Just finished an article about the absurdity of the GenZer's. If you want to know why Boomer's are physically healthy, it's because they are not whiners and have a solid work ethic. The article cited several examples of these whining, over parented children. When a company stopped the free soda given to employees, the Gen whiner complained as though they were just given a salary decrease. Another example was a manager giving an evaluation that asked for the employee to make some improvements. The GenZ's parent came to the company with a binder in hand of all the performance accolades their son/daughter had received (probably a participation award in 5th grade!). Another GenZ complained that they were being bullied because the manager had to explain that flexibility didn't mean you made your own hours and went offline when you wanted. Having a positive mindset helps the physical body, so if these "children" would get over themselves, they might find they are physically more fit than they think. There were numerous best reads, yours being one of them Nellie, about the NYT holding back your article on the Kenosha riots from last summer. Not surprising and rather sad that these items are becoming truths in our society.
I'm reading the "Return of the GOD Hypothesis" by Stephen C. Meyer. Stephen is driving the new atheists crazy as he is poking some holes in the untouchable Darwin.
In search of intelligent design, is the need to find a God?
"No speaker at the meeting implied there was a hole in evolutionary theory that might require “intelligent input.” Quite the opposite actually—there was a concern that the meeting’s intent might be misunderstood or misrepresented. The intent was methodological: here’s how evolutionary biologists can develop a more thorough picture of how evolution works."
Common Sense - worth every penny. An ideology that condemns what I call “Due Process of Information”, is in my opinion putting the nails in its own coffin. Due process of information - is the advancement of Information that presents itself and argues it movement forward. Only authoritarian censorship and tyranny can sustain such ideology. I will not comment further on reference to specifics in today’s post, as such an act would be foolish on my part.
Reading Noa Tishby's "Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth". She's an engaging writer and an impressive person and deserves a lot of credit for her activism. She also describes the world -- in some of its aspects -- as she wants it to be rather than as it is, but she's in good company there.
At the same time I just started a collection of essays by the late Gertrude Himmelfarb.
I recently finished Sowell's typically great "Intellectuals and Society".
Joe Rogan. I'm watching a Bernie Bro evolve into a conservative. His discussion about free college with Ben Shapiro was a wake-up for JR. He didn't come out and say it, but you could tell his common sense understanding of Ben's opinion is moving him right. And "right" means both correct, and conservative.
Brooke Jenkins, said ... “I’m a progressive prosecutor, but I’ve watched that term be distorted into just simply failing to prosecute crime at all. That’s not what that term means."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Weeeeellllll, you had me at 'hello.'
If that doesn't beg the question (read: what IS "progressive") then nothing else does. And how, tell me, is her version of 'progressive' any different than Bouldin's as both seem intent on insuring positive (versus legal, just, color blind) outcomes for one particular class or color?
Just asking, as this seems to be a common theme underlying every story on Common Sense, i.e., Bouldin's progressive vs. Jenkins' progressive, Bari's feeling of progressivism vs. Totalitarianism and progressive school boards being 'a bridge too far,' Bari's expressed concerns over anti-Semitism (shared by most, I'm sure) and the seemingly unwavering support of the Jewish community for a Democratic party that has done nothing in my life but shove a fist up the Jewish backside.
Bari, am I reading an awakening among the "not my form of progressive" crowd? What follows, the action items, from the readings on Common Sense? And what does that look like? And shouldn't there be some level of contrition in these writings that the voting preferences of the "not my form of progressive" (i.e., providing safe harbor for the Totalitarians and Socialists in the Dem Party) has put all of us in an unfortunate position?
And please do say Andrew Yang's breakaway represents a solution as that's just rearranging the Titanic deck chairs.
Love the writings, but the questions are stacking up.
"The second thing I keep thinking about is that the events of that night show the abolish-police vision in action. When the defund advocates talk about what replaces policing, they talk about community-led safety."
Thanks for that. It's a nice, concise way of looking at things that I'd missed.
The Joe Rogan interview of Jewel was one of the best interviews that I have ever heard. She is an incredible woman with an incredible life story, and he is in a class by himself as an interviewer.
From the last paragraph of the aforementioned Slate article: "Against the backdrop of rising white supremacist violence, Rittenhouse’s trial becomes a bellwether for how this kind of violence might be treated in a courtroom." WTF? Is there some suggestion, besides Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's tweet, suggesting Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist or this trial has anything to do with it? I hope Kyle sues the shit out of every one of these slanderous media pundits and the sitting POTUS!
