Friday, April 26. 2019
 30 Common, English Idioms and the History Behind Them
Who was Ferdinand Columbus?
Re Ferdinand, here's The Catalog of Shipwrecked Books (Wapo)
A Tale of Two Shities: Portland and San Franciso
DRIVING A TESLA RESULTS IN MORE CO2 THAN A MERCEDES DIESEL CAR, STUDY FINDS
Kling:
We can predict that colleges will over-spend on the appearance of facilities, because that factors heavily into the decision of the high school student. We can predict that colleges will under-spend on classroom instruction. Market failure.
The public policy response should be to tax college facilities and/or subsidize quality classroom instruction.
Unemployment Claims Lowest Since 1969 Despite Workforce Twice the Size As Trump Economy Roars Ahead
Activist Massachusetts Judge Who Helped Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Evade ICE Arrest is INDICTED
James Clapper Knew There Was No Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion In 2016. President Obama’s top intelligence official stated categorically that no evidence existed of Trump-Russia collusion. So why did Rosenstein appoint Mueller two months later?
How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost
SWEDES DON’T CARE ABOUt RAPE
The Iran Deal Is Dead. Democrats Should Move On. Politicians should commit to a new agreement — one that might actually work.
Don't Rejoin the Iran Deal, Fix It
Vietnam's forgotten Cambodian war
Thursday, April 25. 2019
Pathetic and dishonorable.
Even Althouse agrees: Biden's announcement video is anchored in a demonstrable lie.
He thinks he needs to scare the black vote. Wrong strategery. Black employment up higher than in decades. Black people do not hate Trump.
When I was working for Roger Ailes, he'd tell us stories about what it was like to be working with Nixon. One story he told was the advice he gave to Nixon when the Watergate story broke, which was (remember, it was his story and I'm telling it second-hand) "Tell the truth, you had nothing to do with this, it was overzealous campaign members going overboard. The American people have a great capacity for forgiveness."
That story was one I heard about 23 years ago, and I can't confirm it ever happened, but based on the (limited) interactions I had with Ailes it was probably fairly accurate. I was raised to believe most people have a great capacity for forgiveness if you're sincere, if you're honest, and you're willing to make amends.
I no longer think that's as true as it once was, and it certainly is not true with Progressives (unless, of course, you are a Progressive and they need to protect you). This is why Confederate statues are coming down, history is being rewritten to suit their feelings, people are castigated for views they had, behaviors they employed, and words they used which no longer are 'acceptable' in this overly PC environment today. This is why social media outlets like Facebook or Twitter are employing questionable means and methods to block speech.
Recently, my favorite hockey team, the Philadelphia Flyers, removed Kate Smith's statue because it suddenly came to light that she sang a few song with racist lyrics in them. Kate's dead, and can't defend herself, let alone apologize. So what option do we have to deal with this? Expunge history. Make her disappear. She is a horrible person who is irredeemably terrible and nobody should know about her.
Kate played a large, if indirect, role in the Flyers' winning the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975. But today she's persona non grata for doing things which, in her time, were deemed perfectly acceptable. From my perspective, it's a learning moment. Keep her history alive, and do teaching sessions around who she was, what she did, and why she's still an important part of the team's history regardless of whether we find a few of her song off-putting.
Today's America is about forgetting our past - pushing it aside, and not allowing for any forgiveness whatsoever. That is, in what is Progressive America. You know, the urban elitists and academics who have a good portion of the political upper class in their sway. Naturally, if THEY do something wrong, they'll find a way to apologize, expunge or set aside the misbehavior - maybe even vote one of their own into power, despite having done something 'wrong'.
Generally speaking, however, the goal is to completely eliminate and never forgive.
Italian Town to Cover Crosses at Cemeteries So as Not to Offend Muslims
Dhimmis. What are the immigrants doing to make their Italian hosts comfortable?
