Wednesday, March 30. 2016
Former Trump Operative: The Donald Never Wanted to Be President
I think it was a self-promotional lark, but it turned serious. Now what? Get out, Donald. You have had your fun. Either that, or get yourself educated. Begin with the US Constitution (that means the rules that constitute the union and the government, Donald).
Evidence the guy has no clue what he is talking about: Trump names health care and education, along with security, as the top functions of the federal government
Well, he got one out of three right. When he gets things right, it seems to be by accident. He is a Music Man.
At Betsy:
Even some of Trump's strong supporters are having trouble defending his brand of crazy. Ann Coulter, one of the most incoherent, attention-grabbing people out there, has been fervently defending Trump all over the place. Yet even she is having trouble sometimes defending him.
Defending billionaire businessman Donald Trump is like constantly having to bail a teenage son from prison, author and political commentator Ann Coulter groused in a recent radio interview.
"I'm a little testy with our man right now. Our candidate is mental! Do you realize our candidate is mental?" Coulter said jokingly during a taping of an episode of the "Milo Yiannopoulos Show," which is scheduled to air in full this weekend. "It's like constantly having to bail out your 16-year-old son from prison."
 Emergency call to my IT consultant yesterday - "One of my machines is totally screwed. Nothing will open." Guy arrives, sits down, and in 20 seconds says "You just need a new mouse." And leaves. Sheesh. Talk about feeling stupid.
Photo is cat looking for new mouse.
Do Teenage Girl Scouts Really Require Adult Supervision While Selling Cookies?
In Germany, yes.
How Does A Penis Transplant Work? Here's what the first American recipient will undergo
"Penis donors"?
University Cancels ‘Vagina Monologues’ Because a White Lady Wrote It
Transgender Man Sues Barbershop for Discrimination
Penis donors again?
College student warns: ‘Zootopia’ movie is ‘call to arms for white people’
Supreme Court: Non-Union Employees Must Now Pay Union Dues to Public-Employee Unions
Forced union membership is wrong
Marines across the Corps will be challenged on their unconscious
prejudices and presuppositions as women get the opportunity to become
grunts for the first time.
Millennials bolt from socialism once they become employed and start making money
FBI Investigating Reports Of 17 Men Chanting, Firing Off Shots In Apple Valley
Obviously racists called the cops
Schneiderman:
Even though most pundits and politicos have concluded that
Trump’s support is driven by anger, the truth is, it is more about fear.
Americans are terrified that their nation has hit an iceberg and is sinking.
Trump: He's Mean, but Is He at Least Bright?
To be as kind as I can, I think I'd term him "incurious"
Is Trump Right About NATO?
I think so
Paranoid politicians, sensational journalists – the Isis recruiting
officers will be thrilled at how things have gone since their atrocity
in Belgium
Fidel Castro Just Dumped Obama
Frog, scorpion
Sometimes Jihad Is Just Jihad - Examining the West’s habit of blaming itself for the terrorism directed against it
Tuesday, March 29. 2016
Not very flattering about Hillary
True? It is all truthy, anyway.
 Bison coming 'home' to Montana Indian reservation
Cool
‘No kill’ animal shelters have unleashed an epidemic of suffering. Is a life of misery any better than a quick death?
How the Government Stole Sex - Screw morality—the state is now intervening in American bedrooms under the mantle of stopping sex discrimination.
Feds to Fine Schools for Not Following Michelle Obama’s Lunch Rules
Her kids don't eat that crap
The NYT editorial board thinks AR-15s fire in ‘rapid bursts’
ACADEMIC ABSURDITY OF THE WEEK: VINDICATING MADONNA
Emory Doubles Down on Beclowning Itself
Williams College: ' Coddled’ students and their ‘safe spaces’ aren’t the problem, college official says. Bigots are.
Williams College must be a hotbed of bigotry
Does The United States Still Exist?
“What’s The Real Agenda Behind Climate Change Alarmism?”
Schism on the Left: James Hansen’s climatic ‘canon’ gets fired from a cannon
Immigrant population over 15% in record 16 states, over 25% in 6
Fundamental transformation
Obama reiterates refugee promise
Who voted for that?
