I cleaned up both my desk and my monitor this morning. Golden rule = Always, always put the coffee back down before reading Don (and his subscribers comments).
Medically speaking (and morally too), "A 10 year old is a person who has lived for 10 years" is wrong -- and could be deceptive especially when used by certain mass-murdering activists. The great majority of 10-year olds have lived 9 months prior to commencing that 10-year term.
I’ve got to go to work, so no time to touch on all this piece’s gems.
Of course the walk-off grand slam was Ackman as IDF with AI as his Mossad.
But when I spewed some coffee was, after wondering if “autistically meticulous” was a typo, I read “Is it ok if I enjoyed the phrase?”
Well, if not then we both need absolution. And I have an adopted autistic grandson that I’m already expecting greatness from. One reason I expect that is my son will see to it he’s not easily offended. And, yes, he’s 6 and already has ‘meticulous’ nailed.
I haven’t finished today’s article yet but I had to stop and correct an error in the first paragraph… Claudine Gay is black but she is by no means a lady.
“America has 3 times as many people with doctorate degrees. I am not saying they are useless.”
This reminded me of an acquaintance who is in her mid 70’s and did her PhD in the 90’s on women comediennes. Of course, she then got a job at a big state university teaching “women’s studies”. In a conversation she once told me how happy she was that women were “finally” making it big in comedy, citing Tina Fey as an example. My response was to ask, “Have you ever heard of Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers?” End of conversation.
There's no need. I scanned that piece of trash (the PhD), and found it absolutely laughable. Blatant errors in math, logic, and everything else. But of course, we have to consider that it was a PhD in EDUCATION, which thanks to all her Predecessor PhDs has become a lost art.
The only question left is "how low will the bar be set before it can go no farther"? It's begining to look more and more like "academic elite" means they are a fraud.
01-09-24: All people in show business are used and discarded without a care. Which is why I was so impressed with the late Richard Belzer's advice to people following his footsteps: "Do not allow them to turn you into their comedy pet" (paraphrased).
You reminded me of an old joke about consultants which I equate to PhD types. A consultant is someone you hire for big bucks who can tell you 99 different ways to make love but hasn't had a date in twenty five years.
The "hate and racism" scam covers the incompetence of the media that sells it, the entire bureaucracy of FEDGOV, and the Human Resource Dept's of corporations. Blackrock homeboy, Larry Fink, consolidates & sums up the global DIE scam in saying that Blackrock's brand of socialist capitalism doesn't fit with republican democracy. Totalitarianism is better for Blackrock's bottom line.
EDIT: "Incompetence" is the wrong word. Those who founded the DIE scam are extremely competent but they are evil, yes, evil; as in spiritually depraved and devoted to the darkness and death of this world. Those who founded and nurture the DIE scam are those who call darkness light and evil good. Everything about them is upside down. They are minions of Satan. They are our enemy. Our enemy is not incompetent. Our enemy is evil.
Liberty Daily always uses DIE-be nice if all conservative outlets would use DIE-much more descriptive. Spelled out would be even better: Degradation, Intolerance, and Exclusion.
She probably would have survived if she were really "Gay". That would be like the White House spokes-idiot -- hitting the triple. Female (?), black and gay!
Anyone tried to hire a plumber or electrician and get them to your house quickly in the last couple years? If so, perhaps we need a few more of them and a few less PHD's. Most people can tell if either a plumber or electrician is good at his trade by watching them work and seeing the result. But can we look at an academic and watch them and tell if they know anything at all about their area of expertise? No. My good friend, a criminal lawyer and litigator who I call "the Doberman", told me there was a reason why most legal folks with a PHD didn't practice in court. In his words, because most really suck at it. So maybe it's time we start educating the country's young people based on their skills so they can do well in life, be productive, and help America prosper. Instead of awarding participation trophy PHD's to people who have never worked a day in their lives so they preach to all of us about how bad we are, maybe they too need to get some life experience and find out what this thing called "work" is all about.
I believe it was Thomas Sowell who wrote that to stand out among the liberal arts “intellectuals”, one needs to come up with outlandish theories that are unprovable - Romeo was transgender who only lusted after Juliet because he/she/xe wanted to marry Juliet’s father.
Prove me wrong.
Meanwhile, if an engineer messes up a calculation, the bridge collapses.
