Babylon Bee.

Makes sense to me.

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Iran is concentrating all its resources today trying to save the formidable benefits it gained in the Iran nuclear deal (the JCPOA). In the eyes of the Islamic regime in Tehran, the deal is worth keeping even after the United States’ withdrawal, because it allows Iran to move safely towards attaining a large arsenal of nuclear weapons in 11 years. It could not make it to the first bomb before the deal, because Iran could not safely cross the threshold between accumulating enough enriched uranium to produce a bomb and actually making one.

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Low unemployment will do that.

But you have to remember that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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The semicolon was born in Venice in 1494. It was meant to signify a pause of a length somewhere between that of the comma and that of the colon, and this heritage was reflected in its form, which combines half of each of those marks. It was born into a time period of writerly experimentation and invention, a time when there were no punctuation rules, and readers created and discarded novel punctuation marks regularly. Texts (both handwritten and printed) record the testing-out and tinkering-with of punctuation by the fifteenth-century literati known as the Italian humanists. The humanists put a premium on eloquence and excellence in writing, and they called for the study and retranscription of Greek and Roman classical texts as a way to effect a “cultural rebirth” after the gloomy Middle Ages. In the service of these two goals, humanists published new writing and revised, repunctuated, and reprinted classical texts.

Steve Sailer.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. has had a National Transportation Safety Board to inquire into the causes of jetliner crashers and the like and issue recommendations. We should also have a National Immigration Safety Board to investigate how we came to let in losers like, say, this Iraqi who sabotaged a jetliner to get some extra overtime pay.

Dare We Dream of the End of the G.O.P.?  I think that the party of abortion will die out first.

House panel poised to spell out Trump impeachment probe: source

Impeachment fight looms over freshmen Democrats at home in California

New York Times Plays Race Card On President Trump For Honoring White NBA Greats

Racist Lemon Slams Black Voters Who Prioritize Economy Over ‘the President’s Racist Behavior’

Major Media Spike New Low in Black Unemployment Under ‘Racist’ Trump

Amy Klobuchar Calls Trump’s Foreign Policy Strategy ‘A Game Show’  Unfortunately, she’s been fired.

‘I Don’t Know What To Believe’: Julian Castro Questions Trump’s Honesty On Taliban Talks

NY Times Again Plays ‘Handmaid’ to Radical Feminist Fear-Mongering on Trump

NOAA Criticized For Backing Trump On Alabama Dorian Threat; Trump Mocks CNN With Memes

Be HARSHER!: Stelter Claims Sharpiegate ‘Coverage Actually Helped Trump’  I guess he’s the brains of the outfit. He must be good for SOMEthing.

KERNS: ‘Racist’ Trump Just Keeps Delivering Economic Gains For Women And Minorities  Isn’t that amazing.

DNA from cigarette butt leads to arrest of pipeline protester 3 years later

NASA Visualization Shows Decline of Arctic Sea Ice Over the Past 35 Years

‘Alarmism enforcement’ on hurricanes and global warming

“From Scientist to Activist”

CNN Democratic climate gabfest displays candidate’s monumental energy ignorance

The Faith Component of Global Warming Predictions

What if we stopped pretending we can prevent climate apocalypse?

Climate Change Economist Commits Suicide Nearly A Year After Not Winning Nobel Prize

We are not edging up to a mass extinction

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The available evidence suggests that it is.

In her confrontation with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over guns used in Chicago crimes, which, as Cruz pointed out in response to the Dayton and El Paso shootings, occur in a city which has its own mass murder equivalent virtually every weekend, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed guns brought in from Republican-controlled states.

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Hypocrisy has a new poster child for what Lightfoot fails to note is that what is important is not where the weapons came from, but what happened to the gun criminals and gangbangers afterword, if apprehended at all, which in Lightfoot’s Chicago has been virtually nothing.

‘These guns come from YOUR states!’ ‘Yeah, but the criminals are from YOUR city.’

Funny how Texas cities (even the ones run by Democrats) don’t have this much of a problem with gun crime.

Must be something about proximity to the Canadian border.

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Gibraltar’s Aug. 15th release of the vessel came only after Iran issued a written assurance it would not deliver the Iranian oil to Syria, in violation of EU sanctions.

