"Restorative Practices" Is Another Term For Race-Based Rules: The Rush Back To Segregation Is Picking Up Steam In Portland!

How is this not going to end badly? Minority students will be held to a lower standard of behavior, and white students will be targets for their violence. It's a guarantee that whatever chance that these minorities had to leave the cycle of poverty and violence is going to shrink to nothing. And the "gender identity" get-out-of-jail-free card is simply an invitation for sexual assault!

It is a guarantee that more white and higher-achieving students will leave the Portland school system...for home schooling, parochial schools, or simply leave Portland entirely.

Portland schools are of course dangerous already, because those wonderful teachers and other staff don't give a rat's ass about the students and are in it only for the cushy hours and ample vacation.

Portland Public Schools Must Now Consider Race, Gender Identity When Disciplining Students

The district's collective bargaining agreement attempts to center school disciplinary procedures on "racial equity and social justice." In a November 2022 memo, for example, Portland Public Schools' collective bargaining team argued that "Black, Native American, and other students of color are referred out of class significantly more often," reflecting the need to instill "Restorative Practices" into the district's disciplinary process.
Such practices will see the district cut back on "exclusionary discipline," which refers to student suspensions and expulsions. Prior to the latest Portland Association of Teachers strike, students who threatened or assaulted their classmates were subject to mandatory removal from school. Now, those students can be removed from class and sent to a "self-regulation space" located within the school.
The district's new agreement also waters down language related to student behavior and discipline. Instead of "handling" a disruptive student, for example, the agreement calls on school officials to "support" that student. The agreement also no longer refers to "unacceptable" student behavior, instead citing "continuous disruptive" behavior. The district used to create a "behavior correction plan" for a misbehaving student—now, school officials craft a "support plan" for such a student.

If America 2.0 ever appears, public schools, to the extent that they exist at all, will be legally bound to teach just basic skills, and will immediately expel any students who exhibit violent tendencies. You know, the way it was for most of our history.

The idea that schools can rehabilitate students whose homes are not conducive to civil behavior is laughable. It is simply a money and power grab by the teachers, administrators, and their unions.

Learn and be civil, or leave. that should be the mantra in every school in America. The pathetic and racist assumption that minority students need to be treated differently flies in the face of the successes of the early 20th century. The Irish and Italians and Jews and Germans and Scandinavians who arrived on our shores during the huge surges of immigration were educated reasonably well without any accommodations made. There were no special rules for their behavior...there were no ESL (English as a second language) teachers or programs. And yet they rapidly entered the work force and American culture.

But the Democrat/Union/Progressive machine has donned the mantle of Kipling's "White Man's Burden," and has decided that the perpetual bondage of poverty, ignorance and prison is just wonderful for minorities, just as long as they vote Democrat.

Schools in the blue inner cities are nothing more than holding pens for future Democrat cattle...otherwise known as voters. The mantra is: "keep 'em dumb and poor, and they'll keep voting us more money and power."

What a dismal and pessimistic view of the world, and here I thought they wanted to perfect Man, not make him a slave!

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1 Good afternoon everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 12:00 PM (fwDg9)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 03, 2023 12:02 PM (T4tVD)

3 It's all Cultural Marxism being pushed,race division in place of class

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 12:02 PM (fwDg9)

4 They want to grant their pets license to destroy your life in exchange for their pets' votes and indifference to their graft.

I cannot put it simpler than that.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:03 PM (X0I7i)

5 I think it's Scott Adams in X who says this is building in a Rwanda genocide mindset and so long as this is allowed to happen, Rwanda will happen here.

This whole everything is somehow somebody else's fault thing means a lot of people are going to be angry at someone else.

The butchers bill will come due.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2023 12:06 PM (dWjpk)

6 It's all Cultural Marxism being pushed, race division in place of class.

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 12:02 PM (fwDg9)

In addition to class. They use both, and what a tool they have.

They are very good at this stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 03, 2023 12:08 PM (3Gtis)

7 Over the years I've spoken to a lot of older Black people who expressed what a disaster they felt desegregating schools had turned out to be. They had gone to 'Negro' schools and, to an individual, told me when schools were forcefully desegregated almost every Black teacher was fired and replaced with a 'more qualified' White teacher who didn't give a shit about the students at all and was usually the worst available to send to the 'Negro' schools.
What they had wanted was some form of reasonably equal funding for physical buildings, which at the time was very local (and still is); but when desegregation hit, the market for Black teachers, which was seen as a respectable, near-middle-class job for educated Blacks, collapsed and never recovered.
It's what I was told and way more than once or twice.

Posted by: Crazy LenNeal's Buy Here Pay Here! at December 03, 2023 12:09 PM (43xH1)

8 In the Constitution 2.0 there must be an explicit wall of separation between Education and State.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at December 03, 2023 12:11 PM (PWI4f)

9 Americans need to rise up and rebel against the regime. That's what I see from here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 12:14 PM (zutzM)

10 Lose the Department of Education which has a big pull on government oversight and pushing this Cultural Marxism can't happen fast enough.

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 12:14 PM (fwDg9)

11 If blacks want segregate then let them segregate. I really don't give a shit at this point. We gave them more than enough chance to be part of the whole and they've rejected it. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 12:15 PM (BdMk6)

12 Softening language to avoid hurting a young person's feelings is what I call a Youf-emism.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 03, 2023 12:15 PM (991eG)

13 8 In the Constitution 2.0 there must be an explicit wall of separation between ~~Education and State~~ State and all other organized entities.
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at December 03, 2023 12:11 PM (PWI4f)

FTFY.

All of today's problems stem from one thing: the capture of the state and its institutions by organized special-interests. We should have listened to Ike...

Posted by: CppThis at December 03, 2023 12:15 PM (PZvjL)

14 Yet somehow the red states always remain the poorest even after voting GOP for decades.
And also the blue state residents live longer and I strongly suspect the admin of this blog choose to live in blue states

Posted by: Paul at December 03, 2023 12:15 PM (NKMKV)

15 We (in our personal family and clan) educate the kids in all the moral values now roundly derided. And will continue the practice with no apology.

My kids are great examples, they turned out just fine, no drugs or disciplinary issues. Both are happily married productive citizens with well paying jobs. I personally believe we did an exemplary job for rank amateurs though having great raw material never hurts.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 03, 2023 12:16 PM (KATBx)

16 When the left started deciding math was racist I knew that this country was in big trouble.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2023 12:16 PM (NpAcC)

17 It can be lunch time

Oh wait, it's Sunday so anytime can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 12:16 PM (fwDg9)

18 this is building in a Rwanda genocide mindset and so long as this is allowed to happen, Rwanda will happen here.'

Not wrong. Most don't know Rwanda had a Marxist Swiss political science professor writing those now-infamous speeches for radio broadcast. He seems to have vanished into thin air. And, you'll see all kinds of prevarications from Lefties insisting it was 'the legacy of Colonialism' but it was racializing and demonizing (I don't like the term 'othering') a post-Colonial former caste that ultimately led to the massacres.
It was a class-based massacre just like Cambodia.

Posted by: Crazy LenNeal's Buy Here Pay Here! at December 03, 2023 12:19 PM (43xH1)

19 5
'The butchers bill will come due.'
Here's hoping leftists are vastly over represented on the butcher's block.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 03, 2023 12:19 PM (roH4R)

20 It is a guarantee that more white and higher-achieving students will leave the Portland school system...for home schooling, parochial schools, or simply leave Portland entirely.

