At the shallow end of the gene pool.
[TorontoLife] My name is Diana. I’m a 27 year-old bartender. I met this guy on Tinder about two months ago, a few days after I’d moved from Toronto to San Diego. We’d been chatting for all of a day, and we agreed to meet at a bar in downtown San Diego. We were just going to play Big Buck Hunter and have some drinks. It was very short notice. We didn’t even exchange phone numbers.
He showed up at the bar, and he was super handsome. Like, really tall—six-foot-four or something absurd. We were wearing matching leather jackets. His Triumph Bonneville was parked outside. This guy looked badass.
So we had a couple of drinks, and played a bit of Buck Hunter. A couple things came up as we were getting to know each other. I was probing a bit because I knew he was from Texas, and I wanted to find out if he was a Republican, or a bad person. (Not that the two are necessarily one and the same.) It turned out he was pro-choice and an atheist, which was good. We disagreed on gun control, because he’d served in the Marines. San Diego is a big military town, so there are a lot of those types of people around. Doesn't matter in California about guns. Neither you nor he can own a decent rifle because of the laws there.
But the night progressed. We went out to some other bars, had some more drinks, and he invited me back to his place. I was super excited, because I was really into this guy. We hooked up, and it was incredible. There was a lot face-touching and intense eye contact. He was cool as hell. I was completely smitten. Back in my day, we used to call that bar hopping.
At some point I got up and sauntered over to his bookcase, because I wanted to see what he was into. I saw a few photos, and then a David Sedaris book that I love. I asked him about the Sedaris book and he said he hadn’t read it yet. But then, right beside it, I saw a book about Donald Trump. It wasn’t The Art of the Deal or one of his how-to-succeed-in-business books. It was In Trump We Trust, by Ann Coulter. So I asked him about it. I was like, “Ha ha, this is funny.” Shoulda given him credit for even being a reader.
And he responded, “Well, actually the guy raises some valid points. Mexicans are taking our jobs.”
Meanwhile I’m a Canadian expat who just moved to America. I pointed that out and he went, “No, no. It’s different.” Why? Because I’m white and in my twenties? No, coz he just finished nailing you to the floor. Duh.
Also, you came over legally, with a visa and everything. You did come over legally, right? Because otherwise this little essay will be evidence when the Trump version of ICE starts asking uncomfortable questions.
Come now, Canadians are the most law-abiding people on the planet. They can't help themselves...
He started talking disparagingly about Black Lives Matter. This entire conversation happened in five minutes, while I was frantically getting dressed to leave. I wasn’t there to argue, and I felt deeply uncomfortable. If you were a different person you would have felt "deeply uncomfortable" the moment you accepted his invite to his place.
This is why we don't sleep with people on the first date, my dear Canadian essayist, but wait until we know them well enough to be sure we like them. I suspect, however, your Texan is more likely to learn that lesson.
Um no, he's a guy...
I got a Lyft home and I thought I was done with him. The next day he messaged me on Tinder. He said, “Hope you’re still not upset over politics LOL.” I explained that it’s hard for me to remain attracted to someone whose views are so different from mine, and who believes in bigotry and xenophobia—which sucked, because the sex was amazing.
Then he said, “Not accepting other people’s beliefs is the definition of bigotry.”
So apparently it was my fault.
Yes. Though the word you want is actually.
He sent me a “hey” message a week later, which I never replied to.
I couldn’t do it again. It feels taboo to sleep with a Trump supporter. But here’s the thing: I’ve slept with a lot of people in my life. This guy ranked in the top five. I thought maybe I’d try him again one night at 3 a.m., when I was drunk enough to overlook his political views. But I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
And thank goodness for that. Listen to her reducing him to a s3xual object.
I don’t want to wake up next to a guy who blames Mexicans for his woes and thinks “bigly” is a word, no matter how handsome he is.
I can only hope that "Tex" reads this, if only to know that he dodged a bullet...
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I've tried to tell you people in several previous comments the old story of how the country got tilted so all the loose fruits and nuts rolled out to California. It couldn't be helped that some of Canada's loose fruits and nuts rolled out here too. I still love it here but sometimes having to deal with people like this bimbo makes it difficult.
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#12 - "I'm a Toronto small town Canadian girl with round heels and heightened emotional instability and self-importance who recently moved to America..."
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#4
NO MONEY should be given to "fight climate change" if that means carbon tax, solar panel subsidies, wind farms or geothermal.
it's just a big moneyspinner for chinese manufacture which is why they have played propaganda games to promote climate hysteria here in the west
if Trump does anything about climate change he should only divert money for 2 things:
1) Nuclear FUSION research. If there is any "green tech" to be invested in then do that because all our energy problems will be solved when that comes good
2) make birth control freely available for the top 100 birthrate countries to get global population shrinking instead of growing. Those people need access to condoms, the pill, vasectomy and implanon, and the women need to be empowered to choose their own family sizes.
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Anon1, I would also be ok with tax money for research on nuclear power other than fusion - different fission systems, perhaps Thorium fueled, and/or smaller, distributed, 'fail-safe' systems.
