SIG has issued a press release that outlines an issue with the MCX rifles. They claim that the issue has only been seen in the .300
Blackout versions, but is extended to ALL MCX RIFLES with serial numbers
between 63C000044 and 63C003702. Any MCX with a serial ending in 25000
or higher is exempt from this recall.
More information, including contact info, at the link.
Friday, December 23, 2016
Lady, if that's how you learned about our country,
no wonder your 'understanding' is so freakin' screwed.
You may not know us, the people beyond your borders, but we know you. We absorbed your politics by osmosis, across the semipermeable membrane of celluloid. We know about Air Force One from “Air Force One” and the West Wing from “The West Wing.”
...
Of course not; it was OWED to Hillary!, it was her job! Etc.
Mr. Blair's summation:
Believe it or not, this ran on the front page of the New York Times’s international edition – much as the moron played by Andrew McCarthy’s in St Elmo’s Fire had his thoughts about the meaning of life published on the front page of the Washington Post.
It’s taken more than 30 years, but the US media (aided by an Australian contributor) is now officially at the level of a a dumb 1980s brat pack movie.
German authorities have arrested two brothers on suspicion of planning an attack on a shopping centre in the western city of Oberhausen, police said Friday.
The two men were aged 28 and 31 and originally from Kosovo, police said, with the country on edge after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin killing 12 people.
Here you can carry; if you don't everyday, I'd suggest you start.
The terrorist who drove a truck into that Christmas market is dead; made it all the way to Italy.
You may not know us, the people beyond your borders, but we know you. We absorbed your politics by osmosis, across the semipermeable membrane of celluloid. We know about Air Force One from “Air Force One” and the West Wing from “The West Wing.”
...
For all the intractable problems in our region, there is a sense of forward movement. When we visit America now, it feels like the opposite, like decay. Roads, airports, an economy, perhaps even a society, falling to pieces.Poor Lisa. She’s this close to understanding why the nation rejected Hillary, but still doesn’t quite get it.
Of course not; it was OWED to Hillary!, it was her job! Etc.
Mr. Blair's summation:
Believe it or not, this ran on the front page of the New York Times’s international edition – much as the moron played by Andrew McCarthy’s in St Elmo’s Fire had his thoughts about the meaning of life published on the front page of the Washington Post.
It’s taken more than 30 years, but the US media (aided by an Australian contributor) is now officially at the level of a a dumb 1980s brat pack movie.
German authorities have arrested two brothers on suspicion of planning an attack on a shopping centre in the western city of Oberhausen, police said Friday.
The two men were aged 28 and 31 and originally from Kosovo, police said, with the country on edge after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin killing 12 people.
Here you can carry; if you don't everyday, I'd suggest you start.
The terrorist who drove a truck into that Christmas market is dead; made it all the way to Italy.
There are cases in which 'feminism' is a mental disease,
and this is a prime example.
There were two parts to the feeling: I had to mourn the life I thought I was supposed to have, the elder daughter of my two girls (why do we plan things we cannot control?!), and I had to come to terms with having a relationship with a son that I had never really considered. There were dark moments in the middle of the night (when all those dark thoughts come), when I felt sick at the thought of something male growing inside me.
She had the boy, and came to terms with it. But those terms...
Raising a boy who maintains the status quo sure would be easy, but I refuse to be satisfied with that. I will raise a feminist boy. Just like his father and grandfathers before him, but even better. I will point sexism out to him at every turn, and he will never get away with it without being called out. I will show him that girls are just people like him and that products and art targeted at them are no less valuable or enjoyable. He will be immersed in feminism by a family who models it in their everyday life.
That poor little bastard is probably screwed. He's going to have every perceived failure of males pointed out- hell, shoved down his throat- until the day he escapes. Or dies. But it's all good because 'He's male, and must be made right.'
Remind anyone else of that bit from Captain Mal?
Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better.
There were two parts to the feeling: I had to mourn the life I thought I was supposed to have, the elder daughter of my two girls (why do we plan things we cannot control?!), and I had to come to terms with having a relationship with a son that I had never really considered. There were dark moments in the middle of the night (when all those dark thoughts come), when I felt sick at the thought of something male growing inside me.
