Terminal Liberalism

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NYPost: Pet Owners Deserve Family Leave Time Too…
Oh for the love of carp!
Via NY Post:

Bringing my adopted cat, Jameson, home with me in 2014 was one of the happiest days of my life.
Having to go back to work two days later was one of the worst.
While the rest of the country is hung up on the necessity of maternity leave — or even the newly coined “meternity” — one group continues to be overlooked when it comes to paid time off from work: new pet owners.
“Paw-ternity” leave is already a reality in the UK — the US pet-insurance provider Petplan found that nearly 5 percent of new pet owners in the UK were offered time off to care for their four-legged kids. (Not surprisingly, the UK is also light-years ahead of the US when it comes to maternity leave, offering up to 39 weeks of paid leave for new mothers.)
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8AM“The fight is being waged on all fronts, and the most insidious idea employed to break down society is an undefined equalitarianism…Such equalitarianism is harmful because it always presents itself as a redress of injustice, whereas in truth it is the very opposite…The comity of peoples in groups large or small rests not upon this chimerical notion of equality but upon fraternity, a concept which long antedates it in history because it goes immeasurably deeper in human sentiment. The ancient feeling of brotherhood carries obligations of which equality knows nothing. It calls for respect and protection, for brotherhood is status in family, and family is by nature hierarchical…Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relationships mean order. It is order without a design; it attempts a meaningless and profitless regimentation of what has been ordered from time immemorial by the scheme of things. No society can rightly offer less than equality before the law; but there can be no equality of condition between youth and age or between the sexes; there cannot be equality even between friends. The rule is that each shall act where he is strong; the assignment of identical roles produces first confusion and then alienation, as we have increasing opportunity to observe. Not only is this disorganizing heresy busily confounding the most natural social groupings, it is also creating a reservoir of poisonous envy. How much of the frustration of the modern world proceeds from starting with the assumption that all are equal…It is generally assumed that the erasing of all distinctions will usher in the reign of pure democracy. But the inability of pure democracy to stand for something intelligible leaves it merely a verbal deception…If it promises equality of condition, it promises injustice, because one law for the ox and the lion is tyranny.” Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (via radical-traditionalism)(via vikingmanx)

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West Point Investigating 16 Cadets For Involvement In ‘Black Lives Matter’ Movement…
Black Lives Matter members encourage revolution, embrace the dictates of escaped murderer Assata Shakur, anti-upholding the Constitution.
Via Daily Caller:

West Point officials are conducting an investigation into 16 black female cadets for appearing in a picture raising their fists, a symbol emblematic of the nascent Black Lives Matter movement.
If that’s the case, these cadets are in big trouble for involvement in partisan political activity, which constitutes a violation of Department of Defense Directive 1344.10, Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces. Cadets are not supposed to be making political statements when in uniform, Army Times reports.
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Two College Students Expelled Over Hate Crime Hoax

By Rick Moran May 8, 2016
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Two College Students Expelled Over Hate Crime Hoax
Asha Burwell leaves the front of the judge's bench at Albany City Criminal Court on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016. (Paul Buckowski/The Albany Times Union via AP, Pool) MANDATORY CREDIT

Two University of Albany students were expelled and a third suspended for two years after they were indicted for perpetrating a hate crime hoax.
The three students were on a municipal bus when, they claim, 12-20 white men assaulted them and directed racial epithets against them. But video recorded on the bus shows a much different story: the women were the aggressors and the victim was a 19-year-old white woman.
Washington Times:

Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell have been dismissed from the university and Alexis Briggs has been suspended for two years, according to an email sent to the school community Thursday by President Robert J. Jones, the Albany Times Union reported.The women grabbed national headlines — and a sympathetic tweet from Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton — after claiming that a group of 12 to 20 white men hurled racial slurs and attacked them on a CDTA bus about 1 a.m. Jan. 30 while others stood by and did nothing.
The alleged incident sparked a large on-campus rally defending women of color and the social media campaign #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany.
Police now say there is no evidence to back up their story and that the women were the actual aggressors, according to footage captured by cameras on the bus and by witnesses. The actual victim, police said, was a 19-year-old white woman who was also a bus passenger.
The three women were indicted this week by a grand jury and arraigned for 10 misdemeanor charges, including assault, attempted assault and false reporting, along with a violation for harassment, the Times Union reported. They have pleaded not guilty.
The three didn’t show up for their student conduct board hearing March 9, because their lawyers cited a conflict of interest in which UAlbany served as judge in the board hearings and witness in the criminal case, the Times Union reported.
Ms. Burwell’s lawyer Frederick Brewington noted that Ms. Burwell had already withdrawn from the university before she had been given a hearing and then dismissed, the Times Union reported.
Inspector Paul Burlingame of the University Police Department, a witness who testified at the hearing, said the real victims of the assault stayed mum during the media storm because they feared for their safety.
“One of the female victims,” Mr. Burlingame said, “withdrew out of concern for her physical safety.”

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Are these the dumbest hate crime hoaxers in history? They violated the first rule of racial grievancing: always make sure there isn't a video that can contradict your false claims.
In truth, incidents like this make it more difficult for those who are victimized by real hate crimes. Like with women making false sexual assault claims against men, it damages the credibility of real victims who must overcome a skeptical public to advance their case.
The hoaxes won't stop until the police start sending people to jail. It's not just making a false statement to police -- which is a serious enough crime itself. A hate crime hoax heightens emotions of blacks and whites and could lead to violence. For that reason, send the perpetrators to jail for a couple of months as an object lesson in violating the tranquility of the community.

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U Of Minnesota Hosts “Fat Activist” Who Tells Students Fat People Are “Oppressed”…
Via Campus Reform:

A self-proclaimed fat activist, Virgie Tovar, promoted the idea that overweight people are an oppressed class at a University of Minnesota event called “Dispelling Myths: Fat, Fatphobia, and Challenging Social Stereotypes.”
The event, held on International No Diet Day (May 6), was sponsored in part by the university’s School of Public Health and its Office for Equity and Diversity.
“Fat activism” puts overweight individuals into a category with other groups of people who claim to be oppressed. It puts the blame of being fat on society as a whole instead of the individual.
Tovar, who gave her talk through Skype, told the small crowd in attendance that negative body perceptions are taught through societal mechanisms, and that overweight people cannot lose the extra fat.
“Weight loss is not a realistic goal for most people,” Tovar said.
She claimed 80 to 90 percent of people will regain the weight that they lose while on a diet and that it is important for people to realize that “the body you have now is the only body you will ever have.”
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Bill Nye Blames Tornadoes On Climate Change, Gets Called Out By Disgusted Meteorologists


Actual scientists call him out.
Matt Daniel, meteorologist at 13WMAZ (CBS), Atlanta, Georgia:





John Honore, meteorologist Kris6 News, Corpus Christi, Texas:

Honore’s tweet notes there is no increase in frequency and that there is a downward trend in violent nature of the tornadoes.

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Dumb: Code Pink Holds “Trump Is A Racist” Protest. Dumber: Group Co-Founder Spells Code Pink’s Name Wrong On Her Sign… Lay off the doobage.

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Pic Of Day: Code Pink Scares Adult, Children
Classic. Code Pink woman in the front waving at the kids is head, Medea Benjamin