The way we were-----Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

Boob-tube-----Jerry Mathers (Beaver) on The Dating Game at age 18 in 1966

UN revises population projections downward | TreeHugger

UN revises population projections downward | TreeHugger
"Annual growth will soon be negative everywhere except Africa.

For almost every issue we talk about on TreeHugger, there are always comments that the biggest cause of all our problems is population, that there are just too many people. 
But as we have noted before, population growth is slowing and we really have a consumption crisis, not a population crisis.

Now, the United Nations Population Division has revised their population projections down again, as growth is declining more quickly than expected, populations are shrinking everywhere except Africa, and even it is slowing down. 
According to the Economist,

Birth rates are falling faster than expected in some developing countries. In the late 1980s Kenya had a fertility rate of 6.5, implying a woman could expect to have that many children. Two years ago the UN reckoned Kenya’s fertility rate would drop to 2.1 (the point at which the population sustains itself naturally) only in the late 2070s. Because of new data, it now thinks Kenya will reach that point a decade earlier.

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Michael Smith--- Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web TodayMichael Smith 

"Banning people from social media, academia and other groups because they support Trump has less to do with the progressive left's personal dislike for Trump and more to do with the fact that Trump presents them with yet another convenient excuse to keep doing what they have always done.

Collectivism is a Ponzi scheme, a con game. If you are too aware to participate in the con, you must be exiled.

Senator Barry Goldwater had none of the personal issues that Trump brought to the White House, yet if you look at the 1964 presidential campaign, you will see almost exactly the same rhetoric used against Goldwater and the GOP.

Over 50 years of the same old, same old.

Goldwater was a racist. He was mentally ill. Republicans hate the poor and old people. He was a gun nut. He was a warmonger.

The biggest change is that the Democrats are no longer afraid to expose themselves as communists, something unthinkable in the Cold War 60's.

From the article:

"But the most striking echo of the Goldwater campaign is in a media that often functions as an adjunct to the Democratic campaign. Fifty-two years ago, such naked partisanship in the coverage of a national election was unprecedented, and many Goldwater supporters saw it as a violation of a public trust. That these days, such media behavior is nearly a given shows how much Americans’ expectations of journalists have changed—with enduring consequences both for the profession and for the nation."

Nothing new under the sun.

Commies gonna commie."

CITY-JOURNAL.ORG

The Goldwater Takedown

Media coverage of the 1964 presidential campaign was a precursor to today’s partisan journalism.

Undercover Video: Google Exec Suggests Google Working To Prevent ‘The Next Trump Situation’ | Daily Wire

Undercover Video: Google Exec Suggests Google Working To Prevent ‘The Next Trump Situation’ | Daily Wire:

A new undercover video released by Project Veritas features a "senior Google executive" appearing to suggest that Google is working to prevent "the next Trump situation."

Well, now I have some teams to root for!-----America-Hating Soccer Star and Anthem Kneeler Megan Rapinoe: "I'm Not Going to the F**king White House!" (VIDEO)

America-Hating Soccer Star and Anthem Kneeler Megan Rapinoe: "I'm Not Going to the F**king White House!" (VIDEO)
"Radical leftist Megan Rapinoe started kneeling during the national anthem back in 2016. 
She said it was a protest against “white supremacy” and in support of black lives matter movement. 
She later said it was a protest against the treatment of gays in the US.

(She should try Iran!)

But last week she said her protesting during the anthem is her f*** you to Trump and all of his racism.
Megan Rapinoe is a captain of the US women’s soccer team.

...In response Megan Rapinoe told reporters, “I’m not going to the f**king White House!”...

Eight by Eight@8by8mag

“I’m not going to the fucking White House.” - @mPinoe

3:04 PM - Jun 25, 2019

Sheriffs: Legal marijuana causing more crime, accidents

Sheriffs: Legal marijuana causing more crime, accidents
"The nation’s sheriffs are calling on Washington and state capitals to slow the rush to legalize marijuana because they are seeing a surge in crime and highway accidents in areas where it is already legal to buy.
The National Sheriffs’ Association polled its members on the impact of legal marijuana and found that it is causing significant problems and costing departments more money to handle the growing crisis.

• Some 65% said that crime has increased where marijuana has been legalized. 
• Eighty-four percent linked it to impaired driving and accidents. 
• And 74% said that they need “an increase in personnel, resources and training” to handle the surge in marijuana-related cases..."

