Monday, July 29. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                 Focusing on Happiness doesn't work   
Vanderleun:  A Wife for My Next Life  
 Program under fire for saying kids need to ‘consent’ to grandma kisses  
 When tree planting actually damages ecosystems  
 Why you probably won’t actually get $125 from the Equifax settlement - The more people sign up, the less money there is  
 The real reason you see so many Chick-fil-A restaurants 
 Despite calls to start over, US health system covers 90%  
 THE DEMAND FOR HATE IN AMERICA FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY  
MC:  Should We Be Optimistic About The Future Of The United States?  
"Yo, proletariat: If the Democratic Party is going to be against chocolate, high heels, parties and fun, you’ve lost me. And I’ve got some bad news for you about 2020."  
 Cotton Blasts Dem Nominees Over Death Penalty Criticism - Dems have lost their mind since the 1990s'  
 AG BARR TO START EXECUTING CHILD MURDERERS AND THE LEFT FREAKS OUT  
 WATCHING FAKE NEWS BEING MADE IN REAL TIME  
 KLAVAN: Clueless Chuck Todd And The Democrats  
Trump is right about Baltimore — and the Democrats know it  
 Baltimore Resident ‘Trump is Not Racist … Cummings Has Done Nothing For Us’  
 'Rat Film' highlights Baltimore's rat warfare, urban planning failures  
Democrat Baltimore Mayor Caught On Camera Complaining About ‘Rats, Dead Animals’ Last Year   
From Why the Left So Despises Donald Trump  
  
 This president is often gratuitously uncouth in public, and almost unrecognizable to those who know him as a congenial, courteous, and charming man and a fine raconteur. These traits are less frequently in evidence than in earlier days.   
Like all of us, the President gets better at his job the longer he holds it. But this would be an easy problem to correct, and that would leave the intense disparagement of Mr. Trump exclusively to the extremists and the decayed servitors he has served the country admirably by driving from office.   
  
 Sacred Cows Die As Marine Commandant Changes Course On Amphibs  
 Foreign Policy: Democracy is the Enemy of Climate Action 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
                Saturday, July 27. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                
 
 Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees was a watershed moment. At this point, it is up to Congress to act on the evidence of multiple counts of obstruction of justice committed by the president, and to continue our investigation into whether he has committed other high crimes and misdemeanors. 
  
 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
                
        
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
                Friday, July 26. 2019
        
                
        
        
        
        
        
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  The horrific consequences of rubber's toxic past  
 “Zombie Eating’: 88% Of Adults Dine While Staring At A Screen, Survey Finds  
Snow is now just a thing of the past...  
... where can you get actual information on world energy consumption of each type, and of how it is changing over time?  
 Bummer: We Now Only Have 18 Months To Save The Planet From Hotcoldwetdry  
 Sony is crowdfunding a project called the Reon Pocket, a wearable AC/heater unit compatible with both iPhones and Android devices.  
 Why Is a Top Australian University Supporting Indigenous Creationism?  
The condescension is stunning   
 Facebook co-founder working with government officials to build anti-trust case against site: report  
 Meet The Former Epstein 'Sex Slave' Who Helped Recruit Underage Girls For The 'Lolita Express'  
Not slaves, really. More like courtesans. Rich and powerful people sometimes like to live out their fantasies.  
 Yale Psychiatrist Bandy Lee Returns to Diagnose Trump as a Racist  
Wow. An expert mind-reader   
 Trump lashes out at Sweden: 'Give A$AP Rocky his freedom'  
Proof he's a racist Hitler   
 In the long run, thinking about politics is a deflection from living life.  
A fine rant but, as a commenter observes, You might not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you.  
   
