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How not to kill yourself with household items (15 16 Pics). How easy is it to be an Infojournalst? Pretty damned.

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Lib Hidden Motives

Progressive Racism: The Hidden Motive Driving Modern Politics  Progressive politics is rooted in racism. Look carefully at most social or fiscal policies advocated by progressives and you’ll see that underneath their false public rationales lie hidden racist fears and assumptions — some of which the progressives may be too embarrassed to admit even to themselves, much less to the world. Viewed globally, the real long-term consequence of all the “climate change”-related policy proposals is to transfer massive amounts of wealth from the First World developed nations to the Third World underdeveloped nations, while simultaneously crippling the ability of the developed world to maintain its economic dominance. What could motivate this seemingly suicidal economic policy by First-World progressives? In a word: Guilt. Specifically, “white guilt” This essay will likely be eye-opening for conservatives, and infuriating for progressives, who often don’t know their own history and never contemplated the origins of their own belief system. But it’s time to finally bring the uncomfortable truth out in the open. Below you will find eight separate entries, each focusing on a different policy pushed by progressives. Each entry follows the same format: BOLD: Name of topic. In yellow: A neutral description of the exact proposal which progressives champion. In red: The progressives’ stated justification or explanation behind their position, which hides their real purpose. In red: The inaccurate theory which conservatives mistakenly assume must be the actual progressive motivation. In green: The true racist reason underlying the progressive policy. Plain text: Additional notes on the origins of the progressives’ racist attitude and how it led to this specific policy proposal. GUN CONTROL Progressive position: Restrict access to guns as much as possible; ultimately ban and confiscate them all. False public rationale offered by progressives to justify their position: Gun violence is a scourge on society; easy access to killing machines unnecessarily facilitates murder and crime. Conservatives’ inaccurate theory of progressives’ real intent: Progressives want to disarm the populace to prevent armed resistance to the eventual imposition of a leftist totalitarian police state. The actual racist origins of the progressive stance: White urban liberals are deathly afraid of black gangbangers with guns, but are ashamed to admit this publicly, so to mask their racist fears they try to ban guns for everyone, as a way of warding off the perception that their real goal is to target blacks specifically.   The basic dividing line in American politics is not (as it once was ) North vs. South, nor is it (as many people now assume) Coasts vs. Flyover Country, but rather Urban vs. Rural: The new political divide is a stark division between cities and what remains of the countryside. Not just some cities and some rural areas, either — virtually every major city (100,000-plus population) in the United States of America has a different outlook from the less populous areas that are closest to it. The difference is no longer about where people live, it’s about how people live: in spread-out, open, low-density privacy — or amid rough-and-tumble, in-your-face population density and diverse communities that enforce a lower-common denominator of tolerance among inhabitants. …The only major cities that voted Republican in the 2012 presidential election were Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, and Salt Lake City. Or put more simply: In modern America, liberals live in cities; conservatives live in rural areas. And what else is concentrated in cities? African-Americans, and gun violence: The 62 center cities of America’s 50 largest metro areas account for 15 percent of the population but 39 percent of gun-related murders. Putting all these statistics together, we see that large cities have high concentrations of white liberals alongsidegun-using black criminals. And yet it is specifically in Democrat-voting big cities where most of the gun-control measures are proposed. Why is that? Are the white progressive urban dwellers afraid of rootin’-tootin’ cowboys? Of backwoods deer hunters? Of hillbillies with shotguns? No: the average white progressive has never even met a cowboy, a hunter or a hillbilly. And frankly, progressives couldn’t care less if rednecks own guns, because progressives aren’t physically afraid of rednecks on a daily basis. Instead, they are afraid of gun violence at the hands of their fellow city-dwellers, the urban African-Americans who commit a wildly disproportionate percentage of the gun crimes in America. Progressives don’t want to ban guns to disarm resistance to any upcoming police state; that idea has never even occurred to them. Instead, progressives want to ban guns because progressives are afraid of black people. But God forbid that progressives’ racist motivations be exposed publicly. So to make the gun-control bans appear even-handed and race-neutral, progressives must try to ban guns for everyone, even though the bans are in reality aimed at one specific group. Rural gun-users are just collateral damage of a policy that actually targets inner-city blacks.     JUNK FOOD TAXES Progressive position: [Full Article] The author's reflections fully comport with my own (or any HiFo's) analysis, so A+.  Via skoonj ”

