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Monday, April 15. 2019

Big Bird 1: Meet Quetzalcoatlus – World’s Largest Flying Animal Had A Wingspan Of Up To 52 Feet (15.9 m)

Big Bird 2: Large, flightless bird attacks and kills its fallen owner

Ancient “Texas Serengeti” Had Elephant-Like Animals, Rhinos, Alligators and More

Egypt unveils tomb still bursting with color after 4,300 years

5G Smart Cows Milked By Robots In England

So Now We’re Trolling The Black Hole Picture Lady?

Yale to expand diversity office

Ethno-food warriors are smearing New York chefs

Stock buybacks: An Interview With The Most Powerful Man On Wall Street

Jake Tapper To Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell: ‘Vast Majority Of Gun-Related Deaths’ Are Not From Semi-Automatic Rifles

OBAMA ADVISER’S BOOK IS RANKED 1,030 ON AMAZON. HOW DID IT MAKE NYT’S BEST SELLER LIST?

Worst Idea Ever? NY Times Wants To Make Everyone’s Taxes Public

Migrants break Guatemalan border gate, force their way into Mexico

MEDIA ODDLY LESS INTERESTED IN OBAMA ALLY, NOT TRUMP ALLY, BEING BUSTED OVER UKRAINE

The Anti–Bill Barr Smear Campaign

Kimball: Pursue Those Indictments!

As I have been saying for a couple of years now, this is the biggest scandal in American history. It dwarfs Watergate. Indeed, it challenges the fundamental integrity of our democratic—i.e., accountable—institutions. It challenges, too, the sacrosanct ideal of the separation of powers. Finally, it challenges the presumption of basic fairness and open competition without which our republic could endure in name only.

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Whatever nuggets of suspicious activity British or Estonian intelligence communicated to John Brennan, what are we to make of the machinery he helped set in motion? In my view, the Trump-Russia hoax (to use Nunes’s term) was primarily a political operation. The legal aspects were merely pretexts for the main event, which had two phases: preventing Donald Trump from becoming president, first of all, and then destroying his presidency. A long and tedious process has been set into motion by Devin Nunes and others, and Attorney General William Barr appears determined to see it out. But the scary bottom line is this: over the last couple of years, one political party, aided and abetted by a compliant media and a deep-state bureaucracy, conspired to void the results of a free, open, and democratic election because they disapproved of the people’s choice.

Actor Geoffrey Thorne Attacks Candace Owens: ‘They will Never Think of You As Anything But an Obedient Ni**er’

KAMALA HARRIS SAYS SHE OWNS A GUN — MEANWHILE SHE WANTS TO BAN THEM

Bill Maher To Democrats: If You Make 2020 A 'Woke Contest,' You Lose

Here's who's winning under Trump's tax law

Brandon Judd: A red wave is rising – and the Democrats are powerless to stop it

Surber: "Justice Is Coming"

Did Trump invent shamelessness?

Trump’s Rebel Alliance Attacks the Left’s Death Star

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Attacks President Trump as Cowardly and Unfit For Office

Trump Plan To Transport Illegal Border Crossers to Sanctuary Cities Makes Liberals Live By Their Own Rules

He is trolling to (effectively) make a point

Cher is So Terrified of Illegals Coming to Her City, She’s Now Talking Like Trump

In Europe, China’s economic cold war with the West is over before it’s begun

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The story about Dr. Bouman being trolled: That's the left forever and always - the collective can be praised, never the individual.

#1 M.Murcek on 2019-04-15 07:32 (Reply)

They praised The Chosen One quite often from 2008 to 2016.

#1.1 Dangerous Dean on 2019-04-15 10:22 (Reply)

Obviously the government dumps the illegals somewhere why not in sanctuary cities? I hope they do it.

#2 Anon on 2019-04-15 09:19 (Reply)

I want to be there when Cher finally realizes she's been talking like Trump. That's a whole 'nother level; that's not just living in someone's head rent free, that's living there and taking over the place.

#2.1 Aggie on 2019-04-15 09:44 (Reply)

As soon as I saw the first story about Dr Bouman I said it was another example of a woman being pushed to the front to support the narrative. The more I read the surer I've become. The media hasn't done her any favors.

Also, the Lufthansa flying videos you've been posting, the last with the blonde lady co-pilot are the same thing exactly. My wife pointed another one with her in it last night and then later in the evening I saw a third one with her. I'll bet there's more too. All those videos had different pilots.

#3 FRP on 2019-04-15 09:35 (Reply)

The "coup clutching clan," that's good.

#4 Texan99 on 2019-04-15 10:18 (Reply)

The Dr. Bauman issue: The American public is finally beginning to see the damage that has been done to our education system by feminizing our university system. This fact is being recognized in universities around the world.

#5 faculty wife on 2019-04-15 10:35 (Reply)

Yesterday I was listening to NPR and they had a two hour long show about obesity. What it was though was two hours of fat ladies complaining that men didn't want to date them or have sex with them. Two hours of "why me" and "you suck". One formerly fat lady who lost over 100 lbs by taking speed even taped herself disparaging her husband of 10 days because he would have never married her when she was fat. She was relentless, no love just criticism of what she thought his motives might be. I assume he has seen the light and gotten out of there. But this seems to be the position of obese (mostly) women that it is all the men's fault because they are too shallow to see their inner beauty or something. I kept thinking that I could guarantee every fat woman a date and probably a marriage but of course the man would be obese, unkempt and ugly, but hey, these women aren't "shallow" are they???

