Lileks.

In our continuing series intended to remind you that life is better than before, despite the calamitous storm of news that clatters down 24/7 like buckshot on a tin roof, we present installment No. 9,275: why it is harder to drive into the ditch than it used to be.

Ace of Spades points out some inconvenient truth.

There is a lazy assumption among the media (wow…that never happens!) that the Republican Party is in its essence for the wealthy, and the Democrat Party is for the little man…the real people of America.

But anyone who has been paying attention has realized by now that the concentration of wealth in the pure blue cities and in the tech sector is overwhelmingly leftist.

Steve Hayward at Power Line does some fisking.

Not content to leave things well enough alone, The Nation decided to go into full clown mode with this Tweet and article.

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After a whirlwind of press furore – extending the drive against President Trump’s recent remarks aimed at the ‘squad’ – following Georgia Rep. Erica Thomas’ claims she was a victim of a racist attack when a man confronted her in a grocery line telling her to “go back to her own country,” it appears she is rapidly backtracking on her original story.

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About 12 investors made offers on a collection of rent stabilized Harlem apartment buildings that listed in April for $260 million, according to Bloomberg. But then, the NY legislature re-wrote the rules of stabilized rents, which capped property values and slashed the potential for increases in rent overnight.

The bids for the 28 building “Harlem Ensemble” apartments that were on the sale block instantly disappeared.

David Chase, partner at B6 Real Estate Advisors said: “They called us every day — and then we couldn’t reach them.”

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The New York Times fudged book sales data in order to deny top-five billing to the best-selling “Justice on Trial,” the definitive and deeply reported account of the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which was written by Carrie Severino and Mollie Hemingway, a Senior Editor for The Federalist. Industry sales figures show that the New York Times ignored actual data on nationwide sales in order to depress the rankings not just for the Hemingway/Severino book, but also Mark Levin’s latest book on the corruption of modern journalism.

Steve Sailer does a little fisking.

One of the most fashionable occupations these days is for people to play I Have More Victim Points Than You.

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We are dealing here with a trail of fraud, lies and perjury. David Steinberg has itemized eight crimes which the evidence suggests Omar likely has committed, yet the liberal media averts its eyes. Contrast the media’s reticence on the Omar story with the fervor with which liberal reporters go after the barest rumor of scandal if it involves a Republican.

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Additionally, as part of their spat with their LNG producing brothers, the Saudis are threatening to build the Salwa canal across the base of the Qatar peninsula and turn Qatar into an island.

That would be entertaining.

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A ‘noose’ found last month at the University of Michigan Medical School turns out to have been a practice knot used in fishing after an employee came forward to ‘clear the air,’ according to MLive.

That’s knot funny.

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I’ve thrown in my lot with the pedants. Yes, language is a living tree, eternally sprouting new shoots as other branches wither . . . blah, blah, blah. But a poorly cultivated plant can readily gnarl from lush foliage to unsightly sticks. The internet has turbocharged lexical fads (such as “turbocharge”) and grammatical decay. Rather than infuse English with a new vitality, this degeneration spreads the blight of sheer ignorance. So this month we address a set of developments in the prevailing conventions of the English language whose only commonality is that they drive me crazy.

Preach it, sister.

Radio Host Tests ESPN’s No-Politics Policy With Broadside Attack On President Trump

MSNBC’s Maxwell: ‘Brown’ Kids in Cages Proves Trump’s ‘Racism’

Psychic News Network: ‘He was basking in that moment like an iguana soaking up racist sun’: Late-night hosts rebuke Trump over rally chant

Zero emissions, construction digger, runs out of power in 2 hours. Requiring it to be recharged using a diesel generator for 8 hours!

WHAT THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS REALLY ABOUT — AND IT’S NOT THE CLIMATE

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A former Democratic Florida House candidate admitted this week that she lied about treating dozens of victims of the June 12, 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.

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But once you move past those accents, you’ll find another social transformation mirrored in our voices: women today speak at a deeper pitch than their mothers or grandmothers would have done, thanks to the changing power dynamics between men and women.

I rather doubt that ‘changing power dynamics’ have an effect on the pitch of people’s voices. This sounds to me like proglodyte pseudo-science; the fact that it’s from the BBC makes that supposition almost a certainty.

