who's gonna be triggered first? BLM activist or Radical Feminists?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-white-whale-migaloo-sighted-off-australia-090333481.html

A tweet:

@jeffkatzshow
John Kerry blames air conditioners.

https://twitter.com/jeffkatzshow/status/757920808551448576

Mr. Kerry, tear down those air conditioners in State Department facilities!

https://www.change.org/p/remove-air-conditioning-from-all-us-state-department-property

Poor Bernie:

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/757632674529882113/photo/1

I can't imagine why Hillary supporter Zuckerberg's company would block Wikileaks. I'm sure they blocked Wikileaks back when Chelsea Manning was busy distributing secret US documents, too:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/07/25/1949238/facebook-admits-blocking-wikileaks-dnc-email-links-but-wont-say-why

Wait...they didn't? huh. A mystery, then.

Heh:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Gunman-gets-shot-by-Pokemon-Go-player-he-tried-to-8409424.php

Blame it on Rio:

"Last night (Saturday), we decided to do a "stress test" where taps and toilets were simultaneously turned on in apartments on several floors to see if the system could cope once the athletes are in-house. The system failed. Water came down walls, there was a strong smell of gas in some apartments and there was 'shorting' in the electrical wiring."

http://www.wwtdd.com/2016/07/rio-seems-ready-part-eleven

http://freebeacon.com/politics/congressman-jewish-settlers-like-termites/

Instapundit remembers the 2012 election:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/239705/

Guy goes after Pokemon instead of bunnies...

https://www.facebook.com/playmates/videos/1166518410037376

Just because you're a sociologist doesn't make you a climate expert:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/07/26/ugly-why-climate-denial-should-be-a-criminal-offence/

Just since I went to bed last night we've lost a priest in France and a doctor in Germany.

Europe is worthless. Never visited: Never will.

Booklarnin'!

This is about creating new ontologisations of sustainable child/hood/s and/as exceeding forms of contracts between generations through experimenting with bodily affects and sensing movements.

Ever'buddy mock Grammaw!

"Your kids bored at school? Tell them to get over it."

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article90271002.html

Excellent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbYxEXM2cE

Good gosh I miss the 90s and grunge...now it's Taylor Swift, Justine's Beaver and Lady Stupid and Pokemon

Forgot to add: What the author of that article (a teacher and mother of four) didn't explicitly mention was:

The average American likely has the attitude that the only important purpose of education is basic employment skills. (This would explain why Americans don't kick up much of a fuss when Amish parents - and other parents - take their kids out of school after the 8th grade.)

The average American also likely has the attitude that the only real purpose of a full-time job is to pay the bills AND to have enough time and money to spend on lots of useless activities (as opposed to working at a job that one is actually proud of doing), and this attitude gets non-verbally passed down to the kids. Besides, heaven forbid parents should have the burden of pushing kids, albeit gently, to believe that useful hobbies are more fulfilling than useless ones - especially when the kids start to RESIST such parenting! Oh, the horror.

So the idea that education - or even just reading reputable newspapers - is actually rewarding in and of itself is alien to a lot of adult Americans.

Senseless acts of Murderous Animal Savagery in Europe in the Past Twenty Hours:

  ☑  France
  ☑  Germany
  ☒  Sweden    ☚  New Item!

Deeper, more general principle: I hate anyone who thinks they can punch their ticket to Heaven on someone else's dime. It's violations of that kind which make our planet so endlessly repugnant.

EFF files suit against US Government over section 1201 of the DMCA, saying that it restricts "fair use" unconstitutionally:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/dmca-goes-on-trial

Expect many amicus filings on both sides.

Hmmm...

On the eve of Hillary's coronation her courtiers are suddenly waking up to the fact that she cannot protect them. The shock may be intentional. If Putin was indeed behind the hacking he is only doing what underdogs through history have done to even the odds. Unable to match the foe in weight, he went for the king, or in this case the queen. Recall how in ancient Gaugamela, the outnumbered Alexander staked everything on a thrust at Darius.

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2016/07/25/not-knowing/?singlepage=true

My only complaint is that Gal Gadot should have had more defined biceps for the film.

https://heatst.com/entertainment/wonder-womans-gal-gadot-attacked-online-by-sjws-for-being-a-zionist/

Some bouncy items:

http://birdjaguar.blogspot.com/2016/07/bouncy-itemsrugalmas-dolgok.html

> Unable to match the foe in
> weight, he went for the king,
> or in this case the queen.

Overwrought.

See https://twitter.com/jacklgoldsmith/status/757947090236563458

You asked for a miracle, Theo, I give you the Eff Bee Eye:

http://www.wtae.com/news/crash-at-pittsburgh-fbi-building-south-side/40888776

Guy drove a dump truck thru the gates at the FBI building in Pittsburgh. Fortunately, there was no IED included.

@Sixclaws
I prefer the physique of Erin Stern as Wonder Woman, but that amount of muscle on a woman wouldn't sell. Still, I expect an Amazon to look like she can twist the average man into a pretzel (even if that is a flight of fancy).

It'sa couple years old, and we're all convinced that compelling new trends demand our attention, but this PJ interview is a good and interesting half-hour while you're sorting laundry and doing chores... Especially if you're a baby-boomer, and I think you are.




On the sunny, breezy afternoon of January 3rd, 2016, deep in the punishing wilds of the San Fernando Valley, The Iowahawk hugged me.

That's right, I said it: While other people were watching, he took my body to clutch it close to his own... And I'll never again wash that shirt.

