Thursday, August 13. 2015
NYC's mayor and the poverty industry. MacDonald:
The overwhelming cause of poverty in America today is family breakdown, not inadequate government spending on welfare programs or low wages. Children in single-mother households are over four times as likely to be poor as children raised by married parents. And an adult can avoid poverty by taking just three simple steps: graduate from high school, work full-time, and wait until marriage to have children. Only 2 percent of adults who followed those rules are poor, according to the Brookings Institution’s Isabell Sawhill; 75 percent of adults who obey the rules have entered the middle class, defined as making at least $55,000 a year.
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Men may never truly get over a relationship break-up, says study
David Warren's Household hints
Fats, butter, and oils: "They could see no link to coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, ischaemic stroke or type 2 diabetes"
Raising kids: Finally, a complaint about “entitlement” we can all get behind
Finally, Unorganized Hancock hires a bass player
Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
The Illogic of All Sex Laws - A new book traces a century of legislative prudery.
Mich. State students protest Boy Scouts for 'cultural appropriation'
If You Love Lions, Let People Hunt Them, The New York Times Says
My Tank: Driving the Sherman M-4A3
Obama, Clinton Foundation Donors Sold ‘Green’ Fuel to Military for $149 per Gallon - San Francisco’s Solazyme also received millions in stimulus funds from DOE
From Steyn: "A Disgrace to the Profession" - The World's Scientists - in their own words - on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick and their Damage to Science
Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage
California has now banned use of the word “alien” (as in ‘illegal alien’) from Labor Laws because it discriminates against illegal aliens looking for jobs and gives preference to American citizens.
The ObamaCare Individual Mandate's Harsh Reality
The return of the Showtrial
The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails
Is Obama taking Hillary out?
Via Powerline:
Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show:
Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents’ plan to make college affordable: “Be good at sports.”
Carly Fiorina Shows How to Address the Left on Climate Change
Army Leaders: Changes to Basic Training Will Produce Better Soldiers
Cuban dissidents say being snubbed from Embassy opening is ‘slap in the face’
America Naively Swoons While Communist Cuba Cracks Down
The U.S. has been complacent and lazy in responding to cyberattacks
ISIS Organizing Small Armies Inside America
Why Iran’s Anti-Semitism Matters
How President Erdogan Mastered the Media - Turkey's once-feisty press has succumbed to an artful mix of bribery, muscle, and ideology.
Film preview: The Unknowns is a documentary film by U.S. Army Veterans Neal Schrodetzki and Ethan Morse.
Hamas has dug ‘several tunnels’ into Israel, in new Iran-funded war drive
Wednesday, August 12. 2015
Hurricane Trump blows away speech police Indeed he does. That's probably the only thing I appreciate about the guy. He is the real Honey Badger Don't Care
Heh! Rush Limbaugh Has A Theory On Why Bernie Sanders Is Drawing Record Crowds
Hillary! says Marco Rubio is too young. Below the fold, a pic of Bill and Hill on a dreamy beach vacation...somebody was lucky to get that photo because those two have hardly ever been together for 8 years:
Continue reading "Fun with politics"
AmazingRibs.com Is All About The Science Of Barbecue, Grilling, And Outdoor Cooking
Parenthood is worse than divorce, unemployment — even the death of a partner
Buffalo, NY: Where the Cool Kids Want to Live
Annie Lennox's daughter rescued after kayak capsizes; boyfriend still missing
No life-preserver? On a big strong river? I have kayaked on the Hudson. Best with a flotation device.
NC State receives approval for new dorm to house basketball players
Whatever happened to good old jock fraternities?
Peak Oilers Shut Up Forever Please
Renewables Offer No Bang for Your Megawatt
Tesla Burns Taxpayers' Dollars Like A Corvette Burns Gas
Tesla runs on coal
What Still Works in the USA?
Well, me, for starters
The Plight of the Unarmed Perp
New Yorker Writer Thinks 'Speech Nuts' Are Like 'Gun Nuts' - Kelefa Sanneh thinks the American devotion to free speech is overrated because there's less of it in Europe.
A Thoughtless Age - The West has cut ties with the great thinkers of the past.