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AeroGel

TECHNO CHILLS                                Aero Gel “ Aerogel Aerogel    Aerogel              HORRY CLAP! Aerogel material—often referred to as frozen smoke, solid smoke, solid air or blue smoke—is actually, like all the best things, the result of a wager. It was first created by Samuel Stephens Kistler in 1931, after he bet Charles Learned that he could replace the liquid in a jelly with gas, without causing shrinkage. Turned out, he was right! To produce an aerogel, you take a normal gel and then—very slowly and carefully—remove the liquid, leaving behind just the solid structure. That process varies depending on the gel in question, but invariably requires some complex chemistry to facilitate removal of the liquid by supercritical drying, which carefully avoids the liquid-gas transition by using pressure and temperature variation to go from liquid to solid to gas instead. Otherwise, the evaporation process can destroy the structure. The result is a substance that looks like the original gel but feels like expanded polystyrene to the touch. And the material properties! Oh, the material properties. Just look at what it can do. DIBS: Since any patent on this 70 year old process must be expired, I am filing for one as we speak.  I will then begin manufacture of the Aerogel Mini. Weight: 1 gram Fuel: Four AA Batteries Further projections, such as 0-60 and top speed would be premature. Since he found it for me, cuzzin ricky is Senior Optimization Developer         ”

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The Active Mind—Boggled

Who's the leader of the band ...