Or an electrician wires the house wrong, it burns down.
Besides, have you seen the salaries of good plumbers, electricians and carpenters? Many of them are in 6 figures. My two sons are honorably and very gainfully employed: one flips cars and trucks and the other flips houses. Both are improving society by their hard working contributions. And both take time off whenever they want (they both just spent 10 days during Thanksgiving visiting their sister in Japan!).
The world needs academics I guess. But I believe too many go that route because they see it as a way to show they are superior to others in a certain way while making a good living based on little or no practical experience. I certainly can't argue with your comment or Mr. Sowell's either. I had a cousin that was older than me who I admired for his adventurism when we were young. Then he went to college and then on to grad school and got a PHD, and spent the rest of his life telling everyone how they were wrong about virtually everything, including the very things he had enjoyed while young. Basically, he never accomplished a darn thing for the country with that education. And tenure as a professor made him fairly wealthy while assuring that no one could take his job. Such a waste of an education.
So true. I watch today and notices some of the classes and degrees being offered and shake my head in disgust. Too many kids are getting too little good advice, even from parents. The colleges on the other hand are knowingly lying to these kids about the value and worth of certain degrees. They don't care if these kids are successful in life, they just care about filling chairs and enrollment quotas. Its fraud. My granddaughter decided to get a business degree and then Covid happened. She took classes for two years online and it cost the same as in school attendance! It will take decades to repair the education system because the left will fight tooth and nail every step of the way. Every time I hear leftists call themselves "progressives" I laugh and wonder when did the word become synonymous with "going backward"?
If I had to do it all over again I would pick a trade. Imagine being a plumber or carpenter today and have a work ethic and some business acumen? You’d kill it!!
I got an engineering degree but never practiced. I spent my civilian career in construction and construction management and don't regret a minute of it. Like so many things in life, civil/structural engineering has become expensive to practice due to errors and omissions insurance and fewer and fewer grads can afford to own an engineering company. The same problem, insurance costs, has driven more and more doctors to work for a medical company or hospital chain today. Not sure where it ends but it wont be good for this country when it finally crashes.
I have long held the opinion that today's Degree Factories are the reincarnation of the degraded, filthy rich, dissolute Church establishment of the late Middle Ages. You know, with all those superfluous theologians arguing about the number of angels who could dance on the tip of a pin. Of course, the managers of today's Degree Factories would be quite indignant at the comparison, to which a fitting response might be: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Or -- WAIT! Here's a great new field of inquiry for the sociologists!
As a local church pastor, I can't disagree with your observation. When a pastor/Christian worker moves "up the ladder" beyond the local church (Bishops, clergy in conference leadership roles, including many/but not all seminary professors), they become worthless - and even dangerous - to both church and society.
And I can't disagree with yours. Decades ago I used to follow the doings by the Presbyterian Central Committee (I believe that was their title, although it ominously sounds like the Communist Central Committee). Anyway, there clearly was a group of insiders steadily working to undermine the institution with perverted notions, which have since become fashionable -- while leading to a schism and drastic decline of Church membership. Similar developments have occurred in other "mainline" churches: Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist ...
But maybe such painful developments are necessary to preserve the faith, and the body of the faithful that's always under attack from those whom Ye shall know by their malevolence.
That is an interesting theory for sure. My wife, who is the smartest woman I have ever known, and I had a discussion a while back about a person we know who has had a variety of health problems that are getting worse. Both of us are very grateful for our overall good health. We commented about how hard this persons life must have become but even though we see the struggle, we don't "really" know what it would be like to be as they are today. We can only guess. Perhaps they challenges the churches are experiencing are a teaching tool for the rest of us, no different than the person who has serious health challenges is perhaps teaching us a lesson as well.
How long will it be before places like Harvard have a "speed degree" where you plead you don't have time to attend and just pay your $320,000 and they just give you the sheet of parchment signed by the university? Not long I suspect.
With all credit to Rufo for pursuing the Gay story, I believe the origins were with a complaining professor. Harvard Corporation supposedly reviewed the complaints and brushed them off. He went to the NYPost that contacted Harvard for comment before publishing. Harvard threatened to sue the Post. It was then that Rufo got invovlved.
Just like in Gaza, you can bury the whole ivy covered halls of academia thing 10 feet deep, and then salt the ground its buried under, but its going to take 2 and maybe 3 generations to eliminate the poison these academic psychopaths have poured into the minds of the kids who have gone there.
