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Many of those who depend on a little help from Work and Income every week either already work part time, or would be willing to do so. I am one of those people.
I am a married, mother of two children under six and I currently work 10 hours a week. Any more than that, and not only would I receive less help from Work and Income, I would also have to fork out more money for childcare. It's a catch-22 situation - work more and be self sufficient and suffer, or work less and rely on the Government and therefore be better off. It's easy to see why many New Zealanders prefer to stay on the benefit.
In a year's time my son will be off to school also, so I will be able to afford to return to full time work. I am more than happy to do so, and look forward to the day I can say goodbye to Work and Income and no longer rely on them. I am sure there are many others in my situation.
A few years ago, I wrote a letter to Paula Bennett. In my letter I explained the situation I was in, that it would almost cost more for me to return to work than to stay at home and receive a handout, as per the following:
Stay home, receive $160 a week accommodation supplement plus an in-work tax credit of $150 from the IRD, and I would not work any hours a week. I would put both of my children into preschool for 2-3 mornings a week at a total cost of $58. I would therefore have $252 left towards household expenses, along with my husband's wage.
I return to work, earning $750 in the hand each week, but would have to pay $450 a week in full time childcare for my two children (neither of them were eligible for 20 hours as both under 3 years old). I would also be spending twice as much on petrol each week (an extra $30), and I would have to move both of my children to a new preschool that accommodates the ages of both my children and the hours I would need to work.
I would not get to spend as much time with my children as I would if I stayed at home or worked part time. I would therefore bring home $270 a week after childcare and extra petrol expenses were taken out of my wage. Missing out on spending quality time with my children and working 40 hours a week seemed like a big sacrifice to make for an extra $18 a week!
I got creative, and proposed the following solution to Paula Bennett:
I do not work at all and therefore do not pay any tax. I receive a weekly Work and Income/Inland Revenue (IRD) payment.
$160 per week (from Work and Income)
$150 per week (from IRD)
-$58 per week (preschool mornings for education/social interaction)
=$252 per week for expenses
Return to work with no help from the Government, only $18 extra in the hand per week.
$750 per week (40 hours work)
-$450 per week (childcare)
-$30 per week (extra petrol for travel to work)
= $270 per week for expenses
Return to work full time, pay tax, Government to pay for half of childcare cost.
$750 per week (40 hours work)
$225 per week (government contribution towards childcare)
-$450 per week (childcare)
= $525 per week for expenses ($255 more per week, better than $18!!!)
$310 weekly payment reduces to $225 per week, save $85 per week = $4420 per year
$211.53 per week tax paid by me = $11,000 per year
= Government would have $15,420 more in its pocket than if I didn't return to work and still received full WINZ/IRD handout of $16,120 per year.
If there were only 100 other people in the same situation as me, that would mean a saving of $1,542,000!
Paula Bennett unfortunately did not want to know about this.
It makes sense to me. Rather than give people money to stay at home and contribute nothing to the country's economy, send them to work to pay taxes but with a little help. It's less than the Government pays out now, but the rewards are so much greater.
Childcare is a big stress on families these days, I am only grateful I have a husband to help out with the bills also - I don't know how these single parent families manage to live.
The 20 hours ECE scheme is great for children over three years old, but at most centres in Auckland you would struggle to find somewhere that you didn't have to contribute something towards those 20 hours - they are not actually free. All the centre has to do is add one extra service to the current requirements and they can charge more per hour.
If the Government got smarter with the way they handled benefits, work and childcare together then I think that would not only improve our economy but the mental health of many families in this country also.
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- In a blender, puree frozen raspberries and 2 tablespoons sugar. Set a fine sieve over a small pitcher and strain puree; set aside.
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It may seem suspicious to some, but police officers are 2-3 times more likely to die by suicide than they are to die by an assailant or by accident on the job. Unfortunately, it's not that uncommon.
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SO he shot himself in the head while he was driving? That makes no sense...
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My heart goes out to the family. What a shocking loss!
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Something doesn't add up here. People like Officer Valdez don't just
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I hope they find out more.
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I hope this has nothing to do with the recent events where there were alot of
charges dropped due to an officer in the West Valley Police Department.
Condolences to the family and friends of this officer.
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Pretty sad for all involved. Hopefully his family can be supported through this
by friends and neighbors.
Where in Wyoming did this happen? Was it close to Utah on I-80 or a remote wilderness road far away? The only reason I ask is that it doesn't take two days to drive to Evanston, but if you were headed to New Castle in would take a while so maybe he had some time to think about it. He may have even been in Utah for an extra day or so. In any case, it is a tragic ending. Many have said he was a great guy. I'm sorry this seemed to him to be a solution.
