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Tuesday, March 21. 2023

Tuesday morning links


 Academia is adrift in a sea of low standards. The demand to make classes easier comes at a time when classes are as easy as they ever have been. 


 Illegal immigration to cost New Yorkers $10 billion in 2023, US $150B


 Miami Beach mayor declares state of emergency - "We don't want spring break in our city"


Manhattan prosecutor's office reportedly  'in chaos'


 Russian Hoax to the 10th Power Is the Way To Describe Prosecution of Trump. The political left will go to any means to stop Trump from becoming president again.


 Tenured Professor Amy Wax, Under Siege for ‘Truth Telling’ on Race, Makes Her Case. Can the tenure system at America’s universities survive the campaign of a critic of academia’s reigning ideology?


MacDonald:  The Great Abdication - In California, public officials now favor the lawless and deviant over the law-abiding and hardworking.


 France's government survives no-confidence votes and controversial pension reforms will move ahead


I don't understand. Who gets pensions in France? 



South Africa update


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It'd be some beautiful schadenfreude to see academia make college degrees virtually worthless by dumbing everything down to the degree universities are virtual paper-mills just churning out degrees after the checks clear. Maybe then there could be a reset where we decide a degree has worth for the academic rigor that went into it. Needless to say the Victim Studies departments would be the first thrown on the funeral pyre...beyond worthless.
#1 Hoss (Link) on 2023-03-21 11:07 (Reply)
Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/eight_startling_and_uncomfortable_ways_the_democrat_party_emulates_the_nazi_party.html
#2 feeblemind on 2023-03-21 11:24 (Reply)
Only 8? I’ll go read.
#2.1 B. Hammer on 2023-03-21 11:34 (Reply)
Biden is not only after your gas stove but also your fridge and washer

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/biden-is-not-only-after-your-gas-stove-but-also-your-fridge-and-washer
#3 feeblemind on 2023-03-21 11:26 (Reply)
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late

Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c
#4 feeblemind on 2023-03-21 11:28 (Reply)
Yes, as Dean Wormer over at Faber College would say, those scientists are darn well placing all of humanity on double secret probation!
#4.1 JJM on 2023-03-21 11:49 (Reply)
Is this the FINAL warning, or just another final warning? Because I have lived through at least half a dozen final warnings.

I just lived through the 14th coldest winter on record, in Denver. The records only go back 150 years, but still the climate change cult said this wouldn’t happen.
#4.2 B. Hammer on 2023-03-21 12:12 (Reply)
It's the quasi-pre-penultimate-subject-to-further-amendment final warning.
#4.2.1 JJM on 2023-03-22 06:53 (Reply)
I would like to go with the "it's too late" so I don't have to keep supporting the government funded "scientists" with more tax dollars. It would also put most of the EPA out of business. Win, win, win.
#4.3 indyjonesouthere on 2023-03-21 14:09 (Reply)
How bad does it have to get before John Kerry stops flying private jets?
#4.3.1 JustMe on 2023-03-21 14:52 (Reply)
This is great news. This means that if we don't fulfil the scientists' diktats now, it'll be too late, so we can all just give up and forget about it.
#4.4 DeGaulle on 2023-03-22 09:17 (Reply)
And this time they really mean it, just you wait and see!
#4.5 Hairless Joe on 2023-03-22 09:17 (Reply)
"Pensions" in the France article are comparable to the USA's social security in that everyone gets them.
#5 James Graham on 2023-03-21 12:08 (Reply)
There is a theme in most of the posted stories today. Perhaps that wasn't intentional, it didn't have to be because most events in the news today follow that theme. It is in a nutshell black crime. South Africa has become a killing field not just of whites of course but whites will be genocided and all that will be left will be the blacks. Tampa doesn't have a "spring break problem" they have a black crime problem. But you can't say that out loud can you? And that is why the problem will continue and get worse.

White supremacism is a thing in politics. Not because there are any actual white supremacists except maybe the ones paid for by the FBI and DOJ. It is a thing because the Democrat party made a conscious decision that the way to gain and hold power in the future was to flood the country will immigrants from shit hole countries and turn all POC against the citizens of European descent. It's obvious, you can see it everywhere and it's working. What do you imagine that the latest stupidity of reparations is all about. Obviously they cannot actually give $5 million to every black there simply isn't that much money available. So why initiate this stupid agenda? Because first of all it will unite the black voters to vote for those politicians who backed this stupid idea. But secondly the left knows this is impossible and they fully expect conservative politicians to point this out, Then, of course, the leftists will tell their black constituency that the reason they won't get their $5 million is because white supremacists politicians denied them and you must vote for leftists to get what you deserve.

