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Oh, Japan. You so crazy.

... many young Japanese people are already avoiding sex and intimate relationships there are some suggestions that this may already be happening. Japanese men are already taking their virtual girlfriend apps away on holiday with them to the island of Atami.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sex-robots-the-norm-50-6190575

Yeah,the right wing echo chamber has been saying that a lot lately.

The right wing happens to be right when it comes to the Clintons. They are scum.

Hillary will do whatever the heck She wants. She thinks she's Inevitable. She's surrounded by a gaggle of estrogen that reinforces Her belief in Her own Inevitability. It's quite the spectacle. She will crash and burn, of course. The question is how will her arrogance kill her this time?

Stay tuned.

Looks like people are starting to fear Trump.

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

― Donald Trump

Meanwhile, is anyone talking about Detroit anymore?

There is an area in downtown Detroit, no larger than 2 or 3 city blocks in size, that is seeing a bit of an urban renaissance.

I seem to be hearing and reading about that a lot lately. That the area in question is tiny does not seem to matter because where there was previously no hope, now there is some.

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
April 23, 2015

We have forgotten just how deep a cultural revolution Christianity wrought. In fact, we forget about it precisely because of how deep it was: There are many ideas that we simply take for granted as natural and obvious, when in fact they didn't exist until the arrival of Christianity changed things completely. Take, for instance, the idea of children.

Today, it is simply taken for granted that the innocence and vulnerability of children makes them beings of particular value, and entitled to particular care. We also romanticize children — their beauty, their joy, their liveliness. Our culture encourages us to let ourselves fall prey to our gooey feelings whenever we look at baby pictures. What could be more natural?

In fact, this view of children is a historical oddity. If you disagree, just go back to the view of children that prevailed in Europe's ancient pagan world.

As the historian O.M. Bakke points out in his invaluable book When Children Became People, in ancient Greece and Rome, children were considered nonpersons.

Back then, the entire social worldview was undergirded by a universally-held, if implicit, view: Society was organized in concentric circles, with the circle at the center containing the highest value people, and the people in the outside circles having little-to-no value. At the center was the freeborn, adult male, and other persons were valued depending on how similar they were to the freeborn, adult male. Such was the lot of foreigners, slaves, women...and children.

High infant mortality rates created a cultural pressure to not develop emotional attachments to children. This cultural pressure was exacerbated by the fact that women were more likely to develop emotional attachments to children — which, according to the worldview of the day, meant it had to be a sign of weakness and vulgarity.

Various pagan authors describe children as being more like plants than human beings. And this had concrete consequences.

Well-to-do parents typically did not interact with their children, leaving them up to the care of slaves. Children were rudely brought up, and very strong beatings were a normal part of education. In Rome, a child's father had the right to kill him for whatever reason until he came of age.

One of the most notorious ancient practices that Christianity rebelled against was the frequent practice of expositio, basically the abandonment of unwanted infants. (Of course, girls were abandoned much more often than boys, which meant, as the historical sociologist Rodney Stark has pointed out, that Roman society had an extremely lopsided gender ratio, contributing to its violence and permanent tension.)

Another notorious practice in the ancient world was the sexual exploitation of children. It is sometimes pointed to paganism's greater tolerance (though by no means full acceptance) of homosexuality than Christianity as evidence for its higher moral virtue. But this is to look at a very different world through distorting lenses. The key thing to understand about sexuality in the pagan world is the ever-present notion of concentric circles of worth. The ancient world did not have fewer taboos, it had different ones. Namely, most sexual acts were permissible, as long as they involved a person of higher status being active against or dominating a person of lower status. This meant that, according to all the evidence we have, the sexual abuse of children (particularly boys) was rife.

Think back on expositio. According to our sources, most abandoned children died — but some were "rescued," almost inevitably into slavery. And the most profitable way for a small child slave to earn money was as a sex slave. Brothels specializing in child sex slaves, particularly boys, were established, legal, and thriving businesses in ancient Rome. One source reports that sex with castrated boys was regarded as a particular delicacy, and that foundlings were castrated as infants for that purpose.

Of course, the rich didn't have to bother with brothels — they had all the rights to abuse their slaves (and even their children) as they pleased. And, again, this was perfectly licit. When Suetonius condemns Tiberius because he “taught children of the most tender years, whom he called his little fishes, to play between his legs while he was in his bath” and “those who had not yet been weaned, but were strong and hearty, he set at #######,” he is not writing with shock and horror; instead, he is essentially mocking the emperor for his lack of self-restraint and enjoying too much of a good thing.

