tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54559832024-02-07T22:02:27.821-06:00The Limited Modified HangoutTowing the party lion since June 2003.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6996125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-22624700418647011412016-08-28T11:20:00.002-05:002016-08-28T11:20:24.963-05:00Hugh Fitzgerald: Should Germans be Forced to Study Arabic?
A senior German educator has called for all pupils in the country to be forced to study Arabic until they graduate in the interests of the multicultural state.
Professor of Computer Science Thomas Strothotte and President of a private Hamburg university has argued that German children should be forced to learn Arabic alongside German so Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-86550606529016544602016-08-28T10:49:00.002-05:002016-08-28T10:49:36.184-05:00Vigilante pastor KIDNAPS street children to save them from drugs and paedophiles
...Over the past 16 years, more than 3,500 people have been through his rehab clinic. Although not all of them have wanted to.
Many of the drug-addicted youngsters were rounded up and forced into mini-vans and taken to the ramshackle clinic he founded, called Republic Pilgrim....
...“But if a teenager is living on Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-44405392988673070502016-08-28T09:32:00.004-05:002016-08-28T09:32:55.424-05:00HACK CHECK: New York Times Seeking ‘Gender Editor’
...“We are seeking a journalist with a compelling vision of how to expand this coverage, from boardroom to bedroom, from the loftiest corridors of power to the back alleys of the world’s most impoverished villages,” the posting states. “We are looking for a creative, passionate leader to guide a cross-platform, global coverage vertical on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-40729540708753976072016-08-28T08:36:00.002-05:002016-08-28T08:44:30.086-05:00Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right
...Unfortunately, this leaves us with something of a problem. Reciprocal altruism is fine if all you need is for Mom to sit with you and brew you some herbal tea. But in a modern society, you need to procure health care from strangers -- which is to say, through the transactional system of market exchange. Nationalizing the health care system does not fix Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-66778374600919172002016-08-28T08:33:00.001-05:002016-08-28T08:39:29.348-05:00Newly released emails shed light on Clinton's public corruption as Secretary of State
"Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state raise questions about the nature of the department's relationship with the Clinton Foundation. Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, released 296 pages of emails from the Democratic presidential nominee, including 44 that Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-53119950293186850122016-08-28T08:14:00.002-05:002016-08-28T08:14:46.379-05:00I dumped my fiancé for a Jamaican lover but he fleeced me of £10k and turned out to be a love rat
When Louise Chesney’s besotted fiancé Paul whisked her off to Jamaica to plan their dream beach wedding, she couldn’t have been happier.
She was so in love and says she couldn’t wait to marry her perfect man.
Yet just days into their holiday, handsome local hotel worker Caffrey Brown caught her eyeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-10164208520484769272016-08-21T08:24:00.004-05:002016-08-21T08:24:40.735-05:00Chris Cuomo: Media Has Given Hillary A 'Free Ride'
WATCH: Ten Minutes of CNN Cutting Off People Who Are Critical Of Hillary Clinton
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-87593695342004962372016-08-21T08:20:00.002-05:002016-08-21T08:20:39.559-05:00Man reveals his girlfriend IGNORED his marriage proposal because it wasn't 'extravagant' enough for her
...'She was very annoyed. She looked at me and said, "This is a horrible joke, Logan" then she started crying because I "ruined it" for her.
'Then she pretended the proposal didn't happen and now she's still talking about rings like I DIDN'T PROPOSE.'
Finishing off his Reddit post, Logan Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-84964065433181433472016-08-21T08:15:00.001-05:002016-08-21T08:15:43.506-05:00Hard Times in Venezuela Breed Malaria as Desperate Flock to Mines - The New York Times
As a computer technician from a big city, Mr. Balocha was ill-suited for the mines, his soft hands used to working keyboards, not the earth. But Venezuela’s economy collapsed on so many levels that inflation had obliterated his salary, along with his hopes of preserving a middle-class life.
So, like tens of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-82756734057709979902016-08-14T09:52:00.001-05:002016-08-14T09:52:11.874-05:00Study: ColoradoCare can't cover its costs
KUSA - The 2016 ballot initiative to give every Coloradan healthcare won’t be able to cover its costs, according to a study released Monday by the Colorado Health Institute.
That’s despite the fact that the proposed amendment 69, known as ColoradoCare, would more than triple the amount of taxes collected by the state.