Listen to the Victims of the Free Market
The Myths of Black Lives Matter - The movement has won over Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. But what if its claims are fiction?
Hey students! I would kill to be so oppressed!
Glenn Reynolds: How PC culture is killing higher education
Scripps College goes Emory
AN OPEN LETTER TO EMORY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT JAMES WAGNER
" I’ve seen very little from the MSM that leads me to believe that it has great affection for either this country, or the majority of the people who inhabit it."
Why STEM classes are tough on women and minorities
Examples of STEM classroom practices that contribute to a chilly climate are weed-out courses, courses that grade on a curve, a competitive environment, reliance on lecture as a teaching method, an individualistic culture, and comprehensive exams.
Useless things the government does with your money
ObamaCare may force employers to pull the plug on millions of health plans, CBO report finds
The Stupid Psychopath Problem
OBAMACARE AT SIX: A LEGACY OF DECEPTION - Virtually every promise the president made on behalf of his “reform” law has been broken
Milo on Bernie:
Milo Yiannopoulos: And be wrong about everything… Why is it that just because someone is old and left-wing that they’re nice? We don’t say that about right-wingers. Why do we automatically assume that just because he’s old and doddery, has white hair and he sounds like a crazy old lunatic that he’s a nice guy. Really? Is he a nice guy? No he wants Socialism in America. That’s poisonous, ugly, oppressive political philosophy that has made people suffer everywhere that it has ever been tried… Why is he a nice person? What has he ever done that proves he is a nice person?
Z-man:
Europe operating as a market-state without external threats and a pacified population gave the ruling class of Europe the sense that this arrangement would work long term. Then the king went crazy and flung open the doors to Muslim invaders. Initially, this was not a problem as the ruling class lives in bunkered enclaves, removed from the consequences of their polices. They have no reason to care if the train stations are carnivals and rape and assault by the dusky sons of Mohamed.
But, the people have noticed that their liberties are slowly and methodically being curtailed in the name of public safety. When you can only enjoy a traditional parade from behind barricades and armed soldiers, you’re going to start having dark thoughts about the people who caused this...
Why Britain (and Europe) depends on migrants
Sheesh. Screwed-up culture. There is no dignity in dependency.
Belgian Soldiers Deployed to Fight Terrorists Had No Bullets in Rifles
The U.S. Army Is About to Double Its Howitzer Range
Monday, March 28. 2016
Why Are Millennial Men Such Wimps?
Any college president who adopts the rhetoric of “safe spaces” is already lost.
Related, “MY THERAPIST JUST LAUGHED AT ME"
Professor Ordered To Apologize For Conservative Blog Post, Or Lose His Job
American College Of Pediatricians Warns: Youth Transgenderism Is Child Abuse
Blue Civil War Escalates - Connecticut Democrats are going after Yale
Why the poor in the US are not poor
America’s Ethanol Industry Shows Why it Needs Subsidies
Obama Administration’s ‘Equity’ Ideology in Public Schools Breeding Violence
Hillary: Consequences Are for Schmucks
Secrecy is the root of the Clinton email scandal
Trump Aide: People Are Angrier Over Trump’s RTs Than Illegal Immigrants Murdering Americans
Hey! Don't Overreact to That Issue, Overreact to My Issue
Organisers cancel Sunday's Brussels attacks 'March Against Fear' - for security reasons
How to deal with Islam? I repeat, take it at its word.
Europe Has 'Battered Spouse Syndrome' When It Comes To Islam
Russia is no threat, and NATO is obsolete
I agree:
In fact, the War Party entrenched in the nation’s capital is dedicated to economic interests and ideological perversions that guarantee perpetual war; they ensure endless waste on armaments and the inestimable death and human suffering that stems from 21st century high tech warfare and the terrorist blowback it inherently generates among those upon which the War Party inflicts its violent hegemony.
iU.S. leadership matters today, just as it did after World War II
Pope Francis Says Defeat ISIS with “Message of Love” – ISIS Says New Attacks on the Way
Loving your enemy is not about being effective. However, discernment is also called for.
