Ann Coulter: Media Throw EVERYTHING At The Wall To See What Sticks

https://vdare.com/articles/ann-coulter-media-throw-everything-at-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks

Non-Citizens Committed a Disproportionate Share of Federal Crimes, 2011-16

21% of those convicted of non-immigration crimes were non-citizens — 2.5 times their share of the population

https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116

ANTIFA posts home addresses of Daily Caller Staff -

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/breaking-antifa-posts-home-addresses-of-daily-caller-staff-amid-ocasio-cortez-fake-nude-scandal/

APA Responds By Digging a Deeper Hole and Circling Wagons.

All I can say is they are utterly tone deaf......

https://twitter.com/cjprofman/status/1082862501258293248

Federal Judge Strikes Down Iowa ‘Ag-Gag’ Law

https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-strikes-down-iowa-ag-gag-law/

Drugs and syringes have become such a problem in Starbucks bathrooms that the company is installing needle-disposal boxes in certain locations

https://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-workers-petition-bathroom-needle-disposal-boxes-2019-1

https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/3068

I have to agree with the post script. Maintaining your own private wormhole is worth it to skip the TSA.

Betcha it tastes like a cucumber.

From what I've heard, Crid, strawberries DO have the lowest amount of sugar (and cherries have the most), but giving them time to soften just a little before picking them is crucial to the taste. (Unlike bananas, you can't pick them while they're unripe.)

This is what happens if your fact checkers are innumerate.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1082853137394880513

Listen, ain't no connoisseur, I got bachelor taste buds, but strawberries and tomatoes are two of the things that tasted great fifty years ago that are flavorless today.

Another thing that happens when you get old is that certain easy listening chord progressions will just set up camp in your skull and sit there for forty hours, no matter the emotional trajectory of your life at the time.

See (hear) also.

Also, the wife of my mother's cousin back in rural Indiana used say the same thing about the Strawbs. That was good snackin'.

Worth remembering.

Likely 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D–Calif.) released a new memoir this week. In The Truths We Hold, Harris touts her record as a "progressive prosecutor," but the book glosses over numerous instances where her office defended prosecutorial misconduct.

https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/09/kamala-harris-new-book-tries-to-massage

Now you know why I refer to them as the MFM.

In other words, there’s plenty of data to bolster Carlson’s claim that we “consider some of the effects” of women out-earning men. The fact is, he’s right. It’s a lose-lose scenario for everyone.

For men, surely, because an unemployed man who lacks purpose in his life is downright dangerous. And for women, since they can’t find “good” (read: educated and employed) men they want to marry. And for children, who as a result of all this grow up without a dad. It’s a G-damn mess, and no one wants to talk about it except Tucker Carlson.

And that makes him the bad guy?

No. It makes the rest of the media cowards.

https://www.suzannevenker.com/dating/what-tucker-carlson-knows-about-marriage-that-the-rest-of-the-media-do-not/

Necessity, the mother of invention. Or: if it can make a hole in the ground, it can be reclassified as "tool, entrenching".

The U.S. Navy has discovered that new sensors/fire control systems on marine combat vehicles carried on amphibious ships can provide an LHA or LHD amphibious ship with additional capabilities to detect and destroy small boats some nations (Iran, North Korea, China) maintain and train to “swarm” larger warships.

...

The marines found that Saber was much better at spotting small boats at sea, especially at night or in bad weather, than the usual sensors (air and sea search radars and lookouts) the ships used.

https://strategypage.com/htmw/htamph/articles/20190109.aspx

I don't know if this made it to a linkies page, but gun buy backs: what are they good for?

A Missouri man sold his firearms made out of scrap metal and garbage to a gun buy-back program… and then used the money to buy a real gun.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/man-sells-junk-guns-to-buy-back-program-buys-new-gun-with-cash/

I welcome our new robot overlords.

https://qz.com/1042343/after-trying-to-build-self-driving-tractors-for-more-than-20-years-john-deere-has-learned-a-hard-truth-about-autonomy/

Another thing that happens when you get old is that certain easy listening chord progressions will just set up camp in your skull and sit there for forty hours, no matter the emotional trajectory of your life at the time. ~ Crid at January 10, 2019 8:15 AM

Supertramp songs seem to do that. I've had a "Goodbye Stranger" ear worm for two days now.

The TSA is an irredeemable clown show? certainly not the best and brightest. I'm not even sure they're repurposed food court workers.

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2019/01/08/the-tsa-is-an-irredeemable-clown-show/

In other words, there’s plenty of data to bolster Carlson’s claim that we “consider some of the effects” of women out-earning men. The fact is, he’s right. It’s a lose-lose scenario for everyone.

For men, surely, because an unemployed man who lacks purpose in his life is downright dangerous. And for women, since they can’t find “good” (read: educated and employed) men they want to marry. And for children, who as a result of all this grow up without a dad. It’s a G-damn mess, and no one wants to talk about it except Tucker Carlson.
____________________________________________

There was quite a lot missing from that column.

