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Archive for 2021
April 30, 2021
INSERT HENRY KISSINGER’S JOKE ABOUT THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR HERE: The War Between New York Leftists. Cuomo Vs DeBlasio is New York’s version of Godzilla vs. King Kong.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: College professors caught on hot mic gloating about teaching Marxism, social justice to students.
Two professors at Roosevelt University in Illinois, who also serve on the school board for a local high school, were caught on a hot mic recently gloating about how they promote Marxist ideology to their college students.
The leftist educators, Gina Harris and Ralph Martire, were joining a February school board meeting for Oak Park and River Forest High School via Zoom when they began candidly discussing their “social justice” and Marxist advocacy, West Cook News reported.
“I mean, it’s all social justice, all day, every day. I get to talk about the things I love all the time. All day [at my day classes], all night of my night classes,” Harris said gleefully about her time teaching at the university. “I’m really living the life over here.”
Harris, who reportedly teaches “middle school theory and practice” to future educators at Roosevelt, called social justice “a part of everything” and a “foundation.”
To be fair, that’s all pretty on-brand for a university named after Roosevelt: “‘Why should Russians have all the fun of remaking a world?’ asked Stuart Chase in his book, A New Deal, published in 1932.”
COVID ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take?, asked the New York Times: “So researchers might produce a viable vaccine in just 12 to 18 months, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to get it. Millions of people could be in line before you. And that’s only if the United States finds a vaccine first. If another country, like China, beats us to it, we could wait even longer while it doses its citizens first.”
EVERYBODY DERPS.
QUESTION ASKED: Why Commemorate Black April?
For Van Truong Le in Boston, this is a painful day, a time he and others who fled Vietnam call “Black April.”
“Because that was when folks from South Vietnam lost our country to the North Communist regime,” he said. “It was the day we lost our country. So we refer to it as Black April 1975. In fact for the last 40 years on April 30, the Vietnamese who have resettled here for the most part commemorate and observe that day as a day to commemorate the loss of Vietnam.”
And that name fits with good reason. Forced reeducation camps and a communization of the economy were in store for those who remained in Vietnam, as part of North Vietnam’s Communist takeover. Here is an excerpt of an account by Quyen Trong, who relates his father’s oral history:
After the Fall of Saigon on April 30th, 1975, every South Vietnamese man, from former officers in the armed forces, to religious leaders, to employees of the Americans or the old government, were told to report to a re-education camp to “learn about the ways of the new government.” Many South Vietnamese men chose to flee on boats, but others had established lives and loved ones in Vietnam, so they willingly entered these camps in hopes of quickly reconciling with the new government and continuing their lives peacefully. According to my father, the government said re-education would only last for ten days, and at most two weeks. However, once there, the men were detained for many years in grueling labor camps.
The time of imprisonment was physically demanding and morally disheartening. “The Communists put people like me into the jungle so that we would get sick and slowly die off. That was their goal… Everyone was miserable. Many people died of sadness… One week I’d see one gravesite. As the weeks went on I saw more and more graves.”
Prisoners endured long days of menial labor and physical pain. “Everyday I needed to get 20kg of bamboo shoots. We had to peel the outside until we reached the soft white middle to collect. I worked in the jungle where there were leeches skinny as chopsticks. But once they stuck onto you and sucked on your blood, they would swell like fat sausages. I would lie there at night, tired and not knowing why, and my friends would see a big leech on my foot and pry it off.”
Related: PragerU with the truth about the Vietnam War:
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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: White House to restrict travel from India.
—Axios, today.
● Chaser:
WELL, YES: Biden’s Proposed Education Spending Spree Is Untenable, Unaffordable
We’ve arrived at the “gain power by whatever means and then raid the Treasury” stage of banana republicanism.
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME: Franklin Graham Wanted to Honor Seattle Police. They Spat in His Face.
FIGHT THE POWER. STICK IT TO THE MAN. New legal fund protects professors against cancelation threats by their universities: “You do it because it has to be done,” says professor who got huge settlement from university. “Principles have to be upheld.”
Even better if you can get a “huge settlement” while doing it. Though the settlements need to get huger.
Related (From Ed): Linfield University president: I did not know there were rules for firing tenured faculty.
PARANOIA, BIG DESTROYER: Jeopardy Contestant Under Mob Assault for Making a ‘White Power’ Hand Gesture That Wasn’t.
MORE VOTES THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY: A Plurality of Voters Deem Biden’s First 100 Days a ‘Failure.’
FLASHBACK: The Case for Love Socialism. Why not, uh, spread the wealth?
BIDEN: It’s a “patriotic responsibility” for vaccinated people to keep wearing masks.
More or less so than raising taxes? Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Arizona School Board Flees from Concerned Parents, Parents Elect New Board.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What do you call it when a cowardly local school board flees from parents demanding relaxed mask rules, only to have the parents use Roger’s Rules of Order to elect a new board right there on the spot?
Answer: ‘Merica, baby.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Cowardly congresscritter calls for higher taxes on herself, won’t write a check to the Treasury
- American scientists who assured us the Wuhan virus could not have escaped from that Wuhan lab worked with that Wuhan lab and praised the CCP
- Bob and Bing on the road to Zimbabwe — along with the rest of us
Bonus Sanity: For only the third time ever, it’s right there in the lead story.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? Does ‘anti-racism’ also mean slurring black conservatives? It sure seems that way on Twitter.
That’s awfully rich coming from Behar: Joy Behar roasted for denying wearing blackface: ‘Enjoy the cancel culture you created.’
YES, WELL, LOCKDOWNS AND BANS ON ELECTIVE PROCEDURES WILL DO THAT: Cancer screenings fell early in pandemic, study finds.
SATIRE… OR IS IT? Biden Official Confirms Plans to Ban Fried Chicken and Grape Drink. “Some have raised concerns about the menthol ban, arguing that it would lead to more interactions with the police which could result in more black fatalities during these encounters. However, the FDA assures us the number of black men shot to death by police will pale in comparison to the warm fuzzy feeling white progressives will have knowing African Americans are no longer smoking Newports, eating Popeye’s, or drinking carbonated grape-flavored beverages.”
GOODER AND HARDER: Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association Blasts Latest Arbitrary Indoor Dining Bans in 15 Counties.
Oregon’s last Republican governor left office in 1987.