“ Band of (really, really bad) Brothers  Obama's Rogues Gallery Of Radicals Appointments: America is a country of 320 million people, most of them holding to traditional values. Yet President Obama keeps mining the fringes for his hires. Does he have any friends who aren't crackpots? We were told the parade of anti-American subversives Obama came in contact with throughout his life amounted to ancient history. But now we have this roster of radical appointments, a current record that's harder to explain away and which raises the indefeasible question of whether they're a reflection of himself. Seriously. The president keeps saying he champions the middle class and its values. But his choices of people to help him run the country are the most extreme in U.S. history, and his second-term nominations are more radical than the first. No sooner had even some Senate Democrats joined Republicans in voting down a cop killer-coddler for civil rights chief, Debo Adegbile, than Obama sent up a 2nd Amendment-basher for U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Vivek Murthy  .... <snip> Obama's previous appointees include: • Valerie Jarrett, his closest White House adviser, whose father-in-law worked closely with Obama mentor and Communist Party leader Frank Marshall Davis in a number of front groups during the Cold War. • David Axelrod, Obama's political aide, whose mother worked for a communist organ in New York and whose mentor was Soviet agent David Canter. • Van Jones, an admitted communist hired by Jarrett as Obama's green jobs czar. • Anita Dunn, former White House communications director and Obama's 2012 foreign policy debate coach, who listed communist dictator and mass murderer Mao Zedong as one of her two favorite philosophers whom "I turn to most" when questions arise. • Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar who wrote a socialist "bill of rights" and who advocates redistributing wealth through climate-change policy. • Samantha Power, ambassador to the United Nations, a 9/11 apologist who advised the president to follow a "doctrine of mea culpa" and literally bow down to foreign leaders as atonement for America's "sins." • Anne-Marie Slaughter, former State Department policy chief, who advised the president to apologize for the War on Terror. • Rashad Hussein, Obama's Mideast envoy, who once defended a convicted terrorist (then got caught lying about it), and drafted the president's Cairo speech apologizing for the War on Terror. • Rose Gottemoeller, Obama's Soviet-sympathizing chief nuclear arms negotiator, who thinks America is a global "bully" and must unilaterally disarm for the sake of world peace. • John Trasvina, assistant HUD secretary for fair housing who once headed the radical Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, whose co-founder made racist statements about whites. • Cecilia Munoz, head of White House domestic policy who used to work for La Raza, the militant Latino group that advocates illegal immigrant rights. • Erica Groshen, Bureau of Labor Statistics chief who sends her children to Camp Kinderland, aka "Commie Camp," a communist-founded institution where kids during the Cold War sang Soviet anthems. • John Holdren, Obama's science czar, who's advised surrendering U.S. sovereignty to a "Planetary Regime" that will redistribute the West's wealth to underdeveloped countries and who once advocated "adding a sterilant to drinking water" to control population. • Harold Koh, former State Department general counsel who believes in "trans-nationalism" and sees nothing wrong with Shariah law in U.S. courts. • Tony West, associate attorney general who oversees Gitmo policy, even though he defended al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists including John Walker Lindh, who pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy and fighting U.S. troops in Afghanistan. So what? In Washington, personnel are policy. These people make the rules we have to live by, from health care to home loans to homeland security. And these radical political appointees hire other radicals at the bureaucratic levels, where they'll become entrenched as career federal employees. In 2008, before Obama was nominated, we warned about his radical associations, including his ties to Davis — a hardened communist with a thick FBI file — at his Honolulu home. His defenders wrote off this Marxist indoctrination as youthful experimentation. [Full] cuzzin ricky   That was Friday's Investor's Business Daily editorial.  With just a few changes, it could have been an editorial written every year since 2009.   Obama has reached this  point.  Nary a day goes by without some documentary being shown, or essay being broadcast about the Hitler years (80 years ago!).  But why? We know everything there is to know (at least until the Hitler sex tapes are released).  We know that Chamberlain was a clueless berk; we know that Hitler could have been stopped at the Rhineland; we know that he was a monster (he wrote a book, for chrissake!); we know that his cohorts were a collection of perverts, druggies,  ne'er do wells and psychopaths.   Still we watch.  Same with Obama. 100 years from now people will be watching  Obama news reel film —saying "WTFF?"  You know I'm right. Oui? ”

Another Bacon Thing

But you gotta act now!   You have until April 4 to fill out the online entry form to become an Official Bacon Beta Tester. (The "value" of the bacon-puffer is $40.) Well, that barn door is open.  Think of the mischief one could perp with various aromas. In fact. it looks like that one's set to "burning tires."

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National Dairy Council?

