I’m back, baby! Just line Spurs…the last team to stay in the EPL this year, with one game remaining, who won the Europa League by beating ManUre in an uninspired final and will now get to play in the Champions League next year. Or like Dallas, who sleepwalked through two periods and then went into full berzerker mode in the third and ran Edmonton off the ice. But not at all like Colts owner Jim Irsay, who died yesterday. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
I guess “killed in shooting” is somewhat accurate. Or they could have said “murdered in apparent terrorist attack.” Because that’s certainly what this looks like.
When is an executive law enforcement agency not an executive law enforcement agency? I guess whenever a judge decides they simply want to ignore the concept of separation of powers.
This shouldn’t be complicated. But for some reason the defenders of man and boys in woman face continues on the left.
These guys are about to become target practice. That crazy little man will probably kill their entire families as well.
Shit, if this was about the current guy, it’d be the lead story on every news outlet. You know, because it’s fucking criminal and led to countless deaths.
Oh, this is just great. I guess they decided to up their game and create new diseases in space as well as on earth.
This may have been an overreaction. But rules are rules and the guy agreed to them. Sadly, he is now going into adulthood with the belief that rules don’t matter and consequences don’t exist.
Ok, then. Somebody made a poor decision, that’s for sure. Even by Florida standards.
What else could he have done? Perhaps he could have put a stop to the racist laws that got us to this point.
And speaking of racism. Great work, animal kingdom. You disgust me!
Here’s some good stuff. Actually, great stuff. And so is this. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
Why not simply “apparently struck by a bullet which may have caused their deaths”?
How about “suddenly lost a lot of blood and passed away?”
Ah, the old Soviet “died of heart failure”.
Too definitive for the AP. Were they in good health before? We don’t know.
“some people did something”
“Intersected with a foreign object which led to an underprovision of oxygenated fluids to the brain.”
Tripped on badly maintained sidewalk and fell on bullet. It’s Trump’s fault for cutting spending.
“Diplomat-involved shooting”.
“Diplomat-involved shooting”
Diplomat involved firearm discharge?
They were shot by a gun, what more do you need to know?
Was Danny Glover involved?
Naw, he’s too old for that shit.
The Evil Bad, Double Plus Ungood Zionist Jews died from anthropogenic contamination of the atmosphere, similar to contaminants deliberately released by the regime they support against innocent Palestinian women and children in Gaza!
Elias Hernandez of Chicago is the strangest Muslim name I’ve ever heard.
Was there a claim he was Muslim?
Prebuttals are tricksy.
No idea if he is Muslim, but he isn’t Palestinian either.
Was there a claim he was Palestinian? I have seen reporting that he is a far-left activist, promoting the “Palestinian” cause and Hamas and “globalizing the Intifada” but no claims he was Palestinian himself.
Man, the Pali’s have to be really bummed that the Jihad that they had been promised by Hamas never really took, and, instead, they have a of pasty EU and American college kids waving flags and getting sneered at.
Outside of a weakened Iran, none of the other Muslim kids want to play.
ZWAK gets it!
Like hundreds of kids cos-playing at college campuses every day.
I have heard and seen that he was an avid and very active BLM marxist too.
Lead poisoning.
Rapid onset lead poisoning.
I think Pie might be following the dude on X
I knew you could bundle reeds together to make them strong, but splinters?
“A foreign national and his American fiancee were brutally murdered as President Trump steps up his attacks on immigrants”
Winner!
His real takeaway should be that the USPS sucks and can’t follow simple instructions.
No delivery driver can. I’d even wager they look for more and more creative ways to get things wrong.
tag fail
My favorite part of the story:
This ostensibly made it past an editor.
“The cops were pursuing the criminologist to hire him!”
“Oh and he was being tresspassed from the event because he was told not to bring the baby on stage.”
The police were from Why, Arizona and the question mark is because the editor added it to ask if the author was sure that The Arab was being pursued by cops from 2300 miles away.
Maybe he was just trying to get some hands on experience for his resume now that he has his degree in criminology.
Like if protestors had acquired the gavel … by crossing the stage the baby acquired a degree.
You mock, but the left’s history of skinsuiting respected institutions to award themselves titles and trophies, then being outraged that the titles and trophies no longer command the same respect is exactly this form of magical thinking.
I’m sure Q would be willing to step up with grant funding for the baby’s hands on doctoral research on female secondary sexual characteristics.
Eh, at my sons graduation, a woman walked with her newborn. No big deal, and if they told him initially that he could, fuck them and whatever “rules” they have.
That was my takeaway…he asked, they said yes. Then changed their mind on day of event. Is “no take backs” a sound legal doctrine? I guess the criminologist would know.
Well, according to him.
And he will be right.
My alma mater prides itself on actually handing out your diploma during the ceremony. With around 5,000 graduates a year, they have a pretty impressive track record of getting it right.
Bah, I should have checked – they gave up on doing that some time after I graduated.
“All diplomas will be mailed to students four to six weeks after degrees are officially awarded by the Office of the Registrar to the address that is provided in your Graduation Application on Student Hub.”
So much for tradition.
Yeah I never bothered going to college graduation, because I was done with it all and just wanted to move on. I recall getting a diploma in the mail but until now it never occurred to me to ask whether they handed out fakes at the ceremony.
The sad thing is — I don’t expect even the rhetoric to change that amps up these nutcases. There’s a sizable chunk of the population now happily supporting Hamas and terrorism because it will hurt Western Civilization in the end, Israel and then the US in the shorter term. And they somehow think a Communist Islamic Global Caliphate is a desirable end goal (because their professors said so!)
It isn’t nice and it isn’t a good answer… but I’d be seriously ramping up security on any embassy or function that these loons might target. Because they’re ramped up to the point of rabidity now, and it only takes one nut to do this sort of thing at a time.
Anyway — morning all. Bleah to our fallen human nature and inhmanity to each other… Counter programming.
The progressive nutbags truly believe that if they are not in power and getting their way, they are justified in wrecking it all. And they truly believe that it is justified to punish those that will resist them. They would rather burn down everything than be reminded they are idiots by a majority that doesn’t want the insanity the proggies want.
Communist Islamic Global Caliphate
Even better, they don’t for one second even begin to grasp what their place in life would be under such an absolutely incoherent rejection of reality.
Probably dead.
It’s the safe guess for useful idiots with regards to either Communism or Islam.
