KiteAuraan posted:

Never mind that this has little to do with US production and more to do with total global production, supply and demand. It's all because of fracking and Obama is a dumb pee pee doo doo head.

Guavanaut posted:

Yes, but we don't actually know for sure if it does anything unless you're immunocompromised. Toxoplasma gondii is definitely a health risk if you have AIDS or are on some types of transplant medication though.

We also know that it causes behavioral changes in rats, making them less risk averse, and there have been a lot of pop-sci articles about how it does the same in humans, making women sexier and men more rugged or something, but that all reads like to me.

KiteAuraan posted:

Never mind that this has little to do with US production and more to do with total global production, supply and demand. It's all because of fracking and Obama is a dumb pee pee doo doo head.

TerminalSaint posted:

That's funny, I could have sworn that a few years ago the president was in direct control of gas prices.

KiteAuraan posted:

Never mind that this has little to do with US production and more to do with total global production, supply and demand. It's all because of fracking and Obama is a dumb pee pee doo doo head.

Sir Rolo posted:

Vincent Van Goat posted:

Yeah, it's obviously black people's fault for how America as a whole doesn't care about black people and how often they get murdered by cops.

Vincent Van Goat posted:

Yeah, it's obviously black people's fault for how America as a whole doesn't care about black people and how often they get murdered by cops.

Vincent Van Goat posted:

Yeah, it's obviously black people's fault for how America as a whole doesn't care about black people and how often they get murdered by cops.

Mellow Seas posted:

Hahahahahaha, "us"

Ansiktsburk posted:

Hm, nope. Can't say that it does.

Ansiktsburk posted:

Hm, nope. Can't say that it does.

Blarghalt posted:

You know, pretty much every communist government in existence came about from either 1.) a protracted civil war or 2.) a sudden, violent coup. This idea that communists gain power by slowly infiltrating governments and gradually changing it has absolutely no historical basis.

Blarghalt posted:

You know, pretty much every communist government in existence came about from either 1.) a protracted civil war or 2.) a sudden, violent coup. This idea that communists gain power by slowly infiltrating governments and gradually changing it has absolutely no historical basis.

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Feminism as all Leftist based philosophies can never withstand to light of reason, facts and truth, therefore they must propagate myths in order to “validate” their ideas. Here are ten of the more commonly regurgitated myths Feminists spew about rape.

1. 1 in 5…

The myth goes that 1 in 5 college co-ed have been raped. Sometimes it’s 1 in 4. Sometimes it’s all women. Regardless the version, it’s an absolute, complete fabrication. The number comes from a study of sexual assault on campuses done by Mary Koss in 1985 for Ms. Magazine. 1985…29 years ago!! And for Ms. Magazine…seriously?!? One of the questions was, “Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn’t want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs?”…a yes answer, according to the study, meant you were raped. So if a co-ed got tipsy, slept with a guy, then regretted it the next day, she was raped? I can’t understand why it was just 1 in 5. From what I hear it should be more like 3 in 5 for today’s college girls. If they omitted the alcohol and drugs, and just asked if they regretted it the next day…it would be 4 out of 5.

2. Only 1% of rape allegations are false

First of all unless it’s proven to be false, it’s not considered false, so whatever number of proven false allegation are only part of the total false allegations. Second, the origins of this myth lead to claims of 2%, but Feminists strip it down to 1%, then claim the same source. The source? Actually nonexistent. It’s quoted by Feminsists citing “FBI studies”, but no actual link to any real studies is ever provided. The real stats? Peter Neufeld and Barry C. Scheck, prominent criminal attorneys and co-founders of the Innocence Project report, “Every year since 1989, in about 25 percent of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI where results could be obtained, the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing. Specifically, FBI officials report that out of roughly 10,000 sexual assault cases since 1989, about 2,000 tests have been inconclusive, about 2,000 tests have excluded the primary suspect, and about 6,000 have ‘matched’ or included the primary suspect. The fact that these percentages have remained constant for 7 years, and that the National Institute of Justice’s informal survey of private laboratories reveals a strikingly similar 26-percent exclusion rate, strongly suggests that postarrest and postconviction DNA exonerations are tied to some strong, underlying systemic problems that generate erroneous accusations and convictions.” So in about 26% of the cases DNA proved the allegation as false, and in another 15% DNA tests could not confirm the accused involvement at all…and those are just the ones that made it to the FBI.

