Sunday, October 16. 2016
Yale'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:
Trump and the Emasculated Voter - There’s only one way to protect the nation from Hillary Clinton, and that is to vote for Donald Trump.
A quote:
I’ll vote for Mr. Trump—grimly. But there is no alternative, no shadow of a responsible alternative.
Mr. Trump’s candidacy is a message from the voters. He is the empty gin bottle they have chosen to toss through the window. The message begins with the fact that voters hear what the leaders and pundits don’t: the profound contempt for America and Americans that Mrs. Clinton and President Obama share and their frightening lack of emotional connection to this nation and its people.
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.
Saturday, October 15. 2016
 Harvard’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
the human race” and “I treat all people the same” are two of the 35
things that students should avoid saying
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
The Presidential Character
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
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...
Thursday, October 13. 2016
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 Adderal Generation
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
were built on the voluntary labor of women. As the demands on women's
time increase, communities are suffering.
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. 2016
Tuesday, October 11. 2016
The 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.
 Bill 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
who told us that the personal didn't matter when it was Bill Clinton in
office."
It's called politics
Trump bounces back, but back to where?
Welcome to the Republican civil war:
The period before the first presidential debate when Trump pulled close to a tie with Clinton feels like an eon ago. He had come back with a month of relative discipline beginning in mid-August that now looks like a parenthesis in an otherwise recklessly selfish campaign.
That Trump would become a poisonous wedge issue within the GOP was always a plausible worst-case scenario. Now, it is upon us.
VDH:
Why did his decade-old locker-room talk matter? A cruder and raunchier America of Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé is now far more sexually sensitive than was the staid America of half a century ago — as if the dirtier we become, the more sanctimonious we end up. Past presidents, such as John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton, trumped even Trump in unleashing their reckless libidos on quite young White House staffers, an array of mistresses, and random women. But they were then young, liberal, loved by the media, and skilled incumbent politicians holding the power of the country at key moments in history.
Also, Democrats. That's the only difference.
Z-man:
Watching one traitorous fink after another decry Trump’s locker room talk from a decade ago, I was reminded once again that these people were never on my side. It was always a con, a grift, to fool otherwise decent people into putting down their weapons and surrendering to the Left. Buckley-style conservatism, whatever it was, is now just a tool of the managerial class to clear the field for nation-wrecking policies to benefit the ruling elite at the expense of the middle class.
Last night, I was reminded of why Trump was able to obliterate the GOP field despite being out spent a million-to-one. He is not a pussy. Any other Republican faced with the dirty trick pulled on Friday would have gone into the debate prepared to grovel and plead, begging for a second chance. It is not all all inconceivable that he would have offered to step aside. Trump went into the debate prepared to deliver a counter bunch designed to knock the old fat cow on her ass.
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. 2016
The 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.
 Drone 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
damage that Barack Obama and Angela Merkel have done.
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:
“I’m at the breaking point,” said Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist who bought a 1930s bungalow in the Bouldin neighborhood just south of downtown in 1991 and has watched her property tax bill soar to $8,500 this year
“It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.”
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'
Hot Air:
As it stand now you’ve already shocked the world. Any additional garrulous speeches on women as sexual objects for men’s gratification is just more of the same at this point.
NARRATOR: Trump said Scandalous, Sexist, Repulsive Thing Number 1!
AUDIENCE: Oh My God! That’s terrible! How could he have been nominated!
NARRATOR: Trump said Scandalous, Sexist, Repulsive Thing Number 2!
AUDIENCE: Oh dear! That’s pretty bad too.
NARRATOR: Trump said Scandalous, Sexist, Repulsive Thing Number 3!
AUDIENCE: Yes. We know. We get it. Wasn’t there something on The Weather Channel about a hurricane?
You get the idea.
Apprentice Producer Warns There Are "Far Worse" Trump Tapes To Come
How TRUMP PUNKED THE PRESS: Told Reporters They Were Going to Pre-Debate Presser, Walked in on Clinton Rape Victims!
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. 2016
Mrs. 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
Trump’s dirty talk versus Hillary’s corruption
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.
Hot mic and wikileaks
Get rid of both of these jerks
Hillary Clinton Operative: Half Of Population Of U.S. Are “Irrational” “Functional Illiterates”, Including Sanders Supporters…
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.
Z-man:
The EU, of course, is a solution to the past. More precisely, it is what the Europeans wish they had done before the Great War, believing it would have prevented all of it. Like all solutions to past mistakes, it is wildly miscast for the present. That does not bother the Eurocrats. They are convinced their way is correct and they run forward, head down, into the block wall of reality. It is precisely this sort of stuff that led a majority of Brits to vote their nation out of the project, but facts and events play no role in EU thinking.
Sweden:
Why would someone raised in Gothenburg want to leave one of the most peaceful and progressive countries in the developed world to join a violent extremist group in the Middle East?
Because there is more to life than comfort. Humans are not cows.
Friday, October 7. 2016
Thousands of Florida residents ignore the millions who evacuated historic Hurricane Matthew to SURF and PARTY their way
through the storm
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.
 Children 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
Useful idiots
Thursday, October 6. 2016
As if I were a very slow child: What is Blockchain, and what good is it?
Most likely very few American blacks care about it at all, but there is a noisy group in New Orleans who want to get rid of a statue of Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans. While the entire impulse to erase history seems crazy to me, there is not a single reason to hold anything against Jackson.
From Fred, Just another day at the Exceptional Nation. Racial attacks, racial threats, looting, burning. When I am politically upset, I loot stores. Don’t you?
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.
Wednesday, October 5. 2016
 Greek 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?
The 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.
Tuesday, October 4. 2016
Get your tickets now.
That'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.
From Mitchell:
Why bust your rear end when the government immediately will take at least 39.6 percent (actually more when you consider Medicare taxes, state taxes, and double taxation of interest, dividends, and capital gains) of your income, and then another 40 percent of what you’ve saved and invested when you kick the bucket?
Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem to care about such matters. She actually just decided to double down on her destructive tax agenda by endorsing an even bigger increase in the death tax.
Rototiller Racing World Record (h/t BSBFB)
The Storied City: The Quest for Timbuktu and the Fantastic Mission to Save Its Past
10 Exercises They Taught You In School That You Should NEVER Do
The rise and fall of MTV’s empire
Bass Pro Shops acquiring Cabela's
From Asia to North America, here are the most popular destinations around the globe.
I think that combines business with recreational travel
The Best Airlines to Fly Coach
Let’s spend 1.5T dollars per year on alien invasion research. A small price to pay to save humanity, just in case.
If gender is a choice and students designate their preferred pronouns, can John Doe apply for a women’s scholarship?
Kimball: One of the most conspicuous strategies to limit free speech on campuses
in the United States these last few years has been via the weaponization
of victimhood.
Columbia Student: I Was Reported to Gender-Based Misconduct Office for Calling Myself Handsome
Mother Sues Hospital for Discrimination for Calling Transgender Son a Girl
The Dark Heart of Progressivism - A conversation with Thomas C. Leonard, author of Illiberal Reformers.
Yes Virginia, Aliens Are Registered or Voting… and in Pennsylvania, by the Thousands
Clinton Campaign Admits Hillary Used Same Tax Avoidance "Scheme" As Trump
All Journalists Proved About Donald Trump’s 1995 Return Was Their Own Ignorance
How Hillary Clinton Grappled With Bill Clinton’s Infidelity, and His Accusers
Trump and the Intellectuals
Re never-Trumpers:" The logic here is
akin to saying “They don’t have my favorite ice cream so I’m going to
have rat poison instead.”"
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The next ‘oppression’ threat: Zumba classes