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https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-rwanda-submit-draft-peace-proposal-trump-adviser-says-2025-05-05/
From Paul Caron (TaxProf blog) via Instapundit:
New York University School of Law barred 31 pro-Palestine law school students from campus facilities and demanded that they sign away their right to protest in exchange for being allowed to return. If the students — deemed “personae non grata,” or PNG — don’t renounce their right to protest on campus, they will be unable to sit for final exams.
So there is one law school willing to do what’s right.
The official American eugenics society seems to have disbanded. It was a registered company, an Inc., and that company is not longer listed at the IRS or in New York State data base. Which is great news because it means that organized eugenics in the US has disbanded.
In the days of success for eugenics, the US and England each had a national eugenics society which incorporated with it all the differents trends and versions of eugenics, just as a Parliament or Congress might represent different regions or different versions of society. And the leaders of those national eugenic societies were always promoting a specific version of eugenics - focusing propaganda, leading campaigns, on behalf of sterilization say or abortion or the Nazis, getting grants and university positions for those who favored their outlook - and so on. These campaigns were always opposed within the society by at least one strong minority view. So for example, the Eugenics Society (of England) had strong Nazi supporters in leadership roles in the late Thirties but they were opposed by a left-wing eugenics led by HJ Muller and others and by a liberal eugenics led by CP Blacker and others.
The point is that when one version of eugenics, such as the Nazi version, failed the American national eugenics society was able to keep going by bringing forward a former minority which promoted a new, untarnished version of eugenics - such as the question of IQ and race or such as behavior genetics with its polygenic risk score.
And the point about the society disbanding is that its members must have decided that they have no version which is untarnished; that people are onto them whatever new banner they hoist, whatever shape-shifting they they indulge in.
Since the organized work of the American eugenics society
was always a poison in society; since its members were always looking for some group to label inferior and oppress through social policies, it's good news that the organization is has disbanded its national society.
Its former members might be scattered about in small groups like Horcruxes, hiding their identity and hoping to reunite someday, greater and more terrible than before.
But it very well could be that this youngest generation of 2025 for all its flaws is impervious to the appeal of the eugenic myth. The youngest adults among us simply will not look for a group to look down on for scientific reasons. (Of course, the youngest are dismayingly ready to be antisemites under the guise of settler-colonial theory but, honestly, that is another, separate kind of social evil.)
Maybe organized eugenics has ended. In my lifetime.
wildswan, we can hope! While we're hoping, let's hope the young decide to embrace plain old genetics and just have some kids already. I let forth a silent cheer whenever I see a family of five (which, because I live in Texas, is fortunately more common than where I am currently vacationing in California).
Following on from that... every time I come here, which is rather more frequently than for most because all our close family and many friends are here, I hear, "O California, California!" in the same tone in which I imagine Jesus cried out, "O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem!"
A Men-Only Publisher - Internet Reacts Poorly
60 Minutes kicking up the 2020 election dust?
Are they sure they want to do that?
Dolan and catholic cardinals of NY call out trump on his disrespect of the dead pope.Trump fires back says nobody can take a joke.Thats funny shit right what ya say Catholics? Lets see how long back and forth go, fuk blasphemy can't ya take a joke. Religious my ass...who was that group singingi g "losing my religion"
I highly recommend Rick Beato’s interview of guitarist Denny Dias on YouTube. Dias was a highly skilled, very unique guitarist who played on Steely Dan’s live shows (until they stopped playing live in the mid-70s) and several albums. A very interesting fellow with great memories to share.
I followed the link to the blog post from 2000 whatever, and then from there to Crooked Timber. It surprised me that they are still active after a quarter century or so. Someone there mentioned the Blavatnik School of Government. So help me, I thought that was a joke, but no. It's at Oxford and the BBC has a story about it.:
Rock-dropping seagull closes university building
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8kz05n25po
Also at the BBC:
Penis count debate rages over Bayeux Tapestry
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn05wyld45wo
And Trump wants to cut research funding ...
Thank God Trump is the punishment and not the punishment that erased Nineveh. Just saying.
