Tuesday morning links

Quicksearch

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Tuesday, September 15. 2015

Photo is Peach Salsa

Artisanal Firewood

Happy That Her Green Tyrant Is Leaving Home For College

Sheesh. That Mom is lame, and the kid is lamer

Without Government, Who Would Force A Men's Barbershop To Cut Women's Hair?

The World Really Could Go Nuclear - Nothing but fear and capital stand in the way of a nuclear-powered future

I am for it

Long Before James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, There Was Joe Kennedy

Two criminal, low-life families

Uber Progresses in New York and Sarasota, Florida

Navy secretary threw us ‘under the bus,’ say Marines in gender-integrated infantry unit

Driscoll quotes Sowell:

There’s something Eric Hoffer said: “Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.” There always has to be a crisis — some terrible reason why their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on the unthinking masses. It doesn’t matter what the crisis is. A hundred years ago it was eugenics. At the time of the first Earth Day a generation ago, the big scare was global cooling, a big ice age. They go from one to the other. It meets their psychological needs and gives them a reason for exercising their power.

Microaggressions: A Case Study

Leftist Universities Will Never Stop Trying to Stifle Free Speech

Carly Fiorina PAC FIRES BACK at Donald Trump with New Ad: “Ladies Look at This Face”

It would be cruel to compare Hillary circa 2008 with the bedraggled harridan of today.

Calling Bullshit on Bernie Sanders

Dem Sen. Chris Murphy Says Only Way To Stop ISIS Is By Giving Welfare To Syrian Migrants…

BBC’s Stephen Nolan Demonstrates That the Media Is the Enemy

Is the World Rejecting Western Values?

World never accepted them. Western values are culture-specific.

BBC’s Stephen Nolan Demonstrates That the Media Is the Enemy - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=63037#sthash.QAP9pRwF.dpuf

German Suicide

Europe is going to run out of altruism long before it runs out of refugees

Via Drudge, Pope Blames Refugee Crisis on 'God of Money'...

True. The migrants are aiming for the money. Otherwise, what the Pope says is loony. Stick to your knitting, Pope

Unified, open Europe is unraveling in the migrant crisis

Cleaning Up After the Obama Team’s Iran Deal

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:08 | Comments (24) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

John Hindraker does a nice job on Bernie's speech at Liberty. As it was in place so quickly, it must be largely off-the-cuff and from the heart, with the research done painstakingly over years. A very smart man, that Hindraker.

#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-09-15 08:44 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: the research done painstakingly over years

That's funny. First sentence, first factual error:

QUOTE:

Bernie Sanders, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination

While Sanders is certainly making a showing, he is not the front-runner by any means at this point. Clinton leads the Democratic field in virtually every poll, though her lead has eroded considerably.

http://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1171a22016Politics.pdf

QUOTE:

Islam does not teach that Muslims should do unto infidels as they would have infidels do unto them.

Aheb li akheek ma tuhibbu li nafsik.

QUOTE:

Inequality does not equal injustice.

No, but increasing inequality may be unjust.

QUOTE:

the U.S. does guarantee health care to all people. Hospitals can’t turn anyone away, and poor people are on Medicaid.

The very poor are covered under Medicaid, but many working poor are not covered. Hospitals are only required to stabilize a patient, and will bill for services. ObamaCare has reduced the number of uninsured.

QUOTE:

Because the Obama economy is lousy.

The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 financial meltdown, which preceded the Obama Administration.

Unemployment from 10% to 5.3%
Deficits from 12% to 2.4%
Stock market from 7949 to 16419
Growth from -2.8% to +2.4% of GDP
Total employment, up 8 million

http://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/obamas-numbers-july-2015-update/

QUOTE:

Liberals enthusiastically endorse discrimination based on the color of people’s skin. It is called affirmative action.

Sure. Because righting historical wrongs is the same as discrimination.

QUOTE:

Bernie is an inheritor of that disgraceful history.

As is every American.

QUOTE:

No one would have imagined voting for Obama in 2008, but for the color of his skin.

