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Monday, June 1. 2015

Monday morning links

Boyhood Under Attack: Why Boys Can't Just Be Boys Anymore(Bill Whittle video)


Happy Birthday Patrick Henry: "This Constitution is
said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these
features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful."



"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt."



Don't Ban Trans Fats


The guaranteed failure of Bill de Blasio’s plan to help failing schools


Average of 102 Climate Models Versus Reality


Black Workers Can No Longer Rely on Blue Jobs


Mexicans Discover Illegal Immigrants in Cancun, Not Amused


Say, Shouldn’t Illegal Aliens Be Given Political Clout?


Obama goes after the farmers


Deep secrets of racial profiling


The cash donations Hillary simply has no answer for


The Clintons’ Favorite Way to Lie


Forget 9/11, the Latest Airline Horror is a Muslim Woman Who Didn’t Get a Diet Coke


Meanwhile in the UK… be sure not to injure your rapist


The Islamic Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland


THE WORLD SMELLS AMERICAN WEAKNESS


North Korean nuclear, missile experts visit Iran

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I am not big on government bans but I am pretty discouraged by the difficulty I experience looking for pure lard that does not contain added partially hydrogenated fats. Read the labels and see if I am not right.

I demand natural fats: lard for deep frying, butter for most everything else and cold pressed vegetables oils for everything else.
#1 Freddie Sykes on 2015-06-01 10:10 (Reply)
Re: boys being boys

I agree with the general tenor of the video but I would put more the blame for the destructive treatment of boys on the rising influence of progressive feminism.

But there were a couple of things with which I would disagree. One idea floated was that boys don't fit the "Austrian model where you have to sit down, shut up, and do as you're told". There may be better ways to teach boys than that, but that has been the model for schools for hundreds of years and it worked pretty well till the left hijacked the education establishment. I don't think that is really part of the problem.

Another idea that was discussed was that there are few male role models in schools today. That was the norm when I was growing up and probably has been the norm for generations. It's not that there were few male teachers, but rather that the female teachers changed due to the progressive, feminist influence. Time was when women knew that boys were supposed to be boys. Now, apparently, they must be something else.

Nobody on the video mentioned (yet) the ridiculous education schools in our universities - when I was in college, they were a joke. Kids are now taught by teachers with a masters in education, but they don't learn any better - in fact they don't learn as well - as well as kids used to. Teachers need to be able to impart knowledge (hopefully in multiple and interesting ways) and keep order. Experience from the past forty or fifty years has shown you don't need a degree in education for that.
#2 mudbug on 2015-06-01 11:04 (Reply)
Don't Ban Trans Fats


Wait, I thought acceptance of trans-people was the next big thing, but now they want to ban the fat people who are trans-?
#3 JK Brown on 2015-06-01 11:05 (Reply)
[b] City Municipal Bonds--how corrupt are they?[b]

Would the learned folks at MF please provide insight to municipal bonds? I know of at least one example where a bond was put forward (Cincinnati) which the city folks new full well was a fraud--they knew when they created the bond. I would like to have more insight as to the machinations of municipal bonds--any understanding of any angle! How does the mob use them, how corrupt are they--any reasoned and informed thoughts are welcome.
#4 Apple Pie on 2015-06-01 11:27 (Reply)
About Municipal Bonds
#4.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-06-01 15:48 (Reply)
Don't often stick up for the Feds but the attack on farmers piece may be a bit over blown. If they really are just trying to clarify the current regulations then that is sorely needed. The current laws are an incoherent mess.

That is a big if, though.
#5 b moe on 2015-06-01 15:34 (Reply)
And the lack of recess, so they can't burn off the energy accumulating.
#6 Sam L. on 2015-06-01 15:58 (Reply)
Dammit, guys, it's now LGBTQWXYZ-fats, now!
#7 Sam L. on 2015-06-01 15:59 (Reply)
Hillary!: MAN! When SALON is piling on, that's another bad sign.

UK Rape: Presume they're going to and hit them first, so they are are fault for hitting you back.
#8 Sam L. on 2015-06-01 16:07 (Reply)
Epa and dep already regulate all water (and land)... Ask anyone who has a business or drives a truck (changes oil -possible contamination of a body of water) etc.

These new powers will give them free reign over all commercial and private property.
#9 fjord on 2015-06-01 16:56 (Reply)
Thanks Donny, that site will be very helpful for me and a good place to start. Now, what can you tell me about gaming the bonds? How does this benefit a corrupt group or individual. How can we monitor the budgets for the projects being built with these funds? Is there any oversight besides the same locals who got the bond passed? It seems pretty holey to me. Get a bond passed, then manage the projects covered by the bond--I dunno smells fishy somehow ;-)
#10 Apple Pie on 2015-06-01 19:05 (Reply)
Electronic Municipal Market Access this will give you a start.

Disclosure Obligations
of Issuers of Municipal Securities

these are securities regulated by the SEC.

if you want to game the system, offer unregistered securities (and pay attention to what makes a security registered) and use unaudited financial statements.
#10.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-06-01 21:05 (Reply)
Try reading a few months back issues of the local paper to see how the various players (council, bond attorneys, bankers/underwriters, bond agents, contractors, retirement boards) all intersect and dine at the same table. Watches are also something to look for in photos of these folks, many tireless servants of the public like Rolex and designer suits.
#10.1.1 walt moffett on 2015-06-02 00:06 (Reply)
this is easy. if you don't like munis, don't buy them. if you don't like what you see in the preliminary official statements and official statements or post issue statements, don't buy them. if you can't do your own due diligence, don't buy them. if you don't like the SEC or your own state's blue sky laws, don't buy them. if you think everything is a conspiracy, time to retreat to the bunker.
#10.1.1.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-06-02 09:27 (Reply)
Thanks again to you both--your info and insights will be very helpful to those of us trying desperately to maintain a sense of fair play and honesty in our small part of the world.
#11 Apple Pie on 2015-06-02 09:22 (Reply)

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