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-Land of the Free
Franklin Graham Claims He Was Banned From Facebook
[Daily Caller] Reverend Franklin Graham says that he was banned from Facebook pursuant to a more than two-year-old post in support of North Carolina’s House Bill 2, which mandated that citizens use the bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex.

The bill was signed into law in 2016 and was considered by many to be bigoted ‐ and it provoked a wave of corporate boycotts targeting the state. It’s not clear which specific post got Graham banned, but the evangelist has been outspoken in support of that bill and of other similar pieces of legislation.

On Friday, Graham railed against Facebook’s alleged ’censorship,’ of conservatives and Christians.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 03:02 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Always be very careful when dealing with ANY kind of media reports from NC. I'm not a big fan of Franklin Graham - he definitely isn't his Dad. But keep in mind that NC is a LOT more red-state than the media would have you believe. Raliegh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Charlotte (where the liberal city government fiddles while the city burns) and Asheville tend to skew perceptions way to the left. And it ain't, believe me. The bathroom law was supported by far more people than the media would have liked you to believe.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/29/2018 6:20 Comments || Top||


Paladin: “We Must Break Them”
[VictoryGirls] We must break the Blue City States where our Rulers live. What that means is, break our Rulers’ will to fight. Break them through an act so terrifying, it halts their totalitarian efforts for a generation. And we can do it without firing a shot. At least on our side.

What do they have? They have the megaphones of the lickspittle media, they have the goose-step of academia, and the Prog Borg of unessential government drones. They have Hollywood & Vine.

What do we have? We have the food. We have the guns. We have the trucks.
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Posted by: 746 || 12/29/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cut their power and water. Stop all traffic into and out of these cities. Form Pinochet style death squads. Go after the Left without mercy.
Posted by: Speamble Elmeack5265 || 12/29/2018 5:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Nah, just make sure the endive is a couple days past "sell by" and make sure everyone has to drink tap water. They'll come around quick...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 6:39 Comments || Top||

#3  If you want to know how unrestricted immigration plays out, just ask the Sioux Nation.
It hasn't worked out that way. Most native Americans I know are rabid Democrats. If they don't outright support "open borders" they sure don't oppose them. Their ancestors suffered & died because they were not able to enforce their ancient sovereignty, and their descendants lack any appreciation of what sovereignty actually means.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/29/2018 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  The peasants thought they could overthrow the Bolshies in the early days of the revolution in a similar fashion.

The Bolshies ruthlessly suppressed their efforts with superior firepower and a willingness to use it.

Eventually, the Swamp will make it a matter of who has the weapons and the will (and the skill).

I know that the reflexive response to this is "Well, we have all the guns"

Really? Are we sure about that?

Terrible things may well be necessary in the future, but I question how ready the normies truly are for the reckoning -- or whether they'll figure things out in time for it to matter.
Posted by: charger || 12/29/2018 20:00 Comments || Top||

#5  "Well, we have all the guns"

We have most of the people who know how to use them.
History is replete with cannon fodder given guns and shoved to the front.

Didn't we just have some media 'excitement' when some uniform members asked Trump to autograph his hat? General officers are political animals. The rank and file not so much. Can't count on them to carry out your orders that contradict what they believe in. And the cops, eventually have to go home, by themselves which is why in places like Iraq and Afghanistan they're not quite as reliable to carry out certain instructions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/29/2018 20:35 Comments || Top||


Economy
Wall Street faces annual losses despite solid gains for week
[AP] Wall Street capped a week of volatile trading Friday with an uneven finish and the market’s first weekly gain since November.

Losses in technology, energy and industrial stocks outweighed gains in retailers and other consumer-focused companies. Stocks spent much of the day wavering between small gains and losses, ultimately unable to maintain the momentum from a two-day winning streak.

Even so, the major stock indexes closed with their first weekly gain in what’s been an otherwise painful last month of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 rose more than 2 percent for the week, while the Nasdaq added nearly 4 percent. The indexes are still all down around 10 percent for the month and on track for their worst December since 1931.

