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Saturday, October 10. 2015

Robocoach, the fitness robot

Self-Driving Cars to Hit the Market by 2020?

... now, if you’re a guy, everything you do in the office can be perceived as sexist.

Guys have to keep their distance from women at work

Report: 15,000 People Vanish From ‘Fall Fest’ Hayride Wagons Each Year

Turned into pumpkins?

Portuguese Jews: Inventors of Fish & Chips!

Funny - had dinner with friends last night at a fancy Portuguese restaurant, and had Portuguese cod cakes for appetizer. They served them with a parsley pesto.

Why we must fight for free speech for people we loathe

Yes, the Kids Are Intolerant’

They need spanking

High Schools to Teach Students How to Ask for Sex

Please teach the girls how to sensitively and appropriately ask boys for sex

Clemson University apologizes for serving Mexican food

Next time, try an Italian Night

Krauthammer: Another massacre, another charade

Welfare: Paid to Stay Single

Guns: A Sense-Free Opinion Piece

The green side of fracking

The myth of an almost-unanimous climate-change consensus is pervasive.

Politics: How a coalition party, especially a haphazard one, responds when faced with a an ideological party is debatable

Clinton Emailed Identity Of Top CIA Asset Over Unsecure Server

Sidney Blumenthal Sent Classified Info, Lobbied Clinton to Profit from Libya Intervention

Clinton is clearly more comfortable than the average person with violating norms and operating in legal gray areas.

The Dramatic Decline in World Poverty

Rarely noted, but a remarkable development

India to Climatistas: Show Us The Money!

Where's the feminist outrage over ISIS's savage treatment of women?

The True Cost of Terrorism: Tunisia's Tourism Industry Struggles to Survive

I've been there. Loved their cooking and the souk in Tunis is something else. Didn't get up into the Atlas Mtns but did go to Carthage. Amazing.

Americans like their history linear and their enemies well-defined. But it isn’t, and they aren’t and the historical lessons of the 20th century Balkans appear lost on the Obama administration.

How Obama Lost Afghanistan

Not really. It was never won. Afghanistan is not a nation - it's a place on a map

FBI says it disrupted activities of dozens of potential IS recruits

Geopolitics/ America's Loss and Russia's Gain

Gulf states increase arms to Syrian rebels in counter to Russia airstrikes

Russia’s New Mega-Missile Stuns the Globe

Stopping Nuclear Terrorism Is a Game of Odds, Not Certainty

Can Obama Counter Hezbollah After The Nuclear Deal?

U.S. Does Not Condemn Palestinian Violence

Abbas must be stopped

Let the Palestinians Have Their State

A Reagan Doctrine for the Twenty-First Century

China warns U.S. it will not allow violations of its waters

China and Russia are feeling their oats. It's a new world out there.

Saving the West - Republicans want America to lead again. What happens if the EU’s migration crisis decimates the EU—and
our closest allies are neither capable nor willing to follow?

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Clemson University apologizes for serving Mexican food

That's not Mexican food. It's American version of what they think is Mexican food.

Then don't eat it.

#1 fjord on 2015-10-10 07:17 (Reply)

Clemson University apologizes for serving Mexican food

Hilarious, on several counts. Odds are that what was served was not Mexican, but Tex-Mex- and most likely a botched version of Tex-Mex. The only reason any university in Texas would apologize for serving Mexican food [Interior Mexican,as we say in Texas] or Tex-Mex, for that matter would be if their cooks botched the job.

Based on my experience on eating Tex-Mex food in New England, I wouldn't be surprised that what was served up at South Carolina's Clemson University was a travesty of Tex-Mex food. The only times I have eaten Tex-Mex in New England, I have practically gagged- food drowned in Velveeta, or unseasoned beans- not even salt. If Clemson served such food, an apology should have been forthcoming- not for "appropriating" but for a bad cooking job.

But the apology wasn't based on poor cooking, but on SJWs protesting "appropriation" of Mexican/Tex Mex food/culture. I would be surprised if the SJWs at Clemson who protested this "appropriation" of Mexican/Tex-Mex food spoke any Spanish. Puros pendejos son.

I incorporate fresh or dried chili peppers into my cooking nearly every day. Damned if I am going to apologize for this "appropriation."

#2 Gringo on 2015-10-10 08:14 (Reply)

No self-respecting SJW could speak Spanish, or for that matter, French or Italian, etc, those language are sexist with their gendered nouns and oppressive with their draconian demands for gender agreement.

I really can't understand why they even let the universities hold classes to perpetuate these sexist languages.

English on the other hand is egalitarian and accepting.

