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Sunday, September 8, 2019

Bernie barks at crying baby, Cheetos fashion show, Kamala Harris wants to ration meat!, Vinyl records will soon outsell CDs, ISIS using booby-trapped cows, Rooster kills Aussie woman collecting eggs, and lots more for September 8, 2019


Liberals with their ugly threats have become what they claim to hate
Blacklisting is all the rage in Hollywood, be it personal or geographic. Earlier this year, several studios and media companies said they wouldn’t produce content in Georgia after the state legislature passed a pro-life law.
How many thousands of Georgians who care little about politics and mostly about feeding their families would be devastated by this liberal boycott? Hollywood doesn’t care, of course, because no amount of human suffering should stop a good political tantrum and self-righteous preening.
They claim their superiority over all, especially conservatives.
Yet they wallow in the muck of name-calling and demanding that all agree with them – or else.
It’s that “or else” that’s worrisome.
What voters do they hope to persuade with these savage threats and browbeating? When they do engage in policy discourse, it is filled with narrative instead of truth, lies instead of facts. They’ve become what they claim to hate.
Believe it or not, this comes from a CNN contributor.


Thousands attend California religious event
Believe it or not, there was even a time when we baby boomers were the young generation. Don’t forget our anthem was Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young”!
Now, we have traded our acid rock for acid reflux — and instead of the battle cry “Sex, drugs and Rock ‘N Roll” — it might be “Nip, tuck and Botox!”
Yet we too became more religious as life led us along.
I really had to chuckle at reading this. Fits us aging types to a tee.
While it may be true that some young Americans are rejecting religion and patriotism, there is plenty of evidence to suggest the contrary. Just a few days ago over 100,000 people filled the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, for a weekend-long crusade our Harvest team has put on for 30 years in a row, as Fox News reported.
Among those in attendance, 63 percent were under the age of 30.
One event in one location certainly doesn’t speak to the millions across the country. But, one has to wonder if there are similar gatherings elsewhere.


Prince Harry tells you not to “fly so much”
I used to have a lot of respect for the guy who flew combat missions when he didn’t have to. Who lived among the soldiers he served with.
But, he got married to a Hollyweird starlet and has gone off the deep end.
Do as I say, not as I do.
The royal responded to criticism by claiming he had spent “99% of my life travelling the world by commercial,” a dubious claim backed up by zero evidence.

In Wake of Shootings, Sheriff Tells Armed Citizens To 'Be Prepared at All Times'
Do we now live in a time of such lawlessness that we can no longer rely on law enforcement to protect us?
With this in mind, a sheriff in New Mexico is encouraging citizens, particularly those exercising their Second Amendment right to carry a firearm, to be prepared for anything.
“In the wake of the recent mass shootings and several rumors being spread of more pending, I feel it necessary to address a couple of aspects relating to this issue,” Eddy County Sheriff Mark Cage wrote in an Aug. 4 Facebook post.
Cage noted that “New Mexico is statutorily an open carry/concealed carry state.”


VP Pence stays at Trump Hotel in Ireland
So what?
He had his wife, his mother, and his sister to visit the ancestral home of his family on his mother’s side.
From the beginning, he planned to pay the costs of his family members. Unlike someone we shall not mention here.
No hotel in Dublin had been vetted for Pence in terms of security, Short said, The Hill reported. Doonbeg, which President Donald Trump himself had previously visited, was a logical alternative.
“They had done all the advance work. And the facility, we knew, was safe and protected. And if you’re going to stay in the Doonbeg area with a footprint of our size, that is the one facility that can accommodate that,” Short said.
The trip followed “normal protocol” and was given the State Department’s approval, he said.
And the property is in a trust controlled b Eric and Donald Trump Jr.


Nazim Kahn of London attacks President Trump
For playing golf during Hurricane Dorian.
(Nazim is Urdu for mayor)
The mayor first griped because the president didn’t go to Poland, sending VP Pence instead. That wasn’t enough. He then attacked the president for playing a round of golf.
“The incompetent Mayor of London, Sadique [sic] Kahn, was bothered that I played a very fast round of golf yesterday. Many Pols exercise for hours, or travel for weeks. Me, I run through one of my courses (very inexpensive). President Obama would fly to Hawaii,” Trump wrote.
“Kahn should focus on ‘knife crime,’ which is totally out of control in London. People are afraid to even walk the streets. He is a terrible mayor who should stay out of our business!”
You all knew the president wouldn’t lit it go without responding.


