An absolute disgrace and criminal enterprise that has led to deaths and will continue to do so in a country with excessive hot temperatures and no soccer culture of any kind.
Fuck FIFA and its corruption for giving the World Cup to Qatar. Cleaning up the mess means Blatter must resign as FIFA President. If he cares so deeply for the game as he claims, then this is the only proper course at this point with a criminal investigation now underway. And can I know how on God's green earth Blatter not among those investigated? Nothing gets done in FIFA without his tacit approval. He has more power than any political official in the world.
At this point, I don't see how Qatar and FIFA hold the World Cup given all the corruption that's taken place.
No matter how hard they try to make gold from shit through their myopic intellectual diarrhea, the left will forever be useless and pointless in the West's forward progress.
Apparently, the Jews have killed enough Palestinians through official genocide to approach the levels of what the Nazis did to the Jews in which six million (nearly half of their population) were murdered. Never mind that the Palestinian population has, what, quadrupled in the last 40 or 50 years?
Yes. Let's equate the two.
Jesus save me. We're in serious trouble with idiots like this walking among us.
It's amazing how they refuse to look at the role of the Arabs in the mistreatment of Palestinians.
***
Okay. Here's how I see thing unfolding.
What's probably going to happen is left-wing progressives will continue to twist and ruin
the facts of history to the point of not being able to distinguish
between fact and myth where they will bleed into one.
Once that happens there
will be a final 'darkening' (I happen to feel we're in an intellectual dark age) where the truth will wallow in nothingness awaiting rediscovery; a New Renaissance once the books are dusted off.
They will imagine how in the world such meek and weak minds could have exerted so much influence.
She's proven to be a liar. She sounds more like, as the story unfolds, a promiscuous woman scorned or something.
She's taken up more than enough space with that vapid display of 'art'.
Other than that, I'm rather disappointed it hasn't been reported if it's a memory foam mattress she's carrying around. I also hear her parents are psychiatrists.
".To pick just one of countless examples, there was a White House
summit on health care in 2010. The president invited members of Congress
to discuss the issue in good faith. He then proceeded to treat every
concern, objection, and argument from Republicans as dumb, dishonest, or
emotional. They were, according to a column by Milbank, “stepping into
Prof. Obama’s classroom.” Milbank marveled at how the “teacher” treated
them all “like his undisciplined pupils.” Whenever someone said anything
politically inconvenient, the president replied that those were just
partisan “talking points.”
What if they are indeed "dumb, dishonest and emotional? Ever tink of dat? Hm?
Tawt so.
***
Dumb news when you need it. The New York Times specialty it seems these days.
Incredible even. Nah. Obama dealings with Syria and own actions in Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with contributing to that. No sirree.
Other than that, at 19, the paper of record saw not only fit to interview Sister Vapid not once but twice.
***
Allan Brauer dudeboy extraordinaire.
Wait. Hang on. Make that doucheboy extraordinaire.
"...Now. Perhaps you’re a big fan of this TPP plan. Perhaps you are a big
fan of Obama. Perhaps you are not a fan of Elizabeth Warren or Warren
Democrats. That’s all OK. Comparing criticism of an economic treaty to
the lynching of a black child? Not OK. I mean I’m not even
really sure what the hell that means, but clearly he’s equating a
politician getting criticized for his political views with a teenager
being murdered for his race. So people on Twitter, including me, told
him about how not-cool that tweet was. His response tells you an awful
lot about the ditch we’ve driven this left-wing movement into."
If you dare delve more into the dreadful world of progressive logic.
***
Some of you may be really wondering why I'm still on this ranty anti-progressive rampage. I'm not sure except to sing...
***
I recently purchased a 12 gallon compressor at Sears. While I was pleased to get it for $80 off the list price because it was a floor demo, I was still uneasy for some reason. The salesman (if you can call him that) assured me all the pieces were in place.
Unfortunately, when I brought my toy home my brother-in-law noticed it was missing a small oil cap which is easy to miss.
No big deal. Just go to Sears and get one, right? Ha,ha. When I got there, some poor shmuck was overwhelmed in the Craftsmen department but was accounting for himself quite well. Originally he informed me I had to call Sears parts to get it. When I called them, they sling-shot me back to his department. Surprised, he took initiative and said he would order me the piece. Mission accomplished with little blood and sweat shed.
