12th July 2022
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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a rulebook for regenerating limbs.
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12th July 2022
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Populism: When the wrong person or cause wins a free election, like Brexit or Trump.
Racism: Any kind of resistance, conscious or unconscious, to the political program of the left.
Democracy: Any institutional design or voting system that enables the left to get what it wants.
Updated version: “Our” democracy—the version of “democracy as the left defines it.”
“Threat to democracy”: When Republicans win an election.
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12th July 2022
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12th July 2022
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Business press articles on the widely experienced shortage of workers in the United States often identify as part of the problem that the current “labor participation rate” (1) is unusually low. The articles generally offer up several theories on why so many people are not participating in the labor market. Those theories include 1) people still living off government pandemic checks, 2) people unwilling to commit to a job while the school schedules for their children continue to be unreliable, 3) laziness of the youngest generation, and 4) older people who were prematurely retired during the pandemic and choose to stay retired. Businesses lament the difficulties in finding and attracting employees, and complain how the worker shortage negatively affects their business activities.
But, have businesses considered the possibility that they could be contributing to the problem themselves? Are businesses scaring off potential employees with “woke” policies and controversial political messaging? I’m not sure I can muster much sympathy for the “woe is me” businesses lamenting their inability to find workers while the businesses push “woke” policies and controversial political positions.
I am a premature retiree, though my premature retirement slightly preceded the pandemic. I sometimes miss aspects of working, and so occasionally look at reentering the paid labor market. But when I do look, I see all the focus prospective employers put on non-core issues such as promoting sexual deviancy and related bullying (illustrated with widespread use of rainbow flags), promoting “anti-racist” racism, opposing formation of stable families, promoting the killing of employees’ babies, hating on many aspects of Western Civilization and on the foundational values of America, and other topics from the current “woke” agenda. From that I conclude that the company probably doesn’t want me, and that if I were to go to work there I would be uncomfortable and the company would be working actively to make me uncomfortable.
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11th July 2022
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11th July 2022
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11th July 2022
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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
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11th July 2022
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The Florida Democrat who promised to “legalize weed” if elected governor holds thousands of dollars of stake in a marijuana dispensary.
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11th July 2022
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The Washington Post‘s justified firing of obnoxious feminist reporter Felicia Sonmez has been quite the boon for generic male journalists. Last week the paper tapped generic white man David Shipley to take over as editor of the Post editorial page, and welcomed back Dave Weigel, the white male reporter who was suspended last month for retweeting a joke that offended Sonmez. The patriarchy is thriving.
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11th July 2022
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We live in a very bipolar society and one of the most obvious examples of this is the tenacity of masking. The unfortunate truth is that an aerosolized virus particle is so small that the only sure way to prevent an encounter with it is with your own self-contained breathing apparatus. How many scuba suits are you seeing on the streets of New York? Can a surgical mask stop a particle or two? Well, it is certainly possible in the same way that fishnet stockings may prevent some sunburn but not what anyone would call overall effective. Early on there were multiple articles exaggerating the necessity of public masking, none of them particularly convincing or well done but they danced around the truth and pushed their preconceived notions in the name of public health.
The wearing of masks has absolutely nothing to do with COVID – it’s a flag that progressives use to assert their political loyalty to the Narrative. That’s all it is.
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11th July 2022

I hate it when that happens.
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11th July 2022
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It turns out that the price lists are incredibly unwieldy to use for a number of reasons that I mention later. I blame in equal parts both the hospitals and the lawmakers.
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11th July 2022
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11th July 2022
John Hinderaker at Power Line.
The Left has a rather schizophrenic attitude toward protests and demonstrations. Some are wonderful, like the George Floyd riots, which were not, in fact, protests at all. Or like arson and other destruction committed at pro-life facilities. Others are detestable, like the Dutch farmers’ protests, or the French “yellow vests,” or the Canadian truckers. Some protests, too, can only be ignored, like when hundreds of thousands of pro-life citizens show up for their annual march in Washington.
Currently the Left is “demonstrating” against the Supreme Court justices who concurred in the Dobbs decision. A few nights ago, as Scott has noted, left-wingers harassed Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other diners at the Morton’s steak house in D.C. Liberals viewed this effort as a triumph–Kavanaugh reportedly had to exit out a back door–and a pro-Democratic Party organization is now offering cash bounties to anyone who sees a conservative justice out in public in time for a flash mob to assemble.
When asked about such tactics, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was nonplussed. These are peaceful demonstrations, she replied, the very essence of democracy!
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10th July 2022
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Feminists’ adoption of Margaret Atwood’s red cape serves only to obscure the complex real-life issues around women’s rights.
It’s all virtue-signaling cosplay. None of it has any effect on actual events; its only purpose is to make the players feel good about themselves.
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10th July 2022
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A New York City bodega group says the Big Apple should adopt a local version of Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law after a Manhattan store worker was charged with murder for defending himself.
United Bodegas of America — which has rallied behind Jose Alba, the 61-year-old shop employee facing a slay rap after fending off a violent ex-con — said Sunday that the measure is needed to protect others who toil behind the counter.
“Bottom line — in Florida, this is what you would consider stand your ground,” UBA spokesman Fernando Mateo said at a press conference, referring to Alba’s case.
“That’s what New York City needs,” Mateo said of the law.
