Catcalling And Reflexive Libs

The NY Times takes up the catcalling controversy in their Room For Debate feature. They start with a question - "Do We Need a Law Against Catcalling?" and they managed to find an utterly conventional feminist prepared to put her name next to "Yes".

Let's buckle up the Hyperbole Restraints and dig in:

Street Harassment Law Would Restrict Intimidating Behavior

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I'd propose a law that would prohibit street harassment and would also be consistent with our First Amendment jurisprudence about other kinds of hate speech (cross-burning in Virginia vs. Black) that intimidates, harasses and perpetuates inequality. 

Really? From the video, a lot of the "harassment" was along the lines of "good morning". So now "good morning" needs to be put on an equal footing with burning a cross? Good grief.

And since you ask, Clarence Thomas emphasized that the historical associations of cross burning with white-on-black violence put it in a special category. It's only my humble guess but I don't think the Supremes will view "good morning" as having a comparably ghastly history.

The law would prohibit “uninvited harassing speech or actions targeted toward individuals in public spaces on the basis of sex or sexual orientation when done with the intent to intimidate.”

And enforcement will be done by the Amazing Kreskin, deploying his mind-reading skills. Sure, a guy may claim he was just hoping that this was the one-in-a-million girl who responds favorably to "Hey, good-looking", but the ticketing officer will know better.

Almost done:

Even if rarely enforced, the symbolism of a law weighing in on the side of equality would have powerful effects.

Oh, my - I think there is widespread agreement that an easily mocked, sure-to-be-ignored feel-good law that can't be enforced will have powerful effects. But 'powerful' is hardly synonymous with 'beneficial'.

And if Mayor DeBlasio wanted the police to lock up under-employed young ethnic males he shouldn't have ended Stop and Frisk.

My goodness. If someone suggested to this earnest professor that she should only go out in public wearing a burka and escorted by a male spoude, relative or (in exceptional circumstances where acquantance rape is not a concern) friend, well, she would take the vapors and sue whoever made the suggestion for harassment.

But apparently she expects a police escort when she takes to the mean streets, or hopes to see a police-person on every street corner. Or maybe surveillance drones with video and sound recording capability could be deployed over Manhattan. Good luck!

FWIW, even the mostly liberal Times commenters are having a hard time digesting her view.

Comments

[Danube on iPad]

First?

[Dave (in MA)]

On a liberal site you'd find a piece about a dog helping to heal a transgender or whatever they call them this week.

[Pagar]

" is it dogs or vets that turn off the left? "

My guess it is both.

[Iggy]

Liberals, in general, gravitate to cats which, in general, carry diseases, don't listen, are disloyal, scratch you and the keeping of which is often associated with dementia, especially of the female variety.

*Sits back awaiting ensuing cat fight* :)

[Captain Hate]

Kaci bites dog and gives it ebola, rabies and indeterminate number of STDs. Quarantine not warranted per ACLU and CDC.

[NKreBootDeux]

Has Marlene commented in the past 24 hours; heck ofa snow storm in coastal maine. I guess Kaci was snowed in so no biking yesterday.

[Pagar]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/08/mainstream_american_muslim_jurisprudence_on_dogs.html

http://www.islamist-watch.org/17912/islamist-campaign-donors-overwhelmingly-back

"Islamists intend to alter the fabric of the liberal democratic system, a goal characterized by the Muslim Brotherhood, in a memorandum outlining its North American strategy, as "a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within," culminating in Islamic rule."

The same Muslim Brotherhood whose members hold positions in the Obama Regime.

[Strawman Cometh]

Oh crap and apologies, I just shipped my Craig's listed CC ski's to someone calling themselves "OffMyMeds" in Fort Kent, ME

Latest from Kaci"

"I hope in six months aid workers returning back can be unnoticed," Hickox said. "They won't be in the media like I was, I hope. And they can walk into a grocery store and maybe no one even knows they were working in a country with Ebola, but one day I hope everyone can know and still smile at them in the grocery store. I know that won't happen today."

