tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8108843155506742379..comments2024-03-15T20:52:26.967-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Women's mediaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85913740410559346542013-03-22T20:25:21.881-07:002013-03-22T20:25:21.881-07:00Thinking you can just plop content like that into ...Thinking you can just plop content like that into the mag is probably not going to work. I think you either need some angle (Fox News or the like) that carves out the underserved niche. Or you need to be sneakier about feeding in your memes (maybe stories that cut a certain way and reinforce an ethic). Or stuff like South Park or underground humor or soemthing. But just assuming that people will mindlessly change views because of exposure (especially of jarringly different stuff) is not going to make it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38822012952119763762013-02-06T18:32:09.061-08:002013-02-06T18:32:09.061-08:00msklh [url=http://www.getcanadagooseoutlet.com]can...msklh [url=http://www.getcanadagooseoutlet.com]canada goose[/url] pngaig http://www.getcanadagooseoutlet.com tsyhu [url=http://www.pick-canadagoose.com]canada goose sale[/url] gqlbzq http://www.pick-canadagoose.com izpsv [url=http://www.pickupcanadagoose.com]canada goose sale[/url] ldbesb http://www.pickupcanadagoose.com fqqe [url=http://www.pay-canadagooseoutlet.com]canada goose outlet[/url] pnwhcb http://www.pay-canadagooseoutlet.com oqdal [url=http://www.yescanadagooseoutlet.com]canada goose[/url] zuyhcp http://www.yescanadagooseoutlet.com vmopj [url=http://www.online-canadagooseoutlet.com]canada goose[/url] cciuxd http://www.online-canadagooseoutlet.com thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65966619779976420392012-12-20T23:13:00.831-08:002012-12-20T23:13:00.831-08:00Bite your toungue, 2:48, I don't have cancer n...Bite your toungue, 2:48, I don't have cancer nor potentially cancerous growths. Right now, I'm the one who pays for health insurance while barely clearing the deductible every year, so I am the one who's paying for something she doesn't need while others get 12,000 worth of chemo/month, on my dime. And you know what? I consider myself to be the lucky one, by far. Think every sane person would agree. Sickness and suffering aside, the situation is perfectly moral and fair. That's the nature of the arrangement here. We buy insurance in case something goes wrong, and if, God forbid, it does, our expenses get covered with the money the company gets from the other insured folk. <br /><br />Not sure where you're going with the whole "it takes effort to create this stuff" line of thought. It takes effort to grow food, and when I buy it in the store, it becomes mine. When people purchase comprehensive insurance policies, the right to have serious health conditions treated with existing, proven to be effective, and reasonably priced medication like the synthetic female hormones is defintely theirs. That's how civilized society works; when you sell a good or service and collect the money, you actually have to abide by the contract and give the sold entiy to the buyer. Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41277425805636697032012-12-20T14:48:15.344-08:002012-12-20T14:48:15.344-08:00You think it's analogous to withholding medica...<i><br />You think it's analogous to withholding medication necessary for cancer prevention?"</i><br /><br /><br />Withholding? You mean like all of us run out and grab it as it falls from the sky and won't let other people have it? <br /><br />What the hell is the matter with you? <br /><br />It takes a hell of a lot of work to gain the skill to even look for treatments for cancer. Then more work to develop and test something effective. Cancer meds aren't falling from the sky, you know. Real people have to go to work each day to make that stuff. I guess you consider workers and taxpayers to be your helots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87173749171454006122012-12-20T13:21:45.158-08:002012-12-20T13:21:45.158-08:00Oh, I completely agree that a religious institutio...Oh, I completely agree that a religious institution shouldn't have to do anything that it feels might be against its religious values. People who don't feel comfortable with faith based values shouldn't attend faith based institutions of learning. And when I look at SF, I see a woman who wants attention that will, hopefully, turn into profit. Her behavior was neither sympathetic nor noble in any way. She's a depraved opportunist.<br /><br />However, Rush's reaction to the situation, the language he used, things he said about the pill and the women who are on it, his uninformed position on the issue as a whole were all nothing short of disgusting and a turn off for many potential allies. Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73484512567614840832012-12-20T02:40:46.761-08:002012-12-20T02:40:46.761-08:00The Catholic Church, though probably not the facul...The Catholic Church, though probably not the faculty of Georgetown, prohibits the use of birth control. Sandra is making a name for herself by using a creative argument to force it to participate in the undermining of its own doctrine. How can we tell if she is being honest? Did she write a letter on her friend's behalf to the insurance company asking for an exception, or does she just want birth control pills to be freely available to all students? <br /><br />Yes, opiates are necessary for people suffering from severe pain, but does that mean that the Church's insurance company must subsidize them for every student without questioning the application?