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Reason Morning Links: Trump's Plans, Desert Mercs, GOP Donors for Gay Marriage
The Army Corps of Engineers floods Cajun country.
In America today, a decision to renew Celebrity Apprentice qualifies as election news.
Newt Gingrich endorses a health insurance mandate, calls Paul Ryan's proposed cuts "right-wing social engineering."
Socially liberal Republicans fund a campaign to legalize gay marriage in New York.
If the Arab Spring comes to the U.A.E., the founder of Blackwater will have a mercenary army ready to fight it.
Border incidents in Israel and India in the same weekend. Whee.
The latest from Reason.tv: "Calculate Your Share of Government Spending."
NEXT: A Labor Strike Against Economic Reality
J[o]h[nn]y Long[torso]
Golden Girls Central – Your Source For Everything Golden Girls!
Peter Wallison Reasserts His View of What Caused the Financial Crisis
The True Story of the Financial Crisis
The government says they launched a Space Shuttle today.
Brazilian Woman Wins Right To Masturbate At Work
FINALLY: Here Are Details About How World Will End On May 21
Don't tell the Securities and Exchange Commission there is now a precedent.
for the world to end or masturbation?
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." Matthew 24:36 But this clown knows the day. I guess God never counted on Wikileaks.
What does God have to say about masterbation?
He loves it. Why else would he have given us the internet?
Al Gore is God?
You mean he's not? Who knew?
Al is just a tool.
Al Gore is the Hand of God?
Yes a big right hand with a lubricated palm.
Al Gore is god's fleshlight?
Why are we talking about masturbation? Did I miss something in another thread, or is it because of Emily Skarbek.
Two NYPD cops with history of hooker trouble being eyed in LI killings
Wall Street: Not Guilty
The other officer still works for the NYPD but was stripped of his gun and badge years ago because he allegedly assaulted a prostitute and got arrested during a sting operation.
Ah, unions.
I never click any of your links. Does that make me a bad person? Also, you abuse the privilege. Less is more, etc. The end.
If you want nothing to do w/ my Golden Links, its your loss.
If I were Jesse, my feelings would be hurt. Maybe he should surrender his responsibilities and let the inmates provide the Morning Links. They're doing it anyway. Just a thought.
For you, "I":
The Golden Girls: How One TV Show Turned A Generation Of American Boys Into Homosexuals
The Golden Girls 25th Anniversary Collection Promises a Sickening Display of Humanity's Bitter End
J[o]h[nn]y Long[torso], your links are like masturbation, I like to do them every day.
Some people think links are just icky 😉
Hello Shit Facktory!
Oh, there are lots of reasons why you're a bad person, none of which have anything to do with whether or not you click on the links posted by Mr. Arbitrary Square Brackets.
let's hear all about it Fr. Ted
The woman complained to police supervisors about the officer but no criminal charges were filed and an internal probe went nowhere, sources said.
Strauss-Kahn was accused of rape years ago; A friend of the daughter's. I guess that makes him a French Joe Kennedy Sr
Coming out of the hotel bathroom naked is an old Ted Kennedy play.
attempting to rape your daughter's bridesmaid is a SOP
The article calls him a chimpanzee in heat.
A "rutting chimpanzee". It is pretty typical of rape attempt cases for women to be discouraged to complain. I expect more cases to be in the press.
I feel sorry for the daughter, and her depression is classic of a victim. The mother who discouraged the complaint was a bitch
Especially when the perpetrator is that powerful. No one wants to take on the head of a major political party. I said this yesterday. This guy didn't one day wake up and decide to live his dream of forcing himself on a house maid. If he did this, he had been doing horrible stuff for years. And sure enough it appears he has.
Good grief. Why the fuck doesn't Newt just go ahead and out himself as the statist neo-greenie phuck that he really is.
Oops. That's what he's busy doing. Carry on!
Yeah. I can't believe that jackass. "If they don't like it, they should come up with another solution". No Newt. Before you go demanding anything from anyone, you need to come up with a solution that conforms with the Constitution.
He respects us, just like he respects all the women he married.
That's what elections are for.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..tane-banon
Sunday was apparently not the first time the Strauss Kahn forced himself on a woman.
Guilty till proved...
Banon consulted a lawyer, but did not press charges.
That doesn't mean that she was not raped. Right, fellas?
Yes, this guy is the most unlucky human ever. Women just keep falsely accusing him of Rape. I mean that happens twice to the same man all the time right?
Guilty, then? No due-process crap required? That would save a lot of time…
There is a difference between a rational observer coming to the rational conclusion that the evidence indicates he is guilty and the level of proof and due process necessary to send someone to jail. In other words, you don't have to wait for a jury to draw your own conclusions about events dumb ass. Now go away and let the big kids talk for a while.
You should be a judge*, wise one.
*In Kazakhstan.
"you don't have to wait for a jury"
That one is going into my Hall of Shame. Thanks.
Only if you are a moron. First, there is a difference between factual guilt and legal guilt. Liberals certainly didn't wait for a jury to conclude that Nixon was guilty of various crimes or that Clearance Thomas harassed Anita Hill nor should they have. Rational people are allowed to make rational conclusions based on the facts. They don't have to wait for a jury to tell them the truth, although what a jury finds, if anything, is relevant to their conclusions.
I guess since you are a liberal and are by definition incapable of making rational conclusions based on evidence, you would depend on a jury. But the rest of who have IQs above 100 don't have to.
Johnny, do you like movies about Nazis?
Also, it's "proven".
"OJ is innocent!"
Add this one too:
Let me be clear – it saves a shit ton of time.
The due process concern trolls are out in force these past few days.
The due process concern trolls
Wow. Due process is out of fashion now in libertarian politics?
Ya cause it says right in the constitution that I'm not allowed to have an opinion about something unless we get a jury verdict confiruming that opinion first.
I'm not allowed to have an opinion
Have you expressed an opinion on this subject? I don't see it anywhere. Anyway, you're allowed to have opinions, but don't state them as irrefutable facts of reality if you don't want to look like a jackass.
I don't think due process was ever in fashion with respect to whether you can type a comment on a blog.
That is because the accused is a socialist Frenchman. The tribal signals all tell the trolls to rush to his defense.
^^THIS^^
Until liberals other than Glenn Greenwald speak out against the abomination that is attempting assasiation on al-awlaki, they can just shut the fuck up.
If the restaurant supports his alibi, John, are you going to make a statement admitting that you're wrong on this one?
OF course. He may be innocent. But from what I see, I doubt it. But if it turns out that he is, I will be the first to admit that I made the wrong conclusion.
Why would you think I wouldn't?
Because Sarkozy is your boyfriend?
Because you are a human being using the internet?
Meh, you probably would admit it. I still gotta ask though.
Four minutes is a little soon to be posting about crickets…
It is just what shit facktories do. They cannot help it.
Only three weeks ago, Strauss-Kahn evoked such a possibility in an interview with French newspaper Lib?ration when he said he thought he was under surveillance and named the three principal difficulties he foresaw if he was to stand for the presidential elections.
"Money, women and the fact I am Jewish." He added: "Yes, I like women … so what?" He said he could see himself becoming the victim of a honey trap: "a woman raped in a car park and who's been promised 500,000 or a million euros to invent such a story …"
""Money, women and the fact I am Jewish." He added: "Yes, I like women … so what?""
Notice he does not admit to liking Jews…
So, Newt has no respect for the constitution, and buys the idea that the commerce clause is carte blanche for anything and everything the government wants to do?
Can't say I'm surprised.
His name is not included on contracts and most other corporate documents, and company insiders have at times tried to hide his identity by referring to him by the code name "Kingfish."
"Holy Mackerel Andy!"
Apparently God told Huckabee not to run for President. Don't tell me God doesn't love America.
gaijin97
Don't tell me God doesn't love America.
actually, it's because he does that he told the huckster not to run.
That was the point. He does love America as evidenced by his telling Huckabee not to run. Therefore you should refrain from telling me that God doesn't love America because of this evidence to the contrary.
We will know if god loves America when the conservative nominee is announced.
If it's Trump, we will know Hollywood is really controlled by the Jew.😉
got it. on second read it's clear that I did not read your post as written 😉
We're going to miss him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..4&feature;
Pretty sure it was Huckabee's accountant who had more influence. The amount of money that douche has made since his presidential run is disgraceful.
People were being arrested for marrying gay in New York?
Charged but not arrested as far as I can tell.
Ulster County Court Judge J. Michael Bruhn ruled in favor of the state, reinstating the charges against West, arguing that this criminal case did not concern whether the state constitution mandates same-sex marriage, but rather whether West violated his oath of office in performing allegedly illegal marriages.
Technically, the same-sex couples were still married and not charged for being married, but the mayor was charged for attempting to have them state recognized. Obviously I don't agree with those charges, and I continue to seek cases where the actual charges/fines are levied against same-sex couples for being wed.
a campaign to legalize gay marriage in New York
I thought we all had agreed to call it "same-sex marriage." Does this mean that two straight men (or women) may not marry? That doesn't seem reasonable. Drink. Anyway.
Dude. Marriage is about love. Look at Newcular Titties.
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/…..education/
More copyright madness.
it would enjoin everyone at Georgia State, including students, who would seem to largely lose their fair use rights by virtue of enrolling at GSU. It would apply to e-reserves, faculty web pages and any learning management systems in use or adopted in the future. It would make GSU responsible for every conceivable act of copying that took place on their campus. In short, administrators at Georgia State would have to look over the shoulders of each faculty member whenever they uploaded course material to an LMS or any other web page. Arguably, they would have to monitor student copying at copiers provided in their libraries, since GSU would be enjoined from "encouraging or facilitating" any copying, beyond a limit of about 4 pages, that was done without permission
