Saturday, March 11, 2017
Middlebury Analysis: When the Administration Hands the Reins to the Juveniles
An excerpt:
Students No Longer Believe In Intellectual DiscussionThe administration fully signaled its leftist virtue credentials in advance, meaning "go for it" to the latent intellectual closure in the juvenile undeveloped brains and minds of the students. Students who know everything already are not really students, are they?
The student protesters have taken to heart an idea that has floated around in radical left circles for decades and that has recently gained traction on American campuses: the idea that some ideas are so illegitimate, it is right and proper to prevent their expression.
It is useful to see such views spelled out since they are, in effect, a no-trespassing sign erected on the border of simple-minded ignorance.
According to this conceit, permitting the expression of such pernicious ideas lends them credibility, and even mounting arguments against the validity of such ideas elevates them to a status they do not deserve. The sustainability movement began to use this tactic to bar the expression of dissent from its favored postulates, and the tactic has spread to others on the radical left.
A Middlebury student named Nic Valenti provided a near-perfect example of this twisted logic in a letter published in the Middlebury student newspaper, “Why I’m Declining AEI’s ‘Invitation to Argue.’” Murray’s ideas, in Valenti’s judgment, are “dangerous.” Debating those ideas suggests “false equivalence” with better ideas. Allowing those ideas to be expressed on campus is “grossly disrespectful,” “a waste of time,” and an insult to “young people with the perceptiveness of realizing that this whole situation is fucking bullshit and the integrity to be enraged by it.”
Valenti’s words are our best glimpse into the heads of college students who reject the principles of academic and intellectual freedom. It is useful to see such views spelled out since they are, in effect, a no-trespassing sign erected on the border of simple-minded ignorance. No ideas contrary to those approved by leftist groupthink are permitted beyond that border.
How Students Are Trying To Excuse Their Actions
Similar views are on display in a statement posted anonymously by some Middlebury students after the protest and assault. They manage to blame the attack on unnamed outsiders, as well as on Vice President Burger and security personnel who “without warning began pushing and pulling protesters out of the way.” They also explain:
A student reports that Professor Stanger’s hair was not intentionally pulled but was inadvertently caught in the chaos that Public Safety incited. It is irresponsible to imply that a protester aggressively and intentionally pulled her hair.The statement also fixes the blame for the whole affair on the Middlebury administration: These students “condemn the administration and Public Safety’s actions on Thursday night and since then — especially their attempts to discredit the protesters inside and outside McCullough.”
This actually sounds as if the protesters, having disgraced themselves in the public eye, now would like some kind of debate over what happened. Not really, of course. But they are eager to escape any responsibility for their actions.
Headline of the Day
From Instapundit:
WELL PLAYED, UNIVERSE. WELL PLAYED. Lawyer’s Pants Catch Fire During Florida Arson Trial.Probably involving Florida Man...
Friday, March 10, 2017
Scientists: Can't Explain It - Must Be Intelligently Designed
Could Mysterious Cosmic Light Flashes Be Powering Alien Spacecraft?
Bizarre flashes of cosmic light may actually be generated by advanced alien civilizations, as a way to accelerate interstellar spacecraft to tremendous speeds, a new study suggests.
Astronomers have catalogued just 20 or so of these brief, superbright flashes, which are known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), since the first one was detected in 2007. FRBs seem to be coming from galaxies billions of light-years away, but what's causing them remains a mystery.
"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," study co-author Avi Loeb, a theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement Thursday (March 9). "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking."
Barack Hussein Obama II - The Kenyan Birth Certificate
Barack's Sister releases the Kenyan Certificate
No wonder all of Obama's paper trail is top secret, including access to his Hawaiian birth certificate. Every document he signed as "president" was a fraud.
How will this be received? Prediction: Screaming HOAX at the top of their lungs, the Leftist government will do everything it can to destroy this document, or at least its impact.
However, at a minimum the Great Leftist Black President SJW will have been compromised, historically... if honest history is written, that is.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Death Knell: Merriam-Webster Flops to the Left
Going SJW is always the precursor to loss of respect followed by loss of viability. Never go full SJW.
Why Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary is Trolling TrumpI still have my five pound unabridged Webster's from 1979. The dust cover says, "2,347 pages, 320,000 defintions, 19 encyclopedic supplements, 3,000 illustrations, Full Color maps of the world." Price:$69.95, which was a pretty good bundle in the day.
That’s because conservatives and liberals alike will reject as too Orwellian a dictionary perceived as politically charged. It will simply be too hard to convince people that cultural or political bias hasn’t seeped into and soiled the dictionary’s definitions. When it comes to lexicography, credibility depends on impartiality.
