Archive for June, 2020
23rd June 2020
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While we’re on the subject of selective indignation, the Great Repudiators will stand exposed as shameless hypocrites if they don’t loudly demand that Yale University change its name, for it is well known that the university’s namesake Elihu Yale was not just a slave-owner but a slave-trader—an act the United States made a capital offense decades before it got round to abolishing slavery. We know they won’t change it—and we all know why, though of course the oh-so-race-sensitive leaders of Yale won’t admit it publicly. Alumni would be furious and donations would plummet, and I suspect even radical black students at Yale wouldn’t want the name changed. Symbolism is one thing, but having “B.A., University of New Haven” on your CV just won’t sound as prestigious.
Note; There actually is a University of New Haven, and it languishes in (perhaps deserved) anonymity.
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23rd June 2020
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The highest honor in Britain, personally bestowed on recipients by the Queen of England, has come under fire over accusations of racism and resemblance to the killing of George Floyd.
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A Change.org petition says the image is “highly offensive” and “reminiscent of the recent murder of George Floyd by the white policeman in the same manner presented here in this medal.”
I can see no evidence that this is intended as a parody.
Truly, you can’t make this shit up.
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23rd June 2020
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Think of it as evolution in action.
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23rd June 2020
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The DynaRig concept has proven itself as an effective alternative to conventional rigs for superyacht owners who are looking to reduce crew numbers and optimize sailing time. This is a new chapter for the innovative rig solution and aims at making the efficient, safe, and high-performance rig more accessible.
Totally automating the process of setting and furling sails.
We have the technology.
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23rd June 2020
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Cheaper, more efficient, and much smaller, yet less risky and less powerful that traditional nuclear plants, the new technology offers a new path forward for a source of carbon-free energy whose progress has stalled since the 1970s.
And about time, too.
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22nd June 2020
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22nd June 2020
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22nd June 2020
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22nd June 2020
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22nd June 2020
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In Minnesota, Democrats control the House side of the legislature, but Republicans control the Senate. Thus, if police “reform” is to be enacted, the two parties must agree.
They don’t. Republicans are in favor of reform legislation. They back eleven steps including banning choke holds and requiring officers to stop colleagues from using excessive force. Those two measures alone, if followed, would have saved the life of George Floyd.
But Governor Walz calls the Republican proposal “weak sauce.” He and his fellow Democrats demand a more radical bill.
Among the provisions Democrats insist upon are restoring voting rights to tens of thousands of felons (which has nothing to do with police reform) and placing the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, in charge of prosecuting police killings. They also demand a ban on “warrior training” which, as I understand it, teaches police officers how to fight off attacks.
Democrats want felons to be able to vote because felons are more likely to vote Democrat than Republican, as the most cursory thought will reveal to be true. It’s just another case of ‘Let No Crisis Go To Waste’ political maneuvering.
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22nd June 2020
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Good luck with that. Your data is how all this Free Stuff Online gets paid for.
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22nd June 2020
NPR.
That’s becuase protesters are targeting vehicles. The ‘extremists’ in question are trying to escape being pulled from their vehicles and getting beaten.
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22nd June 2020
Babylon Bee.
Hard to tell these days what is satire and what isn’t.
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22nd June 2020
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Hammer tech.

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22nd June 2020
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If you violate federal immigration laws and settle in New York, the state will give you a driver’s license (and lots of other benefits too).
If you work at the New York Department of Motor Vehicles and you comply with a request for information from either Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), you could be charged with a Class E felony, be locked up for as long as five years, and forfeit many basic rights, including the right to vote.
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22nd June 2020
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22nd June 2020
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This article is being published on the second day of what will likely be the longest summer in American history. After a hyper-claustrophobic national lockdown that took us from the end of winter to the cusp of summer, suddenly the blacks decided to get angry.
I jest, of course—not that the blacks are angry, but that they were the ones who made the decision. The decision was made for them through a meticulously managed plan of indoctrination and selective access to information.
They were told who to blame. And blame them they did. Ironically, they were told this BY the people who were actually to blame, but that’s the way it always works.
