Archive for May, 2019
10th May 2019
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10th May 2019
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10th May 2019
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Only if you want someone (thieves, government) to take it from you.
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10th May 2019
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The M-44, a spring-loaded device filled with cyanide used to kill predators, is no longer welcome in Oregon.
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10th May 2019
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Good luck trying to get a job at Apple without one, though, and it had better be from a spiff university, too.
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10th May 2019
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You knew this was coming.
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10th May 2019
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The fiasco surrounding Amazon’s recent escape from New York reflects a broader, potentially devastating trend. By driving the Seattle-based behemoth out of the Big Apple, New York’s increasingly militant progressives have created a political paradigm that could resonate in cities across the country.
Simply put, after decades of trying to lure businesses, many cities are adopting political agendas—from minimum wage hikes to rent control and threatened tax boosts—that make them less attractive to both big firms and smaller businesses. This new development is being driven by demographic shifts as cities become more dominated by hipster radicals and increasingly polarized with little room for a middle ground between the very rich and the very poor.
Think of it as evolution in action.
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10th May 2019
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The yogurt company’s CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, announced the offer in a Thursday tweet, saying that all students should have access to delicious and nutritious food in school, no matter their ability to pay.
Yeah, well, it may be ‘nutritious’ but it’s far from delicious, as the students well know. Most of Michelle Obama’s lunch selections wound up in the trash.
When you send your kids to a government school, they become lab rats for any freak political notion that comes down the catwalk.
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10th May 2019
Jonathan Turley, no fan of Trump or Republicans, points out the defects.
As someone who has represented the House of Representatives, my concern is that this one violates a legal version of the Hippocratic oath to “first do no harm.” This could do great harm, not to Barr, but to the House. It is the weakest possible case to bring against the administration, and likely to be an example of a bad case making bad law for the House.
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10th May 2019
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After all, that’s hardly news — all right-thinking people hate Christians and Republicans.
I’m seriously liking Scott Adams proposal to ban Democrats from owning guns.
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10th May 2019
Kevin Williamson intrudes some adult into the story.
Anita Hill has an article about Joe Biden, sexual harassment, and sexual violence in today’s New York Times. It is published under the headline, “Believe Survivors, Full Stop.”
The problem with that line of thinking is that people sometimes lie about things, including sexual assault: Lena Dunham, UVA and Rolling Stone, Duke, the Kavanaugh hearings, etc.
I suppose that’s triggering to some people…. Presumably ‘Full Stop’ applies to their brains.
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10th May 2019
John C. Wright points out some parallels.
This gives even greater depth to the conflict at the heart of the Avengers: Civil War flick.
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10th May 2019
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Talk is cheap. The U.S. will have an easier time sinking their country; they ought to be thinking about that.
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10th May 2019
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Congressman Swalwell is establishing a reputation as the biggest jerk in the race.
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10th May 2019
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Dana Milbank is Paul Krugman without the credentials. He has absolutely no need for a White House press pass, because nothing that he writes could even charitably be called news.
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10th May 2019
Steve Sailer is on the case.
The Western world has been obsessed in recent decades with what young people of African descent have to say. What messages are they trying to communicate to us?
What concerns them most?
Well, judging from this week’s headlines, the answer is now in: their hair. Today’s black youth want to talk about their hair. And do they ever have a lot to say.
UPDATE: Why having black beauty queens with natural curls matters
I guess Michelle Obama et al. are race traitors.
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10th May 2019
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The concerns about robots and artificial intelligence have come from scientists who express worries about killer robots with super intelligence taking over from dumber humans with less capabilities. Possibly, but it is more likely that these kind of concerns stem from an incorrect model or understanding of mind, consciousness, and creativity. I do wish that Michael Polanyi were still with us to give us his take on our proclivity to attribute intelligence to machines.
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Thus, the main focus of the coauthors is on the massive economic dislocation that will result from making people superfluous.
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10th May 2019
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10th May 2019
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9th May 2019
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The Democratic stronghold of Oakland, California – which narrowly escaped Bankruptcy in 2009 – is planning to divert state gas tax revenues to keep the city’s lights on amid a $100 million annual shortfall projected in the the 2019-2020 fiscal year (74% worse than forecast just two years ago).
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9th May 2019
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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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9th May 2019
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9th May 2019
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9th May 2019
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Trouble in paradise.
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9th May 2019
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The makers of TurboTax have long been luring customers into paying for a service that they promised the government they’d give away for free. Now they’re lying to customers to avoid giving refunds.
