A lot of horror movies have been coming out of Hollyweird lately. There’s nothing sinister to this. Horror movies are the cheapest genre of movie to make, all you need is a dark basement and some fake blood, and nobody wants to risk a big-budget film with all the randomly ‘scientific’ lockdowns in Current Year. (Except Tom Cruise and his aptly-named “Mission: Impossible” movie sequel. I hope his emotional meltdowns make it onto the blooper reel.) I found this review of a Christian horror movie and frankly, the good guys are way scarier than the demon-possessed mass murderer.

.Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It. Review: Simple Christian Decency vs. Pure Evil

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By John Nolte, 5 June 2021

The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It is the eighth chapter of the eight-year-old Conjuring universe and the second sequel to the one that started it all, 2013.s knock-out, The Conjuring, which is still the best of the series by a country mile.

So that’s what pundit John Nolte does for fun. Not that I should judge; I had a fetish for the Syfy Channel for years.

The Conjuring and its 2016 sequel had two things in common. Both were supernatural, haunted house thrillers and both starred Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as Lorraine and Ed Warren, a real-life married couple who spent their lives investigating the paranormal. The Warrens were also devout Catholics totally devoted to one another.

Lazy scriptwriting, right off the bat. The first tip-off is “based on a true story”. Get a writer, you hacks! The second is a husband-and-wife Catholic paranormal investigation team. That’s the horror equivalent of sending the 101st Airborne to thwart a nuclear missile launch… it’s the ideal men for the job, which takes a lot of horror out of the horror story.

How is the movie supposed to be scary when the protagonists are ideally suited to exposition the plot to death? You can make a good adventure movie this way, Jurassic Park’s Ian Malcolm is an easy example, and you can do it for comedy like Ghostbusters did, but not horror.

[Nota bene, I haven’t watched this movie. Horror’s not my thing generally and Christian fiction sucks more ass than a Congressman.]

I suspect this movie, far from being horror, is Christian Porn. The appeal of functional Christianity is undeniable; the current drought of divine favor might just be unprecedented since the days of Noah. Regardless, the sad truth is that institutional religion and Complementarian marriages do not work outside the realm of imagination. You can roleplay “Modern Churchianity is a good idea” if I can roleplay “I’m a dragon”.

This new chapter thankfully holds on to Farmiga and Wilson but wisely jettisons the haunted house setting. The Devil Made Me Do It is more along the lines of a race-against-the-clock procedural, which is a nice change of pace but admittedly a letdown for horror fans like myself looking to re-experience the original Conjuring’s unbearable sense of dread.

Yes, it’s hard to get a sense of dread from watching professionals do what they trained for years to do.

The Devil Made Me Do It is based in part on the true story of the Warrens. involvement in a 1981 case involving the exorcism of a young boy that led to a brutal murder. The murderer, Arne Johnson, pleaded Not Guilty by Reason of Demonic Possession. Because they believed him, the Warrens fought for his acquittal.

Are you f*cking serious? The plot of this movie is “we should let the murderer go free because it wasn’t him, it was the voices in his head using his body, and it totally won’t happen again if we just wave a Cross at him”?

That’s not even fiction. That’s Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon and he is no Christian.

Yeah, that’s why I don’t watch horror movies. I prefer my entertainment to be an ESCAPE from the real world. I want to scare myself, I look out my window at the police putting LGBT rainbow stickers on their cruisers. Stupid Commiefornia.

In the movie, (I don’t know how much of the following is based on the actual case)…

Very little. A court cannot rule “not guilty by demonic possession” without being able to see the demon under a microscope. Also, we Christians know that demons don’t possess people for a quickie drive-by shooting or something. That’s just not how it works.

…to prove Arne was indeed possessed and to save him from the electric chair, the Warrens are under the gun to not only convince a jury demonic possession is real…

We may conclude that in addition to being registered Catholics, the Warrens are also registered Democrats.

… but to put an end to a satanic ritual that, if completed, will cost a number of innocent people their souls.

I am reliably informed that the trick to stopping such rituals is cutting the red wire first.

What makes The Devil Made Me Do It work is not the plot…

As I suspected.

…or its jump scares…

As I suspected. Get a writer, you hacks!

…but Wilson and Farmiga and a powerful theme about how evil has no motive other than the defilement of innocence and chaos, and can only be stopped (albeit temporarily) through vigilance, decency, and faith in Christ.

What a defeatist and materialist form of Christianity that is. No wonder that Cuckservatives cannot identify Evil when it presents itself as a victim.

Chaos is not a goal of the devil. As history records many times, he’s perfectly fine with institutionalized murder, theft and destruction.

What the Conjuring trilogy offers us is something truly rare these days: two uncomplicated, utterly sincere married protagonists who are deeply in love, who live by their Catholic faith, seek to do good, and who are portrayed by Hollywood as just that. And it works. The Warrens have no dark side, no moral flaws, which is what makes them so fascinating, relatable, and heroic.

The spirit of Christ is Twu Wuv and good intentions? With the woman, so far as this review presents her, being a peer on equal authority with her husband? I cannot imagine allowing a wife I cared about anywhere near exorcism work. She is the weaker, more easily deceived vessel. Which would have been a much better plot: the murderer is revealed cured of demonic possession, but only because the demon managed to transfer into wifey thanks to the carelessness of hubby assuming she was Strong & Independent just like him. No need for jump scares, just a bedroom scene in which wifey isn’t speaking in her normal voice anymore… he saved the murderer at the price of his own blood….

Modern-day Hollywood will tell you characters without moral flaws are boring, but this of course is a crutch and pure rubbish. Not only does the Conjuring prove that a lie, so too did much of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Flawless characters ARE boring. There’s no room for character growth. No hard choices or competing loyalties to be navigated.

Instead, we get jump scares.

Not to get too far off track, but a good example is the difference between J. Lee Thompson’s original Cape Fear (1962) and Martin Scorsese’s overwrought 1991 remake.

While Scorsese’s remake had all the advantages of a massive budget, an A-list cast (Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Nick Nolte), and none of 1962.s boundaries on explicit content, it is still by far the lesser of the two. Why? Well, there’s a few reasons, but the primary one is Scorsese perverting the very thing that made the original so compelling, what made it a stone-cold classic.

On top of Robert Mitchum’s Oscar-worthy-for-the-ages performance as Max Cady, 1962.s Cape Fear is deliberately about unspeakable, unstoppable evil (Mitchum) seeking to corrupt and then destroy Gregory Peck and Polly Bergen’s wholesome American family. That’s where the horror comes from, the dread. I’ve seen the 1962 version at least 20 times, it never loses its power.

Do you see the difference Mr. Nolte? Those protagonists were not Vatican-trained professional exorcists. They were normal, likable people, which gives the audience representation in the story.

Scorsese, for whatever ludicrous reason, either forgot this or didn’t care. His family is the opposite of wholesome. Dad’s having an affair and violated his legal code of ethics, mom’s a boozy and bitter drunk, and the daughter actually wants to be corrupted. So what we get instead of a theme that sits in our gut like a block of ice, is an admittedly well-directed cat-and-mouse slasher movie that’s also pretty forgettable.

Because the audience didn’t care about THOSE normal people. Not because the family was not Churchian enough to qualify as Good People.

The Conjuring would be a true pile of nothing special if it went this same route . if, say, while fighting Satan, Ed and Lorraine were trying to salvage a crumbling marriage and questioning their faith.

Nolte is missing the point of the Cape Fear remake, which was to destroy a good act of storytelling by overwriting it. The Cape Fear remake was intentionally bad, like all of Current Year remakes. The audience was not supposed to care about the family.

For a man excited about a Christian couple fighting against evil, Nolte misses a lot of real-world opportunities.

The truth is that in truly talented hands, black and white can work beautifully, and with the pitch-perfect casting of Wilson and most especially Farmiga (the rare actress today who is beautiful, talented, and interesting enough she would’ve made a mark in the Golden Age), and it’s that deliberate approach that lifts the Conjuring into something special.

If you like green eyes, I guess, but she’s already cut her hair and is shaping it into a Skrillex.

In a few years, when I sit down for a rewatch of The Devil Made Me Do It, it won’t be for the scares . it wasn’t all that scary the first time. It will be for the richer experience of a thematic undercurrent that explores how incorruptible decency is its own superpower. If you look close enough, this fascinating theme drives the whole movie, including a subplot involving another priest. To me, at least, theme is what matters most and what brings me back again and again.

The idea that being Nice Enough is a superpower? The theme that women can be put on the frontlines of war while remaining fresh and desirable? The fantasy that being a credentialed member of an established, large denomination is not a hopelessly stupid idea in Current Year?

In today’s dull, preachy, predictable, insulting, and off-putting world of TV and movies, Christian decency is the new edgy, Ed and Lorraine Warren are the new counterculture, and hopefully, we haven’t seen the last of them.

So he wishes. He wishes very hard, that the lies he’s been fed his entire life are not lies at all. That following his Assigned Life Script will make him a great man. That just because a murderer is stained to his elbows in innocent blood, doesn’t mean he isn’t a good kid goin’ to college.

Which is it? Are all ethnic groups equally capable of learning hard sciences, or can Blacks only learn math via interpretive dance and organized protests? I’ll get in trouble if I answer that so let’s hear from an accomplished STEM Nogger!

5 ways to use hip-hop in the classroom to build better understanding of science

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By Edmund Adjapong, 3 June 2021

Back when I attended M.S. 101 in the Bronx, I tuned out the science teacher because I didn’t think science was for me. I viewed the subject as something distant and inaccessible. I never saw myself becoming a scientist.

That’s fine. Lots of other things that one can do in life.

Things changed, however, when my physics teacher at Marie Curie High School used hip-hop to make connections with science.

Now there’s a sentence that you did not expect to read today.

We learned about the physics of pendulums by using hip-hop artists. chains as examples and participated in call-and-responses to remember science information.

Once I’d found an approach that finally appealed to me, hip-hop set me on a course to become a science teacher myself.

Those who can, DJ; those who can’t, teach?

But not just any kind of science teacher. Instead, I became a hip-hop science educator. My mission in life is to educate teachers on how to use hip-hop to get more students to have a positive experience with science . something that is imperative in a global economy and at a time when the growth in STEM jobs in the U.S. is expected to outpace non-STEM occupations at a rate of more than 2 to 1 in the coming decade.

Um… I cannot connect those thoughts… “there are no national trade barriers” with “we must teach math via hip-hop”.

Unfortunately, students of color often fail to get the kind of education necessary to take advantage of STEM jobs. Research demonstrates that 18% of first-year Black college students want to pursue a STEM degree, around the same as first-year white college students.

That sounds low for whites.

But only 34% of Black students complete their STEM major, compared to 58% of white students. Reasons for the low percentage of Black STEM graduates include lack of preparation in STEM in high school and feelings of exclusion, isolation and discouraging academic experiences.

Do Blacks enjoy STEM? Serious question. Whites do. There are entire nerd & geek cultures. All of which are pasty-skinned WEIRD-o types.

When I look at Africa, I do not see a love for science… or… anything that might be called “how to make things work”. I do see hip-hop, however. Really great performances.

The problem starts in the classroom, where science is often taught from a Western viewpoint with a focus mainly on the contributions of white Europeans which fails to recognize the contributions of Africans to science.

Consequently, teachers often don’t know how to make science relevant to the students they teach. Many students of color, then, fail to develop a science identity.

Which is it? “We need a science-based identity” or “too much science is cracker-sourced”.

Hip-hop as a way of life
In order to effectively use hip-hop in the classroom, it pays to understand that hip-hop is more than just a music form. Hip-hop is a culture that has influenced and empowered young people across the globe, especially those from marginalized groups, since its inception.

We aren’t talking science anymore. Look, if you can’t sit still in front of a math textbook then you can’t do math. It’s that simple. Mental focus and abstract thought are prerequisite for science like lifting heavy objects is a prerequisite for strength. Whether ‘society needs more scientists’ makes no difference to whether the members of society are capable of science.

Hip-hop can be seen as being built upon five essential creative elements. Those elements are 1) MC’ing; 2) graffiti; 3) break-dancing, 4) DJ’ing and 5) knowledge of self, which includes knowledge of your own character, values, abilities and emotions.

What I’ve found through my research is that hip-hop can help girls of color develop a science identity.

Pretty sure that would be a hip-hop identity.

Girls of color have shared having positive experiences in science when hip-hop was used as an approach to teaching. This has increased their comfort with engaging in science and supported them in developing positive science identity. While most studies focused on using hip-hop in science focus on Black students, I believe that using hip-hop can support all students, as hip-hop is the most popular genre of music in America.

Based on my study of hip-hop in the classroom, here are ways that educators can use the five elements of hip-hop to help students connect more strongly with science.

1. Get on the mic
One of the most prominent elements of hip-hop is to serve as an MC. That’s where rappers take the microphone and perform their lyrical content and control the show verbally, which is an effective way of delivering a message to an audience.

The message of differential equations!

2. Write big and bold on the board

Just like graffiti is used in hip-hop to convey messages and claim space, students can similarly treat the whiteboard . or chalkboard . as their canvas to illustrate and explain scientific concepts.

For example, in my middle school science class, students drew visual representations of the different layers of Earth’s atmosphere using symbols and characters that represented their understanding.

Valid, but let me point out that this dude self-identified as a visual learner. “Math is white privilege because the book has no pictures!”

3. Have students move around
Just as break-dancing is the kinesthetic aspect of hip-hop culture, the teaching of science offers plenty of opportunities for students to do physical learning activities.

Returning to my previous question, if science needs some interpretive dancing to open up “physical learning activities” then those students are not interested in science. Forcing the issue will not benefit anybody.

For example, when discussing the various states of matter, students can imagine themselves as particles and move around the classroom as particles would when their energy increases or decreases. When energy decreases, students should be moving closer to one another to the point where they are huddled in a fixed position to mimic a solid. When energy increases, students should move around the classroom at a faster speed to mimic a gas.

Hmm… needs basketballs and team jerseys, too. Then the students can go to college on a ‘science’ scholarship.

4. Use music to set the mood

5. Work on socially relevant projects
Just as hip-hop emphasizes knowledge of self and being authentic, students should be given opportunities to work on science projects that are relevant to their lives and make a difference in their communities.

