Demons in K-12

Who saw this coming? Screwtape, that's who.

Yesterday, Ace wrote a great post: California School District Implements "Equity Grading" -- A Students Will Become B Students, and D and F Students Will Become C Students

Even if you read it once, the details are almost unbelievable, so you might want to read it again (but don't comment on old threads).

Also included in Ace's post:

Related: Renegade anti-woke former teacher Chalkboard Heresy explains why it's impossible to get woke teachers to stick to the curriculum and leave their politics at home.

There is no reasoning with them. They are on a mission. Might as well understand it and maybe find a way around it.

And this:

Why can't a middle school in Utah deal with kids presenting as "furries"? Why are other students and parents motivated to protest?

Don't worry, though: A local media propaganda outlet interviews a furry calling themself (yes, themself) "Strudel" who says this is all overblown.
And if you can't trust a nonbinary that dresses up like a cartoon dog and calls themself "Strudel," who can you trust?

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C.S. Lewis Saw All This Coming

I posted on this back in April of 2021, so it's sort of a Blast from the Past, but it seems to be coming to full fruition now:

Jared Whitley wrote about a piece Lewis wrote shortly before he died:

"We now have an intelligentsia which, though very small, is very useful to the cause of Hell." -C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

A masterful piece of religious prose disguised as satire, C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters is a series of messages from senior devil Screwtape to his protege Wormwood on how best to corrupt mortals. Originally released during World War II, its tight 175 pages provide charming, timeless wisdom.
In an addendum released shortly before the author's death in 1963 - Screwtape Proposes a Toast - Lewis pivots from dispensing universal wisdom to directly criticizing social trends of his day, trends which have gone from mere whispers on college campuses 60 years ago to become orthodoxy with the power of law today. Reading it today, it feels like the author was more prophet than professor.

In the 15-page essay - full text available here - the devil Screwtape outlines how the term democracy can be warped into destroying excellence, first in the halls of education then to society at large to make sure everyone stays "equal."

"Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose," Screwtape tells his fellow devils. "The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' "

"Democracy is the word with which you must
lead them by the nose"

Several examples are given at the link, with some not-too-obvious warnings about the wiles of tempting demons. And notes on the abolition of the middle class. Remarkable. And this (full of hyperlinks):

"For 'democracy' or the 'democratic spirit' (diabolical sense) leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first sign of criticism. And that is what Hell wishes every democratic people to be. For when such a nation meets in conflict a nation where children have been made to work at school, where talent is placed in high posts, and where the ignorant mass are allowed no say at all in public affairs, only one result is possible."

Lewis also warns about changing the meaning of words. That's one of the ways we get to the state in the paragraph above.

Well, 1963 was a long time ago. Screwtape and his buddies have a head start. Time to wake up now?

Say it again with that senior demon, Screwtape:

"Democracy is the word with which you must
lead them by the nose"

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On the Lighter Side (sort of)

Ammo Grrrll includes some school-related remembrances about things that were once permissible but no longer are permissible in this week's Thoughts from the ammo line:

As I have written about before, the very last gig I had in Minnesota before moving to Arizona was for a School District's Teachers' confab three days before they had to get back in the classroom. It was about 15 years ago. And almost all the sessions were about addressing the "gap" between academic achievements of various ethnic groups. With the distinct impression that any gap that existed was solely the fault of the racist teacher and racist white people in general and had nothing to do with any differences in culture, self-discipline, study habits or regular attendance in class which may have existed among the several groups.
As my little entertainment set - their reward for sitting through all the drivel - was last, I got to listen to many people with all the expertise of Dr. Jill Biden whining and caviling about this horrific gap, inexplicable by anything other than malignant deliberate racism. There was an irony so delicious you couldn't have made it up in that the Hispanic expert speaker, working for some government agency of course, showed up more than an hour late for her racist boilerplate presentation.

When it was my turn, I offered a few quips sure to please: "Teachers feel about Memorial Day the way parents feel about Labor Day..." and so forth and then near the end I said, "I've heard a lot of concern today about how some students are not keeping up with others. Couldn't you just solve this by asking the white kids to do WORSE?" Oh my. Dead silence for a few long seconds, and then raucous laughter and applause.
Today, of course, they would all cover their mouths in horror or drive me from the stage. Anyone who laughed would have to go to reeducation camp and reapply for her job. And the gap embarrassment has been mostly solved by forbidding testing at all. No test, no gap, no problem. You get into college now not by test scores anyway, but by skin color, so it's all good.

Brave!

The whole piece is full of interesting musings on risk aversion and such.

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Music and Drama

Tango

Passover is coming

I still haven't found any Passover music that really sings to me. This scene from "Prince of Egypt" is dramatic.

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, April 13, It's been a long week for NPR's new CEO

The following week was EVEN LONGER for the new CEO. Take a cruise through the AOSHQ archives for the week. This is from J.J. Sefton's Morning Report on Thursday, about her time at Wikipedia. She did a great deal of damage even before starting at NPR.
Much more under Sefton's heading FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH, just on one day.

Remember not to comment on old threads.

It's interesting that her friends are not defending Katherine Maher. They are loyal to the ideology, not to her. She'll have a soft landing somewhere, someday, though.

BTW, who funds the Atlantic Council, where she also served?

Posted by: K.T. at 11:05 AM

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1 Good Saturday Morning KT!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 11:06 AM (VIEbi)

2 The "furries" should be neutered and spayed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2024 11:07 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2024 11:08 AM (fwDg9)

4 Good Morning!

Posted by: KT at April 20, 2024 11:09 AM (rrtZS)

5 The Secretary of Education is on it!

Biden’s Education Secretary Vows to Shut Down Nation's Largest Christian University

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Yeah, that's the problem. Too much Christianity!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:10 AM (FVME7)

6 Homeschooling. It's a thing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 20, 2024 11:12 AM (dg+HA)

7 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2024 11:12 AM (T4tVD)

8 How bout bastitbaw equity?

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 11:13 AM (o2ZRX)

9 I should get back to reading the Screwtape Letters, it's still downloaded on my tablet. Got through at least well into it.

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2024 11:13 AM (fwDg9)

10 You know, given everything else that's falling apart in this world, I almost don't care about schools.

Why?

Because we'll all be dead long before today's children are old enough to participate in the hell that is adulthood.

But that's just me, being an optimist again. I could be wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:14 AM (bNJTc)

11 One of the biggest ironies of "democracy" is that for an individual to feel like he has any actual influence he has to adopt the ideology of the mob majority.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:14 AM (991eG)

12 The Post Millennial
@TPostMillennial
Doocy: “Why is President Biden saying that his Uncle Bosie was eaten by cannibals?”
WH press sec: “The president had an emotional, and I think, a symbolic moment"

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I guess the cannibals represented Trump.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:14 AM (FVME7)

13 At work in the pet department we have a new product: bags of chicken bits, labeled for 'Dogs AND Cats'!
Leading to a whole series of un-PC comments about 'Isn't that like... trans?' Jokes about 'inter-species treats', and 'My cat identifies as a dog!' type snark.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:15 AM (43xH1)

14
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I guess the cannibals represented Trump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:14 AM (FVME7
Maybe he didn’t mean cannibals, maybe he meant cannabis.

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 11:17 AM (o2ZRX)

15 I'll go get the coffeeholics.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 11:17 AM (VIEbi)

16
This One Weird Fetish - a limerick

In animal suits they party 'til they drop
The rampant drug use never seems to stop
The orgy's so exciting
They all want to go a-riding
On the furry with the syringe on top

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:17 AM (991eG)

17 In Warhmmer 40k the empire are basically fascists and the Emperor himself is a religion hating atheist who when he mostly dies (its complicated) because deified by his empire.

So...Amazon looked at that and said... we need more female representation in the fascist bodyguard of the fuhrer of the Empire?

Alrighty then.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:19 AM (ibTVg)

18 Tehran Signals It Won’t Retaliate for Israeli Attack on Iran

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I guess Biden's pallets of cash policy is paying off.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:20 AM (FVME7)

19 Obviously forgot to hit enter on my nood duty post.
Oh well.
The content was good.

I'm with Skip. I two bought The Screwtape Letters and didn't finish.
I know this isn't the book thread, it is in my to be finished pile.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 11:20 AM (VIEbi)

20 Speaking of pet food, Companies, if you're going to make a product, put a picture of the animal it feeds on the bag! It makes it so much faster and easier to stock. A lot of companies have similar packaging for everything, and having to find, and then squint at, the UPC to see where it goes slows everything down. Put a dog or a cat on the bag, FFS. How hard is that?!!

And I don't mean a tiny silhouette of a Boston Terrier, either, which one company actually does. That one doesn't even look like a cat or a dog, it looks like a 3-year old's crayon scribble that could be either one.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:22 AM (43xH1)

21 Haitian Groups Call for Billions in Reparations from France

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Also a metric shit ton of BBQ sauce.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:22 AM (FVME7)

22 Woke teachers see their mission in life as spreading woke. Teaching is just how they draw a salary.

Overall leftists work like a virus taking over whatever organization they invade and then changing it into a factory for more leftists until it dies.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:23 AM (ibTVg)

23 It is hard to believe but there was a time when the label academic included men like Lewis or Tolkein.

Now most academics and intellectuals are pure leftist scum

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:24 AM (ibTVg)

24 Maybe there’s duck smoking a cigar that drops down and tells bai-din what to say.

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 11:25 AM (o2ZRX)

25 Father of the year.

Lebron James Taunts His Son During Pick up Game: “I’m Goat Bro!”

