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Afghanistan
Ali Gilani’s rescue
[DAWN] SELDOM is the outcome of a counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan of such direct significance to those on this side of the border. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
a joint Afghan-US raid on Tuesday in Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province led to Pakistain’s most high-profile kidnap victim, Ali Gilani, being rescued after three years in captivity.

The son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ...
had been kidnapped by gunnies from an election rally in Multan on May 9, 2013, in an attack that killed his secretary and bodyguard.

According to US officials, the commando raid on Tuesday targeted an Al Qaeda compound in response to intelligence about terrorist activity in the area.

It seems that seven officials of the Fata Development Authority, who had recently been kidnapped from South Wazoo, were also recovered in the same operation. Indications are that the captives were being held by an Al Qaeda-affiliated group, possibly the Pak Taliban.

As in the case of Shahbaz Taseer, who was recovered two months ago from Kuchlak in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
after four and a half years of being kidnapped, Ali Gilani’s safe return to his family has sparked much jubilation in the country.

As in the earlier instance, details about his captivity or rescue may never come to light. For instance, it is still unclear whether the US-Afghan forces had any idea they were on a rescue mission or whether they stumbled upon the captives in a stroke of good fortune; or for that matter, whether intelligence originating from Pakistain played any role at all in the operation.

Regardless of the fine print, the happy outcome has generated a fair amount of goodwill all around and could offer an opportunity to improve bilateral ties and cooperation between the countries’ security forces.
Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Bangladesh
Bangladesh execution
[DAWN] WITH Wednesday’s hanging of Motiur Rahman Nizami
...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them...
, the number of prominent opposition leaders executed in Bangladesh has risen to five, four of them belonging to the Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
and the fifth one to the main opposition Bangladesh National Party headed by former prime minister the loathesome Khaleda Zia
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Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Home Front: Politix
Spengler breaks silence.
h/t Instapundit
A fit of high dudgeon has gripped many of my Republican friends, ex-friends, and soon-to-be-ex-friends now that Donald Trump has all but won the Republican nomination. My advice to them: get over it. This presidential race will look like Alien vs. Predator. I'm for Predator, without a second's hesitation, because he's our Predator. For all his faults Donald Trump would be (and I'm confident will be) an incomparably better president.

I'm not pleased about the outcome of the primaries. I supported Ted Cruz and helped out in his campaign with economic research and news analysis. Yes, Trump is a vulgarian with poor impulse control. I don't like him and find his vulgarity objectionable and his insulting remarks about Mexicans (for example) deplorable. The mother of my children is Mexican, and I take this sort of thing personally. If I ever have the opportunity I will give Trump a black eye.

But there's a war on--three different wars, in fact. To remain neutral is moral cowardice; to choose the wrong side would be downright wicked.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2016 12:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I've met him and his wife. Both are interesting and quite nice people.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/12/2016 12:29 Comments || Top||

#2  He's pretty much spot-on with this:

Russia is the last redoubt of the nasty old European nationalism that gave us so much conflict in the past. It is not a revived Soviet empire seeking to conquer the world, but a come-from-behind spoiler, burning with resentment at its would-be relegation to the scrapheap of former great powers.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/12/2016 13:08 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm not so sure about that scrapheap.

It seems that there's quite a bit of recycling going on in the former world power game. Think Persia, Turkey, Russia, China.. All former big time players in the world looking to be reborn.

The only two on the scrap heap for sure are the UK and Rome.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/12/2016 15:15 Comments || Top||

#4  US headed to scrap heap the same way Rome did. Rotting from the inside, discarding what made the US powerful. Strong individualism. US is becoming collectivist by socialism Bernie progressivism Clinton/Trump or by populism Trump
Posted by: Phaque Glish8284 || 05/12/2016 22:35 Comments || Top||


Five Reasons My Fellow Republicans Should Vote for Hillary Clinton
[BLOGS.WSJ] Andrew Weinstein is CEO of Ridgeback Communications. He was director of media relations for the Dole/Kemp presidential campaign and was deputy press secretary to then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
He was responsible for dumbass ideas, I guess.
Last week John Feehery, a former colleague of mine in the House leadership staff, offered five reasons that he supports Donald Trump and thinks that other Republicans should too. Here, in response, are five reasons Republicans should consider voting for Hillary Clinton.

