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Archive for October, 2020

Man Reportedly Arrested After Allegedly Destroying Altar At Catholic Church

27th October 2020

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The vandalism follows more than a dozen other crimes targeting Catholic Churches across the country, prompting lawmakers to call on federal authorities to investigate the incidents as religiously motivated. Most recently, the New York Police Department investigated a vandalism at a Brooklyn church in October,  where a Virgin Mary statue had its hand cut off and was cracked along the head, according to ABC 7. A few weeks prior, police in San Antonio investigated vandalism at a Catholic seminary where glass doors were struck and damaged, and a crucifix was desecrated.

Maybe he was a fan of the pre-Vatican II liturgy and wanted the altar turned back around the way it was for the first 1900 years of Church history. Such people exist; I have met them.

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The Oogily-Boogily Men

27th October 2020

ZMan does some anthropology.

A similar sort of detective work can be used in this age to try and understand the beliefs of our ruling class. At first blush, the things they say and do run counter to the normal explanations for political behavior. Often, what they say runs counter to their own interests, suggesting some unknown motivation. Of course, many of the popular fads with the great and good are best described as superstitions. They have no justification other than a primitive fear of the unknown.

The Left is turning into a collection of secular Dispensationalists. They are waiting for the Tribulation and (I suppose) expecting Obama to arise and lead them into the Millenium.

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From Ancient to Modern: Modular Construction in Chinese Timber Architecture

27th October 2020

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Very impressive woodwork.

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Thought for the Day

27th October 2020

Speed Bump Comic Strip for October 25, 2020

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Senator Schumer’s Sour Grapes

27th October 2020

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Let’s consider some history. Prior to his arrival in the Senate, senators were generally reluctant to openly oppose judicial nominees on ideological grounds, but Schumer worked to change that. He enthusiastically supported a blockade of Bush appellate nominees and rejected President Bush’s appeal for a presumptive confirmation schedule.

Once Republicans retook the Senate, Schumer pushed for the repeated filibusters of President Bush’s nominees and, even after the “Gang of 14” deal, continued in his attempts to use this obstructionist tactic.

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

26th October 2020

Americans Are Arming Themselves With Military Gear At Record Rates Heading Into The Election

Bill De Blasio: ‘We Have To Think About’ Packing SCOTUS If ACB Confirmed

Outrage After WaPo Says To ‘Treat Biden Leaks As Foreign Intel Operation – Even If They Probably Aren’t’  It’s all about the Narrative.

The Elephant In The Room: Florida School Revokes Parking Privileges Of Student With Trump Display On Truck

Gun Background Checks: How the State Came to Decide Who Can and Cannot Buy a Firearm

Putin Defends Bidens, Becomes ‘Visibly Irritated’ When Asked About $3.5 Million Moscow Payment To Hunter

Biden Ad Misleads, But Snopes Attacks Conservative Media for Exposing It!

‘Renminbi Diplomacy’: How China Bought The US Government?

The More The EU Tightens Its Grip, The More Countries Slip Through Its Fingers

Facebook, Google Pledged $700M to ‘Buy Off the Press’ Since 2018

Preparing to Censor Speech: Facebook Gears Up for US Election Unrest

Update: Twitter Continues to Lock Out NY Post, Even Some Libs Are Mad

Case Dropped After 4th Grader Faced Criminal Charges For BB Gun In Room During Online Learning

Montana Governor Takes Legal Action Against Local Businesses

NYT Cheers ‘Return of the Media Gatekeepers’ to Squash Hunter Biden Stories

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

26th October 2020

Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #428

Joe Biden: Climate Change will “actually bake this planet”  Well, I should hope so.

Major Hedge Fund Manager Demands Big Funds Force Companies to Act on Climate Change

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: In 20-40 Years, Global Warming will Make Louisiana Uninhabitable  Have you ever been to Louisiana? It’s already uninhabitable.

 

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Today in Black Privilege

26th October 2020

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Black Lives Matter Mural In Front Of Trump Tower Vandalized Again, Covered In Tar

Vermont Goes “Tone Deaf” On Free Speech: Principal Fired Over “All Lives Matter” Statement

Feds: In 2018, Blacks Violently Victimized Asians 275+ Times as Often as Asians Violently Victimized Blacks

Soros Gives Large Donation for Last-Gasp Black, Latino Turnout Efforts in Key States

An all-Black group is arming itself and demanding change. They are the NFAC I can suggest at change: That they all go to Africa and see how well they fare with people who are Actually Black.

