Hillary Clinton Gets Boost From FBI News As Race Hits Final Day | Huffington Post:
Being a hero as an investigative agency in the US is pretty easy. If you ignore candidates that are in good standing with "The Party" (TP-D), you are a HERO, point out that you have found 650K e-mails on a sex offender named "Weiner"(s) computer, and you are a ZERO!
Oh, you fully vetted 660K emails in a little over a week and are CERTAIN that there is NO PROBLEM?
H - E - R - O !!!!!!!!
What's more, you most likely won't commit suicide or have a tragic home barbell "accident" if you play nice with TP.
What part of this game seems difficult? Would you rather be a HERO or dead? Not all that tough for most!
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Monday, November 07, 2016
Important Tribal Genius, Wrong Country
How to Get Beyond Our Tribal Politics - WSJ:
As many of you know, I have a lot of respect for Jonathan Haidt (pronounced "height", but considering what he writes on, "hate" is funnier").
If you want a cliff notes version of some of his previous writing see here http://www.moosetracksblog.com/2014/11/a-righteous-haidter.html.
If you want to dig a little deeper, here is the cliff notes on another of his books http://www.moosetracksblog.com/2015/10/the-happiness-hypothesis-jonathan-haidt.html.
I consider Haidt to be a genius, but while he is a "fan" of wisdom, as an atheist he misses the largest spiritual truth in the universe, that the BEGINNING of wisdom is the fear of God. We are all prone to believe that our viewpoint is "special" -- unless we internalize at a deep level that we are special ONLY in deep relation to God, we are pretty much doomed to keep forgetting our place.
Thus Haidt, a more brilliant human than I will ever be, says the following ...
In general, I think the column is EXCELLENT -- I would, the only hope for my dwindling unwilling to be tribal tribe is that enough people of the dominant tribe are willing to follow this advice ...
The set of people that are like myself -- who understand that America was a Constitutional Republic and BOistan is not, is exceedingly small -- I'd guess less than 5% of the population. BO has usurped the most basic of separated powers in spending money on BOcare not approved by congress -- who sued him and it went to the DC court of appeals and BO LOST -- badly. Nobody cares. We are no longer a Constitutional Republic -- so no longer America. (that is just one example, there are a bunch)
The SCOTUS won't take the case because it would be 4 to 4, thus allowing the DC circuit ruling to stand and BO to be guilty of brazenly violating his Constitutional oath, getting caught and adjudicated against. A HUGE percentage of BOistan has no clue what I'm even talking about.
But BOistan does NOT have a Constitution that means anything, so he skates.
So Haidt is wrong on where he lives. If you care about IDEAS -- and if you were American, you had to, because America was founded on IDEAS, not race, religion, territory or ethnic identity, then it is already "the day after". America might well have survived physical destruction, but it could no more survive the loss of shared ideas, than Christianity could survive the loss of Christ being THE WORD, fully God and fully man -- born of a virgin, dying for our sins and rising from the dead. All the churches could be physically destroyed, but as long as THE TRUTH remains, Christianity will live on.
And so it was with America. It could only exist when a supermajority understood what it was.
So Christians, continue to do the best you possibly can to love those that call you names and hate you -- and pray for them, certainly for their souls, but I also think it is OK to pray that they will read Haidt and decide that they would rather "re-educate us" than kill us.
If Hillary wins as we expect, the best thing about that might be that those "re-education camps" will be a great place to lose A LOT of weight!
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As many of you know, I have a lot of respect for Jonathan Haidt (pronounced "height", but considering what he writes on, "hate" is funnier").
If you want a cliff notes version of some of his previous writing see here http://www.moosetracksblog.com/2014/11/a-righteous-haidter.html.
If you want to dig a little deeper, here is the cliff notes on another of his books http://www.moosetracksblog.com/2015/10/the-happiness-hypothesis-jonathan-haidt.html.
