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Category: Politics

  • Twitter Account Mocks Liberal Academia

    In my travels around the interwebs, I came across an article about something called @real_peerreview, a twitter account that mocks those Pillars of Academia, abstract liberal research papers and PhD dissertations: mentioned are feminist glaciology, the racism of Pilates, and a paper, “‘Wow, that bitch is crazy!’ Exploring Gendered Performances in Leisure Spaces Surrounding Reality Television.”

    No, really. Here’s the link:

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/14/twitter-account-mocking-questionable-left-wing-papers-is-shrouded-in-secrecy-amid-threats-hacking.html

    So, I went to https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview to see for myself.

    Oh. My. God. There on my screen was a Nicole Land’s “Fatty Muscles and Muscular Fats: Relating With and Interrogating Fat(s) in Early Childhood Education.” And a copy of the abstract, which you will thank me for not posting.

    The point of all this is, is the mocking of these paragons of higher learning ‘s tax funded drivel by anonymous peers, who review and make pointed and hilarious commentary. Of course, the lefties take all this good-natured ribbing like adults and, who am I kidding? They’re screaming to hack the account and shut it down, and because of the very real backlash the “peers” who are themselves students and professors, must remain unnamed.

    Guess Will Buckley’s “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” holds true still.

    I mean, “Glaciers, gender, and science” by University of Oregon’s professor Mark Carey, found that “ice is not just ice” and called on scientists to take a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial approach” whatever that is, but it brought in nearly $500,000. Our tax dollars at work.

    I also read the fine folks at Kyoto University are in the process of cloning a Woolley Mammoth. I hope they keep it in Japan.

     

  • Adam Hayat; PTSD pipe bombs

    Adam Hayat; PTSD pipe bombs

    Former Marine of Pakistani descent, Adam Hayat, was arrested in Los Angeles when pipe bombs were discovered in the room in a Denver hotel that he had recently vacated after running up a $10,000 bill there according to Fox News;

    [Police in Denver] also discovered a note written on the mirror in lipstick that made refences to post-traumatic stress disorder.

    Hayat’s father, Sultan, told Denver7 his son was homeless and had been estranged from his family for years. Hayat added that his son had joined the Marines after high school and served in South Korea, Japan and Iraq.

    Sultan Hayat also said that his son had suffered from PTSD, bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder.

    Yeah, everyone with PTSD who has made pipe bombs because of it, raise your hands. Yeah, me neither.

    Thanks to one of our ninjas for the link.

  • Harward rejects National Security Adviser offer

    Harward rejects National Security Adviser offer

    According to Fox News, retired Navy Vice Admiral Robert Harward turned down the Trump Administration’s offer of the recently vacated national security adviser position;

    One source told Fox that retired Navy Vice Admiral Robert Harward “really wanted” to do the job, but ultimately decided that he could not.

    A senior administration official said that Harward’s acceptance of the national security adviser post was contingent on the agreement of his family. The official said Harward’s wife and other family members wanted him to remain in the private sector.

    […]

    “It’s purely a personal issue,” Harward said Thursday evening. “I’m in a unique position finally after being the in military for 40 years to enjoy some personal time.”

    Who can blame him in this toxic environment? The media has insured that the best people for jobs will shy away from those jobs just to avoid being the subject of false news.

  • Press #140 for English

    Press #140 for English

    STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – DeKalb County School District Superintendent Stephen Green believes diversity makes America stronger, and by that measure the school district is a powerhouse.

    Green issued a statement recently to highlight diversity in the district and urge compassion for its immigrant and refugee students, which come from dozens of different countries and speak dozens of different languages, The Champion Newspaper reports.

    “We are hearing a lot of conversation right now, some of it extreme, about how residents from originally outside our country should be treated,” Green wrote. “We have 102,000 students here. They come from more than 180 countries, and they speak 140 languages. We value them; we love them and we respect what their presence here says about the goodness and generosity of America – our diversity is our strength.”

    Seriously? How many terps does the DeKalb County School System employ? Do the kids get interpreters during recess on the playground? Do the morning announcements finish up around 1130?

