[NYP] Columbia University is planning to hold six additional graduation ceremonies for students according to their race and other aspects of how they identify.
The New York City school’s website details graduation ceremonies for Native, Asian, "Latinx" and Black students taking place for Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies and Barnard College at the end of April. Another dubbed "FLI Graduation" is for "first generation and/or low income community." The school also hosts a "Lavender" graduation for the "LGBTIAQ+ community."
Due to coronavirus restrictions, the ceremonies will take place online. It’s unclear when the separate ceremonies were announced, but Sunday was the deadline for nominating individuals in Columbia College, Columbia Engineering and General Studies for the "Multicultural Affairs Graduation Cords."
Columbia University did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
The university on Tuesday issued a statement on Twitter regarding the graduation ceremonies, saying the events "exist in addition to, not instead of, University-wide commencement and individual school Class Days," and are "voluntary" and "open to every student."
"These events are important, intimate and welcoming spaces for students aligned with these groups to come together to celebrate their achievements if they wish," the university wrote in a tweet. "They are organized in tandem with students and student groups."
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Yes, Darling is a lovely little village on the SA West Coast. The "Whites Only" sign is long gone. I highly recommend the Evita se Perron dinner theater. It's located in the old train station.
Columbia could call the normal, serious diplomas "blue" degrees. The diploma would have a 3/4" Columbia sky-blue border so that any employer or grad schools will know it's the real deal.
As for the "latinx," skinks, stinks, skanks etc, these diplomas would be bordered with any color (or the rainbow colors) so long as it's (they're) not Columbia blue.
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Beyond their ability to grasp this is a racist act as anything circa pre-Civil Rights Act. They are the practicing racists. Everything else is Freudian Projection.
#4
When did this country cease being the United States of America where we celebrate our unity rather than our diverse tribes? I guess it went out with the Pledge of Allegiance, God, liberty and English as our national language.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation, under God
Indivisible with liberty and justice for all
Alas, many things are worth keeping...Damned communists.
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Columbia Blues: To the Max
Attention, all oddballs and Blacks!
Beginning fall session,
Let's fight our oppression
By hauling cis whites on our backs.
[Outdoor Life] In our coverage of the ammo shortage we’ve talked to the folks running the largest ammunition companies in the country. And while these massive ammo producers build much of the ammo that American civilians, military, and law enforcement purchase, there’s also an entire group of smaller, specialty ammo makers hustling to fill orders all across the country. To get a better picture of the challenges these smaller shops are facing during the craziest ammo buying surge in recent history, we caught up with Jeff Hoffman, president of Black Hills Ammunition. His company, based in South Dakota, has a number of contracts for providing specialized match and combat ammo to the military, but it also produces ammo for the civilian commercial market. Hoffman has 37 years of law enforcement experience. He’s known for his no-B.S. attitude, and his company is highly regarded for making excellent, precision rifle ammo. For example, their MK 262 is a well-known precision 5.56 round made for the military, and the civilian version of the round is accuracy tested at .64 MOA maximum in 10 shot groups—if rounds from a lot don’t meet those specifications, the lot doesn’t ship. Here’s Hoffman’s take on doing business during these crazy times.
BLUF:
[Guardian] First, current vaccine priority algorithms are inequitable, particularly those that focus on age. Almost 90% of deaths among whites have been in people over 65, but, as CDC data clearly indicate, among Latinos and African Americans more than one-third of those dying of Covid-19 have been younger than 65. And although shared living spaces have undoubtedly fueled the rapid transmission of Covid-19 in immigrant communities, living in a crowded house does not qualify people for the vaccine. As for essential workers, it’s one thing for a hospital employee to prove they are a healthcare worker, but another thing entirely for a day laborer getting paid in cash to show proof of occupation. Finally, while people all over the country are struggling with poorly designed websites and busy call centers, these approaches are particularly insurmountable for low-income Latino workers who lack the digital skills, language capabilities and time to overcome these barriers.
As data becomes available showing the disparities in vaccination rates, much of the media attention has focused on the problem of vaccine hesitancy among some minority groups, rather than the problem of unequal vaccine access. We think that’s a mistake.
Vaccine hesitancy is very real, especially among communities of color. Many Latino immigrants mistrust the healthcare system, in part because of a history of health system abuse in their countries of origin. The current rumor that the Covid vaccine results in infertility resonates strongly with Puerto Ricans and others who recall or were told about the infamous sterilization of women without informed consent in Puerto Rico between 1930 and 1970. Among undocumented immigrants, the fear of deportation and family separation is often front and center, and can dissuade many, including those in mixed-status families, to avoid seeking healthcare.
#2
Just make sure they're properly quarantined until they can be deported.
