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We shrugged and walked away when Affirmative Action hiring became the norm. We shrugged and walked away when promotions were driven by Affirmative Action criteria. We shrugged and walked away when college admissions fell under the unspoken Affirmative Action mantel of approval. We shrugged and moved away when unchecked neighborhood crime and the gerrymandering of congressional districts permitted intellectual giants such as Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, and Sheila Jackson Lee to enter congress and sow the seeds of division and hate and entitlement within their own racist caucus.
[Jpost] Israel has been forced to cope with waves of terrorism of various types and intensities since its founding and to this day. These waves of terrorism are carried out by various terrorist organizations (Paleostinian and Shi'ite) in various arenas (internal, along the borders, overseas) and using various methods (suicide kabooms, bombs, kidnappings and negotiations, shootings and more).
In the decade since the end of the second Intifada, and since the death of Yasser Arafat and his replacement by Abu Mazen, there has been a significant lull in the number of terrorist attacks on Israeli soil, the wave of suicide attacks has subsided and the number casualties from terrorist attacks has diminished. On the other hand, there has been a significant increase in the scope of the threat of high trajectory fire from terrorist organizations in the northern arena (Leb) and the southern arena (the Gazoo Strip and Sinai peninsula).
There have been several developments in recent years that have had a direct impact on the scope and nature of terrorism today and in the immediate future. The first development is reflected in the tectonic changes that have taken place in Arab countries in recent years, known as the "Arab Spring." The most important changes being reflected in the revolutions taking place in the countries bordering Israel as well as in those in the second and third cycle.
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#1 A few years ago a car sticker "have Arabs, have terrorism" appeared on a lot of cars in Israel. It was, of course, outlawed as racist.
Somehow, the deleterious effects of political correctness, the tool the left loves to use to squelch debate, needs to be weakened to defend a country. Looks like Israel as well as the U.S. suffers from this.
Catherine Herridge, came out with a book in 2011 entitled "The Next Wave." In it, she makes a case for the growing internal terrorist threat of home-grown jihadists. Both Israel and the U.S. needs to address this threat. Israel, through necessity, has addressed this to the extent they seem to have minimized suicide boomer threats. Maybe the U.S. not so much because of PC and a huge bureaucracy that hamstrings effectiveness.
Another aspect, of recent in the U.S. is the lack of transparency and trust that has been growing in the U.S. during this administration and to some extent during the last administration. It creates a us (government) against them (citizens) mentality. You see some of this pushback occurring now.
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Any Federal agency that is weaponized against the American people should be defunded or done away with. A flat tax or some other simpler scheme would limit the amount of bureaucracy carry out such a tax law.
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#2 as the Instaprof would say - where's the graft in that?
The more money/resources people try to tax/steal from others the more those with money/resources spend on protecting it, which seem strangely to involve buying politicians who do the tax codes, thus the exponential growth in tax laws and regulations and power of the bureaucracy.
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The entire tax system is a payoff to two constituencies that give lots of money to both parties...tax lawyers and CPAs.
If you made the tax simple, you would put several hundred thousand of these parasites out of work. According to some articles I have read, and I may be wrong about the exact numbers though the magnitude is close, apparently tax preparation is a 10 billion dollar industry to the lawyers and accountants, assessing some dollar value to the time spent preparing individual returns, calculates out to be about the same amount.
Imagine $20 Billion to file income taxes? AND it produces nothing. Alan Greenspan said that any government program that cost money but produces nothing is purely inflationary.
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Really funny, but NSFW
I also get a right ripping good bloody chuckle from male-feminist bloggers online at such websites as Good Men Project and XY, safe places where male feminists share their stories of how to be men without being anything that being a man traditionally entails. You can find such self-gelding castrati in homemade YouTube videos and the painfully self-deballing video marvel "Dear Woman" of a few years back. You should read the whole thing.
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Great article and some truly spectacular comments. Best read I have had in a long while.
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Claiming to be a "Male lesb!an" probably will not going to fly either as a mating strategy. When I think of "feminist," I think of NOW. Many, maybe most, of these feminists aren't that fond of men.
As I recall, the YAF used to pass out popcorn to Lefty students engaging in "hunger strikes" ("Oooh! I skipped my Snicker bar this afternoon in support of [insert cause here].")
Wonder if something of like intent could be accomplished at NOW, etc. confabs?
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I doubt if any woman worth waking up next to is going to hate men and be a rabid feminist.
Some of the crap in the media about feminism these days makes me think of "The World According to Garp" which was a huge slam of the feminist movement and probably more predictive of its evolution than anyone thought at the time.
A good woman demands two things:
Respect
And a man that is a MAN.
Don't forget the ten manly arts:
Change a diaper
Mow a yard
Change the oil on a car
Cook
Shoot a pistol
Bait a hook with a worm
Wash dishes
Do laundry
Iron a shirt
House break a puppy
That may sound whipped but a man that can do all that does not marry because he wants a surrogate mommy. He can care for his family, defend his family and not live like a slob in the basement of his parents' home.
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