I just love stereotypes of men, don't you!
Donald Trump - yes, he's a jackass - gets a hard time for calling Hillary Clinton "shrill" but saying MEN don't like Rousey or Williams because they are intimidated is just OK.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Friday, September 18, 2015
But what if it had been...?
So strange - so much energy dedicated to the terror of active shootings and other assaults in schools - more often than not committed by students themselves - and yet, when suspicions lead to the arrest of a young man for bringing a clock that was mistaken for a bomb, all the usual suspects freak out.
But, what if it had been a bomb and no one paid attention.
Let's face it - you can't count on anything you do begin okay with some folks these days.
But, what if it had been a bomb and no one paid attention.
Let's face it - you can't count on anything you do begin okay with some folks these days.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Pull up those pants!
This sounds like a great idea to me 'God Would Not Go Around With Pants Down'.
Not so sure I care whether God would want it or not, but there is no rational reason I should have to be seeing people walking around with their pants down around their ass, with their underwear showing. It is a matter of respect or lack of respect for everything from societal convention to the rights of those to whom you are "showing your ass".
It cannot be comfortable and clearly is not functional. I always smile when I think of one of the real or wannabe gang-bangers running from the scene of the crime holding his pants up with one hand, with the crotch so low between his knees that his steps are 6 inches long, or else simply floundering on the ground with this pants around his ankles. ]Ranks right up there with having that ear or nose ring I can grab and rip off your ear or nose when you try to assault me.]
Yep - you wonder what's wrong today, why so much crime, killing and so on. Yep, must be the guns, can't be the fact that we now have a society that is all about what "I" want, even if what I want is to walk around with my ass hanging out.
Not so sure I care whether God would want it or not, but there is no rational reason I should have to be seeing people walking around with their pants down around their ass, with their underwear showing. It is a matter of respect or lack of respect for everything from societal convention to the rights of those to whom you are "showing your ass".
It cannot be comfortable and clearly is not functional. I always smile when I think of one of the real or wannabe gang-bangers running from the scene of the crime holding his pants up with one hand, with the crotch so low between his knees that his steps are 6 inches long, or else simply floundering on the ground with this pants around his ankles. ]Ranks right up there with having that ear or nose ring I can grab and rip off your ear or nose when you try to assault me.]
Yep - you wonder what's wrong today, why so much crime, killing and so on. Yep, must be the guns, can't be the fact that we now have a society that is all about what "I" want, even if what I want is to walk around with my ass hanging out.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Yep, there it is: "Weaponized Empathy"
I have pondered for a long time the use of emotional images and the reliance on our better nature to try to shame people into doing the liberal left's bidding. Weaponized Empathy.
Along comes Huffpost and gives what could not be a better example. Sad and tragic pictures of refugees escaping the mess that their own countries, governments and religion have made and we - whoever we are - are supposed to willingly invite them into our world where they can make a mess once more.
"How could you turn people who are in such suffering away?"
The left always assumes that gays, minorities, women, and children are downtrodden and thus uses them to gt what they want. Of course, they are not above killing if the victim is right, but their weapon of choice is to point out Syrian refugees or gay couples being refused marriage licenses as ways to condemn those they do not like. It is how we have gotten into such a mess already.
How about another? Another?
And this whole damned "However we misbehave it is your fault" is old, too.
How about another? Another?
And this whole damned "However we misbehave it is your fault" is old, too.
"Gun Guy" or "Brain Dead Guy"
End of the day and feeling the need for an emotional kick, so I go to Huffpost. I always say to myself (Why do I read this - it is such BS". But is is always good motivation to write something!
So there's Whats-his-name, the Huffpost "gun guy" with another unintelligible something that makes no sense. Why does Huffpost keep this guy around, except for the fact that he is trying to pass himself off as a gun guy? Obviously on a liberal website, the bar is set pretty low for any knowledge of firearms - I am sure his qualifications are mostly that he is willing to write dumb shit that meets their POV.
well, I'm going to try to write about some of it without blowing chunks, but to be honest, when I got to the end I was not sure what he was trying to say (apparently he wasn't sure either). In the end, it didn't really matter since, even if written intelligibly, it was ignorant. It was the typical liberal approach to an issue - make a lot of assumptions (e.g., your opinion is the only valid one), consider them as evidence, ignore shit that doesn't fit and be absolutely certain you are right. Never question your perspective.
His point - at least the one he seems to want to make although he never really gets there - is that governors in states where there are cities with high murder rates are making it happen by expanding gun rights (see - he's not really a gun guy. But I suppose when white folks can decide they are African-American, anything is possible). But what about the administrations in those cities? What about the falling murder rates in many places, perhaps even within those same states? What about states with similar laws? Can you demonstrate a causal link?
Case in point, he notes that in Ohio (where Cleveland has a 14/100K murder rate):
"In 2011 Kasich signed a bill that allows Ohioans to bring concealed weapons into establishments that served liquor, including nightclubs, restaurants, stadiums, malls and, of course, restaurants. He really believes in the 2nd Amendment."
