So. Rand Paul is being criticized for blaming "lack of fathers" and a "lack of moral code" for the "thuggery and thievery" in Baltimore.
Now. Of course, the left probably reacted in abject awe at listening to basically an idea that's already been put out there by a multitude of people over the years.
Including the President:
"....what we also know is that if you have impoverished communities that
have been stripped away of opportunity, where children are born into
abject poverty; they’ve got parents -- often because of substance-abuse
problems or incarceration or lack of education themselves -- can't do
right by their kids; if it’s more likely that those kids end up in jail
or dead, than they go to college. In communities where there are no
fathers who can provide guidance to young men... if we think that we're
just going to send the police to do the dirty work of containing the
problems that arise there without as a nation and as a society saying
what can we do to change those communities... then we're not going to
solve this problem."
Post-racial America could not be brung by The Lightbringer.
Finally the President was Presidential for not obfuscating the events in Baltimore calling them counter-productive and essentially calling the rioters looters who don't care about their community.
Bingo.
But, he couldn't help himself by blaming Congress for the mess.
Who runs Baltimore?
Let's see.
District Member Party
1 James B. Kraft Democratic
2 Brandon M. Scott Democratic
3 Robert W. Curran Democratic
4 Bill Henry Democratic
5 Rochelle "Rikki" Spector Democratic
6 Sharon Green Middleton Democratic
7 Nick J. Mosby Democratic
8 Helen Holton Democratic
9 Pete Welch Democratic
10 Edward Reisinger Democratic
11 Eric Costello Democratic
12 Carl Stokes Democratic
13 Warren Branch Democratic
14 Mary Pat Clarke Democratic
At-Large Bernard "Jack" Young Democratic
Like most people, I'm watching and reading the events of what's going on in Baltimore.
Nothing says justice like burning down CVS's and Senior centers and your community.
Just as much as police excessive force is problematic (across the continent), politicians and their irresponsible rhetoric whenever something like this happens from the Mayor of Baltimore to the U.S. Attorney-General right up to the President and all the parasitical opportunists like Sharpton. They still repeat the same tired cliches about who to blame - hint white people - never once acknowledging cities like Baltimore (as The Wire showed so well) and St. Louis power base has been black and Democrat for decades.
The 'fight the power' class are miserable, morally bankrupted failures.
Baltimore has been run by progressives and weath redistributers as mentioned above. You'd think the good folks of Maryland would, you know, CHANGE party.
Something worth noting. According to the FBI, Maryland ranks as 43rd safest state despite its Canadian-like gun control laws. The more 'peaceful' states have constitutional carry.
Also, notice, where - for the most part- police are most violent - NY, LA, St.L, Baltimore, Chicago. Notice something?
It all adds up to dead kids and Korean shops being burned down.
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If anyone remembers The Wire, it's both apparent and appalling how leadership failed that city.
The psycho crazies in the SJW camp are getting louder and dumber in their lies. 'Paul Nungesser, the Columbia University student accused of raping
fellow student Emma Sulkowicz, is now suing the university for doing
nothing to stop Sulkowicz's harassment campaign against him, which he
claims "effectively destroyed" his college experience, reputation, and
future career prospects.
His lawsuit contains a wealth of new information about the contested
sexual assault, including dozens of messages establishing Sulkowicz's
sexual "yearning" for Nungesser, which she sent to him both before and
after the alleged incident. Sulkowicz and Nungesser initially became friends at Columbia, developing
an intimate relationship that involved several sexual encounters and
frequent discussions of sex and relationships. Eventually, she accused
him of choking, attacking, and anally raping her. Nungesser was cleared
by Columbia's sexual assault adjudication process (the police later
declined to pursue charges, citing a lack of probable suspicion), which
prompted Sulkowicz to go public with her claims and start carrying her
mattress everywhere she went as a form of protest against what she
viewed as a miscarriage of justice. She became something of a
spokesperson for rape victims
Sulkowicz broached several sexual topics with Nungesser: she talked to
him about whether her boyfriend was using protection (with her, and with
the other women he was sleeping with at the time), she asked Nungesser
whether he was dating or sleeping with anyone, and she implied an
interest in anal sex (she texted him “fuck me in the butt”). After
Nungesser and Sulkowicz began sleeping together, the lawsuit asserts
that Sulkowicz “asked Paul to engage in anal sex with her.”