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Don't you be bringing that weak stuff around here!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:25 AM (FVME7)

26 One of the biggest ironies of "democracy" is that for an individual to feel like he has any actual influence he has to adopt the ideology of the mob majority.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:14 AM (991eG)

People wonder what it must have been like for "good Germans" to stay silent as the nazzies rolled the nation toward mass murder and atrocity after atrocity.

This is what it was like. If you want to have your voice heard in the public square, you supported the regime. If you wanted to be silenced, one way or another, you spoke out against it.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:25 AM (5tnEC)

27 Thx K.T. Maher blasted the left for utilizing children as political pawns. He showed videos of multi colored hair , multiple piercings teachers babbling about queering the classroom. If possible home school or private school, the public school system is fubar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2024 11:25 AM (Wjvnb)

28 Katherine Maher...bet she's got a keffiyeh in her closet.

Posted by: BignJames at April 20, 2024 11:25 AM (AwYPR)

29 Scent of a Woman was/is a fun movie. I had forgotten the Tango scene.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 11:28 AM (VIEbi)

30 Being a miniature gamer see Warhammer stuff everywhere but not a clue what it is about

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2024 11:29 AM (fwDg9)

31 One of the biggest ironies of "democracy" is that for an individual to feel like he has any actual influence he has to adopt the ideology of the mob majority.

To have a free society government has to be small. It is just way to easy for a nominal majority to grab the reins of power and start silencing its enemies...all well claiming that the 50.1% of the vote they received makes whatever action they are engaging in moral and just.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:29 AM (ibTVg)

32 From their website:

"The Atlantic Council does not sell, trade, or rent its donor lists, and does not share donor information with third parties. The Atlantic Council takes all reasonable and appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized use of its donor lists."

Well, that clears that up!

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:30 AM (43xH1)

33 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:30 AM (ELs+R)

34 Twitchy: Google Employee and Hamas Rape Apologist Fired After Protests Whines 'McCarthyism Is Alive and Well'

https://tinyurl.com/5cwtb4hc

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:30 AM (ELs+R)

35 I've told the story before, how my granddaughter's middle school teacher, befriended her, encouraged her to tell her troubles, then encouraged her to blame all her troubles son her parents, then maintained ongoing contact after she finished middle school, without the parents' knowledge. At age 19, after several years of surreptitious grooming, she convinced my GD to renounce her parents, at which time the teacher did a formal adult adoption complete with legal name change. Granddaughter has been in and out of mental health care and is now estranged from the entire family.

Despicable.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:30 AM (991eG)

36 Being a miniature gamer see Warhammer stuff everywhere but not a clue what it is about

Imagine the most complete black pill person you know was a decent SF/fantasy writer and you put him and 100 people like him in charge of writing a SF/fantasy universe...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:31 AM (ibTVg)

37 Willow'd:

345 Is 'tabled' like 'cleave' in that it is a word that has 2 opposite meanings? Both presented for consideration and removed from consideration?
Posted by: Just Wondering at April 20, 2024 10:54 AM (fs1hN)

Yes. In fact the British use it in that sense of being presented for consideration while we use it to mean removed from consideration.

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:31 AM (ELs+R)

38 Teachers all too often see themselves not as allies of parents, but as surrogates who know best.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:31 AM (991eG)

39 There's such a thing as adult adoption?

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:32 AM (ELs+R)

40 The link to the 15 page 1963 addendum to the Screwtape Letters isn't working for me. Anybody have a good link?

Posted by: Bigsmith at April 20, 2024 11:32 AM (Dm9Qt)

41 The dying beta male in Netflix's 3 body problem says the CS Lewis is a crap writer. That seemed gratuitous and probably meant to influence the younger viewers who would sympathize him to dismiss his writings. Wouldn't want anyone to maybe be exposed to unapproved thinking.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 20, 2024 11:33 AM (fs1hN)

42 >>> Yesterday, Ace wrote a great post: California School District Implements "Equity Grading" -- A Students Will Become B Students, and D and F Students Will Become C Students

It's to diminish outstanding and capable young minds making it easier for a nation of midtards to get their 'fair share'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 20, 2024 11:33 AM (cOq4q)

43 Tehran Signals It Won’t Retaliate for Israeli Attack on Iran

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I guess Biden's pallets of cash policy is paying off.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:20 AM (FVME7)

I still say the most likely answer here is, neither side really wants war, but they had to do something. So it's just a question of who will decide at which point their something was enough.

I guess we'll see. And I keep wishing both sides would just tell the U.S. of A. to go f**k the f**k off and get out of the region.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:34 AM (B3xLp)

44 Teachers all too often see themselves not as allies of parents, but as surrogates who know best.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:31 AM (991eG)

What calls someone to "teach"....at any level?

Posted by: BignJames at April 20, 2024 11:34 AM (AwYPR)

45 Yesterday, Ace wrote a great post: California School District Implements "Equity Grading" -- A Students Will Become B Students, and D and F Students Will Become C Students

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Transforming the meritocracy to a demeritocracy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

46 Despicable.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:30 AM (991eG)
There was a time in this country when everybody knew the answer to this problem.

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 11:35 AM (o2ZRX)

47 There's such a thing as adult adoption?
Posted by: Robert'

Yes. There was that case in SF where that one couple had a killer dog that shredded their neighbor. They had adopted a California State prisoner as their son. Sorry, they adopted TWO Aryan Brotherhood members as their sons.

Diane Whipple, the victim.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:36 AM (43xH1)

48 Haitian Groups Call for Billions in Reparations from France

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Also a metric shit ton of BBQ sauce.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:22 AM (FVME7)

Unlike this country, where the people already paid in blood, in this case Haiti probably has a case to be made.

France is a nation with no moral standing. They have much to pay for, all over the world.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:37 AM (B3xLp)

49 CS Lewis was a prophet. As long as you keep the Scripture at the center, his works are strong correctives to the errant Christian and the wayward soul.

Posted by: GWB at April 20, 2024 11:37 AM (1zxQh)

50 Of course Katherine Maher will have a soft landing -- she's related to someone! Which is the only reason she's has the resume she has. Which consists of a lot of board positions and really very little else.

Posted by: Someone Else at April 20, 2024 11:38 AM (IrqeV)

51 What calls someone to "teach"....at any level?
Posted by: BignJames'

I went to work teaching in my school district after a series of tragic events on a utility service job, that indicated to me a lot of it could have been avoided by proper education of people when young. After working in the schools for two years, I realized nobody in public education has the slightest interest in bettering anyone's position in life through any actual useful education and it was purely a Marxist front.

Helpful?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:39 AM (43xH1)

52 Imagine the most complete black pill person you know was a decent SF/fantasy writer and you put him and 100 people like him in charge of writing a SF/fantasy universe...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:31 AM (ibTVg)
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On one of the discussion boards I pointed out that the Imperium is a theocratic dictatorship that literally sacrifices 1,000 people a day to keep its emperor alive, practices genocides, wipes out entire specials, but hey, gender equity, so now they're okay!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 11:40 AM (llXky)

53 There's such a thing as adult adoption?
Posted by: Robert

*********

Yes there is. Various scenarios apply. It formalizes the relationship and affects such things as inheritance and other obligations.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:40 AM (991eG)

54 Unlike this country, where the people already paid in blood, in this case Haiti probably has a case to be made.
France is a nation with no moral standing. They have much to pay for, all over the world.
Posted by: BurtTC'

I was going to say something but figured I'd get flamed. It's true, France's behavior to ALL its 'former' colonies in which it has been allowed any continuing interest, has been today's buzzword, 'despicable'.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:41 AM (43xH1)

55 To have a free society government has to be small. It is just way to easy for a nominal majority to grab the reins of power and start silencing its enemies...all well claiming that the 50.1% of the vote they received makes whatever action they are engaging in moral and just.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:29 AM (ibTVg)

I do wonder though, we seem to be in new territory here, where the elected are not in control of any decision-making, where a permanent bureaucracy controls all the levers of power. I don't believe there's ever really been a case like this before, where the nation all believed they were actually electing their rulers.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:41 AM (B3xLp)

56 I still say the most likely answer here is, neither side really wants war, but they had to do something. So it's just a question of who will decide at which point their something was enough.

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Kind of amusing how Tehran is signaling it won't retaliate. They blame the attacks on "infiltrators" rather than on the Israelis and explain away the explosions as their successful air defense. Nothing to see here, folks. Go back to your mosques.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)

57 On one of the discussion boards I pointed out that the Imperium is a theocratic dictatorship that literally sacrifices 1,000 people a day to keep its emperor alive, practices genocides, wipes out entire specials, but hey, gender equity, so now they're okay!

That checks out.

Posted by: Your elites looking at how China governs at April 20, 2024 11:41 AM (ibTVg)

58 Haitian Groups Call for Billions in Reparations from France

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Also a metric shit ton of BBQ sauce.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:22 AM (FVME7)

Unlike this country, where the people already paid in blood, in this case Haiti probably has a case to be made.

France is a nation with no moral standing. They have much to pay for, all over the world.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:37 AM (B3xLp)

When Haiti gained its independence they went around and murdered all the French people. I'd say the Haitians can take their demand, turn it sideways and stick it up their ass.

Also, no one touches my barbecue sauce.

