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Friday, May 26. 2017

Friday morning links


Non headline du Jour:  Explosive Revelation of Obama Administration Illegal Surveillance of Americans - The NSA intentionally and routinely intercepted communications of American citizens in violation of the Constitution.


The "deep State" is an enemy of us Americans 


The times they are a-litigious: Kyoto University gets billed for using Bob Dylan lyrics in speech


 Acquittal for Man Who Argued His Impressive Penis Was To Blame For Girlfriend’s Choking Death


 Woman Sues Candymaker for Its Sugar-Filled Jelly Beans


 Is preventive medical care worth the cost?


The cost to society? No. To me, yes. "Society" doesn't care about you or me. We have to take care of ourselves.


 Some Black Lives Don’t Matter - Black-on-black homicide is rampant, but professional agitators couldn’t care less.


 Racism: The Last Refuge of Us All?


 Student Mob Shrieks at Professor Who Objected to Event That Kicks White People Off Campus for a Day


‘I Might . . . Pull Off a Leg or Two’ - A shocking new undercover video exposes the grisly reality of ripping apart fetuses.


Climate Scientist Michael Mann Borrows the Words of a Holocaust Survivor to Express His Personal Angst


Thought Leaders:  Disgruntled Chelsea Clinton Suggests Republicans are Racist, Islamophobic


NY Post:  We’ve grown too comfortable with terror, ending teacher tenure & other comments


 Farmer on trial for plowing his own land


 Teacher of the Year Commits the Unpardonable Sin: Working at a Charter


 State Dept. Redacts Big Chunks of $22.8 Mil Contract to Resettle Muslim Refugees


Since when do I have to pay to settle immigrants? It is meant to be challenging.


 Legislative Malpractice: the CBO Scores the American Health Care Act


 What the CBO’s “Uninsured” Score Really Means


 THE DEMOCRATS’ SECOND SECESSION & AMERICA’S NEW CIVIL WAR - How to look at the bizarre turn our political life has taken.


Simon:  Leakers and Journalists Are Destroying Our Republic


 Trump's Budget to Preserve the Swamp? New at Reason - Republicans dodge another opportunity to rein in spending.


 Berlin: Obama, Merkel Stage Side-Event, As Trump Meets European Leaders


The media are totally trolling Trump on Russia


 Trump talks terrorism while Europe shouts ‘Climate!’


Desperate Liberals Try To Blame The Manchester Terror Attack On Anyone Other Than Islamic Terrorists


What is Terrorism? What do Terrorists Even Want? Terrorism is not an ideology like communism or capitalism


 When the FBI discovered a network of Bosnian-Americans giving support to terrorists, they also discovered Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a U.S. citizen and a battalion commander in Syria.


Losers, as Trump said 


Goodbye ISIS, Hello Losers


 Terror potential in Germany's immigrant population quadruples, German feds say


 Iran says it has built third underground ballistic missile factory

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What the CBO’s “Uninsured” Score Really Means

The article confirmed my expectation - not much.
#1 mudbug on 2017-05-26 10:04 (Reply)
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-25/guys-you-broke-the-congressional-budget-office-thank-you

Megan McArdle has an interesting take on it as well.
#1.1 Christopher B on 2017-05-26 12:21 (Reply)
What do terrorists really want? To be in charge...of the world, your life, your religion. It is a totalitarian ideology. Conquer the enemy. Just like Genghis Khan, the Vikings or any other group of warriors. I will not compare it to Nazis in WWII, because the terrorists are using barbaric means to achieve this goal.
#2 MissT on 2017-05-26 11:55 (Reply)
I realized after I hit 'submit' that my barbarism comment would probably be objected to. What I meant was that these ISIS terrorists are using medieval means - burning, drowning, chopping off heads - that the Nazis did not use. They were modern warfare types. But I do realize the Nazi barbarism came into play with medical experimentation, concentration camps, etc.

So no need to argue that point with me.
#2.1 MissT on 2017-05-26 12:02 (Reply)
Terrorism is not an ideology; it's a means to an end. Saying we're fighting a war against terrorism is like saying the WWII Allies were fighting a war against submarines, planes and tanks in WWII.

I think it was Mark Steyn who once noted that the political demands of the Islamic terrorists make no sense at all.

He pointed out that, whether you liked the IRA or ETA terrorists, their demands regarding Ireland or the Basque country respectively were at least coherent.
#3 JJM on 2017-05-26 12:29 (Reply)
Aaargh!

One WWII too many.
#3.1 JJM on 2017-05-26 12:32 (Reply)
We've been fighting this war from around A.D. 640. We will have this problem until we realize Islam is an extremist and irrational political ideology, not a religion.
#3.1.1 Jim on 2017-05-26 13:40 (Reply)
Exactly. The religion is all about subjugating others who are non-Muslim, doing forced conversions, etc.
#3.1.1.1 MissT on 2017-05-26 14:39 (Reply)
I cannot help but thinking...

I had a small epiphany this early am and thought I would ask your thoughts. DC is coming apart--"the center cannot hold".

With so many federal employees in DC fearful of loosing their jobs, and so many hysterical liberals intent on making the newly elected government look bad, we have a situation where anyone in DC Government will be seeking ways to give away "secrets" to any media close by. "The Center cannot hold"
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The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
#4 faculty wife on 2017-05-26 15:19 (Reply)
I might... pull off a leg or two... this link appears to be gone?
underover video exposes the grisly reality of ripping apart fetuses

I'm wondering why the link is gone? Is there a reason why "they" don't want us to view it?

Can someone follow up on this please?
#5 LP on 2017-05-26 20:20 (Reply)
You know why these Medical Doctors do not want people to view their lack humanity. There is a price list for baby body parts on the internet. You can find if you want to see what these MD's are doing.
#5.1 annieoakley on 2017-05-26 20:32 (Reply)

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