#2.1 JK Brown on 2015-10-10 11:42 (Reply)

I've had Yankee Mexican food. It was hilarious, as if someone had overhead someone else vaguely discussing Tex-Mex food at a party once. I can easily imagine a S.C. version.

Not that I insist on food's being "authentic" anything. It either tastes good or it doesn't; if I object, it's not going to be because someone's ethnic feathers got ruffled.

#2.2 Texan99 on 2015-10-10 13:40 (Reply)

I've eaten "real" Mexican food and some of it is very good both to taste and presentation. Some of it is, well, disgusting to my Gringo sensibilities. Typically the "American version" of Mexican food uses meat in place of unusual body parts in the preparation. This may not be traditional but it is much more appetizing and smells and tastes better. Most people think that Americanized Mexican food is simply not as hot and spicy but they believe that because they simply don't know what goes into some traditional Mexican dishes. The bottom line is in my humble opinion the best thing that has happened to Mexican food is that it was Americanized.

#3 GoneWithTheWind on 2015-10-10 10:38 (Reply)

Most people think that Americanized Mexican food is simply not as hot and spicy but they believe that because they simply don't know what goes into some traditional Mexican dishes.

Tex-Mex as done in Texas, as opposed to Tex-Mex done in New England, can be pretty hot- though homemade has a higher probability of being hot than the restaurant variety.

And that reputation travels. One time I was eating in a cafe in Guatemala, eating a standard meal of tortillas, beans, coffee, a touch of meat, and a bowl of hot peppers on the side. I was adding peppers to the beans when a fellow patron warned me to be careful [Tenga cuidado.] I replied that the peppers were no problem. His reply: You're from Texas.

Tex-Mex food is a pretty close clone of northern Mexican food- though chile con carne is a San Antonio invention.

What many don't realize is that the Tex-Mex influence works both ways. Tejano music incorporated the accordions and polkas of the 19th century German and Czech immigrants to Texas. This hybrid Tejano music migrated south across the border. What in northern Mexico is called Norteña music freely appropriates the polkas, waltzes and accordions of Tejano music, which freely appropriated same from the German and Czech immigrants to Texas.

#3.1 Gringo on 2015-10-10 13:55 (Reply)

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The myth of an almost-unanimous climate-change consensus is pervasive.

It's hardly a myth. There are very few scientists with expertise in climate science that reject the significance of anthropogenic climate change. There are very few contrarian papers being published in scientific journals. Rather, the contrarians either publish non-scientific diatribes in the popular press; or when they do publish for their peers, they typically publish only on tangential topics.

#4 Zachriel on 2015-10-10 11:18 (Reply)

A weak and misleading argument, in other words, it is true because "we adherents to anthropogenic climate change" say so (otherwise known as, sequentially, cold or warmth or whatever bugaboo is current), who control the journals. The dominance of leftists in academia, and their cabal-like and exclusionary behaviors, including outright hostility and punishments meted upon any deviants from their cult, lays behind the article count in "scientific" journals. Remember, also, that there are so many false "scientific" assertions contained in those herd-like journals, as is repeatedly demonstrated. -- The point is that their "models" and predictions are repeatedly and usually false, and far more simple explanations are ignored by them, but nevertheless their disposition is indulged to control the human race, and even return it to some halcyon-dream of earlier times which never existed. -- Zach, you seem to have endless time to troll here and elsewhere, but others here do not, so please do not further waste others' time, and patience. Please take it elsewhere to your co-trolls habitats.

#4.1 Bruce Kesler on 2015-10-10 11:36 (Reply)

Bruce Kesler: A weak and misleading argument, in other words, it is true because "we adherents to anthropogenic climate change" say so

The question raised wasn't whether anthropogenic global warming is occurring, but rather whether there was a scientific consensus. While there is certainly no unanimity, there is a strong consensus.

#4.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-10-10 11:55 (Reply)

And any consensus there is is a booby prize. It means nothing. History is littered with scientific consensuses that were wrong.

#4.1.1.1 mudbug on 2015-10-10 13:35 (Reply)

mudbug: History is littered with scientific consensuses that were wrong.

Sure, but that wasn't the question raised.

#4.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-10-10 13:37 (Reply)

But that consensus is from the self-selecting, and self-reinforcing. You blithely refer to them as the only experts, and clearly take their word on authority, whatever the challenge. I have done no climate research, but I have been in other research. It is amazingly quick and easy for preferred POV's to become unquestioned. And there is no consensus on catastrophe.

The boundaries of who gets to speak in "climate science" are indistinct, and the field is very new. How is a field which has had no major upheavals even credible?

