Wilders They Or Won’t They?
Starting point: With an hour until polls close IPSOS NL has projected a record turnout of 80.2 per cent – 5.6 per cent higher than in 2012.
The Tolerant Left
Allison Stanger is the professor at Middlebury College who invited Charles Murray, famous for The Bell Curve, to speak at the school. Students were so outraged Murray had to flee for his life, and Stanger got beaten up. Her response?
h/t Manny
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
…that even though organic farms have the eco-friendly benefit of using fewer pesticides, they also use more land, which is harmful to the planet.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia analyzed organic crop farming across 17 criteria — such as yield, impact on climate change, farmer livelihood and consumer health — by looking at the existing scientific literature on its results.
For one, they found the environmental benefits of organic farming can be offset by the lower yields of such crops (typically 19 to 25 percent lower than conventional farming).
Like Day Care, Only Worse And More Expensive
A University of Arizona classroom dialogue guide encourages professors to use the “Oops/ouch method,” where students who are offended in class say “ouch” and the offender responds with “oops.”
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
White House Correspondent April D. Ryan.
So in 2005 @POTUS was not a Billionaire. He made in 2005 over 100 million dollars.
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) March 15, 2017
Reader Tips
Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters, performed by Viktoriya Yermolyeva on piano.
Trump Tax Returns!
Rachel Maddow tonight. pic.twitter.com/zxLyJjzN4n
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) March 15, 2017
What Maddow and the fine folks over at MSNBC actually managed to do was get part of a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return. Which was already 12 years old. And which the White House had already released.
And which the Wall Street Journal had already reported on – a year ago.
Rachel Maddow just reported that Trump paid a higher percentage of income tax (25) than Obama (19) or Bernie (13). Winning 👍😂😂😂
— Bill Hicks (@Billhic02785574) March 15, 2017
And @ggreenwald— The moment people began realizing this wasn’t going to be devastating for Trump was when they speculated that Trump might be their source.
Dumb Chick
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Hospitals laying off due to rising hydro costs https://t.co/G6AlzV56bE #onpoli
— Rebecca Thompson (@thompson) March 14, 2017
Renegade Regulator
More than a dozen contenders are vying for the chance to lead the Official Opposition party, that great powerhouse of dynamism and forward thinking, of consistency and courage, the touchstone of integrity, the party of principle.
Turtle Swamp
President Trump’s administration has told the State Department to cut more than 50 percent of U.S. funding to United Nations programs, Foreign Policy reported.
The push for the drastic reductions comes as the White House is scheduled to release its 2018 topline budget proposal Thursday, which is expected to include a 37 percent cut to the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development budgets.
It’s not clear if Trump’s budget plan, from the Office of Management and Budget, would reflect the full extent of Trump’s proposed cuts to the U.N.
[…] Richard Gowan, a U.N. expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, said the alterations would spark “chaos” if true.
“[It would] leave a gaping hole that other big donors would struggle to fill,” he told FP, pointing to how the U.S. provided $1.5 billion of the U.N. refugee agency’s $4 billion budget last year.
Oh boo hoo.
Reader Tips
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – The Band. Listen to it while you still can.
Tips thread open.
Y2Kyoto: Blizzard Of Blooms
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
March 1, 2017 – Cherry blossom peak bloom this year could be the earliest on record
March 13, 2017 – Behind #Blizzard2017 Near record-cold in the teens will wipe out the Washington DC cherry blossoms
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Profiling Corporate America’s Virtue Signalers
“It wasn’t as if academia called it quits in 1998 when most corporations were balking at the opportunity to set up unnecessary and expensive CSR departments. Academia and academics continued to preach leftist politics, environmentalism, and feminism in all facets and disciplines in colleges and universities. And since nearly ALL Gen X’ers and Millennials were being forced to go to college, and since nearly ALL of them were weak-minded sheeple, academia had the perfect host to install their leftist, virtue signaling theories in them over the next 20 years. And though in 1998 Gen X were mere entry-level plebs in the world of Corporate America, in 20 years time they would rise to the rank of mid, even executive level management….
which is where we are today.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
Wikitrolling
Terrified talk in US national security circles that WikiLeaks is going to publish many CIA or NSA intercepts of Merkel tonight or tomorrow.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 13, 2017
More Pavilions At Volkfest
If you still weren’t clear about how multiculturalism works, this is how it works.
The Netherlands is home to some 400,000 people of Turkish origin while Germany has 1.4 million people eligible to vote in Turkey — the fourth-largest electoral base after the cities of Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
Those Moderate Muslims!
PM @JustinTrudeau, is this what you want to do in Canada as u try to erase your White guilt? Stop Motion #M103. https://t.co/SH55KSDsfO pic.twitter.com/e2b60XmbLQ
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) March 12, 2017