Had a thought this morning (took an aspirin and feel better now).
The Va shooter obviously could not put past slights and perceived injustices behind him and either learn from them or accept them. (Although he might have just been a sicko and a time bomb.)
Not being able to put past slights and perceived injustices behind as a learning experience or just accepting that life is not fair describes (to me) the ongoing "rape months after the event" complaints made by college girls (not women).
"Mattress girl" is a good example.
Are these girls going to captured by a "mentally ill" definition that possibly describes the shooter?
Bob in Texas
at August 28, 2015 6:03 AM
"The Va shooter obviously could not put past slights and perceived injustices behind him and either learn from them or accept them."
From what I've read, the guy was a classic narcisstic/borderline personality: took all criticism as a personal insult, views other people as tools or objects to be exploited, extremely short temper, aggressively challenging the status of others, short attention span, excuse-making, externalizing poor choices, and personal disorganization. The Cluster B mental patterns may be a disorder, but the behavior choices are voluntary. It's not like a schizophrenic, where his senses are lying to him. It's a choice.
Cousin Dave
at August 28, 2015 6:39 AM
"... took all criticism as a personal insult, views other people as tools or objects to be exploited, extremely short temper, aggressively challenging the status of others, short attention span, excuse-making, externalizing poor choices, and personal disorganization."
CD, did you just describe feminism, Liberals, SJW, Obama, AND college girls all at once?
Damn you are good.
Bob in Texas
at August 28, 2015 7:10 AM
Huh, some 141 counties in the US have more registered voters than people living in those locations.
I R A Darth Aggie
at August 28, 2015 7:23 AM
Charles C. W. Cooke has a small rant for the gun grabbers.
I R A Darth Aggie
at August 28, 2015 7:42 AM
"CD, did you just describe feminism, Liberals, SJW, Obama, AND college girls all at once?"
Leftism is the politics of narcissism. That, at the root, is all it is.
Cousin Dave
at August 28, 2015 8:59 AM
A higher minimum wage is not the only thing driving employers to automate routine tasks.
The NLRB has decided that franchisers are joint employers and can be held liable in employment cases.
"During the Watergate era, delaying tactics by government officials were dubbed “stonewalling.” Obama-administration officials seem to have added an element of farce to their cover-ups by literally going to the dogs. ...Lois Lerner...conducted much of her IRS business on a personal e-mail account in the name of her dog, Toby Miles."
"Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton has set the gold standard for concealment during the Obama era. She used a private server and e-mail account to conduct all her government business and surrendered the server only after months of stonewalling. When she did hand over some of her e-mails in March, she did it on paper, to make it as difficult as possible to read them, and so metadata associated with them wouldn’t be included."
Conan the Grammarian
at August 28, 2015 2:55 PM
She makes $80,000 per year and is refusing to do part of her job:
If your religious beliefs do not allow you to perform ALL of your job duties then you shouldn't take the job or run for office.
charles
at August 28, 2015 4:57 PM
If your religious beliefs do not allow you to perform ALL of your job duties then you shouldn't take the job or run for office. ~ Posted by: charles at August 28, 2015 4:57 PM
Gay marriage wasn't legal when she ran for office.
The proper thing for her to do would be to resign since she can no longer in good conscience carry out the duties of the office.
Conan the Grammarian
at August 28, 2015 6:49 PM
Conan: Gay marriage wasn't legal when she ran for office.
Nor could she have reasonably anticipated it would be legal during her tenure. She probably figured, as I did, that the states were one by one allowing gay marriage, but that Kentucky would be a long time coming around to that. Who could have forseen that SCOTUS would suddenly legalize it in one fell swoop?
Conan: The proper thing for her to do would be to resign since she can no longer in good conscience carry out the duties of the office.
Or she could decide for herself that administering a license is fulling the duties of her office -- "render unto Caesar..." and all that -- and just do the job. Administering the license doesn't mean she condones the act. She's only giving the license. She isn't actually marrying them. That's for the couple in question to do with the aid of whoever legally marries them.
