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Wednesday, April 24. 2019A college speaker who met no protestsA "Fat Sex Therapist" recently gave a talk at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, in which she compared personal trainers to Nazis. She further compared a parent putting a child on a diet to sexual assault. Wednesday morning links
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. 2019Earth DayTuesday morning links, delivered late 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. 2019Warren is Back, and 'Better' Than EverIn light of Elizabeth's massive giveaway to the irresponsible and unaccountable, I thought this piece was particularly good. 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. The Democrat plan to overthrow an election, and other fun things
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.
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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’
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
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. 2019Dershowitz on Mueller
Alan Dershowitz: Who won, who lost in Mueller report
The Mueller report and mental illnessTwo 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.
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Saturday morning links Places with too many elephants and too many lions By dissing Nuclear Power, the left has made themselves vulnerable on climate change NPR Admits Plastic Bag Bans Pointless, Paper & Cloth Totes Worse For Environment In Wisconsin, School Choice Has Unexpected Benefits Bernie to Americans: Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps! President Trump should thank the attorney general he forced out Mueller's done, and Dems should be too — because Trump is no Nixon Byron York: Mueller, Trump, & "Two Years Of Bullshit" Top 5 Media Meltdowns Over Mueller Report - “These people are beyond parody.” HOW’S THE COVER-UP GOING? Obstruction Is The New Collusion Morning Joe sure hates Trump Mueller's report looks bad for Obama The Special Counsel’s Constitutional Analysis Chinese State Media Reveals Mysterious Hypersonic Aircraft Friday, April 19. 2019Friday morning links
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 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
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. 2019Russia Russia Russia is overOf 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.
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Administrators afraid of their studentsMaking 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. Thursday morning links
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 Wednesday, April 17. 2019Wednesday morning links
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. 2019Things are great in the US, and getting betterTrump-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 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.
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Is a national sales tax a fair tax?
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Tuesday morning links
Why Are Dove And Gillette Pushing Us To Lie About What’s Beautiful? Michael Knowles Attacked for Crime of Saying 'Men Are Not Women' on a College Campus Related, The Left Officially Loses its Mind Government toilets Monbiot: Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse Any excuse will do Thomas Jefferson: Government Is Too Large and Employs Way Too Many People Bernie Sanders is cool with capitalism for himself, but no one else VDH: California Has Become America’s Cannibal State Senator Graham to introduce long overdue asylum reform bill Trump Puts Democrats Between A Rock And A Hard Place On Illegal Immigration NY Times Fake News Factory Moves On to New Hoax: Immigrants Are Fleeing Central America Cuz of Global Warming – Not US Open Borders Trudeau takes 'sharp turn' away from 'refugees welcome' Despite 66% Of Americans Getting A Cut, Only 20% Believe Their Taxes Were Lowered NY Times Grudgingly Admits You Probably Got A Tax Cut NY Times, Wall Street Journal Win Pulitzers for Trump Investigations Students, Alumni Outraged, ‘Shaking’ After Vice President Pence Invited To Give Commencement Sheesh. Fragile critters. NY Post: Rev. Sharpton's Honorary Degree Faces Opposition Trump: 'INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS!' Five reasons why campaign cash is rolling in for Trump and even Goldman Sachs is forecasting victory As Trump soars higher, Dems reach their lowest point yet Monday, April 15. 2019A free ad for We Work
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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!
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 Saturday, April 13. 2019Quito AirportOne of the more difficult approaches in the world
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Scott Adams has the right questions on immigrationWhat's the right number per year? And what's the number sanctuary cities will accept? Why does CNN refer to illegal immigrants as garbage?