<br /><br />I suppose there is a technical case for the alternative uses of the pill for hormone treatment. Now it is incumbent on supporters to show what percentage of college age women need that therapy. If it huge, they have a strong case, if it is small, then a person's doctor can usually petition successfully for coverage from insurance, or, one's law school friends can help write a letter. I believe the need is small and I believe that Sandra Fluke does not accept the church's teaching on birth control and that she never bothered to advocate for her friend as an individual, but preferred to make a name for herself by attacking policy.<br /><br />Where are all the Georgetown Law Professors defending the faith? They probably helped her write her speech.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13561168006020238292012-12-19T22:24:04.831-08:002012-12-19T22:24:04.831-08:00@Svigor
Concientious objectors refused to kill an... @Svigor<br /><br />Concientious objectors refused to kill another human being in any context and thus found it impossible to participate in any war, regardless of ideals behind the war. <br /><br />You think it's analogous to withholding medication necessary for cancer prevention? All because someone else might, a person who isn't ill, might use the treatment recreationally? Are you also against using opiates to manage post surgery recovery and the pain of the terminal patients? After all, by your logic, since dirty junkies use opiates to get high, the substance is evil by default and shouldn't be employed ever, for anything. How about needles? Some degenerate addicts usethem to shoot up. If, as you seem to be suggesting, a tool that is sometimes employed for immoral reasons is forever tainted and unfit forany other application, should we stop administering medication through shots to people who can't take medicine orally? <br /><br />It's just synthetic female hormones in pill form, Sir, not the devil. One of the uses turned out to be birth control which is accomplished by jacking up a healthy bodys level of these hormone's to such a degrree that it thinks it's pregnant and stops ovulating. <br /><br />However, women with PCOS have cysts growing in their ovaries that lower their female hormones which in turn causes more cysts to grow and the existing cysts to grow bigger, in a vicious cycle. These cysts often turn cancerous given enough time without treatment. Other common side effects of this condition are excessive body and facial hair, infertility, acne, heart disease, weight gain, anger and mood swings. Drilling of the ovaries and hormonal intervention with synthetic female hormones that are most commonly manufactured as birth control are the most common forms of effective treatmen. A lot of women with PCOS couldn't menstruate without taking synthetic female hormone pills you know as birth control because their body doesn't create enough of the stuff naturally. Most often, thanks to The Pill, these women can lead normal lives. I'm sorry the little round box reminds you of sluts, prostitutes and transsexuals, but denying people medication that they need for a serious, potentially dangerous condition just because you have a negative emotional response to it, based on the first thing that comes to mind during free association of the treatment's common name IS misanthropic. It's also stubborn, silly and irrational. <br /><br />Oh, and my grandma uses the same pill one of my college roommates used as birth control to maintain bone density after menapause. It was prescribed by her primary physician and seems to be working pretty well, according to him. I don't think grandma sluts around, but even if she did, she wouldn't be needing birth control. Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69732167627375929452012-12-19T09:06:33.078-08:002012-12-19T09:06:33.078-08:00Denying people medical treatment just because this...<i>Denying people medical treatment just because this treatment also can be used for reasons that may or may not be questionable is misanthropic.</i><br /><br />That's like calling conscientious objectors misanthropic. Probably not going to sell well.<br /><br /><i>I listen to Limbaugh - but not his "ilk". Rush is a lot smarter, better-read, more original, more creative, and funnier than someone like Hannity.</i><br /><br />It's obvious to anyone listening to his show for a while that Rush is pretty verbally gifted.<br /><br /><i>When pro-choicers try to defend their ideas "on an intellectual level," a train wreck generally ensues</i><br /><br />This.<br /><br /><i>"You see this all the time with atheists lecturing Christians (never Jews, for some reason) about what they must do to be consistent in their faith."<br /><br />Maybe because being Christian is a belief and being jewish is an ethnicity.</i><br /><br />Judaism is a religion, and in the context of the conversation it was obvious he was referring to Jews who belong to it.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42120371862465841852012-12-19T08:46:36.919-08:002012-12-19T08:46:36.919-08:00Abortion just reeks of murder
