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Archive for 2019
November 17, 2019
SO IN OTHER WORDS, THEY’RE NOT STUPID: Poll: 53% of Black Voters, 60% of Other Minority Voters Say Media Are Trying to Help Impeach Trump.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What are the Best and Worst U.S. Airports of 2019?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University invites students to ‘Decolonize your Thanksgiving.’ Meh. We should be celebrating colonialism.
AT AMAZON, Deal of the Day, Louisville Ladder AA2210 Elite Aluminum Attic Ladder, 375 Pound Load Capacity.
NEWSPAPERS CONCERN TROLL THEIR HOMETOWN SPORTS TEAMS, INSULT THEIR FANS: For an organization that values public relations, skipping Colin Kaepernick’s workout seems like a strange decision for the Cowboys
No other industry trashes its customers like the DNC-MSM.
Related: Breaking: Kaepernick’s Kaper.
CAN YOU SOLVE THIS ‘CHICKEN-AND-EGG DILEMMA’ ON THE ORIGIN OF LIFE? NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace claims there is no solution: Which came first, the machine that makes the protein required for life or the protein required to make the machine that makes the protein that’s required for life?
HA HA: Impeachment poll: Trump’s approval rating back up to 50%. Oft evil will shall evil mar.
RADICAL CHIC, THE GERITOL YEARS: Jane Fonda Cheers From Safe Location As Her Friends Are Arrested.
The irony isn’t lost on reasonable people that Jane Fonda, who wishes to usher in a socialist utopia in America via the Green New Deal, is unwilling to continue to be arrested because of the likely length of her next sentence. If she is put away for a month, she says it will interfere with her upcoming filming schedule for the next season of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie. She would suffer financially, as would the production and her cast mates.
As Mark Steyn once wrote, “When the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dumped some of his closest cabinet colleagues to extricate himself from a political crisis, the Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe responded: ‘Greater love hath no man than to lay down his friends for his life.’”
Related: “Obviously I’m trying to recycle, although that’s hard to do in Beverly Hills.”
DANIEL JOHN SOBIESKI: Time to Subpoena Alexandra Chalupa.
Thanks to disgraced FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who told us in a text message that “POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing,” we know that President Obama was kept fully informed about the deep-state coup against President Trump. Liar and leaker James Clapper has thrown Obama under the bus by saying the plotters would not have proceeded without President Obama’s approval.
In a CNN interview deep-state conspirator and perjurer James Clapper gave with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, he points his finger directly at Obama as leader of the coup against Donald Trump. . . .
Now we find out, thanks to Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch that DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa, who worked with Hillary Clinton to get Ukraine dirt on Trump, visited the Obama White House 27 times and even had meetings with the alleged Ukraine whistleblower whose name dare not be spoken, Eric Ciaramella.
This is the whistleblower coached by Adam Schiff and who colluded with him, a deep-state CIA agent whom we are told might wet his pants out of fear if his identity was publicly acknowledged. Ironically, as I noted recently, in a major goof-up, Schiff forgot to redact Ciaramella’s name in a posted PDF of the transcript of Ambassador Bill Taylor’s testimony.
Read the whole thing.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Two Patients Reported with Black Death Bubonic Plague in China.
REP. ELISE STEFANIK, HERE’S THE LEFT’S REWARD FOR YOUR COURAGE: Geez, why does it appear that being a smart, courageous, tough young woman only counts if you are part of the Resistance, not one of those mean, bigoted, unsophisticated bumpkin Republicans who are shredding it?
NOT AS FUNNY AS IT SHOULD BE, THESE DAYS: Historians Still Unable To Determine How Americans Were Able To Build Hoover Dam.
OK, I’LL ACCEPT THE PREMISE. BUT IT BEGS THE QUESTION: WHY DOES ABC BELIEVE THAT THEIR FELLOW DEMOCRATS ARE A LAWLESS CESSPIT OF SEXISM AND RACISM? Kamala Harris’ Campaign In Free Fall, ABC Blames ‘America.’
Perhaps when her campaign is over, ABC will hire Kamala the Cop to bring their whistleblower to justice.
SURPRISE! MARRIAGE WORKS BETTER THAN SHACKING UP: New survey of 9,000 couples turns up, among much else, the interesting conclusion that “married adults are more satisfied with their relationship and more trusting of their partners than those who are cohabiting.” Who knew?
UKRAINE 2014 IS BEING REPEATED HERE IN 2019: Mickey Kaus’s observations about the parallels between Ukraine 2014 and the U.S. 2019 ought to open some eyes. Remember John McCain speaking in the square and Victoria Nuland passing out cookies to the protesters who ultimately overthrew a corrupt, but democratically elected government?
Look close enough and you just might see McCain’s face transform into that of Adam Schiff and Nuland’s into Marie Yovanovitch. As Kaus observes: “It’s not the job of the State Department to observe every jot and tittle of another country’s election laws. It’s the job of the State Department to pursue U.S. interests. If that also involves meddling in another country’s politics to a degree that would send Robert Mueller into permanent state of shock if Russia did it to us — well, welcome to the world.”
Worth thinking about.
November 16, 2019
AT AMAZON, Happy Holideals.
LEFTY FLASHBACK: CounterPunch: Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA.
OPEN THREAD: Insert pithy saying here.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Charlie’s Angels (2019) Review: Man-Hating Woketards Kill Another Franchise. “Based on a dismal opening night, and the fact that at the first screening of Charlie’s Angels in my local theater I was the only person there (something that hasn’t happened to me in 30 years), it seems safe to predict director-screenwriter Elizabeth Banks has doomed her Angels to box office oblivion.”
(Via Newsalert.)