Archive for September, 2020
8th September 2020
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8th September 2020
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8th September 2020
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8th September 2020
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The available evidence indicates that they are seriously lacking in expertise when it comes to making Molotov cocktails.
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8th September 2020
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8th September 2020
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A fat ugly black woman? Surely that can’t be right.
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8th September 2020
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I thought that legalizing marijuana was supposed to end drug violence…?
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8th September 2020
ZMan takes a look.
One of the lessons of 2020 is that the near future is every bit as unpredictable as the past, perhaps more so. Six months ago, no one would have predicted a replay of the disastrous Black Lives Matter stuff from the Left. Similarly, few would have predicted that the Democrat Party would have installed a dementia patient as their candidate, after he had been rejected by their voters. Therefore, trying to look out from here to predict how all of this will unfold is no easy thing.
We can, however, look at the possibilities. The future may be unpredictable, but the range of options is not unlimited. We can further limit the scope by eliminating things like meteor strikes and accidental nuclear exchanges. Just sticking to the political, there are a number of ways the current situation can go. The first step in narrowing that list further is to consider what the Left will do over the next six months. The one thing that is clear is the Soros wing is driving events now.
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8th September 2020
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8th September 2020
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A decade ago, researcher and scholar Joseph Henrich, together with psychologists Steven Heine and Ara Norenzayan, published a landmark paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences titled, “The weirdest people in the world?”1 No, the target of the label “weird” were not the Araweté horticulturalists of lowland South America, where mothers-to-be seek sex with multiple men in the belief that semen from multiple fathers is needed to form the fetus.2 Nor were they the M?ori of New Zealand, who have been known to collect and preserve the heads of enemy chiefs they killed in battle as trophies of war, (the mokomokai.) The target of the weird label was Western people. More specifically, Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic, or WEIRD.
WEIRD was not meant as a pejorative, but as an apt description of this group of psychologically peculiar people, who are distinct from the majority of humanity both now and throughout human history.
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8th September 2020
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As I have said from the beginning.
Still not ruling out ‘nefarious plot’….
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8th September 2020
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How National Socialist of them.
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7th September 2020
John Hinderaker of PowerLine.
I noted here that U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow has written to the Mayor of the City of Seattle, suggesting that “critical race theory” or “white privilege” training that the city recently imposed on its employees likely violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race. Paul added that the Department of Justice has also sought information about the same training sessions from Seattle, on the same ground. Seattle’s “white privilege” training was no different from what many companies and units of government have inflicted on their employees, and if it was illegal–as I think it was–the illegality is widespread.
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7th September 2020
Steve Sailer.
In 2020, the Peaceful Protesters have made a big leap upward in looting techniques. Instead of just ransacking the Korean-run liquor stores in their own neighborhood like during the 1992 Rodney King riot, looters have targeted rich people’s shopping districts such as Fifth Avenue in NYC and Santa Monica, CA.
From the Santa Monica Lookout, here’s one of the first news articles I’ve read on the new techniques employed by looters and how the cops are (finally) responding.
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7th September 2020
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7th September 2020
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7th September 2020
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7th September 2020
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7th September 2020
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California, land of fruits and nuts.
People who have ‘gender reveal parties’ need to get a life. Seriously.
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7th September 2020
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I smell a plot, I do, I do….
But there’s more going on with this line of attack in 2020 than there was 16 years ago. Back then, the Democrats and the MSM were just hunting military votes. This time, I think they are hunting more direct military support.
I think they believe that military intervention might determine who serves as president. The charitable version is that they fear a defeated Trump won’t leave the White House, thus requiring military action to remove him. Another version is that Democrats don’t intend to accept a Trump victory in a close election, and will want the military to help it oust a victorious Trump. (A variation on both versions is that there won’t be a clear winner.)
Republicans believe it when they see it, Democrats see it when they believe it.
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7th September 2020
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Could be a trend.
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7th September 2020
Steve is dismayed.
Hitler was a critical race theorist.
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7th September 2020
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7th September 2020
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The shoot-down took place at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico on Wednesday. An M-109A6 Paladin tracked howitzer fired a 155-millimeter-diameter hypervelocity shell at an incoming BQM-167 target drone, blasting it to pieces.