She had the boy, and came to terms with it. But those terms...
Raising a boy who maintains the status quo sure would be easy, but I refuse to be satisfied with that. I will raise a feminist boy. Just like his father and grandfathers before him, but even better. I will point sexism out to him at every turn, and he will never get away with it without being called out. I will show him that girls are just people like him and that products and art targeted at them are no less valuable or enjoyable. He will be immersed in feminism by a family who models it in their everyday life.
That poor little bastard is probably screwed. He's going to have every perceived failure of males pointed out- hell, shoved down his throat- until the day he escapes. Or dies. But it's all good because 'He's male, and must be made right.'
Remind anyone else of that bit from Captain Mal?
Sure as I know anything, I know this - they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better.
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Stability Privilege, full post
Scott Reichek gave permission to put the whole thing up, so here it is:
Stability Privilege: Why the American Left Thinks Gun Control is a Good Idea
Scott Reichek·Tuesday, June 21, 2016
This one’s been brewing for a couple of weeks now. I continue to be shocked how the left is so totally sold of disarming itself. I asked myself how it is possible that a political segment so rife with actively oppressed people could be on board with this. I’m especially flabbergasted that they could be okay with disarming people who have been placed on a secret list that is created without a single judge even reading the names. Finally, I came up with an answer: Stability Privilege.
FOR ALL MY CONSERVATIVE/LIBERTARIAN FRIENDS...STAY WITH ME. THERE’S A LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS TUNNEL.
For those who need an introduction, the concept of privilege is that, due to circumstances beyond their control, society benefits certain people in a way they did nothing to earn themselves. The corollary concept is that due to this “privilege,” those people with it find it nearly impossible to imagine the world as it genuinely exists for those people without it. This concept is wildly popular with the American left, and has some limited validity.
The American left supports gun bans, magazine bans, and the abolition of the 2nd Amendment wholly as a function of what I’m calling “Stability Privilege.” Almost no one out there on the left can remember a time when America was not economically and politically stable, relatively speaking. It’s been half a century since a president was assassinated, and even then, the transition of power was seamless. It’s been a little less time since a president was forced out of office. Again he left quietly, not a shot fired, with the reins passing quietly. It’s been at least 70 years since the last time American citizens were rounded up and placed in prison camps without so much as a hearing, and we haven’t had a food riot in anyone’s recent memory. The American left wakes up every day in America confident that the stores will be open, there will be food in them, and that no one will be rounding them up today to be shot for saying something controversial...and that’s the problem.
The American left exists in a bubble that doesn’t exist outside of CONUS (Continental United States...for the uninitiated). They don’t believe they can be rounded up and shot, because “that could never happen here.” They don’t believe someone would break down their door for the food in their pantry, and slaughter them if they resist. They don’t believe they could be rounded up and raped by the truckload for worshipping God differently than their next-door neighbor. They don’t really believe that any of these things are happening anywhere. If they do on any level, they seem to think they can hashtag it out of existence. They believe all of this because of their stability privilege, because they’ve never seen it with their own eyeballs, and so they think “It can’t happen here.” All they’ve seen themselves is firearms misused near them, and so that is the one thing they can wrap their heads around. They don’t see the use, the purpose, the importance of the 2nd Amendment and modern arms.
I came up with this idea because there ARE so many on the left, so many populations they pretend to serve that ARE being actively oppressed. It floors me that the same woman who was told, “maybe you shouldn’t have worn that dress,” actually buys it when they tell her that she’s being made helpless “for her protection.” It floors me that a LGBT community that has people actively murdering them in broad daylight while the police and judiciary still winks at the murderer and lets him off light, actually BELIEVES it when they’re told they’re being disarmed, “for their safety.” It blows my mind that there is an African American community still getting crosses burned in their yard and their churches burned down, that still totally swallows it when a candidate pushes to make them even more powerless, and says “To make your neighborhoods safer.”
I remember that I am related to people I will never get to meet, because they were never born, because their would-be parents were rounded up and shot in Russia for being Jews. Try to remember that Sarajevo once hosted an Olympics. Remember that Beirut used to be called “The Paris of the Middle East.” Remember that women used to wear lipstick and miniskirts in Tehran. Most of all...remember that it CAN happen anywhere. It can happen here. The bubble can break. The bubble WILL break.