Look this focus is on the Ivy League which has by its very concept of exclusivity (spare me the DEI narrative…what’s the purpose of it all if just anyone (worthy or not) can (afford?) to get in) have a limited number of, uhm, students. What about shitholes like Oberlin that don’t even hide their purpose! Do we even know how many of these castles of Higher education there are, or how many indoctrinees they spew out every year?
Another fiasco, engineered and financed by the left, whose motto should be, ‘What’s the use in participating at all if at the end you can’t leave it a smoking, stinking pile of rubble on the ground’
It was a sweet outcome for Gibson's Bakery V Oberlin College. Oberlin is smug, condescending, and ruthlessly wacko leftist, and it cost them $36 million. Faculty and administration worked to promote a lie against this small family owned business in the community, even organizing student boycotts and protests to destroy them. Higher Ed has the credibility of Bill Clinton.
Ever see the cartoon about the two astronauts on the moon looking at what clearly is a human form and the one kneeling down looks at the other and says “its Alice Kramden”
01/09/24: One of the great books: "The Honeymooners' Companion, The Kramdens and the Nortons Revisited," Donna McCrohan; Workman Publishing (1978 paperback). Classic example of something that should have been a best-seller that I suspect had disappointing sales (if so, because the timing of its publication didn't match the arrival of the nostalgia for the show that peaked years later).
I watched that with my Parents when I was a kid every Saturday night and the memories of being in the bosum of a happy family, laughing and and even if I couldn't identify then, feeling safe in my little world brings moisture to my eyes still. Same thing with Jimmy Durante, Ed Sullivan and 'This is your Life'.
I wonder if our kids or grandkids feel that or if they even think about it!
Conservatives are winning on a lot of levels and Oberlin's victory will resound for decades, but sadly in most cases these wins do not begin to fix or repair the damage these liberals/progressives/Marxists are doing to the fabric of the country. The left has gone so far left of center today there is no turning back for them. The best we can hope for is their eventual banishment as a political party.
Though it appears Gay lost her post as Harvard’s president due to her plagiarism, (which was already well known to Harvard but denied), it all exploded in their face as a result of her flagrant antisemitism in the face of a Congressional hearing.
But those two issues, her exposure as a fraud coupled with her antisemitism have since also revealed that they originate from the same rotten root: DIE.
The hiring of Gay was based not on true merit, but as a result of ticking off all the right DIE boxes. Her antisemitism and that which is being demonstrated across every college campus in the country also draws a straight line back to the tenets and teachings imbedded in DIE.
Ackman’s righteous rage aimed at the Presidents of these so-called “hallowed” institutions was sparked by the antisemitism they displayed. And once that rage was ignited he was awakened to discover the poison of DIE, literally for the first time, and that it was at the root of her antisemitism as well as being spread throughout all these universities like a cancer.
A giant has been awakened by these evil-doers, and I pray he is just the first of an army of giants determined to once and for all root out the toxic and hateful entity known as DIE, root and branch.
I seriously doubt she actually composed her thesis. Before DEI there were professional "test takers" for people like Claudine. It is difficult to believe we don't have professional "thesis generators"....which is far worse than mere plagiarism.
Don't candidates for doctoral degrees have to defend their thesis before a panel whose raison detre is to cross examine the candidate to determine if they were responsible for it and were the kind of scholars whom the institution would be proud to claim? Wonder if the judges for Claudine were hand picked for a different agenda? Wonder who they were? Or perhaps that the "defense" is merely a show trial?
Amazon may take over higher education the way they have taken over medicine. My primary care doctor works for One Medical Seniors, a branch of One Medical owned by Amazon. My prescriptions come from Pill Pack, also owned by Amazon. Almost everything we order on line comes from Amazon. Next thing you know, Claudine Gay et al may be working for: you called him Bozos; I call him Eff Bozos.
"Autistically meticulous! Is it OK if I enjoyed the phrase?"
Here's the phrase that made my morning:
"The former’s speeches make her sound like a 10 year old explaining the world to a 7 year old.
(A 10 year old is a person who has lived for 10 years.)"
Thanks
That did make me laugh when I wrote it
I cleaned up both my desk and my monitor this morning. Golden rule = Always, always put the coffee back down before reading Don (and his subscribers comments).
