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Saturday, September 15. 2018

Saturday morning links

Image via  THE WEEK IN PICTURES: HURRICANE TRUMP EDITION


"Have I got a college for you. For your first two years, your regimen includes ancient Greek. And I do mean Greek, the language..."


 Why We Stereotype


The Alarming Findings of a New Study on Transgender Teens and Suicide


Nothing to do with trans-whatever. Just generally very screwed-up people 


Florence Brings A Deadly Hotcoldwetdry Message Or Something


Hilarious video shows journalist ´bravely´reporting on Hurricane Florence-until two men in shorts casually stroll past


 Hurricane Florence: I rode out the storm – this is what it was like when 90 mph winds were above my house


 ‘The System’s Not Working’ Is Liberal Speak For ‘We’re Not Getting What We Want’


 Strzok Wanted To Hunt Down Trump Ties Using FBI "Steele Dossier" Report Leaked To CNN


 The Dalai Lama: Europe Belongs to Europeans, Refugees Should Return Home to Build Their Own Countries


 China Cracking Down On Christians, Destroying Crosses, Burning Bibles, Forcing People To Renounce Faith

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The Weather Channel piece is even worse than people think. The reporter is "bracing" into the wind, not against it like you normally would. Look at the grass in the planter just behind him and you'll see the wind blowing the same way he's leaning. Dan Rather faked it much better.
#1 FRP on 2018-09-15 09:42 (Reply)
I just can’t believe anything I read, or see from the media. Makes me wonder how much of a lie it has always been. Do people even care about the truth anymore? Do they only care about their version of the stories that moves their sides political agenda forward?
#1.1 B. Hammer on 2018-09-15 09:58 (Reply)
I generally wait a few days before I decide if a story is true or as important as they say it is. In almost every case either or both of those factors fall apart.

I read recently that some large percentage of the population does not trust the news media. Whatever that percentage is is not enough because the fake news industry is not sufficiently embarrassed to put out this claptrap. On the other hand, it's very dangerous not to have a reasonably reliable source for news. The fake news industry is playing with fire but they may not be the only ones who get burned.
#1.1.1 mudbug on 2018-09-15 10:20 (Reply)
I was about to comment what can you expect, given the Wx Channel is owned by NBC of the fake news triumvirate, but checked it's ownership and found it's now owned by something called Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios, a purveyor mostly of junk TV if it's Wikipedia entry is anywhere near accurate.
#1.2 BillH on 2018-09-15 12:41 (Reply)
It's life imitating art, if you ever saw "All about Steve". In the movie, the crew's producer was crouched down below camera angle, pushing on the reporter's knees to make him rock, and getting soaked. I bet the W.C. crew knocked over those traffic barricades in the background, too, just to make it look more suitably apocalyptic.
#1.3 Aggie on 2018-09-15 13:37 (Reply)
It is not only the Christian, in China, that is getting the rough treatment. China has been cracking down on Christians for years. They have also set up ‘education’ camps for hundreds of thousands of Uighur and Kazakh citizens. Nothing before the State! Do you need a proof of God’s existence? Why must He be driven out of every totalitarian society? Coming to the USA, I have no doubt of this, if the left gains political control.
#2 B. Hammer on 2018-09-15 10:15 (Reply)
How do you trans a gender?
#3 Ray on 2018-09-15 10:15 (Reply)
Socialism will always persecute Christians, the state can not bear to have people who have a higher calling than the state. Always happens, always will.
If they had any sense of history they’d realize that martyrdom and persecution only serves to strengthen Christianity,
God bless them all!
#4 Dale on 2018-09-15 10:38 (Reply)
Socialism make the state god and often the leader conflates themselves as the face of god. And god can do no wrong.

And the State cannot countenance a competitor or doubt of its legitimacy.

Christianity is a specific threat

QUOTE:
Christianity, as a late writer has pointed out in words well chosen, is the only system of socialism which commends it self as having a rational basis, and its founder the most practical teacher of it that the world has ever seen. " The aim of all socialism is the securing of equality in the social condition of mankind, and if equality is to be secured at all it will be secured only by changing the hearts of men, and never by setting to work, in the first instance, upon the conditions." But the present impulse of socialism is not Christian, but rather one willing to put an end to Christianity. And it is a system of machinery, like the kingdom of a tyrant, not of souls, like that of Christ. Now the Christian system did not rest on force at all. It was communistic, but not socialistic, as the word is properly used; for its very essence was the freedom of the individual will.

Socialism and Legislation, Westminster Review, January, 1886.

--The Ethics of Democracy by F.J. Stimson. Scribner’s Magazine (1887)
#4.1 JK Brown on 2018-09-15 15:29 (Reply)
Aw, I missed the asterisk would translate into markup.
#4.1.1 JK Brown on 2018-09-15 15:31 (Reply)
Socialism/communism is a Christian heresy. Hence its religious nature.
#4.1.2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-09-15 20:12 (Reply)
90 mph, phoo. We had sustained winds of 130 here last year, when we stayed for the eye of Harvey. We lost a lot of trees, but the house was fine; in fact, houses built to modern code did fine all over the county. Very few metal roofs took on water except for a few directly on the coast. We're a mile or so in.
#5 Texan99 on 2018-09-15 10:41 (Reply)
As a guy from Guam remarked before Katrina, "Why are the houses made out of wood? In Guam, only the poor people live in wooden houses"

Guam gets real storms, that sit over the island for days.
#5.1 JK Brown on 2018-09-15 15:34 (Reply)
Most houses in Guam are built of cinder blocks that won't blow away in the storms. One of my friends grew up in Guam, he remembers storms so bad the water was actually seeping through the mortar seams of the cinder blocks, being blown by the wind.
#5.1.1 Jim on 2018-09-15 15:57 (Reply)
It’s not so much that ‘most transgender teens attempt suicide’ - it’s that many, many suicidal teenagers decide that they’re transgender.

Socially transitioning allows a person to symbolically kill themselves - the ‘old you’ is dead and gone and you have a new name, new wardrobe, new haircut, and a brand new “stunning and brave” transgender identity. It’s another form of parasuicidal behavior, self-harming, only one that society currently celebrates.
#6 Jm01 on 2018-09-15 11:31 (Reply)
This particular Dalai Lama has turned out to be an interesting cat, hasn't he? Not according to script. Of course, when you're the DL, you write your own script, and who can tell you you're wrong, eh?
#7 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2018-09-16 14:29 (Reply)

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