I consider Haidt to be a genius, but while he is a "fan" of wisdom, as an atheist he misses the largest spiritual truth in the universe, that the BEGINNING of wisdom is the fear of God. We are all prone to believe that our viewpoint is "special" -- unless we internalize at a deep level that we are special ONLY in deep relation to God, we are pretty much doomed to keep forgetting our place.
Thus Haidt, a more brilliant human than I will ever be, says the following ...
So are we doomed? Will the polarizing trends identified by Pew just keep going until the country splits in two? Maybe John Adams was right in 1814 when he wrote, “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.”
This has been a frightening year for many Americans. Questions about the durability, legitimacy and wisdom of our democracy have been raised, both here and abroad. But the true test of our democracy—and our love of country—will come on the day after the election. Starting next Wednesday, each of us must decide what kind of person we want to be and what kind of relationship we want to have with our politically estranged cousins.Regular readers of this blog know that America WAS NOT founded as a "democracy" but rather as a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC ... BOistan is very close to a "democracy", which is precisely why at least the 10-20% of us remaining that realize that are so concerned about being completely crushed by mob rule. John Adams was correct when he said that "democracy never lasts long", as he was when he said: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".
In general, I think the column is EXCELLENT -- I would, the only hope for my dwindling unwilling to be tribal tribe is that enough people of the dominant tribe are willing to follow this advice ...
Second, step back and think about your goals. In the long run, would you rather change people or hate them? If you actually want to persuade or otherwise influence people, you should know that it is nearly impossible to change people’s minds by arguing with them. When there is mutual antipathy, there is mutual motivated reasoning, defensiveness and hypocrisy.
But anything that opens the heart opens the mind as well, so do what you can to cultivate personal relationships with those on the other side. Spend time together, and let the proximity recommended by Cicero strengthen ties. Familiarity does not breed contempt. Research shows that as things or people become familiar, we like them more.So if you happen to read this and try spending time with a Burkean Christian that will do their very best to love you even if we disagree, I'm available. If you find yourself leaving groups, shunning friends and family, etc because they are "not of your tribe", then perhaps at least consideration of Haidt (hate?) is in order?
The set of people that are like myself -- who understand that America was a Constitutional Republic and BOistan is not, is exceedingly small -- I'd guess less than 5% of the population. BO has usurped the most basic of separated powers in spending money on BOcare not approved by congress -- who sued him and it went to the DC court of appeals and BO LOST -- badly. Nobody cares. We are no longer a Constitutional Republic -- so no longer America. (that is just one example, there are a bunch)
The SCOTUS won't take the case because it would be 4 to 4, thus allowing the DC circuit ruling to stand and BO to be guilty of brazenly violating his Constitutional oath, getting caught and adjudicated against. A HUGE percentage of BOistan has no clue what I'm even talking about.
But BOistan does NOT have a Constitution that means anything, so he skates.
So Haidt is wrong on where he lives. If you care about IDEAS -- and if you were American, you had to, because America was founded on IDEAS, not race, religion, territory or ethnic identity, then it is already "the day after". America might well have survived physical destruction, but it could no more survive the loss of shared ideas, than Christianity could survive the loss of Christ being THE WORD, fully God and fully man -- born of a virgin, dying for our sins and rising from the dead. All the churches could be physically destroyed, but as long as THE TRUTH remains, Christianity will live on.
And so it was with America. It could only exist when a supermajority understood what it was.
So Christians, continue to do the best you possibly can to love those that call you names and hate you -- and pray for them, certainly for their souls, but I also think it is OK to pray that they will read Haidt and decide that they would rather "re-educate us" than kill us.
If Hillary wins as we expect, the best thing about that might be that those "re-education camps" will be a great place to lose A LOT of weight!
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High Frontier, Russia and China
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1104/With-another-rocket-success-China-solidifies-place-in-space-industry
The Chinese keep having success in space, and Russia allows a few BOistani's to ride up for cash.
In the 1960's, Kennedy called space "the high frontier", and in old America, a large percentage considered leadership in space to be a critical element in claims to being "the greatest nation on the planet".