For example, in my middle school science class, students were taught that the Bronx has the highest asthma rates in the nation due to having the worst air pollution levels in the U.S., and decided to raise awareness in the community by creating picket signs with asthma statistics.

“Today in chemistry class, we’re going to learn how to make Molotov cocktails.”

Using hip-hop in the science classroom allows students to develop an increased level of comfort when engaging in the subject and supports the development of a positive science identity. When young people engage in science while making connections to hip-hop, they are able to develop their own understanding of science and feel more prepared and knowledgeable in regards to content.

I have some thoughts coming on transhumanism and the Great Reset. For now, here’s the future envisioned by Amazon for its bipedal cattle.

From Body Mechanics to Mindfulness, Amazon Launches Employee-Designed Health and Safety Program called WorkingWell Across U.S. Operations

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Press Release, 17 May 2021

Part of the company’s mission to be Earth’s Safest Place to Work…

*snicker*

…and its investment of over $300 million into safety projects in 2021, WorkingWell will help prevent injuries, provide wellness services, and offer quality healthcare for employees while at work and at home

Program components will roll out to all Amazon operations sites in the U.S. by end of year with the aim of cutting recordable incident rates by 50 percent by 2025.

Emphasis mine. They can reduce “recordable” incident rates either by spending $1 billion on employee improvements or $0.01 billion on a few Senators. Decisions, decisions.

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 17, 2021– Today Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced the launch of WorkingWell, a new comprehensive program providing employees with physical and mental activities, wellness exercises, and healthy eating support that are scientifically proven to help them recharge and reenergize, and ultimately reduce the risk of injury.

If you know as much about corporate boardroom bullshit as I do, a cold wave of ice-water terror just rolled down your spine. But don’t worry, this program is by employees, for employees!

The program is part of the company’s investment of more than $300 million into safety projects in 2021, and its mission to be Earth’s Safest Place to Work. There are a number of components of WorkingWell, each of which was developed in collaboration with employees from within Amazon operations. Aspects of WorkingWell piloted in the U.S. in 2019, and the program has since expanded to 859,000 employees at 350 sites in North America and Europe. By the end of 2021, WorkingWell will expand further to cover all of Amazon’s operations network in the U.S. with the aim of cutting recordable incident rates by 50 percent by 2025.

The health and safety of employees is Amazon’s number one priority and has been since day one. The company works closely with health and safety experts and scientists, conducts thousands of safety inspections each day in its buildings, and has made hundreds of changes based on employee feedback to improve their well-being at work, including development of the WorkingWell program.

Attention Amazon employees! You are guinea pigs in the second greatest eugenics experiment ever conducted in human history. I don’t mean eugenics as in forced sterilization–that would be the quaccine which you volunteered for–I mean the efforts of BigCorp to breed slave castes of workers smart enough to learn, stupid enough to do whatever they’re told and craven enough to absorb any level of manipulative, mean-spirited abuse.

Not just Amazon employees. I see the same efforts upon fry cooks in burger joints to salesmen in retail outlets to, God help them, worker bees in order-fulfillment warehouses. They absorb levels of abuse that I simply cannot fathom, to the point that it’s becoming a clear way of life for a subset of the American population.

We need a better fate for our posterity.

.Amazon takes our safety very seriously, and my managers have made it clear to me it’s more important than anything, even productivity and quality,. said Jeffrey Ku, operations employee at an Amazon fulfillment center in Aurora, CO. .WorkingWell is an extension of that.it makes sure we’re taking care of our minds and bodies. It encourages us to make positive changes to how we work, and since I started watching the program’s health and safety videos, I’ve incorporated a stretching routine into my day..

I call BS. Nobody watches those videos… and lives!

Similar to other jobs of this kind, about 40 percent of work-related injuries at Amazon are musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) which include sprains or strains caused by repetitive motions, and they’re more likely to occur among newer employees, many of whom might be working in a physical role for the first time. Pilots of the WorkingWell program have reduced these injuries, and have had a positive impact on regular day-to-day activities for employees outside of work. In fact, this program.along with other company initiatives focused on early MSD prevention.helped decrease MSD-related injuries by 32 percent from 2019 to 2020.

.Amazon has identified some innovative technologies and approaches to address employee well-being and the implementation of training and wellness programs in their facilities,. says Jennifer McNelly, American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) CEO. .The occupational safety and health community thrives on sharing innovations, best practices and lessons learned. We look forward to Amazon continuing to share ideas and information about these new methods and approaches to improve workplace safety in the United States and globally..

WorkingWell is a comprehensive program with a number of components covering training and conditioning, wellness services, and technology, including the following, scientifically proven health and safety education and exercises:

I will give their advice followed by my own.

Health & Safety Huddles: Daily opportunities to engage employees on strong body mechanics, wellness topics, and ongoing safety education. Operations leaders and small groups of socially distanced employees…

They’re not literal huddles, you plague-rat huggers! Get with the New Normal!

…gather near work stations and watch short interactive videos on rotating topics created by health and safety professionals and injury prevention specialists. Topics rotate on a monthly basis and range from gripping and handling, pushing and pulling, nutrition, and more. In the last year during its pilot phase, Health & Safety Huddles contributed to reducing MSD-related injuries and received nearly 90 percent positive feedback from surveyed employees.

GQ’s counter-recommendation: bathroom breaks, no stop-clock.

Wellness Zones: Provides employees with voluntary stretching and muscle recovery via easily accessible, dedicated spaces within Amazon’s operations buildings. These areas incorporate interactive videos and written information to help employees proactively improve their health and wellness in areas like body mechanics, wellness topics like best practices in stretching, ongoing safety education, and more.

GQ’s counter-recommendation:

AmaZen: Guides employees through mindfulness practices in individual interactive kiosks at buildings.

No human beings?

During shifts employees can visit AmaZen stations and watch short videos featuring easy-to-follow wellbeing activities, including [computer-]guided meditations, positive affirmations, calming scenes with sounds, and more. Employees like Katie Miller from an Amazon fulfillment center in Etna, OH, say the pilot program has been helpful. She shared, .Self-care is important, and AmaZen gives me an opportunity to take time for myself to just pause and regroup which helps me be better at work. When I take that time, I come back to work more focused, and it has a lasting effect on the rest of my day..

GQ’s counter-recommendation: Christianity. With real, live clergy.

Wellness Centers: Amazon-staffed spaces dedicated to preventing injuries and illness through preventative self-care, health and safety education, as well as first-aid treatment in case of injury. First aid trained onsite medical representatives and certified athletic trainers called Injury Prevention Specialists bring diverse backgrounds to these Centers to deliver quality onsite safety and wellness care to operations employees.

Da fuq… they haven’t been providing first aid yet? And now they’re calling their on-site medics ‘certified athletic trainers’ to get around those pesky, expensive First Responder certifications?

GQ’s counter-recommendation: Don’t work at Amazon.

EatWell: Developed to support the overall nutritional health and wellbeing of employees by promoting healthy eating and increasing the availability of healthier options. In onsite breakrooms, signage is displayed to highlight healthy choices such as fruit, granola bars, and vegetable snack packs. Through this program, the company has also increased the selection of healthier options available to employees in site breakrooms. In its initial pilot, EatWell has increased awareness of healthy eating by 60 percent and has helped over 50 percent of surveyed employees make healthier choices.

Translation, they put granola bars and vegan gummies in the breakroom vending machines.

Why are they even doing this? Your government, excuse me, employer has no business ‘helpfully informing’ you what you should eat. Perhaps giving vegans a chance to tell the world they’re vegan will prevent their spontaneous combustion, thereby lowering the injury rate.

GQ’s counter-recommendation: Put bacon in the drinking water to discourage unhealthy veganism. Also cures Islam!

Neighborhood Health Centers: Offers Amazon employees and their families quality, convenient, and affordable healthcare within 10 miles of where they work and live. In partnership with Crossover Health, these Centers provide access to comprehensive primary care services to help members be well and stay well.

This is getting Orwellian. “Your company offers you everything you need in life. You have no reason to shop elsewhere.”

With a focus on acute, chronic, and preventive primary care health needs, a wide range of services are offered at these Centers. Examples include prescription medication services, vaccinations, mental health, physical therapy, health coaching for conditions like diabetes and hypertension, and care navigation to specialty referral services, as well as same-day pediatric services.

GQ’s counter-recommendation: Do not work at Amazon, or ANYWHERE in which your employer’s idea of offering health care is buying out the local hospital and replacing it with giant vending machines and psychologists trained to profile for disturbed male loners.

Since the initial rollout of 17 sites across five cities in the U.S., patients have reported over 90 percent satisfaction, and over 85 percent of Amazon employees consider Neighborhood Health Centers their single place for healthcare.

Hmm. On the one hand, every poll and survey here says that over 85% of Amazon workers are so happy and fulfilled that they never want to leave their company’s fenced campus anymore. On the other hand, when I walk by their campus at night I hear the screams of the damned.

Mind & Body Moments: Hourly prompts employees receive at their workstations guiding them through a series of scientifically proven physical and mental activities to help recharge and reenergize, and ultimately reduce the risk of injury. These activities, designed to reduce muscle and mental fatigue, range from various stretching recommendations, breathing exercises, and mental reflections.

*ding* “Big Brother loves you. Big Brother wants you to be safe and healthy. Big Brother says grab your ankles for a very special Vaxx-mas.” *ding* “You are falling behind on quota. Your bathroom break is voided, unlike your bowels.”

Since piloting this program in select sites, employees have shared that these moments have improved their physical and mental wellbeing while at work. By the end of the year, Mind & Body Moments will evolve to more personalized prompts.

*ding* “Big Brother loves you, Employee #2-4601.”

Connect & Comment Kiosks: Gathers employee feedback to help drive improvements to current WorkingWell components and ideate on future offerings. These kiosks also give employees an onsite location to access wellness services and content, connecting them with hundreds of pieces of content including health and safety training, wellness tips, information on Wellness Centers, and Mind & Body Moments.

At no point in any of this, do they recommend any form of interpersonal socialization.

WorkingWell Mobile App: Will soon provide at-home access to all of the onsite safety, health and wellness offerings in Amazon buildings including AmaZen, EatWell, Mind & Body Moments. The Working Well Mobile App offers employees a digital library to help facilitate proactive wellness behaviors like stretching and muscle recovery, mindfulness exercises, and body mechanics coaching.

We Christians got the Mark of the Beast backwards. It’s not a microchip inside us; it’s our soul sucked into a smartphone prison.

WorkingWell was developed by employees who care deeply about their co-workers and are dedicated to promoting workplace health and safety. The WorkingWell team will continue to elicit feedback and ideas from employees, and use the science of safety to solve problems and establish new industry best practices in its relentless pursuit to support employees and keep them healthy and safe every day.

Obligatory eye bleach warning and here we go!!! Let’s meet the employees who thought that all this top-down, literally inhuman ‘caring’ was a good idea.

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Why am I not surprised?

I had wondered when these people would start making the news… the people who cracked under the fear-mongering and paranoia of Coof-ination, and now need help to recover their normal lives. From dictionary.com:

dysphoria-noun. A state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.

Thus, Lockdown Dysphoria is a mental disease (as in dis-ease) in which people have unreasonable anxiety about ending lockdown procedures such as masking, isolating or God help us, watching network news for medical advice.

My Husband Won’t Take His Mask Off.Even for Sex

We’re both vaccinated now. When will this stop?

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BY Torie Bosch, 27 May 2021

Congrats on being married to Patient Zero for lockdown dysphoria! Best if you don’t share that designation with him.

Dear Prudence,

I have been married to a great guy for five and a half years. He is handsome, sexy, funny, and kind. It’s true that he has always been a little “prissy” about illnesses, but I never thought it was a real problem. However, during the pandemic, his terror about getting sick has reached new levels. For the last year, he has refused to take off his face mask, even when we are at home.just the two of us. This is true even now that he is fully vaccinated for the virus. He wears it to sleep, to do most of his bathroom activities, and, yes, even during lovemaking. To eat, he pulls it up to expose his mouth, and then quickly pulls it back down between bites.

Listening to Gruesome Newson was his first mistake.

While he does not insist that I do the same, I can tell it bothers him that I don’t.especially because I have now started going maskless outside, per the CDC guidelines, and plan on restaurant dining inside soon for a girls. night out.

When I have tried to present him with the science, he says, .Scientists don’t fully understand the virus yet,. or, .I know it probably isn’t necessary, but wearing it doesn’t bother me, so if there’s even a small chance that it can protect us, I’d rather be on the safe side. What’s the harm?.

What’s the harm? Ask a druggie who says he can quit anytime he wants. If it’s true then no problem, aside from drug-sniffing dogs and judges getting up in his crotch, but if that’s not true then the first stage of grief is denial.

I disagree that there’s no harm. I want to see my beautiful husband’s face again. I want to kiss him on the lips romantically, like we used to, and not through a piece of fabric. (He does not change his mask very often and it is often smelly and soiled.)

That is a telling indicator that he’s not just being a germaphobe. He’s using the mask as a security blanket to the detriment of his health. Credit to his wife for being concerned!

And I don’t want to feel judged by him for my own behavior, which I consider reasonable.

Aaand I walk that credit back. Wives have the duty to obey their husbands, especially when he’s being unreasonable, which is why the smart girls lock down a stoic, low-drama man as quickly as they can.

This is making me depressed and concerned about our future together. I have asked him when he plans to stop masking, and all he says is “When it is safe for everyone..

Who taught him that lie, I wonder? Wifey should totally sue the CDC for the cost of his psychiatric wellness therapy sessions.

What if this becomes a permanent part of him?

Possibly. He may need professional help, or better, a wife with the patience and determination to bring him out of his shell. Going out with the girls while he stares in quiet judgment is not going to do that.

My mother, who is very conservative, thinks that I should move out.

*GQ spits up his coffee.*

But I don’t think I’m ready for that step yet. What I want is my husband back. How can I get through to him?

.Maskless and Alone

Good girl. Start with the basics: make it a priority to ensure he always has a fresh mask available. As stupid as masking is, there’s no excuse for a wife to let her husband go around in smelly and filthy clothing.

