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At our glorious state broadcaster, that beacon of human progress:
Posts made on her Facebook page include calling Jewish people “Nazi apartheid parasites” that funded a “holohoax”. Her posts repeatedly attack white people, calling them a “virus” and “mutant invader species.” […] Other posts state that white people have disturbed the natural order of the planet, and that they are a “barbaric bloodthirsty rapacious murderous genocidal thieving parasitical deviant breed”.
Hiring the very best, I see. Ms Queva has also denounced her employer as the “Bigoted Broadcasting Company.” Don’t worry. I’ve hired a truck to help shift the pile of ironies.
Peter Saunders on forgotten knowledge, now all but taboo:
Noah Carl on the “diversity” trilemma:
Since social stability is paramount for most governments (winning re-election is hard when people are rioting in the streets), there are really only two ways to “solve” the diversity trilemma: by being picky with immigration, or by infringing civil liberties. To date, Britain has opted mainly for the latter.
And in technological news:
The educator in question, Mark Paterson, worries that black children “could end up interacting with white robots.” Specifically, “robots with reflective white surfaces.”
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Oh, and for those who missed it, how to stay poor.
The professor would be even more “concerned” if the robots were black.
That.
Apparently women’s football is facing “climate extinction” according to an article in the Grauniad.
Reads like a professional whiner…
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2024/feb/02/womens-football-climate-crisis-cut-ties-barclays-katie-rood
Related: Theodore Dalrymple on women’s football and propaganda:
The work of Shaitan! You sent the henchlesbians to send hair rays to pick my mind as you posted the new post!
Meanwhile, bad advice from Florida…
Right, got it. OTOH, seeing as how they never found the 2013 guy, maybe if you are having troublesome in-laws over?
My liberal relatives would react to that post the way vampires react to crosses.
“Reincarnation, it would seem, is not without a sense of humor.”
The “Garey Busey but not as sane” face you trust for advice.
Don’t bother to ask her about her pronouns; she’ll tell you soon enough.
Oh, and for those who missed it, how to stay poor.
From the article:
They could get $900/ month, or a lump sum. 75% took the lump sum because the monthly would reduce their benefits (EBT, WIC, etc.)
So a $6k trip will sort that problem.
Another:
I am not sure why someone making 70 large was eligible, but it is DC.
TBF, they only have a few examples out of the 132 in the program and not all were like the first.
Now some thoughts from the co-founder and director of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the University of Pennsylvania who thought some of the participants were too hard on themselves in the after action…
Of course..
Some years ago, I saw a YouTube clip of Ben Shapiro giving a talk at a high school, during which he made much the same point. A school administrator hurried over and prevented Shapiro from speaking further, before dismissing the attending students. Lest their minds be corrupted by a passing reference to reality, one assumes.
When they’re done would you mind terribly sending them over to The Wall Street Journal? They’re claiming Biden is doing a terrible job at the border by implementing the open border policies they’ve clamoured for.
The Guardian in its entirety reads like a professional whiner.
For readers of a certain age, on the passing of time.
I’ve gotten to the bottom of the comments, and nobody is complaining about the blog’s programming. I feel uneasy and disoriented. I may need to lie down.
For readers of a certain age, on the passing of time.
OTOH, time has passed agreeably without ever having heard of David Nicholls before, or as Worstall’s prior post notes, we really do need to tell these people to bugger off.
Speaking of people who should bugger off:
The Globe Theater is taking flak for casting an able bodied person as Richard III:
It added: “It is offensive and distasteful for Richard to be portrayed by someone outside the community….
Right, have to find some one with scoliosis and a roundworm infection then, however, quite OK for Richard III to be played by a woman.
Literature and drama degree programs tend to produce boring, conformist writers.
Can we prevail upon Lord Vetinari to build more scorpion pits?
Well. The natural order is the stone age, high infant mortality, open sores, short lifespan. She is free to return to that naturalness.
A man goes to play golf. He is informed by the golf pro that all the caddies have been replaced by robots. He tries one and it always selects the correct club and always spots the fall of the ball but the shiny surface distracts him; he suggests to the pro that they are painted black.
