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Sunday, October 16. 2016Paris today, with music
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More brilliant understanding from David GelernterYale's David Gelernter is in the Maggie's Pantheon for many reasons (especially his books), but how he is able to keep his finger on the pulse of regular, non-elite Americans from the leafy, ivy-clad Lefty wards of New Haven, CT, is beyond me: A quote:
Read the whole thing. I feel like Gelernter knows me. No more posts from me about this election. I am moving on to greener pastures.
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Saturday, October 15. 2016Saturday morning linksHarvard’s New Diversity Veto: “I Don’t Feel I Belong” Boo-hoo. So adjust. Or don't. Northwestern plans to quadruple safe spaces for black students, conduct ‘cultural audit’ Watch Leftist Students Say Science Is Racist and Should Be Abolished Freshmen at James Madison University were taught that “We’re all part of U Of Florida Offers Counseling To Special Snowflakes Upset Over Halloween Costumes Good grief. What a joke. Swiping For Love in All The Wrong Places - Swiping is an addictive game designed to keep you single. Hinge isn’t playing anymore. The Problem With Only Letting In the 'Good' Immigrants
The Make America Great Diet: "Fortunately everything on the Denny's Menu is allowed by my diet plan." Hillary thinks the election is already over. Hillary Clinton on environmentalists: ‘Get a life’ Will the Press Ever Ask Hilary Clinton To Explain Her "Dream" Of "Open Borders" Throughout the Whole World? Why do women’s groups treat Bill Clinton and Donald Trump differently? The Public Execution of a Manwhore It's Not an Election. It's a War. Hillary Told Room Of Businessmen That More Food Stamps Will Fix The Economy Never look for good character in politicians. They indeed are our inferiors in most cases. The Citizen is King. Mrs. BD makes a distinction between 2 sorts of Presidential Sins. A Venial Presidential Sin is hitting too hard on females. Mortal Presidential Sins are lying to investigators, secret emails, uranium to Russia, creating instability in the world, etc. BUSTED: @NYTimes Trump Accuser #RachelCrooks Is LYING According To Family Friend Does Donald Trump First Class “Groping Accuser” Have a History of Conflict With Trump Property?…. It’s Clear That Conservatism, Inc. Wants Trump To Lose What's Putin's big worry? UN to declare Israel an 'occupying power' in Jerusalem The Roots of America’s Mideast Delusion - Our history of failure in the Middle East goes all the way back to Eisenhower. James Traub on “Ike’s Gamble” by Michael Doran. Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article108304112.html#storylink=cpy Friday, October 14. 2016"The Press Is Burying Hillary Clinton's Sins"Wall Street Journal Finally Lashes Out "The Press Is Burying Hillary Clinton's Sins" Yes, the press collusion is the biggest story of this election cycle. Article is sickening. Meanwhile decades ago, Donald Trump was nuts about pretty girls...
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Friday morning linksThere are way too many galaxies in the world. Bob Dylan is the Surprise Winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature They often refer to him as a 60s rebel. Wrong. It's much more complicated than that. i‘Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins’ Study Deems Pumpkin Spice Lattes ‘White Privilege’ Are Global Warming Alarmists Disappointed Hurricane Matthew Wasn't Worse? Clinton Campaign Fudged Climate Change Data – Inflated Emission Numbers Can America Ever Really Cure Its Sugar Addiction? Ban sugar. No, ban everything. YouTube Puts Prager University Videos in ‘Restricted Mode’ The Wagner Act: The Little Act that is Destroying the Country NYC Democratic Election Commissioner, “They Bus People Around to Vote” This is fun, but let’s talk jobs and economy We simply cannot expect a majority of Americans to elect as their president a man who cannot be trusted with their teenage daughters. We have done so in the past Why you should vote for Trump, even if you can't stand him Trump Supporters Remain Oblivious to Campaign’s Collapse How the Overstuffed GOP Primary Field Led to Trump’s Victor - The interests of the individual candidates often clashed with the interest of the party as a whole. As usual, Hillary can't remember anything "The point here is the news has always been biased, but it was on the level, for the most part." The Liberal Media’s Perpetual Smear Campaign Clinton email leaks show campaign's close cooperation, collusion with media Former Haitian Senate President Calls Clintons 'Common Thieves Who Should Be in Jail' Report: Clinton Foundation donors got rich off Haiti relief efforts while Haitians live in squalor Typical Trump: ‘The Clintons Are Criminals — Remember That’ - ‘Never in history have we seen such a cover-up as this’ Podesta Hacks Shows Clinton Staffers Discussing Which Emails To Release Ben Carson Blasts News Coverage Of Trump Allegations: ‘What A Bunch Of Crap’ Boston Globe's contempt for Trumpsters EU Seeks €20 Billion Brexit Divorce Settlement Clinton Backed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Regime Just one of an endless string of judgement errors Thursday, October 13. 2016Thursday morning links
