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     Aesquire |
And since it's now completely obvious that Indiana doesn't mean anything except that the Left Lies, we go to personal rights. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397504/lifes tyle-so-good-its-mandatory-kevin-d-williamson If that seems inconsistent to you, you are thinking about it the wrong way: For all of its scientific pretensions and empirical posturing, progressivism is not about evidence, and at its heart it is not even about public policy at all: It is about aesthetics. The goal of progressivism is not to make the world rational; it’s to make the world Portland. | ||
| Sifo |
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| Daddio |
"This reasonable and prudent cowardice, is still cowardice." Aes: Your posting made me recall the old thing about P.E.T.A. and how it's safer to harass rich old women in furs, than bikers in leathers... Sifo-- lots of thumbs up for your last 2 posts. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/04/01/story-about-1 st-business-to-publicly-vow-to-reject-gay-weddings -was-fabricated-out-of-nothing/ Those who use hate to gain power are evil. It's kinda the definition. | ||
| Reindog |
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| Reindog |
HANDS UP, DON'T SHOOT! "IF I HAD A SON, HE WOULD LOOK LIKE TRAYVON" The beat goes on......  | ||
| Aesquire |
While we're at it, Remember "Bush lied people died"???? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/world/middleeast /-more-than-600-reported-chemical-weapons-exposure -in-iraq-pentagon-acknowledges.html?_r=1 More than 600 American service members since 2003 have reported to military medical staff members that they believe they were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq, but the Pentagon failed to recognize the scope of the reported cases or offer adequate tracking and treatment to those who may have been injured, defense officials say. The Pentagon’s disclosure abruptly changed the scale and potential costs of the United States’ encounters with abandoned chemical weapons during the occupation of Iraq, episodes the military had for more than a decade kept from view. This previously untold chapter of the occupation became public after an investigation by The New York Times revealed last month that although troops did not find an active weapons of mass destruction program, they did encounter degraded chemical weapons from the 1980s that had been hidden in caches or used in makeshift bombs. ............ Before post-deployment assessments were reviewed, Colonel Buller said, the Public Health Command had already expanded its search for potential victims and intended to examine the medical records of all troops assigned to units that the Army has belatedly acknowledged handled chemical weapons or were attacked with them. ........ “It’s too little, too late,” said Jordan Zoeller, a former Army sergeant who served in a platoon that was exposed to a sulfur mustard agent as soldiers destroyed buried chemical artillery shells near Taji in 2008. ........... An officer in the unit to which he was assigned — a battalion from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, he said — issued what he called “a gag order” that forbade him to discuss that he had found chemical shells. ........ They noted that many of the troops’ encounters with chemical agents could have been brief and minimal, as that of a turret gunner in a vehicle passing briefly through an area where a chemical shell had been used in a makeshift bomb. I have no idea why the Bush Regime covered up all the chemical weapons found in Iraq. I will point out that many in his Regime, are very active in politics, like Karl Rove, and are virulently anti- Tea Party. It's as though someone decided that the lies of the opposition were preferable to the truth, and I bet those people are still trying to screw us. Opinions? | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416384/stop- pretending-be-offended-everything-david-harsanyi http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416443/moral -heroism-without-morality-jonah-goldberg?target=au thor&tid=897 | ||
| Greatlaker |
Aesquire said, "I have no idea why the Bush Regime covered up all the chemical weapons found in Iraq." The Bush regime covered up the munitions found in Iraq because they were in fact U.S. munitions that were sold to the Iraq military during the Iran/Iraq war. The decades old munitions had been stockpiled and buried and forgotten in various locations across Iraq and when they were rediscovered these same munitions literally crumbled in the hands of those people who recovered them and in some cases caused health issues when contaminants leached out. The Bush regime covered this up because it doesn't look very good when the chemical munitions you are recovering in Iraq (and using as the one of the reasons for going to war) are the same munitions you sold to the Iraqi government in the 80's under Reagan's tenure. The Bush administration did not want to appear hypocritical. Hence the cover up. You can Google ton's of information on this subject if you try Aesquire. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-153210/Rum sfeld-helped-Iraq-chemical-weapons.html | ||
| Aesquire |
