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Needless to say, I don’t believe she’s really a Republican. But MSNBC is so used to swallowing lies that they probably didn’t notice.

Somebody might want to remind this chick that the reason they call it ‘dirty pool’ is because it’s DIRTY.

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Funny thing how Trump ‘keeps trying to destroy the economy’ and yet the economy keeps not getting destroyed. Is puzzle.

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Chen Guangcheng is a member of the faculty of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America, and a distinguished senior fellow in human rights at the Witherspoon Institute.

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Montgomery County, Maryland’s liberal leaders are defending their lax treatment of illegal immigrant crime, after ICE revealed that seven illegal immigrants have been arrested for sexual assault in the past six weeks, alone. Unbelievably, the networks could find no time at all to cover even one of the stories of children being violently assaulted in completely preventable crimes.

I would love to know what the move-out rate is for that county.

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’ve mentioned before that it’s difficult, if not impossible, for Republicans to win the votes of African-Americans through policy proposals. These voters are loyal to the Democratic party. In any case, the Dems invariably will outbid the GOP through more blatant race conscious policies than the ones Republicans propose.

Democrats too can find it difficult to bid for black votes — when they are running against each other. Take the case of Elizabeth Warren.

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It’s all about the narrative.

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And it is important.

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One word: ricochet.

Actress Debra Messing Promotes Message That Says Black Support For Trump Is ‘Mental Illness’

How Do You Spell ‘Hysteria’? NY Times Frets of ‘Permanent Effect’ of Trump Typos  In other words, they would have no ‘permanent effect’ if they were not obsessed over by the DemLegHump Media.

It’s time to whack greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding

Edmonton city council declares climate emergency

The Next Great Extinction Event Will Not Be Global Warming – It Will Be Global Cooling

Have Environmentalists Killed More Europeans Than Islamic Terrorists Did?

Google discriminates against conservatives and climate skeptics

Sea ice melt in the Arctic Basin leaves an area for polar bears larger than Greenland

Scientists Avoid Bias When They Know They’re Being Tested

Banning mini shampoos from hotels won’t really reduce plastic or save the environment

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes ‘needed to cut emissions’  Or we could just tell the Nannies to STFU.

Climate Theology

The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the world – Environment  Gee, that’s too bad.

CNN Vs. What the Science Says

The Hazards of Covering Climate Change

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Turn a 45-minute drive into a 10-minute flight. The safe, convenient Air Taxi is designed to let you make the most of your commute. Its sleek cabin offers a comfortable space for you to relax. Or work. Or socialize. All while saving your most precious resource: time

I have often wondered why we don’t have tilt-rotor vehicles. They would seem to have all of the advantages of a helicopter and none of the disadvantages.

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The island in question is not just a work space but is also apparently intended to serve as a quasi-dining area.

I concur with the author that this is an abomination, like having 400 cupholders in a car.

Over the decades, as versions of this housewife’s setup have eliminated dining rooms, pass-throughs, and farmhouse tables, the open-concept kitchen, centered around an island visible from all sides, has become not a labor-saving device but a stage on which (mostly) women are forced to perform. Madeline doesn’t have the biggest house, but she has the biggest island, because she’s the Monterey mom momming the hardest. She says it herself, in her first oversharing conversation with Jane Chapman (Shailene Woodley), the new, young mom in town: It’s us against them, working moms against full-time moms. And yet, the big house, the exuberantly feminine wardrobe, the home-cooked dinner… it’s not quite enough for Madeline.

Kitchen islands are a work area. When not in use they ought to be as clean as a lab bench.

If you want to eat, get a table and put it in a different area.

I believe that kitchen islands had their origin in the work tables that used to fill the huge kitchens of houses that had tons of servants and served formal meals for lots of people. We rarely do that any more.

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We’d certainly be better off without California.

This week we talked to Chris, a 35-year-old white man from rural Pennsylvania. Chris wrote in that he thought, “the U.S. should have a velvet divorce,” a reference to the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia — now the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic — in 1993. Chris went on: “I live in heavy Trump country but know he’s an idiot, but even Trump haters wouldn’t agree to break up the U.S. And certain areas (the South, the Midwest) would be horrible for minorities and destroy the environment. But it’s obvious the U.S. has run its course.”

Notice they never print interviews with people who actually like Trump and know he’s not an idiot.

