[The ROOT - 'The Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth'] Virginia Military Institute superintendent and retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins went to Facebook to respond to a white alumnus who questioned his push for diversity and inclusion at the college, reported The Washington Post. The newspaper claimed Carmen D. Villani Jr. had warned fellow graduates on a radio show that critical race theory had ’entered the VMI realm’ (as if it’s some alien object entering Earth’s atmosphere).
The institute had requested $6.1 million to begin an investigation to examine its ’racist and sexist culture,’ reported the Post. The money would also go toward expanding their Title IX offices by adding admissions counselors to cater to underrepresented students and rebrand the college’s Confederate ’tributes.’ Wins responded to Villani’s remarks about expansion of DEI in t - he VMI Facebook group.
From The Washington Post: Where I go for all my nuus.
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Looks like this buffoon answers to the Governor of Virginia:
Governance
The Board of Visitors is the supervisory board[13] of the Virginia Military Institute.[14][15] Although the Governor is ex officio the commander-in-chief of the institute, and no one may be declared a graduate without his signature, he delegates to the board the responsibility for developing the institute's policy.[15] The board appoints the superintendent and approves appointment of members of the faculty and staff on the recommendation of the superintendent.[15] The board may make bylaws and regulations for their own government and the management of the affairs of the institute,[16] and while the institute is exempt from the Administrative Process Act in accordance with Va. Code (which exempts educational institutions operated by the Commonwealth),[17] some of its regulations are codified at 8VAC 100. The Executive Committee conducts the business of the board during recesses.[14][18]
The board has 17 members, including ex officio the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Virginia.[15] Regular members are appointed by the Governor for a four-year term and may be reappointed once.[15] Of the sixteen appointed members, twelve must be alumni of the institute, eight of whom must be residents of Virginia and four must be non-residents; and the remaining four members must be non-alumni Virginia residents.[15] The Executive Committee consists of the board's president, three vice presidents, and one non-alumnus at large, and is appointed by the board at each annual meeting.[18]
Under the militia bill (the Virginia Code of 1860) officers of the institute were recognized as part of the military establishment of the state, and the governor had authority to issue commissions to them in accordance with institute regulations.[15] Current law makes provision for officers of the Virginia Militia to be subject to orders of the Governor.[15] The cadets are a military corps (the Corps of Cadets) under the command of the superintendent and under the administration of the Commandant of Cadets, and constitute the guard of the institute.[15][19]
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"Your resignation is accepted"
"But I didn't offer it?"
"Again. Your resignation is accepted"
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BLM finished 2020 with $60 million in the bank. They're in turmoil. They fired Cullors, the founder, for corruption & embezzlement. All the BLM leaders have run off.
[Babylon Bee] BURBANK, CA—Trans woman Amy Schneider's winning streak on Jeopardy has ended. Despite holding the record for Jeopardy’s highest-earning female contestant ever, Schneider was defeated after being confounded by the clue, ’this gender has two X chromosomes.'
"I knew I was in trouble as soon as I saw the category of ’Grade School Biology’," said Schneider. "I avoided the category until the very end, as basic biology has never been my strong suit."
Many in the audience saw the disaster coming a mile ahead. "What was Amy thinking betting so much in Final Jeopardy under that category?" said Daniele Dacus, a fan of Amy’s. "You never bet that high on such a complicated, theoretical subject, where so little of that field is understood."
Sources claim that the host even gave a clue that ’this is one of 2 genders’, but Amy still did not get the question correct. Amy started to answer the question by writing, "What is different and unique to each person based upon how they identify, because gender is a complex subject with no definitive answ—." but ran out of room. Consequently, Rhone Talsma was declared the winner by writing "What is Female?"
At publishing time, Rhone Talsma has been asked to renounce his win or else be labeled a transphobic bigot for the rest of his life.
[HuffPost] When a 30-piece orchestra attempts to perform songs from “South Park,” the results are bound to be, well, classic.
The venerable animated series debuts its 25th season Feb. 2 on Comedy Central. In honor of the golden anniversary, someone thought it was a golden opportunity to put a new spin on some of the show’s songs.
So, a full Broadway orchestra was enlisted to sweeten up what can be some very salty lyrics. For instance, there is now no secret what Kenny is singing in the show’s theme song. (Hint: It’s very NSFW.) See the videos at the link Continued on Page 47
[American Thinker] The Supreme Court is going to hear two cases about racial preference in college admissions that allegedly discriminates against Asian students.
In the 1978 Bakke decision, the Supreme Court said race could be a factor in admissions, but as anyone who is sat through an academic committee meeting knows, when race is a factor, it is the only factor.