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Let's just give the family our support and love and let the investigators
do their job. Some questions just don't need to be asked at this time.
I hope the family can find solice and peace during this most difficult time.
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My sympathies are with the family. I hope that they can find some closure.
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I don't know whether Goldwater can be elected or not — or whether he can change things if elected. But I would like to see the United States make a radical change away from its present course. I'm sick of bailing out Kremlin murderers with wheat sold to them on credit and at tax-subsidized prices, I'm sick of giving F-86's and Sherman tanks and money to communists, I'm sick of undeclared wars rigged out not to be won — I'm sick of conscripting American boys to die in such wars — I'm sick of having American servicemen rotting in communist prisons for eleven long years and of presidents (including that slimy faker Eisenhower!) who smilingly ignore the fact and do nothing. I'm sick of confiscatory taxes for the benefit of socialist countries and of inflation that makes saving a mockery, I'm sick of signing treaties with scoundrels who boast of their own dishonesty and who have never been known to keep a treaty, I'm sick of laws that make loafing more attractive than honest work.
But most of all I am sick of going abroad and finding that any citizen of any two-bit, county-sized country in the world doesn't hesitate to insult the United States loudly and publicly while demanding still more "aid" and of course "with no strings attached" from the pockets of you and me. I don't give a hoot whether the United States is "loved" and I care nothing for "World Opinion" as represented by the yaps of "uncommitted nations" made up of illiterate savages — but I would like to see the United States respected once again (or even feared!) … [sic] and I think and hope that the Senator from Arizona is the sort of tough hombre who can bring it about.
I hope —
But it's a forlorn hope at best! I'm much afraid that this country has gone too far down the road of bread and circuses to change its domestic course (who "shoots Santa Claus"?) and is too far committed to peace-at-any-price to reverse its foreign policy.
Robert A. Heinlein, letter to Larry and Caryl Heinlein 1964-07-19 (quoted in William H. Patterson Jr's Robert A. Heinlein, In Dialogue with His Century Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, 2014).
July 10, 2015
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July 8, 2015
Minnesota students face new rules under which "everyone accused of sexual assault will very likely be technically guilty"
Reason's Robby Soave on the introduction of new "affirmative consent" rules at the University of Minnesota:
The proposed policy is currently under review for another 30 days before it becomes official. Its language is fairly standard, which leads me to believe that it will suffer from the same problems as other "Yes Means Yes" policies:
- It is the responsibility of each person who wishes to engage in the sexual activity to obtain consent.
- A lack of protest, the absence of resistance and silence do not indicate consent.
- The existence of a present or past dating or romantic relationship does not imply consent to future sexual activity.
- Consent must be present throughout the sexual activity and may be initially given, but withdrawn at any time.
- When consent is withdrawn all sexual activity must stop. Likewise, where there is confusion about the state of consent, sexual activity must stop until both parties consent again.
- Consent to one form of sexual activity does not imply consent to other forms of sexual activity.
"It is the responsibility of each person who wishes to engage in the sexual activity to obtain consent." But isn't that redundant? All parties to a sexual activity must be willing participants in the first place, or else they are victims of rape under any standard. That's what consent is: agreement to engage in sex. I presume the policy's authors mean to say that it is the responsibility of each person who wishes to initiate the sexual activity to obtain consent. But such a requirement is at odds with the reality of human sexual activity — the initiating party is not always so clearly defined, especially when alcohol is involved (as it often is).
Equally troubling is the mandate that each and every sexual act be hammered out beforehand. May I touch your hand? What about your wrist? May I touch your shoulder? May I kiss this spot on your neck? May I kiss this other spot on your neck? May I kiss the first spot again while I touch your hand? Nobody is going to do this. Does that mean everyone is a rapist?
July 5, 2015
The real lessons of The Good Life
While I don't think I ever saw an episode of the British sitcom The Good Life, I've read a fair bit about it in passing, as it is one of the mass media touchstones used by Dominic Sandbrook in his series of hefty tomes about British life from the 60s onwards. In short, a middle-aged couple bail on their middle-class lives and try to set up a self-sufficient lifestyle on their (fully paid-off) house in the suburbs. The interaction between the couple and their still-living-the-middle-class-life next-door neighbours provides much of the humour for the show. Based on that, I must heartily agree with David Thompson's explanation of the show:
… Tom and Barbara's experiment in "self-sufficiency" wasn't particularly self-sufficient. They don't prevail in the end, not on their own terms or in accord with their stated principles, and their inability to do so is the primary source of story lines. Practically every week the couple's survival is dependent on the neighbours' car, the neighbours' chequebook, the neighbours' unpaid labour, a convoluted favour of some kind. And of course they're dependent on the "petty" bourgeois social infrastructure maintained by all those people who haven't adopted a similarly perilous 'ecological' lifestyle. The Goods' "non-greedy alternative" to bourgeois life is only remotely possible because of their own previous bourgeois habits — a paid-off mortgage, a comfortable low-crime neighbourhood with lots of nearby greenery, and well-heeled neighbours who are forever on tap when crises loom, i.e., weekly.