"It seems like convulsions in either direction have been the real norm for much of December and that’s certainly been the case this week," said Eric Wiegand senior portfolio manager for Private Wealth Management at U.S. Bank. "The initial push higher and then seeing it subside a little bit is perhaps getting back to a little bit more of a normal environment, reflecting the reality that we have still a number of issues overhanging the market."

The market’s sharp downturn since October has intensified this month, erasing all its 2018 gains and nudging the S&P 500 closer to its worst year since 2008.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 03:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The ZH model: Today's snapshot predicts the future up to and including Heat Death of the Universe.

Retards...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 9:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Someone is expecting interest rises, and that means they are expecting strong wage growth (the only inflation the Establishment fed cares about).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/29/2018 12:44 Comments || Top||


U.S. retirees try to keep cool as stocks tumble
BOSTON (Reuters) - Nancy Farrington, a retiree who turns 75 next month, admits to being in a constant state of anxiety over the biggest December stock market rout since Herbert Hoover was president.

"I have not looked at my numbers. I’m afraid to do it," said Farrington, who recently moved to Charleston, South Carolina, from Boston. "We’ve been conditioned to stand pat and not panic. I sure hope my advisers are doing the same."

Retirees are worrying about their nest eggs as this month’s sell-off rounds out the worst year for stocks in a decade, and some fear they are headed for a day of reckoning like the 2008 market meltdown or dot-com crash of the early 2000s.

Retirees have less time to recover from bad investment moves than younger workers. If they or their advisers panic and sell during a brief downturn, they may lock in a more meager retirement. But their portfolio could be even more at risk if they hold on too long in a prolonged decline.

"I have no way of riding it out if that happens," said Farrington. "I can feel the anxiety in my stomach all the time."

Related: Hot Air - A Stunner, National Debt Interest Will Soon Exceed National Defense Spending
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 02:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fifty years ago no one would have thought of putting all of one's saving into the stock market. The death of bank savings accounts (virtual zero interest) has help create this dilemma.

Banks no longer need your savings dollars, Uncle Sam provides them with all the liquidity they need, at virtually no cost. The 'Forgotten Man' cannot compete with the big gov't banking customer. As long as the interest due does not exceed the rate of inflation, the gov't can sell bonds forever.

Computerized stock trading has also left a great many small-time investors sitting beside the road, wondering what happened.

Counting on the stock market alone for a safe retirement program comes with risk.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 2:58 Comments || Top||

#2  ....turns 75 next month...

Any advisor worth their salt would have her in very low risk/low yield positions. Sounds like she either chose poorly, didn't listen, or never read a book on the basics of money management.

2 for 1 on Alpo down at Kroegers. Get you some Nancy.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/29/2018 3:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Retirees investing in stocks are like sheep lining up to be sheared. And then to be slaughtered.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/29/2018 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Stocks are up VASTLY over the last 2 years though, because the economy is looking to grow, hence interest rates returning to less bank subsidy levels.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/29/2018 12:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): ‘Democrats Have Already Planned Impeachment'
[Breitbart] Friday, outgoing Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told One America News Network that incoming House Democrats will use their majority to impeach President Donald Trump.

Issa said, "There is no question at all that the Democrats have already planned impeachment and now are trying to make the case for it. So their goal is impeachment; they have said it."

Issa added that his colleagues who will replace him in leadership will "be dealing with Democrats who are trying to figure out how to impeach the president."

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 07:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let em waste as much time and energy on it as they want to.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I simply can't wait for Elijah Cummings and Mad Maxine to tell AOC to "sit her white ass down and STFU about mediscare for all" while the important stuff gets done. Bwahahahahahahahahahahhahahaaaaaa...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  And other are planning for when the next civil war breaks out.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/29/2018 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Impeachment plans = basically a harassment effort going nowhere. It's like a frivolous lawsuit--no basis.

Dems should consider that should they ever have another POTUS, they would be opening up impeachment possibilities.

