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Companies can’t advertise on social media — so they have female influencers do it for them.

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The unexamined life is not worth living, said Socrates, but users of social media are increasingly discovering that the too-closely examined life is not worth living either; or at least, others try to make it not worth living unless one is possessed of a rhinoceros hide.

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The battle for supremacy in the world of hand hygiene is a dirty one, and nothing demonstrates this better than the depressing sight of a paper towel dispenser with a EULA.

That’s right: even dumb plastic boxes whose only use in this world is to hold paper towels apparently need an end-user license agreement now. In this case, the EULA — spotted by Harvard Library curator and Twitter user John Overholt at a recent conference — forbids the people who have to refill this Tork dispenser from using rival, non-Tork products.

What a world.

Steve Sailer.

There’s clearly a campaign going on in George Soros-affiliated media to replace the anti-crime black woman district attorney of Los Angeles County with somebody more Kim Foxx-like, even if it’s a white guy from San Francisco.

Stockman: America Last – The Real Meaning Of Trump’s Deplorable Aggression Against Iran  The swamp speaks.

Jerry Nadler Has To Be Told To Stop Calling Hope Hicks ‘Ms. Lewandowski’

Adam Schiff Wants To Change Federal Election Laws After Trump Comments  Actually, they all do.

George Will Tells ‘View,’ Trump Republicans Are Like Cockroaches  The chief difference between ‘conservatives’ and ‘liberals’ is that liberals never forget which side they’re on.

Condi Rice Has No Time For NBC Reporter Claiming Race Relations Worse Under Trump

Columnist E Jean Carroll Says Trump Raped Her In 1990s. White House Calls Claim ‘Completely False’

‘Do The World A Favor’: George Conway Tells Trump To Resign After Aborting Iran Strike  Why anybody listens to this guy is beyond me.

Some Iran Spin

John Brennan Applauds Trump’s Decision Not To Strike Iran  Almost.

Birthstrikers: The Selfless Activist Effort to Cede the Future to Climate Skeptics

New Scientist: The Catholic Church Needs to “Up its game” on their Climate Gospel

Climate Change to Wipe Out 40% of Primates… Riiight

London bans cars for a day in the fight against air pollution

Let’s Build a Global Skyscraper Network to Save the Planet  Let’s quit talking about saving the planet to save the planet.

Trudeau Declares Climate Emergency… Then Approves Major Oil Pipeline

‘Climate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars While Planning Mass Third World Migration  I once asked my grandmother whether she ever wanted to go back to Ireland. “No! Why? There’s nobody left there but losers and the descendants of losers. Everybody with an ounce of gumption left there long ago.”

The Himalayas Are in Even Worse Shape Than We Thought  Maybe global warming is making them shorter.

In the Maldives, MIT experiment fights rising sea levels with nature

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You can’t make this stuff up.

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Yeah, I suppose that would work. Look out for hail storms, though.

Wouldn’t work in Texas unless the glass turned to mirrors when necessary.

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That would be entertaining.

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The battle over ‘prep’ clothing styles.

“Clothes make the man. I believe that.”  — Joe Versus the Volcano

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Of course it would. Like the Roman Emperor Caracalla, he wants to give citizenship to everybody.

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George Washington High School in San Francisco. Presumably a name change is in progress.

How soon can we make California a separate country?

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Over the years we have documented the incredibly serious and damaging violations of the espionage laws committed by the New York Times colluding with current and former government officials. I recently took a glancing look back at a few of the highlights in “Tears of the Times.”

Working for the Times, James Risen was a prominent culprit. When the government identified and prosecuted one of Risen’s sources (disgruntled former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling) for an incredibly sensitive story Risen retailed in his book State of War, Risen resisted the government’s subpoena for his testimony. Risen asserted an absurd claim of privilege that he took all the way to the Supreme Court, which declined to hear his case. I thought Risen should have been in the dock beside Sterling as his co-conspirator, but the government only sought his testimony.

The number of violations of various laws that ‘media’ organizations get away with is truly incredible.

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Two words: cricket bat.

Some people can’t be trusted outside on their own.

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Good luck finding any ‘unfettered capitalism’ anywhere in the modern world.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was an International Yoga Day.

I’m not sure about the need for ‘breathing exercises’. Are we in danger of our lungs getting flabby?

Study: Radical Muslim Inmates Rule UK Prisons

CAIR Oddly Silent About Hamas-linked Activist’s Deportation Fight

Watch: Media Ignore Daily Persecution of Coptic Christians

Sudan crisis: What is happening, and where does it go from here?

