If there is a profession that offers less utility to society than sociologist, I don't know what it is. Case in point is an article in The Atlantic criticizing our gendered expectations of those in service industries.
Titled How ‘Service With a Smile’ Takes a Toll on Women, the essay is by sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield. Service workers are expected to be pleasant to their customers. This, according to Wingfield, "reinforces workplace gender inequality."
To solidify her argument, Wingfield provides testimony from three other sociologists. Sociologist Arlie Hochschild wonders "who 'owns' emotions when organizations can require workers to feel happy."
Thus professions like flight attendant are seen as a natural job for women, "given the expectations of nurturing attached." Yes, for women, or homosexual men.
I thought the whole argument for bringing women into the workplace is to take advantage of women's particular gifts, talents and capacities. Tomorrow the citizens of Iowa will caucus for the most important workplace in the world. One candidate for the job, Hillary Clinton, has based her entire campaign on the fact that as a woman, she will bring a unique skill set. Whatever unique aptitudes she may possess, the last thing I think of when I hear her name is "nurturing."
Sociologists like Wingfield and Hochschile and Louwanda Evans are constantly bitching about men being held to different standards in the workplace than women. Perhaps this is due to the Feminist Prime Directive: all of society's resources must be managed by women.
Yet another sociologist cited in the article, Jennifer Pierce, contends that there are gendered expectations for women in the legal field. "Male attorneys— generally speaking— are allowed and even expected to be aggressive and domineering, [but] that does not extend to female attorneys." We don't want assertive female attorneys, really?
Since sociology is the study of society, I would recommend otherwise useless practitioners start planning for the inevitable disruptions in the workplace.
Waitresses are by and large going to be replaced by apps. What restaurant is going to bother with women agitating for paid time off for PMS and their menstrual cycles, when they can just replace them with an iPad? The only interaction with a human being will be the hostess who seats them and runs their food.
It will happen, just as it happened to bank tellers. Disruption will happen to lawyers, too. And the sooner it happens to sociologists, the sooner these women can drop the agitation and busy themselves with babies.
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Center For Medical Progress Indicted
The editors of The New York Times have weighed in.
"One after the other, investigations of Planned Parenthood prompted by hidden-camera videos released last summer have found no evidence of wrongdoing." Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is moral or right.
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were indicted on one felony charge each. Tampering with government records. The grand jury that returned the indictments gave no details on the charge, but the New York Times says they are "probably connected to their alleged use of fake driver’s licenses to get into a Planned Parenthood office."
They used a fake ID? Every third college kid in America uses a fake ID to get into a club.
They used a fake ID? Ten million job-stealing, wage-devaluing Latino immigrants use fake ID's and social security cards to steal jobs from native-born workers and depress their wages.
The New York Times concludes that "The indictments should cause politicians to back away from an anti-abortion group that will stop at nothing to attack Planned Parenthood."
Pro-life politicians represent constituents who are convicted that the unborn were unfairly stripped of their due process rights in Roe v. Wade. They also represent their conscience. The Abortion Industrial Complex wants to tar pro-life people of conscience with the "guilt-by-association" fallacy.
I've seen charts that link Center For Medical Progress with Family Research Council. Fantastic! The foundation of the republic is the family, and I support both organizations.
The New York Times referred to the information revealed by the full-length, unedited videos release by Center For Medical Progress as "falsehoods."
Planned Parenthood delayed and altered abortion procedures to maximize the viability of fetal organs, then sold the organs and shipped them across state lines. Research facilities had to be told beforehand to make sure they knew the box coming via courier contained severed baby heads. That meets the criteria of trafficking. Whether the baby parts were profitable or not is a little besides the point.
What the pro-life movement needs is a national organization like the NRA.
Oh, and Center For Medical Progress has been sued in civil court. All I know is, that Planned Parenthood has somehow maintained their public image and approval ratings despite their practices. Now that they have filed suit, they will be subject to the discovery process. Forensic accountants will be able to comb through the financial records of Planned Parenthood and use that information to defend Center For Medical Progress. I'm looking forward to that.
