May 07, 2024
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
Pro-Palestinian activists staged a protest at the annual March of the Living in Poland on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The activists went to Auschwitz to protest the march, which is held each year to pay respects to victims of the holocaust and chanted "stop genocide" and waved Palestinian flags at attendees. The march was attended by survivors of the Holocaust as well as those who survived the October 7 attacks on Israel. Images show some protesters wearing yellow badges resembling the stars that Nazis forced Jews to wear.Aside from the ancient historical animus, we have two additional sources for anti-Semitism: the post-modern fixation on victim-hood, and the cultural and religious hatred of Jews by Arabs and Muslims. Of course post-modernism simply feeds into the traditional Jew-hate of the left, and gives it an additional point of purchase. Sadly for Israel and worldwide Jewry, the left is expert at manipulation of the masses, and social media has given them an incredibly powerful tool. Now they can reach the mushy-brained, apolitical, ignorant college freshmen who used to be obsessed with confounding mommy and daddy with their disheveled dress and weird boyfriends/girlfriends. Now they can be part of a worldwide network of similarly ignorantly disaffected youth who are part of a concerted effort by the hard left to de-legitimize Israel, and deplatform Jews! The fact that they have no understanding of the issues, and can't name the river or the sea means nothing to them. They are fighting the power! They are questioning authority! How exciting! Israel and some Jews are fighting back, using social media to counter the baldly ahistoric claims. But it is a long road, and they are far behind. Absent a significant political change, the next generation of Jews, both in Israel and around the world will have to contend with the rise of what can only be described as 21st Century Nazism. The traditional resistance to that sort of sentiment must change. It seems to be changing in Israel, where a mostly united populace has resisted the leftist calls for accommodation. In the West it is a slower process, but American Jews (Europe is almost certainly lost to the Muslim hordes) must fight back with different tools, and must reevaluate the traditional connection to the Democrat party. The liberals who once controlled it have been subsumed in a sea of hard-left sensibilities that are savagely opposed to Jews, Judaism, and Israel. What are the new tools? Physical Self defense. One-issue voting (unequivocally support Israel and Jews, or lose the Jewish vote). Deny all financial support to the new Nazis in academia. Sounds simple, but it isn't.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
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The Morning Report — 5/7/24
“Madam [fake] Vice President, Hamas says it accepted a ceasefire deal…” the reporter began. “Shrimp and grits. Is that what you wanted to know?” Harris said. Hamas, a U.S.-designated Islamic terror organization, announced on Monday that it had agreed to a ceasefire proposal. Israeli officials responded to Hamas begging for a ceasefire, claiming that the deal Hamas was agreeing to was “not the same proposal” that Israel and Egypt had previously agreed upon, adding that “all kinds of clauses” were added. The news came hours after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dropped leaflets warning residents in Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, to evacuate and go to “safe” zones.In any case, the IDF has begun its final push on what is likely the last Hamas redoubt in Gaza. Should all of this have been done much earlier? Could all of this have been done much earlier? And the ultimate question is could 10/7 have been prevented in the first place? There are a number of factors to consider when grappling with those questions: the unquenchable desire to live in peace that can and often does blind Israel to the equally unquenchable desire of Islam to slit the throat of every Jew on the planet. The former has led Israel to go above and beyond any armed force and nation in history to attempt to spare the lives of "non-combatants." Knowing this full well, the latter intentionally uses "non-combatants" as cannon-fodder, wanting them to be killed in order to gain a strategic advantage vis a vis international opinion far outweighing the rivers of Jewish, and its own, blood it spills. I put the phrase "non-combatants" in quotes because unless one is a crawling, non-verbal infant under the age of perhaps 4 or 5, these individuals have aided and abetted in the initial attack and barbarism perpetrated on Israel on 10/7 because they are adherents of Islam. Not radical Islam, not fundamentalist Islam but Islam as it has been preached and practiced since Mohammed raped his 9-year-old wife way back when in the original dark ages. The evil unleashed on 10/7, on top of the body count in both wars and acts of terrorism perpetrated by Islamic nation states and terrorists since the re-establishment of the state of Israel in its modern form in 1948, means nothing. "The World's Oldest Hatred" not just from Islam but sadly as a 2,000-year-old relic of western antipathy and hatred, which was the seed from which the godless totalitarians of modern Leftism, has kept it alive and burning unto today. Perhaps brighter than we had ever thought possible considering the events of 1933-1945. Robert Zimmerman, Larry Elder and Alexander Markovsky have quite good and in some cases sobering to depressing analyses along these lines and I recommend each of these essays. On a positive note, at least one that I hope takes hold in Israel's leadership and more importantly, its society at large is that all of the