Before all that happens a civil war would likely erupt against the DS cabal.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/29/2018 9:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Permanent impeachment committee. Left media can whine about it all they want, it will be their invention. The most useless congresscritters will fight for a seat. Bring it...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 9:13 Comments || Top||

#6  ...M. Murcek is right.

They have no intention of impeaching DJT. They know that barring some utterly unforseen disaster, the Senate won't convict. The Dem leadership may be insane, but they're not crazy.

They will, however, make it look like they're always just about to pull the trigger. Like the long, painful series of leaks and "sourced" revelations from the Muller investigation? You're gonna get that a dozen times a day until the 2020 election, but they'll never quite actually do it. They can do far more damage to him and his policies that way than handing the Presidency to Mike Pence.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/29/2018 9:36 Comments || Top||

#7  ...until someone does something really stupid, motivated by it all.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/29/2018 11:07 Comments || Top||

#8  The Dems and MSM have that as a plan, but I think it will just wake a few up to just how biased to the DS the MSM is.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/29/2018 12:27 Comments || Top||

#9  You picked an unfortunate time to retire, Issa.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/29/2018 12:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Hopefully Trump is sitting on tons of intel on Swamp dwellers criminality to counter impeachment moves.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/29/2018 15:36 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ He is, and the people who gave it to him are kicking themselves, because at the time they saw no significance in what they were providing...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 15:50 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Chinese Gene-Editing Experiment Loses Track of Patients, Alarming Technology's Inventors
[WSJ] Chinese scientists have raced ahead in experimenting with gene-editing on humans in the last few years, using a powerful new tool called Crispr-Cas9 to edit the DNA of dozens of cancer patients.

Information gathered by The Wall Street Journal shows one such trial has lost touch with patients whose DNA was altered, alarming some Western scientists who say subjects should be monitored for many years.

In another trial, an Indian man’s cancer improved but he suffered a heart attack and brain stroke; Chinese doctors didn’t investigate the cause, the deceased man’s family said.

Now, these and other Crispr trials are coming under scrutiny for the first time from health authorities in Beijing after a controversial gene-editing announcement in China last month sparked international concern over whether there is adequate regulation and oversight in the country.

Three doctors involved with Crispr trials in China told the Journal they received inquiries from the nation’s science and health ministries in recent weeks asking for details about their trials. Neither ministries responded to requests for comment.

Unlike in the U.S., no federal body is overseeing these trials in China, meaning standards vary across experiments.

The approach is troubling for many doctors in the U.S. who fear missteps with early trials could set back development of the promising science by years.

Crispr holds the promise to correct intractable diseases by rewriting a person’s genetic code, or DNA. But it isn’t foolproof and can cause changes in genes other than the ones sought. Unintended consequences could surface years later, American scientists have warned, emphasizing the need to follow up with patients long term.

Jennifer Doudna, a biochemistry professor at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the inventors of the gene-editing tool, said long-term monitoring of subjects is vital and failure to medically investigate deaths is unacceptable.

"Since we do not fully understand the human genome and are still developing knowledge of Crispr-Cas technology, we need to monitor the intended and unintended consequences over the lifespan of patients," she said.

Feng Zhang, another inventor of the tool and a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, described the Journal’s findings surprising, noting that tests on patients hinge on rigorous trial design and follow-ups.

Beijing’s increased scrutiny comes after a Shenzhen-based scientist last month announced that he had used the same tool to engineer the world’s first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr to modify the genes of embryos is more controversial than modifying the genes of terminally ill patients because any changes in embryos are likely to pass onto future generations, meaning a tiny blip could have far-reaching consequences.

Beijing officials have said implanting such an embryo into a human is illegal and that it is separately investigating the scientist, who claimed to have birthed twin girls resistant to HIV last month.

Using Crispr to modify adults’ DNA isn’t illegal in China or the U.S., but American scientists have proceeded with greater caution. The U.S. cleared its first Crispr trial only this year even though the technology was partly invented there in 2012. China’s earliest known Crispr trial began in 2015.

