2015-03-28

Daily Round Up

"...And therefore, as the Left sees things, it must be stopped. People cannot be permitted a choice, because, being captive to the “white privilege and entitlement and, yes, racism and classism . . . defining what constitutes ‘good’ for them,” they will choose the wrong things. So charter schools must be held illegitimate and, if possible, stopped...."

“Let’s ban private schools,” Gawker cheerily suggests. Writing in that esteemed journal, John Cook argues that “there’s a simple solution to the public-schools crisis.” If people make choices that complicate the Left’s agenda, then ban those choices: “Make Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama’s children go to public schools,” Cook writes. “From a purely strategic and practical standpoint, it would be much easier to resolve the schools crisis if the futures of America’s wealthiest and most powerful children were at stake.”
If they could they would. Which is why they tolerate and look to enhance the power of the government over people. For our own good. It's not that difficult to comprehend. Question is will we admit it?

"The Left’s heart is still in East Berlin: If people want to leave your utopia and have the means to do so, then build a wall. If they climb over the wall — as millions of low-income parents with children in private schools (very commonly Catholic schools) do — then build a higher wall. If they keep climbing – and they will — then there are always alternatives. Homeschooling? That’s basically a crime against humanity so far as our so-called liberal friends are concerned."

The left's hatred for homeschooling is irrational.

Walls!



Williamson is not my favorite writer but he nails it in 'Utopias Jailers.'

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Zimmerman: Obama inflames racial tensions.

No shit.

It's the community agitator in him.

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ThinkProgress' version of political calculus has them thinking that support for a flat tax = anti-woman.

Solid stuff right there.

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Steyn's A Tale of two rapes.

He's such a misogynist pig. He's probably lashing out because his father never bought him a hockey stick.

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So. If someone told you something would cost $2 billion and be useless would you buy it?

Of course not. Such is the sad, sordid tale of the long-gun registry. Such a mess it was, not even the NDP or Liberals will touch it anymore.

But not Quebec. No sirree.

Unique Distinct indeed.

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Exchange I saw between two people on a website:

Girl makes shrill unsubstantiated 'white male misogynist' claim.Man asks for citation to back her claim up. Girl responds that him asking for this is 'proof' he's misogynistic and is insulted he 'inferred' she's uneducated.

He didn't have to infer. She does that on her own.

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This again?

Students demand... I forget.

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Obama snubs Nato Chief.

SMART DIPLOMACY.

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I said...

Wait. It gets better. America is now assisting Iraq and Iran in the battle to take Tikrit back from ISIL.

Obama has managed to give cover to an enemy. Amazing feat that.

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So smart, we can't understand him...

I’d like you to name one lie Obama told. If it’s keeping your old healthcare, that one doesn’t count because allowing people to continue bad and worthless healthcare policies that don’t cover hospital stays would be immoral. So go ahead and tell us another “lie.” We are all waiting for that one.

You mean like...

"No lobbyists will serve in my administration."

"We will have the most transparent administration in history."

"There are no red states or blue states; I'm a moderate who is seeking to united the country."

"Accumulating trillions of dollars in debt is immoral and unpatriotic."

"Ambassador Stevens was killed because of a crappy YouTube video."

"The I.R.S. is not singling out conservatives."

"No one making less than $250,000 will have their taxes raised."

And there's much more!

Speaking of shams, interesting to hear Obama still make the claim the ACA saves money for the government and saves money for people. This despite the clear evidence of premiums going up for people.

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Let me remind you what 'smart diplomacy' under Barack Obama looks like:

Saudi Arabia bombs Iranian backed Houtis in Yemen while the U.S. offers air support to Iraq and Iran to fight ISIS in Tikrit while at the same time the Americans are trying to oust Iranian-backed Assad in Syria.

That's some magic trick.

Seems the obvious course of action is to abandon this 'deal' with Iran. It's putting the U.S. and its allies in too many predicaments including alienating its only true and stable ally in the region in Israel.

Yet, Obama seems bent on it.

They've literally lost the plot.

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More anti-fat nonsense.

The only 'battle brewing' is between busy-bodies and do-gooders who are looking to influence the way I eat. 

Fat is not bad for you.

Fat free is another one of those shams best ignored.

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So. It goes like this. I gave CSI: Cyber (yeah, yeah insert David Caruso jokes here. I deserve it) a shot and decided it’s not for me. In fact, the episode pissed me off enough for me to not view it to its conclusion.

There was a scene where the rapper and Dawson’s Creek guy were questioning some company (let’s call them Dark Uber) and responded to the usual overly-witty snarks whenever they heard an answer they didn’t like. ‘Pft. Oh. Privacy? Give me a break! We’re cops!’ and 'So you think it's safe to allowe people to pretend to be taxi drivers?' Along crappy things like that.

After they turned and walked away, Dawson’s Creek guy says to the rapper, ’That’s why I take a Taxi’ - as if cops are informed about free-market enterprises.

I wondered what exactly the writers/producers of the show were trying to convey. It was harmless enough - it’s a show! - but in the context of what’s going on out there, I doubt this wasn’t done on purpose; my Spidey conspiratorial senses tell me they were giving a shout out to traditionalTaxis!

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Dean of Cornell Joseph Scaffido:

"This guy is either the dumbest Ivy League bigwig ever or politically correct to a fault — for welcoming offers to bring ISIS and Hamas to Cornell University.
 
A video sting operation shows Cornell’s assistant dean for students, Joseph Scaffido, agreeing to everything suggested by an undercover muckraker posing as a Moroccan student.
 
Scaffido casually endorses inviting an ISIS “freedom fighter’’ to conduct a “training camp” for students at the upstate Ithaca campus — bizarrely likening the activity to a sports camp."

