The more I worked there and visited government officials doing absolutely nothing, the more I realized that no one in Senegal had the idea that a job means work. A job is something given to you by a relative. It provides the place where you steal everything to give back to your family.
Source: What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right
Is Venezuela’s finance minister out of his mind? No, he’s a leftist. So he believes inflation doesn’t exist.
Luis Salas is the perfect man to head up the economies of Venezuela or California. He’s a sociologist who claims that, “Inflation does not exist in real life.”
Venezuela’s economy also doesn’t exist in real life.
Minister Salas claims that inflation isn’t caused by printing infinite amounts of money, but by corporate conspiracies.
Apparently content with futile poverty policies, Sacramento lawmakers can turn their attention to what historian Victor Davis Hanson aptly describes as a fixation on “remaking the world.” The political class wants to build a costly and needless high-speed rail system; talks of secession from a United States presided over by Donald Trump; hired former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. to “resist” Trump’s agenda; enacted the first state-level cap-and-trade regime; established California as a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants; banned plastic bags, threatening the jobs of thousands of workers involved in their manufacture; and is consumed by its dedication to “California values.” All this only reinforces the rest of America’s perception of an out-of-touch Left Coast, to the disservice of millions of Californians whose values are more traditional, including many of the state’s poor residents.
Obvious. See Venezuela. Liberalism/socialism always ends badly.
Source: Los Angeles Times
““Why shoot him four more times? Why did he shoot him five times?” she asked.”
Liberals claim that sexuality is immutable, but that is obviously false when you have actresses like Ann Heche who date Steve Martin for years, then Ellen DeGeneres, then change back to dating men. If dating Steve Martin can make you into a lesbian, then obviously, sexual orientation is a choice.
It’s always been a choice to be a pervert. And perverts need to recruit new perverts. And keep them recruited.
Source: American Thinker
There’s a word for involuntary servitude encoded in law, Mr. O’Rourke, and it ain’t a pretty one.
O’Rourke, who currently represents the 16th District of Texas, which includes El Paso, held a town hall in Corsicana on Thursday and shared his idea with those in attendance.
O’Rourke’s idea would require “every young person,” regardless of their socioeconomic background, to serve their country in some way whether that be in military service, a medical unit, a teaching unit etc.
The only time I would consider bringing back the draft, and that’s what this is, would be if the US of A were invaded. Otherwise this is just as bad as requiring high school students to complete ‘community service’ in order to graduate. Mandatory ‘community service’ is slavery and is outlawed under the 13th Amendment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Source: Animal Magnetism
Seems an awful lot of elected officials have no clue about the Constitution they are sworn to uphold. But we knew that.
Toleration is beneficial inasmuch as it bolsters our ability to live freely and righteously. It is not a value by itself – it is bound by shared ethical standards.
To understand the bounds of tolerance, ask yourself the following questions. Would it be OK to legalize pedophilia? Should incest be allowed? What about bestiality?
The most intolerant people are those preaching tolerance. Discrimination is a right.
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In the Sixties, we saw the beginning of a narcissism and self-absorption that gripped the Left and has not let go.
The full-scale embrace of the importance of self-awareness, self-discovery and being ‘true’ to oneself, along with the idea that the State should care for the less fortunate, has created a swathe of Left-wing people who want to outsource their obligations to others.
Source: Daily Mail
The choke point is when the small minority expands to include you. And then it’s no longer a few billionaires. It’s the upper middle class. And then it’s the entire middle class. It’s all white people. It’s all men. And then it’s everyone. The minority turns out to be the majority. And that’s the scam.
Identity politics is approaching its own choke point. It’s running out of other people.
Source: Sultan Knish
Since I have a SIG Sauer P-226 I’d have to go with the SIG Sauer P290RS. Same 9mm ammo.
Whole list: Shooting Illustrated
Hat tip: Instapundit
