Thursday, September 21, 2017
Canadian School Bans Cartwheeling, Because We Can't Be Too Careful - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Canadian School Bans Cartwheeling, Because We Can't Be Too Careful - Hit & Run : Reason.com"Yes, a school in Canada banned cartwheels.
What's worst about this is the school's reasoning:
Cartwheels have been banned at M.T. Davidson Public School in Callander.Cartwheels are not permitted on school property in the playground rules section of the school's draft handbook for 2017-18. The rule came into effect this school year even though injuries have not been reported, principal Todd Gribbon admitted."The activity can cause concussions, and neck and wrist injuries," he said.
True—any activity, including a cartwheel, can cause injury.
Walking down the stairs can cause falls resulting in concussions, neck, and wrist injuries.
Walking outside can get you hit by a car.
Swimmers can drown.
Bakers can catch their hair on fire.
Those brave enough to consume solid food can choke.
Students sitting still too long can get embolisms...."
Walking down the stairs can cause falls resulting in concussions, neck, and wrist injuries.
Walking outside can get you hit by a car.
Swimmers can drown.
Bakers can catch their hair on fire.
Those brave enough to consume solid food can choke.
Students sitting still too long can get embolisms...."
Revelations of Comey Wiretapping Manafort May Explain “Uncomfortable” March 20th Congressional Answer… | The Last Refuge
Revelations of Comey Wiretapping Manafort May Explain “Uncomfortable” March 20th Congressional Answer… | The Last Refuge:
"Knowing that former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort was wiretapped by the Obama Administration via the FBI, James Comey, let’s take another look at Comey’s testimony.
New York Representative Elise Stefanik begins her March 20th, 2017, questioning by asking director Comey what are the typical protocols, broad standards and procedures for notifying the Director of National Intelligence, the White House and senior congressional leadership (aka the intelligence Gang of Eight), when the FBI has opened a counter-intelligence investigation.
The parseltongue response from Comey is a generalized reply (with uncomfortable body language) that notification of counter-intel investigations are discussed with the White House, and other pertinent officials, on a calendar basis, ie. “quarterly”."
"Knowing that former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort was wiretapped by the Obama Administration via the FBI, James Comey, let’s take another look at Comey’s testimony.
New York Representative Elise Stefanik begins her March 20th, 2017, questioning by asking director Comey what are the typical protocols, broad standards and procedures for notifying the Director of National Intelligence, the White House and senior congressional leadership (aka the intelligence Gang of Eight), when the FBI has opened a counter-intelligence investigation.
The parseltongue response from Comey is a generalized reply (with uncomfortable body language) that notification of counter-intel investigations are discussed with the White House, and other pertinent officials, on a calendar basis, ie. “quarterly”."
Let's not get used to violent progressive activism - The College Fix
Let's not get used to violent progressive activism - The College Fix
We should not ‘normalize’ this behavior under any circumstances
We should not ‘normalize’ this behavior under any circumstances
In what has become an all-too-frequent occurrence, a recent protest on a college campus turned violent: students at Georgia Tech, who turned out to mourn the police shooting of a fellow student and criticize the police for doing it, ended up clashing with police, setting fire to a police car and scuffling with officers in the street. Three people were arrested and two cops were injured.
The shooting in question appears to have been one of “suicide-by-cop;” the young man who was shot left behind suicide notes, phoned in the police call that led to his death, and urged officers to shoot him while he came at them with a knife. In this light, the violent protests seem all the more misplaced and counterproductive.
We seem to have taken it as a matter of course that, upon becoming upset, a percentage of leftists will inevitably resort to violent behavior, up to and including assault, especially on college campuses where progressive ideology is effectively ubiquitous.
At Berkeley this assumption is so ingrained that the school recently spent more than half a million dollars on security when conservative speaker Ben Shapiro came to speak. $600,000 just so a relatively mainstream political commentator could come to a public university: is something wrong with this picture?
But they would have been so anyway, as all useless violent demonstrations invariably are.
