‘Too Cute’? CNN Host Lines Up Insults for Trump Tweeting Iran’s Dissenters in Farsi  If Obama had done it they would have creamed their pants.

Rep. Jordan Calls on Senate to Dismiss Impeachment ‘Right Away’  Whatever the Senate calls a motion for summary judgment.

House Democrats Launch Investigation Into Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Program  Good. Maybe they can pick up some tips on how to do real government.

Report: Iran Plans To Sue Trump Over Soleimani Killing  Iran has been watching too mch MSNBC.

Warren, Van Hollen Ask SEC To Investigate Insider Trading By Mar-A-Lago Guests Before Soleimani Airstrike  Scraaaaaaape that barrell….

‘View’ Encourages Schumer to Say Trump’s ‘Lying’ About Iran Threat  I doubt that he needs any encouragement.

Daughter Of Democratic County Commissioner Arrested During Trump Rally For Disorderly Conduct, Resisting Arrest  The nuts don’t fall far from the tree.

Justin Trudeau Blames U.S-Iran ‘Escalation’ For Iran Plane Attack That Killed 176 People  OK, doomer.

Joe, Mika, and Colbert ‘Hopeful’ Trump Will ‘Pay For All the Lies’  The way Obama did?

Donald Trump’s Country Party

Nancy Pelosi’s Conspiracy Theory

Nets Warn That Russia Is Trying to Steal the Election for Trump Again

Carville Rages on MSNBC: ‘Trumpism Is the Greatest Threat’ to America Since Communism

CNN Touts Biden’s ‘Chicken Soup Appeal,’ a Cure for the Trump Illness

MSNBC Hails ‘Brilliant,’ ‘Sparky,’ Debate for Warren, But Fear Trump Could Win

CNN’s Toobin Declares Trump ‘Guilty,’ Frets Biden ‘Poisoned Pill’

Van Jones: No Candidate In Democratic Debate Could ‘Take Donald Trump Out’

Media: Trump Turned College Football Championship Into MAGA Rally

‘The Senate Is On Trial’: Jerry Nadler Says The Impeachment Is No Longer Just About The President

Obama’s National Security Advisor Admits Trump “Absolutely Correct” To Kill Soleimani

CNN Conspiracy Theory: Pompeo Allowed Possible ‘Benghazi’ on U.S. Ambassador

Poll: 85 percent would vote for Trump to keep Meghan and Harry out of the US

Andrea Mitchell Spins for Obama on Iran: Droning Now Different Than Droning Then!

WEISS: Bloomberg Is Wasting His Money Attacking Teflon Don

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‘Living concrete’ which can heal its own cracks and even ‘give birth’ to new bricks, has been developed by scientists.

The new material is a mixture of sand and bacteria, which can act as both a structural, load bearing substance, but can also carry out biological functions, like reproduction.

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But that trick never works….

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When government seeks to enact laws that harm your interests, should you have a right to speak out to defend yourself?

The Seattle City Council recently voted to shut down such public dissent. Using foreign attempts to interfere with U.S. elections as an excuse, the city council passed a bill to retaliate against American companies that had opposed an onerous city tax on employers. The move is the latest in a string of attempts around the country by politicians to enact campaign finance restrictions to immunize themselves from public accountability.

That’s what you get when Democrats run your city.

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Metal parts are used in all kinds of high-performance and safety-critical applications in transportation, mining, construction and power-generation equipment such as turbine engines. Most are made using one of a small number of classical manufacturing processes that haven’t changed much in decades.

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The idea of robotic blacksmithing is to extend the blacksmith’s art with new digital capabilities. Parts are shaped by repeatedly and incrementally forming a piece of metal which is precisely positioned into a press. This powered press or hammer system will interchange tools depending on the shape needed.

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The Iran deal was never meant to stop Iran from building a bomb—it was supposed to delay it until disaster happened on someone else’s watch.

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Burn the heretic!

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All while being one of those little plastic thingies that is destroying the planet.

