[PJ] I do not envy young men in our society. A lot of them grow up without strong male role models. They’re shoved through an education that treats them like defective girls and they come out of that into a world that incessantly feeds them mixed messages. Be chivalrous... chivalry is sexism that means you think women are inferior! Women love strong alpha males... women want men to be sensitive and emotional. It’s your job to take care of and provide for your family... men are expected to do whatever their wife tells them to do, etc., etc., etc. There are so many of these that I could do a whole article on it (Mental note: Do whole article on the contradictory messages men get from society.) There are so many things you have to learn the hard way that I have a whole book on that topic, but here are a few of the most important lessons just for the guys.
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Apologize for gorb, TW. Here's three things I didn't see in what I was able to read of the article, and you really need to be "seeing" her for a good half year to suss these out, often much longer - she's not going to give them up readily and they may cost you a fortune.
1) The extent that she's a father-hater.
2) The extent she has bought into feminist ideology (go South of the Mason Dixon line and carry on West to Oklahoma). There's better prospects in this population.
3) If her biological clock is ticking and she's over 35 - you can be hit with child support payments for 18 years.
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...that doesn't include the child support portion, leaving you with 0. How nasty divorce and be resulted in a retirement eligible enlisted man choosing to have his enlist lapse and not put his retirement papers in. Went to court. Court said he can't be forced to submit the papers.
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#7: Don't pee on that (electric) fence.... or sit on your spurs.
Wives have infinite memories. You are likely to be reminded of this...often. You may get into an argument with the wife and think you have temporarily won the battle but in the long run you have lost the war. Sometimes it is good to be humble and eat a little crow. Sometimes "I'm sorry" will mend a lot of fences. At the end of the day, try not to go to bed angry. Forgiving someone is a blessing to all.
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What if your Ex is a "Lying Snake"? A co-worker suddenly discovered that his wages were garnished. After an 'Amicable, Mutual Divorce (no kids)' the Ex- had moved to Michigan from Oklahoma. There she had gone on Support and the State of Michigan showed up wanting him to reimburse them. When he showed them the paperwork they shrugged and told him that he had to find a local attorney and fight her misrepresentation (at his cost) in their court. Meanwhile, they were still garnishing his paychecks. He finally decided paying the Dangeld was cheaper... Justice, American style.
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Apologize for gorb, TW.
gorb is a dear who writes from personal experience, Fairbanks, but I appreciate your gallantry.
I grew up with play fair; work hard; don’t spend money you don’t have; learn a salable skill; you can’t have everything, so know what is important; care for those around you; a successful marriage is 60:40 from both parties, except for those times when the skew is worse; and, when you leave the house be clean, well groomed, and capable of polite conversation with everyone you meet,
[From The Trenches] A senior at Kent State University whose graduation photos show her wearing an AR-10 rifle and a cap that reads "COME AND TAKE IT" is reportedly receiving death threats.
This week, Kaitlin Bennett tweeted the images, writing, "Now that I graduated from @KentState, I can finally arm myself on campus. I should have been able to do so as a student ‐ especially since 4 unarmed students were shot and killed by the government on this campus," with the hashtag #CampusCarryNow.
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Once you go black rifle, you never go back
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I was at the NRA convention and overheard a couple guys grousing about modern sporting rifles having nothing to do with hunting. I've heard this other places as well. When this comes up in discussion, I always ask the traditionalist hunter types - as I politely call them - "When the gun grabbers get the black rifles off the table, what makes you think they are not coming for your turn bolt rifle?" None of them has ever been able to seriously answer that. The conversation usually goes in some other direction then...
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[HotAir] It was big news when Seattle’s far-left city council cut ties with Wells Fargo in February 2017. The city became the first in the nation to cut ties with a bank over the bank’s involvement in funding the Dakota Access Pipeline. But today, Seattle reversed course and signed a three-year agreement with Wells Fargo for banking services. Why? No other bank was willing to take their business. Reality, and Karma, are hard hitters.
From KUOW:
Breaking up is hard ‐ especially if you’re a city trying to break up with a bank.
Especially if the other banks aren’t all that interested in dating you... You're just not that popular, Seattle.
The city council resolved to find a new financial institution before ending the Wells Fargo contract at the end of 2018. But this week, City Finance Director Glen Lee gave them an update on the search for a bank. We screwed up
"The reality is, none wanted to participate and bid for our services, and given the time it takes to shift to a new service, we felt it was prudent for the city to move forward," Lee said.
To really appreciate how embarrassing this is, you need to look back at the celebration and back-patting that took place last year when the city voted to dump Wells Fargo. Komo News reported there were cheers after the unanimous vote:
The crowd erupted in cheers and chanted "water is life" when the council unanimously passed the measure, which directs officials to end the city’s contract with the San Francisco-based bank once it expires in 2018 and not to make new investments in Wells Fargo securities for three years. How'd that work out for ya?
"The example that we have set today can become a an example of stupidity beacon of hope" for activists across the country, said Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who co-sponsored the legislation...