Rep. Rashida Tlaib Wants a $20 Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers. That Would Likely Destroy the Restaurant Industry. The Democratic congresswoman said that people cannot live off tips. People who live off tips beg to differ.  
Powerline:  DESCENT TO THE MUELLER MIASMA  
 Mr. Mueller surreally responded: “As I said earlier, with regard to Steele, that is beyond my purview.” What a farce.  
 Mueller: Russians Also Tried to Help Hillary  
Meddlers will meddle. I am more worried about Google's meddling than the silly Russians  
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
                Thursday, July 25. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                He discusses the terrible waste of time and attention about the Trump-Russia hoax.  
He also wonders why the Clinton-Russia was ignored.  Also wonders what now happens to people with TDS. 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                "The British elected Boris Johnson as their new prime minister, meaning both the United States and the United Kingdom will be led by blond natives of New York City."  
A Profile of Boris (Alexander Boris de Pfeffer Johnson).   
A question for our readers: Is the UK an important country anymore? 
(Somewhat related,  It's not the size of the Royal Navy, it's the size of Britain's balls that's the problem.) 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  Amazon Has 'Destroyed' US Retail Industry: Mnuchin  
 In a first, China has more companies on Fortune Global 500 list than the US  
 Want to Know How Complicated Our Tax System Is? Check Out the IRS's "Taxpayer Roadmap"  
 How 2 Women Used Sex, Activism, and Title IX To Scam a Harvard Professor Out of His House, Job, and Money  
Dumbest law prof ever?   
 A Federal Court Takes on Title IX  
 New Baltimore deputy police commissioner robbed at gunpoint near Patterson Park  
 IT’S OFFICIAL: DEMOCRATS DISLIKE OUR COUNTRY  
 MUELLER’S TESTIMONY BOMBED [UPDATED  
 Schiff: Mueller investigation showed Trump's 'disloyalty to country'  
What??? Muerller asserted there was no Trump-Russia collusion. The Clinton-Russia angle was never explored.  
 Rep. Ratcliffe to Mueller: You Didn't Follow Special Counsel Rules, You Wrote About Decisions That Weren't Reached 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
                Wednesday, July 24. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  Why is airport food so expensive? The reasons you pay a massive markup on a water bottle are more complex than you might think.  
 Amazon Plows Into Real Estate Market With Realogy Pact To Transform Homebuying Process  
 Alibaba brings e-commerce platform to US businesses  
We’re Saved: S. Korea Cuts Down 2 Million Trees, Replaces Them With Solar Panels  
Disabled students proliferate   
 When Trans Activism Empowers Sexual Harassment  
 Title IX policies have ‘anti-male bias’ and treat students accused of sexual assault unfairly, lawsuit alleges  
The Minimum Wage Is Not About Helping the Poor - A boon to organized labor.  
THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS STRIKES AGAIN - The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has issued a report on school discipline.The report claims that students of all races misbehave in school at the same rate...  
Chicago Mayor Delusional About City’s Violence 
   
 Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Hit With … Federal Labor Complaint  
 NAACP Delegates Call for Trump Impeachment  
Byron York: Democrats think they've got a slam dunk obstruction case against Trump. They don't.  
 Robert Mueller soon may be exposed as the 'magician of omission' on Russia  
 Welcoming Boris Johnson  
 European Union: A Massive Expansion Of Top-Down Powers 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
                Tuesday, July 23. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                Supposedly Trump knows how to make deals. 
If you want it too much, you lose.  
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  I hate The Catcher in the Rye  
Me too   
 Lead Ammo, the Top Threat to Condors, Is Now Outlawed in California  
 The “Blood” In The Impossible Burger Is A Horror Show  
Yuk   
 The Yaniv scandal is the end-product of trans activism - Does inclusivity mean the Canadian state should compel women to handle a penis?  
" She’s expending mental energy on grocery lists. Someone bring medals, big ones."  
 Returning Due Process to Campus - The latest federal court decision in a campus sexual assault case is a reminder that accused students deserve a fair hearing.  
 Turning the tide against campus kangaroo ‘rape’ courts  
 Wealthy New Yorkers are ditching city’s high taxes for Miami  
David Warren:  I have no objection to anyone who would send astronauts to distant orbs, so long as his recruits know what they’re doing, and the entrepreneur has the means to pay.  
The disability culture  
 Wendy Davis: I’m Running for Congress Again So ‘Our Children . . . Can Live’  
Excuse me? 
 Sen. Warren: ‘These Are Hard Times for Our Country’ At Peak Of Booming Economy  
"Me telling you to 'Go back where you came from. Did I say that? Is it on video?.... I called you a lazy b-i-t-c-h. That's the worst thing I said."  
 Is Erica Thomas a Hate Crime Hoaxer?  
Um, obviously. I feel sorry for that Cuban immigrant   
 Democrat Presidential Candidates Push Erica Thomas 'Hate Hoax'  
 CBP: Over 1,000 African migrants arrested near Mexican border  
 Congo Invades Buffalo  
The Democrats are The Party Of The Wealthy!  
Report: Comey Was Secretly Trying To Build Case Against Trump, IG Investigation Found  
 Did the Brits Collude on Trump-Russia?  
 The Right’s Demographic Challenge Is Real - The future is being written today.  
 'You could attribute a Mother Teresa quote' to Trump and students would say it's hateful  
 Ivanka Trump Buys Daughter A White Dog, Internet Calls Her Racist  
And if a black dog, she'd be a slave-owner   
 Cory Booker: Donald Trump Is ‘Worse Than A Racist’… 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
        