"Visual arts professor Jon Kessler, named as a defendant in the case,
approved the “Mattress Project” for college credit. “Carrying around
your university bed — which was also the site of your rape — is an
amazingly significant and poignant and powerful symbol,” he told the Columbia Spectator.
Nungesser says the project and resultant publicity have harmed his
career prospects; Sulkowicz counters that “really it’s just an artistic
expression of the personal trauma I’ve experienced at Columbia.”
No it wasn't. It was infantile as it was vapid as it was retarded. All it did was add to a false narrative.
I hope the Kraut takes them to the cleaners.
Knowingly falsifying your story to fit a narrative that ruins a life is pretty much as close to evil as you can get - and we're seeing way too much of this as we've seen with UVA and Duke Lacrosse.
I get why the USA is playing it coy given their strategic relationship with Turkey.
Canada, for its part, recognizes the genocide as it ought to.
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Speaking of the Armenian genocide - and it was - I watched a news report about the Armenian genocide with my wife
and her mother. It was a one-sided piece where they interviewed a 102
year-old women who witnesses the event and various members of the
Armenian community who remembered 1915. All fair enough - even though I
would have preferred some Turkish perspectives. But that's not what
irked me. What bothered me was the reported inserting herself in the
report as we saw her rubbing the old ladies hands.
The exchange went something like this.
Me: She shouldn't do that. Mother in law: Do what?
Me: Use an appeal to emotion here. She's a journalist. Objectivity and all that.
MIL: You lack emotion and empathy.
Me: It has nothing to do with that. I feel for her but you have to look
at these things dispassionately; especially if you're reporting.
MIL: (Looks on in horror).
Me: (continues): How would you like it if you're Turkish or of Turkish heritage and you see this?
MIL: (looks in horror AND wonders who her daughter married).
To her credit, my wife was in my corner. No way a journalist
should give the appearance of playing favorites. I further
added, as a point of argument, scholars don't even agree with the
definition of what constitutes genocide. Not to mention, the fact Turkey has its own
reasons to not acknowledge it.
For the record, I'm of the opinion it was
a genocide.
Am I asking too much of what I feel should be objective reporting?
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Coolest thing you'll see today. 102 year-old Harlem dancer sees herself for the first time on video:
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Wow. Firm but professional and without incident or escalation. /North American cops furiously look over hand books.
NYPD unimpressed. No choking or spinal chord deaths justifying their actions?
Insert cop jokes here.
I found an alternative video covering it from a different angle:
"At the time, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said this in defense of the shooting:
"Stop what you're doing and comply with us,” he told reporters.
"There's nothing in the rules of engagement that says we have to put our
lives in jeopardy to wait to find out what this is to get killed."
Read that one over and think about it.
Lin was cleared to return to work four days later. Months later,
investigators from the State Attorney's Office and PBSO ruled the
shooting justified."
What did the kid do? Ride his bike down a ONE WAY STREET. For this they paralyzed him.
They can go eat a bag of dicks filled with nails in them. What a bunch of jack asses these thugs with guns are. No accountability to moral compass.
A new Israeli
law controlling the price of books and mandating guaranteed minimum
compensation for writers has had the complete opposite effect of what
lawmakers had intended, with book sales now in a free fall just one year
after the law went into effect.
It’s called
“The Law for Protecting Literature and Books,” but the impact on the
industry has been so devastating that the head of a prominent book
publisher has taken to calling the new mandate, “The Law for Hurting
Literature and Books.”
