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February 14, 2024
BAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT THE MILITARY ACADEMIES TOO. “SFFA argues that West Point and Annapolis focus inappropriately on race during the admissions process and that West Point’s ‘director of admissions brags that race is wholly determinative for hundreds if not thousands of applicants.'” Yeah, there’s no way that could go horribly wrong.
I long for the good old days when America’s military “leaders” were just talking about how they would warn the Chinese in advance if we decided to attack them.
SHE MUST BE HIGH: Rep. Barbara Lee Wants the Minimum Wage HOW HIGH? “The weakness of being a critic of the minimum wage is that we make a dry, factual kind of sense that puts people to sleep. I caught a couple of you nodding off when I got to the part about the actual minimum wage being zero. Compare that to the He-Man Master of the Universe strength of literally any nitwit know-nothing shouting, ‘FREE MONEY!’ like that late-night TV pitch guy with the dollar signs all over his jacket.”
YEAH, NO: Descendants of slaves who helped build SLU ask for $70B in compensation.
In an effort to pressure St. Louis University officials to honor and support the descendants of slaves who helped build the campus, civil rights attorney Areva Martin on Thursday announced $70 billion in reparations owed to them.
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With access to economists and researchers, Martin said SLU had not disclosed the monetary value of the enslaved labor for the descendants into today’s money.An estimated $365 million in unpaid labor was announced, and with added interest over time, amounts to $70 billion, according to Malveaux.
The number was based on labor done 24 hours per day, 365 days per year for 70 enslaved people from 1823-1865, she said.
“The calculations that we came up with and the method that we used are time-honored methods,” Malveaux said.
That’s about $350 million per descendent but everyone knows that’s just the opening position in their shakedown.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It Ain’t Paranoia if It’s Happening — ‘Undocumented’ Voting Edition. “It’s disturbing to think about how many illegal voters might be making their way to the polls in November now that their numbers are growing so rapidly during the Joe Biden Border Crush.”
#JOURNALISM:
JUST IN: CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge fired in company wide layoffs conducted by Paramount Global.
Herridge was one of 800 people who got axed on Tuesday in Paramount Global's massive cost-cutting operation.
Herridge was fired just hours after she reported on how… pic.twitter.com/vyVKfErSY2
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 13, 2024
COLORADO: Coming bills would ban new oil-and-gas wells, stop summertime drilling.
Democratic legislators are preparing to introduce three bills that would make industry-redefining changes to the Colorado oil and gas sector, including a ban on new wells after 2030 and an essential shutdown of drilling activities for five months out of each year.
The sponsor of two of the three measures, Democratic Sen. Kevin Priola of Henderson, said the major steps are needed to halt climate change and to prevent what he fears could be a mass extinction of species if carbon production causes the planet to warm too much. Asked about how such measures could impact a $48 billion industry that supports more than 300,000 Colorado jobs, Priola told The Sum & Substance that legislators’ duty is to consider public health and safety above the economy.
Oil-and-gas industry leaders, meanwhile, said that the more appropriate extinction to be discussing is what could happen to their sector if it must cut back operations so severely, as well as to individual and tax revenue it generates for state residents and governments. The quick cessation of production, coming as oil and gas is needed still for everything from home heating to transportation, would require Colorado to import energy from other states or countries, a process that would generate emissions that proponents claim to be cutting, they said.
“There is career-ending language in all of these bills,” said Kait Schwartz, director of American Petroleum Institute Colorado, referring to the many workers likely to lose jobs in the sector if some or all the proposals are signed into law. “I think this is one of the first times they have been blatant enough to use the words ‘phase-out’ or ‘ban.’”
I would say, “Gooder and harder,” except that the people in Colorado’s energy-producing areas like Weld County most assuredly did not vote Democrat.
But what’s the fun of running a one-party state if you can’t wield that power to ruin the lives of your political opponents?
THEY WANT HIM DEAD: Mayorkas personally rejected RFK Jr. Secret Service protection.
HOW’S THAT WORKIN’ OUT FOR THEM? Disney Decided to Enter Political Fray After January 6th.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE:
The broadcast networks and CNN and MSNBC don't want you to see Biden mumbling and bumbling. Those clips are routinely skipped in favor of better-sounding ones. https://t.co/Z1yC4QmITE
— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) February 14, 2024
WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE? ME, OR YOUR LYING EYES? The problem with gaslighting is that in such a noisy media environment, the lies just keep emotionally-invested people inside their “safety bubble.”
Just The News does a deep-dive into the nonsense narrative that “there’s no evidence” regarding POTUS and his son’s businesses. I’m neither a psychologist nor a mind-reader, but there’s a point where I just have to wonder if Biden’s defenders actually believe this nonsense. The detailed news report includes sworn testimony and investigative documents proving that:
“To date, congressional investigators have confirmed that Joe Biden met with the following foreign associates alongside his son between 2013 and 2017:
Ye Jianming, Chairman of CEFC China Energy; Jonathan Li, another Chinese businessman and a principal of Bohai Capital who created a joint venture with Hunter Biden;Vadim Pozharskyi, an executive of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings who paid Hunter Biden and Archer millions to serve on its board; Yelena Baturina, a Russian oligarch and real estate investor who paid millions to a firm associated with Hunter Biden’s partners; and Kenes Rakishev & Karim Massimov, a Kazakhstani oligarch and former prime minster, respectively.” (Emphasis added).
The Washington Post created an online clip reel showing Biden repeating the lie over and over and over. Some Dems have tried to move the goalposts, saying even if Biden lied, “So what? Nobody did anything wrong.”
As to Joe Biden himself, that’s not what “elderly well-meaning people with memory issues” do…unless perhaps they are so out of it, the Constanza Rule applies.
