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Tuesday, August 13. 2013

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Breaking Bad Returns: Is This Show Even About Walter White Anymore?

LEEDS certification: When Sustainability is not Sustainable

Can Beirut Be Paris Again? Freed from Syrian domination, Lebanon’s capital could shine.

Feds Buy Up Hotel Rooms for Influx of Illegal Immigrants

Is large-scale illegal immigration over?

Holder to Announce Plans to Reduce Prison Population

13 Reasons You're Not As Successful As You Should Be by Jim Kukral

Can Science Make Us Happy?

Yet another one: Stimulus-Backed Green Energy Company ECOtality May Declare Bankruptcy

Steyn: Know Thine Enemy - Major Hasan is honest about himself; why aren’t we?

Very Good News: The Tea Party Has Altered the Spending Trajectory in Washington

School District To Launch ‘Trayvon Martin Dialogues’

Intelligent Design vs. Howard Zinn: A Case Study in Academic Double Standards and Hypocrisy

Flashback:
“Full audio of 1998 ‘redistribution’ speech: Obama saw welfare
recipients as ‘majority coalition’” - See more at:
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=50494#sthash.2xiuODlQ.dpuf

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Can Beirut be Paris of the Levant? Lottas and maybes in that article. Though I remember the time when it was held up as an example of peaceful coexistence and tolerance.

Large scale immigration over? Lets wait to see what China's surplus of young men decide. Housing illegals in hotels? Why not bus them to the self proclaimed Sanctuary cities and let them handle housing.

While Steyn has a good point, we've grown squeamish about executions without all the judicial paperwork in place.

Would rather see the Congress amend the law than the executive branch action. Grandchildren, if any, will probably see a river crossed.

Scheiderman, as usual makes good points.

#1 walt moffett on 2013-08-13 08:26 (Reply)

Beirut...as long as a Hezbollah element has sufficient capability it will be a mess.

Lebanon in general and Beirut in particular is the last Christian/Catholic foothold in the Levant. Many don't realize it but Christianity was the dominant religion and cultural influence in the Levont for hundreds of years until the Mohameden hords overwhelmed it.

I hope the Christian culture and people can survive in Beirut.

#1.1 pg7984 on 2013-08-13 11:33 (Reply)

re: Trayvon Martin dialogs

Silly me. I thought they were going to discuss the tweets Trayvon Martin made leading up to his death.

#2 mudbug on 2013-08-13 08:54 (Reply)

Now that was funny. :-)

#2.1 Don on 2013-08-13 09:28 (Reply)

Thanks, Don. I wish it were.

#3 mudbug on 2013-08-13 09:34 (Reply)

In case you haven't seen or heard this one--take another gulp of your coffee to steady your nerves all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gelk2eIWsPY

#4 apple pie on 2013-08-13 10:08 (Reply)

Just found this--anyone here familiar with it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gelk2eIWsPY

If you click on the bottom to verify--the documentation looks genuine.

#5 another one on 2013-08-13 10:22 (Reply)

A true and useful Trayvon Martin dialog would include the fact that he was on drugs and was carrying the makings of his next "fix". It would include the fact that he was carrying burgular tools and was walking between the homes and acting suspicious. It would include the fact that numerous homes in this nieghborhood had been broken into recently and the homeowners were concerned and on guard. It would discuss the fact that Trayvon attacked Zimmerman with the intent of doing him serious bodily harm or even killing him. And most importantly it would discuss the rather obvious fact that Zimmerman was backed into a corner and left with only one option to defend himself from the younger and stronger assailant and that was his gun. Trayvon paid the ultimate price for his stupidity and given his history was fated to pay this price sooner or later anyway. The lesson to be learned from the Trayvon Martin story is don't make bad choices, don't commit crimes, don't do drugs and don't assume because you are bigger and stronger then your victim that he will simply roll over and let you beat him.

#6 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-08-13 10:23 (Reply)

I don't think he was carrying burglar tools. I think his prior school found some burglar tools and apparent loot in his backpack, in an incident some weeks earlier. Otherwise, of course, I agree with you entirely.

#6.1 Texan99 on 2013-08-13 14:04 (Reply)

I believe some items were found hidden in the bushes that could have been used as burglary tools, whether Mr. Martin placed them there never came up. The foreclosure market and problem with the conversion to Section 8 housing had been causing problems in the community for some time.

My sole comment having had my home broken into twice by people who were obviously "out of it" on drugs: the police commented on the extreme force and strength the criminals had used to tear off iron bars AND break a triple-pane window reaching from ceiling to floor. I had to face down these teen males (grabbed the door handle to the room they'd entered, used all my leverage to keep it shut and screamed like a banshee to awake the others in the house, one of whom was (oddly enough) a Miami-Dade policeman visiting for the week. Miami-Dade was a danger zone waiting to explode then; it's a breeding ground for criminals now. But he had a gun and knew how to scare the s**t out of them while his ex-military friend checked the doors.