That's silly. Of course many people voted for Obama for reasons other than the color of his skin. For instance, some people thought the Bush Administration led the U.S. into a debacle in Iraq, and wanted a change in direction for the nation. Some blamed Republicans for the financial meltdown and ensuing global economic chaos. Still others might cite torture, or Katrina as a reason to vote for the opposition party.

#1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-15 10:28 (Reply)

Nice try. Sanders front runner in NH. That's something. I don't understand the Arabic you are quoting, but as a practical matter, Islam does not teach the Golden Rule toward infidels - it provides some containment for the vicious tribalism in the area. I'll stand by it, on the basis of what Muslims here have told me. Ooh, increasing inequality may be unjust. Nice swerve to avoid a collision there. And not true anyway. The 1% - lots of Democrats there, BTW - getting even richer does not take a dime out of your pocket. Confusing insurance with health care again - sorry, that has just become dishonest for liberals to say at this point. This is my field. I work with the poor at a public hospital. The 2008 meltdown was a direct result of the 2006 Senate, the refusal of Democrats to regulate mortgage derivatives (which Bush, McCain, and Sununu had pushed for years), and lowering standards on minority mortgages - which was Obama's only accomplishment prior to running for public office. Liberals refusing to accept even 1% of the responsibility - as you just did here - is what causes the divisiveness and hatred in this country. It's narcissistic. The other numbers are all founded on the collapse. So you take credit for the country rebounding after you helped break it? And the unemployment number - as Sanders will tell you - is a lie.

And secretly, you knew that, but you'd rather have the rhetorical ploy than admit it.

I grant that many would have voted for anyone but a Republican, but no one would have voted for Barry Soetoro from Indonesia - which was his identity in name and fact until he hit Columbia.

#1.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-09-15 12:02 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: Nice try. Sanders front runner in NH. That's something.

It's something, but not the claim that was made in the first sentence of the painstakingly researched article.

Assistant Village Idiot: I don't understand the Arabic you are quoting

Aheb li akheek ma tuhibu li nafsik.
"Wish for your brother, what you wish for yourself"

Assistant Village Idiot: Islam does not teach the Golden Rule toward infidels

Islam is a highly diverse community, but most Muslims believe it applies to everyone.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/05/islam-and-the-golden-rule

Some Christians have historically not extended the notion of universal brotherhood to heathens, such as Jews, Muslims, animists, and other religious communities.

Assistant Village Idiot: Ooh, increasing inequality may be unjust. Nice swerve to avoid a collision there. And not true anyway.

Arguably, but the author suggested an equivalence between any inequality and injustice.

Assistant Village Idiot: Confusing insurance with health care again

Not at all. Many people can't get primary health care services because they can't afford it.

Assistant Village Idiot: The 2008 meltdown was a direct result of the 2006 Senate

That's silly. The bubble in the securities market predates the Democratic Senate which took office in 2007.

Assistant Village Idiot: I grant that many would have voted for anyone but a Republican, but no one would have voted for Barry Soetoro from Indonesia - which was his identity in name and fact until he hit Columbia.

Obama was born in the U.S.

#1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-15 12:23 (Reply)

Egad, you have the patience of Job.

#1.1.1.2 jma on 2015-09-15 13:41 (Reply)

“…increasing inequality may be unjust.”
Under the liberals equality is unjust too. Justice would be to leave us alone and stop the social tinkering.

“The very poor are covered under Medicaid, but many working poor are not covered.”
OK, so who do we take money from with the threat of jail if they don’t willingly give it to the government to ‘give’ the working poor ‘free’ healthcare?

“The economy is slowly recovering…Unemployment from 10% to 5.3%”
You and everyone else knows this is a lie. Why would you put out a lie to prove Obama is being effective as president?

“Total employment, up 8 million”
But it all went to illegals and immigrants.

“…righting historical wrongs is the same as discrimination.”
Huh! Did you really mean to say that. Indeed righting historical wrongs (which means rewarding people who were never discriminated against by taking from people who never discriminated) is the same as discrimination. With this kind of rationalization (ra·tion·al·i·za·tion in psychoanalytic theory, a defense mechanism whereby people attempt to hide their true motivations and emotions by providing reasonable or self-justifying explanations for irrational or unacceptable behavior) you could justify any ‘ism’.

