The young blonde, with dyed hair, may think a degree in gender studies is equally as valid as say a degree Nuclear Physics, or Agricultural Science. Such is her right to think as such. Sadly while she has pay for her degree, see can neither eat her degree nor use it to find employment to pay off her college debt, from Breitbart:
H/T: Blazing Cat Fur
The Hungarian government is discontinuing programs in gender studies at state-run universities after determining the programs serve no identifiable purpose and are based on “ideology rather than science.”
Bence Rétvári, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Human Resources (EMMI), said that university degrees must be rooted in a scientific basis, whereas gender studies, “like Marxist-Leninism,” are more aptly termed ideology than science, and are inappropriate matter for university-level education.
A spokesman for the Hungarian government told Breitbart News that there is no demand for gender studies graduates in the Hungarian job market.
Now I am not sure what Blondie means by valid. I do suspect that Blondie means that a gender studies degree would make her feel good about herself. However feeling good still leaves Blondie a dollar short of a cup of coffee at McDonalds, her future employer? If fact is that graduates in hard science fields tend to get paid more that say journalism grads. So whatever Blondie thinks about valid is has no bearing on ability to find gainful employment and get herself out of debt.
Several large cracks were found on the Florida International University bridge even before it was erected, from Daily Mail(UK):
One of the engineers, Linwood Howell, said the cracks were a sign of the structure’s ‘imminent failure’.
‘There’s nothing they could have done short of starting over and redesigning the structure,’ said Howell, whose firm conducts bridge inspections for the state of Texas.
Is this the price of diversity? We must have public infrastructural designed by underrepresented minorities, even if they are incompetent.
Me, elsewhere…
Think seriously about this guys.
If he truly was a nutcase, why would they ban him?A nutcase he may or may not be. But that’s not why they banned him.
Historically the only reason that the tyrannical type has ever wanted to ban somebody like that is because they’re getting too close to something that they hold dear.
The left feels their power threatened.
You should consider this, as well…
This is foundational for the left going forward. Jones was a fairly easy Target because frankly he’s not tremendously popular among the right, either.
But the Trail has now been blazed. With this being used as an example, the left will find it far easier to eliminate the rest of us. And make no mistake, people. That’s the goal here. That’s the end game.
After weeks of complaining about the impact on our economy from tariffs on Chinese Imports, and getting the usual love some The Usual Suspects, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS… It seems that as usual mr. Trump has a slightly bigger stick then the critics understood or were willing to admit.
From Glen Reynolds:
ART OF THE DEAL: U.S. Oil Vanishing From Chinese Tariffs Reveals America’s Clout.“China’s original plan to target U.S. crude came at an inopportune time for the country’s buyers. Sinopec’s trading unit, Unipec, was embroiled in a dispute with Saudi Arabia, saying the producer’s prices were costly and cutting purchases just as it was boosting American imports. Two months on, refiners were faced with the risk of supply disruptions from Iran to Venezuela and paying more to take advantage of booming U.S. output.”
Add to that the piece I posted the other day about China and it would seem the action being taken with China are precisely the correct ones
You know you would think they would just sit back and watch the Nickelodeon for a while because they were tired of being wrong every single time.
Senator Depends, b/k/a Dianne Feinstein, is a dependable whore for the Communist Chinese. Senator Depends gets bought and stays bought, from New York Post:
As vice chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been investigating allegations of President Trump’s “collusion” with Russia.
But now we learn Feinstein may be the one compromised by a foreign power.Turns out that Communist China had a spy in her office. A 20-year employee of Feinstein’s, the agent had been reporting back to China’s Ministry of State Security for well over a decade.
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China investments have helped make Feinstein, who lives in a $17 million mansion in San Francisco and keeps a $5 million vacation home in Hawaii, one of the richest members in Congress.
Feinstein has insinuated that Trump is compromised by a foreign power. But it’s clear Feinstein has an alarming blind spot when it comes to China and national security.
Mr. Sperry is that a blind spot or a sweet spot? The media may be willfully blind to Senator Depends corruption, but she sees and keeps the Chicom money.