Next visit he is informed that they no longer have the robot caddies: “we painted them black”, says the pro, “ but the next day half of them did not turn up for work and the other half looted the clubhouse.”
The years accelerate but the days drag.
This is really about Taylor Swift, isn’t it? But then everything is about Taylor Swift lately. Or so it seems…I could be wrong…the odds, though…the odds…
Given it was written by Theodore Dalrymple, the odds are not in your favour.
why that’s Tracy Smart, AO Professor, Doctor, Air Vice-Marshal (Ret’d), Adelaide Crows (AFL & AFLW) supporter! See, “Smart”! Why it’s right there in the name!
Love MeDo I get. Sex Pistols I get. But Common People? Is that the song that I only know about because William Shatner did a quasi-parody of it? I say this after spending thirty seconds sitting here asking myself WTF the name of the guy who played Captain Kirk…speaking of passing of time…
And men’s pro-soccer is as boring as watching grass grow. Pro Golf, for heaven’s sake, is a far headier watch than soccer.
What is ‘exciting’ soccer? Kids games. Pre-pubescent boys or girls soccer games are quite entertaining and, for the most part, the kids are having a great time.
Of course, women’s pro-soccer may succeed once it becomes the next venue for men who can’t compete at men’s pro level.
Quoted without commentary :
“Joined by the children’s father”…
[ Glances nervously at door to Henchlesbians’ ready room. ]
I’m just going to leave this here and then hurry away, clutching the breakables.
Worried that lot will find them easier to score with than a basketball?
Meh. I can take it or leave it. Like Taylor Swift. Everything must come back to Taylor Swift…I used to be a fan of the NASL where scores were more 3-2 or so but watching a European style 1-0 snore fest is not worth my time. I don’t watch it on TV much, I can more enjoy it live (unlike Taylor Swift). Kinda like hockey. The OMFGOMFGOMFG IT’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GAME!!! IT’S WONDERFUL AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT YOU’RE JUST AN IGNORANT H8R H8R H8R turns me off though. Again, much like with Taylor Swift.
Is that the song that I only know about because William Shatner did a quasi-parody of it?
Hahaha – Shatner’s version was the first I heard that song, and I think I like it better than Pulp’s. It’s because the Pulp video on Vevo seemed sanitized – Shatner’s version seemed angrier. Damn good song, whoever sings it. Ok – found a full length version by Pulp, and that one’s better.
Heh…funny you should mention b-ball…I think of b-ball as the opposite side of the same coin. Especially the pros (which I haven’t watched since Michael Jordan days). There’s so much scoring that I don’t bother to pay attention much until the last 5-10 minutes. And the seasons as a whole, especially college lately, are irrelevant. Everyone makes the playoffs. And again not so much on TV but more if I attend the game. Partly because they are mostly played in smaller venues. Again, unlike Taylor Swift.
No worries, I find pro-basketball for either sex a complete bore. It was a game developed so young athletes could play indoors and stay in condition during winter months in Massachusetts. And it shows.
Related: Theodore Dalrymple on women’s football and propaganda:
Just discovered Theodore Dalrymple is a pen name for Anthony Daniels. My education is ongoing.
Another in the series of how Black Africans Invented Everything
Didn’t know they had electric clippers in sub-Saharan Africa centuries ago. Learn something new every day.
It’s a fair cop, guvnor.
They are doing the same thing here with women’s (ice) hockey – lots of forced excitement that there is a professional league, they’re selling tickets, etc. OK – good for them, but let’s not pretend you won’t see better hockey at a Junior B (club) game – and Junior B is the third tier of competitive hockey (for under 21s for those who don’t follow such things)
To be fair to Gary Busey (not to the Smart lady): he does have a crazy look and act but it was made worse by a severe car crash that crushed his eye socket somewhat.
Remember that news item a few years ago about a high school boy’s team defeating a professional women’s soccer team?
When you don’t have much to be proud of, lying to yourself can be tempting.
