I'm baaaaccckkk! Phew. I'm tired.
Intermission!
Already?
/slurps lemonade.
Why not?
The Go Wows:
***
How do you define irrational?
Lemme help you out:
"...Although experts estimate that only 1 percent of Americans - about 3 million people - actually suffer from celiac disease, 18 percent of adults now buy gluten-free foods."
Not enough?
Alrighty then:
"Subjects would be provided with every single meal for the duration of the trial. Any and all potential dietary triggers for gastrointestinal symptoms would be removed, including lactose (from milk products), certain preservatives like benzoates, propionate, sulfites, and nitrites, and fermentable, poorly absorbed short-chain carbohydrates, also known as FODMAPs. And last, but not least, nine days worth of urine and faecal matter would be collected. With this new study, Gibson wasn’t messing around.
The subjects cycled through high-gluten, low-gluten, and no-gluten (placebo) diets, without knowing which diet plan they were on at any given time. In the end, all of the treatment diets - even the placebo diet - caused pain, bloating, nausea, and gas to a similar degree. It didn’t matter if the diet contained gluten. (Read more about the study.)"
***
"Students at Santa Clara University are supposed call to report any and all “bias incidents” to 911.
“If the bias incident is in progress or just occurred: ALWAYS CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY,” the university website states."
"Hello? 911? Someone has a different opinion than the one I hold! Can you arrest them because they hurt my feelings and I can't stand to live next to such barbarians!"
Idiots.
All courtesy of the enlightened progressive left.
"...The EthicsPoint report form for Student Bias Instances at Santa Clara allows students to report bias incidents even if they weren’t directly involved in the alleged bias; students can report bias incidents that they overheard. Not only can students use EthicsPoint to anonymously turn in the perpetrator of the alleged bias incident but they can also turn in “any persons who have attempted to conceal” the bias incident.
The Santa Clara Police Department referred Campus Reform to the university's Student Life department for comment.
Campus Reform spoke with Lester Deanes, the Assistant Dean for Student Life, who said that microaggressions are covered under the bias incident policy. Deanes emphasized, however, that the bias incident policy isn’t exclusively limited to microaggressions and that the university intentionally left the definition broad so as to encourage students to come forward with whatever they felt needed to be brought to the university’s attention."
This is so insane and creepy that at some point, all this will balance itself out.
It has to.
People can't be this shallow, sensitive and stupid.
I refuse to believe they are.
***
Trump is leading because he's ball busting. And quite frankly, people are tired of spineless politicians who 'apologize' the second reactionaries that inhibit the SJW ranks go berserk.
Yes, some of his policy ideas are, well, insane, but he's just saying what people say in private all the time.
***
Are illegal immigrants committing crime higher than the average American?
***
Good discussion about Caitlyn Jenner on Joe Rogan's radio show.
I think it's bang on.
***
Obama foreign policy logic at work with Iran:
"Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press."
Iran loves to play the fiddle with America present.
***
Welcome back Rhinoceros Party!
The party that wanted to repeal the Law of Gravity now wants to nationaize Tim Hortons.
God I love these guys.
***
Thinking of investing in gold and silver and other precious metals?
Here's a guide.
***
The end of religious freedom.
"...Yet instead of exhibiting a basic level of tolerance (or dignity), two priggish bullies decided to call the authorities when Phillips refused to bake them a cake. And the cultural commissars at the Colorado Civil Rights Commission soon ruled that he had discriminated against the couple."
That's exactly what these two dopes are: Intolerant bullies. Sociopaths who want us to follow their pain.
Those two had a choice to just shut up and take their business elsewhere but nooooo. They wanted to make a "point" and destroy a business and a family. Stated another way, I don't believe because someone refuses to bake a cake should lead to him or her being coerced into doing so. And that the courts side with them is equally disturbing.
I don't give a shit about their precious little feelings. No one has a damn right to a fucken cake.
I care about ALL RIGHTS. And in this case they were free to turn the other cheek and move on with their lives and not make an issue of it.
Stuff like this doesn't win them brownie points.