Next, distract him from the fear-porn. Not just sex. Try to interest him in the hobbies and friends that he used to enjoy. His mind will improve once the fear viruses aren’t getting hourly dopamine updates. Don’t directly confront the mask issue. Let the inconvenience of masking come up naturally, such that he’ll start wanting to take it off without prompting.

Physical affection will help, too. Again, not just sex, but hugs and similar, brief contacts. If he’s wearing a mask to control his anxieties then there’s a lack of affirming behaviors in his life.

Dear Maskless and Alone,

I suspect your mother and I would agree on almost nothing COVID-related except the fact that your husband’s behavior is alarming.

Inevitable, not alarming. Of course some people’s minds broke under the very deliberate, intense campaign of terrorism by the Deep State. But for the Grace of God, I would already have snapped a Mask Nazi like a burnt churro.

.What’s the harm?. is such an insidious phrase. It’s not a question; it’s a statement of “leave me alone.” But there is lots of harm in leaving him alone.harm to his mental health, to yours, and to your relationship.

Agreed. This needs to stop… but wifey needs to be wise about how to do it, not forceful. Coercion does not cure anxieties.

You need to sit down with him at a time free of heightened emotions.so not right after sex (I am impressed.is that the word?.that you are still sleeping with him!).

Wifey Duty Number One.

Tell him all about the harm here: His behavior is alienating you and is certainly not offering him any real protection against disease. Give him three options.

Nope. Wives don’t get to do ultimatums.

First, he can make an appointment with his physician to talk about effective protective measures.

The quack would fill his head with fresh nightmares. Stupid. The very last thing a terrorized man needs is another session with his terrorists.

A few more years of this and doctors will be giving us sickcare instead of healthcare. Bigger profit margins!

Hopefully, his doctor will say he has to do option No. 2: start seeing a therapist. If he chooses this, he has to commit to at least six sessions (or some other number that feels right to you)

What a worthless advice columnist this is. “What should I do?” “Go to an expert who will recommend you to an expert, who will double-team him with his wife for an accomplice.” A lifetime of that attitude is how men end up broken in the first place.

Finally, he can decide.because it would be his decision if he doesn’t take another action.to call an end to the relationship.

“Divorce any man who inconveniences Wifey.”

I know you want your husband back, but he isn’t that husband right now, and he needs to understand just how serious this is. To be clear, you have to mean it when you say that the relationship has to end if he doesn’t make progress, but I think that would be the right move.

To be clear, the marriage is already over when wifey says that. Either he calls her bluff or he submits to his servant. Neither is a winning scenario for the couple.

You’ve already heard about how science has a problem reproducing their findings. Well, that reproducibility crisis just produced… a baby?

Toddler admitted into American Mensa has an IQ of 146, makes history as youngest member

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By Cortney Moore, 26 May 2021

A 2-year-old girl has just made history as the youngest member of American Mensa.

California native Kashe Quest has an IQ of 146 and was accepted into the high-IQ society, according to Fox 11 Los Angeles.

That’s the name a ghetto queen would give her daughter. Not many supergeniuses come out of the projects.

Consistent with my suspicion. This is the only picture of her that doesn’t overexpose the color of her skin, like this:

There are several serious problems here, not least being the image problem that as of yesterday, not all Mensa members are potty-trained. Let’s dig deeper.

Kashe, who is nearing the age of 3, has made several academic strides that many toddlers her age have yet to reach.

According to Fox 11, Kashe can count to 100, identify all 50 U.S. states by shape and select elements on the periodic table.

Her communication abilities are also advanced with 50 sign language signs memorized so far in addition to learning English and Spanish and how to read.

While one report published by Harvard Medical School states that “babies are primed to learn language.any language.while still in the womb, and are born ready to continue the task,” most people begin to learn to read in early elementary school grades.

I don’t care about Harvard. I care about what testing authority thinks a toddler’s “146 IQ” means anything at all. Hmm… Fox11 and Mommy are the only certifiers mentioned in any of several articles I’ve checked.

However, Athwal noted that Kashe shares many behavioral similarities with other toddlers her age . including negotiations and tantrums. The main difference is that Kashe can understand what is being told to her more so than her young peers, Athwal explained to Fox 11.

I got questions:

1. Why does daughter’s name not match Mommy’s name? Where’s daddy?
2. How might Mensa virtue-signal equity with black people OTHER than a stunt like this?
3. Why are children not allowed to be children anymore?

Sukhjit Athwal… Hindu not half-black, so I’m wrong to the extent of this being a massive virtue-signal… unless Kashe is adopted, which I can neither confirm nor deny… ooh, she’s a published author! Her bio from Amazon:

As a mother and published author to a 2 year old & with 10+ years in the childcare field, Sue Athwal holds a valid Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, with a degree in Liberal Arts and Psychology, and a Childcare Program Director’s Permit.

A woman specializing in babies… okay. No red flags.

As the Founder of The Modern Schoolhouse, and Co-founder of The Modern Mom & Baby, she had the opportunity to work with organizations such as Make A Wish Foundation and Big Brothers & Sisters Club, while playing in the NCAA.

Volleyball in college, in California.

With innovative teaching practices and self-created curriculum, Sukhjit is well-known for promoting early education, and helps children reach their full learning potential. She has also privately worked with students in their toddler years, who have then qualified for John Hopkins Center of Talented Youth & Mensa by the age of 5. With the wealth of knowledge and demand of high-quality childcare in need, Sue became inspired to create the same content she has used with other gifted children and make it accessible for all other children to learn.

Uh-oh. A woman who specializes in recognizing and tutoring child prodigies, who boasts of being connected with famous organizations, when her turn came to have a baby, had the youngest child prodigy ever recognized by the famous organization Mensa?

Either she figured out how to train literally any child into a genius before they’re out of diapers… or she used her means, motives and opportunities to falsify her child’s intellectual achievements, and Mensa went along with it because they’re dangerously short on vibrant membership.

How long until she’s investigated? Will Mensa feel stupid when the truth comes out? I cracked this mystery with the original post and a page off Amazon… and I’m just a midwit.

A midwit who knows that babies aren’t rocket scientists.

A salute to Reverend James Altman, pastor of St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wisconsin, for not only tweaking the noses of the devil’s useful idiots but ALSO surviving a purge by refusing to apologize or step down! This is how you do it!

He already had a reputation:

Priest: Catholic Democrats Are Going to Hell

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By Jason Devaney, 9 September 2020

A Catholic priest in Wisconsin said any Catholic who votes for a Democrat is destined to go to hell . and a Catholic bishop in Texas agrees.

That does sound like Texas but today, we honor Cheeseboy.

“Here is a memo to clueless baptized Catholics out there: You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat. Period,” said Father James Altman of St. James the Less Catholic Church. Altman was taking aim at another priest, Father James Martin, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention.

Joe Biden, the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, is a Catholic but is pro-choice in his political life, which goes against Catholic teachings.

He has something in common with the Pope, then. Neither is Catholic despite self-identifying as one.

“The party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic Church teaches, so just quit pretending that you’re Catholic and vote Democrat. Repent of your support of that party and its platform or face the fires of hell.”

Preach, brother!

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, posted a tweet that backed up what Altman said.

“As the Bishop of Tyler I endorse Fr Altman’s statement in this video,” Strickland wrote. “My shame is that it has taken me so long. Thank you Fr Altman for your COURAGE. If you love Jesus & His Church & this nation…pleases HEED THIS MESSAGE.”

A year later, Altman is still going strong!

Priest Says COVID Rules Enforcers Will Burn in ‘Hottest Levels’ of Hell

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BY Darragh Roche, 27 April 2021

A priest in La Crosse, Wisconsin had called COVID-19 safety measures “godless” and “Nazi-esque controls,” while the church’s recent bulletin offers criticism of vaccines.

I want THAT church! Why can’t you Lutherans be like this? It wasn’t Martin Luther who taught you to be scared of a few small boils!

Father James Altman of St. James the Less Catholic Church ignored COVID protocols at a recent Easter mass, according to the La Crosse Tribune and spoke out against rules designed to arrest the spread of the virus.

In a video posted to one of the priest’s YouTube accounts on April 5, a large number of parishioners line up for communion.the newspaper estimated around 170 people.many of whom received the sacrament in their mouths instead of their hands, while many were also not wearing facemasks.

And then they all died of Chinky Pox… no? NO?! Well then, we have other ways of killing him off!

Petition to Fire Priest Who Blasted ‘Godless’ COVID Rules Signed by Thousands

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(A repost from Newsweek)

By Darragh Roche, 29 April 2021

Same author, hmm.

An online petition to remove a priest who strongly condemned COVID-19 public safety measures garnered 10,000 signatures within 24 hours of its launch on Tuesday.

“Tuesday” meaning 27 April… the date of Darragh’s last article.

Father James Altman of St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crosse, Wisconsin told parishioners at a mass that COVID protocols were “godless” and “Nazi-esque controls.”

The church’s bulletin on April 18 also featured a page discouraging worshipers from getting the COVID-19 vaccines, calling them “an experimental use of a genetic altering substance that modifies your body.your temple of the Holy Spirit.”

The page was unsigned but critics have attributed it to Altman.

If they need a name then I’m their huckleberry. Pretty sure I’ve been sayin’ just that for awhile now.

The petition was organized by Faithful America, which describes itself as a group of grassroots Christians. They’re calling on the Bishop of La Crosse, William Callahan, to remove Altman from ministry.

“The Faithful America petition asking Bishop Callahan to fire Fr. James Altman for spreading deadly vaccine misinformation and breaking COVID-19 protocols has gathered more than 10,000 signatures in its first 24 hours. The current signature count is 11,137,” the group’s executive director Reverend Nathan Empsall told Newsweek in a statement. He is an Episcopal priest.

What’s Faithful America? As if one needs to ask. Any organization with ‘faith’ or ‘America’ in its title is probably swamp-bilge.

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Faithful America was founded in 2004… independent 501(c)4… We stick up for courageous Christian voices acting for fairness and freedom in every denomination. We work together for immigrant and refugee rights, climate justice, and full LGBTQ inclusion among other important social, economic, and racial justice causes that reflect the Gospel’s values of love, dignity, compassion, and equality.

Par for the course. How gloriously different the saints, how monotonously alike the tyrants.

Since July 1, 2019, Faithful America’s grassroots campaigns have been led by our executive director, the Rev. Nathan Empsall (he/him). Rev. Nathan is an Episcopal priest and experienced organizer who holds both a Master of Divinity and a Master of Environmental Management.

Did they not offer a Master’s in Gaia Worship?

Although Rev. Nathan is personally an ordained Episcopal priest, Faithful America is independent and not affiliated with the Episcopal Church or any other denomination.

Dayumn, even the feminist Churchians couldn’t tolerate the stench of this one.

Working together, Faithful America members have:

• • Removed a partisan, racist, and anti-vaccine priest from his Wisconsin pulpit
  • Convinced networks to drop the televangelist Jim Bakker Show for selling a fake COVID-19 cure
  • Blocked a hateful, Islamophobic Trump nominee in the Senate…

Oh noes! They already took out Altman?!

Not so fast!

Wisconsin Catholic pastor who preached against Covid-19 vaccine ordered to step down

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By Corky Siemaszko, 24 May 2021

The pastor of a Roman Catholic parish in Wisconsin who told his congregation to shun the Covid-19 vaccine and preached right-wing politics from the pulpit has been asked to step down by his bishop.

The Rev. James Altman, of the St. James the Less Roman Catholic Church in La Crosse, made the announcement during his sermon at Sunday Mass, calling himself a victim of the “cancel culture..

.If the left whines, like they do, like a spoiled brat often enough, they succeed in canceling so many voices of truth,. he said. “And now that they are whining like, if I may say it, the pansy babies that they are, to cancel me..

PANSY BABIES!!! Yeah!

Altman, whose sermon was posted on YouTube…

…said Bishop William Callahan of the Diocese of La Crosse asked him to resign Friday and called him “divisive and ineffective.” He said he’s engaged a canon lawyer and intends to fight the bishop’s decision, but that this could be his last sermon as pastor.

.I am no expert on canon law, but understand only that while we are contesting the Bishop’s request . and we are . he could in theory appoint a parish administrator whilst I remain a pastor without duties until the appeal goes through Rome, which can take up to a year or more,. he said.

Fight it! Fight it! Fight it! Godless ‘Murica spiked that football way too soon!

The “Friends of Father James Altman. Facebook page, which has since April more than doubled in size to 1,600 members, has posts and comments expressing anger and anguish over what’s been happening with the priest, as well as bogus assertions that there is “no science behind the false religion of covidism” and baseless claims about the supposed dangers of the Covid-19 vaccines.

In totally unrelated news, the government has promised unprecedented and total legal protection regarding the safety and long-term effects of the C-19 not-vaccines.

.I cannot picture that podium at St. James the Less Church without Fr. Altman,. one parishioner wrote. .Woe to you Bishop William Callahan and all you other wolves in shepherd’s clothing..

.Heartbreaking,. wrote another.

In an earlier interview, Catholic theologian Jason Steidl said Callahan does have the power to oust an .Alt-right priest. like Altman but risks antagonizing the ultraconservative parishioners who are drawn to his message.

They hate Altman because they first hated Christ!

Altman has courted controversy in recent years by denouncing the Black Lives Matter movement and making other conspiratorial false claims about climate change and systematic racism and homophobia that are common in right-wing media.

Before the presidential election, he insisted in a video produced and posted on YouTube by a right-wing group that “you cannot be Catholic and a Democrat..

As for the pandemic that has killed nearly 594,00 people in the United States and sickened more than 33 million, Altman called it a “hoax” during Easter weekend services that attracted 300 to 500 worshippers, few of whom wore masks or practiced social distancing, The La Crosse Tribune reported.

Altman is wrong and just a nutcase, but silencing him before people can hear what he has to say is a mission-critical task for both the mainstream media and Catholic hierarchy. Which is it?

Also, church bulletins approved by Altman have been rife with more Covid-19 misinformation and baseless claims about the efficacy and safety of the vaccines.

Right about here, I started giggling.

