tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3361880339247836215..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Bernie SandersDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56869663991741810522016-06-06T23:20:05.271-04:002016-06-06T23:20:05.271-04:00Great time to have a 4X4 pickup. These new ones ar...Great time to have a 4X4 pickup. These new ones are works of art, best human invention ever.<br /><br />Other than that....Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69290337054309284712016-06-06T22:59:36.077-04:002016-06-06T22:59:36.077-04:00BernieLand - and they are floating in oil....
Ven...BernieLand - and they are floating in oil....<br /><br />Venezuelan social order collapsing as looting, robbery and murder become the norm<br /><br /><br />posted at 10:01 pm on June 6, 2016 by John Sextox<br /><br />The socialist revolution in Venezuela has resulted in a country with sky-high inflation, no medicine, no food and, finally, no security. The Los Angeles Times has an excellent piece on the rise of robbery, kidnapping and murder that have made the nation a place where dead bodies in the street are a common sight:<br /><br /><br />Savvy motorists avoid certain thoroughfares after dark, when carjack gangs set up ambushes, sometimes laying down nail-embedded strips to puncture tires of vehicles ferrying potential quarry. Motorists speak matter-of-factly of spotting body parts along roadways.<br /><br />The exact murder rate in Venezuela is a subject of debate but an outside group puts the number at 27,875 murders in 2015, which works out to 90 per every 100,000 people. And because most of the murderers are never arrested, much less convicted, many have given up on the police. Some Venezuelans are resorting to gruesome revenge attacks on those they believe responsible:<br /><br /><br />In a country where most perpetrators are never found, mobs are increasingly launching impromptu revenge attacks, often dousing suspected muggers with gasoline and setting them alight — inevitably targeting the innocent by mistake at times. There have been 74 possible lynchings this year, according to authorities.<br /><br />With the streets to dangerous to travel by night, many businesses now close early:<br /><br /><br />“The police still make their rounds, but we have been robbed three times,” said Carlos Castillo, 47, owner of a bar-restaurant in Chacaito, a mostly middle-class district in eastern Caracas.<br /><br />Once open until 11 each evening, the establishment now closes at 7 p.m., a common scenario here.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Reuters reports people desperate for food are resorting to looting. Reuters reports that one woman looter was shot in the face by a police officer today:<br /><br /><br />Relatives of hotel worker Jenny Ortiz, 42, said she died in hospital after being shot during the melee late on Sunday in San Cristobal, a town near the border of Colombia, where looting and antigovernment protests have occurred in recent months.<br /><br />Family including her mother-in-law Carmen Rosa, 58, who said she saw the incident, alleged that a policeman shot Ortiz.<br /><br />Again, this is not a 20-something looting an electronics store. This is a middle-aged woman in a crowd of hundreds who is desperate to find food. People are close to panic and the ruling socialist government has done nothing but blame the misery on an economic conspiracy theory involving the United States.<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/06/venezuelan-social-order-collapsing-as-looting-robbery-and-murder-become-the-norm/Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63321312706618869042016-06-06T22:20:48.518-04:002016-06-06T22:20:48.518-04:00.
Everyone says with all the progress we have mad....<br /><br />Everyone says with all the progress we have made that this is the greatest time to be alive.<br /><br />Sometimes I'm not so sure.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59334825050372480782016-06-06T22:16:53.504-04:002016-06-06T22:16:53.504-04:00.
The Guardian posted 25 photos of Muhammad Ali.
