A big one this weekend
Nothing going in sports right now. We’re all just waiting on the last week of NFL games to get here and the CFP championship. FA Cup matches coming this weekend and next week. Let’s see which teams are taking it seriously. I fear it will be too few teams. And that makes me sad. Anyway, moving on to…the links!
Victim? No.
Conservatives pounce! I suppose with their biases that’s easier for them to write than “Harvard fails to do due diligence and hires serial plagiarist for top spot.”
Props to Japanese efficiency. It saved a shitload of people yesterday, that’s for sure.
Lighten up, people. It’s called humor. I suspect these scolds won’t be happy until every joke is “White men are so dumb. Look at those dumb white men.”
It’s a shame he’s only “looking” that way. Because after all the shit he pulled, he deserves to be in that predicament for real.
People shouldn’t be surprised when someone gets rewarded for their service. But they’re sure getting brazen about it in Arizona.
They need to get these things moving along. Primary season is just around the corner and there needs to be some clarity. And by “clarity,” I mean the courts need to put their foot down and let these people know that due process and the rule of law still exist.
Shoot them. Problem solved.
Who the hell robs a bakery? Come on, people. You don’t have to be animals. Maybe it’s a local thing. Anyway, if these businesses were allowed to arm employees, this might not be so common an occurrence.
Only one lawmaker? They should all be supporting her. Because she should have the right to defend her property and children against someone breaking into her home. Making it illegal for her to exercise her 2A rights because of where she lives would be no different than telling her she can’t go to church or that the cops can enter her home for any reason at any time without a warrant.
Here’s a fun, funky song. Get those feet moving, friends. And this one really gets moving. Such a great band. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends!
They gots lots of bread.
And dough — they wanted to be enriched.
They had to think it would be a piece of cake.
A real top tier job — their ticket to the upper crust.
Finding a full cash register must have been the icing on the cake.
They were just trying to reach the upper crust of society!
Donut blame them just because of the rolls they were forced to take!
This kneads a ruling from Swiss on if this bakes or not.
I think it’s perfectly crumbulent
Crime baguettes crime.
Give ’em some credit, they weren’t just loafing around.
Stay frosting, my friends, they could be coming for you!
Will he rise to the occasion?
Money is the yeast of their problems.
Bad puns aside (ok – I can’t think of a new/different one). The car used in the burglary was a Kia Soul that had been chased and lost police earlier. How do you not catch a Kia Soul? They need new cops.
Bicycle cops?
I thought only mice drove those, while bumping along?
Man, I’m late. You guys made short work of the puns. Those were sweet.
I know, right? They demonstrated they are the toast of the town.
I could have been cruller, but I don’t like to pączki down.
And given some of the Chappelle Shows I watched back in the day — Dave would actually make that funny. Unlike the critics (this comes to mind on that topic…)
Morning, Sloopy. Morning, all.
Imagine the arrogant punch-face uttering these words.
“We’ve explained to him that he’s hateful and wrong, and he won’t listen to us!”, they pouted.
he learned not to cave in to the mob. A most important thing in these trying times.
If they laughed along with the jokes, I think they’d find far more acceptance than acting like punks and bitching all the time.
Oh, they laughed, they just felt bad about it later when they compared notes.
I would have expected them to put her in Katie Hobbs’s job as a stepping stone to being Governor by overseeing the elections, so that must be why they’re upset.
(Black Pill Mode) Assumes facts not in evidence. (/Black Pill Mode)
“Give us time!” say the Progressives….
“Can’t go to church”
Been there, done that, during the plague.
The resourcefulness of church goers doing impromptu services at Walmart because they were exempt was wonderful and sad all in one.
“Conservatives pounce! I suppose with their biases that’s easier for them to write than “Harvard fails to do due diligence and hires serial plagiarist for top spot.””
People need to remember that the biggest loser here is Obama and his “We will fundamentally change America” bunch of marxist cuntes.
Obama is sitting at his oceanfront estate counting money right now.
I m sure he is, but his cronies and agenda at Harvard are all going under the bus.
Remains to be seen, but I seriously doubt it. The board wanted a DEI activist, and it’s the same board that hired her still, so they’ll find another one.