"One after the other, investigations of Planned Parenthood prompted by hidden-camera videos released last summer have found no evidence of wrongdoing." Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is moral or right.
David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt were indicted on one felony charge each. Tampering with government records. The grand jury that returned the indictments gave no details on the charge, but the New York Times says they are "probably connected to their alleged use of fake driver’s licenses to get into a Planned Parenthood office."
They used a fake ID? Every third college kid in America uses a fake ID to get into a club.
They used a fake ID? Ten million job-stealing, wage-devaluing Latino immigrants use fake ID's and social security cards to steal jobs from native-born workers and depress their wages.
The New York Times concludes that "The indictments should cause politicians to back away from an anti-abortion group that will stop at nothing to attack Planned Parenthood."
Pro-life politicians represent constituents who are convicted that the unborn were unfairly stripped of their due process rights in Roe v. Wade. They also represent their conscience. The Abortion Industrial Complex wants to tar pro-life people of conscience with the "guilt-by-association" fallacy.
I've seen charts that link Center For Medical Progress with Family Research Council. Fantastic! The foundation of the republic is the family, and I support both organizations.
The New York Times referred to the information revealed by the full-length, unedited videos release by Center For Medical Progress as "falsehoods."
Planned Parenthood delayed and altered abortion procedures to maximize the viability of fetal organs, then sold the organs and shipped them across state lines. Research facilities had to be told beforehand to make sure they knew the box coming via courier contained severed baby heads. That meets the criteria of trafficking. Whether the baby parts were profitable or not is a little besides the point.
What the pro-life movement needs is a national organization like the NRA.
Oh, and Center For Medical Progress has been sued in civil court. All I know is, that Planned Parenthood has somehow maintained their public image and approval ratings despite their practices. Now that they have filed suit, they will be subject to the discovery process. Forensic accountants will be able to comb through the financial records of Planned Parenthood and use that information to defend Center For Medical Progress. I'm looking forward to that.
Monday, January 25, 2016
The Gendered Tyranny of Teacher Evaluations
NPR is touting a story this morning about research demonstrating gender bias in teacher evaluations.
The linked article is titled, Student Evaluations of Teaching (Mostly) Do Not Measure Teaching Effectiveness. That's a pretty big divergence of conclusions.
The NPR essayist who analyzed the study, Anya Kamenetz, titled her article, Why Female Professors Get Lower Ratings. The study and the NPR article touting it should be the title of a college course about confirmation bias. I would take it, if only to spitefully give the female professor low marks on her evaluation.
Kidding! Because the study found that, in the United States, there is a "positive female student bias for male instructors." In other words, the gender bias against female instructors is coming from other women!
Let's call it the Hillary Effect. A January 12 poll of likely New Hampshire voters found Bernie Sanders leading Hillary among women, 50-44. Women exert social control over other women much more than males. The French male students rated their male instructors higher. Perhaps there is an underlying cultural bias that explains this?
Philip Stark, co-author of the study, says that, "trying to adjust for the bias to make Student Evaluated Teaching (SET) 'fair' is hopeless." It's a subjective measure. Forget about fair.
But for people like Kamenetz, fairness is everything, and testing is tyrannical. She interjects her opinion that "Student Evaluations of Teaching, or SET, [is] pretty much useless." It's one measure and nobody is suggesting it should be the only measure of teacher effectiveness.
Can an effective teacher be quantified by using test scores? Perhaps. The study asserts that there is no correlation between an instructor's rating and grades. Maybe they are measuring the wrong thing. Maybe they should be looking whether the student exceeded their grade or performance expectations.
New study finds that student evaluations are biased against female faculty. @npr_ed https://t.co/14g9YNSnSs
— NPR (@NPR) January 25, 2016The linked article is titled, Student Evaluations of Teaching (Mostly) Do Not Measure Teaching Effectiveness. That's a pretty big divergence of conclusions.
The NPR essayist who analyzed the study, Anya Kamenetz, titled her article, Why Female Professors Get Lower Ratings. The study and the NPR article touting it should be the title of a college course about confirmation bias. I would take it, if only to spitefully give the female professor low marks on her evaluation.
