Wednesday, January 7. 2015
 It's been smoldering for years, but Jihad is not smoldering anymore in Europe.
Is everybody worried about the "backlash"? I hope not. We all have big problems with these bat-shit crazy bloodthirsty barbarians.
Brit imam living on welfare celebrates Paris massacre. Where is Charles Martel when you need him?
At Am. Interest:
Europe dreams that it has entered a post-historical paradise of international peace and social tranquillity resting on blue model social capitalism and the cooling of religious passion. In reality, every year the foundations of Europe’s peace and order are eroding. The great achievements of European civilization and culture have to be defended, and at the end of the day you can’t defend something unless you believe in it.
Also, Some Outlets Are Censoring Charlie Hebdo’s Satirical Cartoons After Attack - News outlets shy away from publishing the controversial images of the paper’s satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Driscoll:
...with Wolf Blitzer of appeasement-oriented CNN already muttering about Charlie Hebdo occasionally going “over the line,” as Pundit Press notes today, and Ed Morrissey paraphrasing at Hot Air that the Financial Times thinks that “Charlie Hebdo kinda asked for it, y’know?”, tomorrow’s news stories write themselves, don’t they?
Also, France Under Islamist President in Novel Stirs Controversy
Some of the victims.
CNN’s Sally Kohn: Wanting To Censor Criticism Of Islam Is Consistent With Belief In Free Speech…
Catholic League President Bill Donohue on Charlie Hebdo: 'Muslims Are Right to Be Angry'
Greenfield:
Mocking Jews, Catholics, Mormons and atheists isn’t going too far. But mocking Muslims… that’s going too far.
Finally, this:
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith went on an editorial rant against those rushing to judgment and suggesting that the terrorists who massacred twelve people at Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday might be — gasp — Muslims.
Monday, January 5. 2015
 Why are we so obsessed with plane crashes?
Our old friend Tigerhawk is now a contributing writer at Conservative Wahoo
Edward
Brooke, The Former Massachusetts Republican Who Was The First Black
Person Elected To the U.S. Senate Since Reconstruction, Died Saturday
Markets in everything, spas for seven year olds
2014: The Year of Peak Stupidity
"You see, Elly, I raised you like a boy, and I was wrong to do it."
Here's the main problem with feminism. Bat shit crazy broads
Home Schooling: More Pupils, Less Regulation
Klavan: we will have to offend people. A lot of people. A lot of the time.
Markets in everything, spas for seven year olds
Gun Trouble - The rifle that today's infantry uses is little changed since the 1960s—and it is badly flawed. Military lives depend on these cheap composites of metal and plastic. So why can't the richest country in the world give its soldiers better ones?
Listening to Dr. King, I wonder what happened to us
How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations
What’s your top priority in 2016? Let this poll help you pick! We’ve got 99 problems, and we can’t run on all of ‘em.
Government is the Country's Biggest Problem, Say Americans
Government Orders Wage Hikes in 20 States
"...imagine if at some point from late 2001 through the end of 2008, a troop of American soldiers turned their backs on George W. Bush during a speech*, they’d be praised as brave dissent demonstrators, and possibly “Salon’s People of the Year.”"
Cause of Pause in Global Warming
Snow in Palermo, Sicily
Kim Jong Un: Slavetrader - North Korea is actually a vast slave labor plantation and human trafficking operation run for the profit and hedonistic pleasure of its morally degenerate rulers.
India's Government Will Now 'Check and Verify the Use of Toilets' - It's an unprecedented plan aimed at eliminating open defecation across the country. Could it work?
France Joins the Supply Side: Paul Krugman Hardest Hit
Mental patients, screaming "Allahu Akbar," are storming France.
Egypt’s al-Sisi Makes Extraordinary Speech on Islam
Maoists in China, Given New Life, Attack Dissent
In instructions published last week, Mr. Xi urged universities to “enhance guidance over thinking and keep a tight grip on leading ideological work in higher education,” Xinhua, the official news agency, reported.
Saturday, January 3. 2015
The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They Have? It's an interactive site.
 Toon via the WSJ
I'm an "aye," especially if the vote is to remove laws, rules, and regulations.
Related: A political system is often at its best when it does nothing.
Doctor: "death from cancer is the best"
“Those that get up at 5 a.m. rule the world.”
I'm a 4:30 guy myself, and I rule nothing
Hot Sauce Maker Blisters Federal Nanny
Common Core Sparks Rise in Home Schooling
Are UNC centers politically biased?
The numbers add up to one fact: Cops are a blessing to NYC
Want a President Who Loves America
Oh Yeah, Jeb’s Running — But Should He?