To seize on The Good Life as an affirmation of eco-noodling and a "non-greedy alternative" to modern life is therefore unconvincing, to say the least. The Goods only survive, and then just barely, because of their genuinely self-supporting neighbours — the use of Jerry's car and chequebook being a running gag throughout. And insofar as the series has a feel-good tone, it has little to do with championing 'green' lifestyles or "self-sufficiency." It's much more about the fact that, despite Tom and Barbara's dramas, bad choices and continual mooching, and despite Margo's imperious snobbery, on which so much of the comedy hinges, the neighbours remain friends. If anything, the terribly bourgeois Margo and Jerry are the more plausible moral heroes, given all that they have to put up with and how often they, not Tom's principles, save the day.
July 4, 2015
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July 3, 2015
The unintended consequences of a bottled water ban
Mark J. Perry talks about the outcome of a well-intended ban of bottled water at the University of Vermont:
Here's the abstract of the research article "The Unintended Consequences of Changes in Beverage Options and the Removal of Bottled Water on a University Campus," which was just published in the July 2015 issue of the American Journal of Public Health (emphasis added):
Objectives. We investigated how the removal of bottled water along with a minimum healthy beverage requirement affected the purchasing behavior, healthiness of beverage choices, and consumption of calories and added sugars of university campus consumers.
Methods. With shipment data as a proxy, we estimated bottled beverage consumption over 3 consecutive semesters: baseline (spring 2012), when a 30% healthy beverage ratio was enacted (fall 2012), and when bottled water was removed (spring 2013) at the University of Vermont. We assessed changes in number and type of beverages and per capita calories, total sugars, and added sugars shipped.
Results. Per capita shipments of bottles, calories, sugars, and added sugars increased significantly when bottled water was removed. Shipments of healthy beverages declined significantly, whereas shipments of less healthy beverages increased significantly. As bottled water sales dropped to zero, sales of sugar-free beverages and sugar-sweetened beverages increased.
Conclusions. The bottled water ban did not reduce the number of bottles entering the waste stream from the university campus, the ultimate goal of the ban. With the removal of bottled water, consumers increased their consumption of less healthy bottled beverages.
Wow, nothing worked out as expected by the college administrators at the University of Vermont: a) the per capita number of bottles shipped to the University of Vermont increased significantly following the bottled water ban, and b) students, faculty and staff increased their consumption of less healthy bottled beverages following the bottled water ban. Another great example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. And the bottled water ban was not costless – the university paid to modify 68 drinking fountains, they paid for a publicity campaign, and they paid for lots of "free" reusable water bottles; and what they got was more plastic bottles on campus of less healthy beverages!
July 2, 2015
"These women should be able to milk their boobs for whatever purpose they want"
Shikha Dalmia on the schizophrenic demands of the "Free the Nipple" movement:
The Free the Nipple movement (which has already become the subject of a 90-minute, yawn-inducing documentary) tries to cure such attitudes, but in such a ham-handed and shock-jocky way that few real women outside of college campuses can relate to it, other than publicity-hungry celebrities. Thanks to the movement, 100 students—men and women—at UC San Diego took off their shirts last month to fight for the equal right of both sexes to go topless. Likewise, Scout Willis, the daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, earned her two minutes of fame some years ago when she went strolling topless in Manhattan to protest Instagram's nudity policies barring pictures of topless women. Not to be outdone, Miley Cyrus, who has never encountered a publicity stunt involving her body parts that is too over-the-top, tweeted a picture of her bare breasts with red stars on the nipples to express her solidarity.
These women should be able to milk their boobs for whatever purpose they want, free from state censorship and violence, to be sure. But does that mean that freeing the nipple is the "civil rights issue" of our time — as some feminists claim — that requires busting all social taboos against female toplessness?
Not really.
For starters, it's not like this kind of thing hasn't been tried before. The "burn the bra" movement was all the rage among feminists in the 1960s. But it didn't go beyond a few symbolic bonfires because going braless is simply too physically uncomfortable for most women with modern lifestyles.
Free the Nipple activists accuse society of a double standard for allowing men to show their breasts but not women. "Why are we more offended and outraged by female nipples than male nipples?" one demands to know.
