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The White House has announced a new system that gives Americans the power to call out foul play by tech companies.

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Outline no longer works for some sites, like the New York Times and the  Wall Stdreet Journal.

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

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Meet George Jetson….

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I think so.

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Usually a Voice of the Crust like The Guardian go all hair-on-fire about things like this. I’m curious as to why they didn’t do that here.

Fish Ear Stones: The Latest Climate Change Proxy

WINNING: Even Millennials Don’t Care President Trump is a Climate Skeptic

The More the Green Crusade Changes, the More It Remains the Same

Internet Science Made Stupid: “Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico ‘Supervolcano’ About To Erupt”

Scientists build first global map of ‘wood wide web’ to highlight impact climate change will have on trees

Chuck Todd Flummoxed By Lack of ‘Strategery’ from Dem Probes of Trump  Do tell.

The Washington Post Wants Team Trump Removed and Jailed

Environmentalists Target Oregon Ranchers Pardoned By Trump With Lawsuit

Years and Years’s nuclear ending: what would really happen if Trump started a war?

Toobin Rants About AG Looking Into Mueller Probe: ‘Chilling’ ‘Completely Unnecessary’ Harassment!  They can dish it out, but they can’t take it.

FACT CHECK: Meme Falsely Claims Remarks By Melania Trump Mirrored Those Of Adolf Hitler’s Wife

Joe diGenova: Obama KNEW about CIA Chief John Brennan’s Illicit Anti-Trump Targeting Scheme! – YouTube

Bill DeBlasio: Say, I Know What’s Responsible for the Recent Surge in Hate Crimes Against Jews Perpetrated by Blacks a– Trump and “White Supremacy”

White House Invites Americans To Share Stories Of Being Banned On Social Media With Trump

‘Is This the Gulf of Tonkin?’ MSNBC Fears Trump Could go to War with Iran

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Translation: They’re going to impose censorship wherever they can, which will quickly become politically motivated.

When you realize that ‘tech giants’ means ‘social justice warriors with lots of money and power’, it all becomes clearer.

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“We all speed, yet months and months usually pass between us seeing a crash,” lieutenant Megge tells us when we call to discuss speed limits. “That tells me that most of us are adequate, safe, reasonable drivers. Speeding and traffic safety have a small correlation.”

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As most honest drivers would probably concede, this means that if the speed limit on a highway decreases from 65 mph to 55 mph, most drivers will not drive 10 mph slower. But for the majority of drivers, the opposite is also true. If a survey team increases the speed limit by 10 mph, the speed of traffic will not shoot up 10 mph. It will stay around the same. Years of observing traffic has shown engineers that as long as a cop car is not in sight, most people simply drive at whatever speed they like.

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The multidrug “herding” technique, which forces cancer DNA to adapt to one treatment by developing weaknesses against others, could become an “effective cure”, ICR scientists said.

Ace of Spades is not pleased.

He’s now voting down conservative judges because they made disparaging comments about Obama.

Looks like the ghost of John McCain is still with us.

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To study screams is to probe the fuzzy boundary that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. It is a way to explore our prelinguistic past. Although we are fully symbolic creatures today, on occasion a trace of our primal selves bubbles to the surface in the form of a scream. Understanding its characteristics could improve the treatment of nonverbal patients, help fight crime, or simply make movies more frightening. But first scientists need to explain what makes a scream, a scream.

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Women and minorities hardest hit, of course.

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Something rather remarkable just happened in Idaho. The state legislature opted to—in essence—repeal the entire state regulatory code. The cause may have been dysfunction across legislative chambers, but the result is serendipitous. A new governor is presented with an unprecedented opportunity to repeal an outdated and burdensome regulatory code and replace it with a more streamlined and sensible set of rules. Other states should be paying close attention.

The situation came about due to the somewhat unconventional nature of Idaho’s regulatory process. Each year, the state’s entire existing body of regulations expires unless reauthorized for an additional year by the legislature. In most years, reauthorization happens smoothly, but not this year.

Instead, the legislature wrapped up an acrimonious session in April without passing a rule-reauthorization bill. As a result, come July 1, some 8,200 pages of regulations containing 736 chapters of state rules will expire. Any rules the governor opts to keep will have to be implemented as emergency regulations, and the legislature will consider them anew when it returns next January.

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Well, let’s see if these claims stand the test of peer-review.

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Most Hollywood liberals not only don’t live in Alabama, they don’t visit the state either. But that hadn’t stopped their fury over the state’s attempt to limit the availability of abortion.