#1.1.2 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-15 14:47 (Reply)

GoneWithTheWind: Justice would be to leave us alone and stop the social tinkering.

Surely you wouldn't reject previous social tinkering that brought about the Reformation and modern democracy. You may even agree with laws against child labor and providing for a safe workplace. Apparently you think American society has reached the perfect place, and no further movement towards greater equality is necessary.

GoneWithTheWind: OK, so who do we take money from with the threat of jail if they don’t willingly give it to the government to ‘give’ the working poor ‘free’ healthcare?

It's called "taxes". You'll find it in the U.S. Constitution.

GoneWithTheWind: But it all went to illegals and immigrants.

Mostly false.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/dec/02/peter-morici/economist-immigrants-have-taken-all-new-jobs-creat/

GoneWithTheWind: You and everyone else knows this is a lie.

It's a standard statistic. There are other ways to measure unemployment, but that doesn't make the statistic "a lie".

GoneWithTheWind: Indeed righting historical wrongs (which means rewarding people who were never discriminated against by taking from people who never discriminated) is the same as discrimination.

It's no different than any class action, whereby a wrong is shown, and a remedy ordered. You might argue that such remedies are no longer needed, or could be better tailored; but that's quite different than saying that you can, for instance, steal from Native Americans, then when caught, get to keep the loot and not have to make compensation.

#1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-15 17:14 (Reply)

"It's a standard statistic. There are other ways to measure unemployment, but that doesn't make the statistic "a lie"."

I could refute everything you said but that statement really tells it all. Everyone knows that the 5% unemployment stat is pure BS but worse it is at 5% ONLY because unemployment is SOO BAD that half the people have just stopped looking for work. The real unemployment is between 11% and 23% depending on how you define it. To use the 5% stat as "fact" to show how good the economy is, is dishonest, period. It is an intentional lie, a misrepresentation and intended to deceive. Shame!

#1.1.2.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-15 19:48 (Reply)

GoneWithTheWind: Everyone knows that the 5% unemployment stat is pure BS

No. "Everyone" doesn't know that. U3 is the same basic measure that has been used for generations, and is accepted by the vast majority of economists as an important measure of the economy. You could reasonably argue that no single statistic can capture the entire picture.

#1.1.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-16 08:52 (Reply)

Shame! You should be embarrassed. You lied, fudged, concealed the truth to prop up your guy, your belief system and YES everyone knows it. This wasn't just a lie of omission or just a compilation of stats, you specifically used the 5% unemployment number as "proof" that Obama's policies have saved us from the recession. You lied.

#1.1.2.1.1.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-16 10:45 (Reply)

GoneWithTheWind: you specifically used the 5% unemployment number as "proof" that Obama's policies have saved us from the recession.

No single statistic can be considered "proof", but it is evidence. When combined with other evidence, such as the increase in total employment, it provides a picture of a slow but steady economic recovery from the worst economic debacle since the Great Depression.

#1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-16 12:01 (Reply)

You are willfully blind and a psychopathic liar. Is there nothing you would not say for the socialist Democrats???

#1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-16 22:32 (Reply)

ARTISANAL FIREWOOD. This guy has it all wrong. The world needs carefully nurtured, artistically shaped and ridiculously priced charcoal.

#2 Sven Svenson on 2015-09-15 08:46 (Reply)

De Pope says; It’s the people (refugees) who come from the country because they have been deforested.

Hello! What about ISIS? To heck with the cutting down trees, it's the HEAD-cutting that these people are running away from.

Leftists love big institutions, the bigger and with the most admired history or reputation the better. They figure that if they can take them over then the thousands, or millions of followers and members of that institutions are theirs. The Catholics are seeing their church being sent on the road to ruin. And will fall away.

#3 John the River (Link) on 2015-09-15 08:57 (Reply)

"The Catholics are seeing their church being sent on the road to ruin. And will fall away."

I doubt that; you're just taking the predictable secular short-term view.

We've already survived over 2,000 years of various ups and downs since Matthew 16:18.

We got through the Reformation handily and now we're watching the demographic demise of most of the mainstream Protestant churches that were created out of it.

