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Friday, May 15. 2015Is this any way to run a railroad?
These things keep people and goods moving, and keep the economy going. (Freight railroads make money.) I like Amtrak. You can ride from Boston to New Orleans, from NYC to Chicago and to California, or from NY to Montreal. Good stuff. And their high-speed Acela is very busy on the Boston-NYC-Philly-Baltimore-Wilmington-DC route. Very pleasant too, and easier than air. Their labor contracts are, of course, insane. An occasional accident is not statistically meaningful, in contrast to automobile fatalities and injuries. Ten thousand car accidents are not big news. A train wreck or a plane crash is news because they are so rare. Here's one view: Amtrak Doesn’t Need More Taxpayer Cash, It Needs To Be Given Away Why not give the highways away too? I know plenty of people who could run I-95 at a nice profit. What's your view?
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Friday morning links
B B King has died. Via Anne's post:
Colorado Rancher Suffers Traumatic Brain Injury, Becomes Accidental Genius The New York Times–Facebook Deal Is Here Trigger Warning! College Kids Will Soon Discover ‘The Adult World Is Not One Big, Extra-Cushy Couch’ Boeing Shareholder Challenges Ethics of Company’s Relationship to Clintons - Boeing contributed $900,000 to Clinton Foundation, paid $250,000 for Bill Clinton speech Howard Dean: Jesus Probably to Left of Democratic Party Civil disobedience: Many freedoms we take for granted exist because of lawbreakers. Howard Dean: Jesus Probably to Left of Democratic Party - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2015/05/14/howard-dean-jesus-probably-left-democratic-party#sthash.9ypOX5kS.dpuf Charles Krauthammer: ‘Pathological’ President ‘Doesn’t Know a Damn Thing About Fox’ Where You See Tragedy, Liberals See Opportunity Making it rain: The World According to Democrats - Have a problem? Throw money at it! Rubio: We ‘Cannot Afford’ More Clinton ‘Soap Opera’ UK Plans To Do Away With Free Speech... In The Name Of Free Speech Little England Sans Scotland, Sans EU—–Ominous Threat To The European Superstate Western European Muslims’ Jihad Against the Jews When Ronald Reagan was shot, Al Haig famously declared that he was “in control,” but it was the vice president from Texas who stepped calmly into the breach. WHITE MERCENARIES HAVE BOKO HARAM ON RUN - Aging South African apartheid-era soldiers sign up for 1 last battle Russia Rejects Automatic Sanctions Return If Iran Cheats on Deal The Israeli NGO won international attention last week for claiming to expose IDF malfeasance in Gaza. It exposed something else. ISIS Makes a Fortune From Smuggling Migrants Says Report Thursday, May 14. 2015Lying liars
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Thursday morning linksDiscovered a disease? WHO has new rules for avoiding offensive names The Shameful Rush to Blame the Amtrak Crash on our ‘Infrastructure Crisis’ No Matter the Ailment, More Federal Spending Is the Prescription Mrs. Obama: I Feel Alienated, and That’s Proof of America’s Racism The “Bias Incident Reporting” effort aims to “address the impact of demeaning and hurtful statements as well as acts of intolerance directed towards protected classes,” CU Boulder’s website states. Erdely’s UVA story written with ‘actual malice,’ dean says in defamation suit Carly Fiorina talks Obama Attacks Fox News: “We’re Going To Have To Change How the Media Reports”… Former Kerry staffer praises ex-boss, says ‘treated unjustly’ by Israeli public. China’s missiles can reach nearly all of U.S.: Pentagon report The Putin Principle: How It Came to Rule Russia Wednesday, May 13. 2015Wednesday morning links