Bernie barks at crying baby
An act of real cool
Socialist Bernie Sanders snaps at infant.
Tells crying baby, “Can we keep *that* down a bit?” pic.twitter.com/bestpMpuTT
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 4, 2019


King Henry’s Walk Garden – an Oasis in a busy city
A nice story about how locals turned a wasteland into a productive garden for the benefit of their community.
It shows how a relatively small area can blossom for the enjoyment of gardeners and visitors alike.
It is a blissfully sunny August afternoon when I visit the garden. With bees buzzing gently around me and scores of backyard birds overhead, it is easy to forget where I am. Disappearing through a tall metal door just off a dead-end road, I find a hidden oasis of calm just a small distance from busy Dalston Junction and a stone's throw from the centre of the capital.
And they do it without chemicals, creating their own compost from a variety of sources to include kitchen waste.


How the English Language Is Taking Over the Planet
Behemoth, bully, loudmouth, thief: English is everywhere, and everywhere, English dominates. From inauspicious beginnings on the edge of a minor European archipelago, it has grown to vast size and astonishing influence. Almost 400m people speak it as their first language; a billion more know it as a secondary tongue. It is an official language in at least 59 countries, the unofficial lingua franca of dozens more. No language in history has been used by so many people or spanned a greater portion of the globe. It is aspirational: the golden ticket to the worlds of education and international commerce, a parent’s dream and a student’s misery, winnower of the haves from the have-nots. It is inescapable: the language of global business, the internet, science, diplomacy, stellar navigation, avian pathology. And everywhere it goes, it leaves behind a trail of dead: dialects crushed, languages forgotten, literatures mangled.
From the start, the author shows himself to be an anti-Trump bigot. But, the above paragraph is right on target and bespeaks a simple truth.
One major symptom is how English words have infiltrated foreign languages. I wonder how many places in this world “Cheeseburger” is known and understood.
De Swaan divides languages into four categories. Lowest on the pyramid are the “peripheral languages”, which make up 98% of all languages, but are spoken by less than 10% of mankind. These are largely oral, and rarely have any kind of official status. Next are the “central languages”, though a more apt term might be “national languages”. These are written, are taught in schools, and each has a territory to call its own: Lithuania for Lithuanian, North and South Korea for Korean, Paraguay for Guarani, and so on.
Following these are the 12 “supercentral languages”: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swahili – each of which (except for Swahili) boast 100 million speakers or more. These are languages you can travel with. They connect people across nations. They are commonly spoken as second languages, often (but not exclusively) as a result of their parent nation’s colonial past.
Then, finally, we come to the top of the pyramid, to the languages that connect the supercentral ones. There is only one: English, which De Swaan calls “the hypercentral language that holds the entire world language system together”.


The Most Relaxing Vacation You Can Take Is…
Going Nowhere at All. The Staycation!
Of course it is.
No making travel plans or fighting airline lines or fnding problems in the hotel you booked.
Right where you feel most comfortable and little stress.
Vacation is exhausting when you go places. It’s often a time of awkward experiences—donning bathing suits, struggling with foreign tongues, trying to have fun where you know no one and none of the customs. That’s anything but relaxing.
Written by a Brit, this still has all the truth there is about vacations.


The Best and Biggest Movies to See This Fall
I wouldn’t bother to see any on the list. A typical outline of artsy authors who try to tell us what the see.
Their list;
Ad Astra
Joker
Pursuit
The Irishman
Marriage Story
The Report
Knives Out
Little Women.
But they at least list the releases they think will be big at the box office from Sept to Dec.


The coming death of just about every rock legend
The music may be around for a long time to come but those that made it are either gone – or soon will be.
Yes, we've lost some already. On top of the icons who died horribly young decades ago — Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon — there's the litany of legends felled by illness, drugs, and just plain old age in more recent years: George Harrison, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty.
And here it comes;
Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).
I’m right up there with them and wonder how many, if any, I can manage to outlast.\


This Activity Destroys Your Emotional and Physical Health
It took a 2-year study to find this out?
They monitored 5,208 adults – totally missing the tens of thousands of kids who cannot get their noses out of their electronic devices. And they only go after Facebook.
So what should you do? I'm not going to tell you to stop using Facebook. You wouldn't listen to me anyway, and with so many people the world over using the network, it's impossible to just ignore it. But limit your use to no more than the hour or so each day that the average Facebook user spends on the site. And try to put down your phone more often, look up at the people around you, and join the conversation that's happening in the real world.