It seems unreasonable to even consider this scenario but it reminds of the feds going after Google to make them pay for off-market drug pharmacists who used google, and not pursuing the business themselves for unsafe practices.
The students and the small business pharmacists don't have the cash that the University, and google (estimated @ 500 million) can scramble.
When you're a behemoth fighting a fast-moving bunch of marauders, you don't play into their hands by chasing them all over the countryside and wearing yourself out as they slowly bleed you.
No, you find out where they're getting their food, which is almost certainly a nice stationary target, and obliterate it.
In anticipation of the trial starting on Monday in the copyright infringement case brought against Georgia State University by Cambridge, Oxford and Sage publishers, and partially financed by the Copyright Clearance Center…
I hope the do Fortunate Son.
"The force is intended to conduct special operations missions inside and outside the country, defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from terrorist attacks and put down internal revolts, the documents show. Such troops could be deployed if the Emirates faced unrest in their crowded labor camps or were challenged by pro-democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world this year. "
OCP owns the cops!
How to overcome the Star Wars prequels
ObXKCD
Too bad they never made any prequels.
"I've said consistently we ought to have some requirement you either have health insurance or you post a bond or in some way you indicate you're going to be held accountable," he said.
I was afraid we might have to deal with a Gingrich presidency, but fortunately that doesn't look like it's going to be a problem.
God told Huck not to run. Huck obeyed. Why doesn't God have a chat with Newt? What is he hiding?
You think I actually want to talk with that asshole? Huckabee is bad enough fuck why don't you people do something on your own initiative?
Even from a political standpoint, what a moron. Who exactly does Newt think this statement is going to convince to vote for him?
The common folk, the salt of the earth. You know: morons.
I've said consistently that Newt should change his name from Newton to Newcular Titties. Let me tell you one thing, America, a man named Newcular Titties would have no place in his heart for statist nonsense.
It seems Herman Cain whooped his ass at the Georgia delegates meeting. Newt might as well go back to writing historical fiction.
Does he even have a political philosophy? I haven't been able to discern a coherent one yet.
Iraqi donkey brought to US to become therapy animal
The best Newt Gingrich photo ever
I guess Newt got tired of biological wives and instead just built one in his garage. That is a Stepford Wife pic.
What's wrong with these GOP wifes, it looks like they're high on prescription drugs all the time…
It's the shock collar she's wearing.
She should be used in a warning commercial about the dangers of botox overdose.
She does look rather embalmed doesn't she?
It's the new and improved Cindy McCain? model, complete with Swiss Army knife and GPS tracking.
And a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time?
They replaced the compass in this model with a Posi-Grip NuGina that lubes itself with Cialis mixed with DMSO.
I thought this one came with the upgrade that makes it shit cash.
It's ass crack is the ATM swipe.
and she smells like a brand-new Amurican made BMW!
but ya gotta get that True Coat, and that's extra.
When the smell wears off, you can get a can of the scent from any authorized FuckBot dealership.
Tough crowd.
Isn't Newt's wife just in her mid 40s? Why does she look like Cindy McCain 2.0? And why are all these women chomping at the bit to have sex with a gross guy like Newt? Its not like he was a President or even Senator.
chomping at the bit
Champing. Champing at the bit.
Chafing?
Smoke The Donkey
Given that appellation and the context of its usage, this episode can end only badly.
http://www.philly.com/philly/n…..order.html
Adding injury to injury, I'm assuming the Philadelphia Parking Authority ticketed his car several times while he was being harassed by the police.
SF'd it
For one thing, Evers said, Fiorino could have been shot. Cops who raced to the scene could have gotten into a car accident or injured pedestrians.
His passive voice failed him at the end there.
Amazingly, the comments there are criticizing the citizen for "setting up" the police.
I imagine they don't criticize the police when they set up hookers.
Yeah, I love that part. When cops "set up" citizens, its through things like drugs and prostitutes. Things that are tempting.
So, for this to be a "set up" this citizen would have been playing to a cop's greatest temptation, the one to put your boot to any citizen's throat for any reason.
I saw a couple of comments criticizing the citizen and a couple playing the "they're all wrong" card, but was surprised to see quite a number of comments, seemed like a majority of them, unabashedly calling BS on the cop. I hate getting glimmers of hope like that, it'll make me feel all the worse when the reckless endangerment prosecution actually sticks.
I hope stuff like this will pry cons away from cop bootlicking. Could happen.
Wow, that might be the least explicitly pro-cop piece I've seen in a major city newspaper.
And even if he 'set them up', the cops fell for it hook, line, and sinker. The cops set people up all the time, it's called a 'sting', but I guess as long as they're the ones doing it, it's ok.
Excellent morning link.
Carrying a recorder so that you capture a cop's complete ignorance of the law is not "setting them up".
You still screwed up the link. You should link to the single-page version.
THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.
Some Limey is on Bloomberg huffing and puffing about the end of the world PLAYING CHICKEN WITH THE DEBT CEILING!!!11.
"You can't just stop spending. That's crazy."
You can't just stop spending other people's money.
NOW it's crazy.
Soros's right-hand man Druckenmiller (so much better as DrunkOnMiller) calls bullshit on the debt ceiling EOTW propaganda.
Newt Gingrich endorses a health insurance mandate, calls Paul Ryan's proposed cuts "right-wing social engineering."
Newt Gingrich opposes right-wing social engineering?
Did I hit my head yesterday and wake up in an alternate universe?
No he just opposes right wing social engineering that wasn't his idea.
Yes. This should be read as "I'm against good ideas I didn't come up with."
My co-workers are talking in hushed tones–punctuated by nervous giggles of disbelief–about how one of them thinks he might live next to a Ron Paul supporter! [GASP]
It's like working with a gaggle of Maxi-tards.
Ron Paul supporter = militiaman = Oklahoma City bombing.
paul supporter=neo confederate=racist=bad for DA CHILDRENS
I've already got the NRA sticker on my pickup truck. I figure if I add a Ron Paul sticker and a Gadsden flag, I shouldn't be able to get to work without getting either pulled over by a cop or flipped off by someone with an Obama sticker at least once.
gadsen flag=neo-confederate flag=NSF da childerns!
I have a Culpeper Minuteman tag on the front of my car. When I got it, it was just some historical flag that didn't bother people much. Now it's a symbol of, well, I'm not sure what. It's quite distressing to watch the symbols of our founding becoming icons–in the minds of some–of radicalism.
I believe that would be construed as "setting up the cops".
Nah, there is no chain of thought. They are just repeating back to each other what they all heard on NPR this morning. Like they do every morning.
Newt. . .Dumbass. . .Desert planet.
Sympathy. The other day eating lunch in our lounge I had a finance professor explaining to me that people who are afraid of inflation don't understand economics.
"Finance" professor, that's cute. That's like a Masters in Stockbrokering.
I read that as "aren't" the first time through. Of course, there's inflation and then there's inflation. When I was getting my finance degree, the general consensus was that low inflation–around 2%–was optimal. What we have now and in front of us is another thing altogether.
When I was getting my finance degree, the general consensus was that low inflation–around 2%–was optimal.
To be fair, he may have been referring to this kind of scenario rather than hyperinflation. It was a fairly brief exchange before moving on to the NBA playoffs.
As an economics naif, I still don't see what's wrong with 0% inflation.
There's no one dumber than the dumbass that holds an advanced degree, Tulpa. I'm waiting for the day they start carrying their diplomas around to show people while arguing.
"You don't have the credentials to argue with me!"
(apologies for CA reference)
So?! So don't ever say "fuck you" to me. 'Cause you haven't earned the right!
Paging MNG. Paging MNG.
Being smart and holding an advanced degree means you're smart enough and well-versed at arguing to fool yourself into believing some truly ridiculous things.
I'm reminded of Laputa.
I am not a Ron Paul supporter. But I think I need to a Paul sign in my yard just to scare my aging hippie neighbors.
That sign shouldn't scare aging hippies. Everybody knows what a druggie Paul is.
Aging hippies are the biggest drug warriors. They don't want their kids having any of the fun they did.
You must know different aging hippies than I do. Most of those that I have known are more of the "smoke all the pot you want once you turn 16" school of parenting.
"Pot is different now than it was when we were growing up. It's much more potent so you smoke more. Also we didn't know all the damage that it causes to your brain back then."
It would explain their voting tendencies…
Your co-workers don't realize that you're an antisocial, antigovernment lunatic, SugarFree? You need to wear more t-shirts with gun pictures on them, or something.
They know, I think they just have layered another bubble of denial around themselves.
No. They simply ignore it because they can't reconcile their knowledge of you with their pre-conceived "knowledge" of what anti-statists are.
NPR did a story on Ron Paul this morning. I only caught the second half of it, but from what I heard, it was really quite favorable.
I heard that too and thought it was a pretty reasonable story.
Of course they like Paul. He's a divisive element within the GOP.
You need to move to the King Library where people are generally compelled to STFU while they thumb through letters by famous authors (UK as a surprisingly good collection of letters from famous authors).
Right now, on Bloomberg, they are doing everything put blow those Navy submarine "AHH-OOOOOOOOH-GAAAAAH" horns; "Brace yourselves, Men, we'll crash into the debt ceiling in three… two…."
