Here things are more interesting re the Labour psycho drama. Angela Rayner (Big Ange) has mysteriously cleared her tax bill, leaving her free to make a run at it. Streeting is supposed to go but Starmer's allies claim that Streeting doesn't have the numbers. Ed Milliband might make a run for it (head in hands) and Andy Burnham is still looking for a seat. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/14/keir-starmer-live-rayner-wes-streeting-leadership-contest/
Kemi B was ON FIRE! That was Parliamentary speechmaking at its very finest. "Why don't you just do your job? Do your job!". And "There's no point in giving me dirty looks, we all know what he's been up to". I've watched her half a dozen times. it's great. UK would one lucky to have her as PM.
She has been rapidly cleaning house and there is time as Labour are desperate to avoid a General Election before 2029. I thought her takedown of Emily Thornberry was great: https://x.com/CrewkerneMan/status/2054591889379127799
The troubles for Reform are growing as Farage took some dodgy donations and didn't declare them. He also tends to dodge out of PMQ. A bit like jello as someone on here put it.
Badenoch has that oh, so rare, quality we call leadership. Clear vision, connection to common people and common sense, fearlessness in the face of a challenge. People will follow her. She has class (and human decency)! Too bad Trump - who has similar leadership qualities, but with neither the class nor decency - can't model the same style.
Kemi's latest is great -- I told Wes Streeting to do his job and he did a hit job. Labour have descended into civil war and that means that no one is running the country. https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/2054915344603430944
Streeting's resignation letter was scathing btw.
Current thinking is that Al Carns has an outside chance of becoming the next PM . He is the former SBS officer who entered politics to save the military.
Knew several of these stories, so didn't read; the others I skimmed.
Interested in something else stupid: Eye surgeon's assistant tested which of my eyes is dominant, and it turns out it's my left eye even though I'm right handed, fairly uncommon. It means that were I to take up shooting, I'd have a hard time shooting straight. That's too bad.
It's a fun test. Make your hands into a narrow triangle and look through it first with both eyes, then one at a time. One of your eyes, the dominant one, will see the same scene, and the other one will see everything shift. But I bet you all knew about this.
"While roughly 65% of people have aligned dominance (e.g., right-handed and right-eyed), about 18% are cross-dominant, such as being right-handed but left-eyed."
Naw... same/same, and with a little practice you can shoot straight. Matters more with rifles as most are designed for folks who are right handed. Military finally pulled their head out of their ass (okay, maybe just a little) and made new rifle requirements be ambidextrous. I am deadly accurate with a rifle that's designed to work left and right handed because I am left eye dominant.
Another way to do the dominate eye test is bring that triangle to your face, it will go to the dominate eye.
But.... shooting and shooting sports are unbelievably expensive, even more than golf!
I have the same issue, but I've learned to shoot straight. It also helps to install a Red Dot on your gun (I know, I know. I'm supposed to learn to shoot without it. Hey, I'm old and I'm night blind. I need all the help I can get!).
I wondered the same thing, and even whether the cataract in my right eye, forming for years and now almost a shroud although I can see shapes, traffic lights, and Walk/Don't Walk signs, has affected the dominance. Again, from AI:
Yes, eye dominance can change over a person's lifetime, though it is generally stable. While your dominant eye is typically determined early in life, it can shift due to age-related vision changes, eye injuries, or surgical procedures.Here is a breakdown of how and why eye dominance changes:
Key Reasons for a Shift in DominanceAge-related Vision Changes (Presbyopia): Around age 45 and older, natural changes in vision can cause a shift in which eye is dominant.
Surgery or Injury: Cataract surgery or, more commonly, refractive eye surgery (like LASIK) can cause a shift in eye dominance. For example, studies found that over 40% of patients experienced a change in eye dominance following cataract surgery.
Vision Loss: If the dominant eye loses visual acuity due to disease or injury, the brain may switch to relying on the non-dominant eye.
Forced Training/Habit: It is possible to train the non-dominant eye to become dominant, often through the use of an eye patch that obscures the originally dominant eye.
Fatigue or Stress: For people with weak dominance (roughly 20-25% are strongly dominant; others are just "more" one way or another), the dominant eye can switch when tired.
Yes, shooters tend to discover this cross-dominance early on. Easy to switch to L hand shooting with long guns made without R or L bias. If you can find one. The rear stocks of mass-produced rifles and shotguns almost always are bent (“cast”) slightly to help align with right eye. Lefties just have to adapt unless they can find the rare left-hand models.
I’ve always been curious how the cross-dominance affects athletes. If a player who bats R is L eye dominant, does he see the pitched ball better? Shooting a R-handed hook shot in basketball usually means, I think, aligning the basket, the L eye, and the R hand. Does cross dominance help with that shot? Was Kareem cross-dominant? Such important questions.😊
I can hit a line drive very nicely, actually. You don't want to get in its way. Or at least, long ago.