Kidding! Because the study found that, in the United States, there is a "positive female student bias for male instructors." In other words, the gender bias against female instructors is coming from other women!
Let's call it the Hillary Effect. A January 12 poll of likely New Hampshire voters found Bernie Sanders leading Hillary among women, 50-44. Women exert social control over other women much more than males. The French male students rated their male instructors higher. Perhaps there is an underlying cultural bias that explains this?
Philip Stark, co-author of the study, says that, "trying to adjust for the bias to make Student Evaluated Teaching (SET) 'fair' is hopeless." It's a subjective measure. Forget about fair.
But for people like Kamenetz, fairness is everything, and testing is tyrannical. She interjects her opinion that "Student Evaluations of Teaching, or SET, [is] pretty much useless." It's one measure and nobody is suggesting it should be the only measure of teacher effectiveness.
Can an effective teacher be quantified by using test scores? Perhaps. The study asserts that there is no correlation between an instructor's rating and grades. Maybe they are measuring the wrong thing. Maybe they should be looking whether the student exceeded their grade or performance expectations.
Thursday, January 21, 2016
All The Single Ladies
All The Single Ladies is the title of Rebecca Traister's forthcoming book. Deduct points for lack of originality. Not only is that the name of a famous Beyonce song, it is also the same title as a book released just six months ago. All The Single Ladies is a novel published last year by Dorothea Benton Frank that, according to Amazon, is "charming, evocative, soul-touching."
Traister's book, on the other hand, is sure to be a poorly sourced and fallaciously reasoned polemic.
But it does have the advantage being a feminist polemic. And that confers advantages of its own, like being bedside reading for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the one Supreme Court Justice all the spinsters and their allies swoon over.
It's easy to see why old maids would revere Ginsburg: her thinly-veiled contempt for the U.S. Constitution. Ginsburg told an Egyptian audience, in 2012, not to use the U.S. Constitution as a model for their country. Harridans like Ginsburg could never accept that the U.S. Constitution is a document that tells the government what it cannot do to its citizens.
Unmarried shrews want the Constitution to enumerate exactly what the government will do for them. That's why the term "single ladies" is a misnomer. They just substitute the government for a husband.
Which is funny, since Rebecca Traister is married and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was married for 56 years. What's even funnier is that the Beyonce song isn't a celebration of liberated single women. The club staple that gets women out of their seats is a reminder to men that "If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it."
It's baffling how a writer like Traister is celebrated when her writing is so terrible. She wrote an article last month entitled The Election and the Death Throes of White Male Power. Traister contends that Donald Trump and all the Republican contenders believe "that abortion should be illegal."
Pure demagoguery and fear-mongering. Being pro-life doesn't mean that all abortion should be illegal. Traister laments 2015 as being a "scary blur" and the election cycle as full of "blaring optics." How can optics be blaring? Perhaps glaring, but blaring is an audio cue.
Traister asserts that this is "a nation where women who were not permitted to cast votes still live and breathe." The legal voting age for adults in 1920 was twenty-one years old. So yes, there are exactly four women alive today who were of legal voting age in 1920, because they were born in the 1800's. Gertrude Weaver, who was born in 1898, should have been eligible to register to vote in 1919, but had to wait a whole year for the nineteenth amendment to be ratified.
From the looks of her, I think she has let the injustice go. For Traister, the old injustices will never be overwritten. They will forever be carrying forward their anger at those evil white men.
For me, I think the nineteenth amendment was a mistake. Not because women shouldn't vote. But because once one party discovered their advantage among unmarried women, they set about hammer and tongs to destroy marriage.
Oh, and Becky? You can drop the fake surprise to "find" that Ginsburg was reading your book. It doesn't come out for two more months. Ginsburg didn't happen to see your book at Barnes & Noble and buy it. The only way your pre-release book reaches a Supreme Court Justice is if a publicist at Simon & Schuster arranges it. Just stop.