More Consensus on Coffee’s Benefits Than You Might Think How the religious makeup of the U.S. has changed We’re Saved! Poetry Will Help Stop “Climate Change”! Why Cuomo’s nail-salon crackdown will hurt immigrants Amazing how gummint can find things to do Tom Friedman Beclowns Himself Again Government Of, By, and For State Employees Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30% NBC Confirms Obama Lied About Bin Laden Raid Bangaledeshi Blogger Hacked to Death In Middle of Street For Criticizing Presbyterians Remembering the fall of Vietnam - Hopes for freedom died 40 years ago REPORT: 30,000 to 100,000 Europeans Have Joined ISIS Caliphate Tuesday, May 12. 2015The "Oberlin College Choir"
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Tuesday morning linksA weighty matter: Chevy Colorado vs. Ford F-150 Watch Two Men In Jetpacks Fly Above Dubai Jeepers, Icarus. Where do you put your luggage, and how do you land? Oh, parachute. NJ SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE IF LEAVING CHILD IN CAR A FEW MINUTES IS AUTOMATICALLY “NEGLECT” How drunks get hurt in Wisconsin Catholic University Investigated For Offending Muslims For Having Too Many Crosses "...His sin, but of course, was simultaneously being white and being OK with As You Were Saying...Call Obama's bluff on immigration Obama’s Crackdown on Dissent Has Made Conservatives a Little Paranoid — and Rightly So The Left's Crusade Against Free Speech
Steyn: "Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay" White House Denies It Fabricated bin Laden Killing Was OBL actually in Paki custody at the time? How Awful Was Mark Halperin’s Ted Cruz Interview? Think Progress Called Him Out On It Carly Fiorina: A real feminist Time Mag: Hillary Clinton is “One of America’s Greatest Creations” The extraordinary foolishness of building an EU army A story of the Vietnam War - The favorite myth of the left survives in a Pentagon scheme of commemoration What the Pentagon Thinks of China’s Military Obama’s quiet nuclear deal with China raises proliferation concerns Michael McCaul: ‘Terrorism has gone viral’ from Islamic State’s online recruitment Monday, May 11. 2015Fun nuttiness: What You Don’t Hear When You Graduate - Life as a Conservative on Campus isn’t Easy Janitorial Studies Week at College InsurrectionMonday morning linksCelebrities ignore California’s drought to keep lawns green Walter Raleigh's house for sale Science Versus “Scientism” Top Aussie Official: Global Warming a UN-led Ruse to Create New World Order Who’da Thunk It? ‘Diverse’ Cities Are Most Segregated Ban Private Schools in the Name of the Collective Good? The government is coming for your handmade soap Another possible limitation of GDP accounting – Time for the Welfare State to Stand Trial It Takes a Good Guy with a Gun to Defend Freedom of Speech The Word “But” Simply Doesn’t Apply I’m More Hateful Than Pamela Geller Salon Shocker: 'The Left Has Islam All Wrong' - "It’s time to fight back, and hard." State Department official: Clinton email practices 'not acceptable' Stunned Reporter Grills State Department Why Hillary's Breaches Won't Be Investigated “But everyone I know voted Labour. Also, Be VERY afraid as the Nightmare on Downing Street is about to begin ISIS: Potentially 'Thousands' of Online Followers Inside US Homeland, FBI Chief Warns Fidel Castro: Greediest Tyrant In World History? Sunday, May 10. 2015"I'll tell you what's wrong." Wow, that's mokita.
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TruckChevy - not Ford - has finally made the truck I have wanted for over 10 years but now hardly need anymore. I'll consider it anyway. 4 WD, 4 doors, V6, big back seats, and a fairly long bed. Only issues are color, and lease vs buy. There is a waiting list for these things. Saturday, May 9. 2015Your daily MokitasYou can't say this: Mokita He made two errors: I like to hear what my wife has to say about things because she is darn smart (if emotional) - and he omitted one mokita: Lesbian domestic violence reaches crisis levels. Other than that, he goes easy on the Jihadists but he hits most of the non-PC points.
