Republicans for Hitler

By Erick Erickson  |  May 17, 2016, 05:00am

“Too few Republicans will come out of this with their integrity intact and too many Republicans, thinking they can change Donald Trump, will instead one day find that Trump has changed them instead. But hey, at least he is no Hillary Clinton.”

A curious story circulated late last week involving an audio tape of Donald Trump talking to a People magazine reporter. Trump, going by the name “John Miller”, bragged about himself, his sex life, his business, and more. Here is where it gets interesting.
Years ago Trump admitted it was him. As my friend Ben Domenech noted in his always excellent Transom, “Donald Trump admitted it happened, both in a court of law and in the press, in 1990 and in 1991. It is not and was not in dispute prior to the past week.” But on Friday morning, Trump denied it was him after years of admitting it was him. Suddenly, the Branch Trumpidians swung into action going on television and radio to deny it was him.
On the weekend shows, Trump loyal comrade Paul Manafort, the Kremlin’s favorite Republican, explicitly denied that Trump was Trump. It was a lie. It is always a lie with the Branch Trumpidians. They will crucify the truth at noon on a Friday if they thought it would resurrect Donald Trump’s career on a Sunday.
It serves the greater good, you see. Because Trump is not Hillary Clinton.

 http://theresurgent.com/republicans-for-hitler/

Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian, Poet Social Critic, Author 1813 - 1855

Thought For The Day

"Life is not a problem to be solved,

but a reality to be experienced."

  

Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet

Social Critic, Author

1813 - 1855

Mothers

There have been many tributes to people's mothers. I get it and it's worthy. Yet there are some for whom Mother has multiple meanings. Me for instance. My mom was killed in a traffic accident when I was 14 years old. I remember her well.. but she was gone to early. I have cousins who are from my moms side and they remind me of her. My late aunt Betty was much like her.

When my mom and dad died (they died together) my brother and sister and I were kept together and raised by wonderful people. My uncle Earl, and Aunt Ruth Redlin. She became Mom. It was a hard task. I have often wondered how they did that. But they did. And I am so grateful to them, and to her. I wasn't easy, but I was raised well the last several years of my life.

Then there is Peggy, not my mother, but he mother of my children. I don't know how I can express how much she means to me and to my boys. We laughed today about memorizes of times we have had. Most of the best ones could have been interpreted as disasters, yet thru a rear view mirror they are the best memories. Things are neither good nor bad in themselves, but thinking makes it so. Sure there is evil in the world, but most of the things we interpret as bad, aren't.

There is then the memories of my Grandmother Redlin who had 17 children one of whom was my dad, and Grandma Lee who had 7. Families were larger then back on the prairie.

I remember them as a young man.. but they only symbolized the heritge of he we are and were.

Now I am that generation. I have outlived Grandma Lee. I am not even close to Grandma Redlin who was widowed with a large family and yet made a hundred as I recall.

So, moms, you matter. Mine matters, All iterations. I can't find a way to honor you enough. So I will do what I can and write about it all.

Happy Mothers Day MOMS

What Would “Winning” Look Like?

 



Long before my firsthand, financially challenging experience arm-wrestling with SJWs, I’d been shoulder-checking leftoid beta-male faggotry on my blog since the summer of 2001.



And before that, I’d been hearing about “the death of political correctness” ever since the day it came home from the hospital. Because I was at the baby shower.



Back then, in the late 1980s, SJWs were mostly British, and were
referred to disparagingly as “the loony left”—hideous, humorless
weirdos—even by leftists I worked and lived with.



The contagion spread to America, but no worries, because the satirical film PCU came out and people were like, “Look! We’re mocking them! They’re toast!”



That was twenty years ago.





Around that time, Nick DiPaolo won some Best Young Comic award and
was repeatedly assured he was going to be the Next Big Thing because he
was so politically incorrect and “people are dying for someone to take
that on.” Now, I LOVE DiPaolo with all my heart (and MasterCard), but, well, I hear he’s playing Hilarities in Trenton this weekend. Sometimes his liberal superstar pals Amy Schumer and Louis C.K. toss him guest spots on their award-winning TV shows.



I could go on: Tough Crowd, anyone? Howard Stern? “South Park conservatives”?



We have been “winning” since the beginning, and yet we keep losing.



And what would “winning” look like?



Take my home province: Our lesbian premier has mandated a new sex-ed curriculum that was co-written by a convicted pedophile and teaches kids, among other things, that there are six genders, not two. Brown and yellow parents protested
again and again. The white premier dismissed them as “bigots.” So did
the all-powerful teachers’ union and the other civil servants who got
the lesbian premier elected, and will do so next time around.



So: How does having 100,000 Twitter followers, and plenty of fun, fix something like this?



Can we really overthrow society’s self-selecting, multigenerational
“progressive” elite—the one that runs the government, education,
entertainment, and even the military—or should we focus on constructing a semi-underground counterculture, encompassing everything from homeschooling to self-defense?



And if so, does that turn us into the “safe spacers” we rightly loathe?



I’m also concerned about the emphasis on “cool.”



I’m as susceptible to its allure as anyone, but at bottom, “cool” is
not a Christian, or even a classical, virtue, and it’s led many astray.
Remember: Alger Hiss was the “cool” one, not Whittaker Chambers. Ditto
Gloria Steinem vs. Phyllis Schlafly.



Yes, I know: I’m old and even when I was young, I was never sexy and
hip. Frankly, I’m allergic to fun. Gavin and Milo’s intermittent
sex-and-drugs talk gave me hives.