I waited a few days and called to follow up regarding the status of the order. He informed me he could in fact not do it and that I had to call Sears parts department. Mildly annoyed I did.
The piece was $4. Shipping $20. This is when I laid into the representative for the utter unprofessional and clueless process Sears has customers go through. Not only did they sell me a product missing a piece, nobody wanted to take ownership following some stupid policy of 'it's not me' nonsense. Not one person stepped up to say, 'sorry sir, we will pay the shipping.'
I'm thinking of going back to Sears to show them the bill and insist they pay for it but I don't know if I feel like going back to waste my time only to be told some idiotic excuse why they can't.
I don't need the stress.
The once iconic Sears should change their name to Putz.
Apparently, minorities can't be racist they say. Koreans and Chinese are known to be pretty racist societies in Asia but they're minorities here. They can carry their prejudices here but all is good because minority.
"In like manner, we answer those who are perpetually
puzzling their brains with questions as to what shall be done with the
Negro, “let him alone and mind your own business.”
"...The
clinical psychologist Barbara O. Rothbaum and her colleagues assessed
the symptoms of 95 survivors of rape or attempted rape over the course
of several months. Although 94 percent of the women met symptomatic
criteria for PTSD about two weeks after the trauma, that number dropped
to 65 percent after approximately one month and to 47 percent after
approximately three months. The data indicate that about half of rape
survivors recover naturally from PTSD within three months of the
assault."
"...Trigger
warnings are designed to help survivors avoid reminders of their
trauma, thereby preventing emotional discomfort. Yet avoidance reinforces
PTSD. Conversely, systematic exposure to triggers and the memories they
provoke is the most effective means of overcoming the disorder."
"Totally ignored was the fact that a
black policeman in Alabama fatally shot an unarmed white teenager, and
was cleared of any charges, at about the same time that a white
policeman was cleared of charges in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
In a world where the truth means so little, and headstrong
preconceptions seem to be all that matter, what hope is there for
rational words or rational behavior, much less mutual understanding
across racial lines?"
"...The "legacy of slavery" argument is not
just an excuse for inexcusable behavior in the ghettos. In a larger
sense, it is an evasion of responsibility for the disastrous
consequences of the prevailing social vision of our times, and the
political policies based on that vision, over the past half century..."
"It’s not every day that left-leaning academics admit that they would discriminate against a minority. But
that was what they did in a peer-reviewed study of political diversity
in the field of social psychology, which will be published in the
September edition of the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science."
What do a Chilean mining company, an Illinois-based pharmaceutical
firm that just sold for $12.8 billion, and a gold producer from Colorado
operating in Turkey have in common?
They're all registered in Yukon.
Well, I know you don't do it in Quebec; particularly when the hillbillies in the PQ are in power. Then they do all sorts of nasty linguistic nonsense behind the scenes.
Heard a Pequiste on the radio say 'Montreal is on the right path economically because bike paths.'
Not. The. Place. For. Entrepreneurs.
***
It's not the protest or strikes per se the problem.
“...Nonsense!”
the critics reply. “Only the rich can afford to work for no money
and therefore nobody should be allowed to do so.”
A federal contest to design a logo for Canada’s 150th birthday sparked a
furious online protest under the slogan “My Time Has Value.” The winner of the contest would have received $5,000 and a certain
amount of valuable exposure, but the losers would not have won anything,
in spite of having worked for some period of time, and that, according
to the protesters, is unacceptable.
Similar online campaigns attempt to shame anyone who would ask a
musician to perform at an event without offering decent monetary
compensation. No, we are told, “exposure” is not compensation. Can’t the
musician make that determination? No, and it’s wrong even to ask.
I’m sometimes told that I go too far afield in drawing these
comparisons. Sure, a minority of students want to be paid to go to
school, but in 2012 they were protesting a tuition increase and now
they’re protesting “austerity” and that’s it—there’s no point reading
more into it.
But the same could have been said, only a few years ago, about the very
idea of a “student strike”—ask someone from outside Quebec!—whereas now
it’s becoming commonplace. The leader of the opposition wants it to be
formalized in law. A change in terminology becomes a legislative change
before you know it. "
If we don’t fight this pernicious tendency now, we might very well come
to regret it later.
Indeed it's not the only state it controls. In addition to progressive states like Massachusetts and California, Democrats had a nice run in places like Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi too.
