Tuesday, December 03, 2019

MORE DEBUNKING BY ANOTHER PROMINENT HISTORIAN

Instapundit Blog Archive MORE DEBUNKING BY ANOTHER PROMINENT HISTORIAN
"An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project. 
“Identity is very much the ideology of the professional-managerial class.”
Plus: “This is one of the things I find so disturbing about the argument that slavery is the basis of capitalism. Slavery made the slaveholders rich. But it made the South poor. And it didn’t make the North rich. The wealth of the North was based on the emerging, capitalist internal market that allowed the North to win the Civil War....
This is really worth reading, and it’s astounding that you have to go to the World Socialist Website to find such comprehensive debunking of the NYT’s twaddle.
Image result for democrats kkkRelated: “Interesting fact about Gerald Horne, the historian whose work is most commonly cited as basis for the ‘1619 Project’ (or at least the claim that the ‘real’ goal of the American Revolution was to preserve slavery): he’s an actual, pro-Soviet Communist.”
Also, Gordon Wood weighs in. “I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it’s going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways. . . . 
I think the important point to make about slavery is that it had existed for thousands of years without substantial criticism, and it existed all over the New World. It also existed elsewhere in the world...
More: Prominent historians criticize the NY Times’ 1619 Project as ‘biased,’ ‘anti-historical.’
Plus: Americans Have Almost Entirely Forgotten Their History. 
This is not by accident, but by design.--Posted by 

Comma power!


Richard Branson's Florida train kills more per mile than any other in US | Fox Business

Richard Branson's Florida train kills more per mile than any other in US | Fox Business
"MIAMI (AP) — After Richard Branson announced his Virgin Group would partner with Brightline, Florida’s new higher-speed passenger rail service, a train whisked the British billionaire, VIPs and journalists from Miami to West Palm Beach in just over an hour and then back, with no problems.
That was likely a great relief to railroad staff who have dealt with a higher than average number of deaths involving the sleek, neon-yellow trains, which travel at speeds of up to 79 mph (127 kph) through some of Florida’s most densely populated cities.
The first death involving a Brightline train, which officially launched in January 2018, happened in July 2017 during test runs.
Since then, 40 more have been killed — a rate of more than one a month and about one for every 29,000 miles (47,000 kilometers) the trains have traveled, according to an analysis of Federal Railroad Administration data by The Associated Press.

#1 This day 1970-----I Think I Love You - Partridge Family

Must view! 1st 4 minutes stunning!-----Award winning teacher Kerstin Westcott's resignation speech in Green Bay...

How do you spell hypocrite? BLOOMBERG!


Shoppers Spend $7.4 Billion Online During Black Friday Sales - Breitbart

Image result for Boxes On ConveyorShoppers Spend $7.4 Billion Online During Black Friday Sales - Breitbart:

Nov. 30 (UPI) — Black Friday shoppers spent $7.4 billion online Friday and $4.2 billion on Thanksgiving day, making it the second largest Internet shopping day ever, according to data compiled by Adobe Analytics. Receipts for Friday trail only last year’s Cyber Monday’s record-setting $7.9 billion in sales.

Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today-Michael Smith
"Somebody asked me why the Democrats would pick Joe Biden, given that he seems a couple of bales short of a hayride.
I've been thinking about it and was ready for the question.
I said it was because he would become the Manchurian Candidate.
Image result for joe biden dementiaThey said there was no way he would be controlled by a foreign power.
I said that he would be controlled by the largest communist organization in America - the Democrat Party.
Biden represents a store front of Democrat establishment electibility where the others don't ANNNND he has the added benefit of being bigly susceptible to manipulation if he were to win. 
I would bet that when it gets closer to the decision point, the DNC will go to the big money candidates like Steyer and Bloomberg and say, "Hey. guys. Look at it this way - we need your money to beat Trump - you guys drop out and you help us run Joe so you get what you want. 
You won't have the title...but you will have the real power to get the things done you want done. 
We'll put a female VP in place who will really make the decisions in the administration
It'll be great, you'll see!"...
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AM Fruitcake


History for December 3

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History for December 3 - On-This-Day.com
George McClellan 1826- Union General, Joseph Conrad 1857- Author, Andy Williams 1927- Singer
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Peter C. Schulz 1942- Co-inventor of fiber optics used in telecommunications, Ozzy Osbourne 1948- Singer, Julianne Moore 1960- Actress
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1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
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1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
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Monday, December 02, 2019

