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Silvio Canto, Jr.
1/29/2023 6:00:00 AM

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Maybe they talk too much about race and more race

Silvio Canto, Jr.
1/29/2023 6:50:52 AM

      Maybe it's a coincidence but I found this interesting.        Over at CNN, they couldn't pass an opportunity to bring racism into the Tyre Nichols' video.   Check out Van Jones:              CNN commentator Van Jones attempted to make the case that the former Memphis police officers responsible for the death of Tyre Nichols "still might have been driven by racism" despite the fact that all five of them were Black.         In opinion piece published on CNN's website on Friday, Jones began by recalling the 1991 police brutality case of Rodney King where four White cops were caught on film beating him. He[...]

Teaching At Ground Zero

K T Cat
1/29/2023 5:22:32 AM
After a meeting with fellow Catholic crazies, where we discussed how we were going to persecute homosexuals, wife kitteh went out with a couple of friends for dinner and drinks. They live in El Centro, where the per capita income is $19,700 compared with San Diego's $46,400. It's a poor place. The man is a principal at a public school and his wife is a teacher. We talked about the current trans mania.They had a different take than I did. They teach close to ground zero of the progressives' nuclear attack on the traditional family. The man told me that when he meets with students and parents, only 1 in 20 has a married mom and dad. The woman told a story about a child being raised by her great grandmother. The parents are drug[...]

A Bit On Fred Hoyle

K T Cat
1/28/2023 4:46:07 PM
This one is for Ohioan, but hopefully everyone will get something from it. The video below will speak to him and his wife, I think.My morning caffeine has long since worn off and I'm writing without the aid of bourbon, so my energy level is a bit low right now. I've been spending most of my free intellectual energy on my upcoming talk, but I didn't want to neglect the blog, so here's a few tidbits on physicist and astronomer, Fred Hoyle, the chap who came up with the name, "The Big Bang Theory." To me, they paint a picture of a brilliant, fallible, very human man who spent his life in a sincere search for truth.From Harpers in 1954:And now I should like to give some consideration to contemporary religious beliefs. There is a[...]

Mmmkay....

W.C. Varones
9/1/2022 4:31:22 PM
President who usurped Congressional spending authority to issue an executive order handing out hundreds of billions of dollars right before an election will lecture nation on "threats to democracy."

Seems legit

W.C. Varones
7/20/2022 4:08:43 PM
WSJ:Calpers stock portfolio returned minus 13.1%, while bonds returned minus 14.5%, the pension fund said. Those losses delivered a double blow for retirement funds and other savers who have long relied on those two assets to move in opposite directions. Private equity and real estate returned 21.3% and 24.1%, respectively. It's a CalPERS miracle       Everything with observable market prices went down, but everything CalPERS values subjectively went up By double digits 

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Alan Feld: Israel's tech sector barometer

Vintage managing partner Alan Feld saw the crisis coming and did the opposite of most of his venture capital colleagues by halting investments and selling shares. Recently, Israels senior tech ...

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

Seattle Law School Fails To Condemn Fabricated Accusations Against Prof. Bernie Burk 

William A. Jacobson

Recordings and transcripts prove the professor never "designated Brown students as terrorists or "called Native Americans savages on the first day of class," as an anonymous student claimed in the student newspaper. Prof. Burke: "As far as I know, the law school and university administration have made no clear public statement condemning the anonymous accusations now proven false...."The post Seattle Law School Fails To Condemn Fabricated Accusations Against Prof. Bernie Burk first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Trump Kicks Off 2024 Campaign In SC, NH By Saying DeSantis Would Be Disloyal To Run 

Fuzzy Slippers

Oddly, Trump does not consider it disloyal for Nikki Haley to run.The post Trump Kicks Off 2024 Campaign In SC, NH By Saying DeSantis Would Be Disloyal To Run first appeared on Legal Insurrection.