Bowzer Wowzer

Drudge was Right, As Usual

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Progressives: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people assume you're an ignorant twat than to open it and remove all doubt. Like these berks..    Jesse Lee, the Director of Progressive Media Sahil Kapur of the leftwing Talking Points Memo Dylan Scott of the leftwing Talking Points Memo Sam Baker of National Journal Jeffrey Young of The Huffington Post   WHITE HOUSE, MEDIA ATTACK AFTER DRUDGE PAYS OBAMACARE OPT-OUT PENALTY A White House aide set off a stampede of liberal media criticism for Internet news pioneer Matt Drudge over Obamacare – but his critics don't seem to understand how small businesses pay taxes. The brouhaha started when Drudge tweeted, “Just paid the Obamacare penalty for not 'getting covered'... I'M CALLING IT A LIBERTY TAX.” Jesse Lee, the Director of Progressive Media at Barack Obama's White House, responded that that was a “Flat lie, no fee for previous year,” adding, “Scary how much influence he once had.” Lee’s response to Drudge set off a firestorm in the liberal media, with many mainstream media and left-wing reporters countering him on Twitter and in their own articles to claim he does not have to pay Obamacare’s Individual Mandate tax until next year. The individual mandate went into effect Jan. 1 of this year, and most people paying their taxes right now are paying taxes for 2013. “Dude, there's no penalty until next yr,” Sahil Kapur of the leftwing Talking Points Memo tweeted. Kapur’s colleague at TPM Dylan Scott wrote a full story with a headline alleging Drudge was “probably lying.” “Americans don't pay a penalty for not having health insurance until they file their 2014 taxes -- in 2015,” Scott wrote. “So either Drudge is lying or he paid a huge penalty a year earlier than he needed to.” “Penalty isn't collected until 2015,” Sam Baker of National Journal tweeted at Drudge. The Huffington Post’s Jeffrey Young wrote a full article in which he described Drudge’s tweet as “weird” and a “little head-scratching” because the Obamacare tax does not kick in until the 2014 tax year. Drudge indicated in his followup tweets that since he is self-employed as the proprietor of The Drudge Report, he files as a small business. According to the IRS’s website for self-employed individuals, they are required to pay taxes quarterly. “As a self-employed individual, generally you are required to file an annual return and pay estimated tax quarterly,” the IRS website reads. So, when they file and pay those 2014 first quarter taxes, such individuals have to pay the Obamacare Individual Mandate tax if they opted to not have health insurance—like Drudge just did. Additionally, the IRS form (1040-ES) for estimating quarterly taxes specifically recommends adding the mandate penalty to line 12 for "other taxes" -- to pay before the first quarterly deadline of April 15. “It is true that thousands of small businesses will be forced to pay Obamacare taxes quarterly in 2014,” a Senate Budget Committee aide told Breitbart News on Friday afternoon. Drudge even indicated as much in followup tweets, but the left-wing reporters—and the White House—have left their criticisms of him intact. “Dazed team Obama media reporters think Opt-Out tax 'year away’?” Drudge tweeted. “Not for small businesses that file Qtr estimates. We're there NOW, baby #pay.” [Full]

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Da Mooshelles Do China

STFU Michelle Moshelle Does China

“ 'We can't wait for this to be over, to tell you the truth,' he said in a sudden hush. 'We entertain many important people here, but this has been, I think, erm ...very different.'  Plague Descends on Beijing Government security forces from both China and the U.S. started Thursday to screen everyone who entered the building, including paying guests, setting up checkpoints that resemble those at airline concourse entrances. The Secret Service's monopoly on the hotel's highest floors has meant the Westin had to boot guests with previous reservations out of their executive-level rooms. Secret Service agents are also monopolizing hotel elevators long before the Obamas need them, added the staffer, who identified himself as a member of the concierge staff and spoke English during a phone call on Friday. 'Many of them are Asian, too, or Americans who are Asian, so you know our guests don't understand.' Mrs. Obama's mother Marian Robinson has been 'barking at the staff since she arrived.' Michelle Obama and three of her family members are staying in a $8,350-per-night Beijing presidential suite, but despite a 24-hour butler and other perks that come with the lodging, her entourage has inconvenienced 'pretty much everyone' and made the hotel staff 'fed up,' a well-placed hotel staffer has told MailOnline. Full Story Yeah, I know; everyone's seen this, but I cannot let it pass without putting it on my recored. ”

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Amazing Math

Gary Larsen                                                                                 NUMBERS Perhaps after seeing yesterday's godawful example of educational malpractice (Common Core Math), the erstwhile vocalist in my band, The Chestnuts, Guy du Francois, sent me this Amazing Mathematics.  Pretty quick into I it I thought satirically, "Oh, another Darwin evolution."  Turns out that was the point, so Darwinists may want to skip this one and avoid the angst, and cut me from thier travel list.  Sigh.   If we must, boys and girls, deviate from tried and true basic math education, here is a damned good example of stuff that works, and would appeal to kid's desire to one-up their parents.  I truly wish Sister Margaret Eleanor had pulled this out of her habit in my way back.  I love it.