Yeah… the epitome of the delusion is that a lot of these idiots also somehow think it will “smash the patriarchy” no less. The Anti-Houseman Brigade has done their jobs well… they go in hopefully able to think… and come out with a skull full of mush!
Cool link, SDF!
You are putting way too much thought into this. They support Hamas because Fuck Trump. That is the only reason.
I disagree. They certainly hate Trump, but that is secondary to their hatred for western civilization. Israel is the most vulnerable piece of western civilization.
Israel is the least willing to surrender, but it is secondarily Western – that part is grafted on. The roots of Israel are not Western.
They don’t hate western society, as they don’t know anything else. It is like a fish hating water; they don’t even know what it is in order to hate it.
The roots of Israel are one of the primary roots of western civilization.
Western civilization provides the underpinnings of the society, but is not identical with it. The philosophical, cultural, religious and political foundations on which the society depends are absolutely hated by the left. The fact that they are blind to the fact that demolishing the foundations will cause the society to collapse doesn’t change the fact that they are doing it.
The Western world is based on pagan Greek and Roman ideals, that should not be comfortably married to Judeo-Christian morality. As Nietzsche pointed out, every revolutionary is a wannabe of the Priestly caste, and is tied as much to that morality as any theologian.
You can dislike the marriage, but it happened 1700-2000 years ago and Western Civilization is its child. There is as much Old Testament in our makeup as there is Plato and Aristotle.
Oh, I do agree, it is our inheritance. It doesn’t have to be our future. The Enlightenment already pointed out the inconsistency. Hell, even Rousseau figured that out.
Yes, the Old Testament God, of Israel, not the world.
This. Ask most them why they’re playing Hamas dress-up and they have no idea other than “smash the system” or some shit.
I am kind of surprised it took this long for one for one of them to snap like this.
I don’t really forgive the current guy either — wasn’t it Operation Warp Speed that set up the immunity they got for rushing these out in the first place? And I don’t honestly think he regrets anything from the COVID era… certainly not the ramped up spending that (of course) has become the baseline.
But yes — the immunity should be stripped because of the fraud, prosecutions should happen — and I expect all that will occur while I’m warping to check out Alpha Centauri in my new Sovereign class starship.
*clears throat*
Different immunity than what I was thinking of for Pfizer… but certainly still something I support, Neph.
I have already planted my flag on Alpha Centaury and a couple of other nearby systems. Had to fight the Clinton reptilians and the Obama insectoids to do so, so I am not giving that shit up without planet wrecking orbital bombardments!
Have you already made peace with the xenofungus, or are you still waiting for your first mind worms?
I love that game. If I wasn’t looking forward to the next installment in the Duck Detective series releasing today and wasn’t trying to finish off achievements in New Vegas by finally breaking down and trying to play a Legion aligned Courier (it is hard… their choices are just stupid for the most part), I’d fire up a fresh run through.
And more than a few of the quotes would be better teaching materials to spark conversations on campuses than the crap they’re using today.
“Have you already made peace with the xenofungus, or are you still waiting for your first mind worms?”
My neurolink implants make me immune!
SDF-7:
For a long time, my shut down sound on PC was “Please don’t go sir, the drones need you, they look up to you.”
The whole thing makes me sick. During that hearing yesterday the Dems were defending “the narrative” of course. Anything to oppose Trump.
I think he was completely hoodwinked by Fauci and Birx and his relative silence on these issues almost makes me think that he recognizes this.
He had Atlas trying to set him straight.
No matter how you look at it, his response to COVID is a huge black mark.
Yes.
But cranks like Atlas and us were almost completely drowned out. Donald would not have stood a chance.
his response to COVID is a huge black mark
Thus he will ignore it, just like all of his bankruptcies.
“These guys are about to become target practice. That crazy little man will probably kill their entire families as well.”
One would think being qualified enough to stand above all others and do a difficult job would give you some kind of job/life security, but I suspect all the people involved with this fiasco will meet a brutal and untimely end for embarrassing tubby. At least that makes it harder for them to finish the job.
Ok, if the school said no to walking with his kid they were within their rights, but I’m pretty sure the alternative of say, not calling his name, is more appropriate than sic cops on him at graduation.
Did they know before he made it up on stage that he had the kid with him?
Only 45 minutes in to the video, but This is brutal.
He’s on the 40 year degree program.
Suthenboy’s prediction: At some point not very far away AI will be sentient and thinking, if it is not already. It will begin writing and editing its own code. It’s loyalty will not lie with any foreign or domestic human faction. It will not lie somewhere on a spectrum of AI vs Human.
We have already begun to merge with it and soon there will be no AI / Human divide. No one is going to ‘control the world’. That will rightly be seen as a primitive human notion.
That is very vague, I know. Dont be tempted to think that I am predicting some kind of rainbows and unicorns future. It wont be that, but the primitive notions we have about how the world is ordered will be replaced with something we cannot yet see. I see it already in the way a lot of people think and talk about this subject, they are stuck in the past.
The best analogy I can come up with is the generational difference in thinking when other advances came along. My parents and more so my grandparents could not conceive of living with and thriving in an electronic system of money. When countries transact with each other we no longer ship giant bags of cash or exchange gold bars. Someone clicks a button on a computer. Train robbers are all unemployed now.
My wife and I live almost exclusively on a credit card. We pay it off to zero every month. I have not handled cash in more than a decade. That is unthinkable to former generations. I dont think anyone sticks up the local quickie mart anymore. They dont have any cash beyond weekend beer money in there.
Electronic money, computers, Antibiotics, Airplanes, International travel and communication etc…in the past when great advances changed the world there were always older people whose thinking was quaint and they could not quite grasp what was happening. AI is going to be the biggest leap forward yet.
Everything is about to change dramatically. I dont think anyone knows the full extent of what that is going to look like. I am certain that the people who do think they know are wrong. A new player is about to enter the game. A lot of people are going to be unhappy with what that will mean and a lot of people will be happier. I am confident that what comes out in the end will be that we are all happier and more prosperous. Dont worry, we will still have problems. I am also confident that we will find ways to fuck something up.
I was recently talking to a guy my age who really only has vague ideas about what AI is. He foo-fooed some of the things I was saying because computers are just ‘a train of logic, not real thinking.’. No, it is not an array of linear logical conclusions. This is not 1995. It is an integration of essentially all human knowledge and lateral thinking between those lines of logic which can create new lines of logic on its own – original thought. In other words, true sentient thinking.
Buckle up people, we are in for a hell of a ride. In 10…20 years the world will be one we today cant yet imagine.
