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The Atlantic knows what you want to read.

Sometimes, everything goes wrong. The river might be especially deep or strong at that point. The opposite bank could be slippery or steep. The herd might be too big. Aggressive tourists can push them to more dangerous crossing points. “If there’s anything that keeps them from getting out on the other side, they’ll start to pile up. And even as they’re drowning on one side of the river, there are still wildebeest following them in.”

The result is an annual mass drowning. “We’ve seen up to 300 carcasses wedged into the river bank in some places,” says Subalusky. “It’s quite a sensory experience. The smell is potent for a quarter mile, and lasts for weeks. There’s a ranger station nearby and they really hate it when the drownings happen.”

Start your day a little bit better.

I don’t suppose anybody ever thought of building a big fargin bridge there.

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What could possibly go wrong with the government seizing control of food production and distribution for the public good?

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“Menstrual equity” activists are calling on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to take action to ensure that K-12 school bathrooms are equipped with free menstrual hygiene products to combat what they call “period poverty.” They are expected to march Monday near the Education Department headquarters, and they took out a full-page ad directed at DeVos.

Nothing else will do but that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has to get involved with this, no doubt issuing regulations that will compel world+dog to give Free Stuff to this Fashionable Victim Group.

I am not making this up. I wish I were.

Bill Maher Compares Trump Voters to ‘Mrs. Goebbels in the Bunker’ Killing Her Children  They actually pay him for this stuff.

Daniel Radcliffe takes swipe at NFL star Tom Brady ahead of Super Bowl: ‘Take that MAGA hat out of your locker’

Asia Bibi’s Lawyer Returns To Pakistan For Her Blasphemy Trial

Much of Border Wall Fight About Trump Resistance, Not Border Security  If he wants it, he can’t have it. It’s just that simple.

NBC Touts ‘Blame’ for Trump in New Poll, Ignores Rise in Negatives for Pelosi

Half Of America Doesn’t Have Confidence Mueller’s Report Will Be Fair

Trump’s illegal immigration figures do not pass muster with experts  Indeed, Trump himself does not pass muster with experts.

Morning Joe Excited By Pelosi Continuing To Block SOTU, Trump Getting ‘Schooled’

Trump didn’t cave  I keep tellin’ ya….

PANIC: CBS Frets Over Independent Bid That Could Sink Dems, Reelect Trump

CNN’s Cupp: Trump Pandering to Ann Coulter’s ‘Wall Porn’ ‘Fetish’  Well, if he were, the government would still be shut down. So I guess he isn’t, and Cupp is full of it.

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We have the technology.

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We have the technology. (Automation is coming….)

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Pass the popcorn.

UPDATE: Here’s how the world picks sides in the Venezuela crisis

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Let’s compare another prominent case of alleged lying to Congress with Stone’s treatment.

On March 12, 2013, Gen. James R. Clapper, Jr., President Obama’s director of the Office Of National Intelligence, testified under oath before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Responding to a question from Oregon Sen. Ron Wyder on whether the U.S. government was collecting “any type of data at all” from American citizens, Clapper paused and said, “No, sir. … Not wittingly.”

Three months later, when Edward Snowden dumped millions of stolen government documents into the public domain, it became abundantly clear that Clapper lied. The U.S. government was, in fact, vacuuming up details about virtually every electronic communication by every American citizen. When asked directly about his answer to Wyden, Clapper said that his response was “the least untruthful” answer he could give.

Parse Clapper’s response. “Least untruthful” means not truthful. Not truthful means a lie.

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Foreign asylum seekers make up the vast majority of Portland, Maine’s population growth and occupy nearly all of the space in its shelters, pushing the city’s abilities to provide resources, according to reports.

Portland has seen a steady growth in population since 2010, according to the World Population Review. Much of that population growth, however, has resulted from foreign-born persons, most of African descent, traveling to the city to seek asylum, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Between 2011 and 2016, foreign-born persons accounted for over 75 percent of the city’s growth, according to a city report, WSJ reported.

