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MikeGinnyGOLD Member
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Posted: 27th Aug 2005
Written by: Simian
ah, israel. Just another justification for my thesis that religious belief should be treated the same as any other mental illness. But that's another discussion entirely...
Well, this is another discussion entirely.
I'm inclined to agree.
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Posted: 11th Mar 2006
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, p408
Capitalism is defined by a cruelty having no parallel in the primitive system of cruelty, and by a terror having no parallel in the despotic regime of terror. Wage increases and improvements in the standard of living are realities, but realities that derive from a given supplementary axiom that capitalism is always capable of adding to its axiomatic in terms of an enlargement of its limits� But within the enlarged reality that conditions these islands, exploitation grows constantly harsher, lack is arranged in the most scientific of ways, final solutions of the Jewish problem variety are prepared down to the last detail, and the third world is organised as an integral part of capitalism. The reproduction of the interior limits of capitalism on an always wider scale has several consequences: it permits increases and improvements of standards at the centre, it displaces the harshest forms of exploitation from the centre to the periphery, but also multiplies enclaves of overpopulation in the centre itself, and easily tolerates the so-called socialist formations� There is no metaphor here: the factories are prisons, they do not resemble prisons, they are prisons.
That hardly seems to be sitting on the political fence.
My translation of this is
Capitalism encourages inequality and exploitation; therefore it leads to the majority being disaffected, and is set up so that the system perpetuates this.
Hardly the most gripping political insight there, it's in fact pretty banal.
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this doesn't make sense. Capitalism is a system that petuates the dissaffection of the majority??? If the majority was perpetually dissaffected the system would be rapidly replaced. Unless rule was maintained by overt despotic repression.
Perhaps some reading on the manufacture of consent, or even some basic working knowledge of ideology and hegemony would help you out here (don't worry - none of this has anything to do with 'postmodernism')
yet more evidence that you fail to comprehend even the simplest of political or philosophical arguments.
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how about a thread called "postmodernism: a mental illness?" hint hint
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jeff(fake) 1,189 posts
Or that 'post-modernists' don't...
Perhaps you would be so good as to summarise the paragraph spiralx quoted for us lay people. Then we will all be able to talk about this on a level playing field.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Surely the majority are disaffected, but kept in place by things like the American Dream i.e. the idea they can rise to the top. Which is nonsense, hence the prison bit.
But yes, please do summarise it for us in plain English
Sorry for the delay... I've been drowning in work.
Capitalism is defined by a cruelty having no parallel in the primitive system of cruelty, and by a terror having no parallel in the despotic regime of terror.
The axioms and codings involved in primitive and despotic systems are both earlier sections in the book.
Wage increases and improvements in the standard of living are realities, but realities that derive from a given supplementary axiom that capitalism is always capable of adding to its axiomatic in terms of an enlargement of its limits
Life has grown better in capitalist societies in the first world, and this is due to the fact that capitalism has a far less fixed ideological principle than other systems such as fascist dictatorships or Bolshevism. The result of this flexible axion is the systems ability to 'enlarge its limits'... for bourgeois capitaism to become colonialism, and then from colonialism to what Guattari terms Integrated World Capitalism. This contrasts with the constricting axiomatics of for instance the Soviets, which eventually saw the system implode as the rigidity of its ideological principles forbade the necessary changes for the system to adapt to the dynamics of reality.
But within the enlarged reality that conditions these islands, exploitation grows constantly harsher, lack is arranged in the most scientific of ways, final solutions of the Jewish problem variety are prepared down to the last detail, and the third world is organised as an integral part of capitalism.
While these increases in living standards affect the majority living in the islands of industrialised society, these advances can only come into reality through expoiting the labour of people and the envionment elsewhere. The reference to the holocaust, and its cold calculating approach to genocide offers a reminder of the disregard for human life which capitalism has bequeathed us. Juxtaposed with the sentence about the third world's role as an integral part of capitalism reminds the reader of the thousands of deaths from malaria, tb and other treatable diseases in the world poorest countries, deaths which are eminently avoidable if the richest countries would allow (for example) the maufacture of generic drugs which are currently illeagal under international intellectual property laws.
the reproduction of the interior limits of capitalism on an always wider scale has several consequences: it permits increases and improvements of standards at the centre, it displaces the harshest forms of exploitation from the centre to the periphery, but also multiplies enclaves of overpopulation in the centre itself, and easily tolerates the so-called socialist formations�
Capitalisms cancerous spread across the globe has seen the harshest forms of exploitation removed from the industrial economies, and transported to the third world. However, at the same time, capitalism creates small pockets of poverty in countries which are generally rich. See old mining villages in Wales, bits of Hackney, the Isle of Dogs etc. Despite being situated in the wealthy west, residents of these areas often have life expectancies 20 years shorter than the residents of Notting Hill, Surrey etc. As such national boundaries are not what they once were.
As such the quote was meant to serve as an illustration that the authors ambition was to examine why Marx's scientific socialism had failed, and in its place to come up with a radical political and philosophical platform which is more relevant to contemporary socities.
To understand part of why this is necessary you have to really have not only reaqd some Marx, but also some of the criticisms that were levelled at Marxism by feminists, ethnic minorities etc... Orthodox Marxism has some fatally totalitarian perspectives on the world, and as such were torn to pieces.
That Sokal claimed that
my concern is explicitly political: to combat a currently fashionable postmodernist/poststructuralist/social-constructivist discourse -- and more generally a penchant for subjectivism -- which is, I believe, inimical to the values of the left
made it fairly obvious to most people vaugely familar with some of the work he attempts to critique that he had little idea what he was talking about.
while there are some theorists who prefer an apolitical relativism, Sokal along with the Dawkins article you linked to fail to differentiate between theorists, and in doing so fall victim to the reductionist, totalitisations that Deleuze, Guattari and others critique so effectively.
Spiral... You're quotes that
Surely the majority are disaffected, but kept in place by things like the American Dream i.e. the idea they can rise to the top.
Actually resembles an argument which Deleuze and Guattari reject in Anti-Oedipus.
You're first statement claims that people are disaffected. The second says that while they are disaffected they aren't - through some kind of trick.
Deleuze and Guattari actually examine this question at great length....
Anti Oedipus p31
'Whence Reich�s cry: no, the masses The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still the one the Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: �Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?� How can people possibly reach the point of shouting �More taxes less bread.�
...The masses were not innocent dupes; at a certain point, under a certain set of conditions, they wanted fascism, and it is this perversion of the desire of the masses that needs to be taken into account.
Your first one recalls Marx, who beleived that the socialist revolution was inevitable as the majority were quite clearly repressed by the system. However that isn't the case in much of the first world anymore. Hence D&G's explanation of what has changed in terms of the flexible capitalist axiomatic.
