Muda69

Hmm. In the future I'll try and see that I purchase only non-Nevada sourced gold.

Wizards Of The Coast Bans 7 Racist Magic: The Gathering Cards https://kotaku.com/wizards-of-the-coast-bans-7-racist-magic-the-gathering-1843987502 At first I thought this was a Onion article or something. Good grief. Just people looking for something to the offended by.

Agreed. What will they do when these local business stop giving them free stuff? Will they demand the state give it to them for free?

Thank you for the info, sorry about that.

Hmmm, is that some kind of implied threat?

Yeah, you have. But as you usual you say it out of the side of your mouth. It is clear by your comments to Howe that regarding the understanding and impact of racism on racial minorities you believe your views are personally superior to his.

Seattle Protesters Establish 'Autonomous Zone' Outside Evacuated Police Precinct https://reason.com/2020/06/10/seattle-protesters-establish-autonomous-zone-outside-evacuated-police-precinct/ The SPD's announcement said that the precinct would continue to be staffed. However, pictures from the scene show the building totally boarded up and heavily graffitied, and the Capitol Hill Seattle Blog—a neighborhood news website—says that the building is empty. That Monday night, in the absence of a police presence, protestors formed what's now being called the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). Reassembled barricades went up around the new zone, with some featuring signs welcoming people to "Free Capitol Hill." The Seattle Times reports that tents have started to go up in the CHAZ and that folks are hoping to turn the boarded-up cop shop into a community center. The first night of the autonomous zone reportedly saw some speeches from demonstrators and an appearance by socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who sparred with some protesters about how much to cut the SPD's budget. A few assembled demonstrators reportedly demanded a 100 percent defunding of the police. Sawant, reports The Stranger, said that that was infeasible under capitalism, and touted her own plan to cut the department's budget by 50 percent. A news crew from the local Fox affiliate was reportedly chased out of the zone by some demonstrators. Tuesday saw more activity in the zone, with more barricades going up, and some businesses in the area opening up to offer water, bathroom facilities, and food to demonstrators. That night, Sawant led a crowd from the CHAZ to Seattle city hall for an hour-long protest inside the building, where people chanted and demanded the resignation of Durkan and the defunding of the police. The City Hall occupation, reports Capitol Hill Seattle Blog, saw more fights between Sawant and some demonstrators wary of her coopting of their movement. The councilmember touted her plan to tax Amazon. Another speaker countered that the focus should remain on racial justice issues. Afterward, protesters returned to the CHAZ for a screening of the documentary 13th. The zone has attracted national and critical attention. Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) tweeted about how the situation was "endangering people's lives." Yet so far the zone appears neither as lawless as conservatives fear nor as autonomous as some of its occupants might like. The city's Fire Department says it has committed more staff to cover the area. Other city departments have been on-site to clear away trash and empty dumpsters. SPD says it will still answer 911 calls in the area. With the situation on the ground in flux, it's impossible to know where the CHAZ is headed. While the movement behind the zone can't be described as libertarian (a Medium essay purporting to be a list demands from the Free Capitol folks includes calls for both police abolition and rent control), it is still vaguely encouraging to see people try to set up their own self-governing enclave in the vacuum left by the police's withdrawal. Anarchy!?

