Muda69

So to you a 15-year old uttering a racial slur is an unforgivable mistake warranting punishment and tracking for life. Much like a sex offender. Got it.

No, Joe Biden Can't Save Christmas https://reason.com/2021/10/15/joe-biden-is-not-americas-santa-claus/ I have a relative that is one of those "moving mountains around the globe" for the holiday rush. He will work an average of 12-14 hour days starting around 11/1 through 12/25. And Joe Biden didn't order him to.

I'm glad I didn't grow up in a world where everything you said or did as a youth (< 18 years old) was tracked and recorded. So in our now surveilled world children are not allowed to make mistakes?

As if the truck drivers obey those speed limits 100% of the time. Stop trying to cover for the labor unions you love so much, Dante.

Why? Are these individuals now "domestic terrorists"?

Don't want to get those uniforms mud stained a week before the tournament starts.

Michigan Professor Survives Cultural Revolution, Succumbs to Campus Wokeness https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/michigan-professor-survives-cultural-revolution-succumbs-to-campus-wokeness/ I truly fear for the future of this country, with institutions like UofM graduating such snowflakes.

Michigan schools cancel Halloween, Valentine's Day due to concerns over inclusion: https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-schools-cancel-halloween-valentines-day-inclusion

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/the-idiocies-of-the-u-s-supply-chain/#slide-1 Yep, labor unions screw up pretty much everything, all to make sure their members can have their cake and eat it too.

Netflix Staff Apparently Unaware That Dave Chappelle's Comedy Special Would Include Jokes https://reason.com/2021/10/14/netflix-staff-apparently-unaware-that-dave-chappelles-comedy-special-would-include-jokes/ Agreed. Mr. Chappelle is a national treasure. Censoring him like these woke scolds want to do would be a crime.

Chicago Art Museum Fires Unpaid Volunteers For Being White https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chicago-art-museum-fires-unpaid-volunteers-being-white Unfortunately for the volunteers, a lack of “diversity” is only apparently a problem at one end of the spectrum. A similar thing happened last month when the English Touring Opera (ETO) kicked out half of its orchestral players in an effort to prioritize “increased diversity in the orchestra.” The act of musical ethnic cleansing was carried out in the interests of following “firm guidance of the Arts Council,” which is a government-funded body. Once again, this all underscores the fact that the only form of institutionalized racism that remains not only acceptable, but something to be encouraged, is against white people.

https://reason.com/2021/10/13/high-inflation-is-here-to-stay/ Good luck with the politicians giving the public the truth. And this inflation is real, we've seen our monthly grocery/supply budget get stretched thinner and thinner over the past several months. Heck a bag of our preferred pet food went up by the $3 dollars at our local grocery in just a two-week period. So we switched to a cheaper option.

IMHO Indiana High School basketball doesn't need one. With no shot clock you can just hold the ball.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30995074/

https://www.wlfi.com/content/news/IHSAA-adds-new-mercy-rule-for-high-school-basketball-575511831.html Interesting. They must like the 35 point number.

Succession is a darned good TV show. Season three starts on the 17th.

Feds Undermine Themselves by Targeting Parents Who Criticize School Officials https://reason.com/2021/10/13/feds-undermine-themselves-by-targeting-parents-who-criticize-school-officials/

So you believe most parents are idiots. Good to know.

So you believe the FBI being involved in "screaming people and hooligans" at local school board meetings is a legitimate function of the federal government.

Government Keeps Trying To Censor This Brewery. The Owner Isn't Having It. https://reason.com/2021/10/06/free-speech-flying-dog-brewery-government-censorship-first-amendment/

lol. Would also apply to Big Pharma.

Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-want-to As I have written before, this problem — whereby the government coerces private actors to censor for them — is not one that Yarvin was the first to recognize. The U.S. Supreme Court has held, since at least 1963, that the First Amendment's "free speech” clause is violated when state officials issue enough threats and other forms of pressure that essentially leave the private actor with no real choice but to censor in accordance with the demands of state officials. Whether we are legally at the point where that constitutional line has been crossed by the increasingly blunt bullying tactics of Democratic lawmakers and executive branch officials is a question likely to be resolved in the courts. But whatever else is true, this pressure is very real and stark and reveals that the real goal of Democrats is not to weaken Facebook but to capture its vast power for their own nefarious ends. There is another issue raised by this week's events that requires ample caution as well. The canonized Facebook whistleblower and her journalist supporters are claiming that what Facebook fears most is repeal or reform of Section 230, the legislative provision that provides immunity to social media companies for defamatory or other harmful material published by their users. That section means that if a Facebook user or YouTube host publishes legally actionable content, the social media companies themselves cannot be held liable. There may be ways to reform Section 230 that can reduce the incentive to impose censorship, such as denying that valuable protection to any platform that censors, instead making it available only to those who truly allow an unmoderated platform to thrive. But such a proposal has little support in Washington. What is far more likely is that Section 230 will be "modified” to impose greater content moderation obligations on all social media companies. Far from threatening Facebook and Google, such a legal change could be the greatest gift one can give them, which is why their executives are often seen calling on Congress to regulate the social media industry. Any legal scheme that requires every post and comment to be moderated would demand enormous resources — gigantic teams of paid experts and consultants to assess "misinformation” and "hate speech” and veritable armies of employees to carry out their decrees. Only the established giants such as Facebook and Google would be able to comply with such a regimen, while other competitors — including large but still-smaller ones such as Twitter — would drown in those requirements. And still-smaller challengers to the hegemony of Facebook and Google, such as Substack and Rumble, could never survive. In other words, any attempt by Congress to impose greater content moderation obligations — which is exactly what they are threatening — would destroy whatever possibility remains for competitors to arise and would, in particular, destroy any platforms seeking to protect free discourse. That would be the consequence by design, which is why one should be very wary of any attempt to pretend that Facebook and Google fear such legislative adjustments. There are real dangers posed by allowing companies such as Facebook and Google to amass the power they have now consolidated. But very little of the activism and anger from the media and Washington toward these companies is designed to fracture or limit that power. It is designed, instead, to transfer that power to other authorities who can then wield it for their own interests. The only thing more alarming than Facebook and Google controlling and policing our political discourse is allowing elites from one of the political parties in Washington and their corporate media outlets to assume the role of overseer, as they are absolutely committed to doing. Far from being some noble whistleblower, Frances Haugen is just their latest tool to exploit for their scheme to use the power of social media giants to control political discourse in accordance with their own views and interests. .....

Parents Should Control Education http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/october/04/parents-should-control-education/