CNN Produced ‘57.4 Tons of Carbon Dioxide Emissions’ During Climate Change Town Hall
You can’t make this stuff up.
According to a BBC report, CNN’s 7-hour Climate Change Town Hall event resulted in a whopping 54.7 tons of Carbon Dioxide emissions being spewed out into the atmosphere.


Republicans to scrap primaries and caucuses
And the so-called challengers are crying foul – along with this author and other political wimps.
Four states are poised to cancel their 2020 GOP presidential primaries and caucuses, a move that would cut off oxygen to Donald Trump’s long-shot primary challengers.
Republican parties in South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas are expected to finalize the cancellations in meetings this weekend, according to three GOP officials who are familiar with the plans.
Saves time, money, and manpower.
The shutdowns aren’t without precedent. Some of the states forgoing Republican nomination contests have done so during the reelection bids of previous presidents. Arizona, GOP officials there recalled, did not hold a Democratic presidential primary in 2012, when Barack Obama was seeking a second term, or in 1996, when Bill Clinton was running for reelection. Kansas did not have a Democratic primary in 1996, and Republican officials in the state pointed out that they have long chosen to forgo primaries during a sitting incumbent’s reelection year.
South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick noted that his state decided not to hold Republican presidential primaries in 1984, when Ronald Reagan was running for reelection, or in 2004, when George W. Bush was seeking a second term. South Carolina, he added, also skipped its 1996 and 2012 Democratic contests.
“As a general rule, when either party has an incumbent president in the White House, there’s no rationale to hold a primary,” McKissick said.
It’s okay when the Dims do it but heaven forbid the Republicans do.


Cheetos fashion show
Has to be some of the weirdest models and outfits I’ve ever seen. Great for a laugh.


Trump in trouble with farmers over corn and oil?
Terry Branstad, the former Iowa governor and now U.S. ambassador to China, told Trump that while farmers may have remained loyal to him despite the economic pain caused by the more than year-long trade war with China, they would not stomach policies favoring the oil industry at their expense, according to four people familiar with the substance of the meeting.
It all comes down to his “trade war” with China, something he’s talked about even before starting to campaign for the presidency.
Now it has to do with allowing refineries to use less ethanol in their fuel blends.
“This was the first time that the president was made fully aware of how angry these farmers are over this issue and that he could have a serious problem in Iowa and potentially other states where this topic is an issue,” said one of the sources.
Caught between a rock and a hard place.
Based on previous administrations, farmers changed their crops from feed corn to varieties designed for ethanol production. Something they can’t change over night.
Before the meeting ended, Trump had already dispatched his Cabinet members to come up with solutions to stem the farm anger, the sources said, setting off a chain reaction that the U.S. corn industry now hopes will mean fresh concessions to help farmers reeling from plunging crop prices and the loss of their biggest export market, China
It’s going to be interesting to see what, if anything, he can do about it.


Kamala Harris wants to ration meat!
Is that woman sane?
Kamala Harris says Americans need to be "educated about the effect of our eating habits on our environment," and says she would change the dietary guidelines to reduce the amount of red meat you can eat. #ClimateTownHall pic.twitter.com/XqcFzLv479
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 4, 2019
But she couldn’t wait to get her porkchop on a stick at the Iowa State Fair
Politicians pontificate on policing pork to save the planet @ https://freedomoutpost.com/politicians-pontificate-on-policing-pork-to-save-the-planet/
More People Watched Fox Or MSNBC During CNN’s Climate Town Hall With 2020 Democrats @ https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/06/people-watched-fox-msnbc-cnns-climate-town-hall-2020-democrats/


Thousands To Attend BBQ In Front of Vegan’s Home Who Fought With Neighbors
“Put some shimp on the barbie, mate.”
Leave it to the Aussies to come to the forefront when showing their disdain for ignorance.
PERTH, Australia – Thousands of people plan to attend a barbecue in front of the home of a vegan Australian woman who took her neighbors to court over the smell of meat cooking in their own backyard.
What a real winner this Shiela is. She also complained about her neighbor’s cigarette smoke and the sound of children playing near her home.


Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America
The 100 largest private landowners in the U.S. own 40 million acres—an area the size of Florida.
An interactive map really lays out the whos and wheres.
The top 100 private landowners have property in 39 states for any number of purposes—investment, conservation, tax benefits or just the bragging rights that come with owning big pieces of America. This map shows approximately 35 million acres of their holdings, or 87% of the total, across 31 states, based on a Bloomberg analysis of local property records and data from Pitney Bowes and Acre Value.
I’ve never heard of a lot of these people but Ted Turner and John Malone certainly are known to many,


Sen Rand Paul reveals $50 billion in wasted taxpayer money
Here’s just a tiny bit of it:
$2 million to strengthen democracy in Tunisia
$2 billion to convert an abandoned hospital into a DHS HQ
Support “Green growth in Peru for $10 million
$5 million to repair NYC vehicles
$100k to the Pakistani film industry
$48 billion in improper Medicare payments
$150k teaching English and IT at Madrassas
Study frog mating calls in Panama for $466,991
Google scholar searches in Hawaii for $51.7 million
$325k for confiscated Afghanistan property
Total = $50,190,108,562.35 give or take a few bucks here and there.


Groovy! Vinyl records will soon outsell CDs for first time since 1986
My question is, how many people still have turntables to play them on. There are a dozen or so stores here in Vegas that sell them and they have an amazing variety available.
Hit that needle-scratch sound effect. Sales of vinyl records may soon start generating more annual income than compact discs for the first time since 1986, Rolling Stone reported on Friday.
1986? Yep, 1986, the year when top-selling albums included Madonna's True Blue, Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, and the Top Gun soundtrack. Take my breath away, indeed.
Not only have vinyl albums enjoyed constant growth in recent years, Rolling Stone reports, but CD sales have plummeted, according to the Recording Industry Association of America's 2019 midyear report.
CD sales are still ahead of vinyl sales, but barely, and dropping fast. Vinyl records earned $224.1 million over the first six months of 2019, selling 8.6 million units. CDs earned $247.9 million, selling 18.6 million units. Rolling Stone says last year's RIAA report shows CD sales are declining three times as fast as vinyl sales are growing.


What's it like to live in a castle?
Probably very cold and breezy.
After all, they didn’t hang those massive tapestries because they were art lovers. It was to try to fend off the cold of the stone walls.
Tells about the owners of several castles but doesn’t give any details about how it is to live in one.


ISIS using booby-trapped cows
Residents of Al Islah, Iraq, on Saturday said they had witnessed “a strange” sight: two cows harnessed to explosive vests roving the northern side of the village, according to Col. Ghalib Al-Atyia, the spokesman for the police commander in Diyala Province.
The animals wandered into the outskirts of the community, and when they seemed close to houses, the bombs were detonated remotely, killing the cows, and damaging nearby houses, but not harming any people, Colonel Al-Atyia said.
Another story is that a policeman shot the animals, setting off the explosions.
I wonder if there was a lot of cooked beef for the locals.


Rooster kills Aussie woman collecting eggs
Honestly, this is not a joke.
The victim died after she was attacked while collecting eggs in southern Australia, it’s been reported.
The rooster punctured a varicose vein in the elderly lady’s body – causing her to bleed out.
But, that isn’t all.
Adelaide University forensics expert Professor Roger Byard said another woman also died when a cat scratched her leg.
And the Dims are going crazy over guns?


The harmless campfire is no more
How many of us have huddled around a blazing campfire while on trips in the wilderness? I remember great evening sitting on the beach near Malibu with a blazing fire keeping us warm.
Now we learn just how deadly they really are.
They create pollution.
They cause health problems.
Litter.
Tree damage.
Invasive species
Injury.
Is this attitude too risk averse or politically correct? Maybe, but our inability to enjoy campfires responsibly is inarguable—humans cause 90 percent of wildfires—and this combines with the millions of new visitors to national parks and other outdoor areas to create an understandable need for regulation.
And you will need this:
And, in Arizona you can get $5k in fines or spend 6 months in jail.



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