Archive for November, 2019
18th November 2019
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“The New York Times published a distorted and factually incorrect story on the front page of the Sunday, November 17 edition concerning FedEx and our billions of dollars of tax payments and billions of dollars of investments in the U.S. economy. Pertinent to this outrageous distortion of the truth is the fact that unlike FedEx, the New York Times paid zero federal income tax in 2017 on earnings of $111 million, and only $30 million in 2018 – 18% of their pretax book income. Also in 2018 the New York Times cut their capital investments nearly in half to $57 million, which equates to a rounding error when compared to the $6 billion of capital that FedEx invested in the U.S. economy during that same year.”
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18th November 2019
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Here in prison, it takes us more than two years to get an annual dental check-up, three years to get a filling, and two years to get eyeglasses.
I find it puzzling that those who adore government-provided health care feel free to ignore existing systems of government-provided health care, like the prison system and the VA network, much less the socialized medicine regimes overseas.
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18th November 2019
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18th November 2019
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There is a difference between an individual deciding not to have children and someone embracing the view that there is something inherently wrong with motherhood and giving birth to children.
People who think it is wrong to have children ought to be encouraged … not to have children.
Think of it as evolution in action.
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18th November 2019
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I have always suspected as much.
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18th November 2019
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Just when you think it’s gotten as weird as it can get….
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18th November 2019
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Just when you think it’s gotten as weird as it can get….
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18th November 2019
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If the tentative entrance of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg into the Presidential race materializes, he may discover difficulty of being an oligarch in an increasingly socialist-minded party. Bloomberg, whose fortune is estimated at $50 billion, many times Trump’s estimated $3 billion, much less Tom Steyer’s comparatively meager $1.6 billion, epitomizes the very capitalist class so detested by party activists.
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18th November 2019
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Austin is one of the fastest-growing cities in America, and the city of Austin and Austin’s transit agency, Capital Metro, have a plan for dealing with all of the traffic that will be generated by that growth: assume that a third of the people who now drive alone to work will switch to transit, bicycling, walking, or telecommuting by 2039. That’s right up there with planning for dinner by assuming that food will magically appear on the table the same way it does in Hogwarts.
Austin is one of the metropolitan behavioral sinks that exist in Texas so that Californians who wander in but still want to live under socialism will have some place to go. As Kevin Williamson likes to say, Austin isn’t Texas, although you can see Texas from Austin.
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18th November 2019
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A foreign correspondent I used to know liked to say that a good test for national decline is the smell of urine. In declining countries, one frequently smells it.
Americans in certain jurisdictions can expect to smell more urine soon. Left-wing prosecutors, some financed by George Soros, will be decriminalizing urination in public.
This is one of a several “quality of life” crimes the left wants to stop prosecuting. Some prosecutors also want theft below a certain dollar amount to go largely unpunished.
The theory behind this decriminalization effort is that poor people and members of certain minority groups commit a disproportionate number of these crimes. But it’s also the case that poor people and members of the same minority groups are disproportionately victimized by many of them.
They can expect to be smelling the urine first.
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18th November 2019
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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof attacked the one network not pushing all-out for a Trump impeachment in the Sunday Review: “Is Fox ‘News’ Or Trump’s Bodyguard?” For the veteran liberal commentator, things were better when the three networks spouted the same brand of anti-Nixon corporate liberalism to an audience with few other news choices.
Ah, yes, those were the days….
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18th November 2019
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There is no actual political debate at all. We live in a post-politics age. Everything now is a moral issue. Opposing immigration is morally wicked. Questioning feminism is morally wicked. Expressing doubts about the tranny stuff is morally wicked. Expressing anything less than absolute support for homosexuals is morally wicked. Questioning affirmative action is morally wicked. Expressing even mild scepticism about racial oppression is morally wicked.
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18th November 2019
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Nine days after the election, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin conceded defeat on Thursday. A year after her defeat, Georgia’s Stacey Abrams maintains she was robbed. Ashe Schow at the Daily Wire pointed out this week that NPR has a very different standard on this score for Republicans and Democrats.
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18th November 2019
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San Francisco and NYC retail and restaurant sectors are beginning to see the ugly side of socialism: store closures and layoffs, as their owners cannot keep up with local government mandates that raise the costs of their businesses.
That’s even ignoring the homeless feces-and-needles problem.
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18th November 2019
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Funny how this stuff overwhelmingly happens on one of the Left Coasts, not in Flyover Country (which has most of the guns).
