[RUDAW.NET] Analysts are divided on the impact that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s arrests of HDP officials will have on Kurds supporting the country’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which backs the president. Some believe these arrests will sway Kurds to leave the AKP, while others argue they will continue to back it.
Cheer up, American millennials!
I mean, seriously, CHEER THE **** UP!
Oh, I know you’ve had a rough week ever since Donald Trump won the election.
But it’s time to get a grip.
STOP crying.
STOP taking personal days off work to ’process’ what happened.
STOP huddling with your equally distraught buddies in Starbucks over your Venti Iced White Chocolate Mocha.
STOP howling away on social media about how unfair life is and how it’s the end of the planet as we know it.
STOP updating the exact number Hillary won the popular vote by, because it doesn’t bloody matter.
STOP marching around screaming your fury at the result when many of you couldn’t even bothered to vote.
STOP retweeting all your favourite celebrities’ own outbursts of pique, rage and anguish.
STOP demanding the Electoral College reverse the decision in December.
In short, STOP being such a faux-tormented bunch of absolutely deluded cretins.
Want to know why Trump is going to be your next president?
It’s because he is what’s called a ’winner’.
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Read whole thing, then send it to another Grown-Up.
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Piers Morgan - usually an idiot esp. on gun control - but he really hits the mark here
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"Whinging" is a great little British term, defined as 'to complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way'.
We've used that term at our household for quite a while now. Carries a bit more weight when used with the grandchildren as it's something they don't hear at home or school, plus they'll actually pay attention when we say it.
The 4 year old thinks it's a great word and apparently he uses it at pre-school with the other kids, much to the consternation of the teachers who actually had to ask him what it meant. He told them that it was 'irwatating'.
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[IsraelNationalNews] The mere suggestion of Israeli willingness to make territorial compromise has always invited political pressure in the form of bloodshed.
The idea of a "two-state solution" takes us far beyond "mere suggestion", as snowballing European momentum for Palestinian statehood raises the spilling of Jewish blood to the level of legitimate statecraft.
The Palestinian Authority is a corrupt, genocidal entity unprecedented in history, from which the removal of one or two toxic leaders is immaterial. And the EU is worse
Even if the Palestinian Authority were not murderous and degenerate, it was invented to serve as an instrument by Arab ultranationalists for the eventual elimination of Israel.
A certain element within Israel is even willing to overlook the Palestinian Authority's aforementioned flaws and growing lethality in exchange for an instrument to sever Israel's link with her roots.
As long as we continue asserting our sovereignty in Judea and Samaria by living here, it is possible for us to take action to roll back the process of our phased abandonment and Israel's disintegration.
But our passive existence here is no longer enough. The government of Israel is powerless to draw a red line for us that we ourselves have not yet drawn. We must awaken, organize, and get active Personally, I came to believe that the successive governments of Israel understood perfectly well that peace with Arabs is neither possible nor desirable. That they were doing is buying time - time until the flow of petrodollars dries out. And the time, unless tranzies somehow manage to stop Trump, is now.
[Independent] There’s no fighting it ‐ humans are innately social creatures. But while it's widely accepted that socialising makes us happier, this might not be strictly true if you’re highly intelligent.
Evolutionary psychologists from Singapore Management University and the London School of Economics and Political Science found exactly this when they studied more than 15,000 young adults.
They concluded that, while people generally feel happier when they spend time with others, very smart people are an exception to this rule.
The study said this could be because of evolution.
Smarter people can more easily adapt to their surroundings in the modern world, so they don’t need close relationships to help them with food and shelter, like our ancestors did. Or, in the modern equivalent, the Wi-Fi password and a spare phone charger.
Their other theory is that smarter people are more aspirational, and want to spend more time working towards their goals, rather than socialising.
The study found that more intelligent people actually had lower life satisfaction the more frequently they socialised with friends - spending time with friends actually made them unhappy. But the researchers discovered that these highly intelligent participants actually spent more time socialising with friends.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
