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Monday, July 16. 2018

Monday morning links

Can we really ever know if animals are happy? Tail wags, rat giggles, and horse snorts.


Our homes don’t need formal spaces - The entertaining rooms meant to make us social actually foster isolation


Most people live informally these days. It's like pulling teeth to get guests out of the kitchen to the parlor 


How scientists finally solved the mystery of the Irish Famine


WHO recognises 'compulsive sexual behaviour' as mental disorder


Sheesh. Is everything a mental disorder? 


 PEDOPHILES BELIEVE THEY SHOULD BE A PART OF THE LGBT COMMUNITY


Definitely! 


“Emergency” at Yale: Qualified Judge Named to Court! In a letter quivering with victimology, students and alumni denounce Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination.


 A LANDMARK LEGAL SHIFT OPENS PANDORA’S BOX FOR DIY GUNS


Even a former drug dealer can’t handle teaching in Philly’s schools


 KEITH ELLISON SUPPORTS COP KILLERS


Some guy:



 Aggressive online virtue signaling is a fundamentally two-dimensional act. It has no human depth. It’s only when we snap out of it, see the world as it really is, and people as they really are, that we appreciate the destruction and human suffering we caused when we were trapped inside.



 New Yorker Column Summarizes the Left: Everything is Broken Because They’re Losing


More Democrats Believe in UFOs Than America


 Peter Strzok’s arrogance is the product of a corrupt FBI


Who do these people think they are? 


 Democrat's 'Purple Heart' remark at Strzok hearing spurs veterans to plan protest march


 The Forgotten II: The Strange Case of the Missing Russians


 Fight Against $15: Democrats Push To Repeal Minimum Wage Hike In Nation's Capital


Is Brett Kavanaugh too poor for the Supreme Court? 


 ‘Hungary is the worst’: Refugees become punching bag under PM Viktor Orban


NATO’s problem is that Europeans won’t fight


 Trump in Europe — American and unbowed


 Trump Is ‘A Phenomenon That Foreign Countries Haven’t Seen


As Scott Adams says, he shakes the box 


TRUMP’S BLUNT TALK IS JUST WHAT NATO NEEDS - And what our president's quarrel with the military alliance really reveals.


 America's Sometime European Allies


 U.S. intelligence agencies are closely monitoring Russian military activities in Libya for signs that Moscow may soon build a military base in the divided North African state.


 Demonstrations in Vietnam should be a wake-up call for China

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I heartily recommend the book, "Paddy's Lament," by Thomas Gallagher about the political forces behind the Irish Famine. It's full of riveting stories, hard for some people to read, but really eye opening.
#1 LP on 2018-07-16 07:10 (Reply)
I'd also recommend The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith, first published in 1962.
#1.1 JJM on 2018-07-17 13:30 (Reply)
Why didn't the animal emotion article mention that some of the work he cited was at BGSU? He seemed to go out of the way not to mention that institution.
#2 DrTorch on 2018-07-16 08:55 (Reply)
Of course compulsive sexual behavior is a mental disorder. Their real point, though, is that it's something that just happens to people, and that no one should under any circumstances be held accountable for the predictable results of his own behavior.

I mean, unless they're conservatives, in which case bring out the pillories.
#3 Texan99 on 2018-07-16 09:24 (Reply)
Well said. I really didn't have more to say but the 'spam filter' demanded sustenance for its massive maw.
#3.1 XRay on 2018-07-16 09:33 (Reply)
PEDOPHILES should NOT be part of ANY community.
#4 Confused Old Misfit on 2018-07-16 09:33 (Reply)
How about the prison community?
#4.1 Sam L. on 2018-07-16 11:56 (Reply)
It will be interesting to see the decisions made by Vietnam in the coming years. I have hopes the commie leaders will make the smart choice and retire gracefully after putting in place a responsible government. That will likely not happen though, so the way forward may be perilous for the Vietnamese people. I think, eventually, they should be strong allies of the US, though again, not likely in my lifetime. Cause ya know, a lot of those folks really just wanted freedom to begin with.
#5 XRay on 2018-07-16 09:44 (Reply)
WHO recognises 'compulsive sexual behaviour' as mental disorder


Sheesh. Is everything a mental disorder?

Ever notice all this "psycho claptrap" really started to arise as more "Boomers" entered college and graduated with otherwise WORTHLESS degrees in PSYCHOLOGY? (there were only so many jobs available for counsellors back then, even in the mental health field, which was primarily run by the states for the truly afflicted!)

All of a sudden, ordinary people who previously coped with the hard times in their lives, needed to seek "counselling" for grief, emotional shock and all sorts of "traumatic" psychological maladies never before subject to treatment by "professionals", all of whom demanded payment from health insurance companies?

Economically, it's called creating a "demand," just as Big Pharma does today by running hundreds of Media ads for new, largely un-needed drugs which are used to relieve every single sympton of human discomfort, while curing NOTHING!