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6th September 2020
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6th September 2020
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The first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of vitamin D in COVID-19 has just been published. The results are astounding: vitamin D nearly abolished the odds of requiring treatment in ICU. Although the number of deaths was too small to say for sure, vitamin D may actually abolish the risk of death from COVID-19.
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6th September 2020
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“YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO FILM!” is a cry you hear incessantly at protests in Portland, Oregon, always shouted at close range to your face by after-dark demonstrators. You can assert that, yes, you can film; you can point out that they themselves are filming incessantly; you can push their hands away from covering your phone; you can have your phone record them stealing your phone—all of these things have happened to me—and none will have any impact on their contention that “YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO FILM” and its occasional variation, “PHOTOGRAPHY EQUALS DEATH!”
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6th September 2020
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While traditional chemical propulsion have fundamental upper limits, electric propulsion pumps extra energy into the thrust reaction to reach much higher propellant velocities by accelerating propellant using electrical energy. There are many methods of electric propulsion, many of which require electrodes to apply a current, increasing thruster cost and complexity.
By contrast the Helicon Plasma Thruster uses high power radio frequency waves to excite the propellant into a plasma.
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5th September 2020
John Hinderaker at PowerLine.
One of the Democrats’ more lunatic themes is their insistence that if President Trump loses the election, he likely will refuse to leave office, in effect staging a coup. Most recently the claim was made by Bernie Sanders. Politico headlined: “Sanders: America must be prepared for when Trump refuses to leave office.”
To some extent, this may be projection. The Democrats themselves have been staging a slow-motion coup for nearly four years, trying by hook or by crook to force our duly-elected president out of office. And they are the ones who have vowed to count and recount ballots to the last ditch, with Hillary Clinton telling Joe Biden, do “not concede under any circumstances.”
More significantly, I think the Democrats’ fantasizing about Trump illegally staying on in the White House is battlespace preparation for the election and for Trump’s second term (assuming he wins the election). The Democrats are expecting a close election that may not have a clear winner. They have warned that Trump may appear to have won in a landslide on election night, and it may take weeks of ballot counting to give Joe Biden the victory.
So we may well endure a post-election Hell of endless ballot judging and counting not just in one state (Florida in 2000), but potentially a dozen. Given the Democrats’ strategy of encouraging an unprecedented volume of voter fraud through voting by junk mail, the number of questionable ballots will be immense. It is quite possible that once again, the Supreme Court will be called on to sort out legal arguments–this time, likely in multiple states–so as to determine the winner. Meanwhile, the Democrats will be howling at President Trump to concede the election, and accusing him of hanging on illegally when he refuses.
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5th September 2020
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5th September 2020
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5th September 2020
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5th September 2020
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5th September 2020
The Other McCain lays it out.
One of the hallmarks of a criminal personality is the shamelessness with which they break the law. Criminals do not respect the law — they lack any proper sense of justice — and so, no matter what the law is, or how serious their breach of the law, criminals tend to be defiant in their behavior toward anyone attempting to enforce the law.
Consider the case of Deon Kay, who had a pistol in his hand when he was shot dead by police in Washington, D.C. Our nation’s capital has very strict gun-control laws; liberals support these laws, with which I strongly disagree. Yet liberals are now protesting the shooting of Deon Kay, despite his open defiance of the city’s gun-control laws.
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5th September 2020
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In an interview with the New York Post posted Saturday, Noor bin Ladin — whose family spells their name differently than her terror lord uncle — said she thinks Trump is a better guardian than Joe Biden against foreign terrorists.
“ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe,” bin Ladin, who lives in Switzerland, told the tabloid. “Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign threats by obliterating terrorists at the root and before they get a chance to strike.”
She says she’s been a Trump supporter since he announced his candidacy the first time around, and proudly dons his MAGA hat in public.
Watch the DemLegHump Media spin this as ‘Trump is supported by Muslim terrorists’.
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5th September 2020
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New York Times tech reporter Mike Isaac reported Friday on what sounds like a pretty obvious attempt to limiting Trump’s social media sway: “Facebook To Confront Distortions Before Vote.”
