A bold educational change in New Zealand

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Something to talk about while the family is home for the holidays

It is a rare day that I suggest we follow New Zealand’s example for anything, but this is one step Congress and the Trump Administration should strongly consider in their efforts to force universities to reform themselves (which they are not going to do without concentrated and sustained outside pressure):
From Science magazine:
Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
This week, in an announcement that stunned New Zealand’s research community, the country’s center-right coalition government said it would divert half of the NZ$75 million Marsden Fund, the nation’s sole funding source for fundamental science, to “research with economic benefits.” Moreover, the fund would no longer support any social sciences and humanities research, and the expert panels considering these proposals would be disbanded.

Links at the link.

BOLD! What do you think led to this move?

Hmmmmm . . .

New Zealand expects to post budget deficits over five-year forecast period

Immigration: Another annual record for departures from New Zealand

Imagine taking budgeting into consideration when designing university programs.

First, I am sure that if the Trump Administration cuts off NSF and other federal funding for university social sciences and humanities, the campus whiners won’t call it “astonishing.” They’ll call it “genocide.”

Remind you of anything going on in the USA right now?

Hayward also got curious and looked up the bio of a professor quoted by Science because of her interest in the importance of social sciences to New Zealand’s economy and “social cohesion.”

Read her research accomplishments and interests at the link. She seems to be fascinated by the concept of "nation", especially with regard to Northern Ireland, and she has been concerned about pre-9/11 stereotypes of Irish terrorists. One could imagine by trying really hard how that research could improve the social cohesion and economy of New Zealand for certain people. But can she show us her data?

How about her other interests? Does studying them improve social cohesion and the economy? Where are the data?

She has a PhD from Stanford, so there may be some professors pretty much like her stateside. And some who are more feisty and disagreeable. There is an appealing photo of her at the link if you're into professors who are into cosplay.

Students are not being well-educated at our current universities pretty much anywhere in the West. Got any suggestions for federal or state authorities, or donors here in the USA?

There are some distinctive elements to transportation in New Zealand. They reportedly have only a couple of remaining train/road bridges. Always let the train go first. But they still have quite a few one-lane bridges on two-way roads. Friends who visited New Zealand this summer sometimes found them to be quite unexpected. How do you think these bridges affect social cohesion and the economy of New Zealand? Any classes about them in universities?

Is New Zealand ready for self-driving cars for immigrants?

Do you think China has any thoughts about those one-way bridges, since they think of New Zealand as within their Circle of Influence?

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Weekend

Steven Hayward's The Week in Pictures: Droning On and On

The droneswarm has only intensified over the last week. And that’s just in New Jersey. On Capitol Hill, the spending drones have suddenly hit some electronic interference in the form of Elon Musk, and boy are they hopping mad about it. Imagine—a billionaire not named Soros or Bloomberg having the audacity to get involved in politics! And media drones such as George Stephanopoulos and Chris Cillizza are losing altitude fast.

Some specifics about an issue which has been in the news lately in a number of contexts. Roman rewards for families with 3 or more children?

The fall of Rome is widely misunderstood.

It wasn't invasion, disease or famine that truly brought it to its knees.

Rome collapsed because the birth rate did… (thread) 🧵 pic.twitter.com/IxbMVp69hv
— Culture Critic (@Culture_Crit) December 17, 2024

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Music

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, Sydney Opera House

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend. Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, December 14, Happy Bill of Rights Weekend

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 Morning, KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2024 11:02 AM (2UnvF)

2 Hi, Duke!

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:03 AM (xekrU)

3 Seems that every Leftist government hate its own citizens, and allows them to be killed by known threats.

This is not sustainable.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2024 11:08 AM (u82oZ)

4 Links at the link?

Meta.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 11:09 AM (PiwSw)

5 Top of the mornin’ to all the morons and moronettes!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 21, 2024 11:09 AM (LAw/P)

6 Mr. Tough Guy.

Biden on Iran: Too Little, Too Late

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

7 At this point New Zealand could be invaded and occupied by China in an afternoon. No combat aircraft, a navy with less tonnage than the USCG in the Great Lakes. Tiny army.

Maybe they can challenge them to a game of rugby.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)

8 Seems that every Leftist government hate its own citizens, and allows them to be killed by known threats.

This is not sustainable.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 21, 2024 11:08 AM (u82oZ)
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The whole CEO assassination thing showed that gun control really is about punishing enemies. There's not even a pretense that it will reduce crime - especially when they're also letting violent offender out without any restraint.

Interesting times.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 11:12 AM (ZOv7s)

9 Amid cuts to basic research, New Zealand scraps all support for social sciences
——

Basic research is in physics, chemistry, and biology. Not social sciences or humanities. Cut government funding for anything but physics, chemistry, and biology.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at December 21, 2024 11:13 AM (17s+e)

10 Oh you're going to mess with New Zealand, huh? Then prepare for the paper-tearing horror of this Girl Boss:

https://youtu.be/7oKqptZdQ3k

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 21, 2024 11:14 AM (PiwSw)

11 Mr. Tough Guy.

Biden on Iran: Too Little, Too Late
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

Biden wasn't ever a "tough guy".

He was that yappy little cartoon dog that's all aggressive cuz he's got that big bad dog)Secret Service) to back him up.

On the plus side, he sure knew how to steal from the American gov't. So, kudos to yappy dog Joe.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (iJfKG)

12 Cut government funding for anything but physics, chemistry, and biology.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable
__________

All of the humanities researchers will just find some tenuous connection of their work to climate change.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (Dm8we)

13 My plumber, George is a Kiwi, his son Joey holds dual citizenship. They're sane, if a little pricey.

Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (Yj6Os)

14 So, wuz we sold out by CONgress agin?

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Present at December 21, 2024 11:17 AM (0eaVi)

15 Are all NZ bridges one lane? I've been on one-lane bridges, but usually in small population areas. Lots of one-lane roads with pull-over areas for when you meet another car.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 21, 2024 11:18 AM (w6EFb)

16 https://tinyurl.com/3udv946s

Should be widely shared.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 21, 2024 11:19 AM (1bNHn)

17 Huh...

Happily, Max is streaming the 'Horns game later today.

