Archive for 2016
August 30, 2016
QUESTION ASKED: How Can You Love Guns Knowing They Kill So Many People?
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: San Diego Welcomes 192 1Ls, Down 26% From Last Year’s 261 (42% From 2010’s 330).
If only there had been some sort of warning given.
WELL, THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG FOR AN ANSWER.
Shot: What would media say about naked Hillary statues?
—The Hill, August 19th, 2016.
Chaser: “Nearly Naked Hillary Clinton Portrayed as the ‘Beast’ in Hollywood Street Art,” the Hollywood Reporter, err, reports:
About 20 posters featuring an unflattering image of the Democratic nominee for president were hung Monday morning in the area by Sabo, a conservative street artist known for creating fake ads and traffic signs and affixing them illegally to bus stops and light poles in the dead of night.
His latest work is largely an anti-abortion statement, though it touches on feminism and alleged scandals involving the Clinton Foundation. And, with the number “6-6-6” tattooed around her neck, the rendering insinuates she may be Satan, or at least a devil worshipper.
An image of Saul Alinsky, the writer of Rules for Radicals who was allegedly a mentor of Clinton’s, is tattooed on one arm and $100 bills are on the other. There’s also a skeletal fetus about to be cut by scissors, a wire hanger, a vulture and the slogan “no bras, no masters.” (See the images below; the black bars were added by The Hollywood Reporter.)
I love the “alleged” and “allegedly” – that’s ever-so adorable, THR. The queen must be protected!
Here’s a safe for work image of the illustration Sabo created; click over if you’d like to see Hillary in all her tattooed glory, with the military-grade exoskeleton temporarily removed.
HE WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE: Turkey sets conditions for German access to Incirlik.
Turkey says German MPs can visit the airbase if the Berlin government stops trying to distort Turkish history. German politicians have been blocked from touring the facility, where their own military is stationed.
Turkish Foreign Minster Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the Ankara government would allow a German delegation to visit the Incirlik airbase in southern Turkey “if Germany takes the necessary steps.”
But his comments, following a meeting with his Dutch counterpart Bert Koenders in Ankara Monday, didn’t specify what concrete steps Turkey would want taken.
Cavusoglu added that those who try to “manipulate” Turkish history “in an unfair manner,” would not receive permission to visit the facility, where German troops, six German surveillance jets, and a refueling tanker are part of the US-led coalition fighting “Islamic State” (IS) militants.
Ankara is trying to force Germany to whitewash the 1915 Armenian Genocide from its history books.
HILLARY CLINTON HAS BEEN ‘FINDING HER VOICE’ SINCE 1993.
Not her socialist ideology, which has been largely fixed in place for most of her adult life, but how to best sell it. (Read: lie about it.)
NEXT YOU’LL BE TELLING ME IT WAS JUST A NOW-DISCARDED CAMPAIGN TALKING POINT: Let Them Drink Lead: So whatever happened to Hillary’s primary season Flint Initiative?
WAR ON COLLEGE MEN: School found accuser’s claims ‘meritless,’ still punishes the accused.
The University of Chicago may have won some points by refusing to adopt “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” for incoming freshmen, but its foray into social-justice activism still needs some work. Namely, its treatment of those accused of sexual assault.
A male student, identified in court documents as John Doe, is suing UC after it found an accuser’s claims “meritless,” yet continued to punish and investigate him. Doe says in his lawsuit that UC removed him from a physics lab where he worked with his accuser even after her complaint was found meritless.
The school also rejected Doe’s Title IX complaint claiming his accuser’s friend retaliated against him, in violation of school policy. The school also adjudicated a second complaint from the accuser, even though she had already proven herself to be untrustworthy, and failed to acknowledge how her second complaint was also in violation of the anti-retaliation policy.
The lawsuit alleges that the original accusations against Doe from his accuser were proven false through her “own public writings, which UC possesses.”
