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Thursday, January 14. 2016

Thursday morning links

These Praying Mantises Wear Tiny 3-D Glasses—For Science


Next Owner of the New Republic Needs a Better Vision


Maybe 3-D glasses?


Incandescent Light Bulbs May Have a Bright Future After All


Documentaries Like ‘Making A Murderer’ Are Mostly Agitprop


VDH: Reflections on Wise and Suicidal Immigration


The ladies simply aren’t dying on the job nearly as frequently as men do, and this savage inequity needs to be addressed.


Yes, comrades. We must “disrupt Eurocentric notions of time.” And temporalities, obviously.


They will have to pry my Timex from my cold dead wrist


Ed School Students Must Become Social Justice Warriors to Gain Licensure


Sexism Valley: 60% of women in Silicon Valley experience harassment


They include "unwanted advances" as harassment. How is a fellow to know if it's unwanted, in advance? In workplaces with young women, romance is always in the air.


The U.S. Has a Massive Asylum Fraud Problem No One Talks About


Kimball:  Obama’s Gun Speech: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due


Bush takes another dig at Rubio: 'I don't have a height issue'


Bush has permanently shamed himself in this primary. I used to like the guy.


IRAN WARNS US OF WAR – Missiles Are Locked on US Aircraft Carrier USS Truman


Playing Obama and Kerry for fools. And we are about to deliver them $150 billion of our money as a thanks for signing that paper




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They include "unwanted advances" as harassment. How is a fellow to know if it's unwanted, in advance? In workplaces with young women, romance is always in the air.
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which is why I kept (and still keep, despite being no longer young) to the advise my dad gave me:
Never, ever, get romantically involved with a colleague.
Never, ever, touch or make eye contact with a coworker, especially one of the opposite sex.
Never, ever, engage in social functions with coworkers involving alcohol.

It's kept the sexual harassment claims at bay for 20 years now. Not getting to date some of the people I worked with who I really liked is a small price to pay for not having to go through months or years of lawsuits, criminal procedures, ending up on "sexual predator watch lists", and crap like that.
#1 J.T. Wenting on 2016-01-14 05:25 (Reply)
60% of women in Silicon Valley experience harassment.

Every young man should become "red pill" and understand that every women's mating strategy is based on their hypergamy, i.e. chicks dig jerks and bad boys who give them tingles. Women love opportunistically, not romantically.

Just stop with the awkward "nice guy" approach and be a reserved, standoffish jerk. And work first to improve yourself as a man, then learn some game. Women love that! Nice guy stuff is "creepy" to third wave feminist-types
#1.1 Old Codger on 2016-01-14 10:12 (Reply)
"IRAN WARNS US OF WAR – Missiles Are Locked on US Aircraft Carrier USS Truman"

Folks, I'm utterly bewildered and depressed by this recent humiliation of the US (for that is precisely what it is, as my countryman Mark Steyn points out in the link below).

I'm Canadian, so I'm used to living in a country where the government won't spend a dime to match its lofty international pretentions with anything approaching a credible military capability.

But the US has (last time I checked) not less than 11 carrier groups. And yet all that potential power projection would seem to amount to nothing much at all.

US taxpayers could surely be forgiven for wondering just why it is they pay for all those carrier groups when their navy is viewed puttering around the Persian Gulf with little boats of sailors just begging to be nabbed by a third-rate regime.

http://www.steynonline.com/7420/the-humiliation
#2 JJM on 2016-01-14 07:59 (Reply)
Documentaries Like ‘Making A Murderer’ Are Mostly Agitprop

To large factions of the unthinking, nationalistic, self-styled traditionalists among us, virtually anything that calls for examining conventions is mostly agitprop, calling for endless dismissal and many times, ridicule.

They don't need no stinkin' facts.
#3 Ten on 2016-01-14 08:18 (Reply)
The Iranians never actually signed the "agreement."
#4 Bagley on 2016-01-14 08:38 (Reply)
Neither did the U.S. in any obligatory way.
#4.1 BillH on 2016-01-14 09:41 (Reply)
QUOTE:
IRAN WARNS US OF WAR – Missiles Are Locked on US Aircraft Carrier USS Truman

Of course they were. The U.S. intruded on their territory, and U.S. warships were maneuvering in the area. Nonetheless, once the situation became clear, Iran quickly released the sailors back to U.S. authorities.

