NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Jane Fonda: Oil Execs, Politicians Who Don’t Support Climate Change Agenda Should Be Tried Like Nazi War Criminals.
Hmmm. How to square the above eliminationist rhetoric with this?
“Inciting to violence” (via clip art?!) — it’s OK when we do it!
IT’S COME TO THIS: NFL Arranges Private Workout For Colin Kaepernick: “NFL clubs were informed today that a private workout will be held for Colin Kaepernick on Saturday in Atlanta. Session will include on-field work and an interview. All clubs are invited to attend, and video of both the workout and interview will be made available to clubs. The NFL arranged this workout opportunity for Colin Kaepernick, and teams will have the opportunity to evaluate his readiness and level of interest in resuming his NFL career. His agents have said he wants to return to the NFL, and the league hopes this provides that chance.”
WHERE’S SMOD WHEN YOU NEED HIM? The Morning Briefing: Please Climate, Kill Earth So I Don’t Have to Hear About Greta Thunberg Again.
LATE EATING IS BAD FOR YOU IN ALL SORTS OF WAYS: Eating late may mean higher heart disease risk for women. It’s bad for your digestion and tends to make you fat. Which is sad, as I do love a late-night pizza.
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‘GO BACK TO CALIFORNIA:’ Wave of newcomers fuels backlash in Boise.
This city sure knows how to roll up the welcome mat — that is, if you happen to move here from California.
Just consider last week’s mayoral election. It was the most competitive race in recent memory, a referendum on growth in the rapidly expanding capital of Idaho. And candidate Wayne Richey ran on a very simple platform: Stop the California invasion.
His basic plan to fulfill that campaign promise? “Trash the place.”
Richey figured that would be the best way to keep deep-pocketed Golden Staters from moving to his leafy hometown. He blames them for pushing home prices and rents up so high that Boiseans can’t afford to live here on the meager wages most Idaho jobs pay.
At a candidate forum in late October, he had a terse answer for the question: “If you were king or queen for the day, what one thing would you do to improve Boise?”
“A $26-billion wall,” he said, laughing, drawing out each word for maximum emphasis. As in build one. Around Idaho.
Why not a Welcome Wagon strategy instead, to remind voters not to bring into Idaho the same leftist ideology that caused them to flee California in the first place?
(Bumped.)
I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT GLENN REYNOLDS’ CARBON FOOTPRINT: Arnold Schwarzenegger runs errands in tank-like SUV.
I look forward to Greta Thunberg scolding such a blatant example of eco-hypocrisy.
Earlier: Get Woke, Go Broke: How Climate Activist Arnold Schwarzenegger Became Box Office Poison.
YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG: What Hillary Clinton doesn’t understand about Brexit.
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ‘76: The Top 22 Biden Gaffes of the 2020 Campaign… So Far.
EVEN THE DEMS’ WITNESSES SAID TRUMP IS RIGHT ABOUT UKRAINE CORRUPTION: That 18-page, single-spaced memorandum circulated late Monday by the GOP staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) provides a devastating look at how many of the witnesses who have testified behind closed-doors supported Trump’s view on Ukraine.
Given how HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has acted the part of the petty tyrant, including rejecting Republican witnesses and instructing those who have already testified not to answer specific questions put to them by GOPers, don’t be surprised if next El Jefe takes away GOP staff office space, orders their computers permanently unplugged or some other similarly spiteful action.
OLD AND BUSTED: It is very bad for media figures to identify whistleblowers.
The new hotness? ABC scrambles to figure out identity of Amy Robach leaker, who goes by ‘Ignotus.’
Will Ashley Bianco get her job at CBS back?
UPDATE: The Media Holds A Massive Double Standard About Naming Whistleblowers.
AYN RAND DIDN’T INTEND FOR THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE TO BE A HOW-TO GUIDE: Mass extinction — The only way to tackle Extinction Rebellion is by dissecting its ideology.
The only way to tackle Extinction Rebellion is by dissecting its ideology, by explaining what it would mean for human societies if its demands were to be met. The world has already rejected industrialized socialism in the shape of the Soviet Union. The case needs ceaselessly to be made that Extinction Rebellion’s brand of primitive, anti-industrial socialism would be an even surer way to mass poverty.
Read the whole thing.
NEW EMMY CATEGORY ANNOUNCED: BEST COVERING FOR A PEDOPHILE.
From the Babylon Bee, America’s Paper of Record.
Related: CNN’s Brian Stelter Exposes Trump’s DWTS Tweets and Ignores ABC’s Epstein Scandal.
TO THINK PEOPLE WERE WILLING TO BRIBE THEIR KIDS’ WAY IN TO THIS DEATHTRAP: USC Student Found Dead In Off-Campus Housing Brings Semester Death Toll To 9.
WHY ARE “PROGRESSIVE” INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF SEXUAL ABUSE? McDonald’s workers sue to address ‘systemic problem’ of sexual harassment.
Flashback: Since-dismissed CEO Steve Easterbrook vowed to turn McDonald’s into a ‘modern, progressive burger company’ in 2015.
THOSE VIOLENT SWEDES: As Bombings Spread, Denmark Closes Border With Sweden. “Denmark will temporarily reinstate border controls with Sweden and step up police work along the border after a series of violent crimes and explosions around Copenhagen that Danish authorities say were carried out by perpetrators from Sweden.”
LAWRENCE PERSON: Austin Half-Asses Its Homeless Problem. “So transients camping on business sidewalks are right out, but open public spaces next to ordinary citizens are evidently A-OK to camp and shoot-up on.”
Still, better than San Francisco where they’re fully-assing the problem.
JIM TREACHER: Democrat Sen. Mazie Hirono: ‘Believe in Climate Change as Though It’s a Religion.’
Many years ago, the journalist Michael Kinsley noted an odd truth about American political life: “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” While there are any number of other gaffes that a politician can make (please refer to anything ever uttered by Joe Biden), this particular type of screw-up has become known as a “Kinsley gaffe.” It can be very embarrassing for a politician to accidentally tell the truth. He’ll usually catch himself and start lying again immediately, and his partisans will pretend to believe the falsehoods over the truth, but everybody still knows he screwed up. He can lie about being momentarily and unintentionally honest, but he can’t unsay it.
Or she! It’s 2019, and it’s time we all recognized that women can be every bit as deceptive and untruthful as men. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) certainly is.
Read the whole thing.
AN OPEN LETTER TO GRETA THUNBERG: “You are not a moral leader. But I will tell you what you are.” “Yes, we have betrayed you: by capitulating the world of leadership to bored, attention-deficit children who spout bromides, platitudes and slogans that a rudderless and morally relativistic culture accepts because a significant number of its denizens have become intellectually bankrupt and morally lazy.”
LOOKING FOR A SAVIOR, LESS THAN THREE MONTHS BEFORE IOWA: Can Former Mass. Governor Deval Patrick Rescue the Dems in 2020?
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