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Rule 5 Sunday: No Shipgirl Can Fight The Future

Posted on | September 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: No Shipgirl Can Fight The Future

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Doomed beauty

Since we had her big sister last week and joked about her in the comments, this week let’s gaze upon the busty, floofy nine-tailed wonder of IJN Shinano from Azur Lane. I usually skip the storyline, because the way Yostar does it is a massive pain in the butt, but in this case it was a mistake, because Shinano spends her entire introductory story trying to avoid her fate, which as we know from The X-Files, cannot be done. Oh, hey, Archerfish, what’s up?
Silicon Valley delenda est.

NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1841, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Tyranny Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EVIL BLOGGERLADY: MAGA Merrick “Beria: Garland, The Bangles, Ukrainian Warrior Women, King Charles & His Consort, Natalie Imbruglia, and The Serpent Queen. 

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Echoes of Michelle Monaghan, Fish Pic Friday – Cara Frankovich, Flathead Catfish in the Susquehanna, Thursday Tanlines, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Gone Fishin’, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

The Myth of ‘Good’ Public Schools

Posted on | September 18, 2022 | Comments Off on The Myth of ‘Good’ Public Schools

Most people know, although they are reluctant to acknowledge, the meaning of “good schools.” You don’t have to be Ibram X. Kendi to see the systemic racism embedded in that common bit of code-speak. When people are looking to buy a house, they’ll pay a premium for a “good school district,” by which they mean a majority-white district.

What has always struck me about this, as a longtime critic of our education system, is how little attention such parents pay to the curriculum. What upscale suburban parents seems to care about most is the relative prestige of their child’s school — is this the fashionable district? do a high percentage of students go onto college? are the SAT scores high? — and never mind what is actually being taught.

The whole question of what constitutes a good education is ignored, while parents are distracted by issues of reputation. And that lazy way of thinking was commonplace up until the moment, just recently, when parents got wise to the craziness that has taken hold in the classroom:

Administrators at Central Bucks West High School have introduced a new “Gender Identification Procedure” that many teachers say is discriminatory against LGBTQ students.
Teachers say they were told to not use a student’s preferred name or pronoun if it does not match with the information in the school’s database. They say they were told to inform school counselors about any student who requests a different name or pronoun. School counselors would then arrange a conversation with the student’s parents or guardians so they could approve their student’s name and/or pronoun change.
Administrators introduced the procedure at a faculty meeting six days into the school year; teachers said administrators cited protecting parents’ rights as the reason. Four teachers told WHYY News about the meeting and the unprecedented pushback from educators. . . .

Dana Pico at First Street Journal called attention to this controversy in a “good” suburban school district. Bucks County is 82% white, wedged between Philadelphia to the south and Trenton, N.J., on the other side of the Delaware River. Median home value is around $340,000. Among the nearly 1,500 students enrolled at Central Bucks West High School in Doylestown, there are fewer than a dozen black kids.

Parents thought they had purchased safety for their children, when they bought homes in this prosperous Philadelphia suburb, never imagining this newfangled menace of “gender theory.” And as we read through this story from WHYY-TV, we get a sense of who’s running the local schools:

“A lot of us are distraught,” said Becky Cartee-Haring, who has taught English at Central Bucks West for 16 years.
“I physically felt sick in that meeting, listening to an administrator basically argue that we were going to protect ourselves by outting children … it’s heart wrenching … It’s just cruel.”
Teachers said administrators told them they have to follow parents’ or guardians’ wishes if they differ from a student’s.
“What the children wanted was completely irrelevant,” said David Klein, who has been teaching social studies at Central Bucks West for 26 years.
Klein said he’s not going to follow the new procedure.
“There’s no way I’m hurting a kid. Hell no. I cannot be complicit in harming children,” Klein said, raising his voice. “And I said this in the meeting … this is the most at-risk marginalized group of students, they need our support more than anyone else. No! Kid says, ‘Call me Tony,’ I’m calling them Tony!”
Klein and other teachers are unwilling to “deadname” a student in front of their peers, parents, or other school staff.

