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Saturday, February 3. 2018Saturday morning linksLooks like a Dayquil day for Bird Dog. How about you? Maybe even a Nyquil nap later. Good day to feel lousy. Mrs. BD going to ballet and luncheon with a friend, and I'll organize a pile of paperwork. Or not. A Chicken Dancing to DMX Was the U.K.’s Most Offensive Ad of 2017 60,000 hidden Mayan ruins discovered by lasers in Guatemala Great art exists outside of time As we've said, styles of art, music, etc change but never progress. No art is "better" than the cave paintings. You Might Be Part of LGBTQQIAAACPPF2K Without Even Knowing It Abortion-Rights Activists Proved David Brooks Exactly Right
ICE Chief Warns Illegal Immigration ‘Not Going To Be OK Anymore’ The Night the Democratic Party Committed Political Suicide Are Trump voters white supremacists? CNN: Huge Jump In Wages Due To GOP Tax Reform… Democrats Awesome New Idea: Repeal Tax Cuts Central bankers and The Legend of the Maestro: Never Explain, Never Apologize When homeless addicts just wanna be homeless addicts A lifestyle choice? Completely Taken In By The Poverty Fraud THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STOKES RACIAL DIVISION, SMEARS TRUMP The federal civil service is the permanent government When government expands, they are happy U.S. Adds 200,000 Jobs; Wages Rise by Most Since Recession Trump the orator outlines the greatness of America to Democrats’ disgust Democrats turned a hero into a horror story Nikki Haley: Russia 'Is Not, Will Not Be Our Friend' Why not? Friday, February 2. 2018Friday morning linksHow GE Went From American Icon to Astonishing Mess First stock I ever bought Recreational sex as a new Olympic sport Facebook users are spending less time on the site Who has time for that? Chinese are becoming world tourists Lots of them in NYC Bitter Feminists Go After The Hot Cheerleaders. Here Are Their First Victims. They do not look like most Feminists Dems took 100% of donations from Williams College in 2017 MAXINE WATERS: Russia is out to get me! " Is it possible that we actually have a Russian agent running the House Intel Committee on the Republican side?” CNN’s Sally Kohn Horrified By People Chanting “USA,” Says It “Sends Chills Down Her Spine”… Chills, or tingles? Z-man: “Has there ever been another time in American history when American elites felt this comfortable expressing such open contempt and hatred for their fellow citizens?” It's been chic for elites to hate America for generations Kimball: I Wanted Ted Cruz To Be President, But Donald Trump Is Working Cruz was not electable Judge Andrew Napolitano: If the GOP memo is as advertised we’ll see the deep state at its most frightening Rep. Steve King: “EARTH-SHAKING” FISA Memo Supported By Testimonies From FBI, DOJ Officials Rosenstein Fails to Defend His Failure to Limit Mueller’s Investigation Sultan: A year of Russian collusion David French: The Obstruction Case against Trump Still Has a Way to Go Kimball: Trump restores the "we" to America Euroland plans Ministries of Truth Thursday, February 1. 2018Steyn is so darn funnyAbout Trump and everything else. Not just amusing. Deadly serious too. This from 2017
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Things Democrats do not like
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Thursday morning linksThere’s one proven way to close the racial achievement gap — and de Blasio hates it Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Show How Health Care Reform Should Work Had ´News´ Media Done Its Job, Obama Would Not Have Become President Perhaps " I'd like to know who thought it was a good idea to pose a Kennedy in front of a (broken) car in a place called Fall River?" CNN’s Tapper: Trump’s ‘Americans Are Dreamers, Too’ Statement ‘Offensive’ to Dems WaPo Changes Trump’s SOTU Headline After Liberals Freak Out DEMOCRATS’ HATRED OF TRUMP IS GOING TO BRING THEM DOWN Mueller Zeros In on Story Put Together About Trump Tower Meeting If they lied about it, a mistake The extraordinary nihilism of Republican attacks on the Russia investigation Wednesday, January 31. 