tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85468527458548773502024-03-17T23:03:01.962-04:00The Daily IrritantProfessor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.comBlogger2582125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-29028253310221612492020-12-05T09:03:00.001-05:002020-12-05T09:03:13.684-05:00Weird Op-Ed of the Day<p>Today's weird op-ed comes from DNI John Ratcliffe via the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal.</p><p><br /></p><h1 class="wsj-article-headline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif-display); font-size: 54px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #073763;"></span></h1><blockquote><h1 class="wsj-article-headline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif-display); font-size: 54px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #073763;">China Is National Security Threat No. 1</span></h1><h2 class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Retina, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #073763;">Resisting Beijing’s attempt to reshape and dominate the world is the challenge of our generation.</span></h2></blockquote><h2 class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Retina, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #073763;"></span></h2><p>Oh boy. Here we go. They're going to dust off all the old Red-scare tripe and just replace the word "Russia" with "China," aren't they?</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="color: #20124d;"></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>As Director of National Intelligence, I am entrusted with access to more intelligence than any member of the U.S. government other than the president. . . . If I could communicate one thing to the American people from this unique vantage point, it is that the People’s Republic of China poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since World War II.</b></span></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Yawn!</p><p>If you all hadn't spent 50 years screaming that the Russkies were going to attack at any miunute and the last 20 trying to convince us that the Muslims were going to kill us all, it might be a bit easier to get us worked up about China.</p><p>Anyway, this is prettyrun of the mill boilerplate red-scare/yellow menace tripe until you get to this:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #073763;"><b>US intelligence shows that China has even conducted human testing on members of the People’s Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities</b></span></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WfxD6agYaLQ/X8uQ_UM376I/AAAAAAAAEas/ALad3zl8NfYB0OPah4EAw-YDW4J12f1SgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="474" height="213" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WfxD6agYaLQ/X8uQ_UM376I/AAAAAAAAEas/ALad3zl8NfYB0OPah4EAw-YDW4J12f1SgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Like this, only Chinesier</span>.</b></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Seriously?</p><p>You expect us to believe that the Chinese government is condux=cting genetic experiments, not on infants or fetuses, but on full-grown adults? In order to create some kind of extra-athletic soldiers? At a time in history when wars are fought with missiles and drone strikes from thousands of miles away? That's what you want us to believe? Really?</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ODLWOIKiQcg/X8uSBadWf7I/AAAAAAAAEa0/Wk1fcAGFweci4xFXunENhAOQTnC3KIRyQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="341" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ODLWOIKiQcg/X8uSBadWf7I/AAAAAAAAEa0/Wk1fcAGFweci4xFXunENhAOQTnC3KIRyQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="247" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">. . . today we must look with clear eyes at the facts in front of us, which make plain that China should be America’s primary national security focus going forward.</span></b></blockquote><p></p><p>Seriously?</p><p>Why would China attack us? Half their economy is based on manufacturing goods for US companies and the other half is based on selling shit to US consumers. They have no reason to attack us. Plus, if the best they can do is genetically-enhanced "super-soldiers," I'm not sure we would need to worry that much about them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-28665978358862045452020-11-26T10:19:00.001-05:002020-11-26T10:19:44.394-05:00Happy Hanksgiving<br><iframe width="591" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Xu71i89xvs" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<br><iframe width="591" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UYP6SJyixBo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-6723996427763751322020-11-16T19:51:00.001-05:002020-11-16T19:51:09.560-05:00Trumpers in the News<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><header class="entry-header" style="color: #777777; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; color: #555555; display: inline-block; font-family: "Arbutus Slab", serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; line-height: 30px; margin: 40px 30px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 474.594px;"><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/15/small-town-trump-rally-one-of-many-unreported-by-corporate-media/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Small-Town Trump Rally One Of Many Unreported By Corporate Media">Small-Town Trump Rally One Of Many Unreported By Corporate Media</a></h2></header><div class="standard-subtitle" style="border: 0px; color: #4d4d4f; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 30px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 542.391px;"><b>The corporate media gave little to no coverage of the organic Trump rallies that erupted in cities and towns across America in solidarity with the DC march.</b></div><div class="byline-standard" style="border: 0px; color: #777777; float: none; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; max-width: 600px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span class="byline-month" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">NOVEMBER</span> 15, 2020 By <a href="https://thefederalist.com/author/evitaduffy/" rel="author" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Evita Duffy">Evita Duffy</a></div><p><br /></p><p>Hmm, a small-town Trump rally? That certainly <b><i>seems </i></b>news-worthy.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V8rEpyZHslQ/X7L3hJ0d1ZI/AAAAAAAAEYk/8IcgaODIVa4D2uDBr8ZM-hbLiMvs-tm7wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="213" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V8rEpyZHslQ/X7L3hJ0d1ZI/AAAAAAAAEYk/8IcgaODIVa4D2uDBr8ZM-hbLiMvs-tm7wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Tens of thousands of Trump supporters flocked to the “Million MAGA March” surrounding the Supreme Court in Washington, DC Saturday. </span></b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>See, now that would be impressive if you hadn't promised us a million.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> While corporate media did their best to belittle the march by falsely claiming only “</span><a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1327756449540411394?s=20" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hundreds</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">” attended, </span></b></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Wait, is that true? Did the mainstream corporate media really claim that only "hundreds" attended? Well. I clicked on the provided link, and it took me to this:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Politico said it was “hundreds.” <a href="https://t.co/2JBHEF7gf7">https://t.co/2JBHEF7gf7</a></p>— Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1327756449540411394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2020</a> </blockquote><p><br /></p><p>A claim from Brit Hume that one minor outfit may have claimed hundreds? </p><p>Well is that even true? Here's the first headline from Politico that came up when I googled it:</p><p><br /></p><header class="summary-header" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #696d70; display: flex; font-family: din-2014, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="category" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #dc0228; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.1rem; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020-elections" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dc0228; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;" target="_blank"></a></p></header><blockquote><header class="summary-header" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #696d70; display: flex; font-family: din-2014, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="category" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #dc0228; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.1rem; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020-elections" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #dc0228; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;" target="_blank">2020 ELECTIONS</a></p></header><h2 class="headline" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: din-2014, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.5rem; letter-spacing: -0.05rem; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5rem;">Thousands rally behind Trump, believing he won race he lost</h2><p class="dek" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #696d70; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px;"><b>Trump loyalists converged on the nation’s capital to protest the election results and falsely assert the vote was stolen.</b></p></blockquote><p class="dek" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #696d70; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px;"></p><p><br /></p><p>And that's the only article that I could find on Politico that mentioned crowd size. Did I spend a long time searching? Hahaha! You've seen the slapdash quality of this blog. No I did not. But I did look.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">. . . they similarly gave little to no coverage to the organic Trump rallies that erupted in cities and towns across America yesterday in solidarity with the DC march.</b></blockquote><p></p><p>Okay. . . should they have?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xJhtMjsoA4Y/X7L7PAGbDYI/AAAAAAAAEYw/FLEeM6hHSMYVxjmhXuLghJhJf5PG3ZJoQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="1000" height="265" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xJhtMjsoA4Y/X7L7PAGbDYI/AAAAAAAAEYw/FLEeM6hHSMYVxjmhXuLghJhJf5PG3ZJoQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h265/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />My God, there must be upwardss of fifty people there! How did the networks not cover this?<p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">One such event in Marathon County, Wisconsin brought in a crowd of about 150, who gathered at the county courthouse. </b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, 150? One would think that LeMonde and Al Jazeera would be there!</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YodTz5CKE0s/X7L8BLd_UTI/AAAAAAAAEY4/LUf-NvwCXPk9R4kmrogfnLOpxTN5EArVQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="179" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YodTz5CKE0s/X7L8BLd_UTI/AAAAAAAAEY4/LUf-NvwCXPk9R4kmrogfnLOpxTN5EArVQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> Despite a cold drizzling rain and slightly above freezing weather, the rural Wisconsinites came out to wave American flags, peel and burn out their Trump flag-waving trucks, and honk their horns in support of the president, demanding a fair and free election.</b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>My God, the headlines write themselves! "Trump supporters support Trump." </p><p>"Supporters of Trump Refuse To Accept Reality In Surprising Turn." </p><p>"Trump Fans Not Smart Enough to Come In Out of the Rain."</p><p>The thing is, and I'm not a jouirnalist or anything, I'm just a regular Joe, but I 'm not really sure any of that constitutes what they call "news."</p><p>You want to get media coverage, you need something like this:</p><p><br /></p><h1 class="fs-headline speakable-headline font-base font-size" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 36px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; line-height: 1.22; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin: 16px 0px 0px;"><blockquote><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">‘Million Maga March’ Ends In Stabbing, Arrests </span></blockquote></h1><div class="contrib-byline" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-pack: center; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17.8891px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; height: 57px; justify-content: center; width: 348.422px;"><div class="fs-author-wrapper" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; line-height: 16px; width: 348.422px;"><span class="fs-author-name" style="-webkit-box-align: baseline; align-items: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 16px; position: relative;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><a class="contrib-link--name remove-underline" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-right: 5px; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Jemima McEvoy</a><span class="contrib-byline-type" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 16px; line-height: 16px;">Forbes Staff</span></span></span></div></div><p>See the difference?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Since many in the corporate media, the Republican establishment, and the Democrat Party simply don’t understand the purpose of the Trump rallies, here are some Wisconsinites ready to explain.</span></b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>No, we understand. We just think it's stupid.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">We are here to “support the president who has been working pretty darn hard for us in the last four years,” said one woman. </b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>See what I mean? Stupid. </p><p>Unless you consider golfing and rage-tweeting "work," Trump has probably done less work than any President since Harding.</p><p> </p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“And we believe in him. And you know, we the people deserve a fair election and we feel like it’s stolen from us.”</b></blockquote><p></p><div><br /></div><p>Oh, you "feel like" it's been stolen? That's what you "feel?"</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XCOlX8hiz8Q/X7L_cOZJr2I/AAAAAAAAEZE/wLTIZiuauL4gTUmvA0wePxMlUUWQwF09gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1419" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XCOlX8hiz8Q/X7L_cOZJr2I/AAAAAAAAEZE/wLTIZiuauL4gTUmvA0wePxMlUUWQwF09gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="227" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>This is <strike>the problem</strike> one of the many problems with the right today. They think their "feelings" are a substitute for facts. So if they "feel" like they don't need to wear a mask, they think that feeling is more valid than the scientific research done by experts. And if they "feel" like the world isn't getting any warmer, that they believe that "feeling" more than the findings of scientists, the easily-read charts and graphs and the evidence of their own idiot eyes and ears when Miami Beach floods every god damn day and we just set a new record for most hurricanes in one season with a half amonth still to go.So now you geniuses "feel like" the election is getting stolen? Do you have any evidence to back up that "feeling?" Hahahahaha, just kidding. I know you don't have any evidence and you don't need any evidence and you don't have to show me any stinking evidence!</p><p>So how do you think that the Dems pulled off this "steal?" </p><p>Let's look at my state, Georgia. The governor is a Republican. The Secretary of State (who is in charge of elections) is a Republican. Republicans hold a 30-seat majority in the State House and a 14-seat majority in the State Senate. So how do you think the Democrats were able to rig the election? And if they could rig the election for Biden, why wouldn't they have done the same for Ossoff and Warnock? (Our two Dems running for US Senate seats) There's no logical answer to either of those questions, but I guess logic is a lot like evidence in that your "feelings" override it.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Those attending the protest expressed deep frustration with corporate media, Democrat politicians, and the Republican establishment, who have written off the MAGA marches and rallies across the country, declaring them an affront to American democracy or too dangerous due to COVID-19.</b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>An affront to American Democracy?</p><p>Who said that? </p><p>You don't have link for that? </p><p>I mean, I'll give you "too dangerous due to COVI-19. Anyone with any sense <strike>feels</strike> knows that these gatherings spread viruses faster than a Bangkok brothel.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zFf8RLfOmuU/X7MEI_osiBI/AAAAAAAAEZQ/a4nC2ew-5dIhyfqLwGlKLkK5vGR2C2tbgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="213" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zFf8RLfOmuU/X7MEI_osiBI/AAAAAAAAEZQ/a4nC2ew-5dIhyfqLwGlKLkK5vGR2C2tbgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p> But if you're going to claim that the press, the Democrats and even the REPUBLICAN establishment has called dumb people exercising their First Amendment rights dumbly for a dumb reason an "affront to American Democracy," you really ought to have at least one example. Becaue Google and me can't find a single instance of anyone saying that.</p><p>I know, I know, no stinking evidence, you "feel" like they say that, yada yada yada. . .</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“Get a backbone,” Julie said to the Republican establishment. “Stand up for us for once and quit sitting. We’re out of our houses, we’re speaking up. We need you now more than ever. Otherwise, we will vote you out.”</b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh please oh please oh please!!!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aHFSNfqfCXs/X7ME7iqflbI/AAAAAAAAEZY/KJVbyMfhi3QaPg2jYs1VKSFG-wE6IQoAgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aHFSNfqfCXs/X7ME7iqflbI/AAAAAAAAEZY/KJVbyMfhi3QaPg2jYs1VKSFG-wE6IQoAgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Oh PLEASE let 2022 be a repeat of 2010. Please let the MAGA q-anon lunatics nominate ladies who are "not a witch" or men who talk about "legitimate rape." Or hell, in today's political climate, you'll probably nominate candidtates who swear that the Earth is flat, vaccines are Satanic and Hillary Clinton runs a child molesting ring out of a pizzeria. <p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">To his state and federal representatives, another man looked directly into my iPhone camera and stated: “We’re holding you accountable. We want you to work for us. We’re going to remember what you do and don’t do.”</b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh please oh please oh PLEASE! Please vote out every Republican who isn't willing to die on Conspiracy Hill!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Folks in Marathon County are proof that Trump has struck a nerve with working Americans in rural “fly-over” America. </b></blockquote><p></p><p>Yes. Such a nerve that an entire county with a population of 135,000+ people turned out a whopping 150 to support him!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">This election proved there is a deep divide between America’s elites and the populist movement of Trump supporters. Look at a </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/wisconsin/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">map</a><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">. Rural and small-town America voted overwhelmingly for President Trump. The people who came to these rallies are angry. They believe there is evidence of </span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/06/election-fraud-in-detroit-they-did-not-want-us-to-see-what-was-happening/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">fraud</a><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> via mail-in ballots and other </span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/08/america-wont-trust-elections-until-the-voter-fraud-is-investigated/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">anomalies</a><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> and they are ready to fight for the president.</span></b></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh they "believe" that, do they? Believing something definitely counts as proof, right? </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1lHpLhg_QnY/X7MG8qYZ-eI/AAAAAAAAEZk/lTmIRZINUhw-SNnHaEOG5IoYKWf4TQN9QCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="168" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1lHpLhg_QnY/X7MG8qYZ-eI/AAAAAAAAEZk/lTmIRZINUhw-SNnHaEOG5IoYKWf4TQN9QCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div>Look, there are people who believe that Stanley Kubrick made "The Shining" as a way of confessing his role in having faked the moon landing.<br /><br /><p></p><p>Seriously, check out this documentary </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nBXJxqRzRkE/X7Mc-lV5PPI/AAAAAAAAEZw/RHD7eMr3ncYokn8GE-Dgg_fip44HMx9cgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="182" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nBXJxqRzRkE/X7Mc-lV5PPI/AAAAAAAAEZw/RHD7eMr3ncYokn8GE-Dgg_fip44HMx9cgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="163" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Anyway, we don't go around saying that Kubrick may have just wanted to make a psychological horror film but maybe also he wanted to let us know about the whole moon landing thing. We just roll our eyes at these people and go about our business. We don't insist that they be taken seriously because they really really believe it.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Trump has transformed the Republican Party into the working-class, multiracial party. If elected Republicans don’t pay attention to their new base, who unabashedly love the president and have reason to suspect fraud, they might find themselves in very tough primaries soon.</b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Okay, first of all, "multi-racial? Seriously? Because he got a few more black and Hispanic votes than your standard Republican doesn't make your white supremacist party "multi-racial." It just means that there's a sucker born every minute and a few of those suckers speak Spanish</p><p>Also, elected Republicans have done nothing but kiss Trump's doughy amprphous ass for four years. How many Republican campaign ads were there whenre the candidate boasts of how often s/he votes with Trump? I didn't count, but there were a lot. But please, feel free to primary them all. Please please PLEASE primary them all!</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BXVLZZAS64g/X7MeZZzUMTI/AAAAAAAAEZ8/c1azAShxpoYSIhRyZVsCVXl0-jH8m_UMwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="179" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BXVLZZAS64g/X7MeZZzUMTI/AAAAAAAAEZ8/c1azAShxpoYSIhRyZVsCVXl0-jH8m_UMwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-44299690603472022202020-11-09T18:05:00.007-05:002020-11-09T18:05:40.076-05:00Reasons for Optimism.