3. What is rape?

Yet another myth Feminists propagate is a vacillating definition of rape. Some insist all sex is rape. Others say anytime the woman regrets having sex is rape. A female judge in a case about a prostitute who had sex with a man who refused to pay, ruled that it wasn’t rape, but theft of services. Feminists created such an outrage, the judge’s decision was overruled–making the violent rape of a virgin the moral equivalent of not paying a prostitute. And Feminists claim to support women?

4. Punishing false allegations will make women fear reporting actual rapes

This is the equivalent of claiming that punishing rapists will make men fear to have sex. A crime is a crime. If it is proven that the allegation is false, then whoever made the allegation has committed a crime.

5. Rape is worse than prison

Really? You understand what happens to men sentenced to prison for rape, right? And this happens repeatedly over years. Men have been exonerated of rape charges after 7, 10 even 15 or more years, and somehow this is less suffering than being raped once?!?

6. We live in a rape culture

This is another mindless slogan of the type Liberals drool over. It’s vague enough to be hard to start addressing it’s stupidity, and can be repeated ad nauseum by idiots trying to pretend to make a point. With very few exceptions Americans detest rape. Even those that try to rationalize individual incidents are left pretending it somehow isn’t rape. We live in a very promiscuous culture, something given to us by Liberals. So they say, “If it feels good, do it.” Then say, “However, if she regrets in the next morning, it’s rape!” Feminists claiming America has a rape culture makes as much sense as McDonald’s nagging us for being obese.

7. Men should be taught not to rape

Men know not to rape, they don’t need to be taught it. The men who rape don’t do so because someone forgot to tell them it was wrong. They do so because quite a few people told them that morality is relative; right and wrong are arbitrary concepts; and they can decide for themselves what values they should follow. Guess who taught them that?

8. Rape is the only crime where the victim has to prove they’re not lying

So, if I go to the police and claim that John robbed my house. I don’t have to provide to the police any evidence at all that my house was actually robbed, let alone that John had anything to do with it? Can I claim a murder happened, and not have to prove someone actually died, or that the accused did it? In fact rape is the only crime I’m aware of that you don’t actually have to prove a crime was committed or that a specific person did it, in order to get legal wheels working and someone’s life in total chaos just because you made the accusation.

9. Women don’t lie about rape

Really, they actually say this. I suppose they base this on the belief that women never, ever lie about anything, ever.

10. Men control society

This becomes a rape myth inasmuch as it provides a philosophical base for most of the rest of the myths. There are more women than men in our population, and women have the exact same right to vote as men. There are currently 91 women serving in Congress…that’s 17%. But even the men in Congress have women comprising more than half of their constituency. I know of few men who do not hold as sacred the concept that women should be protected, and cherished. We have laws preventing anyone from suppressing a woman’s right to exert the legal powers granted to men. The truth is women hold massive power, and can and do use it whenever they understand that power, and choose to use it. If men control society, it’s only because women have given us permission to.

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In a video posted to YouTube the Mayor of Lake Worth, Pam Triolo and several commissioners can be seen leaving the room on Dec. 2, as atheist Preston Smith prepared to lead the invocation before a city council meeting.

Preston’s invocation invokes the names of Satan, Zeus, Allah, Jesus, Buddha and Thor among others.

According to WPTV, another man has put in a request to stand at the podium and lead an invocation. This time with a satanic prayer.

“We want to make a circus out of it,” explained Chaz Stevens. “We want to make a fiasco out of it, we want to make it so freaking, utterly ridiculous that they rethink this.”

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Chaplain, Capt. Joe Lawhorn, conducted a training session on suicide prevention Nov. 20 at the University of North Georgia. During the session, he shared his personal struggles with depression while an Army Ranger.

What upset the atheist group is that Lawhorn explained how he learned to conquer adversity by following the example of Israel’s warrior king, David, one of the great heroes of the Old Testament. [It should be noted that David is a revered figure in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and while it being called “The Old Testament” is a Christian reference, it remains the exact same text that Jews refer to as “The Torah” and Muslims refer to as “Taurat”]

A week later, on Thanksgiving, Lawhorn received a letter of concern from Col. David Fivecoat, commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Ga.