The trouble with ab...<i>Abortion just reeks of murder</i><br /><br />The trouble with abortion is that there seem to be almost no genuinely valid arguments in favor of it beyond "it's best to give them what they want." Hey, I actually agree, it <i>is</i> best to give them what they want. But I've come to that conclusion after personally shooting every single argument the pro-murder side presents into Swiss cheese. Their arguments are just horrible (all of them AFAICT, though I haven't argued the matter nearly as extensively as racial matters).<br /><br />Of course, some of <i>the evil racists' arguments</i> for abortion are pretty good. Like the one about how it keeps the black population much lower than it'd be otherwise, that's a pretty good one.Svigornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48762205267195725202012-12-18T19:41:27.684-08:002012-12-18T19:41:27.684-08:00Myrna Blyth was hired by Robert Riordan in effort ...Myrna Blyth was hired by Robert Riordan in effort to turn around Ladies' Home Journal in the early 80s. Riordan said his best decision was to keep rather than fire Blyth, who had engendered a firestorm of criticism after starting as editor, purportedly because she had published a dark article about rape. Supposedly, advertisers were considering pulling out if the magazine didn't continue its tradition of sunny articles. Blyth was more conservative in outlook as we now know, and there was a general firestorm. I leave it to you to judge.<br /> <br />Riordan had bought LHJ through Family Media which owned Health magazine for about $1 million down and a $9 million note from Charter, which was a conglomerate with oil and other assets divesting itself of a money losing magazine for housewives in the era of modern women and high oil prices. Riordan's best decision was actually just raising magazine prices by about 50% after taking control, which instantly turned losses to profit. Riordan scooped the assets for $1 million down in the recession climate with low liquidity and sold LHJ a few years later (in 1986) to Meredith for $96 million, when LHJ had EBITDA of $3 million, 30x operating profit. That's a cool $86 million profit plus cash flow during the ownership period, reflecting two murky minded corporate counter parties, a moderate turnaround, some good judgment, and a boom period for prices of media assets in the dawn of the age of heavy M&A activity. <br /><br />This was the Volker period, when the economy emerged from recession in a climate of low taxes, laissez-faire, and respect for the productive. Asset prices reflected real positive expectations by a charged-up productive class more than quantitative easing.<br /><br />For his part, I don't think Riordan did a lot after LHJ other than dabble in some magazine concepts. The story of his professional life came down to just a few good decisions and perhaps a week or two of cumulative time to think through them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23619399064871863162012-12-18T13:27:34.853-08:002012-12-18T13:27:34.853-08:00"PS. I wonder about all this hormone imbalanc..."PS. I wonder about all this hormone imbalance stuff. Before BCP, how did women cope with it? "<br /><br />Well... I'll treat this as a serious question, though it sure is strange.<br /><br />Women (and men) coped with hormonal imbalances, in the olden days, the same way they coped with cancer, tooth decay, significant blood loss, infection and poor harvest. They prayed, hoped for the best and had as many children as possible, trying to insure that a couple of those kids would grow into adults healthy enough to take care of the parents and continue the line. And very often, they suffered greatly and died young. <br /><br />Take a look at the oldest photographs and read some journals from before the photograph was invented. Some people glowed with life and lived till 80. But a great many didn't. A great many women were toothless, wrinkled, dried out, bloated and fragile-boned by 35. A human being is a very complex machine with thousands of mechanisms at work, so a lot can go wrong, and a lot does go wrong, and that has always been the case. Take a look at the number of women that died in child birth before the 20th century. It's staggering. It was the most common cause of death. Meanwhile, a woman is designed to give birth, if everything works correctly. But too often, everything doesn't work correctly. God's quality control is similar to that of a Chinese basement counterfeits factory, when it comes to human beings. Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58377768978849876942012-12-18T13:09:44.078-08:002012-12-18T13:09:44.078-08:00@Severn