Notice that both of these teachers, who profess themselves “distraught” by a policy they regard as “cruel” to “marginalized” students, have been employed a long time by Bucks County schools. We may be certain that, when Becky Cartee-Haring was hired in 2006, there were no controversies about pronouns and “gender identity” in Bucks County schools. We know this because the sudden vogue of youth transgenderism didn’t begin until about 2014, and the acceleration of this trend has been driven mainly by online social media. Yet here are teachers adamantly defending beliefs that didn’t even exist when the students at Central Bucks West High School started first grade.

More from the WHYY-TV story:

Klein said even if he faces a parent who does not want their child to be called a name that the child prefers, he will continue to prioritize the student.
“My job is to educate your kids, to prepare them for the future, to make them feel safe, period. That’s my calling. Pardon me,” Klein said, choking up. “I’m calling you Tony because you need to feel safe in my classroom. How else are you going to learn? And if they want to fire me, that’s their business.”
Cartee-Haring and education experts said students learn better when teachers show respect for who they are.
“There are very few hills that teachers are going to die on,” Cartee-Haring said. “But in this case, most of the people I talked to said, ‘I’m willing to go in the line of fire, if I have to sit in a meeting with an angry parent, I’m going to do that.’”

See this? The teachers are experts, whereas mere parents . . . Well, your opinion about your child’s education is irrelevant. And if your daughter decides she’s “Tony” because of something she saw on TikTok or Tumblr last week, these teachers in Bucks County will “respect” that.

All of this is happening, you see, in one of the most desirable public-school districts in America, a place where people move and buy high-priced homes just so their kids can go to these “good” schools.

But there are no good public schools in America anymore. The system is corrupt and the entire edifice is rotten to the core. I figured that out sometime around 1996. Some of you people are just now catching on.




 

Category: Education, Pennsylvania

FMJRA 2.0: Call Of The West

Posted on | September 18, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Call Of The West

— compiled by Wombat-socho

As I said last week that I would, I let the robot make the calls this week, and the robot did about as well as I would have, taking one from the Reds and another from the Red Sox. So the Senators were 2-4 this week, but I felt better about it since I didn’t have to actually sit through the games.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

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Rule 5 Sunday: IJN Musashi
Animal Magnetism
The DaleyGator
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
A View From The Beach

In The Mailbox: 09.13.22
Okrahead
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

About the ‘Rings of Power’
The DaleyGator
EBL

Ukraine Update: Smashing Success?
Vulture Of Critique
The Political Hat
EBL
357 Magnum

FMJRA 2.0: Let The Robot Do The Suffering
EBL
A View From The Beach

‘Fake News’ Media: Lying by Omission
The DaleyGator
Living In Anglo-America
EBL
357 Magnum

‘That Wretched Woman’
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 09.12.22
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Death by ‘Analytics’
The DaleyGator
EBL

Ukraine Offensive Halts at Oskil River?
EBL

As the Nation Stumbles Toward Catastrophe, FBI Raids ‘My Pillow’ Dude
The DaleyGator
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 09.14.22
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Pro-Criminal Fetterman Puts Convicted Killers on His Senate Campaign Payroll
Okrahead
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 09.15.22
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

Las Vegas: Criminal Starts Gunfight; Wounded Female Officer Finishes It
EBL
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Sometimes, It’s Just Too Easy
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.16.22
EBL
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

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Category: FMJRA Award

The Mayor of CrazyTown, U.S.A.

Posted on | September 17, 2022 | Comments Off on The Mayor of CrazyTown, U.S.A.

Politico has a lengthy feature about the political turmoil in “America’s Blackest City.” South Fulton didn’t even exist as a municipality until 2016 when the unincorporated area south of Atlanta in Fulton County decided that it should become its own city. From the beginning, South Fulton had problems, due to its lack of a commercial tax base, but then last year, the election for mayor was won by khalid kamau — no capital letters, because capitalization is racist or something — who is an avowed socialist whose express goal is to turn South Fulton into a “real-life Wakanda.”