Aside from the fact that correlation is not causation, MAYBE men aren't happy with the possibility of marrying women who make the same or more than they do. But that would just mean that men would have to marry someone who makes less - OR work harder in school, even if that means having to compete, year after year, with girls in science and history classes who refuse to play dumb, since the girls' parents won't let them do that anymore. Doesn't sound like such a terrible choice to me.

Also, quote:

“If men did all of what the researchers characterized as feminine chores like folding laundry, cooking or vacuuming, couples had sex 1.5 fewer times per month than those with husbands who did what were considered masculine chores, like taking out the trash or fixing the car. It wasn’t just the frequency that was affected, either — at least for the wives. The more traditional the division of labor, meaning the greater the husband’s share of masculine chores compared with feminine ones, the greater his wife’s reported sexual satisfaction.”

Seems to me that when you consider that in a family with small children, "laundry, cooking and vacuuming" typically need to be done Every Day (unlike taking out the trash once a week or working on the car), a traditional division of chores would just mean that SHE would be far too tired for sex.

(There's a 1976 "All in the Family" episode, "Love by Appointment," where new mother/housewife Gloria makes it clear to Mike that she's working far more hours than he is every day, so of course she's not "in the mood." Very strangely, she never suggests that he pitch in with chores, even though a long-term solution is clearly needed - not just free babysitting by the grandparents for one afternoon, which is his "solution"! So I figured that, given the suspiciously late date, that was supposed to be a hint that their marriage was going to break up in 1978, since Mike is too selfish to think of the obvious solution. Or...maybe the producers and writers, even in 1976, just couldn't get their heads around the idea of a MAN actually doing chores just because his wife hardly has time to sleep?!)

Back to the article. Commentator Tim McGuire wrote:

"If we didn’t have kids, we’d be able to live on my salary and I think I’d be happier if we divided the labor–my wife maintains the house while I pay the bills. But as things stand, no. It’s not possible without unacceptable compromises to our lifestyle."

And, from a fictional character:

“I've heard men complain of doing woman's work, and women complain of doing men's work, but I've never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!"

Burn the heretic! Also: it took you six weeks to figure that out? the experiment was to determine how ridiculous one needed to be to get flagged by either an editor, or a reviewer as being purveyors of bovine scatology.

Roughly six weeks after their October 12 letter, the Committee of Inquiry, headed by McLellan, followed up with Peter regarding their deliberations. In a letter dated November 27, 2018, the committee wrote, “The Committee unanimously agreed that the ‘dog park’ article represents an unambiguous example of research data fabrication.”

Of note, “Dog Park” was, by far, the silliest of our papers, which was a point we always intended to reveal in full to the public once our audit was completed. In it we claimed, extremely implausibly, to have examined 10,000 dogs’ genitals before interrogating their owners about their sexual orientations. This clearly preposterous “data” was used as a basis for interpreting human reactions to unwanted dog-humping incidents so as to conclude that a human rape culture exists and could be improved by training men like dogs. We wanted to see if reviewers or editors would ask to see this data or question the conclusions we drew from it. They did not and, in fact, the paper was recognized for excellence within feminist geography.

https://areomagazine.com/2019/01/05/academic-freedom-or-social-justice-what-kind-of-university-is-portland-state/

Seriously, this Bezos thing is all effed up.

Four kids — 4. And one of 'em adopted.

I mean, when did he have TIME to be so tawdry?

> I've had a "Goodbye Stranger" ear
> worm for two days now.

Symp... Happened to me in '13. (Also '04, '94 and '87.)

Do a Bach cleanse, the wash away the rest with Chianti.

The left would rather parrot church lady rhetoric about taking in refugees than own up to the fact that they colluded in the largest transfer of wealth from working people to capital owners in the nation's history.

https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1083189280586022914

The rise of financial blacklisting

https://spectator.us/financial-blacklisting-sargon-akkad/

CNN’s Ana Navarro sighs, rolls eyes & files nails as guest describes Americans killed by illegals -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm900UUgujw

"recent study by Harvard economist George Borjas & colleagues from Univ of Chicago and Univ of Calif estimates that immigration accounted for a 7.4 percentage-pt. DECLINE in the employment rate of unskilled black males between 1980 & 2000."

https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/1082882342593515520

the way the US media calls every rich Russian an "oligarch" but never uses that term for US billionaires is extremely revealing about how they propagandize for nationalistic purposes -

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1083097119702114304

Revolution II in France -

France is signaling it's making preparations for a massive new crackdown on the gilets jaunes or "yellow vests" anti-government protests that have gripped the country for seven weeks. A new law under consideration could make any demonstration illegal to begin with if not previously approved by authorities, in an initiative already being compared to the pre-Maiden so-called "dictatorship law" in Ukraine.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-08/draconian-french-law-ban-all-protests-pm-announces-major-crackdown-yellow-vests

The purpose of the nation-state and national military is to invade the third world and then import the refugees and have working- and middle-class Americans subsidize refugee entry into local labor competition with themselves. It's about empathy and doing the jobs Americans wont

https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1083119076329828352

Incoming Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham: ‘I’m Going to do a Deep Dive on FISA Abuse’

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/incoming-senate-judiciary-chair-lindsey-graham-im-going-to-do-a-deep-dive-on-fisa-abuse-video/

Hard to believe the multiply-bankrupted, much-diminished trust-fund baby could make bad deal.