***
Tell you what. If cops keep getting away with some of the obscene actions we've seen over the last little, it will just further erode the public trust in the police force.
In the end, it's what the people think that matters. Not the police chief. If cops choose to make this a 'us v them' issue then this is unfortunate.
I don't know if it's the training or the kind of people the job attracts but the statistics show being a police officer is not as dangerous as they claim.
From Simple Justice:
"Yes, if police can’t possibly be sufficiently well-trained, sufficiently smart, sufficiently brave to make good choices, Patterico’s trade-offs will happen. But the innocent non-cop didn’t have a choice in the matter. She didn’t ask to be wrongfully stopped. She didn’t ask to have a cop misinterpret her innocent movement, her exercise of constitutional rights, her skin color, to feed into a cop’s bad choice. She didn’t ask to die, and she wants to get home for dinner just as much as the cop does.
If there have to be trade-offs, then there is no question who prevails. There is no “officer safety” exception to the Constitution, and along with the authority to use a gun comes the responsibility of making smart choices. The people win."
That's the problem. Stupid laws and stupid policies like the war on drugs, leads to cops enforcing those stupid laws and more often than not, people are incarcerated or killed for...meth and marijuana.
I don't know but to me it's not a good trade-off.
At all.
From comments:
"While it is terrible for the cop who got pistol-whipped by a member of the public, I feel as a member of the public that I should assure the police that this was just an isolated incident involving one bad apple and we shall see to it that this gentleman is given a severe written reprimand and a couple of weeks of paid leave followed by a six-hour refresher course on the policies and procedures followed here in the general public. Now let us put this tragic incident behind us and hear no more about it."
And that in a nutshell summarizes my point above.
Bad cops should be fired. End of story.
Or else, confidence and trust erodes.
Simple math.
***
I still think I have one of the better blogs out there.
Like I mean. Where can you find this sorta shit?
Man, those guys musta been high when they shot this.
***
Break time!
I always relax with a nice cup of Wilkins coffee:
***
Can Hillary really survive this email scandal? If she doesn't, will she blame Bush?
The FBI opens a criminal probe over the scandal.
***
Loathsome SJW of the moment: Sara Parker-Toulson.
"Feminist Sara Parker-Toulson, who has already backed a violent threat against Roosh, supported a Facebook post by fellow SJW Christian Caouette, one which expressed a vehement desire for our proprietor’s future daughter to be raped. Clearly enamored by the biased attention she and other delusional SJWs have received from the negligent Montreal and other Canadian media, she now thinks “hate” can be stopped by wishing rape on unborn children."
Nice people.
Intellectualism is in good hands.
***
Franz Reichelt plummets to his death in 1912:
***
Still can't believe Alberta voted for the NDP.
Unbelievable.
***
Next up for progressives: Emasculating men by asking them (through coercive policy naturally) not to work.
Da fuck is wrong with these people? The other day I read an article by one of these metrosexual males babbling about how grilling is a barbaric make ritual.
/flashes 'L' on forehead.
***
Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States in all his relativist vapidity:
"During a speech Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama leavened his condemnation of the Islamic State's recent atrocities with a word of warning to his fellow Christians who wish to conflate the militant group's actions with Islam as a whole.
"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," the president said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
Murderous extremism, he continued, "is not unique to one group or one religion. There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.”
/face palm.
Er, no. At the moment, Islam is the only one acted with extreme barbarity.
This guy.
***
Minimum wage as eugenics:
From The Freeman:
"In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. identifies the government as the enemy of the rights and dignity of blacks. He was locked up for marching without a permit. King cites the injustices of the police and courts in particular. And he inspired a movement to raise public consciousness against state brutality, especially as it involved fire hoses, billy clubs, and jail cells.
Less obvious, however, had been the role of a more covert means of subjugation — forms of state coercion deeply embedded in the law and history of the United States. And they were offered as policies grounded in science and the scientific management of society.
Consider the minimum wage. How much does racism have to do with it? Far more than most people realize. A careful look at its history shows that the minimum wage was originally conceived as part of a eugenics strategy — an attempt to engineer a master race through public policy designed to cleanse the citizenry of undesirables. To that end, the state would have to bring about the isolation, sterilization, and extermination of nonprivileged populations."
