Monday, October 2, 2017
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #32
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Loz's magnificent 7-tone fart symphony - the #1 video in the world, for one day in May 2015.
Make sure you watch the entire video...
You deserve to watch this video.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
DON'T BUY THE GUILT-TRIP HOAX OF 'PRIVILEGE'
It’s not true. “Privilege,” in today’s popular guilt-ridden forms, is just an illegitimate slur defaming hard work, success, good behavior and the rewards thereof. “Privilege” is what they call innocent reality when they want it to look like a nefarious agenda. “Privileged” is what they call you when they don’t have enough evidence to call you a racist, thieving oppressor, but they want you to feel like one anyway. “Privilege” is a hoax, intentionally or ignorantly conflating equality of opportunity with equality of outcome. At the same time, however, privilege is very real. Some of us have it; some of us don’t. Some of us have more of it than others. There is no sense denying it. The hidden truth, though, is that privilege is not wrong. Privilege is, in fact, fair. It is the natural outcome of effort, ability, choice and time.
The passionate “social justice warriors” tell us that “privilege” is evil and oppressive and needs to be eradicated. They say a person’s “privilege” is unfair, unearned and undeserved – but they’re wrong.
Privilege doesn’t grow on trees. When it is not personally earned, it is often inherited. A child born into an upper-class family did nothing to earn his upper-class status, but his parents did. His parents earned it for him. Parents the world over strive for little more than to give their child a better life than they had and to shelter their child from as many of life’s struggles as they possibly can by giving him a leg up every way they can manage it. What dishonor, what slander it is to call this child’s head start “unearned privilege” when his parents broke their backs to give it to him. The parents who manage this feat are due respect; their children are not due shame.
What about “white privilege”? As “racist” as the critics paint it, this privilege also is earned and deserved. The catch is, much “white privilege” has nothing to do with race, but is actually majority privilege. If you can’t find a Band-Aid in your skin color, that’s called “supply and demand.” Majority privilege means that the majority of goods and services and the majority of entertainment like literature, music and television, will be geared toward supplying the needs of the majority and satisfying the typical interests of the majority. By becoming the majority and staying the majority, the majority has earned and is logically and rightfully due the benefits of being such. This is a universal privilege, seen in countries all over the world, and there is nothing wrong with having it.
The type of privilege more often thought badly of is the “white privilege” of not being eyed as a potential shoplifter, or not being shunned by passersby crossing to the other side of the street at night, or not being noted suspiciously by police. However, this privilege is legitimate as well and can be easily understood by comparing it to what can be called “female privilege.”
We are all aware that women are less likely to commit crimes or to start fights than men are. Therefore, as is obviously logical, women are eyed less cautiously by police, vulnerable passersby, business owners and cashiers. We women benefit from the common perception we’re the more peaceable, “gentler sex.” Our collective behavior over time has...
Muslim Truck Attack Terrorist Tries To Ram Pedestrians In Canada, Stabs Cop...
The Miracles Of Multiculturalism In Canada...
An attack on a police officer, who was stabbed after being rammed by a car with an Islamic State flag on the dashboard, and a high-speed chase that injured four pedestrians Saturday evening in Edmonton, Canada, are being investigated as “acts of terrorism,” police said.
The mayhem began at around 8:15 p.m. when a white Chevrolet Malibu with an IS flag crashed through barricades and rammed an officer who was directing traffic before an Edmonton Eskimos football game, Police Chief Rod Knecht said at a Sunday morning news conference.
The car sent the officer “flying through the air 15 feet before colliding with the officer’s cruiser” at high speed, he said.
The driver then got out of his vehicle and stabbed the officer multiple times before fleeing.
Knecht said the officer’s wounds are not “critical.”
Around midnight, as a manhunt was underway across the city, officers pulled over a U-Haul truck at a checkpoint. The name of the truck driver was close to the name of the registered owner of the car that hit the officer.
The suspect peeled out with dozens of police cars in pursuit.
The driver “deliberately tried to hit pedestrians in crosswalks and alleys” during the high-speed chase on downtown streets, Knecht said.
“There were people flying and everything,” eyewitness Kim Anderson told the Edmonton Journal. “I’m shocked - I just see people flying.”
Four pedestrians were taken to the hospital after being struck. Their conditions are unknown.
The U-Haul eventually overturned near a downtown hotel and police dragged the driver...
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