FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE III: This week I start with the pond again, this time finally showing some color - after most of the leaves have already fallen.

The accumulation of leaves on the ground is already spectacular for this early in the season.

This picture is toward the house from down along the road at the the edge of our property. In the foreground are some of the leaves that have turned but not yet fallen. The Gator is sitting in front of a large pile of fallen tree branches that are slowly being chipped up for next spring's garden mulch.

Last week's pictures are here.

DON'T BE A LITTLE PEOPLE. Rules are for little people.

KURT SCHLICHTER calls out Beto O'Rourke.

I HAVE TWO FAVORITES from this week's edition of PowerLine's Week in Pictures:

and

Now go see the rest.

IF IT'S GOOD NEWS, it's not news.

Related: Journalists give us a distorted view of reality.

TUCKER CARLSON UNDERSTANDS: "Kamala Harris embodies everything that is grating and unlikable about neoliberals -- mindless children of privilege who sneer at those below them for not obeying."

Harris for President? Snowballs have a better chance in Hell.

“THESE ARE NOT NORMAL TIMES.”

“There is (for now) no longer a Democratic Party. Instead, it is a revolutionary Jacobin movement that believes socialism is our salvation, that identity politics is our creed, that gun confiscation is our duty, that the abrupt end of fossil fuels is coming very soon, that open borders is our new demography, and that the archetypical unmarried, childless, urban hipster is our model woke citizen.”

Yes, let's ban those damn deplorables.

HEH: Elizabeth Warren admits to wearing paleface at college costume party.

Yes, Snopes, it's satire.

I'VE SAID UNKIND THINGS ABOUT COREY LEWANDOWSKI; I take them back.

BY EMBRACING MAGICAL THINKING, Democrats remind us they would rather punish society than confront criminals.

This particular post is about gun control, but it's illustrative of the liberal philosophy about nearly everything: punish the innocent to protect (avoid stigmatizing) the guilty.

DONALD TRUMP is fighting a culture civil war. And winning.

NOW THAT 'STORM AREA 51' has mercifully passed on, here is an interesting series of posts on that part of the Nevada desert. The first 5 or 6 links are a relatively accurate history of Area 51; the rest are mostly devoted to the various conspiracy theories surrounding the base.

AMMO GRRRLL EXPLAINS: Free Range Penis 2.0.

Dang. I spent most of 1962 through 1978 in/around various colleges, and I missed it all....

THE BABYLON BEE explains common racist hand signals.

So the University of Texas (Longhorns) are racists....

POWERLINE: Democrats play dumb.

They're not playing dumb; they are dumb.

FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE II: As I noted last week, I'll start with the downslope view of our pond, since it usually comes more and more visible as the leaves continue to fall, but I won't necessarily take the picture from the same location on our deck. Here's the pond view, taken this week from the walk down to the fire pit.

We've had a big pine tree fall during a thunderstorm, so the pond view from this vantage point is a little more open than it has in the past. (Big trees take out lots of little trees as they fall; I've still got more clean-up to do).

This next picture is my 'pit stop' picture, taken looking back toward the house and the next ridge over. The land on that side is very steep, almost impassable, and so is heavily overgrown. As winter approaches, the view will mostly just turn brownish - the foliage is so dense the next ridge is almost never visible.

My final picture this week is from along the road leading to the house; the red is the 'early bird' this year - our clear sign that Fall is coming.

Last week's pictures from around the neighborhood are here.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON explains Trump Derangement Syndrome.

IT'S NEVER OVER: "This is why [Democrats] must be systematically stripped of power, in and out of government.... They are unfit to exercise any."

WARREN V. TRUMP: My crowd is bigger than your crowd.

OOPS! MSNBC's online poll on guns didn't quite go as expected.

THE 'SQUAD' wants it's own [DC statehood] star.