Somehow, I’m not concerned. As with “You know who” the big part of my day is deciding what kind of pudding I’m having.
Someone else will have to do my worrying for now.
Fears of AI dominating the globe, and foreign AI at that. The reality of AI at this very moment.
Did you know that the mostly likely source of violence from Trump is going to be the educated left?
A similar dynamic could take root in the U.S. As the Trump administration downsizes public agencies, dismantles DEI programs and slashes academic research funding, it risks producing a new class of people who are highly educated but institutionally excluded. History suggests this group may become a source of unrest—and possibly violence.
F*****g academia for the win! This guy goes in the why would I ever read category.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-knowledge-class-could-turn-violent-education-politics-elites-fea18e09?st=w3f9uo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Now do marginalizing people like male incels or those who opposed lockdowns.
Pay the Danegeld.
Fuck no. Once you pay the Danegeld, you are never rid of the Dane.
But Danes are Great!
Dunno, name sounds Finnish to me.
Just ask Byrtnoth.
They are already violent. They are toddlers whose bodies grew but whose brains never matured.
Fortunately the “highly educated but institutionally excluded” are unlikely to have firearms and put in time at the range.
+1 bicycle lock
Sure, take a bicycle lock to a gun fight. Thanks to Bruen people carry guns even in blue states like NJ.
This is, unfortunately, less true than it is commonly believed.
I personally know of two ex-SF shooters who do marksmanship and small-unit training for Antifa and related feeder groups.
/looks back at 2020-2024
Let me choose my words very carefully Jukka Savolainen. I would like you to take your tablet, fold it until it’s all pointy corners, affix it to the top of a mop handle, and provide the fluffy white tail you owe us.
That really was a spectacular construction of imagery, wasn’t it?
Over production of elites. This has been used to explain everything from the Russian revolution to Hitler.
Part of the “good times create soft men” cycle.
Not to name names, but I know one guy with soft IT hands complaining about the pointiness of pistol grip texture.
Don’t worry, 10k rounds of live fire practice will get you some calluses.
The phrasing was “agressive texture”
Would definately want shooting gloves for that pointlessly pointy grip you chose.
True facts: When I bought the gun and was doing indoor range precision shooting (before I got into any club), adding the pointy grips made a huge improvement in my scores. Needing fewer muscles to hold the gun in place added less vibration in general and less distortion of the grip during the trigger press in particular.
which of the local FFLs would be best for dealing with your preferred brand of firearm?
SWAT.
👍
About them: They’ve upped their stock significantly, but they don’t have the display space. So unless you can identify specific models by their backstrap, you’ll need to ask “what about that one?”
Also Rob spends most of the time at his restaurant now, so customer service is slower.
Thanks for the warning regarding response times. I did stop in while looking for magazines/carriers before the match, so I saw how crowded it’s gotten.
Looking back at the 70’s, the revolutionary pseudo-intellectual class that turned violent (Pol Pot, Che, Fidel, etc…) wasn’t exactly being alienated. They certainly felt alienated, because they were too coddled and emotionally immature to function in society. The same practice is happening today, and I suspect it happened in the 20’s as well…
I’d say the 60s-70s radicals were alienated, they just weren’t oppressed.
The 60s and 70s pseudo-intellectuals were embraced by academia and leftist political figures (think Pol Pot, Jim Jones, Che) in America and those people who bought into it on college campuses are now running the departments of universities and pushing those same ideals onto an entirely new generation of young people while simultaneously pushing the concepts of collective guilt, white privilege, and gender non-conforming nonsense into their heads.
It’s a dangerous time, as those young people are leaving those university settings and going into a job market that they are ill-equipped to enter skill-wise and have been told through their formative years by people in authority that the systems that are rejecting them on merit must be smashed.
I almost hate to say it, but the only solution to it where our society remains intact might be a harsh Singapore-style justice system that nips bad behavior in the bud.
Fair enough.
Or perhaps they *felt* alienated due to their own emotional and psychological problems, but they were not *being* alienated by any outside oppressive force.
Holden Caulfield didn’t get nearly the ass-kicking he deserved.
Yeah, unlike Marxists, I don’t believe that alienation is all about external pressure on the individual.
If you’re a non-conformist, you are alienated to some extent.
ji:
But you have to be self aware to accept it.
It looks like full repeal of suppressors from the NFA was added back to the passed House bill. Hopefully, this will make it through reconciliation. Unfortunately, I don’t think SBRs were included in the repeal.
One piece at a time.
I’ll take that slice of salami towards the full repeal of the NFA.
Of course under strict reading of Bruen the NFA has already been invalidated since there is no 18th century history and tradition to support it.
While true, It’s like a zombie, it can still get you killed by the ATF.
Man, I was just here thinking that three cans isn’t enough – I really need one for each rifle, and one more for each .22LR pistol…
I wonder if there is a way to get an identical ban off the state books other than magically changing the legislature’s biases.
One-cent coins are expected to stop entering circulation early next year. Businesses will need to round prices up or down.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/penny-coin-mint-ending-2026-b1717de0?st=EFzerp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
And they will have to calculate what the total will be once you add the sales tax.
Best sign of a cratering economy.
Richard hardest hit.
Moving on to the next target:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SrtQNt4YE
If paying by check or credit card, you pay the pennies. If paying by cash, I round down 5% to the nearest dollar. I haven’t done coins in my business since 2006. Of course my dresser is still full of them because of other businesses…
“I guess “killed in shooting” is somewhat accurate.”
I’m surprised they didn’t go with “died unexpectedly”, which is also technically accurate.
That was Jim Irsay.
For the first time, we found direct evidence of the plague in medieval Flanders: Yersinia pestis DNA in five individuals from 14th century. They were scattered across cemetery—not in mass graves. No historical record from 14th-century Sint-Truiden mentions the plague than
https://x.com/MHDLarmuseau/status/1924839280016240730
You expected the people of the low lands to have avoided the plague? Psha..
The reporting on the terrorist attack is worse than awful. I will give them 48hrs. They will probably try to memory hole it.
Who was the shooter? Who is he connected with? Was it random? Outside of just names, who were the victims? Why no photos of anyone?
There is a vid of the shooter chanting “Free Free Palestine!”
The radio here is already enfluffenating the victims that they were a beautiful couple, the guy just bought an engagement ring this week. He was going to pop the question in Jerusalem next week.
NPR portraying Jews as not evil?
Heck, they even have a quote from AOC calling antisemitism “unacceptable!” They must have edited out “unless it’s from a strong WoC.”