But in the preceding discussion at a table of admirers (gracious, collegial drinkers all), Burge mentioned how O'Rourke's writings had paced his libertarian development. Hearing it said aloud reminded me that it had done so for me as well... That my teen affection for PJ's comedic pedigree made the humble conservative investigation within those books appealing at first glance, and instructive in aggregate. The challenge and courage of those precepts would be described by Gutfeld in a bashful corner of the newfangled internet a few years later:

[L]iberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look cooler than saying something like "please lower my taxes." This is why the only true form of rebellion left on this planet is conservatism. Conservatism, by rejecting the trademark forms of romantic rebellion (anarchy, activism, nipple rings) turns out to be far more subversive than anything on the planet. The conservative, every day, knows that he or she says things that aren't considered cool among the media elite. Yet the conservative still comes out and says it.

lenona,
The Amish way of life does not require more than a minimal amount of education and it is their choice to make not yours or mine.

Who decides what is "useful" and what is "reputable" to whom?

Is this like the "I know porn when I see it." logic?

As far as "a job you can be proud of", I'm sure Clinton's staff are proud of the way they helped her get around those pesky State rules/best practices for handling secret spy stuff.

Guess that beats flipping burgers and cleaning restrooms while trying to keep your kid safe from gangs but I really don't like their logic or their principles.

Here is my problem with feminists.

They are so convinced of their ideology they cant even see that they are lying

So what they did was take the actual salaries of men working full time in upper management positions today,

They compared that to an average PROJECTED salary of non existent women working part time FORTY YEARS AGO,

And then complained that these non existent, temporally dislocated, part time, female workers weren't getting fake money at the same arbitrarily projected rates as real live humans working full time in managerial roles are getting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v25ZK5DtvY

http://www.breitbart.com/clinton-cash-movie/

The Amish way of life does not require more than a minimal amount of education and it is their choice to make not yours or mine.
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And if you haven't heard, according to one documentary, 1 in 4 adults raised in Amish families LEAVES the Amish way of life. This means being SHUNNED by the parents and most other relatives and friends - unless that young adult repents and comes back. Can you imagine how dysfunctional non-Amish families would be seen as, if that type of cultural estrangement were as common? (I doubt it is - imagine how much courage it takes to lose, deliberately, all the people you love, not "just" your parents. Even if the number is now 1 in 10, that would still sound shocking.)

From psychologist Nicholas Humphrey's Amnesty Lecture:

"...It is surely a commonplace in ethics that sometimes the rights of individuals have to be limited or even overruled in the interests of the larger good or to protect the rights of other people. And it's certainly not immediately obvious why the case of children's intellectual rights should be an exception.

"As we saw, there are several factors that might be considered counter-balancing. And of these the one that seems to many people weightiest, or at least is often mentioned first, is our interest as a society in maintaining cultural diversity. All right, you may want to say, so it's tough on a child of the Amish, or the Hasidim or the Gypsies to be shaped up by their parents in the ways they are—but at least the result is that these fascinating cultural traditions continue. Would not our whole civilisation be impoverished if they were to go? It's a shame, maybe, when individuals have to be sacrificed to maintain such diversity. But there it is: it's the price we pay as a society.

"Except, I would feel bound to remind you, we do not pay it, THEY do."
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Who decides what is "useful" and what is "reputable" to whom?
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I suspect most parents would agree that doing things that require patience, imagination, brainwork, AND that cost less money or actually BRING in money, like gardening, carpentry, electronics repairs, or gourmet cooking, are a lot more useful than watching TV and playing video games.

By "reputable," I meant newspapers that actually challenge one's vocabulary, regardless of the reader's age. (Elementary school teachers could get to choose what's not appropriate for little kids, for starters.)

As far as "a job you can be proud of",
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I could have been more specific; I meant finding a job that you believe is important in general and that you might even do for free in addition to a paying job, either because you believe in it or you just plain enjoy it, even if it's exhausting.

And, as Amy Dacyczyn once pointed out in the 1990s, the trouble with not making good use of your spare time is that when you lose your job and can't find a similar one, you have only one set of useful skills, that can't be used. Useless hobbies can be fun or boring, and so can useful hobbies. So, she said, why not pick hobbies that are both fun and useful?

From A.D.'s August 1993 article "Money-Saving Hobbies" (this may also be in the book "The Complete Tightwad Gazette"):

"Everyone devotes some time to hobbies which are unproductive and/or expensive, but if most of our time is devoted to it, we might end up like that steelworker. This is a national economic problem...and if you think that overstates the case, consider that 10% of our trade deficit with Japan is due to Nintendo sales."

(Earlier, she pointed out that if one chooses hobbies that save $2,000 per year instead of costing $2,000 per year, one is $4,000 ahead per year) "...and therefore $80,000 ahead after 20 years. If (the unemployed steelworker) had used this to pay off his house and put money in the bank, his immediate situation would not be so desperate."

She also pointed out that if he had multiple skills, his next full-time job wouldn't have to pay as much as the old one.

BTW, according to one online inflation calculator, $80,000 in 1993 would be $133,446.64 in 2016.

Finally, she said:

"Because of financial considerations and a desire to spend time with our families, few of us who work fulltime can pursue a second career or go to college in our free time. The money-saving hobby allows us to put money in the bank, lower our cost of living, explore other skills, and still spend time with our families."

I guess it's good that old traditions don't die out. I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools

Now for the Amish.