Traister's book, on the other hand, is sure to be a poorly sourced and fallaciously reasoned polemic.
But it does have the advantage being a feminist polemic. And that confers advantages of its own, like being bedside reading for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the one Supreme Court Justice all the spinsters and their allies swoon over.
Pretty excited to be reading an interview with @irin about #NotoriousRBG & find that she's reading my book: https://t.co/jLD4FRxyLo
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 21, 2016It's easy to see why old maids would revere Ginsburg: her thinly-veiled contempt for the U.S. Constitution. Ginsburg told an Egyptian audience, in 2012, not to use the U.S. Constitution as a model for their country. Harridans like Ginsburg could never accept that the U.S. Constitution is a document that tells the government what it cannot do to its citizens.
Unmarried shrews want the Constitution to enumerate exactly what the government will do for them. That's why the term "single ladies" is a misnomer. They just substitute the government for a husband.
Which is funny, since Rebecca Traister is married and Ruth Bader Ginsburg was married for 56 years. What's even funnier is that the Beyonce song isn't a celebration of liberated single women. The club staple that gets women out of their seats is a reminder to men that "If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it."
It's baffling how a writer like Traister is celebrated when her writing is so terrible. She wrote an article last month entitled The Election and the Death Throes of White Male Power. Traister contends that Donald Trump and all the Republican contenders believe "that abortion should be illegal."
Pure demagoguery and fear-mongering. Being pro-life doesn't mean that all abortion should be illegal. Traister laments 2015 as being a "scary blur" and the election cycle as full of "blaring optics." How can optics be blaring? Perhaps glaring, but blaring is an audio cue.
Traister asserts that this is "a nation where women who were not permitted to cast votes still live and breathe." The legal voting age for adults in 1920 was twenty-one years old. So yes, there are exactly four women alive today who were of legal voting age in 1920, because they were born in the 1800's. Gertrude Weaver, who was born in 1898, should have been eligible to register to vote in 1919, but had to wait a whole year for the nineteenth amendment to be ratified.
From the looks of her, I think she has let the injustice go. For Traister, the old injustices will never be overwritten. They will forever be carrying forward their anger at those evil white men.
For me, I think the nineteenth amendment was a mistake. Not because women shouldn't vote. But because once one party discovered their advantage among unmarried women, they set about hammer and tongs to destroy marriage.
Oh, and Becky? You can drop the fake surprise to "find" that Ginsburg was reading your book. It doesn't come out for two more months. Ginsburg didn't happen to see your book at Barnes & Noble and buy it. The only way your pre-release book reaches a Supreme Court Justice is if a publicist at Simon & Schuster arranges it. Just stop.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
The Most High Risk Profession
Of all professions, one wouldn't imagine being a real estate salesperson to be among the most dangerous. Unless you saw this morning's segment on Good Morning America, entitled "Real Estate Agents Engage in Self-Defense Classes."
The segment quotes Shark Tank "star" Barbara Corcoran, who asserts that "being in the real estate business is one of the most high risk businesses in the nation." Why? Because, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than twenty agents were murdered over the last ten years.
To give the story emotional heft, Good Morning America told the story of realtor Beverly Carter, a 51-year old woman brutally murdered by a psychopath named Arron Lewis. Carter was targeted because she was a "woman who worked alone. A rich broker."
Hence, the need for realtors to learn self-defense.
Having situational awareness and being prepared is all well and good, but how does a fifty-one-year-old woman stand a chance against a highly motivated thirty-three year old male? By poking him in the eye?
I recommend that realtors obtain a concealed carry permit, and strap a firearm under their jacket. The crime committed by Lewis was a crime of opportunity. As long as a realtor insists on working alone and inviting strangers to an empty house, that realtor is vulnerable.
Especially a woman. The news segment noted that "women make up 60% of the real estate agent population." The only true equalizer for a woman alone is a legally possessed firearm. That fact wasn't even mentioned by GMA. There are other common-sense measures, like meeting clients at the office.
