Thought for the Day
5th February 2021
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5th February 2021
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5th February 2021
Explosion Reported Near Israeli Embassy In New Delhi
Senior ISIS Leader Killed During Iraqi Intelligence Mission, Prime Minister Says
Daniel Pearl’s Family to Challenge Pakistan Murder Acquittals Good luck with that.
Jihadist Rebels Drive Car Loaded With Explosives Into Somalian Hotel Before Deploying Armed Men
US Watchdog: Taliban Attacks Increased in Afghan Capital
‘Palestinians’ Demand ‘Big Ben’ Back
Islamic Scholar Says Muslims Should Leave The West To Flee LGBT Teachings I agree.
At Least 10 Dead, 30 Injured After Mogadishu Hotel Seige Ends
Cultural Enrichment: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
When will Pakistan take a stand against terror? I’m going to guess ‘never’.
Iranian-Backed Forces Receive New Missiles As Tensions Grow In Iraq Now that a Democrat is back in the White House, let the jihad roll!
The Muezzin Yodels in the Ruhr
Court In Belgium Sentences Iranian Diplomat Over 2018 Bomb Plot In A First For Europe
Biden Announces End Of US Operations In Yemen War Let them ragheads kill each other, what do we care?
Google and Apple Cave to Pakistani Pressure, Take Down Ahmadiyya Muslim Apps
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5th February 2021
If you’ve got enough money, acres upon acres of undeveloped land and an “innovative technology,” you soon could form a new local government in Nevada.
If, of course, that’s what you want to do.
UPDATE: Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments
Yeah, but you’re still in Nevada.
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5th February 2021
Hey, it’s free.
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5th February 2021
I can believe it.
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4th February 2021
For Female Athlete, Biden’s Transgender Executive Order Is ‘Heartbreaking’
Psaki Refuses to Apologize for Mocking Space Force, Lies About LGBTQ Cabinet Members
The anti-science presidency?
Biden Sued by Trump Appointee Over Attempted Ousting
Biden to Freeze Trump-Ordered Withdrawal of US Troops From Germany Invade the world! Invite the world!
Biden Off to a Divisive, Partisan Start With Executive Actions My, what a surprise.
Report: Anti-Israel Activist Heading to Biden State Dept
Biden Threatens to ‘Raise the Cost on Russia,’ Demands Navalny’s Release When has that ever worked?
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4th February 2021
GOP States Weigh Limits on How Race and Slavery Are Taught
Denzel Washington Praises Police, Denounces BLM Protesters Cue Cancel process.
Biden Appointee’s Slogan: Black Women Best
BLMTV: Race Radicalism Takes Over the TV Season Which is why only proglodytes are watching TV these days.
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4th February 2021
COVID-19: Life won’t return to normal for at least two years, expert warns, saying pandemic ‘isn’t over until it’s over globally’ (SkyNews) The Permanent State of Emergency means you have to DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD no matter how stupid or arbitrary it might be.
COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning? Because we have to keep the Panic going, silly; didn’t you get the memo?
Hong Kong Cops Threaten To “Kick Door Down” For Anybody Who Dosn’t Open For COVID Test Repeat after me: C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-T D-I-C-T-A-T-O-R-S-H-I-P.
ABC, NBC Omit CDC Director Saying Vaccines Not Needed to Reopen Schools Safely Gotta keep that Panic goin’….
Seven indictors that show infections were falling before Lockdown 3.0
UK COVID Conundrum: The Mysterious Case Of Disappearing Flu
Medical Journal Editor: Govts Guilty of COVID ‘Social Murder’
Armed, Maskless Man Steals Fried Chicken And Waffles After Being Denied Service
‘Let’Em Die’: ER Doctor On Twitter Says America Shouldn’t Waste Time On Those Not Wearing Masks I guess primum non nocere is White Privilege or something.
Lori Lightfoot Demands A Deal From Chicago Teachers Unions BRAAAAAAAINS!
Not The Onion: CDC Warns Against Shouting, Cheering During Sunday’s Super Bowl
This Governor Faces Impeachment Over COVID-19 Mandates
New York Public School Students Feel They Have Been ‘Forgotten’ By Officials No, no, not ‘forgotten’ — ‘ignored’.
Fauci Says We Can Fight Virus By Wearing Up To Three Leeches Babylon Bee.
