“The pseudo-Left new style" (per Hitchens):

“Whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one.”

http://quillette.com/2016/03/29/bad-faith-sam-harris-omer-aziz-and-islam/

When probed on the matter, a representative of the Goldsmiths LGBT society responded that “as a white person, I cannot condemn FGM because of my colonial past.” Is this putative desire to carry the burdens of the past squarely on one’s shoulders echoed among feminists? Germaine Greer once argued that attempts to outlaw FGM amounted to ‘an attack on cultural identity’, stating: “one man’s beautification is another man’s mutilation.” Greer was widely condemned, almost unanimously.

http://fireprooflibrary.org/FireX/no-condemnation-for-fgm-at-goldmsiths/

Hmmm...this could get interesting:

A story of a teacher being accused of having sex with a student seems to happen with such frequency of late that it may no longer come as a shock to some people when they hear that an Alabama teacher was arrested on Wednesday for having sex with a student. However, what makes this case unique is that his wife, also a teacher at the same school, was arrested two days earlier on the same charge.

http://lawnewz.com/video/husband-and-wife-teachers-arrested-for-having-sex-with-students/

I have 100 quatloos that say she gets a lesser sentence.

Colonial past? Napier is rolling over in his grave. But he did pause long enough to gift us with his solution:

Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.

Huh...has merit!

http://www.thecornellreview.org/professor-abolish-the-ivy-league-to-reduce-income-inequality/

Remember, socialism is all great and wonderful, until it's your bit of life that is marked for take over...

PBS Frontline aired an episode about Saudi Arabia the other night. Features the blogger thrown in prison for criticizing Islam and royal family.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/5-ways-ordinary-people-are-challenging-the-saudi-government/

From the "when government picks winners and losers, we get stuck with the tab" category. First, the shot:

The renewable energy firm, which is constructing several large-scale solar power projects in the U.S. and has received at least $2.7 billion in federal loan guarantees since 2010, said Wednesday it will begin insolvency proceedings, a technical first step toward a possible bankruptcy.

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/25/abengoa-obama-green-energy-project-on-verge-of-ban/?page=all

And the chaser:

Abengoa SA (ABG.MC) put its U.S. bioenergy unit into Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday with up to $10 billion in liabilities, the latest twist in the multinational parent's race to avoid becoming Spain's largest corporate failure.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-abengoa-bankruptcy-usa-idUSKCN0VX2OH

The problem with blogging in many of these countries is that they're unrestrained by anything like a First Amendment.

A Saudi blogger who's simply in jail should thank his stars that they haven't put his head on pike, or that the Religious Police didn't take him out and stone him in the streets. And those options aren't off the table, either.

I'm sure the UN will be along momentarily to condemn...Israel...

It would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous.

I'm not sure where to file this one: animal cruelty, child abuse, or just general UN "peace keeper" malfeasance:

One advocacy group says it has passed on new reports to the UN that a soldier made four girls have sex with a dog.

...

It says the bestiality claims, dating back to 2014, involved a commander with French forces. The girls, one of whom later died of an unknown disease, were each paid 5,000 Central African francs ($8.60; £6), the report says.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35931673

At least they got paid for their trouble.

Clinton argues that taking $4M from industry representatives is not the same as taking $4M from the industry.

Sanders begs to differ.

PeTA forgot that April Fools' day was today:

https://twitter.com/peta/status/715614896407187456

After learning about Harvard’s 501(c)(3) obligations, which could bar signs referencing Trump, Barlow created new signs void of political content and hung them up on Tuesday. One read “Reclaim Harvard Law= [Censored by Reclaim Harvard Law].” Those posters were also removed from Belinda Hall. The group held a vote with its “plenary committee,” described above by Clayborne, to decide that only approved signs could be posted. They voted to deny Barlow’s signs.

http://hlrecord.org/2016/03/reclaim-harvard-law-removes-critical-posters-stirring-debate-over-academic-freedom/

A police spokesman was unequivocal, that any harsh criticism of the Muslim influx would not be “tolerated”. Inspector Ewan Wilson from Dunoon police office told the Guardian following the arrest:

“I hope that the arrest of this individual sends a clear message that Police Scotland will not tolerate any form of activity which could incite hatred and provoke offensive comments on social media.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/01/uk-police-say-they-will-pay-you-a-visit-unless-you-are-kind-on-twitter/

Huh...I would say "unexpectedly" but not really:

The White House website has censored a video of French Pres. Francois Hollande saying that “Islamist terrorism” is at the “roots of terrorism.”

