In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they’ve earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume that the Clintons amassed their wealth through lucrative book deals and high-six figure fees for speaking gigs. Now, Peter Schweizer shows who is really behind those enormous payments.Full movie below - watch full screen:
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Here's the full movie "Clinton Cash"
A selection of Hillary pictures and cartoons
Just because...
There are, of course, lots more of these - please leave your favorites in the comments!
There are, of course, lots more of these - please leave your favorites in the comments!
Australian Sex Survey asks about your gender - here are explanations of the 33 possibilities
I'm relatively unsophisticated about these things, but I've often wondered what some of these gender identity terms meant - and most of them I've never heard of. This survey includes a handy explanation of each.
News.au: There are 33 possible responses to this question in The Australian Sex Survey, which is being conducted by researchers at The Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
Per QUT behavioral economist Stephen Whyte, “Most people’s description of gender is very pigeonholed — either male or female — but there are so many new categories of different gender identities which allow people to identify across a spectrum.”
A screenshot of the page from the questionnaire is below - here's an explanation of each of the possible answers:
Woman: A person born as a female, and who identifies as female.
Man: A person born as a male, and who identifies as a male.
Transgender Man: A person who was assigned female at birth, but now identifies as a man. Some trans people choose to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Others prefer not to, but still identify as a different gender.
Transgender Woman: A person who was assigned male at birth, but who identifies as a woman. As above, some trans people choose to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Others prefer not to, but still identify as a different gender.
Trans person: This can mean transsexual or transgender. A transsexual is a person who emotionally and psychologically feels that they belong to the opposite sex.
Trans Man: A trans man is someone who was assigned female at birth, but now identifies as a man.
Trans Woman: A person who was assigned male at birth, but who identifies as a woman
Female to Male: This term is often abbreviated to ‘FTM’ and refers to a transsexual or a transgender man.
Male to Female: This term is often abbreviated to ‘MTF’ and refers to a transsexual or a transgender female.
Transsexual: A person who emotionally and psychologically feels that they belong to the opposite sex. Transsexuals are people who transition from one sex to another, usually through dress, hormone therapy, etc.
Cisgender: A person who identifies with the gender of which they were born. For example, if someone is born as a female and identifies as a woman.
Cis Female: Cis is short for cisgender. So a cisgender female is a female who identifies as a woman.
Cis Male: Cis is short for cisgender. A cisgender male is a male who identifies as a man.
Gender Non-Conforming: A person who does not identify with either the male of female genders.
None Gender: A person who does not identify with any gender in particular.
Non-Binary: A person who does not identify entirely with either the female or male genders. They may identify somewhere on a spectrum.
Neutrois: Neutrois is a non-binary gender identity which is considered to be a neutral or null gender.
Genderfluid: A person who does not identify entirely with either the female or male genders.
Genderqueer: An overarching term used to describe people who do not identify exclusively as either male or female.
Demigender: This term, (demi means half) is an umbrella term for nonbinary gender identities that have a partial connection to a certain gender.
Demigirl: A person (can also be called a demiwoman or a demifemale) who identifies partially with being a woman or has feminine characteristics. They may have been assigned female as birth, but they could also have been born as a male.
Demiboy: A person (can also be called a demiman or demimale) who identifies partially with being a man or masculine characteristics. They may have been assigned male at birth, but they could also have been born as a female.
Agender: This literally means ‘without gender’, so a person who doesn’t identify with any gender.
Intergender: Intergender people have a gender identity that is in the middle between the binary genders of female and male, and may be a mix of both.
Intersex: A person who is born with the reproductive anatomy of both a man and a woman. For example, they might appear to be female on the outside, but have mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside. These people were previously referred to as hermaphrodites, but that term is considered rude and outdated.
Pangender: A person who identifies as more than one gender.
Poligender: Translates to ‘many genders’. A person who identifies as more than one gender.
Omnigender: Translates to ‘all genders’. A person who identifies as more than one gender.
Bigender: Translates to ‘two genders’. A person who identifies as both male and female genders. Some bigender people have two distinct male and female personas.
Androgyne: A person who doesn’t identify with either gender. They are both feminine and masculine.
Androgyny: The combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. Androgyny can apply to many things - someone’s gender identity, sexual identity, and even fashion.
Third Gender: People who identify as neither a man nor a woman. Some cultures refer to some of their people by a third gender.
For example, in Samoafa’afafines are male at birth, but if a family had more boys than girls and needed more women to help with housework, they male children would be raised as a fa’afafine.
Trigender: Translates to three genders. A person who shifts between the male, female and third genders.
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| This is what the survey question looks like.Source:news.com.au |
The survey is open for the next eight weeks and the preliminary findings will be presented around Christmas.