However their prime concern here is in understanding what makes a group of people decide to embrace Fascism... What complex assemblage of social and mental repression must one have experience to desire repression. Its not an easy question to answer, but one which D&G investigate in an eye-opening (if very wordy) manner.
... as an aside, unrelated to the bulk of this dicussion... what was the American dream for an 18th century factory worker in Scunthorpe, or a 15 year old girl who lives in China, working an 80 hour week making shoes for chavs? The majority of people don't live in the 1st world and dont particularly like capitalism... but if and when they try and leave the global capitalist system they are invariably met with hostile (usually American backed by Brits) forces... see Guatemala, Grenada, Nicaragua, Venezuala, Hondouras, Haiti, Pananma, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea and many others for examples.
So then... Once again what do you mean by postmodernism???
while you've been quite keen to claim it to be gibberish, and like a religion the only answer I've had so far was
Written by: jeff(fake)
So far what I've heard from post-modernism is that science has trouble with fluid dynamics because most scientists are male and of course males understand hard things better than fluid things which women understand better because of the physical differences in their physical sexual responces.
which you appear to have paraphrased, haven't sourced, and quite clearly is a joke.
which perhaps is your way of mimicing post-structuralist literary techniques, where formal reflexivity of theme is interweaved into texts...
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I can vouch for what jeff said about the developement of fluid dynamics being hampered by gender bias. It's not a joke. I learned about it in passing when we studied feminist perspectives on the law.
A flurry of recent popular feminist books has interpreted the development of Western science in terms of male chauvinism and aggression against women, notes chemist Noretta Koertge, a historian of science at Indiana University in Bloomington.
At the AAAS meeting, she cited one radical feminist interpretation of why fluid dynamics matured as a research discipline much later than mechanics of solids. Men were more comfortable working with rigid environments, which reflect their "sex organs that protrude and become rigid," Koertge recounted. In contrast, early scientists associated fluidity with women and their menstrual blood and vaginal secretions. "In the same way that women are erased within masculinist theories and language, existing only as not-men, so fluids had been erased from science, existing only as not- solids," she explained.
I'm no expert on these things, but a common "post-modern" theme seems to be the rejection of external truth. In science, we do not discover reality, we construct it. "Science" is just another way that white male westerners impose their power structure over the rest of the world.
Newton didn't "discover" laws of motion, he invented them. Because he was obsessed with a particular masculine part of his body which happened to be a firm, medium sized object, the rules he invented were designed to interpret the interactions of similar objects (such as cannonball arcs).
Science, math, etc. are no more meaningful than politics and morality. We do not "discover" democracy. We invent it and impose it on others. The same thing happens with math and science. Math was dominated by males, so it has turned out to be a set of very rigid rules with clear answers... rather than an intuitive pursuit of "fuzzy" answers.
I'm not taking any particular position in this discussion, just confirming that what jeff mentioned is indeed true.
Jozi 5 posts
As far as the original question goes...
I think all religion has an aspect of fantasy about it. However, in some cases it can be a useful fantasy. Just so long as you don't start confusing symbolic truth for literal truth. That is when it begins to get dangerous.
I don't think men's reasoning is innately more logical than females, either. You could argue that mathematics has an almost psychological function: the human desire for making patterns and order. That's the basic drive that caused people to develop mathematics.
I mean the newer forms of science suggest there might be no order in the world at all (ie. quantum theory or chaos theory) So that would make maths a kind of imagined structure as much as religion is.
Neither quantum theory nor chaos theory say there's no order in the world; the former describes a totally different kind of order from the everyday one, the latter shows that there is order in what seems to be chaos!
Posted: 21st Mar 2006
Neither quantum theory nor chaos theory say there's no order in the world;
Spot on... But the world they point to is far removed from the mechanistic and reductionistic world of modernism.
Patriarch... Koertge was a writer on the science side of the 'science wars' editing anthologies such as 'A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about science.' That she mentions an argument to further her view is akin to saying that as Sokal says postmodernism is apolitical postmoderists must be apolitical... Dawkins says Guattari writes gibberish so Guattari writes gibberish. The prosecution says the defendent is guilty so the defendent must be guilty.
If you want to present an argument use primary sources.
I'm no expert on these things, but a common "post-modern" theme seems to be the rejection of external truth.
Too right you're no expert. Did you mean objective truth? because as it stands the statement is once again nonsensical.
Authors such as D&G present an epistemology of pure immanence as opposed to the Cartesian theory of Cognition, with its mind/body (transcendent/immanent) dualist structure and primacy of the first person.
While I understand that your religious views will neccesitate your support for old Rene, I'd be surprised to see Jeff and Spiral arguing for the existence of a transcendent human spirit... I never had them down as vitalists.
What are you talking about? I think it's blatently clear neither Jeff nor I are vitalists; what a ridiculous strawman.
If you had bothered to read the post you'd see that the comment was ridiculing Patriarch's presentation of a vitalist argument which he prescribed as the antipostmodern position.
You and Jeff have repeatedly failed to give a position beyond we dont like postmoderism, though we dont understand what is meant by the term. Patriarch at least tried to give a definition... it just happened to be nosensical...
*shrug* Postmodernism covers a fair few things; I've presented a couple of things which I said were examples of what I don't like and you claimed that they were "a joke". So either you're right; in which case I now have to try and work out which particular bits of literature are humourous and which are serious, or you're wrong, in which case you've heard my objection and not answered it.
I don't need to give a definition of the field as a whole to be able to point out individual examples of nonsense.
Personally I think that Thohmas Khun's idea that science often progresses through paradigms has some merit to it, although I think it is an oversimplification. It would be more accurate to say that the paradigm 'zooms out'. For example Newtonian physics turned out to be a small part of Relativity, and a product of Quantum Mechanics.
Who I do disagree with is the assertation that scientific theories are mere social constructs as there isn't any evidence to back up this opinion. Scientists know that most of their theories are just models, an atom doesn't resemble the pictures we draw of it in any way for example, but they are equally strong in whatever culture they exist as they are based on evidence.
I actually did mean external, not objective, but that's not "a hill I'm going to die on," so to speak. I have no intention of trying to pin down postmodernism with a specific definition, the label is applied to too many things to be meaningful in an objective sense.
I didn't want to present an argument, else I would have bothered to grab the primary source rather than just grabbing the first google link that mentioned it. I merely wanted to show that jeff was referencing an actual claim, and not just making a joke as you suggested.
You guys should make a topic, clearly define some contrary positions from good sources, and duke it out. I think you have the start of a good discussion here.
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Q: A better alias list? We have a system that manages generic physical resources. There are over 500 individual resources. The system is used for many different things and to make the software easier to write we use aliases.
