Archive for December, 2019
10th December 2019
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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10th December 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.?
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10th December 2019
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9th December 2019
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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.”
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9th December 2019
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9th December 2019
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9th December 2019
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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.
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9th December 2019
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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9th December 2019
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Just waiting for Chicago to go the way of Detroit.
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9th December 2019
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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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9th December 2019
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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.
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9th December 2019
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The last thing Evanston, Il needs is more drugs. The Cook County city bordering Chicago has already become notorious for its link to the Windy City’s drug trade with multi-million dollar busts and a former detective indicted last year for allegedly leaving the department for the DEA to work on behalf of the La Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos or the United Drug-Traffickers Organization.
Violent crime was up 20% last year. Evanston’s population has declined at twice the rate as Chicago’s. The decline was most pronounced among Evanston’s black population. African-Americans, who made up 22.5% of the population in 2000, fell to 16.9% in 2017. But Evanston’s City Council found a solution.
Get high and fix race relations at the same time.
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9th December 2019
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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9th December 2019
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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.
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9th December 2019
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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.
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9th December 2019
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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9th December 2019
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People just have no respect for the avant-garde any more….
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9th December 2019
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9th December 2019
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Let that be a lesson to us all.
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9th December 2019
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Welcome to Londonistan. Be careful not to step in the diversity.
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9th December 2019
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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9th December 2019
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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.
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8th December 2019
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8th December 2019
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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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8th December 2019
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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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8th December 2019
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Hammer tech.
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8th December 2019
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8th December 2019
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Not that you’d know it from the Drive-By Media.
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8th December 2019
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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?
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7th December 2019
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7th December 2019
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7th December 2019
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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.
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7th December 2019
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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7th December 2019
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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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7th December 2019
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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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7th December 2019
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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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7th December 2019
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7th December 2019
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In November, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Thetis intercepted two semi-submersibles in the Eastern Pacific, a favorite haunt of so-called narco-subs. They were carrying cocaine northbound toward the United States. Each vessel was carrying just under two tons of the narcotic.
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6th December 2019
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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.
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6th December 2019
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6th December 2019
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6th December 2019
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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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6th December 2019
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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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6th December 2019
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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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6th December 2019
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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.
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6th December 2019
Go ahead – try it.
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6th December 2019
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I’ll bet you didn’t know that Facebook was a tool of the Far Right.
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6th December 2019
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No indication whether this is Trump’s fault, but I’m sure it is.
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6th December 2019
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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.
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6th December 2019
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