Only an elite few ever studied these
Hillary Clinton’s higher education plan touches all the bases, except reality.
Liberals Can't Admit to Thinking Like Conservatives:
I'm an enormous fan of Jonathan Haidt's work. Nonetheless, I've always had two outstanding questions about it (and would note that these are not exactly questions of which Professor Haidt is unaware). The first is simply whether his surveys capture the actual moral reasoning that people do, or represent people pretending to do the sort of moral reasoning they think they ought to do.
Is Hillary above the Law?
Why a huge Los Angeles crowd turned out for Bernie Sanders
"Trump is not a candidate, he's making an infomercial for a yet-to-be fully develped political reality show."
Because Nothing Says ‘Protecting Her Honor’ Like A Father Letting His Own Daughter Drown
Like Abraham and Isaac?
Dalrymple: Isis Happens - On the linguistic constructions of liberal intellectuals:
... they laughed when I said how strange it was that I met many people who fell in with the wrong crowd but never any members of the wrong crowd itself.
The War Against the Swedish Flag - How love of country became racism.
China Steps Up the War on the Cross
White House Should Leave Politics Out of Iran Deal
5 Big Lessons from the First Gulf War
Major Jewish Groups Slam White House, Allies for Use of Antisemitic Language in Debate Over Iran Nuclear Deal
Tuesday, August 11. 2015
China’s interference in its stock markets reflects a global trend of states trying to govern economic activity.
This never works. Genius planners only mess it up.
Saturday, August 8. 2015
Recall that Mrs. Bill Clinton worked on the Watergate committee, but was fired for incompetence.
From Cheryl Mills to erase Hillary emails:
Hillary and Cheryl and Huma ought to have one of those seances Hillary used to have with Eleanor Roosevelt's ghost, only this time contact Richard Nixon's ghost and ask about the wisdom of getting in a urination match with a federal judge.
 How To Slice A Bagel Along A Mobius Strip — And Why
Is Our Universe a Fake?
Lion Hunting Is For Cowards
Artificial intelligence is already weirdly inhuman
EPA Dumps One Million Gallons of Wastewater Into Colorado River
Attorney General’s Charity Chief: Fraud Is “Surprisingly Common”
An ‘unarmed’ white teen was shot dead by police. His family asks: Where is the outrage?
Why White Men Get Shot by Cops
Ben Carson: Our Skin Does Not Make Us Who We Are, Our Brain Does
That’s Not Funny! Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.
O, Utopia. Why must your sweet governance always turn so quickly from the Edenic to the Stalinist? The college revolutions of the 1960s—the ones that gave rise to the social-justice warriors of today’s campuses—were fueled by free speech. But once you’ve won a culture war, free speech is a nuisance, and “eliminating” language becomes a necessity.
New doc highlights Buckley-Vidal debates, a turning point in TV news history
The New York Times Gets Money in Politics All Wrong
The 2016 election for dummies
Democrats: They're All Socialists Now
The Return of the Silent Majority
Cheryl Mills To Destroy Emails About Boss Hillary Clinton
Clinton Campaign Deems GOP ‘Out of Touch,’ Hillary Selfies with Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Kris Jenner
Cheryl Mills To Destroy Emails About Boss Hillary Clinton
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Read more at: http://tr.im/OfUsGPuerto Rico's 'death spiral' can be traced back to one mistake
Yazidi Child Soldiers Take Revenge on ISIS
Turkey and Its Kurds: At War Again
HIROSHIMA 70TH ANNIVERSARY: A JUST END TO WORLD WAR II
Friday, August 7. 2015
 Notes on the Republican Presidential Debate
Hope y'all have as fun a summer weekend as I am planning - fishing and thriving on seafood and beer with my gal off Block Island on the usual shared Whaler. I still have no idea why the gal likes me. Yes, I do have a cooler with wasabi, fresh ginger, and soy sauce so we can have sushi fresh from the sea, still flipping, so that might be why. Sushi + Corona with some lime in it.
They predict good sized seas on the ocean this weekend. Ride 'em, cowboy! Carpe diem, friends.
Wednesday, August 5. 2015
We do not make fun of true mental ailments here because there is nothing funny about them, but sometimes we encounter relatively-normal people who sound totally batshit crazy. Not sometimes, often. Good example: Undone By Her Radical ‘Do. "New frontiers of outrage."
