On a more serious… nay, terrifying note (and off-topic, sorry): Have you seen Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Elon Musk? The discussion of AI (starting around 1hr 19min) was uncomfortable to watch. Elon is not sugar-coating the dilemmas this technology poses and will pose in the not so distant future.
Also for special praise are the older male military luminaries in NZ who bowed down to the god of feminism and lesbos and placed this post-turtle on the commander’s seat. Without their heroic deference to DIE she’d still be an a post out back somewhere. Men without spines.
We were on charter boat around Kauai. The captain was showing us a spot and said he couldn't get any closer because there was a reef just ahead, Smith's (or some name) Reef. Then he added, "Do you know how to get a reef named after you? That's right, you wrecked your boat on it." He did not want a reef named after him.
I guarantee in the British Navy she was promoted upwards to get rid of her from every unit she infested. Same thing happened in the Met Police - D.E.I criteria plus you couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery and the leadership would actively look to promote you away from the street level units where your stupidity could get someone killed since they couldn't get rid of you for being as useless as a chocolate teapot because racism/sexism. It's why the Met is now in special measures as are a number of British forces.
"Special measures" sounds like what we would term as the consent-decree process in the US, basically, a performance-improvement plan entered into by an "underperforming" (on its BEST day, pervasively corrupt and dysfunctional the other 364) entity to avoid criminal and civil-rights investigations and prosecutions. Not too long ago, consent decrees, while typically originating from use-of-force incidents (rather than corruption or overall failures at protecting the public), were actually transformational in improving overall quality of policing in some major cities. Washington DC, for example, went from wholly-corrupt and feckless to a professional force rivalling the NYPD shortly after DC's 2001 consent decree (of course, things have fallen off again down here in the non-prosecutorial era of the last 10 or so years).
The problem is that otherwise-effective tools like special measures and consent decrees require a genuine desire for accountability, reform and improvement on the part of the powers bringing them to bear. With our Department of Justice--especially its Civil Rights Division--as currently constituted I see absolutely ZERO hope of that.
Imagine it is similarly hopeless in the UK right now?
Absolutely 110% - the Brits got uppity in 2016 just as the Americans did electing Trump. There is no doubt that we are being ground down under the heel of the establishment boot to break our will and make sure that never happens again.
Even the limited news we get out of England is really troubling...lots of indicators that authorities there have gone full-on Thoughtcrime. It's particularly distressing to realize this is happening in England (!), the birthplace of our concept of "consent of the governed" and the source of our entire common-law jurisprudence (to this day--well, at least up to 30 years ago--we spend the first several weeks of law school core curriculum (property, torts, contracts, etc.) dissecting cases decided in 16th to 18th century England). "But we have a specifically-enumerated Bill of Rights, they don't," my friends argue. Valid point, to a degree, but we also have an entire subculture of lawyers in high government positions who are cool with all of this, despite knowing full well that this is NOT how our system of laws works.
Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. prison almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants.
I remember watching not only Victory at Sea, but there another show on CBS narrated by Walter Cronkite called The Big Picture and of course Bishop Sheen.
Trained to be a teacher, hoped to own a restaurant, went to sea and was moved from vessel to vessel, and then--in daylight clear weather--under her command a data-gathering ship ran aground, caught fire, and sank.
I'm not the first to say that the entire governing apparatus (gov't, media, education) is a criminal enterprise, but the Chicago schools deserve a medal for Best Performance by a Crime Syndicate.
This is your civilization on dei.
On a more serious… nay, terrifying note (and off-topic, sorry): Have you seen Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Elon Musk? The discussion of AI (starting around 1hr 19min) was uncomfortable to watch. Elon is not sugar-coating the dilemmas this technology poses and will pose in the not so distant future.
https://youtu.be/Y_FH8m353g4?si=DhbwfFNhwUI_9kCP
Also for special praise are the older male military luminaries in NZ who bowed down to the god of feminism and lesbos and placed this post-turtle on the commander’s seat. Without their heroic deference to DIE she’d still be an a post out back somewhere. Men without spines.
Man overboard said no one.
We were on charter boat around Kauai. The captain was showing us a spot and said he couldn't get any closer because there was a reef just ahead, Smith's (or some name) Reef. Then he added, "Do you know how to get a reef named after you? That's right, you wrecked your boat on it." He did not want a reef named after him.