It never occurred to me that I couldn't do things -- send a crumpled-up piece of paper flying into a waste basket, for example. (One has to do something to impress young students. . . .)
If you do want to take up shooting...I'm right handed but left eye dominant as well. I shoot rifle off my left shoulder and trigger-finger is left handed, but shooting pistol, right-handed as feels most natural. In the Army, I shot expert right off the bat so nobody ever tried to make me change...
I can't imagine holding a rifle against my left shoulder (or pulling an arrow with my left fingers). It feels unnatural. Interesting that, right-handed as you are, you can do it!
When I was in elementary school, my science fair project was on this. Mom’s idea. I had people look through a paper towel tube and read a sentence then write down what they read. I’d note which eye and which hand they used. If only I could remember the results. I do remember that I was in the minority being right hand/left eye.
This morning AP website headline, "Kouri Richins, author of children's book on grief, gets life sentence for killing her husband." If that ain't enough, the next headline will read, "AP files appeal on behalf of the children of Kouri Richins."
Just more evidence that Democrats believe they are above the law and will cheat and play games to get the results they want. No different on a local scale than national Democrats wanting to pack the courts, make states out of DC and PR, let non-citizens vote and other such shenanigans. Why we permit a corrupt organization, now credibly linked to fraud in a network of NGOs providing kickbacks to donors and other such "pimps," to operate as a political party continues to boggle my mind. Especially when they cheer for our enemies in Iran and China and operate generally as a fifth column in American life. Look closely how your local Democrat "friends" operate on a local level. Here in Greenwich CT, they have engaged in all sorts of sketchy behavior when they take control of entities such as the Board of Education, violating charter provisions, long standing rules and engaging in cronyism on a deplorable basis. They are patently a party of cheats and liars and we all need to keep a very close eye on them Especially when we foolishly give them any power, on governing boards or in the judiciary.
A new development on the "pedestrian" story is that a group of passengers are suing the city. Not sure why I didn't want to use my limited free Gazette articles.
True but yes you experienced something awful and yes it probably greatly inconvenienced you but unless they are all a bunch of lawyers (which maybe they are) they'll get maybe some pocket change for a while lot of work.
I’m going to add to the list Nick Kristof of the NYT for his exposé on the bestial rape perpetrated by Israeli soldiers on the innocents of Hamas. Many have come forward to say it didn’t and couldn’t happen, given canine reproductive behavior. Leave it to the NYT to stoke the ugly antisemitism raging through this country. Are Israeli soldiers perfect? Absolutely not. But Kristof, the Walter Duranty of the 21st Century, took the word of his Hamas sources as gospel. Funny that the story dropped simultaneously with the Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children.
A story from the NYT like their contrived false reporting of "starving children in Gaza" that's nothing more than deplorable antisemitism. Running cover for Hamas barbarians and the majority of Gaza's population that supports them is shameless and amoral.
Beau Bergdahl is one such traitor that had to learn the hard way that the terrorists he sympathized with thought nothing of throwing him into a hole to let him rot.
Israel announced this morning that it will initiate a law suit against the NYT and Kristof for defamation. Remember, the process is the punishment. Discovery of emails, etc.. could be revealing as to motivation. Though it’s pretty obvious why they did it. Disgusting of the first order.
Yes, I was glad to hear of it. Kristof will cry Freedom of the Press!, but let's hope he's sued successfully for all he's worth. And that rag he works for.
with current make up of the Supreme Court, could see a lawsuit like this making it's way to them to take a look at Sullivan again
Strictly my opinion, but believe some of the press (cuts eyes at the NYT) hide behind Sullivan to publish obviously questionable articles, especially ones that support a specific viewpoint.
Seems to me that Sullivan has stood for the proposition that the Press can say anything. And that seems wrong on the face of it. But I haven’t read the case. The problem is, as you know, if you put limits on what the press can say, who is the arbiter of such speech ? Who gets to call balls and strikes ? And what are the consequences of balls ?
It is a slippery slope, to coin a term. Not sure how it could/would be policed, but there has to be some limits established as to how far the MSM can go in publishing defamatory product and then hide behind the shield of FOP.
I cannot stand in a crowded theater and shout "FIRE" when there is none - I have the freedom to shout it, but I am not shielded by 1A from the consequences.
Dog rape. Right. Hatred has driven the left absolutely insane. I saw a bar owner in Michigan was offering free beer if Trump gets assassinated. This level of hatred cannot be sustained. I don’t know how to stop it. The left’s answer is to express their hatred through violence and then explain it away as though it is moral action. They have so many targets for their hatred and are firing in so many directions, maybe they will turn on each other soon, à la Jacobin. Maybe that will end the hatred or at least make them see it in themselves. They are evil.
