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Someone made the observation to the effect that the Left defends the right to express differing views, while being horrified that people hold other views. Apparently, expressing other views is not at all encouraged in practice. Project Veritas is hardly a 'Fair and Balanced' source, but they do capture people saying things that at least appear damning. In all fairness, the person caught on camera here is a real dog, and may well be 'gilding the lily' in the hopes of getting laid. I've known too many people who would overstate their professional accomplishments to suit their perceived audience, and this person may well be doing just that. Having said that, I'd have a hard time coughing up $60,000 a year for the privilege of being indoctrinated by the likes of her. Then again, when asked why students were sent to college in Moscow in the 1960s, the leader of an African country that has since been renamed responded 'when we send our students to Paris they come back Communists, but when we send them to Moscow they come back Capitalists,' so perhaps exposure to bugwits like her will drive at least some of her charges to a more balanced approach to life than is the Woke norm. One can only hope. BSBD, Winsor

He doesn't need the money, he's a billionaire. He said so himself.

I'm not a fan of the Bureau, but I'm curious as to what part of the Constitution forbids the search of Mar a Lago. I, personally, want The Donald to completely drop off the scope forever, without anything that serves to set him up as a martyr or victim of any kind. Given the endless supply of cretins and half wits on both sides of the aisle, I suppose it doesn't make much difference in the long run, but the Mango Mussolini makes Tricky Dick Nixon look like a model of wisdom, honesty and decency by comparison. Being able to vote for the slightly lesser of two evils would be refreshing. BSBD, Winsor

If you want to find organizations with the worst track record regarding human rights, Christianity and Islam are a pretty good start. Nazis are johnny-come-lately amateurs by comparison. It is beyond ironic that Rome picked their method of executing Judeans as the symbol of 'following' an observant Jew - who they killed by that method. Similarly, following an illiterate pervert psychopath who boasted about personally beheading 600 Jews who disputed his reinterpretation of their copyrighted (seriously dysfunctional) family history doesn't instill much confidence in their psychological stability. either. The idea that I either 'confront absolutely everyone about their beliefs' or 'ignore absolutely everyone' appears to be projection. My killfile is limited to those whose abuse:content ratio approaches infinity (to include mods). BSBD, Winsor

When encountering people admiring the Shovelhead who have swastikas tattooed on their heads, I don't get into discussions I've had with my Rabbi. I stick to discussions of Harleys and certainly don't insult them. If people with rainbow tattoos or Ladies with Adam's Apples get coquettish with me, I take it as a compliment and talk about neutral subjects. Being equally polite with either crowd is advisable for differing reasons; telling biker trash what shitty bikes they're riding and what loser lifestyles they're living is generally a Bad Career Move. YMMV. BSBD, Winsor

Oh, I'd say he knows sleaze when he sees it. He is rather an expert.

Wheels rarely go flat, but tires do. Thus you have the concept of having a flat tire and changing a flat tire, or changing a tire for short. I have changed tubes on tires ranging from small yard equipment to 18 wheelers, and I agree that it is a different experience altogether. I have stopped to help change tires (inner tubes actually, but not wheels) of other bicyclists on organized rides, since I tend to keep spare 700c inner tubes and the necessary tools on hand. I had a group of friends in Georgia who all had Austin Healy 3000 Mk IIIs. One failed to secure the knock off properly, and the left rear wheel arrived in the parking lot before the car. My MGs (two Bs and a Magnette) were a mix of lug nuts and knock offs, the Series 1 E-type had knock offs. As Steve Landisburg noted on Barney Miller, "semantics is my life." BSBD, Winsor

We're trying to stick to an ad Hominem approach without going full Godwin here. Upon reflection, calling someone a Trumper is pretty close.

Talking past each other as usual. There is a certain level of politeness that one should afford a stranger. I'll stop and help someone change a tire, regardless of who they appear to be. The 'respect' to which we refer is something else altogether. If someone has a swastika tattoo, or a rainbow tattoo, I will take note of it but will not treat them any differently because of it. I'm aware of the sensitivities of the Hell's Angels and gay folks of my acquaintance, and don't discuss Kawazukis with the Angels or True Love with gays - or anyone that isn't on the menu, for that matter. I do have to restrain myself when amongst Pagan's, wanting to point out that the apostrophe makes it possessive rather than plural, but they tend to get violent when confused so I let it drop. Anyhow, I'm cool with pretty much anything an individual does that doesn't involve children and doesn't affect unwilling participants. When any group sees fit to inflict their world vision on others, regardless of whether ii is 'good' or 'bad,' I am not okay with it. There are Right to Lifers that I like a lot. I happen to think they're full of shit on that issue, and prefer to vote against their position. There are people with whom I've worked whose professional judgment I trust with my life, but whose life choices don't impress me. Mormons are one example (read the book and get back to me). In any event, we are using different definitions of the term 'respect,' which constitutes equivocation. BSBD, Winsor

Wendy, Respect is earned, it's not a birthright - either for the privileged or the oppressed. If I treated coworkers or supervisors differently due to sex, national origin or whatever it would be sexist, racist, patronizing and fundamentally offensive. To forgive and remember does not mean one shouldn't get over it and move on. Give it a try. BSBD, Winsor

News flash - they're all going to die. The Woke crowd are giving them a run for their money in the competition for the greatest wellspring of raw stupidity. BSBD, Winsor

The KKK has simply hundreds of adherents. That's a bad thing. Good Racists, OTOH, number in the millions, and have breathtaking levels of social and financial support. A good rule of thumb is that if you take an "anti racist" screed and switch the verbiage, replacing <minority> with white and vice versa, and it becomes a reprehensible racist diatribe, it was a reprehensible racist diatribe in the first place. This is a prime example: https://www.thecollegefix.com/berkeley-co-op-person-of-color-theme-house-bans-white-guests-from-common-spaces/ You can't have it both ways. BSBD, Winsor

Apparently Brian Stelter is moving on.