01-09-24: I suspect that the oil-spill booms need to be put in place as well...
Medically speaking (and morally too), "A 10 year old is a person who has lived for 10 years" is wrong -- and could be deceptive especially when used by certain mass-murdering activists. The great majority of 10-year olds have lived 9 months prior to commencing that 10-year term.
True, although Planned Parenthood and almost all Democrats would disagree.
Don, I love you man!
I’ve got to go to work, so no time to touch on all this piece’s gems.
Of course the walk-off grand slam was Ackman as IDF with AI as his Mossad.
But when I spewed some coffee was, after wondering if “autistically meticulous” was a typo, I read “Is it ok if I enjoyed the phrase?”
Well, if not then we both need absolution. And I have an adopted autistic grandson that I’m already expecting greatness from. One reason I expect that is my son will see to it he’s not easily offended. And, yes, he’s 6 and already has ‘meticulous’ nailed.
I haven’t finished today’s article yet but I had to stop and correct an error in the first paragraph… Claudine Gay is black but she is by no means a lady.
“America has 3 times as many people with doctorate degrees. I am not saying they are useless.”
This reminded me of an acquaintance who is in her mid 70’s and did her PhD in the 90’s on women comediennes. Of course, she then got a job at a big state university teaching “women’s studies”. In a conversation she once told me how happy she was that women were “finally” making it big in comedy, citing Tina Fey as an example. My response was to ask, “Have you ever heard of Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers?” End of conversation.
What passes for brilliance these days is laughable. It’s almost like the more letters after your name the more likely it is that you’re an idiot.
I hope someone does an AI review of “Dr. Jill’s” PhD work history, especially since she’s married to the Plagiarist in Chief! Hah!
There's no need. I scanned that piece of trash (the PhD), and found it absolutely laughable. Blatant errors in math, logic, and everything else. But of course, we have to consider that it was a PhD in EDUCATION, which thanks to all her Predecessor PhDs has become a lost art.
IIRC, there was a blatant grammatical error on the very first page. But she was the wife of a senator so….
"It’s almost like the more letters after your name the more likely it is that you’re an idiot." - like one has a pocketful of scrabble tiles...
As the old saying goes, "if you can't play, coach. If you can't do the work, teach"!
Or if you are not good at creating value, make sure you tell the one's that are how ignorant they are.
The only question left is "how low will the bar be set before it can go no farther"? It's begining to look more and more like "academic elite" means they are a fraud.
01-09-24: All people in show business are used and discarded without a care. Which is why I was so impressed with the late Richard Belzer's advice to people following his footsteps: "Do not allow them to turn you into their comedy pet" (paraphrased).
Gracie Allen anyone? Lucy?
Carol Lombard?
The fraudulent scholar’s theses are feces.
May these scholars now live in squalor.
Seeing these egomaniacs who smugly refer to themselves as scholars now getting their just desserts is most satisfying.
Give me blue-collar to scholar any day.
The world can't function without the trades. It can function, however, without PhDs.
You reminded me of an old joke about consultants which I equate to PhD types. A consultant is someone you hire for big bucks who can tell you 99 different ways to make love but hasn't had a date in twenty five years.
I was a consultant my last 30 years working. Worked for myself.
I described a consultant as someone, when you ask him what time it is, takes your watch, tells you the time and then keeps the watch.
Let’s see if I can ruffle a few feathers.
Gorka’s ok when he’s not hawking Salem’s wares, but if the bootlicking megalomania didn’t irritate me, the “Dr.” makes me gag
The "hate and racism" scam covers the incompetence of the media that sells it, the entire bureaucracy of FEDGOV, and the Human Resource Dept's of corporations. Blackrock homeboy, Larry Fink, consolidates & sums up the global DIE scam in saying that Blackrock's brand of socialist capitalism doesn't fit with republican democracy. Totalitarianism is better for Blackrock's bottom line.
Listen to Irish patriot, John Waters. It's a 40 minute summary of what Blackrock Fink and the rest of them are doing to western civilization. Our enemies are genuinely hideous people: https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/declaration-of-intent-for-2024-on?publication_id=108185&post_id=140382858&isFreemail=true&r=1ha8x0&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
EDIT: "Incompetence" is the wrong word. Those who founded the DIE scam are extremely competent but they are evil, yes, evil; as in spiritually depraved and devoted to the darkness and death of this world. Those who founded and nurture the DIE scam are those who call darkness light and evil good. Everything about them is upside down. They are minions of Satan. They are our enemy. Our enemy is not incompetent. Our enemy is evil.