I think it is the greatest problem we have right now: stupid laws, unenforced laws, and lack of proper punishment. It is all political which is VERY dangerous to innocent folks. My son and his friend had their faces caved in by vagrants who had rap sheets with 23+ line items(gun felonies included) four years ago. In Fargo, ND. And they weren't white which follows the post-Floyd era script accordingly.
Yep, you put black people on the modern plantation of welfare where they have no dignity(of work or ownership) and then energize them on false narratives. It isn't good. That is and always has been the democrat way.
The British conned our government(democrats) into the Indian Removal Act of 1830 for cotton lands and then financed the Confederacy in support of insurrection. It has never ended.
So sad to see a place like Fargo going woke. My cousin in Oriska (about an hour from Fargo) was recently asked to stop teaching at her school because she was white. They imported too many people with dark skin. And we can't have that!
The one who attacked my son was harassing someone in a dept store about a month later and was then arrested and went to jail on a 10 year sentence. Who knows today as he might be roaming the streets again.
Last year, I think after the murder of the woman on the train in NC, a columnist at TFP made the point that our judicial system is basically giving crazy people 1 free murder before any serious attempt is made to take them off the streets. Also seems to apply to non-crazies, too.
There's a spate of white women getting very very hurt by black men in the news. The salient story for the Dog is the young white women who were attacked by a black male and then refused to press charges because they didn't want to put another black man in prison. So he was free to push an elderly white man down the subway stairs to his death.
When I lost my mind during the "great awokening" it was for this very reason. It ought to have been obvious to anyone that the 'defund the police,' censoring the reality of crime stats / demographics, and white people apologizing for being white would enable all manner of chaos, anti-white criminality in particular.
Cut to my friend in Chicago. He's in his early 60s, has three kids in junior high and high schools in Chicago. His kids are mixed -- Burmese Chin and he somehow managed to be 100 percent German-American. He says that the kids are obsessed with race, and that they're getting it at school. They are constantly berating their father for being white. They're pulling one daughter out of a 95% black school (I was surprised they entered her in this school, because they went to great lengths to put their son in a more diverse school to avoid being bullied by black kids for being "Chinese.")
The other day a chronically late student asked me when is the final exam. All of the information was written on the board. Regardless I told him that the exam would be held on Wednesday, and reminded him that when he's late he misses the lesson and announcements. He then said, But I'm sleeping in the library!
So yesterday everyone was assembled to begin the exam. One student (also from Africa) asked if he could retrieve his sleeping compatriot from the library...
Sadly, I agree. Why is Omar still free? Any other person in this country (note I didn’t say American) would be in jail for similar offenses. My Minneapolis friends love her. Omar can do no wrong. It’s just racism. I spend most of my time pulling weeds these days. A comfortable escape from toxic politics.
Curious why your friends love her. Have they ever articulated her values and how they align with theirs especially her negative views of the country that gsve her family asylum ( i tend to.view nations whose people need asylum as pariahs )
I think my friends believe what omar says, and they too are anti American because Trump. Besides Omar is so cute. There is no reasoning behind it at all. We live in separate realities with separate sources of information. It’s the same polarization that keeps this game going.
Cant wait to hear how ( or what) they celebrate on July 4. Are there any other nations in the world whose native born citizens hate there country more than so many here do. Hard to fathom how this all ends on a positive note ( of course the America haters would say that the destruction of America would be positive because then those who would have the power would redo America the right way, ie, their way, and utopia would rise from the ashes ( the ashes resulting from their seeking a better world)).
I’m rather nervous about our 250 celebrations. So afraid Democrats will ruin everything. Thinking we might visit Fort Ticonderoga. Should be fun and safe. I don’t think my Democrat friends celebrate the 4th at all . Please Lord, don’t let them protest on the 4th! I bet they will. AOC claims the filibuster is racism, and black women invented democracy, so maybe there will be a special edition of No kings, BLM , abolish ice, etc., etc. . So tired of it!
True. Basically, you just can't have one set of rules for whites and another permissive set for blacks without causing unbelievable problems. We are seeing the results.
The White Guilt is why it will never end. No matter how many of them are killed or maimed, they have a quasi-religious obligation to allow it to happen. Resisting would be 'racist.'
I can't help but think that that "Trespasser" on the Denver airport runway may have been more about attempted murder (how cool is it to take down a jet full of passengers) than about suicide.
All of these articles bring us back to the fact that something needs to be done to address the level of mental illness in the USA!!