For example, a physical resource TG67I9 is given an alias of "RightDoor". When code is written RightDoor is used instead of TG67I9 making the code more readable. This alias list is loaded as a text file with references to resources and their aliases. This system uses literally hundreds of different alias lists to reference the same physical resources.
This type of setup has two major shortcomings. First, when resources are called using their aliases, they are passed in as strings. Door.Open("RightDoor") for example. This does not give any tooltips or smart anything making the code more difficult to write. It basically requires constantly referencing the alias list. Is it RightDoor or Right_Door or right-door or... you get the idea. The second is that there is no validation of parameters until execution. All the compiler knows is that a string is passed in and then it's happy. Only when the code is run, the function tries to access the resource through its alias and fails because it can't find right-door because it's supposed to be RightDoor. An error is displayed. This requires tedious debugging and running the code over and over to weed out any bad aliases.
Is there a better way to do this? Such that an alias list can be made with a cross-reference of physical resources to their alias names and after the list is made that tooltips could appear suggesting resources. (Assume that a new system could be written from scratch)
I'm using the latest .NET with VisualStudio 2017 and C# to write the code.

A: The simplest approach is most likely a "string enum":
public class Resources {
    public const string
        LeftDoor  = "TG67I8",
        RightDoor = "TG67I9";
}

Sample use:
Door.Open(Resources.RightDoor);

Hovering over .RightDoor in VS shows a tooltip (constant) string Resources.RightDoor = "TG67I9"
Right-clicking .RightDoor and selecting Find All References will show where the variable is used.

Another option can be adding the strings in the Resources section of the Project Properties, and then:
using YourProjectNameSpace.Properties;
...
Door.Open(Resources.RightDoor);

That is a bit slower, because the resource(s) are retrieved at run-time, but allows to load the resources from a custom external file separate from the executable.

A: Use a static class with constants. I have done the same many times and still do. Plus .NET does this as well.
public static class PhysicalResources
{
    public const string One = "Uno";
    public const string Two = "Deux";
    // ...
}

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The Fallacy of Second Amendment Absolutism
June 1, 2014 Posted in Politics/Culture, Religion 13 comments
There has been another shooting…
The names and locales and exact number of victims begin to intermingle and fade into each other over time as a wearying sequence of outrage, grief and calls to do something give way to a series of volleys that see the left and right political flanks in our country dig deeper into their respective trenches of outrage tinged with near despair on the left and dismissive, gun rights absolutism on the right.
"When will this insanity stop? When will enough people say, 'Stop this madness!'? Too many have died. We should say to ourselves, 'Not one more!'"
That's Richard Martinez, father of one of the six victims left dead at only the most recent carnage last weekend at UC Santa Barbara.
"As harsh as this sounds—your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."
That's "Joe the Plumber," a supposed American "everyman" who catapulted into the media spotlight when he took on then-candidate Obama at a 2008 campaign stop, parlaying that encounter into a subsequent book, a (losing) run for Congress in 2012, and renewed attention from media two days ago in what he dubbed an "Open Letter to the Parents of the Victims Murdered By Elliott Rodger."
"Your dead kids."
I suppose Joe, aka Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, ardent defender of his interpretation of the Second Amendment, should get some credit for at least anticipating how "harsh" his words would sound, but then it begs the question: Why not soften your tone so as not to add any more pain to these emotionally devastated parents?
If you, as you say in your own words, "cannot begin to imagine the pain" these parents are going through, then might you, as at least one token gesture of trying to imagine it, show some deference and kindness by deliberately not sounding "harsh?"
Biblical? You mean that 'Prince of Peace' fellow who washed sinners' feet, entered Jerusalem on a donkey while promising to transform the world, and willingly submitted to a horrific death without raising even a finger in resistance?
But this bellicose, grenades-from-the-trenches tone has increasingly become what passes for dialogue in today's cultural, political and religious landscape. And as much as one is tempted to tune out extremists on all sides and grope toward some kind of common core, some table where reason, sanity and actual listening might prevail, this Second Amendment issue has clearly gone off the rails on the far right.
Today, among what can only be described as gun militants, there is insistence that even the tiniest bit of retrenchment from the National Rifle Association's not-one-bit-of-compromise stance is out of the question, off the table, an outrageous infringement of a cherished constitutional principle that is unto a religion on much of the right.
Notable here is that the website where Wurzelbacher's letter appeared bills itself as "Politics & Culture / News & Opinion From a Decidedly Biblical Worldview."
"Biblical?"
You mean that "Prince of Peace" fellow who washed sinners' feet, entered Jerusalem on a donkey while promising to transform the world, and willingly submitted to a horrific death without raising even a finger in resistance?
That savior of the world, ready to die for…your unrestricted right to bear assault rifles in the 21st century?
Memo to all gun-defending, no-compromise NRA supporters, quite apart from who you vote for or where you worship: Nobody, including me, Richard Martinez, President Obama, the Newtown parents or Barney Fife, wants to confiscate your guns and hereby declare martial law and a permanent socialist police state.
Nobody wants to prevent your hunting and target practice and ability to protect yourself against violent criminals. So can we kindly talk about what we might reasonably hope to achieve together in addressing the resounding grief caused by gun violence in this country, which leads the developed world at nearly three times more deaths per 100,000 people than its nearest competitor?
We are awash in guns and gun deaths, and the more—and more lethal—guns we acquire, the higher the death toll goes. The statistics are there, in black and white. And the answer to this is: even more guns, in even more hands, at ever more lethal caliber?
Can we maybe talk about at least limiting, even if it turns out to be only a symbolic gesture, the nearly unfettered ability to legally purchase weapons of unlimited caliber and capacity for carnage? Maybe add reasonable waiting periods and background checks onto that, along with some renewed teeth in mental health services and regulations that can more readily identify and assist powder kegs such as Elliott Rodger?
According to never-compromise NRA arguments, the Second Amendment is sacrosanct and absolute, without room for nuance, interpretation or application to changing historical circumstance.
The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.
That's so you can fight back when the federal agents come barreling onto your property to confiscate the guns you keep to "protect your family."
Two slightly different versions of the following were in my e-mailbox this morning—perhaps in yours, too, from a sender called "Patriot Survival Plan":
Just found out something crucial and rushed to let you know.
Martial law has gotten dangerously close.
Right now, we're literally one step from having feds knock down our doors.
Almost all the steps leading to martial law are now completed… all it takes is one more spark to ignite the disaster.
And the match has just been lit.
I didn't click on the link to find out what that "match" is—maybe Richard Martinez's cry for some mercy and sanity in the far right wing's obsession with gun rights?