"...Leonard documents an alarming series of academic articles and books appearing between the 1890s and the 1920s that were remarkably explicit about a variety of legislative attempts to squeeze people out of the work force. These articles were not written by marginal figures or radicals but by the leaders of the profession, the authors of the great textbooks, and the opinion leaders who shaped public policy.
“...Progressive economists, like their neoclassical critics,” Leonard explains, “believed that binding minimum wages would cause job losses. However, the progressive economists also believed that the job loss induced by minimum wages was a social benefit, as it performed the eugenic service ridding the labor force of the ‘unemployable.’”
"....At least the eugenicists, for all their pseudo-scientific blathering, were not naïve about the effects of wage floors. These days, you can count on media talking heads and countless politicians to proclaim how wonderful the minimum wage is for the poor. Wage floors will improve the standard of living, they say. But back in 1912, they knew better — minimum wages exclude workers — and they favored them precisely because such wage floors drive people out of the job market. People without jobs cannot prosper and are thereby discouraged from reproducing. Minimum wages were designed specifically to purify the demographic landscape of racial inferiors and to keep women at the margins of society."
"...But the minimum wage is in a special category because, these days, its effects are so little understood. One hundred years ago, legislating a price floor on wages was a policy deliberately conceived to impoverish the lower classes and the undesirables, and thereby to disincentivize their reproduction. A polite gulag.
As time went on, the blood lust of the eugenics movement died down, but the persistence of its minimum wage policies did not. A national minimum wage passed in 1931 with the Davis-Bacon Act. It required that firms receiving federal contracts pay prevailing wages, which meant union wages, a principle that later became a national minimum wage."
And now, despite its ugly origins, it's accepted as 'rational economic justice' in the progressive ranks. It's rather creepy how this became an accepted part of our economic psyche when you think of it. It never was a good thing yet we've come to believe it is.
So why do they cling on to, if not repeat, ideas rooted in suspect premises?
Eh. Human nature. We're prone to such nonsense. My best advice is don't listen to what they say (by looking out for the vapid, blanket statements like 'gender inequality' and 'fair share' and 'economic justice' and so on). Rather, watch what they do and monitor the results.
They were a blithe on human progress back then and they still wreak havoc today.
***
This is as close as you'll come to real life imitating super heroes in comic books.
"The brave British marksman saved
the terrified eight-year-old and his father after taking out the crazed
jihadi with a head shot from 1,000 metres away.
The special forces crack shot then killed two other members of the hated terror group, who were also taking part in the sick planned execution.
ISIS militants had decreed that the little boy and his father must die after branding them "infidels" because they refused to denounce their faith.
They were just seconds from death when the hero sniper intervened to stop the barbaric killing in the Syrian desert. The pair were part of the minority Shia sect of Islam which ISIS considers to be heretical."
I just wish it would happen with much more frequency.
But Obama warns us not to generalize because Crusades.
***
Meet the Feebles:
Yes. That's the same Peter Jackson who brought you Lord of the Rings.
***
Dorothy Ashby makes the harp sound so bad ass:
***
Man, this Brady and the Patriots thing has jumped the shark and is bigger than it's worth.
***
Honey, seriously?
Man, people really are into themselves waaaayyyy too much.
Move on lady.
***
Is deep dish really pizza?
My take? Yeah, it's pizza and it's tasty (had some at Lou Malnati's in Chicago). But it doesn't fit the classic definition of what constitutes pizza.
***
Oh look at the President go all 'appeal to emotions'.
"In an attempt to appeal to American Jewish leaders, President Obama warned of the consequences Israel would face should Congress reject the Iran nuclear deal.
"I can assure that Israel will bear the brunt of the asymmetrical response that Iran will have to a military strike on its nuclear facilities," Obama told roughly 20 American Jewish leaders during a two hour meeting at the White House Tuesday night.
Is he for real?
/looks down on pad.
Yes. Yes he is.