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22nd June 2020
Steve Sailer.
And none of them by white cops. How did that happen?
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22nd June 2020
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The cesspool that is the United Nations Human Rights Council has decided that its top official, a Chilean socialist called Michelle Bachelet, shall “prepare a report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, especially those incidents that resulted in the death of George Floyd and other Africans and of people of African descent.” The “systemic racism” and human rights violations are assumed. Apparently, Bachelet’s task is to write these conclusions up.
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21st June 2020
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But but but … I thought Trump was Putin’s puppet?
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21st June 2020
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This could get interesting.
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21st June 2020
The Other McCain is on the case.
When I first saw this angle tipped yesterday by Wayne Dupree, I couldn’t believe it. If you saw the video on social media, you probably guessed that the white girl setting fire to Wendy’s was some kind of Antifa radical. To discover she may be Rayshard Brooks girlfriend? Whoa!
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21st June 2020
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21st June 2020
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21st June 2020
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21st June 2020
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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in Chicago, or the place would be like Texas.
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21st June 2020
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For those not following along at home, Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a personal grudge against these rebellious Jews. Many Orthodox Jews continued to hold gatherings during the NYC lockdown. When Orthodox Jews held a public funeral, de Blasio threatened to arrest them.
Mind you, the event organizers actually met with NYPD to arrange their event in the safest possible manner. Can the same be said of the Black Lives Matter protests? While I wouldn’t advocate the arrest of anyone holding a peaceful gathering, why has de Blasio encouraged those protests while threatening funeral attendees?
Other Brooklyn Orthodox Jews have been outraged that playgrounds are closed. Why can people march in the streets if children can’t play on a playground? So the rebels did what good rebels do: They brought bolt cutters and reopened the parks themselves. When new locks arrived, they cut them again. Thus far, they’ve cut the locks 25 times.
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21st June 2020
Steve has a jaundiced view.
According to a well-known former Republican, the reason Trump’s rally didn’t do well is that leftist liars took a large number of tickets fraudulently. Left-leaner Steve Schmidt, who worked as a strategist for people like McCain and Schwarzenegger, brags that his daughter and her friends have hundreds of tickets. Legislator and former bartendress Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez also bragged about the fraud and said she was proud of the people who had done it.
It’s a sickening moment. People who hate Trump are too stupid and immature to understand that subverting democracy is a great evil.
Some time ago, I predicted that America would one day be ruled not by Democrats or Republicans but by people with smartphones. I said technology’s ability to coordinate people was getting so strong, we would reach a point where elections and laws would lose their power. Everyone can’t be in the police or the national guard. It’s impossible to control Americans when a sufficient number of them are united in real time by gadgets. It looks like we’ve just seen a big step toward true technocracy administered by complete idiots. The Beast is discovering his hands.
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21st June 2020
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They say he hires protesters and rents buses to transport them. Some say he has people stash piles of bricks to be hurled into glass storefronts or at police.
George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who has long been a target of conspiracy theories, is now being falsely accused of orchestrating and funding the protests over police killings of Black people that have roiled the United States. Amplified by a growing number of people on the far right, including some Republican leaders, online posts about Soros have skyrocketed in recent weeks.
I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.
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21st June 2020
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21st June 2020
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20th June 2020
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A handy compendium of tools to get you a better job.
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20th June 2020
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20th June 2020
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20th June 2020
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20th June 2020
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20th June 2020
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Gee, you’d think they decided to cancel their police or something.
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20th June 2020
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Which doesn’t mean that they’re going to die, nor does it mean that they’re going to give it to anybody else who is going to die. The truth is that this disease has proven to be no more serious than the flu that we go through every year; the major difference is that we have vaccines for flu and we don’t (yet) for coronavirus.
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20th June 2020
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Not really news, but a useful reminder.
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20th June 2020
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More evidence that hugely expensive public taxpayer subsidized pack-em-in-like-sardines transit systems are Just So Fifteen Minutes Ago. (Not to mention breeding grounds for disease and crime.)
