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It really needs a "Keeping up with the Cardassians" graphic.
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Do not confuse the technology of the times (printing press) with the intent of free flow of information. The 'Press' is an institution that sees itself as the controller of the flow of information by ignoring, obstructing, or corrupting that original intent. Throw in replacing entertainment with what a citizenry needs in a republic to perform its dutiful function and you get what we got, a Permanent Party Propaganda Machine.
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Back when Kanye explained why Obama was having trouble getting things done (months ago), the filter hated this one, but I kinda like it, so lemme try again.
"Pity, please, our prize chameleon,
The elite's darling boy Nobelian.
He's got no juice, and his excuse
Is blacks don't schmooze as good as Jews!"
Thus cried Kanye, goy comedian,
While schtupping Everyman's Armenian.
The Friday Times did something so that it's a flash thingy or something, Shipman, and can't be copy/pasted. See here and weep at the decadence of the modern world.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The creepiest warning comes from an old if not very honored prophet, Dr. Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University ...contributed $595,716 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? , a biologist who is fond of making predictions that never come true but never tarnish his reputation. He's still an honored professor at an honored university, he still gets his books published and he still gets respectful treatment by the grunions in the media.
The professor's hobby horse -- more a pony than a horse -- is the notion that we're breeding ourselves to an early end on the great spaceship Earth. Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine calls him the "irrepressible doomster" who has never been right. On the first Earth Day in 1970, he warned that "in 10 years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct and large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." He said in 1971 that by the year 2000 Britannia would be but a small group of impoverished islands inhabited by hungry people. "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."
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"When you predict the future," he says, "you get things wrong." Yogi Berra said it better, as he always did, explaining why the Yankees had lost a crucial game: "We made too many wrong mistakes."
But just as Yogi is a better philosopher than the professor....
(Here's a couple more, Yogi Berra said it better, "golden gems".)
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
Yogi Berra
The future aint what it use to be.
Yogi Berra
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In more earlier times, stoning was the prescription for 'false prophets'. There is merit in that. Just go back and read what pols said how much Medicare would cost by this time when they enacted it.
A New York sportswriter concludes it is too easy for murdering bastards to get guns...
So this is Memorial Day in 2014, when we are supposed to remember and honor those who died serving this country and end up mourning the latest to die at the hands of a madman with guns in America, this time in Isla Vista, Calif., near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. If you hire a college president with Secretary of Homeland Security in their vitae, you're doing it wrong.
Once again, the only true gun control in America is when the shooter finally puts one of his guns to his own head and blows his own brains out. You did fine, Mike, until the start of the second paragraph.
Wayne LaPierre, the gun nut who runs the National Rifle Association and is so often the face and voice of that association, likes to say that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, as if the principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the late Dawn Hochsprung, could have saved herself and those children if she'd just been packing. It's worth thinking about.
But the reality of a country that gets lousier with its own stupid gun culture by the day is that too often we have to wait, after more killing, for the bad guy with the gun to stop himself. Not, as Mr. LaPierre has said, repeatedly, if someone is present with a semiautomatic pistol.
That is what finally happened with Elliot Rodger, 22, after six more innocent people were slaughtered, the last four -- including the shooter, who had to kill some people because he couldn't get a date -- with semiautomatic weapons that always make the killing good and fast.
You are already hearing that the background checks for which gun control advocates practically have to beg for in America really don't work, because Rodger passed background checks and purchased his SIG Sauers and Glock 34 legally. You are hearing that it's a waste of time to put limits on magazines and ammunition, because here was this horny college kid with 41 10-round magazines in his possession; and that the killing started for Rodger with him knifing three people to death. Here he is talking about universal background checks where every transfer, even between private individuals, of a firearm requires a federal background check.
400 rounds. If you assumed he double-tapped his victims, Rodger used six rounds, less than two percent of his ammo stash. He could have done his mayhem with a .357 revolver. And some guys go through 400 rounds a weekend, probably practicing to deal with a cogent threat from thugs sent by politicians who agree we have too many guns. Again, Mike, tell me how a young man can be stopped from purchasing a six shooter and six rounds?
It makes you think all over again that those who preach sanity on this subject are doing nothing but shouting at the ocean, or just trying to be heard over the sound of more gunfire. It seems to me to rail against 80 million plus gunowners because a single -- literally -- irresponsible kid shot three individuals with six rounds, you're the one who is insane.
It happens at UCSB this time. The vigil for the dead this time is held in Isla Vista at Anisq'Oyo' Park. This is what the school's chancellor, Henry Yang, says on Memorial Day weekend, 2014, now that gun violence finally finds its way to his school, his town, as it tours the country like the old Ice Capades:
"We are here to share our sorrow, shock and pain."