But the fact is that their movement itself is based on a double standard. Indeed, if they were interested in genuine sexual equality, they wouldn't just fight for the right to go topless, but all laws against indecent exposure. So why don't they? Maybe because they realize that allowing strange men to swing their schlongs in streets would be neither comfortable nor safe for women.
July 1, 2015
The awe and majesty of the Grand Jury
I was not aware that the title "Grand Jury" doesn't necessarily mean that there's a jury empanelled to decide "grand" issues of law under US practice:
Over at the Daily Beast, Nick Gillespie attempts to bring religiosity to the fuzzy-wuzzies by describing what it was like to be hit with a ridiculous grand jury subpoena and unprincipled gag order. In response, several Daily Beast commenters trot out an argument I see now and then: "well, citizens on the grand jury thought that there were grounds to issue a subpoena."
In fact, hell no, or if you prefer, bless your heart, no.
Let's talk about how federal grand jury subpoenas actually work. These days the U.S. Attorney's Office prints them from fillable pdfs. Given that we were still typing them when I left the USAO in 2000, they probably achieved this technical benchmark in 2012 or so. Assistant United States Attorneys — that is, snot-nosed punks like I was at twenty-six — issue a grand jury subpoena by filling it out, or more likely, asking their secretary to fill it out. Nominally, the subpoena is issued on behalf of the grand jury. But it is not by any stretch of the imagination, issued by the grand jury. The AUSA need not — and never does, in my experience — ask the grand jury for permission. When the target of the subpoena produces documents, most often the Assistant U.S. Attorney lets the case agent — some Special Agent of the FBI or DEA or whatever — hold on to them.
So is the grand jury involved at all? Well, sort of. If and when the federal prosecutor seeks an indictment relying in part on documents produced in response to a grand jury subpoena, they'll summarize the results of the subpoena to the grand jury. But that could be years after the fact. Prior to that, the acknowledged "best practice" is for the AUSA to appear before the grand jury, tell the grand jurors that a subpoena has been issued on their behalf, briefly outline the nature of the investigation, and ask their consent for the case agent to maintain custody of the documents produced — which, because they have been produced "to the grand jury," are governed by secrecy requirements.
Does that always happen? No. Even when it does happen, it's rarely a significant check on the use or abuse of grand jury subpoenas. First, when I was an AUSA, I never once had a grand juror ask about why I was issuing such a subpoena or exactly what I got back. I don't know that any of them ever looked up from their newspapers. The common practice is to make a report so perfunctory that the grand jurors have no context from which to determine whether a subpoena is appropriate — and you'd only be reporting the subpoena after the fact. Second, there's often no continuity of grand jurors. In a small district you might have only one grand jury that meets once a week, and those grand jurors could, in theory, write things down in their notebooks and keep track of them over time. But in many districts there are many federal grand juries. In Los Angeles, for instance, there was a different one meeting every day of the week. AUSAs don't necessarily report subpoenas from the same investigation to the same grand jury over time. And federal grand juries turn over after a year and a half (unless extended), which means that the grand jurors hearing you report a subpoena this year won't necessarily be the same ones hearing you report the next subpoena in the investigation next year.
June 30, 2015
The Supreme Court and the rule of law
At Ace of Spades H.Q., Weirddave explains why — even if you are in favour of Obamacare continuing in its current form — you should be worried that the United States Supreme Court made a huge mistake with the ruling that kept Obamacare alive:
… If it had gone the other way, God knows Congress would have fallen all over itself to to reinstate the subsidy. No, what was so gobsmackingly amazing about the decision was that it was justified on the basis of "intent". 6 out of 9 justices ignored the black letter written word of law in favor of "intent"
So why is this important? Well, let's start by asking a simple question: Why has the USA been so prosperous? Expand the scope of the question: Historically, why has the Anglosphere been so successful? If one views all of the countries in the Anglosphere as branches growing off of a British trunk, underneath all of them, providing sustenance and support is one common root:
Rule of Law
Rule of Law is a concept that goes back to Greco-Roman times and earlier. The Bible introduces some Deuteronomic provisions to constrain the king that are perhaps the earliest iterations of the concept. Plato advocated a benevolent monarchy, placing his hopes on the willingness of the king to obey the law, Aristotle firmly rebuked him for such a Utopian concept. Things really got rolling in 1215 with the Magna Carta which limited the power of King John to act unilaterally. Samuel Rutherford turned traditional wisdom on its head with Lex, Rex ("The law is king" as opposed to the traditional Rex, Lex, "The king is law") Locke discussed the concept in great detail, and the Founding Fathers of the US kept the concept as their guiding star as they wrote the Constitution. In every case, as the concept evolved, society became more prosperous, more just and more stable.
And then along came John Roberts.
