Groping Allowance - Don't You Wish You Had One?

Members of both the House and Senate have copped to having harassed, abused, and assaulted junior federal employees. A slush fund of over $15 million was secretly created by Congress to paint over actions that ranged from disgusting to criminal. You and I paid for this fund with our not-so voluntary taxes, but none of the pervs, creeps or predators have been named, nor have the details of their lurid actions been revealed. Some of them are most likely still in Congress, strutting in the halls of marble we provide for them and being treated like princes among the paupers. Yet, who pays the piper for their misdeeds? They don’t pay a dime. They grope their victims and ask you to pay for it. It’s the equivalent of getting a speeding ticket and asking a pedestrian to pay for it.
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/361562-lets-give-lois-lerner-a-taxpayer-funded-home-where-shes-safe

Disingenuous Heart Felt Confusion from the Misinformed

That's what we hear when people who don't know what assault rifles are, or how they differ from military weapons, try to tell us it's the right thing to do to add legislation that empowers government agents with guns to take guns from or restrict access to citizens with guns.

When people who appear to never do anything more noble than promote themselves and serve their own power start talking about what is right and what is wrong, how could anyone do anything but grimace in anger?

Do they even realize - stuck in their echo chambers of perceived significance - how buffoonish it sounds to a regular person?  Empty suit ambitious blowhards beholden to big money are all of a sudden getting a conscience ... why am I not impressed.

People that disingenuous and ambitious should have as little power as possible.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/02/politicize-shootings-make-harder-find-solutions/

Isn't This Obvious?

“Rainbow Gatherings, as a matter of principle, are free and non-commercial. Using money to buy or sell anything at Rainbow Gatherings is taboo.” Niman added, “The Rainbow Family, however, rejects all forms of money, including alternative currencies like time credits or barter notes.”
https://fee.org/articles/when-hippies-used-snickers-as-currency/?utm_source=FEE+Email+Subscriber+List&utm_campaign=79156f24b3-MC_FEE_DAILY_2017_08_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_84cc8d089b-79156f24b3-107299969

"Free but money is taboo". Right. Like black but white. Like right but wrong. Like good but bad. Free but money is taboo.  Buffoonery.

Let the Machines Do What They Can Do Better

Enter, Walmart Academy, where 1 million of the company's employees will eventually be taught fundamental retail skills that go beyond stocking shelves and customer service, such as which items turn a profit and why.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14275053/1/walmart-s-store-of-the-future-may-look-eerily-humanless.html?puc=yahoo&cm_ven=YAHOO&yptr=yahoo

It's weird how we feel about change. First we got animals to do what we didn't want to do or couldn't do as well as they could. Then slaves. Then machines. Then computers. Now, we look at robots and think "oh no!". But doesn't this just mean we can free humans to do the stuff than robots can't? It would seem that adds value for all.

More Non-Kinetic Options for Norkons

http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/taming-north-korea-without-firing-a-shot/

A good read.

Where Was the Outrage?

Where was their anger when the ACLU described the situation as it unfolded? “Not sure who provoked first. Both sides were hitting each other at Justice Park before police arrived,” the ACLU of Virginia declared via Twitter on Saturday afternoon. The group identified both factions in a video of an open-air brawl on Charlottesville’s streets. “The guy on the ground is a Unite the Right protester. Those in black and red are #Antifa protesters,” referring to far-Left “anti-Fascist” thugs.

There was no angst when Reuters reported that “Many of the rally participants were seen carrying firearms, sticks and shields. Some also wore helmets. Counter-protesters likewise came equipped with sticks, helmets and shields.” Reuters correspondents Amanda Becker and Jeff Mason added, “The two sides clashed in scattered street brawls before a car plowed into the rally opponents, killing one woman and injuring 19 others.”

The fury was absent when NBC Nightly News’ Gabe Gutierrez explained that “witnesses say both sides came prepared for a fight.”

The Trumpophobes left their spleens unvented when the Associated Press published this headline atop one of its dispatches — “View from the street: Police stood by as adversaries fought.”

And there was no venom when Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas said: “We did have mutually combative individuals in the crowd.”
http://www.unionleader.com/column/Deroy-Murdock-Both-sides-were-to-blame-for-Charlottesville-violence-08182017

Easy answer - it wouldn't serve their political ends to be outraged at the chumps, only in opposing the Pres is the outrage useful. Same song, different pres.

Comey Didn't Botch, He Didn't Try Hard Enough to Call it Botched

He did the minimum necessary, and left the rest to fate. What a crazy election.

She deserved much worse than she got, there's no excuse for what she did.

http://nypost.com/2017/08/12/comey-botched-the-hillary-clinton-email-investigation/