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Friday, May 20. 2016

Friday morning links

Image stolen from Moonbatttery


The Thought Police in Canada


Charlotte Observer: Women Must Overcome ‘Discomfort’ Of Seeing Male Genitalia In Locker Rooms…


Fat Activist Lectures College Students On ‘Thin Privilege’


Civil Rights Fighter: Offensive To Compare Fight For Civil Rights With Transgender Fight


NYC Mayor wants to fine businesses who don’t use transgender pronouns such as “ze” or “zir”


How about "it"?


Indians to Redskins name-change advocates: Get a life


New evidence shows Rolling Stone rape hoaxer created her 'rapist'


As Law School Enrollments Drop, Decline In Legal Jobs Keeps Law Grads Struggling To Find Work


The overwhelming majority of serious violent crimes are committed by a tiny number of habitual offenders.


Federal Judge Issues ‘Extraordinary’ Order Sanctioning the DOJ for Misconduct in Executive Amnesty Litigation


Multiple lies to the federal judge. Do not try that at home


Joe Biden: ‘I’ve Never Been Gainfully Employed In My Life’


Clinton Promises to Attack Gun Owners on Her “Very First Day” in Office


Commencement Speaker Bashes “Dark Side” Conservatives


Trump Refers To Hillary’s Husband’s Sexual Indiscretions As Rape


Hillary Clinton declines to defend Bill's 'honor'
after Trump links the ex-president to 'rape' claiming Republican is
trying to pull her down to his 'level'


Trump Right Again? Imagery Points To Explosion On Crashed EgyptAir Airplane


How Donald Trump is drawing in Democrats - Black voters and other Democrats hurt by the Obama economy may rethink party allegiance


So Hillary hasn’t driven a car in 20 years, and Sanders doesn’t know to
use a Web browser. Tell me again why Silicon Valley is supporting these
two Luddites?


Paglia: 'New York Times' Juvenile Hit Piece on Trump Backfires


Boris Johnson is the winner of The Spectator’s President Erdogan Offensive Poetry competition


Haha. That's a hate crime in Germany. Also in Turkey.

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Re: Trump calling terrorism as cause of Egypt Air tragedy. I see Donald Trump as perfecting politics by bringing strong, unpalatable dose of realism into the domain of ideologues.
#1 Jayne on 2016-05-20 08:40 (Reply)
Well, there's not many other reasons for an adequately maintained jet to expeditiously self-disassemble in mid-flight.

Then again, maybe someone called it the wrong gender and it went all to pieces...
#1.1 JLawson on 2016-05-20 10:17 (Reply)
Hmmm . . .

I am glad The Donald has the cause of the crash solved. If he is this fast with airliner crashes just imagine how quickly he will be able to solve America's problems. Shouldn't take him over 6 days to fix everything, what?

I guess they are not going to reuse the spark-in-the-fuel-tank cause as in TWA 777 or 'poor maintenance' as was the cause of the airliner that fell out of the sky over Brooklyn some years back.

Has anyone claimed responsibility for a bombing?

Why would terrorists destroy a Muslim airliner? Are they so stupid as to blow up one of their own?
#1.1.1 feeblemind on 2016-05-20 11:33 (Reply)
zu feeblemind:

Not every crash is the result of a terrorist attack. The NSTB and the FBI after years long investigations concluded it was not terrorism, your wish need to believe otherwise notwithstanding.

TWA flight 800 exploded probably because of a short circuit outside the center wing tank that cause a spark in the electrical sensor system inside the CWT.
#1.1.1.1 von Funkenberg on 2016-05-20 14:11 (Reply)
Actually the cause of America's problems is pretty easy to identify, it's just the government has been consistently lying about it the last 8 years and the press follows suit. You can start with Obama and move down from there.

I understand there was a shooter at the White House today. The good news is the president wasn't there, because as usual he was out playing golf.
#1.1.1.2 Jim on 2016-05-20 16:14 (Reply)
Now that comment made me laugh. Thanks.
#1.1.1.2.1 jma on 2016-05-20 16:20 (Reply)
"Federal Judge Issues ‘Extraordinary’ Order Sanctioning the DOJ"

I read the judges comments and while I agree with his choice to not throw the case out I disagree with the light punishment. As I understand it for a lawyer, especially a DOJ lawyer to blatantly lie to a judge about serious and relevant facts in a case it is the worst possible act they can commit and completely unforgivable. These lawyers and their supervisors should have gotten jail time and disbarred at the very least.
#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2016-05-20 10:06 (Reply)
I agree that the response was pretty weak, but according to the article:
QUOTE:
The court did not have the power to disbar the individual lawyers who made the misrepresentations, but it did revoke their permission to appear in the case.


I don't know if there were a stiffer penalty - if so, I think it should have been used, but the thought occurred to me - what if the DOJ kept lying and ran through all their lawyers. I guess they would have to forfeit - but that never seems to affect the government.
#2.1 mudbug on 2016-05-20 10:33 (Reply)
Pre-school anatomy class: This is a picture of a penis. When you see a person with one of these, it does not mean they are a boy. They might have been born with a penis, but identify as a girl, so do not be alarmed or make genderistic comments or judgment when you see a female-identifier with one of these in the girl’s bathroom.
#3 SgtBob (Link) on 2016-05-20 10:08 (Reply)
I've been puzzled by the whole bathroom thing.

If J. Doe exposes he/she/it-self to someone else against their will, it's indecent exposure and J. Doe goes to jail. But if it happens in a public restroom, then it's okay and anyone who complains is a hateful bigot.

For the longest time, I thought that didn't make any sense, but now I see it's about creating a safe space for exhibitionists. They need to be able to express themselves after all.
#4 Thos. on 2016-05-20 11:11 (Reply)
Let's not forget pedofiles. After all, that's just another sexual orientation.
#4.1 mudbug on 2016-05-20 11:41 (Reply)
Think about it. Poor man's smart bomb.

QUOTE:
Rather than recruit a suicide volunteer to drive an explosive-laden vehicle to its destination, a terrorist group could program a smart car instead. It is not clear if the self-driving car designers are looking at the malevolent use of this technology, but it has the potential to drastically change the nature of future threats to our homeland.

There are discussions about adding self-driving big rigs to the highways as well, but then the potential damage could be increased by orders of magnitude. Imagine the risk to our infrastructure such as bridges, tunnels, and other critical facilities.

It is unlikely that state and federal governments are looking at this threat, since the tech giants are quite cozy with our political leaders. One hopes that someone, somewhere is looking at this technology to find some way to prevent this scenario from happening.


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/a_selfdriving_car_in_the_hands_of_terrorists.html
#5 feeblemind on 2016-05-20 12:34 (Reply)
RE NYC Mayor wants to fine businesses who don’t use transgender pronouns such as “ze” or “zir”

First Amendment defense.
#6 von Funkenberg on 2016-05-20 13:59 (Reply)
ze, zir, zit?
#6.1 OldFert on 2016-05-20 23:38 (Reply)

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