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And I love that we are in a new age called “The Reckoning™️” 🤣 Priceless, and fun to watch. We have to ensure we pass on our dogged determination and patriotism to our youth so that it is a lonnnnng age.
The good news is that they’ve apparently run through all the first names they know, and we only have to endure a few hundred initials. Maybe then they’ll stop “ putting MRNA vax in our food!” 🤣🤣🤣
THANK YOU TO ALL ON HERE THAT CALLED, EMAILED OR SHOWED UP IN ORLANDO TO OUST THE ONO NO BONO MAN!!!!! ALBERT GAVE HIM THE CHOMP AS HE WAS THROWN OUT THE DOOR!!!!!! HAIL TO UF BOG FOR MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION. WE ALL MADE THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE WOKE IS BROKE.
Thank you for the email link!!! One of the best emails I got to send. Voicing my Florida resident stand against all things woke and even those who think they can backtrack! Nope! No free rides because you suddenly can’t remember or don’t believe that anymore after terrorizing college campuses. 👎🏻
Reminded me of a time when I was a teenager (17). I had just completed a ton of body work on a '68 Karmann Ghia and decided to take my 15-year-old girlfriend out to teach her how to drive with a stick shift. We went to a large but traffic-free street in our neighborhood. She was doing ok, with the usual bumpy starts and stalls (I'd been riding motorcycles for 9 years at that point, so my understanding of a clutch made my transition to stick shift so much easier).
Then it was time to teach her backing up. On a big, wide empty street, she suddenly couldn't find the clutch or the brake while in reverse, and panicking, "found" the only light pole on the block with the back end of my car. It was disappointing, to say the least.
When I got back home, I found the center of the dented area, drilled a hole in it, inserted a half-inch eye bolt with a fender washer behind it, and chained it to the light pole in front of my house. I then drove away from the pole several times until the dent pulled out, at least to the point where my hatch engaged and the body was straight enough for another layer of Bondo..
I bought a ‘69 (stick shift) Karmann Ghia when I was 17. Still my favorite car! Although I was pretty good at parallel parking, it was a standard joke among my friends that the last time they would ever parallel park was the day they passed their driver’s license test.
@Martha- my dream car- honest!- is a '70-'74 VW Bug, stick. And yes, most of my friends do not parallel park. Meanwhile, I LOVE to parallel park and can even park a full sized school bus!
My mother-in-law (may she rest in peace) used to have a bright yellow '72 Super beetle that she drove around everywhere in Sonora California, hills and all. She had to quit driving at the age of 89 because two different rear end accidents by young impatient drivers gave her too much anxiety. And she had just passed her driver's test the year before with 100%.
I totally agree! I loved the VWs from that era. My parents had the Bug, I had the Karmann Ghia and my sister had the Rabbit. All of them were great fun to drive!!!!
I learned to drive on my Dad's stick shift VW hatchback, then when my husband and I got married in 1969 we had a 1964 VW Bug that he had bought for $1800...loved it! It was oh so easy to parallel park in that little bug!
I hope so, too!! In the town where I live now, we have to parallel park if we want to shop in the very charming downtown area. Glad I learned how when I was a teenager!!!
And I’m glad you were so creative at repairing the body of your Karmann Ghia! A lot of guys I knew back then would repair their own dents, but I think you win the ingenuity award!!!!
My ingenuity arose from desperation. I'd just sunk six months worth of work to straighten that car out - it was pretty beat up when I got it. I just applied the reverse of the force applied to the dent...
At a women’s conference, on a rainy day with a too small parking lot, the speaker said after observing that parking lot that her husband always said, “Women don’t park cars. They abandon them!”🤣🤣🤣
I became an expert parallel parker in college, due to not having purchased space in the door parking garage. So I was reduced to parking in Greek row and having to make the long walk back to the dorms, and whatever tiny space was available for my subcompact car was what I parallel parked into. I could shoehorn myself into any space.
@Doug- my older daughter had her license for one hour less than a full week when she and her friends took her Chevy Cavalier (what a great car!) to our very old village. She parallel parked and managed to find the only remaining hitching post, rippling the entire side of the car. Eventually her younger sister inherited the car then we sold it, all with the ripple.
I ran into my new garage doors, separately, with both cars in the last 10 yrs. The Tow hitch hit first. I put a wide oak board on the other side of the cheap-ass aluminum panel and kicked it a few times.
OK on the OUTSIDE but a bit rumpled on the inside! Hey, the door is UP most of the time anyway. . .
@Old Guy- our son decided to hit hockey pucks against our then new garage door. We had dimples in it for years before we replaced the door. AND the door was 1 month old when our then 3 yr old managed to get out of her carseat in the warming up, fast idle car (yes, we knew how to properly restrain kids. She was an escape artist in many ways), climbed over the seat, and put it in drive. Husband had gone into the house to help her older sister find her boots while our son was IN THE GARAGE sitting on a snowmobile that, thank God, was sitting right in front of the door, back end facing door. He was screaming and the 3 yr old was wandering around like it was an every day occurance (this was a '79 Pontiac so no brake required to get the vehicle out of park). Husband pounded it back into shape, somewhat. Kids.....
This reminded me of another stupid thing I did as a teen... This one wasn't my fault, entirely.
The neighborhood I lived in had several hills, and we were all into skateboarding. One fun thing to do was for two people to sit on their boards facing each other at the top of a hill, interlock arms and put your feet on each other's board tips, give a little scoot and ride sideways down the hill - we called it "catamaraning".
The best hill (of course) teed into another street at the bottom, so when we did this there, we had to lean really hard to pull off that turn at 20-some-odd miles an hour. Being stupid kids, we never posted a lookout at the bottom, so there was always the chance we'd plow into - or be plowed into - by a car going by on that street. One time a car went by just before we arrived, and we followed so closely we could have grabbed his bumper and extended the ride.
On the occasion in question, unbeknownst to me, my buddy had tightened up his trucks (the pivoting mechanism that allows skateboard wheels to turn) the day before, making his turning very stiff. So stiff, in fact, tat when it came time for us to make the turn at the bottom, we couldn't. I'm yelling at him, "turn! Turn, M-fer!" But his board was just too stiff. We ended up going straight up the driveway of the house at the bottom and plowing sideways into their garage door.
Somehow, I don't remember it hurting very much, even though we hit it HARD. It was a single-panel wooden garage door, and the force of us smacking into it pushed it inward, wedging it against the slab about three inches inside its normal resting place. The impact made a huge noise too - we hightailed it out of there as quickly as possible.
I felt bad for the people who lived there - they were going to have a hard time getting their car out in the morning. The kid I was with was the kind who always avoided getting in trouble by running away, and I just went along with it.
We got away with so much in the days before Ring cameras. I feel sorry for the kids today - everything now is monitored and observed - there's no wiggle room for crazy adventures and borderline delinquency.
Back in the day when we really were taught how to parallel park, at 17 I could park that car like nobody’s business. Although I was never a cheerleader. lol…
As the grandfather of a (almost 17 year old cheerleader) who is whip smart, courageously outspoken and full of common sense I don't think it was all that funny. This is coming from a dedicated fan of Childers and his delicious employment of sarcasm.
I, a retired pollce officer who made a lot of traffic stops in my day (Miami area), agree with Mr. Childers. NO young person has the initial skill set to operate a motor vehicle very well initially. Boys are worse because they think they can and ther raging hormones interfere, but I digress.
Now days there are few places for people to actually parallel park and no reason to practice.
You mentioned in your description all sorts of wonderful characteristics, but not that she is a gifted driver. Girls are generally the most distracted drivers and women not much better. I hate saying that about my own gender (from birth), but it is true. I can generally spot a female driver in traffic when I can't even see the driver.
Ladies, you need to get better at paying attention.
WOW! How right you are. Shame on ME! I was recently at the gym. I do some stretching things that make men cry. A teenage boy was there with his parents and doing some amazing stuff. I asked if he studies ballet (as I did)? Nope- he is a cheerleader and headed to college with a full ride scholarship!
Thanks for the reminder! Almost nobody can parallel park!
"Almost nobody..." Hardly. I learned to parallel park along with every other requirement for driving a car when I was a teenager with a Learner's Permit.
Funny way to describe a boy… and I have a boy. I would not use any of those words. And mine is a bio-medical engineer PHD at 27… and all descriptions would fit him… I just would not use feminine words to describe my son.
What are the feminine words used to describe anyone? It is a natural assumption that a cheerleader is a female. That wasn't the case at my university or the fellows with whom I studied ballet or the kid I met at the gym. People hear my background and are shocked that I'm not male. I got over it about 50 years ago.
I am a retired Navy Helicopter Pilot… I always get ask whose wife am I. People make assumptions. I don’t care that they make the it… I care that the women behind me get the opportunity to fly if it is something that they want to do. Back then, I loved the fact that I was breaking down barriers…an attractive 5’5” feminine pilot was not what came to anyone’s mind.
I used to think there was something to the "spatial reasoning" issue until I had to pack vehicles and boxes, or arrange furniture in a room with my wife. Soon I realized every woman I know, my wife foremost in the lineup, are better than any man on sight--doing the grunt work of lifting--at knowing what will fit where.
@Running- I LOVE it when Le Bird (husband) goes grocery shopping with me because he excels at Tetris-like things! He was going to go to school for mechanical engineering, which explains a lot (ok. Everything), but ended up as a diesel mechanic extraordinaire.
RIght. My wife can see that an item will fit in a given spot in the back of the truck way better than I can. We are both the offspring of engineer fathers--but she has the spatial thing 2X better than me. She is also a cat whisperer.
I guess I'm an anomaly then. I always was competitive and generally won the police driving schools. Women do have better fine motor skills and often are superior shooters. I don't like having to be dependent on anyone. I wasn't raised to be one to wait around to be "driven." to each their own.
I am a very attentive driver so also don’t fit the stereotype. It’s always annoying to me when I can see that other drivers are not paying attention to what they’re doing or to the other cars around them 😕
Sometimes I do like being driven so I can look at the scenery though 😆 And I hate driving at night especially when it’s raining hard, my slight astigmatism is problematic for that.
I retired in South America and the drivers in this country are terrible. So I prefer to be driven by one of them who does it for a living and has survived years of it. Also in an accident, all parties are thrown in jail until it's sorted out. I don't have car payments, gas, insurance, parking, or inspections. Taxis are plentiful and cheap.
Yes, PLEASE pay attention, and get off the cell phone. Text/talkers have no idea how obvious and infuriating they are to drivers stacked up behind them.
C. Wilson, what do you make of the NYT gushing over predictive policing algorithms? Everything techy trendy fascinates the knee-jerk left, but isn’t it similar to stop and frisk, broken windows, and profiling? I thought NYT despised those techniques back in the day.
Getting them off devices is a boat that sailed a long time ago. Hope for hands free.
NOTHING beats boots on the ground with humans doing the policing. Police, rightfully, are skittish because everyone makes complaints now and they don't get backing. So, every contact risks their livelihood and pension. Very few police are corrupt or bad actors. So, I understand that. I bagpipe for more than 100 police/fire type events annually. I hear their concerns. Tech is issuing a lot of bad tickets around where I live in S Florida. Even when "erased" you still have a ticket on your record. Insurance issues? You bet.
Here is what I say to having machines make these decisions....garbage in- garbage out.
Every community gets the police department it deserves. My college professor who had been a beat cop in NYC in the 1930s stressed that.
Statistically, crime drops when tickets are written. A machine isn't going to run the driver and make the arrest for the outstanding warrant.
My otherwise bright non-cheerleader daughter hit her teachers car whilst attempting to park in a straight in spot on the first day of school earning the name “crash” for the rest of high school….so I have to side with (painfully) hilarious on this one.
