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December 21, 2016
HEALTH: Processed meat ‘could be bad for asthma’
They can have my secchi salami when they pry it from my cold, dead hand.
KILLS GERMS THAT CAN CAUSE BAD BREATH, AND THE CLAP: The Mouthwash Listerine May Help Treat Gonorrhea. And it’s a good thing: “In the U.S., gonorrhea rates have reached unprecedented levels. A recent report showed that at 395,000 recorded cases, gonorrhea is up 13 percent from 2014, and the disease is mostly concentrated among young people ages 15 to 24 years old. . . . Antibiotic-resistant strains of the bacteria are also on the rise. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes this kind of gonorrhea has developed resistance to nearly all the medicines used to cure it,and that doctors are down to one last class of effective antibiotics.”
YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG: These Are the Media’s Top Ten Embarrassments of the Year.
(Keep in mind, the year isn’t over yet. Plenty of time left for further DNC-MSM embarrassment to come.)
This is a remarkable document not so much because of the individual “resolutions” but of the source—one of those nefarious multinational corporations that specifically tries to sell fake coolness and hipness to youngsters that progressives are always railing about—and the tin-ear quality of its overall effect.
Whole swaths of corporate America—especially in the entertainment industry—seem utterly convinced that their audiences are irredeemably stupid, racist, homophobic, and beneath contempt. All this, despite massive strides toward equality under the law and growing comfort with all sorts of ethnic, racial, sexual, and lifestyle diversity. For god’s sake, Donald Trump, whose surprising election is underwriting virtually all of this sort of thing, got a smaller share of the white vote than Mitt Romney did four years ago! He didn’t win the presidency because he was popular. He won it because the alternative was disliked by more people. That’s progress, of a sort.
The MTV vid goes beyond mere virtue-signaling into uncharted territory of contempt and spite that works to undermine all feelings of common cause that might actually make for an even more-open and tolerant United States. In this, it rivals the sort of remonstrations emanating from the pages of another hugely powerful corporate entity, The New York Times.
We are looked down upon by our inferiors.
FAKE NEWS:
Before you send an outraged tweet: Adam Saleh creates hoax videos for a living:https://t.co/rBpij4Bze0https://t.co/hZUm3eix0K pic.twitter.com/tM5KQkaWAa
— James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) December 21, 2016
I waited for hours to post this so you could have a chance to see how many in the media reported it as real news.
NON-BACKLASH: Michigan Student Made Up Anti-Muslim Hate Crime.
Several days after the U.S presidential election in November, a female student at the University of Michigan reported being attacked by a man who threatened that if she did not remove her hijab, her would set her on fire.
The student told police that the obeyed the man’s order before fleeing the scene and reporting the incident. She described the perpetrator as a white male between the ages of 20 and 30. University police alerted students of the alleged crime, and said they were “disturbed by this report of hate crime in our community.” The FBI was called in to investigate.
Now police in Ann Arbor have determined that the “hate crime” never happened. After conducting multiple interviews and reviewing surveillance footage, investigators found “numerous inconsistencies” in the alleged victim’s statements, which led them to conclude that she made it all up.
Well, it’s not like she was kicked off a Delta flight for speaking Arabic.
LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Children suffer from lead poisoning in 3,000 U.S. neighborhoods. I wonder what proportion of those are in Democrat-run cities?
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why You Shouldn’t Warm Up Your Car.
J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: DOJ-FBI Fails to Investigate Crimes Against the Electoral College.
FASTER, PLEASE: The oil industry must brace for five energy “tsunamis” that threaten to drag prices as low as $10 a barrel in less than a decade.
The falling cost of solar power and battery storage, rising sales of electric vehicles, increasingly “smart” buildings and cheap hydrogen will all weigh on crude, Thierry Lepercq, head of research, technology and innovation at the French energy company, said in an interview.
“Even if oil demand continues to climb until 2025, its price could drop to $10 if markets anticipate a significant fall in demand,” Lepercq said at his office near Paris. Crude last slumped to that level in 1998.
“Solar, battery storage, electrical and hydrogen vehicles, and connected devices are in a ‘J’ curve,” he said. “Hydrogen is the missing link in a 100 percent renewable-energy system, but technological bricks already exist.”
Bring ’em on.
GERMANY AS A TICKING TIME BOMB OF RAGE: A raging essay by Ed West in The Spectator.
I can understand the human urge to protect the vulnerable, refugees and Muslims generally, from hostility as these awful events repeat themselves. It’s easy to sneer at politicians who come out with vapid theological comments, as I have in the past, but their job is to protect all the country’s citizens. I can also see why this urge might convince an intelligent person that Merkel’s migration policy has actually helped the fight against terrorism. But it’s extremely unlikely; all things being equal, hosting refugees does lead to an increase in terrorism, although the risk is smaller in richer countries, largely because they have better security services. It’s at times like this when I thank God for ours, who have saved countless lives in our country by preventing a good dozen attempts at mass murder.
WELL, YES: NY Times Editorial Calling To Abolish The Electoral College Is Historically Inaccurate Garbage.
It’s almost as if the New York Times editorial board was taken over by fools from Media Matters, Salon, Slate, and Think Progress. It is the only rational explanation for their unhinged rant against the electoral college in their Monday edition. It is bereft of any facts about the actual creation of the electoral college. Instead, it relies on revisionist history, claiming the electoral college was birthed due to slavery:
The Electoral College, which is written into the Constitution, is more than just a vestige of the founding era; it is a living symbol of America’s original sin. When slavery was the law of the land, a direct popular vote would have disadvantaged the Southern states, with their large disenfranchised populations. Counting those men and women as three-fifths of a white person, as the Constitution originally did, gave the slave states more electoral votes.
