NY Times off by Trillion Trillion

The Times Was Told There Would Be No Math | Power Line:



One might think that before you type in a "Trillion Trillion" and then your editor maybe even proofreads your article (hopefully after MORE than "a few", because one would WANT an excuse!), you MIGHT pause at such a number! Compared to 561, we are talking BIG error!



But if you did, you would not be the "paper of record", the brilliant "Gray Lady"!

An article on March 20 about wave piloting in the Marshall Islands misstated the number of possible paths that could be navigated without instruments among the 34 islands and atolls of the Marshall Islands. It is 561, not a trillion trillion.

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NPR Supports Prayer in Schools!

How one Minnesota school district handles a rising immigrant population | PBS NewsHour:

It is quite touching to see the lengths that the left is capable of in order to provide strong support for the MUSLIM religion in the public school system.

In St. Cloud’s middle and high schools, the district allows prayer time for students, including Muslim students, as federal law requires. The rooms used for prayer are open to all students to observe their beliefs and are used for other purposes throughout the school day. Districtwide, school lunch menus provide pork-free options for students, ... 

At the bottom of the article there is this disclaimer ...

CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to describe the uses of the private rooms the St. Cloud district has set aside for student prayer.

All of us that have been alive the past 20 years or so have seen ANY organization that REMOTELY can be identified as having ANY sort of moral values not in complete lockstep with the State Religion of Secular Humanism to be COMPLETELY BANISHED from public school property. Boy Scouts, Christian Church prayer groups, etc,

All of a sudden, Muslims -- who believe in stoning gays, cutting the hands off thieves and treating women as property are considered VERY important.

It doesn't stop at special rooms and times for prayer -- no, it includes special foot washing stations,  which although MPR likes to chortle about every now and then, the media has a tendency to say not much at all about.

As we all know, it is ALL ABOUT CHRIST! Our secular state doesn't really hate "religion" at all -- in fact, it loves it's own PC Secular Humanism so much that to go against it is increasingly a CRIME, as in "hat crime", worthy of prosecution under the law. It is no wonder that they find Sharia Law to be exceedingly reasonable!

What needs to be SCRUPULOUSLY avoided in the public schools and square is CHRISTIANITY! Islam is obviously to be understood, tolerated, and even catered to!


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The Hollowness of BS, The GE Example

Against BS, GE edition | Power Line:

Those of us who never had any illusions about BS being anything but a vacuous windbag have no potential to be "DISillusioned", because we were never  "illusioned". BS made a mistake and did an actual interview with the New York Daily News, who asked actual questions like "Name 3 companies that exemplify corporate greed at it's worst", he could only come up with "GE", a 125 year old US company whose CEO was a big BO supporter! He couldn't name any others.

He also failed to name any laws that the big Wall Street Bankers had broken -- since he always complains that "none of them went to prison". BS is a socialist for goodness sake! In a proper socialist banana republic, the dictator just says "off with their heads"! He doesn't need no stinkin reason!

All of it is worth reading and even following some links -- BS is even MORE clueless than I would have actually imagined. I would have actually expected him to have some semi-reasonable answers to such questions! What is more, he has never visited a major GE plant in Vermont, nor did he have any clue of GE jobs or economic impact in the state he purports to represent! Here is a quote from GE CEO Immelt ... perhaps he needs to reassess which political party he supports if he wants to stay in business. "The Party" HATES actual profit making, product and job producing business!

It’s easy to make hollow campaign promises and take cheap shots in speeches and during editorial board sessions, but U.S. companies have to deliver for their employees, customers and shareholders every day. GE operates in the real world. We’re in the business of building real things and generating real growth for a nation that needs it now more than ever. I’m proud of all that we do, and how it all figures into “the moral fabric” of America is so plain to me.

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BO Democracy At Steak, $33,400

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-democracy-at-stake-in-november-elections/2016/04/08/5459ffb8-fd6e-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_story.html

President Barack Obama says a functioning American democracy is what’s at stake in November’s elections.

Hmm, so after his dictatorial stenchfulness set the bar for refusing to negotiate with the opposing party in congress by refusing to even ENTER into any form or negotiation, preferring to declare their positions "extreme" and dare them to "shut down the government", since he had the media on his side, he now thinks it is "dangerous" to elect anyone that isn't a "compromiser".

How quaint!

He says it’s important to elect leaders who believe compromise isn’t a dirty word, who listen to those who disagree and respect other people’s views.