Kyle Rittenhouse owned a legal gun that was stored in a friend's home in Kenosha WI. Count 6 (illegal use of a weapon) was thrown out yesterday because the gun he used was NOT illegal in WI for someone his age.
He lied to the journalist who interviewed him that night about his EMT credentials and he admitted that in court. He was, however a police and fire cadet in Antioch, IL. He was also a lifeguard. He did provide first aid and put out fires in an attempt to save the car dealership. (I drove past that car dealership two months after the riots. It was haunting. Every single car was burned to nothing but the shell.)
This is a trial of self-defense per WI law which is where I live. Rosenbaum's use of hands/feet, verbally threatening to kill Rittenhouse earlier in the evening, throwing a bag of unknown items at Rittenhouse, chasing him down and the simultaneous shot in the air by Ziminski as Rittenhouse was running away (Rittenhouse didn't know who was shooting as he was trying to run away), Huber striking Rittenhouse in the neck with his stakeboard and then attempting to strike him again, and Grosskreutz pointing an illegal gun at Rittenhouse (who actually admitted on the stand that he wasn't shot at until he pointed his gun at Rittenhouse) --- are all self-defense positions. Ziminski will go on trial in January for his offense. That trial has been delayed several times by the prosecution and is also in front of the same judge. Trials have a prosecution AND a defense which you've conveniently omitted from your post. Rittenhouse's attorneys utilized 100s of hours of still and video pictures--none of which were "created" to support a defense! Did you know Huber, Rosenbaum and Grosskreutz all have/had criminal records and Rittenhouse does not? Kyle ran to the police line and said he shot someone and the police told him to "go the fuck home". Then Rittenhouse went to the Kenosha police department which was fenced off so he couldn't get in. Finally he was driven to the Antioch IL police station where he turned himself in. Doesn't sound like a guy who's running away from a self-defense charge.
Did you know that Kyle's dad and grandmother lived in Kenosha and that Antioch borders the state of WI and Kyle drove to Pleasant Prairie, WI, the city next to Kenosha for work? This line about crossing state lines is hilarious. My husband drives from WI to IL every day for work!
Rittenhouse might still be lifeguarding if Jacob Blake had obeyed the restraining order for felonious sexual assault taken out by his estranged girlfriend/mother of his children and if Blake had obeyed the police by not resisting arrest and dropping the knife he was holding while trying to take his children away in his estranged girlfriend's vehicle. And Gov. Evers ordered the police to stand down and refused to bring in the National Guard despite 2 days of rioting and looting. I drove through Kenosha two months after the riots and it was like a war zone. Our son started his freshman year at a Kenosha college a week late because of the riots! Those riots should never have gotten to this point. Gov Evers sat in Madison while Kenosha burned.
So no, I don't need to think anything about anyone else. You see every situation has its own facts and circumstances where laws are applied and adjudicated. Race plays no role in this situation and asserting that I need "to say the same thing about a black man, an immigrant, the same with Muslims and with looters or arsonists" makes you a ridiculous person.
Lastly, I am pro-life from conception to natural death. I don't like when anyone dies an unnatural death. I also loathe pedophiles like Rosenbaum.
It seems to me, by your screed, you have an illiberal, reactive mind. The five items I posted were facts without commentary. All your antidotal or personal knowledge is irrelevant to Kyle's killing of two people, you rationalizing with Whataboutism to justify Kyle Rittenhouse's behavior. Because your mind is so illiberal, I doubt you'll be able to comprehend this concept; the black man, immigrant, or Muslim, including looters as well as arsonists, have the same self-defense rights as did Kyle Rittenhouse by Wisconsin law.
Any defendant has the right to prove his/her innocence in a court of law based on that state's self defense laws, as Rittenhouse is. Race is irrelevant to the law. Ask OJ Simpson; although that wasn't a self defense prosecution. You call me illiberal (lol) and I'll call you stupid for even bringing race into the conversation. What was the relevance exactly? Some of your "facts" are not facts. I posted facts. Instead of disputing my facts, you in turn call me names and suggest that because I live a stone's throw away from this community, that's also irrelevant. Bye Felicia!