Everybody else on the city council in “America’s Blackest City” has denounced the mayor, and Politico does readers the excellent service of quoting verbatim a recent speech by the mayor:

Flanked by an ally in a shirt that blared “Black on Purpose” and a street activist wearing pink hair, pink tights and black tactical gear, kamau then delivered an unprecedented broadside against no small share of the government of this city he was elected to lead.
“I am here today because sometimes you gotta fight your people to fight for your people. Seven months ago, I was elected the city of South Fulton’s second mayor. I ran on a platform here in the Blackest city in America that we should be Black on purpose, period. Being Black on purpose isn’t just about policymaking. It is about rethinking how we do government for the benefit of the people, with a platform and an agenda written not by me, but by all of you. We won an election decisively, with 60 percent of the vote, in every district of this city, across every demographic. Some folks, some folks say I’m a young mayor — I’m 45, but I’ll take it — and in doing so, they have attributed my difficulties with this council to a lack of maturity. But it’s a lie. And even more problematic, it’s an inconvenient excuse to avoid how dysfunctional this city council has been.” . . .
“Being Black on purpose is acknowledging that we have been conditioned as a people to be crabs in a barrel. That’s what you see happening. That’s the behavior you see happening on council. It’s a crabs-in-a-barrel mentality. But what we should be asking is: Who put us in this barrel? A crab’s natural habitat is the ocean. When you see me getting busy, when you see me swinging in this barrel, I’m not pushing against the other crabs. I’m pushing against the barrel to knock it over and get us back into the ocean,” he said. “I’m gonna close by saying this. I want to apologize in advance to the citizens of the city of South Fulton for the months of negative press coverage that are sure to follow this conference. I promise I would not take such drastic measures if I thought there were any other way to move forward. But I also promise you this: A more noble city lies on the other side of these troubled waters. Do not fall victim to the post-traumatic slave narrative that Black people cannot rightly govern.”

Ah, it’s “the post-traumatic slave narrative,” you see.

Quoting the mayor at such length serves to confirm one basic fact: He’s deranged, demented, daft, wacky, cracked, bonkers, nuttier than squirrel farts, a few fries short of a Happy Meal and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

The fact that he got 60% of the vote in South Fulton — well, I don’t know what that says about “the post-traumatic slave narrative,” but it doesn’t bode well for the community’s future prospects. In that respect, South Fulton is like many other places (e.g., Chicago) that have elected mayors who are not quite so blatantly crazy as Mayor Lower-Case Letters, but still crazy enough to utterly wreck everything. When people elect a lunatic like khalid kamau, they are rendering a verdict on themselves, because what kind of people would choose to be governed by such a kook?

By the way, the mayor has kept his campaign promise to move into the Camelot Condominiums off Old National Highway, where he pays $800 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. A local TV station speaks of “the dilapidated Camelot Condominiums [which] have become notorious as one of metro Atlanta’s most run-down housing units,” but guess what? About 50 years ago — in the late 1960s and early 1970s — this was an apartment complex that was actually a fashionable place to live, with lots of stewardesses who worked out of nearby Hartsfield Airport and other hip young “swingers.” Gosh, I wonder what changed . . .




 

Category: Georgia

A Simple Idea: ‘Four or More’

Posted on | September 17, 2022 | Comments Off on A Simple Idea: ‘Four or More’

Yesterday, Ace of Spades jabbed Jonathan V. Last as one of “True Conservatives Conserving Conservatism at The Bulwark” — a jab richly deserved, but it filled me with a sense of sadness, because Last used to be so good, before he fell victim to Trump Derangement Syndrome.

