New York doubles down on the racial ‘equity’ racket. Will peptides really make you live longer? The Pentagon vs. the Vatican. A rescue behind enemy lines. And more.
Did anyone discover the race and preferred pronouns of the Seal Team members who rescued the pilot? And I don’t really know who Blake Lively is but I’m relieved whatever that case is about, is now almost resolved. And just my opinion, but Hegseth saying rescuing the pilot was like the resurrection of Jesus, might be a bit of overreach. Come on man it’s Easter.
Franny, did you REALLY say, "dark side of the moon?" "The Dark Side of the Moon" was one of Pink Floyd's best albums, but there is no such thing as a permanently dark side of the moon. Instead of a 24 hour rotation like Earth, Luna has a 2 week rotation. What really is cool is that Luna's rotation is perfectly timed so that as it revolves around us, we always see the same side.
Yes, the side which the humans see is in the light, to humans, hence the other side is the "dark side" ...to humans. Our language is consistently Anthropocentric , why are we discussing this?
By the same logic, there is no sunrise..no sunset.
And in many respects the present. Any top tier dems across america criticizing or even discussing Mamdani? I suggest silence can be interpreted as affirmation for many.
Re: "It’s a triumph for the world’s greatest space agency."
Why is this being referred to as a triumph? Why are we supposed to celebrate this "great accomplishment"??? We HAD done it previously - 50 years ago! We've landed men on the moon - 50 years ago! The so-called "greatest space agency" stagnated for 50 years, and we are supposed to celebrate them doing LESS with current technology than they did in the 1960s with pen, paper, and slide rules???
Maybe if they did not waste 40 years trying to make a brick fly, or maybe if their mission was not redirected to making "Muslim nations feel good about their historic contribution to science," as NASA head Charles Bolden testified in a June 2010 interview, we'd be mining Jupiter's moons by now from our long-established Mars base.
The photos of these folks on their trip look like a group travelling in a Winnebago, moving around from kitchen to study/office to bathroom, while the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo astronauts seemed to be strapped into VW Bugs.
Spot on. I recall Robert A. Heinlein lamenting before his death that we had stopped exploring and expanding and had instead become a race of truck drivers. We have better technology now, but until we actually land on the moon, our better days are still over fifty years behind us.
People whine and snivel that we should be spending that money on feeding people, but what they fail to understand is that the next extinction level event is not an if, but a when. If we don't expand and reach a point where our colonies are self-sufficient, there won't be anyone to feed.
If anyone ever doubted that we really went to the moon in the 70s — and even now — or if you think this whole moon landing is simply propaganda to unite the nation as it did in the 60s: 1) you’re not alone and 2) this article here is for you: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-believe-the-artemis-launch
I have this sitting in the queue, but the urgency is very slight.
I waited with great anticipation for my corp HR struggle session where I’d make HR automatons’ heads explode trying to calculate my privilege. (Not affluent, actually have a physical disability, not neatly categorize by race, etc….)
Have you ever read the book Reckoning with Race by Gene Dattel? Check it out
I am looking forward to seeing Eli Steele's new movie White Guilt. I read his dad's book by the same name awhile back and it helped shape many of my view on the subject of race.
In my.opinion White Guilt should be required reading by all high school seniors.
I don't pretend to know exactly what takes place in high school classrooms but have a feeling there is lots of kendi and little if any Steele. And little if any Thomas Sowell and likely more lecturing than dialogue about racial matters. And yes a lot more focus on Marty and why character matters more than skin color.
I know all the other stuff. The issue today is the importance of what he said. Perhaps you agree with his statement, perhaps you don't. I try to focus more on issues and policies. That's why I voted three times for trump notwithstanding his character flaws.
White Guilt is one of my all-time favorites along with Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies.
I have a dear friend who was a prominent professor at one of the country's premier schools who came under the thrall of Kendi.
Although she started out as a moderate conservative she soon spouted his nonsense as though he was the Second Coming.
Whenever I challenged her she would sniff and say... "His arguments are very nuanced and you must be sophisticated enough to grasp the duality of his thinking."
Needless to say we are not as close as we once were.
Wow, just wow. That’s approaching “well, that’s my truth” in its sheer arrogance. Rings of the old saying….”Don’t be so opened minded that your brain falls out.”
Guess we are just dumb unsophisticated types. By the way, any idea if your "friend" was dressed as a frog during the latest no kings events? THE EVENTof the season you know
Does anyone really give a furry rat's ass about super-racist Kendi says?
Did anyone discover the race and preferred pronouns of the Seal Team members who rescued the pilot? And I don’t really know who Blake Lively is but I’m relieved whatever that case is about, is now almost resolved. And just my opinion, but Hegseth saying rescuing the pilot was like the resurrection of Jesus, might be a bit of overreach. Come on man it’s Easter.
Franny, did you REALLY say, "dark side of the moon?" "The Dark Side of the Moon" was one of Pink Floyd's best albums, but there is no such thing as a permanently dark side of the moon. Instead of a 24 hour rotation like Earth, Luna has a 2 week rotation. What really is cool is that Luna's rotation is perfectly timed so that as it revolves around us, we always see the same side.
Re: "...we always see the same side."
Yes, the side which the humans see is in the light, to humans, hence the other side is the "dark side" ...to humans. Our language is consistently Anthropocentric , why are we discussing this?
By the same logic, there is no sunrise..no sunset.