Even though the Supreme Court in Bakke said that a set-aside for admissions, or quota, was impermissible, colleges and universities routinely use racial quotas masquerading as goals.
The consequence has been that highly qualified Asian students are rejected on trivial and subjective data, such as leadership skills and self-confidence, to increase the proportion of less qualified blacks and Latinos.
How do Asian students achieve high academic status and participate in a range of extracurricular activities while lacking in leadership, self-confidence, and other personality traits? The answer is that when it comes to Asians, the subjective evaluation process is a farce designed to discriminate against them.
Race-based admissions are not the exception but the rule. And no one but diversity, inclusion, and equity experts conducting so-called cultural audits has profited from this policy.
Colleges and universities are run by a professional class of bureaucrats. And if anything, members of bureaucracy know that the very essence of their work is their own survival.
To survive the political pressure of diversity, colleges and universities play a numbers game and reduce standards to produce a student population that will meet the espoused goals of cultural auditors and intrusive minority politicians.
A great deal of social policy is counterintuitive. Among the casualties of the policy are the very minorities it is supposed to advantage.
[Hot Air] Earlier this week the Supreme Court took up affirmative action by agreeing to hear challenges to the admissions process at two US universities. Today, NY Times’ columnist John McWhorter has a piece arguing that it’s time to end affirmative action, though he still favors programs that give preference to students based on income.
When affirmative action was put into practice around a half-century ago, with legalized segregation so recent, it was reasonable to think of being Black as a shorthand for being disadvantaged, whatever a Black person’s socioeconomic status was. In 1960, around half of Black people were poor. It was unheard-of for big corporations to have Black C.E.O.s; major universities, by and large, didn’t think of Black Americans as professor material; and even though we were only seven years from Thurgood Marshall’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the idea of a Black president seemed like folly.
But things changed: The Black middle class grew considerably, and affirmative action is among the reasons. I think a mature America is now in a position to extend the moral sophistication of affirmative action to disadvantaged people of all races or ethnicities, especially since, as a whole, Black America would still benefit substantially.
McWhorter makes the column personal by talking about his own daughters. The oldest is still not in high school so they are years away from applying to college, but he says that when they do, he doesn’t want the admissions panel judging them based on their skin color:
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The college admissions mafia will easily avoid it. They've already thrown away objective data and standardized testing requirements.
Plus, every college-bound kid now has an A- or better average, so the admissions process is completely arbitrary and up to the admissions committees' political/financial whims.
Aka
"building the class,"
"ensuring a diverse learning environment,"
"promoting equity and inclusiveness,"
"recognizing achievement within the local context"
... and all their other BS. They're simply applying backfire quotas + optimizing for revenue now. They've made competitive college admissions into a complete joke.
#8
I was at CWRU when the iranians took our embassy personnel hostage. the iranian students at the school marched in solidarity with the "revolutionaries." We threw beer bottles at them. The cops laughed. Then the administration put all the iranians together in one dorm. "For their safety." The good old days of higher education.
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M,
What's CWRU like now? How woke has it become, relative to other top institutions? Asking for a friend
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I have no idea. I know it shrunk in undergrad enrollment after I graduated (1981) but I have not been back and get no alumni mailings from them at all. I have no reason to believe it's any different from the rest of the horde these days.
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Make no mistake. I'm glad I went there, had some very excellent profs, classmates and friends from outside the university community. If I hadn't already had a job lined up after graduation, I might have stayed in Ohio. Lot of good people there. OTOH, glad I went where I did and did what I did. And glad I left the Peeholes Dumbocrapic Rethuglic of PeeAye. Just wish I'd thought to do it sooner...
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Thx. We all need to anticipate & start making plans for how we'll manage in the coming (cultural, maybe economic also) Great Separation
Some might argue it was necessary to counter the racism suffered by blacks. But two wrongs don't make a right, they only make two wrongs. Can't argue with equal rights and equal opportunity. Can't go any further than that.
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[Breitbart] Three conservative judges on a five-court panel struck down Pennsylvania’s 2019 expanded mail-in voting law that reportedly permitted 2.5 million people, the majority of them Democrats, to cast votes in 2020.
Basing their decisions on election laws passed in 1839 and 1923, the court ruled the legislature’s law unconstitutional. Pennsylvania’s constitution would have to be changed to allow mail-in voting, the court held.
"The Pennsylvania Constitution requires a qualified elector to present her ballot in person at a designated polling place on Election Day, except where she meets one of the constitutional exceptions for absentee voting," the ruling reads.
