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Turkey. It’s what’s for leftovers for a week.
28 Thursday Nov 2019
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Turkey. It’s what’s for leftovers for a week.
27 Wednesday Nov 2019
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A few years ago, I read that the number of colleges in America, way too inflated, was going to fall by about a third within ten years. It’s well underway. The fly-by-night$ are dying all over. Now, cursed by their own stupidity, the smaller liberal colleges decline too.
The financial struggles of New England liberal arts colleges have been in the news lately. “Marlboro planning to give campus and endowment to Emerson College” describes the end of 73 years of operation in Southern Vermont. “Can small liberal arts colleges survive the next decade?” (Christian Science Monitor)
A friend who has worked at the highest levels of college governance said that these bastions of righteousness in which white males are blamed for most things are having difficulty recruiting white males. Why does that matter? “Once the men stop attending,” he noted, “then women don’t want to enroll.”
Get woke, go broke. Good on ya, men.
27 Wednesday Nov 2019
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The angry mustache suggests that America’s enemies are within. Say it isn’t so.
Former Trump administration advisor John Bolton said that the United States’ commitments to national security are “under attack from within” in a tweet Tuesday.
“It probably goes without saying, that our country’s commitment to our national security priorities is under attack from within. America is distracted. Our enemies are not,” Bolton wrote.
Yes, we know that. Or, could this be a sign of a change in the neocon stripes?
26 Tuesday Nov 2019
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Coca-Cola hasn’t been the same since they toned down the original key ingredients. Sprite ain’t much better. But, they be “woke.”
This latest creation borne out of the Cultural Marxist laboratory, which just happens to be a commercial for Sprite, a beverage produced by the Coca-Cola Company, features several adolescents preparing for their attendance at some rainbow-festooned event on the streets of a soulless urban jungle. If the ad feels more like a documentary than a promotional for carbonated sugar water that’s because no actor is ever seen quenching their thirst with the drink. Instead, the product has become a vehicle – a veritable Trojan horse – for driving home a hugely controversial issue into the living rooms of millions of Americans.
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In the Sprite TV ad, an apparent mother [the word ‘apparent’ is necessary since the term ‘gender’ has become an entirely fluid concept defined solely by a person’s feelings, which may change at a whim] opens the action to the sound of melodramatic melodies as she applies eyeliner on her apparent biological son. Cut away to scene two. Yet another apparent mother helps her apparent daughter wrap herself into a corset to conceal the fact that ‘she’ has breasts. Heaven forbid! Whether a mastectomy is on the horizon for the ‘girl’, together with a lifetime commitment to testosterone injections, the audience is none the wiser.
Next, an apparent grandmother dotes over her apparent cross-dressing grandson as he dons a mauve wig before wiggling in uncontained excitement, together with Baba, at their reflection in the mirror. I’m struggling to imagine a grandmother that would ungrudgingly accept such a scenario, but in the fizzy pop reality world of the Coca-Cola Company anything is possible.
What’s missing in this corporate-sponsored trip to the far side of insanity? Well, for starters, common sense. After all, is it really wise to award hero status upon pubescent teens over their sexual orientation, which is oftentimes confused at best? Teenagers are already greatly influenced by the myriad messages they are bombarded with daily over social media. Do they really need a Fortune 500 company promoting a lifestyle, namely transgender, which carries with it an entire rainbow of untold risks? The liberal media rarely reports it, but there are thousands of youth right now attempting to reverse the bodily harm they have done to themselves by trying to physically become the opposite sex, which is – it needs to be clarified once and for all – absolutely impossible.
If you were looking for a dead canary in the mine, here he is.
Vox Day mentioned this commercial a week or so ago. I didn’t seek it out then, and I haven’t watched it now. There’s just no need, especially so soon after breakfast. What’s the goal here? Keep pushing the lunatic agenda at all costs? There’s no point in boycotting Coke or any of the other converged companies. Well, there is, but that’s up to you. We could easily find ourselves with no modern conveniences at all.
Now, I’m thirsty. For water.
26 Tuesday Nov 2019
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I’ve completed my mark-up of THE SUBSTITUTE. Hopefully, I’ll have a few minor corrections made by this evening. The plot is utterly unchanged. The pagination will be adjusted. I’m fixing a few typos. And, I decided that Vicky only needs to get engaged twice once. The margins are another issue – in some copies, the top is a little short. In others, it’s fine, or at least good enough. I’ll tinker with that.
