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The event is “for all who are interested in economics that serve people not profits.”
In a country of starving people, that may be more accurate than they think.

Somehow, I think Scripps will be more diligent in protecting the “platform” for the Venezuelans, than it would be for, oh say, Ben Shapiro.

Philip Sharp on identitarian favouritism in contemporary classical music:

Of the numerous competitions and schemes on offer for composers in Britain, a disturbing number contain politically-driven caveats as part of their application process as a means of realising the great idée fixe of our time, ‘diversity’… A joint venture by the Centre for New Music at Sheffield and Sheffield University, offering young composers the opportunity to have their music workshopped and recorded by the Ligeti Quartet… [has a] curious ‘two ticks’ policy:
“A ‘two ticks’ policy will be in place for female composers, composers who identify as BME, transgender or non-binary, or having a disability, to automatically go through to the second stage of the selection process.”
What should be an incidental fact about someone’s person now takes precedent over their craft. Composers who happen to belong to one of these select groups are given a pat on the back and a snide helping-hand by virtue signallers of the worst kind. They are not valued for their artistic endeavours, the time and effort they have put into their work. Instead, they are trotted out by the diversity apparatchiks as means of showcasing how wonderfully compassionate, forward-thinking and fluffy they are.

There’s more.

ticket revenue doesn’t even cover the cost of selling tickets.
Wait, what? That’s… wow.

and, rather tellingly, the first item here.

A couple of years ago, the then minister of education admitted that the aim of the regime’s policies was “not to take the people out of poverty so they become middle class and then turn into escuálidos” (a derogatory term to denote opposition members). In other words, the government wanted grateful, dependent voters, not prosperous Venezuelans.

They know we can hear what they say out loud, right?

They know we can hear what they say out loud, right?
It does rather reveal whose interests are paramount.

Philip Sharp on identitarian favouritism in contemporary classical music
I do think the whole ‘identify as’ nonsense will collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, when things like this happen more frequently – https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/09/transgender-weightlifter-laurel-hubbards-eligibility-under-scrutiny
Once the first tranny mentalist (or cunning bastard) wins a women’s singles tournament or similar perhaps this will stop. Or women’s professional sport will.

it doesn’t even go to the airport.
I’m going to go out on a limb here. Are the taxi drivers/companies substantial political contributors by any chance?

The jet setters can take their limos to the airport. The proles can stay home and reduce their carbon footprint. All as Gaia intended.

Occasionally I wander over to the Venezuela Analysis (Mark Weisbrot’s site) to see if they have any misgivings about their past views.
Nope. The catastrophe in Venezuela does not phase them in the least. Still resolutely socialist. These problems are, apparently, all caused by Trump.
Weisbrot is immune to facts, logic, or even basic decency. I used to view him with amusement. Now I see him as the face of unadulterated evil, the poster boy for those who would impose untold suffering for the sake of their political theories.

Are the taxi drivers/companies substantial political contributors by any chance?
I wouldn’t be in a position to know, but given that the taxi guys lost their battle to keep out Uber and Lyft, my suspicions in that direction would more lie with the numerous park-and-rides now available in the area. Or maybe just the tax revenue the P&Rs generate. That’s just SWAG on my part. Most likely it’s just Hanlon’s Razor. Idiot government at work.

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Will you be in overalls?

A knife-ganger speaks.
These, you’ll recall, are the kinds of creatures that we mustn’t call feral, according to several Guardian columnists.
That animal needs putting down.

The catastrophe in Venezuela does not phase them in the least. Still resolutely socialist. These problems are, apparently, all caused by Trump.
During the late Chavez period, before things had gone completely tits-up, though it was clear to anybody which way things were heading, I often wondered why the lefties didn’t blame the USA more for what was going wrong. After all, that’s always the standard lefty schtick – if something goes wrong in socialism it’s “because America”, obviously.
Then I realised that it was happening on Obama’s watch. Dreamboat Barack couldn’t possible be responsible for anything other than sweet perfection, so instead of plan-A (“because America”), the lefties were reduced to their usual plan-B to explain why socialism isn’t working (“because shutup”).
They must be so happy that Trump is now in power.

That animal needs putting down.
Having no religious subscription, I tend not to use the word soul; but after watching the video it occurred to me that, if souls exist, then the absence of one might look and sound like that.

But Labour’s Chuka Umunna says the way to tackle knife gangs is to not use the word ‘gang’.
The word that comes to mind is Voldemort.

I do think the whole ‘identify as’ nonsense will collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, when things like this happen more frequently
I doubt it. Not when…
“I think our view is that it’s a little bit unfair given that she began weightlifting as a man and has that experience in weightlifting as a male, then to carry on as a woman we think is a little bit unfair and gives her an unfair advantage,” Keke said.
…they still can’t just say it: he’s not a woman, he’s a man, and men are biologically different from women.

We may have finally reached “peak SJW” — a white liberal woman whose lesbian friend killed six black children, praising this murderous psycho as an “example of marriage and parenting” worthy of emulation. And, when her praise elicits (understandable) angry reactions from black people, she says this shows “how far we still have to go in race relations.”