So what is Rule of Law? Simply put, Rule of Law means that the laws apply to everyone equally. A law is written. It says what it says, and everyone must obey it. No exceptions. The law applies to everyone, regardless of social status, political position, wealth, situation. The law says that one may not drive drunk. If someone is pulled over and they blow 1.5, it doesn't matter if they were really sad because their grandfather just died, or if their mother ruled Bartertown. They broke the law, they are arrested and tried. (I do realize that real life isn't quite as straightforward and often times position, power or wealth DO determine how laws are applied in individual cases, but we're talking theory here). Rule of Law creates a level playing field for everyone.
Real life example: You want to set up a toilet paper factory. You can set it up in America, where a codified set of laws protects your property rights and sets legal limits on what the government can do to you, or you can set up shop in Venezuela where what you build belongs to a corrupt government and can be taken from you at anytime. Where do you build your factory?
Exactly, and that's why Wal-Mart carries dozens of different types of toilet paper and they are wiping their asses with pine cones in Caracas.
Extending the ADA to the web
Amy Alkon discusses why the notion of expanding the Americans with Disabilities Act to cover the internet would be a terrible idea:
So few people understand how laws passed can be used — and easily misused. Stretched into something they were never supposed to be (or not what they were said to be about, anyway).
For example, Title IX was supposed to be about allowing girls equal participation in school sports. The Obama admin has turned it into a system of campus kangaroos courts removing due process from men accused of sexual assault.
Next in line for strrretching is the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Bader gives some examples from Walter Olson, from his testimony to Congress, of awful changes that would ensue, like that amateur publishing would become "more of a legal hazard." They'd go after websites like mine, that make a few shekels from Amazon links and a few more from Google ads. I need this money to supplement the money that's fallen out of newspaper writing; also, I love the people who comment here and the discussion that goes on. It's what keeps my eyes pried open at 11 p.m. when I need to post a blog item half an hour after I should have gone to bed for my 5 a.m. book- and column-writing wakeup time.
Also, added in the morning, after waking up worrying about this all night — making something "accessible" for a tiny minority could ruin it for everyone.
And what sort of understanding do we really owe people? I don't do well with complex physics and I have limited attention for things I don't understand that don't grab my interest enough to figure them out. Should physics websites dumb themselves down for Amy Alkon's brain? How many scientific websites will be brought down by disabled people going around to them like the quadriplegic lawyer in the wheelchair filing profit-making suits and closing classic hamburger stands and other businesses in California over ADA claims?
June 29, 2015
QotD: "Bodice Rippers"
This is one of my favorite passages of Scripture:
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
–Proverbs 30:18-19
That last bit there, yeah, there's a lot to that. It comes to my mind frequently these days, what with all the fake rape stories floating around and feminists dumbing down the definition of 'rape' and ratcheting up what constitutes 'consent' and universities attempting to regulate student sexual activity with silly rules about requiring explicit consent at each stage of foreplay. Really?
There's something missing there. I mean, sure the university has to do this stupid stuff to avoid getting itself into a morass of Title IX lawsuits, but feminists have seized the opportunity to further their own agenda. They've brought in the whole toolkit of critical theory, and the oppressive patriarchy and complaints about gender bias and supposed female powerlessness to force the rest of us to accept their view that the only reasonable and moral basis for a sexual relationship is an a priori straight-up consent transaction, that the woman may unilaterally rescind at any time during the proceedings, and anything else is an assault on women (i.e rape).
However, how men and women interact with each other, the steps of the mating dance, is far more complicated. And the feminist square-peg-in-a-round-hole narrative totally ignores the popularity of the "bodice-ripping" romance novels, which are almost universally written by women for women, and hardly ever read by men. And the market is huge. Women are buying these books by the truckload. I found a list of supposedly the best bodice ripper novels and the intro is instructive:
This is a list for Bodice Ripper romance novels that you think are a 5 star read. The best of the best – with alpha heroes, un-politically correct action, forced seduction, rape, sold into slavery plot lines, mistresses and cheating – the no-holds bar world of Bodice Ripper!
Notice the selling points: (a) alpha heroes, (b) forced seduction, (c) rape, and (d) sold into slavery plotlines. But where's the consent? It's not even in the equation. Oh, I'm sure that after the female lead is raped/seduced, she eventually falls in love with the alpha male and willingly and joyfully surrenders to his alpha maleness (I haven't actually read any of these, I've just heard that that's the way most of them turn out), but that's all ex post facto.
And then beyond the bodice-rippers, there's the 50 Shades books, which takes the bodice ripper one step further, and again, huge seller. So I think there's something about how the relationships are portrayed in these books that touches women's psyche at some basic level. Women are attracted to strength. No woman likes being the partner of a weak man. I'm sure feminists would like to believe that this whole aspect of male/female relationships doesn't exist, but E L James' bank account says otherwise.