Yea, right! How many times have we seen the wagging finger schooling us poor unwashed masses on what it is we have "wrong" or "extreme" now, and his "biggest failing" is in explaining everything to the idiots that are the American people?

At least we don't have to listen to Professor Skid Mark very much longer -- although I'm sure he will be regaling all sorts of foreign despots, criminals and terrorists for MUCH more a plate as he builds his post-dictatorship pot of gold to probably a billion or more. Most of it hidden in foundations, trusts and off-shore shell corporations.

Actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow were among the approximately 100 people there, along with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. Tickets cost $33,400 per couple.

Slick Willie Makes BLM Headlines

Bill Clinton confronts protesters who say his crime reforms hurt blacks | Reuters:

Perhaps Psychology Today will run an article on Slick Willie -- he pretty much torpedoed Hildebeast's '08 candidacy by basically saying that "BO was an other Jessie Jackson ... wouldn't even be a factor at all if he wasn't black". The "not a factor if not black" is true of course, as is the fact that Hildebeast would be a real laugher if not female, but Slick sure as hell ought to know that "The Party"has NOTHING to do with "truth"!  (it's coin is POWER)

Hildebeast DESPERATELY needs black votes, and the official story is that ONLY black lives matter, and the VAST number of blacks in prison, arrested, etc are only because of RACISM!

Maybe Slick has not been listening to NPR enough? He needs to get his narratives straight!


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Hildebeast Calls Baby Human

Inevitable, Eventual, Irritable - WSJ:

I've been on the road a lot so didn't get to this. The MSM has of course not covered the fact that Hildebeast slipped up and called a baby an "unborn person" or "child" -- it SIMPLY ISN'T DONE!

I'm guessing she is quite jealous of the "sense of humanity" that she sees around her, and sometimes feels sad that she sold her soul to become Satan's minion.

Mrs. Clinton even stumbled trumpily over the abortion question. She “ran afoul of both the pro-life and pro-choice sides of the abortion debate Sunday when she said constitutional rights do not apply to an ‘unborn person’ or ’child,’ ” the Washington Times reports, adding: “Describing the [unborn child] as a ‘person’ or ’child’ has long been anathema to the pro-choice movement, which argues the terms misleadingly imply a sense of humanity.”

At least no one will ever accuse Mrs. Clinton of implying a sense of humanity.

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Species Neutral Bathrooms?

Transgender woman Eva Tiamat Medusa removes ears and nose to become 'dragon lady' | Daily Mail Online:

Former male became female, now becoming "Dragon" and prefers to be referred to as "it" because it no longer identifies as human.

When "progressives" say that "progress" will continue, they are SERIOUS!


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‘C’ Is for Corruption

‘C’ Is for Corruption - WSJ:

... and as the article points out at the end, also for CLINTON, which is really just a synonym for corruption. The article covers what we need to know about the "Panama Papers".

The central summary paragraph is here:

"But nobody can be surprised by any of this. And nobody should look away from the central lesson of the scandal, though they’re trying. To wit, the story here isn’t about tax evaders and offshore accounts, deplorable as they may be. It’s about public policies and incentives that make a career in politics an expedient route to personal enrichment. "

The Clintons established the rule in the US that another "C" ... Character was not something required in a president.

In a world with no moral standard and a general agreement that "truth is relative", it is hard to even fully understand what someone means by "corruption". Slick and Hildebeast have amassed at least many 10's and probably hundreds of millions after leaving office by various "fees, honorariums, kickbacks,  retainers, etc". Certainly the BIG payoff will come if she gets the White House.

Everyone knows that BO will be doing the same. When you are a member of "The Party" (TP-D) in the US, the current situation is a lot more like Putin in Russia than it is for Iceland's President who had to resign. Looking at the history and current Clinton operation, it is clear they are completely above the standards of "normal Americans" as is BO.

The article is a good read -- essentially, the Clinton  / BO consortium proves that the US is pretty much "Brazil" at this point relative to corruption.

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A Rehab Challenge

Texas man set to die said he drank 12-year-old victim's blood - CBS News:

We live in a wonderful society where people are basically good and can be rehabilitated by proper treatment.

Vasquez told detectives he took a ring and gold necklace from Cardenas and that Chapa, using a shovel, also participated in trying to decapitate the boy. "The devil was telling me to take (the head) away from him," Vasquez said, adding that "it couldn't come off."