This kind of thinking is lazy in that it doesn’t seek to make an argument, but instead, projects on to others the motives the Times editorial can use to shame people into agreeing with them. “The Electoral College exists due to slavery. Why on earth would you continue to defend such a system?” They don’t rely on facts or logic. Their goal is to tug at emotional heartstrings and hope people won’t pay attention to their complete lack of historical coherence.
How’s that workin’ out for them?
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Rejuvenating the Chance of Motherhood?
I’LL HAVE THE RIBEYE AND THE PORTERHOUSE: New study insists larger portions of beef and pork can actually be GOOD for blood pressure.
Indeed, nutritional guidelines in both the UK and the US advise eating no more than 70g of beef, pork, or steak per day.
But a new review of clinical trials from Purdue University has found quite the opposite.
According to the study, eating more than the recommended daily amount of red meat does not affect short-term heart disease risk factors, such as blood pressure and blood cholesterol.
In fact, they found unprocessed red meat to be a good source of nutrients for patients.
The science is settled. You don’t want to argue with science, do you?
MAD DUCK: Obama plans up to 18 more Guantanamo prisoner transfers before leaving office.
The Obama administration notified Congress it intends to send the detainees, nearly a third of the remaining 59 held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, to at least four countries, including Italy, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in on Jan. 20, the source said.
The notification came just before this week’s deadline, which by law requires Obama to give Congress 30 days’ warning before moving prisoners out of Guantanamo. It will be the last in a flurry of recent transfers aimed at leaving as few inmates as possible for the next administration.
But the transfer plan – first reported by the New York Times – also signifies that despite Obama’s pledge dating back to the 2008 presidential campaign to close the facility, it is all but certain to be turned over to Trump. He has vowed to keep it open and “load it up with some bad dudes.”
Compare and contrast.
TERROR DOWN UNDER — OR JUST AN ACCIDENT? Van drove into Australian Christian Lobby’s Canberra headquarters and ‘exploded’
A van reportedly carrying gas cylinders was driven into the Australian Christian Lobby headquarters in Canberra on Wednesday night, causing an explosion.
There were no injuries suffered from people inside the building but the alleged driver was receiving medical treatment for his injuries, according to reports.
The vehicle was allegedly carrying gas bottles when it exploded about 10.45pm, News Corp reported. It was destroyed and the two-storey office building named Eternity House was badly damaged by fire.
ACL managing director Lyle Shelton posted two images online on Thursday morning of a vehicle he claimed had been driven into the group’s office in the inner-southern Canberra suburb of Deakin.
“A vehicle has rammed our office in Canberra & exploded all staff are safe,” Mr Shelton posted on Twitter.
“I do not know the condition of the driver. Prayers appreciated.”
That’s all that’s known so far.
WHY ARE GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? Why Isn’t the Tech Industry Doing Better on Diversity? It’s Google’s and Facebook’s Fault.
BLESSED ARE THE CHEESEMAKERS: The Foolish Reason The Federal Government Is Storing A Literal Mountain Of Cheese.
For the past few decades, the feds have been keeping a literal mountain of cheese lying around for no ascertainable purpose. As of March 31, about 1.2 billion pounds of excess cheese had been accumulated in commercial cold-storage freezers across the United States — the largest such stockpile in history, according to the Washington Post. That’s 39 pounds of cheese for every man, woman and child in the country — so much cheese, in fact, that the government has been encouraging fast food chains to create new cheesy-centric products just to get rid of some of it.
Perhaps you remember Burger King’s Mac n’ Cheetos, a plate of Cheetos coated in fake macaroni-and-cheese goop, then deep-fried for your sinful pleasure. Yes, that’s a real thing.
So why, you may ask, are the feds subsidizing such monstrosities?
Turns out, the national cheese stockpile is a glaring example of how the federal government’s addiction to subsidies has gotten drastically out of hand.
Read (but don’t eat) the whole thing.
BAD IDEA: South Carolina Lawmaker Proposes Porn-Blocker Mandate for New PCs.
South Carolina state representative Bill Chumley (R-SC 35) has pre-filed a new bill in the legislature that would require all manufacturers and sellers of computers to pre-install and pre-activate porn-blocker software that can only be unlocked by paying a $20 fee to the state of South Carolina.
The bill, which Chumley claims is meant to fight human trafficking in the state, would fine any computer manufacturer who chooses to sell a computer in the state without the blocking software, unless that manufacturer pays a $20 fee per device. If the manufacturer complies with the install order, the machine could then be unlocked after the user pays a $20 fee to the State of South Carolina and verifies their age. Fines and fees collected from the scheme would be earmarked for the SC Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Task Force.
This unenforceable — and likely unconstitutional — proposal is really about shaming South Carolinians and taking their money.
It always comes down to money and power with these people.
AND SO THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE DRAWS TO A CLOSE: Percentage of Young Americans Living With Parents Rises to 75-Year High.
Despite a rebounding economy and recent job growth, the share of those between the ages of 18 and 34 doubling up with parents or other family members has been rising since 2005. Back then, before the start of the last recession, roughly one out of three were living with family.
The trend runs counter to that of previous economic cycles, when after a recession-related spike, the number of younger Americans living with relatives declined as the economy improved.
The result is that there is far less demand for housing than would be expected for the millennial generation, now the largest in U.S. history. The number of adults under age 30 has increased by 5 million over the last decade, but the number of households for that age group grew by just 200,000 over the same period, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Washington priced young people out of the housing market with the first bubble, and then priced them out again by re-inflating prices after the first bubble popped. If Millennials ever wake up to how badly Washington has screwed them, the political effects could be huge.