Friday, June 30, 2017

Lunch video-----Children of Darkness - The Mental Illness of Social Justice Warriors

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Feinstein Uses Kent State National Guard Shootings to Justify Free Speech Restrictions

Feinstein Uses Kent State National Guard Shootings to Justify Free Speech Restrictions:

Image result for flickr commons images Dianne Feinstein"Any doubts about whether or not California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has admittedly sided with her Republican peers on a number of issues, is a true leftist at heart were squashed during a Senate hearing last week when the 25-year Senate veteran exposed herself as an enemy of freedom by using a national tragedy to argue against free speech.

According to Washington Examiner columnist Emily Jashinsky, Feinstein had been trying to justify the recent actions of the University of California, Berkeley, which has been banning conservative speakers left and right over alleged security concerns."


Will Sub-Saharan Africa’s Population Hit 10 Billion? 15 Billion? | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform

Will Sub-Saharan Africa’s Population Hit 10 Billion? 15 Billion? | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform:
"Here on VDARE.com, a demographer points out that all my scary graphs lately have been based on the U.N. Population Division’s optimistic-sounding “medium fertility variant” in which total fertility rates magically converge toward 1.85 babies per woman by the end of the century.
But what if Africans just go on doing what comes natural? 
The correspondent points out that 10 billion is within reach under the assumption of constant fertility and mortality rates. 
Indeed, the UN offers a “constant fertility” table with, I believe, declining mortality due to technological advances in health care in which Sub-Saharan Africa’s population in 2100 is 15,175,708,000."
Fifteen billion Sub-Saharans is really not likely to happen, but my main point is: 
I’m not making these numbers up. 
These all come from the United Nations, not me.
Also, the UN offers a super optimistic “instant replacement fertility” table in which the total fertility rate drops to replacement today and remains that for the rest of the century. 
Due to demographic momentum, the population of sub-Saharan Africa still grows from 969 million in 2015 to 1,237 million in 2035 to 1,444 million in 2050 to 1,731 million in 2100..."
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Professor: It's racist if you say Obama was born in Kenya or like to use his middle name (Hussein) - The College Fix

Professor: It's racist if you say Obama was born in Kenya or like to use his middle name (Hussein) - The College Fix:
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – President Barack Obama’s presidency allowed racist individuals an opportunity to publicly incite racism which has led to an increase in racist incidents, a Fairfield University professor said at a recent diversity conference.
The remarks came from communication professor Audra Nuru while discussing racial discourse in politically charged contexts during a session at the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities’ annual conference on diversity and equity.
“I’m not saying by any means that Barack Obama incited racism. 
I’m saying that him being in office, people who were already racist got a platform to address this publicly and reify it,” Nuru said.
Image result for intersectionalityAs examples of racism toward Obama, Nuru mentioned the birtherism movement and people who fixated on Obama’s middle name of Hussein
She also brought up when conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called Obama a “halfrican-American” in 2007.
The result of these incidents, Nuru said, “was that explicitly racist messages have steadily increased since 2010.”
...Another aspect of Nuru’s talk touched on the concept of intersectionality. During her communications courses, Nuru said she’ll hand out to her students a “Privilege Bingo!” sheet. 
...She said intersectionality means students can be privileged and oppressed at the same time.
...“You can have immense privilege in some areas, yet still be oppressed,” she said."

How they "think"-----This Is What Global Warming Could Do to New York City

This Is What Global Warming Could Do to New York City
"Science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson paints a vivid picture of life in New York City after the sea level rises more than 50 feet, drowning lower Manhattan and creating a forest of skyscrapers in his new book, New York 2140.
Numbers often fill my head. 

"While waiting for my building’s morose super to free my Jesus bug from the boathouse rafters where it had spent the night, I was looking at the little waves lapping in the big doors and wondering if the Black-Scholes formula could frame their volatility. 
The canals were like a perpetual physics class’s wave-tank demonstration— backwash interference, the curve of a wave around a right angle, the spread of a wave through a gap, and so on—it was very suggestive as to how liquidity worked in finance as well..."
Bla, bla, bla.....
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WATERWAYS: Current-day Venice provides a sneak peak at what a future commute in New York City could look like, if sea level rises sufficiently.juliohdez / Pixabay

You ought to know!