Several of the suburban school districts nearby are decent. Fortunately, only 20% of the students in the Portland metro area go to Portland schools.

Of course, since for years the #1 priority of Portland schools is closing "racial achievement gaps", I don't see why any white or Asian parent would send their kids to Portland schools - the school district explicitly doesn't care how well your kid is doing. As a matter of fact, if your kid does poorly, that helps close the "racial achievement gap".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 03, 2023 12:20 PM (YAtuc)

21

KILL ALL HUMANS!

Posted by: B. Rodriguez at December 03, 2023 12:20 PM (oUWsL)

22 11 Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 12:15 PM (BdMk6)

THAT is not what is being promised or offered....

they are going to segregate by displacement and aim to make YOU pay for the accident of your ethnicity at birth.

Their feigned desire to isolate comes with a steep price tag and a judicially issued license to kill people.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:20 PM (X0I7i)

23 14 Posted by: Paul at December 03, 2023 12:15 PM (NKMKV)

Sure Pall.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:21 PM (X0I7i)

24 Hey, Paul! Fuck off!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 12:21 PM (BdMk6)

25 There is no According to Hoyle.

The can change the rules on the fly.

If everyone was handed a score on their race, their sex, the sex preferences, their religion etc.

And then you could score someone.

PS No one wants justice, they beg for mercy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2023 12:21 PM (lwOKI)

26 "The mantra is: "keep 'em dumb and poor, and they'll keep voting us more money and power."

And be sure to at least teach them they are entitled to reparations, and racist abusive whitey is the reason for all their failures.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 03, 2023 12:23 PM (Cus5s)

27 Does race based discipline mean Lizzo will discipline black kids?

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 03, 2023 12:23 PM (hCt6Y)

28 THAT is not what is being promised or offered....

they are going to segregate by displacement and aim to make YOU pay for the accident of your ethnicity at birth.

Their feigned desire to isolate comes with a steep price tag and a judicially issued license to kill people.
Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:20 PM (X0I7i)

Then I'll kill them back. I'm over 29 years old. Fuck the consequences.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 12:24 PM (BdMk6)

29 The academic industry here in the US is interested in one thing; creating model citizens that are easily controlled, dependent on the State and more than willing to do whatever the State instructs them to do. Currently the State is instructing them to protest and harass Jews. Before them it was anyone against the transgender movement and before them it was anyone who was against Ukraine.

BTW the "State" includes the vast propaganda industry as well. Including social media.

Lastly, it would appear these ginned up mobs of malcontents are being prepped for future actions against us. They seem to be able to organize and move out at a moments notice, so they're obviously well supported.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2023 12:26 PM (Q4IgG)

30 If blacks want segregate then let them segregate. I really don't give a shit at this point. We gave them more than enough chance to be part of the whole and they've rejected it. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 12:15 PM (BdMk6)

I agree. But I don't want to pay for it, and I don't want it enshrined in law.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 03, 2023 12:27 PM (3Gtis)

31 they are going to segregate by displacement and aim to make YOU pay for the accident of your ethnicity at birth.

Look up North Korea's songbun caste system - that is what they are implementing here, except instead of using class background (like North Korea), they will use racial and sexual minority status.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 03, 2023 12:27 PM (YAtuc)

32 31 Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 03, 2023 12:27 PM (YAtuc)

The three people allowed to go to NorKo Pizza Hut love it.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:28 PM (X0I7i)

33 Minority students will be held to a lower standard of behavior, and white students will be targets for their violence.

White teachers too, which makes it grimly amusing that the teacher's union is pushing this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 03, 2023 12:28 PM (YAtuc)

34 "... Lastly, it would appear these ginned up mobs of malcontents are being prepped for future actions against us. They seem to be able to organize and move out at a moments notice, so they're obviously well supported."

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Barack Hussein Obama.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at December 03, 2023 12:28 PM (gxokI)

35 30 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 03, 2023 12:27 PM (3Gtis)

Don't worry we are on it!

//The DC GOP

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:28 PM (X0I7i)

36
g'early afternoon, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2023 12:31 PM (xDK93)

37 33 Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 03, 2023 12:28 PM (YAtuc)

The future is some Karen AWFL's 6'6" "autistic" 300 pound son ragdolling some other educrat forever....

https://youtu.be/SFidsUBMoV0?si=my1BxHfpWT5Q2094

Irony alert- both the AWFL and the pummeled teacher are white demcorats...

the teacher should have at least said "thanks buddy" the the adoptive mother.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:31 PM (X0I7i)

38 As if there’s any discipline now. They’re just putting on paper what reality has been forever.

Posted by: Montec at December 03, 2023 12:31 PM (bWsRe)

39 > "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Barack Hussein Obama.
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I don't disagree.

But... I think what Obama wanted is more like 87,000 armed IRS agents, what the FBI has become... along with the CIA and literally every other FedGov department/bureau/agency with an armed detachment.

These mobs are a bit different. The armed IRS agent will gun you down as a matter of protocol.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2023 12:33 PM (Q4IgG)

40 Restorative Practices

Sheesh.
I wonder how long it took someone to come up with that line?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2023 12:34 PM (uSHSS)

41
Lastly, it would appear these ginned up mobs of malcontents are being prepped for future actions against us. They seem to be able to organize and move out at a moments notice, so they're obviously well supported.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2023 12:26 PM (Q4IgG)

As long as Americans allow themselves to be intimidated, their power will grow.

On strictly an individual basis, I will reject their intimidation and do what I need to do to defend my freedom.

I did it during the Wuflu, I'll do it again.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 12:34 PM (BdMk6)

42 >>The district's new agreement also waters down language related to student behavior and discipline. Instead of "handling" a disruptive student, for example, the agreement calls on school officials to "support" that student. The agreement also no longer refers to "unacceptable" student behavior, instead citing "continuous disruptive" behavior. The district used to create a "behavior correction plan" for a misbehaving student—now, school officials craft a "support plan" for such a student.

How exactly did they/would they "support" the Parkland shooter? The kids who shot an administrator in a Denver school this year was a known troublemaker, kicked out of one public HS and then placed into another with required daily pat-downs when he arrived at school. It was during one of these pat-downs, by an untrained administrator (school resource officers had been removed by BLM-era school board) the kid pulled out his gun and shot him. What support is owed a problem kid like that?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2023 12:34 PM (izj35)

43 Restorative Practices

==

you know who else promoted "restorative practices" ??

Posted by: runner at December 03, 2023 12:34 PM (V13WU)

44 Although I wear a suit and tie, still a Celt deep inside.

Posted by: Most White Guys at December 03, 2023 12:35 PM (4NjOL)

45 every dem solution to every problem involves this or that wonderful facet of socialism

Posted by: runner at December 03, 2023 12:35 PM (V13WU)

46 @15 we did an exemplary job for rank amateurs

and a redhead in the mix, to boot!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 03, 2023 12:36 PM (FCs/J)

47 Supporting students implies they are the victims.

Posted by: Montec at December 03, 2023 12:37 PM (bWsRe)

48 >>The future is some Karen AWFL's 6'6" "autistic" 300 pound son ragdolling some other educrat forever....

Pretty sure that "educator" is refusing to back down on her demands that the kid be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, breaking the progressive DEI rules/pressure to immediately forgive/dismiss all responsibility for the violence. AWFL mom is very upset.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2023 12:38 PM (izj35)

49 Although I wear a suit and tie, still a Celt deep inside.
Posted by: Most White Guys at December 03, 2023 12:35 PM (4NjOL)
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Cherokee People?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 12:38 PM (zutzM)

50 33 Minority students will be held to a lower standard of behavior, and white students will be targets for their violence.