considerations of the past must go out the window when it comes to national survival. Sadly, recognizing that the junta in power over here is no longer an ally and is likely acting in concert with its, Israel's, mortal enemies, then they must not allow the US nor the always-feckless EU to dictate policy. The latter is well on the way to becoming subsumed by the global caliphate and unless we reverse course radically, and fast, we're not that far behind them. Wiping out Hamas is crucial but long-term it will not be enough. Handing the Gazans the keys and withdrawing will not lead to the strip magically turning into another Singapore. Hell, that was supposedly Beirut many many decades ago and look what happened there for nearly the past 50 years. Israel must maintain control of Gaza including its educational system. The entire population especially the younger generations must be deprogrammed and deNazified. How you do that by demanding the abolition of the teaching of the Koran or its editing out of the juicier bits of Jew-hatred is a conundrum, to say the least. Of course, the same must happen over here in terms of the brainwashing of the past several generations of America's children, who now run the show and the prevention of same of future generations. Finally, longtime Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar has been indicted by Lavrenty Garland's DOJ. Is Cuellar guilty? Considering his political party and that he has been in public office for many years, it's highly likely. But that's not the issue. The indictment is most likely because Cuellar, being Latino and Democrat has committed the unforgivable apostasy of going against Leftist dogma by being very loudly critical of the Biden Junta's erasure of our border. If he had only toed the Leftist line or just kept his fat yap shut, he could've kept his grift going forever. Like every other loyal Democrat who remains untouchable and above the law (mostly because they control the law, how it is applied and to whom). For that heresy, he has to go the way of Bob Menendez. Were it not for double standards, the Dems would have none.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Kurt Schlichter: "A habit mixed up with personal identity."
SHOT: Will Jewish Voters Stop Voting for the Democrats Who Want to Kill Them?
- Dennis Prager: "Psychopathology and left-wing ideology are the two primary explanations for why Jews such as those in groups like 'Jewish Voice for Peace' and 'IfNotNow' willingly serve as useful idiots for those who wish to exterminate the Jewish state and the Jewish people. Including them."
CHASER: Sick Jews
- Michael Walsh: ". . . conservatives need to understand that handing the abortion club back to the Left is political suicide. . . To lose the White House over an issue that's already been constitutionally decided is lunacy."
On Abortion, Take the Win and Move On
- Glenn H. Reynolds: "In Brazil, starting in the 1960s and continuing on and off until the present, we wound up seeing 'death squads' deal out vigilante justice that the legal system couldn’t, or wouldn’t deliver, with predictably bad results. We’re not in danger of that in New York, yet, but Alvin Bragg, both through his overreach aimed at Trump, and his no-prosecution approach to many genuine criminals, is moving us closer."
Dems Use the Legal System to Target the Right – Yet Give the Left a Pass
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Daily Tech News 7 May 2024
Top Story
- Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption. (The Verge)
By which The Verge means Republicans are objecting to laws and regulations designed to make internal combustion vehicles more expensive and less efficient.
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May 06, 2024
(5/6/23) Monday Overnight Open Thread 
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The Quotes of The Day
Quote I The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
Quote 2 “This is what this is all about — election inference, how do we stop it — and it’s a disgrace. President Donald Trump I wonder if this comment will cause the Honorable Wannabe Judge Dred to jail President Trump
Quote III ‘I’m thankful to God that I’m still here. Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church shows Pastor Glenn Germany
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Quick Hits
From last week:
Princeton students on hunger strike are complaining about "unsafe conditions."
Last week, a professor wrote this FaceBook letter to protesting "students":
Oh no! Police brace for pro-terrorist protests at the extremely annoying Met Gala tonight.
As fd said, "please please please, don't burn the place down!" Or just get the good paintings out first, at least.The NYPD is bracing for possible unrest to rock Monday's star-studded Met Gala, law enforcement sources told The Post -- as anti-Israel groups called for a "Day of Rage" protest at CUNY's nearby Hunter College. Police security will be heightened in and around the Metropolitan Museum of Art as A-listers start descending on the iconic Upper East Side venue for the glitzy gala Monday evening, sources said. No specific threats have been identified so far for Fashion's Biggest Night -- but everything is on the table, a police source noted, adding that protests in the vicinity are widely expected. "We are using every tool at our disposal," a source said. "We approach this like we do all large-scale events -- examining information and applying it to a measured and calculated response should the need arise."Oh no, I sure hope no needs arise. Hunter "College" is one mile away, a twenty minute walk (if you aren't walking in NYC). One ugly AWFL Karen protester already showed up and was arrested. Boy, The Regime doesn't f*** around when you disrupt one of their events, huh?
