Wednesday, May 04, 2022
AOC advocates student debt cancellation, even though it would not benefit those who paid off loans - TheBlaze
AOC advocates student debt cancellation, even though it would not benefit those who paid off loans - TheBlaze:
In response to a question about how student debt cancellation would benefit people who have already paid off their loans, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suggested that while individuals who have already paid down their student debt will not benefit from debt cancellation, they might benefit from another program — "It all comes around," she wrote.
Imagine the mediameltdown if this had been Trump-----Hunter Biden flew to Moscow for a meeting with now-sanctioned Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Daily Mail Online
Hunter Biden flew to Moscow for a meeting with now-sanctioned Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Daily Mail Online link
"EXCLUSIVE: Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin met with Hunter Biden in Moscow over potential investment deal before meeting TWICE more in New York and DC - and is now sanctioned by the UK (but NOT the US)
- Emails obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Hunter Biden had courted Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin
- The billionaire, 73, owned a company which has reportedly supplied Putin's forces with drones used for deadly bombings in Ukraine
- He was sanctioned by the UK and Australia this month but remains unsanctioned by the Biden administration
- Emails from his abandoned laptop show Hunter booked a trip to Moscow for a dinner with the oligarch at his company Sistema's headquarters in February 2012..."
History for May 4
History for May 4 - On-This-Day.com
George F. Will 1941 - Columnist ("Newsweek"), editor
- 1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Native Americans later sold the island (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and buttons.
- 1886 - Chichester Bell and Charles S. Tainter patented the gramophone. It was the first practical phonograph.
- 1904 - The U.S. formally took control of the property for construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1942 - The United States began food rationing.
- 1970 - The Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded.
- 1979 - Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister.
- 1981 - The Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 14%.
- 1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Samantha Power says 'catastrophic' food shortages are an opportunity to implement left-wing policies - TheBlaze
Samantha Power says 'catastrophic' food shortages are an opportunity to implement left-wing policies - TheBlaze:
"So never let a crisis go to waste," she concluded.
She went on to defend the Biden administration against criticism that its policies led to high food prices.
Own the children, own the future!-----MN Likely to Teach Students That Police Started as Slave Patrols - Intellectual Takeout
MN Likely to Teach Students That Police Started as Slave Patrols - Intellectual Takeout link
- Police have existed since the ancient Sumerian civilization, thousands of years ago. They did not originate with slave patrols.
- But Minnesota is preparing to teach students that policing began with slave patrols.
- This false teaching is included in a draft ethnic studies component to Minnesota social studies classes.
It’s a weird, historically-inaccurate new curriculum drafted under progressive Governor Tim Walz.
Walz’s administration replaced subject-matter experts on history with left-wing activists on the committee charged with updating Minnesota’s social-studies curriculum.
The new curriculum could go into effect by 2024..."
Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value.’
Instapundit--Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value.’ linkIT’S COME TO THIS: Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value.’
“I know everything is polarized these days, but I still have a hard time understanding how we can’t all agree that the government creating a Disinformation Governance Board led by a person famous for spreading disinformation is a batsh*t, awful move.”
“I know everything is polarized these days, but I still have a hard time understanding how we can’t all agree that the government creating a Disinformation Governance Board led by a person famous for spreading disinformation is a batsh*t, awful move.”
...“All the Left had to do was not be crazy. They couldn’t meet that bar.”
“NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis…Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office.
Lovely people,” Musk tweets.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"...read all.
Bill Maher slams Twitter for flagging The Babylon Bee - TheBlaze
Bill Maher slams Twitter for flagging The Babylon Bee - TheBlaze:
On Friday's episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the HBO host welcomed former Democratic Alabama Senator Doug Jones and MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi to discuss what – if any – moderation Twitter should have as the online town square.
Maher asked, "Has Twitter failed in setting itself up in the past as the judge of what can go out there?" He then answered his own question, "And I would say yes, you have."
Virtue preening 101-----White people should not teach about black history, Harvard newspaper editor opines | The College Fix
White people should not teach about black history, Harvard newspaper editor opines | The College Fix link
"A Harvard University newspaper editor recently argued that the university should prohibit white professors from teaching about black culture and history.