                Saturday, July 20. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                    
Good fun: The Week in Pictures  
He works in an Amazon warehouse   
Sounds like a good job for fitness   
 This little-known inventor has probably saved your life  
 Hospital staff blamed for not realizing “man” was pregnant  
Psychiatric diagnoses are 'useless,' experts say  
Related, How scientific is psychiatric diagnosis?  
Related, Yale Prof says Trump's brain rapidly deteriorating   
 It's Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect The Right To Criticize The Government  
 Portland and the Evolution of Mob Rule  
  Even Mexicans Are Sick Of Illegal Aliens Invading Their Country  
Re Bernie, irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.  
 AP’s tweet on the 50th anniversary of Ted Kennedy leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die gets a BRUTALLY honest rewrite  
Related, the famous Volkswagen photo   
 Why The Democratic Debates Are Starting To Feel Like A Reality Show  
" The dot coms and academics of San Francisco and Boston, the financial firms of New York and the lobbyists of Washington D.C. will pick the Democrat nominee. But will they pick the president?"  
At this point, Google has the power to elect a president  
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
        
                Thursday, July 18. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  In Defense of Houses - Single-family homes are the backbone of American aspiration—so why do so many people oppose them?  
Titiana McGrath remains amusing and diabolically clever   
 Climate Despair Is Making (Crazy People) Give Up On Life  
 Prince Charles once again changes his global warming doom deadline  
 Big Government Is Always The Biggest Threat To Liberty  
 Compassionate Christian Votes For Government To Steal Money From His Neighbor And Give It To The Poor  
Cornell DROPS standardized test requirement: 'Can be biased against' women, minorities  
But life effectiveness is the real test, and unavoidable   
 Educators work to combat racism, whiteness in math  
 Facebook Bans St. Augustine Quote as 'Hate Speech'  
Let the book burning begin. Almost forgot - there are no "books" anymore. Let's now term it "book deleting"   
Attacks On "White, Male" Moon Landing Prove No US Achievement Is Beyond Liberals' Virtue-Signaling Rage  
 Tucker: Pete Buttigieg Claiming He’s a Victim of Racism Is ‘Greatest Story of the Year’  
In Face Of Massive Border Crisis, Democrats Tell Americans Citizenship Means Nothing  
 Honduras: Inside ground zero of the Central American migrant crisis  
 WASHINGTON POST BLAMES TRUMP FOR DEMOCRATS’ LEFTISM  
 Former Bill Clinton Press Secretary Joe Lockhart Calls Trump Supporters ‘Resentful, uneducated people screaming for blood from people of color’ 
Serious case of TDS   
 TRUMP: ‘IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ALL OF THE BULLSH*T,’ WE’D BE MUCH FURTHER ALONG - ‘Could you imagine if we didn’t have the time wasted’  
 As Trump piles up successes (and gaffes), the Democrats implode  
 By all means, keep criticizing Trump -- his rhetoric, his style, his long ties, his hair, ya-da-ya-da, but step back to appreciate the full picture.  
It's the best of times - minimal war, great economy, very little to grouse about  
Even Tom Friedman is worried about the Dems   
Majority Of Mexicans Want Central Americans Deported, Survey Finds  
Dystopia Comes to Sweden; Swedes Shrug  
Not your grandfather's Vikings  
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
                Wednesday, July 17. 2019
        