It took the University of Pennsylvania, one of the first in the world to publicly announce a Crispr trial, two years to receive clearance from bodies ranging from its institutional review board to the Food and Drug Administration. Reviewers ordered additional lab tests and examined the wording on consent letters, among other things, before agreeing to let the school enroll patients this year.

Even then, the university struggled to recruit patients for months afterward because the requirements were so stringent. It plans to follow patients for 15 years, as recommended by the FDA for gene therapy trials. The FDA recently cleared two more Crispr trials.

In China, doctors can proceed after a go-ahead from their hospital’s ethics committees. By January 2018, a dozen such trials were publicly listed, the Journal reported at the time, and at least 86 late-stage cancer patients’ genes were edited. Most were treated thanks to Anhui Kedgene Biotechnology Co., a private startup that provided the Crispr technology and lobbied hospitals to open trials testing it.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 02:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Media types love writing about CRISPR, because, while they have no remote idea at all of what it is, the acronym is easy to type...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  maybe they are in Eureka, CA planning the next womens march.
or in DC posing as democratic congresscritters
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/29/2018 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  I've seen this movie before.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/29/2018 11:09 Comments || Top||

#4  >Crispr holds the promise to correct intractable diseases by rewriting a person’s genetic code, or DNA. But it isn’t foolproof and can cause changes in genes other than the ones sought. Unintended consequences could surface years later, American scientists have warned, emphasizing the need to follow up with patients long term.

Im pretty sure most people facing DEATH NOW! or POSSIBLE DEATH IN FUTURE will pick the later.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/29/2018 12:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Thinnest Skins In Media In 2018
It's a Blue-on-Blue bitchfest. Enjoy
[Huff Poo] What follows is a list of our favorite media piss-babies and corncobs of the past year. A quick note to the piss-babies and corncobs themselves: Any communication with me regarding this post will be considered on the record. If any of you contact me to complain about your inclusion on the list, I will be obliged to publish the email, direct message, voicemail, what have you. You have been warned, Tapper.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/29/2018 04:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Western IQ scores are falling. Is it computers or something else?
[Bookworm Room] The West is losing IQ points. Daniel Hannan points to a disturbing reality in the modern world ‐ we’re getting more stupid. Western IQ scores are dropping (and keep in mind as you read Hannan’s words and mine that IQ tests measure a very specific type of academically-based, analytical intelligence):

The fall in IQ scores in the West is perhaps the most under-reported story of our era. For most of the twentieth century, IQ rose by around three points per decade globally, probably because of better nutrition. But that trend has recently gone into reverse in developed countries.

BLUF:

Dumbed-down education. Beginning in the 1960s, the Western education system implemented a vast number of pedagogical changes that downplayed intellectual muscle work such as memorization and side-stepped critical thinking skills.

Some of these changes were in service to the post-WWII idea that "the new is always better than the old." Many, though, were intended to create ideological change in the children and to address perceived social injustices.

The first and worst change, which still floats along the periphery of American education, was to do away with utilizing the marvels of our phonetic alphabet and replacing it with "whole word" language learning. I recognize that phonics is not perfect. We have some words that defy phonics:
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Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 03:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  evolution tried intelligence and found it lacking, now apparently going for lemming-ization.
Posted by: Slats the Younger7433 || 12/29/2018 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Artifact. You can't develop a written test for IQ (an ability) without making it primarily an achievement test for language skills. How well would you score on a test written in Hebrew? (Gorb_ you're excused from this exercise)

Fall in "IQ" can't be separated from the documented plunge in reading/writing skills, due to the hot mess that passes for education these days.
Posted by: Fester Jones7470 || 12/29/2018 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Less emphasis on sports, more emphasis on academics. But would that be hereitical, exclusionary, even racist ?

