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Monday, June 29. 2015Out of ammoThe world is defenceless against the next financial crisis Would the world be better off with ordinary free markets and no central banks? Sunday in NYC (on Pride Day) with DanceBrazil
We hadn't realized it was the day of the Gay Pride march on the West Side. By the time we sat down for supper outside, swarms - thousands - of gays were moving back uptown from their destination which I think had been the West Village. "Hi, Happy Pride!" Anyway, it made for some entertaining and curious people-watching. I told Mrs. BD that my Mom would have loved that scene which seems exotic to me. My question was why and how do so many gays (male or female) look gay. No Gaydar required, believe me. It's, like, obvious. I suspect my buddy expected me as a wacko Christian conservative (ie Evil Right Wing Nazi) to be hostile or uncomfortable. Naw. Christians get a kick (mostly) out of all of God's creation. It was just strange, and a colorful spectacle. I can say that we four felt like aliens from a straight bourgeois planet - which was fine. Overall, fun. Do male gays add more to life than those grim-looking lesbians with their fat girlfriends? I tend to think so. However, I saw a handful of those lesbian marchers whose feminine charms, IMO, were going to waste and I said so. DanceBrazil was something else. Mrs. BD gave me some words: Muscular, acrobatic, quick, primitive, full-body dancing. She said they were all ballet-trained, but probably lifted weights too. These men and women are seriously strong. Exhausting to watch because of the intense physicality. Very good, high-energy high-intensity stuff. Here's a clip from them a couple of years ago. Also, a few random pics below the fold - but none of the gay parade people really.
Continue reading "Sunday in NYC (on Pride Day) with DanceBrazil" Monday morning linksMy college sex education: In her first year, a student finds a campus obsessed with hooking up — and utterly ignorant about real relationships and their consequences How to Fail and Live to Talk About It: 10 Tips for Explaining Your Missteps Without Sounding Like a Train Wreck It’s a Record: No Major Hurricane Has Struck U.S. Mainland in 10 Years Our precious little snowflakes The “journey” of a 10 year old transgender child. Somebody call the cops California May Be About To Eliminate Most Exemptions For Mandatory Vaccination Walmart Is Okay With ISIS, but Not the South White House Wants Your Doctor To Warn You About “Climate Change” Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country Italian Schoolboys Forced to Wear Girls’ Clothes Italian Schoolboys Forced to Wear Girls’ Clothes Texas university's VP of diversity and inclusion to earn more than any governor University of Wisconsin Bans RACIST Phrase: “Everybody Can Succeed” The Phrase ‘Trigger Warning’ Is Now Also a Trigger Puerto Rico’s Governor Says Island’s Debts Are ‘Not Payable’ The Confederate flag and Hamilton: Getting the nation’s symbols right Liberals are playing a racial shell game:
O’Reilly to Race-Baiters: ‘You Want a War, You Got a War’ Will Democrats Apologize for Slavery and Segregation? An open letter to DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Obama's Amazing Disgrace of a Eulogy No, Mr. President, you can not make us all own Dylann Roof Coming Right Up: Gay Divorce Court Is gay marriage a victory for Big Government? Historic Day for Gays, but Twinge of Loss for an Outsider Culture Greenfield: Be the Best Saboteur You Can Be ...the U.S. and its negotiating partners have given in to Iran’s Walmart Is Okay With ISIS, but Not the South