2018Wednesday morning linksImage: If you had listened to the government experts, you'd be as fat as a pig. 11 servings of carbs/day? Nobody could do that. Update on Jack Ma Women find men more attractive once they find out he is desired by others, a new study suggests. Duh. Works the other way too. Proof of Yale's racism Books Cooked at DC Schools: Will Star Chancellor Answer? NYT: What he did on his summer break - exposed global security flaw Obama’s Presidential Library Ripped As ‘Ugly Waste Of Taxpayer Resources’ By Chicagoans I hate all those stupid monuments to presidents. This isn't Rome...or is it? Government Agencies Have An Almost Pathological Need To Not Admit Error, No Matter How Trivial Is LIBERALISM JUST RESENTMENT AND ENVY SANCTIFIED? Poor Chuck Schumer - The Senate Minority Leader made it to the top, but at the worst possible moment. New Book: McCabe Initiated White House Meeting That Led To Leak - This story gives a glimpse into how the original Russia narrative may have been spread around to overly compliant journalists and other members of the 'resistance.' Trump’s border wall prototypes virtually impassable, pass rigorous testing Donald Trump is teaching Republicans how to fight Repubs tend to be both stupid and fearful instead of bold and confident Sorry, skeptics, Trump’s tax plan is actually working wonders Pfizer Plans $5 Billion Boost in U.S. Manufacturing From Tax Law Changes SOTU: A TREMENDOUS PERFORMANCE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP Best line: Americans are dreamers too State Of The Union: Trump Hits It Out Of The Park Amid growing US immigration crackdown, Canada quietly enforcing own laws Saudi Arabia says it has seized over $100 billion in corruption purge Eddie Adams' iconic Vietnam War photo: What happened next The Tet Offensive Revisited: Media’s Big Lie Tuesday, January 30. 2018Hillary’s ‘Sure’ Victory Explains Most EverythingVDH: Yes, it does.
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Tuesday morning linksWe Just Got More Evidence For The Strange Link Between Carbs And Alzheimer's Lack of diversity in video games akin to ‘daily racism’ Many Intellectuals Can't Stand Jordan Peterson. Why? Lib Actress Alyssa Milano Calls Proposed Ban On Abortions After 20 Weeks “Horrifying”… FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Caught Leaking After Admitting “Trump-Russia” Collusion Story Was “Bullsh*t” FISA, the NSA, and the 4th Amendment White House Perjury Panic Why aren't the Democrats horrified by the corruption at the FBI and DOJ? FBI Director Wray "Shocked To His Core" By FISA Memo, McCabe 'Removed' Next Day, More Heads To Roll: Report
Israel: Warning - abductions planned In First, Council of Europe Tells Palestinians to Stop Funding Terror Trump effect Italy's Population is Sinking Faster Than the Tower of Pisa Monday, January 29. 2018The Peterson Files
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Monday morning linksHigh-fat diet good, high-carb diet deadly As we have been saying for years California may label coffee a cancer risk Paris is not just flooding, it is flooding again, and again, and again, and again. It's not a river. It's a government-managed canal The Very Liberal LA Times Seems To Be Crushing Their Own New Union I guess they want to try to stay in business Related, in Canada the government pays the press Real Americans vs. Our Effete Elites Chelsea Clinton Says ‘Women’s Reproductive Health Rights Are Connected to Climate Change’ Democrats Expose That Immigration Is All About Politics, Not Caring Jay Z: Blacks don't want money Michael Moore assails Trump, 'unfit,' 'narcissist, 'sociopath,' 'threat to humanity' GRASSLEY PURSUES AMERICA’S BIGGEST SCANDAL The Clinton-Russia collusion FBI went to great lengths to plot against Donald Trump If Trump didn’t collude with Russia — or doesn’t have some other criminal secret to hide — it’s hard to see what his corrupt intent would be in an obstruction case. Well, then it becomes an investigation about an investigation. "I suspect that a lot of the Davos crowd secretly admires Trump, even if they personally dislike him or his policies." I like the policies but have no admiration for him
“America is open for business, and we are competitive once again.” Belgium: How Low Can A Low Country Get? Teens roam streets with rifles as crime swamps Sweden - The army may be called in to halt a gang surge in immigrant areas Saturday, January 27. 2018The Clinton-Russia schemes may be emergingClinton, Podesta And Others In Senate Crosshairs Over Dossier; Given Two Weeks To Respond Was Steele the intermediary between the Clinton campaign and Russian spies? And what about Uranium One?
