Breaking: Footage of ISIS ambushing U.S. Special Forces in Niger

https://sofrep.com/100433/breaking-footage-of-isis-ambushing-u-s-special-forces-in-niger/

"If western feminists had the courage of their convictions, they would be outraged that we do business with Saudi Arabia." - Jordan B Peterson

The public square - http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=13096

The military, which defended the king’s lands, was the king’s army, because it was explicitly for the use of the king to defend his possessions. ~ from Snoopy's link (at March 5, 2018 6:06 AM)

That's what made our ancestors, the English, so different. The army did not belong to the king. The British Army (notice, no "Royal" in the name) belonged to Parliament and the king needed Parliament's permission to use it. That's where our forefathers got the idea for requiring the president to ask Congress to declare war.

Henry VIII started the Royal Navy (and Royal Marines) as a way of having his own military force for which he did not need Parliamentary approval - on the pretext of collecting shipping taxes. Heretofore, English naval expeditions had been organized on an ad hoc basis.

British soldiers swear allegiance to the king/queen as their commander in chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 requires Parliamentary consent for the monarch to maintain a standing army in peacetime. Parliament must regularly approve having an army every few years.

That's also where our forefathers got their distrust of maintaining a standing army (Third Amendment and all).

That's also where our forefathers got their distrust of maintaining a standing army (Third Amendment and all).

That, and the fact that George III started quartering the Army's troops in the homes of the American colonists. How would you like to be summarily exiled from your own home because a general or colonel decided they needed it as their HQ?

Even in the feudal system, it wasn't any given king's army: a king may have had a personal household fighting force, but for the actual army he relied on his vassals - and their vassals - showing up with their fighting forces.

As King John found out, you're only king as long as you have enough support from your vassals. John was smart enough to recognize that being king, even reduced in power, was better than having your head on a pike.

Seven feet of snow in Northern California? that's good news. Now, let's hope that melts slowly, over a couple of months, otherwise it might become bad news.

http://amp.dailycaller.com/2018/03/02/snow-california/

http://ew.com/tv/2018/03/03/david-ogden-stiers-dies-mash/

Cultural appropriation, Brooklyn style.

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/d75jza/why-is-brooklyn-barbecue-taking-over-the-world

As pictured: not that appetizing.

Yeah, not always.

http://www.captainsjournal.com/2018/03/04/cops-are-the-good-guys/

The further you move from zero, the closer it'll be to quack like a duck

https://twitter.com/AcademiaObscura/status/966960993795391488

Who knew that poverty and/or forced marriage at 14 would be a great way to motivate young girls to get a STEM degree

https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/970550192742133761

Ever wonder what happens when you shove a CoC down a nerd community's throat?

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/970159518159122432

Who knew that poverty and/or forced marriage at 14 would be a great way to motivate young girls to get a STEM degree ~ Sixclaws at March 5, 2018 11:47 AM

Makes sense, in a perverse sort of way. The harder women have to fight for respect, they more rigorous fields they study. But if a woman can have a role in society as a housewife or a social worker, then she doesn't have to set the world on fire as an engineer or scientist, in other words conquer the man's world, just to get respect.

In another perverse way, this also raises her value and this gives the parents leverage to pick a better husband.

Becoming a doctor means the difference between being in an arranged marriage with another doctor or a lawyer, or just some guy with a herd of goats.

Three daycare workers have been charged with child endangerment, after they allegedly admitted giving gummy bears laced with Melatonin to a class of 2-year-olds to get them to calm down for nap time.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/03/05/laced-gummy-bears-des-plaines/

The fact that we don't study or teach our children history has led us to believe that we are the first to ever experience the things we're experiencing today, an oversight increasing our fear and sending us desperately running to the government for security, willing to sacrifice our own liberties and those of other people.

We saw it with the 2008 housing bubble collapse being called the worst economic disaster to befall the country other than the Great Depression. It was not, not even close. The US has experienced several depressions and recessions in its history and that one was mild compared to most of them.

But in our panic, we created a government agency with no accountability to "protect" us. It won't. It can't.

We're seeing it again with the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School murders - with calls for repeal of the 2nd Amendment and the media condemnation of guns and, by association, law-abiding gun owners.

This crime should not be allowed to be used as an excuse to curtail civil liberties, even the ones we don't like or understand.

Guns are just the tool being used. Take them away and those inspired to commit a mass killing will find another tool.

• A 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building killed 21 people.
• Anarchists carried out a series of mail bombings in 1919. Targets included governors, mayors, Cabinet officers, and other government officials.
• A 1920 Wall Street bombing killed 38 people. The killers used iron sash weights as shrapnel to maximize the carnage. Damage from the bombing is still visible at 23 Wall Street. Immigrants were deported en masse as suspected anarchists and calls went out for new sedition laws, curtailing civil liberties to keep people safe.
• The 1927 Bath School Bombing killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 8 adults. He later killed himself.
• George Metesky set off a series of bombs around New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Metesky took care not to kill anyone, but injured at least 15 people. His case became famous for being the first use of criminal profiling.

We are not the first generation to experience the ups and downs of life or endure violent attacks. Others have trod these paths before us, but since we don't teach history to our children, each generation thinks it is the first to experience these things.

I wonder how the 2008 housing bubble compares to the 1970s recession... Hmm. A project.

I wonder how the 2008 housing bubble compares to the 1970s recession... Hmm. A project. ~ Cousin Dave at March 6, 2018 6:57 AM

Forbes has something to say on that.

The case that the 2008-09 event was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is not strong. There is not a compelling reason to say it was worse than 1973-75 or 1980-82.

AND

Only when Obama’s recovery generated such weak numbers quarter after quarter beginning in summer 2009, culminating now in a negative quarter in an apparent season of expansion, did it become tenable to call our experience inferior to any since the Great Depression. That the president made this his tag line on the stump last year, implying that he had nothing to do with causing the problem, that the whole thing was “inherited,” was quite a play. For the worst downturn since the Great Depression only became so with Obamanomics.