Altman.s pandemic preaching has been in defiance of Callahan and in opposition to the Vatican, which in December declared that taking the vaccine was “morally acceptable..

Both Pope Francis, and his predecessor, Pope Benedict, have been vaccinated against Covid-19. And when it comes to getting vaccinated, most Catholics appear to be ignoring right-wing clerics such as Altman and Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, and getting their shots, according to recent polling by the Public Religion Research Institute and Interfaith Youth Core.

“None of Altman’s hateful words or dangerous actions speak for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and now Bishop Callahan has thankfully made it clear that Altman does not speak for the Catholic Church, either,” Nathan Empsall, head of the Christian watchdog group Faithful America, said in a statement.

Well, well. Look who’s shown up at both Newsweek and NBC!

“We pray for all who have fallen victim to the lies and bullying of false prophets like James Altman, and we encourage all our siblings in Christ to receive a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine as soon as they can,” said Empsall, an Episcopalian whose group has also criticized Protestants for things like fanning anti-Islamic hate.

We are not siblings, Empsall you pansy baby. You aren’t even a heretic because you were never a believer. You’re a con man and a wage slave and such a disgusting male feminist that even the pastorette who ordained you doesn’t want you around anymore.

Altman, though? I like his style and what a relief it is, to see a priest doing the legit work of God Himself! It is good to know that he has both supporters where he is and if needed, a warm welcome in Texas.

Nothing makes you care about the health of The Leader Of the Free World, Incorporated, like betting he won’t have the chance for a second term. Every headline about Potato Joe’s remarkably robust and vigorous health regimen is in line with my January 6, 2023 guess. Meanwhile, you too can enjoy reading, and shredding, between the lines:

A day in the life of Joe Biden: Orange Gatorade and chocolate cookies fuelling world’s most powerful man

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By Josie Ensor (the Telegraph), 24 May 2021

Good, good. Soon it’ll be apple juice and Jell-O.

President Joe Biden has a strict morning regimen of weight-lifting…

No.

…but also struggles with a sweet tooth, according to a report which gives insight into his little-known daily routine.

The Washington Post spoke to more than a dozen people close to Mr Biden, who gave a rare glimpse into a day in the life of the world’s most powerful man.

Biden DOES know he’s President, right? And that he doesn’t have to listen to Jill anymore?

According to interviews, Mr Biden, who at 79 is the US.s oldest-ever president, begins the day by lifting weights and working with his personal trainer in an effort to keep mentally and physically fit.

Again, no. Not unless walking in a circle waving two-pound dumbbells counts as “lifting weights”. You could snap Joe’s leg like a twig… his dog already did.

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A “Major” injury to President-elect Joe Biden appeared to be minor.

Biden “sustained a sprain in his right foot. Saturday when the 78-year-old Democrat turned an ankle while playing with his dog Major, his office said Sunday. Biden will see a doctor “out of an abundance of caution” but X-rays show no obvious fracture, according to his personal physician.

A subsequent CT scan “confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden’s lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot,. according to a statement from his doctor, Kevin O.Connor. .It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks..

End segue

He eats healthily – opting for a soup and a salad for lunch – but he also has a sweet tooth, regularly enjoying treats such as orange Gatorade and chocolate chip cookies.

He has stocked the outer Oval Office with individually wrapped chocolate chip cookies and salt water taffy (boiled sweets) from Dolle’s in Delaware, where he travels on weekends.

That would be the maid, not Joe. The World’s Most Powerful Man, not to be confused with the World’s Most Powerful Sexy Man that he stole the election from, does not have free time to shop for treats on the weekend.

Wait, this is Resident Joe the Pretender. Maybe he DOES have that free time. All he’s needed for is signing stuff, after all.

He has said in previous interviews that he could not live without his favourite food, ice cream.

.He has the tastes of a five-year-old,. a longtime Mr Biden adviser told the Post.

He arrives promptly at the Oval Office in the White House each morning at 9am, but likes to sneak out to the South Lawn or Rose Garden for fresh air to walk his German shepherds, Champ and Major.

They say that dogs are good judges of character. They say that Major kept biting White House staffers until he was no longer welcome.

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Vice President Joe Biden made headlines today when he appeared alongside President Barack Obama in the East Room at the White House for an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The 72-year-old politician was seen [with] a small bruise on the side of his lower lip; the injury did not appear to be serious.

So, what happened?!

He tried to celebrate the ADA by going out on a disability claim while VP? This is more than a little ironic, him showing up injured to the ADA anniversary.

The vice president’s office told reporters that Biden got the bruise by playing with his dog, a German Shepherd named Champ.

How did Biden’s mouth get injured by a dog? Did he sniff something he shouldn’t have?

Fact: Joe Biden is the executive officer of the American Empire.

Fact: It would suck cow farts to be Joe Biden.

End segue

Unlike his predecessor and Fox News enthusiast, Donald Trump, Mr Biden is not a huge consumer of TV, but he does watch CNN.s “New Day” or MSNBC.s “Morning Joe” when working out.

We interrupt this assurance that Biden is on top of his game and in fine, jovial health despite being the oldest Oval Office occupant ev3r, and that stairs incident that is totally behind him, to remind you that good people listen to CNN. Only BAD people like DRUMPF listen to Fox News.

Despite morning workout sessions, aides described the president as a “night owl.” He usually returns to the White House residence around 6-7pm for dinner with wife Jill, before carrying out late-night calls with advisers.

Nothing about his behavior suggests that level of energy. Trump reportedly had a reduced need for sleep, however, so Biden needs to keep up with the Joneses even after stealing their election.

The couple has a close relationship, speaking on the phone several times a day. He is known to interrupt whatever he is doing to take calls from family members.

Move over, Jezebel. Doctor Jill is in da house!

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According to Jill Biden’s first husband, Bill Stevenson, the story she and her present husband, prospective Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, tell of how they met after she divorced Stevenson is not true. Stevenson claims Joe Biden was having an affair with his wife while she was still married to Stevenson.

In 2008, The New York Times reported on how Joe Biden explained meeting his present wife Jill:

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. has said he first saw pictures of Jill Jacobs in March 1975 in an advertisement for a local park in Wilmington, Del. The young blonde caught his eye. She was beautiful . you might call her drop-dead gorgeous.

No. Good hair but flat chest. Not bad, just nothing special.

That night, his brother, Frank, told him he had the number of a young woman that the senator would like, mainly because she did not like politics. Mr. Biden called her the next day and asked her out, for that very night. She was busy. Mr. Biden persisted. He was in town for only one night. Couldn’t she change her plans?

She did, finally. And when Mr. Biden arrived to pick her up, she turned out to be the woman in the advertisement.

It was going to only be a one-night stand but turned out to be Twu Wuv! And bullshit. I don’t even care what the competing story is, the truth ain’t this.

.The Bidens, who have been married since 1977, have publicly said they met on a blind date in 1975 . after Joe became a widower and Jill’s first marriage had broken up,. the New York Post reported.

Speaking to the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, Stevenson stated, .I don’t want to hurt anyone. But…

“I don’t think of my ex as an ‘anyone’.”

…facts are facts and what happened, happened..

Stevenson asserted that he first met Jill in August 1969, saying, .I was leaving for Woodstock the following day. I was at a car wash and she and her friend came over to admire my 1968 Z28 Chevy Camaro. It was yellow with black stripes, all the rage at the time. I was going to my friend’s birthday party that night, so I invited them along. There were four good looking girls in that apartment and I thought the more the merrier. The rest is history..

Stevenson, who is the founder of The Stone Balloon, a famed live music club that Rolling Stone once called “the best kept secret in rock and roll,. continued that he married Jill Jacobs in 1970, adding, .It was February, I believe it was the 7th..

Two years later, as Biden ran for the Senate, the Stevensons worked on his campaign, Stevenson claimed. Biden was still married to his first wife Neilia, who was tragically killed along with their one-year-old daughter Naomi in a car crash before Biden was sworn into the Senate.

Ooh. Bad, bad idea, putting your wife to work for a more powerful man. That reflects poorly on Stevenson… which in turn, gives this the ring of truth. He’s not being complimentary towards his own conduct.

The Daily Mail continued, .Stevenson said he first suspected Biden and Jill were having an affair in August 1974. He was then 26, Jill was 23 and Joe was 31..

Stevenson said, .I know exactly when it was. Bruce Springsteen was going to play at The Stone Balloon and I had to go to Northern New Jersey to pay him in advance. I asked Jill to go with me and she said no . she had things to do, she had to look after Joe’s kids, Beau and Hunter.

OUCH! Managing Bruce Springsteen wasn’t enough to keep wifey interested in him.

Stevenson said that in October 1974, .I was at work and a guy came in and asked: .Do you own a brown Corvette?. I said yes, it’s my wife’s car. He said back in May it had crunched his bumper and they told him to get an estimate and he never heard back from them. I said: .Wait a minute. Who is they?. And he said: .Funnily enough, Senator Biden was driving…

Stevenson concluded, .I asked Jill to leave the house, which she did. Her father was begging me to take her back when he found out what was going on. He asked me to give her a second chance, but I wasn’t interested. I considered Joe a friend. I’m not surprised he fell in love with Jill. Everyone who meets Jill falls in love with her immediately. It’s hard not to..

Stevenson said he has an autobiography in the works. He said, .It’s ready to go. They can print 30,000 copies in 10 days. I genuinely don’t want to harm Jill’s chances of becoming First Lady. She would make an excellent First Lady . but this is my story. It’s not a bitter book . I.m not bitter because, if it wasn’t for my divorce, I would never have met my wife Linda and she’s the greatest thing in my life .

That kind of groveling attitude would be WHY managing the Bruce wasn’t sexy enough.

…but it does have facts in it that aren’t pleasant to Jill and Joe. People ask me how I can go back 40 years, but I am not, I’m going back 72 years to tell my life story..

Stop with the Gamma humblebragging, Stevie. Either burn your ex and cash that paycheck already, or don’t.

I think it fitting that the wife of a man who became great by betraying his country to anybody that he could, is herself a traitor to the husband of her youth.

End segue

.[Resident Biden] will never say, .I.m in the middle of something important right now . can I call you back?.. said Democratic Senator Chris Coons, a longtime Biden confidant, said. .He will never let it go to voicemail..

No. Feck, that’s not even trying to lie to me. That’s just a straight-up diss. There is no way in any reality that any POTUS would ever NOT use voicemail.

Every night before bed, the president is reported to phone his son Hunter, who has battled for years with drug and alcohol addiction. If he does not answer the call, sources told The Post that Mr Biden will text him.

That lie was supposed to show that Biden is a family man. But hey, Sleepy Joe, there are companies that’ll check whether your loved ones are taking their drugs so you don’t have to.

Throughout the election campaign he has engaged in numerous malapropisms, slurred words, mispronouncing words and misidentifying people, such as calling his wife Jill his sister.

Ahh, now that we reach the end, a little truth can dribble out so this puff piece won’t look like the blatant hatchet job that it is.

Mr Biden was branded “Sleepy Joe” during the election campaign by Donald Trump, 74, who suggested that his opponent’s cognitive abilities should be tested.

They were not tested.

Some Republicans have criticised Mr Biden for his relatively light daily schedule, which is notably lighter than his predecessors.

The 79-year-old often with just one or two brief public appearances a day, only sporadic travel and weekends at his family home in Wilmington. A .lid,. meaning no further public activities, is often called early in the day.

Which is it? Is Biden a night owl that meets with advisers even after dinner, or do his handlers often put a ‘lid’ early on his day?

In the early days, however, his travel was hindered by the Covid-19 pandemic raging across America.

Thus, his about-to-become the first octogenarian in the power seat must obviously have nothing at all to do with his lack of public appearances. You didn’t ask but hey, just so you know, Biden is doing GREAT! As much as Trump ever did, plus he can do it on a light schedule and he’s buff from working out and he still has time to be a family man!

Tick tock, Resident Biden. The devil gave you the world as promised… plus the dementia and frailty and FAMILY to prevent you from enjoying it.

The Z-Man has a theory that our current government is best described as a “palace economy”, in which all money routes through the centers of power. It came to my mind when I fell for a piece of clickbait.

US cities with the most mosquitoes

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By Daniella Genovese, 24 May 2021

News you can use! especially if you, like me, are unusually tasty to biting insects and actively looking at relocating to where vaxx-deniers aren’t literal outcasts from society. Most such destinations being in the swampy South. Number One for mosquitoes in USA is…

Los Angeles . seen as the epicenter of the entertainment industry . is being recognized for its dense mosquito population.

What? No… no way that’s right… I grew up there. It’s an arid climate. The L.A. River is a gigantic concrete storm drain that the city once thought to convert into a seasonal freeway, it’s so dry. They had rock gardens before rock gardens were trendy. There were NO mosquitoes AT ALL.

The City of Angels has landed on top of Orkin’s list of the cities with the most mosquitos . known for not only biting humans but potentially transmitting various diseases such as West Nile virus, Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Zika virus.

Yes, I was a utility fieldworker during West Nile. At one point, I was stepping over dead birds killed by it. I never got WN because 1. I washed my hands and 2. NO MOSQUITOES.

After Los Angeles on Orkin’s Top 50 Mosquito Cities list is Atlanta, which held the top spot for seven consecutive years.

Okay, I can believe Atlanta has lots of skeeters. I can’t believe Los Angeles.

Rounding out the top five is Washington, D.C., Dallas and Chicago. The newest additions to this year’s list, however, are three West Coast cities: Seattle, San Diego and Fresno, California.

DC, Dallas and Chicago are in swamps. I can believe them. San Diego has a similarly arid climate to Los Angeles and I’ve lived there to know better, too, so no. Fresno? It has drought conditions. Cold, rainy Seattle is doubtful. And NYC is on the list… it’s a concrete jungle… where could mosquitoes even breed?

Not only are all of ‘Murica’s power centers on that list… I notice that NONE of the top entries are in Minnesota (#17 is Minneapolis). How can San Francisco rank at all? It’s got cold weather, salt water on three sides and high winds… none of which is mosquito-friendly. Those are syringes poking into your arms, not skeeters.