As SDA notes, "Frog, meet Scorpion""
Liberal Teacher Takes In Muslim Refugee, His Colleague Finds What’s Left Of Him
Saturday, March 26. 2016
America to Establishment: Who the hell are you people?
They are your betters. Bend over and get used to it. They know best.
Friday, March 25. 2016
“Inequality: Diagnoses and Prescriptions”
I have a better idea. The median household income in the US is around $50,000- 55,000 per year. I suggest, to eliminate inequality, that in the US we tax any income over $50,000 at 100%, and mail government checks to those households under $50,000 to bring them to the mean. Much in savings will come from eliminating all welfare, housing, and government medical programs.
To further level the playing field, all savings and assets should be taken by the government for the greater good. Funds from these can be used for free diapers, condoms, medical marijuana, urgently-needed collegiate safe spaces, and PhDs in anything you want. Cuba figured it out way before I did. Did I mention free TV, cigars, and rum?
As the High Administrator of this evidence-based scientific New New New Deal, with all of the responsibilities, worries, and burdens involved, I will obviously need to expect special compensation. Fidel has how many billions in Swiss banks? Something like that would meet my needs just fine. Even a little less. Special accommodations will be necessary for sub-administrators of course.
This experimental program should begin with government employees and politicians, and proceed to journalists, academics, artists and writers, professional athletes, and to all of Hollywood before moving to the general population. It takes a village to build Utopia so many must sacrifice and continue to work as hard as they used to. For the common good.
 Mizzou Is Now Forcing Undergrads to Complete “Diversity Training” Class for Graduation
ACADEMIC ABSURDITY OF THE WEEK
Israeli Apartheid Week may be coming to a campus near you. An antidote, not complicity, is needed.
Jesse Watters: If You’re Afraid of the Name Donald Trump You’re Either an Illegal Alien or a Total Sissy
Yoga Banned from Georgia School: Blame Christian Conservatives, Not Political Correctness - Turning kids against Christianity? That's a stretch.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?
New Jersey nonsense: Actor faces 10 years in prison for using a prop gun in movie
Washington is out of control.
Fascism, American Style
Obama Needs to Get Over His Self-Serving Guilt Trip - POTUS should read some honest, non-Leftist history
Never happen
Drug tunnel discovered from Mexico to California is four football fields long
James Comey and Loretta Lynch Hold the Whole Country in Their Hands
Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In World Says ISIS Not A Big Threat, But Climate Change Is
Z-man:
There never has been a practical reason to import foreigners into the West, much less hostile, low-IQ savages from the Middle East. Whatever contributions have been made to the Belgian economy by Muslims were just blown to bits by a pair of suicide bombers. There are now rivers of blood because the leadership of Europe has been overrun by what looks increasingly like a suicide cult.
Angela Merkel, who will be remembered as one of history’s greatest monsters, is a good example to study. This piece on her from a few months ago walks you through her “evolution” from mundane Christian lady to a prominent deacon is what amounts to liberation theology, centered on the annihilation of the West as penance for generations of oppression.
Jihadi Idol? Kerry Team Says Fight Islamic Extremism With ‘Television Drama Series’…
NY Times: Brussels Survived Terrorism, But May Not Survive Climate Change Or Something
Why do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton believe they know more about Islam than Muslim clerics?
... stubbornly unwilling to deal with the reality of Islam, our leaders have constructed an Islam of their very own. This triumph of willful blindness and political correctness over common sense was best illustrated by former British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith when she described terrorism as “anti-Islamic activity.” In other words, the savagery is not merely unrelated to Islam; it becomes, by dint of its being inconsistent with a “religion of peace,” contrary to Islam. This explains our government’s handwringing over “radicalization”: we are supposed to wonder why young Muslims spontaneously become violent radicals—as if there is no belief system involved.
This is political correctness on steroids, and it has dangerous policy implications.
NY Times Op-Ed: Europe has been living in a dream
VISIT BRUSSELS, YOU’LL HAVE A BLAST
Belgian Intelligence Had Precise Warning That Airport Targeted for Bombing
The Mafia Runs Guns for ISIS in Europe
Protests in Vietnam as prominent blogger goes on trial
Thursday, March 24. 2016
We linked this intelligent article this week: The Lethal Cocktail of Terrorism: The Four Necessary Ingredients that Go into Making a Terrorist.