                
        
        
        
        
        
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  Reflecting on humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface, fifty years after the epochal event.  
Moon landing: John Glenn, and planets?   
From the NY Daily News!   
 Don't Scoff at Influencers. They're Taking Over the World.  
 Reverend Amy Butler Outliberals Her NYC Church  
A magnificent building, but politics replaced God there decades ago. Whitened sepulchre.   
 We All Wanted to Love the Women’s Soccer Team  
Few soccer fans care about womens' soccer   
 The ‘Lady of the House’ Who Was Long Entangled With Jeffrey Epstein  
She is now in hiding in England   
 What Do You Do When Mental Health Professionals Treating Trump Derangement Syndrome Have TDS Themselves?  
Then it's called a folie a deux. Like some marriages.  
 A Sophomoric Look at Climate Change  
 The Plot against Kavanaugh  
 TRUMP IS MAKING OMAR, CORTEZ AND TLAIB INTO THE PUBLIC FACE OF THE DEMOCRATS  
 Farage: Von der Leyen Wants to Build ‘Updated Form of Communism’, Advance EU Army 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
                Tuesday, July 16. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  Djokovic celebrated his Wimbledon win by eating a handful of grass. Here's why  
 Crunches won't give you abs and other fitness myths you need to stop buying into  
Core work - planks, sit-ups, back lifts, "bicycles," leg lifts, mountain climbers, etc are for strengthening core, not for aesthetics. A strong core is darn important for everything in life  
Why It's Probably Better for the Planet to Throw Plastic in the Trash  
VD in the 18th Century   
 AI beats professionals in six-player poker  
 San Francisco's Top Economist Confirms Vape Ban Means More Smoking - The city is banning e-cigarettes while actual cigarettes remain legal.  
 ‘Believe all women’ makes the ‘Pence rule’ just common sense  
 “State education is generally sub-optimal and often shockingly bad. Let’s make sure that’s all there is available.”  
"... it’s so bizarre to watch the majority of NEA delegates eagerly dive into politically-fraught abortion and race debates, while voting down a clear commitment to prioritize student learning. So please, NEA: Can you explain?  
 Amazon workers in Europe join Prime Day strike  
 Average illegal has lived here 15 years: Pew  
 Angry Young Men Who Came Illegally to America Shout: 'No Shower, No Shower!'  
 Trump Admin Announces Major Crackdown On Asylum Abuse  
 When stereotyping is not just okay but mandatory  
 Red State, Blue Cities - Will the Texas model become a victim of its own success?  
 Trump is not a racist; he’s pushing the Overton window to normal   
 Trump Troll Level: Grand Master  
Lawsuit Outs Reporter Ellen Ratner as Source for Seth Rich Information  
Curiouser and curiouser   
 Trump’s Favorite Ambassador Makes a Very Trumpian Splash in Berlin 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
        
                Sunday, July 14. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                 Like all retail in the northern hemisphere, mid-July through Labor Day is slow season at Maggies. Luckily for us, we have devoted readers - friends -  of our eclectic, boutique website. Do us a favor - let people know about us. Dunkin Donuts will pay us more for their (actually, multiples of zero) ads. We are all about money - those multiples of $0.  
Yes, I think we will have less-frequent posting over the next several weeks when most of us intend to spend our lives outdoors in God's grandeur whether boating, hiking, fishing, gardening, exercising, sunburns and beaching, body -surfing with the sharks, playing sports, sweaty sex in the meadow, whatever. Or, in Roger de Hauteville's case, rebuilding his family outhouse. How many new seats? I'd go for an upscale 4-seater with varnished oak seats. Needs new tile walls too, Roger, and some fresh copies of the Sears catalog. (For the youth, that means tp.)  
Our pal Gerard (thanks for the image) has linked a thing about famous pop tunes as pulp fiction novel covers.   
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
        
