Turkey fans BOO during pre-match minute's silence for the victims of Paris attacks an

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Bummer

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/us...blic.html?_r=0

Don't worry, she has lots of friends in high places. It's just a bump on the way to the inauguration.

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Don't worry, she has lots of friends in high places. It's just a bump on the way to the inauguration.

Except for the inauguration bit, no doubt about it. Obama, to preserve the Democrat Party, will do everything he can to keep the FBI from formalizing charges.

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Bummer.



Bernie Sanders's health care plan is underfunded by almost $1.1 trillion a year, a new analysis by Emory University health care expert Kenneth Thorpe finds.

Thorpe isn't some right-wing critic skeptical of all single-payer proposals. Indeed, in 2006 he laid out a single-payer proposal for Vermont after being hired by the legislature, and was retained by progressive Vermont lawmakers again in 2014 as the state seriously considered single-payer, authoring a memo laying out alternative ways to expand coverage. A 2005 report he wrote estimated that a single-payer system would save $1.1 trillion in health spending from 2006 to 2015.

But he nonetheless concludes that single-payer at a national level would be significantly more expensive than the Sanders campaign believes, and would require workers to pay an additional 20 percent of their compensation in taxes. He also argues it would leave 71 percent of households with private insurance worse off once you take both tax increases and reduced health care expenditures into account.

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/28/1085864...e-single-payer

Bernie Sanders is insane.

He wants mandated 12 weeks PAID ( by employers ) leave for both Mothers and Fathers if they have a baby.

The decision to bring a child into this world should be made only when the parents are physically, mentally and economically ready to take on the task. There should not be any mandates by the Government for employers, the government or anyone else to make a contribution. Of course , safety nets are in place for specific circumstances, but those situations should be the exception , not the norm.

And where should employers get that money ? Higher prices for goods and services? Less employees to cover the cost ? And what if only one parent is employed, does one still get " paid" leave ? How long before his agenda would be to add another entitlement courtesy of the taxpayer ?

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As a self-described centrist, Haidt sometimes draws ire from the left for comments about how liberals don't understand their opponents, and about how conservatives have a broader range of moral emotions. But he certainly doesn't claim that when it comes to political animosity and the polarization that we now live under, both sides are equally to blame. "The rage on the Republican side is stronger, the Republicans have gotten much more extreme than the Democrats have," Haidt says.

The data on polarization are as clear as they are disturbing. Overall, feelings of warmth towards members of the opposite party are at terrifying lows, and Congress is perhaps more polarized than it has been in the entire period following the Civil War.

But this situation isn't the result of parallel changes on both sides of the aisle. "The Democrats, the number of centrists has shrunk a bit, the number of conservative Democrats has shrunk a bit, but it's not that dramatic, and the Democratic party, certainly in Congress, is a mix of centrists, moderately liberal and very liberal people," says Haidt. "Whereas the Republicans went from being overwhelmingly centrist in the '50s and '60s, to having almost no centrists," Haidt says.

And of course, the extremes are the most morally driven, the most intense.

From the centrist perspective, Haidt recently tweeted that "I hope the Republican party breaks up and a new party forms based on growth, not austerity or the past."

"This populist movement on the right," he says, is "sick and tired of the allegiance with business." And more and more, business feels likewise, especially after the debt ceiling and shutdown disaster.

"I think this gigantic failure might be the kind of kick that some reformers need to change how the Republicans are doing things," says Haidt. "That's my hope, at least."

You forgot to include your source - the ultra liberal Mother Jones. Again, no bias there, right? And btw, thanks for making the earlier point - "Liberals don’t understand conservative values. And they can’t recognize this failing, because they’re so convinced of their rationality, open-mindedness and enlightenment."

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Haidt is not a self described centrist. He is a self described liberal who moved to the right based on what he learned from his studies.

True.

Haidt: Since publishing the book, not really. The book has gotten a good reception — right, left, center, libertarian — except on the far left. Some people on the far left hate it, and the new atheists hate it. But those are groups that I criticize in the book, so that’s not surprising. I changed my mind a lot while writing the book. When I started writing the book, I still considered myself to be a partisan liberal.... I got into the political psychology business originally to help the Democrats. Along the way, in really trying to get inside the head of people from different moralities, I came to see that each side sees certain truths, insights and threats that they are right about.

If you don't believe me, then you can hear it from the horse's mouth by watching the video.

https://youtu.be/qN42ZLwNFBY

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You forgot to include your source - the ultra liberal Mother Jones. Again, no bias there, right? And btw, thanks for making the earlier point - "Liberals don’t understand conservative values. And they can’t recognize this failing, because they’re so convinced of their rationality, open-mindedness and enlightenment."

The fact that the Mother Jones author called Haidt a "self described centrist" only is proof of his own bias. That and the fact he wrote a book Why Republicans Hate Science.

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Bernie Sanders is insane.

He wants mandated 12 weeks PAID ( by employers ) leave for both Mothers and Fathers if they have a baby.

The decision to bring a child into this world should be made only when the parents are physically, mentally and economically ready to take on the task. There should not be any mandates by the Government for employers, the government or anyone else to make a contribution. Of course , safety nets are in place for specific circumstances, but those situations should be the exception , not the norm.

And where should employers get that money ? Higher prices for goods and services? Less employees to cover the cost ? And what if only one parent is employed, does one still get " paid" leave ? How long before his agenda would be to add another entitlement courtesy of the taxpayer ?

Shhhhhsh! Let them vote for Bernie.