....<br /><br /><i>The Guardian</i> posted 25 photos of Muhammad Ali.<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2014/oct/30/muhammad-ali-25-best-photographs-cassius-clay-legendary-boxer<br /><br /><br />The first picture caught my attention. It's how I always remembered Ali when his name was mentioned. A beautiful picture. However, my favorite is near the end. It's the one of Ali and Frazier taken in 2003 showing how the years had worn on the two champs.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78000332001998228302016-06-06T22:09:34.010-04:002016-06-06T22:09:34.010-04:00so long ago, I forgot about it.so long ago, I forgot about it.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48264031313027115792016-06-06T22:08:50.654-04:002016-06-06T22:08:50.654-04:00I seriously considered going there.I seriously considered going there.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18167109301964155322016-06-06T20:44:52.987-04:002016-06-06T20:44:52.987-04:00Oops....disappearing/reappearing post syndrome.......Oops....disappearing/reappearing post syndrome....<br /><br />I must really mean it....Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1956503426869197412016-06-06T20:42:16.223-04:002016-06-06T20:42:16.223-04:00"In their case, I blame it on the fact that t..."In their case, I blame it on the fact that they opened a second campus in California."<br /><br />:)<br /><br />That is very perceptive.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68683949492863194372016-06-06T20:25:21.662-04:002016-06-06T20:25:21.662-04:00In their case, I blame it on the fact that they op...<b>In their case, I blame it on the fact that they opened a second campus in California</b><br /><br />:)<br /><br />That is very perceptive.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41612817564750794622016-06-06T19:57:52.805-04:002016-06-06T19:57:52.805-04:00.
An Impending Coup at St. John's College: Li....<br /><br /><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/06/06/an_impending_coup_at_st_johns_college_130786.html" rel="nofollow">An Impending Coup at St. John's College: Liberal Arts Education Takes Another Hit</a><br /><br /><i>On June 18, the Board of Visitors and Governors at St. John’s College will vote on a proposal to alter the structure of the college radically. If passed, we can say goodbye to the St. John’s that we have known for the past 79 years. It will be a very sad moment for higher education in this country—and I say this fully cognizant of the fact that higher education is in a state of crisis all over, partly for economic reasons, partly because of a failure of intellectual nerve and cultural confidence.<br /><br />St. John’s is tiny. Its two campuses—one in Annapolis, Md., one in Santa Fe, N.M.—comprise fewer than 900 students. But the college makes up in intellectual seriousness what it lacks in size. There are few institutions that offer such a deep and sustained engagement with the substance of a traditional liberal arts education. It is all the sadder, then, that St. John’s may be just about to turn its back on that and fade into the beige-on-beige porridge of politically correct mediocrity and bureaucratic homogenization.<br /> <br />I’ll come to the particulars of this unhappy contingency below. First, a little history. I have known about St John’s since I was myself in college, back in those prelapsarian days when “trigger warnings” were posted only on the rifle range and no one worried that bathrooms were labeled “M” and “F.” Because of various contingencies that needn’t detain us, I later learned a good deal about St. John’s, and eventually served for a few years on its Board of Visitors and Governors...</i><br /><br /><br />The old guard is being forced out by a new group of 'forward thinkers' and 'change agents' who wish to make the college 'relevant' and 'progressive' and assure it meets its 'social justice' needs. No doubt St. John's will like other 'progressive' bastions like Harvard and Missou soon be advertising the 'safes places' it provides for every imaginable interest group, well, better make that every imaginable 'acceptable interest group' from Lesbian Muslims L.L.C. to the 'Ban Shakespeare Sisterhood'.<br /><br />Even St. John's couldn't withstand the wave of progressive bullshit infecting our college and university campuses. In their case, I blame it on the fact that they opened a second campus in California. In the '60s. It was only a matter of time.