***
***
Cecil the Lion brought out the salty tears and downright weirdos.
Call it Outrage Imperialism.
Comments from first link (NYT):
"Carol Brooklyn 2 hours ago
Lions, like humans, are creations and should not be murdered for sport. In the US people are hunted and killed for sport just like Cecil. They are generally people of color whose lives are not considered to be worth much just like Cecil's life was considered to be sport for billionaire Americans. If people are attacked by lions and other wild animals, the people should be protected by staying away from these animals. Why should the world be deprived of seeing such magnificent creatures because humans lack the common sense to stay away from them.
Tom J. Berwyn, IL 6 hours ago
I think the issue at hand is disgust that yet another wealthy guy did as he pleased with no concern about the consequences. In this case, to a renowned lion. In other cases, to the middle class worker, or to our financial system, stock market, real estate market, the list goes on. It is a national resentment that is building. The lion is a metaphor.
Ah. A metaphor.
***
Quote from the Internet:
"Progressives are so unaware of their own totalitarian tendencies. I once heard a very similar comment from an 80+ year old retired Ivy League professor.
What we really need are fewer people. Say what you want about the Chinese government, but they had the single child policy absolutely correct. Fewer people would be the biggest solution to unemployment and global warming."
They totally believe this.
***
History lesson time!
Great Zimbabwe.
And.
School of Salamanca.
***
Is the FDA retarded?
***
Has Obama's tenure weakened the Democrat brand?
"...The first signs of the slowly unfolding debacle that has meant the decimation of the Democratic Party nationally began early—with the special election of Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy’s empty Senate seat in Massachusetts. That early loss, even though the seat was won back eventually by Elizabeth Warren, presaged the 2010 midterms, which saw the loss of 63 House and six Senate seats. It was disaster that came as no surprise to the White House, but also proved a signal of what was to come."
Intermission!
Already?
/slurps lemonade.
Why not?
The Go Wows:
***
How do you define irrational?
Lemme help you out:
"...Although experts estimate that only 1 percent of Americans - about 3 million people - actually suffer from celiac disease, 18 percent of adults now buy gluten-free foods."
Not enough?
Alrighty then:
"Subjects would be provided with every single meal for the duration of the trial. Any and all potential dietary triggers for gastrointestinal symptoms would be removed, including lactose (from milk products), certain preservatives like benzoates, propionate, sulfites, and nitrites, and fermentable, poorly absorbed short-chain carbohydrates, also known as FODMAPs. And last, but not least, nine days worth of urine and faecal matter would be collected. With this new study, Gibson wasn’t messing around.
The subjects cycled through high-gluten, low-gluten, and no-gluten (placebo) diets, without knowing which diet plan they were on at any given time. In the end, all of the treatment diets - even the placebo diet - caused pain, bloating, nausea, and gas to a similar degree. It didn’t matter if the diet contained gluten. (Read more about the study.)"
***
"Students at Santa Clara University are supposed call to report any and all “bias incidents” to 911.
“If the bias incident is in progress or just occurred: ALWAYS CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY,” the university website states."
"Hello? 911? Someone has a different opinion than the one I hold! Can you arrest them because they hurt my feelings and I can't stand to live next to such barbarians!"
Idiots.
All courtesy of the enlightened progressive left.
"...The EthicsPoint report form for Student Bias Instances at Santa Clara allows students to report bias incidents even if they weren’t directly involved in the alleged bias; students can report bias incidents that they overheard. Not only can students use EthicsPoint to anonymously turn in the perpetrator of the alleged bias incident but they can also turn in “any persons who have attempted to conceal” the bias incident.
The Santa Clara Police Department referred Campus Reform to the university's Student Life department for comment.
Campus Reform spoke with Lester Deanes, the Assistant Dean for Student Life, who said that microaggressions are covered under the bias incident policy. Deanes emphasized, however, that the bias incident policy isn’t exclusively limited to microaggressions and that the university intentionally left the definition broad so as to encourage students to come forward with whatever they felt needed to be brought to the university’s attention."
This is so insane and creepy that at some point, all this will balance itself out.
It has to.
