I’ve been crash-coursing to bring myself up-to-date on HMTL5/CSS3 to help someone with some webcoding so have been a bit neglectful about posting today.
Buzz has it that Lone Ranger bombed big time.
Meanwhile, the little yellow minions beat everyone like a red-headed stepchild. (aside — grandsons give the movie 4 thumbs up)
Latest on the Asiana Airlines crash:
Asiana Airlines said Monday that the pilot in control of the Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco Saturday had little experience flying that type of plane and was landing one for the first time at that airport.
Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin told the Associated Press Monday that Lee Gang-guk was trying to get used to the 777 during Saturday’s crash landing. She says the pilot had nearly 10,000 hours flying other planes, including the Boeing 747, but had only 43 hours on the 777.
Glenn Reynolds addresses the little remembered 3rd amendment. Discussion precipitated by the outrageous Henderson, NV case.
And in the continuing saga of how the Lightbringer has done f**ked the place up, look to bankrupt cities to dump their old and sick retirees on the taxpayer.
Feel free to add more topics in the comments.
Call me cynical if you will, but who else thinks the fix is in for Zimmerman?
There’s a new theory in town. Seems humans are a hybrid cross between a female chimp and a male pig.
No, really!
http://m.phys.org/news/2013-07-chimp-pig-hybrid-humans.html#nwlt
(Hey atheists! You still feeling good about your religion ? )
– In reference to the SFO crash – (nr cover your eyes) – boy some days its just not a good one for some people.
– In other news…..
a female chimp and a male pig.
– Wait, I thought it was a frog and a Diva female opera singing pig?
The way the race hustlers including the RHIC have set this case up no one wants to be the party to tell those hustlers and their minions that they are stupidly wrong. Not the governor, the judge, or the jury. I expect them to convict out of fear of reprisals and then hope an appeal reverses the decision.
The tampering with any possible jury and court started a few weeks after the shooting with Parks & Crump putting out an animation of the event which had Zimmerman shooting Trayvon from a distance for no reason except hatred based on race, and a walk-through of the scene with Martin’s parents. They also were the ones who brought in national race hustlers to stir the pot. Community organizing trash, exploiting it all for the cash.
in fixation news:
“In reference to the SFO crash”
Shit hit the fan at Althouse. She deep-sixed her comments.
Every blog needs a “Trollhammer”. It was the best troll damper ever.
– We don’t get many trolls these days, so we have to make do with obsessives.
Ruby
Oh for heaven’s sake … Althouse decided to get all pissy on men accusing them of “whining” when tricked by a female who lies to them about contraception and gets pregnant.
Then she decided to make it a fight with Glenn Reynolds.
I dipped into the comments there on some of the epic threads but haven’t really paid attention much today. Who finally set her off?
Except, I doubt there will be an appeal. That’s one hot potato no sane judge will touch.
I’m cynical enough to think this will all conveniently go away after Mr. Zimmerman has an unfortunate incident with another inmate. How he wound up in whichever the most violent prison in Florida is will be shrugged off as a “paperwork error.”
Right, people are going to email you comments and hope they get posted. That’s sure to work. What a silly twat.
Yes, she actually said that. So, apparently killing the children is in their interest.
Althouse:
Because this libertine, sex is sport and any “punishments” will be taken care of by the benevolent state is working so well.
There you go. Fun times will be had by all, unless you’re a child missing out because you were aborted. No fun for you!
Althouse? Who dat ?
I thought the “men lose control of their sperm after they deposit it somewhere else –so careful who you leave it with, fellas” was an interesting line of argument. The obvious counterpoint to that would be “women lose control of their uteruses after their ovae are inseminated –so careful who you copulate with ladies.”
Except it isn’t.
I thought the “men lose control of their sperm after they deposit it somewhere else –so careful who you leave it with, fellas”
And yet— mandated child support!
Thanks, but in the unlikely event I found myself in such a position, I would choose the jail cell.
People who believe in gender-exclusive “Constitutional rights”… words fail me.
Bloom:
That’s the form (or one of them) which loss of control takes according to Althouse. If you don’t want to have to pay for kids’ support, don’t be making any.
And again, the obvious corollary would be If you don’t want a parasite feeding off of you for nine months, before you’re stuck rearing it for eighteen years, don’t let some cad knock you up.
Except it isn’t.
My point here being that both men and women are accutely aware of how the incentives structures work for and/or against them, and neither seems particularly happy about it. Prioritizing the interests of the child (including the child’s paramount interest in being born in the first place) seems to me to be the best way to level the playing field.
Maybe that’s quaintly old-fashioned of me.
With all due respect to Mr. Bloom, that is a fundamental misunderstanding of Freud.
Unless the comment shown is to demonstrate the misunderstanding of Freud by his American audience, in which case I retract my statement.