Cuomo’s Office Lashes Out at Republicans Calling for Subpoena Over Nursing Home Deaths
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4th February 2021
NASA Announces New Role of Senior Climate Advisor Why does NASA need a ‘climate advisor’? Who knows?
Politico: California Gov. Newsom Recall Now ‘Unavoidable’ Perhaps other states ought to have the robust recall mechanism that California has.
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4th February 2021
‘Hell of a Path’: Meghan McCain Calls Out GOP Over Marjorie Taylor Greene Support (CNN) I’m curious as to who, exactly, gives a shit what Meghan McCain thinks?
Navy has fallen short in addressing lack of diversity, task force says (CNN) Diversity or competence, you can’t have both.
AOC faces backlash as critics point out she wasn’t in Capitol building during riots
‘BAD OPTICS’: Spanish Nets HIDE News of Reopened Cages for Migrant Kids
These Are The Words Colleges Don’t Want You To Say
‘#AlexandriaOcasioSmollett’ Trends On Twitter After NY Rep Rejects Claims She Wasn’t At Capitol During Riots
Ironic: Joy Reid Invites Rep. Maxine Waters to Discuss ‘Threats’ and ‘Violence’
Report: Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning
Economists Slam NYT Propaganda that Dem Presidents Are Better for Economy Than GOP The NYT is being increasingly up-front about its role as propaganda organ for the Democrat party.
Snopes RAGES at ‘Bad-Faith Smears’ Factually Noting AOC Wasn’t In The Capitol Snopes is a good illustration of Sullivan’s Law that every organization not explicitly right-wing becomes left-wing over time.
Lawyers Are Facing Reprisal for Representing Trump
Ocasio-Cortez Enlists Followers To Report Anyone Calling Her ‘Ocasio Smollett’: Report Assemble the Mob!
Still Her Publicist: Seth Meyers Fumes, ‘Racist’ ‘Disgusting’ to Compare Ilhan Omar to GOP Rep!
Maxine Waters: Trump Needs To Be Charged With Premeditated Murder
Leftist Journalist Regrets Calling For Silicon Valley Censorship After It Happens To Him The biter bit.
‘You Have Done Nothing For Me’: Trump Resigns From Screen Actors Guild
The Netherlands experiments with gender quotas for business
Canadian Olympic Committee Warns Athletes Not to Criticize China
PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Calls to Save America by Censoring Free Speech
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Slimes Founding Fathers as ‘Douche Nozzles’ Oddly enough, that’s the same opinion about Colbert.
North Carolina Approves New, Radical History Curriculum for K-12 Students
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4th February 2021
Last month, the Washington Football Team (formerly known as the Redskins) proudly announced that Jennifer King would be an assistant coach. She is now the team’s assistant running backs coach and the first full-time Black female coach in NFL history.
If King is a competent coach, and I have no reason to doubt that she is, then I’m happy for her. But look again at her title — assistant running backs coach.
How many NFL teams have such a coach? I checked the websites of every NFC team. It appears that none of these teams had an assistant running backs coach in 2020.
The reason seems obvious teams. Teams typically have only five running backs, counting members of the practice squad. A unit that small isn’t viewed as needing two coaches. Assistant position coaching jobs are normally reserved for larger units like the offensive and defensive lines.
It seems, then, that the Washington Football Team has invented a coaching job and filled it with a Black female.
Maybe she’s in charge of relieving their tensions after practice.
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4th February 2021
The Other McCain surveys the swamp.
Journalists who actually bothered to check the facts — there are precious few of those in D.C. nowadays — pointed out that Ocasio-Cortez’s office is not in the Capitol building, which was stormed by a mob of Trump supporters Jan. 6. Instead, her office is in the Cannon House Office Building, on the south side of Independence Avenue, across from the Capitol. None of the rioters ever entered the building where AOC was in her office, cowering in her bathroom and allegedly fearing for her life.
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4th February 2021
At last! RINOs are getting their just desserts.
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4th February 2021
Romney has fully transitioned into a big-spending vote-buying Democrat. He’s no more a Republican than Bloomberg.
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4th February 2021
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4th February 2021
On Tuesday the Washington Post covered the brainy lady who points to the future of the Democratic Party showing how to go full victim: “Ocasio-Cortez reveals she’s a sexual assault survivor, recounts ‘trauma’ of Capitol riot: ‘I thought everything was over.’” Sam Dorman now follows up in the FOX News story “AOC faces backlash as critics point out she wasn’t in Capitol building during riots.”