But I’m also not a joiner, so this isn’t about me wanting to be one of the “cool” kids.



What I am is a contrarian, even among the contrarians.



So I’m compelled to ask again:



What would “winning” look like? Not just “leading the race,” but after “crossing the finish line”?



What Would “Winning” Look Like? (Besides Having “Great Hair”?) - Taki's Magazine

7 Compelling Stories Hollywood Won't Touch

Ask anyone connected to Hollywood and they'll tell you the same thing.

Tell a great story.


Simple. Straightforward.


That’s certainly true … to an extent. Certain stories are far more appealing to Hollywood

screenwriters than others.


Sometimes we get competing projects on the same theme. Remember the “dueling asteroid” films from the 1990s? Or how studios raced to make Janis Joplin biopics … until no actual movie materialized?


There are other reasons why some stories don’t grab screenwriters’
imaginations. Their content is, shall we say, inconvenient to their
ideology.


Consider the following seven subjects. Each packs a storytelling
wallop. Drama. Tension. Scandal. Intrigue. Pain. Loss. Yet here’s
betting we won’t see a feature on these true stories any time soon.


They don’t fit the liberal narrative. Not one bit.



7 Compelling Stories Hollywood Won't Touch - Hollywood in Toto

Four Reasons Trump Won, think Jesse Ventura

“There are any number of explanations for what Trump is bringing out in the electorate. But the most compelling explanation also, curiously, gets the shortest shrift: He’s a celebrity candidate, and celebrity candidates break election models. Jesse Ventura in Minnesota, Arnold Schwarzenegger in California: these people bring out folks who don’t normally vote. In a low-turnout election, or a badly divided field, that’s enough to turn things in their favor. Celebrity candidate voters aren’t normal voters. Normal voters care more about policy than normal non-voters, care more about party identification, care more about ideology. Simply trying to transfer analysis of normal voters over onto the new people that celebrity candidates bring out to the polls doesn’t work very well, because you’re searching madly for clues to things that aren’t really there. This is why such candidates often surprise political scientists by winning.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-04/the-four-horsemen-of-the-republican-apocalypse

Rush: I’ve got a hunch that Trump is headed for a landslide over Hillary

  here’s a pair of headlines via the Federalist’s David Harsanyi. One from 2008:





The other from 2012:





Which brings us to today. Third time’s the charm:

Let me give you one little thing: My instinctive feeling
right now is that Trump is gonna win, beat Hillary badly, that it could
be landslide proportions…


If you follow the news, it’s clear Bernie Sanders is winning (it
seems like) every primary the past month. And accompanying every Bernie
Sanders victory story is the fact that he won nothing, that Hillary
gets the delegates. So there’s just as many — or proportionally just as
many — agitated Democrats. You add up people supporting Bernie Sanders
to people supporting Donald Trump, and the people that supported Ted
Cruz.


You add up those voters — and if they all vote, too, Hillary Clinton
doesn’t have a prayer. I don’t care about the Electoral College. I
don’t care about anything else. Just like in terms of the people that
are fed up with Washington and the establishment, as we sit here today,
she is the lone candidate representing what obviously so many Americans,
Republicans and Democrats for their own reasons right now happen to
despise. She’s losing the vote in every state, and yet the Democrats
expect her to triumph. Where is her momentum?

Rush: I’ve got a hunch that Trump is headed for a landslide over Hillary « Hot Air

Ted Cruz: Why He Lost

“He’s got the whole establishment p**sed off at him, so
they didn’t rally to him as the alternative,” says former Virginia
representative Tom Davis, who has endorsed John Kasich. “They sat on the
sidelines with their hands in their pockets.” That’s because, according
to the GOP aide, supporting him “would establish a new model for how
ambitious young senators would behave in the Republican party that’s
totally intolerable for the establishment-senator types.”


At a press conference on Tuesday morning, his final day on the
campaign trail, Cruz let loose on Trump, calling him a “serial
philanderer” and a “pathological liar” and concluding, “Morality doesn’t
exist for him.” But the Republican establishment and the party’s voters
knew that, and they chose Trump over Cruz anyway.

Ted Cruz: Why He Lost | National Review

Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump’s trap

Donald Trump has set a big, fat trap for
Hillary Clinton, and so far she has stepped right into it. He turned his
attacks against women against her. She is, he argued, playing the
“woman card.” And Clinton anted up, offering her supporters the chance
to buy a “woman card.” From now until Nov. 8, Trump will surely continue
to insult women. If Clinton routinely responds to those attacks, Trump
will turn her into the “women’s candidate,” and she will lose. She is
already perilously close to being that candidate.

Let’s be honest. Polling shows that Trump has a problem with women, but it also shows
that Clinton has a problem with men. Thanks to Bernie Sanders’s pushing
and prodding over the course of the primary, Clinton’s vision has
expanded, but we all know its core: She is a battle-tested warrior for
women and children.

Consider her slogan, “Fighting for us.” For
many men, this slogan would have to be experienced as emasculating. A
woman fighting for them? Rightly or wrongly, the slogan rubs the wrong
way in relation to traditional notions of masculinity. Her slogan itself
reveals a limited conception of who she seeks to represent. This is a
potentially fatal flaw in Clinton’s campaign. The more that Clinton
takes Trump’s bait around the issue of his denigration of women, the
more powerfully this flaw in her own campaign will show itself.

Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump’s trap - The Washington Post

Fooled Ya!