3 people killed in shooting at Northwest Dallas nightclub

20-Year-Old Tourist Killed By Gun Violence In Brooklyn

Networks Ignore Illegal Alien Who Murdered Black 41-Year Houston Cop

BLM Invades Affluent Portland Suburb, Demand Allegiance From Shoppers And Diners

Virginia Military Institute Superintendent Resigns After School Faces Racism Allegations

After Thanksgiving Banned, Californians To Hold Turkey Barbecues In Honor Of Black Lives Matter On November 26  Babylon Bee.

Why it is more dangerous to be a farmer than a policeman in South Africa

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

26th October 2020

California’s dire coronavirus prediction was wrong, hospitalizations went down instead

Curfew imposed in El Paso County in Texas as all hospitals and ICUs hit 100% capacity

The Cult Of The Brave New Normal

Chinese Authorities Scramble To Suppress Biggest COVID-19 Outbreak In Months

Watch: Furious Welshman Tears Down Sheeting Off “Non-Essential” Goods In COVID-Lockdown Protest  “Welshman’? The guy is obviously black.

The non-linearity of Covid-19 response

AstraZeneca Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine Produces Robust Immune Response In Elderly Patients

“Remdesivir for COVID-19” Study accidentally proved effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine   Shhhh! We aren’t allowed to talk about hydroxycholorquine!

Rockefeller Foundation Offers $1 Billion for Coronavirus Recovery

Health Expert: Mask Wearing Will Remain Mandatory Even After A COVID Vaccine  Be ready for pushback on that.

Iconic Barbershop In NYC’s East Village Closes After 73 Years In Business Due To COVID

YouTube, Vimeo Remove Conservative Entrepreneur’s COVID-19 Video

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

26th October 2020

CNN: Press Wrong to Say Trump Could Win, Biden Scandal Just a Smear

Bucknelldad: New Website Doxxes Trump Campaign Contributors

Unfit To Print Episode 73: Trump Outmatches ’60 Minutes,’ Lesley Stahl Cries Victim

The big Trump rallies you don’t see  If a tree falls in the woods and the media don’t cover it, did it really happen?

MSDNC’s Velshi Loves Jim Clyburn’s Claim that Trump Could Return the U.S. to the Reconstruction Era

‘You Can’t Be That Stupid!’ Enraged Scarborough Attacks Trump Voters

Joe Biden Forgets Trump’s Name Again, Claims He Is Running Against “George Bush”  Not even close.

‘Jews For Trump’ Convoy Takes Over Manhattan, Sparks Clashes With Counter-Protesters

Joe Scarborough: Trump Would Kill Journalists Like Putin ‘If He Could Get Away With It’

“Lizard Brains”: NBC Analyst Meacham Attacks Trump Supporters Functioning On Primitive Limbic Systems

‘Literally Sick To My Stomach’: Hillary Clinton Says She ‘Can’t Entertain The Idea’ Of A Second Trump Term  Well, then, she needs to just eat shit and die. Problem solved.

Trump Campaign Makes WiFi Password ‘WhoBuiltTheCagesJoe?’ For Press At Latest Rally  Heh.

Wash Post Horror Story: Trump is Spurring ‘Christian Nationalists’  I can see why they would find that scary.

Are We Going To Witness The Worst National Emotional Breakdown In History Once The Election Is Over?  I’m hopin’.

 

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DoD Kicks Off New Hypersonic Program; F-18 to Get Hypersonic Cruise Missile

26th October 2020

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“We are in a bit of a race right now,” with China and Russia on developing the technology, Mark Lewis, acting deputy undersecretary of Defense for research and engineering (and director of defense research and engineering for modernization,) told reporters on a Monday call.

One of the models the DoD has looked at in developing the new consortium is the Chinese government’s, which works closely with its universities on hypersonic weapons programs. Lewis said they have noted that “China will integrate their students working on their various projects.”