Breaking: Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature
Images stolen from our friend Theo On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 men and women sit behind bars on simple drug possession charges Why can't we remember being a baby? The Black Death - At least one in three Europeans died and untold millions in Asia. What was the source of its brutal, lethal efficiency? What America Lost as Women Entered the Workforce - Civic organizations Britain to Throw Internet Trolls in Prison WrongThought™ will be detected. Worldviews will be harmonised. Farm Subsidy Outlook 10 Signs That An All-Out Attempt Is Being Made To Sabotage The Trump Campaign Everybody hates Trumpism - Wall St., the Dem machine, the press, etc - except the common man New email shows Brazile may have had exact wording of proposed town hall question before CNN "Rigged" does not capture the extent of this Clinton campaign mocks Catholics, Southerners, ‘needy Latinos’ in emails WikiLeaks: Podesta and Left-Wing Activist Plot ‘Catholic Spring’ - Longtime Clinton confidante discussed infiltrating the Catholic Church with progressive ideology to foment revolution The Clintonistas contempt for Americans runs deep NBC PLANNED TO USE TRUMP AUDIO TO INFLUENCE DEBATE, ELECTION Press sells soul at the altar of Hillary Clinton Would be the same for any Dem French Prime Minister Argues For United States Of Europe, With Its Own Military UNESCO to vote on text describing Temple Mt, Western Wall as Muslim holy sites
Wednesday, October 12. 2016Erection CentralObama waved erection at female press. Boys will be boys.
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Wednesday morning linksThe next ‘oppression’ threat: Zumba classes A book about learning to play competitive tennis at 60: Late to the Ball - Age. Learn. Fight. Love. Play Tennis. Win Why ADHD Drugs Are the Hottest Study Aid on College Campuses Ivy League Men Really Didn’t Want Women on Their Campuses 25 new 'Dead Sea Scrolls' revealed Wind Turbines Kill Eagles From Far Away Windmills should be illegal Majority of Americans still think gov’t encroaching too much on individuals, businesses Press: Afflicting the Comfortable The Selfishness of Republicans Too Good for Trump Hillary Advisors Admit She “HATES EVERYDAY AMERICANS” David Brooks seems to feel the same way Bill Clinton: Trump’s Base Is ‘Your Standard Redneck’… WikiLeaks Exposes Workings of an American 'Nomenklatura' MEDIA LOVEFEST... New York Times Gave Hillary Veto Power NYT/CNBC’s John Harwood Advises Clinton Campaign, Gloats About Provoking Trump At Debate Only the Clintons can protect our moral values. Chelsea flagged 'serious concerns' about Clinton Foundation conflicts - Hacked emails reveal bitter infighting about how to deal with a Clinton-linked consulting firm's business. Trump Triggers The Great GOP Crackup No. It's bigger than that. The Second Debate Proved That We All Now Live on Different Partisan Planets Democrats were advised to "elevate" Donald Trump. Clinton campaign spokeswoman takes shots at Catholics, evangelicals in leaked email exchange How Palestine got so many Arabs Tuesday, October 11. 2016EmploymentThe Montana Department of Employment, Division of Labor Standards claimed a small rancher was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to investigate him. AGENT: I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them. RANCHER: Well, there's my hired hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $200 a week plus free room and board. Then there's the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $60 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Jack Daniels every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also sleeps with my wife occasionally. AGENT: That's the guy I want to talk to - the mentally challenged one. RANCHER: That would be me. Tuesday morning linksBill McKibben is off the rails: ‘Use America’s defense budget to fight climate war Leaked Emails Expose Tight Link Between CNBC And Clinton Campaign Duh O'Reilly: At Least 3 Media Orgs Have 'Ordered Employees to Destroy Trump' Hacked: Clinton campaign worked with NYT reporter behind scenes Even Democrats think Hillary’s a serial liar Betsy: "And the Democrats clutching their pearls in distress are the same people It's called politics Trump bounces back, but back to where? Welcome to the Republican civil war:
Also, Democrats. That's the only difference.
