SCAM: Facebook diversity chief’s scam captures spirit of the DEI racket. “Guess what? Turns out when you hire people to work as part of a huge scam, like corporate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, they act as though they’re part of a huge scam. Witness the case of Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who led Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts at Facebook from 2017 to 2021. Turns out she was promoting inclusion — of Facebook monies into her own hands and those of her friends and family.”
Archive for 2023
December 17, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Comment friend and enter.
UPDATE:
Q: Why are you losing in the polls?
BIDEN: "You're reading the wrong polls"
*crash* pic.twitter.com/VQKeLpZrYK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 18, 2023
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches large classified optical satellite towards geostationary orbit.
DORMANT DOESN’T MEAN DEAD: Even Sleeping Volcanoes Can Hide an Explosive Surprise Deep Inside.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Is Low Fat Dairy Healthier? Puhleez.
Scan the dairy case of any grocery store, and you’ll find rows upon rows of products with varying levels of fat. Nonfat, low-fat, whole: What’s the healthiest option?
If you consult the U.S. dietary guidelines or health authorities like the American Heart Association or the World Health Organization, the answer is clear: Choose a fat-free or low-fat version.
This recommendation stems from the idea that full-fat dairy products are high in saturated fats, so choosing lower-fat versions can reduce your risk of heart disease, said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Tufts University.
But that guidance goes back to 1980, when the first edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans was published, he said. And since then, most studies on the health effects of dairy fat have failed to find any benefits of prioritizing low-fat versions over whole, Dr. Mozaffarian said.
Nina Planck pointed this out in her excellent book, Real Food, and it remains true.
LIFE IN 2023: How Miss Universe Became an Enemy of the State.
Daniel Ortega is a commie and hence trash.
LOL:
Please consider the Illinois NAACP for your Christmas donation this year.
"Illinois NAACP leader is asked to step down after video shows her likening migrants to ‘savages’ and accusing them of rape"https://t.co/LtIAoZS2jZ
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 16, 2023
Story here: “In a videotaped criticism of migrant policy, the president of the Illinois NAACP compared migrants to “savages” and accused them of rape — comments that have prompted a call for her to resign. Illinois State Conference NAACP President Teresa Haley made the comments this fall in a conference call with branch presidents from around the state, according to Patrick Watson, former president of the DuPage County Branch NAACP. Watson, who said he resigned in protest of Haley, recorded the video, which he shared Tuesday.”
Sorry, NAACP, the Democrats are replacing you with migrants they hope will prove more tractable.
READER FAVORITE: Bose QuietComfort 45 Wireless Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Headphones. #CommissionEarned
AI IS GETTING MORE CAPABLE: Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem.
WHY PEOPLE ARE FAT: US adults found to eat a meal’s worth of calories in snacks each day.
NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY: It’s time for a ‘broken windows’ policy for schools.
How did we get here? Daniel Buck, a former teacher and author of “What Is Wrong With Our Schools?” tells me that even schools that used to be strict about dress codes or tardiness have now let those rules go by the wayside.
Nor is it just bad public schools.
Even many of the so-called “no excuses” charter schools have decided to give students excuses.
Buck, who quit his job teaching at a private school, notes that rather than actual punishment, it’s common for students who “disrespect teachers” to simply return to the classrooms “after a stern talking to” or even just “a hug and a bag of chips.”
Administrators, explains Buck, often say they have “bigger fish to fry” than worrying about attendance.
But he adds, “if you don’t deal with small things, bigger fish come along.
You will get more cruelty and bullying.”
The standards for student behavior are set early and they influence how seriously children take authority later on.
Perhaps schools with broken windows policies, and better history departments might cut down or eliminate recent headlines such as this one: Shocking moment Jewish teacher is forced to hide in her classroom at a Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students rampage through hallways while demanding she be fired for attending pro-Israel rally.
ROGER KIMBALL: ‘Liberty and Justice For All’ – A Tattered Cliche?