But we have dug ourselves into something of a pit in this regard.
As Megan McCardle points out this week, our political culture has “normalized the Left’s violence.” We seem to have taken it as a matter of course that, upon becoming upset, a percentage of leftists will inevitably resort to violent behavior, up to and including assault, especially on college campuses where progressive ideology is effectively ubiquitous.
At Berkeley this assumption is so ingrained that the school recently spent more than half a million dollars on security when conservative speaker Ben Shapiro came to speak. $600,000 just so a relatively mainstream political commentator could come to a public university: is something wrong with this picture?
There is something deeply broken about a political environment that seems to have become more or less inured to violence as a workaday sort of occurrence..."
Read on!
Here's 13 things that make people dislike you immediately, according to science - ScienceAlert
Here's 13 things that make people dislike you immediately, according to science - ScienceAlert:
"...Below, Business Insider rounded up various scientific findings on the traits and behaviours that make people dislike you, both online and in person.
1. Sharing too many photos on Facebook
If you're the kind of person who shares snapshots of your honeymoon, cousin's graduation, and dog dressed in a Halloween costume all in the same day, you might want to stop.
A 2013 study found that posting too many photos on Facebook can hurt your real-life relationships.
"This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves," lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.
Specifically, friends don't like it when you've got too many photos of family, and relatives don't like it when you've got too many photos of friends.
Ben Marder, of the University of Edinburgh, also worked on the study, and warned: "Be cautious when sharing and think how it will be perceived by all the others who may see it. Although sharing is a great way to better relationships, it can also damage them."
2. Having too many, or too few, Facebook friends
In a 2008 study, Michigan State University researchers asked college students to look at fictional Facebook profiles and decide how much they liked the profiles' owners..."
Don't bother to read on.
The article is not the point.
This is what passes for "research" and "scientific findings" in our universities?!!
What a waste of public money!
And a waste of brainpower... if there is any left.
"...Below, Business Insider rounded up various scientific findings on the traits and behaviours that make people dislike you, both online and in person.
1. Sharing too many photos on Facebook
A 2013 study found that posting too many photos on Facebook can hurt your real-life relationships.
"This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves," lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.
Specifically, friends don't like it when you've got too many photos of family, and relatives don't like it when you've got too many photos of friends.
Ben Marder, of the University of Edinburgh, also worked on the study, and warned: "Be cautious when sharing and think how it will be perceived by all the others who may see it. Although sharing is a great way to better relationships, it can also damage them."
2. Having too many, or too few, Facebook friends
In a 2008 study, Michigan State University researchers asked college students to look at fictional Facebook profiles and decide how much they liked the profiles' owners..."
Don't bother to read on.
The article is not the point.
This is what passes for "research" and "scientific findings" in our universities?!!
What a waste of public money!
And a waste of brainpower... if there is any left.
Remember When James Clapper Categorically Denied Any Wiretap Against Trump Campaign? | Mediaite
Remember When James Clapper Categorically Denied Any Wiretap Against Trump Campaign? | Mediaite:
"Why in the world would the mainstream media continue to take James Clapper seriously?
In March the former Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama appeared on Meet the Press to respond to President Donald Trump‘s now-infamous tweets regarding a “wiretap” related to his campaign during the Obama Administration. Host Chuck Todd asked Clapper point-blank whether any wiretap had occurred:"
"Why in the world would the mainstream media continue to take James Clapper seriously?In March the former Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama appeared on Meet the Press to respond to President Donald Trump‘s now-infamous tweets regarding a “wiretap” related to his campaign during the Obama Administration. Host Chuck Todd asked Clapper point-blank whether any wiretap had occurred:"
Ohio State tells students only white people can be racist - The College Fix
Ohio State tells students only white people can be racist - The College Fix
‘Interrupting Racism: Tips & Tools for White People’ workshop
A workshop held at Ohio State University on Tuesday taught white student attendees about their “privilege,” how to not act racist, and that it’s impossible for white people to be victims of racism and only white people can be racist.