#6 Anon on 2019-04-15 10:50 (Reply)

Nicely put.

#6.1 XRay on 2019-04-15 10:54 (Reply)

Women who care only about pocketbooks are shallow. Men who care only about looks are shallow. Shallow relationships probably are going to be filled with rage and disappointment. How often do we have to go over this? It's never going to make ugliness attractive or poverty appealing. It's never going to make it easier to figure out whether physical unattractiveness or poverty results from an important character trait that someone might want to evaluate before entering into a vulnerable partnership. And it's never going to settle the question "which is shallower, an obsession with looks or hunger for meal ticket?"

#6.2 Texan99 on 2019-04-15 11:36 (Reply)

I do not mean to be argumentative but. It is not shallow to be interested in looks. Agree or not that is exactly what our genes and our maker bred into us, It is how we choose a mate. Is it wrong or shallow? I suppose by someone's moral standard but somehow I suspect that those same people who believe that choose their mates based on attraction. I know, I know! You will say "but I meant choosing just on looks alone". I'm sorry, that's a fake position. First it doesn't matter a wit that someone considered looks more important than say intelligence or personality because everyone has their priorities. Choosing a mate based on personality would be equally shallow if you examined it honestly. Secondly, without exception in this world everyone who gets to choose a mate is first impressed by their looks and anyone who denies it is not being honest.

#6.2.1 Anon on 2019-04-15 14:51 (Reply)

It's not shallow to care about looks, and it's not shallow to be interested in whether a man can buy food for a pregnant woman or a woman with young enough kids that it will be hard for her to work. What is shallow is to care for nothing at all but these two characteristics: the stereotypical man who engages in serial marriages as each wife loses her looks, or the stereotypical gold-digger woman who wants to squeeze every penny out of a hard-working high earner. Everyone who expects to build a stable and satisfying long-term intimate relationship will have to figure out how to balance these reasonable ambitions with the many other virtues a trustworthy partner must have.

#6.2.1.1 Texan99 on 2019-04-15 21:17 (Reply)

Reading through the CNN linked article on the tax cuts, I discovered a lot of winning, and a couple of losers. Blue staters that rely on refunds and the US Treasury. The last couple of sentences are priceless:

QUOTE:

With the national debt over $22 trillion, that means the US will ultimately have to make some hard choices. So enjoy that tax cut, everyone.

Hard choices indeed. The Federal government has had a spending problem for years, they never want to make the hard choices, not enough opportunity for graft, as Glen Reynolds would say.

As a self-employed e-filer, I didn’t enjoy any tax cut, but I am happy that the tax reform was passed, especially for those evil cooperations that provide so many valuable jobs. Cooperations that reflect the cost of doing business in their pricing, why is that so hard to understand?

#7 B. Hammer on 2019-04-15 11:17 (Reply)

Our national debt is going to crush us. We keep kicking that can down the road but the damned can keeps getting bigger. We are in the mother of all unsustainable situations but no one cares as long as the free stuff keeps flowing and the stock market keeps going up. But it will eventually crash. It almost did in 2008 but we were saved by printing cash and handing out trillions but in truth that made it all worse. If there were any justice when it crashes the peasants would round up all the congressmen/women and run them through the guillotine. But having said that it is "our" fault. We elect these big spending big taxing politicians again and again. We will pay the price and most of us will deserve to.

#7.1 Anon on 2019-04-15 11:28 (Reply)

It's remarkable how smoothly a progressive can make the transition between "the tax cut is a sham because my buddies didn't enjoy any cut" and "tax cuts are bad anyway, because we have a deficit." Seems to me the deficit isn't being exacerbated if the cuts are an illusion.

The article was interesting in another way: it tried hard to paint a picture of illusory cuts by obsessing over refunds. That's plain stupid. The question isn't whether people are foolishly overpaying their tax bills throughout the year with greater or lesser intensity lately. The question is whether their tax bill is bigger or smaller. CNN's own charts show that the average tax bill in all 50 states, red and blue, is down by 20-30%. Only refund decreases were negligible on average and less enjoyable in blue states.

#7.2 Texan99 on 2019-04-15 11:46 (Reply)

Government spending problems...just think of all the government mandated and funded jobs in the university, the local and state governments, and the federal government. The administrative state in all these areas gobbles up resources and produces only politically correct regulation that produces nothing but makes the progressive socialists feel good about themselves. SJW's are not affordable and will go when the government has no choice as there is no more money. Not surprisingly, billionaires are at the trough in the service business of dealing with gays, trannys, poverty pimps, global warming, renewables, and other endless sources of "fairness".

#7.3 indyjonesouthere on 2019-04-15 12:29 (Reply)

cows have been milked by robotics for over ten years now, the only labor being replaced is wetbacks illegal immigrants or whatever you want to call them, used to be Mexicans now a lot of Nicaraguans or in my heyday local teenagers who were willing to work, they are rare now, too many aborted or birth controlled out of existence the rest are spoiled. typically it takes just as much time you just spend it working with the cows rather than doing the actual milking, still takes MANAGEMENT, I know been in the business for 45 years

#8 Old Dairy Farmer on 2019-04-15 11:33 (Reply)

I don't know a tougher way to make a livin' than pullin' tits.

My hat is off to you.

#8.1 feeblemind on 2019-04-15 16:45 (Reply)

Trump invented a truthful politician.

#9 MissT on 2019-04-15 13:11 (Reply)

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