#3.1 JJM on 2015-09-15 11:42 (Reply)

'predictable secular short-term view.'

Maybe, or the early morning no coffee yet view (grin)

'Fall away' is probably premature. But for Europe, now that large numbers of Muslims are encamping on the northern shore of the Med, there is the other way that the Islamics spread their doctrine. That's a secular view too.

#3.1.1 John the River (Link) on 2015-09-15 13:02 (Reply)

Ref Green Warrior

I sent a link to my wife. She works with a woman like that. Irrationally obsessed with all things green (this is at the adminstration offices of a presigious university). Tries to recycle (or preferrably) compost most everything. I stuff arrives in styrofoam, she hoards it in her office in the hope that some day it can be recycled. Food scraps (vegan, of course) also get hidden in her office (so the other workers won't throw them out) for eventual composting. Of course this means fruit flies; however when my wife tried to do something about the fruit flies she argued that "they only live a few days". She helicopter-parents a son who goes to Montessori school (surprise!). There are regular small conferences with refreshments, she will not touch any trays etc that have touched meat. My wife has to hide her personal bottle of dish detergent (with labels removed) to avoid a lecture.

Yowza.

#4 Jay on 2015-09-15 10:37 (Reply)

Sorry about typos. Sent from phone

#4.1 Jay on 2015-09-15 10:45 (Reply)

Suggest to your wife that she put a sign on her desk that for her, any discussion of environmental "issues" is a MACRO aggression.

#4.2 Sam L. on 2015-09-15 19:56 (Reply)

"There’s something Eric Hoffer said: 'Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.'"

To which I might add:

"There could hardly be a more unbearable - and more irrational - world than one in which the most eminent specialists in each field were allowed to proceed unchecked with the realization of their ideals."

- Friedrich Hayek

#5 JJM on 2015-09-15 11:53 (Reply)

Artisanal Firewood: P. T. Barnum would be SO proud.

Barber won't cut woman's hair: First, have her sign a statement that she knows he's not set up to do that, that she absolves him of all harm, that she will not complain to any authority, and that she accepts ALL responsibility for asking him to do it. With a witness' signature.

Faces: Worked for me!

BBC LEFTIST!: Not news to most of us. Gang of Z does not accept that.

Western Values: Why would the world NOT reject it, given our "elites", academia, and media have rejected it and keep telling the world they should, too?

#6 Sam L. on 2015-09-15 16:00 (Reply)

The American Refugee Resettlement Scam

Thar's gold in them refugees!

From the article:

"It originated with the Refugee Council USA, the lobbying arm of the out-of-control, serially corrupt U.S. refugee resettlement industry. And yes it is an industry. There are nine so-called “voluntary agencies” (VOLAGs) that contract with the federal government to resettle refugees. While they are classified as tax-exempt non-profits, this is a massive profit center -- earning them close to $1 billion in 2014. That comes out to almost $8,000 per-head. And since the current annual refugee cap is 70,000, double the refugees, double the income -- it’s simple math "

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/09/the_american_refugee_resettlement_scam.html

#7 feeblemind on 2015-09-15 17:27 (Reply)

Blue State Blues: Residents Say ‘Enough’ to Tax Burden, Stifling Culture of Connecticut
Folks now flee the state you used to move to when you’d “made it”; Senator Scott Frantz weighs in.

http://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/blue-state-blues-residents-say-enough-to-tax-burden-stifling-culture-of-connecticut/?singlepage=true

#8 feeblemind on 2015-09-16 01:50 (Reply)

GoneWithTheWind: This wasn't just a lie of omission or just a compilation of stats, you specifically used the 5% unemployment number as "proof" that Obama's policies have saved us from the recession.

It's called evidence, not proof. When combined with other evidence, such as the increase in total employment, it paints a picture of a slow but steady economic recovery from the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression.

#9 Zachriel on 2015-09-16 10:52 (Reply)

Add Comment

Name
Email	(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)
Homepage
In reply to
Comment	By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications. Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u], [url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here. Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (word), underscore are made via _word_. E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications. To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly. Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above: BBCode format allowed
	Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry

Maggie's Farm

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

RSS Readers

Tuesday, September 15. 2015

Tuesday morning links