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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 29, 2020 11:56:42 GMT -8
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Post by timothylane on Jul 29, 2020 12:14:11 GMT -8
That's amazing. The Norwegian flag doesn't even remotely resemble the Army of Northern Virginia battle flag (which is what most people think of as the Confederate flag), and resembles the national flag even less. But I don't think this is the first time I've ever heard of an incident like that. Some people just assume the worst of anything they don't recognize. This is very convenient if you're an ignoramus eager to spend your life feeling outraged, which is a good description of a leftist.
It reminds me of an incident at IUPUI once where some black student saw a white student reading a book on the KKK's move into South Bend (home of Notre Dame) in the 1920s, no doubt to flaunt their hatred of Catholics. They learned why the football team (and no doubt others at the college) are known as the Fighting Irish. But the black saw a book that no doubt had some sort of Klan symbol (a burning cross, perhaps) on the cover, and assumed -- without even asking -- that it was a pro-Klan book. If this had occurred in 1960 it might have been reasonable, but it was less than 20 years ago.
This was around the same time a Cincinnati school canceled a performance of the great Agatha Christie play Ten Little Indians because the book on which the play is based was initially named (in Britain) something very unacceptable here in America (which is why the title here was And Then There Were None). It's unlikely anyone at the school knew that, but never mind.
Also about that time, there was the Southwest Airlines incident in which 2 race-baiting black women took offense when a stewardess said, "Eeny, meeny, miney, mo, take a seat, we gotta go." An old version of the rhyme used that same unacceptable word instead of "tiger". Again, the stewardess probably wasn't aware of that connection, and again it didn't matter. They actually sued over the matter. I think they lost, but I have to doubt the stewardess kept her job.
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Post by kungfuzu on Sept 22, 2020 13:00:32 GMT -8
This is the woman who apparently sent ricin to president Trump. I cannot tell if this is truly a woman or a transfer or what. I can only tell that it is ugly as hell. This seems to be a common malady among many on the left, if the videos of the riots taking place are any indication. Dumber than a rock
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Post by artraveler on Sept 22, 2020 13:17:36 GMT -8
This is another reason the ladies of the United Daughters of the Confederacy use the first national flag instead of the ANV battle flag. The BLM types mistake the first national as a revolutionary war flag. Every monument owned by the UDC and SMA flies the first national and has for at least 30 years.
Back when I was working one of my staff complained to my boss that I had the ANV flag on my computer. I had to show my boss that it was an Arkansas state flag. Stupidity is a virus.
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Post by timothylane on Sept 22, 2020 13:58:55 GMT -8
I saw a photo of the woman in the Hot Air article, and it looked like a man. For that matter, Pascale sounds like a male name. I wonder if he/she is really sexually dysphoric. (I tried asking this question at Hot Air and my posting was rejected twice. I have no idea why.)
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 12, 2020 12:48:57 GMT -8
And these progressive geniuses appear to be surprised! How they can have sat by watching hundreds of thousands USA high-tech jobs being outsourced to India/ns and thought that wage competition would not catch up with them tis a puzzle. You can't cut our pay. It isn't fair. Did these idiots actually believe the progressive crap which spews from the mouths of the likes of Page, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates et. al.? I guess these aggrieved jerks still haven't figured out that the aforementioned plutocrats are the Masters of the Universe and they are just peons who have been lucky enough to get paid a bit better than most. Idiot savants.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 13, 2020 15:20:27 GMT -8
What a wonderfully, weaselly way to save a few bucks.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 13, 2021 7:36:36 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 6, 2021 15:47:11 GMT -8
A wonderful 1 minute video which perfectly exposes the type of lying virtue-signaling which has taken over the national conversation. These dissemblers must be called out loudly and publicly. North Face and Oil
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 24, 2021 19:26:00 GMT -8
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Post by artraveler on Jul 25, 2021 11:33:43 GMT -8
Maybe shutting down was a bad idea. But I am not a Sacramento or DC bureaucrat.
I have over the years developed a theory that nasty people are always nasty, it is generally the presence of a friend or spouse that holds them back and when that mitigating influence is not there they revert to what they have always been. There is a difference between the cranky old man/women who may have some mild dementia and the hateful misogynist of any age. San Francisco is filled with the last type as they seem to flock together like vultures looking for decaying prey.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 27, 2021 8:49:05 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 27, 2021 8:54:57 GMT -8
That has nothing to do with the supply chain in SF. It has to do with Leftism making monsters of people.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 27, 2021 9:14:25 GMT -8
I am a little surprised that Prager has just had this epiphany. I have been telling people, for close to 50 years now, "just because something is printed on a piece of paper doesn't mean it is true."
As to a college education, before I finished my BA, I came to the conclusion that one of the main purposes of a college education was to show companies and other employers that a person was willing to put up with 16, or more, years of regimentation; thus showing employers that a person would be willing to fit into their bureaucracies, as required.
In any case, Prager hits the nail on the head. Let's hope these fools don't procreate.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 27, 2021 9:29:42 GMT -8
In wonder if he was just trying to be dramatic. Surely this couldn’t have come as news to him.
While reading that article — and this will come as no surprise to you — the obvious thing to do was not to take these Leftists, who had foresworn children or grandchildren, at face value. We already know their “love for the environment” is completely superficial. Time after time they leave any rally they attend in a litter-filled shambles.
Their desire to “save the planet” likely has almost nothing to do with saving the planet, nor do I think they really believe that The End Is Near.
I think the root of it is twofold:
1) Dogmatic religious belief that gives their lives some meaning. 2) Under the guise of point #1, it relieves them of the burden (and who can say it is not) of having children. Children are a complete drain on “doing your own thing” and just pursuing a never-ending series of material distractions.
That Prager didn’t think of this either makes me smart or, more likely, it means he’s having some trouble stating the obvious. Given how outspoken he typically is, one wonders if he isn't really on the same page we all are but has to eek it out in small bits lest he get too far ahead of people.
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 27, 2021 9:54:38 GMT -8
Very true. In my previous post, I almost wrote, "I can think of a lot of reasons not to have children, but climate change is not one of them."
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Post by artraveler on Jul 27, 2021 9:57:05 GMT -8
There was a time when universities taught how to think and not what to think. With a few exceptions, like Hillsdale, the idea of a liberal arts education has gone out the door or consigned to the "classics Dept." of your local university. The only real value to a university degree, in general, is to demonstrate to prospective employers that you have learned to navigate the system. Lessons that could be learned in grade school. I have yet to see anything in "higher education" to amend my general theses:
Universities exist to provide employment and resources for faculty and staff. Students are a byproduct of this system, many say a waste stream.
Thank you all for cheering the birth of young mr. Knight
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Post by artraveler on Jul 27, 2021 10:00:13 GMT -8
1) Dogmatic religious belief that gives their lives some meaning. 2) Under the guise of point #1, it relieves them of the burden (and who can say it is not) of having children. Children are a complete drain on “doing your own thing” and just pursuing a never-ending series of material distractions. I think I detect a note of Mr. Hoffer? But, either way YES!
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Post by kungfuzu on Jul 27, 2021 10:16:14 GMT -8
Is that "Sir" Alexander?
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Post by artraveler on Jul 27, 2021 10:54:27 GMT -8
It may be, although his parents take the old German meaning, one who serves others.
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