Mandami's policies are the future of the Democratic party.
And in many respects the present. Any top tier dems across america criticizing or even discussing Mamdani? I suggest silence can be interpreted as affirmation for many.
What does international law provide regarding human shields ?
Re: "It’s a triumph for the world’s greatest space agency."
Why is this being referred to as a triumph? Why are we supposed to celebrate this "great accomplishment"??? We HAD done it previously - 50 years ago! We've landed men on the moon - 50 years ago! The so-called "greatest space agency" stagnated for 50 years, and we are supposed to celebrate them doing LESS with current technology than they did in the 1960s with pen, paper, and slide rules???
Maybe if they did not waste 40 years trying to make a brick fly, or maybe if their mission was not redirected to making "Muslim nations feel good about their historic contribution to science," as NASA head Charles Bolden testified in a June 2010 interview, we'd be mining Jupiter's moons by now from our long-established Mars base.
The photos of these folks on their trip look like a group travelling in a Winnebago, moving around from kitchen to study/office to bathroom, while the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo astronauts seemed to be strapped into VW Bugs.
Spot on. I recall Robert A. Heinlein lamenting before his death that we had stopped exploring and expanding and had instead become a race of truck drivers. We have better technology now, but until we actually land on the moon, our better days are still over fifty years behind us.
People whine and snivel that we should be spending that money on feeding people, but what they fail to understand is that the next extinction level event is not an if, but a when. If we don't expand and reach a point where our colonies are self-sufficient, there won't be anyone to feed.
It's a triumph in the same sense as it's a triumph when I discover where I misplaced my cheaters three days ago. Or, locate the missing sock.
If anyone ever doubted that we really went to the moon in the 70s — and even now — or if you think this whole moon landing is simply propaganda to unite the nation as it did in the 60s: 1) you’re not alone and 2) this article here is for you: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-believe-the-artemis-launch
Oh for crying out loud, give it a rest.
You shouldn’t fall down the rabbit hole of stupidity.
ARE YOU A RACIST?
Ibram X. Kendi… is “America’s most famous antiracist”
Martin L. King… is America’s most infamous racist?
MLK was hung up on all that content of one’s character nonsense rather than what is really important, the color of one’s skin.
Marty was racist scum if you ask me.
BUT as X (he likes for me to call him X) writes in How to Be an Antiracist.
“The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
Only through discrimination, by treating people unequally can we achieve equality.
All races are equal but some races are more equal than others.
It is a “nuanced” argument that is worth tens of millions so that I can continue X.’s vital research.
And since I’m a Person of Color it would be racist to challenge me.
You’re not a racist, are you?
😉😉😉😉😉
I was waiting for the Animal Farm reference and you did not disappoint! lol!
BTW the ending was perfectly spot on. :-)
As a Person of Color I am of course more exquisitely aware of the finer points of Animal Farm than less enlightened Persons of No Color.
lol
Four legs good, two legs bad.
BAHHH! BAHHH! BAHHH!
I have this sitting in the queue, but the urgency is very slight.
I waited with great anticipation for my corp HR struggle session where I’d make HR automatons’ heads explode trying to calculate my privilege. (Not affluent, actually have a physical disability, not neatly categorize by race, etc….)
I do have other more-pressing matters.
"HR automatons’"
Great description of the most useless and quite frequently destructive offices I have seen in almost every organization.
Have you ever read the book Reckoning with Race by Gene Dattel? Check it out
I am looking forward to seeing Eli Steele's new movie White Guilt. I read his dad's book by the same name awhile back and it helped shape many of my view on the subject of race.
In my.opinion White Guilt should be required reading by all high school seniors.
I don't pretend to know exactly what takes place in high school classrooms but have a feeling there is lots of kendi and little if any Steele. And little if any Thomas Sowell and likely more lecturing than dialogue about racial matters. And yes a lot more focus on Marty and why character matters more than skin color.
Investigate Marty a little more and you’ll find a silver tongue hid a defective character
I know all the other stuff. The issue today is the importance of what he said. Perhaps you agree with his statement, perhaps you don't. I try to focus more on issues and policies. That's why I voted three times for trump notwithstanding his character flaws.
Exactly. I'm looking for leaders with competence not choir boys.
White Guilt is one of my all-time favorites along with Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies.
I have a dear friend who was a prominent professor at one of the country's premier schools who came under the thrall of Kendi.
Although she started out as a moderate conservative she soon spouted his nonsense as though he was the Second Coming.
Whenever I challenged her she would sniff and say... "His arguments are very nuanced and you must be sophisticated enough to grasp the duality of his thinking."
Needless to say we are not as close as we once were.
Did you ask if she had joined a cult?
😁
Anyone who is an acolyte of Kendi’s is by definition in a cult.
“Duality of his thinking”
Wow, just wow. That’s approaching “well, that’s my truth” in its sheer arrogance. Rings of the old saying….”Don’t be so opened minded that your brain falls out.”
Proof that being a professor or a student at an elite university may mean you are an intellectual but it doesn't mean you are smart.
Man that's the truth and it is proven again and again
Without a doubt. An intellectual knows things while a smart person knows how to do things.
Guess we are just dumb unsophisticated types. By the way, any idea if your "friend" was dressed as a frog during the latest no kings events? THE EVENTof the season you know
If she was a frog it wouldn't have surprised me.
BUT given our age she was more likely one of the Singing Granny Social Justice Warriors.