The White House briefly pulled video of a press event on terrorism with Pres. Obama, and when it reappeared on the WhiteHouse.gov website and YouTube, the audio of Hollande’s translator goes silent, beginning with the words “Islamist terrorism,” then begins again at the end of his sentence.

Even the audio of Hollande saying the words “Islamist terrorism” in French have, apparently, been edited from the video.

http://mrctv.org/blog/video-wh-censors-reference-islamist-terrorism-french-president

Hey, Bernie, how do you know when Hillary is lying?

Her lie hole is moving. I was wondering what version of "define" she was going to with...

Moore said the man who was punched didn't want to press assault charges against the girl, but investigators have recommended juvenile authorities charge her with disorderly conduct for what he called "an act of violence." He said time passed between the alleged groping and the punching and the man and the girl were several feet apart when she threw the punch.

"Clearly her punch was illegal," he said.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/girl-pepper-sprayed-at-trump-rally-after-punching-man-could-be-charged-1.2840430

Before the day ends.. An art lesson on how to draw genitals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkgpNql6FZE

> Sanders begs to differ.

Duzzy? That's darling of him.

> I have 100 quatloos that say…

The newcomer, right?

The current outbreak of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection has been associated with an apparent increased risk of congenital microcephaly. We describe a case of a pregnant woman and her fetus infected with ZIKV during the 11th gestational week. The fetal head circumference decreased from the 47th percentile to the 24th percentile between 16 and 20 weeks of gestation. ZIKV RNA was identified in maternal serum at 16 and 21 weeks of gestation. At 19 and 20 weeks of gestation, substantial brain abnormalities were detected on ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) without the presence of microcephaly or intracranial calcifications. On postmortem analysis of the fetal brain, diffuse cerebral cortical thinning, high ZIKV RNA loads, and viral particles were detected, and ZIKV was subsequently isolated.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1601824#t=article

Don't test

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=s_paZpQvca0

> Remember, socialism is
> all great and wonderful, until
> it's your bit of life that is
> marked for take over...

Aggie--- See also.

I especially like the description "a large hedge fund with a small research institute attached to it."

Give this a minute or two.

Leftists are all like

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/paying-tuition-to-a-giant-hedge-fund/

I know A Dad. Or two. Or thousand.

Call me a weepy liberal: There is essentially no state-mandated percentage of minority enrollment for these particular schools which I wouldn't support. It wouldn't help.

Well, for the first ten years it would work great, and then rich people would compose some other —perhaps underground— network of education which would elide the regulation demanded of a public accommodation.

So I mean like sure well yeah: It's rigged for winners.

*All* of it is.

"There is essentially no state-mandated percentage of minority enrollment for these particular schools which I wouldn't support."

Crid - curious as to why you'd support a state mandate. Colleges and the minorities supposedly aided by AA policies are hurt mightily from being put where they literally cannot cope.
And how do you get a mandated % of any population except by busing people away from their homes? Is that good?

"There is essentially no state-mandated percentage of minority enrollment for these particular schools which I wouldn't support."

Crid - curious as to why you'd support a state mandate. Colleges and the minorities supposedly aided by AA policies are hurt mightily from being put where they literally cannot cope.
And how do you get a mandated % of any population except by busing people away from their homes? Is that good?

> curious as to why you'd support
> a state mandate

Resentful pissiness... The exemptions which might befit educational ventures are being grotesquely abused in profiteering.

Also, Tax the Churches. You can start with the Scientismotologists if you want.

"So I mean like sure well yeah: It's rigged for winners.

*All* of it is."

Yep

This is why escaping the middle class orbit is key.

Hey, those are valid business deductions . . . oh wait, you mean scientologists not seismologists.

Yeah, there are way too many loopholes in the tax code and way to much money pouring through them. Add in the 'charity' loopholes as well.