No link here, just an observation…

The winner of the $1.5 billion lottery is apparently from California. Hooray for California, who gets a bunch of tax money – but still, let us hope that the winner deposits the money in a Bank of America account so the rest of us can have a crack at it!

Just remember THAT I love you more than these other snipes.

Thought it was satire at first. Now I'm not so sure.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/jamie-and-jeffs-note-to-the-babysitter

From one of the websites that brought us sexist Air Conditioning, here's the sequel:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/give-teachers-a-physics-test-from-a-girl-and-theyll-give-it-worse-grades/

How Meat-Eaters Sound Like Serial Killers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMgpk1XgK6s

USC students required to detail sexual history before registering for classes

“This course is mandatory, and you must complete it by February 9, 2016. If you do not complete the training by this date you will receive a registration hold until the training is complete,” the email stated.

I believe the correct answers are fuck you, fuck you, and fuck you. In some quarters, that is also known as oral sex.

Emphasis mine:

after Germany’s Syrian-refugee rapefest on New Year’s Eve, the truth is coming home and its coming home hard: Muslim men rape. It’s their culture. Norway’s polite little “do not rape” talks will not change this culture. It is bred into the religion and the culture flowing from that religion. More than that, Mohammed made it quite clear that rape is an instrument of conquest and it is, indeed, a part of jihad. Consider it a Muslim man’s moral obligation to rape non-Muslim women (or, if he can get away with it, to rape Muslim women too, since the fact that he can rape them by definition means they must be bad Muslims). If you want a rape culture, don’t go to an American campus; go to any Muslim majority community that has contact with Western women.

Source: http://www.bookwormroom.com/2016/01/12/sexual-assault-and-harassment-the-multicultural-edition/

The Evolutionary Ecology Of Cancer

http://aepsociety.org/wordpress/2016/01/14/the-evolutionary-ecology-of-cancer/

Barack Obama. His first SOTU and his Last.

http://i.imgur.com/zTdCov5.png

They say that those who become POTUS age faster than the rest of the population.

It is even tougher on Democrat presidents because not only they have to battle with the Republicans who will say no to everything the president will propose but will also have to battle with its own political party.

I wish the republicans would say no to everything. Unfortunately, they pretty much rubber-stamp what he wants. That's the job of the opposing party, you know, to oppose. Checks and balances. So we don't have a dictatorship, though Obama has certainly come close with his 1000+ executive actions that should be illegal and are certainly unconstitutional.

Everyone ages in 8 years. Some worse than others.

It is even tougher on Democrat presidents because not only they have to battle with the Republicans who will say no to everything the president will propose but will also have to battle with its own political party.

When did Teh Won ever have to battle his own party? well, except when he tries to show up to campaign on someone's behalf, it's embarrassing when they try to run away from POTUS on the campaign trail.

Or when the Usual Suspects felt he wasn't far enough left, or wasn't spending nearly enough money that we didn't have?

momof4 is right: the gutless Republicans talk a good game, but when push comes to shove, they fully fund his schemes. I would say that they're more interested in attacking libertarians and conservatives and do so with more zeal than when they go after Dems.

It is even tougher on Democrat presidents because not only they have to battle with the Republicans who will say no to everything the president will propose but will also have to battle with its own political party. ~ Posted by: Sixclaws at January 14, 2016 7:29 AM

The worst thing that ever happened to Barack Obama was having an overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress at his inauguration.

He had no experience working with a board of directors, a state legislature, or any sort of council to whom he had to report. Thus, when Congress rubber stamped anything he wanted and turned it into a giveaway program for political allies, Obama didn't learn the type of give and take in which a president needs to be adept. Nor did he learn to respect the opposing party and work with them. He simply snarked to them, "I won, get over it" and continued to give the Democrats in Congress everything they wanted.

Then, when the Dems lost that overwhelming majority and the Republicans put the brakes on their giveaway program, they howled, "Obstructionists!" And Obama sulked because he couldn't simply assign the writing of a bill to the Speaker of the House with the certainty that he would like what came across his desk to be signed.

