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Sunday, September 14. 2014NYC's charter schools
Those schools are doing something right. Government schools operate like government.
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Is ISIS playing the West?
Is this all about yellow journalism? Why the American Public Wants to Strike ISIS
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Saturday, September 13. 2014Civilization ‘In Jeopardy’ If GOP Takes SenateNancy Pelosi: Civilization ‘In Jeopardy’ If GOP Takes Senate Good grief. Well, I guess a lot of politics in democracies is about scaring the morons and bribing the others. Hey, conservatives want to take away birth control from women so they can't have fun, take away Social Security, starve the poor to death, shoot all the brown people, send immigrants to the gas chamber, and then burn up the planet afterwards. Who would vote for that in good conscience?
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Above: Montana Man Creates Wood Mosaics Out of Stacked Firewood Ashkenazi Jews Descend from 330 Individuals America's Last Carousel Craftsmen Lobsters are people too The science of sex: 4 harsh truths about dating and mating The Fed Has A Big Surprise Waiting For You I'd like to see the Fed abolished. I guess I'd also like to see every grandiose imperial-Roman-looking building in DC knocked down and replaced by ordinary humble office buildings. The grandiosity of DC, the silly memorials to dead politicians, the lines of limos and tinted-window black Suburbans etc., all disgust me. It's not American and it does not represent the American spirit: quite the opposite. Full-Frontal Environmentalism: We Knew It All Along “Global Warming” Advocates Plan March Amid Record Cold Temperatures Apple iPhone 6 Plus Pre-Orders Appear to Exhaust Supply Remember Kids, If A Stranger Offers You Drugs Say Thank You Because Drugs Are Expensive Warming update: Autumnlike Chill, Frost to Grip East This Weekend “Okay, smart-a___, what is your strategy?” The Scots have little to gain and a whole lot to lose with independence I guess sovereignty and freedom don't enter that equation Friday, September 12. 2014Uncle Sam: The Mideast’s Useful Idiot
Iraq? We should have left it to Saddam. He understood that craphole same as Quaddaffi did his: government terrorism works better than random, volunteer terrorism. All governments use fear, to varying degrees of barbarity. If some Americans want to bomb bad people, how about bombing the Castros out of Cuba? They have been "Death to America" for generations. I want to visit Cuba, though, before Capitalism ruins it (and turns it into a new Miami). For the slumming and the cheap stuff and the incredibly beautiful women. Seriously though, for the fishing. Susan Rice on ISIS: There’s a difference between a war and a counterterrorism operation, you know Teach me, Susan Rice. Funny how they always leave you out of the loop.
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You can't be too alert for microaggressions on campusParanoids, grievance-collectors, and excuse-seekers cannot be too alert to the microaggressions and micro- acts of disrespect which occur all day long on the oppressive, hostile American college campi. Microaggression is an epidemic oppression, and microaggressors must be brought to justice. I'd include the nanoaggressors too because they are the sneakiest. Remember, micro may mean teeny-weeny or invisible, but so is Ebola.
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Friday morning linksRevisiting Michel de Montaigne A Lesson in Graciously Turning Down a Man Canadian Illegally Crossing U.S. Border Gets Arrested, Fined $5K, 'Expedited Removal' The cost of college might be less than you think
Connecticut Gov. Malloy Trails Republican Challenger Tom Foley by 6 Pts Scott Brown Takes Root in New Hampshire German Scientists Ridicule New York Climate Conference As Major World Leaders Decline To Show Up The New Hypocrisy Puritanical Elites Limit Their Kids’ Use of Tech They Create Corporate Welfare: Can Republicans Kick the Habit? Williamson on the pointless pursuit of ideological purity Notre Dame to ask high schoolers how they know ‘for sure whether they are male or female’ Pro-Christian Conference Descends Into Anti-Israel Bigotry Obama Rejects 'Best Military Advice' in Fighting ISIS Thursday, September 11. 2014War?Via Boudreaux:
And this: TURKEY REFUSES OBAMA REQUEST to Use Its Airbases to Fight ISIS And this: Obama's Broad Coalition Cracks - UK, Germany Won't Support Airstrikes In Syria Also, Top Senate Democrats on ISIS Threat: 'It's Fear-Mongering' Here, an old quote from Bin Ladin:
It's a tar baby, Mr. President. There are no good guys. Let's just help protect the Kurds from genocide.