One minor problem with it: she omits the power of religious conversion and religious fervor.
Another "minor" problem with it: She mostly neglects the destructive aspects of people, as if "normal" people had no destructive, wicked, or evil impulses. They do. Unleashed, the dark side can be a terrible thing. That is not news, and Jihadism offers many rationales for behavior that Western Civ. finds abhorrent today. These people did not buy into the historical arc of Western Civ. and perhaps never will.
One major problem with it: Many behaviors and choices of youth can be explained in similar terms so I see nothing specific to joining Jihad here. Similar motives could turn a suburban kid into a stoner Grateful Dead groupie.
The problem is that you can psychologize anything - after the fact. That is not a weakness of Psychology, but, instead, a statement about the complexity of human nature and human cultures.
 Toon via Lucianne
Would not recognize Letterman
When Dinosaurs Roamed the (Not Yet) Petrified Forest
NY Becomes 50th State to Legalize MMA
Let’s Just Clone Harrison Ford
Pink Snowflakes Meltdown at Emory Over “Trump 2016” Chalkings
UND prof. vows to call cops on ROTC drills
Mandatory Sensitivity Training to Be Inflicted on Marines
Mandatory Sensitivity Training to Be Inflicted on Marines - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=70214#sthash.7VYjGifp.dpuf
The Lie of Academic Free Speech
Just Think How Neat And Orderly Everything Will Be Once Government Functionaries Can Monitor Everything
One state with 600,000 people and an anti-GMO streak is about to rewrite U.S. food labels. What just happened?
Leftist Heads Explode Over ‘Anti-Muslim’ Terrorism Thriller
Janet Yellen: Monetary Arsonist——–Armed, Dangerous And Lost
Meddling with Medicare - A wrongheaded proposal could make it harder for sole practitioners and small family practices to stay in business.
When You Give Up On Allocating Resources via Markets and Prices, All That is Left is Interest Group Politics
Donald Trump, Uber-American:
Trump knows psychology. He knows facts don’t matter. He knows people are irrational. So while his opponents are losing sleep trying to memorize the names of foreign leaders – in case someone asks – Trump knows that is a waste of time. No one ever voted for a president based on his or her ability to name heads of state. People vote based on emotion. Period.
Donald Trump reveals inner statesman, terrifies naysayers
ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTERS Admit Answering Craigslist Ad and Getting Paid to Protest Trump
Cuba's charming, tragic time warp
Not so charming to live there
President Obama is in Havana because not even the Castro brothers
can cling any longer to the pretense that, somehow, socialism can solve
the problems of Latin America.
Migrants From Muslim Countries Big Beneficiaries Of US Green Cards
Tony Blair Blames Terrorism on "Flabby Liberalism"
He told the BBC: ‘We're in a situation where we have to fight back. ‘The centre has become flabby and unwilling to take people on. We concede far too much.
‘There's this idea that you're part of an elite if you think in terms of respectful tolerance towards other people. It's ridiculous.’
A new normal for Europe
IS trains 400 fighters to attack Europe in wave of bloodshed
"Fighters"?
Poland Abandons Pledge to Shelter Refugees After Brussels Blasts
Obama Regime Engaged In Secret Talks To Pay Iran Nearly $2 Billion
DO TERROR ATTACKS DOOM THE EUROPEAN UNION?
The vast demographic experiment of the West–importing largely unskilled immigrants from an essentially hostile culture–has failed and cannot be undone. Europe is now paying the deadly price. There have been mass murders by Muslim extremists in Madrid, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Brussels and Toulouse.
Wednesday, March 23. 2016
I receive emails each week making suggestions for weekend activities. Sometimes they are interesting, most times not. This week, a suggestion to visit certain dive bars before they become Pret-a-Mangers. Not a bad idea.
