Sunday, December 29, 2019
Blue State Blues: A Decade of Fake News | Breitbart
Blue State Blues: A Decade of Fake News | Breitbart:
The idea of a “decade in review” article at the end of 2019 is a bit of “fake news.” Technically, the current decade does not end until December 31, 2020.
In that spirit, it is worth looking back at the past ten years through the “fake news” lens. These were years in which the mainstream media used false allegations and biased reporting to suppress conservative voices; they were also the first years in which, thanks to Andrew Breitbart, we began to resist them.
The idea of a “decade in review” article at the end of 2019 is a bit of “fake news.” Technically, the current decade does not end until December 31, 2020.
In that spirit, it is worth looking back at the past ten years through the “fake news” lens. These were years in which the mainstream media used false allegations and biased reporting to suppress conservative voices; they were also the first years in which, thanks to Andrew Breitbart, we began to resist them.
Larry Elder: Fatherless Families Are No. 1 Problem in America, Not Racism | CNSNews
"Talk-show host, attorney, and best-selling author Larry Elder said the breakdown of the family -- fatherless families -- is the number one problem in America, not racism or discrimination or bad cops.
He added that when it comes to murder, nearly half of the homicides each year are black-on-black killings.
Commenting on The Rubin Report, Larry Elder said there is a liberal agenda at work and "the goal is to tell black people that we’re victims, that discrimination, racism remain major problems in America when, in fact, they don’t.
And they want black people to vote for the Democratic Party."...
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Scientific American: Even Believers Must be Compelled to Live Low Carbon Lifestyles | Watts Up With That?
Scientific American: Even Believers Must be Compelled to Live Low Carbon Lifestyles | Watts Up With That?
"Psychologists Claudia Nisa and Jocelyn J. Bélanger believe even people who say they believe in climate change are unlikely to make low carbon choices unless they are “nudged”, by removing or disincentivising the option of making high carbon choices.
"Psychologists Claudia Nisa and Jocelyn J. Bélanger believe even people who say they believe in climate change are unlikely to make low carbon choices unless they are “nudged”, by removing or disincentivising the option of making high carbon choices.
Can You Change for Climate Change?Probably, but research shows that most people need behavioral “nudges” to do so; just the facts aren’t enoughBy Claudia Nisa, Jocelyn Bélanger on December 23, 2019Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has scolded world leaders for failing to save her generation from climate change, rallying youth climate strikes and taking millions of people to the streets worldwide, demanding action. For many, Thunberg’s emotional oratory is a spark...Thunberg’s sacrifice epitomizes the challenge underlying climate change: if global warming is to be curbed, comfortable lifestyles in developed countries must be amended......
...The intervention with the highest average effect size is choice architecture (nudges)...
“Choice architecture” sounds so innocuous, but in my opinion it is a deeply unpleasant form of government coercion..."
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Read of the week!!-----Abolish Foreign Aid, All of It
Abolish Foreign Aid, All of It
"As most everyone knows, the federal government is now in debt to the tune of more than $22 trillion.
... Yet, to even suggest such a thing brings howls of lamentation, despair, and rage from both conservatives and liberals.
...So, where does that leave the nation?
On a track toward national bankruptcy, where the federal government lacks the money to cover its welfare-warfare state spending and, at the same time, service the interest on its debt, much less pay down the debt.
Think Greece.
At some point, things could get pretty nasty, with the feds desperately looking everywhere they can to seize money, such as IRA accounts and 401k accounts, and replace them with government bonds, much like President Franklin Roosevelt did during the emergency economic crisis in the 1930s when he seized everyone’s gold and replaced it with government bonds.
But here’s an idea: Why not abolish foreign aid, all foreign aid?
After all, foreign aid is really nothing more than welfare for foreign officials...
What do those foreign officials do with it?
Some of them line their personal pockets with it.
Others use it to help cover governmental expenses.
The obvious question arises: Why should the American people be plundered and looted to subsidize the personal lifestyles of foreign officials or to subsidize foreign governmental operations?...
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"As most everyone knows, the federal government is now in debt to the tune of more than $22 trillion.
- On the welfare-state side, the big-ticket items are Social Security and Medicare...
- On the warfare-state side, the big-ticket items are the Pentagon, the military-industrial complex...
- In the middle of this fiscal morass are a multitude of mid-sized or small-sized federal programs, such as the drug war, farm subsidies, education grants, the SBA, and Radio Martí.
...So, where does that leave the nation?
