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Preparedness Goods Sell Out as Shoppers Prepare for the Worst

3rd March 2020

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Not being Chinese or a resident of either Left Coast, I don’t feel an urge to do that.

However, I am surrounded by low-IQ people, so who knows?

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[Notorious Racist] President Trump Nominates First African American Air Force Chief

2nd March 2020

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Bet the DemLegHump Media don’t cover it.

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The Two Middle Classes

2nd March 2020

Joel Kotkin.

Politicians across the Western world like to speak fondly of the “middle class” as if it is one large constituency with common interests and aspirations. But, as Karl Marx observed, the middle class has always been divided by sources of wealth and worldview. Today, it is split into two distinct, and often opposing, middle classes. First there is the yeomanry or the traditional middle class, which consists of small business owners, minor landowners, craftspeople, and artisans, or what we would define historically as the bourgeoisie, or the old French Third Estate, deeply embedded in the private economy. The other middle class, now in ascendency, is the clerisy, a group that makes its living largely in quasi-public institutions, notably universities, media, the non-profit world, and the upper bureaucracy.

Standing between the oligarchs, who now own as much as 50 percent of the world’s assets, and the growing population of propertyless serfs, the traditional middle class increasingly struggles for survival against those with the greatest access to capital and political power. The power of this modern-day equivalent of the Medieval aristocracy, what the French referred to as the Second Estate, seems likely to grow; a recent British parliamentary study projects that, by 2030, the top one percent will expand their share to two-thirds of the world’s wealth, with the biggest gains overwhelmingly concentrated in the top .01 percent. One of the upshots of this concentration of economic power is that entrepreneurship is now declining even in the capitalist hotbed of America.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

2nd March 2020

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #411

Anti-Greta Knocks ‘Climate Alarmists’ During CPAC Speech

NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate Record

Think Flash Floods Are Bad? Buckle Up for Flash Droughts

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

2nd March 2020

A lot of people are saying ‘SNL’ trolled Trump perfectly  CNN. They’re still behind the number of times Trump’s ‘trolled them’ perfectly.

Trump made a baseless attack on two Supreme Court justices. Here’s why he did it.  Loserthink: mind-reading. And the attacks were far from ‘baseless’.

CNN Tells Viewers to Take Trump’s ‘Hoax’ Comment ‘How You Wish’  In other words, they got caught lying.

Lisa Page Slams Trump’s Obsession With Her  I still don’t understand why she’s not in jail.

NBC’s Ruhle Still Pushing Fake News: Trump ‘Calling the Virus a Hoax’

Media Barely Hides Disdain For Prayer After Trump, Pence Photos

MSNBC Hits Pence Over Prayer, Trump Appointed Him as ‘Fall Guy’

Dems Break Ties With Taliban After They Make Deal With Trump  Babylon Bee.

 

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Baltimore Has 50-Plus Homicides Already in 2020

2nd March 2020

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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Since Roe, Abortion Has Killed More Black Babies Than the Entire Black Population of the U.S. in 1960

2nd March 2020

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Margaret Sanger would be very pleased.

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Sick Bag, Please: NY Times Scared of ‘Whiteness and Maleness’ in the ‘Unfriendly Skies’

2nd March 2020

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These days, even the silliest concepts get respectful and prominent feature play if they are sufficiently “woke.”

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With Ink Barely Dry on ‘Historic’ Truce With US, Taliban Declares Resumption Of Operations

2nd March 2020

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Well, that didn’t take long.

Unlike Judaism and Christianity, Islam has no problem with lying.

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“They’re Flying It In!” – Canadians Furious at Trudeau as Government Refuses to Stop Travelers From Iran

2nd March 2020

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Furious Canadians slammed the government for failing to cancel flights from Iran, presently the country with the worst outbreak outside China, and other policies that suggest a dangerously blithe response from the government, perhaps as a consequence of PM Trudeau’s commitment to ‘woke’ policies (many have slammed travel bans as racist).

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Thought for the Day

2nd March 2020

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Senior Advisor to The Ayatollah Dies of Coronavirus as Iran Rejects Offer of US Aid

2nd March 2020

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I’m waiting for the Ayatollah to croak and Iran to descend into anarchy.

 

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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Tolkien Elves

2nd March 2020

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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China Uighurs ‘Moved Into Factory Forced Labour’ for Foreign Brands

2nd March 2020

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Just do it.

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Canadians Name Kenmore, GE, Whirlpool as Top Appliance Brands to Break Down in CBC Poll

2nd March 2020

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Quantum Researchers Able to Split One Photon Into Three

2nd March 2020

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“Given that this research brings us past the known ability to split one photon into two entangled daughter photons, we’re optimistic that we’ve opened up a new area of exploration.”

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Mats Järlström’s victorious 6-year battle over yellow lights

2nd March 2020

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Six years ago he tried to tell the Beaverton City Council there’s a problem with its red light cameras. Then there was the State of Oregon, which fined him for practicing engineering without a license.

He had to file a federal lawsuit to continue his research to prove drivers making turns at intersections often get caught in a dilemma when they’re slowing down to make a turn and the yellow light isn’t long enough.

Järlström said he used 8th-grade math skills to prove drivers have been getting tickets they can’t avoid.

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Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants

2nd March 2020

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Slicing open one of these trees or running the leaves of its bush cousin through a peanut press produces a sap that oozes a neon blue-green. This “juice” is actually one-quarter nickel, far more concentrated than the ore feeding the world’s nickel smelters.

