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Tuesday, February 25. 2020

Tuesday morning links

 America Continues To Lead In Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions


 How Coronavirus Affects the Economy


Diversity is a bore 


 Colleges Give Up on Western Civilization


 If You Can't Articulate A Limiting Principle On Government Expansion, You Get Bernie Sanders


 CNN continues obsession about Trump’s eating habits, this time over food options in India


 More Than 100K Pack Massive Stadium to Welcome POTUS for 'Namaste Trump' Rally in India


 India Plays “Macho Man” by Village People Ahead of President Trump’s Rally at Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad in front of 125,000 


That is funny 


 FBI Official: Russia Wants to See Us 'Tear Ourselves Apart'


Powerline:



Has Bernie Sanders ever lavished the kind of praise on the United States that he has heaped on the old regime of the Soviet Union, the dictators of Venezuela, or the Communist masters of Cuba? Has he ever praised the United States, period?



"I've Never Seen This Level of Doom:" Democrats In Outright "Panic Mode"


 The evidence doesn't back Democrats' panic that Bernie can't win


 7 Reasons the Left's Hatred of Trump Is So Deep


 Canada: Laboratory for Democratic Socialism


PMW report slams Palestinian Authority for using child soldiers. Does UNICEF confront the issue?


 The Fortunate Arabs in the Middle East


 Americans aren't as eager to retreat from the Middle East as politicians seem to think


Really? 

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:48 | Comments (15) | Trackbacks (0)

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It is beginning to look like the Coronavirus will be the biggest event in 2020 and could be the biggest event in the 21st century. Today the presidential elections are the number one story on the news but within weeks it will be pushed out of the news as the Coronavirus spreads.
#1 Anon on 2020-02-25 08:17 (Reply)
On cue, the Democrats are blaming Trump for the country not being prepared for the corona virus. All I can think of is the Democrats being fixated on nothing but shampeachment the last 6 months and totally stopping the process of governing, even as the epidemic started to rage in China during January.
#1.1 Jim on 2020-02-25 18:42 (Reply)
On Coronavirus COVID19, we're riding the crest of the revenue wave for the networks and media giants. This is the Armageddon coverage they rely on to survive, bread & butter & gravy work, whipping it into a frenzy and keeping it there as long as they can. Give it a month to learn and quietly prepare before you panic, because it will be at least a month before we actually know whether it's a pandemic or just a bad flu season. A good time to stock the pantry and medicine chest before the runs.

The Democratic Party Machine is doomed, nice to know they're finally developing some awareness. They have no marketable candidate and their message has no salable points anymore. They've corrupted themselves into consumer obsolescence, and they're being replaced from within by another brand. Bernie has been like one of those parasitic wasps ,now he's preparing to shed his carapace and go full Socialist. Democrats are gnashing their teeth because they had always planned on getting a few more profitable years out of this gig.

But there shouldn't be any gloating by conservatives / Republicans / Trumpers. The Democrats said the same things about Trump in 2016. Bernie is a grassroots king in top form. Plus, Bernie could still win, especially if voter harvesting and other frauds are brought to bear, and you can bet they will be. It's no time to rest easy.
#2 Aggie on 2020-02-25 09:15 (Reply)
"Bernie has been like one of those parasitic wasps ,now he's preparing to shed his carapace and go full Socialist."

I'm thinking after his heart attack last year he figures he's running out of time, so why not go full Communist? He's got his, (millions in the bank and 3 houses) so now's the time to take it away from everyone else instead of dropping out and living the rest of his life peacefully.

When you've been soaking in envy and anger for decades, it doesn't matter how much YOU have if you think someone else has more - they've got to be forced to give it up for you to be happy.
#2.1 JLawson on 2020-02-25 09:39 (Reply)
A vote for Bernie is a vote for whatever radical is his VP.
#2.1.1 FRP on 2020-02-25 11:00 (Reply)
re This is the Armageddon coverage they rely on to survive,

I tend to agree. Proclaiming apocalypse generates eyeballs,whether it be readers or watchers.

Given the media's long history of exaggerating the consequences of current events, the virulence of cronovirus is probably greatly over hyped. But we'll see. Time will tell.
#2.2 feeblemind on 2020-02-25 10:34 (Reply)
Re: Limiting Principles

Limiting principles were spelled out in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Constitution gives Congress the power to tax and in the same section, it spells out the the things in the government's sphere and so what those taxes can be spent on. In the Fifth Amendment, private property used for public use must be repaid at fair value. I contend that the impact of this is that the government cannot take your money from you and give it to another who did not earn it.

Yet we have long forgotten those limiting principles.
#3 mudbug on 2020-02-25 10:33 (Reply)
See the 16th Amendment. The worst mistake this country ever made.
#3.1 B. Hammer on 2020-02-25 14:12 (Reply)
Agreed, but at least the people who promoted it respected the Constitution enough to go through the process of amending it rather than just ignoring the parts they didn't like.
#3.1.1 mudbug on 2020-02-25 17:30 (Reply)
Americans aren't as eager to retreat from the Middle East as politicians seem to think

Forget about it, Bird Dog! It's "The Hill", fake and nonsensical!
#4 Old Codger on 2020-02-25 11:07 (Reply)
Diversity in the new/old orchestra


https://sormt.org/musicians/
#5 another one on 2020-02-25 11:15 (Reply)
Diversity: I am not YOU and you are not ME. Expanded.

"Colleges Give Up on Western Civilization" : Not "giving up", but
actually working to KILL it.
#6 Sam L. on 2020-02-25 11:20 (Reply)
you'd think people who spend so much energy on rebellion would at least want to know what they were rebelling against.

Unless, of course, the goal is for MiniTru to be able to tell them each week exactly what they are taking a bold stand against, even if it is completely the opposite of what they stood against last week.
#6.1 Another guy named Dan on 2020-02-25 12:46 (Reply)
“America Continues To Lead In Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions”

And without a treaty to enforce it. How in the world did that happen?!
#7 Jeff Brokaw (Link) on 2020-02-25 14:11 (Reply)
I agree that the nomination of Bernie is not a guaranteed Trump victory. Aren't many of these the same people who told us Trump could not win?

The diversity article in First Things is correct but too gentle. The blackness of Barack Obama should have been an irrelevance that disappeared a few months after his election, yes. But it didn't. Because he did not have other accomplishments, his blackness remained as a main story..
#8 Assistant Village Idiot on 2020-02-25 15:21 (Reply)

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