And the SMU college playoff game right now.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2024 11:20 AM (iJfKG)

18 Humanities places the human in too high a position. Maybe they should concentrate on humilities.

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2024 11:22 AM (jgmnb)

19 Thx K T. New Zealand did give the world that Arden lady and her "teeesting" . She now a functionary in some one worlder leftist governmental org.
Lord of the Rings was filmed there so that's a plus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2024 11:23 AM (DopAq)

20 Earlier this morning Rocket Lab had a successful satellite launch from New Zealand.
I've asked before, isn't there a Kiwi Horde member called Frank? Still around?

Posted by: Ciampino - make it worthwhile to have kids WHEN MARRIED at December 21, 2024 11:24 AM (i0xsb)

21 Mommy, is this the year Step-Grandma Jilly finally hangs my stocking by the chim-o-lee with care?

Posted by: Little Navy Joan at December 21, 2024 11:24 AM (G5+As)

22 We are going to New Zealand again in January. It is unbelievably beautiful. If you have the opportunity - go!

Posted by: Ann at December 21, 2024 11:25 AM (4neFu)

23 Looking forward to the yearly visit from St. Knickerless!

Posted by: The Great Poof at December 21, 2024 11:26 AM (G5+As)

24 Mommy, is this the year Step-Grandma Jilly finally hangs my stocking by the chim-o-lee with care?

Posted by: Little Navy Joan at December 21, 2024 11:24 AM (G5+As)

Sure...bituminous or anthracite?

Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 11:27 AM (Yj6Os)

25 KT thank you so much for that Handel performance. It was wonderful.
Last weekend, Hubbymayhem took me to a Mannheim Steamroller performance. They were wonderful! They kicked off the show with their arrangement of Hallelujah chorus. Just instrumental of course. But I was tearing up for the beauty of that piece. The last song was Oh Holy Night. My favorite Christmas song and it always brings tears.
So I started the performance with tears and ended it with tears!

Have a wonderful and blessed Christmas!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 11:28 AM (4XwPj)

26 Read this week that Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris predates the arrival of the Maori in New Zealand.

Posted by: Sands of Time at December 21, 2024 11:28 AM (G5+As)

27 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 11:29 AM (fwDg9)

28 Off to watch PSU/SMU....go Ponies!

Posted by: BignJames at December 21, 2024 11:30 AM (Yj6Os)

29 Sure...bituminous or anthracite?
Posted by: BignJames

Coke!

Posted by: Navy Joan's Dad at December 21, 2024 11:30 AM (G5+As)

30 Seems that every Leftist government hate its own citizens, and allows them to be killed by known threats.

Both terrorism and regular crime are seen as positive by western elites. Because fear will allow them to push for ever more control over society. Now they won't use their additional power to stop terrorism/crime but the compliant FNM will obscure that.

How many times have you seen "we have to do something!" when there are already laws against some outrage...laws that weren't enforced against politically sensitive groups?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:31 AM (oZhjI)

31 https://tinyurl.com/3udv946s Should be widely shared.

from the X link of Sharyl Attkisson

"These monuments weren't "manned" to begin with. The only reason to cordon them off from the public was so that visiting tourists would see the "impact" of the shutdowns and the news media would have something to take pictures of and interview people about."

And as I recall, they kept veterans out (or tried to) but opened it so illegals (or at least "Hispanics") could do a festival there.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2024 11:31 AM (Cus5s)

32 Hi, Skip!

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:32 AM (xekrU)

33 Read this week that Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris predates the arrival of the Maori in New Zealand.

On some of the islands in that part of the world the Maori ATE their predecessors.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:32 AM (oZhjI)

34 26 Read this week that Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris predates the arrival of the Maori in New Zealand.

Link is in last week's post, I think. See end of this thread.

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:33 AM (xekrU)

35 I have a Christmas history podcast to pass along
Christmas Before Dickens, Napoleonic Wars Podcast
https://tinyurl.com/4efysazw

It's on Spotify. It has nothing to do with Napoleonic wars just pre and post Christmas traditions and how they started and changed .

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 11:34 AM (fwDg9)

36 Have a Blessed Christmas KT. Thanks for the work you put into these Saturday threads. Always food for thought. Much appreciated.

Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 11:34 AM (991eG)

37 8
'The whole CEO assassination thing showed that gun control really is about punishing enemies. '

It confirmed for me that leftists are happy to see people they don't like murdered.
But it showed me that they have no idea that they are vulnerable too.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 11:34 AM (3wi/L)

38 Ran out of materials at work so got out early.

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 11:35 AM (fwDg9)

39 Link is in last week's post, I think. See end of this thread.
Posted by: KT

So, that's where I read it!

Posted by: Mind Like A Sieve at December 21, 2024 11:35 AM (G5+As)

40 Breaking from the Bee!

POLITICS · DEC 20, 2024 ·
'Elon Is Controlling Trump!' Complain People Controlling Biden

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:35 AM (L/fGl)

41 In certain rural corners of the Midwest there were one lane roads and bridges (usually on section lines) well into the late 70s.

Meeting up with a 4320 pulling a large disc, or cultivator bar, made things interesting

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 21, 2024 11:36 AM (8AONa)

42 Maori Christmas everybody!

Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 11:36 AM (991eG)

43 26 Read this week that Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris predates the arrival of the Maori in New Zealand.

Posted by: Sands of Time at December 21, 2024 11:28 AM (G5+As)
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I saw that. It makes me smile when I see all these places here in the Midwest that advertise 'ANTIQUES' and I think of Europe. Of course much of ours follows 'My Junk is Your Antique' principles.

(Not THAT junk, keep your mind out of the gutter)

Posted by: Ciampino - Genuine Louis XIV Imitation Furniture at December 21, 2024 11:37 AM (i0xsb)

44 IMO academia is churning out the exact type of people that our political betters believe would be a perfect fit for a pliable and dependent society for their vision of 'utopia.'