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Thursday morning linksWarming update: Shocking’ damage from heavy snow will take days to clean up, says Calgary Mayor College Students Declare Bras, Band-Aids ‘White Privilege’ There's a Giant 'Super Henge' Underneath Stonehenge Gearing Up for the Post-Radio Shack World Free speech and civility at universities For too long, the cab and limo industries have employed political cronyism and protectionist regulation to fend off competitors -- all at Attack ISIS? Hold On, Mr. President
ISIS Army Parades in 43 New Toyota Hilux Trucks – Donated By US Taxpayers Former prosecutor says Wisconsin investigation fueled by “hyper-partisan” DA and union activist wife Willful Avoidance - The media ignores an important, bipartisan warning on American military readiness.
Selling your home: The Art of Scrubbing All Identity From a Home The MSM really does think of its consumers as children, minds of tabla
America is running out of jobs. It's time for a universal basic income. The politics of a guaranteed income get a lot easier when you acknowledge that the U.S. is no longer the land of opportunity Nice. Like retirement, rockin' on the porch sippin beer and smokin legal weed. Psychologist: Minorities Are Obese Because of Racism - Are racial microaggressions making you fat? One professor at an N.J. public university thinks so. Overweight, rightly or wrongly, is a class and character marker in the US regardless of skin tone I’d love to stomp ISIS flat, with a big ol’ American boot on their neck, Nor am I Obama: “Let’s Make Things Clear: ISIS Is Not ‘Islamic'” Coulda fooled me Missing Persons (ie killed persons) photo below via Sultan's Divided We Stand
Wednesday, September 10. 2014Wednesday morning linksGrouch: Police Charge Rockland Man With Being Dunkin’ Disorderly Leave Dunkin alone! Speaking of Dunkin, pic is my 5 a.m. Cumby Farms coffee on Uncle Tim's bridge. Yes, I do pick up my pup's poo. An appreciation of Jerome Kern: The Melody Man 10 Things I Forgot About Having a Newborn... and am quickly recalling. All true. Many American boys are circumcised as a matter of course. Now, many of them feel violated. Should the practice be banned? Why is it ok, and female circumcision not ok? In Europe, they don't do male circumcision except for Jews. Muslims circumcise both male and female. Welfare recipients can use debit cards for marijuana Sowell: Min wage laws hurt youth - especially black youth California 'derecognized' Christian ministry for requiring leaders be Christian Frail at Yale: uncomfortable with political debate Controversial Sex Education Program Reinstated in Hawaii Public Schools At first glance I thought it said "annual sex", so maybe I need to take the course Kentucky Man Arrested For "Terroristic Threatening" After Posting Song Lyrics To Facebook Krauthamer sells a million copies Book is worth the money just for the Introduction Le Pen Soars in Polls as EU Erodes:
WTH? A noble empire, I guess? They have created a structure which is so elitist, so condescending, so remote, so clueless, and so all-powerful that I don't know why anybody would up with it put. Time for rebellion before the EU gets its own army. They should take lessons from what happened in the USA to the member states - crushed by the feds. Reynolds: America's new class system - "Clerisy" class does the bidding of tech oligarchs to detriment of the middle class.
When It Comes To Obama’s New Climate Rules, Guess Who Wins The Most?
