[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Lena Dunham has responded to the media backlash surrounding her account of having been sexually assaulted by a college classmate in her recent memoir, but also acknowledged that she didn't experience the level of 'victim blaming' that many other woman do, due to her celebrity status. Had it actually occurred, perhaps the "victim" could have been blamed.
During an appearance on the Today show Wednesday morning, the 28-year-old told Savannah Guthrie: 'It's a very, very painful thing to share an episode that personal and receive criticism, but what I received was only a small percentage of the doubt and victim blaming that most women who are sexually assaulted in this country experience. Got drunk, got high, got laid, accused somebody who didn't even know her, feels misunderstood. Got it.
'I am a celebrity with a platform and a lot of incredible support. Not to mention an incredible story.
Most women who come forward with accusations of sexual assault don't have those benefits, don't have my legal and emotional and financial supports. And so for me, I really feel that it enhanced my understanding of the cause and hopefully will make me a better advocate and activist in the future.' She really is an oblivious, odious, nasty piece of work.
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She has mixed victim and perp again. Lena, when you lie and make it appear as if someone did something you did not, you are not the victim. When you admit to pedophile manipulations of your sister, you are not the victim.
It's disgusting that Feminists have yet to call her out as the poser she is. She's the lefty version of the guy in a bar making wild claims to be a hero and a Navy Seal but there is nobody on the Left who cares to call her on it because of the greater truthiness.
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It's disgusting that Feminists have yet to call her out as the poser she is. She's the lefty version of the guy in a bar making wild claims to be a hero and a Navy Seal but there is nobody on the Left who cares to call her on it because of the greater truthiness.
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The dickens! A tale of two Barrys:
There's one she rapes, one whom she marries.
Her victim escaped her;
The Barry who raped her
She lauded for popping Girls' cherries.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Could the Sun be your lucky -- or unlucky -- star?
In an unusual study published Wednesday, Norwegian scientists said people born during periods of solar calm may live longer, as much as five years on average, than those who enter the world when the Sun is feisty.
The team overlaid demographic data of Norwegians born between 1676 and 1878 with observations of the Sun.
The lifespan of those born in periods of solar maximum -- interludes marked by powerful flares and geomagnetic storms -- was "5.2 years shorter" on average than those born during a solar minimum, they found.
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Stay outside exposed to that bright ball in the sky too long in the desert Southwest during summer and you'll have a shorter lifespan too.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Vast underground reserves of oil, gas and coal should be classified as off limits if the world stands any chance of averting dangerous climate change, a major study of global fossil-fuel deposits has found.
Scientists calculated that a third of global oil reserves, half of gas reserves and more than 80 per cent of coal reserves should remain in the ground as "unburnable" to avoid exceeding the 2C "safe" threshold for global warming.
The scale of the problem facing the climate negotiations in Paris later this year is writ large in the study by Christophe McGlade and Paul Ekins of University College London who have identified the critical fossils fuels and their locations that need to remain untouched and unexploited.
China, Russia and the United States will have to leave their huge deposits of coal -- the dirtiest of the three main fossil fuels -- underground, while the Middle East will need to agree to keep much of its wealth-creating oil and gas reserves where they are.
The scientists, however, will continue to burn lights and use their computers...
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Meanwhile, Antarctic sea ice sets a record for this time of year.
The mystery is why the albedo (cooling) feedback of more ice doesn't lock us into a Snowball Earth.
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Could use a little global warming this morning as the temp is +5F. Where my sister lives in Ohio, it is -6F. Other places are much colder. Are most of the GW econuts in southern California?
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It always was about the oil economy. They are just move obvious about their calls to action now that western oil is pumping the price down and putting the Arab/Russian axis in a bad position.
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UK scientists, eh? No more fossil fuel means no more electricity for that big-ass honking computer the Met just built. Unless you want to build nuke plants...
On the plus side, no more computers means no more insanely inaccurate forecasts or bad computer models.
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Please, they are not scientists. You cannot call yourself a scientist if you do not share your data, encourage others to test your findings and keep your damn politics out of what you are doing. When I wrote my thesis, my opinion was the tiniest portion of the paper. Everything else was the data, good bad or ugly.
Nah, these guys are just leeches and snake oil salesmen.
[EN.MERCOPRESS] Ladies in distress, particularly in summer time when going swimming is a ritual in Argentina: in effect because of the imports restrictions and lack of sufficient dollars, tampons are in short supply. They had been scarce all along the year but the situation peaked now that summer holidays have taken off. What level of technological advancement does it take to mass-produce tampons?... Oh. It's not the technology that's the problem.
