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That thing is as big as one of the saltwater crocs for which Australia is famous.

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Poor Bernie. Too pale, too male, too stale.

Being socialist just isn’t enough any more.

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If you look through the slideshow, you’ll notice that only one of the 21 victims was ‘white’ (British of British descent).

You will also notice that nobody mentions this, or seems to think that it might be significant.

You will also notice that nobody has any idea what said ‘effective strategy’ might be, other than the broad hint by the police that they need to … hire more police.

‘Austerity’, for those who don’t follow the British news, is a code-word for ‘budget cuts because we can’t afford all of the spending that people want us to do’. Critics of ‘austerity’ usually fall back on the Occasional-Cortex meme of ‘just pay for it’.

Beer is vegan.

Just sayin’.

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Safest is never to set foot in them in the first place.

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I would never use AirBnB because I just don’t trust people I don’t know — sometimes I don’t even trust people I do know.

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And that’s a good thing — we don’t want these people reproducing.

Think of it as evolution in action.

Freeberg nails it yet again.

I have noticed fragile narratives start to crack and crumble when made to answer specific questions, and the specific question to ask here is: What exactly are the fringe-kooky right positions? Lower taxes, strong defense, sound immigration policy, law & order. I mean yeah, you can pretend these are “dog whistle” signals for intolerance and bigotry, but that’s not choosing a centrist in-between way forward, that’s uncritically accepting inflammatory leftist talking-points. It all comes down to, Trump doesn’t make a very good Hitler if he’s relocating the embassy to Jerusalem.

I’ve supported Taft ever since Eisenhower screwed him out of the nomination.

No, I won’t let it go.

ZMan turns over a rock.

That’s the truly bizarre thing about this time, relative to not so long ago. The man in 1985 worried about the IRS and maybe the FBI abusing their power. The only worry about corporations abusing their power was the environmental stuff or maybe screwing their employees in some way. Today, you have much more to fear from the banks and tech giants than the government. If the state becomes aware of you, so what? If Google suddenly takes an interest in you, it might be time to go into hiding.

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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.?

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Well, I guess that banning guns really worked, didn’t it?

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Don’t get excited — by ‘alien species’ they mean species from another area of the planet, not outer space.

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It is still early days. But it already seems likely that future historians will look upon the events of 2016 as marking the beginning of a new cycle in international history. The bad news for anguished liberals is that these cycles can last quite a long time — 30 years seems to be about average.

From the Financial Times, no friend of Trump.

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The TransNationalist ‘Invite the World’ program suffers a setback.

MSNBC’s Tur Whines: ‘Why Are Democrats So Hesitant to Start Impeachment Proceedings?’

CNN Analyst Compares Trump’s CPAC Speech To Hitler  That’s a no-brainer.

CNN Analyst Compared Trump To Hitler For Something Joe Biden Said First

ABC: To Impeach, Dems Face Trump’s ’90 Percent’ ‘Hard-Line’ Support

Judiciary Chair Says Trump Is Guilty Of Obstruction. And He’s Thinking About Impeachment  Oh, please do. That will guarantee his re-election.

Trump’s golf course tweet condemned by former ethics chief: ‘Shameless, corrupt and repugnant’  The tweet itself was, of course, perfectly innocuous. This is TDS straight up.

So Bitter! CNN Analyst Sam Vinograd Hears Echoes of Hitler, Putin in Trump CPAC Speech  Which tells you more about her than about Trump.

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Well, Bush was elected (or maybe I ought to phrase it as ‘AlGore was not elected’), so I guess they were right.

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Psychologists from the University of Central Lancashire, University of Gävle in Sweden and Lancaster University investigated the impact of background music on performance by presenting people with verbal insight problems that are believed to tap creativity.

They found that background music “significantly impaired” people’s ability to complete tasks testing verbal creativity – but there was no effect for background library noise.

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I wonder how they will react when those companies say, ‘Well, I guess we won’t provide services to France any more.’

A core principle of economics is that you always get less of the behavior you tax, just as you always get more of the behavior you subsidize.

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I guess they’re running out of English people to come to their services.

Wonder how the Iranians, most of whom are Muslims, like the idea of a woman priest. Most Iranian Christians are either Orthodox or Nestorian, and they wouldn’t attend an Anglican service anyway. I suspect that the number of Iranian Anglicans is pretty miniscule.

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And it was totally a mistake. The tune is musically too complex for a decent anthem. America the Beautiful would have been much the superior choice. Even God Bless America would have been better, although nowadays there would be a very vocal minority trying to change it.

ZMan lays it out.

The other day, someone asked me what makes for a good writer. We were discussing Jonah Goldberg’s new venture and I pointed out that the big challenge they will face is finding writers that are any good. It’s not so much that their opinions are banal and lacking in authenticity. It’s that the people writing for these sites are dull writers. The whole space is full of people, who should be writing technical manuals. Almost everyone with writing chops has been chased off by the loathsome carbuncles of Conservative Inc..

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The most common trait of bad writers, it seems, is they write about themselves. Unless you are an international man of mystery, you’re not that interesting. No one is. Bad writers, always seem to think they are the most interesting people they know. This is what made former President Obama such a boring speaker. No matter the subject, his speech was going to be a meditation on his thoughts and feelings about the subject. It became a game of sorts to count how many times he referenced himself in a speech.

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The coalition of the fringes is starting to show a few cracks.

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Tax refunds are up from where they were this time last year by 1.3 percent following the fourth week of the 2019 filing season, according to new Internal Revenue Service data.

To be more specific, the average tax refund has increased to $3,143 from $3,103 last February, according to cumulative statistics comparing the 2018 and 2019 filing seasons.

