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Markets work.

Ace of Spades points out that many can play that game.

Throwing milkshakes at CBS personnel, both when they’re doing live-shots and when they’re just walking down the street on their own private time.

The rules you make for me, you also make for yourself.

Ace of Spades is pretty cynical.

I imagine that he’s been reassured by certain factions that he will get corporate support if he runs for president, and that he’ll get corporate gigs after he loses. So I don’t think he really cares about elective politics anymore anyway.

The Ruling Class protects its pawns. (To some extent, at least.)

Don’t think of it as selling out; think of it as buying in.

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Last weekend a mob of illegal immigrants — who styled themselves the “Black Vests” — occupied the Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris and staged a rally against French migration policy. One of the migrants (speaking in Arabic, which was translated into French) said:

“France does not belong to the French! All Africa has a right to be here!”

If you think that the United States has an immigration problem, well, it could be a lot worse.

It will be interesting to see how long the French people (as opposed to the French government) are willing to put up with this.

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I want to see Clapper and Brennan in jail. Both have admitted to lying under oath to Congress.

Comey is unimportant at this point, although I will cheer anything bad that happens to him.

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They take out the THC so that it can’t be used to get high.

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Have you ever seen a picture of Cory Booker smiling? I haven’t.

I want him and Occasional-Cortex to have a ‘bug-eye’ contest.

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The Reformation centered around Luther’s message that truth is found in Scripture alone, or sola scriptura. It seems astonishing that such a message could change into more or less its exact opposite. The Reformation tried to put the West on the narrow road of the Bible. But the path had two side-alleys: The increased focus on the believer’s personal relationship with God, and the weakened bonds to the Catholic Church, could result in individuals taking control of religiosity and politicians taking control of the church, leaving both the church and the Bible on the sidelines.

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Well, if he didn’t inhabit a criminal subculture, maybe that wouldn’t be a problem.

I think this says more about ‘Ice-T’ than Amazon. Just sayin’.

ZMam has a bone to pick.

One of the irritating things about reading anything that strives to be academic is the thicket of citations throughout the text. It’s not just the end notes and footnotes, but the constant references to the work of others. Often, the text reads like a summary of the work in the field, rather than something original. Just as often, the text has the feel of a paper turned in by a teenager, trying to prove they did their homework. It is not just bad writing, it is a waste of time. It is disrespectful of the reader.

It’s not just a stylistic thing, but a reflection of something that has happened in the intellectual classes of American society. It used to be that an intellectual mastered a subject in order to build on it. The point of his labor was not to prove he had read everyone in the field. The point was to find the gaps in his field and use the source material as a foundation for filling some of those gaps. In other words, the academic added to his field, rather than maintained it like a curator of a museum.

Try an academic journal. They’re even worse.

Steve Sailer.

Jared Diamond, who became a famous public intellectual when his 1997 best-seller Guns, Germs, and Steel was widely proclaimed to have refuted The Bell Curve by arguing that the variation in achievement among races today is a cultural side effect of ancient differences in agricultural potential among the continents, is now under fire for himself being white.

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Baseball’s timeless appeal is predicated upon an equilibrium between pitching and hitting, and in the past, when that equilibrium has been thrown off, the game has always managed, either organically or through small tweaks, to return to an acceptable balance.

But there is growing evidence that essential equilibrium has been distorted by the increasing number of pitchers able to throw the ball harder and faster. Rising pitch velocity has altered the sport, many believe, and not necessarily in a good way.

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Integration used to be a major goal of the civil rights movement. But today, in many places, resegregation is the growing trend—particularly on college campuses. A new National Association of Scholars report finds that 7 out of 10 colleges surveyed are having separate graduations for those of certain racial or ethnic backgrounds. Dion Pierre of the National Association of Scholars joins us to discuss. Read the interview, posted below, or listen to the podcast.

We saw this coming during the 1970s — at college a lot of the black students would all sit together in the dining halls, and eventually some schools established black-only residence halls.

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The liberal media flocked to elevate the some 400-plus pro-abortion protests held Tuesday as they continued to rail against the wave of pro-life legislation designed to protect unborn life.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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The boy put his arm around Solomon’s shoulders and told him that, though he was a “real babo” — Kurdish slang for “boss” — they couldn’t be friends, because Jews and Muslims could not be friends. The classmate then rattled off a series of anti-Semitic comments, according to Solomon: that Jews were murderers, only interested in money.