They're making great progress. Just look around...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2024 11:37 AM (Q4IgG)

45 Willowed:

Rowdy the kangaroo has jumped his fence and is on the loose in Texas.

***********

Animal control officer, strapping on his vest and body cam:

"It's Rowdy duty time!!"

Posted by: muldoon, astronomically challenged at December 21, 2024 11:38 AM (991eG)

46 A lot of leftists and LIVs assume the world was pretty much always like it was before Europeans showed up. So the Maoris were always on all the South Pacific islands or the Iroquois were always the dominant power in the American northeast and so on.

A great example of this...the Aztecs arrived in Mexico after the Vikings did in the Americas...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:39 AM (oZhjI)

47 /sock adjust

Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 11:39 AM (991eG)

48 Indiana still has some one lane roads and bridges. Their trying to correct all of them even at the county road level. But the money always goes to replacing and widening 465 around Indianapolis. They just keep going around and around and around. Get to the end, start over again!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 11:40 AM (4XwPj)

49 A number of our pedo-elites have bolt holes in NZ. They expect that if they do cause WWIII or a general collapse they can flee there and ride out the storm

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:40 AM (oZhjI)

50 I had inguinal hernia surgery yesterday. Instructions are to cough deeply once an hour. But it really hurts to cough.

No heavy lifting or using a vacuum.

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:42 AM (xekrU)

51 Rowdy will 'roo the day he messed with Animal Control!

Posted by: Officer Pete At The Pound at December 21, 2024 11:42 AM (G5+As)

52 47 /sock adjust
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 11:39 AM (991eG)

Heh.
I first read that as jock adjust.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:42 AM (W/lyH)

53 Eliminate Social Sciences?
Whew! Glad I teach Business.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (W/lyH)

54 Rowdy the kangaroo has jumped his fence and is on the loose in Texas.

If it shags the sheep we'll have a whole lot of woolly jumpers.

Posted by: Ciampino - Genuine middle school humor at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (i0xsb)

55 *read that as jock adjust.*

Sorry, but no heavy lifting.

Posted by: Your hernia doctor at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (dg+HA)

56 The nearby city of Van Buren AR has some very narrow streets. I was driving on one when a guy in a Hummer was coming my way. The big, original Humvee. We waved at each other and I decided it best to pull into a driveway.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)

57 At this point New Zealand could be invaded and occupied by China in an afternoon. No combat aircraft, a navy with less tonnage than the USCG in the Great Lakes. Tiny army.

Maybe they can challenge them to a game of rugby.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)

Better yet, a game of intersectional victimization.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM (VNX3d)

58 Rowdy will 'roo the day he messed with Animal Control!
Posted by: Officer Pete At The Pound at December 21, 2024 11:42 AM (G5+As)

N worries. They will get him in the hopper in no time.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:45 AM (W/lyH)

59 Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM

Nah. Just eliminating social science "research". If you know what I mean.

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:45 AM (xekrU)

60 I had a hernia surgery two years ago about, been fine since

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 11:46 AM (fwDg9)

61 59 Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:44 AM

Nah. Just eliminating social science "research". If you know what I mean.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:45 AM (xekrU)

Well that does it then.
If I have to continue to put up with their incessant whining at faculty meetings, then I'm keeping my flask to myself.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:47 AM (W/lyH)

62 Flight of the Conchords was hilarious and their music quite good. If only they made a Christmas album they and NZ would be immortalized.

BTW despite NZ being easier to knock over than Jenga, the CCP would have to get past the Philippines -- the Houthi of the South Seas.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (wBaIH)

63 It's not quite buy this magazine or we'll shoot this puppy but still . . .

BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre warns that a government shutdown could delay the transition of power from Biden to Trump.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

64 49 A number of our pedo-elites have bolt holes in NZ. They expect that if they do cause WWIII or a general collapse they can flee there and ride out the storm

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 11:40 AM (oZhjI)
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These are the fools that no nothing about farming or manufacturing. Was it Bloomberg who claimed farming was a piece of cake?

Posted by: Ciampino - murdered by security at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (i0xsb)

65 There’s long been a great myth that Rome and Roman armies were defeated by invading barbarians; in fact the barbarian tribes had been invited in already, and almost all of the “Roman” armies were made up from so called barbarian tribesmen. Proper Romans had quit bothering to fight by then.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (7MHHr)

66 @46 18-1, the same with South Africa which was pretty much empty, except the Bushmen, when the Dutch arrived. Later tribes came down from the north and settled the area

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2024 11:49 AM (DopAq)

67 64
know

Posted by: Ciampino - murdered by security at December 21, 2024 11:49 AM (i0xsb)

68 These are the fools that no nothing about farming or manufacturing. Was it Bloomberg who claimed farming was a piece of cake?
Posted by: Ciampino - murdered by security at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (i0xsb)

They shared their knowledge of farming with CHOP in Seattle.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 11:49 AM (VNX3d)

69 “Democrats don’t like guns” is a kind of shorthand you’ll read sometimes, with regard to firearms and gun control debates.

Democrats don’t hate guns, they love guns. They hate you. And they don’t want you to be aboe to defend yourself, the most basic fundamental human right of all.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 11:50 AM (XH8Ra)

70 New Zealand has a lot of catching up to do if they want to keep up with other 3rd world countries in the Pacific like Papua New Guinea, where Rape is the national past time.

Be better New Zealand.

