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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Stop Enjoying Summer, Climate Activists Advise
[NATIONALREVIEW] The Merchants of Misery -- a.k.a., climate scientists -- are working overtime to shame you about all the pleasures you’re enjoying this summer and how your selfish indulgences will cause the planet’s demise.

Grilling your favorite cheeseburger? Glutton!

Packing up your brood for a drive to the lake house? Monster!
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Posted by: Fred || 07/25/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I already have technologies to remove CO2 from the air, they're called plants.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/25/2017 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  If you are truly concerned about Global Warming, the best thing to do is kill yourself now. Your carbon will be returned to the atmosphere, but at least you will stop consuming resources and generating more CO2. Plus we won't have your idiot kids to deal with.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/25/2017 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Any bet the all took private jets to some remote tropical location to discuss this paper?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/25/2017 1:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Merchants of Misery Marketing Muck to the Marching Morons -- Catchy headline, no?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/25/2017 1:11 Comments || Top||

#5  I already have technologies to remove CO2 from the air, they're called plants.

Corrals are even better since CO2 is recycled on a (much) longer scale.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2017 1:27 Comments || Top||

#6  "Continued high fossil-fuel emissions unarguably sentences young people to either a massive, implausible cleanup or growing deleterious climate impacts or both."

You left off the unarguable point of massively increasing taxes to fund the cleanup.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/25/2017 8:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Save the trees, get rid of the corporate media.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/25/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#8  This is from Sweden, home of Pippi Laughingstock!

Little known fact, "dumb blonds" were originally from Sweden, which explain a lot. Including looking the other way while their country is being invaded!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 07/25/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||

#9  In response to the eco-nuts I now throw out my recyclables and lightly litter.
Posted by: Hellfish || 07/25/2017 12:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Good idea guys! Let's start by rendering the authors of this drek carbon neutral.

Hard to emit carbon when you are dead.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/25/2017 15:44 Comments || Top||


Uh-oh, CNN staffer may have caught on
[DonSurber] With a tip of the cap to Breitbart, Toobin went on the Situation Room on Wednesday. Brianna Keilar filled in for Wolf Blitzer. She hosted a panel of Toobin, Nia-Malika Henderson, Phil Mudd, and Rebecca Berg. They had this exchange:

KEILAR: Phil, this -- what do we take from this? So many people are paying attention, right, because of -- now it becomes this drama in a way that is beyond just folks who pay a lot of attention to politics.

MUDD: I think that's right. I think you have to step back in the emotion in Washington and look at facts. I want to pick up on what Rebecca said. If I read into what we're seeing on the cover of "People" magazine, I've got to start subscribing if I want to learn about what's happening in Washington.
Within weeks you have to fire your national security adviser. If you -- look at what the president said. The peace process, Arab-Israeli, is easy. Health care, who could have thought -- think this would be so hard? I've got to believe they're stepping in and saying this ain't a business deal; this is really tough.

And meanwhile, all of them have had to hire lawyers, because there's a federal investigation that could lead to indictments, and we're not even seven months in yet. I can't believe anybody looking at those facts, regardless of whether you like the family or not, says, "This is what we banked on, on inauguration day." No way.

BERG: Right.

KEILAR: But Jeffrey Toobin, he had a lot of support.

TOOBIN: He won, right? I mean, he won the presidency. We sit around here saying...

KEILAR: When I say a lot of support, I mean, he has some support that it can -- almost can't be eroded. He has support that can't be eroded, it seems.

TOOBIN: Yes, well, I don't know that it can't be eroded. I mean it has eroded somewhat.

But, you know, we sat around that table for a year saying, oh, Donald Trump, he can't say this, he can't say that, and this is a disaster. And he proved all of us wrong and he won the presidency. And who is to say that he's not going to win it again in three and a half years?

I just think, you know, all of us in the news media need to have a lot of humility about predicting anything about Donald Trump since we have a record -- and I don't mean everyone but certainly, I include myself -- a record of underestimating him. And, you know, we should keep that in mind.

KEILAR: It is a good lesson. We all should have more humility. Thank you so much, Jeffrey Toobin, Nia-Malika Henderson, Phil Mudd, and Rebecca Berg.

Oh no!

They are catching on.

But then Toobin's moment of clarity ended, and Keilar went back to faking the news.
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Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 07/25/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Very short attention span! Doubt they'll remember this conversation tomorrow as there's no anti-Trump statement for them to use.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 07/25/2017 16:15 Comments || Top||


Europe
Could migration derail Merkel re-election express?
[DW] Angela Merkel is coming under renewed fire over her refugee policies as Germany's election battleground heats up. Left-wing rival Martin Schulz has added his voice to long-standing criticism from the right.