But Good Morning America wasn't interested in common sense, or reason. The agenda is to ensure perfect safety for women, even if it must appeal to raw emotion. Now that the modern workplace is dominated by women, the modern workplace must be completely free from risk.
Except for men.
I don't mind legacy media talk about workplace safety. Just stop ignoring the fact that every year, without fail, men make up ninety-two percent of workplace fatalities.
The segment quotes Shark Tank "star" Barbara Corcoran, who asserts that "being in the real estate business is one of the most high risk businesses in the nation." Why? Because, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than twenty agents were murdered over the last ten years.
To give the story emotional heft, Good Morning America told the story of realtor Beverly Carter, a 51-year old woman brutally murdered by a psychopath named Arron Lewis. Carter was targeted because she was a "woman who worked alone. A rich broker."
Hence, the need for realtors to learn self-defense.
I recommend that realtors obtain a concealed carry permit, and strap a firearm under their jacket. The crime committed by Lewis was a crime of opportunity. As long as a realtor insists on working alone and inviting strangers to an empty house, that realtor is vulnerable.
Especially a woman. The news segment noted that "women make up 60% of the real estate agent population." The only true equalizer for a woman alone is a legally possessed firearm. That fact wasn't even mentioned by GMA. There are other common-sense measures, like meeting clients at the office.
But Good Morning America wasn't interested in common sense, or reason. The agenda is to ensure perfect safety for women, even if it must appeal to raw emotion. Now that the modern workplace is dominated by women, the modern workplace must be completely free from risk.
Except for men.
I don't mind legacy media talk about workplace safety. Just stop ignoring the fact that every year, without fail, men make up ninety-two percent of workplace fatalities.
Saturday, January 09, 2016
How To Cologne Stories About Muslims
The stories about coordinated New Year's Eve attacks by Muslims on women in the German city of Cologne keep getting worse. The first stories dribbled out around the fifth of January, and were about dozens of women being systematically groped by gangs of men. There were even a few reports of forcible rape.
Today, we know that the German media spiked the story, because they didn't want to offend their favorite new protected class, the estimated one million "refugees" that arrived in 2015.
The alleged victim toll keeps rising. As of this writing, there have been 379 criminal complaints filed in Cologne.
And it wasn't just Cologne. Systematic attacks, which included assailants who entered Europe posing as "refugees," occurred in scores of cities all over Germany and Europe.
When all is said and done, it's possible the number of individual attacks will number in the tens of thousands.
The story out of Cologne has the unmistakable whiff of the systematic rapes of underage girls in Rotherham, England.
The way the media is treating Cologne is also evocative of the way they are treating the story about Rose Hamid, the Muslim activist who managed to get kicked out of a Donald Trump rally. She is described as a "flight attendant" who did nothing more provocative than "silently protesting" The Donald.
Funny how the media swarmed to protect Hillary when someone at one of her rallies tried to ask about Juanita Broaddrick. Like ABC's Liz Kreutz, who tweeted that,
What will the media do when Donald Trump or a debate moderator asks about any one of her husband's accusers, or Hillary's repeated defamations and character assassinations of them? I know, they will swarm to protect her like white blood cells attacking a bacterial invader. Well, too many white blood cells are a signal of blood cancer, and a fatal disease for the body politic.
It's like the media sees a turd and spritzes perfume on it. Media sommeliers will detect notes of partially digested shit being covered up with a sickly sweet smell. Getting a steaming turd to smell merely as bad as cat piss is considered an upgrade.
Pathological behavior being defended by the media is, oh what's the word, oh yeah, it's like an obsession. Unless the behavior is being conducted by a white republican male.
Case in point, tweets like this one from Laurie Penny, who claim that those who would ostensibly protect women only do so when it provides an opportunity to criticize The Other.
Today, we know that the German media spiked the story, because they didn't want to offend their favorite new protected class, the estimated one million "refugees" that arrived in 2015.
The alleged victim toll keeps rising. As of this writing, there have been 379 criminal complaints filed in Cologne.
And it wasn't just Cologne. Systematic attacks, which included assailants who entered Europe posing as "refugees," occurred in scores of cities all over Germany and Europe.