If the residents of Washington DC really wanted full representation in Congress, they would do what the residents west of the Potomac did many years ago - they joined the state of Virginia and now have 2 Senators and 11 Representatives to call their own. The residents east of the Potomac could rejoin Maryland and have 2 Senators and 8 Representatives in Congress.

DC statehood is phony baloney. It's a Democrat power grab, nothing more.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ has Beto in his sights.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is quite simply a war on common sense.

Read it all, but to me the key element is that common sense has a demonstrable connection with the physical world; as an engineer, I would call it simply consistency with the Laws of Physics as we understand them. One does not jump from tall buildings to get to the ground quicker; one does not let small children play with sharp objects, etc., etc.

What we choose to do and choose not to do is 'common sense' in that in the physical world - it works. Political correctness lives in a reality disconnected from the physical world.

GLOBAL WARMING: the perfect Trojan horse for tyranny.

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR: Customers at Chick-fil-A are eating their fried chicken spitefully.

Keep boycotting, warriors. I enjoy eating in an idiot-free restaurant.

MIZ MONOPOLY: Political correctness doesn't play fair.

It's also not selling well.

CALIFORNIA'S REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS:

The Trump administration plans to deliver a notice of environmental violation to San Francisco over its homelessness problem.

President Trump said late Wednesday the notice would come from the Environmental Protection Agency. He said waste, specifically used needles, in storm sewers is contributing to ocean pollution.

“It’s a terrible situation that’s in Los Angeles and in San Francisco,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his flight from California to Washington. “And we’re going to be giving San Francisco, they’re in total violation, we’re going to be giving them a notice very soon.”

He added: “They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell.”

That sounds like a problem the EPA should be dealing with.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Social Justice Warriors aren't happy unless everyone else is miserable.

So ... be happy; make a SJW miserable today.

DON'T FUCK WITH MOTHER NATURE; she is not amused.

DANG! Those SJW torpedos keep circling back. Must be a projection failure in their guidance systems....

What Trudeau should say - but can't because he is himself a social justice warrior - is this: "Those were different times. Grow up. Get over it."

ANOTHER [CALIFORNIA (NATURALLY)] CITY bans natural gas in new construction projects.

I'm going to enjoy listening to their lamentations as they sit in their homes freezing in the dark. And with no electricity their EVs aren't going to run very well....

RANDOM THOUGHT: Emojis are communication tools for those who can neither read nor write. I can do both.

ELIZABETH WARREN: She really is Hillary 2.0. Learning to lose from her predecessor.

Good for her....

OIL CRISIS? What oil crisis?

I love this part:"... the U.S. Navy used to have to keep the straits of Hormuz open. Now it only has to be able to close them."

HARRIS FAULKNER eviscerates Jill Abramson (former New York Times editor).

YES, they are coming for your guns.

Good luck with that....

CAN LIBERAL IDIOCY get any better than this?

But, but ... walking is good exercise. It's healthy, people!

WHY BOTHER fact-checking a party organ like the New York Times, when there are weightier publications to dissect?

Well, the Babylon Bee is America's new paper of record....

RED STATE: Babylon Bee accurately predicts a Snopes fact check nine months before they do it.

AN ECONOMIC LESSON FOR BERNIE SANDERS: Profit isn't illegal. (Or immoral. Or fattening.)

WHITES NEED NOT APPLY: Campus science & technology symposium to only feature 'scholars of color'.

I guess they need a safe space to display their ignorance of actual science & technology....

BECAUSE THEY'RE DESPERATE? The real reason for the new Kavanaugh smear.

THEY'RE IN A DEEP HOLE, so obviously California keeps digging.

OH, NO, we're not going to take your guns.

THEY’RE UPSET because only Leftists can threaten violence if they don’t get their way.

YES. NEXT SUMMER: Snowfalls will soon be just a thing of the past.

FANTASIES OF MURDERING POLITICAL OPPONENTS play a big role in Leftist thought.

And leftists disproportionately work for government. Which means government is disproportionately filled with people who fantasize about murdering their political opponents.