UC appeared to be, for some reason, hell bent on punishing Doe, to the point that when adjudicating the accuser’s second complaint, it used its 2015 student manual to hold Doe accountable for conduct that occurred in 2013.
“It was impossible for John Doe to know whether his consensual physical encounters with Jane Doe in 2013 might violate subsequently created stringent mandates in UC’s 2015 Manual,” Doe’s lawsuit said.
Doe believes the school is using the updated manual “because it contains provisions less favorable to male students.”
Cost for your son to attend the University of Chicago for one year: $66,765.
It’s amazing how much higher education is accelerating its own decline.
PRESIDENT ASH CARTER: Turkey and Syrian Kurdish forces ‘should stop fighting’
“We have called upon Turkey … to stay focused on the fight against ISIL and not to engage Syrian Defence Forces (SDF), and we have had a number of contacts over the last several days,” Carter said.
“We have called on both sides to not fight with one another, to continue to focus the fight on ISIL … That is the basis of our cooperation with both of them – specifically not to engage.”
The SDF is a group of fighters formed to fight against ISIL and is led by the YPG.
Turkey said on Monday it would continue to target the YPG if it failed to retreat east of the Euphrates River.
ISIS is a problem for Ankara, but the Kurds are the enemy.
THIS LOCAL NEWS ANCHOR FROM INDIA DEFINITELY SHOULD’VE CHECKED HER T-SHIRT BEFORE GOING ON AIR: “Maybe we’re just being old fashioned, but ‘shut the f*** up’ is probably not the kind of message you want to send to the viewers at home.”
No worse than Newsweek bureau chief Ginny Carroll (and thus an employee of the Washington Post) wearing a “YEAH, I’M IN THE MEDIA — SCREW YOU” button to the 1992 Republican convention and then defending it shortly thereafter on C-SPAN.
Apparently, old media telling their audiences to shut the f*** up is a sentiment that transcends all languages.
(Via Maggie’s Farm.)
BEST. PRESS. CONFERENCE. EVER. Watch: Anthony Weiner’s new sext scandal sparks Katie Pavlich to share Kick Ass Breitbart flashback vid.
THE HILL: White House defends vetting process for Syrian refugees.
The White House on Monday defended the Obama administration’s decision and vetting process for admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States.
“This administration did succeed in meeting this goal: a significant ramping up of the number of Syrian refugees to the United States. And we were able to do all of that without cutting any corners when it comes to security,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday.
“And significant screening was put in place to ensure that these individuals don’t pose an undue threat to our national security.”
The Obama administration will hit its goal of bringing in 10,000 Syrian refugees on Monday, clearing the self-imposed benchmark more than a month before its deadline.
The milestone comes amid heightened opposition to allowing Syrian refugees into the country from congressional Republicans and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Earnest defended the administration’s vetting process on Monday when asked how the administration would reassure people concerned that a potentially radicalized person could get into the country. The reporter who asked the question used the term “extreme vetting.”
“I think that was a term that might have been used by somebody who doesn’t currently work in the U.S. government,” Earnest responded.
“I’ll stop there.”
In an Aug. 15 speech, Trump proposed creating a system of “extreme vetting” to ensure that the country allows in only “those who share our values and respect our people.”
On Monday, Earnest said the vetting process typically takes “quite a bit of time.”
They take longer to “vet” documents for FOIA requests.
BYE-BYE CHARLES! THE WORST OF OSGOOD’S OUTBURSTS.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Clinton’s Economic Plan Will Lead Us Over a Cliff.
One of the dumbest statements in modern times was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s declaration that “the best way to stimulate the economy” is through food stamps and unemployment insurance.
This economic mumbo jumbo defies basic common sense and helps explain why we still have more than 40 million Americans on food stamps — evidently, the more that get free food, the more prosperous we become. This is the crux of the continuing curse of Keynesian economics, which says that the more the government spends, the more the economy grows. A dollar of government spending leads to as much as two dollars of additional economic output, according to Professor Pelosi.