There must be a way this can be resolved and everyone still get a trophy.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  You lower standards so groups can feel better about themselves and then wonder why IQ are dropping. Instead of challenging everyone and let the chaff fall where it may, you dumb down everyone. Then you subsidize breeding among the lessor capable and penalize breeding among the more capable. Gee, who couldn't see this coming.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/29/2018 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Then you subsidize breeding among the lessor capable and penalize breeding among the more capable. Gee, who couldn't see this coming.

Urban culling helps relieve some of the strain on the system.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Plus, 'Critical Thinking' is no longer required in academia. Recognize, improvise, adapt and overcome.

We taught our kids because they weren't learning it elsewhere. And now they're teaching our grandchildren.

We call it 'survival of the species'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/29/2018 8:42 Comments || Top||

#7  'Critical Thinking' is no longer required in academia.

Required? It is no longer understood or recognizable by the "academics" that should teach it, no less practiced or identified as a virtue. Today critical thinking itself is called racist and punished.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/29/2018 9:35 Comments || Top||

#8  downplayed intellectual muscle work
I took 3 semesters of college level Mandarin a few years back. It was by far the most difficult subject I ever studied. The average Chinese high school graduate will have done far more of this "intellectual muscle work" by the time they graduate h.s. than the vast majority of USA/non-Chinese college graduates will do in their entire lifetimes.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/29/2018 9:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Marching, marching, marching.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/29/2018 11:16 Comments || Top||

#10  p.s. I finally figured out why Hillary is not giving up.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/29/2018 11:34 Comments || Top||

#11  Gorb_ you're excused from this exercise

Ah, brings back memories of school days where I was always excused from having to suffer through these kinds of tests.
Posted by: gorb || 12/29/2018 12:48 Comments || Top||


Organizers cancel Women's March Jan. 19 due to 'overwhelmingly white' participants
[ABC] EUREKA, Calif. ‐ The organizers of the annual Women's March have decided not to hold a rally in Eureka on Jan. 19, as previously planned, because they say participants do not represent the diversity of the area.

"This decision was made after many conversations between local social-change organizers and supporters of the march," organizers said in a press release.

They said organizers will continue to meet and discuss how to broaden representation to create an event that represents Humboldt County.

"Up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community," the press release went on to say. "Instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent, the organizing team will take time for more outreach. Our goal is that planning will continue and we will be successful in creating an event that will build power and community engagement through connection between women that seek to improve the lives of all in our community."

The group said it is exploring holding an event in March to celebrate International Women’s Day. Anyone interested in helping organize these events are welcome and encouraged to attend.

The Eureka Women's March organizing committee encourages local supporters to attend the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in Eureka on Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/29/2018 02:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The group said it is exploring holding an event in March to celebrate International Women’s Day. Anyone except whites interested in helping organize these events are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Tolerant diversity
Posted by: Frank G || 12/29/2018 4:17 Comments || Top||

#2  This isn't even original, half a decade ago Michelle Shocked stopped playing in the middle of a show, cried, said she couldn't continue and walked off stage because the audience wasn't "diverse enough." No, I wasn't there (thank God!) but it got a lot of media coverage...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Diversity vs a Republic

You can have one or the other, but not both.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/29/2018 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Babooooooooooooooooon!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/29/2018 8:21 Comments || Top||

#5  We are in the interesting times we were warned about. The crazies are loose and running wild.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/29/2018 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  How off from being representative were they?

From Wikipedia - 2010


The 2010 United States Census reported that Humboldt County had a population of 134,623. The racial makeup of Humboldt County was 109,920 (81.7%) White, 1,505 (1.1%) African American, 7,726 (5.7%) Native American, 2,944 (2.2%) Asian, 352 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 5,003 (3.7%) from other races, and 7,173 (5.3%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 13,211 persons (9.8%).[39]
Posted by: warthogswife || 12/29/2018 13:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Organizers cancel Women's March Jan. 19 due to 'overwhelmingly white' participants

And here I was thinking double-secret probation was a joke.
Posted by: gorb || 12/29/2018 20:05 Comments || Top||



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