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As if brick and mortar retail didn’t have enough problems to deal with being methodically decimated by the ever growing behemoth that is Amazon, store owners are now facing rent that is simply so high that it makes it prohibitive for them to open retail shops and do business in once prominent areas of downtown Manhattan.

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Every day, companies around the world execute a low-risk, high-return arbitrage: they buy the time and attention of some of the most highly-compensated professionals in the world?—?programmers, product managers, data scientists, quants, investment bankers, and lawyers?—?for the cost of a plate of pad thai. Given how much wealth is generated by companies that comp or subsidize employees’ food, and given that for each of those companies, getting smart people to work a little longer is a core competency, free food arguably belongs on the list of important technologies that have a visible impact on GDP growth.

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We had to get the smell of Obama out of the room.

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That would be too much like work. Determining skills is a difficult and intellectually challenging process; checking for a degree just requires a stamp.

IT does that more than most fields — if you can’t pass the technical interview, it doesn’t matter what degrees you have.

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After 201 years, German firm, Koenig & Bauer AG – the market leader for machines that print the world’s banknotes – is pushing into printing on Coke cans and beverage cartons.

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Government-provided health care. Be very afraid.

Climate Worrier: Giving Up Flying is Too Much of a Sacrifice

Big Oil goes Big Green

Ilhan Omar Lashes Out At Pence And Pompeo, Calls Trump ‘Embarrassing’

‘Bring Him In:’ Steve Cohen Calls For Sergeant at Arms To Force Barr To Testify

Driven Mad By Trump: Celebrities Express Anger and Depression Over President  Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

Johnstone: Blithering Idiots Express Fear That Putin Will Rig 2020 Election For Trump

Hyperbolic Malcolm Nance Warns Joy Reid: Nation Could End if Trump Re-Elected!

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There are a number of these services out there, some free, some not.

Despite their differences, they have the same goal: use daily exercises on your phone to teach you an entire language. It’s an enticing promise, especially if you’re not already immersed in a culture or education system that will give you the exposure you need to pick up a second language. The question is, are they effective?

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For those who haven’t been paying attention, the issue is the legal status of phone information. Typically phone information is considered to fall under the ‘papers and effects’ of the Fourth Amendment, requiring a search warrant; but some courts have ruled that the passcode, being information in the brain, come under the ‘self-incrimination’ shield of the Fifth Amendment. So, faced with a locked phone, LEOs can get information out of the phone if they have a warrant and if they figure out a way to do so, but what they can’t do is force the owner to cough up the passcode. Needless today, LEOs are whining about this a lot (as they do).

ZMan pulls back the curtain.

If you think about it, anyone wanting to hold political office should be disqualified on that basis alone, as no normal decent person should want to hold political office in a democracy. Therefore, the first job of the politician is to convince you he is not morally unfit. To do that he tells you the thing you most want to hear about politics. You are right and your opponents are morally wrong.

This feature of democracy is why such systems are quickly overwhelmed by sociopaths and dangerously unbalanced lunatics. Nature is pretty clear on this. You get more of what you select for and less of what you select against. Any system that benefits the pathological liar over the honest will inevitably be dominated by the former at the expense of the latter. Strangely, this is why the Right in America is so easily fooled into supporting that which is against their interests. They are the honest in a game of liars.

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Some people have entirely too much time on their hands.

Alabama Rep. Doubles Down, Uses Trump Jr. To Justify Abortion: ‘Evidently Retarded’

Israeli Veteran Shreds Media Narrative That Trump Is Anti-Semitic

Brian Williams Straight-Up Lies — Again — Claiming That the Mueller Report Did Not Exonerate Trump on Collusion

CNN Legal Analyst Claims Network Left Out Context In Barr Video

ABC, CBS Excited By Speaker Pelosi Calling AG Barr a Liar and a Criminal

‘Big Bang Theory’ Creator Repeats Outlandish Claim Trump Has ‘Untreated Syphilis’

Barr addressed Mueller’s concerns, but the media won’t report it

MSNBC Host Openly Strategizes with Liberal Democrat: How Do ‘We’ Go After Bill Barr?

Blaming Trump for a Terror Attack and Paving the Way for Pete and Joe

‘They’ve Broken My Spirit’: CNN’s Camerota Bummed By Lack of Action Against Trump

SICK: Rapper Calls on God to Take Trump’s Life  Actually, since more rappers have been shot than Trumps, he ought to be more worried about himself.