The answer is…
“ I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. As far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion more to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself”
Alexis de Tocqueville
Look, I’m no fan of Infowars.
But this is yet another exercise and watching the left operate on feelings instead of on principle.
Enough said.
US workers received biggest pay increases in nearly a decade over the 12 months through June (+2.8%), a sign the strong labor market is boosting wages as employers compete for scarcer workers.
https://t.co/dIIawvuRNR https://t.co/O4CzNGUmYm
There are a number of indications from China lately that there are big doings over there, none of which are making the Press here in the states.
One of which is this story from of all places The Sun..
DISNEY’S Winnie the Pooh film has been banned in China after the nation’s leader was compared to the dopey bear.
Attempts to search for the much loved character on Weibo, generates the message, “content is illegal”.
Now, granted, that of itself that might seem small potatoes.
But, listen to the report from Gordon Chang, in a recent appearance on John Chancellor’s show as regards some of the other things going on, and one gets the at the side of the impression that something is about to blow in China.
What Chang reports is nothing short of a rebellion against the communist regime, and the reports from The Sun is directly in line with that.
Will, should, Senator Dianne Feinstein(D – CA) wrestle the coveted title of Senator Depends from Patrick Leahy(D – VT), from Daily Caller:
All the details of a former, longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein staffer who’s accused of relaying information to Chinese intelligence services while working for the California Democrat point to Russell Lowe, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has determined.
Lowe worked for 20 years in Feinstein’s San Francisco office, where he was a staff liaison to the Asian-American community before leaving approximately five years ago. All those details match up with the descriptions of the Chinese spy Feinstein reportedly employed.
About the only secret Senator Depends can’t keep is her IQ. Senator Depends hires leakers, works with leakers and leaks like a sieve herself. Time for DiFi to go.
One wonders where this judge went to law school, from Washington Times:
[Judge John D. Bates] said the government needs to prove that it has considered the benefits to society of having immigrants who entered the country illegally here and working, versus the government’s interest in enforcing the laws as written. He said Homeland Security failed to do that in its original revocation last September, and even after he gave it a chance to update its reasoning, it still failed to convince him.
“The court sees no reason to change its earlier determination that DACA’s rescission was arbitrary and capricious,” he ruled.
The judge posits a new theory of law. The nitwit holds that the Executive Department has the power, indeed duty, to simply ignore laws which its does not agree. Why didn’t Bates simply declare Congress superfluous and therefore unconstitutional, because the Executive and Judiciary can on their own enact all the laws the country needs.
I am aware of no legal authority, law, which allowed the Reds to murder Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and his entire family. That said, I also know of no law allowing the duly elected President of the United State, Donald Trump, from sending federal marshals Bobby Mueller’s thugs to arrest and detain Bates until he both rescinds his unconstitutional order and resigns from office. After all it for the President, and not the judiciary, to exercise Executive Power. Remember it was Judge Bates who said, “I don’t need no stinking laws!”
From Laz A. Mataz:
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It’s been a fascinating ten years.
From 2009 to 2017, I was instructed that a President is unrestrained by the Constitution, and that they are all-powerful and can enact laws unilaterally, via Executive Order, and that they can ignore the Constitution as they see fit.
But NOW we learn that Presidents are completely powerless and cannot rescind any Executive Order, set any Administration Policy, or hew to the written law, about any topic, for any reason. That is because to do so would violate unwritten parts of the Constitution.
Let us review the actions that the News Misleadia and the Obama Administration championed, in their quest to inform us that a President is omnipotent:
- Obama appointed thirty-five Federal Czars without Senate advice and consent, which is required for appointees of this magnitude.
- After admitting twenty-two times that he had no Constitutional authority to enact the DREAM Act or DACA, he promptly enacted the DREAM Act / DACA.
- Despite the fact that the Executive Branch MAY NOT ALTER any legislation, but only interpret it, Obama unilaterally altered “Affordable” Care Act twenty-four times. Below are just a few of the examples:
- Obama altered ACA law – Delaying the upholding of the Employer Mandate Law (“Affordable” Care Act) until 2015 – Individual Mandate will be enforced. A President does not have that authority.