Good luck getting their donors back…
Alex is right, a lot of those donors are not coming back until Harvard makes real changes. And, yes, I know how big the endowment is, but you gotta feed the hole, and right now it isn’t being fed. DEI is starting to be seen as a losers game, and while it will take a while to play itself out, and universities will be the last to go, it is starting.
Plus, the next DEI president they hire is going to be fact checked up the wazoo, as this. cannot. happen. again. at. Harvard!
That endowment could disappear quick enough – just take away the tax exemption.
From your lips to his ears, man…
I’m yet to be convinced that this incident has anything to do with the revolt against DEI and not the anger about the loss of special Jewish privileges. Also, the new interim president is a Jew. Perhaps, the donors will come back.
“the loss of special Jewish privileges”
like what?
Survival?
” loss of special Jewish privileges.”
That’s an odd comment.
Proper victimhood groups can declare any speech they don’t like as “literally violence” with all the negative consequences imposed on those who engage in that kind of speech. Think of the high crime of “misgendering” or “dead naming” a trans person. American Jews don’t like the phrase “from the river to the sea” and want it to be universally treated as a call for genocide. If they cannot make the rest of the society to agree to their take on it, the special privilege is gone. The university presidents refused to accept this interpretation. Now two of them lost their jobs.
“from the river to the sea” is in fact a call to eliminate all Jews from Israel, which is an actual call to genocide.
When the people chanting this are literally carrying a banner with the entire state of Israel covered by a Pali flag, it’s the obvious interpretation.
Well, it also helps if you remember your ancient history like the Munich olympics, the Achille Lauro, and that unpleasantness a few months back.
They are also calling for another “intifada”. I think that is a pretty clear call for violence.
“from the river to the sea”
I suppose one could view this as a prayer for some type of Saint Patrick to arrive and drive all the snakes out of the country {where no harm is done to the snakes}.
But, it is clear from the context of the last 60+ years that this is a call for the death of Jews in living in an occupied Israel.
Does Likud party call for a genocide too?
This is the power of making others accept your interpretation of slogans. That power has been challenged.
Since Palestinians live in Israel under Israeli sovereignty today and since the founding of Israel, there is no clear reason to think the Likud statement is calling for genocide.
Context matters. Which is a concept completely rejected by modern progressives.
Since the full statement is “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, it is clearly calling for the removal of the Israeli government. And given the last 60 years of history, it is also clear that this will be accomplished by all means necessary including massive deaths of Jews living in Israel. Whether this is merely limited to war crimes against a civilian population or an actual genocide is a matter of degree.
Anyone who thinks Hamas likes killing Jews is an irrational Jew-lover. Both Grrz and Hamas Apologist have said so.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is not an oath of allegiance to Hamas. It is also not the same as a call to “kill all Jews” or “gas the Jews.” But too many here are so emotionally attached to Israel that dispassionate conversation becomes impossible.
Serious question: Are you willfully blind? Are you claiming that there is no link between the ever-renaming Jew-killing orgs? Was Munich a squabble over the scoring results of the games? Or Leon Klinghoffer a dispute over restocking the buffet?
Why are people supposed to ignore the entire history of the Pro-Palestine movement and the fact the entire existence of Palestine was the result of Arab wars of extermination against Israel?
Why are those of us who remember Arafat the irrational ones?
He’s watching the receding shoreline.
Poor Gay. She’ll just have to console herself with $900K/year for her Harvard Dean job. What a colossal setback for wokism.
That is far too much to pay an academian.
I loved how she accused everyone of firing her for being a racist. Not even an attempt to show any kind of remorse. Pure gall at people holding her accountable. There is a lesson there for everyone.
1. Don’t hire these diversity cases unless you are prepared to deal with idiocy like this when they eventually fuck up (and things come out that they are major fuck ups and have been so all along) and you have to let them go.
2. Fight them with their own bullshit when the progressive cabal comes after its political enemies by refusing to buckle under until it has caused them gall.
Racism is weird. Can’t be a president, but can be a Dean earning $900k.
She was promised a payoff to play along….