Taking Second Amendment "absolutists" at their literal word (even though no other amendment, e.g. free speech, is ever absolute, in any sense), there should be no stopping at assault rifles for those who want to ensure maximum protection. In order to defend themselves when government troops come knocking, shouldn't absolutists, in the interest of creating a level playing field to fend them off, also have access to the same nuclear weapons as the government does? Otherwise, mere assault rifles will look rather limp, won't they?
The idea, after all ("from a decidedly Biblical worldview?"), is to respond decisively, in a hurry, with maximum deadly force.
And that right shall not be infringed.
Dear conservatives with a conscience, who are rational beings: I understand conservative principles. Seeking to "conserve" the best of our traditions; measured, carefully calibrated openness to change; general wariness toward utopian social engineering; an emphasis on self-responsibility and hard work.
All well and good, all necessary elements for a stable society. Count me in.
But nothing in that, and nothing in the religion of Jesus or anyone else, calls for an unfettered Second Amendment. We are far past time for a serious, rational discussion on basic regulations—you know, the kind we insist on for driver's licenses and loans and marriages—that can begin to take at least one step, however tiny, however inconsequential it may ultimately be, in preventing more of the senseless slaughter that continues to pile up bodies in this country day after day.
All of us, including Joe the Plumber, owe that to Richard Martinez and the parents of Newtown, Columbine, Virginia Tech, et al.
And to all their "dead kids."
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13 comments to The Fallacy of Second Amendment Absolutism
Fred G says:
Thank you for articulating this important message. My daughter Mia went to UCSB and lived in Isla Vista 2 years ago. I saw a friend today whose son lives on Del Playa. Neither he or his friends were hurt, but he heard the shots and the screaming, and will never forget the horror. I will forward your article to all that I can.
wmckeown says:
All I can say is that I fully agree. How to get this acceptance of barbarity out of our people, I don't know. I suspect it will be a long process on the generational level. One step that would help would be to fully illuminate the Congressmen blocking legislation and who also receive NRA funding. I suppose that's been done, though….
candied says:
Well said, Andrew. This issue makes me so crazy, I have no hope in articulating my message with anything close to grace or clarity as this level-headed essay. I did hear there was some movement on background checks over the weekend. Let's all hope it moves quickly to the presidents desk. Just take a breath…baby steps.
Walt, the NRA's power-via-campaign-contribution remains a huge deterrent to anyone in a swing district who dares to oppose them; they have a great track record in defeating those they get after, and congressmembers notice those things. And when the Supreme Court rules that money is a form of speech, all bets are off for truly representative democracy.
Candi, you're right: baby steps. That's how most change actually happens, except in revolutions, and those can just as easily end up taking huge steps BACKWARDS…
Nicely put Drew – it is amazing that polls show 80-90% of Americans want some form of background checks, waiting period etc yet the power of the NRA & our woefully corrupted politics leaves us stuck in the body counts with no sane policies – heard a report on NPR yesterday about gun rights groups in Texas (figures) going into Starbucks, Chipotle & other chains opening carrying their assault rifles etc in protest – which the NRA initially rebuked (too far out for even the NRA!), but then relented and supported this insanity… It feels like this can't really be a rational discussion – we are dealing with symbolic meanings that are confounded with identity/fear/ & all kinds of other beneath the surface stuff… Candi is clearly correct – boy to we need those baby steps… how to access that 80+%??
Bob Smith (@BobSmit93518708) says:
The second amendment isn't about the right to hunt or target practice or even the ability to defend self and loved ones against violent criminals. Its about defending against a tyrannical government – and not just now, but all future generations (that's 100, 500, or 5,000 years from now). You claim that nobody wants to take away our ability to defend against violent criminals. Please explain Diane Fienstein's ban on handguns. It was handguns that were the problem back then. And it wasn't just semi-automatic handguns, it was all handguns. To defend against home invasions, you need a handgun. Unless you think its practical or safe to walk around your house with a rifle or shotgun. Now rifles are the problem today. And not just AR-15s. Current proposed bills include all semi-automatic rifles – that includes hunting rifles such as the BAR. So what do think is going to happen when semi-automatic rifles are banned? The sickos will shoot up schools with semi-automatic handguns. And once those are banned, the sickos will use whatever is left (shotguns, revolvers, and lever action rifles) One could carry 2 8-round revolvers, a shotgun, and a lever action rifle and get off 36 rounds without having to reload. That's a lot of dead children. Or we could just allow those teachers and school administrators who want to protect their students to conceal carry – just as 5 million law biding citizens do every day. There are schools today that already allow this and when the students are asked about it they say they feel protected.
Glad you wrote, Bob, if only to clear up this claim that Diane Feinstein ever wanted to ban handguns. It is demonstrably false; handguns have never been the point, as she has clearly stated, here, among other places. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/oct/08/chris-cox/nras-chris-cox-falsely-says-dianne-feinstein-wante/
I'm curious why you would want to press this false claim a good 20+ years after the comments in question, even though the evidence against it is as close as your Google button.
That aside: while I appreciate, given human history, the always looming specter of government oppression and the ability/willingness of the people to slip out from under its yoke, the argument that the people should therefore have unfettered access to weapons of mass murder simply doesn't hold up. The government has machine guns and tanks, flamethrowers and barrel bombs and hand grenades, and "tactical nukes" if things really get out of hand. What will your puny assault rifles do in the face of all that? The only answer then, is to let private citizens arm themselves tank for tank, bomb for bomb, in response, but even you will admit that is absurd, no?
So we are left with this: OVERWHELMING data, any way you slice and dice it, that U.S. private citizens are already armed to the teeth, with the most lax gun laws in the civilized world, and that our rates of carnage by gun, however "safe" you claim they make us, instead give us Columbine, Newtown, Orlando, San Bernardino, Charleston, Las Vegas, Marjory Stoneman Douglas…I could go on and on and on, as you well know. All while the rest of the world, and a majority of this country, too, including active NRA members—recoils in horror and supports rational, sensible gun laws.
In 2005, San Franciso voters approved a gun ban that prohibited the manufacture and sale of all firearms and ammunition in the city, and made it illegal for residents to keep handguns in their homes or businesses. Please link to an article where Diane Fienstein oppossed said bill.
The 2nd Amendment functions mostly as a deterrent. Do you honestly think the government is going to nuke it's own people? If nukes and tanks are all that's needed, why are we still in IRAQ?
Does the overwhelming data you refer to include all the poeple that died and suffered at the hands of their tyrannical goverments? When Hitler rounded up the Jewish, where was the armed resistance? There was none because folks like you decided it was better for only their goverment to have guns. What would have happened if Germany had a 2nd Amendment? We'll never know. But it wasn't just German citizens that suffered from their tyrannical goverment, it was all of the people that died and suffered in WWII because German citizens let their goverment get out of control. North Korean's also willingly gave up their rights. Does the data include all the North Koreans working in labor camps right now?
