[Victory Girls] When did we become a nation of perpetually offended? It seems barely a week goes by without someone claiming a new form of micro-aggression. I can usually laugh it off. After all, if I don’t, I’ll become macro-aggressed and that’s not a good thing. Unfortunately, this morning I saw an article on The Daily Caller that not only had me shaking my head but wondering what in the world they are teaching in schools today. It seems two professors claim to have discovered a new form of micro-aggression. Nothing surprising there. Their sample base to support this so-called discovery is. They interviewed ‐ wait for it ‐ 13 non-white women at five different campuses and from this small group discovered "invisibility microaggressions", of which there are five different forms. My first reaction was to wonder if a microaggression from this small a group was a micro-microaggression. Then I wondered if it was all a joke. But no. There is a professional paper written about it. C’mon, give me a break.
So, what is a microaggression, other than the current buzz word of the socially enlightened?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] No one underestimates what Kim Jong-Un says anymore. Almost everything he threatened of happened. The North Korean regime’s most recent move was the nuclear test which angered the US. A ballistic missile had also frightened Japan after it fell in its waters. North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-Un can destroy the neighboring city of Seoul in one day or kill a million or more Japanese people or fire a destructive nuclear head on an American base.
The world confronts a real nuclear threat for the first time since the Cold War. American President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... warned that all options are on the table ‐ which usually signifies threats to resort to military power. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... a war with this mad man will not be a walk in the park. The difference between Kim Jong-Un and other leaders who possess nuclear weapons is that he’s mad enough to commit any crime without blinking. He killed his paternal aunt’s husband then went to eat dinner at her house. He also assassinated the ministers of defense and education.
It’s because of him that Japan decided to end its policy of not attaining offensive weapons ‐ a policy that Japan has adopted since its defeat and surrender in World War II. The Japanese are finally convinced that the world is no longer safe and that they must bear the responsibility of protecting themselves.
The enemy
Washington has viewed North Korea as an enemy that has threatened its allies in that part of the world since the days of Kim II-sung. The US only settled with adopting a blockade policy against it. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... this policy did not prevent Pyongyang from developing its military capabilities which now threaten the US itself as well as the entire international community that is confused about how to confront Kim Jong-Un and whether it should confront him or please him. Submitting to the mad Korean leader’s demands will encourage other mad men across the world to adopt the same approach. For instance, there are similar leaders in Iran. Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... a military confrontation may cost millions of lives.
The world is thus anticipating developments especially that Washington has excessively made threats and said that it will not allow Pyongyang to possess nuclear weapons. The latter though has carried out six nuclear tests and developed its capabilities to transfer its nuclear weapons. It proved this in the test which flew beyond Japan, and it’s saying it’s about to finish developing a nuclear bomb.
We cannot separate North Korea’s crisis from the problem of dealing with our neighbor Iran which has good relations, including military and nuclear cooperation, with Kim Jong-Un’s regime.
The Iranian command aspires to be in a situation similar to North Korea’s. It aspires to be capable of developing its nuclear offensive capabilities in order to solidify its power inside Iran and subjugate the region. Iran expanded and it cannot continue to do so without a nuclear weapon that strengthens its gains. The verbal confrontation between Trump and Kim Jong-Un without decisively ending the problem may cause a bigger rebellion in which countries like Iran, and that are not possible to deter or besiege, are involved.
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We can thank Bill Clinton for North Korea and we can thank the empty suit for Iran.
Classic examples of naïve diplomacy or diplomacy at any cost, willing to believe a bad agreement beats no agreement at all or that enabling the enemy will have no consequences if they sign a treaty.
[Hurriyet Daily News] It all started with a news report two weeks ago. A half-famous, minor jet-set TV personality called Murat Basoglu was "caught" by paparazzi in a boat off the Aegean coast cavorting with a woman who is not his wife.
It was later understood that the women in the boat was actually his niece, Burcu Basoglu Kabadayi, who is also married. She admitted that they had spent nights together with her uncle, after which her husband and the wife of Basoglu opened divorce cases demanding compensation. A prosecutor has also opened an investigation accusing them of "inappropriate behavior in public."