Stability Privilege: Why the American Left Thinks Gun Control is a Good Idea
Scott Reichek·Tuesday, June 21, 2016
This one’s been brewing for a couple of weeks now. I continue to be shocked how the left is so totally sold of disarming itself. I asked myself how it is possible that a political segment so rife with actively oppressed people could be on board with this. I’m especially flabbergasted that they could be okay with disarming people who have been placed on a secret list that is created without a single judge even reading the names. Finally, I came up with an answer: Stability Privilege.
FOR ALL MY CONSERVATIVE/LIBERTARIAN FRIENDS...STAY WITH ME. THERE’S A LIGHT AT THE END OF THIS TUNNEL.
For those who need an introduction, the concept of privilege is that, due to circumstances beyond their control, society benefits certain people in a way they did nothing to earn themselves. The corollary concept is that due to this “privilege,” those people with it find it nearly impossible to imagine the world as it genuinely exists for those people without it. This concept is wildly popular with the American left, and has some limited validity.
The American left supports gun bans, magazine bans, and the abolition of the 2nd Amendment wholly as a function of what I’m calling “Stability Privilege.” Almost no one out there on the left can remember a time when America was not economically and politically stable, relatively speaking. It’s been half a century since a president was assassinated, and even then, the transition of power was seamless. It’s been a little less time since a president was forced out of office. Again he left quietly, not a shot fired, with the reins passing quietly. It’s been at least 70 years since the last time American citizens were rounded up and placed in prison camps without so much as a hearing, and we haven’t had a food riot in anyone’s recent memory. The American left wakes up every day in America confident that the stores will be open, there will be food in them, and that no one will be rounding them up today to be shot for saying something controversial...and that’s the problem.
The American left exists in a bubble that doesn’t exist outside of CONUS (Continental United States...for the uninitiated). They don’t believe they can be rounded up and shot, because “that could never happen here.” They don’t believe someone would break down their door for the food in their pantry, and slaughter them if they resist. They don’t believe they could be rounded up and raped by the truckload for worshipping God differently than their next-door neighbor. They don’t really believe that any of these things are happening anywhere. If they do on any level, they seem to think they can hashtag it out of existence. They believe all of this because of their stability privilege, because they’ve never seen it with their own eyeballs, and so they think “It can’t happen here.” All they’ve seen themselves is firearms misused near them, and so that is the one thing they can wrap their heads around. They don’t see the use, the purpose, the importance of the 2nd Amendment and modern arms.
I came up with this idea because there ARE so many on the left, so many populations they pretend to serve that ARE being actively oppressed. It floors me that the same woman who was told, “maybe you shouldn’t have worn that dress,” actually buys it when they tell her that she’s being made helpless “for her protection.” It floors me that a LGBT community that has people actively murdering them in broad daylight while the police and judiciary still winks at the murderer and lets him off light, actually BELIEVES it when they’re told they’re being disarmed, “for their safety.” It blows my mind that there is an African American community still getting crosses burned in their yard and their churches burned down, that still totally swallows it when a candidate pushes to make them even more powerless, and says “To make your neighborhoods safer.”
I remember that I am related to people I will never get to meet, because they were never born, because their would-be parents were rounded up and shot in Russia for being Jews. Try to remember that Sarajevo once hosted an Olympics. Remember that Beirut used to be called “The Paris of the Middle East.” Remember that women used to wear lipstick and miniskirts in Tehran. Most of all...remember that it CAN happen anywhere. It can happen here. The bubble can break. The bubble WILL break.
Tab clearing
Some places/agencies, you want to know why people don't much like you anymore? You think shooting their dog is something you're entitled to do. And some idiot judges agree.
HAHAHAHAHA, I laugh at your people!
During their meeting, Sam Pernick, president of the Young Democrats of Michigan, and other Sanders supporters—who nearly outnumbered the rest of the attendees at the meeting—protested the lack of transparency and openness exercised by the Michigan Democratic Party, which rigged the DNC delegate nomination process behind closed doors. Michigan Democratic Party officials responded with force. Pernick and several others were nearly dragged out of the meeting. Pernick is pursuing charges, and the Westland Police Department recently issued Mike Stone, a senior Michigan Democratic Party official, a ticket for assault and battery.