Friday, July 29, 2016
Friday links
Free-market economist Milton Friedman's birthday is this weekend: some favorite quotes and short videos. And Beatrix Potter's birthday was yesterday: in addition to Peter Rabbit et al, she produced some gorgeous botanical drawings.
Ready for a career change? The Smithsonian is Looking for a Beer Historian.
Scientists think cockroach milk could be the superfood of the future.
Check out this test for eighth graders in Kentucky dated 1912.
Extreme Alpine Soccer Is Played on Impossible Slopes.
What Is American Cheese, Anyway?
ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include toasters of the 1920s, the coldest places on earth. how a grizzly bear ended up on California's flag, Aldous Huxley's birthday, and an excellent photoessay of animals at war during World War I.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Tuesday links
For Aldous Huxley's birthday, an infographic of Huxley Vs Orwell, a letter from Huxley to Orwell explaining why he (Huxley) was right, and audio of Huxley narrating Brave New World.
Sir David Attenborough narrating Pokémon Go is a hoot. Related: the fatwa against Pokémon Go: it spreads Darwinism.
ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include a cringe-inducing set of fashion ads from the 1970s, a 1923 car that turned into a boat, diagnosing Hitler's flatulence, and a compilation of the 100 greatest action movie punchlines (NSFW language).
Aldous Huxley's birthday
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
~ Huxley Brave New World
Well, duty's duty. One can't consult one's own preference. I'm interested in truth, I like science. But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. It has given us the stablest equilibrium in history. China's was hopelessly insecure by comparison; even the primitive matriarchies weren't steadier than we are. Thanks, I repeat, to science. But we can't allow science to undo its own good work. That's why we so carefully limit the scope of its researches – that's why I almost got sent to an island. We don't allow it to deal with any but the most immediate problems of the moment. All other enquiries are most sedulously discouraged.
~ Huxley ("The Controller," in Brave New World, Ch. 16)
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
~ Huxley (Ends and Means, Ch. 8)
Today is the anniversary of the birth of English novelist Aldous Huxley (wiki) (1894-1963*). Although he is now remembered largely for his dystopian novel Brave New World (wiki), I was most impressed when I first ran across him, back in the 60's and 70's, by Island and by his exploration of mescaline-induced experiences in Doors of Perception**.
The grandson of famed biologist and evolution proponent T. H. Huxley (1825-1895), Aldous attended Eton and Oxford to study English literature. His poor eyesight kept him out of World War I, and he embarked on a writing career while still an undergraduate. Subsequently, he joined the Bloomsbury set and turned out the first of his novels, Crome Yellow (1921) and a long series of essays on wide-ranging topics.
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His novels were often inspired by his fear of the dehumanizing potential of scientific progress (as in Brave New World) and his life-long pacifism (as in Eyeless in Gaza, 1935). In 1937, Huxley emigrated to the United States and spent the rest of his life in southern California, where he dabbled unsuccessfully in screen-writing. Late in life, he developed a passionate interest in the Vedic philosophies of India and experimented with psychodelic drugs.
*Huxley, along with C.S. Lewis, actually died on November 22, 1963 - the same day that JFK was assassinated.
** I re-read Doors of Perception (supposedly, by the way, the inspiration for the name of the band The Doors) several times over the years, for reasons that I will no longer admit to.
Here's Huxley narrating Brave New World (audio from a 1979 LP of a 1956 CBS Radio Workshop broadcast):
From the website of Letters of Note, a fascinating 1949 letter from Huxley to Orwell on the subject of Nineteen Eighty-Four (read the whole thing)
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large-scale biological and atomic war --- in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.
And here's an infographic of Huxley Vs Orwell (Huxley's Brave New World (wiki) vs Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (wiki):
Monday, July 25, 2016
Monday links
This Ingenious Car From 1923 Turned Into a Boat
Compilation: 100 Greatest Action Movie Punchlines (NSFW language), with bonus Conan The Barbarian, The Musical.
Diagnosing Hitler's flatulance.
ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include why old men have big ears, illustrated travel books of the Edwardian era, calculating how many fireflies it would take to match the brightness of the sun, a set of child labor photos from the Library of Congress, and the universal law of urination in mammals - everything pees for (approximately) 21 seconds.
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Sir David Attenborough narrating Pokemon Go is a hoot
On encountering a Spearow: "It is, of course, a bird."
Yes, of course it's fake. David Attenborough didn't really narrate Pokemon Go, but it's a really well done fake!
The Irish website Lovin Dublin posted the clip to its Facebook page last week, and it now has more than 2.4 million views. On coming across a Zubat:
“Bats, with their fluttering zig zag flight are not easy targets ... That is one bat that will not return to the roost tonight.”
Related:
Fatwa against Pokémon Go: It's prohibited, #1 modern spying tool worldwide and spreads Darwinism.
Gently but flamboyantly launching the over-sized walnut down the frozen river: David Attenborough Narrates Women's Curling.
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