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  • Dayjia Blackwell is arrested on camera just four hours after laughing as Philly mob robbed Apple, Lululemon, Footlocker and a liquor store: That'll wipe the smile off her face!

    09/27/2023 3:37:49 PM PDT · by Morgana · 26 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | September 27, 2023 | Jennifer Smith
    At 9pm, Dayjia Blackwell was full of mischief as she told her 181,000 Instagram followers to gather on Walnut Street in downtown Philadelphia. By 10pm, the youngster - who calls herself 'meatball' online - was excitedly filming a mob as they looted Apple, Lululemon and Footlocker, before moving on to a liquor store where she herself boasted of grabbing a bottle of Hennessy. 'Tell the police if they lock me up tonight it’s going to be lit, it’s going to be a movie! Everybody's gotta eat!' she said confidently into the camera. It was a quick thud back to reality...
  • Dr. Tenpenny: Covid Shots Start Genetic Process That Is ‘Like Having an on Button With No off Button’

    05/20/2021 5:59:17 PM PDT · by Fractal Trader · 122 replies
    NoQ Report ^ | 20 May 2021 | JD Rucker
    I truly wish there was better news than what I received from Dr. Sherri Tenpenny in a recent interview about Covid-19 “vaccines,” or as she calls them, “injections.” If you’ve already received the “Fauci Ouchy,” there isn’t really anything that can be done at this time. Perhaps as more people succumb to the side-effects of gene manipulation inherent in these drugs, doctors and researchers will dig deeper into ways of reversing the process, but right now there’s no way to do it. As Dr. Tenpenny said, it’s “like having an on button with no off button.” In an interview on...
  • The 5 Laws of Human Stupidity

    12/08/2020 12:53:26 PM PST · by hank ernade · 41 replies
    Whole Earth Review ^ | 1987 | Cipolla C.,
    Cipolla gave a work of beautiful clarity in his essay on the phenomenon of stupidity and its effects on human survival. These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity: 1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. 2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses. 4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid...
  • Greta wants an oompa loompa now!

    09/28/2019 5:53:26 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 53 replies
    Americanthinker.com ^ | 9/28/19 | Christopher Skeet
    When Veruca Salt threw a hissy fit, she at least jazzed it up with a catchy song. No such luck with Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist and sometimes student. Greta is all frowns, all crossed arms, and she’s not here to play. Having sailed by an emissions-free yacht to New York, she delivered her now-infamous sermon for the repentant Luddites at the UN Climate Action Summit (available here). “How dare you?” she thundered repeatedly, while meandering through a sloppy mess of pseudo-statistics meant convince us that she is as capable of a quick Google search as the rest...
  • Flashback Friday: Never Has So Little Been Promised For So Much

    08/23/2019 5:49:08 AM PDT · by NOBO2012 · 6 replies
    MOTUS A.D. ^ | 8-23-19 | MOTUS
    Does anyone remember Everett Dirksen? Aside from Margaret Thatcher’s comment regarding socialism’s biggest flaw, Senator Dirksen is attributed with  the world’s most famous quote with respect to government spending: “A million here, a million there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.”  Subsequently the phrase was upgraded to “a billion here, a billion there” due to inflation. Now, in one grand gesture aimed at saying the planet, Bernie Sanders has managed to raise the expression to 21st century levels of profligate spending: Sanders releases $16 trillion ‘Green New Deal’ plan, promises it will ‘pay for itself’ – like all such programs...
  • San Juan Mayor Wears ‘Nasty’ T-Shirt for TV Interview in Response to Trump

    10/04/2017 12:15:05 PM PDT · by Mariner · 46 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | October 4th, 2017 | BY: Conor Beck
    San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who had previously said her criticisms of the federal government's handling of Hurricane Maria relief were about saving lives and "not about politics," took a shot at President Donald Trump by wearing a shirt that read "NASTY" on it during a Univision interview. When asked by host Jorge Ramos what the significance of her "nasty" shirt was, the mayor said it was a reference to Trump referring to her as a "nasty mayor." The interview was posted Wednesday to Univision's AlPunto Twitter account. She went on to claim that Trump was the one who...
  • Cory Booker on why Democrats should go bolder on gun control (Yes, please)

    08/18/2019 8:54:06 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 28 replies
    Vox ^ | August 16, 2019 | German Lopez and Katherine Kim
    Sen. Cory Booker wants Democrats to go bolder on guns — and says they’re playing into the hands of the National Rifle Association and the corporate gun lobby by rejecting bolder ideas. “For Democrats to play into the hands of the corporate gun lobby, and just letting them define what the realm of possible is, it’s so defeatist to me,” the New Jersey senator told me during an interview this week. “At a time with the levels of carnage in our country, we don’t need people who are defeatist in their thinking about what’s possible.” Booker, who is running for...
  • What’s behind the confidence of the incompetent? This suddenly popular psychological phenomenon.

    01/10/2019 2:10:24 PM PST · by rightwingintelligentsia · 60 replies
    The Washington Compost ^ | January 7, 2019 | Angela Fritz
    You may have witnessed this scene at work, while socializing with friends or over a holiday dinner with extended family: Someone who has very little knowledge in a subject claims to know a lot. That person might even boast about being an expert. This phenomenon has a name: the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s not a disease, syndrome or mental illness; it is present in everybody to some extent, and it’s been around as long as human cognition, though only recently has it been studied and documented in social psychology. In their 1999 paper, published in the Journal of Personality and Social...
  • "Opinions are sometimes right, and sometimes wrong. But they aren't law."

    09/07/2015 3:07:04 PM PDT · by EternalVigilance · 68 replies
    TomHoefling.com ^ | 9-7-2015 | Siena Hoefling
    Opinions are sometimes right, and sometimes wrong. But they aren't law. In the early days of our government, Supreme Court opinions were so insignificant that Congress didn't bother preserving them. Opinions were left to individuals to keep track of, and were not congressionally-funded into official records until 1874, almost a century after our independence. Before Congress stepped in, Court records were printed and kept under copyright by private citizens and reporters, who sold them for profit. Opinions of the Court were kept "loosey-goosey" for decades, and not preserved with certified integrity. Actual statute was held officially and carefully, in order...
  • Media's Obama Narrative Collides with Reality

    10/11/2012 1:46:38 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 22 replies
    The American Thinker ^ | October 11, 2012 | Rosslyn Smith
    .....I had been trying to think if there was a comparable example of when a live television event had had such a profound effect upon what had been a widely accepted truth. When I read Toby Harnden's report of how Obama stepped off of the Denver stage believing he had won, it dawned on me.According to Harden: >>>"In an extraordinary insight into the events leading up to the 90 minute showdown which changed the face of the election, a Democrat close to the Obama campaign today reveals that the President also did not take his debate preparation seriously, ignored the...
  • Mr. Obama and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

    08/09/2011 7:19:43 AM PDT · by therightliveswithus · 13 replies
    Pundit Press ^ | 8/9/11 | Aurelius
    You may not know what the Dunning-Kruger Effect is. Honestly, I only found out about it recently. But since learning of it, the severe incompetency of one Barack Obama has become much more clear to me. For those of you who have never heard of it, it's not terribly complicated. One major aspect of the Dunning-Kruger Effect is when an unskilled worker makes a large amount of mistakes and comes to an erroneous conclusion. However, because they are unskilled and unknowledgeable, they believe that they did in fact come to the right conclusion. This leads to an exaggerated sense of...