What To Expect When No One’s Expecting was, and still is, a book well worth reading. To quote the dust-jacket summary:

For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else.
It’s all bunk. The “population bomb” never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies. Population growth has been slowing for two generations. The world’s population will peak, and then begin shrinking, within the next fifty years. In some countries, it’s already started. . . .
What to Expect When No One’s Expecting explains why the population implosion happened and how it is remaking culture, the economy, and politics both at home and around the world.
Because if America wants to continue to lead the world, we need to have more babies.

Of course, I didn’t need any lectures on that topic, being a father of six, but still this was an important message, and Last marshaled an array of arguments on behalf of this pro-natalist message. What To Expect When No One’s Expecting followed in the footsteps of the late Ben Wattenberg’s 1987 book The Birth Dearth, which was the first examination of the modern trend of demographic decline in industrial societies. Wattenberg later followed that up with Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future (2004).

As should be obvious, these warnings have been largely ignored. There has been no new “Baby Boom” in response to the concerns raised by Last’s book, or Watterberg’s books, and the question is, why?

Permit me to share the insight of personal experience: People’s behaviors are limited by their imagination. That is to say, people generally don’t attempt things they regard as impossible and, in the minds of most Americans, having a large family is a financial impossibility. Even if they wished to have lots of kids, they can’t figure out how it could be done, from the perspective of their personal economic situation.

They can’t afford it, they say.

OK, believe what you want to believe, but how is it that I could afford it, if you can’t? Do you suppose I’m some kind of financial genius? An heir to the Rockefeller fortune? No, of course, they realize that my wife and I don’t have some hidden pile of cash that has enabled us to raise all these kids; we were just willing to make sacrifices that most people aren’t willing to make. And that knowledge makes them embarrassed.

This embarrassment expresses itself as defensiveness, especially among conservative Christians who understand that they are not exactly practicing what they preach, as regards “family values.” Sure, maybe it’s silly to think that every faithful Christian couple would strive to spawn a Duggar-sized brood, but insofar as we are pro-life, isn’t it logical that we would be more welcoming to offspring as blessings from God?

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil. . . . I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.”
— Deuteronomy 30:15, 19 (KJV)

“Therefore choose life” — this quote from Deuteronomy became a slogan for the pro-life movement, but how many pro-life conservatives have tried to live out the meaning of that phrase? Most people wouldn’t judge me to be a particularly fine example of Christian virtue, but despite my failings, at least I got this part right. And along the way, I picked up a few helpful pieces of advice. When our oldest was just a little baby, and my Dad came to visit us for the first time after she’d been born, we were living in a roach-infested $250-a-month rental home in Gordon County, Georgia. When I complained about our financial situation, my Dad laughed and said, “Son, if you wait to have kids until you can afford to have kids, you’ll never have kids.” Truer words were never spoken.

Ten years later, after we’d moved to the D.C. area so I could work at The Washington Times, our family had grown to four kids, and in July 1999, I saw this item on a pro-life website:

Where are the children?
In reacting to a report released today by the statistics office of the European Union, STOPP International director Jim Sedlak said, “This report points out what we have been yelling from the rooftops for some time now — the world needs larger families.”
The Eurostat report warns that European Union countries can expect health and pension costs to soar over the next 50 years as the number of people over retirement age rises to about one third of the total population. “The main cause of the aging,” according to the report, “is the decline in births over the last two to three decades.”
“The ‘success’ of the population controllers in Europe is now taking its toll,” said Sedlak. “The average number of babies per woman has fallen from 1.95 to 1.65, and there is no end in sight.”
“In order to turn things around, four things are necessary,” Sedlak said. “First, the world has to understand that there is not an overpopulation problem, but a problem of too few children. Second, everyone in our society must accept large families and stop using peer pressure to convince people not to have more children. Third, governments and rich philanthropists must stop giving money to population control programs. Finally, young people getting married have to be thinking of having four or more children.”
“We have one generation to turn things around,” Sedlak said. “After that, it may be too late.”

