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Archive for October, 2019

Today in Global Warming Hysteria

31st October 2019

Escape from model land

Global Warming Fraud Off Global Cooling Fraud Back On

New York’s Anti-Trump AG Is Preparing To Grill Rex Tillerson About Exxon’s Supposed Climate Sins

ECB Official: Can Use Portfolio To Combat Climate Change  

The “Oil Age” is doing just fine, Bloomberg New Energy Finance notwithstanding

Record Low Temps, Up To 50 Degrees Below Normal, Threaten To Wreck Rest Of Harvest Season  Gotta love that Global Warming.

BOO! Halloween climate scare: featuring @ClimateofGavin and @GretaThunberg

Here’s How Poor Land Management Is Leading to Bigger California Fires

The Tragedy of GlobalEcoGuy, Climate Change Planetary Saviour

Farmers sue German government over climate change failures

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

31st October 2019

You clowns believed our demand for an impeachment vote, and now the joke is on you

Trump’s best bet is to just apologize now for Ukraine scandal  Cuck Jonah Goldberg punches right.

NSC Official Who Quit Ahead Of Today’s Impeachment Testimony Reportedly Witnessed Quid Pro Quo  Not by Trump, of course, but by an ‘ally’.

Updates on the impeachment farce

An Un-American Impeachment  Walter Williams.

4 Keys to Understanding a Trump Impeachment Trial in the Senate

 

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UK: Seven in Ten Casualty Patients Waiting Longer Under New A&E Standards

31st October 2019

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care? Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

It’s comin’….

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Wizard Rock, a One-Ton Boulder, Disappears From Prescott National Forest in Arizona

31st October 2019

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Some people just steal because it’s there.

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Scientific Theology

31st October 2019

ZMan is far from optimistic.

Way back in the before times, when terms like “multiculturalism” had not escaped the academy, it was assumed that science and math were immune from the politicization that was ongoing in fields like history. After all, history is about storytelling, while math is about getting the right answer. Surely the right answer fields would not succumb to the growing lunacy on the Left, with regards to race, sex and ethnicity. Yet, here we are in the current year and the Left has declared a fatwa against math.

It turns out that lunacy and intelligence are not opposites. Smart people, the sort you tend to find in science departments, can believe in crazy things. This probably should have been obvious to the men of science a long time ago, but scientists, like the lunatics now making war on them, have always had a narrow definition of religion and the supernatural. They fell into the trap of thinking the people spouting oogily-boogily about the gods were churchgoers, not their friends at the university.

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Thought for the Day

31st October 2019

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Nets Skip Joe Biden Being Denied Communion for Abortion Views

31st October 2019

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While trying to receive holy communion at South Carolina’s St. Anthony Catholic Church, former Vice President and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden was denied by the church’s reverend, citing Biden’s support for abortion. The liberal media were once floored by Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment but welcomed his buckle to political pressure and their radical demands. So, it’s no wonder ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored the religious rebuke of Biden

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Nets Disregard Obama’s Call to End Cancel Culture, Acting ‘Woke’

31st October 2019

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At an Obama Foundation event on Tuesday, former President Barack Obama made headlines by denouncing the purity test his party had set up for their 2020 presidential candidates and called on the left to end their so-called cancel culture, which aims to ruin people’s lives with false activism. But none of the liberal broadcast networks heeded his call and omitted it from their morning and evening newscasts on Wednesday.

Even the Magic Negro gets ignored when he wanders off of the reservation.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

30th October 2019

NY Times Grumbles Over ISIS Leader’s Death: ‘Largely in Spite of…Mr. Trump’s Actions’

Jim George: The Kafkaesque Persecution of Gen. Flynn

The Dems’ frivolous request that Barr recuse himself

Beware, Trump: This Truck Wants to Impeach

Nets Tout ‘Damning’, ‘Bombshell’…Closed-Door Testimony Against Trump

Scarborough Compares ‘Un-American’ Trump to Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi  Guess Hitler’s on vacation.

Richard Haass on CNN: Trump’s Baghdadi Talk Was ‘Un-American, Lacked ‘Dignity’

Matthews Hails Steyer as Modern Day John Brown Leading Trump’s Impeachment

Democrats Keep Thinking They Have Trump

Late Night Lovefest: Seth Meyers and Harris Blast Trump

Democrats Are Running the Exact Same Playbook in Russia Hoax 2.0 as They Did in Russia Hoax 1.0, Now Demanding (Stop Me If You Heard This One Before) That Trump’s Attorney General Must Recuse Himself

In Trump Impeachment Probe, Democrats Refuse to Follow Nixon and Clinton Precedents  Oh, like they’ve got time for that.