Those sports will never attract crowds. Beach volleyball, on the other hand….
[ Sidles prudently closer to the door. ]
Women’s sports: it just shows that Freud was right about penis envy, though he did not even imagine in a footnote that there were men out there with vagina envy.
Since men are about twice as strong as women (upper body strength, esp throwing and punching motions), spend far more time doing sports as kids, and have better hand-eye coordination (for example, on a lunch break a bunch of us guys were bored and started throwing small stones at a pine tree –maybe 10 inches diam–and every single guy could hit the tree at 20 ft almost every time), it should not be surprising that men are better at most sports. Men due to much greater muscle mass and bone density are much more able to take a hit such as colliding with another player. But all of that is so what. Is it really the case that women’s worth should be decided by a soccer game?
I must admit, this does have a certain appeal…
Remember that news item a few years ago about a high school boy’s team defeating a professional women’s soccer team?
The same thing would happen in hockey. A boys rep team of 16 year-olds would beat a professional women’s team. What would make it challenging for the boys though is there’s no body checking allowed in women’s hockey. So there’d be a lot of five on three hockey being played.
Immigration causes conflict between people with different ideas of the good life/public order. Asking immigrants to go home or for no more to come is unimaginable/racist,. Instead, a state diversity apparatus meddles in ordinary lives, officially to bring Utopia into being, in practice to crack down on the host population thinking that they can have an opinion or a political choice on immigration. It’s not a triangle of three Platonic values for philosophers to choose two from, it’s an underlying reality where a host population gets imposed on twice.
But if the women really want to be equal they should play men’s hockey. Right? 😁
Seems rather pointless then. If you can’t slam your opponent into the glass, how’s he (ok, she…no, wait…) supposed to learn anything?
Also, if AI was a real thing I should have seen an all-time NFL Taylor Swift lineup by now. You know, Lawrence Taylor MLB, D’Andre Swift RB, Jason Taylor DE, Doug Swift OLB, Fred Taylor RB…
No, obviously not. That’s what beauty pageants are for.
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It got community noted. The photo was manipulated. Here’s the original.
Nah. Some women enjoy playing sports, and they’d like it to be popular. Even if men’s sports didn’t exist they’d still like it to be popular.
Freud made stuff up. Most of us wimmin are just fine not being one of you.
One of the great joys, now mostly lost, of kids having free play (IOW, kids outside without any adult supervision) is making do or making it up when it came to pickup games of any sort. Someone got a ball? What kind? How many kids can we get? Where to play? Boys and girls engage in a sport together just for the fun of it.
I grew up on a block where it was mostly boys so I was the tomboy who helped round out the baseball teams. Or we rode bikes or skated or climbed trees or played Red Rover or dodgeball or made-up games with rules and if we didn’t like it, we moved on to the next.
Most of us accept that by a certain age, the sports that rely on physical strength means we don’t play on mixed teams anymore. But we still enjoy playing sports for sports’ sake, NOT to compete with boys.
Speaking of BBC employees:
It would seem that, for some, the wellbeing of gang rapists outweighs the wellbeing of their victims, and likely future victims.
Some of you may recall Ms Shellyne Rodriguez, the machete-wielding educator and “public intellectual” – the one who denounced expectations of civilised behaviour as “racism” and an “attack” on “women, trans people, black people, Latinx people, migrants, and beyond.”
Well, it seems our art teacher’s, shall we say, artistic temperament has gotten her into bother again.
The perfect yacht for David’s Lair of Evil.
he can be credited with coming up with some insights and some techniques, but his habit of treating those who dissented as heretics was unforgivable.
They see themselves as implacable enemies of the West, and friends of all who seek to destroy us. It is past time to treat them accordingly.
The problem is when women athletes demand equal pay and fame in spite of the much smaller fan base.
I wonder what it was about the violent, abusive, foul-mouthed, axe-wielding, racist, antisemitic criminal lunatic that first appealed to the Cooper Union School of Art?
