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IT’S TOO LATE FOR FLORENCE, BUT THERE’S ALWAYS ANOTHER HURRICANE (OR OTHER DISASTER) IN THE FUTURE: Canned water, 50-year shelf life. We store some in a shed, where it’ll be there even if the house gets knocked down.

THAT’S BECAUSE HE’S AN ECONOMIC ILLITERATE: Turkey’s high inflation is a result of the central bank’s wrong steps and Turkey must lower interest rates, President Tayyip Erdogan said.

High interest rates encourage people to make deposits or buy government bonds, reducing the amount of currency in circulation — which is anti-inflationary. This is basic Econ 101 stuff, which apparently isn’t a required class in Sultan School.

I’VE BEEN HAPPY WITH MINE: Should You Buy A Standby Generator?

NOW THEY’RE CALLING IT A BLUE TSUNAMI: 4 separate forecasts give House to Democrats.

It’s never too early to donate to — or even better, volunteer for — a vulnerable candidate.

JEFF SANDERS: Soros, Zuckerberg Sink Millions into Ohio Ballot Initiative That Could See Violent Felons Set Free. “Are they using Ohio as a ‘forward operating base’ in the Midwest to push their progressive agenda?”

What did the vast majority of Ohioans who aren’t violent felons ever do to them?

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Rage, Rage, Against the Dying of the Dream.

WHAT IF MICHELLE OBAMA RUNS FOR PREZ IN 2020? If that sounds like an odd question, check out the former first lady’s promo for her new book and the accompanying tour. The most interested observer on this one? Hillary Clinton. LifeZette’s Michele Blood has the key details.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: ‘Unconstitutional on its Face’: Judge Slaps Down Nearly 100-Year-Old Gun Law in California.

A federal judge in California just struck down a 95-year-old state law that previously banned firearms dealers from using images of handguns on their storefronts or in other outside advertisements.

The law in question did not prohibit firearms dealers from using images of shotguns or rifles in their advertising. Located at California Penal Code §26820, the statute reads, in full:

No handgun or imitation handgun, or placard advertising the sale or other transfer thereof, shall be displayed in any part of the premises where it can readily be seen from the outside.

State lawyers who argued to preserve the ancient law said this distinction was put in place–and should remain in place–in order to deter the impulsive purchase of a handgun for use in a crime or suicide.

U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley was not convinced. In an order granting summary judgment, Nunley described the law as “unconstitutional on its face.” Specifically, Nunley determined that the handgun image ban was a violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

So it isn’t a Second Amendment ruling, but the First has suffered enough injustices over the years, too.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: The FBI Mysteriously Close New Mexico Observatory. “The Sunspot Observatory is now currently closed to both staff and the public, with no word on why or when it will be open again.”

Fallen Angels storyline: They discovered we’re heading for a Maunder Minimum or worse and don’t want people to know.

Alternative: Another sighting of that cloaked alien spaceship.

UPDATE: “This is how it starts.”

It starts with a newspaper report about suspicious activity at a space research facility—government agents and military vehicles. The local sheriff gets angry and confused. Then the TV news reports feature interviews with locals saying things like, “Nothing really happens here very much. And since nobody knows, it could be almost anything.”

All that has happened over the last week at the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, 130 miles southwest of Roswell—and the situation is still a mystery.

The truth is out there.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: “Voila: The fauxconomist is now a meteorologist!”

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Bolivia is following Venezuela and Nicaragua – and that’s toward totalitarian rule.

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced last week that he will submit to his country’s Congress – where he enjoys a comfortable majority – a “law against lies,” which would penalize news about his government that he doesn’t like.

In several statements in recent weeks, Morales said he will propose a law to “punish liars” in the media and to “moralize” independent news organizations. The Inter-American Press Association has denounced that the proposed law would impose an all-out censorship on the media.

It’s ironic that Morales does even dare to publicly bring up the issue of lying. He has repeatedly promised to retire after finishing his constitutionally-allowed term, only to circumvent the rule of law to re-elect himself several times.