<p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> This. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Is.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Nuts!</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="auth-wrapper clearfix" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: "PT Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; height: 110px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 110px;"><img alt="Peter Burfeind" data-lazy-loaded="true" height="110" src="https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Federalist-Picture-Burfeind.jpg" style="display: inline; height: 110px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="110" /></div><p><span face=""PT Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">By </span><a href="https://thefederalist.com/author/peter-m-burfeind/" rel="author" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Peter Burfeind">Peter Burfeind</a><span face=""PT Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"></span></p><div class="alpha-byline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin: 5px 20px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="byline-month" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">NOVEMBER</span> 9, 2020</div><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; color: #555555; display: inline-block; font-family: "Arbutus Slab", serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 30px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 510px;"><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/09/5-reasons-conservatives-should-have-hope-for-the-future/" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="5 Reasons Conservatives Should Have Hope For The Future">5 Reasons Conservatives Should Have Hope For The Future</a></h2><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span face=""PT Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #777777; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"></span></span></p><div class="subtitle" style="border: 0px; color: #4d4d4f; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: -15px 30px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>We might be in an Obi-Wan Kenobi moment, wherein striking Trump down will make his movement more powerful than anyone can possibly imagine.</b></span></div><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hoo boy! Here we go. Buckle up folks, things are gonna get stupid!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iPvQz4VH0qY/X6nDMtuLwUI/AAAAAAAAEXU/NWIRUscK7z0lJXaqMRTgROAtKGCxdVUSQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="260" height="238" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iPvQz4VH0qY/X6nDMtuLwUI/AAAAAAAAEXU/NWIRUscK7z0lJXaqMRTgROAtKGCxdVUSQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><h2 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: "Arbutus Slab", serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 35px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1. Final Liberation from Establishment Republicans</span></h2><div style="border: 0px; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="perma-ad-wrapper" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 20px 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><div data-google-query-id="CKyv0OK_9uwCFfbN4wcd8kwFFQ" id="div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 250px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1011927/TFC_300_by_250_top_0__container__" style="background-color: #fff2cc; border: 0pt none; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 250px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><iframe data-google-container-id="1" data-is-safeframe="true" data-load-complete="true" frameborder="0" height="250" id="google_ads_iframe_/1011927/TFC_300_by_250_top_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" scrolling="no" src="https://366b71bb0f03e38c6e4d183d43ffbb28.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" title="3rd party ad content" width="300"></iframe></div></div></div></div><p style="border: 0px; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b>At some level, the left has to be jealous. For any chance of defeating Donald Trump, look what they had to settle for: a dementia-addled, 78-year-old fossil who’s spent 47 years in the Senate as a pandering politician straight out of Central Casting. But the Democrat establishment pushed him because he polled best against Trump and, as Democrats are so quick to remind us, “science and data.”</b></span></p><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Oof! Where to begin? I guess for starters it might be worth pointing out that the 78-year-old foddil just kicked your guy's ass.</p><p>Secondly, no he didn't poll best against Trump. Mike Bloomberg did.</p><p>Also:</p><h1 class="title" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", sans-serif; font-size: 38px; line-height: 38px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/new-poll-shows-every-democratic-frontrunner-beating-donald-trump-2020-election-1485852">New Poll Shows Every Democratic Frontrunner Beating Donald Trump in 2020 Election</a></h1><div class="byline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; list-style: outside none none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><br /></div>
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The Democrats weren't forced to choose Biden. They chose him because he was the candidate that the donor class felt most comfortable with. Remember :<br />
<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VIIh7bTlf5I/X6nGRm7nTmI/AAAAAAAAEXg/5Vx2AvKtnF4yoH75eLZU7cMJaYu7NWlOACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VIIh7bTlf5I/X6nGRm7nTmI/AAAAAAAAEXg/5Vx2AvKtnF4yoH75eLZU7cMJaYu7NWlOACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="304" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Ah, I remember those days. I remember hearing the smart set tell us how a Herman Cain would be an abject failure as a candidate or president, so we’d better go with a traditional politician, such as John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Jeb Bush.</b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Yeah, he would've been. He was a deluded political dilettante with zero qualifications. He's Trump without the racism.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ScA3_F6ZNjQ/X6nHS3BDVEI/AAAAAAAAEXo/4loOISyu0tQv5Gnt7S3FwGSWBR1m1JW3wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="620" height="181" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ScA3_F6ZNjQ/X6nHS3BDVEI/AAAAAAAAEXo/4loOISyu0tQv5Gnt7S3FwGSWBR1m1JW3wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Then came Trump, dismantling the entire paradigm. One of the most beloved politicians in our history, </b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>So beloved that his approval rating never hit the 50% mark!</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> he showed us how a successful American with a love for his country can do great things, things politicians have been promising for years, such as lowering unemployment for minorities, increasing wages for the working class, sticking it to communist China, creating peace in the Middle East, giving us energy independence, restructuring bad trade deals, withdrawing from foreign entanglements, and revolutionizing the federal judiciary.</b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh my God! Again, it's hard to know where to start!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First of all "a suucessful American?" He spent more time in bankruptcy court than he does on the golf course. And when he wasn't declaring bankruptcy, he was getting bailed out by his daddy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Second, "love for his country?" You're not serious. Trump loves no one and nothing, He is incapable of love. It could not be more obvious.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Third, he didn't do any of those things. There is no peace in the Middle East. Wages haven't risen for the working class. We certainly don't have energy independance. What kind of fantasy world do you people live in?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mmfI8j2kXHs/X6nI2SxwvDI/AAAAAAAAEYA/cGYq3u0-f5gll-3PBNliTkTg47CpKhWhwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="474" height="160" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mmfI8j2kXHs/X6nI2SxwvDI/AAAAAAAAEYA/cGYq3u0-f5gll-3PBNliTkTg47CpKhWhwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sINxP_RFyNc/X6nI8B4sxaI/AAAAAAAAEYE/dpR-oX6KI6Qt2yUq9nA0eAQaLzXhbNczACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="492" height="131" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sINxP_RFyNc/X6nI8B4sxaI/AAAAAAAAEYE/dpR-oX6KI6Qt2yUq9nA0eAQaLzXhbNczACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sdkLeWOYUzA/X6nJAj6SbVI/AAAAAAAAEYM/gFMEJm8ifKcf0vnYV6_U17-Xdp5juxWiwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="474" height="184" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sdkLeWOYUzA/X6nJAj6SbVI/AAAAAAAAEYM/gFMEJm8ifKcf0vnYV6_U17-Xdp5juxWiwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></b></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Meanwhile, the Democrats get to watch a doddering hack grapple with the wily Sen. Mitch McConnell for four years, while trying to pick up the pieces of an economy they tanked to get Biden elected president and nothing else.</b></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><br /><br /></div><br />Oh right. THEY tanked the economy. They who control one half of one branch of the government are obviously in a position of such great strength when it comes to manipulating the economy. </div><div><br /></div><div>And Mitch McConnell isn't "wily." He's just shameless. "Wily" implies cleverness, sneakiness, deception, etc. McConnell announces ahead of time what he's going to do then he does it. And because Republicans are in the majority, no one can stop him. There's no wiliness required to say "we're not going to approve any judge that the black president might nominate because I'm a dick and I hate him." If he was "wily," he would convince people that he was perfectly willing to observe norms and confirm an appointee, just not Garland because of some reason. And then not the next one for some other reason and so on. . .</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">You almost have to laugh. While they’re locked into “establishment mode” for four years, pantomiming gravitas with their whole “adults in the room” schtick to impress the seven remaining people watching CNN, the right will be having a blast retaking the House, nurturing a new generation of Trump-like candidates, and choosing another unconventional leader for president in 2024 that we actually like and don’t have to hold our noses to select. </b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Wait. . . I thought he was "one of the most beloved politicians in our history?" Now you're saying you didn't like him and had to "hold your nose" to vote for him? I know you guys love to re-write history but Jeezus, you don't generally do it halfway through an article!</div><div><br /></div><div>Okay. That's one reason why the right should supposedly be optimistic or whatever. There are supposed to be fgour more, but my brain hurts after just one. Maybe we'll revisit this in the future.</div><div><br /></div>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-6232361023364501072020-11-08T17:27:00.003-05:002020-11-08T17:27:27.345-05:00Fun With Headlines<p> </p><div class="Fz(12px) Fw(b) Tt(c) D(ib) Mb(4px) Mend(12px) C($cat-politics)" data-test-locator="stream-item-category-label" style="color: #003abc; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 12px; text-transform: capitalize;">Politics</div><div class="C($c-fuji-grey-o) Fz(12px) D(ib) Mb(4px)" data-test-locator="stream-item-publisher" id="stream-item-publisher_144" style="color: #6e7780; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;">FOX News Videos</div><h3 class="LineClamp(4,5em) Mend(50px) Mb(4px) Mt(0) Lh(1.33) Fz(18px) Fz(16px)--maw1024 Fw(b) stream-item-title" data-test-locator="stream-item-title" id="stream_item_title_144" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.33; margin: 0px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 5em; overflow: hidden;"><span class="Hidden" style="border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-weight: 400; height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; width: 1px !important;">Video</span><a class="js-content-viewer rapidnofollow D(b) Td(n) Td(n):f C($c-fuji-grey-m) C($streamBrandHoverClass):h wafer-destroyed" data-hosted-type="HOSTED" data-rapid_p="749" data-story-label="Politics" data-uuid="1e394cf1-bb71-3251-97ab-aa2ce923d715" data-v9y="1" data-wf-caas-prefetch="1" data-wf-caas-uuid="1e394cf1-bb71-3251-97ab-aa2ce923d715" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;bpos:10;cpos:144;cposy:215;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:video;g:1e394cf1-bb71-3251-97ab-aa2ce923d715;grpt:singlestory;pkgt:orphan_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Politics;slk:McCarthy: Trump must flip Pennsylvania, two other states to take back election" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccarthy-trump-must-flip-pennsylvania-130407621.html" style="color: #6001d2; display: block; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">McCarthy: Trump must flip Pennsylvania, two other states to take back election</span></a><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></h3><p>Uhhh. . . . . yeah. And the Atlanta Falcons just need to undo the fourth quarter in order to win the 2017 Superbowl!</p><p>The election is over, dude.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="Fz(12px) Fw(b) Tt(c) D(ib) Mb(4px) Mend(12px) C($cat-politics)" data-test-locator="stream-item-category-label" style="color: #003abc; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 12px; text-transform: capitalize;">Politics</div><div class="C($c-fuji-grey-o) Fz(12px) D(ib) Mb(4px)" data-test-locator="stream-item-publisher" id="stream-item-publisher_6" style="color: #6e7780; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;">CBS News Videos</div><h3 class="LineClamp(4,5em) Mend(50px) Mb(4px) Mt(0) Lh(1.33) Fz(18px) Fz(16px)--maw1024 Fw(b) stream-item-title" data-test-locator="stream-item-title" id="stream_item_title_6" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 4; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.33; margin: 0px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 5em; overflow: hidden;"><span class="Hidden" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); font-weight: 400; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Video</span><a class="js-content-viewer rapidnofollow D(b) Td(n) Td(n):f C($c-fuji-grey-m) C($streamBrandHoverClass):h wafer-destroyed" data-hosted-type="HOSTED" data-rapid_p="23" data-story-label="Politics" data-uuid="9fe19270-4909-371d-b664-8c4d5b1b0c5f" data-v9y="1" data-wf-caas-prefetch="1" data-wf-caas-uuid="9fe19270-4909-371d-b664-8c4d5b1b0c5f" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;bpos:1;cpos:6;cposy:15;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:video;g:9fe19270-4909-371d-b664-8c4d5b1b0c5f;grpt:singlestory;pkgt:orphan_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Politics;slk:Election law expert David Becker says Trump's recount strategy "likely to fail"" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/election-law-expert-david-becker-163053882.html" style="color: #6001d2; display: block; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Election law expert David Becker says Trump's recount strategy "likely to fail"</span></a><div><span face="YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div></h3><p><br /></p><p>Gee, ya think?</p><p>You think his baseless accusations of fraud and threats of meritless lawsuits might fare better?</p><p><br /></p><div class="D(f) Fld(c) Fxb(0) Fxg(1)" style="display: flex; flex-basis: 0px; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1;"><div class="Ov(h) Mend(10px)--maw1024" style="overflow: hidden;"><div class="Fz(12px) Fw(b) Tt(c) D(ib) Mb(4px) Mend(12px) C($cat-politics)" data-test-locator="stream-item-category-label" style="color: #003abc; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 12px; text-transform: capitalize;">Politics</div><div class="C($c-fuji-grey-o) Fz(12px) D(ib) Mb(4px)" data-test-locator="stream-item-publisher" id="stream-item-publisher_21" style="color: #6e7780; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;">Yahoo News</div><h3 class="LineClamp(2,2.6em) Mend(50px) Mb(4px) Mt(0) Lh(1.33) Fz(18px) Fz(16px)--maw1024 Fw(b) stream-item-title" data-test-locator="stream-item-title" id="stream_item_title_21" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.33; margin: 0px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden;"><a class="js-content-viewer rapidnofollow D(b) Td(n) Td(n):f C($c-fuji-grey-m) C($streamBrandHoverClass):h wafer-destroyed" data-hosted-type="HOSTED" data-rapid_p="96" data-story-label="Politics" data-uuid="512440a7-d79d-322b-90ab-8fd406084780" data-v9y="1" data-wf-caas-prefetch="1" data-wf-caas-uuid="512440a7-d79d-322b-90ab-8fd406084780" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;bpos:2;cpos:21;cposy:40;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:story;g:512440a7-d79d-322b-90ab-8fd406084780;grpt:singlestory;pkgt:orphan_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Politics;slk:Trump lost — so what happens to the GOP?" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-lost-so-what-happens-to-the-gop-174205340.html" style="color: #6001d2; display: block; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Trump lost — so what happens to the GOP?</span></a><div><span face="YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div></h3></div></div><p>Nothing. </p><p>Nothing will happen. There are no consequences for failure in politics. Donna Brazile ran the most incompetent campaign in history, losing to dimbulb failson George W Bush and they made her the chair of the DNC. Mitt Romney gets to be an elder statesman in the GOP. Newt Gingrich is on TV every Sunday and he doesn't even have to have a job, his wife got the all-time sinecure ambassadorship for no reason other than that she is married to the disgraced former Speaker whgo resigned under a cloud of scandal. So nothing will happen to the GOP. They will do to Biden what they did to Obama and in 2024 they will come back with someone who makes Trump look like a moderate and there's a 50% chance they'll win.</p><p><br /></p><div class="Mend(20px) Flxb(1) Pos(r)" style="margin-right: 20px; position: relative;"><a class="js-content-viewer rapidnofollow D(b) Td(n) Td(n):f C($c-fuji-grey-m) C($streamBrandHoverClass):h wafer-destroyed" data-hosted-type="HOSTED" data-rapid_p="187" data-story-label="Politics" data-uuid="66615509-9501-3e6a-b2a5-bdf26b9617e7" data-v9y="1" data-wf-caas-prefetch="1" data-wf-caas-uuid="66615509-9501-3e6a-b2a5-bdf26b9617e7" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;bpos:3;cpos:40;cposy:69;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:story;g:66615509-9501-3e6a-b2a5-bdf26b9617e7;grpt:storyCluster;pkgt:cluster_all_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Politics;slk:Stacey Abrams says Democrats will pour resources into key Georgia Senate runoffs" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/stacey-abrams-says-democrats-pour-183150477.html" style="color: #6001d2; display: inline; font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span></a></div><div class="D(f) Fld(c) Fxb(0) Fxg(1)" style="display: flex; flex-basis: 0px; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1;"><div class="Ov(h) Mend(10px)--maw1024" style="overflow: hidden;"><h3 class="LineClamp(2,2.6em) Mend(50px) Mb(4px) Mt(0) Lh(1.33) Fz(18px) Fz(16px)--maw1024 Fw(b) stream-item-title" data-test-locator="stream-item-title" id="stream_item_title_40" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.33; margin: 0px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden;"><div class="Mend(20px) Flxb(1) Pos(r)" style="margin-right: 20px; position: relative;"><br /></div><div class="D(f) Fld(c) Fxb(0) Fxg(1)" style="display: flex; flex-basis: 0px; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1;"><div class="Ov(h) Mend(10px)--maw1024" style="overflow: hidden;"><div class="Fz(12px) Fw(b) Tt(c) D(ib) Mb(4px) Mend(12px) C($cat-politics)" data-test-locator="stream-item-category-label" style="color: #003abc; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 12px; text-transform: capitalize;">Politics</div><div class="C($c-fuji-grey-o) Fz(12px) D(ib) Mb(4px)" data-test-locator="stream-item-publisher" id="stream-item-publisher_40" style="color: #6e7780; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;">Reuters</div></div></div></h3><h3 class="LineClamp(2,2.6em) Mend(50px) Mb(4px) Mt(0) Lh(1.33) Fz(18px) Fz(16px)--maw1024 Fw(b) stream-item-title" data-test-locator="stream-item-title" id="stream_item_title_40" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.33; margin: 0px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden;"><a class="js-content-viewer rapidnofollow D(b) Td(n) Td(n):f C($c-fuji-grey-m) C($streamBrandHoverClass):h wafer-destroyed" data-hosted-type="HOSTED" data-rapid_p="187" data-story-label="Politics" data-uuid="66615509-9501-3e6a-b2a5-bdf26b9617e7" data-v9y="1" data-wf-caas-prefetch="1" data-wf-caas-uuid="66615509-9501-3e6a-b2a5-bdf26b9617e7" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;bpos:3;cpos:40;cposy:69;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:story;g:66615509-9501-3e6a-b2a5-bdf26b9617e7;grpt:storyCluster;pkgt:cluster_all_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Politics;slk:Stacey Abrams says Democrats will pour resources into key Georgia Senate runoffs" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/stacey-abrams-says-democrats-pour-183150477.html" style="color: #6001d2; display: block; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Stacey Abrams says Democrats will pour resources into key Georgia Senate runoffs</span></a></h3><h3 br="">