Québec will ban hijab & other religious symbols to be worn by govt. employees.  Including Christian symbols, no doubt; a tw0fer.

IPT Report Exposes ICNA’s Radical Domestic Agenda

Egypt’s Former President, Mohamed Morsi, Has Died In Court

Arab League Leader Says There Will Be No Peace Deal In Middle East Without Palestinian State

Libyan National Found Guilty Of Terrorism Charges In Attacks On US Embassy In Benghazi

A language under attack: China’s campaign to sever the Uighur tongue

Father faces jail for psychologically abusing daughters who refused arranged marriages in first case of its kind

Muslim family dragged out of Belgian embassy in Beijing by Chinese police

Muslim Brotherhood Supporters, Jihadists, Label Morsi a “Martyr”

Basra compound home to US oil firms hit by rocket amid rising tensions

Syrian Refugee Arrested In Plot To Blow Up Pittsburgh Church In the Name Of ISIS

Syrian refugee arrested on terrorism charges

Charitable Organization Spotlights Radical CAIR Activists

Blacklisted Terrorists Are Still Accessing Thousands Of Dollars Due To Loophole In UN Sanctions

Jewish Board of Deputies: BBC treatment of imam’s anti-semitism  ‘deeply problematic’

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Democrats are locked into their all race, all the time narrative, in which they try to paint Republicans as villains. This is utterly ahistorical, of course: someone should remind these ignoramuses that the Ku Klux Klan was the militant arm of the Democratic Party, and that avowed segregationists populated the Democratic Party until very recently.

Segregationists like James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, whose racist credentials have never been challenged. Joe Biden bragged about his ability to be civil and get along with senators of all sorts, citing Eastland and Talmadge as examples. (Particularly weird was his praise for Eastland on the ground that he didn’t call Biden “boy.” I won’t try to untangle that one.) Biden’s riff prompted considerable blowback, and this from MSNBC, which described Eastland and Talmadge as Republicans:

Well, they were segregationists, therefore they HAD to be Republicans. That’s as obvious as Trump’s racism.

MSNBC did eventually correct, but one has to wonder about an alleged newsperson who doesn’t know that the Southern segregationists were Democrats. (Fun fact: Bull Connor was a member of the Democratic National Committee.)

The knowledge of history by the garden-variety proglodyte extends back about five years.

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This is what happens in a country without a Bill of Rights. When the American Constitution was being hammered out, the rights enshrined in it were those considered to be the traditional rights and freedoms of British subjects, reduced to writing just in case public opinion (or government policy) changed in the future. I think recent history has underscored the wisdom of that approach.

Unfortunately, since class warfare became fashionable in the early 20th century, and socialism soon after, Britain has advanced quite a ways toward political totalitarianism, facilitated by the settled legal doctrine that Parliament can do whatever it damned well pleases and individual British citizens have no rights or freedoms to speak of (and certainly not to sue for).

So what is this ‘Advertising Standards Authority’? Well, Wikipedia says:

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the self-regulatory organisation of the advertising industry in the United Kingdom. The ASA is a non-statutory organisation and so cannot interpret or enforce legislation. However, its code of advertising practice[1] broadly reflects legislation in many instances. The ASA is not funded by the British government, but by a levy on the advertising industry.

This body is not a public authority and has no legal power (and no accountability to the public) but appears to have been set up by the advertising industry itself in order to avoid regulation by an actual political authority. “Not long after the inception of the ASA the Molony Committee considered but rejected proposals to introduce a system to regulate the advertising industry by statute. The Committee reported that it was satisfied that the industry could be regulated effectively from within by the ASA.” I’ll just bet it was.

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A rogue Democratic aide stole a massive trove of political data and used it to harm Republicans by “doxxing” them in what prosecutors call the “largest data theft in Senate history.”

The theft was made possible, and could have been much worse, because of myriad blunders by the Capitol Police and multiple Democratic congresswomen.

Jackson Cosko was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison. Prosecutors called his offense an “extraordinary” and “vicious” crime where the ex-Democratic aide stole a senator’s data, mined it for blackmail material and then published the home addresses and phone numbers of Republican senators during the 2018 hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Isn’t it amazing how, with all of the complaints about Republicans that Congressional Democrats make, it’s somehow always a Democrat that goes to jail.

