The director of Northeastern University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program claims …

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The director of Northeastern University’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program claims it is “logical to hate men,” asserting that it is time for feminists “to go all Thelma and Louise…on their collective butts.”

That didn’t work out very well for Thelma or Louise.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): 
As a colleague said at the time, what really happens in the Thelma & Louise movie is that two women get out from under male supervision, immediately do a lot of stupid things, then commit suicide. 
And the only voice of sanity is the older white male cop (Harvey Keitel), whom they ignore. 
And yet it’s portrayed as some sort of feminist masterpiece.--Posted by Stephen Green"

#1 This day 1958-----Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater (1958)

The Ethical Principle of ‘Epikeia’ | Intellectual Takeout

The Ethical Principle of ‘Epikeia’ | Intellectual Takeout

• "It’s 2 a.m. and Claire has been stuck at a red light for five minutes. She knows that it’s against the law to run a red light. However, no other cars are in sight, and it seems ridiculous to wait for the light to turn green. Should she run the red light and continue her drive home?
• Brian knows that public urination is against the law. However, there are no restrooms around, and he has to go to the bathroom very badly. He happens to have a susceptibility to bladder infections, and has been hospitalized a couple of times because of them. Should he go ahead and relieve himself in the nearby alley?

How to deal with these moral dilemmas?
Well, there’s an ethical principle for that!
It’s called epikeia.
Epikeia is a Greek word meaning “reasonableness”..."
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Fed Judge Rules Against Mueller: He Must Name Unidentified Persons in Manafort Indictment

Fed Judge Rules Against Mueller: He Must Name Unidentified Persons in Manafort Indictment:

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller must identify unnamed individuals in an indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Last week, Mueller indicted Manafort and his former aide, Konstantin Kilimnik, on a series of charges related to lobbying work they did on behalf of Ukraine, The Hill reported.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered Mueller’s team to turn over the names of several individuals and organizations referred to but not named in the indictment by Friday.

Lubbock, Texas school district spent $1.4 million on hotels, airlines — in one year! | EAGnews.org

Lubbock, Texas school district spent $1.4 million on hotels, airlines — in one year! | EAGnews.org
LUBBOCK, Texas – The Lubbock Independent School District has its own travel department.
If that’s not a red flag for taxpayers, it certainly should be. 
When a government department of any type exists, you can be sure that a lot of tax dollars are spent.
When it came to employee and student travel in the Lubbock school district, that certainly appears to be the case.
In fiscal 2016-17, the Lubbock district spent more than $1 million at hotels alone.
The exact total was $1,028,067.49, according to our tally, through 2,373 district travel card transactions.
...The school district also spent $395,321.76 on airline fares and fees through 1,158 travel card transactions, according to our calculations..."
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History for June 16

History for June 16 - On-This-Day.com
Stan Laurel 1890, Katherine Graham 1917, Erich Segal 1937


Roberto Duran 1951 - Boxer, Phil Mickelson 1970 - Golf player, Tupac Shakur 1971 - Rapper


1858 - In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."


1884 - At Coney Island, in Brooklyn, NY, the first roller coaster in America opened.


1883 - The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day.


1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated.


1952 - "My Little Margie" debuted on CBS-TV.


1980 - The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL.


1996 - Russian voters had their first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin was the winner after a run-off.


2000 - U.S. federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corp. The merger created the nation's largest local phone company.

James Comey was 'insubordinate,' FBI wracked by leaks in 2016 campaign probe - Washington Times

James Comey was 'insubordinate,' FBI wracked by leaks in 2016 campaign probe - Washington Times:

Top FBI officials regularly broke Justice Department rules during the 2016 presidential election, the department’s inspector general said Thursday, calling fired Director James Comey “insubordinate,” saying others violated their recusals from the Clinton investigation, and a top agent’s political bias might have skewed the bureau’s decisions in the run-up to Election Day.
The agent, Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, said in an August 2016 text message to his paramour, then-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, that they would “stop” then-candidate Donald Trump from winning the White House.
Ms. Page wanted reassurance that Mr. Trump wouldn’t win the election. Mr. Strzok replied: “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”

The way we were-----My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli

Boob-tube-----58 TV Commercials from 1977

Iranian Deal Disaster from Start | National Review

Iranian Deal Disaster from Start | National Review
"The more we learn about it — as Iranian and Obama-administration deceptions are uncovered — the more we know it was a disaster from the start.
When Donald Trump withdrew from the so-called Iran deal in early May, almost all conventional wisdom in Washington was aghast.
The Left thought nullification would fast-track Iranian proliferation, incite more Iranian terrorism and adventurism, estrange our allies, and alienate a possible new friend.
Many on the conservative side (aside from Never Trumpers who are against anything Trump is for, including their own prior policies) thought it would have been wiser to back out slowly, or at least to have waited first for the duplicitous Iranians to get caught in clear violations, or to coordinate a joint withdrawal with the Europeans.
Few of these critics ever quite understood that the deal was already a stinking corpse, long overdue for burial. Iranian cunning and the strategic thinking about the asymmetrical deal had always aimed at the following trajectory..."
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Dumbing down? New study suggests young people's IQs are in decline — RT World News

Dumbing down? New study suggests young people's IQs are in decline — RT World News:
"A new study, conducted by Norwegian scientists, shows that IQ scores of today’s young people are in decline, putting an end to the post-war trend of rising intelligence.
After the Second World War young people’s IQs were steadily rising.
It was dubbed the Flynn effect after New Zealand intelligence researcher James Flynn.
This phenomenon saw average IQ scores rise about three points per decade.
...The study revealed that the IQ points of those tested peaked among those born in 1975, while people born in 1991 scored five points lower..."
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IG Report: FBI Agents Regularly Received Free Handouts From Journalists | The Daily Caller

IG Report: FBI Agents Regularly Received Free Handouts From Journalists | The Daily Caller:

The Department of Justice inspector general identified a number of instances where FBI employees regularly spoke with members of the media and received a number of free perks from journalists including meals and tickets to various events.
On page XII in the report, the IG says the department “identified numerous FBI employees, at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media, who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters.”
The IG expressed “profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered our review.”