And of course, James' success has resulted in other authors piling on: 8 Series to Start After You Finish the Fifty Shades Trilogy. Don't get me wrong. I do not recommend the 50 Shades series and I'm certainly not recommending any of these wannabes, which look even sleazier, if that's possible. My point is, if what feminists want to be true is indeed true, then why are these books so popular? (hint: it must be that damn patriarchy again!)
Feminism is trying to force us all to live in a world that simply doesn't exist. Fake rape stories and real lawsuits, not to mention damaged and ruined lives, are the toxic sludge that results from mixing feminism with the sexual revolution and letting it simmer for five decades. We'll be cleaning up these messes for a very long time.
I wonder if Mattress Girl has read the 50 Shades books?
"Sunday Morning Book Thread 06-07-2015: The Man Within [OregonMuse]", Ace of Spades H.Q., 2015-06-07.
June 28, 2015
The obsession with "rape culture"
At sp!ked, Ella Whelan talks about Canadian reporter Lauren Southern's public dissent from one of the main talking points of the feminist movement:
Southern had previously sparked debate by posting a picture online of her holding up a sign that explained why she didn't 'need feminism' – a response to a popular feminist selfie campaign. Following this up a year later with a video entitled 'Why I am not a feminist', she called out feminism as a 'faux form of equality under a gender-biased word'. In Southern's report on the Vancouver SlutWalk, she explained that she had attended the rally to 'challenge the fearmongering feminist narrative about men, women and violence'. It is this 'rape culture' narrative, she tells me, which is really trivialising rape. 'Women are going to equate things that aren't rape with rape because they interpret guys whistling at them as rape culture', she says. 'The misuse of the word [rape] is very dangerous because it allows for false accusations.'
Southern sees feminists' obsession with 'rape culture' as a languishing in female weakness. 'I've always thought that the main feminist issue was empowering women, in real terms; telling women to go out there, get the job, do what you want, not run around screaming "trigger warning" and crying.' Her assessment of contemporary feminism is astute. Following her visit to the rally in Vancouver, Southern received a barrage of messages from self-proclaimed radical feminists who told her 'they were vomiting all night because they were so triggered' by what she had done. That's right, these women felt physically sick just because someone disagreed with them.
This bizarre prizing of weakness on the part of contemporary feminists is, Southern explains, down to their refusal to engage in debate on a regular basis. 'It's not hard what they do. They go on to a street where everyone agrees with them, wearing their underwear, and get to show off for a day… They don't surround themselves with people who disagree with them.' This refusal to engage in debate was evident at the protest itself, with Southern having to climb up on to a plinth to avoid her sign being covered up by angry protesters.
So where does this desire to portray weakness as a strength come from? Southern puts it down to an institutionalised victim culture in Western universities: 'Academia is obsessed with feminism. You've got a protective narrative which screams "rape culture" at the slightest thing and students just eat it up. Whether that's because they want good grades or not, this stuff doesn't get challenged.' As a result, she says, sexism becomes a 'self-fulfilling prophecy'. 'If you're told that you're a victim as you grow up, you're going to have a confirmation bias when you're not hired for a job but a man is. You'll hear sexism in your head', she says.
June 27, 2015
"Individualism" as an epithet
Frank Furedi explains the odd origins of the word "individualism":
One reason why the idea of individualism generates so much confusion is because, throughout its history, it has been defined by parties that were hostile to it. Indeed, the very term itself was an invention of the opponents of liberalism. As Steven Lukes pointed out in in his useful study, Individualism (1973), the term first emerged in French – individualisme – as part of 'the general European reaction to the French Revolution and to its alleged source, the thought of the Enlightenment'. For those opposed to the Enlightenment, individualism served as a swear word to be hurled at the enemy.
In Europe, nineteenth-century conservative and counter-revolutionary thought was dominated by hostility to reason and the rights of the individual. Individualism was blamed for the corrosion of traditional communities and the decline in community solidarity. And this conservative representation of individualism, as a narrow-minded, egotistical outlook that selfishly ignores the needs of others in society, continues to predominate. The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, describes individualism as 'the habit of being independent and self-reliant; behaviour characterised by the pursuit of one's goals without reference to others'. In case the reader missed the implicit moral judgement here, the OED adds that individualism comes 'sometimes with negative connotations of self-centredness or anti-social behaviour'.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, it was increasingly common to attribute some of the most destructive consequences of the Industrial Revolution, particularly the break-up of communities and social disorganisation, to the rise of individualism. When Auguste Comte, the French philosopher and founder of the discipline of sociology, condemned individualism as 'the disease of the Western world', he gave voice to a sentiment that transcended the ideological divide between conservatives and socialists. Individualism had few friends on either the left or the right of the political spectrum. The representation of individualism as a selfish, anti-social and destructive creed provided an ideological narrative for demonising liberal currents of thought.