1. We are Americans first and foremost, not Republicans. Voting for Mr. Trump as a duty of party membership misunderstands the proper role of a political party. Parties exist to represent the interests of their members, not to issue diktats on how to vote, particularly over a candidate anathema to the members’ core beliefs.
Depends on your core beliefs. If it's your core belief that you've voted for "conservative" house and senate candidates for years and watched them cave to the Party of Plunder, then you don't want to do it again because you're tired of being lied to.
A vote is a decision of individual conscience. A vote for president should be determined by judgment of a candidate’s emotional, intellectual, and professional fitness to hold the nation’s highest office. Questions have been raised about Mrs. Clinton’s character and actions, but she has proven herself qualified on all three of these points.
I'd say she's been proven undesirable on each point. Emotionally she's been an enabler of her husband in his serial sexual conquests. Intellectually she's espoused virtually every cause "conservatives" claim to be against: gun control, abortion, you name it. She is the antithesis of a conservative. Professionally? As Secretary of State she was a disaster. As senator from New York she was a chair warmer. In many ways, being a Republican consists of not being a Democrat: the Party of Lincoln as opposed to the Party of Boss Tweed.
2. Donald Trump is neither a conservative nor a Republican. Look at the policy records of Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump, ​and ​you’d be hard-pressed to tell who is the Republican.
But it's easy enough to tell which one's the politician.
Mr. Trump has supported a range of liberal Democratic positions, and he has not adequately explained his reversal on his long-standing positions on universal health care and Second Amendment rights, nor his shifts on abortion. Now that his primary rivals are gone, Mr. Trump’s conservatism-of-convenience is being replaced by more liberal stances on potential tax increases and a minimum-wage hike.
It's the chance we take against the certainty of what we'd get. Devil? Deep blue sea? The writer suggests going with the devil we're familiar with.
3. Presidential respect for the Constitution is critical. Throughout this campaign, Mr. Trump has shown ignorance of and disregard for our nation’s Charters of Freedom. He has questioned the media’s First Amendment rights, claimed power to order the military to break the law, asserted a presidential prerogative to expand the death penalty through executive order, and proposed targeting religious minorities and birthright citizens through databases and deportation, respectively. To “preserve, protect and defend” our Constitution, a president must also understand it.
And to elect a better constitutional course he suggests Hillary Clinton? I'll stick with Trump on the off chance he's got Newt Gingrich as part of his cabinet.
4. There is no viable third option. Politics is the art of the possible, and the possibilities in this contest are Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Trump. This year’s primaries have been dominated by a “Fight Club” electorate, voters who want to blow up the system rather than work within it, but experience matters in a chief executive.
Trump has way more actual executive experience than the Lady of Chappaqua.
As distasteful as a President Hillary Clinton would be to many, the republic will survive four more years with a liberal in the White House, particularly if that liberal president is blocked by a GOP House and Senate filibuster. Mr. Trump, however, is a threat on a different order of magnitude.
The GOP house blockage and senate filibusters haven't appeared over the past eight years. Suddenly they're going to appear like magick with the election of Hillary Clinton with the support of Publican turncoats? I have grave doubts.
5. The best way to save the GOP is a Clinton victory. A Trump win could create an institutional bond between the GOP and the racist demagoguery and proposals Mr. Trump has espoused while simultaneously abandoning the party’s positive messages of inclusion, growth, prosperity, and individual liberty.
That's taking the Dem position that Trump's a racist. He wasn't one before the campaign started. I suspect strongly that he won't be after the election, regardless of which way it goes. The Wonder Bread Mitt Romney was painted as a racist. McCain was painted as a racist lunatic. Bush was painted as a racist incompetent. It's all racist, all the time. Doesn't it ever get old?
​If Republicans rally behind Mr. Trump, the White House is likely to be lost for a generation.
If Trump wins, the party's changed for good -- with a dose of Whiggery added to the mix of conservative and libertarian that are the dominant streams, of which I'd put Trump in the libertarian stream.
Voting for Mrs. Clinton, however, would signal that Republicans will not sacrifice the soul of their party on the altar of an angry authoritarian.
It would usher in four to eight more years of the same poopslide we've been enduring.
A one-time vote for Mrs. Clinton is not an endorsement of her as a person or politician.
Then what is it?
It is a statement that she is the lesser of two evils in a contest in which her opponent threatens the Republican Party and the country.
Some of us regard her as much the greater of two evils.
Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The greatest evil in his world is losing access and perceived power. Exactly why Trump and Sanders are such a shock.
Posted by: Jort Wittlesbach4106 || 05/12/2016 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  This year’s primaries have been dominated by a “Fight Club” electorate, voters who want to blow up the system rather than work within it, but experience matters in a chief executive.

