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Sex Change Regret
From SexChangeRegret.com: Young or old, early in transition or years later, changing genders ends in regret, and often, in a total nightmare.
I realize different people will draw different conclusions about the people who make the difficult decision to go back. I just feel you should see the stories of those who regret their transition.
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The Terms Of The Nuclear Deal Seem Unfavorable To Iran
If this is the deal, it is unfavorable to the Iranians. Skeptics will ask — if the the sanctions are relaxed, will they return if the Iranians cheat? That is what Netanyahu, and the neocons in the U.S. will focus on. As long as Iran has any nuclear program, the neocons want the sanctions to remain in place and for Iran to remain a pariah nation. The Iranians would never agree to that, and if they comply with this agreement, their nuclear program supposedly cannot be repurposed to provide for fissionable material. So it seems that Netanyahu, Bolton, Murvachik, Kristol, Prager, et al wanted complete capitulation from Iran or war.
Kosher For Passover Protein Bars!
Erica Berman writes: 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Heaping 1/2 cup almond butter
4 heaping tbls coconut oil
6 cups puffed quinoa (or other cereal)
1 lb (about 4 cups) mixed dried fruit and nuts of choice (I used currents, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashews and almonds)
Slowly melt chocolate, almond butter and oil over boiling water. Stir until smooth and remove from heat. Stir cereal and fruit/nuts/seedss into chocolate mixture. Scrape into one 9×12 and one 9×9 pan, spread evenly and press down firmly. Refrigerate until firm. Remove from fridge and cut into squares or bar shapes of desired size. Store in airtight container.
Why No Riots for Ricky Shawatza Hall?
American Thinker: What demands explanation is why the media and the Department of Justice have applied such disparate standards in the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown on one hand and Miriam Carey and Ricky Shawatza Hall on the other.
The answer is fairly obvious. “Black lives matter” or “LGBTQ lives matter” only when those deaths advance the agenda of the Democrat-media complex. With Obama in the White House, the shooting death of a black person and/or a gay person by federal officers scores no political points.
The heads of America’s major newsrooms sense this instinctively. They don’t need to be told. The minor newsrooms follow the major ones. Activists, black and gay, are reading the same tea leaves.
On March 15, 2012, just a few days before the story of Trayvon Martin’s killing in Florida became a national sensation, Jose Carranza, 32, was quietly sentenced to 155 years in prison for brutally executing three innocent black college students in a Newark, New Jersey playground.
Who is Jose Carranza? Like George Zimmerman, Carranza is of Peruvian descent. Ironically, what protected Carranza was the fact that he was “undocumented.” The headline, “Illegal Alien Kills Black Innocents,” appealed to no one in the Media-Democrat complex. Had Zimmerman been illegal, we never would have heard of him.
Twenty years before Zimmerman was arrested, almost to the day, the decision makers in America’s newsrooms had even less use for a headline that read, “Clinton Tank Attack on Religious Community Kills 26 Blacks, 13 Other Minorities.” So they fully suppressed the race angle. I doubt if even Al Sharpton knows that most of those killed at Waco were minorities.
And fifteen years prior to Waco, no major media publisher anywhere would have dared run a story with a headline, “Bodies of 250 black children dumped in Oakland mass grave: Communist killer had close ties to the Carters, Jerry Brown, Harvey Milk.”
To state the obvious: some black lives matter a whole lot more than others, and Ricky Shawatza Hall’s was one that did not matter much at all.
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‘Beer Talk’ From Blowhards: Pat Buchanan On Iran Hysteria
“Are we going to be frightened by words from an Iranian blowhard?” Pat Buchanan tries to school Sean Hannity on the insignificance of Iran’s military as compared to American and Israeli might (and Bibi’s 200 plus atom bombs). It has not dawned on Mr. Hannity that the Arab alliance forming in the Middle East against ISIS, our mortal enemy, is exactly what the US needs if she is to get the hell out of the business of meddling where we are hated.
I like Pat’s description of Britain ending up on US food stamps because of WWII.
What is so disconcerting is the blowhards of cable. In Pat Buchanan you have a learned man who partook in successive American administration, at crucial times in our history; who has so much too impart. And rather than let him teach you something, you scream him down.
Anti-intellectual.
A friend says:
Is a Jew a paleo, a liberal, or a Neocon?
Many in-between have come around to view Buchanan with the respect he deserves. Certainly I have friends and family who may be somewhat liberal or neocon but who still quietly admit they hold him in high esteem.
So I don’t think you have to be a paleo or a realist to like Buchanan like you did in the late 90s.
Rather, I would argue that Jews who seeks to dismiss Buchanan for politically incorrect views, Israel, minority, or otherwise, are firmly in the Israel-first (tribal Right) or Minorities-first (tribal Left) camp.
Of course, this barometer only works for the exceptionally well-informed. Your average co-ed doesn’t know anything about Buchanan except that Rachel Maddow and Jezebel disapprove.
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American Environmentalists Used To Oppose Population Increase
I hear: In the late 1960s, the environmental organizations all supported immigration restriction and wanted to stop population increase, especially in less developed nations. The intellectual heavyweights of that time, Garrett Hardin and others were clear.
As you can see from this post by Brenda Walker at VDARE, Peter Gelbaum who was married to the child of illegal aliens from Mexico made a huge donation to the Sierra Club to get them to change their policies on this, without any input from the membership. Now the Sierra Club is just another left-wing organization. It’s an arm of the Democratic Party. You never hear environmental organizations challenge immigration, illegal or legal, from the third world to first world countries on the grounds that the carbon footprint increases many times over from what one person does in a relatively primitive country to what one does in a developed nation.
