Speaking of Christmas, the WP Mom and I will be traveling down to one of the WP sisters home on Christmas to celebrate the day. Fortunately, almost the entire trip will be on major highways well outside of Boston and should keep our travel time there to around 90 minutes.
The work to empty the Official Weekend Pundit Storage Unit continues. BeezleBub and I did make one trip between there and The Gulch to retrieve an antique dresser that had once belonged to my paternal grandparents, one I used when I was attending college and later in my first apartment when I moved to New Hampshire. While it isn’t valuable and could use a little restoration work (a knob on one drawer is missing), it will fill a need here at The Gulch.
If things work according to plan, the storage unit will be empty before New Year’s. My ex still has a bunch of furniture there and I do have a few more items to move to The Gulch except for a couple of containers of books which will be going to my town’s library to be sold during their annual book sale later next year.
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It seems the moves by universities and colleges to bolster minority enrollments, paid for by federal funds, are in fact unconstitutional. It discriminates by race, by ethnicity, by sex, giving precedence to minorities and women by giving them precedence over white men when it comes to admissions. More than one court decision has made this clear where “affirmative action” policies and regulations to give priority to minority students over white students.
One such case was in Supreme Court decision in Regents of the University of California vs Bakke back in 1978.
Allan Bakke, a thirty-five-year-old white man, had twice applied for admission to the University of California Medical School at Davis. He was rejected both times. The school reserved sixteen places in each entering class of one hundred for "qualified" minorities, as part of the university's affirmative action program, in an effort to redress longstanding, unfair minority exclusions from the medical profession. Bakke's qualifications (college GPA and test scores) exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in the two years Bakke's applications were rejected. Bakke contended, first in the California courts, then in the Supreme Court, that he was excluded from admission solely on the basis of race.One does not cure injustice caused by discrimination by using discrimination to ‘balance the books’. Yet here we are, 47 years later, seeing that same injustice at universities and colleges being funded by the federal government in direct opposition to the Bakke decision.
The Department of Justice certainly sees a problem with the government funded race based programs – renamed “Minority Serving Institution” programs – which are just a repackaged affirmative action policy that has already been stuck down as unconstitutional.
Fortunately there are already moves in progress that would abolish such programs for good.
(H/T Instapundit)
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Quid Pro Quo indeed.
Democrats allow Somalis to commit welfare fraud in exchange for Somalis engaging in election fraud.
It will not surprise me in the least if this turns out to be the case. And if it is, some people need to go to prison, and others need to be deported…after they serve their prison terms.
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I have to wonder if this will help or hurt the Pyrite State.
California Court to Decide Whether Moonbattery Is Mental Illness
It’s going to take a court to decide this?
The correlation between moonbattery and mental illness is well established. But is it clinically accurate to say that moonbattery actually is a manifestation of mental illness? The question has legal ramifications.Did she really think she could get away with making threats like that, particularly during a public city council meeting? She must be mentally ill…or a spoiled entitled brat who needs a serious wakeup call. At this point I think it’s a toss-up. Maybe she’s both.
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In April 2024, [Riddhi] Patel, [a 28-year-old Indian-American leftist activist who identifies as “non-binary”] appeared at a city council meeting in Bakersfield, California. She stepped up to the microphone and delivered a furious speech about Gaza, metal detectors, oppressors, and revolution. She concluded her remarks with a blunt threat to the elected officials, “We’ll see you at your house, we’ll murder you.”
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Prosecutors charged her under California Penal Code § 422, which criminalizes willful threats to commit acts that could result in death or great bodily injury, i.e. “terrorism”.
Patel’s lawyers want to refer the case to California’s mental health diversion program — that is, get her off with the insanity defense.
The case has broad implications.The Left will use this as a defense for even the most egregious and violent behavior. If they are found mentally ill, then they should be held in a secure mental institution…forever. It should not be used as the aforementioned Get Out of Jail Free card because they believe they are entitled to perform any act in the name of their cause. It means they’re not capable of being able to tell the difference between right or wrong or that they just don’t care and should not be released back out into the public where they will cause more harm. They have to understand the concept of consequences, be they mentally ill or entitled brats who have never had to face consequences for their actions in the past.
Leftist activists like Patel increasingly act as though they can intimidate, or openly threaten, government officials and conservatives without fear of consequence, particularly when they believe their views are protected by alignment with the media and a dominant political party. Accountability is simply not expected.
Handing out Get Out of Jail Free cards in the name of the insanity defense would make unaccountability official. Presumably this would apply not only to threats but actual violence, which has always been a hallmark of leftism, as Charlie Kirk’s assassination reminds us. But at least it would also make official that leftists are insane.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where it’s cold and windy, where more snow is expected on Tuesday, and if that is indeed the case, we can have a White Christmas this year.