<br /></h3><div>Well, yeah. . . There are no other races. What the hell else would you do with any resources you still have available?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><ul class="List(n) P(0) grid-layout stream-items" data-test-locator="stream-items" data-test-rid="45rnl8dfqgq3a" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; background-color: white; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="stream-item js-stream-content Bgc(t) Pos(r) My(12px) stream-grid-view_Flxb(1/3)" data-cpos="101" data-cposy="152" data-i13n-cfg="{"bpos":"8","categoryLabel":"World","cpos":101,"cposy":152}" data-property="World" data-test-locator="stream-item" data-type="1" data-uuid="798210ec-4942-3f87-9e24-fcdd946eaa15" data-wikis="Murder_of_Samuel_Paty,Islamic_extremism,Jean_Castex" data-yaft-module="stream_item_101" data-ycts="001000780,001000667,001000804" style="background-color: transparent; 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margin-right: 12px; text-transform: capitalize;">Technology</div><div class="C($c-fuji-grey-o) Fz(12px) D(ib) Mb(4px)" data-test-locator="stream-item-publisher" id="stream-item-publisher_100" style="color: #6e7780; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;">Business Insider</div><h3 class="LineClamp(2,2.6em) Mend(50px) Mb(4px) Mt(0) Lh(1.33) Fz(18px) Fz(16px)--maw1024 Fw(b) stream-item-title" data-test-locator="stream-item-title" id="stream_item_title_100" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.33; margin: 0px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden;"><a class="js-content-viewer rapidnofollow D(b) Td(n) Td(n):f C($c-fuji-grey-m) C($streamBrandHoverClass):h wafer-destroyed" data-hosted-type="HOSTED" data-rapid_p="512" data-story-label="Technology" data-uuid="cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5" data-v9y="1" data-wf-caas-prefetch="1" data-wf-caas-uuid="cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;bpos:7;cpos:100;cposy:151;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:story;g:cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5;grpt:singlestory;pkgt:orphan_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Technology;slk:Disney unveiled an animatronic robot with the same gaze as humans built to create 'the illusion of life'" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/disney-unveiled-animatronic-robot-same-134400259.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #232a31; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;">Disney unveiled an animatronic robot with the same gaze as humans built to create 'the illusion of life'</a></h3><h1 data-test-locator="headline" style="color: #232a31; font-family: "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3.08em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;">Disney unveiled an animatronic robot with the same gaze as humans built to create 'the illusion of life'</h1><h3 class="LineClamp(2,2.6em) Mend(50px) Mb(4px) Mt(0) Lh(1.33) Fz(18px) Fz(16px)--maw1024 Fw(b) stream-item-title" data-test-locator="stream-item-title" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.33; margin: 0px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden;"><a class="js-content-viewer rapidnofollow D(b) Td(n) Td(n):f C($c-fuji-grey-m) C($streamBrandHoverClass):h wafer-destroyed" data-hosted-type="HOSTED" data-rapid_p="512" data-story-label="Technology" data-uuid="cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5" data-v9y="1" data-wf-caas-prefetch="1" data-wf-caas-uuid="cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;bpos:7;cpos:100;cposy:151;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:story;g:cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5;grpt:singlestory;pkgt:orphan_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Technology;slk:Disney unveiled an animatronic robot with the same gaze as humans built to create 'the illusion of life'" href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/disney-unveiled-animatronic-robot-same-134400259.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #232a31; display: block; text-decoration-line: none;"><u class="StretchedBox" style="bottom: 0px; left: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px;"></u></a></h3><p class="LineClamp(2,42px) Mend(50px) Fz(14px) Lh(1.43) C($c-fuji-grey-m) My(2px) Mb(4px) Bxz(bb)" data-test-locator="stream-item-summary" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232a31; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; margin: 2px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 42px; overflow: hidden;">The robot can mimic human-like actions like tilting its head, blinking, saccade, and breathing to name a few functions.</p></div></div><div class="Pos(a) T(0) End(0) user-intent-options" style="position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px;"><div class="Ta(c) userintentmgmt-panel wafer-toggle has-toggle-click" data-item-uuid="cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5" data-publisher-id="business_insider_articles_888" data-test-locator="userintentmgmt-panel" data-wf-toggle-class="click:toggle:userintent-show;clickAndMouseExit:remove:userintent-show;click:removeFromOthers:userintent-show" data-wf-toggle-delay="5000" style="text-align: center;"><button aria-describedby="stream-item-publisher_100" aria-haspopup="true" aria-label="publisher preference" class="Pos(r) Bd(n) O(n):f Pstart(4px) Pend(0) Py(0) userintentmgmt-panel:h>Fill($streamBrandHoverClass) userintent-panelbtn Fill(#828c93) wafer-fetch fetch-with-session-retry Td(n):h Td(n) D(b) C($c_icon) has-fetch-click" data-rapid_p="513" data-v9y="1" data-wf-boundary="userintentmgmt-panel" data-wf-result-selector="[data-reactroot]" data-wf-session-retry-count="1" data-wf-set-focus="1" data-wf-target=".userintent-panel" data-wf-trigger="eachClick" data-wf-url="/tdv2_fp/remote?config.crumb=D4%2FRHJsvDOz&config.xhrPathPrefix=%2Ftdv2_fp%2Fremote&ctrl=UserIntentPanel&m_id=tdv2-wafer-user-intent&m_mode=json&config.buttonOnly=false&config.contentFeedbackEnabled=false&config.cpos=100&config.publisher=Business%20Insider&config.publisherIds=business_insider_articles_888&config.useContentPrefApi=true&config.uuid=cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5&config.view=overlay" data-ylk="itc:1;t4:ctrl;elm:open-usr-int;elmt:btn;slk:pubpref;bpos:7;cpos:100;cposy:151;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:story;g:cdf3124f-86db-3324-9af1-c5a7c26e9fd5;grpt:singlestory;pkgt:orphan_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Technology;slk:Disney unveiled an animatronic robot with the same gaze as humans built to create 'the illusion of life'" style="border-color: initial; 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That could fool anyone! That totally looks like a real live human face.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 data-test-locator="headline" style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3.08em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;">Fox News' Chris Wallace says there 'doesn't seem to be much reason to believe' Trump's election lawsuits will succeed</h1></div><div><br /></div><div>Yeah, they have the same chance as my suit against the girls who wouldn't date me in high school. But it never hurts to try!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 data-test-locator="headline" style="background-color: white; color: #232a31; font-family: "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3.08em; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px;">QAnon-supporting Republican accuses a former Navy SEAL lawmaker of having a 'loser mindset'</h1></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18.005px;">Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a newly-elected congresswoman who faced scrutiny for espousing conspiracy theories, accused Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, a former US Navy SEAL, of having a "loser mindset."</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Well, he did go crying to NBC to make Pete Davidson apologize for mocking his eyepatch, so she may have a point.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="Mend(20px) Flxb(1) Pos(r)" style="margin-right: 20px; position: relative;"><a aria-hidden="true" class="H(0) T(0px) Bdrs(8px) Start(0) D(b) js-content-viewer rapidnofollow Td(n)" data-rapid_p="15" data-test-locator="stream-item-image" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:img;elmt:ct;imgt:ss;bpos:1;cpos:4;cposy:11;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:story;g:e58a2a7e-affc-3d93-be2a-23bf65de5c8c;grpt:singlestory;pkgt:orphan_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Celebrity;slk:What’s next for soon-to-be former first lady Melania Trump?" href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/next-soon-former-first-lady-160354386.html" style="border-radius: 8px; color: #324fe1; display: block; height: 0px; left: 0px; padding-bottom: 142.012px; text-decoration-line: none; top: 0px;" tabindex="-1"><img alt="" class="Bdrs(8px) W(268px)" src="https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5bv0HPnx25l6XE4YFDfLqA--~B/Zmk9c3RyaW07aD0yODQ7cT04MDt3PTUzNjthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/o6iSZTd46isfhRVkaq93Gg--~B/aD00MDAwO3c9NjAwMDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_entertainment_893/29c8bd403db1d1a5138b549be981a94a.cf.webp" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: 268px;" /></a></div><div class="D(f) Fld(c) Fxb(0) Fxg(1)" style="display: flex; flex-basis: 0px; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1;"><div class="Ov(h) Mend(10px)--maw1024" style="overflow: hidden;"><div class="Fz(12px) Fw(b) Tt(c) D(ib) Mb(4px) Mend(12px) C($cat-celebrity)" data-test-locator="stream-item-category-label" style="color: #f80e5d; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-right: 12px; text-transform: capitalize;">Celebrity</div><div class="C($c-fuji-grey-o) Fz(12px) D(ib) Mb(4px)" data-test-locator="stream-item-publisher" id="stream-item-publisher_4" style="color: #6e7780; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;">USA TODAY Entertainment</div><h3 class="LineClamp(2,2.6em) Mend(50px) Mb(4px) Mt(0) Lh(1.33) Fz(18px) Fz(16px)--maw1024 Fw(b) stream-item-title" data-test-locator="stream-item-title" id="stream_item_title_4" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.33; margin: 0px 50px 4px 0px; max-height: 2.6em; overflow: hidden;"><a class="js-content-viewer rapidnofollow D(b) Td(n) Td(n):f C($c-fuji-grey-m) C($streamBrandHoverClass):h wafer-destroyed" data-hosted-type="HOSTED" data-rapid_p="16" data-story-label="Celebrity" data-uuid="e58a2a7e-affc-3d93-be2a-23bf65de5c8c" data-v9y="1" data-wf-caas-prefetch="1" data-wf-caas-uuid="e58a2a7e-affc-3d93-be2a-23bf65de5c8c" data-ylk="itc:0;elm:hdln;elmt:ct;bpos:1;cpos:4;cposy:11;rspns:nav;t1:a3;t2:strm;t3:ct;ccode:megastream_unified__en-US__frontpage__default__default__desktop__ga__noSplit;ct:story;g:e58a2a7e-affc-3d93-be2a-23bf65de5c8c;grpt:singlestory;pkgt:orphan_img;pos:1;cnt_tpc:Celebrity;slk:What’s next for soon-to-be former first lady Melania Trump?" href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/next-soon-former-first-lady-160354386.html" style="color: #6001d2; display: block; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">What’s next for soon-to-be former first lady Melania Trump?</span></a><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></h3></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Um, divorce court.</div><div>Duh!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-30644168920117200742020-10-23T17:01:00.004-04:002020-10-23T17:01:52.031-04:00Fourth Annual Halloween Dance Party<br />Okay, I know I haven't been around much lately, but dammit, I am at least going to keep up this one tradition. 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<br />Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-41162915871490529182020-09-29T18:55:00.004-04:002020-09-29T18:55:24.983-04:00Can't we have one nice thing?<p> </p><h1 class="css-kzuvc5 e1h9rw200" data-test-id="headline" id="link-3920709" itemprop="headline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 2.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 3.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 0.6rem; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 536.219px;">God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both</h1><br />
<br />Oaky. . . . first of all, how are you gonna save something that is already dead? <br /><div><br /></div><div>Also, you say God is dead, but irrespective of whether a god exists or not, do you have any idea how many people pack the churches on Sunday mornings? Not to mention the mosques, synagogues, temples etc. on the various days they hold services. It's been the conventional wisdom for the last few decades to say that religion is didappearing because all the major denominations are hemorrhaging members, but what no one ever seemed to take into account was the rise of the non-denominational mega-churches whose memberships tend to be in the thousands. And it's not just the Creflo Dollars and Kenneth Copelands of the world, just try to drive down Peachtree Street in Atlanta on a Sunday morning. You'll see why the intersection of Peachtree and West Wesley is referred to as "Jesus Junction."</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b></b></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Cathedral of Christ the King, Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church and the Cathedral of St. Philip have Peachtree Road addresses and are all within a block of each other. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Sunday usually draws about 20,000 people to the intersection of Peachtree and East Wesley roads and Andrews Drive.</span></b></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></div><div>(<a href="https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/northside_sandy_springs/opinion/3-of-the-largest-churches-in-atlanta-share-same-block/article_f7f75b9c-74f8-11ea-90ae-5385845d393a.html" target="_blank">source</a>)</div><div><br /></div><div>This is just one block of one city, a city that also contains the 13,000 member Mount Paran Church, the Northpoint Community Church who see an average of 30,000 people attend services each week at its seven different metro Atlanta locations, the Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral, which meets in a former Sam's Club building, etc etc etc.</div><div> </div><div>So, I'm not really sure that "God" needs saving. Seems like he's doing just fine. He has what, like three different cable channels devoted soleley to seperating the faithful from their money? He's fine.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Aaaaaanyway. . . .</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's see what this article is all about, shall we?</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="css-1sojcmr ehdk2mb0" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="css-kzuvc5 e1h9rw200" data-test-id="headline" id="link-3920709" itemprop="headline" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 2.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 3.0625rem; margin: 0px auto 0.6rem; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 536.219px;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both</span></h1></div><p class="css-h99hf e1wiw3jv0" style="border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.4375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px auto auto; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b>Divinity consultants are designing sacred rituals for corporations</b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DuaG9j_eCpk/X3OcOveUGrI/AAAAAAAAEUY/sp1WXIkyCHEAvTCf0r6zcQzJO_J9D6LqgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="220" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DuaG9j_eCpk/X3OcOveUGrI/AAAAAAAAEUY/sp1WXIkyCHEAvTCf0r6zcQzJO_J9D6LqgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="225" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>"Divinity Consultants."</div><div>That can not possibly be a thing.</div><div>Can it?</div><div>Please tell me that's not a real thing. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Also, who the Hell wants "sacred rituals" in their corporations?</div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>In the beginning there was Covid-19, and the tribe of the white collars rent their garments, for their workdays were a formless void, and all their rituals were gone.</b></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Okay, you're already veering off into fantasyland. You really think people miss going in to the office? You think people are working on their laptops in their homes thinking "I wish I had to put pants on and endure the asinine small-talk of my dull-witted co-workers?"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">The adrift may yet find purpose, for a new corporate clergy has arisen to formalize the remote work life. </b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Yeah, that's what people want. They want their work-from-home experience to be more "formalized." </div><div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>They go by different names: ritual consultants, sacred designers, soul-centered advertisers. They have degrees from divinity schools. </b></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Any Divinity School graduate who enters into the fieled of "ritual consulting" or "soul-centered advertising" should immediately have their degree revoked.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Imagine you were a professor of theology and you look up some of your former students on Facebook and you see oh, Bill Smith is preaching at First Baptist, good for him. And Mary Jones is teaching at St. Andrews. That's nice, she always did like kids. And John Weaselman is. . . bringing sacred ritual to the corporate boardroom? What the FU---</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eZViKJVn29Q/X3OfxOPoSQI/AAAAAAAAEUo/zoEOMcU9xcc-cPmAOpdiwQBEngXGSWn9gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="259" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eZViKJVn29Q/X3OfxOPoSQI/AAAAAAAAEUo/zoEOMcU9xcc-cPmAOpdiwQBEngXGSWn9gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="319" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b></b></span><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">In simpler times, divinity schools sent their graduates out to lead congregations or conduct academic research. Now there is a more office-bound calling: the spiritual consultant. Those who have chosen this path have founded agencies — some for-profit, some not — with similar-sounding names: </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://sacred.design/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Sacred Design Lab</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">, </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.ritualdesignlab.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Ritual Design Lab</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">, </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.ritualist.life/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Ritualist</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">. They blend the obscure language of the sacred with the also obscure language of management consulting to provide clients with a range of spiritually inflected services, from architecture to employee training to ritual design.</span></b></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AfUXH5Tgg3Y/X3OgJVvNh9I/AAAAAAAAEU0/kcyhK_5B5zgLupmRfKg9UgGvU1M4tBfUQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="364" height="176" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AfUXH5Tgg3Y/X3OgJVvNh9I/AAAAAAAAEU0/kcyhK_5B5zgLupmRfKg9UgGvU1M4tBfUQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b><blockquote><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">Their larger goal is to soften cruel capitalism, making space for the soul, and to encourage employees to ask if what they are doing is good in a higher sense.</span></blockquote></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Do you really waant your employees asking that? Because there is almost no one who could honestly answer "yes" to the question "is what you do in your non-to-five job '<b><i>good</i></b>' in a higher sense?" Do you want half your staff to realize how meaningless their work really is and quit to go backpacking through Tibet or join the Peace Corps or something?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b></b></span><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Having watched social justice get </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/business/media/companies-marketing-black-lives-matter-george-floyd.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">readily absorbed</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> into corporate culture, they want to see if more American businesses are ready for faith.</span></b></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Where on Earth do you get the idea that "social justice" has been "reradily absorbed" into corporate culture? Just because sensitivity training exists? Because companies a re worried about lawsuits so they have to teach their male employees not to comment on their female co-workers' bustlines or their white employees not to assume that new hire Jamal is the new janitor when he's the new regional vice president of sales? I'm sure some of the language of "social justice" has been co-opted by corporate America, so sure, there might be money to be made by helping companies co-opt spiritualism or rewligion or whatever.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b></b></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“We’ve seen brands enter the political space,” said Casper ter Kuile, a co-founder of Sacred Design Lab. Citing </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://company.vice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/VMG_Relationships_White-Paper_02202020_V1_compressed-1.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">a Vice report</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">, he added: “The next white space in advertising and brands is spirituality.”</span></b></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6eBi3VARo18/X3OiUzNofvI/AAAAAAAAEVA/KidbUNWX1y4x4sTh6Ei2D-6ywdPKlcURACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="200" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6eBi3VARo18/X3OiUzNofvI/AAAAAAAAEVA/KidbUNWX1y4x4sTh6Ei2D-6ywdPKlcURACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="314" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Spirituality is the next "white space" for "advertising and brands." Can't we have anything nice? Can't we have one single solitary aspect of our lives that isn't turned into a revenue stream by some rapacious ghouls?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">Ezra Bookman founded Ritualist, which describes itself as “a boutique consultancy transforming companies and communities through the art of ritual,” last year in Brooklyn. He has come up with rituals for small firms for events like the successful completion of a project — or, if one fails, a funeral.</b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>NO!</div><div>No, you do not have a fucking funeral for a business project. Funerals are for people. And sometimes for beloved pets. But fuck you, they are not for having lost the Schmenckman account.</div><div><br /></div><div>And you sure as fuck don't need a ritual for the successful completion of a project either. You order pizza. You maybe hand out bonuses if you're that kind of company. You give everyone a pat on the back a hearty "well done" and a celebratory thumbs up.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EK3rDy0XkAg/X3Oj2e0re0I/AAAAAAAAEVM/TcZlDsZr9NI9U80T3A-ThbbXLAoVWfW_wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EK3rDy0XkAg/X3Oj2e0re0I/AAAAAAAAEVM/TcZlDsZr9NI9U80T3A-ThbbXLAoVWfW_wCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Companies have been doing this shit for years, no need to re-invent the wheel. Especially not by cheapening religious rituals.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">“How do we help people process the grief when a project fails and help them to move on from it?” Mr. Bookman said.</b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Employees really should not be so personally invested in the company's projects. Most of us get paid the same whether the company meets its arbitrary goals or not. It's only natural to feel a bit disappointed if something you worked hard on fails, but if you need help processing grief and moving on from a failed sales pitch, you should seek professional help, not a creepy charlatan with a made-up ritual.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b></b></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Messages on the start-up’s </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.instagram.com/ritual_ist/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Instagram feed</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> read like a kind of menu for companies who want to buy operational rites a la carte: “A ritual for purchasing your domain name (aka your little plot of virtual land up in the clouds).”