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The Guardian does like prescribing to Americans how they ought to do things. It’s so much safer than prescribing how their own government and citizenry ought to behave.
So, Guardianistas, how is the British establishment doing at getting your local illegals vaccinated?
[Washington Examiner] A senior executive at Facebook was secretly recorded saying that the social media giant harms the world, that it needs to be broken up, and that CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be removed.
A video released Monday of Benny Thomas, Facebook's global planning lead, shows him candidly expressing his opinions about his employer to an undercover journalist from Project Veritas, a right-wing activist news outlet founded by James O'Keefe.
"I work for a company that is doing a lot of damage in the world," Thomas said in the video.
"It's doing a lot of good, but it's doing a lot of damage," he added.
Thomas said that other platforms that Facebook owns, such as Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp, "need to be separate companies" because it's "too much power when they're all one together."
"I would break it up, and I would remove [Mark Zuckerberg] as the CEO," Thomas said.
A new Project Veritas video exposes Facebook Global Planning Lead Benny Thomas admitting Facebook helped tip the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden.
“We set ourselves a goal of registering four million new people, and we went over that target. We did 4.5 simply through like the presence on our, on the platform,” Thomas notes in the newly released tapes.
The undercover Project Veritas journalist reacts, “wow, registering 4.5 million voters,” to which Thomas admits: “That’s a lot. We made a big difference.”
The conversation continues, with the Project Veritas journalist exclaiming “Yeah I’m pretty sure we (Biden) won that way.”
In response, Thomas says “yeah, exactly” while laughing.
“Exactly, I think so, too,” he immediately adds.
The stunning admission follows months of National Pulse reporting highlighting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to influence local election officials and partnerships with pro-Biden fact-checkers.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—With stimulus payments hitting bank accounts, initial reports indicate most of the money has already been spent by people trying to fill up their cars with gas.
"It's gone... it's all gone..." said one shocked man as he stood at a gas pump, watching his tiny portion of The American Rescue Plan trickle away forever. "This isn't what I voted for."
According to economists, some of Biden's recent executive orders have driven up gas prices. That, combined with runaway inflation, is projected to increase the cost of filling up an average SUV by a billion-trillion percent.
Biden responded quickly to outcries from angry Americans, promising to pass yet another, even larger stimulus package next month. The next round of checks will provide $6,000 for every American and will cover the cost of one fill-up, plus a Slurpee and a lotto ticket.
The President said he plans to continue sending stimulus checks every month until people "stop whining" or the U.S. dollar collapses, whichever comes first.
The Bee..always good biting satire (especially the voted for comment). Dementia Joe couldn't get 20 people to stand in circles during the run up. Yet he got 80+ million votes... the Common Core math just confuses me
[AmericanThinker] Recently our team was invited to meet with 2020 election fraud investigators in downtown Austin. Our team, with some of the top criminal profiling talent in the country, was happy to attend. At the last minute, our new pals cancelled their meeting.
Since we changed our schedules and lost those days, we decided to hold our own confab.
Our team members were the lead builders of one of the world’s most sophisticated criminal profiling systems in use by law enforcement today. We broke the eBay auction fraud rings and deployed a never-before-used technology to end auction fraud as an emerging crime category. We identified numerous Medicaid fraud rings and were hired by most of the top 10 property and casualty insurance firms to solve auto crash rings that eluded the FBI and every fraud technology.
What we do not talk about much is our team’s record predicting crime. There were several occasions when we predicted terrorist activity and warned government agencies. There is a particularly famous one, involving a military base, where they did not listen. That's one for another day.
When you are at the table with some of the top criminal profilers in the world, talking about industrial scale election fraud, you do more listening than talking. And the listening was interesting. The profilers have zero interest in U.S. elections. Two of them did not vote and had unflattering opinions about both presidential candidates. Their comments were most insightful because they saw the current questions about election fraud so differently than the American media.
To them, 2020 election fraud was an industrial level crime. It was of such magnitude that it moved from the category of an election crime to a sovereign crime.
Sovereign crime. It does have a ring to it.
Sovereign crime is not something we see a lot of in America as our governmental institutions are generally not organized to commit, support or hide a crime.
Most Americans have never seen an organized crime take place, in plain view, supported by or covered up by governmental institutions. But it happens all the time around the world, even in some countries that are quite Westernized.
Sovereign crime means your government was a participant, active or passive, enabling vote fraud.
#1
Indeed. The absentee ballots provided the means and the opportunity both. No chain of custody. No witnesses. Easily transported wherever and whenever required, and then removed and counted without GOP election observers present.
All of it to deliver a result whose statistical probability was less than 1 in a 1,000.
You'd have to be blindly partisan or mildly retarded not to see this.