sound collision
Great interview Saturday in the WSJ about the debt ceiling with George Soros' former fund manager Stanley Drukenmiller. The money quote
"He contemplates the possibilities for bond investors if a drawn-out negotiation in Washington creates a short-term problem in servicing the debt but ultimately reduces spending:
"Here are your two options: piece of paper number one?let's just call it a 10-year Treasury. So I own this piece of paper. I get an income stream obviously over 10 years . . . and one of my interest payments is going to be delayed, I don't know, six days, eight days, 15 days, but I know I'm going to get it. There's not a doubt in my mind that it's not going to pay, but it's going to be delayed. But in exchange for that, let's suppose I know I'm going to get massive cuts in entitlements and the government is going to get their house in order so my payments seven, eight, nine, 10 years out are much more assured," he says.
Then there's "piece of paper number two," he says, under a scenario in which the debt limit is quickly raised to avoid any possible disruption in payments. "I don't have to wait six, eight, or 10 days for one of my many payments over 10 years. I get it on time. But we're going to continue to pile up trillions of dollars of debt and I may have a Greek situation on my hands in six or seven years. Now as an owner, which piece of paper do I want to own? To me it's a no-brainer. It's piece of paper number one."
Failure to raise the debt ceiling is not defaulting. It is at worst being late on a payment. It is not like the markets wouldn't know that the issue wouldn't be eventually resolved and they would get their money.
Crap I posted the same thing above, just too late. Great article.
John, a very late payment IS a default.
Depends on the patience of the bondholder. Now if they default because they can't wait, one could say its equivalent. It does depend on their actions though.
Go ahead and snicker, you libertarian baboons; don't you know what it does to PROPPITY VALYOOS when your neighbor puts "I'm Kookoo for Cocoa Puffs!"- err, Ron Paul for President signs all over his yard?
Why do libertarians hate Property values?
I hate property values because I pay property taxes and my house is a place to live, not an investment.
If Paul signs drive down property values, I need to get me some.
My feelings exactly. Same guys pushing "affordable housing" are the ones fighting deflation in the housing market.
Part of a newly launched ongoing series, and a companion to my other wildly popular, "Why the fuck is Gail Collins paid to be an Op-Ed writer"… I bring you, "I read Krugman so you don't have to."
Blah blah blah Republicans are radicalized blah blah blah holding the nation hostage over the debt ceiling blah blah blah Obama must stand up to them blah blah blah spending cuts are bad.
In effect, they will have ripped up the Constitution and given control over America's government to a party that only controls one house of Congress, but claims to be willing to bring down the economy unless it gets what it wants.
That must be the secret Krugman-eyes-only Constitution that says the party that controls the White House and the slimmest margin of the Senate can do what ever the fuck it wants.
As I've written before, the federal government is basically an insurance company with an army
He seems to thinks this is a positive development.
Dumbest Nobel Proze winner ever (but not a Nobel Prize winner really because he won the blah blah don't give a fuck, you shitheel pedant.)
Of course it is perfectly okay for Obama to veto a bill raising the debt ceiling and causing a default if he doesn't get the spending he wants. The mendacity of these people is unbelievable.
I assume you're excluding the Peace Prize winnners.
Say, why don't they call in the War Prize? More accurate name, if you ask me.
Call it the War Prize, that is.
that doesnt work to well in the areas of science & literature
I was just talking about the Peace Prize, not all of the Nobel awards.
All science and literature are weapons of the patriarchy in its rapewar.
+1, if Arabic numerals weren't a tool of the patriarchy.
Market forces, bitches!
It's not our fault that the Ayrabs haven't invented anything worth stealing since then! Uh, I mean borrowing. do you know hard it is raise the debt ceiling with a damned ABACUS?!?! DO YOU?!?!
*adjusts monocle*
I'm on the fence about that. Krugman may be smarter than some of them, but he is certainly more mendacious than most of them. Even Arafat.
Kofi Annan? UN Peacekeeping Forces (1988)? I don't know if I think Krugman is that mendacious. I mean, against the UN he's kind of Evil Lite.
UN High Commission on Refugees. Twice.
Its like the Nobel Child Sex Trafficking Prize.
I would never read these trash NYT editorials if they weren't constantly being linked to.
My co-workers are talking in hushed tones–punctuated by nervous giggles of disbelief
You left off the part about, "…and nervously glancing at ME."
They've learned. I'm not the bumbling, good-natured guy I play on H&R.
Do any of you actually, you know, work?
Lazy Crickets
sorry, I'm too busy playing Angry Birds to do any actual work today.
Maynard G. Krebs
WORK?!
OH SHIT!!! It's on people: Foodies v. Techies. Apparently, there can be no middle ground.
NERD FIGHT!!!
I'm inconsolable, as Good Eats is no more.
he jumped the shark when he got all preachy about Man v Food.
Maybe so, but I loved his show.
I really enjoyed the episode about boiling water.
Doesn't Obama's re-election campaing count as a renewal of the Celebrity [Presidential] Apprentice show?
I'm not the bumbling, good-natured guy I play on H&R.
Your links work?
IRL, everything works. And typos don't constrain my rage.
Except your traitorous pancreas.
It works, just not the way I want it too. The poetic justice of a libertarian filled with anarchist organs.
Did God tell that end-of-the-world guy, "I'm gonna kill you last"?
It's official: Peggy Noonan is better than Radley. Official.
Peggy. Noonan. When I saw she was a finalist, I thought it was a sop to all those folks out there who just love reading saccharine conventional wisdom takes on the world around us. I mean, she's the Kathy of the editorial page. Ack!
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan is the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and the Deputy Commander of the Armed Forces. He's only the ruler of Abu Dhabi and thus the UAE if Khalifa is so senile that he can't function, which I doubt. He IS the next in line probably, but that doesn't make him the de facto ruler.
I am suspicious of several other "facts" in that story as well. On the other hand, the general idea of it is totally unsurprising.
Fog Foo
lol, DOnald Trump cracks me up man. Totally.
http://www.total-anon.us.tc
Late, low May snow in California over the weekend. Oh, that whacky global warming.
Weather isn't climate when it contradicts the party line.
weather v climate is the diff bet dollars & cents.
d'Grammarian o my minds eye
Could somebody please get this nitwit a shift key and tell him to keep writing until he gets to the end of his words?
Don't tell MSNBC. Recently while flipping through news clips on Xbox Live, Briam Williams said something to the effect of, "with all of these weird weather events, many of us are wondering what we've done to cause them" to which Jim Cantore replied "as the Jetstream warms, the atmosphere has to churn that much harder which in turn creates more severe weather."
They did everything but say global warming/climate change in an attempt to describe why weather is so severe now (because we've NEVER had severe weather before). They know the "weather != climate" party line, and are consciously skirting it in an attempt to not look like they're talking from both sides of their mouths, even though that's EXACTLY what they're doing.
Ohio Boys Suspended For Farting On School Bus
"It's very laughable, that's what it is," said Anthony's father, James Nichols. He said he spoke with the school's vice principal, Daniel Senu-Oke, who "suggested my son should hold his gas on this hour-long bus ride."
It's the new WOMD rules. Surprised they didn't charge him as a terrorist.
Naw. Global Warming.
Indeed. Packing all that compressed methane, he might as well be wearing a suicide vest.
http://www.amazon.com/Fart-Pro…..1583940790
The Desperation Smells Sweet, Like Erotic Candy
They should have had lipstick lesbians in it. That's something everyone can enjoy.
Is there something strange about the comments this morning? It looks like a number of people at the top replied to a ghost comment. Did someone say a dirty word?
What could be a dirty word they'd delete? Between Warty, Episiarch and I, are there even any dirty words left?
Then maybe it was a drawing of Mohammed or something derogatory about that ligitiously-sensitive attorney. Or maybe, just maybe, it truly is a ghost comment. END OF DAYS!
are there even any dirty words left?
Cuntmucus.
The other day eating lunch in our lounge I had a finance professor explaining to me that people who are afraid of inflation don't understand economics.
Is he one of those morons who thinks he'll be repaying his loans with "free money"?
If he was saying "People who don't have any cash and have a ton of debt shouldn't be afraid of inflation", then he's right. I suspect that describes everyone in his circle.
I'll jump in for robc and just mention that inflation in a fiat economy in a monetary phenomenon which has nothing to do with the rate of growth of the economy.
His point, to the extent he had one, was close to that; in particular he was arguing that wages rise with inflation so it's irrelevant. A rising tide lifts all boats, etc.
He also justified the common bedrock assumption of math finance that govt bonds are "risk free" by saying that if the govt defaults on its debt we've got big problems anyway — to which I responded that's true, but the presence of "big problems" doesn't mean that scenario suddenly becomes irrelevant.
Wages are sticky. They also tend to fall more slowly than prices.
His point, to the extent he had one, was close to that; in particular he was arguing that wages rise with inflation so it's irrelevant.
Oh, so he's historically illiterate AND ignorant of the distortions that inflation introduces on the markets.
I'm guessing he's tenured.
He's a finance guy, not a macroeconomist. He works off the assumptions the economists give him, much like physicists have to trust that we mathematicians aren't lying about Hilbert space theory. They are separate fields, so it is forgiveable to some extent.
I probably shouldn't relate the story of the hardcore pro-Bama philosophy prof who was asking me what the difference between debt and deficit was at a barbecue over the weekend.
Team Blue Cheerleader
Why does it matter what the difference is? Neither are bad!
Here now!
We understand Hilbert spaces just fine without asking those silly mathematicians.
Now if you ask me about tangent bundles I'll refer you to the math department. But that's 'cause I'm not theorist.
The Palestinians need to march on the border [with nobody holding so much as a pebble] every day, essentially indefinitely.
