[Babylon Bee] U.S..‐A new Reuters poll released Friday indicated that 100% of people who are James Comey believe that James Comey did nothing wrong as the director of the FBI.
Pollsters called exactly one guy: James Comey, and asked him how well he thought James Comey handled himself as FBI director. Of those James Comeys surveyed, 100% of them thought that James Comey's conduct was impeccable and that he served his country well.
"Yeah, James Comey? That guy is a national hero," said one of the people who were surveyed, speaking anonymously. "Of all the people in the nation who could have handled a tough situation like that, James Comey was the man to do it."
Every single person surveyed also believed that James Comey is owed an apology by those who criticized his handling of sensitive information and his violation of FBI rules. "I'm waiting," said James Comey when he saw the poll results. "This survey just shows that there is a real consensus here as to who the good guy is: me."
Comey said he will be going door to door asking for an apology from every single person in the nation one by one.
[Mark Steyn] Today is the eightieth anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, an act that precipitated the world into war and with whose consequences we live to this day. For our American and Canadian readers, it's respectively the Labor Day weekend and Labour Day weekend.
[Natural News] For more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. But the space agency, for whatever reason, has chosen to let the man-made global warming hoax persist and spread, to the detriment of human freedom.
It was the year 1958, to be precise, when NASA first observed that changes in the solar orbit of the earth, along with alterations to the earth’s axial tilt, are both responsible for what climate scientists today have dubbed as "warming" (or "cooling," depending on their agenda). In no way, shape, or form are humans warming or cooling the planet by driving SUVs or eating beef, in other words.
But NASA has thus far failed to set the record straight, and has instead chosen to sit silently back and watch as liberals freak out about the world supposedly ending in 12 years because of too much livestock, or too many plastic straws.
In the year 2000, NASA did publish information on its Earth Observatory website about the Milankovitch Climate Theory, revealing that the planet is, in fact, changing due to extraneous factors that have absolutely nothing to do with human activity. But, again, this information has yet to go mainstream, some 19 years later, which is why deranged, climate-obsessed leftists have now begun to claim that we really only have 18 months left before the planet dies from an excess of carbon dioxide (CO2).
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However, the Warmongers won't buy it because it doesn't match up with their cooked, adjusted, fabricated, and manipulated data [which doesn't match ups with observed data].
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#1 ...but where's the graft and accumulation of power and subjugation of humanity in that?
You can't tax the sun for being too hot but there's always a way to tax people who are doing okay and can afford it anyway. Governments need money after all.
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That does explain why Abraham and his family and servants and flocks could wander so easily from Ur on the Euphrates to Canaan and then Egypt —there was grazing rather than sandy wasteland along the route.
And that was 70% of volcanoes underwater, and erupting all the time — releasing more CO2, etc that eventually bubbles up into the atmosphere, there to be measured? How very unexpected — it’ll be a race between the real scientists and the global warming fanatics to come up with new models that incorporate both factors.
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Thanks a bunch, Skid. I knew some of this and now know more.
Fascinating. All the more so without that kid from Sweden and, of course, the gored Al.
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TW, don't leave out the Ancient Aliens.
There's so much new ground for them to cover here, Giorgio will lose his hair.
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My friend retired from the Alaska Volcano Observatory about 4 years ago. Little Mount Augustine, an island volcano in Cook Inlet near Homer, when it was steaming, put out 500 tons of SO2. In full eruption it put out 6500 tons of SO2. Now where was the EPA when this violation of air quality standards was occurring?
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[AmericanThinker] Not too long ago, Britain's Tories were in the loo, poll-wise.
In a July 21 story headlined, "As Brexit looms, the U.K. Tories fight for survival," NBC News reported:
After almost 10 years in power and 185 years in existence, its voters and members are leaving in droves to support the upstart Brexit Party.
It was the conventional wisdom on all sides - see here and here. As wildly opposed as those organs' political lines are, the stories could have been written by the same person. "The question is not who will lead the Conservative Party, but whether it will survive," The Economist Britishily put it.
Welp. Not anymore. Here's The Sun scarfing up the story today:
BORIS Johnson's gamble to shutdown Parliament has paid off as the Tory's lead over Labour has almost doubled in just three weeks, latest polls have revealed.