White teachers too, which makes it grimly amusing that the teacher's union is pushing this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 03, 2023 12:28 PM (YAtuc)

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This is the part I don't understand either. We've seen many assaults on teachers and quite a few have been brutal. I believe teachers are not allowed to lay a hand on any student. What sort of ignoramus reasoning does the teacher's union rationalize for this statute? On one hand they insist on masking up the children so the teachers feel protected from germs, yet real physical assault gets a pass.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 03, 2023 12:40 PM (FL9yc)

51 A friend of mine’s wife was a teacher. She lasted 3 years before quitting mainly because it was impossible to teach kids who knew they could do whatever they wanted with no consequences. This was about 10 years ago. The rot has been building for a long time.

Posted by: Montec at December 03, 2023 12:41 PM (bWsRe)

52 >>We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Barack Hussein Obama.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the FBI.

Posted by: Hans Gruber at December 03, 2023 12:41 PM (izj35)

53 If blacks want segregate then let them segregate. I really don't give a shit at this point. We gave them more than enough chance to be part of the whole and they've rejected it. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 12:15 PM (BdMk6)

I agree. But I don't want to pay for it, and I don't want it enshrined in law.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 03, 2023 12:27 PM (3Gtis)
***

I wonder if ML King's great grandson will lead the marches for Desegregation II? Hell, I wonder if Hispanic America will allow it?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 03, 2023 12:41 PM (uSHSS)

54 What sort of ignoramus reasoning does the teacher's union rationalize for this statute?
Posted by: washrivergal at December 03, 2023 12:40 PM (FL9yc)
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White guilt. It's deserved. Bend over and take it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 12:41 PM (zutzM)

55 The kids hurt the most by this are smart inner city blacks, especially boys. They get bored and are turned off from learning forever.

Meanwhile, every Spring the NY Post runs a strory about the local kid who got into all eight Ivies and Duke. When you look, it's always the child of immigrants from places like Nigeria or Jamaica.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 03, 2023 12:42 PM (FtY6I)

56 48 Posted by: Lizzy at December 03, 2023 12:38 PM (izj35)

That is true, it is like it is some cult in expectation of the victim to submit to "Donkey's Victim Hierarchy Pyramid of Grieves" I went to an Autistic Support Group's website and there were a bunch of AWFLs all braying is the singing circle about how evil the "also a victim" teacher was being in not giving the 4 time assaulting in that school NFL physiqued gentle giant a pass while also acknowledging that getting Baby Huey off of the 6 psychotropic drugs he was on AND the cannabis gummys had "calmed him down."

If we could put the motherfuckers on an island and stop the spread of the lunacy beyond that island you could pay down the national debt with pay per view of the fun.

It's be like our old gag gameshow here we used to spin on ONTs "Bearfuckers."

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:44 PM (X0I7i)

57 Portland schools are of course dangerous already, because those wonderful teachers and other staff don't give a rat's ass about the students and are in it only for the cushy hours and ample vacation.

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And also to create a utopia of prosperity and equality!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 03, 2023 12:45 PM (FVME7)

58

It's cute that you people think that these ambulatory golums can even read a ballot, let alone fill one out.

They exist only to provide a name for vote fraud, and as disposable garbage to destroy you, your family, middle class everything and to ride pogo sticks through minefields, as required.

They have been created to destroy you.

Posted by: B. Rodriguez at December 03, 2023 12:45 PM (oUWsL)

59 Young teens, 13-15, mostly male, mostly black or brown, have been stealing/hijacking cars, shoplifting and shooting each other on a daily basis here in Seattle.

My coworkers are horrified that I openly stayed I would have no problem shooting any of those "troubled youths" to protect my property.

"A car isn't worth a life!!!!!"

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 03, 2023 12:45 PM (NK5f7)

60 >>What sort of ignoramus reasoning does the teacher's union rationalize for this statute?

The same kind of white self-hatred that compels women to attend one of those Saira Rao "Race2Dinner" events.

Posted by: Hans Gruber at December 03, 2023 12:46 PM (izj35)

61 Portland Public Schools Must Now Consider Race, Gender Identity When Disciplining Students

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Hell, that's hardly batshit crazy at all. Of course, it is the system that the DOJ and the judicial system uses now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 03, 2023 12:47 PM (FVME7)

62
My coworkers are horrified that I openly stayed I would have no problem shooting any of those "troubled youths" to protect my property.

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You live in Seattle right? You’d rot in prison if you did.

Posted by: Montec at December 03, 2023 12:48 PM (bWsRe)

63 "A car isn't worth a life!!!!"

Then don't try to steal my f***ing car!

Posted by: PabloD at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (RZqW7)

64 >>My coworkers are horrified that I openly stayed I would have no problem shooting any of those "troubled youths" to protect my property.
"A car isn't worth a life!!!!!"

And yet they would happily kill you to acquire your car.

Same thing happening in Denver, and the youths are pistol-whipping the car owners as part of the theft.
One victim tracked his car's location and went to retrieve it - shot a few of the youths in the process.

Posted by: Hans Gruber at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (izj35)

65 Yet somehow the red states always remain the poorest even after voting GOP for decades.
And also the blue state residents live longer and I strongly suspect the admin of this blog choose to live in blue states
Posted by: Paul
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People tend to live where the practical circumstances insist that they live. Family, jobs, etc.

A more meaningful measure would be the rate at which people are leaving Blue states to live elsewhere Clue: Blue states are the losers. NY, CA, IL, OR, et al are just such wonderful places to live that people cannot get out of there fast enough.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (XeU6L)

66 I have a friend who sometimes talks in this way. Restorative justice and all that crap. I don't think she really believes in much of it, but kinda feels like she has to.

I remember once responding to something, sometime around all the riots, and said "nobody cares what I think."

Meaning, all the fuss being spewed, wherever. Online, in the corporate media, wherever. And I haven't changed my position. Except for when the government demands money from me, I'm generally insulated from the silly nonsense people talk about all the time.

I don't think that means I'm doing anything wrong, it just means, like I said, they don't care what I think, so why should I bother trying to "lend my voice" to the general din.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (QBaJw)

67 A blast from the past! Specifically, from the book thread.

I just came across this 8 1/2 minute video. The 5 Most Difficult Books Ever!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wUh7iZ5NrHw

Of the five, I've read three. Well, OK, I didn't make it all the way through Ulysses.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (FVME7)

68 The military is also pushing Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 12:50 PM (fwDg9)

69 > "A car isn't worth a life!!!!!"
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Probably should be made into a bumper-sticker. Next to the one that says "Protected by Smith&Wesson"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2023 12:51 PM (Q4IgG)

70 Cherokee People?
Posted by: Biden's Dog
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Nah. They're mostly into casinos these days.

Posted by: Harrah's at December 03, 2023 12:52 PM (XeU6L)

71 66 Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (QBaJw)

Take a trip with me burt back to about 1984 and Reagan's re-election....look around you buddy that society was etched away one unconfronted democrat micro community boycott that was wildly disproportionate to the boycotting population at a time.

The learned behavior by corporations was that caving to the left carried minimal cost. Then over the next 20 years a snowball effect of brainwashed leftist-curious graduates are hired into the corporate suite where not only should business cave, NO SIR business should fund the lunatics.

Here we are, all voices matter buddy.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:53 PM (X0I7i)

72 I grew up in NYC and went to a Catholic grammar school with many kids from Puerto Rico. While they are U.S. citizens, not one of those kids spoke English when they started first grade, and nothing was taught in Spanish.