"The NRA's vision for our country is simple: guns for anyone, anywhere --
no questions asked. The Loaded Laws they're pushing in state capitals
across the country are really frightening. Now is your chance to weigh
in by picking one of the two options below. "
Of course
this is not true. NRA members are, like most organizations, have
differing opinions. But as far as I can tell, the NRA doesn't support additional legislation taking the position there are already enough restrictions and feel those should be enforced.
Far cry from 'guns for anyone, anywhere - no questions asked.'
"...In 1934, the NRA supported the National Firearms Act, which served to
regulate and tax firearms that were considered used by gangsters at the
time. They also supported the Gun Control Act of 1968, which expanded on
the system to license firearm dealers and prohibit criminals and those
with mental impairments from owning firearms."
"While African Americans were being terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan, where
the Klan were sometimes aided by local law enforcement, the NRA setup
charters to help train local African American communities to be able
protect themselves. The most prominent case being in 1960 in Monroe, N.C.
where the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People head Robert Williams also chartered an NRA Rifle Club that
successully defended an assault on one of their leader's homes by the
KKK without casualties."
"According to FactCheck.org, nearly half of the funding for the NRA comes from membership dues alone...." (Isn't that usually the case with non-progressive entities? They have full support voluntary support of people)
"...The NRA's current stance on gun control is to enforce existing laws more
aggressively. In 2008, in response to the Virgina Tech shooting, the
NRA helped to pass the "NICS Improvement Act,"
which would provide increased funding and grants to states to report
vital information to the National Instant Background Check System
(NICS), such as mental health. The NICS is used for background checks of
potential gun buyers. Unfortunately, the system has been woefully
underfunded (receiving only 5.3% of the authorized funding)
and reporting has been lackluster. In addition, the NRA has pointed out
that those who lie on their background checks when purchasing firearms
are for the most part not prosecuted. In response to this, Vice
President Biden claimed that they "don't have the time"
to prosecute such violations, which, by the way, carries a minimum 5
year federal sentence, if convicted under the Gun Control Act of 1968."
The NRA clearly has a rich history in American life.It really is a shame how it's being depicted these days all for a narrow issue. ***
A new Conservative ad has taken a different track. Rather than attack it chooses to focus on Trudeau's experience closing with 'Justin Trudeau. Just not ready.'
Remember kids. Saying 'whatever' in a debate is weak. Avoid it.
It wreaks of an arrogant tone implying the person who uses it knows better.
It's been my experience the sort of mind who insert it in a debate often possess little or no valid arguments. It's akin to rolling your eyes on someone.
God I loathe people who do that. It's infuriating and insulting.
"...Mass civil disobedience as a new stage of struggle can transmute the deep rage of the ghetto into a constructive and creative force. To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer lasting, costly to the larger society but not wantonly destructive. Finally, it is a device of social action that is more difficult for the government to quell by superior force. The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
Of course, Reverend King was correct. A natural wisdom and
understanding of history that permitted him to assess human nature with a
sober and smart mind.
Today?
What to the nouveau-pseudo intellectuals, media and political masters focus on? Words.
Citizens are burning their own communities down and what do we hear? That it's racist to call them thugs.
How this doesn't strike a sensible mind as being vacuous designed to detract from the violent actions, is something that befuddles me.
They
mistakenly, in their infinite ignorance and determination to detract
from the truth and reality, and obsessively attempt to change or amend
the vocabulary and vernacular.
This is like putting cologne to deal with body odor.
The
riots we have seen in post-Luther America are the strict domain of
thugs and criminals - and a few misguided souls to be sure - for as the
Reverend King pointed out, they know it's not productive.
And
the media and politicians and pundits alike who childishly scream we
must change the vocabulary are complicit in this reactionary act; this lie.
“Who’s responsible for the immigrants who
come and settle in Quebec?” he asked rhetorically. “It’s the federal
government. It’s true it’s a shared jurisdiction, but they swear
allegiance to the Queen.
“So we don’t
have 25 years before us. It’s now that we have to get to work. It’s
right now that we have to ask Quebeckers the question and make all the
proper efforts to convince them.”