<br /><br />. <br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63119107623815474222016-06-06T19:55:50.104-04:002016-06-06T19:55:50.104-04:00For those confused about 'the nature of things...For those confused about 'the nature of things' - :)<br /><br />The Biggest Myth About the Big Bang<br /><br />Posted by Ross Pomeroy<br /><br /><br />Nifty Image<br /><br /><br />13.8 billion years ago, the Universe exploded into existence. Or at least that's what most laypeople probably think of the Big Bang. But as astronomically alluring as that image is, it's also a myth. The simple fact is that physicists aren't certain exactly how the Universe began, or even if it did.<br /><br />After all, the primordial Universe could have counterintuitively "popped" into being from nothing at all. Or perhaps it existed eternally in another nascent form? Maybe it oozed out of some higher dimension? Heck, as science fiction author Douglas Adams imagined, it could easily have been sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure.<br /><br />All of these are perfectly cromulent possibilities (though some are certainly less likely than others), owing to a simple fact: Physics' reach is currently limited to roughly one second after the "Big Bang." Everything before then is left to learned speculation and hypothesis.<br /><br />“We don’t have any idea what happened at the purported moment of the Big Bang," Caltech astrophysicist Sean Caroll recently admitted on Science Friday. "Cosmologists… sometimes exaggerate a little bit about what it means."<br /><br />That's not to say that cosmologists don't know anything. Boatloads of evidence and observation support the notion that the entire Universe was once unfathomably dense and hot, and confined to a vastly smaller area. Moreover, it expanded and cooled into everything that is today.<br /><br />Another Nifty Image<br /><br />"The Big Bang model… the general idea that the universe has been expanding from a hot, dense early state, that’s 100 percent true…" Carroll clarified.<br /><br />But the "Bang" itself is very much a myth. On Science Friday, Carroll furnished a far more correct, although decidedly less dramatic definition.<br /><br />“It’s the time at which we don’t understand what the Universe was doing."<br /><br />(Image: NASA: Theophilus Britt Griswold – WMAP Science Team)<br /><br />http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/06/the_biggest_myth_about_the_big_bang.html<br /><br />Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54134277318579771582016-06-06T19:24:00.197-04:002016-06-06T19:24:00.197-04:00The 'Rufus' EconomyThe 'Rufus' EconomyBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42210606042787125232016-06-06T19:22:15.260-04:002016-06-06T19:22:15.260-04:00Good article but not for those with a short attent...Good article but not for those with a short attention span -<br /><br />Fallujah and the Failed Iraqi State<br /><br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/06/fallujah-and-the-failed-iraqi-state.htmlBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34155486646532342082016-06-06T19:02:34.478-04:002016-06-06T19:02:34.478-04:00Shock Report on Jobs
Signals Obama Economy
Is on...Shock Report on Jobs <br />Signals Obama Economy <br />Is on Brink of Recession<br /><br />http://www.nysun.com/national/shock-report-on-jobs-signals-obama-economy-is/89608/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61396295272917128552016-06-06T18:29:04.685-04:002016-06-06T18:29:04.685-04:00We're actually in a recession - (no matter wha...We're actually in a recession - (no matter what Rufus says)<br /><br />Did we actually lose jobs in May?<br /><br /><br />posted at 10:41 am on June 6, 2016 by Ed Morrissey<br /><br />The May jobs report showed that job creation in the US economy has lost ground in relation to population growth, but did we actually have a net loss of jobs last month? A Johns Hopkins professor wrote an analysis for the Brookings Institution with that conclusion. Rather than a net gain of 38,000, we actually lost 4,000 jobs, and inaccurate seasonal adjustments obscured the actual results:<br /><br /><br />Nonfarm payrolls actually declined 4,000 during the month, according to Jonathan Wright, a Johns Hopkins economic professor who wrote an analysis Friday for the Brookings Institution, a generally left-leaning think tank.