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I know a man – a proxy for tens of millions – who came from a foreign country, threw down $500 per night at a New York hotel, and was astonished to find himself plunging the toilet within the hour of checking in. Not surprising. Not unusual. American toilets don’t work right. This is why there are plungers next to every toilet.

This didn’t use to be the case. In the day’s past, plungers were for technicians in the emergency. Now they are part of everyday life. It’s nuts.

Mine all have. For good reason.

Don Boudreaux.

David Brooks’s recent criticism of socialism and applause for capitalism contains much that is good. Indeed, much of it is very good (if not original to Brooks)…

Yet reading Brooks’s essay left me somewhat less than satisfied.

I know the feeling.

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People just have no respect for the avant-garde any more….

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity.

Joel Kotkin.

Whether in Europe, East Asia or the Americas, this new middle-class rebellion may be seen as what one Marxist publication called “a strike against the rising cost of living.”

Although the leftists identify this more with protests against things like subway fare hikes, in the latest uprising the key has been those things, notably energy and housing prices, which threaten to “proletarianize” the living standards of the not long ago decently comfortable.

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The purpose of their Saturday article by David De La Fuente was to shame the Democrats into including “candidates of color’ at their next presidential debate but a big take away from the story was that it basically described Steyer as a scam artist.

Climate Change: What Does Science Really Say? – YouTube

German farmers set bonfires across the country in protest at being ‘ignored’ in climate drive

Activist junk science breeds bad policy

Survey: Aussie Voters Put the Economy and Healthcare Ahead of Climate Change

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The problem with putting government in charge of things is that when they screw up, things go more bad more quickly, and it takes longer to fix it; nobody gets fired and nobody goes to jail. The Animas River disaster in Colorado, caused by the government agency in charge of preventing such things, is a good example of that.

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The headline is a lie; the author doesn’t know as much as he thinks he does about what is “good” and “bad” about automation, merely what he has been taught about what might be good or bad about automation. Articles like this make me itch.

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Hammer tech.

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Not that you’d know it from the Drive-By Media.

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Presumably he wants to provide everybody with computers as well, since Internet service is rather useless eithout one.

He’s just full of ideas for spending other people’s money, isn’t he?

Adam Schiff: This Phone Record Proves that the OMB Called Rudy Giuliani. That Is All the Proof We Need That He Was Lobbying to Deny Ukraine Aid. OMB: That’s… That’s not our phone number, dude Adam Schiff: … Adam Schiff: But Russia

Reflections Thread: Please Share Your Sad Stories About How Trump Destroyed the Economy and Blew Up the Planet and Killed You

Rudy Giuliani just blew up Trump’s “no quid pro quo” talking point in impeachment debate  Vox.

What?! Trevor Noah Tells Anti-Trump Actor: ‘Many Performers Keep Politics to Themselves’  If so, I haven’t noticed.

Impeachment Proving a Cash Cow For the President

Here’s What Happens When A Stoner Crashes A Climate Protest

Climate Protesters Burn Oil By Holding Up Traffic In D.C.

Climate Models Have Not Improved in 50 Years

2019 the Third Least-Chilly in the Satellite Temperature Record

Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise  BBC. Women and minorities hardest hit.

“Bewildered” Climate Scientists: Aussie Politicians are Still Not Listening Gee, I wonder what the reason for that might be….

The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

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If the NATO summit this week marking the 70th anniversary of its foundation in 1949 was meant to be a resounding celebration, it backfired spectacularly, more as a resounding farce. Amid all the pomp and ceremony afforded by an official reception at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the British Queen, the two-day gathering descended into squabbling, sneering and back-stabbing.

For an organization that declares its mission to be about “maintaining peace and security”, the infighting between NATO leaders showed an organization virtually at war with itself.

The reason for NATO expired with the old Soviet Union. In any case, there is no longer any excuse for including Turkey in a “North Atlantic” treaty organization.

David Brooks, NYT.

Or doesn’t, as the case may be. (Some might say that he still is, only not as much. But I won’t go there.)

My socialist sympathies didn’t survive long once I became a journalist. I quickly noticed that the government officials I was covering were not capable of planning the society they hoped to create. It wasn’t because they were bad or stupid. The world is just too complicated.

Actually, it because a lot of them are bad or stupid. Let’s face it, the cream of the crop don’t go into government service. Visit a local government office if you don’t believe me.

UPDATE: Join the Crooks and Liars, Get a Government Job!, by Audacious Epigone

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According to the New York Times, three of the Saudis were filming the attack. It is unknown whether they were students at the base, or whether they are connected to the gunman.