The clerk of courts in the Murdaugh trial is a complete idiot. It was a riveting trial with damning evidence and without her meddling would have more than likely had the same verdict. She’s no better than the self absorbed grifting influencers infecting society. What do any of the attorneys here think about the likelihood of a retrial?
My take: the decision will be made weighing expense of retrial vs likelihood that his conviction on those other charges might keep him in jail for life anyway. I doubt anyone is worried that a retrial could result in “not guilty”. Just my take.
AND, the CIA just recently went into Tulsi Gabbard's office yesterday and took 40 boxes of records that were being vetted on the JFK assassination and MKUltra and other records.
Some of you may have seen Chris Rufo report that Newsom has funded tablets for every California prisoner. They can watch porn or whatever they want, apparently. The $150 or so normal cost, in California’s case, amounts to over $2,000 per tablet. Now where do you suppose the rest of that money is going?
I did see that. Yet another example of the Dems' NGO fraud. Same with Newsom's new program that gives California newborns 'free' diapers. The program's diapers cost about 50 cents apiece; meanwhile, diapers from the store cost about 15 cents apiece.
The fraud is easily recognizable--all you have to do is do the math.
Never underestimate the shear corruption and grift of CA democrats. They truly believe that their 'voters' are absolutely too stupid to notice and combined with their voter fraud, they are correct.
It seems that there's a certain mentality that thinks that nature is your friend. On the contrary, nature is absolutely ruthless, destroying anything or anyone who lacks respect for the power it has. Indeed, nature should not be anthropomorphized. Doing so is hazardous.
Indeed it is. While on vacation in Costa Rica a couple years ago, the body of a 12 year old local boy washed up on the beach near where we were hanging out for the day. We found out later, he had saved his grandmother and aunt from drowning three days earlier, but could not save himself from the relentless surf that is common down there.
Friends and I were tossing snowballs at the top of Mount Etna one February day, and that evening it erupted -- a splendid show from our hotel balcony, orange sprays and five lava flows rolling down its sides until, after dark, all you could see were the lurid orange fingers.
Here things are more interesting re the Labour psycho drama. Angela Rayner (Big Ange) has mysteriously cleared her tax bill, leaving her free to make a run at it. Streeting is supposed to go but Starmer's allies claim that Streeting doesn't have the numbers. Ed Milliband might make a run for it (head in hands) and Andy Burnham is still looking for a seat. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/14/keir-starmer-live-rayner-wes-streeting-leadership-contest/
Things might be on hold as attempts to get Starmer to quit of his volition continue. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-resign-wes-streeting-angela-rayner-latest-news-bv2k30xfc
Kemi completely owned the Commons yesterday. SHe is fast emerging as a force to be reckoned with. This is her demolishing Streeting: https://x.com/Conservatives/status/2054572631249080464
And this is a longer clip: https://x.com/Conservatives/status/2054629118151401603
IN terms of misadventure -- 3 female bodies were discovered in the sea off Brighton yesterday. They appear to be students after a night out who went in for a dip. https://www.thetimes.com/article/brighton-beach-bodies-found-news-latest-updates-0xnnd6vk8
Kemi B was ON FIRE! That was Parliamentary speechmaking at its very finest. "Why don't you just do your job? Do your job!". And "There's no point in giving me dirty looks, we all know what he's been up to". I've watched her half a dozen times. it's great. UK would one lucky to have her as PM.
And the longer version link is even better! A must watch. Too bad the Tories have soiled their own bed.
She has been rapidly cleaning house and there is time as Labour are desperate to avoid a General Election before 2029. I thought her takedown of Emily Thornberry was great: https://x.com/CrewkerneMan/status/2054591889379127799
The troubles for Reform are growing as Farage took some dodgy donations and didn't declare them. He also tends to dodge out of PMQ. A bit like jello as someone on here put it.
"Oh, I’m not done yet”. Just amazing.
Badenoch has that oh, so rare, quality we call leadership. Clear vision, connection to common people and common sense, fearlessness in the face of a challenge. People will follow her. She has class (and human decency)! Too bad Trump - who has similar leadership qualities, but with neither the class nor decency - can't model the same style.
And Streeting has now resigned. He is going to mount a leadership challenge -- who knows where it will go.
I agree with you about Trump's style.
Kemi was just great. She is really coming into her own and growing into the role.
There was a good op ed about Kemi being a true leader. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/13/badenoch-shown-what-real-leader-looks-like/ or https://archive.ph/aj8hs
Currently I have given up on the slow moving coup. It seems like it is going nowhere and Labour just look idiotic.
That oped was great. Basically, the writer just stole my ideas!😂
LOL
Kemi's latest is great -- I told Wes Streeting to do his job and he did a hit job. Labour have descended into civil war and that means that no one is running the country. https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/2054915344603430944
Streeting's resignation letter was scathing btw.