Not a trivial question. Having become, shall we say, famous for being a danger to students, colleagues, and members of the public, she was nonetheless employed by another academic institution. Another leftist fiefdom.
Let me offer you something wholesome and refreshing to start the week – because puppies make everything better.
I photographed the last five remaining pups of a litter that were born in a cave in East Tennessee. A group of volunteers went out during the snow and sub-zero temps in mid-January to rescue them and their mother; while two of the original ten sadly succumbed to the elements by the time they got there, all remaining dogs were saved and are doing well. Hopefully, these last five – Chert, Dripstone, Dolomite, Limestone, and Flowstone – will find homes. And if I had to estimate, I would say they have a bit of Mountain Cur in them, a breed native to Appalachia.
Another in the series of how Black Africans Invented Everything
Meanwhile…
Awwwwww.
I think you just said it.
Today’s word is trundle.
Apparently our cities are not violent enough.
I’m trying to imagine the problem to which the device above is supposedly a solution.
Easy: He wasn’t getting enough attention.
[ Rolls hard-boiled egg along bar. Fluff accumulates. ]
Don’t worry, it’s pre-shelled.
Say, do you remember the Pride Pillar in London Bridge station, this is the guy behind it (NPI) and evidently MBEs have become as silly as Biden giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to that Rapinoe soccer clown.
Not much improvement.
Oooh! Second breakfast!
Indeed true. But it is some improvement. And deceivers need dealing with.
And farther down that thread we read that he jokes(?) about sexually abusing young boys.
Speaking of which, remember that South Park episode about a gay man who wanted to be a scout leader and take young boys on camping trips? Trey Parker and Matt Stone heaped scorn on any who would question his motives and prohibit him from doing so–that would be “intolerant”, doncha know.
Some women enjoy playing sports, and they’d like it to be popular.
The supermarket chain that sponsors women’s football in Ireland has put out an ad campaign urging people to smash inequality by filling every seat at games. Which is a strangely put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is approach compared to the usual. Who’d have thought that for the price of a ticket to a women’s football match you not only get to smash the patriarchy but as an added bonus you get to see a women’s football match.
The surveys are quite interesting too – 59% of people admit to never having attended a female sporting event (41% have attended … what?), 74% think it’s a shame that people don’t attend female sporting events, over half the population think there’s a high quality of women’s sport. Which would suggest that the majority have no ill-will towards women playing sport and have nice things to say about it when prodded, but just aren’t interested in watching it.
Yet more evidence that our cities are not violent enough.
♪♫Down in the west Texas town of El Paso,
If you get busted they’ll ask your pronouns♪♫
Diversity™ is Important!
The 8th Air Force was unavailable for comment.
“We need all diversity of thought…”, irony can be pretty ironic.
Excepting Fort Worth, the major cities in Texas are run by the left/liberal/progressive sort.
and for those who missed it, how to stay poor.
The reason these articles always highlight irresponsible, unsympathetic people is deliberate. They’re not trying to sell UBI, they’re trying to increase social division by forcing readers into two camps: the men and not-brown people who will be disgusted by the waste of taxpayer money, and the women and brown people who have been primed to see this as their just desserts from an unfair society. It’s Bezmenov 101. See also George Floyd, Treyvon Martin, Michael Brown, and…
The sudden interest in women’s football thus has a bogus feel about it, like the simulated enthusiasm of a crowd for the dictator in a communist state.
It’s always about weakening sociey so it can’t defend itself.
What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper?
For some reason I find this very calming.
Sounds as though you need more fluff.
I was hoping for a Full English.
Full English.
It was kinda weird seeing them defend Diversity, when the real principle is that none of society’s institutions should randomly exclude people, especially not based on complexion. Because it’s just plain wrong.
I thought the armed services had already been doing pretty well by insisting on race-blind meritocracy, by putting mission readiness first, and wouldn’t you know, racial minorities did just fine when judged by objective criteria.
What on earth are they proposing they do differently?
Yes indeed. They’ve been doing that for a long time, and doing it well.
The only possible explanations for the left’s DEI demands are stupidity, corruption, and malice.