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-Great Cultural Revolution
Checking in on the West's slow-motion suicide
[BLAZE] For a nation to survive, it must prefer its own culture, traditions, language, history, and folkways above any other. Liberalism strips all of that away.

The clash in Gaza has created a crisis of faith for many of those in the West who have dedicated themselves to the liberal project. While the actual conflict is centered many thousands of miles away, a mixture of ideological fanaticism and hubris has convinced most Western nations to import large populations who have carried their centuries-old feud into their new host countries.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2023 00:54 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  (looks around) we need a sharper butter knife
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/16/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||


Lowering The Standards In Every Industry In The Name Of Diversity
[WIRE] One of the many remarkable things about activists who want to remake society, and invert every hierarchy that civilization has ever had in the name of "equity," is how aggressive and totally unflinching they are. They don’t ask permission, they just do it. And they do it in such great numbers, in so many different areas, that it’s impossible to even keep track of them. Even if you object to their project, as most people do, there’s no way to keep yourself fully informed about what’s happening, simply because of the scale of the whole operation.

Here’s a recap, which is nowhere near exhaustive. In just the last couple of months, we’ve learned that the LAPD is relaxing its standards for new officers in order to recruit fewer white males.

We’ve heard that the San Francisco school board will lower entrance requirements, and that the Regents Exam in New York will soon be optional for high school graduates. (As the New York Times put it, "The test had once been seen as a hallmark of academic rigor, but high-stakes graduation tests have fallen out of favor nationally.")

We’ve also been informed that the law school admission test, the LSAT, will drop its challenging "logic games" section, supposedly to help blind applicants.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2023 00:44 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trending for decades. "Equity" is simply a new term of reference.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2023 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  And if you thing an affirmative-action cop is harmful, I invite you to consider an affirmative action Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/16/2023 6:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Dare anyone to even mention the massive disconnection of black culture from traditional American standards, as a possible consideration as a partial motive for destroying meritocracy in business and government? If your need to dismiss competence in educational achievement as being "acting white", dismissing it as a form of alternative tribal pride, then you need to alter the standards of the prevailing culture to gain access to economic success with lesser skills and motivation.

Certainly, when standards appear to be discriminating, even when applied fairly, they must be lessened in order to avoid facing the cost of being outside traditional American culture and norms!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/16/2023 13:07 Comments || Top||

#4  And if you thing an affirmative-action cop is harmful, I invite you to consider an affirmative action Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Doesn't take much imagination.

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2023 13:21 Comments || Top||

#5  But then, just wait until all those Third World types that Biden is letting into our country are offered citizenship for a hitch in the Army.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2023 13:27 Comments || Top||


Millions of Americans 'got hooked on pot' and started driving-while-stoned last year as 'predatory Big Marijuana' lured 100,000 teen users: government data show toll of legalization
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is the gateway drug to Taco Bell
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/16/2023 6:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe it was Dale who pointed out car insurance is going to go through the roof with legal pot. Now, that stoner who collides with you will probably either be "unemployed" or "on disability." So, buy that expensive full-tort, uninsured driver policy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2023 7:18 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Or drive a 25 year old farm truck made of real steel.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2023 8:13 Comments || Top||

#4  legalize drugs. bankrupt the cartels.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 11/16/2023 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  They legalized alcohol and just shifted the graft from the gangsters to the limited license holders and the politicians.

Number of American killed in wars since the repeal of Prohibition and the number of Americans killed by DUI and associated "here hold my bear"?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2023 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  If people with substance problems could have them without harming others, I'd say "all good."

But that's mostly not possible.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2023 9:39 Comments || Top||

#7  M. Murcek despite selling one vehicle my car insurance has gone up twice in the past 3 months to almost what it was before I sold it.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/16/2023 12:03 Comments || Top||

#8  These might work for that low speed rear end collision.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/16/2023 12:51 Comments || Top||

#9  The 80's called and want D.A.R.E. back. The producers of Reefer Madness and the Ad Council smile at their success. Mellow drivers are the new obnoxious drunks who are going to kill everyone and drive insurance rates up. Oh mossomo, you just dont understand, they crossed modern marijuana with uranium which has resulted in nuclear pot - stuff is now out of this world. We have never seen marijuana like this before.

They are gonna crash my car. *shaking* The world is so dangerous with all these pot heads, if only they would stop hurting and harming everyone else.