Jon Stewart said President Biden is too old for the job. "I know liberals say, 'Don't say Joe Biden is old' -- don't say what people see with their own eyes! You can say it, he can't hear us," Stewart said during a comedy performance in Los Angeles that was streamed on Netflix. "I know you know how f--ing old he is, and I know you don't want to say it because [former President Donald] Trump is so scary, but he's so f--ing old ... when you watch him on television, you're nervous, aren't ya?" said the host of "The Daily Show."Wow, he can see that a plainly-demented man is too impaired to be president. Can we declare him a Prophet now, or does that take three miracles or something?
Stewart made the remarks at an appearance at the Netflix Is a Joke Fest, which debuted on the streaming service on Friday, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "I'm not saying that Biden can't contribute to society, he just shouldn't be president," Stewart added.
From last week:
A Jewish woman was beaten to unconsciousness by pro-Hamas occupiers at UCLA while campus security refused to intervene. A group of Jewish students responded by returning to exact revenge and then, only then, did Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) finally find a voice to condemn "detestable violence on campus". How convenient. How transparent. Where was campus security? Intimidation by pro-Hamas occupiers towards students, faculty and staff, especially Jews, has been going on almost two weeks, with nary any interference from administrators.Hit the link to see a clip of these Hamas brownshirts training each other in (inept, limpwristed) hand-to-hand combat.The administrators of many of the universities hosting these encampments have either been too fearful to act or actually sympathize with the pro-Hamas brownshirts. They allowed not just the tent occupation on a public university campus to fester, but even with evidence of brownshirts' being trained ...
Speaking with Fox News, professor Nir Hoftman recalled his hostile encounters with the protesters and accused them of deep antisemitism. "This was never peaceful," he said. "Jews were not allowed to go into the campus. Jews were not allowed to go into the library. Jews were not allowed to go to classes. It was never peaceful. They're vandalizing the entire quad." Hoftman added that there had been a "total breakdown of law and order" and denounced local authorities for restraining the police from disbanding the camp until Wednesday. To emphasize his point, he recalled an encounter he had with the protesters days before. "You might be shocked, but I'm not -- because these people attacked me a few days ago," he said when hosts asked if he was shocked by the violent scenes involved in the police storming of the encampment.
Princeton students on hunger strike are complaining about "unsafe conditions."
Last week, a professor wrote this FaceBook letter to protesting "students":
Melinda Roth Dear Campus Protestors I've seen other people write to you, but I just walked among you at one of your campus encampments (GW in DC).
Here are my thoughts: Instead of hanging out in your nice brand new paid from unknown sources green and white tents, why not send them to those displaced in Gaza who really need them? After all, you have dorms and apartments that mommy and daddy are paying for right now. You have catered food and an all you can eat snack bar, why not send food to those you claim are starving? Since you are skipping classes (if you are actually a student), why not go volunteer to help in Gaza? Many American Jews have gone to help in Israel on farms and kibbutzes to provide missing labor as so many Israelis have been called up to military service. If you really want to help, why don't you go where you really could make a difference for the people you profess to be supporting? Why don't you use all the time hanging out in the quad and in your tents to learn about what you are supporting? You are supporting rape, as your signs "resistance by any means necessary" state. You are supporting gender inequality and lack of any LGBTQ rights. You are supporting a named terrorist organization. Your call for an intifada revolution is a call for more innocent lives to be lost. Let's address that for a second. You claim to be against the war in Gaza given all the innocent lives lost -- but in your next chant you want bloodshed everywhere with your call for an intifada revolution. It is glaringly inconsistent. Why is there not a single sign or chant to release the hostages? Innocent people have been kidnapped, including women and children and Americans. How can you claim signs that say "final solution" or "zionists pigs get out" or chants like "Burn Tel Aviv to the ground" are not antisemitic? I believe strongly in free speech, but this is hate speech. You call each other comrades. I spent a lot of time in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. I can promise you that most people in the world prefer capitalism over communism. Why block people from coming in and or taking photos, why block the press and why taunt people like me trying to engage? If you are so proud of yourselves, why hide those faces? Why mask up? I took photos this afternoon, and every single time a protestor noticed, they put their mask back on. Real protestors are proud of what they are doing and ready to face the consequences, whether getting arrested or suspended or whatever. You are not real protestors. You are sheep. You are indoctrinated to think Israel and Zionists and even Jews are evil. You are not on the right side of history like you think you will be. No one with hate in their heart ever is.