It might well be both, but it’s probably more a description of the embrace of vulgar Freudianism, so to speak, than Bloom misapprehending Freud.
Also, we have to remember that there are (at least two Freuds): The psychoanalyst, and the psycho-historian/cultural critic. The former was an expert. The latter, just another intellectual.
Don’t make start quoting from Paul Johnson’s Modern Times.
Please don’t. It’s too early for that.
Freud went off the rails when he got into the cocaine.
She’s consistently poorly reasoned. Aside from the fraternity, why Reynold has linked her for years is as much a mystery as why he links Megan McArdle, who seems as deeply unconvinced by her meandering “libertarian” variability as Althouse is by her Obama-lite conservatism.
I thought it was Sherlock Holmes who got into the cocaine and Dr. Sigmund who got him off it.
It’s a tenable position that family law is the greatest running travesty against prior constitutional right as any such travesty.
Ernst Schreiber says July 8, 2013 at 8:24 am
That’s the form (or one of them) which loss of control takes according to Althouse. If you don’t want to have to pay for kids’ support, don’t be making any.
To my feeble mind, a “loss of control” necessarily implies an elimination of liability. If you don’t get a say, you shouldn’t have to pay…
As a solitary assertion, no. Support borne of single parenting hostile to equal shared parenting is a statist industry enacted primarily, intentionally, structurally, and financially against one sex.
Correction: One sex seems perfectly happy with the obvious incentives when those designed benefits reliably also run parallel with its not unpredictable gender feminism. It is sexist, statist, discriminatory, malicious, and unconstitutional, which always pleases wide swaths of a dependent nation in which operate thieves, opportunists, partisans, and their official enablers.
Not surprisingly, the child’s best interest clause is its #1 leverage. In that it is arbitrary, instantaneous, not subject to trial, without recourse or appeal, and quite literally thereby unconstitutional.
It is to law and rights what even the very worst of any other federalized ruin of prior constitutional principle has arguably yet to become.
And along that same line.
The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a third of the U.S. population.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114 billion in fiscal year 2012.
That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has surpassed the number of private sector workers in the U.S.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 97,180,000 full-time private sector workers in 2012.
Why everyone can’t see the end coming is beyond me.
Everything but the firts and last lines should be block quotes, but, didn’t happen.
Point was made somewhere that to have sex is to consent to pregnancy, regardless of the methods you use to avoid conception. Therefore, there’s no such thing as an accidental pregnancy. It’s the failure to conceive that’s the accident.
Our reproductive systems have a single mission: reproduction. The only reason sex feels good is to ensure the continuation of the species. Our reproductive systems are as relentless as they are brainless—they never calculate whether it’s a good time to get pregnant nor whether the sire is worthy of the dam (or vice-versa) nor whether conception could result in families being destroyed or sloppily created.
That’s what people must recognize—and teach younger generations: your reproductive system doesn’t give a rip about you OR your welfare. It messes with your head six ways til Sunday to fulfill its mission, and it will do so at your expense.
This is the flip side of the argument for free sexual expression used by lefties. Sexual intercourse is intended for reproduction, but in the marital bed it is also a bond between the spouses.
Both of these arguments could stand some fleshing out, no pun intended, or they are two sides of the same coin: reducing us to the sum of our naughty bits.
My take on it is that, broadly and generally speaking, the sexes are happy with the incentives that benefit their own sex more than the opposite, while they’re suspicious and resentful of the incentives that benefit the opposite sex more than their own.
Negotiating sex has become a bit like negotiating the price of a auto. You go into it intent on working the best deal for yourself you can, and leave worrying that you got cheated somehow.
You’d already alluded to your take on it.
The male sex denied rights, liberties, and property — plus their own children — being merely a vote-disadvantaged cohort of another cohort would likely differ from that perception, however, as likely would you if you were among their number.
As for the Constitution as a prior legal structure erected to prevent such abuses, it’s encouraging to see it invoked with such conviction.
Dicentra wrote at 1021: Our reproductive systems are as relentless as they are brainless….
An interesting thing I learned recently: The only other place outside of the brain that you will find brain cells is surrounding the Digestive System.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system
Also from Dicentra at 1021:
…your reproductive system doesn’t give a rip about you OR your welfare. It messes with your head six ways til Sunday to fulfill its mission…
For me, as a young lad, that would be ‘666 ways til Sunday’…or even 1600.
Leigh wrote:
Indeed. The Left wants to reduce us to the level of the animal, to have animal desires outweigh our Reason, because that makes us, they believe, Pavlovian and, therefore, easier to train [ie: re-engineer].
Of course, the Left faces a rather high hurdle in that Human Beings are not animals. No Human Being can ever destroy another’s Soul.
[…] Dicentra: […]
Just seen on wattsupwiththat.com: “claimatologists”.
I chortled.