Is that a problem? Should we be lamenting the lack of diversity in the top ranks of competitive student spellers? Ought Scripps and ESPN (which broadcasts the annual spelling bee) manipulate the rules — the way Harvard, for example, has manipulated its admissions standards — to ensure that more non-Asians make it to the final rounds? . . .
Source: Non-diversity and the spelling bee :: Jeff Jacoby
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“Equality of Opportunity”; not “Equality of Results”!
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“Government healthcare is the first step to cyanide showers.”
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That seems accurate!
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AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Anti-gun politicians have a standard script they tend to follow in the wake of a mass shooting. It seems that no matter what gun control bill they’re advancing, that is the key to averting the mass shooting.
Source: Dem Rep Illustrates Standard Anti-Gun Stupidity Following Virginia Beach
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It’s not about lives to them, but legislation. Unless Nadler is a complete and total moron–a fact I’m not willing to rule out completely–he knows there’s not any information to suggest that HR8 would have made any difference in this shooting. None whatsoever. He just hopes that the voters are too freaking stupid to catch this fact.
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I often wonder about politicians and bureaucrats, who push their agendas and pet projects regardless of their applicability to the situation at hand. I think we need a special adjective to describe this behavior and I can’t think of one that applies.
Maybe you the reader can help?
It’s worst than “dishonest”. It’s worse than “despicable”. It’s worse than “deplorable”.
Argh!
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Does it concern you that the FBI claimed “collection tool failure” in stating that 19,000 text messages between former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strozk had been deleted and were unavailable for review by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general? Is it worth investigating how the inspector general was able to recover the messages, when the FBI said it could not? Does the FBI lack the technical expertise, or the will? Isn’t it a serious issue that should be addressed, either way?
Source: Attkisson: 10 Questions I’d Ask Robert Mueller (If I Were Allowed) | Zero Hedge
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If this IT guy was on Wall Street, he’d have been fired on the spot!
That’s only because having that person “drawn and quartered” is permitted.
Argh!
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To comply with California’s ridiculously ineffective SB 880 gun law, AR-15 owners must use a fixed magazine. With this configuration, shooters must disassemble the firearm in order to load a second magazine. Gunsmiths across the country have been developing new concepts to sidestep these backwards laws. Mean Arms went the other direction and looked to […]
Source: Gunsmith uses 19th Century technology to fight ridiculous gun laws
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Meet the MA Loader, a detachable polymer loading device that attaches to the weapon’s ejection port. What’s basically a 10-round stripper clip in a plastic guide lets the shooter rapidly feed fresh rounds into the fixed magazine. After the MA Loader is removed the bolt slams shut and chambers the first round.
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I love when the “free market” satisfies demand and frustrates the Gooferment’s politicians and bureaucrats efforts.
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Finally, I would eliminate government schools, which in the inner cities does nothing but destroy minds and spirit–and distorts the thinking of youth in all other non-inner city schools.I am, more and more, beginning to think that government schools are the most dangerous institutions in America. I would end government-funded “education” of all kinds, including for all public schools and for all voucher programs.
Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Solving the Homeless Situation in American Cities
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Good luck with that. I agree completely. But the Gooferment Skrules are politically controlled by powerful unions that have the politicians and bureaucrats on a leash. And, they are the closest thing to a national religion we have.
Argh!
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Where is the treasure? Where are the assets? Where’s the loot?
Source: Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions – Reason.com
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Sounds like typical Gooferment bureaucrat “barbara streisand”!
The phrase “no accepted medical use” rings hollow when so many are using it as side-effect free pain reliever?
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A World War II-era veteran returns to the air: “Miss Montana” joins other planes for a trip to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day – CBS News
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Argh. What at brave men.
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Representatives from the Mills College Lokey School presented data from its recent ‘business conditions’ survey to our City Council on Tuesday. The study confirmed what restaurant owners warned when the ordinance was hastily passed in 2015. They are struggling, rapidly raising menu prices and increasingly looking to leave. …It’s getting harder to find small food service businesses that were around in 2015 when the MWO was passed. Emeryville institution Bucci’s, Commonwealth, Farley’s, Scarlet City … all gone. In fact, nearly all the brick & mortar businesses that comprised the short-lived Little City Emeryville small business advocacy group have moved, folded or sold. …The survey also identified that “the restaurant industry is clearly struggling.” Specifically, small, independent, non-franchise establishments are having the most difficulty.
Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: California Town Sees Businesses Vanish Following Minimum Wage Hike
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The politicians and bureaucrats don’t understand the Laws of Economics are just like the Laws of Physics and not like the “Laws” that Gooferment passes.
It’s really unfair to use the same word “law” to apply to the fundamentals of the Universe and the diktats of politicians! If the Eskimos can have a lot of words for snow, then the English language should have two different words for “Universal Laws” and “political diktats”!
Argh!
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One of the problems with federal hand-out programs is that individuals take advantage of them and scam artists outright loot them. You see this in programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, school lunches, earned income tax credits, housing aid, student loans, and farm subsidies.Daily Beast writer Evan Wright has an appalling story of Christopher Bathum, who looted addiction-treatment funds made available by the Obamacare law. The law required addiction-treatment funding by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance companies.
Source: Federal Subsidies Spur Massive Fraud | Cato @ Liberty
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Sorry but all Gooferment “handouts” have “Unintended Consequences”.
The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
Argh!
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