- Obama altered ACA law – “Affordable” Care Act Medicare cuts were delayed until 2015.
- Obama altered ACA law – Enforcement of eligibility requirements for “Affordable” Care Act were delayed until 2015.
- Obama waived “Affordable” Care Act Income Verification.
- Obama altered ACA law – Delayed “Affordable” Care Act caps on out of pocket expenses until 2015. (When that date arrived, premiums did skyrocket)
- Obama shelved part of the “Affordable” Care Act Law for Insurers, extending the life of non-qualifying (according to “Affordable” Care Act) plans until Jan. 1, 2015.
- Obama waived “Affordable” Care Act individual mandate for those that lost their insurance.
- Obama alters “Affordable” Care Act law and exempts companies employing between 50-100 full-time workers from business mandate until 2016.
- Obama issued a Directive instructing ICE to NOT enforce immigration laws in certain cases. This is in clear opposition to the mandate in the Constitution that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”.
There are dozens, more, of examples of how a President is the ultimate lawgiver — the pinnacle-politician, the final arbitrator of absolute law — unshackled by any other power, person, or institution.
Yet suddenly (and I admit complete surprise) we are instructed that Presidents have no powers whatsoever, and may not even invoke privileges detailed in the Constitution and in Legislation. Coincidentally, this new era of enlightenment occurred within seven days of President Trump ascending to this (unexpectedly diluted) position. To wit:
- Only one week after President Trump’s Inauguration, a Federal Judge in Brooklyn issued a stay-order against Trump’s Executive Order banning immigration from certain Muslim countries with a higher percentage of extremists and, presumably terrorists. This, despite the Congressionally-enacted law (8 U.S. Code § 1182 – Inadmissible Aliens) that states, among other things, that the President has the authority to “suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens” “for such period as he shall deem necessary, when he “finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens … would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
- A Federal Judge in Hawaii, Derrick Kahala Watson — one who was a classmate of Barack Obama, and who was visited by Obama briefly before his initial order, ordered a stay on the Muslim-country Travel Ban. He then extended it indefinitely. Again, this is in direct contradiction with the clear language in 8 U.S. Code § 118, and the Supreme Court eventually overturned this order from this judge.
- A federal judge in Pennsylvania temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s recent rules allowing moral and religious exceptions for ObamaCare’s birth control blocked the Trump administration’s rules allowing moral and religious exceptions for ObamaCare’s birth control requirements, despite the fact that Obama implemented the rule by the same Executive Order process.
- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA (closely related to the Dream Act mentioned above) was illegally implemented by Executive Order — even though Obama admitted he could not do so — and had an expiration date of March 5th, 2018. Despite this, a Federal Judge (John D. Bates) ordered the Trump Administration to restart this illegal, expired program within 90 days.
- President Trump is not even allowed to block trolls on Twitter, Federal Judge Naomi Buchwald ordered, in effect denying the President his First Amendment rights.
So, we learn first that a President is all-powerful and unrestrained. Then, we learn that a President is utterly powerless and cannot exercise clearly legal and lawfully-delineated actions.
Imagine my surprise. I suppose it all depends on who the President is.
Andrew Klavan as regards the comments from Jim Acosta:
But, like virtually everything Acosta reports, this is just a reflection of his small-minded biases. The fact is, having a group of people scream at you and denigrate you is exactly what it feels like to be in America — if you don’t happen to be a coastal elite. It has felt this way for the last twenty years at least. Every television show you watch, every movie, every woman’s magazine, every comedian, and, yes, every news program tells you you suck. Your country sucks. Your culture sucks. Your religion and your morals suck. And you personally are one of those dumb-ass racists who clings to his Bible and talks funny.
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If you believe your country should vet its immigrants, you’re racist. If you voted for Donald Trump, you’re racist. If you make a joke about Barack Obama on Facebook, you’re racist twice. If you think motherhood is a woman’s highest calling, you’re sexist. If you take it ill when Islamists blow you up in the name of their nasty little god, you’re Islamophobic. If you know that a man is a man even if he says he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. If you think it’s fair to debate whether homosexual actions are moral or not, you’re homophobic.Every day. From every outlet. All the time. And now people are kangry. Wonder why.