Current thinking is that Al Carns has an outside chance of becoming the next PM . He is the former SBS officer who entered politics to save the military.
YIKES! I'm going back to bed...
Knew several of these stories, so didn't read; the others I skimmed.
Interested in something else stupid: Eye surgeon's assistant tested which of my eyes is dominant, and it turns out it's my left eye even though I'm right handed, fairly uncommon. It means that were I to take up shooting, I'd have a hard time shooting straight. That's too bad.
It's a fun test. Make your hands into a narrow triangle and look through it first with both eyes, then one at a time. One of your eyes, the dominant one, will see the same scene, and the other one will see everything shift. But I bet you all knew about this.
Cool! I am right-handed and right eye dominant.... must be why I am very good at the gun range! 😜
Did you always know which of your eyes is dominant?
Nope! Thanks for the info!
I haven’t been to a range for awhile, but I used to be quite good. I’m surprised my dominant eye is left!
You too. Evidently not such an uncommon thing among JiPers.
Makes me wonder if there's a statistically significant correlation here. Hmmmmmmm.
At any rate, from AI:
"While roughly 65% of people have aligned dominance (e.g., right-handed and right-eyed), about 18% are cross-dominant, such as being right-handed but left-eyed."
Statistics may vary.
Naw... same/same, and with a little practice you can shoot straight. Matters more with rifles as most are designed for folks who are right handed. Military finally pulled their head out of their ass (okay, maybe just a little) and made new rifle requirements be ambidextrous. I am deadly accurate with a rifle that's designed to work left and right handed because I am left eye dominant.
Another way to do the dominate eye test is bring that triangle to your face, it will go to the dominate eye.
But.... shooting and shooting sports are unbelievably expensive, even more than golf!
Add the price of ammo to the range fee and it becomes hard to justify practice.
Think of it as an insurance premium. Which, of course, is another topic.
I have the same issue, but I've learned to shoot straight. It also helps to install a Red Dot on your gun (I know, I know. I'm supposed to learn to shoot without it. Hey, I'm old and I'm night blind. I need all the help I can get!).
Only about 15-20% of people have cross dominance. So you do too.
Just took it. My dominant eye is left, though I am right handed. But then, I don’t fit many molds.
I had never heard that test! But it appears that I am also left-eye dominant, even though I'm right-handed. Uncommon? Hmmmm.
same here. Too bad, because my right eye sees more clearly.
Interesting. I was wondering if my left eye might be dominant because my astigmatism is worse in my right eye. But that's not true in your case.
yep the astigmatism is definitely worse in the left eye. 👁️
I wondered the same thing, and even whether the cataract in my right eye, forming for years and now almost a shroud although I can see shapes, traffic lights, and Walk/Don't Walk signs, has affected the dominance. Again, from AI:
Yes, eye dominance can change over a person's lifetime, though it is generally stable. While your dominant eye is typically determined early in life, it can shift due to age-related vision changes, eye injuries, or surgical procedures.Here is a breakdown of how and why eye dominance changes:
Key Reasons for a Shift in DominanceAge-related Vision Changes (Presbyopia): Around age 45 and older, natural changes in vision can cause a shift in which eye is dominant.
Surgery or Injury: Cataract surgery or, more commonly, refractive eye surgery (like LASIK) can cause a shift in eye dominance. For example, studies found that over 40% of patients experienced a change in eye dominance following cataract surgery.
Vision Loss: If the dominant eye loses visual acuity due to disease or injury, the brain may switch to relying on the non-dominant eye.
Forced Training/Habit: It is possible to train the non-dominant eye to become dominant, often through the use of an eye patch that obscures the originally dominant eye.
Fatigue or Stress: For people with weak dominance (roughly 20-25% are strongly dominant; others are just "more" one way or another), the dominant eye can switch when tired.
Yes, shooters tend to discover this cross-dominance early on. Easy to switch to L hand shooting with long guns made without R or L bias. If you can find one. The rear stocks of mass-produced rifles and shotguns almost always are bent (“cast”) slightly to help align with right eye. Lefties just have to adapt unless they can find the rare left-hand models.
I’ve always been curious how the cross-dominance affects athletes. If a player who bats R is L eye dominant, does he see the pitched ball better? Shooting a R-handed hook shot in basketball usually means, I think, aligning the basket, the L eye, and the R hand. Does cross dominance help with that shot? Was Kareem cross-dominant? Such important questions.😊
I can hit a line drive very nicely, actually. You don't want to get in its way. Or at least, long ago.
It never occurred to me that I couldn't do things -- send a crumpled-up piece of paper flying into a waste basket, for example. (One has to do something to impress young students. . . .)
