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Thursday, December 8. 2016

Thursday morning links

Miami is already underwater


I Got Your Gluten Right Here, Pal


25 crucial Christmas desserts.


The Genius Behind the Big Mac


A book:  War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage


Christians Owe Fealty to No Earthly Ruler and No Earthly Leader Offers Us Salvation


What is the Fifth Wave of information dispersal?


Purdue’s free-speech orientation program could go national, thanks to college bureaucrat group


Via Insty, "... many religious Christians of a traditionalist bent believed that liberals not only reduce their deeply held beliefs to bigotry, but want to run them out of their jobs, close down their stores and undermine their institutions."


The Lefties won their culture wars: When all the good civil-right issues have been largely won, go
after Christian bakers, celibate nuns, and girls in locker rooms.


Standing Rock: The Trouble To Follow


Amazon Shows the Futility of Minimum Wage Increases


Robots will work for less - but what if they organize?


Klavan:  Why Are Leftists Such Pansies?


Blames Brazile for letting climate change kill him


DONALD TRUMP, REGICIDE - Trump has toppled two American Dynasties


Japanese Firm SoftBank Promises $50 Billion in Investment in America, Likely Generating 50,000 Jobs, After Meeting with Trump


TIME magazine, whatever it is these days, really really hates Donald Trump


The Trump Way - Trump Rediscovers an Old Form of Governance


WaPo: Trump Was Right About Overwhelmingly Negative Press Coverage


Now that Trump’s won, media suddenly notices that a lot of new jobs are crappy:



 With Obama in office all of the news was good… or at least spun to look as positive as possible. For the next four years at least you can expect to see headlines like the one linked above. Everything is terrible and there is nothing good upon the land as long as Trump is in charge.



UK: No WONDER our politicians banned age tests: Majority of child refugees checked are ADULTS


Turks “Hate” and “Are Disgusted” by Syrian Refugees


France: Decomposing In Front Of Our Eyes


Why Italy should quit Euroland


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The pipeline, standing rock and the demonstrators:
I don't understand why these 'demonstrators' can get away with breaking laws that would put you or me in jail. I do understand the difficulty in arresting every lawbreaker when there are hundreds of them but the revolving door of the justice system in these cases makes no sense. If I threatened anyone the way these protestors threaten law enforcement and civilian security I could go to jail. If I as an individual were threatened by someone I could get a restraining order which the common everyday enforcement of which would put the 'perp' in jail just for intentionally going to where I was at the time. Refusing to obey lawful orders of the police would get you elected anywhere in the country except it seems at this site.

The majority of the Indians at this reservation do not want anything to do with this demonstration and have expressed that very explicitly. To characterize this as if the 'Indians' objected to this pipeline is simply inaccurate. This is a handful of rabble rousers, professional hired demonstrators and foreign money and communist front organizations.

The pipeline company should be allowed to sue the individuals and organizations who are illegally preventing them from working. Those who are arrested should either remain in jail until this is settled or released knowing that if they go back to the scene of the crime that the penalties will be much more severe.
#1 GoneWithTheWind on 2016-12-08 10:16 (Reply)
That story did not open for me.
#1.1 Sam L. on 2016-12-08 14:02 (Reply)
The feds recently shot down people in Oregon for doing less. But then again, they were white ranchers, not politically correct people of color, and the Obama administration has actively been trying to kill off ranching the past 8 years and is now doing it literally.
#1.2 Jim on 2016-12-08 15:08 (Reply)
U.S. Steel announces the rehiring of 10,000 workers. Enuf said.
#2 jma on 2016-12-08 14:01 (Reply)
from the Z man:

CalExit!

QUOTE:
In reality, the birthplace of secession in America is not Fort Sumter, but Salem Massachusetts. In the late 18th and early 19th century, Federalists based in Massachusetts agitated for the New England states to leave the Union. It really got going when Jefferson and the Republicans swept the 1800 elections, giving his party control of the Congress and the Presidency. The Federalists thought it was the sign of the apocalypse and ratcheted up their efforts to secede, culminating in the Hartford Convention.

and

Another benefit is that it could encourage New England to break off and form a separate country too. At the minimum, the members of the Cult, who have moved to other places, like Virginia and North Carolina, may decide it is time to return home. Maybe New England does not secede, but perhaps it can go back to being a reservation for Progressive nutters that is granted a degree of autonomy. It would be a bit ironic if the end result was a demand from the Cult for a return of Federalism and state’s rights.


http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=9164
#3 feeblemind on 2016-12-08 14:17 (Reply)
New England Secession. We here in New Hampshire would feel it was the final blow for us standing against the long dark night. Yes, MA imports have turned us a slightly bluish purple, and NY emigrants have ruined the once-great state of VT, but Yankees still live here.

Yet I get the point. The rest of the country would rejoice.
#3.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-12-08 20:04 (Reply)
Fifth Wave: I gave up on my state-wide and my local paper some years ago. All the fake news I need I get from the Democrat-Media Gang.

Amazon Minimum Wage: Leftists want to kill minimum-wage jobs, by raising the costs of hiring minimum-wage workers.

Leftist Pansies: Can't stand any kind of dissent, disagreement, or opposition, likely because they've been sheltered from it by parental and educational indoctrination.

EU: The ground underneath it contains a volcano, and uncivil wars seem to be in the offing.
#4 Sam L. on 2016-12-08 14:17 (Reply)
Trump wants to legalize 'Dreamers,' admit huge number of new immigrants

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/12/trump_wants_to_legalize_dreamers_admit_huge_number_of_new_immigrants.html
#5 feeblemind on 2016-12-08 18:15 (Reply)
A Surprising Find in Central Park

QUOTE:
As part of the Central Park Flora project—a three-year endeavor to document the wild flora of Central Park—the team has discovered white ash (Fraxinus americana), European ash (Fraxinus excelsior), two varieties of green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. pennsylvanica and Fraxinus pennsylvanica var. subintegerrima) and now pumpkin ash growing wild in Central Park.

Wedged between a large rock outcrop and the Bridle Path, west of Winterdale Arch and east of Diana Ross Playground, the newly discovered pumpkin ashes are estimated to be 30 to 40 years old, based on their trunk size. Since its founding in 1980, the Central Park Conservancy has been restoring habitat and planting and encouraging the regeneration of native species. Weeding out invasive species like Japanese knotweed and Norway maple gives native species such as pumpkin ash the space and resources to flourish.


http://blogs.nybg.org/science-talk/2016/08/a-surprising-find-in-central-park/
#6 feeblemind on 2016-12-08 18:51 (Reply)

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