I'd really like to hear more from these fraud investigators, especially the two non-partisans mentioned.
Sounds like they're about the only remaining voices with both the courage to address this crime and the credibility to appeal to the general public.
#2
We have technologies that can identify dead voters the moment they cast a ballot. We can identify people who are out-of-state, voted twice, are underage, live in a vacant lot or a UPS or FedEx postal box. We can even show a photo of that vacant lot so you can see where your fake neighbor claims to live.
Literally, the second their ballot is counted, they can be flagged as a likely fraud.
Yes, we can deploy that technology today. We have done it in the insurance industry for decades.
No doubt, that'd be voter suppression rayciss.
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You'd have to be blindly partisan or mildly retarded not to see this.
No. All you have to do is limit your sources of information to the Main Stream Media. OK, a certain amount of gullibility is also required but I would not go so far as to call it retardation. After all, there are an awful lot of otherwise intelligent people out there who still believe what they hear on the TV news.
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#5
I've got an intelligent friend whose Trump Derangment got him watching MSNBC and CNN who got him to stop watching any other alternatives. Now he believes everyone he knows suddenly shifted far right. It's a strange dynamic, almost cult-like.
#6
We can identify dead voters the moment they cast a ballot. We can identify people who are out-of-state, voted twice, are underage, live in a vacant lot or a UPS or FedEx postal box. We can even show a photo of that vacant lot so you can see where your fake neighbor claims to live.
We can, but we won't. Because that would create disunity, or something.
[LI] The Guam National Guard apparently has soldiers stationed in D.C. as part of the charade that the Capitol remains under some dire threat requiring troops from around the nation to encamp in the nation’s capitol in a show of force for months.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in a CPAC speech mistakenly referred to Guam as not being part of America. In fact, it’s an American territory and its residents are American citizens. To protest against Greene, a Guam Democratic Congressman led some of those troops, in uniform, in a protest march to confront Greene. We covered the story in, Congressman Brings National Guard To Confront Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Guam Status Gaffe:
In a totally inappropriate move, Guam Congressman Michael San Nicolas, who is under an ethics investigation, led a group of Guam National Guard in uniform to Greene’s office to confront her. She wasn’t there at the time, but the visual of military-fatigued National Guard engaging in a political protest directed at a Congressman, in the halls of the Capitol no less, was another sign that the military is losing its bearing in the age of Biden.
#5
One question is whether the senior officers of Guam’s National Guard are politicized (possibly), another whether the troops are, or as swksvolFF points out, even knew what they were being asked to do. But absolutely Guam Congressman Michael San Nicolas, who is under an ethics investigation knew exactly what he was playing at.
It would have been fun if the senior soldier had been required to explain — on video — exactly what they were doing there and who had ordered them to do so.
#7
The head of Guam National Guard that cleared this should be forced to resign. Head fo the Capital Police that allowed the guard to come in to intimidate a Congressperson should be forced to explain themself publicly.
[Wash Times] A movie about the life and times of Hunter Biden is in the works, but it’s not coming out of Hollywood.
Conservative Irish filmmakers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer announced Tuesday the launch of a 60-day crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising $2.5 million for "My Son Hunter," a film "based on the true story" of President Biden’s 51-year-old son.
"It’s about Hunter Biden and his corrupt business dealings," Mr. McAleer said in a video post on MySonHunter.com. "This movie’s going to tell the whole story — China, Russia, Ukraine — and you can help make this happen."
#1
Love the poster's retro design: looks like a drama from the '80s or '90s. Maybe signalling that this movie's probably not Woke and full of hipster memes and BS
#2
Not the Bee. Will this movie be cancelled by the Cancel Culture in the U.S.? Dinish D'Sousa ended up doing a stint in jail when he made a movie about the Dems and Clintons during the Obama reign of terror. He was jugged under the guise of illegal campaign contributions.
[Eating Well] A whopping one in every five Americans 65 or older currently has mild cognitive impairment, and one in every seven has been diagnosed with dementia. If that sounds staggering, get this: By 2050, the number of Americans with dementia is expected to triple, according to the authors of a just-released scientific statement published in the journal Stroke. Wasn't that published by Larry Flynt?
Dementia, which is defined by the Alzheimer's Association as a decline in mental aptitude enough that it impacts daily life, is a more costly collection of conditions than heart disease or cancer, with worldwide costs estimated at $818 billion in 2015. (By the way, Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia, and is a specific disease. Dementia is a general term for the category of this cognitive impairment.)