Maybe the cross-dominance helped you pick up the pitched ball more quickly!
If you do want to take up shooting...I'm right handed but left eye dominant as well. I shoot rifle off my left shoulder and trigger-finger is left handed, but shooting pistol, right-handed as feels most natural. In the Army, I shot expert right off the bat so nobody ever tried to make me change...
I can't imagine holding a rifle against my left shoulder (or pulling an arrow with my left fingers). It feels unnatural. Interesting that, right-handed as you are, you can do it!
When I was in elementary school, my science fair project was on this. Mom’s idea. I had people look through a paper towel tube and read a sentence then write down what they read. I’d note which eye and which hand they used. If only I could remember the results. I do remember that I was in the minority being right hand/left eye.
What astonishes me is that while we are in a very real minority, so many of us here use our left eye to see what our right hand is doing, so to speak.
This morning AP website headline, "Kouri Richins, author of children's book on grief, gets life sentence for killing her husband." If that ain't enough, the next headline will read, "AP files appeal on behalf of the children of Kouri Richins."
Interesting that a supposedly "journalist" site is filing an appeal. That's really going outside of "journalism" even under the Narrative Way.
cat, I made that up, see the "will? You have to know me, to love me.
lol I missed that. Well, that's a relief. 😹
Just more evidence that Democrats believe they are above the law and will cheat and play games to get the results they want. No different on a local scale than national Democrats wanting to pack the courts, make states out of DC and PR, let non-citizens vote and other such shenanigans. Why we permit a corrupt organization, now credibly linked to fraud in a network of NGOs providing kickbacks to donors and other such "pimps," to operate as a political party continues to boggle my mind. Especially when they cheer for our enemies in Iran and China and operate generally as a fifth column in American life. Look closely how your local Democrat "friends" operate on a local level. Here in Greenwich CT, they have engaged in all sorts of sketchy behavior when they take control of entities such as the Board of Education, violating charter provisions, long standing rules and engaging in cronyism on a deplorable basis. They are patently a party of cheats and liars and we all need to keep a very close eye on them Especially when we foolishly give them any power, on governing boards or in the judiciary.
It would appear that when the perp's Stupid is not up to the task, the "authorities" have an abundance to make up for it.
Ain't that the truth!
A new development on the "pedestrian" story is that a group of passengers are suing the city. Not sure why I didn't want to use my limited free Gazette articles.
Because it's gotta be Somebody's Fault. That, at least, is simple.
True but yes you experienced something awful and yes it probably greatly inconvenienced you but unless they are all a bunch of lawyers (which maybe they are) they'll get maybe some pocket change for a while lot of work.
I’m going to add to the list Nick Kristof of the NYT for his exposé on the bestial rape perpetrated by Israeli soldiers on the innocents of Hamas. Many have come forward to say it didn’t and couldn’t happen, given canine reproductive behavior. Leave it to the NYT to stoke the ugly antisemitism raging through this country. Are Israeli soldiers perfect? Absolutely not. But Kristof, the Walter Duranty of the 21st Century, took the word of his Hamas sources as gospel. Funny that the story dropped simultaneously with the Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children.
A story from the NYT like their contrived false reporting of "starving children in Gaza" that's nothing more than deplorable antisemitism. Running cover for Hamas barbarians and the majority of Gaza's population that supports them is shameless and amoral.
Yes and there are still plenty of laughable jokers on Substack who, every day, bring up the "Gaza genocide". The Jew haters will never stop.
Math and facts are a problem for those trolls. Of course, those things don't matter when hatred is their starting point. Haters will never stop.
Sickening and disturbing timing as well.
It was all-too-obvious what the purpose was when the Oct7 report dropped the next day.
Whores.
No kidding.
Hamastitutes
Yes very fine people
On both sides!😉
Yes. MotherTuckers on both sides. 😉
Beau Bergdahl is one such traitor that had to learn the hard way that the terrorists he sympathized with thought nothing of throwing him into a hole to let him rot.
Yes...I wonder what THAT moron is up to these days.
Much, much worse than whores.
Israel announced this morning that it will initiate a law suit against the NYT and Kristof for defamation. Remember, the process is the punishment. Discovery of emails, etc.. could be revealing as to motivation. Though it’s pretty obvious why they did it. Disgusting of the first order.
Yes, I was glad to hear of it. Kristof will cry Freedom of the Press!, but let's hope he's sued successfully for all he's worth. And that rag he works for.
Absolutely
with current make up of the Supreme Court, could see a lawsuit like this making it's way to them to take a look at Sullivan again
Strictly my opinion, but believe some of the press (cuts eyes at the NYT) hide behind Sullivan to publish obviously questionable articles, especially ones that support a specific viewpoint.