</span></b></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SyGnLGXowYo/X3OlwBvPTfI/AAAAAAAAEVY/wq2M4BR_yp8KU0j7GAtdDKBzfMe-dqBsQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="480" height="215" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SyGnLGXowYo/X3OlwBvPTfI/AAAAAAAAEVY/wq2M4BR_yp8KU0j7GAtdDKBzfMe-dqBsQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Why would you think you need a ritual to purchase a domain name? Don't you just . . . purchase one? I had a website briefly and I purchased a domain name and I did it without calling in a priest or rabbi or shaman. I just typed in the name I wanted and when it said it was taken, I typed in something else. It's not hard. Is rthere some kind of voodoo that this company can do to ensure you get your first choice? Because otherwise this seems like a pointless waste of everyone's time.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p><blockquote><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b>The sacred consultant trend might be led by the co-founders of Sacred Design Lab — Mr. ter Kuile [sic], Angie Thurston and Sue Phillips. They met at Harvard Divinity School, where they remain affiliated as inaugural Ministry Innovation Fellows, and founded their organization as a nonprofit in 2019.</b></span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b>Their backgrounds vary. Mr. ter Kuile [sic], who lives in Brooklyn and co-hosts a popular <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Harry Potter podcast</a>,</b></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p> </p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p></div><div>Oh, a Harry Potter podcast! Oh well then you know he's a very serious person.</div><div>A guy who has that much time to dedicate to the discussion of a series of children's books is obviously someone whom you'd want to consult about important things like your spritual development!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Mr. ter Kuile [sic], who lives in Brooklyn and co-hosts a popular </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.harrypottersacredtext.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Harry Potter podcast</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">, wrote a </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-power-of-ritual-casper-ter-kuile?variant=32130210431010" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">book</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> on how to “transform common, everyday practices — yoga, reading, walking the dog — into sacred rituals.”</span></b></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Yoga. Transforming yoga into a "sacred ritual." Didn't yoga begin as a sacred Hindu ritual? Isn't that why fundamentalist Christians are so <a href="http://truthwatchers.com/yoga-dangers-spiritual-deception/" target="_blank">afraid </a>of it? This is the worst kind of whitesplaining colonizer mentality I think I've seen since an Englishman said to my wife that yes, they had tea in India before the British arrived, but they didn't know how to drink it properly.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p><blockquote><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">“The question we ask is: ‘How do you translate the ancient traditions that have given people access to meaning-making practices, but in a context that is not centered around the congregation?’” Mr. ter Kuile said.</b></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">The nonprofit says it has been thinking of sacred designs for companies like Pinterest, IDEO and the Obama Foundation.</b></p></blockquote><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p></div><div><br /></div><div>You know, it's bad enough that they want us to think of the company as a "team." It's worse that they want us to think of our co-workers and bosses as a "family." Now they want us to derive religious meaning from the soulless corporations that siphon our life-force into their profit-making machinery? Can't we have anything to ourselves?</div><div><br /></div><div><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p><blockquote><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">Ms. Phillips doesn’t see corporations replacing organized religion — but, she said, she does see an opportunity for companies to bring people some of the meaning that they used to derive from churches, temples, mosques and the like.</b></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">She talks about her work like a pastor would. “We spend a lot of time doing witness and accompaniment of our clients,” she said. “We listen to their stories. We want to understand their lives. We want to understand their passion and their longing.”</b></p></blockquote><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>You want to understand their passion and their longing? They passionately long not to be there. They long passionately to be home with their families, out with their friends</div><div> anywhere but in a god damn office.. And if they want a spiritual experience, they will go to church. Or they'll take up meditation or qi gong or study theology or philosophyor do anything other than participate in some sort of soul-crushing corporate ritual.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">Evan Sharp, the co-founder of Pinterest, hired Sacred Design Lab to categorize all major religious practices and think of ways to apply them to the office. They made him a spreadsheet.</b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KhyXMnvMhzM/X3Oqyh2mlOI/AAAAAAAAEVk/fv_VHo2NBYsbXfMMV86vMqUhh06-tq9HQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="301" height="237" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KhyXMnvMhzM/X3Oqyh2mlOI/AAAAAAAAEVk/fv_VHo2NBYsbXfMMV86vMqUhh06-tq9HQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />A spreadsheet.</div><div>They reduced all the religious traditions of the world into a spreadsheet. </div><div>Wow. Now that's a metaphor!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b></b></span><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Workers have achieved </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/companies-racism-george-floyd-protests.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">measured success</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> recently in pressuring employers to address systemic racism — some companies are making Juneteenth a paid holiday, for example, and investing in Black- and minority-owned ventures — and the sacred design consultants are wondering if employees might also begin to demand spiritual goodness.</span></b></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rZRMwd7d9MA/X3O45Vs0qTI/AAAAAAAAEVw/NOpUJsB3fcIDBLRRuZrzuo-mFhmn9GNZgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="498" height="180" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rZRMwd7d9MA/X3O45Vs0qTI/AAAAAAAAEVw/NOpUJsB3fcIDBLRRuZrzuo-mFhmn9GNZgCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>No no no, look. There are things that people want from life. That doesn't mean they want to get them from their employer. Sure, some things like hey could you maybe be less racist? you might ask your employer for, but others. . . like, for instance, people want love and romance in their lives, right? But they sure as hell don't want to come into work and see candlelight and hear soft music and have their creepy lecherous boss present them with a single red rose. </div><div>Likwise for "spiritual goodness." If people want that they'll go to church. Or read sacred texts. Or do peyote or I don't know, anything but demand it from their bosses. Work is work. There is nothing you can do to make it spiritually fulfilling or psychologically uplifting or not soul-crushing. It's what we do to finance the good parts of our lives. And we don't want our employers trying to co-opt those good parts. Can't we just have one nice thing?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-15731481943672012522020-09-04T20:37:00.001-04:002020-09-04T20:37:28.730-04:00Freakwater<br />
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<br />Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-65485357526771865992020-08-30T10:51:00.001-04:002020-08-30T10:51:29.764-04:00Pickers<br />So posting is going to be even more infrequent than it has been. Not only does it seem like I will continue to be working a lot of overtime for the foreseeable future, I have started taking guitar lessons, something I have been promising myself I would do for years now, but my anti-depressants were never working well enough for me to actually follow through. Until now. (thank you, Abilify!) Anyway, I took guitar lessons briefly when I was around 12 years old but I never krpt up with them, and I'm trying to re-start from scratch (the Carter Scratch that is. Ha! See what I did there?)Anyway, I signed up with the Frank Hamilton School of Folk Music right here in Decatur, GA. (If you're not familiar with Frank Hamilton - and I wasn't until recently - He is a guy who has lived a pretty interesting life. He traveled the country with Pete Seeger, taught Roger McGuinn how to play guitar and toured with Rambli' Jack Elliot among other notable acheivements. You can check out his bio here:<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/frank-hamilton-mn0000794028/biography"> https://www.allmusic.com/artist/frank-hamilton-mn0000794028/biography</a>
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<br />Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-17845707936661614182020-08-12T20:16:00.001-04:002020-08-12T20:16:13.673-04:00How the Republican Party Became the Party of Trump<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="css-v5btjw etb61u70" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: justify; align-items: center; background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; display: flex; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; justify-content: space-between; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><div class="css-v05ibm etb61u71" style="align-self: center; border: 0px; font-size: 1.75rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; 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font-size: 3.5625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 3.75rem; margin: 0px auto 1rem; max-width: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 660px;">The Revolt of the Republican Strategists</h1></div><p class="css-1smgwul e1wiw3jv0" id="article-summary" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 1.4375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px auto 1.875rem; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">What the Trump era has revealed about the people who used to run Republican campaigns.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Best Horshack GIFs | Gfycat" src="https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LastNimbleFireant-max-1mb.gif" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Ooh, Ooh, I know! Is it "that they have no morals, principles or human decency?"</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">Last week I found myself reading “</span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623807/it-was-all-a-lie-by-stuart-stevens/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #326891; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">It Was All a Lie</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;">: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump,” the new book by Stuart Stevens, the longtime Republican operative</span></b></blockquote><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;"></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, man I could've saved you some time there. The Republican Party has always been Trump. It was just waiting for him to ascend the throne. If you need a book to show you the through-line from</p><p><br /></p><p><img alt="Liberals now love Barry Goldwater, but his 1964 loss won the GOP's ..." height="150" src="https://arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-bostonglobe.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2YMHSUBCUUI6FNNJJGSGS72EUY.jpg" width="206" /> <span style="font-size: x-large;">to</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><img alt="Christian Nightmares a Twitter: "Video: Never forget what assholes ..." height="158" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEMQmk4XoAAgyu0.jpg" width="278" /> <span style="font-size: x-large;">to</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><img alt="Ronald Reagan - Quotes, Death & Movies - Biography" height="251" src="https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTE5NDg0MDU1MTA5OTkzOTk5/ronald-reagan-9453198-1-402.jpg" width="251" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">to </span> <img alt="The man behind the golden EIB microphone - YouTube" height="147" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uLiPtMYs8WU/hqdefault.jpg" width="197" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> to</span> <img alt="Fox & Friends' Makes New Bid for TV's Morning-Show Ad Dollars ..." height="124" src="https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/studio-f-fox-friends-2.jpg" width="187" /> </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to </span> <img alt="Business Insider" height="201" src="https://i.insider.com/4de693454bd7c88f440e0000?width=1100&format=jpeg&auto=webp" width="161" /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">to </span> <img alt="President Trump bear hugs Old Glory - CNN Video" height="226" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/190305190954-trump-hugs-flag.jpg" width="404" /></p><p><br /></p><p>then I don't think any book is going to really give you a lot of insight.</p><p><br /></p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 20px;"><b>Stevens belongs to one of the notable sects in the church of NeverTrump, consisting of figures who once held prominent posts in Republican campaigns — Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson, most notably — and now have reinvented themselves as the Trump-era party’s would-be scourges. </b></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p>
Yeah , that's the only "sect" of "Never-Trumpers." The people known as "never-Trumpers" are Republican operatives and pundits who mis-read the room. They assumed, as did most of us, that if Trump were the nominee, he would go down in flames and take the party with him. Then he won the nomination. Once that happened, they had two choices, either grovel back to Trump on their hands and knees and try to attach themselves to him like a Remora (also known as "going full Lindsey) and hope he won't be too petty and spiteful (ha!) or stay the course hoping to be proven right in the general election. Once Trump won the general, they were pretty much in permanent exile from the party (or at least until 2024) so their next move was to wave the "never-Trump banner and try to sucker centrist Democrats into welcoming them into the Dem's oversized tent. Hence the Lincoln Project.<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><b>I turned to Stevens’s book because I thought it might supply an answer, since it’s billed as an examination of conscience, in which the author takes responsibility for various moral compromises that led to Trump’s rise. But the book only deepens the mystery, because “It Was All a Lie” doesn’t give you any sense of why its author spent his entire adult life (Stevens is in his 60s) in the service of a party whose supporters he mostly depicts as rotten frauds and hypocrites and racists, just as bad as liberals always suspected, if not worse.</b></span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="You Know Why GIFs | Tenor" height="264" src="https://media.tenor.com/images/5ff49368427d6cbe9b6deae8980fe5e3/tenor.gif" width="430" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Why indeed? I mean, it's almost as if money, power and prestige were more important to Stevens than any moral or ethical consideration. Quell surprise! He's a political operative, he has no conscience!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><blockquote><b>Stevens would probably reply that he was led astray by the fact that the Republicans he tried to get elected, from Tom Ridge to George W. Bush to Mitt Romney, were good and decent public servants who tried to rescue conservatism from its own worst impulses. </b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Did The Danny Thomas Show really invent the spit take?" height="339" src="https://cdnmetv.metv.com/tvN5G-1518820788-11436-list_items-9_spit-take-golden-girls.gif" width="469" /></div><div><br /></div><div>Whaaaaat?!?!?</div><div><br /></div><div>George W. Bush a "good and decent public servant?" </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Are You Kidding Me Another Period GIF by Comedy Central - Find ..." src="https://media2.giphy.com/media/3o6gb3VMYospm2e96U/giphy.gif" /></div><div><br /></div><div>George W. Bush, the man who illegally bombed invaded and occupied a country that had never done anything to us, a good and decent yada yada something. . .? </div><div>The man who authorized the use of torture and indefinite detention? The man who along with Tom Ridge (another good and decent blah blah blah) ushered in the surveilance state with the Department of Homeland Security? The man who let the city of New Orleans drown? That's thew man you think "tried to rescue conservatism from its own worst impulses?"The man who created ICE? That's what you consider "good and decent?" </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><blockquote><b>And one could imagine a more interesting version of this book that leaned into this narrative, portraying an American right torn between its better angels and its devils, and Trump’s rise as a defeat in a battle that could have easily gone another away.</b></blockquote></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Are You Kidding Me GIFs - Get the best GIF on GIPHY" src="https://media2.giphy.com/media/fZ3XnLKTOHI9W/giphy.gif" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There are no better angels in the American right! It's a battle between evil devils and more evil devils.</div><div><br /></div><div>What if Trump had been defeated? Do you think the GOP was going to nominate a Teddy Roosevelt? Or even a Bob Dole or Gerald Ford? It would have been a sociopathic right-wing nutjob like Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio or even Ben Carson. This is what the Republican Party is. They have purged every halfway-decent human being from their ranks. The entire party is dedicated to using the power of government to further enrich the already wealthy and to make people they don't like suffer. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><blockquote><b>But Stevens is so determined to emphasize his party’s total depravity that his only answer to the hard question of why Republicans swung from Romney’s technocratic decency to Trump’s know-nothing flamboyance is that Trumpism was the beating heart of conservatism all along</b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Do you think he's wrong? Look at the three previous Republican presidents.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia" height="165" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg" width="133" /><img alt="George H. W. Bush - Wikipedia" height="185" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-George_H._W._Bush_presidential_portrait_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="141" /><img alt="Confused Bush by William-Black on DeviantArt" height="161" 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width="201" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>See any intellectuals in there?</div><div><br /></div><div>This is the party that has embraced Louie Gohmert, Michele Bachmann, James Inhofe, and Rand Paul. Anti-intellectualism has been one of the major tent-poles of the Republican Party since they invited the evangelicals into their ranks.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"><blockquote><b>“What does a center-right party in America stand for?” Stevens asks, in the closest thing to an ideological statement his book contains. “Once this was easy to answer: fiscal sanity, free trade, being strong on Russia, personal responsibility, the Constitution.”</b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Well, since the closest thing to a center-right party this country has would be the Democrats, I'm not sure why this question is germane to the subject at hand. But okay, let's look at this. "Fiscal sanity?" In my lifetime, the REpublican Party has presided over nothing but outlandish defecits which they keep claiming can be cured by having the government collect LESS revenue while shoveling unimaginable amounts of our money into the Pentagon sinkhole. What about that would be considered "fiscal sanity?"</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Most Debt Growth Came Under Republican Presidents, But ..." height="394" src="https://i.insider.com/50449f8369bedd020c000009?width=1100&format=jpeg&auto=webp" width="528" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Free trade? Well, other than free trade deals being the legacy of the Clinton Administration, I guess I won't argue that Republicans also favor so-called "free trade."</div><div><br /></div><div>Being "strong on Russia?" I mean, that's just stupid. Who gives a shit about Russia anymore? The Cold War has been over for 30 years.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Personal responsibility?" Only for the little people. Certainly not for the crooks at Enron or Arthur Anderson or Tyco or AIG or any of the banks, savings & loans, mutual funds and anyone else who helped crash the world's economy.</div><div><br /></div><div>And "the Constitution?"</div><div>Do you not remember George W. Bush? Warrantless wiretapping? Scrapping habeus corpus? Torture?</div><div><br /></div><div>Republicans/conservatives never believed in any of those things. That's why they can spend 8 years of a Democratic administration howling about the imminent doom being brought down on us by the National Debt, then switch directions on a dime once a Republican is in the Oval Office. That's why they can spend 8 years accusing Bill Clinton of every crime under the sun from drug trafficking to murder, insult him, insult his wife, even insult hos daughter, then the moment W is inaugurated start insisting that the President is owed respect and loyalty eben if you don't like the man, you have to respect the office. Then turn right around and spend 8 years calling Barack Obama a secret Muslim who pals around with terrorists who is weak and ineffectual but also an iron-fisted fascist whose wife is really a man and whose children were not fathered by him.</div><div><br /></div><div>That's really all you need to know about how the Republican party "became" the party of Trump. They have always been this party. Much as Jack Torrance has always been the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Donald Trump has always been the leader of the Republican Party. A party of nihilists run by a sociopath for the benefit of oligarchs. Trump just took the mask off.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-86452812632147430522020-08-11T20:13:00.002-04:002020-08-11T20:13:25.933-04:00Is this guy for real?<p> </p><p>I thought this was a joke when I saw it referenced on Twitter this morning.
