Maggie's Farm

Christmas Image: Looks like she's going postal with her gift. Annoyed with her brats, or pissed there were not enough carats in her diamond necklace?

The Central Dogma of Mitochondrial Genetics Needs Rewriting

 Pope Francis Enacting Change to Lord’s Prayer: ‘Lead Us Not Into Temptation’

I never imagined that God would lead me into temptation. Always knew that life would/does. Daily. 

Our Nation’s Health: Obesity Rate at All-Time High

It's become normal to be overweight in the US.

6 slices of bread daily?

Are you kidding? I view bread and crackers, etc., mainly as food delivery vehicles. Other than the rare sandwich, in an Italian restaurant I like hard-crust white bread soaked in olive oil with roasted garlic schmeared on top. I dislike other than white bread because other breads interfere with the flavors of the real food.  Exception: Pastrami on rye.

Boy Scouts of America may declare bankruptcy

Me Too:  Remember, they don’t actually care. This all just manipulative bullshit.

 Sports Illustrated’s Choice To Present Its Inspiration Of The Year Award: Christine Blasey Ford

 Students oppose new multicultural space because it’s too welcoming

Not from The Onion:  US colleges handing out colouring books to students to reduce stress - A growing number of student welfare bodies are picking up on the adult colouring trend as a form of therapy for stressed students

YGBKM: TIL California Wants To Tax … Text Messages

Powerline:  GETTING IT WRONG ON DEMOCRACY

Yes. There is a rebellion against the elites who claim to know what is best for us peons 

Why Dems Changed on Mass Immigration

 SUSPECTED TERRORIST LEADING MIGRANT GROUP DEMANDING ENTRY INTO US

 Flynn says FBI pushed him not to have lawyer present during interview

When they want a friendly conversation, stay away.  

New York AG Announces Plans to Weaponize Office to Target Political Opposition….

 Incoming New York AG Plans Political Witch Hunt Against Trump, Family, And Associates

 In the Image of Joseph Stalin — Incoming NY AG Promises to Target and Destroy Trump and Family — Will Find a Crime Later!

Oh, they will find them.  You can find them in anybody if you look hard enuf. 

 Robert Mueller’s case against Michael Cohen has very little to do with Trump or campaign finance violations

 On top of the world: Incredible new shots show 'free solo' climber on top of El Capitan as he became the first to climb it WITHOUT ropes, as National Geographic documentary about his exploits is released

 VICTORY: Radio Station Lifts Ban On 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' After Overwhelmingly Positive Poll

 9 Secret Costco Tips From Frequent Shoppers

 Researchers find promise in new treatment for peanut allergy

 Mike Bloomberg Flew Ice From Greenland For Art Project About Global Warming From Carbon Emissions

The Hoax of 'Climate Change'

NAS:  Comments On The Proposed Title IX Regulations

 ‘Gender gap in STEM’? Women are majority of STEM grad students and they earn a majority of STEM bachelor’s degrees

 Four Reasons Deplatforming Controversial Figures Is a Terrible Idea

 WALSH: Republicans Didn't Defund Planned Parenthood And Never Will. Here's Why.

GOOGLE EMPLOYEES SOUGHT TO BLOCK BREITBART FROM ADS, EMAILS SHOW

  NPR Was Taken To The Woodshed For Peddling Straight Fake News About Donald Trump Jr.

Stormy Daniels ordered to pay Trump $293,052.33 in attorneys’ fees, costs, and sanctions

 Stormy Weather for Campaign-Finance Laws

 House Dem Unity Falling Apart Already Over Medicare For All?

China Moves to Address U.S. Economic Concerns - Beijing agrees to reduce auto tariffs and buy more American products, but key differences remain

Trump: Let's Debate the Wall in Public, Now - Pelosi and Schumer: No Let's Hide the Debate and Stage-Manage It - Leftwing Media: This is Terrible, Why Won't Trump Agree to Stage-Manage the Democratic Process?

 The Gilets Jaunes Have Cowed Macron. But For Them, That’s Just The Start.

 Iran significantly expands missile testing

Photo: 4 faiths celebrate in Haifa: Bahai, Christian, Jewish Muslim 

 Despite the devastation all around him, Camp fire dog waited for his owners to return home

Amount of deep life on Earth quantified

 As FDA Contemplates Strict Vaping Regulations, Lives Hang In the Balance

 How to Stop Apps From Tracking Your Location

 Princeton’s new polyamory group advocates ‘ethical non-monogamy’

Let the kids have their fun

 I Was Kicked Off Stage by College Students. Did I Deserve It?