Rule by Democrats can be expensive.

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The most entertaining aspect of this kind of political activity is that the burden falls on the fools who (a) vote for these clowns and (b) stick around to have their pockets picked to pay for it.

A self-correcting problem.

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They’ve effectively lived under socialism all their lives. Before college, they’re supported by their parents. In college, they’re provided with living space and food and health care, paid for by somebody else, and the work they’re expected to do has no direct relation to their living expenses.

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Of course. She’s running as the African candidate of the Identity Politics Party.

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Watching the nomad tribes marauding back and forth on twitter is certainly more entertaining than anything on Netflix right now.

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Eminem has successfully assimilated into the black underclass. Perhaps he could have race-reassignment surgery.

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Cue enviro-Nazi outrage and PETA hand-wringing.

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• Germany plans on closing all its coal-fired power plants over the next two decades to fight global warming.
• However, it’s doubtful Germany’s anti-coal effort will have any measurable impact on global warming.
• Germans already pay about three times more for electricity than Americans thanks to taxes and green subsidies.

But hey, when the head of government was born & bred under a Communist regime, such virtue-signaling that gives the non-political class an economic hit makes perfect sense.

Kevin Williamson gets it wrong.

The institution of U.S. poet laureate is one of the most American things there is.

Actually, it was copied from the British, who liking having such sinecures to pass out, and especially like having an Official Poet to write Official Poetry to glorify the nation and the regime. It is actually an entirely inappropriate thing for an American government to do, and took root only when the central government started feeling imperial.

Jonah Goldberg, National Review cuck, punches right yet again.

As Scott Adams has pointed out, the only resemblance between Trump and Occasional-Cortex is their persuasion game, which is a toolbox having no moral component. But Goldberg needs to draw some sort of ‘moral equivalence’ between the two, illustrating that he doesn’t understand either one, because that’s what he’s paid to do.

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As for Harris’s campaign strategy, if you’re a man in the Midwest, don’t hold your breath waiting for Kamala to come knocking at your door. Hunt said that Harris is basically writing off that demographic, in favor of appealing to the “coalition of the ascendant.” 

A Voice of the Crust praising a functionary of the Crust. Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Until recently, I have read arguments supporting this view of ‘elites vs everybody else’ with some skepticism, because I didn’t really understand what exactly that division was (I still don’t) and I didn’t consider being lectured to about global warming by a professor at the University of Nowhere as a phenomenon worth discussing. Who cares who those people are or what they think? But for some reason, Roger Stone’s recent arrest had a big impact on me. I think that was a significant event in our nation’s history. Either that or I’m just now catching on to what’s been happening for a long time.

I viewed his arrest as significant for a few reasons. Certainly not because Roger Stone is important (he’s not) and not because he is falsely accused (it appears that at least some of the charges against him have some merit.). He was released on bail a few hours later, so nothing interesting happened while he was in custody, either. This arrest wasn’t even a surprise for Mr. Stone. He had reportedly already agreed to come in to be booked, with his attorney present, whenever they called him. He knew what was coming, and had already agreed to cooperate.

What I found so significant (and terrifying) was that his arrest involved the cooperation and coordination of three very powerful forces: First, the FBI, who apparently made the decision to arrest Mr. Stone. Second, a SWAT team of some kind that made what should have been a routine arrest of a wealthy elderly man look like a military operation, including military uniforms and weapons. And then the third participant in this event is what I find most concerning: CNN. A military unit is told by our federal government to invade the home of an American citizen. CNN is offered a chance to participate. And they agree to participate in this coordinated attack? That borders on astonishing.

UPDATE: Were 29 Agents with Machine Guns in Body Armor Really Enough?

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Perhaps because socialism keeps rising from the dead.

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A Voice of the Crust prog-splains racism in a racist way. Think you know what ‘Asian’ looks like? Ha!

Jim Goad lays down a new standard.