The second time was similar, but a mob of 6 to 7 elementary school kids who broke the glass in a sliding door and pulled out every knife in the kitchen to attack us when we returned home. They were brazen, hard-core thieves who had been harrassing the neighborhood for months and must have known everyone's schedule, but because of their age (under 12), nothing happened of consequence. The two we caught had HUGE eyes and were mush-mouthed with drugs, heads lolling to the side until juvenile arrived. One thought he could get away, bit the hand of the officer and it took three to corral him. Drugs do add to idiotic belief in one's strength.

I have had personal confrontations with Mr. Jackson over school and communities programs and can only say that he shows up for media opportunities and -- like Obama, Duncan, Ayres and others of their ken -- has done nothing to disrupt the failure of welfare birthing, parenting, education and jobs. Holder has a screw loose if he thinks loosening drugs laws is going to make the situation better.

#6.1.1 jma on 2013-08-13 14:55 (Reply)

Just found this--anyone here familiar with it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gelk2eIWsPY

If you click on the bottom to verify--the documentation looks genuine.

#7 another one on 2013-08-13 10:25 (Reply)

It did happen.

From the Wash Times:

"Surveillance video of the July 9 attack on a Pinellas County school bus shows three black teenage boys, all age 15, beating a white boy. The boy suffered a broken arm and two black eyes."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/12/jesse-jackson-white-boy-bus-beating-its-hard-make-/

#7.1 feeblemind on 2013-08-13 10:44 (Reply)

Embedded link:
Jesse Jackson on white boy bus beating: ‘It’s hard to make a comparison’

QUOTE:

Former Florida Rep. Allen West had some harsh words for nationally known civil rights activists like the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who have remained silent on a video showing black teens beating a white boy on a school bus.

“Three 15-year-old black teens beat up a 13-year-old white kid because he told school officials they tried to sell him drugs,” Mr. West said, earlier this week, Sunshine State News reported. “Do you hear anything from Sharpton, Jackson, NAACP. Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, liberal media or Hollywood? Cat got your tongues, or is it that pathetic hypocrisy revealing itself once again? Ya’ll just make me sick.”

Breitbart News caught up with Mr. Jackson at Chicago’s annual Bud Billiken Back-to-School Parade on Saturday to let him explain why he chose to fight for justice for Trayvon Martin and not the boy who was beaten.

“It’s hard to make a comparison,” he told Breitbart. “In one case a man was unarmed, killed by another man. Last year a hundred and thirty five blacks were killed, black men, unarmed, killed by vigilantes, police, killed by security guards, so whether it’s the case of Oakland, Calif., or the case in New York, it’s just too much of it. Wherever it occurs, it must always be discouraged; there must be a deterrent from it occurring. We must urge people to live in civilized ways.”

Surveillance video of the July 9 attack on a Pinellas County school bus shows three black teenage boys, all age 15, beating a white boy. The boy suffered a broken arm and two black eyes. The three 15-year-olds, identified in Sunshine State News as Joshua Reddin, Julian McKnight and Lloyd Khemradj, were later caught by police and charged with aggravated battery.

That does not increase Reverend Jackson's credibility with me, but it was already pretty low.

#7.1.1 Gringo on 2013-08-13 11:57 (Reply)

Lebanon: I'm guessing it's too near Syria to escape their war and other problems. And the troublemakers.

The Feds Buy Up Hotel Rooms link tells me that the answer to the next link is NO.

Science can't make us do anything, though it can help us to be happy, and punish us for being stupid.

Steyn: Can't make someone with an agenda be honest, when honesty does not promote the agenda.

Trayvon Dialogues: Start with a given point of view that doesn't match the facts, and nothing good will come of it.

Academic Double Standards...let them argue from both sides against anyone. They win, someone loses--so it's all good for them.

Yes, I've been hearing about this beating the last couple days, but hadn't seen the video.

#8 Sam L. on 2013-08-13 12:09 (Reply)

Ladies and Gentlemen of MF, I present to you a new way of . . .

It'll be a bit of a slog--but, I am sure the rise in your bp points will keep you going. But, then again it may be an opportunity to find a new way of resolving old conflicts. Can't wait to hear your thoughtful and reasoned responses, but first, please do read "all the way to the bottom."

http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/journal/issue-3/post-truth-pluralism/

#9 faculty wife on 2013-08-13 13:44 (Reply)

As the main protagonist in Breaking Bad, Walter White’s story ended with ‘I won.’ Season five is either denouement or Jesse’s story.

#10 ErisGuy on 2013-08-14 07:46 (Reply)

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