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Late Tuesday, MSNBC made sure to express their anger and disappointment with not only CNN, the Des Moines Register, and the moderators, but all six 2020 Democratic presidential candidates for skipping over newly-released impeached documents from Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and refusing to make it the focus of the debate. Awhile into the airing of grievances, lyin’ Brian Williams interjected to rule that it wasn’t meant to be a slight. But like he did when lying about his reporting on Iraq and Hurricane Katrina, his claim didn’t hold water.

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Fortunately, they can do that in America. Overseas? Not so much.

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In the one year since New York City implemented a mandatory $15 minimum wage, businesses have been struggling with the increased labor costs, Fox News reported previously. “They’re cutting their staff. They’re cutting their hours. They’re shutting down,” said Queens Chamber of Commerce president, Thomas Grech – who reports seeing an uptick in small business closures over the past six to nine months. “It’s not just the rent.”

Bronx Chamber of Commerce president Lisa Sorin notes that the increase has hurt small businesses the most, while Manhattan employers and their customers can afford to pay more to compensate. “It’s almost like a whirlwind of keep up or get out,” she said.

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Former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn filed court papers Tuesday to withdraw his guilty plea, saying federal prosecutors had acted in “bad faith” and broken their end of the bargain when they sought prison time for him.

The Guardian wags its finger.

Telling people what they can throw out and recycle is important, but corporations and governments that are in the business of growth do not want to address the real problem: the vast and escalating quantity of plastic and other stuff that people buy, use a bit and then throw away. Along with celebrities, “influencers” and PR companies, they seek to create needs for things we never knew we wanted, and then manipulate us to buy more of everything. Bombarded by advertisements, we are then persuaded that the more we binge-shop, the more fulfilling and satisfying our lives will be.

Hear that? All of you unenlightened people are being shits but it’s not your fault — you’re just puppets in the hands of Bad Guys who make you do Bad Things. (Like vote for Trump.)

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That’s what happens when you let Democrats run your health insurance.

Victor Davis Hanson. (A real farmer.)

I grew up with an entire local network of clubs and get-togethers, and ferried my grandparents to periodic meetings of the Walnut Improvement Club, Eastern Star, the Odd Fellows, Masons, the Grange, and Sun-Maid growers. They exchanged gossip, of course, but also vital folk and empirical information on irrigation, fertilizers, and machines.

The point was to remind us that “we” (i.e., the vanishing rural classes) needed to stick together—especially given glimpses of what the country would be like in the 21st century. When one of us died or got sick, people showed up with flowers, food, and offered help—whether the use of a tractor, or truck or hired man to “get you through this.”

Now? Zilch.

Whoopi, Behar Tell Schiff Ukrainian Plane Passengers ‘Would Still Be Alive’ If Not For Trump

Whoopi Goldberg And Joy Behar Blame Trump For Plane Shot Down By Iran  Of course they do.

Trump Economy Gets Less Than 1% of Network Evening News Coverage

Ex-Treasury Department Official Pleads Guilty To Leaking Trump Associates’ Financial Documents To BuzzFeed

Alec Baldwin Blames ‘Trump Supporters’ For ‘The Near Moral Collapse Of This Country’

Exclusive: Ann Coulter Explains The Top 5 Ways Trump Is Selling Out The Working Man

Unhinged Alec Baldwin: Trump Voters Caused the ‘Colossal Destruction’ of America

MSNBC Plugs Palin-Pounding PBS Film on the Rise of Racism Under Trump

Georgia Democratic Congressional Candidate Calls Trump ‘America’s #1 Domestic Terrorist’

Trump’s retweet of photoshopped image leaves panel speechless  CNN. There’s a first.

Electoral college: how Trump could lose the popular vote and win again  Guardian. Just watching Democrat heads explode would be worth it.

With a New Weapon in Donald Trump’s Hands, The Iran Crisis Risks Going Nuclear  Newsweek.

Bernie Sanders is back – and Donald Trump is delighted

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Accuses CNN Of Bringing On Liars, Supporting Trump  Wokeness smells weakness and attacks.

‘Gulags Weren’t That Bad’: Sanders Staffer Says Trump Supporters Will Need To Be ‘Re-Educated In Camps’  Not a satire, so far as I can tell. Of course, it comes as no surprise that Bernie Bros are insane.