Salon: Our scary new Congress: Meet 5 Tea Party extremists taking office this month
Jonah quotes:
“The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand the New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie-chart format. . . . The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country, and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much . . .
December 31, 1912
Land is subsiding but they call it sea level rise
Cleric Shakes Up Saudis: Uncover Your Face, Wear Makeup, Mingle with Men
The logic behind President Obama’s Cuba normalization, assuming there is one, is the nylon strategy.
Friday, January 2. 2015
Some years ago, after his governorship of NY, Cuomo had a short-lived national radio talk show.
I phoned in once, on a whim. He was gracious, warm, and pleasant, and I was pleasant to him. I asked him what was on liberalism's agenda. He said government needs to provide and run medical care in the US. I said "OK, what after that?" He hesitated. I said "How about government car insurance?" He said "That's definitely something to look into."
Then I got to my point: I asked him "At what point is the progressive agenda complete - where does it end?" He hesitated again, then said (approx) "Government needs to assure that all Americans get what they need." I cheerfully responded "That's what I thought." It went on for a brief while.
He emailed me the next day, and asked me to call again. Said I had interesting comments. I never bothered to do so, though, figuring he was hopeless. An affable guy, though, unlike his son "Evil Eyes" Cuomo, aka Michael Corleone. They took Mario off the air a while later because he acquired no listeners.
Sleazy politician, good speaker, decent fellow, and deeply misguided which is disappointing in an immigrant family.
Barrels: a history of hogsheads, kegs and puncheons
Don’t Like Guns? Then Regulate Them Like Cars!
Re guns: "hilariously pretentious"
Taco Town!
Biological bad luck blamed in two-thirds of cancer cases
Cheer up. Things are not all that bad for the world
Can’t Find Enough (Excellent) Programmers Here
France Finally Runs Out of Other People’s Money
Climate: Ask Questions and Endanger Your Career
Giant fans kill birds
Williamson: 2015 Non-Predictions And one prediction, too
Dino:
...you have the bizarre spectacle of the media running from city to city and village to village to find an event to fit the narrative. Boy, these progressive narratives, one after the other and non-stop, are getting to be really annoying.
WALL OF SHAME: Top 10 most outrageously biased professors of 2014
Professor – It’s Time for UVA to Apologize
Unarmed White Man Killed by Alabama Police; No Protests, No Riots, No National Media
Goldberg - A Year of Liberal Double Standards What seems like staggering hypocrisy is actually remarkably consistent from liberals’ perspective:
Peaceful, law-abiding tea-party groups who cleaned up after their protests — and got legal permits for them — were signs of nascent fascism lurking in the American soul. Violent, anarchic, and illegal protests by Occupy Wall Street a few years ago or, more recently, in Ferguson, Mo., were proof that a new idealistic generation was renewing its commitment to idealism.
Thursday, January 1. 2015
 2014 Man of the Year: Hillary’s Service Dog
A Farmer Discusses How His Marshmallow Crop Is Threatened by Heavy Rains
The Benefits of Being Cold - Year-round warmth is a modern luxury, and one that could be affecting body weight and health.
Rescuing Boys from Disney Princesses
You Might Think This Was The Most Maine Thing Ever
For Paul McCartney, "it’s ridiculous, and yet very flattering" that college students now take courses on the music of The Beatles. "Ridiculous because we never studied anything..."
And The Highest-Paid US Government Employee is....
A streetcar not desired?
U.Va. professor, son want apology to those 'wrongfully punished'
Of course: Anti-police protesters call the police after road blockade goes bad
PSA To Kids: Steal Parents’ Guns, Give Them To Teachers
4 Ways Neo-Victorianism Reared Its Ugly Head in 2014
Hands up–I’m lying–Thomas Sowell comments on race hustlers and demogogues
Is Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients Catching On?
Bad idea
White Liberals and the New Racism
SHOTS FIRED at Ferguson Police During Burglary Call – Six Arrested
There goes the neighborhood
The Effect of Broken Windows Policing in New York City
White Liberals and the New Racism
High Taxes, Regulations Send New Yorkers Fleeing
Fleeing the state, not the city
Obama said 'Tehran is a large, sophisticated country.'
Imagine if Bush...
Commenter re the EU here: "They've been killing each other for centuries to avoid shit like this..."
Commenter here: "Never, ever hire a person with a degree in ethnic or black studies,
critical race theory, or anything with feminist in the name. They are a
walking lawsuit or HR disaster..."