For months, Social Democratic (SPD) candidate Martin Schulz has been trying - and failing - to find an issue to eat away at conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
's popularity. In conversation with the Sunday edition of Germany's Bild newspaper, Schulz took aim at what is perhaps Merkel's Achilles heel: her policy toward migrants colonists from Moslem countries.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/25/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Home Front: Politix
Fire Mueller
[American Thinker] Two words describe the Russian collusion accusations and investigation of President Trump: Sham and injustice. Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor, knows it. Rod Rosenstein, the Obama holdover Deputy Attorney General who appointed Mueller, knows it. Jeff Sessions, a decent man and attorney general who recused himself, knows it.

The Democrats know it. The left knows it. The mainstream media knows it. DC-owned and spine-free Republicans know it. Paul Ryan knows it.

Everybody knows it. But everyday Americans should really know this: the farce continues because powerful establishment interests are invested in destroying Donald Trump and his presidency.

That’s why the president should fire Mueller. It’s why Jeff Sessions needs to unrecuse himself. The president should shelve special prosecutions during his presidency. The law permits him to do so. Let U.S. district attorneys earn their keep.

Note "...Trump and his presidency," not "Trump’s presidency," because the witch-hunting and attempted railroading of the president is every bit as much about destroying the man. Trump leads a counterrevolution, a rising up of Heartland Americans -- Americans everywhere with Heartland blood coursing through their veins. His leadership transcends office. He poses an existential threat to interests and people deeply invested in a worldview or ways that practically benefits them somehow. The presidency is a powerful means, to be sure, and denying its powers to Trump -- somehow -- is critical to reasserting the establishment’s control.

Yes, it’s that seedy. And, yes, it crosses the aisle, as they say in DC.

One’s tempted to say that the Putin-Trump collusion tinfoil hat gambit is the pinnacle of years of efforts to criminalize politics. You remember the Scooter Libby and Tom Delay railroads? But here, in the narrowest sense, there aren’t any politics to criminalize. Russian collusion is pure fiction, utter disinformation. The scheme here is to criminalize fiction; to give legal license to Mueller’s investigation based on fraudulent accusations.

There won’t be an impeachment of the president and/or prosecutions of anyone around him for colluding with the Russians. No such thing occurred. If impeachment and/or prosecutions happen, it will be for "gotcha" technicalities when under oath. That’s how the feds sandbagged Scooter Libby. Or because Mueller’s far-ranging investigations found other unrelated grounds to get Trump.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/25/2017 14:33 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do it just to force the hand of the Deep State. Just Do It.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/25/2017 20:04 Comments || Top||


Trump Needs To Be Smart About How He Fires Mueller
h/t Instapundit
Trump must eventually fire Robert Mueller, a partisan tool carrying water for his Establishment pals as he oversees an utterly corrupt "investigation" where the only person we actually know committed any wrongdoing is his bestest buddy Jim Comey. But Trump can’t just lash out and do it, though it is well within his political and moral right to do so. No, he’s got to do it cleverly, with cunning, in a way that shows the American people exactly why Mueller’s witch hunt is a flaming dumpster fire of conflicts of interest and contempt for the right of normal Americans to have a say in their own governance.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2017 03:26 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ted Cruz might establish some sort of 'show me wat u got' time-line and logical end date.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/25/2017 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  pass the popcorn...
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 07/25/2017 4:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump Needs To Be Smart About How He Fires Mueller

Live, on air, with the list of abuses that highlight the fake Russian gambit that has long since been exposed. His job is done.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/25/2017 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  He has to do it so the American people will see and understand why ending this idiocy is so absolutely necessary to preserve our Republic despite the mainstream media’s best effort to hide the truth.

The people who elected Trump are already there. Sessions seems like a nice guy but a guy who has been in the swamp for some 20 years. He seems like a guy who cannot go after people who are crooked who he has worked with for a long time.

Sessions has to go as he is a "Lynch pin (pun intended) preventing clean out of various left-over criminal cabals. Because he has recused himself, he has neutered himself and cannot do his job. He is unwilling to stir things up, but unlike Lynch and Holder not totally corrupted.

IMO, there is widespread support in flyover land for Trump to dump the Clinton orchestrated Mueller investigation trying to gin up a crime. If Mueller were really interested in justice, he would be going after the Clintons, Obama and the rest of the cabal. That is not going to happen. I don't happen to believe he is an disinterested, unbiased, above reproach, Boy Scout investigator. The Clinton/Comey-organized Trump lynch gang has to go.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/25/2017 9:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Sessions lost my support when he reinstated the Asset Forfeiture program.
Posted by: Yosemite Sam || 07/25/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Twitter, fire him on Twitter!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/25/2017 14:22 Comments || Top||

#7  JohnQC nails the putt.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/25/2017 14:25 Comments || Top||

#8  But: Former CIA Director Calls For A Coup If Trump Fires Mueller
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 07/25/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
A hefty reward awaits the murderer of an Israeli family -- courtesy of U.S. taxpayers.
[FrontPageMagazine] The Solomon family was massacred Friday night as they celebrated Shabbat and the birth of their newest grandson in their home. They were massacred by a 19 year old jihadist who posted an explanation of his imminent act of barbarous murder against his Jewish neighbors on Facebook less that two hours before he stormed their home in Neve Tzuf.