People can't be this shallow, sensitive and stupid.
I refuse to believe they are.
***
Trump is leading because he's ball busting. And quite frankly, people are tired of spineless politicians who 'apologize' the second reactionaries that inhibit the SJW ranks go berserk.
Yes, some of his policy ideas are, well, insane, but he's just saying what people say in private all the time.
***
Are illegal immigrants committing crime higher than the average American?
***
Good discussion about Caitlyn Jenner on Joe Rogan's radio show.
I think it's bang on.
***
Obama foreign policy logic at work with Iran:
"Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press."
Iran loves to play the fiddle with America present.
***
Welcome back Rhinoceros Party!
The party that wanted to repeal the Law of Gravity now wants to nationaize Tim Hortons.
God I love these guys.
***
Thinking of investing in gold and silver and other precious metals?
Here's a guide.
***
The end of religious freedom.
"...Yet instead of exhibiting a basic level of tolerance (or dignity), two priggish bullies decided to call the authorities when Phillips refused to bake them a cake. And the cultural commissars at the Colorado Civil Rights Commission soon ruled that he had discriminated against the couple."
That's exactly what these two dopes are: Intolerant bullies. Sociopaths who want us to follow their pain.
Those two had a choice to just shut up and take their business elsewhere but nooooo. They wanted to make a "point" and destroy a business and a family. Stated another way, I don't believe because someone refuses to bake a cake should lead to him or her being coerced into doing so. And that the courts side with them is equally disturbing.
I don't give a shit about their precious little feelings. No one has a damn right to a fucken cake.
I care about ALL RIGHTS. And in this case they were free to turn the other cheek and move on with their lives and not make an issue of it.
Stuff like this doesn't win them brownie points.
***
Tell you what. If cops keep getting away with some of the obscene actions we've seen over the last little, it will just further erode the public trust in the police force.
In the end, it's what the people think that matters. Not the police chief. If cops choose to make this a 'us v them' issue then this is unfortunate.
I don't know if it's the training or the kind of people the job attracts but the statistics show being a police officer is not as dangerous as they claim.
From Simple Justice:
"Yes, if police can’t possibly be sufficiently well-trained, sufficiently smart, sufficiently brave to make good choices, Patterico’s trade-offs will happen. But the innocent non-cop didn’t have a choice in the matter. She didn’t ask to be wrongfully stopped. She didn’t ask to have a cop misinterpret her innocent movement, her exercise of constitutional rights, her skin color, to feed into a cop’s bad choice. She didn’t ask to die, and she wants to get home for dinner just as much as the cop does.
If there have to be trade-offs, then there is no question who prevails. There is no “officer safety” exception to the Constitution, and along with the authority to use a gun comes the responsibility of making smart choices. The people win."
That's the problem. Stupid laws and stupid policies like the war on drugs, leads to cops enforcing those stupid laws and more often than not, people are incarcerated or killed for...meth and marijuana.
I don't know but to me it's not a good trade-off.
At all.
From comments:
"While it is terrible for the cop who got pistol-whipped by a member of the public, I feel as a member of the public that I should assure the police that this was just an isolated incident involving one bad apple and we shall see to it that this gentleman is given a severe written reprimand and a couple of weeks of paid leave followed by a six-hour refresher course on the policies and procedures followed here in the general public. Now let us put this tragic incident behind us and hear no more about it."
And that in a nutshell summarizes my point above.
Bad cops should be fired. End of story.
Or else, confidence and trust erodes.
Simple math.
***
I still think I have one of the better blogs out there.
Like I mean. Where can you find this sorta shit?
Man, those guys musta been high when they shot this.
***
Break time!
I always relax with a nice cup of Wilkins coffee:
***
Can Hillary really survive this email scandal? If she doesn't, will she blame Bush?
The FBI opens a criminal probe over the scandal.
***
Loathsome SJW of the moment: Sara Parker-Toulson.