UPDATE: What Dem Criminal? Nets Ignore Ex-Staffer Sentenced After Doxing

Bongino, Williams go head-to-head over Trump impeachment

Free Beacon: MSNBC Mangles Facts on Trump’s Rally, Biden’s Segregationist Pals

CNN’s Lemon Compares Trump to Hitler; Too Much Even for Cuomo  Where’s he been? That’s old news.

TIME Magazine Calls Trump Campaign ‘Kind Of A Perpetual Outrage Machine’  As opposed to the Democrats?

As Pressure Mounts, ‘Fox & Friends’ To Run Another Tom Steyer Pro-Impeachment Ad

CNN’s Camerota Badgers Black Trump Supporter for Not Agreeing America Is Racist

 20 Questions From The New York Times

Rice Shuts Down NBC Claim Race Relations ‘Worse’ Under Trump

Kamala Harris Accuses Trump of Trying to “Remake” America’s “Demographics”… By Deporting Non-Americans?!?!

Bette Midler: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is ‘Milkmaid’ Who ‘Slung S**t’

Trump Made Journos Heads Explode With His Reaction To The Iran-Drone Controversy  Doing what he does so well.

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Democrats in Texas did that a while ago. It was pretty entertaining.

Elizabeth Warren:

America needs to face the things we’ve done wrong and take steps towards making it right. My housing plan creates a first-of-its-kind down-payment assistance program to help Black and Brown families living in formerly redlined neighborhoods buy a home.

Steve Sailer:

Of course, who can remember George W. Bush’s push in 2002 to 2004 to increase black and brown homeownership by 5.5 million households by 2010?

How’d that work out anyway?

The reason banks ‘redlined’ certain areas is not out of racism but because those areas were behavioral sinks full of people who didn’t pay their mortgages (i.e. ‘bad risks’). Banks don’t exist to make loans, they exist to make money by making loans. Politicians (Democrats especially) routinely ignore that.

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Gwyneth loves them, Adele can’t sing without them and Kim Kardashian uses them to deal with stress. Many of us are lured by their beauty and promise of mystical powers, but are ‘healing’ crystals connecting us to the earth – or harming it?

Only your hairdresser knows for sure.

Women and minorities hardest hit, as usual.

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Looks as if the anti-Trumpers aren’t the only ‘resistance’ in town.

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Erased like a Soviet apparatchik from a Stalin photograph.

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“I stand here as a freed slave,” Rep. Jackson Lee had once declared on the House floor.

Her estimated net worth, as of 2015, is $3,547,506. The median House average was $800,000.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s annual salary, funded by taxpayers, is $174,000. Her husband, Elwyn C. Lee, is the Vice President for Community Relations at the University of Houston where he earns $239,501. The median salary at the University of Houston is $60,000. Lee sponsored or co-sponsored bills that sent $5.25 million to her husband’s employer in just two years. If anyone deserves reparations, it’s taxpayers.

Both Sheila Jackson Lee and Elwyn Lee are Yale graduates. Her son is a Harvard grad.

Isn’t it astonishing how much black people are oppressed in America? I mean really.

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Lies, damned lies, and New York Times.

Unfortunately for the Narrative, there were no Republican segregationists.

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Most people have this idea that trade just stopped during the ‘Dark Ages’, but there were always people willing to take a risk.

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As previously reported by FOX Business, while Florida received more movers than any other state last year, New York’s outflows to the Sunshine State were the highest – 63,772 people. New York had the third-largest outflows of any state, with 452,580 people moving out within the past year. California, another high-tax state, had the largest outflow of domestic residents – with the highest proportion of people headed to Texas, Arizona and Washington.

Plenty of room in Texas. Just sayin’.

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It wasn’t until 1874, when Illinois farmer Joseph Glidden emerged victorious from patent battle over a mechanically-produced fencing material that barbed wire could be made at scale. Glidden’s machine pulled two strands of wire tight around the barb, then wound the wires together around the regularly-spaced spikes. Just two years later, Glidden’s company was making 3 million pounds of the stuff each year, making Glidden a quick and sizable fortune. Other speculators won big on barbed wire, too. John Warne Gates, better known as “Bet-A-Million Gates,” went from selling the poky product to manufacturing “moonshine” (or unpatented) wire himself. His company was acquired by U.S. Steel, where barbed wire would make robber baron J.P. Morgan even richer.

The wire that won the West … and gave us the Hell of the Western Front.