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Israeli Warplanes Begin Pounding Rafah Like Sweetdick Pounding Fani's Wretched Snizz
Earlier, Israel dropped leaflets on Rafah instructing civilians to evacuate. Now they've begun the bombing, in preparation for a ground (and underground) offensive.
In an obvious attempt to delay this final attack on their terror stronghold, Hamas announced they were "agreeing" to a ceasefire.
Not the ceasefire deal that Israel agreed to, of course. No, they "agreed" to a ceasefire deal Israel had no part of.
Avi Mayer
@AviMayer Let us all be very clear on what is happening right now: Hamas has not agreed to any known proposal for a ceasefire. Its announcement that it has agreed to "a ceasefire" is meaningless, an obvious ploy and delay tactic meant to prevent the imminent military operation in Rafah
Earlier, Israel dropped leaflets on Rafah instructing civilians to evacuate. Now they've begun the bombing, in preparation for a ground (and underground) offensive.
Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, yesterday, as the military told about 110,000 people there to evacuate. Hours later, the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said that the group had accepted a cease-fire proposal from Qatar and Egypt. The full details of the proposal were unclear, but the conflict remains unresolved. Comments by Hamas and Israeli officials made it clear that Haniyeh was not referring to the plan that Israel had recently put forward. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the proposal did not meet Israel's demands. Israel's war cabinet had also decided unanimously to "continue with its action in Rafah in order to exert military pressure on Hamas," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.Biden is, of course, trying to save Hamas' terrorist leaders their just reckoning, to placate the pro-terrorist Democrat madrassas in Michiganistan.
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MIT Abandons "DEI Statements" -- Political Loyalty Oaths to the Cult of DEI, Required to Even Get Considered for Employment
Fascism is always descending on the right only to land with a crash on the left.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will no longer require prospective hires to pledge allegiance to the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion as an employment condition, becoming the first elite university in the country to do away with the controversial practice denounced by free speech advocates as a "political litmus test." "Requests for a statement on diversity will no longer be part of applications for any faculty positions at MIT," a university spokesperson told The Post in an emailed statement, noting that the decision was made by MIT president Sally Kornbluth along with the support of the provost, chancellor and all six academic deans. "My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to MIT, and to make sure they thrive once here," Kornbluth said. "We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don't work." Part CV and part DEI loyalty oath, diversity statements have become common practice in higher ed in recent years, compelling faculty or research applicants to bloviate over two to three pages about their commitment to "advance excellence in diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging as a teacher and a researcher in higher education," as Harvard describes its own diversity statement requirement. Similar descriptions can be found on the homepage of just about any prominent school in the US as top universities scramble to loudly proclaim their commitment to the practice. Princeton peddles its diversity statement requirement as "an opportunity for you to highlight the ways you would advance an institution's DEI work," while Columbia University furnishes job seekers with a four-page guide to help applicants "showcase your understanding and activities" around diversity and inclusion. As one of the country's most prestigious institutes of higher learning, MIT fields job applications from some of the world's top scientific minds. But even those applying for highly specialized fields weren't spared the diversity statement requirement. In a 2023 faculty job posting for MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sandwiched between a requirement for three or more reference letters and examples of published research, candidates are instructed to provide "a statement regarding their views on diversity, inclusion, and belonging, including past and current contributions as well as their vision and plans for the future in these areas." Such practices, though now commonplace at American universities, have long been condemned by academic freedom and free speech advocates as a political exercise. ... Freedom of speech advocacy group the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression warned that diversity statement requirements "function as ideological litmus tests" which "threaten employment or advancement of opportunities for faculty who dissent from prevailing thought on DEI."All because the media went all-in on the left's political op to turn George Floyd a referendum on Trump.
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The Restaurant Industry Is Now Enjoying Bidenomics, and They're Not Enjoying It Much
In California, restaurants and fast food chains are taking the hit from the eyepopping $20/per hour minimum wage.