June 23, 2015
"Being skunked" takes on a new meaning
At Defence One, Patrick Tucker looks at an "improved" stink bomb now available to American police departments:
As protestors and police officers clash on the streets of Baltimore and other divided cities, some police departments are stockpiling a highly controversial weapon to control civil unrest.
It's called Skunk, a type of "malodorant," or in plainer language, a foul-smelling liquid. Technically nontoxic but incredibly disgusting, it has been described as a cross between "dead animal and human excrement." Untreated, the smell lingers for weeks.
The Israeli Defense Forces developed Skunk in 2008 as a crowd-control weapon for use against Palestinians. Now Mistral, a company out of Bethesda, Md., says they are providing it to police departments in the United States.
Skunk is composed of a combination of baking soda and amino acids, Mistral general manager Stephen Rust said at the National Defense Industrial Association's Armament Systems Forum on April 20. "You can drink it, but you wouldn't want to," said Rust, a retired U.S. Army project manager.
The Israelis first used it in 2008 to disperse Palestinians protesting in the West Bank. A BBC video shows its first use in action, sprayed by a hose, a system that has come to be known as the "crap cannon."
June 22, 2015
"Because economic growth is a dead end. The greens present the only way out"
J.R. Ireland pokes fun at the UK Green Party manifesto for the last general election:
All around the world our cultures might be different, our languages might be different, and we may think differently and act differently, but there is one fact which is true in every country on the face of planet Earth: The local Green Party will always be completely and irredeemably insane. From Australian pundit Tim Blair I've been made aware of the manifesto for the United Kingdom Green Party, a ludicrous amalgamation of wishful thinking, happy talk, and a total unwillingness to consider the unintended consequences of their proposed policies. From the absolutely bugfuck bonkers Youth Manifesto:
Because economic growth is a dead end. The greens present the only way out.
Vote Green because they're the only party courageous enough to promise voters that they will end economic growth. If there's one way to win elections, it's to tell the good people of Britain that you promise them an eternity of poverty and absolutely guarantee they will never get any richer.
We would introduce the right to vote at 16 because we believe that young people should have a say, as proven by the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014.
Indeed. Who wouldn't want to have their country governed by the preferred candidates of middle teenagers? Why, the average 16 year old is so incredibly knowledgeable about the world and completely understands such complex topics as economics, immigration, and that hot chick Kristy's red panties that he accidentally saw when she was uncrossing her legs in homeroom. With those sorts of brilliant minds choosing the leaders of the future, what could possibly go wrong?
But the real crazy, the high-end crazy, the crazy with a ribbon on top was saved not for their youth manifesto but for the manifesto allegedly meant for the big boys and girls who have hit puberty biologically, even if they never quite made it intellectually. The Green Party, you see, promises to give you infinite happiness without any negative consequences whatsoever:
Imagine having a secure, fulfilling and decently paid job, knowing that you are working to live and not living to work. Imagine coming home to an affordable flat or house, and being valued for your contribution and character, not for how much you earn. Imagine knowing that you and your friends are part of an economy that works with the planet rather than against it. Imagine food banks going out of business. Imagine the end of poverty and deprivation. The key to all this is to put the economy at the service of people and planet rather than the other way round. That's what the Green Party will do.
Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.
Indeed. Now if only John Lennon lyrics were a governing philosophy, by Jove the Greens might be onto something! Unfortunately for the Green Party, our actions often have consequences we could not have foreseen and, unsurprisingly, if you declare war on business with massive taxes, anti-trade legislation and the nationalization of banks and the housing industry, it's awfully difficult to 'end poverty and deprivation' since you've completely eliminated the way by which people have the opportunity to lift themselves up. But don't worry — the Greens will just sprinkle some fairy dust around and negative consequences will magically be done away with! Supply and demand is simply a filthy conspiracy perpetuated by the bourgeoisie!


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By John Upledger, DO, OMM
As manual therapists, it's vital that we continue to study the human organism - inside and out - to fully understand our role in helping individuals achieve optimal health and well-being.As part of that quest, I've been researching a helpful natural chemical called melatonin. This lipophilic indole, chemically known as 5-methoxy-N-acetyl-tryptamine, is a derivative of serotonin, which in turn is derived from the amino acid tryptophan.