PALESTINIAN JESUS? PLEASE
Homeland Security Weighs Labeling Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
This Conversation Between A Passenger And An Airline Should Absolutely Terrify You
University hosts no-whites-allowed faculty and staff listening sessions — to promote inclusivity
Mayor de Blasio Sets Out To Accelerate New York City's Decline
Jussie Smollett Should Be “Brought Back” For ‘Empire’s Next Season, Taraji P Henson & Terrence Howard Tell Disney, Fox
CNN Anchors “Stunned” Democrats Are Ok With Terrorists Voting, “These People Are Way Out There”…
Biden opens his campaign with a big lie
Trump tax reform didn't spark philanthropic apocalypse as predicted
Spygate and The Steele Dossier Were The Cover Story – The Real Issue is Years of Obama-era Surveillance and Political Spy Operations…
Hillary Clinton spawned the Russia hoax. Christopher Steele is merely its front man
"[I]t’s shocking to see national media voices after the release of Robert Mueller’s report patting each other on the back, congratulating themselves for a three-year faceplant..."
The Mueller War rages on
The Coup Against Our President Isn’t Over
It will go on forever, partly because of Trump's success as Pres. Most successful first 2 years in office ever, maybe.
Trump's Righteous Indignation over His Innocence
Shocking Use of FISA by Obama's FBI to Spy on Trump Campaign (video)
Voters Say Impeachment Unlikely from Mueller Report Despite Media’s
How a Jew Won Over the Land of the Cossacks - Under threat from Russia, national identity in Ukraine has overpowered religious and ethnic differences.
Movie trailer: Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
Abbas Wants a Humanitarian Crisis
Wednesday, April 24. 2019
 Dog-Walking Now Regarded as Racist
Bless this gender neutral ship and all who sail in... it: Scottish Maritime Museum stops centuries old tradition of referring to vessels as ´she´ and ´her´
Whose past is more racist: Kate Smith's or the New York Yankees'?
Ban the Yankees!
LOS ANGELES NUMBERS SHOW 'HOMELESSNESS' IS REALLY A SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL ILLNESS PROBLEM
Duh
After 20 Years of Reform, Are America’s Schools Better Off?
NY's global warming hypocrisy, from the lowly random student to the mayor himself
Brothers sue Jussie Smollett over 'staged attack' as prosecutor receives death threats for dropping charges
WaPo Slams the 'Far-Right' for Saying Christians Were Under Attack in Sri Lanka
What is "far right"?
Give Elizabeth Warren a BS Degree in Vote Buying For Her ‘Free’ College Plan
Lindsey Graham tells Trump to 'expect impeachment proceedings' - But the end result of the proceedings, he predicted, would be Mr Trump’s re-election in 2020
Tuesday, April 23. 2019
Charlize Theron: My 3 Year-Old Boy Said She’s a Girl, ´So, There You Go!´
I am a ham sandwich, so there you go
Ladies: Your business trip packing list
Williamson: eliminate government student loans
PLATFORMS WANT CENTRALIZED CENSORSHIP. THAT SHOULD SCARE YOU
In the 5G race, competition policy now vies with industrial and security policy
Mayor of NYC: No skyscrapers
De Blasio: NYC's 'Green New Deal' Includes Ban on Steel, Glass Skyscrapers
Let's make them out of wood
The Soho Forum Global Warming Debate, And The Impact Of Scientific Arguments
Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it?
Nuke power will make it all moot
Colleges gone insane, more
Dems Struggle To Out-Liberal Each Other At CNN Town Halls
Free everything, paid for by the rich. Why didn't I think of that?
FBI Admits Hillary Clinton Emails Found in Obama White House – In the Executive Office of the President
Let's Investigate For "Obstruction Of Justice" Every Prosecutor Who Has Ever Declined A Prosecution
VDH: Russian ‘Collusion’s’ Greatest Hits
Mueller report: Donald Trump collusion conspiracy theories are now exposed. Will they end After two years of mass hysteria afflicting a huge portion of our political class, the cognitive dissonance after the Mueller report is painful.