Menu prices in California will rise once again when a new law goes into effect in the summer, a double-whammy after fast-food chains in the state hiked prices to help pay for the $20 minimum wage the state imposed last month. Restaurant owners in the state are warning that a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans "junk fees" in the state starting July 1 will force them to raise prices because it prohibits restaurant surcharges and fees. Restaurant owners have often relied on surcharges to provide their employees benefits like health care. Some businesses would note surcharges on menus, and others would make them optional, with the decision left to the customer. However, the new law is prompting restaurant owners to hike prices on their menus to comply with the new law.Unexpectedly, the restaurant sector is now downsizing. Or should I say, Bidensizing.
California's attorney general confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle this week that restaurant surcharges and fees would be illegal under the new law in a blow to the industry.
Golden Gate Restaurant Association Director Laurie Thomas told CBS News Bay Area the law will put restaurants in a tough spot with either lower wages for employees or by discouraging customers with higher prices. "So, now, do you take their rate down and do you go to an old-fashioned tip model and say to your servers, 'You have to tip the whole house, but that drops everybody's salaries' or do you raise your prices 20%, 25%?" Thomas said. "It might make a lot of customers happier. They might say, 'We understand why prices went up.' Let's hope that happens. But I don't know if our industry can hope that's what happens. They're still struggling. It's been a tough year."
Starbucks announced a surprise drop in same-store sales for its latest quarter, sending its shares down 17% on Wednesday. Pizza Hut and KFC also reported shrinking same-store sales. And even stalwart McDonald's said it has adopted a "street-fighting mentality" to compete for value-minded diners.You just hate to see it happen to Google, too. Google to lay off 200 " " " workers. " " " The NY Post:
For months, economists have been predicting that consumers would cut back on their spending in response to higher prices and interest rates. But it's taken a while for fast-food chains to see their sales actually shrink, despite several quarters of warnings to investors that low-income consumers were weakening and other diners were trading down from pricier options.
The job cuts -- announced internally on the eve of Google's blowout first-quarter earnings report -- targeted members of Google's "core" team, which works on the "technical foundation behind the company's flagship products" as well as the online safety of users and its global IT infrastructure, according to its website. At least 50 of the roles were based at Google's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India, CNBC reported, citing a review of internal documents. "Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem said in an email to staffers last week announcing the cuts, according to CNBC.But... Google's AI was such a smash success!
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The American Public Has the Right to Know, "Did the President Shit Himself, and When Did He Know He Shit Himself?"
I used to make poopies the size of Buicks, my word as a Biden.
My bowel movement was voted to the All State Bowel Movement Team, I'm not joking. I almost went to Annapolis to join their Shit In The Pants squad on a free ride scholarship, but they had a guy there, you might have heard of him, named Roger Staubach. He could crap like a choir of angels, I'm serious, this is a fact, you can look it up. From Matt Vespa.Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:35 PM | Comments (389) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Maxine Waters: I'm Demanding the Already-Weaponized DOJ Investigate Trump For the Violence He Has Planned for the Future In Case He Loses the Election
Don't worry, you lunatic moron. He won't lose. So you'll be safe. Ish.
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Columbia Cancels Graduation Commencement Ceremony;
George Washington U Students Sentence School Administrators to DEATH
George Washington U Students Sentence School Administrators to DEATH
The graduation's off at Columbia.
Columbia University canceled its main commencement ceremony but will still go ahead with smaller-scale graduations, the school said Monday, after weeks of pro-Palestinian demonstrations disrupted campus. The ceremony, which was scheduled for May 15, has taken place outdoors on its New York City campus where students had set up a pro-Palestinian encampment that was taken down by police last week. The protests over the Israel-Hamas war that have swept campuses nationwide have prompted university administrators to rethink commencement plans with a goal of protecting students and guests from potentially ugly and violent political disputes. Concerns about security were one of the main reasons why Columbia decided to cancel the larger commencement ceremony, a person familiar with the matter said. Artem Ilyanok, a senior at Columbia who wasn't part of the protests, said this is the second graduation he will miss out on, after his high school canceled its in-person 2020 graduation due to the Covid-19 pandemic. "I am very disappointed to once again be deprived of a typical graduation experience," said the 22-year-old history major.What a shame that a small minority of good students has to have their fun spoiled by the vast majority of amoral, feral future Welfare Earners of America. Meanwhile, GWU "students," and I use that term reluctantly, are trying school administrators in absentia and sentencing them to be hanged or beheaded.