Saturday morning links Headline at Drudge:
UN: We should switch to eating insects Are lobsters insects? What Did the Ten Commandments Look Like? And How Were They Arranged? Re Chomsky: Against Conversation - When language itself becomes a political battleground, it’s time to stop talking
Check your mascot — where does the diversity drive end? Weather report: Be afraid, be very afraid!!!! Prediction: No commencement speaker will mention this – the huge ‘degree gap’ for the Class of 2015 favoring women Brown: The Most Diversity Obsessed University in America? UNC: Republicans and conservatives can effect change at universities: Here’s proof! A Legal Immigrant Testifies: America is a tolerant nation, but immigration is not a right, it is a privilege 40% of Food Stamp Recipients Are Obese De Blasio tells Rolling Stone New Yorkers don´t appreciate him Only 16% of Baltimore Teens Raised With Married Parents Baltimore Public Schools May Suck, but They Are Well-Funded And Have Well-Paid Teachers French Mayor Counts Noses, Finds 65 Percent of Town’s Pupils Are Muslim All 8 Women Fail To Advance To Next Phase of Ranger School As did a lot of guys Friday, May 8. 2015Friday morning linksShould You Travel to Cuba? The Truth: What the Real Cuba Is Like 29 Years After Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Life Slowly Returns to Normal Stressed-out radicals need Radical Self-Care Give her a lollipop McDonald’s was there for me when no one else was - Before stardom, James Franco was just a fast-food employee eating fries straight from the hopper Abolish the Family? Or Just Hobble Parents So They Don't Give Kids 'Unfair' Advantages? - "Harrison Bergeron" was not intended as a how-to manual MacDonald: The Microaggression Farce - The latest campus fad, which sees racism everywhere, will create a new generation of permanent victims. It's Time for a New Free Speech Movement on Campus:
De Blasio's Contract With America: This Isn't Progress Forward to 1930! I believe in free speech, but... But don't offend the Muslims - they are scarey. Actually, the "may offend" list is getting shorter than the "may not offend" list. Liberals’ new discovery: Art can offend Pamela Geller’s Critics Are Proving Her Point Why the UK election matters to Americans Iran Tightens Its Grip On Syria Using Syrian And Foreign Forces Tomorrow’s Small Wars Won’t Just Be Land Wars Thursday, May 7. 2015My hate speech
I hate hate hate people who talk like that. Actually, I thought it was a satire. Maybe it is.
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More on free speech and the useful idiots
Kelly Files: What limits to free speech What limits to free speech? Imam wants Geller killed and is literally calling for somebody to do it in the name of Allah:
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Thursday morning links
Pic is a small bouquet Mrs. BD put together for my office Retirement ‘More Myth Than Reality,’ Survey Find Want millennials back in the pews? Stop trying to make church ‘cool.’ Lying, cheating and arrogance might be morally repugnant, but a little dose of nastiness can be a creative thing Books Do Furnish A Mind Jewish holidays’ guide for the perplexed - Lag Ba’Omer Woman to become NY firefighter despite failing crucial fitness test Regulatory Impact on Small Business Establishments One Weird Trick That Can Help Make Your City More Prosperous West Baltimore is worse now than it was at the start of the Great Society.
Cops, Prosecutors Disagree on Whether Freddie Gray's Knife Was Legal - How was he supposed to know? Looks like an ordinary pocket knife to me A Health Care Revolution on Private Exchanges? Employers, not politicians, can spark a health-care revolution. Dr. Carson must have gotten affirmative action Hillary is the favorite among millionaire voters: Survey Hillary Clinton: We knew her as a grim, charmless harridan; a pear-shaped harpy. Now, after reading Peter Schweizer's new book, Clinton Cash, we see the ultimate Hillary, one of the world's truly scary women. Can we just agree that they are crooks? Wednesday, May 6. 2015In praise of provocative speech
Americans revel in provocative, intemperate, reckless, savage, irreverent, and satirical speech. While Americans appreciate good manners, there are times when unmannerliness is called for, even if only for fun or to make a point. Manners are mostly not encased in law, after all. Our artists, comedians, playwrights, atheists, absurd Marxist revolutionaries, pornographers, etc. all enjoy transgressing manners, propriety, and sensitivity, for better or worse. It's a free country. If you are hypersensitive here, buy a helmet. That's why we get a kick out of the irreverent and unmannerly Pam Geller. She is a tough New York broad. I love provocative speech of any sort, even when it's about myself (well, sort of). Anyway, if this were about satirical Roman Catholic cartoons, would the media be so upset? It would be different.
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I only trust Americans with thisWell, in fact, I would only trust libertarian, Constitutional Americans like me to protect the freedom of the internet or any other sort of freedom. We are the exceptional people. Given all the new disclosures about surveillance even in the US - all justified under "terror" - I don't think I even like the gummint in it at all, much less "global governance." "Global governance"? Who would be on that committee? China, Cuba, and Iran? Internet governance: What if the sky really is falling? By the way, that Gasden flag doesn't mean my country - it means me, the person.