So they lied. Not really news.

The question is what, if anything, the Trump administration will do in response.

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Labor unions are working with allies in state legislatures to counteract a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated mandatory union dues and fees for government employees, according to a new report from a free-market think tank.

My, what a surprise.

Labor unions depend for their effectiveness upon force — force exercised against employees to join and stay in and obey the union, and force against employers to squeeze out the money on which they feed. This is, I suspect, why labor unions have such an affinity for the Democrat party; both are essentially a small clique of bureaucrats leading around a herd of sheep for whom they pretend to be working.

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The U.S. Army is getting much closer to deploying the next generation weapon that could soon replace the M4 carbine and M249 light machine gun sometime in the early 2020s.

I would like to see some performance data on Cased Telescoped ammunition.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws, or the place would be like Texas.

Democrats: Party of Fear – Party of Hate – Party of Death

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This ought to be tattooed on each politician’s forehead so it will stare back at him (or her) every morning from the mirror.

It illustrates the Fundamental Law of Markets, but that’s not even it’s core benefit.

It’s more useful lesson is that When Circumstances Change People Change Their Behavior In Response.

Over 90% of the laws passed in the modern world are based on the assumption that people will not change their behavior as a result of the law. But they invariably do, and that change means that the predicted effect of the law WILL NOT TAKE PLACE. What actually takes place is something different, often something wildly different, which wise people refer to as the Law of Unintended Consequences.

If you meet a politician on the road, make him explain to you how markets work. If he (or she) can’t, kill him (or her) as a threat to your species, and look for another. You’ll be doing God’s work.

A gig economy is based around flexibility and convenience. That’s a problem for municipalities which make money by taxing established industries. New York City is destroying ridesharing because it makes a fortune from auctioning off taxi medallions. Ridesharing ruined that business, so it’s ruining ridesharing.

That’s what politicians do. If something benefits you and not them, they will do their best to ruin it.

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And an overwhelming need for electrical power, which means widespread nuclear power.

Just waiting for the politicians to wake up….

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Yang is absolutely correct that automation is going to be replacing the jobs of many people in the very near future, and he is absolutely correct that new solutions unlike anything ever tried before are going to be necessary to help address this problem. But his plan, and indeed all the most publicized plans which involve the implementation of a universal basic income, will necessarily lead to an oppressive oligarchic dystopia unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.

Trump honors Jerry West, New York Times implies racism

Anderson Cooper: Trump has a new insult for you. Your name.

Scaramucci Says He’s Raising PAC Money Against Trump Reelection

Is It OK to Change Hurricane Forecasts With a Sharpie Doodle?  The latest childish anti-Trump meme.

Air Force Crew’s Unusual Pit Stop At Trump’s Scottish Resort Raises Eyebrows  Presumably they got a special rate.

‘Nasty And Lightweight’: Trump Targets Two WaPo Reporters Over Story Criticizing White House

WashPost Pop Critic Complains Protest Songs Won’t Take Down Trump, Remake America  “They may have won all the battles/But we had all the good songs.”

Judge Should Toss House Lawsuit For The President’s Tax Returns, Trump Lawyers Say

Kamala Harris Replies ‘Well Said’ To Supporter Who Calls Trump ‘Mentally Retarded,’ Later Claims She Didn’t Hear It

Where’s the Hot Spot?

Historical European Sea Level Records

Drowning in plastic: Visualising the world’s addiction to plastic bottles

Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Projections, Mark II.

A beginner’s guide to the debate over nuclear power and climate change

There is NO climate emergency!

Here’s what I’ve learned about climate change and it’s terrifying

Hydrogen Could Replace Coke in Steel Production

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In 1958, a Czech-born sociology professor named Nat Mendelsohn purchased 82,000 acres of land in the Mojave Desert, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, and founded the optimistically named California City. Intended to eventually rival LA in importance, California City was just one of the countless master-planned communities that sprouted up across the state in the post-World War II boom years. But unlike Irvine or Mission Viejo, California City never took off.

It needs a nuclear power plant.

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The Department of Energy is putting down its guns and withdrawing troops in the war on the incandescent bulb that began in 2007. It’s pretty late in the day; the last factory to make them in the U.S. shut down in 2010. It’s hard to find them in a store, in which case: thank goodness for Amazon!