The author of that short article, Jim Sedlak, was a remarkable individual. A research physicist, Sedlak worked for IBM for 30 years before retiring in 1993, at age 50, “to devote a full-time effort to the pro-life cause.” A devout Catholic, Sedlak was particularly a critic of classroom “sex education,” and founded Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP), which eventually became part of the American Life League, of which Sedlak became Executive Director. He died earlier this year, but I had the chance to talk to him a few times over the years, and he was full of wisdom about our culture, including this simple idea: “Four or more.”

Sedlak had studied the demographics of the Baby Boom, and understood this: It was largely a Catholic phenomenon. Most people don’t realize this, because the way we think about population trends usually focuses on medians and averages, without much thought to the human variables behind such statistics. The Baby Boom peaked in 1957, when the U.S. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) reached 3.77 average lifetime births per woman. If you think hard about that number, you realize that it means the average American woman in 1957 was three times more likely to have four children as to have merely three. To reach such an astonishing figure, however, you must first account for those women who will ultimately be childless, and whose contribution to the total is zero. Such a subtraction means that the average mother (as opposed to the average woman) was even more likely to have at least four children. And, as this 3.77 TFR number was an average, it means that for every woman who had only two children in 1957, there was another woman who had five or six. For every “only child” born in 1957, there was another child born into a family with six or seven siblings. Large families were what really made the “Baby Boom” happen and, among these super-sized families, Catholics were a disproportionately large share. The Catholic Church’s doctrine against artificial contraceptives was taken seriously back then, and the decline of that faithfulness is the real cultural explanation of the changing demographic trend over the past 60 years.

Of course, I’m Protestant, but the issue with Catholics and their declining fertility rate is illustrative of the overall trend. While different Protestant denominations have different approaches to these questions, in general, more conservative Protestants are inclined toward the “pro-life”/“pro-family” beliefs so elaborately spelled out in the various encyclicals (e.g., Humanae Vitae) that codify Catholic doctrine on this subject.

The salt has “lost its savour” would be the best description of what’s happened, in terms of Christian family practice in recent decades. One might imagine that self-identified Catholics would still have substantially higher fertility rates than the average American, but they don’t — they have been “conformed to this world,” and the same is true of evangelical Christians. The commandment to “be ye separate” — to have no fellowship with unrighteousness — seems to have been forgotten, so that many Christians are now just following the crowd, and making the same lifestyle choices as the unchurched. This is true about many things, including divorce, and few church spokesmen seem willing to speak out against this trend. Church leadership is not leading.

People make trends, not the other way around. The choices you make, as an individual, have an influence far beyond your own awareness, and what you practice will ultimately have more influence than what you preach, if you don’t live up to own professed beliefs.

Our ability, as individuals, to influence something so large as the national birth rate may seem infinitesimally small, and Jonathan V. Last’s book apparently failed to make a dent in the trend. But our actions ultimately make more difference than any author’s words, and you don’t need a whole book to explain it. “Four or more” — a very simple idea.

Now, to find a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome . . .




 

Category: Contraceptive Culture, Religion

‘Humanitarian Crisis’ Update

Posted on | September 17, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ Update

By now you know the story: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a planeload of 50 illegal immigrants from Venezuela to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, the island vacation resort where Barack Obama and other wealthy elites have private beachfront mansions. The affluent liberals of Martha’s Vineyard freaked out, and had the governor send in the National Guard to round up the Venezuelans and ship them off to a military base on Cape Cod. Hypocrisy exposed, mission accomplished.