But there is no longer any shock when it happens again. How can there be? It is the last week of May in Isla Vista. It was the first week of April in Fort Hood, when Ivan Lopez started shooting. It was supposed to be about Lopez being turned down for leave. Elliot Rodger finally snapped after being turned down for dates. Adam Lanza slaughtered elementary school children in Newtown and not college kids the way Rodger did. Lanza's psychotic break had occurred long before he walked through the doors of Sandy Hook with his Bushmaster rifle, another real good gun for real fast killing.
Obviously there are no sure safeguards against madness, especially if the shooter uses this kind of rampage as a form of suicide, willing to go out guns blazing, sick little Facebook posts and videos sometimes left behind. But it does not change the fact that it is far too easy for these people to get guns, legally or illegally, especially the kinds of guns that Elliot Rodger used to kill the people he killed and wound 13 others.
Mother Jones, which has done such fine work and told the truth about guns for a long time, reports that since 1982 in this country, there have been more than 70 mass shootings, across 30 states, and that nearly three dozen have occurred since 2006. They occur in malls and movie theaters and at Army bases and the Washington Navy Yard and Sikh temples and elementary schools and college campuses. Most places where people are not allowed to carry guns and at least respond to a threat.
The numbers say that so many of these guns used on innocent people, dead because they went to work or went to school, were purchased legally. It means that the real insanity in the greatest country in the world, the one for which my father and all those like him fought, is this:
That we are somehow sane on the subject of guns. The great majority of gun owners are sane on the subject of guns. What is insane is people like Mike Lupika who think that feeling shock and sorrow is sufficient cause to take, first an individual's property and then lives from people who have done nothing to cause the mayhem that the Adam Lanzas and Elliot Rodgers have done.
We think we can police the rest of the world while the rest of the world looks at us like the Wild West; while those here who say this is all a way of protecting the Second Amendment are the ones making a mockery of its original intent, and ideals. Unlikely.
This is Memorial Day 2014 then. We mourn more dead college kids along with those who laid down their lives for our freedoms, mourn more innocents gunned down on the real modern battlefield:
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Parents moved from England when the lad was five, divorced a year later. Lad shuttled between homes of his parents and their various spouses and paramours over the years, receiving very expensive psychiatric treatment until the end, when he refused the last diagnosis and prescribed medication. The parents sent police to his door based on his videos, but the police -- not trained psychologists, generally speaking -- did not notice anything amiss. But his emailed manifesto triggered a call from the therapist to the parents, who were heading to his apartment to intervene when the first reports of carnage were aired.
I'd say being horny and feeling rejected were the least of his problems.
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How does he explain Chicago? /rhetorical question
Maybe if the usual suspects covered the effective use of such weapons in deterring or stopping crime with as much gusto, maybe the perps would get a message. Oh, yeah, I forgot about all that predicted violence and death generated when the unwashed approved concealed carry in those states as predicted by the likes of the author./sarc off
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He's been declared white by the usual media suspects even though his mother is Indonesian. Apparently any racial make-up other than black is white.
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A glock a sig and 40 plus clips poor little rich faggot(pile of wood)! The dumb ass manchu inbred ghoul couldn't find a hooker in California or a brothel in Nevada? What does it matter now (fresh fish!)! The dude was surrounded by gash and his dad had ass all around him WTF!?! BLAME IT ON WHITEY AND THE NRA RIGHT!?! MAYBE HE WAS A GAY MUSLIM?!?
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It's ok he was one of them ice cube cold Asian people from the Matryix genetics propaganda books. They got new ones now the borg are now in control and the Darleks! They crave useless material goods money and god. Doctor Who is on it we cut off Data's head and are studying it!
Anybody know where the clone people live? They are bald and like bath tubs!
Lanza's psychotic break had occurred long before he walked through the doors of Sandy Hook with his Bushmaster rifle, another real good gun for real fast killing.
Missed snark opportunity: It wasn't his rifle, it was his mother's, which he took after killing her.
[BLOGS.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] First, the US Government supports greater British integration with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . From the American perspective, Britannia plays a very positive role in shaping EU governance. America supports freer trade and is sympathetic to fewer regulations; it believes that Britannia counter-balances the regulation-friendly governments of La Belle France and Germany.
Moreover, the B.O. regime is seeking a new free trade agreement with the European Union. It knows that British support will be crucial in smoothing out existing difficulties. Were Britannia to become isolated from the EU, two things would then happen. First, the EU would become less friendly to American trade (weakening US exports). Second, American influence in the EU would decline.