Universities in the US, Australia, the UK and Canada are eligible to work on the DoD program, said Gillian Bussey, head of the Joint Hypersonic Transition Office. But Bussey added Texas A&M has strict counterintelligence protocols in place, and the Pentagon will have strict rules for who can participate in the often classified work. The team in particular wants to ensure “we’re not training Chinese scientists that are going to go help their programs for example.”

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Beto O’Rourke Says Texas Is ‘Biden’s State to Lose’

26th October 2020

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And of course he’s been right so many times before.

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Michigan Police, Sheriffs Will Defy Firearms Ban at Polling Places

26th October 2020

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Michigan law enforcement officials say they cannot enforce the state’s secretary of state executive order prohibiting openly carried firearms at or near polling places on election day because they have no lawful authority to make an arrest.

“The issue with the Secretary of State issuing the ban on open carry at the polling stations is she issued an administrative order,” said Robert Stevenson, head of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. “Michigan has an open carry law that prohibits open carry in defined locations. Polling locations are not one of those.

“So, the issue for us is not that we won’t enforce the ban, it’s that there is no law that we can enforce. We have no authority to enforce the secretary’s order. This is exactly what prosecutors are advising us.”

Michigan’s Secretary of State is a Crustian female Democrat SJW and crony of Gretchen Whitmer.  Apparently they don’t teach Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.

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Biden’s in His Basement and CNN Is Covering for Him

26th October 2020

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Once again, CNN’s New Day is covering for the network’s preferred presidential candidate, Joe Biden, for not venturing out of the comfort of his basement. One would think that with the election eight days away, that Biden would be hitting the campaign trail and talking to the voters. Instead, as co-host Alisyn Camerota noted: “President Trump is holding three rallies in the critical state of Pennsylvania today. Joe Biden is back home in Delaware, but plans to campaign in Georgia tomorrow.”

It is honestly concerning how often the Biden campaign has called a lid before 10:00 in the morning. Most people are just getting into work at this time. In order to “prepare” for the last presidential debate, Biden called a lid for the entire week leading up to it. If only everyone was able to take off so much time to prepare for a big meeting.

This is in contrast with President Trump, whose whirlwind schedule includes hosting three rallies a day across the country. CNN criticized this move with senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson noting: “the picture of it, I think, goes against not only science, but what most Americans want to see, these big rallies with people outdoors and not wearing any masks and not social distancing either.”

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China to Sanction US Military Contractor Companies Over Arms Sales to Taiwan

26th October 2020

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So U.S. maker of military equipment won’t be able to sell stuff to Communist China?

I’m good with that.

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Defund NPR: Man Plots to Kill Biden, NPR Omits From Story That He Was Bernie Bro With Books on Islam

26th October 2020

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Well, let’s not just confuse people with facts that are inconsistent with the Narrative….

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Adventures in Euphemism

26th October 2020

Kevin Williamson.

The New York Times has really outdone itself, managing to write a full news story about a mob of blackshirts attacking Jews in New York without characterizing the events in question as a mob of blackshirts attacking Jews in New York.

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Kremlin Accuses Biden of Spreading Hatred of Russia

26th October 2020

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Biden? Say rather the entire Democrat Party (who have apparently never gotten over the fact that Russia is no longer Communist — they likes them some Communists).

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Thought for the Day

26th October 2020

Speed Bump Comic Strip for October 22, 2020

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Escape From New York?

26th October 2020

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A “real estate frenzy” has been noted in Connecticut, New Jersey, Westchester County and Long Island, as City residents seek to move to where there is more space and less danger of infection. These areas could become prime attractors of Manhattan employees who want to avoid the crowded offices, crowded transit, crowded elevators and generally overcrowded situations that naturally accompany super-high population and employment densities.

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“This is 60 Minutes”

26th October 2020

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

Watching Lesley Stahl’s interview of President Trump on 60 Minutes last night, one might get the impression that she gets her news strictly filtered and refined by CBS. She therefore doesn’t know anything beyond what can be acknowledged with the approval of CBS News.

Trump gave her 37:40 of his time for the interview last week. In the event, that was about 37 minutes too much.

 

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Are American Universities Under Foreign Control?