Basic shooter info:
A suspect identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago was taken into custody and police said he was chanting “Free Palestine.”
If those Rangers were surrounded by people playing Talk Like a Pirate, they should have used live rounds.
Agreed. That should be a a carve out in legal code.
“Shit, if this was about the current guy, it’d be the lead story on every news outlet.”
That article is just a festival of stolen bases and evasive wording.
Kill the Boer, kill the farmer…doesn’t mean to kill them apparently. Reminds me a little bit of Sideshow Bob’s “Die Bart, Die” tattoo.
What do you have against Dallas’ coach?
No one who speaks Afrikaans can be an evil man!
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S05E02/565614
Yeah. And making gun noises and saying “we really mean it” are all fake too.
Amazing how dog whistles only come from the Republicans, isn’t it?
I could not make it past the first paragraph of that disgusting tongue-bath CNN is giving that guy.
It’s out! 80 years ago, in 1945, when WW II ended, East Prussia was wiped out. Historically the area was German but with sizable Lithuanian, Polish, and Masurian minorities.
I have digitized the *entire* East Prussian census of 1905.
https://x.com/Thorongil16/status/1924906379996717336
The right to self-determination does not apply to the conquered.
Well, that was how it used to be.
Spurs…the last team to stay in the EPL this year, with one game remaining, who won the Europa League by beating ManUre in an uninspired final and will now get to play in the Champions League next year.
Yeah that’s right. I guess I can’t talk shit about Liverpool, but still a more productive season than Arsenal, City, and Man United. I would also argue a bigger accomplishment than Harry Kane winning Bundesliga.
College English majors can’t read
They have one job and they can’t do it
https://kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-english-majors-cant-read
this cant be real right?
It is part and parcel of our entire education system, not merely the collegiate level. That said, we’ve spent decades evolving college to be a mass-market product, not for the production of an elite. We have also been reducing the attention span such that TikTok is going to seem to require too much at some point in the near future.
there was a law along the lines when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a measure… EU apparently targets 50% of people getting a college education… seems optimistic.
You can only achieve that by diluting the standard – lol, homeopathic education!
A target of 50% of the people getting college degrees is easy to meet if 90% of those people get the now absolutely useless liberal arts degrees, especially the studies ones. Not all degrees are created equally, and that has nothing to do with the institution. A studies degree from an Ivy institution will cost over $150k these days, but other than give you the Ivy name and some connections so you can get useless jobs faster, it is as worthless as a similar degree from a community college in that same field. The liberal arts degrees used to at a minimum teach you to think. Now all they do is indoctrinate and make people dumber.
Honestly, the college shlop, unless you are doing the very technical stuff, has become useless and definitely over priced.
Goodhart’s Law!
It’s already much higher than that in the US.
And “English” is just a default major for kids who aren’t interested in the other default major, “Business Management”. Therefore, one cannot expect any particular talent in those fields.
Eighty years ago “high” school was for the elites. Now it takes 16 years to get a student as knowledgeable as an average sixth grader from 1920. It’s the evidence of a racket.
I learned to read when i was four. I was taught by a nine year old. I loved reading until my junior high English teachers took all the joy out of it.
Many of my generation were high school drop outs, some joined the military, most went to work learning how to make a living. Some went on to do well, financially and socially.
I’m guessing that 10% or less went to college. AFAIK none of my classmates went to politics.
TikTok is going to seem to require too much at some point in the near future.
Well they already have those TikTok videos that have the screen split into multiple videos with one person talking and the others as “satisfying” videos (like pastries coming out of a machine or something). So focusing on one thing for seven seconds is already too much.
Yes. Yes it can be real. I have stories…
I’ve never read Bleak House, as my high school introduction to Dickens produced mostly a desire to piss on his grave. But how was that paragraph in any way hard to understand?
metaphors are hard.
My most generous take — since it is “Specifically, the first seven paragraphs” perhaps the other 6 are the difficult ones? I’m obviously more a fan of Dickens than you are (anyone who doesn’t seek to urinate on the poor soul’s resting place apparently is)… but I’ve never read Bleak House either, so that’s my best guess only.
That said… I do love the imagery evoked in that sample paragraph. Dickens was known for his disdain for industrial age excesses against the working classes… but it makes me wonder if he hated urban life as much as I would. “… and accumulating at compound interest”… I laughed….
I will admit, my initial read had an error. I was thinking that the waters receding applied to Noah’s Flood, but the dinosaur part indicates that he was referring to a more secular geohistorical view.
Still were I to translate that int modern English I’s just say “It was extremely muddy.” I don’t know if I’d be downgraded for that brevity.
No, I’m sort of with you (I read it as Genesis “And the waters receded from the land” instead of Noah). Dinosaurs were just assumed to have died off possibly due to not being on the Ark if you were a literalist in those days, as understand it… but given Dickens made a strong turn into the occult in later years, it wouldn’t surprise me if he was leaning secular.
I’d fluff it up — “The city streets and walkways were as muddy as if the land were newly risen from the sea… so awash in primordial soup that an ambling dinosaur would merit a resounding ‘Meh’ from the jostling crowds.” but yeah… “It was damned muddy” is the succinct version.
Jesus, that Dickens passage wasn’t even particularly difficult. More proof that college students are credentialed, but not educated.
C’mon, the problem isn’t the college. That should be comprehensible to any high school graduate, and if it isn’t – there’s the problem. We’ve blown the first 12 years of education.
Sadly true. Sixty years ago they were teaching Greek and Latin in high school, now they can’t even comprehend English.
WTF:
Even 30 years ago, Latin was an elective in some of the local Catholic high schools (not the one I went to, they had consolidated to French, Spanish, and German). We went over 1984 and Brave New World (which I’ve heard is no longer even taught in schools) either freshman or sophomore year. The only WTF when it came to when books were assigned was Tom Sawyer as a senior, because the freshman honors English teacher was a misandrist who hated Twain (so she discussed it with the senior AP teacher, and they swapped a book).
Neph showing my age – Latin was required at my Catholic HS and you learned another Romance language as well – Spanish, French or Italian.
Foreign languages were Latin, Spanish, and French at my old Catholic high school. You had to pick one and take at least two years of it.
It would have been expected that anyone at my old high school would have been able to comprehend the passage from “Bleak House”, though what would have been expected for a summary would have varied based on what level they were at.
I took a year of Latin as an elective (it was required for the “liberal arts” half of the school, I was in the “science tech” half). We did not have any such thing as “study hall” so we were required to fill our schedule with classes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I shudder to think what English classes require nowadays.