Regardless of their political opinions, Americans still expect the dictionary to be objective and neutral, even more than they expect that from the media. So at a time when trust and confidence in America’s mainstream media is practically nonexistent, why would Merriam-Webster even flirt with the appearance of partisanship?
If even the dictionary loses its objectivity, it means politics in America has become entirely inescapable. That’s not just dangerous, it’s sad. It’s unhealthy. It’s not good for a society to be so permeated with politics that there is nowhere to hide.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
A Logical Response to Violence
Based Stick Man takes on the Leftist goons.
Side X will take the violence from side Y only so long, before this happens.
Addendum: I can't help it: Check the goon on the far right, checking himself out for head trauma.
Addendum: I can't help it: Check the goon on the far right, checking himself out for head trauma.
Of Course, Because Women Can't... ummm Can't... Well, you see, Women Need Men to do it umm Because... umm
Women’s March Strike Organized By Group With All-Male LeadershipMaybe these guys just want a day off from wymyn...
'We want this to be a day where women feel empowered to take a stance on their value in the workplace and the world beyond'
Your Brain on Leftism
From Instapundit:
LEFTISM MAKES YOU STUPID: Student union bans Conservative society from speaking out – because they challenged its position on free speech.In the all new Post Truth culture, there is no truth so nothing can be either true or false. It's all just mush. And mushy thinkers can't be wrong, right?
A student union has banned a university Conservative society from using its social media accounts – because they challenged its position on free speech.Like I said, leftism makes you stupid. Or maybe stupid people become leftists. Chicken, egg.
Lincoln University’s Conservative Society has been censored by its student union after it posted an image online showing that the university had been ranked “very intolerant” on free speech in a recent survey.
In response, the Students’ Union swiftly suspended the society’s social media accounts, on the grounds that highlighting the university’s ranking had brought it into disrepute.
However, the decision has been met with widespread derision from social media users and Lincoln MP Karl McCartney, who said that union officials should be “ashamed”.
“This intolerant, illiberal and totalitarian response is akin to something out of the Soviet Union or North Korea rather than a place for learning and debate,” he said.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
To Put It Concisely...
They cut their own throats.
But have you noticed? While all this head-spinning legal jibber-jabber goes back and forth, the foundation of the false narrative we’ve been hearing since November 8 has vanished. Now that we’re supposed to believe there was no real investigation of Trump and his campaign, what else can we conclude but that there was no real evidence of collusion between the campaign and Russia . . . which makes sense, since Russia did not actually hack the election, so the purported objective of the collusion never existed. Trick or tweet?The two minute hate part is over. Now they're looking for an exit.
Alternatively, the spying on Trump was real and wholly political, and the Russians-under-my-bed thing was a cover story hatched after Hillary unexpectedly lost, when it became apparent that Trump, and America, would find out sooner or later what had been done.
Breaking News: Democrats Discover That Donald Trump Doesn't Play Small Ball
The most singular thing about Donald Trump’s wiretap accusation against Barack Obama is how he’s refusing to play the game of extremities –losing a Flynn here and getting a Sessions paralyzed there — and getting right into lethal range. Trump’s gone right past Schumer, ignored the surrogates and gone straight for the former president himself.The concept of the complete retirement of presidents is based on presidents who had principles which include the laws and welfare of the AMERICAN NATION. Obama believes in the welfare of the Leftist autocracy and the uber-rich globalists. He also believes that he has an army in the BLM and antifas, supported by the media and the deep state.
The Sunday Guardian writes some believe Trump’s key mistake was believing “in mid-November … that it would be a statesmanlike gesture to (in effect) pardon Hillary Clinton”. He must have expected a reciprocal courtesy. The next thing he felt were his digits being sheared away.
“Acting through their contacts in the incoming administration, the Clinton machine … ‘dismissed National Security Advisor Michael Flynn … [and] ensured that the green light got flashed to launch an attack on another known foe of Hillary Clinton’, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose sought after resignation would energize the Clinton machine to move on to their next targets, Counsellors Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Bannon.”
Trump’s response to the finger-lopping campaign was not to respond proportionately but to attack Obama himself. . . .
This escalation represents a real threat to Obama. Suddenly everything is out of control. Nobody would have minded much if Trump had gone after one of Obama’s henchmen — which is probably what was expected — but none can foresee how an exchange of blades between principals will end. It is safe to say however that unless the combatants disengage someone will get hurt. It will be a terrible moment for American political civility when a king lies on the political floor. The whole point of a peaceful transition of power is to prevent a clash between kings. Yet the very tragedy the electoral process is intended to prevent is happening before our eyes.
In such a fight anything can happen.
One of the ways American political culture prevents such a fight is to have only one king at a time. Former presidents are expected to retire and vanish. Obama, however, decided to stay in DC and try to destroy Trump’s presidency. That was a choice that showed little concern for America, but then, the lack of such concern has been a hallmark of Obama’s career.
