Monday, August 12, 2019

To Kevin Williamson and National Review conservatism is materialism, and you damn families and your schools in Kentucky and Oklahoma are the problem

It's Kevin Williamson with the mulish refusal to consider and deal with the world as we actually find it. You can spend decades trying to beat the nesting instinct out of mothers but all you'll have to show for it in the end is a different set of mothers to replace them, and a different country. Conservatives would prefer to stick with the one we've got. Libertarians should move . . . out.

Job Security Is Not Coming Back:

[I]t is better that we are not governed by poets. Our policymakers must deal with the world as it is, and our schools and families should prepare children for the world as it is, not as we might wish it were. Imagination and creativity are ... a mulish refusal to consider and deal with the world as we actually find it.

Sunday, August 11, 2019

New OJ trying to steal spotlight from USC's old OJ


LOL: With these you can clearly see their . . .

Yes, yes they are.

Joe Biden admits federal government is way too big when he says we'll need at least an F-15 to protect ourselves from it

Either that or he's threatening us.





Senator Blumenthal met the Parkland survivors back when he was in 'Nam, Joe Biden met 'em when he was VP


The New Republic: Man commits suicide waiting in line at the DMV


Just say Kristolnicht to libertarianism


#Epstien = Anti-semitic Twitter

But I repeat myself.

Climate update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2019

Climate update for Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 2019

Max temp 92  Mean Max 94
Min temp 54  Mean Min 49
Av temp 75.4  Mean Av 72.3
Precip 3.92  Mean 3.13
Precip ytd 26.85  Mean ytd 19.78 (36% wetter than normal)
[Snow Jan-Jun 2019 63.7  Mean Jan-Jun 43.5 (46% more than normal)]
[HDD Jan-Jun 2019 were utterly normal, not even 0.7% higher than the mean]
CDD 332  Mean 241
CDD ytd 449  Mean ytd 425 (5.6% warmer than normal)

The surfeit of moisture first from snow and then from rain in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2019 year-to-date is characteristic of much of the continental United States, more than 80% of which isn't even abnormally dry at the height of summer at the end of the first week of August 2019. Drought is isolated to pockets making up less than 5% of the Lower 48, particularly near Seattle.




Saturday, August 10, 2019

Hillary couldn't have gotten to Epstein had they only jailed him in Wisconsin


Fake Indian tries to stir up racial differences between blacks and whites to advance her political aspirations: Totally sick smear of vindicated cop


Looks like the invasion of the body snatchers came for more than just Donald Trump


Joe Biden in 1976: Diversity is not our strength, that's a bunch of poppycock, differences drive us apart


Speaking at an annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Boise in February 1976, Biden said: ”I told you [in a previous speech] about my view that the uniqueness of America didn’t lie in the fact that we’re a great melting pot. We hear that all the time, about it being black and white, rich and poor, Christian and Jew — therefore we’re strong. I told you then, I thought that was a bunch of poppycock.

“The fact we are black and white doesn’t bring us together as a nation. The fact that we’re Christian and Jew doesn’t send us running into one another's embrace to herald our differences. The fact is that people fear differences. The fact that the reason this nation is able to be the most heterogeneous nation in the history of mankind is not because it’s a melting pot. It’s because unlike any other nation in the world, we are uniquely a product of our political institutions.

“If France tomorrow, for example, were to turn in a monarchy, I told you, I did not believe that France would substantively change. Because in France there’s an ethnicity that binds them together, a cultural tie. You don’t have that in America,” he added.

"Just look around this country to see how different we are. Unless we get the American people from Delaware to Idaho, Massachusetts to California, believing that the political system can produce results for them, this country is going to spin apart like a gyroscope out of kilter,” said Biden.

“You were saying, ‘No, it can’t happen here, this is America, we’re unique, we are something different.’ Well, the Lord ain’t made a new brand of man in a long time. It can happen here, we can split apart, and we’re moving in the direction of doing just that.

“Without [the public’s] confidence, without their participation in the system, this nation will not see a tricentennial, this nation will not see the year 2000 in a way in which we now think it is composed." ...

“We hear time and again that we are uniquely a melting pot. Because we’re black, white, rich and poor, therefore we’re strong,” said Biden. “The fact that we are black and white, rich and poor drives us apart in America,” he said.

Drudge headline says Epstein found dead in his cell

Rumor has it he'll be buried next to Seth Rich.