Thousands of dads are left in shock as DIY paternity tests soar

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6585595/Thousands-dads-left-shock-DIY-paternity-tests-soar.html

Shorter (if reported on another country): “After newly-elected president fired secret police agency chief, the secret police retaliated by launching treason investigation against elected president” Subhead: “Liberal opposition cheers secret police”

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1084082737059975168

So sorry to hear the news about Jeff Bozo being taken down by a competitor whose reporting, I understand, is far more accurate than the reporting in his lobbyist newspaper, the Amazon Washington Post. Hopefully the paper will soon be placed in better & more responsible hands!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1084627451983073280

Best line in the Elizabeth Warren beer catastrophe is, to her husband, “Thank you for being here. I’m glad you’re here” It’s their house, he’s supposed to be there!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1084647050208333825

You're playing with stray dogs in the street when a Predator drone nicknamed "Sweaty" incinerates your family. After several months of being trafficked by criminals, you end up at the U.S. border where a woman with red lip and hoop earrings tells u ur special.

https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1083777689822154753

"The unfortunate fact is that American corporations pose the greatest threat to our fundamental liberties and way of life. They censor free speech, make banking difficult for political dissidents, exclusively promote progressive causes, listen to foreign governments more than our own, promote mass immigration, and demonstrate a loyalty only to their own profits and power."

https://vdare.com/articles/tucker-carlson-routs-conservatism-inc-on-unrestrained-capitalism-and-immigration

For all the anti-natalists that hang out here -

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OA64Q6/

The California legislature, having solved all of the other problems facing the state, now tackles the ever lurking danger of...paper receipts.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/california-bill-would-curb-use-of-paper-receipts-push-digital-option.html

So, you want to go electronic? so the vendor has my email address or cell # to send the receipt? so now they also have an existing relationship and may spam me to hell and back? Hard pass.

A gilets jaunes twofer:

1. They're unstoppable

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/01/11/the-gilets-jaunes-are-unstoppable/

2. But are those vest bullet resistant? and is Macron willing to go Assad? (narrator: you never go full Assad)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6586991/French-riot-police-using-semi-automatic-weapons-against-Yellow-Vest-protestors.html

Hamas terrorists die of boredom, poor explosive handling, but mostly poor explosive handling.

https://www.speech-point.com/2019/01/huge-explosion-rocks-gaza-as-hamas.html

But are those vest bullet resistant? ~ I R A Darth Aggie at January 14, 2019 10:48 AM

Reminds me of an exchange from a Canadian sit-com, Corner Gas, in which two police officers are discussing saving money by buying bullet-resistant vests instead of bullet-proof and one officer remarks, "You ever sleep in a water-resistant tent? You get pretty wet."

How soon will the mass exodus of wealthy New Yorkers commence?

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his plan to provide health care to all New Yorkers — including illegal immigrants — on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper. He stopped short of explaining exactly how he planned to offset the cost, saying only that the “wrong people” had all the money and he planned to correct that.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/01/13/de-blasio-wrong-people-money-health-care/

No, dearie, you don't have that freedom of speech.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6589109/Secret-Service-agents-turn-womans-home-posted-comment-Donald-Trump.html

News you can use.

https://educateinspirechange.org/health/new-research-semen-may-actually-cure-depression-women/

"Kentucky Denies Parental Rights to Lesbian ‘Momma’"

https://nationalparentsorganization.org/blog/24236-kentucky-denies-parental-rights-to-lesbian-momma

Paul Krugman, former economist now columnist for the New York Times and Democratic Party apologist, has come to the defense of AOC's 70% marginal tax rate proposal.

"Krugman argues that ... the U.S. economy has prospered in the past with a 70 percent top rate—and, in fact, in the 1950s and early 1960s, it thrived under an even higher (92 percent) maximum rate."

What Krugman conveniently ignores is that in the 1950s and 1960s, US companies and the US economy had exactly zero competition; that offshoring production was economically unfeasible due to high shipping costs.

> Aggie at January 14, 2019 10:48 AM

Nice linkin,' Darthy.

See also the SAPster, aka @sapinker:

Despite its recent swelling, populism appears to have plateaued. A majority of Americans consistently disapprove of Trump, and in Europe, nationalist parties won a median of just 13 percent of votes in 2018 elections. The demographic sectors that are the hottest hotbeds of populism are all in decline: rural, less educated, older, and ethnic majorities. The travails of Trump and Brexit in 2018 are a reminder to supporters that populism works better in theory than in practice. Lined up against it are democratic checks and balances within a country and pressures toward global cooperation outside it, the only effective means to deal with trade, migration, pollution, pandemics, cybercrime, terrorism, piracy, rogue states, and war.

Emphasis: Uncle Cridmo

Because it's always been perfectly clear that history is moving in a forward direction. Smart people are running this machine, and doing so first for their own benefit— They'll not be deterred by weasel-men.

The basic-cable crybabies will do their best to make the lives of others miserable, and may even start a "war" or two, but things will continue to improve despite their squirty little shitfits.

"The demographic sectors that are the hottest hotbeds of populism are all in decline"

Good. Once the white men are finally dead the scions of Earth's second-most-successful cultures can take over and run the show in their inimitable, equitable, and progressive fashions.

Man, I don't think it's the populists that made the miracle happen in our generation.

(I understand why Pinker resists the M word, but you will scour the wildest, druggiest, most outlandish science fiction of the early twentieth century and find no one dreaming that life would turn out as well as it did for such an enormous fraction of the world.)

"A majority of Americans consistently disapprove of Trump,..."

Where did this come from?

From Snoopy's post:

"Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think"

I realize most people won't see this, but from a title like that, it's clear enough the book is aimed at readers who already have a child and WANT more children. Not anti-natalists.

Besides, even if you're a happy parent of one, one good reason NOT to have more than one kid is...when a lamp gets broken, chances are it wasn't your spouse who broke it and didn't tell you. Whom else can the kid blame?

I gotta say that is a terrible argument Lenona. At the end of the day does it really matter who broke the lamp? But even more to point, who has lamps these days?

"A majority of Americans consistently disapprove of Trump,..."

Where did this come from?

~Rad

Presidential disapproval ratings. Though Trump isn't special. Every president has had disapproval ratings over 50% until you go all the way back to Ford (peak 46%). Republicans pretty much always do worse than Democrats on this metric. Trump (62) is better than GW Bush (71) but worse than HW Bush (60), so pretty average.

But Uncle Cridmo never was one to let facts get in the way of his TDS issues.