Mueller report contains claim Russia taped Bill Clinton having phone sex with Monica Lewinsky
NYT: Steele Dossier May Have Contained Anti-Trump Disinformation Fed to Democrats By...The Russians
WATCH How Democrat Adam Schiff Responds When Asked About Steele Dossier Being 'Russian Disinformation'
NY Times Columnist: “National Disgrace” Trump’s Not In Prison…
But she never says why
The Father of Neoconservatism, Norman Podhoretz, On Trump and NeverTrump
Says Trump is blue collar like him
KLAVAN: Mueller Report Shows Trump's Better Than His Adversaries
The Collusion Dream Is Dead But The Conspiracy Lives On. Our political, intelligence, and media elites sold us this crazy story and promised the American people the proof that never came.
Jim Kunstler: The RussiaGate Fiasco Is Only Half Over
U.S., India Warned Sri Lanka Weeks Before Easter Terror Attacks. Investigators focus on obscure radical Islamist group known as National Thowheeth Jamath after bombings kill more than 300
The Great “Easter Worshipper” Controversy
Denmark’s Blaspheming Mother
Monday, April 22. 2019
In light of Elizabeth's massive giveaway to the irresponsible and unaccountable, I thought this piece was particularly good.
As I see it, I get penalized for being a responsible parent, helping pay for my kids' college, and making sure they took on some of the financial responsibility (they have some loans they are paying off), but that they were prepared to enter the workforce and pay it off.
I do the right thing, I get bupkus. Make your kid irresponsible, unaccountable, and let him/her/it/whatever-is-popular-now study Transgendered Poets of the 18th Century from Madagascar, and you'll have $1 Trillion in debt accumulate, with an entire generation incapable of being able to pay it back or understand what they did wrong. All you'll hear is "It's NOT FAIR!!!"
Let's not forget the MSM is saying "It's good for the economy!" No, it's not. It's good for a few people who are lazy and shiftless. It would damage the economy severely.
The entire Democratic Party has gone full-on Leftist, and is more dangerous than ever. Once there was a time worth considering voting for a Democrat. That was probably not more than 20-30 years ago. There are no worthwhile people in the Democratic Party. Not saying I'm fond of the Republicans, either. At least they show a veneer of accountability.
Maggie's has been having fun with Boats, Trains, and Planes posts lately. Also, with Scott Adams who always has fresh, brainy, and provocative perspectives. Our website goes through phases, various enthusiasms. It's good that way. We can do whatever we want to do.
Fun ideas from Scott today:
- Gen 4 nuclear power is the only option for everything. Why are people anti-science?
- President Trump’s Tweet about impeachment when the OTHER SIDE committed the crimes, colluded with Russia, and attempted to overthrow the government
- We are living in the best time ever in human history. We have the best of everything right now. Only the media tries to bring us down to sell us their ads or, in the case of NPR, to sell us their frowns about everything.
- So, a cool idea for happiness: Go on a news diet. No newspapers, no tv news. Most news is wrong. Your life will be the same, or better because life is good these days.
- The desire for "fairness" in life is infantile kindergarten thinking. The most anybody can wish for is rules that apply to everybody. The whole point of competition is unfairness in ability. He likes trannies playing on girls' teams.
The story of grits
As I see it, grits are the Southern mashed potatoes. I love both. However, grits were not always just southern. The northern Indians made it and taught the colonists. After all, Indian Pudding is just molasses-flavored grits.
Scott Adams' new girlfriend
Gary Taube's new book: Why We Get Fat
Does eating too much have anything to do with it?
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE “ACHIEVEMENT GAP”
Rampant racism in the Ivy League: Columbia
Elizabeth Holmes and Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows—a cautionary tale
Yankees’ ban of Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’ is a new PC low
Sheesh, that is nuts. At least they are keeping Cotton-Eye Joe - I hope
Actress Emma Thompson Flies 5,400 Miles To Give Speech On Climate Change, Rails Against ‘Hypocrisy’
Titiana:
It’s been particularly heartening to see so many children joining our group. It’s never too early to start being politically active and, as we saw with the Youth Strike 4 Climate back in February, some young people are so committed to direct action they’re even prepared to miss school for it. After all, it’s their future that’s at stake.