Posted by: UN World Report On Rape at December 21, 2024 11:50 AM (R/m4+)

71 Flight of the Conchords was hilarious and their music quite good. Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov
______

Seconded. The PM was one of my favorite characters:

https://tinyurl.com/bs8krzb5

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 11:52 AM (Dm8we)

72 KT - sorry to hear that you had to have hernia surgery yesterday; hope you recover quickly. Makes your putting together your Saturday Thread all the more impressive. Take care of yourself and get well soon.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at December 21, 2024 11:52 AM (9BIt9)

73 Joey to the World!

Posted by: Rowdy the Kangaroo at December 21, 2024 11:53 AM (PT7Bh)

74 Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 21, 2024 11:28 AM

Glad you got to go to that performance. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:53 AM (xekrU)

75 BREAKING: White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre warns that a government shutdown could delay the transition of power from Biden to Trump.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 11:48 AM (L/fGl)

Karine is raising the red banner of rebellion there in DC?
sounds insurrectiony to me.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 11:53 AM (D7oie)

76 They reportedly have only a couple of remaining train/road bridges.

Yeah, I was driving over a bridge on the west side of the South Island, looked in my rear-view mirror, and saw a train following me across the bridge.

That was a first.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 11:53 AM (uxCna)

77 3rd world countries in the Pacific like Papua New Guinea, where Rape is the national past time.

That's not their only moral shortfall.

Posted by: Let's Invite Uncle Bosie To Dinner at December 21, 2024 11:54 AM (G5+As)

78 Another reason the Western Empire fell so completely and permanently is that accounts of the day tell how burdensome and expensive Imperial control had become - sounds familiar. Every activity was heavily regulated and heavily taxed. Most all of the rural towns and villages found it far easier and cheaper to just pay tribute to their new Barbarian overlords, rather than suffer under Imperial control. The barbarian kings wanted money, but other than that didn’t care much how things were run.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 11:54 AM (7MHHr)

79 Don’t worry your pretty little head Karen, you’ll get your fucking sorry ass Ejected regardless of any faggoty “Shutdown” or not, make no mistake you and yours will be evicted on time and on schedule.

In fact, it would be better for everyone involved if you leave now.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 11:55 AM (XH8Ra)

80 Haka! Go click the link at comment 10!
Maori/British treaty that held for 184 years!

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 21, 2024 11:55 AM (QSrLX)

81 They've installed dozens of artificial one-lane bridges throughout the Presidio because the elite thinks designing traffic flow to encourage head-on collisions will force dirty icky drivers to slow down.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 11:55 AM (RIvkX)

82 It wasn't invasion, disease or famine that truly brought it to its knees.

Rome collapsed because the birth rate did

Isn't it likely that the former caused the latter?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 11:57 AM (aD39U)

83 Thanks for your kind comments, Muldoon. And a blessed Christmas to all.

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 11:58 AM (xekrU)

84 Most all of the rural towns and villages found it far easier and cheaper to just pay tribute to their new Barbarian overlords, rather than suffer under Imperial control. The barbarian kings wanted money, but other than that didn’t care much how things were run.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 11:54 AM (7MHHr)

It usually works pretty well too until one barbarian claims to be more popular than the other.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 21, 2024 11:59 AM (g8Ew8)

85 Little Orphan Karine no home yet.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 12:00 PM (aD39U)

86 Manufacturer guidance updated in Australia after watchdog shows air fryers may be eavesdropping on people

-
Skynet is here!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 21, 2024 12:01 PM (L/fGl)

87 There once was a Rowdy marsupial...
Who was wild and a little unscrupial
He was surely not sterile
In fact he was so virile
That his wife was expecting quintupials

(yeah, so sue me)

Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 12:01 PM (991eG)

88 Little Orphan Karine no home yet.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 12:00 PM (aD39U)

She sounds insurrectiony, and should get to join the J6 hotel guests....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:01 PM (VNX3d)

89 So the Maoris were always on all the South Pacific islands or the Iroquois were always the dominant power in the American northeast and so on.

For some reason X has put a couple of videos in my feed of a woman arguing that the Crimean Tatars are "indigenous" to Crimea, as opposed to Turkic invaders who "displaced" the Greeks and other ethnic groups who were living in Crimea earlier.

The Official Explanation, as given on Wikipedia, is that the Tatars "merged" with the existing population of Crimea, so the Tartars count as indigenous.

We should try that argument with Europeans and American Indians.

Next up, I expect to see videos explaining that the Turks are indigenous to Turkey.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:01 PM (uxCna)

90 Notre Dame in Paris also predates my families' arrival in the New World. You seem to be saying that we somehow don't have seniority because of that. Because that's what you just said.

This is how you start hundred year wars. Is that what you want?
Maybe you should check with your bishop before you talk.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 21, 2024 12:02 PM (zdLoL)

91 One component of the ritual cannibalism of the Maori is that of turning one's enemies into shit.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 21, 2024 12:03 PM (Ej3El)

92 I saw that. It makes me smile when I see all these places here in the Midwest that advertise 'ANTIQUES' and I think of Europe.

I have to stifle a laugh when I'm in an "antique mall" and see Star Wars toys in the display case.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 12:03 PM (/y8xj)

93 Thank you KT.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:03 PM (goY6W)

94 Got any suggestions for federal or state authorities, or donors here in the USA?

Apprenticeships and shovels.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:04 PM (goY6W)

95 @63 it's pretty simple Biden administration. On 1/20 you leave. Do not let the screen door hit you. That I includes you KJP. Then Trump comes in with his people. Smooth and timely

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2024 12:04 PM (DopAq)

96 Got any suggestions for federal or state authorities, or donors here in the USA?

Apprenticeships and shovels.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:04 PM (goY6W)

There are dignity kanals to be dug.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 12:05 PM (aD39U)

97 There is an appealing photo of her at the link

I think you meant to type appalling, not appealing.

Shudders.

Posted by: MammaB at December 21, 2024 12:05 PM (WotRI)

98 But we came up with a great condiment for fried fish.
So there's that.

Posted by: The Tartars at December 21, 2024 12:07 PM (dg+HA)

99 82 It wasn't invasion, disease or famine that truly brought it to its knees.

Rome collapsed because the birth rate did

Isn't it likely that the former caused the latter?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 11:57 AM (aD39U)

Probably not - wealthy urban populations generally move away from child bearing, as it is no longer a source of wealth to them as it is for rural, agricultural populations.