#4.1.1.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-10-10 14:37 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: You blithely refer to them as the only experts

On the one hand, you argue there is no consensus, because the consensus excludes contrary voices.

Assistant Village Idiot: It is amazingly quick and easy for preferred POV's to become unquestioned.

On the other hand, you argue there is a consensus, but it's due to group-think.

Assistant Village Idiot: the field is very new.

It dates to the 19th century, with the discovery of ice ages, and the effect of greenhouse gases.

#4.1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2015-10-10 15:59 (Reply)

Why do I bother? No contradiction. There are a variety of scientific fields which bear on climate study. They have different aims and aspects. They do not universally agree. The inner circle self-defines on the basis of its own choices. The money flows according to fashion.

Early man worried about climate change if you want to count everything. But you tell me - when did universities start granting actual degrees in climate studies? It's a new field.

You frequently have trouble with larger arguments, getting stuck on details. You tell me: where is the evidence for catastrophe? Evidence that holds up, I mean. Not the crap of finding fewer polar bears in one area because they're now thriving in am adjoining area.

#4.1.1.2.1.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-10-11 09:26 (Reply)

Assistant Village Idiot: There are a variety of scientific fields which bear on climate study.

Indeed, and it's this interface between fields that provides confidence in science.

Assistant Village Idiot: They do not universally agree.

No, but there is a strong consensus across multiple fields, from biology to geology.

Assistant Village Idiot: You tell me: where is the evidence for catastrophe?

We have to establish global warming first. Determining its effects depends on that. You do understand that it's not the current temperature that's the problem, but the projection of continued warming?

#4.1.1.2.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2015-10-11 14:04 (Reply)

Those projections have been notably and noticeably off target. This reminds me of the old computer saying, Garbage In; Garbage Out. And does not induce confidence.

#4.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Sam L. on 2015-10-11 14:50 (Reply)

I find the phrasing, "[w]e have to establish global warming first. Determining its effects depends on that", rather interesting. Would you care to expound on exactly what you mean by this phrase?

#4.1.1.2.1.1.1.2 BornSouthern on 2015-10-11 20:39 (Reply)

BornSouthern: "[w]e have to establish global warming first. Determining its effects depends on that", rather interesting. Would you care to expound on exactly what you mean by this phrase?

If someone rejects global warming, then a discussion of the effects of ensuing climate change is without foundation.

#4.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2015-10-12 09:11 (Reply)

A "consensus" that calls for imprisonment of those who disagree with the "consensus" is a rather shaky consensus.

#4.1.1.3 Gringo on 2015-10-10 14:46 (Reply)

You have such a compliant mind.

#4.2 Texan99 on 2015-10-10 16:59 (Reply)

Actually, I'll go with Dr Timothy Ball, a real climate scientist, over all those soi-disant climate experts with degrees in totally different areas. Heck, even my BSc in Geology gives me more exposure to climate change over the millenia than many who now pontificate on the "reality" of anthropogenic climate change.

#4.3 Frances on 2015-10-11 00:36 (Reply)

Frances: Actually, I'll go with Dr Timothy Ball, a real climate scientist

Choosing the rare contrarian does not make for a valid appeal to authority. See above.

We'd be happy to look at any recent peer reviewed scientific research by Ball, though.

#4.3.1 Zachriel on 2015-10-11 09:26 (Reply)

The True Cost of Terrorism: Tunisia's Tourism Industry Struggles to Survive

Here's an idea I bet they haven't tried. Permit tourists to concealed carry. And have very strong self defense and Stand Your Ground laws.

#5 JK Brown on 2015-10-10 11:34 (Reply)

Clinton Emailed Identity Of Top CIA Asset Over Unsecure Server

Clinton really is out of touch. Anyone who has seen the Sopranos knows how to talk about that guy who did that thing that time over in that place over an insecure line.

#6 JK Brown on 2015-10-10 11:45 (Reply)

The Dramatic Decline in World Poverty

I blame capitalism.

The one thing capitalism is responsible for and no one wants to admit it.

#7 JK Brown on 2015-10-10 11:47 (Reply)

A Palestinian state would be horrible for Palis as the warring factions would most likely kill people indiscriminately and remain a kleptocracy. For Israelis, they would have known people to hold responsible for attacks, to be killed in retaliation. I could be wrong, and I hope Mr. Kessler will correct me, but I am convinced that if the Israelis acted as they have been accused of acting, the Israelis would hate themselves for having to do that, and the Palis, those that lived, might realize how dumb they had been.

#8 Sam L. on 2015-10-10 15:55 (Reply)

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