Ian Svetkey (pictured) recounted a recent experience that unsettled him.
“When I was looking through courses this semester, I noticed that the professor of a class about narratives of individuals who were enslaved was a white man,” he wrote in an op-ed published Monday morning.
“That didn’t sit right with me. Why would a class about stories integral to Black culture be taught by someone with no lived experience in that culture?” the editor for The Harvard Crimson wrote.
Before explaining his reasoning further, Svetkey delves into the ways he is and is not privileged..."
“When I was looking through courses this semester, I noticed that the professor of a class about narratives of individuals who were enslaved was a white man,” he wrote in an op-ed published Monday morning.
“That didn’t sit right with me. Why would a class about stories integral to Black culture be taught by someone with no lived experience in that culture?” the editor for The Harvard Crimson wrote.
Before explaining his reasoning further, Svetkey delves into the ways he is and is not privileged..."
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China provides rhetorical cover for Russia and their 'new model of international relations' - TheBlaze
China provides rhetorical cover for Russia and their 'new model of international relations' - TheBlaze:
Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said, “An important takeaway from the success of China-Russia relations is that the two sides rise above the model of military and political alliance in the Cold War era.”
Zhao suggested that China and Russia are able to collaborate so effectively because the countries and their leadership “commit themselves to developing a new model of international relations.”
Clean Energy Has a Dirty Little Secret
Clean Energy Has a Dirty Little Secret"Clean energy has a dirty little secret, just revealed by MIT science writing student Shel Evergreen:
Its “unsustainable” appetite for minerals and the dirty ways they’re obtained.
From Evergreen’s report for Ars Technica:
From Evergreen’s report for Ars Technica:
- In South America’s Atacama Desert, salt flats are dotted with shallow, turquoise-colored lithium brine pools.
- In the Democratic Republic of Congo, children chip at the ground for cobalt.
- In China, toxic chemicals leach neodymium from the earth.
All that extraction “presents humanitarian, environmental, and logistical challenges,” she writes..."
Student-Debt Forgiveness: A Brazen Gift to the Rich | National Review
Student-Debt Forgiveness: A Brazen Gift to the Rich | National Review link
- The plan being mulled by the Biden administration to cancel and forgive up to $1.6 trillion of federal student-loan debt is a brazen act of class warfare by the affluent against everyone else.
- It is a politically, and cosmically, unjustifiable robbery that offers yet more rope for the decadent and totally indefensible American college system to become even more decadent and indefensible.
- The overwhelming majority of student debt is held by the affluent; less than 10 percent of it is held by the bottom third of earners.
- Nearly 40 percent of it is held by students who earned advanced degrees — many of them now doctors and lawyers. Unemployment for the college-educated is less than 2 percent..."
"...one day he decides he is a walrus..." (Read it all!)
Facebook link Harriett Lublin 
HT Stuart Sullivan--"You know, when we went to Florida, our 7 year old expressed the desire to be an alligator.
It was really heart-breaking to leave him there in the swamp, but, a 7 year old is mature enough to know what he really wants...sarcasm."
Jeffrey S Malashock link From my friend Neil Chernoff
"Matt Walsh wrote a book called, "Johnny the Walrus".
"Matt Walsh wrote a book called, "Johnny the Walrus".
It is about a boy who imagines himself as many things, but one day he decides he is a walrus. [The rest is spoilers -- but you are not going to pay $18 for a comic book that is 30 pages long anyway.]
The "internet" people then decide that Johnny should be allowed (in fact pressured) to be an actual walrus.
The "internet" people then decide that Johnny should be allowed (in fact pressured) to be an actual walrus.
His mother, feeling pressured takes him to a doctor who prescribes worms and grey makeup, followed by a minor procedure to change his hands into fins so he can be an actual walrus...
There is no "trans" here except in metaphor.
...And yet the staff at Amazon were massively triggered. One guy crying because the, "book teaches children to 'kill transgenders' or 'bully them into committing suicide'" ..Read all!!
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