DEI = Dismantle, Eviscerate, Invade with the lowest IQ and least qualified.
Liberty Daily always uses DIE-be nice if all conservative outlets would use DIE-much more descriptive. Spelled out would be even better: Degradation, Intolerance, and Exclusion.
She probably would have survived if she were really "Gay". That would be like the White House spokes-idiot -- hitting the triple. Female (?), black and gay!
At first look, I assumed that she was gay. Or maybe a tranny.
Or maybe a moron.
One more substantial difference -- Gay lacked the frizzy hair.
In the case of "that" woman, they created a new IQ scale and it tops out at zero and goes down from there. Not sure where Bidens idiot ranks.
Anyone tried to hire a plumber or electrician and get them to your house quickly in the last couple years? If so, perhaps we need a few more of them and a few less PHD's. Most people can tell if either a plumber or electrician is good at his trade by watching them work and seeing the result. But can we look at an academic and watch them and tell if they know anything at all about their area of expertise? No. My good friend, a criminal lawyer and litigator who I call "the Doberman", told me there was a reason why most legal folks with a PHD didn't practice in court. In his words, because most really suck at it. So maybe it's time we start educating the country's young people based on their skills so they can do well in life, be productive, and help America prosper. Instead of awarding participation trophy PHD's to people who have never worked a day in their lives so they preach to all of us about how bad we are, maybe they too need to get some life experience and find out what this thing called "work" is all about.
I believe it was Thomas Sowell who wrote that to stand out among the liberal arts “intellectuals”, one needs to come up with outlandish theories that are unprovable - Romeo was transgender who only lusted after Juliet because he/she/xe wanted to marry Juliet’s father.
Prove me wrong.
Meanwhile, if an engineer messes up a calculation, the bridge collapses.
Or an electrician wires the house wrong, it burns down.
PHD: "Piled High and Deep"
Besides, have you seen the salaries of good plumbers, electricians and carpenters? Many of them are in 6 figures. My two sons are honorably and very gainfully employed: one flips cars and trucks and the other flips houses. Both are improving society by their hard working contributions. And both take time off whenever they want (they both just spent 10 days during Thanksgiving visiting their sister in Japan!).
Spot on Rev.
The world needs academics I guess. But I believe too many go that route because they see it as a way to show they are superior to others in a certain way while making a good living based on little or no practical experience. I certainly can't argue with your comment or Mr. Sowell's either. I had a cousin that was older than me who I admired for his adventurism when we were young. Then he went to college and then on to grad school and got a PHD, and spent the rest of his life telling everyone how they were wrong about virtually everything, including the very things he had enjoyed while young. Basically, he never accomplished a darn thing for the country with that education. And tenure as a professor made him fairly wealthy while assuring that no one could take his job. Such a waste of an education.
None of the professors I had in college were as haughty as these smug Ivy League phonies. Calling each other scholars turns my stomach.
Agreed. The term "elites" is inadequate when it comes to these people. Like Reagan said, "they know so much that just isn't true".
I marvel at the uselessness of some of the college courses my kids are taking. Completely bloody useless in the real world.
So true. I watch today and notices some of the classes and degrees being offered and shake my head in disgust. Too many kids are getting too little good advice, even from parents. The colleges on the other hand are knowingly lying to these kids about the value and worth of certain degrees. They don't care if these kids are successful in life, they just care about filling chairs and enrollment quotas. Its fraud. My granddaughter decided to get a business degree and then Covid happened. She took classes for two years online and it cost the same as in school attendance! It will take decades to repair the education system because the left will fight tooth and nail every step of the way. Every time I hear leftists call themselves "progressives" I laugh and wonder when did the word become synonymous with "going backward"?
If I had to do it all over again I would pick a trade. Imagine being a plumber or carpenter today and have a work ethic and some business acumen? You’d kill it!!