Now, he would have to compromise with the opposing party. Or would he? He had discovered executive orders. Now, he could be a dictator again. And, what's more, he could avoid dealing with his own party and its fickleness on left-wing issues.

Had Obama faced a Republican Congress early on, he might have learned the art of politics and how to get things done that will last.

As it is, the next Republican president is going to void almost all of his executive orders and agency regulations, sign repeals of all those Democrat-only laws, and dismantle his "legacy." That, by the way, is why you work with the opposing party. So the laws you enact have supporters long after you're gone.

Just look at Social Security, passed by a bipartisan Congress. Eisenhower wanted to dismantle it, but that would have meant taking on his own party and he balked at that.

Just look at the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, passed only because 2 Republican senators and 2 Democratic senators put together a compromise bill that bypassed the committee in which the original bill was languishing, trapped there by a Southern Democratic committee chair. Since Republicans and Democrats passed it by a secure margin, it was safely ensconced in law, outlasting many who wanted to see it repealed.

Obama's laws don't have that protection and will be repealed shortly after he leaves office.

His legacy of avoiding and nullifying Congress, however, is of real concern since both parties will use and abuse that. That's his real legacy, and it's not a good one.

It is even tougher on Democrat presidents because not only they have to battle with the Republicans who will say no to everything the president will propose but will also have to battle with its own political party. ~ Posted by: Sixclaws at January 14, 2016 7:29 AM

The worst thing that ever happened to Barack Obama was having an overwhelming Democratic majority in Congress at his inauguration.

He had no experience working with a board of directors, a state legislature, or any sort of council to whom he had to report. Thus, when Congress rubber stamped anything he wanted and turned it into a giveaway program for political allies, Obama didn't learn the type of give and take in which a president needs to be adept. Nor did he learn to respect the opposing party and work with them. He simply snarked to them, "I won, get over it" and continued to give the Democrats in Congress everything they wanted.

Then, when the Dems lost that overwhelming majority and the Republicans put the brakes on their giveaway program, they howled, "Obstructionists!" And Obama sulked because he couldn't simply assign the writing of a bill to the Speaker of the House with the certainty that he would like what came across his desk to be signed.

Now, he would have to compromise with the opposing party. Or would he? He had discovered executive orders. Now, he could be a dictator again. And, what's more, he could avoid dealing with his own party and its fickleness on left-wing issues.

Had Obama faced a Republican Congress early on, he might have learned the art of politics and how to get things done that will last.

As it is, the next Republican president is going to void almost all of his executive orders and agency regulations, sign repeals of all those Democrat-only laws, and dismantle his "legacy." That, by the way, is why you work with the opposing party. So the laws you enact have supporters long after you're gone.

Just look at Social Security, passed by a bipartisan Congress. Eisenhower wanted to dismantle it, but that would have meant taking on his own party and he balked at that.

Just look at the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, passed only because 2 Republican senators and 2 Democratic senators put together a compromise bill that bypassed the committee in which the original bill was languishing, trapped there by a Southern Democratic committee chair. Since Republicans and Democrats passed it by a secure margin, it was safely ensconced in law, outlasting many who wanted to see it repealed.

Obama's laws don't have that protection and will be repealed shortly after he leaves office.

His legacy of avoiding and nullifying Congress, however, is of real concern since both parties will use and abuse that. That's his real legacy, and it's not a good one.

Momof4, IRA

Hmm.. My info is outdated. I guess I based it on his first two years where the Democrats had full control and still he couldn't get anything done. And ABCNNMSNBCBS couldn't stop complaining about it.