Not all Muslims are terrorists but substantially all terrorists are Muslims and until people are permitted to say that without the hypocrisy and irony of being labeled dangerous themselves, we will not be safe. Religion of Peace update: Gaza Imam Pulls Out Assault Rifle During Sermon Tuesday, September 9. 2014America The Confused
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Tuesday morning linksSearch continues for mountain lion after boy attacked in Cupertino Unarmed parents = child neglect What is the rare severe morning sickness condition hyperemesis gravidarum? How to Make Small Talk (video) Why do the kids of married parents do better? Americans are spending less and saving more -- Do You Make $400,000 a Year But Feel Broke? (video) The Fallout of a Scotland “Yes” Mike Brown’s Abusive, Vile & Misogynistic Rap Music and Tweets Discovered Harry Reid Rewrites the First Amendment - When politicians seek to restrict speech, they are invariably trying to protect their own incumbency. Food police update: School employee on snack rules: ‘You cannot buy a Tic Tac in a Nebraska school, I checked’:
Related, Government Smores Chait says the Worst Governments in America Are Local Governments Joan Rivers: The Woman Who Slayed The PC Police VDH: Obama’s Untruth, Inc. - Let us count the ways: bald lies, lies of omission, mythography, amnesia, redaction . . . President Sisi’s Gift to Palestinians I forget where I found the below - sorry - Monday, September 8. 2014Monday morning links Viking 'ring fortress' discovered in Denmark - Historians believe distinctive geometric fortresses may have been built by Sweyn Forkbeard as a military training camp from which to launch his invasion of England It's masculine to play football, but how is it masculine to watch football? Jack the Ripper unmasked Study finds that home-cooking disproportionately burdens mothers I demand government action The Slow Decline of American Entrepreneurship NYC taxis: competition is kosher Is That Darned Democracy Thingy Getting In The Way Of Dealing With Climate Change? Climate scientists scrambling for explantions on lack of warming Via Protein:
The 2,128 Native American Mascots People Aren’t Talking About
“Now We Are At The Lower Bound”: Draghi Reaches The Dead-End Of Keynesian Central Banking Islamic Rape Gangs: Rotherham is Just the Tip of the Iceberg Greta Van Susteren: White House Pressured Me to Get FOX Reporter to Drop Benghazi Investigation Quotations of the day on the miracle of the market….. Time To Lift the Embargo on Cuba? Saturday, September 6. 2014Enough Islam pandering?
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Saturday morning linksA book: Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation Another book: The Liberal Jihad: The Hundred Year War Against The Constitution Whatever Happened to Global Warming? High Flying Hillary Clinton Calls “Climate Change” Most Important Issue Facing Nation And World ‘Human safaris’ in the Amazon basin Every day in life is a human safari The FDA vs. Fine Cheese: A Wedge Too Far Boris and Stefan - Reliving one of the great rivalries in men’s tennis Counterculture update: Considering most of what we see on TV, the Duggar family is basically transgressive. "We"? I see nothing on TV Why Sally can’t get a good job with her college degree. Waiting on Experiences Can Be More Valuable than Things But getting things is an experience too, like a Pistachio gelato in Ortygia. 25 Manly Things Every Manly Man Should Know How To Do Genetic Engineering Could Provide the Solution to Florida’s Citrus Problem Another all-women’s college to admit transgender students Really old trousers Toss the trousers, but try the cannabis Vomitoria were apparently not rooms the Romans devoted to vomiting after dinner Joel Osteen and his wife are heretics, and that’s why America loves them A Tale of Two Ways to Hate Cities The Simple Technology That Accidentally Ruined Baseball The Most Expensive Train Station in the US The Wall Street Journal has a humdinger of a piece that beautifully illustrates why we can’t have nice things Failure on the Home Front - Where is the domestic prosperity that the president’s global retreat was designed to enable? Geert Wilders: "War Has Been Declared against Us" - A Speech in the Netherlands Parliament Romney capitalizes on 2012 clairvoyance about today’s global Hellscape with searing op-ed Cruel but amusing piece on Hillary Clinton's sexuality Life in Prison for Pot and Other Travesties of Marijuana Prohibition Videos: The women of ISIS Sheesh, not my type Record 92,269,000 Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Matches 36-Year Low 53 Million Temps: All You Need To Know About The "Jobs Recovery" Jeb Bush's Team Signals 2016 White House Bid Please, no. Central Planning Update: Illinois’ second largest district drops Michelle O’s menu after hummus is deemed too fatty! At Drudge:
Why eggs? Europe’s Immigration Crisis UK update: Welfare claimants to get attitude tests Another UK update: Imam: Terrorism Is 'Part of Islam' ISIS: A foreign legion for losers
Friday, September 5. 2014Friday morning linksSchool Bans “Unsupervised Cartwheels” On Playground… Puritans Cast Out Witches in Massachusetts Does it work for 3401.234 + 79.2276? Lone Armed Woman Corners Home Invader: 'I'll Blow Your 'Bleeping' Head Off' Why wait? The ‘War on Black People’: But Who Is Winning? Yes, I Blame White Liberals By Lloyd Marcus Abolish the Corporate Tax - It’s dumb, corrupt, onerous, and pointless. EU is Being Swept into Ronald Reagan's Dustbin of History ‘Diversity’ Re-education for Rotherham Whistleblower In search of moderate Islam ISIS Publishes Names of 193 Syrian Soldiers STRIPPED & SLAUGHTERED IN MASS GRAVE Ledeen on decapitation Bio-Warfare Expert: “ISIS Poses Potential Bio-Threat , But Not Yet Equal to AQ or Hezbollah” John Kerry: The Christian Bible Says That We Must Protect Muslim Countries From the Evils of Global Warming Thursday, September 4. 2014A real Uncle Tom?Jason Riley believes that African Americans ought to pursue their lives like everybody else does. In other words, he does not see brown-skinned people as handicapped or as government-dependents. "Married black Americans in the US have the same average incomes as married white Americans." Guy is telling the truth.