The past few years have proven beyond a whisper of doubt to me that truth is not the mainstream media’s first priority—leftist ideology is. Therefore, every time they attempt to whip up hysterical hatred toward the nation’s founding stock, I believe the proper standard should be, “False until proven true.”

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Being governed by Democrats will do that for you.

DC Residents React To Trump Opening The Government

Washington Post Fashionista Rips the MAGA Hat as ‘Brimming with Grotesque Hubris’

Steve Martin parodies Trump ally Roger Stone on SNL: ‘Seven felonies, I can’t even count that high!’

CNN Brings On Sam Donaldson to Mock Trump, Conway as Spotlight-Loving ‘Narcissists’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Mueller investigation: Half of Americans doubt fairness of Trump probe, new poll shows  Gee, I wonder why.

The NeverTrumpers never learn

Rep. Jeffries Does Not Regret Calling Trump ‘The Grand Wizard’

Van Jones: John Lewis, Sheila Jackson Lee Opposed Criminal Justice Reform Because ‘They Just Didn’t Want Trump To Have A Victory’

All Female CNN Panel Defends, Praises AOC ‘The Ideal Anti-Trump’  She’s certainly the opposite of Trump in many ways.

Harry Potter Actor Advises Patriots’ Brady To Ditch His Make America Great Again Hat

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The author makes (at length) the strong point that there is no system of government that can be created that will absolutely ensure that it will work in the face of bad faith on the part of those acting within that system. The old Soviet Union Constitution was a marvel of democracy and human rights, and had no effect on the government because the men in government just ignored it, and the populace bore with it — until they didn’t, at which point it all came tumbling down. Thus it will be with our system. If people don’t push back at those who ignore the safeguards built into the system, then those safeguards might just as well not exist.

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I hope he goes for it.

The CEO in question makes much of the claim that Trump is ‘obviously’ unqualified to be President, without explaining what qualification that said CEO could claim that Trump could not also claim.

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Parents from Indiana to South Carolina who expect to have a voice in what their children are taught in public schools find that more difficult, state lawmakers and policy analysts say, because the federal government has overstepped constitutional boundaries and interjected itself in state and local affairs.

The problem with pushing for national uniformity in an area by regulating it at the federal level is that of ‘capture’ by the federal regulatory bureaucracy by a single point of view that may not accord with the point of view of the general citizenry. Of course, that’s the prime motivation by most special interest groups that push for federalization of a question. Prohibition is the classic poster child for this approach, both in how it can succeed without true public support and how it will inevitably fail, as all programs fail that the people themselves refuse to follow.

If a whole lot of people break a certain law, it’s a good sign that the law itself probably ought not to be a law. Unfortunately, the self-righteous are rarely persuaded by this empirical reasoning. It is enough for them to see a certain course of action as being detrimental to those who choose it to justify their substituting their ‘obviously superior’ choice, even by force, on the ‘obviously defective’ choices of their targets. This never works except superficially. As Scott Adams pointed out in a recent Periscope episode, there is no way to break an addict of his addiction if the addict in question prefers that addiction to clean life. It just can’t be done without close incarceration of the person in question, and it will work only so long as that incarceration is maintained.

If freedom means anything, it means the freedom to fail, the freedom to screw yourself up if that’s what you choose to do. That unpleasant truth is why socialism and other forms of totalitarianism are so popular.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Personally, I am of opinion that, if you don’t want your food to stick together, avoiding a food named after ‘paste’ would seem an obvious first step. But that’s me.

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And it couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

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Let that be a lessom tous all.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Put not your trust in strangers.

Well, at least you’d always have Paris….

Andrew Sullivan turns over a rock.

Hollering through a bullhorn at a group of Native Americans, the speaker boomed: “You ain’t no child of God. You are the Indian. You are a blue-eyed demon. That’s the last Mohican.” Then: “You’re still worshipping totem poles. You out of your mind! You have to repent. You worship the buffalo. You worship the eagle. You worship the phoenix. These are the idols you’ve been worshipping. A damn buffalo ain’t gonna save you. You worship the creations and not the creator … That’s why you’re drunkards in the casinos and the damn plantation.” Another: “Dumb-ass niggers. Bunch of demons. You’re a bunch of Uncle Tomahawks.” They snarled the word “savages” at Native Americans. The yelling was deafening, aggressive, vile, and threatening. But an inscrutable smile by a white teen was enough for some elite liberals to urge punching a schoolboy in the face.