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At the beginningg: There was classical economy: create jobs by building road, bridges, dams and things that can make economy MORE efficient
Then there was keynesianism: If you pay peole to dig holes and fill them again this will create jobs when they spend their revenue. Notice however keneysians strongly advice to try budiuld useful things like bridges, roads, damùs atht make economy more efficient
And then there is green economy: ceate jobs by emplying peole ata makingf econmoy LESS efiicient like forcing people to use more expensive energy.
[GP] It’s official ‐ The ’TRUMP STOCK MARKET RALLY’ continues to shatter the record books. As a matter of fact, what we have seen since President-Elect Donald Trump won the Presidential election on November 8th, has never occurred before.
Out of 21 days since the election, the Dow has reached all time closing highs 13 of these days! On another five of these days the Dow landed at its second highest close ever up to that date!
For more than 60% of the closings since the election, the Dow has reached new highs. For more than 85% of the closing bells the Dow has either reached a new high or its second highest closing to date. For only three days since the election, the Dow has not reached one of these two milestones!
This Trump Rally is an Historical Event! We downloaded all daily closing amounts of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since January 5th of 1905 ‐ more than 110 years of daily Dow closing data to compare the ’Trump Rally’ to other rallies in the history of the Dow.
From an analysis of this data, there are only 15 times in the history of the Dow where the Dow set new closing highs for 13 days or more in a 20 day period.
#1
People has been saving and harboring their money for 8 years in face of a confiscatory government. The question is from where is the money flowing from to this market. Before the 'Crash', economists where bemoaning the low rate of savings of Americans. After the 'Crash', economists were bemoaning the squirreling away of assets by Americans.
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"Economics" was "climate science" 150 years earlier. And they have used that 150 years to get everything even more wrong than the climate religionists.
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Decide what results you want -> Do "science." That's how you get economics, political science, social science and so on. It always works so well...
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Economics minus government intrusion is close to a science. The problem is politicians just 'know better' and can't help themselves.
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That said today most of my stocks took painful hits and the dog stocks shot up.
Even JPM went down this morning.
84.61 -0.51 -0.60% 2.26% 8,325,049 17.4M
and GS too:
240.08 -1.37 -0.57% 1.08% 3,372,082 5.1M
[Daily Caller] Various mainstream media outlets believe the recently rejected Dakota Access Pipeline should be completed even as environmentalists continue to fight the multi-billion-dollar project.
Major newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the USA Today, among others, have run headlines arguing the so-called DAPL’s previously approved route should be completed.
Their support comes after the project’s current route was rejected Dec. 4 after previously being approved by the Army Corps of Engineers in early July.
The pipeline was sidelined after months of opposition from environmentalists and Standing Rock Sioux, who believe the pipeline would trample on the tribe’s lands and poison its water supply.
#1
Graphic depicts a pipeline crew (or gang) laying what appears to be 10 inch threaded pipe. The bar like tools at the end of the section depicted are 'chain tongs' (pipe wrenches) used by the crew to lift, position, and turn the pipe into the previous length's collar. Once properly aligned, a good crew could turn and connect a length of pipe non-stop. The chain tongs of the last length of pipe connected are still in place and visible.
Welded pipe has pretty much ended this very labor intense process.
#3
I still believe the tribes involved wanted to be bought off.
I believe there was likely Saudi/Russian/Soros money backing the protests as well.
I believe Obama doesn't give a squat but he did what he did to give the protesters a Holiday rest so they'll be ready when Trump reverses his decisions.
#5
If the pipeline is not built the oil will continue to be carried by rail (Burlington Northern, I think - follow the money). The rail line crosses the Missouri about 70 miles downstream of the DAPL proposal - but right next to the new Standing Rock water supply intake that should go into service in a few months.
#6
Reading all the comments at the various anti-DAPL sites I visit indicates they want to remove all pipelines, in order to "save the water". The amount of petroleum wasted in order to bring the anti-DAPL'ers to & from the protest sites must be immense.
[Daily Caller] An "aging white population [is] speeding [up] diversity," blared a headline on The Hill.
Once again, a Fake News outlet has confused cause and effect, giving readers the impression that the two trends--whites dying-out and minorities thriving--are spontaneous and strictly parallel.
The reverse is likely true. Corrected, The Hill headline should read:
Could speeding up diversity contribute to a decline in the white population?
We learn that "there are growing signs that the rate of change is increasing." Well of course. America welcomes well over 1 million, mostly non-white, immigrants a year.
If white lives mattered at all to the liberal establishment, an inquiry would ensue: Is it possibility that an enormous influx of legal and illegal migrants over decades is playing a role in the decline of America’s founding population? (A similar, sad fate was visited on their predecessors, the Amerindians.)
On the one hand, we have the drastic decline of America’s white population; on the other, a massive inpouring of minority immigrants, since 1965. A correlation between the two makes sense. A large, well-controlled national survey, conducted by Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, found that diversity immiserates and that the historic population is most affected. Perhaps protracted misery (associated with loss of community) hastens death.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[GP] It’s official ‐ The ’TRUMP STOCK MARKET RALLY’ continues to shatter the record books. As a matter of fact, what we have seen since President-Elect Donald Trump won the Presidential election on November 8th, has never occurred before.
