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The robot doesn’t care who or where you are.

Michael Kosanovich, a New Jersey native, was standing between two parked 2002 Lexus IS300s in South Jamaica on Friday evening when one of the cars was “accidentally started by remote,” according to a preliminary investigation. Authorities believe that the remote feature somehow caused the car to roll forward, pinning Kosanovich between the two vehicles on 148th Street.

Guess Elon isn’t the only Justin Hammer out there.

The Arctic may have crossed key threshold, emitting billions of tons of carbon into the air, in a long-dreaded climate feedback  WaPo. Women and minorities hardest hit, no doubt.

Greenland ice losses rising faster than expected

Angry, Whiny, Self-Righteous High-school Dropout Picked as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

Will Lagarde Pledge To Do “Whatever It Takes” To Fix Climate Change?

Pacific Glaciers Redux

Greenpeace activists set off flares atop new EU headquarters as leaders gather for climate change talks

Nominations Open For ‘The World’s Greatest Climate Hypocrite’ Competition

ABC Anchor Muir LIES, Claims IG Found ‘No Spying’ from FBI

CNN Carried Only 33% of Horowitz Hearing, But Had 99% of Impeachment Hearing

Pounding the IG Report, Cuomo Demands You Believe ‘Zero’ Spying By FBI

Democrats Aren’t Even Pretending They Have A Case For Impeachment Anymore

CNN Newsroom Hosts Bungle Trump-IG Report Fact Check

Obama Attorney General Eric Holder: William Barr ‘Unfit’ For Office  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Late Night Comics Shill for Democrats on Impeachment  Not really news, but a useful reminder.

“Case Agent 1” Was a Major Driver of Fraud and Abuse in Crossfire Hurricane, “Primarily Responsible” for “Most Significant” Abuses, and Yet, Of Course, Remains an FBI Employee  Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

Impeachment Ringleaders Quietly Panic As Moderate Democrats Bail

Who Is Case Agent 1?

‘Obama Wingman’ Eric Holder Launches Fast, Furious Attack On AG Barr

Matthews Hails Pelosi’s ‘Biblical’ Impeachment Rhetoric; Guest Hits ‘Childish’ GOP

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I guess there’s some hope for the old place after all.

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The near-homogeneity of Silicon Valley political beliefs has gone from wry punchline to national crisis in the United States. The monoculture of virtue signaling and high- and heavy-handed woke corporate leftism at places like Google, Twitter, and Facebook was once a source of chagrin for those who found themselves shut out of various internet sites for deviating from the orthodoxies of the Palo Alto elites. After the 2016 presidential election, however, it became obvious that the digitalistas were doing a lot more than just making examples of a few handpicked “extremists.” From the shadow banning of non-leftist sites and views to full-complement political propagandizing, Bay Area leftists have been so aggressive in bending the national psyche to their will that there is talk in the papers and on the cable “news” channels of “existential threats to our democracy.”

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It’s all about teh Narrative.

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Appaenlty it’s not OK to be white any more.

Freeberg does a deep dive.

The Important part:

So I taught myself, in childhood, how to program computers because I figured out I really don’t like people enough to talk to them. Voting consistently against democrats came later, when I realized I don’t hate people enough to want them to suffer. That is also not unusual. I think if you were to question a lot of political conservatives as to why they are conservatives, a fair answer you’d get back a lot of the time would be “I just don’t hate people that much.” But that’s a bunny trail. The truly frightening question that confronted me now was: Given that I can get along with some people, but not all, can it be that the difference lies completely in their social strengths? Am I only making friends with just the friendliest of people? Just taking from what few relationships I have, and putting nothing back?

And we fellas have to ask that question a lot, because when couples have “friends,” most of them are her friends. That’s just how it works. This gets revealed when it’s time for the couple to split, and it leads to a sense of isolation most women will never know.

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I would be reluctant to characterize Methodists as Christian.

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he two shooters, one male and one female, were both African-American. The male shooter, 47-year-old David Anderson, reportedly posted anti-police and anti-Semitic rhetoric on his social media page and was once a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, according to the New York Times. Members of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, per CNN, believe “blacks are the true descendants of biblical Jews.” Both Anderson and Francine Graham were killed during Tuesday’s shootout.

UPDATE: Rashida Tlaib Falsely Blames White Supremacists For New Jersey Shooting

UPDATE: Rashida Tlaib on Black Hebrew Israelites’ Targeting and Slaughter of Jews: “White Supremacy kills”

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Just leave your Blue State attitudes behind, please.