‘Close to a Constitutional Crisis’; Matthews Bashes ‘Paper Tiger’ Dems for Not Impeaching

Max Ledoux: NYT Confirms: Obama Spied on Trump

NY Times Food Section Lays Out Bitter Green Harvest of Climate Guilt

NBC Comedy Preaches Climate Change, Slams Religious Displays

UK Climate Emergency: “the climate denial movement has run its course”

BIG NEWS – Verified by NOAA – poor weather station siting leads to artificial long term warming

Permafrost is thawing in the Arctic so fast scientists lost their equipment

Jay Inslee Unveils His Climate Change Agenda — He ‘Embraced The Goals Of The Green New Deal’  No, I have no idea who Jay Inslee is.

The ‘woke’ wedding wish list: why modern couples are choosing the eco-conscious option

MSNBC Celebrates Kids Skipping School For The Climate

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The beauty of establishing three million plus politically correct rules to defend your weird fringe diversity interests is that you’ll never have a shortage of things to be angry about.

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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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The Obama administration issued a regulation that protected a state practice that had, by that time, been practiced for decades. Since the 1990s, states have accepted Medicaid money from the federal government meant for home health service providers, often the family or friends of the Medicaid-assistance recipient, according to the conservative think tank Freedom Foundation.

In distributing checks to the health providers, some states had begun skimming money and diverting it to unions and other interest groups in the form of dues, even though home health providers may not be members. The Center for Medicaid Services will begin cracking down on the process in July.

Democrats and union fat-cats hardest hit.

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People of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?

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They live on their own planet.

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Yet another pretend-Republican on the DemLegHump Media.

“I disagree certainly with all those … but it makes me uncomfortable that you have this private organization being able to take away the speech of private individuals,” Hostin explained. “There’s something about it that makes me — makes the lawyer in me — uncomfortable.”

“I have no issue with it at all,” Navarro jumped in. “I want them shut down, silenced, I think they’re horrible for our society. The First Amendment argument is very powerful, it’s something so unique to America. But it’s not unlimited. It’s not unrestricted. In law school you all learn about the ‘screaming fire in a crowded theater,’ if it’s something that endangers people, if it’s something that will end up hurting people, there are restrictions.”

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Anyone who owns or drives a Tesla is a moron.

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As usual, what’s good for America is bad for Democrats.

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I guess ‘far-right’ just means ‘not nice’ these days.

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That will preserve us from a lot of whining.

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Few places on earth are better suited for middle-class prosperity than Australia. From early in its history, when it was a refuge for British convicts, the vast, resource-rich country has provided an ideal environment for upward mobility, from the pioneering ranches of the nineteenth century to the middle-class suburbs of the late twentieth. Journalist Donald Horne described Australia in 1964 as “a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.”

Over the last decade, though, Australia’s luck has changed, as the country develops many of the pathologies of crowded, socially divided societies like the United Kingdom or the United States. Despite being highly dependent on resource sales to China—largely coal, gas, oil, and iron ore—Australia has embraced green domestic politics more associated with Manhattan liberals or Silicon Valley oligarchs than the prototypical unpretentious Aussie, often someone dependent on resource-based industries. The result: a dramatic reversal of the middle-class uplift that so long defined Australian society.

Islam Can’t Change and Won’t Change

Archbishop appeals for urgent help to prevent Christian genocide in northwest Nigeria

From Philasteen to Philadelphia: Muslim Youth Indoctrination on Full-Display in America

Polio vaccine worker shot dead is third killed in Pakistan this week

Islamic Terrorism Remains the World’s Greatest Threat to Peace

Advice for the Well-Accessorized Stabbing Victim

Sri Lanka Bombings: A Story of ISIS and Wealthy Terrorists

15 Killed During Shootout At Terrorist Hideout As Sri Lankan Police Round Up Jihadis

Extremists In Sri Lanka Add 15 More To Country’s Death Toll

Crime and Punishment in Modern Multicultural Germany

Sri Lanka extremists warned more attacks would follow in video 

French Imam: Muslims Must Not Donate Money for Rebuilding Notre Dame

Ilhan Omar Retweet: “Don’t they (Christians) know that Jesus was a Palestinian?”

Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seen for first time in five years in new video

Sri Lankan Suicide Bomber Trained With ISIS In Syria, Investigators Say

Jordanian National Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Smuggle Yemenis Through Mexico Border

And now. . . The Burkini!