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Catharsis Two Things  Cut in Half Fourteen More things cut in half More Things  Cut in Half

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Today's Karma

Common Core Idiocy

—   Common Core what?                                    you berks Common sense                drummermanrick

America's Incredible Shrinking Navy

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America's Incredible Shrinking Navy  Americans may be war-weary after Iraq and Afghanistan. But the world is still a hostile place, and the U.S.Navy is stretched too thin. I asked how many carriers the Navy had deployed world-wide that day, and how many it could deploy within 30 days. A Naval officer said three were deployed that day, and one more could get under way within a month—a far cry from the 11-carrier fleet mandated by Congress. And in a new sleight of hand, the Obama administration has changed what it considers a warship when reporting the size of the Navy's "battle force." From now on it will include the two hospital ships, Mercy and Comfort, 10 small coastal patrol vessels and a high-speed transport. Add those, subtract a few minesweepers, and voilà—the Navy fleet has grown to 293 from 283 ships. Most of the new additions are lightly armed coastal-patrol craft and not true oceangoing ships. Originally designed to carry Navy SEALs and other special-operations forces, these 179-foot ships turned out to be inadequate for that role. Instead, armed with machine guns, they can be used to support "low intensity conflicts." They were launched in the early 1990s and recalled in 2010 to deal with fatigue damage to their hulls. Their military role is questionable and they're well past their expiration date, yet they sail on for public-relations purposes. [continued]

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Today's Attempted Scam

Mystery Theatre

The truth is out there

Christians Need Not Apply

When Democrats are in charge                                                While I'm at it .... Non-Christians Given 'Special Consideration' In Union Teacher Contract Ferndale Public Schools provision could violate state and federal laws By Tom Gantert | March 19, 2014 | The teachers union contract in Ferndale Public Schools in Oakland County gives "special consideration" to applicants who are of "the non-Christian faith." Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in employment and public services on the basis of religion. The state constitution says it, "shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." And the Federal Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on religion. The contract ran from 2011 to 2012 but was extended to 2017. The teachers belong to the Ferndale Education Association, a division of the Michigan Education Association. Regarding promotion to a vacant position, it states on page 22:     Should there be two (2) or more of these applicants with equal qualifications for the position and one (1) or more of these applicants with equal qualifications is a current employee, the current employee with the greatest seniority shall be assigned. Special consideration shall be given to women and/or minority defined as: Native American, Asian American, Latino, African American and those of the non-Christian faith. However, in all appointments to vacant positions, the Board's decision shall be final. Earlier in the contract is a "no discrimination clause" that states no employee can be discriminated against based on their religion. Ferndale Superintendent Gary Meier, Board President Jim O'Donnell, and MEA UniServ director Troy Scott did not return several requests for comment. "This just strikes me as so un-American that they can put in open language for people to see that they are going to be discriminating against Christians," said Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor. "Why would they be discriminating against Christians? They are not supposed to be discriminating against people for their religious beliefs. It's outrageous. And I believe it's unconstitutional." Thompson also wondered why a public school district was tracking the religious beliefs of employees. "Now, they are going to ask people, 'Are you a Christian?' " Thompson said. "Are people going to hide their faith so they can get a promotion? There is a subtle persecution [here] of Christians." Rana Elmir, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, said she couldn't speak to the specifics highlighted in the contract "because it comes down to how it is implemented." "There's nothing wrong with encouraging people from diverse faiths to apply for a position. In fact, doing so recognizes that our classrooms and communities are diverse," Elmir said. "However, public schools themselves should not be in the business of promoting particular religious beliefs or religious activities over others and they should protect children from being coerced to accept religious or anti-religious beliefs." A spokeswoman from Ferndale Public Schools, who responded after the story's original posting, said the district does not discriminate when hiring. "The district appreciates your bringing this antiquated language to our attention. The timing is perfect since Ferndale Public Schools just completed bargaining and, with the advice of our legal counsel and approval from the district EA (union) representative, this language will be deleted from new contracts," said Shelley Yorke Rose, a spokeswoman for the district. "Unfortunately, there are no employees in the district who have been here long enough to explain the origins of the language, which we estimate to have been inserted between 1976-79. "Please note that the district does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion or other related issues," she said. A recent study from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy showed that about 60 percent of public school union contracts in Michigan had illegal provisions. Michigan Capitol Confidential has reported on some of the most egregious. For example, in 2012, Capitol Confidential reported on a teachers union contract in Bay City that had provisions allowing teachers to be drunk and on drugs several times before being fired. (Editor's note: This story has been updated since its original posting. Ferndale Public Schools replied with a comment this afternoon.) I'll leave it to you to figure out the whys and wherefores of excluding Christians (who gains?). To  give us a further sense of the depth of Michigan (& much of the nation's) teacher union depravity — Union Contract: Teachers Can Be Caught In School Drunk Five Times and on Drugs Three Times Before Being Fired 'Super Seniority' For Union Officials, Other Clauses In School Contracts Forbidden By Law Roadblocks To Reform? A Review of Union Contracts In Michigan Schools Multiple School Districts Breaking Law on Transparency How CapCon Uses Transparency Laws To Hold Government Accountable School Districts, Union Working To Try and Ban Charter Schools Unions, Government Entities Team Up to Try and Keep Information From Citizens