"Now that Khadr is a free man—of sorts—perhaps he will have a chance to demonstrate whether he is indeed a victim of circumstance or the caricature of evil described by his critics. In his first public appearance after his release, he came across as articulate, thoughtful, and entirely unthreatening. If Khadr manages to build a normal life for himself and becomes a productive and peaceful member of Canadian society, it could go a long way toward changing the minds of those who see the war on terror as a Manichean conflict between the US and its allies who can do no wrong and the forces of darkness who are pure evil. If Omar Khadr—the poster-child for Dick Cheney’s shameless lie that Guantanamo Bay housed the “worst of the worst”—turns out not to have horns and cloven feet, then perhaps the entire edifice of the war on terror is rotten. And maybe—just maybe—the best way to prevent terrorism and keep us safe is not to pursue endless war and adopt draconian legal codes, but simply to mind our own business and engage with foreigners not through violence but instead only through voluntary cooperation."
A thought take on Khadr. As contemptible his parents were - and there's indeed something to be said of having been thrust into such a violent situation as a 15 year-old was unfair - he is a Canadian citizen and deserves to rebuild his image and life.
Are we not an enlightened society that believes in second chance?
I got the same impression when I listened to him. I know. You never know and I walk the 'useful idiot' line but the whole affair was mishandled by both the USA and Canada.
Nor do I go unhinged like the climate cultists asking for people to be imprisoned for having a different opinion.
Particularly given the horrible track record of accuracy on their side. Imagine putting people in prison for, say, having challenged Erhlich's assertion that 'England would cease to exist by 2000'?
Think about it.
Think.
***
In 5 or 10 or 15 years I bet none of their doomsday scenarios come true. Just like in the 1970s.
We must act....NOW!
/looks at watch. Looks at calendar. Days, weeks, months and years pass.
"Understand, climate change did not cause the conflicts we see around the
world. Yet what we also know is that severe drought helped to create
the instability in Nigeria that was exploited by the terrorist group
Boko Haram. It’s now believed that drought and crop failures and high
food prices helped fuel the early unrest in Syria, which descended into
civil war in the heart of the Middle East."
-Obama
Except the weather in Nigeria hasn't changed all that much for quite some times. This anti-intellectual shtick of assigning climate change to all sorts of global problems and issues is rather discomforting and disturbing. Who in their right logical mind would correlate Boko Haram's rise and violence to climate? It's almost as if we've become incapable of understanding such organizations for what they are.
I'm getting the distinct feeling Obama, faced with an uncooperative Congress while mired in a state of lame-duckness, is just gonna speak from the heart. And as we saw with his speech to Coast Guard graduates, it's immature as it is unprofessional as it is irresponsible.
Among the greatest of all blues musicians B.B. King passed away at the age of 89. Needless to say, there's no shortage of out-pouring of thoughts and emotions following his death.
American blues and rock legends were the roots and architects of the British invasion. Without them there is no Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Faces, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Yardbirds, Cream and Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, The Beatles and countless others.
There's plenty of evidence that humans are naturally 'communistic' creatures. That is, they voluntarily come to help thy neighbors. The idea that we must have the state interfere on our behalf is a fairly recent phenomena. This political socialism has proven to, if anything, bring much misery through coercion. Even its benign 'democratic' form has not provided the results intended. And therein lies a huge problem. Whenever confronted with the reality (backed by statistics) we choose to throw more money at a problem rather than offer any meaningful or innovative solutions so committed to the progressive collective. Make no mistake about it, ours - the West- has been a progressive experiment for well over 100 years now. The so-called 'neo-liberal' policies are more the exception than the rule.
***
I do not accept the notion of redistributive wealth without proper consent. Admittedly, I sway to and fro with the concept of 'the wisdom of crowds'; the notion that a majority of people possess the wisdom for our collective mutual benefit. I reckon this may be plausible in certain instances but how could seven out of 10 people actually profess to understand or know the particular and personal circumstance of the other three?
And as the video argues, where the minority resist, is it 'fair' or just to use force against them thus violating their rights; nay, moral conscience?
Currently, in contemporary times, we're witnessing tyranny of the majority. Be it Christian bakers being mauled by lynch mobs, cartoonists merely depicting a religious figure in ways not accepted to some, to people who absolutely can't tolerate other views (and I squarely and frankly assert the left are the worst offenders of such anti-intellectual that directly threaten civil liberties) publicly shaming them on social media and campuses.
Freedom of speech and expression is a preciously young concept. It must be defended at every turn.