I love dive bars. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and my stepfather spent time at Mick's Tavern, the local gas station, garage and tavern. Total dive. At Syracuse, we had the student bar, Jabberwocky, which hosted many big name bands before they were names. That was before my time. The Jab also had Oldies Night on Wednesday nights, and Happy Hour on Friday. It wasn't technically a dive bar, but it could qualify. The drinking age was raised to 21 the year I left, and it closed. The real dive bar we used to frequent was Doug's Place, somewhere down near Carrier Circle. Real blue-collar stuff. We'd meet some alumni who lived in the area from time to time. It's where I learned to love dive bars. Pool, dimly lit, cheap glasses of beer, the only 'mixed' drink available was a Boilermaker. Always a few local factory guys in there. Doug's Place is long gone, too. I did hear 'Doug', whoever he is, opened a fish fry somewhere nearby.
When I moved to Queens in the 80's, my roommate was a local who introduced me to My Lady's, a tavern for which I played softball and drank quarter glasses of beer on Thursday nights. I got to know the bartender, a giant of a man, but the classic example of a huge teddy bear. My girlfriend's family came one night to watch college hoops with me and dubbed it The Bucket of Blood because, well, that's pretty much what it reminded you of. The final night it was open was 1991, and early on it was a great party. I heard the rest was very good, too. I guess I had an early start on the evening...
When we lived in Hoboken, Louise & Jerry's was our end-of-the-evening final stop. Louise, a widow in a housecoat, was always behind the bar. When God Bless America played on the jukebox, you had to stop what you were doing and sing with Louise. If she didn't like your look, she stopped you as you walked in, and demanded you leave. She once gave my wife the stinkeye for ordering club soda. When I told her, quietly, that she was pregnant with our first child, Louise smiled and gave us all a round of drinks (but kept the secret). Louise & Jerry's is still open, but I heard it's upscale now.
Recently, I stopped in at the Canyon Club, in Williams, AZ. One of the finest dive bars I've ever experienced. A real honky-tonk. Loved every second, loved the people. Which is important. A good dive bar has friendlies, it doesn't attract surly or violent types. You can have a curmudgeon or two, but people have to want to have a good time.
Some dives are iconic, and unlikely to go away. McSorley's is one. Out where I live, there aren't many dive bars left unless you're willing to take a chance. We used to have the Blue Collar Bar, but that got bought by a high-end group and was transformed into a "dive" bar. It retained the dive nature, but served high end cuisine. Excellent food, but ruined the ambiance. It closed after four or five years. Dive bars, I believe, have short lives.
There is still one place near me, the Garwood Rest, which my buddies and I will gather in to play darts (American Darts - with the wooden shafts and we're playing baseball, not 301, 501 or Cricket) and watch football or baseball once very month. It qualifies as a dive, but it's higher end than any other one I've been in. Here are some more. I'm familiar with the Raccoon Lodge, The Smith, and Hogs and Heifers, though all from 20-30 years ago. When you find a good dive bar, it's a thing to revel in.
 Female Researcher: We Must Make STEM Courses ‘Less Competitive’ to Be More ‘Inclusive’ of Women
Does signaling also help you to do better?
20 rules for making money from P.T. Barnum
I Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Easily Terrified:
It would seem that modern progressives are exceedingly selective in what horrifies and terrifies them.
Emory Students Complain School Is ‘Unsafe’ Because Administrators Tolerate Trump Support
Moonbats Ask Amazon To Suspend Sales Of Trump “Racism, Sexism And Xenophobia” Products…
In Face of Minimum Wage Madness, Carl’s Jr. Considering Automated Restaurants
Court Orders 6-Year-Old Foster Child Removed From Only Family She Knows—Because She's 1/64 Choctaw
I thought race was a social construct
Yiannopoulis: How to beat me
In
Face of Minimum Wage Madness, Carl’s Jr. Considering Automated
Restaurants - See more at:
http://moonbattery.com/?p=70154#sthash.V8a3IZc2.dpuf
Hillary Clinton Wants To Use Obamacare For Illegal Immigrants
Was Bill Clinton stoned yesterday in Arizona?