Using a black man, as a class, like the other examples of a type of people, seems to provoke you; using a black man with the other examples was a way to represent Race, Color, Religion, and National Origin. And that each of these groups has the right to claim self-defense. Alas, your rage may be clouding your vision,
I have no rage, no understanding of who I am or what I stand for, yet you keep stabbing in the dark at labels for me. You really might be wise to look inward.
Rittenhouse reminds me of the kids in my town who volunteered for Vietnam in The 60's. No idea he was getting into a "real" shit storm. Tragically......They all got and he is getting the government boot.
"I wrote about this case twice because it demonstrated, to a disturbing degree, one of my biggest fears about the current media environment: what feels like endlessly accelerating Balkanization. We seem headed toward a point where every major news story generates at least two distinct versions of reality that are summarily adopted as true by many partisans. And the more explosive the story, the more disagreement about the facts."
The above quote comes from an article linked by Nellie from Jesse Singal's substack. And it rings true to me. My husband who has Alzheimer's likes to have MSNBC on all day, and I can hear their news programs even when I'm in another room.
Ever since the election, MSNBC (which has always been hyper partisan) has gone way off the deep end into looney toons land. All the hosts now have a short list of phrases they're required to say. The other day, the phrase "CRT is never taught in the schools" was hammered home, over and over and over again. They must think if you tell a lie often enough, people will start to believe it.
Nellie: Re good reads, I recommend Jason Whitlock’s Nov. 10 article for Blaze News: “Aaron Rodgers proves freedom is far more valuable than privilege.” It’s brilliant!
Saying that the Bronx would morph into the suburbs once freed from law enforcement is more than foolish --it's cognitively impaired. It's out of touch with reality. The question is: how much more can American society devolve?
Just finished an article about the absurdity of the GenZer's. If you want to know why Boomer's are physically healthy, it's because they are not whiners and have a solid work ethic. The article cited several examples of these whining, over parented children. When a company stopped the free soda given to employees, the Gen whiner complained as though they were just given a salary decrease. Another example was a manager giving an evaluation that asked for the employee to make some improvements. The GenZ's parent came to the company with a binder in hand of all the performance accolades their son/daughter had received (probably a participation award in 5th grade!). Another GenZ complained that they were being bullied because the manager had to explain that flexibility didn't mean you made your own hours and went offline when you wanted. Having a positive mindset helps the physical body, so if these "children" would get over themselves, they might find they are physically more fit than they think. There were numerous best reads, yours being one of them Nellie, about the NYT holding back your article on the Kenosha riots from last summer. Not surprising and rather sad that these items are becoming truths in our society.
I'm reading the "Return of the GOD Hypothesis" by Stephen C. Meyer. Stephen is driving the new atheists crazy as he is poking some holes in the untouchable Darwin.
In search of intelligent design, is the need to find a God?
"No speaker at the meeting implied there was a hole in evolutionary theory that might require “intelligent input.” Quite the opposite actually—there was a concern that the meeting’s intent might be misunderstood or misrepresented. The intent was methodological: here’s how evolutionary biologists can develop a more thorough picture of how evolution works."
https://biologos.org/articles/return-of-the-god-hypothesis-a-biologists-reflections
Nellie, your end of the week “round up” is essential reading for me. Thanks!
Common Sense - worth every penny. An ideology that condemns what I call “Due Process of Information”, is in my opinion putting the nails in its own coffin. Due process of information - is the advancement of Information that presents itself and argues it movement forward. Only authoritarian censorship and tyranny can sustain such ideology. I will not comment further on reference to specifics in today’s post, as such an act would be foolish on my part.
Reading Noa Tishby's "Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth". She's an engaging writer and an impressive person and deserves a lot of credit for her activism. She also describes the world -- in some of its aspects -- as she wants it to be rather than as it is, but she's in good company there.
At the same time I just started a collection of essays by the late Gertrude Himmelfarb.
I recently finished Sowell's typically great "Intellectuals and Society".
Joe Rogan. I'm watching a Bernie Bro evolve into a conservative. His discussion about free college with Ben Shapiro was a wake-up for JR. He didn't come out and say it, but you could tell his common sense understanding of Ben's opinion is moving him right. And "right" means both correct, and conservative.
You gotta listen to the Thursday Ruthless podcast interview with Bob Dole. Makes me wish for the old days.