Saturday, June 27. 2015Steven Pinker on Taboos, Political Correctness, and DissentSaturday morning links: First Saturday of SummerFollowing Fistfights with Uber Drivers, Paris's Taxi Motorists Strike on Thursday to Protest Newcomer's Arrival in the City Raisins: The New Deal policies that stacked the deck for producers are Jesus never called anyone out for racism or our other popular sins. He did call people out for self-righteousness Air conditioning and God Elizabeth Gilbert's Diary of a Seductress Many white people in Oregon have no idea that our schools and state are Is porn "bad for you"? Swimming pools are full of pee Bland school lunch? Bring salt and pepper GMOs Have a PR Problem How fainting couch feminism threatens freedom Nationally recognized teacher removed from class after allegations of reading Mark Twain Greens Aren’t Particularly Happy About Biofuels EPA Commissar Gina McCarthy Denounces Hoax Doubters as Not “Normal Human Beings” Otherkin - Heart of a Snowflake The Other Bad Supreme Court Decision: Claims of Racism Can Be Filed Without Actual Proof of Racism The Last Thing the Left Wants is Racial Healing EPA Commissar Gina McCarthy Denounces Hoax Doubters as Not “Normal Human Beings” - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=59893#sthash.FIWGBAPV.dpuf The Democrats Get Their Crazy On Democrats Go Scorched-Earth on ‘War on Women’ Americans are delaying major life events because of money worries Politico: Has not the time come for polygamy, social liberals? When Erasing Symbols of Slavery, Don't Forget the Democratic Party Michigan Professor Juan Cole Thinks the Charleston Race Murders Are My Fault Matt Lewis and how he caused the Charleston shooting Confederate Flag Purge Goes Nuts Almost Immediately, Hits Harmless Strategy Games Now, About This Flag That Makes People Want to Shoot Other People, or Something… On Obamacare, John Roberts helps overthrow the Constitution Barack Obama is officially one of the most consequential presidents in American history However King was decided, the future of American health care was going to come down to 2016 The One Number That Shows Why Jews Really Vote Liberal Christian Carnage and Western Indifference Turkey Chooses ISIS Over the Kurds Deal with Iran could turn Middle East into a nuclear tinderbox How Iranian Oil Tankers Keep Syria’s War Machine Alive ISIS Giving Away Young Girls as Prizes in Qur’an Competition Establishing a Palestinian Islamist State Friday, June 26. 2015Redefining "marriage" in federal law
Justice Kennedy made the libertarian argument. Also, solved the national problem of loneliness.
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Friday morning linksPic from A Visit to the Le Creuset Factory Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness No, Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason Quote from Ace: "Did we ban all the things yet? I'm having a hard time keeping track." Quote from Burge via Insty: "No matter how low your opinion of Washington DC, it's nothing compared to Washington DC's low opinion of you." Quote via Am Digest: "We aren’t giving up our right of free speech or, for that matter, any other rights you leftist schmucks deem inconvenient." How Dumb Do You Have to Be to Be a Criminal? America's Runaway Spending On the Elderly The University of California’s Insane Speech Police Greenfield: The Death of the Liberal Another Racist To Be Evicted From American History: Woodrow Wilson Apocalyptic Fear-mongering: Sometimes Rush Limbaugh is Right! Prominent professor’s decades of research concludes global warming will not destroy Earth New study: Electric cars may be worse for the environment than gas-powered Hillary Clinton’s dodginess is overpowering her message In Greece’s Equality-of-Outcome Mentality, a Default Is Morally Justified Poll of U.S. Muslims Reveals Ominous Levels Of Support For Islamic Supremacists’ Doctrine of Shariah, Jihad Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea - There’s a new national ideology forming in Russia—and “the Jews” play a big part in it. Thursday, June 25. 2015Lani Guinier Wants to Transform Higher Education
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ConversationHe: The country seems to be going nuts. I've never heard so many stupid things lately. Me: Well, bear in mind that 50% of Americans have IQs under 100. He: Is it that high? Gee, well that explains a lot. Thursday morning linksNYC: Hooray for the High Bridge - A civic restoration project that deserves to be celebrated Alibaba’s Jack Ma Buys $23 Million Property in New York’s Adirondacks - The Chinese billionaire has conservation plans for the 28,100-acre property. How men and women differ on sex and relationships America’s center on gun control might shock New York Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' - The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story, writes Christopher Booker. JP Morgan Chase Employees Effectively Required to Endorse Sodomy When a Nobel Prize winner can be hounded from his university chair by the harridans of the Internet... JP Battle Flags and Bad Faith: The Left Exploits Another Crisis As we saw with Obama’s birth certificate, the only people who care about this flag are liberals and lunatics, the distinction between the two is impossible without professional training. Now it’s serious: No more “Dukes of Hazzard” toys with the Confederate flag on the General Lee "This is a new level of ‘P.C.’ idiocy. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of being insulted by morons." Leftists Want Military Bases Named After Confederate Generals Renamed The Cynical Political Double-Cross Of Young Americans Hillary Clinton Takes Private Jet to Give Speech on Social Inequality AMERICA'S MILITARY: A force adrift - HOW THE NATION IS FAILING TODAY'S TROOPS AND VETERANS Former Obama aides say U.S. needs tougher Iran nuclear deal Report: In 9 Years' Existence, UNHRC Condemned Israel More Times Than Rest of World Combined Wednesday, June 24. 2015Peak LeftismYou have to credit the Left: Its strategy is deft. If you can make enough noise that sounds approximately like a moral crisis, then you can in effect create a moral crisis. Never mind that the underlying argument — “Something bad has happened to somebody else, and so you must give us something we want!” — is entirely specious; it is effective. Wednesday morning linksMan Who Created The Pink Plastic Lawn Flamingo Dies Medical marijuana offers only weedy health benefits Big surprise An orangutan steals crops from a poor farmer in Indonesia and is shot in retribution. Who is to blame? How Megyn Kelly Became the New Star of Fox News Doom: Warmists Proclaim Collapse Of Society By 2040 ‘climate change…could wipe out health progress over the past 50 years’ Obama: ‘Within Our Children’s Lifetimes, On Our Current Pace, the Oceans Go Up Maybe 2, Maybe 3, Maybe 4 Feet’ Colby Cosh: Pope’s encyclical on climate change reads like the Unabomber Manifesto The Scientific Pantheist Who Advises Pope Francis Huffpo Writer: I Will Not Have Children So I Will Not Spread My ‘White Privilege’ Biologically Our thanks to her for improving the gene pool Keep the Confederate Flag Flying It's not racist - it's rebel. Like the Gasden flag. Liberals are still getting the South all wrong
SO WHAT IS AILING THE AMERICAN LAWYER? Most illegal immigrants from border surge skipped court date after release, records show The paradox of work is that many people hate their jobs, but they are considerably more miserable doing nothing. Important news from WaPo: “There’s not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal” What? Michael Oren Finally Reveals the Truth About Obama and Israel, and Leftist Jews Can’t Stand It Islamic State Drowns Iraqis in Cage, Blows Up Prisoners in Car w/RPG The UK: NEXT THEY’LL WANT YOU TO SURRENDER YOUR TEETH AND YOUR FISTS Tuesday, June 23. 2015Tuesday morning links Saul Bellow at 100 - Review: Zachary Leader, ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964’ Theophilus North in Newport Concerning the "Ecological" Path to Salvation Pope Francis’s Relentless Pessimism Fuels His Faith in Politics Pope Francis Is Wrong about Air Conditioning Michael Lewis on Harvard admissions Raisin justice - finally The feds’ trans-fat ban boosts all the food conspiracy theories So What Do Liberals Actually Want To Do About Guns? How Liberals Manipulate Data About the Minimum Wage Bonfire of the Vulgarians: Middle East Studies in Decline Hillary! and the uranium Mexico is Facing a Deadly Central American Migrants Crisis Iranian Parliament Chants “Death to America” – Votes to Ban Nuclear Inspections The Gaza War 2014 The War Israel Did Not Want and the Disaster It Averted Imperial Ambitions: Russia’s Military Buildup China: Africa's New Power Broker The Palestinians' Real Strategy Monday, June 22. 2015Funny pages