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10th July 2022
Report: U.S. oil reserves are being exported overseas despite high fuel prices (Deseret News)
Dems full of ‘outright worry’ over Biden’s leadership, say he’s ‘out of time’ to fix things: Politico
Kamala Harris caught in word salad when asked if Democrats failed to codify Roe v Wade
Biden’s approval rating craters to 30% after brutal week: poll
Biden Administration Admits Border Patrol Never Whipped Anyone But we’re going to punish them just the same.
Biden’s Selling Of Oil From Reserve To Hunter Biden-Tied Chinese Firm ‘Impeachable’: Republicans
VP Harris calls for ‘assault weapons ban’ on guns ‘intentionally designed to kill’ people Really, you can’t make this stuff up.
Biden’s Mental Decay
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10th July 2022
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10th July 2022
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10th July 2022
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10th July 2022
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The building blocks of these microrobots are iron oxide nanoparticles that have both catalytic and magnetic activity. Using a magnetic field, researchers could direct their motion and configuration to form either bristlelike structures that sweep away dental plaque from the broad surfaces of teeth, or elongated strings that can slip between teeth like a length of floss. In both instances, a catalytic reaction drives the nanoparticles to produce antimicrobials that kill harmful oral bacteria on site.
I have been waiting for this for over twenty years, as soon as I read my first story about nanotech. My dentist and I talk about it every time I go in to get my teeth cleaned.
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10th July 2022
14-Year-Old Is Fatally Stabbed in Harlem Subway Station, Police Say (N.Y.Times) I guess they assume that everybody knows that, being in Harlem, the victim was obviously black.
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10th July 2022

Works for me.
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10th July 2022
Steve Sailer.
The pervert lifestyle in action.
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10th July 2022
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The man whose posting on social media warned authorities that agent provocateurs from Antifa and Black Lives Matter would be at the U.S. Capitol dressed as Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, is a self-described government informant tied to former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein.
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10th July 2022
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10th July 2022
Steve Sailer.
Team Soros has come up with brilliant plan for reducing racial inequities in how many blacks go to jail for crimes: prosecutorial ineptitude.
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9th July 2022
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9th July 2022
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Early in the morning on New Year’s Day in 2014 I was looking through the online news, as was my habit. I came across an article about an explosion and fire in the Cedar-Riverside district of Minneapolis, which was suspected to have been caused by a gas leak. As I skimmed through the text, I noticed that the damaged building was said to be “next door to a mosque”. That got my attention — the blast must have been in “Little Mogadishu” — so I read the article more closely and looked at some of the news videos.
My suspicions were aroused by the appearance of the building after the explosion, before firemen brought the blaze under control. It didn’t look like a gas explosion, which typically blows out all the walls and collapses the roof onto the rubble. When that happens, most of the ambient oxygen is consumed by the initial blast, and there’s usually very little fire afterwards in the remaining rubble.
That’s not what happened on Cedar Avenue that bitterly cold New Year’s morning. An intense explosion blew out the windows of the second floor and propelled debris across the street (as well as the legless body of one of the victims, according to early reports that were later scrubbed from the web), but the walls remained intact. A fire burned fiercely afterwards, consuming all the flammable material in the building, including the roof. It took firemen a couple of days to extinguish the blaze completely.
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In the end the building was razed and the rubble carted away, destroying any possibility of a real investigation. The official cover story was a “gas leak”, never mind the gas utility’s vehement insistence that their monitoring equipment showed definitively that their system experienced no leaks whatsoever that morning.
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9th July 2022
Tell the truth: We’ve all wanted to do that.
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9th July 2022
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This ought to come as no surprise. Intelligence, if not entirely hereditary, has a large hereditary component. In these degenerate modern times, when even people who don’t have the smarts to make it in college nevertheless get admitted and funded (with YOUR tax dollars), the children of people with advanced degrees have no trouble getting advanced degrees themselves, unless they are total screw-ups (which many are). In the Good Old Days, being a professor didn’t pay all that much, so their kids sometimes had to get a Real Job. But not any more.
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9th July 2022
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The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced it has told carriers to stop delivering auto warranty robocalls, citing it as a top complaint from consumers.
The FCC said it has authorized all U.S.-based voice service providers to stop carrying traffic from Roy Cox Jr., Aaron Michael Jones, their Sumco Panama companies and other international associates believed to be behind the more than 8 billion robocalls generated since 2018.
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9th July 2022
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An article featured in British newspaper The Guardian forecasts a world in which it is commonplace for young adults and would-be parents to opt toward raising “digital babies” over having real children of their own. Powered by virtual reality and artificial intelligence, these “programmable and highly realistic children” would simulate play, emotional feedback, and the tactile feel of caring for offspring.
Cute, right?
I propose that they all bear the surname ‘Tamagochi’.
Actually, this isn’t a bad idea; there are a lot of people that I wouldn’t want to see actually reproduce, so this ‘digital baby’ might serve as a substitute for people whose offspring we’d really not want in our gene pool.
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9th July 2022
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More than $77 billion of the unemployment insurance (UI) program’s total of $413 billion in payments in 2021 were made improperly, according to a report from the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General (IG).
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9th July 2022
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Governor Youngkin appears to be successful in weeding out some of the dead wood among the state bureaucracy.
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