Until recently, researchers thought melatonin was secreted only by the pineal gland. Since it was synthesized within and secreted by a gland, it became known as a hormone. Scientists have also speculated that melatonin was only secreted at night and primarily to induce sleep, and that artificial light could reduce the amount of melatonin secreted by the pineal gland. Since then, we've learned a lot more about the powers of melatonin. Yes, it's confirmed: The pineal gland is a major source of melatonin, which does indeed induce sleep. And yes, when the eyes take in artificial light, sleep is somewhat inhibited.
About 30 years ago we discovered that the appendix also generously synthesizes and secretes melatonin, which suggested that appendectomies might reduce melatonin levels. We've since found out that melatonin is also produced by the intestines, the fundus of the stomach, the testes, the spinal cord, the raphe nuclei of the brain stem, and the striatum areas of the brain. We now also understand that a significant amount of melatonin is synthesized within the body cells. Many of these melatonin molecules do not even leave their cells of origin, but instead remain inside them to protect them from being damaged by oxygen and nitrogen radicals and other toxicants.
You might even call melatonin a "double whammy" protector. After it neutralizes damaging reactive species, the metabolites that are produced in the process are even more effective at protecting the cells than the original melatonin molecules. In general, melatonin seems especially protective of DNA inside the nuclei and mitochondria. It also protects cell-membrane lipids and cytosol-contained proteins.
Personally, I believe every cell in our body contains some melatonin, whether it was produced in that cell or, less likely, entered through extracellular body fluids. Yet there are also other sites in the body with high levels of melatonin. The level of melatonin in the bile of the liver and gallbladder exceeds that of the blood and bone marrow. And the level of melatonin in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is much higher than that of the blood. In the CSF, melatonin is greatest in and around the third ventricle of the brain, probably because of the pineal-gland secretions. CSF melatonin levels are also greater at night, as is the pineal gland's production of melatonin. It's also interesting to note that the fluid in the Graafian follicle is higher than the blood level of melatonin.
Now let's look at some of the positive effects melatonin offers in specific dis-ease processes. Probably most important at this time is the fact that melatonin reduces degenerative activities in the brain, spinal cord and spinal nerve roots. Degeneration of these nerve tissues and cells often occur from the effects of reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species, as well as excessive or prolonged inflammation.
Beta amyloid peptides (BAP) are metabolic byproducts of the degradation of amyloid precursor proteins (APP). When these proteins (which are normally part of cell membranes) are metabolized as they wear out and lose their functional abilities, they break down into BAP. When these peptides aren't effectively cleared away by the natural flushing of CranioSacral Therapy (CST) or other fluid-moving techniques, they can form plaques and tangles that cause neuronal dysfunction and death. The result? Increased tissue inflammation that leads to cerebral and/or spinal cord degeneration. The name of any resulting disease depends on the location of the degeneration. When it takes place in the hippocampus and cerebral forebrain, it's called Alzheimer's disease. When it takes place in the lower aspect of the brain (the substantia nigra), it's called Parkinson's disease.
Melatonin helps by neutralizing BAP to keep the peptides from forming disease-producing plaques and tangles. It also removes metals that may be involved in the plaques and tangles. These metals include cobalt (often found at higher levels with Alzheimer's disease) and aluminum. Occasionally, high levels of iron may damage the brain or spinal cord, while excessive copper may affect the central nervous system (CNS) in a similar way. Melatonin removes excess iron and copper as needed.
On the opposite side of the fence, melatonin may link up with zinc. This combination seems to enhance thymus-gland function and the whole immune system secondarily. When CNS neurons have been damaged, melatonin also promotes the production of neuronal growth factor, which may help reestablish neuronal circuits that have been injured or interrupted. (I have also had success dialoging with stem cells and getting them to replace damaged or dead neurons as needed.)
Other conditions I believe to be helped by melatonin: stroke damage; damage due to ionizing radiation; diabetic neuropathy; heavy-metal toxicities; non-metallic toxicities; viral infections; seizures; excitotoxicities; homocysteine damage; ischemic damage; reperfusion injury; degenerative CNS diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, senility and so on.
From a therapeutic perspective, I've found the following tactics helpful in enhancing melatonin effectiveness:
* I administer these in divided doses as tolerated by the client. Please note: The information presented here is strictly intended for educational purposes only, and is not to be construed as medical advice.
By continuing to explore the valuable role of melatonin in our bodies and by learning tools to enhance its effectiveness through complementary care, we give our clients more opportunities to enjoy good health, naturally.
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GB Womens win the World League Semi Finals.
Recognised in the Queens Birthday Honours List
The Winning Mixed Team
Sat 13th June
Playing in the Semi Final v Formby at 11:30 and then on Sunday
Mens game on 26th May 19:00 at RAF High WQucomber
Spaces still available at the Half Term Camps
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