Archive for June, 2019
19th June 2019
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For all the complaining about ‘right-wing this’ and ‘right-wing that’, it’s amazing how it’s always the Democrats who wind up going to jail.
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19th June 2019
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Not that it will matter a damn.
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19th June 2019
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After decades of screaming, “No Uterus, No Opinion!” the feminazis suddenly want men to get involved in the abortion debate. Their sick way of doing this is expand upon all the “benefits” men get from a woman’s choice to put down their children before birth.
They’ve got a point. If the objective is to produce a class of beta-male drone sperm donors, this would appear to be the appropriate road.
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19th June 2019
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19th June 2019
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Good advice for almost any occasion.
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19th June 2019
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Let’s face it, all of Venezuela’s problems are caused by Venezuelans.
If they hadn’t wanted Chavez in, he wouldn’t have gotten in.
If they hadn’t wanted socialism, they wouldn’t have wanted socialism.
If they wanted Maduro out, he’d be out.
The essential problem of democracy is that it allows 51% of the population to pee in the soups of the other 49%.
No regime, however repressive, can survive without a modicum of support from the population.
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19th June 2019
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Reminds me of teh old Gallagher line, ‘Don’t put your condom on to ring the doorbell.’
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19th June 2019
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Black people are SO oppressed in America, it’s just a shame.
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18th June 2019
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Not something you see in the headlines every day.
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18th June 2019
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18th June 2019
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18th June 2019
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I ate two portions of yogurt in colleg so now I guess I’m safe. Whew!
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18th June 2019
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And you wondered what recycling leads to. Now you know.
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18th June 2019
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Not a parody, I think.
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18th June 2019
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These are the same ‘midwest farms’ that get hundreds of millions of dollars a year in subsidies and price support payments.
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18th June 2019
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My, what a surprise.
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18th June 2019
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So not only health insurance but housing will come to you through your employer.
Read GLADIATOR-AT-LAW to find out how this story ends.
There is nothing new under the sun.
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18th June 2019
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18th June 2019
Victor Davis Hanson.
Everyone realized the Paris Climate Accord was a way for elites to virtue signal their green bona fides while making no adjustments in their global managerial lifestyles—at best. At worst, it was a shake-down both to transfer assets from the industrialized West to the “developing world” and to dull Western competitiveness with ascending rivals like India and China. Not now. Trump withdrew from the agreement, met or exceeded the carbon emissions reductions of the deal anyway, and has never looked back at the flawed convention. The remaining signatories have little response to the U.S. departure, and none at all to de facto American compliance to their own targeted goals.
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18th June 2019
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17th June 2019
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I guess it’s a fan.
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17th June 2019
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17th June 2019
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17th June 2019
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17th June 2019
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The left wants to prevent Sarah Sanders from gaining employment, now that she has moved on from the Trump White House. An outfit called American Bridge is seeking signatures in support of the blacklisting of Sanders.
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17th June 2019
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A useful site for people who make things.
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17th June 2019
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Swiss journalist Urs Gehriger recently visited African migrants who breached the border and hung out on the streets of San Antonio, Texas, waiting to go elsewhere in the country, and he met hostility from people who didn’t want to share details about their experiences, conflicted each other, and had rolls of $100 bills.
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17th June 2019
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Funny how that works.
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17th June 2019
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A gunman opened fire Monday morning outside the federal courthouse in downtown Dallas and was killed by law enforcement, an FBI official said.
The suspect allegedly started shooting around 8:50 a.m. local time at the U.S. Courthouse while wearing a mask and combat boots, which prompted return fire from federal officers, according to the Dallas Morning News. No one else has been reported to be injured.
And THAT’s the difference between Texas and all of the other shooting stories.
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17th June 2019
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You want fast food, go Chinese.
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17th June 2019
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But you have to bear in mind that Donald Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.
Just remember that.
Absolutely nothing.
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17th June 2019
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16th June 2019
Watch it.
It sounds amazing, like an organ for strings.
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16th June 2019
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Not bad for s guy who reportedly hates Jews.
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16th June 2019
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Duh. Communist dictatorship.
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16th June 2019
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16th June 2019
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16th June 2019
Steve Sailer points out that it’s just going to get worse.