I keep wondering if BO doesn't have similar voices; "The Devil was telling me to destroy the morality of the nation, kill the work ethic and remove any future hope in the population -- it was hard to get it all done in just eight years, but I did my masters bidding to my greatest ability so expect great rewards ..."

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Racially Undesirable Wages

http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-0405-leonard-minimum-wage-20160405-story.html

Regular readers likely know that "progressives" in the early 20th century were largely racists and politically leaning more toward Fascism, which was popular right up till things went bad in WWII and it didn't turn out so well, at which point they became "liberals" which used to mean "small government, lots of personal liberty".

They were well aware that raising the minimum wage priced entry workers out of the labor market entirely, and at that point they unabashedly called that a bug rather than a feature. They ran Jim Crow in the South and White Supremacism was a major part of their operation right up to the 60's (See Voting Rights Act and Robert Byrd).

In 1910, 22% of the U.S. workforce was foreign-born. A Who's Who of American economic reform warned that immigration was leading to “race suicide,” what President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 called the “greatest problem of civilization.”

It's a good article covering what minimum wage laws actually do to the labor force and business. At this point in history, the left is on the "have over half the population on the government payroll and we win!" model, so throwing people out of jobs -- black, white, brown, green or whatever is a WIN!

Today, "Climate Change" is the "greatest problem of civilization" if you believe "progressives".

Get Trans-Serious **NOW**!!!!

http://m.townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/04/05/when-did-it-become-controversial-to-keep-men-out-of-the-womens-bathroom-n2143586?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad

I suspect that many people feel about the gender / bathroom thing as I felt about the "gay thing" for decades. "Yucky, tiny number of weird people out in San Francisco, it's a fad, it will blow over -- and if it doesn't, it is so unhealthy even without AIDs that they will die off ... or some variation".

**** WRONG !!!!!!!

Imagine how many alcoholics we would have if we treated alcoholism like gays or not transgender? "Hey, you were born to drink -- you would be untrue to your nature if you didn't drink! ... HAVE AT IT! ... the State ought to provide you with booze and a place to drink!!!!"

Go read the whole linked article ... but I thought the following was especially good. With PayPal deciding not to go to NC because they demand genders use their own bathrooms, this latest madness is RAPIDLY gathering steam!

Unfortunately, when it comes to transsexuals we make two huge mistakes. 

First, we encourage them to embrace their mental illness. We don’t do this with depression, schizophrenia, paranoia, multiple personality disorder or almost anything else because it’s a terrible idea. It’s like telling someone who’s depressed that he’s worthless and everyone else would be better off without him. We would be appalled if anyone did that; yet encouraging someone to mutilate himself in a futile attempt to change genders is an even more horrible thing to do to another human being. 

Our second mistake is that instead of having sympathy for people in that position, wishing them well and hoping for their recovery, we insist that everyone else cater to their mental disorder. There’s no law that says you have to stop cutting your hedges because your paranoid neighbor is suspicious of it. There’s no law that says you have to ask a person with multiple personality disorder whom he’s speaking to so you don’t shock him if you call him the wrong name. So, why are we willing to violate the privacy of half the population at one of their most vulnerable points during the day in order to cater to a mental disorder that afflicts a fraction of a percent of Americans?

How BO Lost The West

Deterrence: How America Lost It:



An excellent column covering in about as short a form as possible the foreign disaster of BO. Summary paragraph here, but a worthy read. It isn't just BO that doesn't know what happened -- it is the vast majority of Americans. But just like a bullet speeding toward your head, not knowing about it doesn't mean that the impact isn't really messy.

In Obama’s sophomoric view of the world, there is no connection between the 21st-century appurtenances that he takes for granted as president — trips on state-of-the-art Western planes, predicated on a global air-traffic-control system, run on sophisticated Western gadgets and all underwritten by Western free-market capitalism — and an established postwar Western order led by the United States. He will see no contradiction between his rhetoric and his own looming lucrative, hyper-capitalist post-presidency and the sources of capital that will fuel it. Instead, capitalism, national security, and globalization are seen as occurrences that just arose out of nowhere (cf. his recent advice to Argentina to adopt tenets of either Communism or capitalism, as if they were simply morally neutral choices), as if Nairobi designs new smartphones, Lima offers the world new ideas in municipal sewage treatment, China’s pharmaceuticals are superior to Western counterparts — or Islam taught us about medicine, navigation, and religious tolerance.

