Living-in-the-moment mentality and climate crisis concerns

Climate Activists Take Over Pelosi’s Office

Kamala Harris Says Trump — Not China, Not ISIS, Not Russia — Is America’s Greatest National Security Threat  And she’s an expert in national security, of course.

Joe Biden Says He Wouldn’t Lock Up Trump If Elected  Very white of him.

CNNers Realize Impeachment Obsession Hurting Dem 2020 Race

Unhinged Joy Reid: Screw ‘Uniting’ the Country! ‘Trump Is Dangerous’ for Minorities!

Liz Warren, Liberal Pundits React After Report Says Trump Once Dined With Zuckerberg

HILL: House Hearings Are Undermining The Democratic Case For Impeachment

Polls: Support for Impeachment Dropping, Trump Gains on His Democrat Opponents, Now Leading (Within the Margin of Error) Three of the Four Top Democrat Challengers

Trump Gets Win After California’s Supreme Court Nixes Law Requiring POTUS To Fork Over His Tax Returns

Sondland Says Tying Trump To Ukraine Scheme Is Based On His Own ‘Presumption’

CNN’s Toobin Rants: Russia Wanted to Elect Trump, Witness Says Otherwise

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The research, done at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Yale University, uses living human skin cells turned into a liquid “bio ink.” The bio ink is used to print artificial skin, which then grows its own blood vessel system.

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Well, he really doesn’t have any alternative.

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Hammer tech.

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A mob of activists assaulted students trying to attend a pro-Israel event at York University in Toronto on Wednesday.

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As an epileptic, I needed a steady supply of anti-seizure drugs and visits to the doctor about every three months to make sure everything was working as it should. I also needed a doctor to be available within a week’s time if necessary.

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I asked if there was anything I could do to expedite the waiting process. In response, all I got was: “I’ll call my colleague and see if she could maybe squeeze you in maybe three to four months from now.”

Disheartened by the news, I knew staying in the U.K. was out of the question. I had to return to the U.S. in order to keep accessing the routine medical care that had saved my life so many years before.

ZMan gets an annual physical.

he funny thing about the problems of the American health care system is that this is the one area where libertarians could apply their arguments. They don’t, of course, as that would take time away from selling weed and porn to grade school kids, but there is a libertarian case to be made about health care. In fact, we have a libertarian health care system operating in the United States. It is world class and provides amazing results for the patients. It is called veterinary medicine.

In America, our pets get better health care than most humans on earth. The cost, compared to any system in the West, is trivial. The service is phenomenal, as there are lots of suppliers competing for customers. In my area, I have one doctor and five veterinary clinics. I don’t need permission to make an appointment and I am not required to pay a monthly fee for services I’ll never use. It is a great example of how to operate a market-based health care system that no one ever mentions.

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A few years ago, I was standing in a South Korean field, knee deep in mud, incredulously asking one of my maintenance Marines to tell me again why he couldn’t fix a broken generator. We needed the generator to support training with the United States Army and South Korean military, and I was generally unaccustomed to hearing anyone in the Marine Corps give excuses for not effectively getting a job done. I was stunned when his frustrated reply was, “Because of the warranty, ma’am.”

At the time, I hadn’t heard of “right-to-repair” and didn’t know that a civilian concept could affect my job in the military. The idea behind right-to-repair is that you (or a third-party you choose) should be able to repair something you own, instead of being forced to rely on the company that originally sold it. This could involve not repairing something (like an iPhone) because doing so would void a warranty; repairs which require specialized tools, diagnostic equipment, data or schematics not reasonably available to consumers; or products that are deliberately designed to prevent an end user from fixing them.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care?

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care?

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I have my doubts. Political ideology is the most reality-resistant thing in the universe.