As students call for the death of school administrators and trustees, D.C. law enforcement officials and the Mayor have denied George Washington University's request for the police to clear out the encampment that has taken over their campus. The Jacobins and the Sans Coulottes are working themselves up to recapitulate The Terror, and the people in charge of our Nation's Capitol just smile and wave.So, when's the New Helter Skelter Massacre coming?
Update: I missed something very important -- while the university has asked the police to clear out the illegal encampments, the DC Police, controlled by leftwing radical Muriel Bowser, are refusing to do their job.
Stu
@thestustustudio At the George Washington University Gaza Solidarity Encampment today, the protesters held a "People's Tribunal" where they put President Ellen Granberg, Provost Christopher Bracey, the Board of Trustees, @GWPolice
, and many others on trial. Is it normal for students to want to hang their provost and chop the heads off of the Board of Trustees? "Guillotine, Guillotine, Guillotine, Guillotine" "Bracey, Bracey, we see you. You assault students too. Off to the motherfucking gallows with you." "As you already know where I am sending her [to the guillotine], her and her fuckass bob."
When will @GWtweets finally do something? If the students hurt any of these people in any way, the university will be completely at fault.
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THE MORNING RANT: Partitioning Baton Rouge & the Importance of Dissolving Old Political Boundaries
The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow the City of St. George to move forward with plans to incorporate, a monumental decision for Baton Rouge and possibly the end to a decade-long battle over the creation of the new city. The new City of St. George will include at least 86,000 residents across a 60-square-mile area in the southeast corner of East Baton Rouge Parish, making it one of the largest cities in the state — on par with Lake Charles and Kenner.There are generally two hallmarks of failed cities – rampant crime and failed schools. Baton Rouge is renowned for both. The St. George movement didn’t even start out as an effort to form a new city, it was about trying to create a new school district independent of the dysfunctional Baton Rouge schools.
The St. George movement had preceded that election by a decade — it originally started as a push to create a separate, independent school district before evolving over the years into a full-fledged campaign for a new city.There are bubbling municipal secession movements across the country, from Buckhead in Atlanta to Lost Creek in Austin as well as efforts by conservative counties to secede from blue states such as California. May the victory in Baton Rouge provide encouragement that the battle may be long, but it can be won. Few people expect local government to be free of corruption and graft, but in exchange for an often-corrupt political machine, the expectation for local government had always been that it would effectively provide essential city services and maintain civil order. In the most recent Cut Jib Newsletter podcast, Michael Walsh, JJ Sefton, and CBD discussed the concept of “honest graft” as it applied to the Tammany Hall era of New York City. It was terribly corrupt, but it also provided policing and functioning schools, and it generally maintained civil order. Unfortunately, Tammany-type Democrats in cities across America have been replaced by Pol Pot Democrats who seek to destroy the old order, embracing crime and lawlessness as tools in their vision of re-organizing society. Where working class residents were once the most important constituents, modern blue-city leaders have ditched the working class in favor of criminals and illegal aliens. About a year ago I wrote a piece titled, When States & Municipalities Fail, Let’s Break Them Up [Buck Throckmorton – 6/19/2023] discussing how the bankruptcy of the city of Milwaukee, and the imminent bankruptcy of the state of Illinois present opportunities to dissolve those failed entities.
Milwaukee is a failed city that cannot pay its bills. Regrettably, the Republican-controlled legislature in Wisconsin is simply going to bail the city out, rather than letting it actually go bankrupt. Any bailout that keeps municipal services operating should also terminate the city as it is currently incorporated, because Milwaukee has proved it is not capable of self-governance.
Circling back to Milwaukee, I don’t know if it has neighborhoods that wish they could de-annex, but my experience is that in most any city, there are neighborhoods that were annexed against their will which wish to be free of the taxes and pathologies of the leftist municipal government that now holds control over them.
Here is an idea that is not originally mine, but it’s a good one. How about dissolving the failed state of Illinois and making it a territory? Or perhaps putting Chicago in federal receivership, making it similar to Guam as an unincorporated territory of the United States, and allowing the downstate counties to be annexed by neighboring states?Boundaries and borders have always changed. Look at the video below to see how state boundaries have changed in this country since its birth. There is nothing sacrosanct about the current map that it must remain unchanged in perpetuity. In fact, it cannot stay unchanged. History tells us that. City boundaries are going to change. State borders are going to change. The ideal should be that they change in a peaceful manner. Let Baton Rouge / St. George be the first of many dissolutions of political entities that are in need of a cartographical divorce.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
The Dream of Saint Helena
Paolo Veronese ["Woild the f*cking cherubs please shut up! They're giving me a headache!]