During this comic escapade, however, an appeal showed up on GoFundMe, soliciting funds to address the “humanitarian crisis” in Martha’s Vineyard. Mia Cathell reports on who was behind that appeal:

The ultra-wealthy elites of Martha’s Vineyard launched a GoFundMe fundraiser over the island’s “humanitarian crisis” of (*finger-counts*) 50 migrants sent ashore by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). That’s right. The trust fund babies and Old Money socialites on Martha’s Vineyard, a well-known magnet for millionaires, CEOs, and celebrities, were soliciting online donations from middle-class Americans on the crowdfunding platform.
As of Friday afternoon, the affluent community’s “urgent plea” has raised over $42,000. The proceeds are benefiting the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation (MVCF) whose mission includes putting “charitable contributions to work for the people of Martha’s Vineyard by making grants that address community priorities” and “dispersing emergency response funding during extreme times of need.” MVCF builds and invests its endowment to “provide continued resources for enhance[ing] and preserving the quality of life on the Vineyard.”
MVCF is the permanent endowment for Martha’s Vineyard and has grown to assets under management of over $14 million dollars, according to its financials page. MVCF’s current causes accepting monetary gifts include the Climate Action Fund, which backs projects “that address the effects of climate change on the Island; the Islanders Write festival, a free event where authors come together “for robust conversation about the art, craft and business of writing;” and the Diversity Coalition Charitable Trust, which is dedicated to “eradicat[ing] racism,” understanding “the barriers that prevent equal rights for all,” and “ultimately eliminate inequality and injustice.”
In addition to the flow of GoFundMe sympathy cash, MVCF had established a separate Migrant Relief Fund, noting that it’s “concerned about the well[-]being of the migrants who have recently arrived on our island.” . . .
“Martha’s Vineyard is a community of open-hearted individuals that view these migrants as people, not political pawns,” the GoFundMe campaign’s description read overnight, right before the “immigrant-friendly,” welcoming “sanctuary destination” quickly bid adieu Friday morning to the dozens of migrants within a 48-hour period.
The companion Migrant Relief Fund’s caption was updated to note that the “immigrant visitors” were just that—passersby. Of course, the MVCF was sure to emphasize that the visiting migrants “expressed enormous gratitude for the outpouring of support and generosity shown by the Island community, which was heartfelt and overflowing.” Then the MVCF vowed to “make every attempt to stay connected” with the group of migrants.
The fundraiser’s organizer, New York communications consultant Sarah Goulet, claimed the resort community “faces a shortage of affordable housing,” although dissidents in the island’s Facebook groups have called out their fellow liberals for not practicing what they preach by refusing to offer up their multiple summer rentals, which remain vacant most of the year. . . .
A quick Google search on Goulet shows her family’s four-bedroom, $1.6 million-plus Martha’s Vineyard home sitting on almost four secluded acres within walking distance of a 1,300-ft private association beach. . . .
Last year, Vineyard Haven, where the Goulet family residence is, was named the most expensive town in America, even beating Los Angeles, according to a 2021 analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by LendingTree.
During the 2020 presidential race, Goulet donated six times to the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris. She’s a frequent contributor to ActBlue, a left-wing funding vehicle for progressive groups and candidates.
Goulet, a graduate of Brown University, owns her own namesake public relations and marketing company, offering strategic communications and media relations for fine art, design, and luxury brands. Her father is the owner of a commercial millwork manufacturer in Denver while her mother, also an Ivy League alumna, is a prominent and acclaimed appellate lawyer, serving as a partner at the prestigious law firm Holland & Hart.
Her husband from pricey Manhattan Beach, California, is a correspondent for GQ magazine and the author of two books. He proposed to Goulet on the beach below the family’s property and the two married in the summer of 2018, catching the attention of The New York Times, which published a profile on the wedding venue.
At the appointment-only Mark Ingram Atelier premier bridal salon, Goulet received an Italian textured silk dress from Milan-based designer Peter Langner. Before the outdoor meadow ceremony, guests were treated to Aperol spritzes and a raw bar, according to wedding blog site Over The Moon. A string quartet serenaded along with a premiere private brand whose vocalists have been featured on “American Idol,” “The Voice,” and “The X Factor.”
These are the class of people making more than six figures in this inflation-ravaged economy but want your money to solve their so-called “humanitarian crisis,” one that’s derived from a very real crisis at America’s border. It’s a worsening situation they didn’t care about until it directly affected them—when there’s trouble in paradise.