And, over the Thanksgiving break, I plan to plug away at AURELIUS, a continuation of the Ironsides’s saga. And, there’s another novel simmering. I’m aiming to get one or both of those out sometime shortly after New Year’s.
26 Tuesday Nov 2019
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academia, college, decline, education, LGBTQ+VP&C, Notre Dame U., SWJ
The wise, but nameless SJWs of South Bend attempt the destruction of a finer school.
Activists at the University of Notre Dame are demanding a radical transformation of school policies and curriculum to purportedly cater to the desires of non-white, LGBT, and female students.
A student group calling itself “End Hate at ND” has issued a list of demands and has held multiple campus protests in an attempt to bring about those changes.
Included in the list are calls to “Decolonize Academia” and “Implement Diversity Training In Each Dorm.”
“No course or program of study should have a view limited to white, western, and/or male voices,” the group says. “We demand that people who are of Color, Indigenous, Black, queer, or not male are represented in the authorship of at least half course and major required readings. Diversifying the canon helps eliminate the violence of only privileging white scholarship.”
Violence? Eliminate the white male scholarship, and you eliminate the University. And, the West. That, one supposes, is the goal. Maybe these rats should shun other white violence, like electricity, medicine, cars, computers, and making demands. I demand they do so – go protest in the woods somewhere.
My niece, one of them, attends ND. At Christmas, if I remember (probably won’t), I’ll have to ask her how they razz and ridicule the mental snowflakes.
25 Monday Nov 2019
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This won’t help. Add in the DNC one-percenter.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s essentially limitless budget for his Democratic presidential bid adds uncertainty to an already crowded and unsettled race while increasing the odds of a prolonged nominating battle in a contest that has yet to produce a definitive front-runner.
We’ll have some definitive losers though. Still think it’s Warren, who is sick of freeloaders like DoomBerg.
24 Sunday Nov 2019
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This week’s feature column will deal with Thanksgiving and running. Look forward to it! And, ironically, within the past two weeks, I’ve spoken with both an orthopedic doctor and a former Olympic track athlete – and we all agree that WALKING is just as effective as running and much easier on the knees. Know that.
24 Sunday Nov 2019
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Expect more headlines like the following, only worse, in the future:
Two machetes and a knife were recovered after armed police swooped just after 5.30pm.
And disturbing images have emerged of a baby-faced teenager wearing a Camo jacket and holding what appears to be a large machete.
Footage also shows terrified crowds evacuated as cops arrested at least five people including a 13-year-old girl on suspicion of assaulting police.
Another girl and boy aged just 14 and a 19-year-old were also arrested, while a 14-year-old male was held on suspicion of obstructing police.
It is understood the violence broke out before or during a screening of the gang warfare film Blue Story and spilled out into areas where children were queuing to see Frozen 2.
Since the brawl, Vue has pulled the gang film, which follows two young friends who become enemies in a postcode war, from all its cinemas,
In a pre-recorded message to its viewers, the cinema service line said: “We regret that we will no longer be screening the film Blue Story at any of our venues.
Birmingham, ENG looks A LOT like Birmingham, AL. And also a bit like Mogadishu. Virant! Strong!
And, what a relief that the heritage residents gave up their guns and are now giving up their knives. I suppose that “teens” are still allowed some blades for cinema riot purposes. The only problem left (aside from eliminating the remains of that heritage poseperity) is the fact of violent movies like Frozen. Duh.
23 Saturday Nov 2019
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Quite the breach there, Google.
For well over a decade, identity thieves, phishers, and other online scammers have created a black market of stolen and aggregated consumer data that they used to break into people’s accounts, steal their money, or impersonate them. In October, dark web researcher Vinny Troia found one such trove sitting exposed and easily accessible on an unsecured server, comprising 4 terabytes of personal information—about 1.2 billion records in all.
While the collection is impressive for its sheer volume, the data doesn’t include sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, or Social Security numbers. It does, though, contain profiles of hundreds of millions of people that include home and cell phone numbers, associated social media profiles like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Github, work histories seemingly scraped from LinkedIn, almost 50 million unique phone numbers, and 622 million unique email addresses.
“It’s bad that someone had this whole thing wide open,” Troia says. “This is the first time I’ve seen all these social media profiles collected and merged with user profile information into a single database on this scale. From the perspective of an attacker, if the goal is to impersonate people or hijack their accounts, you have names, phone numbers, and associated account URLs. That’s a lot of information in one place to get you started.”
Maybe linking al those accounts wasn’t a good idea. Of course, it made logging in so easy. Faster access to the cat videos and such.