Sunday, September 22. 2019
I 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. 2019
Weather 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. 2019
Thursday, September 19. 2019
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump wages war on progressive culture – Dems respond with Trump Derangement Syndrome
 What do you confess to the plants in your life?
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.
Wednesday, September 18. 2019
Tuesday, September 17. 2019
 A US Social Security card is specifically not to be used for identification. All it means is that you are enrolled in a forced government retirement program. They are easily and frequently faked. So I am confused.
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.
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.
With video, at Althouse. Amusing too.
Like many New Yorkers, he has an old fondness for the paper, hates what she has become.
Monday, September 16. 2019
Morning: Impeach Kavanaugh
Afternoon: Why bother pursuing a career and marriage if climate change? It's hopeless.
 Four Cheers for Incandescent Light Bulbs
Autism: The children of Donor H898
BBC Tells Kids 'People Can Go to Prison' For Disrespecting 'More Than 100' Gender Identities
Your kids do not belong to you
Rage has free speech under siege on the American campus
It's not "rage." It's cry-bullying. Probably fun, but not dignified.
Powerline: WHAT IS SOCIALISM?
Yes, They Are Coming for Your Guns
Beto: Texans Told Me They Don’t Need Their AR-15s And Would Give Them Up
Chris Coons: Beto O’Rourke’s Call For Gun Confiscation Last Night Will Be Used Against Our Party For Years
OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Files For Bankruptcy As Dozens Of States Decline Proposed Settlement
Scapegoats
Bernie Sanders Doubles Down On Promise Of ‘Free’ Healthcare And College For The ‘Undocumented’
Is there any way to become de-documented?
Michelle Malkin: End to Refugee Resettlement ‘Long Overdue’ After Americans Have Gotten No Say
Dopey Former Bartender Says “Miami Will Not Exist” in Few Years if We Don’t Obliterate Economy with Her Green New Deal
New Book: Christine Blasey Ford’s Friend Leland Keyser Doesn’t Believe Her
Ford's lawyer thinks she was a faker
An Interview with The Trayvon Hoax Director Joel Gilbert
Fake stories
Another Smollett-style fake hate crime blaming MAGA busted
More fakery
DEMOCRATS HAVEN’T GIVEN UP ON SMEARING KAVANAUGH
More fakery
That’s Weird: Fake News Is Pushing Already Debunked Story by Drunk Kavanaugh Accuser – They Must be VERY WORRIED About Ginsburg’s Prognosis
Sorry, The Air Force Deal To Refuel Near Trump's Scottish Resort Was Made Under Obama
More MSNBC fakery
Back Off from the ‘Resist’ Nonsense
DOJ Files A Devastating Brief Exposing Jerry Nadler’s Impeachment Inquiry Scam
2020 Democrats hate Trump’s China trade war. Too bad they don’t have any better ideas.
Poll: Majority of Hispanics Support Ending Welfare-Dependent Immigration
Migrants Won’t Solve Europe’s Demographic Problem
To make my case, I next show how the EU evolved from a constructive European community to an overbearing, undemocratic force that acts as if people have ceased to identify with their national communities and are already loyal citizens of the EU.
Sunday, September 15. 2019
Scott Adams interpret's Trump's tweet, like this:
"I may be a bully, a dick, a jerk, obnoxious, and immature, but if I am, I am a bully for America, a jerk for America, immature for America; a dick for you, a bully for you, etc. You don't have to like me personally. If you like the results, I'm good with that."
Saturday, September 14. 2019
Friday, September 13. 2019
Photo: A handsome Osprey in Long Island Sound, preparing for his flight to Florida or the Caribbean. Ospreys go south in Sept.
Harold Lloyd’s Death-Defying Comedy - “With comedy, trouble is one of the greatest ingredients because there are so many variations to it,” the silent film actor told one scholar.
Hubble telescope spies water raining on distant world
It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Party Doll
Dispersing the clouds of the vape panic myth - Illicit THC products are the problem
Vaping: A Moral Panic - The hysteria must end.
Indoctrination: Greta Thunberg Wants You To “Feel The Fear” She Feels About Climate Change
Sheesh, no thanks
Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas
Average U.S. FICO Score Hits All-Time High Thanks To Trump Economy
Teaching That America Is Hopelessly Racist
Welfare Reform’s Payoff - New data from the Census Bureau shows that female-headed households are lifting themselves out of poverty through work.
ARE BLACKS MOVING TOWARDS THE CENTER AS THEIR PARTY LURCHES TO THE LEFT?
Blue State Blues: Trump Proves Growth, Not Redistribution, Helps Black Americans
Not blacks - everybody
How One Journalist Covered Robert Mugabe’s Rise to Power: Cue the Carrier Pigeon
Whatever happens in the world, the answer is always mass migration to the US
El Salvador sends hundreds of police to border to thwart migrants
Christine Blasey Ford’s Father Told Brett Kavanaugh’s Father He Was Glad He Was Confirmed
TIME Editor, MSNBC Host Agree: Don’t Give Voice To Climate Change Dissenters, ‘There’s No Debate’….