Look at South Korea today - wealthy highly developed urban society, but population is about to collapse because so few children are being born.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:07 PM (7MHHr)

100 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 21, 2024 12:02 PM (zdLoL)

You want to try that again except this time write it out in understandandable English?

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 12:07 PM (89Sog)

101 The barbarians were just doing the jobs Romans wouldn't do.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 21, 2024 12:11 PM (2UnvF)

102 Declining birth rates are a symptom of spiritual death. And buggery. But, mostly buggery.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:11 PM (ZmEVT)

103 It usually works pretty well too until one barbarian claims to be more popular than the other.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at December 21, 2024 11:59 AM (g8Ew

Leading to about 1,000 years of European history where the rulers traded towns and regions back and forth like they were just pieces on a game board , without anyone in them being asked what they thought about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:12 PM (7MHHr)

104 If New Zealand runs out of Maoris they could always try to get Samoa.

(wait for it)

Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 12:12 PM (991eG)

105 Having and raising children is expensive. Back in the 80s, I got a shitty tax deduction for each child.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:13 PM (ZmEVT)

106 Next up, I expect to see videos explaining that the Turks are indigenous to Turkey.

It's a difficult line of argument - you need to understand that being allegedly Indigenous is all-important in the United States, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia; and being allegedly Indigenous is utterly unimportant in Europe.

One wouldn't want to view the new masses of people flooding into Europe as coloristic settler-invaders, like one views historical immigration into the US/Can/Aus/NZ area.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:13 PM (uxCna)

107 So if we eliminate the social sciences, our universities will find new zeal?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 12:13 PM (W/lyH)

108 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 21, 2024 12:02 PM (zdLoL)

You want to try that again except this time write it out in understandandable English?
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 21, 2024 12:07 PM (89Sog)

Don't hold your breath.

Posted by: More loose screws than Ace Hardware at December 21, 2024 12:14 PM (UKe2c)

109 104
That was a groaner.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 12:14 PM (3wi/L)

110 Wait. They sell Girl Scout cookies at Christmas?

Posted by: I gotta get out more at December 21, 2024 12:15 PM (dg+HA)

111 I think Japan did away with a lot of social sciences a few years back. In some respects it's a baby-with-bathwater move, as there are social sciences with value, just that they belong where they were before - on the margins, small footprint and funding, and of course not destroyed by stupid racist-totalitarian freaks. Humanities seems different, I think there was value in a truly educated society, where humanities were taught even below the college level.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (1m82a)

112 Every now and then, Caesar would corrupt the coinage. Merchants had a heck of time buying stuff from border areas.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (ZmEVT)

113 If New Zealand runs out of Maoris they could always try to get Samoa.

Worst limerick evah.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (aD39U)

114 Declining birth rates are a symptom of spiritual death. And buggery. But, mostly buggery.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:11 PM (ZmEVT)

Immediate material problems and a lack of purpose or vision for the future will do that too.

Posted by: Kids aren't cheap and inflation is high at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (UKe2c)

115 NZFrankwithanM2 is out boy (may have mangled his nick). Gun nut. Which has got to be a particularly small demo in NZ.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 12:17 PM (1m82a)

116 I think the Senate agreed that they all wanted to go home and voted for No Shutdown late last night. Now all they need is for someone to wake Biden up so he can sign it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:17 PM (7MHHr)

117 Humanities seems different, I think there was value in a truly educated society, where humanities were taught even below the college level.

Yeah, but when "humanities" has been transmuted into yet another branch of Oppression Studies, as it has most places, it becomes completely useless.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:18 PM (uxCna)

118 Gresham's Law: Bad money chases away good money. E.g. 1965 U.S. half dollars, quarters, and dimes incentivized the hoarding of pre-1965 silver coins.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:18 PM (ZmEVT)

119 105 Having and raising children is expensive. Back in the 80s, I got a shitty tax deduction for each child.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

Ick! How did you ever afford triple-virgin Olive oil and Tuscan vacations? Ski vacations to Vail? New BMW?

Posted by: Adam and Steve at December 21, 2024 12:18 PM (G5+As)

120 NZ's military collapse, while semi-understandable, is a shame. Like the other big Commonwealth players (Oz, Canada), they were awesome butt-kickers in WWII. Punching far above their weight.

Dock workers in Wellington excepted (they had strikes affecting vital military logistics at one point).

Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 12:19 PM (1m82a)

121 *Now all they need is for someone to wake Biden up so he can sign it.*

As soon as I finish this drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 21, 2024 12:19 PM (dg+HA)

122 For some reason X has put a couple of videos in my feed of a woman arguing that the Crimean Tatars are "indigenous" to Crimea, as opposed to Turkic invaders who "displaced" the Greeks and other ethnic groups who were living in Crimea earlier.

That part of the world had a large number of groups move through it - the Scythians, Alans, Huns, etc.

Though to your point the Greeks had the longest most notable presence in the area.

On a somewhat related note if you want to bring Turkey to heel start demanding the return of Constantinople and Eastern Asia Minor to Greece. The Greeks were only ethnically cleansed from those areas about 100 years ago.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:20 PM (oZhjI)

123 So late, so glad to be here, good coffee, great K.T.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:20 PM (DvLTT)

124 Maoris are not "native", having come a few hundred years before the Brits. There were no native land mammals in NZ, thus introduction of same are one of the problems (kiwi birds for example nest on the ground, no defensive mojo whatsoever, so of course ground varmints ravage their nests).

Strongly recommend anyone who can go there and spend some time. Fantastic things to do and see beyond scope of a comment section. Only spent a month but it was packed full and could have done more.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 21, 2024 12:21 PM (1m82a)

125 Australia has sold itself to China why not New Zealand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:22 PM (DvLTT)

126 Putting the word “social” in front of anything negates the word following it. “Social Studies” in fact studies nothing; “Social Science” has nothing to do with any actual science; and “Social Justice” is the greatest source of injustice today.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:22 PM (7MHHr)

127 On a somewhat related note if you want to bring Turkey to heel start demanding the return of Constantinople and Eastern Asia Minor to Greece. The Greeks were only ethnically cleansed from those areas about 100 years ago.