Oddly enough, certain newsrooms have responded to this development with total silence. I say “odd,” because it was just a few weeks ago that these same newsrooms rushed to report that tax refunds were smaller this year, suggesting either implicitly or explicitly that the decrease was tied to the Republican Party’s tax reform bill.

NewsBusters Time Machine: Blame Reagan for Rise of Trump?

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“I wanted clarity about laws and regulations. Most other companies that make prop money are actually producing illegal prop money, and that can get a show shut down and someone fined and jailed.”

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‘Emotional support pitbull’?

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The left achieved what it considers a major victory in New York when the minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour. In the aftermath of this victory, however, New York City has experienced its worst decline in restaurant employment since 9/11. So reports the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).

Proglodytes don’t want Underclass people working and independent — they want Underclass people dependent on government benefits, so that they will keep voting for the people who will keep the benefits coming, i.e. Democrats.

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If you enjoy contemplating the collapse of civilization, envy the the scholars at Cambridge University’s Center for the Study of Existential Risk, who ponder the civilizational End Times all day long and get paid a salary for it.

Kevin Williamson points out the good news.

There’s more to life than a good income — but it’s a lot easier to get the rest of that stuff right with a good income.

ABC Rips Trump for No Deal, Hypes NoKo ‘Taking on the President’

MSNBC Hits ‘Racially Retarded’ Meadows, Race-‘Obsessed’ Trump

Mob Taunts on MSNBC: Scarborough Twice Refers to Don Jr. as ‘Fredo’

Democrats Eye Another Line Of Attack As Reports Hit That Trump Gave Kushner A Security Clearance | The Daily Caller

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Clinton, Michelle Wolf Misunderstood, Trump Is ‘Fake President’

Trump allies worry federal investigations in New York could lead to president’s downfall  They can’t get anybody to believe that Trump is actually worried, so they target the soy-boys that surround him.

NY Times’s Davenport: On Climate Change, Trump Hunkered Against ‘Facts…Science’

An interactive map.

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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The company is planning dozens of locations in the largest cities in the U.S. The first store will open in Los Angeles potentially by the end of the year. The company is planning to open subsequent stores in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, sources familiar with the plans told WSJ.

When they get to Dallas, I’ll let you know. They’re going to have a hard time beating WalMart on price or Central Market on selection.

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Jeff Bezos open letter to NYC: Sorry, guys. You elected that crazy bitch to Congress. I wish you the joy of it.

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More than you ever wanted to know.

Or maybe not….

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Officials in the German town of Ahlen have seized a family’s pet pug and sold it on eBay, prompting a storm of criticism.

Edda the pug was taken from her owners after they allegedly failed to pay debts owed to the town, including a dog tax.

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You know, as you do.

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The proportion of foreign nationals attempting to cross the border illegally rather than reporting to legal ports of entry has risen in the past year, according to the data. Those crossing illegally made up 73 percent of all border crossings from October 2017 to January 2018 and then rose to 83 percent for the same period of time ending on Jan. 31, 2019, NBC News reported Friday.

Saudi sisters stuck in Hong Kong for five months after trying to seek asylum in Australia

Brother of Saudi women’s rights activist ‘being tortured in prison’ fears her treatment is getting worse

Jihadi Jack: Isis suspect says he wants to come home to UK but ‘no one cares’

Marine Le Pen on Muslim Jew-Hatred in France

Shamima Begum mothers’ day card sees illustrator banned

Péter Szijjártó: ISIS Terrorists Have Infiltrated the Flow of Migrants Into Southeastern Europe

Dad! Our School Has Joined the Ummah!

Isis slave escapes caliphate with five-year-old son after five failed attempts

Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo Says ISIS Bride ‘Not Coming Back’

MALI: Give Sharia A Chance

Hezbollah added to UK’s list of terrorist groups

Members of congress demand Apple take down Saudi Absher app

India-Pakistan crisis: Tensions rise after Indian fighter jets bomb militant training camp in Balakot

Pakistan Reportedly Shoots Down Indian Fighter Jets

Pakistan claims it shot down two Indian air force planes over Kashmir after incursion

Decathlon scraps plans for ‘running hijab’ in France after public backlash

Isis suspect linked to massacre of British tourists attacks judge with own gavel during trial

Dozens of children die fleeing Isis caliphate  Undoubtedly Trump’s fault.

Booby-trapped corpse kills 17 people in explosion at Mali funeral

Ginger Dutch Mujahid Killed in Syria

Female Isis members underestimated by security services because of jihadi bride stereotypes, UN warns

Bradford grooming gang jailed for total of 132 years for raping and abusing under-age girls in care  Such diversity!

Manny: The Case Against Hoda Muthana, the ISIS Bride Who Wants to Return to the US

Israel’s fingerprints are all over India’s escalating conflict with Pakistan

Israel security forces may be guilty of war crimes over killings of Palestinians in Gaza, UN says

Belgium to repatriate children of Isis, but leave mothers in Syria

Most Violent Crimes in Oslo Are Committed by Culture-Enrichers

Shamima Begum: Isis bride and baby son ‘move refugee camps after death threats’

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There’s nothing like living in a Communist dictatorship to bring home what living in a Communist dictatorship is like.

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Bad news for pigs wanting to sneak through an airport without being recognized.

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This points out a perennial source of friction regarding big ‘socially conscious’ activities. ‘Progressive’ state governments often mandate things that local inhabitants don’t want, so there is a constant fight between the two levels of government. Typically this is resolved by the upper level of government stepping on the lower level — state steps on city or county, federal steps on state — and that leads to a lot of spilled ink (or pixels) about ‘democracy’ and its discontents.