Obamacare: Even More of a Scam Than You Thought - A welfare program by another name...
It’s time the good Muslims cleaned house. It’s time they swept the jihadists and terrorists into the well.
Gaza Is Nowhere
It's their own darn fault
Wednesday, December 31. 2014
Tuesday, December 30. 2014
Regulation gone wild – Christmas lights are the next target of nanny state thinking
Cracking the Sitcom Code - After signing up to write a script for Croatian television, I learned that virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula.
Let Them Eat Quiche: How the Local Food Movement Swerved Right
Prostitution Was Made Illegal — Is Porn Next?
Should adultery be illegal?
California Moonbats Demand Schools Teach “Sexual Consent” To Kindergarteners…
In LA, CBS Station Pretends There Was a Real Kwanzaa Parade
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LA, CBS Station Pretends There Was a Real Kwanzaa Parade - See more
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Cop Killings in New York: Who's Responsible?
Michigan Has More Food Stamp Recipients Than Students
Pope Francis to Lead Fight Against Global Warming Junk Science
Will Elizabeth Warren sell ‘outside the bubble’?
When Republican Nixon Listened to Liberal Moynihan
Drug prohibition and mass incarceration
Sweden to Opt for Suicide by Immigration?
Woe to anyone in Sweden who dissents from the orthodox view that welcoming large numbers of indigent peoples from such countries as Iraq, Syria, and Somalia is anything but a fine and noble idea. Even to argue that permitting about 1 percent of the existing population to emigrate annually from an alien civilization renders one politically, socially, and even legally beyond the pale. (I know a journalist threatened with arrest for mild dissent on this issue.) Stating that there exists a Swedish culture worth preserving meets with puzzlement.
116 foreign fighters who had joined Islamic State but later wanted to return home, were executed in the Syrian provinces of Deir Al-Zor, Raqqa and Hassakeh since November.
Monday, December 29. 2014
I've started, revised, and rewritten this post several times. I began it just about the time of the Ferguson riots. Then something happened and I had to add to it, while altering other parts. Something else occurred, and so on. Certain issues continue a narrative over time, and that is the nature of news.
The post I was writing was specific to the riots in Ferguson. Then Eric Garner's Grand Jury results came in and it morphed. Then my ultra-liberal sister posted an article about how white people simply can't understand the black narrative and we need to be sensitive to why they feel the way they do about cops. This was followed by a discussion over a post by my friend which supported the #crimingwhilewhite tweeters. Then I picked up my son from college and heard about how 'white privilege' is now a hot topic among his classmates. Finally, two cops were shot and buried in the last week. I spent time trying to decide whether this was a post about race, cops, or something else altogether. In the end, I realized it's probably a number of things, because there wasn't just one narrative here. Brown and Garner were not about race, no matter how much people wanted them to be. Nor were they only about how bad cops are, or can be. Nor was any of this about how poorly the media handles these topics, or how those who consider themselves the intellectual elite manage the discussion. It's really about all of these items, but none of them, either. Ultimately, in the end, it's about each of us and how we individually think about unconnected events which we try to connect through some kind of hive mentality. It's about whether we really care about these events, and how we care about them.
At first, I planned to discuss how far we'd come in race relations. We have come very far. It's impossible to look at how we deal with race today and say we are in the same place we were in any year from 1880-2000. My friend said that improvement is relative, that we have further to go. Perhaps we do. But I'm not benchmarking myself against an unclear ideal which no group of people fully agree on. What will represent the final 'best' format of race in our nation? Nobody knows. All we can do is be aware of ourselves, individually, and try to be better about how we treat people when it comes to race, gender, nationality and religion. I include all of these together because as a society we have issues in every single one of these categories. We need to stop letting one word, used out of place or out of context, produce rage. We need to ignore things like "trigger words", which are nothing more than words which certain people have designated for censorship because they lack the courage to accept that language is malleable and can sometimes offend even slightly. As a nation, we need a real dialogue. Not about race, in particular. We need a dialogue about values and what is truly important. Race may be part of that value structure, but it's only a small part. Individual responsibility is really the larger value structure we need to focus on. Responsibility for our own health, our own minds, our own speech and our own education. We can't let small parts of the 'society' value chain derail us from the goal of crafting a nation which is unified entirely by how different each person is.
Continue reading "I Do Care about race relations"
Getting away from all news and internet for 5 or 6 days is always interesting. To make it even more liberating, I leave my cell phone at home.
Sometimes I feel strongly that politics is important, and at other times I believe that they are all big government scoundrels and that America would be best off with a philosopher-king with perfect integrity, as long as it were me. I'd hate the job.