I'm surprised the idiots (you know who you are) haven't demanded the banning of Al Jolson:
We should always be careful to apply today's sensibilities (which are way too sensitive in my view) to yesterday's world.
Al Jolson was no racist. 'Blackface' was a metaphor for not only black suffering but Jewish as well while the landmark film The Jazz Singer denounced racial bigotry while at the same time introduced white America to black music.
If you can't, then you should refrain from lecturing us about history.
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Of the great pro sports, hockey culture remains the best culture in my view. From the saluting of fans at the end of each game at center ice (a fairly recent development imported from Europe), to the shaking of hands at the conclusion of a hard fought playoff series, to the sharp attire exhibited by players to its general trait of being a league of 'great guys', hockey is unique that's for sure.
Of course they are. Ontario in particular is so far left and into the 'do something without real evidence' crap it's not surprising they're into creating black markets for the children.
It's only about control. Nothing more, nothing less.
And the same anti-science and reactionary shrill idiocy that leads to cap & trade policies and e-cigarettes in place like Quebec, Ontario and New York, is much more amplified and magnified in California - a place where all derps get their cues from.
"...But it’s not just water that exemplifies the current “era of limits”
psychology. Energy development has always been in green crosshairs and
their harassment has all but succeeded in helping drive much of the oil
and gas industry, including corporate headquarters, out of the state.
Not building roads—arguably to be replaced by trains—has not exactly
reduced traffic but given California the honor of having eight of the top 20cities nationally with poor roads; the percentage of Los Angeles-area residents who take transit has, if anything, declined slightly
since train-building began. All we are left with are impossible
freeways, crumbling streets, and ever more difficulty doing anything
that requires traveling. These policies have had numerous impacts, like weakening California’s industrial sector, which cannot afford energy prices that can be twice as high
as in competing states. Some of those who might have worked in the
factories, warehouses, and farms of California now help swell the
numbers of the welfare recipients, who remarkably make up one-third of
the nation’s total. As recently as the 1970s and ’80s, the percentage of
people living in poverty in California was below the national average; California today, based on cost of living, has the highest poverty rate in the country."
And yet Californians keep voting the bums in.
"...Ultimately this is a story of a state that has gotten tired, having lost
its “animal spirits” for the policy equivalent of a vegan diet.
Increasingly it’s all about how the elites in the state—who cluster
along the expensive coastal areas—feel about themselves. Even Brown knows that his environmental agenda will do little, or nothing, to combat climate change,
given the already minimal impact of the state on carbon emissions
compared to escalating fossil fuel use in China, India and elsewhere.
But the cosmopolitan former Jesuit gives more priority to his spiritual
service to Gaia than the needs of his non-affluent constituents. "
Are you reading Quebec/Canada and liberals? READ the above paragraph again carefully.
"...But progressive narcissism is, as some conservatives assert,
not the main problem. California greens are, to be sure, active,
articulate, well-organized, and well-financed. What they lack is an
effective counterpoint from the business class, who would be expected to
challenge some of their policies. But the business leadership often
seems to be more concerned with how to adjust the status quo to serve
privileged large businesses, including some in agriculture, than
boosting the overall economy. The greens, and their public-sector
allies, can dominate not because they are so effective as that their
potential opposition is weak, intimidated, and self-obsessed."
ABSOLUTELY.
We all know green policies and environmentalism leads to deaths. The question is, will we finally push back and question their agenda as we ought to?
Christina H. Sommers @CHSommers · 5h 5 hours ago Oberlin activists had "safe space" for those triggered by my
talk.Oberlin admin. provided police security to protect me from safe
spacers.
"Told students that women could narrow wage gap by changing majors from,
say, sociology to engineering.Room erupted.Horrified gasps &
jeers."
