Today is the day for my annual physical exam, and I’m about to get my veins tapped and my body poked and get informed about my bad habits and told about my imminent doom. It’s going to take a while. Then I have to rush back for multiple appointments with students and to teach a couple of classes.
So today is filmstrip day! Is anyone else old enough to remember when the teacher was hung over and just wheeled in the machine that would show a series of still images with voiceover so they could retreat into a back corner and close their eyes for a while?
That might be the same people who remember who Al Gore was.
Film strip day. Yes. Of course. Makes sense for today. The local high school was closed yesterday for “Staff Development”–coincidence that was on Saint Patrick’s Day, the patron saint of alcohol.
As for “reinvention” of government. Obviously Musk and Dumpster aren’t interested in reinvention, just destroying…and “shocking the Libs”. I saw yesterday that they are cutting off funding to Habitat for Humanity and some of the related agencies because of a “fraud” investigation. Next they’ll be digging up Jimmy to put him on trial.
Meanwhile in Israel, Bennie the Bomber must have gotten the go ahead because they killed some 400 Palestinians yesterday in raids.
Also, Heather Cox Richardson reports that at least 10 articles on U.S. military websites about the Diné Code Talkers of World War II have been taken down and labeled “DEI”.
Did NOT expect Doonesbury to do a Minions joke. Garry’s in his 70’s now, but he’s really locked in with the times.
In regard to medicine…
Kidney transplant specialist deported despite having a valid visa
.http://youtube.com/post/UgkxQPu445_J-uAlzRL5t11wtIGqHHLWN8a4
The cruelty is the point.
I remember Rodney Dangerfield once said, “I’m at the age now, where if I take excellent care of myself, I’ll get very sick and die.”
Only complaint about the minions joke is that it should have been the purple minions. The yellow ones have higher standards for who they serve, or at least got their eventually, and Gru would probably have taken one look at what is being done to the education of his own adopted kids, kicked down the door of the white house, and run in screaming, “Freeze ray!” I mean, seriously, the villains we are dealing with are more “anti-hero”, i.e., they think in their own heads they are the heroes, Punisher types, not a Gru or Megamind type, who start out thinking, “I just want to have this.”, then when they do, actually discover they give a crap about fixing it, instead of just rampaging around trying to fix more and more “imaginary” problems, and causing exponentially greater chaos, corruption, and destruction, in their wake while telling themselves, “Just one more bad guy and it will be all over, and everyone will somehow be safe again!”
Mind, its worse than that, because we have a Punisher style idiot in the chair, but the guy running it may as well be the Joker, or Lex Luthor – weird, but grand, ideas about how to “fix” things, which mostly just serve themselves, and a willingness to pull stunts to get their that “should” make people sick, but instead either have people running around in clown costumes, trying to mimic them, or conned by some weird, inexplicable, charisma, which prevents them from seeing how utterly horrible of a person they really are.
@3 Lord Voldemort wants to have a referendum that allows the government to deport dual citizens. Given how often referendums tank in this country it has a snowball’s chance in hell, but Dutton seems to be taking a page from Trump’s book.
“Also, Heather Cox Richardson reports that at least 10 articles on U.S. military websites about the Diné Code Talkers of World War II have been taken down and labeled “DEI”.”
Well, of course. Did the Army offer any of those jobs to White guys? I’m betting no. Obvious reverse racism!
And don’t even get me started on how the government in the 1940s forced qualified White men to actually leave America just so they could give all those cushy manufacturing jobs to unqualified females and minorities. America never treats White men fairly! Never, never, never!