In 2019, the Republican-controlled legislature voted to permit mail-in ballots for additional reasons, such as illness and physical disability, which the judges deemed unconstitutional under the state constitution.
Gov. Tom Wolf (D) immediately announced he would appeal the decision to the state’s supreme court. "The Administration will immediately appeal this decision to the state Supreme Court and today’s lower court ruling will have no immediate effect on mail-in voting pending a final decision on the appeal," he said.
The ruling comes as Pennsylvania residents will elect a new governor and a U.S. senator in a hotly contested battle amid a 50-50 split senate. The ruling may impact the November election.
Donald Trump, who lost to President Biden in Pennsylvania by 1.2 percent, issued a statement in celebration of the news. "Big news out of Pennsylvania, great patriotic spirit is developing at a level that nobody thought possible. Make America Great Again!" he said.
Of the 6.9 million votes cast in 2020, 2.5 million of them were mail-in ballots, and most of those mail-in votes were cast by Democrats, according to NBC 10 Philadelphia.
Republican candidates and Trump supporters made this case in late 2020, unsuccessfully attempting to litigate the issue around Election Day. They alleged that Biden and other Democrat candidates benefited from ballots that were not legal, and that Democrats shouted down the idea that any of these Pennsylvania ballots were improperly cast, calling it part of "the Big Lie."
Pennsylvania is not the only state to rule in favor of election integrity. In January, a judge ruled absentee ballot drop boxes used in the 2020 presidential election are unlawful in Wisconsin:
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The decision now goes to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
I hate looking on Supreme Courts as super-legislatures as much as anyone else; but that is the role they have arrogated to themselves, and so I ask: Didn't we get a new conservative judge on the PSC last November who replaced a liberal? And so does not the PSC now have a conservative majority?
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PeeAyeSC tilts dem. No help there.
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List of Current Justices (Wikipedia): The last two elected (Sallie Updyke Mundy, 2017 and P. Kevin Brobson, 2021) are Republican. The previous five are listed as Democrats.
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I would like to see a 'constitutional convention' emitting a text that includes the current 1 - 10 plus:
all voting shall be in-person with proof of residence and
no criteria shall include color or shape of skin
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Republican candidates and Trump supporters made this case in late 2020, unsuccessfully attempting to litigate the issue around Election Day. They alleged that Biden and other Democrat candidates benefited from ballots that were not legal, and that Democrats shouted down the idea that any of these Pennsylvania ballots were improperly cast, calling it part of "the Big Lie."
Breitbart, tell me what happened to that effort? C'mon, tell the whole story.
IIRC, SCOTUS ruled that the litigants had no standing. What does that even mean? Isn't that an easy what to get out of making a decision? Isn't that an easy way to avoid doing the right thing?
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PeeAye will probably never have another Republican governor. So, it's gone.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Mikhail Demurin
[Regnum] The appeal of the Moscow regional organization of former juvenile prisoners of fascism to the president of our country to declare the Soviet people a victim of genocide during the Great Patriotic War caused me a deep and categorical disagreement.
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Because our corrupt elites make bank from Ukraine and (to a much greater extent) also China.
They have no financial interests in Russia because the Russians never allowed them to grift -- not during Yeltsin's bacchanalia and not during the Putinshchina.
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Given Duck-Duck has been returning strange search results, the last few days.... Use Google Maps and and note the Ukrainian location, location, location to the MID-East/Europe economy.
Yes!, it is mainly EUROPE's problem.
But it affect lots of US Allies in the area.
Plus the GAS/OIL delivery and food production which are mainly used in the Western EU.
HOWEVER,
I feel The Biden Junta is using the UKRAINE for much needed Media Deflection and likely to get a Hush/Hush promise on the $$ Millions skimmed by certain DC types and family members.
[AmericanSpectator] Religious freedom is the foundation to all other freedoms.
Freedom of thought, really, of which freedom to believe is one subset.
The group Open Doors USA released its last week, which tracks the countries that are the worst offenders of Christian persecution. There is a new top persecutor, which took over from longtime number one North Korea. The new winner, perhaps unsurprisingly, is Afghanistan. However, at number two, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea remains poised for a comeback next year. Another nine countries also are guilty of “extreme persecution.”
The Taliban takeover worsened an already terrible state of religious persecution in Afghanistan. Open Doors explained: “Christian persecution is extreme in all spheres of public and private life. The risk of discovery has only increased since the Taliban controls every aspect of government—including paperwork from international troops that may help identify Christians.” Even before August, noted Open Doors, it was “impossible to live openly as a Christian in Afghanistan. Leaving Islam is considered shameful, and Christian converts face dire consequences if their new faith is discovered. Either they have to flee the country or they will be killed.”