Bird Dog: Playing Obama and Kerry for fools. And we are about to deliver them $150 billion of our money as a thanks for signing that paper

Um, it's their money.
#5 Zachriel on 2016-01-14 09:23 (Reply)
Bird Dog: Playing Obama and Kerry for fools. And we are about to deliver them $150 billion of our money as a thanks for signing that paper

Z-Team in reply : Um, it's their money.
THEIR money?
#5.1 Gringo on 2016-01-14 13:17 (Reply)
It's hard to say if you're happy when this blind squirrel stumbles on a nut, but Zach's right. That money has been held in escrow since 2012, I believe.
Also, it's not REALLY $100-150 billion, because Iran did exchange for goods in some cases (which was allowed under the terms), and has committed some to infrastructure projects in other nations, and some other portions are just sanctions relief. So the amount of cash exchanged isn't going to be exactly the amount we're told it is, there are many components to that figure.

Still, it's a substantial sum and it's all Iran's and just being held in escrow.

Would it be better to hold until a more amenable regime were in place? Hey - geopolitics is geopolitics. We tried to rig that nation once and it blew up in our face.

I don't trust the bastards, but it's their government, not the people, that I don't think well of.
#5.1.1 Bulldog on 2016-01-14 13:28 (Reply)
It was the 100-150 billion that got me. I knew of the escrow money, which offhand I would imagine to be in the range of 10 billion. The 100-150 figure sounded to me as if the US were paying Iran some sort of compensation for having cut them off from US markets.
#5.1.1.1 Gringo on 2016-01-16 12:24 (Reply)
I should add that it's our government, and not the people, that I don't think well of, either...
#5.1.2 Bulldog on 2016-01-14 13:36 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Documentaries Like ‘Making A Murderer’ Are Mostly Agitprop

It's hard to take the article seriously when it considers the agitprop from Center for Medical Progress as honest commentary.
#6 Zachriel on 2016-01-14 09:25 (Reply)
Also why many of us don't take you seriously.
#6.1 Sam L. on 2016-01-14 12:56 (Reply)
An interesting question. Of course I've seen all over my facebook feed many accusations and links to articles stating that the CMP videos are "deceptively edited" or "discredited". But the only specific accusations of such deception that I can find are:
• we have to take the word of the people interviewed that they did see what they relate and are accurately describing it.
• As one interviewee is describing her reaction to an aborted fœtus in a dish with its heart still beating, we are shown B-Roll of an aborted fœtus in a dish with its heart still beating. This footage was clearly identified in a chiron on screen as stock-footage with the name of the organization that provided it, and they confirm that it is in fact footage of an aborted fœtus.
• we have to take the word of the organization that provided that B-roll that it is what they say it is, as they wish to protect their source.
• there was footage filmed that was not included in the documentary. This raw footage has all been released to a congressional committee investigating the videos, and AFAIK nothing has been noted as being material that would change any substance of what was revealed.

I would welcome any specifics you have on why the CMP videos are dishonest, I would find it greatly helpful in some discussions I've been having about them.
#6.2 Douglas2 on 2016-01-14 18:36 (Reply)
Thank you, Douglas
#6.2.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-01-14 21:55 (Reply)
Douglas2: Of course I've seen all over my facebook feed many accusations and links to articles stating that the CMP videos are "deceptively edited" or "discredited"

Of course they were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_2015_undercover_videos_controversy

Douglas2: This raw footage has all been released to a congressional committee investigating the videos, and AFAIK nothing has been noted as being material that would change any substance of what was revealed.

There is no substance. Fetal donation is a woman's choice. Like cutting up grandma who donated her remains to science, it's a messy process.
#6.2.2 Zachriel on 2016-01-15 06:46 (Reply)
More squid ink from Team of Zachs. Remember, it's never the issue, folks, it's always what you can handwave the issue into.

What good are words if you can't use them however you want, I ask you. It's Your Truth(tm).
#6.2.2.1 Ten on 2016-01-15 07:49 (Reply)
There wasn't a claim of illegality. It was description, which the filmmakers knew would be uncomfortable to the providers.