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Med tip - Maxi pads and tampons can make an effective field expedient wound dressing.
[Ynet] German government websites including Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's page have been attacked, rendering them inaccessible at times since 10:00 AM (9:00 GMT), a front man said on Wednesday.
"Our service provider's data center is under a severe attack that has apparently been caused by a variety of external systems," Steffen Seibert told a government news conference.
No idea whodunnit so non-WOT until more evidence appears, but the timing is curious.
Sri Lankan authorities should take steps to ensure a violence-free and safe polling and refrain from deploying troops which may influence voter-turnout in the closely fought presidential election on Thursday, poll observers and a leading rights group said.
Now that the Sri Lankan government has made the country safe, they must be punished...
The People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL), Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) and Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) have called for measures to ensure voting is not deterred because of violence in targeted areas.
The groups said authorities should also ensure that there is no staging of incidents near counting centres or to influence counting agents.
They said polling agents should not be threatened or intimidated, and there should be no deployment of armed forces, unless called in by the Election Commissioner, on polling day as it may adversely impact voter turn-out and the integrity of the poll.
Political parties must refrain from using state or private media for its campaign until the polling day, they stressed.
Commenting on the election, London-based Amnesty International said the growing harassment and violence against those campaigning in the coming elections is deeply troubling.
It said the Sri Lankan authorities have a responsibility to ensure that everyone eligible to vote can exercise their rights without facing threats or violence.
An example of Liberal 'Science'. Anything goes as long as it supports the official narrative. See also Global Warming.
A book by a French economist who became a darling of 99 percenters and his lefty peers is riddled with errors, cherry-picked data and flawed premises, according to two new studies.
Thomas Piketty's “Capital in the 21st Century,” which New York Times columnist and Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman called “the most important economics book of the year — and maybe of the decade,” calls for an 80 percent income tax to stop wealth inequality from increasing. The book earned its author an invitation to the White House to meet with Obama administration Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
But it contains more than 10 factual errors, according to one new study accepted by the Journal of Private Enterprise and conducted by economists Phillip Magness of George Mason University and Robert P. Murphy of the Institute for Energy Research.
The authors write that they see a pattern in the errors.
That's been the conclusion of analysts since Mr. Picketty's book hit the shops. Google "Picketty errors" and note how many pop up in the popular and investment press. (The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times are all on the critical side, while the usual suspects defend. The interesting thing is that France just let their 75% tax on top incomes quietly die, as it caused a loss in tax revenue resulting from the emigration of top -- and second tier -- earners. Nice that the academic journals are getting in the game.
“He cherry-picks, the data sometimes don’t match the sources that he cites, and he changes the data to make the charts look better without accurately documenting it.”
- Kevin Hassett, American Enterprise Institute Sounds kind of like Globull worming doesn't it?
“[The errors] serve to paint ostensibly market-friendly Republican presidents as ogres, while liberal Democrats are the heroes of the working class,” they write.
They also conclude that, in building some of his charts, Piketty switched between data sets in a way that was biased in favor of his argument. In his graph on wealth in the U.S., for instance, Piketty relied on data from one study going up until 1950, then for 1960 he switched to another study, and then for 1970 he went back to relying on the first study again.
Asked about the above issues, Piketty told FoxNews.com that there may be some typos in the book but said he did not think they affected his central conclusion. Bludgeoned data is not 'typos'.
“I am really sorry if I attributed one specific tax decision to FDR instead of Hoover, etc.; many readers do mention typos of this sort, and of course they will be corrected in future editions; but I really do not see anything here that's affecting any conclusion,” Piketty told FoxNews.com. Also sounds like Globull Worming. "Fake... but accurate!"
But a new study claims to find errors that affect Piketty’s fundamental premise. It was done by University of California Berkeley economics professor Alan Auerbach and American Enterprise Institute economist Kevin Hassett, and was presented Saturday at a session of the American Economics Association.
Piketty, in his book, makes the case that the rich constantly get richer using a graph that illustrates that it has increased steadily in the United States over the last half-century.
But the study finds that the graph is largely wrong. For instance, when Piketty’s graph refers to the year “1980”, the number actually comes from data from the year 1989. The authors also found that Piketty simply left several data points off of his chart without explanation. In short... he's a liar. Darn my surprise meter is in the shop.
After revising the chart, the economists found that the proportion of wealth owned by the rich “no longer rises without interruption” and that in fact, “inequality appears to be declining at the end [of the graph].”
