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Tuesday, October 10. 2017

Tuesday morning links


 Yes, You Get Wiser with Age


 As Overdose Deaths Pile Up, a Medical Examiner Quits the Morgue


Florida Threatens Woman with Fines, Jail for Giving Diet Tips - Occupational licensing runs amok in a familiar story.


 Detroit Firefighter Fired for Bringing Watermelon to Station House


 Ken Burns, JFK and the unopened door - The crisis of 1963 and the Galbraith initiative offered the rationale and means of exiting Vietnam


 The Human Stain: Why the Harvey Weinstein Story Is Worse Than You Think - It goes much deeper than one big creep.


 Why ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’ Is Far Worse Than Columbus Day





 Slavery, torture, and cannibalism—tell me why we’re celebrating “Indigenous People’s Day” again? And we’re getting rid of Columbus Day to protest—what? The fact that one group of slavery-practicing violent people conquered another group of violent, blood-thirsty slavers? That’s a precis of the history of the Americas before Columbus arrived.




This has always been the fatal flaw of the Left’s politics of race guilt: Name the race that’s not “guilty”? Racism, violence, and conquest are part of the human condition, not the European one.





 Kevin Hassett Smacks Down the Partisan Tax Policy Center


 Germany's "Open Doors" Are Closing: Merkel Seeks New Limits On Refugees





The deal appears to be, however, a largely symbolic concession to Ms. Merkel’s Bavaria allies that may change little in practice, partly because the right to asylum is enshrined in Germany’s constitution.



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Florida Threatens Woman with Fines, Jail for Giving Diet Tip

Disgusting. Licensed dietitians were pushing the myth of "fat bad, carbs good" well after it was shown to be wrong. Yet where is the accountability that licensing is supposed to ensure?

I hope the IJ wins this case and breaks down another protection racket.

[i] Detroit Firefighter Fired for Bringing Watermelon to Station House{/i]

Let Detroit burn. Lots of people like watermelon, if the racists who got offended can't understand this, then let them live in squalor. (Although I suggest they be deported back to a continent more suitable for their preferred lifestyle)
#1 DrTorch on 2017-10-10 08:30 (Reply)
I don't know any dieticians who pushed more carbs and less fat. In fact, most dieticians put together diet plans for Type II Diabetics and work at hospitals and other medical facilities.

I never known of a fat dietician. That tells you everything you need to know about what they've learned and how they spread the information to their clients.

I think you are blaming the wrong person here for pushing bad info.
#1.1 MissT on 2017-10-10 12:25 (Reply)
I am opposed to bureaucratic laws/regulations but even more opposed to non-judicial punishment. I would argue that a bureaucracy should only be allowed to enforce legitimately passed laws and only through the courts. I also think that the slippery slope of fiscal punishments (fines) is a mistake. What is the difference between extortion and telling a citizen that you will fine the $1000 a day unless they stop something you don't like. This should not be a shade of grey. Either you break the law and go to court or you did not. No anonymous bureaucrat should be allowed to be judge, jury and jailer/money grabber. Make it a class D misdemeanor if it must be legally sanctioned and if it does not rise to that then leave the person alone.
#1.2 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-10-10 12:38 (Reply)
Columbus landed in the middle of a war between Caribs and Arawaks. Pizarro either arrived in the middle of or triggered a lower-classes uprising among the Incas. Cortez exploited a war between the Aztecs and pretty much everybody.

And remember that despite their legends to the contrary, the high-plains Centaur culture could not have developed without the introduction of the horse to North America.
#2 another guy named Dan on 2017-10-10 08:54 (Reply)
You could make a case for pushing civilization in the direction of festival days that celebrated only peaceful accomplishments--but as Bruno Bettelheim said, kids like to play with tin soldiers, not tin pacifists. A festival's no good if people won't spontaneously celebrate it.
#3 Texan99 on 2017-10-10 09:15 (Reply)
Historically illiterate leftists apparently believe that had Columbus not run into a Caribbean island, no other European would have ever found his way across the Atlantic.
#4 SgtBob (Link) on 2017-10-10 09:32 (Reply)
You mean like the Portuguese discovering Brazil as a consequence of their exploration of the African coast? Or John Cobot discovering North America.