Swedish “gangs”? What kind of gangs? Who belongs to these gangs? The ever-sensitive New York Times won’t report this directly, but they more or less give away that these are not gangs of delinquent Lutherans:

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On Wednesday, former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh (D) was indicted on 11 counts of fraud and tax invasion concerning her Healthy Holly book series that had forced her out of office on May 2. If convicted on all counts, she could face 175 years in jail. And while ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News didn’t believe it was worth informing the public about, the CBS Evening News covered it with a one-minute-and-44-second report, but left out the key fact that she was a Democrat.

When I saw that a mayor was under indictment I just assumed she was a Democrat.

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Len Humphreys and Sydney University professor Thomas Maschmeyer told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday that the patented device they developed can process plastics that currently cannot be recycled.

The so-called Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor (Cat-HTR) has the ability to turn disposed plastic into fuel or remade new plastic through a process of chemical recycling that changes the plastics at a molecular level and then turns them back into oil, Humphreys told ABC.

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This is a ‘Merkel Bench’:

It is obviously designed so that people can sit on it but vagrants can’t camp out on it.

Why are they called Merkel Benches, and what need has Auckland for them? Read the article.

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The absolute worst case of professional incompetence and dishonesty is in the area of climate science. Tony Heller has exposed some of the egregious dishonesty of mainstream environmentalists in a video he’s titled “My Gift To Climate Alarmists.” Environmentalists and their political allies attribute the recent increase in deadly forest fires to global warming.

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Single-payer systems deliver consistently lower quality and access to high-cost specialty care or surgical procedures without reducing overall out-of-pocket costs.

Well, that’s what you get when the Post Office is in charge of your health care.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your city. After all, they invented the corrupt political machine.

Stad: Bad News for Wind Power

Climate alarmists hide from debate, Stossel sets it straight

Little Brian Stelter: Say, Now That Our Newest Coup Attempts Are Failing, Maybe It’s Time to Dust Off Our First Coup Plan, Invoking the 25th Amendment

Opinion: California’s San Onofre nuclear plant is a Chernobyl waiting to happen

Study Says Fracking is Saving Families $2,500 Annually, Significantly Lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PBS’s Amanpour Frets Increase in Climate Skeptics, ‘Getting Worse’

Climate ‘Science’ Riddled With Dishonesty, Incompetence

Inside the media conspiracy to hype Greta Thunberg

Climate Myths Perpetuated by the Alarmists

Sondland Testifies That No One Said Trump Was Tying Ukraine Aid To Investigation Into Bidens

China fact of the day

Steve Bullock Features ‘Lock Him Up’ Chant In 2020 Campaign Ad, Doesn’t Say What Crime He Thinks Trump Committed  Maybe just for being Trump.

CNN Airs Hatefest on ‘Ineffective,’ ‘Offensive’ Republicans Criticizing Vindman

Rep. Ratcliffe: Trump’s Alleged Bribery Mentioned ‘Zero Times’ In Impeachment Sworn Testimony

Frantic Bill Maher: Why Can’t a ‘Covert Action’ ‘Steal’ Trump Taxes?  Tell you what, Bill: You show us yours, and maybe Tump will show you his.

Impeachment Witness Debunks Daily Mail Headline About His Own Testimony

Devin Nunes Lists 10 Most ‘Asinine’ Trump Conspiracy Theories Pushed By Democrats

Claim: Other Officers Confirm LTC Hickman’s Charge That Vindman Was Reprimanded For Misbehaving With the Enemy

Nets Cheer Sondland ‘Directly Implicating’ Trump…Then Admit He Didn’t

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I’m surprised that a couple of these were in California. I didn’t think that self-defense was legal there.

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This would be funny, if it wasn’t just so sad. Several media outlets had their credibility put to the test this week (and shocker, failed miserably) after a report from the United Nations out Monday left out a pretty significant detail. The report appeared to condemn President Trump over the “inhuman” border policy, calling the U.S. out for having the “world’s highest rate of children in detention [centers].” The media rushed to share the report as more bad news for Trump. However they were singing a very different tune when the UN report’s author later clarified that his data was from 2015, when President Obama was in office.