Citizens from all countries have a responsibility to themselves AND to the rest of world to keep their governments in check. Considering how powerful America is, I would agrue that American citizens have an even greater responsibility to protect not just their 2nd Amendment rights, but all of their constitutional rights.
So this LA Times article that states that in 1982 "Feinstein signed a local gun-control ordinance that banned most residents from owning pistols" is demostrably false as well? http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-feinstein-gun-control-20180328-story.html
You claim to be for "common sense" gun control. Does that include the microstamping requirement in California that has effectively banned all new semi-automatic handguns even guns with newer safety features? Please define the line in the sand that you believe to be "common sense" gun control? What are going to do when that line is crossed? Are you going gun rights groups? Please elaborate.
Bob, Feinstein's 1982 vote on that matter was a few years after she had put her hands into the gaping wounds of Harvey Milk's neck, trying to feel for a pulse after Dan White had shot him from point blank range, and after White had already finished off Mayor George Moscone down the hall with shots into each earlobe. So maybe we can cut her just a wee bit of slack for that vote, and believe her assertions a decade later and lasting to this day that she no longer supports handgun bans, especially given that they have been ruled unconstitutional by the courts.
You float a theory here that all the deaths suffered in WWII might have been avoided if German Jews had weapons and could use them against the Nazis. Ditto for Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the war that followed. That's quite a theory, and I am tempted to just leave my comment at that, but let me add this:
Two can play the speculation game, and if we play out your scenario of our own government coming to put us all in camps ala the Nazis and North Korea, but our citizenry is properly armed and can engage with government troops, how many deaths might there be from the civil war that would ensue? The history of civil wars in this world and their staggering death tolls, not to mention ruined economies, is not encouraging.
Questions: How long are you prepared to resist government tanks and bombs with your rifles and handguns? Do you suspect such a scenario might unfold in yours or your heirs' lifetimes, necessitating you keeping a cache of weapons so you can engage in a fight to the death against government troops? Please forgive my saying that does not sound rational to me.
You are completely misrepresenting my position in asserting that "folks like you decided it was better for only their government to have guns." I'm pro Second Amendment. I believe in your right to keep guns, provided you're not mentally ill, have no violent criminal past, etc. I'm not going to elaborate the basic safeguards that could be put in place in this country to reduce gun deaths. You well know what they are. The point is that the way we regulate guns is clearly not working, is clearly insane. We're not North Korea or Iraq, Bob. If you want comparison to other countries, look north to Canada, east to Europe, just about anywhere in the modern industrialized world, where our gun deaths and the obsession with virtually unfettered access as espoused by the NRA leadership (not their rank-and-file, as already noted) looks astounding, horrifying and incomprehensible, which it very much is.
The bodies of all those "dead kids" and so many others slain by military grade weapons that have no use other than to inflict mass carnage isn't about theories, speculations or fears of a sudden U.S. dictatorship that private citizens must resist by arming themselves to the teeth. Those bodies are real as can be, and we are shirking our responsibility to them, their survivors, and all the others lined up yet to come by not doing far more than we are to regulate—not eliminate—firearms. The idea that the way to reduce our horrific death toll by guns is to have even more guns—teachers, store security guards, movie ushers!—is, simply put, crazy, in too many ways to count. If that were an answer, we would not have suffered the now countless casualties that we have.
Convinced yet? Didn't think so… Glad you said your piece, and I mine. Democracy is a fine thing indeed, and I'm happy we are both taking it seriously.
Diane Fienstein no longer supports handgun bans BECAUSE they were ruled unconstitutional by the courts. If you think she wouldn't ban ALL guns if she could, you are fooling yourself. Maybe I'm wrong. Who knows. One thing I know for sure is that she does not respect my constitutional rights.
I would hope that non-Jewish German citizens would have also joined the fight. I'm not Jewish and I certainly would have.
The answer to your question is simple. I am prepared to fight and die for my freedoms. The only reason why you have your freedoms today is because there were others like me who fought for their freedoms and they were passed on to you. You can take a defeatist approach to tryanny if you like. I'm not giving up my freedoms without a fight.
We disgree on guns. That's fine. But here is what you don't seem to understand. The founders of this country did not trust the majority. We don't live in a pure democracy. We live in a Democratic Republic. That means that we have certain rights that a simple majority cannot take away from the minority. If 51% of Americans believe that you must be at least 21 years of age to buy a rifle, they can't do that. If 51% of the Americans believe that the 1st Amendment should only apply to those who are 21 years or older, they can't do that either. An overwhelming majority is required to remove or alter a constitutional right. The "right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" is a constitutional right. You don't get to define arms to support what gun control measures you, or even a simple majority support. A simple majority does get to decide what infringements are acceptable for the minority. The only job the Courts have here is to define what arms mean in today's world and whether or not that right is being infringed upon. Period. Like it or not, semi-automatic rifles and handguns are modern day arms. If you don't like the way the 2nd Amendment was written, then you need to work to change it. Period. Not try to pass a bunch of laws that you know damn well are are unconstitutional. I probably agree with you on some of them. But what I don't agree with on is the process. If you and I and 60% of Americans think rifles should only be sold to adults 21 years are older, that doesn't give us a right to deny someone else their constitutional right. The 2nd Amendment needs to be re-written first and there's a process to do that and it needs followed.
But Bob, we restrict, define, elaborate, refine and interpret freedoms written into the Constitution all the time, have since the thing was written. We fought a war with each other over the matter of exactly who was supposed to enjoy those freedoms. None of them have ever been static or absolutist or beyond changing mores and interpretations our founders could not possibly have foreseen. That's why they left it as elastic as they did.
I'm back to my question: If we take an absolutist, literal view of "The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," then why can't we buy tanks? You say that >"Like it or not, semi-automatic rifles and handguns are modern day arms. If you and I and 60% of Americans think rifles should only be sold to adults 21 years are older, that doesn't give us a right to deny someone else their constitutional right.<"
So does that mean that "someone else" should include 8-year-olds? 6? Is there an age threshold at all, or any kind of other threshold that is not explicitly mentioned in the Second Amendment? Is everything not explicitly prohibited allowed?