In Oberlin talk said that Orwell's Junior Anti-Sex League had
occupied campus feminism."What the Hell is that?" shouted someone. Look
it up. — Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) April 21, 2015
Notice to the left, it's okay to ruin people's lives as long as their narrative is sold. They're plump plain evil.
Epidemic Shmepedemic. Ever notice everything's an epidemic now.
So is derpiness.
I'm seeing an epidemic of outright lies that are accepted so long as the ends justifies the means. It's an epidemic of false narratives and appeals to emotions.
As I mentioned, when I heard Cirque was being sold to Americans - Texans no less - it was time to put your feet up and watch the nationalist drivel pour in.
The thing that makes Canadians insufferable twits sometimes is this idea that Canadian companies are somehow attached to our fricken identity and that we shouldn't sell to foreigners; especially Americans.
It's a regressive, parochial, nonsensical view.
If we'd take our heads out of our navel-gazing asses for a second we'd see that A) it's a massive world out there with endless opportunities and we should not restrict ourselves and B) that among the great industrial nations you'll see they constantly buying each other out, merging or buying stakes. It's the RULE to business; not the exception.
As Laliberte pointed out in the article, it's about growth and your chances of it are best served by a market that has the money to sustain it.
This insular view is particularly acute in Quebec where cultural insecurity is heightened.
Cirque was a gift from Quebec to the world. Laliberte found a buyer in the most powerful nation in human history as was his right. Good on him.
Get over it.
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Need I remind that when the Expos were in trouble the business community failed to keep the team here and when the Montreal Canadiens went up for sale not too many offers came in from our business elites to buy the team. THE MONTREAL CANADIENS.
It took an American to buy them at a bargain price, build up its value and sell it at higher price back to Canadians.
English football has long prided itself on its anti-racism policies,
contrasting them with what has often been seen as a less enlightened
approach in other European countries where racist chanting against black
players during matches -- something no longer commonplace in England --
still takes place."
If you call hyper-PC legislation 'enlighten' then England is more derpy than first thought.
Anyway. This, one would think, would make headlines on ESPN (since they absolutely love racial stories) but it didn't. Instead we got:
"Obama wants to go in the opposite
direction: His 2014 budget called for increasing the estate tax rate to
45 percent and lowering the exemption to $3.5 million. Again, he pitches
this as a story of the wealthy versus average taxpayers. But if you
peek behind the curtain of populist rhetoric, you see plenty of big
money, heavy lobbying, and hypocrisy on the side of the death-taxers.
Consistently, about two-thirds of Americans
tell pollsters that they oppose the death tax. The Family Business
Coalition has brought together dozens of groups this year to advocate
repeal of the death tax, groups as widely diverse as the National
Council of Farm Cooperatives, the National Black Chamber of Commerce,
and the Association for Hose and Accessories Distribution."
"A feminist activist has opened a store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
that will charge men more than women to protest the “wage gap” she
believes is badly hurting women in the United States. The store, which will only be operating in Pittsburgh from April 1 until April 30, is called “76<100 i="">."
Fight fire with with fire! Eye for an eye!
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In the 'Sigh. Environmentalist Were Wrong...Again' file:
Any person who calls for the arrest of people who hold a different opinion (in this case it happens to be the correct one), can fuck off and die.
You can throw all the stats you want at these brain-dead-bird brain (with apologies to birds) cultists and it won't make a difference. They believe in their 'science'. They invested too much of their intellectual currency (what little of it they possessed) and won't look to divest. The fact they want 'deniers' thrown in prison only points they're losing the plot and need to rely on the age old progressive tactic of demanding coercion whenever the masses don't go along with their faulty narratives rooted in false premises.
How can you possibly wrestle with these psychos in good faith?
Unfortunately, they've gotten away with shit like this and continue to. Won't surprise me one bit if some douche bag left-wing politician jumps on this depraved track.
They're just authoritarians at heart. They want you to toe their line.
