We Wouldn't Know It If It Hit Us In The Face
California has banned (with 3 other states) "legacy admissions" -- giving priority to admissions of the children of alumni, worrying about favoring "white or wealthy students." I suppose that assumes that no alumni who are minorities are wealthy? And I assume that they'll still give preferential treatment to minority applicants? So it's not preferential treatment or even "white" that is the issue, but the stereotypical "all whites are bad" concept here. Reversing racism doesn't make it any less racist.
(As an aside, my title of this section reminded me of a line. "I saw something hurtling toward me. I wondered what it was. Then it hit me." But ... I digress.)
Ultimate Antisemitic
Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel as a "revenge attack" for Israel killing Hezbollah leaders. Mind you Hezbollah leaders are not Iranians. Mind you, Hezbollah leaders (along with Hamas) have been working hard for the genocide of Israel. Mind you, almost all the missiles were shot down. But, hey, if you have the world on your side in favor of genocide against Israel and you think that gives you the moral high ground, fight on, Iran. It's not true, but ... (And, oh, Iran, that particular enemy has a serious bite ... and their missiles are effective.)
Pushback
A teacher in Virginia, fired for something he didn't say, will receive $575,000 from the school board in compensation. He wouldn't use transgender pronouns because they violated his faith. He couldn't use pronouns that were "inconsistent with the student's sex." And, of course, despite the complaints, the statement is absolutely correct. Our culture confuses "sex" with "gender," but, no matter what you think, sex doesn't change, regardless of what the expression of that sex ("gender") may be. This victory pushes back on the current position that truth is no longer acceptable.
Message Received
Home Depot has an ad out for a fancy thermostat. The tagline is, "Be comfortable in your own home." The wife turns this thermostat to 72°. The husband, sitting in his chair with smartphone in hand, surreptitiously turns it down to 69°. The wife frowns and takes his phone away. The message is clear. "Be comfortable in your own home" ... as long as you're a wise wife who knows what's best and certainly not if you're one of those stupid, useless, "male" types. You're out of luck. Got it. Thanks.
Another Yawn
The VP candidates debated. I couldn't have cared less. We clearly have no more standards of dialog, decency, or honesty. I can't imagine what listening to this banter would tell me.
Fake News You Can Trust
Seriously, I loved this Bee headline. "Idiot Noah Builds An Ark When He Could Have Just Paid More Taxes To Stop Climate Change." Perfect. Spot on. The states hit by Hurricane Helene are apparently out of luck. FEMA is reporting they spent their funding on a sweet PowerPoint presentation about racial equity. And now, it seems, the Ayatollah is frantically googling to find out "how to build one of those Iron Dome thingys ... fast."
Must be true; I read it on the Internet.
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We Wouldn't Know It If It Hit Us In The Face
Got to love the double standard. They were all outraged when the preferential treatment of minorities in college was overruled. And you're right, not all alumni are white and wealthy, so now they're doubly hurting any leg up minorities have for college. Sure, there may be a majority of those alumni that are white, but that's simply how math works. White people have historically been the vast majority of people in this country, and still hold a majority, which is why we even have the term "minorities", there are fewer of them. There're only two ways I see that changing, a demographic change, which is a long process that they've been working on for decades, or simply ban white folk from college all together, a much faster way, but admittedly a bit more than most people would be willing to accept.
Ultimate Antisemitic
How Israel has survived it's short life surrounded on all sides by countries and peoples that want them all dead can only be attributed to the work of God.
Pushback
We're finally starting to see the courts realize the insanity of the trans ideology, at least in it's push to force everyone to accept them as they wish to be accepted. I admit, it didn't look good hear the beginning there, and there's still a long way to go to bring rationality back to this country.
Message Received
Since Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz are being pushed in the media as the new and improved version of masculinity, I think the last 40 years of media portraying men as brutish and selfish has had it's intended effect.
Another Yawn
From what I've heard, that debate was a better watch, less snarky back and forth, more measured responses, at least from Vance. Nothing I was interested in and it served no purpose for the actual election. We're not electing the VP, so what do we care how they debate? Only way that matters is if we live in an age of rampant killing of presidents, which it seems we might be coming up to soon. So maybe who is the Republican VP matters a little more than it used to.
Fake News You Can Trust
My favorite part of the Ayatollah article was the suggestion at the end that Israel would be selling them an explosive Iron Dome, a la the pagers.
"I saw something hurtling toward me. I wondered what it was. Then it hit me." I did not see that coming!
Now, Stan, don’t you know that only women have that internal thermometer to know the perfect temperature for the house (and all outdoors, as well)? Men weren’t given this in their design. (Some of us women even know when the humidity is out of the ideal range.) Years ago, one’s mother might say, “I’m cold. Put on a sweater.” Now one’s wife will say, “The house is not cold; only you are cold. Put on a sweater.” See, it’s a female thing. You can’t argue with biology. ;)
As for the VP debate, I agree that there wasn't much there that was going to change anyone's mind. Although Walz calling himself a "knucklehead" for lying and repeating it for years, should have moved some people.
I did think that Vance did a much better job of actually answering the questions asked, staying within the limits, and generally appearing to be the complete opposite of the ogre he's portrayed as. It wasn't much, but it was something, overall (and I didn't watch the whole thing) it was much more civil and respectful than the POTUS debate.
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