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:41 AM (ELs+R)

59 Speaking of Warhammer, Slaanesh really looks like a diety the modern left would worship.

It would be interesting talking to the writers that came up with...it...about what their influences were...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:43 AM (ibTVg)

60 When Haiti gained its independence they went around and murdered all the French people. I'd say the Haitians can take their demand, turn it sideways and stick it up their ass.

Also, no one touches my barbecue sauce.
Posted by: Robert'

Yep, there it is.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:43 AM (43xH1)

61 Unlike this country, where the people already paid in blood, in this case Haiti probably has a case to be made.

France is a nation with no moral standing. They have much to pay for, all over the world.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:37 AM (B3xLp)
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Haiti fought for its independence, so I'm not sure what more they expect.

Sorry, but this whole "200 years ago a bad thing happened, pay me!" b.s. has got to stop.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 11:43 AM (llXky)

62 Helpful?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:39 AM (43xH1)

Not really.

Posted by: BignJames at April 20, 2024 11:43 AM (AwYPR)

63 Yes there is. Various scenarios apply. It formalizes the relationship and affects such things as inheritance and other obligations.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:40 AM (991eG)

That's wild.

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:44 AM (S06rK)

64
Sorry, but this whole "200 years ago a bad thing happened, pay me!" b.s. has got to stop.

I'd like to see a group of US citizens sue the EU for serfdom. The only way the left stops doing things is when those methods get used back on them

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:44 AM (ibTVg)

65 Despicable.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:30 AM (991eG)

I don't believe our situation is that extreme, but I do believe my daughter was groomed in a way. She was only ever in public school because the private school she attended closed.

We're not completely estranged, but I'm sure I'm seen as a "right wing" extremist by her. She's well into her 20s now, I'm not really in any position to have any influence over her life anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:45 AM (B3xLp)

66 The "furries" should be neutered and spayed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2024 11:07 AM (Q4IgG)

Indeed. And their tails and ears docked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 11:46 AM (tkR6S)

67 Who funds the Atlantic Council?
For $tarters:
US government entities include: US State Department, US Air Force, US Army, US Marines.

Large corporations: Airbus, Chevron, Google, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Southern Company, Thomson Reuters, BP, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Northrup Grumman, Panasonic, SAIC, United Technologies, Barclays Capital, Coca-Cola Co., ConocoPhillips, ENI, FedEx, McAfee, Microsoft, Target, Boeing, Bloomberg, Caterpillar, Daimler, Gallup, HSBC, Dow Chemical, Comcast, Rolls-Royce, Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ.

https://shorturl.at/nEGH2

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 11:46 AM (mdAoa)

68 >>>When Haiti gained its independence they went around and murdered all the French people. I'd say the Haitians can take their demand, turn it sideways and stick it up their ass.

Also, no one touches my barbecue sauce.
Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:41 AM (ELs+R)
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Perhaps shipping the devil worshippers a life time supply of Grey Poupon. I mean how long can a life time supply be in Haiti?

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 20, 2024 11:46 AM (Z8Xq7)

69 The answer to "Who pays for this stupid leftwing NGO" is pretty much always you the American taxpayer

Posted by: 18-1 at April 20, 2024 11:47 AM (ibTVg)

70 Not really.
Posted by: BignJames'

I went to teach thinking I could make a difference in people's lives early. I learned an entrenched Marxist system wasn't going to let me do that. I quit.
Enlightened self-interest: the more capable people around, the better for me in the long run; but the public school system in America doesn't want that.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:48 AM (43xH1)

71 Sorry, but this whole "200 years ago a bad thing happened, pay me!" b.s. has got to stop.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I'm going to declare myself the last Cathaginian and demand reparations for the Third Punic War. Damn Romans!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:49 AM (FVME7)

72 Haiti got its independence because some fought , but largely because Napoleon realized that it was a useless shithole. Dessalines became Emperor upon independence and was hacked to death a couple of years later. It's been a shithole ever since. Let them fight it out without outside interference and maybe something good will result, though I doubt that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2024 11:49 AM (Wjvnb)

73 Kind of amusing how Tehran is signaling it won't retaliate. They blame the attacks on "infiltrators" rather than on the Israelis and explain away the explosions as their successful air defense. Nothing to see here, folks. Go back to your mosques.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)

I guess it would be funny, if it wasn't so dangerous.

Back in the old days, when men would duel over perceived offenses, more often than not both men would know not to shoot to kill. Either firing wide, and then walking away, or one would wound the other with a glancing shot.

But occasionally.... either one party didn't get the memo, or a shot meant to fly wide right, hits center mass.

Oops.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:50 AM (lFCW3)

74 Oh, giving Haiti money NOW is pointless.
Fuck that.
Best possible scenario there, now, is for all the NGOs to simply leave and let them fight it out alone on their island.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:50 AM (43xH1)

75 I don't believe our situation is that extreme, but I do believe my daughter was groomed in a way

*********

I'm sure grooming happens lots more than we like to acknowledge, and on many different levels, ranging from fairly benign to utterly malignant. In my view, the absolute worst are the tranny groomers, encouraging and abetting gender confusion and actively excluding the parents.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:50 AM (991eG)

76 Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:48 AM (43xH1)

My teachers weren't marxists...that I could tell...what happened?...the '60s?

Posted by: BignJames at April 20, 2024 11:50 AM (AwYPR)

77 Haiti fought for its independence, so I'm not sure what more they expect.

Sorry, but this whole "200 years ago a bad thing happened, pay me!" b.s. has got to stop.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 11:43 AM (llXky)

Read up on how long Haiti had to pay reparations to france.

France are the bad guys here. Don't kid yourself.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:52 AM (lFCW3)

78 Speaking of grooming...

This was linked on the ONT last night. Bill Maher monologue on Hollywood pedos.

https://tinyurl.com/ycyxfjvr

Twatter, 8:22.

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:53 AM (S06rK)

79
Keith Green song

https://tinyurl.com/y9pey5ka

might be ok for Passover.

Posted by: Speller at April 20, 2024 11:54 AM (pSotA)

80 Twatter, 8:22.
Posted by: Robert

********

Care to summarize?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:54 AM (991eG)

81 When Haiti gained its independence they went around and murdered all the French people.
Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 11:41 AM (ELs+R)

Slaves killing their masters? How dare they.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:54 AM (lFCW3)

82 My take on the situation is actually quite optimistic. The pandemic destroyed public education, and people are desperately seeking alternatives.

The less people with kids in public schools, the less voters will be influenced by "for the children" and the teachers' unions will die out because public schools will die out.

The current Supreme Court is likely to strike down Blaine Amendments, which will siphon educational funds to religious schools, accelerating the process.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 11:54 AM (llXky)

83 Who funds the Atlantic Council?
For $tarters:
US government entities include: US State Department, US Air Force, US Army, US Marines.

Large corporations: Airbus, Chevron, Google, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Southern Company, Thomson Reuters, BP, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Northrup Grumman, Panasonic, SAIC, United Technologies, Barclays Capital, Coca-Cola Co., ConocoPhillips, ENI, FedEx, McAfee, Microsoft, Target, Boeing, Bloomberg, Caterpillar, Daimler, Gallup, HSBC, Dow Chemical, Comcast, Rolls-Royce, Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ.

https://shorturl.at/nEGH2

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 11:46 AM (mdAoa)

Atlantic Counsel is the thing that does things the U.S. government is now allowed to do, by law.

For now.

Just think of it as the financial wing of the Deep State.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:56 AM (lFCW3)

84 Teachers all too often see themselves not as allies of parents, but as surrogates who know best.
Posted by: Muldoon

The sin of pride. As I get older, I understand more and more how the Seven Deadly Sins are destroying us singly and collectively.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:57 AM (FVME7)

85
Read up on how long Haiti had to pay reparations to france.

France are the bad guys here. Don't kid yourself.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:52 AM (lFCW3)
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I'm aware of that, also that the Haitians didn't just kill the masters, but basically everyone with the wrong coloration.

I don't like reparations of any sort, and I think it's stupid to litigate shit that happened two centuries ago. Get over it already.

Haiti's problem is that the Clintons are using it as a child-rape preserve. They sent UN "peacekeepers" and they tried to out-rape the locals.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 11:57 AM (llXky)

86 France are the bad guys here. Don't kid yourself.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 11:52 AM (lFCW3)

We owe France for our independence....their navy, anyway. But they only helped because...England.

Posted by: BignJames at April 20, 2024 11:57 AM (AwYPR)

87 My teachers weren't marxists...that I could tell...what happened?...the '60s?
Posted by: BignJames'

US Department of Education, courtesy of Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:58 AM (43xH1)

88 The sin of pride. As I get older, I understand more and more how the Seven Deadly Sins are destroying us singly and collectively.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 11:57 AM (FVME7)
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How DARE you bring this up so close to Pride Month!?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 11:59 AM (llXky)

89 I had two teachers back in the 60's who were DPs.

They lectured us about the dangers of Communism.

Not all the time but they made sure we knew that the Commies were bad people who wanted destroy the US.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2024 11:59 AM (QB+5g)

90 Oh, giving Haiti money NOW is pointless.
Fuck that.
Best possible scenario there, now, is for all the NGOs to simply leave and let them fight it out alone on their island.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 11:50 AM (43xH1)

Right, I'm certainly not saying anyone should be giving them money, and I agree wholeheartedly: Everyone else in the world, get the F out of there, and let them do what they're going to do.