Yes, there are actual reasons for the Electoral College. And they've nothing to do with slavery.
How worthless is the Brady Campaign? This worthless:
We supported the first Presidential candidate in history to run on a gun violence prevention platform
Who lost. To a Cheeto.
Next time someone starts that 'Scandal-free Obama administration' crap, tell them to add this one to the list they're ignoring:
Chicago Ald. Pat Dowell was so concerned about railyard gun heists that last year she wanted to hold a public hearing to question railway representatives.
But she tells the 2 Investigators the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and railyard giant Norfolk Southern “strongly encouraged” her not to go public for fear she would expose serious security deficiencies.
Dowell held off. Now, it’s happened again.
In the latest incident, a half-dozen semi-automatic rifles and 27 handguns were reportedly stolen from a rail car near 77th and Avalon, the 2 Investigators have confirmed.
Someone to be remembered.
Marion Pritchard, a Dutch social work student who was credited with saving dozens of Jews during the Holocaust, spiriting some to safe houses, hiding others under floorboards, and, in one case, executing a Nazi before he could arrest a family of four, died Dec. 11 in Washington. She was 96.
Between now and inauguration day, they’re going to do everything they can to complicate the situation. They want things to be hard from the start for Trump. I’m not worried about his psyche nor his ego, both of which will be pummeled until January 20th. I’m worried about the damage the left will do to the country as a result of their obsession with destroying him. They’re wildcards now. Unlike the days leading up to the electoral college vote, they no longer have a discernible playbook. That’s troublesome.
As we’ve learned from the gun control wing, abortion activists, Black Lives Matter, the ACLU, and college snowflakes, most of the vocal leftists have an uncanny superpower. They can convince themselves of the righteousness of their cause by ignoring logic, reason, decency, and reality. This allows them to fight for something that makes no sense with just as much passion as if they were fighting for their own lives.
HAHAHAHAHA, I laugh at your people!
During their meeting, Sam Pernick, president of the Young Democrats of Michigan, and other Sanders supporters—who nearly outnumbered the rest of the attendees at the meeting—protested the lack of transparency and openness exercised by the Michigan Democratic Party, which rigged the DNC delegate nomination process behind closed doors. Michigan Democratic Party officials responded with force. Pernick and several others were nearly dragged out of the meeting. Pernick is pursuing charges, and the Westland Police Department recently issued Mike Stone, a senior Michigan Democratic Party official, a ticket for assault and battery.
Yes, there are actual reasons for the Electoral College. And they've nothing to do with slavery.
How worthless is the Brady Campaign? This worthless:
We supported the first Presidential candidate in history to run on a gun violence prevention platform
Who lost. To a Cheeto.
Next time someone starts that 'Scandal-free Obama administration' crap, tell them to add this one to the list they're ignoring:
Chicago Ald. Pat Dowell was so concerned about railyard gun heists that last year she wanted to hold a public hearing to question railway representatives.
But she tells the 2 Investigators the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and railyard giant Norfolk Southern “strongly encouraged” her not to go public for fear she would expose serious security deficiencies.
Dowell held off. Now, it’s happened again.
In the latest incident, a half-dozen semi-automatic rifles and 27 handguns were reportedly stolen from a rail car near 77th and Avalon, the 2 Investigators have confirmed.
Someone to be remembered.
Marion Pritchard, a Dutch social work student who was credited with saving dozens of Jews during the Holocaust, spiriting some to safe houses, hiding others under floorboards, and, in one case, executing a Nazi before he could arrest a family of four, died Dec. 11 in Washington. She was 96.
Between now and inauguration day, they’re going to do everything they can to complicate the situation. They want things to be hard from the start for Trump. I’m not worried about his psyche nor his ego, both of which will be pummeled until January 20th. I’m worried about the damage the left will do to the country as a result of their obsession with destroying him. They’re wildcards now. Unlike the days leading up to the electoral college vote, they no longer have a discernible playbook. That’s troublesome.