Something to think about. Seriously.

NOT EVEN FISH want to be wrapped in the New York Slimes Times.

[REWRITTEN FOR CLARITY]: WOULD YOU PAY $4,200 to listen to Michelle Obama scold you?

No. She would have to pay me. And $4,200 isn't enough.

THE APPALLING VANITY of western feminists.

It's not just feminists; it's the whole progressive Left.

PLEASE DO: Brett Kavanaugh 'may actually have a case' for suing The New York Slimes Times.

Do it. Sue the bastards. Drive 'em out of business. That's what they're trying to do to him.

THIS IS WORRISOME: The search engine manipulation effect (SEME). The author was on Life, Liberty, and Levin on Fox (cable) Sunday night. He strongly recommended permanently avoiding anything Google. I agree, and I am.

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE between a brontosaurus and Bernie Sanders? Brontosauri are smarter.

Now do you understand?

GUNS AND POSES: Democrats demagogue death.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously chided a debate opponent, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” This would be a useful lesson for gun control advocates to learn.

Democrats misheard Moynihan as saying "Everyone is entitled to his own facts, but not his own opinions."

Read the whole thing.

#JOURNALISM. No further comment necessary.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ gets it.

DEMOCRAT IMPEACHMENT MANIA: Even the Department of Justice is unimpressed.

FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE I: As usual, I'm a day late and dollar short. I had intended to start my annual Fall series on Sunday (yesterday), and - as usual - fallen short. This year, though, I'm going to change things a bit. The first picture will be the more-or-less-usual view of the pond from around the house, although I'm not going to limit myself to the view from the deck. Here's the 'usual' taken from the back deck, but looking a little bit more to the north end of the pond:

I may add other pictures, but in no specific number or location. For a start, here are two more. This first one is looking at the house from the southwest corner of our lot. The road 'tunnel' that is the entry to our neighborhood is to the left. In summer, the trees completely overarch the road.

Even in full winter, there will still be plenty of cover, since deciduous trees are in the minority along the road. Finally, here's a view of the landscape taken from down on the pond dam.

The trees along the dam itself are actually beginning to change color before they fall. In the rest of the neighborhood we're seeing plenty of fallen leaves but no color. It's as if they all wait until dark, turn brown, then fall. The next morning looks as green as ever, just with a new coating of fallen leaves where you don't want them.

Last year's Fall leaves series begins here if anyone wishes to follow along.

PARKLAND VICTIM'S FATHER: 'Guns didn’t kill my daughter, Democrat policies did.'

He's right, and Democrats should listen - but they won't. Not in their narrative....

AMMO GRRRLL: WalMart has just become a Target.

See?

JUST TELL THEM to be sure they're cooked to 165 degrees F. Yes, it's a bit callous, but the fact is that both rats and homelessness are symptomatic of the progressive paralysis that has infected the entire Left coast.

FROM AMERICA'S NEW PAPER OF RECORD: New York Times reveals source on Kavanaugh allegations was reputable Nigerian prince.

WE GET MORE TRUMP, OF COURSE: "What if the only Democrat who isn’t too radical to win is too old?"

CLUELESS IN TINSEL TOWN: His vanity ... er, virtue, sorry ... is showing.

SEEMS RATHER OBVIOUS: A political party stupid enough to call you a racist is too stupid to govern.

NEWT GINGRICH: Democrat presidential candidates doing a great job showing voters why Trump should be reelected.

When the Democrats were invited to send in the clowns, they responded with alacrity....

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: I'm woken up at 3:30 am because climate change.

I'm 'woken up at 3:30 am' because weak bladder....

CHILL OUT: Space doesn't belong only to scientists.

I BLAME TEXTING.

THE LEFT HAND DOESN'T KNOW what the other Left hand is doing.

Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren – a 2020 presidential hopeful – released a plan to expand Social Security on Thursday by hiking payroll and investment income taxes on wealthier Americans. Oregon Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden released details on Thursday for his plan to increase capital-gains taxes, where he says he would use the revenue to boost the solvency of the program.