I have little if no regard for progressive (particularly the modern version and
not to be confused with old-liberalism) thought. Effen parasitical,
intolerant, self-righteous, know-it-all-know-nothing, overly-sensitive, coercive malcontents and
sowers of discord and mowers of reason.
/raises middle finger.
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Speaking of idiotic lefties. Garry Trudeau. I must confess, as a huge comic fan, I never got pulled in by Doonesbury. Like ever. I would read it and just be left with a huge 'meh'.
Now I know why. Trudeau really is a humorless, progressive with stale thoughts and ideas.
Trudeau isn't the exception. He's very much the rule. This is the face of the modern left. His recent comments about Charlie Hebdo (keep bashing and piling on murdered people you assholes) and how they 'crossed the line.' Whatever the fuck that means. Hey, Garry. If I draw a picture of you getting sodomized by ISIS terrorists while you blame the GOP is that 'going over the line'.
“Free speech... becomes its own kind of fanaticism,” Trudeau also reportedly said, adding that the job of satirists is to punch up, not punch down. Trudeau was presumably talking about Hebdo’s mocking of Islam, which of course led two terrorists to assassinate the editor in chief and several other cartoonists."
Because Havana is in such great shape. Get the fuck out of here you asshole. I've been to Cuba and all I saw was fucking misery behind the smiles. Difference between you and me is I'm honest about it and don't harbor any ideological and romantic bull shit that clouds my judgment.
But this is very much in the left-wing mentality. Defend an obvious evil because the west...and crusades...and capitalism.
They are Luddites and Jacobins rolled into one to make a whole new kind of stupid reactionary.
But I don't sympathize with Californians. They ask for the state's big bad ass cock up their asses? Deal with it.
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Adam Weinstein's wet dream:
"...This prompts the villain to tell the crowd, “It’s alright, everypony.
This is a perfectly normal part of the equalization process for those
who haven’t…quite seen the light yet.” She then has the ponies escorted
back into jail after saying, “We’ll try again tomorrow once you”—at
this point the camera switches to first-person perspective, as if
Starlight Glimmer is talking directly to the viewer—“have had a bit more
time to consider our philosophy.”
I mean. I can just see him cumming with envy. He would love nothing more than to be Starlight Glimmer.
I think it's time Democrats answer for this. Didn't Debbie Wasserman-Schultz recently claim it was okay to terminate a 7 pound baby or something to the effect?
I find it interesting they don't mind killing innocent babies but consider capital punishment - say for Tsarnaev - to be barbaric.
I'd like to mention something about 'communism'. What we're discussing is political communism. Humans naturally are 'communistic'. What's rejected is coerced 'communism' which is basically robbing from one person to give to another under the guise of 'equality'.
I think she proved the point they made the right choice in not going with her.
The sense of arrogant entitlement is palpable.
Trigger warning. Extreme derp.
"You clearly are too stupid to realize who you just turned down. You
clearly don't understand that I am going to change the world, and I'll
be damned if I let you stop me. Now get the hell out of my way while I
find somebody worthy of my time and abilities."
It's amazing how many environmental activities are A) based on false premises and B) coercive in nature. Probably because the action is faulty to begin with.
"...The Conservative government reaffirmed its tough-on-crime commitment
Tuesday, trying to appear undeterred by yet another Supreme Court of
Canada decision striking down as unconstitutional a showcase statute in
its signature anti-crime agenda. The government’s mandatory-minimum sentencing regime for illegal
possession of a firearm, introduced in 2008 as part of the Tackling
Violent Crime Act, violates Section 12 of the Charter of Rights because
it has the potential to be cruel and unusual punishment, the court ruled
in a 6-3 decision."
Know what's ridiculous? I'll tell you how irrationally psychotic the Tories are on this one.
My father owns a shot-gun he bought way before all this gun-control crap took a cultist hold on a frightened citizenry. Now. His son - HELLO! That being me - innocently takes his shot-gun because, you know, it's a 12 gauge St. Etienne double-barrel perfect for small game hunting and clay shooting and FREEDOM, can be thrown in prison for three years for merely transporting it from his house to mine prior to having my gun license. Imagine that. The government of Canada is willing to destroy a family for that.