I got a deal on Apple streaming watched the first season of The Morning Show. It stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carrell, but they don't play it for laughs. It dramatizes important feminist problems and, for the most part, does so very seriously. I did a slow burn for the most of it, but I got through the whole season. One segment aged particularly poorly The showed The Morning Show out in LA reporting on the wildfires. This was several years. The news they broke was that some wealthy landowners had arranged for their own private firefighters to protect their property. The story was presented as a kind of scandal. How dare wealthy people use their wealth to protect their property from the flames.....Oh, kiss off. The show militantly presents the feminist viewpoint on workplace issues, but the more recent LA fires are subversive to that viewpoint. After a rigorous, unbiased competition, the LA Fire Dept chose three lesbians for its top three executives and, at the time of the fire, more than 25% of the engines were down for repairs. The female Mayor was not present for the fire. There was not much cause to celebrate the feminist cause during those fires. As I understand it, the one part of town that successfully fought the flames was a private entity such as the one that was "exposed" by The Morning Show.......It's an okay show. The dialogue is punchy, if not credible, and the actors are appealing. Even so, the LA fires are exactly the wrong backdrop for drama about plucky feminists.
"NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) -- Air traffic controllers guiding planes bound for Newark Liberty International Airport lost radar and radio communication for over a minute early last week before flights at the key hub were snarled for days, according to people familiar with the matter.
The outage of those key systems occurred on April 28 and lasted nearly 90 seconds, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the matter because it isn’t public. Following the incident, multiple employees were placed on trauma leave.
The incident and resulting reduction in staffing contributed to a week of flight delays and cancellations at Newark airport that pushed United Airlines Holdings Inc. to cut 35 daily round-trip flights at the key hub, its biggest for international departures and a primary gateway for domestic flights.
The details, which haven’t previously been reported, paint a dire picture of the shortcomings at the Federal Aviation Administration operation in Philadelphia that guides flights into and out of Newark. The facility is understaffed and has experienced technology failures. When radar or radio frequencies stop working, one of the people said there are no fail-safes, meaning controllers must wait for the system to come back online.
In a statement, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association confirmed that the facility had 'temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control, unable to see, hear, or talk to them.'"
With all the airplane crashes and deaths that have occurred in Trump's first 100 days, Untrained Transportation Secretary Duffy needs to be fired. Former FAA director, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20, 2025, because Elon Musk wanted him gone because he fined SpaceX for multiple regulatory violations.
Iman said...
Dias was a highly skilled, very unique guitarist...
That's an understatement! Denny is amazing!
No, we want everyone to live long happy lives.
Change of topic: Scott Adams reported that as Europe was rah rah-ing the war in Ukraine, they were buying oil and gas from Russia. All those lives lost.
"Unhinged Democrat Jasmine Crockett Erupts After Trump Calls Her “Low IQ Person” During Meet the Press Interview"
The best reply might be I'm not so low IQ that I'd use a shovel as a writing pad, like Lincoln. Attributed by Thurber to Polk.
Check that. Nineveh was not destroyed. Miss information creep. Sorry about that.
Internet: “In the Bible, Nineveh was initially threatened with destruction by God for its wickedness, but was spared after its people repented upon hearing the prophet Jonah's message.”
Trump, Jon Voight meeting led to Hollywood tariff proposal, his manager says ~ CNBC
Another Trump announcement that was not thought through. No surprise here.
What always staggered me about Trump is how he is colossally ill informed about *everything*. This is yet another classic example of not even spending 5 minutes thinking things through, which to be fair he is entirely incapable of. He never asks the Charlie Munger question: “what next?”
Reagan, by contrast, was an averagely intelligent man who was aware of his limitations and who surrounded himself with first rate deputies, eg when they drilled him on Soviet history before meeting Gorbachev.
Trump wants to balance trade deficits by destroying the few sectors where the U.S. maintains surpluses. i.e. entertainment, education, and tourism. Par for course for him.
60 Minutes kicking up the 2020 election dust? Are they sure they want to do that?
They’re all all-in on the propaganda. They know it, we know it, they know we know it but there’s still bitter kningers that find them credible…and blog-able. Somehow it will all work out for them…
I saw Jon Voight coming out of Berckmans last year. It looked like he got into his own SUV. Yes, The Jon Voight SUV….
"Coast Guard Rescues Bikini Babes".
"Coast Guard Recruitment Goals Ahead Of Schedule".
" as Europe was rah rah-ing the war in Ukraine, they were buying oil and gas from Russia."
Where are they supposed to buy it? The whole point of the war in Ukraine was to collapse the Russian Federation so that they could have unlimited access to Russian resources at looters' prices.