Based on last year's experience, I'm pretty sure I can't afford any more Social Security increases....

HIS NAME IS O'ROURKE: Insane guy shouting he'll buy back your stuff with your own money becomes popular Democrat candidate.

Or is it Sanders?

IS THERE ANYTHING the Left doesn't want to ban?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: They’re vicious, somewhat crazy, hacks doing their best to expand the Gramscian damage.

FEEL-GOOD STORY OF THE WEEKEND: University of Tennessee band wears bullied fan’s shirt design at football game.

THE FALSE FLAG OF SOCIALISM: It's not what it used to be, certainly, and whether that's good or bad is an interesting question.

UNIVERSITY DEDICATES SPACE to ‘marginalized social identities’. Somehow I don't think they mean Trump supporters....

Linked from Instapundit.

LAWS? We don’t need no stinkin’ laws.

They just interfere with our lust for power.

THERE ARE MANY GOOD ONES in PowerLine's Week in Pictures this week (see Femininity vs. Feminism) but this one has to be my hands-down favorite:

Now go see the rest.

I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY: Alien civilizations may have explored the galaxy and visited Earth already, a new study says. We just haven’t seen them recently.

ASTUTE OBSERVATIONS about Thursday's Democrat 'debate'.

DON'T MOVE TO AUSTIN: It's rotting from within.

Fortunately I left years ago and I won't be returning anytime soon.

BUT STILL ONLY TWO SEXES: The million gender march.

TRUTH.

THAT'S FINE WITH ME: California doesn’t want Trump’s help with their homelessness crisis.

I don't want Trump to help them either.

HMMM: Voters don't like Democrats either.

It is remarkable that voters can have identical views of the two parties, in terms of approval/disapproval, when all of the organs of our culture are devoted, every hour of every day, to tearing down Republicans and building up Democrats. You might almost think that no one cares what newspaper reporters, TV anchormen, Hollywood actresses, tech executives, Instagram stars, college professors and late night “comedians” think about politics.

Then there's that 'hidden' vote....

THE GOVERNMENT IS STUPID, PART ... (whatever): They give you tax incentives to buy electric vehicles, then charge your more for the privilege of driving them.

THURSDAY'S DEMOCRAT DEBATE: "an over-long display of huge egos touting small ideas to well-meaning (but sadly misinformed) kids and preening celebrity infotainment newsreaders."

Follow the trail as far as you can. I actually tuned in occasionally during Thursday night football commercial breaks - in most cases I couldn't even last the length of the break.

TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY: Liberals haunted by social media tactics they use against the right.

If you're of the Left, a reminder: Swords cut both ways....

CITY JOURNAL: Environmental playacting. Short summary: you give up your stuff; I keep mine.

MAKE 'EM PAY: College is finding itself on the receiving end of a free speech lawsuit.

IT’S OFFICIAL: The Democrats do want you dead.

Linked from Instapundit.

DEMOCRATS: Are you sure you want a carbon tax?

UM, REP. ERIC SMALLMIND, ER, SWALWELL [D-CA], good guys (and gals) with guns do save lives.

RASMUSSEN POLL: 23% of voters say NRA should be declared a ‘terrorist group.’ San Francisco did, and is getting sued.

It is a sad state of affairs when nearly 1/4 of 'adults' have neither knowledge of American history or the Constitution.

DO THESE DEPLORABLE (I.E., NORMAL) PARENTS really think their kids belong to them?

It's well past time for some concerted punching back. I've had trouble with schools thinking my kids belong to them as far back as when my eldest (now 48) was in 8th grade.

WOULD HE RATHER BE BAKED, BOILED, FRIED, OR BARBEQUED? Swedish scientist floats eating human flesh as solution to global climate change.

DO TELL: Climate change is a hoax.

