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Wednesday, April 11. 2018

Wednesday morning links

The Long Goodbye: Joni Mitchell, Love Among the Ruins


Things about blondes 


The beauty factor in employment 


 Kentucky neighborhood bans Danes, Dobermanns, German Shepherds, St. Bernards and more


Telling Moms "I Don't Know How You Do It All" Isn't Helping Us, It's Hurting Us


Internet ads:  No one wants to listen to the sex workers


 “It was really, really surprising to see the amount of hate that I got.”


A pretty girl 


 The Electric Vehicle Mileage Fraud, Updated


Holocaust survivors and their families sing an upbeat LIFE 


 The Gig Economy Continues To Expand, Frustrating The Old Guard


 Undercover Chat Reveals Planned Parenthood Giving 'Minors' Dangerous Advice on Anal Sex, Asphyxiation


How did we get to this? 


 Harvard to interrogate profs accused of ‘microaggressions’


Forensic microscope required.  This is sick and creepy 


 Brown University Now Features ‘Safe Spaces for Men’


Are there really too many "manly men"? 


 Playing the Race Card in Higher Education


 Millennial poll: Historic youth wave coming in 2018, Dems outnumber GOP 2-1


The Insanity of Open Borders


 Justice Department violated Michael Cohen's constitutional rights just by seizing his records, Alan Dershowitz tells DailyMail.com – hours before Harvard law professor has dinner with Trump

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Re electric vehicles:

The batteries pose significant hazards, and maintenance people need special training and equipment to avoid electrocution.

Accidents are especially dangerous to first responders, who likely do not have either the special training or equipment needed. In the recent Tesla crash (which killed its driver), fire crews had to remove the vehicle to a special, secured lot and keep a crew on hand continuously in case the battery exploded and caught fire.
#1 bob sykes on 2018-04-11 08:07 (Reply)
Man, I could have gone without seeing that recent picture of Joni Mitchell. But I'll just block it out of my mind and remember what she looked like singing "Born to Take the Highway" in 1965. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUNrZFreRx4 (starts at 1:30) As I get older myself, I'm getting real good at remembering things as the way they used to be.
#2 snopercod on 2018-04-11 08:11 (Reply)
Some things you just don't want to visit 40+ years later...
#2.1 JLawson on 2018-04-11 08:36 (Reply)
"Internet ads: No one wants to listen to the sex workers"

You can dress up prostitution anyway you like, legalize it, call them sex workers or sex professionals or, heck, extended-service ecdysiasts.

But the whole "business" remains seedy and dodgy, and dangerous for women, since they can never really be sure just what sort of a monster their next "client" might turn out to be.

Also, prostitution only encourages the lowest form of animal life on the planet: the pimp.
#3 JJM on 2018-04-11 08:35 (Reply)
Especially when the government closes down avenues where the women by their own choice engaging the activity can act as their own agent and vet clients before meeting them and pushes them back to needing pimps to market, oversee and impose an employer-employee relationship on the sex worker.
#3.1 JK Brown on 2018-04-11 10:47 (Reply)
I don't understand how Planned Parenthood and other groups get away with teaching deviant sex to school age children. This is way past creepy. They should be put in jail for this. At the least parents should know in advance what kind of deviant will be teaching their child and have an opportunity opt out of it. The schools should be ashamed.
#4 GoneWithTheWind on 2018-04-11 08:45 (Reply)
Re: Planned Parenthood

QUOTE:
How did we get to this?


Racism, Feminism, Leftism, and $500M of our money.
#5 mudbug on 2018-04-11 09:19 (Reply)
"No one wants to listen to the sex workers" is clearly a lie. I understand the going rate is $2.50 per minute, with a $4.00 connect fee. Although more professional operations probably run somewhat higher...
#6 Mark Matis on 2018-04-11 09:20 (Reply)
"'No one wants to listen to the sex workers' is clearly a lie."

