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Saturday, September 28. 2019Connecticut decides to tax food
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2 linksTrump impeachment saga is pointless reboot of 1999 Bill Clinton effort Bill Maher Dishes on Biden Crime Family, “If Don Jr. Did What Hunter Biden Did, “It Would be All Rachel Maddow Was Talking About”
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Saturday morning linksGetting Real About Gender Dysphoria - Sifting through the truth and lies of “transgenderism.” Anti-Defamation League Says ‘OK’ Hand Signal Is A Racist Symbol That's not from The Onion, but should be California Shocked To Find Bill Decriminalizing Retail Theft Resulted In… More Retail Theft Who wants to leave California? Young voters can’t afford housing, and conservatives feel alienated MacDonald: A Platform of Urban Decline - Democratic presidential candidates believe America is racist, yet they ignore the evidence on crime and ensure that racial disparities persist. No Amount Of Journalistic Malpractice Embarrasses The New York Times Is She Running Again? Hillary Clinton Has a Full Slate of Media Appearances Next Week Wherever Joe Biden went, son Hunter cashed in Today’s Deep Question From Politico: Is Impeachment “Just Another Day In F***Nutsville,” Or What? Deep state blues. Who wrote that "whistleblower" paper? WAS THE “WHISTLEBLOWER” PART OF A PLAN? Brooks: Yes, Trump Is Guilty, But Impeachment Is A Mistake Guilty of what? Quid Pro Quo and Cover-Up Allegations Against Trump are Falling Apart The Trump-Ukraine whistleblower complaint looks just like ‘Steele Dossier 2.0’ Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge - Federal records show that the intelligence community secretly revised the formal whistleblower complaint form in August 2019 to eliminate the requirement of direct, first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing Sneaky SOBs, spying on their own government. Drain the swamp Dems' impeachment frenzy is the prelude to the coming time bombs about to explode in their faces 46% of Immigrant Muslims in France Want Sharia Law It's about multicultural tolerance How Palestinian Israelis Humiliated The BDS Movement Friday, September 27. 2019Friday morning links
Pittsburgh's Comeback NTSB: FAA Should Make Boeing Reassess 737 MAX Pilot Actions When Being Gay Is ‘Not a Big Deal’ - Richie Jackson and Andrew Sullivan disagree about how central being gay should be to one’s identity. " My fear of climate change is eating away at my sanity." I suspect that the letter was a spoof Australian PM Blasts Those Who Exploit Children’s Anxiety On Climate Change Man Sure Is Glad He Switched From E-Cigs To Regular, Healthier Cigarettes Why Is the CDC Still Fostering Potentially Deadly Confusion About Vaping and Lung Disease? A Clean Kill of the Carbon Dioxide-Driven Climate Change Hypothesis? Immigrant Population Growth In The U.S. Slows To A Trickle THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ADAM SCHIFF’S “PARODY” Hillary Clinton: Trump Is An “Illegitimate President” A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE WAS ALWAYS DESTINED TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT TRUMP Liberal Media Lies and OMITS 500+ WORDS from Transcript to Claim Trump Asked Zelensky to Investigate Biden — COMPLETELY FALSE! NYTimes 'Outs' Ukraine-Call "Whistleblower" As CIA Officer The Transcript Is Damning — To Biden, Not Trump These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden's Ukraine story Pentagon Review, Not Trump, Delayed Ukraine Aid CBS: It ‘Is True’ Trump Didn’t Pressure Ukraine To Investigate The Biden Family… Facts don't matter At Hot Air:
VDH: Why the Impeachment Frenzy May Only Strengthen Trump Communism Success Story: China Invents Camera That Can Pinpoint Person In Crowd Of Thousands… Why India Is The United States’ Best Bet For Balancing China Thursday, September 26. 2019What Else Is New?Democrats Want To Impeach A Republican President? What Else Is New? Maybe the Clinton impeachment fiasco hangs over the Dems. The Repubs too, I think. Scott Adams explains the genius of both Trump and Zelinsky in the transcript and in their meeting this week.