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<br /></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Lmfaooooooo this is a real book 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 <a href="https://t.co/sB2mwI1alC">pic.twitter.com/sB2mwI1alC</a></p>— Brother Maad 👑🏁 (@MaadyNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaadyNYC/status/1292766996841594880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But here it is on Amazon:</p><p><br /></p><p><img alt="How To Date And Marry The Right Black Woman: A White Man’s Perspective by [Jeff Brandon]" src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51PUIv7HFML.jpg" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Setting aside, for the moment how offensive this already seems, I can't help but wonder - who is the target market for this book?</p><p><br /></p><p>I assume that there ate plenty of white men who want to date and/or marry a particular black woman. And if there was a book entitled "how to get Sheena from accounts payable to go out with you," I would think that at least one white guy would buy that book. But are there a lot of white men out there thinking "I would like to meet a nice gal and settle down and maybe raise a family, but not if she's fuckin' white! I am only interested in black women!" Again, it is perfectly meet, right and salutary to be attracted to black women. It is perfectly normal and natural for a white man to fall in love with a black woman. It's just the idea that there are white men out there who are thinking "I know how to get white women to love me, but what kind of special tricks are there to attract a black woman?" that feels a bit far-fetched.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, who the FUCK does this guy think he is that he's going to explain what the "right" kind of black woman is? Like he's some kind of 18th Century anthropologist just returned from a research trip to Borneo here to explain the cultural and ethnic peculiarities of some tribe he just "discovered." </p><p><br /></p><p>You may be thinking, at this point, that there is actually no such thing as the "right" or "wrong" kind of black woman, just as there is no "right" or "wrong" sort of white woman, or white man, or whatever. But that is because you are what doctors refer to as "normal" and "not a weirdo."</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="D'oh! adventures in the DSM | DefineMind" src="https://definemind.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/homer-not-insane.jpg" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The same can not be said, however, of Jeff Brandon.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the title page of his book:</p><p><img alt="" 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/></p><p>"For those who can see beyond the surface." And he somehow doesn't grasp that "I want to date a black woman" is pretty much the most surface-level statement one could make. Skin color is the definition of a "surface" quality. I don't know how no one explained this to him.</p><p>So I'm certainly not foing to pay to download this dullard's dumb and distasteful disquisition, so I went to his website to see what I could learn about this guy. Like is this guy for real, and seriously, is this guy for real?</p><div class="action-text" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border: 0px; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 style="border: 0px; color: #121212; font-family: montserrat, helvetica, arial; font-size: 36px; font-style: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Interracial Dating with THE RIGHT BLACK WOMAN</h3></div><div class="action-teaser" style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border: 0px; color: #888888; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Black women are some of the most beautiful women in the world but choosing the right one to date long-term can be tricky. I'll teach you how to gracefully navigate your way through the wrong ones and get you on the fastest track to the right one, for a successful interracial relationship.</b></p></div><p>Oh, God I'm already regretting my decision.</p><p><img alt="I've made a huge mistake" gifs - Album on Imgur" src="https://i.imgur.com/zI0unK8.gif" /></p><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></p><blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why Black Women?</strong></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Women come in all shapes, sizes and racial backgrounds. Asian, Black, White, Hispanic—I’ve dated many different types over the years. </b></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b></b></p><p>[Ron Howard voice] "He hadn't."</p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>As a white man, ironically, many of my most enjoyable dating experiences were the times I spent dating black women. There was something different about it—for some reason it was more fun and intriguing to me. Once acknowledging my dating preference, I focused my attention solely on interracial dating, and have spent the majority of the last 10 years dating mainly black women.</b></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Yeahhhhh, I wouldn't count on that continuing. Not if any of them read this. I am not a black woman, but I feel fairly confident that if I were, I would not be real comfortable dating a white guy who only dates black women because he finds them "fun and intriguing." I mean, that's like one step away from "exotic and mysterious."</p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><blockquote><b>With the help of online dating, I was given the opportunity to date black women from different parts of America, and from different parts of the world.</b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Ohhh, different parts of the world. That makes sense. Listen, Jeff, that's not "dating." That's "mail-order brides." That's women who want so badly to come to America that they are willing to suffer the attentions of a creepy little wormweasel like you.</p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><blockquote><b>These experiences introduced me to unique personalities, ideas and cultures—it gave me the chance to explore dating habits and behaviors of black women from many different walks of life. </b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh my God. Dating is not supposed to be an anthropological survey. You're not supposed to be cataloging the various cultural idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of the various ethnicities of the women you're dating. Do these women know that you're looking at them the way Charles Darwin looked at finches?</p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> These experiences quickly showed me the positive things that a relationship with the right type of black woman could bring. The experiences also showed me the turmoil that dating the wrong type of black woman could bring. </span></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Arrested Development Uff GIF - ArrestedDevelopment Uff OhFuck ..." height="270" src="https://media1.tenor.com/images/9790467fc3d7fcc09882eb75b60976f3/tenor.gif?itemid=15234886" width="410" /></p><p>Oh for the love of. . . That is not something that is unique to black women. If anyone, of any race and any gender, dates the wrong person, they're going to experience "turmoil." Conversely, if anyone, of any race and any gender, dates the right person, they will experience, as you say "positive things." (you sure you're a professional writer?)</p><p>As Ry Cooder taught us years ago: </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: programme, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">If you marry the wrong kind of woman</span></div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: programme, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;">And you get where you can't agree</div></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: programme, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Well, you just as well could get your hat</div></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: programme, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;">And let that woman be</div></span><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: programme, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Mmmm, oh, no</span></div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: programme, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;">It's not hard for you to understand</div></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: programme, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;">True love can be such a sweet harmony</div></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: programme, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><div style="text-align: center;">If you do the best that you can</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://t2.genius.com/unsafe/220x220/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.genius.com%2F847f11f2d17d3f2fb66772329f604c31.500x500x1.jpg" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So how are you supposed to know if she's the "right kind" of black woman? Well, Jeff has a handy and not at all demeaning checklist!</p><p><br /></p><div class="iconimage" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 32px; min-width: 32px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://therightblackwoman.com/checklist/" style="border: 0px; color: #13aff0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="The Right One Checklist" src="https://therightblackwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/small_image_checklist_4.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" /></a></div><div class="iconmain" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 28px 20px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: montserrat, helvetica, arial; font-size: 20px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 11px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: center; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Right One Checklist</h3><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #767676; font-family: "source sans pro", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Make sure she meets these requirements before entering a long-term relationship.</b></p><div style="font-weight: inherit;">What points are on the checklist? 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<img alt="Image" height="1067" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfErc9TWAAEZ6mD?format=jpg&name=large" width="600" /> <div>Yes, I too have noticed how the media tends to portray white men as shy, timid, or nerdy. Never as "strong."</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="All-Time Wolverine Hugh Jackman Admits He Was Almost Sacked - GQ" height="171" src="https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/c03ba0654b3b76fae02b83f8efdbfba0" width="258" /><img alt="The Walking Dead Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon with his Crossbow ..." height="161" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81D%2BNkhY8hL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="129" /><img alt="Breaking Bad to return as a movie. Will Walter White make a ..." height="189" src="https://m.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2018/11/08/Pictures/_69f10e50-e300-11e8-b876-ee7dab6cad6d.jpg" width="251" /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="FULL MATCH - John Cena vs. R-Truth - WWE Title Match: WWE Capitol ..." height="295" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wu1CHp2z_hc/maxresdefault.jpg" width="524" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="854" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfEriT7XgAERHmy?format=jpg&name=large" width="480" /></div><div>Okay, first of all, you have never heard any woman say anything about "feeling 'more feminine'" around white guys. Second, masculine energy? You don't think black men have "masculine energy?"</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="We're Not Saying That Drake Got Six-Pack Abs Surgery, But Other ..." height="206" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/FnWdpMFgA9LWndWxnOdDXw--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/hearst_mens_health_171/6142a8cfcfbc2314633d5dd0756498db" width="410" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="He Is Showing His Chest, Six-Pack & Abs For The Ladies: Romeo's ..." height="270" src="https://yodonbleekraps.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/rolling-out-romeo.jpg" width="213" /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><img alt="Does LeBron James really have a photographic memory? - BBC News" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTu2SHr_DxjT6M_8AFIMjagdjmqpPY7vJwikg&usqp=CAU" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>But you think that white men are "naturally strong and masculine?"</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Top 30 Frasier GIFs | Find the best GIF on Gfycat" height="360" src="https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DazzlingFrightenedLamprey-max-1mb.gif" width="469" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>So basically, this is just racist. This is just a book about how white men are awesome and black men suck and so of course all the black women want to date us white fellas becdause, as we all know, most black men are the product of fatherless homes and wear their jeans really saggy and that's why you never ever see a guy like that dating any women. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Image" height="1067" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfEriUeXgAgEOzT?format=jpg&name=large" width="600" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Yeah, you know it really is unfair how the media constantly portrays white men as the big bad bully.</div><div>And also as shy timid and nerdy, anything but strong.</div><div><br /></div><div>White men just can't catch a break in today's society. If only there were white men in positions of power in the media!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-59312106511317768062020-08-07T22:15:00.002-04:002020-08-07T22:15:12.512-04:00News from the Georgia Legislature<p> Our local bird-cage liner, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, had this very odd headline on its front page yesterday:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Bill That Protects Police Is Now Law</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Which makes sense because if there's anyone who needs protection, it's the guys wearing body armor and carrying firearms, billy clubs and pepper spray.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="There&#39;s Nothing More Dangerous than an Unstoppable, Well ..." src="http://www.theprepperjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/PoliceSWAT2.jpg" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>So fragile, so vulnerable.</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Gordita, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: Gordita, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Gov. Brian Kemp signed a proposal into law Wednesday that Republicans pushed to grant police new protections despite stiff opposition from critics who said it</span><a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/aclu-georgia-police-protections-bill-weakens-penalty-for-killing-officer/vb1oCJogFVEixqUMvjieKP/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: Gordita, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> creates a messy tangle of legal problems</a><span style="font-family: Gordita, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">.</span></span></b></blockquote><span style="font-family: Gordita, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Gordita, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">In a statement, Kemp said he took action because he has attended the funerals of too many law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, and he called the measure a “step forward as we work to protect those who are risking their lives to protect us.”</span></b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah. . . I don't know how to tell you this, governor, but killing police officers was already illegal.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Gordita, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As part of a compromise to win approval of the hate-crimes bill, Senate Republicans demanded the passage of a separate proposal that would create the new offense of “bias motivated intimidation” of a police officer or other first responder.</span></b></blockquote><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Because, you know, guy like these</p><p><img alt="When Will They Shoot?" height="286" src="https://images.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/17000004/20131106161039-image6-1.jpg" width="429" /></p><p>are so easily intimidated.</p><p>This does raise an interesting question, though. If I intimidate a police officer, as one does, but my intimidation of that officer is based on something other than my bias against law enforcement officers - say I just don't like anyone who shoots unarmed black men whether they're cops or not - am I in the clear? Does my intimidation of this cop not violate the rule because it was based on something other than anti-cop bigotry?</p><p>What if I'm just walking down the street, and I strike up a conversation with a local constable and he feels intimidated by my mighty brawn through no fault of my own? Even though I had no intention of doing so, I have, by dint of my powerful physique and raw untamed masculinity, intimidated the unfortunate officer. Then what? Should I expect to be cuffed and read my rights? And by whom? Certainly not the policeman cowering before me, all intimidated and whatnot.</p><p><br /></p><p class="story-text b-margin-bottom-d40-m20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: Gordita, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 2; margin: 0px 0px 2.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 488.828px;">The measure was passed by the Legislature with little vetting.<a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/aclu-georgia-police-protections-bill-weakens-penalty-for-killing-officer/vb1oCJogFVEixqUMvjieKP/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #2e81b7; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> From our AJC colleague Maya Prabhu:</a></p><div class="blockquote b-margin-bottom-d40-m20" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(46, 129, 183); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: content-box; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 2.5rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="story-text b-margin-bottom-d40-m20" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: Gordita-Bold, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight: 800; line-height: 2; margin: 0px 0px 2.5rem; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 458.828px;"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the bill, anyone found guilty of the death, serious bodily harm or destruction of more than $500 worth of property of a first responder, specifically because of his or her occupation, would face between one and five years in prison and/or a fine up to $5,000.</i></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="The Whoa GIFs - Get the best GIF on GIPHY" src="https://media0.giphy.com/media/3o6gDPXMNxFhvHdcf6/giphy.gif" /></p><p>Woah, woah, slow down there a minute.</p><p>Are you telling me that someone could literally murder a cop, get caught and if that murderer says "I killed him because he's a cop and I hate cops," he would be looking at ONE TO FIVE YEARS? And a fine? How is this not an invitation to kill cops? This is insane.Normally, murdering a cop would get you life in prison or the death penalty, but under the "Police Protection Act," it gets you five years and a fine?</p><p>So, let's say someone is robbing a liquor store, the police show up and the robber shoots and kills the cop. If he can say "I didn't kill him to avoid being arrested, I shot him because he was a cop," he could seriously get five years in prison and have to pay a fine?</p><p>It's almost as if Georgia Republicans didn't think this thing through clearly before they passed it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Oh God Facepalm GIF by Gordon Ramsay - Find & Share on GIPHY" src="https://media1.giphy.com/media/9VrsRNeA0SHcEeos1h/200.gif" /></p><p><br /></p>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-18656868505142370042020-08-05T21:37:00.003-04:002020-08-05T21:37:29.993-04:00The Federalsit Takes On the Teachers' Unions.<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/05/teachers-unions-are-attempting-political-blackmail-its-time-to-break-them-up/" style="border: 0px; font-family: "arbutus slab", serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: 2px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Teachers Unions Are Attempting Political Blackmail. It’s Time To Break Them Up"><blockquote><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><font color="#2b00fe">Teachers Unions Are Attempting Political Blackmail. It’s Time To Break Them Up</font></span></blockquote></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Um, this is the Federalist. In your world, every day is the day that it's time to break up the teachers' unions. What's the particular reason now?</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><blockquote><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b><font color="#2b00fe">In an abject show of selfishness and political bias, teachers unions are trying to hold the country hostage over baseless COVID-19 fears. </font></b></span></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div>
<br />Oh, those bastards are selfishly refusing to expose themselves to a deadly disease? And they selfishly are refusing to send your children home to you with that virus? Oh, yeah. Let's fire them all!<div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><font color="#2b00fe"></font></b></span><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><font color="#2b00fe"><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">It’s not enough that public school teachers and the college professors who train them are increasingly prone to teaching leftist absurdities like </span><a href="https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1290479330477240320?s=20" style="border: 0px; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“2+2=5”</a><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> or . . .</span></font></b></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="gif 1k bruno mars James King phil lawrence uptown funk brunos-mars •" src="https://38.media.tumblr.com/e869224d8ee6152ca667ae7e91333f9c/tumblr_nj65h15kyI1qktjeso1_500.gif" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><img alt="Hold Up GIF - WaitAMinute BrunoMars Watches - Discover & Share GIFs" src="https://media1.tenor.com/images/d35881f00b266623b34cd7f61b9fe054/tenor.gif?itemid=5168783" /></div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Hold on. Who's teaching that 2+2=5?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I have a couple of friends who are teachers, one in Indiana, one in California, so I called them and asked them about this and they both said "Of course, comrade! How can we destroy capitalism if we do not destroy the foundations of arithmetic that the capital owning classes use to calculate their profits?" Then they said a bunch of stuff about "praxis" and "dialectical materialism," you know, regular teacher stuff.</div><div>Anyway, where were we?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span><blockquote><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><font color="#2b00fe"><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">. . . or presenting the mendacious </span><a href="https://www.educationnext.org/1619-project-enters-american-classrooms-adding-new-sizzle-slavery-significant-cost/" style="border: 0px; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1619 Project as legitimate American history</a></font></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><font color="#2b00fe">.</font></span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oh, the 1619 Project. You know I have heard a lot of people complaining about the 1619 project, I have heard people call it "propoganda," "misleading," "anti-American," and now "mendacious." But I have never heard anyone point out one thing in it that is factually incorrect. Just an oversight, I'm sure. Obviously, the material must be chock-full of factual errors. It's not as if the intellectually honest brokers of America's right would object to a curriculum solely on the basis that it mentions unpleasant truths about the United States.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></div><blockquote><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><font color="#2b00fe"> Teachers unions are now trying to blackmail the entire country into meeting a set of leftist political demands for reopening the schools this fall, using COVID-19 as their excuse.</font></b></span></div><div></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Well, that doesn't sound fair. What demands are they making? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><font color="#2b00fe">Of course, the pandemic certainly presents challenges for re-opening schools, but other sectors of society have managed to rise to the occasion over the past several months to keep the country running. Grocery stores clerks, truck drivers, warehouse workers, and of course police, firefighters, doctors, and nurses—all have kept working, sometimes under tough conditions and sometimes at great personal risk.</font></b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And it's just a coincidence that Covid cases have been spiking again. </div><div>For instance, here in Georgia, back in April, when we had a "shelter in place" order in effect, we were averaging around 300-400 new cases per week. Currently, we are reporting, oh let me check <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus-georgia-covid-dashboard/jvoLBozRtBSVSNQDDAuZxH/" target="_blank">the latest figures</a>. . . about 3500. So obviously, everything is fine now!</div><div><br /></div><div>Also, if Police, firefighters and hospital personnel are going to be made to put their lives and health at risk, why shouldn't schoolchildren? I say these kids have been coddled long enough!