Month: April 2024

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What about the students that don’t want to protest?

Columbia protest deadline.Realizing there may be damn few of them, suppose they’re just trying to get through their day, they just want to study for finals, and get this semester of classes behind them.

These Pro Palestinian protestors are disrupting their education. I’m not sure if We The People are paying for the tuition or if their parents are paying the bill.

Either way, whether the students who are not involved in protests know it or not, the Protestors are literally stealing from them. The protests disrupt classes, the students who don’t want to participate, regardless of their religion or personal beliefs are being harassed and made to feel unsafe by the students angrily engaging in the protests.

The passions of the young are easily inflamed and difficult to quell. Physical violence has occurred and more will occur the longer these encampments are in place. Particularly to those students having to cross a minefield of tents attempting to get to class.

Columbia has decided to finish the term virtually. Rendering dorm rental wasted. For those students at other colleges that are not able to attend classes, I ask, will their fees be refunded? The Schools have not fulfilled their obligation to provide an environment conducive to education. Isn’t that part of the educational contract?

240429 columbia university gaza protest nbc news ew 158p 199698 1024x683.Were I a parent, I’d be demanding a full refund for the wasted semester, and suing on behalf of my child or children, the organizers of the protests for time lost in my children’s pursuit of their degrees. I’d be teaching my children that someone wasting their time is as egregious as actively taking material goods.

As we all know, time cannot be replaced.

How will those students with job offers contingent upon their graduation be compensated for the loss of those jobs. Because they might not be able to complete their required classes to graduate on time? Who do they ”Thank” for unemployment?

It’s one thing to peacefully protest. That is the right of American Citizens guaranteed by The Constitution. Disrupting other peoples lives to a great extent, shutting down public spaces (even if those places are on private property,) is not. 

Hold your signs, march in the streets after getting proper permitting, protest in a public square or park without obstructing others passing through these areas. I & many others would even defend your right to do so. In this case I loathe the Palestinians, & Hamas. That said, it is my duty to protect peaceful protestors from harm. 

I believe that. For me to do otherwise would be hypocritical. 

But I could not in good conscience protect these protestors, because they’re impairing the rights of other students. The equation is a difficult one to balance. However, the rights of all must be protected equally on no-one will have rights.

I’m glad to see Columbia suspending or expelling students. There must be consequences to actions. Some of the hate filled rhetoric I’ve heard directed at Jewish students is no different than Germany pre World War II. A group saying, “Blacks back to Africa,” shutting down a college campus wouldn’t be tolerated. Saying, “Muslims go fuck a goat” or calling Muslims, “Rapist Goat Fucking, followers of a psycho prophet,” would result in god knows how many hate crime charges, (depending on the country you said it in.)

Yet, it’s okay for non islamic students to wrap themselves in the Palestinian flag or Keffiyehs to tell Jewish students, “You’re not welcome here, go kill yourself, kill all Zionists.” 

Keffiyeh DD 1.Really? None of this seems equal to me. 

I also have to ask, if all these kids are wearing Keffiyehs but are not Islamic,  isn’t that cultural appropriation? We’ve been told for the past 5 -10 years cultural appropriation is a monumental SIN right?

What makes this different?

Nothing!

Except, that this narrative, the narrative of bullies is being tolerated. All sin may be forgiven in service to the greater goal. 

The goal in this situation is to create as much chaos and confusion as possible in the run up to the November election.

The goal is also to harm as many innocents as possible in this country.

Hamas & the Palestinians whose purpose is sowing division here in this country need to be expelled & sent right back to Gaza.

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Not really helping Edison…

Electrical transmission.Southern California Edison is trying something new. Instead of killing our power for “Scheduled Maintenance” in the daytime. This time they did it at 2am. Sigh!

At least they sent out appropriate notices. It’s still a pain in the ass. I still have make sure I shut everything down. The alarm system still beeps and announces that electrical service has been lost.

In preparation for bed last night I powered all the sensitive stuff down. At around 2 am the dog and I were startled awake by the female voice from the alarm announcing power loss. We managed to get back to sleep.

Sometime after 4am the predawn silence was broken by Power being restored. The stove alarm was chirping, the refrigerator kicked on, the blower kicked on trying to warm the house to proper temperatures, and the alarm lady announced power had been restored but that WiFi was still not up.

