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Thursday, June 16. 2016

Thursday morning links

Photo is American Egret in CT this week, via reader


Disney facing questions over why there wasn´t an alligator warning on beach where boy was dragged to his death - even though a neighboring hotel has a beware sign


I think part of the issue is that everything in Disney is fake and phony, and happy happy. A hungry real gator in a fake "lagoon" is therefore inconceivable.


A Connecticut nanny likes to climb Everest


NYC: In a Race to Save a Man on the Tracks, a Reminder of What’s Good in the World


The Diversity Profession - Who knew hush money could be so loud?


Via Insty, Harvard Grad Who Flunked Bar Sues Over Loss Of Big-Law Job


The Real Lesson of John Oliver's Medical Debt Forgiveness Stunt


McArdle on climate: It's a variation on the recurring "Why are you a terrible person?"


After Orlando: What America Can Learn from Israel's Culture of Preparedness


The Terrorist Watchlist, Explained


Blue Voyagers - Residents of Democratic states seek escape from the tax man.


Then they turn the read state into purple...like the "Massholes" in NH


A book:  Flyover Nation: You Can't Run a Country You've Never Been To


The End of the Free-Speech Consensus - Naturally, the Golden State wants to lead the totalitarian way.


This Is How All Bureaucrats Should Be Answered


The Disappearing Continent: A Critique of the Revised AP European History Examination


Stossel:  My Lunch with Hillary


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Rush: Democrats Despise me More Than They Despise Militant Islam


Five Ways Political Correctness Kills Americans


WHITE LIBERAL Screams at Black #Trump Supporter on Racism Outside Trump Rally


Dubai-Based For-Profit Educator Paid Bill Clinton $5.6 Million After CGI Partnership


Beijing scores again


China’s imperialism on the South China Sea


ISIS killer Larossi Abballa who murdered French police officer and his wife was convicted terrorist

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re Disney facing questions over why there wasn´t an alligator warning on beach where boy was dragged to his death - even though a neighboring hotel has a beware sign

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I think part of the issue is that everything in Disney is fake and phony, and happy happy. A hungry real gator in a fake "lagoon" is therefore inconceivable.


I would speculate that a couple from Nebraska may not have even considered the possibility of alligators. After all, we don't have them here.
#1 feeblemind on 2016-06-16 09:06 (Reply)
RE disney gator sign:

any kid seeing a "Beware Alligator" sign would go looking for Wally Gator.
#2 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-06-16 09:15 (Reply)
Re: Rush: Democrats Despise me More Than They Despise Militant Islam

That is obviously true. What's also true is that they love Muslims more than they love gays.
#3 mudbug on 2016-06-16 09:26 (Reply)
So true! More and more it seems to me that the federal and even local government, is at war with all that do not toe the line of the progressive movement. The DHS has for years considered those of us that believe in the founding principles, the Constitution and liberty, enemy's of the state. Orlando, like San Bernardino, was a failure of government. Yet here they come for my guns. Fundamentally transformed. Just like dear leader promised.
#3.1 B Hammer on 2016-06-16 09:55 (Reply)
Thinking of some history (hypocrisy): It was sometime in the second term of Bush 43, that these same progressive lunatics, where stomping their feet, screeching about how terrorists deserved due process rights. Now they want to take my rights away, with no due process.
#3.1.1 B Hammer on 2016-06-16 10:12 (Reply)
There's no such thing as hypocrisy on the left.
#3.1.1.1 mudbug on 2016-06-16 10:29 (Reply)
Bar exam lawsuit. There was a case like this some years ago, where the student represented himself. By winning he would disprove his case.
#4 jay on 2016-06-16 09:28 (Reply)
that girl is worthless as an attorney. I don't know how things are in Bahston, but in LA relations with an adversary attorney can be brutal and sometimes brutally personal and if you don't have tank armor-grade skin, you'll be run over by the other side whether in litigation or contract negotiation. there's no "extra time" when a partner gives you work under a looming filing deadline. she obviously got there because of race and incompetence.
#4.1 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-06-16 09:40 (Reply)
Cognitive difficulties, memory problems, anxiety, panic attacks, required double time to pass the bar... Who wouldn't want her as their lawyer?!
#4.1.1 mudbug on 2016-06-16 10:39 (Reply)
DC Lawyer here. Cognitive impairment is no barrier to being an attorney; know plenty of attorneys who are morons. It just means you won't be a good one. On the other hand, panic attacks and an inability to comprehend simple messages* are significant barriers to practicing law.