The functional definition of an authoritarian is that, not only do they want to be able to do things their way, they want to force you to do things their way, too.

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Democrats want to return to the golden days of YesterYear, when all you had was trains, horses, and bicycles.

These are the ‘progressives’. Just ask them.

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God forbid that the police should use technology to help catch criminals.

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How is this ‘news’?  Is there anybody who thinks that a retired basketball player is the go-to guy for political advice?

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Senator Umbrage is on the war-path (so to speak).

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And who could blame them?

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Gloom! Doom! Gloom! Doom! Gloom! Doom!

Under the hood of “recovery” and a higher GDP, life has gotten harder and more insecure for the bottom 90%.

Think of it as evolution in action. We have an excess of Useless People. Time to cull the herd.

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‘For he only will insist that it be shared….’

(Extra points if you catch the reference.)

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Shocking.

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A twofer.

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In British newspapers, there is a longstanding technique of obscuring a paucity of evidence in support of a preposterous thesis by posing it as a question. It’s been dubbed by the political commentator John Rentoul “Questions to Which the Answer is No” (QTWAIN). Winkler’s article employs the stratagem liberally. “Was Shakespeare’s name useful camouflage, allowing [Bassano] to publish what she otherwise couldn’t?” “Could Bassano have contributed [to literature] even more widely and directly?” In a moment of self-knowledge, Winkler asks: “Was I getting carried away, reinventing Shakespeare in the image of our age?” Yet she immediately supplies not the correct answer but yet another QTWAIN: “Or was I seeing past gendered assumptions to the woman who—like Shakespeare’s heroines—had fashioned herself a clever disguise?”

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We in fact have unimpeachable evidence of Shakespeare’s activities as a writer, far more than we do for, say, his fellow-dramatists John Webster or Cyril Tourneur, but by a series of rhetorical sleights-of-hand Price rules it all inadmissible. To give a single but weighty example: Shakespeare’s fellow actors John Heminge and Henry Condell assembled the First Folio of Shakespeare’s works, published in 1623, with Shakespeare’s name on the title page and his engraved image in the frontispiece, and with a laudatory poem by Ben Jonson referring to the author as “Sweet Swan of Avon.” Price dismisses this as evidence of authorship because it’s posthumous, coming seven years after Shakespeare’s death, even though the planning and publishing of the book must have taken years, and Heminge, Condell and Jonson all knew Shakespeare personally. This isn’t scholarship but sophistry.

There is a famous story told about the French diplomat Talleyrand from his pre-Revolutionary career as an Archbishop. The way I heard it: There was a provincial synod in the Archdiocese of Tolouse, of which Talleyrand was the Archbishop, at which the Bishop of Auch failed to appear. When Talleyrand asked his chancellor why the Bishop didn’t show, the chancellor replied, “Your Excellency, the Bishop of Auch died two weeks ago.” To which Talleyrand responded, “That undoubtedly explains it. Still, I wonder what his real reason was?”

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The great pundit James Bowman recently said, “The biggest mistake conservatives make is to suppose that Democrats control the media. In fact, the power relationship is the other way around: The media control the Democrats.” His remark sheds light on the convulsions going on in the Democratic Party right now. There’s a power struggle in the media for who will set the agenda and issue orders. The resulting confusion is trickling down to Democrat politicians, who aren’t sure how and to whom they’re supposed to submit these days.

Scott Adams is fond of making this observation as well. Politicians need exposure if they’re going to win elections, and therefore their constituency isn’t really the voters but rather the media outlets upon whom they depend for that exposure (rather like doctors — they’re customers aren’t their patients but rather insurance companies and governments).

Seen any news about Joe Biden lately, even though he’s leading in the polls? No? That’s because the Media Hive have decided that he’s not a viable candidate against Trump, so they’re going to ignore him and focus on other candidates.

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Well, it used to be that a family (i.e. ‘children’) was an advantage — more people to work the farm or the shop, help out when the ‘rents got old, that sort of thing. We don’t need any of that nowadays, so why go to all the hassle of having chidren? They’re like pets you can’t get rid of if they turn out to have behavioral problems. Who wants that?

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Who hasn’t seen the ads for Shen Yun?

Well, me, for one.

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Workers seizing the ‘means of production’ is like a ship’s crew doing a mutiny. ‘Oh, wait … any of you guys know navigation? George? Fred? Sam? Anybody?’

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The FBI on April 26 arrested Mark Steven Domingo, a former Army infantryman, on charges of plotting an Islamist terrorist attack against a white nationalist rally in Long Beach, California.