BO declared the old exceptional greatest nation to be dead, and established BOistan. A tribal war zone dedicated to each tribe getting "what's theirs", often by taking it from another tribe using the powers of the BOistan government to help them.
The sad thing about Trump's hope to "Make America Great Again" is that the task requires the re-establishment of America, and then in many areas, getting it back to the point where it is an "also ran" again.
The Chinese keep having success in space, and Russia allows a few BOistani's to ride up for cash.
In the 1960's, Kennedy called space "the high frontier", and in old America, a large percentage considered leadership in space to be a critical element in claims to being "the greatest nation on the planet".
BO declared the old exceptional greatest nation to be dead, and established BOistan. A tribal war zone dedicated to each tribe getting "what's theirs", often by taking it from another tribe using the powers of the BOistan government to help them.
The sad thing about Trump's hope to "Make America Great Again" is that the task requires the re-establishment of America, and then in many areas, getting it back to the point where it is an "also ran" again.
Thursday, November 03, 2016
Robbing Hood -- FICA Edition
One of the founding principles that killed America and created BOistan is that of punishing productivity and innovation while rewarding doing less work and doing work that has less monetary value. The greater the disparity, the more power "The Party" (TP-D) gains, and the less total wealth there is to transfer -- so eventually, money has no value and the ONLY remaining value is your standing with TP. They are the ones that will decide what happens to you, since the financial independence you worked so hard to attain is GONE.
They have always understood this -- it is just that they don't talk about it much. Actions however speak louder than words.
The chart in the attached article is quite interesting -- the government still thinks it is a great idea to reward single earner couples for some reason. You can make over $118K, paying in $679K, getting back $819K -- not bad!
If you have TWO earners however, at $76K, you are already a cash cow ... paying in $919K, but only getting back $839K. The worst spot to be is right around the $118K income point -- you get back $338K LESS than you paid in! A feller could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with $338K! (above that, you have more and more income that isn't taxed on FICA, so at say "250K each" (500K total), FICA becomes "noise".
One might erroneously think that TP would find women living in stable families with high earnings that are the same as their spouse to be a GOOD thing -- but clearly they want to punish it! Stable families are not one of their priorities -- and CERTAINLY not stable high income families. They might even breed little political opponents ... although since TP controls all the education which is basically TP indoctrination these days, even that seems questionable.
I'm guessing that we can understand their thinking a bit here:
Another large category of “losers,” say experts, is younger generations compared with older ones. In 2010, Social Security began paying out more in benefits than it is collecting in taxes. The decline in the number of workers per retiree from three to two as baby boomers retire is making this problem worse.TP is pretty much assured that the largest percentage of the dual income high earners are "educated" (read "indoctrinated"), so they trust TP ... likewise, the young are HEAVILY indoctrinated these days, so it will take A LOT of pain to get them to look at what is happening to them. Perhaps it is Animal House that has the true wisdom here.
TP spends a lot of money on teachers unions to make sure you trust them -- looks like it pays off pretty well!
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Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Bottoms Up For Hillary
Bums For Hillary | Power Line:
I'm not one to object to a well formed female derrière, but I'm not certain it really makes the case for me relative to needing a female president -- let alone HILLARY <dear God, please remove that image from my mind!>!
I watched game 6 of the series, including some Hildebeast commercials. Oh, that Trump is SO embarrassing! Our children must be protected! ... Slick Willie? Stains on dresses, cigars in nether regions, oral sex not being "sex" -- oh never mind. If "The Party" didn't have double standards it would have no standards at all!
I find the image above to be a really good one to show us how "chaste" and "child friendly" the Clintons are.
Give a man a fish ... teach him to fish, show him fishnet -- oh, never mind.
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I'm not one to object to a well formed female derrière, but I'm not certain it really makes the case for me relative to needing a female president -- let alone HILLARY <dear God, please remove that image from my mind!>!