The situation Klavan describes has been going on for many years now and frankly if there’s anything that surprises me about all of this is that it took this long for the press to be called to account for it.
I will include this as well, because it’s too important to point to ignore:
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says he told Trump his anti-press rhetoric could lead to violence. But the media’s anti-Trump rhetoric already has led to violence: public officials rat-packed and bullied, Trump supporters harassed, White House spokes-lady Sarah Sanders having to live under guard. And yet when Sanders pointed this out to Look-At-Me-I’m-Jim Acosta, Acosta stormed out of the room. Hell, if he doesn’t want to hear the truth, he could just stay home and watch CNN.
Clearly the signal being sent here is that Jim Acosta doesn’t mind violence, and anger, doesn’t mind hatred, so long as it isn’t directed against leftists.
And I’ve already addressed Pinch Sulzburger in these spaces, just yesterday…. But if you’d like a more recent example of the New York Times and its actions against the American people, here you go.
And look, ask yourself what the purpose of a free press is. The founders thought that a free press was supposed to be reinforcing the culture and thereby the Republic.
Jim Acosta, on the other hand, along with all too many of our Fifth Estate seems to feel that it is specifically designed so as to produce progressivism. Statism.
I’ll tell you something else. Acosta is being less than honest about his objection to Donald Trump per se.
Look I have made no bones about the fact that I have certain problems with Donald Trump. But, let’s be clear, here… this is not about Donald Trump and never has been. I’ve been saying all along that the fanaticism we see coming from the left these days has been there a long time before Donald Trump even thought about running for president…. And that anybody from the left that was not Hillary Clinton, would be receiving the same treatment as Donald Trump and his supporters are now. The fact is, this is not about Donald Trump, this is about the American people and their rejection of progressive statism.
Acosta, far from defending the freedom of the press as he claims, is in reality defending himself and his organization which has done nothing but promote progressive statism and deride the people that they claim to be “serving”.
And maybe, just maybe he and the rest of the Liberals occupying our press these days should think seriously that his being attacked at the Trump rally the other night was a reaction to his attacks and those of his buddies, over a period of decades. The low ratings that CNN has been getting these last several years, should have been his first clue… He and his are the cause of what he caught a taste of the other night.
I suggest ti you that the left and the Press have been playing the part of the bully against the American people for long enough now that they shouldn’t be surprised when the bully, in other words themselves, gets their comeuppance.
You remember the late Yassar Arafat, he of the permanent three day bread. Arafat was all in favor of parents turning their children in to martyrs. suicide bombers. Fast forward to the anti-Trump resistance. CNN Jim Acosta fancies himself as member of the resistance. Yet Acosta, the informed journalist that he is, doesn’t remember that is the pioneers who take the arrows. Acosta wants to lead, but he doesn’t want to take any arrows, from NRA TV, video:
Thus we present Jim Acosta, winner of the Yassar Arafat Award. Well done Jim.
Buried, as you might expect, in this in this hit piece, is this gem:
In a separate motion, prosecutors also asked the judge to prevent Manafort from raising the issue of an Internal Revenue Service audit, saying any potential civil action was irrelevant to the criminal charges and could confuse or mislead the jury.
A tip of the hat to Jerry Saperstein who says;
There’s been scanty reporting on the history, but apparently the IRS investigated these allegations years ago, may have issued a criminal referral, but DOJ declined to prosecute.
The implications are obvious: if the DOJ found nothing to prosecute more than a decade ago, what is Fascist coup meister Mueller chasing now? What changed – other than the political situation?
Assuming a potentially reasonable, intelligent jury, the appearance of this being a political prosecution (which this clearly is) might be all that is required to scuttle the chances for a conviction.
Exactly so. And let’s examine this from another angle. If we were really all that worried about Manafort and his taxes and so on, why is it that Al Sharpton who owes the IRS millions of dollars it’s still walking around free?
And by the way should we be asking how Mueller manage to amass 18 million dollars of net worth on a prosecutors salary?