 UMass Amherst students, faculty rally for ‘more to be done’ about campus racism

UMass is a hotbed of racism 

The Counterrevolution on Campus - The backlash to the backlash.

 Anti-Semitism A Part Of The Women’s March Almost From The Start

 Harvard Study: Gender Pay Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women

Are they allowed to say that? 

Study exposes political bias in shaping ‘newsworthiness’

Duh. Too obvious 

 Trump Is Right — Subsidies For Electric Cars, Renewable Energy Must End

 Judge rules Trump administration justified in ending Obama-era immigration program

 Asylum claims soar 67 percent at U.S. border

It's the new scam 

Questions Of Massive Regulatory And Taxation Schemes Are Burning Up At UN Climate Meeting

Ocasio-Cortes is Jewish 

 Conservatives and urban dwellers

Naked partisan: James Comey's mask comes off

James Comey's hubris has done irreparable damage to the FBI he claims to love

MUELLER’S THEORY: TRUMP DEFRAUDED VOTERS

 A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way

 South African MP: “Your Time Is Up, White People”

 Meanwhile In Brexit... Total Chaos

The Latest: EU official: Bloc won’t renegotiate Brexit deal

 European Court of Human Rights Blasphemy Laws: Where a Word out of Place Can Cost Your Life

 Vive La French Revolution 2.0 – And Our Own!

Schlicter points out that Trump is the American riot 

Image: That was me. 

POPE TO GAY PRIESTS: TAKE A HIKE

 Progressive scolds are obsessed with destroying our holiday classics

 MN Prof: Mary 'did not consent' to God impregnating her with Jesus

She most certainly did. See The Magnificat, idiot. 

 How the Principal Stole Christmas: 'I MUST Stop this Christmas from Coming! But HOW?'

 NJ Doesn’t Say How It Will Enforce Magazine Confiscation After Court Upholds Law

Confiscate my Field and Stream? 

 What Happened When We Tried to Debate Immigration

It's not allowed 

Higher Ed:  The Diversity Mania Forges Ahead

Jordan Peterson update: The more they hate him, the more popular he becomes 

Strand Bookstore:  Wife of a Liberal Senator Gets ‘Mugged by Reality’

Definitely the most fun store in NYC

 Student government demands NYU divest from any company ‘involved’ in violating human rights

Does that leave out any countries? 

Political correctness itself can be politically incorrect.

From a Liberal:  Ten Signs Your Movement Is Evil

 Dominique Sharpton Gets $95,000 for Spraining Her Ankle

 Unions bosses fight losing battle to protect dues

 Bill and Hillary Clinton Using Groupon to Boost Sagging Ticket Sales

What is Groupon? 

 Feds Discover Largest Oil, Natural-Gas Reserve in History

 Change! U.S. transforms into net oil exporter for first time in 75 years

Incoming House Judiciary Chair Planning To End Probe Into FBI, DOJ

'Presidential harassment': Trump under unprecedented attack on multiple fronts

 Comey’s confession: dossier not verified before, or after, FISA warrant

Just an excuse to spy on Americans 

 WILL TRUMP BE INDICTED FOR ALLEGED CAMPAIGN FINANCE VIOLATIONS?

 Andrew C. McCarthy: Why Trump is likely to be indicted by Manhattan US Attorney

 FREXIT? French protesters call for EU EXIT as Macron fails to control DEADLY Paris riots

 New Cuba law that artists say amounts to state censorship will be implemented gradually

Palestine: Social justice activist tortured and punished for going on hunger strike

 Jamaica resorts covered up sexual assaults, silenced victims for years

They paid them off 

 Anti-Semitism: The Fast Track in Turkey to a Government Career?

 Survey: 38 percent of Jews in Europe may leave

In Latin America, Awash in Crime, Citizens Impose Their Own Brutal Justice. Mobs routinely kill suspected lawbreakers in Latin America, home of the world’s highest murder rate

More People Experience Severe Food Allergies Than Ever Before

 A shot-in-the-dark email leads to a century-old family treasure — and hope of cracking a deadly flu’s secret

Sleeping Beauty After #MeToo

India Sweeps Top Ten in List of World's Fastest-Growing Cities

Foie gras off Amazon’s offerings in California in settlement

 One month of abstinence from cannabis improves memory in adolescents, young adults

A Case for Dropping out of College

 OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: It’s Now Racist To Ask Students To ‘Be Respectful In Class.’

A victim of an academic witch hunt 

I’m a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support Betsy DeVos’s Title IX Reforms. There is an uncomfortable truth in the current system. No one wants to talk about it.