Nolte: Lisa Page's Disastrously Dishonest Daily Beast Interview

Nolte: Lisa Page's Disastrously Dishonest Daily Beast Interview:

Image result for wikicommons images Lisa PageAt this point, though, the establishment media’s shamelessly acting as a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party and Deep State is no longer news — it’s just the way it is. Fire me up a flare when the media actually challenge these coup plotters; that would be news.
The good news, though, is that Page uses the Daily Beast’s rope to hang herself. Rather than help herself, she comes off as bitter, deeply dishonest, and rabidly partisan.
So here are all the ways in which she once again exposed herself as an un-American traitor to democracy, a liar, and a partisan who should not have been allowed in the lobby of the FBI, much less the upper echelon.

Black Friday: Holiday Shopping Gets a Trump Economy Boost | Breitbart

Black Friday: Holiday Shopping Gets a Trump Economy Boost | Breitbart:
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The odds are you are shopping this weekend.
An estimated 165 million Americans will shop between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, according to the National Retail Federation. That includes 39.6 million who said they were considering shopping on Thanksgiving Day, 114.6 million on Black Friday, 66.6 million on Small Business Saturday and 33.3 million on Sunday. On Cyber Monday, 68.7 million are expected to take advantage of online bargains.

The way we were-----Rationing in the U.S. During World War II

Boob-tube-----Prime Time Machine: Monday, Feb. 6, 1967 on network TV

Eliminating Food Deserts Doesn't Help Poor Americans

Eliminating Food Deserts Doesn't Help Poor Americans
"...Many think that a key cause of nutritional inequality is food deserts – or neighborhoods without supermarkets, mostly in low-income areas. 
...The data tell a strikingly different story.
See the source image...Although many people began shopping at the new local supermarket after it opened, they generally didn’t buy healthier food. 
We can statistically conclude that the effect on healthy eating from opening new supermarkets was negligible at best. 
We calculated that local access to supermarkets explains no more than about 1.5 percent of the difference in healthy eating between low- and high-income households.
How could this be?
...In other words, people don’t suddenly go from shopping at an unhealthy convenience store to shopping at the new, healthy supermarket. 
In reality, people go from shopping at a faraway supermarket to shopping at a new supermarket that offers the same types of groceries.
...But the data show that healthier eating is not one of those benefits...."
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What if there is no Climate Emergency ? | Watts Up With That?

What if there is no Climate Emergency ? | Watts Up With That?

  • What if there is no Catastrophic Risk from Man-made Global Warming ?
  • What if Man-made CO2 emissions are not the “Climate Control Knob” ?
  • What if Man-made CO2 emissions really are a non-problem ?
  • But what if there is a real Global Cooling Catastrophe in the offing ?

It is the propaganda of Catastrophic Global Warming / Climate Change alarmists that has illogically conflated Carbon Dioxide, the beneficial trace gas that sustains all life on earth and which may cause some minor warming, with real and dangerous pollutants to create the “Great Global Warming Scare / Climate Change Scare / Climate Emergency / etcetera”, with their “we are all going to fry in the next few years” narrative”.
...For the last 3 millennia, since 1000BC, cooling has been progressing at a rate considerably higher than during the earlier Holocene that encompassed the highest temperature of the Holocene Climate Optimum..."
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Massachusetts GOP: Warren Running Campaign 'Based Upon Envy'

Image result for flickr commons images elizabeth warrenMassachusetts GOP: Warren Running Campaign 'Based Upon Envy':

“It’s a point I’ve made since my very first campaign: Nobody in this country got rich on their own. They relied on infrastructure we all paid for, employees we all paid to educate,” she wrote.
“So if you’re successful, good for you—now pay it forward so everyone has a chance at success,” she added:

Buzzfeed Crew Shocked To Learn They Have Low Testosterone Levels

Buzzfeed Crew Shocked To Learn They Have Low Testosterone Levels
"The normal testosterone level for an American male is a range anywhere from 270 to 1070 ng/dL with an average of 679 ng/dL.
When a crew from Buzzfeed got their testosterone levels checked as part of an investigation into male attractiveness, 3 out of 4 were apparently low..."Read all.


