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Clarissa

January 9, 2016

Two women attempt to involve a 2-year-old child in pornography. Let’s remember that sexual abuse knows no gender boundaries.

The ideological biases of The Guardian become clear in a case of dishonest reporting.

Magic baloney!

I say “MAh-slim” and “Is-lAhm.” This means my political identity is all messed up. And what about yours?

This is how students bitched about grades 100 years ago.

Social justice retreats at Oregon State make me want to vomit.

A good long article on the most important developments in Syria in 2015.

[Ukrainian] Jewish pogroms in Ukraine. It’s truly admirable how dedicated Ukrainians are to figuring out their past.

Guns are now allowed in state run psychiatric facilities in Texas. Because mentally ill people totally need to be surrounded by guns.

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14 responses to “Saturday Link Encyclopedia”

Dreidel

January 9, 2016

“Guns are now allowed in state run psychiatric facilities in Texas.”

Absolutely, utterly idiotic idea!! In state hospitals that don’t have armed guards (and some don’t) the ONLY people in the facility with weapons will be visitors ! 😦

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Barbara

January 9, 2016

Typo alert: the social justice retreats are in Oregon, not Ohio.

I followed that link because as a resident of Ohio, it did not sound believable to me that Ohio State would hold the sort of retreats that would make Clarissa nauseous. For good or bad, just not the Buckeye culture. Now if they had been retreats focused on football…

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 9, 2016
  
  Sorry, of course, it’s not Ohio. I actually like Ohio. 🙂
  
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  1. Dreidel
    
    January 9, 2016
    
    Since these retreats are in Oregon, maybe the people running the “Examining White Identity and White Privilege” seminar should go over to Harney County and lecture the Bundy brother insurgents. 🙂
    
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    1. Clarissa
      
      January 9, 2016
      
      I could tell them where they should go and what they should do to themselves once they get there. 🙂
      
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Stringer Bell

January 11, 2016

Someone should go to jail for this.

http://theweek.com/articles/597755/how-michigan-literally-poisoned-entire-city-save-few-bucks

The idea to temporarily use Flint River water while another pipeline was being constructed was one of those cost-saving measures.

It was immediately obvious that the water was filthy, and residents loudly protested that it was cloudy, smelled bad, and tasted worse. General Motors stopped using the water because it was literally corroding their machinery. But Snyder and his handpicked head environmental official Dan Wyant studiously ignored the problem — despite internal warnings of lead poisoning as early as July of last year — until an outside scientific study demonstrated extreme levels of lead in Flint children. In late December — over a year after the water switch — Snyder finally apologized and Wyant quietly resigned.

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1. Shakti
  
  January 11, 2016
  
  Jail seems rather light considering the damage they’ve caused.
  
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  1. Stringer Bell
    
    January 11, 2016
    
    I am against capital punishment so that’s the best I can hope for, haha.
    
    This also brings to attention how important local and state elections are in this country. Democratic party voters are notorious absentees in non-presidential elections. It won’t do good to have a president of your choice when your entire state machinery is controlled by the republican party.
    
    I guess it depends on one’s particular situation but I’d be interested to find out who has a bigger impact on one’s life: the state governor or the president.
    
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el

January 13, 2016

Jews across Europe are taking off their yarmulkes and prayer shawls and hiding their Star of David necklaces as the fear of anti-Semitic violence continues to grow across the continent, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

At the same time, Zvi Ammar, the head of Marseille’s Jewish community, has called on the city’s Jewish residents to stop wearing yarmulkes in the wake of an attack on a Jewish teacher on Monday morning.

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Meanwhile, police in France are investigating the murder of Jewish politician Alain Ghozlan, who was found dead in his home on the outskirts of Paris on Tuesday morning, was motivated by anti-Semitism. […] The initial indication is that Ghozlan was beaten to death.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4752044,00.html

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el

January 13, 2016

Шведские новости
http://sergeyoho.livejournal.com/124066.html

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el

January 14, 2016

Insanity:

Московский полицейский пожаловался на изнасиловавших его проституток
http://lenta.ru/news/2016/01/13/oy/

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 14, 2016
  
  Maybe it makes sense to bring some Russian speaking women to Cologne to put men there in line.
  
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el

January 14, 2016

I talked about bad Hollywood actors, interesting whether you knew or (would have) liked Alan Rickman. He died today:

Alan Rickman, the celebrated British film and stage actor best known for roles in Harry Potter, Robin Hood and Die Hard, has died aged 69 after suffering from cancer.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alan-rickman-dead-harry-potter-actor-and-theatre-legend-dies-aged-69-a6811956.html

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el

January 14, 2016

Don’t know if the book is good, but the subject is interesting:

\ A New York Times Bestseller

In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.

In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change. The Teacher Wars upends the conversation about American education by bringing the lessons of history to bear on the dilemmas we confront today. By asking “How did we get here?” Dana Goldstein brilliantly illuminates the path forward.

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