 Electric-Vehicle Subsidies: Kill the Tax Credits and Let Consumers Decide

80% using Obamacare's Medicaid expansion are ineligible, Louisiana report finds

VDH:  The Rise of the New Old Left

´No collusion´ by Trump with Russia shown in new Cohen and Manafort court filings

Some sleaze though, unsurprisingly 

 Revealed: Clinton Foundation whistleblowers have been working with FBI and IRS since last year

 Comey NOT Cooperating with GOP Lawmakers, Refuses to Answer Questions in Closed-Door Interview

Whose government is this? 

 Democrats Are Just Too Darned Smart

 IRAN'S LEBANESE CONTROL DEMANDS REEVALUATION OF WEST'S SUPPORT FOR BEIRUT

 Europeans Realizing Trump Was Right About The Iran Deal

 EU in Disarray Over Global Migration Pact

Insane UN 

77 years ago, a date that still lives in infamy

 From Canoes, Fishermen Guard Africa's Famous Shoebills Against Poachers

 Sugar Taxes Haven't Proved Effective in Tackling Obesity

Duh. Just another tax 

Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore - A lack of personal savings, competition from abroad, and the threat of another economic downturn make it harder for Millennials to thrive as entrepreneurs.

Why  Louisville Bridges Project Is the Biggest Transportation Boondoggle of the 21st Century

Mother Forcing Transgenderism on 6-Year-Old Son May Suffer From a Mental Disorder, Pediatrician Says

Principal Suspended For Banning Most Things Christmas

 When they go after ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside,’ you know #MeToo has gone mad

A Giant List Of Questions The House Needs To Ask James Comey In His Deposition - These are a lot of questions, but if handled by a skillful attorney, James Comey can be led through the details efficiently.

 "He's Barack Obama, But White" – The Manufacturing Of Beto O'Rourke

 MSNBC’s Katy Tur: Life Is Pointless If We’re Not Focused On Climate Change

Airhead discovers the meaning of life 

 University suspends fraternity members over constitutionally protected speech

 Student cooperative stays silent on no-whites-allowed student housing

 DEMOCRAT RESIGNS AFTER FREQUENTING WOMEN’S BATHROOM: WHY?

 Against Federal Law: Obama OK’d $310 Million In Free Legal Advice To Illegal Aliens

Illegal immigrant families shatter records in November

 Tucker Carlson says Trump is ‘not capable’ and hasn’t kept his promises

 TUCKER GETS ACCUSED OF DISLIKING OPINIONATED WOMEN IN SPICY CLIMATE CHANGE SPAT

 OCASIO-CORTEZ: ‘INEVITABLE’ GLOBAL WARMING GOVERNANCE WILL CREATE ‘ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND RACIAL JUSTICE’

 Climate Crusaders Weigh In On The Cost Of Energy From Renewables

 France scraps fuel tax, weighs wealth tax in response to massive protests

Proving it's about the other kind of green 

 Justin Trudeau’s Canada Embraces a World Without Borders

 ITALY Reduces Migrant Landings by 96% in Only Two Years

 UN fails to adopt US resolution condemning Hamas terrorism

 'We were gonna die together’: Trial testimony lays out years of work by Iran that led to deadly attacks on US troops in Iraq

Vanderleun:  On Advent: “We Are All Lying in the Mud, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars”

 What Is Channukka?

"Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein reaches last-minute settlement ahead of jury selection for civil trial, avoiding testimony from his sex assault victims."

 Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

What’s Really Happening to Retail? Manhattan’s shuttered storefronts tell a larger American story: Only Amazon-proof businesses can now survive in brick and mortar.

 Minimum Wage Creates Robot Janitors

 UN climate chief has solution to ‘urgent’ climate threat: ‘We require deep transformations of our economies and societies’

 Wind Power Lunacy in Virginia

 The left’s nauseating love affair with “Beto.”