By Brian Sikma

“He’s self-funding his campaign,” they said.
“He isn’t beholden to special interests like other politicians,” they said.
If you voted for Trump and believed those statements, or are a Trump supporter and have uttered something like them, you have been played for a fool.
Breaking news Wednesday evening is that Donald J. Trump, billionaire and Republican presidential nominee-elect, will not be self-funding his general election campaign. “I’ll be putting up money, but won’t be completely self-funding,” Trump told the press before asserting he will be putting in place a “world-class finance organization.” No doubt Trump’s experience in bankruptcies and poorly financed casinos combined with his love of spendthrift political hacks who sell their soul to the highest bidder (see: Wiley, Rick or any other number of Trump campaign aides) will help with that “world-class” fundraising machine.
The Wall Street Journal reports:

“The new plan represents a shift for Mr. Trump, who has for months portrayed his Republican opponents as “puppets” for relying on super PACs and taking contributions from wealthy donors that he said came with strings attached.”

Yes, now that he has secured the nomination Trump can shed all those conservative sounding things (there weren’t many, believe me) he said during the primary so he can become the creature that he always was. Donald Trump has never been, and is not, a conservative. He has always been, and is now, about himself and his ego. His strategy for the GOP primary was to play Republican voters and anyone who voted in the GOP primary for him as a fool.
That strategy worked.
Meanwhile, the GOP elites that Trump’s candidacy was supposed to be a sort of crude gesture toward are, after good conservatives of principle in the party have embraced #NeverTrump, signaling that they will bow before Smaug and make peace at any price. “Life is a series of choices, and this choice looks like one between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, ” declared former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour to the Washington Post. “Anybody who proposes a third party is saying, ‘Let’s make sure Clinton wins.'”
Wrong. Life does include binary choices, but it is not entirely made up of binary choices. Sometimes principles play a role, but that’s not something Mr. Barbour would be familiar with.
For his part, Sen. Mitch McConnell, the leader of Senate Republicans in Washington, released a statement late Wednesday that read in part: “I have committed to supporting the nominee chosen by Republican voters, and Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, is now on the verge of clinching that nomination.”
That Trump would reverse himself should be no surprise, that the same GOP elites who repeatedly sold out conservatives would bow before him should shock no one. Alas, some will feign surprise.

How to keep American jobs in America, corporations open and manufacturing in America.

I heard this on Rush Limbaugh yesterday, cut and pasted from his transcript.. it's that good:

There are so many reasons why this began to change.  It's not just due to trade deals,  they are a factor, there's no question they are.  But it's not just due to that.  You can't talk about this without discussing the voluminous, punitive regulations that are on businesses from the federal government to the state government to local governments, sometimes as much as 25% or more of the cost of a product is nothing more than regulations, environmental and otherwise, that have been slapped on corporations and business practices that are not even with the force of law. They've just come from out of control regulatory agencies.

There's another factor that you have to consider when talking about this, and that is unions and how they price themselves.  And when you start talking about unions, you then talk about something that is really key and fundamental to this, and that is profit.  And profit is the result of being able to sell something for more than the total cost in manufacturing it, distributing it, marketing it, advertising it, you name it.  If you can't turn a profit on it, then you will not stay in business.  Not in the kind of economy we have.  Not in a country like this.  In fact, you can't do it anywhere.  You can't prop up non-profitable businesses.  Venezuela tried.

When you talk about unions and when you talk about regulation and when you talk about profit, there is one key ingredient here that you cannot ignore, and that is the retail price of whatever product that we're talking about here.  And that price, for whatever product we're talking about here, has to be something that people can afford.  This is what's gone wrong with health care.  Then there is crony capitalism, the kind that government props up for no good reason other than politics.  That's why we have Obamacare.

Profit, the ability of your customer base to pay for it, to afford it, your ability to market and advertise and distribute.  Then you've got your competitors who are all not in America and whose costs for the other things that you face may not be the same, they may be less.

This is why markets work/ Any time people trying to get in the middle of this and artificially tamper with markets to make them more fair, you end up screwing up everything.  If people would just leave 'em alone, and I don't mean unregulated.  Nobody's talking about being unreasonable here.  But we live in a country where the Democrat Party has succeeded in generation after generation believing that corporations and companies and people that make things are the enemy of average Americans.

They will claim that corporations want to kill their customers, they want to poison their customers. Corporations want dirty air, they want dirty water. They want cars and trucks that explode while their customers are driving them. They want their customers to get cancer from bad drugs.  It's obscene what the Democrat Party has done.  The Democrat Party has successfully, to their benefit, created this relationship where your average American Democrat voter thinks that everything in the commercial marketplace is his enemy.

That's how the Democrats get to control them, that's how the Democrats get to regulate them because they get public support. That's how the Democrats get away with running around punishing all these different companies.  Take your pick of whichever company you're talking about.  It's not as simple, in other words, as going to Ford or Carrier and saying, even pleading with them.  I mean, you could strong-arm 'em, you can try to persuade them, you can beg them, "Please, for the good of America, please stay here." And they will tell you, "We've tried.  We've tried."  And then they will tell you all the reasons why they cannot manufacture in America at a price that will allow them to stay in business.

The consumer will hear that and think they're being lied to and think the corporation wants to soak 'em and wants to cheat them 'cause that's what the Democrat Party has for a hundred years succeeded in making the average American think of the average American business, large or small.  The average American business does not exist to provide employment for a community.  It does not exist to provide health care for its employees.