It's like a non-smoker refusing to sell cigarettes in a convenient store because she's against smoking. I don't drink or smoke, and I think the world would be better off if no one did, but I've sold beer and cigarettes when I once held a job that required me to do it.
We don't have to agree with everything we do in our jobs in order to do them.
Patrick
at August 28, 2015 10:08 PM
How many marriage licenses has that clerk issued to adulterers, rapists, or pedophiles? I'm sure there were more than a few people who had broken one of god's many laws, but still managed to get a marriage license. It irritates me when "Christians" cherry pick which of their god's commandments they want to adhere to.
sara
at August 29, 2015 7:12 AM
And for that matter, how many second marriages has she given licenses to? Remember, Christ said that the only valid cause for divorce is adultery. So, unless every divorcee she ever gave a marriage license to has left a cheating spouse, those marriages, according to Christ, are not valid.
But I'm very interested to see how this case plays out, because it's an interesting dilemma. She was not hired; she was elected. She can't be fired; she can only be impeached. Which will not happen, because the state legislature agrees with her.
SCOTUS will either 1) rule against her, or 2) deny cert. So, she might find herself in an odd place. If a judge orders her to supply those marriage licenses, and she refuses, she can be jailed for contempt of court. But again, if the legislature will not impeach her, then she will be collecting her 80,000/year salary for doing nothing while in jail.
If a judge orders her to
Patrick
at August 29, 2015 10:39 AM
Wanna hear something really funny? Kim Davis, the county clerk who won't issue marriage licenses because of her Christian opposition to gay marriage?
Detailed ethnographic study: homosexuality is absent from some societies:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0134817
Snoopy at August 28, 2015 5:19 AM
Had a thought this morning (took an aspirin and feel better now).
The Va shooter obviously could not put past slights and perceived injustices behind him and either learn from them or accept them. (Although he might have just been a sicko and a time bomb.)
Not being able to put past slights and perceived injustices behind as a learning experience or just accepting that life is not fair describes (to me) the ongoing "rape months after the event" complaints made by college girls (not women).
"Mattress girl" is a good example.
Are these girls going to captured by a "mentally ill" definition that possibly describes the shooter?
Bob in Texas at August 28, 2015 6:03 AM
"The Va shooter obviously could not put past slights and perceived injustices behind him and either learn from them or accept them."
From what I've read, the guy was a classic narcisstic/borderline personality: took all criticism as a personal insult, views other people as tools or objects to be exploited, extremely short temper, aggressively challenging the status of others, short attention span, excuse-making, externalizing poor choices, and personal disorganization. The Cluster B mental patterns may be a disorder, but the behavior choices are voluntary. It's not like a schizophrenic, where his senses are lying to him. It's a choice.
Cousin Dave at August 28, 2015 6:39 AM
"... took all criticism as a personal insult, views other people as tools or objects to be exploited, extremely short temper, aggressively challenging the status of others, short attention span, excuse-making, externalizing poor choices, and personal disorganization."
CD, did you just describe feminism, Liberals, SJW, Obama, AND college girls all at once?
Damn you are good.
Bob in Texas at August 28, 2015 7:10 AM
Huh, some 141 counties in the US have more registered voters than people living in those locations.
I R A Darth Aggie at August 28, 2015 7:23 AM
Charles C. W. Cooke has a small rant for the gun grabbers.
I R A Darth Aggie at August 28, 2015 7:42 AM
"CD, did you just describe feminism, Liberals, SJW, Obama, AND college girls all at once?"
Leftism is the politics of narcissism. That, at the root, is all it is.
Cousin Dave at August 28, 2015 8:59 AM
A higher minimum wage is not the only thing driving employers to automate routine tasks.