The NYT thought that "Edelweiss" was a Nazi song
Central American migrants wearing out their welcome in several Mexican towns
Federalist Editor: The Mueller Team Was Desperate To Prove Trump-Russia Collusion...And Found Nothing
NY Times: Say, This Steele Dossier Appears To Be False (And Maybe Was A Russian Disinformation Effort)
NYT: The Tables Have Turned -- Time To Investigate The FBI, Steele And The Rest Of The 'Witch Hunters'
NYT: NOT CRAZY, JUST TWO YEARS LATE
Scott Adams:
- A Russian person sourced the Steele dossier, Kremlin connected? Narrative: Kremlin was trying to help Trump
- Confusing Fact: Steele dossier was rabidly anti-Trump
- Why are Clapper and Brennan not in jail? a coup was attempted on our President, are they innocent? They were in key positions of knowledge and power
- Did Joe Biden collude with Russia? Joe was on the “team” that attempted the coup
THE MUELLER REPORT REDUCES A COLLUSION TO A CHARACTER ATTACK
Or, doubling down from collusion/traitor to obstruction
Impeachment? Not so fast without missing element of criminal intent
How is being publicly pissed off about people trying to undermine your job "obstruction"?
How much of Europe does China own?
Saturday, April 20. 2019
Two years of investigating to the molecular level, and no malfeasance found. So who is delusional?
Scott Adams (not a Trumpster) discusses in a humorous way.
Friday, April 19. 2019
Gallup: Number Of Americans Who Are Members Of A Church Is In Steep Decline, At 80-Year Low
Mapping The World's Busiest Air Routes
Some surprises there
After a $14-Billion Upgrade, New Orleans' Levees Are Sinking
A historic Depression-era mural has been removed from a Chicago school because it featured a painting of white children.
Metformin fights heart disease
Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on the Notre Dame Cathedral fire…brilliantly
He refers to pygmies standing on the shoulders of giants
Urban Renewal as Racial Emergency
The Case for Busing Border Detainees to Burlington, Vermont
Migrant camps overflow as Mexico cracks down after Trump threats
Robert Francis O'Rourke Hates America (But Wants to Be President Anyway)
Mainstream media doubles down on Trump conspiracies
Australia “Ready To Confirm” Key Meeting That Led To Russiagate Probe
Trump Campaign: Time To Go After 'Liars' Who Started Witch Hunt
Schumer, Pelosi Demand Robert Mueller Testify Before Congress
Sara Carter: Deep State DOJ and FBI Operatives are Panicked, Ratting Out Each Other
Powerline:
Kim Strassel has a terrific column on the Mueller report in her weekly Wall Street Journal column this morning. Kim writes: “What the report shows is that he endured a special-counsel probe that was relentlessly, at times farcically, obsessed with taking him out. What stands out is just how diligently and creatively the special counsel’s legal minds worked to implicate someone in Trump World on something Russia- or obstruction-of-justice-related. And how—even with all its overweening power and aggressive tactics—it still struck out.”
Who brought us this abomination deriving from the biggest scandal in American political history? That question is left to another day.
WaPo: Mueller may be done, but Barr is just getting started
CNN Melts Down Over Barr Press Conference – Calls Barr’s Presser “An Extraordinary Political Commercial For the President”
Goal Posts: It’s Not The Collusion, It’s The Corruption Or Something
Kimball:
William Barr observed at one point that ‘all Americans can and should be grateful to have [the president’s innocence] confirmed.’ And yet many people, far from being grateful, will be enraged. And that is a huge problem for the Republic.