But, Brain Dead Guy, did the murder rate go up after that? Did you look to see what the historical trajectory looks like? Do you have any evidence, other than you own incredulity, which is not evidence at all, that one causes the other?
Or, let's look at Florida - a state Gun Boy didn't mention - In Florida we have been legally able, for many years, to carry concealed in places that serve alcohol - by law we can't sit in the "bar area" but we can sit in the restaurant and it is not against the law to consume alcohol while carrying (something that is not a good idea - and, oh hell, there will be nightmares and bedwetting from Gun Boy now). Yet somehow we did not get singled out for the honor of space in his incoherent mental meanderings. Why? Our murder rate in 2014 was about 5 per 100K (which is down significantly in the last two decades, despite increases in concealed carry permits). But how can any of that be?
So, of course, Gun Boy has to end with the usual unsubstantiated snark: "When it comes to your 2A rights, you'll have nothing to fear from Kasich, Walker or Chris. As for the cities with gun violence rates through the roof, let's not worry about a few bodies here and there when the Constitution will be defended by all those armed citizens and their guns right to tell a lie protected by the 1st Amendment's defense of free speech."
Can anyone tell me what that last sentence says? This, in both concept and construction, would be a prodigious accomplishment for a second-grader, but in an adult it is simply unintelligible and whiny. What lies? Does he mean the lies he is telling, the less-than-half truths and unsupported impressions?
As with most unsophisticated and biased thinkers, he can only see in one direction - the one that allows him to score what he considers "points". Most such thinkers emerge in this debate but fail miserably by relying on impressions, anecdotal evidence and, at best, correlation to try to prove causal relationships. Without a more in-depth analysis, the "points" the "Gun Guy" makes would get him a failing grade in any of my freshman level courses. It is the type of reasoning that leads to superstitions, false inferences of causality based on illusory correlation.
So there's Whats-his-name, the Huffpost "gun guy" with another unintelligible something that makes no sense. Why does Huffpost keep this guy around, except for the fact that he is trying to pass himself off as a gun guy? Obviously on a liberal website, the bar is set pretty low for any knowledge of firearms - I am sure his qualifications are mostly that he is willing to write dumb shit that meets their POV.
well, I'm going to try to write about some of it without blowing chunks, but to be honest, when I got to the end I was not sure what he was trying to say (apparently he wasn't sure either). In the end, it didn't really matter since, even if written intelligibly, it was ignorant. It was the typical liberal approach to an issue - make a lot of assumptions (e.g., your opinion is the only valid one), consider them as evidence, ignore shit that doesn't fit and be absolutely certain you are right. Never question your perspective.
His point - at least the one he seems to want to make although he never really gets there - is that governors in states where there are cities with high murder rates are making it happen by expanding gun rights (see - he's not really a gun guy. But I suppose when white folks can decide they are African-American, anything is possible). But what about the administrations in those cities? What about the falling murder rates in many places, perhaps even within those same states? What about states with similar laws? Can you demonstrate a causal link?
Case in point, he notes that in Ohio (where Cleveland has a 14/100K murder rate):
"In 2011 Kasich signed a bill that allows Ohioans to bring concealed weapons into establishments that served liquor, including nightclubs, restaurants, stadiums, malls and, of course, restaurants. He really believes in the 2nd Amendment."
But, Brain Dead Guy, did the murder rate go up after that? Did you look to see what the historical trajectory looks like? Do you have any evidence, other than you own incredulity, which is not evidence at all, that one causes the other?
Or, let's look at Florida - a state Gun Boy didn't mention - In Florida we have been legally able, for many years, to carry concealed in places that serve alcohol - by law we can't sit in the "bar area" but we can sit in the restaurant and it is not against the law to consume alcohol while carrying (something that is not a good idea - and, oh hell, there will be nightmares and bedwetting from Gun Boy now). Yet somehow we did not get singled out for the honor of space in his incoherent mental meanderings. Why? Our murder rate in 2014 was about 5 per 100K (which is down significantly in the last two decades, despite increases in concealed carry permits). But how can any of that be?
So, of course, Gun Boy has to end with the usual unsubstantiated snark: "When it comes to your 2A rights, you'll have nothing to fear from Kasich, Walker or Chris. As for the cities with gun violence rates through the roof, let's not worry about a few bodies here and there when the Constitution will be defended by all those armed citizens and their guns right to tell a lie protected by the 1st Amendment's defense of free speech."
Can anyone tell me what that last sentence says? This, in both concept and construction, would be a prodigious accomplishment for a second-grader, but in an adult it is simply unintelligible and whiny. What lies? Does he mean the lies he is telling, the less-than-half truths and unsupported impressions?
As with most unsophisticated and biased thinkers, he can only see in one direction - the one that allows him to score what he considers "points". Most such thinkers emerge in this debate but fail miserably by relying on impressions, anecdotal evidence and, at best, correlation to try to prove causal relationships. Without a more in-depth analysis, the "points" the "Gun Guy" makes would get him a failing grade in any of my freshman level courses. It is the type of reasoning that leads to superstitions, false inferences of causality based on illusory correlation.
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