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="California schoolkids in harm's way | Pesticide Action Network" height="223" 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width="355" /></div><div></div><blockquote><div><b><font color="#cc0000"><br /></font></b></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000">Look at 'em! Soft, weak little freeloaders! In my day, half of these kids would have already succumbed to polio!</font></b></div></blockquote><div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="And That's the way it was and we liked it! - Dana Carvey (Grumpy ..." src="https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/60502692.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">Then there are teachers unions. More than any other group during this pandemic, teachers unions have shown themselves to be abjectly selfish, hyper-political, and totally intransigent about teaching during the pandemic. They are willing to lie about the science behind COVID-19 transmission and shamelessly stoke fear to advance their partisan agenda. Just about the last thing these unions seem to care about is educating children or helping the country get back on its feet.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It's like all they care about is "keeping children safe" and "not dying." </div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Chris Farley AIR QUOTES Guy SNL Classic Weekend Update GIF | Gfycat" src="https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FreeRequiredBlackcrappie-size_restricted.gif" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It's like they don't even care about the economy!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><font color="#2b00fe"></font></b></span><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><font color="#2b00fe"><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">On Monday, an alliance of teachers unions and leftist groups in dozens of states staged a “National Day of Resistance,” </span><a href="https://www.demandsafeschools.org/demands/" style="border: 0px; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">issuing a series of demands</a><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> that they say must be met before their members will return to the classroom. What do they want? Rents and mortgages canceled, a “massive infusion of federal money” from “taxing billionaires and Wall Street,” moratoriums on new charter schools and voucher programs and standardized tests, and of course “police-free schools,” among other things.</span></font></b></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Oh no. Not those things. How horrible.</div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="I Was Being Sarcastic GIFs | Tenor" height="208" src="https://media.tenor.com/images/1926fac3abe96baa56549e4b072de62b/tenor.gif" width="275" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Okay, I clicked on your link to see the list of demands. Here is the first demand:</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Changa; font-size: 48px;">No reopening until the scientific data supports it</span></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Oh my God, how unreasonable! Who could ever meet such an impossible standard? If we wait until the scientific data shows that it is safe, I mean, that could prove inconvenient to parents! </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Changa; font-size: 48px;">Police-free schools</span></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Why would anyone want to remove cops from the schools? If there are no cops in the schools, who would do this?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="HD New Angle Cop Violently Attacks Peaceful Female Student Sitting ..." height="225" src="https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-19-2015/qosZy2.gif" width="400" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And just think of the tragedy that might have unfolded at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School had there not been an armed Sheriff's deputy on site to boldly. . . panic and do nothing. Okay, bad example.</div><div><br /></div><div>What other outrageous demands are these union goons making?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Changa; font-size: 48px;">Safe conditions including lower class sizes, PPE, cleaning, testing, and other key protocols Equitable access to online learning</span></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>Oh my God, it's as if they actually don't want to allow any of these children the opportunity to die from a preventable illness! You know, the last time I checked, I thought this was still America!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b><font color="#2b00fe"></font></b></span><blockquote><b style="background-color: #ffd966;"><font color="#2b00fe"><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">Some teachers unions have gone a step further. In New York City, </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/03/another-teachers-union-group-rips-plan-to-reopen-nyc-schools/" style="border: 0px; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">one group is demanding</a><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> teachers not be required to return to school until a minimum of 14 days have passed after any new COVID-19 cases, claiming their lives are at risk if schools open (despite evidence to the contrary </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/schools-reopening-coronavirus/2020/07/10/865fb3e6-c122-11ea-8908-68a2b9eae9e0_story.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in Europe and Asia</a><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">).</span></font></b></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Yeah, I mean if they can re-open schools in Europe and Asia, they can do it here. The only difference between the US and European or Asian countries is that they shut everything down for a while until they got the pandemic under control before they re-opened their schools. All we're sayinbg is why not skip that one little step and just start packing children and teachers back into overcrowded classrooms <b><i>before</i></b> we actually do anything to slow the spread? I fail to see how that one tiny difference could cause any. . .wait, what?</div><div><br /></div><div><header class="caas-title-wrapper" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><h1 data-test-locator="headline" style="font-size: 2.15em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px;">Students at school touted by Pence for reopening must quarantine due to COVID-19</h1></header><div class="caas-attribution-with-share" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: justify; align-items: center; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; display: flex; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; justify-content: space-between; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="caas-attr" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="caas-attr-meta" style="display: inline-block; 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margin-bottom: 20px;"><div class="caas-attr-meta" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 1.385em; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="caas-attr-item" style="display: inline-block;"><font color="#2b00fe">Tara Santora</font></div><time class="caas-attr-meta-time" datetime="2020-08-05T14:38:28.000Z" style="display: block; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1; padding-top: 5px;"><font color="#2b00fe">August 5, 2020, </font></time></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><ul class="caas-list" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 1.538em;"><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><font color="#2b00fe">School Name: Corinth High School</font></span></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><ul style="font-size: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"></ul></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#2b00fe">State: Mississippi</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#2b00fe">Date: 8/3</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#2b00fe">COVID-19 Cases: 3</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#2b00fe">Details: 3 students tested positive within a week or so of school reopening despite extensive precautions.</font></p></li></ul></div><div><ul class="caas-list" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 1.538em;"><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><font color="#ffa400">School Name: Gwinnett County Public Schools</font></span></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><ul style="font-size: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"></ul></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#ffa400">State: Georgia</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#ffa400">Date: 8/2</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#ffa400">COVID-19 Cases: 260 teachers positive or potentially exposed</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#ffa400">Details: The teachers were preparing for the start of the school year.</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#ffa400">School Response: Two days later, the school district announced it would start classes online and phase into in-person instruction</font></p></li></ul></div><div><ul class="caas-list" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Yahoo Sans", YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 1.538em;"><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><font color="#990000">School Name: Alcoa City Schools</font></span></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><ul style="font-size: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"></ul></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#990000">State: Tennessee</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#990000">Date: 8/1/2020</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#990000">COVID-19 Cases: 5</font></p></li><li style="font-size: 1.385em; line-height: 1.8; list-style-type: none;"><p style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em;"><font color="#990000">Details: 3 people tested positive at Alcoa High School, 1 at Alcoa Middle School, and 1 at Alcoa Elementary School.</font></p></li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="SNES Game Collecting (Tips, discussion, and info for like minded ..." height="375" src="https://i.imgur.com/x5q1F.gif" width="500" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><blockquote><b><font color="#2b00fe" style="background-color: #ffe599;">All this amounts to political blackmail. The teachers unions know that millions of parents can’t afford to stay home from work to educate their kids, nor can many afford private school or private tutors. They think they have leverage—and in many places they do, if only because city and state elected officials are unwilling to stand up to them.</font></b></blockquote></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Gawd, I can't believe these wimpy elected officials won't just force these teachers back into thc classrooms so that parents can finally send their little ones into the petri dish atmosphere of a normal school day, then come home to expose their loving parents and grandparents and babysitters to a deadly disease.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I mean,.look we're doing it in Georgia and I fail to see any problems with this plan.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Georgia Schools Reopen To Packed Hallways And Students Testing ..." height="511" src="https://southasiansnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Georgia-Schools-Reopen-To-Packed-Hallways-And-Students-Testing-Positive-For-COVID-19.jpeg" width="910" /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I mean, do these kids look sick to you? Do you see any of them dropping dead in the hallways? No you don't. And do you know why? Because as long as we refuse to acknowledge that the virus is a threat, everything is fine! </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> It's just basic science. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-71627954985287369922020-08-01T20:56:00.002-04:002020-08-01T20:56:31.195-04:00Happy Jerry DayToday marks the 78th anniversary of the birth of Jerry Garcia.<br />
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Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-75695871324683929222020-07-29T20:13:00.000-04:002020-07-29T20:13:09.714-04:00Good honest reporting from the FederalistWell this headline is totally intellectually honest and not disingenuous or misleading in any way:<br />
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They did?<br />
I mean, other than having their games on Sundays at 1:00 which means the early games start at 10:00am on the West Coast which means you need to leave right away afgter chgurch to get home and watch the game, not stick around til noon talking with your friends and cleaning up the multi-purpose room, mom!<br />
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What exactly did the NFL do that is being, I'm sure, legitimately construed as having declared "War on Church?"<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18px;">A deal reached by the National Football Leauge and the NFL Players Association bans players from attending any indoor church services that are above 25 percent capacity, multiple sources </span><a href="https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2020/07/25/nfl-nflpa-agreement-includes-specific-prohibitions-on-player-activities/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">told </a><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18px;">NBC Sports on Saturday.</span></b></blockquote>
Oooooh, they don't want their players catching Covid-19! Those heathens! Those infidels! It's very telling that ther players are not being allowed to go to church, and not being restricted from any other secular-type places where crowds could spread the virus! Oh wait, what? There's more?<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Alongside its restrictions on attending worship services, the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) also prohibits players from attending indoor nightclubs and bars (except for take-out), indoor concerts, professional sports games, and indoor parties that include 15 or more people.</b></span></blockquote>
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But mainly church.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>The deal has not been publicly released, but NBC Sports made no mention of any restrictions on attending protests. </b></span></blockquote>
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Oh God.<br />
Every time.<br />
Every time someone gets told that they shouldn't stage a virus-ridden reenactment of the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera<br />
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The immediate response is always, ALWAYS, "oh so, I can't go to ______, but it's okay for these people to go to protests?" They all got the fucking memo, and it's just cut-and-paste right-wing MadLibs with racist overtones. Every single time.<br />
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Never mind that protests are held OUTDOORS and that the protesters are pretty much all wearing masks. And the cops are generally kind enough to sanitize random protesters with pepper spray and tear gas. If they get to risk life and limb demanding an end to state-sanctioned murder, then I should be allowed to infect the waitress at Buffalo Wild Wings! Read the Constitution, this isn't a Communist country!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Meanwhile, the NFL’s Twitter account has been sharing and celebrating pictures of players engaging in protests around the country.</b></span></blockquote>
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How dare they? How dare the NFL be okay with some of their black players trying to help put an end to the practice of young black men being shot and brutalized by racist cops? They should be giving those players a stern finger-wagging and white-splaining to them how killing unarmed black men who are suspected of petty crimes is actually <b><i>not</i></b> racist because sometimes they police kill white guys too.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: "cambria" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>A June 5 tweet from the NFL also affirmed that “We, the NFL…encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest.”</b></span></blockquote>
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We, the NFL, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Black People. We, the NFL, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We, the NFL, believe Black Lives Matter. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InspireChange?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InspireChange</a> <a href="https://t.co/ENWQP8A0sv">pic.twitter.com/ENWQP8A0sv</a></div>
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Oh, yeah. As if the First Amendment applied to athletes!<br />
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And I can't believe that the NFL just comes out and says that racism is bad without giving Daniel Snyder a chance to present the opposing viepoint.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">As with more typical CBAs, players can face fines if they don’t comply with the restrictions on church and the other activities listed. The fines for each offense can vary, and while they haven’t been revealed for this agreement, violating the CBA used to regulate conduct on the field can </span><a href="https://operations.nfl.com/football-ops/nfl-rules-enforcement/fines-appeals/" style="border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">result </a><span style="font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">in fines from $5,000 to over $70,000.</span></b></blockquote>
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Which is totally unfair because if a player goes to a crowded church and gets the Corona virus, he's only hurting himself. It's not as if football players are going to have to crowd into locker rooms or meeting rooms, or team flights or anything where they might expose their teammates to a devestating disease!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>NBC Sports also reported that players who test positive for Covid-19 after violating the CBA won’t be paid for games they aren’t able to attend. They would also forego any future guarantees made in their contracts.</b></span></blockquote>
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Hold on a minute, there. Are you trying to tell me that players might face consequences for violating the rules? The rules to which they agreed in theie collective bargaining agreement? Like if they break the rules and render themselves unable to perform the job they were hired to do, the NFL is not going to pay them for not doing it? No wonder a conservative publication like the Federalist is up in arms. Conservatives hate when people are held accountable for their actions, and love to see people being paid for not working!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>If players do violate the rules, NBC Sports speculates that teams may “rely on contacts within the community to contact the team if/when violations are witnessed,” or even use a tip line. In other words, members of the community would be encouraged to report players they see trying to attend church.</b></span></blockquote>
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Church. Or bars. Or restaurants. Or parties. But mostly church. Because obviously, this is just one more example of how every institution in America hates church!<br />
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<br />Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-47238595876183413092020-07-23T20:22:00.003-04:002020-07-23T20:22:40.608-04:00Who is Abigail Shrier?I saw this on Twitter today:<br />
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The book Amazon doesn't want you to read, OUT TODAY: <a href="https://t.co/l9NMKM6F5J">https://t.co/l9NMKM6F5J</a><br /><br />To the hundreds of families going through this horror right now - thanks for your phone calls, your DMs, your help, your support and your trust. <br /><br />Let's get our girls back.</div>
— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href="https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1277906221618487296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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And anytime I see someone claiming that their book or video or mimeographed pamphlet is something that '[someone] doesn't want you to see," I generally figure I'm in for a trip through the funhouse.<br />
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Okay, so the title of the book is:<br />
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<span class="a-size-extra-large" id="productTitle" style="background-color: #fff2cc; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 36px !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters</span></blockquote>
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She apparently thinks that people being trans is some kind of a fad, the latest novelty, so you know this is going to be serious scholarship.<br />
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Here's some of the book summary from Amazon<br />
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Is this true? Is any of this true? Pretty doubtful. Ms Shrier seems to be falling into the trap that many of the top sociological researchers fall prey to which is the assumption that if she hadn't heard about it before, it didn't exist until just now. Science is hard.One might consider that up until recently, being transgendered was something that was not socially acceptable to talk about in any context other than a cheap sitcom joke where the main character discovers that his old Army buddy is now a beautiful woman and boy is that awkward!<br />
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I don't think so. I, being a cis/het person, have never had to deal with the experience of "coming out," so maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think coming out is generally a group activity. I find it hard to believe that a bunch of sorority sisters are sitting around going "i'll come out as trnas if the rest of you do!" "No, you first!" "Come on, guys, I don't want to be the only one coming out as trans! If you're my friends, you'll all be trans too!"<br />
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Also, transgender is a thing. You don't need to put quote marks around it like it was a slang term for something else.<br />
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And you know this how, exactly? How on Earth do you know what these women felt or thought about themselves and their bodies before seeing "trans influencers" (whatever the hell that means) online? And, look, it may very well be that some trans people don't really realizr that they are trans until someone is able to put a name to what they are feeling. I knew a trans woman back in California. Only I diidn't know he was atrans woman. I don't think s/he knew. I suspect that this person, let's call him "Jim" thought just like the rest of us did , that Jim was just a very effeminate gay man. Until one day he was no longer named "Jim," he was named "Jane."<br />
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Here's another "coming out" story.It's not about a trans person, but I think it's illustrative of the point I'm trying to make (Aand yes, I am trying to make a point) I met a guy once, a friend of a friend, who had been happily married to a woman. He said he loved this woman and she loved him and everythin g was fine except that in the back of his mind, he always felt that something wasn't quite right, that something was missing. Then, as he tells it, one day he suddenly realized what the problem was and he said to his wife "honey, I'm queer!" (his word) Now he's happily coupled with another bear and his ex-wife is with a woman. Happily ever after is possible after all!<br />
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The point is that it apparently can take people quite a lot of time to realize who they really are.And it makes perfect sense that a lot of people would come to the realization about their gender or sexuality in college, the first time they're not being watched over by their parents, maybe they aren't attending the same kind of church. Maybe college is the first time some people ever meet an out LGBT person and that helps them to realize something about themselves.<br />
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At any rate, being trans is not something that young people are trying on because it's chic or trendy or because all the cool kids are doing it and they want to be in with the "in crowd." It's just who they are.<br />
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No, we just covered that. Trans isn't "hip." Coming out as trans is probably a very difficult decision for these young people and fuck you for making light of it.<br />
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I remember, when I was a teen "gender-benders" like Boy George, Pete Burns, and Annie Lenox were "hip."<br />
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I remember trying on some of my sisters' cosmetics. I bought a string of faux pearls, pierced my ears and wore a lot of pink. That was something I did because it was cool. It did not make me trans. Or gay,. Or anything that I already wasn't. Being transgender is a toitally different thing. It's not fashion, it's not a trend or a fad, it's just who some people are.<br />
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Oh ny God, yes! That and other things that have never happened!<br />