I got an engineering degree but never practiced. I spent my civilian career in construction and construction management and don't regret a minute of it. Like so many things in life, civil/structural engineering has become expensive to practice due to errors and omissions insurance and fewer and fewer grads can afford to own an engineering company. The same problem, insurance costs, has driven more and more doctors to work for a medical company or hospital chain today. Not sure where it ends but it wont be good for this country when it finally crashes.
We had an electrician at our house yesterday. $800 later…
But at least you got some value for the money.............I hope.
Fact.
I have long held the opinion that today's Degree Factories are the reincarnation of the degraded, filthy rich, dissolute Church establishment of the late Middle Ages. You know, with all those superfluous theologians arguing about the number of angels who could dance on the tip of a pin. Of course, the managers of today's Degree Factories would be quite indignant at the comparison, to which a fitting response might be: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Or -- WAIT! Here's a great new field of inquiry for the sociologists!
As a local church pastor, I can't disagree with your observation. When a pastor/Christian worker moves "up the ladder" beyond the local church (Bishops, clergy in conference leadership roles, including many/but not all seminary professors), they become worthless - and even dangerous - to both church and society.
And I can't disagree with yours. Decades ago I used to follow the doings by the Presbyterian Central Committee (I believe that was their title, although it ominously sounds like the Communist Central Committee). Anyway, there clearly was a group of insiders steadily working to undermine the institution with perverted notions, which have since become fashionable -- while leading to a schism and drastic decline of Church membership. Similar developments have occurred in other "mainline" churches: Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist ...
But maybe such painful developments are necessary to preserve the faith, and the body of the faithful that's always under attack from those whom Ye shall know by their malevolence.
That is an interesting theory for sure. My wife, who is the smartest woman I have ever known, and I had a discussion a while back about a person we know who has had a variety of health problems that are getting worse. Both of us are very grateful for our overall good health. We commented about how hard this persons life must have become but even though we see the struggle, we don't "really" know what it would be like to be as they are today. We can only guess. Perhaps they challenges the churches are experiencing are a teaching tool for the rest of us, no different than the person who has serious health challenges is perhaps teaching us a lesson as well.
How long will it be before places like Harvard have a "speed degree" where you plead you don't have time to attend and just pay your $320,000 and they just give you the sheet of parchment signed by the university? Not long I suspect.
Hey, my better half is a PhD, (medical and psychology), and she's something with a wrench or a pair of pliers. Plumbing, though, is her shortcoming.
Then you are a lucky man for having a wife like that. Cherish her.
I do (when she's not talking people down from roofs).
Triple dittos on the Participation Trophy awards!
With all credit to Rufo for pursuing the Gay story, I believe the origins were with a complaining professor. Harvard Corporation supposedly reviewed the complaints and brushed them off. He went to the NYPost that contacted Harvard for comment before publishing. Harvard threatened to sue the Post. It was then that Rufo got invovlved.
Just like in Gaza, you can bury the whole ivy covered halls of academia thing 10 feet deep, and then salt the ground its buried under, but its going to take 2 and maybe 3 generations to eliminate the poison these academic psychopaths have poured into the minds of the kids who have gone there.
Look this focus is on the Ivy League which has by its very concept of exclusivity (spare me the DEI narrative…what’s the purpose of it all if just anyone (worthy or not) can (afford?) to get in) have a limited number of, uhm, students. What about shitholes like Oberlin that don’t even hide their purpose! Do we even know how many of these castles of Higher education there are, or how many indoctrinees they spew out every year?
Another fiasco, engineered and financed by the left, whose motto should be, ‘What’s the use in participating at all if at the end you can’t leave it a smoking, stinking pile of rubble on the ground’
It was a sweet outcome for Gibson's Bakery V Oberlin College. Oberlin is smug, condescending, and ruthlessly wacko leftist, and it cost them $36 million. Faculty and administration worked to promote a lie against this small family owned business in the community, even organizing student boycotts and protests to destroy them. Higher Ed has the credibility of Bill Clinton.
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/lorain-county/oberlin-college-completes-payment-gibsons-bakery-defamation-case/95-ff4da16c-37d1-433f-bc1b-3e1ee219da29#:~:text=OBERLIN%2C%20Ohio%20%E2%80%94%20Just%20over%20six,to%20it%20by%20Oberlin%20College.
Jackie Gleason (and please notice the quote marks)…”How sweet it is”
“To the moon, Harvard, to the moon”.