Didn’t she plagiarize another black woman?
Yes
Is that anti-racism racism?
Black people can’t be racist. Ibram X Kendi said so.
And given that she’s just recycling back into the faculty from what I read, I wouldn’t count it as all that big a loss. She’s still there to spill her (incompetently written) poison into the minds of the so-called elites.
I would bet that she will be completely gone in the next six months. Plagiarism is kryptonite to academics, and she has nothing on offer that isn’t corrupted.
It will be quiet, but she will be gone.
The AP headline made me think of the George Costanza line, “Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
::sigh::
Haven’t they done enough damage to the franchise with their box-checking in the last trilogy?
https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1742526855939297319?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
Jeebus. Wasn’t the last trilogy all about a stronk empowered woman? Has she ever watched any Star Wars movies?
They deliberately seek out ‘creatives’ with memories like an Etch-a-sketch.
Jennifer Lawrence and “first female led action movie!” leaps to mind… what an idiot.
How every woman before her didn’t absolutely destroy her for that comment shows the rot in their ideology.
I seem to recall a couple of older female action stars speaking up about that quote.
If it wasn’t “look here you little shit…” then it was all lip service.
Jennifer Lawrence is the poster child for “cute, but dumb.”
She’s never seen Alien?
Pam Grier should go smack a bitch.
Why the fuck is anyone still watching Star Wars at all. They completely ruined it by politicizing the thing after the original 3 episodes. I stopped after that. Saved myself a whole lot of shit and grief others seem to have willingly subjected themselves to.
Apparently when it comes to modern entertainment a variation of the old government “If it moves, tax it! If it stops moving, subsidize it!” credo applies. “If it still has an audience, preach it! If we’ve driven away the audience, skinsuit it and have the critics tout it!”
Let them burn it down completely and destroy themselves — I don’t think many people still care.
The phrase I’m hearing a lot is, “It’s not bad enough yet.” Disney hasn’t lost enough money. Might as well keep the car rolling toward the cliff.
Its like Mon Mothma and Leia never existed in that universe
Or C-3PO for the gay representation.
I can’t keep up. Is it only real women that have different sci-fi brains or can men in woman-face pretend to have woman brains too?
The Wachowskis wave hello!
But they were still men when they made the good movies. The only one they made while in woman-face was the shitty fourth one.
I think they were 50/50 when they did the acid dream of Speed Racer and flat out insanity of Sense8.
I stand by my statement.
In Sens8 we got to see that one Companion’s tits, and they were nice!
There was more than one?
I loved Cloud Atlas.
Can you really kill something that is already dead?
They’re bringing it back as a force ghost.
put a chick in it and make her gay. ooops zerxr or what pronouns kids use these days
The main problem is that the core audience for sci-fi are dudes.
The only way you could really get women to voluntarily go to a Star Wars movie would be to Hallmark the shit out of it.
Leia goes back to Tattoo to completes some paperwork on the destruction of Alderon and while there she runs into Luke and his beat up landspeeder. Eventually – after a series of comedic mixups – they realize that they love each other (Tennessee style). There wouldn’t be one single light saber or blaster in the entire movie.
Well, wouldn’t Luke’s personal light saber…
Never mind…
I do not regret my decision to tap out of Star Wars after the Last Jedi.
If Disney brought back the Star Wars Christmas Special it would do better than the latest round of films.
Especially when Chewie’s dad is watching porn on future (past) Metaverse.
I do. My regret is I didn’t tap out before Force Awakens. (Last Jedi was The Last Straw for me too).
I am by nature a completionist when it comes to series (TV, movie, book, games). It takes a lot for me to break away from that. The Last Jedi was enough for me to toss it aside. I mean, I finished the Wheel of Time books and the final series of Dexter.
… Is Wheel of Time not worth finishing? I’m almost done with book 4 and really enjoying it. I know the last book is written by someone else, but from what I’ve heard, Sanderson did a good job wrapping up Jordan’s story.
The later books go downhill quickly. Sanderson did the last THREE books (from memory), because there was too much plot kudzu to wrap up in a single book. The last book Jordan wrote (from memory) is over 1,000 pages taking place over one day with nearly no forward plot progression.