Michael Bloomberg Does Not Rule Out Spending a Whopping $1,000,000,000 to Beat Trump  Good luck with that.

Is Anti-Trumper Stephen King Going To Be Canceled After Commenting On Diversity?  We can hope.

Chuck Schumer Says Trump More Likely To ‘Bumble’ Into War Than Start One On Purpose  Still pushing the Narrative.

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A bunch of Chechens were arrested today in Germany for plotting Islamic terror attacks. Or should I say “a flock of Chechens”?

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They compare textbooks by the same publishers but customized to suit the predilections of Texas and California.

Guess which one they thought was better.

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Power Line blog documents the race to the bottom being won by the house organ of the Imperial Capital.

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British tabloid, so it may or may not have any connection to reality.

(With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.)

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Assuming, of course, that she enjoys lowbrow underclass entertainment. The assumption here is that the sort of people who work at WalMart like things like UFC and Vegas.

It strikes me that a good use for 1%-style wealth is tracking down people who have been fucked over by our ruling class and their managerial drones and dumping money on them. People in prole jobs who nevertheless treat their employer’s property like their own and resist being robbed are a good target demographic.

ZMan passes the popcorn.

According to official media, the House Democrats are finally ready to send the articles of impeachment over to the Senate for a trial. Assuming it actually happens, the trial will be a circus to allow the various crackpots and show ponies to perform for the cable news audiences. Everyone will pretend it is serious until the ratings come in from the polling operations and then the show will close. The only people who think otherwise are the cranks and weirdos on the Left.

That said, the inner party has permitted this charade to happen for more than just theatrical reasons. They have an election show scheduled for this year and that will provide plenty of entertainment. The Iowa Caucuses are a little over two weeks away and the New Hampshire primary is three weeks away. That’s more than enough entertainment to keep people from noticing too much. The question then is why are they bothering with this straight-to-video impeachment show.

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In current year America, the ruling class is now fully detached from the society over which it rules, so it has begun to acquire its own moral code. You see this in the Democrat primary where candidates are running around preaching about the plight of transvestites or lecturing on white privilege. To normal people, these are bizarre fetishes that have to salience. Inside the ruling class they have become important moral signifiers, rooted in the common morality of the ruling class.

Joel Kotkin.

Perhaps nothing so animates the progressive Left today as the notion of an increasingly race-conscious society, segregated by ethnic identity and dismissive of the traditional ideal of assimilation. If this seems ironic, it should—in the not-so-distant past, this was a position embraced by the reactionary Right, particularly in the Jim Crow South. Today, however, progressives support separate dorms for African-Americans and promote restricted “safe spaces” for minorities and other designated victim groups. Indeed, it’s hard to pick up the New York Times—even its arts, sports, or travel pages—without seeing race-based analysis and reportage. The Times’s racial obsession reached new intensity with the “1619 Project,” which overstates the role of slavery in American history and economic development.

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Well, they can take comfort in the fact that the UK’s strict gun control laws (so strict that their Olympic pistol team has to practice in other countries) are keeping everybody safe.

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In the past five years, almond milk consumption in the United States has exploded over 250 percent. The lower-calorie, vegan milk alternative is a staple in grocery stores and coffee shops across the country now, but its booming popularity comes at a heavy environmental cost. According to a new report from the Guardian this week, the titanic and growing demands of the California almond industry are placing a huge strain on the hives of bees used to pollinate their orchards, wiping out billions of honeybees in a matter of months.

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The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

—G.K. Chesterton, The Thing (1929).

David Cole points out some inconvenient truth.

Some of you might remember Anthony Stokes. He was a 15-year-old DeKalb County, Ga., hood rat with a bum ticker who kept getting passed over for a heart transplant because of his “high risk” lifestyle, which included burglary, weapons charges, arson, and neglecting to take his prescribed meds.

Seeing how donor hearts aren’t found on trees (or in Dollar Trees), doctors were reluctant to give a young crime lord in training one of the precious organs. So Anthony’s granmoms or auntie or whoever the hell was raising him went to the local civil rights shysters screaming racism. Social justice gorgon Tara Culp-Ressler, managing editor of ThinkProgress, ginned up a media campaign, which soon went national. Anthony was given his heart transplant in record time by doctors who were basically told, “Perform this operation or you’re Mengele.”