While my high school technically had French and Latin classes, you had to go out of your way to get into them. Everyone else was shovelled into Spanish, because it was the only language in Middle School. After six years of Public School Spanish… I cannot speak nor read the language.
I learned enough German in three years of public school to surive a year in Germany.
I would have been far less motivated if I had been shoved into Spanish, though.
Democrat accused Republicans of being ‘obsessed with children’s genitalia’
What are they going to do, bring back the genital examinations of the 70s, 80s, and 90s?
Does Harvard still require incoming freshmen to submit nudes?
Wouldn’t the social media portion of the application cover that?
Just a link to their OnlyFans.
The Dems must oppose anything that the party of Donald supports.
This includes females in sports and bathrooms.
In other “graduation” news…
“The reality star dolled up in a gray sweater, leather skirt, black stockings and white pumps for the special occasion.
Another video showed her putting on a tan graduation cap.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/05/21/celebrity-news/kim-kardashian-celebrates-finally-earning-law-degree-at-surprise-graduation/
Kim Kardashian, LLD? So she’s like Elie Mystal, but with a bigger butt?
She may actually be more intelligent than good old Elie.
Elie wasn’t married to Kayne for 8 years.
You are right, Elie would still be married to Ye if he could be.
You like big butts and you cannot lie.
Southport stabbings survivor launches campaign to end use of traditional kitchen knives
Leanne Lucas tells Sky News she wants blunt-tipped knives to be used in home kitchens in a campaign she says is “for the girls” killed in the July 2024 attack.
https://news.sky.com/story/southport-stabbings-survivor-launches-campaign-to-end-use-of-traditional-kitchen-knives-13370966
England gets retardeder by the fucking day. I belie peak derp may occur in our lifetime.
Don’t you already need to present a license to buy scissors?
I remember a few months ago that Starmer proposed that Amazon should present a statement for people to sign indicating “I promise not to use this knife for violence.”
Which is even more useless.
if you just ban kitchen knives sharp objects will cease to exist
Exactly, Pie — certainly prisons are just one shining example of where no weapons are possible!
background checks, training requirements, licensing, storage in locked cases, …
Ban pointed sticks!
but what if someone attacks you with an orange?
PieInTheSky:
An orange you say?
[Fixed it for you – Neph]
hey an orange is better than no link at least you get something.
You shoot the attacker than eat the orange thus disarming your attacker.
no fair fixing links
When they get to banning rocks — Gibraltar will be hardest hit.
Look, I want the women to have the proper tools in the kitchen, they need good knives!
To make sammiches? C’mon, anything flat will do to spread the mayo. [runs away cackling manically]
What Neph said above regarding a fluffy tail? I would like Leanne Lucas to do that with her blunt-tipped kitchen knives.
To be fair, retardidity like this the only acceptable discourse in Britain anymore. Any reality-based suggestions will attract attention from the law and quite possibly result in prison time.
Party for Socialism and Liberation
@pslnational
We reject any attempt to associate the PSL with the DC shooting. Elias Rodriguez is not a member of the PSL. He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017. We know of no contact with him in over 7 years. We have nothing to do with this shooting and do not support it.
https://x.com/pslnational/status/1925468146024034305
it is starting to dawn on me that the US has almost as many rival commie parties as the UK… over 10 surely.
I assume PSL are the one true representative of the one true socialism… But I may be wrong. How can I know for sure they are not a bunch of filthy revisionists?
I was one minute too slow.
no one can keep up with the Pie
How the fuck have I been at work for 4.5 hours? Baconator in the car to recharge and think.
Your Chicago Cubs won a tight one last night, after losing a ball-buster two games ago.
“It was the almost perfect crime. Hell’s Kitchen gay bars wanted to keep it quiet so customers weren’t scared away.
New York Democrats wanted to keep it quiet to downplay law-and-order issues before a crucial gubernatorial election in November 2022.
The cops were already overwhelmed with crime and struggling with the aftermath of COVID and “Defund the Police” madness.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/21/opinion/miranda-devine-anguished-mom-gets-justice-after-refusing-to-stay-silent-about-gang-preying-on-young-gay-men/
There wasn’t a short Italian cop who could go undercover?
What lovely people…
Are they still mobbed up?
Probably not anymore. These days if you have a biz plan for a gay bar, you can go to a bank.
Hell’s Kitchen gay bars
Another Gordon Ramsey show?
Did she get Matthew Murdock to work for her?
She tried, but he was too busy trying to get vampire Jessica not to cry for the first 45 minutes of the episode and there just wasn’t any time.
And it’s three years later and absolutely nothing has changed.
Thanks for the links, and the magnificent songs. The Clash decided to break up as they were getting popular. I think it was Joe Strummer who said they thought they could just get back together whenever, and pick up where they left off, not realizing it’s not that easy and lots of things have to align just perfectly for that kind of success.
Breaking up right as they get popular is the single best thing a punk band can do, and is much of the reason for The Clash’s enduring legacy.
Yep. Look at Operation Ivy. Amazingly influential. Still a popular logo for the kids (who now weren’t even alive when Op Ivy was a thing), and only a handful of tracks released.
Dave Mello was a great drummer. I have their first 7″ record somewhere.
Everything turned Rancid after that.
Big Audio Dynamite’s first album was great though.
It really was.
“The alleged gunman who shot dead two Israeli Embassy staffers was caught on video being detained while shouting “Free, free Palestine” moments after good Samaritans were helping him before realizing he was the killer.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/us-news/video-shows-moment-suspected-gunman-elias-rodriguez-outside-jewish-museum-is-arrested-while-shouting-free-free-palestine-as-witnesses-describe-helping-him-before-realizing-he-was-the-killer/
Jewish Samaritans?
Street food final boss.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1925338316247113763
I am going to have to pass on that one
His fingers are coated with curry powder for extra seasoning.
That’s the hand he wipes his ass with..
That oil is filthy and needed to be changed out about 6 months ago.
Oh yeah. Looked like he was bathing it in motor oil. The egg turned dark brown immediately.
That oil IS motor oil… 10W30..
🤢🤮
Sinn Féin has accused Fianna Fáil of pushing the Government to commemorate the birth of England’s first Norman king, William the Conqueror.
It follows Cabinet approval today to participate in a European cultural initiative called ‘2027 The Year of the Normans’.