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Gender, Age, etc.If I can pick my gender, why can't I pick After all, what surgeons can do these days to alter appearance is remarkable, if you have the dough. They can give you a new coronary artery, or even build a vagina for a guy, for heaven's sake. This age issue occurred to me because a reader asked my age. Half-seriously, I think. So I considered whether the answer should be literal or not. Intellectual/wisdom age, physical-condition age, spiritual age, social/maturity age, tooth age, sexual functioning age, whatever. A couple of costly bridges have restored my tooth age to 20. According to my cardiologist (who I only need for my annual stress test that my trainer requires), my cardio fitness/function is age 30 (after 4 years of daily workouts). I have more physical energy than I did at 45. My weight is about 10 lbs more than when I was 30, but it's mostly from weight-lifting in the past 4 years. My physique is youthful enough, but my face not so much... I joke that Mrs. BD should put a bag over my head but $5,000 could fix that too. My social maturity age ranges widely but I get along with most good people pretty well, and my intellectual/wisdom age can be judged by others. Definitely should be better. And, consider this: I drive a zippy, growling Italian sports car that few 30 year-olds could afford. Lots of my pals decide it's time for toy cars as a reward. I think I'll pick my age as 45, averaging out all of the components. Having written that, watch me stroke out tomorrow. How about you readers? What ages are you, really? The average age of your various components?
Thursday morning links Re the coffee: There are only two kinds of climate here: Hot Coffee and Iced Coffee. The climate experts just don't get it. It's all good. Universal ethical truths are at the core of Jewish High Holy Days The Desperate Plight Behind “Darkness at Noon” - Arthur Koestler’s novel of the Moscow Trials laid bare the gulf between Communist ideals and the reality they produced. New science shows gluten-free trend is expensive BS It's a fad. Nutritional fads come and go. That's a result of affluence and choices. Some bracing advice to parents of teens Ban pointy knives Adams: A Message for Children About Climate Change MINI AOC IS BACK! Greta and Climate Change Local Man Uses Viral Fame To Raise $1 Million for Charity, Journalist Digs Up Offensive Tweets He Made at Age 16 - Carson King is the latest victim of a cancel culture that's out of control 9 Revelations In The Atlantic’s Essay About NYC’s Kafkaesque Schools - George Packer’s extremely long Atlantic essay contains gems of leftist cognitive dissonance, some funny, some enraging, and some heartbreaking. Here’s a list... If the world’s ending in 12 years, why even go to college? Has Harvard Lost Its Taste for Western Civilization? Stanford University Drops Mandatory Diversity Program After Complaints of Personal Intrusion Campus Hook-Up Culture and Title IX Sex Police Meet Due Process Bernie Sanders Proposes “National Wealth Registry” In Latest Tax The Rich Proposal… Planning a federal tax on assets Biden Campaign Calls Trump Ad Racist and Sexist for Showing Democrats Obsessed With Impeachment Trump turns tables on Biden amid impeachment push, claims Dems threatened Ukraine House Republicans blast Dems' impeachment inquiry in fiery press conference South Korea: The Country That Has Oversold Higher Education Even More Than the U.S. By The Way, Trump Administration Just Scored Another Safe-Third-Country Agreement In Central America Today Wednesday, September 25. 2019Trump hatred- January 2017: The same day Trump was inaugurated, the Washington Post ran a story saying that the “effort to impeach Trump is already underway.” - It’s amazing that after more than two years of Russia, we could well be on the road to impeachment after less than a week of Ukraine. - Lindsey Graham: Democrats Have Lost Their Minds
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Wednesday morning linksHow Washington’s Food Subsidies Have Helped Make Americans Fat and Sick You Could Never Have Built That Those Killer Robots Can Do Gymnastics Now The Sixth Circuit Pounds Another Nail in the Coffin of the University Speech Code " Do the leftists behind the anti-American indoctrination program of the past decades, of which the 1619 Project is a lagging indicator, think America is worth defending? I doubt it." If You Can’t Sell Your Hysteria to Adults, Try Kids Highlights From President Trump’s U.N. Address HAMMER: Stop Calling Everything An Impeachable Offense Impeach Trump for his haircut Hillary Clinton Says Donald Trump Should Be Impeached Amid Biden/Ukraine Controversy: 'We Are in a Crisis' Why the Democrats Have Gone Insane "There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have. The Democrats are frozen with hatred and fear." "They get nothing done. This should never be allowed to happen to another President. Witch Hunt!" Goodwin: Pelosi’s impeachment flip-flop changes everything Biden: In Prison, Your Gender Should Be What You Say It Is, Not What The Prison Says It Is Tuesday, September 24. 2019Media Corruption On Perfect Display In One Washington Post ParagraphEvery single assertion of this paragraph isn't just wrong, but the opposite of right. In each sentence, Trump is being blamed for things his political opponents have done.