So kind of a Seinfeld episode?
The Force Awakens broke my desire to continue the series. I did like Rogue One though.
I forget which was which. I tapped out after the half-assed remake of a new hope.
I forget which was which. I tapped out after the half-assed remake of
a new hopeStar Wars.FIFY
/traditionalist
Thank you.
The Farce Awakens
The Last JeDoi!
The Ruse of Skywalker
That movie was called “Return Of The Jedi” although I can see your confusion, since Luke was the last remaining Jedi.
The Sith do exist!
Just because it is your right to plead the Sith, doesn’t mean you won’t be judged.
Disney is like the culture that, when they hit someone with their car, they continue to run them over multiple times to make sure they’re dead.
Like all all proggies who ruin shit with their agenda, their only solution is to prog harder.
They are incapable of learning from their mistakes because they are unable to acknowledge that they have made a mistake.
It is only a mistake if you examine reality. Since progs have no interest in reality, just in the dreamy future – there is no need to check on how things are actually working.
It’s likely that nobody has ever told them that before.
“People shouldn’t be surprised when someone gets rewarded for their service. But they’re sure getting brazen about it in Arizona.”
They are setting us up for a blatant and obvious attempt to rig the 2024 election. Not only that, to give the mouthbreeders in their cadre the veneer of legitimacy when they start rioting 24/7 because they are unhappy with the election results should they fail to fortify it.
I suspect these scolds won’t be happy until every joke is “White men are so dumb. Look at those dumb white men.”
Wait they’re not? That’s how I remember the 90s family sitcoms I watched as a kid
Latest AT&T or Verizon commercial is that way..stupid dad worried about costs with the wife and kids looking at him like he is an idiot.
That Universal movie Migration uses the trope, too. Stupid boring dad is content with the pond they’re in. Everybody else in the family, led by mom, wants to leave.
No one tell them about Foxworthy, Engvall, White & Larry.
I heard someone complain about a recent TeeVee commercial where the woman was not the genius and her man an idiot. Laughed as I pointed out to her the commercial was really old from the days before the stupid people started making commercials.
Has there been one of those “check the replay” ads where a white guy won? All of them are the women being right.
That’s just reality. /’feminists’
Reality is a 5′ 3″ 110lbs woman beating up a bunch of 220lbs+ over 6 feet tall dudes with military training!
There’s one with an all white gay couple so, yeah, there’s one. Of course the guys who like pussy are still functionally retarded.
Hey. We’ve made progress. In modern sitcoms, women are also allowed to be dumb and impulsive.
Just the ones with dicks
Big reason why I love King of the Hill so much. Judge wasn’t afraid to make the women unlikeable at times.
if these businesses were allowed to arm employees, – lives are more important than bread.
They have insurance! They should be fine getting robbed and being unable to function as a business…..
also who cares they had insurance, right?
Related
They literally make money!
Because she should have the right to defend her property and children against someone breaking into her home – just tell the intruder what he is doing is wrong and they will stop.
saira rao
@sairasameerarao
The depth and breadth of violent American racism is on FULL DISPLAY right now.
In every institution: law, medicine, education, retail, entertainment, media, finance.
Monsters everywhere.
https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1742286273295913428
everywhere? Even here? Jesus I must watch out for monsters now. Every time I type.
This remake of Paranoia doesn’t seem as likely to be fun like Friend Computer.
Did you catch her tweet about the threat of Zionist doctors on blacks, Asians, middle-easterners, women, and gays?*
*I may not have that 100% right, but she did go off about the dangers of having so many Jewish doctors.
She seems like the perfect candidate for Harvard then.
Ah, here it is. I was a bit off, but it’s still retarded as shit.
https://x.com/sairasameerarao/status/1741967652363383022?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
Also, an Indian concerned there are too many Jewish doctors is a bit rich.
Pot, meet kettle.
She was just concerned about Israeli doctors, not Jewish doctors. How dare you!
Which is exactly why all those brown folks from Mexico and Central America are pouring across the border?
Back home there wasn’t enough racism and white supremacy to go around. So they had to join a caravan and head north.