    The statement, issued Jan. 30, comes after two teachers were removed from their posts at Cross Keys High School for allegedly making disparaging remarks against illegal immigrant students.

    Both teachers were removed from their classrooms on Nov. 10 as district officials launched investigations into claims they allegedly made about illegal immigrants in the wake of Donald Trump’s historic election win on Nov. 8, the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

    Meanwhile, Payal Modi  sits at home on paid administrative leave after bringing a water “pistol” to school and staging a mock assassination of President Trump. I seem to recall a child with ADHD was suspended for making a “meanie gun” out of a pop tart.

    Superintendent Green, meanwhile, is urging school officials to show love to local illegal immigrants to help them assimilate into the school district.

    “Imagine how hard it is to come to a new country and start life over without familiar ties to family, culture or language,” he said. “DeKalb schools give an anchor to our new citizens. Our role as school leaders is to help learning in our schools to become love – love for a new place, a new way of life and, ultimately, for one another.”

    How about showing some love for American citizens by getting in line and applying for citizenship? Help illegal aliens assimilate? Does Stephen Green realize what he is asking? Harboring illegal aliens? Teaching our children that laws are irrelevant? Irrational diversity has made us hypocrites and weak.

    We charge parents with assault for spanking their children while we applaud the parents of illegals who catapult their children over our fences. Children’s Services will remove an American child from the home if they don’t have a bedroom, but allow six illegal families with ten children cram into a two bedroom apartment. We provide “free” lunch to starving children in the public school system yet don’t prosecute the parents for child abuse for not feeding their children, despite receiving hundreds of dollars in monthly food stamp benefits. Something has to give, the system is broken.

    Didn’t someone say that elections have consequences?

     

    140 student languages in suburban Georgia school district

     

  • Ninth Circus Court of Appeals

    No, that’s not a typo, that’s a well-earned nickname. After reading Ex-OS2’s post, I got to wondering who these clowns were, and how many rings they had. I found some items of interest, and thought I’d share. First, it’s area of responsibility is huge, encompassing Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, and the Territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. It’s the largest of the 13 Courts of Appeals, with 29 active judges. Being so large makes for some unusual circumstances concerning the composition of an en banc court, where normally all active judges are seated. It’s “impractical” for all 29 judges to hear and deliberate on individual arguments, so a limited en banc review is held, consisting of 11 randomly selected judges. This is not an ideal situation, and can cause conflicts of law when the en banc panels deliver contradictory opinions.

    Which brings up the claim that the Ninth’s findings are the most overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The real answer is, that depends. In my admittedly brief research on the matter, I’ll paraphrase Mark Twain’s definition of a gold mine as a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it, as an article with statistics is an agenda with a journalist standing next to it. The reality is SCOTUS can cherry pick its calendar, and overturns around 70% of the cases it hears. And I most certainly am not a journalist.

    So, who makes up the court? I’ll not go into specifics, but the preponderance of judges were appointed by Presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama. The three in question who found against Trump are Judges William C. Canby, Richard R. Clifton, and Michelle T. Friedland, appointed by Presidents Carter, G.W. Bush, and Obama, respectively.

    Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) claims he’s planning to introduce legislation soon to break up the Ninth, and create a new Circuit Court composed of Arizona, Nevada, Montana, and Alaska to relieve an “oversized and overworked” Ninth Circuit. With the Republicans holding both houses and Trump in the White House, this could get very interesting.

  • The Trump Seven; 72 Confirmed

    The Trump Seven; 72 Confirmed

    Is that guy seriously throwing down some gang signs?

    Since 9/11, 72 individuals from the seven mostly Muslim countries covered by President Trump’s “extreme vetting” executive order have been convicted of terrorism, bolstering the administration’s immigration ban.

    No women and children in this image.

    According to a report out Saturday, at least 17 claimed to be refugees from those nations, three came in as “students,” and 25 eventually became U.S. citizens.

    The Center for Immigration Studies calculated the numbers of convicted terrorists from the Trump Seven:

    — Somalia: 20

    — Yemen: 19

    — Iraq: 19

    — Syria: 7

    — Iran: 4

    — Libya: 2

    — Sudan: 1

    No women and children in this image either.

