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        Thursday, December 1. 2016Thursday morning links
 Fun Christmas presents: Good Fucking Design The Man Who Stands Between Earth and Asteroid Armageddon - Because every day could be “asteroid day” for NASA’s planetary defense officer. The figures showed nine in ten London newborns had at least one parent from overseas The Problem With Hunter Avallone’s Generation Is Moonbattery  (video) Why the Democrats Can't Stop Calling the GOP Racists How The Electoral College remains an essential constitutional safeguard of American liberty Obama On Why Democrats Failed: See, It's Because FOXNEWS! Is On the TV In "Every Bar and Restaurant" Obama White House Scoffs at Trump's Carrier Deal Trump makes sense once you realize you’re watching improv Europe: "I think European nations should increase their defense budgets." Trump was persuasive. Euroland needs to get off America's welfare. Islamists Won: Charlie Hebdo Disappears François Fillon’s French Revolution: 
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                If you're going to boycott Kellogg's for being fascist douchebags, you're going to have to find something else to eat.  
        
    There are 10 corporations that control the processed food supply. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55067/000119312511047372/dex2101.htm Took a look at the Kellogg's brands (http://www.kelloggcompany.com/en_US/brandportfolio.html) and didn't find a single thing that's in my cupboards.  Guess I've been boycotting them all along.   
        
    "Processed food" at my house means cheese, yogurt, oatmeal, or canned goods, not fauxfoods like Pringles or PopTarts. same here.  also condiments.  
        
    i buy local flour processed from a local mill. Cereal never enters my house. Podhoretz cracks me up; he equates "improv" with "making it up as you go along."  Does he have any idea how much practice and rehearsal goes into a jazzman's ability to "improvise?" 
        
    I can tell you from personal experience as a jazz drummer, you can't improvise until you know what you're doing and how to do it. 
        
    Unlike being a reporter. Podhoretz is an idiot:  successful improv requires a lot of talent, a real gift for timing, and - I rather suspect - one heck of a lot of practice back stage.  I rather think Mr Trump has both the necessary qualities and the practice. 
        
    I love breakfast cereal and have no objection to it in principle.  As a matter of taste I prefer unsweetened ones, especially GrapeNuts.  Nevertheless, these days I'm trying to stay away from all grains, because I'm still reducing.  I'll go back to cereal for breakfast the moment I figure I can afford the extra calories. 
        
    A great breakfast is 2 cups of coffee and a protein shake. 
        
    I do not get how people can eat solid food in the morning - especially empty calories like cereal. To each his own. I don't frequent bars much, but when I do, it's usually sports on the tv. Not news stations. I have never been in an airport that doesn't have Clinton Network News playing. Once again, Obama is full of excrement. 
        
    Re NASA’s planetary defense officer. 
        
    the most bitchin' title ever. I always eat breakfast.  When I'm home that's cereal.   When I'm traveling it is bacon, eggs, hash browns and English muffins.  If the restaurant  serves breakfast all day then I eat it again at lunch.   I like all of the fast food breakfasts too; eggs, sausage and cheese on a toasted bun, mmmm, mmmm. 
        
    re François Fillon’s French Revolution: 
        
    The NYT thinks Europe will gradually move into Russia's orbit and Fillon's success is proof of that. Of course the Grey Lady has always had a peculiar view of the world. So here it is fwiw: QUOTE: The victory of François Fillon in France’s center-right presidential primary is the latest sign that a tectonic shift is coming to the European order: toward accommodating, rather than countering, a resurgent Russia. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/world/europe/fillon-french-election-russia.html?_r=0 The entire left had the vapors because Trump said it was time to look at NATO and maybe dump it.  They kept saying "Article V! Article V!", which obligates the signers to mutual self-defense.  "He's going to break the treaty that ensures Europe's security!" 
        
    Well, the treaty's already been broken. Instead of listening to someone who will tell them what they want to hear, they should read what's in the treaty themselves. Here's Article III in it's entirety: "In order more effectively to achieve the objectives of this Treaty, the Parties, separately and jointly, by means of continuous and effective self-help and mutual aid, will maintain and develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack." The European nations clearly broke this Article a long time ago. So why should American taxpayers take money out of their pocket when Europeans won't tax themselves to defend themselves? They are worried that Junior Year Abroad will be imperiled. 
        
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