[GMax]

Well until the polls close tomorrow and returns start pouring in all we got is tea leaves and body language to read. Just saw this tweet for what that is worth:

The Shaheen campaign is giving out the distinct vibe that they all believe she is in real trouble. #nhpolitics

[James D.]

Oh, for God's sake.

Words cannot express how much I wish that Nurse Kaci would just SHUT THE F--K UP!

If aid workers who return from ebola countries are sensibly quarantined for 21 days, and then emerge disease-free, they WILL be able to walk into a grocery store and people WILL smile at them. It's really not that complicated.

[henry]

A web site? I would have guessed something in a caliber starting with a 4 or larger.

[GMax]

What are the lefty site saying in the predictions:

Nate Silver 74%
DKos 76%
HuffPuff 77%

Meanwhile the Iowa betting markets are more like 90%.

FYI

[NKreBootDeux]

strawman/JamesD-- you stole my thunder james. That was exactly my thought, the next Federal Budget resolution will include rational quaratine protocols for returning Medical Tourists, so after they complete that -- successfully-- they can do whatever they please.

[narciso]

another recruit for the Jayvee scouts, it's only a question, if he'll go for the underrated Yemen division, or the top shelf Islamic state

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article3148911.html

[Iggy]

Ordinarily I can't stand this guy, but I thought this was kind of funny;

John Harwood of CNBC: “Dems haven't given up hope of holding Senate but play seems to be Doug Flutie ricochet to Franco Harris bouncing to David Tyree-helmet-catch.”

[Skoot]

Supremes did not act on King v. Burwell last Friday. It is held over for conference on the 7th. After the election, we'll see.

[Marlene]

Attorneys for Kaci Hickox and the state of Maine have agreed that the temporary order issued Friday will remain until 11:59PM Nov.10. The evidentiary hearing scheduled for tomorrow had been canceled.
NK,we got more snow here than up north,the power company crews from up north,including New Brunswick are driving down to assist.

[Jack is Back!]

I decided to not early vote this year and instead go first thing tomorrow after dropping Frederick off at school. Our little precinct is just that little.No lines, lots of booths and mostly neighbors working the polls.

I am completely baffled that Crist still has a 1pt. advantage over Scott. Scott has been spending 2 to 1 over Crist. The same "I love Barack Obama" sound clip. And Crist a known snake is still in front. The only thing I can think of is that Amendment 2 Medical MaryJane bringing out the Tampa Bay and South Florida hipsters.

[NKreBootDeux]

Miss M and BoE and others will have the coldest departure from average winter temps, and people like Henry and Gus and our kind host should be spared from a repeat of the '14 horrific winter. Alas, the drought will grind on in Central Cal. From Accuweather: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/winter-20142015-to-yield-lower/36626714

[Dave (in MA)]

The last time we got hit by snow around Halloween was 3 years ago, and we had practically no snow all winter after that.

[Beasts of England]

Last winter was brutal. Made me want to move to the South. Oh, wait...

[peter]

So Lena Dunham, who famously made a commercial for Obama likening voting for Obama as the equivalent of losing one's virginity, continues to stay classy. Lock her in a room with that nurse. sheeesh

[jimmyk]

I remember that Halloween storm in '11. Then a year later we had Sandy. Climate change FTW.

[James D.]

I loved last winter. I'm happiest when there's snow on the ground, the temperature never gets above 30, and the sun sets at 4 PM.

No joking - I'm completely serious. I know I'm odd that way, but there you go.

[MarkO]

Jimmy Kimmel is tweeting in defense of Lena Dunham. Should cost him his job.

[jimmyk]

Lena is twisted, though from what I understand the child sex abuse thing was bogus (originally reported as something she'd done at age 17 to her sister, actually was at age 7). Still, the fact that she writes about it, and more generally thinks that the rest of us find should find her fascinating, is disturbing (whether or not it's true).

[James D.]

I read about the latest Lena nonsense. She writes a memoir in which she discusses sexually molesting her sister as an infant and toddler, and now she's shocked that people are calling her out on it.

