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  2. “The Obama Administration’s ‘Brazen Plot To Exonerate Hillary Clinton’ Starting To Leak Out, According To Former Fed Prosecutor”
    – Daily Caller, Jan. 20, 2018
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/20/obama-administration-plot-exonerate-hillary/
    Joe diGenova, a former federal prosecutor, connects the dots on former Obama administration Justice Department and FBI officials who may have “violated the law, perhaps committed crimes” to politicize law enforcement and surveillance against political opponents.

  3. “…the existence of the Republican Party itself is undemocratic, because for many liberals “democracy” is nothing but a synonym for whatever hobbyhorse they’re focused on at the moment.”
    http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/19/what-the-shutdown-really-tells-us-about-democrats/#disqus_thread
    It is the same in Canada. Remember the Liberal Party during the time of Chretien suggesting if one is not a Liberal that one is a bad Canadian. The view of the Liberal Party of Canada is the same as David Harsanyi discusses in his article.
    What have we come to? Yuri Bezmenov was right.

  4. Hmm. Philip Johnson talks about the cost of servicing suburban housing developments being unsustainable. The same discussion was held in Calgary city council 50 years later. Too bad we didn’t listen earlier.
    In other news, it seems stores want to track us with facial recognition software (FRS) wherever we go.
    http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/12/22/facial_recognition_software_is_coming_to_industries_like_fast_food_and_luxury.html
    How to maintain privacy when there’s a camera in every storefront? Fake noses? Hijabs?
    Not to mention that FRS has known flaws, like the latest IPhone unlocking for close relatives of the owner. Imagine your kid walking into Caliburger and ordering lunch for all his friends, on your credit card. 😀

  5. I was incredulous when I learned that the U.S. had a system where state income taxes were deducted from federal income taxes. That’s worse than equalization: at least in Canada, the system tries to take from the rich and give to the poor. In large part, the American system takes from the poor (Mississippi, Louisiana) and gives to the rich (California, New York), though there are a number of exceptions (e.g. Texas).
    Now, perhaps predictably, the profligate states that have been gaming the system all these years are grasping at anything to keep the gravy train moving.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/high-tax-states-plan-workarounds-to-the-federal-salt-deduction.html

  6. My Firefox New Tab page had this article from Quartz Media which turned out to be another lefty site. It said the Japanese word for “space” could change my view of the world.
    Well, it turns out that the point was to us westerners “space” is a sterile setup of walls, tables, and chairs, but the Japanese has four different words for it, most of it of course is superior.
    It turns out they are not talking about space at all. The English word I have for most of the words is “ambience.” It seems the writers of the article has never heard of the word. It reminded me of this Latino-American I knew, who told me that sympatico is quite different than sympathy, and there is no English word for it at all. Of course, sympatico just doesn’t exist in the Anglo world. I asked how about empathy. He replied what, I never heard of it. My rejoinder was just because you never heard of it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the English language.
    Anyway, back to the Japanese. I don’t understand how American writers can still write about the Japanese culture as so much more warm and human with so much more sensibilities. As a matter of fact, it is a very rigidized, structured society, with formalities that cannot be transgressed. And that’s the least of it. Accounts of Japanese atrocities committed in conquered Chinese territory defy belief. And they are routinely committed by the average soldiers.
    Just this one example will set your blood to boiling. They captured women to service the soldiers rotated to the rear. But there are so many soldiers and so few women. Their solution was to nail the women spreadeagled to boards to facilitate matters. I mean literally nailed. I cannot even imagine how anyone can find any pleasure under such circumstances. But the soldiers line up to get their licks in. And when the woman finally died, they just toss her, board and all, into the ravine. That is your Japanese culture with so much more warmth and humanity and sensibilities. This was something set up by those in charge and gladly taken part in by the troops.

  7. AGW RIP.
    cc: Liberal Justine & Climate Barbie.
    …-
    “Pentagon erases “climate change” from the National Defense threat list”
    “The Pentagon released a National Defense Strategy that for the first time in more than a decade does not mention manmade global warming as a security threat.”
    “An 11-page summary of the new National Defense Strategy makes no mention of “global warming” or “climate change”. The document makes no mention of “climate,” “warming,” “planet,” “sea levels” or even “temperature.” All 22 uses of the word “environment” refer to the strategic or security landscape.”
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/20/pentagon-erases-climate-change-from-the-national-defense-threat-list/

  8. On “Homes of the Future”, in the year 2000 the average American will work 30 hours per week and have 1 month of holidays. But he did predict a big screen TV, robots bringing you breakfast, and a digital newspaper in the reading room.