Anthony Stokes was now armed with a new, healthy heart with a kickin’ beat. He was also armed with a variety of handguns, one of which he used on an old lady whose front door he kicked in during a brazen home-invasion robbery. After shooting at his elderly victim but missing, Tony carjacked a passerby, ran over a pedestrian, and lost control of the vehicle, smashing full-speed into a SunTrust Bank sign, closing his personal account for good.

This same dynamic was responsible for the economic disaster of 2008. Political pressure was brought to bear on mortgage lenders to give money to people who wouldn’t be able to pay it back, merely because of the ‘disparate impact’ on Fashionable Minorities — with results that everybody knew would happen but that nobody could afford to admit.

Joel Kotkin reminds us of some inconvenient truth.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Legislature and the state’s bureaucracy claim to be addressing the state’s much discussed “housing crisis.” But rather than improve the state’s awful affordability crisis, the policies being enacted are precisely the wrong medicine, more akin to witch-doctoring than a scientific curative.

Democrats are turning California from a paradise into a turd-world country.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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More fallout from Iran’s shooting down of the Ukrainian airliner: a news anchor on Iran’s state television has resigned, apologizing to the people of Iran for “lying to you on TV for 13 years.”

That would never happen over here. They like the money too much.

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Rather than fight with chemicals, which bacteria will almost always develop resistance to, the researchers set out to find ways to physically attack the bugs. After all, humans, for example, could evolve resistance to mild poisons over time, but not being stabbed.

The team’s solution was to use magnetic, liquid metal nanoparticles. When exposed to a low-intensity magnetic field, these droplets change their shape, with their edges becoming sharp enough to puncture cell walls and biofilms – the sturdy, sticky substance that colonies of bacteria build to protect themselves from antibiotics.

Popular Science.

Unless it arrives in the form of an APDS penetrator rod. Then you can worry.

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No, that would be the Democrats, the party of Secession, the KKK, and Jim Crow.

Democrats have never gotten over the fact that Republicans freed their slaves.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #394

Will eco-activists kill billions to save the world?

Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right When He Blamed California’s Wildfires On Land Management

UCLA Prof: “We Need To Seriously Question Ideal Of Private Home Ownership”

Paper praising models’ predictions proves they greatly exaggerate

Critics’ Choice Awards Meal Goes Vegan for Climage Change: ‘Amazing Message’

2019 Alaska aerial survey found the most polar bears since 2012 – dozens of fat healthy bears

Ocean Cleaning Device Succeeds in Removing Plastic for the First Time  As Scott Adams says, when we are faced with a problem we tend to invent a way to fix it.

Environmentalists Want To Take Your Food, Your Home, And Your Children

Climate change: No one left to defend the camels

Obama Official: “Americans Choosing Trump would Send the Signal that they Don’t Care about the Climate”  As, indeed, some of us don’t.

How the House destroyed its own case for the Trump impeachment | TheHill

“In State Of Shock” – Former CIA Spook Warns Dems, Deep State “Getting Desperate” To Stop Trump

drbastiat: If Trump Is So Incompetent, Why Do Democrats Fear Him So Much?

Stelter Rages at ‘Hateful Speech’ in White House Reply to CNN Demands for Briefings

New Conspiracy Theory: Joy Reid Imagines Trump Hit Soleimani to ‘Please’ Bolton  That’s quite an imagination she’s got there.

TV’s Trump News: Three-Fourths Impeachment and 93% Negative

Schumer Plans to ‘Squeeze’ Gop Senators on Trial Votes

Maple Leaf Foods CEO Blames ‘Narcissist’ Trump For Ukrainian Aircraft Crash

Trump “Can Rest Easy Tonight” After Cory Booker Drops Out Of Dem Race

NYT’s Haberman: Trump Calling Out Fake News Just Like Iran Persecuting Journalists!

Mitch McConnell Sends Pelosi Shirt Reading ‘I Impeached The President And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt’  Babylon Bee.

ZMan reminds us of some inconvenient truth.