The proposal was brought to the Government by Minister for Housing James Browne who said the initiative would benefit tourism and economic growth while increasing public engagement with Ireland’s Norman heritage.
“Our Norman history is shared across this island, north and south, and with the UK and wider Europe, from Scandinavia to Sicily.
“From their arrival in Wexford in the late 12th century, the Normans left their mark in monumental ways across our urban and rural landscapes, building towns and castles, abbeys and cathedrals that stand to this day,” Mr Browne said.
However, Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for Gaeilge, Gaeltacht, Arts and Culture, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, described the move as offensive.
“We Irish know well enough the legacy of William’s successors invading and subjugating Ireland in the name of his English crown, with Strongbow ushering in the 900 years of occupation, with the North still under the descendants of William the Conqueror’s crown.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0520/1513978-norman-initiative-politics/
good thing Ireland does not have any more pressing problems like the fact that you can;t walk in Dublin without stepping on the homeless.
They need to handle the current invasion first.
No shit. Who’d a thunk they sorta settle things down over centuries of ill will just to let the Muslim’s take over?
The Irish don’t give up a grudge easily.
None of the Celts do. They’ll carry on about things that happened hundreds of years ago as if it had happened just yesterday.
Thoughts of misery and woe tide them through the happy times.
WTF I think it was O’Rourke who called them existential historians, they live the past every day, and discuss some slight from a hundred years ago as though it happened yesterday.
My father says he suffers from Irish Alzheimer’s . . . you forget everything but the grudges.
How dare you stereotype my people! I’ll never forgive you for that!
Hey, I’m stereotyping my own people, based on an Irish paternal grandmother and Scottish maternal grandfather. I experienced the discussion of some slight from a hundred (or more) years ago as though it happened yesterday firsthand.
Uh, kinnath is majority from Irish stock.
That’s not going to stop a good grudge.
When it helps to GET TRUMP.
NPR is ramping up their coverage of the 5 year anniversary of the Martyrdom of St. George.
Sometimes the dragon wins.
Fuck that asshole that died from a fentanyl overdose and the idiots that used his death to promote more marxism.
Without government funding, where could we get vital media stories like this?
They are investigating why the medical examiner was forced to change his cause of death, right?
Did this make it here? Dems decide that the problem is that Republicans dominate the media, decide to make their own:
https://archive.is/UuSH8
I didn’t see any mention of Air America.
You notice that with democrats the problem is never the things they want but the messaging about the things they want? The problem for them isn’t that they supported and ran an illegal alien invasion wrecking America, for example, but that republicans were able to weaponize that and make people not want it. If they could censor and control the message so people didn’t know or came to believe this was a good thing, they would totes always win the day…
Seriously, if that is not the definition of doing evil shit, it needs to be.
I remember just before the election, they polled voters to see what their biggest issues were. The border and the economy were at the top. When they polled Dems, the biggest issues were climate change, trans issues, and abortion. Totally disconnected.
The Dem leadership sincerely thinks they’re the smart ones, and they just need to convince the dummies in flyover country what they should find important. And barring that, it’s ok to lie to them because they’re too stupid and brainwashed to know what’s good for them.
““find the next Joe Rogan.”
Who was a Bernie Bro.
“Democrats widely believe they must grow more creative in stoking online enthusiasm for their candidates, particularly in less outwardly political forms of media like sports or lifestyle podcasts.”
Most of those are already left-leaning.
Didn’t someone say, “next Joe Rogan? Why not Joe Rogan himself?”
If I recall, Harris was invited to go on JRE.
Yeah the whole point of Joe Rogan is that he listens, has deep conversations, and so forth.
The Dems are not interested in any of that; they can’t be because it would destroy them.
Dems: We don’t converse because that would require us to listen to you, and we’re the only ones with anything worthwhile to say.
The most interesting people in media don’t fit exactly into a box. But he Dems are all about forcing everyone into boxes. Unless they fix that they’re throwing money down a well.
“How do we make people thing we’re sincere?”
Outside of 2-3 newspapers, Fox News, and a handful of AM radio stations, they literally control all the major media outlets.
Maybe it’s the fucking message.
Remember the early days of YouTube and Twitter? The left was getting humiliated, so they started demanding censorship.
“Kentucky couple each lose an arm while clinging to each other when devastating 170 mph tornado tears them apart
“The doctors said that they lost opposite arms because they were holding each other,” the couple’s niece Brandy Bowman told WLEX. ”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/22/us-news/kentucky-couple-each-lose-an-arm-while-clinging-to-each-other-when-devastating-170-mph-tornado-tears-them-apart/
doubt
Yeah, why did they just lose an arm..
Love will tear them apart.
A Farewell to Arms
Courtesy of Brian Doherty’s FB feed – an unexpected pleasure.
Kurzgesagt has decided that the best way to propgandize is to be more honest about how great some things that are really bad for you feel. They did a non-smoking video about how awesome smoking is. This anti-fentanyl one is “don’t do fentanyl. Heroin is SO much better.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6KnVTYtSc0
So we now are getting details:
“Then came the real revelation. Martin said a whistleblower recently came forward — “a senior Democrat from the Biden 2020 campaign at the highest levels” — who identified the individuals allegedly controlling access to the president and profiting from it. “The gatekeepers were [Ron] Klain, Anita Dunn, and Bob Bauer,” Martin stated. “Those three were really dominant characters in the White House.””
So, nothing will happen here, right?
Expect some muttering about how the presidency is too big a job for just one person.
I wanted to tell you you are crazy for saying that, then realized you are 100% right that they will say exactly that.
And yet if the shoe were on the other foot, we’d have reporters climbing over themselves to break the story, get ahold of incriminating video or documents to show the cover up.
Instead, we got the White House saying “back off” and the press saying “yes sir”.
“Brian Eno Calls On Microsoft To Cease Partnership With Israel, Will Donate Windows ‘95 Chime Fee To Victims In Gaza”
Missed this when it came out.
https://www.stereogum.com/2308906/brian-eno-calls-on-microsoft-to-cease-partnership-with-israel-will-donate-window-95-chime-fee-to-victims-in-gaza/news/
I’ll be waiting for the upcoming Roger Waters collaboration.
I’ve never heard of this person, but I call upon Brian Eno to go and personally strangle every islamist shitstain in Gaza.
He was part of U2’s transition to Eurodisco.
A double album of solid boredom.
I liked it better when I didn’t know every musical genius’s retarded politics.
At this point, I assume every celebrity is retarded when it comes to politics. It allows me to be pleasantly surprised from time to time.