But I could be wrong
It will be tossed, but not before discovery, as Brian Katz has pointed out. Get the popcorn.🍿🥤
Except that I'm so furious, I'd choke on the popcorn. No popcorn for this show.
Seems to me that Sullivan has stood for the proposition that the Press can say anything. And that seems wrong on the face of it. But I haven’t read the case. The problem is, as you know, if you put limits on what the press can say, who is the arbiter of such speech ? Who gets to call balls and strikes ? And what are the consequences of balls ?
It is a slippery slope, to coin a term. Not sure how it could/would be policed, but there has to be some limits established as to how far the MSM can go in publishing defamatory product and then hide behind the shield of FOP.
I cannot stand in a crowded theater and shout "FIRE" when there is none - I have the freedom to shout it, but I am not shielded by 1A from the consequences.
Exactly.
Lies and slander are good legal boundaries to have.
Sounds good to me.
Who adjudicates this ?
Facts? Listed sources not gossip? Law suits?
Discovery is the stake through the heart of NYT v Sullivan. One of these days it will finally slay the vampire.
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Dog rape. Right. Hatred has driven the left absolutely insane. I saw a bar owner in Michigan was offering free beer if Trump gets assassinated. This level of hatred cannot be sustained. I don’t know how to stop it. The left’s answer is to express their hatred through violence and then explain it away as though it is moral action. They have so many targets for their hatred and are firing in so many directions, maybe they will turn on each other soon, à la Jacobin. Maybe that will end the hatred or at least make them see it in themselves. They are evil.
Maybe now the NYT will revert to a deeper dive into the North American Treaty Organization.
I think it is the greatest problem we have right now: stupid laws, unenforced laws, and lack of proper punishment. It is all political which is VERY dangerous to innocent folks. My son and his friend had their faces caved in by vagrants who had rap sheets with 23+ line items(gun felonies included) four years ago. In Fargo, ND. And they weren't white which follows the post-Floyd era script accordingly.
That's terrible.
Yep, you put black people on the modern plantation of welfare where they have no dignity(of work or ownership) and then energize them on false narratives. It isn't good. That is and always has been the democrat way.
The British conned our government(democrats) into the Indian Removal Act of 1830 for cotton lands and then financed the Confederacy in support of insurrection. It has never ended.
So sad to see a place like Fargo going woke. My cousin in Oriska (about an hour from Fargo) was recently asked to stop teaching at her school because she was white. They imported too many people with dark skin. And we can't have that!
Wow! That is crazy.
Keep making it known. Here in Minny I simply GLARE at Somali's as they pass through our smaller community... They know we are onto their theft.
I feel free to wish them all a speedy trip to hell under my breath!
That's horrifying! Did the attackers get punished this time? Or does Fargo have a Leftist infestation in their justice system?
The one who attacked my son was harassing someone in a dept store about a month later and was then arrested and went to jail on a 10 year sentence. Who knows today as he might be roaming the streets again.
Last year, I think after the murder of the woman on the train in NC, a columnist at TFP made the point that our judicial system is basically giving crazy people 1 free murder before any serious attempt is made to take them off the streets. Also seems to apply to non-crazies, too.
And unlimited free violent assaults before the free murder.
And after, as they are out (no bail) within about 30 minutes.
There's a spate of white women getting very very hurt by black men in the news. The salient story for the Dog is the young white women who were attacked by a black male and then refused to press charges because they didn't want to put another black man in prison. So he was free to push an elderly white man down the subway stairs to his death.
When I lost my mind during the "great awokening" it was for this very reason. It ought to have been obvious to anyone that the 'defund the police,' censoring the reality of crime stats / demographics, and white people apologizing for being white would enable all manner of chaos, anti-white criminality in particular.
Cut to my friend in Chicago. He's in his early 60s, has three kids in junior high and high schools in Chicago. His kids are mixed -- Burmese Chin and he somehow managed to be 100 percent German-American. He says that the kids are obsessed with race, and that they're getting it at school. They are constantly berating their father for being white. They're pulling one daughter out of a 95% black school (I was surprised they entered her in this school, because they went to great lengths to put their son in a more diverse school to avoid being bullied by black kids for being "Chinese.")
The other day a chronically late student asked me when is the final exam. All of the information was written on the board. Regardless I told him that the exam would be held on Wednesday, and reminded him that when he's late he misses the lesson and announcements. He then said, But I'm sleeping in the library!
So yesterday everyone was assembled to begin the exam. One student (also from Africa) asked if he could retrieve his sleeping compatriot from the library...
