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The Real Conundrum In Gaza

Posted: December 14, 2023 by datechguy in Israel, Israel vs Hamas, Uncategorized
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It’s very much looking like Israel has decided that the left in the west rants are going to be ignored and that the Jewish state is going all in on destroying Hamas, damn the torpedoes full speed ahead. Hamas leaders have fled Qatar and the rats seem to be abandoning the sinking ship even to the point of floating albeit briefly recognizing Israel’s right to exist.

Granted it’s still going to take several months of mopping up but the real question is: what happens next?

The citizens of Gaza might not like the destruction that’s been wrought against them thanks to Hamas’ actions. They might even be pissed about their taking the aid sent to them to build a terror infrastructure, but this doesn’t translate into liking Israel or even not wanting Jews dead, they just doesn’t like the consequences of the various attempts to kill the Jews..

The problem is that no only do polls show that the Palestinians overwhelmingly support the attacks and atrocities of October 7th but better than two out of three want a return to the good old days of suicide bombings and buses full of Jews blowing up.

Remember these aren’t polls of Hamas members these are pols of Palestinians.

I submit and suggest that’s it’s impossible for Israel to allow Gaza to govern itself if the population is simply go back to killing Jews under their own banner rather than under the Hamas banner. Furthermore you can’t make peace with people determined to kill you, you can impose peace, you can as General Sherman put it make war so horrible that it will be decades before they consider turning to it.

So what is the solution? What should be done with Gaza when the last member of Hamas is sent to get his virgins? Feel free to put your suggestion in comments and next week I’ll give you mine.

Doctor Ben Carson would be the ideal running mate for Donald Trump

Posted: December 14, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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I have to state for the record at the begging of this article that I have never been a never Trumper.  Neither am I a Trump worshipper, although the Trump worshipers’ take on him is the more accurate of the two.  I see him for who he really is, a deeply flawed individual who did an admiral job as president. That is until the Wuhan Flu pandemic began, and he botched things rather badly.

At the beginning of the 2016 primary season, I ranked Donald Trump near the bottom of the crowded Republican field.  The instant he secured the Republican nomination I became a very outspoken Trump supporter because I knew he would do an infinitely better job than any of the Marxist Democrats.

I am a Libertarian and not all of Donald Trump’s policies are particularly Libertarian. During the 2016 primary season I ranked Rand Paul and Ben Carson well above Trump.

Donald Trump’s greatest flaw is an almost complete lack of self-control when speaking and using social media.  Too often he comes across as a non-intellectual.  He also has a very loud and abrasive personality.  At times he strayed from conservative/libertarian principles.  The media very unfairly tagged Trump as a racist and a bigot.  During his four years in office, he did a poor job picking advisors and cabinet officials, especially when it came to Chief of Staff.

Last week I tried to imagine who the perfect running mate Donald Trump could possibly chose.  I figured that that person would have to offset all of Trump’s negatives.  He would have to be an exact opposite.  The person who immediately jumped to mind was Dr. Ben Carson. Two days later I saw articles online written by authors who independently reached the same conclusions.

Here are some quotes I dug up that are proof that Dr. Ben Carson would make a fantastic president, unfortunately he lacks the charisma necessary for any individual to win elections in our media driven society.

This first quote is from Ben Carson: Obamacare worst thing ‘since slavery’ – The Washington Post

You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery, and it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.

This next quote is one of my favorites: http://www.cnsnews.com/video/newsbusters/dr-ben-carson-we-american-people-are-not-each-other-s-enemies

I want people to understand that we, the American people, are not each other’s enemies. The real enemies are those people who are trying to divide us into every little possible group.

Ben Carson explains Holocaust comments | CNN Politics

“Basically, what I said is that when tyranny occurs traditionally around the world, they try and disarm the people first. And that is exactly what happened in Germany,” Carson said at the National Press Club. “You know, mid- to late 30s they started a program to disarm the people and by mid- to late 40’s, look what had happened.”

Carson was referencing remarks Thursday on CNN that the Holocaust would have been less deadly had more people in Europe been armed.

“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” he told Wolf Blitzer when asked if there were no gun-control laws in Germany would that have prevented the murder of 6 million Jews. “I’m telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.”

Video | Facebook

We’ve been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point, maybe we will wake up and recognize that it was the politicians who created our problems.

Who said what and what it meant: The 4th GOP debate, annotated – The Washington Post

We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.

One Nation book Introduction.

The PC police are out in force at all times. … We’ve reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say.

