Random Monday Hit & Run
1. William F. Buckley, Jr.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
2. Bill Maher and Sam Harris demonstrate in excruciating detail just how much of a Fucktard Ben Affleck is.
This is painful to watch. Revisit #1.
It’s literally easier to talk to 3-yr-olds. Feel sorry for Jennifer. Here’s a story in print.
3. The Olympics is all about The Nomenklatura,* now.
* The nomenklatura (Russian: номенклату́ра, Russian pronunciation: [nəmʲɪnklɐˈturə], Latin: nomenclatura) were a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of those countries’ activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc., whose positions were granted only with approval by the communist party of each country or region.
FATSIS: Well, you have to consider the International Olympic Committee is this weird assemblage of aristocrats and sportocrats. They have tremendous leverage thanks to sponsorship and TV contracts. Now at least some cities are saying, enough, enough with the costs and the corruption and the voting scandals in groups like the IOC and soccer’s FIFA. The past winter games in Sochi, Russia – $50 billion and a lot of that was slipped into pockets unknown. Spending on the Athens Olympics in 2004 pushed Greece into economic peril. These are all red flags for potential bidders. […]
Yeah, the IOC doesn’t take rejection well, we learned here. It issued this passive aggressive statement saying it is a pity that Oslo will miss out on this great opportunity to invest in its future. Poor Oslo. Norway’s also going to miss out on a few other things, some demands that the IOC made. They were leaked to a Norwegian newspaper. And they read like a David Letterman top 10 list – cocktail party with the king, with the royal palace or the local Olympic organizers picking up the tab, separate lanes on all roads for IOC members – and I think it’s important to point out that there are 105 IOC members – ceremonial welcome for the IOC president on the airport tarmac, meeting rooms set to exactly 20 degrees Celsius at all times. And number one of my top 10 list, IOC members shall be greeted with a smile when arriving at their hotel.
4. More evidence that a diet deficient in Animal Parts rots your brain.
This is as equally painful to watch as Ben is, above. Just remember: her name is “snow.”
…More 3 yr-olds.
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Come on, Richard. Your post actually presents more evidence that it’s the ingestion of animal parts that rots one’s brain. Ben Affleck is an omnivore, after all. All that meat has left him unable to follow along when the grown-ups talk.
I’d rather hang out with Snow any day. She’s a bit earnest is all.
I guessed you missed all the Dunnings and Krugers right behind the crying 3 yr-old, Gina.
At least Ben wasn’t crying.
Exactly! No one knows how to throw a proper tantrum these days.
I guess don’t relate mainstream veganism to Snow and her comrades’ behavior because, like most human herbivores, my familiars are sweet little carnivores. It’s hard to mount a high horse with cans of meat in your shopping basket.
Nice touche, Gina.
Richard,
I saw the Maher vid over the weekend and thought about you. Glad you posted it.
I read the article you linked to and had to wonder if the Enlightenment placed too high a value on life in a big society. We have reached the point where no one should die and expend a lot of resources to maintain a heartbeat.
With that thinking and the technology to go anywhere in the world in comfort, we now think it right and fitting to have everyone think the same. There is also money to be made when those ideas are ‘sold’ to new peoples.
In a world of eight billion sovereign states I wonder if there would be freedom to group and live however you want.
In the UK we hear often muslim women say how the religion gives them respect and freedom. I don’t doubt them. I am sure they teach that to their children so to tell them they are misogynists and fools seems futile. They should be free to feel that and live that.
Conversely, others should be free to live apart, be wary and not feel compelled to be compassionate.
Thanks for your tremendous output. It is very helpful in my effort to paint a clearer vision for myself and my family.
Regards,
Sean
I love eating snow! Even in the summer.
LOL if only veganism actually killed people…oh wait, it does, but it kills children who have no say in the matter by which their idiot parents feed them. What a dumbass.
I guess she’d be pretty upset to find that a wild predator wouldn’t hesitate to rip her crying head off