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Tuesday morning links
Good grief Some tech CEOs eyed as untrustworthy but certain companies are still favored Don’t Believe All Women, Because Some Are Terrible - Maybe we should treat people like people. No angels on earth Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Can You Imagine if Google’s CEO Was a Conservative Republican Shutting Down Democrat Voices?’
Super. Democrats Have Convinced Half Of Younger Voters The World Is Ending In The Next 15 Years “She seems like a very happy young girl”: President Trump on Greta Thunberg Funny Moonbat Protester Tells Crowd He Broke Down Crying Because He Couldn’t Bring Kids Into This World Due To Climate Change… Warren and Other Dems Call for Fracking Ban — Do they WANT to lose Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania? Dems Cook 10,500 Steaks While Lecturing Americans About Eating Less Meat Dems Will Have To Lie About Their Agenda To Win, Poll Shows
Social Credit Score USA - The impending nightmarish surveillance state. Orwellian Nightmare: Six US Cities Make List Of Most Surveilled Places In The World Vermont Conservatives Have Had Enough of Their RINO Governor Lindsey Graham Calls For Investigation Into Biden-Ukraine Connection; Alleged Election Interference Let's get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US elections Whoa: Text Messages Reveal NYT Reporter Told Kavanaugh Source What To Say Mollie Hemingway calls out Mitt Romney Surge: 14.3 million illegal immigrants in US costing taxpayers $130B China to place government officials inside 100 private companies, including Alibaba Monday, September 23. 2019MadnessThunberg speech is pure madness Always interesting, though, to hear how much better English is spoken in Europe than in the US
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Physicist Willie Soon takes on climate hysteria
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Monday morning links
Would you be retarded enough to build a beach house here - even with the gummit subsidies for storms and floods? It's called a sandbar, idiots. Sandbars are temporary. Our stupid government will even insure you to build on a swamp, too. While they protect "wetlands," mind you. 5 Signs You’re In The Midst Of A Moral Panic Why Liberals and Progressives Lie to Blacks Dems dancing around America's real health care problem: Overweight people Canada’s global warming models threw out actual historical data and substituted models of what the temperature should have Fraud. Why? Governments always need enemies to hold power. Since we're all commies now, climate is the New Nazis. California Begins Issuing $1000 Fine For Each Tiny Plastic Communion Cup Served Youth Climate Activist: Global Warming Damage Becomes Irreversible In ‘Only 18 Months’ Children protest climate on a beautiful day in NYC The Guardian view on the school climate strike: protests that matter Teens pledge not to have kids til climate change ends Good idea Jerry Nadler: Don’t Know If Human Life Will Survive 50 Years, Bacteria And Plants May Be All That’s Left Yale goes all in on climate disaster De Blasio escalates his culture war Does Elizabeth Warren Even Understand What Real (government) Corruption Is? Warren Says the Rich Must Pay Her 'Wealth Tax' Because They've Benefitted from Public Schools and Infrastructure Nag, nag, nag. She made 7 million flipping houses. Guess I should have, but too busy doing real work. Gregg Jarrett: It Appears the ‘Whistleblower’ is Just an American Spy in Our Intel Agency Spying on President Trump Joe Biden's Son Hunter Contradicted Father's Claim They Never Discussed Ukraine Deal Trump Pounces On Biden-Ukraine Scandal As Whistleblower Story Flips On Dems Trump DESTROYS Joe Biden Crime Family on REAL UKRAINIAN SCANDAL Biden is done Comey and Baquet — united against Trump — have caused a nonstop feeding frenzy Sicilians Dare To Believe: The Mafia’s Cruel Reign Is Over EXPLAINING JEREMY CORBYN Only an EU ‘empire’ can secure liberty: EU leader Sunday, September 22. 2019Federal overreach and the Clean Water ActI suspect many of our readers would agree that the Obama EPA's extension of federal authority from navigable waters to every rural mudpuddle was overreach. For three personal examples, that extension made if practically impossible to legally ditch our driveway because two seasonal trickles (albeit, already with small culverts) intersected it. Second, it made it practically impossible for us to replace a 200 year-old bridge over our stream, after Irene washed it out. Third, it made it illegal to dredge out a small old cow pond which, over time, had filled with sediment and become a "seasonal wetland" filled with grass. As a conservationist, it saddened me to see the gradual loss of that pond along with the loss of our Painted Turtles, the shore and swamp birds, the frogs and salamanders, etc. But to dredge it legally (and I do not do illegal), we needed an environmental lawyer, an engineer consultant, etc. to begin a multi-year process to apply to the Army Corps of Engineers, the state EPA, and the federal EPA. Give me a break. It was a darn (50X60' roughly) farm pond, only 5'-6' deep in the middle at first. But, oh dear: The EPA's roll back of the Clean Water Act could impact drinking water for millions of Americans Really?
