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We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

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Monday, November 20. 2017

Monday morning links

Image stolen from Ace 


News to me: They had machine guns in 1718 


 Doctors blame purine in beer for most gout flare-ups


 A Woman’s Defense Of The Alpha Male


NYT:  We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself


Who trusts government to do that?


 The Climate Alarmists Definitely Don't Believe Their Own Propaganda


 What Ken Burns' Vietnam War docu-series on PBS gets wrong


 LiAngelo Ball’s Father Suggests Trump Had Little to Do With UCLA Basketball Player’s Release From China


Some gratitude 


 Apple fires Diversity Chief for suggesting that intellectual diversity is important too.


 NFL star Herschel Walker, who once played on Trump's lackluster football team, takes stand against anthem protest and commissioner Roger Goodell


Bill Clinton Still Silent About Flights On Pedophile’s Sex Plane


What should he say? 


Democrats’ depravity laid bare by Bill Clinton


Obama's 'unaccompanied children' turn up big in latest MS13 gang sweep


 Virginia goes Don Quixote. State will defy Trump, double down on renewables and CO2 reductions – and hurt poor families


Why no one is talking about Trump’s game-changing China deal


 Have Palestinians Entered Into Meaningful Negotiations with Israel?


 Meanwhile In Sweden, Crime Hits All Time Highs


 ISIS Group Releases Image of 'Beheaded' Pope Francis


Time for a re-set with Russia 

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A Woman’s Defense Of The Alpha Male

Even feminists are fine with masculinity right up to the point that men start exercising their options.
#1 Christopher B on 2017-11-20 08:21 (Reply)
When someone has something you want, and you haven't brought any order to your thinking about freedom and self-determination, it's always nice to fantasize about their not having any options. But this is no more a problem for feminists than it is for alpha males or anyone else.
#1.1 Texan99 on 2017-11-21 16:37 (Reply)
"Image stolen from Ace"

"Why?"

Ask my dog! Right now she's hovering around the breakfast table all concerned and worried here because we're eating back bacon.

And I guarantee it's not out of any sense of solidarity with pigs.
#2 JJM on 2017-11-20 09:32 (Reply)
Obama's unacompanied children: I thought that meant Malia and Sasha! Silly me.
#3 Sam L. on 2017-11-20 11:13 (Reply)
Can't help but wonder if Daddy Ball would have named the next son LeMonjello. Sorry, I know that's an oldie.
#4 Rivetjoint on 2017-11-20 11:43 (Reply)
My lovely daughter has fallen under the spell of militants in her public school. She told us a year ago that she was a vegetarian because of the cruel treatment we impose on our food. She didn't buy in when I told her that I had personally tickled to death every piece of meat we cooked in our house. She finally came around to eating meat again about 6 months later when I pointed out that she likely wasn't developing normally because of the lack of protein.

So I had to laugh at the pig/dog picture on the page today. During that ugly phase the ONLY meat she would eat was bacon. Don't ask me why. I could have ridiculed her for it, but I didn't want to push her off the ledge she was clinging to.

God bless bacon. And ham. And ribs.
#5 Dangerous Dean on 2017-11-20 14:28 (Reply)
Some years back when one of the wife's sons was in college, he jumped on the vegetarian bandwagon citing the usual claptrap as justification.

He made it about 6 months as well. When he came home for the holidays he surprised his family by eating meat with the rest of them. When his siblings asked him how he happened to fall off the wagon, so to speak, he said:

"Well, I was doing pretty well sticking to the vegetarian diet at school . . . and then I smelled someone frying bacon."

He sighed and said,

"Bacon. It's the gateway meat."
#5.1 feeblemind on 2017-11-20 19:31 (Reply)
RE: Virginia, Renewables, and CO2 reductions

I, for one, support the Virginia state government's right to stick it to the people of the state that put them in power. It's only fair, so long as their actions don't affect me. I live in MA and have enough of my own government crap to deal with...
#6 steve walsh on 2017-11-20 15:10 (Reply)
"Bill Clinton Still Silent About Flights On Pedophile’s Sex Plane
- What should he say?"

Well, here's an idea:

"Recent news reports implying that I support or engage in human trafficking are false and defamatory. During the many flights I took on my friend Jeffrey Epstein's plane from 2000-2005, I never engaged in sexual activity with anyone regardless of their age. If I had been aware that the young women Jeffrey traveled with were under 18, I would have reported it immediately to the FBI."

(P.S. Bill's a pig.)
#7 anonymous on 2017-11-22 13:18 (Reply)

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