"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:"Friday, August 25, 2017
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:
"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:"
"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..."
Read on!
"Ladies and gentlemen, buckle up for some tornadoes!
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.
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..."
"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.
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.
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.”
“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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"Move over Christopher Columbus, it’s Peter Stuyvesant’s turn to get scorched in the monuments war.
“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:
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.
"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.
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]Read on!
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]
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:
"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."
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.
"A litter of piglets and two sows were recently served up as dinner to the firefighters who saved them from a February barn fire.
History for August 25
History for August 25 - On-This-Day.com
Allen Pinkerton 1819, Leonard Bernstein 1918, George C. Wallace 1919
Sean Connery 1930 - Actor, Regis Philbin 1931 - Talk show host, game show host ("Who Wants to be a Milllionaire"), Gene Simmons 1949 - Musician (KISS)
1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana. Some settled in present-day New Orleans.
1840 - Joseph Gibbons received a patent for the seeding machine.
1875 - Captain Matthew Webb swam from Dover, England, to Calais, France making him the first person to swim the English Channel. The feat took about 22 hours.
1940 - Arno Rudolphi and Ann Hayward were married while suspended in parachutes at the World’s Fair in New York City.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill appropriating funds for construction of the Pentagon.
1944 - Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.
1950 - U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure of U.S. railroads to avert a strike.
1972 - In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Thomas Jefferson, 'emblem of white supremacy,' targeted in UVA students' list of demands - Washington Times
"University of Virginia students have issued a list of demands regarding a statue of Thomas Jefferson on campus because his visage allegedly serves as “an emblem of white supremacy.”"
Steven Russo - The Over-Sensitive PC Race Zealots Are On A Civil...
(1) Steven Russo - The Over-Sensitive PC Race Zealots Are On A Civil...
"...And speaking of sports, the Civil War and being overly sensitive to all things racism...
USC To Remove Their Mascot, A Horse Named ‘Traveler’
Because It's Name Is Similar To Robert E. Lee’s Horse.
"...And speaking of sports, the Civil War and being overly sensitive to all things racism...
USC To Remove Their Mascot, A Horse Named ‘Traveler’
Because It's Name Is Similar To Robert E. Lee’s Horse.
Really?
This is what's keeping these people up at night?
In California, the raging U.S. cultural battle over Civil War icons has spread to the names of horses.
At the University of Southern California, a student group has declared the equine mascot of the school’s Trojans football team to be a symbol of “white supremacy.”
Why?
Because the horse bears a name similar to that of a steed that belonged to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The USC football horse is called Traveler (one L), while Lee’s horse was known as Traveller (two L’s).
The student group’s leader voiced her disapproval of the home team horse’s name earlier this week, at an on-campus rally to protest last week’s violence in Charlottesville, Va.
“White supremacy hits close to home,” Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, told fellow students, in pointing out the similarity in the horses’ names, student newspaper the Daily Trojan reported.http://www.foxnews.com/us/
You see, ESPN and the dolts at USC suffer from what we call “Offendophobia” – the illogical, inexplicable fear of offending the easily offended.
But what they fail to grasp is those who suffer from Offendophobia will never stop being offended no matter how often you cave to them.
So get ready, this will only get more absurd..."
This is what's keeping these people up at night?
In California, the raging U.S. cultural battle over Civil War icons has spread to the names of horses.
At the University of Southern California, a student group has declared the equine mascot of the school’s Trojans football team to be a symbol of “white supremacy.”
Why?
Because the horse bears a name similar to that of a steed that belonged to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The USC football horse is called Traveler (one L), while Lee’s horse was known as Traveller (two L’s).
The student group’s leader voiced her disapproval of the home team horse’s name earlier this week, at an on-campus rally to protest last week’s violence in Charlottesville, Va.
“White supremacy hits close to home,” Saphia Jackson, co-director of the USC Black Student Assembly, told fellow students, in pointing out the similarity in the horses’ names, student newspaper the Daily Trojan reported.http://www.foxnews.com/us/
You see, ESPN and the dolts at USC suffer from what we call “Offendophobia” – the illogical, inexplicable fear of offending the easily offended.