But the point is, france is shit, and they did shitty things, not just there but elsewhere, and natives all over the globe still suffer the effects of having france as their slavemasters.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:00 PM (lFCW3)

91 Care to summarize?
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:54 AM (991eG)

He's mostly talking about a documentary miniseries airing on HBOMax called Quiet On Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV which concerns not just the shitty behavior of a bunch of Nickelodeon producers but the criminal behavior as well. One of the points he makes is that the left *spit* is more than willing to either turn a blind eye or apologize for it when the right makes an issue out of it.

Maher is much more interesting and humorous about it. Worth the watch.

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 12:00 PM (S06rK)

92 Where's P Diddy?

Posted by: BignJames at April 20, 2024 12:01 PM (AwYPR)

93 This One Weird Fetish - a limerick

In animal suits they party 'til they drop
The rampant drug use never seems to stop
The orgy's so exciting
They all want to go a-riding
On the furry with the syringe on top
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:17 AM (991eG)

Outstanding. Great reference in the pun at the end. (I'm 29. so I know that song.)

Posted by: GWB at April 20, 2024 12:02 PM (1zxQh)

94 87 My teachers (class of 69 here) were all pretty level headed. Male teachers were mostly veterans, some from the big one (WW2) and the little one (Korea). Most of the female teachers were married to vets. Maybe that had something to do with it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (0EOe9)

95 "Where's P Diddy?"

Well, it's pretty obvious he wasn't in DC on Jan 6th.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (QB+5g)

96 If we can’t give janitors the same pay as doctor’s, we’ll instead give them equal grades!

Posted by: NEA at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (5h/8D)

97 92 Where's P Diddy?
_____

Sorry, can't comment on ongoing investigations. Check back in 75 years.

Posted by: FBI at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (JmAU8)

98 I'm sure grooming happens lots more than we like to acknowledge, and on many different levels, ranging from fairly benign to utterly malignant. In my view, the absolute worst are the tranny groomers, encouraging and abetting gender confusion and actively excluding the parents.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 11:50 AM (991eG)

Agreed. My daughter's groomers were on the less dangerous end of the spectrum, but she was still drawn in my teachers who had no business getting involved in their students' lives to the extent they were. And when I told her so, and tried to put a barrier between her and them (when she was in high school), she pulled away from me.

At that point, there was really nothing I could do.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (lFCW3)

99 But the point is, france is shit, and they did shitty things, not just there but elsewhere, and natives all over the globe still suffer the effects of having france as their slavemasters.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:00 PM (lFCW3)
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The French Empire gave its colonies a new common language and a tradition of hopelessly inept governance, requiring a new constitution every 40 years or so.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (llXky)

100 Related to education... I'm at state quiz bowl tourney for one of the little hobbits. It hurt my heart to see eight 12-14 year olds sit quietly and not be able to answer who was president between 1981 and 1989.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (xEiN6)

101 P. Dindu Nuffin'

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:04 PM (tkR6S)

102 natives all over the globe still suffer the effects of having france as their slavemasters.
Posted by: BurtTC'

Exactly, just ask Wolfus about Louisiana!

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:04 PM (43xH1)

103 ETEX temp has dropped to 56 after thunderstorm, feels like that old Tex Ritter song ‘Back In My Longjohns Again’.

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 12:05 PM (o2ZRX)

104 My teachers (class of 69 here) were all pretty level headed. Male teachers were mostly veterans, some from the big one (WW2) and the little one (Korea). Most of the female teachers were married to vets. Maybe that had something to do with it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (0EOe9)
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Having my kids go to my old high school was deeply demoralizing. The curriculum, culture of achievement, spirit of free speech - all of that was degraded or destroyed.

Glad they are done with school. I don't think any of them will ever vote for a school millage because of what they went through.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:05 PM (llXky)

105 Haiti's problem is that the Clintons are using it as a child-rape preserve. They sent UN "peacekeepers" and they tried to out-rape the locals.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 11:57 AM (llXky)

Exactly. Clinton Foundation is just pure evil, so yeah, I'm not saying anyone go anywhere with their hand out saying "you owe me," just if anything, the case for Haiti is exponentially stronger than the case for blacks in this country who clamor for reparations.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:06 PM (lFCW3)

106 Well France helped us out during the Revolutionary War, probably just out of spite.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2024 12:07 PM (QB+5g)

107 102 Now, sometimes Napoleonic code has its good points, like when a father can shoot his daughter's rapist in the airport and it is proclaimed a crime of passion.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 20, 2024 12:07 PM (0EOe9)

108 We owe France for our independence....their navy, anyway. But they only helped because...England.
Posted by: BignJames at April 20, 2024 11:57 AM (AwYPR)

It's probably been explored by someone, but I don't know much, other than it's almost certainly a good thing france went all nutty around the time our nation was trying to figure out what it would be, after the war.

Had they been able to maintain focus here, on what we owed THEM, I think the foundation of this country would have been substantially less free.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:09 PM (lFCW3)

109 It hurt my heart to see eight 12-14 year olds sit quietly and not be able to answer who was president between 1981 and 1989.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth)

John Wayne?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:09 PM (FVME7)

110 Now, sometimes Napoleonic code has its good points, like when a father can shoot his daughter's rapist in the airport and it is proclaimed a crime of passion.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 20, 2024 12:07 PM (0EOe9)

If that's the case I am thinking of, wasn't it the son's rapist?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:10 PM (tkR6S)

111 Letitia James is still trying to get the bond Trump posted thrown out. She has filed new request with a Judge(can't seem to find the name of said Judge) to reject the bond. Monday court hearing. Which is when his Hush money trial is set to begin as well. This is reaching a point of absolute absurdity. He is found guilty in a kangaroo court and then is prohibited from appealing. I thought this violated the "taking rule" which is why the bond was reduced in the first place. One of the reasons she wants the bond rejected is because the bond issuer does nothave a NY license. But she prohibited NY licensed banks from providing the bond.
I don;t know how he does it. How he keeps going. I don't understand why and how this is allowed. Is there no court that can step in and provide Justice?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 20, 2024 12:10 PM (t/2Uw)

112 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 20, 2024 12:10 PM (cEOfz)

113 John Wayne?'

Sylvester Stallone?

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:10 PM (43xH1)

114 Exactly. Clinton Foundation is just pure evil, so yeah, I'm not saying anyone go anywhere with their hand out saying "you owe me," just if anything, the case for Haiti is exponentially stronger than the case for blacks in this country who clamor for reparations.
Posted by: BurtTC

Ya, they were on the track to free and fulfilling lives here, then let themselves be tricked back onto the Great Society plantation. Seems like there was no chance in Haiti.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 20, 2024 12:11 PM (xEiN6)

115 Where's P Diddy?
Posted by: BignJames at April 20, 2024 12:01 PM (AwYPR)

Up shit's creek.

Someone else wanted his empire. Sorry guy, your days of being Chief Groomer are over.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:11 PM (lFCW3)

116 Well France helped us out during the Revolutionary War, probably just out of spite.
Posted by: pawn

I don't think they were helping us out so much as screwing over the Brits but tomayto, tomahto.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:11 PM (FVME7)

117 I want to reassure our friends and allies at NPR that their public funding is safe.

And will likely grow!

Posted by: Speaker MAGA Mike at April 20, 2024 12:11 PM (BKRsK)

118 100 Related to education... I'm at state quiz bowl tourney for one of the little hobbits. It hurt my heart to see eight 12-14 year olds sit quietly and not be able to answer who was president between 1981 and 1989.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (xEiN6
But can they dance like Beyonce?

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 12:12 PM (o2ZRX)

119 “Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.”—C. S. Lewis, “Miserable Offenders”: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language, p. 124

“To the Materialist things like nations, classes, civilizations must be more important than individuals, because the individuals only live seventy odd years each and the group may last for centuries. But to the Christian, individuals are more important, for they live eternally; and races, civilizations and the like, are in comparison the creatures of a day.”—C. S. Lewis, Man or Rabbit, p. 109

“This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education… No generation can bequeath to its successors what it has not got.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity, p. 116

“What should they find incredible, since they believed no longer in a rational universe?”—C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, p. 203

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 20, 2024 12:12 PM (EXyHK)

120 "Is there no court that can step in and provide Justice?"

Justice is coming in November, if he can last that long.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2024 12:12 PM (QB+5g)

121 Hot Air: When Did Self-Immolation Come Into Style in America?

https://tinyurl.com/53fpdt3u

I encourage more communists to set themselves on fire. It's the only way to stick it to the right.

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 12:12 PM (m39Cv)

122 Exactly. Clinton Foundation is just pure evil, so yeah, I'm not saying anyone go anywhere with their hand out saying "you owe me," just if anything, the case for Haiti is exponentially stronger than the case for blacks in this country who clamor for reparations.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:06 PM (lFCW3)
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Counterpoint: They attack and loot aid workers. Leave them to their own devices.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:13 PM (llXky)

123 The French are so uptight about their language because it's the only culture they have left.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 20, 2024 12:13 PM (cEOfz)

124 natives all over the globe still suffer the effects of having france as their slavemasters.
Posted by: BurtTC'

Or, you can ask AOP about Quebec!