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As predicted.

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It was only January when certain journalists went way out on a limb to give friendly news coverage to the racist and anti-Semitic Black Hebrew Israelites cult. This very odd editorial decision seemed to come in the service of better sticking it to the high school students from Covington Catholic — boys whom Black Hebrew Israelites had taunted on the national mall, inciting what became a famous incident.

So, now that one of the black nationalist cult’s former members stands accused of a deadly shoot-out with police, possibly in an act of anti-Semitic terrorism targeting a Kosher grocery market in Jersey City, we are probably not going to hear much talk about the fringe group in the broader context of radicalization and gun violence. That would be a personal and professional embarrassment for a lot of reporters and editors, some of who are currently in the middle of defending against lawsuits by the Covington teens.

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There’s a lot of ground between puttering around with your face strapped to a snorkel and managing the dangers, equipment, certification and expenses of scuba diving. Surface-supplied diving systems fill some of this space by strapping you to a breathing hose that plunges deeper than a snorkel but without some of the complications of scuba. Typically these systems rely on some form of compressed air, but a new prototype from Austria uses a more sustainable air supply: you. The ExoLung translates the diver’s swimming motions into air movement, keeping breathing air flowing so long as the diver keeps swimming.

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Continuing corporate efforts to support at-risk youth, Apple this week joined forces with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and former first lady Michelle Obama to hand out new Macs and iPads to students and teachers at Randle Highlands Elementary School in Washington, D.C.

I’m opening a book on how long it takes for this program to disintegrate. The L.A. school district handed out free computers to ‘at-risk’ kids who immediately turned around and sold them on the street, then reported ‘Oh, gee, my computer was lost/stolen, could I please have another?’ I’ll leave you guess how many MILLIONS of dollars this cost the taxpayers.

Exposing The Promoters Of Climate Anxiety

Greenland’s ice losses have septupled and are now in line with its highest sea-level scenario, scientists say

WaPo.

One-third of recent global methane increase comes from tropical Africa

Report: A Cloud Drifting Over a Solar Farm Knocked Out Power for 10hrs

TIME Names Greta Thunberg ‘Person Of The Year’ Whining is its own reward.

Promoters of Climate Anxiety

Nets Grovel Before Greta: She’s ‘Woke’ With a ‘Sweet Voice’ That’s ‘Inspired a Lot of Kids’

Nation Surprised To Learn Time Magazine Still In Print Babylon Bee.

NOAA goes Hollywood with “Arctic Report Card” at #AGU19

The Manntastic climate doom panel at #AGU19

Climate change could make many US homes uninsurable  But Bernie could pay your insurance for you. Hey, it could happen, just like ‘climate change’.

Trump assaults facts to survive impeachment  CNN.

HILARIOUS: MSNBC Blames Fox News for Lack of Public Support for Impeachment The swine.

Matthews Hails ‘Boss’ Pelosi Sending Trump to ‘Infamy’; ‘Chilling’ If He Isn’t Removed

Lavrov Mocks Media Frenzy Over “Secrets” Exchanged During “Normal” Diplomatic Meeting With Trump

Democrats Won’t To Let Lack Of Evidence Stop Impeachment

How Democrats lost the Impeachment War — and probably 2020

Amazon: Trump photon-torpedoed our $10bn JEDI dream because he hates CEO Jeff Bezos  And who could blame him?

‘Are You People Insane?’: CNN’s Don Lemon Reacts To Trump Team’s Meme

CNN’s Chris Cuomo: House GOP ‘Ignored Their Oath’ By Voting Against Impeachment  Fredo is agitated.

Liberals Setting the Stage to Claim 2020 Election Results Illegitimate

Surprise! CNN and MSNBC, Which Have Covered Every Moment of the Fake Impeachment Hearings, Absolutely Refuse to Air the Horowitz Testimony

Joy Behar Upset Majority of Voters Not Backing Impeachment: Trump ‘Tactics’ Are Working!

Will Democrats Accept the Results of the 2020 Elections?

‘Blew This Story’: Even Liberal Writers Are Shredding The New York Times’ Reporting On Trump’s Anti-Semitism Executive Order

‘It’s Pretty Bad’: Michael Horowitz Sums Up FBI’s Surveillance Abuses Against Trump Aide

MSNBC Panel Dismisses Clinton Impeachment: Unlike Trump, He Didn’t Hurt America!  And, unlike Trump, he actually broke the law and abused his office.