They also need to live-feed everything.
The US media will stick with the "clashed with protestors" phrasing for a long, long time, but after a month or so even they would switch over to the "fired on unarmed protestors" phrasing they use for countries we don't like.
I might agree, Fluffy, if the Palis would first stop random rocketing of Israel.
But, since they are at war with Israel, the Israelis are justified in treating attempts to breach the border as something other than peaceful.
On the Golan and Lebanon sides, that stands up.
It doesn't really stand up on the Gaza or West Bank sides.
A "border" is the line between two states. Right there there is no Gaza border or West Bank border. That's the entire point of the dispute.
Actually, the Palis shoot rockets from Gaza and from the West Bank, so it stands up on all fronts.
A "border" is the line between two states.
True enough. Its not the Israeli's fault that the Egyptians, the Syrians, and the Lebanese won't man up and exert sovereignty on their side of the border.
Yeah, OK: so what you're saying is that if tomorrow the Egyptian army took over Gaza and the Jordanian army took over the entire West Bank, the Israelis would be cool with that?
And I guess you're also therefore agreeing that the security barriers Israel maintains that are outside the limits of its 1967 territory aren't "borders"?
Until the Palestinians have a state, the Gaza rockets are being fired from within an area that is still under Israeli authority of one level of efficiency or another. The Israelis claim the right to blockade Gaza and to enter it to undertake military and police actions whenever they want, so it is therefore not in any meaningful sense across a "border".
If one group of Puerto Ricans was shooting rockets at the US, and another group of Puerto Ricans was attempting to swim ashore in Florida, machine-gunning the swimmers would not be justified as a "border" defense.
So what's on the other side of the 1967 border? Is it Israel's? No, not really. Is it Egypt/Lebanon/Syria's? Apparently not.
So it's stateless. I think you can have a border with a stateless region; on one side, you have Israel and on the other, you have not-Israel.
But just because those areas are stateless, doesn't mean Israel loses its right to self-defense and border security. It may even extend a certain presence into those areas that are, yes, outside its borders, without bringing them inside its borders.
Given the de facto state of armed conflict between Israel and the Palis, I find it hard to fault Israel for treating approaching mobs of Palis trying to breach Israel's borders as hostiles. I mean, they are hostiles, aren't they? Was anyone in that mob trying to get into Israel for a better job, or to do a little shopping? Or were they more likely engaged in trying to make a little progress on pushing the Jews into the sea?
What is Fluffy trying to say? The rockets are coming from inside the area of 'claimed authority', so Israel can't enforce borders with a hostile entity?
And when the Israelis stop building settlements for their citizens inside Palestinian territory, then we might finally be talking about two separate states for whom talking about a state of war would actually make sense.
Shorter Fluffy and Tulpa
JEWS!
I am very pro-Jew.
In fact, I wish the United States had many, many more Jews than it currently has.
We should give all Israelis US citizenship and have them move here.
But seriously though, all joking aside: With regard to this specific issue, I have said for years that if the Palestinians want to succeed they have to abandon terrorism and instead adopt nonviolent resistance tactics like simply marching up to the checkpoints and security walls and pushing through en masse. I'm interested to see how it plays out, if they start to actually DO that.
So you're for sovereignty for Palis but not Israelis?
"Shorter Fluffy and Tulpa" specifically referenced Jews and not Israelis.
I am actually highly in favor of sovereignty for both Israelis and "Palis", as you put it. Let's decline the entire former mandate of Palestine one nation and grant everyone living within that area citizens of that state. Sovereignty for everyone! Hurray!
Kind of like the Jews enjoy being part of the sovereignty of other ME nations?
Oh, wait. That's right, they've been driven out.
Don't get me wrong – its a horrible mess. Putting the Jews smack dab in the middle of one of the most barbaric, backwater areas on the planet after the Holocaust was not, perhaps, the best thing to do.
I, also, think that giving the Palis full statehood, with all the responsibilities thereof, might be the way to go. Because once they are sovereign, they might actually have to face up to the consequences of being in a state of war with their neighbor. Who can wipe them off the map whenever he wants.
I'm talking about Israel, not the Jews.
And once Palestine is actually sovereign, there aren't going to be any more Israeli settlements built on their land.
Shorter Fluffy
JEWS!!!!!11!!
How ironic that I'm the one accused of hating the Jews when I'm simply asking that we treat Israel like any other country.
PURE COMEDY GOLD. Yes, Israel should be treated like every other country that gets lambasted for self-defense and occupying lands seized in defensive war, all none of them.
Maybe when the palis stop being antisemitic fucks who would leave the settlers in peace and not kill them they can have a state.
If the Israelis can kill anyone who crosses their "border" because they "threaten their sovereignty", then the Palis can also kill anyone who crosses their border and threatens their sovereignty.
Fair is fair, right?
Remember, I don't really give a shit WHAT Israel thinks its problems are. Every individual Palestinian is entitled to demand liberty as an individual human being.
If the US had a terrible terrorism problem, and we decided to, say, seize Quebec Province to try to defend ourselves from it, if unarmed Quebecois marched on the new pseudo-internal-border and were shot down by our "border" guards I would side with the Quebecois, and would want the border guards and those who gave them their orders to drown in their own blood. Abso-fucking-lutely. And if you came around and said, "Wah! Security! Sovereignty!" I would spit in your face.
Newt Gingrich is sticking up for the individual mandate because he is eating a grenade for Mitt.
If Mitt is out there all by his lonesome in support of a mandate he will get crucified. If Newt sticks up for it, instead of it being Mitt's albatross it's "a policy option".
Mitt is not in favor of the individual mandate at the federal level.
In other news, Mitt is also not in favor of hair gel.
Too late, Mitt. That peanut butter is already in your chocolate.
There's a new concept called "federalism" you may not be aware of.
Right. Still waiting on the DEA and DOJ to discover that concept in re: medical marijuana
Uh, OK, but that's not what we're talking about. Drug enforcement reform isn't on the menu this time around.
I'm well aware of it.
I'm just pointing out that Mitt claiming to oppose the individual mandate, essentially anywhere, is about as credible as Newt saying he opposes divorce.
Too late, Mitt baby. I am not a Catholic. You don't get to walk away from me and say three Hail Marys and walk away to sin no more and call us square.
I could forgive Romney for Romneycare if he were honest and would stop trying to insult everyone's intelligence. If he got up and said "hey I was governor of a liberal state and they wanted universal coverage so we gave this idea a shot. It was clearly a huge mistake and I regret ever signing onto it. But that is what states are for to try new things so we know what works and what doesn't. I am older and wiser now".
If you said that, you could at least respect the honesty. But instead he defends the indefensible and pretends that because he did it on a state level he is somehow excused from responsibility and Obama isn't. That just shows he is a mendacious ass who won't ever admit fault and has no business in office.
His flip-flopping past caused him to not win the GOP primary in 2008. His response is to take every decision he's ever made now all the way to the end zone or bust. I'm enjoying it greatly.
Even if he were to say that, I still wouldn't trust him. By signing MassCare, he revealed his true inclinations – a big government, top-down technocrat. I see no reason to believe he's changed his spots.
I could have forgiven him if he had said that 4 years ago. Time has long expired though.
John, I agree with your advice for what Romney should have done. As with most politicians I suspect his ego gets in the way of admitting he did something wrong, even when it's to his advantage to do so.
That said, it's unfair to pretend that there's no difference between supporting the individual mandate at the state level and at the federal level, which is what Fluffy and other anti-Romney partisans are doing.
It's also unfair to pretend that's your distinction, when it's clearly an ex post facto rationalization you pulled out of your ass, the way Mitt pulled it out of HIS ass.
When Ron Paul says he opposes abortion but thinks it should be a federal issue, I believe him.
When Mitt Romney says he favored the individual mandate for MA but opposes it federally, I know he's a bullshit artist who is just looking for a way to oppose Obama without having to denounce his own policy. I know, you know it, everyone here knows it. It insults our intelligence to pretend it's anything else.
Sorry, that post above makes it sound like I'm saying YOU personally pulled the distinction out of your ass. I'm using the imperial "you" there. It's inelegantly phrased.
Interesting Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, or Herman Cain for that matter, aren't serious candidates, but Mitt and Newt are!???
Has anyone else gotten an invite to Google Music yet? Shit's awesome. That's all I'm saying.
tell me more. it looks very interesting.
You upload a bunch of music to your account, and then you can listen to it from any other computer or device by going to music.google.com. Very cool.
Sounds like a DRM sting operation.
/paranoid
The thought has crossed my mind. I'll be H&R's canary.
So basically it's an online repository of a user's private DRM keys?
Hmm. Amazon cloud player does it for me. And those $5 albums are like crack.
Goddamned right they are. Even better is the free downloads of sampler albums.
You upload a bunch of music to your account, and then you can listen to it from any other computer or device
Why not just leave it on the original device? Too easy?
Shut the fuck up, anonopussy. Leave technical matters to people who aren't fucking idiots.
Well, you certainly don't, you little clitoral abscess.
So you're totally dependent on having a fast Net connection if you want to listen to music that you own. I'll stick with mobile music players, thank you.
I signed up but haven't gotten my invite yet. How long did it take you?
I never signed up. I haz connections.
Don't be a dick. Invite these people into your little club. Google needs fed, anyway.


