Students support diversity quotas...until it comes to football

Campus Reform    

'It doesn’t make much sense...it should be based on skill.' 

"Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson talked to students at the University of Florida on game day about diversity quotas. She first asked students if they support diversity quotas in hiring decisions and in college admissions processes. Most of the students said yes.

"“As a first generation college student from a Hispanic household, it’s very important,” one student said.

Another student said, “I think it’s an absolute necessity.”

“Absolutely, there should be more diversity in every single field,” another student told Campus Reform.

Jacobson then asked students if they support diversity quotas for sports teams. Most of the students said they would not support these quotas in sports. 

“We want to win no matter what you are,” one student said.

“I don't think we should. College sports is about getting the best players for your team, and I don't think we should focus on which race or ethnicity to get,” another student said.

“ 'It doesn’t make much sense...it should be based on skill,” one student told Campus Reform.

"Jacobson then showed students what the Florida Gators’ offensive lineup would look like if the team implemented diversity quotas based on student population demographics. Students didn’t think it would be fair to implement the quota for the team. 

"Did students change their mind on diversity quotas in the workplace and in college after seeing it from the perspective of college sports?

"Watch the full video above to find out. 

Suspect arrested for assassinating Brit MP is finally named by police, but the New York Times won’t print his name: Ali Harbi Ali

Thomas Lifson  "We can guess that British Member of Parliament Sir David Amess, cruelly and painfully stabbed to death while meeting with constituents, was likely targeted for his pro-Israel and philo-Semitic views, now that the name of the suspect arrested at the scene has

been released.

"Around 6 PM EDT Saturday, the UK Guardian first reported:

Sources have confirmed to the Guardian that the suspect’s name is Ali Harbi Ali, 25.

"Other British media picked up the story and added details. The Sunday Times and Evening Standard both chose to emphasize the suspect’s family as victims: “Father’s shock after son held over Sir David Amess murder” and “Terror suspect’s family have been left ‘traumatised’ by arrest.” They respectively headlined.

"It turns out that Mr. Ali already had been on the radar of the UK’s counter-terrorism apparatus:. .  . "

Who is Harbi Ali Kullane?(Terror suspect’s father reveals he is ‘feeling very traumatised’ by his son’s arrest in Sir David Amess murder probe )

The Somali father of the suspected terrorist who allegedly killed Conservative MP Sir David Amess in Friday’s horrific knife attack in Essex while meeting with constituents said he had been “ traumatized ” by the shock that his son was arrested for the crime.

Is “Insurrection” Cool Again? Climate Change Extremists Attempt To Storm Government Building

Climate protesters are pushing police, trying to force their way into the Department of the Interior where other activists have made it inside in an attempt to occupy the building. pic.twitter.com/IVhvPdTAYu

— Ellie Silverman (@esilverman11) October 14, 2021

Legal Insurrection

“It was global warming activists who tried to storm the Department of the Interior building. One officer was injured”

"Progressive climate change protesters stormed the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC this week. Is this an attack on our democracy? Was it worse than WWII and 9/11 combined?

"We’re patiently waiting for hyperventilating Democrats and media types to chime in on this outrage.

"Matt Vespa writes at Townhall:

So, We’re Just Going to Ignore a Bunch of Green Warriors Who Tried to Storm the Department of the Interior?

"It wasn’t the Capitol Building, but another insurrection occurred in Washington DC this week. Based on the liberal media’s rules, this was an attack on our democracy*, our principles, and it should shake us to our core. This isn’t who we are. Was this worse than 9/11? I don’t know.

"That’s what the establishment media thought of the January 6 riot. Are these domestic terrorists going to be arrested as well? Will there be a congressional committee to investigate how this heinous attack on our country occurred this week? Probably not. It was left-wingers. It was global warming activists who tried to storm the Department of the Interior building. One officer was injured…". . . 

All emphases in the original. 

CNN and MSNBC need people like this:

 Mr. Skambraks may be jeapordizing his career in broadcasting nby raising these questions, but as a man of conscience, he weites from the heart. We'll try to follow what happens to him.

Bookworm Room

German public broadcasting staffer decries suppression of Covid information: ‘I cannot do it anymore’  ..."Skambraks writes from an idealistic posture, calling on his organization to live up to its ideals as a public broadcaster.