The pest control company owned by Rollins Inc. noted that outdoor activities, which were “maximized in 2020” and will likely continue as Memorial Day nears, “may lead to increased experiences with mosquitoes.”

Coinciding with the plandemic? Oh, boy. Is the Deep State trying to scare people in the power centers–LA, Seattle, DC, Dallas, Chicago and NYC–into staying indoors to avoid CkinkySkeeterPox?

“We are committed to educating the public on the risks associated with these blood-sucking pests, and more importantly, eliminating them from yards across the country,” Orkin President Freeman Elliott said.

Whatever’s going on here, “MOAR EDDUKUSHEN!!!” is not the solution. “Hey Ma, this weird insect landed on my arm, poked its nose into my skin and is inflating with a blood-colored fluid, and the last insect which did that, the spot itches. Could you contact the local government aid office and see if they have any education available to explain what I’m seeing? I don’ wanna think for myself. SO MANY ITCHES!!! Hurry up and educate me, government, I don’t know what I’m supposed to believe!”

Eh. You can’t out-mock a True Believer. I probably just described a Cupertino millionaire.

Orkin also announced the second annual “Donating Blood Should be Voluntary” campaign in order to “aid the American Red Cross in maintaining our country’s blood supply and protect people against the public health threats of mosquitoes.”

Orkin pledged to donate $25 to the Red Cross for every mosquito control service purchased from May 24 to June 30, 2021, up to $120,000. The company is also encouraging the public to donate blood through the Red Cross through the SleevesUp campaign, through June 30.

They’re claiming that mosquitoes are most problematic in the places with both the most money and least exposure to the bugs, coinciding with a sales promotion. That sounds a lot like what one might see in a “palace economy”.

Although, the list is confirmed by rival Terminix. Link here, dated 2018:

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By using service data across 300+ branches nationwide, Terminix identified 50 cities where residents had the highest number of mosquito services last year…

Ahh. These aren’t where mosquitoes are most common. These are the cities that purchased the most anti-mosquito services. Which is still consistent with my palace-economy suspicions. The folks with money to burn freak out over gnats while the good folks of Florida use strange devices called “screen doors”, “DEET” and “grit” instead of professional services.

Credit to Terminix, they led with the above-quoted disclaimer. But that’s not what the Orkin article said:

The City of Angels has landed on top of Orkin’s list of the cities with the most mosquitos…

Oh, wait. This was buried inside:

For its data, the Orkin ranked the metro areas by the number of mosquitoes based on the customers served from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021.

Businesses know where the money is. Not in Des Moines, Milwaukee or Grand Rapids. It’s in NYC and SF and Lost Angels. Which are also, coincidentally, the political capitols of USA.

And they’re overrun by bloodsuckers? Say it ain’t so!

How much does the O’Biden Administration want war with China? Enough to award the Medal Of Honor to the most recent (living) American grunt to kill Chinese soldiers… a century ago.

Biden awards first Medal of Honor to Korean War hero

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By Morgan Phillips, 21 May 2021

President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to Col. Ralph Puckett on Friday, more than 70 years after Puckett’s act of service during the Korean War.

Bullshit detector TRIGGERED!

Puckett was the recipient of Biden’s first medal of honor for his leadership during the war where he risked his own life to draw enemy fire away from his platoon.

The president said he was “incredibly proud” to give the nation’s most prestigious military honor to the colonel and called the award “long overdue.”

“Today, after more than a decade of effort, including support from my good friend, John McCain, God rest his soul… I’m incredibly proud to give Colonel Ralph Puckett’s acts of valor the full recognition they have always deserved,” Biden said.

They were never friends. Hmm.

Biden said that in preparations for the ceremony, 94-year-old Puckett asked: “Why all the fuss.” Can’t they just mail it to me?”

“I was gonna make a joke about the Post Office but I decided not to do that,” Biden said. “I think you deserve a little bit of fuss.”

Yes, Mr. Puckett, why the fuss? You should have seriously considered that question. Ah, well. Perhaps a geriatric case should be forgiven for not realizing when he’s being used as a prop for dark powers. Which could go for Biden, too.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in attended the ceremony along with Biden, as he was in Washington for a summit between the two world leaders. Moon addressed the event and spoke in Korean, saying he found it “incredibly meaningful” to attend the ceremony. He said he was the first foreign leader to attend a medal of honor ceremony and hugged Puckett after giving his address.

President Moon’s visit does NOT explain this award.

Puckett, at the time a first lieutenant and commander of the 8th U.S. Army Ranger Company, held a strategic position near Unsan, known as Hill 205, for two days in November 1950 while fighting off numerous enemy attacks and suffering multiple wounds.

That does not explain this award, either.

Puckett’s Medal of Honor was made possible under the 2020 defense policy bill, which lifted a requirement that such awards be made within five years of the commission of the act of valor for which the individual is being recognized. The five-year limit was waived for Puckett and three other U.S. service members. Puckett’s nomination still had to be approved by the defense secretary and president.

That was done to enable the rewriting of American history to suit present needs… as we are seeing here. A classic and stereotypically Marxist agenda item.

More info!

94-year-old Korean War veteran and former Army Ranger Ralph Puckett to receive Medal of Honor

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By Nikki Wentling, 19 May 2021

During the first of several Chinese attacks on the American-controlled hill, Puckett was wounded by a hand grenade but refused evacuation. He directed artillery support, moved between foxholes to check the company’s perimeter and distributed ammunition to the other Rangers.

As the Chinese continued to attack, Puckett was told over his radio that supporting artillery fire was unavailable. His company continued to fight, and Puckett was wounded two more times by enemy mortar rounds.

.The pressure increased, so I ran back to the foxhole,. Puckett said in an interview for an oral history project. .I got on the radio, called force artillery and said, .We’re under great pressure. We’re crumbling. We’re being overrun. I just gave my unit the word to withdraw.. .

As the Chinese overran them, Puckett ordered his company to evacuate the area and told the soldiers to leave him behind. Two of his Rangers disregarded the order and carried Puckett off the hill to safety.

That… could explain a lot. “We award you our nation’s highest honor for being the last American serviceman alive to kill Chinese solders. We hope they’ll take the hint today.”

Puckett earned two Distinguished Service Crosses for his actions on Hill 205. He had a 22-year career in the Army, during which he also served in combat during the Vietnam War.

He’d already been honored for the action, too? And people have been born and died of old age since then? This award DEFINITELY is a Current-Year political tactic.

First Biden cozies up to China then he does a stunt like this. I keep wondering who is pulling his puppet strings… and keep reaching the conclusion that it’s not just one faction. This misuse of the Medal of Honor was most likely purchased by the neoconservatives, to judge from Biden citing his “good friend” Songbird McCain.

But that leaves unanswered what connections Puckett has with the Neocons.

He mentored decades of Army Rangers. At 94, he.ll receive the Medal of Honor.

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Shivering in freezing temperatures, about 50 U.S. soldiers braced for the worst. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers were about to launch a series of bloody attacks on the hill the Americans had just taken under fire, and no reinforcements were within a mile.

The clash that then-1st Lt. Ralph Puckett and his soldiers experienced that night on “Hill 205. came at the outset of the Battle of the Chongchon River, a pivotal moment in which senior U.S. commanders were surprised by China’s full-scale entry into the Korean War.

Thousands of U.S. soldiers died in following days as they withdrew hundreds of miles back into South Korea in what the Army now describes as the longest retreat in U.S. military history.

LOTS of politics in the bestowing of this award, at this moment in history.

.I had been wounded three times by then, and I was lying there in my foxhole unable to do anything,. Puckett would later recall for an oral history project. .I could see three Chinese about 15 yards away from me, and they were bayoneting or shooting some of my wounded Rangers who were in the foxholes..

More than 70 years later, Puckett, 94, will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor in combat, for his actions. President Biden called Puckett at home in Columbus, Ga., on Friday to inform him of his decision to approve the award, said John Lock, a retired Army officer who began petitioning the Army for reconsideration of Puckett’s actions in 2003. …

Puckett would go on to earn the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation’s second-highest award for valor in combat, for his actions in the battle. The recognition came near the outset of a 22-year career that also included a second Distinguished Service Cross and two Silver Stars for valor in Vietnam. Puckett was awarded five Purple Hearts for injuries suffered in combat and two Bronze Star Medals with the V device for valor.

Puckett comes highly decorated and was in much demand as a public speaker after military retirement.

Among those who assisted in Puckett’s case were the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who contacted the Army on Puckett’s behalf a few months before dying of cancer in 2018, and retired Gens. Joseph Votel and Stanley McChrystal, who know Puckett through their mutual service as Rangers, according to documents that Lock provided to The Washington Post.

Puckett.s wife, Jean, said in a phone interview that the family hopes to visit the White House for a ceremony. Considering her husband’s advancing age and some health problems, she expressed concern about how long it was taking.

.He is not the one who has been pushing it. It has been John and our immediate family, who want him to be able to receive it personally if he is going to be awarded that medal,. she said, referring to Lock. .He felt the Distinguished Service Cross was honor enough..

For years, Puckett has been a spiritual and cultural leader of sorts for the 75th Ranger Regiment, the elite fighting force that specializes in raids, airfield seizures and other difficult missions in combat. As an “honorary colonel” for the regiment, he traveled overseas in his 80s with U.S. commanders, including to Iraq and Afghanistan, and regularly met with soldiers at Fort Benning, Ga., the home of both the Ranger Regiment and much of Ranger School.

Maybe instead of being an insult directed at the Chinese, this is a tone-deaf peace offering to the Neoconservatives… coming as it is, with a openly hateful purge of white male Christians from military ranks.

Votel, who retired as chief of U.S. Central Command in 2019, was commander of the 1st Ranger Battalion when he got to know Puckett during an exercise in South Korea.

The picture takes shape. Puckett was the good-boy soldier that was unwittingly used as a prop by frauds such as McCain and McChrystal. Giving him the MOH was the next best thing to giving themselves the MOH. Obama/Biden finally went along with it, either to pressure China on something, as part of a deal with the neocons or simply to take the sting out of twisting the US military into a jobs program for transsexual freaks.

Or simply to tarnish the US military’s highest honor. Destroying all that is good and beautiful about America is their top priority, after all.

“It’s not what it looks like!” Baylor University cries as it eviscerates itself, preparing to become a skinsuit for the New World Order. Behold the consequences of female leadership yet again… the ride never stops.

Baylor U opens door for recognizing LGBT student group, says sexuality stance remains unchanged

You can’t even start the article before facepalming.

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By Brandon Showalter, 19 May 2021

Baylor University, one of the world’s largest Baptist universities, has opened the door to possibly providing official campus recognition to an LGBT student group but maintains that its stance on marriage and sexual ethics continues to be unchanged.

Last week, the Waco, Texas-based school’s board of regents approved a resolution that greenlights a path forward for recognizing a group of LGBT-identifying students.

Which is it? “Sodomy is immoral” or “We need more Sodomites”?

The board of regents charged President Linda A. Livingstone and the university administration “to determine the appropriate pathways to provide additional care, connections, and community for Baylor’s LGBTQ students, including the possibility of establishing a new, chartered student group that is consistent with Baylor’s core commitments …”

I suggest dunking every Cross on the campus in urine, in order to have both Cross and Corruption in the same place at the same time. Also, because Hell doesn’t stink ONLY of sulfur.

While both Baylor’s statement on human sexuality and policy on sexual conduct presently signal adherence to biblical orthodoxy, some say the allowance of an LGBT student group is the first step at chipping away at crucial theological foundations.

Nooooo, of course they wouldn’t actually disobey God. They just want to toe the line so the Deep State will leave them alone. They would never… oopsie…

The university changed its sexual misconduct policy in 2015, taking out language on “homosexual acts.”

They erased the line! Now they’ll NEVER cross it!

Al Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said in a Monday episode of his daily podcast that if an institution of higher education is not clear about what it believes and what those convictions require and “it actually begins to recruit students or even to accept students who hold to a contrary view and then allows official recognition of that group … you have just sown the seeds for the revolution of your own institution..

Well, he’s right this time.

The latest resolution is part of a trend of Baylor gradually adjusting its policies over the years, removing the specifics as to what is and is not permitted amid intensifying cultural pressures and financial considerations related to federal funding and regulations, Mohler pointed out.

Ooh, he’s REALLY right this time! Is the SBC belatedly realizing that Satan’s promised payoffs are taking the form of layoffs? This might explain Russell Moore’s recent decision to jump ship to Christianity Today.

.Just consider the mainstream media and beyond that, even the larger cultural pressure when it came to Oral Roberts University’s men’s basketball team making it to the Sweet 16 in the national basketball tournament this year,” Mohler said. “But then consider something else. What team won the NCAA men’s National Basketball Tournament this year? None other than Baylor university.”

.Baylor can’t possibly face the reality that its team that just won the national championship might not have access to post-season play,” he added. “No one’s denying that Baylor University faces incredible pressure. But what we are seeing is a one-step-at-a-time succumbing to that pressure..

Dayumn, Al Mohler came SO close to calling them out! But he didn’t so it’s all for naught. His proper response should have been the excommunication of Baylor’s regents from the denomination followed by lawfare for its endowment. The leadership is already gone; nothing left to do but destroy Baylor in order to deprive the Enemy.

Here’s the full resolution. Half of the regents are women.

Baylor University Board of Regents Resolution on a Caring Community

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May 14, 2021

The mission of Baylor University is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community. Baylor is committed to providing a loving and caring community for all students because it is part and parcel of the University’s mission.

Emphasis theirs. So many problems just in that first sentence!

1. It’s unBiblical to educate women the same as men…
2. For leadership…
3. Of this fallen world…
4. By employing care-based morality.

The Baylor University Board of Regents reaffirms the following core commitments of our Christian mission for our campus community:

. The dignity and worth of all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, as we strive to fulfill our Christian commitment of a caring community.

. The biblical understanding that sexual relations of any kind outside of marriage between a man and a woman are not in keeping with the teaching of Scripture, as summarized in the University’s Statement on Human Sexuality.

Number 2 is blatantly not compatible with Number 1.

. Our commitment to providing a welcoming, supportive educational environment based on civility and respect for all.