WELL, OF COURSE: Least masculine society in human history decides masculinity is a growing threat. Can't have men mucking up our safe spaces.

IF YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE STARING, don't behave like an idiot.

THE END IS NIGH! Democracy is nearing its end in the modern world because elite voices don’t have power over the thoughts and opinions of the rabble that they used to have.

Professor Rosenberg is simultaneously a half-wit and half right....

ARE BLACKS MOVING TOWARDS THE CENTER as their party lurches to the left? I would like to believe so, but experience tells me they're simply refusing to follow the progressive element of the Democrat party over the cliff.

REPUBLICAN WINS IN NORTH CAROLINA; CNN thrilled.

SURPRISED? I'M NOT: Prosperity breeds idiots.

TRUMP CARES ABOUT HIS COUNTRY; Barack Obama cares about himself (and always did).

SARAH SANDERS: I'm pretty sure Democrats don't like America.

Our America, that's for certain.

FROM INSTAPUNDIT: A number of thoughts on the 18th anniversary of 9/11/2001.

LEST WE FORGET.

INSTAPUNDIT'S annual review (18th anniversary edition).

FLIGHT 93: A triumph of American values. These days it's getting harder to say, but I believe the silent majority is still there.

MORE OF FLIGHT 93: Where honored heros fell.

AIRPLANES TOOK AIM. And 'Some people did something'. Utterly despicable.

FINALLY: Remember, people, there are those who love anniversaries.

Read the comments throughout.

"RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY, they [Democrats] believe it is for now either the gaffaholic Biden or a socialist bust—and Democrats seem to prefer random senselessness to pre-mediated lunacy."

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.

BUT, BUT ... GLOBAL WARMING: Ship with Climate Change Warriors caught in ice.

BUTTIGIEG: Life begins when a person registers as a Democrat. And you are guaranteed eternal life in the ballot box....

Yes, it's the Babylon Bee.

AMERICAN GREATNESS: Lies the Left tells about guns, gun control, and gun violence.

In short, whatever the Left says is probably a lie....

A THREE-RING CIRCUS WITH NOTHING BUT CLOWNS: Here's what the Democrats' impeachment inquiry will look like.

PRICKLY CITY explains the mainstream media.

GRANDIOSE, COERCIVE, AND EXPENSIVE:

Watching the Democratic presidential candidates on CNN’s seven-hour town hall on climate change was like attending the shot-put competition at a track meet. It wasn’t even a debate because the candidates agreed on most major points. Any sense of competition came in seeing which would offer the most grandiose plans. One after another, each candidate strained to hurl the biggest, most expensive wad of policy proposals as far as humanly possible.

Now go read it all.

IMPRIMIS: Rediscovering the America in American history.

Read the whole thing and compare it to the Democrat/media (I know, I know; I repeat myself) version. Which one rings truer?

THE SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS came for my head; I'm still thriving.

EFF U is a more than adequate response. Or, if you desire to be somewhat more polite, "You've mistaken me for someone who cares what you think" will work. It has the additional advantage of being tailored to more blunt terms should you so choose.

THE DIPLOMAD: The lost minds of the West.

IN ONE-ON-ONE with an environmental activist, Biden strongly defends fundraiser with fossil-fuel company founder.

Even as a gaffe machine, Biden is looking better and better as the Democrat alternative....

ANDREW YANG WANTS BUYBACKS ... for your car?

Remember cash for clunkers? If Andrew Yang gets elected, I'll be at north Georgia junkyards buying every clunker I could find.

THE HIGH ROAD NOT TAKEN: The Obamas are in the middle of a trademark dispute.

With the Left, the high road is only for show.

TREAT THE LEFT AS IT DESERVES — as crazy people beneath attention, much less contempt.

I still like contempt....

A FINE MESS IN BRITIAN: Parliament has taken back control from the people. But they cannot avoid the people for too long.

I find it somewhat amusing that the so-called 'governing class' can do a 180 - or 360, or anywhere in between - on a dime when they run full speed into their own hypocrisy.