On a track toward national bankruptcy, where the federal government lacks the money to cover its welfare-warfare state spending and, at the same time, service the interest on its debt, much less pay down the debt.
Think Greece.
At some point, things could get pretty nasty, with the feds desperately looking everywhere they can to seize money, such as IRA accounts and 401k accounts, and replace them with government bonds, much like President Franklin Roosevelt did during the emergency economic crisis in the 1930s when he seized everyone’s gold and replaced it with government bonds.
But here’s an idea: Why not abolish foreign aid, all foreign aid?
After all, foreign aid is really nothing more than welfare for foreign officials...
What do those foreign officials do with it?
Some of them line their personal pockets with it.
Others use it to help cover governmental expenses.
The obvious question arises: Why should the American people be plundered and looted to subsidize the personal lifestyles of foreign officials or to subsidize foreign governmental operations?...
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GOP Rep: Democrats Still Withholding Secret Impeachment Transcripts
GOP Rep: Democrats Still Withholding Secret Impeachment Transcripts:
Appearing Friday on the Fox News Channel, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) revealed House Democrats are still withholding transcripts of depositions conducted by the House Intelligence Committee inside Congress’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) as part of their impeachment inquiry.
Appearing Friday on the Fox News Channel, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) revealed House Democrats are still withholding transcripts of depositions conducted by the House Intelligence Committee inside Congress’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) as part of their impeachment inquiry.
Environmentalism: Evidence Suggests it Was Always and Only About Achieving World Government | Watts Up With That?
Environmentalism: Evidence Suggests it Was Always and Only About Achieving World Government | Watts Up With That?--Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball
"It is common sense to protect our environment, but what has occurred for 50 years is exploitation of that idea for a socialist agenda.
...We now know 50 years later that every single prediction concerning the environmental demise of the Earth and the people made in the original Earth Day Report was wrong.
We also know that every additional claim, such as overpopulation, global warming, sea level rise, desertification, deforestation, and sea ice collapse, among many others, were wrong.
...We now know 50 years later that every single prediction concerning the environmental demise of the Earth and the people made in the original Earth Day Report was wrong. We also know that every additional claim, such as overpopulation, global warming, sea level rise, desertification, deforestation, and sea ice collapse, among many others, were wrong.
...Convince the people that the entire world is threatened, and you can convince them that no nation can save it.
It is then easy to convince them that a world government is the only way to save the planet.
The trouble is that none of it is true.
The World is in good shape, and people are living longer and healthier lives in every nation..."
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Democrats Seek To Outlaw Suburban, Single-Family House Zoning, Calling It Racist And Bad For The Environment | The Daily Caller
- "Virginia House Del. Ibraheem Samirah introduced a bill that would override local zoning officials to permit multi-family housing in every neighborhood, changing the character of quiet suburbs.
- Oregon passed a similar bill, following moves by cities such as Minneapolis; Austin, Texas; and Seattle.
- Proponents say urban lifestyles are better for the environment and that suburbs are bastions of racial segregation.
Democrats in Virginia may override local zoning to bring high-density housing, including public housing, to every neighborhood statewide — whether residents want it or not..."
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History for December 29
History for December 29 - On-This-Day.com
Charles Goodyear 1800, Andrew Johnson 1808, William Gladstone 1809
Mary Tyler Moore 1936 - Actress, Jon Voight 1938 - Actor, Ted Danson 1947 - Actor ("Cheers")
1848 - U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.
1952 - The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale by Sonotone Corporation.
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Report: FISC Only Asked FBI to Review FISA Applications for One Lawyer
Report: FISC Only Asked FBI to Review FISA Applications for One Lawyer:
The court that granted the FBI surveillance warrants on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page has only ordered that the FBI review all warrant applications related to one FBI attorney and not all FBI agents involved in misconduct, according to a report.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) earlier this month ordered the FBI to re-verify all previous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications involving Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI attorney who falsified evidence in the FBI’s efforts to seek a renewed surveillance warrant against Page.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) earlier this month ordered the FBI to re-verify all previous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications involving Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI attorney who falsified evidence in the FBI’s efforts to seek a renewed surveillance warrant against Page.
Heh!-----Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts | Zero Hedge
Maddow Meltdown: In Defense To OAN Lawsuit, Host Argues Her Words Are Not Facts | Zero Hedge
"Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
"Back in September, we reported that TV network OAN had filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow for the time the host said that OAN “really, literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
Now, Maddow finds herself having to come up with a defense for her statement in court.