Why Trump is Afraid of 'Crazy' Megyn Kelly
TRUMP & FAUXCHAHONTAS
We are back in a ground war in Iraq
Flashback: New York Times mocked Trump for saying “there is something bad going on” in Brussels
Brussels Attacks Fuel Debate Over Migrants in a Fractured Europe
I would hope so
A terrorist attack has happened in Europe. Let the standard response begin…
Steyn: So "British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow's Train Bombing" is now joined by "Belgian Cabinet Minister Says Tomorrow's Train Bombing Is All Our Fault".
World War III
It's not a war
From The Atlantic:
Terrorism is an effective tactic around the world because it allows small groups of people to spread hysteria with relatively little manpower, and because it is impossible to prevent entirely, even in a police state. Where a devoted terrorist group exists, it is nearly inevitable its members will eventually succeed to some degree. But in Belgium, jihadists found a society that was unusually susceptible, and exploited it to bloody effect.
Tuesday, March 22. 2016
"In small town America, politics has never been a great way to get rich, but it has been a great way to avoid poverty."
It works just fine and quietly as long as the press leaves you alone. From The Clinton Crime Family.
In Washington,the two big scandals were sex and money. Bill was raping interns again and Hillary was selling national secrets for campaign cash. People forget about the Chinese money, the satellite deal and missile technology scandal. They even had that sap Al Gore out shaking down Buddhist monks for cash. On their way out the door they tried stealing the White House furniture.
This e-mail scandal looks a lot like an influence peddling scandal.
I agree entirely with the post, but it is "old news" now and voters will generally prefer their crook over some sleaze on the other team. The Clinton charity makes Wounded Warriors look like pikers, amateurs.
Role models are rare in the political game and most good folks avoid it as a necessary evil.
Monday, March 21. 2016
I first read about Shackleton long ago, and I've been a huge fan of his exploits. He never actually accomplished the goals he set out for, but he was a master of revising goals and probably one of the best examples of great leadership I've ever read. As an Anglophile, I've also been intrigued by the concept of the 'Magnificent Failure' which sometimes seems to be a uniquely British concept.
Certainly Shackleton deserves his name on a polar research ship. But in a magnificent failure, the British botched the naming process for the ship. Well, temporarily botched. I happen to like "Boaty McBoatface" over "Shackleton" it just seems like a ship where stuff gets done.
Re exercise, via Ace: 'I finally have the body I want. It's easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.' - Louis CK
The Secrets of the Wave Pilots - For thousands of years, sailors in the Marshall Islands have navigated vast distances of open ocean without instruments. Can science explain their method before it’s lost forever?
Yale Grad Students Claim They Need More Therapists on Campus
American University candidates promise snowflakes 24-hour counseling, more ‘inclusion’
The school safety debate: Mollycoddle no more - There are two sides to the debate over school discipline, and the policy being pursued is wrong.
Moving beyond the contemporary ‘stigma’ of dismissing disruptive kids from the classroom, school
Rhode Island Bill Would Punish Parents for Latch-key Kids
Fact Checking the Washington Post’s Fact Checker on Trade and Manufacturing
The Finnish Model - Helsinki prepares to give every citizen €800 per month and shut down its welfare bureaucracy.
The Gender Pay Gap
Commercial solar is not ready
Former Secret Service Agent Explains The ‘Open Rebellion’ Against DC Politics
The Case for GOP Obstructionism
From the perspective of the political Left, racism is highly useful. I’m not just talking as a shaming tool. I mean as a political wedge.
David Brooks Should Sit the Next Few Plays Out - Take a breather, my guy.
2016 election is not important
Dem Michael Goodwin: Why it’s time for a Trump revolution
Comedy Central is basically a Hillary Clinton SuperPAC
Would Clinton vs. Trump Be the Ugliest Campaign in History? - Attack ads circa 1800 suggest otherwise.
Every Republican Presidential Candidate Is Hitler - The “Big Lie” has been around for over fifty years.
