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Friday, September 18. 2015

Friday morning links

8-Year-Olds Can’t Be Left Alone in British Columbia. No Exceptions.


Why You Should Make Your Kids Do Chores


31 of the best retirement jokes


Moslems against Oktoberfest


A Fundamental Shift in the Economy, At Least for Entrepreneurs and Small Business


University of California will revise statement against intolerance


Getting involved in the intolerance of intolerance racket is a political tar baby. Everybody gets mad and intolerant of each other. Meanwhile, the Asians just keep their noses to the grindstone.


Why Do Migrants Always Flock to the West?


Greed


The American Disease: I Deserve to Get Away with Anything and Everything


How HealthCare.gov Went So, So Wrong


GE, protesting Ex-Im, threatened to offshore jobs which didn’t exist


Crony Capitalism


Trump’s Fatal Gaffe Ain’t Coming. Just Ask Joe Biden.


Donald Trump And The Trade Deficit Fallacy


Trump's self-confidence is unjustified. If you're so rich, how come you ain't smart?


Donald Trump is the Candidate the Establishment GOP has Sought for Decades


MILWAUKEE—I am here to see the New Hillary.


State Department Asked Hillary to Delete Classified Benghazi E-mail


Stand Clear of the Fiorina Bandwagon


Is she a Conservative or a Libertarian?  Another general question - Why do the Repubs sound so hawkish re the ME? The US has no vital interests in that horrible, backward place.


Nick Cohen: Why I’ve finally given up on the left -  Left-wing thought has shifted towards movements it would once have denounced as racist, imperialist and fascistic. It is insupportable.


Stand Clear of the Fiorina Bandwagon

The Map of the Middle East Comes To Life


Map never made sense


John Cleese:  "Greece is collapsing, the Iranians are getting aggressive, and Rome is in disarray. Welcome back to 430 BC".



The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to "A Bloody Nuisance." The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.



GOP Rep: ‘We Are Crazy’ To Invite Middle East Problems To U.S.


GOP pundit attacks candidates for pandering to ‘f—ing Jews’


Was Ann drunk?

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"Moslems against Oktoberfest"

Just the sort of thing that is likely to cause Germans to find their inner Teuton again.

I mean, we're talking Bier, Bratwürste und Mädchen here!
#1 JJM on 2015-09-18 06:35 (Reply)
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Moslems against Oktoberfest


Well, anything to confirm your presuppositions ...
http://m.snopes.com/ban-oktoberfest-petition/
#1.1 Zachriel on 2015-09-18 07:08 (Reply)
My quip was not about the veracity of the original item.

Lighten up.
#1.1.1 JJM on 2015-09-18 09:26 (Reply)
Francis. You always have to add "Francis" to "Lighten up".
#1.1.1.1 BornSouthern on 2015-09-18 11:11 (Reply)
Sorry. We were responding to the original post, but threaded it with your reply to keep the topic in one place.
#1.1.1.2 Zachriel on 2015-09-18 13:40 (Reply)
GOP pundit [the Mule Coulter] attacks candidates for pandering to ‘f—ing Jews’

from the comments:

The best part of this tweet is how Ann Coulter censored the language to avoid offending people
#2 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-18 08:34 (Reply)
Damn, Donny, it's only mid-September, and you may have already discovered the internet comment of the year!
#2.1 L. Beau Macaroni on 2015-09-18 18:42 (Reply)
that guy owes me a new keyboard.

and I want my keyboard.
#2.1.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2015-09-18 20:57 (Reply)
"Why do the Repubs sound so hawkish re the ME? The US has no vital interests in that horrible, backward place."

Yea, it's not like we've experienced terrorism here...
#3 tim on 2015-09-18 09:11 (Reply)
Moslems against Oktoberfest

Snopes researched the facts on this; Petition was by one person (unknown affiliations), that person lives in Netherlands not Germany, is not a recent immigrant.
Snopes suggests that likely the petitioner is Troll or false flag and that the purpose of the petition was to then give those 'persons' who signed the petition an excuse to write comments denigrating Muslim immigration and leftist apologists.
To me the analysis fits, Islamic social attacks almost always come from some Imam, committee or Muslim politician rather than a lone unknown individual.

Got to get to the Bavarian Oktoberfest one of these days.
#4 John the River (Link) on 2015-09-18 09:17 (Reply)
I've been a couple of times, quite a few years apart.

The first time was sheer serendipity: I was on a NATO exercise and the short break between two phases of activity allowed me to spend a few days in Munich.

Perfect!
#4.1 JJM on 2015-09-18 09:31 (Reply)
So, I can't like Trump. Can't like Fiorina. Can't like Rubio. Can't like Carson. Hm, who is the 'approved' candidate I am allowed to like?