The scandal has triggered a debate on "incest" in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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I wonder if the spouses requesting the divorces are cousins to their spouses, and maybe cousins themselves. :-/
[American Thinker] The DACA program being terminated by AG Sessions was a Federal program started by President Obama. The program was promoted as an administrative strategy to provide eligible youth relief from deportation. Since the entire issue has been clouded with political rhetoric it’s important to look at its legal and constitutional status.
The DACA program was started when on November 20, 2014 President Obama issued an Executive Order. It’s important to note that the US Constitution does not allow any president to set immigration policy. Since the DACA EO was directed to delay deportation of illegal immigrants it clearly falls under the authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and those Federal rules can only be passed by Congress. The Constitution clearly states in Article I Section 8 clause 3 that only the Congress shall have power "To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization." It further states that all legislative powers shall reside in Congress, which shall be composed of a House of Representatives and a Senate.
The power to establish any rules regarding immigration do not reside in the office of President and never have. So, at this point the question is moot: President Obama did not have any authority to issue a DACA order through any "executive action."
President Obama himself stated twenty-two times that he has no authority over issues of immigration. This then means he can’t unilaterally change any immigration laws. But President Obama’s entire presidency was an exercise in executive overreach, and several of the changes he made to immigration law were overturned by the Supreme Court.
"President Obama himself stated twenty-two times that he has no authority over issues of immigration. This then means he can’t unilaterally change any immigration laws. But President Obama’s entire presidency was an exercise in executive overreach, and several of the changes he made to immigration law were overturned by the Supreme Court."
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And by the actions of the congressional leaders, they like it this way.
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"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."
~ Lee
There’s a lot going on in the Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump/Russia investigation that all the highfalutin’ newspapers that cover politics are still trying to ignore.
Well, investors had better know this stuff before it bites them in the assets. So here goes.
Numerous reports coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week said that former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer Clinton for prosecution long before he even interviewed key witnesses, including Hillary.
Remember, the Republicans now control this committee. So bad news isn’t going to be stifled anymore.
Clinton, you probably remember, "lost" her private emails, which she’d been storing on a personal computer server. Comey chastised her harshly in a televised speech but then said there was a unanimous decision not to recommend prosecution.
Clinton’s emails, which were stolen by the Russians, have never been found. But as I’ve mentioned numerous times, the messages are still in the possession of the National Security Agency (NSA), which offered to give them to the FBI.
Comey turned down that offer, according to a source who has been very reliable.
I’ve also mentioned that Comey fibbed when he said his agents unanimously agreed that prosecution was unnecessary. In fact, my source says that FBI agents were irate about the decision not to go after Clinton.
The controversy got pretty intense, which may be why Comey forced agents who worked on the Clinton matter to sign additional nondisclosure agreements.
There was another important development last week when a federal judge ordered the FBI to disclose more details about how it handled the Clinton investigation. That could put Comey in a hotter spot than he’s already in.
What’s this got to do with the investigation of Trump and any influence the Russians may have had over the last presidential election? Absolutely nothing.
But as I’ve said before, any investigation of Trump was likely to backfire when investigators started to look at the Democrats and their dealings.
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Yeah..."Clinton's e-mails....stolen by the Russians, have never been found"? Huh? It's not like a stolen car ended up in a chop shop, never to be recovered.
This whole story/narrative is simply absurd...and both sides are broke.
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The Liberal-Academic-Media complex (LAMe) and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) always overplay their hand. Why? Because they know they can get away with it; they've got each other's backs to make sure there are no real consequences to their misinformation, disinformation, and malfeasance.
Or at least that used to be the case. With the election of Trump, they got their first serious brushback. The people stood up and spoke up and sent a very clear message: we know what you're doing and we're not going to take it sitting down any longer.
The tragedy here-- or comedy, depending on your point of view-- is that LAMe is so blinded or infatuated with themselves and their "superiority"-- you could also call it hubris-- they are incapable of recognizing or acknowledging the folly of their ways. Which can only mean one thing: They are doomed to exacerbate or repeat it.
If the early polling in the 2018 senate race in Arizona is any indication, this is already happening. And so long as Trump remains Trump, I predict it will continue through the 2018 midterms and beyond.
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What I've never understood is an email goes from the sender, through at least one server, to the recipient. Even if you can't find the email in the recipient's email files there are probably copies (and backups) in the other two locations if anyone cares to actually look.
