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Friday, June 10. 2016

Friday morning links

Don’t Hand The Internet Over To The U.N.


Student may be punished for insulting vegetarian


In our brave, new world, the proper use of English is now a microagression


Ten ways to reject your white privilege today


I'll get started right away


Good News: You Now Know If Your Child Is Gender Confused


Nancy Pelosi: Federal government, not Steve Jobs, ‘invented’ iPhone


“The Stark Difference Between Millennial Men and Their Dads”


America Loves Startups, but the Tax Code Isn't Doing Them Any Favors


Minimum Wage vs. the Carwasheros - New York's new $15 wage floor pits man against machine.


A good case study in microeconomics


The Baltimore Mayor's Castro Odyssey - Stephanie Rawlings-Blake visits a slave camp for advice on "economic development."


The arrogance of one-party government in California


Power will do whatever it can get away with


VIDEO: Obese Woman Starts Trashing Store After EBT Card Gets Refused


Another victim of the Obama economy


The Unemployment Rate Is Dead


Socialist Death Spirals And Politicians' Claims About Economic Growth


Bilderberg group meeting: What actually happens at the world’s most secretive gathering of global elites, and who is attending?


Obama Administration Looks to Cement Ethnic Divides With Language Mandate


Trump, and the Punditry's Scary Groupthink


NY Times Columnist Goes Bonkers Over Trump Comment about Black Supporter - What the media omitted from their coverage of Trump’s remarks.


How Hillary Has Made Our Politics Worse


Why the middle east will get much worse


I was not aware of the IQ factor


ISIS Beheads “Wizard” With Giant Sword…


Public Support for the European Union Plunges - "The EU policy elites are in panic"


 India, America’s necessary partner


The Political Message Behind NATO’s War Game in Poland

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Saudis: I knew a pharmacist who worked there. He told me that men generally seemed to believe that working was beneath them.
#1 Sam L. on 2016-06-10 11:01 (Reply)
No wonder they and the Democrats get along so well.
#1.1 JK Brown on 2016-06-10 12:39 (Reply)
Yesterday was national strawberry-rhubarb pie day.

Missed your links to recipes, events, etc.
#2 DrTorch on 2016-06-10 11:18 (Reply)
RE In our brave, new world, the proper use of English is now a microagression

from “Vietnamese femme” Alex-Quan Pham's piece, translated into Gungan.

QUOTE:
Meesa say immigrants of color besa specially made to feel ashamed of themsa ownen languages, because their languages reminden themsa dat daysa not white. their languages reminden themsa dat who daysa and where daysa come from will always taint themsa in da eyes of america.
#3 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-06-10 11:47 (Reply)
A footnote from 1886:

QUOTE:
The multiplicity of languages is due to the policy of international hate, inaugurated by the nations of Europe to promote the selfish purposes of rulers. Barbarism is diversity; civilization is unity. The human race is one, provided it is civilized, and it should have but one language. Language is a tool, and time consumed in acquiring skill in the use of more than one tool designed for the same end, is wasted. The standing armies of Europe obstruct the way to unity of language. The time will come when all civilized peoples will speak one tongue, probably the English. Then language will cease to be a mere vain accomplishment, and become what it ought always to have been, the simple means of familiarizing the mind with things, and of the communication of knowledge.
#4 JK Brown on 2016-06-10 12:42 (Reply)
From the popularity of EU article: "France is the only country where more than a quarter (32%) of the public says it would be positive for the EU if the UK departed."

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
#5 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-06-10 15:20 (Reply)
It all calls for another war.
#5.1 Bird Dog on 2016-06-10 15:23 (Reply)
I was not aware of the IQ factor

Unfair broad brush (isn't reality always unfair?). But islam: 50 generations of inbreeding. Ponder that.
#6 RosalindJ on 2016-06-10 19:11 (Reply)
True, but that is true of almost everywhere in the world. It is actually Europe that was unusual in starting to outbreed 25 (or even 40) generations ago. Beginning at the NW corner.
#6.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-06-10 22:34 (Reply)
In my opinion, someday 'gender reassignment surgery' will be viewed in the same way that lobotomies are today.
#7 JM01 on 2016-06-12 14:54 (Reply)

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