But that didn't stop Carmen Quintera from earning the General Excellence medal at eighth grade graduation.

Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at December 03, 2023 12:54 PM (ZgeZs)

73 If we're not going to remove the illegal immigrants, perhaps we could emphasize citizenship and put some qualifiers on who gets it, and how it may be conferred, and what the benefits are.

America 2.0 should have qualifications for citizenship, akin to Heinlein. Taking and passing a civics course. Property-owning. Perhaps also some form of public service. No one living on the public fisc (i.e., welfare) can vote (military excluded).

No more magic dirt. No more birthright citizenship. If citizenship is to be conferred by birth, your parents must first both be citizens. No dual citizenship.

You must be a citizen to be eligible for all federal-level elective and appointive offices.

These kinds of things.

Posted by: Occasional Commenter at December 03, 2023 12:56 PM (GXBIW)

74 In the Constitution 2.0

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Suggested wording. "Deadly force may be used to protect property of any value or of no value since nothing is worse less than the life of a thief."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 03, 2023 12:57 PM (FVME7)

75
Billy hurt D'Shaun's fist with his face. Then Billy made liud disruptive noises. Billy needs a time out in the Restorative Justice Dungeon.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 03, 2023 12:58 PM (uz6ub)

76 73 Posted by: Occasional Commenter at December 03, 2023 12:56 PM (GXBIW)

Yeah I don't think at the rate we are where we are at we are gonna be the ones handing out the gold stars partner.

Pall will.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:58 PM (X0I7i)

77 >>>and will immediately expel any students who exhibit violent tendencies.

Before we began the long march to civility some states had juvenile prisons. They weren't as rank as adult prisons but juvenile delinquents, as they were called, were separated from the general population.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 12:58 PM (Iqq2R)

78 Nah. They're mostly into casinos these days.
Posted by: Harrah's at December 03, 2023 12:52 PM (XeU6L)
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/black jack is racist

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 12:58 PM (zutzM)

79 75 Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 03, 2023 12:58 PM (uz6ub)

In Ireland asking your Islamic assailant politely to stop stabbing you is a hate crime now.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:59 PM (X0I7i)

80 A more meaningful measure would be the rate at which people are leaving Blue states to live elsewhere Clue: Blue states are the losers. NY, CA, IL, OR, et al are just such wonderful places to live that people cannot get out of there fast enough.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (XeU6L)

I haven't seen, here or elsewhere, any meaningful analysis of the DeSantis v. Newsome "debate." I watched a few minutes of it before I turned it off.

Newsome is only as good as he has to be with his lies, because some people will believe it, and those who don't, those who have numbers to refute his... it takes too long to make the case.

I think the "message," from pols who want to combat this stuff, should be kept simple. Are you really better off with these people in charge. Those of you living in big cities, are your lives better? You feel safe in your homes, do you? Walking on the streets? At malls? In schools? Anywhere?

And you want to blame... ME??? Look who's been in charge for decades. If you like how things are, keep voting them in.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 12:59 PM (QBaJw)

81 What The Cartoonist Said.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 03, 2023 12:59 PM (R/m4+)

82
I'm feeling quite reassured, myself, that Paul has no inclination to sully my state.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2023 01:00 PM (XeU6L)

83

Intellectual Masturbation is all well and good,but honestly, why don't you find someone you are attracted to, and spend the afternoon eating each other?

Posted by: B. Rodriguez at December 03, 2023 01:01 PM (oUWsL)

84 Here we are, all voices matter buddy.
Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 12:53 PM (X0I7i)

No they don't.

You're right, everything's been taken over. And the exertion of power is all that matters. If they have it, they will use it.

Speaking isn't going to do a damn thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:02 PM (QBaJw)

85 Meaning, all the fuss being spewed, wherever. Online, in the corporate media, wherever. And I haven't changed my position. Except for when the government demands money from me, I'm generally insulated from the silly nonsense people talk about all the time.

I don't think that means I'm doing anything wrong, it just means, like I said, they don't care what I think, so why should I bother trying to "lend my voice" to the general din.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (QBaJw)

I laugh when someone suggests calling or writing a congressman. Why? They don't give a shit what we think.

The separation of states from DC can't come fast enough. I may never live to see it though. I'll probably die watching and experiencing my beloved country's decline.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 01:02 PM (BdMk6)

86 It was never about creating the Soviet Man, just narod who oft times became zeks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:03 PM (S/VeI)

87 Yet somehow the red states always remain the poorest even after voting GOP for decades.

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Lol. Sure Paul.
Now break the states down by race and adjust for cost of living. This kind of msnbc bullshit is what you dopes regurgitate because msnbc tells you to. Like how you think red states have a high murder rate, when in fact it’s all from inner cities like St Louis and Memphis.

Posted by: Montec at December 03, 2023 01:03 PM (bWsRe)

88
Each new 'plan' and 'policy'' is closer to an open, obvious pogrom.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 03, 2023 01:04 PM (uz6ub)

89 CBD, have you seen this? It sounds like Netanyahu has not taken killing the leaders of Hamas off the table.

https://tinyurl.com/3ukw8ca2

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2023 01:04 PM (ZLI7S)

90 Hi Paul, is your mom still taking twenties down at the truck stop?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2023 01:05 PM (D7oie)

91 90 Hi Paul, is your mom still taking twenties down at the truck stop?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 03, 2023 01:05 PM (D7oie)

Thanks to Bidenomics it’s $30 now.

Posted by: Montec at December 03, 2023 01:05 PM (bWsRe)

92 I have an fiend who is black and is very sharp. He's been at the cutting edge of computational science for a long time and has finally been able to establish himself as one of those really highly paid consultants who know their shit and get paid accordingly. It was a long and hard road.

He grew up in Cherry Hill in Bmore. An only child, his Mom realized that he was going to end up a criminal if she stayed there so she moved to a white neighborhood in Indianapolis in the 80s. Dave ended up at an all white Jr and Sr. High school (on purpose) and at first felt like he was on another planet. But he got it. He grabbed hold of this opportunity to live and learn in a different culture.

The guy makes an insane amount of money and lives the high-life and is considered a serious mover and shaker and he credits everything to his Mom making that crazy call when he was a kid. He says if he stayed he be dead by now.

Posted by: pawn at December 03, 2023 01:06 PM (QB+5g)

93 And you want to blame... ME??? Look who's been in charge for decades. If you like how things are, keep voting them in.
Posted by: BurtTC
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The Left/Progressive/Liberal/Dems do not directly associate the quality of society with their voting choices. Their voting choices have *only* to do with their socio-politcal ideology, and voting for their team. The well-being of society does not *objectively* enter into their minds at all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2023 01:08 PM (XeU6L)

94 I laugh when someone suggests calling or writing a congressman. Why? They don't give a shit what we think.

The separation of states from DC can't come fast enough. I may never live to see it though. I'll probably die watching and experiencing my beloved country's decline.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 01:02 PM (BdMk6)

I watched MTG with Tucker the other day. She's got a way of saying it without saying it. Your R Congress doesn't care about you. Now, I know that, and you know that, but there are lots of people who still think if we just vote in more of them, all will be right.

It won't.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:08 PM (QBaJw)

95 92 Posted by: pawn at December 03, 2023 01:06 PM (QB+5g)

Palls vision of America is making sure people that do not make that choice do not pay a price for it pawn.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:09 PM (X0I7i)

96 Aloha

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at December 03, 2023 01:09 PM (OvTO7)

97 >>>But he got it. He grabbed hold of this opportunity to live and learn in a different culture.
...
he credits everything to his Mom making that crazy call when he was a kid. He says if he stayed he be dead by now.

