What I've always felt about Omar is not that she's being controlled by someone else but that she is either blind to her hypocrisy or chooses to be. She picks and chooses what she likes about each culture. We all do, but most of us are not in office. Or maybe she's just not all that bright? Occam's ...

No "contest" is needed, and none is implied. The fact is that there is no practice even remotely analogous to FGM in western culture. No doubt there are men who will whine about being "mutilated" in infancy as the result of routine circumcision, and perhaps they have a legitimate...

Do you have an example of Omar being an apologist for FGM? You have misquoted me. That's been the elephant in the livingroom since the beginning. . . How is it that an apologist for a culture that claims the right to dismember a woman's genitalia against her will ends up in this position to begin w...

How is it that an apologist for a culture that claims the right to dismember a woman's genitalia against her will ends up in this position to begin with? Mutilating penii is part of the American culture, but lots of males are politicians. I'm not sure what argument this point advances, but surely y...

That's been the elephant in the livingroom since the beginning. . . How is it that an apologist for a culture that claims the right to dismember a woman's genitalia against her will ends up in this position to begin with? Is a person whose culture absolutely precludes her from making decisions indep...

And it troubles you that wisdom is not found in a forum dominated by opinions that can be expressed in 15 words or less?

In early August, in the wake of the shooting at an El Paso Walmart, President Trump called on big tech companies to collaborate with the Justice Department in the creation of software that “stops mass murders before they start” by detecting potential mass shooters before they can act. Though Trump’...

According to this article, the Trump administration is considering using a Chinese-style "social credit score" to determine whether a person should have the right to own a gun. And who better to gather data for the social credit score than Amazon, Google, and the other tech giants who woul...

No the government did not, the universities did. I really get tired of this argument, just because the government sweetens the pot for something and ties strings to it, that does not equate to the government mandating it. There is a huge difference. Kind of like conditioning more generous Medicare ...

I'm just surmising here, but I suspect these girls' choices might have been different had everything been laid out for them from the beginning. Had that been the case, there wouldn't have been any need for the kind of sophisticated grooming that Epstein and his team had a knack for. It's easy for me...

Reality is. . . what is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. Did you opt out of Common Core or something?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-16/how-epstein-manipulated-vulnerable-young-girls-and-how-you-can-protect-your This is an interesting article, based upon interviews with the girls Epstein recruited, about how he lured them into service. When I think about how naive I was at that age, how obli...

What would Harry say?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08- ... year-bonds

WiseOne-- Perfect! I've been wanting to try both sausage and jerky for some time now. This is great! Re making butter: I forgot to mention that it's important to let the milk come to room temperature before shaking the jar. If you don't you may end up never getting past the whipped cream stage--whic...

I hate to break it to you, guys, but this month I took the plunge and moved substantially toward the PP. This means, of course, that the PP will cease to work for the first time. Just thought I'd warn ya.

[W]hat happens to the fat skimmed off milk? WiseOne, now that you've tackled indoor farming, you really have to try making your own dairy products. I get my milk straight from the cow, but even store-bought raw or unhomogenized milk will work. It's so quick and easy, and from one gallon of whole mi...

Pedophilia is attraction to prepubescent children. That isn't what's been going on here. These were underage in the sense that we don't consider them mature enough to consent, but they weren't really "children", biologically. I'm not defending any of this awful behavior, but we may as wel...

You're right, Tyler-- Much of that dark underbelly has been right out there in plain view. However, what remains largely in the dark is how a ring of pedophiles could effectively come to own and control everything that matters, including Congress, a majority of federal judges, and the heads of virtu...

But conspiracies involving high profile murder don't usually remain secrets for long, when they are real. One would think that to be true, and it certainly is true with respect to the private lives of ordinary citizens, but history has shown that the Elite have managed to pull of a great many of th...

While I can understand the explosion of conspiracy theories over this. . . So you don't believe that people of extreme wealth and power conspire with one another? I can't really imagine why Epstein, who presumably could have cut just about any deal he wanted with the prosecution, would need to kill...

A lot of people have got to be damned panicked to do the very thing we predicted would happen. It's as though the DS is no longer concerned about having a credible cover; they're scrambling to save themselves without any ascertainable plan and without any regard for the long-term consequences.

Ah. . . I thought it had to do with the confession of, and atonement for, "white privilege."

What do you suppose is the meaning of "Point of personal privilege?" I'm sort of gathering from the context that it means, "Forgive me for having any opinion on the matter, which is something that I have no right to have, and which may or may not be valid by virtue of the fact that my...

I couldn't watch for more than a few minutes. All I could see was a room full of hopelessly disturbed, ineffectual people, all vying for the status of being more special and deserving of accommodation than the next. What do you suppose happens when they run out of normal, functional people from whom...

What is the critical difference between Vanguard's treasury money market fund and a short-term treasury fund? Is one more suitable for the PP than another?