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Saturday morning linksMedical Establishment Opposes Conscience Rights AMA was co-opted by lefties long ago Lake Michigan has become dramatically clearer in last 20 years — but at a steep cost Clear water is not necessarily a good thing Nutella 'Riots' Spread Across France Sheesh. It's basically canned frosting. Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson Sending Waiters to Jail for Offering Plastic Straws Bill De Blasio Admits He Wants To Kill The Oil Industry With Global Warming Lawsuit Who are the Dreamers? Williamson: On Citizenship for Illegal Aliens Trump at Davos: 'America First Does Not Mean America Alone' Trump in Davos: 'The Single-Best Anti-Poverty Program Is a Very Beautiful Paycheck' IMF Increases Global Growth Rate Projections Due to US Tax Cuts Democrats are coming unhinged over the Trump economy It’s Now Likely Mueller Thinks Trump Obstructed Justice Clinton–Obama Emails: The Key to Understanding Why Hillary Wasn’t Indicted The MSM Faces the Truth About Sweden Friday, January 26. 2018What does Mueller want?
Example: “Either Answer Is A Crime. Yes Locks In Obstruction Case. No Is Lying To The FBI.” Maybe. But what about "I just didn't like the guy, and got the feeling that he didn't like me either?" Thus, even if there is no Russia story to pursue, he can try to pursue Trump and his people on their efforts and wishes to make this entire annoyance go away. Obstruction, and the like, even if there was no wrong-doing at the heart of it. Trump, as a blustery shoot-from-the-hip businessman who likes to fire disloyal people and has no legal background and minimal legal thinking, is raw meat for this sort of thing. My guess is that Trump is talking to his lawyers like any ordinary citizen: "WTF? I did nothing wrong, and these a-holes are tangling me up in this BS and getting in my way. Just fire these jerks." I just hope that there are some honorable citizens in DC. Count me skeptical. Friday morning linksModern humans left Africa much earlier The Top-Earning Hedge Fund Firms of All Time “Breaking Bad” and the Five-Act Structure Why Toys R Us Can’t Win Anymore The sex lives of conductors - Norman Lebrecht examines the sordid underbelly of conducting where sex is considered a perk of the job Get Ready for a Meat Tax Push Is the humble sandwich a climate change culprit? Half the Grads at Highly Lauded D.C. School Had Three Months of Unexcused Absences The White House asked to borrow a van Gogh. The Guggenheim offered a gold toilet instead. Kimball: Populism and its critics Conservative Heritage Foundation Rates Trump’s First Year Better Than Reagan’s America First: European CEOs Go One By One To Tell Trump They Are Investing Billions Back In The US Why Democrats Won't Get Their Way on Immigration In Immigration Debate, Senators Must Put Americans and Their Dreams First NY Dem Gov. Cuomo Proposes Giving Free tuition to illegals Mexico Enrages Moonbats by Sending Needy Refugees Home Don’t Answer His Questions, Mr. President As walls close in on FBI, the bureau lashes out at its antagonists White House gave Robert Mueller nearly 8,000 pages of documents related to James Comey Germany: Return Of The Stasi Police State? Trump to Palestinian Authority: No More Aid, No More Talking, No More Anything Until You Commit to Peace Kerry coaches Abbas: ‘Stay strong, Trump will soon be out of office’ Palestinians buy $50 million private jet for Abbas Lester Holt Missed Something in His North Korea Report The Islamization of Oslo - In Groruddalen, a large neighborhood of the Norwegian capital, heavy Muslim immigration is testing multiculturalism’s limits. Disputing China's Spurious Territorial Claims in the South China Sea Thursday, January 25. 