Only allowing devoted Christians into our explicitly Christian organization, not so much.

As a Board of Regents, we recognize that Baylor’s LGBTQ students continue to seek care, connections, and community on our campus and a sense of belonging within the Baylor Family. As an important and faithful expression of our Christian mission, we desire to establish trust with our LGBTQ students so that, among other things, they might seek out the resources provided by Baylor.

And if a Regent takes a wrong turn in San Francisco, the gay bath houses will also welcome him with care, connections and community. After which, he’ll be a BAD EVIL MAN for cheating on his wife by getting gang-banged full of diseases.

THEREFORE, the Baylor University Board of Regents acknowledges the University’s responsibility to serve the needs of all students entrusted to us across all areas of their development . academics, personal, and spiritual.

BE IT RESOLVED that the Baylor University Board of Regents approaches this challenging situation with a spirit of grace and truth, as described in the first chapter of John. .For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (v17). The University remains committed to extending Christ-like love and grace in caring for all our students and meeting them where they are, just as Jesus did, and adhering to traditional biblical teaching of Scripture regarding human sexuality.

But not Christ-like fulfillment of the law! Laws are for BAD people! Welcoming perverts with open legs, er, arms is what Jesus would do!

Remember when Jesus met the whore? Remember what He told her? “Stop doing that.” Seriously, Christianity isn’t hard. It just makes you unattractive to black-hearted abominations. This is a problem?

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Baylor University Board of Regents charges President Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D…

I give up.

…and the University Administration to determine the appropriate pathways to provide additional care, connections, and community for Baylor’s LGBTQ students, including the possibility of establishing a new, chartered student group that is consistent with Baylor’s core commitments summarized above and the University’s policies and
statements.

Churches and colleges didn’t pander to evildoers when men were calling the shots… men who understand God’s design for human sexuality, anyway. Baylor gave lip service to the idea that sex should only be within marriage but it’s beyond obvious here that they don’t actually know why that should be.

First, they emancipated sexuality from the patriarchy so that women could be mens’ equals. Then they separated sexuality from its purposes so that women wouldn’t feel guilty about maybe having one genetically-diseased child at the tender age of 40-something. And now, Baylor reaches the logical end of denying God’s design: “Moses wanted the female to be submissive to the male but we, I mean, Jeebus decided nah, what matters is you mean well. Umm… we love you even though you have sex with dogs but please, you should… umm… get a marriage certificate, I think it’s called. Jeebus would like that. But it’s cool if you just wanna be you.

Wage-slave aka “associate” college profs are great fun, often being walking cliches of the Red Pill and related sociopolitical talking points. This professor of ancient feudal Japan was surprised by how much a student-made edutainment game taught him after he… um… told them to make it.

How student-designed video games made me rethink how I teach history

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By Adam Clulow, Associate Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts. 17 May 2021

Imagine you’re a young samurai in Japan in 1701. You have to make a difficult choice between an impoverished life in exile, or the prospect of almost certain death while trying to avenge the death of your dishonored lord. Which do you choose?

You have to ask? *kill kill kill*

Oh, wait. You aren’t allowed to kill people and take their stuff in edutainment games. *sigh* Stupid trick question.

.Ako: A Tale of Loyalty,. a video game built in 2020, takes players along a difficult journey through early modern Japan filled with decisions like this one. It’s become an essential component of my classes on Japanese history, but it wasn’t developed by a professional game studio. Instead, it was created by a team of four undergraduate history majors with no specialized training.

That and a sandbox game-making engine is all it takes, although there’s something to be said for artistic skills too.

Designing a video game may seem like a strange assignment for a humanities classroom, but as a professor who teaches a range of courses in East Asian history I have found that such exercises provide an engaging learning experience for students while also generating new educational content that can be widely shared.

A fine idea for a teacher to give his students, but the title of this article is clearly misleading. He’d already rethought how to teach history.

Among university students, video games are utterly pervasive. When I ask my classes who consumes video game content, either as a player or via streaming services like Twitch, it’s rare that a single student’s hand is not raised.

Schools and colleges have rushed to respond to these trends.

Of course they did. Schools and colleges are State-run indoctrination camps. Converging a popular recreation into a tool for mind control has got these types all excited.

Deus Ex didn’t lie to us.

Programs like Gamestar Mechanic or Scratch help K-12 students learn basic coding skills, while many universities, including my own, have introduced game design majors to train the next generation of developers.

QED. We can’t have men make just whatever games they want to! That’s what they’ve been doing and look, it’s a $180 BILLION dollar industry that we don’t control! Completely unregulated! Patriarchy memes everywhere! We must… educate them… yesss….

History professors, however, have been slower to embrace video games as teaching tools. Part of the problem is that the historical content contained within games is often, with some exceptions, repetitive and superficial.

Bullshit. Two words, Professor Clulow: CARMEN SANDIEGO. As in, Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? That gold standard of edutainment was swiftly followed by Where in USA/World/Time/America’s Past/Space sequels in addition to reboots and a Netflix animated series. Don’t tell me you came of age in the 1980s but missed that franchise!

Even repeated history isn’t boring. History constantly repeating is why we study it. If history is ever boring, Professor, that’s your fault not history’s.

While there are many games focused on Japanese history, for example, the majority reinforce the same tired image of the heroic warrior bound by the rigid code of .bushid.,. a code that scholars have shown had very little to do with the daily life or conduct of most samurai.

Bullshit again. While I’m no expert in feudal Japan, their warrior code as recently as WW2 was terrifying. And their culture is still based around shame instead of guilt. Just because a atheist-trained indoctrinator can’t imagine dying for his beliefs (that change every day; who would?), does NOT mean that few people in history did.

In 2020, I asked four undergraduate history majors to design a fully functional video game with a clear educational payoff built around a controversial episode in Japanese history.

I was motivated by two ideas. First, I wanted to move beyond a standard reliance on academic essays. While I still assign essays, many students find them fairly passive exercises which don’t stimulate deep engagement with a topic.

Clulow deserves credit for discontentment with the usual, and very limited, methods of learning.

Second, I was convinced that university professors need to get into the business of producing games content. To be clear, we’re not going to design anything even close to what comes out of professional studios. But we can produce compelling games that are ready to be used both in colleges and . equally important . K-12 classrooms, where teachers are always looking for vetted scholarly content. A conventional academic essay is intended for just one person, the professor. But a video game produced by a group of committed undergraduates can be played by thousands of students at different institutions.

Aaaand I walk that credit back. He really is an indoctrinator, not a teacher, and hopelessly dependent upon the education-industrial complex.

At first, I worried the task I had set was too big and the technological barriers too high. None of the four team members was enrolled in a video game design program or had specialized training. It quickly became clear that such fears were overblown.

The team decided to work on a visual novel game, a genre that originated in Japan and can best be described as interactive stories. The design process for such games is facilitated by programs such as Ren.Py, which streamline development.

*Depression Quest flashbacks* NOOOO… gasp, gasp, pant. Whew. Flashback is over. We must forgive history students for not knowing how to code.

The team’s first task was to design a believable central character. Successful games push players to emotionally invest in their characters and the choices they make. In the case of .Ako,. the design team created a young samurai named Kanpei Hashimoto who was grounded in the period but also easy to relate to as a young person struggling to find his way in a complex world.

I might be wrong in this specific context but in most of history, young people didn’t struggle for lack of guidance. That is a First World problem, for kids to be overwhelmed with life choices at a young age with no fatherly assistance.

More common were kids wanting to escape the farm, either by pursuing tradeswork in cities or going to sea or military service… which was often compulsory anyway. Nothing makes you happy to milk cows for the next fifty years like trying to invade Russia.

From there, the team created branching storylines punctuated by clear decisions. In total, “Ako” has five possible outcomes depending on the choices a player makes. Numerous smaller decisions along the way open up additional ways to navigate the game.

The next step was dialogue. A typical academic essay is around 2,500 words, and students often complain about how difficult it is to fill the required pages. In contrast, the “Ako” team wrote over 30,000 words of dialogue. It required extensive research. What would a samurai family have eaten for breakfast? How much did it cost to buy a .kaimy.,. or posthumous Buddhist name, for a deceased parent? How long did it take to make the oiled paper umbrellas, called .wagasa,. that many poor samurai sold to survive?

Okay. Sounds like a fun project.

Finally, the students developed historically accurate artwork. The game has four chapters with 30 background images and 13 characters. Making sure everything was consistent with this period in Japanese history was a huge undertaking that stretched both me and the students.

Ultimately, the team learned more about samurai life and early modern Japan than any group of students I had worked with across a single semester. They read a dizzying array of books and articles while working and reworking the overall design, dialogue and artwork. And they succeeded in developing a fully functional video game that has already been used in other classrooms across the country.

Most importantly, I believe their experience provides a template for how student-designed video games can transform the humanities classroom.

Making this game was surely fun & educational but I see Depression Quest-level problems such as “what’s for breakfast?” that are not going to motivate players. Period accuracy is great but it’s not why we play video games, and it’s not fun to role-play characters such as “Ako who refused to fight and die as honor demanded”. Nobody wants to be a coward.

One part of me wants to credit Clulow for going the extra mile in his studies and student interactions. He’s clearly not a normal aca-drone. But another part of me watches him join a long line of malevolent lie-spewers in trying to twist our favorite pastimes into opportunities to mindfuck us.

The Hegelian synthesis of my thoughts is that his product is most likely a technically-accurate depiction of feudal Japanese life coupled with a shocking tone-deafness about people who care more about honor and tradition than their own lives… which is what captures the gamer’s imagination about samurai so completely.

That would align it with much of modern historical entertainment. Many historical movies in recent years went to great pains to ensure that everything from costumes to accents were realistic… not counting the main plot of a kung-fu princess kicking Conan in the balls for staring at her chest.

Clulow still has his un-tenured job after distributing this game so I feel no need to actually play it to know its loyalties.

I don’t normally do social media outrage porn; bad movies on the Syfy channel were the all-time nadir of my cultural diet; but this is a good occasion, Glenn Beck made it easy and you can add your own at the end! Because nobody listens to you on Twatter except bots, Feebs and blue-haired ovoid things.

President Biden gets blasted for new ‘rule’ on COVID-19 vaccinations and masks: ‘Kindly, screw off’

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By Paul Sacca, 14 May 2021, who categorized this as news not op-ed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally eased indoor face mask requirements on Thursday. The new CDC guidance allows vaccinated Americans to not have to wear masks outdoor and in most indoor settings. Following the announcement, President Joe Biden issued his own new “rule” about face masks and coronavirus vaccinations, which caused a stir on social media, and many lambasted the order as “authoritarian.”

It may have been one of his trans-female SJW interns who issued the tweet. Nothing reported, it’s just me noticing that it doesn’t sound as polished as his handlers usually are. Trump’s female staffers were big-chested and long-haired and filed lawsuits against him just to be noticed and groped again.

The mind recoils in horror, to imagine Biden’s nonbinary New Normal office staff. The need for paper bags over their heads could explain much about Biden’s enthusiasm for multiple-masking. All politics is local, y’know!

The official Twitter account for President Biden posted a video calling for Americans to get “vaxxed or masked,” and had the caption: “Folks, if you’re fully vaccinated . you no longer need to wear a mask. If you’re not vaccinated yet . go to http://vaccines.gov to find a shot, and mask up until you’re fully vaccinated.”

That sounds like Creepy Joe.

The Twitter account for President Biden also posted a proclamation, “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.”

That… not so much. Anyway, cheerleader time!

BlazeTV host Glenn Beck hurled back, “Hey #POTUS – the rule is simple. Kindly, screw off. You will find the rules in a little read document called ‘the constitution’. The sequel is even better. You can find it on line under ‘The Bill of Rights’. You and your authoritarian pals will find it a quick read.”

Properly dismissive but not hard-hitting. 5/10

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-K.Y.) countered the president on Twitter, “Show us in the Constitution where you have this power Mr @POTUS. (You don’t).”

Massie tell it like it is! 8/10

Rep. Paul Gosar (R- Ariz.) stated, “Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”

Okay, Boomer. 1/10

Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) retorted, “Requirement to do one or the other of two things demanded by another person, against your will, is not called a choice; it’s called coercion, and we reject it in a free society.”

Mansplaining. 3/10

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) reacted by saying, “No. 1) The federal government can’t force you to wear a mask until you’re vaccinated, 2) it would also have no way of tracking vaccinations, and 3) this doesn’t account for natural antibodies.”

More mansplaining? 3/10

BlazeTV host Chad Prather fired back, “Eat shit, Adolph.”

Cutting deep with minimal effort! 9/10

Donald Trump Jr tweeted, “Um, team Biden, Joe somehow got a hold of his Twitter account and is talking all crazy again.”

Ooh, this might even be true! 10/10

Actor Rob Schneider snapped back, “The rule is even simpler, YOU are an elected official of a Republic, not a doctor or Russian Czar, therefore it is the citizens who will make THEIR OWN HEALTH DECISIONS FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES. The CHOICE IS INDEED FOR EACH AND EVERY FREE AMERICAN AS THEY SEE FIT!”

Biden stole the election, Rob. Don’t give that pretender legitimacy. And we haven’t had a republic since the War Of Northern Aggression. 0/10

Conservative comedians the Hodge Twins pointed out, “Choice is a decision between a several options. An ultimatum is a final demand of terms, the rejection of which will result in retaliation or a breakdown in relations. Dictators and their sheep usually can’t tell the difference because you’re idiots.”

Effective but wordy. 6/10.

Conservative activist Scott Presler explained, “The rule is simple: the government has no authority to tell me how to live as a private citizen & I’m not forced to disclose my health. We can defeat this authoritarian gov’t by electing more leaders, like Ron DeSantis.”

We’re not electing our way out of this, Scott. 0/10 Epstein didn’t kill himself but Biden DID elect himself. 7/10

Sebastian Gorka, the former deputy assistant to former President Donald Trump, quipped, “My body. My choice buster.”

Abortion rhetoric is a good choice. 8/10

Cultural critic James Lindsay replied, “We have replaced ‘mean’ tweets with nakedly authoritarian ones. This is fine.”

6/10 Should be in a meme.