My then teenage nephew side-swiped a basketball pole on the side of my parents’ driveway backing his car out. In trying to extricate himself he then proceeds to dent the door several more times going forward and back, scraping it each time. In recalling this now I can’t stop laughing!
How many of us conveniently forget the vehicle mishaps in our lives. I put a few dents in cars since I began driving 50+ years ago, many long before I turned 50 so I am not blaming old age here either. I failed my first drivers test at 16. I successfully manuvered the parallel park portion but darn curb jumped under the back tire as I rounded a corner causing me to fail. Passed the next one. Now I tell everyone that like 'Rainman' "I'm an exchellent driver, exshellent" 🤣🤣😉
@Matt- I was parked in the school parking lot when a student hit my car, tearing a slice into the plastic and scraping it. He left but the security guard saw who did it. Turns out he was the son of friends. So I put ketchup on some gauze sponges and taped them to the 'boo-boo', snapped pics, and mailed them to the parents. I got an apology from the kid, the car fixed, and a good laugh from the parents.
Kitty, you are my kind of feline… that is absolutely perfect. When I was “teaching” my daughter how to park she gunned it over the cement thingy bursting the tire… she then learned how to change a tire. I should have hired her a permanent driver (pre Uber) and saved myself a lot of $$ and vehicles.
@Matt- ya gotta love kids. My younger daughter broke the engine cradle twice on my mother's car. Our son twisted the driveshaft out of one of our cars. My granddaughter slammed on the brakes on my Land Rover and touched off the Three Amigos which stayed in until I sold it. Ah, children.....
Agreed Mike. As a 16 year old cheerleader (born in 1954), it took me three tries to parallel park during my driver's test in the family '63 stick-shift Chevy Biscayne. I'll admit I looked the ditzy part with long bleached-blonde hair, but I managed to graduate with honors from a prestigious nursing school. But I don't take Jeff's comments seriously....much.
A ‘63 Biscayne!!! My first car was a ‘62, so nearly identical. If it wasn’t for a steer in the road at midnight, I was going to replace the “3 on the tree” with a floor shifter among other things to make it cool. And hot.
Yes it was a station wagon; in retrospect a "board wagon." I'm still proud I could parallel park on the streets of my small town without slipping the clutch. Such good memories.
I thought it was hilarious and relatable. I'm not 17, nor a cheerleader. I'm 48 and still can't parallel park. It's not offensive, it's a joke, laugh. It would only be offensive if he called out your grand daughter personally.
My young daughter couldn't see out of the back of her car because the windows were frosted up in North Dakota so she backed up until she hit something (another car).
My daughter had a 4.29 in HS, 3.95 at VT for her bachelors and 3.97 in her masters. Jeff was exactly on par with a 17 year old girl. Smart doesn’t mean that the hormones are all over the place… and this is coming for a woman who has been there.
@Mike- clearly there are exceptions. Most of us found it hilarious. My older daughter is a brilliant Pre-K teacher and administrator but sometimes she trips over dust. My younger daughter? Bull in a china shop but she can drive anything and play any sport.
"Immunologist"... Academics seem to believe that titles cover a multitude of sins. For example, take the title "Oncologist", a title that is assumed to mean "cancer expert". In reality, an oncologist is a chemo-therapy specialist/technician. They only have one tool in their toolbox... chemotherapy. When the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.
THANK YOU TO ALL ON HERE THAT CALLED, EMAILED OR SHOWED UP IN ORLANDO TO OUST THE ONO NO BONO MAN!!!!! ALBERT GAVE HIM THE CHOMP AS HE WAS THROWN OUT THE DOOR!!!!!! HAIL TO UF BOG FOR MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION. WE ALL MADE THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE WOKE IS BROKE.
Hey Lori…just wanted to let you know that when you put everything in caps, it means you are yelling. Don’t mean this as criticism… just thought maybe you didn’t know. Most people will just pass it as it is hard to read. I did.
Hi Lincoln, I was ecstatic so I wrote in caps!! Caps to me do not mean I am screaming. Please just bypass my comments if and when you see them in caps or with punctuation you do not like. Cheers!
Well said. Immunologists anagrams to 'mogo multi sins' so yes, plenty of sins!
Technically one could add immunotherapy to chemotherapy but they come in the same department (I had some of the wretched stuff in 2020 until I realised what was going on).
Oncologists anagrams to 'tool cog sins' so more sins. I think the tool is the stupid oncologist! I had one idiot come outside to see me when I was refusing to wear a mask in June 2020 when the silliness was brought in for NHS. He said he had to care for his staff. I said You don't care for your staff...' at which point he walked off. These idiots forget about basic health and safety and individual concerns and needs.
I won eventually and had my treatment session although it would have been better not to.
We are long overdue redefining anti-civil-rights, anti-American-values DEI as “a fatal liability” and “disqualifier.” Please, sir, I would like some more “bitter conservative backlash.”
Baldmichael - I must say that your brain isn't wired like most of ours:) I sure appreciated your out-of-the-box thinking and framing of all of the words and notions you explored in your "explanation" of DEI. It was the right amount of ridiculousness to expose the ridiculousness of the DEI movement. Thanks for the chuckles and the brain-training:)
Fun and brilliant! Thank you. I agree that confusion is DEI’s end-game, and maximum impact requires equitable govt employment for dementia patients to represent the disabled. Or unable, but hey, what’s the difference? “Heard immunity,” eh? 😂
Yes, I've realized that vaccine mandates proponents are far more terrifying than DEI proponents, although of course there is a great deal of overlap. But there were "conservative " vaccine mandate promoters, too, and many conservatives who quietly went along.
Nazis weren't into DEI, but they were into forcing people, so to me it is the more sinister ideology to think Public Health has the right to tell people to shut up and do what they're told, to accept the piercing of their bodies and the injecting of a barely tested dangerous substance. So I wish a bigger deal had been made of his mandate stance above everything else. I want the message that Americans reject that to sound loud and clear!
And it seems MAHA has been hijacked by this FDA Makary. Still pushing blatant lies. I read this awhile ago:
No version of the PSYOP-19 “vaccine” ever prevented transmission, attenuated symptoms, addressed any active viral strains, or did much anything else other than induce VAIDS while genetically modifying those that were tricked into subjecting themselves to these democide poisons — which means that now that the majority of society has been transformed into genetically modified human spike protein factories that are severely immunocompromised such that any “variant” of any common cold could quite literally kill them off, this FDA commissioner is running cover for the ongoing VAIDS epidemic that is set to wipe out ever larger swaths of the “vaccinated.”
Agree 💯. The trustees of the University of Florida need to be vetted and removed. They approved him in the 1st place. I don't think they are good stewards for the University.
I think UF is in Gainesville where it is full of liberals. Please correct me if I am wrong but that is what I thought when I read that they all voted for him.
If the "University" is the sole first level of selection, why would we think their next choice will be significantly more into our line of thinking. It seems like there needs to be some oversight or guidance during the process or we might just waste another year.
So, thank you Board of Governors. I sent a comment into that Blog? (site) that we were given yesterday asking for a no vote. I went to UF BSBA 1967. My 3 daughters went to UF. Now their children are college age and one of the big criteria for them and their friends is how much leftwing bias and overreach there is at each college and how much violence they tolerate (should be none).
That's the key....being forced. Whether it's through social pressure, mandates, cancellation, or censorship, no one wants to be forced to accept something they know is b.s. Using force to achieve a particular political or socio-economic outcome is at the heart of fascism.
I fear we will have Dr. Ono back in Canada, where DEI is thriving and data are not needed to impose a mandate- merely the lift of a finger from the PMO.
I thought the same. He's going to be persona non-grata to both sides of the political divide. Good luck Oh No! Might be time for that early retirement!
He may not fit in as well as he once did. Now he’s on record claiming many of the woke values still welcomed in Canada “no longer align with his current thinking”.
Canada is like Oregon but even more nonsensical and ignorant. Most citizens are slaves to ideology and spoon fed by the government.
The fact is that any “liberal “ party requires total obedience and mental submission from it’s members. Conservatives actually are the most mentally free and independent thus are less inclined to submit to idiocy than liberals. Conservatives demand freedom and sovereignty above any party or ideology.
That’s why conservative parties are growing in popularity amongst young people. They have seen that you lose everything to be a liberal and become enslaved to insane doctrines.
Like SCOTUS Ketanji Jackson not having enough data to know what a woman is. This is just more evidence that you can earn a sheepskin from the finest universities and still be dumb as a box of rocks.
100%. Informed consent over mandates. Always. Regardless of the data, which, best case scenario, will all sort itself out in the informed consent process. Whenever I mentioned the Nuremberg Code during the you-know-what, I’d get a lot of blank looks.
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. And the world is passing away, and also its lusts, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.
THANK YOU TO ALL ON HERE THAT CALLED, EMAILED OR SHOWED UP IN ORLANDO TO OUST THE ONO NO BONO MAN!!!!! ALBERT GAVE HIM THE CHOMP AS HE WAS THROWN OUT THE DOOR!!!!!! HAIL TO UF BOG FOR MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION. WE ALL MADE THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE WOKE IS BROKE.
Recently a memory came up of something I posted on my public FB page some years ago: Those who read the Bible are not surprised at what is happening in the world. Grieved, but not surprised.
Amongst the tearing down, their are still many marvels He made for us and I am enjoying as many as possible! They keep me happy, grounded and astounded!
Why should I not love the beautiful world that God made? Loving the physical realities of earth, sky and sea doesn't involve lust or pride. Beauty is holy, too.
Possibly it’s the interpretation of the word “love” and “world” that matters here. “Love” to such an extent that you actually worship it or elevate it above all else, even God, giving it more devotion and attention than you give God the Father…
… and the “world” as in what man has created and devised, not God. “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”
It’s yet another warning to not place things higher than God Himself.
The amazing and complex Creation is absolute evidence of a Creator. The big lie of evolution is still being taught in public schools and universities. No wonder we have "godless" people in positions of power.
Yes, the problem we have is as SuezCanal says, English is limited. Where in 1 John 2:15 it talks about not loving the world (kosmon from kosmos), the love word is from agape suggesting sacrificial love, that is sacrificing ones energies in pursuit of what is passing, building up treasures on earth instead of in heaven.
"Anyway, that’s my take. Let me know what you think in the comments."
Anybody who has ever gotten a notice from Anjolisa Scuttlebutt or Benwahin Krup from the IRS stating that you are guilty until you send half of all the money you own ( a one time offer) ....or , prove that you are innocent within 7 days ....
will surely not welcome even more "data collectors" who never seem to make a dent in the shenanigans of corporate America or the elite , where resistance is not futile, but rather enjoy making up phony aliases and preying on the plumbers and self employed of the population.
Other than that ........ sure, sounds like a great bunch of guys to MAGA . "We're here for you . We're your Pal . We're Palentir !"
We have to clean up voter records so dead people and illegal aliens aren’t voting. Palantir can be used to do that. We say we are a democracy, but if we can’t protect our right to fair elections, we have no democracy.
And now Ai can duplicate our voices. Autopen can sign for us too. Our car GPS will snitch us out, and they know what we buy at the grocery store with barcodes and debit cards coordinated. 🤷♀️
But I do love the things in the world that God created for us; the trees, sky, waterfalls, fields of flowers, hummingbirds, sloths, rainforests, seas, snow and the whole kit and kaboodle. His work is marvelous and leaves one inspired just looking at nature and how it works; all because of Him. How could I not love and adore what He has wrought? And I do love my Lord. His imagination leaves me awestruck every day. The beauty I see with my eyes is from Him and I am forever grateful for the gifts He made for all of us. My 2 cents worth.