Still, the damage can be reversed. Our houses can again be warm and beautiful, and legally. You can turn on the lights in the morning and not have your eyes lacerated by blindingly fake electric “light.” As the Wall Street Journal summed up the current moment: “If you like old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs, you can keep buying them.”

God bless Trump.

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Ideology makes strange headfellows.

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N THE 1950s, the small town of Ivrea, which is about an hour’s train ride north of Turin, became the site of an unheralded experiment in living and working. Olivetti, a renowned designer and manufacturer of typewriters and accounting machines, decided to provide for its employees through retirement. They were given the opportunity to take classes at an on-site sale and trade school; their lunchtime hours would be filled with speeches or performances from visiting dignitaries (actors, musicians, poets); and they would receive a substantial pension upon retirement. They would be housed, if they liked, in Olivetti-constructed modern homes and apartments. Their children would receive free day care, and expecting mothers would be granted 10 months maternity leave. July would be a time of holiday, so that workers with homes in the surrounding countryside could tend to small farms — it was important to the company that workers not feel a division between city and country. Italy’s best Modernist architects would be hired to design in the Modernist style: Factories, canteens, offices and study areas would be airy palaces of glass curtain walls, flat concrete roofs and glazed brick tile. It would be a model for the nation, and for the world.

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I like these Actionable Book Summaries, which are more in-depth than a review but don’t require you to read the book if you don’t have the time.

This is an area in which I’m very interested, and, based on this article, I’m going to get and read this book.

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A very thorough analysis. If you’re wondering what’s going on with Flynn, and I was, this will fill you in.

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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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Well, then, since he’s white, he ought to shoot himself and put us out of his misery.

Just sayin’.

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Boy, it’s a good thing that these countries are no longer run by white people or who knows what would be happening?

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team of engineers, dentists, and biologists from the University of Pennsylvania developed a microscopic robotic cleaning crew.

With two types of robotic systems one designed to work on surfaces and the other to operate inside confined spaces the scientists showed that robots with catalytic activity could ably destroy biofilms, sticky amalgamations of bacteria enmeshed in a protective scaffolding.

I’ve been waiting for this.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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In truth, though, nothing the Egyptians achieved on the Giza Plateau was impossible for a civilization at their level of technological development. It was just really, really difficult, requiring that virtually all of the resources available to them that weren’t required for the basic maintenance of their civilization be bent in the direction of Giza.

NYT Keeps Readers In The Dark On Bernie Sanders’ Population Control Comments

Bernie Sanders in climate change ‘population control’ uproar

Hurricane Dorian “Man-Made” According to Emory University Professor

Swedish Behavioral Scientist Suggests Eating Humans To “Save The Planet”

Pete Buttigieg: I Don’t Think God Will ‘Let Us Off The Hook’ For Climate Change  I think Mayor Butt-Plug will be on the hook for more than climate change.

WHAT? MSNBC’s Jackson Grills Bernie Campaign on ‘Pain’ of Climate Plans

Pollution could be to blame for rise in whales and dolphins washing up dead on British beaches, report finds

Democrats Hope to Seduce Young Republicans with Climate Change Socialism

Anderson Cooper: We can’t know how much time Trump’s wasted on this

Quantifying The 2020 Dems With The Biggest Trump Fixation

Comedy Central Rips Amy Klobuchar For Repeatedly Telling Same Trump Joke

Progressive Author Urges ‘Normal People’ To Stop Wearing Red Baseball Caps Because They Remind Her Of MAGA Hat

Cummings Opens Probe Into Pence’s Stay At Trump’s Ireland Resort  Desperately searching for … something….

Trump’s Campaign Is Selling Black Markers That Have ‘The Special Ability’ To Drive CNN ‘Crazy’

Trump is pursuing Mugabe economics  Except for the whole ‘murder white farmers and confiscate their farms and pass them out to cronies’ thing, of course.

NY Times Writer: ‘Insomnia…Has Plagued Me Since the Cursed Night’ Trump Won  Sometimes the system works.

ABC Exploits Lou Gehrig’s Sufferer to Trash ‘Racist,’ ‘Kleptocrat’ Trump

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Unions are finally fighting back against automation.