Annah Anti-Palindrome is “a Bay Area-based writer, musician, optical sound-smith and queer/femme antagonist.”
Wow. She sounds mighty talented but she seems to be all about her hair style. Probably lives on the dole. Heck, reality and haircuts are difficult for everybody. I try to be understanding towards those who avoid reality, but there are always plenty enough nuts around to make you feel normal within your own "community." The internet says 2% of people are Borderline psychotics living in a mental world between ordinary and totally nuts. That 2% manages to get plenty of press if only for entertainment value.
FDA Report Finds Food Prevents Hunger 98% Of Time When Properly Used
African wildlife:
For those who actually want to do something other than make noise, there is no shortage of challenges. Chinese-sponsored gangs, well armed with heavy rifles and automatic weapons, are presently killing elephant at an unprecedented rate. Recently, elephant-rich areas of Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia have been all but wiped out. The demand for lion and leopard bones from the Far East is at an all-time high, putting a premium on big cats. Meat hunters are wiping out the antelope and buffalo herds throughout Africa. For many of these animals the safari hunters were their only hope.
How do we know the age of the Universe?
1936 Film Perfectly Explains How a Manual Transmission Works (h/t Insty)
Giant gates to Goliath's home discovered: Monumental fortification belonging to the Biblical city of Philistine Gath unearthed
Why Millennials Are Still Living with Their Parents
Uber Battle in New York Shows the Problems and Promise of the Sharing Economy
From Milton Friedman’s greatest hits
“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide
Discouraging News on College-Bound Black Students
New York’s grade-fixing scandal was entirely predictable — and predicted
Not enough boys in college?
The Immigration Onslaught Continues
The H-1B Visa Program Gives American Workers a Raw Deal
Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism
Gov't watchdogs urge Congress to reverse Obama administration IG crackdown
Has the Justice Department Seized Hillary’s Server? If Not, Why Not?
German critics blast Berlin over economic minister’s ‘scandalous’ trip to Tehran
Tuesday, August 4. 2015
At Ace. Amusing. I find it hard to care right now, but I know it matters.
Monday, August 3. 2015
 Image via NYM
But Cecil was a vegan
5 Rucking Rules Every Backpacker Should Know
Uber is just the tip of the iceberg
Yes, people do not like to work for a boss.
The arc of progressivism is on the wrong side of history when it comes to the disruptive technologies that benefit the middle class that progressives love to defend. Whether conservative and libertarian-leaning leaders can offer an alternative vision remains to be seen, but the progressive tendency to stand athwart history on these matters has given them an open door to try.
Thanks Vancouver (BC) for a 40-minute Black Car Wait
The life of Philip Glass
Company with crowds for hire sees opportunity in politics
The Twitter Mob: Society’s New Mechanism for Enforcing Morality
Is it a lynch mob or a modern-day stocks?
Can College Tenure Survive the 2016 Election?
Audit: Too Many Administrators With No One to Administer at Syracuse U.
TV legend Norman Lear gives 6 strong opinions about American life
In Defense of White Dudes
How Corporate Welfare Harms Efficiency, Growth And Fairness
The Six-Year Slough - New GDP revisions show the worst recovery in 70 years was even weaker.
Spending More on Health Care Is Actually Sort of Good
Chinese Company Replaces Humans With Robots, Production Skyrockets, Mistakes Disappear
Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
Is the U.S. Ready to Become Scandinavia?
Drought, flooding, disease - climate change is already threatening the source of our caffeine fix. Are we facing the end of coffee as we know it
Good grief, Now I'm scared!
‘Toxic lunacy': Salon’s concerned editorial to ‘White America’ is both ‘tragic and hilarious’
Ghetto Pride Day
The New York Times begrudgingly admitted that raising pay arbitrarily to $15 an hour stinks.
Congress wonders: Can the nation survive without Planned Parenthood?
What if baby parts could cure…malnutrition?
