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To: Brumar89 who wrote (827674)	1/5/2015 9:56:35 AM
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The Brunch Brigade, or No Justice, No Quiche! January 4th, 2015 - 6:50 pm Anti-police protesters take to occupying their fellow urban leftists’ Sunday brunches, Derek Hunter writes at the Daily Caller: As anti-police protests peter out across the country, progressive activists are becoming increasingly desperate to maintain what they saw as momentum for their cause. But, as is the case with any dying movement, when the larger crowds dwindle, the only people left are the extremists and radicals who have no appeal to anyone outside of their fellow radicals. A handful of these radicals took to the restaurants of New York City Sunday morning to demand…attention. The attention they got they didn’t much care for. On Twitter under the hashtag “#BlackBrunchNYC,” they “stormed” eateries offering brunch and draw attention to themselves. Rather than inspire a nationwide movement, they inspired ridicule. Well, yes. Shades of Occupy Wall Street in October of 2011 marching into a Citibank branch and making life miserable for minimum wage bank tellers. Or as Amy Curtis tweeted today, “Nothing says ‘Support our cause’ quite like screwing your fellow New Yorkers out of their tips and pay.” Historian Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics states that “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies,” lending further credence to Glenn Reynolds’ joke that the Brunch Brigades’ protests are “a false-flag divide-and-conquer operation set up by Kurt Schlichter or one of his minions.” Update: Charles C. W. Cooke ? @charlescwcooke Follow 1. Interrupt random people eating and accuse them of “literal” genocide? 2. ? 3. Racial healing. #underpantsbrunch [iframe height="260" title="Embedded Tweet" class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-1" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(238, 238, 238) rgb(221, 221, 221) rgb(187, 187, 187); margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border-radius: 5px; width: 500px; display: block; visibility: visible; position: static; min-width: 220px; max-width: 99%; box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.15); border-image: none;" allowtransparency="true"][/iframe] To be fair, Bull Connor was a member of the Democratic National Committee, but I doubt anyone on either side of the brunch wars today is actually aware of that. (Headline inspired by the unlikely mash-up of Stacy Peralta and Dan Rhiel.) pjmedia.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (827674)	1/5/2015 9:59:53 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576894

Watts targets his pope. Will he be told to confess his sins to the Pontifical Academy of Science? Logic fail x 2: Anthony Watts is confusingly disappointed with Pope Francis Sou \| 7:34 AM Anthony Watts runs a pseudo-science blog called wattsupwiththat, sometimes known as WUWT. Let's just see what's up with this. Pope Francis has made various pronouncements on science lately, endorsing the Big Bang, evolution and climate science - as reported by Chris Mooney at the Washington Post. Logic Fail 1. Anthony says he is disappointed with Pope Francis, and this is his convoluted, back-to-front, upside-down reasoning. He wrote: As a Catholic myself, I’m disappointed in this stance, especially since it seems out of place with doctrines of the past where there Church denounced many issues of science through its history, only to later admit they erred, jumped to conclusions, and admitted such errors in judgment decades or centuries later. For example, it only took the Catholic church 359 years to decide that Galileo was right after all, and that the Earth DOES in fact revolve around the Sun. Because it took the Catholic Church 359 years to "decide Galileo was right after all" - except: the link that Anthony provided wasn't to an article where the Catholic Church decided Galileo was right, it was about the Church deciding that the Church was wrong to condemn him, and that the Church did him a wrong. even were Anthony's wrong interpretation right, he is arguing that the Church was wrong to reject the science in the past, and in this situation, where the Pope is *accepting* the science, the Pope is wrong. Got that? Ha. If you're a denier you won't get it. If you're a clear, logical thinker you'll be thinking that Anthony Watts has not a logical bone in his body - or that his head is pure bone, or something like that. Logic Fail 2. Anyway, all Anthony really wanted to say is what he got to finally, in his last point. He's going to ignore what the Pope says - because Anthony is a science denier. He wrote: I plan to ignore the Pope and its science panel, as many are likely to do given their track record on getting science wrong in almost every case where science and religion have collided through history,Except once again, science and religion aren't colliding are they. The Pope is agreeing with the science. Double logic fail. Oh - what a confused little man is Anthony Watts. Will he be denying evolution, the Big Bang and maybe even his religion next? Because if the Pope is right then the science must be wrong - or something like that. blog.hotwhopper.com Update There aren't too many gems after all. The general consensus is that the Pope is wrong because he's a communist or at best a progressive who wants to redistribute wealth to the poor. The fact that he wants to "redistribute money" (as the WUWT-ers put it) is his biggest crime, naturally enough. (The new testament be damned - by the WUWT folk.) There are a few people who seem mighty puzzled though. Especially so since it's WUWT. I'd say that the Pope's stance is likely to affect some fence-sitters.