As we’ve learned from the gun control wing, abortion activists, Black Lives Matter, the ACLU, and college snowflakes, most of the vocal leftists have an uncanny superpower. They can convince themselves of the righteousness of their cause by ignoring logic, reason, decency, and reality. This allows them to fight for something that makes no sense with just as much passion as if they were fighting for their own lives.
Yes, this level of stupid actually exists
Idiots.
Winter in Oklahoma
Last Friday it was 65. Saturday night the low was 7, couple of days with 20-22 for highs and another single-digit night. Yesterday was back in the 50's, etc.
With the sudden drop to those lows, a number of water mains cracked, including one just east of me and another a little west. Which meant sections of road that resembled bad skating rinks.
The animals are used to it, some of the people not so much.
With the sudden drop to those lows, a number of water mains cracked, including one just east of me and another a little west. Which meant sections of road that resembled bad skating rinks.
The animals are used to it, some of the people not so much.
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
How stupid are things over there? This stupid:
Despite an unfolding international manhunt the first pictures of him released in Germany have his eyes deliberately covered, thought to be because of strict privacy laws there. MailOnline has uncovered unblurred images.
Reminds me of the idiocy a couple of years ago in Australia, in which the media was telling people "The suspect looks like this" but refusing to speak color or race; because 'that would be racist'...
More from our Most Transparent Admin EVER!
A new congressional investigation has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate change agenda, according to a new report that alleges the administration ordered top officials to obstruct Congress in order to forward this agenda.
But ignore all this, we should let the UN control everything. Because international law and opinion.
Memos about the sexual abuse in the Central African Republic were "passed from desk to desk, inbox to inbox, across multiple UN offices, with no one willing to take responsibility", the report found.
It added: "The welfare of the victims and the accountability of the perpetrators appeared to be an afterthought, if considered at all."
Unlike the whining SJBs, I think she creates her own safe space wherever she goes.
Rifle helps.
Worth reading.
The worst thing about 2016 — an otherwise bracing year of political upset and oligarchical tears — has been the mainstreaming of the insult ‘fascist’. Anyone who sticks it to the status quo, whether by rejecting the EU or plumbing for Trump over Clinton, risks being smeared with the F-word. Even the normally measured New York Times flirted with the idea that loads of Americans and Europeans might be fascists, or at least facilitators of fascism. Trump’s victory speaks to a possible ‘revival of fascism’, it said, echoing the fears of an army of observers and tweeters who see in Brexit and Trump the stirrings of a kind of Nazism.
Reminds me of the idiocy a couple of years ago in Australia, in which the media was telling people "The suspect looks like this" but refusing to speak color or race; because 'that would be racist'...
More from our Most Transparent Admin EVER!
A new congressional investigation has determined that the Obama administration fired a top scientist and intimidated staff at the Department of Energy in order to further its climate change agenda, according to a new report that alleges the administration ordered top officials to obstruct Congress in order to forward this agenda.
But ignore all this, we should let the UN control everything. Because international law and opinion.
It added: "The welfare of the victims and the accountability of the perpetrators appeared to be an afterthought, if considered at all."
Unlike the whining SJBs, I think she creates her own safe space wherever she goes.
Rifle helps.
Worth reading.
The worst thing about 2016 — an otherwise bracing year of political upset and oligarchical tears — has been the mainstreaming of the insult ‘fascist’. Anyone who sticks it to the status quo, whether by rejecting the EU or plumbing for Trump over Clinton, risks being smeared with the F-word. Even the normally measured New York Times flirted with the idea that loads of Americans and Europeans might be fascists, or at least facilitators of fascism. Trump’s victory speaks to a possible ‘revival of fascism’, it said, echoing the fears of an army of observers and tweeters who see in Brexit and Trump the stirrings of a kind of Nazism.