From the beginning, I felt that public service broadcasting should fill precisely this space: promote dialogue between advocates of measures and critics, between people who are afraid of the virus and people who are afraid of losing their basic rights, between vaccination supporters and vaccination sceptics. For the past year and a half, however, the space for discussion has narrowed considerably.

Scientists and experts who were respected and esteemed before Covid, who were given space in public discourse, are suddenly labelled cranks, tinfoil hat wearers or Covidiots. (snip)

Instead of an open exchange of opinions, a “scientific consensus” was proclaimed, that must be defended. Anyone who doubts this and demands a multidimensional perspective on the pandemic, will reap indignation and scorn.

"He uses a German example of suppression of heterodox views:"

As an oft-cited example critical of the Government’s Covid-19 measures were labelled right-wingers. Which editor will still dare to voice similar ideas?...

TD: He will be pressured by the left to sink as low as these useful idiots: 

The faces of CNN

UPDATED: The woke storm DC: Dozens of 'extreme' climate change activists dubbed 'People vs Fossil Fuels' barge into Interior Department, leaving 'multiple cops and security' injured in scenes reminiscent of Jan. 6 Capitol riots

UK Daily Mail  "Dozens of climate activists have been arrested after they clashed with police in Washington DC and forced their way into the Interior Department building in scenes that some have called reminiscent of the US Capitol riot.

"An Interior Department spokeswoman said a group of demonstrators rushed the lobby on Thursday, injuring multiple security officers, at least of whom was taken to a nearby hospital. 

"Police and protesters clashed outside the building, and officers used Tasers and batons against several unarmed protesters, representatives for the activist group said. The group said 55 participants were arrested.

"The dramatic scenes came during five days of demonstrations in the capital organized by a Native American climate group calling itself 'People vs Fossil Fuels', which is demanding that President Joe Biden cease approvals for fossil fuel infrastructure and lead a renewable energy transformation. 

"Footage shared by Washington Post reporter Ellie Silverman shows protestors pushing their way into the Interior Department, while chanting 'sign the treaty' and 'protect the water'.

"An overwhelmed officer appears to flash his taser at the angry crowd gathered at the entrance to the federal building. " . . . 

Climate protesters are pushing police, trying to force their way into the Department of the Interior where other activists have made it inside in an attempt to occupy the building. pic.twitter.com/IVhvPdTAYu

— Ellie Silverman (@esilverman11) October 14, 2021

 Joy Reid of MSNBC: Jan. 6 was worse than 9/11   "MSNBC's reliably unhinged Joy Reid and network contributor Matthew Dowd agreed this week the riot, in which one protester was shot and killed, is probably worse than the Sept. 11 attacks, in which nearly 3,000 civilians were slaughtered in an act of political terrorism."...

Al and Joy

UPDATE: INSURRECTION: Climate Protesters Storm Dept Of Interior Offices, Multiple Cops Injured…  "OMG lock them up for 9 months in prison in solitary, insurrectionists!"

Via DailyMail:

Dozens of climate activists have been arrested after they clashed with police in Washington DC and forced their way into the Interior Department building in scenes that some have called reminiscent of the US Capitol riot.

An Interior Department spokeswoman said a group of demonstrators rushed the lobby on Thursday, injuring multiple security officers, at least of whom was taken to a nearby hospital.

Police and protesters clashed outside the building, and officers used Tasers and batons against several unarmed protesters, representatives for the activist group said. The group said 55 participants were arrested.

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Buttigieg is literally why we cannot have nice things

Don Surber

He fits in well with a president who surrendered Afghanistan to the enemy, and then went on vacation. The vice president spends all her time politicking, which is a mixed bag.

"The nation's chain of supplies is a mess because ships cannot unload their goods at ports in California. They cannot unload because the trucks aren't there. The trucks aren't there because the EPA banned most of them last October.

"Sundance reported the EPA last October made an agreement. Its spokesman said, "As trucks are one of the largest sources of air pollution in California, EPA will continue to ensure these heavy-duty vehicles have the needed pollution-control equipment and operate in compliance with the rules. These companies have agreed to bring their trucks into compliance and operate more cleanly in all communities they serve."

"This was a ban on most trucks serving California's ports.

"The backlog worsens by the day. Biden has said the shortages will ruin Christmas, which is OK since Fauci wants to ban Christmas again this year in the name of stopping the spread of covid, which is everywhere anyway.