I watched game 6 of the series, including some Hildebeast commercials. Oh, that Trump is SO embarrassing! Our children must be protected! ... Slick Willie? Stains on dresses, cigars in nether regions, oral sex not being "sex" -- oh never mind. If "The Party" didn't have double standards it would have no standards at all!
I find the image above to be a really good one to show us how "chaste" and "child friendly" the Clintons are.
Give a man a fish ... teach him to fish, show him fishnet -- oh, never mind.
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
Liberal Family Tradition
James Comey Broke with Loretta Lynch and Justice Department Tradition - The New Yorker:
I am SHOCKED, shocked I say, to see that Democrats have suddenly discovered that they are HUGE respecters of tradition! How wonderful!
It would be great if we could "all get along" and still have freedom and liberty. In human history, comity was manufactured by the intimidation of the weaker to follow the stronger or SHUT UP! and if they failed to comply, banishing or killing them. China, North Korea, Cuba and Islamic states still follow this time honored tradition.
The widespread belief in Christianity coupled with Greek philosophy provided a framework on which Western civilization was able to arrive at a set of transcendent beliefs that were shared by 80-90% of all educated people. Even better, those beliefs allowed for not only not killing the 10-20% that did not agree, but had a bias toward allowing their beliefs and even LOVING them in spite of their not agreeing on basic tenets of an extremely large group. Those values were what made "Western civilization" more that just a "big tribe".
While transcendence is about more than reason, in the Western case, reason, coupled with "The Enlightenment" was the base from which the democratic republics sprang. In the US, the church was separate from the state, but it's existence was assumed -- as Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".
Without even a tiny attempt at consistency, there can be no reason nor truth. Democrats have ZERO respect for tradition in reality. The base bedrock of humanity -- marriage, gender, respect for life, private property, free speech, the Golden Rule, or the right to bear arms. Not a single element of the strongest of traditions and codified law in human history is so much as a momentary consideration to the left as they steamroller all of them and treat anyone believing in tradition as "racist, sexist, homophobic, reactionary, etc".
"Liberals" DO have one gigantic "tradition". It is the tradition of having only one consistent principle -- POWER!!! On all else, they twist in the wind -- usually being wholly against any mention of "tradition" as they trample the sacred into the mud as if it were yesterdays garbage. But nearly as important to their efforts as complete INconsistency, is their ability to be completely shameless. They have no compunction at all to trot out "tradition" when it suits them as if it was actually something they were concerned about!
We can't "get along", because one of the supposed "American" parties as sworn allegiance to BOistan and as it has been for years now, it is TOTALLY obvious that they will stop at NOTHING to achieve total control and begin the operation of cleansing BOistan of all who disagree with their world view.
The left has one "tradition" that is "sacred" -- totally and utterly destroy your opposition by any and all means possible. The more bloody and painful, the better.
I'm reminded of Hank Williams Jr -- listen to the following and consider "why do we kill and imprison?" ...
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I am SHOCKED, shocked I say, to see that Democrats have suddenly discovered that they are HUGE respecters of tradition! How wonderful!
It would be great if we could "all get along" and still have freedom and liberty. In human history, comity was manufactured by the intimidation of the weaker to follow the stronger or SHUT UP! and if they failed to comply, banishing or killing them. China, North Korea, Cuba and Islamic states still follow this time honored tradition.
The widespread belief in Christianity coupled with Greek philosophy provided a framework on which Western civilization was able to arrive at a set of transcendent beliefs that were shared by 80-90% of all educated people. Even better, those beliefs allowed for not only not killing the 10-20% that did not agree, but had a bias toward allowing their beliefs and even LOVING them in spite of their not agreeing on basic tenets of an extremely large group. Those values were what made "Western civilization" more that just a "big tribe".
While transcendence is about more than reason, in the Western case, reason, coupled with "The Enlightenment" was the base from which the democratic republics sprang. In the US, the church was separate from the state, but it's existence was assumed -- as Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other".
