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Monday, October 6. 2014

Monday morning links

Fewer men are working, and marriage is dying.


Assisted Suicide 'Out of Control' in Netherlands


Sultan:  Science is for Stupid People


Hailing the First 'Great' Transgender TV Show


Steyn: Ebola Yes, Bagpipes No


Thomas Jefferson’s Folly - California’s worst-performing law school illustrates the moral hazard of federal student loans.


Please don't vote. The biggest fans of "democracy" treat this orgy of vacuous lever pulling as if it were sacred or patriotic. It's neither.


Canada: I’m an adult. Stop nudging me



 Planners have tried all kinds of incentives to get us to cycle more. Toronto has built dedicated bike lanes, as well as semi-dedicated lanes (a safety menace, in my view). It even invested in a money-losing bike-share program. Sadly, though, I’m no more inclined to ride a bike than ever. My reasons are pedestrian: Sweatiness, helmet hair, inability to pick up dinner and 10 kilograms of cat litter on the way home. And the weather, which is crummy half the year.


But mostly, I enjoy not having my teeth knocked out.



Every single thing this president has tried has failed


The Dark Side of Green Justice - Review: ‘Law of the Jungle’ by Paul Barrett



 “I once worked for a lawyer who said something that I have never forgotten,” Donizger recalled in another outtake. “‘Facts do not exist. Facts are created.’ Ever since that day, I realized how the law works.”



Dutch Military Retreats Before... Tweets!


White House Can't Hide Look Into Koch Tax Data Misuse


OBAMA FORCED OUT INTEL CHIEF WHO WARNED ABOUT WEAK IRAQI ARM


Hamas disarming? Forget about it, says top IDF intel officer


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re White House Can't Hide Look Into Koch Tax Data Misuse

So? Who is going to do anything about it? Not the law enforcement agencies. Not the Republicans.

Has anyone in this administration even been indicted for illegal activity?

We may hear of this for a couple of days and then it will go away like all the other scandals.

One wonders if there are limits to the type of lawless acts committed by this administration? My speculation is they could do much worse and not be punished for it.
#1 feeblemind on 2014-10-06 10:35 (Reply)
It reminds me of this:

Yet no one was charged with a crime.

http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/03/18/corrupt-pennsylvania-officials-caught-sting-black-democrats/
#1.1 feeblemind on 2014-10-06 10:58 (Reply)
re The Dark Side of Green Justice - Review: ‘Law of the Jungle’ by Paul Barrett

An interesting read. One wonders how many of those tactics are used in legal proceedings here in the US?
#2 feeblemind on 2014-10-06 10:47 (Reply)
From the article:
QUOTE:
“Donziger’s deal with the Devil was becoming increasingly perverse,” Barrett writes.

Donziger's "deal with the Devil" was evident with his comment:
QUOTE:
“‘Facts do not exist. Facts are created.’ Ever since that day, I realized how the law works.”

That was the basis for all his actions and to my mind, the most perverse.

I don't know if those tactics are common in legal proceedings here but they seem to be common especially among "documentary" crowd. See any movie by Michael Moore or FrackNation as examples. These people are all crooks and no better - maybe worse - than Greenpeace when they lied about the North Sea drilling rig that Shell had operated and wanted to scuttle.
#2.1 mudbug on 2014-10-06 11:17 (Reply)
More so than we think, look up the the career of Dickie Scruggs for a start.

Though to be fair, attorneys are your advocate and are expected to spin (or generate) a reality most favorable to you.
#2.2 walt moffett on 2014-10-06 13:11 (Reply)
It all depends on if they are advocating for their client or their agenda. If they are suing under false pretenses, that's an agenda. If they are defending their client, they are being a lawyer.
#2.2.1 mudbug on 2014-10-06 13:27 (Reply)
Men are working. They just aren't working for the Man. Hippies should be happy.

When the world is filled with vampires, no need running a blood factory when you can get by with small batch production.
#3 JKB on 2014-10-06 12:05 (Reply)
I use to run research ships.

One day one of the "scientists" said, "That's what we are doing here, science, right?"

I replied, "We are not doing science. We are doing data collection. I hope you guys so some science on this data back at the lab."

Sometimes I was unpopular with the scientific party.
#4 JKB on 2014-10-06 12:08 (Reply)
"Science is for stupid people"

Not quite- science is for people willing to admit their ignorance and uncertainty. What I had drilled into me as early as high school is "What is science is not certain. What is certain is not science".

Once you've left the realm of repeatable experiment, you've entered the world of faith, not of science.
#5 Another guy named Dan on 2014-10-06 12:31 (Reply)

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