As to deception and discredit, the Wikipedia article is weaselly. Long on accusation, opinion, and less-important details. (Though the latter is a minor sin.) Solid evidence of deception is, ah...elusive. The star events that upset people so much did occur. That they are legal was a shock to many.
#6.2.2.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-01-15 16:00 (Reply)
Assistant Village Idiot: There wasn't a claim of illegality.

False. "the truth about Planned Parenthood’s lawless operations... baby body parts profiteers"
http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/blog/

Assistant Village Idiot: It was description, which the filmmakers knew would be uncomfortable to the providers.

So it fits the description of dishonest agitprop.
#6.2.2.2.1 Zachriel on 2016-01-16 10:08 (Reply)
Permalink
http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2016/01/cmp-statement-on-planned-parenthood-lawsuit/
#6.2.2.2.1.1 Zachriel on 2016-01-16 10:42 (Reply)
"we are about to deliver them $150 billion of our money as a thanks for signing that paper"

Does anyone still believe that Obama was not anti-American when he was 'placed' into the presidency? He was the Manchurian candidate and the Democrats knew it. Ted Kennedy was part of the criminal effort to put him in the oval office. He will give the greatest funder or worldwide terrorism $150 billion. He will quite likely give Gitmo back to Cuba who will quite likely lease it ti either China or Russia. His crimes against this country are ignored by a complicit MSM. Our country is spiraling down into an economic disaster while Obama golfs and vacations. If we were wise we would remove him from office immediately before he can use his last year to finish his evil plan.
#7 GoneWithTheWind on 2016-01-14 09:42 (Reply)
"Incandescent Light Bulbs May Have a Bright Future After All"

Bloody engineers ruin the socialist plot of the Liberal Arts majors...again.

The problem with most useless college graduates ideas is they hinge on identifying a problem and demanding submission to their fool plans. But problems are like catnip to engineers. They love to wallow in them and in their altered state, they often conceive solutions that don't require reverting humanity to subsistence farming.
#8 JK Brown on 2016-01-14 11:07 (Reply)
I come from a family of engineers and mostly agree with you.

However my husband (electrical engineering major undergrad) points out that a hugely disproportionate number of terrorists have trained as engineers. He thinks this has to do with the engineering mindset - that there is always a solution and it is frequently technical, and that as engineers they know better than most other people.

So there's that whole terrorism thing as well with engineering...

My husband thinks that there should be an ethics requirement for all engineering majors. He may have a point.
#8.1 JM01 on 2016-01-14 11:18 (Reply)
Physicians similarly have a less than stellar record. Dr. Mengele, the death camp doctor. Che Guevara- though there is apparently some doubt regarding his actually getting his MD. But Che was definitely a medical student. Salvador Allende was an MD. While Allende didn't have the bloody hands of Dr. Che or Dr. Mengele, the medical "we can treat this" attitude, similar to the "there is a solution" attitude of engineers, entered into Allende's adherence to Marxism.
#8.1.1 Gringo on 2016-01-14 12:58 (Reply)
Don't forget Dr. George Habash, Palestinian terrorist and founder of the Marxist PFLP. Or Al Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.
#8.1.1.1 Jim on 2016-01-14 14:20 (Reply)
I'm sure we can find plenty of different professions represented in the halls of tyranny and death.
Stalin studied to be a Orthodox priest...so much for the ethics test...
Hitler was an artist. Oh the Humanities!

I think the idea that doctors or engineers have an overwhelmingly bad track record has little to do with fact, and just easily these people happen to be noticed.

We tend to link the things we see frequently and say "this is how it is" when the reality may be quite different. Yes, many of the terrorists we've come to be familiar with have an engineering degree. I think that has little to do with finding solutions or being a terrorist. As someone pointed out, Al-Zawahiri is a doctor. But I'll bet among the ranks you'd find failed artists and clerics (Mullah Omar - and many other mullahs and ayatollahs who claim to be peaceful but love spilling blood...)

Papa Doc was a doctor. But so were many peacemakers (Paul Farmer, anyone?).

Rather than trying to codify evil into a particular profession, let's realize that evil can make an appearance anywhere it's welcomed...which is everywhere.
#8.1.1.2 Bulldog on 2016-01-14 15:16 (Reply)
Someone needs to ask why two swiftboats under command of a LT - USN needed to make a trip from Bahrain to Kuwait, when a C-2 could make the trip in a couple hours. Something's wrong.
#9 Claritas on 2016-01-14 13:19 (Reply)

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