This is the world into which Christianity came, condemning abortion and infanticide as loudly and as early as it could.

This is the world into which Christianity came, calling attention to children and ascribing special worth to them. Church leaders meditated on Jesus' instruction to imitate children and proposed ways that Christians should look up to and become more like them.

Like everything else about Christianity's revolution, it was incomplete. For example, Christians endorsed corporal punishment for far too long. (Though even in the fourth century, the great teacher St John Chrysostom preached against it, on the grounds of the victim's innocence and dignity, using language that would have been incomprehensible to, say, Cicero.)

But really, Christianity's invention of children — that is, its invention of the cultural idea of children as treasured human beings — was really an outgrowth of its most stupendous and revolutionary idea: the radical equality, and the infinite value, of every single human being as a beloved child of God. If the God who made heaven and Earth chose to reveal himself, not as an emperor, but as a slave punished on the cross, then no one could claim higher dignity than anyone else on the basis of earthly status.

That was indeed a revolutionary idea, and it changed our culture so much that we no longer even recognize it.

http://theweek.com/articles/551027/how-christianity-invented-children

Cucks are the one's who get cheated on, not the one's who cheat. You should look the word up before trying to use it.

maybe a better solution [to the problem presented back at post #1]

is to make new mexico and arizona an enclave area,

where the slaves are the captured illegal aliens....

just hope the car has a good firewall.

The danger of a self-driven car being compromised is a lot less than the danger of a self-driven car encountering conditions it isn't programmed to handle or learn for. Security's an issue but I'd be more worried about how my self-driven car will handle a New Jersey 4-lane jughandle during rush hour, 5 minutes after a commuter train from NYC arrives.

The only way it works, frankly, is if all the cars are self-driven. I wouldn't trust my car to drive itself next to that 22-year old who cut his teeth driving at the age of 12 in the streets of Karachi.

"It was disturbing and sickening but, unfortunately, not very surprising. This is the church of Martin Luther King, Jr. We've seen this type of ugliness before. Not just in the 1960s, but in recent years as well," said Warnock.

In other words, business as usual in the American South. The whole region oughta be nuked, if ya ask me.

Dully noted moo moo is off limits, but be be prepared to use that "hammer" equilateral

errata:

1. Trump at 17 percent in polls this morning and

2. WOW - Claudia sounds hot ! Bonus points for full body photos or photos of her green card ! Yum !

She's not bad looking. I give her a solid 7.

Question for the admin team - is referring to a Muslim as "moo moo" TOS-kosher?

But...Donald Trump. This news story fascinates me.

I was just in a coffee shop. John McCain was giving his "FIRST RESPONSE EVER" to Donald Trump's remarks on the TV above the cashier.

About a dozen people were crowded in to listen. What would he say? Would he trash Trump? Would he take the high road?

Entertainment!

Because the human mind is prepared to have up to 150 friends (the so-called "Dunbar Number") and most of us are not at 150, so we replace them with who we see on TV or in magazines. John McCain.

Or, for the guy sitting next to me at this moment: Kim Kardashian is his VERY close friend.

My Dunbar friend at the moment, based on the book I am reading: Bill Murray. I hope one day I meet him and he likes me.

But back to Donald Trump.

Claudia has explained to me the news because I asked her why she was so upset the other day.

He said two things that are super-idiotic. I don't even think Trump truly believes what he says. Which I'll explain why in a minute.

A) He said, "Mexicans and other South Americans [meaning: Claudia] are sending their murderers and rapists here to the US."

Which has been non-stop laughs for me ever since. When I wake up in the morning I get to shake Claudia awake and say, "Hey, what's a dirty rapist like you doing in my bed?"

B) He said John McCain is not a war hero because the "real heroes came home".

Or something like that. There is zero chance I'm going to read exactly what he said so Claudia could be totally lying (which is possible, being a criminal, murdering rapist).

Ok: so first things: clearly the above two statements are moronic.

It's like saying "Bill Cosby is a Mexican". Or it's like saying one of the bravest guys ever (whether you believe in his politics or not, which I don't) is not a hero.

But I think something very insidious is going on and not a single person has noticed this.

Donald Trump is being an idiot on purpose.

Now, he might actually be an idiot. This is possible. BUT IF he weren't, then he knows exactly what he is doing. A true game player MUST look at all sides of a story.

Note that after he said these statements his percentage in the Presidential race went from 0% to 12%.

By the way, it's NEVER going to go higher than 12%. But he knows that.

He also knows he has zero chance of winning the Republican nomination for a billion reasons.

