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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjHi9lyioE&feature=player_embedded

 

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[Valin]

The Week in Pictures: New York State of Mind Edition

Steven Hayward

April 9, 2016

 

So we’re heading to the big New York primary smackdown. And yet lifelong New York Yankees fan Hillary Rodham doesn’t know how to work a subway fare card. Why isn’t this her “supermarket scanner” moment? (Because she’s a Democrat, dummy.) Turns out she can’t pour beer, either. (See below.) Meanwhile, Bernie is jetting off to Rome to commune with the Pope. This is the best trolling of LaRoucheite conspiracy theorists ever! I have to give Bernie major props for this move, which I did not see coming!

 

 

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Turns out she doesn’t know how to pour beer either. (And to think I used to drink at Pearl Street Brewery.)

 

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This is about the level of media understanding of economics, too.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjHi9lyioE&feature=player_embedded

 

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BTW 21 people(?) gave it a thumbs down

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BTW 21 people(?) gave it a thumbs down

 

 

@Valin!

 

1,125 Likes vs 21 Dislikes = 2% = the same number found on any poll indicating they're no opinion & barely capable of self-oxygenating. Fear the silly stupid.

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And now...the rest of the story:

 

“Strait times come in history. Our time is such a time, millennial, full of fast currents, tossing, eddied, dangerous to pass through.” -- John Fowles

 

"Dangerous to pass through."The daily drift towards political suicide on the part of the "professional" Republicans is really quite remarkable. It's amazing to watch the loss-loving leaders and media pump-puffers of "The Grand Old Party" bleed themselves to death in the grip their self-willed mass dementia. If they had vented all their raging #NeverTrump froth at Obama he would have needed a sputum snorkel years ago. But to take on that target they would have needed something akin to real political courage. There are no Profiles in Courage to be written about the last ten years of Republican "leadership." Instead the best that could be written would be something along the lines of Profiles in "Gee-Whiz We Just Don't [Have the Senate Have the Votes Have the Votes to Pass the Measure] Have the Votes to Override the Veto.

It's as if the Republican establishment all value their rice bowls, no matter how small, or their "influence," no matter how insignificant, over their voters. It's as if the Republican Walking Dead, in some strange and perverted zombie fornication festival, have all decided to eat their own brains. Watching the gobbling at this vile buffet it would seem the current Party Line comes down to:"We love our internal democratic primary process more than anything else, except when our internal democratic primary process keeps electing someone we don't like, in which case we'll just flush that old and in the way democratic primary process and invent some new way of counting the votes our way, or, in the case of Colorado, the non-votes." Short form; "It's 'The Grand OUR Party' and don't you forget it, plantation slave." This after decades of "We're the party of free Americans and not the plantation slaves of the Democrat party. Besides, all our darkies are white and all the Democrat darkies are gay."

The rationalization for this goes something along the lines of:"Well, the real nomination process is a complicated and subtle process. Most people voting in our primaries just aren't focussed enough to understand how our "voting" process really works. But hey, that's our private real "democracy." Now shut up and let us get on with nominating who we really want. Which at this point is anyone except Trump. Even Cruz. But then again maybe not Cruz. Not really. We'll tell you later who to vote for."

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it Riding the Gravy Train. -- Pink Floyd
These insightful "sooper-genius" Republican "leaders" seem to have forgotten that the mass of ordinary Republicans, like all ordinary Americans, have a much more basic understanding of democracy, i.e. "One person. One vote." Out beyond the beltway everyday people don't do "deep thoughts" on the political process. Their brains are not beltway bulimic. They don't have time to do it and they don't care to do it. They decide who they like and the vote for that person. It's what they learn in their first American civics class and it sticks. To them democracy is really JUST. THAT. SIMPLE. When the "leadership" starts to play with this simple, easy to understand, concept.... that's when the things that set fire to other things start to appear.

For all their blathering about Realpolitik these insightful "sooper-genius" Republican "leaders" and their apparatchiks seem to have forgotten that in real Realpolitik the simple mechanisms of "democracy" is how parties and states handle and control the one thing that can destroy parties and states: The Mob. (And I don't mean a gang of Italian extraction.)

In general, Realpolitik democracy gives The Mob, at the very least, the illusion that The Mob matters; that it has some control over the party and the state. The Mob values the illusion of self-government very highly. When you take that illusion away, The Mob will go to increasingly greater lengths to get that illusion back. The Mob loves the myth of democracy. It needs the myth of democracy. This is why the most totalitarian states usually have "Democratic" somewhere in their names. The myth mollifies The Mob. And The Mob is what a sane State most wants to mollify.

The Mob can cripple economies. The Mob can shatter nations made of united states. The Mob can turn and then command the allegiance of the Military. The Mob can turn or kill every member of the Pretorian Guard surrounding the Ruler. The Mob can put bullets into the skulls of every last member of the current ruling elite. (And their families too.) The Mob can burn The State to ashes. That individual people can be hurt and killed in the process does not matter to The Mob.

The Mob is a terrifying thing to have loose in a state. It can begin with the bitter burning of party registration papers, such as the gentleman above, and it can end in guns, tumbrils, the Terror, and the rise of a Caesar or a Napoleon. The State can overcome many enemies, but it cannot overcome The Mob.

The Mob is ancient reason why "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/the_burning_issue_goodbye.php

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William F. Buckley Debates Saul Alinsky: Mobilizing The Poor

 

Bonus Video: Milton Friedman vs Donahue

 

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WOW! Never Saw This One Coming.