Will: Planned Parenthood and the barbarity of America
Combative Fiorina targets Bush, Clinton and the media at Koch-funded summit
Obama Wants 5-Year Plan: ‘I Guarantee You This Is Not How China’ Handles Its Infrastructure
Navy to Charge Officer Who Fired on Islamist During Chattanooga Terror Attack
Here Comes Puerto Rico’s Default
A Home Without young Yazidi Slave Girls Is So Boring
Venezuela Increasingly Looks Like A War Zone
More "bad luck" for Venezuela as the phones go out.
DEMOCRAT POLICIES WORK! Which country is out of food, pays doctors $15 a month, and has no beer?
The UK: Migrants think our streets are paved with gold
Behind the Lines: Erdogan’s bait and switch
Saturday, August 1. 2015
Uber Valued at More Than $50 Billion. Microsoft a major investor in the venture deal. We love Uber in NY. Only in America can people do these things.
Related, SOCIALISM ALWAYS STARTS WITH THE SAME PROMISES AND END WITH THE SAME DISASTERS
More: L.A. City Council Wants to Make Life Worse For People Trying to Get from LA's Main Airport: Uber shows-not-tells the people why legal transportation cartels suck
 Photo of the new American rural landscape
Texas man shoots armadillo, gets hit in face by bullet ricochet
Man shoots drone trespassing over his property and is arrested
That dude could easily be me. I would do that.
Why My Kitchen Floor is Always Disgusting
How And When To Harvest Potatoes
Five Facts About Chiropractic That Might Make You Reconsider Getting Your Back Cracked
UC Irvine Applications Offer Six Options for Gender
I am royalty born in a commoner's body, and society is discriminating against me
UC Irvine Applications Offer Six Options for Gender - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=61396#sthash.m73ngVJb.dpuf
Who knew that jumping out of planes was safer than getting out of bed?
Interview With a Drug War Casualty
Marion Zimmer Bradley: “Children are brainwashed into believing they don’t want sex.”
The Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture:
USDA reported in 2012 that 43 percent of the 571 samples of “organic” produce that were tested contained prohibited pesticide residues, and that “the findings suggest that some of the samples in violation were mislabeled conventional products, while others were organic products that hadn’t been adequately protected from prohibited pesticides.”
Laughing Over Dead Babies? Media Bored
Rock musicians vowed to smash capitalism and to “imagine no possessions.” What’s the problem here?
What "Everyday American" Would Pay $600 For This Haircut?
Shove it, Jeb!
"... after fifty years of structuring everything in Europe to prevent German hegemony, is it really a big surprise that Germany isn’t well set up to act as a hegemon?"
Planned Parenthood’s Mammogram Lie
At this point, municipalities across the country need to seriously consider refraining from applying for Community Development Block Grants and other grant programs sponsored by HUD.
In Michigan, Bad News for Unions with Hands in Workers’ Pockets - State supreme court upholds right-to-work for public employees.
Asymmetrical politics: Republicans act like an unruly mob, Democrats like a regimented army
Immigration As Obama's Vehicle For 'Fundamentally Transforming' America
Obama Throws The Base A Bone, Will Offer Federal Student Aid To Prisoners
Carly’s Up, Hill’s Down
Clinton touts 'passionate commitment to helping people'
Central Planning Emerges As a Classic Error In Clinton’s Strategy
"Hillary has accomplished nothing substantial in her life. She’s been pushed along, coasting on her husband’s coattails..."
She’s just a classic, corporate exec or bureaucrat type who would prefer to be at her desk behind closed doors, imposing her power schemes on the proletariat.
I'm sure she calls us plebes, not proles. I know her type.
Hillary Clinton's camp fears a new 'bimbo eruption' will put the kibosh on candidacy - especially from Gennifer Flowers who claimed Bill liked to be blindfolded and tied up with silk scarves and called his wife 'Hilla the Hun'
Hillary Clinton has never won a competitive election.
Hillary’s Friends in High Places - Everyone—from her aides to the State and Justice departments—is bending over backward to protect her.
Theodore Dalrymple - David Cameron’s Muslim Muddle
WHEN “MIGRANTS” BECOME SUFFICIENTLY NUMEROUS AND VIOLENTLY INSISTENT, THEY’RE CALLED “INVADERS
Undermining the US military - Along with budget reduction, the armed forces must endure social engineering
What Obama doesn’t want us to know on Gitmo closure
The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel and Palestine
Blaming Israel First
Rutgers Prof Deepa Kumar Criticized for ISIS Tweet; Complains of 'Death Threats'
The State of African Security
Friday, July 31. 2015
A big game hunter speaks (short vid)
Who's Afraid of Uber?