That certainly sounds encouraging.

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This Advertising Watchdog Just Rejected Basically All of Molekule’s Air Purifier Claims

2nd March 2020

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You may have heard of the Molekule air purifier. It pops up in ads left and right, design-minded businesses such as InterContinental Hotels and the MoMA Design Store have embraced it, and influential media outlets including Wired, Time, Popular Science, Architectural Digest, Town & Country, New York Magazine, and The New York Times’s own T Magazine have sung its praises.1 Those places bought into the company’s claims, but the only two publications to actually test it—Wirecutter and Consumer Reports—found it to be abysmal, or, as we put it in our air purifier guide, “the worst air purifier we’ve ever tested.” Now the company is back in the news making some big promises: Founders say they’re “very confident that this technology will destroy Coronavirus” and that the virus is “a rather simple structure for us to be able to be destroy.” And the company just got $58 million in new funding. So is everyone getting duped by simply taking Molekule’s word for it?

I have a Molekule, and I find these results quite disappointing. I can’t, however, say that they are wrong. My wife and I both have seasonal allergies, which is why I bought it, and at first it seemed to help a great deal. More recently, however, it doesn’t seem to have any beneficial effect.

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Congo: Another Plague Arrives

2nd March 2020

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In eastern Congo efforts to deal with the Ebola virus epidemic are being disrupted by continuing civil disorder and various armed groups blocking medical aid efforts. The major impediment is the persistent anarchy and warfare in Ituri and North Kivu provinces where 100 to 120 militias and rebel groups continue to operate. The number of new “cases per day” has dropped. From February 18 to 23, there was only one new confirmed case in North Kivu Province. As of February 23, there have been 3,444 total cases, with 3,310 confirmed and 2,264 victims died. This is a 66 percent fatality rate. There are 1,167 survivors, but that some of these are patients still undergoing treatment.

The huge desert locust swarm sweeping across eastern Africa reached Congo’s Lake Albert region in late February. This is the first major locust swarm to strike Congo since 1944. Locust swarms are already ravaging neighboring Uganda.

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77-Year-Old Joe Biden Now the Youngest Man Left in the Democratic Primary

2nd March 2020

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And, if I’m not mistaken, the poorest.

The Democratic Presidential nomination: That’s what you can do when you’re old and rich.

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Scientist: Genetic Analysis Suggests Coronavirus Has Been Spreading in Washington State For Weeks

2nd March 2020

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So far, I don’t see that anybody outside of the Left Coast has anything to worry about.

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US Carrier Strike Group Enters Mediterranean as Syria & Turkey Move to State of War

2nd March 2020

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I’d be inclined to say that we don’t have a wog in that fight, but that’s me.

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Great Migration Reversing as Blacks Return to the South

2nd March 2020

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They want opportunity, just like the rest of us.

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The Anti-Sex Party

2nd March 2020

Freeberg is on a tear.

And I’m far from the first to notice…this is the party that’s going to save us from a plutocracy run by rich old white men…and the white men they’re offering us have never been older, or whiter, or richer. Now, what is that? Is it fair to call it “irony”? That word would imply some sort of an accident, and it’s getting harder and harder to call this an accident. An election year comes about, the democrats put together a platform of “Don’t ever trust any rich people” and then they implore us to cast our votes for…their rich people. It just keeps happening that way.

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Attacking the Press for Liberal Bias Is a Staple of Republican Campaigns — and It All Began in 1964

2nd March 2020

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Perhaps because that’s when the press started to be obviously biased.

I was there in 1964. I remember.

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California City Gives Residents $500 a Month. Is This the Future of Progressive Politics?

2nd March 2020

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No, it’s just going to bankrupt California that much sooner.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

1st March 2020

Climate Skeptic Freeman Dyson Dies at 96

Freeman Dyson takes on the climate establishment (2009)

Pew Research: US Climate Concern is Soaring – Amongst Democrats

 

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Chaos as Thousands of Refugees Charge Greek Border En Masse; 15,000 Surge Into EU Border Town

1st March 2020

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True to Erdogan’s prior threat that Europe would see 18,000 to as many as 30,000 refugees pour across European Union borders on Saturday after Turkey ‘opened the gates,’ it’s being reported that the number of migrants at Evros — a key land border between Turkey and Greece — has now reached 15,000.

Throughout Saturday the area became a war zone as thousands of refugees, urged on by Turkish authorities, attempted to cross into Greece en masse.

Sounds as if they need a wall.

Germany’s Der Spiegal published footage showing migrants hurling tear gas grenades at Greek police, reportedly canisters provided by Turkish security themselves.

 

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Turkey Asks NATO to Join Its War Against Syria and Russia

1st March 2020

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This is why Turkey ought not to be a member of NATO.

UPDATE: Two Syrian Jets Shot Down By Turkey Near Idlib As War Escalates

 

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Thought for the Day

1st March 2020

Reading Faces - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Any resemblance  between the guy in the yellow shirt and Jonah Goldberg is (I’m sure) completely coincidental.

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No One Cares That You Were Editor of Your College Newspaper: Reporter Bios Don’t Improve Readers’ Trust in Your News Outlet.

1st March 2020

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I like to find out whether the reporter has any training in the field about which he (or she) is writing. I am always disappointed.

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