This will probably end very badly It appears that the left is intentionally drumming up racial hatred that will at some point be unleashed into the streets making us follow in South Africa's footsteps. What can be done??? The left has an answer; they MUST take your guns. Think about that.
#6 Anon on 2023-03-21 12:22 (Reply)
Unfortunately I have to agree with you on most or all of your above statements. And, the idiots are doing it to all of us. Think about that.
#6.1 JC on 2023-03-21 13:36 (Reply)
"White supremacism is a thing in politics."

Because they represent such an insignificant and powerless demographic of losers than they can be used as an all-purpose scapegoat to deflect attention from real concerns.
#6.2 JJM on 2023-03-22 06:57 (Reply)
Well if they really want to, they will take my guns, but they will also take casualties while doing so.
#6.3 Hairless Joe on 2023-03-22 09:20 (Reply)
Can there be any better evidence of low standards than the University of Helsinki granting high-school dropout Greta Thunberg an honorary doctorate? I'd be ashamed if my alma mater did such a thing, thank God they don't even offer a doctorate in muffler repair.
#7 Jerryskids on 2023-03-21 13:57 (Reply)
"[T]hank God they don't even offer a doctorate in muffler repair."

Well, at least you'd have a professor with a useful skill.

But then again, maybe not, since the doctoral thesis that earned them their PhD would probably be something all about the intersectionality of muffler shops rather than muffler repair itself.
#7.1 JJM on 2023-03-22 06:50 (Reply)
An honorary degree in theology, that is. It's perfect, really: A useless degree in a useless discipline for a useless person. A very satisfying symmetry in that.
#7.2 Hairless Joe on 2023-03-22 09:23 (Reply)
Re: Illegal immigration to cost New Yorkers $10 billion in 2023, US $150B

They should take a page from the Martha's Vineyards playbook: proclaim loudly how you love and welcome "migrants" and put them on a bus to anywhere else as soon as they get there. After all, nothing says "love" like a free sandwich, a bottle of water, and a free bus ride out of (their) town! It reminds me of that warm and gentile greeting, "You ain't from around here, are you boy?"
#8 mudbug on 2023-03-21 14:01 (Reply)
The entire debate over race was fomented by communists as the class distinction wasn't working. Gramsci is the patron saint of racism and sexism in America. And you find it was no different in South Africa.
I have no problem with Africans going back to the mud hut lifestyle, whether in the US or any part of Africa. It is what they can maintain. Africans have voluntarily gone back to that lifestyle as they demand sitting at the ruling table and running things their way. There is no reason to keep subsidizing failure.
#9 indyjonesouthere on 2023-03-21 14:23 (Reply)
Well! She is wasting no time.
The Supreme Court threw out a federal appeals court decision on March 20 that upheld the right of a minor to go to court for permission to pursue an abortion without notifying her parents.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole member of the Supreme Court to file a dissenting opinion in the case, Chapman v. Doe, court file 22-312.
#10 OneGuy on 2023-03-21 14:30 (Reply)
Sun Tzu said that if you have to say you are a lady or mighty and powerful, then you are not.
Will the despised regime get their Ozymandias sign for all of FUSA?
It will be rainbow colored and say please no touchy, sign be all sharp and stuff, in 157 languages.
Someone should do an update on the morale booth in THX 1138 and have it sing the praises of the depopulation shot instead of commerce and buy more now.
Saw that comradette Jackson on the teevee while walking past and I thought did she file her finger nails or fart and now this is the "historic" update.
Clyburn of South Carolina said no Brandon without KBJ and when you are a compromised political puppet, you do as you're told.
#11 Barrier Of Destiny on 2023-03-21 14:45 (Reply)
Sun Tzu said that if you have to say you are a lady or mighty and powerful, then you are not.

Ditto for cool or hip. Folks who make statements like that are known as posers.
#11.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-03-21 15:08 (Reply)
a very much late to this commentary but - back in day day (and I'm talking some 50 years ago) a cousin and friend who were in the education faculty at UBC decided to take their two-week practicum at our place. Lets set the scene: cousin and bud were from Vancouver and we lived if semi-rural BC some 400 miles east. Anyway, cousin and bud turned up and had serious cultural shock. Not only were the teachers with whom they worked known to the family (did I mention Dad was a teacher at a school down the hill?), but they were expected to walk to the school and would find themselves being escorted by the kids in their classes. It was an interesting experience, but they enjoyed it.
The best part came, though, after the returned to UBC and ran into a prof who asked how the uni could make their experience easier. The unanimous response from cousin and bud was that the whole process had to be a lot more difficult - as in that they (the teachers) needed to have considerably mre knowledge about various subjects.
Rather doubt the various educations facilities have figures this out.
#12 Frances on 2023-03-22 22:29 (Reply)

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