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Harvard made the list, which is no surprise, but Yale did not, which is. C’mon, Elis! Get with the program!

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Political Correctness these days is worth serious money.

IBM is suing the latest big name hire for Microsoft, one of its top competitors, for allegedly leaving the company with proprietary department secrets — potentially showing how serious some tech companies are in addressing complaints over a lack of workplace heterogeneity.

Filed Monday, the lawsuit claims that if allowed to start too quickly, Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, who joined IBM in 2006, will inherently take confidential data about diversity and certain initiatives to Microsoft, according to The Seattle Times.

Perphaps IBM has a secret cache of transgendered black Latino Ivy League graduates somewhere that they don’t want Microsoft to poach.

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The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners proceeds apace.

(Remember: If you hear the ‘dog whistle’, then you’re the dog….)

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The intersection of trial lawyer opportunism, climate orthodoxy, and political expediency has become a busy and increasingly perilous place.

Over the summer, Richmond, Marin County, Oakland, San Francisco, San Mateo County, Imperial Beach, Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz County in California filed suit against ExxonMobil and other energy companies for damages to coastal property and infrastructure caused from climate change-related increases in sea levels. The legal foundation for holding individual companies responsible for a planetary climate phenomenon is far from solidified so the companies are sure to fight long and hard to avoid losing a war of financial attrition.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has claimed to be Native American, is conspicuously absent from a Tribal Nations Policy Summit this week.

The National Congress of American Indians Tribal Nations Policy Summit is taking place in Washington, DC, this week, and it features a whole host of politicians and high-profile speakers, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

However, Warren — the only U.S. Senator who has claimed a Native American heritage — is missing from the guest list.

What a slacker.

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Consider what’s happening in the capital of Florida. Female staffers and lobbyists have found “many male legislators will no longer meet with them privately,” reported the Miami Herald. “I had a senator say, ‘I need my aide here in the room because I need a chaperone,’ ” lobbyist Jennifer Green told the paper. “I said, ‘Senator, why do you need a chaperone? .?.?. Do you feel uncomfortable around me?’ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘anyone can say anything with the door shut.’?”

“I’m getting the feeling that we’re going back 20 years as female professionals,” said Green, who owns her company. “I fully anticipate I’m going to be competing with another firm that is currently owned by some male, and the deciding factor is going to be: ‘You don’t want to hire a female lobbying firm in this environment.’?”

Be careful what you wish for.

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Yet another Hollywood snot trashing his own country. Feel free to leave any time, Bob.

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It isn’t until halfway through this exercise in pearl-clutching that you find out that the kid is enrolled in a Roman Catholic school that — I’m shocked, shocked I tell you — actually takes Roman Catholic doctrine on abortion seriously.

The whole tone of the article is that of a mother who finds out that her Crustian children are hanging out kids whose clothes come from Walmart. The horror! the horror!

I suspect that the shock on the part of the school that one of their classes harbored a child of baby-murderers, who is being (apparently successfully) indoctrinated in their baby-murdering ways, is equally great. I suspect that the school can’t wait to get rid of the girl and (more importantly) her parents.

But, this being America (and Connecticut being a Blue State — I’m surprised they even allow Roman Catholics to live there, unless they’re CINOs like Botox Pelosi), it’s going to wind up in court sooner rather than later.

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Scott adds a little perspective to the current conversation.

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I’m willing to bet that if they catch the perp it will turn out to be a black guy.

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She nailed that one.

I can’t wait until she accuses him of being a Jew — what a smear! Oh, wait….

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Cue proglodyte outrage.

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Well, I can’t think of anyone who deserves it more.

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Fr. Mark Hodges at LifeSiteNews reported on the latest religious innovation in Washington, DC. The Episcopal church in the diocese of Washington quickly passed a resolution at the end of January to stop using “gendered language for God” at the Diocese’s 123rd Convention.

Yeah, I too initially thought that this was about something completely different (but just as PC). Sometimes headline writers are better than they realize.

“By expanding our language for God, we will expand our image of God and the nature of God,” they stated.

I guess the assumption that ‘Father’ is a reference to, like, a masculine person is just so 2000 years ago.

The joke on Twitter was “So everyone gets to choose their personal pronouns now, except for God.”

Yeah, pretty much.

I wonder whether future generations of Episcopalians will ever be taught that they were once considered Christians. Probably not. The blow to their self-esteem would be apocalyptic.

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I am not making this up.

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That would be entertaining.

From California: Valentine’s Day cannabis-infused chocolate on sale in California

From the UK: Drug-related deaths hit highest level since records began, official figures reveal

After having been suppressed by civilization for centuries, Natural Selection returns with a vengeance.

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While the liberal media remains obsessed over alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a report on Telemundo raises another kind of red flag: the prospect that Mexican government officials and liberal activists in the United States are working together in their opposition to Trump administration immigration policies.