According to Culttture, her lawyers argued in a recent motion that "…the liberal host was clearly offering up her ‘own unique expression’ of her views to capture what she saw as the ‘ridiculous’ nature of the undisputed facts. Her comment, therefore, is a quintessential statement ‘of rhetorical hyperbole, incapable of being proved true or false."
Oh, it's capable of being proved false, alright. Maddow had previously claimed, on air, about one of OAN's reporters:
“In this case, the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America is really literally is paid Russian propaganda,” and added, “Their on-air politics reporter (Kristian Rouz) is paid by the Russian government to produce propaganda for that government.”
The testimony of UC Santa Barbara linguistics professor Stefan Thomas Gries, however, stands at odds with Maddow's defense. Gries said: “It is very unlikely that an average or reasonable/ordinary viewer would consider the sentence in question to be a statement of opinion.”..."
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Climate-Related Deaths Down 99.9% Since 1932 | Climate Dispatch
Climate-Related Deaths Down 99.9% Since 1932 | Climate Dispatch"The Left’s newest Saint, Greta Thunberg, “informed” us during a now-famous speech she gave at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in NYC.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words...We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”
She then accused world leaders of doing nothing while “solutions are in sight.”
...As it turns out, building infrastructure to protect against climate-related catastrophes is a heck of a lot easier than altering the world’s temperature through political policies that would require the entire world to sign on.
...Meanwhile, adapting to the climate has saved literally millions of lives per year.
According to the Cato Institute:
In the decade from 2004 to 2013, worldwide climate-related deaths (including droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and storms) plummeted to a level 88.6 percent below that of the peak decade, 1930 to 1939.
The year 2013, with 29,404 reported deaths, had 99.4 percent fewer climate-related deaths than the historic record year of 1932, which had 5,073,283 reported deaths for the same category..."
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Trump Is Impeached—Period. Speaker Pelosi, Let Senate Do Its Work | The Heritage Foundation
Trump Is Impeached—Period. Speaker Pelosi, Let Senate Do Its Work | The Heritage Foundation:
The Constitution’s impeachment process has two steps: Article 1 section 2, gives the House of Representatives the “sole power of impeachment” and section 3 gives the Senate the “sole power to try all impeachments.” The House did its part on Dec. 18, adopting two articles of impeachment. All that’s left is for the House to appoint a few members to act as the prosecutors and, as the Senate’s trial rules put it, notify the Senate that these impeachment “managers” are “directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate.”
If this sounds a little familiar, it’s not really different from the indictment and trial you might have watched on any episode of “Law & Order.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., however, appears to be making up a process of her own. She says she won’t appoint impeachment managers or send the articles to the Senate until the Senate agrees to conduct its trial the way she dictates.
The Constitution’s impeachment process has two steps: Article 1 section 2, gives the House of Representatives the “sole power of impeachment” and section 3 gives the Senate the “sole power to try all impeachments.” The House did its part on Dec. 18, adopting two articles of impeachment. All that’s left is for the House to appoint a few members to act as the prosecutors and, as the Senate’s trial rules put it, notify the Senate that these impeachment “managers” are “directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate.”If this sounds a little familiar, it’s not really different from the indictment and trial you might have watched on any episode of “Law & Order.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., however, appears to be making up a process of her own. She says she won’t appoint impeachment managers or send the articles to the Senate until the Senate agrees to conduct its trial the way she dictates.
Legislation introduced to eliminate modern animal agriculture
- Just when you thought politicians couldn’t be further removed from reality, comes this.
"...Presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), in the tradition of activists certain that they can manage the animal production chain better than those who are doing it, wants to overhaul—actually eliminate over the long term—the heart of animal agriculture.
Not one to under promise, Booker has introduced the “Farm System Reform Act of 2019.”
Among other gems, it includes phasing out all feedyards of 1,000 head or more in 20 years... revising the Packers and Stockyards Act (P&SA) to invite, allow and encourage more packer lawsuits..."
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Their contempt for us "little people" is undeniable-----LET’S TALK ABOUT GHASTLY DISHWASHERS
Instapundit Blog Archive LET’S TALK ABOUT GHASTLY DISHWASHERS: “Why is Trump talking about dishwashers?” asks Slate. “…
"LET’S TALK ABOUT GHASTLY DISHWASHERS:
Plus: “These regulations have caused an infuriating and devastating degradation of the quality of appliances and the quality of life in our homes.
Trump is a smart politician.