The New York Times Says Tom Cotton's Essay 'Fell Short of Our Standards.' What Standards? https://reason.com/2020/06/10/the-new-york-times-says-tom-cottons-essay-fell-short-of-our-standards-what-standards/ Healy again on a Friedman column from the following year: More (so much more!) on Friedman from Matt Welch here. The Times also says Cotton's essay included "allegations" about the role of left-wing activists in violent protests that "have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned." What about the claim, frequently made in the Times opinion section, that arbitrarily defined "assault weapons" are uniquely suited to mass murder and have no legitimate uses? Surely those assertions qualify as allegations that "have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned." The merits of banning so-called assault weapons may be too timely an issue for the Times to clearly see the erroneous factual assumptions underlying such laws. What about stuff that happened more than a century ago? Katherine Stewart claimed in a 2017 Times op-ed piece that "attacks on 'government schools'…have their roots in American slavery, Jim Crow-era segregation, anti-Catholic sentiment and a particular form of Christian fundamentalism." To support that claim, Stewart offered an 1887 quotation from "Presbyterian theologian A.A. Hodge." But as Jesse Walker noted here, Hodge was not opposed to government schools, and he was not expressing anti-Catholic sentiment. Walker added that, contrary to Stewart's thesis that the rhetoric she decried can be traced to supporters of slavery and segregation, the abolitionist Gerrit Smith "used the phrase 'governmental schools' sneeringly," and "he did it in 1858, three decades before the lecture that Stewart called 'one of the first usages of the phrase 'government schools.'" Then there was Kristen Ghodsee's risible claim in a 2017 Times op-ed piece (later expanded into a book) that "women had better sex under socialism." Cathy Young, who described Ghodsee's original essay as "one of the most mercilessly mocked New York Times op-eds of recent memory," spoke from experience in debunking her thesis: "As someone who lived in the Soviet Union until emigrating as a teen in 1980, I can say that Ghodsee must have a truly enormous pair of rose-colored glasses." Finally, the Times says Cotton's "assertion that police officers 'bore the brunt' of the violence [by rioters] is an overstatement that should have been challenged." If the Times is keen to avoid overstatement on its opinion page, what are we to make of legal columnist Linda Greenhouse's assertion that a unanimous Supreme Court defeat for the Obama administration in a 2014 cases involving recess appointments was actually "a major victory for the president…by any objective view"? Or columnist Nicholas Kristof's unsubstantiated 2015 claim that "some 100,000 minors are trafficked into the sex trade each year in America," which echoed similarly dubious guesstimates? Or the 2019 op-ed piece in which former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and anti-smoking activist Matthew Myers averred that the e-cigarette flavors overwhelmingly preferred by adults are clearly designed for children, then falsely implied that vaping-related lung injuries were caused by products like Juul? At the risk of making an unsubstantiated allegation and speaking hyperbolically with unnecessary harshness, I am going to suggest that the Times does not really care about its alleged "standards," except when they help rationalize a decision it has already made for other reasons. More charitably, the paper's editors are simply blind to violations of these rules when they are committed by writers whose conclusions they like. The NYT and what's left of the other major newspapers are in a quandary. The old print advertising model they employed for decades no longer works, so a larger and larger portion of their income now comes from individuals purchasing subscriptions and reading the paper online. So in order to grow and maintain this subscription model they have to kowtow more and more to the political leanings of those subscribers. Advertising is a politically risk-adverse industry and under the old model most advertisers wanted the paper to "play it safe" in order to satisfy the vast majority of the readership. After all the companies paying for the advertisers don't want feedback like "I now refuse to purchase products made by Company A because of that horrible op-ed published in the NYT. Company A must support that position!"

Dayton Town Council president drives lawn tractor over former council member's foot after argument: https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/lafayette/2020/06/10/dayton-council-president-drives-over-former-council-members-foot-after-dispute/5336567002/ Good stuff.

Yep, more mealy-mouthed gobbledygook and personal superiority nonsense. That chip on your shoulder must really weigh you down.

I have, a little. Have you?

Then exactly what are you saying regarding racism and having children, Gonzo?

You essentially did with this post: So using this logic one can conclude the more children you have the more you will know about racism. So those of us with say 3+ children must really be experts.

So having children is now a prerequisite for learning about racism?

Paul Krugman, professors seek top economist's removal from influential job for criticizing Black Lives Matter: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/paul-krugman-professors-demand-top-economist-lose-his-job-for-criticizing-black-lives-matter

Alarming Study Finds US Public Pensions To Run Out Of Money By 2028 https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/us-public-pensions-run-out-money-2028-finds-alarming-new-study All of this also suggests increasing heavy reliance on Social Security for retirement - nothing new - but further alarming given all three legs of the "stool" - including private pensions and individual savings, are now at huge risk. So how much of your hard earned money are you willing to pony up to keep these public section pensions solvent?

HBO Max Pulls Gone With the Wind after Op-Ed by 12 Years a Slave Director https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hbo-max-pulls-gone-with-the-wind-after-op-ed-by-12-years-a-slave-director/

Systemic Racism and Bigotry Are the Lifeblood of the Left https://spectator.org/systemic-racism-bigotry-left-black-lives-matter/

Awesome news! Kind of makes sense since IIRC he is still teaching there. Also can't wait to see the return of oversized shoulder pads................... Has this been reported to the news media yet?

James Bennet's Resignation Proves the Woke Scolds Are Taking Over The New York Times https://reason.com/2020/06/08/james-bennet-new-york-times-opinion-woke-tom-cotton/ This is quite obviously nonsense: Cotton's words placed no one in imminent danger. Sadly, it's becoming distressingly common for progressive employees who wish to silence a dissident view to cite workplace safety as a pretext. To take just one example, this was how conservative writer Kevin Williamson got fired from The Atlantic. This is a disturbing trend that ought to concern everyone—liberals included. It's an insult to actual workplace safety issues, for one thing. For another, it makes the office a dangerous place to express a potentially unpopular opinion. Journalistic institutions shouldn't live in fear of difficult conversations, or of provoking offense. But the necessary consequence of this new regime of safetyism will be everybody walking on eggshells. My book Panic Attack contains countless other examples of woke young people weaponizing ever-expanding definitions of safety against people who disagree with them. In the book's closing pages, I observed that they'd been able to "hijack existing, well-intentioned harassment law in order to make campuses more repressive places. It's not impossible to imagine the same thing happening in the work place." Not impossible at all: It's happening before our very eyes. Yes, it sure is. Now private workplaces will have to also become "safe spaces" for the snowflakes working there, or else they may hear or see something that "offends" them or make them feel "unsafe".

How exactly? You live in a compound in lily-white northern Hamilton county.

So you agree with the author of said commentary that black people can't be racist?

https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/black-people-can’t-be-racist

American Descendants Of Slavery.