Ah, languages. Where would be be without them?
I like language. I like the rules, the subtleties, the nuances. I like learning new languages, even though I'm a poor learner and speaker (think Franglais with a broad Yorkshire accent).
Without a love of language, I wouldn't have been able to make most of the changes to the coding that runs this site. Okay, they're only small changes to the templates, but a programming language is just like a spoken one, you still have syntax and grammar to understand and cope with.
You can guess what I think of the notion that GCSE pupils might no longer have to take an oral exam because they're too stressful. What's the point of learning a new language if you're not going to put it to some use by speaking it? Surely it's better to make your mistakes in a classroom setting than in real life?
And as for 'stress'… Stress is sitting on a platform in Germany, trying to make your way home, wondering where your train is and trying to make sense of the station announcer. Not that I did; it was the guy who said "Ach. Ein stunde!" that kicked my brain into action. 'Stunde'… hour of time (as opposed to 'Uhr', which is 'o'clock')… my train's going to be an hour late. Crickey – what about the boat from Hoek van Holland?? 'Scheisse', as the locals would have said.
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America and the World at Pivotal and Vital Crossroads
Tags: Bureaucracy, Constitution, educational teachings, Elite, Independence, Judeo Christian Ethic, Leadership, Nihilism, oligarch, one world power, religious belief, single world governance, United States
The direction and future of the United States of America will be decided in the next two decades with each election telling the direction the nation will choose. We have all heard that there are two Americas, one cosmopolitan in the major cities and the other a rural-religious sector. These two sectors are at odds with one another. The cosmopolitans of the cities favor a more nihilist view that everything is relative and no one culture is superior to any other. Through this view, they favor universalism and the eventual submission of the Constitution to world bodies and singular world governance. The rural religious have exactly the opposite view seeing the United States Constitution as the bedrock upon which the nation rests. They believe, as did the founding fathers, that the Judeo-Christian roots upon which the United States was built and became the powerful nation that she is are a necessary component through which the Constitution is supported. The divide between these two viewpoints was in full evidence in the last Presidential election in which one group swallowed their moral conviction as they found themselves looking at choosing the lesser of two evils. One candidate had a moral history, which was deplorable at best, and the other candidate had honesty issues and then, the main reason they rejected that candidate, there was the full support of the leftist, nihilist, anti-Judeo-Christian ethic and universalist views. One candidate was further rejected because of what many in their party supported while the other candidate had been rejected by much of their party, the elites, which the rural voters probably saw as advantageous.
This divide is only going to grow with the rural-religious losing eventually simply due to the population of the cities growing and rural regions slowly losing their small farmers who are being replaced by large industrial farming which can produce more food per acre and thus are better suited for survival while many farming families children are seeking higher education in order to take jobs in the cities. Within a century there will be virtually no rural-religious left except for what many will look down on referring to them as political Luddites. The eventual effect of this can be directly traced to the education system and the effect making it a national system under the control of the Deep State in Washington D.C. instructing every school what they must include in their educational curriculum. These requirements were items such as sex education, elimination of any references to religion (especially Judeo-Christian while exempting Islamic Quranic teachings), gender sensitivity, racial sensitivity, gender variations, acceptance of all forms of what had previously been considered sexual deviance, and including reading material such as "Heather Has Two Mommies" and similar material. But the curriculum of the public school system is benign when compared to the indoctrination offered as supposed higher education in the major colleges and universities. Here is where the future leaders are trained and here is where the New Age curriculum is taught with any student showing any signs of deviation from the approved teachings reprimanded and driven into compliance, silence or failed out of college or university.
The major institutions no longer teach critical thinking or platonic rationality but instead teach compliance with the far leftist doctrine, universality, equality of all cultures, rejection of religious belief, nihilism and condemnation of the history of the United States as being too powerful and bullying the world. They are taught that the United States was not a force for good because good is relative and thus there can never be a force for good because good means different things to different people. This has an added instructional belief that what is considered to be moral and good by Judeo-Christian ethics is false because it has oppressed people in the past and the reality is that all the other belief systems in the world which were presumably oppressed by the United States really should be given equal treatment and placed before Judeo-Christianity as that has been the main force which has destroyed much of the world. They are taught that the advanced industrial nations are only wealthy because they stole the wealth of the poor nations. Thus, it is taught that the conclusion is that the industrial world owes the third world an equal share in the wealth produced. Further, the most primitive cultures are denoted as superior as they do less harm to Gaia, the goddess of the Earth, and that the developed world has caused most of the pollution and are still responsible for the destruction of the earth. Global warming and climate change being anthropomorphic is presented as established fact and some places use Al Gores' book, Earth in the Balance, as a text and allowed to be set as validated truth despite almost every prediction in the book having been proven false.
The youth have no record in their short lives and are unaware of how far the United States and the developed world have come in cleaning the air, water and general environment. Fortunately, we are old enough to remember smog and air quality hazard warnings and some select rivers catching fire and lakes so choked with plant life that fish could not survive. All of these have become history because the people of America demanded this of industry and they complied. Much of what the youth are taught about pollution is complete fabrication. They are taught that it was because the government forced industry to comply with air quality and water quality standards that they cleaned up their act. The reality is these regulations came after much of the cleaning up had been done and were put in place more as campaign material than as effective restrictions on industry. Yes, there were the minority who had not caught up, but major industry such as most production and power companies had met or surpassed the required standards before the legislation had even been written and many believe that the standards were written such that the vast majority of industries were already meeting them. This was actually a means of forcing smaller competitors into financial difficulty making them more easily bought out by the larger conglomerates. But many of our higher educational institutions are beholden to those same conglomerates for a large share of their funding and thus remain relatively untouchable. This is why in an economics course the company one is supposed to make 'widgets' and not cars or furniture.
The future of the United States is going to be a slow but inexorable slide towards universalism and in favor of single world governance. This is what is being fed to the future leaders and the election of President Trump will likely be regarded in history as an unexplainable exception where the United States rebelled against the eventual unification of the world under one governance with one religion. What religion, you ask? Well, if you must know that has yet to be decided, but it will not be Judaism or any of the various Christian faiths, they will have been discarded for something more nuanced and accepting of the masses being governed by their intellectual elite, as they are better suited for knowing what is best. The future government will be an oligarchical plutocratic meritocracy where the world is governed by an extensive group of bureaucratic departments which are controlled loosely by the usual power brokers, the wealthy, the major corporations and a selection of self-appointed oligarchs. Elections will be meaningless as no matter who the people elect in their local elections, those elected leaders will be compelled to perform under strict guidance from those in the overriding international bureaucracy who have been determined to know what everyone needs and they will control production, distribution and all of the levers of power. Any local elected group who attempts to exercise independent rule will simply be starved into compliance by strictly regulating food, energy or any other vital necessity. This exercise of totalitarian control will not be intended to force these recalcitrant elected leaders to comply but to persuade the electorate that these people are unsuitable to hold elected office.
There will be a few select regions or even some nations, which will refuse to participate in this overarching governance and will demand their independence and self-reliance. They will have to give some power to the world governance in order to trade with them and thus receive those materials, be they raw material for production, produced material, foods that are not native to their region and other specifics. There may even be states which decide that they would be better off ruling themselves and since the United States Constitution will have become nothing more than a museum piece on display at the National Archives alongside Ross Perot's copy of the Magna Carta which he will possibly leave them in his will, so there will be nothing preventing their secession. Truthfully, even under the Constitution a state is permitted to choose to secede from the United States as the states joined the nation voluntarily and are permitted to exit should they choose. The Civil War always comes up when this is taught. President Abraham Lincoln was very likely the most unconstitutional President the nation ever had as he all but threw the Constitution aside for the duration of the Civil War otherwise he would have had to allow the South to secede and be the Confederated States of America. If you were to ask us which state might choose to go their own way, we can name two, Alaska and Wyoming as both of these states have populations which are ferociously independent simply because of the conditions in these two states demands total-self-reliance. As for countries which will probably remain outside any world government, that is a far more difficult question. Possibly Israel might decide it would be better to go it alone for two basic reasons, first it would be impossible to remain the Jewish State and also be included in the world governance. The Vatican would also remain independent though they would probably demand a seat at the table. India and China have the populations and the ability to feed their own people such that they might demand some level of independence. Other than these, your guess would likely be better than ours.
The world religion would be required to allow for two things, a totalitarian style rule by the chosen elite and without any deistic or divine entity, as the all-powerful being will be the super-world-state governance which will be a bureaucratic nightmare yet will mange to function despite itself. If the framers of the system which will eventually be installed are intuitive and intelligent, they will make sure to allow for some amount of freedom at the more local levels. The problem is even if such is in the initial design, over time the bureaucracy at the top will usurp that power and steal any independence they originally maintained. Eventually this governance will fail and the world will break again into regional nations with the added change that there will be a trend towards greater cooperation as after the years under a single governance there will be less differences between the separate regions. Then again, the future could also hold a coming of World War III and we will all be thrown back to the Stone Age with small pockets of people surviving the conflagrations which will result. Either way, the freedoms which many currently enjoy is going to be taken from their children and their children one way or the other.
It Can Get Worse But Why Wait?
Tags: Adolph Hitler, Aliyah, anti Semitism, Canada, Cartoon, China, End of G-d, Europe, Giulio Meotti, hatred, Human Conscience, Israel, Judeo Christian Ethic, Leftists, Nazi, North Korea, Release From Ethics, Russia, Syria, Ten Commandments, Torah, Turkey, Zionism