Posted by: pawn
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You got it, family is the lock and culture is the key.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 01:10 PM (Iqq2R)

98 94 Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:08 PM (QBaJw)

Not voting them in can sure as hell make things worse....

that they demand we go over the cliff the donks want us driven over is inarguable, the safety difference between going over at 120 mph and 20 is arguable.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:10 PM (X0I7i)

99 Snackbar?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:10 PM (S/VeI)

100 64 Car jackers pistol whipping their victims. Most will graduate to " we don't be needin' any witnesses so lets just cap the mofo".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2023 01:10 PM (0EOe9)

101 My high school in the late 60s was segregated but not the way you think. There was essentially a separate school for hispanics. This was in what became Silicon Valley. We seldom had them in our classes. High percentage of asians too, even then.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 03, 2023 01:11 PM (t0dV9)

102 I predict a jump in water fountain sales.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 03, 2023 01:11 PM (NBVIP)

103 >>> What a dismal and pessimistic view of the world, and here I thought they wanted to perfect Man, not make him a slave!

Call it whatever you want but it needs to be assumed, until proven otherwise, that all those who seek power wish to enslave all others.
Always been and always will be that way.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 03, 2023 01:11 PM (cOq4q)

104
But... but, homeschooled children will miss out on social interactions!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 03, 2023 01:12 PM (9mNHV)

105 I'm locked out of Noahware now.
BTFOOM how that happened.

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at December 03, 2023 01:12 PM (OvTO7)

106 Hadrian

So did every other kid in the past three years. But who is more feral?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:13 PM (S/VeI)

107 I leave for Israel JAN 10th

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:13 PM (PQ4m2)

108 I watched MTG with Tucker the other day. She's got a way of saying it without saying it. Your R Congress doesn't care about you. Now, I know that, and you know that, but there are lots of people who still think if we just vote in more of them, all will be right.

It won't.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:08 PM (QBaJw)
******
My congressman is Troy Nehls. I like him, he listens to his constituents..

Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2023 01:13 PM (NpAcC)

109 Really NGU?!?

Combat denistry?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (S/VeI)

110 A blast from the past! Specifically, from the book thread.

I just came across this 8 1/2 minute video. The 5 Most Difficult Books Ever!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wUh7iZ5NrHw

Of the five, I've read three. Well, OK, I didn't make it all the way through Ulysses.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (FVME7)
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Dang it! Now what am I supposed to post next week?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (BpYfr)

111 The Left/Progressive/Liberal/Dems do not directly associate the quality of society with their voting choices. Their voting choices have *only* to do with their socio-politcal ideology, and voting for their team. The well-being of society does not *objectively* enter into their minds at all.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 03, 2023 01:08 PM (XeU6L)

Right, I'm just saying, if you want to BE a Ron DeSantis, at some point you have to stop trying to argue with them. Stop trying to bring your numbers against their numbers.

You just look at that guy standing over there and say "Are you F'n kidding me? You're going to stand here and argue you've made your state better? That the dementia patient in the White House is DOING something?"

It gets absurd, when you get right down to it. But the R party is going to go into this election season, on one hand trying to destroy Trump, and on the other, being the same mealy mouthed simps they are, when trying to make the case why they should be in office.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (QBaJw)

112 The separation of states from DC can't come fast enough. I may never live to see it though. I'll probably die watching and experiencing my beloved country's decline.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 01:02 PM (BdMk6)

Concur. You write the congress critter, some staffer sends you back a form letter axing for mo money.

Fuck Them All. It's just a big clusterfuck and they shit on their "constituents".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (R/m4+)

113 For the Left, the issue is never the issue the issue is always the revolution.
Regarding the Portland schools: Giving the workers good jobs, or more broadly giving a member of any oppressed class any “good thing” which can prevent him from feeling oppressed even for a moment is immoral.
Creating divisions that will promote the healing violence of the Revolution is moral.

Posted by: Peter B at December 03, 2023 01:15 PM (1dT1k)

114 My kids go to a very un-diverse school. And weirdly enough there isn't a lot of violence or disruptive behavior. In fact it’s practically non-existent.

Posted by: Montec at December 03, 2023 01:15 PM (bWsRe)

115 Most difficult books to read?

Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' series.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:15 PM (S/VeI)

116 107 I leave for Israel JAN 10th

Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Godspeed.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 01:16 PM (Iqq2R)

117 About a week or so ago I downloaded an app called "Be My Eyes." It's free and it connects sighted volunteers to blind people who need help with something via a brief video call.

The first call I got was to help a woman with the expiration date on a container of cream, and just this morning took another call checking for mold on bagels (there was none!)

It's pretty neat and a simple way to help people that requires very little effort.

Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at December 03, 2023 01:16 PM (ZgeZs)

118 107 If they assign you to the POW camps, you'll have a busy stay judging by the pictures of palis.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 03, 2023 01:16 PM (0EOe9)

119 109 Really NGU?!?

Combat denistry?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (S/VeI)

Well all dentistry is combat dentistry LOL

But no, there is a Clinic in Jerusalem that needs volunteers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:16 PM (PQ4m2)

120 109 Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (S/VeI)

Eh they may be more needed at the corps level than you think.

Shit happens on the battlefield and rapid interdiction can protect people from catastrophic failure.

He will likely be on call at their equivalent of field trauma centers for stabilizing care.

All kinds of strangeness at the other end of 9-line medevacs.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:16 PM (X0I7i)

121 I leave for Israel JAN 10th
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:13 PM (PQ4m2)
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For just 2 people, it doesn't pay to ILMoMe.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 01:17 PM (zutzM)

122 Anna have you ever pulled a bad tooth?

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (fwDg9)

123 Just let 'em all, whatever color, watch TikTok all day long. No ABCs, no numbers, no history, no nothing.

They'll get all they need for the 1984-like world they're going to inhabit.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (ZtgZZ)

124 For just 2 people, it doesn't pay to ILMoMe.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 01:17 PM (zutzM)

Hey I'm up for it LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (PQ4m2)

125 Even writing your state representative is a waste of time. Here in a red district in Texas my GOP(e) rep voted to impeach Ken Paxton…. Annoyed I wrote him. The response: crickets. Not even a form letter….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (xT8gx)

126 NGU

Stay safe, stay smart, and stay alive.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (S/VeI)

127 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wUh7iZ5NrHw

Of the five, I've read three. Well, OK, I didn't make it all the way through Ulysses.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 03, 2023 12:49 PM (FVME7)
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Dang it! Now what am I supposed to post next week?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (BpYfr)

Ok, just starting off, D.F. Wallace murdered himself. Don't think I need to read anything else he's written. Next.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (QBaJw)

128 119 Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:16 PM (PQ4m2)

You tried, and they may need some as time wears on depending on the intensity of operations.

I was worried about you and praying for your safety if you went. Reading your posts and sharing in analysis of the force and issues surrounding US power has been an honor these years. Your honor, integrity, and diligence do you and your household well.

Be safe, and keep on keeping on partner.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (X0I7i)

129 You're a good egg, NGU. God speed.

Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at December 03, 2023 01:19 PM (ZgeZs)

130 "I leave for Israel JAN 10th"

OMG, NGU!

I really hope you have a chance to make a difference.

And I hope the chow is good.

