OF COURSE IT IS: Prince Harry’s Under Attack From Left Wing Trolls And It’s Pathetic. “The #NotMyPrince campaign is yet another example of (predominantly) young people, somewhat politicised but largely uninformed, trying to edit history by writing the bad parts out. And it’s not good enough.” Politicized and uninformed — lefties, in other words. The sun never sets on their stupidity and self-importance.
Archive for 2016
November 25, 2016
AS I SAID BEFORE, WHAT PUTIN WANTS IS CHAOS. “Fact that RT furiously pushing Stein/#Recount2016 story tells you that Russia cares less abt Trump per se than abt chaos & destabilization.”
MICKEY KAUS: Does President-Elect Trump understand that the immigration issue is at the heart of his election? “The Trump supporters who voted on the issue not only reflect majority support for most of his policies, but they tend to care about the issue intensely. If Trump backs down on the clear policies in his big August 31 immigration speech, . . . he will dissolve this base of support. Since he has no other big base of support — not the Democrats who hate him, not established Republicans, who may hate him even more — he’ll be Wile E. Coyote in mid-air, with nothing under him.”
THAT’S ASSUMING SHE AVOIDS PUNISHMENT FOR CONSPIRING TO DEPRIVE PEOPLE OF THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS: Massachusetts AG Maura Healey: Lawyers, guns and money.
Related: Denials aside, Maura Healey could make governor run.
PETER EGAN: The Hot-Rodding Instinct. I’d like to hang out at a bar with him and IowaHawk.
WELL, THIS IS STILL 2016, YOU KNOW: Domino’s training reindeer to deliver pizzas in Japan.
GROUND TROOPS: Home schooled teens helped Republicans win key Senate races.
UPDATE: Link was bad. Fixed now. Sorry!
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL TOLD US THIS DECADES AGO: Born To Move: Are we fighting thousands of years of evolutionary history and the best interests of our bodies when we sit all day?
GOOD GIRL: Dogs Have Better Memory Than You Realize.
For the episodic memory study, the researchers trained 17 dogs to copy human actions through the “Do as I Do” method. Next step, the dogs were taught to lie down purposefully after the watching an action performed by a person. After the dogs learned to do this, they were suddenly given a “Do It” command without any prior warning.
Surprisingly the dogs were able to imitate the action even though they weren’t alerted beforehand to remember and repeat it.
The dogs were able to recall the action performed by the person and repeat it when they were asked to do so. It is therefore clear that the dogs exhibit episodic-like memory.
The researchers tested the dogs after one minute first, then after an hour. They discovered that the dogs were able to do the actions after both short and long stretches of time. However, their memories declined more with time.
I can’t think of a single one of my domestic routines that my dogs don’t remember at least as well as I do.
FREAKOUT IN WISCONSIN: Student’s Reaction to Trump Win: ‘Suck It Up, Pussies.’ Police Are Investigating This Hate Crime.
At Edgewood College, police are investigating a post-it-note that was deemed a “hate crime” by college officials.
The post-it-note says “Suck it up, pussies!” Whoever wrote it also drew a winking, tongue-out smiley face, like this:
;P
The message is evidently one student’s response to the Madison, Wisconsin, college’s overwhelming dejection following Donald Trump’s election to the presidency.
Students had been invited to express their feelings about the election by writing them on post-it-notes and placing them on a designated table. The post-it-note in question appeared in the window of the Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion instead, according to Campus Reform.
College Vice President Tony Chambers sent a letter to campus condemning this “act of cowardly hatred” and “intimidation.” He wrote:
A group of cross-functional college staff representing campus security, student conduct, human resources, Title IX enforcement, and diversity and inclusion measures convened Tuesday morning to discuss how to address the hateful message. This group determined that the message constituted a Hate Crime…
College officials informed the Madison police, and now the cops are investigating. They are investigating a post-it-note. With a non-threatening message and a smiley face on it. After inviting students to express their feelings via post-it-note.
