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.

Men ordered not to look at women during Ramadan in Iran as hardliners tighten control amid nuclear deal row

Men ordered not to look at women during Ramadan in Iran as hardliners tighten control amid nuclear deal row
"Men in Iran have been ordered not to look at women during Ramadan as part of a round of draconian restrictions imposed by the increasingly isolated regime.
In a sign of frustration with growing civil discontent and economic pain caused by US sanctions, hardliners in Iran's government are forcing through unusually strict social diktats to bring people into line.
The country's judiciary has announced that those eating in public during the fasting period are also in breach of laws and will be prosecuted..."
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Celebrities who lecture on climate change---Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming--James George shared a link.
"Celebrities who lecture on climate change while flying private luxury jets are like televangelists who proclaim that alcohol, gambling, and adultery will lead you straight to hell, and then get caught drunk walking into a casino with a prostitute on each arm."

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Superstar rapper Drake, who rails against climate change, buys massive private jet

The rapper Drake, who has surpassed The Beatles in song popularity, is now the proud owner of a 767 cargo jet despite his vocal climate change…

Lunch video-----the future

Noon-toon

Feds Release 168,000 Illegal Immigrants Into U.S. Amid Record-Breaking Month For Border Crossings | Daily Wire

Feds Release 168,000 Illegal Immigrants Into U.S. Amid Record-Breaking Month For Border Crossings | Daily Wire:

The most astounding statistic in the report, though, may be that the Department of Homeland Security estimates that "1% of the populations of Guatemala and Honduras have made the journey north to the U.S. and jumped the border in just the past seven months," according to statement made earlier this week by acting DHS secretary Kevin McAleenan.
The Washington Times reports that, if the record-breaking trend continues (and it has shown no sign of slowing in the first two weeks of May), by the end of this year, 2% of the populations of Guatemala and Honduras may have immigrated to the United States.

Mark-Jo Bulow - To all the school kids going on 'strike' for...

Mark-Jo Bulow - To all the school kids going on 'strike' for...
"To all the school kids going on 'strike' for Climate Change:
You are the first generation who have required air-conditioning in every classroom.
You want TV in every room and your classes are all computerised.
You spend all day and night on electronic devices.
More than ever, you don't walk or ride bikes to school but arrive in caravans of private cars that choke local roads and worsen rush hour traffic.
You are the biggest consumers of manufactured goods ever and update perfectly good expensive luxury items to stay trendy,
Your entertainment comes from electric devices.
Furthermore, the people driving your protests are the same people who insist on artificially inflating the population growth through immigration, which increases the need for energy, manufacturing and transport.
The more people we have, the more forest and bushland we clear and more of the environment is destroyed.
How about this...
Tell your teachers to switch off the air-con.
Walk or ride to school. Switch off your devices and read a book.
Make a sandwich instead of buying manufactured fast food.
No, none of this will happen because you are selfish, badly educated, virtue signalling little 'princesses', inspired by the adults around you who crave a feeling of having a 'noble cause' while they indulge themselves in Western luxury and unprecedented quality of life.
Wake up, grow up and learn to research facts and think for yourself and not blindly accept the words and thoughts of others - I don't think you formulated this action plan all by your self - suspect you may have had some influence and 'guidance' from those you trust ....a word of warning, be cautious of the influence of the 'left' because there may be a time in the future that you will be the ones left out."

Boeing must get the 737 Max approved for flight around the world - CNN

Boeing must get the 737 Max approved for flight around the world - CNN
"Boeing's future rides on the success of the 737 Max.
But all of those planes remain grounded, waiting for the world's aviation regulators to approve a software fix that will make them safer to fly.
The 737 Max does not appear close to flying again.
Aviation experts doubt global regulators will act in concert to approve the 737 Max for flight, because serious questions remain about how and why the FAA approved the 737 Max for flight and whether it rushed the certification process.
The world's aviation authorities have lost confidence in the US Federal Aviation Administration. 
...The 737 Max is by far Boeing's bestselling plane, with orders for 5,000 of the workhorse single aisle jet on its books.
Boeing's profit fell 21% last quarter because it halted 737 Max orders during grounding, and it has to reimburse airlines that have to use alternate planes.
Boeing has already spent at least $1 billion on a software fix it hopes can get the planes back in the air..."
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#1 This day 1967-----The Young Rascals - Groovin' (1967)

Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost-Cutting Sacrificed Safety - Bloomberg

Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost-Cutting Sacrificed Safety - Bloomberg:

• The failures of the 737 Max appear to be the result of an emphasis on speed, cost, and above all shareholder value.

"...Boeing got what it wanted: Pilots moving from a 737-800 to the 737 Max would need at most Level B training, which they could complete in an hour or two on an iPad. 
That let airlines deploy the $120 million plane more quickly.
For Boeing, it was an important selling point that gave customers one less reason to defect to its European rival Airbus SE.
...—the pressure and maneuvering around simulator training has struck Ludtke as essential to understanding how an emphasis on costs twisted a process that’s supposed to produce the best, safest planes.
“They could have done better and should have done better, but better wasn’t an option,” says Ludtke..."
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Well, that's what they tell the media.

Kamala Harris to Criminalize Private Gun Sales via Executive Action

Kamala Harris to Criminalize Private Gun Sales via Executive Action:

Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris says she will use executive action to criminalize selling more than five guns a year without a background check.

Google 'Top Stories' dominated by 'left leaning sources' CNN, New York Times, Washington Post - Washington Times

Google 'Top Stories' dominated by 'left leaning sources' CNN, New York Times, Washington Post - Washington Times
"A new study from the Computational Journalism Lab at Northwestern found that many of Google’s top hits for news searches came from just a handful of left-leaning sources.
...Their data showed that 86% of Google’s Top Stories came from only 20 news sources. 
Just three dominated the coverage, with 23% of all impressions counted — CNN with 10.9%, The New York Times with 6.5% and The Washington Post with 5.6%.
Fox News, which was ranked fourth, only had 3%.
...What we do know is that Google’s algorithmic curation of news in search converts to real and substantial amounts of user attention and traffic.”
...they found that 62% of the impressions were from sources considered left-leaning and only 11% from right-leaning outlets..."
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