How Our Military Can Help Defend the Border

"in preparation for winning two major theater wars, DoD has within its ranks hundreds of thousands of specialists – and tens of thousands of pieces of construction equipment as well as theater and tactical intelligence equipment able to surveil and deny key terrain – all of which are in peacetime available for training missions within the USA that support the President’s domestic objectives."

https://phibetaiota.net/2019/01/robert-steele-how-our-military-can-help-defend-the-border/

Fertility Rate for White Women Plummets Below the Limit Needed to Maintain the Population in Every US State

https://www.amren.com/news/2019/01/fertility-rate-for-white-women-plummets-below-the-limit-needed-to-maintain-the-population-in-every-us-state/

"If the president is so desperate to defend America’s southern border, perhaps he should consider not giving military aid to Israel, even if just for two years. This would free $8 billion and give Trump enough cash to build his wall and then maybe he could invest the remaining $2.3 billion where it’s really needed: to make America great again."

http://www.unz.com/gatzmon/anti-bds-bill-defeated/

You know a serious, educated adult has entered the room when they immediately abandon decades of principled opposition to American imperialism because of a cartoonishly extreme hyperpartisan conditioning campaign by corporate media against a single politician and his constituents

https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1083514032701820929

Dear Diary -

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083531644785455104

This is indeed a thoughtful discussion. You may find yourself switching between agreement and disagreement on a sentence-by-sentence basis.

And you may ask yourself, "Well, h

Juan Valdez has gone to the great coffee plantation in the sky. But he wasn't the first Juan.

https://babalublog.com/2019/01/10/did-you-know-that-the-first-mr-coffee-was-a-cubano/

I may never get on an escalator again.

https://twitter.com/Weirddave0/status/1083471817329790976

Well, bye.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/21/whoopi-goldberg-maybe-its-time-for-me-to-leave-the/

Say what? "Unwanted house visitors"?

https://twitter.com/LauraLMonroe33/status/1083701291359129600

News you can use.

https://www.autoblog.com/article/how-to-clean-interior-windshield-glass-autoblog-details/

I may never get on an escalator again. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at January 11, 2019 6:49 AM

Yep, escalators don't stop. That one did appear to be out of control, moving too fast.

The congregation of people at the foot of it is a common problem for subways in large cities. It used to bug me in San Francisco when people stepped off the BART subway escalators at rush hour and stopped to look around and get their bearings. Um, buddy, the people behind you cannot stop on these moving stairs. Step aside!

There’s an old saying that all it takes to turn around a drug-infested Starbucks is one tough barista. Actually there’s no such saying, but recent events raise the question of how much an employer can reasonably demand of employees who thought they were signing up to serve coffee. There’s also the not insignificant matter of what kind of environment customers are willing to tolerate

https://outline.com/kYFCkT

Go ahead and give it a read...

https://mises.org/wire/why-intellectuals-fall-socialism?fbclid=IwAR3rw4lFHi6RrKvh5GgXuTWlZDSmtZLMTjkG3wQAC4EzzZYwm1D3HazLjcE

The next time you're thinking, gee, I could sure go for a 27-pound bucket of macaroni and cheese but you realize you're not going to eat it all in one go so you'd like a shelf life of, say, 20 years:

Costco to the rescue.

Animals are weird of the appearance.

This one looks like the wacky neighbor on a sitcom you never bothered to watch.

Wigglin' jewelry.

Well, whaddya know!... An exception to Orangeboy's government shutdown is being made for the Real Estate industry.

I'll never understand how this guy was morally distinguishable from the opposing candidate.

He's Hillary will bigger tits.

Someone has been drinking the Kool Aid -

Men prefer younger women not for their firmer bodies – but their greater admiration

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/09/men-prefer-younger-women-not-for-their-firmer-bodies-but-their-greater-admiration

"Illegals in bellwether California have shown that they are the margin of victory in even the reddest counties, such as Orange County, where illegal aliens served as ballot-harvesters to collect up all the ballots of indifferent voters who weren't otherwise planning to vote."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/with_illegals_flipping_elections_now_democrats_opposition_to_a_wall_is_existential.html

Goes against what Amy always says -

Sex on a first date could help 'jump-start' a relationship, scientists say

A new study claims sex early on in a relationship could help people form an emotional bond

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/sex-first-date-could-help-13839503

Checking all the right boxes -

Tulsi Gabbard says she will run for president in 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/11/politics/tulsi-gabbard-van-jones/index.html

"In the last 7 years (in Texas), over 4,000 illegal aliens have been incarcerated for sexual assault. 62% of them are sexual assault against children." - John Jones, Chief of the Intelligence Counter-terrorism Division with the Texas Dept. of Public Safety

https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/1083833655338913793

Steves! Jobs always gets the good press, but this anecdote from Woz about his innovative encoding scheme for the Apple II disk drive has always been a favorite:

It was so hard, for about a month I worked on it every single night, starting near the end of the day – figuring out the methodology, the sorts of variables I would have, what they would hold, how they’d be – and then I would start working through the process that was in my head so thoroughly, and I’d get 90% done maybe, by four in the morning, two in the morning, and I’d just be so tired, “I’ll go home and finish it tomorrow.”

And I went close to a month thinking I’d always finish it tomorrow, and finally one night – Steve Jobs kept asking me every day, “Where’s the sixteen-bit code, how’s it coming?” and so finally I stayed all night, I got near the end, 90% done, and I just worked it through and finished it, didn’t have to start over again the next day. That was tough for me.

Don't sleep on every problem… Sometimes the solution comes from getting shit done.

The Byte Magazine version:

It was a difficult routine to write. It was about a 20-hour job, and I’d work through the day for 10 or 12 hours and I wouldn’t quite get there. The next day I’d come back and find out that I was starting exactly where I had the day before. This went on for almost a month. I was not quite getting the routines, and we were getting within a month of shipping the disk drives. Finally I stayed up all night until I got all five routines that had to work together done. So we were able to ship it the first time with the group coded recording in place. Later, we changed the encoding method and stepped up to 16 sectors. That was DOS 3.3.

BYTE: We ve heard that you went to UC-Berkeley and had some run-ins with your instructors. Could you tell us about that?

WOZNIAK: I was going under an assumed name – Rocky Clark – so they didn’t know who I was. I took computer science courses, economics, statistics, and a few other courses.

My computer science courses were interesting, but I have to criticize them a little because they taught only specific problems with specific solutions. You spent your time memorizing standard problems and solutions and then tried to recognize variations of them in the tests. You weren’t supposed to explore new avenues or try things that nobody else was doing. You were only supposed to learn the proper answer. They thought that you could be trained to know all the problems and the standard solutions. Once you learned them all, you could solve them. It was wrong because they weren’t really teaching you to solve problems – they taught you to identify them.*

My economics course was interesting also. We had a socialist TA [teaching assistant] who taught us that companies made money by cheating the consumer. All the kids in the class thought that companies would make a lot of profit if they could figure out a way to cut the costs of a product down, to make it cheap and screw the consumer.

I contrast that with the way we did things at Apple. Every product design decision was based on what consumers wanted, what would compete the best, what they would buy. We tried to do what customers wanted, in our best judgment, and give them high-quality products.

So I would stand up in class and argue about what the TA was saying. After a while he started telling me to shut up. or that he would kick me out if I interrupted him again. Apple was the greatest business success in history, but I couldn’t tell him who I was.

*Zappa used to say something similar about composition teachers.