Perhaps we should compare Earthly and Worldly. Earthly means the beauty of Nature to me. Worldly means being involved with The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, if you get my drift. Sex, Drugs, & rock n roll. Corruption and greed. Deceit and treachery. Seduction and betrayal. Did you ever see the movie "Dangerous Liaisons"? THAT'S the World in a nutshell for me.
Euphemisms as weapons. “Illegal alien” is a true term. Shall we call a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist?” And so on. They already tried to foist “minor-attracted person” on us. Pure, pure evil.
Orwell teaches us that language manipulation corrupts thought. It is a good thing that this attempt at manipulation was nipped in the bud, and the manipulators voted out of office.
And.....I'm also SICK of how the spelling of words are butchered! I get so tired of spending several seconds trying to pronounce a common word spelled stupidly....AHGGG
I may be crazy.......... but all media presentations are accepted in my brain as language manipulation . And how much of even everyday interaction can be put down as such?
Nowadays I'm keeping it simple ...... Hi ! Have a nice day .
When I was in college in the 80s, a learned that a review of newspaper crime reports showed that the race of the accused was normally included if they were black, but normally not mentioned if they were white. Forty years later the situation has reversed 180 degrees. Now white (and Hispanic) perpetrators are identified as such. If an article makes zero reference to race, that’s current code for “the accused was black”.
That’s what the woke consider “equity”. The named races were reversed, but everyone still knows the races of the accused from media coding. All that university research, teaching, virtue signaling and media giving each other awards for fighting the “far right nationalist white supremacists” and, just on that one tiny issue of bias in crime reports, the media is no more color blind than they were 40 years ago. They never aimed for color blindness. Their goal was (and is) always to perfect the pretense of being holier than thou.
We have an unhoused person problem. Not as evil as MAP for sure, but sick of pc. Oh, and no more obese. I am not sure of new term- excess calorie disorder?
Looking at the spectators at most sporting events it is way too obvious that a Large percentage of them are "plump" ...... and definitely Not pleasantly so .
Wokeness introduces ambiguity and is intended is to make palatable something that is not, by lumping it in with neutral or acceptable descriptions. Snowy land peoples communicate their observations of the world with almost limitless variants of the word "snow." We are doing the opposite. The comedian who described a criminal by saying, "He looka like a man" succinctly stated where wokism was going except to even use that description is a "hate crime" and according to some no longer an accurate, helpful identifier for gender or sex status. But, by God, healthcare providers won't miss out on their billing line item by failing to call out obesity, exactly in those words, when they see it - and frequently when they don't.
I hate that even supposedly conservative media is calling these people “migrants”! Regardless of status. To make them sound more sympathetic. Drives me nuts 😡
Let’s just call them what they are, criminal border-crossers. Describes the action leading to them being illegally present in our country. Nothing to do with “immigration status.”
Leftists want to normalize “minor attracted persons” and make saying things that are even slightly “racist” grounds for making one an outcast and unemployable. Guess which person is more dangerous - a minor attracted person, or a closet racist?
Off topic but Military Whistleblower LTC Theresa Long, MD posted the following on X:
"1 year into the military vax mandate, I requested and the CDC provided me with a report that 119 servicemembers died after vaccination and had VAERS reports filed. Where are the reports? Who investigated those reports? Americans don't thank us for our service...stand up and demand an accounting of these deaths!"
By the way, LTC Long is a flight surgeon at Fort Novosel (Rucker) in Alabama. She had planned to retire on 31 January 2025, but she changed her mind.
She has bravely spoken out from the beginning about the covid shots.
I read out part of flight surgeon Long’s whistleblower letter from 2021 at a city council meeting in a small Northern California city to make sure that the sitting city council member knew that the covid jabs were harming our servicemen and women and that they shouldn’t be mandated for city workers. The city council hardly blinked and went back to reading their obviously scripted talking points that they had all received during their fancy meeting in Sacramento, where they all got bought off and bought in to lying about the jabs and mandating them for citizens. When will all these officials be held accountable? It’s not enough to just send them packing; they also need to be publicly shamed and then punished with jail time.
Note: letter from Senator Ron Johnson regarding the DOD military data for adverse effects of vaxx . . . "DOD data reveals surges in covid vaccine adverse events", . . . 27 Jan 2022 . . . online at RealClearPolitics.com .. [259] . . . . .
Covid panel - military service members see spikes in miscarriages and cancer. . . .
(note: look for copy of letter from Senator Ron Johnson, which has a cc: to Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff who is in charge of the subcommittee to investigate.
And yet nothing has come from Johnson’s hearings. The Covid jabs are still being plunged into people’s arms and the culprits behind the scam are still walking free.
I am average in marketing awareness but even I know ‘targeting’ a small and controversial percentage of the population to boost sales seems like a losing strategy. Bud Light is a shining example.
Off topic but have you seen all the USA merchandise at Target?! Big change from this time last year when there were pride displays including tuckable bathing suits for boys all over the store! Winning! 🇺🇸
I've seen the pics on X and such, but to my knowledge they still have a "men are welcome in women's spaces" policy going. That was when I stopped going to Target. As much as I want to support this major shift in their store layout and such, I still have a hard time wanting to give them money when they were leading the charge toward grooming our kids for so many years.
That’s right, I’ve been considering going back, but now that you mention it, I think I will call my local store and ask if they have a policy of letting men in women’s bathrooms. Good to remind them that we’re still paying attention
Agreed. I stopped shopping there when they started carrying Bud Lite Dylan Mulvaney children’s clothes. Disgusting. The clothing rack was smack dab in the middle of the entrance. I complained…they moved the rack from the front.
I don’t go to target much but I happened to need something quickly yesterday so I went in. It made me unreasonably happy to see an entire pro-USA section right at the front of the store. Do I think target is still blowing in the winds of what culture is doing? Absolutely. Will I shop there more often? Doubtful. They lost me back when they allowed men in the women’s bathrooms.
Rising Tide Co-op in Damariscotta, Me., on Rte. 1, still displays that so-multicolored banner in front of the store. Along with a sign claiming "All are welcome". Well no, all are not welcome (and why would a business open to the public feel the need to make that claim?) if you have that banner out front.
Same for Churches. When I see All are welcome, I keep driving. It probably used to mean something different but definitely not here. Especially when the words are written in rainbow colors 🙄
In Montana our governor prohibited the display of flags on government property to a list of several exceptions, including official flags of any municipality. So the Missoula City Council on Monday recognized the LGBTQ Pride flag as an official flag of the city in response to the law. You just can’t fix stupid.
No, because I quit Target back when they made their first stink about transgender bathrooms. Target was one of the first on board. But it's good to know they left the church of Satan toddler line and tuckable kids swimsuits off the SKU list this year. Not because Target has any morals though. It's because they were hemorrhaging sales because sane Americans quit spending their money there.
I haven't been in a Target for over 20 years, when they put the "we don't care about your civil rights" signs on all their doors.
Even though those signs have no legal meaning in my state now that we have Constitutional Carry, it's still a clear indicator that they don't want my money. And I'm pleased not to give any to them.
No. I went once to see if DEI was really done there but They didn't seem to know the difference between a bad fake and reality. The loudest bitchiest head cashier was a boobed male, obviously! He was wicked to ask the women benefit his authority. NASTY!
Me too! I loved hearing him rustle the papers on his “stack of stuff”. It was thrilling to hear him profess his faith in Christ on the air, and I look forward to meeting him in heaven.
The light came on for me a few decades ago when someone explained that the college/university was a business, with the CEO (president) having to schmooze alumni, squeeze donations, encourage the pursuit of grants and other largess, keep the sports program going to bring in ticket revenue and cash in on past alumni sentiments. In other words, bring their rolodex with them and bring in MORE money than he's being paid.
Not sure where DEI makes money, but I applaud the governor's board for their wise choice. I'm wondering why the pro-Ono members voted for him, given all the reversals that were so obvious that THEY should have been able to discern a brewing problem right before them. Perhaps THEIR placements should be questioned, because of a lack of intelligence and a fealty to "the system". They're not reading the tea leaves (nor the room) very well.
If his reversals had been things he could speak about with clarity on why he'd been mistaken, if he could have strongly defended his improved views, and given a powereful rejection of vaccine mandates, I would have accepted that people can grow. But since wishy-washy-ness was all he had, yuck!
To me, it is obscene to see these worthless people making $3 million salaries. I could randomly pick any unemployed person and they could do the same job better than Mr. Santa. Obscene waste.
The $2 million salary that Biden earned for four years is also obscene waste. We would’ve done better to have our president picked by lottery.
And to be clear, that’s the base salary. I’m sure there are many more perks. Many universities still provide free housing for the university president. I can only assume the absolute top dog gets even more
I’m in the wrong line of work! 😝 I was a teacher, then a wedding florist and barn manager. I’d be delighted to do whatever the University Pres does for 1/8 of that salary. And I LOVE FL, especially now
Congratulations to Christian McGhee, from a fellow North Carolinian. You not only struck a blow against tyrannical woke school boards but, you have won freedom from the public education system. Good luck and best wishes to you and your family, and success in all of your future ventures.
It terms of Ono, I said the same about Fauci. All the denials and "do not recalls" show that either the candidate is a liar, or he is incompetent. Do you want someone who "does not recall" what they said 18 months ago as the President of your university? This isn't about what he had for lunch, or which parking spot he parked in at Sonny's BBQ, this is about what he thinks about important issue,s and those things should be very easy to recall.
He was an amazing guy … incredibly smart and yet very down to earth too … if you haven’t, read his book - “Dancing Naked in the Minefield” and I too believe he was taken out!
I wrote this above, but it seems apt here. If his reversals had been things he could speak about with clarity on why he'd been mistaken, if he could have strongly defended his improved views, and given a powereful rejection of vaccine mandates, I would have accepted that people can grow. But since wishy-washy-ness was all he had, yuck!
He should have clearly explained his change of heart and admitted to the foolishness of past things he'd said. Not, "I can't remember, " but "yes, I said that, and here's why I was wrong!"
🤣 Poor Jeff. It’s actually quite a feat that this doesn’t happen more often given he has to remember to turn comments on six days a week and not sneeze. I’m so glad I understand now, but it’s still fun to whine and wail when it happens about how we miss the chatter of our morning coffee clutch. That’s actually a praise of Jeff because he created us. ☺️
“The breathless, front-page treatment given to every sniffle-shaped variant stands in stark contrast to the flat, underplayed reporting on real public health crises— like the quietly rising rates of cancer in younger adults, or the still-mysterious spike in at-home heart attack deaths since 2020.”
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Yeah, I had one of those at home heart attacks last summer ( though, thankfully, rather obviously not a fatal one). And, yes, I got the clot shot (well 2) in April of 2021. That’s the last vaccine that I will ever get - I simply don’t trust Big Pharma, the FDA or the medical establishment as far as I can throw an aircraft carrier. Fairly recently, for example, Moderna tried adding the then-latest clot shot update to its flu vaccine. Yeah, no thanks, I’d like to live long enough to receive back some of what I paid into Social Security and see/enjoy some grandkids.
You might want to read “Super Gut“ by doctor, William Davis. He was a cardiologist who cured his patients by dealing with healing their guts, so he had no more heart patients. Now he specializes on teaching us how to farm our microbiome with all its gut bacteria.
I think that your surgery antibiotics have killed many of your good bacteria. Dr. Davis is on YouTube.
Thanks, I will look at his book. I am definitely an “all of the above solutions “ kind of person (well, except for BS vaccines designed to kill people while making Big Pharma a fortune).
True, antibiotics are very very nefarious and should not be taken at all unless there is no other choice-even topical ones an cause C. Diff and wipe out your microbiome.
Toppling DEI in our nation's academy is but one of two steps we must take, the other being ending ChiCom influence and control of our "elite" universities.