WikiLeaks Bombshell: Clinton Relied on Trump Primary Win, GOP Obliged More Coverage in 48 hrs. on Trump ‘Sex Tape’ Than In 17 yrs. on Juanita Broaddrick Clinton’s vow to push Supreme Court left galvanizes conservatives wary of Trump Euroland: Article 50 "Perfectly Timed" For Turmoil French Police Officers Set Afire in Attack by Migrant Mob Amid Syrian chaos, Iran’s game plan emerges: a path to the Mediterranean
Monday, October 10. 2016If you don't like Columbus Day, you don't like immigrantsThe Spanish (Latino?) immigrants to the New World were just looking for the opportunity for a better life with free trade and open borders. (In NYC, Columbus Day is a celebration of Italian immigrants because Chris of course was Italiano. After all, without Columbus, there would be no tomatoes or peppers in Southern Italian cooking.) Sultan: The End of Columbus Day is the End of America Liberals Pushing To Make “Indigenous Peoples Day” A Holiday Nationwide… I do not see the descendants of the indigenous peoples complaining that they are no longer in the stone age.
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Monday morning linksDrone racing Why lightning doesn't harm aircraft Desert Trip Shows Just How Much Rock Festivals Have Changed Dylan and the Stones. I would go. A Navy drunk, with raccoon Pets on Pot: The Newest Customer Base for Medical Marijuana College Students: Masculinity Is ‘Extremely Toxic To Our Mental Health’ So go to a women's college Why GE Moved to Boston, According to Its CEO Immelt likes small city life Walmart update: Women Brawl In South Florida Walmart As Customers Shop For Hurricane Matthew Provisions… Toxic femininity is dangerous to my mental health The World Is Totally Committed To Net Zero Carbon Pollution, You Guys! Farage on Europe: The little people have had enough - not just here, but in America too The peasants are revolting A Citizen of the World Is a Citizen of Nowhere - British Prime Minister Theresa May is working to undo the There was a famous book by Edward Hale, The Man Without A Country It Turns Out That Firing Nobody and Giving the Agency More Money is a Really Poor Way to Fix Things Via Daily Pundit:
Outer Boroughs Affect - Why Snobs Like Charles Murray Won’t Vote For Trump (Despite Agreeing With Him) Trump Is Not Part Of The Right’s Tribe The Republican White Togas at Work for the Queen of Sleaze Donald Trump Lives to Lose Another Day POLLSTER FRANK LUNTZ: Trump is 'back in the race'
Apprentice Producer Warns There Are "Far Worse" Trump Tapes To Come Ground Game: Democrats Started Fall with 5-to-1 Paid Staff Advantage The Dems remain the party of Wall St and the Repubs the party of Main St Hillary Tells Bankers: ‘My Dream Is Open Borders’ Shocker! New Email Leak Reveals Hillary Campaign’s Cozy Press Relationship… Leaked Documents Reveal Which Journalists Are Cozy With The Clinton Campaign The Associated Press Spins For Hillary CNN Retro-Trolls Trump in 1990s Lookback; Ignores Era’s Clinton Sex Scandals Lou Dobbs: Leaked Emails Show Hillary's Lying About "Everything She Says" WIKILEAKS: Hillary Trashes African Americans – Calls Them Losers Sanders supporters seethe over Clinton's leaked remarks to Wall St. ‘Clinton Cash’ Author Details How Bill And Hillary Went From ‘Dead Broke’ To Multimillionaires Trump’s dirty talk versus Hillary’s corruption What a pair! Two decades after her affair with Bill Clinton, Gennifer Flowers reveals they'd be together now if it wasn't for Chelsea and how former president confided in her that Hillary was bisexual I double down and re-endorse Donald Trump for President of the United States! AVI: We face looming crises and we will not be well-governed. Islam's 'Western Liberal Values'? PA President Abbas’ Fatah Movement Hails Terrorist ‘Martyr’ Who Slaughtered 2 Israelis, Wounded 6 Others in Jerusalem Shooting Spree Saturday, October 8. 2016WonderingMrs. BD is wondering what the Dems would have done if they had had had Bill on tape talking like a lowlife as he is widely known to do? Everybody knew Bill was a lowlife, and Mrs. Clinton an enabler and attacker of his assault victims, but the party rallied in his defense. That is called power politics. Same with JFK and LBJ, but no audio tapes and the press covered for them or, you might say, colluded. A sample: He (Bill) said Hillary had eaten more p***y than he had.’ Mr. Trump has no such amoral supporters. The Repubs rarely do. Hearsay, however accurate, might be manageable but the tape is a killer. The context is irrelevant. Mrs. BD is with Hinderaker: We’ve Had About All the Genius We Can Stand. She has already written Pence's speech in her mind. Mike, give us a call. No charge. The coming Trump vs. Clinton sex scandal showdown Saturday morning links
