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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, ya know.

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Not a headline you want to see.

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The House Oversight and Reform Committee began an investigation Monday into Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao over whether she is using her office to benefit her family.

The way every member of the Congressional Black Caucus always does.

NY Times Writer Uses ‘Handmaid’s’ Sequel on Trump: ‘Brazen Misogynist, Given to Fascist Rhetoric’  Proglodytes think that writing a book, like singing a song or shouting a slogan, has some impact on reality.

Ted Cruz: ‘Broken’ Democrats ‘Are Defined Now Just By Hating’ Trump

Kathy Griffin Hawks Kavanaugh Impeachment Merch On Twitter Dozens Of Times

Tulsi Gabbard: Trump Is Having America ‘Act As Saudi Arabia’s B****’

If You Don’t Like This Uncorroborated Allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, Don’t Worry, We Have Another

Excusing ‘Uncle Joe’ Biden’s Gaffes, Throttling Trump and Rooting for a Recession

Biden Links Trump’s ‘Mexican Rapists’ Remark To 1925 KKK March In Washington

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Deletes, Then Re-Posts Tweet Calling For ‘Credibly Accused’ Brett Kavanaugh To Be Impeached

Brad Pitt Says President Trump Poses A ‘Threat’ To ‘Serious Issues’ Yeah, we all take our political advice from Brad Pitt….

Mika Brzezinsky of the Conspiracy-Addled MSNBC: Say, Maybe Barron Trump Isn’t Actually Donald Trump’s Son  Sure looks like him.

Nadler Says Trump Should Be Impeached ‘To Vindicate The Constitution’

Impeachment Proceedings Usually Move Swiftly, But Democrats Are Playing It Slow ’cause they got nothin’.

Rep Matt Gaetz Mocks Dems “Low-T” Impeachment Effort

Manhattan DA Subpoenas 8 Years Of Trump Tax Returns

Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Impeaching Kavanaugh, But Top House Democrat Says It’s Off the Table for Now

NYC Public Schools Excusing Students Who Plan On Participating In Upcoming Climate Strike  Your tax dollars at work. (Or not, as the case may be.)

Children should be allowed to skip school to attend protests, say British teachers

The Amazon Rain Forest Is Nearly Gone. We Went There to See for Ourselves.

Can Environmentalists Get Their Heads Wrapped Around Using Nuclear Energy?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #376

The world has a third pole – and it’s melting quickly

A philospher’s reflections on AGW denial

Britain will see four heatwaves a year and twice as many flash floods, 50 year forecast by Met Office predicts 

‘Agnostic’ Sarah Silverman Calls Climate Change Girl the Second Coming of ‘Jesus’

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Looking forward to it.

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Alpha Dog Firearms announced it would be selling AR-15s for $349.99 on Friday, hours after Beto O’Rourke pledged to ban the weapons at the ABC News debate on Thursday night. O’Rourke was adamant that his buyback program would be mandatory, not voluntary, going on to assure the debate moderators that “hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.”

Babylon Bee.

Democrats such as Beto O’Rourke have proposed a number of new gun laws, such as universal background checks, a ban on magazines that hold more than ten bullets, and possibly even a “mandatory buyback” of some weapons such as AR-15s. While these laws are likely to be a headache for law-abiding gun owners, the nation’s murderous psychopaths aren’t quite certain how the laws will affect them.

Bethany Mandel.

Seldom do I read a piece about the state of education in this country without remarking to myself and my husband how glad I am to be homeschooling. There’s a remarkable piece in The Atlantic by George Packer this month about one father’s journey through New York City’s public schools that made me do it again. What’s remarkable is how clearly the author illustrates how everyone in the public school system in New York, from teachers up to the Mayor himself, have made a conscious decision to sacrifice education on the altar of Progressivism.

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The New York Times has revised and updated its Saturday night special hit job on Brett Kavanaugh to note that the alleged victim…does not recall any such incident” (original version here). Gregg Re’s excellent FOX News story on the update is full of links.

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Hey, I’m happy to treat her as a suspect even today.

UPDATE: Somali Gangs Target Whites in Beatings, Robberies in Ilhan Omar’s District

Aussie Clean Energy Investment Falling as Political Support Falters

Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic

Greenpeace members face federal, state charges in Houston protest  And about goddamned time., too.

Maddow’s Hot Story on Trump-Dealing Military ‘Markups’ Fell Apart

POLLACK: Don’t Blame Trump After The Next School Shooting; Learn The Facts

MSNBC’s Jason Johnson Smears Kavanaugh: ‘Fifth Guy in a Gang Rape’  They seem to have a stable of Random Diversity Africans who have nothing to recommend them but their skin color.