The Narrative, the whole Narrative, and nothing but the Narrative, shall see print.

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Nine Chinese students who were returning to the U.S. as undergraduate students at Arizona State University were detained at Los Angeles International Airport, university officials said.

The students were detained by Customs and Border Protection officials “over the last week,” the university said in a statement Friday. The students were “denied admission to the U.S. to continue their studies” and were sent back to China, ASU said.

What is there about Arizona State University that would prompt students from Communist China to want to study there? I suspect that there is more to this than meets the eye.

Apparently none of them were Chinese anchor babies, for such would not have been denied admission.

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A series of small experiments inspired by early proto-writing systems such as cuneiform and hieroglyphs. Here, new writing systems are created by challenging two neural networks to communicate information via images. Using the magic of machine learning, the networks attempt to create their own emergent language isolate that is robust to noise. This is similar to a machine learning architecture called generative adversarial networks (GANs) except that the networks are collaborating and not competing.

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Google’s decision to wipe “deceptive” and “exploitative” payday loans from the Android operating system has been met with criticism from short term lenders who slammed it for treading on the British government’s toes.

Loans that require repayment in full in 60 days or less, also referred to as pay-cheque advances or short term loans will soon be banned, Google has warned app developers in an email.

This is a good instance of the harm that ‘woke’ tech firms can do to their customers by embracing the political agenda of the Nanny class. Observe that the same people who think that abortion ought to be a decision solely of a mother and her doctor are loath to extend the same respect to a loan that ought to be the decision solely of a borrower and his (her?) lender.

You can kill your child without a qualm on our part but we shrink from the horror of allowing you to borrow money under circumstances that we find undesirable.

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The inadvisability of sending one’s children to a government school, especially in a Trending Blue state such as Colorado, receives yet another pointed example.

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As with many other libertarian screeds, this essay assumes that things headed to Hell in a handbasket must not fail to arrive there. Britain once had a species of public debt that was perpetual, i.e. the borrower could at no time demand return of his investment, but was forced to depend upon being able to sell it to someone else. These were called ‘consols’, and figure prominently in British fiction. They were, however, finally redeemed in 2014, and so no longer exist — an excellent illustration of the folk wisdom ‘never say never’.

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President Trump has scheduled a fundraiser in Beverly Hills, and major Hollywood figures are demanding to know who attends so they can be blacklisted.

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President Trump’s detachment of the United States from the wagon of the Iranian regime was a mighty deed. What can be said about the Obama administration’s funding of the regime and blessing of its nuclear program? Perhaps that it made the Munich Agreement look good by comparison. At least Neville Chamberlain didn’t agree to fund Hitler’s regime. The abject humiliation of the United States by the terms of the the JCPOA and its secret side deals must have proved an irresistible attraction to the great minds of the Obama administration.

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Democrats are just full of ideas for spending YOUR money to solve THEIR pet problems.

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This weekend marks the end of summer, and therefore the end of white-bucks season Unless you’re Pat Boone, who, like college men in the ’30s, wore his year-round. His above collection is from 1959. Go here for a CBS News slideshow on the clean cut idol, who in mid-life made a heavy metal album.

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Yeah, if you say so.

Become an Orthodox Christian. That way you can fast on Wednesdays and Fridays and get points that can be traded for valuable prizes later.

Tyler Cowen, a Real Economist, has some bad news.

There is a new culture war in America, between the ordinary and the transcendent. And the ordinary is winning.

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The largest recipient of Patreon funds is the Chapo Trap House podcast, whose 31,000-plus donors send in more than $138,000 per month. This podcast is a leading voice of what one of its hosts has dubbed “the dirtbag left,” which Wikipedia calls “a style of left-wing politics that eschews civility-for-its-own-sake in favor of subversive, populist vulgarity.” Not my cup of tea, I thought, but OK; 49 more entries to go.

Alas, reassurance was not forthcoming. Eight of the top 50 are marked “NSFW” (not safe for work). Podcasts are the most common kind of project on the list, but too many are along the lines of the Timesuck podcast of Dan Cummins, which describes its subjects as “serial killers, historical events, enduring mysteries, paranormal encounters, conspiracy theories, cryptozoology and more — nothing is off limits if it’s interesting.”

And,  of course, a sign of the times:

Joel Kotkin survey’s the scene.

