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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump Derangement Syndrome takes on many forms, all of which Punchy the Parrot reads and believes. Don’t blame Punchy the Parrot. He is just doing his job. Resist the Truth!
    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/14/worst-media-moments-week-ny-mag-climate-screed-wins-but-there-are-more.html

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  2. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    Subtle foreign policy from the Left.
    https://archive.fo/9ok1V

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  3. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    …plus, an added bonus. The Third World rides to the rescue.
    https://archive.fo/xUQas
    I really do like how these archive sites make it harder for the newswarriors to rewrite the past.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 9:40 am.
    “We were and are under attack by a hostile foreign power,”
    Oh yeah, I forgot about Hillary running for her life with her head down on the tarmac in Serbia….or was that Bosnia? Or was that Brian William taking on enemy flak? I get them all confused. Afterawhile, they all look the same. White people, geeze.

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Look at readers. bill is starting one of his episodes again.

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    DUAL RECORD HIGHS! The DOW and S&P both set their 25th record this year! 😉

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Someone is stressing out early about id Rock’s potential run for office.
    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2017/07/liz_warren_sounds_fundraising_alarm_over_kid_rocks_potential_senate_run
    Yup, Be afraid. VARY afraid.

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Andy Serkis reading Trump tweets as Gollum/Sméagol
    https://youtu.be/64mWOoj68qo?t=3m30s
    Sad!
    Since Palooka E. has fallen down on the job, I’ll be the one to reveal… Trump skyrocketing down another point. Almost as low as he was in March.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Let’s see here. Virginia Gov Terry McAuliffe is long time Dem operative, formet Clinton Afministration official, long time Friends of Bill and long time close personal friend of The Clintons and their long time bagman.
    Terry throws a fundraiser for an unknown female candidate with no chance of winning, Hillary pops in, shakes them down at the fundraiserand and just like that $650,000 is from Terry’s PAC to the lady’s campaign. The lady canidate who is barely known just happens to be the wife of the dude who oversees Hillary’s email criminal investigation. All goes through him before Comey sees it. He gives the FBI investigators the thumbs up or the thumbs down on all matters concerning subpoenas, where the FBI can snoop, what they can investigate, etc.
    What a coincidence.
    Follow the money. Somehow this does not surprise me in the least. What is it with these former DNC chairs? First Debbie Whatzername Sargent Shultz among others, and now this sleaze ball Gov. Terry. Does Hillary run with one single person who is not corrupt and a slime ball?
    Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
    http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/gage-cohen/judicial-watch-va-govs-former-electric-car-company-will-cost-taxpayers-millions?ref=yfp

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “The Democrats and their friends in the mainstream media have yet to figure out that they are being played by President Trump. The President has been the point man in taking all the hits from the Democrats.”
    http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/in-the-age-of-trump-democrats-are-all-defamation-and-no-ideas/
    Boy, the whole Left is one big Swamp. Stinks to high heaven.
    http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/07/13/federal-election-commission-kept-documents-democrats-secret-years-513331

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 1:56 pm.
    Yep, everything the Mean Green Weenie Machine does turns into a grunt sandwich that the adults in the room have to clean up after and pay for…twice.
    Trouble with the Tinfoil Depends Party being a subsidiary of Alt-Left Mainstream Fakesnews Media is that everything they attempt just somehow does not work out. They keep losing….by osmosis, apparently. I have not seen anything like it in 30 years!
    The Mattrix is not perfect.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1722142657806508&set=a.232195733467882.59949.100000323721835&type=3&theater

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    From this morning’s thread: Self mutilation in uniform
    Braying Jenny: “Republicans should be ashamed. Instead of protecting the men and women who risk their lives to defend our freedoms, they are fighting to rip away the health care of thousands of brave service members. This cowardly Republican amendment targeting transgender men and women in uniform effectively bans these patriotic Americans from serving their country.” —Nancy Pelosi on Republican opposition to taxpayer funded for sex change operations for soldiers
    From Russia with love:
    “It could just be a coincidence that the Obama administration let Natalia Veselnitskaya enter the United States to meet with Donald Trump, Jr. It could also be a coincidence that her client, Prevezon, hired Fusion GPS to help Russia at the same time Fusion GPS was compiling a dossier on Donald Trump claiming Trump was working with the Russians. And it could be a coincidence that the FBI considered hiring the man who helped Fusion GPS compile that dossier. It could all be a coincidence, or it could start to paint a new picture. The Russians could have been masterfully playing both sides so that whoever won, Russia came out on top. Mrs. Clinton, after all, claims she reset the relationship with Russia.” —Erick Erickson

