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Saturday, November 23. 2019

Saturday morning links

400-year-old shark found in the Arctic could be the oldest living vertebrate


After a tough workout, I feel like that 


 Who's Afraid Of Roundup?


Not me. Kills evil vine roots. 


You Can’t Afford My Radical Life


Mr. Sammler’s City - Saul Bellow’s prophetic 1970 novel captured New York’s unraveling and remains a cautionary tale.


 Bonnie Prince Charles Warns We Only Have 10 Years Left To Solve ‘Climate Change’


Also:  Al Gore Is Here To Bore Us All Again With Climate Change Hysteria


Coulter: We'll tell you who's privileged


The political and emotional need for oppression 


 But, That's How I Feel!


That's why we always recommend Dr. Bennet's book F*ck Feelings 


 Students demand ability to select roommate based on race during days-long sit-in


Racists 


 L.A.’s New Project Housing Homeless In Shipping Containers Costs $600,000 Per Home


 Elizabeth Warren Rally Derailed By Pro-Charter School Protesters


Listen to the people, Pocahontas 


Free People Don't Ask the Government for Permission. "Liberty," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "is unobstructed action according to our will; but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others."


After Failing to Prosecute Bankers, Obama Cashes In With Wall Street Speeches. The former president is reportedly raking in $400,000 per speech to massive financial firms


How much money do you need? 


Peggy Noonan Reminds Us Why Trump Won. The NeverTrumpers' fundamental error.


 Trump: 'Historic' Durham Investigation Will Implicate Obama in Spygate


Quick. Find an absolutely clear, 1-paragraph, just-the-facts summary of exactly what Trump did that warrants impeachment.


Cuz orange man bad


 Trump’s Common Sense on Foreign Policy


Thinks outside the box. That's good. The Swamp is stultified. 

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Take away on the Impeachment Hearings. I think the problem for the Dems is that their case doesn't have a clear and uncontested "crime", upon which most people could agree. In addition, the public has to follow a long convoluted path of mind reading, inference, and hearsay to reach their same conclusion. Contrast that with the insinuations regarding Joe and Hunter Biden. There is nothing convoluted about them, understandable by any one over the age of 12. In a Senate trial, which one would be the most memorable and compelling?
#1 Exasperated on 2019-11-23 09:09 (Reply)
I know the Dems had no choice and they were stuck with Schiff, but given his lack of appeal, never mind his utter lack of dignity and rectitude, he just doesn't inspire much confidence.
#1.1 Exasperated on 2019-11-23 09:25 (Reply)
The entire impeachment scam is a multimillion dollar production that won't return a nickels worth of payback and will likely prove to the voters that professional politicians just plain suck and the professional deep state sucks even worse. Fire half of the deep state and limit their government careers to 6 years w/o benefits.
#1.2 indyjonesouthere on 2019-11-23 09:27 (Reply)
Lefties blame others for what they themselves did.
https://youtu.be/vCSF3reVr10
#1.3 oolioo on 2019-11-23 09:29 (Reply)
Good find; but, no matter how many times the left is caught like this, nothing ever comes of it.
#1.3.1 mary on 2019-11-23 10:38 (Reply)
It's as if, they don't know that millions of Americans have at least a Bachelor's Degree level of understanding of the rules of evidence, based on years of watching Law and Order or SVU. Jack McCoy often tries to cross the line.
#1.4 Exasperated on 2019-11-23 09:30 (Reply)
Speaking of mind reading, what was up with Sondland? Did he pull back his testimony to dodge a perjury trap or did he really misinterpret the President's directions? This claim is credible to me, since I am a bad listener myself. I think it is all too human to not only hear what you want to hear, but to hear what you EXPECT to hear.
#1.5 Exasperated on 2019-11-23 10:26 (Reply)
He got an offer he couldn't refuse.
#1.5.1 BillH (Link) on 2019-11-23 10:59 (Reply)
I think Sondland is no dummy. I too am a poor listener and have learned through life experience to give first impressions more weight than my other perceptions. I think Sondland was winding Short-Shrift-Schiff up a little and then letting him run with the line. It looked to me like Schiff took the bait and so did the press pool.
#1.5.2 Aggie on 2019-11-23 11:02 (Reply)
Maybe its just me, but I have a lot of problems with the reliability of recall over routine or mundane things. I watch a lot of police procedurals. I am always in awe when a suspect or witness can offer a detailed response to a question like where were you two weeks ago, Thursday afternoon around 4:00. (And yes, I realize that these questions have to be asked.) I am guessing I would have difficulty in offering a precise, coherent response just to that question, let alone what I may or may not have conversed about.
#1.5.3 Exasperated on 2019-11-23 12:04 (Reply)
Shipping container housing costs $600,000 for each home...every California politician must be a Bideneer middle man in that spending fiasco.
#2 indyjonesouthere on 2019-11-23 09:19 (Reply)
Roundup:

Pretty soon, I think, we will see this commercial.
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona started it.

"If you have ever been to a doctor, taken a medicine or bought a product call this number.
You are entitled to significant compensation".
#3 oolioo on 2019-11-23 09:23 (Reply)
There is no privilege like liberal privilege.
#4 Assistant Village Idiot on 2019-11-23 10:11 (Reply)
To clarify what Peggy Noonan and other never Trumpers are missing: The common man is beginning to understand that they are being robbed. Their country, their assets and their jobs are being taken from them by the globalist elites. The illegal and legal immigration is a massive conspiracy to do exactly that by replacing them at the ballot box. You can see it in what all of the Democrat presidential candidates are saying. They are openly pandering to illegals and even to those want to be illegals who haven't crossed our border yet. They are eagerly offering up our tax revenues and our jobs if they will only vote for them. This has been true for decades now; the Democrats more aggressively pandering to illegals and the Republicans torn between wanting to aggressively pander and some unconscious understanding that the Democrats will win that effort no matter what they do. When you see the size and energy of Trump's rallys you begin to understand the power of this grass roots movement. Americans have been "dumbed down" or calmed down over decades of the good life and they are reluctant to risk all of this with some kind of activist political movement. BUT they have been awoken and If one of these "semi-American" Democrat candidates wins the presidency I am not sure the silent Americans will remain silent and give up their country without a fight.
#5 Saul on 2019-11-23 10:45 (Reply)
The most important thing I've learned from the hearings is that Ukraine is a thoroughly corrupt place that we should have nothing to do with.
#6 Andrew C Stanton on 2019-11-23 11:06 (Reply)
I learned that Ukraine is a piggy bank (cost shuffling schemes) for a lot of well connected people world wide.
#6.1 Exasperated on 2019-11-23 12:08 (Reply)
Love Saul Bellow. He was stuck on "H" for a while; "Henderson the Rain King", "Herzog", "Humbolt's Gift". Intelligent and descriptive writing. He puts you there.
#7 Easy on 2019-11-23 12:07 (Reply)
re 400-year-old shark found in the Arctic could be the oldest living vertebrate

According to reports, the shark measured 18ft in length. It is this length which reportedly can mean the shark can be anywhere between 272 to 512 years old, as this species grows at a rate of 1 cm a year.

So they really don't know how old the shark is. The headline is just a dart board guess.
#8 feeblemind on 2019-11-23 12:37 (Reply)

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