In every human society, large or small, there are people who don’t fit in with the main of the society. At the extreme end, these are criminals and subversives. At the more benign end there are oddballs and eccentrics. In small numbers they are harmless, just as long as they don’t form up into an organized whole. A criminal organization is a collection of people, who are no threat as individuals, but as a group they become a threat to the society. They become an alien body.

Human society is an organism. Like any organism, it must always be aware of threats to its existence, internal and external. A group of people inside society that is either hostile to the whole or merely alien to the whole must be treated as a threat. Since self-preservation is the prime directive of any organism, the most prudent approach is to treat the alien as hostile. To do otherwise risks making an error and allowing a hostile alien inside the society. That is a pointless risk.

Oh, Bob, you’ll be amazed at the number of things that will come up for you to do….

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The tech giants have as much money and influence as nations. So what if we reported on them like countries? What would Apple be? A liberal China…

That pays a good dividend and has a robust stock-option program.

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This is the future, I’m afraid. A future that plans on everything going right so no one has to think about what happens when things go wrong. Because computers don’t make mistakes. An automated future where no one actually knows how things work. A future where people are so far removed from the process that they stand around powerless, unable to take the reigns. A future where people don’t remember how to help one another in person. A future where corporations are so obsessed with efficiency, that it doesn’t make sense to staff a theater with technical help because things only go wrong sometimes. A future with a friendlier past.

As it says on our masthead, “We have seen the future, and it sucks.”

Jim Goad mau-maus the flack-catchers.

Because we are forced to parrot the transparent inanity that the only difference between us is “skin color,” whenever we hear about any statistical disparities between racial groups in America, we are only permitted to publicly blame such differences on “racism.”

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Chinese expansionism doesn’t always involve reviving, or inventing, territorial claims along their borders. Chinese efforts to annex the South China Sea and large areas on their Indian border get a lot of diplomatic, military and media attention but there is another kind of Chinese expansion that, while less noticed, is becoming a serious economic and political problem for the countries the Chinese have been allowed to invade economically. There are growing number of countries that allow Chinese investment on a large, multi-billion dollar, scale.

Such large investments come with conditions, and that’s where the trouble begins. The Chinese insist that they must bring their own Chinese workforce. This includes demands that these new visitors can establish their own Chinese settlements and then stay when the project is over. The new visitors must be allowed to start businesses. This sort of thing results in the Chinese establishing a permanent economic presence and control over a growing percentage of the local economy. This does not always end well, with the Chinese being driven out of the country along with any more Chinese investment. One reason for building a large navy and military air transport fleet is to provide armed escorts for Chinese bill collectors and diplomates.

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The Labor Department issued an official rule on Sunday that corporations are only liable when they directly control the policies of their franchisees, effectively rolling back Obama administration policy that had tried to benefit unions, the Washington Examiner reported.

The Obama administration attempted, through the so-called joint employer rule, to have franchiser corporations be legally responsible for workplace violations by their franchisees, even if those were legally independent businesses.

With Democrats, it’s never about who is at fault, it’s always about who they can soak.

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Seeing how the government performs in other areas, I’m not going to trust it for my livelihood.

Ask disabled veterans how well the VA serves their medical needs, for example.

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

But it’s comforting to know that strict gun control laws really work.

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A tragic and irreparable loss.

TIME Pours Sugar on Nancy Pelosi As She Calls Trump a ‘Coward’ and ‘Cruel’

UK Anti-Terror Police Listed Extinction Rebellion in a Guide to Prevent School Atrocities

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According to an Election Data Services analysis of the Census Bureau report, “The population projections point toward a ten [congressional] seat change over 17 states across the nation by year 2020.”

Seven states are projected to gain one or more congressional seats after the 2020 election; 10 states are projected lose one seat.

The red-state leader is Texas, with a projected pickup of three congressional seats following the 2020 census — and that after gaining four congressional seats after the 2010 election. Florida will pick up two seats, and Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon will each gain one, according to the analysis.

All 10 losing states — Alabama, California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia — lose only one seat.

Of the seven states gaining seats, five voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Of the 10 states losing seats, five voted for Trump and five for Hillary Clinton.