Brooke Jenkins, said ... “I’m a progressive prosecutor, but I’ve watched that term be distorted into just simply failing to prosecute crime at all. That’s not what that term means."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Weeeeellllll, you had me at 'hello.'
If that doesn't beg the question (read: what IS "progressive") then nothing else does. And how, tell me, is her version of 'progressive' any different than Bouldin's as both seem intent on insuring positive (versus legal, just, color blind) outcomes for one particular class or color?
Just asking, as this seems to be a common theme underlying every story on Common Sense, i.e., Bouldin's progressive vs. Jenkins' progressive, Bari's feeling of progressivism vs. Totalitarianism and progressive school boards being 'a bridge too far,' Bari's expressed concerns over anti-Semitism (shared by most, I'm sure) and the seemingly unwavering support of the Jewish community for a Democratic party that has done nothing in my life but shove a fist up the Jewish backside.
Bari, am I reading an awakening among the "not my form of progressive" crowd? What follows, the action items, from the readings on Common Sense? And what does that look like? And shouldn't there be some level of contrition in these writings that the voting preferences of the "not my form of progressive" (i.e., providing safe harbor for the Totalitarians and Socialists in the Dem Party) has put all of us in an unfortunate position?
And please do say Andrew Yang's breakaway represents a solution as that's just rearranging the Titanic deck chairs.
Love the writings, but the questions are stacking up.
"The second thing I keep thinking about is that the events of that night show the abolish-police vision in action. When the defund advocates talk about what replaces policing, they talk about community-led safety."
Thanks for that. It's a nice, concise way of looking at things that I'd missed.
The Joe Rogan interview of Jewel was one of the best interviews that I have ever heard. She is an incredible woman with an incredible life story, and he is in a class by himself as an interviewer.
From the last paragraph of the aforementioned Slate article: "Against the backdrop of rising white supremacist violence, Rittenhouse’s trial becomes a bellwether for how this kind of violence might be treated in a courtroom." WTF? Is there some suggestion, besides Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's tweet, suggesting Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist or this trial has anything to do with it? I hope Kyle sues the shit out of every one of these slanderous media pundits and the sitting POTUS!
Kyle Rittenhouse and underage adults brought an illegal AR-15 style rifle across a state border and violated curfew. He lied about being an EMT.
1, Kyle was the only one who shot and killed someone that night.
2, Kyle killed an unarmed man in 0.76 seconds with four full metal jacket ammunition.
3, Kyle runs from the scene of the shooting.
4, Kyle kills a second unarmed man.
5, Kyle shoots a third person's bicep with major destruction.
If you think Kyle wasn't wrong, you have to say the same thing about a black man, an immigrant, the same with Muslims and with looters or arsonists.
Kyle Rittenhouse owned a legal gun that was stored in a friend's home in Kenosha WI. Count 6 (illegal use of a weapon) was thrown out yesterday because the gun he used was NOT illegal in WI for someone his age.
He lied to the journalist who interviewed him that night about his EMT credentials and he admitted that in court. He was, however a police and fire cadet in Antioch, IL. He was also a lifeguard. He did provide first aid and put out fires in an attempt to save the car dealership. (I drove past that car dealership two months after the riots. It was haunting. Every single car was burned to nothing but the shell.)
This is a trial of self-defense per WI law which is where I live. Rosenbaum's use of hands/feet, verbally threatening to kill Rittenhouse earlier in the evening, throwing a bag of unknown items at Rittenhouse, chasing him down and the simultaneous shot in the air by Ziminski as Rittenhouse was running away (Rittenhouse didn't know who was shooting as he was trying to run away), Huber striking Rittenhouse in the neck with his stakeboard and then attempting to strike him again, and Grosskreutz pointing an illegal gun at Rittenhouse (who actually admitted on the stand that he wasn't shot at until he pointed his gun at Rittenhouse) --- are all self-defense positions. Ziminski will go on trial in January for his offense. That trial has been delayed several times by the prosecution and is also in front of the same judge. Trials have a prosecution AND a defense which you've conveniently omitted from your post. Rittenhouse's attorneys utilized 100s of hours of still and video pictures--none of which were "created" to support a defense! Did you know Huber, Rosenbaum and Grosskreutz all have/had criminal records and Rittenhouse does not? Kyle ran to the police line and said he shot someone and the police told him to "go the fuck home". Then Rittenhouse went to the Kenosha police department which was fenced off so he couldn't get in. Finally he was driven to the Antioch IL police station where he turned himself in. Doesn't sound like a guy who's running away from a self-defense charge.