Losing wars will do that.

Ask the Germans.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:23 PM (uxCna)

128 I love that Piano Guys rendition of O Come O Come Emmanuel!

Thanks for posting it, KT and good luck with the recovery!

Posted by: SimoHayha at December 21, 2024 12:23 PM (yf7Pm)

129 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Social Workers at December 21, 2024 12:23 PM (dg+HA)

130 It confirmed for me that leftists are happy to see people they don't like murdered.
But it showed me that they have no idea that they are vulnerable too.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 21, 2024 11:34 AM (3wi/L)

The murdered CEO was undoubtedly a Democrat, and profited greatly from Obamacare. Had some link to P. Lousy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 21, 2024 12:24 PM (8zz6B)

131 Having and raising children is expensive. Back in the 80s, I got a shitty tax deduction for each child.

The tax cuts offered are generally trivial to the standard of life of middle class and above people.

Want to really encourage family and kids?

Married couple pays 50% of their combined tax rate after all other deductions are made. Then each kid as he increases the size of the family reduces it further - one kid 33%, two kids 25% and so on.

This would save enough money to really have an impact on people's lives and encourage rich/upper middle class people who can afford kids to have them. And yes it would in the end heavily penalize singles and DINKs.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:24 PM (oZhjI)

132 AW Raggity Karine's warning government shutdown was om Bad Blue last night, to me it's just a scan to get any conservatives to jump on the $1.3 Trillion debacle to tack on the national debt

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (fwDg9)

133 I know about Australia, but do the toilets flush in reverse in NZ too?

Posted by: Feeling Flushed at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (G5+As)

134 Putting the word “social” in front of anything negates the word following it. “Social Studies” in fact studies nothing; “Social Science” has nothing to do with any actual science; and “Social Justice” is the greatest source of injustice today.

I once had to go through a bunch of resumes of college graduates, and half-jokingly suggested that we could throw out all the resumes of the people whose major contained the word "environmental".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (uxCna)

135 On a somewhat related note if you want to bring Turkey to heel start demanding the return of Constantinople and Eastern Asia Minor to Greece. The Greeks were only ethnically cleansed from those areas about 100 years ago.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:20 PM (oZhjI)

Recent genetic studies have proved a bit embarrassing, as they showed the great majority of the Turkish population today is in fact ethnically Greek. Almost as if the Ottoman Turks were always just a small warlike ruling class that was able to impose their rule on the same old population that has always been there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (7MHHr)

136 Immigration: Another annual record for departures from New Zealand

**********

If they are leaving shouldn't that be 'emigration' rather than 'immigration'?

Or is this a nit that doesn't need picking?

Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 12:27 PM (991eG)

137 Ciampo, my junk is antique at this time.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 12:27 PM (4780s)

138 48 Indiana still has some one lane roads and bridges. Their trying to correct all of them even at the county road level.
---

He who blinks his lights first has the right of way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:28 PM (DvLTT)

139 Recent genetic studies have proved a bit embarrassing, as they showed the great majority of the Turkish population today is in fact ethnically Greek. Almost as if the Ottoman Turks were always just a small warlike ruling class that was able to impose their rule on the same old population that has always been there.

I suspect a lot of that is concubinage/extra wives/flat out rape

The Turks did win some notable battles, but mostly took over areas in Asia minor as Greek authority waned. And since Muslims could take up to 4 wives they'd take their share of the local Greek women and kill/enslave the men.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:28 PM (oZhjI)

140 Recent genetic studies have proved a bit embarrassing, as they showed the great majority of the Turkish population today is in fact ethnically Greek. Almost as if the Ottoman Turks were always just a small warlike ruling class that was able to impose their rule on the same old population that has always been there.

And I don't know why the Turkish government is enraged by this revelation.

Instead of slaughtering the existing population of Anatolia, the Ottomans Turkified them.

You'd think that this would make the Turkish invaders look better, but that's not the opinion of Erdogan's government.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 21, 2024 12:29 PM (uxCna)

141 Or is this a nit that doesn't need picking?
Posted by: muldoon at December 21, 2024 12:27 PM (991eG

Nits are like zits. They always need picking.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:29 PM (7MHHr)

142 Every now and then, Caesar would corrupt the coinage. Merchants had a heck of time buying stuff from border areas.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 12:16 PM (ZmEVT)

The currency debasement was "required" because of the need to support an imperial burden greater than what the empire could produce. and once started it was nearly impossible to reverse due to Gresham's law, and unwillingness to reduce the quantity of money by calling it all in and re-minting it. Constantine and a few successors did make a stab at it by issuing gold currency, but he linked it with price controls, but in turn those were only followed where there was any enforcement.
Personally I think the resurgence of Europe was based around the development of credit markets which gave a point to long-distance trade.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 12:30 PM (D7oie)

143 I know about Australia, but do the toilets flush in reverse in NZ too?
Posted by: Feeling Flushed at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (G5+As)

Toilets?

Posted by: Tasmanians at December 21, 2024 12:30 PM (W/lyH)

144 So. Still giggling at the Tahk Tua lawyer joke from a couple nights ago.
The wife has it as the worst joke she ever heard.
Being she is my wife... that is an impressive acomplishment.

Posted by: Reforger at December 21, 2024 12:32 PM (xcIvR)

145 Recent genetic studies have proved a bit embarrassing, as they showed the great majority of the Turkish population today is in fact ethnically Greek. Almost as if the Ottoman Turks were always just a small warlike ruling class that was able to impose their rule on the same old population that has always been there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:25 PM (7MHHr)

when you kill the men and take their wives, your grand children and great grandchildren will be more closely related to the wives' fathers than to you.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 21, 2024 12:33 PM (D7oie)

146 138 48 Indiana still has some one lane roads and bridges.

Indiana is nice, but I can't go back there.