The Dream of Saint Helena
Paolo Veronese ["Woild the f*cking cherubs please shut up! They're giving me a headache!]
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The Morning Report — 5/6/24
Hamas fired rockets close to civilian shelters, aimed a maximizing casualties in case an Israeli response. “The launches carried out by Hamas adjacent to the Rafah Crossing, located approximately 350 meters from civilian shelters, are a clear example of the terrorist organization’s systematic exploitation of humanitarian facilities and spaces, and their continued use of the Gazan civilian population as human shields,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in press release Sunday afternoon. Hamas proudly took responsibility for attacking the humanitarian border crossing. Israel was forced to close the passage of aid trucks following the strikes, the IDF confirmed. The rockets were fired from the terrorist stronghold of Rafah, an area Israeli military plans to evacuate in case of a possible military operation to free the remaining hostages. In recent days, Hamas terrorists have repeatedly used Rafah’s civilian areas to fire rockets towards Israel. . . . . . The rocket barrage comes days after the Biden [junta] reportedly ‘guaranteed’ Hamas that Israel will not enter Rafah and end all military operations if the terrorist group agrees to the latest hostages-for-terrorists deal. The Israeli government rejected the Biden [junta's] unilateral guarantee to abandon the military mission to capture Rafah, where Hamas’s terrorist leaderships is hiding behind Israeli hostages serving as human shields.You know how Biden can guarantee the IDF will not go into Rafah? Because they're halting shipments of munitions and materiel that the IDF needs at this crucial juncture.
The Biden [junta] last week halted an ammunition shipment to Israel in a bid to pressure the IDF into abandoning the planned operation in Rafah, Israeli journalist Barak Ravid reported in the new website Axios Sunday. The revelation comes as Israel’s military offensive against Hamas enters its seventh month. Israel, a key U.S. ally, relies of American-made weapons, ammunition and spare parts for its armed forces."Genocide Joe" alright. Too bad the micturating matriculating Muslim mavens at Columbia, UCLA and elsewhere don't understand who Biden is "genociding" or wanting to. My gut tells me that Israel indeed has what it needs to finish the job, and will likely be able to get what it needs to fill in any shortfalls from the Saudis or Emiratis. Speaking of which, Biden over the past several years has gone off on the Saudis, mostly for their cutting oil production at a time when he needs their oil to keep our dying economy from flatlining before the election, after kneecapping our own production to appease the red-green enviro-commies before the election. I'm sensing a pattern here. Have no fear; he's got this covered. Ho. Lee. Farouk . . .
After draining the strategic petroleum reserve ahead of the midterms, Biden has been unable to refill it because his environmentalist allies and the Saudis have kept prices high. The Saudis had rejected requests to lower oil prices for anything short of assistance in building their own nuclear program. Shortly before the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, the Saudis had offered to temporarily boost production if it would make it easier to sell Congress on a defense agreement. Back then the Saudi deal had been portrayed as an extension of the ‘Abraham Accords’ and offered ‘normalization’ of diplomatic ties with Israel. Whether the Saudis were ever serious about normalization is debatable but since Oct 7, any such agreement has been conditioned on an internationally recognized.Islamic terrorist ‘Palestinian’ state affiliated with Saudi Arabia. The current expectation is that a deal between Biden and the Saudis will drop the Israeli component and focus on a defense agreement and nuclear power in exchange for cheap oil. Whether Israel is or isn’t on board, a Saudi nuclear agreement is a bad deal for America. The United States is more than capable of producing its own oil. The only obstacle in the way of American energy independence is Joe Biden and his party who are determined to push ‘green energy’ that only makes us equally dependent on Muslim terror states and Communist China. Nuclear energy could help solve our energy problems, but the Saudis, who are the world’s largest oil producers, certainly don’t need to go nuclear to fix any energy shortfalls. Nor do they care about the environment. A civilian nuclear energy program makes about as much sense for Saudi Arabia as it does for Iran. And the only reasonable argument for enabling the Saudis to go nuclear would be to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons program, but rather than averting a nuclear attack, that could double the risk and the possible vectors for nuclear armageddon. The trouble with letting either Iran or the Saudis go nuclear is not just the direct nuclear threat, but the indirect one that will come from Islamic terrorists getting their hands on either nuclear weapons or materials. Saudi Arabia has made some progress under the MBS monarchy, including allowing women greater rights and backing away from some of the terrorist groups and movements that the kingdom has traditionally supported, and even purged some of the old guard who oversaw the Jihadi war against America (this led to Jamal Khashoggi’s death). . . . . . Biden is proposing to swap