That's not the purpose of a business.  It's not the purpose of a company.  It's not to support charitable endeavors in the community.  It's nothing of the sort.  It's a very narrow list of requirements for a business to succeed and stay in business, and all the rest of that ends up being political attachments or PR attachments or goodwill attachments, and sometimes competitive attachments.  Sometimes in a different market, where employees are tough to come by, companies have to compete by offering better benefits packages than other companies do.  But if left alone, the market would take care of this.

But those days are long gone.

You see the surveys, Millennials now think socialism is the answer to everything.  Capitalism is rotten, they hate it, 'cause that's what they've been taught.  Millennials of this generation, 20 years ago the 30-year-olds of that generation thought the same thing, that capitalism sucks, it's unfair, and you know why?  'Cause there's winners and losers and this is not right.  Yep, everybody should win or nobody should.  It's not fair that some do better than others. It's not fair that some have more than others.

The reality is that 47% of Americans are so strapped that they could not come up with $400 without selling something.

This is a crime and liberals did it.

"Dear Scrotty Students" - Maggie's Farm

A good read





This letter was a hoax of sorts, posted somewhere on the internet
as a response from Oxford to students attending as Rhodes Scholars to
remove the statue of Oxford Benefactor Cecil Rhodes.



Not sure who wrote this. Best line to the students:  "Understand us and understand this clearly: you have everything to learn from us; we have nothing to learn from you."



American higher ed administrators might bear that in mind.

"Dear Scrotty Students" - Maggie's Farm

Obama Hosts Vile Thugs To Discuss Criminal Justice Reform

 It’s not that Barack Obama hasn’t been a successful president. He has.
He said he wanted to fundamentally transform us, as a nation. As a
result, we’re weaker, militarily. Our debt has gone through the roof.
He’s destroyed small businesses, ruined the healthcare system, strained
relations with our allies, emboldened our enemies, set back race
relations to pre-Civil Rights era levels, and has driven morality and
decency over a cliff.



Obama Hosts Vile Thugs To Discuss Criminal Justice Reform | RedState

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." Will Rogers

Will Rogers

1879 - 1935

Minimum wages were first designed to keep women and minorities out of jobs - LA Times

 Progressive labor activists took a very different view 100 years ago,
when 15 states established America's first minimum wages. Labor
reformers then believed that a legal minimum would hand a raise to
deserving white Anglo-Saxon men, and a pink slip to their undeserving
competitors: “racially undesirable” immigrants, the mentally and
physically disabled, and women. The original progressives hailed
minimum-wage-caused job losses among these groups as a positive benefit
to the U.S. economy and to Anglo-Saxon racial integrity.



Read the whole thing, it's stunning





Minimum wages were first designed to keep women and minorities out of jobs - LA Times

Of course it's not mandatory .... yet.

 Now if we could just come up with a way to reuse and recycle. We could call it.... Soylent Green... that's the ticket. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/plotsummary

California to Pay $5400 to Make Sick People Dead

California Medical–its version of Medicaid–will pay $5400 for the drugs to make the suicidal terminally ill poor, dead. Worse, Medical recipients don’t have…

nationalreview.com

YEP

Do you think these slobs are ready to run the country??

Thoughts ??

This is Key West "AFTER" spring break from the college kids visit. Now they think this no big deal? It doesn't matter how they left it, that's someone else's mess to clean up. If you say something then you risk upsetting them or infringing upon their rights ? But when someone writes Trump on their college sidewalk with chalk they got to have therapy?

Time to grow up and act like you got or gained sense that your parents or someone paid for!

Racism is not just White

By Vaughn Allen Clark


I want to expose something that I do not want to raise a firestorm of comments and reactions....I am at odds with what "elite liberalism" is doing to our colleges and universities. Besides being pro-Moslem, there is a stunning "teaching" that it is impossible for minorities to be racist since they have been the victims of the oppressive white race, and that hatred, violence, etc against whites is not racism, but a natural and valid response to the racism and racists acts of white people.

I am absolutely heartbroken over the history of how people of color have been treated in this country in the past. I did not do it, nor do any white people I know living. I discovered that my original ancestor here, an Irishman, refused to own slaves, probably due to his personal exposure to the Irish slaves England trafficked.

I also am appalled beyond my ability to express it in words at the unfathomable hatred that young white and black people seem to ENJOY.

If this is all the Civil Rights Movement has come to after all this time, then Satan has had his way.

Marxism often rides on the back of valid social concerns and is thinly veiled behind "social action" and "community planning" . One needs to ask questions about the "communication" and money that has been passed through chains of command of organizations, groups, and gangs affilated with the Nation of Islam and George Soros.

The word on the streets, in the prisons, even in the public schools, and in many other arenas one would think would be respectable, that white men and boys, and old white people are to be targeted.

To quote the president, in the last election "Vote for vengeance!"

I presume then in the social and demonic thought of influential people there is an ancient blood debt of blacks against whites which can be "legally" exacted, or without full prosecution.

I do not for a moment believe that this is the majority of the Black Americans I know. My life has been enormously enriched by Black people from my earliest days. They have been my surrogate parents, caretakers, protectors, and friends. I rejected my own family whose racist words and actions were disgusting to me.

I am asking white and black Christians to pray and to walk and ride the streets of your towns and cities and ask God to prevent racial bloodshed.

I am asking white and black Christians to be Christians and Americans.

I am weary of what I see and feel in my spirit man.

For the record I am a Christian whose vote is determined by whoever will spare the lives of the unborn and will work to preserve the family.

That does not make me a "racist" or a "cracker".