Ilhan Omar Wants Kavanaugh Impeached — And President Trump Too  Of course she does. While she’s at it she ought to wish for a pony, too.

Former CIA Spook: “Clear To Me That Spying On Trump Was Ordered By Obama”

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When I go shoppingf for wine, in particular everyday drinking wine, I give bonus points to wines with screw-tops. It’s more convenient, the bottles fit in the refrigerator more easily, and even ignoring the risk of TCA contamination, there is much less risk of failure. Everyone has seen crumbly corks and corks that broke off halfway out of the bottle, and that just doesn’t happen with screw-tops.

Wisdom Attend.

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Sounds as if there was more than one  clown in that meeting.

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Illinois Supreme Court Justices chose Anne Burke as their chief on Sept. 10. One could almost hear the gears turning on the Chicago machine, a hobbled but still functioning apparatus now in the sights of federal investigators.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties, recently discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria effective against 4 of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, including MRSA.

Lou Dobbs Calls Out Mitt Romney For Refusal To Endorse Trump’s Reelection: ‘What Is Wrong With This Man?’

JOURNO: Bernie Sanders, Like Donald Trump, Is Hostile To A Free Press

Washington Winery releases wine called “The Denier”

Long-Term US Drought And Precipitation Trends

Important news from the world’s top meteorologist

Extingtion Rebellion co-founder rearrested after attempting to fly drone at Heathrow

JAMA Calls for Papers of Climate Change Harm

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled to permit the administration to go on refusing to accept applications for asylum from migrants who have passed through another country without being denied asylum there, while a case challenging this common-sense policy works its way through the courts.

That comes on the heels of the court’s decision in July to allow Trump to use money from the defense budget to build the border wall. It was yet another significant victory for the administration’s initiatives and a sign that the left’s judicial guerrilla war that had been stymieing the president is starting to crumble.

Expect liberal efforts to prevent Trump from overturning President Barack Obama’s executive orders that effectively granted amnesty to millions of illegals to meet the same fate.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Wouldn’t you like a system like that in the U.S.?

When government provides your health care, doctors become government employees. For examples of quality government employee work, try the Postal Service, the TSA, and a VA hospital.

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People of Color behaving badly. I blame Trump.

Me, in my native habitat.

With thanks to Bluebird of Bitterness – and no, I don’t know where she finds this stuff.

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A friend who is a doctor told me—and therefore it must be true—that a well-known social media site has decided that from now on it will not publish how many people “liked” what people had posted on it because some posts attracted many more “likes” than others, thereby wounding the self-esteem of those whose posts were not much “liked.” From now on, the only person to know how many “likes” his post attracts will be the person who posted it. He will not be able to compare himself with others and will therefore be able to continue to think well of himself.

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The following video and its accompanying article from Samhällsnytt showcase a blatant call for a race war against whites by blacks in Sweden. It’s important to note that the outspoken young man featured in the video has Swedish citizenship.

It doesn’t get any clearer than this, yet the Gutmenschen of Sweden continue to pretend that everything is fine and dandy in the Humanitarian Superpower. Except for climate change, of course, but Greta’s going to take care of that.

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Some good news for a change.

“It’s come full circle, now they’re eating each other,” comedian Nick Di Paolo, who just released his own special, “Breath of Fresh Air,” told the Daily Caller. “I’m the counter culture now, guys like me that lean right, those people, the woke ones, they are the culture. That’s how bad it is, that Chappelle and Bill Burr are labeled like the Anti-PC guys.”

Beto O’Rourke: El Paso Shooter Was ‘Inspired To Kill By Our President’

Mayor Pete: Anybody Who Supports Trump Is Supporting Racism  I guess he thinks that repeating it makes it true.

House Dems move on Trump impeachment, as Republicans mock ‘giant Instagram filter’ hiding disarray

Pelosi walks out on press: I’m done talking about impeachment

MSNBC Gushes, Hillary Was Right About Racist Trump-Supporting ‘Deplorables!’

CNN to Rand Paul: Are You in a Trump ‘Butt-Kissing Contest’ With Liz Cheney?  Like accusing Hillary of being a port star.

Frantic Joy Behar: Trump Is ‘Destroying the Water,’ You Must Vote Democrat in 2020!

MSNBC Goes POSTAL on Castro for Biden Memory Attack, But Love Doing It to Trump

President Trump Met By Dozens Of Protesters After Arriving In Baltimore On Thursday  They can turn out to protest Trump but they can’t be bothered to turn out to clean up their city.