2018Thursday morning linksMotivation Thread: The Little Things in life Add Up To Big Things WATCH: Israelis Crack the Dead Sea Scrolls’ Ancient Code The salacious Middle Ages - Medieval people feared death by celibacy as much as venereal disease, and practiced complex sexual health regimens W C Fields' ping pong match San Francisco changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day China Breaks a Cloning Barrier: Primates - The development heralds the possibility of genetically engineered primates for drug testing, gene editing and brain research This tiny Robot Can Walk and Swim — Inside You Evergreen State DOUBLES DOWN ON CRAZY Climatistas predict another warming hiatus Because You Ate A Steak From A Moo Cow, ‘Climate Change’ Moved A 620 Ton Rock In Ireland New research from Denmark finds that motherhood and a ‘child penalty’ are responsible for the gender earnings gap Gee, maybe there is more to life than money Great Again: Disabled Rejoin Workforce In Droves As Economy Gains Steam Suddenly, not so disabled... Tax-Reform Disasters Continue: Starbucks, Disney Announce Catastrophic … Wage And Benefit Hikes? George Soros Spent Record Amount Lobbying During Trump’s First Year ‘DACA No Longer Enough:’ Soros-Funded Illegal Aliens Demand Amnesty by Protesting Schumer, Democrats ‘Dreamers’ Storm Schumer’s New York City Home, Demand Amnesty ‘Now’ These are not innocent little children Sultan: The Imaginary Hispanic The FBI Is Looking Guilty As Hell In Russia Probe The Stench at Obama's DOJ and FBI Comey ‘Friend’ Who Leaked FBI Memos Now Claims To Be His Attorney - Daniel Richman, the law professor who leaked classified FBI records to the media at Comey's request, refused to disclose when exactly he became Comey's attorney. Sneaky SOB, that Comey NBC: Did McCabe Sandbag Flynn Into An Obstruction Charge? Andrew McCarthy Discusses Why Clinton Email Scandal Was Protected By President Obama The invention of Russian Collusion:
Germany Introduces Women’s Pants with Safety Alarms to Thwart Off Migrant Sex Attacks Life in multicultural paradise Wednesday, January 24. 2018Reviewing the Peterson v. Newman fight
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Deep thoughts from Saturday's Pussy Hat MarchSeems mostly like "I hate Trump" or "Vote for Democrats." Or something.
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Wednesday morning linksWoman Identified As Inspiration For Rosie The Riveter Dead At 96 Beautiful woman 1.7-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of North America Found Sticking to Australia Finally! The UK establishes a Department to Prevent Loneliness Where do they all come from? What did the little chair say to you? Andrew Sullivan on the taboo topic of maleness Taboo? I don't think so Sharks, humans shared common ancestor 440 million years ago K-12: Patterns of Deception New Jersey's New Governor About To Get Mugged By Reality The Public Isn’t As Fond Of Boundless Immigration As The Democrats Are Betting They Are Illegals in California with Driver's Licenses Eligible to Vote After April 1 But not legal immigrants until they get citizenship Evidence suggests a massive scandal is brewing at the FBI Roger Simon: What Do We Do About the FBI? Sessions announces DOJ probe of missing FBI text messages THE OBAMA GOVERNMENT’S SECRET SOCIETIES -- Exposing the anti-Trump conspiracy within the DOJ. Tuesday, January 23. 2018The Obama Administration's 'Brazen Plot To Exonerate Hillary Clinton' Starting To Seep OutConnecting the dots. If you haven't heard this, prosecutor Joe di Genova makes sense. FBI-DOJ conspiracy?