Saturday, September 21. 2019Saturday morning links: First day of Autumn around hereWeather and climate are perfect today. Perfect for hiking and farm work. 15 Stats That Show Americans Are Drowning in 'Stuff' The War on Vaping Why? Purdue not taking any food for thought from anti-Chick-fil-A protesters No chick fil is near me. I'd be happy to try one, but I do not love waffle fries The climate ‘strike’ that wasn’t one A Leftist movement, mainly IKEA Learns That Peas Are Racist Leftist Statue Vandals Come for Robert Burns It's about time, right? Scottish supremacist. Did California Just Abolish Single-Family Zoning? The Golden State now allows homeowners to build up to two accessory dwelling units on their property by right. That might be good. Environmental apocalypse predictions have failed for half a century The End Of The World Is Coming According To Jerry Nadler Andrew Yang’s Climate Change Solution: Eliminate Cattle And Cars ‘Utopian authoritarianism’: Conservative British think tank director pulls the mask off the ‘hugely dangerous’ Global Climate Strike movement Rowdy student protest shuts down campus forum debunking climate alarmism Homelessness is reaching an emergency level in Los Angeles "Homeless" is mostly a euphemism. Mostly, not entirely. Building a functional life isn't easy. What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Says About Elite Men What is says about men in general. Not all men adhere to bourgeois values. Rich or poor, there are amoral hedonists. Illegal is another matter. Embracing Liberty in No Way Means Embracing Moral Relativism Trump admin. reaches asylum deal with El Salvador Great Joe Biden Bragged That, With Barack Obama's Permission, He Threatened To Withhold Billions in Aid to Ukraine Unless They Fired a Prosecutor Investigating His Son's Company. And Now, The Deep State Refashions This as a Trump Scandal An unshackled Trump finally gets the presidency he always wanted - No longer hemmed in by aides, Trump has bent the presidency into the mold of the Trump Organization. Katie Pavlich: The Democrats' desperate do-overs Why Starbucks is now on Hong Kong protesters’ business boycott list The Vietnamization of Afghanistan - Democrats would resist fighting, even if war comes to U.S. as it did on 9-11 That's an argument, but I do not care about Afghanistan. It isn't even a country, really. Just a place. Even barbaric Russians could not pacify the place. Saudi oil attack was approved by Iran's supreme leader, U.S. official says Friday, September 20. 2019Fifty years
50 years of apocalyptic climate predictions
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Friday morning links Announcement Of A Mamet Revival On Broadway Gives Wokesters The Sads An Obituary for the Boy Scouts of America The Kids Are Not All Right 98% of Cord Cutters Say They Will Never Go Back to Cable TV According to New Study From Roku How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork. ‘This Is Not the Way Everybody Behaves.’ New Harvard policy may require ‘moderators’ for ‘controversial’ speakers Chinese Woman Pleads Guilty To Running Multi-Million Dollar ‘Birth Tourism’ Scheme In US Contesting the Progressives’ Takeover of Vermont Is Tucker Carlson the Most Important Pundit in America? The American Left Is Completely Insane Millions of Americans Are Seething — a Trump Landslide Wouldn’t Surprise Me Wargaming the Electoral College: Trump's 2020 Game Plan Preview UK: The Push to End Free Speech A Tribute to the Late Václav Havel on the 30-Year Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution Saudi oil attack was approved by Iran's supreme leader, U.S. official says Amb.Crocker on Afghanistan Thursday, September 19. 2019Today's VDH
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump wages war on progressive culture – Dems respond with Trump Derangement Syndrome
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Thursday morning links