But, damn! They make money and employ people.
#6 b48 on 2018-07-16 09:45 (Reply)
Based on my informal observation, counseling rarely cures anything either. It came along right about the time religion was being removed from the public square, not a very good substitute.
#6.1 LP on 2018-07-16 10:32 (Reply)
I've used it a couple of times, to deal with specific issues. What I find odd are the folk who'll do it for years on end - at that point the therapist looks a lot more like a paid friend than someone who's helping with a problem.
#6.1.1 JLawson on 2018-07-16 12:05 (Reply)
I see a counselor every week. She helps me unconfuse myself about seemingly intractable conflicts and reminds me of things I'm temporarily blind to when I'm in a rut. But I'm not looking to her to "cure" me of anything, only to help me talk through new things to try and how they worked.
#6.1.2 Texan99 on 2018-07-17 09:04 (Reply)
Can we really ever know if animals are happy? Tail wags, rat giggles, and horse snorts.
For several years I walked a neighbor's dogs, until she moved last fall. Did the dogs like to go on walks? When I visit every two weeks or so, I get definite reactions when I take leashes out of a drawer. One dog starts jumping up and down. The other starts barking- as in "Let's get going!"
#7 Gringo on 2018-07-16 10:33 (Reply)
Anybody who can't tell when a dog is happy (and recognize it as that) either isn't paying attention, or is insufficiently curious - in the way that shade in deep space is insufficiently warm. Even children with autism connect.
#7.1 Aggie on 2018-07-16 13:29 (Reply)
Around 1900 there were only about 4 recognized mental disorders. The psychologists got busy pathologizing all behavior and now the DSM has 450 different definitions of mental disorders.
#8 Ray on 2018-07-16 10:39 (Reply)
"Refugees become punching bag"

The NGOs are fostering an invasion. The correct way to fix these problems is in the home country before they become refugees. The reason the NGOs want refugees and transport them to Europe and the U.S. is that they want to change the culture in these countries and destabilize them. The NGOs are breaking laws and working for the far left, socialist and communists, and their goal is to end democracy. They are succeeding while at the same time trying to appear sympathetic to human suffering. This is the new tactic of the far left instead of armed invasion a kind of "poor me" invasion where the invaders arm up after they are ensconced in country. The "one world" elite failed to take the leaders of Eastern Europe aside and explain their plan and offer shares of the spoils so the Eastern European leaders are acting in their country's best interest.
#9 GoneWithTheWind on 2018-07-16 10:42 (Reply)
NGO's are SJW cliques...where else can you find employment with a "studies" degree than in an NGO or the government. States and countries tired of this BS need to ban the NGO's or require they are licensed and bonded like any business that requires minimal degrees of performance. Hold the NGO liable for welfare reimbursement and criminal damages of their clients and the whole scam would cease. Let's see if the Christian sponsor's can afford the social justice costs they dump on citizen taxpayers.
#9.1 indyjonesouthere on 2018-07-16 14:31 (Reply)
Eastern Europeans have enough troubles already. They're smart to not let middle-eastern immigrants in.
#10 Sam L. on 2018-07-16 12:02 (Reply)
A lot still remember the Battle of Vienna and other attempts by Islam to subjugate Eastern Europe. There are no "refugees" or "immigrants." There are simply invaders.
#10.1 Jim on 2018-07-16 12:40 (Reply)
Maybe the Hungarians remember what happened when the Hungarians arrived 1000 years ago, They stayed after wiping out who was there before.
#10.1.1 grant1863 on 2018-07-16 14:08 (Reply)
Strzok's behavior is far more than mere arrogance in todays corrupted FBI. A 7/13 article at Cold Fury is enlightening as it looks at his testimony through a post modern lens.
{Transgender woman}...In my mind, I'm a women. You are required to take my opinions, residing solely in my brain, over any evidence to the contrary. It's outrageous and insulting to suggest otherwise.
{Peter Strzok}...In my mind, I'm not biased in my professional performance. You are required to take my opinions, residing solely in my brain, over any evidence to the contrary. it's outrageous and insulting to suggest otherwise.
There is no longer any objective truth to be found at the management level of the FBI...only a narrative.
#11 indyjonesouthere on 2018-07-16 14:04 (Reply)
"The Strange Case of the Missing Russians"

Putin just disclosed that the Hillary campaign received $400 million from Russian interests which was illegally transferred from Russia, and his government is willing to work with Mueller to investigate that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U95AmR3t6iU&feature=youtu.be&t=156

I suspect this is the end of the "Russia Probe."
#12 Jim on 2018-07-16 14:36 (Reply)
Hmmm. 'compulsive sexual behavior' as mental disorder.
Didn't Cheech and Chong have a bit about that? "I'm crazy about that stuff!"
#13 OldFert on 2018-07-16 15:50 (Reply)
DIY guns: The potential for his new site, if it functions as Wilson hopes, would also go well beyond even the average Trump supporter’s taste in gun rights. The culture of homemade, unregulated guns it fosters could make firearms available to even those people who practically every American agrees shouldn’t possess them: felons, minors, and the mentally ill.

I don't like this either. But those felons would need to own equipment that costs many thousands of dollars. And every part of our law still says that they CAN'T POSSESS these DIY guns.

While I appreciate that this is informing me of a legal and technology. The bigger problem is that the writer ignores that guns have gotten into the wrong hands long before anyone had made it possible to 3D print them.
#14 Dangerous Dean on 2018-07-16 18:29 (Reply)
Not to worry about Cal Poly SBO. Pretty soon when the quality of research applications becomes so substandard that the NSF won't fund serious scientific research--only funding group hugs, the school will start to need more funds form alums and concurrently that funding will be drying up as they see the degradation of scholastic quality. My bet is that it will have lost it's reputation for excellence within 5 years. Oh well.
#15 faculty wife on 2018-07-16 23:46 (Reply)

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