But as you’ll see, Isaac’s report had a major unacknowledged problem that wrecked its credibility.
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5th September 2020
ZMan surveys the scene.
One of the predictable things about left-wing political theater is they will always heroically go to war with the problem they created. After liberally applying the front lash, they then predict a backlash and begin to make war on it. They are like the arsonist-fireman, heroically battling the fires he set. The latest example is over the “colored revolution” sponsored by the usual suspects around the Occident. In the UK, they worry this may have given a boost to Right.
Apparently, the extreme Left in the UK has noticed that the native population not only opposes mass immigration, but now they oppose those ungrateful immigrants rioting in the streets and attacking their hosts. The daily lectures on white privilege and the crimes and the English people have not had the intended effect. Instead of committing suicide to make way for more foreigners, many Brits are starting to think of their ethnic and national interests, like everyone else.
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5th September 2020
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4th September 2020
It’s Not “Just Property”: How Looting Destroys Lives And Low-Income Neighborhoods
Is it About Black Lives or Is It About Power?
White US professor admits she has pretended to be Black for years
Professor who lied about being black ripped ‘white New Yorkers’ in profanity-laced tirade
Joy Reid Defends Antifa, BLM by Comparing Them to Civil Rights Movement, Freedom Riders Except that the Freedom Riders didn’t burn and loot.
Woke and Illegal Racial Quotas
Police Reportedly Find 5 Men With Gunshot Wounds On Ground Outside, Another Hit While Sleeping In His Bed City of Brotherly Love indeed.
A Car Drove Through A Group Of Black Lives Matter Protesters In Times Square, No Injuries Reported And that’s news, these days.
Latest Cancellation Victim: 70-ton Boulder
CNN Blames Systemic Racism for Making Black Cops, Even Jesse Jackson Racist
Public School Superintendent Tells Teachers To ‘Examine Their Whiteness’ My whiteness is in good shape, actually; sorry if yours is kinda limp.
Here Are 31 Times the Media Justified or Explained Away Rioting and Looting After George Floyd’s Death
The Deeply Pessimistic Intellectual Roots of Black Lives Matter, 1619 Project, and Much Else in Woke America
Private Security Company Leaves Seattle Park After 1 Night, Citing Harassment From Protesters
Three Men Arrested After One-Year-Old Baby Is Fatally Shot In The Head In Pittsburgh
George Floyd Mourners Rioted Only 220 Times This Summer
DC Anti-Police Activist Claims Armed 18-Year-Old Shot By Police Was ‘Hunted And Gunned Down’ With ‘Slave-Catching Tactics’
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4th September 2020
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4th September 2020
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4th September 2020
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4th September 2020
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Just in case you feel the need. Not sure whether they handle people who aren’t Japanese.
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4th September 2020
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National Review cuck Isaac Schorr gently chides his proglodyte masters while slamming Trump.
Nobody who has observed Trump during his Presidency thus far, much less his entire life, could characterize the Atlantic smear as ‘believable’; it is ‘believable’ only with TDS.
This is why a lot of people have quit reading National Review; ZMan is, sadly, correct that they are sock puppets for the Crust.
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4th September 2020
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Even the Ruling Class’s Pandemic Panic can’t beat Trump.
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4th September 2020
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And Trump, with four more years ahead, will squash Biden’s riotous supporters like lice.
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4th September 2020
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4th September 2020
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pparently, the proper role of the “independent fact checker” in today’s presidential campaign is to present the consistent opinion that Joe Biden is a force for truth and light, and Donald Trump is a rampaging liar who never says anything true.
No one should suggest that these “fact checker” groups need to parcel their rulings out in a completely even fashion, so everyone gets a participation trophy for being half-right. But the dramatic tilt in these “fact checkers” betrays an obvious partisan bias.
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4th September 2020
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4th September 2020
Politico.
The Fox News headline makes it explicit: Biden makes awkward ‘they’ll shoot me’ quip during Kenosha appearance
This is the sort of gaffe that Biden gets into when they let him out of the basement.
The debates (IF THEY ACTUALLY HAPPEN) ought to prove especially entertaining this year.
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