On this second point, alongside the US-UK intelligence/military alliance, Britannia's influence over EU foreign policy is highly prized in Washington. Take the crisis in Ukraine. Without the UK, the B.O. regime is aware that the EU would probably acquiesce to Putin's power grab. Germany, after all, is far more concerned about the preservation of Gazprom energy supplies. Washington's national security interests in Europe, already jeopardised by the NSA spying leaks, are increasingly vulnerable. Correspondingly, Britannia's active role in Europe offers consolidation in a period of difficulty.
But it's not just the EU question.
Of equal concern in Washington will be what Ukip's rise portends for next year's General Election. America knows that Farage has tapped into a deep vein of populist anger; now it will have to consider that Ukip may -- just possibly -- win enough seats in Parliament to become a coalition partner for a Conservative government. Recognising Farage's unashamed isolationist sentiments, the US will worry that, were he to enter government as a minority partner, Farage would push Cameron towards a less active British foreign policy.
Last August, Washington was shocked when Cameron failed to secure Parliamentary approval for strikes against Assad. Kerry's anger had a particularly thin veil. Since then, Washington has become concerned that British sentiment has grown deeply sceptical of American foreign policy. The State Department will believe that Farage provides a new figurehead for this disillusionment. In specific terms, the US will have paid close attention to Farage's fervent opposition to Cameron's policy in Ukraine, Libya, and Syria.
This trepidation is reinforced by the quietly held US belief that a Prime Minister Ed Miliband would make an unreliable American ally. His opposition to the Syria authorisation vote was viewed as a major rebuke to the US government. Regardless, the Obama Administration has long taken Britannia for granted (see the Falklands). In the weeks ahead, as brass hats read the cables from London, they might come to realise that political storm clouds loom ahead.
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Clear Obama strategy - sic the IRS and Inland Revenue on UKIP voters!
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This trepidation is reinforced by the quietly held US belief that a Prime Minister Ed Miliband would make an unreliable American ally.
Any real world leader think Obama is a reliable ally? Really? The egocentric assumption behind that one line is mind boggling, but, unfortunately, something we expect from this administration and its minions.
[DAWN] THE inherent tension in the dual-track approach of the government pursuing dialogue with the outlawed TTP while the military is allowed to retaliate when the security forces are targeted means that problems will bubble up every little while or so. Current events suggest that the tension is increasing and problems are mounting: a military-lite type of action is taking place in parts of North Wazoo while in Islamabad the dialogue process being run by Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan appears to be stuck in limbo, with neither the military nor the government really looking to up the ante. So talk of dialogue will continue while the military will hit back against hard boyz without publicly clarifying what exactly is the nature of its kinetic activities in North Waziristan. This, once again, seems to be the age-old fallback option when a policy itself is confused and contradictory: do just enough to be seen to be doing something and hope that is enough to buy just enough time for events to change for the better. If that looks closer to a non-strategy than a strategy, it is. But in reality, it tends to happen quite frequently.
Perhaps though there comes a time where internal contradictions need to be sorted out firmly and decisively. The dialogue process that the interior minister is running was, in the words of the prime minister and the interior minister themselves, never meant to be the open-ended process it appears to have become. What was meant to be weeks has turned into months with no end in sight. Perhaps the PML-N was never honest with the public to begin with, that its goal was always to bring violence down in the short- and medium-term rather than to find a long-term solution to militancy. But for a government elected for five years, why put so much on the line for a few weeks or months of relative quiet? The government would like to cast its efforts on the dialogue front as determination, but to many analysts and observers of militancy is looks like desperation. Dialogue can always be brought back on the agenda -- once the hard boyz are under enough pressure to see no alternative other than to push for some kind of deal themselves.
Yet, if the government's approach is flawed, the military's piecemeal, ad hoc retaliation framework makes even less sense. The best that can be said about retaliation is that it raises the costs on the hard boyz when they attack the security forces, but, from a national perspective, that just encourages the hard boyz to hit soft, civilian targets. And that of course would further undermine the government's push for dialogue. Unhappily, neither the government nor the military appears willing to genuinely resolve the contradictions in the approach to tamp militancy down nationally.
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[PJMEDIA] We all know the Mohammedan world is a political and cultural disaster zone.
All you need to know is the spectacularly low level of book sales in the Arab world, and a similarly miserable record in winning Nobel prizes, whether in literature or hard science. A dozen years ago, a group of Arab scholars did a report for the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... that ascribed the failure of Arab society to a lack of freedom, knowledge and womenpower. And things have gotten considerably worse since 2002; the authors could write that there were no ethnic conflicts then. That's long gone.
Never mind a failed state; we're talking about a failed civilization, even in the most culturally advanced Mohammedan domain, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran. The root of their failure is the War Against Fun. They're not only failures, but grim, humorless failures. This is the miserable common denominator of the Mohammedan world. As Jonathan Schanzer recently tweeted, "Saudi blocks Youtube. Iran blocks Instagram. We knew they could eventually find common ground."