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Tuesday morning links
January doesn't bother me at all Virology and vaccine research Don Imus Will Retire from His Radio Show in March He is 77. I will miss him America’s Reluctant Septuagenarian Workforce Why reluctant? It feels good to be useful, terrible to be useless. Imus' ranch with its place for cancer kids will keep him useful Sex and Marriage: 6 Statistics That Might Surprise You Remembering Rorke's Drift Oxford Seems To Think Women Can’t Handle The Pressure Of Scholastic Tests Sexists Experts Declare That Adulthood Now Begins at Age 24 WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK AS A FEDERAL CONSULTANT FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MSNBC on "Tucker's genealogical hypocrisy over his refusal to admit that his immigrant Swiss great-great-grandfather in 1860 justifies mass illegal immigration on an unprecedented scale 157 years later." " Yes, America — and the West in general — has been ruled by people who, at core, don’t very much like the countries they rule. But they do like ruling them, and will do anything they can to keep doing it. THAT “EXPLOSIVE” HOUSE INTEL COMMITTEE DOCUMENT — AN UPDATE Wiped, Like With a Cloth? Now the FBI Claims It Also Destroyed Relevant, Subpeonaed Texts; Say They Can't Recover Biased Agent Peter Strzok's Texts Robert Mueller’s Coverup—How the FBI “Failed to Preserve” The Most Damning Peter Strzok Text Messages Unsealed FISA Court Ruling Shows 85% of Obama’s FBI and DOJ 704-5 FISA Searches Were Illegal and Illegally Provided to Government Outsiders Getting closer to a special prosecutor Claim: Page and Strzok Referenced FBI 'Secret Society' that Met the Day After the Election What the heck is going on in Saudi? Monday, January 22. 2018Even The Hill
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Monday morning linksAmerica could use more gentlemen? Healthy detachment in relationships School Assembly: Sex Changes Are “Perfectly Normal” TV Review: ‘Planet Earth: Blue Planet II’ on BBC America Weather Channel Co-Founder Who Slammed Climate Change Dies New York Times Forwards Climate Propaganda Pentagon erases “climate change” from the National Defense threat list Sanity is refreshing Belgium: "Why do we need palliative care when we have euthanasia?" The embodiment of Utilitarianism A patient in Canada is told by a hospital administrator that there will be a five-year wait for an appointment with a neurologist. The patient asks “Will that be in the morning or the afternoon.” On shutdown, Democrats have a lot of explaining to do Trump encourages the pussy marches...cleverly The media just can’t stop making themselves look worse than Trump The visceral hatred is blinding them Adam Schiff: Keep the #Releasethememo secret because Americans wouldn't understand Did the Obama admin actually engage in treason to prevent Trump? "Brazen Plot To Exonerate Hillary Clinton" And Frame Trump Unraveling, Says Former Fed Prosecutor The Democrats' Unforced Errors WATCH: ‘Why is the US the only one that bails out everyone?’ Haley asks Scenes from the NY Pussy MarchBesides being filled with hatred for Trump's personality, Mrs. BD could not figure out what they actually want. All I could tell was that they dislike fascism (who doesn't?) and love abortions ("love" abortions?). Many of them brought their kids with them... Also, lots of "Impeach Trump." Why I do not know. In any event, their silly pussy hat march almost made us late for the Sat. matinee of Farinelli at the Belasco so we were pissed off as were all other theater-goers. Police were re-routing everybody around the closed streets for their "parade." Also highly annoying: they were routed from 6th Ave down 44th St towards Times Square so you could hear their drums and bullhorns from inside the theater. That was a shame because the singing of the counter-tenor in the play was delicious. Also, the first time I have heard live counter-tenor singing. These pics from the end of the parade, after the play, as we began our urban hike from 44th St. down to Bleeker for a little cozy supper. Walking in the city is always highly entertaining. Couple more pics below the fold - Continue reading "Scenes from the NY Pussy March" Saturday, January 20. 2018Saturday morning links
Colorized historical photos The 8 best car videos of 2017 - Top speed runs, Gymkhana and more made car videos in 2017 awesome New York City owns a creepy island that almost no one is allowed to visit — here's what it's like Riz Virk Explains Why Quantum Physics, AI, & Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are Living In A Video Game This new blood test can detect early signs of 8 kinds of cancer Sponsored Poetry: The Latest UN Initiative to Make Us Act on Climate Change Trump Takes to Twitter Like Clockwork - An hourly look at the president’s tweets shows an early-morning appetite for taking on opponents Dianne Feinstein flips her position on shutdown for second time in one day: 'People will die' Democrats shut government down, but they're still struggling to explain why
With Illegal Immigration Again Surging, Why Is Congress Doing Nothing? The Evidence Inside The “House Intel Committee Four Page FISA Memo”… Reposted: While Trump's critics keep talking, our president is fulfilling his promises New York Times readers who like Trump's admin Are they allowed to print that? Friday, January 19. 2018Yes, the Hillary-Russia-FBI story is really that bad
Had Hillary! won, this would never have been uncovered.
I find all of this deeply depressing. Corruption is what comes of having a government too big and powerful. And this sounds devastating:
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