The backlash derives from AOC’s claim that she suffered a “near-death” experience hiding in the bathroom of her office in the Cannon Building across the street from the Capitol during the riot. She further characterized the Capitol Police officer who sought to evacuate her from the office as threatening — as terrifying. We have yet to hear the other side of the story from the officer, but I’m guessing there is another side. The Post story leaves it as AOC posits it.
UPDATE: ‘Alexandria Ocasio Smollett’ Trends As Critics Punch Holes In Her Dramatic Cap Hill Story
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4th February 2021
The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics.
The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of the Roaring ’20s were followed by the bleak, dour and impoverished years of the Great Depression.
The 1960s counterculture led to Richard Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972, as “carefree hippies” turned into careerist “yuppies.”
So social, cultural, economic and political extremism prompt reactions — and sometimes counterreactions.
The Bush-Clinton-Obama continuum of 24 years cemented the bipartisan fusion administrative state. Trump and his “Make America Great Again” agenda were its pushback.
The counterreaction to the populism of the Trump reset — or Trump himself — is as of yet unsure.
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4th February 2021
Certain parts of academia seem to wish to turn the study of classics away from a historical, language- and evidence-based discipline whose focus is understanding the ancient world on its own terms, in favor of preaching to students about the evils of ancient imperialism, slavery, racism, sexism, privilege, all keenly advocated by anyone who has ever taught it. There should be added to that list of shame the ancients’ hopelessly misguided views about what it meant to be ‘liberal’.
Latin lîber meant ‘free’, and lîberalis meant ‘relating to the free, worthy of the free’; also ‘gentlemanly, ladylike’, by extension ‘magnanimous, obliging’ and so ‘munificent, generous’. Another crucial mark of the lîberalis was education, especially the wide-ranging knowledge and understanding arising from the study of history and the rich examples it provided of admirable and disgraceful human behavior. The associated noun was lîberalitas (‘liberality’), and in his dialogue On Duties the statesman Cicero linked lîberalitas with justice. His reasoning was that ‘we are not born for ourselves alone… but as humans we are born for the sake of humans, to contribute to the general good by common acts of kindness, and by our skill, industry and talents to cement human society more closely together’.
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4th February 2021
Tjeu can’t do that, of course – the Civil War settled that – but I have to say their hearts are in the right place.
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4th February 2021
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4th February 2021
A report on Wednesday claims Apple’s first foray into the automotive industry will be a fully autonomous vehicle designed to operate without a human driver, suggesting it might not be marketed as a consumer product.
UPDATE: First Apple Car to Be Fully Autonomous and Designed to Operate Without a Driver
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4th February 2021
Steve is not very optimistic.
I try not to look at the news, but sometimes I do. Yesterday I saw that Elizabeth Warren is trying to get a wealth tax through congress. Who predicted that? Don’t hurt yourself trying to find the answer. It was me.
Income taxes and other taxes are bad, but wealth taxes are the supreme taxation evil. When they tax your income and your purchases, you still have some hope of retiring and dying in comfort. When they come for what you already paid tax on, the world crumbles under your feet and you have to consider unthinkable futures such as one in which you share a big, dirty room with other paupers in a government-run assisted living facility.
Warren is going after the “ultra-rich,” of course. When you pass totalitarian measures, you have to start by attacking segments of the population who have very few votes. She wants to take 2% of what they have. So if you have a billion-dollar net worth, kiss $20 million goodbye, in cash, in addition to the death tax your kids will have to pay. If you have to close your business or borrow to keep it going, so sorry. Not all billionaires have a lot of cash.
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3rd February 2021
NBA to Strictly Enforce Mask Rules for Players, Coaches
UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus
It’s Time for a National Pandemic Prediction Agency (Wired ‘Science’) Gotta keep that panic going….
Olympics: Wear a Face Mask, and No Singing or Chanting
Andrew Cuomo Announces Indoor Dining Can Resume Despite Coronavirus Being Worse Than When He Banned It Guess he’s feeling the heat.
Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
‘Capitalism Really Does Work’: Michael Bloomberg Blasts Government Handling Of Pandemic Which is why he’s a Democrat? That does not compute.