Trump Boils Frogs? ‘Reliable Sources’ Panel Thinks People Are Too Dumb to Stop Trump

CNN’s Ana Navarro Gets Worked Up Over Lindsey Graham Siding With Trump

Media heads explode over Trump’s tongue-in-cheek tweet about the Red Sox

Jemele Hill: Trump Fulfills Dreams of White Supremacist President

Democrats Claim ‘Constitutional Crisis,’ Media Repeat It 386 Times  What they mean by ‘crisis’ is Trump Winning.

How I learned to stop worrying and love Trump’s trade war

AP ‘Fact Check’: Trump Talk on Abortion ‘Maliciously False,’ Say ‘Medical Professionals’

Bill Nye …the Foul Mouthed Science Guy

We need an urgent global response to the plague of plastic

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The class-action lawsuit [PDF] from TurboTax users from across the United States was lodged in San Francisco, and joins one filed [PDF] last week by the Los Angeles City Attorney on behalf of the people of California, also against Intuit.

Both lawsuits claim that Intuit’s use of HTML metatags to prevent search engines from indexing the website where the free software is available led to people being “intentionally misled and deprived of the opportunity to make an informed decision about their tax-filing service.” In other words, people went straight to the paid-for system not knowing there was a free alternative.

Under an agreement with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), tax software companies offer free-filing versions of their products for those earning under a certain amount (typically $66,000 a year). In return, the IRS agrees not to produce its own tax filing software.

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Anybody who buys or rides in a Tesla is a moron.

Elon Musk isn’t Tony Stark; he’s Justin Hammer.

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Indeed it was. We don’t want her defective genes corrupting our gene pool.

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Aranda reportedly told investigators he was “looking for somebody to kill” on April 12 when he randomly chose and threw the boy nearly 40 feet to the ground. He allegedly wanted to kill another person earlier, but it did not “work out,” according to The Associated Press.

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She complains about ‘the patriarchy’ while wearing a Muslim head-veil.

What’s Arabic for ‘sonderkommando’?

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Note that no American or European river is in the top 10.

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One of the most astonishing manifestations of disconnected-from-reality hubris is public authorities’ sublime confidence that employers and entrepreneurs will continue starting and operating enterprises no matter how difficult and costly it becomes to keep the doors open, much less net a profit.

The average employee / state dependent reckons that the small business owner / entrepreneur is killing it financially, banking a small fortune in pure profit every month, and that they’re doing what they love so they’ll continue doing it no matter what. In other words, they’re all wealthy Tax Donkeys who can easily afford higher taxes and fees and will tolerate paying more to keep doing what they love.

Wrong on both counts–dead wrong. A far more typical response is the one a house painter emailed me last year: every day, he reported, he wanted to dump his spray rig and power washer in a dumpster and leave the U.S.

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This is about a sign that says “Grassy Knoll.” To understand this story, you have to know that the words “grassy knoll” are forbidden in Dallas. No one is allowed to say them out loud, let alone put them on a sign.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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In times of stress, in times of uncertainty, people often return to their roots.

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How many does that make? Really, I’m losing count.

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The resistance rises.

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Just as everyone with half a frontal lobe had expected, the WSJ reported late on Monday that according to an initial U.S. assessment, “Iran was likely behind the attack” on the two Saudi Arabian oil tankers and two other vessels damaged over the weekend near the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said, a finding that, whether confirmed or not, will certainly inflame military tensions in the Gulf and likely result in a global proxy war that drags in the US, China and Russia. Oh, and that would be the Persian Gulf for those wondering, not the Gulf of Tonkin, which is where another famous False Flag naval incident occurred.

Longest-Serving Iowa Republican Andy McKean Switches Parties, Blames Trump  The Sorting Hat seems to be working.

‘The Simpsons’ Mocks ‘Corporate Tax Cuts,’ Lies About Health Care

CNN Morning Host Berman Suggests Lindsey Graham’s Gone ‘From Wingman to Wingnut’

Man Indicted for Threatening to Blow Up Trump, Government Officials, and Federal Property; Media Silent, Does Not Criticize Itself or Democrats for Dangerous Rhetoric

The Washington Post: Trump Has Launched an “All-Out War” Against… the Democrat Congress Which Has Launched Over 20 Investigations In Order to Derail His Presidency

Black Brooklynites Attack Hasidic Jews, De Blasio Blames Trump And ‘White Supremacy’

Richard Epstein: The President’s Privilege