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Great shortstops and now swimmers?

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/16/2024 5:06:08 AM

            Great shortstops and now swimmers?: Mayor Eric Adams of New York City took illegal immigration to another level. Who knew that this whole thing could get any crazier?   Click to read:              Great shortstops and now swimmers? - American Thinker https://t.co/qo7Q3OOAHa Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) May 16, 2024

Choose: Psychotic Sociopaths Or Cops?

K T Cat
5/14/2024 11:45:14 AM

The gulf between red and blue is growing every day. Dig this charming exchange between a UC Davis professor and a student.  NEW: The pro-Palestine protester who told bourne_beth2345 put a gun in your mouth you piece of sh*t has been identified as ucdavis Professor Seeta Chaganti.I wonder what ucdavis thinks of their professor telling people to kiII themselves and behaving like this. pic.twitter.com/HdEzkC67a0 Libs of TikTok (libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024   I looked up dear, little Seeta and found this.Seeta Chaganti joined the faculty of the UC Davis English department in 2001. She specializes in Old and Middle English poetry and its intersections with material culture. Her first book was The Medieval Poetics of the[...]

When An Unpleasant Thing Is The Right Thing

K T Cat
5/13/2024 5:22:45 PM

I just got back from a sprint to Seattle. It was grueling, painful and beautiful.Our oldest son lives in Seattle. A few years back, we brought him a Korean Mastiff puppy he had acquired from someone in the family. Korean Mastiffs are huge and even as a pup, the brute was too large to take on a plane, so wife kitteh and I drove him up there. It was a total grind without much sleep. Puppies don't let you sleep, after all.Fast forward to today, and the dog, now full-grown had taken ill. For the last year or so, oldest son kitteh has been run ragged by his sick dog. He did everything he could for it, but working full time and taking care of a chronically ill dog proved to be too much for him. He didn't have the heart to put the[...]

CalPERS Fail

W.C. Varones
8/4/2023 5:59:23 AM
Despite the awesome bull market this year, CalPERS again missed its return target, earning only 5.8% vs. its required 6.8%.CalPERS has missed its return targets for the trailing 1-, 3-, 5-, 15-, and 20-year periods.When CalPERS fails to make its' required returns, California taxpayers are liable for making up the difference for California's uber-generous public pensions.

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

A sustainable future requires understanding the history of the natural world

In July 2024, all eyes will turn to Paris for the Summer Olympic Games. Spectators from around the globe will converge on the City of Light to watch athletes compete and to soak in the culture, ...

50 Cent's Final Lap Tour Makes History, Becoming Only Third Rap Trek Ever to Cross $100M

Over two decades since 50 Cent strapped on his bullet-proof vest and dropped his iconic Get Rich or Die Tryin' debut, the G-Unit boss is still making history. According to Billboard Boxscore, 50's The ...

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

Daniel Perry Get Full Pardon From Texas Governor Abbott 

William A. Jacobson

"Texas has one of the strongest Stand Your Ground laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive District Attorney. I thank the Board for its thorough investigation, and I approve their pardon recommendation.The post Daniel Perry Get Full Pardon From Texas Governor Abbott first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Knees Chopped Out: Stormy Time for Michael Cohen on Cross Examination 

Mary Chastain

"He's the only person testifying to direct involvement by Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels payments, but according to suddenly now, Michael Cohen's refreshed memory, he now says, 'Oh, it was a call about this 14-year-old making prank phone calls to me, but also about the moving ahead on Stormy Daniels.'"The post Knees Chopped Out: Stormy Time for Michael Cohen on Cross Examination first appeared on Legal Insurrection.