It reminds me of the moment near the end of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" when Harry confronts Professor Lockhart on the fact that pretty much everything he wrote in his memoirs was a lie:

Lockhard: Books can be misleading.
Harry: You wrote them!

[James D.]

MarkO @ 11:12

Kimmel is a jackass. Can't stand him. Never could.

[matt]

This morning's Manhattan Shopper has an editorial decrying those unnecessary, gridlock creating, constant election cycle midterms.

Scratch a Democrat these days and you get a tyrant.

[jimmyk]

Landsburg quotes this chuckler from the NYT (it's a "news story" not an editorial) about the Dem candidate in the Rhode Island governor's race:

She favors raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation, for example, and opposes making Rhode Island a “right to work” state. Her chief focus is creating jobs.

[Captain Hate]

No joking - I'm completely serious. I know I'm odd that way, but there you go.

I used to be that way but NE Ahia winters just beat it out of me.

[Jim Eagle]

Dunham has cancelled her appearance at the Antwerp Book Fair today and some gig in Berlin tomorrow. All those young muzzies in both cities devastated. She is the type of slutty lowlife they dream about in Allah's heaven.

[Iggy]

--She is the type of slutty lowlife they dream about in Allah's heaven.--

I admit they're nuts but I'm pretty sure they aren't sawing people's head's off for 72 of these;

[Captain Hate]

Kimmel has risen to a level of success that far outweighs any comedic talent he has. so it's kind of an effective feedback mechanism that he'd say something offensively ignorant to screw that up.

[Jane]

"I remember that Halloween storm in '11. Then a year later we had Sandy. Climate change FTW."

For us. it was 4 months after the tornado hit. We lost power for a week.

[NKreBootDeux]

This was written before the NYT Co announced 3Q results, which were not surprisingly poor. Carlos Slim own 17% of the shares and is collecting usurious %; heck of a job Pinchy: http://www.forbes.com/sites/francinemckenna/2014/10/28/time-is-running-short-for-the-new-york-times/

[jimmyk]

Of all the recent late night hosts, Ferguson was the best, so naturally he's gone and we're left with the dregs.

[Jane]

Lena Dunham should be prosecuted for her admission. If she lied, that's her problem.

[Iggy]

If anyone (like me) was wondering what all the Dunham to-do was about here is Kevin Williamson's review of her book at NRO.
She should get hitched to the similarly tedious and hopelessly boring Russell Brand; a marriage made in Gehenna.

[Iggy]

Do they prosecute seven year olds for poking around a one year old sibling's giblets?

[GMax]

Landmark Communications the group that kinda started the Nunn is rising meme in Georgia now out with their final poll:

Perdue 50-46,
Deal 51-45

Not even a runoff. Sweet dreams and flying machines...

[NKreBootDeux]

I prefer to ignore the Dunhams of the world. They are toxic pigs.

[GMax]

PPP(D) out with their final Kansas poll it looks like:

Roberts 47%
Orman 46%

Poll linked here done Oct 29 & 30th:

http://www.argojournal.com/2014/11/poll-watch-ppp-d-kansas-2014-senatorial.html

BOOM!

[Jane]

7 or 17?

[glasater]

So hope the pollster on Wall Street Journal editorial report is correct in his prediction - Tommy 'something' - who predicted on that Fox program this election is going to be a wave election.

I don't want the progs to be able to find any positive outcomes for their side.
I want their thinking buried so the MSM will have to naval gaze for a long time.

[Jim Eagle]

According to her book, 7 from what I have read. I have never seen her show or even her except for photos and stories about her "Obama gushing". She is a Kardashian knock-off it seems. But that Williamson book review is scathing and should shame anyone who thinks she is something special but it won't.

You can expect her on all the late night shows shortly.

[Iggy]

Someone mistakenly said 17, but apparently she was 7 and her sister was 1, assuming the creepy fabulist wasn't just indulging more of her bizarro tall tales in a misguided attempt to not sound like the utter drudge she is.