26th October 2020

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It has been long known and increasingly suspect that American colleges and universities accept vast sums from foreign donors, and then, some argue, merrily do their governments’ bidding. Before you say, “There ought to be a law!,” the US Department of Education has reminded us that there is a law. Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 explicitly requires American institutions of higher education to declare foreign gifts or contracts exceeding a total of $250,000 per year. In Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s words, “transparency in foreign funding of higher education is not just something I think is a good thing; it’s the law. For too long, enforcement of that law was lax, but not anymore.”

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

25th October 2020

Investigating California’s Rising and Sinking Coast Still waiting for NYC to be under water.

The Plastic Myth and the Misunderstood Triangle

Polar bear research on hold in Western Hudson Bay due to COVID-19 restrictions

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

25th October 2020

Pro-Trump group crashes Biden drive-in rally in Pennsylvania

Trump is losing the TV ad war with Biden, bigly | TheHill  As if they knew more about effective communication than Trump.

Why evangelicals should care about Trump’s lies (and other sins) (CNN) As if CNN ever gave a shit about evangelicals outside of an election year.

Comedian Chelsea Handler: I Had to Remind My Ex-Boyfriend Black People Can’t Vote Trump

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

25th October 2020

‘Learn to live with the pandemic’: Physicians warn that a vaccine may not prevent Covid from becoming endemic  It will eventually disappear, just like SARS-1.

CDC had contentious plan for flight filled with COVID-exposed cruise passengers

First-time buyers fuel pandemic-related surge in gun sales (CNN) I suggest it’s more related to left-wing riots.

Polar bear research on hold in Western Hudson Bay due to COVID-19 restrictions

Sweden Refuses To Impose New Lockdown Measures, Saying People Have Suffered Enough  I’d move to Sweden if it weren’t so overrun by violent Muslim immigrants.

The false promise of herd immunity for Covid-19

NYC Hotel Occupancy Rate Crashes Toward 10% As Permanent Closures Loom

Welsh People Blocked From Buying “Non-Essential” Items Due To Lockdown

Tennessee Titans Fined $350,000 For Coronavirus Violations

Italians Rise Up Against “Health Dictatorship” As Country Moves Toward New Lockdown

Bethany Mandel: Your Home Is No Longer Your Castle

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

25th October 2020

“It’s Time To Defund NPR”: GOP Rep Slams NPR For Refusing To Cover Hunter Biden Laptop Bombshell

Twitter Nukes Alleged Hunter Biden Sex Tape After Letting Borat-Giuliani Sex Scene Trend

California Middle-Schooler Threatened with Jail for Missing 3 Zoom Classes

In Bizarre Freudian Slip, Biden Brags About Assembling “Most Extensive Voter Fraud Organization In History”

Ocasio-Cortez: It’s ‘My Job To Push The Democratic Party’ To The Left

Italians Rise Up Against “Health Dictatorship” As Country Moves Toward New Lockdown

Bethany Mandel: Your Home Is No Longer Your Castle

 

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Today in Black Privilege

25th October 2020

ABC Upset Rapper Detained After Gun Brandished at Trump Supporters

 

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I Have a Question

25th October 2020

How come, as we approach the date of the election, the BLM-AntiFa marches and riots … which were supposedly Bad For Biden … have just – stopped? There used to be reports every day, especially in Portland, of riots Every Fargin Night. And then they just – stopped.

Hmmmm.

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Legendary Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Endorses Arizona Sen. McSally Over Former Astronaut Mark Kelly

25th October 2020

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Legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin expressed his support for Republican Arizona Sen. Martha McSally’s bid to keep her seat over her Democratic challenger in a Friday evening tweet.

McSally, a former United States Air Force pilot and congresswoman who was appointed by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to fill the seat of the late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, has been running significantly behind former astronaut Mark Kelly throughout the 2020 Senate race. However, recent polls have shown the Arizona senator closing the gap of late, and one even has her leading by two percentage points, according to Real Clear Politics.

 

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Trump Won the Debate—But Won Bigly the Post-Debate

25th October 2020

Victor Davis Hanson.

What instead counts most are the days after. The debate take-aways, the news clips, the post facto fact checks, and the soundbites to be used in ads over the next ten days all favor Trump. In this regard, Biden did poorly and will suffer continual bleeding in the swing states.

We will know that because by the weekend Biden will be out of his basement and trying to reboot his campaign and actually be forced to campaign.