Laziness rears its ugly head.

FIFY

I'm in favor of equality under the law. Bill Clinton tried to use the UCMJ to shield himself from litigation during investigations re: Paula Jones et al. That would have been great in that sanctions in the military become harsher as rank increases; an E-4 charged with adultery may get Article 15 punishment with a fine and the loss of a stripe, but a Flag Officer faces enforced retirement with the loss of a star. I dislike The Donald and Hillary pretty much equally, and am fine with both of them facing consequences similar to those of an E-4 clerk taking secrets home, particularly after signing agreements of understanding that such actions are strictly proscribed. This involves extended incarceration and being banned from elective office. I am baffled by why anyone would stick up for any of them, particularly regarding violations of the Law, the Constitution or their Oath of Office. It says a lot about people who are cool with it on their behalf. BSBD, Winsor

Due to the magic of the killfile, I can only guess at what you're talking about. One of the problems of objecting to the excesses of one side is that it is often assumed that this implies support of the other. Extremists of any stripe tend to take on the trappings of religious zealots - in some cases they ARE religious zealots - and their TRUE BELIEF is the problem more than the side of the aisle to which they gravitate. Pointing out that using hormone blockers and performing surgery on adolescents who are, as is typical of adolescents, unsure of quite what they are constitutes child abuse is is justifiably criminal is construed as being against LGBTQRST+/-..., which is not necessarily the case. If an adult wants to surgically modify their body to be a Barbie Doll, a Space Alien or whatever, I can't see why they shouldn't be allowed to do so. Doing this to a child is not okay (and I have to wonder who the hell came up with circumcision in the first place, as well). When people say "Democrats are like this" or "Republicans are like that," I'm tempted to note that there may be the odd exception to either claim. The definition of what constitutes a "moderate" differs depending on who you ask, but I'm not impressed by much of any extremists. BSBD Winsor

Russell was an optimist.

Not quite. Flight crews had a common policy, and what they did or did not pay for affected all of us. It was considered an insult that expensive elective surgery was covered for political reasons, and other every bit as legitimate procedures were not. If he wanted to become a she enough to pay for it. fine. Having us pay for it by applying political pressure didn't go over too well. BSBD, Winsor

When SJWs breathlessly object to archeologists identifying skeletons as male or female because we don't know how they 'identified,' this is a sure sign that they are hard of thinking. I shouldn't lump them in with the Special Ed. crowd, since they would give a bad name to the kids on the short buses, who are generally nicer than average. Woke ideology supports the lyrics of "The Refreshments'" hit single.

Kind of none of the above. Living in Greenwich Village, New Hope, and other gay hot spots, one encounters people living quite a variety of lifestyles. The general consensus is okay, whatever. If someone wants to be addressed as one thing or another, that's fine. If someone wants to be treated as male or female, that's generally no big deal. There are gay and lesbian people who I'd trust more to look after my kid more than some breeders I know. This is incidental to my point. Even if I am cool with someone living as another sex or species, that does not mean that they ARE another sex or species. I'm not mad at them, I wish them no harm, and I don't particularly care one way or another so long as they don't hurt anyone else. When my insurance paid for sex reassignment surgery for one of our flight attendants, but denied coverage for treatments they considered 'elective,' that bothered me. Whether a co-worker has female anatomy as standard equipment or aftermarket is not my concern - until I have to pay for it. I have lived around delusional people my whole life (religion being the prime culprit), and generally am okay with it if they leave me out of it. When they want me to get audited for Scientology or pray to Jesus, I am not. I reserve the right to deem people who think sex is a matter of choice as fucking retards. YMMV. BSBD, Winsor

Gender is a grammatical construct. Sex is biological. You can self-identify as a lesbian poodle if you wish. That does not MAKE you a lesbian poodle, even with the requisite surgery, hair transplants and whatnot.. BSBD, Winsor

I'd expect Pee Wee Herman to outpoll The Donald.

Oddly enough, early 20th century archaeologists were routinely inaccurate regarding the sex of Inca remains. This was, however, the result of using rudimentary criteria more applicable to Europeans rather than of political correctness. BSBD, Winsor

Oddly enough, like 'Little Big Man,' 'Dr. Strangelove' was basically a documentary presented as a comedy (I, too, thought it was a scream). Much though the Air Force claimed that such an attack couldn't happen, Kubrick evidently was remarkably close to the actual security protocols in place at the time - which were quietly overhauled shortly thereafter. 'Little Big Man' incorporated most of the details of 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,' but presented as a farce. Monte Python's work often had cerebral underpinnings, though taken to absurd extremes. I find it unnerving that people espouse an equal level of inanity with a straight face. Then again, my guess is that "Q" generates the nonsense that powers the Q Anon movement purely for amusement. It can be entertaining to generate a rumor and watch it take on a life of its own. As 'The Refreshments' noted, "everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people...," and the far right and far left seem hell bent on proving that claim. Humorless people are frightening. BSBD, Winsor