I Used Windows 10 And Survived, And You Can Too
For the love of God, stop dressing like crap
Would you let your 12-year-old daughter sleep in a tent with an 18-year-old boy?
Robert F. Turner: Thomas Jefferson and slavery
Study: Claim That “97% Of Climate Scientists Agree” Is Really Just 47%…
Washington, D.C. Sinking, So, We Totally Need To Discuss Climate Change
The Chappaqua Case: The Feds Muscle In on Local Zoning Laws
The Regulatory State’s War against ordinary Modern Life
Why Do So Many Working Age Americans Choose Not To Enter The Workforce?
Raising Children Contributes to 43% of American Poverty
White House Says Planned Parenthood Videos Are Fake
Undercover Journalists Have NINE More Planned Parenthood Videos In The Can
Abortion word games come to end
Sen. Ernst: Funds Will Still Be Available for Women’s Health Services, Just Not for Planned Parenthood
Hidden Motives Behind the Huge GOP Primary - Sixteen Republicans are running for president. Why is the roster so large?
DNC Chair FREEZES-CAN’T ANSWER=> ‘What’s the Difference Between Democrat Party and Socialist?’
Jeb Bush Takes Positions on Climate Change, EPA Rules, Other Energy Issues
Pay Attention Republicans — Especially You, Mr. Trump
Pay
Attention Republicans — Especially You, Mr. Trump - See more at:
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Revelations put Clinton in crosshairs of broadening inquiry into whether she mishandled classified information
U.S. intel preparing for massive breach of classified data in Hillary Clinton emails
From Hill-ary To Mountain-ary - How UBS Sent Millions To The Clintons After Saving The Bank In 2009
A.B. Stoddard: Clinton must be joking:
In just days, Clinton has issued dire warnings about climate change; been caught jumping on and off a private plane; pledged, because of the plane’s emissions, to the make her campaign carbon neutral (without revealing how); jetted to New York City for a $600 haircut; and refused to reveal her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, which those same voters interested in climate change are asking her about.
Why Hillary Clinton keeps falling in the polls
The Truth About Western 'Colonialism' - How the misuse of a term legitimizes the jihadist myth of Western guilt.
Facebook: Marine Corps emblem violates community standards
Top French Official Contradicts Kerry on Iran Deal
India About to Surpass China as World’s Most Populous Country
India’s Faltering Economic Revolution: Lost Opportunity, Lost Future
Palestinians: A Rare Voice of Sanity
Hamas's Child Abuse Camps
HuffPost Arabic’s Muslim Brotherhood connections
THE BRUTAL REALITIES OF NAVAL STRATEGY
Young Africans to Obama: 'Clean your own house first'
Thursday, July 30. 2015
Big game is hunted all the time in Africa, quite legally. All you have to do is pay and the guides will find a convenient target for all of the Bungalow Bills. Poor schmuck shot the wrong one (but with a bow, to his credit). For real heart-wrenching, ‘It’s Another Boy!’
So we progressively humanize animals and dehumanize people. Something wrong there. I am neither pro-abortion nor anti-all abortion. I have been in a moral limbo about it for years while finding the very idea of abortion spiritually revolting. Abortion is not health care. PP abortions should not be funded by taxpayers. They can abort all the lions they want if they have too many.
To care more about animals than about humans is the mark of true depravity.
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care more about animals than about humans is the mark of true
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"Although I grew up in a union household and surrounded by progressive peers, I kept noticing liberal policies sound good but actually reinforce poor choices. It dawned on me: I’m a conservative."
Why Women Like ‘Retro Sexism’
Why Do Government Services So Often Suck So Badly?
Mexico Cracks Down on Illegal Aliens From North of the Border
Indian restaurant fined for trying to hire Indian waiter
Don’t blame ‘evil’ landlords for the free market
Is it time for a racial classification system in America?
Would Cat-Lovers Give Up Their ‘Pets’ To Save the Earth?