Why do you think that might be?
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18th November 2019
CNN clickbait alarmism.
There are always people on the fringe who believe odd stuff. That’s why newspapers publish Your Daily Horoscope. The DemLegHump media focus on such people, the total world supply of which could fit into a Joe Biden Town Hall meeting, because the Narrative has as a major component the notion that the country is about to be overrun by racists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK. (There are more homosexuals in the U.S. than there are neo-Nazis and KKK members combined. Go ahead, look it up.)
As Scott Adams points out in his new book Loserthink, which cannot be too highly recommended, the mainstream media business model is to GET CLICKS, and the way you GET CLICKS is to write a scary headline; it doesn’t matter if it goes to a bullshit article, as long as the poor suckers click through and trigger that ad view for which the platform will get paid.
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17th November 2019
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17th November 2019
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17th November 2019
Steve Sailer.
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City, apologizes for his greatest achievement: taking New York City murder rates that has already fallen surprisingly far under Rudy Giuliani and hammering them down to Yogi Berra Era levels. Why? Because he’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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17th November 2019
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They have the technology.
But God forbid you should post something critical of The Narrative….
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17th November 2019
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17th November 2019
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Sure! Open up the borders! Let ’em all in! What could go wrong?
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17th November 2019
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Massachusetts Judge Shelley Joseph allegedly helped an illegal alien avoid ICE apprehension by directing him to leave through a back door in April 2018, prompting federal prosecutors to charge her with obstruction of justice.
Some in the immigrant activist community are not standing by Joseph, noting that she went so far as to turn off a recording of her conversation with lawyers while conspiring to help the illegal alien, which violated courtroom policy.
Joseph is refusing to take a plea deal and is instead choosing to fight the charges. The court case could take years to reach its conclusion.
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17th November 2019
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One of the best ways to learn and come up with new ideas is to focus intensely on a problem, then let your mind wander. I’ve enjoyed doing this when problem solving and learning, and recently I’ve been thinking about how weird it is to build trust in your unconscious to do the work for you, especially when it comes to technical work.
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17th November 2019
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Mighty oaks, as the saying goes, grow from little acorns. So too, apparently, do weird trends. The squirrels of South Korea can testify, because they are being forced to compete for their winter staple, acorns, by an unusual rival: humans.
So greedy are the humans, apparently, that the squirrels are in danger of starving. According to the Wall Street Journal, the newly-formed Acorn Rangers of Seoul’s Yonsei University are now protecting the local oaks from would-be acorn-pickers. And those pickers may not be pigs, but they’re still greedy. A wildlife report from 2018 found that South Korea’s squirrel population had declined about 30 per cent in ten years.
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17th November 2019
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17th November 2019
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A small clinical study in California has suggested for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the body’s epigenetic clock, which measures a person’s biological age.
For one year, nine healthy volunteers took a cocktail of three common drugs — growth hormone and two diabetes medications — and on average shed 2.5 years of their biological ages, measured by analysing marks on a person’s genomes. The participants’ immune systems also showed signs of rejuvenation.
The results were a surprise even to the trial organizers — but researchers caution that the findings are preliminary because the trial was small and did not include a control arm.
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17th November 2019
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Based on Oxford College analysis, revealed within the British Medical Journal, vegetarians and vegans have a 20 % greater danger of stroke than those that frequently tuck right into a plate of bacon and sausages. The authors of the research, which tracked virtually 50,000 Britons for 18 years, mentioned this is likely to be as a result of veggies wouldn’t have not sufficient ldl cholesterol of their blood.
The discovering flies within the face of a lot typical knowledge, which says that vegetarianism is a wholesome various to a extra carnivorous life-style. We’re eternally being hectored in regards to the want – for each well being and environmental causes – to chop again on purple meat altogether.
But nutritionists say the elevated probability of stroke is simply one of many many well being dangers that any would-be vegetarian ought to be made conscious of earlier than they make the leap.
The healthiest diet for a creature is the one that it evolved to eat. For humans, that’s meat, fruit, and veggies. (Note the Oxford comma. Go thou and do likewise.) You want to give up cereals, be my guest. But keep the pig.
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16th November 2019
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16th November 2019
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16th November 2019
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The country’s foremost partisan hate group is apparently having labor problems.
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16th November 2019
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On a per-capita basis, Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in America. If you have plans on going to Baltimore for the holidays — cancel them immediately — that’s because the city is imploding on itself, likely to get worse in the early 2020s.
