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I see only one toxin - second rate people using mutual support/vetting based on shared ideology to take over all the first rate jobs. All the rest are consequences.
[LATIMES] It's kind of like chicken: when you get right down to it, everything tastes more or less like chicken. Similarly, everything that's not edible was born out of racism and segregation.
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They should put a few blocks of those lovely Soviet-style concrete apartment buildings. For the People...
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So we have a San Francisco democrat who wants to craft a zoning ordinance for the entire state. Zoning has always been controlled by incorporated cities and counties in the unincorporated areas. It's no surprise that a democrat wants to centralize this kind of power. Nevermind the impact on local schools, hospitals, roads and other infrastructure. Next, he'll want to impose rent control for the whole state. Yes, SteveS, I'm sure these people would gladly build Soviet style apartment blocks all over the state of California and fill them with people they've imported from the Third World. They'd bulldoze my neighborhood and others like it to accomplish this goal if they could. My only surprise is that the LA City Council is opposed.
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Of course, there would be no churches in the zoning ordinance.
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It has gotten to the point that the communist are t really hiding anymore. They just all use progressive and tell us things things that sound like das kapital.
Actually, it's much worse than Das Kapital. As a socialist in college told me "If you want to read gooshy praise of Capitalism, read Karl Marx."
The current crop of leftists don't know anything about Karl Marx and even less of Lenin. All they know in someone won't let them have a new toy, so they're going to burn they whole world down.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis are entitled to live peacefully on their own land in an interview published on Monday in U.S. magazine The Atlantic, another public sign of ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv appearing to grow closer.
Asked if he believes the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland, Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying:
"I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land. But we have to have a peace agreement to assure the stability for everyone and to have normal relations."
Saudi Arabia - birthplace of Islam and home to its holiest shrines - does not recognize Israel. It has maintained for years that normalizing relations hinges on Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands captured in the 1967 Middle East war, territory Palestinians seek for a future state.
"We have religious concerns about the fate of the holy mosque in Jerusalem and about the rights of the Palestinian people. This is what we have. We don’t have any objection against any other people," said Prince Mohammed who is touring the United States to drum up investments and support for his efforts to contain Iranian influence.
Increased tension between Tehran and Riyadh has fueled speculation that shared interests may push Saudi Arabia and Israel to work together against what they see as a common Iranian threat.
"There are a lot of interests we share with Israel and if there is peace, there would be a lot of interest between Israel and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries", Prince Mohammed added.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman stresses his support for the Palestinians, a day after the crown prince told The Atlantic that both Israel and the Palestinians have a right to a homeland.
The Saudi monarch emphasizes “the kingdom’s steadfast position towards the Palestinian issue and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital,” state news agency SPA says, according to Reuters. The official Saudi outlet does not mention the crown prince’s remarks on the Jewish state.
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Reading the Atlantic interview leads me to think that what the crown prince so carefully said is not what the interviewer and subsequent reporters heard.
From the interview:
Mohammed bin Salman: Islam is a religion of peace. This is the translation of Islam. God, in Islam, gives us two responsibilities: The first is to believe, to do good things, and not bad things. If we do bad things, God will judge us on Judgment Day.
Our second duty as Muslims is to spread the word of God. For 1,400 years, Muslims have been trying to spread the word of God. In the Middle East, in North Africa, in Europe, they weren’t allowed to spread the word. That’s why they fought to spread the word. But you also see that, in a lot of countries in Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, India—Muslims were free to spread the word. They were told, “Go ahead, say whatever you want to say, the people have free will to believe whatever they want to believe in.” Islam, in this context, was not about conquering, it was about peacefully spreading the word.
But we know that Islam does not mean peace. It means submission. And in India, at least, Islam was not originally spread by peaceful proselytizing, but by conquest. Raids commenced in the seventh century, resulting first in the Delhi sultinate of the Mamluks, which was subsequently conquered by the Moghuls.
Then this bit on Iran (most interviewer interjections removed):
MbS: I believe that the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good.
