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23 October, 2008
Ugly
“This is so serious that I predict it will get almost one-tenth as much national coverage as something some guy may have yelled at a Palin rally once.”
Probably just an isolated incident.
And, to be painfully clear, doesn’t mean that everybody behaves this way.
But I can tell you it doesn’t surprize me much.
Update:
Yes, it seems that (as usual) skepticism is indicated. (That’s with the caveat that polygraph tests are not scientific). What’s wrong with some people? I mean, you expect this stuff from the Left. But when someone ostensibly on our side goes all walkies like this it adds disappointment and incredulity to the mix.
Final Update:
I was out of town for a few days and missed this. Sadly, the fact that she was a Ron Paul supporter partially explains the behavior. How I used to like that man. It made it hard to take when he turned out to be the crazy uncle.
Brace Yourselves
House Democrats want to wet their beaks in your 401(k).
“I want to stop the federal subsidy of 401(k)s,” Ghilarducci said in an interview. “401(k)s can continue to exist, but they won’t have the benefit of the subsidy of the tax break.”
To The Undecided Voter
Neal Boortz has a letter you should read.
Yeah … I guess it’s OK if you form a close relationship with a bomb-throwing terrorist, as long as he threw the bombs when you were a kid. Works for me. Work for you? In a similar vein, It must be OK if your pastor rails against America, as long as you aren’t in church on those particular days. Or maybe we should say as long as nobody remembers actually seeing you in church on those days.
One interesting point: If Barack Obama was applying for a security clearance as a government employee, these associations would disqualify him. We are, my friends, about to have a president who doesn’t qualify for a security clearance. Pretty pathetic. If Barack Obama becomes president, he would not even qualify to be his own bodyguard.
(Emphasis mine.)
Obama’s Funny Money
Well, a former “community organizer” involved in organizing voter fraud certainly wouldn’t lose any sleep over donations from Della Ware of Far Far Away, DE. Later on he can just blame it on a software glitch. Hard to believe that John Galt is giving him money, though.
Update:
Perhaps they’ve been shamed into reinstating security checks. Meanwhile, an emailer in the credit card business writes:
So let’s lay out a hypothetical situation. You’re in a business that takes payments. You expect some level of outright credit card fraud. Those transactions will be charged back, and you will owe fees on them, unless you use AVS [Address Verification Service] to prevent them. You also have a substantial number of customers who for whatever reason wish to remain anonymous. Your anonymous customers won’t do business with you if you use AVS, but you’re confident that this set of customers will not dispute their charges. The calculus is simple. If the revenues you expect from anonymous customers exceeds the fees you expect to pay from cardholder disputes leading to chargebacks, then the smart business decision is to turn off AVS.
Now if it’s against the law for customers to do business with you anonymously, then facilitating anonymous transactions goes beyond just being a business decision. But if the consequences of looking the other way are no more than having to refund the money several months down the road, then maybe you’re happy to take the money as an interest free loan in the meantime.
Another Update:
Stop testing it! You’re just giving more money to the corrupt Chicago politician!
Changing World Views with Dr. Helen
We could use more women like her.
Dr. Helen Smith: Most of the complaints and emails I get from men have to do with their personal relationships with women. They are on the fence about getting married, getting too involved with women and are very concerned about the misandry that is rampant in our culture. They are afraid they will lose their livelihoods, their kids and their relationship if their marriage does not work out and the courts and society will be against them.
I think men’s biggest problem is not being willing to fight back against a female for any reason. It is in-bred through evolution and culture that men take whatever is dished out by a female and remain silent or give in. Just watch any show or take a look at the marriages around you to see that men acquiesce in relationships time and time again and are trained in our society to do so.
BC: It seems that males readily accept their own diminishment. Is this a product of chivalry?
Dr. Helen Smith: My colleague and friend, Richard Driscoll, has a new book out entitled, You Still Don’t Understand, in which he spends two chapters discussing chivalry. He states that it has been found that women berate men their husbands almost twice as often as men berate their wives. “Chivalrous standards,” he explains, “accept women who complain about being mistreated and oppressed, but it is extraordinarily foolish for a man to complain as he would reveal himself a loser and a weakling and would garner contempt or pity but no support.”
BC: Does chivalry serve any purpose anymore? Can the concept and practice of chivalry co-exist with the notion of equality?
Dr. Helen Smith: Chivalry initially was about survival of the species, in some sense. Men who protected women were more likely to mate with them, or were given rewards from the tribe for doing so whereas men who were cowards or scumbags were ostracized. Chivalry, according to Driscoll, seemed to have functioned over hundreds of thousands of years to keep families together, obligating men to support their wives and children and punishing men who failed to do so.
However, families have changed. Now chivalry acts to drive families apart. Family courts try to punish men for not supporting the woman and deny that fathers are important in order to protect mothers. The result is more fighting in the family and driving the man out of the lives of his kids. Boys are more likely to become delinquent, angry and emotionally disturbed and girls are more likely to be promiscuous and have emotional issues without their father present. With equality, we must reduce our tendency to side with women to the detriment of men, it is unfair, sexist, and results in tearing families apart.