Great tits -

https://www.popsci.com/great-tits-murder-climate-change

City Journal asks if AOC really represents the future of the Democratic Party and counts votes for an answer.

AOC represents an immigrant-heavy district, cutting down on the eligible voters who elected her. Her primary vote counts are much lower than those of her peers.

All congressional districts must have roughly equal population counts (about 711,000 people). But that count includes all residents—including those ineligible to vote, not because they haven’t registered but because they aren’t citizens. Since some districts have more such residents than others, it takes far fewer votes to get elected in some places than in others. In general, districts with low populations of potential voters tend to be Democratic; Democrats represent states, such as New York and California, with high immigrant populations. In practice, this means that many Democratic legislators represent fewer eligible voters than Republican legislators. According to an Axios analysis, the foreign-born population exceeds 20 percent in more than 50 Democratic districts, compared with just 11 such Republican districts.

In Ocasio-Cortez’s district, Census data show that 47 percent of residents are foreign-born—compared with 13 percent for the nation overall. That helps explain how the self-styled democratic socialist won her key primary election with so few votes: just 16,898, out of a total of just 29,000 cast. Immigrants are less likely to be citizens—just 44 percent have been naturalized, according to most recent Census data—and Hispanic immigrants are the least likely of all: 75 percent of immigrants from Vietnam have become citizens, for example, compared with just 23 percent of immigrants from Mexico. In New York’s 14th congressional district, 56 percent of residents are Latino.

Those representing less immigrant-heavy districts face a more difficult electoral challenge—that is, they must persuade more voters. Consider Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy’s 23rd congressional district in California, representing Bakersfield and the southern San Joaquin Valley. Just 13 percent of the 745,000 residents there are foreign-born; in that district’s primary, 118,000 voters went to the polls, and McCarthy received 81,000 votes. Compare those figures with Ocasio-Cortez’s above.

This is not just a Democrat versus Republican difference. Compare Ocasio-Cortez’s district with that of central Ohio Democratic congressman Tim Ryan, an outspoken opponent of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who hopes to push the Democratic Party back toward the political center. In Ryan’s district, just 3 percent of residents are foreign-born. He received 54,000 of 63,000 primary votes.

Kinda puts a new spin on that whole illegal immigrant argument, doesn't it? Even without voting, if counted as part of the population to be represented, they still skew the election outcome.

Sorry, forgot to include a link to the referenced article in the above post.

> I mean, when did he have TIME to be so tawdry?

Jeff Bezos’ texts to Lauren Sanchez reportedly include nude pics

https://pagesix.com/2019/01/10/jeff-bezos-texts-to-lauren-sanchez-reportedly-include-nude-pics/

"I mean, when did he have TIME to be so tawdry?"

Well, online shopping and free delivery with Amazon Prime can save hours every week!

but-but-but-but

I'm sure she's a conscientious taxpayer, a defensive driver, and a fine dancer. But if she hasn't spent the last quarter-century building a trillion-dollar business of their own, what could their conversation be like?

We might imagine that if building Amazon took as much time and effort as one might presume, then Bezos didn't spend a lot of time checking out tail at cocktail parties and restaurants, etc. So when he finally decided to make a move, he hadn't given a lot of thought to what a woman who's both age-appropriate and attractive might actually look like.

I hate divorce with kids.

And I think a few mysteries in this guys character, one of the most important personalities in our lifetime, have been exposed to us. And found wanting.

Not that anyone ever thought he was an especially nice guy, but still.

> for two days now

Had the whistle passage (from before the last chorus) knocking around the skull all night long.

Way to go, Conan. Nice work. Thanks a LOT.

Hey Coney!....

What a fool believes. ♬

Ha ha! TAG, sucker!! Har!

"Another thing that happens when you get old is that certain easy listening chord progressions will just set up camp in your skull..."

I recall Mike Rutherford referring to that sort of thing as "six o'clock chords"...

"...the Strawbs..."

One of the stranger episodes in modern music history: band starts out as bluegrass and ends up in progressive rock. With Rick Wakeman, no less.

"What a fool believes..."

I got your Christopher Cross right here, sucka.

Ha ha! TAG, sucker!! Har! ~ Crid at January 11, 2019 3:41 AM

Nah. Chris Cross doesn't do it to me. He wasn't prevalent enough in my teenaged or college playlists to become my adult ear worm nemesis.

Supertramp, however, always does it. The WKRP theme song frequently ear worms me, especially now that I've started watching catching the occasional repeat on one of those dreary cable old TV show repeat channels.

Speaking of which, I just watched a thirty-plus year old episode in which a young, aspiring guitarist, after discovering the DJ character knew Mick Jagger, asked him to "talk to Mick, 'cause Keith Richards can't last forever."

I'm sure that throwaway joke was meant to be funny in a different way back then, but with things turning out the way they did, it's funny in the way that picture of Bruce Jenner, Howard Cosell, and OJ Simpson is funny - a little ha-ha and lot weird.