Posted by: pawn at December 03, 2023 01:19 PM (QB+5g)

131 NGU

Stay safe, stay smart, and stay alive.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (S/VeI)

Well not sure Safe and Smart are my personality but I sure plan on staying alive

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:19 PM (PQ4m2)

132 Best of luck and Godspeed NGU

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 01:20 PM (fwDg9)

133 Anna have you ever pulled a bad tooth?
Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (fwDg9)
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Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/T__0o1nc_RY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 01:20 PM (zutzM)

134 124 Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (PQ4m2)

Are you up at Great Lakes?

It could well be one day maybe we can all meet and have some pie at Giordanos it is on the way to visiting one of my high school mates who went Marines up in Wisconsin.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:20 PM (X0I7i)

135
My congressman is Troy Nehls. I like him, he listens to his constituents..
Posted by: redridinghood

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He's mine too. One of those cases where, "Congress sucks, but my guy is good."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 03, 2023 01:21 PM (9mNHV)

136 Are you up at Great Lakes?

It could well be one day maybe we can all meet and have some pie at Giordanos it is on the way to visiting one of my high school mates who went Marines up in Wisconsin.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:20 PM (X0I7i)

I aged out of the navy 1 1/2 months ago. I am a civilian in NJ now

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:21 PM (PQ4m2)

137 I leave for Israel JAN 10th

Posted by: Nevergiveup

Bless you.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 01:22 PM (BdMk6)