He specializes in finding issues that no one else is talking about how they directly affect the quality of life.”--Posted by
"LET’S TALK ABOUT GHASTLY DISHWASHERS:
“Why is Trump talking about dishwashers?” asks Slate. “It’s part of Trump’s core campaign message: nostalgia for a fictitious era in American history where everything was better, simpler.”
Of course. To be fair, when products get worse, that’s usually the reason. See also gas cans.American dishwashers used to work.Maybe. But there’s also this reality: he is 100% correct about this whole topic. It’s a big and important one too.
...Then one day they just stopped doing the work.What happened?Older models of dishwashers used 15 gallons of water. Today the typical “Energy Star” model will attempt to wash with three gallons. Sorry but that’s just not possible, no matter how many fancy tricks you try.
Dishwashers used to wash all the dishes in under one hour. Now they take two hours, three hours, and four hours, and still don’t get the dishes clean....All of this is directly due to government regulations.
Plus: “These regulations have caused an infuriating and devastating degradation of the quality of appliances and the quality of life in our homes.
Trump is a smart politician.
He specializes in finding issues that no one else is talking about how they directly affect the quality of life.”--Posted by
Venezuela’s currency so worthless it’s mostly being used for making crafts | Fox News
Venezuela’s currency so worthless it’s mostly being used for making crafts | Fox News:
Venezuela – once one of the more prosperous countries in Latin America – has been driven into such economic and political turmoil that its currency is no longer of any use.
However, that has not stopped Venezuelan bolivares from becoming a commodity elsewhere.
Across the border in Colombia, Hector Cordero uses the currency to make wallets and purses, which he sells to tourists in Colombia.
“These bolivares soberanos notes are worth nothing,” Cordero, who is from Caracas, told Al Jazeera. “These notes I use are not circulating any more since last year.”
However, that has not stopped Venezuelan bolivares from becoming a commodity elsewhere.
Across the border in Colombia, Hector Cordero uses the currency to make wallets and purses, which he sells to tourists in Colombia.
“These bolivares soberanos notes are worth nothing,” Cordero, who is from Caracas, told Al Jazeera. “These notes I use are not circulating any more since last year.”
Political power!-This was ALWAYS the reason for the Dems "caring" view of illegals.-----Study Finds Immigration Will Shift Electoral College in Favor of Democrats
Study Finds Immigration Will Shift Electoral College in Favor of Democrats"A new analysis finds that immigration will dramatically reshape the Electoral College map in favor of the Democratic Party after completion of the 2020 census.
Rising immigrant populations around the United States will result in several solidly Democratic states gaining more seats in the House of Representatives at the expense of solidly Republican states, the study by the Center for Immigration Studies finds.
The shift ultimately will give the Democratic Party more influence in the Electoral College, CIS says..."
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The shift ultimately will give the Democratic Party more influence in the Electoral College, CIS says..."
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Best rant EVER!-----Clarice Feldman - "Nation still deeply divided day after vote...
Clarice Feldman - CH: "Nation still deeply divided day after vote...Undetermined writer... but BRILLIANT!:
"Nation still deeply divided day after vote
Yeah, I love that trick.
The nation's always "divided" when Dems don't get what they want.
I was forced to go to a Christmas party over the weekend and had to listen to some jackhole whine about how "divisive" Trump was and lament that we couldn't "come together."
I was forced to go to a Christmas party over the weekend and had to listen to some jackhole whine about how "divisive" Trump was and lament that we couldn't "come together."
I unloaded on that nickelfucker -
"You want to talk divisive?
I hated that dog-eating Kenyan crackhead every moment of the eight years he infested the White House.
But you know what I didn't do, asshole?
- I didn't riot in the streets.
- I didn't scream "HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT!"
- I didn't gin up some phony, childish "Resistance."
- I didn't go into every damned restaurant and public space where Obama or any of his cabinet were and scream in their faces.
- And I sure as hell didn't hijack the FBI to create a phony dossier to impeach him 49 hours after he was inaugurated!
- YOUR filthy party did all of that and more, right from the moment the polls closed and you knew that drunk, morally leprous hag of yours wasn't going to win.
So you can take that fucking 'divisive' talk and your crocodile tears about unity and shove them up your ass until you shit blood for a week!"
Fortunately, I work at home, so I don't have to run into that clown more than perhaps once a month.
But got-DAMN, I am sick of Dems blaming Trump for their own diaper-soiling meltdowns."
Fortunately, I work at home, so I don't have to run into that clown more than perhaps once a month.
But got-DAMN, I am sick of Dems blaming Trump for their own diaper-soiling meltdowns."
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