Emails Show Deep State Conspiring Against Trump

Study Identifies Hundreds Of Coordinated ‘Anti-Trump’ Instagram Trolls

Report: Impeachment Democrat Says Trump Is ‘Raping The Country’  The country seems to be enjoying it.

Scarborough Begs Billionaire Tom Steyer: Get Bill Barr Disbarred!

Actress Julianna Margulies Turns To NYT, NPR To Protect Her From Trump Nightmares

Robert De Niro: Jailing Donald Trump Would ‘Make America Great Again’

The New York Times Substantially Rewrites ‘Scoop’ About Trump’s EPA. Doesn’t Issue A Correction

Ocasio-Cortez Pushes Impeachment, Again: ‘Failure To Impeach Now Is Neglect Of Due Process’  Still need a charge.

Joy Behar Demands Trump, GOP Be ‘Locked Up;’ Whoopi Worries Segregation on Table

Study Says Trump and GOP Tweets Cause Hate Crimes  And don’t get ’em started on Maxine Waters.

Joy Behar Says All Republicans In Office Need To Be Thrown In Jail — Backpedals Immediately  ‘Oh — did I say that out loud?’

PLITSAS: Democrats Are Blaming Trump For Iran’s Antagonism  Yup — Trump forced them to support terrorism.

Does the President Know or Understand His Administration’s Iran Strategy?  David French, National Review cuck, indulges in the sort of mind-reading for which Democrats are famous. (Ever notice how many ‘journalists’ start from the assumption that Trump Is Dumb and then construct a self-pleasing fantasy that turns out never to have touched reality at any point? The National Review people are very very good at this.)

Trump Defends Free Speech, Liberal Media Condemn Him

Make No Mistake, The Media’s Interest In Eddie Gallagher Is Not About Combat. It’s About Trump

‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up

Climate Alarmism – UP TO ELEVEN!!!

The Guardian: Only “Radical” Climate Action Will Save Us from a Bleak Future of Watching Game of Thrones Reruns

The Book That NOAA Should Have Published: Extremes and Averages in Contiguous U.S. Climate

Why don’t Republicans care about the environment?  An article based on a lie.

Global sea-level rise could be double our current predictions  Note: ‘could be’. It could be half as much, as well.

Activists hope that fake news about droughts will win

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[New York] City Department of Education brass are targeting a “white-supremacy culture” among school administrators — by disparaging ideas like “individualism,” “objectivity” and “worship of the written word,” The Post has learned.

A presentation slide obtained by The Post offers a bullet-point description of the systemic, supposedly pro-white favoritism that Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza claims must be eradicated from the DOE, and provides just one insight into his anti-bias training efforts.

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Of course she does.

Scott Adams touts Rachel Maddow as very intelligent. I don’t see it.

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Too bad her mother didn’t feel the same.

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

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And who deserves it more?

Time to move, guys.

Plenty of room in Texas … for the right people.

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The “Save Chick-fil-A” bill does not allow the government to take “any adverse action” against any contractor, individual or business because of their religious beliefs.

Explicitly aimed at the virtue-signaling Politically Correct blue pustules on the rosy red butt of Texas. San Antonio, say.

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I could see Elijah Cummings getting a milkshake.

It would have to be chocolate, of course.

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It has been about a week since the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (WGSPM) published a leaked internal document from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria last year. The document, whose authenticity the OPCW has confirmed, contends that the official story which was used to justify an air strike by the US, UK and France about poison gas being dropped on civilians from Syrian government helicopters is scientifically implausible, saying “In summary, observations at the scene of the two locations, together with subsequent analysis, suggest that there is a higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft.”

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term of office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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Sounds reasonable to me.

Now let’s see whether we can get them to refer to the Japanese Tenno by his reign-name rather than his given name.

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The problem with virtue-signaling is that it makes you an easy target.

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California rushes toward the cliff….

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Or you could become a serial killer. Guaranteed to make people look out for you.

And, once you’re caught, you’ll spend 20 years on Death Row interacting with very … interesting ,.. people.