But what they fail to grasp is those who suffer from Offendophobia will never stop being offended no matter how often you cave to them.
So get ready, this will only get more absurd..."
WATCH: 'Woke' Millennials Hilariously Say They'd Prefer Venezuela's Food Lines Over America's Income Inequality | Daily Wire
WATCH: 'Woke' Millennials Hilariously Say They'd Prefer Venezuela's Food Lines Over America's Income Inequality | Daily Wire:
"In a new video, Ami Horowitz hits the streets to find out what’s rattling around in the younger generation’s collective mind on the hot button millennial topics of income inequality and socialism — particularly, the socialist utopia Venezuela, which is experiencing economic collapse, prompting crisis-level food shortages and the eruption of violence on the streets.
Horowitz ended up finding what anyone paying any attention to the Democratic presidential primary last year will not be surprised to learn: the generation which adores “Democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders hates income inequality so much that they’d be glad to stand in Venezuelan-style food lines so others could have as little as them."
Horowitz ended up finding what anyone paying any attention to the Democratic presidential primary last year will not be surprised to learn: the generation which adores “Democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders hates income inequality so much that they’d be glad to stand in Venezuelan-style food lines so others could have as little as them."
'All Republicans are racist scum,' professor declares - The College Fix
'All Republicans are racist scum,' professor declares - The College Fix:
"A Clemson University professor took to Facebook recently to voice his contempt for Republicans in a post that called all members of the GOP racists, according to screenshots of his personal page.
“All trump supporters, nay, all Republicans, are racist scum,” Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing Bart Knijnenburg wrote in an Aug. 16 Facebook post, reports Campus Reform, which obtained a screenshot of that sentiment and many others.
"A Clemson University professor took to Facebook recently to voice his contempt for Republicans in a post that called all members of the GOP racists, according to screenshots of his personal page.
“All trump supporters, nay, all Republicans, are racist scum,” Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing Bart Knijnenburg wrote in an Aug. 16 Facebook post, reports Campus Reform, which obtained a screenshot of that sentiment and many others.
The professor also posted on Facebook:
“This society is aggressively structured to make cis white males succeed, at the expense of minorities,” Knijnenburg continued, though he didn’t stop there. In another post, Knijnenburg equates President Donald Trump, Trump voters, the GOP, and Steve Bannon to “Nazis,” the “KKK,” and the “Alt-right,” declaring that they are “all racists.”Additionally, Knijnenburg explicitly endorses violence in one post, stating, “I admire anyone who stands up against white supremacy. Violent or non-violent. This needs to stop, by any means necessary. #PunchNazis” …
The professor has yet to respond to Campus Reform’s request for comment. Click here to read the whole article.
Althouse: "It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled."
Althouse: "It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled.":
"It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled."
Perfect.
"It was incredibly uncomfortable. He was literally breathing down my neck. My skin crawled."
"It was one of those moments where you wish you could hit pause and ask everyone watching, well, what would you do?
Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren’t repeatedly invading your space?
Or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, ‘back up you creep, get away from me.
I know you love to intimidate women but you can’t intimidate me, so back up.’"
She needs a pause button.
Is that like a reset button?
There's no such thing.
I mean you can vandalize the hotel hot tub to get a plastic button to call whatever you want — the Make Me President button — but it doesn't work.
More from the leaked excerpts to the memoir we're not all going to buy when it comes out in a few weeks:
"I chose option A. I kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off."
The writer assumes the reader will not immediately think: Bill Clinton!
"I did, however, grip the microphone extra hard," she wrote.
The writer assumes the reader will not think: phallic symbol.
“I wonder, though, whether I should have chosen option B. It certainly would have been better TV. Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.”
If you present an endlessly smiling controlled face to the world and choose to say nothing, people won't know what you think, won't trust you, and — since you're asking to be our President — won't be able to rely on you to speak for us.
If you're that afraid to come up with an apt response to someone who's being intimidating, how do you have what it takes to be President?
You think if you said something, it might be bad, so best to say nothing?
Look how easy it was for George W. Bush to push back Al Gore's overbearing physical encroachment during a debate:Perfect.
That nod.
Everyone laughed.