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Sarah Palin Suing New York Times For Defamati | The Daily Caller

Sarah Palin Suing New York Times For Defamati | The Daily Caller:

Image result for flickr commons images Sarah Palin"Sarah Palin is suing The New York Times for defamation, according to documents filed in federal court Tuesday that were obtained by The Daily Caller.

The lawsuit has to do with an editorial the NYT ran on June 14 that falsely smeared Palin as inciting the 2011 shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords by a mentally ill man. There is no evidence to support the NYT’s implication that Palin played a role in inciting the Giffords shooting."


Let’s Stop Pretending Medicaid Saves Lives.

JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON: Let’s Stop Pretending Medicaid Saves Lives. Remember Deamonte Driver? :

Remember Deamonte Driver? He was the 12-year-old who died of a toothache in 2007. The boy lived in Maryland and was enrolled in that state’s Medicaid program, which covers dental care for children, as all Medicaid programs are required to do.

Image result for Deamonte DriverBut Deamonte’s mother couldn’t find a dentist who would take Medicaid. At the time, only about 16 percent of Maryland dentists accepted Medicaid patients, and Deamonte was in dire need of basic dental care—as was his younger brother, DaShawn, who had six rotted teeth.

By the time Deamonte’s toothache got attention, bacteria from an abscessed tooth had spread to his brain. He underwent two emergency operations and six weeks of hospital care that cost more than $250,000. But it was too late, and Deamonte died. A routine, $80 tooth extraction could have saved his life.

Deamonte’s case prompted a national conversation about Medicaid. How had Maryland’s Medicaid program so thoroughly failed the Driver family? Why hadn’t they been able to find a dentist? And what is the point of being enrolled in Medicaid if there are no doctors or dentists willing to treat you?

Those questions were never really answered, but they’re as pertinent today as they were a decade ago—arguably more so, since we’re once again engaged in a national debate over health care reform and the fate of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. Then as now, the reality is that Medicaid doesn’t save lives. In some cases, like Deamonte Driver’s, it bars access to basic life-saving treatments.
It isn’t just that Medicaid doesn’t save lives, it’s that it has put Washington on a course to bankrupt the nation. 
But if you think of it as the world’s most expensive example of virtue signaling, it all makes sense."

AM Fruitcake

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History for June 30

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History for June 30 - On-This-Day.com
Lena Horne 1917 - Jazz singer, Susan Hayward 1919, Nancy Dussault 1936
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Florence Ballard (The Supremes) 1943, Vincent D'Onofrio 1959 - Actor ("Law and Order: Criminal Intent"), Mike Tyson 1966 - Boxer
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1908 - A meteor explosion in Siberia knocked down trees in a 40-mile radius and struck people unconscious some 40 miles away.
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1934 - Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long Knives."
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1936 - Margaret Mitchell’s book, "Gone with the Wind," was published.
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1953 - The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. It sold for $3,250.
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1971 - The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth. The three cosmonauts were found dead inside.
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1971 - The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified when Ohio became the 38th state to approve it. The amendment lowered the minimum voting age to 18.
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1977 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced his opposition to the B-1 bomber.
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1998 - Officials confirmed that the remains of a Vietnam War serviceman buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery were identified as those of Air Force pilot Michael J. Blassie.
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Donald Trump promises new petroleum pipeline to Mexico: 'It'll go right under the wall' - Washington Times

Donald Trump promises new petroleum pipeline to Mexico: 'It'll go right under the wall' - Washington Times:

Image result for Flicker Commons Images Natural Gas"President Trump on Thursday said he’s approved a new petroleum pipeline to Mexico as part of a broader plan to export American energy around the world.
“It’ll go right under the wall,” Mr. Trump said of the new pipeline during a speech at the Department of Energy.
His address coincides with the White House’s “Energy Week,” and the president used Thursday’s event to announce several new initiatives that he says are key to economic growth and kick-starting a “golden era of American energy.”"