"Feminist Sara Parker-Toulson, who has already backed a violent threat against Roosh, supported a Facebook post by fellow SJW Christian Caouette, one which expressed a vehement desire for our proprietor’s future daughter to be raped. Clearly enamored by the biased attention she and other delusional SJWs have received from the negligent Montreal and other Canadian media, she now thinks “hate” can be stopped by wishing rape on unborn children."
Nice people.
Intellectualism is in good hands.
***
Franz Reichelt plummets to his death in 1912:
***
Still can't believe Alberta voted for the NDP.
Unbelievable.
***
Next up for progressives: Emasculating men by asking them (through coercive policy naturally) not to work.
Da fuck is wrong with these people? The other day I read an article by one of these metrosexual males babbling about how grilling is a barbaric make ritual.
/flashes 'L' on forehead.
***
Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States in all his relativist vapidity:
"During a speech Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama leavened his condemnation of the Islamic State's recent atrocities with a word of warning to his fellow Christians who wish to conflate the militant group's actions with Islam as a whole.
"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," the president said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
Murderous extremism, he continued, "is not unique to one group or one religion. There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.”
/face palm.
Er, no. At the moment, Islam is the only one acted with extreme barbarity.
This guy.
***
Minimum wage as eugenics:
From The Freeman:
"In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. identifies the government as the enemy of the rights and dignity of blacks. He was locked up for marching without a permit. King cites the injustices of the police and courts in particular. And he inspired a movement to raise public consciousness against state brutality, especially as it involved fire hoses, billy clubs, and jail cells.
Less obvious, however, had been the role of a more covert means of subjugation — forms of state coercion deeply embedded in the law and history of the United States. And they were offered as policies grounded in science and the scientific management of society.
Consider the minimum wage. How much does racism have to do with it? Far more than most people realize. A careful look at its history shows that the minimum wage was originally conceived as part of a eugenics strategy — an attempt to engineer a master race through public policy designed to cleanse the citizenry of undesirables. To that end, the state would have to bring about the isolation, sterilization, and extermination of nonprivileged populations."
"...Leonard documents an alarming series of academic articles and books appearing between the 1890s and the 1920s that were remarkably explicit about a variety of legislative attempts to squeeze people out of the work force. These articles were not written by marginal figures or radicals but by the leaders of the profession, the authors of the great textbooks, and the opinion leaders who shaped public policy.
“...Progressive economists, like their neoclassical critics,” Leonard explains, “believed that binding minimum wages would cause job losses. However, the progressive economists also believed that the job loss induced by minimum wages was a social benefit, as it performed the eugenic service ridding the labor force of the ‘unemployable.’”
"....At least the eugenicists, for all their pseudo-scientific blathering, were not naïve about the effects of wage floors. These days, you can count on media talking heads and countless politicians to proclaim how wonderful the minimum wage is for the poor. Wage floors will improve the standard of living, they say. But back in 1912, they knew better — minimum wages exclude workers — and they favored them precisely because such wage floors drive people out of the job market. People without jobs cannot prosper and are thereby discouraged from reproducing. Minimum wages were designed specifically to purify the demographic landscape of racial inferiors and to keep women at the margins of society."
"...But the minimum wage is in a special category because, these days, its effects are so little understood. One hundred years ago, legislating a price floor on wages was a policy deliberately conceived to impoverish the lower classes and the undesirables, and thereby to disincentivize their reproduction. A polite gulag.
As time went on, the blood lust of the eugenics movement died down, but the persistence of its minimum wage policies did not. A national minimum wage passed in 1931 with the Davis-Bacon Act. It required that firms receiving federal contracts pay prevailing wages, which meant union wages, a principle that later became a national minimum wage."
And now, despite its ugly origins, it's accepted as 'rational economic justice' in the progressive ranks. It's rather creepy how this became an accepted part of our economic psyche when you think of it. It never was a good thing yet we've come to believe it is.
So why do they cling on to, if not repeat, ideas rooted in suspect premises?
Eh. Human nature. We're prone to such nonsense. My best advice is don't listen to what they say (by looking out for the vapid, blanket statements like 'gender inequality' and 'fair share' and 'economic justice' and so on). Rather, watch what they do and monitor the results.
They were a blithe on human progress back then and they still wreak havoc today.