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A shanty-town built by people with money, just not enough.

Apparently WalMart is very RV-friendly, but I don’t know whether a tony place like Mountain View would allow a WalMart in their neighborhood.

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Notice how AlGore is looking more and more like a Soviet apparatchik..

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The blade is about the size of a pocket knife.

I suspect the kids are better off with these snowflake-spawn somewhere else.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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I’ve said for some time that the decline, the decadence, of a civilization can be seen in the breakdown first of the monuments it makes, then the history it writes, and finally the stories it tells. This is why.

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Eventually the twisted arm will break. Will Iran see the light before then? Hard to say, since the people who are suffering under economic sanctions aren’t the ruling clique, but the poor beggars in the street. In the old days, the classic outcome was an uprising and ‘regime change’, but that’s less and less likely s the technological tools of the State grow more and more effective.

We shall see.

ZMan does a deep dive.

Privacy is something that has become a front burner topic for everyone, because every day we are treated to stories about how corporations are spying on us. They harvest information from our daily routines, put it into databases and then use it to push ads on us wherever we turn. They are now inserting surveillance devices in our homes to listen in on us as we go about our daily routines. Of course, no one knows how much is done with government blessing and cooperation, but we know it is there.

Of course, the fact that everyone is worried about this issue means the politicians never speak of it. The old Joe Sobran line was that America is a country where the political parties are significantly to the Left of their voters. Today, when Left and Right are meaningless artifacts from a bygone era, both parties simply make sure to never address the concerns of the people. While Democrats are analyzing spectral evidence for signs of Russian gremlins, the GOP is thanking you for not smoking.

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I’m sure there were folks who thought that about Plessy v. Ferguson, too. It was ‘the law of the land’ for 58 years, then was thrown out by a unanimous Supreme Court.

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I guess the Middle Agea aren’t ‘woke’ enough for them.

None of these people would last a day in any environment other than this one.

Steve Sailer.

If you are “passionate about social justice issues,” you may well be not quite smart enough to pass the bar exam and therefore wind up stuck with $200k in law school loans but no career.

Fortunately for the Law School Admission Council, luring marginal minds into going to law school is NOT a social justice issue.

One of the reasons our culture is self-destructing is … Social Justice Warriors who have gone to law school. Sure, they may not be able to pass the bar exam, but then they wind up on CNN or MSNBC, at the New York Times or Washington Post, or working for the Deep State — where they can do more damage than in a court room.

Mann and Lewandowsky’s Climate Lament: “We Have Lost Australia For Now”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #360

EPA Could Make Thousands of Pollution Deaths Vanish by Changing Its Math

Ending Obama EPA climate deception

Climate change could bring bubonic plague back to Los Angeles  And who deserves it more?

Warming Temperature Measurements Polluted by Bad Data, Research Confirms

2020 Democrat Ups the Ante, Unveils An $10 Trillion Climate Change Agenda  Which they can do, because they won’t have to pay for it.

Britain’s forests of the future will be filled with foreign species in attempt to address climate change, head of Forestry Commission reveals 

Aussie Election Blamestorm Continues: “Voters feared climate policy more than climate change”

Stephen Colbert’s Showtime Cartoon Shows Reagan in Hell, Adelson as Jabba the Hut

Sunday Sadness: WashPost Empathizes with Leftists Who Made Mueller Prayer Candles

Schiff: Impeachment A ‘Tool’ To Expose Trump’s ‘Illegal Acts’

Women’s March Demands Twitter Suspend Trump for ‘Hate’

‘Certified Rotten’: Kathy Griffin’s Trump-Bashing Film Gets Theatrical Release

Amash Defends Trump Impeachment Claims Amid GOP Backlash

Unhinged Deutsch: Trump Is a ‘Sociopath’ Who Won’t Leave Office If He Loses

Jeff Daniels Claims That Trump’s Re-election Would End Democracy  No, I have no idea who Jeff Daniels is.

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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.?

We could call it, oh, I don’t know, maybe — Medicare For All?

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My, what a suirprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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The Narrative is one thing, but money is money.

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More embarrassing than Chelsea Clinton?

More embarrassing than Hunter Biden?

More embarrassing than Jesse Jackson Jr.?