Wasserman Schultz Says Trump Admin Is Pursuing A ‘Heinous, White Supremacist Ideology At All Costs’  Does she even listen to herself?

Late-Night Hosts Savage Trump Post-Baghdadi, Colbert Wins for Aggression with Hate Song

Voice Of America Reporter ‘Fact-Checks’ Trump’s Meme Showing Him Awarding Medal Of Honor To Hero Dog  A carrot has more brain than some of these people.

Robert De Niro Labels Trump ‘Dangerous’ And Says He Will ‘Ruin This Country’ In Interview For Britain’s GQ

MSNBC’s Ruhle Goes After Kooky People Buying Trump Campaign Merchandise

Worst Sesame Street Ever: MSNBC Touts ‘ABCs of Impeachment’

Adam Schiff Coached Alexander Vindman Throughout Impeachment Testimony: Nunes

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

30th October 2019

End of Discussion: MSNBC Declares CA Wildfires Caused by Climate Change, Nothing Else

Mother Nature, Not Global Warming, is Causing the Wildfires in California

L A Times blames state’s fires & blackouts on nebulous “climate change” – hides Democrats huge failures

California’s Man-made Power Outages

Climate Scientist in Hot Water over Climate Drought Link Statements

California Faces 72 Hours Of Hell As “Devil Winds” Turn Current Wildfires Into Unstoppable Infernos

New elevation data triple sea-level vulnerability rise estimates  Looking forward to it.

NBC & CBS Scare Viewers With Climate Panic: Millions Will Be Underwater!  Yeah, but they’re all in the Turd World, so who cares?

Climate change scientists say rising seas will flood three times more people than previously thought  Sure, I believe that.

 

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More Californians Forced to Run Extension Cords to Neighboring States

30th October 2019

Babylon Bee.

Deprived of luxuries like power and freedom, more and more Californians are being forced to run extension cords over to their neighbors in adjacent states.

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Here’s How Goats Prevent California’s Wildfires From Consuming Ronald Reagan’s Library

30th October 2019

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Officials who run former President Ronald Reagan’s library in California use goats to eat dried brush and grass around the building that often act as accelerates for the state’s ferocious wildfires.

Nearly 300 goats mauled their way through the dry grasses around the Simi Valley library, the Los Angeles Times noted in a report Wednesday. The report laid out the efforts firefighters are taking to prevent the so-called Easy Fire from torching the 40th U.S. president’s monument.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Taco Truck Company Apologizes for Serving ICE Agents After an SJW Mob Forms; Then an Anti-SJW Mob Forms, and They’re Forced to Apologize for Apologizing

30th October 2019

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Sometimes you can’t tell the victims without a scorecard.

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It Was Supposed to Be the Safest Building in the World. Then It Cracked.

30th October 2019

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How San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center went from the Grand Central of the West to a $2.2 billion construction debacle.’

California is becoming our own little North Korea right before our very eyes.

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US Journalist Arrested After Reporting on Venezuela

30th October 2019

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The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution.

Max Blumenthal is Sidney Blumenthal’s kid and a certified proglodyte hack, so read it with that in mind.

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Death Toll Mounts as Syrian Army & Turkey Engage in Heavy Clashes on Border

30th October 2019

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Gee, who saw that coming?

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Forensic Pathologist Suggests Jeffrey Epstein May Have Been Murdered

30th October 2019

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Oh, ya think?

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Thought for the Day

30th October 2019

That works more often than you might think.

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Appeal to Authority

30th October 2019

Steve Sailer.

The Carolina Panthers’ speedy running back Christian McCaffrey, who is second in the NFL with 105 yards rushing per game, is bidding to become the first white player to lead the NFL in rushing since Jim Taylor of the legendary 1962 Green Bay Packers 57 years ago.

Despite McCaffrey’s fame, this year’s Madden videogame depicted him as black. After all, game-breaking NFL backs (McCaffrey has scored ten touchdowns in his first seven games) are virtually never white.

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Why Liberal Arts Colleges Are Starting to Go Under

30th October 2019

Steve Sailer.

