vxbush 8/22/2022 6:09:46 AM

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Today is a day where I hate my job. Of course, it's Monday, so that makes it even more fun. 

buzzsawmonkey 8/22/2022 6:47:39 AM

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"Xi, xe, xi, xe---we must have equity..."

---Snow White Supremacist and the Seven Verticaly-Challenged Persons

Occasional Reader 8/22/2022 7:05:21 AM

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Good morning.  I don't know if y'all had seen yet that the Minneapolis teachers' union demanded, and received, a "fire whites first" provision in their contract with the city.

Because that is how hatefully insane and racist the Left is today.  

vxbush 8/22/2022 7:09:12 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: Because that is how hatefully insane and racist the Left is today.  

And that sounds like grounds for a big lawsuit. Perhaps even a class action one. 

buzzsawmonkey 8/22/2022 7:10:46 AM

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In #4 vxbush said: And that sounds like grounds for a big lawsuit. Perhaps even a class action one. 

Then you get a "woke" judge, and lose.

Occasional Reader 8/22/2022 7:11:03 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 3:

And note how the super-woke AP describes this:

"When Minneapolis teachers settled a 14-day strike in March, they celebrated a groundbreaking provision in their new contract that was meant to shield teachers of color from seniority-based layoffs and help ensure that students from racial minorities have teachers who look like them."

They simultaneously cheer this, and distort the description of what it is.

And don't even get me started on the soft bigotry of low expectations element of assuming that black/brown students can only learn from "teachers who look like them". 

God, I hate these people. 

JCM 8/22/2022 7:25:12 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

I hope a white teacher is already gotta a legal team together and will file a EEoC complaint, and 14th Amendment lawsuit.

It's so illegal as to be laughable.

But I'm not laughing.

JCM 8/22/2022 7:26:47 AM

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Let them eat cake solar panels!

buzzsawmonkey 8/22/2022 7:31:21 AM

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Reply to JCM in 8:

If we are indeed in the middle of a drought, as we are told, and if indeed the sea levels are rising, as we are told despite the absence of any actual evidence to that effect, then clearly the proper response is not to waste time and money building wind farms and erecting solar panels, but to put desalinization plants on high priority and start desalinizing sea water to eliminate the water shortage and lower the sea levels.

Yet there is no mention of, let alone impetus towards, doing this.

JCM 8/22/2022 7:34:42 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 9:

It's a tell.

All their screaming about warming, no real plans to address it.

The only plan is forcing people to comply with their will.

Occasional Reader 8/22/2022 7:38:00 AM

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Reply to JCM in 7:

it is a calculated effort to move the Overton window.

buzzsawmonkey 8/22/2022 7:39:58 AM

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In #11 Occasional Reader said: the Overton window

Those "Overton windows" are "climate-friendly," right?

JCM 8/22/2022 8:09:00 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:

If you or I have an Overton Window, it is energy inefficient, colonist, paternalistic, racist, homophobic, and distorts our view.

The leftists' Overton Windows are not all those things, they are perfect!

Occasional Reader 8/22/2022 8:20:09 AM

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Occasional Reader 8/22/2022 8:20:36 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 14: 

(they are very European in that regard.))

JCM 8/22/2022 8:34:45 AM

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In lighter news.... they raced T-Rexs at the local horse race track.

Occasional Reader 8/22/2022 8:38:49 AM

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Reply to JCM in 16:

I assume the race was kicked off by someone banging a gong. 

doppelganglander 8/22/2022 9:19:36 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 17:`

+++++++

lucius septimius 8/22/2022 11:08:37 AM

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Occasional Reader 8/22/2022 11:22:53 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 19:

Make them an offer they can't refuse. 

doppelganglander 8/22/2022 11:59:06 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 19:

Hoping it all works out for you.

lucius septimius 8/22/2022 12:06:17 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 20:

Luca is already on his way over.

buzzsawmonkey 8/22/2022 12:42:26 PM

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In #22 lucius septimius said: Luca is already on his way over.

Luca-tion, Luca-tion, Luca-tion, as they say in real estate.

Occasional Reader 8/22/2022 12:46:49 PM

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In #22 lucius septimius said: Luca is already on his way over.

Here's my thing about Luca Brasi.  Sure, he's supposed to be this terribly scary guy.  But in the course of the movie (and the book, IIRC), he never actually accomplishes anything on behalf of the Corleone family.  The first time he gets sent on an actual mission of some sort (meeting Sollozzo), he gets killed. 

lucius septimius 8/22/2022 3:54:12 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 24:

He comes off as even more of an asshole in the book. One wonders whether Vito sent on the mission expecting he'd get killed.