Now that I'm older

Now New Yorkers burn gun registration forms

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OPEN WARFARE BREAKS OUT

“ MISSISSIPPI BLOODBATH: OPEN WARFARE BREAKS OUT IN TEA PARTY VS. BARBOUR, COCHRAN McDaniel just secured the endorsement of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and on Wednesday the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund announced its support for him. He already has a consortium of national and state groups backing him up, ranging from the powerful Club For Growth to the grassroots-focused FreedomWorks and Tea Party Express, among scores of others. Mississippi’s GOP senate primary is quickly becoming ground zero in 2014 for the fight between the establishment and the conservative grassroots for control of the Republican Party’s future. The state’s former governor Haley Barbour’s establishment political machine is in full swing running defense for incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran. Cochran is facing the fight of his political life from surging primary challenger two-term state Sen. Chris McDaniel. What has until now largely been a battle between Cochran and McDaniel facing off head-to-head is turning into the front line of the brutal and bloody political war between the Chamber of Commerce-style lobbyist big government Republicans and conservative grassroots focused Republicans who align with the Tea Party movement. Conservatives say Barbour and Cochran are examples of exactly what’s wrong with the party right now, while establishment figures say the exact same thing about the Tea Party. The last several months have provided foreshadowing for the battle. Before McDaniels even announced he would challenge Cochran, Henry Barbour said McDaniels will have “his head handed to him, and that will be what he deserves” if he ran. “I am not sure what is worse, Governor Haley Barbour saying that Cochran should be a Senator for life, or Senator McConnell saying they are going to ‘crush’ the tea party movement and our candidates,” Kremer said in an email. -Amy Kremer, the chairwoman of Tea Party Express: But on Wednesday, this fight between grassroots conservatives and establishment Republicans in Mississippi burst into open warfare. “The battle lines are clearly drawn in this race,” FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe said in an emailed statement to Breitbart News. “This is Cochran and his band of super lobbyists vs. Chris McDaniel and the people of Mississippi. The Barbours don't represent Mississippians, they represent their lobbying client lists.”  [Full Brietbart] Amy Kremar says “You can involve the entire Barbour family and all of their trusted ones on the payroll, but they will never have the strength of the grassroots.” True, but they may have control of counting votes.  Let's hope Haley Barbour has enough decency to  let the game play out. I mean, he isn't a Democrat for chrissake; just a self serving  bureaucrat. ”

A Clemson Dive

Tails of the Gun (Hot Linked)            Backstreets Pub and Deli in Clemson, South Carolina.  Terps fan that I am, "Fk Clemson" rolls easily off  my tongue."  Although, they did get screwed when Coach K's lobbying for N.C. State being given a bid to the NCAA toony cost Clemson a deserved spot. Fk Duke flows even more effortlessly.