Pakistan is begging Russia to mediate in their conflict with India, which is really funny, because, after we ordered Pakistan to arrest and imprison their president and replaced him because he made a trip to Moscow, the new president emptied their arsenals, sending it to Ukraine to use to kill Russians, and now they are facing a war with India, and according to logic, and some sources, they are wishing that they had their artillery back.
Incidentally, the crime that Imran Kahn was charged with was publicly referring to the true fact that the US had warned the Pakistani parliament of "severe consequences" if they didn't remove and imprison Kahn. They charged him with "revealing state secrets," right out of Kafka.
I have been having a good time watching manosphere style videos, and they explain so much about TV shows I never really understood. For instance, I always thought that it was sexism why the man in a sitcom tends to be a schlub and the woman is always beautiful, but really, it's because that's the way most women see their own marriages, that they are the perfect ones, and the man is beneath them, always in need of their "guidance." They don't do it for the men, although sure it helps ratings there, but primarily, they do it to validate women's feelings. It's really a twofer.
The Cocodona 250 ultramarathon will be passing through my town in a couple of hours, so I should see the first runners after I'm done with my morning run. First place runner right now has done 119 miles and almost 19,000 vertical feet in 24 hours 13 minutes. The also rans will be trailing through town for another day or so.
It appears updating air traffic control wasn’t part of “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Improvement Act”.
Lem Vibe Banditory said...
"Check that. Nineveh was not destroyed. Miss information creep. Sorry about that."
[Internet: “In the Bible, Nineveh was initially threatened with destruction by God for its wickedness, but was spared after its people repented upon hearing the prophet Jonah's message.”]
Eventually, though, it was destroyed, after they returned to business as usual. Not much left of it now, especially since ISIS looted it. Saddam wanted to rebuild it, but we know how that turned out.
"A major threat to Nineveh has been purposeful human actions by ISIL or Daesh, which occupied the area between 2014 and 2017. In early 2015, they first announced their intention to destroy the walls of Nineveh if the Iraqis tried to liberate the city and they also threatened to destroy artifacts and the destruction of archaeological heritage. On February 26 2015, video footage shows IS smashing statues and artifacts at the Mosul Museum. They are believed to have plundered others to sell overseas. The items were mostly from the Assyrian exhibit, which Daesh declared blasphemous and idolatrous. There were 300 items remaining in the museum out of a total of 1,900, with the other 1,600 being taken to the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad for security reasons prior to the 2014 Fall of Mosul."
yah, somewhere there’s video of Barack and his minions touting infrastructure spending and faa improvements when instead they blew all that money on beer and hookers
Leland said...
"It appears updating air traffic control wasn’t part of “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Improvement Act”."
File that, along with all those EV charging stations that didn't happen, under 'B' for Buttegieg.
According to Wikileaks, we created ISIS. ISIS is the terrorist outfit that only attacks enemies of the CIA, it's also true that ISIS apologized to Israel for killing an Israeli soldier. ISIS exists to create pretexts for us to attack places we want to attack but still claim it's "self defense." or "defense of others."
Elon Musk planning on stepping away from DOGE ~ WSJ
Musk only achieved 7.5% of his $2 Trillion goal, but I’ll bet he reduced government productivity far more than that.
We are seeing one small example at Newark airport...
But when you add up NIH, VA, FAA, SS, and pretty much every other department, the damage runs into incalculable billions.
His hidden method was to eliminate investigations into his businesses, damage OIG, and intimate the serfs in civil service. Mission Accomplished.
How about those two Game 7 in the NHL over the weekend! Incredible performance by Rantenen, taking control when it seemed his team was dead in the frozen water. And the Jets, alive after being just 1.6 seconds from death.
There is no movie or tv series that can create this kind of drama.
Free Luigi got a big boost from the police...
https://revolver.news/2025/05/just-in-female-cop-may-be-the-reason-luigi-mangione-goes-free/
Summer of Love starting at the University of Washington.
Will the Left “follow the science” of the recently released study by HHS on Treatment for Pediatric Gender Disorder?
Anyone who acts like it's significant in any way that Musk is stepping away from DOGE this month is demonstrating his gross ignorance of current events. When he was taken on it was announced that he would only be staying until late May, because it would be illegal to stay longer. There's a 130-day limit for such positions, and he could only be taken on long-term if became a regular government employee and divested himself of all his companies.
Ancient Nineveh today is Mosul, 2nd largest city in (northern) Iraq. More recently, Mosul was subject to ISIS for more than 3 years—2014 to 2017—until they were cleared out by U.S. led (principally Iraqi) forces under the 1st Trump Administration.