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n the US, manufacturers in everything from consumer technology to farming and agriculture have long constructed systems that limit where customers can go for repairs—remember the old “warranty void if broken” stickers found on game consoles or TVs? Today if you have a broken iPhone screen, for instance, Apple runs Genius Bars across the country where users must go for permitted fixes. Other companies parcel work out to a network of authorized vendors. Manufacturers generally argue these constraints are necessary to protect proprietary information that gives their product a leg up in the overall marketplace.

Slowly but surely, though, consumers and third parties outside of vendor-sanctioned circles have been pushing to change this through so-called “right to repair” laws. These pieces of proposed legislation take different forms—19 states introduced some form of right to repair legislation in 2018, up from 12 in 2017—but generally they attempt to require companies, whether they are in the tech sector or not, to make their service manuals, diagnostic tools, and parts available to consumers and repair shops—not just select suppliers.

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The recent spike in illegal immigration from African countries underscores the increase in migrants coming from around the globe to sneak across the southern border–including more than 10,000 from Asia and almost 900 from Europe last year.

In recent weeks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 500 illegal immigrants from African countries that include Angola, Cameroon, and both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Associated Press reported.

That’s more than twice the 211 total apprehensions during fiscal year 2018 of illegal border crossers from the continent.

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Ann Wilson was the distinctive lead vocalist, while Nancy provided great harmony and kicking guitar licks. Their debut album, Dreamboat Annie, was released in America our bicentennial year, with “Magic Man” and “Crazy on You” propelling them up the radio play charts. They struck while the iron was hot, releasing Little Queen in 1977 and Dog & Butterfly in 1978. These women did their own thing, playing neither the tough girl nor the pop tart. They did not need an image manager, as they actually had musical and songwriting talent.

Heart is my all-time favorite … band? group? whatever … and my destination when I want good music.

ZMan looks over the field.

In 2016 there was the Trump Train, now we have the Biden Boat or, given his age, the Biden Buggy. According to all of the polls, even those in keys states, Joe Biden is the clear favorite to win the nomination. He’s polling at around 30%, which is twice his nearest rival. In fact, the latest batch has him with three times the support of Bernie Sanders, who has been in the second seat for a year now. Everyone else is in single digits, bobbing up and down with the news cycle.

Of course, there is a lifetime between now and the first votes. For a guy like Biden, who is pushing eighty, that could be literally true. He is by far the oldest man to run for the nomination and would be the oldest man to enter the White House if he won. Trump set the record when he was elected in 2016, but Biden is a decade older. It remains to be seen if the media will allow that to be an issue. Right now they seem to be tasked with selling good old Uncle Joe to the voters, as the sensible antidote to Trump.

I doubt seriously that Biden will get the nomination — he’s too old, too white, and too male for the modern Democrat party. But this nomination process will be entertaining to watch.

In fairness, Biden really is the Democrat version of Trump. They appeal to the same demographic. Biden has been pitching himself as “working class Joe” for close to a century now. It’s his go-to line whenever he is out campaigning. He tells voters about how everyone has known him as “working class Joe” or sometimes he uses the phrase “lunch pail Joe.” The fact that he has never done a minute of honest labor in his life never seems to matter. The old working class whites like it.

Well, we’ll see how that survives the process that gave us Hillary, possibly the worst Presidential candidate in living memory.

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Adhesives, you might say, have a bit of a sticky history. It’s easy to think about glue as we encounter it today: From bookshelves to flower beds to arts-and-crafts projects, we think of glue as an object to repair other things. It’s the stuff that sticks one thing to another–simple enough. Technologically, however, glue represents a complex series of decisions that our genus, Homo, has been making for millennia.

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Joel Kotkin.

Almost 40 years ago, in his book The Third Wave, the futurist Alvin Toffler described technology as “the dawn of a new civilization” with vast opportunities for societal and human growth. But instead we are lurching towards what Taichi Sakaiya has called “a high-tech middle ages.” In his landmark 1973 work, The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, Daniel Bell predicted that, by handing ultimate economic and cultural power to a small number of technologists and financiers the opportunity to monetize every aspect of human behavior and emotion, we would be handing them the chance to fulfill “a social alchemist’s dream: the dream of ordering mass society.”

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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When the average American thinks about Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, their initial impression is typically that these are destitute countries overrun by crime, poverty and malnutrition, with central governments that are, at best, only semi-functioning. The crisis at the southern border has only helped reinforce these perceptions, as the mainstream media spins a narrative about impoverished migrant families fleeing the ravages of gang violence.