Hillary Clinton is apparently one of Mrs. Pelosi’s A students. The entire Clinton recovery agenda is to spend $1 trillion more on government public works programs, free day care and college education, and expanded entitlements. She would raise investment and personal income tax rates (paid by many small businesses) to finance all of this.
Hillary has been parading around a study by economist Mark Zandi of Moodys, which claims that this fairy dust will mean happy days are here again. He claims millions of new jobs and billions in added output. But Mr. Zandi has been one of the wrongest economists in America for the past decade.
If we could spend our way to prosperity, then the last 16 years — when the federal debt nearly quadrupled — would be looked back on much more fondly.
ATHLETES AND CONCUSSIONS: Keep playing or come out? This article discusses a comparative study of the recovery times of high school football players who suffered concussions in contact sports.
High school athletes who kept playing in the minutes after a concussion took nearly twice as long to recover as those who left the game immediately after the head trauma, a new study shows…The sample included 35 athletes who were removed from games right after getting a concussion and compared their symptoms and recovery to 34 athletes who kept playing in the game or match after taking a hit. The study found that players who stayed in the game after head trauma took an average of 44 days to recover. By comparison, athletes who left a game immediately after signs of concussion took only an average of 22 days to recover. While there were no meaningful differences in recovery time among girls or boys, and no differences by sport, that may be because of the size of the study. Researchers say that while the sample size was small and involved just one clinic, the results clearly highlight the importance of physical and cognitive rest promptly following concussion.
Additional point: “The study authors acknowledged that their data did not show whether the athletes who kept playing following concussion suffered additional head impacts or simply continued physical exertion.”
THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: ObamaCare coverage options disappearing across country, report finds.
The Kaiser Family Foundation study found that overall, 31 percent of counties will have just a single insurance option within the Affordable Care Act exchanges. That’s up from 7 percent this year — and underscores a problem many analysts have been warning about for years.
Further, about six in 10 counties could have two or fewer marketplace insurers in 2017, with the “bulk of the increase in single-insurer counties” the result of UnitedHealth Group’s exit, the study, released Sunday, reveals.
Indeed, six years after ObamaCare was signed into law, America’s major medical insurers, concerned about their own bottom line, have started to pull the plug on a variety of services and options available to consumers. Citing major losses, the top five insurers – Humana, Anthem, Aetna, UnitedHealth Group, and Blue Cross Blue Shield – have threatened to pull out of the exchanges and have selectively started to do so in many counties.
In other words, by next year nearly a third of American counties will already be on virtual single-payer.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Hillary Clinton’s use of BleachBit avoided ‘money trail’ in email destruction.
GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Union Admits ‘Blacklist’ Rule Gives Them New ‘Leverage’ Against Companies.
When President Barack Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order it was couched as promoting “safe, healthy, fair, and effective workplaces.”
Under the order, and the new final regulations and guidance issued August 25, federal contractors must disclose mere allegations of federal labor violations, potentially locking them out of federal contracts without giving them a chance to challenge the charges.
But improving workplace safety or insuring compliance with the 14 laws and executive orders wasn’t the real motivation for the E.O.
If you pull back the curtain it is clear the order has nothing to do with improving federal contracting and everything to do with giving unions more tools for them to use against employers.
One of the key objections the U.S. Chamber has made all along about the president’s Executive Order is that it would hand the administration’s friends in the organized labor movement a powerful new tool for harassing and pressuring employers into rolling over to their demands.
It’s almost as though Barack Obama has turned the Federal government into a giant shakedown operation.
August 29, 2016
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HMM: Rocky Mountain High: The Secret Ingredient In Colorado Law School’s ‘Remarkable Recent Popularity’? “For the record, the University of Colorado is #7 on Princeton Review’s ‘Reefer Madness’ ranking of the best colleges for students who love to smoke marijuana.”