The Return of Socialism - It was lying in wait all these years, and now it’s come roaring back to life
When Trump gets serious: Trump by the Script
Trump scrambles American politics
LEAD ORGANIZER Who Shut Down Hwy to TRUMP RALLY Is “Soros Fellow” from New Orleans
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams on Donald Trump's "Linguistic Kill Shots"
Obama Addresses the Diaper Divide
Join the Campaign: Stop the Jew Hatred on Campus
Obama Addresses the Diaper Divide
The Road to Internet Serfdom - China, Russia, and Orwell’s boot
The costs of Obama’s Syria policy are apparent to everyone but him
Atheist British Author Challenges Liberals to ‘Become Jewish’ to Experience Antisemitism
Cuba: First Obama, then Mick Jagger
Who Is Salah Abdeslam? The French national
and accused logistical planner of the Paris attacks was arrested in
Belgium on Friday after months on the lam.
The Lethal Cocktail of Terrorism: The Four Necessary Ingredients that Go into Making a Terrorist & Fifty Individual Vulnerabilities/Motivations that May also Play a Role
“Raping Me is His Prayer to God. It’s Allowed. It’s Halal.” A terrifying look at the Islamic State's religious duty to rape.
Obama Has Already Destroyed World Order, So What’s The Beef About Trump?
If century-long trends continue, Canada will be a Muslim majority nation by 2050
Saturday, March 19. 2016
Dr. Tim Ball:
I think the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claim that human CO2 is causing warming is wrong. They created the result they wanted, which wasn’t designed to deal with warming but to stop economic development and reduce the population. They selected the data and mechanisms necessary to prove their hypothesis and manipulated the data where necessary, including rewriting climate history. The wider evidence, which is only examined when you move outside their limited definition of climate change, is that the world is cooling.
The major rewrite of history involved elimination of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). One of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) gang told David Deming in an email that it was necessary to get rid of the MWP. The reason, although not expressed in the email, was because they were telling people that the latter part of the 20th century was the warmest ever. It wasn’t by any measure, from the warm of the MWP to the prolonged warmer period of the Holocene Optimum. The MWP was the most immediate threat to their narrative because it was within a time period people could grasp. They could relate to the idea that Vikings sailed in Arctic waters that are permanent pack-ice today. There was also the graph (Figure 7c) in the first IPCC Report in 1990 that contradicted their claim – it had to go...
I suspect that Dr. Ball is correct, but really who cares about this topic anymore? Other than bureaucrats, moonbats, and government-funded researchers?
The Role of Highways in American Poverty - They seemed like such a good idea in the 1950s.
Go-Getters, Gone?
How many jobs will the robots take?
This Is the Year Shale Gas Knocks Out US Coal
SANITY: Tennessee Law Would Outlaw Punishing Students For Speaking Freely, ‘Microagressions.’
Sultan:
Adulthood means doing things you don't want to do and discovering that they can make you the person you want to be. That's how virtue is born. Perpetual childhood prevents virtue from ever forming. Instead public life is cluttered with oversized children who have the language skills, resources and political power of adults, but none of the virtues that come with maturity.
"Thanks to progressive identity and victimization politics, some
70-75 percent of Americans are now in a protected victim group and
beyond social science research and analysis."
" the all-powerful central state worshipped by Reich and all the
other Establishment insiders, Democrat and Republican alike, is the true
culmination of fascism."
Say, where is the African-American revolt against Democrats?
When the citizens reject your socialist, big government world view - get new citizens.
How can anyone ever again be prosecuted for mishandling classified information?
National Review…the Trump Recruiting Office
Silencing Trump
The Gloves Are Off: Trump Accuses Hillary Of Being "Involved In Corruption For Most Of Her Professional Life"
Kluge: An Open Letter to the Conservative Media Explaining Why I Have Left the Movement
Wow
Political correctness implosion in Sweden
Gates: Obama Went Against ‘Entire National Security Team’ on Egypt Coup
Repairing the Special Relationship
We can´t stop the migrants: EU says Britain has ´moral duty´ to Turkey to accept refugees
The developments provoked fury among Eurosceptics. UKIP Migration spokesman Steven Woolfe said: “It’s clear that the EU has got absolutely no moral obligation to accept them.
“To say it is against EU values to send economic migrants back to home is ridiculous. And what are EU values? Ignoring referendum results in France, Netherlands and Ireland?