Instead, the researchers speculated that the transformation reflects the rise of women to more prominent roles in society, leading them to adopt a deeper tone to project authority and dominance in the workplace.

So really it’s a voluntary change to increase dominance behavior, like wearing pants rather than a dress.

It would be interesting to run the same experiment on men to see whether the prevalence of the beta male has resulted in an average increase in the pitch of male voices.

Steve Sailer does some fisking.

Of all the problems facing America, littering might be most amenable to social engineering. The American Establishment put together a big anti-littering campaign in the 1950s and 1960s, hitting paydirt with the famous “Crying Indian” TV commercial in 1971 that racially shamed whites into not littering.

Now, though, there are a whole bunch of new people here from more littering-prone cultures like Mexico that haven’t been adequately shamed into not littering. But to even mention that fact is deemed unspeakable evil.

Leftists in general are a bunch of slobs. Take a look at any ‘after’ picture of a place where proglodytes have congregates, for a ‘protest’ or ‘demonstration’ or whatever, it looks like a landfill site.

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Of all the Democratic Party press’s efforts to cover up the scandals surrounding Ilhan Omar, that of the New York Times is among the lamest. Linda Qiu purports to fact check the claim that Ilhan Omar was simultaneously married to two men, with one of those marriages–perhaps to her brother–being fraudulent.

Taki is delightfully dyspeptic today.

Standing right below the Acropolis, where pure democracy began because public officials were elected by lot, I try to imagine if random political selection today would be a good thing. The answer is a resounding yes. Both Socrates and Aristotle questioned fundamental norms and values, and if they lived today they would certainly question the acceptance by us of career politicians who have never had any other profession. (Corbyn, Biden, I could go on.) Socrates was skeptical about many things, especially the arts, because he believed they led us away from the truth. Yet so-called “artists” today influence public opinion as never before. Even numbskull rappers have a say and can alter public opinion, hence election by lot should be a must.

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Renewables “Crushing” Natural Gas

Friday Funny – @NRDC Now it’s toilet paper causing ‘climate change’

NBC Uses Moon Landing to Wail About ‘Earth Burning Up From Abuse and Neglect’

Scarborough Suggests Trump Wants America to Be ‘Ethnically Cleansed’

ESPN Pundit Dan Le Batard Rips President Donald Trump, Blames Him For ‘Racial Division’

ThinkProgress Blames Trump For Weekend Heat Wave

‘View’ Blames Trump for Democrat Scandals: Like ‘Ebola’ His ‘‘Fascism’ Is ‘Catching’

Trump-Supporting Pageant Queen Says Organization Stripped Her Crown, Citing ‘Good Character’ Violation

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: Trump Supporters Must Be ‘Confronted and Destroyed’

PC Ya! Miss Michigan Has Title Revoked Over ‘Insensitive’ Politics

MSNBC Unhinged: ‘Nazi’ Trump Supporters Engage in ‘Ethnic Cleansing Politically’

CNN Slimes Trump as Responsible for Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

WashPost Spills Some Serious Ink Bashing Trump as Racist, Defending the Squad

CNN’s Tapper, Brinkley Compare Trump to ‘Demagogues’ Like Huey Long and George Wallace

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Today it’s an established fact that our skeletons are surprisingly malleable. The pure white remains displayed in museums may seem solid and inert, but the bones beneath our flesh are very much alive – they’re actually pink with blood vessels – and they’re constantly being broken down and rebuilt. So although each person’s skeleton develops according to a rough template set out in their DNA, it is then tailored to accommodate the unique stresses of their life.

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This may deconstruct the learning process more than you really want to. But I find this sort of abstraction process fascinating.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is not really incestuous or polyandrous — the alleged marriage to her brother was never more than a scam, presumably to advance his immigration status. Her main squeeze, whom she belatedly married, was not her husband when she falsely filed joint tax returns with him. So there was no bigamy, just plain old tax fraud.

For the rest of this post, readers are asked to mentally insert the word “alleged” in front of any description of a crime or potential crime. Except for the fraudulent tax returns — which are documented in the public record — Rep. Omar has not been convicted of any crime, so the “alleged”s are de rigueur. Nor has she been investigated for any of the other crimes, as far as I know. Since she is a Woke Woman of Color, and a Muslim to boot, she generally gets a free pass.