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  13. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: Walt@10:40
    “Yup, Be afraid. VARY afraid.”
    Good call. The Paul and his Merry Band of Newswarriors have a bit of problem here.
    Actually, it’s kind of exciting. It may not work or not, but just regular folks are starting to rise up against the ridiculous people. There is something to be said for that.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I was reading a report on 0’s fundraiser for the dems redistricting team headed up by Holder. Of course they have the problem of 32 states being in the full control of the R’s. Then you have the mixed states.
    So how do you make gains rearranging the districts in CA and NY to help national dem numbers in already dem states? They noted that there are 20 former members of the 0 admin running for office to “uphold his name”. It also noted that most of those are running in CA. ??? What Loretta lynch for congress in CA1!?!? You cant make this stuff up! 😉

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gorka is the Presidents Pit Bull and he embraces the moniker. I love him reminding the Clinton News Network that their all Russia all the time game is a looser and ignored.
    Family friendly Yogi bear and Full house reruns beat the queens of fakenews who are having to pay back advertisers. They were lucky 13th last report, who wants to start a pool on if they go up or down? 😉

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It won’t call this 100% accurate, but since I am wearing my Tinfoil hat tonight, oh how I want it to be true. It fits my narrative, so it must be true. ‘Tis true, ’tis true!
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/leaked-documents-show-democrats-plotting-blame-russia-hacking/
    .

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  17. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    “Frisco” values? You mean ‘progressive’.
    “A member of the BART Board of Directors, Debora Allen, came forward with the information and told CBS Local that the organization believed the videos “would create a high level of racially insensitive commentary toward the district,” that would additionally “create a racial bias in the riders against minorities on the trains.”
    Cuz reality be rayciss.
    1984 just took a little longer to get here.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzd40i8TfA

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Poor little Trumplet
    “this week’s revelations—the June 2016 email exchange, published Tuesday, in which Don, presented with potential campaign assistance from a supportive Russian government, replied, “I love it”—cast those same qualities in a different light. Once again, Don Jr. is his father’s troublemaker, but this time the trouble is much more than fun and games.”
    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/the-troublemaker/533496/

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 15 July 2017 at 08:15 AM
    Tinfoil Depends™ feeling a little snug this morning Punchy?

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 14 July 2017 at 09:37 PM
    A perfect example of the “Streisand Effect”!

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “I love it” is old news, sooooo last week and several news cycles ago.
    Somebody better tell Punchy to try to keep up. Also, kindly remember to address Punchy as such because he vowed to have a standard response to all references to Paul Eeeeee or po o pollin’ Paussy, or a similar well deserved endearing term of ridicule….
    A man is only as good as his word. A man’s word is his bond, the true display of his character. Without being as good as your word, it’s all empty promises devoid of integrity. We all need to pitch in and help the fakenews Tinfoil Depends One regain a semblance of credibility. Sure, its a steep hill to climb, but we should try to help a pussy hat wearing brother out. A man’s word is his bond….and bondage.
    Lest we forget:
    “whatever…it’s all good”
    “That will be my standard response to any characterization of my name other than Paul or Paul Emery.”
    Posted by: Paul Emery | 12 July 2017 at 02:35 PM
    Onto more palatable topics
    1)
    . http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/11/democrats-spread-false-russian-information-on-trum/?utm_source=FB-ARB&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=TWT_Chacka_170714_FB_News_LP&utm_content=127962625&utm_term=127962625
    2)
    .https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1130019330465436/?type=3&theater
    3) https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1130019080465461/?type=3&theater

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  22. Walt Avatar

    More Frisco values.
    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/07/15/san-francisco-bans-chocolate-milk-after-two-year-effort/
    No real good reason,, I guess they think it’s racist or something.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 9:33am
    Racist? Nah, it’s just a pigment of their imagination. BTW, “illegal alien” is not a racist term because criminality is not a race. Come to think about it, neither is illegal or alien a race. 🙂
    Meme time. Now, which meme are they going to put in the time capsule? Decisions, decisions..
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1129453167188719/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1129452867188749/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1129453557188680/?type=3&theater

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I will not respond to anyone who does not call me Paul or Paul Emery

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Poor little trumplet, PE? That’s your best shot?

    Mr. Dershowitz, however, said he doesn’t “see any crime at this point” in Mr. Trump Jr.’s behavior.
    “Even if the worst case scenario as far as we know now, is the Russians get in touch with Trump Jr. and say, ‘we have some dirt on Hillary Clinton, come we’ll give it to you’ and he goes and gets the information. That’s what the New York Times did with the Pentagon Papers, that’s what the Washington Post did and many other newspaper did with information with Snowden and Manning,” he told Newsmax Tuesday. “You are allowed legally to use material that was obtained illegally as long as you had nothing to do with the illegal nature of obtaining the information, so at the moment I see no legal jeopardy for Trump Jr.”