Without even a tiny attempt at consistency, there can be no reason nor truth. Democrats have ZERO respect for tradition in reality. The base bedrock of humanity -- marriage, gender, respect for life, private property, free speech, the Golden Rule, or the right to bear arms. Not a single element of the strongest of traditions and codified law in human history is so much as a momentary consideration to the left as they steamroller all of them and treat anyone believing in tradition as "racist, sexist, homophobic, reactionary, etc".
"Liberals" DO have one gigantic "tradition". It is the tradition of having only one consistent principle -- POWER!!! On all else, they twist in the wind -- usually being wholly against any mention of "tradition" as they trample the sacred into the mud as if it were yesterdays garbage. But nearly as important to their efforts as complete INconsistency, is their ability to be completely shameless. They have no compunction at all to trot out "tradition" when it suits them as if it was actually something they were concerned about!
We can't "get along", because one of the supposed "American" parties as sworn allegiance to BOistan and as it has been for years now, it is TOTALLY obvious that they will stop at NOTHING to achieve total control and begin the operation of cleansing BOistan of all who disagree with their world view.
The left has one "tradition" that is "sacred" -- totally and utterly destroy your opposition by any and all means possible. The more bloody and painful, the better.
I'm reminded of Hank Williams Jr -- listen to the following and consider "why do we kill and imprison?" ...
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Democrat Dog Found Alive
Trump supporter charged with voting twice in Iowa - The Washington Post:
In a nation with a lick of common sense, nobody but a worthless party hack would even try to peddle a story this stupid, let alone a supposedly "major news outlet" -- it is a case of the old saw of "a man accused of killing 3 men and a dog, promptly produces the dog alive".
Democrat vote fraud is old and well understood -- the Daley machine in Chicago was especially egregious, but it is "Bad, and Nationwide" (the song is just entertainment, otherwise unrelated).
So, unsurprisingly, the official position of the media and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) is usually that "there is no such thing as voter fraud" ... see scholarly article here. Since "there is no such thing", we need no voter id, where we MUST have a picture ID to for example "mail a UPS package". Ballots can be mailed all over, even a couple months before the election.
Oh, but wait, some poor disoriented Trump supporter in IA has been found engaging in "voter fraud". I've run into snowbirds that pioneered absentee ballots, because "they lived in both places" -- all the state offices were different anyway, and they "voted for the same top of the ticket so it didn't matter". It is pretty clear to anyone that cares about fair elections that there are millions of cases of voter fraud in BOistan every election, and there used to be in the US as well. At least 90% of them happen to be Democrat -- but their standard position is "it doesn't exist" -- except if you find a disoriented Trump supporter to make an example out of.
It's a new nation -- apparently they are experimenting a bit more with the idea of claiming there is no DEMOCRAT voter fraud, while at the same time deciding to cast aspersions on the votes of the opposition.
Old technique, new area -- deficit in opposition administration? HUGE problem. Democrat? Probably not as big a deficit as it should be! Sexual harassment by Democrat? Oxymoron, never happens. Opposition? The only way that anyone could NOT believe in any accusation wholeheartedly is if they are a misogynist!
We could go on for pages -- BOistan is a world with no actual reality, only "political reality".
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In a nation with a lick of common sense, nobody but a worthless party hack would even try to peddle a story this stupid, let alone a supposedly "major news outlet" -- it is a case of the old saw of "a man accused of killing 3 men and a dog, promptly produces the dog alive".
Democrat vote fraud is old and well understood -- the Daley machine in Chicago was especially egregious, but it is "Bad, and Nationwide" (the song is just entertainment, otherwise unrelated).
So, unsurprisingly, the official position of the media and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) is usually that "there is no such thing as voter fraud" ... see scholarly article here. Since "there is no such thing", we need no voter id, where we MUST have a picture ID to for example "mail a UPS package". Ballots can be mailed all over, even a couple months before the election.