So he did a classic marketing strategy. He did the Nigerian 419 scam.

The Nigerian 419 strategy is to have a misspelled email from the son of some deceased Prince who needs all your bank info in order to release $20 million that he will eagerly split with you.

Then he steals all of your money.

Why is the email misspelled? After decades of Nigerians sending the exact same email, why is it always mis-spelled? And, by the way, the OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF NIGERIA IS ENGLISH.

There's a simple reason. Anybody in the top 90% of rational people know that a misspelled email coming from a Nigerian prince is a scam.

The Nigerians don't want to deal with those 90%. Even if you sent a perfectly spelled letter with a much more realistic story, those 90% will figure it out. Then the scammer will have wasted his time. He doesn't want to waste time.

He needs to find the 10% that will respond to him really quickly. (Btw, I'm assuming "he" but can also be a "she"). And the 10% that will work.

Does it work? Of course it does. 419-ers made $13 billion last year. And every year.

This is what Donald Trump is doing. And I'm not kidding. I really think he is doing this.

He is saying the most stupid, most outrageous things because he's immediately filtering out the 90% that will never like him anyway.

The 12% that are left have managed to jump over AMAZING hurdles to keep liking him. Who could possibly like him after this?

There are clearly ZERO other candidates for these 12%. Trump represents exactly what they are thinking and he used the fastest approach possible to identify those 12%.

Because of the Idiot 12% - In the first weeks of February, Trump will come in a respectable, 2nd or 3rd in Iowa, New Hampshire, and definitely South Carolina (which after 150 years finally admitted they belong in the United States and slavery is bad).

Then he will drop out of the race and form a third party. Once he forms a third party, he will be able to raise a ton of money, appease his ego, scam people for the next decade, and enter the next stage of his insane career.

Not to mention drain votes from Republicans, giving himself a target to attack for the next eight years (Hilary Clinton) by effectively deciding the Presidential race.

Which is his goal from the beginning.

Most people do the right thing and ignore the Nigerian 419 scam.

The best strategy, which nobody will take (including me by writing this), is to just ignore him.

But we won't. We irrationally need a Donald Trump. Because evolution tells us we need people to gossip about.

The author also wrote about the 10 scams that you encounter every day. Read more from the author… James Altucher, an entrepreneur, investor and best-selling author of "Choose Yourself" and "Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth". He openly discusses the financial and emotional impact of making (and losing) money in his personal blog at JamesAltucher.com.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/donald-trump-pulling-nigerian-419-scam-james-altucher

Lots of Islamic States to move to.

If they're interned, I don't think they can move anywhere.

In an appearance on MSNBC to discuss the shootings at Chattanooga military sites, the retired general and former Democratic candidate for president said we should be dealing with “disloyal” American citizens who’ve been “radicalized” the same way the U.S. did during World War II – and called on allies to do the same.

“In World War II, if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put them in a camp, they were prisoners of war,” Clark said.

He also said: “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine. It’s their right and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/wesley-clark-internment-camps-chattanooga-radical-muslims

Good! So glad to see this. The US and Cuba don't have to agree on ideology, but they certainly should not be enemies given how close we are, both geographically and culturally.

This week, pro-life activists published a three-hour video of Planned Parenthood's top doctor talking about the exchange of fetal organs that are extracted from women during abortion. "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I'm not gonna crush that part," Dr. Deborah Nucatola tells her lunch guests, undercover activists who posed as members of a biologics startup. "I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."

Ever since the video's release, the apologists for legal abortion at Planned Parenthood and in the media have been trying to crush this story with euphemisms. The mainstream media dutifully repeated and expanded on Planned Parenthood's talking points. The story went like this: A group of fanatics, one of whom is known to pray (ew!), perpetrated a hoax. They falsely portrayed Planned Parenthood's program of life-saving tissue donations as a sale (which would be illegal).

What has gone largely unmentioned is that the activists also released a complete unedited video. The media went to extreme lengths to avoid quoting this doctor on which parts of an unborn child she "crushes" to preserve valuable organs. The media also failed to mention that she discussed Planned Parenthood affiliates that want to "do a little better than break even" on these transactions. And the reports don't mention that a firm associated with the sale of these fetal livers, hearts, and heads advertised the fiscal benefits of preserving them, and had that very day taken its website offline.

