The United States of Gluttony | The American Spectator

The United States of Gluttony | The American Spectator:
"It does us no good to have become so fat.
There is a real crisis in America.
The severity of the crisis transcends religious and political boundaries.
It has nothing to do with the shrinking of the ice caps; it has everything to do with the expansion of the waistbands.
Put down the burger.
It’s time to hear some harsh truth.
In a stinging piece for The Spectator USA, Will Lloyd noted, “just as the dapper, diffident, pink-cheeked gentleman was once the symbol of Britain’s international prestige, American power has its own archetypal figure: a greedy slob who cannot stop eating.”
Is this an exaggeration?
Absolutely not..."
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Pretty much.

Analysis: The Steele Dossier And The ‘Raw Intelligence’ Canard | The Daily Caller

Analysis: The Steele Dossier And The ‘Raw Intelligence’ Canard | The Daily Caller:

But the charitable defense faces new challenges, especially in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.
The problem with the “raw intelligence” canard is that it ignores questions about how Steele obtained his information and what the former spy did with it once he received it. The FBI also treated Steele’s allegations as more than mere raw intelligence. The bureau relied heavily on Steele’s work, even though it was unverified, to obtain spy warrants against Carter Page.
Steele and his client, Fusion GPS, processed, packaged and disseminated information from the dossier to the FBI, Justice Department, State Department, Capitol Hill, the Clinton campaign and the media.

Liberals Are Outraged That the BBC and Andrew Neil ‘Gave a Platform’ to Ben Shapiro, Editor In Chief of the Daily Wire and Bestselling Author With Millions of Social Media Followers

Liberals Are Outraged That the BBC and Andrew Neil ‘Gave a Platform’ to Ben Shapiro, Editor In Chief of the Daily Wire and Bestselling Author With Millions of Social Media Followers
"On Friday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro cut short an interview with British conservative Andrew Neil on the BBC show Politics Live. Neil was extremely hostile to Shapiro, but that is the style of his show. 
Shapiro apologized for going on the show unprepared, and people got a good laugh at the man who's famous for saying, "Facts don't care about your feelings." 
Yet some liberals voiced a very strange complaint about the episode: They attacked the BBC for "giving" Ben Shapiro "a platform."...

Will Black

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BBC made fringe electoral failure Nigel Farage into a household name by giving him a seat in every debate programme (while elected decent people
like @CarolineLucas got sidelined).

Now a day after claiming virtue when sacking Danny Baker it gives a platform to Ben Shapiro

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Calling Shapiro "to the right of Hitler," Black added, "Giving platforms to extremists like Ben Shapiro isn't justified just because they make a fool of themselves. 

Far-right fans often don't even notice that and if they do it just ramps up the victim status. 

All the whole thing does is spread the virus and make it seem normal."...

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History for May 15

History for May 15 - On-This-Day.com
Lyman Frank Baum 1856 - Author of children's books ("The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"), Pierre Curie 1859 - Physicist, Joseph Cotten (Joseph Cheshire Cotten) 1905 - Actor


James Mason (James Neville Mason) 1909 - Actor, Wavy Gravy (Hugh Nanton Romney) 1936 - Entertainer, peace activist, Trini Lopez (Trinidad López III) 1937 - Singer, guitarist


1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.


1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.

Rashida Tlaib Falsely Claims Palestinians Gave Jews 'Safe Haven' After Holocaust | Breitbart

Rashida Tlaib Falsely Claims Palestinians Gave Jews 'Safe Haven' After Holocaust | Breitbart:

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) falsely claimed that Palestinians provided a “safe haven” for Jews fleeing the Holocaust, ignoring both the collaboration of Palestinian leaders with Hitler and Palestinian opposition to Jewish immigration.
Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner, who flagged Tlaib’s flagrant distortion of historical fact, noted that she made her comments “on a podcast called ‘Skullduggery’ in an episode titled ‘From Rashida with Love.'”

The way we were-----Classic Movie Moments BLAZING SADDLES

Boob-tube-----SAM KINISON IN BACK TO SCHOOL

Climate Activist Patagonia Clothing Chain Founder: Buying Clothes off Other Chains is Evil | Watts Up With That?

Climate Activist Patagonia Clothing Chain Founder: Buying Clothes off Other Chains is Evil | Watts Up With That?

“I’d like to see an end to public corporations because we’re not going to revolutionise them, we’re not going to change them,” the self-confessed reluctant businessman told the Guardian..."

...Can anyone imagine the gentle hippies of the 70s demanding more government coercion and suppression of alternative life choices? 

Would Yvon Chouinard himself had said such things when he was younger?..."

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Could new water purifying tech replace chlorine? | CFACT

Could new water purifying tech replace chlorine? | CFACT
"Purifying drinking water has long been one of mankind’s greatest challenges.
In the developed world, it has largely been achieved through chlorination.
And while this approach has been wildly successful in eliminating deadly diseases like cholera, dysentery and typhoid, it is not without its critics who claim it may increase the risk of cancer.
Now comes a new approach to cleansing water that is making waves in the public health arena.
As reported in the magazine Materials Science and Engineering, Scientists at the National University of Science and Technology along with those from Derzhavin Tambov and Saratov Chernyshevsky State Universities, have uncovered a way to use “graphene” to purify water.
This makes the water drinkable, without further chlorination..."
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FBI Discovers Homegrown Islamic Terror Compound In Alabama | The Daily Caller

FBI Discovers Homegrown Islamic Terror Compound In Alabama | The Daily Caller:

The FBI has uncovered a homegrown, jihadist compound in Macon County, Alabama.
The FBI‘s search warrant described the property as a “makeshift military-style obstacle course” in a story first reported by Sinclair Broadcast Group. The land where the group gathered reportedly looked like an “abandoned dump,” and was led by Siraj Wahhaj, who allegedly trained children to commit school shootings in a similar terrorist breeding ground in New Mexico last year.