UPDATE: Maybe the Saudis Aren’t Really Our Best Friends Forever?, by Steve Sailer

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In terms of biological ageing, the body seems to shift gears three times during our lifespans, new research suggests – with 34 years, 60 years and 78 years the key thresholds.

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Drawing on technology developed for nuclear-powered submarines, the small modular reactors or SMRs could be located at individual plants to generate the large amounts of electricity needed to secure the hydrogen used in the process, according to Chief Executive Officer Warren East.

Synthetics and biofuels are likely to become the mainstay of aviation in coming decades, East said, providing liquid propellants for the next generation of aero-engines before the advent of all-electric alternatives. Reactors that could power the hydrogen extraction are small enough to be transported by truck and would occupy a building one-10th the size of a nuclear power station.

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Miami police and other officers appear to have used surrounding bystanders as “human shields” when they responded to the the hijacked UPS truck following an armed heist of a jewelry store Thursday. After suspects led police on a two-county rush-hour chase through Miami which ended in a hail of gunfire in the middle of crowded traffic on Miramar Parkway and Flamingo Road, hundreds of police bullets from 19 officers firing on the truck brought it to an end.

Former NYT “Public Editor,” Now WaPo Hack: How Can We, The Unbiased Fact-Finding Media, Convince Our Deplorable Fellow Citizens to Do What We Want and Impeach This Motherf***er?

Jonathan Turley Calls For Civility In Impeachment Hearing — Gets Threats Instead  Democrats: Party of Fear — Party of Hate — Party of Death.

Pelosi: “Civilization Itself Is At Stake” If Trump Wins Re-Election

WaPo Columnist: Journalists Need To Simplify Impeachment Coverage To Reach Undecided Americans  ‘Orange  Man Bad’ seems to be about as simple as can be.

Nancy Pelosi Scolds CNN’s Jake Tapper For Asking About Impeachment

What The “Expert” Panel Should Have Told You About Impeachment… But Didn’t

Tucker Carlson And Neil Patel: Impeachment Charade — Faculty Lounge Edition

Adam Schiff Says Trump ‘Doesn’t Give A Sh*t About What’s Good For Our Country’  Yeah, you can just ignore the strong stock market, the increasing number of jobs, and the strengthening manufacturing sector.

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Question: Do you think that one in five managers would refuse to hire a black person?

What does it tell you that Trump supporters are more discriminated against than black people?

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Been waiting for this to happen somewhere.

Actually, I’m waiting for some parent whose kid catches measles from an anti-vaxxer to beat the anti-vaxxer into dust. That would be appropriate.

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Joe Biden is probably the unfittest candidate out there.

And yet he is the front-runner for the Democrat nomination. What does that tell you about Democrats?

Confronted by a skeptical independent voter about his corrupt dealings with Ukrainian gas company Burisma, and the icky spectacle of his son with his hand out following him in his capacity as vice president wherever he went, Biden flew into a rage against the man, an 83-year-old retired Iowa farmer with the central casting name of Merle Gorman.  Not only did Biden fail to answer the man’s question, but his response was to attack him, not once, but three times, for being fat.

And there you have it.

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The shooter opened fire in a classroom building on Friday morning, which suggests he was on the base for a reason. The assailant managed to kill three others before he was killed by officers with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, who arrived on the scene and fatally shot the suspect after exchanging gunfire. FBI and ATF agents also responded to the scene.

At least eight others, including two police officers, were wounded in the cross-fire.

Go ahead – try it.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that Facebook was a tool of the Far Right.

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No indication whether this is Trump’s fault, but I’m sure it is.

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After just one day in zero gravity conditions, researchers found over 80% of cancer cells died in a trial. Now, their plan is to send them to space. The initial results confirm earlier findings from German researchers.

Islamic State Alive And Well In Europe

A Failure Of Leadership In The Muslim World

Stockholm: 51% Of Women Feel Unsafe Going Out At Night

POTUS Greeted With Cheers As He Talks About Death Of ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Several People Reportedly Stabbed In London Bridge Attack

Australia jails three Isil-inspired militants for decades over Melbourne Christmas bomb plot in 2016

Sudan repeals Omar al-Bashir-era law regulating women’s behaviour and dissolves former ruling party

‘I’m not surprised members of the public had to step in to do their bit’ says father of victim from eerily similar 2017 attack

London Bridge attack: Urgent review of UK terror threat level after it was downgraded just three weeks ago

String Of Attacks Rocks Globe: Hague Stabbings Leave Several Injured, Man Takes Hostages In Rio

London Bridge terror attack: Who was Usman Khan? What we know about suspect  Well, we know he was Muslim.

