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Building a Park Underground - New York's LowLine park has the power to transform the Lower East Side neighborhood. Is that a good thing?

Dumbest idea ever. Plus the Lower East Side needs no transformation

A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate

Via Insty, a book: How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor

If I retired, I think I would decay. I'd have plenty to do, but no real purpose.

How can you combat climate change without a private jet?

NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses

Here’s why China’s one-child policy was a good thing

The transformation of David Brooks

He has gone Full Twit

“Progressive remedies have condemned millions of poor black and Hispanic children to lives of poverty and hopelessness and damaged the lives of countless others.”

Here’s the speech students at Williams College were too outraged and offended to hear

Sorry, Social Justice Warriors: Political Correctness Has Peaked

Sweden: Sex Change for Children

At Hayek:

‘Can you imagine a worse incentive system than one that rewards failure with higher budgets and punishes success with lower budgets?’ I can’t – yet that’s pretty much the prevailing incentive system for governments around the world.

Scarborough: No Republican Has Hosted Network Sunday Show or Newscast in 50 Years

Changing the “Macho” Male Culture of the US Military

A Mass Migration Crisis, and It May Yet Get Worse

Soros Admits Involvement In Migrant Crisis: ‘National Borders Are The Obstacle’

Billionaire investor George Soros has confirmed he wants to bring down Europe’s borders, following the accusation made last week by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Last week, Mr Orban accused Mr Soros – who was born in Hungary – of deliberately encouraging the migrant crisis.

Soros is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, was Nazi collaborator, got rich manipulating currency markets. What's his issue?

Arctic Attracting New Military Scrutiny

Obama's Corrupt and Immoral Abuse of the Military

Gen. Breedlove: Intelligence Community Changing How it Handles Russia

COVERING TERRORISM AGAINST ISRAELIS:AN IDIOT’S GUIDE

A Failure of Strategic Thinking in the Middle East

Scarborough:
No Republican Has Hosted Network Sunday Show or Newscast in 50 Years -
See more at:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2015/11/02/scarborough-no-republican-has-hosted-network-sunday-show-or#sthash.0BpWQZrW.dpuf

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re Secretaries of Defense.

Heh. They could be mistaken for ordinary secretaries.

One wonders what the likes of King Charles XII, Harald Hardrada, or Otto von Bismarck would think?

#1 feeblemind on 2015-11-03 09:11 (Reply)

That is a horrifying picture.

#1.1 NJSoldier on 2015-11-03 09:27 (Reply)

Could be a pic of The View cast if you diversified it a little.

#1.2 BillH on 2015-11-03 09:58 (Reply)

Commenters are picking up correctly that it is not merely that they are women, but a particular sort of women. If they were Maggie Thatcher or Golda Meir we might speculate that the Russian could be in for a nasty surprise. And that could still be true of any one of the four, who just happens to look against type.

But the four together? The odds are that our initial impression is spot on.

Hell, Hillary is a liar and a narcissist, but their problem is not her problem.

#1.3 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-11-03 11:18 (Reply)

Progressive Remedies

Poor people sometimes benefit from owning a pet. My uncle Letsgo Lozko, he raised bantam chickens, he was never upset or dysfunctional. He said he owed it to having a flock of chickens.

He was always ready to give a healthy live chicken to any poor people he came across. One time we took his International Harvester pickup around the ghet toes and tossed out live hens for any to claim.

It has been noted and recorded in the Blue Island Bantam Gazette that people seemed more happy with a chicken under their arm. Pets can do amazing things. It gave folks hope.

#2 chasmatic (Link) on 2015-11-03 10:16 (Reply)

Soros is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, was Nazi collaborator, got rich manipulating currency markets. What's his issue?

Kirk's line in a movie;"That's the excuse they usually give for evil. Hitler was mad they said. So he may have been... but not necessarily. Evil does exist. evil IS. " Him and Obama, saves time looking for other motivations that may not be there.

#3 John the River (Link) on 2015-11-03 10:21 (Reply)

"Obama's Corrupt and Immoral Abuse of the Military"

Obama has taken the world's most capable military and emasculated it. It is unlikely that we have the capability to stand up to any real challenge around the world. It would be impossible to do as much harm as he has without intending to do so. Simple incompetence wouldn't explain it. For whatever reason (treason) he has intentionally reduced our military capability to the point where we may not be able to fight a conventional war. I have always said that Obama was the Manchurian candidate and I still believe this. He is a post turtle; a puppet and we don't know to this day who pulls his strings. Our MSM choose not to vet him and worse to publicly excoriate anyone who did try to vet him. Why the complicity? One answer is the same people behind the curtain pulling Obama's strings are controlling the media.

#4 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-11-03 10:28 (Reply)

Remember, you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.

Hard to see what the Progressives have to gain by destroying the military, the hard shell that is protecting their soft gooey center.
Maybe they are just stupid.

#4.1 John the River (Link) on 2015-11-03 14:19 (Reply)

A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a startling rate

Women and minorities hardest hit. Dead men don't produce taxable income.

#5 JK Brown on 2015-11-03 10:39 (Reply)

Well, young minority males were the canary in the mine of the new economy and the skills people will need. I don't have a metaphor for what comes next after the canaries, but middle-aged men without sufficient education (a proxy for, but not an equivalent to, lack of skills) may be the next to lose out. They were likely also raised with self-expectations of how they should perform in life to be valuable. So - poor job or no job, no longer a custodial parent or all that necessary to your children because they can receive support elsewhere, or, somewhat better, have now grown up and gone out on their own. Drugs and alcohol readily available.

Walking nearer the edge of the cliff, as a group.

#5.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-11-03 11:10 (Reply)

Not really a surprise when you realize the economy is still only operating at about half the level it was when Obama came into office, and that real unemployment is somewhere around 24%.

And basically, Obama screwed the middle class to pay for everyone else's goodies.

#5.2 Jim on 2015-11-03 17:33 (Reply)

Am I crass to not be that upset about middle-aged people dying at a higher rate than normal? That means less old folks to pay Social Security benefits and fewer old folks on Medicare. Maybe that means I'll actually get something from both systems when I retire after all...

#6 MissT on 2015-11-03 11:07 (Reply)

If you feel that strongly that our deaths are important you could shoot us.

#6.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-11-03 15:58 (Reply)

The land with more experience with mass violence adopts compassion toward animals in droves. Conventional Epicurean rightists baffled; some reconsider prior biases and assumptions.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/117687/israel-goes-vegan

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/186427#.VjjfLSsSwQ4

#7 Ten on 2015-11-03 11:28 (Reply)

>If I retired, I think I would decay. I'd have plenty to do, but no real purpose.

Perhaps you could adjust. My dad retired at 92 and wished he had retired earlier.

#8 chuck on 2015-11-03 22:12 (Reply)

Why do people think retirement means inactivity? It means choosing whatever activity suits you, without having to consider whether someone with property to spare cares enough about getting it done to pay you to do it. You can do something to please yourself. You can do something to please someone else who can't pay for it, if you prefer that. You can even choose to do something that someone will pay for, but you can change your mind about it as often as you like, without having to worry about missing a paycheck.

All it takes is imagination and inner direction.

#8.1 Texan99 on 2015-11-04 00:31 (Reply)

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