At this point the dog jumped off the bed and wedged himself into a quiet protected spot between the bed and the sliding glass doors.

After all the clicks, clunks blower sounds had started it took me a minute to roll over and go back to sleep. I decided I wasn’t going to jump up and reset clocks or restart electronics because Edison often has false starts. I didn’t want to get everything powered up and reset only to have to do it again.

The dog jumped back up on the bed around 5:45 am. He was feeling cuddly and wormed himself into my arms with his head against my chest. I cuddled him until he fell asleep, then dozed until the 6am alarm signaling it was time to start the day.

After resetting the coffee pot clock, wake up brew time, and starting a manual brew I started powering things back up. Fortunately, everything appears to be working properly so I’m not fighting through some esoteric technical issues.

For that I’m grateful, but I still feel “off” I guess my sleep being interrupted, even if only for a few minutes has an effect.

I do wish Edison would publish an entire schedule of their “Scheduled Maintenance” so I could maybe plan better. As it is, they’ve been sending out notices 2 or.3 days in advance. That’s great, but 3 times in one month is a pain. The first two power outages were in excess of 8 hours. The last one screwed up the ice maker in the refrigerator and took some effort to correct.

Not to mention that they always send the notice that they’re turning power off  for 8 hour spans, literally the day after I’ve purchased groceries.

Ah well… Gotta stumble through my day.

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I never thought I’d say it. Alec Baldwin did nothing wrong smacking that protester.

Alecbaldwinchristmasig1 640x480.I don’t in general like Alec Baldwin. I used to like his performances in some movies. But he began at some point to be too full of himself and lost his appeal.

Then when he shot two people, killing one on the set of a movie and he tried to play the victim, I lost all respect for him as an actor, and a man.

Arrogance doesn’t change the rules for gun safety.

In my opinion he violated those rules out of arrogance and carelessness. He also set up a a young woman to fail because he was too cheap to hire a second armament master on set, causing her career to be destroyed before it got started.

So yeah, I have a dim view of Mr Baldwin.

Yesterday there was a brief blip about Alec Baldwin “assaulting” someone. I thought, “Yep, he’s done that shit before. Same Shit, Different Day. He’s a piece of shit.”

Then there was another blip about it and because these notifications were getting through pretty selective filtering. I got curious.

I’ve tried to set news notifications on my devices to only warn me that we had T -30 minutes to live because the Nuclear warheads were in flight. (I figure I’ll have 28 minutes to find somebody to have sex with, a minute to get out of our clothes and 30 seconds for an after sex cigarette. But that’s another discussion altogether…)

So why was Alec Baldwin of all people getting through? I mean, did he kill someone else?? 

Sigh, “I better go check just to see why the filters are letting the actions of this turd of a human light up my devices.“

I found the relevant item and … WOW! I was wrong.

Baldwin was 100% in the right. The rancid little bitch deserved to have her phone slapped out of her hands and more. 

Watching the video, I was conflicted by my distain for Alec Baldwin and what a nasty piece of shit this woman was. Toward the end of the video, I wanted to knock all her teeth out to make her shut the fuck up.

She was following the man around a coffee shop asking him if he killed that woman. At first I thought, “Valid, if redundant question,” then she started demanding that he say he supported Palestine. From there she kept badgering him and her voice was super annoying.

Baldwin wasn’t interacting, he was trying to go about his business.

Alec Baldwin has a history of anger control issues with paparazzi and the general public hounding him. This stupid little girl was literally poking the bear.

To Baldwin’s credit he was really working the anger management program. He put up with a shit ton more from this little bitch than I would have.

Credit where credit is due, Alec Baldwin was thoroughly provoked.

The thing that got my attention was this little cunt essentially blackmailing Baldwin. She kept saying, “Say you support Palestine and I’ll leave you alone.”

What the fuck? What kind of person is this rancid cunt? Who does she think she is? Why would she assume that anyone was going to respond positively to being badgered, bullied, and blackmailed? 

Despite the fact that she provoked him and put the whole incident up on tic tok, she’s trying to play the victim card, she is not the victim. She’s a blackmailer, a bully, a supporter of terrorist rapist baby killers, and a piece of shit. 

Alec Baldwin, In my opinion did nothing wrong dealing with this bitch.

I still think he’s arrogant, and don’t particularly like him. However I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t look at this situation and say he was the victim and that rancid cunt was in the wrong.