In a twist, Canada asks U.S. for help cracking down on migrants at its southern border
Israel and the Illiberal Liberals
Thursday, April 18. 2019
Of course there was no Trump Russia collusion. It was a Clinton/Obama hoax to damage Trump, and it has done so with years of smears. Truly disgusting, even by low American political standards. All collusion with Russia was done by the Clinton team. (This was not investigated, of course.)
So, given no wrongdoing, they have moved on to obstruction. It's a fact that obstruction is wrongdoing, even when there is no underlying wrongdoing.
Problem is, Trump behaved like any angry and innocent victim of a nasty persecution. Donald "You're fired!" Trump fired off at all of this, frequently, and publicly, because he foresaw an endless assault on his presidency by political enemies.
Dems will try to keep this active for the next five years. It's not good for the country, but that's not the point. It's all they have.
One unfortunate effect of all of this bs is that it has made it difficult for the US to work with the Russians, a third-world country but oil rich with nuclear weapons. Trump has been too harsh with them because they are not enemies, just sneaky sleazes.
I think Mueller exhaustion has set in, except for NPR and MSNBC.
Making Middlebury safe for speakers: A modest proposal
Can we admit that American higher ed is mostly run by pussies (mostly male) without principles? Not setting a good example.
 “Lindsey Vonn, The Winningest Female Ski Racer in History, Wearing Body Paint”
Aerial photos show scale of Notre Dame damage
Fortunately, There Are Incredible 3D Scans of Notre Dame
Notre Dame Will Endure
As a monument. Not so much as a church, in modern France
Students demand controversial prof be replaced by ‘queer person of color’
I would demand a queer disabled person of color
Men oppressed by women: A fantasy for the sexes
WOMAN WHO ASSAULTED KELLYANNE CONWAY SKATES
Williamson: I would like you to entertain, for a moment, an idea that might sound a little eccentric, or maybe as plain and obvious as a thing can be. It is this: The division of labor is the meaning of life.
WaPo: HUD moves to eliminate public housing access for illegals
Finally: Amid Border Crisis, Lindsey Graham Will Introduce Legislation To Tighten Asylum Laws
Ten post-Mueller questions that could turn the tables on Russia collusion investigators
And... Putin Almost Done Redacting Mueller Report
Wednesday, April 17. 2019
 Several of the world's richest French billionaires donate more than $500 million to rebuild Notre Dame
Marine crawls to finish Boston Marathon for fallen comrades
A book: Defend and Befriend: The U.S. Marine Corps and Combined Action Platoons in Vietnam by John Southard
What Will It Take To End Anti-Greenhouse Gas Insanity?
Environmental purity, not common sense, motivates the Golden State’s ban on bags, drinking straws, and cutlery.
Related, How to solve the plastic packaging paradox
Bachelorettes, Bibles and Amazon: is Nashville the perfect model for a second-tier city?
Panic Erupts At 5th Ave Apple Store After Bedbug Sighting
The horror!
Netflix Series Accused of Making Fake Claims About Walrus Deaths
Nasty Michelle Obama Goes After ‘Divorced Dads’ in Attack on Trump, Gets Hit From All Sides
A College President Stands Up for Academic Freedom
Mike 'Dirty Jobs' Rowe Routs America's School System: "We're Obsessed With Credentialing, Not Education"
Related, TODAY IN THE COLLEGE APOCALYPSE
Embattled UMKC chancellor urged to resign amid response to conservative assault
McCarthy: Behind the Obama administration’s shady plan to spy on the Trump campaign
FBI failed to provide details on contact with Clinton campaign lawyer: Judicial Watch
David Brooks: America Wants a ´Reset,´´Moral Cleansing´ From Trump in 2020
As we say, the only critiques left are ad hominems. Orange Man is icky.
Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Defends Country’s 72-Hour Work Week: ‘A Blessing’
Strange looking little feller
Tuesday, April 16. 2019
Trump-haters are only left with ad hominems: "lizard brain," "racist Hitler," "ignorant thug," whatever.