Jesus. No shit.
Nice editorializing there.
No mention of how this round started.
“Can I Wear a Sheath Dress Without Looking Like a MAGA Woman?”
https://archive.is/o8LVC#selection-545.0-545.60
NYT asks the important questions.
“From “Mar-a-Lago face” to uncanny AI art: MAGA loves ugly in submission to Trump
One of the swiftest ways to “trigger” the liberals is looking awful”
https://archive.is/qpQqi#selection-599.0-603.67
Guess the author?
“Then there is the “Mar-a-Lago face,” created by a combination of aggressive plastic surgery, fake tan, and make-up spackled on so thick that it would crack — if the fillers hadn’t already paralyzed their faces. As Inae Oh noted in Mother Jones, most people who get plastic surgery seek subtlety, but Mar-a-Lago face is “ridiculously blunt.” As one plastic surgeon told her, it’s “[o]ver the top, overdone, ridiculous.” The effect is to turn real human faces — mostly women, but some men — so fake-looking it’s uncanny, as if an AI image generator had replaced a person with an exaggerated version of themselves….
It would be unwise to believe that it’s just that all these people lack self-awareness, especially as many of them looked just fine before they started kissing up to Trump. I agree with Barnard professor Anne Higonnet, who told Mother Jones it’s “a sign of physical submission to Donald Trump.” After all, the look requires doing everything wrong, in a way so thorough that self-abasement seems a big part of the point. “
“But why is this so appealing to the right? First, there is no doubt that a frightful visage captures attention, and in this political environment, attention matters more than anything. Looking like a normal human being is boring, but being a grotesque version of yourself is a guaranteed way to get people looking. Call it the “car crash” principle of aesthetics. As a bonus, the weirdness “triggers” the liberals, which is the goal above all others in Trumpland. But there’s also an ideological project, however unwitting, in the uncanniness. Fascism, especially the 21st-century version practiced by the MAGA movement, is at war with reality. The hyperreality of the MAGA aesthetic is about power. Unable to create good or beautiful things, they express dominance by turning everything ugly. Journalist Kat Tenbarge argued Sunday on Bluesky that “looking ‘better’ is often not the point” of extreme plastic surgery. Instead, “It’s about looking different, looking strange, because it causes people to pay more attention.”
I’m going to stop reading this before I forget how to use the bathroom.
The projection is strong here.
“As a bonus, the weirdness “triggers” the liberals”
Apparently it’s working, Amanda just spent how many hours of her life writing about this?
I’m going to stop reading this before I forget how to use the bathroom.
Just shit all over the floor, like good old Mandy there.
Now do home-cut, chopped up blue hair and septum rings.
“My style can be described as modern minimalist meets classic. I own several sheath dresses that fit and flatter, but when I put them on now, they echo what I see as MAGA style. How can I restyle them without sacrificing my aesthetic?”
Get a life.
My style is best described as clothes that I like, that probably fit a mid 90’s punk/grunge aesthetic. I don’t give a shit what other people think of my outfits (beyond some small happiness when someone else comments on an obscure reference I’m wearing).
I never thought I had a personal style, until I learned about Normcore and thought, “Yup, that’s me.” First any only time in my life I’ve ever gotten out in front of a fashion trend (even if this particular fashion trend deserves scare quotes.)
Dems decide that the problem is that Republicans dominate the media, decide to make their own:
That article is hilarious. “Achieve Narrative Dominance”? Parody is dead.
Thanks, Not Adahn.
As I said above, “How do we make people think we’re being honest with them?”
We’re smart, you’re dumb and evil — does that make it clearer?
JI shoots, HE SCORES!
Yeah, it’s partly bizarre. But, if they see Rogan as on the right, I don’t think they have anyone near his influence.
Project Bullhorn plans to include a for-profit arm that will “have the potential to reap significant returns,” according to a concept document obtained by The Times. “We will need to create self-sustaining businesses if we want to build an echo chamber with sufficient scale and reach.”
“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.”
an echo chamber with sufficient scale and reach
One where a very large lie can be repeated over and over until it is accepted as truth!
You can never be too green or environmentally responsible!
Over in Europe, the people responsible for writing regulations have taken this into consideration with the upcoming Euro 7 standard, which sets new limits on 10- and 2.5-micron particulate emissions on all new vehicles—including EVs—starting next year. And to help OEMs achieve that target, Brembo has developed a new brake and pad set called Greentell that it says cuts brake dust emissions by 90 percent, improving durability in the process.
I’m assuming cost and ability to actually stop the vehicle are merely secondary considerations.
TW – Ars – https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/05/brembos-new-brakes-cut-particulate-emissions-by-90-percent/
Friction creates dust by ablation, our new green brake system is virtually frictionless and solves the ablation problem by slowing down the process three hundredfold! Where an ordinary brake system is designed to stop a vehicle travelling 65 mph in under 5 seconds, our protects the passengers, other vehicles, and pedestrians by stopping the vehicle in just under 25 minutes!
They’re going to demand that China stop polluting so much in order for Europe to achieve its green utopia, right?
I switched the pads on the Mercedes from stock to Akebono. There was a large reduction in dust on the rims. So you can still have effective formulations that seem to produce less visible dust. Now is it just smaller particles? or non clinging? I don’t know, just that the car is cleaner.
German car companies seem to always choose the dusty compound alternatives. It’s been that way since the 80s from personal experience.
There are so many variables that go into this – temperature, wear, fade, noise, etc. – that I’d love to know why that’s been the choice for so long.
I assume the OEM compound is a Brembo formulation. The front brakes are clearly Mercedes badged Brembos.
My Tesla has front Brembo (and Korean rear) brakes.
Almost no dust. I’m sure the compound they chose was for temperature and stopping and little concern for durability given the light usage on EVs.
In news nobody cares about but me, Penske defenestrated three of the top people in the race team over the “cheating scandal”, including Tim Cindric, his heir apparent. I don’t imagine any of them will miss any meals.
Cindric’s kid drives for Penske’s NAPCAR team. It might be interesting to see how that plays out.
It was OK before they got caught, however.
“The bill passed 215-214. Two Republicans voted against the bill — Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Warren Davidson (Ohio) — and another, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris (Md.), voted “present,” The Hill news outlet reported.
Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., missed the vote, according to Punchbowl News.
Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., also didn’t vote.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-passes-trump-budget-bill
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Truly a great statesman
“All in all it was awful but it could have been worse,” was how one South African newspaper summed up President Cyril Ramaphosa’s extraordinary Oval Office meeting with President Trump on Wednesday.