CNN vs. What the Science Says
CNN’s big ‘mistakes’ all run in one direction: anti-Trump
Trump's Trade War Is a Loser for America - The president’s economic agenda is harming U.S. businesses and consumers.
Not if some good comes of it
Trade War a Weapon Against China's Spy War
Trump “Becoming Presidential” Would Be His Doom
Bill Maher Laments The ‘Cancer On Progressivism’ As Democrats ‘Race To The Far Left’ - "I don’t think you’re gonna win this election."
Joe Biden’s Platform Illustrates The Breakneck Speed Democrats Are Lurching Left
US attorney recommends proceeding with charges against McCabe, as DOJ rejects last-ditch appeal
The Air Force Just Dropped 80,000 Pounds of Bombs on Island 'Infested' with ISIS Fighters
Is England Still Part of Europe?
Thursday, September 12. 2019
 Image via Ace
Cool ways to serve eggs
What does 'living fully' mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense
From a 46er friend, Adirondack hiking
Taking the Ham Out of Hamburger
Those Plant-Based “Burgers” Aren’t Better For You, So Why Are You Eating Them?
How Conservatives Can Protect the Environment and Win Voters, Too. Making America beautiful is part of making America great.
Environmental Playacting - Today’s youth will fight climate change, we’re told—but they’re no more willing to give up luxuries than anyone else.
Oh To Be a Democrat in New Jersey
Dems Secretly Trained Thousands of Activists to Manipulate Media, Clinton Library Docs Show - DNC coordinated with activists to 'infiltrate' talk radio
A book: The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs
Target: New York. Eighteen years after the 9/11 attacks, Islamist extremism doesn’t make much news—but it’s not for lack of trying.
CNN Anchor John Avlon Uses 9/11 To Argue ‘Right-Wing Terrorists’ Represent Biggest Threat To U.S.
Commemorating a lie
MSNBC Anchor Asks Condoleezza Rice If Russia’s Interference Elected Trump; Rice Leaves Her Speechless
Buzz: IG Report Is ‘Being Circulated Inside And Outside’ Of The DOJ And Finds That FISA Warrants Were Illegally Obtained
Trump Caves to Lindsey Graham; U.S. Troops To Stay the Neverending Course in Afghanistan
EU Accused Of Fascism After "Protecting Our European Way Of Life" Commissioner Announced
Wednesday, September 11. 2019
What I Saw: Notes Made on September 11, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights
9/11 Solidified The Destruction Of Our Freedom
DID WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM 9/11? Or are we still sleeping?
New York Times Says ‘Airplanes’ Killed Thousands On 9-11 — Forgets To Mention Islamic Terrorists
Amazon Has 30,000 Open Jobs. Yes, You Read That Right.
In its tireless struggle to innovate, fashion is turning to mass customisation. Luke Leitch examines a trend which is both very new and very old
In Hawaii, Protest Of Planned Giant Telescope Continues
The real story behind 'The Spy,' Sacha Baron Cohen's new Netflix series
Government policy and The Cobra Effect
FBI Arrests Top FEMA Administrator, Two Others For Hurricane Maria Relief Fraud
Betsy DeVos’s Extraordinary Crackdown on Michigan State
Left Wing Students Cry Foul as U. Texas Removes Campus Free Speech Zones
California Stops Disruptive Students From Being Suspended
DEM CONTENDERS RALLY AROUND A CARBON TAX, MAY SOON REGRET IT
Hey Democratic Candidates: Are You Going To Ban All Fossil Fuels?
The Myth That the Polar Bear Population Is Declining
UN Claims Human Rights Violations From ‘Climate Change’ Or Something
ILLINOIS INCOME TAX HIKES FAILED TO FIX STATE FINANCES
Duh.
Liberal Supreme Court justices vote in lockstep, not the conservative justices
Michelle Malkin’s 10-Step Action Plan From Open Borders, Inc: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction?
KLAVAN: When A Republican Speaks, It's A Scandal
No, Rachel, there is no Russia Russia Russia!
Don’t Waver, Deplorables! Washington Will Never Accept Trump
President Trump Is Making History For Black Colleges And Universities
The roots of Brexit go back to the Spanish Armada
Tuesday, September 10. 2019
Monday, September 9. 2019
Everybody knows we do not use that term anymore in public. It's been a kerfuffle this past week.
Interestingly, "Mental Retardation" was introduced as a euphemism for uglier terms, as it seemed to imply slower, but not unable. The currect correct term is "intellectual disability".
However, in casual conversation, people still say "I'm retarded" after foolish actions.
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Ben Stein: 
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