Isolated and brutal, North Korea fell back to number two even though persecution actually worsened. Its very human leader, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, is treated like a near-deity, and he fears competition. Open Doors wrote: “North Korea has been at or near the top of the World Watch List for more than 20 years. That’s because any North Korean caught following Jesus is at immediate risk of imprisonment, brutal torture and death.”
The other countries in the top eleven, in order, are: Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, India and Saudi Arabia. There’s a short paragraph about each at the link.
These are merely the worst of a very bad lot. Open Doors lists another 39 countries with “very high persecution.” Like the preceding states, these tend to be Muslim and/or authoritarian. Following the Kingdom through number 20 are: Myanmar, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Maldives, China, Qatar, Vietnam, and Egypt. As for numbers 21 to 30: Uzbekistan, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Turkmenistan, Laos, Morocco, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Colombia. Numbers 31 to 40 run: Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Niger, Bhutan, Tunisia, Oman, Cuba, Ethiopia, Jordan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Completing the list at numbers 41 to 50: Mozambique, Turkey, Mexico, Cameroon, Tajikistan, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Kuwait, and Malaysia.
President Joe Biden promised to make human rights a central issue of his administration. So far he has failed to deliver and has not used America’s clout against even the most egregious offenders with whom the U.S. has influence, such as Saudi Arabia. So Biden still has the freedom to be a lying asshole.
[Corey Digs] On January 24, 2022, Senator Ron Johnson held a panel discussion on ’COVID-19: A Second Opinion.’ The panel included world renowned doctors, medical experts, and lawyers such as: Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Richard Urso, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Steve Kirsch, attorney Thomas Renz and others. This nearly five-hour dialogue is packed with facts, data, expert testimonies and bombshells that encompass a range of topics.
One key moment came up during a conversation between Dr. McCullough, Dr. Kheriaty and others in which Dr. McCullough described the way in which Big Pharma has captured the FDA and CDC. The doctors elaborated on the revolving door between Big Pharma and these agencies, which ultimately puts the agenda of pharmaceutical companies first. Dr. Kheriaty and Dr. Cole explained how doctors are threatened to comply with the agencies’ guidelines under fear that they will lose their licenses.
In another segment of the discussion, attorney Thomas Renz put the names of three high ranking military personnel on record, after they provided evidence from the Department of Defense database indicating massive spikes in adverse events and illnesses following the rollout of the Covid-19 injections for service members. The data that Thomas Renz presented indicated that, with adverse events of myocarditis, it appears the Department of Defense covered-up the prevalence of such cases by removing many of them from their own database.
"In August, when the report was run on acute myocarditis in the DoD website, there were 1,239 cases and now when you run it, it’s down to 307. In January of 2022 there were 176 cases, and magically it’s down to 17... We have in the military the single best data set that exists because we have baselines in there, and acute disease across all categories in the preceding five years leading up to the vaccination year, was 1.7 million. They introduced and mandated a Covid-19 vaccine for our U.S. military when they had only lost 12 service members to the disease, and in the 10 months of 2021 after that, it jumped from 1.7 million all diseases to darn near 22 million. That is a 20 million increase." said Leigh Dundas, human rights attorney, working with Thomas Renz on the whistleblower case in the military.
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It's obvious now that the vaccine is more harmful to young people than COVID is. The data are overwhelming: from Israel, from Pfizer's own studies, from the CDC, from hospitals all over this country ... and now from the Department of Defense itself. They have solid data. It's accurate and it's a large data set taken from a million or more young people.
It's so horrific that they're literally doctoring the numbers now. Simply criminal.
How do we stop this insanity before it destroys our young people?
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These are the same assholes who love to bleat about how they're pushing policy X or Y "for the children." They don't give a flying fvck about our children.
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It's almost like side effects are more the product than the therapeutic effects.
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The jury is still out on statin risk reduction and heart problems. I've taken statins for a long time and I still got PC (diagnosed in 2006). A few months back, I elected to get off statins as they seemed to be causing muscle aches and neuropathy. I called my physician first to check to see what he thought. I will go for an annual physical in Feb. At that time, I will check my PSA and cholesterol levels at that time. The PSA has been in check after radiation in 2006. No indication of heart problems.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Three conservative judges on a five-court panel struck down Pennsylvania’s 2019 expanded mail-in voting law that reportedly permitted 2.5 million people, the majority of them Democrats, to cast votes in 2020.
