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Journal Journal: Steyn on Eich 83

Mozilla's chairwoman Mitchell Baker issued the usual tortured justification:

"Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech," Baker said. "And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard."

I heard a lot of this stuff during my free-speech battles in Canada. The country's chief censor, the late Jennifer Lynch, QC, was willing to concede that free speech was certainly a right, but it was merely one in a whole range of competing rights - such as "equality" and "diversity" - that needed to be "balanced". What the "balancing" boils down to is that you get fired if you are an apostate from the new progressive groupthink. Underneath the agonized prose, Mitchell Baker is a bare-knuckled thug.

And thus the sins of the past are recycled with new labels. Bravo.

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Journal Journal: Sweet, sweet Vichy GOP

"Maybe you say it helps (Obamacare), but it really helps the small businessman," said Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., one of several physician-lawmakers among Republicans and an advocate of repeal.
No member of the House GOP leadership has publicly hailed the fix, which was tucked, at Republicans' request, into legislation preventing a cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
It is unclear how many members of the House rank and file knew of it because the legislation was passed by a highly unusual voice vote without debate.

Feel the awesome subversion of representative democracy that is the Amorphous Care Act.

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Journal Journal: Should we just make UPS the government? 12

They have shown the wisdom in avoiding the Left:
http://priceonomics.com/why-ups-trucks-dont-turn-left/

UPDATE: Canning 250 drivers, including the King of Queens (not really)? FedEx laughs.

Update II: posting here since it was written, but some karma over-ran my dogma :-(

I support the right for a grand jury review of UPS every bit as much as in the case of Benghazi.

And if you don't support the right of all workers to seek union representation, then you don't support the right for any workers to choose union representation.

Covered here.

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Journal Journal: Heck yeah, unions 33

In late April 2013, the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin chapter gathered for a post-election "workshop" on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among those scheduled to present that day was Mike McCabe of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, to explain how big-spending special interests "conspire to prevent government decisions from reflecting the will of the people." McCabe's presentation promised to include a discussion of how "Super PACs, dark money and unlimited election spending" erode "democracy's health."

Perhaps lacking the most in McCabe's presentation was any sense of irony or self-awareness. According to one recent report, AFT has been the 12th-largest contributor to candidates and outside spending groups in America over the last quarter-century, shelling out $37 million to support Democratic candidates almost exclusively. Further, WDC is a liberal lobbying group that advocates for progressive reforms while refusing to disclose its donors, and McCabe himself is a registered lobbyist.

Private sector unions are a matter of free assembly. Public sector unions are a godforsaken mutiny that even the generally wrongheaded FDR understood were a lousy idea.

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Journal Journal: Sorry dudes: I hit a posting limit 68

No more witty rejoinders today. Fustakrakich, stay beautiful. Damn_registrars, borrow a sense of humor from somewhere, at least for the duration of your Slashdot sessions.

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Journal Journal: Feed the altars of Moloch 18

Pagan gods always seem to have the munchies:

So after Justice Breyer hinted at the nub of what the real question at stake here is, Justice Kennedy bored down and Dean Chemerinsky had to admit something mainstream media has been feverishly trying to avoid--disclosing that these cases are abortion cases much more than they are about birth control. If the Court rules against Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood here, there's no limit to what the government can mandate closely-held corporations have to do, including providing for the termination of life.

Remember: the rights of the pregnant female always trump the rights of the one she may carry. Because #ShutUp, or something.

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Journal Journal: MySQL on Vagrant 8

Trying to point mysqld to some shared storage in lieu of /var/lib/mysql. I'd like to keep the data off of the virtual machine.
The precise reason the synched_folder isn't working is really unclear. Just an error 13 in the log. Wish I had all the time in the world to comb Google and find the proper magic spell.
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Journal Journal: The slack-jawed Lefty tool media 7

But--and here's the part Hollywood would miss--outside of local media like San Francisco magazine, the coverage was surprisingly muted.The New York Times buried the story as a one-paragraph Associated Press report on page A21, with the bland dog-bites-man headline, "California: State Senator Accused of Corruption." This even though Yee was suspended, along with two others, from the California state senate in light of the indictment.

CNN, home (also until last week) of Piers Morgan, whom Yee had praised for his anti-gun activism, didn't report the story at all. When prodded by viewers, the network snarked that it doesn't do state senators. Which is odd, because searching the name of my own state senator, Stacey Campfield, turns up a page of results, involving criticisms of him for saying something "extreme". Meanwhile, CNN found time to bash Wisconsin state senator and supporter of Gov. Scott Walker, Randy Hopper over marital problems.

But there's a difference. They're Republicans. When Republicans do things that embarrass their party, the national media are happy to take note, even if they're mere state senators. But when Democrats like Yee get busted for actual felonies, and pretty dramatic ones at that, the press suddenly isn't interested.

It's almost as though the editors are taking orders from someone.

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Journal Journal: Elections have consequences, but only when they advance Holy Progress 45

The Affordable Care Act: The president can stop repeal of Obamacare, but a determined congressional majority can wreak havoc by using the initial budget process, known as reconciliation, which allows major changes to be made with only a majority Senate vote that isn't subject to filibusters.

A GOP Congress is going to have to lead. While we can gripe that it was sold as pure rectal sunshine, Obama's agenda HAS, in fact, been more audacious than any in memory. Attempts at GOP leadership in the Paul/Cruz vein are vilified.
Anybody who thinks that the GOP is going to do anything dramatic 2014-6, or even upon regaining the White House, must be anticipating much more regular gluteal stimulation from the boot of the people to the GOP backside than is likely to be delivered.

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Journal Journal: GOLF CLAP: Gold medal dodge of the day = fustakrakich 8

I take you attempt to shift the discussion from butchering innocent human life in a country where I am a citizen to one with which my country trades is an admission that you know you're RONNGG.
By your logic, the fact that I listened to "Jamaican Jerk Off" the other day while driving, as the iPod went through "J", means I support modern variations on marriage, given that Elton John performed it.
You stay smashing, fustakrakich.

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Journal Journal: Scott Walker: "It's About Reform" 18

I, for one, have had enough "borrowing it forward":

"I think what we've shown in Wisconsin is that it's not about austerity--it's about reform,â Walker said. "And what I mean by that is if we just come in our state and cut things across the board that means you cut your priorities as much as you cut things that aren't quite as important. We reined in collective bargaining. We put more power back in the hands of the taxpayer at the state and the local level. I think nationally we need that same sort of reform no matter who is running for president. I'd slash the marginal tax rates for everyone across the board--go to a simpler, more flat tax."

We should hasten to add that, in stark contrast to #OccupyResoluteDesk, Walker actually has a record of, you know, reforming.
"We put more power back in the hands of the taxpayer at the state and the local level," he says. That's kind of like my notion of "redistribute power, not wealth," that the slack-jawed sycophants keep rejecting. You little knuckle-draggers stay lovely, now.

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