To be fair, leftist racism IS on full display.
I mean, she’s not wrong, it’s just directed at totally different groups than she thinks.
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Stirling engine aircraft toys
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742538785198342649
Those are pretty. My daughter trashed my coffee-cup powered Stirling engine. I may nee a new one.
Oxford University mathematician reveals how to avoid spilling your coffee
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742448171546997046
It needs more nudity to make it watchable…
Or Michael J. Fox carrying the coffee.
Historical facade in Cincinnati discovered when renovation works began
https://twitter.com/lindahubbardart/status/1742212259185651767
I feel sorry for whoever owns that property. Because now the city will be in total control of whatever renovations they were planning.
Cincinnati Center City Development Corp.’s OTR Holdings Inc. purchased the building last year as part of redevelopment along Race Street.
https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2021/01/27/chong-inc-race-street-downtown-cincinnati-victorian-era-storefront/4281231001/
What’s the equivalent of “shoot, shovel and shut up” for historic buildings?
‘bulldoze, bury, and burn all evidence’
If they were demoing the whole building, I would see your point. But, it looks like they are renovating, so this might be a big win.
Stuff like that has slowed down a couple of businesses up here in CLE as well.
Then of course, there’s the issue in trying to rehab older buildings.
/thinks back to the AHA meeting that was held at Platform when they had flooding issues
Based on personal experience, historical preservation is really strong in Ohio, so I wish them luck. Still, it is a beautiful facade and I hope they can save it all.
Ford starting off the New Year just like last year.
Jan 3 (Reuters) – Ford (F.N) is recalling 112,965 units of its F-150 vehicles because of its rear axle hub bolt which may break, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Wednesday.
this is why only the government should make cars.
They have a record to break. They had a record $1.2b in recalls last year, an industry first. They need to top that this year. The strike should help them along this path.
I live not too far from the F-150 plant in the KC area and know several people that work there. If you had any Idea just how many of the people there are not only incredibly stupid but also completely drunk and/or high while on the line you’d never step foot in one of those overpriced shitboxes again, much less purchase one.
/looks over at the auto plants and bars in the area
I detect nothing incorrect in those statements, and they confirm my biases.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Just like everything else, that “conservative weapon” wouldn’t work if she hadn’t, you know, plagiarized.
Accountability is just a tool of the white-supremacist patriarchy!
Just like with LibsOfTikTok, nothing makes progs angrier than using their own words or actions against them.
“That’s not fair!”
I’m sure liberals were laughing when Chapelle joked about the opioid crisis in his recent set. Rough paraphrase: I think whites and blacks finally understand each other now, with opioids ravaging white communities, with crack cocaine ravaging black communities in the 80s. I don’t care neither.
Probably his best joke and delivery from that set.
Did sloopy really say Go Blue on main page?
For kinnath, since I didnt see his article until this morning:
https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2024/01/lets-brew-wednesday-1884-mew-langton.html
Next Tuesday is the follow up for March Beer.
Article idea – I need to write one on the history of Zoigl.
Are those brewed with Mercury to make one mad?
Also, WTF was up with last nights brewing in “leads?” They weren’t made of lead were they?
Now I have to dig into that.
I am not aware of any type of vat, cauldron, or pot being made of lead. They would be too heavy and two soft to be of use.
Lead was not used for applications where heat was to be expected. It melts too easily, and there were always better options. The closest you’d get was the lead content of pewter vessels.
I could see a wooden vessel lined with lead to make it waterproof. Wine capsules used to be lead. I think papal coffins still are.
There is no need to line a wooden vessel to waterproof it. Barrels for storing liquids were around since Roman times (though regarded as a barbarian tehcnology by the Romans themselves, despite using them in the northerly provinces)
Lead-lining on coffins isn’t for waterproofing.
My research is primarily focused on pre-1600s, but I do enjoy these Let’s Brew Wednesday posts.
The really old stuff just seems different (although the process really isnt).
I like the 19th century stuff a lot, as it is more relatable, yet sometimes crazy (big alcohol and big hops).
What I really found amusing was the volume that was being brewed at home. Although it seems like it was a one off type thing, as opposed to brewing regularly.