-For more than half of Americans, the current wink-wink agreement between the two parties isn't working, Mr. Weinstein and his political fellow travelers show no sign of helping to fix this (and in fact seem to be profiting handsomely and resistant to changing things), and we have been lied to too many times about commitment to resist inroads from the left.

-The Blue State model is dead. All Democrats are attempting to keep it alive as a zombie because it keeps them in food and shelter and status. The few Republicans who are also doing the same are people like Weinstein. Scratch a #neverTrumper and you'll find - 100% of the time - someone who doesn't give a damn about gun rights and who makes their living either in the government, media, education, or entertainment.

At one time Republicans like him were pro-business. Now they are only pro-BIG business. The rest of us can go to hell, or go work for the other half of the Blue State model, big government. Get it through your head, Mr. Weinstein - your life may have only been inconvenienced by Obama, and will only be inconvenienced by Clinton, but mine has been savaged. Get out of the city more often and see what has happened to your fellow Americans in the heartland.

If you want to see what Weinstein wants in a "leader", look at Gov. Charlie Baker in MA, a fussy bureaucrat with no intention of shrinking the size of government, no intention of rolling back the regulatory leviathan, and who, like Weinstein, doesn't want government shrunk to a size in line with what the founders want. Rather, he agrees with this existence of every alphabet agency clown farm the Democrats ever created, and thinks that "republican" just means someone who can run those clown farms slightly better than Democrats do.

The WWII peace dividend and dirt cheap energy are forty years dead. The socio-economic system that could exist with those conditions is a stinking corpse that Democrats and Republicans like Weinstein think they can keep alive forever.

We are at one of those crossroads in history where things MUST change. The push towards centralization over the past ninety years represents the pendulum swinging all the way in one direction. It must go the other way now or we will die as a nation. If Weinstein can explain to me how Hillary Clinton - along with her two or three SCOTUS appointments who will certainly prevent any reform of the government work force or public pensions and will certainly disarm citizens and will push for centralization as hard if not harder than Obama did and will certainly use regulatory agencies to harm any industry that doesn't give campaign donations to Democrats - will absolutely be better than Trump or anyone else, I'm all ears.

"Fight Club" is appropriate. Those who can't see it are the ones out of touch. Most of us don't work for a "communications company". whatever the hell that is. If you can't understand why people would vote for Trump, or Cruz, or a seasick flounder, before they would vote for Hillary Clinton, you need to do a lot more communication.
Posted by: no mo uro || 05/12/2016 6:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Air is rare at his lofty level of self importance. Fight club? The contract between the citizenry and their government starts with "We the people..".
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 05/12/2016 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm voting for the seasick flounder, myself.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/12/2016 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Distasteful as it may be, you must prefer the pirate.