Oh, but wait, some poor disoriented Trump supporter in IA has been found engaging in "voter fraud". I've run into snowbirds that pioneered absentee ballots, because "they lived in both places" -- all the state offices were different anyway, and they "voted for the same top of the ticket so it didn't matter". It is pretty clear to anyone that cares about fair elections that there are millions of cases of voter fraud in BOistan every election, and there used to be in the US as well. At least 90% of them happen to be Democrat -- but their standard position is "it doesn't exist" -- except if you find a disoriented Trump supporter to make an example out of.
It's a new nation -- apparently they are experimenting a bit more with the idea of claiming there is no DEMOCRAT voter fraud, while at the same time deciding to cast aspersions on the votes of the opposition.
Old technique, new area -- deficit in opposition administration? HUGE problem. Democrat? Probably not as big a deficit as it should be! Sexual harassment by Democrat? Oxymoron, never happens. Opposition? The only way that anyone could NOT believe in any accusation wholeheartedly is if they are a misogynist!
We could go on for pages -- BOistan is a world with no actual reality, only "political reality".
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Hillary Winning With WWI Vets -- Bringing the Country Together
http://www.duffelblog.com/2016/10/early-voting-data-shows-world-war-veterans-overwhelming-support-hillary-clinton/
I've heard that for the Civil War, the Democrat vote is now 97% from BOTH SIDES! Talk about "bringing the country together".!
The black vote, the felon vote, the Undocumented Democrat vote (formerly" Illegal Alien"), ALL 97% ... just like scientists and Global Warming!
The black vote, the felon vote, the Undocumented Democrat vote (formerly" Illegal Alien"), ALL 97% ... just like scientists and Global Warming!
(Yes, I DO know that "Duffle Blog" is like "The Onion", but in order to be funny, something has to have some shred of truth -- and sadly, we all know that it does.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Hillary Weinered!
Did Huma Commit Perjury? | Power Line:
The truth is indeed MUCH stranger than we could ever imagine it to be. It truly is not what you know, but WHO you know. I understand that the left has lost it's capacity for irony, but could there be any two women who have less capability to pick men than Huma "Mrs Weiner" and Hillary, "Mrs Free Willie"?
The truth is indeed MUCH stranger than we could ever imagine it to be. It truly is not what you know, but WHO you know. I understand that the left has lost it's capacity for irony, but could there be any two women who have less capability to pick men than Huma "Mrs Weiner" and Hillary, "Mrs Free Willie"?
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Today’s bombshell news, of course, is that the FBI has found a substantial number of emails from Hillary Clinton to Huma Abedin on the computer (desktop, I assume) that Huma shared with her husband, Anthony Weiner. The FBI was examining the computer’s hard drive to investigate whether Weiner had conducted a crime by sexting with an underage girl. Imagine the astonishment of a tech guy at the FBI who found, not only Weiner’s illicit texts, but a trove of emails from Hillary Clinton.
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Thomas Being Replaced On Court?
About the groping allegations against Justice Thomas [With Comment by John] | Power Line:
The left is positively giddy about their prospects. They expect a Hildebeast landslide, taking the Senate and maybe even the House!!! If their dreams play out, we are likely to see a completely new era.
Why NOT have a flurry of allegations against Clarence Thomas? Trying to adjudicate the "he groped me 17 years ago" is impossible. The democrat women and the media line up and say "women don't make these things up, if she says it happened, IT HAPPENED. If you disagree, you are a misogynist"!
What more is needed? Remove him from the court and a thorn in the side of the left is gone under a cloud -- OH HAPPY DAY!
The age of the woman president is upon us -- let the women rise up and smite whomever they find to be objectionable!
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The left is positively giddy about their prospects. They expect a Hildebeast landslide, taking the Senate and maybe even the House!!! If their dreams play out, we are likely to see a completely new era.
Why NOT have a flurry of allegations against Clarence Thomas? Trying to adjudicate the "he groped me 17 years ago" is impossible. The democrat women and the media line up and say "women don't make these things up, if she says it happened, IT HAPPENED. If you disagree, you are a misogynist"!
What more is needed? Remove him from the court and a thorn in the side of the left is gone under a cloud -- OH HAPPY DAY!