The boost comes after the Prime Minister announced his decision to prorogue Parliament for nearly five weeks next month in order to deliver Brexit.
The shock move was approved by the Queen, leaving just days for a possible vote of no confidence in Boris, or for rebel MPs to pass a law to push back the Brexit date.
And latest polls has seen the Tory's lead over Labour almost double in three weeks since the decision.
Suck it up, doomsayers. Rule, Britannia! What's fair to say here is that something has changed, the change that really matters, that of the new personality influencing events.
Britain's new leader, Boris Johnson, the country's last-ditch gamble on a man with a slightly wild and unexpected personality does seem to understand the stakes and better still, recognizes the kind of power needed to take the country on the course it voted for, as well as save his own party.
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Seems rather simple. The chattering classes do not want Brexit, are pro-liberal/labor, so of course, they project this bias onto the news, especially the Prog Press here in the US. PM Johnson is simply doing what the others have forgotten: the people voted for Brexit. They want it, and he will deliver it.
[National Review] Julian, Calif. ‐ Right outside the comfortable and delicious Jeremy’s on the Hill Restaurant in this scenic former gold-mining town northeast of San Diego, Jack Green offers a glimpse of why homes too often are so expensive. The real-estate developer stands near the patio of a Cordon Bleu‐trained chef’s mountainside eatery and gets indigestion just thinking about what a mess homebuilding has become.
"I have to spend $80,000 before I can drive one nail into a piece of wood," Green says. Just preparing to manufacture a house can take four to five months. This includes permits, land-use studies, appealing to various boards, and pleading with politicians. How long did he wait to reach this starting line when he began in this business in the late 1990s? "Three to four weeks." Thus, he has seen a five- to seven-fold increase in the time needed to launch projects in just two decades.
In fact, "Jack Green" is a pseudonym by which to shield this gentleman’s identity, as he requests, "since I still deal with these people."
Green once aspired to create 60 homes on land that he purchased. By the time officials finished with him, he actually wound up creating only 13 homes, a 78 percent decrease in planned housing stock. Since he had fewer homes to sell, his asking price per dwelling soared 233 percent ‐ from roughly $300,000 to $700,000. "And you wonder why homes have become unaffordable?" he asks.
Green recollects another project in which he got his paperwork in order, and all systems were go. "At the last minute, an official told me, ’We need a streetlight at a certain corner,’" Green recalls. "I said, ’That’s nice. But I don’t see that in any of the approvals, plans, or anything else.’" Basically, the functionary told Green that the city wanted that streetlight installed, and Green had to pay for it. He threatened to sue. "’No, you won’t,’" Green says the official told him. "’You want to build this project, and you need our final approval. And you won’t get it until that streetlight gets built.’" Green replied: "That’s extortion." According to the builder, the bureaucrat said: "Yes, it is."
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..the term is 'raising the drawbridge'. More colloquial phrase would be 'I got mine, s**** you'. All impediments meant to prevent others from getting what you have.
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The approvals and permits regime is a clear encroachment on property rights, over self-owned capital and land use. In almost every capitalist economy, bureaucracies have gradually usurped the landowner's right to use it whichever way he wants turning it into a quasi communist system. They convinced the legislatures citing accidents and mishaps that regulating everything down to the color of the paint was necessary. I'm sure they engineered such outcomes as Town Planning Acts and House building Control Acts in connivance with rich builders of plaster and drywall boxes.
You may own it on paper, but you can't hammer a post into it until you satisfy the bureaucracy of thousands of prerequisites. It's just another way to make you feel that it's not really yours. The State cannot be profiting from such a system, that only increases costs and lets resource go unused.
California's politicians and developers are determined to turn the whole state into one vast slum. We don't have enough infrastructure for the houses that have already been built and the people who are already here. Check out Interstate 5 from the Mexican Border all the way up through Los Angeles. It's a frickin' parking lot. When there's a drought they tell us not to water our lawns and to take only three showers a week. Hell, they've started telling us not to run our dishwashers until 9 p.m. because we don't generate enough electricity to meet the demand. And, if you really want a nightmare, take a trip to one of our hospital emergency rooms or, even worse, one of our schools.