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:13 PM (43xH1)

125 The French Empire gave its colonies a new common language and a tradition of hopelessly inept governance, requiring a new constitution every 40 years or so.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:03 PM (llXky)

Heh. And the beret. Don't forget the beret.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:13 PM (lFCW3)

126 You can thank France for the fucking metric system too.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2024 12:14 PM (QB+5g)

127 It hurt my heart to see eight 12-14 year olds sit quietly and not be able to answer who was president between 1981 and 1989.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth)

John Wayne?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:09 PM (FVME7)

Schwarzenegger.

Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 12:14 PM (m39Cv)

128 John Wayne?'

Sylvester Stallone?
Posted by: LenNeal

Regrettably, making the connection to Reagan as actor would be even harder than just knowing his name.

AlGore woulda been a more likely wrong answer if they had even tried.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at April 20, 2024 12:14 PM (xEiN6)

129 natives all over the globe still suffer the effects of having france as their slavemasters.
Posted by: BurtTC'

Exactly, just ask Wolfus about Louisiana!
Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:04 PM (43xH1)

Can we blame them for Mike Johnson?

Oops, sorry. I'll leave that alone, it's the weekend after all. Not like they have any atrocities planned for today or anything.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:15 PM (lFCW3)

130 I encourage more communists to set themselves on fire. It's the only way to stick it to the right.
Posted by: Robert at April 20, 2024 12:12 PM (m39Cv)

They need to make it more spectacular. use Thermite instead of gasoline.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:15 PM (tkR6S)

131 I predict a lot of applications to Evergreen State College from Dublin students.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 12:15 PM (W/lyH)

132 Monty Python did the French best.

Flying sheep!

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2024 12:16 PM (QB+5g)

133 Schwarzenegger.
Posted by: Robert'

Ah man, I got it wrong. My second guess was Burt Reynolds.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:16 PM (43xH1)

134 Eh, when France joins the Muslim Caliphate they will have lots of culture, if a 7th century one

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2024 12:17 PM (fwDg9)

135 The French are so uptight about their language because it's the only culture they have left.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 20, 2024 12:13 PM (cEOfz)
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This Easter, 12,000 French entered the Church, and they were largely teenagers and young adults. This was the largest total in years and seems to be growing. They've got a lot of ground to make up, though.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:17 PM (llXky)

136 Well France helped us out during the Revolutionary War, probably just out of spite.
Posted by: pawn

I don't think they were helping us out so much as screwing over the Brits but tomayto, tomahto.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:11 PM (FVME7)

People in this country still revere Lafayette, but someone correct me if I'm wrong, the regime there in france had him arrested, and I think he survived it somehow. I don't remember the details. So whatever good "france" was doing for us, it's not like those involved were as revered over there as are over here.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:19 PM (lFCW3)

137 123 I always get a laugh at how tight the French are about the language. In Nam, sometimes it was spoken to ARVN officers, due to their education. Our French speaking guy was from Lake Charles, LA so you can see where this is going. One ARVN Major said, in a surly tone, in English "you must learn French someday".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 20, 2024 12:19 PM (0EOe9)

138 I predict a lot of applications to Evergreen State College from Dublin students.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 12:15 PM (W/lyH)
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A lot of colleges are going to be closing very soon. Michigan had one go down, and several others are in trouble.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:20 PM (llXky)

139 Speaking of culture /religion . . .

The Olympics is coming so we've got the ceremonial... prayer and praise to Apollo and Zeus? Is this normal?

https://shorturl.at/eoqHP

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When I first heard about the rise of neo-paganism maybe a decade ago, I couldn't believe it. Ahh, was I ever so young?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:21 PM (FVME7)

140 There is a contemporary book called "The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death and Atheism" by Mary Eberstadt written from the viewpoint of a brand new atheist concerning the state of things in atheism world that takes the same track as Lewis. It pokes holes in all the secular humanist facades with tongue in cheek.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 20, 2024 12:21 PM (Y6IkP)

141 Brilliant post and analysis, KT. Thanks.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 20, 2024 12:22 PM (d9Cw3)

142 Oh, I forgot, but the Samantha Woll case started. Honestly, the prosecution's case against their lowlife street thief is really, really weak. The judge barely let it proceed. Circumstantial is all they got. No weapon, no video, no confession, no DNA, a blood spot on the guy's jacket that *might* be hers. It's WEAK.

I find it interesting due to all the people surrounding Woll that have a huge interest in making absolutely sure it wasn't a Muslim that chopped her up. And the Police Chief's bizarre statement right out of the gate: "Not an anti-Semitic attack!' when the investigation hadn't even started! Like someone told him to say it and round up a suspect Right Now.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:22 PM (43xH1)

143 I'm no cannibal, at least.

Posted by: Monica at April 20, 2024 12:23 PM (S3z9S)

144 More and more I think my 1967 HS diploma is superior t o a 2023 4 year degree.

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 12:23 PM (o2ZRX)

145 I encourage more communists to set themselves on fire. It's the only way to stick it to the right.

Posted by: Robert

It's the logical end point of their hysterical self-glorification. One thing is sure, if you set yourself on fire in public, you will get attention, and people will get out of your way. (h/t Richard Pryor)

Posted by: Archimedes at April 20, 2024 12:23 PM (CsUN+)

146 Speaking of culture /religion . . .

The Olympics is coming so we've got the ceremonial... prayer and praise to Apollo and Zeus? Is this normal?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:21 PM (FVME7)
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Yes, it was part of the ideal behind reviving them, complete with the neoclassical vibe. Go watch Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia if you want the high-concentration paganism.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:23 PM (llXky)

147 When I first heard about the rise of neo-paganism maybe a decade ago, I couldn't believe it. Ahh, was I ever so young?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:21 PM (FVME7)

I think it's prolly going to be accurate to say the Paris Olympics are going to be lit.

For whichever values of "lit" we can imagine though, we'll just have to wait and see.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:23 PM (lFCW3)

148 KT always puts up good stuff on this thread every week

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2024 12:24 PM (fwDg9)

149 I'm no cannibal, at least.
Posted by: Monica'

Posted by: ...yet at April 20, 2024 12:24 PM (43xH1)

150 People in this country still revere Lafayette, but someone correct me if I'm wrong, the regime there in france had him arrested, and I think he survived it somehow. I don't remember the details. So whatever good "france" was doing for us, it's not like those involved were as revered over there as are over here.
Posted by: BurtTC

Everything old is new again. During their revolution, he tried to steer a middle course but that was not good enough for the hard left. They had him arrested and imprisoned.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:26 PM (FVME7)

151 134 Eh, when France joins the Muslim Caliphate they will have lots of culture, if a 7th century one
Posted by: Skip

You obviously know nothing of the glories of Umayyad Spain. That is an F for you, I am afraid.

Posted by: Prof. Considine [Rice] at April 20, 2024 12:26 PM (S3z9S)

152 I think if we were able to get the "set your self on fire" people and the "cannibal" people together it would be a nice mutually beneficial relationship.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 20, 2024 12:26 PM (Y6IkP)

153 It's pretty nice early spring day , should go do stuff outside

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2024 12:28 PM (fwDg9)

154 152 I think if we were able to get the "set your self on fire" people and the "cannibal" people together it would be a nice mutually beneficial relationship.
Posted by: banana Dream

Bonjour!

Posted by: Haiti at April 20, 2024 12:28 PM (S3z9S)

155 That school in Utah is still getting off lightly.

None of their yiffing Furries are Crinklies.

I hope.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:29 PM (Ip5J9)

156 I think if we were able to get the "set your self on fire" people and the "cannibal" people together it would be a nice mutually beneficial relationship.
Posted by: banana Dream

Bonjour!
Posted by: Haiti'

I need reparations for charcoal!

Posted by: Barbeque at April 20, 2024 12:29 PM (43xH1)

157 Maher is much more interesting and humorous about it. Worth the watch.
Posted by: Robert

********

Thanks for summing it up.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 12:30 PM (991eG)

158 My niece was sending her daughter to private school but this year she is in public school. I do worry about her. Up to now she has been very much a young girl doing girl things.

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2024 12:30 PM (fwDg9)

159 Heck, my 43-year old daughter didn't know who Burt Reynolds was.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 12:30 PM (991eG)

160 There was a local guy here a long time ago that caught his wife cheating on him. He walked down to the 7-11 and poured gas on himself and lit it on fire. He died.

They tried cleaning up the concrete afterwards but you could still see the outline for a long time.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2024 12:31 PM (QB+5g)

161 Saw some video of what is taking place at Columbia. These idiots are celebrating Hamas. It is no different than how we felt when the Palestinians were handing out candy and dancing after 9/11.
they are celebrating torture and murder of innocent civilians for a political cause.
They are rich, white college students. Antifa just traded i their vests and helmets for Kaffiyahs and masks. How has society become so perverted that this is acceptable?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 20, 2024 12:31 PM (t/2Uw)

162 Unless the cannibals like to sous vide their meat,

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:32 PM (Ip5J9)

163 When they tell me nobody ever puts God in popular movies, "Prince of Egypt" is one I often point to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTTxywB7b_U

Posted by: MartynW at April 20, 2024 12:32 PM (sHP7b)

164 They went and did it.

The cover of today's NY Post has a picture of that guy self-immolating outside the Trump courthouse with the headline:

Trial By Fire

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 20, 2024 12:32 PM (Gse2f)

165 Everything old is new again. During their revolution, he tried to steer a middle course but that was not good enough for the hard left. They had him arrested and imprisoned.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 20, 2024 12:26 PM (FVME7)

Was he orange, by chance?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:32 PM (24Zq+)

166 That school in Utah is still getting off lightly.

None of their yiffing Furries are Crinklies.