I would add a third: More self control. As in STOP THE SPENDING! When you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is 'stop digging'. Simple is good; I like ordinal. Should "we" spend more, or should we spend less? Should we borrow more, or should we borrow less? If the Federal government - and state and local, too -spends less each year, and borrows less each year, the problem will resolve automatically.
Chinese Communists Busted Sneaking Bioweapon into U.S. at Detroit Metro to sneak to his girlfriend at UofM....
Law enforcement charged two Chinese citizens with conspiracy to smuggle a dangerous fungus into the United States on Tuesday. The move comes after authorities discovered one of the offenders with toxic plant pathogens stashed in his backpack after he flew into the Detroit airport.
The man, Zunyong Liu, reportedly initially lied about the reason for his American visit before confessing his intention to sneak the substance into his girlfriend’s University of Michigan research lab. Court documents reveal that the girlfriend, Yunqing Jian, holds membership in the Chinese Communist Party and that the couple plotted to bring biological materials into the United States, despite Jian’s initial claims of ignorance.
The fungus at the center of the case is Fusarium graminearum, which scientists classify as a “potential agroterrorism weapon.” It causes head blight in crops and produces toxins that cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock alike
Watching them all having to walkback, denounce, deny, forget, mis-remember toggled a chuckle. History won’t be kind to those who supported the Pandemic/ Biden era parade of dysfunctional, dysphoric, delusional politicians and pundits. It’s already like the crowd pointing out the naked emperor.
As Jeffrey Weiner did the other day. I was flipping channels, landed on The View and laughed as he was explaining his rehabbed self and his return to politics.
Recently our biologist neighbor here in Bend interviewed for a job in the lab at UO. The interviewer told him they were doing everything to thwart Trump. Our white, 42 yr old male neighbor didn’t get the job. Big surprise.
I wish he had reported him, but to whom, Trump? 😉 Tina wouldn’t have done anything.
Sad. I lived in Oregon for six years back in the 70's, one year in Bend. I loved the natural beauty of the state, so many various kinds of geography. I noticed even then the influx of people from CA.
Why is Florida offering $3 million salaries for administrators? Isn’t it conceivable that a competent administrator could be hired for one tenth that amount? When you put out parasite bait you tend to attract parasites. Not to mention what this profligate spending does to taxpayers and students struggling to pay tuition.
Makes me wonder about the salaries of all the rest of the administrators at UF is the top one is $3 million. The next in lines won't be too happy unless they get something fairly close to the top person.
"Ono reversed more often than a 17-year-old cheerleader while parallel parking."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And I love that we are in a new age called “The Reckoning™️” 🤣 Priceless, and fun to watch. We have to ensure we pass on our dogged determination and patriotism to our youth so that it is a lonnnnng age.
Too bad these stories rarely make the mainstream media where low information voters get their news and opinions.
The Transnationals main weapon
go away,sng. Take bots susie, greta. and cara w/you. Reported
The good news is that they’ve apparently run through all the first names they know, and we only have to endure a few hundred initials. Maybe then they’ll stop “ putting MRNA vax in our food!” 🤣🤣🤣
I block them
Bet she/he “likes” his/her own repetitive comment.
and kara, and kim, and . . .
Yes, where is this story? And the self-replicating mRNA shot for bird flu ?
“I am your warrior, I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution"
THANK YOU TO ALL ON HERE THAT CALLED, EMAILED OR SHOWED UP IN ORLANDO TO OUST THE ONO NO BONO MAN!!!!! ALBERT GAVE HIM THE CHOMP AS HE WAS THROWN OUT THE DOOR!!!!!! HAIL TO UF BOG FOR MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION. WE ALL MADE THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE WOKE IS BROKE.
Thank you for the email link!!! One of the best emails I got to send. Voicing my Florida resident stand against all things woke and even those who think they can backtrack! Nope! No free rides because you suddenly can’t remember or don’t believe that anymore after terrorizing college campuses. 👎🏻
Darn right Sunnydaze! I called and emailed to voice my utter discontent at the choice of wokedom. So ecstatic it worked!
Such a big sigh of relief!! Wow that was too close!
Yes that was awesome!! I’m positive that affected the vote!
Yes! Congratulations to all of you. Now, maybe UF will become the new Harvard.
UF is a gorgeous campus and I pray it will value its promise to educating our children without the woke influence. Fingers crossed.
I sent my email to the Board yesterday, hoping somehow it would make a difference. Always with a prayer.
and it worked:}
That one got me, too.
Reminded me of a time when I was a teenager (17). I had just completed a ton of body work on a '68 Karmann Ghia and decided to take my 15-year-old girlfriend out to teach her how to drive with a stick shift. We went to a large but traffic-free street in our neighborhood. She was doing ok, with the usual bumpy starts and stalls (I'd been riding motorcycles for 9 years at that point, so my understanding of a clutch made my transition to stick shift so much easier).
Then it was time to teach her backing up. On a big, wide empty street, she suddenly couldn't find the clutch or the brake while in reverse, and panicking, "found" the only light pole on the block with the back end of my car. It was disappointing, to say the least.
When I got back home, I found the center of the dented area, drilled a hole in it, inserted a half-inch eye bolt with a fender washer behind it, and chained it to the light pole in front of my house. I then drove away from the pole several times until the dent pulled out, at least to the point where my hatch engaged and the body was straight enough for another layer of Bondo..
I bought a ‘69 (stick shift) Karmann Ghia when I was 17. Still my favorite car! Although I was pretty good at parallel parking, it was a standard joke among my friends that the last time they would ever parallel park was the day they passed their driver’s license test.
@Martha- my dream car- honest!- is a '70-'74 VW Bug, stick. And yes, most of my friends do not parallel park. Meanwhile, I LOVE to parallel park and can even park a full sized school bus!
My mother-in-law (may she rest in peace) used to have a bright yellow '72 Super beetle that she drove around everywhere in Sonora California, hills and all. She had to quit driving at the age of 89 because two different rear end accidents by young impatient drivers gave her too much anxiety. And she had just passed her driver's test the year before with 100%.
I totally agree! I loved the VWs from that era. My parents had the Bug, I had the Karmann Ghia and my sister had the Rabbit. All of them were great fun to drive!!!!
I learned to drive on my Dad's stick shift VW hatchback, then when my husband and I got married in 1969 we had a 1964 VW Bug that he had bought for $1800...loved it! It was oh so easy to parallel park in that little bug!
I'm 63 and I still have dreams about that Ghia! It was such a fun car - the poor-man's Porsche!
I hope your friends remembered how to parallel park long after their driver's test! I had to do it last night.
I hope so, too!! In the town where I live now, we have to parallel park if we want to shop in the very charming downtown area. Glad I learned how when I was a teenager!!!
And I’m glad you were so creative at repairing the body of your Karmann Ghia! A lot of guys I knew back then would repair their own dents, but I think you win the ingenuity award!!!!
My ingenuity arose from desperation. I'd just sunk six months worth of work to straighten that car out - it was pretty beat up when I got it. I just applied the reverse of the force applied to the dent...
I concur fully and completely!!! 😆
To be honest, in the 55 years since I had to demonstrate parallel parking to get my driver's license, I've had to parallel park maybe four times.
At a women’s conference, on a rainy day with a too small parking lot, the speaker said after observing that parking lot that her husband always said, “Women don’t park cars. They abandon them!”🤣🤣🤣
I became an expert parallel parker in college, due to not having purchased space in the door parking garage. So I was reduced to parking in Greek row and having to make the long walk back to the dorms, and whatever tiny space was available for my subcompact car was what I parallel parked into. I could shoehorn myself into any space.
I learned to do that in NYC with my VW Rabbit. Two inches front and back was all I needed. No one should say women can’t parallel park!
Yup, my 4 years in NYC gave me wiz level parking skills (which have sadly eroded over the last 2 decades living in the suburbs).
Those College Campuses definitely need parking closer to the classes! But my Sons sure built up their Calves at App State with all the hills!!
@Doug- my older daughter had her license for one hour less than a full week when she and her friends took her Chevy Cavalier (what a great car!) to our very old village. She parallel parked and managed to find the only remaining hitching post, rippling the entire side of the car. Eventually her younger sister inherited the car then we sold it, all with the ripple.
Awww. I'm sure that broke her heart... The problem with dents is they're always there to remind you of your moment of greatness...
@Doug- she was afraid Dad would be mad. Nah. We all laughed.
That's good!
ha, great story!
I ran into my new garage doors, separately, with both cars in the last 10 yrs. The Tow hitch hit first. I put a wide oak board on the other side of the cheap-ass aluminum panel and kicked it a few times.
OK on the OUTSIDE but a bit rumpled on the inside! Hey, the door is UP most of the time anyway. . .
@Old Guy- our son decided to hit hockey pucks against our then new garage door. We had dimples in it for years before we replaced the door. AND the door was 1 month old when our then 3 yr old managed to get out of her carseat in the warming up, fast idle car (yes, we knew how to properly restrain kids. She was an escape artist in many ways), climbed over the seat, and put it in drive. Husband had gone into the house to help her older sister find her boots while our son was IN THE GARAGE sitting on a snowmobile that, thank God, was sitting right in front of the door, back end facing door. He was screaming and the 3 yr old was wandering around like it was an every day occurance (this was a '79 Pontiac so no brake required to get the vehicle out of park). Husband pounded it back into shape, somewhat. Kids.....
I can just see your hubbie trying to get into the car to cram on the brake and put it into PARK! you can't make up stuff like that. HOLY CRAPP!
https://youtu.be/iiW6UyyAPdk
When I was that age my parents covered my crib with chicken wire to keep me from a quick exit.
@Red-HAHAHAHA!!!
This reminded me of another stupid thing I did as a teen... This one wasn't my fault, entirely.
The neighborhood I lived in had several hills, and we were all into skateboarding. One fun thing to do was for two people to sit on their boards facing each other at the top of a hill, interlock arms and put your feet on each other's board tips, give a little scoot and ride sideways down the hill - we called it "catamaraning".
The best hill (of course) teed into another street at the bottom, so when we did this there, we had to lean really hard to pull off that turn at 20-some-odd miles an hour. Being stupid kids, we never posted a lookout at the bottom, so there was always the chance we'd plow into - or be plowed into - by a car going by on that street. One time a car went by just before we arrived, and we followed so closely we could have grabbed his bumper and extended the ride.
On the occasion in question, unbeknownst to me, my buddy had tightened up his trucks (the pivoting mechanism that allows skateboard wheels to turn) the day before, making his turning very stiff. So stiff, in fact, tat when it came time for us to make the turn at the bottom, we couldn't. I'm yelling at him, "turn! Turn, M-fer!" But his board was just too stiff. We ended up going straight up the driveway of the house at the bottom and plowing sideways into their garage door.
Somehow, I don't remember it hurting very much, even though we hit it HARD. It was a single-panel wooden garage door, and the force of us smacking into it pushed it inward, wedging it against the slab about three inches inside its normal resting place. The impact made a huge noise too - we hightailed it out of there as quickly as possible.
I felt bad for the people who lived there - they were going to have a hard time getting their car out in the morning. The kid I was with was the kind who always avoided getting in trouble by running away, and I just went along with it.
We got away with so much in the days before Ring cameras. I feel sorry for the kids today - everything now is monitored and observed - there's no wiggle room for crazy adventures and borderline delinquency.
Ha! THAT is a great story Doug. I can just see you both crapping your pants when you couldn't turn! I'm dyin' here!
. . . and yes, we all got by with a lot of crapp as young boys risking it all and not really caring about the consequences. Damn the torpedoes!
Thanks... Yeah, it was a panicky moment, but it was over with quickly..
I'm still pretty sturdy but miss the days when I was bulletproof.
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Yep, it took a couple of minutes to bring myself back under control I was laughing so hard at that one!
As always, this guy is hilarious!