MbS: Hitler didn’t do what the supreme leader is trying to do. Hitler tried to conquer Europe. This is bad.
MbS: But the supreme leader is trying to conquer the world. He believes he owns the world. They are both evil guys. He is the Hitler of the Middle East. In the 1920s and 1930s, no one saw Hitler as a danger. Only a few people. Until it happened. We don’t want to see what happened in Europe happen in the Middle East. We want to stop this through political moves, economic moves, intelligence moves. We want to avoid war.
Goldberg: Is the problem in your mind religious?
MbS: As I told you, the Shiites are living normally in Saudi Arabia. We have no problem with the Shiites. We have a problem with the ideology of the Iranian regime. Our problem is, we don’t think they have the right to interfere with our affairs.
First of all, Hitler intended to conquer the whole world. Second, the Shiites in Saudi Arabia live in submission to the Sunni rulers, and are discriminated against for their heterodoxy. This, to the prince, is how normal is defined.
And then on Israel and the Palestinians:
Goldberg: Let’s talk about the broader Middle East. Do you believe the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in at least part of their ancestral homeland?
MbS: I believe that each people, anywhere, has a right to live in their peaceful nation. I believe the Palestinians and the Israelis have the right to have their own land. But we have to have a peace agreement to assure the stability for everyone and to have normal relations.
Goldberg: You have no religious-based objection to the existence of Israel?
MbS: We have religious concerns about the fate of the holy mosque in Jerusalem and about the rights of the Palestinian people. This is what we have. We don’t have any objection against any other people.
Goldberg: Saudi Arabia has traditionally been a place that has produced a lot of anti-Semitic propaganda. Do you think you have a problem with anti-Semitism in your country?
MbS: Our country doesn’t have a problem with Jews. Our Prophet Muhammad married a Jewish woman. Not just a friend—he married her. Our prophet, his neighbors were Jewish. You will find a lot of Jews in Saudi Arabia coming from America, coming from Europe. There are no problems between Christian and Muslims and Jews. We have problems like you would find anywhere in the world, among some people. But the normal sort of problems.
If we go back to the definition in Islam of peaceful meaning submission, of normal being submission, then that first answer about Israel does not yield an independent Jewish state. And when we recall that Mohammed married that Jewish woman after the Muslims massacred her entire tribe (the Banu Qurayza) on trumped up charges, including her husband, and that she herself was taken as booty, the whole thing loses entirely the rosy tint with which it is being reported.
As for the Western Jews and Christians in Saudi Arabia, it is not legal for Jews to be there, so they lie on their entry forms, while it is illegal for the Christians to worship together — there are regular raids and arrests among the servant class. Expats in their compounds and the soldiers in their camps are necessarily exempt from that.
President Trump is mad at Amazon. He thinks the retail behemoth is shortchanging the U.S. in taxes, ripping off the Post Office, and throwing "many thousands of retailers out of business." And the thing is, he's not wrong.
Mega-corporations really are strangling the American economy ‐ and it's not just Amazon.
If Americans want to restore a healthy share of economic prosperity to the U.S. hinterland ‐ the type of places that are (somewhat inaccurately) often classed as "Trump country" ‐ an attack on concentrated market power must be a key part of the equation.
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Funny how the heads of cramamazon, gurgle, farcebook, crapple et al like to advocate for socialist precepts when it comes to the handling of your finances but not theirs...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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"many thousands of retailers out of business"? I think I will get my DVD (which killed many thousands of Drive-In and small local movie theaters) and watch Danny DeVito's Speech to the Shareholders in Other People's Money(1991).
h/t Instapundit
[NationalReview] Let’s begin by stating the obvious. There is not a single American corporation, media entity, or adult activist who actually takes direction from David Hogg or any other Parkland victim. Every single thing they do in response to Hogg’s public comments is done willingly ‐ gleefully, even ‐ because Hogg is their tool. He’s their sword and their shield. He is their excuse for doing exactly what they want to do.