I hope.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:29 PM (Ip5J9)

New money-making opportunity: sell "official" State license tags for furries.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:33 PM (tkR6S)

167 Including rabies shots?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:34 PM (Ip5J9)

168 I think if we were able to get the "set your self on fire" people and the "cannibal" people together it would be a nice mutually beneficial relationship.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 20, 2024 12:26 PM (Y6IkP)

All I know is, if you're going to write a "manifesto," I do appreciate you lighting yourself on fire, rather than going into a school, guns-ablazin'.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:34 PM (24Zq+)

169 Couldn't you just solve this by asking the white kids to do WORSE?" Oh my. Dead silence for a few long seconds, and then raucous laughter and applause.

Portland Public Schools has made it clear that the #1 priority of the district is to close "racial achievement gaps".

I have no idea why a white or Asian parent would send their kids to a district that is actively hostile to the idea of their kids doing well.

Posted by: The Criminal Justice System! at April 20, 2024 12:35 PM (YAtuc)

170 Including rabies shots?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:34 PM (Ip5J9)
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Anti-virals and anti-biotics would probably be a good idea.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:35 PM (llXky)

171 Furry Wurry was a bear
Furry Wurry had no hair
Furry Wurry weren't very furry, were he?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 12:35 PM (991eG)

172 Including rabies shots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:34 PM (Ip5J9)

Why, no. We'd need a second tag for that. Ka-ching!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:36 PM (tkR6S)

173 The deep rooted issues with academia mirror the deep rooted problems with our government.

Entrenched employees. Emboldened to do whatever they want without consequences.

IMO it is a problem that cannot be resolved without physical contact. Fixing this with legislation or laws requires the voting and election systems to be fixed first. Then the process of vetting politicians comes into play.

It's a mess any way you look at it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2024 12:36 PM (Q4IgG)

174 Portland Public Schools has made it clear that the #1 priority of the district is to close "racial achievement gaps".

I have no idea why a white or Asian parent would send their kids to a district that is actively hostile to the idea of their kids doing well.

Posted by: The Criminal Justice System! at April 20, 2024 12:35 PM (YAtuc)
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Around here is it understood to be empty posturing. The top-tier kids have tutors, etc. and the district takes credit for them getting National Merit Scholarships, even though they had little to do with it.

It's just a sop for the lower-class parents. "See, we're working on it!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:37 PM (llXky)

175 I think if we were able to get the "set your self on fire" people and the "cannibal" people together it would be a nice mutually beneficial relationship.
Posted by: banana Dream

Sure, but who will bring the beer?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 20, 2024 12:37 PM (CsUN+)

176 The cover of today's NY Post has a picture of that guy self-immolating outside the Trump courthouse with the headline:

Trial By Fire
Posted by: Ignoramus'

HAHAHAHAHA!! I thought you were joking! that's a keeper, right up there with 'Drop Dead'!

Posted by: Barbeque at April 20, 2024 12:37 PM (43xH1)

177 Are kids who imagine themselves to be birds or reptiles still called "furries".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:37 PM (tkR6S)

178 Spay, neuter, and chip your Furry - updated Bob Barker.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:37 PM (Ip5J9)

179 Saw some video of what is taking place at Columbia. These idiots are celebrating Hamas. It is no different than how we felt when the Palestinians were handing out candy and dancing after 9/11.
they are celebrating torture and murder of innocent civilians for a political cause.
They are rich, white college students. Antifa just traded i their vests and helmets for Kaffiyahs and masks. How has society become so perverted that this is acceptable?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 20, 2024 12:31 PM (t/2Uw)

I saw a headline that said the screwel president gave permission to the NYPD to come in and clear the campus.

Since when do university presidents decide when it's time for the cops to do their damn jobs?

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:38 PM (24Zq+)

180 That headline still can't top - Headless body found in topless bar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:39 PM (Ip5J9)

181 I'm going to take Skip's advice and try and let all of this go today and spend some time outdoors. I did see one piece of good news. RCP has Biden back in the 30's in job approval.
I hope we make it to November and able to change the course of history.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 20, 2024 12:39 PM (t/2Uw)

182 Robin Williams singing ‘Fire’ as Elmer Fudd.
Daily Double!

Posted by: Eromero at April 20, 2024 12:39 PM (o2ZRX)

183
Lefty teachers grooming all our babies
And I'll guarantee no ifs, buts or maybes
But these days our biggest worries
Is all the dumb ass furries
Now our kids must all get immunized for rabies

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 12:40 PM (991eG)

184 I'm beginning to think that the Chicoms were onto something when they'd decided the Red Guards had outlived their usefulness. They were either sent to the countryside to work the fields, or, for the hard cases, they were shot.

I'm not saying we should shoot the Columbia "protesters", but I'm sure there are some fields somewhere in need of a ditch.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 20, 2024 12:41 PM (CsUN+)

185 Trial By Fire
Posted by: Ignoramus'

HAHAHAHAHA!! I thought you were joking! that's a keeper, right up there with 'Drop Dead'!
Posted by: Barbeque

And "Headless Body In Topless Bar."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals (I Got Better) at April 20, 2024 12:41 PM (FVME7)

186 Furry Wurry was a bear
Furry Wurry had no hair
Furry Wurry weren't very furry, were he?
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 12:35 PM (991eG)

Furry the Bear shows up, my grandkid might suddenly identify as a bear hunter.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 12:42 PM (W/lyH)

187 Back when I lived in a totally different Shithole, the local rag had a headline:

'Quake Rocks Frisco
Terror Reigns On Ravaged Streets'

I should have kept that one

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:42 PM (43xH1)

188 I'm not saying we should shoot the Columbia "protesters", but I'm sure there are some fields somewhere in need of a ditch.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 20, 2024 12:41 PM (CsUN+)

Make assisted immolation great again!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:42 PM (tkR6S)

189 Portland Public Schools has made it clear that the #1 priority of the district is to close "racial achievement gaps".

One of the things PPS does is to deliberately reduce funding to schools that serve areas that are viewed as too rich, too white, and too Asian. (The suburban Portland school district I live in does the same thing.)

Parents in these schools have partially compensated for this reduction in funding by engaging in extensive private fundraising for the schools.

PPS has always taxed the private fundraising, by diverting a chunk of the money raised to schools that the district views as more deserving.

However, PPS is now going to ban private fundraising altogether, because there is an "ethical concern" in allowing parents to partially offset the deliberate defunding of their schools.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 20, 2024 12:43 PM (YAtuc)

190 Dear Columbia,

Zimbabwe needs teachers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 20, 2024 12:43 PM (Ip5J9)

191 One of the things PPS does is to deliberately reduce funding to schools that serve areas that are viewed as too rich, too white, and too Asian. (The suburban Portland school district I live in does the same thing.)

Parents in these schools have partially compensated for this reduction in funding by engaging in extensive private fundraising for the schools.

PPS has always taxed the private fundraising, by diverting a chunk of the money raised to schools that the district views as more deserving.

However, PPS is now going to ban private fundraising altogether, because there is an "ethical concern" in allowing parents to partially offset the deliberate defunding of their schools.

Fairfax Co. Public Schools here in NoVa have similar policies.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 20, 2024 12:44 PM (CsUN+)

192 However, PPS is now going to ban private fundraising altogether, because there is an "ethical concern" in allowing parents to partially offset the deliberate defunding of their schools.
Posted by: The ARC of History!'

In the question, 'What's it going to take to wake these people up?" That right there might actually be it.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:45 PM (43xH1)

193 Anyway I've been at the office since 9 or so waiting for a Zoom call at 11:00 and that doesn't seem to be happening, it's now 11:46.
I'm calling it. Cracking a beer.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:46 PM (43xH1)

194 The one vid I saw of the commie french fry guy, someone showed a clip of Faux Nooz live, where the reporter is talking, and starts shouting at the cameraman to turn the camera. It pans to the flamer, and then the reporter says something like "I'm so sorry we showed you that."

No you're not. You go on to describe how he smells like burnt ham and greasy hair, how the flesh is falling off the bone, but you want to apologize for showing the flames for a fraction of a second?

Teevee nooz is so stupid. I'm tired of the attitude they must protect "the public" from the horrors happening all around us. How's about you stop trying to hide it, assholes.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:46 PM (QpPZM)

195 (The suburban Portland school district I live in does the same thing.)

And the regional transit district is reducing bus service to my area because it is too rich, too white, and too Asian.

It is unbelievable the extent to which local governments in the Portland area now openly engage in explicit racial discrimination, with no organized pushback.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 20, 2024 12:47 PM (YAtuc)

196 A lot of colleges are going to be closing very soon. Michigan had one go down, and several others are in trouble.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:20 PM (llXky)

Agree. The local university where I don't teach anymore except for when I need beer money has been walking a tight rope. Several RIFs already, and a few departments closed too.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 12:47 PM (W/lyH)

197 Are kids who imagine themselves to be birds or reptiles still called "furries".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:37 PM (tkR6S)

You probably don't want to know the answer. There are... categories. I don't remember what they are, because I don't want to remember.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:48 PM (QpPZM)

198 No you're not. You go on to describe how he smells like burnt ham and greasy hair, how the flesh is falling off the bone, but you want to apologize for showing the flames for a fraction of a second?