We’ve heard from 16 people who say they were denied refunds and told that the truly free version — Free File — is a government product that’s not run by TurboTax. Ten others reported being told that ProPublica’s stories were inaccurate, or that our coverage is “fake news” or “fictitious.”
None of that is true.
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9th May 2019
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I suggeat we just arrest all people with facial tattoos. That would seem to be more efficient. People who have such a crushing need to have everybody Look At Them are pretty much on the edge for even more serious attention-drawing activities.
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9th May 2019
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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.
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9th May 2019
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Uh, no, we don’t.
Sloppy Joe is well on his way to the nomination of the Free Stuff party.
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9th May 2019
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As Orwell pointed out, Big Brother is impossible without the technical means to carry out the IngSoc program.
Our technical giants seem eager to step up and get with that program.
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9th May 2019
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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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9th May 2019
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9th May 2019
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This may explain why there are lots of Democrats in cities.
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9th May 2019
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In my previous life, I was a self-righteous social justice crusader. I would use my mid-sized Twitter and Facebook platforms to signal my wokeness on topics such as LGBT rights, rape culture, and racial injustice. Many of the opinions I held then are still opinions that I hold today. But I now realize that my social-media hyperactivity was, in reality, doing more harm than good.
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9th May 2019
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Jean-Jacques Savin set off from the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa, on December 26, 2018 — heading west in a barrel-shaped capsule he’d built himself.
Savin, 71 at the time of his departure, spent the first four months of 2019 inside his barrel, traveling at about two miles an hour with no engine, and relying entirely on the ocean current to guide his journey.
He surprised locals as he came ashore on the tiny Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius shortly after midnight last week, bringing a mammoth, 2,930-mile journey to a close.
Must be nice to have that kind of time and money to waste.
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9th May 2019
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Public Enemy Nr 1.
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9th May 2019
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A parable for our times.
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9th May 2019
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It’s all in the genes … sort of.
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9th May 2019
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Few things in life are as significant as a good kitchen.
Like public schools, most kitchen designs suck, and there’s no excuse for it.
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9th May 2019
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I am so old, I actually remember when Chappaquiddick happened. Some years later, I looked into the facts and found that they are quite clear: Senator Ted Kennedy, then 37 years old, drove his car off a bridge and saved himself, leaving a young woman to die, when she could have been rescued if he had simply called for help like a normal human being. Instead, he tried to convince his cousin to take the fall and, failing that, lawyered up. Ted Kennedy is not history’s most contemptible man, but he is easily in the bottom one percent.
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9th May 2019
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Raytheon Company has successfully shot down multiple drones using its advanced high powered microwave (HPM) and mobile high energy laser (HEL) weapon systems, stated the company press release Tuesday.
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9th May 2019
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We need a wall.
Or maybe we can just take over Guatemala and use it as a dumping ground for all of the Latinos who the Democrats keep letting in the country.
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8th May 2019
Why Is Trump Hiding His Tax Returns? He’s not; he’s jut not letting YOU look at them, Nosy Parker.
Only Liberals Care About Trump’s Tax Returns Hey, it’s all they’ve got left.
Twitter Suspends Account That Tracks Violence Against MAGA Supporters
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8th May 2019
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8th May 2019
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“They were illegal in NYC for a long time and never really became a thing after the ban was lifted ?,” the freshman Democratic lawmaker tweeted Tuesday night. “Other home things many NYers don’t have in their apartments: washer/dryer, dishwasher, central air.”
Yeah, she’s perfectly qualified to tell the rest of the country how to live.
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8th May 2019
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One week after troubled ex-Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned after a criminal probe over her children’s book series, the entire Baltimore City computer network system was shut down after a ransomware attack, The Baltimore Sun reports. Across the city, multiple intergovernmental agencies sent employees home Tuesday after email servers and communications platforms went dark. And according to a press meeting on Wednesday morning, the city’s communication system remains down.
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8th May 2019
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BLUF: Unhealthy is anything you like; Healthy is whatever they like.
Popular Science used to be an interesting and useful publication, but they’ve gone all YuppieCrust because that’s where the money is.
I stopped eating ‘the breakfast of champions’ when Bruce Jenner changed gender; that’s not a risk you want to take.
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8th May 2019
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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
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8th May 2019
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Or maybe not. (I’m wondering who the ‘we’ is in that headline.)
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8th May 2019
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8th May 2019
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump has the authority to send asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for the United States to adjudicate their claims, handing the president a big win on immigration policy.
If you can win in the Ninth Circuit, you can win anywhere.
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