Mediaite senior columnist John Ziegler responded by saying, “If Trump had been pro-mask from the start & said this now, the woke crowd would be taking to the streets. This is clearly a move to help the mask cult accept this new edict by making them feel better knowing they can still feel morally superior to, & be allowed to shame, others.”

Don’t remind me that the Trump admin was the one to start this Plandemic. 1/10

One commenter added, “You nor the government have any sort of authority to force me or any other person for that matter to wear a mask. Plain and simple. Time for bed Joe.”

Functional but without feeling. 4/10

Another person noted, “Biden is vocally tougher on unvaccinated Americans than terrorists who hacked American infrastructure.”

A solid 7/10.

A Twitter user joked, “I ‘identify’ as someone who is vaccinated.”

Will use myself! 9/10

There we have it folks, Team Trump may have SNAFU’d its Presidency but they’re always a tough act on the populist circuit.

Rush Limbaugh was right about Republicans when he spoke of them “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory”. Today, let’s discuss how Republican states have refused to oppose the welfare state until their businesses ran out of exploitably cheap labor.

A a rule, their past efforts ‘opposing’ welfare have only been to include a provision that the recipient work some kind of a job. This allowed Republicans, the Party of Big Business, to employ people at reduced wages because the government would backfill what employers refuse to pay. A hundred years later, nothing has changed:

Montana Is First State To Cancel Unemployment Benefits In Response To Unprecedented Worker Shortage

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By Tyler Durden, 6 May 2021

Three weeks ago, when looking at the unprecedented labor shortage that is crippling the US economy (even with some 100 million Americans not in the labor force), we said that there is a simple reason for this paradoxical phenomenon: trillions in Biden stimulus are now incentivizing potential workers not to seek gainful employment, but to sit back and collect the next stimmy check for doing absolutely nothing in what is becoming the world’s greatest “under the radar” experiment in Universal Basic Income.

The Democrat experiment in Universal Basic Income is having its expected consequence of turning ordinary people into unproductive bipedal parasites. Excuse me, I meant reliably Democrat Voters.

From the Republican perspective, the problem is that the Democrats dropped the “thou shalt work” mandate. No, no, Churchians, shut up, this isn’t about 1 Thessalonians 4:11. If you were consistent about your interpretation of that command, you’d enforce it upon the idle rich as well as the idle poor. Pigs would be shamed by the human squealings that would cause.

There is nothing wrong, Biblically, with leisure or nonproductivity as defined by government economists. What *IS* wrong, is eating food that doesn’t belong to you. Multibillionaire Democrat banksters don’t earn their food. They steal it. Republican senators don’t earn their food. They steal it. And the minimally employed, deliberately impoverished workers who don’t want to take a pay cut to do manual labor for minimum wages, I’ll call that theft only when the government stops intentionally sabotaging them such that they have no choice but welfare.

According to Yahoo, Montana plans to stop some of its federally-funded unemployment benefits to address “the state’s severe workforce shortage,. according to its labor department, which will leave many out-of-work residents without any support at all.

“Nearly every sector in our economy faces a labor shortage,” Governor Greg Gianforte, a Republican, said in a statement on Tuesday, echoing what we said last month, namely that “The vast expansion of federal unemployment benefits is now doing more harm than good..

Only now? The time to thwart the Welfare State was AT ANY TIME SINCE THE 1930s. Why now?

As a way to incentivize workers to return to work, the state is offering a one-time return-to-work payment of $1,200, using money from the American Rescue Plan to fund the program. Only those who complete four weeks of work would receive the payment.

.Incentives matter,. Gianforte said. .Our return-to-work bonus and the return to pre-pandemic unemployment programs will help get more Montanans back to work..

Aaand there it is. Even in Montana, the Republicans aren’t opposed to welfare or even UBI. They just want their cheap labor. Offering a one-time cash bonus for the wage slaves to crawl back into their pens is exactly their concept of what a welfare state should be: socializing the expenses of Big Business while privatizing the profits. The Left shouldn’t be allowed to get away with that and neither should the Right.

What would happen if we had NO welfare state?

Consider the following striking anecdotes from Bloomberg:

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Melissa Anderson laid off all three full-time employees of her jewelry-making company, Silver Chest Creations in Burkesville, Ky. She tried to rehire one of them in September and another in January as business recovered, but they refused to come back, she says. .They’re not looking for work..

What beautiful loyalty to one’s employees. “Early in the pandemic”, did you catch that? Either Melissa was on the edge of bankruptcy in the first place or she treated her employees as liabilities the moment she could justify it. Build up some inventory. Stretch to new markets. Try new sales strategies. Or JUST DON’T SHUT DOWN, because jewelry stores have never been a hotbed of plague in the entire history of history.

I was furloughed immediately because I’m hourly and Californian, but my boss fed me jobs as they came in as quickly as he could. He tried to keep his men employed. But Melissa, she sent her employees home for five months then was upset they didn’t come back when she whistled.

*checks* She makes cheap-o knockoff jewelry. I doubt her employees were highly paid or trained.

Sierra Pacific Industries, which manufactures doors, windows, and millwork, is so desperate to fill openings that it’s offering hiring bonuses of up to $1,500 at its factories in California, Washington, and Wisconsin. In rural Northern California, the Red Bluff Job Training Center is trying to lure young people with extra-large pizzas in the hope that some who stop by can be persuaded to fill out a job application. .We’re trying to get inside their head and help them find employment. Businesses would be so eager to train them,. says Kathy Garcia, the business services and marketing manager. .There are absolutely no job seekers.”

Payscale.com says their wages start at $16/hr for laborers. That’s not bad but not really incentive to move to a rural area, hence the signing bonuses. Which is what would happen without a welfare state: companies would pay more for hired help, which would fuel a regrowth of the middle class, which would be bad for our rapaciously cruel rulers.

[From NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg:] “Small business owners are competing with the pandemic and increased unemployment benefits that are keeping some workers out of the labor force.”

They compete by offering potential workers MORE MONEY. Which will raise prices.

One can only hope that more states follow Gianforte’s extremely unpopular, if extremely prudent decision, before the US is mired in 1970s style hyperinflation.

Higher prices are a good thing when the money is flowing to your neighbor instead of a Chinese sweatshop. A reliable rule of thumb:

The rich want expensive land and cheap labor.

The middle class wants expensive labor and cheap land.

But guess what? More (red) states DID follow Gianforte’s decision!

Nine Republican-Led States Reject All COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits

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By Tyler Durden, 12 May 2021

Wow, that was fast. This issue is hitting near and dear to the hearts of the Republican Establishment.

One week ago, when we reported that Montana was the first state to cancel unemployment benefits in response to the unprecedented worker shortage which was laid bare by the dismal Friday jobs report, we said that “one can only hope that more states follow [Montana Gov] Gianforte’s extremely unpopular, if extremely prudent decision, before the US is mired in 1970s style hyperinflation” but that “we won’t be holding our breath.”

In retrospect, we were badly underestimated the willingness of at least some people to do the right thing, because just hours later South Carolina announced it too was joining Montana in ending all supplemental unemployment benefits programs, which in turn sparked a wave of Republican states following through with what would be a career-ending move for any Democratic politician.

And any Republican politician. At this rate, Dems won’t even need to steal any votes.

By the way, Greg Gianforte’s net worth is estimated at $135 million. No doubt that every dollar was earned from the strength of his arm and the sweat off his brow…

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Greg Gianforte, chief executive and 20% owner of Bozeman, Montana-based RightNow Technologies Inc., which Larry Ellison’s Oracle Corp. said Monday he’ll buy for $1.5 billion, grew up a high school football star, class president and neighborhood fix-it man in [affluent Philadelphia suburb] King of Prussia, son of an engineer at General Electric Co.’s Philadelphia satellite works.

To his credit, he did have a lot of early achievements in life, but he started high and flew higher the old-fashioned way of being in the right place at the right time. It’s no wonder that he is not sympathizing with what the underclasses are going through today.

Also to his credit, he was convicted of beating up a journalist for the Guardian in 2017. Against his credit, he did no jail time for it.

End segue

As the WSJ reports overnight, at least nine Republican-led states have rejected enhanced federal Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payments, saying the extra $300-a-week supplement is providing an incentive for some people to avoid work at a time when employers are struggling to find labor.

Did Greg allow Oracle Corp to buy him out because he wanted to work MORE or work LESS? Hello, hypocrisy.

On Tuesday, Iowa and Tennessee joined the list of states that are moving toward the elimination of the extra benefits ahead of the program’s scheduled expiration in September, which even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce blamed for the sudden collapse in labor supply as millions of Americans opt to stay home and collect benefit checks instead of working.

.Federal pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs initially provided displaced Iowans with crucial assistance when the pandemic began,. Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement that called for the pandemic-related benefit to end June 12. “But now that our businesses and schools have reopened, these payments are discouraging people from returning to work..

Which is it, Republicucks? Do you want businesses to be able to throw away people at will without facing torches and pitchforks, or do you want your worker drones to be dependent upon having a job for their daily food?

As a result, there are now 9 states that are ending the generous handouts are: Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and South Carolina, which have sent letters to the Labor Department asking to end their participation in federal programs including the $300 supplemental benefit and extended payments and benefits for gig-economy and other workers not typically eligible for unemployment benefits. Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee have announced publicly they plan to opt out of the programs early, but the states hadn’t sent letters to the Labor Department as of Tuesday.

All they have to do is allow businesses to raise wages & prices. The prices will be going up regardless thanks to the corporatism and feminism and all the other evils that Republicans have courageously tolerated since the New Deal.

Unemployed workers are eligible for an additional $300 a week on top of regular state jobless benefits, which average $318 a week, according to the Labor Department. That means the average benefit recipient earns slightly more than the equivalent of working full time at $15 an hour. How much? Former Obama Admin Treasury counselor Steve Rattner recently tweeted that “with enhanced benefits, workers (take Pennsylvania, for example) can now make more on unemployment than they did at their jobs.”

He also showed a chart according to which as of this moment, tens of millions of US workers, in jobs ranging from dishwasher, to hotel clerk, to preschool teacher, to anyone on minimum wage, can now earn more from unemployment than from their regular job.

I cannot imagine why a dental assistant would rather stay home than root around in peoples’ mouths when the reward is the same and the job will be yanked away again with no notice and the assistant has been terrorized into believing that every person she works on is about to die of a horrible plague while she watches.

There’s nobody innocent here. Republicans have driven down wages to the point where Democrats can simply buy the poor’s loyalties. Behold the furious and well-thought-out retaliation of Reps:

So instead of rewarding sitting on one’s ass, the mostly republican states are pursuing back to work policies: Montana’s Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte said residents would instead be eligible for a $1,200 .return to work bonus. if they were receiving unemployment benefits as of May 4 and subsequently took a job and completed at least four paid weeks of work. Idaho implemented a similar one-time bonus of as much as $1,500 last year.

Yeah, that’ll show those poor people. You want to enjoy life without effort like a rich man? Making money while you sleep just because you’re special? You don’t get to enjoy life like a rich man! Eat Orwellian boot heel! It’s good for you!

“Just when I’m out, they drag me back in.” That line from the Godfather series is apt for my attitude towards physiognomy. I tried and couldn’t get trustworthy results, at least not with Internet selfies which make up most of the information available on the Internet, so I hung it up. But sometimes, a few face-pictures can say it all. I won’t even do interpretations of these. Like Barbara Krasnoff in a recent post which generated calls for eye-bleach warnings, you can’t look at these titans of industry without wondering if the Reptiloids forgot to check the fit of their skin suits prior to their media appointments.

On that note… *ahem* Eye Bleach Warning.

Coca-Cola pauses aggressive diversity plan after chief lawyer resigns

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By Will Feuer, 4 May 2021

Coca-Cola has paused its controversial diversity plan . that included penalties on outside law firms if they failed to meet racial diversity quotas . after intense backlash.

The pause comes after the orchestrator of the plan, Coke’s former general counsel Bradley Gayton, abruptly resigned last month after less than a year on the job and as criticism of the quotas mounted.

Resigned, we should be so lucky. Keep reading.

Some questioned whether Gayton’s policies violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says employers can’t treat people differently based on their race.

Basically, he ordered that CokeCorp would no longer associate with white people working for affiliate legal companies. It was a foolhardy move, the senior for a Fortune Top Ten company ordering all the company’s legal partners to disobey civil rights legislation. But then, he is not of our species.

He looks like a pedophile LARPing as Peewee Hermann. Prior to his appointment to CocaCorp, he was Ford Motor Company’s first Negro attorney. They could have done better, methinks.

Legal defense foundation Project on Fair Representation published an open letter to Coca-Cola last week warning that Coke’s outside counsel “racial quota requirements” are “unlawful.”

In a meeting with Coke’s global legal team, Douglas, the company’s new general counsel, said that Coca-Cola was “taking a pause for now” but would likely salvage some parts of the diversity plan, Law.com reported.

Coca-Cola hired Gayton in September 2020 after spending nearly 30 years as the top lawyer at Ford. Despite his departure from Coke as general counsel, he still has a relationship with the company.

Was there not a second Lawyer Of Color that they could have hired, that Gaylord–er, Gay Tony… Gayton had to pull double duty?

He signed a new contract to serve as a consultant to Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey. In that position, he.ll be making a hefty $12 million over the next year. That included a $4 million sign-on fee and a monthly consulting fee of $666,666, according to an April 21 securities filing. It’s unclear how Gayton will be able to impact the company’s outside law firm diversity plan in his new position.

OH COME ON YOU SATANIST FREAKS!

Here’s James Quincy:

He’s got a bad case of Soros Eyelids. The stretched-out frog lips is also not a good sign. How did he end up as CEO?

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Quincey was born in London in 1965 but his family moved around quite a bit, making a stop in the United States while his father lectured at Dartmouth College before moving back to England. He went to university in Liverpool, studying Electronic Engineering. However, he found his calling wasn’t in building semiconductors, but in the world of business.

That’s unusual. Most people who graduate in hard engineering, work in engineering, or at least try to. Did he get tapped to take over Daddy’s company or did something about his personality attract him to Kabbalah-spewing globalists? (That was another eye bleach warning, by the way.)