Image: Amazon Pulls “Sexy Burka” Halloween Costume After It’s Declared “Racist”… All it takes today are a few humorless cranks to spoil everything fun Shape Beneath Color: The Impressionistic Wonders of ‘To the Lighthouse’ Makes me want to re-read this. Her stuff is just so effete, though. World’s Oldest Man Finally Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah (100 Years Late) Thank God Harvard Students Won’t Starve During Dining Hall Workers’ Strike College as signaling – exceptin’ always Steam Liberal arts colleges were not designed to be utilitarian, except in the broadest civilizational sense Cops send military chopper after old lady's pot plant California Marijuana Growers Lining Up Against Proposition Legalizing Pot A great case study for micro-econ Is social science just a modern false god? Survey Reveals Elites’ Disregard of the Immigration Costs Paid by Americans Chicago’s Top Cop: Police are ‘Second-Guessing Themselves’ First Lady's Garden, Like Obamacare, Will Prove Hard to Uproot Sheesh. On my nickel, too State Dept. And White House Coordinated To ‘Crush’ Clinton Email Coverage MSNBC Producer Going Full Hillary Fangirl In Email To Clinton Campaign Hillary’s statist solutions - Bigger government will further hobble the economy If only Trump would pretend to act like a sober president for a few weeks, he could win. Nobody wants Hillary, but Trump will not play the role Anti-Trump snobbery It can feel as if he built half of Manhattan, but he is not a "Manhattanite" No Apologies for Being Jewish - In the Days of Awe, we examine our sins, but defending Israel isn’t one of them. Krauthammer: ‘Everybody Knows’ Hillary Has a Private and Public Position On Everything, and That Trump Is Crude Hillary's camp was smart. They have neutralized this leak with the Trump hot mic video. Get rid of both of these jerks ISIS, Not Russia, Is The Enemy In Syria Russia is not a real US enemy anywhere. Syria is of no interest to the US. Cold War 2.0: Obama Doctrine Of Weakness Has Reawakened The Russian Bear KGB thug just wants some respect. His country is still a loser.
Because there is more to life than comfort. Humans are not cows. Friday, October 7. 2016Hurricane!Thousands of Florida residents ignore the millions who evacuated historic Hurricane Matthew to SURF and PARTY their way 4,001 Days: The Major Hurricane Drought Continues So much for that major threat to the US. The hype certainly keeps people watching the news, though, with the dopey reporters in rain jackets saying "Wow, look at that wind." Of course, if you live in storm or flood zones, you must always expect such things. The poor people of Haiti can not be prepared even though storms are part of life there.
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Friday morning linksChildren inherit their intelligence from their mother New Urbs: Death by chain store Experts Believe $225 Million of Old Master Paintings Could Be Fake California energy virtue: Another Environmental Epic Fail Deconstruction: An American Tale The deconstruction fad died when people decided to deconstruct deconstructionism Make Colleges Pay Loans If Their Graduates Can't The War on Cash: Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe a cashless future is inevitable and good. But this isn't a frictionless utopia says Brett Scott, and it's time to fight back Why Are Millions of American Men Choosing Not to Work? The Guardian: Opposing Linguistic Decay Is Racist U.S. Economic Growth Downgraded to Largest 1-Year Drop Seen for Advanced Economy Biofuels turn out to be a climate mistake -- here's why Turning the USA Totalitarian for the 'Better Good' Liberal professors outnumber conservatives nearly 12 to 1, study finds California petitions to become first state to offer ObamaCare to illegal immigrants VDH: If we are all victims of some sort, who are left to be the victimizers? Democrat Pollster: Great Opposition to Hillary’s Refugee Expansion Even Among Democrats Obama Administration Is Quietly Delaying Thousands of Deportation Cases Doesn't the US have specific immigration laws? Sexism, Trump, and American Media Hillary Planted Child Actor to Ask Question at Pathetic Little Town Hall Rally Real people ask the wrong questions Did the Media Just Fall Hook, Line, and Sinker for a Clinton Campaign Stunt? Clinton Sought Pentagon, State Department Contracts for Chelsea’s Friend Typical Hillary Taps 68-Year-Old Hysteria Monger Gore for Millennial Outreach For Next UN Secretary-General, A Managerially Incompetent Socialist A Look Inside the Latest Gaza Women’s Flotilla - The activists on board are no peaceful bunch Thursday, October 6. 2016Explain it to me in simple English, if you canAs if I were a very slow child: What is Blockchain, and what good is it?