Predatory Big Marijuana - cannot believed someone actually typed that. The authors magnus opus could be a story about the intersectionality of Human Trafficking and Marijuana. Pulitzer worthy, no doubt.
Posted by: mossomo || 11/16/2023 13:10 Comments || Top||

#10  legalize drugs. bankrupt the cartels.

Just come to LA or San Francisco, rage boy. Newsom will let you have all the fentanyl you want and then you can sleep it off on the sidewalk.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2023 13:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Oh mossomo, you just dont understand, they crossed modern marijuana with uranium which has resulted in nuclear pot - stuff is now out of this world. We have never seen marijuana like this before.

I smelled the cheap Mexican pot in the 1970s and these days it's common to get a whiff of the new "super potent" marijoochi. Just yesterday I caught a whiff in a Home Depot parking lot. They don't have to be discreet about it anymore. They tell me it smells different than it did in the old days because now it's so much more potent. But I'm not sure it's just the potency. The way the new stuff smells makes me wonder if it's even the same drug.

Would Democrats do such a thing? I wouldn't put it past them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2023 13:40 Comments || Top||

#12  It's been legal here for six years and hasn't been associated with any traffic disaster or something similar.

Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 11/16/2023 14:07 Comments || Top||

#13  Why would they make that association, Penguin?

That would spoil the narrative that (supposedly) brings in boatloads of tax revenue.

A buzzed driver is still an impaired driver.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/16/2023 14:47 Comments || Top||

#14  That would spoil the narrative that (supposedly) brings in boatloads of tax revenue.

Everywhere that magic tax revenue windfall has been touted - it has not materialized.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2023 14:49 Comments || Top||

#15  It's not legal here, but any driver with a handicapped tag is suspect.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2023 16:17 Comments || Top||

#16  REPLICA OD GREEN CLAYMORE HITCH COVER FOR 2 INCH RECEIVERS
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2023 16:23 Comments || Top||


Woke kid's party says it all...
[ZH] At what appears to be a culturally enriched children’s birthday gathering in some American city — Chicago, possibly, or Atlanta; it doesn’t really matter because the "urban" culture has been synthesized and exported by the media machine from coast to coast — a pair of children, one apparently 7 or 8 in an Air Jordan t-shirt and the other looking not a day over 3 in an Air Jordan track suit, can be seen waving (fake) cash and (probably fake, but let’s not give the parents the benefit of the doubt) guns in the same manner that can be seen in damn near every rap video from the last twenty years.
This is their culture. It's rayciss for whitey to draw any conclusions. Video at the link.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2023 8:16 Comments || Top||


#3  I would hesitate in calling Black Culture, Woke Culture. Two different things. They might overlap in some areas, but two distinct different things.

I would even hesitate in calling this Black Culture. I think it would be more appropriate to call it Black Inner City Culture, or Urban Black Culture. I know too many blacks who would look down on this. Other words, this is not universal in black culture.
Posted by: mossomo || 11/16/2023 13:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Guess that's why it's OK to call me a cracker regardless of the fact I'm not one.

Give exactly what you get.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2023 13:29 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Saltine-American, Sir!
Posted by: Frank G || 11/16/2023 14:28 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Break'm up in a bowl, pour milk over em. Bedtime snack. Good for yer tummy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2023 15:03 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Tucker on X: Ep. 39 Candace Owens responds to Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: badanov || 11/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why is Anyone Surprised at Candace Owens' Remarks on Israel?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/16/2023 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  As is said, "If you have to explain yourself, you have already lost."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2023 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Owens is suspect.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/16/2023 12:26 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
FAA panel warns that current safety levels are 'unsustainable'
[Fox] Hey Pete...any holiday air disasters planned?
Hey Joe...how's that massive infrastructure upgrade coming?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, if we have to have mentally unbalanced "trans" ATCs, well... Yeah!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/16/2023 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Standards keep getting lowered. Maybe its time to bring back insurance kiosks at the airports.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2023 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey, suppose we replace all the air traffic controllers with AI chatbots? Forward into the Future!

Obviously safety is a concern, but the chatbots do not need to be perfect. They just need to kill fewer people than humans do. Besides as the system runs, it will accumulate training data from 'incidents'.