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Monday morning linksAre Humanities Degrees Doomed? Experts Weigh In. Most Americans do not understand SPF ratings, or how sunscreen is supposed to work. But they do care about “anti-aging” effects. Obama Pressures Colleges to Adopt Unconstitutional "Speech Codes" Arm Candy Report, Hollywood Division: Shiksas, Asians Out, Hot Yoga Instructors In Are We Seeing the End of Homeopathy? California: Running On Empty Most Millennials Want to Own Homes - They just don't think they can afford them. How climate-change doubters lost a papal fight i“Unless you accept the alarmist position and the dictates of the [Obama] administration, you cannot typically receive government funding” The 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer shows the largest ever gap between trust in business and government since we began this study in 2001. This can be attributed to a continued destruction of trust in government that began in 2011... Media spins horrific murder into a fight over a flag It’s Official: Barack Emo Obama Disappointed By Entire World Venezuela’s Economy Spirals Saturday, June 20. 2015Saturday morning links“Normative sociology, the study of what the causes of problems ought to be, greatly fascinates us all” This is the first aerobatic ride of my 4-year-old daughter, Lea Two Americas: How the Supreme Court Could Change Health Care The Creepy Consequences of Oppression Chic Matt Ridley explains how he lost trust in climate science Hillary: ‘We Have to Face Hard Truths About Race, Violence, Guns, Division’ One psychotic kid does something monstrous and it's a national crisis? Dylann Roof’s Racist Massacre Was Universally Condemned — Why Are Liberal Pundits Pretending Otherwise? Once Again, President Barack Obama Calls For The Abolition Of The Secret Service Obama: Low-income Kids Do Worse in School at Month’s End Partly Because They’re ‘Getting Hungry,’ Food Stamps ‘Running Out’ Immigration by the Numbers It's Democrats, Not Republicans, Who Are The Extremists Blumenthal email confirms: Libya was to be Hillary´s crowning accomplishment Hungary to Build 175 km Border Fence to Ward Off Terrorist Migrants – Calls EU Immigration Plan “Bordering on Insanity” Pentagon Unleashes Behemoth Bible Laying Out the Laws of War for US Soldiers A trip into the heart of Palestine - A journey to the land that has seen many changes, where Arabs and Islam once prospered, is exhilarating and overwhelming at the same time Is State Department skirting US law on sanctions? WikiLeaks publishes more than 60,000 leaked diplomatic cables from Saudi Arabia Judging Whether the Iran Deal Is Acceptable “Normative
sociology, the study of what the causes of problems ought to be, greatly fascinates us all” - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/06/normative-sociology.html#sthash.I4faI8Ij.dpuf Friday, June 19. 2015Friday morning linksPhoto: Audubon's Hog Island Camp, Maine 50 years ago, Like a Rolling Stone
Delivering blocks of ice to an overheated city Hillbilly banjo band heckles marathon runners "What's your hurry?" VEGAN Calls for Death to All Meat-Eaters Benedict Option Baptists I didn't know what Benedict Option meant I didn't know what Pournelle's Law was either Evidence Mounting that Michelle Obama's Signature School Lunch Policy is a Failure Tests for teachers found to have too many white questions CHARLIE HEBDO WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Obama on Charleston shooting: “Let’s be clear —this kind of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.” Mutilating Teenagers, to Thunderous Applause Illegals: Enforcement? What Enforcement? Border Patrol agents, facing scrutiny over shootings, have harsh words for their leaders Congress Almost Always Rewards Failed Government Agencies. Here is Why Oh, gee: the Democrats are ‘rebranding.’ AGAIN. How Iran Dominates the Middle East Defying Beijing, Hong Kong lawmakers reject election framework Army Plans to Start Replacing M9 Pistol in 2018 Vietnam dissidents urge US help to boost human rights For Marine unit, a lost reputation in Afghanistan Thursday, June 18. 2015CharlestonWhy do jerks like Obama jump on a tragedy to try to score political points? It is disgusting. My prayers for the families and for the congregation of the church. Why anyone would give a .45 to a kid who looks like the one in the photo above is beyond me.