As Adams (not a Trumper) says. My list:
- Fewer wars, more peace
- Tiger won the Masters
- Great economy, nobody without a job
- Prison reform
- A bit of sanity in the Dept of Education
- Calm with North Korea, heading in good direction
- Trade sanity with Mexico, and on the way with China
- Terrorism on the wane
- NATO nations headed towards paying their share
- Energy and climate issues close to being solved with Gen 4
The only big unsolved issue is illegal immigration. What would Trump need to accomplish in a 2nd term? Medical care insurance reform of some sort? We'd all appreciate more choices in medical insurance. Well, national debt is not good either.
Monday, April 15. 2019
An excellent resource for start-ups and for expanding businesses: We Work
Big Bird 1: Meet Quetzalcoatlus – World’s Largest Flying Animal Had A Wingspan Of Up To 52 Feet (15.9 m)
Big Bird 2: Large, flightless bird attacks and kills its fallen owner
Ancient “Texas Serengeti” Had Elephant-Like Animals, Rhinos, Alligators and More
Egypt unveils tomb still bursting with color after 4,300 years
5G Smart Cows Milked By Robots In England
So Now We’re Trolling The Black Hole Picture Lady?
Yale to expand diversity office
Ethno-food warriors are smearing New York chefs
Stock buybacks: An Interview With The Most Powerful Man On Wall Street
Jake Tapper To Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell: ‘Vast Majority Of Gun-Related Deaths’ Are Not From Semi-Automatic Rifles
OBAMA ADVISER’S BOOK IS RANKED 1,030 ON AMAZON. HOW DID IT MAKE NYT’S BEST SELLER LIST?
Worst Idea Ever? NY Times Wants To Make Everyone’s Taxes Public
Migrants break Guatemalan border gate, force their way into Mexico
MEDIA ODDLY LESS INTERESTED IN OBAMA ALLY, NOT TRUMP ALLY, BEING BUSTED OVER UKRAINE
The Anti–Bill Barr Smear Campaign
Kimball: Pursue Those Indictments!
As I have been saying for a couple of years now, this is the biggest scandal in American history. It dwarfs Watergate. Indeed, it challenges the fundamental integrity of our democratic—i.e., accountable—institutions. It challenges, too, the sacrosanct ideal of the separation of powers. Finally, it challenges the presumption of basic fairness and open competition without which our republic could endure in name only.
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Whatever nuggets of suspicious activity British or Estonian intelligence communicated to John Brennan, what are we to make of the machinery he helped set in motion? In my view, the Trump-Russia hoax (to use Nunes’s term) was primarily a political operation. The legal aspects were merely pretexts for the main event, which had two phases: preventing Donald Trump from becoming president, first of all, and then destroying his presidency. A long and tedious process has been set into motion by Devin Nunes and others, and Attorney General William Barr appears determined to see it out. But the scary bottom line is this: over the last couple of years, one political party, aided and abetted by a compliant media and a deep-state bureaucracy, conspired to void the results of a free, open, and democratic election because they disapproved of the people’s choice.
Actor Geoffrey Thorne Attacks Candace Owens: ‘They will Never Think of You As Anything But an Obedient Ni**er’
KAMALA HARRIS SAYS SHE OWNS A GUN — MEANWHILE SHE WANTS TO BAN THEM
Bill Maher To Democrats: If You Make 2020 A 'Woke Contest,' You Lose
Here's who's winning under Trump's tax law
Brandon Judd: A red wave is rising – and the Democrats are powerless to stop it
Surber: "Justice Is Coming"
Did Trump invent shamelessness?
Trump’s Rebel Alliance Attacks the Left’s Death Star
Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Attacks President Trump as Cowardly and Unfit For Office
Trump Plan To Transport Illegal Border Crossers to Sanctuary Cities Makes Liberals Live By Their Own Rules
He is trolling to (effectively) make a point
Cher is So Terrified of Illegals Coming to Her City, She’s Now Talking Like Trump
In Europe, China’s economic cold war with the West is over before it’s begun
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