Good point. The US and Russia are arguing over Syria to the point of going to blow but all anyone seems to want to know about is Stormy Daniels!
#6.1 JJM on 2018-04-11 10:17 (Reply)
Great Danes aggressive? Are you kidding?
#7 Apple Pie on 2018-04-11 09:37 (Reply)
Have you ever been around one that smells french fries on your breath?
#7.1 Mark Matis on 2018-04-11 09:41 (Reply)
Sounds like the developer wants to ban any dog over 50 or 60 pounds. He forgot to mention Irish Wolfhounds, Rhodesian Ridgebacks and Airedales ,the original war dog.
#7.2 blondi utronki on 2018-04-11 10:35 (Reply)
Re: Not doing it all. FINALLY!

Oh boy, I can hardly wait. You see the primary flaw in the Feminist Agenda for the past 30 years has been that women "can do it all". No institution has become more flawed as a result of this idiocy than education. Why is that you may ask? Well now, let me see if I can explain it in simple language--you know-- the only kind of reasoning that our university graduates are capable of: I have a Bachelor's degree--I am educated. I want to be a professor (good salary short work week, guaranteed vacation,e tc.) I AM WOMAN and it is MY TURN, therefore I get to be a university professor. Oh dear. WHAT you say? I have to have a graduate degree? Oh well, how about a MA degree in women's studies, or Education? That'll work won't it? Then would somebody please change the rules about submitting my qualifications when applying for that great academic job? Now, I don't have to be clear and precise about what subject I studied at the MA level. I only have to state which school and which department. So--no kiddies--I am probably not the best person available for the job to teach you--therefore when you come out with your $100,000 worth of school loans. I'll still be "not in" for office hours after class. I will still not have read up on the newest thinking in my "special field". AND, NO I am not going to write critical responses to that last piece of garbage you wrote, because it is my weekend with the kiddies and my dear son is in little league this year, so I don't have time to write a response on every paper. Hell I probably won't even read your paper all the way through--I had to cook dinner and breakfast for sunny boy and my partner. I am not an academic on the weekends--nor, am I an academic in the evenings. Therefore, kiddo--your student loan is probably only worth 10 cents on the dollar. But, hey we females have way more jobs in universities than white men and now we run the universities even though we can't use the big words, and don't have time for contemplating the consequences of complex decisions. Just saying.
#8 faculty wife on 2018-04-11 09:46 (Reply)
Feminism is an Eighties solution to a Seventies problem.
#8.1 JJM on 2018-04-11 10:15 (Reply)
Yeah, it will probably die along with its aging zealots. Don't see many young feminist zealots these days.
#8.1.1 BillH on 2018-04-11 10:48 (Reply)
A completely misguided answer to the problem outlined in Genesis 3:16.

However, I thought this humorous video was far more true than some may have originally intended:


https://youtu.be/UCftJ8Hf0kI
#8.1.2 DrTorch on 2018-04-11 10:50 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Justice Department violated Michael Cohen's constitutional rights just by seizing his records, Alan Dershowitz tells DailyMail.com

Uh, no. In Clark v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that "A client who consults an attorney for advice that will serve him in the commission of a fraud will have no help from the law. He must let the truth be told." Otherwise, an attorney and a mobster could commit murder, and put the gun in a file labeled "Attorney-Client Privilege" with the government helpless to investigate. Everyone in the mob would have a law degree.
#9 Zachriel on 2018-04-11 10:46 (Reply)
What is the nature of this fraud?
Did Stormy Daniels defraud anyone when she took the money and then talked to reporters?
#9.1 Dale on 2018-04-11 11:12 (Reply)
Dale: What is the nature of this fraud?

Only the prosecutors and judge have access to all the evidence that constituted probable cause. There is some evidence that the hush money may have violated campaign finance laws, or that the transfer of the money may have involved misrepresentation. But that second-hand information may or may not be accurate.

Of course, the prosecutors may be overreaching, but that's why you have an independent judiciary, to act as a check.

Dale: Did Stormy Daniels defraud anyone when she took the money and then talked to reporters?

There happens to be a current proceeding on the matter. The depositions should be interesting.
#9.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-04-11 11:30 (Reply)
There is some evidence

Show it.

Otherwise it looks like another one of your unfounded insinuations.
#9.1.1.1 DrTorch on 2018-04-11 11:43 (Reply)
DrTorch: Show it.