Depressing Survey Results Show How Extremely Stupid America Has Become

By Michael Snyder, on March 29th, 2016

Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade.  In the movie, an “average American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly finds himself in.  Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us.  We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach.  Hardly anyone takes time to read a book anymore, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television.  75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet.  It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
What in the world has happened to us?  How is it possible that we have become so stupid?  According to a brand new report that was recently released, almost 10 percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court

Read the whole thing   http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/depressing-survey-results-show-how-extremely-stupid-america-has-become

Social Justice is Failing

Have you noticed how all the social justice warriors are losing every war, they win a battle now and then, but the war is lost. This last few months has spelled doom for social justice movements. Oh, they'll be back, but the opposition to this insanity is ready for a fight. I am no Trump fan, but we have him to thank for giving the sane side a backbone. Not a minute too late. There are bastions where the SJW's are still stirring, Chicago is one, but long term the war is lost for them. Thank God.

I remember it very well

This Day in 1968. 48 years ago today, civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

MEET THE NEW SPANISH INQUISITION

.. if you don't agree with the theology of climate change, burned at the stake or off with your head:
Beginning in 1478, the Spanish Inquisition systematically silenced any citizen who held views that did not align with the king’s. Using the powerful arm of the government, the grand inquisitor, Tomas de Torquemada, and his henchmen sought out all those who held religious, scientific, or moral views that conflicted with the monarch’s, punishing the “heretics” with jail sentences, property confiscation, fines, and in severe cases, torture, and execution.

One of the lasting results of the Spanish Inquisition was a stifling of speech, thought, and scientific debate throughout Spain. By treating one set of scientific views as absolute, infallible, and above critique, Spain silenced many brilliant individuals and stopped the development of new ideas and technological innovations. Spain became a scientific backwater.
As an old adage says, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So we now have a new inquisition underway in America in the 21st century—something that would have seemed unimaginable not too long ago.

16 Democrat AGs Begin Inquisition Against ‘Climate Change Disbelievers’

The inquisitors are threatening legal action and huge fines against anyone who declines to believe in an unproven scientific theory.The inquisitors are threatening…

dailysignal.com

Neighborhood Data Show That U.S. Suburbanization Continues (Wonkish)

 Americans are getting more suburban, less urban, and less rural. The
share of households in urban neighborhoods declined in the 1990s, 2000s,
and 2010s to date. This is true whether we group all urban
neighborhoods together (that is, all categories with density of 2,213 or
more), or look just at the highest-density urban neighborhoods: the
share of households in Census tracts with at least 10,000 households per
square mile has declined, slightly but consistently, from 4.0% in 1990
to 3.9% in 2000, 3.8% in 2010, and 3.7% in 2014. Rural neighborhoods
have also had a declining share of population, too. But suburban
neighborhoods have all gained population share over the entire time
period, with the exception of the higher-density suburban neighborhoods
(1,500-2,212 households per square mile) in the most recent years
(2010-2014). (Note that the % of households in each category reflects
the breakpoints, some of which are arbitrary — what matters is the TREND
in the % of households in each category.)



Neighborhood Data Show That U.S. Suburbanization Continues (Wonkish) | Jed Kolko

None of this matters, the fix is already in.

Bernie Sanders sweeps 3 states in ‘resounding’ victory | New York Post

This was the weekend Bernie came back to life. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders swept three states in Democratic caucuses in the Pacific Northwest on Saturday…

nypost.com

Michigan Satanists Defend Planned Parenthood on Good Friday

Michigan Satanists Defend Planned Parenthood on Good Friday - The Daily Beast

Removal of Confederate symbols turns nasty in New Orleans

Removal of Confederate symbols turns nasty in New Orleans | Daily Mail Online



Backlash against a plan to remove
prominent Confederate monuments in New Orleans has been tinged by death
threats, intimidation and even what may have been the torching of a
contractor's Lamborghini.



For
now, at least, things have gotten so nasty the city hasn't found a
contractor willing to bear the risk of tearing down the monuments. The
city doesn't have its own equipment to move them and is now in talks to
find a company, even discussing doing the work at night to avoid further
tumult.



Initially, it
appeared the monuments would be removed quickly after the majority black
City Council on Dec. 17 voted 6-1 to approve the mayor's plan to take
them down. The monuments, including towering figures of Gens. Robert E.
Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard, have long been viewed by many here as symbols
of racism and white supremacy.

 

Getting Out the Vote

American Muslims are watching in growing horror as Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz battle for the Republican presidential nomination, outdoing each other with provocative proposals that have included Muslim registries, immigration bans and fleets of police patrolling their neighborhoods.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/us/politics/republicans-muslim-americans-vote.html?_r=1

With round tables, summit meetings and news releases falling on deaf ears, national advocacy groups are planning to fend off policies they consider hostile to Muslims with a more proactive strategy: driving up the Muslim vote.

Organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as CAIR, the Islamic Circle of North America and the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations are encouraging mosques to turn themselves into voter registration centers before the November election so that Muslims can make their voices heard at the polls. Registration drives are expected to ramp up significantly in June, during Ramadan, when attendance at Islamic centers peaks.

“The fear and apprehension in the American Muslim community has never been at this level,” said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for CAIR. “The anti-Islamic tidal wave is spurring civic participation.”

“Call me when they insult Mohammed during Ramadan”

“Call me when they insult Mohammed during Ramadan” -- Maclean’s Easter cover asks “Did Jesus...