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial whose slug got to the nub of the issue. “The special counsel,” it read, “tries to drag the Justices into his political timetable for the Jan. 6 trial of Donald Trump.” That’s it exactly. Smith wants the Court to decide now, today, so he can pursue his vendetta against Trump on the time table the election calendar has set. Most observers believe that the Court will be more circumspect. The writers of that editorial caution that “The wiser decision would have been to lay out the facts of what the special counsel found and let the voters decide. They chose to prosecute, and the damage has begun to unfold.”
I was talking to a friend about about Smith’s case. He responded “It sounds like the judiciary/prosecution is corruptly trying to interfere with an official proceeding, i.e., the election.” That’s pretty much what I think, too, though I don’t expect Jack Smith to be charged for the tort. Remember, there is one law for Donald Trump and his supporters. They can be harassed, prosecuted, and jailed. There is another law for the nomenklatura that does the harassing, prosecuting, and jailing.
Read the whole thing.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Love Makes the World Go ‘Round. But where’s Bennie?
SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. THIS IS SOMETHING. THEREFORE. . . “We had to do something.” Joe Nocera joins John Tierney to discuss the government’s disastrous response to the Covid pandemic.
READER FAVORITE: BISSELL Little Green Multi-Purpose Portable Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner. #CommissionEarned
RADICAL CHIC, THE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE YEARS: ‘Historic’ Biden Judicial Nominee Sits on Board of Group Founded by Cop-Killing Domestic Terrorist.
President Joe Biden’s latest judicial nominee, whom the White House is hailing as “historic” due to his Muslim faith, serves on the advisory board of a left-wing group with extensive ties to convicted cop killers, the Washington Free Beacon has found.
Adeel Abdullah Mangi, whom Biden tapped to serve on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, is an advisory board member of Alliance of Families for Justice. The organization, which works to end “mass incarceration,” was formed in 2016 with Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin as a founding director. Boudin pleaded guilty to the murder of two police officers and a security guard during an armored truck robbery in 1981. The FBI named Weather Underground a domestic terrorist organization following a string of bombings and robberies in the 1970s and ‘80s.
The Alliance of Families for Justice, where Mangi has served since 2019, organized an event in 2021 to urge the release of six Black Panther and Black Liberation Army members serving life in prison for murdering police officers. The Alliance referred to the cop killers—including Black Panther members Mumia Abu-Jamal, H. Rap Brown, and others—as “freedom fighters” and claimed they were illegally targeted by the FBI.
The Weather Underground, you say?
Bill Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a violent radical student group of the 1960s. His father, Thomas Ayers, was a prominent Chicago business and philanthropic leader who served as an adviser to Mayor Richard J. Daley, father of the current Chicago mayor. Although he is not apologetic about his terrorist past (and had the bad luck to be quoted as saying, in an interview that ran on Sept 11 2001, that “I don’t regret setting bombs. … I feel we didn’t do enough.”), Bill Ayers has been accepted back into the Chicago political community and has been an informal adviser to the current Mayor Daley on education reform.
But regardless of his cachet in the liberal circles of Chicago politics, presidential candidate Barack Obama has not been eager to explain his own relationship with Bill Ayers. Published reports from February 2008 gave a glimmer of their ties. In 1995 Ayers hosted a fund-raiser for Obama prior to Obama’s run for Alice Palmer’s seat in the state Senate; they both served on the board of the charitable Woods Fund of Chicago from 1999 to 2002; and Ayers donated $200 to Obama’s state Senate campaign. Other researchers and reporters (for example, Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times) noted a few joint panel appearances and a favorable review by Obama of a book by Bill Ayers.
Yet another reminder of who is behind the scenes in (P)resident Biden’s administration, pulling the strings, “serving as a third-term president in all but name.”
WHY BOTHER REPLACING THEM, THEN? Five DEI officers have resigned from this university within span of a year.
Plus: “High-level donors such as billionaire financier Bill Ackman noted that DEI programs often exclude groups such as white men, Asians, and Jews, cutting against the notion that such initiatives foster an inclusive campus.”
Check out the race/gender makeup of pretty much any DEI (or Title IX) office and it won’t look like America.
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Laughable: MSNBC Suggests Biden Impeachment Inquiry is Meant to Distract Americans From Booming Economy (Video).
THIS IS HARDLY A SURPRISE: Harvard board that ‘unanimously’ supports Gay is overwhelmingly liberal, funds Democrats.