nuclear capabilities in exchange for the Saudis providing cheap oil for his election. The Saudis have made it clear that they can’t offer long term price guarantees which means they’d be doing little more than providing a temporary market fix long enough to get a presidential candidate his second term in in office. After all the talk of impeachable quid-pro-quos, here’s one that could get millions killed. Nuclear materials in the hands of Islamic terrorists is the ultimate nightmare and Biden is risking mass death, the destruction of entire American cities, in exchange for an election day bribe. . . . . . By emptying the strategic petroleum reserve to bribe midterm voters, Biden already dangerously endangered our economy and our national security. The cost of his illegal student loan debt bribes is already approaching an estimated $1 trillion and that may just be the beginning. But there’s a big difference between stealing money to bribe voters and making a deal with an enemy nation that can cost the lives of millions. One is corruption while the other is treason.I'm no Perry Mason, but I can make an argument that considering the intentional erasure of our borders and the flooding of our nation with 8 million and counting foreigners, among them thousands of hardened criminals, spies and saboteurs from our strategic enemies and worst of all confirmed jihadists, Biden indeed is guilty of treason right there. Already, the mass crime wave that has seen our citizens brutally raped and murdered makes Biden guilty before and after the fact in each one of those crimes, that taken together is a treasonous breach of his Constitutional oath. Yeah, I know. Go tell it to the Marines. Meh, they're under the control of Vanilli Milley and Lloyd Austin. Great. Give the Saudis nukes, at a time when MBS' rule is perhaps not as stable as we might assume given the Wahhabists in his midst and the threat from the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. Meanwhile, here's something that I know will come as a huge surprise:
Two of the main organizers behind protests at Columbia University and on other campuses are Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Both are supported by the Tides Foundation, which is seeded by Democratic megadonor George Soros as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and it in turn supports numerous small nonprofits that work for social change. (Gates did not return a request for comment, and Soros declined to comment.) Another notable Democratic donor whose philanthropy has helped fund the protest movement is David Rockefeller Jr., who sits on the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In 2022, the fund gave $300,000 to the Tides Foundation; according to nonprofit tax forms, Tides has given nearly $500,000 over the past five years to Jewish Voice for Peace, which explicitly describes itself as anti-Zionist. Several other groups involved in pro-Palestinian protests are backed by a foundation funded by Susan and Nick Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotel empire — and supporters of Biden and numerous Democratic campaigns, including $6,600 to the Biden Victory Fund a few months ago and more than $300,000 during the 2020 campaign.I saw Soros, Gates, Rockefeller and Pritzker open for The Fourth Reich at the Sportpalast in '45. Lots of hormonal Einsatz-groupies kept shrieking and spoiled the show. PLO terror towels are the new bobby sox.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- "The ordinary person’s passivity in the face of the criminal and civil attacks on Donald Trump suggests that Americans think we’re already there."
Has Leftist Lawfare Created the Police State Yet?
- "Science journalism surrenders to progressive ideology."
Unscientific American
- Victor Davis Hanson: "The one-eyed Jack American Left has been flipped over, and what turned up proved frightening."
The End of Old Left-Wing Mythologies
- Miranda Devine: "It is a manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time. There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women. Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative."
Frat Boy Summer is This Year's Backlash Against an Epidemic of Arrogant, Entitled Women
- " It would behoove us all for the world to recognize what this holiday of Remembrance of the Holocaust and for Strength is about. The world must come to its senses before we see the descendants of the Maccabees and Warsaw Ghetto forced to act in ways reminiscent of their ancestors."
A Jewish Holiday About Strength, Not Victimhood
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Daily Tech News 6 May 2024
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- With its player community up in arms and its reputation on fire - with 200,000 negative reviews landing in just three days - Sony has decided maybe Helldivers players on Windows don't need a PlayStation Network account after all. (MSN)
This comes a day after the game was removed from sale on Steam in 177 countries and dependencies because the PlayStation Network was not available there.
Which also goes to show how widely available Steam is. They don't care if you live in the Aland Islands or Andorra or Antarctica, if your credit card works you're in.
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May 05, 2024
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Quote I Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Jesus Christ, Matthew 6:34
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