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3rd February 2021
San Francisco teacher says Bernie Sanders’ mittens are a ‘lesson in white and male privilege’
Fans ejected after LeBron James confronts unmasked ‘Courtside Karen’
Black leaders offer several key steps to help close the racial wealth gap (CNBC) Give us money!
San Fran Teacher Blasted for Saying Bernie Meme Showed ‘Privilege’
SMUG: ABC’s ‘Black-ish’ Attempts to ‘Build a Better White Man,’ Finds It Impossible
USA Today Publishes Column Claiming Tom Brady Gets A Pass On His Politics Because He’s White Wouldn’t that be refreshing? But I doubt that’s the reason. It’s just an excuse.
The Biden Admin Abandons Major Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
‘White Violence’ Is Used To Increase Surveillance ‘Against Communities Of Color,’ Activists Say The trouble with ‘activists’ is that they’re always On The March about something. They can never let anything or anybody rest.
Black Lieutenant Governor Criticizes Local News Outlet For Depicting Republicans As KKK Members Is that allowed?
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3rd February 2021
‘Gut Louisiana Like A Fish’: John Kennedy Warns Of Fallout From Biden’s Oil And Gas Orders
China Top Diplomat Warns Biden Not To Cross “Red Line” Of Interests His master’s voice.
ON POINT: Leveraging Corrupt Media, China Draws a Red Line for Biden Administration
Biden staffs up with China sympathizers
Montana Lawmaker Outlines Troubling Implications of Biden’s Executive Actions
Joe Biden just made his first big mistake as president At least, according to CNN.
Former CBP Head: Biden Has Decimated Border Protections With “Stroke Of A Pen” Improper use of ‘decimated’, but nobody cares about that except me.
Biden’s Labor Board Begins Withdrawing Complaints Against Unions It’s all about dat base….
John Kerry Flew in Private Jet to Receive Award for Climate Activism Rules are for thee but not for me.
Helpful Psaki Gives Reporters A List Of Questions To Ask Her Babylon Bee.
John Kerry Accepted Environmental Award In Iceland After Arriving In Private Jet
The Biden Admin Abandons Major Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
‘Joe Biden On Day One Killed Their Job,’ Wisconsin Congressman Says Of Keystone XL Pipeline Decision
Biden Admin Won’t Release Trump Visitor Logs
Biden appoints anti-Israel, pro-Hamas man to key Middle East post
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3rd February 2021
Sea Levels Are Rising Faster Than Most Pessimistic Forecasts At least, according to Bloomberg.
The New Pause lengthens from 5 years 4 months to 5 years 6 months
The Shocking Climate Graph @climateofgavin Doesn’t Want You To See
US Cities Are Vastly Undercounting Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Researchers Find ‘Greenhouse gas emissions’ sounds like something that would afflict Uncle Fred.
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3rd February 2021
As expected, the Justice Department, now under the control of Joe Biden, has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Yale for discriminating against Whites and Asian Americans on the basis of their race. I wrote about that suit here and here.
The Justice Department’s complaint demonstrates the magnitude of Yale’s race-based disfavoring of Whites and Asians. According to the complaint, which is based on the DOJ’s lengthy investigation of Yale’s undergraduate admissions process, Blacks in the tenth decile (the top one) are admitted to Yale at a rate of 60 percent. By contrast, Whites are admitted at a rate of 20 percent and Asians at a rate of only 14 percent.
Because Yale is a highly selective college, few applicants of any race or ethnicity are admitted from the third decile or below. However, in the fourth decile, Blacks are admitted at a rate of 12 percent — about the same rate at which Asians in the tenth decile (the top one) are admitted. The admission rates for Whites and Asians in the fourth decile are just 2 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively.
In the fifth decile, Blacks are admitted at a rate of 21 percent — about the same rate as Whites in the tenth decile. For Whites and Asians in the fifth decile, the admission rates are just 4 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively.
In other words, Blacks with slightly below average credentials in relation to other applicants stand about the same chance of being admitted to Yale as Whites and Asians whose credentials place them in the top 10 percent of the applicant pool.
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3rd February 2021
Xerox’s new printer is 9 feet wide, 7 feet tall, and reaches an internal temperature of more than 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s not an inkjet, of course—it’s a 3D printer that can produce bespoke metal components. The Naval Postgraduate School, an grad institution for Naval officers and others, is the first place to put one of these massive Xerox machines into service.
Let’s hope it works better than my printer.
