We’ve been cleaning up The Gulch in preparation of the youngest WP Sister visiting for a few days. There is a bunch of baking in the offing while she’s here as she and I will be making pulla, a Swedish cardamom bread we all grew up with. My grandmother made it all the time and it was something we all grew up loving.
Something I told my sister is that we had to make at least one extra loaf as I’ve worked out a trade with a friend who is of Swedish descent: one loaf of pulla for one loaf of her limpa. Seems like a fair trade to me.
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Talk about entitled and self-important.
It seems a number of students at a private art school in New York have occupied one of the campus buildings and demanding instructors bestow A grades for the semester before they will leave the building.
According to the Instagram account New School Occupied, the students occupied the TNS University Center on Dec. 8 in support of faculty on strike for higher wages and better healthcare. While the strike ended on December 10, the occupants published a new set of demands that day that included A’s for all students, the resignation of school leadership, and the dissolution of the Board of Trustees.So A’s will be given even if students didn’t attend classes? Then what incentive is there to attend class or do the coursework?
“We demand that every student receives a final course grade of A as well as the removal of I/Z grades for the Fall 2022 semester,” the demand letter read. “Attendance shall have no bearing on course grade.”
Just flunk them...then expel them. What makes them think they’re running things?
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We have remember this little statistic: Democrats tend to get us into big wars and Republicans generally don’t.
If one looks at the three Obama terms, the administration has sucked up to our enemies, denigrated, insulted, and then ignored our allies, doing incalculable damage to our foreign relations and proving to the world that we’re being governed by idiots and slackers.
It looks like WRBA is working harder to undo much of the work the Trump Administration accomplished, between awful deals with our adversaries, and destabilizing relations between states like Israel and Jordan.
Yeah, that’s going to make things better.
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It’s amazing what happens when the Left finds out that the rules apply to them, too.
Shock...and claims of victimhood.
Aaron Rupar was among several left-wing journalists whose Twitter accounts got suspended Thursday for promoting the “doxxing” of Elon Musk’s private jet. Having been permanently suspended myself — for nothing — all I can say is, “Gosh, it’s terrible what’s happening to you.”There old “We can get away with doing reprehensible things on Twitter but you can’t” frame of mind has been replaced with “What do you mean it’s against the rules to doxx, denigrate, and lie about people we hate – you – and that we can no longer do that?” claim of victimhood.
Because the “Trust & Safety” crew at Twitter was apparently 100% left-wing, it was always conservatives who had to fear banishment for Thought Crimes, and now that Elon Musk has started cleaning house, the Left is claiming victimhood because not only have they lost the power to silence their enemies, they themselves are now at risk of being silenced for engaging in abusive behavior that they’ve become accustomed to dishing out, but never taking.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where we’re still cleaning up from the snowstorm, making preparations for Christmas, and trying to avoid as much of Monday as we can.