"You have been a city setting the example to the world and I look to you to do that now," Olivia One Feather, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, told the council. "When big cities such as this do the right thing, it sparks hope in the world." It depends on your definition of "right thing".
Councilwoman Sawant, who was so proud of being a "beacon of hope," is the socialist who led the campaign for Seattle’s head tax and who led the previous campaign for a $15 per hour minimum wage. She’s a real treasure.
To be fair, it probably didn’t help that 11 other major banks were also involved in funding the multi-billion dollar Dakota Access Pipeline, including Bank of America, CitiBank, Chase, etc. Ultimately, there are a limited number of institutions prepared to handle an account like Seattle’s. Maybe they should have thought about that before the vote?
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Nigerian bankers reportedly will have nothing to do with Seattle. Too illiterate to read the phising messages. Well's Buttgo got their behind crossways with the 2nd Amendment crowd and figure they can make up the difference by having sex with the dogs of Seattle.
[FOX] Major breakthrough. Ernst Roets was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News regarding farm murders and expropriation without compensation.
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Why is there no HRW voice screaming about genocide and racial cleansing? I cannot imagine a more clear cut example if the skin colors were reversed. That there are not refugee quotas for SA whites to escape their racist country is tragically clear. Our liberal elites cannot allow the idea that racism exists anywhere except amongst whites is unacceptable.
[Breitbart] Irish psychiatrists are condemning the claim that the repeal of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment prohibiting most abortions is necessary for women’s mental health.
"To use ’health’ as a justification for abortion, when the vast majority of abortions do not take place on any kind of health ground, inverts the true purpose of medicine and doctors who value their calling should have nothing to do with this," write 24 Irish psychiatrists in a letter regarding the upcoming referendum on the amendment. "Our Minister for Health, for his part, must defend the true purpose of medicine."
The doctors get immediately to the core of the way in which the Left uses media to advance its narrative in the area of abortion.
[PJ] Attorney Joe diGenova predicted that both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' days are numbered at the Department of Justice during a telephone interview with Newsmax's Howie Carr Wednesday. DiGenova's claim came after the New York Times published a report titled "Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation". The report has been interpreted by many as an attempt by sources within the "Deep State" to cushion the blow of the imminent DOJ inspector general report, which is expected to be explosive.
In March, President Trump considered adding diGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing to his legal team, but conflicts of interest reportedly prevented him from hiring them. The attorney is still in contact with Trump, and told Carr that "the president has had it up to his scuppers with these clowns."
Buried deep within the NYT report is the bombshell revelation that Obama's FBI spied on the Trump campaign with covert "informants" (read "spies," or "moles") and electronic surveillance during the 2016 election. Also, contrary to the NYT's previous reporting, the article revealed that the spying did not begin with either Carter Page's interactions with Russians or George Papadopoulos's drunken conversation with Australian ambassador Alexander Downer in London. The spying began before that.
[Bloomberg] In yet another indication of the return of great power politics and the cratering U.S.-Russian relationship, the Defense Department announced last week the return of the historic and venerable Second Fleet, which has traditionally guarded the Atlantic approaches to the continental U.S.
The fleet was disestablished in 2011 in an attempt to save money and free up funding for new ship construction. That decision proved shortsighted. The revamped command will have nearly 300 officers and enlisted men and women, and will take on responsibility for training the Atlantic Fleet and, more importantly, conducting real-world operations to track potentially hostile vessels approaching the U.S. coasts.
What does the return of the Second Fleet say about America’s maritime strategy and relations with a resurgent Russia?
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the U.S. drew down the overall size of the Atlantic Fleet, correctly believing that the Russian Federation did not pose the kind of threat represented by the old Soviet Union. Fast forward to rule of Vladimir Putin, who has rebuilt the Russian Fleet — especially its undersea forces. In his recent “weapons video,” he showed many new weapons that could be launched from the Atlantic against the American mainland and sea defenses, including hypersonic cruise missiles and nuclear-powered undersea torpedoes.
Whether those are actually operational weapons is still unclear, but the malign intent is hard to overlook. As the recent National Security Strategy and the follow-on National Defense Strategy point out, “great power politics” is back.
Second, the return of Second Fleet helps re-energize NATO as a maritime force in the Atlantic. While I was supreme allied commander at NATO, the former NATO Atlantic Command, or Saclant, had atrophied into a test bed for innovation and training and was a shadow of its former self. Alongside the return of Second Fleet, NATO has announced a new Atlantic Command as well, which will be embedded within the larger Second Fleet.
Both will be based in Norfolk, Virginia, and the efficiencies of combining them will allow far better allied participation in U.S. military efforts in the Atlantic Ocean. Look for British, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other advanced warships from Europe to be calling in U.S. ports and operating extensively with our forces from the Arctic down to the Caribbean and well into the deep Atlantic. Both commands will be headed up by a single 3-star vice admiral, with staff officers from across the 29 nations of the NATO alliance.
Third, the new Second Fleet/NATO command will be responsible for specific operations to thwart Russian attempts to dominate the northern portions of the Atlantic.