But, then again, if you can’t trust the water (not sure on the state of water in 1600 England), you are going to need some volume.
Ale or beer would have been consumed at every meal and throughout the day.
Let the healing begin!
Biden will start the year at sites of national trauma to warn about dire stakes of the 2024 election
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-2024-democracy-threat-national-traumas-66167f70a167592c23067180fbe55910
“Let the healing begin!”
Why do we only hear this when the left manages to fortify elections and they claim victory after the steal, huh?
Does that total ass ever say anything positive?
No. I’ve said this before, but he’s never met a situation he hasn’t escalated.
He learned it from Obama.
“President Joe Biden is starting the campaign year by evoking the Revolutionary War to mark the third anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol”
My irony meter is pegged out, I need to lie down.
Biden (or whoever is running the show) is terrible at politics. A big number of people think the “insurrection” was facilitated by feds, and that number is trending up. He’s preaching to an ever shrinking choir.
And that choir is screaming PREACH HARDER!!!
They have also never gotten rid of the idea in 1/3 of the counties mind that the election was stolen.
Can we kill off using “trauma” for everything in 2024?
That hate-filled, hissy fit/temper-tantrum of an AP article was something else. You could almost see and hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth as it was being written.
So terrible too.
I remember as a kid the AP seeming pretty neutral and dry.
Yup, even 10 years ago you could convince yourself that they were relatively neutral.
Now it’s a total shit show.
Taking scalps is cultural appropriation.
Wait around a few weeks. I’m willing to bet that the left claims the right were the ones who first started using that phrase in the Penn and Harvard situations.
Biden’s kicking off 2024 by delving into some of the country’s darkest moments rather than an upbeat affirmation of his record is meant to clarify for voters what his team sees as the stakes of November’s election. During both events, he will characterize his predecessor as a serious threat to the nation’s founding principles, arguing that Trump — who has built a commanding early lead in the Republican presidential primary — will seek to undermine U.S. democracy should he win a second term.
Campaigning as the anti-Reagan.
It’s two minutes ’til midnight in America, and the bogeyman is at the door.
“Forget about how terrible things are, stick with me or they’ll get even worse.”
vs.
“Make America Great Again, again.”
I’m guessing the positive message wins because people have negativity fatigue, but we’ll see.
“Abortion abortion. Abortion.”
Biden’s replacement wins in a landslide.
Because being able to kill your unborn baby is the most important thing?
To many voters, it certainly is.
Every time the abortion discussion happened and I have told the pro abortion females that it is telling to me that their idea of how they show their independence is to sacrifice their offspring to Bhaal, it has resulted in a lot of derp and hatred.
Maybe next time you can explain how their wombs have killed more people than your gun – I’m sure that will help.
The failure of birth control education is apparent if the need for abortion is that important. Fire all the Sex Ed teachers.
You will be surprised how often when I ask them if they have ever had an abortion – often because at their age there is never going to be a need for one anyway – that they tell you no…. Trying to find out what the logic then is always leads to nothing but derp.
clarify for voters
I don’t think that means what the author seems to think means.
Biden’s team should do a re-enactment of the Boston Tea Party in which the perpetrators are all ruthlessly hunted down and hanged for impersonating Indians and causing a toxic spill in the harbor.
Everyone knows the Revolutionary War was fought by a brave government standing up to a populist insurrection.
Biden’s channeling of personal grief and national traumas, often into calls for action, has become his political calling card. Tragedies have defined the president’s own life, from the 1972 car crash that killed his first wife and infant daughter to his son Beau’s death from brain cancer at age 46 in 2015.
Beau got brain cancer from listening to Joe’s rambling imbecility for 46 years.
And the living shall envy the dead.
so what is the deal with the Gilbert Goons?
Victim of the high tech lynch mob
Gay will remain at Harvard as a professor.
On Monday, right-wing website the Washington Free Beacon reported that it found problems in four of Gay’s published papers, including her 1997 dissertation.
Gay, who was the first person of color and the second woman to hold the post at Harvard, has had a spectacular rise throughout her career and in her field of political science. Even in the early days of her career, she was repeatedly courted by the nation’s most prestigious institutions.