Lots of talk, get some facts.-----Five Common Misconceptions About the Electoral College - The Atlantic

See the source imageFive Common Misconceptions About the Electoral College - The Atlantic
"...Below, I identify five common mistakes made in arguing for the preservation of the Electoral College.
Mistake Number 1: Many supporters of the Electoral College assume that the debate about presidential selection at the Constitutional Convention, like the debate today, focused on whether the president should be chosen by the Electoral College or by a nationwide popular vote.
But as tempting as it is to read history in the light of contemporary concerns, the debate at the convention focused on a different issue: Should Congress choose the president?...
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Lunch video-----"LAST VOYAGE OF THE ANDREA DORIA" - (1996 Documentary)

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Obama made Americans buy insurance, but judge stops Trump rule that immigrants do the same - WND

Obama made Americans buy insurance, but judge stops Trump rule that immigrants do the same - WND:
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The great irony, of course, is the fact that Simon was an appointee of a president who felt that Americans needed to buy insurance whether they needed it or not.
In fact, that was the whole point of the Obamacare individual mandate: If you didn’t get healthy people to pay into the program by buying coverage they didn’t need, premiums would skyrocket.

Are you SURE you're prepared to live with the Green New Deal?-----Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Hurd
Hey Trump-haters and enviro-Nazis ... Are you SURE you're prepared to live with the Green New Deal? 
Is the virtue-signaling worth it?
Consider the following:
Extreme Green Poverty: Germans Face €44 Billion Bill For Electricity Alone In 2020 [from the Global Warming Policy Forum]
Germany’s green energy taxes and levies on electricity have reached their highest level ever and will rise to 44 billion euros in 2020...
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More than 340,000 German households had their electricity turned off last year because they couldn’t pay their electricity bills. A mother [pictured above] is sitting with her son in her darkened apartment in Hanover (Source: DPA)"
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#1 Movie this Week 1965-----That Darn Cat! (1965) Disney Home Video Australia Trailer

CNN’s pre-Thanksgiving civility lesson: Trump defenders ‘Should Be Laughed at, Ridiculed, and Scorned’ - American Thinker

CNN’s pre-Thanksgiving civility lesson: Trump defenders ‘Should Be Laughed at, Ridiculed, and Scorned’ - American Thinker
"When you consider the vast number of people forced to watch CNN as they waited at their gates for delayed airline flights on the busiest travel day of the year, one marked by weather delays in most of the country, this call for harsh derision could affect a lot of Thanksgiving dinners today. 
Ridicule and scorn do not fit well with the theme of giving thanks for the  blessings we receive as Americans, but then again, CNN, in the ratings tank and discredited for its repeated fake news incidents, has less to be thankful for than most Americans, enjoying higher incomes and lower taxes.
Watch as CNN legal analyst Elie Honig responds to anchor Brooke Baldwin saying, that the main defense of “I know nothing” is “dead.”
At about 1:40 below:
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope nobody at your Thanksgiving table was stuck in an airport departure lounge yesterday."

#1 This day 1965-----The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (Audio)

Video of 6-Foot-2, 220-Pound Transgender Crushing Female Athletes Shows How Unfair Trans Movement Is to Women

Video of 6-Foot-2, 220-Pound Transgender Crushing Female Athletes Shows How Unfair Trans Movement Is to Women
...the first day of “Transgender Awareness Week,” according to LGBT athletics blog Outsports.
...And this trend finds no better example than that of Hannah Mouncey...
Another male athlete claiming female “gender identity,” Mouncey made international headlines last fall when he withdrew his professional draft nomination for the women’s Australian Football League because of perceived discrimination, according to The Independent.
Standing 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing in at approximately 220 pounds, Mouncey, who had competed on the men’s national team for handball in 2016, was crowned a hero by the LGBT community for attacking the AFL’s “Gender Diversity Policy” — a policy he claimed was too restrictive..."
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To those who lecture us.


Mark Your Calendars. This Will Be The Biggest Day Yet For Impeachment Legal Fights | The Daily Caller

Image result for flickr commons images capital hillMark Your Calendars. This Will Be The Biggest Day Yet For Impeachment Legal Fights | The Daily Caller:

Two three-judge panels will hear back-to-back arguments on two separate matters. The first is a dispute over a House Judiciary Committee subpoena for grand jury materials from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The second involves another House subpoena compelling the testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn.

Study Shows Electric Cars Become Practically Useless In Cold Weather

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Study Shows Electric Cars Become Practically Useless In Cold Weather
"According to recent studies, cold temperatures significantly reduce the performance of electric cars, especially when it comes to battery life.
One study by AAA suggested that cold temperatures can reduce the range of the batteries in most electric cars by over 40 percent. 
It was also noted that the performance can be even worse when the interior heaters are used..."
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