Getting tired of everyone telling me how terrible this candidate is or that candidate. At this point, I want the candidate who can WIN against whoever the Democrat candidate is.

I certainly don't want to lose because the 'perfect' candidate didn't get the nomination.
#5 MissT on 2015-09-18 11:28 (Reply)
I can imagine a new president sitting down with advisors and being obliged to ask the following question: Who and Where is going to blow the world up and how can we stop it?

In WWI and WWII we tried to avoid involvement and ended up with much greater costs than we might have. For all the gnashing of media teeth, Bush handled the Iraq/Afgan wars with very small casualty numbers. No way to keep out so do it right
#6 DirtyJobsGuy on 2015-09-18 11:42 (Reply)
Fiorina's positions on issues prior to running for the GOP nom.

Among others, she supported TARP, supported the DREAM ACT, believes in Global Warming, supported cap & trade, and wants more government intervention in the housing market.

https://www.conservativereview.com/2016-Presidential-Candidates/candidates/carly-fiorina
#7 feeblemind on 2015-09-18 13:18 (Reply)
If I buy foreign goods with notes I never intend to redeem, I’m committing theft by fraud. To think that the people and governments who got swindled are never going to exact their toll is short-sighted.

Perpetual debt financing enriches first the people who issue the reserve currency, which is not the FedGov or the people of the USA. It is an element of capitalism corrupted through financialization, as David Stockman has exhaustively detailed. We may get some cheaper foreign goods in the short term, but that screws up the magic of the markets to find real prices and allocate resources over time.

A President, or a Federal Government, should indeed have different concerns than an individual borrower (using someone else's scrip for current expenditures). Among those differences are a prejudice for more stable domestic production and employment. Simplistic liberty economics only considers the lower prices enjoyed by stealing foreign goods. It fails to account for the costs of outsourcing on local and State budgets. It fails to consider that reliance on international trade also subjects USA to any disruption in the flow of goods around the world, whether they come as acts of God of acts of malice by workers or governments.

I do not advocate an isolationist trade policy. I merely point at some overlooked costs and risks associated with the current free-spending free-trade policies. Are we so sure that the current situation, at $505B/yr, is best for Americans in the long term?
#8 foxmarks on 2015-09-18 13:38 (Reply)
"Why do the Repubs sound so hawkish re the ME? The US has no vital interests in that horrible, backward place."

Our vital interests there are to keep the chaos from spreading, and to ensure Israel can defend itself. You can't sit on the sidelines and then complain when the conflicts of the Middle East result in terrorism and mass migrations that destabilize area where there is little controversy about being vital interests of the USA.

Sucks to be a major power sometimes, but the responsibility then falls on you to do balance-of-power statecraft if you want to avoid wider, catastrophic war.

The current administration does not understand the inevitable effects of moving the power relationships in the way they have. Like Woodrow Wilson, setting the stage for terrible future conflicts.
#9 Alston Cook on 2015-09-18 15:16 (Reply)
In re: the perfect candidate - never gonna happen. And sort of n pointless....the president has a deal less power than we think he does....his skills are soft power.

Lincoln ran a terrible war fairly terribly and accomplished little de facto success exceot the amendment....but he was one of out greatest leaders by LEADING.

Quick....name an actual law Reagan passed. A specific policy beyond Reaganomics.

Still a great leader becausr he LEAD. Slick Willie was the same...and Obama is the greatest leader democrats have had since Kennedy, like it or not.

Trump can lead. Bush can't and a lot of the others get bogged down in the minutiae of tax policies they wouldn't actually be able to implement.

And the scary thing? Leadership MATTERS. Grest CEOs are worth every penny, and it ain't for sitting in the corner with an eyeshade crunching numbers. They have nerds for that.

Its like listening to pump up music in the gym....there's no physiological reason it'll mske you do better: but you do.
#10 VJB on 2015-09-18 17:12 (Reply)
Middle East oil is of vital interest to Europe and therefore to the USA. Stability of the region is a vital interest as instability spreads and allows infiltration. I prefer the "flypaper strategy" and post our soldiers on their territory and kill theirs as they are drawn into attack "the infidels". Better to destroy their territory than ours.
#11 Blick on 2015-09-18 18:18 (Reply)
I would not leave an 8 year old home alone.

It is the belief that a Rino candidate that can be elected is better than a conservative who maybe cannot be elected that has gotten us to this dark place we are in. I like Jeb. I wish Jeb had been my uncle or brother in law. Jeb is a genuinely nice man. I cannot vote for Jeb because he is dead wrong on what is good for America. Jeb may be the bet Republican candidate unless of course you strongly believe in the constitution and that America and Americas must come first. But other than those pesky consideration Jeb is as good as McCain would have been.
#12 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-09-19 18:24 (Reply)

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