Public Radio: Things Ill-Considered

People Are Missing Out on the American Dream, and the Climate is Going to Kill Everybody

Heathrow protest thwarted as police use radiowaves to jam Extinction Rebellion group drones

The EPA’s roll back of the Clean Water Act could impact drinking water for millions of Americans  Could but probably won’t, despite Chicken Little.

‘Variety’ Worries Hollywood Not ‘Doing Enough’ to Fight ‘Climate Crisis’  Variety does’n’ get out much.

Greta Thunberg has done her science homework  And she got a participation trophy for all of that cut-and-paste.

L A Times “climate change facts” article conceals critical global energy & emissions data

Climate Change and the Democrats

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Predicts Miami Won’t Exist ‘In A Few Years’

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High-tech scanners used to pick up tiny defects in aeroplane turbine blades and car engines have been repurposed by murder detectives to solve 120 homicides.

Babylon Bee.

Up until now ‘public servants’ have had to depend on tedious manual systems like sending ‘investigative reporters’ out to track down suspicious rumors. Now they’ve managed to bring this essential feature of government into the new millennium.

Ace of Spades is watching the fight.

Shaun King is cracker ass cracker and white caucasian who long misraced himself as black, even though both of his parents are white, and say he is therefore white (obviously). In response to that, he claimed that his mother had an affair with a black man who is really his father.

The mother denies this. As does his white father. Whom Shaun King resembles.

Sounds suspicious to me, but these days you can never tell.

Since bursting on the scene as the Whitest Man in Black Lives Matter, Shaun King has started one fundraising venture after another.

People have long been questioning him: Where is all this money you keep raising? Is this just another lie of the White Devil?

Maybe he’s depending on his Semi-White Privilege to get away with it.

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We have the technology.

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But I’m sure they’re very polite feral hogs.

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This is what happens when you depend on the government to provide your health care.

UPDATE: When Government Runs Health Care (Cal Thomas)

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A religious group that sparked protests in 2016 for providing free lunches to Middleton High School students with a dose of Christian scripture has expanded to schools in Madison and Verona.

Typically such protests are on the grounds that some government regulation or requirement put in place by officious bureaucrats has not been obtempered. Quite often said officious bureaucrats, incensed that their rice bowl is being tampered with, step in with threats of fines and jail time. Fortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

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The three-level building near Zurich features 3D-printed ceilings, energy-efficient walls, timber beams assembled by robots on site, and an intelligent home system. Developed by a team of experts at ETH Zurich university and 30 industry partners over the course of four years, the DFAB House, measuring 2,370 square feet (220 square meters), needed 60% less cement and has passed the stringent Swiss building safety codes.

Tom Smith of The Right Coast comments:

Evidently the construction industry is one of the most regulated, inefficient and corrupt businesses in the US. Just replacing human workers with robots and building offsite can save enormous amounts of money and time just by avoiding all the payoffs you have to make otherwise to get anything done. That’s why a lot of these houses are being built in China at the moment.

As usually happens, the things that activists bitch about are caused by the governments to which activists want to give greater power. ‘We’re from the government and we’re here to help.’ Help like that we don’t need.

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He argued that, as a vegetarian, he should have the same rights as employees who suffer discrimination over their religious beliefs or sexual orientation, which are characteristics protected by the 2010 Equality Act.

But his claim was thrown out at an employment tribunal in Norwich, Norfolk, after a judge decided that vegetarianism was a “lifestyle choice” and does not qualify for protection under the Act.

Since we now know that there is no such thing as a ‘gay gene‘, this same logic ought to apply to perverts homosexuals.

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Given the omnipresence of “statistical significance” in pedagogy and the research literature, it was interesting last year when the American Statistical Association made an official statement “ASA Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values” (discussed here) which includes comments like: “Scientific conclusions and business or policy decisions should not be based only on whether a p-value passes a specific threshold. … A p-value, or statistical significance, does not measure the size of an effect or the importance of a result. … By itself, a p-value does not provide a good measure of evidence regarding a model or hypothesis.”

Jay, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.

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My, my, those strict anti-gun laws certainly worked to reduce violent crime, didn’t they?

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One contemporary observer, a legal theorist in his mid-30s named Carl Schmitt, found the seeds of the crisis within the idea of liberalism itself. Liberal institutions like representative democracy, and the liberal ideal that all a nation’s citizens can be treated as political equals, were in his view a sham. Politics at its core is not about compromise between equal individuals but instead conflict between groups.

“Even if Bolshevism is suppressed and Fascism held at bay, the crisis of contemporary parliamentarism would not be overcome in the least,” he wrote in 1926. ”It is, in its depths, the inescapable contradiction of liberal individualism and democratic homogeneity.”