Chuck Todd Fears Dems Not Politicizing Impeachment Enough, ‘Trying to Play By the Rules’

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Stay out of That Part of Town and you won’t have a problem. Just sayin’.

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Hey, when you need it, you need it badly.

Popular ‘Science’.

If you’re worried about whether your oats are gluten-free, you need to remove yourself from the coast before the rising sea levels drown you.

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Which is why I no longer use it, although I used to.

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I guess you can’t always get what you want. Somebody spread the word on campus.

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People perceive a person’s competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person’s clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by Princeton University. These judgments are made in a matter of milliseconds, and are very hard to avoid.

Why would you want to avoid them, unless you’re a Grievance Studies professional? People in most cases dress like what they are: Stoners dress like stoners, bums dress like bums, farmers dress like farmers, students dress like students, rich people dress like people in very expensive casual clothes. Most people are Players and dress to tell you who they want you to think they are. Like terrorists, they have no one to blame but themselves if you take them at their word.

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I guess scientific consensus doesn’t really get you that much.

Don’t like your doctor’s advice? Wait five years and he’ll reverse it.

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Looking for the ambulances, I’d guess.

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Feces and needles on the streets — gee, I wonder why?

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Richard Gooding had one of the most famous whisky collections in history. In fact, before passing away in 2014, he spent years at distilleries in Scotland and at auctions building his 3,900 bottle collection, including some of the rarest bottles in the world.

Daily Mail.

Of course she did. They all do. This is news?

Actually, the news here is that the knives appear to be coming out for Professor Umbrage.

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Plenty of room for that in Texas.

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Not as long as Trump is President they won’t.

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

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Wasting YOUR money is what the government does best.

At a previous point in our history (say, when I was a child), kids learned a lot in school. Why don’t we return to the way we did it back then?

Claim: The Montreal Protocol Saved the Arctic From Global Warming

DOJ Watchdog Puts Final Nail In Steele Dossier’s Coffin

MSNBC’s Katy Tur Frets Liberals Not Doing Enough to Dismantle Capitalism

The Woke Media: Apologists For The State

No joke: Russian scientists marked problem Kara Sea polar bear with T-34

Report Reveals The Extent Of Liz Warren’s Past Defending Big Business From Enviro Activists

BREAKING: #ExxonKnew lawsuit crashes and burns

Exxon Defeats Climate Crusading AG’s Attempt To Hold Big Oil Responsible For Duping Investors

Exxon Mobil Prevails Over “Politically-Biased” New York AG In Major Climate-Change Case

At #AGU19, they declare – full “climate crisis mode” – but there’s an inconvenient fact

Mega-Rich Environmentalists Respond To Questions About Their Use Of Private Jets

40 million more people at risk of flooding as Greenland loses ice ‘seven times faster than in 1990s’  Call me when one of them gets wet.

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Professor Umbrage does not appear to be as popular as her Pokemon Victim Point score would suggest.

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Two American favorites.

With thanks to Debbie Witt, a kindred soul.

Jonathan Turley.

Despite this shockingly damning report, much of the media is reporting only that Horowitz did not find it unreasonable to start the investigation, and ignoring a litany of false representations and falsifications of evidence to keep the secret investigation going. Nothing was found to support any of those allegations, and special counsel Robert Mueller also confirmed there was no support for collusion and conspiracy allegations repeated continuously for two years by many experts and members of Congress.

In other words, when the Titanic set sail, there was no reason for it not to. Then there was that fateful iceberg. Like the crew of the Titanic, the FBI knew investigative icebergs floated around its Russia investigation, but not only did it not reduce speed, it actively suppressed the countervailing reports. Despite the many conflicts to its FISA application and renewals, the FBI leadership, including McCabe, plowed ahead into the darkness.

Turley is a Democrat and a Professor of Law at Georgetown.

UPDATE: Turley Takes Down Media Trying to Spin ‘Damning’ IG Report

UPDATE: Jonathan Turley Says Even His Wife And Dog Got Threats After Impeachment Testimony

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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.?

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As Commodore Research managing director Jeffrey Landsberg writes, US farm income in 2019 is on pace for the highest income seen in six Years. This, Landsberg continues, “is very significant as US farmers are not faring nearly as poorly as many pundits and media outlets continue to state. As a result, US farmers collectively have not been in any real uproar and are not jeopardizing Trump’s re-election chances.”

