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Monday, September 18. 2017

Monday morning links


Photo is a member of the Cajun Navy in Houston 


How to Use Body Language to Create a Dynamite First Impression


 How dealing with difficult people can make you a better person


 THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING STRUGGLE IN OUR DAILY LIVES


 Beijing Start-Up Now Offers Sex Dolls For Rent


 Think Gentrification Is Bad? The Opposite Is Worse


 An Experiment Gives Cash Aid To The Poor. Is That Ethical?


" As I got to know my new Midwest home, I realize how living in a bubble and subscribing to the Middle America stereotypes is truly damaging to this country."


 Warren Buffett wins $1M bet made a decade ago that the S&P 500 stock index would outperform hedge funds


Surber:  Patrick Henry may be right about the Constitution


 Climate Change Advocate Urges Everyone To Flee The Coasts


 Claim: Chocolate CAUSES Climate Change


 EPA evaluating ‘red teams’ to challenge climate science 


Fun 


Equifax:  A musician as head of security 


 Profs: Boys are better at physics because they play ‘pee games’


 MOVING THE GOAL POST ON RACISM - How has a nation that twice elected a black president suddenly become "racist"?


 Secretary DeVos Begins to Rectify the Title IX Mistake


 Evergreen State Settles Lawsuit With Bret Weinstein and Wife for $500K


Wow 


Related,  THE REVOLUTION TURNS ON ITS BASE


AVI:



...  my response to a statue you don't approve of is "So put up your own statue."  Or even more to the point "Go do something that is worthy of commemoration in that way. No one is stopping you, with your own mixed bag of moral history, from going and doing something heroic or laudable."



Why the statue-smashers will never stop


Coyote:  Today, I Am Pissed At Black Lives Matter. They Aren't Doing The Hard Detailed Work Change Requires


 NY Times Reporter Sends Out Most Idiotic Tweet Ever


 Reminder: Susan Rice Lied About Her Role In The Obama Admin Unmasking Scandal


Trump vs. Psychiatrists: Who's Crazier?


Klavan:  The Surreal Blessings of Donald Trump


 Trump Is Ready to Sell Out His Base. Quelle surprise. (As a liberal elite might say.)


 To make their tax plan work, Republicans eye a favorite blue-state break


 The lefty attorneys general’s obsessive war on Trump


 Latest Google scandal exposes hypocrisy of liberal Attorneys General


 Europe – Time to Say Goodbye 


England:  "How to do your makeup after an acid attack" You're kidding, right? What about..."How to pretend you have a leg when it's blown off"?


 Stunning poll reveals widespread backlash against refugee immigration in developed countries


Is China using NK as a pawn? 

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So "manspreading" doesn't work to create a dynamite first impression?
#1 snopercod on 2017-09-18 07:40 (Reply)
I think it rather depends on the impression you wish to convey.
#1.1 Frances on 2017-09-18 23:09 (Reply)
re THE REVOLUTION TURNS ON ITS BASE

The Frankenstein monster created by the Left, Political Correctness, has turned on its master.

Who'd a thunk it?
#2 feeblemind on 2017-09-18 10:17 (Reply)
I think China and a number of other powers, Iran, Russia, maybe even Pakistan, are interested in the actual capabilities of the THAAD anti-missile system, and would very much like NK to continue to try to goad the US or Japan to attempt a shoot-down. There's a lot of doubt as to whether the system can truly intercept a target on a zero-notice basis.
#3 Another guy named Dan on 2017-09-18 10:30 (Reply)
Backlash against "refugees": The gummints are suppressing their people's opinions, and ignoring them. This will not end well.
#4 Sam L. on 2017-09-18 10:36 (Reply)
Evergreen State Settles Lawsuit With Bret Weinstein and Wife for $500K of taxpayer money. That dough should be taken out of the paychecks of the Evergreen State admin, staff and faculty responsible for setting campus policy.
#5 BillH on 2017-09-18 10:39 (Reply)
Don't be silly. We've warned you before about being logical, but there you go again. It will come out of disguised increases in student fees.
#5.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2017-09-18 11:17 (Reply)
Trump is not selling out anyone. Pelosi/Schumer or NYT or any other media that tries to convince you of that is LYING. Trump already has said: wall will be built, does not support amnesty for DACA. Full. Stop.

How many times are you all going to parrot the sources that lie than the man himself?

Next, Susan Rice is a liar multiple times over. The claim by Gowdy that she was truthful/honest during her testimony is just ridiculous. She picked the ONLY unmasking episode she could think of that was possible to spin in a positive way.

I would like to know why the Administration didn't just ASK Trump why he met with this guy. Why in heck did they need to 'listen in' on Trump at all? He was the president-elect setting up his connections to world leaders, which is totally normal. The reason Rice gave was pathetic. She now admits she unmasked Trump officials...now the question is: what other instances do we have knowledge of besides this one? No way did she do this only ONCE.

And for Gowdy to say he 'believed her' really makes me question Gowdy and his abilities to be shrewd and discerning when talking to someone like Rice.
#6 MissT on 2017-09-18 13:01 (Reply)
Fool me once, etc. I expect betrayal now, no matter who it is. I do not expect that anyone that gets to DC on a freedom and liberty ticket will stay true to his or her word. The differences between them all are only how long it takes to be turned.

That dude McMaster laid it out this weekend last, when he claimed that Bannon had a "narrow agenda" that was not in the nation's and the President's best interest. Well, McMaster, 63 million have already disagreed with you, and when you burn them by pushing another agenda more suited to war and empire abroad, and surveillance and propaganda and control at home, you'd better be ready for some blowback. It was the narrow swamp-draining agenda that was the winner.
#6.1 John A. Fleming on 2017-09-18 23:06 (Reply)
Re: picture

Thank God for the Cajun Navy!

I don't recall a Black Lives Matter Navy or a Antifa Navy, or a Soros Navy, or anything like that from those insufferable leftist groups who spend their lives engaged in moral preening.
#7 mudbug on 2017-09-18 19:29 (Reply)
Agree, the work the Cajun Navy and other boaters put in to save people was spectacular. Thanks to all who participated.

Reminds me in a very small way of the evacuation of Fort McMurray in Alberta last year. Fire came in fast, and a city of close to 70,000 had to leave NOW. It was done with only two deaths (two kids in a car accident), and on roads with flames on either side. That is probably the only city which could have evacuated so efficiently - with everyone employed (directly or indirectly) in the oil patch, that community had the training to know when to move NOW and in an orderly fashion.

However, the Alberta equivalent of the Cajun Navy also turned up. People from communities to the south and west filled their vehicles with jerry cans of gas, water bottles, and other supplies, and headed TOWARDS the fire. They were instrumental in getting the convey out safely.
#7.1 Frances on 2017-09-18 23:19 (Reply)
"An Experiment Gives Cash Aid To The Poor. Is That Ethical?"

Eddie Murphy already made a move about this. It wasn't, and Mortimer and Randolph eventually suffered for it.
#8 Don on 2017-09-19 02:48 (Reply)

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