Politicians like Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and the developer in this article cry about affordable housing. They want to make California affordable for millions more illegal aliens than we already have. The same kind of crooks have been singing that same song for as long as I can remember. They've been building houses as fast as they can as long as I can remember and the cost of housing keeps rising while the quality of life keeps deteriorating. More affordable housing is not the solution, it's a scam. Developers bribe the politicians to overwhelm our infrastructure, make life miserable for the people who are already here, and then they get rich.
They lie. Without all those fees, permits and various boards the developers would have made a bigger mess than they already have. That streetlight? With all the traffic that developer was going to generate, a streetlight was probably the least he could do.
Property rights are one thing but property owners must also be responsible. You don't want a nuclear waste dump in your back yard and, trust me, you don't want some vast, new housing tract in your back yard either. Last I heard, this is still California and not Mexico City but they're doing their best to change that.
The real reason why housing in California is so expensive is that too many people want to live here. I've said this before and Rantburgers always inform me that they don't. But billons of other people all over the world do and our politicians tell us we need to sacrifice our quality of life so they can. Bullshit. There are other places where people can live quite nicely.
Coastal California is prime real estate. It is supposed to be expensive. If you can't afford it, try your luck elsewhere.
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Back in the 90s, the folks in central New Mexico got a clue. No new development till the developer can come up with new water. That put breaks on a lot of speculation. Didn't exactly stop it. They Kelo'd a farm to get water rights but there are only so many available cause its high desert country. When the market tanked in '08 there was minimal effect on housing as speculation had been choked way earlier. It's also helped by the state law that if you lose a law suit, you pay the winner his/her expenses. Keeps the water claim jumpers to a minimum. However, housing is far more accessible than big metro markets. It's a matter of supply and demand.
[Townhall] Joe Biden leads the Democrat pack and he’s a catastrophe, meaning that we have to weigh the human kindness that compels us to seek to end his humiliation against the practical reality that this doddering establishment weirdo will get squashed by Donald Trump like a dung beetle under a steamroller. Or even like an ex-Beatle under a steamroller ‐ Biden is the Pete Best of American politics, the guy who never quite made it. Except Pete Best wasn’t a gropey, senile, corrupt Democrat plagiarist with delusions of adequacy. bonis nocet quisquis malis pepercit
[National Review] Donald Trump was always the target.
The point of the Russia investigation was to make a case against Donald Trump. Preferably, the case would drive him from office. At a minimum, it would render him unelectable by the 2020 stretch run. The kind of case was less important than the objective: criminal prosecution or impeachment. In accordance with the collusion narrative, the latter would mean trying to show that Trump was compromised by the Kremlin.
That is the astonishing takeaway from Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on former FBI director James Comey’s handling of his memos.
In truth, it’s not that astonishing. It happens to be the theory of my new book, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency. Obviously, if a book can show that Donald Trump was in the FBI’s crosshairs all along, that fact had to have been knowable for some time.
Still, if you’re going to write a book about a mind-blowing theory, it is gratifying to have that theory confirmed ‐ notwithstanding how alarming it may be for the state of our republic.
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People have been saying that for 2-1/2 years or so. Time is overdue for bringing those boneheads to justice. These people have sullied our American constitutional Republic. So far, those who were responsible for this travesty have been exonerated 6 ways to Sunday. Then, they had the gall to laugh, and in Comey's case, ask for an apology.
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Some time back Procopious2K posted the definition presciently:
Sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison and it refers to the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it.
[The American Conservative] Dachau does not believe in your tears. This is not a sentimental place. It is not clean. A universe of victims died here but there is no acknowledgement of victimhood, or raising of awareness, or giving of voice, or trafficking in of shallow hashtags. Dachau is here to declare what happened and charge you with doing something on the scale and with the accuracy that are required.
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Note well that today is 80 years after... ...the first regular act of war took place on 1 September 1939. At 04:45, the old German pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig on the Baltic Sea
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Take a few minutes to read the comments where this column originated. 500 plus comments, bunch of whack jobs. If this is the future, the Republic is doomed.
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I go by 'traditional' Western Civilization connotation. As for the Russians, they also invaded Poland from the East. While the Americans chose to sit it out despite the efforts of FDR for the next couple of years, it wasn't till Germany and Italy declared war on the US following the Japanese open act of war that we became official 'allies' for the European struggle. However, the war was always there. Ethiopia was much like Spain, just a precursor to the main event.