By now we know how this pitiful game works. Hogg, egged on by cheering adults, says vicious, cruel, and often false things about their political opponents, and they cheer all the louder. They love it. They quite obviously can’t get enough of it. In this way, Hogg is an expression of the liberal id, a person who "destroys" the opposition in ways that are far more savage and intended far more personally than anything you’ll see from late-night television.
That’s the sword. The shield comes when a conservative takes the bait. All the slicing and dicing and insulting and trolling causes an inevitable backlash. You get the unhinged backlash ("crisis actor"), the mean backlash (laughing at Hogg’s college-admissions struggles), and the thoughtful backlash (he’s got a right to his rage and pain, but he’s still wrong on substance). Yet for all too many activists any criticism is "attacking the Parkland kids."
Thus David Hogg becomes the unassailable Stephen Colbert, the untouchable John Oliver.
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Has anyone heard of Cindy Shehan lately? You know the darling of the left back during George Bush'es presidency and Iraq war.
Its the same tactic - both clawed over the not-yet-cold bodes of their son/classmate to promote the ideas of their handlers while enjoying immunity because she/he is a mother/parkland kid.
Hogg will suffer the same fate. Tossed aside when they are done with him. They always eat their cannon fodder in the end.
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What David Hogg is, is a child of the Gestapo.
Literally.
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Now that we have gone a long weekend without some allegedly conservative blowhard (looking at you, Hannity) re-inflating Davey-boy's balloon, the 15 minutes appear to nearly be up. Finally. I hope...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Just like all socialist movements, he is a useful idiot. Soon to be cast out buy his peers....
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ALL of them are.
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What was Hogg like before the attacks? He might have been a bully then, most SJW are in their own manner.
During one of our campfire talks, it was mentioned that it is a surprise that Hogg isn't the shooter. I agree.
Don't know about bully, but certainly does not respect other peoples' boundaries, and would guess he would and did pile on a group target. Still, wouuldn't be surprised if he had a target or two in various classes. Probably fallen asleep on occasion just trying to come up with witty quips and insults.
4.2 GPA sounded good to me; knew a couple classmates who did that on a 4 point system..his is on a 6 point system which I guess puts him on a solid C average?
Not a student, not an athlete, not a charmer, doesn't come off as particularly popular. Probably did well in arts and theater, and rather a failure elsewhere but he thinks he has a ticker up there. And he chose California schools instead of in-state so I'm thinking pretentious and spoiled as well and not so happy about living in Florida.
This guy is a ticking bomb which will go off as soon as he finds out he is tossed like a condom through the nose. I can't stand him and I think he turns a lot of people off. Moar Hogg. The media are betting a lot of chips on this kid, and it is going to blow up in their faces.
Don't know what the grading scale is, but Hogg's SAT score was 1270 which, I believe, puts him somewhere in the 80th percentile. Not bad, but not good enough for a selective school and makes me think there is a bit of grade inflation going on.
[Daily Caller] Howard University students entered their fourth day of a protest Monday in which they occupied an administrative building and demanded campus police disarm.
The Washington, D.C., students initiated the protest March 29 after the school fired employee Tyrone Hankerson, Jr., who allegedly stole $429,000 in financial aid money. But not all of the demands directly align with resource allocation transparency.
"We demand the immediate disarming of campus police officers and the formation of a Police Oversight Committee controlled by students, faculty, staff, and off-campus community representatives," The Concerned Students of HU Resist wrote in a letter that has been shared over 2,500 times on Twitter.
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TheWashington, D.C., students initiated the protest March 29 after the school fired employee Tyrone Hankerson, Jr., who allegedly stole $429,000 in financial aid money.
Oh so, this really isn't about campus police, but rather a public hearing on entitlement ?
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So their objection really is to not being permitted to commit crime? Shut the "school" down, remove its accreditation, cut off financial aid money. If the students support embezzlement, let them suffer the consequences.
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Expel all students involved.
Universities are sitting on piles of cash right now so they don't really see the danger but they are going to be replaced by other options and they are simply accelerating the trend with this nonsense.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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