So, Ms. Goulet went to Brown University (annual cost of attendance, $80,986 including room and board), while her husband went to Duke University (annual cost of attendance, $81,220 including room and board), and these rich elitists can’t stand the thought of illegal immigrants spoiling their beloved Martha’s Vineyard.

Oh, but they’ve got their ready-made excuse — there’s a “shortage of affordable housing” on the island where Ms. Goulet’s family owns a four-bedroom $1.6-million home on four acres. That’s why they want to put the illegal aliens somewhere else, someplace far away from their own beachfront vacation homes. Not that they’re hypocrites, you see, it’s just that darned “affordable housing” shortage on the island.

You can click here to read all about Sarah Goulet’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard, with an eight-piece band playing at the reception.




 

Category: Immigration, Massachusetts

In The Mailbox: 09.16.22

Posted on | September 16, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.16.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Do Cops Think They Have Mystical Powers?
EBL: More Pedos Who Work At Disney Arrested, also, Judge Raymond Dearie Appointed As Mar-A-Lago Special Master
Twitchy: Facebook Thread Shows How Martha’s Vineyard Residents Really Feel About Illegals, also, Another Unbeliever Tries To Shame Christian Conservatives Over Martha’s Vineyard, Fails Miserably
Louder With Crowder: Crazy fight breaks out on a Carnival Cruise ship after an argument about a chair, also, Ice T says Los Angeles crime is so bad, it’s not safe for west coast rappers
Vox Popoli: Germany Doubles Down, Xi Knows, and Alpha Dream, Gamma Nightmare
According To Hoyt: Two Households, also, At Fencon
Monster Hunter Nation: September Update Post
Stoic Observations: Everybody Hates A Level Playing Field

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Dugin: World War 3 Is Coming, also, Why Can’t The Democrats Beat Trump?
American Greatness: Send All of the Illegals to Martha’s Vineyard , also, Martha’s Vineyard Migrants Shuttled Off the Island to Joint Base Cape Cod
American Power: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 15, Russia’s Battered Army Has No Quick Fix in Ukraine, and It’s Time to Prepare for a Ukrainian Victory
American Thinker: Progressives are the Cause for American Decline
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tyranny Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban State Security arrests mother for criticizing government on social media, Employees at Radio/TV Martí say Biden admin is censoring them to placate the Cuban dictatorship, and Will Cuba heed Russia’s call to send troops to Ukraine war?
Behind The Black: CAPSTONE update: Situation improved but not resolved, Starlink being tested in Antarctica, and Today’s blacklisted American
Cafe Hayek: Not All Deflation Causes Suffering
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Expand Yad Vashem To Include a “Illegal Immigrants Flown to Martha’s Vineyard” Section
Don Surber: New movie honors the enslavers, also, Winning the Battle of Martha’s Vineyard
First Street Journal: Jamie Gauthier stands with Larry Krasner!, also, They’ve got a big job ahead of them
Gates Of Vienna: After 2030 Comes 2060
The Geller Report:  National Guard Deployed To Kick Illegals Out of Obama’s Backyard, also, Biden Regime Pressuring FBI to Fabricate ‘Extremist’ and ‘White Supremacist’ Cases, Agents Say
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Panning Across NGC 346, and Slow Blogging Ahead
Hollywood In Toto: Crazy Whoopi Goldberg Trashes DeSantis, Misses Huge Point, also, Oliver Stone’s U-Turn Is His After Hours
The Lid: The FBI: A Division Of The Democratic Party
Legal Insurrection: Pending Return to SCOTUS, Yeshiva University Freezes All Student Group Activities Rather Than Recognize LGBT Alliance, Schumer Singing Different Tune Than the Press on Democrat ‘Comeback’ Talking Point, Ohio State University Task Force on Racism and Racial Inequities wants School to Apply DEI Policies To Everything, and Cook Political Report Changes Oregon Governor Race From Lean Democrat to Toss Up
Nebraska Energy Observer: This Keeps Jumping Into My Mind
Outkick: Twitter Reacts To Kirk Herbstreit Calling Thursday Night Football, Patrick Mahomes’ Wife Takes Aim At The Refs With Unnecessary Tweet, Phoenix Suns Vice Chairman Calls For Team Owner Robert Sarver’s Resignation, and David Beckham Waits In Line Like Everyone Else To Visit Queen Elizabeth’s Coffin
Power Line: Fraud Pays, Will Comedians Save the West?, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Marco Rubio & Rick Scott Stand Behind Florida’s Sugar Industry
Shot In The Dark: This Should Solve Everything, No Bias Here, and Open Letter To Governors Abbott & DeSantis
STUMP: Data visualization lessons: Jitter charts, screwups, and visionaries
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Selling of the President 1968
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, Bribery and Corruption on the Red River
Victory Girls: Martha’s Vineyard Pleads Poverty, Illegals Go
Volokh Conspiracy: Fifth Circuit Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Texas Social Media Common Carrier Law
Watts Up With That: Grauniad Asks Why Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral Received More Coverage than the Climate Crisis
Weasel Zippers: Biden Climate Czar John Kerry Jets To Africa To Lecture Them On Being “As Green As Possible”, Biden Spox Tells Reporter Unironically: “We Agree That The Border Is Secure”, Former CDC Director Blasts Fauci, and Liberal Hecklers Get Too Close To Marjorie Taylor Greene And Threaten Her – Then Allege She Kicked Them
The Federalist: ZuckBucks Election Rigger Announces Plan To Take Over Government Election Communications, Local Officials Wanted Martha’s Vineyard To Be A ‘Haven’ For Illegals, Until Migrants Actually Arrived, Big Tech Whistleblower Exposes Twitter’s Close Relationship With The Chinese Communist Party, and New Alaska Senate Poll Reveals Lisa Murkowski Neck-and-Neck With Kelly Tshibaka
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Friday September 16th, also, Would You Like Feds with That?