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Haidt's a pretty interesting guy.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/a...ant-get-along/

"Liberals are too quick to try to take apart the law of Karma, conservatives act as though the law of Karma is actually true. That is, people who are suffering now are suffering because of something they did in the past. That is sometimes true. Liberals want to stop bad behavior from leading to bad consequences. That’s a bad thing to do. Society decays when you don’t have swift punishment. Liberals have a complete ban on blaming the victim, which means they can’t figure out a lot of social facts. But conservatives are a little too quick to blame victims and to not see how disadvantage can accumulate and lead to a downward spiral."

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Some more from Haidt's Wharton School interview. This actually should be interesting to sports parents.

"Deservingness going forward is a great idea. A lot of people realize this — as I did — when they become a parent. Of course, I will never spank my child, but you want to be loving and gentle, and you discover that you get a bratty kid. What my wife and I found very quickly was when we used the one-two-three magic method — when he’s misbehaving you say, “That’s one; that’s two; that’s three; time out” — boy, do you get behavior change. It’s automatic. Quick, rapid punishment doesn’t have to be severe.

A lot of our liberal friends are trying to reason with the kids. They don’t want to impose power. They don’t want to punish. They say, “Was that a wise choice or a non-wise choice?” Over and over again conservatives stand up for equity. That is, if you do something bad, you should be punished. If you do something good, you should be rewarded. In fact, I show some signs in the book and in my talks from the Tea Party: “Stop punishing success. Stop rewarding failure.” That’s about as direct a plea for the law of Karma as you could have.

Liberals, in contrast, have a sign, “Tax the wealth, fair and square; how can they let us go hungry?” See? If there are people who are hungry, well of course, the rich should pay more taxes; we need to be equal. Liberals value equality. If you push for equality, that often requires you to violate equity. We see that in affirmative action and we see that in Title 9, which mandates almost equal outcomes in sports, so that all of our schools are desperate to try to get women into sports and they are trying to push men out. They don’t have enough money to pay for the men. We don’t have equal access to sports in a lot of our schools because Title 9 is an effort to get equality of outcomes. Conservatives are livid about that and liberals think, “Oh, well. Why isn’t there equality of outcome? It must still be sexism.”

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Haidt: "The press secretary tends not to say, “Well, on the one hand, the Republicans are right about this. But the Democrats are right about that.” If he does that, he’s fired. If you’re partisan, you cannot think in an integrative way. Your research shows that the further you are out to the extremes, the lower integrative complexity tends to go on most issues.

Most Americans are not that extreme. Most Americans will put themselves on one side or the other, but they are not that extreme. Our political life is dominated by more extreme elements bolstered by the media, which has a business model that also does not cater to integrative complexity. We’re bathed in arguments from people who are not integratively complex. It takes some doing, some seeking, some effort to find ideas on the other side. When you do, that to me has been the great enlightenment. I’m very familiar with liberal ideas. I’ve been reading them my whole life. When I started reading conservative ideas about social order, about the value of tradition, about how easy it is to lose social order, they really struck me as a revelation. Same with libertarian ideas.

For example, this is such a simple formulation I heard the other day. A libertarian philosopher, David Schmidtz, said a free market society is a giant game in which you win by making other people better off. That was such a simple and clear description of the way libertarians see the free market and how free markets really do encourage us all to create something that other people want and will pay money for, and then we are all better off because of it."

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You forgot to include your source - the ultra liberal Mother Jones. Again, no bias there, right? And btw, thanks for making the earlier point - "Liberals don’t understand conservative values. And they can’t recognize this failing, because they’re so convinced of their rationality, open-mindedness and enlightenment."

You got played, lol. I intentionally didn't include the link to the Mother Jones article because I wanted you to prove that you don't care about Haidt's quoted words...only the publication that they were quoted in.

sucker

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More from Haidt that might be interesting to parents.

"Let’s look at what can we do as individuals and in education. There’s a line from one Shakespeare play, “First, kill all the lawyers.” That’s not what I’m recommending. It is: First, kill all the math classes beyond algebra. Stop wasting so much of our students’ time learning math. It’s not useful, it’s not helpful. Teach them more civics. In those civics classes, teach them history of liberalism, conservatism. Teach them ideological history. Get them prepared to treat these long intellectual traditions with respect.

Second, teach them statistics. Cut the calculus. Sure, if students want to take it, fine. But everybody should learn statistics. That actually helps you understand the data that’s coming in from the social sciences and other places. Even in high school, we can do a lot more to prepare our students for citizenship, not for 19th-century notions of an exercised brain that can do math and Greek.

In our universities, it would be nice if we could have more open and honest debate and be a little less sensitive about people claiming hurt feelings. Our universities should be places of debate and discussion. Our culture is so litigious and has fostered the idea that everybody has a right to not have their feelings hurt. This is a bad thing. This means we never get to talk with people who differ from us. We run away from such discussions. There’s a lot we could do to help our thinking.

But we need to all become more integratively complex to get better outcomes."

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You got played, lol. I intentionally didn't include the link to the Mother Jones article because I wanted you to prove that you don't care about Haidt's quoted words...only the publication that they were quoted in.

sucker

Different poster. To pretend the source is meaningless is either incredibly naive or disingenuous. The editorial bias of the source needs to be considered.

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You got played, lol. I intentionally didn't include the link to the Mother Jones article because I wanted you to prove that you don't care about Haidt's quoted words...only the publication that they were quoted in.

sucker

Ya right, but unfortunately for you I am a student of Haidt's and pretty much understand his points.... unlike you.

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She is the victim of a crime and contracts Hepatitis C from the perpetrator. He goes to jain where we taxpayers pay for his medication while she can't afford the same medication. See how liberals put the bad guys first?

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/01/2...Z_|_CBS_Boston