SCRATCH A LEFTIST, FIND A MISOGYNIST: Kellyanne Conway celebrates her historic win; Left focus on Conway’s body, hurl sexual slurs.
This is who the left is, and what they do.
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December 6, 2016
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SCOTT ADAMS: The most important job opening that Trump has to fill – at least from a “brand” perspective – is Secretary of State. “You can get away with hiring loyal supporters for less-visible cabinet positions, but you need to get the Secretary of State job right because it directly reflects on the brand of the presidency. And Trump knows branding.”
CHANGE: Populist Wave Makes Merkel Go All-Out Conservative: Calls for Burqa Ban in Germany. “You guessed it: elections are coming up and Merkel isn’t performing as well in the polls as she’d like to.”
These are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.
THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PEOPLE WERE UNPREPARED FOR EBOLA, AND THEY’RE STILL DROPPING BALLS: Yellow Fever Epidemic in Africa Shows Gaps in Vaccine Pipeline.
The yellow fever outbreak in Africa this year came closer to being a disaster than is widely recognized, public health experts recently disclosed. The epidemic also revealed glaring weaknesses in the emergency vaccine supply pipeline.
The first deaths in Angola were misdiagnosed as food poisoning; the global emergency vaccine stockpile was depleted before even one city was fully protected; and diagnostic laboratories were so far away that it was months before the scope of the outbreak was clear and a worldwide alarm was raised.
Ultimately, the yellow fever outbreak was halted only by a huge vaccination campaign that stretched supplies by diluting doses, and even that succeeded only because some unusual donors stepped in.
Brazil contributed 18 million doses of yellow fever vaccine — three times the amount in the emergency stockpile — to contain the African outbreak. Even South Sudan, one of the world’s poorest nations, gave up 400,000 doses intended for its children.
Maybe containing infectious diseases should be a bigger priority.
I GUESS ‘MAYBE JUST A CIGARETTE MORE’ IS OUT, TOO: SJWs Rewrite ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ to Emphasize Consent.
“Baby It’s Cold Outside” isn’t a song about date rape. It’s a cleverly told musical version of the age-old dance of seduction, where both dancers know exactly what they’re doing, every step of the way to an almost predetermined ending. “Hook-up culture” doesn’t teach those dance steps, which leads to lots of confusion and the occasional tragedy — such as ruining a charming and timeless cold-weather favorite.
I BLAME RUTH BADER GINSBURG: VMI, Famed Military Academy, Giving Cadets Coloring Books for Stress.
ACCOUNTABILITY: House to vote this week on IRS impeachment. “Rep. Jim Jordan announced Tuesday he will introduce a resolution today to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, setting up a vote this week in the House on impeachment.”
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MORE STUFF FOR DEMOCRATS TO WORRY ABOUT: Among black men, a spark of support for Donald Trump. “The 30-something long-haul truck driver from Covington, Ga., says he watches America roll by his truck window every day and feels that much of its potential remains untapped. He also looks around at his own community and sees the unfulfilled promise of the years of President Obama, for whom he voted twice. Persistent wealth, income, and education gaps continue to devastate the black working class in America, he says. For those reasons and more, he’s now a supporter of Trump.”
If Trump’s so inclined, he can make hay out of this: Black Workers’ Suit Accuses Job Agency of Favoring Hispanic Applicants. “It was like the whole thing was built up mainly around Hispanics.”
UPDATE: From the comments: “Hey….wait a minute…….I just figured out whose jobs all these illegal aliens are taking….”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 39 Private College Presidents Earned > $1 Million In 2014 (Up From 32 In 2013).
I think we should cap the pay of administrators at universities receiving federal funds at the level of a Supreme Court justice. That sounds fair.
Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2016
Well, that’s encouraging — but what about his carbon footprint?
CHANGE: “Trump does have something in common with both Eisenhower and Reagan, the two most successful Republican presidents since World War Two: the opportunity to preside over a Great Wave of suburbanization and give another generation the opportunity to unlock the modern version of the American Dream.”
STARBUCKS GIVES UP ON MIDDLE CLASS, PLACES BET ON THE ONE PERCENT: As core clientele loses spending power, chain readies push into realm of $12-a-cup java.
About 25 years ago, Starbucks Corp. decided to become a public company on the bold idea that customers across the country would pay more than $1 for a cup of coffee.
Now, Starbucks is betting people will pay as much as $1 an ounce.
Howard Schultz, who built Starbucks into a global brand with more than 25,000 shops, said last week that he was planning to step down as chief executive to work on a project within Starbucks to build high-end coffee shops charging as much as $12 for 12 ounces of coffee.
A perfect instantiation of the Obama era.
TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME: Trump’s election stole my desire to look for a partner. “Once it was clear that Donald Trump would be president instead of Hillary Clinton, I felt sick to my stomach. I wanted to gather my children in bed with me and cling to them like we would if thunder and lightning were raging outside, with winds high enough that the power might go out. The world felt that precarious to me. . . . I’ve lost the desire to attempt the courtship phase. The future is uncertain. I am not the optimistic person I was on the morning of Nov. 8, wearing a T-shirt with ‘Nasty Woman’ written inside a red heart. It makes me want to cry thinking of that. Of seeing my oldest in the shirt I bought her in Washington, D.C., that says ‘Future President.’ There is no room for dating in this place of grief. Dating means hope. I’ve lost that hope in seeing the words ‘President-elect Trump.'”
I’m pretty sure that the guy she was dating before dodged a bullet here. It’s another Trump miracle!
FAKE NEWS STORY ABOUT FAKE NEWS GETS LAWSUIT THREAT: Website Labeled ‘Fake News’ Threatens To Sue WaPo For Defamation.
Other mainstream news outlets criticize The Washington Post for running the story.
“The organization’s anonymity, which a spokesperson maintained was due to fear of Russian hackers, added a cybersexy mystique,” Adrian Chen wrote in The New Yorker regarding the WaPo story. “But a close look at the report showed that it was a mess.”
And Patrick Maines criticized the story in The Hill, calling it “perhaps the shoddiest piece of feature writing since Rolling Stone published its blatantly false story about a campus rape at the University of Virginia.”
This whole “fake news” thing is such an obvious move to console Hillary voters while enlisting left-leaning social-media giants to silence the opposition.
VOX POPULI, VOX DEI. Brexit Architect: ‘Crybabies’ Protesting Referendum Outcome Won’t Block EU Departure.
Daniel Hannan, an architect of the campaign to divorce the United Kingdom from the European Union, rejected claims on Monday that the U.K. Supreme Court could block Brexit.
Hannan, a Conservative member of the European Parliament who represents South East England, called the pending court case and other efforts to stall Brexit negotiations nothing more than “bumps on the road” prompted by “crybabies” who “don’t accept the verdict of the people as final.”
“The question isn’t whether Brexit will happen. That was determined in June. It isn’t even when it’s going to happen. It’s going to happen in the beginning of 2019. The question is how do we make it a cordial process that brings benefits to all sides,” Hannan said during an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. “We want the European Union to prosper. Wealthy neighbors make good customers—we don’t want to leave in a way that’s going to trigger another bout of the Euro crisis.”
Crisis seems to be baked into the EU.
THE INTERNET OF THINGS: BMW Remotely Locks Stolen Car With Alleged Thief Still Inside.
Authorities say the suspect was prowling cars early last Sunday when he found an unlocked BMW 550i with the key inside and sped away. The owner—who had gotten married the day before and loaned her car to a friend—realized the car was missing at around 5 a.m. and reported it stolen to police.
After contacting BMW corporate, officers were given the current location of the vehicle by an employee. Police say they found the car idling in an alley with the suspect asleep inside. From the SPD Blotter:
BMW employees were able to remotely lock the car’s doors, trapping the suspect inside, presumably while hissing something terrifying like “I’m not locked in here with you, you‘re locked in here with me” into the car’s sound system.
Officers roused the suspect, who quickly, but unsuccessfully, tried to drive away.
Police say they then booked the suspect for auto theft and drug possession.
Catching thieves is all well and good, but for now I’m going to stick with driving older cars.
SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH SAMSUNG OVER APPLE IN PENALTY PAYMENTS FOR PATENTS VIOLATIONS: Ruling was 8-0. Note this is a partial victory for Samsung. Samsung still violated Apple patents.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously reversed and remanded a lower court’s ruling that said Samsung must pay Apple $399 million as a penalty for infringing on its smartphone patents.
UPDATE: Here’s Reuters with more details:
The decision gives Samsung another chance to try to get back a big chunk of the money it paid Apple in December following a 2012 jury verdict that it infringed Apple’s iPhone patents and mimicked its distinctive appearance in making the Galaxy and other competing devices.
The court held that a patent violator does not always have to fork over its entire profits from the sales of products using stolen designs, if the designs covered only certain components and not the whole thing.
The ruling followed a ferocious legal battle between the world’s top two smartphone manufacturers that began in 2011 when Apple sued Samsung, asserting that its rival stole its technology and the iPhone’s trademarked appearance. It was one of the most closely watched patent cases to come before the top U.S. court in recent years.
Core issue:
The legal dispute centered on whether the term “article of manufacture” in U.S. patent law should be interpreted as a finished product in its entirety, or merely a component in a complex product.
Historical note:
Design patent fights very rarely reach the Supreme Court. It had not heard such a case in more than 120 years
CAN WE TALK? “If only Joan Rivers had lived to see it: The first Jewish president. And a Republican, even.”
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