The silver lining is that a country can weather a comic-opera President for Life much more easily than it can a properly elected socialist.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: St. John’s College announces plan to lower tuition by $17,000 a year. “Elizabethtown College, a liberal arts school in central Pennsylvania, also announced plans Wednesday to reduce tuition by 32 percent, to $32,000, for the 2019-2020 academic year. Officials say it is a move to address the rising cost of higher education.”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Networks Silent On Attempted Stabbing of GOP Candidate By Anti-Trump Attacker.

Related: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) Jokes About Threatening Trump Supporters ‘All The Time.’

Earlier: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

THE FIX WAS IN: Rep. Jordan Says Thirteen Different FBI Agents Were Working with One Reporter. “If that doesn’t point to some kind of media strategy, leak strategy, I don’t know what does.”

SWARM BOAT TARGET: A U.S. Navy amphibious ship fires on a swerving –and small– target boat. The live fire exercise simulates an attack by a small boat. In the Persian Gulf Iran has threatened U.S. warships with “swarming” small boat attacks. In the Red Sea, Iranian proxies based in Yemen have used “robot” (unmanned) small boats to attack U.S. and coalition ships.

THE CREEPY LINE: Initial Screening in NYC Sold Out.

“An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it. The Creepy Line is a title taken from the words of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when during a 2010 interview he explained Google’s code of conduct: ‘The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.’ However, as Dr. Robert Epstein explains in the film, ‘Google crosses the creepy line every day.’ Containing interviews with Jordan B. Peterson, Peter Schweizer, and others, The Creepy Line offers an explosive look at the meddling and intervening done by Google and Facebook on their supposedly “neutral platforms.”

Here’s the trailer:

Looks good, and in plenty of time to induce those Halloween chills.

IT’S LITERALLY THE STATUTORY DEFINITION: UC Boulder labels ‘illegal alien’ a ‘problematic phrase.’

WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON, ANYWAY? Facebook Bans Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov on 9/11 – For Posting on How to Prevent Another 9/11. “It’s against Facebook’s ‘community standards’ to try to stop Jihadist attacks on Americans.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Lysenko is smiling.

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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Florence, Google and Much, Much More. “Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to a Cat 2 storm but she is still a deadly, life threatening storm. Don’t be a hero and don’t put other people’s lives at risk when they have to come save you. If you’ve been told to evacuate, you should find somewhere safe.”

Indeed.

HERE ARE THE RICHEST, POOREST STATES: Something else that Trump is, as the Washington Post put it regarding Hurricane Florence, “complicit.” Check it out, from LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby.

OH, THOSE WACKY ALGORITHMS: The FB Censorship Army Is In Attack Mode, Just In Time For Midterms.

The Zuck loves to smack us around. Mansplain us. Manhandle us. We’re like the red-headed stepchildren in the social media world, dontchaknow. We’re the scum of the social media family. We’re treated like absolute sh*t, us conservatives.

And we rarely get cover from other women, because meee-OW. Are you kidding me? Feminism be damned. Those hairy-armpitted, third-and-fourth-waved chicks are totally in it for themselves. They’re worse than any liberal man.

Except for Daddy Facebook. I don’t know what it is with that guy and his hatred for freedom and those who love it. Back on September 7th, Ashley wrote a post about Beto O’Rourke renting a VA hall for a rally. And how he wasn’t too pleased with all the American flags around. Of course, like ALL of our posts, she cited the source for the post, which was from Erick Erickson who pulled it originally from the Navasota Examiner, which is the local (online) paper in Navasota, Texas.

We know what this means. This means that we’ve been flagged by Facebook as one of those “oooooh, y’all are slinging fake news around” sites because, bottom line – we’re conservative. Just so you know, that “third-party fact-checker?” That would be Politifact, which makes me laugh out loud so hard I’m getting a migraine. If you look at the actual post itself, there are Actual People who use Actual SNOPES as a third-party fact-checker, too.

Please. For the love of God. Stop doing that.

I’m not sure how, as Glenn has suggested, it’s possible to break up a social networking site. But it certainly seems like something the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division should be looking into.