In her resignation letter, Gay defended her academic record.
“Amidst all of this, it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor — two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am,” she wrote, “and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.”
Gay moved to Harvard after being lured away from a tenured position at Stanford University. In her 16-year journey from professor to president, Gay, who is Black and the daughter of Haitian immigrants, has been praised by colleagues, bosses, and students for her originality of thought, rigor, and devotion to data.
They hate her for her uppity blackness. She held the mirror up and revealed the rot and sickness which is America.
I am amazed that they can write fluffery like this with a straight face.
Witnesses described the altercation as a game of “chicken,” in which a furious Wood continually struck Watson, dragging his body for 158 meters before stopping to ask for help.
Not 150 meters or 160 meters, but 158 meters!
https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/news/student-convicted-of-murder-for-mowing-down-fiance-dragging-him-500-feet-with-car/
Wood, huh?
The crazy eyes makes her hot?
“Welcome to the afterlife, son.”
“Thanks.”
“How did you die?”
“Played chicken with my girlfriend in a Ford Fiesta.”
“OK. No reincarnation for you until you finish this afterlife video series by Charles Darwin.”
I wonder what region of the UK is FL in the US.
Wherever Richard Hammond is from.
Social studies have a problem where we are starting to realize that most of that drivel is based on bullshit. Case in point DEI’s foundational assumptions. From the attempt to replicate:
“Despite considering estimates from thousands of models, I find no reliable evidence for the proposed link between sustainability and financial performance“…
Instead of “publish or perish” maybe we need “replicate or resign”?
Yeah, that sounds like a far better system.
Whenever I hear or see “sustainable” being used to describe a project or organization, I immediately start wondering where and how the fraud or grift is happening.
RACISTS!!!!!
Right. Somehow that won’t turn into a mandate to kill the electoral college completely.
I know you are, but what am I?
The Biden administration is attempting to flip the blame for the migrant crisis at the southern border onto Republicans.
In anticipation of Speaker Mike Johnson heading to the U.S. southern border on Wednesday, the White House issued a statement accusing House GOPers of ducking the chance to address the issue they’ve been attacking.
“Actions speak louder than words,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement first obtained by POLITICO ahead of two days of Republican border visits. “House Republicans’ anti-border security record is defined by attempting to cut Customs and Border Protection personnel, opposing President Biden’s record-breaking border security funding, and refusing to take up the President’s supplemental funding request.”
Republicans have been critical of Biden’s handling of the southern border since the beginning of his term, often saying he’s downplayed, neglected or worsened a historic migrant influx through Mexico. They are now aiming to make the border a key 2024 election issue and place responsibility for the increase in migrants at the president’s feet.
Washington is a parody of a junior high school lunchroom.
It is true that the R’s stopped a border funding bill. What’s not said is that all the money would go to processing immigrants and zero money would go to stopping them from crossing the border. Dishonest AF, as usual.
Remind me again of how much of a problem this was in the last administration? You know when Republicans really were running things.
Nobody will believe this.
“Here’s the plan: Go out there and tell them the GOP did this. Enough of them believed a whole bunch of other ludicrous shit we told them.”
Speaking of headline spin, yesterday Philly inaugurated its first female and black mayor. Lots of gushing, even from her, about this historic and heroic cracking of some kind of ceiling. My headline would have been something like: “After 75 years in power, the Democrat Party finally permits a black woman to become Mayor of Philadelphia.”
*Houston laughs*
Chicago says you couldn’t learn from us?
https://www.phila.gov/2024-01-02-mayor-cherelle-l-parker-shares-inaugural-vision-action-plan-during-first-day-in-office/
Affordable luxury! You’re going to have the classiest bed bugs & roaches!
I look forward to her scandal free administration.
Horrifying
And then there’s former Fox New host Tucker Carlson’s selective editing of security footage from the Capitol — which he received from former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Carlson’s edited tapes helped promote the narrative that the rioters were actually “mostly peaceful,” no matter what the findings of the House Jan. 6 committee and other investigations say. In the Post poll, only 18% of respondents said that the people who entered the Capitol were “mostly violent,” down from 26% two years earlier.
