Director of a major NGO in Europe tells our undercover team how she teaches migrants to lie & pretend to be persecuted Christians to border police. Last year they worked w/ 15,000 migrants.

https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1062030780422008833

Trump looks to reshape liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/11/donald-trump-looks-to-reshape-liberal-9th-circuit-/

Trump's greatest legacy may be reshaping the judiciary.

Jewish Americans are now the face of Trump resistance

79% of Jewish voters chose Democrats, only 17% supported Republicans. Down nearly 10% in two short, if eventful years.

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jewish-Americans-are-now-the-face-of-Trump-resistance-571399

CNN Unveils New Slogan: 'Orange Man Bad'

Billing the rebrand as part of a larger effort to differentiate itself in the crowded mainstream media environment, news channel CNN rolled out a new network slogan Monday: “Orange Man Bad.”

“From ‘The worldwide leader in news’ to ‘This is CNN,’ our taglines have always reflected the core essence of who we are as a news organization,” CNN said in a press release. “Our new slogan perfectly sums up our values, integrity, and passion in three words: Orange Man Bad.”

https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-unveils-new-slogan-orange-man-bad

This 36.5 million dollar condominium has just been sliced into digital shares, and thanks to blockchain technology, you could own a piece of it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-11-12/blockchain-takes-manhattan-video

How many grammar nazis does it take to change a lightbulb?

Too

Knife vs shovel, wig vs cigarette lighter.

What a novel way to start the day.

I loved those straws of sugar. And Smarties, too.

Meanwhile, I thought this was unpossible?

There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn't yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/so-many-bears-draft-plan-says-nunavut-polar-bear-numbers-unsafe-1.4173058

The Rise of VICTIMHOOD Culture on Campus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H20jwYq8WI&feature=youtu.be

"Straight white men have four years of preparation for a job!"

What the actual fuck?

This is one of the funnerest threads, and comports with my experience of recent decades.

> unpossible?

Insufficient snow line creep.

This is a brilliant line (via a retweet by recent author Ammous):

Inflation is a sin tax on savings.

> How many grammar nazis

What warm, summery color describes the politics of people who don't know grammar from spelling?

Is that guy who loved the poisonous government contrails still reading these comments?

Accordingly, Uncle Cridmo recommends LibreOffice Portable as your business software suite.

What warm, summery color describes the politics of people who don't know grammar from spelling? ~ Crid at November 13, 2018 11:15 AM

English is a difficult language, but if it's your first language, things like to/too/two, they're/their/there, contractions, pluralization, and apostrophes should be fairly simple to figure out.

Commas may take a little more time and semi-colons will have to wait until next year.

That said, don't get me started on people who use "should of" instead of "should've."

/rant

He's Hillary, and people can tell.

> don't get me started

All affirmed ✓, but the guy still fucked up his own joke. Unless, as you suggest, he's not a native American, in which case he still fucked it up.

Also, the "of" thing really sucks.

A lot of the people I've disliked most deeply in life are of-ers... Smugly unread.

Man banned from Disney World after sneaking in pro-Trump banner — again

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/416461-man-banned-from-disney-world-after-sneaking-in-pro-trump-banner

There's not a single demographic trend in America that benefits Republicans.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1062336116819398657

"Man banned from Disney World for repeatedly violating the park's policy of no signs or banners"

FTFY by removing the false victimization claim.

> Man banned from Disney World

Renegade truth-tellers crushed under the boot of an evil machine!!!!

Did mention that LibreOffice Portable is readily available at no charge for most everyone on the planet? Download it. As many times as you want.

Also, it's open source... If you don't like something about it, you can fix it and then pass our own version to others.

...pass on YOUR own version...

Meanwhile

Loved the tulip reference in the linked comic.

I had an economics professor as an undergrad who started every semester's first class flinging tulips to students within range in the auditorium (ridiculously large class). He then went on to use the Dutch tulip mania of 1636 to illustrate speculative bubbles and the role supply and demand play in them.

CHILD ABDUCTION ALERT!!!

If you see this man, call a bartender immediately! Find out the price for a glass of Cab and calm the fuck down.

That comment was a ripoff of this tweet, because I like KMU. But not scotch.

My nabe is excused... Because I'm extremely attractive!

This community understands where the rubber meets the road.

There was some Tulip revisionism a couple years ago, I suppose it's in your Wiki link too

On teachers losing their authority:

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/features_entertainment/john-rosemond-taking-away-punishment-for-teachable-moments/article_0a085d20-f389-5b99-9e58-a0fa613324fd.html

From the first half:

"...I began having misgivings concerning public education during my kids' school years. The schools they attended were less than challenging and often driven, it seemed, by educational fad (e.g., outcome-based education, open classrooms, new math). In addition, parents and teachers- the latter, mostly - were beginning to tell me stories of classroom discipline debacles of a sort that I never saw or even heard of when I was a student. Since then - over the past forty years, that is - the discipline problems teachers are expected to deal with have only gotten worse.

"The further problem is that over that same time, teachers have been slowly but surely stripped of permission to punish. According to educational and psychological ideologues, punishment is demeaning, lowers self-esteem, leads invariably to resentment, and other things it is and does not. Research done by social scientists who possess an abundance of objectivity- increasingly hard to find - contradicts all the politically-correct propaganda pertaining to punishment.

"In a nutshell, the best research finds that mild-to-moderate punishment works far better than any alternative (rewarding, ignoring, talking) at correcting misbehavior; that the most obedient kids are also the happiest; and that the highest student achievement is associated with teachers who employ moderate criticism and create teacher-centric classrooms..."

Sen. Mitch McConnell: Will Dems work with us, or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country?

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-mitch-mcconnell-will-dems-work-with-us-or-simply-put-partisan-politics-ahead-of-the-country

Still loving this.

That's been going on for a long time Lenona. And is a big part of why I support school choice. Everything is so uniform moving doesn't change anything. Instead people in DC are setting policy and enforcing it through federal education dollars. And those people have probably never taught a class or dealt with a student in their lives. Instead it is all trendy fads from 'the latest journals' and is 99% bunk.

But fighting it as an individual is pretty much impossible.

Part I, and Part II.

And is a big part of why I support school choice. ~ Ben at November 13, 2018 4:55 PM

Like the argument about privatizing the Postal Service: just because the government has an obligation to make sure the service is provided does not mean that the government has to be the service provider.

Yep Conan. We subcontract out lots of stuff. No reason for those to be any different.