Sauce for the gander...
[DailyMail] During a visit to Britain earlier this year, Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar — formerly known as Burma — was given a hero’s welcome. After being met by the Queen and Prince William at Buckingham Palace, she travelled to the Guildhall to be given the Freedom of the City of London.
And in so many ways, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 in recognition of her lifelong battle for freedom, deserves all the acclaim.
SNIP
Her government is complicit in the military-led persecution of Myanmar’s minority Muslim population (the country’s dominant religion is Buddhism) which is as ugly as anything carried out during the days of junta rule.
Huge numbers of Muslims have been subject to a systematic programme of rape, murder, starvation and intimidation that began last autumn.
Over the past several months, more than 120,000 have been driven from their homes following a campaign of violence. Hundreds have been killed, with one human rights charity publishing chilling eyewitness accounts of people being beheaded or even burned alive in bamboo cages by security services.
There are many reported cases of gang-rape, normally carried out by soldiers from the country’s powerful, self-ruling army in their easily recognisable green uniforms.
At least 70,000 have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh (where, sadly, they are treated almost as abominably).
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The Burmese aren't rich enough to play the globalist Kumbaya game. So, how about focusing on the Syrian Christians et al and how they as a minority were treated by ISIL? Where were you? Welcome to 4000 years of human history. The beautiful rainbow meets reality, particularly when you don't have the riches to blind yourself or buy indulgences or pay Danegeld.
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It's more ethnic than religious. It's common to see muslims go about their business in Myanmar. You can tell they are muslim by their distinctive dress.
But the media wants to dress it up as muslim persecution.
h/t Instapundit
It is not healthy for a society to live two lives that are antithetical, as America has been doing in recent decades.
Disillusionment with government and popular culture arises at anger over two entirely different realities. One truth is politically correct and voiced on the news and by the government. It is often abstract and theoretical. And the other truth is empirical, hushed and accepted informally by ordinary people from what they see and hear on the ground.
Public orthodoxy signals virtue, private heterodoxy ensures ostracism. So Americans increasingly make the necessary adjustments, modeling their lives in some part as those once did in totalitarian societies of the 20th century. The reality they live is the stuff of the shadows; the falsity they are told and repeat is public and amplified.
Cynicism and eventual anger at the schizophrenia are always the harvests of such bipolarity.
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Currently, one in three of all those hospitalized in California for any cause is found to suffer from diabetes, a frightening statistic, at least in part fueled by record numbers of those vulnerable within the burgeoning Hispanic resident population—who, for a variety of reasons, are especially susceptible to the disease.
Something to do with genetically related dietary changes? Perhaps we should not go there.
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Native Americans are also extremely susceptible to getting Type II DM as they age past 25 or so, and that limit seems to be falling. Go to a nearby powwow & check out the young people in powwow regalia who now resemble Michelin Tire Man. I did read of a single study of an isolated Mexican population, very thin & fit, little or no Type II DM there. This population is genetically close to both Hispanic & native American types. Researchers offered a subset of the village free food for several months, matched them to a subset who didn't get free food. The free food consisted of a typical US type diet, which was trucked in over bad roads. The free eaters health rapidly declined (just took a few weeks) as they rapidly gained weight, cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure all rose rapidly compared to controls. Matched set stayed healthy. Study terminated early. Of course, it got no publicity or notice.
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I have a native American friend, 73 yo lady with type II DM. She is not obese. She walks 5 miles a day, every day. She walked the 5 miles of the Mackinac Bridge on Monday in 74 minutes. Her Type II DM is fully under control, and her good outcome is extremely rare. It's possible, although very unlikely, for others to do this.
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As long as the USDA and all of those PETA sympathizers continue to advocate high carb, low fat, low protein diets (all the better to protect cows and chickens from mean old people that want to eat them) we are going to continue to have obesity and Type II diabetes.
High carb diets cause the formation of insulin and high blood sugar which is converted to fat.
Insulin is the enemy, continuous production of high levels of insulin to process carbs only leads to diabetes.
The government is killing us.
Cut out most carbs, eat more protein, put down the Gameboy and go for a walk.