                Friday, July 12. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                Nobody has a clue. Real Hedge-Fund Managers Have Some Thoughts on What Epstein Was Actually Doing  
Seems like a sociopath to me, and apparently a charming one despite being a creep. But who knows? Maybe he was a CIA front. 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                 An unusual traffic stop   
Coasties attack a narco sub  
Ballsy   
 US Fast-Food Drive-Thrus Will Soon Use License Plate And Facial Recognition Technology  
To Delay Death, Lift Weights - Two new studies remind of us of what we already know but sometimes forget  
 American Psychological Association Pushes Polyamory  
 We Need A Green New Deal To Defeat Fascism  
 Ocasio-Cortez announces bill to make electoral college tuition-free  
 Catfight escalates: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hurls race card at Nancy Pelosi  
 Vanity Fair: You Know Who Should Be Worried About Epstein’s Photographs? 
A question: This stuff is illegal, but is it really "pedophilia"?   
 House Judiciary Committee Continues Subpoena-fest Of Trump Officials  
 Why Do Democrats Hate Jobs So Much?  
 Lawrence Jones on disdain for Pledge of Allegiance: 'This starts on college campuses'  
 Joe Biden: ‘I Respect No Borders’  
Get offa my lawn, Joe   
Texas Reporter Watches 300 Migrants Cross Border in Six Hours  
 Hillary Posts Instructions IN SPANISH For Illegal Aliens to Evade ICE Agents  
 President Trump should set the refugee cap for 2020 at ZERO 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
        
                Thursday, July 11. 2019
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                He is most valuable to me for finding phrases to express some of my thoughts for which I have no easy expression.  
He is a great talker. Try this podcast. Yes, it's a hip thing to dislike America, so join the in-crowd moving to Canada...and China, and Mexico. 
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
                
        
                        
                                                    
            
            
                  Hundreds of blindfolded goats airdropped into mountain range  
That's an image   
  3 Helpful Tips For The Suffering Feminists Who Are Being Persecuted By Air Conditioning  
  The story of the first factory  
 Volkswagen’s final Beetle is leaving the factory today  
 Mom Arrested For Allegedly Driving With Children Sitting In Inflatable Pool On Top Of Vehicle  
Sounds to me like a brilliant idea   
 Are People Who Make $200,000 Middle Class?  
Depends on where you live   
 Massachusetts Looks At Redefining The Age Of Being A “Juvenile” To 21  
"Juvenile" has nothing to do with age. Why not go back to adulthood at Bar Mitzvah age?   
 Is Facial Recognition the New Fingerprinting—or Something Much Worse? State DMVs are building a vast national digital identification database for federal law enforcement.  
Police state  
 Father of Kamala Harris Says Her Ancestors Owned Slaves  
 Williams College rejects free-speech principles to protect ‘dignitary safety’ of students  
"Dignitary safety"? That's a good one. Have you seen dignity?  
 The Problem with Treating Children as Adults  
 We Need To Dismantle The U.S. Military For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something  
 Democrats Control America’s Most Dangerous Cities. So Why Do They Keep Passing the Buck on Gun Crime?  
Kling:  
  
 If you believe that the other side holds reasonable views, then you cannot dismiss them as nuts. But that creates cognitive dissonance, because it raises the possibility that you are wrong. It’s much easier to go about life dismissing people with different points of view as hopeless extremists, so you don’t have to engage with them.   
  A look at all of Trump's enemies 
 America's First Black Billionaire Gives Trump an 'A+,' Says Dems Are Moving 'Too Far Left'  
Mark Zuckerberg Brags: We Didn't Allow Pro-Life Groups to Advertise Before Ireland's Abortion Vote  
Meddling   
AOC: PELOSI SADDLING ME WITH WORK TO KEEP ME OUT OF SPOTLIGHT   
No, it's called a "job"   
 CURL: Democrats Care More About Helping Illegal Aliens Than Americans  
 A European War on (Everyone’s) Free Speech  
Evil  
             
            
            
            
         
        
        
        
        
        
             
    
    
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