Idiot talking heads
Well, then I guess the deal failed in its purpose.
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American blacks against Andrew Jackson
His post is grimly amusing, but I think he misses three points: 1)These "rioters" are rent-a-mobs," paid rioters and 2) rioting is fun, especially when you feel you have some sort of legal immunity and 3) I do not know any American blacks who would act like that. Related, about Andrew Jackson's statue.
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Thursday morning linksHere’s how likely you are to crash into a deer based on where you live Large women: Why Tim Gunn is Right About The Fashion Industry Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Investors Win Round Against Government Elites Want a Borderless World, but Voters Don’t So import new voters Arms dealer who threatened to reveal Clinton's Libya dealings rips DOJ for 'injustice' Maryland’s ACA health co-op will switch to for-profit to save itself Ind. office raided in growing voter fraud case Ineligible aliens voted in Philadelphia in recent years John McCain Grills Media For Twisting Trump’s Words About PTSD VIDEO= Eric Trump Goes on CNN After VP Debate and OWNS Liberal Panel Kaine’s bad performance matters more than you think Tim Kaine is as unlikable as Hillary Clinton Hillary Caught Using Child Actor At Pennsylvania Town Hall All of her questioners are prepped shills Re Trump: Wake Up, Smell the Trumpening, Quit Yer Bitching, and Put on Your Big Boy Pants, Punks Europe tells British press NOT to reveal if terrorists are Muslims US Generals Caving in to the left’s apologists for Islamic terrorism. Wednesday, October 5. 2016Kolleges Beyond Satire, #1456 and 1457Greek is cultural appropriation James Madison U has a new list of forbidden phrases What sorts of words are permissible to describe these amateur totalitarian toxic morons?
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The politics of climateThe Pew study shows that the endless repetition about climate, and blaming all bad weather on climate (while never blaming nice weather on climate)as in "Due to climate change, the US has gone 10 years without a hurricane") has had some impact, but people are not really too frightened. For example, their survey indicates that climate-worriers do no more for "the environment" than anybody else. Of course, most of the cute greeny things people do "for the environment" are meaningless and pointless exercises in virtue-signaling and I have to suppose most people know that. More accurately, virtue-signaling and/or magical thinking. Wednesday morning linksThe Hermeneutics of the Expensive Watch Over the years, I've become a Timex guy. Expensive watches are jewelry. I have noticed that the younger folk rarely use watches anymore. The Spanish-Speaking William F. Buckley A big Dutch bank is replacing 5,800 people with machines The Trial of Orenthal James Simpson No proof that shooting predators saves livestock Survivor of grizzly attack tells harrowing tale; see video The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives The danger of imaginary arrows Interesting website: Notes On Liberty When Did Our Elites Become Self-Serving Parasites? New Smithsonian hails accuser Anita Hill, barely mentions Clarence Thomas Surprise: Warmists Link Hurricane Matthew To ‘Climate Change’ Trump Must Learn from Pence to Win "Trump appears to be the default position for millions of voters. And if he stops working every day to drive them away over the next four weeks, Trump could still be elected the 45th president of the United States." Mika Brzezinski Tears Into Hillary — ‘Get Off Your High Horse!’ MSNBC Asks Millennial Women If They Feel Connected To Clinton — Crowd Yells ‘No!’ Please Tell Me These FBI/DOJ ‘Side Deals’ with Clinton E-Mail Suspects Didn’t Happen It's all quite remarkable. Imagine if a Republican... Unstable, Unruly, and Reprobate: The Middle East Today
Tuesday, October 4. 2016The Great CometThat's on the advice of our NYC theatrical daughter, who thought Hamilton was a typical,schlocky, over-hyped pseudo-historical Broadway spectacle. We are generally off-Broadway if not off-off-Broadway people, but that daughter is discerning so I guess we ought to listen to her. Other daughter loved Hamilton.
Hillary’s Grave-Robber Tax HikeFrom Mitchell:
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