Maclean’s just mailed its special Easter edition of the magazine. The cover story is: “Did Jesus Really Exist? The science is in:

I have lived this and it's true

If you are flat broke with no way out or no way up, if all you have is change in your pockets you are uniquely positioned for a powerful success in life.. IF you want to. I speak from experience in this area, been broke twice and wealthy three times. Daymond John is preaching to at least this Choir Boy.. How about you? Do you have it in you to get up.. You have the power if you are flat broke. Here are some truths from Daymond:
1. You have to come up with something when you have no money and this forces an authentic creativity. There are things you learn from hustling and grinding you cant learn from a book, there is long term power in this knowledge.

2. Learn the core concepts of business and sales as they never change but be willing to try new approaches and use the core knowledge as your base of knowledge.
3. Understand power and where it comes from meaning how do you get attention and then use it for your product or service. Those who have the attention have the most power.
4. Being hungry keeps you focused, it’s easy to lose focus on what is important and chase other ideas or get pulled away from the core concept or idea. Some people or businesses try to do too much too soon and lose sight of what they started out as.
5. There is invaluable valuable knowledge to be learned in the struggle. The struggle of being broke helps shape ideas for the future and for the good of the product or the service being offered. Easy money may be easy to squander.
6. Understand the power of proof for the buyer. Social proof is huge and understanding what people want is important. Sometimes you have to come up with a more original idea to make it happen.
7. Sometimes you have to do the things you don’t want to do but need to do in order to find the success in the middle of the chaos.
8. Most people will never take the steps necessary out of fear of what others may think.
9. Most people fear adversity when it is exactly what they need to find the hunger or the reason why to move on.
10. Think about the assets you already have and how they can be used for the product or service.
11. Be willing to trade and help others out, they may need to be there for you at some other time. This means make sure to build a network of people for a future infrastructure.
12. Learn the power of making a deal and living up to it.

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Ann Coulter Quote on our Superior Culture

As I point out, we are less of a nation of immigrants than many, many other nations. Eighty-five percent of the United States Presidents were 100% British or Dutch, descended from people who were not immigrants but settlers, they created this country. They were not immigrating to a country that existed already. Eighty-five percent British and/or Dutch and 100% at least partially British. There are very few other countries that haven’t had a leader that is from a completely different ethnicity, and I’m not even talking about the Chinese or Guatemalan or Mapuche Indians. We haven’t had any Presidents who were Danes or Fins or Italians. It’s a monochromatic WASP country that other ethnicities have come to and for the first 400 years of its existence, (as a colony and then as a country) the “wildly diverse” immigrants were other white western Europeans. That was the extent of the diversity.

Since 1970, we haven’t been able to take any white immigrants, basically. We can’t take white English-speaking immigrants; we’re being inundated not only with people from cultures different from ours, but particularly cultures that are not as advanced as ours. Thus the drunk driving, the child rape, the Jihad, and I mean—you haven’t asked, but this isn’t a genetic thing, it’s a cultural thing. We have a superior culture and we’re throwing it away importing people from cultures that have never experienced it before. It doesn’t get them to adopt our culture—especially when it’s a hate crime to ask them to adopt our culture! But even before that, as I point out with Albion’s Seed, David Hackett Fischer traces British roots to different parts of the country, [such as] the Scots-Irish in the South, whom we see on shows like Cops, and the literate, educated [East Anglians], up in Massachusetts. A people’s culture is hardwired. It doesn’t disappear in a few generations. It may not disappear after 10 generations. Maybe there is something genetic involved here, but that isn’t the point, there is definitely a cultural element.

Kriston Couchey WHO CAN PILOT? An apolitical allegory.

The stewardess walked back to cabin area and spoke to the passengers and said, "The captain will soon be ineligible and unable to pilot this plane, we need a pilot! You Ma'am on the left, are you a pilot?" "Well, no." she replied, "But, my husband was a pilot, and I worked for the current pilot on foreign affairs and flew a a lot!"

The stewardess replied, "Sorry Ma'am, we need a pilot for this plane. You sir on the right, are you a pilot? "Well, no I am not," The man responded, but I have held this plane and it's pilot hostage and almost sent in down in flames, Wielding that kind of power makes me eligible to fly the plane!" 

"Sorry sir, that's terrorism, not piloting. You sir on the far left, are you a pilot?" she asked. "Well no, but when I get the chance to take the controls I am going to make it so everyone can go to pilot school for free, and everyone has an opportunity to be a pilot."

"That's is a nice goal to have, but you are not a pilot, we need a pilot on this plane."

"You sir, in first class, are you a pilot?" The man responded, "No I am not a pilot, but I have given a lot of money to them and the crew, and they usually do what I want them to do. I can pilot this plane by the power of money and tell the plane and crew where to go and they will go there and I will make it fly great again!"

"Thanks, sir, but pushing your financial weight around won't make this plane fly, and just telling it what to do won't do make it stay in the air."

"Sir, you in the center aisle, are you a pilot?" The man replied, "Why yes I am a pilot right now. I can pilot this plane." She replied, "Well that is good sir, but it seems you do not have a license in any state but Ohio and no other state wants you to fly this plane there."
 
There is only one sure pilot for your life. Think about it.

Glenn Beck as Prophet

During his radio broadcast Thursday morning, Glenn Beck outlined eight predictions he made starting in 1999 — all of which, he says, have come to fruition.

The first, Beck says, was in 1999, when he was a radio host on WABC-AM, and he predicted that the now-deceased al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden would attack the United States.

