Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity, argued the Italian-born professor, who died in 2000. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.
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It's been a number of years, but it still seems curious. I don't follow football at all, but it does seem odd that a team from the Midwest plays for a team on the Pacific Northwest.
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PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) - Groups of ANTIFA agitators surrounded police officers who were responding to a man with a knife in a mental health crisis in downtown Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
Officers were called out to the 300 block of Southwest 4th Avenue at 1 p.m. Friday.
After an hour and a half, the situations were apparently resolved.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and his merry band of censors may currently hold all the cards in dictating what the truth is, but their heavy-handed approach to controlling the platform leading up to the presidential election doesn’t account for one thing.
Missing from their calculations is the indelible American spirit heavily steeped in revolution — meaning the one thing sure to rile up an American is to tell them what they cannot do.
White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Scott Atlas got into hot water with Twitter when he posted tweets arguing that masks are ineffective. He was locked out of his account over the weekend until he deleted the offending tweets, according to The Federalist.
He did so, and fired off an apt new "first tweet":
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth." George Orwell, 1984
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Yes, many of them actually make no bones about it: they want you dead.
For disagreeing with them, there must be a price to pay, as the recent murder of Trump supporter and hat-maker Lee Keltner demonstrated in Denver on October 10. He was shot in the head by an Antifa "activist".
Matthew Dolloff, 30, was being investigated for first-degree murder, the Denver Police Department said on Twitter on Sunday. He was being held in the Denver County Jail, according to court records.
As a matter of fact, there's a price to pay if you want one of these lovely paper yard signs: $32 each. Not that the purveyor is into money, or anything. That would be crass.
They’re sold online – via Instagram and MidnightGrim.com – by someone in Oregon who calls herself Kait Kenobi. Kait Kenobi’s real name appears to be Kate McNally, and she went to the University of Boulder, in Colorado.
Where she obviously learned a lot.
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CNN) – People with Type O blood may have an advantage in the global pandemic.
Researchers say they may be less vulnerable to catching coronavirus and, if they do get it, they are less likely to get really sick. A Danish study found that among more than 7,400 people tested for coronavirus only 38% with Type O tested positive.
And a separate Canadian study found that among 95 patients critically ill with COVID-19, a higher proportion of those with blood Type A or AB had longer stays in intensive care than patients with Type O or B. Those ICU stays lasted 4.5 days longer on average. The research gives further evidence that blood type may play a role in someone’s susceptibility to infection and just how serious their illness is.
Well that's unfortunate; next thing you know, they'll be hunting us down for our blood.
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Attendance at one of Joe's recent events was, shall we say, somewhat sparse. Yet many in media continue to claim that he's doing spectacularly well.
Racists and bigots always identify people by color or religion. Biden can’t remember Mitt Romney’s name, so to Joe he’s now just “the Mormon.” There goes that vote...
He has the Alzheimer's demographic absolutely locked up; it's not even close.
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Riot City, USA revs up again. – The Portland riots, which magically disappeared last Saturday after the Democrats read their latest awful polling numbers, magically revved back up again Friday night, following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
It used to be a nice town, before the Californians and East-Coasters moved here.
This is as predictable as the sun rising in the East. You should expect new Democrat-sponsored riots to start popping up all over the country in the coming days, using President Trump’s coming decision to nominate a replacement for Ginsburg as the rationale. As we witnessed all summer long, the riots will all be staged in Democrat-run cities and Democrat mayors will prevent local law enforcement from doing its job.
Perfectly Portland.
Yeah, they're all about "tolerance" here - as long as you agree with them.
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CONWAY, Ark. — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against The Kroger Company for violating federal civil rights law in that an Arkansas location allegedly fired two employees who sought religious accommodations not to wear an apron with a rainbow heart on the bib, symbolizing homosexual and bisexual pride. Both were fired from the Conway grocery store in June 2019 for violations of the store dress code.
“Companies have an obligation under Title VII to consider requests for religious accommodations, and it is illegal to terminate employees for requesting an accommodation for their religious beliefs,” Delner-Franklin Thomas, district director of the EEOC’s Memphis office, said in a statement. “The EEOC protects the rights of the LGBTQ community, but it also protects the rights of religious people.”
That's an interesting turn of events. Apparently it's actually possible to go overboard on the whole "political correctness" thing. Who'd have guessed?
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