THE COMING CRASH OF THE GOVERNMENT DEBT BUBBLE: “It’s going to be a hell of a crash. And the thi…

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"THE COMING CRASH OF THE GOVERNMENT DEBT BUBBLE: 
“It’s going to be a hell of a crash. 
And the thing is, most of the occupants of the bus are acting like there is nothing wrong.”

Well, that was pretty much how they acted before the last crash, which was a government-induced debt bubble." Posted at 7:01 am by Ed Driscoll 

Lunch video-----Democratic Socialism is Still Socialism

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Military Thanks Trump for Transgender Ban: ‘Courageous Decision’

Military Thanks Trump for Transgender Ban: ‘Courageous Decision’:

"Seventeen “flag-rank” officers who wrote to former President Obama expressing their concerns on his decision to allow transgender individuals to serve in the U.S. military have now sent a letter of thanks to President Donald Trump for his decision to reverse the policy.
“We write today to express our gratitude to you for making the extremely courageous decision to reverse President Obama’s transgender social experiment,” the letter, sent last week, said."

First they came for your pets-----Scientists tally the environmental impact of feeding meat to our cats and dogs. It’s huge - LA Times

Scientists tally the environmental impact of feeding meat to our cats and dogs. It’s huge - LA Times:
"You’ve heard about the carbon footprint, but what about the carbon paw-print? 
According to a new study, U.S. cats’ and dogs’ eating patterns have as big an effect as driving 13.6 million cars for a year.
The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE, reveals how our furry, four-legged companions’ consumption of meat and other animal products adds a sizable, and largely overlooked, climate cost.
When it comes to environmental effects, meat-eating takes the cake. 
...The same amount of beef, however, can be responsible for up to 1,000 kilograms of CO2 — a worrisome figure given that this greenhouse gas is largely responsible for the significant warming of the Earth’s climate. 
That’s not even counting the livestock’s water usage footprint, which dwarfs that of agricultural crops. ...
Notably, dogs and cats actually consumed about 33% of the animal-derived calories that humans did, perhaps because their diets are generally more meat-heavy than ours, Orkin said. 
On the other end, they also produce about 30% of the feces that humans do (and much of that gets thrown in the trash in plastic bags, instead of treated the way that human waste is).
In short, Orkin concluded, American dogs and cats eat enough animal product to account for about 64 million tons of methane and nitrous oxide, two other powerful greenhouse gases. 
That’s about the same impact on our warming climate as driving 13.6 million cars for a year..."

5 Cities That Got F**ked By the Olympics - Hit & Run : Reason.com

5 Cities That Got F**ked By the Olympics - Hit & Run : Reason.com: 
"...#5
"Montreal 1976
The mayor of Montreal insisted their games would be self-financed. "The Montreal Olympics can no more have a deficit, than a man can have a baby," Jean Drapeau said at the time.
It took Quebec taxpayers 30 years to pay off the $1.5 billion debt for the "Big Owe," as the the olympic stadium built in Montreal was derisively called. 
The debt was paid off mostly with a special tax on tobacco. 
Quebec then managed a province-wide ban on smoking in public spaces and workplaces just a few months before the debt was paid.
...As Vice noted last year, the Montreal games should have been a lesson for other cities interested in the Olympics. 
Not likely. Paris and Los Angeles won't be the last suckers to go for the fool's gold."

#1 This day 1945-----Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers - On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

NRA's Dana Loesch To The New York Times: "We've Had It With Your 'Fake News', We're Coming For You" | Zero Hedge

NRA's Dana Loesch To The New York Times: "We've Had It With Your 'Fake News', We're Coming For You" | Zero Hedge:
"Conservative political pundit and National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch took on The New York Times in an epic new video posted by the NRA in which she vows to "fisk the New York Times" just before concluding "in short, we're coming for you."

"We the people have had it.  We've had it with your narratives, your propaganda, your 'fake news'."

 "We've had it with your constant protection of your democrat overlords.  Your refusal to acknowledge any truth that upsets the fragile construct that you believe is real life." 

"And we've had it with your pretentious, tone-deaf assertion that you
are in any way truth or fact-based journalism." 

"Consider this a shot across your proverbial bow." 

"We're going to fisk the New York Times and find out just what deep rich means to this old grey hag, this untrustworthy, dishonest drag that has subsisted on the welfare of mediocrity for one, two, three, more decades?" 

"We're going to laser-focus on your so-called 'honest pursuit of truth.' In short, we're coming for you." 

While it's nearly impossible to know which 'fake news' story from the New York Times (there are just so many) may have pushed Dana over the edge, it was dropped right around the same time that the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) dumped new DOJ emails that seemed to reveal several mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times, colluding with the Loretta Lynch DOJ and James Comey FBI to kill any reporting about Lynch's now-infamous meeting with Bill Clinton on that Phoenix tarmac back in June 2016.

As we noted yesterday, the following email came from Mark Landler of the New York Times who almost apologized for even inquiring about the Lynch/Clinton meeting saying that he had been "pressed into service" to write about the topic.

But it's probably nothing, we're sure the New York Times applies the same standards of leniency when writing about the Trump administration."

You ought to know!

The Scandal That Matters - WSJ

The Scandal That Matters - WSJ:

"The media largely has ignored the affair, the ho-hum coverage summed up by a New York Times piece suggesting it may be nothing more than an “overblown Washington story, typical of midsummer.” But even without evidence of espionage or blackmail, this ought to be an enormous scandal.

Because based on what we already know, the Awan story is—at the very least—a tale of massive government incompetence that seemingly allowed a family of accused swindlers to bilk federal taxpayers out of millions and even put national secrets at risk. In a more accountable world, House Democrats would be forced to step down."

State Licensure Mandate Ensnarls Another Hair Braider [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

State Licensure Mandate Ensnarls Another Hair Braider [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The state of Michigan issued a cease-and-desist order to a hair braider in a Kalamazoo salon last year for washing a customer’s hair without a license.
A state investigator discovered an unlicensed hair braider had rinsed out the hair of a customer who had arrived with her hair already shampooed.
Michigan law requires establishments that provide various haircare services such as hair cleansing to have a state-issued cosmetology license.
To obtain a license, students must pay an institution for 1,500 hours of training (in the case of one Kalamazoo-area beauty school, $13,800) and then complete a state exam.
Hair braiding licenses are optional but getting a cosmetology license to legally shampoo hair for pay requires 25 times as much mandated training as a residential builder, who builds homes for a living.
Kimberly Buddin-Crawford, policy counsel with the ACLU of Michigan, said this state has more occupational licenses than almost any other state..."
Read on!

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