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Kevin(Smallest Minority) linked to this on Bookface the other day
and it's worth reading if you can get there: Stability Privilege: Why the American Left Thinks Gun Control is a Good Idea
The core of it:
The American left supports gun bans, magazine bans, and the abolition of the 2nd Amendment wholly as a function of what I’m calling “Stability Privilege.” Almost no one out there on the left can remember a time when America was not economically and politically stable, relatively speaking. It’s been half a century since a president was assassinated, and even then, the transition of power was seamless. It’s been a little less time since a president was forced out of office. Again he left quietly, not a shot fired, with the reins passing quietly. It’s been at least 70 years since the last time American citizens were rounded up and placed in prison camps without so much as a hearing, and we haven’t had a food riot in anyone’s recent memory. The American left wakes up every day in America confident that the stores will be open, there will be food in them, and that no one will be rounding them up today to be shot for saying something controversial...and that’s the problem.
If you can't get to it, I'll see if can get permission to reprint the whole thing.
The core of it:
The American left supports gun bans, magazine bans, and the abolition of the 2nd Amendment wholly as a function of what I’m calling “Stability Privilege.” Almost no one out there on the left can remember a time when America was not economically and politically stable, relatively speaking. It’s been half a century since a president was assassinated, and even then, the transition of power was seamless. It’s been a little less time since a president was forced out of office. Again he left quietly, not a shot fired, with the reins passing quietly. It’s been at least 70 years since the last time American citizens were rounded up and placed in prison camps without so much as a hearing, and we haven’t had a food riot in anyone’s recent memory. The American left wakes up every day in America confident that the stores will be open, there will be food in them, and that no one will be rounding them up today to be shot for saying something controversial...and that’s the problem.
If you can't get to it, I'll see if can get permission to reprint the whole thing.
Monday, December 19, 2016
New battery in the truck,
because in the real cold the last couple of days, it started off cranking real slow. And I would rather do it now than when it flat won't start.
An expense could've done without. I did check back, and this two-year guarantee battery was right at seven years, so definitely got my money's worth.
An expense could've done without. I did check back, and this two-year guarantee battery was right at seven years, so definitely got my money's worth.
If this information is correct, everyone involved, at the LEAST,
should be fired and prosecuted. Personally, I'd consider having them, after conviction, beaten with a flagrum to be a good start.
A start, mind you.
No, I'm not excerpting, go read the damn thing. Breakables alert in effect.
Yeah, sometimes leaving your kid in public school is child abuse.
A start, mind you.
No, I'm not excerpting, go read the damn thing. Breakables alert in effect.
Yeah, sometimes leaving your kid in public school is child abuse.
How stupid and corrupt are the people running a lot of colleges?
This stupid and corrupt.
Under Administrative Regulation 6:1, Discrimination and Harassment, UK’s Title IX coordinator ruled that the song, “California Girls,” included “language of a sexual nature” and was somehow offensive, though no victims were identified.
The same regulation prohibits “making an intentionally false accusation,” so the question arises: How competent is UK’s Title IX office?
If my case is any indication, then everyone concerned about discrimination and sexual harassment should be alarmed.
Amazing, isn't it?
Proving that the SJBs are bloody everywhere. And the ones here as stupid, intolerant, and fascist in their mindset as anywhere else.
So, according to this guy, a bunch of people who're just a touch right of Stalin and Mao are now the 'alt-center'.
Must be an interesting sky in his world.
You read some things, and you wonder "How'd his balls fit through the hatches?"
Under Administrative Regulation 6:1, Discrimination and Harassment, UK’s Title IX coordinator ruled that the song, “California Girls,” included “language of a sexual nature” and was somehow offensive, though no victims were identified.
The same regulation prohibits “making an intentionally false accusation,” so the question arises: How competent is UK’s Title IX office?
If my case is any indication, then everyone concerned about discrimination and sexual harassment should be alarmed.
Amazing, isn't it?
Proving that the SJBs are bloody everywhere. And the ones here as stupid, intolerant, and fascist in their mindset as anywhere else.
So, according to this guy, a bunch of people who're just a touch right of Stalin and Mao are now the 'alt-center'.
Must be an interesting sky in his world.
You read some things, and you wonder "How'd his balls fit through the hatches?"
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Meanwhile, in what used to be part of America,
On December 15, California announced a new “emergency” ban on what they call “large capacity” magazines. The news surprised many who had been celebrating what they saw as a national shift toward greater protection of the Second Amendment.
I don't think you could offer me a job paying enough to make me consent to live in that place.