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Wednesday morning links
‘Men aren’t wimping out by staying unmarried or being commitment phobes. They’re being smart.’
Feckless feds slap Times Square’s billboards Why not take away the faces on Mt. Rushmore? They pollute the scenery too. (I hate the very notion of Mt. Rushmore. The US is not the Assyrian Empire with government-worship) Perhaps Deliberation Lasting a Minimum of 20 Minutes Is Required Why wait? Social Justice Sociologist Denounces “Bedtime Reading Privilege” Equality as lowest common denominator. Let's all be equally irresponsible low-lifes with government-raised kids. It's too late to worry about global warming Anti-Semitism Goes to School - Anti-Semitism on American college campuses is rising—and worsening. Where does it come from, and can it be stopped? Fighting grade inflation requires thoughtful policies and the courage to implement them. Report Details Racial Stereotyping at U of Illinois It's a hotbed of racism Oklahoma Governor Signs Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform Bill - Gives judges more leeway for alternatives in some situations. Good Blaming Pamela Geller Obama Uses Bogus Statistics to Accuse US Police of Being Racist Bill Clinton: "There is no doubt in my mind that we have never done anything knowingly inappropriate... USA Today editorial board: Man, this Clinton Foundation seems shady The Clinton Foundation isn’t a “charity” in any normal sense of the word Carly Fiorina Nails Katie Couric on Double Standards, Hillary Defense Sorry, Media, but Hillary is Incompetent Schoolchildren in Tower Hamlets grow up under the shadow of non-violent but extremist ideology, funded by the British government. Meanwhile, the British media and politicians are busy debating the causes of radicalization. Media Gives President a Pass Again - The media has by and large given Netanyahu calls to 'eradicate' racism in meeting with Ethiopian soldier beat up by cop 40 years after Saigon’s fall, US still hasn’t learned lessons of Vietnam Tuesday, May 5. 2015Tuesday morning linksPeter Francisco, American Hercules A Century Later, a New Look at the Sinking of the Lusitania The red carpet at the Costume Institute Gala, an annual fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ancient DNA Tells a New Human Story Snow, cold keep New England skiers stoked into May Sippican goes for a little drive Robot Workers: Many Businesses Will Hire Fewer People What It’s Like to Hit a Man - I tried boxing. It was scary how good it felt. Guy is overcivilized. Of course it's fun. Millennials Not Ready for the Job Market Now even warriors must tiptoe through the tulips? License to Kill: Wind and Solar Decimate Birds and Bats Worse than DDT They turned college into McDonald’s: Adjunct professors, fast-food wages and how colleges screw more than just students Telling me to shut up because somebody might be offended? THAT is "fighting words." PAMELA GELLER GOES OFF on CNN Host: Did Christians Burn Embassies When Jesus Christ Was Put in Jar of Urine? PC Thought-Bots Embarrass Themselves With PEN Boycott Charles Murray proposes a legal insurrection Count me in Why Are You Voting Against Your Own Interests?