Infringment or reinterpretation is a matter of opinion. I never claimed to be a 2nd Amendment Absolutist. My opinion of what Arms means today is simply different than yours. Even left leaning news organizations admit that the data on gun control is complicated and inconclusive. London's homicide rate just surpassed New York's. They're killing each other with knives now instead of guns. You seem like a well-intentioned person, but your idea of more regulation while keeping the 2nd Amendment isn't going to prevent school shootings. Even if you succeed in banning all semi-automatics (which I assume you support) it's not going to work. Even if Americans are restricted to owning one revolver and one lever action rifle. That's still 18 rounds before having to reload and it doesn't take that long to reload. Both guns have speed loaders. You have to completely repeal the 2nd for that to work (in theory). And in reality, there will be a massive black market for illegal guns. Thats why gang bangers have fully automatics. Australia has more guns now then before the buyback – mostly illegal guns. And they are surrounded by ocean.
If folks out there want to repeal the 2nd Amendment, that's fine. There's a process for doing that. But you have to admit that it's a long long ways off.
If you accept that reality, than our best solution right now is to increase the security of our schools and allow those who want to defend our students to do so. Millions of law biding Americans conceal carry every day. Allowing teachers and school administrators to conceal carry at school isn't going to change the number of guns in this country. It will be a minor blip on the number of concealed carry permits. It will save lives right now. And if you still oppose that, there are special guns that fire only less-lethal rounds. Pepper spray might even slow someone down. Flash bangs are another possibility. A tranquilizer gun might even do the job. The only absolutists out there are the folks who believe that there must be absolutely no means of self defense in our schools. The NRA isn't full of evil people. Most of them would risk their lives to defend others. Most of them feel it is their personal responsibility to protect themselves, their loved ones, and the freedoms that were handed down to us. For those who want to avoid civil unrest in this country, I suggest urging the Supreme Court to review more gun control cases and to stop demonizing the NRA. That's all I have to say. Best of luck.


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I used to be an avid reader. "Used to" as in I was an avid reader through grade school, and virtually stopped reading for pleasure when high school started. Sure, I'll go through spurts when I make time to read and fall back in love, but these are short lived. Life feels too busy and I'm too much of an extrovert to spend my time doing introverted things. However, I've found that the week my family spends at the beach (almost) every year is a way to get hours of uninterrupted reading under my belt to make up for lost time.
I tried to pick a mix of books to read this week. The bottom row of books above was chosen based on my historical beach reads rule of "pick the most feminine book cover," which usually means the lightest, easiest, and most romantic reads on the shelf. (The feminist in me just cringed.) In all this time I've almost run out of Sophie Kinsella and Emily Giffin books that I haven't read, so the fact that I managed to find two more is impressive. The selection for light reads on the shelves at Half Price is slimming. Perhaps I should find a new vacation genre.
I'm a bit prouder of the top three. The House at the End of Hope Street was chosen by my mom on our trip to Half Price Books for my light reads. It looks more enriching than my other choices, and I have some pressure to read it quickly because I think she wants it next. I've been partway through Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects for ages now. I spent about a month reading regularly back in February and March when I was taking the train to and from work, had just seen Gone Girl, and was hooked on Gillian. I read Gone Girl and Dark Places first and while Sharp Objects hasn't hooked me as much as the others did, it's still an enticing read. Finally, top middle: I've been meaning to read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close for ages now. Like before the movie came out…which apparently was in 2011. As I said, I'm behind on my reading.
Now, you're probably thinking: six books in one week seems a tad ambitious. Just remember I started one book long before the trip and the light reads basically count as half books. With hours on hours spent reading this vacation, I have confidence in myself that I can get it done!
What are some books I should add to my lengthening reading list for next time I rekindle my passion or for next time I hit the beach?


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Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library. Appendix. Tables. Bibliography Glossary Index List of Figures 1 Somalia 2 Simplified Traditional Genealogy of the Somali People 8 3 Frontiers and Colonial Boundaries, — After the regime's collapse early inSomalia descended into turmoil, factional fighting, and anarchy.
In Maynorthern clans declared an independent Republic of Somaliland that now includes the administrative regions of Awdal, Woqooyi Galbeed, Togdheer, Sanaag, and Sool.
Common sense suggests that the lessons offered here should be balanced against changing mission requirements and conditions. Future missions, however, are likely to contain enough parallels—of failed states and the hardships brought about by natural and man-made disasters—that the lessons learned in Somalia war-rant close attention.
In business parlance, the terms strategy refers to is a unique plan designed with the aim of achieving a competitive position in the market and also to reach the organisational goals and objectives.
In short, it is an interpretative plan, that guides the enterprise in realizing its goal. On the other hand, policy refers to a set of rules made by the organisation for rational decision making. The rapidly changing social, economic and political environment in Somalia is creating conditions and opportunities to reconstruct and develop the Somali healthcare system.
Yet, despite these gains, we are struggling to advance a sustainable strategy to. local government in mind, attention will be directed towards the typical structure of local government as the administrative structure of local government forms the basic framework where in local public policy is determined and implemented.
Therefore attention will be directed to the. Somalia has lacked a functioning central government since In Decemberthe Ethiopian military intervened in Somalia to support Somalia's transitional government, opening what many considered a window of opportunity to rebuild the country and restore effective governance.
The United States has been the largest bilateral donor to Somalia, providing roughly $ million in. However, direct supervision of local government affairs by central authorities also was part of Somalia's recent history, and a return to a centralized system could not be ruled out.
Indeed, the local government structures that existed in were the same ones that had. The U.S. has contributed more than $ million in assistance to Somalia since This has been predominantly food aid. We would like to see a shift toward more development-oriented assistance as political and security conditions permit, but in the meantime, we continue to respond to urgent humanitarian requirements.
Take some time to brainstorm or visualize what that future state looks like. This will be the beginning of the plan. For example, strategic objectives or outcomes may be things like building a bible school, planting churches, sending missionaries to certain parts of the world or developing worship leaders – whatever supports the church vision.
Best Practices and Strategies in Organizational Structure and Design The following report presents a review of best practices in organizational structure and redesign. We provide an overview of critical steps necessary for undertaking an organizational design initiative, followed by presentation of a series of common organizational models.6 STRATEGIC PLAN IOM SOMALIA The strategy also links to the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.
5, the Sustainable Development Agenda 6, and IOM policies on migration governance. 7, humanitarian action. 8. and gender equality. 9. This document sets out IOM Somalia's strategic objectives.Somalia - Somalia - Daily life and social customs: The varied cultural life of the Somali includes both traditional activities and, especially in the towns, many modern interests.
Cultural activities consist primarily of poetry, folk dancing, the performance of plays, and singing. These traditional activities still retain their importance, especially in rural areas, and are practiced not only.