The NLRB has decided that franchisers are joint employers and can be held liable in employment cases.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/nlrb_rules_for_joint_employer_standard_harming_franchises.html
Conan the Grammarian at August 28, 2015 9:13 AM
"The jury found him guilty ... felony count of using online communications to seduce a minor"
Wonder how many high school boys using wifi to ask their girlfriends for a quickie realize they are committing a felony (in some States)?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/28/us-usa-crime-new-hampshire-idUSKCN0QX26R20150828
Bob in Texas at August 28, 2015 12:08 PM
How the Obama Administration Dodges the Freedom of Information Act
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423172/obama-administration-email-coverup-transparency-foia
"During the Watergate era, delaying tactics by government officials were dubbed “stonewalling.” Obama-administration officials seem to have added an element of farce to their cover-ups by literally going to the dogs. ...Lois Lerner...conducted much of her IRS business on a personal e-mail account in the name of her dog, Toby Miles."
"Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton has set the gold standard for concealment during the Obama era. She used a private server and e-mail account to conduct all her government business and surrendered the server only after months of stonewalling. When she did hand over some of her e-mails in March, she did it on paper, to make it as difficult as possible to read them, and so metadata associated with them wouldn’t be included."
Conan the Grammarian at August 28, 2015 2:55 PM
She makes $80,000 per year and is refusing to do part of her job:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/clerk-asks-us-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-marriage-case/ar-BBmcssT?ocid=DELLDHP
If your religious beliefs do not allow you to perform ALL of your job duties then you shouldn't take the job or run for office.
charles at August 28, 2015 4:57 PM
Gay marriage wasn't legal when she ran for office.
The proper thing for her to do would be to resign since she can no longer in good conscience carry out the duties of the office.
Conan the Grammarian at August 28, 2015 6:49 PM
Conan: Gay marriage wasn't legal when she ran for office.
Nor could she have reasonably anticipated it would be legal during her tenure. She probably figured, as I did, that the states were one by one allowing gay marriage, but that Kentucky would be a long time coming around to that. Who could have forseen that SCOTUS would suddenly legalize it in one fell swoop?
Conan: The proper thing for her to do would be to resign since she can no longer in good conscience carry out the duties of the office.
Or she could decide for herself that administering a license is fulling the duties of her office -- "render unto Caesar..." and all that -- and just do the job. Administering the license doesn't mean she condones the act. She's only giving the license. She isn't actually marrying them. That's for the couple in question to do with the aid of whoever legally marries them.
It's like a non-smoker refusing to sell cigarettes in a convenient store because she's against smoking. I don't drink or smoke, and I think the world would be better off if no one did, but I've sold beer and cigarettes when I once held a job that required me to do it.
We don't have to agree with everything we do in our jobs in order to do them.
Patrick at August 28, 2015 10:08 PM
How many marriage licenses has that clerk issued to adulterers, rapists, or pedophiles? I'm sure there were more than a few people who had broken one of god's many laws, but still managed to get a marriage license. It irritates me when "Christians" cherry pick which of their god's commandments they want to adhere to.
sara at August 29, 2015 7:12 AM
And for that matter, how many second marriages has she given licenses to? Remember, Christ said that the only valid cause for divorce is adultery. So, unless every divorcee she ever gave a marriage license to has left a cheating spouse, those marriages, according to Christ, are not valid.
But I'm very interested to see how this case plays out, because it's an interesting dilemma. She was not hired; she was elected. She can't be fired; she can only be impeached. Which will not happen, because the state legislature agrees with her.
SCOTUS will either 1) rule against her, or 2) deny cert. So, she might find herself in an odd place. If a judge orders her to supply those marriage licenses, and she refuses, she can be jailed for contempt of court. But again, if the legislature will not impeach her, then she will be collecting her 80,000/year salary for doing nothing while in jail.
If a judge orders her to
Patrick at August 29, 2015 10:39 AM
Wanna hear something really funny? Kim Davis, the county clerk who won't issue marriage licenses because of her Christian opposition to gay marriage?
She's been married four times.
Patrick at August 29, 2015 2:08 PM
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