But if these Central American countries are so extremely impoverished poor, then why are bond investors willing to lend to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador at interest rates on par with the preferential terms enjoyed by regional economic powerhouses like Brazil? The truth, as it turns out, is more complicated: All three countries are viewed as stable, even safe, investments because they spend almost nothing on government services. And most of what little is spent is siphoned off by graft.

Thin Skin: CNN Cuts Away from Trump Rally After Crowd Chants ‘CNN Sucks!’

Morning Joe Trolls Trump Rally: Fat Elvis with Quaaludes, Vodka, Shotgun

O’Donnell: Trump Watches TV as ‘Illiterate Man’s Window on the World’  Name-calling is all they’ve got.

Bernie Calls Trump ‘Racist,’ ‘Sexist,’ ‘Homophobe,’ ‘Xenophobe’ And ‘Religious Bigot’ After Orlando Rally

CNN’s Don Lemon Compares Trump To Hitler

Nets Trash Trump’s Campaign Kickoff: ‘Dark,’ ‘Scary,’ ‘Same Old Grudges’

MSNBC Reporter Falsely Claims Trump Didn’t Mention Abortion During Campaign Announcement

CNN Analyst: Border ‘Concentration Camps’ Will Lead to ‘Death Camps’ in U.S.  But only for left-wing ‘journalists’, so that’s okay.

Celebrities, Journalists Go Crazy for #ImpeachTrump Day  Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

CNN: ‘Fact-Free’ Trump Rally Was Used to ‘Deflect, Distract, and Divide’

Joy Behar Defends AOC: Trump on ‘Trajectory’ to ‘Exterminating’ Illegal Immigrants  She really is insane.

Real News CNN Cuts Away From Trump Rally the Moment Trump Starts Criticizing Them  They can dish it out but they can’t take it.

Steve Harvey Calls Mitch McConnell A ‘Hillbilly’ Over Reparations Comments  I don’t imagine Mitch cares much.

Michael Moore Warns Dems About The ‘Enormity Of The Fight Ahead’ After Watching Trump Rally  They’re comin’ for YOU, Fatso.

MSNBC’s Soboroff: Trump Deportations Designed to ‘Terrorize’ Illegals  I certainly hope so.

Jessie Watters: Impeachment Is A ‘Self- Perpetuating’ News Cycle  Reminding people every day that the political class is a bunch of numbskulls.

Why the polls will be wrong about Trump – again  Lying to pollsters is a popular pastime.

Mazie Hirono Says Outrage Over Ocasio-Cortez Comment Is ‘Manufactured’ To Protect Trump  The voters in Hawaii must be deranged to send such an imbecile to the Senate.

Univision Celebrates Rip-Off Artists Who Used Fake IDs to Work at Trump Golf Club

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A needed reminder that not everybody in a Blue State is a proglodyte.

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Whenever I see a picture of El Capitan I want to put a castle on top of it.

Perhaps with a Nazgul perched on it.

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Sounds good to me. The party of slavery and segregation has been skating along on historical amnesia for far too long.

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There is no question that automation will change the way people work, but for some sectors of the economy, change is long overdue. Nowhere is this truer than in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC).

I agree, although I would put health care and education in first place.

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THERE ARE MORE THAN 9 million dairy cows in the United States, and the vast majority of them are Holsteins, large bovines with distinctive black-and-white (sometimes red-and-white) markings. The amount of milk they produce is astonishing. So is their lineage. When researchers at the Pennsylvania State University looked closely at the male lines a few years ago, they discovered more than 99 percent of them can be traced back to one of two bulls, both born in the 1960s. That means among all the male Holsteins in the country, there are just two Y chromosomes.

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A black writer was booed Wednesday for testifying against slave reparations in a congressional hearing.

Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes said reparation payments to the descendants of slaves would insult black Americans, further divide the country, and make him and other descendants of slaves “victims without their consent.”

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In the first case of its kind Tendai Muswere admitted using the printer to make a revolver and a handgun out of plastic resin at his London flat.

The 26-year-old Zimbabwean national told police he had made the firearms to use as props in a film project for his course at London South Bank University.

Officers came across the 3D printed component parts for the guns while searching his flat for drugs in October 2017, following a tip-off that he was growing cannabis at home.

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Scotland Yard said it feared the guns could have fallen into the hands of serious criminals.

Fortunately, this guy wasn’t a serious criminal.

The admission standards at ‘London South Bank University’ don’t seem to be very high.

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I guess being all tatted up is something we got from the Indians…?