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Wednesday, July 2. 2014

Wednesday morning links


July 4 photo above of girls killing the planet by burning carbon and eating meat is from Pirate


10 Reasons Why El Camino Santiago Sucks


Are You a Breeder?


I have heard gay guys refer to women as "breeders and bleeders."


Dante And David Brooks


Fight Birth Control Battle Over the Counter


Dude, You Need to Get Into Nursing


Fantasizing, in writing, on the internet, about terrible crimes — cannibalism — when is it a crime?


Happy Birthday, Bastiat!



  Bastiat was one of the first economists to warn us of the dangers of crony capitalism and protectionism, one of the most eloquent and articulate defenders of individual freedom and liberty ever, and probably the strongest advocate for the consumer in human history.



Buffalo Makes Kindergarten Mandatory


New York’s highest court strikes down cyber-bullying law


Where are the Palestinian Mothers? A culture that celebrates kidnapping is not fit for statehood. (WSJ paywall)


UConn Grad Student Files Anti-Affirmative Action Claim Over Scholarship Switch


‘Freedom’ is just another word for nothing left to buy


World Cup erases women?


Barone:  The Tyranny of Sclerotic Government - Three new books show how clunky statism and overregulation stifle our economy.


Hillary Clinton thinks SCOTUS upholding a law that her husband signed is "deeply disturbing":



Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 05:04 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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Well that's funny, I find Hillary deeply disturbing on so many levels.

And yes, I am a breeder, although I regret now that I didn't start younger so that I could have comfortably breed even more. We have breed two will grow up to be breeders but three or even four would have been even better.
#1 phil g on 2014-07-02 07:27 (Reply)
Cannibalism

here is a nuanced discussion of the ethics of cannibalism

"Dear Sir,... As a naval officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we have the problem relatively under control, and that it is the R.A.F. who now suffer the largest casualties in this area. ...

Captain B.J. Smethwick
in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic."
#2 Frigate on 2014-07-02 07:32 (Reply)
Oh boy--why do I see a familial relationship between Harry Reid and this guy?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/01/Ex-New-Mexico-Gov-Johnson-named-pot-company-CEO
#3 another one on 2014-07-02 08:05 (Reply)
Breeder isn't new. There was a mostly female band by that name in the early 1990s. I always thought they took the name as a play against being though lesbians. I may have been wrong but it was the early '90s where I first heard the term and its meaning as someone who wasn't gay.
#4 JKB on 2014-07-02 09:16 (Reply)
FWIW, I remember the breeder word from Swift's Modest Proposal, referring to Irish mothers. Also, remember it being used in a science fiction story or two to as derogatory for those made the old fashioned way instead by test tubes, cf. the ultimate obscenity in Brave New World, mother.
#4.1 walt moffett on 2014-07-02 09:38 (Reply)
Over the Counter birth control ? Unintended consequences . No insurance company I know of pays for non-prescription drugs , so we go from Hobby Lobby's insurance not paying for some types of birth control to nobody's insurance paying for any type of birth control .
#5 treefroggy on 2014-07-02 09:20 (Reply)
“Breeders” are those who have the audacity to have a baby, thereby unkindly reminding same-sex couples that they have no such ability ...: Well, they knew that when they became same-sex couples. I cuts them no (repeat NO) slack for being idiots and damned fools. Not to mention, without kids, SoshSecurity goes bust way sooner.

"Crushing Patriarchy": Could women form their own soccer leagues, build them up nationally, and internationally, and have their own World Cup matches? Why haven't they done this? Say! Where's the WNBA these days?
#6 Sam L. on 2014-07-02 10:11 (Reply)
"world cup erases women"

Well! I think quotas are in order. Of course we won't call it quotas we will come up with a new world order type name like affirmative action. It will start modestly with high ideals like equality and fighting against discrimination and end in court with corporation busting fines and payouts to the perennially agrieved and out right discrimination to those who by skin color or gender are not in the "protected" class. Followedquickly by more lawsuits argueing that the workplace is unfriendly because they use language we don't like and actually compete and identify those who do well which is unfair to those who are their becuase of affirmative action and can't be expected to excel. Finally the sport will die fromthe weight of the foolishness or move off shore where the natives aren't so stupid as to allow this foolishness.
#7 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-07-02 10:48 (Reply)
Re: Breeders

Something that I think is lost in the discussion of breeders and non breeders is that in order to be a breeder, you have to give yourself to someone else - maybe even more than you might for marriage, whereas non breeders are free to focus on themselves.

Is it any wonder that the rise in dependency on government (everybody) has gone hand in hand with the decline in marriage and child bearing even to the extent of denigrating those who raise children "breeders". It's just another example of how in our "Great Society", independence, thrift, selflessness, and even generosity are negative traits rather than positive.
#8 mudbug on 2014-07-02 11:09 (Reply)
and like a train comin down the tracks
"here that train a comin . . " Now the only question is how much of my tax dollars will she use to run her campaign. We were so blessed to have an interview with this monster on PBS. Nearly 14 minutes of primetime tv given away for "an interview". Clearly, it was a great deal for this gal to begin her hopefully final journey. But, what I caught and thought was interesting happens somewhere between 4 and 6 minutes. I couldn't stand to watch it after that, but during those few minutes notice how quickly, how adroitly, how adept she was at putting MS Colored Woman back in her place--this interviewee know how to use/abuse power--but that subtle skill is very clear between 4-6 minutes. Enjoy, or cower in your corners:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/hillary-clinton-talks-hard-choices-battle-scars/
#9 faculty wife on 2014-07-02 12:13 (Reply)
They could see it coming but wouldn't believe it:

On the 2nd of July (1914), Saxony’s envoy in Berlin updated his superior on the diplomatic developments in Berlin. He reported that, according to the German Foreign Office,

100 years ago:

On the 2nd of July (1914), Saxony’s envoy in Berlin updated his superior on the diplomatic developments in Berlin. He reported that, according to the German Foreign Office,

“…a war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia will consequently be avoided. Should it break out nonetheless, Bulgaria would immediately declare war on Greece…Russia would mobilize and world war could no longer be prevented. There is renewed pressure from the military for allowing things to drift towards war while Russia is still unprepared, but I don’t think that His Majesty the Kaiser will allow himself to be induced to do this.”[
#10 feeblemind on 2014-07-02 14:56 (Reply)
those girls would do a better job cooking if they turned on the grill.
#11 Frigate on 2014-07-02 19:18 (Reply)
In my experience, breeder certainly is a put-down by the terminally chic LGBT-treehugger-whatever crowd. As a major league breeder, I've observed that the lives of the selfish and childless always fade to black, usually decades before the corpses cool off, but the lives of family members light up everyone, now and long past death . Justify the sacrifices your ancestors made for you - invest their genes into some younger people and send them on into the future!
#12 Raincityjazz on 2014-07-04 01:34 (Reply)

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