I guarantee in the British Navy she was promoted upwards to get rid of her from every unit she infested. Same thing happened in the Met Police - D.E.I criteria plus you couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery and the leadership would actively look to promote you away from the street level units where your stupidity could get someone killed since they couldn't get rid of you for being as useless as a chocolate teapot because racism/sexism. It's why the Met is now in special measures as are a number of British forces.
"Special measures" sounds like what we would term as the consent-decree process in the US, basically, a performance-improvement plan entered into by an "underperforming" (on its BEST day, pervasively corrupt and dysfunctional the other 364) entity to avoid criminal and civil-rights investigations and prosecutions. Not too long ago, consent decrees, while typically originating from use-of-force incidents (rather than corruption or overall failures at protecting the public), were actually transformational in improving overall quality of policing in some major cities. Washington DC, for example, went from wholly-corrupt and feckless to a professional force rivalling the NYPD shortly after DC's 2001 consent decree (of course, things have fallen off again down here in the non-prosecutorial era of the last 10 or so years).
The problem is that otherwise-effective tools like special measures and consent decrees require a genuine desire for accountability, reform and improvement on the part of the powers bringing them to bear. With our Department of Justice--especially its Civil Rights Division--as currently constituted I see absolutely ZERO hope of that.
Imagine it is similarly hopeless in the UK right now?
My friend, it's beyond hopeless. https://www.cityam.com/met-police-fail-to-solve-82-per-cent-of-burglaries/
They are closing crime reports down without even the most basic of investigation. But they will turn up mob handed if you Tweet some hurty words.
Amanda, do you think the British PTB are punishing the regular British citizen for wrong think regarding Brexit?
Absolutely 110% - the Brits got uppity in 2016 just as the Americans did electing Trump. There is no doubt that we are being ground down under the heel of the establishment boot to break our will and make sure that never happens again.
Even the limited news we get out of England is really troubling...lots of indicators that authorities there have gone full-on Thoughtcrime. It's particularly distressing to realize this is happening in England (!), the birthplace of our concept of "consent of the governed" and the source of our entire common-law jurisprudence (to this day--well, at least up to 30 years ago--we spend the first several weeks of law school core curriculum (property, torts, contracts, etc.) dissecting cases decided in 16th to 18th century England). "But we have a specifically-enumerated Bill of Rights, they don't," my friends argue. Valid point, to a degree, but we also have an entire subculture of lawyers in high government positions who are cool with all of this, despite knowing full well that this is NOT how our system of laws works.
More knucklehead moves by the regime:
Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. prison almost two years ago in a trade with Moscow for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner. Now he is back in business, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants.
Is there a problem with selling small arms to Yemen? Is there a problem with being an arms dealer? Or is that some sort of US monopoly?
No problem as I’m sure there will be more LGBTQ basketball players to trade.
That was definitely a bad trade. Viktor is a much better shooter than Brittney.
oh puleeezz, that’s just a moniker that the media came up with. He has nothing on US corporations, small arms are peanuts compared with real hardware.
The West is fooked
I remember watching not only Victory at Sea, but there another show on CBS narrated by Walter Cronkite called The Big Picture and of course Bishop Sheen.
I remember Cronkite doing The Twentieth Century.
Read this and imagine the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song playing.
It is better than engaging with the Houthis.
Trained to be a teacher, hoped to own a restaurant, went to sea and was moved from vessel to vessel, and then--in daylight clear weather--under her command a data-gathering ship ran aground, caught fire, and sank.
This is not an impressive résumé.
Picky, picky, picky! Next thing you’ll be expecting is for the ship’s Captain to leave harbor without taking out a bridge. What a niggling malcontent.
Don’t worry. She’ll get a job with the Chicago’s teachers union.
Chicago Public Schools staff up 20%, enrollment down 10.5%
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-public-schools-staff-up-20-enrollment-down-10-5/
I'm not the first to say that the entire governing apparatus (gov't, media, education) is a criminal enterprise, but the Chicago schools deserve a medal for Best Performance by a Crime Syndicate.
C'mon now! It takes skill to be that crap!
The fact that the ship sank is not much of a testament to its builders either.
The ship too has a DEI background. https://www.myklebustverft.com/
"We need more skilled shipbuilders to join our team."
You can say that again.
This isn't a first for NZ navy
https://youtu.be/4nMm9QP62oM?si=cg4T3VVoEZFwwoMU
Good greef!
I'm slow - but yeah (thanks, Amanda) great one!
Good one!
You sure this wasn’t the Babylon Bee at work?🤣
As I was saying
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