The articles and editorials all point to the same truths. It is painful to read about but we read it anyways. Those who read here regularly know the feeling and most made of sterner mettle read on if for no other reason than the hope that in the story there will at the least be a single ray of hope. The stories from the last few days held no such light. Stories from across Europe and back again, from the campuses of the United Kingdom to across the Ukraine to Paris, the capital city of France, the stories are all too similar. The names of the victims change and all too often the perpetrators remain unidentified and probably without remorse. The only time these beasts feel remorse is before the television cameras and the media and even then the discerning realize their remorse is that they will face legal proceedings. Then there are the few defiant who cannot understand that they had committed any crime and demand to have explained what they did that was wrong, after all, they had merely beaten the life out of a Jew. And these miscreants often come in small groups up to a half dozen or so and attack as a mob again a singular target or perhaps two Jews both teens or old men. They rarely take their vengeance and hate out on any Jew physically capable of dealing harm to at least one or two before numbers take their toll. These stories rise out of Europe and one of the rare voices reporting on these heinous acts has been the Italian journalist Giulio Meotti. His most recent article "Welcome to Europe's Four Capitals of anti-Semitism" was one of a series of articles over the past week which served as the impetus for this article.
There has been one ray of light we have kept in mind when reading these stories, and that is that more and more European Jews are choosing Aliyah to Israel as the solution to the growing menace in Europe. The information we have seen indicates that Israel is the number one choice followed by the United States with a small number choosing elsewhere such as South America and Canada or even Asia. The main group we would like to speak with directly, and to anyone knowing of such people, are those deciding that the United States, and by inference anywhere other than Israel, as their destination where they can restart their lives anew and be safe. We are not trying to imply that currently the problems for Jews in the United States is something dire and that it is a reckless choice which places them in nearly the same level of danger as that is definitely not the situation. But on the other end of the scale, we are speaking as amongst those who made Aliyah to Israel from the United States. The main reason is that one of us had promised themselves at an early age that they would retire in Israel when the opportunity arrived. We lost a great deal of financial security by doing so having now to rent at a far higher price than the mortgage we paid on our home in Oklahoma. We can tell you that the sacrifice was more than worth it. That leaves the question as to why we would make such a move and that gets to the crux of why we recommend that the United States not be at the top of any Jew's list of safe destinations. If your reason is that you have relatives in the United States and you are moving near them, then by all means go to the United States as having supportive relatives of close friends should always be amongst the highest priorities. But, if the choice is purely which destination would be best, then choose Israel.
First, we can give a couple of startling facts comparing Israel and the United States. Taking in all types of criminal acts even including terrorism, one is more likely to have a violent crime committed against their person in the United States than they are in Israel. The best means of avoiding such a fate is identical in Israel as it is in the United States; simply avoid areas where criminal acts are most often perpetrated. Do not visit certain places or at least minimize visiting such places to daylight hours and one severely diminishes the probability that they will fall victim to violence. We will grant that there is a definitive difference in the likelihood of a military attack on the nation between the United States and Israel. Mitigating this problem is that the Israeli government has made a great deal of effort into protecting the people, particularly the children, from the ravages of war. There are shelters throughout the country and should the sirens sound, simply follow the flow of people to reach the closest shelter. During the last Gaza war the seeming biggest question on virtually every Western journalists' list came across asking, "Where are all the dead Jews to match the Palestinian losses?" Of course, it was not phrased so clumsily, well except one journalist who said almost exactly that, but they were all seemingly fascinated in the fact that more Gazan civilians appeared to be dying than Israel civilians. Now we must point out that these very same journalists were following the crowds of Israelis heading for the shelters when the sirens sounded and they marveled, as did we all, at the unbelievable accuracy and kill rate of the Iron Dome batteries. But, despite witnessing the exact reasons for the disparity, they were not making a comparison as much as a political statement which basically could have been read, what makes the lives of Israelis more important than the lives of Gazans. They were asking the wrong side, that is what they should have queried the Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders as to why they too had not permitted their civilians the protections they reserved for their fighters. But that was a lesson that Israel will spend just as much if not more, fifty-thousand dollars a missile cost for Iron Dome to prevent a rocket costing a few hundred dollars if that, preserving the lives of her citizens, all her citizens. Israel has recently completed fortifying every school roof and structure to withstand the majority of rocket strikes and further enforced the kindergartens and many daycare facilities. Israel requires that all new residences come equipped with a shelter which will withstand rocket attacks up to a certain level. Basically, Israel is a nation with bomb shelters spread across every city, town, kibbutz and community and invests in the best intercepting systems all in the name of keeping the people safe.
Israel can offer one guarantee; she will not enter into any conflict which can be avoided by negotiations or other means to mitigate the necessity of war. The same cannot be stated about her neighbors, especially Hamas, Hezballah, the terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula (who are fortunately busy fighting one another), Syria (which is also engaged with internal struggles), Jordan, Egypt or Iran. What is interesting about Jordan and Egypt is that the nation's leaders in both countries are less inclined in fighting with Israel than are the people, with the Jordanian people actually having the highest and most deeply ingrained hatreds for Israel largely due to their listening to Palestinian Authority radio and television, stations Israel licenses and permits to broadcast. That is largely financed by the European Union, United Nations, many individual European governments and likely the United States funds are also used for these broadcasts and at least the first three would all be up in arms should Israel shutter these incitive voices of hatreds. Some claim that Israel is high upon the list of the Islamic State as a target to attack should the opportunity present itself. This was revealed to be untrue when one of the commanders in the areas closest to the Golan Heights was asked if striking Israel was a priority to which he responded that striking Israel was not even on their to do list as they would incur serious and irreparable damage resulting from such a foolhardy move. If only all our enemies thought so clearheaded and logically. The main thing is Israel will do everything possible to refrain from engaging in a war, often going further than the majority of the population in such efforts. Once such conditions exist, the safety of the population becomes of paramount concern. Israel is a nation which stocks her shelters regularly and such activity being hastily performed nationwide would be a greater sign of potential for coming conflict than the opening of weapons bays and other such readying which other nations take as a sign of impending conflict.
So, even in worst-case scenario, one would be equally safe residing in the United States as in Israel. We must grant that residing in Israel would decrease the numbers of holidays one could celebrate as other than the Jewish celebrations, the other communities mostly celebrate on their own and theirs are not national holidays. On the other hand, with Synagogues plentiful and the vast majority of food retailers selling only Kosher foods and many restaurants also serving kosher food, it is far easier to be a practicing Jew here in Israel. Outside of certain neighborhoods in the United States, the same is not the case and it would be next to impossible in large swaths of the United States or at the least most difficult. In some areas, one would need look far and wide and likely further just to find sufficient men for a Minion for morning prayers forcing one to recite them alone, not a conducive setting for remaining religious. Assimilation in Israel means becoming more Jewish aware if not Jewish while assimilation in the United States makes one more secular Christian where you are either secular or Christian, both is difficult. So, should your concern be remaining a practicing Jew or becoming a practicing Jew, Israel should be your destination. If within you is even just an ember, a mere spark, of being a practicing Jew, Israel will nurture that spark until it lights the fire and from there you decide. In the United States, such an ember would be doused with ample water unless one was to protect it with great effort. So in Israel such an ember is given to lighting the passion of being a religious Jew and this is made much easier in Israel while in the United States the driving force is to make one a secular humanist and possibly a leftist who discards Hashem as they believe only those things they can see, touch and explain with formulae.
The final reason to choose Israel is the most difficult for people to accept, the growing anti-Semitism in the United States. For much of the last seventy-five years, anti-Semitism in the United States has been swept under the carpet. Much of this has been accomplished by those wishing to hide the brutal truth so as to make the United States appear moral. They also wished to deny that any trace of anti-Semitism was existent within their great nation. The problem is that despite these efforts, anti-Semitism has been measurably rising. The often-strange property of this rise in anti-Semitism is its tendency to rise fastest in those communities with the fewest or no Jews. All too often acts of anti-Semitism were perpetrated by people living outside of the neighborhood or even the city or town where the incident occurred. This has permitted the explanation that the act was a one-out or rare occurrence which poses no threat to the Jewish population. Such thinking is desperately erroneous. It is exactly this sort of anti-Semitism which is most dangerous because beneath such an act is a seething anti-Semitism which will only be furthered by the punishment of the miscreant. This will be interpreted as the Jew victimizing one member of their community and punishing them to an extreme for some minor act. My fortune was to, more often than not, live in an area where there was some distance, often more than five or even fifty miles, between me and the next Jewish family. Of course as I have resided in Wyoming; there in one town if there were not a person matching some description, it was at least fifty miles to the next town with maybe three homes between the two, so we are talking fair sized towns of at least seventy-thousand. Yes, that included where I resided in Wyoming.
While growing up as a youth anti-Semitism decreased hitting a low mark somewhere near or soon after the Six Day War as that made many in the United States feel as if they were a little bit Israel for that one week. Nevertheless, within a few short years, anti-Semitism began to grow, and in a most peculiar place, the far-left wing of the political spectrum. The far-right, today called the alt-right, actually remained relatively constant and more of a nuisance than an actual threat. The far-left had a simple problem with Jews, and that was Judaism and little ideas such as the Ten Commandments, the Torah and the entire Bible (Old Testament) and the morality within these documents. Adolph Hitler spoke of this hatred of a Jewish morality when he declared, "The Ten Commandments have lost their validity. Conscience is a Jewish invention; it is a blemish like circumcision." And "…the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew." Hitler included Christianity as another of the items which prevented mankind from reaching its glorious heights he envisioned once Judeo-Christianity was dead. That is the overriding side of anti-Semitism left from many discussions, that what is the target is not as much the Jews as the Torah and the rules Judaism gave to human civilization. Judaism is the root from which Christianity grew and set at the core the Jewish morality which Christianity accepted as was with minor alterations making the practice more suitable for their target audience, the Roman pagans. Christianity kept many of the basics upon which Judaism is based, including but not limited to, the Ten Commandments, Love the stranger, treat others how you wish to be treated, and numerous other teachings which were gleaned from the words of Jesus. One item which remains in the backgrounds about Jesus was that he lived and died as a Jew, taught Judaic laws, preached from Torah and everything he said and performed he did so as Judaism taught and within the moral and legal codes of Judaism.