[GMax]

Harper Polling out with a NC poll:

http://www.harperpolling.com/polls/north-carolina-senate-poll-21422298

Tillis 46%

Hagan 44%

Without Haugh on the ballot it grows to:

Tillis 48%
Hagan 45%

[Some Guy]

Of all the recent late night hosts, Ferguson was the best

Have to agree jimmyk, with the one caveat that he didn't seem to enjoy his run as much as his should.

[NKreBootDeux]

The Dems use a far more attractive moron than Lento try to GOTV: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/scarlett-johansson-claims-gop-will-take-away-womens-choice-wont-say-abortion/article/2555624?custom_click=rss&utm_campaign=Weekly+Standard+Story+Box&utm_source=weeklystandard.com&utm_medium=referral#!

[NKreBootDeux]

Lena to...

[James D.]

I prefer to ignore the Dunhams of the world. They are toxic pigs.

I do, too. But these toxic pigs have a hugely disproportionate and powerful influence on our culture.

There needs to be a cost to the damage they do. It's a matter between Dunham and her sister and their therapist(s) what actually happened when she was seven years old.

But discussing the topic in a bestselling book, bragging about it (while at the same time covering herself by saying that some portion of the tales in her memoir are untrue or happened to others), serves to normalize it. That is harmful and corrosive and it pushes our culture further into the gutter.

Honestly, everyone involved in her book, and her TV show, ought to go broke. That should be the cost for supporting such damaging, poisonous trash. Her publisher, HBO, the production company of her show, the NYT that gives her such glowing, fawning publicity - all deserve to be run out of business.

[Some Guy]

I am now very sorry that I bothered to read the Dunham excerpts that are part of the current brouhaha.

[lyle]

I question the timing.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/joe-biden-2014-elections-senate-112442.html

[Old Lurker]

I think the Dunham discussion...and the Kardashian discussion that will surely follow...is simply nervous energy as we await the results of Tuesday. If need be, we might figure out a way to get DoT and TK to disagree about something.

[RickB]

Glasater,

If Walker, Scott or Brownback are defeated, it will be "DEMS WIN!".

If Hag or Shebeen or Bootlicker cling to their seats, it will be "DEMS WIN!".

If the Bayou Buffalo makes it to losing in the runoff, it will be "DEMS WIN!".

If none of the above occur, it will be "JUST WAIT 'TIL '16!".

The shift in statehouses and the fact the GOP House Majority may well rise to levels unseen since Coolidge will not be mentioned and President Merde Touch will be the assigned goat rather than the fact that, on the whole, the Fascist Party has been found to be very unattractive.

[lyle]

Do they prosecute seven year olds for poking around a one year old sibling's giblets?

If it were a seven year old boy from a home schooled household, they'd have hung him already. Since it's a seven year old girl from prog central, she gets a book tour.

[Dave (in MA)]

"[M]ost pundits know less about the outcome of a specific election than your average 3-year-old orangutan." --PJ Media pundits, shilling for their election coverage.

[Porchlight]

Dunham enjoys saying things to shock people, and then getting outraged when they are shocked.

The definition of juvenile behavior.

The excerpts at Truth Revolt seem to speak for themselves:

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/lena-dunham-threatens-sue-truth-revolt-quoting-her

The thing Truth Revolt got wrong was that one of the incidents happened when Dunham was 7, not 17.

None of it makes Dunham look anything but creepy and sketchy, IMO.

[Pagar]

If you're looking for elections where the Democrat candidate should be losing badly,
look at the Democrat candidate for Senate in Georgia.

http://gotnews.com/revealed-progressive-ferguson-activists-behind-michelle-nunn-gasen/

[Porchlight]

But let me clarify - not all of the incidents happened when Dunham was 7.

According to her, she shared a bed with her sister until she was 17, and all kinds of other things went on, at mostly unspecified ages.

[NKreBootDeux]

Porch/Lyle -- your observations about the nihilist Prog 'culture' were both spot on.

[glasater]

The shift in statehouses and the fact the GOP House Majority may well rise to levels unseen since Coolidge will not be mentioned...