“In 1999, I said, ‘Are you ready to fight terror? It’s a completely different world. Osama bin Laden — there will be blood, bodies and buildings in the streets,’” Beck said.

9-11 2001 happened a couple years later

From there, the conservative firebrand continued to build his list of past predictions.

Beck said he saw the “downfall of the GOP” coming in 2003 or 2004, when he started to feel “something isn’t right.” “If anybody is a long-term listener,” Beck said, “they remember that I would talk on the air and say to everybody in Washington, ‘Do you realize what’s happening? Do you realize that you’re disenfranchising people?’”

During the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004, Beck said he was predicting the bursting of the housing bubble and the banking crisis, which came in 2008. The radio show host said he told listeners, “Don’t take out these loans.”

Beck’s radio show co-host Stu Burguiere chimed in, saying Beck was focusing a lot on radical Islam at that time, too. “Yeah, that was the rise of Iran,” Beck agreed.  “I was the only one — remember how everybody said that we were crazy when I said, ‘Wait. We’ve got to start talking about the Mahdi. We have to start talking about the Twelfth Imam,’” Beck said.

In 2008, Beck said he predicted what he described as “the hatreds of the ’30s,” the rise of Nazism and anti-semitism, specifically in Europe. Anti-semitism has been a growing problem in Europe since the start of the Syrian refugee crisis last year.  British Justice Minister Michael Gove said Thursday during a speech at an inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism Conference in Berlin, Germany, that “modern anti-semitism finds a home in far too many hearts.”  “Europe is on the verge of complete collapse,” Beck said.

Beck went on to say he also predicted the rise of socialism in the United States and the “unmasking of the Marxists.” Radio show host Pat Gray pointed to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), a self-avowed democratic socialist, as proof of that prediction.  “In 2008, I said, ‘They’re going to start admitting that they’re Marxists and socialists,’” Beck remarked.

Beck then said he predicted the rise of the “Bubba Effect” — a common theme for the radio personality — in 2008. The “Bubba Effect” is when people begin to feel they have been pushed too far by an overbearing government and begin to respond in violence.  Beck credits the “Bubba Effect” for the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, Maryland, along with last week’s violent protests in Chicago ahead of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s canceled rally.

Lastly, Beck said he predicted in 2010 the rise of the Islamic caliphate in the Middle East, which today is the Islamic State. “They mocked and mocked and mocked on that,” Gray said.

I Have Signed No Oath of Loyalty to Donald Trump or the GOP By Erick Erickson | March 17, 2016, 05:40am

Over the past twenty-four hours a sizable contingent of Trump supporters have emailed me to say I am obstructing “the will of the people.” What will is that exactly? Is that the will of more than half of Republicans who have not voted for Donald Trump in any state? Is that the will of the majority of Americans who have said they would oppose Donald Trump in a general election?

I have signed no oath of loyalty to Donald Trump or the GOP. The fact is very simple — Trump needs my vote. I do not need Trump, nor will I give Donald Trump my vote.

I am a conservative. I believe in limited governments, free markets, and free people. Donald Trump does not.

His values do not line up with my values. It is not an issues issue. I fundamentally disagreed with Mitt Romney and John McCain on issues, but I did not think either man a moral cretin.

I find Donald Trump to be a man of low moral character and low integrity. Essentially, Donald Trump is gold plated sleaze and I have no use for him at all ever.

If that means Hillary Clinton becomes President of the United States, Donald Trump’s supporters can carry that burden. Everyone saw it coming except for them. If they wish to transform the Republican Party into something it is not nor ever has been, then I will part ways with the GOP.

Just because some might sell out conservatism for gold plated sleaze stroking their egos or ratings does not mean we all will. I’m a Christian first and a conservative before I’m a Republican. I’m not willing to be bought off by a man looking for legitimacy through the acquisition of power when his values are diametrically opposed to mine.

Principle still matters to me. Donald Trump does not.

History will not treat him kindly.. despite every hope

Survival Expert Breaks Down Everything You Need in Your ‘Bug-Out Bag’ to Survive an Emergency | Video | TheBlaze.com

It's interesting,  but kinda funny when you see the list of things and reasons why one needs one..

The economy is being federally seized.

Banks show signs they could simultaneously collapse again.

Brutal political violence could break out at any moment.

The Constitution is being blatantly abused.

Privacy is being annihilated by Government and technology.

Islamic terrorists could strike at home at any time (again).

Rhetoric is to the point where it is reasonable to fear a political candidate being assassinated.

An Israeli-Iranian war lurks.

A Shia-Sunni world war is halfway started.

Korea is a powder keg.

Cold War 2 is all but underway.


Tornados, solar flares, and zombies?

If you are prepping, admit the real reasons.

-FutureDanger6

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A message for People who are concerned about how hard life is..

I didn't write this, I wish I had.

These folks did and it's really good:

BUT... it speaks to the whole outrage culture in the USA.  Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump protesters, Occupy Wall Street and all the outrage over how the "Man" presses people down, blaming bad policy like happened in Flint on the wrong people, blaming cops for being cops (even if some are corrupt and wrong), Marching agaist anything that people waste time on.

Well this captures it.. it's targeted toward Millenials, but it is accurately applied to all outraged people.

Number ONE is the most important:    

1. Your Feelings Are Largely Irrelevant

You think you have a cause but we don't hear you any more

They may not yet be the present, but they’re certainly the future. These young, uninitiated minds will someday soon become our politicians, doctors, scientists, chefs, television producers, fashion designers, manufacturers, and, one would hope, the new proponents of liberty. But are they ready for it?