We will still need one human ATC to boot up the system, of course. Sure, you could have the janitor press the ON button, but you want a trained ATC professional for a job like that.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/16/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  mayor pete running it.
Posted by: Squinty Hatfield8204 || 11/16/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^^ Exactly. He doesn't have the right skin color or chromosomes, but he does have sexual perversion.

As with the other woke requirements, competence doesn't enter into the equation.
Posted by: Tom || 11/16/2023 15:47 Comments || Top||

#6  BREAKING NEWS: At least 38 people are injured, including three critically, after Chicago train crashes into snow machine


Transportation
Infrastructure
Weather
Chicago
4-of-a-kind!
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2023 17:07 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Australia's Highest Court Rules Against Indefinite Migrant Detention, Foreign-Born Criminals Released
[Breitbart] Immigration detention centres in Australia have released dozens of foreign-born convicted criminals into the community after the High Court ruled indefinite detention unconstitutional. The bulk of those allowed to walk free have previously been refused visas on character grounds.

Australia’s left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese left the country soon after the release for yet another overseas trip after conceding in Parliament no immediate plan existed to deal with the flood of criminals.

Under his current Labor government net overseas migration (NOM) into Australia continues to break all records.

Over the September quarter, there were 145,550 net permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia. This was a record for a September quarter and more than double the 69,640 that arrived in the same quarter of 2022.

Now more are being added to that number.

A paedophile who raped a 10-year-old boy, a hit man who blew up a pregnant woman with explosives and a sex predator who attacked elderly women are among the criminals allowed into the community, News.com.au reports.

All were released after the High Court ruled that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful where there is “no real prospect” that a person’s removal is “reasonably practicable in the foreseeable future.”

The court is yet to release the reasons behind its ruling last week that overturned a 2004 precedent that stateless people could be detained indefinitely.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/16/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  If they were aliens trying to destroy Humanity - what would they do differently?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 11/16/2023 3:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Can they release them into the front yards of the homes of the High Court members?
Posted by: Tom || 11/16/2023 15:47 Comments || Top||

#3  And indefinite Covid detention?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/16/2023 18:37 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Not-So-Surprising Bromance Between Palestine and Marxism
[PJ] Like me, you may have read about Egypt not allowing Palestinian refugees to enter their nation as the Israeli military clown-slaps Hamas. You may also have assumed it was because the Egyptians — as well as others in the Muslim/Arab world — are happy to sacrifice Palestinian lives and blame it all on the Israeli Defensive Forces (IDF).

While I believe that is an added benefit to those who wish to destroy Israel, I've learned a few things as I was researching this article. One thing is that the Palestinians have pissed off a lot of countries in the Middle East over the years. Another is that the Palestinians have a decades-long love affair with Marxists — and who wants those clowns stinking up their nation, anyway?
The PLO was a project of the Soviet Union —Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas are only two of its leadership who were educated in Moscow. Hamas and the other Islamofascists appeared on the scene a generation later.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/16/2023 04:12 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Evil is evil no matter what it calls itself.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/16/2023 14:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Both seek to destroy Western Civilization
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/16/2023 16:47 Comments || Top||



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  Biden admin renews sanctions waiver giving Iran access to $10 billion from Iraq
Wed 2023-11-15
  Yemen's Houthi rebels to target Israeli vessels in Red sea
Tue 2023-11-14
  IDF Golani Brigade Inside Hamas Parliment
Mon 2023-11-13
  IDF operating in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza
Sun 2023-11-12
  IDF says West Bank raids capture 41 wanted Paleos, including 14 Hamasniks
Sat 2023-11-11
  Israeli snipers target Gaza's Al Quds hospital
Fri 2023-11-10
  IDF continues to advance into Gaza city
Thu 2023-11-09
  IDF says Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza
Wed 2023-11-08
  Israel Shoots Down Ballistic Missile Fired From Yemen in Huge First
Tue 2023-11-07
  US tells Iran and Hezbollah it's ready to back Israel militarily
Mon 2023-11-06
  Iranian defense minister threatens U.S.
Sun 2023-11-05
  Hamas says 60 hostages were killed in Israeli airstrikes
Sat 2023-11-04
  IDF says it has eliminated 10 senior Hamas members so far since the beginning of the war
Fri 2023-11-03
  Elizabeth Warren calls for Gaza ceasefire
Thu 2023-11-02
  Hamas says Israeli air strikes killed seven civilian hostages


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