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Well, at last that’s settled. I vote for ‘she/it’.

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Looks as if they want a war. Trump will probably oblige  them.

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This appears to represent a change in position on the part of ESPN.

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Here’s a working definition of an “MSNBC Republican:” one who is loath to say anything good about anyone associated with President Trump. Susan Del Percio gave a perfect illustration of the genre on today’s Morning Joe. Discussing President Trump’s disavowal of the “send her back” chant at his recent North Carolina rally, Del Percio said: “We hear—and I hate to give her any real credit—but we hear Ivanka Trump did say, did speak to her father, too, saying this was a bit too far.”

Journalist Who Promoted ‘Somali Positivity’ Killed In Terrorist Attack

Pakistan Arrests Major Terror Suspect Days Before Prime Minister’s Meeting With Trump

Mumbai attack ‘mastermind’ arrested as Imran Khan prepares to meet Donald Trump

Driver guilty of terror attack outside Parliament 

Al Shabab Strikes

Report: American Islamist Charities Funding Terror in Gaza

Yousef Makki’s father shouts for justice in court, as teens are cleared over his son’s killing

German government ordered to allow Isil bride home

The Utrecht Tram Mujahid Goes on Trial

Social Engineering? Top British Soap Opera Features Storyline About Man Converting To Islam To Find “Peace”

Briton among 26 dead in Somali hotel suicide blast

Over 700 ‘Black Vest’ Migrants Occupy Paris Pantheon Demanding Citizenship

Warring Libyan Factions Build Armies Of Foreign Agents In Washington

Major Gas Pipeline In Syria Knocked Offline In Mysterious ‘Sabotage Attack’

The Majority Population in German Cities is Facing Its End

“Sweden Is At War”

‘They Are Running After Us, But Cannot Catch Us’: More And More Iranian Women Are Openly Defying Headscarf Rules

American Woman Loses Custody Of 4-Year-Old Daughter Because She Does Not Raise Child In Islamic Traditions

ISIS Brides Want to Return Home to the Netherlands  I’m sure they do.

UAE Tanker “Disappears” In Persian Gulf, US Blames Iran

Manchester Arena bomber’s brother extradited from Libya

CAIR Joins Anti-Semitic Palestinian Advocacy Groups to Protest NJ BDS Bill

Afghanistan’s health system threatened as Taliban order 42 clinics to close

Morocco court condemns three to death for killing Scandinavian hikers

Mullah Krekar Will Be Relocating to a Warmer Climate

Steve Sailer keeps you up to date.

The Whole Woke World has gotten worked up during the last few weeks about the need to Crush Segregation: white children must be tracked down and bused to black schools to provide the locals with Integration. We must return to 1971 and do busing all over again!

Of course, this logic is incompatible with the other logic that: Hey, white people, this isn’t 1971 and you aren’t the huge majority anymore. Your days are numbered, baby!

But who care about logic?

Part of the Quest for Magic Dirt.

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Gee, it looks as if all of those warnings about ‘if you ban guns people will use knives’ came true.

Imagine that.

Steve Sailer compares and contrasts.

Quite often British newspapers give better coverage of American news than those in the U.S.

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The Canadian government has issued the notice of commencement of an environmental assessment for a small modular reactor project proposed by Global First Power (GFP) with support from Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG). The companies describe the move as a significant “first” for the Canadian nuclear industry.

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If you have kids or attend school yourself, you might have noticed that cursive handwriting—that loopy, continuous written style popular in the 20th century and recently cast aside in favor of key-boards—is making a comeback. And just because we have more tools to communicate doesn’t mean that those who aren’t in school should abandon cursive writing, which provides an abundance of benefits.

Go beyond ‘cursive’ — teach calligraphy.

Steve Sailer.

The New York Times explains that while, technically, the Soviets lost the Moon Race, they still won the race that really matters, the Race Race to Inclusion in Space.