[National Review] Were you planning to instruct your child about the value of hard work and civility? Not so fast! According to a current uproar at the University of Pennsylvania, advocacy of such bourgeois virtues is "hate speech." The controversy, sparked by an op-ed written by two law professors, illustrates the rapidly shrinking boundaries of acceptable thought on college campuses and the use of racial victimology to police those boundaries.
On August 9, University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax and University of San Diego law professor Larry Alexander published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer calling for a revival of the bourgeois values that characterized mid-century American life, including child-rearing within marriage, hard work, self-discipline on and off the job, and respect for authority. The late 1960s took aim at the bourgeois ethic, they say, encouraging an "antiauthoritarian, adolescent, wish-fulfillment ideal [of] sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll that was unworthy of, and unworkable for, a mature, prosperous adult society."
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Univ. of PA faculty never seem to have a problem with extracting tax money from the 'Bourgeois' to fund their parasitic existence. Like medieval lords, the working class and merchants exist to serve them. BTW, the lords and the academia believe by their majesty they're just helping the poor indolent souls to survive in this world.
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Instead of the conventional "bourgeois values," that characterized mid-century American life, including child-rearing within marriage, hard work, self-discipline on and off the job, and respect for authority we have the suppression of free-speech, lemming-like behavior and the march towards mediocrity --much better, huh?
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Name the triggering 'Bourgeois' activities and images found in the non-inclusive photo.
To start with, "Mom" is wielding a dangerous weapon, as easily poured on her "misbehaving" menfolk as in their cups. Clearly they are carefully avoiding looking at her lest they trigger her anger. Then, too, she controls their food completely -- they will eat what she chooses, when she chooses, and in the amounts she allows...
Need I go on?
;-) Oh please continue dear lady, we so enjoy your astute observations.
The levity can only just be starting.
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Notice the traditional table cloth, matching drapes and English nets. The father appears to be seated with his back to the corner in the 'overwatch' position where he can easily monitor the window, entrances, and the family.
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My Dad went to work in a coal mine when he was twelve years old, loading coal at a dollar a carload. He was 34 when he got drafted in WWII. He was still mining the coal. He had a jeep roll over on him at Saint Lo, breaking his back. When he got out, he couldn't work in the mines anymore, so my Granddaddy got him a job in a quarry.
We occasionally had to borrow money from church mice, but we still had dinner as a family every evening. My mother tried to teach us manners and respect for others. We went to church every Sunday. We were encouraged to finish school. We enjoyed being "bourgeois" even though we were very working class.
Somehow, I don't feel guilty about that.
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Hurricane Harvey has decimated the Gulf Coast, but the incredible tragedy has at least set the scene for some amazing moments.
Like this, the greatest image of any cat ever taken.
Look at this badass cat. Floods have decimated whole neighborhoods, including this kitty’s hunting grounds. Surrounded by water, there’s no way for Action Garfield to get things done without dealing with that cruel mistress of the briny deep. And so, Rambopuss grits his teeth, sets his ears back, and gets to work.
Seriously, cats are the thing I am the most allergic to in this world, but if this cat walked into my house I’d expect him to look me dead in the eye and say, “Deal with it. I swam through a hurricane and I am twice the man you are.”
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Victory Girls] When did we become a nation of perpetually offended? It seems barely a week goes by without someone claiming a new form of micro-aggression. I can usually laugh it off. After all, if I don’t, I’ll become macro-aggressed and that’s not a good thing. Unfortunately, this morning I saw an article on The Daily Caller that not only had me shaking my head but wondering what in the world they are teaching in schools today. It seems two professors claim to have discovered a new form of micro-aggression. Nothing surprising there. Their sample base to support this so-called discovery is. They interviewed ‐ wait for it ‐ 13 non-white women at five different campuses and from this small group discovered "invisibility microaggressions", of which there are five different forms. My first reaction was to wonder if a microaggression from this small a group was a micro-microaggression. Then I wondered if it was all a joke. But no. There is a professional paper written about it. C’mon, give me a break.
North Korea
[American Thinker] The DACA program being terminated by AG Sessions was a Federal program started by President Obama. The program was promoted as an administrative strategy to provide eligible youth relief from deportation. Since the entire issue has been clouded with political rhetoric it’s important to look at its legal and constitutional status.