Fivecoat’s letter faulted Lawhorn for “using Christian scriptures and solutions”:

During this training, you advocated, or were perceived to advocate for Christianity and used Christian scripture and solutions. This is in direct contrast with Army Regulation 600-20 and violates the Army’s Equal Opportunity Policy.

The letter, described as “administrative in nature,” also issued a stern warning to Lawhorn to be “careful to avoid any perception you are advocating one system of beliefs over another.” It will remain in the chaplain’s file for up to three years.

The question remains how does one avoid the “perception” created in the minds of idiot, bigots and hate-mongers? And why should we even care?

SOURCE: The Daily Signal.

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A Long Island mother of three arrested for taking pictures of an Air National Guard base in the Hamptons ​– ​while ​armed to the teeth with a licensed assault rifle in her car — has been awarded ​$1.12 million​ by a federal jury over her false prosecution by Suffolk County authorities.

​The Central Islip ​jury ​on Thursday sided with Nancy Genovese, 58, in a 2010 lawsuit she filed against Suffolk County​, its​ Sheriff’s Office and other parties, ​claiming she was ​only ​arrested during the July 2009 incident because she belonged to the Tea Party.

Genovese was arrested while taking pictures of a decorative helicopter in front of the Gabreski Airport Air National Guard base in Westhampton Beach for a “Support Our Troops” website. She was charged with criminal trespass and spent four days in jail before the charges were dropped.

Southhampton cops searched her and found a legally owned rifle that she was transporting from a nearby rifle range. She contends a deputy sheriff arrived on the scene later and said to her, “I bet you are one of those Tea Party people.” When Genovese said she’s gone to Tea Party rallies, he allegedly said, “You’re a real right-winger, aren’t you?” and “You are a ‘Teabagger’” and then added that she’d be arrested for terrorism to make an example of other “right wingers.”

Read the full article at the New York Post.

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The Senate on Monday approved President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as U.S. surgeon general, despite opposition from Republicans and some Democrats over his support for gun control and past statements that gun violence is a public health issue.

Murthy, 37, a physician at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, won confirmation on a vote of 51-43. He’s a co-founder of Doctors for America, a group that has pushed for affordable health care and supports Obama’s health care law.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said most of Murthy’s career has been spent as an activist focused on gun control and other political issues, rather than on treating patients. “Americans don’t want a surgeon general who might use this position of trust to promote his own personal campaign against the Second Amendment of the Constitution,” Barrasso said.

Supporters said Murthy is well-qualified and noted his promise not to use the position as a bully pulpit for gun control. [Because Liberals always keep their promises]

Read the full article at FoxNews.com.

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To call someone a racist is a serious charge. A racist is someone who believes that one person is superior (or inferior) to another person simply based on their skin color. It’s a belief that is both foolish and stupid. But conservatives are accused by progressives of being racist on an almost daily basis. Is it a fair accusation? Or, is it just political posturing? And, if it is political posturing, what does it say about the people making the charge? Derryck Green of Project 21 has some provocative answers.

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Roughly one-third of US adults are obese, which costs companies more than $73 billion a year in healthcare bills and lost working hours and productivity, according to researchers from Duke University.

The study has revealed US cops have the highest rates of obesity among any profession in the country. Along with firefighters and security guards, nearly 41 per cent of boys in blue are obese.

Social workers, clergy and counsellors come in second, with 35.6 per cent having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more – the standard definition of obese used by the study.

Home health aides and massage therapists are third at 34.8 per cent.

Surprisingly sedentary professions such as truckers, bus drivers and crane operators, come in only fifth in a group with garbage collectors on nearly 32.8 per cent.

The slimmest workers are economists, scientists and psychologists, of whom 14.2 per cent are classed as obese.

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Yesterday, the Council of the District of Columbia passed a bill that could force employers in the nation’s capital to cover elective abortions in their health plans and require even pro-life organizations to hire individuals who oppose their views on abortion. The bill will now go to Mayor Vincent Gray for approval.

This latest attempt to violate the freedom of individuals in the District should spur Congress to better protect the conscience rights for all Americans.