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The Wages Of Philosophic Incoherence

The scary illogic of pro-life - The Washington Post:

As I argued last week, if abortion is murder, then Trump was right about penalties for women having abortions. If it is not murder, then it ought to be legal.

In movies such as “The Silent Scream,” the antiabortion movement has for years provided gory and inaccurate details of the pain and violence of an abortion. So, if abortion is the violent murder of a human being, why not follow this twisted logic and punish women for having one? We don’t hold the perpetrators of any other violent act harmless unless they are insane or acted in self-defense, and the antiabortion movement hasn’t argued women who have abortions fall into either category.

While consistency is never an issue when the LEFT takes positions, they are very good at pointing out inconsistency from the right, and we ought to thank them for that. To be inconsistent is very human, but that doesn't make it "right", nor possible to sweep under the rug and still live morally and consistently.

The treatment of prostitution might be a model, only abortion is even LESS "victimless". In the old days, only the prostitute was prosecuted ( I see them as the abortionist ), but the "John", the customer was not. Today, there are sanctions against both parties. I could see the penalties for women seeking and obtaining abortions as similar to those for men who make use of prostitutes.

At least that is a place to begin a discussion. The left is correct, there is no way to philosophically hold the position that abortion is a form of murder, but the person who hires the killer (the woman) receives no sanction  from the state.



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Never An Author, Things Not To Read

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/04/gods-work?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep

The not recommended linked article is a short little fable bathed in teen angst, religious/moral confusion, value free life and sexual tension. The title drew me in "God's Work" -- and curiosity about how the author would treat the "Jehova's Witness" style door to door proselytizers.

Here is a link to the author talking about it a bit. Things that go through my mind about this piece:

1. There is VERY little in it that I liked -- I nearly quit after what I found to be a gratuitous overly flat reference to innocent / accidental sexual voyeurism in the young male character. 
2. It seemed utterly purposeless -- no admirable characters, no real positive statements on either the rather extreme religiosity of the mother and son, nor anything positive about the atheistic drug addled father / girl pair. 

But, having been only critical, I realize it WAS published in the New Yorker, AND they found it worthy to have a discussion with the author.  This struck me ... 

This always sounds deranged, but I had no idea what would happen when I set these two in motion. The sense of discovery only comes when I’m making discoveries alongside the reader. It feels crucial for me to not know too much about how things will turn out. So I try to develop strong characters with recognizable desires and put them together with other characters and see what happens. I can’t know the outcome in advance without the life just draining out of a scene.

Perhaps if I want to create characters I need to do more than just "read"? At least so far in life, my brain has not worked to really understand the "making discoveries alongside the reader" ...

Creating characters is a stumbling block -- but thanks to the internet, EVERYTHING can be turned to an easy 10-point cookbook, so now I have no excuses!

Cuba: "Negro, Are You Dumb"

Cuban Media: 'Negro' Obama 'Incited Rebellion and Disorder':

It's hard to overstate how excited and entertained our media was in '08 when W was attacked by having a shoe thrown at him in Iraq.

Needless to say, the dressing down of BO by Fidel Castro and some of the articles showing up in Cuban papers like the linked one are not getting much coverage.

Referring to BO as a "dumb negro" is in line with the administration in Cuba:

In a video declaration in 2015, Ladies in White dissident leader Berta Soler explains that, of known political prisoners, 60 percent are black. Black people are often forced to live in segregated neighborhoods and kept far away from tourism industry jobs (except prostitution). “To the government, the black person is a thief, a bandit, a troublemaker,” Soler argues, noting that the Cuban people are significantly less racist than the regime.

There is nothing surprising here. To the left, IDEOLOGY TRUMPS ALL -- consider the "love" for Islam which subjugates women and stones gays.  I love the fact that in Cuba, if you want to call someone really stupid you refer to them as a "Swede":

The article is titled “Negro, ¿Tu Eres Sueco?” which roughly translates to “Black Man, Are You Dumb?” (The idiom “pretend to be a Swede” means to play dumb, hence the title is literally asking, “Are you Swedish?”)

I happen to be of mostly Swedish descent, and the "big dumb Swede" putdown was a fairly common "friendly put-down" growing up in NW WI when I was young. Yes, in the days before PC, "friendly put down" among neighbors and friends was actually a common thing!

"Political Correctness" in Cuba is different -- the ONLY group you better be careful to not piss off is the government, or that will be the LAST time to make an insult!

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