When all is said and done, it's possible the number of individual attacks will number in the tens of thousands.
The story out of Cologne has the unmistakable whiff of the systematic rapes of underage girls in Rotherham, England.
The way the media is treating Cologne is also evocative of the way they are treating the story about Rose Hamid, the Muslim activist who managed to get kicked out of a Donald Trump rally. She is described as a "flight attendant" who did nothing more provocative than "silently protesting" The Donald.
Funny how the media swarmed to protect Hillary when someone at one of her rallies tried to ask about Juanita Broaddrick. Like ABC's Liz Kreutz, who tweeted that,
The woman who heckled Clinton was a GOP State Rep. from Derry. She was trying to ask about Juanita Broderrick's rape allegations against WJC
— Liz Kreutz (@ABCLiz) January 3, 2016What will the media do when Donald Trump or a debate moderator asks about any one of her husband's accusers, or Hillary's repeated defamations and character assassinations of them? I know, they will swarm to protect her like white blood cells attacking a bacterial invader. Well, too many white blood cells are a signal of blood cancer, and a fatal disease for the body politic.
It's like the media sees a turd and spritzes perfume on it. Media sommeliers will detect notes of partially digested shit being covered up with a sickly sweet smell. Getting a steaming turd to smell merely as bad as cat piss is considered an upgrade.
Pathological behavior being defended by the media is, oh what's the word, oh yeah, it's like an obsession. Unless the behavior is being conducted by a white republican male.
Case in point, tweets like this one from Laurie Penny, who claim that those who would ostensibly protect women only do so when it provides an opportunity to criticize The Other.
So bored of racists who only pretend to care about women's rights when they see an opportunity to bash Muslims.
— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) January 6, 2016Muslims Hate Trump
So a muslim woman was escorted out of a Donald Trump rally yesterday. I love how the media is framing this for the tender sensibilities of their impressionable consumer-bots.
Openly Marxist Think Progress described what happened as Muslim Woman Gets Kicked Out of Donald Trump Rally For Being Muslim.
This media attempt to incite outrage lacks the cultural legitimacy of criticizing harassment of people suspected of driving while black. In fact, it's going to invite backlash, because the woman involved, Rose Hamid, is devoid of sympathy.
Every media source identifies Rose Hamid as a "flight attendant." Well, a two-second google search turns up a Rose Hamid who is described as "president of Muslim Women of the Carolinas." In other words, Rose Hamid is a political activist. Will anyone report THIS?
If there is any video of the events leading up to Hamid's ejection, Think Progress isn't showing it. Better to show her being led out, while she comments on the events later via satellite.
Think Progress claims that Donald Trump has "has stoked antipathy against Muslims by calling for a total ban on Muslim immigration."
Rose Hamid behavior was likely provocative, and she got her desired result. Headlines screaming "muslim woman deported from Trump rally."
Take a close look at the fashion choices made by Hamid. A blue hijab with the phrase, "Salaam I Come In Peace," is perfectly harmless.
A yellow Star of David with the word "muslim" written over it is clearly provocative. The message she is peddling is odious and mendacious. Some Americans want to more closely scrutinize muslim immigrants entering our country. That is being falsely equated to Nazi identification methods for Jews, who were then rounded up and murdered.
We don't need anything else to help us identify muslims. They voluntarily wrap their women in bags.
And even low-information voters know when Godwin's Law has been violated. They know instinctively that muslims hate Jews, and that appropriating a symbol like the yellow Star of David is cynical and manipulative.
Openly Marxist Think Progress described what happened as Muslim Woman Gets Kicked Out of Donald Trump Rally For Being Muslim.
This media attempt to incite outrage lacks the cultural legitimacy of criticizing harassment of people suspected of driving while black. In fact, it's going to invite backlash, because the woman involved, Rose Hamid, is devoid of sympathy.
Every media source identifies Rose Hamid as a "flight attendant." Well, a two-second google search turns up a Rose Hamid who is described as "president of Muslim Women of the Carolinas." In other words, Rose Hamid is a political activist. Will anyone report THIS?
