Archive for 2021
September 24, 2021
HIGHER EDUCATION HAS FAILED: Overwhelming majority of college students say shouting down a speaker is acceptable: survey. I wonder if we’ll start looking at it as an industry that consumes a lot of resources while producting a lot of the intellectual equivalent of toxic waste.
Also K-12 education.
#HIMTOO? Chris Cuomo’s ex-boss accuses him of sexual harassment.
As Jim Treacher tweets, “It would really be something if CNN lost two Cuomos in as many months.“
CAM EDWARDS: Dems Slip Red Flag Provision Into Military Spending Bill. “The military version of the red flag law proposed by Democrats looks a lot like the civilian version found in more than a dozen states. Without being charged or even accused of a crime, a service member could have their right to possess a firearm taken away from them by a military court, and the subject of the red flag order wouldn’t even have a chance to provide any evidence on their behalf for up to 30 days after the court’s order was issued. The authors of the measure audaciously state that this is ‘sufficient to protect the respondent’s due process rights,’ but I doubt many service members would agree.”
IT HAS TO DO WITH THE SUSPECT: Joy Reid Complains About ‘Missing White Women Syndrome.’ So Why Won’t She Ever Mention Missing Black Women? “Yes, there is a racial aspect to which stories the press will and will not touch, but not in the way Reid wants to believe.”
SHADOW PRESIDENT RON DESANTIS GETS RESULTS: Dramatic Drop In COVID Patients At South Florida Hospitals. Also, note the impact of the antibody treatments that DeSantis championed, over abuse from the media.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor calls Americans ‘the hands…holding the bloody knife that has wounded the USA’ in graphic class assignment.
Higher education could be seen as just another big-dollar industry that is polluting society with its toxic waste.
“INFLUENTIAL RABBIS” VERSUS “PRINCIPLED PROGRESSIVES”: The New York Times actually published the excerpt below, though they have since stealth-edited out the rabbis part. In 2021 America, it’s woke to portray a legislative battle in Congress as war between the principled and rapacious Jews. Note for the uninitiated: There is, in fact, no “rabbis lobby” of any consequence.
ANOTHER REASON TO BE FOND OF POLICE BODYCAMS: Antifa Activist Sues Portland Police for Livestreaming and Showing Faces of Rioters.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: SURVEY: 80% of students are ‘self-censoring their viewpoints’, many feel uncomfortable speaking up in class.
OUR BEYOND-PARODY RULING CLASS:
SO MUCH IS: By The Left’s Standards, The Pro-Fat Movement Is Institutional Racism.
“[Seventy-eight percent] of hospitalizations due to COVID are Obese and Overweight people,” Neman wrote in an Aug. 31 deleted LinkedIn post citing March data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Is there an underlying problem that perhaps we have not given enough attention to? Is there another way to think about how we tackle ‘healthcare’ by addressing the root cause?”
While the root cause Newman indicted as the underlying culprit in the COVID crisis was obesity, Newman’s own diagnosis of the problem is fertilized by the proliferation of a cultural movement to both normalize obesity and demonize its opposition as “fat-phobic.” Newman himself became the latest target of the left’s nefarious feel-good crusade for daring to raise alarm over the nation’s ballooning crisis, while obesity triples an individual’s risk to hospitalization with COVID-19.
“This post is disgusting,” one LinkedIn user wrote back, according to Business Insider.
“Yikes, this is incredibly fat-phobic,” wrote another. “Have you considered how our healthcare system systematically underserves people who are considered to be in those groups?”
Has the race-obsessed left considered that its pro-fat movement systemically promotes obesity to the very people it claims to champion?
Read the whole thing.
I’d just add that so much of what the Left does — everything the Left does? — harms the very people they purport to champion.
ICYMI: Biden Security Adviser Jake Sullivan Tied to Alleged 2016 Clinton Scheme to Co-Opt CIA and FBI to Tar Trump. “White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme to use both the FBI and CIA to tar Donald Trump as a colluder with Russia, according to people familiar with the criminal probe, which they say has broadened into a conspiracy case.”
PARTY OF THE LITTLE GUY: The Rich Get Richer When Democrats Hold Power.
TO BE FAIR, MOST OF THEIR EFFORTS ARE DUBIOUS, WHEN THEY BOTHER TO MAKE ONE AT ALL: The Biden administration’s dubious effort to solve the “Havana Syndrome” mystery. “What I’m thinking now, after reading the whole article, is that ‘to address the issue’ did not mean to discover the cause of the syndrome, but to get those affected by it to accept that they would never receive an answer.”
Well, that’s pretty typical of these people.
Plus, from the comments: “To have our two most bumbling and corrupt agencies- State and the FBI- handling the investigation is to know it is being buried. The FBI- fresh off of their ignoring the sexual attacks on our women’s athletes, fresh off of the showing that they perpetrated and made the Russia Collusion case happen, initiating a soft coup, and fresh off of inserting their own people to ‘kidnap’ Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and stage last weekend’s Jan. 6 ‘protest, are considered by many people today, to be the equivalent of a corrupt Keystone Cop organization. Bumbling and crooked. Not exactly who you would want to head up an investigation of missing ice cream, let alone these attacks. We truly need a house cleaning, starting with State and the FBI.” True.
JAMES MORROW: Locked Down Downunder: Do Australia’s leaders really know what they’re doing?
The question thus becomes, both for those of us trapped here in Ozcatraz as well as bemused outside onlookers, how did a free and easy land of opportunity become gripped by a neurotic covid puritanism that truly believes any sort of fun or joy or sociability is deadly, and a place where protesters and cops are having pitched battles in the street over mandatory vaccinations?
If you don’t believe me, consider that in Melbourne — ground zero for Australia’s covid madness, the city just crossed the line to become the most locked-down city in the world — the state premier ordered playgrounds shut and had concrete bollards hoisted into skate parks to stop kids from riding their bikes. . . .
What makes it most bizarre is that even the state’s health minister recently admitted outdoors was the safest place to be and everyone understands that the mask rule was imposed largely to shut up a depressingly totalitarian press gallery that wasn’t going to shut up until everyone was welded into their homes Wuhan-style. . . .
This was, incidentally, a wonderful example of the serious class overtones of how the pandemic has played out in Australia, a country that has for decades kidded itself that it was a classless society where Jack was as good as his master. Here as elsewhere it has always been about the “Zoom” classes paying public fealty to the new priestly class of health experts and lording it over those who can’t work from home yet who are the ones who really keep society moving. On the third day of protests in Melbourne, video emerged on Twitter of Zoomerati-caste residents of fancy apartment towers cheering on the cops from their balconies as they chased down protesters firing “non-lethal rounds” and tear gas. One can only hope they get the social credit points they deserve for their enthusiasm.
We’ve been told for decades that the press is a key element in preserving freedom, but it always seems to be cheering on — and outright demanding — that the government supervise people ever more closely. And we’ve been told that the real threat to freedom is the unwashed masses, when it’s the upper-middle classes that seem most enthusiastic about extending the rules.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: 2024: Trump over Biden by 10 points, Harris by 13. “Just 247 days since President Joe Biden took the keys to the Oval Office, a majority of people appear to want him evicted and former President Donald Trump back. In a stunning turnaround, likely voters today said that given a second chance at Election Day, they’d pick Trump over either Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris. And by a country mile.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: COVID Gives GOP a Chance to Get Serious About School Choice. “I’ve been playing the conservative Republican activist game for a very long time and, quite honestly, I am often perplexed by the battles the party chooses to wage. Or, almost as frequently, the ones it doesn’t fight.”