  9. Kate…you are winning in the exposure of David Akin as a lazy ‘journalist’ on Twitter.
    He’s not the worst but he sure puts himself out there for some great smackdowns from you!.
    BTW…I am following your twitter for most news updates these days….just come here to SDA occasionally for the comments and camaraderie.

  12. Homes of the Future
    Good film and surprisingly accurate. Usually those look into the future type of films from the past are kitschy with flying cars and monorails all over the place. Not without some social engineering though as it condemns the single family home as ticky tacky and then cuts to shots of monolithic high-rises.

  13. Socialism: the religion of the stomach.
    ““It makes you want to cry,” said Anatael in a telephone interview. “I think we are headed for chaos.””
    …-
    “Venezuela
    ‘We loot or we die of hunger’: food shortages fuel unrest in Venezuela
    As the country’s economic problems mount, towns and cities have been hit by an outbreak of looting and violence”
    “Amid desperate food shortages Venezuelans are picking up new survival skills.
    On the night of 9 January, for example, a hungry mob took just 30 minutes to pick clean a grocery store in the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz. By the time owner Luis Felipe Anatael arrived at the bodega he’d opened five months earlier, the looters had hauled away everything from cold cuts to ketchup to the cash registers.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/21/venezuela-looting-violence-food-shortages

  15. Demorat traitor Hanoi Jane speaks for women D’rats & Creepy Joe.
    “As part of the plea deal, she managed to avoid jail time…”
    …-
    “Jane Fonda speaks onstage at the Respect Rally in Park City during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 20th, 2018 in Park City, Utah.”
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    “Joe Biden’s Niece Ponies Up Over $100,000 She Owed After Stealing Borrowed Credit Card
    Former Vice President Joe Biden’s niece ponied up more than $100,000 in court-ordered restitution Friday after pleading guilty to stealing a borrowed credit card.
    Caroline Biden, 30, paid back the money she stole as part of a plea deal she agreed to in June 2017, wherein she agreed to pay $110,810.04 in exchange for pleading guilty to grand larceny in New York City’s Manhattan Supreme Court, the New York Post reported.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/01/20/joe-bidens-niece-ponies-up-over-100000-she-owed-after-stealing-borrowed-credit-card/

  17. Samantha Powers unmasked, along with the Obama bunch, forlorn as they remain with the win of the orange ogre:
    “I’ve had a lot of bad ideas in my life,” former U.N. ambassador Samantha Power tells Politico. “Though none as immortalized as that one.”
    Not standing idly by in the White House while Iranians protested a fixed election in 2009, then advocating a nuclear agreement that bankrolled the theocratic regime’s expansionism and militarism and corruption. Not serving as U.S. representative to an international body that took no effectual action to stop the Syrian civil war, in which more than 400,000 people have been killed, civilians gassed, and millions of refugees gone to Jordan, Turkey, and Europe. Not flacking for a president who, out of fear of reprisal, waited until a month after the 2016 election to punish Russia for interfering in American democracy, who spent years trying to coax Vladimir Putin onto the “off ramp” from the illegal annexation of Crimea, did nothing more than scold Russia after learning it had violated the INF treaty, reduced America’s nuclear deterrent at the very moment our adversaries were building up their armaments, denied Ukrainians lethal defensive aid against Russia-backed separatists, and routinely put up obstacles to domestic extraction industries that undercut Russia’s share of the energy market. She’s not talking about any of that.”
    What Samantha Power regrets is allowing documentarians to record the election-night party she threw, in the words of Susan Glasser, “for all 37 female ambassadors to the U.N. as well as feminist icon Gloria Steinem and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to celebrate what they all expected to be Hillary Clinton’s inevitable victory. Facepalm.”
    By 2016, Obama and his administration had become so enamored of themselves and of their mission, so ensconced in the protective Snuggie that their fan boys in the media provided them, that they could not countenance any rational opposition to their policies, nor accept responsibility for the weakened state of America and her democratic allies, nor conceive that Republicans and independents and even some former Democratic supporters might be turned off by their mix of Hollywood social justice posturing and Silicon Valley high-tech economics. Even now, over a year later, the Obama liberals prefer the simplicity and purity of Resistance to frank self-evaluation. If Samantha Power’s main takeaway from 2016 is that she shouldn’t have let HBO film Madeline Albright by the punchbowl as Donald Trump was made president, then the Democratic Party has more problems than I thought.”
    http://freebeacon.com/columns/samantha-power-regrets/