After graduating from the University of Liverpool, Quincey joined Bain & Co., which was a burgeoning consultancy at the time. He worked for Bain for a couple of years before joining a startup formed by former Bain and McKinsey employees called the Kalchas Group. Quincey then moved back to the US with the Kalchas Group to set up US operations, first in Chicago and then eventually in New York. It was while Quincey was working in New York that Coca-Cola recruited him, and his Coke journey began.

Bain is notoriously secretive per Wikipedia and has made billions of dollars by “giving management advice”. Obviously a front company for… let’s see who’s running it… it was Mitt Romney from 1991-1992… not sure when Quincy left, but if it was after then, the Chairman was Orit Gadiesh.

I’ve never walked back my belief that constantly disorderly hair = disorderly thoughts. This Queen Bee of a secretive global-management agency has since moved on to become a member of the Council On Foreign Relations and trustee of the World Economic Forum. Not a little suspicious.

He joined Coca-Cola in Atlanta in 1996 as the Director of Learning Strategy for the Latin America Group in an internal consultancy role. He went on to work in a series of operational roles of increasing responsibility in Latin America, eventually leading to his appointment as President of the South Latin America Division in 2003. Quincey is credited with developing and executing a successful brand, pack, price, and channel strategy that has since been replicated all over the world throughout Coca-Cola.s system.

One of those suits that produced nothing and branded everything, but it’s still curious that he could have been productive in electronics. Whatever Bain saw in Quincy, it wasn’t his background… just his happy face and undiscovered ability to globally network for local solutions?

The demand for racist white people (obligatory facepalm) has exceeded the supply by such a degree, that Merriam-Webster has rewritten their dictionary definition so that white people CAN’T not be racist. This story is a bit dated, I missed it the first time around, but it came up when the same company recently added an extra definition of “vaccine” to include Pfizer’s gene therapy experiment. SPECIFICALLY Pfizer’s gene therapy experiment.

A Missouri woman asked Merriam-Webster to update its definition of racism and now officials will make the change

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By David Williams, 12 June 2020

Kennedy Mitchum wasn’t expecting much when she emailed Merriam-Webster last month, but she wanted to let the dictionary publisher know that she thought its definition of the word racism was inadequate.

So she was surprised when an editor responded and even more surprised that the company agreed to update the entry.

Aww, how sweet! A grandmotherly old lady noticed a mistake in the dictionary, wrote a nice letter to the publisher and was surprised when her voice was heard!

We’ll call that Possibility #1.

Mitchum has gotten into a lot conversations about racism and injustice where people have pointed to the dictionary to prove that they’re not racist. It’s happened a lot more lately as the world reacts to the death of George Floyd while in the custody of four Minneapolis police officers.

The 22-year-old Mitchum recently graduated from Drake University and lives in Florissant, Missouri, just a few miles away from Ferguson, where protests over the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown helped solidify the Black Lives Matter movement.

“I kept having to tell them that definition is not representative of what is actually happening in the world,” she told CNN. “The way that racism occurs in real life is not just prejudice it’s the systemic racism that is happening for a lot of black Americans.”

Mitchum said many people she’s talked to use that to dismiss her concerns about racism and overlook broader issues of racial inequality because they don’t personally feel that way about people of color.

You’re racist because centuries ago, a white man bought a slave. You’re white. Therefore, you owe endless reparations and probably deserve to be genocided wholesale regardless if you specifically have racist attitudes.

Is that clear? No? Well then, let’s MAKE that clear!

Mitchum said she sent her email on a Thursday night and got a reply from editor Alex Chambers the next morning.

Suspiciously fast timing. *checks*

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For nearly a month, Drake University graduate Kennedy Mitchum emailed Merriam-Webster to let the dictionary know that its definition of racism, which read: .a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race,. failed to address the systemic and institutional elements of racism that regularly disenfranchise minorities. Merriam-Webster responded to Mitchum and is working on changing the wording of its current definition.

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After a few emails, Chambers agreed that the entry should be updated and said a new definition is being drafted.
“This revision would not have been made without your persistence in contacting us about this problem,” Chambers said in the email, which was provided to CNN. “We sincerely thank you for repeatedly writing in and apologize for the harm and offense we have caused in failing to address this issue sooner.”

What a virtue-signaling kiss-ass. Wait, why did I suddenly imagine a struggle session?

Peter Sokolowski, an editor at large at Merriam-Webster…

…and frequent contributor to National Public Radio. Eat your heart out, police who got fired for attending a single MAGA rally.

…told CNN that their entry also defines racism as “a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles” and “a political or social system founded on racism,” which would cover systematic racism and oppression.

Here’s Possibility #2: Freshly graduated from a Socialist indoctrination camp, Kennedy spam-mailed Alex Chambers to make her desired revision. He refused to be her tool. She went up the chain to Sokolowski, an SJW to guess from his having a job with both high status and no requirement to actually be productive, who bullied Chambers into making the change.

He said that dictionary definitions have traditionally been short, because they had to fit so many words into their print editions. That’s no longer the case since so many people use the dictionary online.

That’s a double lie. One, that’s not why racism didn’t include “systematic racism” in the first place and two, it’s not why his new definition of racist is incomprehensibly long Feel free to skip his shameless virtue-signaling by filling the definition with blacktivist examples, although some are entertaining:

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(Retrieved 8 May 2021. That needs to be said now.)

Definition of racism
1: a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

Ladino elites used racism to justify the displacement and enslavement of the indigenous population, and these beliefs, along with the resentment created by the continued exploitation of indigenous land and labor, culminated in the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996).
. Mariana Calvo

. how do we begin undoing the processes of internalized hatred and internalized racism?
. bell hooks

I would guess, not by institutionalizing it in the dictionary.

also : behavior or attitudes that reflect and foster this belief : racial discrimination or prejudice
The kind of trenchant racism to which black people have persistently been subjected can never be defeated by making its victims more respectable. The essence of American racism is disrespect.
. Imani Perry

From racist graffiti in schools to daily microaggressions and police profiling, rally testimonials highlighted that issues surrounding racism are still very much local issues.
. Ryan J. Degan

The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.
. Michelle Alexander

2a: the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another
specifically : WHITE SUPREMACY sense 2
institutional racism

One of the many ruses racism achieves is the virtual erasure of historical contributions by people of color.
. Angela Y. Davis

Discriminatory housing practices, redlining neighborhoods, underfunded education, lack of access to healthcare, racial profiling, police brutality and mass incarceration are just a few examples of cage wires that all together contribute to structural racism.
. Sylvia Luetmer

“You wayciss cuz you no support me poly-seas.”

Our nation faces a fork in the road and a decision to either continue down the same path of systemic racism or to confront our past honestly.
. Bree Newsome

“Honestly” is out the window when one side rewrites the dictionary in order to not be proven wrong anymore.

“People of color, low-income people, and Indigenous peoples have been made especially vulnerable through decades of environmental racism: policies that intentionally concentrate pollution and toxic hazards in our communities.”
. Michele Roberts

“I’m racist against the poor.”

b: a political or social system founded on racism and designed to execute its principles
In 1913 the Natives Land Act reserved 90% of the country for whites, who then made up 21% of the population. Under the formalised racism of apartheid 3.5m blacks were forcibly moved to isolated reservations called “homelands.”
. The Economist

God forbid they make these definitions any longer.

Let’s proceed to the redefinition that brought this up in the first place. “Merriam-Webster, what is a vaccine?”

Definition of vaccine
: a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body’s immune response against a specific infectious disease:

a: an antigenic preparation of a typically inactivated or attenuated (see ATTENUATED sense 2) pathogenic agent (such as a bacterium or virus) or one of its components or products (such as a protein or toxin)

b: a preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein)

What. The Hell. Definition “b” is so specific to the Pfizer jab that it could hardly mean anything else.

Merriam-Webster adds new definition of “vaccine” so Covid “vaccines” can be defined as such

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By JD Rucker, 27 April 2021

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary company that has built a reputation for pandering to the “woke” crowd and embracing leftist government mandates, has quietly played their own role in pushing the Covid-19 “vaccines” out to the general public. They added a new definition to their listing for the word “vaccines” to match what’s currently being offered to the American people to fight the coronavirus.

NOQ Report first discovered this by accident. It started with an innocuous Tweet I posted and a comment that followed.

“Isn’t whether or not these are vaccines a matter of definition? It is to Merriam-Webster, at least. pic.twitter.com/oSA0FVIFLy” . Pete Finnegan (@Pete_Finnegan) April 27, 2021

It struck me as odd that the (b) definition seemed to match perfectly with the Pfizer and Moderna versions of the Covid vaccines. According to the dictionary, a vaccine is .a preparation of genetic material (such as a strand of synthesized messenger RNA) that is used by the cells of the body to produce an antigenic substance (such as a fragment of virus spike protein)..

The CDC website has a conspicuously similar way of describing the vaccines: .COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give instructions for our cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the “spike protein.” The spike protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19.. …

The whole purpose of vaccinations is not to “help reduce” infections. The purpose has always been understood to be near-complete elimination. This is why we rarely see cases of polio or measles. Some vaccines may be slightly less effective, perhaps 98%, but what we’re seeing with the Covid vaccines isn’t even close. The numbers are hard to pin down properly with everyone from the CDC to mainstream media doing everything they can to keep the real information suppressed, but the fact that so many people continue to get sick after taking the vaccine (and often BECAUSE of the vaccine), it’s no wonder companies like Merriam-Webster are trying to give credibility to them while companies like Twitter run cover.

It isn’t uncommon for our language to evolve based on new information. Words get redefined to match a changing world. But this move seems conspicuously political as if an agenda is in play that needs support. Merriam-Webster is happy to oblige.

I’ll cap this off, for giggles and archival purposes, with the redefinition of herd immunity. It wouldn’t do to forget what it meant, before it meant “the health needs of the many outweigh the corporeal sovereignty of the few”.

WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Its Website

h ttps://www.aier.org/article/who-deletes-naturally-acquired-immunity-from-its-website/

By Jeffrey A. Tucker, 23 December 2020

Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

Coronavirus lived on surfaces until it didn’t. Masks didn’t work until they did, then they did not. There is asymptomatic transmission, except there isn’t. Lockdowns work to control the virus except they do not. All these people are sick without symptoms until, whoops, PCR tests are wildly inaccurate because they were never intended to be diagnostic tools. Everyone is in danger of the virus except they aren.t. It spreads in schools except it doesn’t.

On it goes. Daily. It’s no wonder that so many people have stopped believing anything that “public health authorities” say. In combination with governors and other autocrats doing their bidding, they set out to take away freedom and human rights and expected us to thank them for saving our lives. At some point this year (for me it was March 12) life began feeling like a dystopian novel of your choice.

Well, now I have another piece of evidence to add to the mile-high pile of fishy mess. The World Health Organization, for reasons unknown, has suddenly changed its definition of a core conception of immunology: herd immunity. Its discovery was one of the major achievements of 20th century science, gradually emerging in the 1920s and then becoming ever more refined throughout the 20th century.

Herd immunity is a fascinating observation that you can trace to biological reality or statistical probability theory, whichever you prefer. (It is certainly not a “strategy” so ignore any media source that describes it that way.) Herd immunity speaks directly, and with explanatory power, to the empirical observation that respiratory viruses are either widespread and mostly mild (common cold) or very severe and short-lived (SARS-CoV-1).

…The discovery of this fascinating dynamic in cell biology is a major reason why public health became so smart in the 20th century. We kept calm. We managed viruses with medical professionals: doctor/patient relationships. We avoided the Medieval tendency to run around with hair on fire but rather used rationality and intelligence. Even the New York Times recognizes that natural immunity is powerful with Covid-19, which is not in the least bit surprising.

Until one day, this strange institution called the World Health Organization . once glorious because it was mainly responsible for the eradication of smallpox . has suddenly decided to delete everything I just wrote from cell biology basics. It has literally changed the science in a Soviet-like way. It has removed with the delete key any mention of natural immunities from its website. It has taken the additional step of actually mischaracterizing the structure and functioning of vaccines.

So that you will believe me, I will try to be as precise as possible. Here is the website from June 9, 2020. You can see it here on Archive.org. You have to move down the page and click on the question about herd immunity. You see the following.

Link h ttps://web.archive.org/web/20201105013101/https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-serology

That.s pretty darn accurate overall. Even the statement that the threshold is “not yet clear” is correct. There are cross immunities to Covid from other coronaviruses and there is T cell memory that contributes to natural immunity.

Some estimates are as low as 10%, which is a far cry from the modelled 70% estimate of virus immunity that is standard within the pharmaceutical realm. Real life is vastly more complicated than models, in economics or epidemiology. The WHO.s past statement is a solid, if .pop,. description.

However, in a screenshot dated November 13, 2020, we read the following note that somehow pretends as if human beings do not have immune systems at all but rather rely entirely on big pharma to inject things into our blood.

What this note at the World Health Organization has done is deleted what amounts to the entire million-year history of humankind in its delicate dance with pathogens. You could only gather from this that all of us are nothing but blank and unimprovable slates on which the pharmaceutical industry writes its signature.

In effect, this change at WHO ignores and even wipes out 100 years of medical advances in virology, immunology, and epidemiology. It is thoroughly unscientific . shilling for the vaccine industry in exactly the way the conspiracy theorists say that WHO has been doing since the beginning of this pandemic.

What.s even more strange is the claim that a vaccine protects people from a virus rather than exposing them to it. What’s amazing about this claim is that a vaccine works precisely by firing up the immune system through exposure. Why I had to type those words is truly beyond me. This has been known for centuries. There is simply no way for medical science completely to replace the human immune system. It can only game it via what used to be called inoculation. …

That is why the Great Barrington Declaration, written by three of the world’s preeminent epidemiologists and which advocated embracing the phenomenon of herd immunity as a way of protecting the vulnerable and minimizing harms to society, was met with such venom. Now we see the WHO, too, succumbing to political pressure. This is the only rational explanation for changing the definition of herd immunity that has existed for the past century.

Link h ttps://gbdeclaration.org/

Editorial addition, January 4, 2021: WHO has changed it definition yet again, to incorporate the obvious reality of natural immunity.