And who was foolish enough to think that Trump would respond to attacks by playing small ball?
Trump is the Destructor who has proven himself in battle time and again when the Left declared him dead at every turn.
If Obama loses his status as king of the world's Leftist armies, it is possible that an unfocused war of civil destruction will break out as the ruffians go berserk.
THE most interesting times, EVAH.
Republicans Introduce ObamaCare Lite
If the reports are accurate, the new Republican plan is this:
The legislation would provide tax credits to people who don’t get coverage through their job, replacing the subsidies the ACA gave to a narrower set of lower-income people to help them afford insurance policies.This appears to be a loser, imo. But the full details aren't before me right now.
The proposal wouldn’t kill the ACA’s exchanges where people can obtain insurance, but far fewer people are expected to use them because the subsidies that reduce premium costs would no longer exist. Those subsidies are only available now to people who obtain coverage through the state and federal ACA exchanges.
The refundable tax credits have been a thorny issue for Republicans. Conservative Republicans vowed not to support an earlier draft that would have provided the tax credits regardless of income.
Under the House GOP proposal released Monday, the refundable tax credits would be tied to age, with people under 30 eligible for a credit of $2,000 per year, increasing steadily to $4,000 for those over 60. The size of a tax credit would grow with the size of a family, but would be capped at $14,000.
To assuage the concern among conservative lawmakers that the credits would be available to wealthy Americans, the tax credits would start to shrink for individuals making more than $75,000 or households making more than $150,000. For every $1,000 in income over $75,000, the tax credit would be reduced by $100.
What the legislation doesn’t appear to do is create a national market for health insurance, and instead keeps in place our current system of having 50 little state-based insurance fiefdoms — which limits risk pools and, more critically, competition between insurers.
Another complaint against ObamaCare is that it hugely increased the regulatory burden on doctors, clinics, and hospitals, but it’s impossible to tell from this story if the GOP legislation repeals any of that.
Rand Paul calls it “ObamaCare Lite” and says he won’t vote for it.
Monday, March 6, 2017
What Happens When You Go FULL SJW
Big Layoffs Coming to Financially Struggling ESPN
As sports cable network ESPN continues to bleed cash, another round of layoffs is about to hit that will reportedly take out some well-known reporters and on-air faces.
Reports say that ESPN management is being tasked with cutting “tens of millions” of dollars of staff salary from its payroll, meaning that on-air personalities are on the chopping block, according to Sports Illustrated.
“Today’s fans consume content in many different ways, and we are in a continuous process of adapting to change and improving what we do. Inevitably, that has consequences for how we utilize our talent,” ESPN said in a statement. “We are confident that ESPN will continue to have a roster of talent that is unequaled in sports.”
The network is reportedly set to buyout some contracts, and fire writers and behind the camera staffers. The slashing of staff will likely be completed by June, insiders say.
The news of the massive cuts comes on the heels of reports that ESPN is losing millions per year.
Once a sports powerhouse, ESPN has gone from must-see-TV for millions of sports fans to a financial boondoggle for owner Disney with the network losing up to 10,000 subscribers a day, reports said last month.
“A floundering ESPN, with rising costs and declining viewership, continued to sink Disney’s DIS, +0.24% financial results during its fiscal first quarter,” MarketWatch.com reported.
With ESPN dragging on the company, Disney’s revenue fell 3 percent, and its profits sank 14 percent, the financial site reported.
Well, Barack. You've Produced Interesting Times For Yourself - Enjoy!!
Bam Bam's New Legacy:
The Donald WILL get to the bottom of this, Barack. Better move offshore, say go be president of France. They want more immigrants over there, ya know, because multiculturalism is working out so well and all.
The Donald WILL get to the bottom of this, Barack. Better move offshore, say go be president of France. They want more immigrants over there, ya know, because multiculturalism is working out so well and all.
Chavez' Venezuela a la Michael Moore
Sunday, March 5, 2017
If Donkeys Had Moral Principles, They Wouldn't Be Donkeys
Moral Outrage Sounds Pretty Empty When Coming From Donkeys.
'Nother Day at the Treasury...
Treasury Department burning through cash as debt ceiling approachesDon't Worry, Be Happy - just print more money, no sweat. It's not like it's backed by anything, say gold or mud. Ship all that paper over to China, then inflate the value right out of it. That's what the founding fathers did after the Revolution, right? [note 1]
Notes:
1. Right.
Loretta Lynch and Democrats Blatantly Race-Bait For Street Violence
She'll get what she wants, no doubt about it. Summer's coming.
Loretta Lynch: Need more marching, blood, death on streetsGo THERE FOR THE VIDEO
Senate Dems post her impassioned plea on Facebook page as 'words of inspiration'
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