Robert Stacy McCain on… well, see for yourself.

And before things get too grand round here, a cautionary tale.

The event is “for all who are interested in economics that serve people not profits.”
It’s a cookbook!
–Bad News

including a large number of criminal gang members.
Not to mention how many twenty/thirty-something 15 year olds there are.

That animal needs putting down.
With all due respect I don’t think you people listened to what he had to say. Sure, it was distressing and disgusting but the truth is often so. The gangster in the video is merely the manifestation of the unintended consequences of various other peoples’ choices and government policy. You can kill him and every one of his ilk only to see others (likely his “victims”) instantly fill the void.
Save some of your ire for your fellow citizens who support drug, prostitution, and gambling prohibition. Save some anger for the defenders of the welfare state – a state that encourages the most vile and shiftless people to continue a hedonistic, if bare, lifestyle unimpeded by real consequence. Keep a bit of hate back for the mothers the gangster mentions that are happy to feed their children to the underbelly so long as they can afford a mani/pedi.
You rightfully despise that gangster but he is not a rabid animal. He is a rational actor operating without compunction in the world we’ve created.

The event is “for all who are interested in economics that serve people not profits.”
In a country of starving people, that may be more accurate than they think.
Posted by: Burnsie | April 09, 2018 at 11:43
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Winner.

“for all who are interested in economics that serve people not profits.”
Serve people? When leftists say that they want to serve people, I always think of that Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man”: It’s a cookbook.

Meanwhile, in the world of “equality”, we find that all sports are “rigged” against wymxn.

Which is all to say: The games are rigged. Equality does not exist, and will never exist, in the world of sports. Until, that is, someone has the powerful genital fortitude to scrap the current understanding of what constitutes as a “sport” and designs one with the female skill-set in mind.

RTWT, the author, apparently an expert in all things sports by dint of being manager of a co-ed softball team, thinks there need to be “sports” (involving wohupeoplekind skills like “investment strategies” [WTF]) designed just for wxmyn, so that there can be sports equality – or something.

And yes, it’s real.

Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said on Monday that the article amounted to “prejudice”…Welsh Language Commissioner Meri Huws…Plaid Cymru MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd…Welsh language campaign group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg also voiced criticism…

The jokes, they write themselves.

@Farnsworth
Once again, we see the frustration of Progressives at any evidence which demonstrates that humans are not fungible commodities and that there are biological differences between–note “between” and not “among”–the sexes. And assuming we find these mythical competitions where women can excel, how do we then deal with the progressive love for “my sexual identity is what I say it is and oh, BTW, can change hourly” mantra, which threatens everything Title IX created way back when?
Lord, these people are morons.

designs one with the female skill-set in mind.
So beauty contests and quilting bees? Maybe bake-offs?

I hear there’s a new “Woke-Inator” probe attachment that’s available.
It probes like there’s no tomorrow.

More evidence identity politics is a hustle:
https://mobile.twitter.com/katvondawn/status/983386288073199617
I particularly like the “if you learned something today, then give me money” follow up tweets. The entitlement. It burns.

Meanwhile, when lost ball peen hammers are banned, only criminals will have lost ball peen hammers.

That’s not entitlement — that’s just hustle. You get one shot at a viral tweet — better make it count!
Perhaps so, Governor Squid, but it comes off (to me anyway), as “I’m going to call you a racist, and then expect you to pay me for the privilege”. As I said, it feels like entitlement.

But Labour’s Chuka Umunna says the way to tackle knife gangs is to not use the word ‘gang’.
The word that comes to mind is Voldemort.
Voldemoron more like.
No idea why the spam filter accepted my comment yesterday, it must have been distracted.

scrap the current understanding of what constitutes as a “sport” and designs one with the female skill-set in mind.
There’s nothing stopping women inventing their own sports. And even better, they can do it without having to scrap male sports. Everyone is happy, and nobody has to butt in to anyone else’s play – but where’s the fun and profit in that for feminists?
Sport definitely does trade on male archetypes – athletes with Greek statue physiques, quarterbacks as field generals, the boys on our team representing our tribe. Female sports that ape those male archetypes tend not to be popular – our tribal pride isn’t inspired by watching our dames beating up their dames (no matter how much the media tries to shame male sports fans into feeling it).
Many sports already cater to feminine preferences. Tennis, with its Victorian garden party origins, has always had a place for feminine grace and elegance. Women like equestrian sports. Women like sports where there are style points and judges to impress. Gymnastic flips on and off a horse? They already do that in circuses, but our friend has told us that female sport may not resemble sport as we know it.
These articles always have a ten year old offensive linewoman whose NFL dreams are crushed. Is it surprising that girls can compete with boys before the age when boys and girls are fully sexually differentiated, and then they can’t compete? Is it scandalous that most girls grow out of being tomboys and become more interested in girly things?
Now that we have 20 years of the WNBA setting nothing on fire except the NBA’s cash, and multiple failures of hyped-up female sport leagues, the rhetoric has changed from sisters doing it for themselves to finding ways for women to be included in male successes. An interesting recent one was the introduction of mixed relays for the 2020 Olympics. It’ll be interesting to see how that’s presented – for example will the order of sexes be fixed so the audience isn’t presented with the speed differences on the same leg, and if so the anchor leg will probably be female, so that the highlight-reel audience is left with the intended impression.