ONLY IF DEMOCRATS WIN: DNC Chair Tom Perez says 'democracy as we know it' at stake in 2020 election.

REALITY SINKS IN: Marianne Williamson discovers the Left is as mean as a pit of vipers.

“I know this sounds naïve,” she said in an interview ... but “I didn’t think the left was so mean. I didn’t think the left lied like this.”

The politics of the left are animated by those who want to manage, control, and bully. All require a certain level of malice. Decent people, kind folks, don’t want to run other people’s lives. They have no need to call those they disagree with racists, bigots, and white supremacists. Neither do they feel compelled to force society to conform to their schemes.

And "lower than a viper's belly in a wagon wheel rut" to paraphrase a quote from an earlier post.

REALLY GOOD THIS WEEK: PowerLine's Week in Pictures. I have five or six favorites - here are the two best:

and

Now go see the rest.

YOU DON'T SAY: Elizabeth Warren's energy plan is unplugged from reality.

Elizabeth Warren is herself unplugged from reality....

KURT SCHLICHTER: More dumb arguments about gun control.

TRUTH: Ignorance of the past leads to arrogance about the future (heard on Hannity last week).

CONTEMPT FOR VOTERS AS IGNORANT AND BIGOTED unites English-speaking elites on both sides of the Atlantic.

Collective insanity. The world's governing elites (and their enablers) believe themselves to be so smart, so knowledgeable, so ...caring ..., that they must control our every thought and action.

They're wrong. And they're having a collective temper tantrum because we know they're idiots.

WE SEE IT AS SATIRE, the Left sees it as 'how-to' instructions: 'Down with capitalism!' cries man in Guy Fawkes Mask ordered on Amazon.

PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF INSANITY: Wesleyan University president insists 'safe spaces' promote 'intellectual diversity'.

MAYBE CIGARETTES WEREN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL: Centers for Disease Control issues warning about vaping.

Hint: marijuana involved....

More here.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HONORS BASKETBALL GREAT JERRY WEST; New York Times cries "Racism!".

Um, NYT, some basketball players are white.

IT'S A MATTER OF JUDGING RELATIVE RISK: The case for high-speed police car chases.

IN THE CLIMATE MODELS: Where's the hot spot?

If an engineer built an aeroplane and said it could fly 600 miles and the thing ran out of fuel at 200 and crashed, he wouldn’t say ‘Hey, I was only off by a factor of three’. We don’t do that in engineering and real science.

Conclusion: "A model is a theory, a hypothesis. A model that is falsified by observation is a wrong hypothesis. That really is all there is to it."

THE LEFT IS SLOWLY RECOGNIZING they can't compete on a level playing field.

MORE FROM AMERICA'S NEW PAPER OF RECORD: Planned parenthood asks Bernie Sanders to stop reminding people of the connection between abortion and eugenics.

SALENA ZITO: "Performance wokeness is a plague." And to be duly noted: plagues are apolitical; they kill everyone.

I'M GOBSMACKED: "Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein took an apparent shot at former FBI Director James Comey on Twitter Thursday and derided commentators from CNN and MSNBC...."

Except possibly for signing the FISA warrant applications, it looks (to me, at least) that Rosenstein did just what he was supposed to do: shut up - and stay shut up - until the investigation concluded.

TRUMP SUPPORTERS HAVE ALL THE MORAL HIGH GROUND. Don’t cede one inch of it to the Left.

From somewhere in the comments a reader noted that the Left is "lower than a snake's belly in a wagon wheel rut" which reminded me of an apt phrase from a former colleague: The Left is so low that whale shit looks like fleecy white clouds in the sky.

ANTIFA SUCKS: Angry father confronts Antifa agitators blocking the street.

Antifa is worthy of every bit of contempt normal Americans can muster.

THE VICTORY GIRLS explain the Electoral College to millennial idiots.