The event, titled “Interrupting Racism: Tips & Tools for White People,” was one of the many programs the public university’s multicultural center will host as part of its “Ally Week of Action,” currently underway.
The center’s workshop aimed to teach white students how to “develop a personal plan of action to interrupt racism,” according to the university’s website.
It added that all were welcome to the “Interrupting Racism” workshop, however its content had a “focus on skill building amongst white identified people...”
Read on!
‘Interrupting Racism: Tips & Tools for White People’ workshop
The event, titled “Interrupting Racism: Tips & Tools for White People,” was one of the many programs the public university’s multicultural center will host as part of its “Ally Week of Action,” currently underway.
The center’s workshop aimed to teach white students how to “develop a personal plan of action to interrupt racism,” according to the university’s website.
It added that all were welcome to the “Interrupting Racism” workshop, however its content had a “focus on skill building amongst white identified people...”
Read on!
Hours After Hurricane Irma, Miami-Dade County Tickets Residents for Code Violations [Updated] - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Hours After Hurricane Irma, Miami-Dade County Tickets Residents for Code Violations [Updated] - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Mere hours after Hurricane Irma, Miami-Dade County was ticketing residents for building code violations on their wrecked properties.
Celso Perez was helping his neighbors remove some fallen trees blocking their street when a county code enforcer rolled up and issued him a safety notice for having a downed fence.
"I laughed," Perez tells WSVN-TV.
"I thought he was kidding.
'You are kidding right?
We just had a hurricane six hours ago.'"
It wasn't a joke. The official told Perez that the downed fence—which encloses a pool—was a safety hazard, and that if it wasn't fixed by the time he returned, Perez would be hit with a fine.
The official then hung the safety citation on the portion of Perez's fence that remained standing, leaving him and his neighbors to finish clearing the debris from their street.
According to WSVN, the county has handed out 680 safety notices for downed pool barriers, and another 177 electrical hazard safety notices..."
Read on!
"Mere hours after Hurricane Irma, Miami-Dade County was ticketing residents for building code violations on their wrecked properties.
Celso Perez was helping his neighbors remove some fallen trees blocking their street when a county code enforcer rolled up and issued him a safety notice for having a downed fence."I laughed," Perez tells WSVN-TV.
"I thought he was kidding.
'You are kidding right?
We just had a hurricane six hours ago.'"
It wasn't a joke. The official told Perez that the downed fence—which encloses a pool—was a safety hazard, and that if it wasn't fixed by the time he returned, Perez would be hit with a fine.
The official then hung the safety citation on the portion of Perez's fence that remained standing, leaving him and his neighbors to finish clearing the debris from their street.
According to WSVN, the county has handed out 680 safety notices for downed pool barriers, and another 177 electrical hazard safety notices..."
Read on!
The National Nervous Breakdown, and How to Exploit it Ruthlessly
Ace of Spades HQ:
In the old days, the media liked to pretend that it was conservatives who were super-crazy-ideological, and that liberals were not even liberals at all, they were non-ideological and non-partisan creatures, who only reluctantly engage in politics, only compelled to engage with it at all by their deep inner goodness to do what's best for everyone.
"I'm going to add some italics for emphasis.
New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor said Wednesday that she knows people who are "still in therapy" over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s election loss to President Donald Trump...
Oh my, look at all those floridly emotional, mental-unwellness-signalling words.
Video at the link.
I've repeatedly noted that half of the country is clinically insane, driven mad by the election of Donald Trump and the blow to their own egos, their sense that they are the Masters of the Universe and control their fellow countrymen, producing daily neurotic spasms on Twitter, and are virally infecting normal people with their toxic mental derangement.
(Don't comment on old threads -- the system automatically bans you, thinking you're a comment-spammer.)
Okay, let me talk about how to exploit that, or how it will do its own exploiting for us.
But not political.
Oh dear, not that.
You may remember when conservatives objected to being identified as a "conservative advocate" by the media, whereas the out-and-proud liberal they were squared off against was identified only as "an expert" in whatever policy field they were debating..."