Swedish Anti-Extremism Tsar Allows Returning ISIS Fighters Re-Entry As “Caring Citizens”

Not chatting with your neighbours? Rights group discovers harmless activities that are enough to imprison Uighur Muslims  Highly suspicious.

Strangers on a Bus

Sudan protesters on ‘million person’ march in Khartoum to demand civilian power transition

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These are pretty lame. Anybody with even cursory exposure to the language — or with a college-level English vocabulary — won’t find it much of a challenge.

Tamen, it was kinda fun.

The AntiPlanner gives us some history.

Most of my work consisted of reviewing computer models, the data that went into those models, and the results that came out of those models. For most people, these models were “black boxes” that mysteriously turned raw data into a plan. But because I could get inside the models, I could see what the Forest Service was doing, where it was lying to the model, where it was lying to the public, and where it was lying to itself.

This experience made me an antiplanner, a skeptic of all long-range or comprehensive government planning. Whether planning a forest, a city, a regional transportation network, or world climate, all planning is based on models, which are simplifications of reality. Not all models are in computers, but the computerization of modeling forced government agencies to publicly reveal their biases. It became clear to me that the main winners in government planning were the planning agencies themselves, which gained power, budgetary authority, and prestige from taking control of public and private resources.

Steve Sailer tests the waters.

A third factor might be tied in to all the Becky Bashing, the War on Becky with the Good Hair. Black women increasingly hold the whip hand in the media. They usually seem to have the most Intersectional PoCemon Points. A very high priority for black women is intrasexual competition from women from races with longer hair. So why not make it fashionable to cover your hair, leveling the playing field?

It’s surprising the number of black women who do their best to have non-Negro hair, from straightening it like Michelle Obama to cutting it super-sort like the fat ugly women on TV to dying it a strange color as many activists do.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? i’m sure surprised.

They LOVE It: CNN Report Repeatedly Calls President Trump a ‘F***ing Idiot’

Hillary Claims She Is Living In Trump’s Brain ‘Rent-Free’  More accurately, the other way around.

Trump’s Stonewall Is Beginning to Crack  David Frum is a pretend-conservative who gets paid to punch right.

TIME Attacks President Trump for Abortion Comments, Misleads on Infanticide  Does anybody still read TIME?

‘View’ Hosts Have Nervous Breakdown: Hopefully Barr Does Jail-Time for ‘Coup!’

Hillary Clinton Asks China To Steal Trump’s Tax Returns  I imagine she thinks thats funny.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: Impeach ‘Lackey, Stooge’ Barr  Joe gets more unhinged every day.

‘View’ Panel ‘Adores’ Buttigieg as ‘Antithesis’ of President Trump  I have to agree.

Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao Says Trump Reddit Shouldn’t Exist  Ellen is a famous tech sector SJW.

CBS Cheers Badgering of Barr: ‘Amy Klobuchar Gets an A-Plus!’

Lindsey Graham Says Democrats Are Out To Destroy Trump And His Family  Well, yeah.

Barr prompts a new low in MSNBC media madness

MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt Asks Pelosi if Barr Should ‘Go to Jail’  Only to visit Hillary.

MSNBC’s Heilemann Slams ‘Trump-ified Zombie’ William Barr

Why Clinton Might be Fixated on Maintaining Collusion Falsehood  Saves her from realizing that she was a crappy candidate.

Skeptical scientist hijacks AOC Congressional climate hearing

Polar Bears: Which Narrative to Believe?

NY Times Reporter Goes Greenpeace on GOP: ‘Climate Denial…Alive and Well’

Drought hits Panama Canal shipping, highlights climate change fears

Less Food, Higher Bills, Colder Houses, Less Travel: UK Government’s Prescription for Climate Action

A Skeptical Reply to Dr. Steven Novella’s “Skeptic vs. Denier”

Victor Davis Hanson.

Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller’s massive report. She concluded of the report’s assorted testimonies and inside White House gossip concerning President Trump’s words and actions that “any other person engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted.”

Psychologists might call her claims “projection.” That is the well-known psychological malady of attributing bad behavior to others as a means of exonerating one’s own similar, if not often even worse, sins.

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And another corrupt black Democrat gets caught.

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I suppose one of these days they’ll tag Lenin and Stalin as ‘Far Right’.