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Thursday morning linksThe Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy 5 Lies Christians Are Told - A few of the lies Christians often believe that are hurting the Church. Recent college grads:
About Horowitz's oevre: Rebel With a Better Cause The Scariest California Drought Map Yet Double mastectomy doesn't boost survival for most, study says Priorities: Germany bans Uber, ride-sharing services Why Dying Is Easier for Doctors
September 1st Heros: Shop Teachers UN Looks In Crystal Ball, Creates Weather Forecasts For 2015 It is Historically Unusual for China NOT to be the Largest Economy on Earth Fired Writer Gavin McInnes: Politically Correct Outrage Is Like The Mob Marxist Feminism’s Ruined Lives:
5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die "In The Great Myth: World War I Was No Accident - World War I wasn’t an inadvertent war but the result of deliberate German state policy. AMCHA POSTS LIST OF ANTI-ISRAEL PROFESSORS - Warns Students of More than 200 Middle East Scholars Who Signed Boycott Petition Jihad in the Balkans: The Next Generation This message is to you, Vladimir Putin’: ISIS threatens ‘to liberate Chechnya and Caucasus’ Wednesday, September 3. 2014The Origins of Our international DistressFrom Lind's The Origins of Our Distress (h/t Vanderleun):
Good article. Readers know that my opinion is that all of the insanity of this conflict-ridden world is not my problem. I do not really care what Putin does (a "Hitler"? Give me a break). Iraq? I don't care. Memo To Washington: Iraq Is Not A Nation And You Can’t Build One There With Bombs This administration goes from stupid to stupid, but so did the Bush admin. I am in favor of benign neglect unless those morons step on my toes in NYC or anywhere else in the US. Most other places are just tar babies, and ungrateful in the end. Beheading people? That's what they like to do. Everybody knows that. I am not shocked, but it's news to John Kerry.
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Wednesday morning links12 absolutely delicious apples you’ve probably never tasted What are the Intellectual Virtues? Privacy and Self-Image on the Internet: Does It Really Matter? Growing marijuana in the modern cornfield Cost of educating new class of illegal immigrant minors estimated at over $760M Maryland’s thought police strike - Teacher suspended and school locked down over sci-fi novel Good grief. She writes college essays for Chinese applicants How easily we forget that Western morality is not universal - even in the West UN Internet Control As Bad As Feared No Uncle Toms on the Left Williamson considers Detroit's criminal machine A good reason to pay attention in school (video) Ben Carson: Obama Says ‘We Are Not a Judeo-Christian Nation’ – But He Doesn’t Get to Decide, We Do College hate crime update Steyn: The Day After Labor
Da Tech Guy meets his local constabulary Analysts Predict Obamacare Will Eliminate Employer-Provided Healthcare Ukraine’s Real Problem: Rampant Corruption It's a crappy place Related, What crucial American interest is in play in Somalia? That's a really crappy place.