Teevee nooz is so stupid. I'm tired of the attitude they must protect "the public" from the horrors happening all around us. How's about you stop trying to hide it, assholes.
Posted by: BurtTC'

QUE?

Posted by: Mexican TV at April 20, 2024 12:49 PM (43xH1)

199 It is unbelievable the extent to which local governments in the Portland area now openly engage in explicit racial discrimination, with no organized pushback.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 20, 2024 12:47 PM (YAtuc)

Sounds like it's time for a little guerrilla sabotage campaign.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:49 PM (tkR6S)

200 Now our kids must all get immunized for rabies
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 12:40 PM (991eG)

Meanwhile, poor school janitors must empty out litter boxes.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 12:50 PM (QpPZM)

201 You go on to describe how he smells like burnt ham and greasy hair, how the flesh is falling off the bone'

Go on...

Posted by: Barbeque in Haiti at April 20, 2024 12:50 PM (43xH1)

202 Being a miniature gamer see Warhammer stuff everywhere but not a clue what it is about

Imagine the most complete black pill person you know was a decent SF/fantasy writer and you put him and 100 people like him in charge of writing a SF/fantasy universe...
Posted by: 18-1

It's Middle Earth.

But 10,000 years in the future.

As written by that really seriously goth kid who sat in the back row in 8th grade.

Posted by: or by the guy who writes Metalocalypse, maybe at April 20, 2024 12:51 PM (DgGvY)

203 In the question, 'What's it going to take to wake these people up?" That right there might actually be it.

Parents are voting with their feet and leaving Portland, of course.

Portland also has special discriminatory taxes on "rich people" (anyone making over $125,000 a year) - there is speculation that once interest rates fall, and people stop being locked into their current cheap mortgages, there will be a mass exodus of affluent people out of Portland.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 20, 2024 12:51 PM (YAtuc)

204 Let's see here.

Ah yes, there it is.

"17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks."

1963 communist goals as entered into the Congressional Record

https://tinyurl.com/2o8d5xhv

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 12:53 PM (qQsNc)

205
And the regional transit district is reducing bus service to my area because it is too rich, too white, and too Asian.
Posted by: The ARC

Portland: Now to make sure there isn't enough gasoline to fuel their cars.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 20, 2024 12:53 PM (EpyEb)

206 All right. Enough lollygagging for one day. Hasta lumbago!

(translation: I'lll be back...pain)

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2024 12:54 PM (991eG)

207 That headline still can't top - Headless body found in topless bar.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The rural Minnesota special: Fertile Woman Killed In Climax.

The first and last words are small towns in the northwest corner of the state.

Posted by: mikeski at April 20, 2024 12:54 PM (DgGvY)

208 Hi Friends! 2 full classes down. Sun is shining. We are going to walk and then I really need to paint a bathroom. A little escape from the insanity of our world. Not head in the sand, just a break.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 12:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

209 The rural Minnesota special: Fertile Woman Killed In Climax'

Ah, 'The Little Death'!

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 12:56 PM (43xH1)

210 Portland: Now to make sure there isn't enough gasoline to fuel their cars.

No - you denounce the rich people for failing to use public transit.

An affluent area is going to have less demand for bus service than a working-class area, of course, but the transit district is going beyond that by further reducing service to areas that they view as "too white" (Asians included).

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 20, 2024 12:56 PM (YAtuc)

211 Abolish "Public" education.

The kids ain't be leaning nothing no how anyways.

Build More Prisons.

The Monster Chirruns Gonna Need A Place To Stay.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 20, 2024 12:57 PM (R/m4+)

212 The kids ain't be leaning nothing no how anyways.
Build More Prisons.'

When I quit the schools I told an administrator that my new plan was to wait until they got old enough and broke into my house, and then kill them, as the school people clearly were not interested in making capable citizens.

She was displeased.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 01:00 PM (43xH1)

213 This is what it was like. If you want to have your voice heard in the public square, you supported the regime. If you wanted to be silenced, one way or another, you spoke out against it.
Posted by: BurtTC

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Science has reached this point as well, and our nation has remained stagnant for 40+ years in large part because of it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:00 PM (qQsNc)

214 We are going to walk and then I really need to paint a bathroom.

--

Don't buy Lowe's paint. Their "Paint Guarantee" doesn't mean crap and they'll blame you when the paint is garbage.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:02 PM (qQsNc)

215 I recomend, again, Paul Harvey's , 'If I were the devil'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 01:04 PM (XeU6L)

216 Boomers got substandard education,
Their children were barely employable,
Now it's pre-incarceration training

Posted by: These fish sticks...on my mobile at Coronado Camp at April 20, 2024 01:05 PM (2a3L4)

217 I recomend, again, Paul Harvey's , 'If I were the devil'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGrWvrGDOXg

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 01:06 PM (XeU6L)

218 Science has reached this point as well, and our nation has remained stagnant for 40+ years in large part because of it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:00 PM (qQsNc)

As Eric Weinstein says, "enough with the string theory already."

I'm paraphrasing, of course.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 01:07 PM (QpPZM)

219 I bought The Loser Letters based on a Moron recommendation. I in turn recommend it to others.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 20, 2024 01:07 PM (YIxO9)

220 From the sidebar Roadhouse link: I didn't realize until now that the Babylon 5 red haired babe was in it. I may have seen the movie once on tv.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 20, 2024 01:07 PM (Y6IkP)

221 That's a really fun Pacino clip!

Posted by: m at April 20, 2024 01:08 PM (o3SCB)

222 >>>Don't buy Lowe's paint. Their "Paint Guarantee" doesn't mean crap and they'll blame you when the paint is garbage.
Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:02 PM (qQsNc)
*****
I agree. My wife educated me on the importance of using good paint. Covers well, little splatter and stands up to cleaning. If you’re investing your energy, time and money get good paint.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 20, 2024 01:08 PM (VFjIl)

223 A lot of colleges are going to be closing very soon. Michigan had one go down, and several others are in trouble.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at April 20, 2024 12:20 PM (llXky)

Agree. The local university where I don't teach anymore except for when I need beer money has been walking a tight rope. Several RIFs already, and a few departments closed too.
Posted by: Diogenes

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In March:
wlos.com › news › local
UNC Asheville chancellor talks strategy amid current $6 ...
Mar 19, 2024 · The school projects an $8-million shortfall for fiscal year 2025. The school has seen a significant enrollment decline for the past five years.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 20, 2024 01:11 PM (XeU6L)

224 Lot of nuance in the reporting. Lot of misdirection, lack of detail, lack of actual journalism. Lines are made to read between. Children are not a net-good for the Left. Whether in school or at home. They're an object of whatever predilection or effusion comes across their mind.

www.wbay.com / 2024 / 04 / 19 / green bay man charged with repeated sexual assaults 9 year old

link: https://tinyurl.com/4vpw8vys

Posted by: techsan at April 20, 2024 01:11 PM (uNveu)

225 As Eric Weinstein says, "enough with the string theory already."

I'm paraphrasing, of course.
Posted by: BurtTC

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Yep. And part of why people have this weird feeling that we've entered the beginnings of the modern Dark Ages.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:11 PM (qQsNc)

226 My wife made an interesting observation yesterday.

We were discussing kids not willing to work. Both of us worked part-time jobs while in high school and upon graduation looked for full-time jobs. Kids today don't.

She observed that she thought going to school every weekday, going to certain classes at certain times was conditioning for the traditional 9-5 job. I think she's probably right.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2024 01:12 PM (Q4IgG)

227 May Allah shit on every teacher.

Posted by: Montec at April 20, 2024 01:12 PM (/WyFg)

228 If you’re investing your energy, time and money get good paint.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly

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I have no association with them but I've moved to Sherwin Williams independent locations exclusively. I don't know if they're the best or not but I've gotten really good products through them and have had good customer service. If you sign up for their emails you'll get a 40% off code every month or two.

I don't trust that Sherwin Williams in the box stores is the same as that at the standalone stores.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:13 PM (qQsNc)

229 My friend, if you're looking for a good Passover song, may I recommend the Creeping Death by the eponymous Metallica?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 20, 2024 01:14 PM (YIxO9)

230 Cleaned out garden of leaves, really too nice to go inside

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2024 01:14 PM (fwDg9)

231 Both of us worked part-time jobs while in high school and upon graduation looked for full-time jobs. Kids today don't.

//

Some kids do. I see tons of them working fat food on weekends.

It’s regional as well. In areas with high numbers of illegals even if kids want jobs there are none to be had. Juan and Jose have them all.

Posted by: Montec at April 20, 2024 01:14 PM (/WyFg)

232 I'm in WI and there are WAY too many UWM facilities.

Of course I would nuke Madison, I mean, the entire place and everyone and everything in it, but I would also bulldoze most of the satellite campuses as well.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 01:15 PM (43xH1)

233 UNC Asheville chancellor talks strategy amid current $6 ...
Mar 19, 2024 · The school projects an $8-million shortfall for fiscal year 2025. The school has seen a significant enrollment decline for the past five years.

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Just enroll more women to work meaningless office jobs that don't have anything to do with the $100K philosophy degree from... UNC Asheville? Oh, okay... that they paid for.

What's the problem?

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:15 PM (qQsNc)

234 Yep. And part of why people have this weird feeling that we've entered the beginnings of the modern Dark Ages.
Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:11 PM (qQsNc)

I listened the whole of the Tucker/Rogan podcast, and for those who want to hear those two prattle on for 3 hours...