The U.S.A does the same thing for small pot possession.
Now. To all you people who feel gun-control is a must; that the conservatives need to get 'tough on crime' DOES THIS STRIKE YOU AS A 'CANADIAN VALUE'?
A scheme that will have a negligible impact on carbon emissions (ironic the more we use the better we live; the greener the planet but why let facts get in the way of a good spooky narrative, right?).
All based on an irrational fear of fossil fuels - and nuclear energy. Germany, Spain and England learned ignoring reality isn't such a fine idea. Yet, here we are in Quebec and Ontario undertaking this ridiculous path.
We have what we need but instead lets threaten growth and potentially harm citizens with an idea that, at its root, has been a false premised all along. We should be proud - yes proud - as a species what we've accomplished thus far. We've never been wealthier and healthier in the history of mankind, no matter how you parse the stats. Yet, the left has this bizarre end of world fetish.
They're like religious creationists only their, well, climate creationists.
But hey, we have to do something. Including calling for the arrest of 'deniers' like me.
I've arrived at a conclusion about things and such.
After years and years of reading books upon periodicals upon essays upon blog posts upon newspaper clippings upon commercial ads upon stories behind cereal boxes upon highway signs upon manifestos, edicts and pamphlets upon post-its upon parables upon fables upon myths upon index cards for school projects upon magazines upon poems upon haiku upon cave pictures upon comics, it's my contention we really do know jack shit.
My blog proves this point.
Fine. There are some things we know as we see in science and technology but for the most part, the things we stress and argue about - like global warming, racism, economics, and so on - are almost impossible to ever substantiate. We're so busy trying to find points of origins to check mate our opponents we end up vulnerable to all sorts of nonsense. We operate in individualized cubicles presenting horribly constructed ideas and theories and pass them off as 'facts'. And because they are 'open-ended' exercises of vapidity we've allowed ourselves to permit feelings into the equation. We 'just know' ergo TRUTH!
The battle ground of this so-called 'culture war' is really about seeing who owns 'history' and those who do, perhaps, own the narrative.
Even then, you don't even need history to just invent a narrative. For that, you just need a set of ideas rooted in a false premise and away you go. You can even make shit up or interpret data as you wish.
That's how it is with human nature. Since humans are pretty much impossible to peg - as economics dismally prove time and time again - how can we really be sure history is accurate?
Fine. It's accurish.
Plenty of great minds have explored human nature and have left us with interesting notes leaving us to understand and digest all of it in its totality.
Vico, for his part, valiantly attempt to apply a scientific approach to history. But what he accomplished was not anything definitive in as much as he laid a reasoned framework for understanding human history.
Sort of a 'get the gist' of it master work the way I see it. Trying to gather information about humans is a little like attempting to herd fish into one part of the bowl.
And that's what it all comes down to. Understanding history enough so as to avoid falling into the traps of contemporary demagogues, charlatans and shysters. Navigating through life, in addition to the usual basic fact of raising a family, working etc., is to spot bull shit.
You know the list of names. Hitler, Auguste Comte, Paul Erlich, Cola di Rienzo and whomever you wish to add.
Etc.
As those people have shown, it's very easy to fool us. The more polished, the more phrases they use to 'pigeon hole' humans, the more charismatic in rhetoric the more they sound enticing. After all, no one who sounds that smart can't be bad, right? I mean, they're the experts and they have our interests at heart, right? I mean, like, we're ignorant and they're not so let me glaze my eyes over.
Next thing we know - poof - we erroneously believe in all sorts of things.
"It has been three days since a local high school coach tweeted a
threat about burning down a small pizza shop in St. Joseph County. And
now, the high school is breaking its silence. Concord High School recently released a statement condemning golf coach Jessica Dooley. For now, Dooley will remain on unpaid leave until the school district completes its investigation on the situation.