POP CULTURE CLOBBERED CONSERVATIVES IN 2018

Return to civility means surrender to the Democrats and media

 The Guardian’s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored Assange Smear

 On Losing the Thread -- Update on What Actually Remains of the Russia Collusion Tale

The view from PMSNBC:  Mueller Could Ensnare Trump And Family In Conspiracy Case

The Ideology of Corbynism

 THE DANES HAVE HAD IT WITH ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS

 Mattis calls for help in ending war in Afghanistan: ‘40 years is enough’

 Dan Hannan: The open conspiracy to foil Brexit is having its day, but it will fail

 The method in the Russian madness

Image via Pirate 

The War On Advent - Death, judgment, Heaven, and Hell

 UC Berkeley settles landmark free speech lawsuit, will pay $70,000 to conservative group

 UMass: Qualified faculty candidates must be 'appropriately diverse'

How college campus bureaucracy makes ‘snowflakes’

A site keeps tack of hoax hate crimes (h/t reader) 

AVI:  Justice, and Other Words

Understanding the Data: The American Working-Class and the Economy

63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs Compared to 35% of native households

35% of native households get welfare money? That sounds crazy, but maybe it includes Medicaid 

 Rutgers Profs Outraged After Illegal Arrested for DUI, 'Reckless Endangerment'

 Mueller's Perjury Traps

 The Only Good Republican Is A Dead Republican

People in the White House listen to Scott Adams re China's Fenanyl (pod) 

 EU Mulls Making Criticism Of Migration Policy A Criminal Offense

Brilliant solution 

Image via Never Yet Melted 

I wasn´t supposed to like George H.W. Bush -Then I got to know him

Radio station drops "Baby It´s Cold Outside" over #MeToo concerns

What? Is seduction off the table?  It's a charming song, the romantic dance.

Gun Sales So Low At Dick’s They May Yank All Hunting Gear

 Results of Colorado Marijuana Legalization 4 Years Later

Why your state is smaller than you think (video) 

It's about federal land 

Wage gap: "... if capitalists could actually hire women at half the cost of men for the same work, men would never hold jobs again."

 MEDIA SUDDENLY INTERESTED IN JEFFREY EPSTEIN

Mueller Racks Up Yet Another Process Crime with Michael Cohen's Guilty Plea

Process crimes are lame without a real crime 

Powerline:  A MUELLER UPDATE

Donald Trump Jr Responds To NPR Finally Retracting False Story About Him "I guess this is as close as I’ll get to an apology where yet another 'bombshell' bites the dust."

 Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister: New Global Compact on Migration Makes it Criminal "Hate Speech" To Criticize Pro-Immigration Policy

Are you kidding me? 

 Sixteen FBI Agents Raid Home of Clinton Foundation, Uranium One Whistleblower

It's dangerous to be a whistleblower 

 Blue State Blues: Democrats Stole the Election in California — Legally, Through ‘Ballot Harvesting’

 Democrats find the secret sauce: No more 'pandering to white people'

Establishment Media Admit Caravan Migrants Looking for Jobs, Not Asylum

Duh 

 CNN FINDS A QUARTER OF EUROPEANS ARE ANTI-SEMITIC. 

 Revealed: Emptying of the Iranian “Atomic Warehouse” at Turquz Abad

 The Iranian Regime's Transfer of Arms to Proxy Groups and Ongoing Missile Development

 For Israel, a rearmed Hezbollah in Lebanon is top concern

Photo: FYI, Advent begins this Sunday 

Gerard sees what is left of his home in Paradise

Betsy retires from blogging. It went from a hobby to a chore 

 Payless sold its discount shoes for $600 a pair at mock luxury influencer event

How overparenting backfired on Americans - Being raised indoors might the reason young Americans struggle in the adult world.

First world war paintings go on show for first time since 1919

Wow 

Is Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer “Problematic”?

Is the US really so racist?

No. There is almost no racism in America today. 

 Chinese scientist's gene-edited babies have opened Pandora's box. Brace yourselves.

 Brazil Cancels Hosting Of 2019 UN IPCC Climate Change Conference

The ACLU Declines to Defend Civil Rights - The civil-liberties organization has taken a stand against stronger due-process protections in campus tribunals that undermines its own principles.

 Is New York's "Safety Net" A Success?

 Jerome Corsi explains the perjury trap Mueller's team sprang on him

 Why Trump will look back fondly on the Mueller probe

 Joke of the day: Obama takes credit for oil boom

 CNN’s Chris Cuomo Compares Criminal Illegal Aliens to Baby Jesus 

 Tijuana Official Slams Caravan Organizers: Not 'Coming Through' on Promises to Migrants

 The Russians and the Kerch Bridge: What Would Reagan Do?

ICC Takes Anti-Israel Bias to New Heights - A betrayal of justice.

Tracking China’s Muslim Gulag

From that Thompson piece: "I'd wager dollars to donuts they cannot identify one single aspect of their lives which has changed for the worse since January 22, 2017."

The Myths of Troy

Mass. Pot Shops Ring Up $2M-Plus in Sales in 1st Week

 Mysterious, paralyzing disease has now spread to 31 states and Canada

 Why GM CEO Mary Barra killed Chevrolet cars, approved likely plant closures

 A researcher’s claim that two CRISPR-edited baby girls have been born has been met with widespread condemnation from scientists and ethicists alike.

