Wednesday, January 01, 2020

The way we were-----New Year's Eve, 1999 Into 2000

Boob-tube-----2019 New Year's celebrations across the globe

‘The Squad’ Is Silent About Anti-Semitic Stabbings in New York...

Instapundit Blog Archive SQUAD GOALS: 
"‘The Squad’ Is Silent About Anti-Semitic Stabbings in New York.
And there are plenty of Democratic Party operatives with bylines who are quite happy to help them maintain that silence.

(Politically correct) predictions for the academy in 2020 | The College Fix

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"University communities never cease to amaze us with their capacity for politically correct adolescent antics. 
Each year the inanity quotient gets a giant uptick.
What are some of the possibilities in the year to come? 
Your friendly neighborhood assistant editor speculates …
  • “White Fragility” author and speaker Robin DiAngelo will drop a sequel titled “White Brittleness” in the first half of the year. 
Wait, make that the second half of the year as she is booked for appearances through March — at $10,000 to $15,000 a pop. 
“Brittleness” will focus on racism as literally a part of everything, even things you’d never, ever suspect (DiAngelo does have a PhD in multicultural education, after all). 
Buying a new washer and dryer? 
The name of the manufacturer can be traced back to 18th-century slaveholders. Sending a letter and putting the flag up on your mailbox? 
Remember what the American flag represents. 
Educators referring to what they write on with chalk as a “blackboard”? How dare you.
  • Student and faculty activists will push for further PC edits to old movies and TV shows..."
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Joe Biden Suggests Coal Miners Should Learn To Code | The Daily Caller

Joe Biden Suggests Coal Miners Should Learn To Code | The Daily Caller:
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Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Monday that displaced coal miners should learn to code.
“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday. He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”

2020-----New Year's 2020: Dubai puts on stunning fireworks show at world's talles...

Squatters break into a vacant home in Oakland then demand the owners allow them to live there "in the interest of justice" - The Daily Sheeple

Squatters break into a vacant home in Oakland then demand the owners allow them to live there "in the interest of justice" - The Daily Sheeple
"Two homeless mothers have temporarily beaten back an eviction attempt brought by the property owners of the vacant West Oakland home they have occupied – without the owner’s permission – for the past six weeks.
On Monday Judge Patrick McKinney heard from both sides inside a jammed-packed courtroom before delaying a decision on whether or not the women would be evicted.
“I want to carefully consider the issues that have been raised,” he said.
...Simon-Weisberg told the judge the women should be allowed to live in the house “in the interest of justice” and based on a needs analysis of Oakland’s homelessness crisis..."
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Lunch video-----The Evolution of New Year Celebrations 1918-2018 [Good To Know]

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The IRS Placed A Lien On Hunter Biden For About $113,000 In Unpaid Taxes From Year He Served On Burisma Board | The Daily Caller

The IRS Placed A Lien On Hunter Biden For About $113,000 In Unpaid Taxes From Year He Served On Burisma Board | The Daily Caller:

Image result for Hunter BidenThe IRS placed a tax lien on Hunter Biden seeking $112,805 in unpaid taxes from 2015, according to records the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.
The federal agency issued the previously unreported lien in November 2018 and it seeks unpaid taxes for a year in which Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, served on the boards of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings and the Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners.

25 Moments That Changed America: Turning Points from the 20th Century | Time

25 Moments That Changed America: Turning Points from the 20th Century | Time:

  • The Great Migration Begins (1915)

African American Migrants

It ain't gonna git better.

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12 of the Most Mortifying Media Bias Moments of 2019

12 of the Most Mortifying Media Bias Moments of 2019
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Jussie Smollett (by: zz/Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx via AP)
My immediate reaction to seeing this story was, "They only found 12"?
Indeed, the media was a target-rich environment this past year. 
MAGA hat rage, Jussie Smollett, the dud Mueller report, "collusion" meltdown; the list could be endless.
Grabien, which has specialized in these "video montages" of idiotic media moments, outdid themselves this year with "The 12 Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2019."
A lot of these media flubs are of the "Don't you wish you knew what we know now" variety," like Jussie Smollett.
The media’s unfortunate habit of stepping on rakes shaped like fake hate crimes continued apace into February. When TMZ first reported that actor Jussie Smollett was the victim of a vicious hate crime, it sounded almost impossible to believe..."
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#1 This day 2000-----Santana - Smooth ft. Rob Thomas (Official Video)

2020!-----Confetti Rains Down as New York City Welcomes 2020

Plan ahead!

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‘Evil Exists’: Trump-Supporting Armed Congregant Speaks Out In Viral Post After Taking Out Church Shooter | The Daily Caller

‘Evil Exists’: Trump-Supporting Armed Congregant Speaks Out In Viral Post After Taking Out Church Shooter | The Daily Caller:

Image result for Second AmendmentAn armed church security guard who shot and killed the gunman who attacked a church in White Settlement, Texas on Sunday spoke out in a Sunday night Facebook post.
Jack Wilson, a candidate for Hood County commissioner who, according to his campaign’s Facebook page, owns a business called On Target Firearms Training Academy, Inc. and is a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, was one of two armed volunteer security guards who took down the gunman.

Exposing Junk Science!

By Paul Homewood--h/t Joe Public
 Don’t worry about facts, Christiana!
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"The claim is based on a Silly Jilly article in the Grauniad here
However the Guardian claim is based on electricity only, and not all energy, a distinction that apparently is beyond Christiana. 
Furthermore, a third of renewable electricity comes from biomass, which most experts now accept is extremely bad for the environment and will not reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
When we look at total primary energy consumption, we find that Christiana’s much vaunted wind and solar power only contributes a paltry 4% in Q3, even when hydro power is added in.
Meanwhile fossil fuels accounted for 77%.

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AM Fruitcake

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History for January 1

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History for January 1 - On-This-Day.com
Lorenzo de' Medici 1449 - Italian politician, diplomat, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico), heir to Medici banking empire, Paul Revere 1735, Betsy Ross (Elizabeth Griscom) 1752
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George Washington Carver 1860, J. Edgar Hoover (U.S.) 1895, Barry Goldwater 1909
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1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.
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1984 - AT&T was broken up into 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement with the U.S. Federal government.
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