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Saturday morning links
As Season Eight Looms, Will Game of Thrones Become Lord of the Rings? For people who do not read books
Questioning Global Warming Two Decades Before College Admissions Scandal, The Clintons Tried To Game System For Chelsea’s Boyfriend Michael Knowles Attacked for Crime of Saying 'Men Are Not Women' on a College Campus The LGBT Lobby Has Been Trying To Exact Revenge On A Chicken Restaurant For Seven Years. This Is Not Normal. Only a heckler can improve an evening with the money-grabbing Clintons Something is the matter with these people Stoned At Work - New York’s city council bans employers from testing for pot use, which will lead to nothing but trouble. Of course Bernie loves money The Liberal Media ‘Matrix’ Covington, Smollett, Mueller, Avenatti and other adventures in unreality ‘UNFIT TO PRINT’ EPISODE 2: MEDIA FALLS FOR OLD TRUMP CLIP AND ‘SPYING’ ISN’T SPYING As Insiders Reveal the SPLC's "Hate Map" Is Basically a Marketing Scheme to Drum Up Donations, Conservative Groups Consider Filing Lawsuits Against the Very Non-Impoverished Grifter Outfit Candace Owens: Given The Democratic Party’s History Of Racism, Their Attacks On Me Aren’t A Surprise 2020: Julian Castro: We Need Migrants ‘More than Ever Before’ Trump Threatens To Dump Migrants In Sanctuary Cities The smarter way to sell Trump’s immigration policies FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying Related, Rod Rosenstein Rebukes Democrats and Mainstream Media, Calls Democrats accusations against William Barr's handling of Mueller report "Completely Bizarre" It's called dirty politics Friday, April 12. 2019The epidemic of Democrat hateLeftists Whipping Themselves Into a Jacobin Frenzy Why the intensity of hate? I often disagree with others politically, but I never hate them. I didn't even hate Obama or Hillary. I sort-of liked Obama, but few of his views. Hillary? Disliked her, but no hate. What's with all the hate?
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Friday morning linksScientists put human gene into monkeys to make them smarter, human-like How did planners mess up Memphis?
Why having multiple wives is impractical Billboard Welcomes Drivers To Illinois, ‘Where You Can Get A Safe, Legal Abortion’ 234 HOUSE DEMOCRATS, TWO REPUBLICANS CO-SPONSOR BILL FORCING SCHOOLS TO LET MALE ATHLETES COMPETE ON GIRLS’ SPORTS TEAMS Does this undermine Title IX? “Ugly Duckling” Denounced as Racist Lori Loughlin Thought The Feds Were Bluffing, Now “Freaking Out” About Having To Do Time In Prison City Of Chicago Files Civil Suit Against Jussie Smollett For Refusing To Reimburse Police Costs ACOSTA DOL SEEKS TO IMPOSE RADICAL DIVERSITY AGENDA ON LAW FIRMS The GOP and Asians Surprise: Obama's Head Of Homeland Security Agrees With Trump On Border Crisis Eighteen states offer in-state tuition for illegals...and legal resident students are NOT happy about that MSNBC, CNN Spread False Impression that Trump Called Immigrants ‘Animals’ Democrats Can’t Win Based on Their Ideas, So They Want to Change the Rules of the Game Trump wants to kill you Byron York: Barr is right, spying on Trump campaign did occur Democrats' railings about Barr and spying will end badly for them Devin Nunes: “The Spying Began in 2015″…. Andrew McCarthy: Barr is right to review why Trump-Russia investigation began Focus on the Leaking, Not Just the Spying - Ask not only how the FBI got interested in the Trump campaign, but also how its investigation became public. Chuck Todd Tears Into Barr for Feeding ‘Conspiracy Theory’: He ‘Gaslit the Country!’ Talk about lack of self-awareness Clinton Contractor Described ‘Cover-up Operation Work Ticket’ in Newly Uncovered Email Ex-Obama counsel indicted for false statements, concealing Ukraine work Europe’s New Beggars Israeli Election: A Vote of No Confidence in the Media What Americans Need to Understand About Israel’s Election Results IN NEW YORK TIMES ISRAEL COVERAGE, ANYTHING GOES
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