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/03/preferring-pirate/
Posted by: Capsu78 || 05/12/2016 10:20 Comments || Top||

#6  In other news, Donald Trump has demoted his proposed Muslim immigration ban to a mere “suggestion.”
Posted by: Iblis || 05/12/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  And here's the sixth.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2016 12:02 Comments || Top||

#8  What's that old saying the Devil you Know vs the Devil you don't. Well what if the Devil you know is so foul the other option looks significantly better by comparison.

That is this election.

Interesting this guy worked for Newt who is in the Trump camp. Guy has no loyalties or more likely stand for nothing.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/12/2016 15:25 Comments || Top||

#9  I'll go with "stands for nothing more than himself and an uninterrupted gravy train". Rice bowl protectionist.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 05/12/2016 15:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Behind door number 1 there is the most hideous Gorgon ever seen in Greek mythology.

Behind door number 2 is an unknown that probably isn't great.

Which door do you choose?
I'm with rjs, number 2 can't possibly be worse and is probably better.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/12/2016 18:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Dole/Kemp presidetial campaignn

This should automatically rule out any opinions he has on Presidential Races. Or Political Races. Maybe Foot-Races to out run the tomato's thrown at him.
Posted by: Charles || 05/12/2016 21:42 Comments || Top||

#12  I hate Trump - I think he is on so many things wrong, and not intellectually or morally fit for the office. These points are a must for any true conservative, pro-life, small government constitutionalist. But Vote for Hillary? No. HELL NO. This is something that would only unprincipled people do. When thinking conservative refuse voting Trump, then why the hell would you agree to voting someone probably worse, or just as bad?
Posted by: Omeaper Omerong8897 || 05/12/2016 22:25 Comments || Top||

#13  Mr Robot anybody?

Young, anti-social computer programmer Elliot works as a cybersecurity engineer during the day, but at night he is a vigilante hacker. He is recruited by the mysterious leader of an underground group of hackers to join their organization. Elliot's task? Help bring down corporate America, including the company he is paid to protect, which presents him with a moral dilemma. Although he works for a corporation, his personal beliefs make it hard to resist the urge to take down the heads of multinational companies that he believes are running -- and ruining -- the world.


Link to Mr Robot shows
Posted by: 3dc || 05/12/2016 22:55 Comments || Top||

#14  of course they could just vote for Mr Robot:
Fsociety among 2015 presidential candidates
Following the 2016 presidential election has been unavoidable this campaign season. But for fans of Mr. Robot, the race may have just gotten a little more interesting.

According to USA Today, fsociety has been entered into the race, against other new “candidates” including Darth Vader, Yoda, and Bye Felicia. A comprehensive list of who has filed statements of candidacy is on the Federal Election Commission website.

After watching Mr. Robot’s first season, we’re pretty sure that putting a stop to corporate greed would be at the center of fsociety’s campaign strategy. Are you ready to join the fsociety revolution?
Posted by: 3dc || 05/12/2016 23:02 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Military court sentences
[DAWN] THREE more individuals sentenced to death by military courts have had their sentences stayed by the Supreme Court while the appeals are to be heard.

The convicts and their families have raised a disturbingly familiar set of objections: the accused were not allowed to pick their own lawyers at the trial stage; the defence was not allowed access to the state’s evidence against them; and the families only learned of the sentences via blurbs.

The latest appeals add to the dozen cases already before the Supreme Court, and for now, there is no indication which way the court is leaning -- the stay of execution does not suggest innocence in the eyes of the court, merely that the sentence is irreversible and therefore the appeals process must be completed first.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Will Pakistanis celebrating Sadiq Khan vote for a non-Muslim mayor?
[DAWN] Sadiq Khan’s election as Mayor of London has sent Paks into a celebratory mode but amidst the bonhomie, some questions have emerged.