 

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Thought for the Day

25th October 2020

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Trump Picks Up Another Nobel Peace Prize Nomination From Europe After Diplomatic Victories

24th October 2020

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Laura Huhtasaari, an MEP and a member of the right-wing Finns Party, wrote to the Nobel Committee to nominate Trump for the 2021 prize “in recognition of his endeavors to end the era of endless wars, construct peace by encouraging conflicting parties for dialogue and negotiations, as well as underpin internal cohesion and stability of his country.”

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

24th October 2020

Nobody Cares about Climate Change. (And Few Care about the Economy, Either.)

Climate Campaigners Horrified Global Shipping Will be Allowed to Grow

“Over My Dead Body”: Louisiana Senator Responds to Joe Biden’s Proposed Climate Shutdown of the US Fossil Fuel Industry

Victorious New Zealand PM Urged to Apply Covid-19 Lessons to the Climate Crisis

The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it

Russia’s Laptev Sea Should Have Started to Freeze by Now  (Wired ‘Science’) OHNOWE’REALLGONNADIE!!!

 

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Pandemic Panic – It’s Titanic

24th October 2020

Using COVID-19 to Attack Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Is Beyond Absurd

Landlords, Housing Industry File Suit Against CDC Over Eviction Ban

Muslim Group Says Cuomo Is ‘Targeting And Unjustly Blaming’ Jewish Communities For Coronavirus Spread

Metal Band’s Latest Music Video Depicts COVID-Lockdown America as Communist Dystopia

Listen to the Science: CNN Completely Dismisses Herd Immunity  I don’t put ‘CNN’ and ‘science’ in the same sentence.

Researchers Discover a Second ‘Key’ That Makes The New Coronavirus So Infectious

Searching for Clues to COVID-19 Immunity

To ‘Save’ People From COVID, Puerto Rico Shuts Down 911 Call-Centers

To Mask or Not to Mask, That is the Question

The Political Prison, by Audacious Epigone

Harrumphing and hot air

Passengers Push Back On Airline Mask Requirements As Travel Bans Soar

Recent College Grads Face Worst Employment Prospects In Decades Thanks To COVID-19

Hero: Man Stranded On Desert Island Still Obediently Wearing His Mask  Babylon Bee.

They may well be unnecessary but if you think Boris’s new Covid restrictions in the UK are burdensome try Victoria Australia.

Orange County Launches Student Contest To “Normalize Mask Wearing”

Another Covid Surge, Vaccine and Treatment Progress, and More

The engines of SARS-CoV-2 spread

Covid Scenarios For 2021

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

24th October 2020

Jennifer Lawrence: ‘I Don’t Want to Support a President Who Supports White Supremacists’  There are lies, damned lies, and what celebrities believe.

CNN Downplays Biden Lies, Blasts Trump’s ‘Serial Dishonesty’

3 Reasons Trump Lost the Final Presidential Debate (New York Magazine)

The Moral Case for Trump—He Made His Money In Business, Biden Made His In Politics, by John Derbyshire

Sad Mika: Welker Should Have Asked Trump If He Wants ‘People to Die!’

Predictable: Tiresome CNNer Calls on Media to Double Down on Trump Hate

Jake Tapper: Still Not Over Macho Grande

Attorneys For Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Threaten Lawsuit Over Lincoln Project Billboards In Times Square

FLASHBACK: That Time Morning Joe Mocked Liberals Whining About Democracy’s End

Max Ledoux: Trump Supporters Face Threats and Vandalism

Homeowners with Trump Yard Signs Receive Ominous Warning

 

 

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Today in Black Privilege

24th October 2020

The Left-Wing Con of Black Americans

Top-Down White Penitence Is Shaking Up and Roiling the American Workplace

Gwyneth Paltrow Says Society Is ‘Done’ With ‘Paradigm’ Of The White Male ‘Patriarchy’

KIPP Schools Junk Their Famous “Work Hard, be Nice” Slogan as Not Anti-Racist

The Triumph of Ibram X. Kendi’s Logic

The Racial Reckoning Comes for the Veterinarians

Post: In Case a Jury Decides George Floyd Died of Drugs and Bad Health, Well, Blacks Ruining Their Health with Drugs Is the Fault of White Supremacy Too

BLM Protesters Call For Defunding San Bernardino Police After Officer Kills Armed Black Suspect

Mississippi Police Arrest Suspect In McDonald’s Drive-Thru Shooting That Left One Dead

 

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Simple Software Creates Complex Wooden Joints That Interlock With No Nails, Glue, or Tools Needed

24th October 2020

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The Japanese have been doing this sort of thing by hand for centuries.