Cameroonians generally fly to Ecuador because no visa is required and take about four months to reach Tijuana. They walk for days in Panama through dense jungle, where they are often robbed and held in government-run camps. They come from Cameroon’s English-speaking south with horrifying stories of rape, murder and torture committed since late 2016 by soldiers of the country’s French-speaking majority, which holds power.
The U.S. becomes the universal sink to which all adversity drains, apparently.
Portland officials tweeted Thursday that rumors some of the migrants are carrying the Ebola virus “are patently false,” and said that as asylum seekers, they are in the United States legally.
Lucky us. Why not send them to Vermont, and let Bernie socialist them?
Posted in Dystopia Watch | Comments Off on Cameroon’s Anglophone vs. Francophone Problem Is, Stupid Americans, Your Problem Now
16th June 2019
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Maryland banned “high capacity” magazines and a variety of “assault weapons” via the Firearm Safety Act of 2013. That Act also required would-be handgun buyers to submit fingerprints to the state police as a part of the registration scenario.
On March 27, 2017, Breitbart News reported the criminal use of “high capacity” magazines was at a seven-year high. In other words, the ban had only impacted law-abiding citizens. Criminals still had – and still used – the prohibited magazines.
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16th June 2019
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This would appear to be God reminding us not to eat Turd World food.
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16th June 2019
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I missed the notice a few days ago that publisher Houghton-Mifflin is delaying publication of Naomi Wolf’s latest book, Outrages, for the simple reason that it has been exposed as an embarrassing piece of crap.
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16th June 2019
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16th June 2019
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How do statistics so often lead scientists to deny differences that those not educated in statistics can plainly see? For several generations, researchers have been warned that a statistically non-significant result does not ‘prove’ the null hypothesis (the hypothesis that there is no difference between groups or no effect of a treatment on some measured outcome)1. Nor do statistically significant results ‘prove’ some other hypothesis. Such misconceptions have famously warped the literature with overstated claims and, less famously, led to claims of conflicts between studies where none exists.
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16th June 2019
Bryan Caplan blows the whistle.
I have been in school for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at Princeton. The next step was what you could call my first “real” job—as an economics professor at George Mason University.
Thanks to tenure, I have a dream job for life. Personally, I have no reason to lash out at our system of higher education. Yet a lifetime of experience, plus a quarter century of reading and reflection, has convinced me that it is a big waste of time and money. When politicians vow to send more Americans to college, I can’t help gasping, “Why? You want us to waste even more?”
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The labor market doesn’t pay you for the useless subjects you master; it pays you for the preexisting traits you signal by mastering them. This is not a fringe idea. Michael Spence, Kenneth Arrow, and Joseph Stiglitz—all Nobel laureates in economics—made seminal contributions to the theory of educational signaling. Every college student who does the least work required to get good grades silently endorses the theory. But signaling plays almost no role in public discourse or policy making. As a society, we continue to push ever larger numbers of students into ever higher levels of education. The main effect is not better jobs or greater skill levels, but a credentialist arms race.
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15th June 2019
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15th June 2019
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15th June 2019
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Well, this is what happens in a country with no Bill of Rights.
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15th June 2019
Freeberg nails it.
Rant: I do not believe in conspiracies but I do believe in common incentives and I believe some of these are hidden. These could be fairly called “conspiracies” because they achieve the same effect although they do not involve the collusion that should be necessary to qualify for the term.
There is a conspiracy to fuck with people.
Show me a hundred people who want a “climate surcharge” and I can show you a hundred people who want higher taxes. Show me a hundred people who want higher taxes and I’ll show you a hundred who want the climate surcharge. If things were on the up-and-up it wouldn’t be that way, because higher taxes are not good for the environment. Also, every dollar you spend on higher taxes leaves a dollar less available for surcharges, and vice versa. Furthermore, I would not be able to show you a hundred people who, by their own private conduct, do good things for the environment. On average, their “climate skeptic” dissenters would be kinder to the environment. So these are not people who want to preserve a livable climate; they are people who just want to make it more expensive to live.
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15th June 2019
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What I mean is that Chinese is not only hard for us (English speakers), but it’s also hard in absolute terms. Which means that Chinese is also hard forthem, for Chinese people.
How can you have a dictionary for a language that doesn’t really have an alphabet?
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15th June 2019
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