That’s hate for you, I guess.
They don’t leave much doubt which side they’re on.
THIS IS CNN? CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night.
Actually, just one CNN provider in Boston:
Yesterday night at 11PM EST, some viewers getting ready for a brand new episode of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown on CNN were surprised to see that scheduled programming had been replaced by 30 minutes of adult entertainment.
The mess-up only affected people in Boston, as CNN’s broadcasting there is provided by RCN, a local television provider. Even though the news channel was sending through the right video signal, RCN managed to mess it up and provide viewers with something quite different.
Parts unknown, indeed.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): To be honest, “Wolf Blitzer” always sounded like a porn name.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Moderate Drinking Tied to Lower Stroke Risk.
AT AMAZON, Games for Family Night.
NOT SUPER-IMPRESSIVE: The Navy’s New Stealth Destroyer Broke Down in the Panama Canal.
CUE THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN: Oil Slides As Saudis Refuse To Attend Non-OPEC Producers Meeting.
TAKING SIDES: Reddit CEO admits editing pro-Trump users’ comments. “Despite his promise never to repeat his actions, backlash to Huffman’s admission has ignited further concern about censorship and some are calling for his resignation. This year in particular, with accusations of Facebook of playing favorites with liberal-leaning news stories while suppressing conservative news and other sites such as Twitter for suspending the accounts of some alt-right users, many social media users are feeling extra cynical about any moderation performed by site administrators.”
HEALTH: Scientists Believe They Finally Have The Cure For The Common Cold.
Just make the NyQuil D available again without a high-level security clearance and we’ll be fine.
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: An Oxygen Mask For Your Cat.
WORKERS’ PARADISE: Hungry Venezuelans Flee in Boats to Escape Economic Collapse.
One evening at the end of September, Ms. Piñero, 47, climbed aboard a boat in a small town on the country’s northern coast. She dropped to her knees, praying to God that she would survive the journey and find a better life in Curaçao.
The other passengers, tears in their eyes, began to pray too, some joining hands in a circle on the beach. They muttered hopes that the Coast Guard would not catch them, that they were good people, that they were mothers and fathers.
They waded chest-deep into the water, hoisting their few possessions overhead, and climbed into the boat. Its motor started and it steered toward the horizon.
Even the smuggler seemed distraught at the misfortune bringing him profits.
“I would prefer that the crisis ended and my business was over,” the smuggler said after they had left. “I would prefer a thousand times that there was no crisis and we could live in the Venezuela from yesterday.”
Can you guess what word NYT’s Nicholas Casey failed to use even one time in his report on Venezuela’s economic crisis?
NOTHING IS WORTH THIS. Black Friday Death Count: Man Shot, Killed over Walmart Parking Spot.
Stay home on Black Friday if you can.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Nobody ever got shot at the Amazon Black Friday sale!
SMART DIPLOMACY: U.S., Western Allies Push Iran on New Measures to Bolster Nuclear Deal.
The U.S. and its Western allies are pressing Iran to take steps to sharply cut the amount of radioactive material it holds in a bid to shore up last year’s nuclear deal and discourage the incoming Trump administration from abandoning it, Western officials said.
The discussions about reducing Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium started months ago, officials said, and are among a number of measures the Obama administration has been examining to fortify the accord in its final months in office. But the initiative has taken on new urgency since the election of President-elect Donald Trump created fresh uncertainty around the deal.
If agreed upon, the plan could reduce the odds of a sudden flashpoint between the U.S. and Iran over Tehran’s implementation of the deal once Mr. Trump takes office, Western officials say, by reducing its enriched-uranium stockpile well below the cap agreed to in the 2015 accord.
A better time to ask for this might have been before lifting the sanctions and turning over pallets full of cash.
HOLIDAY TERROR? Masked Intruder Kills Woman in Attack on Catholic Missionary Retirement Home in France.
The suspect is at large and no group has claimed responsibility for the murder.