A voice of the Crust attempts to hijack classical liberalism in the service of the proglodyte Narrative.

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They could always just call and ask. I have nothing to hide.

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The whole point about being a union official is practice for being a Democrat politician: How to make noises about helping the oppressed while living high on the hog.

Funny how, despite White Privilege, so many of these guys are African.

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It’s the perfect food: Crunchy on the outside (in theory, at least), potato on the inside, bite sized so as to be eaten without utensils.

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly planning to move his business – and his home – to Florida, one of seven US states with no personal income tax, to avoid New York taxes, according to Bloomberg.

Apparently rich people prefer hurricanes to high taxes. Wonder why.

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Trevor Noah talks to an actual black guy about what they can do to spread the Narrative. (Trevor likes to check in with actual black people periodically to make sure he’s on track.)

Actually, the available evidence suggests that Democrats chiefly want to cause trouble while lining their own pockets, which is the only Stuff they really care about. That’s why it’s so common to see African politicians get busted for bribery, cronyism, and other types of corruption.

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Like other reliable Voices of the Crust, the Guardian sees its job as sounding the alarm about things that normal adults would never notice. The problem is that ‘raising awareness’ is virtually indistinguishable from ‘panicking at nothing’.

Violent, isolationist and misogynist desires course through games – and push rightwing ideologies on players

‘Beware, Comrades! You are being threatened by unseen forces that only the Party can detect and from which only the Party can defend you! Place your fate in our hands if you want to survive the coming apocalypse!’

Games are ideological constructions which push a set of values on the user. Like television and film, they often support the ideologies of their context: in the Bush years, American games endorsed aggressive foreign policy; since Brexit, British games advocate isolationism or nostalgia for empire – and the prominence of anti-Islam games in the 2000s tells it all.

Translation: Games are about situations that most people want to play rather than what Social Justice Warriors would like to see dealt with. Shooting monsters is more fun than saving the planet from plastic straws.

First, rightwing ideologies have been overrepresented and dominant throughout the history of video games. Although affected by context, video games have long focused on the expulsion of “aliens” (Space Invaders to XCOM), fear of impure infection (Half-Life to The Last of Us), border control (Missile Commander to Plants vs Zombies), territory acquisition (Command & Conquer to Splatoon), empire building (Civilization to Tropico), princess recovery (Mario to Zelda), and restoration of natural harmony (Sonic to FarmVille).

Translation: Games deal with the desires of normal people, not Leftist ideologues. And we really hate that.

Games are designed so that people will buy them, and so cater to normal people’s desires; from a proglodyte perspective, What Normal People Want are Rightwing Ideologies. I take comfort in that.

CBS Exposes Human Smugglers Transporting ISIS into Europe

US Forces Accused Of “Indiscriminate Attacks” On Civilians In Syria: UN Report  As opposed, one presumes, to the indiscriminate attacks on civilians customary by Muslim terrorists.

Jihad in France: Running With Scissors

Iran’s Radical Axis Intensifies Efforts to Build a War Machine Against Israel

MSNBC: ‘Cheering in Gaza’ With ‘Success’ of Rocket Attack in Israel

Iranian Woman Who Was Arrested For Trying To Go To A Soccer Game Dies After Setting Herself On Fire: Report

Sanders Doubles Down on Anti-Semite Sarsour

Lira Tumbles After Turkish Politician Gets 10 Year Sentence For “Insulting” Erdogan

US Waives Human Rights Conditions To Release $1.3BN In Military Aid To Sisi’s Egypt

Trump cancels peace talks with Afghan and Taliban leaders after bomb attack in Kabul  Like the story of the frog and the scorpion.

Hundreds Of Russian Troops Deploy To Idlib In Case Ceasefire Collapses: Report

Syria Says US-Turkish Military Patrolling Breaches Its ‘Territorial Sovereignty’  Oh, gee, imagine that.

Taliban Warn More Americans Will Die After Trump Ends Afghan Talks  And I suppose they weren’t before that.

Hezbollah Shoots Down Israeli Surveillance Drone Over South Lebanon

 Iran Will Be A Full Nuclear Power By End Of 2020: Report  And a smoking hole in the ground shortly thereafter.

British-Australian women latest detainees in Iran’s ‘hostage diplomacy’

Three Australians Detained In Iran, Likely On Spying-Related Charges

Rashida Tlaib Bemoans Islamophobia On 9/11 Anniversary: America Cannot ‘Allow This Type Of Violence To Divide Us’  It doesn’t. It divides Us from Them.

Al-Qaeda Chief Issues 9/11 Video Urging New Attacks On US, Europe, Russia, & Israel