In a report on a January 26, 2018 meeting between Mexican executive and legislative branch officials with liberal Latino activists in Los Angeles, Telemundo correspondent Claudia Mendoza summarized the determination of both the Mexican government and activists to resist U.S. immigration law enforcement actions, both in the courts as well as at the polls.

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If you spend any time on planes, you’ve probably noticed the surge of animals. There have been pigs, monkeys, turkeys, snakes and oh-so-many dogs, often sprawled across crowded cabins. Delta alone flies about 250,000 animals a year — not even counting those tucked inside carry-on bags or checked in cargo holds — more than double how many it flew in 2015.

The number of problems is rising, too. A large part-Labrador mauled a man on a flight to San Diego last summer. A recent Delta news relsease included some words that don’t normally appear in a corporate news release: “urination/defecation” and “barking, growling, lunging and biting.” According to a labor union for flight attendants, more passengers are suffering allergy attacks, and more are arguing, or worse, over animals.

I’m not going to claim that flying pets are one of the country’s biggest problems right now. That’s a high bar, after all. But I do find this situation to be a fascinating case study of how mass cheating can become acceptable — and how decent people can make decisions that are more selfish than they realize. It is one of the downsides of a modern culture that too often fetishizes individual preference and expression over communal well-being.

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I am not making this up.

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Hey, drunk illegals are dreamers to, you know?

Sure! Open the borders! Let ’em all in! What could possibly go wrong?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Anybody who follows British news, as I do, knows that already.

Notice how telling the truth about something constitutes an ‘attack’.

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Most small business problems are caused by government interference.

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eneath the bland veneer of supermarket automation lurks an ugly truth: There’s a lot of shoplifting going on in the self-scanning checkout lane. But don’t call it shoplifting. The guys in loss prevention prefer “external shrinkage.”

Self-checkout theft has become so widespread that a whole lingo has sprung up to describe its tactics. Ringing up a T-bone ($13.99/lb) with a code for a cheap ($0.49/lb) variety of produce is “the banana trick.” If a can of Illy espresso leaves the conveyor belt without being scanned, that’s called “the pass around.” “The switcheroo” is more labor-intensive: Peel the sticker off something inexpensive and place it over the bar code of something pricey. Just make sure both items are about the same weight, to avoid triggering that pesky “unexpected item” alert in the bagging area.

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The reason why IQ tests are so ‘controversial’ is that there is a large population of reality-deniers who are firmly convinced (a) that there is no such thing as testable intelligence and (b) that, even if there were, everybody is still equally capable of being an Einstein or a Newton with the proper government-funded ‘education’.

Despite the hype, the relevance, usefulness, and legitimacy of the IQ test is still hotly debated among educators, social scientists, and hard scientists. To understand why, it’s important to understand the history underpinning the birth, development, and expansion of the IQ test – a history that includes the use of IQ tests to further marginalise ethnic minorities and poor communities.

When you see intelligence testing as a to to ‘further marginalize ethnic minorities and poor communities’, then you’re hunting Heretics, not describing science.

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This is what happens when the government doesn’t do its job: Individuals decide to render ‘justice’ on their own, with no guarantee that they’ll follow the norms that have grown up so painfully for the last 500 years.

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Well, not really. You know journalists.

What happened is that people applied AI to the Voynich Manuscript to try to identify the language that it’s in and there’s a good chance that it’s Hebrew. Work is ongoing.

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I believe that Sarah Silverman is literally insane.

Freeberg brings us some disturbing news.

Although not common, such incidents are far from rare. I suppose it is just a reflection of the cultMarx ‘march through the institutions’ that began in the 1960s, and we’re used to members of the Chattering Class doing this sort of thing in colleges, but I find it disturbing to find it seeping further down the educational food chain.

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This is just wrong.

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Many pundits and companies have tried to illustrate how the net neutrality repeal will affect internet users, but YouTuber Rob Bliss has made one of the best demonstrations yet. It’s good because it’s simple, it isn’t trying to sell you hamburgers, and it confused police officers.

The demonstration also took place at a very suitable location—the streets outside of the FCC headquarters in Washington, DC. That’s where Bliss set up traffic cones and rode his bike in the one available lane so that he could “throttle” traffic, unless drivers wanted to pay a $5 fee. This way, as Ajit Pai has put it, “consumers can pick the plan that’s best for them.”

The analogy is inapposite because he neither built nor does he own the road. That’s the problem with analogies: What seems obvious to you may seem absurd to others, and all you do is piss people off and make them think you’re an asshole. This doesn’t help your cause, however much it may ‘raise awareness’. (‘Raising awareness’ typically merely raises awareness that the protestors are assholes. But Virtue Signaling isn’t about effectiveness, it’s about that warm fuzzy feeling that the protesters get at other people’s expense.)