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3rd February 2021
Students for Fair Admissions intends to file a lawsuit against Yale University for its discriminatory admissions process, according to a Wednesday press release.
The announcement comes the same day the Justice Department decided to drop its discrimination lawsuit against Yale, upending a two-year federal investigation that found the Ivy League school often used race as a “determinative” factor in its admissions decisions. Edward Blum, president of Students for Fair Admissions, said in a statement that his group plans to sue Yale “in the coming days.”
That’s a really good picture of Cross Campus. On the left under the tree is The College Formerly Know As Calhoun.
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3rd February 2021
“We will categorically not allow any local government to lock people down. We will not let any local government kick anybody out of their job,” DeSantis told reporters when asked about local officials’ requests for more control over coronavirus mitigation measures. “We will not let any local government fine individual Floridians. We will not let any local government shut down schools. And we’re not going to let any local governments do those things.”
This gets around the fact that most metro areas are ruled by fascist Democrats. Texas could profit from their example.
I’d move to Florida if it weren’t for the hurricanes.
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3rd February 2021
I guess he figures to take his new membership in the Woke Ruling Class out for a spin.
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3rd February 2021
People may shout NEVER AGAIN as loud as they please, but without governments willing to step up to the plate and do something about it, nothing will get done.
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3rd February 2021
Elections have consequences.
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3rd February 2021
Perhaps the Republicans in Congress have decided to quit bringing a knife to a gun fight. That’s encouraging.
Could AOC be next? Stay tuned.
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3rd February 2021
Severian teaches a little history.
A brief summary of our story so far: back at the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, the US Surgeon General finally let the cat out of the bag. Turns out that sucking the fumes of burning weeds straight into your lungs isn’t optimal for your pulmonary wellbeing. That being the case, huckster politicians saw a chance to plug a few budget holes by pretending to care about public health. They decided to tax smoking out of existence.
As they should’ve learned from Prohibition, but didn’t, politicians soon discovered that lifestyle crimes are basically unenforceable.* The new taxes created a vast black market economy for smokes. Which had three knock-on effects, in ascending order of importance:
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3rd February 2021
I have three college-age daughters who all view the underlying resentments and jealousies required to produce leftism as a sign of immaturity. The idea that a leftist Utopia could fix everyone’s problems if we just take enough money from rich people strikes them as the lazy thinking of the unimaginative. Besides their interest in world affairs, they also share an interest in boys. Specifically, boys who would not be wasting their time. They hope for a conservative boyfriend, or at least one who appears somewhat mature and open-minded.
Which is tricky, because no conservative college kid is out of the closet. Universities are such incredibly hostile territories for free-thinkers that they would never consider admitting what they think about anything. So my daughters engage in frequent discussions with one another, trying to figure out if a boy they like might be a closet conservative. And it’s fascinating to listen to them. The cues they pick up on are not necessarily what you might expect.
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3rd February 2021
Look, people elect who they want to Congress. That’s the way the system is set up. There is no IQ test – would that there were! – and no education requirement – would that there were! – and, tellingly, no requirement that a doctor certify that they are sane. You get the votes, and if they can’t PROVE you broke the law, you’re in. So all this talk about policing our own or not suitable for public service is a bunch of self-righteous hand-waving. Votes count; sputtering chattering class members do not. That’s the way it works.
Democrats have been electing crooks (Alcee Hastings) and nut-cases (Sheila Jackson Lee) to Congress for decades, not to mention people who deliberately incite violence (Maxine Waters) and people who don’t openly advocate it but who are okay with it when it happens (Kamala Harris and every other member of the Congressional Black Caucus, not to mention The Squad). For them to get all up in arms about Greene is a case of the pot calling the non-stick pan black.
Unless the system changes, the results aren’t going to be any different. A look at who is now in Congress is the greatest argument against democracy as a form of government that I can imagine. The only problem is to demonstrate that some other form of government wouldn’t be as bad or worse. As Bill Buckley famously said, I’d rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2000 member of the faculty of Harvard University, and I don’t just say that because I’m a Yale man; Yale these days is just as bad.
We have to work with what we’ve got. Dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
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3rd February 2021
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3rd February 2021
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin fired hundreds of members of Pentagon policy advisory boards Tuesday, resorting to a blunt method of removing last-minute Trump administration appointees, The Wall Street Journal reported.
How very retro. Welcome to the 19th century.
Would that Trump had done the same when he came in. But we live and learn.