The “Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act,” specifically prohibits employers from discriminating in “compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment” on the basis of an individual’s “reproductive health decision making” – including the “termination of a pregnancy.”

In light of comments made by Council member David Grosso at a hearing on the bill earlier this year, the D.C. legislation could be interpreted to force even religious and pro-life employers to provide coverage of elective abortions.

Read the full article at LifeNews.com.

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Eight dead children and a woman suffering from serious stab wounds were found inside a northern Australian home Friday, police say.

Police believe the 34-year-old woman found with chest wounds is the mother of seven children with the eighth child believed to be a relative.

Queensland state police were called to to the home in the Cairns suburb of Manoora Friday after receiving a report of a woman with serious injuries. When police entered the house, they found the bodies of the children, ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years.

The Guardian reports the children were all stabbed to death.

Read the full article at FoxNews.com.

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Women in America are the freest in the world, yet many feminists tell us women are oppressed. They advocate this falsehood through victim mentality propaganda and misleading statistics, such as the gender wage gap myth. In five minutes, American Enterprise Institute’s Christina Hoff Sommers tells you the truth about feminism.

Fulchrum posted:

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The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

[...]

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor—not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules. In this respect, it is important to realize that the means of production—that is to say, the entire productive capacity that is needed for producing consumer goods as well as additional capital goods—may legally be, and for the most part are, the private property of individuals.

[...]

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

[...]

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralization of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

Clarity about the aims and problems of socialism is of greatest significance in our age of transition. Since, under present circumstances, free and unhindered discussion of these problems has come under a powerful taboo, I consider the foundation of this magazine to be an important public service.

Lightning Jim posted:

Jesus Christ, Fulcrum. I can only handle these a few a time

Tangentially related (since "spanking works" is the same crowd that eats and poo poo out our usual posted poo poo)

Fulchrum posted:

Yes, I'm sure the people who do it to excercise power really do it because they think its okay and acceptable.

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Its starts with "This legal definition of rape isn;t rape - hell, I sued to do it all the time" and goes downhill from there.

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How DARE the surgeon general adress one of the primary causes for death fro Americans. He should be focusing on Ebola before it - what, its over?

Soonmot posted:

That really is way too much LL. Could you try only posting the most horrible dozen or so next week?

Wulfolme posted:

This pain is why we're here. Don't cry when you get more of it at once than usual.

Boywhiz88 posted:

I like the inclusion of 50 Cent in that black Republicans graphic considering how Fox News poo poo on Jay-Z earlier in the week. Also, the inclusion of historical black figures pre-Southern Strategy. I'm sure Sojourner Truth would reallllllly identify with the modern Republican Party.

FuzzySkinner posted:

They put Eazy-E on there too.

Which is...confusing.

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In March 1991 Wright accepted an invitation to a lunch benefiting the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle, hosted by then-President George H. W. Bush.[25] A spokesman for the rapper said that Eazy-E supported Bush because of his performance in the Gulf War.[26]

Boywhiz88 posted:

I like the inclusion of 50 Cent in that black Republicans graphic considering how Fox News poo poo on Jay-Z earlier in the week. Also, the inclusion of historical black figures pre-Southern Strategy. I'm sure Sojourner Truth would reallllllly identify with the modern Republican Party.


I read LL101 just to feel the pain and know that I'm still alive

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"Which is why they never actually signed any form of gun control legislation"

Boywhiz88 posted:

I like the inclusion of 50 Cent in that black Republicans graphic considering how Fox News poo poo on Jay-Z earlier in the week.

Mellow Seas posted:

Even the elf of the shelf is some creepy authoritarian poo poo. Better than actual violence, obviously, but if your kid isn't behaving the way you want them to, it's probably because either A) for gently caress's sake they're children and their brains are undeveloped and they barely know what the gently caress is going on or B) they're following the example of their lovely parents.

Fulchrum posted:

Haha, killing an innocent creature.

Fulchrum posted:

drat their magic ability to summon guns from the great unknown.

RagnarokAngel posted:

We've been telling kids for 80 years that Santa "Sees you when you're sleeping" and "knows when you've been bad or good". This is just a more material thing they can sell to people.