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December 28, 2018
REVEALED PREFERENCES: I’m surprised by the readers of The Washington Post — they’re so Trumpian on illegal immigration. “Reading these comments, I believe the American culture has changed radically since the fall of 2016, when Trump was painted as a racist for saying the situation at the border had to change. I think, for all the press resistance to Trump’s fight against illegal immigration, minds have changed. It seems that Democrats are no longer using the idea that it’s racist and hateful to want to control immigration. I feel there’s been much less talk about the suffering of the children, but when a child dies, like this poor boy, it will be reported, and it gives us an opportunity to see how Americans are reacting to a sad story about a child. I’m amazed at the reaction in The Washington Post. It’s so Trumpian!”
People are tired of having their own compassion weaponized against them, perhaps.
OPEN THREAD: If, you know, you guys can find anything to talk about.
LOOKING TO MAKE A YEAR-END CHARITABLE DONATION? I recommend the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which has been fighting higher-ed totalitarianism for many years.
#WINNING: Trump Imposes Pay Freeze on Civilian Feds for 2019. “After months of speculation, President Trump followed through on a March proposal and instituted a pay freeze for federal civilian employees. In an executive order issued Friday, Trump confirmed that pay rates would remain stagnant next year for non-military federal workers. The news comes despite statements from the president in September that he would ‘study’ whether to provide feds with a pay raise after all. By contrast, members of the military services will receive a 2.6 percent raise in 2019.”
ANNALS OF AGE DISCRIMINATION: If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours.
COULD ZUCKERBERG BE SADDER? Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Florida Paper Does About-Face and Says Sheriff Scott Israel Has Gotta Go. As Jeff Dunetz writes in response:
Ron DeSantis is sworn in as the new governor of Florida on January 8th. Hopefully, before the sun sets on the 9th Sheriff Scott Israel will be looking for a new job.
Faster, please.™
PLUTO IS A PLANET, YOU KNOW: Beyond Pluto: Spacecraft to fly by distant space rock ‘Ultima Thule’ on New Year’s Day.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Leftist Jewish Cafe Owner In San Francisco Told To Get Out For Supporting Israel.
You can be gay, intern in the Obama White House, work on Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, and serve as the Silicon Valley fundraising director for the Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, but if you also happen to be Jewish and support the existence of Israel, hard leftists want you gone, as 29-year-old Manny Yekutiel found out the hard way when he opened a café/bookstore in San Francisco’s Mission District.
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But on Wednesday, protesters associated with the Lucy Parsons Project, a self-described “radical black queer direction action group,” joined other groups to yell Yekutiel was a “Zionist gentrifer,” and “Zionists out of the Mission!” The Lucy Parsons Project even tweeted their instructions to do so:
To paraphrase Monty Python’s classic sketch on the Royal Navy, there is no anti-Semitism in the left these days, and when I say none, I do mean that there is a certain amount.
And it seems to be growing rapidly.
Earlier: The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco’s Housing Crisis.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The Department of Justice should be treating these “protesters” as conspiring to deprive people of their civil rights — since, you know, that’s what they’re doing.
LIFE UNDER LATE SOCIALISM:
THE YEAR IN SPACE: From the Falcon Heavy’s first flight to the solar system’s last frontier.
GREENS…OR REDS? WEATHERMAN SAYS ‘ECONOMIC DOWNTURN COULD BE GOOD FOR THE PLANET.’
You know you’re in an exclusive club when you’re repeating the radical environmental catch-22 already expressed by John Kerry and Claire McCaskill.
LAME-DUCK GOPERS LIMP HOME, LAME-DUCK DEMS KNEECAP GOPERS: Required reading at The Last Refuge comparing the out-going GOP House majority in 2018 with the out-going Democrat majority in 2010:
“While 63 Democrat seats were lost in the November 2010 election (and six Democrat Senate seats), those exiting Marxists, despite just having suffered the worst defeat in almost 100 years, audaciously –and unapologetically– voted in the December 2010 lame-duck session, to fully fund President Obama’s next two years in office.
“This was done by Speaker Nancy Pelosi specifically to block the incoming GOP wave from upending the priorities of the Obama administration in 2011. That was called the ‘Porkulous’ spending bill; and the Democrat-Marxists didn’t give a snit about how it looked.
“Now, did Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Leader Mitch McConnell do anything as bold to fund and secure the budgetary priorities of President Donald Trump in this lame-duck?”
Lesson (Just one among many): A One-and-a-Half Party system isn’t a Two-Party system. Go here for the rest.
SAVE THE EARTH, DRIVE A FORD RAPTOR!
To equal the hydrocarbon emissions of about a half-hour of yard work with this two-stroke leaf blower, you’d have to drive a Raptor for 3,887 miles, or the distance from Northern Texas to Anchorage, Alaska.
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When the Raptor (and the Fiat) was running Phase 2 of its tests on the dyno, it was cleaning the air of hydrocarbons. Yes, there were actually fewer hydrocarbons in the Raptor’s exhaust than in the air it — and we — breathed. In the Raptor’s case, the ambient air contained 2.821 ppm of total hydrocarbons, and the amount of total hydrocarbons coming out the Raptor’s tailpipe measured 2.639 ppm.
So if you want to go green, ditch the yard equipment and blow leaves using a Raptor.
the lefty denizens of the California Bay Area, who are obsessed with the imagined horrors of leaf blowers, will be the first to switch, I’m sure.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The Huffington Post covers “The Thinnest Skins In Media In 2018,” beginning with Jake Tapper:
What follows is a list of our favorite media piss-babies and corncobs of the past year. A quick note to the piss-babies and corncobs themselves: Any communication with me regarding this post will be considered on the record. If any of you contact me to complain about your inclusion on the list, I will be obliged to publish the email, direct message, voicemail, what have you. You have been warned, Tapper.
Heh. Pass the popcorn and read the whole thing.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS, LOW LIBIDO EDITION: “This is a sexual state of emergency.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Neo’s take on Chuck Schumer and immigration, then and now.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: You’re Probably Pouring Oil the Wrong Way.
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BRE PAYTON OF THE FEDERALIST HAS PASSED AWAY: I never met her in person but I loved her work on The Federalist. Morgan Murtaugh has the sad, sad news.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness can be stressful.