The age of the woman president is upon us -- let the women rise up and smite whomever they find to be objectionable!
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
BOcare Fails, Friends With Benefits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/25/on-earth-2-this-obamacare-news-is-absolutely-devastating-for-hillary-clinton/
I understand that only an idiot would think that Trump still has any chance. I was CERTAINLY there for all of 2015, and into 2016. Even though I hedged a bit, I was sucked into "ding, dong, Trump is dead" on April 13th http://www.moosetracksblog.com/2016/04/vanquishing-trump-monster.html.
The media is absolutely certain that Trump is dead -- so much so that WaPo is willing to point out the obvious. BOcare is a giant failure, and like Romney on Russia, the Republicans were right.
Pretty much, I would just enjoy listening to MPR the morning after should he win.
Do I "think he will win", "do I care"? These are both really hard questions at this point in my life -- I truly loved America. It's ideas, it's vision, it's values -- I am so lucky to have grown up in that once great nation.
I know I will never be part of BOistan -- I now know what a true "alien" feels like. Undocumented Democrats (formerly "illegal aliens") in BOistan at least agree with the tenets of BOistan ... no law, no morality, no borders, no shared values ... just a "territory with benefits", similar to the modern male / female relationship of "friends with benefits (sex)".
I understand that only an idiot would think that Trump still has any chance. I was CERTAINLY there for all of 2015, and into 2016. Even though I hedged a bit, I was sucked into "ding, dong, Trump is dead" on April 13th http://www.moosetracksblog.com/2016/04/vanquishing-trump-monster.html.
The media is absolutely certain that Trump is dead -- so much so that WaPo is willing to point out the obvious. BOcare is a giant failure, and like Romney on Russia, the Republicans were right.
This would be big news at any point in this election: The signature achievement of the outgoing Democratic president appears to be fulfilling many of the doom and gloom predictions Republicans made when the law passed. Costs are rising for many. Major insurers — like Aetna — are dropping out. And the law, which has never been terribly popular, isn't faring any better in most credible polling these days.I will not give up hope for Trump until he concedes -- certainly NOT because I "like him", nor even because I believe that he would be "good for BOistan", whatever the hell that means.
Pretty much, I would just enjoy listening to MPR the morning after should he win.
Do I "think he will win", "do I care"? These are both really hard questions at this point in my life -- I truly loved America. It's ideas, it's vision, it's values -- I am so lucky to have grown up in that once great nation.
I know I will never be part of BOistan -- I now know what a true "alien" feels like. Undocumented Democrats (formerly "illegal aliens") in BOistan at least agree with the tenets of BOistan ... no law, no morality, no borders, no shared values ... just a "territory with benefits", similar to the modern male / female relationship of "friends with benefits (sex)".
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Headline Hugging And Kissing
Latest Trump accuser says he hugged, kissed her without permission - CNNPolitics.com:
People that have not spent time in corporate BOistan are not aware that "sexual harassment" is ENTIRELY in the eye of the accuser. If the accuser says "you were staring at me", that is sexual harassment and it is treated seriously. In my case, a female employee felt "harassed" because she was not included in the planning for a bachelor party of another employee. That earned me a trip to a middle man agers office and the news that my record at IBM now included a charge of "sexual harassment".
The sexual harassment law is completely about power. We always had laws against rape and assault, but sexual harassment gives a new level of power to women that is unprecedeneted in human history. "Hate Speech" does the same -- the mere charge if "I heard someone yell the N*word" can be raised against a group like the Tea Party and it is taken extremely seriously.
Power is about asymmetry. We certainly see that there is nothing that Trump supporters can be called that is "hate speech". In fact, even when an Islamic person attacks and kills tens of people, it is not only not a "hate crime", and it is immoral and "narrow minded" to suggest that their race or religion was a factor in their attack.