Protests such as this one are effective only to the extent that other people aren’t assholes too. Once somebody gets fed up with assholery and drives over his ass, the demonstration ends, typically with the injured asshole spending his future living as the victim. I had an ethnic German friend who said, when watching the movie Gandhi, that such shenanigans would only have worked with the British; if Gandhi had tried that sort of thing in, say, German East Africa, some leutnant would have shot him in the head and left his body by the side of the road to rot — end of protest.

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The hunt for ThoughtCrime among the Heretics and Sinners proceeds apace.

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I am not inclined to stand in the way of anybody in Taxachusetts who wants to commit suicide.

If Massachusetts suddenly turned into the Netherlands, would that be proof of Global Warming? Inquiring minds want to know….

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Some dreams are nicer than others.

Xinran Ji, 24, had big dreams. But demons demolished them.

The bright hopes of young Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old “Dreamer” and his thug pals.

Mexican illegal alien Jonathan Del Carmen, who first jumped the southern border at age 12, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last summer in the savage robbery and fatal beating of Ji—who was walking home from a study group after midnight.

No, it wasn’t President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Republicans, or conservative talk show hosts who racially profiled Ji. It was “Dreamer” Del Carmen and his partners in crime: Alberto Ochoa, 17; Andrew Garcia, 18; and Alejandra Guerrero, 16.

The gangsters targeted Ji because he was Asian and assumed he “must have money.” Guerrero had sent Facebook messages about wanting to “flock” (rob) white and Chinese people. Off-campus neighborhoods around USC are dominated by Mexican Mafia affiliates that target foreign students and shake down local businesses owned by law-abiding immigrants.

People who break one law are often less reluctant to break others.

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Alison Mapletoft and her family were left “extremely distressed” when an enforcement firm contracted by her local council demanded the money.

When the mother-of-two phoned 3GS, she was told that she faced a prison sentence or a £2,500 fine unless she paid up.

No, you do not want to live in Britain these days.

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When I see the work ‘tick’, I think ‘Democrat’: They get under your skin, they suck your blood, they’re almost impossible to remove, they transmit all sorts of diseases.

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As indeed it is — Democrats refuse to accept the fact that Hillary lost. When one side ignores the results of an election, that’s the basis for a civil war. Civil war is commonly accepted as ‘a constitutional crisis’.

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I can understand the logic. I wouldn’t want those people reproducing either.

WaPo clutches the pearls.

A lobbyist flies solo from Texas to Washington to press his case on the Hill, leaving behind the female associate who did much of the work on the issue.

He recognizes that his decision to fly alone is a lost opportunity for his talented young co-worker, but right now, with everything that’s going on, he is not willing to risk a business trip alone with a woman — even if what he sees as caution strikes many women as discrimination.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get some Unintended Consequences.

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Lisa Rockford, an art professor at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., painted an American flag white, cut it in half, and placed it like a doormat at the entrance to an art exhibit, reported Campus Reform.

“I have an appointment with the [dean] on February 2nd where he is going to explain why this is ok,” said Jess Karcher, a Marine Corps veteran and Broward College student who posted a picture of the display on Facebook. “Until then, this flag is going to be walked on and disrespected until the show is over.”

Proglodytes really never grow up.

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‘Hate crime’ is still a nonsense word, part of the troglodyte Hunt for Heretics and Sinners.

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In the Good Old Days these people would be subtracted from the gene pool.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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Police in the Dutch city of Rotterdam have launched a new pilot programme which will see them confiscating expensive clothing and jewellery from young people if they look too poor to own them.

Officers say the scheme will see them target younger men in designer clothes they seem unlikely to be able to afford legally – if it is not clear how the person paid for it, it will be confiscated.

The idea is to deter criminality by sending a signal that the men will not be able to hang onto their ill-gotten gains.

Taking the medieval notion of sumptuary laws into the new millennium.

Of course, in the U.S. it’s called ‘civil asset forfeiture’ and is a less informal process — but still pretty informal.

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Insert snarky comment about ‘drive-by media’.

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Mayor Joy Cooper of Hallandale Beach, Florida, was forced to resign by Sunshine State Governor Rick Scott on Friday after her Thursday arrest on three felony charges: campaign finance violations, official misconduct and money laundering. At least four Florida news outlets have run reports failing to tag Cooper, who is accused of accepted illegal campaign finance checks from Russians, as a Democrat

Sure, there’s a bit of double-standard here — a Republican would be so identified in the first sentence — but I don’t think that it’s a big deal. The thing is that this sort of behavior is kinda-sorta expected from Democrats; it’s not news. For Republicans, on the other hand, which it’s not unknown, it is rather less common; that’s news.

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A tired maxim provides that if liberals didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all. But sometimes they really abuse the privilege.

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This sort of thing is why we need a Wall.

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I’m a great fan of Reba McEntire but this is just stupid.