And also the master of creative but oh so appropriate similes and metaphors!! 😁
Back in the day when we really were taught how to parallel park, at 17 I could park that car like nobody’s business. Although I was never a cheerleader. lol…
As the grandfather of a (almost 17 year old cheerleader) who is whip smart, courageously outspoken and full of common sense I don't think it was all that funny. This is coming from a dedicated fan of Childers and his delicious employment of sarcasm.
I, a retired pollce officer who made a lot of traffic stops in my day (Miami area), agree with Mr. Childers. NO young person has the initial skill set to operate a motor vehicle very well initially. Boys are worse because they think they can and ther raging hormones interfere, but I digress.
Now days there are few places for people to actually parallel park and no reason to practice.
You mentioned in your description all sorts of wonderful characteristics, but not that she is a gifted driver. Girls are generally the most distracted drivers and women not much better. I hate saying that about my own gender (from birth), but it is true. I can generally spot a female driver in traffic when I can't even see the driver.
Ladies, you need to get better at paying attention.
I don't disagree but I would like to point out that Jeff didn't say the cheerleader was female. Funny how it was "understood" lol.
WOW! How right you are. Shame on ME! I was recently at the gym. I do some stretching things that make men cry. A teenage boy was there with his parents and doing some amazing stuff. I asked if he studies ballet (as I did)? Nope- he is a cheerleader and headed to college with a full ride scholarship!
Thanks for the reminder! Almost nobody can parallel park!
We drive on the left and I am an excellent parallel Parker 😂
Lady Penelope's chauffeur is an excellent Parker too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0DZ7_tLQoo
"Almost nobody..." Hardly. I learned to parallel park along with every other requirement for driving a car when I was a teenager with a Learner's Permit.
Funny way to describe a boy… and I have a boy. I would not use any of those words. And mine is a bio-medical engineer PHD at 27… and all descriptions would fit him… I just would not use feminine words to describe my son.
What are the feminine words used to describe anyone? It is a natural assumption that a cheerleader is a female. That wasn't the case at my university or the fellows with whom I studied ballet or the kid I met at the gym. People hear my background and are shocked that I'm not male. I got over it about 50 years ago.
"...a natural assumption..." ?? How is that "natural"?
I am a retired Navy Helicopter Pilot… I always get ask whose wife am I. People make assumptions. I don’t care that they make the it… I care that the women behind me get the opportunity to fly if it is something that they want to do. Back then, I loved the fact that I was breaking down barriers…an attractive 5’5” feminine pilot was not what came to anyone’s mind.
We're naturally multi taskers, and our spacial reasoning isn't on a par with men. I like being driven.
I used to think there was something to the "spatial reasoning" issue until I had to pack vehicles and boxes, or arrange furniture in a room with my wife. Soon I realized every woman I know, my wife foremost in the lineup, are better than any man on sight--doing the grunt work of lifting--at knowing what will fit where.
It’s like real life Tetris 😆😁 I particularly excel at the refrigerator version 😁
@Running- I LOVE it when Le Bird (husband) goes grocery shopping with me because he excels at Tetris-like things! He was going to go to school for mechanical engineering, which explains a lot (ok. Everything), but ended up as a diesel mechanic extraordinaire.
The home is her territory. The road isn't.
@Deb- my daughters dominate both.
Well, she's a good driver as well.
True! True! I always pack the family car when we go on a long trip. My husband has no sense of space utilization!
RIght. My wife can see that an item will fit in a given spot in the back of the truck way better than I can. We are both the offspring of engineer fathers--but she has the spatial thing 2X better than me. She is also a cat whisperer.
I guess I'm an anomaly then. I always was competitive and generally won the police driving schools. Women do have better fine motor skills and often are superior shooters. I don't like having to be dependent on anyone. I wasn't raised to be one to wait around to be "driven." to each their own.
I am a very attentive driver so also don’t fit the stereotype. It’s always annoying to me when I can see that other drivers are not paying attention to what they’re doing or to the other cars around them 😕
Sometimes I do like being driven so I can look at the scenery though 😆 And I hate driving at night especially when it’s raining hard, my slight astigmatism is problematic for that.
I retired in South America and the drivers in this country are terrible. So I prefer to be driven by one of them who does it for a living and has survived years of it. Also in an accident, all parties are thrown in jail until it's sorted out. I don't have car payments, gas, insurance, parking, or inspections. Taxis are plentiful and cheap.
Ditto.
Yes, PLEASE pay attention, and get off the cell phone. Text/talkers have no idea how obvious and infuriating they are to drivers stacked up behind them.
C. Wilson, what do you make of the NYT gushing over predictive policing algorithms? Everything techy trendy fascinates the knee-jerk left, but isn’t it similar to stop and frisk, broken windows, and profiling? I thought NYT despised those techniques back in the day.
Getting them off devices is a boat that sailed a long time ago. Hope for hands free.
NOTHING beats boots on the ground with humans doing the policing. Police, rightfully, are skittish because everyone makes complaints now and they don't get backing. So, every contact risks their livelihood and pension. Very few police are corrupt or bad actors. So, I understand that. I bagpipe for more than 100 police/fire type events annually. I hear their concerns. Tech is issuing a lot of bad tickets around where I live in S Florida. Even when "erased" you still have a ticket on your record. Insurance issues? You bet.
Here is what I say to having machines make these decisions....garbage in- garbage out.
Every community gets the police department it deserves. My college professor who had been a beat cop in NYC in the 1930s stressed that.
Statistically, crime drops when tickets are written. A machine isn't going to run the driver and make the arrest for the outstanding warrant.
My boyfriend taught me how to parallel park in a big old 1969 Chevy Sedan, and I am 70 and still damn good at it!
I'm older than you, so I get it. Why wouldn't you be good at it? You didn't let life pass you by. Good for you!
My otherwise bright non-cheerleader daughter hit her teachers car whilst attempting to park in a straight in spot on the first day of school earning the name “crash” for the rest of high school….so I have to side with (painfully) hilarious on this one.
My then teenage nephew side-swiped a basketball pole on the side of my parents’ driveway backing his car out. In trying to extricate himself he then proceeds to dent the door several more times going forward and back, scraping it each time. In recalling this now I can’t stop laughing!
How many of us conveniently forget the vehicle mishaps in our lives. I put a few dents in cars since I began driving 50+ years ago, many long before I turned 50 so I am not blaming old age here either. I failed my first drivers test at 16. I successfully manuvered the parallel park portion but darn curb jumped under the back tire as I rounded a corner causing me to fail. Passed the next one. Now I tell everyone that like 'Rainman' "I'm an exchellent driver, exshellent" 🤣🤣😉
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@Matt- I was parked in the school parking lot when a student hit my car, tearing a slice into the plastic and scraping it. He left but the security guard saw who did it. Turns out he was the son of friends. So I put ketchup on some gauze sponges and taped them to the 'boo-boo', snapped pics, and mailed them to the parents. I got an apology from the kid, the car fixed, and a good laugh from the parents.
Kitty, you are my kind of feline… that is absolutely perfect. When I was “teaching” my daughter how to park she gunned it over the cement thingy bursting the tire… she then learned how to change a tire. I should have hired her a permanent driver (pre Uber) and saved myself a lot of $$ and vehicles.
@Matt- ya gotta love kids. My younger daughter broke the engine cradle twice on my mother's car. Our son twisted the driveshaft out of one of our cars. My granddaughter slammed on the brakes on my Land Rover and touched off the Three Amigos which stayed in until I sold it. Ah, children.....
Kitty
Agreed Mike. As a 16 year old cheerleader (born in 1954), it took me three tries to parallel park during my driver's test in the family '63 stick-shift Chevy Biscayne. I'll admit I looked the ditzy part with long bleached-blonde hair, but I managed to graduate with honors from a prestigious nursing school. But I don't take Jeff's comments seriously....much.
I was also a cheerleader. Straight As. Full ride scholarship. Once my driver's ed teacher explained the 45° angle I had no problem parallel parking. 😉
A ‘63 Biscayne!!! My first car was a ‘62, so nearly identical. If it wasn’t for a steer in the road at midnight, I was going to replace the “3 on the tree” with a floor shifter among other things to make it cool. And hot.
Yes it was a station wagon; in retrospect a "board wagon." I'm still proud I could parallel park on the streets of my small town without slipping the clutch. Such good memories.
Relax Francis.
It’s “ lighten up, Francis”. Just to be a Mike.
Doh! Thanks, I’ll probably never get it wrong again.
Couldn’t help myself. Sorry. But now we have a memory. lol
No kidding.
Haha. I almost responded to Mike Lee with the same.
Outspoken and smart doesn`t park a car
I thought it was hilarious and relatable. I'm not 17, nor a cheerleader. I'm 48 and still can't parallel park. It's not offensive, it's a joke, laugh. It would only be offensive if he called out your grand daughter personally.
My young daughter couldn't see out of the back of her car because the windows were frosted up in North Dakota so she backed up until she hit something (another car).
alert the news, you don't think something's funny. Get over yourself.
It kind of bugged me too. I am an excellent parallel parker. My father insisted on it. But it does conjure up a funny image. Give it to him 👍🏼
My daughter had a 4.29 in HS, 3.95 at VT for her bachelors and 3.97 in her masters. Jeff was exactly on par with a 17 year old girl. Smart doesn’t mean that the hormones are all over the place… and this is coming for a woman who has been there.
I've been driving for over 60 years, and I consider my parallel parking skills to be abysmal.
You may have a rare one.
@Mike- clearly there are exceptions. Most of us found it hilarious. My older daughter is a brilliant Pre-K teacher and administrator but sometimes she trips over dust. My younger daughter? Bull in a china shop but she can drive anything and play any sport.
That's the line that got me, too. I enjoy Jeff's original similes so much!! 😂
Could have said Ono reversed more times than a 75 year old retiree parallel parking. Both youth and elderly resemble the description.
First driving lesson with my 15yo cheerleader…
Daughter: *stares at the gear shift for a solid minute
Me: * waits patiently as not to rush her
Daughter: *eventually looks up at me. Where’s the B?
Me: * thoroughly confused. What B?
Daughter: B for backup
Me: Lessons over, get out!
I guess she wasn't ready for the R for "racing" mode
Oh she found the hack for that too. I had the insurance bills to prove it 😅
Also known as the Austin Powers parking technique
I know...I almost spit out my coffee when I read that.
That put me right back to Drivers Ed and learning how to parallel park over and over. Smashing those cones one by one!!
Yup, another Jeffian analogical gem... which is what I'm here for (I come for the gems, and stay for the comments).
@Tonya- I literally LOLd at that. That's right up there with "For the Portland readers".
Had to read that one to my hubby. Sounds like me parallel parking:)
"When pressed on whether he would mandate vaccines again, immunologist Ono said he 'doesn’t have enough data' to make that decision."
No data needed. The answer is always no.
"Immunologist"... Academics seem to believe that titles cover a multitude of sins. For example, take the title "Oncologist", a title that is assumed to mean "cancer expert". In reality, an oncologist is a chemo-therapy specialist/technician. They only have one tool in their toolbox... chemotherapy. When the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.
THANK YOU TO ALL ON HERE THAT CALLED, EMAILED OR SHOWED UP IN ORLANDO TO OUST THE ONO NO BONO MAN!!!!! ALBERT GAVE HIM THE CHOMP AS HE WAS THROWN OUT THE DOOR!!!!!! HAIL TO UF BOG FOR MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION. WE ALL MADE THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE WOKE IS BROKE.
Hey Lori…just wanted to let you know that when you put everything in caps, it means you are yelling. Don’t mean this as criticism… just thought maybe you didn’t know. Most people will just pass it as it is hard to read. I did.
I took it as urgency yesterday and exuberance today 😁
Damn right RL!!