Unsurprisingly, a number of outlets rushed to salvage their reports upon finding this out. But instead of keeping the reports up with a correction for the dates, they scrubbed their ENTIRE stories.

Oops indeed. I guess anything that impugns The Magic Negro goes down the Memory Hole.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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I am not making this up.

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I question the utility of a test that can be so significantly affected by so exogenous a factor.

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These are my people.

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By anchoring molybdenum clusters onto a sheet of graphene, researchers have created a material that photocatalyzes the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen, pointing the way toward new ways to produce hydrogen fuel.

Pelosi Blows Off Impeachment Critics, Says It’s ‘Weak,’ ‘Dangerous’ To Let Election Decide

Trump’s Retribution Against the Washington Post Owner Is His Gravest Abuse of Power

Sorry CNN, Here’s 25 Times Trump Has Been ‘Dangerously Hawkish’ On Russia

Left’s Rhetoric in Impeachment Hearings Reveals Desperation

‘SNL’ Fake-News Anchor Admits He Wants Trump In Jail, Doesn’t Care If He’s Guilty

ABC Spreads Gossip: Is WH Lying About Trump’s ‘Very Unusual’ Hospital Visit?

The Media Are Democrats’ Self-Appointed Impeachment Coaches

LTC Vindman Admits He Spoke To IC Official About Ukraine Call — Schiff Interrupts Immediately

‘Every Single One Of The Witnesses Did Not Witness Anything’: Sarah Sanders Blows Holes In Impeachment Narrative

We Added Farts To Swalwell’s Impeachment Hearing. You’re Welcome  Just to keep you from dozing off.

The Takeaway from Impeachment Theater Is That The Unelected Permanent Government Has Lost Confidence In the Voters

Trump Supporters At Binghamton University Travel In ‘Packs’ For Safety After Being Mobbed By Leftists

Psychologists Vow to Promote Climate Change “Corrective Behaviors”

Largest coal plant in the West shuts down, dealing financial losses to Native American tribes

Exclusive: Inside The Media Conspiracy To Hype Greta Thunberg And The UN Climate Conference

What’s green, employs ten times as many people as the “fossil fuel industry” and fake?

NYT op-ed claiming scientists underestimated climate change lacks evidence

Vice: Despite a Failed Assassination Attempt, These Climate Deniers Continue to Impede Global Action

‘All you need to know about Climate Change… in cartoons’

Climate Extremism in the Age of Disinformation

Thugs bully Munich Conference Center – Force Cancellation of Climate Skeptic Conference

Climate Activists Take Over Pelosi’s Office  No woke deed goes unpunished.

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For many people, Latin is useless. I won’t enter into a discussion on the meaning of “utility,” a concept with variations and stratifications that are centuries in the making, and which itself merits an entire book. What I will say here, however, is that those “many people”—civilians, politicians, professionals in every field—have a sadly (and dangerously) limited idea of education and human development. What their focus on “utility” betrays is the belief that, in the end, knowledge amounts to know-how, that thought should be immediately adapted toward a practical aim. But if that were the case, knowledge would hardly be useful: we’d have surgeons, plumbers, and not much else, given that machines are growing more and more responsible for satisfying our primary needs. Eventually the surgeon or plumber will disappear too. And if such is the fate of knowledge, that it be surrendered to machines—or, as we put it more often these days, to technology—what exactly will there be for humans to know? Of course, we’ll have to learn how to build the machines and keep them functioning, and to dispose of the remains when they become obsolete, and to procure the materials necessary to build new machines.

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Walt Disney must be spinning in his cryogenic tank. In life he was a smart guy who got rich making saccharine kids cartoons. In death, he’s a hated culture war criminal whose legacy is white/male/hetero/cis privilege. And, though Walt’s not to blame for Miley Cyrus, his brand will forever be tainted by the many pop tarts Disney has inflicted on an unsuspecting public.

