Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Blog: Check your 'cognitive privilege,' all you smart people!

Blog: Check your 'cognitive privilege,' all you smart people!
"Progressives, crazed with identifying new forms of oppression attached to the currently fashionable catchword "privilege," have finally embraced the stupid as a victim class.  
Hey, let's celebrate stupidity!  
In this case, one funded by taxpayers.  
The following is from a genuine column in the student newspaper of the University of Iowa.  
A student suddenly has discovered that being smart is just like being white: an unfair privilege.  
Dan Williams writes:
...There are many kinds of privilege besides white privilege: cognitive privilege, for example. We now know that intelligence is not something we have significant control over but is something we are born with. We are living in a society in which success is increasingly linked to one's intelligence. ...Consequently, you have nothing to be proud of for being smart.
Once we have admitted the reality of privilege itself and identified some species of privilege, we are better able to talk about the temperature-rising topic of racial privilege.
...Stupidity, it should be noted, is also a characteristic acquired according to degree of effort.
...Merit is under attack on both the left and the right, in part because it is so often confused with education and privilege..."
Read it all!

Early Evidence Doesn’t Bode Well for Finland’s Basic Income Experiment | International Liberty

Early Evidence Doesn’t Bode Well for Finland’s Basic Income Experiment | International Liberty
"The notion that government should automatically give everyone money – a policy known as “universal basic income” – is now getting a lot of attention. 
...Simply stated, the math doesn’t work, people would have less incentive to work, and there would be “public choice” pressures to expand the size of the checks. 
...The New York Times published an in-depth preview of Finland’s experiment late last year. 
Here’s a description of the problem that Finnish policymakers want to solve.
Image result for Finland’s Basic Income Experiment…this city has…thousands of skilled engineers in need of work. Many were laid off by Nokia… While entrepreneurs are eager to put these people to work, the rules of Finland’s generous social safety net effectively discourage this. Jobless people generally cannot earn additional income while collecting unemployment benefits or they risk losing that assistance. For laid-off workers from Nokia, simply collecting a guaranteed unemployment check often presents a better financial proposition than taking a leap with a start-up.
For anyone who has studied the impact of redistribution programs on incentives to work, this hardly comes as a surprise.
Indeed, the story has both data and anecdotes to illustrate how the Finnish welfare state is subsidizing idleness.
In the five years after suffering a job loss, a Finnish family of four that is eligible for housing assistance receives average benefits equal to 73 percent of previous wages..."
Read on! 

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The Shaming of White America | US Defense Watch

The Shaming of White America | US Defense Watch
"Every day some leftist or MSM publication publishes an article decrying how white Americans are ruining the American dream, and destroying progress.
They state that no one should listen to white people because of something done by whites in the past. ...White people elected President Trump; therefore, you have proof that they are bad for this nation. Day in and day out, stories run about the shameful behavior of white people in America.  
...According to the MSM, whites in America are the cause of all the problems facing this nation.
Image result for white privilege memeTo them we are some homogenous group that attack blacks, women (all colors), Muslims, atheists, and gays capriciously.
...whites are the vast majority of American’s citizenry.
...White European men created civilization, communications (the written word), science, health, medicine, art, music, and poetry.
No other civilization has ever matched it.
...That is not to underestimate the impact of white women, who stood alongside those early founders of this nation.
In fact, the civility of this nation can be directly attributed to those women; all white.
While men fought for our independence, most women raised the next generation, civilizing them and instilling the lessons of God, honor, and mom’s apple pie.
Together they created what was to be known as the American Dream..."
Really great!
Read it all!

You ought to know!

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US, allies prepared to use 'overwhelming force' in North Korea, general says | Fox News

US, allies prepared to use 'overwhelming force' in North Korea, general says | Fox News:

Image result for flickr commons images U.S. Air Force B1 Bomber"The U.S. and its allies are prepared to use “rapid, lethal and overwhelming force,” if necessary, against North Korea, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces warned Saturday night.

The statement from Gen. Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, U.S. Pacific Air Forces commander, came after the militaries of the U.S., South Korea and Japan spent 10 hours conducting bomber-jet drills over the Korean Peninsula."


Russia, Bribes & Sex: 19 MASSIVE Democrat Scandals the MSM Is Covering Up | Daily Wire

Russia, Bribes & Sex: 19 MASSIVE Democrat Scandals the MSM Is Covering Up | Daily Wire
"Michael Sainato of The Observer has done a superb job of accumulating all the scandals currently roiling the Democrat Party....
So, with another word of thanks to The Observer for reminding us of these 17 scandals (I added the last two), here they broken down into a handy-dandy list.  
Image result for crooked democrats1. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Shady IT Guy-While she was head of the Democrat National Committee (DNC), and until last week when he was detained by the FBI after attempting to flee the country, sitting Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz employed an IT aide named Imran Awan, who is under criminal investigation for all sorts of financial and intelligence crimes. There are reports of him destroying hard drives sought by the FBI, and worse, there are reports he hid a laptop computer in a crevice somewhere in the congressional office building, which, until recently, Wasserman Schultz refused to give investigators access to...
2. Democrat Mayors Charged with Pay-to-Play-In the great state of Pennsylvania, two former Democrat mayors were indicted on July 26 by the FBI for pay-to-play. This is the first you've heard of it because the national media is covering this story up. Oh, and you also haven't heard of Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, who is currently under investigation for $160,000 in gifts that went unreported.
3. Democrat Faces Bribery Charge-Sitting Congressman Robert Brady is currently under FBI investigation for allegedly paying a challenger $90,000 to drop out of the Democrat primary.
4. Democrat Sent to Prison for Racketeering-Just 6 months ago, longtime Democrat Congressman Chaka Fattah began a 10-year prison sentence for racketeering.
5. Democrat Accused of Having Sex with Children-Ed Murray, the sitting mayor of Seattle, ended his campaign for a second term in May after allegations surfaced of child sexual abuse..."
Lots more evil here. 
Read on!

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History for August 1

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History for August 1 - On-This-Day.com
Francis Scott Key 1779, Herman Melville 1819, Arthur Hill 1922
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Dom DeLuise 1933, Yves Saint Laurent 1936, Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) 1942
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1834 - Slavery was outlawed in the British empire with an emancipation bill.
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1893 - Shredded wheat was patented by Henry Perky and William Ford.
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1936 - Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic games as they opened in Berlin.
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1943 - In the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat PT-109 sank after being hit by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy. Eleven of the thirteen crew survived.
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1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The revolt continued until October 2 when Polish forces surrendered.
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1956 - The Social Security Act was amended to provide benefits to disabled workers aged 50-64 and disabled adult children.
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1957 - The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) was created by the United States and Canada.
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1973 - The movie "American Graffiti" opened.
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