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Plastic Made From Biomass Logs the Highest Heat Resistance on Record

24th October 2020

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Scientists in Japan have produced a plastic with the highest heat resistance ever reported, and done so by using natural materials as the building blocks. This biomass-derived plastic therefore promises not just greater performance in some aspects than conventional plastics, but paves the way toward greener production for the omnipresent material.

The majority of plastics in circulation today are synthetic and derived from crude oil, gas and coal, but recently we’ve seen an alternative emerge in the form of bioplastics, which are made from biomass such as plants, egg shells, chicken feathers or even by-products of tequila.

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Tonight on the Bidens…

24th October 2020

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The choir of panic in the background singing, “Russian disinformation! Disinformation! Disinformation!” is trying to drown out what Rob Long should be developing as a new sitcom, “All in the Biden Family.”

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Networks, CNN: Tony Bobulinski Who?

24th October 2020

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This generation’s Paula Jones.

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The Historical Thesaurus of English

24th October 2020

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The University of Glasgow’s Historical Thesaurus of English is a unique resource charting the development of meaning in the huge and varied vocabulary of English. It consists of almost every recorded word in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, all arranged into detailed hierarchies of meaning.

 

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The State of the Modern American University

24th October 2020

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In May 2017 Bret Weinstein and his wife were forced to resign from Evergreen State College following an outcry over his refusal to cancel his class for a day and stay off campus to show solidarity with minority students protests.

In November 2015 a mob of students at Yale University accused college master Nicholas Christakis and his wife Erika of racism following her email suggesting that Yale did not need to oversee Halloween costumes. Subsequently the University conferred graduation prizes on two of the mob members for their “service of race and ethnic relations,” and for their “anti-racist” work.

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Tilt & Turn: Ingenious Three-in-One Window for Security, Breezes & Egress

24th October 2020

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When the handle of a tilt-and-turn is in the downward position, the window is shut is and locked. Rotate the handle 90 degrees so it points sideways, and you can pull the window open horizontally.

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Lou Dobbs: Why Would Anyone Vote for Lindsey Graham?

24th October 2020

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“I don’t know why anyone in the great state of South Carolina would ever vote for Lindsey Graham,” Dobbs said. “It is just outrageous. This is a guy who keeps saying ‘stay tuned.’ He said he would get to the bottom of Obamagate with the Judiciary Committee, which has been a year and a half, actually longer, of absolute inert response to these pressing issues of our day.”

Apparently, without his former job as John McCain’s Sancho Panza, Graham doesn’t do a lot.

Maybe Mitt Romney has some openings.

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The Polling Problem

24th October 2020

ZMan looks at recent history.

One obvious problem is the demand side. The media has always liked polling because it is cheap content. It allows them to discuss the results of an event, like a presidential election, for months before it actually happens. Polling stories are just a way to pretend the election already happened. Then as the polls change, and they always do, the media can talk about those changes. That also opens the door for so-called experts, who can provide “expert” commentary on the polls.

Of course, supply naturally follows demand, so Gallup was followed by other polling outfits supplying opinion surveys to the media. The explosion of media over the last thirty years has caused an explosion in demand for polling. One reason we have so much bad polling now is the same reason we have fake news. There is only so much good quality material, so the void is filled with low-quality material. Fake news has replaced real news and fake polling is crowding out good polling.

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The Death of the DVD Commentary

24th October 2020

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In virtually every charity shop across the country, there are an increasing number of sad-looking plastic cases, with a variety of films both beloved and forgotten inside. Once, they would have sold for around £20 apiece, but now most retail for no more than a pound or two. Yet, for the adventurous, there are treasures to be had, at a time when the convenience of streaming services is threatening to kill off home video for good.