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Waffle House restaurants are often used to gauge the magnitude of disasters in the Southeast: If a store is open, your community has been spared. If the store is open but has a limited menu, you’ve probably gotten some damage. If the store is completely closed, you’re in a disaster zone.

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We lost 2,977 lives (net of the 19 hijackers who don’t matter) in the Sept 11th attacks. We now lose 50,000 people per year to opioid overdoses. That’s almost 7 deaths per hour every day every year. China is responsible for 90% of fentanyl coming into our country.

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Had he been a Democrat, of course, he would be praised for watching out for the welfare of Disadvantaged People.

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Two words: Margaret Sanger.

Two more: Heinrich Himmler.

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Uh, that would seem to be their job….

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One must not let daylight in upon magic.

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Those cities are virtually all left-wing sanctuary cities, and inside them were some real sickos getting sanctuary – hand choppers of west Africa, depraved monsters who went around torturing villagers and burning villages in central Africa, thugs and brutes of Central America, someone hideous from Colombia (still waiting for news if it was some Marxist narcoterrorist from FARC, although Colombia has a panoply of bad guys), and inhuman bureaucrats who forced unwilling women in China into abortions against their wills, in the name of the state and its population control.

Every one of these beasts benefitted from sanctuary city policies now existing in every blue city, defended with ferocity by its leftwing establishmentarians. This is what sanctuary cities, in the end, end up giving sanctuary to.

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Get on it, Elon.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Most of us who came of age in the 1970s revered the university—even as it was still reeling from 1960s protests and beginning a process that resulted in its present chaos and disrepute.

Babylon Bee.

A number of Democratic candidates have seized on a new initiative to make Americans feel safer: a mandatory buyback. “There are a number of ideas out there that just make people upset when they’re said out loud,” said presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke. “It’s time to take those ideas off the street. That’s why it’s past time for a mandatory free speech buyback.”

It’s difficult for parody sites to stay ahead of the news curve.

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Bull Connor is spinning in his grave. ‘Why didn’t we think of that? Get them to segregate themselves!’

Unfortunately there are a ton of government programs for that.

Census Bureau Drops CAIR Partnership After IPT Report

Isil executioner who conned thousands of pounds in UK housing benefits is captured  Make the dhimmi’s pay!

The Consequences of Cultural Enrichment in Sweden  It isn’t pretty.

Reported US Airstrikes On Idlib Target Meeting Of Top Al-Qaeda Commanders

Man Goes On Stabbing Spree In France. Suspect Is Reportedly An Afghan Asylum-Seeker

Knife Jihad in Villeurbanne

Hezbollah’s Response Begins: Israeli Soldiers “Killed And Wounded” In Missile Attack

Israel fires across border after anti-tank missiles launched from Lebanon

Ceasefire in Syria at risk of collapse after US airstrike   Note: Another anti-aircraft gun mounted on a Toyota truck.

More than 100 killed after Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen  More anti-aircraft guns mounted on Toyota trucks.

Iran unveils jet-powered precision drone  Or so they say.

Taliban strike another city as US says ‘at threshold’ of withdrawal deal

Report: China used iPhone website exploit attacks to target Uyghur Muslims

Asia Bibi pleads for justice for victims of Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws as she plans to settle in Europe

Israel faked injuries to its soldiers to trick Hizbollah

Here Comes the American Deal with the Taliban

New Report Highlights Hizballah’s Terrorist “Media Empire”

More on the Knife Jihad in Villeurbanne

NIGERIA: Different Ways To Die

Afghanistan faces civil war if Donald Trump rushes troop withdrawal, US ambassadors warn

Woman sets herself on fire after being charged for illegally entering football match in Iran

CAIR’s Research Director Endorsed Jihadist Supporting Charity

A Mujahid, a Knife, and a Packed Railway Station

Saudi Arabia Can Destroy Iran In 8 Hours, Brags Saudi Prince

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Fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse. The secondary conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.

I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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Last year, to prove a point, a group of people from the French nationalist organization Génération Identitaire set up a cordon on the border between France and Italy, in the Maritime Alps where “refugees” were wont to enter France illegally. Now three leaders of the Identitaires have been sentenced to six months in jail for the action.