Mob rule is unbecoming.

FOX BUSINESS: Drivers sick of new cars' overbearing 'nanny' technology.

Agreed. I've got a car whose navigation software demands that I not look at it because it 'takes my eyes off the road' and then demands I take my eyes off the road to find and press the OK button. The screen comes up randomly - usually when I'm driving in heavy urban traffic or on a winding road. According to the dealer, it's hard-wired into the software and cannot be turned off.

Also: there was a time when one could change the radio station by reaching out and twisting a knob or two. Now it's almost impossible without using the touch screen (and it's why I rarely, if ever, listen to the radio in the car).

THE BREATHTAKING ARROGANCE of Mayor Prick Pete.

John Kasich used to be my poster child for clueless arrogance. He's been replaced by Buttigieg.

HAVE YOU read Google's privacy statement?

CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM blames Texas for San Francisco's homeless crisis. Rather than blame Texas, he should thank Austin for accepting so many of San Francisco's homeless.

MORE REAL NEWS FROM AMERICA'S NEW PAPER OF RECORD: Member of marginalized group searches phone book for local business to be oppressed by.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ apologizes to James Comey.

THE WAGES OF SOCIALISM.

AMMO GRRRLL answers your questions. Hilariously.

SO WHAT'S NEW? Kamala Harris lies again.

She's a Democrat; it's what they do.

THE WAGES of woke capitalism.

The CEO's are more interested in touting their own virtuousness to their peers that they are in tending to the interests of their stockholders (and customers).

And whenever they turn their attention to impressing their peers with their 'wokeness', I turn my attention to helping them achieve 'brokeness'.

REP. DAVID CICILLINE [D(umb)-RI]: "Call me crazy, but I think it should be harder to buy an AR-15 than it is to buy Sudafed."

As you wish: "You're crazy." Batshit crazy.

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS in the Ilhan Omar soap opera.

How any creature that morally repugnant can achieve near rock star status in the Democrat party is beyone my ken.

OUR GOVERNING CLASS believes we normals are as stupid as they are.

Just a thought after having to search through an operator's manual to answer a simple question. And on reading the instructions for attaching a new hose to a faucet....

DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS: Democrats propose mandatory free speech buyback for dangerous ideas.

Although to be fair, this one is more sensible than most of the Democrat candidates' current proposals.

AIR FORCE PILOT lands F-35 safely after power failure. Read the whole thing; it's a fascinating insight into the complexity and completeness of emergency procedures.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Michael Mann (of hockey stick 'fame') whines.

ENTITLED TO HER PAYCHECK?

Entitlements are eating our country from the inside out. Every time entitlements go up or a new entitlement is offered, it increases the burden on the taxpayer while reducing the incentive to support oneself.

"Let’s stop asking what the government 'needs'. Let’s first ask, what does the taxpayer need..."

Read it all.

SHOE: Oxymoron defined. Correctly.

IT'S THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FACULTY WHO SHOULD BE BANNED: Faculty wants Chick-fil-A banned from campus for fears of 'safety' and 'mental well being'.

To be fair, it's not the entire faculty; it's the social justice, diversity, LGBTQ whiner faculty.

DNC RED ALERT: ‘People generally are feeling Trump is beating us on all fronts right now’.

They're right.

THEY'RE OUR RULES; you can't have them.

BREAKING NEWS from America's new Paper of Record: Monkey with typewriter produces a reasonable alternative to the Green New Deal.

Pretty quick, considering a million monkeys typing a full year would at best have only a small chance to reproduce a single work of Shakespere.

FOR A CHANGE, reasonable, common-sense 'politician' laws?

Unfortunately they'd work about as well as reasonable, common-sense gun laws....

HER IGNORANCE IS ASTOUNDING: Ocasio-Cortez tries to lecture us on the Electoral College again.

And fails ... again.

STOP WHINING: Just because they're liberal bigots, New York Times editors don’t deserve special immunity from scrutiny.