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When Google Glass was launched in 2013, it was supposed to be the future: lightweight AR glasses that could take photographs and give directions from the bridge of your nose. As you know — now that we’re in the future — it didn’t quite pan out. But calling it a total flop would seem unfair, too, given that in 2019, six years after the first prototype first appeared, Google Glass fans still haunt the internet — particularly on Reddit, where r/googleglass continues to see updates years after its namesake’s heyday has passed. Yes, there are still “glassholes.” And honestly? They’re pretty nice.

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Heh.

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The raid on Stone’s home clearly made for great television, but the Stone indictment hardly makes for a great collusion case. Let’s be honest. After more than a year of investigation, Mueller nailed a gadfly on false statements, witness tampering and obstruction rather than illegal collusion with Russia.

All ‘process crimes’, nothing of substance, and nothing involving Trump.

Conservatives Are Not Thrilled With Trump For Caving On The Wall  Which he didn’t I wish people would play attention. It’s only for three weeks — THIS IS A PLOY, PEOPLE.Sheesh.

Backing down, Trump agrees to end shutdown without border wall money  It’s just a pause. Try to keep up.

Pelosi: ‘What Does Putin Have On The President, Politically, Personally Or Financially?’

Joyous MSNBC Declares ‘Ginormous Win’ for Pelosi, Trump’s ‘Formidable Foe’  They have 20 days left.

Doctor Strange Director: Trump Fans ‘Straight-Up Racist’

MSNBC’s Katy Tur Compares Trump to a Four-Year-Old  It’s all they’ve got.

NYT’s Katie Rogers: Trump ‘Team of Millionaires Haunted’ by ‘Ghost Of Marie Antoinette’  The rich fantasy life of the modern pseudo-journalist.

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An encouraging trend.

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Amazon’s purchase of the .book generic top-level domain has prompted speculation about how the e-tailer plans to use it. Amazon bought the TLD for a reported $10 million last week, allowing it to sell domain names with the .book suffix.

Amazon declined to comment on its plans for the TLD, but Raymond King, CEO of Top Level Design, owner of the generic TLD .ink, said he expects Amazon to offer .book domain names for sale to the public as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) intended, as well as using the TLD for its own business purposes. “Why would they close it off?” King asked, in response to speculation that Amazon might keep the domain name solely for its own use. “You don’t want to limit your TLD. Amazon is known for being a visionary company, and it’s in their interest to make .book available to all authors.”

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Peter Hasson at the Daily Caller reported the liberal “fact checking” website Snopes.com acted like it couldn’t find the facts on Native American activist Nathan Phillips lying about serving in Vietnam. Snopes phrased it this way on their home page: “Did Nathan Phillips Falsely Claim He Was a Vietnam Veteran? Nuances frequently get lost amidst social media uproar and hastily filed news reports.”

But it’s Snopes that can’t locate the evidence. They bizarrely rated it “Unproven” that Phillips lied about serving “in theater” in Vietnam.

Joel Kotkin gets a visit the ghost of Stalin.

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once labeled writers and other creative people “engineers of the soul.” In his passion to control what people saw and read, Stalin both coddled artists and enforced unanimity through the instruments of a police state. Today, fortunately, we don’t face such overt forms of cultural control, but the trends in American and to some extent European mass culture are beginning to look almost Stalinesque in their uniformity. This becomes painfully obvious during awards season, when the tastes and political exigencies of the entertainment industry frequently overpower any sense of popular preferences, or even artistic merit.

Our cultural climate has become depressingly monochromatic. Award ceremonies, once a largely nonpolitical experience, have become reflecting pools for preening progressive artistes. Those emceeing the awards must be as politically pure as possible—sorry, Kevin Hart—and those winning acclaim get the best press if, besides thanking their producers and agents, they take a shot at Donald Trump.