I see the spam filter is being capricious again. If anyone has trouble with comments not appearing, email me and I’ll pry them loose. It’s that or wait for me to remember to check on the filter, by which time the rest of us may well have raised families and moved on with our lives.

we find that all sports are “rigged” against wymxn.
Geez… it’s barely 9 am for me and I think I’ve read peak stupidity for the day!
Scrap away all the caricatures he engages in … e.g.

This disparity happens when a generation of parents give boys footballs and girls Barbie dolls for the first few years

And he’d have no article at all.

Check the spam filter will ya, Dave!

Check the spam filter will ya, Dave!
The only thing in the spam filter was your message asking me to look in the spam filter. I’m still not sure why she picks on you. Have you tried combing your hair and smartening up a bit, maybe with a suit and a clean shirt?
Or, you know, a shirt.

Have you tried combing your hair and smartening up a bit, maybe with a suit and a clean shirt?
Or, you know, a shirt.
I admit that, since I started working from home, I don’t cut quite the sartorial dash I once did.

I don’t cut quite the sartorial dash I once did.
What with Darleen and her Princess Tippy-Toes number, the bar’s been raised. I’m going to have to get the diadem and furs out of storage.

Do any of you folks remember a heartbreaking BBC documentary propaganda piece about the plight of the poor, innocent, misunderstood “travelers”?
I think I remember that. Titled Snatch wasn’t it?

Ah, travellers. Or Caravan Using Nomadic Twerps*, as my father calls them. About a decade or so ago some moved onto a couple of nearby playing fields, and each night they were there anti-social behaviour was the norm. One morning my father discovered that those delightful people had keyed his car during the night, for no other reason than that they could. The week they lived there felt like a month. The local council evicted them in the end, and believe me, there was much local rejoicing.
*The actual word he used may have been edited as there are ladies present.

SJWs as gatekeepers to medical school.
This will turn out well, donja think?

This will turn out well, donja think?

The AAMC has also successfully advocated for changes in medical curricula. A philosophy major, Kirch likes to tell the story of his unconventional journey to becoming a psychiatrist, stressing the importance of integrating perspectives from non-medical fields into medical training. He has repeatedly expressed his desire to move medical studies “away from the accumulation of facts” and toward “a new paradigm.” Whether this is scientifically sound or not, it has become the norm in many pre-med programs, which now offer “interdisciplinary” majors such as Columbia University’s “Medicine, Literature and Society” track or Cornell’s “Biology and Society.” A number of medical schools have also revised their mission statements to better align with the AAMC’s principles.
These changes might not seem worrisome at first glance. But when combined with Kirch’s political statements, the reforms raise questions about what the AAMC’s “new paradigm” will entail. Kirch often insists that social justice is the neglected core tenet of medical ethics; in a 2015 essay, he praised the White Coats for Black Lives movement, a medical-student organization inspired by Black Lives Matter, for “sparking dialogue rather than division” by “staging on-campus die-ins.” White Coats for Black Lives lobbies, among other things, for the creation of “national medical school curricular standards” that would mandate the teaching of “structural racism” and “unconscious racial bias” in medical schools.

The Clown Quarter has invaded medical schools. Oh, I had thought I would post something snarky here, but this is just too horrifying.

I fear not the Probe, for I am Fully Armed!
You mock, but evidently you never heard of the Gurkha who filed several Taliban to death after he ran out of ammo.
The Clown Quarter has invaded medical schools.
They have been there since the 1970s, they are just getting louder.

I laughed.
It’s becoming a grotesque comedy.

Julia has an extensive archive on the subject.
The very first entry caught my attention:

“Apparently the staff were threatened by the main leader of the traveller group not to get them arrested or they would trash the store. The staff then emptied many of the shelves because they were walking in an out and taking what they wanted, as well as using the toilets like a washroom.

No different from US inner-city “flash mobs”, then?
And no, no one here, even the police, will challenge them for fear of being called out as rayciss.
(No cop is going to try to police 40 or 50 “yoots” looting the corner store. That would only “escalate it”, see?)

The very first entry caught my attention
If you poke about over there, you’ll see just how readily the ‘travellers’ employ the language of victimhood too. They know a good ruse when they see it. And a shield from normal consequences. Which, in the case above, might entail being chased out of town with their vehicles on fire.
I think it was Theodore Dalrymple who pointed out that the indulgence of chronic freeloading doesn’t result in gratitude or civility, or anything approximating such things. The result is typically to embolden – to encourage selfishness, irresponsibility, predation and resentment, and an expectation of more indulgence, indefinitely, and regardless of the cost (and insult) to others.
Actually, any half-competent parent ought to know this.

Years ago, we had a very enjoyable holiday in Wales. But God help you if you venture into the countryside and need to ask for directions.

the indulgence of chronic freeloading doesn’t result in gratitude or civility, or anything approximating such things
This.