Did you know that Kyle's dad and grandmother lived in Kenosha and that Antioch borders the state of WI and Kyle drove to Pleasant Prairie, WI, the city next to Kenosha for work? This line about crossing state lines is hilarious. My husband drives from WI to IL every day for work!
Rittenhouse might still be lifeguarding if Jacob Blake had obeyed the restraining order for felonious sexual assault taken out by his estranged girlfriend/mother of his children and if Blake had obeyed the police by not resisting arrest and dropping the knife he was holding while trying to take his children away in his estranged girlfriend's vehicle. And Gov. Evers ordered the police to stand down and refused to bring in the National Guard despite 2 days of rioting and looting. I drove through Kenosha two months after the riots and it was like a war zone. Our son started his freshman year at a Kenosha college a week late because of the riots! Those riots should never have gotten to this point. Gov Evers sat in Madison while Kenosha burned.
So no, I don't need to think anything about anyone else. You see every situation has its own facts and circumstances where laws are applied and adjudicated. Race plays no role in this situation and asserting that I need "to say the same thing about a black man, an immigrant, the same with Muslims and with looters or arsonists" makes you a ridiculous person.
Lastly, I am pro-life from conception to natural death. I don't like when anyone dies an unnatural death. I also loathe pedophiles like Rosenbaum.
It seems to me, by your screed, you have an illiberal, reactive mind. The five items I posted were facts without commentary. All your antidotal or personal knowledge is irrelevant to Kyle's killing of two people, you rationalizing with Whataboutism to justify Kyle Rittenhouse's behavior. Because your mind is so illiberal, I doubt you'll be able to comprehend this concept; the black man, immigrant, or Muslim, including looters as well as arsonists, have the same self-defense rights as did Kyle Rittenhouse by Wisconsin law.
Any defendant has the right to prove his/her innocence in a court of law based on that state's self defense laws, as Rittenhouse is. Race is irrelevant to the law. Ask OJ Simpson; although that wasn't a self defense prosecution. You call me illiberal (lol) and I'll call you stupid for even bringing race into the conversation. What was the relevance exactly? Some of your "facts" are not facts. I posted facts. Instead of disputing my facts, you in turn call me names and suggest that because I live a stone's throw away from this community, that's also irrelevant. Bye Felicia!
Using a black man, as a class, like the other examples of a type of people, seems to provoke you; using a black man with the other examples was a way to represent Race, Color, Religion, and National Origin. And that each of these groups has the right to claim self-defense. Alas, your rage may be clouding your vision,
I have no rage, no understanding of who I am or what I stand for, yet you keep stabbing in the dark at labels for me. You really might be wise to look inward.
Another great piece from Common Sense. Thank you
Have you folks ever interviewed Batya Unger-Sargon?
Rittenhouse reminds me of the kids in my town who volunteered for Vietnam in The 60's. No idea he was getting into a "real" shit storm. Tragically......They all got and he is getting the government boot.
"I wrote about this case twice because it demonstrated, to a disturbing degree, one of my biggest fears about the current media environment: what feels like endlessly accelerating Balkanization. We seem headed toward a point where every major news story generates at least two distinct versions of reality that are summarily adopted as true by many partisans. And the more explosive the story, the more disagreement about the facts."
The above quote comes from an article linked by Nellie from Jesse Singal's substack. And it rings true to me. My husband who has Alzheimer's likes to have MSNBC on all day, and I can hear their news programs even when I'm in another room.
Ever since the election, MSNBC (which has always been hyper partisan) has gone way off the deep end into looney toons land. All the hosts now have a short list of phrases they're required to say. The other day, the phrase "CRT is never taught in the schools" was hammered home, over and over and over again. They must think if you tell a lie often enough, people will start to believe it.
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/here-are-my-contemporaneous-articles
Nellie: Re good reads, I recommend Jason Whitlock’s Nov. 10 article for Blaze News: “Aaron Rodgers proves freedom is far more valuable than privilege.” It’s brilliant!
Will get him into my reading mix. Thank you!
Saying that the Bronx would morph into the suburbs once freed from law enforcement is more than foolish --it's cognitively impaired. It's out of touch with reality. The question is: how much more can American society devolve?