[Breitbart] And while it must be noted that these 25 examples are only a smidgen of the hundreds of thousands of DGUs that occur each year‐see the academic work of Florida State University’s Gary Kleck‐they nonetheless present a well-rounded summation of the various locations and circumstances in which law-abiding citizens use guns to defend their own lives and the lives of others.
Number one of twenty five for 2017:
January 2, 2017‐Kay Dickinson was attacked while entering her Wilmington, North Carolina, apartment. WWAY repoted that Dickinson had just gotten off work and was going into her apartment at Colonial Parke when she was attacked." The suspect held her at gunpoint, "beat her and then tied her up with a broken belt in her bedroom." She was able to work free, retrieve her gun, and kill the suspect.
[Townhall] The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained well over 25 percent for the year. It broke records unprecedented in history. It has only achieved these level of returns fifteen times since 1921, and several of those years followed major corrections.
This market was not in a correction cycle. The recovery following 2008 was a correction recovery. This market, for the last several years, was being held down by poor economic policies from the previous eight years. It was being choked out by excessive over-regulation and high corporate tax rates. According to the Tax Foundation, the United States had the 4th highest corporate tax rate on the planet. This was a market shackled, waiting to be set free.
Donald Trump will go down in history as the Great Emancipator of the American Economy, and it will last until our government overlords burden it once again. Yes, there will be profit-taking. Yes, there will be ups and downs. And yes, with every one of them, Leftists will denounce capitalism, the "rich", and scream for someone to "do something!"
That "something" always involves government interference in free markets, which ultimately leads to long-term economic decline. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Yes, 'get a job,' save some money, gain knowledge of the business and investment process, establish long-range goals and objectives, build a portfolio which can provide growth.
Not exactly leftest entitlement crowd traits I'm afraid.
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...Actually, the idea is that they'll keep repeating this until things do slip - and they always do, eventually - and then they'll scream, "SEE???? WE WERE RIGHT!!!!"
Mike
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Don't see them jumping the next transport to Caracas.
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The left gets far to much airtime. Inflated and puffing like a paper dragon. The majority are paying them no attention. An old timer years ago once told me if you want to be happy in this world don't watch TV or read the newspaper.
[ARABNEWS] Understanding the Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... ’s regional ambitions needs no mind reader. For years, he has sought to meddle in Arab affairs, at times pretending to be a friend and, at others, openly hostile. His end game is now crystal clear.
Erdogan hopes to recreate the Ottoman Empire founded during the 13th century, or some version of it. In its heyday, the empire stretched across North Africa, the Middle East and swaths of Europe
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The care and feeding of the insatiable ego.
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Good chap that Erdogan. Please embrace the embrace.
[DAWN] AS illegal instruments that perpetuate violence against women because of their heinous ’verdicts’, jirgas (or panchayats) are gravely detrimental to women’s lives. Despite federal and provincial laws outlawing this kind of parallel adjudication system, the state has failed to clamp down on the latter, which is why jirga justice thrives. Last week, reports revealed the disturbing extent of impunity associated with the jirga system when it emerged that a married woman was raped for more than a month by three influential panchayat members in Tandlianwala in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... . Her in-laws trusted the panchayat with taking the woman to her premarital home on the promise her parents would organise a rukhsati ceremony. Instead, these ’arbitrators’ allegedly kidnapped and raped her. Marrying without her father’s approval was tantamount to ’dishonouring’ her community, and so this woman was ’punished’ by the jirga members. Whatever the reason for this crime, the latter must be investigated so that the victim receives justice. Jirga members sanctioning barbaric violence in the garb of punishment must know in no uncertain terms that they will be tried as criminals and sentenced if found guilty. Although it has been more than a decade since the 2002 jirga decision that led to Mukhtaran Mai’s gang rape as retribution for her brother’s transgression, women’s bodies continue to be bartered as they pay the price for crimes committed by others; most suffer ’Dire Revenge’ rape or are killed for ’honour’.
Here, reforming judicial processes to ensure accessibility so that communities do not resort to parallel justice systems is imperative. The state must not outsource dispute management and justice to jirgas because this is akin to handing over women’s rights to regressive elements. Instead, strengthening the offices of the federal and provincial ombudsmen will preserve the sanctity of the law. Though more crimes of a sexual nature are reported because women are breaking their silence, the process to reverse the undercurrents of misogyny is agonisingly slow. Change will only come if the state becomes an enforcer of the law.