ZMan is delightfully dyspeptic today.

Elizabeth Warren is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, so she is out making the rounds, boasting of what she would do as president. She’s planning to run as the weepy champion of the middle-class, so you can expect her to say the “middle class is getting hammered” six million times over the next year. She can’t be a culture warrior, now that her fake Indian cover is blown, so she is going for the bourgeois populism that used to be a thing on the Left, before they discovered anti-whiteness.

Warren’s first salvo is a wealth tax, which will be some sort of levy on those with assets over $50 million. This will be in addition to the regular income tax and she says it will raise $2.75 trillion over 10 years. That’s like saying the plan will allow Big Foot to finally get the unicorn he always wanted. Politicians love making ten year projections, despite the fact no one believes them. It’s just a way for the actors our rich people hire to run for office, to sound like they are something other than actors. It’s part of the role.

NY Times Again Shrugs Off Trump’s Wall: ‘More Like a Headache’

NBC “News:” A MAGA Hat Is Literally Hitler

Rep Ilhan Omar Accuses Trump Of Waging ‘Coup’ Against Venezuela  No, if it were a coup we’d have won by now.

Now we know the secret of Kellyanne Conway’s success in the Trump White House  Chris Cilizza, who knows very little about either Trump or Conway, does his best mind-reading impression.  They actually pay him to do this.

CNN’s Rye: MAGA Hat ‘Just as Maddening and Frustrating and Triggering…as a KKK Hood’  Only for deranged people.

WashPost Mocked for Whining ‘Trump Internet Pounced’ on Media’s Covington Lies

Jamelle Bouie’s NYT debut: “Trump’s Wall of Shame”

MSNBC’s Tyler Dances on Stone’s Arrest: ‘Con Man Whose Shtick Caught Up with Him’

Trump Asks: Who Alerted CNN To Roger Stone Indictment?

CNN on Why They Have Video of Roger Stone’s Arrest: We Had a Hunch It’d Happen  Maybe a little birdie told them.

Can You Guess Which Government Projects Cost More Than Trump’s Proposed Wall?  Damned near all of them.

CNN’s Navarro Tells Fed Workers: Rack Up Bills at Trump Hotels, Refuse to Pay  Misprision of felony.

Now he has been arrested, how long will Roger Stone remain loyal to Donald Trump?  Who cares? Trump didn’t do anything. They keep forgetting that.

Democrats Hold Forum Bemoaning Trump’s Energy ‘Favoritism.’ Were Any Republicans There?

After Shutdown Deal, CNN Blasts ‘Shameful’ Trump, WH for Causing ‘Agony’ in America  There’s no pleasing some people.

Kentucky Bishop Excoriates Covington Kids For Wearing MAGA Hats

Short Togas and MAGA Hats: WashPost Goes Greek to Prove Covington Kids Were ‘Provoking’

Ann Coulter Goes Ballistic On Trump After Capitulation On Border Wall  Not really news.

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One of the most significant indicators that these are degenerate times is this pandering to children.

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It has always puzzled me why dresses don’t have pockets.

(And holsters! Yeah, that’s the ticket….)

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In my opinion, if it doesn’t have watchtowers and machine guns, it’s not really a wall.

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Almost four years after the nation’s first “food freedom” law was enacted, hundreds of new local businesses have sprouted across three states, and without a single outbreak of a foodborne illness. Completely exempt from any licensing, permitting, or inspection requirements, residents operating under their state’s food freedom act can create and sell almost any homemade dish imaginable, except those that contain meat.

Homemade food businesses are also free to sell at farmers’ markets, roadside stands, and from farms, ranches, and homes, so long as they sell their goods directly to an “informed end consumer,” i.e. someone who knows they’re buying something not regulated by the government. Selling food freedom products across state lines or through grocery stores, restaurants, or wholesalers does remain verboten.