    The Center’s director of policy studies, Jessica M. Vaughan, based her blockbuster report on a 2016 report from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, then chaired by new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, that report found that 380 out of 580 people convicted in terror cases since 9/11 were foreign-born.

    She received further information on many in the report to conclude that 72 of those convicted of terrorism come from the seven nations target by Trump.

    From her report seen here:

    These immigrant terrorists lived in at least 16 different states, with the largest number from the terror-associated countries living in New York (10), Minnesota (8), California (8), and Michigan (6). Ironically, Minnesota was one of the states suing to block Trump’s order to pause entries from the terror-associated countries, claiming it harmed the state. At least two of the terrorists were living in Washington, which joined with Minnesota in the lawsuit to block the order.

    Pretty sure there are no women and children in this image either.

    Thirty-three of the 72 individuals from the seven terror-associated countries were convicted of very serious terror-related crimes, and were sentenced to at least three years imprisonment. The crimes included use of a weapon of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit a terror act, material support of a terrorist or terror group, international money laundering conspiracy, possession of explosives or missiles, and unlawful possession of a machine gun.

    In dismissing the Trump executive order, San Francisco’s Ninth Circuit court of appeals said, “The government has pointed to no evidence…that any alien from any of the countries named in the order has perpetrated a terrorist attack in the United States.”

    Proponents of the president’s ban said that Vaughan’s findings should provide Justice with the evidence they need to win their case.

    Wait, bingo! I see two toddlers and a teenage boy on a Galaxy S7. Open the gates!

    Nancy Pelosi’s vineyard digs could accommodate many refugees.

    President Trump’s vetting order is clearly legal under the provisions of section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which says that the president can suspend the entry of any alien or group of aliens if he finds it to be detrimental to the national interest. He should not have to provide any more justification than was already presented in the order, but if judges demand more reasons, here are 72.

    Europe is suffering the consequences of their open border policy by allowing thousands to pour in. They have been attacked from within and finally realize that it was a bad decision. Some European nations are now compensating “refugees” to leave while we pay them to stay. The United States has also experienced terror attacks from sea to shining sea. Our new President, Donald Trump is attempting to temporarily pause entry to those that wish to enter our country from nations that have historically sponsored terror and it is clearly legal for him to do so. The Nutty Ninth clearly made a political ruling, ignoring the fact that there have been terror attacks on American soil by citizens of countries listed in the Executive Order.

    Why would any American not want their President to do everything in his power to protect them?

    Report: 72 convicted of terrorism from ‘Trump 7’ mostly Muslim countries

  • Rosie the Riveter

    I’m something an aviation buff, which isn’t surprising considering my career path as enlisted Naval Aircrew, and now a Naval Aviation mission systems tester. I especially admire WWII birds, and there’s one that doesn’t get the limelight it deserves- the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. It was big, heavy and carried metric assload of smack-you-in-the-face goodness. Affectionately called “The Jug” by its pilots and maintainers, it was first employed as a bomber escort and in fighter sweeps. Unfortunately, it lacked the legs for the long-range bomber missions; those duties would eventually be performed the sleek P-51 Mustang. Where the Jug shined was in the ground attack arena. It’s eight Ma Deuce .50 caliber guns and up to 2500 pounds of external bombs and rockets capacity were used to great effect; it destroyed rail cars and locomotives, armored vehicles, trucks and barges. Its legacy lives on in the A-10, officially named the Thunderbolt II. Shift gears.

    Rosie the riveter is an American cultural icon, representing women who, in the dark times of WWII, stood up, rolled up their sleeves, and took the places of the men called off to war. The jobs they took in the shipyards, factories, and assembly lines across the US provided the US military and the allies with the materials to crush the Thousand Year Reich and the Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere. They were good at their jobs and knew it, and that pride shined through. Which brings us around to this:

    WWII-era plane mystery: Who are Eva and Edith?

    By Andreas Preuss, CNN

    (CNN)Their identities may have been lost in time, but now the search is on for two women who scrawled their names inside the wing of a WWII-era fighter plane.

    A grease pencil signature says “Eva & Edith” and was found on a P-47 Thunderbolt by AirCorps Aviation, who is restoring the plane.