Hampshire was founded in 1970 to be a hippy college so it doesn’t have a big endowment nor beautiful buildings like older liberal arts colleges often do. Also, I’m guessing that Tiger Moms are allergic to it. Then came the Great Awokening, which as usual increased unhappiness at Hampshire by encouraging the least mentally stable students to act out.

Only 13 new students showed up at Hampshire this fall.

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Washington Post: First Amendment Shouldn’t Apply to States Censoring Political Speech They Hate

30th October 2019

Steve Sailer.

Like I’ve been saying: Current Year thinking is not about principles, such as Freedom of Speech, it’s about Good Guys vs. Bad Guys.

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Catholic Bishops Have Said These Politicians Should Not Receive Communion Because Of Their Abortion Stances

30th October 2019

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And about time, too.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

29th October 2019

UN Climate Body Celebrates 11 Years Indoctrinating Future Business Leaders

Sour milk, sourer grapes and the unnatural greenhouse effect

The global race for rare earth elements to fuel the electric car revolution

California Democrats waste billions on useless climate alarmist schemes while the state burns uncontrollably

CBS Cheers ‘Star’ Climate Scientist: He Knows Matt Damon!

California’s Blackouts Are Part Of A Far Bigger Problem

How climate change creates a ‘new abnormal’ for the real estate market

Here’s What Wildfires Are Doing To California As Citizens Cope With Rolling Blackouts

Academics demand career breaks so they can save the planet from climate change

Rising Seas Will Erase More Cities by 2050, New Research Shows  Sure, I believe that.

Treating Atmospheric Apocalyptic Anxiety

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

29th October 2019

Dan Crenshaw Stands His Ground With Chris Cuomo On Question Of Trump Wrongdoing: ‘The Facts Don’t Back That Up’

Fmr. Army Captain Rips Media’s Anti-Trump Spin of Baghdadi Raid

The Plot Against the President

Biden, Who Once Said Terrorism Was Not An ‘Existential Threat’ To The US, Says Al-Baghdadi Raid Succeeded Despite Trump’s ‘Ineptitude’

Joe Scarborough’s Latest Trump Obsession? Bedbugs

NY Times Journalist Engages in Bizarre, What-If Impeachment Fantasy

The Simple Secret of Trump’s Supreme Political Confidence: Old-Fashioned Fan Mail

Trump Gets Dems To Interrupt Baseball, Condemn Dogs, Side With Terrorists All Within 24 Hours

‘View:’ Of Course Democrat ‘Patriotism’ Motivates Impeachment Inquiry!

John Brennan Essentially Admits the Deep State Exists and It Exists to Get Trump

‘Soviet-Style Process’: Scalise, Jordan Rip Schiff Over Alleged Obstruction Of Witnesses

Impeaching Trump not popular in swing states

 

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Kanye Says Democrats ‘Making’ Black People ‘Abort Our Children’: ‘Thou Shall Not Kill’

29th October 2019

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Kanye found the Red Pill somewhere.

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Biden Denied Communion In South Carolina

29th October 2019

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Father Robert E. Morey of Saint Anthony Catholic Church confirmed Monday afternoon that he had denied the presidential candidate Holy Communion because of his stance on abortion. Biden, a lifelong Catholic, had attended the church’s 9 a.m. Mass.

This is huge. I cannot recall another instance of this happening in the modern (last 60 years) Catholic church.

Next: Pseudo-Catholics Pelosi and Cuomo?

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Google Funds 29 US Journalism Projects That Decidedly Swing Left

29th October 2019

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The new project, the Google News Initiative North American Innovation Challenge, announced 34 news projects to be funded on Oct. 25. Twenty-nine of these projects were located in the states, while the other four were in Canada. One of the projects was unlisted. The first name on the list for the U.S., The Dallas Morning News, ran editorials announcing its endorsement of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Beto O’Rourke for Senate in 2018.

Typically, the projects were city daily papers or newsletters that promoted Democrats over Republicans.

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Back on the Bisexual Democrat Beat

29th October 2019

The Other McCain with the Lesson for the Day.

They probably don’t teach Kipling in public schools nowadays, and progressive Democrats like Ms. Hill would almost certainly condemn the great British poet as a racist and imperialist. Nevertheless, the common-sense verities once taught to every grammar school student remain as relevant as today’s headlines. When we forget those ancient lessons, bad things happen, and we have only ourselves to blame.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Thought for the Day

29th October 2019

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Study Suggests ALL Modern Humans Evolved From Ancestors in Botswana

29th October 2019

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Researchers think they have, for the first time, discovered the ‘cradle of humanity’ where the first modern humans evolved before spreading across the globe.

