so low that the business was trading for less than the cash in the bank, “Mr. Pat”, as he was called, encouraged everyone he knew to buy an ownership stake in the firm.  He would even underwrite bank loans, backed by Coca-Cola stock, for his responsible depositors to encourage people to acquire equity.

John Hinderaker of Powerline answers in the affirmative.

For me, the Twitter turning point came when the company denied that it shadow-bans conservatives. It then explained what it does do, which corresponds precisely to the definition of shadow-banning. Like other Silicon Valley tech giants, Twitter is run by people who think it is their job to help left-wing Democrats win elections. There is no reason why conservatives should support Twitter.

Or anyone else, for that matter. Those of us who avoided Twitter ab initio are now entitled to blow a raspberry and say ‘Ha! Told you so!’, which I now do.

Kevin Williamson turns over a rock.

There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of modern progressivism: Progressives, especially Democratic candidates for office, claim to speak for the poor, the low-income, the marginalized, those born and raised without the benefits and (inevitable word) privilege of a Bush or a Romney or a McCain. But, at the same time, there is nothing they hate worse than somebody who comes from such a background entering public life: You’ll recall the sneering at Sarah Palin’s education — six years spread out over four colleges, none of them very good ones. There are many good criticisms to be made of Sarah Palin and the shtick into which she eventually sank, but she is a self-made woman who entered public service in one of the least glamorous and least lucrative ways, as mayor of a small city — as thankless a job as there is in elected office. She was ridiculed as a “snowbilly” and worse.

And this is especially true of those who move from Nowhereville to Noo Yawk precisely to leave that kind of background behind them, and then write articles about What’s Wrong With Kansas for the Times to let everyone know that they were never really from Flyover Country after all.

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Three young female Hoodlums of Color steal a car, eventually drive it into a pond, and drown as a result.

Naturally, the mothers sued the law enforcement authorities.

Yashica Clemmons, the mother of Dominique, could not be reached for comment after repeated attempts and a visit to her home, nor could a lawyer who represented her in the aftermath of the March 2016 crash. The lawyer, Aaron O’Neal, worked with Clemmons, who later adopted the name Kunde Mwamvita, through the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement. The community group rallied around the families after the crash and contend police killed the girls because they were black.

The three girls had seven arrests among them in the last year for Grand Theft Auto. Obviously raaaaaaacism.

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For example, any course with ‘Studies’ in the name.

‘We will crack down on courses that do not deliver value for students’

Oh, if only that were true….

Ace of Spades digs the dirt.

Simply Shocking!

Government must stop cheap post-Brexit food imports threatening UK farmers, MPs warn

Food bank use to soar to record levels over Christmas as UK families struggle to pay basic living costs, charity warns

And the government doesn’t even see the connection.

Unfortunately, our government has the same blind spot.

Ivanka Trump email investigation is ‘indication of perils ahead’ for Trump family, White House sources say  Yeah, just look what happened to Hillary. And Ivanka isn’t even Secretary of State.

The Outrage for Next Week: They’re Literally Gassing Children at the Border

Malice in Plunderland  Boudreaux is a libertarian, so he refuses to admit that Trump has a strategy and insists that Trump is either stupid or evil. This is why we try not to let professors run the government.

Jim Carrey burns ‘hate-mongers’ Donald Trump and Cindy Hyde-Smith with new painting  As if anyone outside of the Zoo really cared.

No, the Use of Tear Gas is Not a War Crime

Trump says he ‘doesn’t believe’ his own administration’s report on climate change  Except, of course, that it’s not ‘his administration’s report’, it’s a report from Deep State appratchik holdovers that have nothing to do with Trump or ‘his administration’.

Melania Trump unveiled the White House Christmas decorations – and they’re already being mocked

Hillary Clinton Calls for Europe to End Mass Immigration… To Stop Trump, of Course

Robert Mueller report ‘is going to be devastating to the president,’ Trump ally Alan Dershowitz warns  Devastating, perhaps, to a Normal Politician — but Trump is not that. So we’ll see.

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Boulder County growers, chefs and bakers are bringing back ancient wheat grains.

One of the biggest incongruities of the so-called ‘progressive’ movement is the number of areas in which they denounce actual progress and strive to turn back the clock, and the most obvious of these is with respect to food. We now have food crops that can beat most of the diseases and pests that have troubled farmers across the centuries, and we even have genetically-modified strains (like ‘golden rice’) that can compensate for food deficiencies in the diets of the poor — and yet ‘progressives’ want to go back to where we were a hundred years (or more) ago.

Perhaps be ought to be calling them ‘regressives’ instead.

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They’re right — it’s not ‘their America’, because their America sucks.

Example:

Scott Adams pointed out that CNN cropped this picture to show only the woman and children with a little smoke, suggesting that the border guards were just gassing women and children. As Scott pointed out, this is a Lie, and a very deliberate one.

UPDATE: Here’s the cropped photo:

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Except that the Jews didn’t form convoys, invade neighboring countries, and throw rocks at border guards.

And Honduras isn’t rounding the convoy people up and shipping them off to death camps.

Other than that, it’s exactly the same!

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1. It wildly exaggerates economic costs.

2. It assumes the most extreme (and least likely)climate scenario.

3. It cherry picks science on extreme weather and misrepresents timelines and causality.

4. Energy taxes are a costly non-solution.

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The fact that he’s black apparently doesn’t get him a pass.

Apparently scraelings are higher on the Victim Pokemon Points List than black people.

Good to know.

Jonah Goldberg never misses an opportunity to Punch Right.

One of these days I’ll read something by him criticizing the Left and I’ll probably die of shock.