They know it themselves, and talk about it a lot. Several writers in the Saudi press, for example, unloaded on the ban on celebrating Valentine's Day, as here:
[The answer] to most of our daily needs comes from the West, from the Christian world, of [the culture] we created in previous eras only a pittance remains... the prohibition on Valentine's Day bears no relation to faith or belief, but [only] to desert thinking that lacks subtlety, targets women specifically and prevents a social encounter between men and women and normal life as in other societies. The guardians of values and customs went overboard in pressuring our society...it has become desiccated and coarse and adopted the thinking and behavior of the desert..
Or in this tirade, quoted in the same article linked above:
What grabs attention is that those who ban imitating the West on Valentine's Day see nothing amiss in imitating the West in other ways, and are completely immersed in [Western] consumer culture and in devouring new Western products...
They know we're better. Some of them, seemingly more with the passage of time, are desperate and brave enough to risk life and limb to fight back on behalf of fun.
The War Against Fun is deadly because it stultifies and suffocates creative enterprise. If the regime wins, and fun is killed, it would mark the death of playfulness, which is the heart of creativity. The Iranians are (falsely, I think) credited with the invention of chess, but there are no brilliant Persian chess grandmasters nowadays. Iranian humor is nasty, misogynistic and often sadistic, like the unhappy country's ruling tyrants.
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...and a similarly miserable record in winning Nobel prizes, whether in literature or hard science.
I think the word the author was looking for is 'shutout'.
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There was also the Pakistani physicist, Md. Abdus Salam, who shared the prize in 1979, but he was Ahmaddi and therefore became unmentionable. Besides, he left Pakistan in 1974, when his faith was declared by law un-Islamic.
Some counties have dictators, tyrants and kings. America has victims in high office. Victims with vast powers and great wealth who despite all that are oppressed by the people they rule.
Noemie Emery, Weekly Standard:
They had a dream. For almost a hundred years now, the famed academic-artistic-and-punditry industrial complex has dreamed of a government run by their kind of people, whose intelligence, wit, and refined sensibilities would bring us a heaven on earth. Their keen intellects would cut through the clutter as mere mortals couldn't. They would lift up the wretched, oppressed by cruel forces. Above all, they would counter the greed of the merchants, the limited views of the business community, and the ignorance of the conformist and dim middle class.
Out of sorts and out of office after 1828, when power passed from the Adamses to the children of burghers and immigrants, they had begun to strike back by the 1920s. Their stock in trade was their belief in themselves, and their contempt for the way the middle class thought, lived, and made and spent money: Commerce was crude, consumption was vulgar, and industry, which employed millions and improved the lives of many more people, too gross and/or grubby for words.
Attitudinal rather than doctrinaire in their judgments, they leaned Democratic because of their loathing of business, but they judged people largely by mores and manners, and men in both parties would earn their contempt. Truman was a businessman whose small men's-wear store had gone bankrupt, and for this Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a solon whose influence would span half a century, called him "a man of mediocre and limited capacity." Schlesinger, who also complained about the "Eisenhower trance" and described the race between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter as "Babbitt vs. Elmer Gantry," would find his true soulmate in Adlai E. Stevenson, a fellow snob and two-time loser in the race for the White House. Schlesinger famously fell for John Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt, less for their politics than for their personal glamour and aura of privilege, which set them apart from the multitude. But even those two, and their successors, fell short. Bill Clinton was a wonk but also a Bubba, who never completely outgrew the Hot Springs experience. All three had middlebrow tastes when it came to the culture, sympathized with the middle class, and tried to promote and not stifle prosperity and upward mobility. And thus the elites had to wait for the man of their dreams.
When they found him, he was a rare breed: a genuine African American (his father was Kenyan) who thought and talked like the academics on both sides of his family, a product of the faculty lounge who dabbled in urban/race politics, a man who could speak to both ends of the liberals' up-and-down coalition, and a would-be transformer of our public life whose quiet voice and low-key demeanor conveyed "moderation" in all that he spoke and did. Best of all, he was the person whom the two branches of the liberal kingdomâthe academics and journalistsâwanted to be, a man who shared their sensibilities and their views of the good and the beautiful. This was the chance of a lifetime to shape the world to their measure. He and they were the ones they were waiting for, and with him, they longed for transcendent achievements.
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One could say also that for the better part of the past century intellectual liberals had been attempting to prove they had superior judgment, and that hadnt gone too well, either.
Obama proved that they wern't, again.
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Recently, I read a local piece about Senator Estes Keafauver(D). Keafauver was always viewed, by the elitists who were a part of Camelot, as an unglamorous outsider, a country bumpkin who just fell off the turnip truck.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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