A mark of BOistan is how the asymmetry of law works. For women or minorities making charges against a member of "The Party" (TP-D) -- like Slick Wille, even serious charges like rape or assault are treated as "suspect, unproven, probably politically motivated" if they see the light of day at all. When the tables are turned, any charge -- "hugging and kissing a decade ago", or the asserted hearing of an offensive word are deadly serious, in fact "headline news".
And so it goes in BOistan. In America, equality of TREATMENT of people before the law was a major part of what made America exceptional. In BOistan, UNequal treatment is a major part of the power of TP in all aspects of life.
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People that have not spent time in corporate BOistan are not aware that "sexual harassment" is ENTIRELY in the eye of the accuser. If the accuser says "you were staring at me", that is sexual harassment and it is treated seriously. In my case, a female employee felt "harassed" because she was not included in the planning for a bachelor party of another employee. That earned me a trip to a middle man agers office and the news that my record at IBM now included a charge of "sexual harassment".
The sexual harassment law is completely about power. We always had laws against rape and assault, but sexual harassment gives a new level of power to women that is unprecedeneted in human history. "Hate Speech" does the same -- the mere charge if "I heard someone yell the N*word" can be raised against a group like the Tea Party and it is taken extremely seriously.
Power is about asymmetry. We certainly see that there is nothing that Trump supporters can be called that is "hate speech". In fact, even when an Islamic person attacks and kills tens of people, it is not only not a "hate crime", and it is immoral and "narrow minded" to suggest that their race or religion was a factor in their attack.
A mark of BOistan is how the asymmetry of law works. For women or minorities making charges against a member of "The Party" (TP-D) -- like Slick Wille, even serious charges like rape or assault are treated as "suspect, unproven, probably politically motivated" if they see the light of day at all. When the tables are turned, any charge -- "hugging and kissing a decade ago", or the asserted hearing of an offensive word are deadly serious, in fact "headline news".
And so it goes in BOistan. In America, equality of TREATMENT of people before the law was a major part of what made America exceptional. In BOistan, UNequal treatment is a major part of the power of TP in all aspects of life.
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
You Will Say What You Are Told
U of T prof told to use gender pronouns students want | Toronto & GTA | News | T:
Thou shalt speak as the political class tells you to speak.
You MUST call those who define a new pronoun by the word they request. Does this include "His Majesty"?
No doubt even thinking such is soon to be punishable. In BOistan you MUST buy health insurance! What problem is there with telling you what you MUST say?
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Thou shalt speak as the political class tells you to speak.
These laws are the first laws that I’ve seen that require people under the threat of legal punishment to employ certain words, to speak a certain way, instead of merely limiting what they’re allowed to say,” Peterson said. “So the law’s put words into our mouths.”Laws to tell you what you MUST say and laws to tell you want you CAN'T say. What could be simpler. You can't say "the N word" ... it is "hate speech".
You MUST call those who define a new pronoun by the word they request. Does this include "His Majesty"?
No doubt even thinking such is soon to be punishable. In BOistan you MUST buy health insurance! What problem is there with telling you what you MUST say?
'via Blog this'
You Will Say What You Are Told
U of T prof told to use gender pronouns students want | Toronto & GTA | News | T:
Thou shalt speak as the political class tells you to speak.
You MUST call those who define a new pronoun by the word they request. Does this include "His Majesty"?
No doubt even thinking such is soon to be punishable. In BOistan you MUST buy health insurance! What problem is there with telling you what you MUST say?
'via Blog this'
Thou shalt speak as the political class tells you to speak.
These laws are the first laws that I’ve seen that require people under the threat of legal punishment to employ certain words, to speak a certain way, instead of merely limiting what they’re allowed to say,” Peterson said. “So the law’s put words into our mouths.”Laws to tell you what you MUST say and laws to tell you want you CAN'T say. What could be simpler. You can't say "the N word" ... it is "hate speech".
You MUST call those who define a new pronoun by the word they request. Does this include "His Majesty"?
No doubt even thinking such is soon to be punishable. In BOistan you MUST buy health insurance! What problem is there with telling you what you MUST say?
'via Blog this'
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