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Lunch video-----American Media, Soviet Tactics

Noon-toon

‘HOLOCAUST DENIER’: Dershowitz Slams Ocasio-Cortez For ‘Concentration Camp’ Remarks | Daily Wire

‘HOLOCAUST DENIER’: Dershowitz Slams Ocasio-Cortez For ‘Concentration Camp’ Remarks | Daily Wire:

Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz ripped socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during a radio interview late last week after Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed that the United States was operating concentration camps on the southern border, saying that her remarks make her a "Holocaust denier."

Unfortunately, Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter | Intellectual Takeout

Unfortunately, Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter | Intellectual Takeout

"Human beings today now have a shorter attention span than a goldfish.

That’s what a study conducted by Microsoft last year found. A goldfish loses focus after nine seconds. In our age of smartphones, however, the average person today can only focus for eight seconds.

That’s a dramatic change from 2000, when the average human attention span was 12 seconds.

It wasn’t always this way. 

For instance, in Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman has pointed out the remarkable attention spans demonstrated by the attendees of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates in Illinois in 1858.

...And the attendees were not primarily scholars or government officials, but average Americans:

“The first of the seven famous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas took place on August 21, 1858, in Ottowa, Illinois. Their arrangement provided that Douglas would speak first, for one hour; Lincoln would take an hour and a half to reply; Douglas, a half hour to rebut Lincoln’s reply...

The Lincoln-Douglas debates are but one example of the impressive literary culture that pervaded America in past centuries—a culture that valued things that required more than eight seconds of one’s attention."

Why Trump’s Cyber Attack On Iran Was The Right Move-David Marcus

Why Trump’s Cyber Attack On Iran Was The Right Move

• Cyber attacks are the future of warfare. By launching one against Iran, Trump has increased the threat to Iran without plunging the United States into war.

"President Trump faced a difficult choice in the wake of Iran’s downing of an American drone over the Strait of Hormuz last week. 
...High-ranking military officials I have spoken to consider the cyber threat to the United States to be the greatest we face from foreign adversaries.
...There are basically two types of cyber attacks that nations or non-state actors can employ. 

• One is informational; 
• the other degrades actual capabilities of computer networks. 

...The far more serious threat lies in attacks that degrade actual computing and network capabilities. The Pentagon’s top concern in this area is referred to as a cyber Pearl Harbor. 
This would look something like a foreign power shutting down the electrical grids in major U.S. cities. Such an attack could kill thousands of Americans very quickly. 
...A cyber Pearl Harbor which leveled that kind of death and destruction would almost certainly be viewed as an outright act of war that must be met with a conventional warfare response. 
However, smaller-scale degrading cyber attacks, such as the one Trump ordered, exist on a murkier spectrum of destruction and response. 
It is not clear exactly what level of degradation of computing capabilities would cross the line that calls for a conventional response. 
This is exactly why it was the right move for Trump..."
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#1 This day 1966-----Frank Sinatra - Strangers in the Night

The Democrat Build-A-Candidate Survey - The Rush Limbaugh Show

The Democrat Build-A-Candidate Survey - The Rush Limbaugh Show
"RUSH: Do you know what Build-A-Bear is?
...It’s a store found in many American malls. Kids can pick out the colors and the material to make a teddy bear, and then the bear is stuffed right there on the site.

...I think I have here the Democrat version of Build-A-Bear. 

They are building a candidate, and I have a survey that somebody took. 

...So. 

Being transgender is a bigger plus than being a white man. 

Being bisexual is a bigger plus than being a white man. 

Being a woman (laughing) is a bigger plus than being a white man. 

But being a woman’s 40%, being white is 8%. 
...Fauxcahontas is making a move now, Fauxcahontas is making a move on Plugs."

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Stealing votes with YOUR money!

Hidden Clue On Website Belonging To Ilhan Omar’s Sister Adds To Evidence About Marriage History | The Daily Caller

Hidden Clue On Website Belonging To Ilhan Omar’s Sister Adds To Evidence About Marriage History | The Daily Caller:

Rep. Ilhan Omar swore under oath in a 2017 divorce filing that she hadn’t seen her husband Ahmed N. Elmi in six years and didn’t know anyone who might be able to locate him — yet he appears to have designed a website for Omar’s sister this year, according to data hidden in the source code of that website.
The Democratic Minnesota congresswoman swore that she had not been able to locate the man she married — who the Minneapolis Star Tribune says may or may not be her brother — since 2011. She swore she didn’t know the names of anyone in her husband’s family and that the two had no mutual acquaintances who might know how to contact him.

'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change

'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change

• Extreme weather and dire climate reports are intensifying the mental health effects of global warming: depression and resignation about the future.

When the U.N. released its latest climate report in October, it warned that without “unprecedented” action, catastrophic conditions could arrive by 2040.