MORE ANTI-SEMITISM AT HARVARD:
After Harvard Divinity School student Shabbos “Alexander” Kestenbaum denounced the defacing of posters in a Jan. 21 post on X, he received an email from a Harvard employee challenging him to a debate on Israel’s role in 9/11.
“I invite you to debate me today at the Cambridge Street overpass 12-1, don’t miss it!” Gustavo “Gus” Espada ’96, an active University employee at the time, wrote in a Jan. 25 email to Kestenbaum.
“If you don’t show up I will use a puppet or potted plant to represent you!” he added.
Kestenbaum, who is one of six Jewish students suing Harvard for its alleged failure to address antisemitism on campus, said in an interview with The Crimson that he reported the incident to Harvard’s Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.
Espada posted a TikTok video later that day speaking in Spanish and waving a toy machete. The video includes a screenshot of Kestenbaum’s post on X.
“I, of course, was fearing for my safety,” Kestenbaum said. “And again, what made it particularly upsetting and frustrating was the fact that Harvard did not respond to any of my calls, emails, or pleas for protection.” . . .
Espada remains listed as the financial and systems coordinator for Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, according to the department’s website.
So much of the overpoliticized bad behavior on campuses comes from administrative employees.
FIGHT THE POWER: It Turns Out Law School Leaving A Paper Trail Of Retaliation Was A Poor Litigation Strategy: Law professor Paul Campos prevailed in his fight with his employer. Quoth Campos: “In the settlement agreement, the university denies having done anything wrong, but, as always, actions speak louder than words. In addition to paying all of my legal fees from two years of litigation, the university paid me a substantial sum to not take the case to trial, removed Dean Inniss as my supervisor for whatever time may be left in her tenure as Dean, and made various other concessions regarding the conditions of my employment going forward.”
HERE’S THE DEMS NOVEMBER GAME: Have you noticed how whatever Democrats accuse Republicans of doing is almost always a good indicator of what they themselves are doing? The big brains at Issues & Insights did a little thinking along those lines regarding the November election and they note this:
“For one thing, if defeating Donald Trump is the Democrats’ paramount concern (to ‘save democracy’ and all), Biden staying in the race seems like the worst possible choice. He is hugely unpopular, and that’s not likely to change. Minorities and independents are gravitating toward Trump.
“Biden’s physical and mental state will only get worse, and his decline is by all evidence, accelerating. It’s an open question whether he’d agree to, or would be able to, debate Trump. The chance that he will do something catastrophically stupid or embarrassing grows by the day, and the White House can’t keep him locked away until Nov. 6.”
Ergo – all these Mainstream Media pieces this week about how Biden will be the Democratic nominee no matter what Special Counsel Hur reported about the chief executive’s mental faculties are just another example of the opposite of what Dems say is what is actually going down.
No wonder Michelle and Gavin are so quiet. They know how this game is played by their buddies.
KUNTA KINTE WAS JUST A REFUGEE, PROVIDED A HOME BY A GENEROUS PLANTER: “Holy shit. They found a way to bring back slavery and make it woke.”
21ST CENTURY WITCH DOCTORS: FDA and CDC Could Soon Employ ‘Indigenous Knowledge,’ Documents Show.
AT AMAZON, Shop the President’s Day Sale. #CommissionEarned
THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH REUSABLE BAGS: California’s plastic bag ban backfires after customers just start dumping thicker and heavier 10 cent ‘reusable’ carriers instead, triggering more pollution than ever.
California’s plastic bag ban has backfired nearly a decade after the state made history as the first to ban single-use carriers – sparking a nationwide movement.
In the years since the landmark decision, material recovery facilities and environmental activists in the golden state have observed an unexpected surge in plastic bag waste by weight, according to a report by the LA Times.
Customers now dump thicker and heavier ‘reusable’ carriers instead, triggering more pollution than ever – for only an extra ten cents per bag at the check out.
Now, California legislators are working to rectify the growing problem by proposing a new law that plans to ban the thick plastic bags too.
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Senator Ben Allen highlighted that these thick plastic bags were not what consumers had envisioned when supporting the bag ban at the ballot box in 2016.California discarded a whopping 157,385 tons of plastic bags in the year the ban was implemented, according to a report by the consumer advocacy group CALPIRG.
By 2022, this amount nearly doubled to 231,072, marking a whopping 47 percent increase – accounting for population growth.
I keep expecting some smart legislator to propose outlawing unintended consequences but it’s really only a matter of time.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Marriage For Me, Not For Thee.
THE STUPID PARTY CRASHES AGAIN: Tom Suozzi Defeats Mazi Pilip in NY-03 Special Election, Flipping Seat Back to the Dems. “Suozzi reclaims the seat he left to run for governor in 2022. After losing to Suozzi in 2020, Republican George Santos won the seat by seven-and-a-half points over Democrat Robert Zimmerman in 2022. Santos’ tenure was controversial, from revelations regarding his ’embellished’ resume to his multiple federal indictments, which ultimately led to his expulsion from Congress in December.”
VICTORIA TAFT: It’s Not What Biden Special Counsel Included in His Report — Senators Say It’s What He Left Out.
Two hawk-eyed Senators are asking the Attorney General and his special counsel a big question: Did you guys just pull another fast one?
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson say the same special counsel report that called Biden forgetful, old, and guilty of stealing and keeping highly classified documents left out a big chunk of evidence. They’re wondering what happened to nine boxes full of documents that Joe Biden illegally took and then sent to his lawyer’s office, and that were then picked up by the National Archives.
The contents of those files and documents were not in the Hur report, and they want to know why.
#MeToo.