I use them to depict excitement and enthusiasm. But in this Ono case, I was yelling from the rooftops with joy!!!!!
I appreciate your enthusiasm … maybe only cap the important words??? I would have like to read what you wrote but all caps give me a headache.
I understand but I love my Caps!
Yep…I heard the yelling loud and clear! Love the comments…lowercase please!
Agreed. I just go to the next comment.
Lori, I understand using ALL CAPS is easier, but it comes across as SCREAMING. Better to use all lower case with no punctuation.
Hi Lincoln, I was ecstatic so I wrote in caps!! Caps to me do not mean I am screaming. Please just bypass my comments if and when you see them in caps or with punctuation you do not like. Cheers!
Well said. Immunologists anagrams to 'mogo multi sins' so yes, plenty of sins!
Technically one could add immunotherapy to chemotherapy but they come in the same department (I had some of the wretched stuff in 2020 until I realised what was going on).
Oncologists anagrams to 'tool cog sins' so more sins. I think the tool is the stupid oncologist! I had one idiot come outside to see me when I was refusing to wear a mask in June 2020 when the silliness was brought in for NHS. He said he had to care for his staff. I said You don't care for your staff...' at which point he walked off. These idiots forget about basic health and safety and individual concerns and needs.
I won eventually and had my treatment session although it would have been better not to.
Ono has the mind of a COMMUNIST.
We are long overdue redefining anti-civil-rights, anti-American-values DEI as “a fatal liability” and “disqualifier.” Please, sir, I would like some more “bitter conservative backlash.”
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/wickedpedia-diversity-equity-and
Baldmichael - I must say that your brain isn't wired like most of ours:) I sure appreciated your out-of-the-box thinking and framing of all of the words and notions you explored in your "explanation" of DEI. It was the right amount of ridiculousness to expose the ridiculousness of the DEI movement. Thanks for the chuckles and the brain-training:)
Thank you Peace. I have always thought laterally but in 2020 somehow I had an explosion of lateral thinking. It can be exhausting.
Fun and brilliant! Thank you. I agree that confusion is DEI’s end-game, and maximum impact requires equitable govt employment for dementia patients to represent the disabled. Or unable, but hey, what’s the difference? “Heard immunity,” eh? 😂
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
Yes, I've realized that vaccine mandates proponents are far more terrifying than DEI proponents, although of course there is a great deal of overlap. But there were "conservative " vaccine mandate promoters, too, and many conservatives who quietly went along.
Nazis weren't into DEI, but they were into forcing people, so to me it is the more sinister ideology to think Public Health has the right to tell people to shut up and do what they're told, to accept the piercing of their bodies and the injecting of a barely tested dangerous substance. So I wish a bigger deal had been made of his mandate stance above everything else. I want the message that Americans reject that to sound loud and clear!
And it seems MAHA has been hijacked by this FDA Makary. Still pushing blatant lies. I read this awhile ago:
No version of the PSYOP-19 “vaccine” ever prevented transmission, attenuated symptoms, addressed any active viral strains, or did much anything else other than induce VAIDS while genetically modifying those that were tricked into subjecting themselves to these democide poisons — which means that now that the majority of society has been transformed into genetically modified human spike protein factories that are severely immunocompromised such that any “variant” of any common cold could quite literally kill them off, this FDA commissioner is running cover for the ongoing VAIDS epidemic that is set to wipe out ever larger swaths of the “vaccinated.”
He always appeared uncertain or covering for somebody. Why’d they hire Makary?
And that is when we stand higher, voices louder and have courage at its zenith to say NO MORE.
Agree 💯. The trustees of the University of Florida need to be vetted and removed. They approved him in the 1st place. I don't think they are good stewards for the University.
I agree, trustees have got to go.
I think UF is in Gainesville where it is full of liberals. Please correct me if I am wrong but that is what I thought when I read that they all voted for him.
My impression also.
If the "University" is the sole first level of selection, why would we think their next choice will be significantly more into our line of thinking. It seems like there needs to be some oversight or guidance during the process or we might just waste another year.
So, thank you Board of Governors. I sent a comment into that Blog? (site) that we were given yesterday asking for a no vote. I went to UF BSBA 1967. My 3 daughters went to UF. Now their children are college age and one of the big criteria for them and their friends is how much leftwing bias and overreach there is at each college and how much violence they tolerate (should be none).
That's the key....being forced. Whether it's through social pressure, mandates, cancellation, or censorship, no one wants to be forced to accept something they know is b.s. Using force to achieve a particular political or socio-economic outcome is at the heart of fascism.
I fear we will have Dr. Ono back in Canada, where DEI is thriving and data are not needed to impose a mandate- merely the lift of a finger from the PMO.
Will Vancouver take him back after the world has seen what a weakling he is?
I got whiplash from his reversals of every point of DEI for which he previously stood.
His credibility is ahredded.
I thought the same. He's going to be persona non-grata to both sides of the political divide. Good luck Oh No! Might be time for that early retirement!
Good. He deserves it.
Harvard needs him.
Surely Harvard has a sinecure for a man of his talents and flexible integrity. Harvard is still a true believer of his earlier convictions.
One can only hope!
He may not fit in as well as he once did. Now he’s on record claiming many of the woke values still welcomed in Canada “no longer align with his current thinking”.
Poor Canada. Santa Ono or O no Satan. You have enough problems as it is.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/wickedpedia-diversity-equity-and
Welcome Home!
Canada is like Oregon but even more nonsensical and ignorant. Most citizens are slaves to ideology and spoon fed by the government.
The fact is that any “liberal “ party requires total obedience and mental submission from it’s members. Conservatives actually are the most mentally free and independent thus are less inclined to submit to idiocy than liberals. Conservatives demand freedom and sovereignty above any party or ideology.
That’s why conservative parties are growing in popularity amongst young people. They have seen that you lose everything to be a liberal and become enslaved to insane doctrines.
Like SCOTUS Ketanji Jackson not having enough data to know what a woman is. This is just more evidence that you can earn a sheepskin from the finest universities and still be dumb as a box of rocks.
Dumb… or disingenuous liars 😑
Well said!
BS … bull dodo
MS…more of the same
PhD…piled higher and deeper!
From someone with an MBA from a prestigious school!
So his answer is obviously yes. He thinks there is a point where the "data" will indicate a vaccine mandate. Glad they gave the guy a hard pass!
100%. Informed consent over mandates. Always. Regardless of the data, which, best case scenario, will all sort itself out in the informed consent process. Whenever I mentioned the Nuremberg Code during the you-know-what, I’d get a lot of blank looks.
Just shows how far public education has fallen... neither 9/11 nor the Nuremberg trials are taught in history classes anymore, it seems.
As if he had data before?
Not when your a vaxxhole
But, if Ono were to be honest, his answer would always be YES.
well he will be a good candidate for the USSC with the next democrat adm.
Santa Ono or O no Satan. No to the satanic jabs.
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. And the world is passing away, and also its lusts, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.
— 1 John 2:15-17 LSB
Ono reversed more often than a 17-year-old cheerleader while parallel parking. Too funny!
THANK YOU TO ALL ON HERE THAT CALLED, EMAILED OR SHOWED UP IN ORLANDO TO OUST THE ONO NO BONO MAN!!!!! ALBERT GAVE HIM THE CHOMP AS HE WAS THROWN OUT THE DOOR!!!!!! HAIL TO UF BOG FOR MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION. WE ALL MADE THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE WOKE IS BROKE.
Daily we watch as the world passes away more and more. Almost nothing surprises us any longer. Soon He will come!
Recently a memory came up of something I posted on my public FB page some years ago: Those who read the Bible are not surprised at what is happening in the world. Grieved, but not surprised.
Amongst the tearing down, their are still many marvels He made for us and I am enjoying as many as possible! They keep me happy, grounded and astounded!
Praying we will soon see him in the clouds.
Why should I not love the beautiful world that God made? Loving the physical realities of earth, sky and sea doesn't involve lust or pride. Beauty is holy, too.
Possibly it’s the interpretation of the word “love” and “world” that matters here. “Love” to such an extent that you actually worship it or elevate it above all else, even God, giving it more devotion and attention than you give God the Father…
… and the “world” as in what man has created and devised, not God. “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”
It’s yet another warning to not place things higher than God Himself.
Amen Juju. God indeed made our world so beautiful. I marvel every day at the beauty and how extraordinary it all is!
The amazing and complex Creation is absolute evidence of a Creator. The big lie of evolution is still being taught in public schools and universities. No wonder we have "godless" people in positions of power.
It is indeed Dave! A true gift to behold:}
Exactly. We can appreciate beauty, be grateful for God’s wonderful creation, yet still not value it more than we value Him.
I know that's how it's meant, but the words as they stand, come across as denying of our god-given aesthetic sense.
English is often limited. I'm sure when it was written, readers knew exactly what was meant.
Yes, the problem we have is as SuezCanal says, English is limited. Where in 1 John 2:15 it talks about not loving the world (kosmon from kosmos), the love word is from agape suggesting sacrificial love, that is sacrificing ones energies in pursuit of what is passing, building up treasures on earth instead of in heaven.
This is scripture from God…how can He who wrote it deny your God-Given (again He wrote it) from you.
Right there with you Joanie, so do I.
You do realize this is scripture from the Bible? If so, are you saying the Holy Word of God is wrong?
Your words are now with Palentir abiding forever.
"Anyway, that’s my take. Let me know what you think in the comments."
Anybody who has ever gotten a notice from Anjolisa Scuttlebutt or Benwahin Krup from the IRS stating that you are guilty until you send half of all the money you own ( a one time offer) ....or , prove that you are innocent within 7 days ....
will surely not welcome even more "data collectors" who never seem to make a dent in the shenanigans of corporate America or the elite , where resistance is not futile, but rather enjoy making up phony aliases and preying on the plumbers and self employed of the population.
Other than that ........ sure, sounds like a great bunch of guys to MAGA . "We're here for you . We're your Pal . We're Palentir !"
We have to clean up voter records so dead people and illegal aliens aren’t voting. Palantir can be used to do that. We say we are a democracy, but if we can’t protect our right to fair elections, we have no democracy.
https://gregreese.substack.com/p/ai-kill-and-control-system-by-palantir
Special Agent Esther to the rescue.
https://hillmd.substack.com/p/project-esther-targets-people-for
Anything you do on the internet is caught in the ‘web’ forever.
Amazing how many politicians don't seem either to know or remember this. Which is greatly to our advantage.
hmmmm they do seem to escape any punishment for their crimes
Along with any phone conversations.
And now Ai can duplicate our voices. Autopen can sign for us too. Our car GPS will snitch us out, and they know what we buy at the grocery store with barcodes and debit cards coordinated. 🤷♀️
No where to hide…
https://youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?feature=shared
https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/1929004920977404050/mediaViewer?
I am hiding in a field of coconuts ..........
https://youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?feature=shared
Amazing Ted Talk
But I do love the things in the world that God created for us; the trees, sky, waterfalls, fields of flowers, hummingbirds, sloths, rainforests, seas, snow and the whole kit and kaboodle. His work is marvelous and leaves one inspired just looking at nature and how it works; all because of Him. How could I not love and adore what He has wrought? And I do love my Lord. His imagination leaves me awestruck every day. The beauty I see with my eyes is from Him and I am forever grateful for the gifts He made for all of us. My 2 cents worth.
Perhaps we should compare Earthly and Worldly. Earthly means the beauty of Nature to me. Worldly means being involved with The Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, if you get my drift. Sex, Drugs, & rock n roll. Corruption and greed. Deceit and treachery. Seduction and betrayal. Did you ever see the movie "Dangerous Liaisons"? THAT'S the World in a nutshell for me.