On a side note, they just stopped using hair dye. Here's a pic of Bush Jr.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1TIaVKGLsCg/TMooMc5ybgI/AAAAAAAAOuA/gYfo2kFOnT0/s1600/bush43age.jpg

It's interesting because Obama actually only got a small percentage of what he wanted when the Democrats had that overwhelming majority in Congress. Part of that was because his desires were so grandiose, and part of it was his inability to set priorities. But yeah, part of it was the fact that some of the worst squabbling you'll ever see between people occurs when a group of people hits a jackpot that would make them all millionaires if they just divided it evenly. Obama just assumed that the entire jackpot would be his to distribute as he wished; he took no care to find out what Democrats in Congress wanted, and as a result most of his ideas died the death of a thousand cuts, without any Republican involvement at all. Remember, Obamacare only passed because of the last-minute "Louisiana Purchase" and "Cornhusker Kickback", bribes that were put into the bill for the states of Louisiana and Nebraska so their representatives would vote for the bill. That's what Obama had to do because he ignored their desires earlier in the negotiating process.

I guess I based it on his first two years where the Democrats had full control and still he couldn't get anything done.

That's because he assigned the actual work of writing legislation to Nancy and Harry, particularly with respect to health insurance. And that ground things to a halt, since his party members demanded a cut of the vig.

Had he been the actual genius he was portrayed as, he would have walked into the job with a stack of legislation already written, which then could be introduced into the appropriate chamber's process. Instead of wasting a boatload of time tinkering with health insurance, they could have been passing set piece bills one after another.

So, I'm thankful he was too impractical to make that a reality.

Sixclaws,

I saw that Ars article too. It looked like another example of confirmation bias to me. Ars has a strong 'girls are discriminated against' philosophy so any report that enhances that position they echo. Things that don't support their opinion get ignored. That said, I don't have a problem with anonymized grading. Provided it isn't too difficult or expensive to implement. I don't think anyone is unaware that some teachers give better grades to people they like irrespective of the quality of the work.

On Obama, being president ages you. Some more than others. And, yeah, no longer dying your hair really ages you.

As for the O fighting with his own party, they only fought back when it was clear they would lose their jobs if they gave him what he wanted. And even then they sometimes voted with him. Look at the democrat party of today. Their politicians are older and fewer. The same demographic movement you see in the presidential primaries you see in legislatures all over the US. Democrats who weren't in very safe districts haven't survived. Part of Obama's legacy is the destruction of young Democrat politicians.

Bob,

I'm pretty sure that was satire. Look at the birth plan by the same author. But you are right, it is scary how believable it is.

Oh, the horrors of being a Muslim at a Trump rally. In Nevada no less, populated by western hillbillies:

Kaddie Abdul, “an IT data engineer working in Silicon Valley,” decided to drive four hours to a Trump rally in Nevada to show how racist “those people” are. She wore her Muslim garb, held her Koran, and waited for someone to attack her. No one did. A few people gave her an odd look, but nary a nibble.

Darn it.

Apparently the Guardian in Britain had paid for her gasoline, so she had to write something, so she wrote: “I went to a Trump rally in my hijab. His supporters aren’t just racist caricatures.”

Don Surber further observes:

what she did was not dangerous. Going outside without a male escort in Saudi Arabia is dangerous for a woman. The only physical danger in driving to Nevada to troll Trumpkins was the drive itself -- something she will not be able to do when she makes her pilgrimage to Mecca.

Trump supporters did not gang rape her because she was Muslim. They did not beat her because she was Muslim. They did not to a damned thing to her -- and she should have known they would not. There are no thugs or bullies at these rallies. They are a fiction, just like the fiction that the Tea Party was racist.

"Part of Obama's legacy is the destruction of young Democrat politicians."

This. The next generation of the Democratic Party has been decimated by the Obama regime. By demanding down-the-line bloc voting on every issue, the Democratic leadership forced the young guns to vote for issues that they knew would be unpopular in their districts, with predictable results in subsequent elections. Now the party is aging out, and their best long-term hope, quite frankly, is to convince moderate Republicans to cross the aisle. All because it was more important for Obama to be able to say "I won" than it was to work for the party's future.