And ironically, we celebrate Columbus Day as a nod toward the early 20th century Italian immigrants, who took Columbus up as a hero.

QUOTE:
The day was first enshrined as a legal holiday in the United States through the lobbying of Angelo Noce, a first generation Italian, in Denver. The first statewide holiday was proclaimed by Colorado governor Jesse F. McDonald in 1905, and it was made a statutory holiday in 1907.[8] In April 1934, as a result of lobbying by the Knights of Columbus and New York City Italian leader Generoso Pope, Congress and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed October 12 a federal holiday under the name Columbus Day.


Otherwise, we probably would have only celebrated the centennials, so one celebration in 1992 in living memory.
#4.1 JK Brown on 2017-10-10 12:16 (Reply)
Especially considering that Vikings had been visiting and even colonizing the actual North American continent since the 10th Century.
#4.2 Christopher B on 2017-10-10 13:25 (Reply)
"Historically illiterate leftists apparently believe that had Columbus not run into a Caribbean island, no other European would have ever found his way across the Atlantic."

It's akin to the notion that if the US hadn't made the atomic bomb first, no one else would have.
#4.3 JJM on 2017-10-10 16:25 (Reply)
Columbus vs indigenous people's day:

Follow the money. This is about victimhood and reward. That is also what the flag protests claim to be about. It doesn't have to be based in fact it merely needs popularity and sympathy. Just imagine if you found out today that your great, great grandfather had been mistreated by some group and the descendants of that group was around today and had more wealth than you do. But there would be no legal recourse of course because the law doesn't hold distant relatives responsible for what their great, great grandfathers did. So you have to go to the court of public opinion. But there are too many distractions in our world to get attention unless you do something outrageous. So... you do something outrageous; tear down statues, disrespect the flag in front of a TV audience of 50 million, riot in the streets and steal Nike shoes, whatever. Eventually between those who sympathize and those you are extorting someone throws money at you to shut up and you win. It's the new American way.
#5 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-10-10 11:08 (Reply)
Re: Weinstein

Ok. So now the world knows what the rest of the folks in the Hollywood CA area have always known: the desire for ultimate power and wealth is created by a need for dominance, which may or may not be controlled in one's private life. Typically, be it in the world of commerce, or the world of entertainment--there is no requirement for restraint. There of course, used to be the Chrisitan churches, but they have been forced to bow to the mandates of people like Weinstein. Go back and check your memory--where, who were the first group to demand that homosexuality bet treated like genetic mistake? Hollywood. Who have the power to buy a research group in a small Swedish university? But, most importantly who had the power to put this idea -- homosexuality is genetic--into the teaching, the culture of this country? Who did that through their command of the most powerful medium--film? Who did that on our tv sets every night, every program, year in and year out till finally --well you all know where we are at with this now. Just remember to connect the da&n dots !
#6 faculty wife on 2017-10-10 12:45 (Reply)
Why Hillary isn't taking is easy. Can you imagine the goods Weinstein has on Billy? Hillary is between a rock and a hard place!
#7 FRP on 2017-10-10 13:37 (Reply)
Diet tip for State of Florida: eat $h!t and die.

RE Indigenous People:(1) There are no people indigenous to North or South America. The ancestors of the so called native Americans came over from Asia (and that group migrated from elsewhere). My people came later from Europe and brought with them a better culture and better values. (2) The myth of the noble savage is just that - a myth. The uncivilized pagans of the New World were savages who tortured their captives for entertainment and often engaged in cannibalism. My ancestors no doubt did the same many centuries before. Nobody is "noble" - we're all sinful humans. Some of us show more restraint than others.
#8 mike m on 2017-10-10 13:49 (Reply)

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