138 >>>I am a civilian in NJ now
~~~~~

Waaay more dangerous.

Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at December 03, 2023 01:22 PM (ZgeZs)

139
I leave for Israel JAN 10th

Posted by: Nevergiveup

___________

The Two-Fisted Fightin' Dentist!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 03, 2023 01:22 PM (9mNHV)

140 Waaay more dangerous.
Posted by: IrishEi with yet another new laptop at December 03, 2023 01:22 PM (ZgeZs)

LOL, probably

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:22 PM (PQ4m2)

141 Meanwhile Read Admiral Chin To Lo is wondering if he has his socks on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:22 PM (S/VeI)

142 Safe or brave. Pick one.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 03, 2023 01:23 PM (NBVIP)

143 You are in our prayers NGU

In church this morning we sang Christmas carols… among them: Come Thou Long Expected Jesus….

This line tucked in the middle stood out to me (the subject referred to is God Almighty): Israel’s strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art

Charles Wesley, what a hymn writer he was!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2023 01:23 PM (xT8gx)

144
NGU, what if your old boss volunteered too?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 03, 2023 01:23 PM (9mNHV)

145 Well all dentistry is combat dentistry LOL

But no, there is a Clinic in Jerusalem that needs volunteers

Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Those white coats have nice big pockets, plenty of room for a lifesaver.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 01:23 PM (Iqq2R)

146 136 Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:21 PM (PQ4m2)

Good. I am glad you are happily retired. Wife and I are both helping out at a training center for the army still. Day comes we will head back to the Ohio Valley and be a lot more present at the MoMees and posting from our back 40.

Good luck in joining or setting up a practice and enjoy everything you earned.

Opportunities down here in Louisiana still abound if you are ever interested.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:23 PM (X0I7i)

147 Meanwhile Read Admiral Chin To Lo is wondering if he has his socks on.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 03, 2023 01:22 PM (S/VeI)

LOL, I was his defacto EA for 4 years and he did not even say Bye Bye to me. And the 2 Star told my replacement not to talk to me and if he did, he would be relieved LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:24 PM (PQ4m2)

148 Godspeed, NGU.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 03, 2023 01:24 PM (aYmfF)

149 Just saw the new Bud Light commercial

Peyton Manning goes into a bar, orders a Bud Light
says, 'no, how about one for everybody'
gets a bucket of beers, starts throwing cans to the crowd like he's passing footballs
Emmit Smith is there too

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2023 01:24 PM (geLO8)

150 >>But no, there is a Clinic in Jerusalem that needs volunteers

That's great. Stay safe.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2023 01:25 PM (ZLI7S)

151 142 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 03, 2023 01:23 PM (NBVIP)

You can be both in the force NGU and the wife and I joined...admittedly "safety before mission" is a growing problem.

You are presented with tasks to be done, good soldiers should do all they can to meet mission, they should also strive to be as safe as they can so they can do more missions.

What leadership should not do is foster an environment where safety allows NO mission.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:25 PM (X0I7i)

152 What these piece of shit “educators” have done to our schools is absolutely unforgivable.

They are doing no favors to “marginalized groups” nor anyone else. Get your kids out of these leftist seminary indoctrination centers.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 03, 2023 01:25 PM (M9fC/)

153 Well not sure Safe and Smart are my personality but I sure plan on staying alive
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:19 PM (PQ4m2)

Please keep posting here and give updates on what is actually going on there.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 01:25 PM (BdMk6)

154 I expect biting your Pop Tart into the shape of a "gun" will be grounds for immediate execution still. I am so glad my children were spared all this insanity. Homeschool your children. HSLDA.ORG can actually help you get started.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at December 03, 2023 01:26 PM (b5mAA)

155 May the Lord watch over NGU.

Posted by: John Fogerty at December 03, 2023 01:26 PM (R4t5M)

156 Shalom NGU, safe travels and bountiful rewards in January.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:26 PM (X0I7i)

157 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (BpYfr)

Ok, just starting off, D.F. Wallace murdered himself. Don't think I need to read anything else he's written. Next.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (QBaJw)

James Joyce occupies the top 2 slots. As it should be.

Joyce is the Christopher Nolan of Jackson Pollack.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:27 PM (QBaJw)

158 there is a Clinic in Jerusalem that needs volunteers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:16 PM (PQ4m2)

Of course it's a VD clinic....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 03, 2023 01:27 PM (3Gtis)

159 NGU, what if your old boss volunteered too?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 03, 2023 01:23 PM (9mNHV)

He would never, and anyway, he is dying of Cancer

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:27 PM (PQ4m2)

160 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 03, 2023 01:14 PM (BpYfr)

Ok, just starting off, D.F. Wallace murdered himself. Don't think I need to read anything else he's written. Next.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (QBaJw)

James Joyce occupies the top 2 slots. As it should be.

Joyce is the Christopher Nolan of Jackson Pollack.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:27 PM (QBaJw)
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Weirdly enough, that video appeared in my YouTube video feed this morning before today's Sunday Morning Book Thread. I saved the link for next week.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 03, 2023 01:28 PM (BpYfr)

161 Of course it's a VD clinic....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 03, 2023 01:27 PM (3Gtis)

LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:28 PM (PQ4m2)

162 Just saw the new Bud Light commercial

Peyton Manning goes into a bar, orders a Bud Light
says, 'no, how about one for everybody'
gets a bucket of beers, starts throwing cans to the crowd like he's passing footballs
Emmit Smith is there too
Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2023 01:24 PM (geLO

Ugh! Why Peyton, why??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2023 01:29 PM (xT8gx)

163 Queers for beers.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 01:30 PM (Iqq2R)

164 STD/Dentist Clinic.

Two things at once!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 03, 2023 01:30 PM (R4t5M)

165 Hey I'm up for it LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:18 PM (PQ4m2)
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I'll be the one standing with the pink carnation in my lapel reading a newspaper at the Aroma Cafe after customs in the BGA arrivals terminal.

Password is: moron.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 01:30 PM (zutzM)

166 Weirdly enough, that video appeared in my YouTube video feed this morning before today's Sunday Morning Book Thread. I saved the link for next week.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 03, 2023 01:28 PM (BpYfr)

Oops! Spoiler alert, I guess.

But really, anybody who didn't know Finnegan's Wake would be number 1 isn't really paying attention.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:30 PM (QBaJw)

167 Design your next child-

David Challen
@David_Challen

“We probably spent quarter of a million quid [on a surrogate]… they have a company that basically is supermodels who are Ivy League educated… Our one went to Columbia… it’s a bit prostituty, isn’t it?”

“I think it’s quite fabulous… but we got a Brazilian supermodel.”

SIGH…

https://tinyurl.com/bd5z3nwm

Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2023 01:31 PM (NpAcC)

168 162 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2023 01:29 PM (xT8gx)

Big money and enough cash on hand already to avoid the insanity he is helping in the micro.

The NFL is all in on the Glee Parade, and if you were offered mid to high six figures to sell out would you?

I was once offered 1500 dollars to walk away from someone I was courting when I didn't have 10 bucks in my pocket.

I said "no."

Some people can't do that.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2023 01:31 PM (X0I7i)

169 162 Just saw the new Bud Light commercial

Peyton Manning goes into a bar, orders a Bud Light
says, 'no, how about one for everybody'
gets a bucket of beers, starts throwing cans to the crowd like he's passing footballs
Emmit Smith is there too
Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2023 01:24 PM (geLO

Ugh! Why Peyton, why??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Wouldn't it be funny if Miller Lite did a commercial with Dylan Mulvaney in the background drinking his bud light.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 03, 2023 01:31 PM (aYmfF)

170 Schools need to build students into citizens that are prepared to participate in a first world, technical society. That needs to be done by challenging and yes, teaching, the students to be better. All students. Pandering to the worst behavior and abandoning educating virtually all of the students doesn’t just damage the children, it places a dreadful burden on society.

It’s no reason western civilization is coming apart at the seams. It’s been willfully sabotaged.

Posted by: Advo at December 03, 2023 01:32 PM (VHN21)

171 “We probably spent quarter of a million quid [on a surrogate]"

Did it come with a warranty?

Posted by: pawn at December 03, 2023 01:33 PM (QB+5g)

172 >Queers for beers.

Posted by: Braenyard
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yeah I don't think you can paint Peyton with that brush

Posted by: Don Black at December 03, 2023 01:33 PM (geLO8)

173 Ugh! Why Peyton, why??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I know this one~!

Posted by: V. I. Lenin at December 03, 2023 01:33 PM (IG4Id)

174 STD/Dentist Clinic.

Two things at once!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 03, 2023 01:30 PM (R4t5M)

Needless to say, the prevalence of STDs in the mouth are not at all unheard of.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:33 PM (QBaJw)

175 172 >Queers for beers.

Posted by: Braenyard
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yeah I don't think you can paint Peyton with that brush

Posted by: Don Black
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I paint him with a red brush.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 01:34 PM (Iqq2R)

176 Of course it's a VD clinic....

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Veteran Dentists ...???

Posted by: runner at December 03, 2023 01:36 PM (V13WU)

177 Ugh! Why Peyton, why??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2023 01:29 PM (xT8gx)

Manning has shown over and over, he will hawk anything for anyone who will pay him.

I'm not saying he's a whore, but after his last SB game, I'm pretty sure whoever he was supposed to promote, when they were interviewing him, he injected a line about going and having a Budweiser. You could tell by the reporter who was interviewing him, that wasn't what he was supposed to say.

A paycheck's a paycheck.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:36 PM (QBaJw)

178 Speaking of, Norm MacDonald, when he had a podcast, and he was supposed to sell something called the Mangrate. Honestly, I don't know if that was the name, but I think it was.

A metal grate you could use for grilling. And his ad reads were so hilarious, and in part disrespectful toward the sponsor, they cancelled their ads. Which I think was really really stupid. If they had any sense they'd have known, first of all, Norm couldn't give a shit about your product, and probably very little about your money. But it would sell product to let him do his thing with it. Even if it was "disrespectful."

Closest thing to that now is Tim Dillon, but Tim's ad reads have gotten a lot less fun over the last couple years.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:40 PM (QBaJw)

179 I cannot think of a better way to sow social division and tension.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2023 01:44 PM (RIvkX)

180 A paycheck's a paycheck.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:36 PM (QBaJw)

I’m naive I guess. I know most people have their price, but I naively would’ve thought: Peyton Manning already has more money than he could ever spend. No reason whatsoever to take money from Bud. Heck, I’m not rich but I would NOT take $1M to hawk Bud…. Dignity is more valuable than any dollar amount. Now I would take $1M to appear as Linus from State Farm, especially if Mahomes was also in the commercial