There were, probably a few "I'm&...@Severn<br /><br />There were, probably a few "I'm"s in my comments, and I know there was a "solid liberal democrat voter". But you were the one who chose to put them next to each other in your own mind. Meanwhile, I admitted no such thing. In fact, I've clearly stated that I've grown disgusted with the left over the years, that I don't plan on voting for a democrat ever again and that I support neither the elephant nor the donkey, in those exact words. <br /><br />Throughout this thread I see people reacting based on their percieved team and the perceived team of their perceived opponent rather than arguing with logic and facts. Sadly, that's common everywhere, including the manosphere and the conservative blogs. So I'm not exactly surprized that half of the people who responded to anyone here, commented in reaction to what they thought the previous commenter believes rather than to what the previous commenter actually wrote. I do find it amuzing that the most vocal conservative men around the linked blogosphere seem to think that members of their sex and political orientation are rational debators. Then, again, I've seen most feminazis around the liberal blogs express the same sentiment- that they are a group most capable of a cool-headed, logical, respectful discourse. Ditto atheists, Christians, fat acceptors and the post-Soviet nationalists. I guess flunging shit pies into the neighbor's cage while insisting that one's hands are clean is a common primate trait, and most people of all stripes can't overcome it. Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64075777162673539262012-12-18T10:18:56.995-08:002012-12-18T10:18:56.995-08:00Anyway, for a few months there, the actions and th...<i><br /><br />Anyway, for a few months there, the actions and the words coming from the top of the GOP were about as friendly to birth control as, say, the actions and words from the Dems typically are to gun ownership. It did not take a Democratic partisan to hear this as hostility to birth control and willingness to make it harder to get or illegal. <br /><br />Public polling numbers do not agree with your claim that nobody cares about these issues, by the way. Here is one link."</i><br /><br /><br />The gullibility and idiocy on display here is really quite breathtaking. Yes, the public is easily misled by media, duh. And apparently so is NOTA. This is why it is hard to reach dumb people. The media is very loud and tells them simple but wrong stuff which they swallow whole. Women are notoriously easily deceived, also duh. Who is more likely to believe in climate change? Women. Ah yes, because women are known for being so into nerdy crap like data modeling and science. Oh wait. No, it is because they fall for whatever they are told more often than men.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73232100779820453012012-12-18T10:13:12.573-08:002012-12-18T10:13:12.573-08:00Now, Flake may be wrong--perhaps it is better poli...<i>Now, Flake may be wrong--perhaps it is better policy not to have such a requirement. But that line of attack, continued here, doesn't just turn off women or liberals. It's the kind of stupid. repulsive crap that turns most decent people off, many of whom are the natural voting base of a conservative party. It turned my stomach, and I am the target market for Republicans--white, married, homeowner, employed, with kids, Catholic, regular churchgoer, upper middle class.</i><br /><br />And yet still too lazy or stupid to notice that the media said that crap and Santorum did not. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74914144024685748772012-12-18T10:05:49.260-08:002012-12-18T10:05:49.260-08:00"Rick Santorum, who was the Republican frontr...<i><br />"Rick Santorum, who was the Republican frontrunner for awhile, had a bunch of public quotes about how contraception was morally wrong, damaging to society, and should be able to be regulated by the states."</i><br /><br />No, fool, he said quite accurately that the state is legally able to regulate it. Unfortunately, you only listen to what the reporters claimed he said, which is what makes you a useful idiot. <br /><br />Do you also believe that you are entitled to get Social Security because you paid taxes for it? You know that in 1937 the SCOTUS ruled that it is a plain old tax and any and all benefits and payments can be stopped at any time by simple legislation in the Congress. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45487873613121506622012-12-18T09:27:37.125-08:002012-12-18T09:27:37.125-08:00Rick Santorum, who was the Republican frontrunner ...<i>Rick Santorum, who was the Republican frontrunner for awhile, had a bunch of public quotes about how contraception was morally wrong, damaging to society, and should be able to be regulated by the states.</i> <br /><br /><br />As usual with you NOTA, your claims are baseless. Santorm is opposed to abortion - only if you are one of those people who thinks that abortion and contraception are interchangeable terms do your accusations make any sense.<br /><br />Nor was Santorm the one driving the public debate. The propaganda wing of the Democratic party, aka the media, spent the entire campaign pushing the Democrats "war on women" meme, Naturally you fell for it hook, line and sinker.<br /><br /><br /><i>At about the same time, Rush Limbaugh was calling Sandra Fluke a prostitute and a slut (literally) for wanting birth control coverage to be part of the package of required coverage for medical insurance.