Hi SL,
Ever see the cartoon about the two astronauts on the moon looking at what clearly is a human form and the one kneeling down looks at the other and says “its Alice Kramden”
https://i.imgflip.com/3kxmt8.jpg
Thank you, too!
No!!!! That is great!!!!
I had to look that up. But then, I never watched The Honeymooners.
I love it. Thanks.
"Bang! Zoom!"
"A string of po-lop-po-knees---"
"That's a string of 'polo ponies'!"
Didn't Gleason do a cartwheel on his show whenever he said that . . . until he broke his ankle or something?
01/09/24: One of the great books: "The Honeymooners' Companion, The Kramdens and the Nortons Revisited," Donna McCrohan; Workman Publishing (1978 paperback). Classic example of something that should have been a best-seller that I suspect had disappointing sales (if so, because the timing of its publication didn't match the arrival of the nostalgia for the show that peaked years later).
I watched that with my Parents when I was a kid every Saturday night and the memories of being in the bosum of a happy family, laughing and and even if I couldn't identify then, feeling safe in my little world brings moisture to my eyes still. Same thing with Jimmy Durante, Ed Sullivan and 'This is your Life'.
I wonder if our kids or grandkids feel that or if they even think about it!
Never heard that…I’d have never pegged him as an athlete
I can't find a video showing it. I think it was when he said "And away we go".
He would have left a crater.
I don't think Higher Ed (sounds like a nickname for some local addict) has the credibility of Bill Clinton.
Conservatives are winning on a lot of levels and Oberlin's victory will resound for decades, but sadly in most cases these wins do not begin to fix or repair the damage these liberals/progressives/Marxists are doing to the fabric of the country. The left has gone so far left of center today there is no turning back for them. The best we can hope for is their eventual banishment as a political party.
That verdict was Icing on the pastries !!
Like hanging all the lawyers, it's a start! Going to take a long time to move the needle in the proper (right) direction.
i'm posting surber to american thinker this morning. i find that is becoming a regular (daily) thing.
Saw that...
respects.
Though it appears Gay lost her post as Harvard’s president due to her plagiarism, (which was already well known to Harvard but denied), it all exploded in their face as a result of her flagrant antisemitism in the face of a Congressional hearing.
But those two issues, her exposure as a fraud coupled with her antisemitism have since also revealed that they originate from the same rotten root: DIE.
The hiring of Gay was based not on true merit, but as a result of ticking off all the right DIE boxes. Her antisemitism and that which is being demonstrated across every college campus in the country also draws a straight line back to the tenets and teachings imbedded in DIE.
Ackman’s righteous rage aimed at the Presidents of these so-called “hallowed” institutions was sparked by the antisemitism they displayed. And once that rage was ignited he was awakened to discover the poison of DIE, literally for the first time, and that it was at the root of her antisemitism as well as being spread throughout all these universities like a cancer.
A giant has been awakened by these evil-doers, and I pray he is just the first of an army of giants determined to once and for all root out the toxic and hateful entity known as DIE, root and branch.
Like I posted above, Ackman is the "Kraken". He's the kind of guy we need on our side.
In the immortal words of Eric Cartman channelling Kathleen Kennedy, "Put a chick in it and make her Gay!". In this case Claudine Gay.
I seriously doubt she actually composed her thesis. Before DEI there were professional "test takers" for people like Claudine. It is difficult to believe we don't have professional "thesis generators"....which is far worse than mere plagiarism.
Don't candidates for doctoral degrees have to defend their thesis before a panel whose raison detre is to cross examine the candidate to determine if they were responsible for it and were the kind of scholars whom the institution would be proud to claim? Wonder if the judges for Claudine were hand picked for a different agenda? Wonder who they were? Or perhaps that the "defense" is merely a show trial?
Don’t forget Doris Kearns Goodwin. Harvard. Plagiarist.
Amazon may take over higher education the way they have taken over medicine. My primary care doctor works for One Medical Seniors, a branch of One Medical owned by Amazon. My prescriptions come from Pill Pack, also owned by Amazon. Almost everything we order on line comes from Amazon. Next thing you know, Claudine Gay et al may be working for: you called him Bozos; I call him Eff Bozos.
…just order your PhD direct from Amazon!
They’ll do the plagiarising for you!!
"Autistically meticulous! Is it OK if I enjoyed the phrase?" Yassir.