<br /><br />That number compares to the already-dismal 38,000 count released Friday morning from the Labor Department. The report triggered a decline in the stock market and, perhaps more importantly, a sharp drop in expectations for interest rate hikes this year.<br /><br />Wright said he arrived at his number by diverging from the government in the way seasonal adjustments are made to the numbers. Whereas the Bureau of Labor Statistics “puts very heavy weight on the current and last two years of data,” the Wright method involves going back over six years to measure seasonal patterns, “which makes them more stable over time than in the current BLS seasonal adjustment method,” he wrote.<br /><br />No matter which measure gets used, the results over the last three months look poor:<br /><br /><br />Over the past three months, the BLS count has showed average growth of only about 116,000, with March and April revisions subtracting 59,000 from the initially reported numbers. The Wright method puts that average at an even gloomier 107,000 and just 114,000 for all of 2016.<br /><br />“Unfortunately, neither the alternative seasonal adjustment, nor the weather adjustment, makes today’s jobs report any more hopeful,” Wright wrote. “They make little difference and, if anything, make the picture more gloomy.”<br /><br />The three-month averages, in either calculation, demonstrate the decline in job creation. As noted on Friday in the jobs-report analysis, the US population grows at about 2.5 million people per year. To keep up with that growth at current civilian workforce participation rates (the lowest in almost 40 years), we need to add 131,000 jobs a month; at healthier CWP rates, it should be more like 136,000. That’s just what’s needed to maintain the status quo — anything less than that is a decline when factoring in population growth.<br /><br />Over the last three months, we’ve fallen short of the more modest goal by at least 15,000 jobs a month for three straight months, on the BLS calculation. Using Wright’s seasonal calculations, we have declined by 24,000 jobs a month for the last three months, or 15,000 a month for each of the last five months on average. We are losing ground each month....<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/06/did-we-actually-lose-jobs-in-may/<br />Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56302992763070028162016-06-06T18:15:57.335-04:002016-06-06T18:15:57.335-04:00EXCLUSIVE - 'Child slaves' making uniforms...EXCLUSIVE - 'Child slaves' making uniforms for Isis: Inside the Turkish sweatshop where children as young as nine work 12 hours a day stitching combat gear used in battle by Islamic State<br /><br />Syrian refugee children forced to work in a military uniform sweatshop that sells camouflage to ISIS<br /><br />Unable to go to school and desperate for money on the Turkish border the boys work 12 hour days for £10<br /><br />Factory owner Abu Zakour has no problem selling uniforms to ISIS: 'It doesn’t matter where my customers are from'<br /><br />He also supplies Al Qaeda group Jabhat al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham and other rebel FSA fighters with military garb<br /><br />See more of the latest Islamic State news updates as Syrian refugee children make uniforms for ISIS in Turkey<br /><br />By Isabel Hunter and Salem Rizk In Antakya For Mailonline and Photographs By Jodi Hilton On The Turkish-syrian Border <br /><br />Published: 07:57 EST, 6 June 2016 | Updated: 14:06 EST, 6 June 2016 <br /><br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3597143/Child-slaves-making-uniforms-Isis-Inside-Turkish-sweatshop-children-young-nine-work-12-hours-day-stitching-combat-gear-used-battle-Islamic-State.html#ixzz4Aq8iuXwi <br /><br /><br />Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87026229405993663972016-06-06T17:46:58.829-04:002016-06-06T17:46:58.829-04:00San Jose police chief who allowed mob attacks on T...San Jose police chief who allowed mob attacks on Trump supporters is affiliated with La Raza - 6/6/16 <br />Oops, didn't scrub his Twitter feed in time. <br /><br />http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/06/san_jose_police_chief_who_allowed_mob_attacks_on_trump_supporters_is_affiliated_with_la_raza.htmlBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19787847335218670912016-06-06T17:23:41.260-04:002016-06-06T17:23:41.260-04:00How Will Trump Choose a VP?