</i> <br /><br /><br />And your problem with that is what, exactly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43528654385371265332012-12-18T07:39:30.942-08:002012-12-18T07:39:30.942-08:00"Sandra Fluke is 30, still a student and can&..."Sandra Fluke is 30, still a student and can't afford her entertainment of choice, sex. And evidently her partner doesn't value the experience with her enough to help out with the cost."<br /><br />Most of her partners were quite willing to pony up a few bucks, but they kept losing her phone number.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7963819239395971702012-12-18T07:31:47.705-08:002012-12-18T07:31:47.705-08:00It is interesting to note that among the healthies...It is interesting to note that among the healthiest of the alternate press is the gun press, which has a core of advertizers unreachable by left-wing boycott, so they don't face this problem. It is interesting to also note that the non-gun Daily Caller site has a lot of gun-type features, perhaps to tap into these advertisers.Canadian CIncinnautshttp://canadiancincinntus.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72995948864993064142012-12-18T06:06:30.639-08:002012-12-18T06:06:30.639-08:00What else can the conservative movement offer for ...What else can the conservative movement offer for families and family formation? That is, assume we want to make it easier to form and raise families, as a policy goal, both because that's probably a better way for most people to live, and because people raising families are more likely to vote Republican. What policies would make sense to propose?NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34507045556007635032012-12-18T05:55:18.552-08:002012-12-18T05:55:18.552-08:00Anon 6:55:
Rick Santorum, who was the Republican ...Anon 6:55:<br /><br />Rick Santorum, who was the Republican frontrunner for awhile, had a bunch of public quotes about how contraception was morally wrong, damaging to society, and should be able to be regulated by the states. At about the same time, Rush Limbaugh was calling Sandra Fluke a prostitute and a slut (literally) for wanting birth control coverage to be part of the package of required coverage for medical insurance. He wasn't alone in nastiness or name-calling there. <br /><br />Now, Flake may be wrong--perhaps it is better policy not to have such a requirement. But that line of attack, continued here, doesn't just turn off women or liberals. It's the kind of stupid. repulsive crap that turns most decent people off, many of whom are the natural voting base of a conservative party. It turned my stomach, and I am the target market for Republicans--white, married, homeowner, employed, with kids, Catholic, regular churchgoer, upper middle class. Indeed, this kind of personal nastiness about politics is one of the things I find most repulsive about the left's way of handling arguments about race and sexual orientation--the tendency to move directly from a disagreement about facts or what would be the best policy to a nasty personal smear. <br /><br />Anyway, for a few months there, the actions and the words coming from the top of the GOP were about as friendly to birth control as, say, the actions and words from the Dems typically are to gun ownership. It did not take a Democratic partisan to hear this as hostility to birth control and willingness to make it harder to get or illegal. <br /><br />Public polling numbers do not agree with your claim that nobody cares about these issues, by the way. <a href="http://www.people-press.org/2012/02/14/public-divided-over-birth-control-insurance-mandate/" rel="nofollow">Here is one link</a>.NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83898625970950172162012-12-18T02:34:50.631-08:002012-12-18T02:34:50.631-08:00"Sandra Fluke is 30, still a student and can&..."Sandra Fluke is 30, still a student and can't afford her entertainment of choice, sex. And evidently her partner doesn't value the experience with her enough to help out with the cost. "<br /><br />Beautifully written. Encapsulates the modern relationship between men and women. You should write for a living. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24850521471106497102012-12-18T00:14:25.999-08:002012-12-18T00:14:25.999-08:00Way too dismissive.Way too dismissive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72973513452624490262012-12-18T00:06:00.736-08:002012-12-18T00:06:00.736-08:00Stop defending Palin. She taints the right with he...Stop defending Palin. She taints the right with her dumbness. She is qualified to be a conservative hockey mom not a spokesperson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19444844419107129512012-12-18T00:02:14.093-08:002012-12-18T00:02:14.093-08:00Maya is right. Abortion is a loser for the GOP. It...Maya is right. Abortion is a loser for the GOP. It turns off young white women. That doesn't mean you have to agree with Fluke but the issue is a distraction from more important issues like immigration, AA, etc..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82531498219132590652012-12-17T23:01:10.809-08:002012-12-17T23:01:10.809-08:00To Gloria, so you don't care about turning Ame...To Gloria, so you don't care about turning America into brazil? How dare we not be more concerned about the truly crucial issue of abortion, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com