Posted by: R. Dean Taylor at December 21, 2024 12:33 PM (G5+As)

147 The Turks did win some notable battles, but mostly took over areas in Asia minor as Greek authority waned. And since Muslims could take up to 4 wives they'd take their share of the local Greek women and kill/enslave the men.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:28 PM (oZhjI)

Hernando Cortez says “hey that sounds like a pretty good idea!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:35 PM (7MHHr)

148 Any myrrh of these puns and I'm gonna lose my Christmas spirit.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 12:36 PM (W/lyH)

149 I'm incensed.

Posted by: Frank at December 21, 2024 12:38 PM (dg+HA)

150 At least you didn't have Frankenstein's monster bringing Frankincense to the manger for the newborn King.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:38 PM (VNX3d)

151 Has anyone found way ways meds?

Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 12:39 PM (4780s)

152 What knockers!

https://youtu.be/LB_aegewceU

Posted by: Gene Wilder at December 21, 2024 12:40 PM (dg+HA)

153 Hernando Cortez says “hey that sounds like a pretty good idea!”

Cortez's story is an impressive one AND his native wife was critical to his success which you'd think would get a lot of multi-culti and feminist kudos to him...

If we had a saner culture there would have been multiple big budget movies about him.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2024 12:41 PM (oZhjI)

154 82 It wasn't invasion, disease or famine that truly brought it to its knees.
Rome collapsed because the birth rate did
Isn't it likely that the former caused the latter?
Posted by: Grump928(C)
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We have genetic drivers that motivate us to procreate. Bread and circuses, fat, dumb and happy are not drivers. Gaza has the highest procreation rate on the planet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:41 PM (DvLTT)

155 150 At least you didn't have Frankenstein's monster bringing Frankincense to the manger for the newborn King.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:38 PM (VNX3d)

My mind jumped to a scene where the 3 Wisemen are Frankenberry, Booberry, and Count Chocula.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:42 PM (7MHHr)

156 Diogenes at December 21, 2024 11:47 AM

Years ago, my Dad used to say that the sociologists were insufferable in faculty meetings. And it must be much worse now.

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 12:42 PM (xekrU)

157 Honoring motherhood, a national respect for putting family before self can increase the birthrate.

https://tinyurl.com/bdmmkdnw

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:44 PM (DvLTT)

158 All the toilets in Australia are the same and they are some kind of weird oblong shape.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 12:44 PM (RIvkX)

159 155 150 At least you didn't have Frankenstein's monster bringing Frankincense to the manger for the newborn King.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:38 PM (VNX3d)

My mind jumped to a scene where the 3 Wisemen are Frankenberry, Booberry, and Count Chocula.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:42 PM (7MHHr)

Did they follow the rainbow to Lucky's Manager 6?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:44 PM (VNX3d)

160 158 All the toilets in Australia are the same and they are some kind of weird oblong shape.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2024 12:44 PM (RIvkX)

That’s because the water swirls backwards.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 12:46 PM (7MHHr)

161 Years ago, my Dad used to say that the sociologists were insufferable in faculty meetings. And it must be much worse now.
Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 12:42 PM (xekrU)

Actually it depends on who is running the meetings. I'm down to adjunct status so I go only when its mandatory. And I take a flask, and tend to giggle a lot at the woke bullsh*t.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 12:46 PM (W/lyH)

162 My daughter majored in biology, but the degree they gave said environmental sciences.
Pissed me right off.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 12:47 PM (4780s)

163 Can't say know much of Turkey and Greece wars but possible Turks won an enslaved Greeks so now many Turks have Greek ancestors?

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 12:48 PM (fwDg9)

164 And I take a flask, and tend to giggle a lot at the woke bullsh*t.

Posted by: Diogenes

Can you bring a friend? I have an honorary degree in Squirrel culture.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:50 PM (goY6W)

165 ---Kids aren't cheap---

That's a clue. Having a family, having children is of preeminent importance. When being a family and having children is not valued it's not done. That's what the communists have insinuated into our culture. They have taken capitalism and turned it into a corrosive making things more important than the eternal family.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 12:54 PM (DvLTT)

166 And I take a flask, and tend to giggle a lot at the woke bullsh*t.

Posted by: Diogenes

Can you bring a friend? I have an honorary degree in Squirrel culture.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Justice for Ashli at December 21, 2024 12:50 PM (goY6W)

On your final meeting, bring a squirrel to enjoy the meeting.

https://youtu.be/K16fG1sDagU

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (VNX3d)

167 My daughter majored in biology, but the degree they gave said environmental sciences.
Pissed me right off.
Posted by: From about That Time at December 21, 2024 12:47 PM (4780s)

I guess that's better than sending her off hoping for a MRS degree and her coming home with a life partner.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (W/lyH)

168 While Joe Biden fades away, Mexico is busy, using military units, to illegally seize the assets of US companies operating inside its borders. Blatant expropriation without a word of protest from the current administration.

Senator Britt speaks out about the matter in a Senate speech.

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2p9atnjh

Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (rj6Yv)

169 On your final meeting, bring a squirrel to enjoy the meeting.

https://youtu.be/K16fG1sDagU
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (VNX3d)

AVENGE ME!!!!

Posted by: P'nut at December 21, 2024 12:57 PM (W/lyH)

170 Speaking of Turks, there have been some changes in the Young Turks lately . . .

Posted by: KT at December 21, 2024 12:57 PM (xekrU)

171 >>> 7 At this point New Zealand could be invaded and occupied by China in an afternoon. No combat aircraft, a navy with less tonnage than the USCG in the Great Lakes. Tiny army.