This means conducting broad area surveillance, including the use of oversea long-dwell drones; deploying manned maritime patrol aircraft such as Boeing’s new P-8 Poseidon to track Russian submarines; using undersea monitoring systems, which are essentially listening posts on the deep seabed; undertaking at-sea combat training exercises with destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers; and integrating land-based air on both sides of the Atlantic from their homes in the U.S., U.K. and Iceland. There will also be extensive operations under the surface of the sea by nuclear and diesel submarines, especially in the Arctic Ocean.
All of this means more tension closer to U.S. shores. Alongside the dangerous military operations in Syria, where U.S. and Russian forces are literally within rifle shot of each other, the waters of the North Atlantic will become a zone of serious potential conflict.
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Positions for over-promoted Liaison Officers -- a multi-national smorgasbord with more admirals than ships? Something to duplicate any NATO North Atlantic command apparatus that we will also be expected to fund? Color me unimpressed...
h/t Instapundit
...I’ve joined a new aristocracy now, even if we still call ourselves meritocratic winners. If you are a typical reader of The Atlantic, you may well be a member too. (And if you’re not a member, my hope is that you will find the story of this new class even more interesting‐if also more alarming.) To be sure, there is a lot to admire about my new group, which I’ll call‐for reasons you’ll soon see‐the 9.9 percent. We’ve dropped the old dress codes, put our faith in facts, and are (somewhat) more varied in skin tone and ethnicity. People like me, who have waning memories of life in an earlier ruling caste, are the exception, not the rule.
By any sociological or financial measure, it’s good to be us. It’s even better to be our kids. In our health, family life, friendship networks, and level of education, not to mention money, we are crushing the competition below. But we do have a blind spot, and it is located right in the center of the mirror: We seem to be the last to notice just how rapidly we’ve morphed, or what we’ve morphed into.
The meritocratic class has mastered the old trick of consolidating wealth and passing privilege along at the expense of other people’s children. We are not innocent bystanders to the growing concentration of wealth in our time. We are the principal accomplices in a process that is slowly strangling the economy, destabilizing American politics, and eroding democracy. Our delusions of merit now prevent us from recognizing the nature of the problem that our emergence as a class represents. We tend to think that the victims of our success are just the people excluded from the club. But history shows quite clearly that, in the kind of game we’re playing, everybody loses badly in the end.
...It is in fact the top 0.1 percent who have been the big winners in the growing concentration of wealth over the past half century. According to the UC Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the 160,000 or so households in that group held 22 percent of America’s wealth in 2012, up from 10 percent in 1963. If you’re looking for the kind of money that can buy elections, you’ll find it inside the top 0.1 percent alone.
...Every piece of the pie picked up by the 0.1 percent, in relative terms, had to come from the people below. But not everyone in the 99.9 percent gave up a slice. Only those in the bottom 90 percent did. At their peak, in the mid-1980s, people in this group held 35 percent of the nation’s wealth. Three decades later that had fallen 12 points‐exactly as much as the wealth of the 0.1 percent rose.
In between the top 0.1 percent and the bottom 90 percent is a group that has been doing just fine. It has held on to its share of a growing pie decade after decade. And as a group, it owns substantially more wealth than do the other two combined. In the tale of three classes (see Figure 1), it is represented by the gold line floating high and steady while the other two duke it out. You’ll find the new aristocracy there. We are the 9.9 percent.
So what kind of characters are we, the 9.9 percent? We are mostly not like those flamboyant political manipulators from the 0.1 percent. We’re a well-behaved, flannel-suited crowd of lawyers, doctors, dentists, mid-level investment bankers, M.B.A.s with opaque job titles, and assorted other professionals‐the kind of people you might invite to dinner. In fact, we’re so self-effacing, we deny our own existence. We keep insisting that we’re "middle class."
...One of the hazards of life in the 9.9 percent is that our necks get stuck in the upward position. We gaze upon the 0.1 percent with a mixture of awe, envy, and eagerness to obey. As a consequence, we are missing the other big story of our time. We have left the 90 percent in the dust‐and we’ve been quietly tossing down roadblocks behind us to make sure that they never catch up.
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Confusing / Conflating wealth generation and rent-seeking is a terrible mistake that should not be committed by anyone who's actually read any economics from say Adam Smith or Ricardo.
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BP, isn't it more basic then that: 'wealth' and 'money' are two entirely separate things. 'Wealth' produces more... things. 'Money' is just something that you hope that can be exchanged for something that you want after you find a buyer.
Giving money to rent-seekers is as futile as burning it...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Irish psychiatrists are condemning the claim that the repeal of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment prohibiting most abortions is necessary for women’s mental health.
[PJ] Attorney Joe diGenova predicted that both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions' days are numbered at the Department of Justice during a telephone interview with Newsmax's Howie Carr Wednesday. DiGenova's claim came after the New York Times published a report titled "Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation". The report has been interpreted by many as an attempt by sources within the "Deep State" to cushion the blow of the imminent DOJ inspector general report, which is expected to be explosive.