UPDATE: WaPo, Atlantic Rush To Change Stories After Labeling Louis Farrakhan ‘Far Right’ In Facebook Ban Story

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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 nothibng.

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Democrat family values.

If ‘families’ get a break under the immigration laws, guess what? You get more ‘families’.

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Hey, at least he’s consistent. That beats Biden.

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I’ve always had my doubts about shrimp.

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Today is International Workers’ Day, a holiday with socialist origins. Its name hearkens back to a time when the political Left was ostensibly devoted to the cause of human welfare. These days, however, some on the far Left care less about the wellbeing of people than they do about making sure that people are never born at all. How did these radicals come to support a massive reduction in human population, if not humanity’s demise? Whether it’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioning the morality of childbearing, a birth-strike movement that encourages people to forego parenthood despite the “grief that [they say they] feel as a result,” or political commentator Bill Maher blithely claiming, “I can’t think of a better gift to our planet than pumping out fewer humans to destroy it,” a misanthropic philosophy known as “anti-natalism” is going increasingly mainstream.

Many on the left, especially soi-disant environmentalists, act as if the existence of humans is some sort of affliction, this makes perfect sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, of course, it’s a self-correcting problem.

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In 2015, Jenny Odell started an organization she called The Bureau of Suspended Objects. Odell was then an artist-in-residence at a waste operating station in San Francisco. As the sole employee of her bureau, she photographed things that had been thrown out and learned about their histories. (A bird-watcher, Odell is friendly with a pair of crows that sit outside her apartment window; given her talent for scavenging, you wonder whether they’ve shared tips.)

Ponder the notion of an ‘artist-in-residence at a waste operating station’.

Truly, San Francisco exists on a different planet.

House Democrats consider fines to counter White House resistance to oversight

Matthews, Guests Go BALLISTIC Over Barr’s ‘Skullduggery’ Having ‘Lied’ About Mueller

CNN Suggests WashPost Story Spells Doom for Barr, Ignores Mueller Contradiction

Dems And Liberal Media Seemingly Ignore Crucial Detail In Mueller’s Letter To Barr

Democrats Scramble To Manufacture A Scandal, Fail Miserably

Morning Joe Mocks Trump: ‘Hey Donald!…You Could Tweet Nudes, We’re Not Looking’  Except they know he wouldn’t.

John Brennan: Rosenstein Suffering From ‘Sickness’ From ‘Trumpian Vortex’  I look forward to Brennan going to jail.

Joy Behar Says ‘Provocative’ Trump Is ‘The Culprit’ Behind Synagogue Shooting‘

Adam Schiff, Who Pushed False Collusion Narrative For 2 Years, Calls On Barr To Resign

Mika Brzezinski Questions Bill Barr’s Mental Health  Now they’re being silly,

NYT Editorial Blames Trump For Paper’s Decision To Publish Anti-Semitic Cartoon

Wolf Blitzer Practically Begs Democrat to Call Barr a Liar, Find a Way to Force AG Out

MELTDOWN: CNN Slams ‘Deceptive and Deceitful,’ ‘Weak’ Barr, GOP being ‘From Mars’

Judge Says Democrats Can Proceed With A Novel Emoluments Lawsuit Against Trump

Barr Unloads On Blumenthal: ‘We Have To Stop Using The Criminal Justice Process As A Political Weapon’

Lindsey Graham Slaps Down Mazie Hirono After She Accuses Barr Of Lying To Congress

MSNBC Slimes: Barr Is a Scary ‘Radical’ Who Is Like a Cheating Boyfriend

Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib Attend Anti-Trump Rally: ‘This Is Not Going To Be The Country Of White People’  Racism straight up.

Analysis: Democrats’ Dubious Barr Derangement is an Emotional Stand-in For Impeachment

Comey: Barr And Rosenstein Lack ‘Inner Strength’ To Resist Trump

Alec Baldwin: Still Horrified Trump ‘Fooled All These Flyover Americans’ in 2016

Lyin’ Brian Is Obsessed With the Way Kamala Harris ‘Drew Blood’ from Barr

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Recycled materials are only valuable if they’re pure—a collection of a single type of metal or plastic that can serve as a feedstock for manufacturing or other industrial processes. The economics of recycling would actually be spectacular if you could get people to separate out a dozen individual classes of recyclables and then deliver them to a recycling center.

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The Ponzi scheme is bottoming out.

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ThoughtCrime? Down the Memory Hole with you!