This is interesting: 2014: The Year the Democratic Party Death Watch Resumed
Saturday, December 27. 2014
Good photos in National Geographic
Antique American recipes, restored
John Cleese: 'I'll never grow up' - The Fawlty Towers actor on grasping ex-wives, self-centered mothers and
why he's happy with his Peter Pan complex
Lobsters thrive on lobster bait
“Scrooge Was A Liberal, Studies Show”
Once Upon A Time, Free Speech And Association Were Sacred To Liberals
Meanwhile, back in grad school
Have We Become a Nation of ‘Wussies’?
Do Diversity Initiatives Indirectly Discriminate Against Asian Americans?
The Big Lie of the Anti-Cop Left Turns Lethal - The real story behind the murder of two NYPD officers:
The New York Times ratcheted up its already stratospheric level of anti-cop polemics. In an editorial justifying the Ferguson riots, the Times claimed that “the killing of young black men by police is a common feature of African-American life and a source of dread for black parents from coast to coast.”
Cuba Derangement Syndrome strikes again
With Two Years Left, the Inflection Point of the Obama Presidency
The World Is Not Falling Apart - Never mind the headlines. We’ve never lived in such peaceful times.
Ben-Dror Yemini - "The Industry of Lies", an interview
Image below via Sultan's Every Christmas Now Comes With Muslim Terrorism
Friday, December 26. 2014
In the UK, docs must now report weight-gainers to the government.
Is that the first step towards making being fat a crime? That's a country in which it is now a crime to put your garbage in the wrong bin. That is not from a Monty Python skit.
We always figure that if you get fat and die young, you save money for the government. So why not encourage obesity? America does, by asking people to eat carbs as a diet despite sedentary lives.
 Wood stove chimney design
Passenger tossed after flipping out over staff’s ‘Merry Christmas’
A little touchy? Well, holiday season can do that to people.
Anti-Feminists Baffle Feminists - Woman Against Feminism vs. feminists: Who's actually confused?
Who owns Chicken Tikka Masala?
I feel triggered by the odor of cultural appropriation
My atheist Christmas: How I overcame my personal struggle with the holiday - The holiday and its religious trappings used to offend me deeply. Here's how I overcame my feelings of oppression
Good grief. He thinks Christmas is all about him
A cool museum: inside Manhattan's Tenement Museum shed light on Lower East Side's notorious turn-of-the-century slum
What is a "slum"? It's a starting place where people would rather live in than the hopeless crappy place they came from
Thank SCOTUS for Credential Inflation
If Single Payer Can't Work in Vermont...
Tribal Raid In Peru May Be Related To Hotcoldwetdry
Teenager Shot In Missouri: So What?
"Stories of choice"
Imagine No Religion - The French press refuses to see a clear case of Islamic terrorism.
Al-Qaida Calls for Lone Wolf Attacks Against US Airliners
Wednesday, December 24. 2014
I am heading up to western MA to be with family and for our Christmas Mass, thence to Stowe with friends to ski, drink beer, chase girls, and get away from the intertunnels and all of the insane news about the protesting retards.
A special Christmas thanks to all American law enforcement. Cheers to you guys and gals. I'd be scared witless to do your jobs.
But first, two items of interest.
5 Reasons Why Fewer Americans Are Working
and this from Zero:
 President Bush In The News
A well-bred, gracious gent
Documentary confirms Michael Rockefeller was eaten by cannibals
Happy Holidays: FDA Moves to Ban Cake, Donut ‘Sprinkles’:
... it bears repeating that a large reason trans fats used to be so prevalent in our diets was due to the activism of the food nannies at Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). The left-wing food scolds, most famous for its reports on “calorie bomb” food entrees, pushed restaurants and food companies to switch to trans fats in the 1980s and 1990s.
Women Discuss the “Normal Barbie”
4 Things That Are Hurting Your Wife and Killing Your Marriage
Crazy music: Please, For The Love Of God, Stop Hitting It, Joe
A wonder
#IllLieToYou
I double dog dare ya to read this
and to understand it. I think the point is that the U of Michigan is a hotbed of institutional racism.
Never have liberal ideas been so firmly entrenched within America’s core elite institutions. Never have those institutions been so weak and uninfluential.
Minus rape, feminism is rather too obviously a list of trivial complaints by comfortable yet hysterical semi-affluent white women.
De Blasio Blames Media for Making Anti-Cop Protesters Look Bad
As Congress Lawyers Up Harvard’s Cass Sunstein Defends the Technocrats
How much economic potential does Cuba have?