So true RickB and 'closer to the people' lifts my spirits immensely.

[lyle]

Here's your preview of the next two years:

“Administration officials tell us that Obama’s political and policy teams are planning a big counterattack if the Republicans win the Senate—introducing a slate of legislative proposals and executive actions on immigration, infrastructure and early childhood education that are popular with the Democratic base and that he will dare the GOP to oppose,” wrote Politico’s Glenn Thrush and Carrie Budoff Brown .

This picture paints an image of Obama as a vainglorious Napoleon returning to Paris after Waterloo. The president is now just another of history’s great and defeated figures who steadfastly refuse to accept the unfavorable conditions his own hubris invited, shuffling armies that exist only on paper toward fronts that long ago collapsed.

“Obama and his team, gearing up for one final fight, say they are intent on not throwing away the next two-plus years,” Thrush and Brown continued. “West Wing officials concede that Obama is weary of the endless partisan combat and the unrelenting six-year GOP strategy of attack, but they insist he has absolutely no intention of embracing his inner lame duck.”

Six-year strategy? Oh, wait, I forgot. Progs think history started this morning.

[Iggy]

--According to her, she shared a bed with her sister until she was 17, and all kinds of other things went on, at mostly unspecified ages.--

Incest chic?

[Thomas Collins]

If the web site referenced in the NY TImes article excerpted by TM really does combine human (and animal) interest stories with articles with a slant different from prog propaganda, and the site is attracting followers, that's a promising development. I just hope the site is able to attract purple folks as well as red folks. Red has basically ceded this arena to women's magazines, and sites such as Your Tango and Café Mom. It would be good to see some red tinged diversity in this arena.

As a stalwart follower of Plato, I take pop culture, including the cuddly side of it, very seriously. Music, human interest stories, articles on relationships and the like shape minds, often more effectively than reasoned discourse.

If any JOMers have influence with the Adelsons or Kochs of the world, please encourage them to visit this website and, if it continues to operate in the manner described by TM, convince them to become a sugar daddy to the site.

[Iggy]

--Administration officials tell us that Obama’s political and policy teams are planning a big counterattack if the Republicans win the Senate--

Sheriff Joe out of the loop....again; says Barry stands "ready to compromise" if the GOP wins the Senate.

[NKreBootDeux]

SloJoe is truly a pathetic character. he's being run out of the Dem party by the Obamaniac Progs and he doesn't even realize it.

[Pagar]

If Hagen wins in NC:

http://therightscoop.com/busted-james-okeefe-shows-how-easily-in-north-carolina-it-is-to-commit-voter-fraud-over-and-over/

Lots of phone numbers at bottom of the article that the Charlotte Observer pulled because it might hurt Hagen's election chances.

None of these leftists are reporters. They are simply leftist propaganda spreaders.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/11/heres-entire-article-on-hagan-gate.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Please call the editors if you don't think it is OK to pull this BS.

[Porchlight]

Incest chic?

Sure. It's all just so fascinating and subversive.

Until someone notices and quotes her in an article, and then she sics her legal team on them.

[Bori]

<<<< Incest chic? >>>>

Nah, feminist sisterhood.

[GMax]

OK if the situation with PPP(D) was not already as clear as mud, it appears they just released another NC poll for another lefty org ( not the greenies ) and this one is done Oct 29 -30. You can get a look at the loaded questions asked, I am sure at the desire of their lefty client but hey its NC info.

Bad news Jensen still says NC + 1 Hag, but if I am not mistaken this one finds Hag support a tick lower at or below the magic 46% for incumbents. Still 5% undecided and his last poll said they were predominantly Republicans.

http://cdn.americanprogressaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/NCPoll_toplines.pdf

[NKreBootDeux]

No Rand, you're the dumb one: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rand-paul-says-its-dumb-for-republicans-to-make-voter-id-a-big-campaign-issue/article/2555629?custom_click=rss&utm_campaign=Weekly+Standard+Story+Box&utm_source=weeklystandard.com&utm_medium=referral

[GMax]

Its actually 30 and 31. How do you poll on Halloween night? Who answers the phone with goblins and witches at the door?