    The specific plane, model P-47 D-23RA, that had the Eva & Edith signatures was completed in 1944 at Republic Aviation’s Evansville, Indiana plant, according to the AirCorps website.

    But the Eva & Edith wing panel was actually built at the Curtiss-Wright Company in Buffalo, New York. Due to high demand, some plane components had to be built in other factories, Sara Zimmerman with AirCorps told CNN.

    Thousands of women worked at the plants as part of the US war effort. Their work was immortalized as the iconic “Rosie the Riveter.”

    “A lot of times, you hear about the folks that flew them, the Aces and the missions they took part in. But, often, the folks that went to work here at the home front kind of get a little overlooked, military historian Kenneth Grant told CNN affiliate WFIE.

    More than 6,000 Thunderbolts were manufactured at the Evansville factory during the war. The plane, also known as T-Bolt or “Jug” — short for Juggernaut, was a large and fast fighter/bomber that saw combat in Europe and the Pacific.

    Notes, signatures and measurements were often written on the inner surfaces of aircraft during the manufacturing process — sometimes for convenience and sometimes for posterity, AirCorps said.

    AirCorps is asking anyone with information about Eva and Edith to contact them.

    “Could these two ladies have possibly fathomed that 72 years after becoming part of the ‘army at home’ their signatures inside a P-47 would still exist as evidence of their contributions?” the website mused.

  • Free Speech; Berkeley Style

    Free Speech; Berkeley Style

    The University of California, Berkeley’s Chancellor and chief of police both refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing, or even mistakes, in their response to last week’s riots on campus.

    Chancellor Nicholas Dirks defended his school’s response to the violent riots, arguing that they in no way hurt the prestigious university’s reputation of protecting First Amendment rights on campus.

    Diversity is written all over that banner of mostly un-hooded folks.

    “I don’t think we’ve been tarnished at all. In fact, I have been hearing from people across the country that we have indeed honored our tradition and that we have been exemplary in terms of our commitment to freedom of speech,” Dirks explained, criticizing “representations of what happened here” that he feels disregarded or misrepresented the facts to portray Berkeley as a hostile environment for free speech.

    Threats of violence is the pillar of our democracy and very foundation of free speech according to Berkeleyism.

    “There are lots of representations of what happened here that I think are being driven by political agendas that have no particular regard for the evidence that is part of this or any of the facts or truth that surrounds it,” he asserted.

    Is that a hammer and sickle?

    Throughout the interview, both Dirks and UC Berkeley Police Department Chief Margo Bennett refused to place any blame on the school for “not doing enough to enable the speech to happen,” nor for preventing rioters from forcing its cancellation.

    Bennett then defended the apparent passivity of her officers during the riot, insisting that confronting the vandals would only have made the situation more volatile.

    Law enforcement officers following orders.

    “I don’t think so, I mean certainly we can be criticized for a lot of things,” Bennett said in response to whether or not she had made any errors in judgement. “I don’t believe it was the wrong thing, because had we gone out there, two things would have happened: The black bloc group would have gotten energized by our presence, and number two they would have turned around and started attacking our police, which means our use of force would have escalated. I believe we made the right decision.”

    Law enforcement officers in riot gear protect the UC Regents while students protest tuition increases in March 2015, 30 students attended the protest.

    Hazmat specialists clean up toxic fuel and burnt metal. Students for a Greener Berkeley were not available for comment.

    Ironically, the Free Speech Movement that began on the campus of UC Berkeley in 1964 was in protest of the universities ban on on-campus political activities in addition to other civil rights issues. Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, the guy who doesn’t understand budgets and sexual harassment laws, was insulated by the riots behind a new $700,000 security fence at his campus residence. He describes UC Berkeley’s support and simultaneous condemnation of the Berkeley College Republicans right to host the event in the “Chancellor’s message on campus appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos” here. Mario “I am not a communist” Savio was seen rolling over in his grave while Jack “Don’t trust anybody over 30” Weinberg was unavailable for comment.

    Heckler’s veto, absolutely.

    Berkeley defends police passivity during anti-free speech riot