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One thing all RVers love to talk about is the advantages and disadvantages of one "rig" over another. I wrote about Selecting the Right RV last October when we first brought our Four Winds Hurricane home. Now, after 4 weeks of actually living in it, I realize that buying a motorhome (the type of RV you drive) vs. a trailer (the type of RV you pull with a truck) was possibly THE most important decision we made, aside from going on the trip at all. And, I must give credit to Timm for realizing a motorhome was best for us. Given the visionary that he is, Timm is able to accurately contemplate different future scenarios, even ones we've never experienced before. Lucky for us, he put this talent to work to help us pick the right type of RV for our year-long trip.
Having lived in our motorhome RV for about a month, here are some of our experiences that led us to believe that a motorhome is superior to a trailer.
– A trailer pulled by a truck is easier to drive because the center of gravity is on the bed of the truck.
– You can back up while towing the trailer. You can't back up a motor home towing a car.
– A trailer is less expensive than a motor home because you're not buying an engine, just the coach part of the RV. However, if you don't already own a truck that can pull a trailer and have to buy one, the cost is a wash.
Clearly, for us, a motor home was the better choice. The longer we're out here, the more we appreciate the added comfort the motorhome offers during the driving portion of our trip. When traveling 1,000s of miles, these little conveniences quickly add up to a more relaxing and enjoyable experience.
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Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II!
Posted By Mike on November 18, 2008
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that a sequel to the highly acclaimed Robot Chicken: Star Wars special is a go and will debut on Adult Swim on November 16th.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
"Many members of the voice cast from the first special, including original "Star Wars" actors Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams -- reprising their roles as Princess Leia and Lando Calrissian, respectively -- are back. Also returning are Seth MacFarlane as Emperor Palpatine, Conan O'Brien as Zuckuss, Breckin Meyer as Admiral Ackbar and Boba Fett, and Ahmed Best as Jar Jar Binks. Green will voice several characters, including Ponda Baba. Joining the voice cast this time around is Andy Richter.
As for the creative direction in the sequel, "we decided to focus on the bounty hunters a bit and explore their stories," "Robot Chicken" co-creator Matt Senreich said. "It's a geek-fest for us all."'
Big thanks to Derek for the heads up!
UPDATE: Got a few Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II links for ya...
Starwars.com talks with Robot Chicken co-creators, Seth Green and Matthew Senreich:
Why did you decide to do another Star Wars special for Robot Chicken?
Seth: "That's like saying why did you decide to make out with that beautiful girl who said, "Hey, do you want to make out with me?" Matt and I have loved Star Wars all our lives and the opportunity to get to make Star Wars stuff is kind of invaluable especially when you're given permission to play with it and have fun with it and to do your thing with it."
Matt: "The other thing that I love is that we got to develop new versions of characters that have existed for pretty much 30 years. We love that we can play with these characters and give them more personality and take them in more of a Robot Chicken direction."
Seth: "This is a bold statement, but I think this one is better than the last Robot Chicken: Star Wars special."
Preview at IGN. (Includes videos)
CBR News talks to co-creator Matt Senreich:
"Star Wars creator George Lucas was reportedly very pleased with the first special. Was it easier to get his approval again the second time around?"
"You know, for the most part, the second one was a lot easier to pass through. After talking over the first one with [Lucasfilm], we knew what they liked and didn?t. Probably the biggest debate that we had with Lucasfilm on the second one was our youngling sketch. There was a lot of concern. Without giving too much away about what happens, we explore that moment where you see Anakin go into the Jedi temple and you don?t know what happened to the younglings. We wanted to see what happens when those doors close. And there was a lot of concern about that. We said, ?You have to trust us. In the way we?re going to shoot this, you?re not going to see violence, per say, to any kids.? That was a big concern. I think we did it in a creative way that is dark. It?s a dark type of humor but it?s still funny. That segment came out really well and we were really happy with it.
It was funny because a few weeks ago we went up and watched it with George Lucas. I think that was one of his favorite sketches because afterwards he was quoting that scene a little bit."
Wired talks with Matt Senreich as well:
"Wired.com: Do you like Clone Wars?"
"Senreich: I like it a lot. I think that Dave Filoni is doing a great job of defining the Star Wars universe in cartoon form. It has an all-ages feel. And I love how they are looking into the personalities of the clones, who are in essence the same person, and exploring how they are all searching to be different from each other."
"Jedi Injury Lawyer" video clip over at io9.com. (via ClubJade.net)
Animation Insider takes a look at season 4 of Robot Chicken. (via ClubJade.net)
"In a television worldview where Battlestar Galactica references are frequently accompanied by kicks to the groin, or where curiously lewd representations of classic comic book characters conveniently intermingle with legions of human-to-puppet transfigurations, the Adult Swim stop-motion comedy Robot Chicken somehow keeps on surviving. Gearing up for its Season Four premiere on Adult Swim in the first week of December, Robot Chicken is prepared to bring loyal viewers another pop culture enema they so desperately need."
Seth Green takes EW.com's pop culture personality test. (via ClubJade.net)
IGN has an advance review with a rating of 9.5 out of 10:
"So, to sum it up, even though George Lucas owns the rights to your life story in perpetuity and requires you to read, view or purchase any and all Lucasfilm Ltd. related properties or else suffer great penalties, you will enjoy fulfilling your legal obligation, as this is one of the funniest episodes of Robot Chicken ever made."
And don't forget...
Seth Green on the Force-Cast!
Video clips and links to videos right here!
UPDATE #2: Just a friendly reminder that Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode II will debut on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim tonight (Sunday, November 16th) at 11:30 pm.
UPDATE #3: The entire episode of Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode II is now online at AdultSwim.com!
Source: ClubJade.net
Rather watch it on TV? Adult Swim will be re-running both Robot Chicken Star Wars specials back to back on Saturday, November 22 at 11:00pm EST/PST (10:00pm Central)
Thanks Bill!
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In The Climate Debate, It's Either Fake News, Biased News, Or No News
Narwhal19	Posted on November 27, 2020
Take your pick. The Mainstream Media (MSM) are using all three to stifle debate on climate change just like the current presidential election. What has happened to the American news media in this country?
I can remember a time when the MSM would do a story and would give you both sides of the issue and let the viewer decide what to think.
It's amazing to see a business so willing to undermine its own credibility to push a certain narrative thinking everybody is stupid and will buy whatever they say.
In the case of the climate change issue, they even went as far as announcing no more so-called climate skeptics would be invited on their shows to give other opinions as is the case with NBC's Meet the Press for example.
So much for a fair and balanced debate. Oh! I forgot. According to them, the science is settled. By who? That phrase the science is settled is the first clue that tells you a scientist is probably not a real scientist.
Real scientists know that new methods, learning, tools, ideas, and experiments will come about that will change our current knowledge and understanding of many scientific issues.
The MSM are even willing to lose viewers by lying to them. Look how foolish they looked when all this Russian collusion with the president turned out. Many viewers left after they found out they were being lied to.
