Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Dr. Strangelove]

LMAO

[ame]https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/849766799793164289[/ame]

[SeattleLionsFan]

Only Milo needs safe spaces.

[Whitley]

froot: This is exactly what you said in post 18913



Did you just make that up? Or do you have a link? I, too, donate to Spectrum and I'd like some information as to what is going on. And how do you know what is on a FISA warrant?

[ame="https://youtu.be/KnQHPvaArU4"]https://youtu.be/KnQHPvaArU4[/ame]

[iam416]

Only Milo needs safe spaces

Nah, we all like "safe spaces" from, you know, violence. I like to think of it as the law.

Your folks on campus, however, need to be safe from ideas. I like to think of that as being a weak-minded pussy.

[THE_WIZARD_]

heh

[iam416]

Hey, the NRO had a nice little recount of Laura Kipnis and her new book: http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...lesley-college

Kipnis is one of my favorites. An absolute feminist....brought up on Title IX charges for saying "offensive" things. I love it when progs eat their own and we get a come to jesus moment.

Trump still has much of Obama's totally fucktarded Title IX policy to undo. Fingers crossed someone on the ship has their eye on the ball.

[hack]

Yeah but you've got to extend that to all that deserve the tag. Political correctness is an idea people cannot handle. It's annoying but has a definite utility. Some people would rather turn the entire country into a safe space rather than deal with the annoyance. Others want to close off the country so that employers are left picking from a smaller pool of lesser candidates. They want the whole labor market to be a safe space. IMO you find snowflakes all over the place. Great diversity of approaches to being that kind of person.

[iam416]

Also while I was away, the 7th Circuit interpreted the Civil Rights Act prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex to also mean on the basis of sexual orientation. The reasoning is a line I used in law school many years ago when I was very much in favor judges creating law. I'm far more of a separation of powers person now, and this decision is hilariously awful.

It's one thing, IMO, to read new shit into the Constitution. I'm far more sympathetic to that. It's another thing to read shit into legislation. There is a remedy for that. It's called new legislation. In fact, Congress has passed bills specifically identifying sexual orientation as a protected class. They've also proposed amending the CRA to include sexual orientation (because, to everyone but the 7th Circuit, it's blindingly fucking obvious that it doesn't).

This one will go up to the Supreme Court.

[iam416]

Yeah but you've got to extend that to all that deserve the tag. Political correctness is an idea people cannot handle. It's annoying but has a definite utility. Some people would rather turn the entire country into a safe space rather than deal with the annoyance. Others want to close off the country so that employers are left picking from a smaller pool of lesser candidates. They want the whole labor market to be a safe space. IMO you find snowflakes all over the place. Great diversity of approaches to being that kind of person.

I'm considerably less sympathetic to folks who run from ideas than folks who advocate protectionist policies. You find no material difference because I don't get the sense you're in a rush to condemn the natural and entirely predictable PC outcomes. So it's a weak equivalency statement that you would, rightly, suss out and condemn if others made it.

The First Amendment and the "marketplace of ideas" represent a core American value -- a foundational idea. Tariffs and protectionism, while I disagree with them, have been around forever. They come and they go. They are policy. One way or the other. Orwellian restrictions on language cut to the core. They are the "same" in the same way way an Elephant and guinea pig are both mammals.

[iam416]

In some good news, an Amherst student who was expelled under the Obama-Stalin Title IX regime sued Amherst and the District Court is allowing the case to go forward.

The underlying story is here: http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/31/am...or-sexual-misc

[THE_WIZARD_]

"...mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again..."

[iam416]

Well, I'm not sure we should ever elect an Iowan to be President. Actually, I am sure on that.

[iam416]

So, what's the good word on Susan Rice? Has she gone from "I know nothing" to "Oh, THAAT, well, sure, but that was perfectly legal"? Has Geezer covered any of this? Heh.

[Wild Hoss]

Re the Sarin gas attack in Syria yesterday: What was Assad thinking? He has been winning this conflict against the Isis forces so why provoke the real western powers that so far have been on the sidelines? Now Trump signals his thinking has changed on this conflict. What country would be most delighted if we plow into this conflict. It is pretty obvious for those that are really paying attention.

It reminds me of false flag attacks in the past, esp. the Lavon affair in the Suez crisis in 1954. There have been many others.

Are you suggesting that the attack was carried out by another actor, rather than Assad?

[crashcourse]

interesting the whirlwind around trumps comments that dominated headlines for days about surveillance now wiped off the front page with news susan rice may be front and center the source of trumps allegations

good thing for sarin gas and maniacle little toads with the ability to launch missles gives rice some time off the front page

yes JB I was stationed in Panmunjon for a year exposed to 24/7 propaganda music blaring from the NK side--looked acorss the room at NK soldiers on the other side of a negotiating table--ran PT with NK soldiers locking and loading weapons as we ran by singing cadence. 1/506th airassault curraheee