Many on social media have pointed out the rarity of such an event happening here in Pakistain, causing seemingly-emancipated people to go a delicate shade of mottled purple; the contention being that people from humble backgrounds are also making it big in politics in the motherland so there is nothing special about London voting in a Muslim Mayor.

People here who have come from similar working class origins and reached the pinnacle of political success have usually left a corruption-ridden trail.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Home Front: Culture Wars
Political Correctness Is War By Other Means
h/t Instapundit
Our ruling class's forceful exaltation of the persons, proclivities, and symbols by which it defines itself, along with its pretense that its preferences trump reality, defeat themselves by their absurdity. That absurdity stems from its members' conceit about who they are.

...There is a sense in which the ruling icons of political correctness--lesser Americans are racist, sexist, religiously bigoted, and infested by pathologies for which they must make amends--are petty partisanship meant to squeeze the last drops of voter participation out of the Democratic Party's habitual constituencies. But our Progressive rulers' partisanship is more. It is identity politics waged as war.

...We may also remember 2016 as the year in which Progressives dropped pretenses about asserting the rise of their class as world history's main event, that all concerning the clash of empires and civilizations must be judged by its relevance to themselves.

...Why also, for example, do our rulers force schoolchildren to recite Islam’s act of submission, order male soldiers to walk around in pink high heels and wear simulated female breasts; why do they lecture others on how ashamed they should be of their "white privilege"; why do they proscribe common words and prescribe others in their stead, etc. ad nauseam?

Surely these impositions are not attempts to turn inferiors into equals by persuading them. Progressives view those outside their class not as fellow citizens who are capable of being persuaded into equality with them, but rather as a herd to be prodded into alienation from their irremediably flawed natures and affections. But why do that? To what end?

The answer is one of mankind’s oldest stories. Confessing other people’s sins (real or imagined) and inflicting punishment on them has ever been human beings’ preferred path to feeling good about themselves. The more fault I find and the more penance I impose on thee, the holier I am than thou. The worse you are, the better I am and the more power I should have over you.

Because feeling better about one’s self by denigrating and punishing others is an addictive pleasure the appetite for which grows with each satisfaction, victories can never satiate those who wage identity politics as war. The insatiability of their need to bolster self-esteem at others’ expense is the reason why our rulers must trump every imposition with another, without end.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2016 12:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The addiction / compulsion to always build oneself up at the expense of denigrating & punishing others has been described by the term 'megalothymia'. Lots of that going around.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/12/2016 22:25 Comments || Top||


White House's Susan Rice: U.S. national security agencies are too white
[Wash Times] In a White House often accused of being stacked with loyalists, President Obama’s national security adviser said Wednesday there are too many white people in key government posts, endangering national security because they think alike.

Speaking at Florida International University’s commencement, Susan E. Rice, who is black, said a diversified government workforce is more likely to yield "better outcomes" than a predominantly white one.

Referring to criticism that the U.S. national security workforce is "white, male and Yale," Ms. Rice told the graduates, "In the halls of power, in the faces of our national security leaders, America is still not fully reflected."

"By now, we should all know the dangers of ’groupthink,’ where folks who are alike often think alike," she said. "By contrast, groups comprised of different people tend to question one another’s assumptions, draw on divergent perspectives and experiences, and yield better outcomes."

Her comments were reminiscent of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said in a speech in 2001, before Mr. Obama appointed her to the high court, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life."

Ms. Rice elaborated in her speech on how having more minorities in the national security field would better protect the homeland.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2016 00:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ms. Rice elaborated in her speech on how having more minorities in the national security field would better protect the homeland.

Oh yeah, like you've been doing such a bang-up job on that front yourself, honey - your own performance these past couple of years is a convincing refutation of your own argument. Now fuck off.
Posted by: Raj || 05/12/2016 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Can anyone spewing this shit just be shot as their stupidity is a danger to themselves and others?