Sarn those "gender affirming educators." If a student says to her teacher "I think I might be a male person in a female body," if the teacher would just have the decency to say "the hell you are, now sit down, freak!" there wouldn't be a problem. Instead, what happens all too often is a young lady asks her guidance counselor "how much do you know about transgender people? Do you think I could possibly be trans?" and the guidance counselor says "oh, ye. Absolutely you are. Now I've scheduled you for an appointment with a surgeon who can lop those pesky boobs off and then we'll see about having a wang installed. No, no, too late to back out now. Take these pills. they'll put some hair on your chest!"<br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Abigail Shrier, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">a writer for the </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Wall Street Journal,</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves.</span></b></blockquote>
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Again, I am far from an expert on this subject, but I do know that gender re-assignment is a long difficult and expensive process. It is not something that anyone rushes into. I don't think one could rush into it if one wanted to. There are a lot of steps that come before any surgical changes to the body. It's not like getting drunk and waking up with a tattoo.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. </b></span></blockquote>
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I think it is. I think the first steps are easy to walk back. I Googled it and I found a list of all the steps involved on a site called <span style="background-color: white; color: #006621; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: nowrap;">phillygaycalendar.com/</span><br />
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Okay? So this is not something you can wake up in the morning and decide to do. You can't just say "I'm not having a great life as a man, I think maybe I'll try being a woman" and just pop in to the nearest sex-change-o-mat and get your torso redesigned.<br />
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And Abigail Shrier is defintely the person you want to take psychological advice from. She has a degree from Yale.<br />
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Her degree is from Yale Law School? Hold on.<br />
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<br />Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-21670007962299465002020-07-20T19:04:00.001-04:002020-07-20T19:04:39.187-04:00New Contender for Worst Governor title<br />
Living in Georgia, I have felt pretty confident that we have the absolute worst governor in the Union. But we have a new contender. This is what the Governor of Missouri Mike Parson had to say about sending kids back to school during a pandemic:<br />
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He's not just willing to risk the possibility that kids will contact this horrible disease, he's willing to send kids out there KNOWING that they are going to contract this virus. And yes, children who get Covid are likely to survive, but for one thing, we really have no idea what the long-term effects of this virus are. I just read something the other day about viruses with long-term effects. Like chicken pox. Chicken pox is somethiing that is fairly mild if you get it as a kid, but the virus stays in your body forever. You won't get chicken pox again, but the virus will always be there, just waiting to manifest itself as shingles in times of high stress. Or the herpes virus. If you've ever had a cold sore, that virus stays in your system forever, just bifing its time until it can produce another cold sore once a year on school picture day. So we have no idea what sort of lifelong effect this new virus might inflict on these kids who get it now.<br />
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Secondly, here's what he says will happen when (not if, but WHEN) children get the Coronoa Virus from their little classmates:<br />
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Oh, home! They're going to go HOME! Oh, why didn't you say so? Oh, that's perfectly fine, then. Home, where they can be cared for by their middle-aged parents. Or, if both parents are fortunate enough to be employed, their elderly grandparents. . . . oh, wait. I think I see a flaw in your "plan," Governor.<br />
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Oh, and also too, you know that there aren't just children at schools, right? Youy know the teachers are grown-ups, right? The teachers, the custodians, the librarians, the administrators, the coaches, all grown-ups who, if they catch Covid from one of their students, are much more likely to die from it. I mean, you do know that, right?<br />
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Sp why the urgency to re-open the schools? What circumstance justifies this callous indifference to the health and safety of children and adults?<br />
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Which, you know, yes we can. We can shut everything down for a while until it is actually safe to re-open. We actually do not need to plow ahead as if nothing were wrong to prove how tough we are or whatever it is you think you're proving. These are children! You're willing to sacrifice children, teachers and parents on the altar of, what exactly? American exceptionalism? Toxic masculinity? Your deep-seated fear of ever appearing weak?<br />
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This pandemic will never end in the U.S. Because evrything that defines us as a nation at this point in history just enables the spread of this virus. Americans' distrust of science, and of expertise in general, ensured that a large swath of the population would never take the threat seriously. The right-wing libertarianism so prevalent these days (libertarianism for me, police state for thee) made it inevitable that a not-insignificant portion of the population would refuse to endure the mild inconvenience of wearing a mask to avoid infecting other people because FREEDOMMMMM!!!! Our propensity to twist every event into some grand conspiracy theory made it inevitable that others would refuse to wear masks because they some sort of mind-control device, or a test to see how compliant citizens would be with governement orders restricting their liberties or something to do with 5-G and pizzagate, I don't even know, but the list goes on.<br />
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<br />Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-48704837492099916492020-07-07T19:26:00.001-04:002020-07-07T19:26:55.352-04:00This man gets paid to write things.Brett Stephens is a professional opinion-haver. He gets paid to have opinions and he gets paid to type up those opinions for publication. And he is paid really well for typing up his opinions. And his opinions are published in the number one newspaper in America and syndicated all over the country. This would be the equivalent of me getting paid to play basketball in the NBA. And everyone in the NBA and the TV announcers and the fans all agreeing to pretend that I am a very very good basketball player (which I am NOT).<br />
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Ah, yes. Orwell. Every dumb guy who wants to have an opinion on politics defaults to having read Orwell and pretending to have understood the message.<br />
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Mmmmm, yeah. . .no. No it isn't.<br />
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I can already pretty much guess where this is going. "People criticizing me on-line is a level of censorship and oppression not seen since the heyday of the Soviet Union," right?<br />
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Okay. No argument here.but what has this to do with America and how is it the Democrats' fault?<br />
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What? When the Hell did conservatives ever care about other people's freedom? Other than as something they could use as a pretext to invade or bomb a foreign country or sponsor a coup?<br />
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Well, you may have a point. At the moment, the main threat to freedom seems to be coming from local police departments.<br />
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Okay, first of all, "unmasked?" Was there anyone other than the MAGA cult who didn't already know Trump was incompetent long before he took office? It took you almost four years to realize that "oh, maybe the guy who ran every business he's ever had into the ground, who can barely string a sentence together and makes everything about himself and his petty grievances <b><i>doesn't</i></b> actually know what the fuck he's doing?"<br />
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Secondly, you think that makes it okay? You think the fact that the fascist occupying the Oval Office is not very good at being a fascist = nothing to worry about here?<br />
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Of course it does. Of course. I was wondering what was taking you so long to get there.<br />
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Stop, you're going to give me nightmares! Liberals who lack the courage of their convictions? So much scarier than Proud Boys, gun freaks and Boogaloo Bois!<br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">This has been the great cultural story of the last few years. It is </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/opinion/bannon-new-yorker-festival-remnick.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">typified by incidents</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> such as The New Yorker’s David Remnick thinking it would be a good idea to interview Steve Bannon for the magazine’s annual festival — until a Twitter mob and some members of his own staff decided otherwise.</span></b></blockquote>
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Okay, honestly, I've read this paragraph about a half-dozen times now and I'm still not sure whether you're saying the problem was that the New Yorker decided to interview a white supremacist fascist or that people on Twitter and some New Yorker staff objected to publishing an interview with a white nationalist.<br />
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Okay, I read the article you linked to and I see that the lady got fired, but the Post article is only reporting that she got fired. They didn't get her fired. She had already been fired long before the article was written. So I'm not sure how you can say that the Washington Post "devot[ed] 3,000 words to ruining [her] life." I mean, it's not like you're some kind of disingenuous shitweasel, are you?<br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">Or by big corporations </span><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/business/media/Facebook-advertising-boycott.html" style="border: 0px; color: #326891; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">pulling ads from Facebook</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> while demanding the company do more to censor forms of speech they deem impermissible.</span></b></blockquote>
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So. . . companies decide that they don't want to advertise on a platform that allows hate speech, and that's a problem because. . . ?<br />
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Yeah, but by "contrarians," you mean "Nazis." You mean "prople who spread dangerous medical misinformation." You mean "incels." The "idea" that you claim is at risk is racism.<br />
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If someone says "I think the Senate's proposed bill is a bad idea and someone else says "No, I think it's good," then yes. Both points opf view deserve a hearing. But when one person is saying "Black Lives Matter," and the other is saying "No they don't," there is no legitimate reason to hear out the "contrarion." He's just a racist piece of shit.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">That idea, old as Socrates, formerly had powerful institutional defenders, especially in the form of universities, news media, book publishers, free-speech groups and major philanthropies.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">But those defenders are, on account of one excuse or another, capitulating to people who claim free speech for themselves (but not for others)</span></b></blockquote>
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Do we really have to go over this again?<br />
Freedom of speech means that the government can not prevent you from speaking or punish you for your speech. It does not mean that no matter what you say people aren't allowed to criticize you, to call you out, to condemn you. And it doesn't mean that your employer can't decide that you've become an embarassment to the organization and fire you.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">. . . <span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">and who demand cringing public apologies from those who have sinned against an ever-more radical ideological standard (while those apologies won’t save them from being fired).</span></b></blockquote>
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This would be the radical ideological standard of . . . don't say racist, misogynistic or homophobic shit in public and expect to not get any pushback? That honestly doesn't sound that difficult. I'm 53 years old and I'm pretty sure I haven't done that. And I'm just some normal average guy.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">As in so much else, George Orwell was here before us. . . </span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 20px;">“What is sinister,” he wrote, “is that the conscious enemies of liberty are those to whom liberty ought to mean most.” He was particularly calling out Western scientists who admired the Soviet Union for its technical prowess and were utterly indifferent to Stalin’s persecution of writers and artists. “They do not see that any attack on intellectual liberty, and on the concept of objective truth, threatens in the long run every department of thought.”</span></b></blockquote>
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Yeah, that's certainly analagous to the current situation. The Soviets were an authoritarian dictatorship who had the power to restrict writing and speech and brutally punish anyone who violated their strictures. Being sent to the gulag for voicing an opinion is really, when you think about it, the equivalent of being told on Twitter that you've been "cancelled."<br />
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So to sum up, Trump - who recently demanded that protestors be given long prison terms, who has encouraged groups of heavily-armed thugs and whire supremacisits and who has threatened to unleash the military on American cities if governors do not heed his calls to utilize the National Guard, is not the problem.<br />
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Police who beat, knock down, pepper spray and tear-gas people exercising their First Amendment rights are not the problem.<br />
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Gangs of conspiracxy-theory-addled rage-fueled agreived white racists with sub-machine guns are not the problem.<br />
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The problem is that sometimes when someone gets racist on Twitter, people get angry and then sometimes that person gets fired. That's the problem. If you can type up some version of this opinion twice a week for the foreseeable future, you too can be a professional opinion-haver and writer. Apparently, that's all there us to it.<br />
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Lately I've been seeing way more than the usual amount of news stories that, were a writer to include them in a movie script, would be considered too unrealistic.<br />
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Okay, first of all, there is no such thing as "Cancel Culture." Cancelled is just an expression, a slang term if you will. When you find out that someone you used to be a fan of has done something awful and tou can no longer watch or enjoy their work, it's just easier to say "Loius CK is cancelled" than to say "I always enjoyed Louis CK's stand-up comedy and I liked his TV show and he's very talented, but now that I know he's a sex creep, I can't watch him anymore."<br />
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Anyway, I get why the revanchists at FOXwould be annoyed by people "cancelling" a cartoon about puppy cops, or a very good but very racist movie, but the Confederacy?<br />
First of all, the Confederacy was cancelled 150 years ago by Ulysses S. Grant<br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">You're Goddamm right!</span></b></div>
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Secondly, The Confederacxy?<br />
Were you under the impression that before Milenials got on Twitter everyone was pretty okay with the fucking Confederacy?<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-size: large;">The head of the NYPD detectives’ union said that they plan to sue protestors who injure police officers.<br />“If you assault a New York City Detective and there are no consequences from the criminal justice system, we have to have other means to protect our detectives,” said <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Paul DiGiacomo</span>, president of the Detectives Endowment Association.</span></b></blockquote>
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Oh my God. First of all, if a civilian injures a New York City Detective, there are absolutely going to be consequences from the criminal justice system. Of course there will be. I know cops are really wedded to this whole "everyone's against us" narrative, but what do you think happens when someone injures a cop? Do you think that the DA just shrugs and says "boys will be boys?" Do you think they get a half-assed grand jury procedure that miraculously results in no charges being filed? It's ridiculous and disingenuous and frankly a bit dangerous to imply that people get away with assaulting police officers. There are always consequences for assaulting a cop. There are also consequences for being rude to a cop, being in the way of a cop, or walking on the sidewalk too close to a cop.<br />
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And with or without the backing of the criminal justice system, y'all don't seem to have any trouble finding "other means" of dealing with people who piss you off.<br />
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But the irony that seems to escape the NYPD is that it is the police who, time and time again, have killed, beaten, and injured civilians with "no consequences from the criminal justice system." That's the whole problem. That's how we got here. If it were even a little bit true that civilians were injurung cops with impunity, I would have to say "now you know how every black person probably feels." But it isn't. It's not true. Not even a little nit. If you wrote an episode of Law and Order with a cop character who was this big a crybaby, the producers would tell you it was too unrealistic. Yet here we are.<br />
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Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: Forces of Evil Want To Steal Our Freedom in the Dark of Night, But God Stands with Us</h1>
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Freedom is oxygen. Which is why every citizen of the Soviet Union suffocated in the 1950's.<br />
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Jesus Christ, this is gibberish!<br />
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I don't think I can read any more of this drivel. It's not even funny.<br />
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What else has been in the news lately? Oh, this:<br />
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Oh wait. There's more?<br />
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NYPD lieutenant apologizes for kneeling alongside George Floyd protesters</h1>
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Of course. I should've known. Of course he's apologizing for the one decent thing he did.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><br /><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">A Manhattan NYPD lieutenant has apologized to his fellow department members for taking a knee alongside George Floyd protesters — telling them that “the cop in me wants to kick my own ass.”</span></b></blockquote>
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Of course. Because that's the natural cop reaction to anything he doesn't like. Kick someone's ass.<br />
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Right, why should you give into the demands of the crowd? I mean, it's not like you're some kind of public servant or something. You certainly wouldn't want the ordinary people of New York to think that the police are on their side.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Police sources expressed relief that Cattani had apologized — but questioned what he was thinking in the first place.<br />“I’m glad he took it back, because your officers are out here battling with these guys and that’s what you do to show appreciation? Never show your weakness,” one insider said.</b></blockquote>
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Right, The citizenry is the enemy. You are at war with the people of your city. Do you people listen to yourselves? You're not in Fallujah.<br />
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<br />Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-71062075665087489992020-06-09T19:58:00.001-04:002020-06-09T19:58:36.846-04:00The Democrats are not coming to save us.<br />
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Let me begin by stating for the record that I, Professor Chaos, will be voting for Joe Biden or for whomever they replace him with at the convention because no matter how many problems I have with Biden, the alternative is much much worse.<br />
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That being said, Joe Biden and the Democratic leadership are not coming to save us.<br />
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Yes, they are better than the Republicans. Much better. Or much less awful, if you prefer. But no positive change is going to come from these people.<br />
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At a time in our hiustory when the people are demanding radical change to way our citizenry is ploiced, the Democratic leadership gives us performative posturing.<br />
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The people cried out "Defund the Police!" and Pelosi and the Dems respomded "Got it! Kneel for 8 minutes! While wearing African cloth for some reason no one can really explain."<br />
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"No, seriously" the people said. "We rreally want to defund the police!" And Biden gave us this headline:<br />
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Seriously? How is Biden's strategy always to come out in opposition to whatever Democratic voters want? Medicare For All polls at around 65-70% among all voters and obviously higher among the Democratic base.<br />
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So what does Biden have to say?<br />
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Oh that's great.<br />
You know, if you're going to come out against a highly popular policy proposal, it helps to toss in the fact that you knew the bloody quagmire you supported was begun on false pretenses and that you were outsmarted by a dimwit.<br />
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So now the Dems have come out with their police "reform" proposal.<br />
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Oh,, they're going to ban chokeholds! Like we don't know that chokeholds are already banned in a lot of jurisdictions but somehow still keep being applied. For instance, the chokehold was banned in New York in 1993, but somehow still managed to kill Eric Garner and the officer apoplying that chokehold was never charged with a crime or faced any actual consequnences. But the Democrats have a solution! They're going to. . . ban the chokehold even more, I guess?<br />
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And ban racial profiling. How is that going to work? Racial profiling is such a stupid term. It sounds like it's some kind of academic formula that police departments ude to identify suspects, something really complex whose use could be discontinued, when it's really just the cops saying "hey, look. A black guy. Let's stop-and-frisk him!" How are you going to end the use of "racial profiling?" No cop is ever going to admit that he pulled ovewr a driver or stopped a pedestrian because of his race. He's going to say that the car was speeding, or the black guy walking down the street was behaving suspiciously, or the black guy he killed was "resisiting arrest." And how would you prove that he's lying? You can't.So your ban is meaningless. It's like if my wife says I'm not allowed to choose movies on Netflix on the basis of how much nudity they have. And then I choose some movie with lots of naked boobies in it. And she says "hey, I thought we agreed that you wouldn't choose boobie movies," and I say "Gosh, I didn't know that 9-1/2 Weeks had nudity! How was I to know?" She can't really prove that I knew. I can claim that I heard it was a thought-provoking relationship drama and she can't really say for sure that I'm NOT dumb enough to have thought that. In fact, after 25 years of marriage, she probably assumes that I am.<br />
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And they're going to require nationwide bidy cams? You mean like the ones that are already required by departments all over the country? That always seem to malfunction right at the time when something bad happens? . Isn't it always the way that the time you forget to turn your body cam on is the one time that you have to fire your weapon to defend yourself against an unarmed black teenager? Murphy's law, I guess<br />
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So they're going to push these aesthetic "reforms," the bill will die in the Senate, and cops will continue to run roughshod over the rights of minority communities, but the Dems will pat themselves on the back for being "woke" and continue to not understand why more people don't show up to vote for them.<br />