To Help Birds This Winter, Go Easy on Fall Yard Work - A manicured lawn might look nice, but messy is better for birds and bugs. Amish man and teen drinking in horse and buggy run after police pull them over - The buggy had a stereo system on its roof and police found "multiple open containers of alcohol." Newly passed California resolution blames ‘religious groups’ for LGBT suicides Writer Freaks Out Over People Eating Delicious Chick-fil-A: 'They’re Eating Fried Chicken SPITEFULLY!' Social Justice Culture is Now Infiltrating the Study of Medicine UK Mom blames healthcare system after her son went blind from diet comprised of french fries and Pringles Save the Robots - Bill de Blasio reveals his scrambled vision of innovation and labor. How We Know California's New Rent Control Law Will Make Its Housing Shortage Worse Compilation of Failed Ecopredictions Doomsdays that didn’t happen: Think tank compiles decades’ worth of dire climate predictions George Packer Gets Mugged by Reality When the Culture War Comes for the Kids - Caught between a brutal meritocracy and a radical new progressivism, a parent tries to do right by his children while navigating New York City’s schools. Is Everyone Who Opposes a New School Zoning Plan in Brooklyn Racist? Do You Know What the Democrats Said at Their Debate? Democrats’ Red Flag Laws Meant to Take Weapons from Rural Gun Owners – But Not Gang Members Who Commit 80% of Gun Homicides It's All About Disarming White America Sandy Hook Promise Ad Hypes the Danger of School Shootings, Fostering Irrational Fears and Bad Policies - Official responses to these extremely rare crimes are grossly disproportionate in light of the risk they actually pose. Daily Life in the New York Times Pigpen - This is where the New York Times has ended up, as a producer and consumer of swill and slop. The Architect of the Latest Kavanaugh Smear Just Gave a Self-Damning Radio Interview NYT Reporter Who Wrote Flawed Kavanaugh Story Now Blames Fox For Noting Her Mistakes To Understand The Kavanaugh Kraziness, Look At The Courts' Role In Approving Or Blocking Major Policy Initiatives DONALD TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATING SURPASSES OBAMA'S Why Is Iran Our Enemy? It’s a repressive theocracy, but Tehran is no threat to the United States and is a staunch opponent of jihadi groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Wednesday, September 18. 2019'There's a young kid laying dead on my lawn'
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Wednesday morning links
Training Actors for War Games Elizabeth Warren Says Men Have A Right To Taxpayer-Funded Abortions How Oregon Built A Transgender Medical-Industrial Complex On Junk Science John Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Gender Confusions Are Mostly Driven by Psychological and Psychosocial Problems’ ‘SOLD OUT’: Arizona Gun Store Offers ‘Beto Specials’ on AR15s and AK47s Aussie Greens: Nuclear Power is a “Dangerous Distraction” from Real Climate Action Fmr NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls out college campus 'intolerance' in blistering op-ed Feminist Author Taught NYU Students To Start A Revolution, They Rebelled Against Her Class Warren and Harris Demand Impeachment of Justice Kavanaugh Over Freshman Allegation Denied by "Victim" MSNBC, CNN rip House Dems over 'failure' Lewandowski hearing: 'They don't know what they're doing' Tuesday, September 17. 2019Your US Social Security Card
Does anyone have one anymore? Of course, I have a number. But a card? That little piece of paper? That little piece of paper that you are not allowed to laminate? Are you kidding me? I always thought that thing was just to inform me about my gummint number. Why didn't they tattoo it on my forearm, or implant me with an ID chip? Guess what? You need the card to get your REAL ID driver's license. And in 2020, everybody who is legit will need a REAL ID license. Only illegals will have trouble getting that. To get your card, go to the Social Security website, fill out the form, and print it out. Then you have to go in person to a local SS office with other ID info and they will eventually mail you a replacement card. Then, with your brand new SS card, you can go to your DMV, wait in line, and get your REAL ID license. Fun. I do not mind much that the US wants to determine who is legit and who is not, but who can take off work time for this gummint BS? Time is money. Really, at this point the gummint knows everything about me anyway. I already spent an hour getting my TSA Pre-check number. That cost me money - $85 plus loss of billable hours. Global Entry? That's even more of a hassle. I'd like to have it, but take a day off from work to get it? Not gonna happen. Alas, I just do not spend that much time in airports.
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Would you hire anybody from Evergreen College?The Complete Evergreen Story Ep. 12: ‘F**K The Police’ Evergreen is the most racist campus ever. Black and brown students at risk. That gal can barely read.
Trump making good sense on The NYTWith video, at Althouse. Amusing too. Like many New Yorkers, he has an old fondness for the paper, hates what she has become.
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