Euphemisms as weapons. “Illegal alien” is a true term. Shall we call a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist?” And so on. They already tried to foist “minor-attracted person” on us. Pure, pure evil.
Did you hear about the psychic dwarf who escaped from prison? The call went out that there was a "small medium at large"
I happened to be outside the prison when said dwarf was climbing over the wall. He sneered at me! I thought that was a little con descending.
I told the dwarf that, when he disguised himself, he painted his eyebrows on too high.
He looked surprised.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 **coughing fit from both your comments**
Thanks for that one! Almost did a nasal coffee enema.
Orwell teaches us that language manipulation corrupts thought. It is a good thing that this attempt at manipulation was nipped in the bud, and the manipulators voted out of office.
I agree with Orwell!
And.....I'm also SICK of how the spelling of words are butchered! I get so tired of spending several seconds trying to pronounce a common word spelled stupidly....AHGGG
ThatsAGGHHH.
LOL X 💯
I may be crazy.......... but all media presentations are accepted in my brain as language manipulation . And how much of even everyday interaction can be put down as such?
Nowadays I'm keeping it simple ...... Hi ! Have a nice day .
When I was in college in the 80s, a learned that a review of newspaper crime reports showed that the race of the accused was normally included if they were black, but normally not mentioned if they were white. Forty years later the situation has reversed 180 degrees. Now white (and Hispanic) perpetrators are identified as such. If an article makes zero reference to race, that’s current code for “the accused was black”.
That’s what the woke consider “equity”. The named races were reversed, but everyone still knows the races of the accused from media coding. All that university research, teaching, virtue signaling and media giving each other awards for fighting the “far right nationalist white supremacists” and, just on that one tiny issue of bias in crime reports, the media is no more color blind than they were 40 years ago. They never aimed for color blindness. Their goal was (and is) always to perfect the pretense of being holier than thou.
We have an unhoused person problem. Not as evil as MAP for sure, but sick of pc. Oh, and no more obese. I am not sure of new term- excess calorie disorder?
Fat works for me
I’m old enough to remember Fatty Arbuckle, a famous movie star.
Calling someone “fatty” was affectionate and accepting, nothing bad.
Now, the lefties try to find evil intent in every honest word of speech.
Looking at the spectators at most sporting events it is way too obvious that a Large percentage of them are "plump" ...... and definitely Not pleasantly so .
Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
Jackie Gleason
“Person Of Unusual Size” (POUS)
Human Of Girth (HOG). On second thoughts...
Too good not to steal!!! 🤣🤣🤣
It's all free!
Makes me think of the ROUS’s from The Princess Bride!
“You keep using that word…” 😁
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yep! 😆
Oh I think I’m going to use this from now on! 😁
Here in the UK, the use of 'fat' is hate speech. The correct word is 'large'. But can we say large fat? I'm not sure.
well....... how about just LARD ?
Large And Rotund Derriere?
Wokeness introduces ambiguity and is intended is to make palatable something that is not, by lumping it in with neutral or acceptable descriptions. Snowy land peoples communicate their observations of the world with almost limitless variants of the word "snow." We are doing the opposite. The comedian who described a criminal by saying, "He looka like a man" succinctly stated where wokism was going except to even use that description is a "hate crime" and according to some no longer an accurate, helpful identifier for gender or sex status. But, by God, healthcare providers won't miss out on their billing line item by failing to call out obesity, exactly in those words, when they see it - and frequently when they don't.
It won't be long until using "large" will then be seen as hate speech and another newly approved word will take its place.
I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
At the pace the Americans are going....... the word will soon be "Normal ".
I already feel "abnormal" when comparing my shape to the mammals walking around . I forget, are whales mammals ?
People can be arrested for that?
Yes
Fat. Just plain fat.
Fluffy
❤️ I love using fluffy to describe my bit of fluff.
They’re fat. Just fat. If you can’t control your food intake, you get fat.
Here in Lawrence, KS, we have people who are experiencing homelessness. It’s rarely called a problem.
“It’s rarely called a problem” but only by people who are not experiencing it! 😳
Gravemetrically challenged.
Altering language to suit a narrative is classic Marxism.
and also changing definitions to suit.
It's just another form of political correctness, which was definitely brought to us by the communists.
I thought a drug dealer was a pharmaceutical distributor?
You’re right.
Covers legal and illegal.
I hate that even supposedly conservative media is calling these people “migrants”! Regardless of status. To make them sound more sympathetic. Drives me nuts 😡
Let’s just call them what they are, criminal border-crossers. Describes the action leading to them being illegally present in our country. Nothing to do with “immigration status.”
When I was growing up we called them vagrants and they spent a night in jail because vagrancy was illegal. Yes I’m old enough to remember that. 😆
But those could also be citizens not just illegal immigrants. And yes, things have definitely changed 😕
That’s like the Californians calling the homeless sleeping all over their cities and parks, URBAN Campers!
Shelley Winters, “I am sticking with illegal aliens.”
I write “migrants” in quotes as a commentary on the euphemism as well as the illegal status.
Hmm, well let's just call pharmacists drug dealers. There is precious little difference sadly.
Another reason why this kid’s win in the courts was important, he fought back - we can let them control the narrative.
Leftists want to normalize “minor attracted persons” and make saying things that are even slightly “racist” grounds for making one an outcast and unemployable. Guess which person is more dangerous - a minor attracted person, or a closet racist?
Off topic but Military Whistleblower LTC Theresa Long, MD posted the following on X:
"1 year into the military vax mandate, I requested and the CDC provided me with a report that 119 servicemembers died after vaccination and had VAERS reports filed. Where are the reports? Who investigated those reports? Americans don't thank us for our service...stand up and demand an accounting of these deaths!"
By the way, LTC Long is a flight surgeon at Fort Novosel (Rucker) in Alabama. She had planned to retire on 31 January 2025, but she changed her mind.
She has bravely spoken out from the beginning about the covid shots.
I read out part of flight surgeon Long’s whistleblower letter from 2021 at a city council meeting in a small Northern California city to make sure that the sitting city council member knew that the covid jabs were harming our servicemen and women and that they shouldn’t be mandated for city workers. The city council hardly blinked and went back to reading their obviously scripted talking points that they had all received during their fancy meeting in Sacramento, where they all got bought off and bought in to lying about the jabs and mandating them for citizens. When will all these officials be held accountable? It’s not enough to just send them packing; they also need to be publicly shamed and then punished with jail time.
Note: letter from Senator Ron Johnson regarding the DOD military data for adverse effects of vaxx . . . "DOD data reveals surges in covid vaccine adverse events", . . . 27 Jan 2022 . . . online at RealClearPolitics.com .. [259] . . . . .
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2022/01/27/dod_data_reveals_surges_in_covid_vaccine_adverse_events_561704.html ,
also see by Natalia Mittelstadt on 26 Jan 2022 at JustTheNews . . [260] . .
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-panel-military-service-members-see-spikes-miscarriages-cancer ,
Covid panel - military service members see spikes in miscarriages and cancer. . . .
(note: look for copy of letter from Senator Ron Johnson, which has a cc: to Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff who is in charge of the subcommittee to investigate.
Senator Johnson has become a star... he would make a FAR better Senate Leader than the ahole RINO Thune.
His recent interviews with Tucker are xlnt.
And yet nothing has come from Johnson’s hearings. The Covid jabs are still being plunged into people’s arms and the culprits behind the scam are still walking free.
Talk without action is just talk.
Do you think that Sen Johnson can change health policy at the CDC, FDA, HHS unilaterally?
His hearings are doing a lot of good... and you need to place blame for inaction on the people responsible for actually changing it.
RFK, Jr... Makary.. etc.
I agree, their inaction is infuriating.
I am average in marketing awareness but even I know ‘targeting’ a small and controversial percentage of the population to boost sales seems like a losing strategy. Bud Light is a shining example.
And Target with their Dylan Mulvaney Bud Lite Commercial. We know where that led. Sales nosedived. The conservatives speak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVGDPlG42bU
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 😼
Off topic but have you seen all the USA merchandise at Target?! Big change from this time last year when there were pride displays including tuckable bathing suits for boys all over the store! Winning! 🇺🇸
I've seen the pics on X and such, but to my knowledge they still have a "men are welcome in women's spaces" policy going. That was when I stopped going to Target. As much as I want to support this major shift in their store layout and such, I still have a hard time wanting to give them money when they were leading the charge toward grooming our kids for so many years.
I’m with you I have never been back to Target, I do miss their popcorn
I too stopped going to Target when they allowed men in women’s changing rooms.
OMG…I didn’t know THAT!
That’s right, I’ve been considering going back, but now that you mention it, I think I will call my local store and ask if they have a policy of letting men in women’s bathrooms. Good to remind them that we’re still paying attention
Good idea. I think we all should do that. I am in! Orlando will hear from me today!
Agreed. I stopped shopping there when they started carrying Bud Lite Dylan Mulvaney children’s clothes. Disgusting. The clothing rack was smack dab in the middle of the entrance. I complained…they moved the rack from the front.
I don’t go to target much but I happened to need something quickly yesterday so I went in. It made me unreasonably happy to see an entire pro-USA section right at the front of the store. Do I think target is still blowing in the winds of what culture is doing? Absolutely. Will I shop there more often? Doubtful. They lost me back when they allowed men in the women’s bathrooms.
Just like Bud light I’ve no need for target. Toughest job in marketing is regaining lost customers.
Amen! We should stick to the Bud light boycott even now. Don't let up!
And Target is like the Ono guy on their latest attempts to act normal - too little too late.
At least SecDef is renaming a USNS ship.
Since the Military Times is full of wokesters and commies, the real reason is because Harvey Milk was a pedo.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html
People think that most deviants are "normal".
They Aren't. Celebrating them with all the "Pride" bullcrap is appalling.
What about MLB? Every team except the Rangers are Pride proud! They apparently have not learned anything either.
My daughter and I JUST commented on this very thing 5 minutes ago. And no rainbow flags over the WH or our Embassies. Progress.
Rising Tide Co-op in Damariscotta, Me., on Rte. 1, still displays that so-multicolored banner in front of the store. Along with a sign claiming "All are welcome". Well no, all are not welcome (and why would a business open to the public feel the need to make that claim?) if you have that banner out front.
Same for Churches. When I see All are welcome, I keep driving. It probably used to mean something different but definitely not here. Especially when the words are written in rainbow colors 🙄
I have had the same reaction to that church sign. Are we actually in a new 16th Century?
Maine has gone to shit
Put a lot of political campaign signs around this little island, last fall. Learned last week that local lobster fishermen appreciated them.
That’s what you get for being in Damariscortta!!
Hannaford, Dam. Hardware, Reny's Underground and Hancock or Hammond are our usual stops. Otherwise, none
The Original Reny’s!! (For others: A small statewide chain of discount stores that carry a bit of everything)
Chevrus, where are you? Can we meet up? (and I did get that suggestion that Dam was a scortus {scorta?}
Shoplifters charter then. These businesses are incredibly dumb.
In Montana our governor prohibited the display of flags on government property to a list of several exceptions, including official flags of any municipality. So the Missoula City Council on Monday recognized the LGBTQ Pride flag as an official flag of the city in response to the law. You just can’t fix stupid.
Disgusting
Agreed.
And did you see the corporate logos lately? Very few with pride flags this year.
Except the NFL. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot - ball.
No, because I quit Target back when they made their first stink about transgender bathrooms. Target was one of the first on board. But it's good to know they left the church of Satan toddler line and tuckable kids swimsuits off the SKU list this year. Not because Target has any morals though. It's because they were hemorrhaging sales because sane Americans quit spending their money there.
My daughter lives in Cincinnati area and her target still has pride, but it’s 'tucked' away in a back corner
I see what you did there! 😜
Was thinking placement by "the back door" might have been more uh... anatomically (geographically?) correct.