They are believed to have flourished in the prehistoric Makgadikgadi–Okavango wetland, just to the south of the Zambezi River.

A study of DNA records and migration patterns has proven, scientists say, that the genetic root of all modern humans comes from that region 200,000 years ago.

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Driverless Cars Are Stuck in a Jam

29th October 2019

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The future, in other words, is stuck in traffic. Partly that reflects the tech industry’s predilection for grandiose promises. But self-driving cars were also meant to be a flagship for the power of AI. Their struggles offer valuable lessons in the limits of the world’s trendiest technology.

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Former CEO of Scania Warns Sweden is Heading for Civil War

29th October 2019

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The former CEO of trucking company Scania has warned that Sweden is heading towards civil war due to uncontrolled mass immigration.

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Judge to Allow Portion of Nick Sandmann Lawsuit Against Washington Post to Continue

29th October 2019

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After reviewing an amended complaint, Judge William Bertelsman ordered Monday that the case could enter the discovery phase and hence a portion of the lawsuit against the newspaper could continue.

Nick and his attorneys had alleged that the gist of a Washington Post article conveyed that Nick had assaulted or physically intimidated Nathan Phillips and engaged in racist conduct after the Right to Life March in Washington D.C. on Jan. 18.

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NYC Secretly Shipping Homeless People To Over 350 Cities Including Honolulu, Houston

28th October 2019

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Under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Special One-Time Assistance Program,” (SOTA) local homeless families are given a full year’s worth of rent – which has cost NYC taxpayers $89 million on rent alone since August 2017 – before exporting some 5,074 homeless families (12,482 individuals) to cities as far as the South Pacific, according to the New York Post, citing data from the Department of Homeless Services (DHS).

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

28th October 2019

The Real Climate Crisis Is Not Global Warming, It Is Cooling, And It May Have Already Started

How Lord Monckton’s Conundrum can be used to calculate maximum climate sensitivity to CO2

Climate Stalinism

Claim: Climate Change is Killing People in Somalia  How can they tell?

European Commission report hypes EU’s globally irrelevant, costly & unsustainable lower emissions schemes

Is it climate socialism – or eco-fascism?

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

28th October 2019

Chris Wallace Puts Eric Swalwell On The Spot On Impeachment: ‘How Can You Be Considered An Impartial Fact-Finder?’

Mussolini Cancels the Times and the Post

Rapper Has No Patience For Fan Who Refuses To Shout ‘F**k Donald Trump’ From Stage

Verified Twitter Crowd Criticizes Trump For Not Bringing Barron To World Series Game

CNN Cheers NYT Inviting Liberal Readers to ‘Vote’ ‘Worst’ Cabinet Member ‘Off the Island’  They really wish they could.

CNN Whines About 41 of the ‘Most Shocking’ Lines From Trump’s Baghdadi Speech

Joy Behar Hijacks Serious News Of al-Baghdadi Raid, Uses It To Bash Trump

MSNBC: Baghdadi Raid Shows ‘Flaws in Trump’s Foreign Policy,’ Happened ‘Despite’ Him

EYE ROLL: CNN Has Clapper Bash Trump for Baghdadi Raid, Details Made Him ‘Cringe’

Sports in the Swamp: Trump Booed At World Series, Media Echo Fans’ ‘Lock Him Up’ Chant

Bitter ‘View’ Hosts Refuse to Give Trump Credit for Baghdadi: ‘Don’t Trust He’s a Real American!’  That’s fine; we don’t think they’r Real Americans either.

Potential Congressman Dings Trump For Not Being A Better Father To Barron

‘Wow, You Really Have Trump Derangement Syndrome’: Rep. Andy Biggs Reacts to Trump Being Booed By World Series Crowd 

NY Times: Trump Gets No Credit for Baghdadi Raid

Democrats plan first formal vote on impeachment inquiry procedures

 

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“Non-Binary” Activist Booted Out of Science Fellowship For Constantly Derailing Every Meeting and Every Project Into a Social Justice Warrior Struggle Session

28th October 2019

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A social justice activist at Cornell University was kicked out of the school’s Alliance for Science fellowship and is now calling the school “racist,” despite complaints from other non-white fellows regarding the student’s behavior.

The student, Julia Feliz, uses the pronouns “they” and “them,” and, according to other students in the program, would constantly tie every classroom issue to social justice issues. This took time away from science, and frustrated other fellows.

