The War On Merit

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Dec 262022
 

We’re clearly being led by the very, very best:

The War on Merit Takes a Bizarre Turn

For years, two administrators at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) have been withholding notifications of National Merit awards from the school’s families, most of them Asian, thus denying students the right to use those awards to boost their college-admission prospects and earn scholarships. This episode has emerged amid the school district’s new strategy of “equal outcomes for every student, without exception.” School administrators, for instance, have implemented an “equitable grading” policy that eliminates zeros, gives students a grade of 50 percent just for showing up, and assigns a cryptic code of “NTI” for assignments not turned in.

Spectacular.

I have hopes that the lawyers sure to be hired by the families involves *are* fans of merit and are the best at what they do so they can sue this high school and its administration into oblivion.

 Posted by at 9:00 pm

How to get arrested

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Dec 242022
 

The woman in this video does everything she can to make sure she gets arrested. The level of entitlement she displays is monumental, which is amusing considering the level of ignorance she displays. I remain baffled at what aggressive idiots like this think they are going to achieve. Weird that the actual criminal in the tale is far more chill and reasonable.

 

 Posted by at 1:40 pm

Junk Removal

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Dec 242022
 

So yesterday the former head of Roscosmos decided that the thing to do was hold a birthday party for himself in a city under occupation.

Russia’s notorious former space chief Rogozin wounded in shelling

Dmitry Rogozin – who has called for the extermination of Ukraine –  was in Russian-occupied Donetsk, but someone ratted him out to the Ukrainians who launched some artillery at him. They didn’t kill him, but they did get him with some shrapnel. If wholly unverified rumors are to be believed… wounded rather more than previously suggested:

 

 

It should be pointed out that Rogozin got into “Twitter spat” with Musk back in May, threatening him for supplying Ukrainians with Starlink terminals. Determine for yourself it if would be “ironic” or “poetic justice” or “downright hilarious” if Starlink was used to transmit intelligence on Rogozin’s location or to aim ordnance.

 Posted by at 8:46 am

This sort of thing really aught to be illegal

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Dec 212022
 

The great majority of the time when someone says “there aught to be a law,” there really aughtn’t. But a law I’d get behind: any new bill in Congress must be read, in it entirety, on the floor of the House and Senate by those who wrote and co-sponsored it before it is allowed to come up to vote. Only those who sat there and listened to at least 75% of the reading would be allowed to vote on the bill; those who weren’t there are automatically registered as “no” votes. This would have the effect of making bills *vastly* smaller than the bloated monstrosities they’ve become.

Take, for example, the latest budget. The R. Lee Ermey bit at the end wholly encapsulates things.

 Posted by at 3:58 am

Another Chicago success story

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Dec 152022
 

Tell me if this sounds familiar: convicted felon out on parole commits murder. This time, execution-style multiple murder on the street because he was asked to leave a birthday party.

Even in Illinois, it is illegal for a felon on parole to have a pistol. So yet another Gun Grab Success Story as well.

 

There is, of course, a solution for this sort of thing. The killer here was charged with first degree murder (in a home invasion) in 2009, but got a lesser sentence because his co-defendant admitted to the killing (which should nevertheless have made him complicit in felony murder). He was paroled in October. Had he been sentenced to life without parole or, better, death, or  even better, jettisoning off Earth towards the moon via mass driver, this problem would not have occurred.

 

This is what “progressive” polices lead to.

 

 Posted by at 1:40 pm

Baby it’s WAP outside

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Dec 152022
 

And here we are:

There are of course comments by people who don’t understand the concept of “context:”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Posted by at 8:17 am

Meanwhile in London…

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Dec 132022
 

Huh.

 

Can anyone explain why a modern, rational nation concerned about the welfare and future of its people and culture would not respond to this sort of thing with mass deportations?

 Posted by at 1:22 pm
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