He knows the game — h...How Will Trump Choose a VP?<br /><br />He knows the game — he'll go big or go home<br /><br />by Eddie Zipperer<br /><br /><br /><b>But, since the media has decided on a permanent narrative that Trump lacks the temperament to be trusted with foreign policy — cooperating with Hillary, who’s making that a mantra — he will consider a VP who has enough foreign policy clout to calm such fears. Here are three candidates who might suffice: Lt. Col. Allen West, Rep. Martha McSally, and Sen. Joni Ernst. All veterans, all of sound and competent mind.<br /><br /><br /> A Women's Champion<br />In the first GOP debate way back in 2015, Megyn Kelly called Trump out on his rhetoric toward women, and that concern has not disappeared. Hillary has already attacked Trump on the issue several times, and she isn't going to let up anytime soon.<br /><br />Of course, every Republican nominee faces accusations of phantom gender bias, but Trump will be hit harder with the accusation than any of his predecessors for two big reasons:<br /><br />1.) He's likely to be running against Clinton, who considers herself the greatest champion of American women (even though she was repeatedly cuckolded by a philandering husband).<br /><br />2.) Scroll through his Twitter and you'll see fodder for the mainstream media.<br /><br />A female defender on the campaign trail with Trump will be able to parry Clinton's attacks better than Trump can and better than any male VP candidate will be able to.<br /><br />Since Mitt Romney probably isn't willing to lend Trump his binders full of women, here's a list of women who would be excellent choices, who've also been mentioned above: Ernst, Haley, Love, Brewer, Martinez, McSally, and a sleeper, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.<br /><br />Trump Branding<br />You think running for president is much different than what the Kardashians do? Think again. Genius branding is how Trump created his empire. It's where his greatest talents lie. And for branding purposes, nobody out there beats Mia Love. With the media, the Clinton campaign, the Democratic Party, and even part of the GOP accusing Trump of hating this group of people or that group of people in every single news cycle, you can't beat the branding of every single bumper sticker, button, and billboard reading "Trump/Love".</b><br /><br />http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/how-will-trump-choose-a-vp/<br />Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85131019031239833532016-06-06T16:56:38.987-04:002016-06-06T16:56:38.987-04:00San Jose, CA, "America"
https://2.bp.bl...San Jose, CA, "America"<br /><br />https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H0hnWrfjqqk/V1VRaYdqRtI/AAAAAAAAA60/7EIeMSlyLq0mkQlWXhyAJo52St_VKI6HgCLcB/s1600/Mexicano.pngDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13824012830762864792016-06-06T16:55:01.268-04:002016-06-06T16:55:01.268-04:00...and the quality of a k-12 education has gone do......and the quality of a k-12 education has gone down.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-672131019827495032016-06-06T16:53:57.028-04:002016-06-06T16:53:57.028-04:00Well, Rufus has shocked me with that.
He's ev...Well, Rufus has shocked me with that.<br /><br />He's even stupider than I imagined.<br /><br />Free Money will fix everything, even "education."<br /><br />(Has he ever read anything regarding the correlation between money and educational outcomes?)<br /><br />"Many people believe that lack of funding is a problem in public education,[10] but historical trends show that American spending on public education is at an all-time high. Between 1994 and 2004, average per-pupil expenditures in American public schools have increased by 23.5 percent (adjusted for inflation). Between 1984 and 2004, real expenditures per pupil increased by 49 percent.[11] These increases follow the historical trend of ever-increasing real per-student expenditures in the nation's public schools. In fact, the per-pupil expenditures in 1970-1971 ($4,060) were less than half of per-pupil expenditures in 2005-2006 ($9,266) after adjusting for inflation."Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11184209657906347602016-06-06T16:47:41.065-04:002016-06-06T16:47:41.065-04:00The California Primary: Millennials' Last Flin...The California Primary: Millennials' Last Fling <br />Jeffrey Folks<br /><br />America's newest voting generation can flirt with Bernie Sanders for a little while, but these special snowflakes are going to have to grow up very soon.<br /><br />http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/06/the_california_primary_millennials_last_fling.html<br /><br />Growing up is hard.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57008668669741229042016-06-06T16:16:12.871-04:002016-06-06T16:16:12.871-04:00(of course the same applies to those supporting th...(of course the same applies to those supporting the 'Venezuelan')Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51780865755471949782016-06-06T16:14:06.233-04:002016-06-06T16:14:06.233-04:00Three of us affirm Ruf is lacking in brains for su...Three of us affirm Ruf is lacking in brains for supporting Hillary the Criminal !<br /><br />The judgement has been rendered.Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42576708115040817262016-06-06T13:55:05.962-04:002016-06-06T13:55:05.962-04:00yep, that's a problem.yep, that's a problem.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06232405130481114127noreply@blogger.com