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One of the irritating clichés of modern journalism is the “Stop [Doing X]” headline.

Dahlia Lithwick’s column today bears the inexplicable headline, “Stop Assuming Republican Senators Will Do the Right Thing.”

I don’t think that is a thing that people assume.

I do not know anybody who assumes Republican senators will do the right thing in any context—Republican senators least of all.

He’s got that right.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care?

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Here’s the bottom line: Most Americans, even many of those not making much right now, would pay more in new taxes than they would save from no longer paying for private health care.

Never underestimate the ability of the government to make people poorer.

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A reasonable position, I think.

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Scientists can now flood the black market for rhino horns with horsehair fakes. Conservationists, however, have serious concerns.

We have the technology.

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And now, for something completely different….

Eric Swalwell is apparently Scott Adams’ Congressman. Ponder that for a bit.

Ponder also the fact that Congress is increasingly the recipient of truly embarrassing people, an overwhelming number of whom are Democrats — start with Alcee Hastings and Sheila Jackson Lee and take the tour.

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A good summary of this deplorable situation.

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We were repeatedly treated to lies about Ukraine during the first week of the Democrats’ congressional clown show “impeachment inquiry.” The central lie was that Ukraine was a key security partner against Russia for many years. It is a lie that Ukraine has ever been a key security partner and it is a further lie that Ukraine has been the focus of US policy intended to check Russian re-expansion. Everyone knows this, you know this, at least in your gut. Here are the facts, which do not care about anyone’s feelings:

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“I’m really struggling with how is that theft,” said Justice Steven David during recent oral arguments.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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Scientists have discovered a way to manipulate the body’s own immune response to boost tissue repair. The findings, published in Current Biologytoday, reveal a new network of protective factors to shield cells against damage. This discovery, made by University of Bristol researchers, could significantly benefit patients undergoing surgery by speeding recovery times and lowering the risk of complication.

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I guess the Jews were right all along.

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Hammer tech.

Venice Flooding Reveals A Real Hoax About Climate Change – Framing It As “Either/Or”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #386

Hurricanes really are becoming more destructive

Best ethical and eco-friendly Christmas gifts: sustainable present ideas for him and her

Venice and Unenlightened Climate Fear-mongering

Why It’s Hard to Take Global Warming Hysteria Seriously

Climate change hits the young hardest. What will we tell our children?

Climate science has died. The effects will be big.

How Many People Must Die To Fix The Planet?

Lakes are a climate change ‘ticking time bomb’, warn scientists

Democratic Rep: Some Democrats ‘Quietly’ Concerned About Impeachment, ‘Want To Move On’

Will Democrats Ever Call An Impeachment Witness Who Knows Anything?

The Wilderness Of Mirrors

CNN’s Conspiracy Coverage Of Trump’s Supposed Health Scare Could Actually Be A Real Problem

Liberals Are Mainstreaming Paranoid Theories About Trump

Petty Scarborough Trolls Trump on Governor’s Race: ‘Little Hands, Little Coattails’

In Genius Move, Trump Supports Impeachment, Forcing Democrats To Oppose Babylon Bee.

The wages of Trump fixation

Top NY Times Editor: Trump Calling Reporters Names ‘Puts Their Lives at Risk’  I’m glad to hear it.

White House Official Sues Politico, Alleging Collusion With Adam Schiff  Collusion is a two-sided blade.

Carl Bernstein Declares: House Could Impeach Trump for Tweets  I must have missed where Carl got his law degree.

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Google makes many claims about its search engine. The results are not curated, they are not manipulated, and there is no blacklist of sites, says the company. However, none of these statements are true, according to an extensive investigation from The Wall Street Journal.

UPDATE: How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms And Changes Your Results, Bombshell WSJ Report

UPDATE: Gaslighting for Google, News Editor Trashes WSJ’s Exposé of Search Bias