But the poll’s most discouraging results were the throngs of Republicans who believe that the country should simply “move on” from the Jan. 6 attack. It’s a stance that has become orthodoxy within the GOP. Seventy-two percent of the Republicans polled think that “too much is being made of the storming” of the Capitol, compared to just 24% who agreed that it was an “attack on democracy that should never be forgotten.”
Those results echo the timidity of the Republicans who remain outside of the MAGA sphere of influence — or at least are desperate not to alienate them. Look no further than the string of supposed contenders for the 2024 nomination who insist that the charges that Trump faces for his role in launching the attack are evidence of Democrats’ “weaponization” of federal law enforcement. The same goes for those who have tried to characterize the Jan. 6 committee’s investigations as partisan, ignoring the two Republicans who agreed to participate signing off on them.
Maybe if Joe Biden commissioned a memorial on the Mall to honor all the Capitol Police officers who died that day defending democracy. As I recall, several Congressional pages lost their lives, as well. And we can’t talk about what really happened to Nancy Pelosi that day. Some things are just too horrific, too despicable, to contemplate.
As if the House Democrats didn’t engage in selective editing.
Even brought in a Hollywood hack for that.
The J6 Committee was Bipartisan!
Too bad moveon.org is taken.
I hate academic prose so much
https://twitter.com/Dorianlynskey/status/1742283919293133228
Isn’t praxis what doctors gave their female patients via genital massage?
“marginalized scholars”
I hate woke bullshit so much.
Are those scholars covered in margarine?
I guess basic grammar and sentence structure are colonial and imperialist as well.
Similarly, GOP elites have taken every chance possible the last three years to try to redirect the country’s attention away from the attacks and toward something a bit more electorally palatable. “We need to be talking about the future and not the past,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said back in October 2021. “It’s my hope that the ‘22 election will be a referendum on the performance of the current administration, not a rehash of suggestions about what may have happened in 2020.”
In a way, this ongoing plea to look toward the future is more insidious than the conspiracy theories. There’s something seemingly noble in calling to let the past stay in the past and to forge ahead — but to do so without learning any lessons is simply begging for the past to repeat itself. Suggesting that the country move forward without grappling with its immediate history offers absolution without repentance, allowing voters to turn a blind eye to the reality of what occurred and the threat to democracy that Trump poses.
Never forgive, never forget. If these fanatical lunatics have their way, people will still be raging about January 6 one hundred years from now.
The constant lies and propaganda are just not taking. I find this very encouraging.
Turning the corner?
Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Nordic region for a second day in a row Wednesday. In Kvikkjokk-Årrenjarka in Swedish Lapland, the mercury dropped to minus 43.6 C (minus 46.5 F), the lowest January temperature recorded in Sweden in 25 years, Sweden’s TT news agency reported.
Extremely cold temperatures, snow and gale-force winds disrupted transportation throughout the Nordic region, with several bridges closed and some train and ferry services suspended. Several schools in Scandinavia were closed.
I’m sure this constitutes proof of the inevitability of global warming. You just have to tilt your head and squint a little.
It’s CHANGE! Climate CHANGE!
Do keep up with the lingo. It matters, somewhere. Don’t know where.
Western Russia has been swept by a wave of cold air coming from Siberia and the Arctic region, with temperatures in Moscow and other areas plummeting to minus 30 degrees Celsius.
Weather experts say western Russia is recording much colder temperatures than the average in early January, when they typically hover around minus 10 degrees Celsius.
Serves them right. the
commiefascist bastards.The gift that keeps on giving.
Looking like the Coastie was where he wasn’t suppose to be.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-planes-collision-a350-fire-investigation-tokyo-f2f0950ed7acd0e978bb26c739132629
WTF? Over $1m bail?
“The private security guard, Kaion Ciego, 34, was arrested by police on suspicion of negligent discharge of a firearm, though he has not yet been charged by the district attorney. Ciego was being held in the Valley on $1.115 million bail.”
https://news.yahoo.com/l-woman-88-had-private-233831263.html