Tuesday, September 2. 2014The Meltdown
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Tuesday morning linksA book:American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster Into Destiny Why Our Molecular Make-Up Can’t Explain Who We Are Feminist Gay Activist Pushing to Keep Bathrooms Gender-Segregated Why Doctors Are Sick of Their Profession - American physicians are increasingly unhappy with their once-vaunted profession, and that malaise is bad for their patients Only 28 Percent of ALS Ice Bucket Donations Used For Research Oregon Denies Permit to Coal Exporter, Greens Cite Impact on Salmon No warming for 19 years Joe Biden: Time to take America back Why Are Democrats Sliming Rand Paul? Happy Labor Day. Are Unions Dead? Want better, smaller government? Hire another million federal bureaucrats. Obama: People in Power Trying to Bamboozle You As Obama Heads to Summit, NATO Finds Renewed Purpose An organization in search of a purpose World War II Started 75 Years Ago Today, Still Shaping Foreign Policy Israel’s Decision to Declare 988 Acres of West Bank Territory as State Land Islam, Postmodernism, and Political Correctness Jihad Comes To Europe Israel’s Decision to Declare 988 Acres of West Bank Territory as State Land - See more at: http://jcpa.org/israels-988-acres-of-west-bank-territory/#sthash.EceSqJjB.dpuf Israel’s
Decision to Declare 988 Acres of West Bank Territory as State Land - See more at: http://jcpa.org/israels-988-acres-of-west-bank-territory/#sthash.EceSqJjB.dpuf Monday, September 1. 2014Monday morning links"Working" in Italy Then and Now Photos That Compare New York City’s East Village in 1984 to the Present Day First Roman wood toilet seat found at Vindolanda A Zoo Story - Bright animals need more than a concrete billet. "Organic" Is The Latin Word For "Grown In Pig Shit" Your Brain Decides Whether to Trust Someone in Milliseconds America is so over homeownership: Why the shift to a renting economy might actually be a good thing Assets are assets, whatever the specifics The Latest UN IPCC Report Is Terrifying Or Something I'm really scared The thing about people in power is they don’t have a high regard for rich people. The Stupendous Failure Of Big City Education: How The Philly Teachers Union Loots The Schools Has Hillary Ever Been Right? Who cares? She's a girl Feds Still Studying Why Lesbians Are Obese - Update: Total government funding now $2.87 million Maybe because they eat too much? I'm no expert, tho
Nobody’s Fault - Liberals make excuses for Obama Shhh, Mr. President - When world already thinks you’re weak, saying as much on live TV is probably a mistake. Feminist student claims Mormon university is slut-shaming students A proud slut at Brigham Young. OK. Breaking news: females like sex The Rich Have School Choice, Why Shouldn’t Everyone? Why the atheist call to abort the disabled is doomed Rotherham: A Quintessentially Liberal Scandal - Modern liberalism forces us to fight Islamist evil with one hand tied behind our backs, if we're permitted to fight it at all. The developing politics of “net neutrality” Why the Salon folks hate Uber I know people who love to use Uber Why Ferguson might just prompt real change "... it is in the self-interest of the Democratic Party to make sure racial discord is a permanent condition." I have never seen racial discord in the US which was not invented and trumped up Hating Islam Rotherham was sensitive to Moslem culture How nice of them In defense of Russia in the Ukraine The punditry vs. the presidency - How the constant chorus of ‘do something’ Obama foreign policy critics gets it wrong I tend to agree Will’s Take: If Arab ‘Neighborhood’ Can’t Take Out ISIS, ‘We Shouldn’t’ Ditto Online posts show ISIS eyeing Mexican border, says law enforcement bulletin The Palestinian Authority is Not the Answer in Gaza Sunday, August 31. 2014I'm with Obama on these international things
The Ukraine: Who cares? Russia is a crappy, deteriorating third-world country with a bit of oil and with Czarist imperial delusions. Not our problem. If Europe cares, let them put on their big boy pants and do whatever they want. Start a European war. Last I heard, the Ukraine was not one of the United States. Israel? They can handle things themselves. Their battles will never end just as in biblical days. China? They want to be a big deal again. Well, they are, sort-of. They own most of the US debt, sadly. But that's our fault. If they want to be a big deal, it's ok with me. Why anybody would chose to live there is beyond me. Horrible, charmless place of desolation, with too many people and the stupid, paranoid, autocratic government they deserve. To each his own. These sorts of things are not "crises," they are just ordinary life on planet earth. The "American Imperium" isn't over - it never really existed. Go ahead, try a round of golf - and tell me why I am wrong not to be hysterical. Trouble, conflict, and war is the way of the world. I am going fishing now, happy to be a rebel American.
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The ice is coming! Government must do something about this.
Somewhat related: Wind and solar power are industries that are destined to remain in their infancy, if not forever, then certainly for the indefinite future. It's all so stupid, if not malevolent.
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