The key is that the affair ended a decade ago, but the payoff only occurred days before the election. Reporting is that people with knowledge of the case say that Cohen is being investigated for possible bank fraud and campaign finance violations.

Only the prosecutors and judge have access to all the evidence that constituted probable cause.
#9.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-04-11 11:55 (Reply)
So you're wrong again.

What's that like?
#9.1.1.1.1.1 DrTorch on 2018-04-11 12:53 (Reply)
Beginning to look and sound a lot like an FBI/ FISA fiasco redux, no?
#9.1.1.1.2 drowningpuppiesi on 2018-04-11 12:15 (Reply)
It is almost impossible to NOT violate campaign finance laws. They are intentionally "traps". Hillary violated the laws and got a few fines. Almost everyone who runs for office violates these laws and pay a fine. That's it. It isn't a felony or a high crime and misdemeanor. It is a maze of laws intended to keep the common man from being able to run because you need a law firm to stay within the laws as passed.
#9.1.1.2 OneGuy on 2018-04-11 12:19 (Reply)
OneGuy: It is almost impossible to NOT violate campaign finance laws.

Sure it is. Don't donate more than what is allowed by law.

OneGuy: Almost everyone who runs for office violates these laws and pay a fine.

Sure, because most instances are not intentional, meaning civil penalties are appropriate. But when someone knowingly breaks the law, then it becomes a criminal matter.
#9.1.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2018-04-11 12:25 (Reply)
Zzzz:
QUOTE:
But when someone knowingly breaks the law, then it becomes a criminal matter.


Like Facebook and the Obama campaign organization in 2012?
#9.1.1.2.1.1 drowningpuppiesi on 2018-04-11 12:37 (Reply)
You mean like putting classified materials on a non-secure server?
#9.1.1.2.1.2 DrTorch on 2018-04-11 12:55 (Reply)
DrTorch: You mean like putting classified materials on a non-secure server?

That's right. You would have to show that someone knew the information was classified, but sent it by email anyway.
#9.1.1.2.1.2.1 Zachriel on 2018-04-12 08:47 (Reply)
Or destroying email records from said server after being served with a subpoena weeks earlier.
#9.1.1.2.1.2.2 drowningpuppiesi on 2018-04-12 12:33 (Reply)
What crime was committed by Trump and/or Cohen?

Chapter and verse, please.

Winning the election doesn't count.
#9.2 jimg on 2018-04-11 17:31 (Reply)
Well, like uh...

Enforcing immigration law.
Defending the 2nd Amendment.
Criticizing and investigating voter fraud.
Defending oneself against false accusations of collusion with Russia.
Calling out the LSM for fake news and making them look like fools.
And..., and...,

Oh wait!
#9.2.1 drowningpuppiesi on 2018-04-11 19:58 (Reply)
jimg: What crime was committed by Trump and/or Cohen?

The matter is still in the investigative stage. Most of the information is not public at this point. If no charges are brought, much of it may never be known.
#9.2.2 Zachriel on 2018-04-12 08:49 (Reply)
Otherwise, an attorney and a mobster could commit murder, and put the gun in a file labeled "Attorney-Client Privilege" with the government helpless to investigate.

Well, except for that whole thing of there being a dead body with a bullet hole, and presumable some connection between the suspect and the body. You know, an actual crime.

I'm starting to think that organizing a raid on Cohen as Trump's lawyer is Mueller's admission that he's got nuttin'. I don't mean just nothing he can plausibly charge Trump with but also nothing he can put in a report in December 2018 (assuming the Dems take the House) that might jump start an impeachment.

A number of people who are smarter than me (like Andrew McCarthy at NR) have taken the 'where there's smoke there's a fire' approach to this, though that was before the report came out that they were dredging up Cohen's docs on the Access Hollywood tape of all things. To me that doesn't square with Mueller's MO in this investigation. Andrew has pointed out numerous times that Mueller creates colorful indictments and then accepts pleas to minor process crimes or crimes having nothing to do with the 2016 election, or indicts people who will never see the inside of US court room. This raid seems to fit more in that mold. Create the appearance of a major event, possibly gather some dirt, but I would expect that little of it would see the light of day in court.