[Pepper]

WOW! Never Saw This One Coming.

 

"Toronto Police Const. Victor Kwong said Monday that two women in separate instances at the Whitney Hall residence reported that they saw a cellphone reach over the shower-stall dividers in an attempt to record them."

 

 

How does a cell phone reach over?

Is that like a car losing control?

 

Why don't we ban cell phones?

[Geee]

WOW! Never Saw This One Coming.

 

Ya right - what a shock

[Valin]

 

WOW! Never Saw This One Coming.

 

"Toronto Police Const. Victor Kwong said Monday that two women in separate instances at the Whitney Hall residence reported that they saw a cellphone reach over the shower-stall dividers in an attempt to record them."

 

 

How does a cell phone reach over?

Is that like a car losing control?

 

Why don't we ban cell phones?

 

 

Or shower stall dividers? A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste.

[Pepper]

Or shower stall dividers? biggrin.png A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste.

 

@Valin

 

Can you spare a square?

[Valin]

Apr 13, 2016

Russian SU-24 aircraft flew within 30 feet of a U.S. Navy ship USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. (April 12, 2016)

The U.S. ship was in international waters during the flyby.

[nickydog]

Apr 13, 2016

Russian SU-24 aircraft flew within 30 feet of a U.S. Navy ship USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. (April 12, 2016)

The U.S. ship was in international waters during the flyby.

 

Absolutely astounding.

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Last week, Malaysia grabbed people’s attention worldwide when a 26.2 feet long python was caught at a construction site, but the snake died while laying eggs. The humongous reticulated python died just three days after it was captured.

 

The serpent was longer than Medusa, the longest snake reported in the Guinness World Records. As per a report citing the Guinness World Records, Medusa was about 25.1 feet long when it was measured in 2011 in Kansas City.

 

The 550-pound python was spotted by workers at a construction site in Penang’s district Paya Terubong. Immediately after that, they informed emergency services about the enormous serpent. Officials at the service took more than 30 minutes to capture the eight meters long python.

 

 

So the big news to me is the record was held by a snake from Kansas City....

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Apr 13, 2016

Russian SU-24 aircraft flew within 30 feet of a U.S. Navy ship USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. (April 12, 2016)

The U.S. ship was in international waters during the flyby.

 

Absolutely astounding.

 

One of the passes, which occurred while the allied helicopter was refueling on the deck of Donald Cook, was deemed unsafe by the ship's commanding officer. As a safety precaution, flight operations were suspended until the SU-24s departed the area.

 

So we shut down everything so Russia could have their fun. Maybe we need to take a hint from our US open water swimmers on dealing with aggressive foreign tactics.

[Valin]

 

 

Apr 13, 2016

Russian SU-24 aircraft flew within 30 feet of a U.S. Navy ship USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. (April 12, 2016)

The U.S. ship was in international waters during the flyby.

 

Absolutely astounding.

 

One of the passes, which occurred while the allied helicopter was refueling on the deck of Donald Cook, was deemed unsafe by the ship's commanding officer. As a safety precaution, flight operations were suspended until the SU-24s departed the area.

 

So we shut down everything so Russia could have their fun. Maybe we need to take a hint from our US open water swimmers on dealing with aggressive foreign tactics.

 

 

 

This kind thing (buzzing a foreign ship) is how wars start. Flight operations may have been suspended, but I'd make a small wager the ship was at battle stations.... and all it takes is a slip of a finger and bye bye Su 24.

[nickydog]

 

 

 

Apr 13, 2016

Russian SU-24 aircraft flew within 30 feet of a U.S. Navy ship USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. (April 12, 2016)

The U.S. ship was in international waters during the flyby.

 

Absolutely astounding.

 

One of the passes, which occurred while the allied helicopter was refueling on the deck of Donald Cook, was deemed unsafe by the ship's commanding officer. As a safety precaution, flight operations were suspended until the SU-24s departed the area.

 

So we shut down everything so Russia could have their fun. Maybe we need to take a hint from our US open water swimmers on dealing with aggressive foreign tactics.

 

 

 

This kind thing (buzzing a foreign ship) is how wars start. Flight operations may have been suspended, but I'd make a small wager the ship was at battle stations.... and all it takes is a slip of a finger and bye bye Su 24.

 

 

Rokke says jets buzz ships like that all the time. It's international water. Not illegal. Just provocative. We do the same. Then he said (in a text), "If the Russians had fired weapons the ship could have shot them down. But buzzing ships is common. I've buzzed Japanese and Canadian warships. It gives them practice for running drills and gave me practice for attacking ships."

 

Dangerous game IMO, but there you are.

[Valin]

A Gender Fender-Bender At UofW
Steven Hayward
April 14, 2016

It’s getting so you need a scorecard to keep up with the correct gender nomenclature of progressivism these days. Like this official “Working Glossary of Terms” that the University of Washington uses for students to figure out how to identify themselves. If you click through the link and scroll down the terms, you’ll see that “Male” and “Female” are not options. Instead, you’re supposed to choose “Cisgender,” meaning “describes someone who feels comfortable with the gender identity and gender expression expectations assigned to them based on their physical sex.” Notice the telltale word about how your gender identity is “assigned” to you. (Question: why is pregnancy “assigned” exclusively to the female of the species? Seems rather arbitrary and obviously discriminatory to me.)

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