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[AccordingToHoyt] I suspect there have always been unwritten laws in society. Do this, don’t do that, that’s not the way to greet someone. In every society really.
But I think we’re living in a time of unique lack of codification. Which isn’t of course. There are rules, but they change suddenly and no one tells you.
No, I’m serious. As great (eh. Good at least) apes, we have and develop social scripts, and signals. This is normal.
But the great flowering of the crazy of the romantics ‐ back to the natural man, leaving under an oak which furnishes all our necessities and such rot ‐ exploding into the sixties with theories like "no frustration raising" in which it was believed if you didn’t discipline a child at all, they’d have no frustrations or repressions, and would therefore be a perfect angel has turned, as it moderated in expression (mostly because no-frustration children are destructive savages no one wants around) into "there are rules but we won’t tell you what they are.
Yes, this is very bad for neuro atypical people out there. Honestly, I think our plague of autistic spectrum disorders is mostly because our society is faux-unstructured. I suspect only about half the people can actually intuit the rules from things never said. The other half stumble around desperately looking for the rules, or give up on socializing in disgust.
But beyond that, it’s bad because it removes the definition of what it is to be "good" in a society.
If you read older books, there were very well defined ideas of goodness. Attending church, being cleanly, having a good, respectful marriage, working hard, practicing charity. It wasn’t exactly easy, but it was a clear and defined path.
The problem is most people want to be good. They want to fit whatever the society admires. But our society particularly since the sixties, but really since sometime in the nineteenth century (only with increasing vigor) has waged a war on hypocrisy, which means acting good when "you’re not really good" and as proof of not being really good anything that falls short of perfection is adjudicated: say a man who is married and faithful but looks at pictures of naked women.
From this, it turned into an ongoing, frontal assault on traditional definitions of good and the bourgeois virtues that built western civilization. If the people being thrifty and hard workers were "hypocrites" it followed you should live lives of slovenly laziness. If monogamy couldn’t be adhered to perfectly, it meant you should screw everything that moved, or even waved in the wind.
But the "Goodness" of this inversion of values can’t be maintained. For one, because it often leads to self-destruction, or the destruction of social groups. So most people preach this nonsense, while living lives of bourgeois conventionality.
This just results in confusing the roughly fifty percent who have to KNOW the rules.
...It might also destroy those people more adept at abstract thinking, and less adept at social thinking, because they discover the one thing that will get them viewed as "good": the constant mouthing of leftist platitudes. Or the screaming of them, to atone for their sin of being born to solid middle class.
The increasingly unhinged rants of leftist intellectuals are the equivalent of the Cathedrals of Europe only far less useful or aesthetically pleasing: they’re a way to claim goodness, even if you can’t live it in your daily life; to buy your way to heaven despite the common sins of humanity. I'd say they substitute public "piety" for personal integrity: just like peasant wench raping, serf squeezing medieval nobility displayed public piety and claimed codes of chivalry.
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They have phony public virtue signalling in place of an authentic moral code.
It's said that concepts are merely platitudes until they cost you something, at which point they become principles. Going to candlelight vigils and "march for whatever" are among the things that come to mind as the former rather than the latter.
Happy New Year to all 'burgers.
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Happy New Year to all of us - there are not many of us left.
It will be interesting to see how the "rules" change in 2018. It's hard to think of anything my parents taught me that the Left doesn't now consider bad.
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It will be interesting to see how the "rules" change in 2018. It's hard to think of anything my parents taught me that the Left doesn't now consider bad.
It's not you. The left's view of parental teaching has prenatal origins.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Townhall] The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained well over 25 percent for the year. It broke records unprecedented in history. It has only achieved these level of returns fifteen times since 1921, and several of those years followed major corrections. 
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[DAWN] AS illegal instruments that perpetuate violence against women because of their heinous ’verdicts’, jirgas (or panchayats) are gravely detrimental to women’s lives. Despite federal and provincial laws outlawing this kind of parallel adjudication system, the state has failed to clamp down on the latter, which is why jirga justice thrives. Last week, reports revealed the disturbing extent of impunity associated with the jirga system when it emerged that a married woman was raped for more than a month by three influential panchayat members in Tandlianwala in 