“Simply put, the revenue would not Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-13719593146483622482016-08-14T09:48:00.001-05:002016-08-14T09:48:27.515-05:00The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
...This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed byUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-22602728080383007742016-08-14T09:45:00.004-05:002016-08-14T09:45:51.554-05:00Elsewhere (208)
...I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students - I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-51575644655502591182016-08-14T09:45:00.001-05:002016-08-14T09:45:04.040-05:00Pew data: Heavy majority of asylum seekers in Europe are young men under the age of 35
Military-Aged Men Extremely Over-Represented in EU Refugee Asylum Applications
...As a result, about four-in-ten asylum seekers in Europe in 2015 (42%) were young men ages 18 to 34. This was also true for most leading origin countries: 39% of those from Syria were young men, as were 38% of those from Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-12307767858578261222016-08-14T09:43:00.001-05:002016-08-14T10:26:58.553-05:00"The ['Hillary Care'] plan prescribed some eye-popping maximum fines: $5,000 for refusing to join the government mandated health plan; $5,000 for failing to pay premiums on time; 15 years in prison for doctors who received ‘anything of value’ in exchange for helping patients short circuit bureaucracy; $10,000 a day for faulty physician paperwork; and $50,000 for unauthorized patient treatment. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-11772883176437085252016-08-14T09:38:00.001-05:002016-08-14T09:38:12.715-05:00Secret Deal Among AGs to Prosecute Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Challenged in Court
By signing a “secrecy pact” with fellow Democrat attorneys general preparing to prosecute climate change skeptics, Rhode Island’s top law enforcement officer jeopardized free speech rights and government transparency laws, according to two legal organizations that have taken him to court.
Rhode Island Attorney Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-85442294704780374932016-08-14T09:36:00.002-05:002016-08-14T09:36:33.284-05:00How Paul Krugman Made Donald Trump Possible
...In 2012, Krugman called Mitt Romney a “charlatan,” pathologically dishonest, and untrustworthy. He said Romney doesn’t even pretend to care about poor people and wants people to die so that the rich could get richer. Romney is “completely amoral,” “a dangerous fool,” “ignorant as well as uncaring.”
In March, Krugman had a column called “Clash of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-88384947449155013082016-08-14T09:32:00.000-05:002016-08-21T08:10:01.197-05:00Why Did a Journal for Christian Pastors Give a Platform to a Sexual Predator?
...The first big problem (besides the part where he essentially says it was his wife who drove him to this, which is next door to saying he didn’t have a choice in the matter) is that he never really seems to get that what he did to this minor was rape. Instead, he swaddles the entire story in Christianese, using it to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-54787561806062438252016-08-14T09:30:00.000-05:002016-08-14T09:30:00.105-05:00PEGGY NOONAN ON HOW GLOBAL ELITES HAVE MORE LOYALTY TO EACH OTHER THAN TO THE CITIZENS THEY CONTROL
...In Manhattan, my little island off the continent, I see the children of the global business elite marry each other and settle in London or New York or Mumbai. They send their children to the same schools and are alert to all class markers. And those elites, of Mumbai and Manhattan, do not often Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-61129019995968860082016-08-14T09:15:00.002-05:002016-08-14T09:15:51.441-05:00NASA: Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic OceanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-73996718778531082172016-07-31T08:54:00.001-05:002016-07-31T08:54:40.970-05:00The Victims of War
...Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. ...
Ready for Hillary: Pennsylvania Democrat Delegate Shoots Her Husband
Donald Trump Just Got Hillary Clinton To Admit Her E-mails Are A ‘National Security Issue’
...Sullivan did not explain how the e-mails, which Clinton said were about nothing more than herUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-28439263972142000962016-07-31T08:50:00.002-05:002016-07-31T08:50:55.549-05:00New stricter sexual-assault laws in Germany are making refugee activists uneasy
BERLIN — After mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve, the German Parliament voted Thursday in favor of a stricter sexual-assault law that also could ease deportation rules for refugees convicted of sex-related offenses.
The new law sharpens punishments for anyone convicted of sexual assault regardless of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-17001167166977532962016-07-31T08:49:00.003-05:002016-07-31T08:49:55.085-05:00New Study, Scientists: ’20th Century Warming Not Very Obvious In Our Reconstruction’
A new 368-year tree ring temperature reconstruction has established that regional (China) summer temperatures were warmer than they are now (2012) during the mid-1600s and early 1700s, and that the temperature variations can be linked to variations in solar activity, volcanic forcing (cooling), and natural Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-54207110634527290882016-07-31T08:46:00.001-05:002016-08-21T08:12:59.834-05:00Silicon Valley Could Get Pass in Democrats’ Antitrust Crusade
...In this election cycle, Apple, Amazon.com and Google have all given three times as much to Democrats as Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog. That’s true of the industry as a whole. Since the 2012 presidential election cycle, Internet-based tech firms, including Facebook, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-45223184728288308922016-07-31T08:44:00.000-05:002016-07-31T08:44:35.926-05:00GQ ‘Journalist’ on Pat Smith: ‘I would like to beat her to death’
GQ Writer Said He Wanted to 'Beat' Benghazi Mom 'To Death' -- Then Apologizes
...Last night, when Pat Smith was speaking onstage at the Republication National Convention, I tweeted that “no matter how many children she’s lost, I’d like to beat her to death.”...
Trump shushes NBC reporter, accuses her of trying to 'save' Clinton
.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455983.post-43207808455562020692016-07-17T12:47:00.001-05:002016-07-17T12:47:22.592-05:00Reporter: FBI ordered ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones’ during Clinton/Lynch meeting
...“The former president steps into her plane. They then speak for 30 minutes privately. The FBI there on the tarmac instructing everybody around ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones.'”...
'Gag' order: FBI confirms special secrecy agreements for agents in Clinton email probe
The FBI has confirmed to a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com