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Thursday, December 9. 2021

Thursday morning links

 EU Scrooges Wind Up With Eggnog on Their Faces After Trying to Ban the Word 'Christmas'


 The true connection between poverty and obesity isn’t what you probably think


 Why I’m celebrating news that a man is breaking women’s swimming records


 Let Us Now Praise Cultural Appropriation


Chicago Mayor Blames climate change Retailers for Increased Crime and Lootings in City


 ‘Latinx’ and the Problem of Leftwing Cultural Dominance


 DESPERATELY SEEKING WHITE SUPREMACISTS


 Are Media Now Taking Orders Straight From The White House?


 John Durham Just Came Out Swinging Against Hillary’s Team In Latest Filing


 Durham team apparently previously questioned credibility of witness in Sussmann case


Rescuing Kamala Harris 

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"The true connection between poverty and obesity" Poverty in the U.S. is not what it is claimed to be. Most of the welfare poor are richer than the middle class. None of the welfare can be counted in determining their poverty level. Most of these welfare moms are raking in between $50K to over $80K a year in welfare. And the Democrats are planning on increasing this on your dime. Why? Because welfare recipients vote for Democrats.
#1 OneGuy on 2021-12-09 09:27 (Reply)
So, in Chicago, according to the mayor, retailers are, essentially, a bunch of "attractive nuisances".
#2 steve on 2021-12-09 09:39 (Reply)
"Why I’m celebrating news that a man is breaking women’s swimming records"

Feminists demanded androgyny, now we have it.
#3 Maniac on 2021-12-09 09:59 (Reply)
Re: Why I’m celebrating news that a man is breaking women’s swimming records

I guess it’s true that men make the best women.
#4 mudbug on 2021-12-09 10:17 (Reply)
RE POVERTY and OBESITY

Perhaps the simplest explanation is the best one.

In general, poverty and obesity each result from the same basic problem - some people do not exert self discipline. This is a manifestation of the economic principle that people place more value on immediate self gratification than on future results.
#5 mike on 2021-12-09 10:33 (Reply)
That's my take--the inability to defer gratification is at the root of any number of life's problems.
#5.1 Texan99 on 2021-12-09 10:42 (Reply)
That's not always how it happens. Do recall from - very far back in the day - a mother describing how she coped with her family's financial issues by maximizing the available proteins to husband and children, while filling up on carbs. To her surprise, she was gaining weight. Have a veterinarian daughter who refers to the old "approved" food guide witch was heavy on grains and carbs as the "feed lot diet".
#5.2 Frances on 2021-12-10 22:51 (Reply)
@ One Guy:

Years ago I was in sales and had a company car.

The IRS considered my private (non-company time) use of that car to have an "imputed value" to me that constituted "compensation".

They required that this imputed value be added to my income for tax calculation.

I always wondered why this logic has never been applied to the various veins of money/compensation from the myriad of government programs that are mined by those "in poverty".
#6 steve on 2021-12-09 10:43 (Reply)
With Eggnog on Their Faces After Trying to Ban the Word 'Christmas': To whom/which/wha?, I say, "you and the slug you slithered in on!"

Chicago Mayor Blames Retailers for Increased Crime and Lootings in City: It's a bummer, but retailers could just pull out all their merchandise...just to make the mayor "happy"...upside her head...

‘Latinx’ and the Problem of Leftwing Cultural Dominance: Ahhhhh, the Left is losing. What can I say, but "the STUPID is STRONG in these ones".

Desperately Seeking White Supremacists: That's because we have gone underground... We will strike when you least expect it. Like The Shadow, all you will hear from us is hahahahahahahhahahahhahahhahahahahhahahahahhaha.....

Are Media Now Taking Orders Straight From
The White House? What I see is that the Democrats and the media are in cahoots! And they sleep in the same beds...
#7 Sam L. on 2021-12-09 10:48 (Reply)
I'm sure the EU has tried to ban the word 'Christmas', let's see them try to ban the phrase 'Allahu Akbar'.
#8 Jerryskids on 2021-12-09 11:07 (Reply)
re EU Scrooges Wind Up With Eggnog on Their Faces After Trying to Ban the Word 'Christmas'

Why I’m celebrating news that a man is breaking women’s swimming records

Chicago Mayor Blames climate change Retailers for Increased Crime and Lootings in City

Sheesh . . .

Do you ever get the feeling you're a sane person living in an insane asylum?
#9 feeblemind on 2021-12-09 12:42 (Reply)
I caution about "trans" men participating in women's sports the same as I cautioned when that LPGA golfers tried to make the PGA cut some years back.

In both cases, it spells the end of women's sports, in favor of "sports" in which women get crushed by men every time.
#9.1 steve on 2021-12-09 13:18 (Reply)
Isn't it a little curious how the so-called investigative journalists and Corporate Media seem to have very little interest in covering the Juicy Small-lay and Ghislane Maxwell trials, even though they are open to the public but not televised? I for one would like to hear more about these cases, given the buildup (especially the latter). But alas, even the ever-vocal Resistance Republican press seems to be giving them a pass. Even with distracting cameo appearances by Hillary reading her prepared 2016 victory speech (tearfully) and the rumor-mill working overtime to tell us about the pope's terminal illness. So disappointing.
#10 Aggie on 2021-12-09 13:04 (Reply)
Cultural appropriation is great until George Clooney decides he want to portray Martin Luther King Jr. on the silver screen.
#11 Sixtyville on 2021-12-09 13:27 (Reply)
Evergrande defaults on $1.2B in foreign bonds, Fitch says, as China intervenes in debt-ridden real estate sector

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/evergrande-stock-china-default-bonds-fitch-chinese-market-intervention/
#12 feeblemind on 2021-12-09 14:03 (Reply)
Is this the point where it begins becoming obvious that China is not a communist country? You know, true communism has never been tried because true communism actually works wonderfully and since all these countries that claimed to be communist have failed, well, obviously they weren't true communist, were they?

Some of us may believe, as was said of democracy, that free market capitalism is the worst way to run a country except for all the others, that central planning fails every single time for the simple reason that none of us are smarter than all of us. But that's because we're idiots and don't realize that high-level decision making is best left in the hands of the experts, the technocrats, the theoreticians and the elites.
#12.1 Jerryskids on 2021-12-09 20:43 (Reply)

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