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Friday, August 25, 2017

Starvation: It’s a Small Price to Pay for Socialism! | Power Line

Starvation: It’s a Small Price to Pay for Socialism! | Power Line
"This video is pretty entertaining. Ami Horowitz interviewed New York millennials, asking about their views on the all-important question of income equality.
Actually, anyone who thinks about the subject for two minutes should be able to figure out that a society without income inequality would scarcely be worth living in.
But these people are without a clue.

Horowitz continues with questions about Venezuela, where starving people are fighting over dead rats.

New York millennials (the ones in the video, anyway) claim to believe that poverty is a small price to pay for socialism...

Here it is:

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Lunch video-----Blue Angels Spectacular at Oshkosh - Sat 29 July 17

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Barack Obama’s Legacy of Lies and Broken Promises on Afghanistan | Power Line

Barack Obama’s Legacy of Lies and Broken Promises on Afghanistan | Power Line:

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"What is galling is that because he is a Democrat, Obama was never held accountable for his fecklessness (or worse). The press, and the establishment in general, allowed him to skate. This is a big topic, but let’s limit it to Afghanistan for the moment. Glenn Reynolds reminds us of Obama’s false claims and promises:"

Pilot freaks out passengers with ‘horrific’ tornado warning | New York Post

Pilot freaks out passengers with ‘horrific’ tornado warning | New York Post
"Ladies and gentlemen, buckle up for some tornadoes!

The pilot of a Newark-bound United flight delivered a chilling warning that kicked up a storm among his terrified passengers, according to a report.
He announced that the flight — which had already been delayed in Chicago two hours on Tuesday — would encounter terrible storms, including twisters, passengers told NJ.com.
“He seemed angry,” said Pamela Kent, a Princeton resident who was traveling with her daughter Jessica.
“He said, ‘We’re going to be flying through horrific storms, including tornadoes.’”
Adding to the apocalyptic atmosphere, the pilot also instructed passengers on the overbooked flight to “get to know your neighbors,” Kent said.
The pilot then returned to the cockpit and closed the door, she added.
The passengers were so terrified that a flight attendant made an announcement to try to allay fears blowing through the cabin — saying the pilot didn’t mean it would be unsafe to fly..."
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A Brief History of Minimum-Wage Disasters - WSJ

A Brief History of Minimum-Wage Disasters - WSJ:
"Democrats have been debating whether to tolerate congressional candidates who are pro-life, but when it comes to economic issues party leaders seem to have decided they’re all Sandernistas now. For example, there is absolute unanimity among senior elected Democrats in Washington that government should dictate a higher minimum wage.
But this is another issue that deserves debate.
New research shows the damage that minimum-wage laws have done to U.S. workers—and not just those employed in restaurants.

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The latest warning against politicians committing economic malpractice arrives in a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. “People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs,” by Grace Lordan and David Neumark, examines decades of data to see what happens when legislated wage increases give employers a financial incentive to replace humans with technology.
Even before the publication of this report, restaurant workers were already learning what happens when political pressure to pay higher wages hits an industry that has the ability to automate.
After a union harassment campaign against McDonald’s over its entry-level wages, the company accelerated the deployment of digital technology that allows customers to tap their orders on a screen instead of talking to a cashier.
In the face of city and state mandates to raise wages, the chain has continued to automate more functions in its restaurants, and investors have been cheering.
McDonald’s shares have risen more than 30% this year..."

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Jewish activists target removal of Peter Stuyvesant monuments | New York Post

Jewish activists target removal of Peter Stuyvesant monuments | New York Post:
"Move over Christopher Columbus, it’s Peter Stuyvesant’s turn to get scorched in the monuments war.

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A Jewish activist group is now demanding Mayor de Blasio scrub all traces of the anti-Semitic Dutch governor from city property — even Stuyvesant High School — as part of his campaign to rid the city of “symbols or hate.” Jewish activists target removal of Peter Stuyvesant monuments

Jewish activists target removal of Peter Stuyvesant monuments

“Peter Stuyvesant was an extreme racist who targeted Jews and other minorities including Catholics and energetically tried to prohibit them from settling in then New Amsterdam,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the head of the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center.
“New York, of all American cities, which boasts such important Jewish history and claims such a present day vibrant Jewish community, should take the lead in denouncing Stuyvesant’s bigotry.”...
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Why Does Anyone Listen to James Clapper Anymore? | Roger L. Simon

Why Does Anyone Listen to James Clapper Anymore? | Roger L. Simon
"James Clapper is evidently concerned Donald Trump is dangerous.
The former director of national intelligence questions the president's "fitness for office" and believes he behaves in such an erratic manner that he might bomb North Korea and bring on Armageddon.
Further, via Bridget Johnson:

Clapper slammed "this behavior and this divisiveness and the complete intellectual, moral and ethical void that the president of the United States exhibits," and wondered "how much longer does the country have to, to borrow a phrase, endure this nightmare."

Wow!...

Well, Clapper should know something about "ethical voids."
He also should have a good idea how long we will "endure" anything, nightmare or otherwise, because he knew what nearly every one of us said on the phone or wrote in our emails and texts at any time -- or could have found out, if he had wanted to, almost instantly.

This is clear although Clapper tried to hide the truth by telling one of the most egregious lies I have ever heard from the lips of an American official, a lie meant to cover up an action by our government so evil it makes the lies of Obama, Hillary, or Trump almost inconsequential.

Virtually every U.S. citizen is now under some level of surveillance by our intelligence agencies -- our privacy is dead -- but James Clapper tried to deceive us all about it and make us think it isn't so.

But don't believe me.
Believe Wikipedia, which seems to have it right in this instance:

On March 12, 2013, during a United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Senator Ron Wyden quoted NSA director Keith B. Alexander’s keynote speech at the 2012 DEF CON. Alexander had stated that “Our job is foreign intelligence” and that “those who would want to weave the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people, is absolutely false.... From my perspective, this is absolute nonsense.” Wyden then asked Clapper, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” He responded, “No, sir.” Wyden asked “It does not?” and Clapper said, “Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly.” [31]

When Edward Snowden was asked during his January 26, 2014, TV interview in Moscow what the decisive moment was or why he blew the whistle, he replied: “Sort of the breaking point was seeing the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress. ... Seeing that really meant for me there was no going back.”[32]

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Mike Rowe DESTROYS Facebook Commenter Who Called Him a 'White Supremacist' | Daily Wire

Mike Rowe DESTROYS Facebook Commenter Who Called Him a 'White Supremacist' | Daily Wire:

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"Dirty Jobs and The Way I Heard It podcast host Mike Rowe does not take kindly to Facebook commenters who suggest he might have sympathy for "white supremacists," one unfortunate fellow discovered Wednesday morning.

In what can only be described as a "total floor-wiping" posted to the social media network, Rowe absolutely destroyed a man named Chuck Adkins who suggested that Rowe favored a sort-of anti-intellectualism, and was too afraid to confront a difficult political issue because Rowe feared alienating his fan base."

Piglets saved from a barn fire were served as sausage to the firefighters who rescued them

Piglets saved from a barn fire were served as sausage to the firefighters who rescued them
"A litter of piglets and two sows were recently served up as dinner to the firefighters who saved them from a February barn fire.

Sixs months ago, British farmer Rachel Rivers promised the Pewsey firefighters that she would bring them organic sausages when the animals were slaughtered, according to the BBC.

But Rivers and the firefighters have faced criticism for the agreement.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said the pigs weren't any better off, despite surviving the fire..."

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