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Block on GM Rice ‘Has Cost Millions of Lives and Led to Child Blindness’

28th October 2019

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It turns out that ‘progressives’ really aren’t very progressive at all.

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Channel Migrants Refuse French Navy Rescue So They Can Come to the UK

28th October 2019

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The UK must be an especially welcoming place for ‘refugees’.

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Utah Voters Find Romney Smarmy, Self-Righteous, Self-Promoting and Self-Serving, For Some Crazy Reason I Just Couldn’t Even Guess At

28th October 2019

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NBC tries to make this self-serving coward the hero here, unappreciated by people who just aren’t smart enough to understand how good he is.

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Sinkhole Swallows Bus In Downtown Pittsburgh

28th October 2019

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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The American System of Tipping Makes No Sense

28th October 2019

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I have no confidence that anything I write here will persuade readers to increase or decrease their average tip. To me, the range of answers raises a larger question: Why are we still crowdfunding worker salaries when tippers so clearly do not know what the hell they’re doing?

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So Much for a Cashless Society: Currency Is Popular Again, Especially the $100 Bill

28th October 2019

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People in many of the world’s most advanced nations — including the United States, the euro area and Japan — are holding more of it than ever.

In the U.S., for example, currency in circulation stood at an estimated $1.76 trillion as of late September, according to the Federal Reserve. That’s about 8.2% of gross domestic product, up from just 5.6% before the 2008 financial crisis and close to the highest level in at least 36 years.?

If people need less cash to pay for stuff, why do they want to hold so much of it? The answer, it seems, is that they’re turning to currency as a store of value.

Of course, the $100 bill is also the most frequently counterfeited.  Just sayin’.

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Web Page Dungeon Generator

28th October 2019

Check it out.

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

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Our Untenable Alliance with Turkey

28th October 2019

Victor Davis Hanson.

There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border.

The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bombs. Data on these weapons is classified, but at their maximum yield each is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to Stars and Stripes.

It’s a “Dr. Strangelove” scenario: No one quite knows how the American contingent could manage to secretly remove the deadly nukes from their concrete vaults, bring them out to the tarmac, load them on planes and fly them out safely over Turkish objections.

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All 6 East Coast Carriers in Dock, Not Deployed: Hill Asks Why

28th October 2019

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When the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman missed a planned deployment last month after suffering major electrical problems, the only East Coast-based carrier currently capable of deploying was forced to head back to the dock.

As the Navy scrambles to get the Truman out to sea, it is pulling material and work crews from two other carriers undergoing their own long-planned refit and repair availabilities, though Navy officials say they don’t expect the Truman’s problems to affect those other repair efforts. As it sits pier-side in Norfolk, the Truman has plenty of company, joining an already crowded Norfolk waterfront where six of the Navy’s 11 carriers are currently tied up. At the time we’re going to print that means not one of the six carriers based in Norfolk are ready to be deployed.

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Here’s What Wildfires Are Doing to California as Citizens Cope With Rolling Blackouts

28th October 2019

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This is what happens when Democrats run your state.

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Thought for the Day

28th October 2019

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Rescue Operation Launched After Man Spotted Hanging Upside Down From 290ft Chimney

28th October 2019

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The man, who appeared to be shirtless, is thought to be hanging by one of his feet from the top of a ladder attached to the 290ft Dixon’s Chimney in the centre of Carlisle, Cumbria.

I’d be inclined to leave him there as an example to others. “You got yourself into it, dude, you can get yourself out.” But that’s me.

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Here at the End of All Things

28th October 2019

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Fantasy worlds are defined by limits: much is unknown in these worlds, and the unknown either resists being known, or it is left in peace. These are fabled lands that no one has visited and lost empires known only through inscrutable ruins. Withholding an America-like landmass seems to be part of that. We live in an age of information overload and complete transparency, and fantasy worlds offer the succor of not knowing. Or of knowing only at great effort and consequence. One thing that is true for so many fantasy continents I’ve looked at: you can’t circumnavigate them. It isn’t all there for you to gawk at, for you to possess it whole. You are never a tourist in them. Exploring one part of a world commits you to never being able to explore others. The part that you choose defines you as a particular kind of person.

The Campaign Cartographer people have a tool called Fractal Terrains which will allow you to create an infinite number of imaginary worlds with the press of a button.  Unfortunately, their tools only work on Windows — an understandable constraint considering that they’re out to make money, but a disappointment nevertheless.

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