Ben Carson, America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

“Since Americans are by nature individualistic and entrepreneurial, by definition, then, the socialist program is anti-American, to say nothing of totalitarian. Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.”
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future

“Many well-meaning Americans have bought into the PC speech code, thinking that by being extra careful not to offend anyone we will achieve unity. What they fail to realize is that this is a false unity that prevents us from talking about important issues and is a Far Left strategy to paralyze us while they change our nation. People have been led to become so sensitive that fault can be found in almost anything anyone says because somewhere, somehow, someone will be offended by it.”
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Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future

“I believe the only thing that will correct our downward trajectory is the rekindling of the enthusiasm for individual freedom and the reestablishment of the U.S. Constitution as the dominant document of governance. Unless the majority of Americans awaken from their complacency and recognize the threat to their fundamental individual liberties imposed by continued expansion of the federal government, nothing will save us from the fate of all pinnacle nations that have preceded us, those that tolerated political and moral corruption while ignoring fiscal irresponsibility.”

Question: What Do the Board of Harvard and the BBC Have In Common?

Posted: December 12, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Answer: The both decided their affirmative action hires (Claudine Gay & Jodie Whitaker) must not be seen as failures no matter what the results are.

The BBC saw the rating for Doctor Who crash and burn during the uber woke (as opposed to regular woke) years of her tenure but it would have been unthinkable for the first female doctor who Jodie Whitaker lovingly call Dr. Karen by the good folks at Nerdrotic so they continued to carry her allowing the crashing and burning to continue to the point where not even the return of David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Russell T Davies could saving the ratings numbers.

Now comes the Harvard board having the first black woman president of Harvard not only on national TV being unable to declare calling for the extermination of the Jews against Harvard policy but exposed as a serial plagiarist. Harvard is getting pilloried all over, donors are running for the doors BUT again the first black woman to be president of Harvard MUST NOT be allowed to be perceived as a failure, must NOT be shown to be unqualified and must NOT have the suggestion that she is causing damage perhaps irreparable, to the school’s reputation.

Therefore the Board of Harvard, while having concerns, has decided to stand by her leading Ed Morrissey to quip

Indeed. And now I wait with bated breath to see what Beege can discover on the question of how one gets fired at Harvard, if not for anti-Semitism and academic fraud. Any opposition to identitarian policies and DEI/CRT pedagogy would be an obvious guess

Unexpectedly of course

Saving higher education

Posted: December 12, 2023 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

As I have written several times, higher education is an absolute mess, from its leftist culture to its ambivalence toward educating students about essential subjects.

Having suffered through numerous attacks at three universities for my conservative viewpoints, I have some suggestions on how to correct the problems in higher education.

First, eliminate tenure, which provides lifetime jobs and propagates the leftist culture. After only seven years, faculty members who are usually in their twenties when they arrive on campus don’t have to worry much about what they say or do for the next 40 or so years after tenure. 

Faculty members play an important role in hiring new faculty. It’s a bit like closed union shops where you only get accepted if you share political viewpoints or know someone already on the inside. 

Even CNN’s Fareed Zakaria acknowledged recently that higher education policies “use race, gender, and sexuality as political weapons to enforce intellectual conformity, dictate tenure decisions, and punish dissenters.” I guess a broken clock can be right twice a day!

Second, eliminate nonprofit status for private colleges and universities. Since these institutions have become political petri dishes, make them pay for their antics.

Third, look seriously at the amount of tax dollars that flow to higher education. Institutions of higher education get more than $1 trillion in tax money from various governmental agencies. State and local governments allocated about nine percent of their total budgets—more than the amount paid for highways and roads. About four percent of the federal budget goes to higher education—much of it in loans to students who end up heavily in debt. 

I am heartened that the public is starting to see that the emperors have no clothes. 

Americans’ attitudes about higher education have turned sharply negative in the past decade. In a Gallup poll, the percentage of young adults who said a college degree is important fell to 41 percent from 74 percent. Another poll found that about a third of Americans say they have a lot of confidence in higher education. In another Gallup poll, almost half of American parents say they’d prefer that their children not enroll in a four-year college.

Partly as a result of these attitudes, the number of college students has dropped dramatically in recent years. In the fall of 2010, more than 18 million undergraduates were enrolled in colleges and universities across the United States. That figure has been falling ever since, dipping below 15.5 million undergrads in 2021.

It’s time for individuals, colleges’ boards of trustees, and government entities to take a good, hard look at what higher education has become and make sure that the trends of intolerance and leftist thinking stop now!

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