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3rd February 2021
Most non-stick pans are so only for a limited time. Still, they’re more non-stick than non-non-stick (sorry) pans, so you’ve got that going for you. And since most people are Too Fargin Lazy to learn how to cook properly in a plain metal pan, I suppose it’s all for the best.
I use non-stick pans because I’m bone-lazy. So there it is. (Two words: Swiss Diamond.)
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3rd February 2021
With the Prius be dethroned from its Crust-carriage role?
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3rd February 2021
The reviewer doesn’t want to come out and flat out say that biographers of the Vice President should simply cover up the fact that her fabulous political career was launched in Willie Brown’s bed, but she wants to imply it.
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3rd February 2021
Chris “Fredo” Cuomo’s seething hatred for Republicans was boiling during the Tuesday edition of CNN’s PrimeTime. Between telling his viewers that they all “have to worry about the GOP” going forward because they could become the party of presidential assassins and suggesting they didn’t care about murdered Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, Cuomo was out to stoke division and animus (so the very thing he accused the GOP of doing)
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3rd February 2021
Audacious Epigone runs the numbers.

epublicans are being red-pilled. Four-in-five Republican voters are white, and they understand that the influence awarded to non-Asian minorities will come at their expense.
Especially encouraging are the dual perceptions that the poor are going to lose and the wealthy are going to win under the uber-Establishment Biden. While Democrats still portray the GOP as the party of the rich–and the party leadership eagerly, desperately plays along–Republican voters realize the monied classes are against them.
Democrats have vastly outraised Republicans in corporate cash since 2004. For nearly two decades now the Democrats have been the party of the elites. It is electoral malpractice that in an increasingly populist age the GOP willingly allows itself to be portrayed as the party of fat cats and the Democrats as the party of the little guy while the fat cats stuff Democrat coffers full of cash.
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3rd February 2021
Those who call President Joe Biden a “devout Catholic” may do so in attempts to suggest that “Catholicism is indistinguishable” from liberal ideology, a professor of theology told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“When a U.S. President cloaks himself in the outward signs of Catholic identity in order to expand access to abortion, or to use executive power to enforce a gender ideology that will inevitably threaten the freedom of the Church in this country, what you have before you is a Trojan Horse,” Dr. Chad Pecknold, an associate professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America, told the DCNF.
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2nd February 2021
In case you need another job skill on your résumé during COVID Panic times.
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2nd February 2021
There’s an ancient Wall Street joke about a visitor to the Hamptons who is shown harbors full of the yachts of stockbrokers and bond salesmen. He naively inquires, “But where are the customers’ yachts?”
We might ask the same question about the clients of diversity consultants.
These days, we are constantly lectured that hiring more diversity is the route to riches. Studies, we are assured, prove that organizations that employ more blacks, women, or whatever will make more money.
Yet the people who get paid to tell us that diversity-inclusion-equity (DIE) is good for us seldom can remember documented examples of organizations that gained an enduring competitive advantage by fighting racism or sexism.
It’s certainly a profitable gig for the Diversity Consultant, who is typically a Fashionable Minority, but there is no evidence that increased Diversity ever helped either the company or the affirmative-action hires.
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2nd February 2021
You can lead a union member to the workplace but you can’t make her work.
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2nd February 2021
Parents rebel over posh NYC school’s ‘obsessive focus on race’
Black History Month and Republican Support for Civil Rights in 1960s
America’s BLM-induced homicide spike
Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
Multiple Teachers Suspended Over ‘How Will You Punish This Slave?’ Activity Question
Race-Hustling MSNBC Host Al Sharpton Demands Abolishment of the Filibuster
The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring
Lori Lightfoot Blames The ‘Incompetence Of The Previous Administration’ For Chicago Schools Not Being Open BRAAAAAAAINS!
Hispanic Caucus Takes Aim at African-American Veteran’s Service on Key Panel
REPORT: Former NFL Running Back Mark Walton Arrested After Meltdown Over Failed Pizza Hut Order
San Francisco Officials Declare Acronyms Racist Not the Babylon Bee.
Man Arrested After Allegedly Shooting 5 Children, 1 Adult To Death In Oklahoma Not white, so no headlines.
Defunding the Police Isn’t the Answer, Say Black Mothers of Slain Children
Singer/Actor Sia Blames Casting Controversy on Listening to ‘White Men
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