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And eventually Trump will leave office and everyone will want to pretend that the problem is solved. I can't tell you hoiw many Tweets I've seen these last few weeks with video clips of cops beating, teargassing and firing at protestors with some line about "this is Trump's America!" As if police brutality was something that began in January 2017.<br />
As if Philandro Castile, Alton Sterling, Keith Lamont Scott, Terence Crutcher and many more unarmed black men weren't killed by cops just in the last year of the Obama administration.<br />
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Or as if the militarization of police departments was some new development spurred by Cheeto Mussolini. Police departments have been militarizing since at least the 1980's in response to the crack epidemic. And at first it was just big cities with lots of gang activity like Los Angeles and Miami, but over the last several administrations it has spread to small and medium-sized towns across the country. It's not like this wasn't happening under Barack Obama and it's not like it's going to stop under Joe Biden.<br />
Don't forget,this was Biden's response to the Rodney King beating in 1991:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "montserrat" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Sensing upcoming unrest, lawmakers in Washington began to act. In May 1991, Biden authored a Senate bill that would have provided greater protections to cops accused of misconduct. The " </span><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/1043?s=1&r=304" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Police Officer's Bill of Rights Act</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "montserrat" , serif; font-size: 16px;">" aimed at strengthening protections when law enforcement officers were accused of misconduct. </span></span></b></blockquote>
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You know, I used to jokingly make the analogy about voting blue as the lesser of two evils that it was like if you are offered a choice between a slap in the face and a kick to the crotch, you would be crazy not to opt for the slap. Now it seems voters are being offered a choice between one party that wants to shoot you in the heart and one that just wants to shoot you in the leg. So of course, you gotta choose the leg. But it's hard to generatemuch enthusiasm for that choice.<br />
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But no, the Democrats are not coming to save us. Joe Biden is not coming to save us.<br />
Nancy Pelosi is not coming to save us. They will rip up a speech or give a sarcastic clap, then turn around and authorize billions of dollars to put children in concentration camps. They aren't going to make anything better. But the alternative is worse.<br />
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Do not look away from this. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefundThePolice?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DefundThePolice</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhichSideAreYouOn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhichSideAreYouOn</a> <a href="https://t.co/5Gi7I8ngOF">pic.twitter.com/5Gi7I8ngOF</a></div>
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This is the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Deplorable?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Deplorable</a> Lee Mueller of Las Vegas who privately owns the dam that collapsed in Michigan, flooding the city of Midland under 9 feet of water. He was warned, but deliberately refused to repair the dam because he wanted tax payers to pay for the repairs <a href="https://t.co/9J8KrTrBpM">pic.twitter.com/9J8KrTrBpM</a></div>
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Why is a private person or entity allowed to own a dam?<br />
It's not just my natural lefty tendancy to think of a dam as a public good that should be operated in the public interest, it also seems like an insanely dangerous idea to let one person have control over something that could wipe out thousands of lives and destroy millions of dollars worth of property.<br />
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Where I come from, there are four dams, the Pilarcitos, the Upper and Lower Crystal Springs, and the San Andreas. (Funny story, the San Andreas Fault was actually named after the San Andreas Dam after it was discovered that a seismic fault line ran under the ground where they had just built a new earthen dam. Heh heh heh, nothing to worry about, folks. Everything's fine! heh heh heh. . .<br />
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Anyway, the dams in San Mateo County are owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (long story, you can read about it <a href="https://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=9615" target="_blank">here</a> if you're interested). So every time there's an earthquake (and probably at other times as well), the SFPUC sends engineers to inspect the dams to ensure their structural iintegrity. Because if the Pilarcitos dam was to give way, billions of gallons of water would flood the city of San Mateo nearly instantaneously killing a whole lot of people.<br />
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I assumed that's how it was everywhere. The dams around here all seem to be owned and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. Who in holy Hell thought it was a good idea to leave something this vital to public safety in the hands of some sociopathic millionaire?<br />
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Sighhhhhh. . . Okay, first of all, Federal regulators just let him go for years not making repairs? No one MADE him make repairs? They just kept saying "hey, you know, you really oughta maybe think about not letting your dam get all decrepit and run down. Please?"<br />
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Then when they finally had enough, their solution was to revoke his license to operate the dam. So the dam is still there, holding back tons of water and falling further and further into dis-repair, it's just no longer generating electricity. And someone thought "problem solved! No need to worry any more about the dam breaking!" How did they think this was helping? It's like a restaurant is on fire and the answer is to revoke the owner's business license. The fire is still burning. The neighboring businesses are still in danger.<br />
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Then, as if this wasn't cement-head stupid enough, the Snyder Administration steps in and says"Nah, you go ahead and keep running your dam, we're sure that, as a private for-profit business you know what is best!"<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #48454e; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">And in the 19 months since that </span>2018 inspection<span style="color: #48454e; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;">, Michigan regulators didn’t demand any repairs to the dam that failed Tuesday</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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They said the dam was in FAIR condition. There is no FAIR condition for a dam. There is good condition and there is not good enough condition. It's not a used car. You can't look at a dam and say "yeah, she's probably got another couple hundred good miles in her." Someone needs to make these repairs. And since the owner has shown no interest in doing so, the dam needs to be taken away from him by the state or the feds and they can make the repairs and then operate it safely. Or the relevant state or federal agency could make the repairs themselves and bill the owner. If he doesn't pay, you foreclose on the dam. Or jail the son of a bitch. Or both.<br />
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God DAMN IT ~ 2004? This shit has been going on since TWO THOUSAND AND FOUR?!?!<br />
They have "failed to comply with . . .safety requirements?" Do you. . .do you understand what the word "requirements" means? You don't have the option to comply or not comply with fucking REQUIREMENTS! How was this allowed to go on for 16 fucking years? I mean, could Jon Dillinger have just said "I believe I will decline to comply with the requirement that I not rob banks?" Why do we even have laws?<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9cb9c; color: #48454e; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><b>Michigan regulators “had strong concerns the dam did not have enough spillway capacity” in the event of heavy rains and “expressed those concerns,” said Nick Assendelft, a state energy spokesperson.</b></span></blockquote>
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Oh, they "expressed concerns?" Oh well why didn't you say so? Well that's a horse of a different color! If I had known that they not only had concerns, but had, in fact, expressed those concerns, well I guess there's no need for me to be upset. I mean, it sounds like they did everything they could possibly think of!<br />
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<b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;"><br /><span style="color: #48454e; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">But regulators did not move beyond “continued conversations” about repairs, he said. Instead, the state was focused on what it called illegal efforts by Boyce to lower water levels the past two years.</span></b></blockquote>
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CONTINUED CONVERSATIONS?!?!?!<br />
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About his "illegal efforts to lower water levels?"<br />
Do you not uinderstand what the word "illegal" means? It means arrest the motherfucker and take his fucking dam away before he gets someone killed.<br />
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<b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Boyce generates power to sell to Consumers Energy, so regulation of its dam initially fell to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rather than state inspectors.<br />In court documents, federal regulators wrote Boyce repeatedly failed to improve its capacity to handle big floods, revealing “a pattern of delay and indifference to the potential consequences.” Fixing the dam was necessary “in order to protect life, limb, and property,”<a href="https://www.ferc.gov/legal/court-cases/briefs/2018/DC171-1270BoyceHydroPowerMotion.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(17, 107, 198); box-sizing: inherit; color: #116bc6; text-decoration-line: none;"> lawyers for the FERC wrote</a> in January 2018. </b></blockquote>
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Yeah, no fucking kidding. So why didn't you do something about it?<br />
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I really don't understand why if you or I commit a crime, we get arrested. If a company commits a crime, the government's lawyers have to argue in front of a judge to try to be allowed to introduce some cionsequences which, if there are any, are negotiated with the company like it was some kind of a business deal. You always see these stories about how "Indiscriminate Deathcorp has <b><i>agreed</i></b> to pay 10 million dollars for dumping planeloads of flaming napalm onto residential neighborhoods. . ." I would love to commit crimes and then say to the police, "okay, here's what I'm willing to do: I'll ay a small fine and pick up trash on the weekend. Jail time? Ha! You must be joking, I definitely do not agree to that!"<br />
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<b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">For years, the FERC had told Boyce the dam didn’t meet design standards and could only drain about half of the expected “probable maximum flood” — the amount of water expected in the most severe storm that’s reasonably possible in the region.<br />Federal regulators told Boyce Hydro it needed to build two spillways to accommodate potential flooding,` and the company agreed.<br />But over the next 13 years, Boyce missed numerous deadlines to add the spillways, arguing it didn’t have enough money to finish the projects and couldn’t borrow more</b>. </blockquote>
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Jesus Christ! Have these people never heard of eminent domain? You can't afford to run your dam in a way that doesn't endanger thousands of people? Well here's a check for the fair market value, minus all the fines that should be levied plus interest and penalties. It's our dam now. Oh, and you'll find that fair market value is gonna be quite a bit lower than you might have hoped because this dam is in a disgraceful state of disrepair.<br />
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All right, well now they've learned the hard way. Now there's a flood and they are having to come to grips with the failures of their laissez faire approach to public safety. Things are obviously going to be different now.<br />
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This is what we're doing? "Hey, Tony Soprano, would you and your guys look into why there's so much corruption in New Jersey? See if you can figure out who's responsible for all this crime and graft, would you?"<br />
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Why? Why were there <b><i>requests</i></b>? Why were there not orders? Why was there not enforcement? Why is no one looking out for us? They just get to do whatever they want and normal people just have to suffer the consequences. When do we take up our torches and pitchforks?<br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, shit! That is totally how the Jews were treated by the Nazis. They were given medical checkups and then those who were healthy were asked if they wouldn't mind maybe wearing a yellow star on their clothing so that people would know it was safe to interact with them. And then I think there was some other stuff, but really it was being screened to make sure they weren't infected with a deadly disease that was the real horror of the Holocaust.</span></span><br />
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<span .="" nbsp="" span="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;">Okay, first of all, it was the Nazis who wore armbands. </span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;">“Ben, This is disgusting. Keep your Holocaust jokes to yourself,” wrote Rep. Grier Hopkins, D-Fairbanks.</b></blockquote>
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<b style="background-color: #ffe599;">Rep. Andy Josephson, D-Anchorage, said, “I don’t think a tag that we’re cleared to enter the building is akin to being shipped to a concentration camp. It’s more akin to needing a boarding pass when you get through TSA. This is that.”</b></blockquote>
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<span .="" nbsp="" span="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;">Okay, well you may be Jewish, but I think I've got a pretty good handle on what is and isn't akin to the Holocaust! Having someone take my temperature to make sure I'm not sick - That's pretty much like what they did at Auschwitz!</span><br />
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<span .="" nbsp="" span="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;">It's like when you vote and then they give you that "I voted" sticker. And they expect you to just put that on your lapel. And then if you don't there's zero consequences. Well what if I don't WANT to comply? What if I don't WANT to tell people I voted? It's a slippery slope, people. First they're giving you a sticker that indicates that you've gotten a clean bill of health and ASKING you to wear it, next thing you know, Krystallnacht!</span><br />
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<span .="" nbsp="" span="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;">I mean, when I think of the government using their power and authority to try to prevent a good man like Ben Carpenter from getting infected with a deadly contagion. . . oh, it makes me so angry!<br />And for the government of Alaska, which is supposed to be "of the people by the people FOR THE PEOPLE, to prevent this man from exercising his God-given right to spread a disease to his fellow legislators - - - I mean, the Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves!</span><br />
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<span .="" nbsp="" span="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><br /><br />Look, the public health guidelines have worked, so the obvious thing to do is stop following them! Does Carpenter have to spell out everything for you dummies? If Carpenter says the danger has passed, that should be good enough for you. I mean who would know better? The CDC? Ha! Ben Carpenter is pretty much the gold standard of expertise when it comes to epidemiology. I will have you know that Ben Carpenter graduated from. . . Nisiki High school. . . wait, that can't be it. I mean, surely he went on to college, med school, PhD in virology, right?</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Carpenter graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikiski_High_School" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Nikiski High School">Nikiski High School</a> in 1993. After graduation, he joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>, serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in Turkey and Kuwait with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bio_1-0" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_E._Carpenter#cite_note-bio-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup></b><br /><b style="background-color: #f9cb9c;">Afterward, Carpenter joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Army_National_Guard" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Alaska Army National Guard">Alaska Army National Guard</a>, in which he was a special staff officer in the commanding general’s office. He later retired from the National Guard. Carpenter grows <span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">peonies</span></span> and was president of the Alaska Peony Market Cooperative.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-bio_1-1" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_E._Carpenter#cite_note-bio-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup></b></blockquote>
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<span .="" nbsp="" span="" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><br /><br />Okay, I may have to re-evaluate this whole thing. Maybe Ben Carpenter isn't the expert authority I had been led to believe he was. But even though he's not an actual virologist or immunologist or epidemiologist, I bet he knows a lot about the Nazis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, he does have a point. It is entirely possible that covid-19 patients may be taken somewhere. They could be taken to hospitals! Where they will be forced to endure, um, having ventilators assist with their breathing and , I don't know, probably getting poked with needles or something. And don't get me started on the spartan conditions they will have to withstand. I mean, my God, those beds!</span><br />
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Other than that, though, I think he might be just a teensy bit off-base here. Hitler, it may surprise you to learn, was actually something of a white supremacist. He was what the experts refer to as the "dictionary definition" of the term "white supremacist." He absolutely believed in a hierarchy of races with white people at the top rung. He even believed that within the general category of white epeople their was a racial hierarchy with Nordic people at the top and Slavs on the bottom.<br />
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Okay, so I guess Ben Carpenter doesn't really know anything about Nazis either. But on the other hand, he does know a lot about peonies! So I think the people of Alaska should probably follow his lead when it comes to balancing out public health and safety with Freedommmmmmm!!!<br />
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Seems only sensible.Professor Chaoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8546852745854877350.post-67355412414457898242020-05-13T20:14:00.000-04:002020-05-13T20:14:07.625-04:00Stupid shithead of the day<br />
I have to imagine that when the Founding Fathers established the House of Representatives, they pictured people in small towns across the 13 states getting together and deciding whom they should send to represent them in the Congress.<br />
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"I say we send Doc Johnson, he's an educated man!"<br />
"Well if we're sending someone to make laws, we should send Bill Jones. He's a lawyer."<br />
"I'd like to nominate Parson Brown. He's the most honest man in town!"<br />
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"well what about Miss Jackson, the schoolmarm?"<br />
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"Miss Jackson? Why she's a woman! Probably has boobies and everything. The schoolmarm! Well now I've heard everything!"<br />
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And so on.<br />
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But somehow we've gotten to the point where in many, if not most, of our congressional districts, the goal seems to be to find the stupidest nastiest shithead in the area to represent the good folks back home.<br />
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Case in point: Michigan's Justin Amash,<br />
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who had this astute observation re: scientists and Covid-19:<br />
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A scientist may know a virus’s characteristics, but he doesn’t know a community’s characteristics: how they feel, eat, shop, work, and operate businesses. These items constitute the most useful kind of knowledge—available only locally, and crucial to limiting the virus’s spread.</div>
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) <a href="https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1260645187472121858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wait, what?<br />
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You think that it would be helpful for virologists or epidemiologists to have some knowledge of how a community <b><i>feels?</i></b><br />
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What about that conservative motto:<br />
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I mean, is the communicability or the lethality of a virus affected by how people <b><i>feel</i></b>? How they eat, shop, work, etc?<br />
Because I'm pretty sure that however you normally work, shop, conduct your business, the prescription for our current situation is the same. Stay the fuck at home, wear a god damn mask, stay at least 6 feet away from other people. It doesn't matter what your shopping habits were like last year. Things are different now.<br />
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Epidemiologists cannot know the specific actions of each individual in a community. This kind of knowledge is not knowable to any scientist. The top mistake being made by state governments is their imposing uniform rules that limit the use of local knowledge to fight the virus.</div>
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Yes, because the way to fight a virus differs from one locality to another. Maybe in Detroit, the way to fight it is to stay home, shut non-essential businesses, wear masks and practice social distancing, but in, say, Lansing, the best way might be to STAY THE FUCK HOME, SHUT NON-ESSENTIAL FUCKING BUSINESSES, WEAR YOUR GODDAMM MASKS AND PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING YOU STUPID FUCKING SHITHEAD!!!<br />
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As an example, a business owner will know how to manage traffic in her specific grocery store much better than a governor advised by a scientist. Lansing can’t account for particular circumstances. A blanket rule may cause a huge line out the door that helps spread the virus.</div>
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Oh my God, that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard!<br />
Why in the Hell would you think that a grocery store owner would have a better understanding of how many people can be safely admitted into a building at once, or how far apart those people need to be spaced? And a line out the door is what you're worried about? And you think that the solution would be to take those people who are standing in line outside, potentially spreading the virus, and herd them all INSIDE THE STORE? This makes sense to you?<br />
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Have you even seen what businesses are doing with lines of customers? They're having them stand six feet apart until enough people leave the store that more can be allowed in. This isn't something that should be handled differently based on your particular locale. There is just no logic to the idea that a grocery store owner would have a better idea about virus containment than the governor who is advised by the CDC, the NIH, the WHO, the top scientists at Univerity of Michigan, Michigan State, whatever other university she wants to call up and ask for advice.<br />
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They don’t have the knowledge and neither do I. That’s the point. The most useful and important kind of knowledge—that of the particular circumstances of time and place—is dispersed.</div>
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Oh, yeah. The most important and useful knowledge is that possessed by reg'lar Joes in their small-town neighborhoods. These fancy eggheads who have spent their entire adult lives studying the factors that are in play in this exact scenario don't know nothin'! Not compared to ol' Frank down at the Stuckey's. Why ol' Frank has lived in this here town purt near longer'n anyone can remember. He dropped out of high school after his sophomore year, but he has the kind of <b><i>local</i></b> knowledge you just cain't git from books or colleges or laboratories and such!<br />
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This is what we've come to. This is the kind of person who we put into positions of responsibility. There's no coming back. America is doomed.<br />
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