Read on!
12 Pieces Of Proof: The MSM Knew Obama Spied On Trump and LIED To Cover It Up | Daily Wire
12 Pieces Of Proof: The MSM Knew Obama Spied On Trump and LIED To Cover It Up | Daily Wire:
"What I am about to present to you is what really happened. All the proof is linked below, but what I'm about to do is what I call "Revealing the Matrix," showing you the truth backed by incontrovertible fact and the media's own words. Not my words. Not President Trump's words. The media's words.
We're gunna cut through all the code, all the spin, all the fog, all the lies, and all the Coordinated Narratives used by our media to obscure Truth.
And we will begin with the beguine …"
We're gunna cut through all the code, all the spin, all the fog, all the lies, and all the Coordinated Narratives used by our media to obscure Truth.
And we will begin with the beguine …"
The Everything Bubble Is Ready To Pop | Zero Hedge
The Everything Bubble Is Ready To Pop | Zero Hedge:
"...It wasn’t always this way.
We never used to get a giant, speculative bubble every 7–8 years.
We really didn’t.
...Why do we call it the everything bubble?
Well, there is a bubble in a bunch of asset classes simultaneously.
And the infographic below that my colleagues at Mauldin Economics created paints the picture best."
"...It wasn’t always this way.
We never used to get a giant, speculative bubble every 7–8 years.
We really didn’t.
- In 2000, we had the dot-com bubble.
- In 2007, we had the housing bubble.
- In 2017, we have the everything bubble.
...Why do we call it the everything bubble?
Well, there is a bubble in a bunch of asset classes simultaneously.
And the infographic below that my colleagues at Mauldin Economics created paints the picture best."
History for September 21
History for September 21 - On-This-Day.com
H.G. Wells 1866, Larry Hagman 1931 - Actor ("I Dream of Jeanie," "Dallas"), James Woolsey 1941
Stephen King 1947 - Author, Bill Murray 1950 - Actor, Mark Reed Levin 1957 - Lawyer, author, radio show host
1893 - Frank Duryea took what is believed to be the first gasoline- powered automobile for a test drive. The "horseless carriage" was designed by Frank and Charles Duryea.
1897 - The New York Sun ran the "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial. It was in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon.
1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" was first published.
1948 - Milton Berle debuted as the host of "The Texaco Star Theater" on NBC-TV. The show later became "The Milton Berle Show." Berle was the regular host until 1967.
1949 - Communist leaders proclaimed The People's Republic of China.
1957 - "Perry Mason", the television series, made its debut on CBS-TV. The show was on for 9 years.
1970 - "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC-TV. The game was between the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets. The Browns won 31-21.
1981 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
LIBERTY REVIEW
LIBERTY REVIEW:
https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-happened-by-tammy-derouin-when.html
What happened? Well, when you deceive
the American people, profit from your position as a public servant,
lie about so many things from one end of the alphabet to the other
from Benghazi to Uranium, put foreign countries, such as our enemies,
before the interests of the American people, and then call millions
of Americans deplorable, because they support a candidate who calls
for law and order, it's bound to catch up with you.
For eight years we watched an
administration in which Ms. Clinton had an active role; lie, deceive
and target the American people. We watched as the media not only
ignored the truth but reinvented the truth to promote an agenda which
did more harm to our country than good. We watched an administration
master the blame game. When things went wrong or when things were
exposed which could be potentially harmful to their agenda, there was
always an excuse or someone else to blame. Opportunities arose out of
a crisis and a crisis introduced new opportunities.......
https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/09/what-happened-by-tammy-derouin-when.html
What Happened?
By Tammy Derouin
When integrity and truth were allowed
to vanish from our standards, our society suffered and our country
took a wrong turn. Right now, we are watching a defeated presidential
candidate who lost because of her own actions, promote herself as a
victim. The reality of defeat is just too difficult for some
individuals to confront. It could never be their own fault, so they
have to blame someone else or make up stories to make themselves look
better.
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