Is Obama getting the last laugh on Cuba?
USA Offering $5 Million Reward for Terrorist Released From Club Gitmo
Steven Pinker on the Boycott Israel Dispute at Harvard
How much economic potential does Cuba have?
Tuesday, December 23. 2014
Monday, December 22. 2014
 but you will not be happy with it. Say Goodbye to the Family Doctor - Young doctors are increasingly becoming employees rather than independent practitioners.
Not only will they not know you (other than your chart data), but they will have no connection with you. We are approaching the tail end of a long era of personal and personalized medical care.
A physician can not be commoditized, but they can try. A physician is more than a technician.
Who do you tip for the holidays?
I tip my garbage men, the mailman who is kind enuf to deliver stuff to my front porch, and a much bigger tip than normal to the early morning Dunkin gals. I'm not sure who else I have to Christmas tip these days.
Medieval Scribal Marginalia
"Legendary Mad Magazine Illustrator Jack Davis Calls It Quits at 90″
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Autism Moms Have Stress Similar To Combat Soldiers
2015 GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado Test Drive
The United States of Anxiety - Sony brass might be cotton candy, but they are iron men compared with the American college student.
If 2014 had a grand theme, it was testicular absence.
The key to understanding Environmental Economics is understanding unintended consequences
A Model Senator retires
Civil Rights Group Outraged at Bowdoin’s ‘Cultural Appropriation’ Outrage
UVA Enters Damage Control Mode Over Rolling Stone Rape Story
NY to Ban Fracking: Turn out the Upstate Lights
To Save Australia From Hotcoldwetdry, We Need To Kill All The Rabbits
Eric Holder Dictates That Cross-Dressing on the Job Is a Civil Right
On Halloween, or all the time?
Time Magazine: Right-Wing Militias Are The Real Threat To Cops
Sultan: Saving Comrade Castro
Who needs Cuba?
President Obama’s ‘betrayal’ of Cuban democrats
Funding the Castros’ tyranny
Mead via Insty:
Shell-shocked liberals are beginning to grasp some inconvenient truths. No gun massacre is horrible enough to change Americans’ ideas about gun control. No UN Climate Report will get a climate treaty through the U.S. Senate. No combination of anecdotal and statistical evidence will persuade Americans to end their longtime practice of giving police officers extremely wide discretion in the use of force. No “name and shame” report, however graphic, from the Senate Intelligence Committee staff will change the minds of the consistent majority of Americans who tell pollsters that they believe that torture is justifiable under at least some circumstances. No feminist campaign will convince enough voters that the presumption of innocence should not apply to those accused of rape.
Saturday, December 20. 2014
The Washington Post editorial, "President Obama's 'betrayal" of Cuban democrats", obliterates the ignorant comparisons of establishing relations with Vietnam compared to doing so with Cuba.
The negative response from the people whom Mr. Obama portrays as the beneficiaries of his initiative is one reason to question his contention that Cuba should be treated like China and Vietnam, two Communist nations with which the United States normalized diplomatic and economic relations decades ago. The United States was not able to join with opposition movements in those countries in demanding democratic reforms as part of a normalization process because, at the time, such movements barely existed in either place. In Cuba’s case, the opportunity was there.
Engagement with China and Vietnam also offered huge economic and geopolitical benefits that don’t exist in the case of Cuba, an impoverished island whose main interest to the United States is the freedom and prosperity of its 11 million people....
The Washington Post describes the human rights results in China and Vietnam, after their rulers and lackeys profit from US trade:
But in the past decade, political freedom in China has declined — there is less freedom of speech, of the press, of cultural expression. More political prisoners have been locked up and tortured. Tens of thousands of censors keep tight control over the Internet. The same is true in Vietnam: more foreign investment, less political and religious freedom, more bloggers in prison. And these are not anomalies: In the years that Mr. Obama has been in office, freedom has receded across the globe — without much protest or response from his administration.
Instead, the Washington Post supports the human rights demands from those brave enough to speak out within Cuba:
In Cuba’s case, that means listening to the brave freedom fighters Mr. Obama spurned. Mr. Obama’s prescription was not the only alternative to what he saw as the failed policy of the past half-century. Opposition leaders from throughout the island have agreed on four immediate demands to put before the government: the release of political prisoners; the end of repression against human rights and pro-democracy groups; the ratification of international covenants on human rights; and the recognition of Cuban civil society groups.
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A Nerd for Our Times: Alan Turing
Pic: A pal is building a cabin in the Vermont woods, on weekends, with his wife's help. Kitchen is finished