"Meanwhile, the man who should be tending matters is on a vacation that began in August. After just six months on the job, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has taken a two-month vacation so he and his husband can enjoy the twins they adopted.

"They posed in a hospital bed when they adopted the infants, to give the appearance that they birthed them.". . . 

White House jumps to Pete Buttigieg's defense after he took paternity leave: Jen Psaki calls Transportation Secretary a role model for new parents while Republicans say administration is 'missing in action'

  " 'Transportation Secretary Buttigieg is on leave during a huge supply chain crisis. Secretary of State Blinken was on vacation while Afghanistan fell. Border Czar VP Harris is in hiding as the border is in chaos. This entire administration is missing in action — including Biden!' Rep. Jody Hice, R-Texas, wrote on Twitter.   

The Leftists' Bisexual, Self-Obsessed, Narcissistic Superman Is a Reflection of Themselves

 PJ Media

"When all is said and done, you expect the world to sacrifice to you, while giving nothing of yourselves. And ultimately,  that is the difference between you and Superman. Superman gives of himself for the good of the world. You expect the world to give of itself to satisfy you."...

"I shake my head quite a bit these days, and did so recently over the recent news that the latest incarnation of Superman will be bisexual. To be honest, Superman’s orientation was never a thing for me. It just did not figure into the mythos. Superman’s sexuality did not factor into the story arch—until it became convenient to co-opt him.

"Think for a moment. Superman’s real name was Kal-El. He came from a dead planet to do nothing but continuously give of himself for a home that was not his own. He sacrificed everything that you or I take for granted for a world that knew him not, and cared not one whit for his well-being. Time and again, he set himself aside for a people that were not his own, Kal-El, Clark Kent, Superman, whatever name he chose to use at any given moment recognized that there was something greater than himself. And despite the demands made on him, he always chose the greater good. He chose to place himself below the needs of a people and even an entire planet, none of which were his own.

"At his core, Superman is a 20th-century representation of Christ. A father gives his son to save a world that has collapsed under the weight of its own misdeeds. For some of you that might be a stretch, and for others, I have just committed heresy. But I ask you to think for a moment. While Superman may not be Christ, the overtones are undeniable: to give the last full measure of devotion for people who may never fully understand the sacrifice. Superman may not be Christ, but he is a minor equivalent in a 20th-century morality play. And in addition, Christopher Reeve, after his accident, still inspired people to be more than what life had dealt them.

"Those of you on the Right may struggle with that analogy of Superman as Christ. And that is fine. Work through it. My beef is not with you. It is with those on the Left. For those of you who are salivating over the idea of a bisexual Superman for no other reason than it allows you to put a thumb in the eyes of traditionalists, enjoy your moment of snark.

"Superman was and is great not for his sexuality or lack thereof. Superman was and is great because he cared or cares for more than something greater than himself. You on the Left, by contrast, care for nothing except yourselves. You make Superman a bisexual, self-obsessed narcissist because you yourselves are self-obsessed narcissists." . . . 

Our Transportation Secretary isn't much up to the job.

Now, Biden has Circleback Girl Jen Psaki admitting they’ve ruined Christmas, the president is stumbling through speeches calling for the Port of Long Beach to be open 24/7, prices are skyrocketing and American retail is beginning to take on a Venezuelan feel.

   The American Spectator  "It’s hard not to recall the scene when examining the worsening situation of our national supply chain, in which hundreds of thousands of shipping containers are sitting idle on ships anchored off California ports and in warehouses and distribution facilities while shelves at stores — and worse, at groceries and supermarkets — begin to empty.

"And Thursday, what was inevitable became reality when Republicans on Capitol Hill began pointing the finger at America’s version of Prince Edward, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

"Buttigieg is a rather queer choice for Transportation Secretary. Not just because he’s a member of the LGBTQ community, and obnoxiously so. Buttigieg ran for president in 2020 not so much on the strength of his accomplishments, of which there were none; he was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a college town of 100,000 people which exists more or less to service the University of Notre Dame and largely runs itself except for its peculiarly elevated murder rate during his time in office. He ran on the fact that he is openly, and obnoxiously, gay — the central precept of his campaign being that Christians objecting to his lifestyle were bad at religion while he is not.

"This interesting brew of queer sanctimony and absence of any demonstrable executive success was strangely attractive to the Democrat base electorate, so much so that Buttigieg fared far better than many of the more accomplished contenders in the 2020 primary field like Tom Steyer, Mike Bloomberg, Andrew Yang or even Kamala Harris.