MSNBC’s Wallace: ‘We Feel Like We’re Fire Hosing Our Viewers’ by Taking Trump Live

Of Course They Did: CBS, NBC Bury SDNY Ending Trump Probe on Hush Money Payments

Washington Post blames Trump for Democrats’ leftism

An astounding op-ed by George Conway

Trump Spoke, The Crowd Chanted, Liberal Pearls Were Clutched

ABC Freak Out: Trump ‘Running Race-Based Campaign… Redefining Who Gets to be an American’

CNN’s Cuomo Laughably Denies He’s ‘On the Left,’ Misquotes Trump

Demented Deutsch’s Anti-Trump Rant: Holocaust Could Happen Here. ‘Jews Next?’

Joe Scarborough Hates Nazi-Like Trump Fans at ‘Nuremberg Rally’

Trump Wins Big in Emoluments Lawsuits: 2 Down and 1 to Go

OJ Simpson Calls Out Democrats After Failed Impeachment Vote  Democrats appear to have lost the notorious murderer vote.

Joy Behar on Trump Tweets Against Omar: ‘Why Can’t He Be Charged With Hate Speech?’  Maybe because hate speech isn’t a crime outside of Europe.

Joy Behar Suggests Trump Should Face Criminal Charges Over ‘Send Her Back’ Chants  Surely being the New Hitler is against the law.

To the Resentment-Mobile! NBC: Trump an Entitled ‘Bruce Wayne’  Where does he get those wonderful toys?

CNN’s Cuomo: ‘Make America Great Again’ Means ‘Make America Hate Again’  He seems to be doing a pretty good job on his own.

MSNBC’s All In: Trump Unleashing ‘Animal Spirits’

Senator Jon Tester On How To Handle Trump: ‘Punch Him In The Face’  Democrats – Party of Hate

CNN Guest: Trump Supporters ‘Fall In the Category of White Supremacy’

British MP Demands an End to Affordable Food, to Combat Obesity and Climate Change

Island trees can’t run from climate change

UCI study blithely calls for $100 trillion shutdown of fossil plants to meet Paris climate goals

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President Trump announced on Thursday that the amphibious assault ship, the USS Boxer, shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz in a defensive action.

Ace of Spades runs it down.

A lot of evidence, including birth certificates and marriage records gotten from London records.

Even the Star-Tribune, a leftwing newspaper, admitted yesterday that “Omar” might well have married her brother.

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The latest example of higher education employees looking for something to keep themselves occupied comes from Colorado State University where its Inclusive Communications Task Force has deemed the words “America” and “Americans” non-inclusive.

Scott Adams: ‘One hundred percent of the people in the news have been accused of racism. There’s nobody left.’

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Alpha1H usually helps in the production of lactose – the nutritious milk sugar produced by mothers which is essential for development in babies.

But scientists have discovered that it can also morph into a different form which can kill tumours, and hope that it could cure patients.

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On Wednesday morning, CNN’s New Day aired a panel featuring eight Republican women from the Dallas, Texas area. In the face of biased, manipulative questions, the women pushed back against the liberal media.

CNN anchor Randi Kaye asked the panel of women a series of pointed questions, ones designed to pressure them to denounce President Trump so that CNN could show its viewers that the President is losing support amongst female voters. Only, the women pushed back….

They ought to know better that to pull that stuff on Texans.

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The Ministry of Truth is on the case.

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There appears to be a civil war in the Democrat party.

Pass the popcorn.

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Thousands of Puerto Ricans took to the streets of Old San Juan to demand the ouster of Governor Ricardo Rosselló following corruption investigations and the leaking of 889 pages of text messages revealing him to be vindictive, sexist and profane – including against those who died following Hurricane Maria.

Rosselló was, of course, a Democrat, until he became head of something called the New Progressive Party.

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Up until the mid-2000s, circadian rhythm science had been mostly viewed as a kind of cute, niche little corner of biology. But advances in gene sequencing technologies post-Human Genome Project led scientists to realize that the clock controlled more than 10,000 genes in nearly every cell in the human body. Even more recently, they discovered that clock was malleable. “Almost all the important functions in your body have a temporal component that we can tweak through the power of circadian manipulation,” says Jake Chen, a biochemist at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He’s spent the last ten years hunting for compounds with circadian-boosting properties and testing the hypothesis that they can make people live happier, healthier, longer lives. If he’s right, curing or preventing some of society’s most common and costly diseases might come down to chemically resetting our clocks. “The time has come for the biomedical research community to recognize that biological timing is a bonafide therapeutic target.”