Look what's happening now as people start checking the facts on their own about climate change. They're seeing that they are being lied to once again.
It's probably why in many polls, the American people rank climate change near the bottom of what worries us, and why trust in the media is so low.
The media obviously has to get in line with the climate alarmists or be called out. I get an endless stream of climate alarmists' headlines in my news feeds nearly every day.
They must have a whole army of reporters to keep the stories coming. Just a small hint for these news organizations–the stories are getting tiring and boring. People are becoming numb to them which is a good thing.
I remember a particular reporter at NBC named Anne Thompson who covered environmental issues. Everything she covers seems to be threatened by melting, in danger like the polar bears, in a drought, flooded, going to be swallowed up by the sea, burning up, or getting blown away.
I realize to get viewers the MSM likes to sensationalize, overdramatize, and stretch the truth. But they like to leave out actual facts, silence other opinions, and sometimes outright lie which is pretty sad.
Not to be left out are the big tech/social media companies.
Many of these companies have lied repeatedly about violating people's privacy. Some also stifle free speech and censor people who don't agree with them or their political allies.
All of this does not help the country having all available information so as to come up with a viable solution to a problem whether it's climate change or other important issues that affect all Americans.
No wonder there's so much division in the country today. By suppressing opposing opinions they're doing a great disservice to the country.
Just recently to get on the good side of lawmakers Facebook has teamed up with a company called Climate Feedback to "fact-check" the climate articles shared on its site.
This company seems to be one-sided when it comes to climate change information. Check it out for yourself before you believe what you read on a so-called Facebook fact-checked article.
Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, there was a senate tech hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and were questioned on speech moderation policies. Senate democrat Chris Coons had a shocking and unbelievable exchange with Jack Dorsey.
He asked Mr. Dorsey why Twitter does not have a standalone climate change misinformation policy.
Mr. Dorsey said, "Well, misleading information, as you are aware, is a large problem. It's hard to define it completely and cohesively."
And after some more statements, Senator Coons comes back and says, "I'll close with this. I cannot think of a greater harm than climate change, which is transforming literally our planet, and causing harm to our entire world. Helping to disseminate climate denialism, in my view, further facilitates and accelerates one of the greatest existential threats to our world."
Read the exchange for yourself. It starts at the (03:31:32) timeline.
Well, I had no idea Senator Chris Coons was a climate scientist. That was a surprise to me. For a sitting senator to be asking big tech to outright censor people who question global warming/climate change is shameful.
Anybody serving in congress who wants to shut down an opposing view on any issue should be asked to step down from his or her position. This is not how issues get solved.
As climate change starts to take center stage the phrase climate change gives alarmists a chance to tie any weather event and even non-weather events to their cause. Check out this huge list.
It has been reported many times that this isn't about saving the world but controlling the world and its populations by certain elite people in power.
They cannot wait to get their hands on other people's money for their own use which is part of what socialism is all about. I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of fraud this will lead to.
Stay tuned for the "GREAT RESET" of capitalism at the World Economic Forum meeting coming next year which I wrote about in a previous article on this site.
Recently, Roman Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former papal ambassador to the United States, in an open letter to President Trump, warned of a plan by Globalists to exploit the coronavirus pandemic.
He warned the pandemic was being used to usher in a "world government" stripping people of their freedoms.
He also said in his letter, "Mr. President, I imagine that you are already aware that in some countries the Great Reset will be activated between the end of this year and the first trimester of 2021."
He went on to write, "For this purpose, further lockdowns are planned, which will be officially justified by a second and third wave of the pandemic."
He is apparently right-on with his prediction because on Sept. 29, 2020, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking at a U.N. conference, said the following: "This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a Reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine (whatever that means) economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change."
Thankfully, the U.S. got out of the Paris climate agreement or billions of dollars would be sucked out of our country every year.
In the meantime, the biggest polluter China gets off the hook for many years while still building coal-fired powerplants. Everyone seems afraid to confront China except our current president.
And did you know that when our president announced he was going to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement, a country cannot formally begin to withdraw until three years after the agreement went into force? For the U.S. that is Nov. 4, 2019.
It then takes exactly one more year for the withdrawal notice to become official, meaning the U.S. is now out of the agreement as of Nov. 4, 2020.
However, any signatory that withdraws from the agreement can apply for re-admission to the United Nations and can be back in within 30 days. So, let's see, it takes years to get out but only days to get back in. (How convenient)
Speaking of the Paris agreement, the current 2020 election results leave progressives/socialists in charge of the house of representatives. Biden, who may become president, has said on day one of his presidency he would re-enter the U.S. into the Paris agreement.
So, I thought I would help him and his congressional green new deal lawmakers by giving them some bills they could start passing at the beginning of their new term. How about the following:
1) The unaffordable Green New Deal.
2) Help the globalists get rich at our expense act.
3) The unreliable green energy act.
4) The end of the world that never happens act.
5) Trust us we will never lie to you act.
Just a few free-of-charge suggestions by a concerned and helpful citizen.
In the meantime, our planet is in good shape and will be for longer than we can comprehend without all these drastic measures the alarmists blather on about. All is well climate-wise.
Ed Walbroehl spent 47 years in aviation, which included studying the weather as part of flight training, while his radar training in the U.S.A.F.R got him interested in weather. Climate has now become his main interest.
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Although really? This should be Musical Monday: The HAWT DAMN Edition.
You know, because how else can this be classified any other way? In other news, I've managed to fall down the rabbit hole of my Junsu obsession yet again. Not sure if you guys have one of these, but periodically I get so obsessed with Junsu I just want to look at pictures of him, watch videos of him, and generally think slightly inappropriate thoughts for a while. Then I'll get ahold of myself and get back to life as usual. Then he'll set the trap again, and again, I'll totally fall for it, and we'll start the vicious circle all over again.
In the midst of this, I was chatting on the phone to Cherry Cordial and she was all "Please tell me you watched a subbed version of Backseat." Of which I hadn't. I'm sorry guys, despite my massive Junsu obsession, JYJ is just not my cup of tea. She, of course, insisted we put down what we were doing and watch it that very moment.
It's no wonder why JYJ and Junsu get their stuff blacklisted all over the place. It's almost as if they are like, you're gonna ban us, well we'll give you something to ban us for.
Thank you, boys, thank you.
Oh, and surprisingly, I actually don't dislike the song! It's still not super my cup of tea, but I have listened to it a few times. Although, if this gets stuck in my head and I get caught singing "Put you in the backseat, girl." there's gonna be hell to pay.
I do wish that their company would sub it right on the main video, as some of the other companies are, but here's a link to where you can watch fully subbed.


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