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Just more proof some people are not human and deserve to be removed from the living. They were not born that way, they made a conscious choice to become that way.
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Ref #7: Any internet post about the Holocaust is bound to bring in the worst of humanity.
The 'ultimate solution' as an implement of geo-political change will probably never be used again. Islam could never tolerate the creation of another Israel.
[Rudaw] The Ottoman Turkish Defense Ministry recently announced the third phase of Operation Claw in Kurdistan Region’s northern Sinat and Haftanin regions near the Ottoman Turkish border. The first and second phases were conducted in Khakurk region, also near the border.
These recent Ottoman Turkish operations against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters are much different from those it carried out against the group 35 years ago because they are conducted with a different military plan and strategy.
To understand these plans and strategies, Ottoman Turkish army’s previous operations in Kurdistan Region must be highlighted.
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The Assembly of African Migrants — a confederation of about 3,000 people from various African countries currently in Tapachula, Mexico — launched in the past week, according to La Jornada, citing assembly leaders. The group issued its first press release Thursday, describing its origins, how members have suffered since entering Mexico, and their demands.
“We, the people of African origin, forced to remain in Tapachula, suffer an unbearable humanitarian situation related to nurture, housing, health and hygiene; as well as systematic discrimination by immigration authorities,” the press release began. “Since we left our countries, for us life has been a permanent escape. We feel despair, hopelessness, fear, demoralization, loneliness and abandonment.”
The Assembly of African Migrants is made up of illegal immigrants who traveled from the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Cameroon, and other African countries. They said they left their countries, traveled across South and Central America, but have remained detained in Tapachula, a city on Mexico’s southern border near Guatemala.
Thanks in large part to pressure from the Trump administration, the Mexican government has dramatically stepped up enforcement against illegal immigration. While the majority of illegal migrants traveling through Mexico are Central Americans, thousands of African migrants have also found themselves stuck near Tapachula’s federal immigration office.
But the same question keeps popping up every time I read about this: who owns the fleet which is bringing these Africans across the Atlantic Ocean?
I’d guess that it’s the same entities who got them organized into an “Assembly,” wrote their press release, told them to march, and supplied them with the lovely Spanish-language signs. (Several possible culprits are listed here. Spanish language.)
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This is a video of the Assembly of African Migrants clashing with the authorities in Tapachula. Just think what they will bring to America.
Besides blaming “Western powers” of fomenting the chaos that eventually forced them to flee, and accusing Mexican authorities of hostility and racism, they are demanding they be allowed to keep traveling north. Many of them are hoping to obtain transit passes that will allow them to reach the U.S. or Canada.
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@Besoeker
In Germany, not a lot as we actually need people to fill jobs and most migrants (especially almost all from Africa) are not allowed to work because they don't have a status as a recognized refugee or have been granted asylum.
The burden isn't on the job market but on social services.
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Interesting EC. Thankfully, the "status as a recognized refugee or have been granted asylum"...appears to be in play here as well.
I'm assuming Germany does not recognize the 'anchor baby' scam either.
What's the percentage of sex crimes and murder that can be credited to the Africans ? How safe are the natives feeling ? How many mosques and 'no-go' zones since the increased influx ?
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Yes, of course native Aleutic Islanders could rival the Swiss for watch making. Without significant intervention however, I'm guessing the process might take a few thousand years.
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European Conservative, I've read in more than one place that the same Captain's keep showing up on boats stopped from bringing refugees across the Med.... I suspect the refugees going West are probably part of a similar movement.
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.
[Babylon Bee] U.S..‐A new Reuters poll released Friday indicated that 100% of people who are James Comey believe that James Comey did nothing wrong as the director of the FBI.
[Natural News] For more than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has known that the changes occurring to planetary weather patterns are completely natural and normal. But the space agency, for whatever reason, has chosen to let the man-made global warming hoax persist and spread, to the detriment of human freedom.
[National Review] Julian, Calif. ‐ Right outside the comfortable and delicious Jeremy’s on the Hill Restaurant in this scenic former gold-mining town northeast of San Diego, Jack Green offers a glimpse of why homes too often are so expensive. The real-estate developer stands near the patio of a Cordon Bleu‐trained chef’s mountainside eatery and gets indigestion just thinking about what a mess homebuilding has become.
[National Review] Donald Trump was always the target.