The murderer used the same language as his"moderate" "pro-peace" "legitimate" leader, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas who said that Jews pollute the Temple Mount with our "filthy feet."

Ironically and appallingly, just last week the US State Department published a report blaming Israel for Palestinian terrorism and claiming that the PLO-led, and US-funded Palestinian Authority doesn't incite terrorism and violence and hatred.

The State Department also opposes the Taylor Force bill which if passed -- along the lines passed in the House of Representatives, (the Senate bill is an insult to our intelligence), would end US taxpayer subsidization of Palestinian terrorism to the tune of more than half a billion dollars a year.

The State Department -- Tillerson included, apparently, doesn't see anything wrong with the fact that the PA uses more than $300 million every year to pay people like the murderer who butchered the Solomons and their families.

Having murdered the Solomons in their home, this terrorist is guaranteed a lifetime salary and pension for his family that ensure them all an upper middle class economic status -- courtesy of US taxpayers via the "moderate" PA, PLO, Abbas, terror machine.
Please don't accuse USDS of Antisemitism - they're equally willing to subsidize murder of Americans (and an occasional Australian) via their refugee program.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2017 14:34 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shut down the whole section as unregistered lobbyists for foreign powers. That's their argument for lynching Trump, right? Lots of contacts. Let's see how they like the game.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/25/2017 14:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe one of Secretary Tillerson's little projects is to comb through planned donations to see which go to friends, which to enemies, and which actually accomplish something useful, with an eye toward dropping the second category altogether, and that portion of the first not also in the third set.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/25/2017 20:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Evidently Tillerson has a hard time making up his mind. But, perhaps he is not long for his current job....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/25/2017 23:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Powerful Photo Shows That Women Aren't The Only Ones Who Get Periods
Just when you thought things could not get any crazier:
[PuffingtonHost] A transgender artist released a powerful photo
Gotta' hit the link for this one!
last week in an attempt to broaden the cultural understanding of the different types of people who experience menstruation.

Cass Clemmer, who uses they/them pronouns, posted the photo of himself/herself/itself/shplxself/themself on Instagram on July 12, depicting them free-bleeding while holding up a sign that reads "Periods are not just for women #BleedingWhileTrans."
If you're a woman dressed up as a guy, maybe you're still a girl.
The photo was accompanied by a poem the artist wrote for a spoken word event at a menstrual health conference last summer.
"I popped a tampon
into the air.
It fell to earth,
I'm not sure where..."

Clemmer, who works as a menstrual health activist,
Obviously a highy trained medical perfessional.
told HuffPost that they decided to stage the photo after the backlash to The Adventures of Toni the Tampon: A Period Coloring Book a coloring book they created to introduce kids of all genders to the human experience of menstruation.
"Kids of all 57 genders."
"I remember sharing for the first time with a friend of mine that I wasn’t able to wear my binder that day because I was on my period and my boobs had swelled up so much that it made it hard to breathe," Clemmer told HuffPost.
I coulda gone to my grave without ever achieving that knowledge... but it does seem to indicate that there's still only one gender that requires monthly trips to the drug store...
"We had been friends for awhile and she’s a feminist activist, but when I realized that not even she had considered what it was like for people like me to experience bleeding on a (ir)regular basis I knew that I had to go public with my story to help shift the mindset around tying periods to womanhood and femininity. Not all people who menstruate are women, and not all women menstruate."
The second statement is true...
It continues, if you can take it.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 07/25/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There is a gender that requires weekly trips to the beer store.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/25/2017 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  If "it" is now a man, why does "it" still have an uterus?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 07/25/2017 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  The most objective, judgement free definition of Delusional is an individual who cannot and/or will not reconcile themselves to physical reality. Further, any, A-N-Y sentient adult with so much as a memory of humanity would try and help the delusional get back to some form of zero point. Only an a$$hole would attempt to over turn existing reality to humor the delusional, or nut as they were once more commonly known.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/25/2017 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Only an a$$hole would attempt to over turn existing reality to humor the delusional, or nut as they were once more commonly known.

I looked this up in the encyclopedia and found: See Leftwinger, progressive, and Democrat.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/25/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#5  RAH "Crazy years"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/25/2017 14:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Y’all know I’m trans and queer,

Couldn't tell from the photo - thanks for clearing that up
Posted by: Raj || 07/25/2017 15:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Clemmer, who works as a menstrual health activist,

What a deal, only on call, what 7 days a month, and the other 21 off.....
better than the fire department
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/25/2017 15:58 Comments || Top||



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  Governor dismissed over AQAP ties
Mon 2017-07-24
  Suicide car bombing kills 24, wounds 42 in Afghan capital
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  Azhar opens fatwa kiosks in Cairo metro station to counter extremism
Sat 2017-07-22
  Rebel ambush kills 28 pro-govt fighters near Damascus
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  Leader Of ISIS In Afghanistan Killed By US Forces 3 Months After Assuming Command
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