Maybe they can challenge them to a game of rugby.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 21, 2024 11:10 AM (ZOv7s)

Forget the army, the CCP would annoy NZ Frank.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 21, 2024 12:58 PM (KcwUg)

172 If SMU had a QB.......

Posted by: Accomack at December 21, 2024 12:59 PM (IG7T0)

173 What led to this bold move?

Well, for starters, someone had to pay for this:

https://tinyurl.com/yteejxf8

Posted by: Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed at December 21, 2024 01:03 PM (kvDvI)

174 If SMU had a QB.......
Posted by: Accomack
_______

Hey, he's thrown for 2 TDs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 21, 2024 01:06 PM (Dm8we)

175 On your final meeting, bring a squirrel to enjoy the meeting.

https://youtu.be/K16fG1sDagU
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 21, 2024 12:55 PM (VNX3d)

One of my favorites for years. LOL!!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 21, 2024 01:08 PM (iODuv)

176 My daughter majored in biology, but the degree they gave said environmental sciences.
Pissed me right off.

Honestly, a job posting asking for the latter probably pays a lot more than the former.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 21, 2024 01:08 PM (/y8xj)

177 GARDEN THREAD IS BLOOMING
Some very nice flowers

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:09 PM (fwDg9)

178 https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden frees men who scammed 5 billion with over 1-million victims

Is anyone surprised the most corrupt president has freed pnzy scammers?

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 01:11 PM (fwDg9)

179 I toured NZ on a bicycle January 1990.The single lane bridges along the western coast southern island have no guardrails, just a small curb.There’s a reason for doing so. That whole section of coast is very rural, quite pretty, dripping wet.The flightless birds were very curious. The sand flies there are aggressive.

The road over the southern pass from the coast was surfaced with compacted clay. I don’t recall seeing more than a few cars while crossing to the summit. You make that summit and the terrain looks like eastern Washington/ Wenatchee.

Posted by: 13times at December 21, 2024 01:17 PM (BQSJx)

180 >>>Senator Britt speaks out about the matter in a Senate speech.

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2p9atnjh
Posted by: mrp
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Sleepy Joe, on they job tearing America apart piece by piece.
Senator Britt could have made a much better presentation if she had read her aides written presentation a couple of times before coming to the dais.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 01:17 PM (DvLTT)

181 Later gang.
Cookies to bake.

And eat!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 21, 2024 01:24 PM (W/lyH)

182 BOLD! What do you think led to this move?
_________________

Fantastic!

BTW, what "research" exactly takes place in the humanities?

Social "science" will be OK. They just make up 90% of what they publish anyway.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 21, 2024 01:27 PM (YqDXo)

183 Economics is a social "science." And so they're cutting out economics as having no economic benefit.

Sounds about right, actually.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 21, 2024 01:29 PM (YqDXo)

184 Stupid fuckers don’t have the chops to pass Physics?

Just start a Physics “Studies” course, and bitch about Whitey instead. Thus preparing students to compete in the global economy. 5th grade Indians taking Calculus will certainly be no match for gender-dysphoria drug-addled youth learning to gobble cock for Social Credit scores. Keeps the temps lower in Antarctica too

Posted by: Common Tater at December 21, 2024 01:44 PM (JRe3J)

185 Another reason the Western Empire fell so completely and permanently is that accounts of the day tell how burdensome and expensive Imperial control had become - sounds familiar. Every activity was heavily regulated and heavily taxed. Most all of the rural towns and villages found it far easier and cheaper to just pay tribute to their new Barbarian overlords, rather than suffer under Imperial control. The barbarian kings wanted money, but other than that didn’t care much how things were run.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2024 11:54 AM (7MHHr)

Speaking of 'Imperial control', the Eastern Roman Empire 's bureaucracy got so bad that there's a name for it that's lasted to this day - Byzantine. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at December 21, 2024 02:12 PM (JDH8J)

186 "At least you didn't have Frankenstein's monster bringing Frankincense to the manger for the newborn King."

Did you read "Frankenstein?"

The "monster" would kneel down before the Lord of Lords.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 21, 2024 02:22 PM (ZmEVT)

187 Allelujah!

Great Irish music.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2024 02:27 PM (Wjzzm)

188 Seeing a Fox News Network on YouTube 5 dead, 200 injured in Magneburg

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 02:36 PM (fwDg9)

189 60 injured

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2024 02:38 PM (fwDg9)

190 Bravo, New Zealand!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2024 02:58 PM (Hkcdp)

191 So the first two games of the playoff are ... lackluster.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 03:05 PM (aD39U)

192 Had I known nothing about this other than reading this Grok summary on X, I would not have any idea this was an Islamic terrorist attack by an illegal:

Germany Christmas Market Tragedy: Car Incident Claims Lives

A tragic incident occurred when a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany, resulting in the deaths of five people, including a child, and injuring more than 200. The driver has been identified, and while early reports speculated on the involvement of autonomous technology, it was confirmed that the vehicle was operated by a human driver. Discussions around vehicle safety and urban event security have intensified in the wake of the event.

This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2024 03:29 PM (P5BPp)

193 Germany Christmas Market Tragedy: Car Incident Claims Lives

Grok ridiculous summary link: https://bit.ly/3DEfKoL

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 21, 2024 03:31 PM (P5BPp)

194 38-10 Penn Final

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 21, 2024 03:31 PM (aD39U)

195 The other side of being Elon Musk.

https://tinyurl.com/439muyhv

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 03:49 PM (DvLTT)

196 On bridges -
Hawaii has a lot of one lane bridges. Outside of Honolulu the whole state is BFE. It's been 20 years but one post card pretty valley had one access road, one lane, very steep, no guardrails. Posted rules were 4x4 only (4L), vehicles coming up had right of way. Nobody fvcked with those rules.
Valley had maybe a population of 100.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 21, 2024 04:29 PM (/lPRQ)

197 The US has bombed sites in Sanaa Yemen as of this evening.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 21, 2024 05:26 PM (XTmTf)

198 That birth rate is a little iffy. Doesn’t take into account all the outmigration to Spain, France, England and all over .

Posted by: JackWayne at December 21, 2024 05:31 PM (e+cRb)

199 197 The US has bombed sites in Sanaa Yemen as of this evening.
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Sounds good to me.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others _ at December 21, 2024 06:55 PM (DvLTT)

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