Is it OK to bring a humanitarian pro-“Islamic State Iraq and Syria” group on campus, the undercover for conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas asks.
Sure, Scaffido says in the recorded March 16 meeting.
 
Scaffido doesn’t even blink an eye when the undercover asks about providing material support for terrorists — “care packages, whether it be food, water, electronics.”
How about supporting Hamas?
No problem at all, Scaffido said.
 
“The university is not going to look at different groups and say, ‘You’re not allowed to support that group because we don’t believe them’ or something like that. I think it’s just the opposite. I think the university wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world,” Scaffido said.

Brav'.

Unless you're Netanhayu, Coulter or some other individual that has differing views from liberal-progressives.

How about this Scaffido. How about you send your daughter (assuming you have one) go over and act as a progressive liason and bring back one of those barbaric animals to Cornell. See how that goes over.

Strunz'.

Che vergogna.

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Get your military corruption fill here.

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Are Canadians in line to buy Serie A soccer team Parma?

Will it come with free Culatello prosciutto?

I still remember fondly those great Parma sides in the 1990s when Serie A dominated global soccer like no other league has arguably never done.

A local Montreal businessman (the Saputo family who own the Montreal Impact) already purchased Bologna. A storied soccer club currently playing in Serie B.

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Reason is not conservative. 

And Ayn Rand wasn't/isn't libertarian. She was/is Objectivist.

There's a difference to those outside the stagnant and stinky progressive box.

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Kansas allows conceal-carry.

Hey. If it goes against liberal orthodoxy it's all good.

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Best 'free expensive' medical system in the world!

My wife was telling me the story of one of her students has to leave for Turkey in order for his mother to get medical care for her ailment. Not only was she not getting any answers, any appointments she was trying to get averaged 14 months.

She got an appointment the following week...in Turkey.

The doctor who helped her added, 'I was at a medical conference in B.C. recently. Canada is 15 years behind' major nations.'

No kidding. Simple observation will reveal this.

But hey. EQUAL AND FREE AND NOT AMERICAN!

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No wonder they have such a skewed view of reality.

What perplexes me is why didn't the guy she's with offer to park the car properly like a civil citizen?

Instead the dink gives the impression he's confirming her parking skills are PERFECT! A-okay!

Yes, I know you want to know, she's a Democrat.

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What can't climate can't do?

Last week it was claimed it will make our food bad and now Democrat Congresswoman Barbara Lee says it will lead to prostitution.

And that want to convince people like me with shit like this?

They're bat shit crazy.

I don't do bat shit crazy.

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My science. My environment. My solars.

YOUR trees.

"A theme park plans to cut down more than 18,000 trees for the construction of what it says will be the largest solar farm in New Jersey.

Six Flags Great Adventure says the facility will generate 21.9 megawatts, or enough to power about 3,100 homes, and capable of meeting all of the park's needs."

I truly and thoroughly love watching environmentalists eat their own.

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Like I said. They're extremists.

Performance art is not part of their 'the science is settled' narrative.

Slowly this 'climate denier' craze will just fizzle out.

Armitage is talking about climate system change (note: my edit), and for good reason. She's currently staging a site-specific dance performance at New York's sprawling American Museum of Natural History, a work that is not-so-subtly aimed at raising awareness of our planet's shifting reality. Titled "On the Nature of Things," the work was created in collaboration with Stanford University biologist and MacArthur Genius Paul Ehrlich, perhaps better known to mainstream audiences as the man who wrote The Population Bomb.

Together, the two icons -- one popularly referred to as a "punk ballerina," the other a stringent cultural activist who happens to spend most of his time in laboratories -- hope to demonstrate that the simple act of presenting scientific facts has done little to change the way humans interact with their environment. We need a new method of presenting climate change as an issue we can't ignore, they attest. And that method should include art.

Ehrlich an icon? The guy who has been spectacularly wrong about the environment since, like, the fucking 70s?

Lord have mercy.

I love this bit in the video: "Often science is very dry."

Science isn't anything. Science is just, you know, SCIENCE.

But let's make it fun and put a bow on it to entice the masses!

Lord. Have. Mercy.

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Can Jewish Americans Support Israel?

Jews (and immigrants) who keep voting Democrat reminds me of the friend who keeps hanging out with someone who treats them like shit.

To be fair, this applies to Jews around the world.

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Comments from Reason free of charge:

"It isn't climate science that is suspect (any more than any field of science, see e.g. diet over the last 50 years), it is the unscientific pronouncements that attach themselves to climate studies - things like: OMFG the world is doomed if we don't turn the economic system and standard of living back 500 years.

Science doesn't deal with certainties, least of all predictions about future events based on unsubstantiated theory. And it is unsubstantiated - as in the last month I have read that Antarctic ice has both thickened and thinned. Now, all of the scientific evidence to date says GMOs are safe but there is no science that says there is no  possibility that they could cause harm. That would be because the latter is not actually science."


"Short answer agronomists do science ie test hypotheses via observations and rejecting the ones that are falsified.

Climate science is more akin to Lysenkoism, where the evidence that contradicts a politically favored hypothesis is officially ignored and scientists who don't toe the line face consequences such as loss of funding & smear campaigns. One notable red flag is the penchant of climate scientists to use failed models in their analyses, occasionally preferring to use model outputs in lieu of the direct observations of those same parameters."


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I had forgotten about Lysenko who I came across in my Russian history:

"Lysenkoism was built on theories of the heritability of acquired characteristics that Lysenko named "Michurinism". These theories depart from accepted evolutionary theory and Mendelian inheritance.
Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives."

That my friends, in a nutshell, is all you need to know about the mindset of a statist.





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