It will not end until enough white progressives and their loved ones are killed ot maimed. Their white guilt is now part of their DNA
Sadly, I agree. Why is Omar still free? Any other person in this country (note I didn’t say American) would be in jail for similar offenses. My Minneapolis friends love her. Omar can do no wrong. It’s just racism. I spend most of my time pulling weeds these days. A comfortable escape from toxic politics.
Curious why your friends love her. Have they ever articulated her values and how they align with theirs especially her negative views of the country that gsve her family asylum ( i tend to.view nations whose people need asylum as pariahs )
I think my friends believe what omar says, and they too are anti American because Trump. Besides Omar is so cute. There is no reasoning behind it at all. We live in separate realities with separate sources of information. It’s the same polarization that keeps this game going.
Cant wait to hear how ( or what) they celebrate on July 4. Are there any other nations in the world whose native born citizens hate there country more than so many here do. Hard to fathom how this all ends on a positive note ( of course the America haters would say that the destruction of America would be positive because then those who would have the power would redo America the right way, ie, their way, and utopia would rise from the ashes ( the ashes resulting from their seeking a better world)).
I’m rather nervous about our 250 celebrations. So afraid Democrats will ruin everything. Thinking we might visit Fort Ticonderoga. Should be fun and safe. I don’t think my Democrat friends celebrate the 4th at all . Please Lord, don’t let them protest on the 4th! I bet they will. AOC claims the filibuster is racism, and black women invented democracy, so maybe there will be a special edition of No kings, BLM , abolish ice, etc., etc. . So tired of it!
True. Basically, you just can't have one set of rules for whites and another permissive set for blacks without causing unbelievable problems. We are seeing the results.
The White Guilt is why it will never end. No matter how many of them are killed or maimed, they have a quasi-religious obligation to allow it to happen. Resisting would be 'racist.'
Their guilt is a cover for their own condescending racism.
So true.
I can't help but think that that "Trespasser" on the Denver airport runway may have been more about attempted murder (how cool is it to take down a jet full of passengers) than about suicide.
All of these articles bring us back to the fact that something needs to be done to address the level of mental illness in the USA!!
The clerk of courts in the Murdaugh trial is a complete idiot. It was a riveting trial with damning evidence and without her meddling would have more than likely had the same verdict. She’s no better than the self absorbed grifting influencers infecting society. What do any of the attorneys here think about the likelihood of a retrial?
My take: the decision will be made weighing expense of retrial vs likelihood that his conviction on those other charges might keep him in jail for life anyway. I doubt anyone is worried that a retrial could result in “not guilty”. Just my take.
Quick note: Robert Malone's post today about CIA whistleblower testimony on the CIA and Anthony Fauci's role in Covid is an important reveal:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-cias-war-on-oversight?r=a3dgf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
AND, the CIA just recently went into Tulsi Gabbard's office yesterday and took 40 boxes of records that were being vetted on the JFK assassination and MKUltra and other records.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2054722723834732776?s=20
Oh when you practice to deceive, what a tangled web you weave...
Some of you may have seen Chris Rufo report that Newsom has funded tablets for every California prisoner. They can watch porn or whatever they want, apparently. The $150 or so normal cost, in California’s case, amounts to over $2,000 per tablet. Now where do you suppose the rest of that money is going?
I did see that. Yet another example of the Dems' NGO fraud. Same with Newsom's new program that gives California newborns 'free' diapers. The program's diapers cost about 50 cents apiece; meanwhile, diapers from the store cost about 15 cents apiece.
The fraud is easily recognizable--all you have to do is do the math.
Never underestimate the shear corruption and grift of CA democrats. They truly believe that their 'voters' are absolutely too stupid to notice and combined with their voter fraud, they are correct.
maybe Newsom's wife is into the laptop grift/kickback too, just like the diaper one (apparently).
I studied volcanoes in college as part of my degree. You never ever mess with an active volcano. Ever.
It seems that there's a certain mentality that thinks that nature is your friend. On the contrary, nature is absolutely ruthless, destroying anything or anyone who lacks respect for the power it has. Indeed, nature should not be anthropomorphized. Doing so is hazardous.
Indeed it is. While on vacation in Costa Rica a couple years ago, the body of a 12 year old local boy washed up on the beach near where we were hanging out for the day. We found out later, he had saved his grandmother and aunt from drowning three days earlier, but could not save himself from the relentless surf that is common down there.
Red in tooth and claw
Friends and I were tossing snowballs at the top of Mount Etna one February day, and that evening it erupted -- a splendid show from our hotel balcony, orange sprays and five lava flows rolling down its sides until, after dark, all you could see were the lurid orange fingers.
It happens. Luck is interesting.
You indeed were lucky!
I am late today but Jupplandia wrote about The NYTimes horrible story today by Kristoff. All involved should be fired.