Tuesday,
Dooley tweeted "Who's going to Walkerton, IN to burn down memories
pizza with me?” to her 169 followers, including students of Concord High
School. Both the tweet and her profile have since been deleted."
Truth to power, Jess! You tell 'em! Burn. The. Bitch. Down!
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"When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children."
--Albert Shanker (Apocrypha)
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Quote on the whole 'bake me a cake or else' mentality:
"People have a right to personal conviction for fuck's sake. And I state
this is as verified libertine heathen breathing the ass fumes of God and
Satan both. Yes, I've rimmed both God and Satan. Point is, a strong open society should tolerate a wide spectrum of views
no matter what the fuck- it just cannot tolerate these views becoming
iron fists forcing the yoke of submission upon others. It's simple. People who keep laws smart and scarce are worthy of a vote
of confidence no matter what their personal moral stances are."
But the yoke of submission is a must for the self-righteous.
"For many women in the Czech Republic, the Easter season, known as
Velikonoce, is not their favorite time. Easter Monday is the national
holiday, and traditionally it is a time when women get whipped with a
braided rod of willow called a pomlázka. The name comes from pomladit, meaning “to make younger” and how it got tied up with Easter isn’t very clear.
Traditionally, boys in villages go around from door to door on Easter
Monday to slap women, even strangers, on the legs, thighs or buttocks
with the whip until some blood is drawn. The victim is supposed to give
the boy an egg or some chocolate. For older boys alcohol in the form of
slivovice, or plum brandy, is sometimes the reward. In some areas, each
victim ties a ribbon on the whip, sort of like notches on a gun barrel."
"May Satan capture your soul and make it his plaything if you think you
and your publication are incapable of such journalistic malpractice.
Editors and producers at the highest ranks of journalism have fallen
again and again during the past few decades, committing crimes against
journalism that match or surpass those of Rolling Stone and Erdely. Here’s just a partial list: Janet Cooke at the Washington Post; The Hitler Diaries (various publications); Stephen Glass at the New Republic, George, and, um, Rolling Stone; Jayson Blair at the New York Times; Jack Kelley at USA Today; NBC’s “exploding pickup truck”; CNN’s Tailwind story; CBS’ “Rathergate” coverage; Mike Daisey’s Apple story on This American Life; Jonah Lehrer (fabrication in his book); and CBS
again (Lara Logan on Benghazi (where the government blamed the attack on a youtube video and later cynically put an innocent man in prison to serve its own ends and in which later Hillary - a person of impeccable leadership decorum - tried to dismiss with 'what difference does it make at this point?' when grilled for answers.). And as long as we’re building out a
listicle, let me mention that when I worked at Slate, I edited and
published a sham story by a liar..."
Note: Bold mine.
A partial list indeed. And notice none are from Fox News. Just saying.
Don't forget what the legacy media did to Richard Jewel at the Atlanta games, or how NBC rigged the video
during the Zimmerman circus; the scandalous shame (of which the evil motherfucker Al Sharpton had a hand in) of the Duke Lacrosse lies, Brian 'I was there'
Williams, Kristol at NYT accusing an innocent man of being the anthrax
mailer.
"Aaron Goldin this week won the grand prize at the Siemens Westinghouse
Competition in Math, Science and Technology for his invention that
harnesses the ocean -- 70 percent of the world's surface -- to create
energy.
"I call [it] 'gyro-gen,' and it generates electricity from the power of
rolling ocean surface waves," said the 17-year-old high school student
from Encinitas, Calif.
"...I hope in the future to see not just solar, not just wind, not just
ocean or nuclear power but as many ideas as possible, some things that
we may not even realize now would be a possible source of energy," he
said. "I think that anything new is valuable."
On a serious note, THIS is the sort of guy humanity needs. Optimistic.
Not pessimistic.