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Sometimes, It’s Just Too Easy

Posted on | September 16, 2022 | Comments Off on Sometimes, It’s Just Too Easy

So I saw this story earlier today:

President Joe Biden on Thursday expressed his frustration with Republican governors sending migrants from the Southern border to Democrat-run cities, calling their actions “Un-American.”
“Republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props,” Biden said. “What they’re doing is simply wrong. It’s un-American. It’s reckless”
The president spoke at the Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala celebrating the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Biden reacted to the news Thursday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew a group of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and that Texas Gov. Greg Abbot sent a busload of migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris’s home in Washington, DC.
He defended his administration’s immigration system, blaming Republicans for getting in the way.
“We have a process in place to manage migrants at the border. We’re working to make sure its safe and orderly and humane,” he said.
Biden spoke quickly and angrily about the situation, although he appeared powerless to stop it.
“Republican officials should not interfere with that process by waging these political stunts,” he said.
The president called for Republicans to join him to pass amnesty for illegal immigrants, calling it “long overdue.” . . .
Biden also noted proudly that schools are reopening after the coronavirus pandemic, reminding the audience that 28 percent of students in public schools are Hispanic.
“You all are going to own the country, man. We better darn well make sure they have every opportunity they have, not a joke,” he said.

That last line caught my eye — Hispanics “are going to own this country” — and I began to think of the headline I was going to write about it, but then I logged onto Twitter and saw Steve Sailer had beaten me to it.

Exactly. You’re a dangerous far-right extremist if you so much as mention “The Great Replacement,” but here is the President of the United States citing demographic data to celebrate it as fact. And, of course, the “stunt” of flying a few dozen illegals to an elite conclave in Massachusetts exposes the basic dishonesty of the whole thing: Democrats are eager to flood your community with illiterate foreign peasants — that’s “social justice,” see? — but don’t you dare expect them to accept any of these peasants in their community. Why, it’s “un-American” to expect that!




 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Immigration, Joe Biden, Massachusetts
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