Anyone who looks at the infrastructure of California, including specifically its water storage and distribution facilities, its highways, prisons, higher education facilities, and health care facilities can see how severely they have been taxed by the unanticipated flow of illegal immigrants, primarily from Latin America, but some from Asia and other areas of world (including Israelis overstaying their visas), yet no one talks about it.
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If you don’t want for your group to dominate the world, a hostile group will
It’s a shame Jews are so retiring and humble. It must inhibit their success.
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Shifts in the world’s major religions will see Islam growing faster than any other faith, with the number of Muslims nearly equaling that of Christians by 2050.
A new Pew Research Center study finds that with the exception of Buddhists, the world’s major religions will all see an increase in numbers by 2050, although some will make up a smaller percentage from today. Muslims are the only major religious group projected to increase faster than the world’s population as a whole.
Over the coming four decades, Christianity will remain the world’s largest religious affiliation, but Islam will see a major increase that will make the two religions nearly equal in numbers by 2050. In 2010, Christianity was by far the world’s largest religion, with 2.2 billion followers of the faith and composing nearly one-third (31 percent) of the Earth’s 6.9 billion people. Islam was second, with 1.6 billion adherents, or 23 percent of the world’s population.
If current fertility rates and youth populations continue to grow at their current rate, Muslims will make up 10 percent of Europe’s overall population by 2050. Islam is expected to nearly match Christianity in the coming four decades as a result of a “comparatively youthful” population with high fertility rates.
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Married Men Work Harder & Smarter
Chaim Amalek writes:
This is a great article, one that should be required reading in High School: Men who are reluctant to settle down until they make more money – and women who spurn low-wage men – could benefit from what Taulbee has discovered: Marriage has a transformative effect on adult behavior, emotional health, and financial well-being—particularly for men. (Parenthood is more transformative for women.)
Men who get married work harder and more strategically, and earn more money than their single peers from similar backgrounds. Marriage also transforms men’s social worlds; they spend less time with friends and more time with family; they also go to bars less and to church more. In the provocative words of Nobel Laureate George Akerlof, men “settle down when they get married; if they fail to get married they fail to settle down.”
Assimilating the lessons of this article is 1,000,000,000 ^ 1,000,000,000 more important than doing well in any video game.
Men who are reluctant to settle down until they make more money – and women who spurn low-wage men – could benefit from what Taulbee has discovered: Marriage has a transformative effect on adult behavior, emotional health, and financial well-being—particularly for men. (Parenthood is more transformative for women.)
Men who get married work harder and more strategically, and earn more money than their single peers from similar backgrounds. Marriage also transforms men’s social worlds; they spend less time with friends and more time with family; they also go to bars less and to church more. In the provocative words of Nobel Laureate George Akerlof, men “settle down when they get married; if they fail to get married they fail to settle down.”
Research findings on heterosexual marriage are surprisingly consistent with Akerlof’s insight, especially when it comes to engaging the world of work.
Our research, featured in a recent report, “For Richer, For Poorer: How Family Structures Economic Success in America,” indicates that men who are married work about 400 hours more per year than their single peers with equivalent backgrounds. They also work more strategically: one Harvard study found that married men were much less likely than their single peers to quit their current job unless they had lined up another job.
This translates into a substantial marriage premium for men. On average, young married men, aged 28-30, make $15,900 more than their single peers, and married men aged 44-46 make $18,800 more than their single peers.
That’s even after controlling for differences in education, race, ethnicity, regional unemployment, and scores on a test of general knowledge. What’s more: the marriage premium operates for black, Hispanic, and less-educated men in much the same way as it does for men in general.
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WP: Jerry Brown battles Calif. water crisis created by his father, Gov. Pat Brown
According to the Washington Post, California’s problem is that it has had too much water provided for it by its infrastructure. California has to learn to use less water. There’s not a word in here about investing in more infrastructure to secure more water.
I can’t take an enjoyable shower any more because the new shower heads reduce water pressure to a drizzle. It takes a long time to fill up a glass of water because the new tap heads reduce water flow. If California had no illegal immigrants, we would not need to ration water.
Chaim Amalek writes: “I keep thinking that there has to be a tipping point, a time when the accretion of lies our elites tell becomes so high and unstable that the whole thing comes crashing down on them. But it just never happens. At least not yet.”
WP: This philosophy — unlimited water for every Californian at any price — was behind Pat Brown’s massive mid-century push for water projects in the Golden State. And it’s a legacy his son, who just announced California’s first mandatory water restrictions, must endure.
“It’s a different world,” Jerry Brown said, standing in a dry stretch of the Sierra Nevadas typically under snowpack at this time of year. “We have to act differently. … The idea of your nice little green grass getting lots of water every day, that’s going to be a thing of the past.”
It’s hard to imagine a worldview more at odds with that of the current governor’s father, who ran California from 1959 to 1967 and died in 1996. Pat Brown was a water evangelist — an apostle of irrigation who exploited agribusiness’s unquenchable thirst for political gain but also sort of seemed to believe the rhetoric he bought into. He threw his weight behind funding for the California Water Project, a $1.8 billion initiative that today brings water to 25 million Californians and 750,000 acres of irrigated farmland. The project brought water from Northern California, where 80 percent of the state’s precipitation is, to Southern California, where 80 percent of its demand is.
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