It is no exaggeration to say that my cinematic education was immeasurably helped by the rise of the DVD format. Before, I was a keen but undiscerning cinema goer; afterwards, I considered myself a film aficionado. Some would have said fanatic. I bought my first DVD player in 1999, when the format was still in its infancy, but already I had heard excited whispers that this was a proper game-changer for the industry. After years of only being able to watch films at home either on overpriced, poor-quality VHS video tapes or expensive, hard-to-find Laserdiscs, this was a true boon. Not only were the films presented in their proper aspect ratios, rather than the hacked pan-and-scan format on video, and in pristine audio and visual condition, but, most excitingly of all, they came with a cornucopia of extra features.

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Thought for the Day

24th October 2020

Speed Bump Comic Strip for October 21, 2020

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How 30 Lines of Code Blew Up a 27-Ton Generator

24th October 2020

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Earlier this week, the US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against a group of hackers known as Sandworm. The document charged six hackers working for Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency with computer crimes related to half a decade of cyberattacks across the globe, from sabotaging the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea to unleashing the most destructive malware in history in Ukraine. Among those acts of cyberwar was an unprecedented attack on Ukraine’s power grid in 2016, one that appeared designed to not merely cause a blackout, but to inflict physical damage on electric equipment. And when one cybersecurity researcher named Mike Assante dug into the details of that attack, he recognized a grid-hacking idea invented not by Russian hackers, but by the United State government, and tested a decade earlier.

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The Biden Family Business

23rd October 2020

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine.

Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal provides a summary of what Tony Bobulinski, backed up by documents, has to say about the business dealings of Joe and Hunter Biden. Bobulinski, a former Navy officer and past supporter of Democrats, was Hunter Biden’s business partner.

Strassel’s entire article is well worth reading. I want to focus on the portions of it that pertain directly to Joe Biden — aka “the big guy.”

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

23rd October 2020

CNN Poll: Biden wins final presidential debate

‘C’mon man’: Biden’s consistent refrain to Trump at the final debate  (Washington Post) Whiney Joe.

The final Biden-Trump presidential debate: our panelists’ verdict (The Guardian) What do you think they said?

Mary Trump: Psychiatrists know what’s wrong with my uncle. Let them tell voters.

ABC, NBC Warn Trump: Don’t You Dare Attack ‘Fair,’ ‘Ref’ Welker!

FAIL: Biased Welker AVOIDS Court Packing, Barely Mentions Hunter Biden

Trump’s Microphone Cut Off For First Time Around 50 Minutes Into Presidential Debate

Lesley Stahl Calls Rush: Get Your People to Calm Down When Trump Loses  Let’s put Lesley on Suicide Watch during the election; she’s going to need it.

Newsweek ‘Trauma Psychologist’ Advises on Overcoming ‘Psychological Toll’ of Trump Presidency  Just shoot yourself and save us all a lot of grief.

Miserable Scarborough Attacks Deplorable Friends and Loved Ones Backing Trump

NY Times Shares Liberal Trauma and Horror: Could ‘Serial Killer’ Trump Win Again?

Trump’s Fault? The “COVID Killer” Claim By His Opponents That Defies Reason

Univision Executive Staffer CAUGHT Fundraising For The Lincoln Project

Winter in Hell: CNN’s Daniel Dale Admits Trump ‘Correct’ on Biden’s Anti-Fracking Stance

Student Sues School After Losing His Parking Pass For Pro-Trump Display

ABC Hails Sacha Baron Cohen Tricking, Mocking Republicans, ‘Racist’ Trump in ‘Borat 2’

More Liberals Switching Their Vote To Trump After Realizing He’s Their Only Reason For Living Babylon Bee.

‘Basic Respect 101’: Ocasio-Cortez Fumes At Trump For Calling Her ‘AOC’  Oh, lighten up.

Science was a big winner—and loser—at this week’s presidential debate  (Popular ‘Science’) Most of it is Orange Man Bad, of course.

‘View’ Crew Play Dumb on Trump Exposing 60 Minutes’ Bias, Claim It ‘Backfired’ on Trump

BIG LOL: Twitter Blue-Checks Think Trump’s ‘Coyote’ Remark Refers to Literal Animal  As Ron White likes to day, ‘You cain’t fix stupid.’

Twitter Censors Trump Camp Spox for Questioning Mail-In Voting: Report

 

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