Please?
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/12/2016 0:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Susan E. Rice, who is black, said a diversified government workforce is more likely to yield “better outcomes” than a predominantly white one.

Is there any example of this happening at any time or instance?
Posted by: Penguin of the Desert || 05/12/2016 0:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Absolutely impeccable credentials.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2016 1:07 Comments || Top||

#5  YOU, all of YOU in this administration should be thrown in prison.

Not a one of you are worth a shit.

Gallows were made for useless people that abused power like you.

Do you have any idea how many people have died just because you stupid useless assholes breathed and took the place of professionals?

No. And you do not care. But GOD Does and that is all that will matter in the end.

You need to quietly close up shop and find a place to quietly die. Period.
Keep spouting off and I will have to say a bad prayer and you don't want that.
Posted by: newc || 05/12/2016 1:19 Comments || Top||

#6  We tried Affirmative Action Government and ended up with Obama, the worse president in history and, of course, Mrs. Rice herself - the liar of Benghazi.

No thanks. Let's go with merit.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/12/2016 1:45 Comments || Top||

#7  "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life."

Would that involve teaching me how to make better tacos?
Posted by: Raj || 05/12/2016 1:58 Comments || Top||

#8  She was implying that Colin Powell and Condie Rice performed better than the current self aggrandizing do nothing for anyone push overs. Withdraw & activate Iran is not a difficult policy to execute but it failed. States have interests unfortunately and peace is not at hand in Syris nor anywhere. What were the achievements? Her memoirs are unlikely to sell here nor even Europe. That will be the only downside. Harvard or Princeton appointments are in the wings. Why? Well FP is improved when diverse voices are heard? Really?
Posted by: Phomonter Bumble1518 || 05/12/2016 2:13 Comments || Top||

#9  I guess the story of a pitcher which went to the well too often is not a part of US schools curriculum.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2016 3:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Considering that 95% of African Americans vote straight democrat I think the common thinking and race stereotype is more of an issue for people like Susan Rice..
Posted by: Airandee || 05/12/2016 6:33 Comments || Top||

#11  In 1995-6 Rice was in a position to capture Bin Laden. She passed on the deal. Since then, the Democrats have continued to reward her despite her all too obvious mediocrity.
Posted by: Dino Borgia3058 || 05/12/2016 8:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Sometimes people just can't help revealing themselves. You would think they should know better but they just can't help it.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/12/2016 11:58 Comments || Top||

#13  I guess the story of a pitcher which went to the well too often is not a part of US schools curriculum.

That's pretty obscure. Baseball fan?
Posted by: Shipman || 05/12/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

#14  Is she suggesting: (1) whites got jobs over more qualified black candidates and that must change (2) that the government should hire extra black candidates despite the need to increase the numbers? (3) Or that we should have less qualified people in jobs as long as the colors are in the correct proportion.

I suspect 3 but I'd love to see someone ask her to sort hat out. I'd also like to see stats on "a diversified government workforce is more likely to yield "better outcomes" than a predominantly white one." which is a liberal truism but I'm not sure it is supported by data.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/12/2016 15:29 Comments || Top||

#15  I seem to recall that the demographic breakdown of the federal workforce is already disproportionately minority represented. Doesn't that give lie to her silly presumption?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/12/2016 16:34 Comments || Top||

#16  Since then, the Democrats have continued to reward her despite her all too obvious mediocrity.

You're mistaken. Democrats reward her because of her mediocrity.
Posted by: One Eyed Big Foot1131 || 05/12/2016 17:12 Comments || Top||

#17  Problem is not "white male, yale". White does not matter, love of country does matter and non white families do not value patriotism as widely as white ones do, simple fact. Male because that is who has the most experience in combat and command, females do not. Problem is not white not male, problem is YALE. Elitists. Put state university in there.
Posted by: Pearl Jones3061 || 05/12/2016 22:30 Comments || Top||



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