"Enforcing Euro membership to create poverty and unemployment for millions? Bullying smaller countries to comply with German demands?
“It seems to me that only value that the EU holds is to increase power for itself, and pay for its bureaucrats.
“The UNHCR estimates that there are 60 million displaced people in the world.
"The notion that the EU alone has a duty to take them all in is ridiculous in the extreme.”
Friday, March 18. 2016
I think Trump could conceivably win a general election, although current polls indicate a bloodbath. It's been an interesting 6 months, and the next 6 could be equally interesting. I doubt that he would have done so well with a more compact set of primary candidates, though.
I do not think the Trump phenomenon is about anger, ignorance, or toothless white men. Exit polls I saw indicated that he drew votes from all social classes, ethnicities, and from women. They are not Know-Nothings; they are reluctantly-politicized people. So what is it about? I feel it's a spirit of rebellion and defiance. That is quite American. I think many feel that Washington with its condescending, bien pensant elites and vast, intrusive bureaucracies are diminishing life in America. (But they want their benefits too.) I can relate.
Via a McArdle interview:
I think upper-middle-class seculars -- and even upper-middle-class religious folk -- don't realize just how much of a minority they are in this country.
No, nor do they realize how bubble-wrapped their lives are. David Brooks beclowned himself again this week on the topic: Gee, I Guess Me and My Fellow Well-Heeled Establisment Swells Kind of Didn't Listen to the Voters for Years, Huh?
Related: "Trump is well on his way to owning the identities of American Alpha Males and Women Who Like Alpha Males."
Well, it's not that simple but I think many enjoy his anti-effete spirit and his plain talk. He is right about some things, wrong about other things. So is everybody.
On a personal level, I think Trump is a jerk and Hillary! is a revolting human. Given the choice, I'd hire Trump to work for me.
Sums it all up: Immigration: the mother of all issue:
"IF WE DON'T HAVE BORDERS," Trump tweeted in November, "WE DON'T HAVE A COUNTRY!"
AVI:
Earnest young Christian writers (males more than females, perhaps) wring their hands over discovering materialism* and pride - even in themselves. In this they demonstrate that they totally get it, and understand, and aren't really judging at all, clearing the battle space for denunciation. Double bonus points - you get to demonstrate after how many mattresses you can still detect this pea. Prejudice is another big-ticket item. We all have prejudices that we don't want to admit. Even I have a cute anecdote that I shake my head ruefully at in feigned humility before condemning all you racist bastards. Being part of the system and all that.
Patients in Pain, and a Doctor Who Must Limit Drugs
Murray: An open letter to the Virginia Tech community.
I have been reluctant to spend so much space discussing The Bell Curve’s treatment of race and intelligence because it was such an ancillary topic in the book. Focusing on it in this letter has probably made it sound as if it was as important as President Sands’s open letter implied.
But I had to do it. For two decades, I have had to put up with misrepresentations of The Bell Curve. It is annoying. After so long, when so many of the book’s main arguments have been so dramatically vindicated by events, and when our presentations of the meaning and role of IQ have been so steadily reinforced by subsequent research in the social sciences, not to mention developments in neuroscience and genetics, President Sands’s casual accusation that our work has been “largely discredited” was especially exasperating. The president of a distinguished university should take more care.
Colleges Are All For Diversity — Except When It Comes To Ideas
Impaled On Its Own Petard——The Fed’s Folly Festers Further
The EU and climate: "Watching the increasingly farcical antics of Europe’s ruling class, I
wonder if this is what it must have been like in the dying days of the
Roman Empire."
The Donald’s Big Tent - Into it come blue-collar Dems, out of it go neocons.
Stamina - Trump’s Lingistic Kill Shot for Clinton
Krauthammer: "The immediate conventional wisdom was to blame the disturbance on the
“toxic environment” created by Trump. Nonsense. This was an act of
deliberate sabotage created by a totalitarian left..."
Krauthammer: I Was Wrong for Laughing at Trump… Democrats Are Worried
Trumpophobia: Around world, doubts whether Trump could 'make America great again'
The Obama Doctrine
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