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16th November 2019
“Adam Schiff has a face that says ‘Pick me last for dodge-ball’.” — Scott Adams
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16th November 2019
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Yet another reason not to fly.
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16th November 2019
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16th November 2019
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The Pacific Legal Foundation is arguing that a California law mandating corporate boards have a minimum number of women amounts to unconstitutional sex discrimination.
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16th November 2019
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The research found that the Chinese government may have been “systematically falsifying” its organ donation numbers, raising renewed concerns over whether Beijing is still using executed prisoners and other forced donors for transplants for wealthy Chinese.
Well, those organs are just sitting there….
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15th November 2019
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15th November 2019
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15th November 2019
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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.
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15th November 2019
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More White Privilege, no doubt. Cue outrage from the Usual Suspects.
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15th November 2019
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I carried a knife when I was eight, because I was a Cub Scout and we all did.
Fargin’ amazing.
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15th November 2019
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In a move that will send shockwaves across the $3.5 trillion US healthcare industry, on Friday the Trump administration unveiled a plan that would – for the first time – force hospitals and insurers to disclose their secret negotiated rates, the WSJ reported.
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15th November 2019
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Because, you know, they totally are — Trump probably pulled the trigger.
Without Republicans we wouldn’t have school shootings, which is why they always seem to happen in states run by Republicans, like California.
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15th November 2019
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15th November 2019
US Drones Capture Footage Of Pro-Turkish Forces Engaged In Shocking War Crimes Well, they’re Turks.
ISIS Urges Followers To Unleash Wildfires On America & Europe
“Clients With Guns” Are Demanding Deposits From Crisis-Stricken Lebanese Banks
Police Arrest Ibraheem Yazeed, 29, in Disappearance of Aniah Blanchard, 19
Culture-Enriching Machetes Visit a Disco
“Wake-Up Call” To Europe: Iran Vows Increase Of Nuclear Activity Every 2 Months
At Least 300 Dead, 15,000 Injured Since Iraqi Anti-Government Protests Began In October: Report
Why Wasn’t Ibraheem Yazeed in Jail?
EU Nation-Breaking
The Joys of Modern Multicultural Sweden
Leaked US Memo Confirms NATO Ally Turkey Pursuing “Intentioned Ethnic Cleansing” In Syria
The Brazilian Connection
James Le Mesurier, British ex-army officer who trained Syria’s White Helmets, found dead in Istanbul
Iran Is Blowing Past Enriched Uranium Limits, New IAEA Report Confirms
Christian Businesswoman And Mother Marsha Lazareva Sentenced To 15 Years In Kuwait Prison Despite ‘Complete Absence Of Evidence,’ Attorneys Say
Iran Caught With Uranium Particles at Undeclared Facility, Nets Spike
The Junior Mujahideen of Linz
Palestinians fire rockets after Israel assassinates Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza
Sweden’s 100 explosions this year: What’s going on?
“These Gates Will Open” – Erdogan Declares As Turkey Begins Deporting ISIS Captives To Europe
Israel “Preparing For War” As 150 Rockets Fired From Gaza
IPT Exclusive: CAIR’s Awad Describes His “Formula” for Islamist Political Power
Video Shows American ISIS Member Stranded In Greek-Turkish Border ‘No Man’s Land’
Watch: Gaza Rockets Narrowly Miss Cars Traveling On Israeli Highway
Terror Cell Busted in Offenbach
Israel strikes Islamic Jihad in Gaza as Hamas stays out of fighting
Book Review: “Unveiled” Traces Yasmine Mohammed’s Path From Horror to Hope
Blood-Soaked Bride of ISIS Begs to Be Permitted to Return to America, Which She Renounced, Whining That She Wants to be Permitted to Drive a Car Again
DC Charity Is Accused Of Violating Anti-Terrorism Act By Providing Monetary Support To Hamas
Palestinian Islamic Jihad Seeks Revenge for Slain Chief by Targeting Israeli Civilians
Foiled Terrorist Plots: Accurately Portraying the Threat to Israeli National Security
UK braced for influx of jihadis from Turkey, after Ankara announces deportation of Briton held for a year
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14th November 2019
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Hastings was impeached and removed from his position as a Federal judge for corruption. So he got elected to Congress where he could be corrupt all day long. He’s pretty much the poster child for Corrupt Black Politician.
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14th November 2019
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14th November 2019
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There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. It is beginning to look like a science designed to solve problems that no longer exist.
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14th November 2019
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