Since the early to middle 1970's anti-Semitism has grown regularly. This has been in part due to money flowing to anti-Semitic organizations with a great deal of this money invested on college-aged youth across the nation's campuses. Many of these organizations and entities are under the collective arm of the Muslim Brotherhood often through multiple channels making direct tracing near impossible. Some of these organizations were recently linked to the Hamas terrorist group during the Holy Land Foundation trial which included amongst the numerous named co-conspirators Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). There was found numerous links from Palestinian Arab aligned groups especially the Students for Palestinian Justice (SJP) and the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), all of which come together for a singular cause, the destruction of the Jewish State followed by the systematic eradication of the Jews worldwide as called for in the Hamas Charter. The destruction of the Jewish State is also included in the Palestinian Authority Charter. These groups use far left tactics of intimidation, harassment, and ridicule targeting anybody who might give an even and unbiased review of anything to do with Israel. There are a growing group of colleges and universities which Jewish parents oppose sending their children there for further education and many of the names are as amazing as it would appear to many as unbelievable. This list on its own would be sufficient to prove that a serious problem exists at many of the leading liberal arts colleges and universities across the United States. What makes this even more threatening is that it is exactly these institutions which are producing the national leaders of the next generation and the generation beyond. These colleges have become central places of indoctrination of a curriculum and faculty fiercely anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic. There will be those who claim that being anti-Israel is not against the Jews but the nation and its policies. They will also claim that Zionism is a form of racism and that they are against racism so of course they are not again the Jews. Yet the only nation these people demand be removed from the community of nations is Israel, the sole Jewish State. The only nativist group they call out as racist is the Jewish Israelite nativist calling. They have no problem with China basically destroying the Tibetan culture step by step removing forcefully Tibetan people moving them thousands of miles away into China and replacing them with Chinese peasants from rural areas of China. These groups have no problem with North Korea, Syria, Turkey, Canada and their indigenous people of the Inuit and other native tribes or a plethora of other nations and peoples we could name. Oh, many also have a problem with one other nation, the United States, where many will point to the problem that Jews have disproportionate power over the government. When pressed to explain, they basically just repeat that the Jews have too much influence and point out that President choose too many Jews for Cabinet posts and other important positions. If these are the most qualified people for these positions, we wonder why they should not be chosen. They always get to the same point, too many Jews alive and working hard and getting ahead. The simple answer is to come home now before the deluge starts, as it is coming. Some point in the near, far too near, future the United States will reach a critical point and past that point Jews will not be safe in the United States. This will signal the end for Jews in Europe as well and who knows where else. The Jews have already been wiped from the Arab World and pretty much from Russia. Europe will be next and when the United States pushes out her Jews, the end will have arrived. On that day, Israel has best be prepared because she will have no friends in the world and a mere half dozen nations remaining on talking terms. What comes after that, we are afraid to guess, really afraid to guess.
Anti-Semitic Cartoons top from Judge magazine
bottom from April 15, 1896 issue of Sound Money magazine
The end of this story brings us full circle. Most anti-Semitism in much of the world generates the hatred for Jews in the baby's milk. They are all but born with it permeating the conversation throughout their childhood. It is introduced as something as natural and normal as love for Mom and Dad. Life includes anti-Semitism is felt to be as normal as anything else in life and children are reared with anti-Semitism as if it were the right thing to do. Such hate simply is something that far too many children the world over are taught anti-Semitism just as they are taught their A, B, C's and addition and subtraction. There is nothing strange or abnormal about such hatreds. That is the saddest of truths which the world must face.
Erasing the Western World Through Education
Tags: African Studies, Angela Merkel, Angie Motshekga, Chaucer, Death of the West, Education Minister, Europe, European Union, Freud, Germany, Hillary Clinton, Iowa State University, Judeo Christian Ethic, Kant, Leftists, Paper on 9/11 from Terrorist View, Professor James Strohman, Shakespeare, South Africa, United States, Western Culture
What if one day they just decided that the history of the Western World was too white, too colonialist, too male dominated? What if they decided that Western Literature was menial, was substandard, was subordinate to African, Asian and, well, all other literature? What happens when the Western elite decide that the Western ways are an anathema to them and ordered the destruction of their own culture through the educations system, through unenforced borders, through forced assimilation to every other culture, through the media degrading the Judeo-Christian Western culture and every means necessary? What if the leaders became so guilt ridden to their past and denounced their former colonialism despite it bringing enlightenment to much of the globe and denounced their slaving past despite leading the world in abolitionist movement enforcing equality and freedom for everyone within their society finally living up to the teachings of their prophets and leaving human sacrifice and the brutality of the past leading to the brink of a new age only to have the elite decide that the future was too frightening as they would lose their privilege so they decided to destroy everything in the hopes of surviving to stand atop the ruins? What if we told you that is exactly where the leftists were leading the United States and are still taking Europe? Their plan was derailed when those they considered to be their inferiors in what they saw as ignorant and uneducated flyover-country decided they loved their world and their country and their way of life and decided to elect an egotistical megalomaniac with delusions of intelligence who pontificated about closing the border, repealing Obamacare and taking the nation back to some semblance which these people would recognize.
Allow us to give you a few select peeks at how far the insanity has spread and the deepness of the sickness infesting the elites in the ivory towers of academia. First let us look at academia and some of the ridiculous ideas and even one particularly troubling assignment. An article by Giulio Meotti who appears to have assigned himself two particularly thankless assignments for the bulk of his writings; covering the decline and agonizing death of Europe and with it Judeo-Christian ethics for the continent and defending Israel from unfair and anti-Semitic criticisms which appear to run rampant across much of our world. He informs us that South Africa is preparing to eliminate the study of William Shakespeare from the school curriculum. Their plan is to replace him with African poets. Education Minister Angie Motshekga told the parliament, "The consideration of the works of Shakespeare is one aspect of the overall process of review of the literature." In a recent New York Times editorial by two philosophers, they called for removal of the teaching of Shakespeare. Additionally, a group of the student body at Yale University has petitioned for the elimination of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton. But the rampage against Western culture is not limited to the literature department, oh no. When students petitioned to have Stanford include in the curriculum a course on "Western Culture," the administration turned them down flat. Out of the fifty-two leading universities in the United States, a course on the Bard, Shakespeare, appears in a rousing four of them. Not to be outdone, Oxford University has decided that a "review" of their curriculum is in order with the aim of increasing "diversity." An article in the website of the Oxford editions by Gary Taylor stated some pretty radical ideas including asking, "Was Shakespeare racist?" He called for taking "Canterbury Tales" off the reading lists. Giulio Meotti suggested this was possibly done to make room for the Zulu poetry.
Map of the Developed Western World
Then there are some disturbing assignments equally as challenging. Iowa State University Professor James Strohman assigned his students in their international studies course to, "Write a paper that gives a historical account of 911 from the perspective of the terrorist network. In other words, how might Al-Qaeda or a non-Western historian describe what happened." Just in case anyone might think that such an assignment might upset students where they might object to having to take such view of the events from that day, he added, "Don't worry about the fact you don't agree with the terrorists, the point of the exercise is to consider completely different perspectives." When asked by the College Fix a spokesperson stated the assignment was not to take away from the "tragic events" of that day. The assignment did give some further advice stating, "Let's focus on the 911 terrorist attack and how it might be interpreted differently by different people around the world. For this exercise, you have to 'get out of the box' of our thinking about what happened on 911 and view it from a completely different perspective." Such preposterous of a story needs some validations so we have included the actual assignment as presented below.
Write a Paper About 911 From the Perspective of the Terrorists
These are just the tip of an iceberg and Western Civilizations and Judeo-Christian Ethics is the Titanic on her maiden voyage and it is approaching the midnight of April 15, 1912. The open borders which were proposed by President Obama (despite his having set immigration bans from suspected Middle East nations where terrorism was rampant) and would have been accelerated by a hint over five-hundred percent, that was according to Ms. Hillary herself. It was on Face the Nations where Hillary Clinton told CBS, "I would like to see us move from what is a good start with ten-thousand to sixty-five-thousand and begin immediately to put into place the mechanisms for vetting the people that we would take in." Well, at least there would be vetting probably very similar to that used under President Obama. If we remember correctly, as long as Iran vouched for you, then you must be perfectly fine, or something equally wonderful.
Further, Angela Merkel has announced she will run for a fourth term as German chancellor in a crucial national election next September without any reservations to her past performance and the refugee situation. She did claim it had been a difficult decision as there exist complex challenges which she will face and there is the "absurd" expectation for Germany to take a world leadership role since Barack Obama leaves office. Listing some of these challenges Ms. Merkel stated, "The European Union is currently under great strain, with the euro crisis, with the refugee question, and following the decision of the United Kingdom to want to leave the EU, and with a situation in the world which, to put it delicately, needs to focus itself anew following the elections in America and also regarding the relationship to Russia." As far as the situation in the world and the expectations that she have answers for everything, especially due to the election of President Donald Trump in the United States, she added, "especially after the elections in America, that I'm expected to deal with, it's very grounding, but I feel it very strongly as grotesque and downright absurd." She has made some statements of late expressing reservations for Germany carrying the bulk of the refugee problem and believes that Germany still has her role to play in this problem. Angela Merkel still speaks of Germany taking refugees but has walked the unconditional acceptance of nearly unlimited numbers back from her original eight-hundred-thousand per year to a more vague and limited expectation without placing an actual number limit. One might think she would have learned from the horrors Germany has suffered in response to her policies thus far. Still, Chancellor Merkel can expect rave reviews and stellar write-ups in the German and European media with full backing of every leftist news source.
The backing that the leftist European candidates receive from the vast majority of their media is quite similar to that across the pond in the United States. This means that across Europe the citizens can no better rely on the poll numbers or the reporting, especially things reported about nationalist candidates. Another warning to our European friends is that within the six weeks before your elections you can expect the leftist candidates to take steps and announce programs they will support which will never come to be. These are feints to lead the people to believe that they are moderate except they will continue to act in the same manner as they have on the past. Leftists are pretty much incapable of changing their stripes. In closing, there are a few items you may wish to have your candidates reply about where they stand on Judeo-Christian ethics, Western Civilization, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kant, Freud and, oddly enough, whether they support Israel or the Palestinians, and they can only choose one.