  18. Bolshevik Wynnetario.
    Wynnetario’s Bolsheviks shot the kulaks, including disabled kulaks.
    …-
    “The numbers are in, and the Liberals are in trouble
    ANALYSIS: Political pollsters agree on at least one thing — as 2018 gets rolling, you’d rather be the Tories than the Liberals, writes John Michael McGrath” (tvo)
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    “Ontario homes for disabled ‘in real trouble’ because of minimum wage hike”
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-managing/ontario-homes-for-disabled-in-real-trouble-because-of-minimum-wage-hike/article37655699/

  19. The only thing they got wrong with the helper robot was that they would all be made in Mexico or the Philippines.

  21. No news on Justin’s friend Joshua Boyle. He had quite a slide, he and his family had a special audience with the Prime Minister, who even bounced his baby on his knee, then winds up in the slammer.

  22. Grauniad scribbler demolishes Marxixm here; and, then
    rejumps onto the “progress” shooting star:
    “Unless you believe that history has a self-evident direction – and it really doesn’t – you must accept that almost all progress is achieved by the hard grind of negotiation, tough debate and busy pluralism.”
    “Banning people like Jordan Peterson from causing offence” is the road to totalitarianism; not to an imaginary place named utopia.
    …-
    “Banning people like Jordan Peterson from causing offence – that’s the road to dystopia”
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/banning-jordan-peterson-causing-offence-cathy-newman-free-speech

  23. “Delingpole: Jordan Peterson v Cathy Newman – Best SJW Takedown Evah!
    If you haven’t already, you absolutely must watch the encounter between SJW media maven Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News and free-speech-defending Canadian academic Jordan Peterson.
    “I don’t think I have ever witnessed an interview that is more catastrophic for the interviewer,” says Douglas Murray.
    He’s right.
    If you loathe the cant, self-righteousness, and stupidity of the regressive left, then you’ll love this train wreck of an interview.
    It’s the most satisfying piece of poetic justice since the Comet came unstuck in that tunnel in Atlas Shrugged.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/01/18/delingpole-jordan-peterson-v-cathy-newman-best-sjw-takedown-evah/

  24. I had a high school teacher cluck away about the beauty of haiko (sp), those cryptic 3 line poems.
    I wish I had taken the opp of the requisite class speech to eviscerate the jap war record and declare it all ENDED within days of Hiroshima.
    ya, lets all hitail to the nipponese islands where no means yes and yes means no. lieberals fit right in there.

  25. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “Blizzard Warnings Issued as Winter Storm Jaxon Brings Snow and Wind to Plains, Midwest and Northern New England” (weathercom)
    …-
    “Fake News and 2017 Near-Record Temperatures”
    ““Fake news” is the process of misleading the public through an inaccurate or incomplete depiction of reality, either deliberately or unintentionally.
    Often the fake news involves the use of statistics, particularly graphic illustrations of complex processes, as discussed in a February 2017 Forbes article.
    Such has long been the case with the issue of “global warming”, as, for example, in a January 2018 New York Times article, in which the following graph was presented, showing a 1.2 degree Celsius increase in annual global surface temperature data since a “base” period of 1880-1899. The chart is deceptive both for what it contains, what it hides, and what it excludes.
    Thus, the New York Times article is fake news.”
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/21/fake-news-and-2017-near-record-temperatures/

  26. Here is rather interesting story.
    Former msnbc “journalist” certain Schultz now works for the RT.
    In this clip he is taking apart the CBS 60 minutes broadcast where, of course, the 60 minutes edited out uncomfortable comments from the final program.
    Its fun to watch as Stahl is trying to do serpentines around the comments of the lady, possibly boss of the RT operation.
    “Critical facts left out of “60 Minutes interview targeting RT”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-OtzPNbWpM
    We’re talking real CBS “journalists” here.

  31. “Not without some social engineering though as it condemns the single family home as ticky tacky…”
    Yes. Getting architects to pontificate on the “homes of the future” was a pretty dodgy move since they are inevitably linked to big prestige projects (there’s little money to be had in designing modest suburban homes).
    None of these experts touched on the simple fact that ordinary people want to own their own homes in safe neighbourhoods where their families have some room to grow and move about.
    That is why those suburbs with their rows of detached houses so sneered at by the likes of the architect Philip Johnson remain an enduring feature of the modern landscape and Habitat 67 has been consigned to a mere architectural curiosity.

  32. I am desperately hoping to see Sam in the Federal stockade for her crimes against America. What a despicable bunch that inhabited the hall of POWER in America for 8-lonnnnng years.

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