[Babylon Bee] EFFINGHAM, IL‐Local woman Karen Morales reported she was proud of herself for making close to $200 with her at-home makeup business last month, selling various makeup products to her friends from church.
According to sources close to Morales, however, she also spent $200 last month buying things from her friends' wide range of MLM businesses.
"It's really great to take control of my own life and become my own boss, so I can spend all that extra fun money on stuff my friends are selling to take control of their lives and become their own bosses," she told reporters. "I get to help women look their best and make a little slush money on the side. Then, I get to go to their homes so I can be pressured into buying weird cooking utensils I'll never use, fitness drinks that don't work, and essential oils that I could buy at Walmart for a whole lot less."
"We ladies have to stick together, so it's great that we can help each other out by selling each other stuff we don't need. It's an endless, beautiful circle of friendship," she added.
At publishing time, Morales was disappointed to discover that she had done the math wrong and actually spent $400 supporting her friends' businesses last month.
[American Thinker] Desperately grasping at any political or procedural nitpicks they can find to impede the progress of the Trump administration, the gadflies who make up the Democrat contingent in Congress have recently charged presidential interference in the issue of granting security clearances.
In what they must feel is a true "gotcha" moment, these desperate Democrats have surfaced what they trumpet to be a whistleblower from the White House who claims that her authority to grant or deny clearances is being usurped by others in the Trump inner circle so as to ensure that members of that inner circle, meaning family members and close associates of the president, have the necessary clearances to participate in governance.
Democrats are nearly giddy with expectation that they have finally found Donald Trump in some violation of the nation's security laws. They haven't. A quick internet search could have spared them some major embarrassment, once again, by leading them directly to case law establishing unequivocally just how far off course they are.
Back in 1988, in Department of Navy v. Egan, the United States Supreme Court noted in its decision:
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Since Trump became POTUS, the double standard of the left is on full display. Seems like all the things they are bringing up to "get Trump" is blowing back on them. You'd think they'd catch on after peeing in front of the fan a couple of times.
[BGR] Black holes are so strange that they’re kind of hard to wrap your brain around. They’re super-dense objects with gravitational pull so strong that nothing can escape them and, while we know they exist, astronomers have never actually photographed one. Weird, right?
When it comes to spotting a black hole the distance is really what is holding humanity back. The nearest supermassive black hole to Earth is thought to be situated at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, but that’s a long, long stretch for modern telescope technology. Other, smaller black holes are much closer, but still very difficult to spot.
Now, researchers using a novel planet-wide imaging technique designed specifically to spot closer black holes are planning to make a major announcement, and there’s really only one thing it could be.
[Red State] Brett Rushforth, the chair of the University of Oregon history department announced on Twitter that the department decided to stop teaching about Western civilization because they felt it encouraged "white supremacy".
Rushforth writes a long thread outlining his decision because apparently history is entire subjective, and also, Western civilization is racist, of course. The department has also apparently decided to not accept AP credit from high schools on the subject.
In his thread Rushforth claims "The obvious problems‐what is "western" and who gets to count as being "civilized"‐weren’t the only reasons to make the change. It was also about how white supremacists have embraced the notion of western civilization to make racist claims about non-European people."
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If I wanted to study "Eastern Civilization", I'd sign up for that course. Will you teach "Western Civilization" in Pakistan and China?
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Sounds like the University needs to stop being a parasite on Western Civilization as well.
BTW, idiot, it seems the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, et al have been embarrassing a lot of the fruits of Western Civilization. So much so, that progressives institutions have been racially segregating them for their success.
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If I had to take a guess, I'd say that Western Civ was by and large already heavily deemphasized by this point in Eugene, and now they have a convenient excuse to finally kill it dead. In a broader context, it sure as hell has been déclassé for decades in most other parts of academe & high school curriculums.
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Don't forget to can math as a tool of the patriarchy. that will make room for the circle folks song jamboree class that will prepare these folks for life as perm protesters on welfare.
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If the supremacy thing weren't so obvious, there'd be no need to censor the subject.
That said, "good" is defined in western terms. indoor plumbing, democracy and justice (if only pretend), industrialization, ending famine, coat and tie for formal affairs, medicine, such like.
If there were other ways to define "good", I'm sure the courses would reflect those.
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Western civilization is so horrific we are fighting about how to keep folks out.
Other civilizations don't seem to have this problem.
[NR] Virtue-signaling is now the refuge of scoundrels.
Since ancient times, it has always been scary when moral auditors audit their own. Or as the Roman satirist Juvenal put it of male guardians entrusted to shield chaste girls from randy males, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ("Who will watch the watchmen?")
When humans sense that there’s neither an earthly nor divine deterrent between them and social acceptance, power, riches, or their appetites, what follows is a foregone conclusion.
Such exemption is precisely the problem with modern American progressivism. It currently enjoys almost a captive mainstream media. It assumes the lockstep approval of the university. The movies that come out of Hollywood pound progressive themes. Most foundations fund race, class, and gender agendas. Popular culture has defined cool and hip as left-wing. In sum, all the secular dispensators of moral approval are hard left.
The result is that progressive actors and institutions understand that even their bad behavior will be contextualized rather than audited. Such medieval-style exemption gives them a natural blank check to overreach and to act unethically, crudely, and even unlawfully ‐ as they might not have if they had expected ramifications.
After all, Johnny Depp, Peter Fonda, Robert de Niro, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, and other exhibitionists factored into their obscene presidential vituperation that the powers that matter to them ‐ movie moguls, film critics, media hosts, neighbors in their tony zip codes, universities ‐ would award their hate or at least nod at it. Far less vitriol aimed at President Obama would have earned social and career ostracism, whether one was an erstwhile birther like Donald Trump or a Missouri State Fair clown wearing an Obama mask. Had Mike Pence hugged, kissed, squeezed, and blown the hair of women and girls in the serial fashion of good old liberal Joe Biden, he would have likely been asked to step down from his vice presidency.
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Haven't watched this yet and don't know Sussman, but the thumbometer bodes well and... IT'S VDH AT HOME! My VDH fanfic's gonna be so much more realistic now.
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
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[Babylon Bee] EFFINGHAM, IL‐Local woman Karen Morales reported she was proud of herself for making close to $200 with her at-home makeup business last month, selling various makeup products to her friends from church.
[Red State] Brett Rushforth, the chair of the University of Oregon history department announced on Twitter that the department decided to stop teaching about Western civilization because they felt it encouraged "white supremacy". 