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Thursday morning linksPhoto from Sipp's Not Homeschooled No Child Left Un-assisted: A Day at the Playground Willis Carrier, the father of cool A New Recreation Shows How Ancient Romans Lifted Wild Animals Into the Colosseum Ladies: You Have More Time Than You Think French Government Warns Eating Nutella Causes Global Warming… With bodies sculpted to look like comic-book heroes, today’s muscle men create an impossible template for masculinity New NASA data show how the world is running out of ground water Too many people, living in marginal areas What’s Wrong with Teaching Women to Avoid Rape?
Six decades before Caitlyn Jenner, there was Christine Jorgensen. What would a university do if an applicant self-identified as “black” on an application but showed up looking “white”? How Rachel Dolezal Crossed Line From Solidarity to Slumming The Trans Fat Ban and Labels On Salt And Soda Won't Make Us Healthier
Obama gives free pass to businesses that hire illegals Newest campus microaggression: “I believe the most qualified person should get the job” ‘Trigger Warning’ Professors Aren’t Compassionate; They’re Co-Conspirators in Campus Censorship Flaming feminist inquisition destroys another scientist! Another high-tech lynching Meteorologists Dismantle Bill Nye’s Alarmist Global Warming Claims Kelo v. New London: Central Planning Does Not Work, Ruins Lives Democrats Now the Party of Plutocracy Who’s afraid of America? The military playing field is more even than it has been for many years. That is a big problem for the West No Way To Treat An Ally - First interview: Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has written a devastating insider’s account of White House distancing from Israel. Wednesday, June 17. 2015The FDA and Nanny laws
Indeed: After trans fat ban, what else should be removed from food?
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More, for Pope FrancisA few suggestions from a reader on what things to promote to reduce material poverty around the world: work ethic All the same, I believe the Pope' s job is to worry about spiritual poverty, not material. St. Francis took a vow of poverty and rejection of secular matters to assist his spiritual development and preaching mission.
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Wednesday morning linksEverything causes cancer Life on the Biggest Ship in the World 4 people taken to hospital after using phone app to identify mushrooms Why You Should Stop Searching for ‘The One’ - Andy Stanley discusses how to become the person the person you are looking for is looking for. Northwestern Risks Academic Freedom (Again) by Censoring Bioethics Journal with ‘Bad Girls’ Theme Trans Fat Consumption Has Declined 80% Since 2003 and Other Reasons the FDA Ban Is Ridiculous College Students Try to Define Sexual Consent Dementia shouldn’t mean the end of sex Deconstructing Magna Carta The Complexity of Being Richard Nixon - Often remembered as a brooding, vengeful, and almost cartoonish figure, his life was far more complicated than its caricature. A Trans-Class Victim Speaks Out BASICALLY EVERYTHING IS A MICROAGGRESSION The lunatic lynching of ‘sexist scientist’ Tim Hunt The left likes to look for the “root causes of poverty”. A better June Is Cheap Foreign Labor Month, Courtesy of Mark Zuckerberg What to Expect When You're Expecting a Pension Garish Tastes, Awful Hair: Donald Trump Is America How Many Windmills Has the Pope? Inside Every Liberal Is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out: The Death of the Neighborhood Obama? He’s just too smart for us on the right! Hillary Clinton charged the Boys and Girls Club a Clinton Extolls Her Own Childhood With Mom, But Wants Today's 3-Year-Olds in Child Care More Clinton deceit comes to light A Middle East 'Complete Strategy'? To What End? Tuesday, June 16. 2015Dear PopeWere I to dare to write a note to His Holiness, it would include some phrases like these: ...putting aside your concerns about nature and the weather, which I think the Creator may control in some way which is beyond our comprehension... ...instead of trying to be an amateur meteorologist or amateur economist, why not focus on Christ and His offer of salvation? That's what people need. ...if money is one of your major interests in this transient earthly existence, one constructive path of inquiry would be to focus on and to promote what makes people prosperous instead of blaming others...not that has anything to do with your job or your expertise, but the sources of prosperity and material abundance are well-understood...while the sources of religious abundance always need instruction, guidance, support and help.
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