The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why invading armies of the future need only confiscate their batteries.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self Driving Overlords
“This is not the best representation of auto pilot i know, but this is the video i have”.
Just Legalize Pot, They Said.
“Think of the tax revenues”, they said: Cannabis sector bracing for wave of insolvencies in 2020
January 2, 2020: Reader Tips
Let’s have a moment of silence for this man’s fallen brothers.
Tips thread open.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Blackfox, in the comments – “In the image at the link it shows that the sun is a long way from Uranus. Not long enough away for Josh Brolin, though.”
What Would We Do Without Experts?
Big Oil’s Monster Decade Reveals Why Energy Experts Are Not Very Good At Making Predictions
Those who can, do; those who can’t and are crazed with hate develop Green New Deal economic models
A Stanford economist named Mark Jacobson recently quarterbacked an analysis of the costs of going 100% renewable in support of the US Green New Deal…a socialist fantasy, so his work is at least consistent with the economic prowess shown by the former Soviet Union as they economically modeled themselves into oblivion – a disaster waiting to happen. Read on…
The UnBenghazi
Supporters of the Iran-backed militia have begun to withdraw from @USEmbBaghdad after US reinforcements arrive in the form of 100 Marines and Apache helicopters.@EsperDoD announced 750 members of the 82nd Airborne will also be deployed to the region.https://t.co/vmIhKz2vUN
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 1, 2020
Do tell.
Winston Churchill once said there was no more exhilarating feeling than to be shot at and missed. Conversely there is nothing worse than to shoot at your sworn enemy and publicly miss. The ayatollahs have committed the ultimate diplomatic crime and walked out empty handed.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 1, 2020
Elections Librano
I’m not the only Canadian journalist to write a book about Trudeau during the campaign. So did two pro-Trudeau left-wingers — Aaron Wherry of the CBC state broadcaster and John Ivison of Postmedia, the largest recipient of Trudeau’s newspaper bail-out.
Neither of them is being investigated for writing their books. Only me.
January 1, 2020: Happy New Year!
It’s your first tips thread of the decade.
2019: The Stupid In Review
That’s Not Very Popey
The UnBenghazi
Looks like we might find out what the opposite of Benghazi looks like. #mowthelawn
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) December 31, 2019
Austere Religious Scholars are rioting because they’re sad.
More: US airpower disrupts Iraqi mourners from burning, looting embassy
This looks to be good source for background and updates.
Updated for new post title.
Trump sent the Devil Dogs to defend the Baghdad embassy. Not another Benghazi on his watch. Imagine if She had been president right now. pic.twitter.com/VK1RGh7PZB
— Iraqi Mourner Poso 🇮🇶 (@JackPosobiec) December 31, 2019
From earlier in the day: violent retard footage.
When you’ve been paid to start another Middle Eastern war but they forgot to tell you where the hinges are pic.twitter.com/PUvkJEbjvA
— Yvonne Burton Jesus is King! (@_YvonneBurton) December 31, 2019
The “W” Word
Y2Kyoto: They Tried To Warn Us
But we didn’t listen.
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
And look where we are now.
h/t Instapundit
The 2020 Prediction Thread
Now, for something new. Make your best and ONLY prediction for the year 2020: national, international, provincial politics; economic developments, celebrity dead pool — doesn’t matter. Choose any topic, so long as it’s of general interest and try to be as specific as possible. We’ll check back in a year to highlight the hits and misses.
There may be prizes. Bonus points if you post in the form of a quatrain.
From the West will come a fury at a man with face as black as coal.
Anger at carbon taxes will threaten his minority.
But he will use the new wealth to buy favours from the Bloc.
And the Dauphin’s rule will not be interrupted.
The thread will close at midnight. Happy New Year!
December 31, 2019: Reader Tips
It’s your last tips thread of the decade, so make it count.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Pay heed to what your caring government tells you: don’t text and drive.