This looks like a push poll or in that style, i.e. Where you aware that Tillis like putting ground up puppies on his ice cream?

Maybe Jensen is avoiding linking himself to these on his site for a reason? I do not trust the guy, but I do know he usually tries hard on the last poll to get it right. For the record, he did miss badly on the Walker recall on his last poll. I would think Hagan reelect may mean as much to Tommy as recalling Walker, so maybe he is letting his natural tendency run a little wild.

[Thomas Collins]

I don't think Biden is being SloJoe on this one. He's simply lying. Obama will continue to play brutal and corrupt politicoball (I won't call it Nixonian, because Segretti, Haldemann, Ehrlichmann et al are cuddly teddy bears compared to Obama's machine), and MSM will buy Joe's "we are being reasonable but look what we're dealing with" blather.

[NKreBootDeux]

ThomC-- I suppose SloJoe is being clever here for the 'extremeist' set up... Nah.. Joe really is that clueless, he somehow believes Obummer is like make a deal Bill Clinton..

[Pagar]

Not making voter ID a major part of any reforms befor the 2016 election is TOTAL surrender to the leftists IMO. It has been proven thousands of times that the Democrats cheat.

http://liberallogic101.com/?p=17691

"Democrats Caught Posing as Republican Election Judges in Colorado!"

[Danube on iPad]

"They won't be in the media like I was, I hope."

Yes, poor Kaci has been dragged before the media, kicking and screaming.

[lyle]

I suspect this has been linked but it's worth relinking. The estimable Steve Hayes (let your hearts flutter, ladies):

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/election-about-everything_817063.html

[rse]

henry-if you are around, would love your thoughts on whether you think the concept of the Internet of Things is mostly hype or not.

With an article in Foreign Affairs and touting this new city in South Korea, it does appear to be how the statists think we plan a global future.

Love all the references to the PS between the public and private sectors.

[NKreBootDeux]

This an excelent summary of Obummer's world-view and how he acts (out). I disagree with the author about one thing, Obummer is no 'competent organizer'-- he's a complete muppet who couldn't find his own ass with both hands and a flashlight. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/understanding_obamas_ebola_psychosis.html

[rse]

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142324/john-chambers-and-wim-elfrink/the-future-of-cities is the link to article.

Notice authors are with Cisco that sells the Smart Meter and pushes 21st century skills globally with MS and that chip co.

[Miss Marple]

Checking in briefly before I make another run out to the post office.

The nature signs around here have been pointing to a bad winter - squirrel activity, wooly works, persimmon seeds, etc.

We will probably be in the polar vortex again. Bah. I keep expecting to see the Laurentide Ice Shield approaching me from the north.

[NKreBootDeux]

MissM-- AccuWeather agrees with you. See their site, central Indiana will be much colder than average this winter.

[GMax]

Please give us the advance warning if the Glacier appears down the block. That 18 degree temperature one day last year was shocking to us Floridians...

[Marlene]

I agree about nature and animal activity,MM. Yesterday during the storm,the dog was in a complete frenzy. The howling wind drove him crazy and his barking just about drove me crazy. :)

[henry]

rse, on the Internet of Things -- it depends on what definition you use. People like Old Lurker use it today to keep tabs on his NY area retreat. It is not something I would like*, so is probably headed for wild success in the consumer markets. On the corporate side it makes a lot of sense and saves big bucks. That seems a sure bet to me.

*if you look at what Old Lurker reports using -- links to his thermostats and security cameras, same with the "eHealth" that just got loaded onto all iPhones with 8.0 -- it strikes me as the kind of thing the government would take over for its own purposes in a "smart city" form of tyranny. This potential will cause the government (and crony big tech) to push the concept for all its worth. No thanks.

[GMax]

Democrat donor out on the ledge. There is going to be a lot more of this, pass the popcorn. Heckler in Colorado for Udall is millionaire donor:

The heckler was Leo Beserra, a 73-year-old who made millions on Wall Street and, since the early 1990s, has shared a generous slice of that wealth with Colorado Democrats.