Ryrkaypiy ‘over-run’ by >50 polar bears is probably due to more Chukchi Sea bears

Miss Universe Says ‘The Planet Is Dying’ After Epic Steve Harvey Eye Roll

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #389

A Geological Perspective on Sea Level Rise Acceleration  I’ll believe it when Malibu is under water.

Mega-Rich Environmentalists Respond To Questions About Their Use Of Private Jets

L A Times supports mandated relocation of coastal properties based on climate alarmist flawed sea level rise claims

The antidote to @GretaThunberg – Naomi Seibt – former climate alarmist turned climate skeptic

Fix earth’s climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets

Vulnerable Nations Call for Ecocide to Be Recognized as an International Crime  For which, of course, they hope to be handsomely compensated by The Usual Suspects.

Art Basel Climate Change Installation Accused Of Being Bad For The Environment

The Great Recycling Con

Linda Ronstadt’s delicious takedown of Mike Pompeo  CNN, your local high school news source.

‘A Method To The Madness’: Historian Doug Wead Describes Trump As A ‘Great Leader’

What To Expect During Nadler’s Monday Impeachment ‘Trial’

Impeachment Charade, Faculty Lounge Edition

Exposing The False Statements Made In The Trump-Impeachment Hearings

Impeach Trump Because of…Slavery?

Geraldo Rivera Snaps Over CNN’s Attack On Fox News: ‘F*ck You And F*ck Russia’

Marianne Williamson Completely Fabricates A Trump Pardon Of Charles Manson

Jerry Nadler’s Opening Statement Interrupted By Infowars Host Owen Shroyer Screaming ‘Trump Is Innocent!’  Wonder how they’ll handle getting their own tactics shoved in their faces.

Scarborough Virtually Admits: I Aim to Destroy Trump Cause He Mocked Mika  Actually, I think he mocked the both of you.

EXASPERATED: Journalists Fear Dems May Have Blown Impeachment

Donald Trump could abuse power again if he is not impeached, Democrats claim  My net worth has increased 20% since Trump became President. If that’s ‘abuse’, I’d like some more, please.

IG Report Confirms Brennan Lied Through His Teeth About Steele Dossier  Not really news but a useful reminder. Prediction: Nobody will get fired, nobody will go to jail.

Star Democrat “Witness” Says That Trump Should Be Impeached Because His 8-Year-Old Son Thinks Trump Is a “Bad Person,” Then Jumps from the Witness Seat to the Prosecutor’s Table and Starts Interrogating Republican Witnesses

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All told, the cost of nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan will amount to more than $2 trillion. Was the money well spent?

There is little to show for it. The Taliban control much of the country. Afghanistan remains one of the world’s largest sources of refugees and migrants. More than 2,400 American soldiers and more than 38,000 Afghan civilians have died.

Steve Sailer.

Makes you wonder how they get from Africa to Mexico. It’s not as if they could walk.

I smell the fetid stench of progressive NGOs.

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Just waiting for Chicago to go the way of Detroit.

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Liam Hemsworth, whom I’ve never heard of and cannot be bothered to look up, must have a Forrest Gump-level IQ. What rational adult would marry Miley Cyrus?

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No shit.

Obama started it as The Magic Negro. Nobody cared about his policies; they were just there for the music.

As Scott Adams often says, Trump found money lying on the table and just scooped it up. If the people want a show, well, ‘hey, kids, let’s put on a show’. Mickey Rooney should have been alive to see this day.

Joel Kotkin.

When Britain’s Jews go to the polls next week, they do so at an uncomfortable moment. For the first time in at least a half century, their community—roughly 330,000 citizens—has become a major, if unwelcome, political issue. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is a long-standing ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terrorist proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, and a fierce opponent of Israel’s right to exist, so the prospect of him becoming Prime Minister has made Jews nervous. As the New York Times suggests, British Jews are “Labourites practically by birth,” but many of them are likely to vote Conservative this time around.

Es iz schwer tzu sein a yid.

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Complicating matters, socialism exists entirely as a response to capitalism, as has been the case from the time Marx first put pen to paper. And as if that weren’t enough, the very usage of the terms “capitalism” and “socialism” has evolved past the point of clear meaning.

Everybody is Humpty-Dumpty: Words mean what you want them to mean, no more, no less.