***
This is as close as you'll come to real life imitating super heroes in comic books.
The special forces crack shot then killed two other members of the hated terror group, who were also taking part in the sick planned execution.
ISIS militants had decreed that the little boy and his father must die after branding them "infidels" because they refused to denounce their faith.
They were just seconds from death when the hero sniper intervened to stop the barbaric killing in the Syrian desert. The pair were part of the minority Shia sect of Islam which ISIS considers to be heretical."
I just wish it would happen with much more frequency.
But Obama warns us not to generalize because Crusades.
***
Meet the Feebles:
Yes. That's the same Peter Jackson who brought you Lord of the Rings.
***
Dorothy Ashby makes the harp sound so bad ass:
***
Man, this Brady and the Patriots thing has jumped the shark and is bigger than it's worth.
***
In an interview at her
West Hill church, Rev. Gretta Vosper said congregants support her view
that how you live is more important than what you believe in.
Honey, seriously?
Man, people really are into themselves waaaayyyy too much.
Move on lady.
***
Is deep dish really pizza?
My take? Yeah, it's pizza and it's tasty (had some at Lou Malnati's in Chicago). But it doesn't fit the classic definition of what constitutes pizza.
***
Oh look at the President go all 'appeal to emotions'.
"In an attempt to appeal to American Jewish leaders, President Obama warned of the consequences Israel would face should Congress reject the Iran nuclear deal.
"I can assure that Israel will bear the brunt of the asymmetrical response that Iran will have to a military strike on its nuclear facilities," Obama told roughly 20 American Jewish leaders during a two hour meeting at the White House Tuesday night.
Is he for real?
/looks down on pad.
Yes. Yes he is.
***
***
Cecil the Lion brought out the salty tears and downright weirdos.
Call it Outrage Imperialism.
Comments from first link (NYT):
"Carol Brooklyn 2 hours ago
Lions, like humans, are creations and should not be murdered for sport. In the US people are hunted and killed for sport just like Cecil. They are generally people of color whose lives are not considered to be worth much just like Cecil's life was considered to be sport for billionaire Americans. If people are attacked by lions and other wild animals, the people should be protected by staying away from these animals. Why should the world be deprived of seeing such magnificent creatures because humans lack the common sense to stay away from them.
Tom J. Berwyn, IL 6 hours ago
I think the issue at hand is disgust that yet another wealthy guy did as he pleased with no concern about the consequences. In this case, to a renowned lion. In other cases, to the middle class worker, or to our financial system, stock market, real estate market, the list goes on. It is a national resentment that is building. The lion is a metaphor.
Ah. A metaphor.
***
Quote from the Internet:
"Progressives are so unaware of their own totalitarian tendencies. I once heard a very similar comment from an 80+ year old retired Ivy League professor.
What we really need are fewer people. Say what you want about the Chinese government, but they had the single child policy absolutely correct. Fewer people would be the biggest solution to unemployment and global warming."
They totally believe this.
***
History lesson time!
Great Zimbabwe.
And.
School of Salamanca.
***
Is the FDA retarded?
"Pizza makers could face
fines and prison time under a new Food and Drug Administration rule for
failing to provide calorie counts for their billions of combinations of
pizza orders.
Under
FDA regulations, chain restaurants, retail stores with 20 or more
locations, movie theaters, and vending machines are required to provide
calorie information for every menu item. Pizza parlors will be hit
hardest because of the unfathomable combinations of pizza that customers
can order."
/looks down on pad. Dons sun glasses.
Yes. Yes they are.
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Gotta love the irony in the EPA fiascoes.
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Has Obama's tenure weakened the Democrat brand?
"...The first signs of the slowly unfolding debacle that has meant the decimation of the Democratic Party nationally began early—with the special election of Scott Brown to Ted Kennedy’s empty Senate seat in Massachusetts. That early loss, even though the seat was won back eventually by Elizabeth Warren, presaged the 2010 midterms, which saw the loss of 63 House and six Senate seats. It was disaster that came as no surprise to the White House, but also proved a signal of what was to come."
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