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2023 01:45 PM (xT8gx)

181 there is a Clinic in Jerusalem that needs volunteers
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2023 01:16 PM (PQ4m2)
Of course it's a VD clinic....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

A fun/hilarious read lately is THE FORWARD Magazine, frantically trying to reassure its readership that No, For-Realsies Hamas doesn't *really* want them all dead and Look, Isn't Marxism Grand?

Posted by: LenNeal has a weird sense of humor at December 03, 2023 01:45 PM (43xH1)

182 Part of the problem is decent, peaceable people are incapable of realizing just how malevolent and evil leftists are.

It is incomprehensible to them that certain factions would sift through decades of government studies and research on how to best educate children - what works, what doesn’t, what traits and habits successful individuals follow, and completely queer the praxis, turn everything on its head.

Doing these things, following the habits of successful people does not guarantee success, but there is no doubt that failure is assured if they are not. It isn’t any more complicated than that.

The only conclusion that can be drawn after all these years is they are sabotaging children with malice aforethought. No other explanation is possible.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 03, 2023 01:48 PM (M9fC/)

183 Michigan, Texas, Washington and Alabama.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2023 01:48 PM (ZLI7S)

184 Ronald Reagan had so many good quotes.

The scariest sentence is "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"

So accurate. Every time the gub'mint proposes to *help* a group of people they come up with policies that actually hurt 90% or more of that group.

I used to think that was just bleeding heart liberal stupidity. Now I've become cynical enough to think they are doing it on purpose. A crippled society, that feels dependent on scraps from the gub'mint master is easier to control than a group of people that have been taught how to provide for themselves.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 03, 2023 01:49 PM (3cGpq)

185 Hunting down hamas leaders was a given.
Wonder why they are putting it out to the press
at this point in time?

Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 01:51 PM (Iqq2R)

186 Hunting down hamas leaders was a given.
Wonder why they are putting it out to the press
at this point in time?
Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 01:51 PM (Iqq2R)
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Because we're stupid here.

They need to shut up and do the job. Should've been finished by mid-October the latest.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 03, 2023 01:54 PM (zutzM)

187 I’m naive I guess. I know most people have their price, but I naively would’ve thought: Peyton Manning already has more money than he could ever spend. No reason whatsoever to take money from Bud. Heck, I’m not rich but I would NOT take $1M to hawk Bud…. Dignity is more valuable than any dollar amount. Now I would take $1M to appear as Linus from State Farm, especially if Mahomes was also in the commercial
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2023 01:45 PM (xT8gx)

I don't disagree with you, but then I'm not Payton Manning. If AB offered me a million dollars to hawk Butt Lite, I'd do it. Because, you know, nobody cares what I think anyway, and I could use the money.

But Manning has demonstrated this over and over throughout his playing career. Give me money, I'll sell your product. I don't think someone with his kind of wealth and fame does so without it costing him something else, so if I was him, I probably wouldn't. But Payton seems to want all the money. Which is fine. I guess.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:54 PM (QBaJw)

188
Democrat/Union/Progressive machine

Bigotry, segregation, and societal collapse: now and forever!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 03, 2023 01:55 PM (xG4kz)

189 The CFP committee got it right (wonder of wonders). I feel bad for FSU but without their fantastic QB they’re not one of the 4 best teams. That Michigan-Bama game in the Rose Bowl will be epic…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 03, 2023 01:55 PM (xT8gx)

190 Hunting down hamas leaders was a given.
Wonder why they are putting it out to the press
at this point in time?
Posted by: Braenyard at December 03, 2023 01:51 PM (Iqq2R)

Have you ever been publicly marked for death by very stealthy and efficient killers?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 01:56 PM (BdMk6)

191 Saw Godzilla Minus One, easily in the top two of best Godzilla films, can't really say it's better than the 1954 as that was the first film and you can't be better than the film that started it all.

I don't know how they did what they did for 15M dollars but they did it.

Also the film borrows heavily from two Spielberg films, I'll let you guess the two.

Basically, everyone should see this film, it's that good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2023 01:56 PM (XV/Pl)

192 Hostage negotiations fell apart when Hamas said they didn't know what had happened to the last 15 women and 2 children that are missing. Anyone sensible assumes Hamas already killed them and doesn't want to admit it.

That is why Israel refused to negotiate any further, and why their representatives have now left Qatar. There will be no more negotiations.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2023 01:56 PM (S6gqv)

193 Ronald Reagan had so many good quotes.

The scariest sentence is "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"

So accurate. Every time the gub'mint proposes to *help* a group of people they come up with policies that actually hurt 90% or more of that group.

I used to think that was just bleeding heart liberal stupidity. Now I've become cynical enough to think they are doing it on purpose. A crippled society, that feels dependent on scraps from the gub'mint master is easier to control than a group of people that have been taught how to provide for themselves.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 03, 2023 01:49 PM (3cGpq)

I think that was the left's greatest accomplishment. To turn a free and independent people, into a mass that automatically turns to the government for damn near everything. It is indeed, all about control.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:57 PM (QBaJw)

194 What a dismal and pessimistic view of the world, and here I thought they wanted to perfect Man, not make him a slave!
______________

They lied.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2023 01:57 PM (YqDXo)

195 Part of the problem is decent, peaceable people are incapable of realizing just how malevolent and evil leftists are.
The only conclusion that can be drawn after all these years is they are sabotaging children with malice aforethought. No other explanation is possible.
Posted by: Common Tater

Interesting. Yes, But. The people doing the destruction actually believe their destruction will result in spontaneous reconstitution. Think, Dr. Manhattan in 'The Watchmen'. That's how they think. Structure to these theorists is hideous; symmetrical beauty, in the Classical sense, is ugliness. It's a Great Dissolving in some Universal Solvent of ideology that results in a kind of primordial 'soup' from which The New Being will emerge and XhEm will be unstoppable and all-powerful.

Posted by: LenNeal has a weird sense of humor at December 03, 2023 01:57 PM (43xH1)

196 Have you ever been publicly marked for death by very stealthy and efficient killers?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 03, 2023 01:56 PM (BdMk6)

I don't think my ex ever really wanted me dead, but.....

Posted by: BurtTC at December 03, 2023 01:58 PM (QBaJw)

197 and here I thought they wanted to perfect Man, not make him a slave!'

I just wanted to serve Man-!

Posted by: Sbroxcm of the Kanamits at December 03, 2023 01:59 PM (43xH1)

198 The Irish, Italians, Jews, Germans, and Scandinavians didn’t have trouble assimilating.

And so that means blacks shouldn’t have any trouble, either?

That right there is a big part of our problem. The liberal idea of the “perfectability” of man.

My sons had no trouble mastering table manners. But I didn’t try to teach the dog how to hold a fork.

Go ahead and obstinately insist that all races and cultures are equally able to learn, behave, and succeed.
Reality will always be right there by your side, patiently waiting to tap you on the shoulder.

Scott Adams said “There’s no fixing this.”
Nothing truer has ever been spoken than those four words.

Posted by: Tony at December 03, 2023 02:00 PM (r2suQ)

199 I don't know how they did what they did for 15M dollars but they did it.
Basically, everyone should see this film, it's that good.
Posted by: Thomas Bender'

You are velly welcome!

Posted by: Rona impoverished Japanese modelmakers at December 03, 2023 02:00 PM (43xH1)

200 Hostage negotiations fell apart when Hamas said they didn't know what had happened to the last 15 women and 2 children that are missing. Anyone sensible assumes Hamas already killed them and doesn't want to admit it.

Or that Hamas has no intention of turning over the young women hostages, for obvious reasons.

All the women released by Hamas to this point have been middle-aged or elderly.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 03, 2023 02:00 PM (YAtuc)

201 Schools in the blue inner cities are nothing more than holding pens for future Democrat cattle...otherwise known as voters. The mantra is: "keep 'em dumb and poor, and they'll keep voting us more money and power."

The left wants the Brazil model. An untouchable wealthy elite served by a tiny middle class with most people confined to slums.

And...in the last election there they cheated to make sure the guy challenging that model was denied his victory.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 03, 2023 02:01 PM (XqcwY)

202 1ST NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 03, 2023 02:01 PM (fwDg9)

203 Fuck Them All. It's just a big clusterfuck and they shit on their "constituents".
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

I was the most honest guy there.

Posted by: ExRep Santos at December 03, 2023 02:04 PM (zZIjm)

204 "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Barack Hussein Obama.
________________

Manufacturers of brown shirts cheered.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2023 02:05 PM (YqDXo)

205 Nood

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 03, 2023 02:06 PM (RIvkX)

206 Schools in the blue inner cities are nothing more than holding pens for future Democrat cattle...otherwise known as voters. The mantra is: "keep 'em dumb and poor, and they'll keep voting us more money and power."
_________________

The "school to prison pipeline."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 03, 2023 02:06 PM (YqDXo)

207 I can't forget an O'Keefe video where a union offical tells him, "you don't want them to get too smart," when he asked about getting his "ho's" in school. They want stupid dependents.

And one reason they won't expel kids is then they would lose funding for that kid, who would probably never come back.

Posted by: Senile Joe at December 03, 2023 03:01 PM (G1dq6)

208 OBP dot org, Dec. 3, 2023 - The main points of contention in the historic Portland teachers strike are wages and class sizes. But then there's restorative practices.

“Disproportionate rates of discipline are actually leading to systemic poverty,” said Tamara Henderson, Laguna Pueblo, chief operating officer at the Native American Youth and Family Center and president of the Oregon Indian Education Association.

In a district with over 44,000 students across 81 schools, just 0.5% of students identified solely as Native American in 2022. According to the same data set, students who identify solely as Black accounted for 8.3% of the student population. ...

According to data collected by Portland Public Schools, students of color were far more likely to be suspended or expelled during the 2022-2023 school year than their white counterparts. Among the district’s Native American students, more than 12% were subject to exclusionary discipline last year, and 11% of Black students were. The proportion of white students receiving out-of-school discipline was a fraction of that - 2.4%.

IDK but the 17.8% of Hispanic/Latino students, possibly bundled w/White, must be doing well.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bears, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 03, 2023 03:38 PM (GshMh)

209 14: tell me you have never been to TX and know nothing about TX without saying you’ve never been tk TX and know nothing about TX.

If states are made great by having massive government with unlimited power, explain what happened to the Second World.

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