Posted on 09/20/2008 5:13:03 PM PDT by Perdogg
You mean... she’s HUMAN?
I cannot call an invasion brilliant if it has no way to hold the victory. His “lean fighting machine” was quick, sure, but it was a recipe for disaster in the aftermath, especially considering we completely dismantled the whole Bathist regime.
RUMMY RULES!
Oh, I believe that.
The Telegraph is about 5 steps below the credibility of Democratic Underground or KOS.
I agree. Go do that in private at the end of the day if you have to.
Never, ever let 'em see you sweat (or cry).
The flip side(and counterpoint to your sympathy for the minorities and women stigmatized by affirmative action) is that for every minority, woman, disabled person, queer, or transgender freak that is given a job, promotion, university slot, or contract based on identity, there is a white male denied that very spot.
Even if one gyrates and expands one’s mind to escape a ready zero-sum game analysis of such an environment, and instead finds some twisted Keynesian benefit for all or whatever, there still remains the pervasive, legally-enforced “profiling” of white males as historically guilty and deserving of random deprivation.
Any and all “white privilege”, dominance, and so on is presumed to have been achieved by oppression of others, instead of primarily and mainly by merit, ingenuity, enterprise, deferred gratification, etc.
That situation(the enforced profiling of/discrimination against white males) is worse than the one resulting from skepticism about the true abilities of affirmative-action hires; the latter is a stigma based on questionable economic advantage, while the former is mandated economic injury based on a stigma.
Nobody seems to think a white man, denied a job or other opportunity, actually suffers. It is just assumed that white males are constantly afforded an abundance of never-ending, stress-less gravy in life. Bullshit! The burden of responsibility alone is enough to cause outrage and grief when presented with the looting and dumbing-down involved in affirmative action policies.
After all is said and done, I still mostly believe that “discrimination”—freedom of association—should be legal. In fact, it is the best for everyone, and allows people to act according to natural law.
Nobody should be forced to hire or associate with anyone they don’t wish to, just as they shouldn’t be forced to marry or date someone they’d rather not. Walter Williams points out that, marriage being the one institution that improves the economic lot of more people than any other, the logical extension of the prevailing affirmative-action dystopia is that the government would enact laws forcing the “haves” to marry the “underprivileged” and “economically disadvantaged.”
I would have shown both of them the door in favor of John Bolton for Secretary of State
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