NEVER CHANGE FREDO’S BROTHER: Pandemic Was “A Tremendous Personal Benefit” Says Cuomo.
Actually, I lie. They’re both Frodo.
Archive for 2021
July 10, 2021
THAT’S BECAUSE THE NARRATIVE AND REALITY HAVE NO COMMONALITY: ‘Rise of the Moors’ Militia Group Arrest Does Not Fit The Media and Government Narrative.
YOU KNOW, JUDGES SHOULD BE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THE LEFT LIES: Judge Withdraws Opinion Dismissing Boston Zip Code Quota Plan Case – “I’ve Been Misled” By Concealment of Anti-White Text Messages.
ATTENTION EMPLOYEES, MOVE OUT OF THE WAY BY GETTING ANOTHER JOB NOW: Raytheon CRT Training: White Employees “must work on ‘recognizing [their] privilege’ and ‘step aside’ for minorities”.
The company will then go the way of every company that hires for reasons other than competence. And they deserve it.
ARE SUCH PLEDGES BINDING? Parents who pledged $1.35M to Florida Catholic school sue over it going ‘woke’.
BECAUSE IT WAS EVER ALL ABOUT HER: Chelsea Handler explains why her crush on Andrew Cuomo is ‘O-V-E-R’.
BUT WON’T FIND O FACEBOOK OR YOUTUBE: Don’t buy the hysteria: The Delta variant is actually less dangerous.
THE ONE CHILD POLICY MEANS EACH SUBJECT IS HAVING TO SUPPORT FOUR GRANDPARENTS: As China’s population grays, the burden of care weighs on families.
Only idiots and communists/progressives (BIRM) couldn’t see that coming. And it’s coming for us, too.
THE FERAL GOVERNMENT CAN KEEP ITS NOSE TO ITSELF: Does Biden Administration Want To Make Everything Their Business?
July 9, 2021
OPEN THREAD: I’ve got a feelin’ that there’s a new day comin’ soon. You can hear it through the static, you can hear it through the diesel whine. It’s out of your hands, it’s bigger than you and me.
SLS USE IS GOING TO BE LIMITED BY REALITY: Supply chain, Artemis program limit SLS use for science missions.
FASTER, PLEASE: Nanofiber membrane makes seawater drinkable in minutes.
FAA REVEALS NEW SYSTEM TO TRACK SPACE LAUNCHES.
THUMBS DOWN ON HOUSE BIG TECH REFORM: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Ranking Minority Member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) worked together to produce a package of Big Tech reforms that are likely to get a fair amount of attention in coming weeks.
But Mike Davis of the Internet Accountability Project (IAP) says the package is little more than a big win for Silicon Valley:
“The Judiciary Committee frameworks create a private right of action for Americans to vindicate their rights when Big Tech infringes upon them. Under this framework, Americans will be given ‘the chance to sue the tech giants for a[n] infringement of their free speech rights.’
“The frameworks also seek to move all antitrust enforcement authority to the DOJ thereby cutting off half the government’s resources to go after Big Tech for antitrust violations. These proposals combined effectively shift the burden and cost of enforcement onto the individual citizen and are a huge win for Big Tech.”
And on the specific issue of censorship, Davis argues that:
“The Judiciary frameworks still leave incredible amounts of discretion to the Big Tech platforms. Under this rubric, the Big Tech companies can just state in their content moderation policy that specific speech is not allowed and then they will be completely justified in taking the content down. This does nothing to protect conservatives and make sure they have a place in the digital public square.”
Davis is a Hill staff veteran, with multiple years of serve as Chief Counsel for Nominations to former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa).
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off: Columbia and other top universities push master’s programs that fail to generate enough income for graduates to keep up with six-figure federal loans.
Recent film program graduates of Columbia University who took out federal student loans had a median debt of $181,000.
Yet two years after earning their master’s degrees, half of the borrowers were making less than $30,000 a year.
The Columbia program offers the most extreme example of how elite universities in recent years have awarded thousands of master’s degrees that don’t provide graduates enough early career earnings to begin paying down their federal student loans, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Education Department data. . . .
At New York University, graduates with a master’s degree in publishing borrowed a median $116,000 and had an annual median income of $42,000 two years after the program, the data on recent borrowers show. At Northwestern University, half of those who earned degrees in speech-language pathology borrowed $148,000 or more, and the graduates had a median income of $60,000 two years later. Graduates of the University of Southern California’s marriage and family counseling program borrowed a median $124,000 and half earned $50,000 or less over the same period.
If only there had been some sort of warning.
NAMASTE, Y’ALL: Yoga a possible solution for work-related stress, analysis finds. I’ve been doing yoga for a bit over a year. I enjoy it, and it helps stretch away my computer pains while clearing my mind.
Here you can see me at work. Next step is turning this Crow pose into Crane (where the arms are straight instead of bent). So far I have managed not to face-plant. So far. The pebble is to look at, to be sure my gaze stays forward.
I’ve been surprised that a lot more of the Rippetoe workout stuff transfers to yoga than I would have expected. Some of that is just strength, but it’s also balance, core, and just general body-awareness.
I KNOW ELECTRIC CARS ARE FAST AND TORQUEY, BUT “ELECTRIC MUSCLE CAR” JUST SOUNDS WRONG: Electric Dodge Muscle Car Will Arrive in 2024.
THE PARTY WILL INFORM YOU WHAT THOUGHTS ARE ACCEPTABLE: Buckle Up, Democrats: The Left’s Demoralizing Attacks on Conservatives May Reap the Whirlwind.
I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN CALIFORNIA REPRESENTED THE FUTURE: I Flew To California, And It Was Like Going A Year Back In Time.
I HOPE THE NEIGHBORS PASS THE HAT AROUND FOR THIS YOUNG MAN: Louisiana boy, 12, shoots and kills armed burglar with hunting rifle after the intruder broke into his home and attacked his mother.
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Will Biden’s red lines change Russia’s behaviour in cyberspace? “Drawing red lines can be tricky. Some critics worry that by specifying what needed to be protected, Biden might have implied that other areas were fair game. Moreover, red lines must be enforced to be effective. The critics argue that the focus of the warning should have been on the amount of damage done, not where or how it is done.”
Biden has shown Putin his red lines. And if Putin doesn’t like them, well… he has others.
VIRGINIA GOP DEMANDS UVA INVESTIGATE LARRY SABATO OVER POLITICAL TWEETS. Would everyone please stop doing this? It’s unconstitutional, plus, does anyone think this is convincing people? I get it, it’s an arms race and both sides do it, but someone has to be the first to walk away.
WHOEVER THE PARTY REQUIRES THEM TO BE IN ANY GIVEN MOMENT: Who Are the ‘Extremists’ on Facebook?