For the past 125 years, Labor Day has been a time to celebrate the relevance, and political power, of the American working class. As recently as the 1990s, organized labor’s big day was an important milestone on the political calendar, particularly for Democrats..

But in recent decades, America’s working class has had precious little celebrate. In contrast to the conditions that prevailed in the aftermath of the Second World War, when the incomes of lower quintiles surged by roughly 40%, five times faster than the top echelon, during the past four decades, those in the bottom 80% have enjoyed no consistent gains. Meanwhile union membership — the key to working class political power — has plunged from 28% in 1954 to 11% today.

ZMan is uncompromising.

I’ll take it further and say I vehemently oppose adding girls to sportsball. In fact, I’m OK with ending girls sports entirely. Girls should not be playing sports. They should be learning how to be proper women. Exercise is fine, but teaching girls to compete like men is as dumb as trying to teach a fish to ride a bicycle. Sure, a bear playing piano, a monkey drinking a beer and girls playing basketball can be amusing. Building a society around freak show attractions, however, is barbaric madness.

I don’t do sports — never have — so I don’t have a blog in this fight. But some people take it seriously.

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“Zoe Quinn” was Patient Zero of the #GamerGate controversy. A tattoo-covered, mentally ill ex-stripper whose real name is Chelsea Van Valkenburg, Quinn was the creator of a tediously dull game called “Depression Quest.” She broke up with her boyfriend, a software geek named Eron Gjoni, and allegedly became intimate with a videogame journalist named Nathan Grayson. In August 2014, Gjoni published a nearly 10,000-word article exposing Quinn’s alleged misconduct.

Every time she makes news, I get a surge of traffic because of that concise biographical summary, and this week the cause of the traffic surge was that Zoe had accused an ex-boyfriend, Alec Holowka, of abusing her when they lived together briefly in Winnipeg in 2009. As a result of her accusation, Holowka was fired from the game-development company he had co-founded and then Saturday, Holowka committed suicide.

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Some ‘tech advances’ can profitably be skipped altogether, like Twitter and Facebook.

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Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are well-known; they’ve been written about in Fast Company and the WSJ. But almost everyone misses the point. They aren’t about team size—they’re about autonomy and accountability.

Two pizzas works out to about eight people, by an amazing coincidence [not really] the pretty-standard size of a squad in most military services.

Ken Mondschein takes to the woods.

For the past 48 years, around 10,000 people have been gathering every summer for a festival that’s been described as “medieval Burning Man.”

My first Pennsic was Pennsic X, and it was already too big for comfort. Parts of it were fun, though, including hearing Duke Talymar’s Gargoyle Cycle of stories. And watching Lady Maureen of the Spicewoods put ice cream in Duke Moonwulf’s helmet was entertaining. Go, Rangers.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio has aggressively pushed a bike-friendly agenda, adding about 100 miles of dedicated lanes for cyclists amid a spike in rider collisions, but he’s done little to address the danger that bikers themselves pose.

Since 2011, bicyclists have injured more than 2,250 pedestrians — including at least seven who died — according to stats from the city Department of Transportation and published reports.

Can’t touch the Holy Bicycle.

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Ceuta is one of two Spanish enclaves (the other being Melilla) on the coast of North Africa, bordering on Morocco. Migrants from further south in Africa are particularly drawn to these enclaves, since they offer a land border with the EU, and obviate the dangerous sea journey across the Mediterranean. A culture-enricher who successfully breaches the border at Ceuta or Melilla gains access to the Schengen Zone, and can thereby hope to make his way to the Promised Land in Germany or Sweden.

Why Spain maintains these ‘enclaves’ has always puzzled me. It’s not as if they were like Gibraltar, strategic military locations.

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To many people, including myself, the most infuriating thing about the GOP is that they don’t try to win elections. I mean, sometimes it even seems that they are actively trying not to win elections.

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The structure of ultra-white beetle scales could hold the key to making bright-white sustainable paint using recycled plastic waste, scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered.

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Scientists say they’ve found artifacts in Idaho that indicate people were living there around 16,000 years ago, providing new evidence that the first Americans arrived here by following the Pacific Coast.

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Nuclear scientists and engineers have not been idle over the last decade in designing new small nuclear reactors that can’t melt down, and that will be essential to address our environmental and industrial needs in the coming decades.