"As such, Buttigieg was given the job of Transportation Secretary without any particular reason to think he could do it. Somewhat like Prince Edward had the defense of the realm dropped in his rather leaky lap.

"The results have been predictable, though the optics around them have not. We were always going to have supply chain challenges given the disruptions from COVID-19 and the bad public policy decisions arising from them. But naturally, the emanations and penumbras from the Green New Deal being put in place in places like California have all but destroyed the trucking industry, and COVID lockdowns haven’t made things any better. While the supply chain situation was bad even before the Biden administration took office, every decision it has made has failed to improve things.

"Now, Biden has Circleback Girl Jen Psaki admitting they’ve ruined Christmas, the president is stumbling through speeches calling for the Port of Long Beach to be open 24/7, prices are skyrocketing and American retail is beginning to take on a Venezuelan feel.

"Which led Sen. Tom Cotton to open up on Buttigieg…

Pete Buttigieg finally comes out of the woodwork on supply chain mess -- to complain about Tucker Carlson   

Who the heck cares? The supply chain is collapsing, shortages are getting Venezuelan-looking, inflation is heating up, all as a result of the supply chain breakdown. But Pete's more interested in salving his wounded pride, playing identity politics cards as the "first" gay transportation secretary, and busy trying to gauge Carlson's motives in a disguised counterattack on Carlson. Who cares?

Are Our Systems Failing?

We're fond of calling government employees "public servants."  They are nothing of the sort.  They are a necessary evil at best.  The real public servants are those who keep the engine of commerce running.  Without them, the engine stops — and we die.

  John Green  "Who is John Galt?  In the classic novel Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand described a future world in which proliferating regulations and restrictions progressively rob the world's most productive people of the fruits of their labor.  One such person (John Galt), offended that he was denied the rewards of his work, swears that he will "stop the engine of the world."  And he does — by disappearing and taking the world's best producers with him.  Without society's most productive members, world systems begin to fail.  Utilities, transportation, and manufacturing become unreliable.

" 'Who is John Galt?" is a question becoming relevant for us.  Our systems are slowly failing before our very eyes.

"Our supply chain has been failing for months — and we're only now becoming aware of it.  I fear that our leadership still is unaware of this failure's seriousness.  Fully loaded cargo ships languish off our coast for weeks, waiting to be unloaded — while store shelves sit empty for lack of the products on those ships.

"Energy costs are skyrocketing.  The price at the pump is forcing families to make hard decisions.  Natural gas has increased in price so much that the government is predicting a cold, expensive winter for many Americans.  Yet we live in the most energy-rich country in the world.  With such an abundance, why is it so hard to make fuel affordably available?

"Crime is rampant.  Police face retribution (and even prosecution) for enforcing the law if it's caught on the wrong cell phone camera.  Their response has been predictable.  They've stopped doing anything proactive.  They're happy to investigate crimes that have already been committed.  But they're not going to do anything to stop criminal acts in progress — It's too personally risky.". . . 

The Historical Falsification of Columbus’ ‘Crimes’

The American Spectator

In recent decades, Christopher Columbus has been demonized out of ignorance, hatred, and spite.

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.  — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. — George Orwell, 1984

"There are misconceptions, some of them benevolent, some malignant, some neutral, that, repeated, persist for a very long time in spite of their not being true. One such misconception is that Christopher Columbus set out on his voyage to dispel the popular view of his time that the world was flat. In reality, that idea was an urban legend that originated in the mid-1800s. No one, as far back as the Ancient Greeks, really thought that the earth was flat.

"But there are other misconceptions about Columbus that are extremely malignant. In recent decades, Christopher Columbus has been demonized. He has been called a war criminal, a thief, a rapist, a bumbling fool, and someone who carried out genocide. These accusations have supposedly been the basis for the recent vandalism and destruction of statues in America of Christopher Columbus in the cities of Richmond, St. Paul, Baltimore, Miami, Wilmington, San Antonio, Sacramento, St. Louis, Detroit, Trenton, Buffalo, Boston, and Providence (in Providence, the vandalism was done by a middle school teacher). In states controlled by Democrats, Columbus Day has been replaced by Indigenous Peoples’ Day, particularly during anniversaries of his discovering the New World (an instance of cultural appropriation), while some Republicans in Congress are trying to replace Columbus Day with Juneteenth Day.