Beserra’s grievance – that the senator’s narrow focus on abortion has backfired – is shared by others in the party, but rarely voiced in public and never in the midst of the candidate’s campaign speech.

Minutes after interrupting the senator’s speech, he vented, once again, to the Guardian. “I’m trying to figure out who in the hell decided this was how the campaign was supposed to go.”

He said he had just watched a Sunday morning talkshow in which Udall was ridiculed.

“Who is running the worst campaign? Him. Because fu*king abortion is all he talks about. He should not talk about it any more whatsoever. There are so many other issues.”

[rse]

GMax-wait until you see steam coming off the ocean because of the frigid temps.

I saw it years ago when temp was about 15 degrees down there.

By the way don;t you just love the sunsets from now and for the next 2 months or so when the sun is the furtherest south and the angle tens to make the water translucent at sunset?

[Stephanie accidentally OnT?]

I don't want the progs to be able to find any positive outcomes for their side.
I want their thinking buried so the MSM will have to naval gaze for a long time.

or

Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.

I'd love a Conan election outcome.

I'll forgo the next Biloxi trip to pay to see Pelosi, Washerwoman and MichelleO wailing and nashing their teeth. Since the entire dem production team is a bunch of Nancy boy types, the entire entourage wailing and nashing would be awesome.

[NKreBootDeux]

Note to self-- do not get on Stephanie's bad side....

[Iggy]

Great counterpoint at the Federalist to all the PC, faux outrage at the viral video of the girl being "harassed" on NY city streets.

[GMax]

don;t you just love the sunsets

With a drink in my hand at Bud & Alleys or Harry Ts

Love watching the dolphins cavort in the Harbor and the East Pass just before sunset too.

[Jim Eagle]

Here is some news that will make most of us feel good.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2819154/Gwyneth-Paltrow-s-lifestyle-website-Goop-faces-1-6M-debt-continues-lose-money.html

At least it did me.

[Old Lurker]

I agree with that Henry. As soon as smart meters landed in Potomac and Nantucket, even though I opted out of their "let us control your thermostat plan at a lower rate", I saw the handwriting on the wall in both MA and MD. Since I am, as I have said here, a "make it 72F where I am sitting regardless of the conditions outside" guy and willing to pay for it, I put generators at both places which are wired to bypass any control they can come up with. F em.

[rse]

henry-taking it over is precisely what that article says and it ties to the FuturICT research I did a while back. The cronyist tech companies and governments and foundations all insist it can be used to plan now for a needs based economy.

The links in my most recent post involving IFTF actually mention in a quote I did not cite that much of the global economy of the future would center around healthcare.

All the ed initiatives assume data will be used to "solve problems" as if money is infinite.

The fact that the article is CFR means it ties tightly to the Big Oil F's sponsorship of Metropolitanism. The ultimate tyranny vision.

[GMax]

Baseball Crank posts a reminder:

Since 2002, no Senate incumbent <45 in final RCP has won re-election. Begich, Pryor, M.Udall, Hagan & Roberts all below 45.

[lyle]

From Powerline, writing on the Dook prof's essay calling for the abolishment of midterms:

If, by chance, the GOP wins a landslide in 2016 (it could happen), I expect there will be reliable liberals who suggest we get rid of elections altogether. The idea is actually implicit in several of their favorite “progressive” theories.

[Stephanie accidentally OnT?]

rse, ask some of the water customers/employees in Atlanta what they think about the smart meters. Don't you want to get a $1,000 water bill cause it was 'doing it wrong" and on a fixed income a sudden massive water bill is just so easy to pay...

They were pushing those through the EMC, but they got very few takers. Gas and electricity smart meters at the EMC and the water meters through the our county. I declined on both. One unmentioned issue with the meters is they have a tendency to freeze up in really cold weather. Smart install in the north :eyeroll:.

[Iggy]

I wonder if Tom Harkin likes his Senators a little more chubby than Joni Ernst?