WE MUST STAMP OUT CRIMETHINK BEFORE IT’S EVEN THOUGHT:

There is so much repression these days coming in the form of playing on people’s fear of even the possibility of being considered racist/sexist/homophobic.

Just yesterday, retired Gen. Michael Hayden was on CNN telling us: “You’re not just responsible for what you say. You are responsible for what people hear.” That’s scary stuff, but you’re not supposed to hear it as scary because Trump is racist/ sexist/ homophobic/ xenophobic/ murderous/ insane and he needs to be stopped.

Or so I hear it.

And I expect General Hayden to take responsibility for what I hear.

He should. Purge him immediately!

IT’S COME TO THIS: A bar owner in the UK has built a Faraday cage to stop customers using their phones.

The owner of a cocktail bar in the UK has turned to physics in an attempt to force his customers to actually talk to other instead of just staring at social media all night.

Steve Tyler, who owns the Gin Tub in East Sussex, has built his very own Faraday cage around the establishment to block mobile phone signals from entering the building.

It’s a pretty ingenious (but controversial) move that involves installing metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar to essentially filter out electromagnetic signals before they enter the building.

I wonder how that will play with customers.

I HAD A CHROMEBOOK FOR A WHILE AND WASN’T CRAZY ABOUT IT, SO THAT WOULD BE NICE: Attention, Poor Students: Chromebooks Are About to Get Awesome.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Seth Rogen’s Animated Food Movie ‘Sausage Party’ Crashed by SJWs, Accused of Racism.

This isn’t the 21st century I was promised.

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OLYMPIC SHOOTER KIM RHODE FIRES BACK AT GUN CONTROL.

Related: MSNBC carries Rhode’s skeet shooting competition live  – and doesn’t pixilate the guns!

HMM: People Who Hate Working Out Are More Brainy. Are they brainy enough to know this? “It’s important to remember that a study of 60 people is a pretty small sample.”

JUSTICE: Judge bans Florida man from ordering pizza over excessive prank calling.

FASTER, PLEASE: Brain-Computer Interface Therapy Triggers Some Recovery From Spinal Cord Injury.

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME: 96 Percent Of Hillary’s Charitable Donations In 2015 Went To Clinton Foundation.

PRO TIP: DON’T. Would You Take Life Advice from Lindsay Lohan?

BASICALLY, IT’S THAT THE STUDIES ARE POLITICIZED AND JOURNALISM STINKS: The Problems With Food and Exercise Studies.

Nearly everything you have been told about the food you eat and the exercise you do and their effects on your health should be met with a raised eyebrow.

Dozens of studies are publicized every week. But those studies hardly slake people’s thirst for answers to questions about how to eat or how much to exercise. Does exercise help you maintain your memory? What kind? Walking? Intense exercise? Does eating carbohydrates make you fat? Can you prevent breast cancer by exercising when you are young? Do vegetables protect you from heart disease?

The problem is one of signal to noise. You can’t discern the signal — a lower risk of dementia, or a longer life, or less obesity, or less cancer — because the noise, the enormous uncertainty in the measurement of such things as how much you exercise or what exactly you eat, is overwhelming. The signal is often weak, meaning if there is an effect of lifestyle it is minuscule, nothing like the link between smoking and lung cancer, for example.

And there is no gold standard of measurement, nothing that everyone agrees on and uses to measure aspects of lifestyle.

The result is a large body of studies whose conclusions are not reproducible. “We don’t know how to measure diet or exercise,” said Dr. Barnett Kramer, director of the National Cancer Institute’s division of disease prevention.

This has always been true, but it hasn’t prevented them from disseminating commandments with an air of unshakable scientific certainty.

“BREWGA:” Finding Zen through yoga and beer.

LADY GHOSTBUSTERS WAS PERFECT … AT EXPOSING MEDIA BIAS.

Similarly, I can’t say I’ve ever seen a film studio attack its customers the way that Sony did in response to the film’s horrendous trailer and stillborn debut. Not to mention the Hillary endorsement by the movie’s stars – and the studio reportedly forcing Bill Murray’s cameo in the movie via “‘aggressive’ litigation counsel,” aka, rhetorical gunpoint.

I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS. BUT IT’S ALIENS: Something strange is happening at the outer reaches of the solar system.​

Wake up, sheeple! InstaPundit readers know the score.

AGING: What can killer whales teach us about the menopause?

Darwinian evolutionary theory says that any characteristic reducing an animal’s chance of passing on its genes to the next generation will be edged out – the process of natural selection.

That has led some to argue that menopause in humans is a result of longer life, better health and better medical care. But, as well as painting a rather depressing image that post-menopausal women are simply alive beyond their evolutionarily prescribed time, that theory has been largely debunked – thanks, in part, to these orcas.

Obviously, medical care is not increasing their lifespan.

“So studying them in the wild could help us reveal some of the mystery of why menopause evolved,” Croft says.

It’s conceivable that there might have once been a genetic advantage in stopping the production of children before they would be in competition for scarce resources with your grandchildren.

But those days are over, so — faster, please.

NFL FINDS A CAUSE THEY WON’T ENDORSE: THE DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT. “Moreover, the NFL’s hypocrisy is also on full display, considering they had no problem allowing Beyoncé to perform her anti-police song ‘Formation’ at the Super Bowl halftime show. A song whose video features a wall with the phrase ‘Stop Shooting Us’ written on it, a scene with Beyoncé sitting on top of a police car that is sinking into the water, and a shot where a child dances in front of a squad of policeman in riot gear.”

Reminders: “NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith served as counsel to [then] Attorney General Eric Holder and was a member of Barack Obama’s transition team”; Steelers owner “Dan Rooney fell for Obama” in 2008. Which brings us to the obligatory summation of the past eight years of hopenchange:

FIRE BAD: The New York Times takes a stand.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. In Venezuela, It’s not a ‘Humanitarian’ Crisis. It’s a Socialist Crisis.

THAT’S NOT FUNNY! Trump Now Calls ‘Founder of ISIS’ Comments ‘SARCASM’

It’s only funny when George Bush is Hitler and Mitt Romney gives women cancer for kicks.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Black Lives Matter Accuses Israel of Genocide.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1191.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Did The FBI Nearly Investigate The Clinton Foundation Because Of This Mysterious Chinese Billionaire?

While the donor has not been identified, details from a CNN report about the meeting raise the strong possibility that the individual is a Chinese billionaire who gave the Clinton Foundation $2 million in 2013 and also contributed $120,000 to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign that same year.

That donor is Wang Wenliang, a former delegate to the Chinese parliament. He controls several Chinese firms, including Rilin Enterprises and Dandong Port Co.

What sticks in my mind is “nearly.”

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