• A 10-Step Program for Climate Grief

After the U.N. report was released, Jordan looked for a way to help her children cope. 
She saw a sign at her church for a support group that deals with the issue, the Good Grief Network.
Founded by Aimee Reau, 30, and LaUra Schmidt, 32, Good Grief offers a 10-step program to help people deal with collective grief — issues that affect a whole society, like racism, mass shootings and climate grief.
...For some young people, the sadness is caused by inaction.
Cindy Chung, 17, of Bayonne, New Jersey, is an activist with iMatter, a network of high school students who advocate for environmental measures on a local level. 
She struggles to understand how people, especially adults, can continue with business as usual.
“It wasn’t our choice to be born into a doomed world,” she said. “All this terrible stuff can happen by 2030, and I won’t even be 30 years old. It’s so frightening.”"
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AM Fruitcake

History for June 26

History for June 26 - On-This-Day.com
Pearl S. Buck 1892, William P. Lear 1902, Peter Lorre 1904


Col. Tom Parker 1909, Eleanor Parker 1922, Greg LeMond 1961


1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.


1974 - In Troy, Ohio, a Marsh supermarket installed the first bar code scanning equipment, made by IBM, and a product with a bar code was scanned for the first time. The product was Juicy Fruit gum.

Trey Gowdy: Mystery FBI Transcript ‘Actually Changed My Perspective’ Of Russia Probe | The Daily Caller

Trey Gowdy: Mystery FBI Transcript ‘Actually Changed My Perspective’ Of Russia Probe | The Daily Caller:

Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said Sunday that his “perspective” of the special counsel’s investigation changed after he saw a transcript of an interaction between the FBI and a Trump campaign associate believed to be George Papadopoulos.
“I was supportive of [Robert] Mueller. I was supportive of the idea to initiate, to investigate what Russia did, but when I saw this transcript, it actually changed my perspective,” Gowdy said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

The way we were-----TV Classics - Johnny Carson Show (1952) Pilot Before The Tonight Show

Where liberals rule...-----California: Here Be Monsters – Issues & Insights

California: Here Be Monsters – Issues & Insights
"Before California slips into the ocean after a massive earthquake, as some predicted decades ago that it would, it looks like it will first become America’s very own undeveloped nation.
California has endured its share of Old Testament calamities in the modern world.
Yet at times it seems that it will surely succumb to disasters created by its own hand.
There are real monsters loose in the streets. 
Rats, “an army” of them “millions strong,” reports KOMO News, have “overthrown” Los Angeles.
Not long ago, “officials briefly closed part of City Hall after reporting that rodents had invaded the building,” said California Healthline.
“And where there are rats,” says KOMO reporter Eric Johnson, “there is disease.”
Norway rats and roof rats, neither native to California, carry infected fleas and spread typhus, a disease “that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages” and has now “flared” in Los Angeles..."
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And yet, this moronic, hater is still a media hero-----WATCH: Chicago Police Release Bizarre Footage of Hoaxer Jussie Smollett in His Home and Kitchen With Prop Noose Around His Neck

WATCH: Chicago Police Release Bizarre Footage of Hoaxer Jussie Smollett in His Home and Kitchen With Prop Noose Around His Neck
"The body camera footage of police arriving at Smollett’s home following the staged “attack” is unintentionally hilarious.

Chicago Police enter Jussie Smollett’s home after report of racist and homophobic attack on Jan. 29. He’s still wearing a long white rope around his neck. @cbschicago pic.twitter.com/OeGIjsT6gb

— Megan Hickey (@MeganHickeyTV) June 24, 2019

Smollett is hanging out in his kitchen with the noose swinging from his neck like a necklace, prompting police to ask him if he wants to remove it.

The police had been called by Smollett’s manager. 

He asked the officers if their body cameras were recording and asked that they be turned off..."

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Islamists demand U.N. launch censorship campaign - WND

Islamists demand U.N. launch censorship campaign - WND:

In past attempts, the censorship program proposed at the U.N. have been described as “anti-defamation” efforts that would protect “religion.”
Almost invariably, those plans have protected Islam but not even mentioned other faiths.
It was in a report at the Investigative Project on Terrorism where it was explained that Khan already has been calling for the death penalty against “those who offend the Prophet Muhammad.”
He also urged the OIC to work to safeguard “the religious sentiments of Muslims,” the report said.
“It was up to us to explain to the Western people the amount of pain they cause us when they ridicule or mock our Holy Prophet,” Khan told the OIC’s recent Islamic summit in Mecca. “I would like to say from this platform that in the forums like the United Nations and the forums like the European Union, we must explain to them that they cannot hurt the sentiments of 1.3 billion people under the garb of freedom of expression.”