Carly Fiorina: ‘We Have to Start Undoing Some Things’ to Improve the Economy
... as long as I’ve been alive, Baltimore has been an eyesore. 20.7% of Jobs in Baltimore Are Government Jobs Baltimore Protester Praises Burning of CVS “Let’s Get You Out of Our Community!” Brilliant New Republic: Know What Baltimore’s Actual Problem Is? It Didn’t Move Far Enough Left "The would-be terrorists in Garland fell for one of the classic blunders: Never assume that you’ve outgunned an art show in Texas." Is it Liberation Day or Defeat Day in Saigon? Monday, May 4. 2015Spineless wimp administrators at ColumbiaTrigger warnings for Ovid? If you haven't read Ovid, you can't understand half the references in Western literature. Read it and weep: Columbia Multicultural Advisors: Put Trigger Warning on Ovid’s Metamorphoses Nobody has been "triggered" by Ovid for 2000 years until now. Trigger warnings for the Bible will be next, any day now. Our point that we make repeatedly here, however, is that that students are not really bothered by reading things. They are manufacturing a victim role to bully, attack, and control. That's what Borderlines do. These are not some new breed of precious snowflakes, this is pure manipulation. They got rid of Larry Summers the same sort of way, so it works. Why is it that nobody can see through these frauds? If not Columbia, then who? And I should mention again that these evil and wantonly destructive people do trigger me badly with their barely-disguised macro- aggression. Chick-fil-A rejected for Johns Hopkins Univ., eatery called ‘microaggression’
Monday morning linksA friend sent that pic of the Greenfield Hill (in Fairfield, CT) Congregational Church's annual Dogwood Festival this weekend How to Reclaim Suburban Sprawl PERFECT PASTRIES IN NAPLES They are right Blue Moon Lawsuit Slams MillerCoors The real McMuffin There’s Never Been a Safer Time to be a Kid in America The most important things Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said at Berkshire's annual meeting Creative destruction: Newspaper ad revenue continued its precipitous free fall in 2014, and it’s likely to continue Coalition Rises to Promote Free Community College Plan How about better high schools first? U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Double Canada’s ICE, ICE BABY Abolish Property Rights, Control the Weather Updated Satellite Data Puts a Chill on Global Warming CA: Agriculture Exempt from Water Reductions? Goodall says animals ‘suffer’ from genetically modified foods Good grief Major U.S. Retailers Are Closing More Than 6,000 Stores Heartache: Swarthmore College board fails to divest from fossil fuels Bernie Sanders Vows To Take On Billionaires — But Which Ones? David Brooks: " The world is waiting for a thinker who can describe poverty through the lens of social psychology." What’s Really Burning In Baltimore——-50 Years Of Liberal Welfare State Policies Billions of federal dollars, and the Dems shut down all the sports fields and the libraries Baltimore schools second in spending Baltimore Riots: Frank Rich Reveals His Hideous Racism Dear Baltimore Family and Friends: Y'all Bein' Played! Another attack on Scott Walker boomerangs The women voting for Hillary because she's a woman are setting feminism back a hundred years. The media has by and large given President Obama’s failed Afghanistan Liberals Ignore a Real 1-in-3 Rape Culture Israel’s Economy Defies Logic Latvia, with a large minority of Russians, worries about Putin's goals In Kazakhstan, fears of becoming the next Ukraine Saturday, May 2. 2015Saturday morning linksHayward's reading list How to Be Real With God - What to do when spending time with God seems like chore. Modern romance: An Ill-Defined Relationship Is All Drama Wearing a Suit Makes People Think Differently - Formalwear elicits feelings of power, which change some mental processes. See what it’s like to drive a blimp to work every day The New Whitney: A Reply Against the fashionable tendency to regard ugliness as beauty Veterans more likely to volunteer, vote, serve community than civilians So What Ever Happened to Ebola? SHOCKING: ANOTHER FOOD FAD THAT ISN’T BACKED BY SCIENCE. Pssst: Wanna Get Rich? Become a ‘Public Servant’ Debating the Moynihan Report, 50 Years Later Rubio Talks Tough on Border Security: ‘No Right to Illegally Immigrate’ All diversity, all the time, everybody, right now Why Does the Left Continue to Lie about Its Ideological Agenda? Obama Regime Wouldn’t Let States Ask For Proof Of Citizenship…On Voter Registration Form Is your city burning? Thank a Democrat! Democrat-Run Baltimore is a Gangsters' Paradise I predict an outward migration of whites, especially white small-business owners, from the city of Baltimore. PHOTOS RELEASED of Racist Cops Charged in Freddie Gray’s Death New Vietnam Spy Tale Sheds Light on How the U.S. Lost the War The Fall of Saigon Revisited - Review: ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ on PBS Hatred, Lies, and Violence in the World of Islam Marxist Democrats and the Return of the Hanoi Lobby New Russia-China alliance latest diplomatic, strategic blow to Obama Russia may be readying for new Ukraine offensive: NATO commander Africa: IQ Chart on left via Carpe Friday, May 1. 2015Happy Massacre DayCommunism Killed 94M in 20th Century, Feels Need to Kill Again and at Cafe Hayek:
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