*Simple messages, like the one all top schools provide on day one at Orientation at all top schools, where they tell the 1-Ls "it's your job and BarBri's to prepare you for the bar, that is not our mission here at Ol' Ivy State School of Law and Fishmongering."
#4.2 Jablonski on 2016-06-16 10:19 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Stossel: My Lunch with Hillary ... I pointed out that the workers weren’t slaves. They’d come to Anguilla only because their alternatives in China must have been significantly worse.

The workers were so happy that they went on strike complaining of conditions tantamount to slavery, housed in shipping containers, not allowed to leave the compound except to go to work, inadequate food and water, abuse by supervisors, and lack of basic medical care even for work-related injuries.
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#5 Zachriel on 2016-06-16 09:29 (Reply)
If they were so unhappy, maybe they should have gone back where they came from.
#5.1 mudbug on 2016-06-16 11:25 (Reply)
Re: China’s imperialism on the South China Sea

China's imperialism is on full display. The next question is what, if anything, we or anybody else is going to do about it?
Nations with relatively free trade are supposed to be disinclined to engage in violence with each other but what do you do when one trading partner continually provokes the other? Since trade was the thing that is supposed to "keep the peace", would it be the correct tool to reign in aggression?

As the article said, part of the blame comes from our leaving the Philippines and creating a power vacuum - a lesson we seem this administration seems unwilling to learn. But we can't relive the past.

I'm generally a free trader but I'm beginning to wonder if a bit of a trade stick is called for. Of course, trade wars are nasty things and can lead to hot wars - but then open aggression does too. I guess another option is to wait for the Chinese citizens to overthrow the Chinese Communist Party and become a more democratic nation and thus more likely to be a less aggressive one.

This is obviously a prickly situation. We need someone with successful foreign policy experience to navigate this. Someone who is trustworthy. Maybe a previous Secretary of State! It's too bad nobody like that is running for president.
#6 mudbug on 2016-06-16 09:54 (Reply)
China is in full aggressor mode and has been for years now. They are inserting themselves into South and Central America, Africa, the Middle East and the rest of Asia. They have unprecedented numbers of spies in the U.S. and they have been massively spying using the internet for years. We ignore their aggression at our peril. I am not suggesting starting WW III over this but I am suggesting that we first and foremost re-energize and rebuild our military (we have allowed it to degenerate over the last decade or so. Second that we strengthen and improve our protections of classified and critical commercial information, and last that we require that critical manufacturing capability returns to the U.S. so that if China throws a tantrum we aren't left incapable critical manufacturing. China has thrown down the gauntlet and we have responded by opening up women's bathroom to confused men. This will not end well. Look at history for the answer.
#7 GoneWithTheWind on 2016-06-16 10:14 (Reply)
Agreed. Having a strong military and the perception that it will be used if provoked goes a long way to reducing those provocations. The problem is that we're pretty much the only ones who have been willing to do this. It's long past the time for other countries that seek the sort of peace we seek to play a part. Unfortunately, our military spending (as well as obsolete constitutional changes imposed after WWII) has subsidized their (Europe, Japan, etc.) social spending to the extent they have made their militaries ineffectual. Now we need to build up our military and they need to also build up theirs.
#7.1 mudbug on 2016-06-16 11:08 (Reply)

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