The Lost City of Londonistan

Fantasists of the Palestinian Authority

Irish Isil suspect arrested in Dublin after being deported from Turkey

At least 10 killed in attack on church in Burkina Faso 

The Prisoner of Hasaka

A Twilight Struggle in France

London Bridge attack: Terrorist who was jailed and released alongside Usman Khan is arrested on suspicion of fresh terror offences 

100 killed as fighting intensifies in Syria’s Idlib province

A Weekend with American Muslims for Palestine: Awad Says CAIR Fights Zionism “On a Daily Basis”

Mohamed the Butcher Becomes Mohamed the Rapist

Anti-Israel Activist Linda Sarsour Says Israel Is ‘Built On The Idea That Jews Are Supreme To Everybody Else’

Gay Activists Still Grasping At Straws: Claim Trump’s ‘AIDS Day’ Statement Left Out LGBTs, But So Did Obama’s

Yazidi woman collapses in front of Isil rapist on Iraqi television show

Second terror suspect returned to prison as officers begin working through list of 69 suspects

The Huddled Masses Yearn to Cross the Border Fence Into Hungary

The Superpowers Battling Over Iraq’s Giant Oil Field

Iranian State TV Acknowledges Killings Of “Rioters” During Gas Price-Hike Protests

Trump Administration Engaging with U.S. Islamists

The Berber Queen who defied the Caliphate: Al-Kahina and the Islamic Conquest of North Africa

London Bridge terror attack: Family of Usman Khan say they are ‘shocked and saddened’ by atrocity

Pakistani tycoon hands over £50m London house and £140m accounts in record National Crime Agency asset recovery

Former Sex Slave Confronts ISIS Rapist On TV After He Was Found Living Free In Germany

Japanese aid ‘hero’ shot dead in eastern Afghanistan after four decades of dedication

US forces kill jihadist leader in Syria with precision ‘ninja’ missile that chops up targets with blades

Lisa Smith charged with membership of Islamic State and denied bail at Dublin court hearing

Massive Leak Confirms Turkey’s “Gold-For-Gas” Scheme To Evade US Sanctions On Iran

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You can’t tell the victims without a scorecard….

Steve Sailer.

An article in The Diplomat that is relatively informative by the standards of the genre, argues that the rise of pale-skinned Koreans has made Southeast Asian women even more obsessive about whitening their skins….

Afternoon Mirror: Pamela Karlan Offers Half-Assed Apology For Barron Trump Joke

Grotesque! PBS Reporter Defends Karlan’s Attack on Barron Trump; GOP Is ‘Seizing on’ It  Not ‘pouncing’?

Impeachment hearings live updates: Nadler says scholars’ testimony is ‘clear and compelling evidence’ that Trump abused his power  Really?

CBS Hides Dem Witness Lashing Out at Barron Trump, ABC Calls It Witty

Jerry Nadler Appears To Doze Off During Impeachment Hearing Can’t hardly blame him.

Nets Glorify Pro-Impeachment Witnesses, Cover Over Their Dem Donations

Todd Complains Democrats Don’t Focus Enough on Impeachment

Pelosi Says House Will Draft Articles Of Impeachment Against “King” Trump

CNN Hypes Going to ‘War’ Against Climate Change

Birds are shrinking due to climate change, scientists claim

UN’s Agenda 2030 Translator: How To Read The UN’s New Sustainable Development Goals

The Anti-Greta

Majority of climate simulation models have accurately predicted global heating since 1970s, study finds 

Another year, another carbon emissions record

Hot PBS Take on Fox: ‘Helping to Destroy the Planet’

Climate change could boost British crops, pioneering field trial shows 

Mason scientist develops game to arm users against climate change ‘fake news’

Some Facts About Energy

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It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.

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And Justin Hammer Elon Musk laughs all the way to the bank….

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A cumulative list. Apparently the gene pool cleans itself out quite effectively.

Babylon Bee.

Why not? They’ve tried everything else.

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Only among the foolish. Think of it as evolution in action.

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In what appears to be the biggest disruption to French society since the gilets jaunes demonstrators nearly torched Paris last year, public workers across the country stayed home on Thursday, immobilizing public transit across the country as the first general strike in more than 20 years began.

The walkout was called by unions angry at President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms (not unlike how a planned – then scrapped – gas tax hike sparked the giles jaunes).

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This is why a lot of us don’t feel like panicking over ‘climate change’.

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

Personally, I prefer my acorns processed through a pig first.

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Cory Booker moans that the Democrats are “spiraling towards a debate stage that could have six people with no diversity whatsoever.” This statement is flatly false. The six Dems who have locked up places on the debate stage are Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Tom Steyer.

Well, let’s look at the numbers.

Looks like blacks and Latinx want the Old White People. Whose fault is that?

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Isn’t it appalling the racism that black people have to undergo in modern Amerika?

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Took him long enough.