That actually makes some sense. Incomplete, partly false, and biased, but thought provoking. The half century long proxy wars with the Soviet Union and the horrific moral compromises to prevent the spread of the most murderous scum in history led to the U.S. England, Canada, etc. propping up some vile dictators.... to prevent, it was thought even more vile ones from gaining power. As we are deluged with documentaries on WW1 and how it all went bad in such surprising ways, and the 20/20 hindsight that WW2 could have been prevented by a single French policeman......... It is increasingly obvious to me that the events of 1945-60's letting the Soviets conquer half of Europe should have been stopped much sooner, much faster. Hundreds of millions of lives would have been saved. All murdered in cold blood by the Communist regimes of and sponsored by the Soviets and Red Chinese. The parallels with Obama and Iraq/Iran/Muslim Brotherhood are striking. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/mo ral_bullies_and_the_laws_that_enable_them.html There is a German restaurant called the Alpine Village Inn, in Torrance California. A group of four neo-Nazis went there to eat, each wearing a lapel pin with a swastika on it. The management asked them to take off the lapel pins. They refused. The management asked them to leave. They refused. The management called the police, who arrested them. Then, remarkably, the Southern California ACLU gets involved, and sues the restaurant for calling the police on the Nazis! This much I’ve confirmed from media accounts. According to the commenter who first alerted me to this story, “the defendants’ insurer eventually settled following unsuccessful pretrial challenges to the complaint, believing they could not prevail under California law! “I’m informed that the restaurant actually lost at trial, and the insurer refused to foot the bill for an appeal. Does any one have a right to force another to work for them? | ||
| Strokizator |
Yep, it's called Welfare. | ||
| Aesquire |
I did mean besides taxes... should have specified!  | ||
| Hootowl |
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/07/chicago -mayor-rahm-emanuel-wins-2nd-term-in-runoff-victor y/ A choice between a turd and a shit sandwich. Tough call: Rahm or a union backed community organizer. | ||
| Airbozo |
"I have no idea why the Bush Regime covered up all the chemical weapons found in Iraq. " Because his dads signature was on the receipt? | ||
| Aesquire |
Not exactly. See above comments. Aid to Saddam's Iraq was a bad response to Jimmie's support for the overthrow of the Shah and the rise of Islamofascism. Here's news for the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/08/robert -kennedy-jr-compares-vaccine-debate-holocaust-cali fornia-lawmakers-banning-exemptions/ First, I'm not happy with the State deciding to force parents to vaccinate their children. There is a good argument that those children should not be allowed to go to school with the vaccinated herd. It's a question of freedoms and the power of the State to run your life. Not cut & dried. Second, RK Jr. is a fraud, pushes lies in multiple subjects, and is promoting a known lie. My respect for that family peaked when I was 5. Been downhill ever since. I admired the Fiscal Conservative JFK, liked the Space Program, ( now a Muslim outreach program and Global Warming activist ) and liked the way he stood up to the Evil Empire. Not so happy about the Bay of Pigs debacle, and his Brother Teddy was a letch, a drunk, guilty of manslaughter and a racist who wrote the racist provisions in Immigration law that most people now want changed, one way or another. The RK Jr. branch? making money on fear and lies seems to be the major accomplishment. Coasting on a family fortune made from rum running is the romantic part. | ||
| Airbozo |
RK Jr is inciting the crowd with lies, yes. I would support this bill only if they add a line to indicate that you have a choice not to vaccinate your children, but they will not be allowed in the public school system. I would also support an item allowing places like Great America and Disney to require proof of vaccination to enter their parks. Should this extend to things like football games? I am not sure how this would work logistics wise. Perhaps a new check box on your drivers license or ID card? While I understand the right to choose, parents must realize that their actions affect the whole population and not just their tiny little bubble. Spock said it best: The needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few. | ||
| Aesquire |
But, in the end, Spock was wrong. Yes, he saved the day, but in the next movie Kirk put the needs of the one over the needs of the many to good effect. It's not an easy thing. If a parent insists their little germ factory is not going to get shots because Robert Kennedy Jr. tells them it causes Autism, based on a disproven paper by a fraud in England, is not letting their little typhoid Mary's go to your kid's school enough? I assume your kids are vaccinated, so they should be safe, but it's entirely possible that brutal darwinian consequences will fall on the innocent children, not on the idiot parents. The Darwin Awards are supposed to be people killing themselves off ( or sterilizing themselves ) BEFORE they have kids. Win Win, except for the people hurt and killed in the results of the fatal stupidity. It's NOT supposed to be children dying because their parents are unfit to live in a modern society... Oh heck, in a past era their parents would have thrown them into the volcano because RK Jr., or some other, less pretty Wormtongue, told them it would save the Mammoths. http://www.steynonline.com/6874/tale-two-rapes I stand full throated roar opposed to rape. I've never interrupted one, which is sorta good, since I don't want to go through the trial that will follow, and I understand that I can't go after some guy who some girl told me raped her years ago, that whole proof, criminal justice system, no vigilante thing, you know. I also think a women that falsely accuses some one of rape should be prosecuted. When multiple News companies give a pass on a rape story of a reporter because of political reasons, they deserve to be boycotted. In fact, if you still watch the companies that covered up rape for political reasons, you must ask yourself, "what are they lying about to me today?" | ||
| Hootowl |