    There’s not even a hint this is connected to the Podesta/DNC email link and Wikileaks. Just a meeting that went 20 minutes that the Trump contingent couldn’t wait to be over because there wasn’t any dirt they could use.

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  26. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    ” BTW, “illegal alien” is not a racist term”
    It’s a legal term. ‘Undocumented citizen’ is my favorite Doublethink.

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  27. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    Speaking of illegal aliens, here’s a thought.
    Going down the path we were/are, I wonder how long before the drumbeats began for retro-award of benefits to illegal aliens? By that I mean Medicare for people who don’t qualify, Social Security for those who did a bit of identity theft. There has already been a push for college tuition and scholarships.

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery. OK. Aren’t you the guy that calls people names as well as their publication? You seem to call my blog a “lizard” and me other names. So just like all liberals you dish it out and can’t take blowback. I say leave here as you are really the lfety foil for abuse anyway. No one cares.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes and Todd.
    Here is a great video, about 4 minutes long. Trigger wanting to Putang Paulette: The evidence presented is very very antidotal.
    Antonia Okafor, a young, single, black woman, recently discovered that’s she’s a racist, sexist, misogynist. How in the world did this happen? None other than Antonia Okafor explains.
    https://patriotpost.us/posts/50169
    You leave the group think, they kick you out of the herd. Banished to the Wasteland. Nothing new. Same thing happened to Tammy Bruce, Camiliea Page, and other free thinking feminists writers (including my own sister) when they began to question, to liberate themselves from victimhood and began to empower themselves. In my sister’s case (many moons ago), she wanted to have a child, homeschool him/her, and be a stay at home mom, nurturing her child and mate of a dozen years, and go plant veggies and make a house a home.. She was told to have an abortion (do it for the sisterhood) and go back to her professional career in academia. Again, do it for the Sisterhood.
    When she asked another question or two, she was told “there is no place in the feminist movement for you.” She lost her teaching job at a CA State College (now they are all universities) immediately thereafter. Instantly. The course she taught was Feminist Literature. Go figure.
    You go, girl.

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 15 July 2017 at 10:27 AM
    It’s a legal term. ‘Undocumented citizen’ is my favorite Doublethink.

    That’s not nearly as crazy as the new “term of art” as applied (or as I apply it) to me”

    “Deferred Porn Star”

    (somewhere……pearls are furiously being clutched for a lack of proper blog moderation!)
    Kinda rolls off the tongue don’t it?

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The sad state of journalistic integrity.
    “This week the mainstream media ran stories criticizing Attorney General Jeff Sessions for delivering a speech to a “hate group.” NBC News’ headline read, “Jeff Sessions Tells ‘Hate Group’ DOJ Will Issue Religious Freedom Guidance,” and ABC News’ even more biased headline read, “Jeff Sessions addresses ‘anti-LGBT hate group,’ but DOJ won’t release his remarks.” So what was this dastardly “hate group” Sessions addressed? It was the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a civil liberties organization dedicated to defending Americans’ right to religious freedom. Hardly a “hate group.””
    https://patriotpost.us/posts/50194

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 15 July 2017 at 11:14 AM
    How can you even get worked up at the $PLC anymore?
    If something makes it into the news and they’re mentioned you just have to assume that Mo Dees is getting ready to send out more pledge drive direct mailings!

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Godspeed Maryam!

    Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal, mathematics’ leading award, has died of cancer at the age of 40, Stanford News Service said.
    Mirzakhani, who worked as a math professor at Stanford from 2008 until her death, won the Fields Medal in 2014, according to the university. She specialized in theoretical mathematics.

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Award-Winning-Stanford-Math-Professor-Dies-11291061.php

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    BT 1054
    Were you trying to identify “Camille Paglia”?
    I recall Limbaugh having a story early on that at a dinner he attended, the hosts sat him next to Paglia expecting fireworks. They got along fine, ended up smoking cigars…

    “In 1992, at the glittering 25th anniversary black-tie party for “60 Minutes” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I dined at a small table with Rush Limbaugh. He was a jovial, witty, commanding figure who offered me a cigar.
    “Now, I do not agree with Rush on most political issues — I voted for Ralph Nader! But Rush transformed the media landscape in America. He resurrected AM radio. From coast to coast, AM radio is buzzing and vibrant because of what Rush did. He is a master broadcaster, a master of the microphone. Anyone who is a true student of media should respect his achievements.”