If there is any video of the events leading up to Hamid's ejection, Think Progress isn't showing it. Better to show her being led out, while she comments on the events later via satellite.
Think Progress claims that Donald Trump has "has stoked antipathy against Muslims by calling for a total ban on Muslim immigration."
Rose Hamid behavior was likely provocative, and she got her desired result. Headlines screaming "muslim woman deported from Trump rally."
A yellow Star of David with the word "muslim" written over it is clearly provocative. The message she is peddling is odious and mendacious. Some Americans want to more closely scrutinize muslim immigrants entering our country. That is being falsely equated to Nazi identification methods for Jews, who were then rounded up and murdered.
We don't need anything else to help us identify muslims. They voluntarily wrap their women in bags.
And even low-information voters know when Godwin's Law has been violated. They know instinctively that muslims hate Jews, and that appropriating a symbol like the yellow Star of David is cynical and manipulative.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Communications Tempo
President Obama is going to unveil gun control executive orders tomorrow morning. Low-volume sellers of firearms will now be required to perform background checks on buyers. That's all well and good, but will it stop a single homicide?
Obama used his radio address over the weekend to mention that in the three years since Congress failed to "tighten firearms regulations," that,
"tens of thousands of our fellow Americans have been mowed down."
Why didn't President Obama request firearms legislation in 2009 and 2010, when Democrats had filibuster-proof majorities in the House and Senate?
That's a rhetorical question. The Democrats won't legislate an issue they can demagogue.
Anyway, I was struck by the lawnmower imagery. Perhaps this is part of the Administration's effort to upgrade their "communications tempo."
The President's directive to his communications shop, in response to overwhelming public disapproval of his handling of ISIS, has to be the most damning revelation of his administration.
Fuck operational tempo. What we need is a really good meme.
Perhaps that was the impetus behind the two major public relations efforts last December.
Joke's On You, Murica!
Presidential Twig And Berries!
Obama used his radio address over the weekend to mention that in the three years since Congress failed to "tighten firearms regulations," that,
"tens of thousands of our fellow Americans have been mowed down."
Why didn't President Obama request firearms legislation in 2009 and 2010, when Democrats had filibuster-proof majorities in the House and Senate?
That's a rhetorical question. The Democrats won't legislate an issue they can demagogue.
Anyway, I was struck by the lawnmower imagery. Perhaps this is part of the Administration's effort to upgrade their "communications tempo."
The President's directive to his communications shop, in response to overwhelming public disapproval of his handling of ISIS, has to be the most damning revelation of his administration.
Fuck operational tempo. What we need is a really good meme.
Perhaps that was the impetus behind the two major public relations efforts last December.
Joke's On You, Murica!
Presidential Twig And Berries!
The "Right" To Die
Funny that the unborn are not conferred the "right" to be born, yet the living have some inherent "right" to die.
The local news anchor ran the story about the "victory" for California's Right-To-Die movement. Opponents of California's assisted suicide law failed to gather enough signatures for a repeal to go before voters.
What evoked strong feelings of disgust for me was the graphic the local news ran with the story.
The most coherent argument for assisted suicide is fear of pain and suffering.
My mother had cancer in her bones and tissues. She went into hospice and died a month later. She was in excruciating, agonizing pain. But she had attentive staff to make sure that she was comfortable.
It seems to me that assisted suicide is less about comforting the afflicted, and more about the convenience of the living.
The local news anchor ran the story about the "victory" for California's Right-To-Die movement. Opponents of California's assisted suicide law failed to gather enough signatures for a repeal to go before voters.
What evoked strong feelings of disgust for me was the graphic the local news ran with the story.
The most coherent argument for assisted suicide is fear of pain and suffering.
My mother had cancer in her bones and tissues. She went into hospice and died a month later. She was in excruciating, agonizing pain. But she had attentive staff to make sure that she was comfortable.
It seems to me that assisted suicide is less about comforting the afflicted, and more about the convenience of the living.
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