America’s New Hotbed of Racists?

Baiting The Left 30 Comments

Bet you never suspected that Silicon Valley’s uber-liberal tech community was actually a breeding ground for unbridled racism? The people that live there didn’t either. Until now. The deep thinker, Jesse Jackson, is going there to set them straight on their misdeeds:

Rev. Jesse Jackson plans to lead a delegation to the Hewlett Packard annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday to bring attention to Silicon Valley’s poor record of including blacks and Latinos in hiring, board appointments and startup funding.

Jackson’s strategy borrows from the traditional civil rights era playbook of shaming companies to prod them into transformation. Now he is bringing it to the age of social media and a booming tech industry known for its disruptive innovation.

Just what one of the few shining lights in America’s economy needs, eh?!
h/t Maxine K.

It’s Probably Nothing

It's Probably Nothing 21 Comments

Doing the job that Americans won’t do;

IDF forces struck a number of Syrian military and security targets connected to the blast that injured four Israeli soldiers on Tuesday, the IDF Spokesman said early on Wednesday.
The targets, which included military headquarters, artillery batteries and a training base belonging to the Syrian military, “enabled and aided in the carrying out of [Tuesday’s] terror attacks,” the statement read. “The IDF retains the right to act in any way and at any time it sees fit to protect the citizens of Israel.”

Learning Curve

Uncategorized 10 Comments

I was alarmed but not altogether surprised to read that Marie… did not want [her assailant] to be locked up but rather that they should receive a punishment “so that they understand.” Understand what, precisely? That hitting a defenceless woman in the face ten times with a knuckleduster isn’t a nice thing to do? But they understood this already, only too well: It was precisely their understanding that impelled them to do it… Presumably Marie had in mind something such as psychoanalysis, perhaps mixed with a little compulsory social work or planting flowers in municipal flowerbeds. This is like trying to talk reason to Pol Pot at the apogee of his power, to get him to stand down by persuading him that what he was doing was wrong.

The Mystery Of MH370

Roadkill 80 Comments

Ten days have passed and with no solid leads, only one conclusion can be drawn from the disappearance of a Boeing 777 and its 239 passengers and crew — the tales we were told of spy satellites that can “read a watch face from space” were, and still are, complete and utter bullshit.
That is all.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Climate Cult 18 Comments

Pass the butter.

Fatty foods such as butter and bacon may not actually increase the risk of heart attacks, a comprehensive overview of health research has concluded.
NHS guidelines urging people to eat less “unhealthy” fat might have to be reviewed, say scientists who found no link between saturated fat and heart disease. Official advice also tells people to eat more “healthy” polyunsaturated fats such as omega-3, but the study found that these did not seem to affect risk levels either.

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