News - Our Nation’s Defense Is Too Important To Hire But One Cloud Storage Company | Heartland Institute

News - Our Nation’s Defense Is Too Important To Hire But One Cloud Storage Company | Heartland Institute
"I would be perfectly fine with – and actually feel a whole lot better – if the DoD created three backups of everything. 
Maybe even four would be good.
...As I write, I repeatedly save my work to the computer’s desktop and to my cloud service backup.  (I remain thus far un-sponsored – so no brand name mentions.)
Why do I have two simultaneous backups constantly going? 
Because I do not like re-doing things.
...Nothing I scrawl is of national security import or carries a government classification.
So one would think when a government agency like the Department of Defense (DoD) looks to get into the cloud storage business, they would absolutely look to have multiple redundancies for the things they are looking to store.
This is our nation’s defense, after all..."
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The Inspector General Put Together An FBI Leak Chart And It's Insane

The Inspector General Put Together An FBI Leak Chart And It's Insane
"The Department of Justice inspector general report released today includes two elaborate charts mapping the volume of communications identified between FBI employees and members of the media in April, May, and October 2016.

“We have profound concerns about the volume and extent of unauthorized media contacts by FBI personnel that we have uncovered during our review,” the report states.
Here’s “Attachment H” in the IG report.

Creepy!
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Lunch video-----Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids

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Robert Mueller seeks 150 blank subpoenas for Manafort trial - Washington Times

Robert Mueller seeks 150 blank subpoenas for Manafort trial - Washington Times:

Special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday asked for 150 blank subpoenas in the Eastern District of Virginia where he has filed charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
The request covers 75 potential subpoenas. In legal cases, two subpoenas are issued for each witness with one going to the individual and a second sent to the court.

Written Feb 06, 2017 -----The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly. - Kurt Schlichter

The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly. - Kurt Schlichter
"They hate you.
Leftists don’t merely disagree with you. 
They don’t merely feel you are misguided. 
They don’t think you are merely wrong. 
They hate you. 
They want you enslaved and obedient, if not dead.
Once you get that, everything that is happening now will make sense.
And you will understand what you need to be ready to do.
You are normal, and therefore a heretic.
You refuse to bow to their idols, to subscribe to their twisted catechisms, to praise their false gods.
This is unforgivable.
You must burn.
Crazy talk? 
Just ask them. 
Go ahead.
Go on social media.
Find a leftist – it’s easy.
Just say something positive about America or Jesus and they’ll come swarming like locusts.
Engage them and very quickly they will drop their masks and tell you what they really think.
I know.
I keep a rapidly expanding file of Twitter leftist death wish screenshots..."

Steve Russo - Ramadan 2018, Day 30 Well, this is it folks! The...

Steve Russo - Ramadan 2018, Day 30 Well, this is it folks! The...

Steve Russo

Ramadan 2018, Day 30

Well, this is it folks! 
The last day of Ramadan to see how many followers of the Religion of Peace... wiped out believers and non believers alike. 
And it seems that the Mohammadims have been making up for a slow start this year. 
There's a few hours left, maybe they still can surpass last year's numbers.

A suspected extremist stabs two people to death at a rival mosque.
https://www.news24.com/…/intense-divisions-among-muslim-cle…

A newspaper editor who advocated for peace is gunned down by terrorists along with two guards.
https://www.cnn.com/…/journalist-killed-kashmir…/index.html…

A married couple is forever torn asunder by a Mujahideen bomb blast.
http://www.kurdistan24.net/…/39a74ab5-3861-41d5-bcef-e96c88…

Two civilians are tortured and murdered by militants shouting praises to Allah.
https://www.libyaobserver.ly/…/khalifa-haftar%E2%80%99s-mil…

An elderly man is beheaded by Islamic radicals.
http://clubofmozambique.com/…/breaking-insurgents-wreak-de…/

Allah-Praising Man Storms Belgian Restaurant with Knife…
http://www.breitbart.com/…/muslim-threatens-weapon-shopkee…/

#1 This day 1977-----Fleetwood Mac - Dreams [with lyrics]

Yes, they hate us. They really do.-----IG Report: FBI Agent Said Trump Voters 'Poor, Uneducated, Lazy, POS' | Rule of Law

IG Report: FBI Agent Said Trump Voters 'Poor, Uneducated, Lazy, POS' | Rule of Law
"The Justice Department inspector general released a 500-plus page report on  misconduct by FBI agents and DOJ staff working on the Hillary Clinton investigations. 
Among many other topics, the IG report documents the content of texts and instant messages sent by FBI agents.
The communications show favoritism towards Hillary in the agents' personal views, but also in how various aspects of the investigation should be conducted. 
They also reveal a rancid contempt towards Donald Trump as well as Americans who support him.

...The texts and communications by the investigative team reveal  contempt toward Trump and mainstream America.

One FBI agent on the Hillary investigation wrote in an FBI text:

Trump’s supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.

"POS" is the agent's acronym for "Pieces Of S***."
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