"There is just one problem. The “crimes” that these individuals — and they curiously seem to be in a perpetual state of hysterics — attribute to him is a total fabrication. Not true. Not true at all. They are fictional." 

"What makes matters worse is that the few defenders appear to be equally ignorant, and have accepted the defamation, arguing that regardless of his crimes, his exploratory achievements are praiseworthy — which, if anything, goes to show the power of repetition.

"There is not one single historical source in existence that substantiates any of the “crimes.” "Not one. "None!" . . .

Has Gutfeld saved late night television comedy?

It began with the likes of Letterman who would occasionally display viciousness against his ideological opponents, and now we have the Daily Show, Colbert, and Kimmel who rarely display civility towards  their ideological opponents.Jay Leno was the last TV comedian who was an equal opportunity offender from whom entertainment was the goal.

Remember when late-night TV was fun: 

 

American Thinker  . . ."It was ironic that Baldwin branded those who disliked him as hateful since irrepressible rage and hatred are the sole motivations behind his uncouth caricature of President Trump on SNL.

"If humor were the objective, SNL would have continued with Darrel Hammond’s hilarious impression of Trump.

"It has to be remembered that after Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election in 2016, SNL had Kate McKinnon as Clinton, doing a mournful rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” It was almost as if a national tragedy of epic proportions had occurred, which forbade comedy.

"So how did we get here?

"We go back to far-left community activist and political theorist Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals, a user manual for the radical modern left.

"In the fifth of the thirteen rules, Alinsky states the following:

"Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

"This rule perfectly elucidates the objective of contemporary American comedy.  They are far-left PACs masquerading as comedians. 

"Until Greg Gutfeld came along, every television comedy show including, SNL, the late-night shows an sitcoms followed Alinsky’s fifth rule most assiduously.

"When they are called out for going too far they quote George Carlin regarding the duty of the comedian to find where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.  They also will claim to be speaking “truth to power.”

Then there was the time Johnny had fun with Biden's 1988 theft of Neil Kinnock's British speech:

Government Grinches waiting in the wings

 White House in Full Crisis Mode Over the Fate of Christmas  "If Joe Biden had been asked to create a scenario where he was 100 percent guaranteed to lose his re-election bid, the supply-chain crisis would top the list.

"Even though it’s still nearly three years to Election Day, a ruined Christmas is the kind of catastrophe that the American people will never forget — or forgive.

"It may not be entirely Joe Biden’s fault. This is, after all, a global economy, and what happens in many other nations impacts the U.S. in different ways. But Biden’s nameplate is on the door to the room at the White House that says “Boss.” He will be blamed because that’s the way the game has been played for more than 230 years and it’s pretty late in the game to pretend otherwise.

"The steps Biden is taking to try and head off a complete political catastrophe are more for show than a genuine effort to mitigate the problem. Indeed, aside from jawboning, there isn’t much the president can do."...

Will Ron DeSantis Save Christmas?  "The media has been very busy issuing warnings to American consumers of late. CNN told us to get ready for emptier shelves. News outlets suggested shopping early for Christmas to avoid shortages. Pictures of dozens of container ships off the West Coast that are not allowed to dock have gone viral.  

"What can a concerned consumer do? Head to Florida.". . . 

. . . "As a couple of astute articles explain, the problem is that California has passed two laws—one for “climate change” and the other as a sop to the unions—that destroyed much of California’s trucking industry.

"Add in woes unique to the industry and COVID payments that discourage people from working and...voila!...empty Christmas stockings.

"Stephen Green, at PJ Media, explains some of what’s going on.". . . 

But of course, the more serious underlying problem is that, in a distant, wonderful past, America didn’t need to rely on containers from Asia to fill her store shelves and Christmas stockings. America was a manufacturing dynamo that fulfilled American needs and still had enough left over for the rest of the world. Those things were well-made, too.

  Marsha Blackburn Blasts Buttigieg on Supply Chain Crisis: ‘Get Back to Work or Leave the Department   ..."Blackburn’s comments come after Politico reported that Buttigieg has been on paid leave since mid-August, electing to spend time with his husband, Chasten, and their two newborn babies rather than doing his job as transportation secretary."...

"You have reached the office of Transportation Secretary Mr. Buttigieg. Your call is very important to me...