I would recommend it. I don't know what to make of all the UFO stuff, and I'm not sure I care, but Joe seems to think the advanced civs have been giving us toys to play with, and our scientific industrial complex, most of the advances we HAVE made over the past several decades, are gifted to us, not discovered on their own by our scientists.

Tucker's got his own view, and I'm not saying anything about that, except sometimes Tucker IS awfully naive to listen to the people he does. So be it, maybe he knows things the rest of us don't, I sure don't know.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 01:17 PM (Bb376)

235 I endorse Sherwin Williams -- did a major renovation last year and they were super helpful.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 20, 2024 01:18 PM (YIxO9)

236 but Joe seems to think the advanced civs have been giving us toys to play with, and our scientific industrial complex, most of the advances we HAVE made over the past several decades, are gifted to us, not discovered on their own by our scientists.

--

I think it was Weinstein that pointed out that our pinnacle of advancement over the last 40 years has been the iPhone, and it has remained essentially unchanged except for a keyboard or camera here and there.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:20 PM (qQsNc)

237 Well, what you can do with a college with Government money, is start a campus in a county, then expand it. That has happened in JJSs new digs, in my residence in one WI county. Now there are TWO UWM campuses, and staffed almost entirely by Lefties from Madison and Federal pipelines. Now, the 'students' are old enough to vote! So you indoctrinate these educated voters, then they can swing entire districts and can cheat all they want, as they are controlled blocs. They're not concentrated in Blue Cities but spread all over the State.
It's how Gramsci is being implemented.
The more 'colleges' the better, as they turn voting blocs Left in places they didn't previously even exist.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 01:22 PM (43xH1)

238 I think it was Weinstein that pointed out that our pinnacle of advancement over the last 40 years has been the iPhone, and it has remained essentially unchanged except for a keyboard or camera here and there.
Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:20 PM (qQsNc)

Saranwrap.

Posted by: 2000 Year Old Man at April 20, 2024 01:23 PM (Bb376)

239 The old business of Bolsheviks and The Workers is long dead, that's all been moved to China. The real battle, now, is being fought in education and churches.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 01:25 PM (43xH1)

240 235 I endorse Sherwin Williams -- did a major renovation last year and they were super helpful.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

I have Sherwin Williams paint, I had the builders use it when we built our house, too. The color is “Online”, in case you want a giggle. The cabinets are Greek Villa so it goes very nicely together.

Posted by: Piper at April 20, 2024 01:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

241 Furry = specific sexual kink

Iirc, the social media platform that lefties fled to when Elon bought twitter was a Duffy-run platform.

The fact that young kids identify as such is a frightening proof that they’ve been groomed. No kid should be well-versed in kink let alone demanding his or her school recognize it.

New level of f’d up, srsly

Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2024 01:27 PM (Hkcdp)

242 Ugh, that’s “furry run” platform
Stupid auto correct

Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2024 01:28 PM (Hkcdp)

243 It's the logical end point of their hysterical self-glorification. One thing is sure, if you set yourself on fire in public, you will get attention, and people will get out of your way. (h/t Richard Pryor)
Posted by: Archimedes

That guy should have lit himself up in the middle of a gaggle of protesters.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 20, 2024 01:29 PM (cOq4q)

244 Furry = specific sexual kink

--

Yep.

Same as The Gay.

I don't care what you do in your bedroom. If you have a flag or bumper sticker or want to talk to kids about your sexual interests then I assume you're a predator.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 20, 2024 01:29 PM (JuA5P)

245 I have Sherwin Williams paint, I had the builders use it when we built our house, too. The color is “Online”, in case you want a giggle. The cabinets are Greek Villa so it goes very nicely together.
Posted by: Piper'

I was once on a job where the painters were being yanked around by some ditzy broad who couldn't decide between 'Summer Breeze' and 'Uplift'.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 01:30 PM (43xH1)

246 Sherwin Williams' "Light French Gray" is the answer to 99% of paint related questions.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on being wage slaves until they're 80 years old U GO GIRLS at April 20, 2024 01:31 PM (JuA5P)

247 The Sherwin Williams color is "online"?

Posted by: KT at April 20, 2024 01:31 PM (rrtZS)

248 Ugh, that’s “furry run” platform
Stupid auto correct
Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2024 01:28 PM (Hkcdp)

Heh, I was wondering who Duffy was. If this was another oligarch I had to be made aware of.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 20, 2024 01:32 PM (Bb376)

249
It is no different than how we felt when the Palestinians were handing out candy and dancing after 9/11.

But we were told that never happened.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 20, 2024 01:34 PM (63Dwl)

250 SW-7072, Sherwin Williams Online.
It's a kind of pewter gray.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 20, 2024 01:37 PM (43xH1)

251 The Gardening Thread is up, for those who are not yet heading for the hills in horror over this content.

Posted by: KT at April 20, 2024 01:37 PM (rrtZS)

252 >> I endorse Sherwin Williams -- did a major a renovation last year and they were super helpful.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 20, 2024 01:18 PM (YIxO9
****
That’s a good product along with Benjamin Moore. But as Moron Robbie said the important part is going to a real paint store, not a big box store. The service and advice you get from the small local store is invaluable, IMO.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 20, 2024 01:41 PM (VFjIl)

253 SW-7072, Sherwin Williams Online.
It's a kind of pewter gray.
Posted by: LenNeal

--

If that's not Light French Gray it's extremely close. It's shocking how well that color works almost everywhere.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 20, 2024 01:41 PM (qQsNc)

254 199 It is unbelievable the extent to which local governments in the Portland area now openly engage in explicit racial discrimination, with no organized pushback.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 20, 2024 12:47 PM (YAtuc)

Sounds like it's time for a little guerrilla sabotage campaign.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 20, 2024 12:49 PM (tkR6S)

Start small...like a tea party.
Itllyget organized real quick after that

Posted by: Diogenes at April 20, 2024 01:47 PM (W/lyH)

255 Over across the lake is Big City. White people don't ride the bus in Big City, Asians and Hispanics only ride the bus if they must.
Rapes, robberies and murders on the buss are not reported by the media in Big City.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 01:52 PM (XbAqE)

256 The late Charles Krauthammer and his wife created a foundation for the preservation of pre-WW II Eastern European music. You might find some Passover music there.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 20, 2024 01:55 PM (ET1Q8)

257 >>> However, PPS is now going to ban private fundraising altogether, because there is an "ethical concern" in allowing parents to partially offset the deliberate defunding of their schools.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

They learned something from DHS border security mandate - it's their decision alone to either secure the border or throw it open and nobody has authority to secure it and DHS can stop others from doing the job it refuses to do.
PPS mandate is to fund the schools and they can stop others from doing it even they choose to not fund.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 20, 2024 02:59 PM (cOq4q)

258 It is unbelievable the extent to which local governments in the Portland area now openly engage in explicit racial discrimination, with no organized pushback.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 20, 2024 12:47 PM (YAtuc)

Sounds like it's time for a little guerrilla sabotage campaign.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I heard SCROTUS just had 9-0 decision that boiled down to 'dicrimination IS discrimination' regardless of who, what, where, why...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 20, 2024 03:04 PM (cOq4q)

259 I endorse Sherwin Williams -- did a major renovation last year and they were super helpful.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Checkout
MPI dot NET

Most SW products are listed for the various coatings and systems.
If you go through MPI standards, take that to a stand alone SW store they can give you their product data. It's a thing in the construdtion industry.
... as opposed to 'Wal-Mart' paint.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 20, 2024 03:29 PM (cOq4q)

260 And of course we have contrived that their very
language should be all smudge and blur; what would be a bribe in
someone else's profession is a tip or a present in theirs. The job of
their Tempters was first, or course, to harden these choices of the Hellward roads into a habit by steady repetition. But then (and this was all-important) to turn the habit into a principle — a principle the creature is prepared to defend. After that, all will go well. Conformity to the social environment, at first merely instinctive or even mechanical — how should a jelly not conform? — now becomes an unacknowledged creed or ideal of Togetherness or Being Like Folks.
Mere ignorance of the law they break now turns into a vague theory about it — remember, they know no history — a theory expressed by calling it conventional or Puritan or bourgeois “morality.” Thus gradually there comes to exist at the center of the creature a hard, tight, settled core of resolution to go on being what it is, and even to resist moods that might tend to alter it.
cont.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 03:55 PM (XbAqE)

261 It is a very small core; not at all reflective (they are too ignorant) nor defiant (their emotional and imaginative poverty excludes that); almost, in its own way, prim and demure; like a pebble, or a very young cancer. But it will serve our turn. Here at last is a real and deliberate, though not fully articulate, rejection of what the Enemy calls Grace.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 03:55 PM (XbAqE)

262 But not only that. As the great sinners grow fewer, and the majority lose all individuality, the great sinners become far more effective agents for us. Every dictator or even demagogue — almost every film star or crooner — can now draw tens of thousands of the human sheep with him. They give themselves (what there is of them) to him; in him, to us. There may come a time when we shall have no need to bother about individual temptation at all, except for the few. Catch the bellwether, and his whole flock comes after him.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 20, 2024 04:06 PM (XbAqE)

263 126 You can thank France for the fucking metric system too.
Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2024 12:14 PM (QB+5g)

You can’t even order a quarter pounder with cheese at McDonald’s in Paris.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 20, 2024 06:45 PM (nvtOt)

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