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20th June 2020
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Father Daniel Moloney is the latest victim of cancel culture’s inquisition against all who question the Black Lives Matter movement. Moloney was forced out of his job as the Catholic chaplain of MIT last week after a university administrator deemed his writings on the death of George Floyd “deeply disturbing” and the Archdiocese of Boston asked him to resign.
In a blog post and an email to students published at the beginning of June, Moloney spoke out about the errors of the new approach to fighting racism — dividing people, accusing them of prejudice, and canceling those who disobey — and called instead for a Christian path of charity and solidarity.
Yeah, I can see how the New University and the New Catholic Church would have a problem with that.
Never more glad to be Orthodox.
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20th June 2020
CHAZ, alternately known as Soymalia, Wokidishu, and Antifastan, does not seem to be thriving. It’s now into the phase of drug overdose, theft, scarcity, factional warfare, and warlordism. And it has finally realized that its name is incredibly stupid, though its new name, CHOP, does not seem to be taking. The things run exclusively by the left–CHAZ, universities, schools, northern cities–do not exactly inspire confidence.
This week CHAZ ran into a food problem when its homeless population cleaned out the pantry. Like many a real-life communist nation, it took to begging for U.S. foreign aid:
“the homeles [sic] people we invited took away all the food at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. we need more food to keep the area operational. please if possible bring vegan meat substitutes, fruits, oats, soy products, etc.—anything to help us eat.”
The next step was to plant a vegetable garden, which elicited hilarity from people who know how to plant a vegetable garden.
Photos began to emerge of a vegetable garden in the middle of the zone. These photos revealed that this “garden” consisted of throwing a few inches of soil atop cardboard(?!) in the middle of a park, and then plopping a few seedlings on top of the soil. They don’t appear to have bothered to plant those seedlings, because why would you need to do that?
It then seems to have segregated its garden by race.
Here is a CHAZ TOURISM VIDEO from the Trump campaign.
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20th June 2020
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20th June 2020
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On that basis there are a dozen corporations that owe me a total of $500,000.
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20th June 2020
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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.
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20th June 2020
John Derbyshire.
The brave spirits of Seattle originally named their new country Chaz, for Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Just as all that was in play, we learned that Chaz has renamed itself to Chop, the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Why? I asked around.
Apparently the authorities in Chaz were immensely flattered to see themselves being compared to French Revolutionaries. Now, a thing everyone knows about the French Revolution—even, I guess, the drug-addled, low-IQ, miseducated rabble running Chaz—a thing everyone knows is that the revolutionaries chopped off the heads of the former ruling class, including the king and queen, with the guillotine.
“That’s what we’ll do!” the Seattle mob is telling us by renaming themselves Chop.
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20th June 2020
Audacious Epigone.
Turns out the problem of police snuffing out blacks isn’t as serious a threat to black lives as black-on-black violence is. Nationwide, the police kill around 250 blacks each year. Civilian blacks, by comparison, kill ten times as many other blacks as the police do. Disband the police and that 250 figure drops to zero. But what happens to the 2,500 number when the police are gone? Does it increase by 50% to 3,750? Double to 5,000? It’s probably safe–er, dangerous–to assume it increases by a lot more than 250 black bodies, anyway.
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19th June 2020
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Joe Rogan has called out the liberal media for neglecting to address Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s “cognitive decline.”
During an interview on his podcast, Rogan told evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein that media outlets “completely ignored” multiple verbal flubs that Biden has made while campaigning.
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19th June 2020
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Relocation, at the moment, is only by wealthy folks, who still have the financial mobility to move as the real economy implodes and paralyzes the bottom 90% of Americans. Even with a good credit score, lenders are not preapproving folks like they once were. Many people over the years flooded into San Francisco as the economy boomed, and tech flourished. Now with an economic downturn, social unrest, and pandemic — the city is becoming too dangerous to raise a family.
Guess they found out what ‘vibrant’ really means.
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19th June 2020
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All of them are Democrats, and almost all of them are black.
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