Different culture over there 

Lord of the Rings Slammed for Perpetuating Racism through Depiction of Orcs

We need more masculinity, not less

"Ah, another article about “strong” women. That is, women who become emotional wrecks and lose all self-control"

Unstable women are not good feminist role models. BTW, Thompson can be quite witty when he has the time. 

 ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

Sheesh, Polly. She should be an artist? Unleash her inner Picasso?

 Twitter Has Gone Full Trans-Activist

 On November 15, I woke up to find my Twitter account locked, on account of what the company described as “hateful conduct.”

She actually said what? 

 White Liberals Dumb Themselves Down When Talking To Blacks

Dem politicians sure do 

 Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher

 OUR ROTTEN LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES

 Students at Williams College Demand Freedom from Speech

Except their own 

 Why do so many academics dislike the market?

New Orleans looks underground as parts of city slowly sink

 Martha McSally campaign says it's not, not, NOT her fault she lost to Kyrsten Sinema

Blaming others is neither attractive in adults or children 

 The Continuing Lunacy Of The Neocons

 If government unions have a choice, why shouldn’t workers have it too? Janus and the Free-Rider Myth

Sorry Lib Media: Bill Clinton Took 26 Junkets with Deviant Epstein—Trump Banned the Perv From Mar-a-Lago

 New York Times Columnist on Trump Supporters: ‘Maybe They’re Just Bad People’

 IT WAS A HOAX: Guardian Report Blows Up – Manafort Passport Shows NO UK TRIPS – Never Met with Assange

What's up with The Guardian?  The Guardian’s Desperate Attempt To Connect Assange To Russiagate Backfires

Libel time 

 Dershowitz: Number of ‘Credible’ Witnesses Mueller Has Are ‘Shrinking by the Day’

USA Today:  As American troops install razor wire in Arizona, images of the Berlin Wall resurface

The whole world wanted to move to the East German paradise 

 The problem with those in favor of ‘illegal’ immigration

 Poll: 7 Of 10 Mexicans Have Negative View Of Migrant Caravan Marching Through Their Country

Racists 

 What Hillary got right (and wrong) about Europe’s migrant mess

 A Sobering New Report on the State of US Military

 CNN poll reveals depth of anti-Semitism in Europe

 In Dramatic Reversal, Theresa May Will Allow Parliament To Change Brexit Deal

 Predictably, Donald Trump was attacked both by the establishment and the media as “crude,” “unpresidential,” and “gratuitous” for a recent series of blunt and graphic statements on a variety of current policies. Oddly, the implied charge this time around was not that Trump makes up stuff, but that he said things that were factual but should not be spoken.

 Study Finds Dogs Twitching In Sleep Are Dreaming About Tearing Owners Limb From Limb

 Dozens of dead turtles wash ashore on Cape Cod

Tyler Cowen: The best book of 2018

Visit Portland! 

 The Truth About Killer Robots: the year's most terrifying documentary

 Big Tech Is In Big Trouble

 Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies

 Social Justice Warriors Want Women to Ditch Their High Heels

 Experts on Climate Change Assessment: ‘Every Conclusion of This Latest Government Report Is False’

 Gov. Jerry Brown okays utilities charging Californians to pay for fires utilities may have started

 The Idea That Just Won't Die: The Right Federal Program Can Solve Any Human Problem

Are Dems the snob party? 

 Trump’s critics were dead wrong about the caravan after all

 Border Patrol Chief: From What I Saw, The Caravan Members Were Not Seeking Asylum

Hoaxed: The ‘Illegal Alien Mom with Barefoot Kids’ Photo was a Setup – Another Staged #FakeNews Production

Whoopsie – MSNBC Accidentally Airs Ground Report Showing Vast Majority of Caravan are Military Aged Males…

Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama

Asia Bibi and the First Freedom: Why hasn't she been granted asylum?

Quote via Moonbattery 

Walter WILLIAMS: Fruits Of College Indoctrination

 “It’s NOT OK To Be White” Says University Of Manitoba – “Reject White Interests”

Feminists’ Undue Process - Ideologues react hysterically to the Trump administration’s suggested reforms to campus-rape tribunals.

 My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy

 California’s forest fire tragedy……

The Anti-American Americans

 ‘We will close the Border permanently if need be’: Trump threatens decisive action if Mexico does not deport caravan migrants as hundreds storm border and guards open fire on women and children with tear gas and rubber bullets