What it’s like to be a veteran at one of the most liberal colleges in the country
Health Care Costs To Accelerate, Report Says
The Co-Founder of Greenpeace Explains Why He Left
Atlantic Writer Jeffrey Tayler Wants Christianity Officially Considered a Mental Illness
Networks Spend More Time Covering Cecil the Lion Than Planned Parenthood Videos
Raising the Minimum Wage Is the Perfect Way to Kill the Summer Job
Bernie Sanders schools Vox on immigration
Mexico
Cracks Down on Illegal Aliens From North of the Border - See more at:
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Fed Keeps Interest Rates Near Zero, But Increase May Come Later This Year
- Debate continues on whether policy will cause economic distortions
Chinese Stocks Rise After Government Injects $100bn Into Sovereign (Rescue) Fund; Sell-off 'Blame' Shifts To Hong Kong
Federal Judge Threatens To Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers in Contempt of Court over Lerner
Media Struggling to Ignore Black Mob Violence
Unfortunately for Coates’ persuasiveness, white people, unlike blacks, have never actually done anything terribly bad to him.
Reporters Covered up Bill Clinton Affair During Hillary’s 2008 Presidential Campaign
Linda Tripp: Hillary Clinton Believes Americans Are Little More Than Plebeians
If Spending Is Our Military Strategy, Our Strategy Is Bankrupt
10 Ways for America to Deal with the South China Sea Challenge
Self-Contradiction, Priorities, Conflict, and Women in the USMC
US Military's Bomb Techs Fear Flying IEDs
What Information Collected by Israeli Intelligence Reveals About the Iran Talks
Has the U.S. Just Sold Out the Kurds?
Turkey and Syria: From Bluff to Buffer
TERRORISM TASK FORCE CHAIR: IRAN NUKE DEAL INCREASES HEZBOLLAH THREAT TO US
Wednesday, July 29. 2015
Maybe you read about this today. Cecil the lion was killed by a dentist who is now in hiding due to death threats from those who 'cared' about Cecil.
I wish I could care about Cecil the Lion, but as much as I think his killer is a bit of an asshole, I'm more disturbed by the outpouring of death threats he has received.
More to the point, I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be upset about today? The kid whose body they found in the dumpster or a freaking lion who was killed legally (however much the kill was rigged to be legal, and however much of an ass the guy is, it was legal).
Yeah, Cecil is a sad story. Yeah the dentist is probably an idiot. But let's face it - we have a presidential contest about to start and a host of issues here at home that have led us to be concerned about way too much:
1. a moron former first lady who claims she is 'for the people' and gets $600 haircuts, while roping herself off from the people in parades
2. a moron socialist who occasionally says something cool, but is generally an asshole because he wants to pay everyone a minimum of $15 an hour but won't even pay his own staffers that wage - because it's too much.
3. a moron businessman who speaks plainly and pisses people off because running the country isn't the same as running a business. Yeah, he makes a few good points, but he has no shot at winning and even if he did I wouldn't trust him with my tax dollars.
4. a moron president who is no doubt hoping someone will change laws and allow him to run for a third term (while I'd support changing that law, I don't support him)
5. a bunch of morons trying to ban the Confederate battle flag, but not really caring about the 20 other Confederate flags which were equally "racist" then, but have different meanings today.
6. a bunch of morons who think banning guns is a good idea so they created "gun free zones" which have become kill zones - and they believe this supports their cause!
7. a bunch of morons who think certain words are triggers and should be outlawed because they 'offend'
The list of things I need to care about is endless. I have to remind myself each day to not offend anyone, to not be myself because someone else may not like what I am or what I stand for, to abide by some of the dumbest laws a nation can devise (and be concerned about others which are certainly headed our way), and generally be sensitive and caring to all people and all animals, all the time, everywhere, no matter what.
I'm pissed off about Cecil. But he's a freaking lion and he's thousands of miles away. There will be more lions, and he's not in my backyard. But I'm tired of having to care about every little thing that someone thinks is 'important' to them. I care about me, and my family, and my friends. I care if they are healthy, and I care if someone is impinging on mine, or their rights. So yes, I care. But I really just can't find time in my day to care about Cecil. Sorry.
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