    Yes, the so-called Progressive left tend to be very tribal and once you say something indicating you are Not of the Body… the IFF paints you as a foe. Paglia at least a few years ago self identified as a left Libertarian and a registered Dem. She can talk to Limbaugh with respect for his work without reaching out to strangle him which means she’s a closet conservative by the politically correct left.
    I also do not agree with Limbaugh on many political issues, but he tends to be spot on with his caricatured faults of Democrats

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Did you guys piss off the tinfoil depends wearing po’ ol’ pollhead? No polls this fine morning. Let me leave a preemptive reply, still the President. 😉

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @11:25.
    Yes, Gregory. I got lazy. There are a host of better examples than Camille Paglia, who has many talents, best known for being a social critic, and lesser known for her passion for anthropology. Currently she is studying sites in a small region of PA, finding aboriginal Native American artifacts. Her conclusions of the smaller hand size of the former inhabitants of that region flies in the face of conventional wisdom and what is being taught in academia and published to this day, but I digress. Actually, I was thinking of some very articulate and insightful American, British, and Indian Feminist authors (now treated like the plague and banned from speaking on campuses like Milo) but….I got lazy.
    Camille was a good substitute that came to mind.
    Gregory, I read a recent interview of hers (not the link below) when she in her unambiguous fashion stated clearly that she is a libertarian at heart, but just can’t bring herself to change her long time Democrat Party registration for “sentimental reasons.”, FYI.
    From June, 2017
    “There seems to be a huge conceptual gap between Trump and his most implacable critics on the left. Many highly educated, upper-middle-class Democrats regard themselves as exemplars of “compassion” (which they have elevated into a supreme political principle) and yet they routinely assail Trump voters as ignorant, callous hate-mongers. These elite Democrats occupy an amorphous meta-realm of subjective emotion, theoretical abstractions, and refined language. But Trump is by trade a builder who deals in the tangible, obdurate, objective world of physical materials, geometry, and construction projects, where communication often reverts to the brusque, coarse, high-impact level of pre-modern working-class life, whose daily locus was the barnyard. It’s no accident that bourgeois Victorians of the industrial era tried to purge “barnyard language” out of English.”
    http://www.weeklystandard.com/camille-paglia-on-trump-democrats-transgenderism-and-islamist-terror/article/2008464

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    It’s funny! After Trump did the seemingly impossible…..that thing “jon” said would never happen, could never happen….happened! “jon” stopped his pontifications here (although I suspect that a certain someone who presents himself as the therapist to a certain “B” movie star might be him in a different skin)!
    Anyway…..just a little follow up on another claim…..about how the importation of millions from a hostile and wholly incompatible culture was an unalloyed good for Europe!

    “The Bravalla Music Festival, held this year between June 28 and July 1, is Sweden’s largest annual music event. Or it used to be. After a reported 23 sexual assaults and four rapes, festival organizers decided to cancel next year’s event, citing that “Certain men… apparently cannot behave. This is not the first year that Bravalla has served as a breeding ground of sexual assault—five women were raped last year as well. Indeed, ticket sales have been declining for years, mostly due to concerns over the attacks. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven chimed in, “This is so disgusting. These are obnoxious acts by deplorable men.”

    These are not deplorable men….these are muslim men!
    I wonder if we will ever so the likes of “jon” again….to see if he still feels like defending these claims?
    Perhaps after his Turkish “friends” have finished with him?
    http://quillette.com/2017/07/08/tale-two-europes/

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes 1241
    Nice interview of Paglia and choice of quotes. Here’s another:

    Liberalism of the 1950s and ’60s exalted civil liberties, individualism, and dissident thought and speech. “Question authority” was our generational rubric when I was in college. But today’s liberalism has become grotesquely mechanistic and authoritarian: It’s all about reducing individuals to a group identity, defining that group in permanent victim terms, and denying others their democratic right to challenge that group and its ideology. Political correctness represents the fossilized institutionalization of once-vital revolutionary ideas, which have become mere rote formulas. It is repressively Stalinist, dependent on a labyrinthine, parasitic bureaucracy to enforce its empty dictates.

    and

    It is certainly ironic how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender. Biology has been programmatically excluded from women’s studies and gender studies programs for almost 50 years now. Thus very few current gender studies professors and theorists, here and abroad, are intellectually or scientifically prepared to teach their subjects.
    The cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible. Every single cell of the human body remains coded with one’s birth gender for life. Intersex ambiguities can occur, but they are developmental anomalies that represent a tiny proportion of all human births.
    In a democracy, everyone, no matter how nonconformist or eccentric, should be free from harassment and abuse. But at the same time, no one deserves special rights, protections, or privileges on the basis of their eccentricity. The categories “trans-man” and “trans-woman” are highly accurate and deserving of respect. But like Germaine Greer and Sheila Jeffreys, I reject state-sponsored coercion to call someone a “woman” or a “man” simply on the basis of his or her subjective feeling about it. We may well take the path of good will and defer to courtesy on such occasions, but it is our choice alone.

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    “What did you do in the meme Wars Grandpa…….?”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-hEKgyeSAg

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    Administrivia – The 15jul17 sandbox is open for business.

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