I suspect this raid was an attempt to goad Trump into doing one of two things. Either reinforce Trump's ego-driven take that he can settle this with Mueller with a man-to-man chat (aka 'perjury trap') and save his associates from further legal peril, or piss him off enough to actual fire him. If Mueller actually had obtained any evidence of collusion he would not need to depose Trump (though he might want to). He's got nothing so he needs to build a situation where he can claim Trump has committed perjury, or bootstrap an obstruction of justice claim. Neither of those would actually be tried in court but would provide the basis for the Dems impeachment case.
#9.3 Christopher B on 2018-04-12 09:23 (Reply)
Christopher B: Well, except for that whole thing of there being a dead body with a bullet hole, and presumable some connection between the suspect and the body.

What you're reaching for is called probable cause. Investigators go to the court with sufficient evidence to constitute probable cause that a crime has been committed and that the subject of the investigation is involved.

The attorney-client privilege is moot when there is probable cause that the attorney is involved in a crime. This is contrary to Dershowitz's argument that the Justice Department violated Michael Cohen's constitutional rights *just by seizing his records*. Only an examination of the warrant application could determine whether or not the warrant was justified, a warrant approved by a magistrate independent of the investigation.

Christopher B: accepts pleas to minor process crimes or crimes having nothing to do with the 2016 election

Lying to the FBI about matters under investigation, including known Russian interference in the U.S. election, is not a minor crime. Those that pleaded guilty were almost certainly involved in other crimes, as well, but chose to cooperate. That's what a plea agreement is all about.

Christopher B: I suspect this raid was an attempt to goad Trump into doing one of two things.

A magistrate approved the warrant, meaning a finding of probable cause.
#9.3.1 Zachriel on 2018-04-12 09:36 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Undercover Chat Reveals Planned Parenthood Giving 'Minors' Dangerous Advice on Anal Sex, Asphyxiation

"Anal sex is a very high-risk behavior for urinary tract infections."

"I'm sorry that I don't have access to detailed information about what you're asking {asphyxiation}. The best way to find out about that is to call your health center."

What is 'dangerous' about that advice?

Bird Dog: How did we get to this?

People have sex.
#10 Zachriel on 2018-04-11 10:54 (Reply)
Yup. Waaaay too judgemental to say "That shit's not a good idea, and here's why."
#10.1 JLawson on 2018-04-11 11:17 (Reply)
JLawson: Waaaay too judgemental to say

Presumably, there's a procedure in place, possibly a script. If self-harm is involved, then referring to a health center for help is a reasonable response.
#10.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-04-11 11:32 (Reply)
I have an idea. Why not teach them math?
#10.1.1.1 BD on 2018-04-11 11:39 (Reply)
BD: I have an idea. Why not teach them math?

That's a different hotline.
#10.1.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2018-04-11 11:59 (Reply)
Math! Math!! We don't need no stinking math!
#10.1.1.1.2 TheRiver on 2018-04-11 12:21 (Reply)
QUOTE:
It took major prodding to get her to admit just those few risks, but she left out the worst ones. "Beverly" did not inform me of the great risk of anal tears, fissures, anal infections, anal cancer, incontinence, and anal prolapse. Why? What kind of sex educators don't know about those things? Are these really the people we want "educating" our kids about sex? They actually tell kids to use Saran Wrap for protection while "rimming."


Maybe that's a different hotline, hey kiddiez?
#10.2 drowningpuppiesi on 2018-04-11 12:30 (Reply)
"Kentucky neighborhood bans Danes, Dobermanns, German Shepherds, St. Bernards and more"

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Swedes and Norwegians should be added to the list.

And don't get me going about the Dutch. They're almost as bad as the Scandinavians.
#11 Jim on 2018-04-11 15:00 (Reply)
Don't forget those Finns either.

Bad news all around when you get a half-dozen of them naked in a sauna.
#11.1 JJM on 2018-04-11 17:11 (Reply)
Microaggressions deserve microapologies
#12 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-04-11 15:11 (Reply)

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