Getting vaccinated doesn't protect you 100% of the time. This is why herd immunity is so important. Not vaccinating your kids puts other kids at risk, even if those kids have been vaccinated. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/vir ginia-hacking-voting-machines-security Locally we went for paper ballots, so the machine can vote for whoever it wants and then if the "wrong" person wins they can count ballots.... Don't ask me who decides. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/05/01/40-person-mob -assaults-2-jews-on-paris-boulevard-voltaire/ Hell, hand basket. Coming to your town. I see that Jews from France are leaving for Canada. Since Canada has some serious freedom of speech issues I wish them luck. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/05/01/oaklan d-protests-may-day/ One of the marchers said she was okay with vandalism that targeted big business. “I see it like a game of chess and if one day we can throw rocks at police, right or wrong, however you feel about it, then that’s a day we took a stand. And that, in my mind, to some extent, is a win against the system,” Melissa Crosby said. Screw you Melissa. I suppose it's ok for me to throw rocks at you for promoting slavery? http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/omalley-announ ce-baltimore-make-city-central-campaign_936812.htm l OOOH! A leftist using hatred to gain power! How normal. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/hollywood-bu ndlers-are-losing-the-spotlight-117565.html I'm still amused and aghast at how Mccain's own badly written bribery reform law was used against him by Obama to launder a Billion Dollars. Hillary, according to the article, must focus on pleasing rich people, and can ignore the peasants, as they just are not worth pleasing in todays political bribe culture. | ||
| Aesquire |
This is going to take some context. At work I'm in motion and I need to know the traffic & weather. So the "every ten minutes T&W" radio station is what I'm tuned to. Same with talk radio. The Morning talk show guys, both local and international, have their schtick, and you learn to mostly ignore the ongoing rants. But later in the day you have the choice of big and local rants & news. Rush, NPR, Dennis Miller, I used to love G. Gordon Liddy reading the newspaper at full snark. Now who you like or hate is a matter for your prejudices, personality, and politics. We could do a whole thread on talk radio, but I bet it would get very impolite indeed. I somewhat like Glenn Beck. I disagree with him, a lot. On some profound things. I do find him occasionally insightful, and he did "predict" the housing bubble,and several other monetary disasters... which means he parroted other's dire warnings and some happened.  I somewhat like Penn Jillette, I disagree with him, a lot. On some profound things. I do find him occasionally insightful, and admire the stated moral standard. Here, Penn explains what "Context" really means. http://on.aol.com/video/penn-jillette-on-friendshi p-with-glenn-beck--hes-like-your-crazy-uncle-51799 3509 I think Penn has an important point here. Glenn I agree with you; however, we have to be able to allow people to say you’re wrong, where we’re not allowing people to say you’re wrong or I disagree with you. Once you have that conversation, then you have to go back to like you and I are. I think you’re wrong on things. You think I’m wrong on things. That’s cool. Penn You also keep picking at that scab. That’s important to do. Glenn What do you mean? Penn You keep reiterating where your differences are because that’s where you learn. The best conversations are the ones you come away with having been beat up and realizing you’re wrong, and you always want to keep—conversations you have, you know, online and with people who just say you can’t change that person’s mind, give up, that breaks my heart. I don’t think you ever give up. It’s just finding that exact tightrope that you have to walk down of being able to live and exist with somebody and at the same time not give up your own principles. It’s a really difficult tight wire that I think we fall off all the time. Glenn Isn’t that kind of an arrogant stance though to take there? Penn What’s that? Don’t ever give up on changing their mind. Penn No, you never try to change their mind. Don’t ever give up on stating what you believe. Whenever anyone comes in, there’s all these, and you’ve seen them, they’re on both sides, and they’re identical. I can show you Christian sites and I can show you atheist sites that say how to talk to your friend, how to talk to your atheist friend, how to talk to your Christian friend. And they have this whole way of well, first of all, don’t tell them they’re wrong, but tell them is there another explanation for what could be going on other than their faith, and try to be nice and don’t be this way. Telling people how to manipulate other people seems to be folly and morally wrong. Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/04/28/why-does-penn- jillette-hate-this-word/?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_ medium=contentcopy_link Just somethings to think about... Now we can go back to yelling "The King Is A Fink!". | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2015/05/03/it-does nt-have-to-be-this-way/ Instead of cut & paste.... it's a good, fast read. And accurate. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/05/10/surprise-soci al-security-much-nearer-death-than-previously-thou ght/ I do not endorse this one...   | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.pjtv.com/series/the-rundown-754/james-f ranco-circles-the-wagons-around-ronald-mcdonald-10 963/ I remember a few years ago, when Rush ( yes, the small Satan ) took the "make it absurd to show how stupid the other's argument is", when the cry was to raise the minimum wage to some high number, $10 an hour, ( I don't recall the number ) by saying, "why not $15 an hour?" At a time when that was a silly high wage for many jobs. Well, now it's $15. And when this gets passed by politicians who want to get the stupid vote, ( and who doesn't? There are a LOT of stupid people, and the Ignorant are a majority. ) the fast food chains are going to close a bunch of restaurants, and cut the staff at the rest, by buying more robots. And let's be honest, I've worked at McDonalds, and Burger King, because I've been young, and I've been broke, and the Jimmy Carter Years were the Second worst economy in My lifetime, ( The Barry years now have them beat, with 7+ years of declining employment ) and McDonalds in my life has automated a lot of what humans used to do. It's always had the timers to industrialize the process. You get consistent food by consistent cooking, and you sit through hours of videos teaching the completely unskilled how to drop burgers and fries into the process. The Process is WHY when you are on the road you stop at a chain. Few people want to explore strange new intestinal disturbances on their way to a vacation or family meeting. Once there, you can try candied eels or suffer through Aunt Gretchen's Lutefisk. That's part of the joys of vacations.  Bottom line, you are not supposed to work at McDonalds, or The Gap, your whole life, it's a way station, and training to work for a living, not a Work For A Living job. There's a reason assistant manager at a fast food place is not considered in the same plane as junior account executive... ( except by the low level workers, and upper management, who both have contempt for them.... Often unfairly... ) More important to the U.S. & planetary political scene, is CHINA IS BUILDING ROBOT FACTORIES. Why? because it costs to pay people, and at some point, you either automate the work, or you outsource it to a cheaper place. Eventually you run out of Vietnams and Indonesias to exploit, and then it's robots baby. And if you are going to build a robotic factory to make consumer goods, you will want to build it where you have a lot of robot repairmen handy. Japan learned that American factories actually make a product as good as any in Japan, so if you are a major corporation, it makes sense to build the robot factory where the few workers do a good job. Now there are some things to think of. The reason American Factories can make good parts is the same as the reason Japanese factories can. We invented modern QC. Then taught it to Japan. They embraced it, and it took Toyota kicking GM's butt to get GM to adopt the American designed QC methods. ( I actually still wonder about GM..... and I've actually heard a machine shop owner say "It was good enough for grandad, it was good enough for dad, it's good enough for me". He doesn't own the shop anymore. ) | ||
| Aesquire |
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419871/there -are-two-americas-and-only-one-truly-free-david-fr ench http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419806/polit ical-lefts-favorite-new-buzzword-thomas-sowell My current canned response to charges of "micro-aggression" are to ask if Macro Aggression is preferred? This replaces "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass" screamed at high volume. But I might go back to it, it seems less aggressive.  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419815/left- rejects-painful-truths-dennis-prager Here’s a difference between Left and Right that is rarely noted despite the fact that it is at least as important as any other and even explains many of the other differences. At the core of left-wing thought is a rejection of painful realities, the rejection of what the French call les faits de la vie, the facts of life. Conservatives, on the other hand, are all too aware of these painful realities of life and base many of their positions on them. One such example was the subject of my first column on Left–Right differences: whether people are basically good. When liberals blame violent crime in America on poverty, one reason they do is that liberal beliefs since the Enlightenment have posited that human nature is good. Therefore when people do truly bad things to other people, liberals believe that some outside force — usually poverty, racism, and/or unemployment — must be responsible, not human nature......... http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418576/why-p amela-geller-hated-dennis-prager?target=author&tid =900932 Pamela Geller — the woman whose group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, organized the Muhammad-cartoon drawing contest in Garland, Texas — may be the most hated person in America right now. She is certainly the Left’s chief villain; and, sad to say, though few conservatives hate her, more than a few have condemned her. The question is why? Here are three reasons. REASON ONE: THE LEFT HATES THOSE WHO CONFRONT EVIL The first and most important reason is a rule of life that I wrote about in a recent column explaining the Left’s hatred for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Those who don’t fight evil hate those who do. This is a defining characteristic of the American Left. That is why the Left loathed President Ronald Reagan for labeling the Soviet Union an “evil empire”: He judged and confronted Communism, the greatest evil in the world after World War II. Today, the world’s greatest evil is Islamism (the movement to impose Islam and its sharia on society). Just as the Left loathed anti-Communists, it loathes anti-Islamists, chief among whom is Netanyahu, the prime minister of the country that the Islamists most hate, the country that most confronts violent Islam — and not coincidentally the country the international Left most hates....... More, and accurate. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Not trying to thread-jack, but here's the Klan on a ferris wheel.  | ||
| Steveford |
These political threads just make me feel like I've accidentally wandered into Bizarro World but who doesn't love a good photo of the Kluckers on a ferris wheel? Thanks for posting that one! |