It should all be back in the closet. In the dark. Which is what sexual perversion is. God calls it an abomination.
Correct. Homosexuality is repugnant and should be shunned.
It's a mental illness that needs treatment.
Hahahah. That was well done!
Haven’t been to Target in years with no plans to give them a penny 🇺🇸
I saw some the other day in Kroger. I thought it was just Fourth of July stuff. Don’t give Target too much credit.
Awesome!
I haven't been in a Target for over 20 years, when they put the "we don't care about your civil rights" signs on all their doors.
Even though those signs have no legal meaning in my state now that we have Constitutional Carry, it's still a clear indicator that they don't want my money. And I'm pleased not to give any to them.
I still don’t want anything from Target. Those idiots are still pedo loving, family hating anti Americans!
No. I went once to see if DEI was really done there but They didn't seem to know the difference between a bad fake and reality. The loudest bitchiest head cashier was a boobed male, obviously! He was wicked to ask the women benefit his authority. NASTY!
Think they learned their lesson? Maybe got rid of their woke merchandising executive.
Yes, noticed this just recently. So … what is really causing the change in these very large corporations?
I also saw - get this - “Merry Christmas” festooned from the ceilings of my local Target. I figure we can all use a little forgiveness. 😊
“Remember: Never panic until I give the signal.” Reminds me fondly of Rush. :)
I miss Rush…
Me too! I loved hearing him rustle the papers on his “stack of stuff”. It was thrilling to hear him profess his faith in Christ on the air, and I look forward to meeting him in heaven.
“Talent on loan from God.” ❤️❤️❤️
And, was it "half my brain behind my back to make it fair"...lol
I even remember the commercials. 'Cold eeze'
And the awesome Paul Shanklin (white comedian) parodies. The Algore ones were the best.
My fave line today, for sure!
Colleges keep recycling the same bunch of losers, just like the government.
Yes, and will somebody PLEASE explain to me what in this world anyone other than maybe Jesus, Himself might possibly bring to
a university that would be worth paying him $3 million?
The light came on for me a few decades ago when someone explained that the college/university was a business, with the CEO (president) having to schmooze alumni, squeeze donations, encourage the pursuit of grants and other largess, keep the sports program going to bring in ticket revenue and cash in on past alumni sentiments. In other words, bring their rolodex with them and bring in MORE money than he's being paid.
Not sure where DEI makes money, but I applaud the governor's board for their wise choice. I'm wondering why the pro-Ono members voted for him, given all the reversals that were so obvious that THEY should have been able to discern a brewing problem right before them. Perhaps THEIR placements should be questioned, because of a lack of intelligence and a fealty to "the system". They're not reading the tea leaves (nor the room) very well.
I too wondered about the 6. I mean WTH!?!
That party considers moral flexibility a "feature."
That is a very good way to explain it. (and probably why I get in so much trouble, because I'm morally pretty inflexible).
If his reversals had been things he could speak about with clarity on why he'd been mistaken, if he could have strongly defended his improved views, and given a powereful rejection of vaccine mandates, I would have accepted that people can grow. But since wishy-washy-ness was all he had, yuck!
I was head class agent for my own Mount Holyoke class, back in the early 90's. My job was to squeeze $$$ from alumnae.
I’m with you and all I can say is,
let’s call him, “YUCK-O OH-NO!”
To me, it is obscene to see these worthless people making $3 million salaries. I could randomly pick any unemployed person and they could do the same job better than Mr. Santa. Obscene waste.
The $2 million salary that Biden earned for four years is also obscene waste. We would’ve done better to have our president picked by lottery.
We kinda
did.
Fleecing the Florida taxpayers once again.
And to be clear, that’s the base salary. I’m sure there are many more perks. Many universities still provide free housing for the university president. I can only assume the absolute top dog gets even more
I’m in the wrong line of work! 😝 I was a teacher, then a wedding florist and barn manager. I’d be delighted to do whatever the University Pres does for 1/8 of that salary. And I LOVE FL, especially now
that DeSantis runs it and Jeff directs the law!
Nah, I should've gotten rich off one of those cushy NGO jobs...
Like the big pHarma execs that flow in and out of the FDA.
And there are thousands of them out there being recycled and moved around like chess pieces.
Yes. See Nancy Cantor.
Congratulations to Christian McGhee, from a fellow North Carolinian. You not only struck a blow against tyrannical woke school boards but, you have won freedom from the public education system. Good luck and best wishes to you and your family, and success in all of your future ventures.
🙏👏🏻 - Amen!‼️
It terms of Ono, I said the same about Fauci. All the denials and "do not recalls" show that either the candidate is a liar, or he is incompetent. Do you want someone who "does not recall" what they said 18 months ago as the President of your university? This isn't about what he had for lunch, or which parking spot he parked in at Sonny's BBQ, this is about what he thinks about important issue,s and those things should be very easy to recall.
Isn’t it curious that in July, 2019 Kerry Mullis was murdered?
Mullis directly confronted Fauci publicly and corrected him that the PCR was a REACTION and not a test for anything.
And that is exactly when COVID-19 2019 was just released on the public.
He was an amazing guy … incredibly smart and yet very down to earth too … if you haven’t, read his book - “Dancing Naked in the Minefield” and I too believe he was taken out!
Kerry Mullis was murdered?
Love your avatar by the way.
My money is on "liar"
I wrote this above, but it seems apt here. If his reversals had been things he could speak about with clarity on why he'd been mistaken, if he could have strongly defended his improved views, and given a powereful rejection of vaccine mandates, I would have accepted that people can grow. But since wishy-washy-ness was all he had, yuck!
He should have clearly explained his change of heart and admitted to the foolishness of past things he'd said. Not, "I can't remember, " but "yes, I said that, and here's why I was wrong!"
This is predicated on the idea that he would say he was wrong. So many of our politicians and unelected officials will never admit they are wrong.
"Remember: Never panic until I give the signal."
Just so long as the signal is not blocked comments . . .
🤣 Poor Jeff. It’s actually quite a feat that this doesn’t happen more often given he has to remember to turn comments on six days a week and not sneeze. I’m so glad I understand now, but it’s still fun to whine and wail when it happens about how we miss the chatter of our morning coffee clutch. That’s actually a praise of Jeff because he created us. ☺️
I am convinced that Jeff Childers is an extremely high IQ combined with excellent judgment. There is nothing better on the Internet.
Most importantly, a heart for Jesus!
And a terrific way with work and a killer sense of humor … all of which make our lives much better!!!
Thanks to Jeff!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
In a way, yes.
Thank you Counselor Jeff Childers for the explanation. ❤️
Good morning and may Jesus bless you all
Thanks, Bones, and may His blessings be upon you!!
And you.
“The breathless, front-page treatment given to every sniffle-shaped variant stands in stark contrast to the flat, underplayed reporting on real public health crises— like the quietly rising rates of cancer in younger adults, or the still-mysterious spike in at-home heart attack deaths since 2020.”
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Yeah, I had one of those at home heart attacks last summer ( though, thankfully, rather obviously not a fatal one). And, yes, I got the clot shot (well 2) in April of 2021. That’s the last vaccine that I will ever get - I simply don’t trust Big Pharma, the FDA or the medical establishment as far as I can throw an aircraft carrier. Fairly recently, for example, Moderna tried adding the then-latest clot shot update to its flu vaccine. Yeah, no thanks, I’d like to live long enough to receive back some of what I paid into Social Security and see/enjoy some grandkids.
You might want to read “Super Gut“ by doctor, William Davis. He was a cardiologist who cured his patients by dealing with healing their guts, so he had no more heart patients. Now he specializes on teaching us how to farm our microbiome with all its gut bacteria.
I think that your surgery antibiotics have killed many of your good bacteria. Dr. Davis is on YouTube.
Thanks, I will look at his book. I am definitely an “all of the above solutions “ kind of person (well, except for BS vaccines designed to kill people while making Big Pharma a fortune).
True, antibiotics are very very nefarious and should not be taken at all unless there is no other choice-even topical ones an cause C. Diff and wipe out your microbiome.
So happy to hear you recovered and will never take another jab. Life good, jab bad. It's that simple.
😭🙌🏼
Toppling DEI in our nation's academy is but one of two steps we must take, the other being ending ChiCom influence and control of our "elite" universities.
I would add a third: More self control. As in STOP THE SPENDING! When you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is 'stop digging'. Simple is good; I like ordinal. Should "we" spend more, or should we spend less? Should we borrow more, or should we borrow less? If the Federal government - and state and local, too -spends less each year, and borrows less each year, the problem will resolve automatically.
Chinese Communists Busted Sneaking Bioweapon into U.S. at Detroit Metro to sneak to his girlfriend at UofM....
Law enforcement charged two Chinese citizens with conspiracy to smuggle a dangerous fungus into the United States on Tuesday. The move comes after authorities discovered one of the offenders with toxic plant pathogens stashed in his backpack after he flew into the Detroit airport.
The man, Zunyong Liu, reportedly initially lied about the reason for his American visit before confessing his intention to sneak the substance into his girlfriend’s University of Michigan research lab. Court documents reveal that the girlfriend, Yunqing Jian, holds membership in the Chinese Communist Party and that the couple plotted to bring biological materials into the United States, despite Jian’s initial claims of ignorance.
The fungus at the center of the case is Fusarium graminearum, which scientists classify as a “potential agroterrorism weapon.” It causes head blight in crops and produces toxins that cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock alike
So will they be executed for treason, or made to be victims?
Time to start up the catapults!
Good opportunity for all Latin students to put their learning into practice!
Watching them all having to walkback, denounce, deny, forget, mis-remember toggled a chuckle. History won’t be kind to those who supported the Pandemic/ Biden era parade of dysfunctional, dysphoric, delusional politicians and pundits. It’s already like the crowd pointing out the naked emperor.
But the wonderful thing is, he has put himself in a box by so publicly denying everything he previously believed in, said, advocated and did.
He will get a job in CA. No walking back here. 🫤
Or on the view. He can lie about the way he was misunderstood in his interview.
As Jeffrey Weiner did the other day. I was flipping channels, landed on The View and laughed as he was explaining his rehabbed self and his return to politics.
😡🤬😡🤬🤡
Sadly. California has gone rotten. Move to another state if you can.
Sal si puede!
University of Oregon would take him in a heartbeat. :(
Recently our biologist neighbor here in Bend interviewed for a job in the lab at UO. The interviewer told him they were doing everything to thwart Trump. Our white, 42 yr old male neighbor didn’t get the job. Big surprise.
I wish he had reported him, but to whom, Trump? 😉 Tina wouldn’t have done anything.
Sad. I lived in Oregon for six years back in the 70's, one year in Bend. I loved the natural beauty of the state, so many various kinds of geography. I noticed even then the influx of people from CA.
It’s really sad. A lot of Californians in college in the 70’s. Rich kids. I bet that helped to increase our population.
or in Oregon😕
Oregon is the dumping ground for all of the filth and garbage of the USA.
Glad the gators chomped and spat out Ono. Now it’s time to go on offense. Hundreds of other DEI commissars should be replaced - RISDIE President Crystal Williams is among the worst: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/risd-risdie-crystal-williams-dei
Why is Florida offering $3 million salaries for administrators? Isn’t it conceivable that a competent administrator could be hired for one tenth that amount? When you put out parasite bait you tend to attract parasites. Not to mention what this profligate spending does to taxpayers and students struggling to pay tuition.
Makes me wonder about the salaries of all the rest of the administrators at UF is the top one is $3 million. The next in lines won't be too happy unless they get something fairly close to the top person.
And the service academies.
Everyone in the chain of command that ordered the experimentation on their subordinates should be court-martialed.
Yes they did!!!!!!!!!! Boom!