I don't think you could offer me a job paying enough to make me consent to live in that place.
an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center wants to get rid of the Electoral College
because- basically- it works. Among his brilliant statements:
...because the Constitution’s three-fifths clause — each slave was deemed to be worth three-fifths of a person — ...
Uh, no. That's NOT what it says. Maybe I'm being picky, but when he words it that way it makes me think he either doesn't understand it or lies about it.
And
The electoral college is enshrined in the Constitution, but that doesn’t necessarily make it constitutional.
Behold that brilliance of thought.
He wants it thrown out by the Supremes, because 'those stupid people in the smaller states would block an amendment doing it'. Though the thought of the Supremes saying "This is a written part of the Constitution, but some people don't like it so we'll just throw it out" is interesting, in a 'decorate the lampposts' way. And throw in this:
With an appropriate challenge in the high court, that precedent ought to topple the electoral college. Still, the college has its supporters. They fall back on a political defense. In a pure popular-vote system, they warn that candidates would pay no attention to the least populous states. But it’s not as if Wyoming’s voters are getting a lot of attention now.
"So let's see that they get NO attention. Serves them right for living there."
Farging idiot. I wonder how much students pay to listen to him speak this crap?
...because the Constitution’s three-fifths clause — each slave was deemed to be worth three-fifths of a person — ...
Uh, no. That's NOT what it says. Maybe I'm being picky, but when he words it that way it makes me think he either doesn't understand it or lies about it.
And
The electoral college is enshrined in the Constitution, but that doesn’t necessarily make it constitutional.
Behold that brilliance of thought.
He wants it thrown out by the Supremes, because 'those stupid people in the smaller states would block an amendment doing it'. Though the thought of the Supremes saying "This is a written part of the Constitution, but some people don't like it so we'll just throw it out" is interesting, in a 'decorate the lampposts' way. And throw in this:
With an appropriate challenge in the high court, that precedent ought to topple the electoral college. Still, the college has its supporters. They fall back on a political defense. In a pure popular-vote system, they warn that candidates would pay no attention to the least populous states. But it’s not as if Wyoming’s voters are getting a lot of attention now.
"So let's see that they get NO attention. Serves them right for living there."
Farging idiot. I wonder how much students pay to listen to him speak this crap?
And this is why the Electoral College was created
As we noted in this space earlier, while Clinton's overall margin looks large and impressive, it is due to Clinton's huge margin of victory in one state — California — where she got a whopping 4.3 million more votes than Trump.
California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton's margin of victory was bigger than President Obama's in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama's 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
All this time, I've been in the wrong business.
This tax filing discloses that in 2015, Winona LaDuke was paid compensation of $127,000, while stating that she worked an average of 20 hours a week for the nonprofit organization. Nice work if you can get it! But that rather plush income apparently is not enough for Ms. LaDuke. The form also discloses that Honor the Earth has loaned her $4,325. The reason? “$ shortage.” Honor the Earth does not seem to be well-managed financially.
This kind of thing is why the title 'medical ethicist' doesn't exactly thrill people.
Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
Article's a few years old, but the attitude hasn't changed.
Some stuff on the 21 foot rule
California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton's margin of victory was bigger than President Obama's in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama's 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
All this time, I've been in the wrong business.
This tax filing discloses that in 2015, Winona LaDuke was paid compensation of $127,000, while stating that she worked an average of 20 hours a week for the nonprofit organization. Nice work if you can get it! But that rather plush income apparently is not enough for Ms. LaDuke. The form also discloses that Honor the Earth has loaned her $4,325. The reason? “$ shortage.” Honor the Earth does not seem to be well-managed financially.
This kind of thing is why the title 'medical ethicist' doesn't exactly thrill people.
Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
Article's a few years old, but the attitude hasn't changed.
Some stuff on the 21 foot rule
Saturday, December 17, 2016
A recipe that calls for more work
Last year I ran across this
and tried it. Good, but needed a bit of spice. Made one again a couple of days go, adding a bit of cinnamon; that went well.
Friend had a couple of suggestions, next time I make it I'll give them a try and report back.
Friend had a couple of suggestions, next time I make it I'll give them a try and report back.
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