Planned Parenthood's top talking point was that the video was "dishonestly edited." The truth is more the opposite. The video revealed the reality that Planned Parenthood and its defenders are working hard to spin. When Planned Parenthood gives one of its patients this consent form for organ donation, the language is dishonestly edited, referring to hearts and livers as "blood and/or tissue." When speaking candidly to presumed professionals in the biz, however, PP's top doctor is far more precise. After all, how do you think Planned Parenthood would react to legislation requiring it to explicitly ask patients if they want to donate the "heart, liver, or brain" of their aborted child to research?

I doubt addressing the conscience of most hard-core abortion supporters is likely to effect change. A moment's reflection on biology tells you that at the time of conception (not implantation), a unique human DNA code comes into being, bearing a likeness to its mother and father. A moment's reflection on evolution tells you that from that same moment, the mother's own body goes through physiological changes designed specifically to protect a healthy unborn child from harm. A glancing familiarity with human reproduction tells you that elective abortions are performed on unborn children with recognizably human features. Arms that can flail, fingers that can grasp, brains that can perceive pain. There is no one part of abortion that is more horrifying than abortion itself.

Someone who knowingly accepts the "crushing" and "snipping" of developing children as part of life in enlightened times, who resolves themselves to this practice as society's comprehensive and just response to a pregnant woman in crisis, is a person whose conscience is at the ready to accept or wave away any enormity around the practice. If you forced yourself to contemplate them at length, you might question the moral character of the whole enterprise. So you dismiss as local crime Kermit Gosnell's horror-clinic, where plunging the sink revealed a baby's arm, and you turn away from stories about hospitals that burn the remains of unborn children as part of a renewable heating energy source. Planned Parenthood's financial transactions in recently severed baby heads is just the humanitarian advance of "Science! FTW!" Could you object if they labeled a bag of heads with a meme of Neil deGrasse Tyson? What, are you such a troglodyte that you are "grossed out by science?" We're just plunging science deep into some necks — I mean "tissue" — here.

Some argue that the pro-life activists are just taking advantage of a natural squeamishness to medical procedures, that they "zero in on those gross medical details for maximum impact." As if the phrase "I'm gonna crush this" is something only a properly desensitized medical professional can understand. I don't believe the reaction of disgust here is purely physical.

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The reason the pro-life activist video has to be dismissed as a "hoax" is the same reason the hailed pro-choice activist kept the film of her own abortion framed from the neck up. And it's the same reason Planned Parenthood wants media outlets to use their bloodless language about "tissues." Because the clinic, the media, and the culture want your approval of abortion as ordinary, lawful, and competently chosen. They can't let you see what it actually is: the violent destruction of a human life.

http://theweek.com/articles/566781/tissue-lies-why-liberals-media-are-denial-about-planned-parenthood-video

He is rising in popularity with the TBs... You do the math...

I don't know who the TBs are, but he was rising in popularity with certain groups of the electorate until he made this statement.

He is now in free fall.

Good. The vanquished should learn to act like it.

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Over the last four years, mandatory sentencing minimums have been modified, and judges’ discretion in sentencing has been expanded. The adult prison population has been given enhanced access to educational resources, including a program that enables two charter schools in the state to go into prisons to teach inmates, and those participating earn a high school diploma instead of a GED.

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In addition, inmates with felonies applying to work for the state no longer have to check a box on their job applications that discloses their criminal histories and would often disqualify them from being considered for a job from the outset. “We banned the box,” said Deal. “It is not going to affect them getting an interview.” The state has also invested $17 million into measures aimed at reducing recidivism and rehabilitating low-risk, nonviolent offenders—including expanding accountability courts like those for drug use and DUIs, and funding community-based programs that have already proven to be more cost-effective than a prison sentence and are designed to reduce crime in the long run.

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Since he was elected at the end of 2010, Georgia’s incarcerated population dropped from an estimated 56,432 to 53,383 at the start of this year. That reduction virtually slashed the state’s backlog of inmates in county jails who were waiting to be transferred to a prison or probation detention center. Keeping inmates in local jails typically cost the state $20 million annually. Without the backlog, the cost associated with transferring inmates “plummeted to $40,720,” per the Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform February 2015 report.

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“Because it has had a disproportionately high incarceration rate, because it’s in the South, because it’s Republican,” Holcomb [national director of ACLU’s Campaign to End Mass Incarceration] said, “people aren’t expecting criminal justice reform to come out of states with those characteristics.” But Georgia has indeed become what she calls “a leader state.”

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121425/gop-governor-nathan-deal-leading-us-prison-reform

You've let your wife become a CABA. Time to trade up.

She was already an honorary CABA when I found her.

Welcome back.

Do you have TEN BILLION DOLLARS? I bet you don't.