Piketty told FoxNews.com that, even using the American authors’ graph, his ultimate conclusion remains intact.
“The increase in inequality would look less steady, but it would still be there,” he said. A comparison of the two graphs is on page 6 of the American authors’ study.
Hassett reponds that the new chart makes the case for measures like an 80% tax rate to stop increasing wealth inequality a lot less clear.
“The trend towards higher inequality would look weaker… [inequality] would have fallen from its 1995 peak,” Hassett said.
But Piketty counters that a recent study found that wealth inequality actually rose even faster than he had reported in his book. And who, pray tell, wrote that study?
“Everybody recognizes that the Saez-Zucman series are indeed the best series on US wealth inequality we have so far, and that they show an even bigger increase than what I report in my book,” he told FoxNews.com. Another Globull Worming similarity: "The Science is Settled!"
Yet many economists do not recognize that.
“There are other recent papers, one… by Kopczuk (a co-author of Piketty’s in the past), plus another based on Fed survey data, by Bricker et al., which argue that other methods of analysis are more accurate and do not show such a trend,” Auerbach of UC Berkeley said.
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The reality is that governments in the West and in particular the U.S. have been borrowing money since the '70's to artificially prop up a level of lifestyle equality that is unnatural and unsustainable for individuals and families who are involved in unskilled and semiskilled labor, government employment, and skilled labor for which there is an oversupply. Although this has been done primarily by the left, politicians of both parties are guilty of this.
Piketty is a class warfare arsonist. He and his wealthy supporters are pouring gasoline on a fire composed of envy and officiousness and relative deprivation in a public that has suffered from moral breakdown and cultural and economic amnesia. What we now define as working class or middle class would be thought of as rich at all times in human history before 1930.
At some point the credit-supported utopia made by cynical and dishonest politicians, that was created by purchasing votes from citizens in exchange for a lifestyle is not justified by the level of value that their labor produces and that they could never achieve by free association in the economic realm, must collapse, because it is mathematically impossible to sustain. Piketty and his type are doing everything they can to prop up this system even if only for a a few more months because they know that they, not the people they purport to care about, are the ones who largely profit from this system.
Motivations as well as facts are suspect as well. Piketty and the rest of the wealthy blue-state model types are the primary benefactors of the big-business/big government redistributive state, and know that the standard of living and status they can achieve in a more free enterprise type of society would be vastly diminished. To believe that they do what they do out of some vast upwelling of compassion or lofty sense of fairness is ridiculous on its face.
Further, all the efforts at mitigating so-called "unfair" equality inevitably result in a widening of the gap between the super wealthy and everyone else. The classic example is the New Deal in the 1930's.
Piketty and his ilk must lie, because the facts on the ground objectively prove that the default state of growing and robust economies is one of less, not more, government interference and attempts at central redistribution of wealth. Like Michael Bellisles in the realm of gun control, Piketty had to cobble together a bunch of unrelated and fabricated data in order to prove something he WANTED to believe and something he has made a lot of money by promoting, rather than what actually works in the real world.
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Asked about the above issues, Piketty told FoxNews.com that there may be some typos in the book but said he did not think they affected his central conclusion.
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"Factual inaccuracies do not impact conclusions?"
Of course not, Besoeker.
Just ask Dan Rather, Michael Bellisles, Jared Diamond, or Professor Piketty.
Fake but accurate - the mantra of today's left.
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Through the 1940s and 1950s, the highest tax rates were up in the 90 percent region. Only in wartime and shortly thereafter have tax rates been extremely high--mostly coming on the rich. There is an implicit assumption that sticking it to the rich is that somehow they didn't earn their money fair and square or that they can afford to foot more of the bill since they have it. It is application of those socialistic social justice and redistribution concepts that the lefties love so much.
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no mo uro, funny you mention Michael Bellisles. He was my first thought as well. If I remember correctly he sited sources saying they said things they didn't (and in some cases sources that were long destroyed) with the understanding that nobody would check, or if they did check his book would have been through the bestseller sales charts and gone before they did.
And then the damage is done as most people don't see the correction, they just remember the trivia and incorrect facts.
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Taxation of incomes causes underemployment and thus unemployment.
The government then encourages debt to increase to try to correct this.
You can see why the rent-seeking establishment might not mind "progressive" taxation, it creates their rents.
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.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Could the Sun be your lucky -- or unlucky -- star?
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Vast underground reserves of oil, gas and coal should be classified as off limits if the world stands any chance of averting dangerous climate change, a major study of global fossil-fuel deposits has found.