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text:
using std::string;
using std::unique_ptr;

namespace sicxe {
namespace machine {

const char* kHelpMessage =
"SIC/XE Virtual Machine v1.0.0 by Klemen Kloboves\n"
"\n"
"Usage:    sicvm [-h] object_file\n"
"\n"
"Options:\n"
"\n"
"    -h, --help\n"
"        Display help.\n"
"\n"
;

namespace {

volatile bool trigger_interrupt = false;

void Usr1SignalHandler(int) {
  trigger_interrupt = true;
}

}  // namespace

class VMDriver {
 public:
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_MOVE(VMDriver);

  VMDriver() {
    error_formatter_.set_application_name("sicvm");
    flag_help_ = flags_parser_.AddFlagBool("h", "help");
    struct sigaction sa;
    sa.sa_handler = &Usr1SignalHandler;
    sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
    sa.sa_flags = 0;
    bool success = (sigaction(SIGUSR1, &sa, nullptr) == 0);
    assert(success);
    unused(success);
  }

  int Main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    bool success = RealMain(argc, argv);
    error_formatter_.PrintErrors(error_db_);
    return success ? 0 : 1;
  }

 private:
  bool RealMain(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    if (!flags_parser_.ParseFlags(argc, argv, &error_db_)) {
      return false;
    }

    if (argc == 1 || flag_help_->value_bool) {
      PrintHelp();
      return true;
    }

    if (flags_parser_.args().empty()) {
      error_db_.AddError(ErrorDB::ERROR, "no input object file", nullptr);
      return false;
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      error_db_.AddError(ErrorDB::ERROR, "expected one input object file", nullptr);
      return false;
    }

    // open object file
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    auto open_result = object_file_.LoadFile(object_file_name.c_str());
    if (open_result == ObjectFile::OPEN_FAILED) {
      string message = "cannot open file '" + object_file_name + "'";
      error_db_.AddError(ErrorDB::ERROR, message.c_str(), nullptr);
      return false;
    } else if (open_result == ObjectFile::INVALID_FORMAT) {
      string message = "invalid object file '" + object_file_name + "'";
      error_db_.AddError(ErrorDB::ERROR, message.c_str(), nullptr);
      return false;
    }

    // set up machine
    Machine machine;
    machine.SetDevice(0, new InputDevice);
    machine.SetDevice(1, new OutputDevice(false));
    machine.SetDevice(2, new OutputDevice(true));
    unique_ptr<char[]> device_name_buffer(new char[PATH_MAX]);
    for (int i = 3; i < 256; i++) {
      sprintf(device_name_buffer.get(), "%02X.dev", i);
      machine.SetDevice(i, new FileDevice(string(device_name_buffer.get())));
    }

    // load object file
    if (!MachineLoader::LoadObjectFile(object_file_, &machine)) {
      error_db_.AddError(ErrorDB::ERROR, "object file loading failed", nullptr);
      return false;
    }

    ExecuteResult::ResultId result = ExecuteResult::OK;
    while (true) {
      if (trigger_interrupt) {
        trigger_interrupt = false;
        machine.Interrupt();
      } else {
        result = machine.Execute();
        if (result != ExecuteResult::OK) {
          break;
        }
      }
    }

    if (result == ExecuteResult::ENDLESS_LOOP) {
      return true;
    }

    const char* error_str = nullptr;
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        error_str = "device error";
        break;
      case ExecuteResult::INVALID_OPCODE:
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        break;
      case ExecuteResult::INVALID_ADDRESSING:
        error_str = "invalid addressing";
        break;
      case ExecuteResult::NOT_IMPLEMENTED:
        error_str = "not implemented";
        break;
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        error_str = "unknown machine error";
        break;
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    char error_buffer[100];
    snprintf(error_buffer, 100, "%s at 0x%06u", error_str,
             machine.cpu_state().program_counter);
    error_db_.AddError(ErrorDB::ERROR, error_buffer, nullptr);
    return false;
  }

  void PrintHelp() {
    printf("%s\n", kHelpMessage);
  }

  ErrorDB error_db_;
  ErrorFormatter error_formatter_;
  FlagsParser flags_parser_;
  const FlagsParser::Flag* flag_help_;
  ObjectFile object_file_;
};

}  // namespace machine
}  // namespace sicxe

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
  return sicxe::machine::VMDriver().Main(argc, argv);
}

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'use strict';

module.exports = (options) => {
	return require('../common/rev')(Object.assign({
		manifest: {
			filter: 'assets-manifest-unreved.json',
			rev: 'assets-manifest.json'
		}
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If you're a big Harry Potter fan and happen to be in Scotland, then you should definitely make some time to venture out to the viaduct in Glenfinnan (a superb Harry Potter filming location) to see the Jacobite steam train go past. Or better known as the Hogwarts Express and amazing Harry Potter train!
This super speedy blog aims to equip you with info on how to see this awesome train go past, where you should stand to see it from a great angle and what times the train crosses Glenfinnan viaduct. I hope you find it useful!
When should you arrive at Glenfinnan Viaduct?
Where should you park at Glenfinnan Viaduct?
Where should you stand to see the Harry Potter train?
TLDR: Plan to arrive at the viaduct 15 minutes from the time stated for Fort William. For instance, if the train is leaving Fort William at 2.30pm, get to Glenfinnan for 2.45pm. If the train is arriving in Fort William at 4.30pm, get to Glenfinnan no later than 4.15pm.
Given that you can pay to go on the Jacobite steam train and given that it's a train, it should come as no surprise to you that it runs on scheduled times.
With one day seeing the steam train crosses the Glenfinnan viaduct twice (the train starts and ends in Fort William), you can choose either morning or afternoon to see the train from this free vantage point.
Before you head out, double-check the train times for the day (they change from season to season).
Plan to arrive at Glenfinnan 15 minutes from the time stated for Fort William. For instance, if the train is leaving Fort William at 2.30pm, get to Glenfinnan for 2.45pm. If the train is arriving in Fort William at 4.30pm, get to Glenfinnan no later than 4.15pm.
This should give you more than enough time to park your car and walk up the small slope to the viewpoint without rushing or missing the train!
There is a large carpark along the main road, which is owned by the National Trust. Members can park for free or there's a small £2 fee if you're a non-member.
You can also take a look in the gift shop after seeing the train or read up on the history about Glenfinnan and surrounding areas in the on-site exhibition centre.
Look just to the left of the visitor centre entrance and you should see a small slope winding around the corner. Follow this for a couple of minutes and before you know it, you'll have a 360 degree view of the landscape.
From here, you'll be in an excellent position to see the viaduct and Harry Potter train go past in front of you. And whilst you wait, the view behind is pretty damn good too!
At peak times, this vantage point can get quite busy so you might want to arrive a little earlier to get a good spot. In June, there were about a dozen of us waiting for the afternoon train to come past.
Now, just wait for the train and feel a piece of Harry Potter magic shuttle past you. Maybe eat some scones whilst you wait like we did?
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Beautiful photos. I think this is a must for a photographer such as myself.
Thanks so much! Oh yes, most definitely somewhere you need to visit if you get the chance!!
The scenery is gorgeous! I'm a Harry Potter fan, and I would definitely find time to see the Hogwarts Express if I was in Scotland!
Going in May and I will be trying this. Thanks for writing about it.
Hi Justine. Thanks very much for this detailed post! I see that the morning train will be leaving Fort William at 10:15 am. If we make sure that we're at the viaduct no later than 10:30 am as you suggest, how shortly thereafter is the train likely to cross? Hoping you can clarify, as we're trying to perhaps catch a ferry and I'm wondering if our timeline will be doable.
I'm pleased you like the post! And even better that you're going to give it a go!
The train should arrive by about 10.45am but it may end up being a little delayed. In our case, we were waiting for about 25 mins before the afternoon train came along as it had gotten slightly held up.
But being something of an early arriver, I always prefer to ensure I've got plenty of time, which is why really I suggest aiming for 10.30 just in case. But still you should have about 15mins leeway from there anyway.
Thanks I really wanted to see such a view.


"There's a revolving door of people," the office manager at Marshall Auto Body said. "The phone just doesn't stop ringing."
After the historic cold snap broke Friday, Ricky Feest got busy.
Feest, an estimator at Pinkey's Capital Auto Body, has seen double the usual number of car repair estimates in recent days, as a result of the nasty winter weather.
"It was like everyone was free to come out of the house again," and bring their car to the repair shop off East Capitol Drive, Feest said.
Mostly it's bumpers that succumbed to temperatures last week, which hit minus 23 on Thursday, a record low for Jan. 31.
"You bump anything when it's that cold out and it just shatters," Feest said.
Auto body repair shops across the city are facing backlogs of work from increased accidents during winter storms and delayed deliveries and canceled appointments during the deep freeze.
A storm dumped 6 to 10 inches of snow in the Milwaukee metro area last week before temperatures dropped.
Those body shop backlogs could grow, with snow, freezing rain and sleet forecast for Tuesday night into Wednesday morning across metro Milwaukee.
"There's a revolving door of people," said Elaine Williams, office manager at Marshall Auto Body in Waukesha. "The phone just doesn't stop ringing." The repair shop is booked through Feb. 20.
The weather headaches haven't been limited to cracked bumpers and smashed quarter panels.
Riverside Automotive Service on Milwaukee's east side sold 34 batteries during the cold snap, depleting its stock of popular models.
The cold weather halted deliveries to Acura of Brookfield, said General Manager Mike Baker. The dealership usually receives a stock order from the regional Acura warehouse in Iowa six days a week.
"There were three days last week it did not run," Baker said. "That put a strain on the operation."
Debbie Zabel, co-owner of Forest Home CARSTAR Auto Body on Milwaukee's southwest side, said the shop missed deliveries from multiple parts suppliers last week, delaying some repairs.
There's a three-week backlog at Studer Body & Paint on Milwaukee's west side. Owner Bob Studer said more severe repairs are needed for cars coming into his shop because of the snowy conditions last week.
It's just part of the seasonal differences for repair shops.
Juan Rodriguez at Tender Car in Bay View said the repair shop has scheduled more than double the number of appointments as in a normal week. At the same time, he estimates 80 percent of the shop's revenue is made during winter.
"We're always pretty busy every winter," Rodriguez said.