Time after time, particularly on college campuses, millennials have proven to be little more than entitled, spoiled, anti-intellectual brats who place far too much emphasis on feelings and nowhere near enough emphasis on critical thinking. To the millennial, words are cause for the creation of safe spaces, alternative ideas must be stifled, and anything they perceive to be a microaggression is enough to send them spiraling into a state of mental distress.

It’s time millennials understood these 7 harsh realities of life so we don’t end up with a generation of gutless adult babies running the show.

1. Your Feelings Are Largely Irrelevant

Seriously, nobody who has already graduated college cares about your feelings. That means that when you complain to your boss because your co-worker mis-gendered you, he’s probably not going to bend over backwards to bandage your wounds. Given feelings are entirely subjective in nature, it’s completely unreasonable to demand everyone tip-toe around you to prevent yours from being hurt. The reality is that people will offend you and hurt your feelings, and they won’t stop to mop up your tears because they shouldn’t have to. Learning to accept criticism, alternative viewpoints, and even outright insults will make you happier in the long run than routinely playing the victim card.

2. You Cannot Be Whatever You Want To Be

This is a comforting lie parents have started telling their children to boost their morale in school. Unfortunately, millennials are now convinced it’s true, especially as society has now decided to push this narrative as well. The reality is if you’re 17 years old and still can’t figure out basic division, you’re not going to be a rocket scientist. If you’re overweight and unattractive, you’re not going to be the quarterback’s prom date. If you lack fine motor skills, you’re not going to be a heart surgeon. It’s okay to accept that you cannot be whatever you want to be. In fact, once you accept this, you’ll be able to focus on the things you can be — the things you really are talented at.

3. Gender Studies Is A Waste Of Money

You heard me. While some millennials taking useless degrees will claim they’re beneficial for teaching or research positions, the reality is that they just put themselves several thousands dollars in debt to learn how to be a professional victim. While you’re struggling to make ends meet after graduation because nobody who pays more than minimum wage is interested in your qualifications and you’re drowning in student loan debt, be sure to check out the next harsh reality before you start complaining.

4. If You Live In America, You’re Already In The 1%

That’s right. Even though you work at McDonald’s for minimum wage because you got a useless, outrageously expensive college degree, you’re still far better off than the vast majority of the planet. Don’t believe me? Fly to Uganda and check out the living conditions there. Fly to China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Iran, Russia, and even European countries like Ukraine and Greece, and you’ll quickly discover just how well-off you really are. While it may be cool these days to dump on capitalism, it’s the only reason you aren’t already worse off.

5. You Don’t Have A Right To It Just Because You Exist

That includes healthcare, guaranteed income, and somewhere to live. Just because you’re here and breathing doesn’t mean society owes you anything. Like the billions of people who lived before you, working hard is a better guarantor of wealth and the ability to comfortably take care of yourself than begging society or the government to do it for you. Demanding healthcare be a right, for example, is equivalent to demanding government force the taxpayer to pay for it. While that may seem like a good idea in theory, it only leads to rationing of care when costs become unsustainable, which negatively impacts not just your health, but everyone else’s, too.

6. You DO Have The Right To Live As You Please — But Not To Demand People Accept It

By contrast, you do have the right to live however you please, so long as it’s within the confines of the law. If you want to cross-dress, smoke marijuana, drink lots of alcohol, have lots of sex, and, yes, even go to school for gender studies, then by all means, go for it. Government should not be allowed to legislate people’s behavior as long as it doesn’t infringe upon someone else’s rights, but that doesn’t mean society isn’t allowed to have an opinion. You don’t have the right to demand people keep their opinions about your lifestyle to themselves, especially if you’re open and public about it. I have as much of a right to comment on the way you live your life as you do to actually live it. Your feelings are not a protected right, but my speech is.

7. The Only Safe Space Is Your Home

No matter where you go in life, someone will be there to offend you. Maybe it’s a joke you overheard on vacation, a spat at the office, or a difference of opinion with someone in line at the grocery store. Inevitably, someone will offend you and your values. If you cannot handle that without losing control of your emotions and reverting back to your “safe space” away from the harmful words of others, then you’re best to just stay put at home. Remember, though: if people in the outside world scare you, people on the internet will downright terrify you. It’s probably best to just accept these harsh realities of life and go out into the world prepared to confront them wherever they may be waiting.

The Seven Deadly Sins of an Entrepreneur

• The Operational Sins: Those which reduce your personal effectiveness as an owner and leader.
  • Lust: Allowing whim du jour to drag the company in differing directions. (Counteracting behavior: A Personal Vision.)
  • Gluttony: Hoarding all authority and decision-making for yourself. (Delegation)
• The Tactical Sins: Those which denigrate the effectiveness of your organization.
  • Sloth: Settling for “good enough.” (Metrics and Benchmarking)
  • Wrath: Using adrenaline to drive performance. (Planning)
  • Greed: Addressing any problem with more effort or more intensity. (Budgeting)
• The Strategic Sins: Those that prevent long term vision and improvement.
  • Envy: Thinking that no one else has your problems. (Outside advice and knowledge)
  • Pride: Believing that you are the single most important factor in your company. (Exit Strategy)

The sins are addressed in order. Dealing with the Operational Sins allows you to tackle the Tactical problems. Strategic improvement is only possible if you’ve first dealt with Tactical issues.
The Seven Deadly Sins of an Entrepreneur are an excellent mnemonic for considering your own behavior and those of your company.  Keep them in mind as you run your business day-to-day.

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