To try to prevent decline, reduce stroke risk and more, the study authors suggest that all Americans work with their primary care doctors to keep tabs on 13 factors that have proven links to brain health. These include the American Heart Association's Life's Simple 7, plus six other factors:
1. Managing blood pressure
2. Keeping healthy cholesterol levels
3. Reducing blood sugar
4. Increasing physical activity
5. Eating a nutritious, balanced diet
6. Losing weight, if needed
7. Not smoking
8. Preventing or treating symptoms of depression, if present
9. Reducing social isolation, if present
10. Limiting alcohol use
11. Combating sleep disorders, if present
12. Increasing education and keeping the brain active
13. Treating hearing loss, if present
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#3 you show your age. As you grow older, older age numbers go higher. I remember talking to a beautiful young lady and she enjoyed our conversation. Went well until she said "thanks pops". Say what?. When did that happen.
#5
I can recall going into a store and the clerk said: "Can I help you oldtimer?" Social distancing and social isolation seemed to help the situation.
I like to be optimistic. “In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.” Same way with hearing. Selective hearing can often be a good thing.
Have any of you had your annual physical and the nurse does a check on your cognitive abilities. The nurse gives you three simple words to remember which are sprung on you later to recall. Damn those tests are annoying. The nurse also asks you to draw a clock and indicate some time on the clock such 10:50. You can have a little fun with this one and ask: "Do you want a digital clock or a clock with Roman numerals or standard numerals. a.m. or p.m.? Military time?" The nurse usually asks about alcohol intake? You could ask: "What's too much?...and then respond: "Golly, I spill that much." You might run the risk of being labeled a smartass and having red check marks in your folder and deemed anti-government or anti-social. Oh, and be sure to insist on the digital rectal exam. Make sure that they don't forget to re-schedule your next exam.
#6
Well, I'm doing everything else except #10 (that'll never happen); also haven't bought a pack of smokes in five weeks after my cardiologist reamed me during last month's physical.
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Another cognitive test was to count backwards from 100 by sevens. (I’ve had millenials be surprised by that -they thought it was too hard.)
This year they changed it (too hard?). The new question was what is 5 + 7 + 3 + 11, or something like that. So I filled out the whole questionnaire - name the animals etc. The doc looked at my answers for a bit, got up, and disappeared for a couple of minutes. It turns out he had not seen that question before and wanted to review my answer with his staff to see if I got it right.
#13
Given what you recalled, your explanations, and your answers, am surprised they let you out; or did they, is this a trick post ?
/sarc
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11. Combating sleep disorders, if present
It turns out that fifty is the age when many people suddenly develop sleep apnea, which may or may not manifest as snoring. But most health insurance policies now cover a sleep study — the cost of which has fallen significantly — and also a CPAP machine and regular replacement of filters and masks. For most people who need one it’s life changing, getting rid of deep fatigue and the mental fog that results from it.
#15
#6 Raj, you are doing well if you have gone 5 weeks without a smoke; that is commendable. One day at a time. Nicotine addiction and all that goes with it is one of the toughest addictions to beat.
[American Thinker] "Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice" trumpeted the Science Daily website headline. Underneath, in bold, readers were informed that, "Long-lost ice core provides direct evidence that giant ice sheet melted off within the last million years." Which, the site then claimed, is smoking-gun evidence that the arctic ice sheets are "highly vulnerable to a warming climate."
Text of the article further enlightened those of us with inquiring minds, reading:
"Scientists found frozen plant fossils, preserved under a mile of ice on Greenland. The discovery helps confirm a new and troubling understanding that the Greenland Ice Sheet has melted entirely during recent warm periods in Earth's history -- like the one we are now creating with human-caused climate change. The new study provides strong evidence that Greenland is more sensitive to climate change than previously understood -- and at risk of irreversibly melting." (Emphases mine.)
All of us would-be scientists know ice melts when it gets warmer, but the Science Daily website drew exactly the wrong conclusions from the "stunning" discovery. How can the fact that the ice sheet once melted away entirely, subsequently regenerated, and is still around today...be proof that it is at risk of irreversibly melting??!
#7
Yeah, I enjoy the absolute precision of these 'scientists' too, a million here, a million there, pretty soon it adds up to 'real science' and 'Stunning Revelations'.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYP] Columbia University is planning to hold six additional graduation ceremonies for students according to their race and other aspects of how they identify.
[Washington Examiner] A senior executive at Facebook was secretly recorded saying that the social media giant harms the world, that it needs to be broken up, and that CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be removed.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.—With stimulus payments hitting bank accounts, initial reports indicate most of the money has already been spent by people trying to fill up their cars with gas.
[LI] The Guam National Guard apparently has soldiers stationed in D.C. as part of the charade that the Capitol remains under some dire threat requiring troops from around the nation to encamp in the nation’s capitol in a show of force for months.
[Wash Times] A movie about the life and times of Hunter Biden is in the works, but it’s not coming out of Hollywood.