Nobody thought Bush seemed unpresidentially peevish.
I still laugh every time I play that clip.
And I play it a lot."
Dershowitz: Liberals Are 'Doing What Stalin Did' on Statue Issue - Breitbart
Dershowitz: Liberals Are 'Doing What Stalin Did' on Statue Issue - Breitbart:
"Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz likened the push to take down statues of some historical figures posed “a danger.”
Dershowitz urged to use the statue push as “an educational moment” and likened the efforts underway to what Russian dictator Joseph Stalin had done in his rise to power."
"Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz likened the push to take down statues of some historical figures posed “a danger.”
Dershowitz urged to use the statue push as “an educational moment” and likened the efforts underway to what Russian dictator Joseph Stalin had done in his rise to power."
Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon | New Scientist
Ships fooled in GPS spoofing attack suggest Russian cyberweapon | New Scientist
"Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS, New Scientist has learned.
This could be the first hint of a new form of electronic warfare available to everyone from rogue nation states to petty criminals.
"Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS, New Scientist has learned.
This could be the first hint of a new form of electronic warfare available to everyone from rogue nation states to petty criminals.
On 22 June, the US Maritime Administration filed a seemingly bland incident report.
The master of a ship off the Russian port of Novorossiysk had discovered his GPS put him in the wrong spot – more than 32 kilometres inland, at Gelendzhik Airport.
After checking the navigation equipment was working properly, the captain contacted other nearby ships. Their AIS traces – signals from the automatic identification system used to track vessels – placed them all at the same airport.
At least 20 ships were affected.
While the incident is not yet confirmed, experts think this is the first documented use of GPS misdirection – a spoofing attack that has long been warned of but never been seen in the wild.
Read more: “I’m alarmed at how much infrastructure is open to online attack”
Read more: “I’m alarmed at how much infrastructure is open to online attack”
Until now, the biggest worry for GPS has been it can be jammed by masking the GPS satellite signal with noise.
While this can cause chaos, it is also easy to detect.
GPS receivers sound an alarm when they lose the signal due to jamming.
Spoofing is more insidious: a false signal from a ground station simply confuses a satellite receiver. “Jamming just causes the receiver to die, spoofing causes the receiver to lie,” says consultant David Last, former president of the UK’s Royal Institute of Navigation..."
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Studies Are Usually Bunk, Study Shows - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)
Studies Are Usually Bunk, Study Shows - Help STOP Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH):
"WSJ Opinion – Studies Are Usually Bunk, Study Shows
If a conclusion sounds wrong to you, you’re probably not a hung-over grad student.
By Andy Kessler
An interesting detail went overlooked in the fury over fired Google engineer James Damore’s “diversity memo.”
At the end of the document he calls for an end to mandatory “Unconscious Bias training.”
Large corporations often force employees into re-education classes, this one a dull, hourlong, 41-slide seminar supported by study after study.
Can these studies be trusted?
Doubtful.
Hands down, the two most dangerous words in the English language today are “studies show.”
At the end of the document he calls for an end to mandatory “Unconscious Bias training.”
Large corporations often force employees into re-education classes, this one a dull, hourlong, 41-slide seminar supported by study after study.
Can these studies be trusted?
Doubtful.
Hands down, the two most dangerous words in the English language today are “studies show.”
The world is inundated with the manipulation of flighty studies to prove some larger point about mankind in the name of behavioral science.
Pop psychologists have churned out mountains of books proving some intuitive point that turns out to be wrong.
It’s “sciencey,” with a whiff of (false) authenticity.
Pop psychologists have churned out mountains of books proving some intuitive point that turns out to be wrong.
It’s “sciencey,” with a whiff of (false) authenticity.
...Many of the studies quoted in newspaper articles and pop-psychology books are one-offs anyway.
In August 2015, the Center for Open Science published a study in which 270 researchers spent four years trying to reproduce 100 leading psychology experiments.
They successfully replicated only 39..."
In August 2015, the Center for Open Science published a study in which 270 researchers spent four years trying to reproduce 100 leading psychology experiments.
They successfully replicated only 39..."
Mr. Kessler writes on technology and markets for the Journal.
Appeared in the August 14, 2017, print edition.
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