"The White House has announced a goal to train 75,000 workers in the
solar industry by 2020, many of them veterans. "These are good-paying
jobs that are helping folks enter the middle-class," President Barack Obama said on Friday at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. The plan will expand on the Department of Energy SunShot Initiative's Solar Instructor Training Network currently
running at more than 400 community colleges. The White House also
announced the Solar Ready Vets program aimed at helping veterans
transition into the solar industry."
"...Envy evolved in a zero sum society, so that if I had more you probably
had less. In today’s non-zero sum environment, I might have more because
I am more productive, but you might view my wealth through the zero-sum
lens. Thus, there is probably too much envy today, and too many
decisions are based on envy..."
The long standing notion has been continually pushed by Christiana
Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). In 2013, Figueres had a
conversation with Climate One founder Greg Dalton regarding “fertility rates in population,” as a contributor to climate change."
You first cunt.
Death never strays too far away progressive ideology.
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Wow. Scotland is worst than I thought. How a people can so thoroughly accept the nanny-state is incomprehensible as it is sad.
I mean, when you throw people in jail for singing, you know your society is regressive and backwards.
Alas, they're not alone. Continental Europe is but one step behind. Unfortunately, we're on that trajectory here.
"...They look terribly tired and worn down.
Some of the men have had nothing to eat for three days but parched corn,
and I cannot help respecting men who have fought so long and so well in
support of their opinions, however wrong I may think them. The officers
say very little about politics, but I think they have pretty much come
to the conclusion that the Southern Confederacy has come to an end, as
we all certainly do. All those of the old army when we met seem not to
have changed at all, and many references were made to old and happier
times."
Moving.
I wonder how long before progressives look to scrub Southern history altogether.
***
Speaking of scrubbing, Quebec is very good at scrubbing history. A parent I know was upset the way they explain how immigrants were treated during the years Quebec introduced possibly the most restrictive law in North America with Bill 101. A law only a nationalist hillbilly could love.
Specifically, Quebec has taken to the notion that immigrants like 'les Italiens' chose to not go to French school and that Quebec were innocent players in the dramatic story surrounding its paternalist education laws.
Let's get one thing straight buckos. It was Quebec who were prejudiced against Italians and actively sought to keep them out of Catholic French schools. Left with no options but endowed with an innovative and fighting spirit, the Italians (around the 1920s if memory serves correct. I'm a little rusty with dates) simply created their own schools (because the English were no more inviting) en anglais.
By the 1960s, when the Quebecois were waking from whatever slumber (La Revolution Tranquille) they were mired in, they realized the Italians had surpassed them in upward social mobility by most measures.
So. They did what any reactionary, threatened group does. They enact anti-liberty laws. Worse, they tried to take the Italians out of the English system and throw them back into the French where the Italian gave them the big middle finger. THIS is the origin of the St. Leonard riots.
They made their own beds and now they try to absolve their mistakes by rewriting history.
And don't think they're not repeating their ways.
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Someone I know said "The irony of Quebec linguistic nationalism is that immersion schools in Western Canada teach French. Not Quebecois."
"First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton held
imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma
Gandhi as a therapeutic release, according to a new book
written by Bob Woodward, says a report in Sunday's edition of
The Chicago Sun-Times.
The first lady declined a personal adviser's suggestion that
she address Jesus Christ, however, because it would be "too
personal," according to Woodward's book, "The Choice."
She's not unique. Plenty of politicians in history were plain weirdos.
"...The letter matches others sent to pawn shops and gun store owners across
the country. Though banks and the federal government have remained
tight-lipped about the closures, they are believed to be related to
Operation Choke Point, a Department of Justice initiative ostensibly
aimed at ending bank fraud. Choke Point has identified nearly 30 types
of businesses as being at “high-risk” for fraudulent and illegal
activities. The “high-risk” list includes gun shops, pawn shops, coin
dealers and payday lenders."