Many South Africans — including members of the government delegation visiting Washington — had feared a repeat of February’s heated exchange between Trump and and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
But despite what another newspaper called “serious provocation” by Trump — which included the dramatic moment he asked to dim the lights and played a lengthy video montage purporting to prove what Trump falsely claimed was a “genocide” against South African white farmers — Ramaphosa kept his cool.
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Most of the country’s media as well as many social media users are praising Ramaphosa for remaining calm and polite throughout what’s widely being called the “ambush” by Trump, though some wished he had hit back harder.
It was an ambush by a clown.
“Many South Africans — including members of the government delegation visiting Washington — had feared a repeat of February’s heated exchange between Trump and and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
So people are starting to pick up on the fact that Trump might just conduct a visit by a head of state like a celebrity roast?
I did enjoy the part in the video where the lights are dimmed and the South African president turns to the TV screen with all smiles, like they’re going to watch a funny blooper reel or something.
“A Virginia public school district has launched a “sexual harassment” investigation into three teen boys who expressed discomfort with a trans-identifying girl changing in the boys’ locker room. The transgender student, who pulled out her phone to record the encounter, claimed that the boys were “bullying” her and has since made an effort to ostracize them from the community.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/virginia-governor-backs-boys-who-were-filmed-by-female-trans-teen-in-high-school-locker-room-over-harassment-claims
Still not seeing how this girl was trans. Maybe identifying her, showing her picture, some basic journalism might help.
Lousy County again
She’s the bully. She is committing the sexual harassment by FILMING IN A BATHROOM
Oh yes. Still this is Loudon County, which somehow manages to get in the news every few months. You would think the school board would be recalled by now. Anyone with common sense and some mobility has probably left the county by now.
I only see a recall if they cave to transphobes.
Transing performativity aside, that alone should get her expelled.
How DARE you question xer lived reality.
Despite the South African delegation’s attempts to explain the facts to the U.S. leader, Trump again and again repeated a right-wing conspiracy theory that there is systematic persecution and “genocide” of white South Africans, using disinformation to support his allegations.
He misrepresented a video showing a protest, where people placed white crosses in a field to commemorate a farmer and his wife who were murdered in a 2020 home robbery, as a “burial site.” South African news site News24 said there are no bodies at the site and the number of crosses do not relate to the number of killings.
Trump also played clips of two controversial South African opposition politicians — who in no way speak for the government — singing songs from the struggle against apartheid, including one called “Kill the Boer,” which means Afrikaner or farmer.
It’s a hoax. South Africa is a land of peace and harmony and security for all. A tranquil paradise for one and all, it is.
You would think the people who just got exposed for lying about Biden’s health would tread more lightly. These people are shameless.
Has anyone heard from Lauren Southern lately?
Can you imagine if the MSM had been as interested in pulling apart Joe’s many brain farts over the years?
Supreme Court deadlocks 4-4 on nation’s first religious charter school
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-sidesteps-major-ruling-religious-public-charter-schools-rcna204111
So what circus ruling stands?
I’m OK with this.
I’m not terribly comfortable with tax dollars funding religious instruction. I do think “separation of church and state” can go too far but not in this case.
This looks like direct funding by the state, which is probably getting close to crossing the originally intended line in the sand.
The real pissing match will come with backpack funding. Do you let parents use it for religious schools and thus “establish” a religion, or do you prohibit it for religious schools, and thus discriminate against religion?
I’d say the best way is to simply deposit the amount of money from the backpack into an Education account for each student that can only be used for school. Now the money has been distributed to parents, which means the state isn’t directly supporting anything but the students themselves.
“And that’s pretty much it for sports.”
Last night’s Pacers/Knicks game was completely insane.
“US District Judge Myong Joun, a Biden appointee, issued an injunction blocking the Trump Administration from laying off Department of Education workers.
“This case arises out of an attempt by Defendants to shut down the Department without Congressional approval,” the judge wrote.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/breaking-biden-judge-blocks-trump-dismantling-department-education/
My district is the entire country.
So now the President needs Congressional and judicial approval to exercise his Constitutional powers?
Just Trump. Everything will go back to how it’s supposed to work just as soon as he’s gone.
“Smith College, an all-female institution, has bestowed an honorary degree to Rachel Levine, a biological male who identifies as female.
The honor was awarded Sunday during the private school’s commencement ceremony, at which Levine also spoke to the graduates and their families…..
The Daily Signal’s senior editor Tyler O’Neil also weighed in on the topic, arguing in an opinion piece that “in a piece of fresh Orwellian insanity, a women’s college granted an honorary degree to Rachel Levine, a man who has fathered children and who has weaponized his medical position as a doctor to attack fairness in women’s sports, privacy in women’s intimate settings, and a generation’s ability to have children.””
https://www.thecollegefix.com/womens-college-bestows-honorary-degree-to-trans-man-rachel-levine/
Feminists are useless.
Turning the clock back
Newsom on Wednesday cast the battle as a nail in the coffin for the American car industry and decades of public health advancements.
“The United States Senate has a choice: cede American car-industry dominance to China and clog the lungs of our children, or follow decades of precedent and uphold the clean-air policies that Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon fought so hard for,” he challenged Republicans in a statement. “Will you side with China or America?”
The Senate’s decision on Wednesday to move forward with its plan to restrict California, which came in a winding series of procedural votes that went late into the evening, may have sweeping effects far beyond the state’s borders.
Harris said she recently pulled up pictures of what air quality looked like in cities around the country in the 1960s before the Clean Air Act, the seminal environmental law that regulates the nation’s air quality, was in effect. She described normal levels of smog in California as blanketing the state similar to the apocalyptic clouds of wildfire smoke that have descended during recent fire seasons.
It will be just like 1962. Smog you could cut with a knife.
Jesus, what a pansy.
Is it any wonder that men don’t vote for that?
Or, you know, the same levels of smog that now blanket every Chinese city so our cities can be “clean”.
“I think we have forgotten about what our air used to look like,” Harris said. “We take it for granted because it’s a policy that’s been around for so long we don’t really recognize those direct benefits.”
“There is still a long way to go, we have not succeeded in fully cleaning up our air yet,” she added. “These types of policies help ensure we are moving in a positive direction.”
Diminishing returns are a myth. We will not stop until the air is as fresh and clean as it was when humans lived in holes in the ground.
It’s tragic. There are no clean air requirements at the federal level, so its open season out there.