An extended quote from C. S. Lewis:
The real test is this. Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one's first feeling, "Thank God, even they aren't quite so bad as that," or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to the first story for the sheer pleasure of thinking your enemies as bad as possible? If it is the second then it is, I am afraid, the first step in a process which, if followed to the end, will make us into devils. You see, one is beginning to wish that black was a little blacker. If we give that wish its head, later on we shall wish to see grey as black, and then to see white itself as black. Finally, we should insist on seeing everything - God and our friends and ourselves included - as bad, and not be able to stop doing it: we should be fixed forever in a universe of pure hatred.
Certainly I see this tendency in myself, and I'm thankful to Lewis for pointing it out so that I can guard against it. But... I don't think I'm speaking without perspective when I say that I see this tendency as rather an organizing principle for today's Left. They cling (bitterly?) to the worst version of every anti-Trump or anti-right or anti-West story, long after mitigating facts have come out. And certainly self-hatred on a societal (though generally not a personal) level seems to be foundational.
I'm sure it all started, for most, with the best of intentions: self-mortification in order to elevate the oppressed Other. But they certainly seem to be "fixed in a universe of pure hatred" now.
Leland said...
"It appears updating air traffic control wasn’t part of “The Bipartisan Infrastructure Improvement Act”."
Yeah. It looks like "Build Back Better" didn't include air travel safety. Critical infrastructure is 20 to 30 years old,(Hello Clinton and Obama), with about half being over 50 years old. But by all means blame Trump.
I just watched the front runner Dan Green from West Virginia come through town. He was jogging along looking as comfortable as if he was out for an easy ten miler this morning. He's been running since 5:00am yesterday. He's got a 5 mile lead in the race.
I think I got Nineveh and Sodom and Gomorrah mixed up.
“He's got a 5 mile lead in the race.”
That can’t be true. Peer reviewed studies prove that women are better at long distance running. This person must be trans.
Courtney Dauwalter had the lead until late last night, and she's still in 13th place 22 miles back. So pretty impressive. It looks like she slept last night. The men really can't sleep more than a few minutes here or there to have any chance at winning.
Musk’s position was temporary, term limited to 130 days as a “special government employee”.
“government productivity”? Pull the other one, Sparky.
Dauwalter DNF'd, but Rachel Entrekin is in 3rd place only 6 miles back now.
Per Grok:
The best finish for a woman at the Boston Marathon is Sharon Lokedi’s course record of 2:17:22, set in 2025. The best finish for a man is Geoffrey Mutai’s course record of 2:03:02, set in 2011.
Men’s record is 14 minutes faster.
But what about ULTRAmarathons, Jersey Fled? I mean, anybody* can run 26 miles...
* Not actually anybody. Certainly not I. I hate running.
The women's marathon world record is 2:09:56, set by Ruth Chepngetich, just a bit over 8 minutes off the men's WR. Men are faster at all distances, but the women have been shrinking the gap. EPO is a hell of a drug, and they are all doping.
Madison's moonbattery knows no bounds:
https://x.com/madisondotcom/status/1919818226537533925?t=wVSejkL-1dh4Qpn5TNpwJA&s=19
"Big Ten universities come together for sporting events — they should be able to do it for existential crises, too, a sponsor of the resolution said Monday.
UW-Madison faculty seek 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration.."
How about those two Game 7 in the NHL over the weekend!
Of the 200 Game 7s in the 106-year history of the NHL, only five teams have come back in the third period from 2 goals down to win.
And we saw two of those on back-to-back nights.
Elon Musk had issued a controversial directive affecting federal employees, including air traffic controllers, demanding they submit weekly accomplishment reports or face forced resignation. In an email sent Saturday by the Office of Personnel Management—now dominated by Musk loyalists—controllers and other federal staff were ordered to list five tasks they completed last week and copy their manager.
“Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk posted on X, escalating tensions within key government agencies. The directive raises concerns about operational stability in air traffic control, a field where staffing shortages can have serious safety implications.
The move follows former President Trump’s call for Musk to take a more aggressive stance in his federal oversight role, emphasizing his commitment to reshaping government operations. Nice move nit wits ,,fix the fukking thing you messed up causing havoc all over the country,Fire em and they try to hire them back because your a dildo and work in a group of never could govern people. FIX IT!!!!
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