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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[bodiddley]

[bodiddley]

[bodiddley]

At least everyone has picked up on what an inveterate bullshitter Trump is.
That almost none of what he says is true.

[Hamilton Samuels]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/really-thinks-trump-mocks-christians-100354053.html

Bad news for Bambu!!!

If true, he's not a very good conman.
He'll lose the "evangelical vote" if they believe he's been conning them.

But they won't.

The Hassidim will vote for him. (Just the men, of course.)

But there are evangelicals who are having difficulty squaring Trump with their consciences, and more liberal churches are mobilized in opposition to Trump:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/opinions/us-elections-2020-evangelical-voters-beyerlein-chaves/index.html

[Hamilton Samuels]

"Dark skinned male" ambushes cops in Compton

You left out "film at 11 here on Fox News".

[Hamilton Samuels]

This is just dumb.
A US university investigation into one of its professors has ignited a debate over the use of a seemingly innocuous Chinese word.

Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California (USC) was telling students in a communications lecture last month about filler, or pause words, such as 'err', 'umm' or 'you know' in English.

Footage of his lecture, which has now gone viral, shows Prof Patton saying: "In China, the common pause word is 'that, that, that'. So in China, it might be na-ge, na-ge, na-ge."

Enunciated, na-ge sounds like the N-word, which led several of the professor's students to complain to the university. Responding to the complaint, the dean of the university, Geoffrey Garrett, told students that Prof Patton would no longer be teaching the course.

"It is simply unacceptable for the faculty to use words in class that can marginalize, hurt and harm the psychological safety of our students," he said.

CC Chen, a student at the USC, defended Prof Patton, arguing that it was "clearly an academic lecture on communication" and the professor was "describing a universal mistake commonly made in communication".

"For him to be censored simply because a Chinese word sounds like an English pejorative term is a mistake and is not appropriate, especially given the educational setting," she said. "It also dismisses the fact that Chinese is a real language and has its own pronunciations that have no relation to English."


More than 11,000 people have now signed a Change.org petition calling for Prof Patton to be re-instated. And in China there are discussions taking place over whether the university acted too abruptly.

On the popular Sina Weibo microblog, more than 1,000 posts have used the hashtag #USProfessorSuspendedForUsingNaGe, with many viewing the move as a suppression of Chinese speech.

One post called the incident a "contemporary version of the literary inquisition" - referring to the persecution of intellectuals during China's imperial era.

What began as an accusation against the professor of using discriminatory language has morphed, in China, into accusations of discrimination against the Chinese language.

"Is it now forbidden to speak Chinese in the United States?" asked one Sina Weibo user.

Kudos to the Chinese who are refusing to be "marginalized, hurt, and harmed" psychologically for using their own language.

https://news.yahoo.com/suspension-us-professor-sparks-debate-230548859.html

[Hamilton Samuels]

Haters gonna hate:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/palestinians-rally-bahrain-israel-normalisation-200912163206019.html

[kiidcarter8]

During the show's panel segment, Maher began with a warning about the "craziness out there," pointing to the controversial book "In Defense of Looting" that was given a spotlight by NPR and "a lot of articles in the press" echoing a similar sentiment.

Maher explained that in "binary times," the "fringe" will always be associated with one party or the other, later insisting that this time around, Democrat Joe Biden will have to wear looting "on his back into the election" because it is being done by the left



https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/maher-knocks-medias-defense-of-looting-rioting-in-cities

[kiidcarter8]

To the protesters blocking the entrance & exit of the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM yelling "We hope they die" referring to 2 LA Sheriff's ambushed today in #Compton: DO NOT BLOCK EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL. People's lives are at stake when ambulances can't get through.



Good Lord

[barton]

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/12/912301325/longtime-climate-science-denier-hired-at-noaa

This is a guy who has long misrepresented peer-reviewed science in order to promote the agenda of the petroleum companies that have funded his activities.   This is not helpful to NOAA  as it deals with the consequences of rising global temperatures and keeping science free of partisanship and corporate influence. 

[barton]

We need to undo the effects of a century of wildfire suppression in the west.   It results in overgrowth and fires that are more destructive than the natural fire cycles.   People need to build homes with nature's cycles in mind -- build in open grassland,  rather than forests,  and build with flame-resistant materials, and clear foliage near their houses.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/908929411/why-firefighting-alone-wont-stop-western-mega-fires

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/rutgers-university-shooting-new-brunswick-police


---------New Brunswick just sucks these days

Shame we cant even consider Rutgers

[kiidcarter8]

WSJ takes down Cuomo


https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuomo-covid-new-york-coronavirus-de-blasio-shutdown-timing-11599836994

(may need subscription)

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/GerryCallahan/status/1305157811576418307


Has Doc Rivers cried for these cops yet? How about Kirk Herbstreit? Will any NFL player put their names on his helmet today?

[josh]

This is just dumb.
A US university investigation into one of its professors has ignited a debate over the use of a seemingly innocuous Chinese word.

Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California (USC) was telling students in a communications lecture last month about filler, or pause words, such as 'err', 'umm' or 'you know' in English.

Footage of his lecture, which has now gone viral, shows Prof Patton saying: "In China, the common pause word is 'that, that, that'. So in China, it might be na-ge, na-ge, na-ge."

I am reminded of a story from a bunch of years ago in which somebody temporarily lost his job for using the word "niggardly" in a discussion. Let me see if I can find that.

Found the one I had in mind, but found several others as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly

https://www.etymonline.com/word/niggard - not related to the "n" word. Doesn't mean I can't imagine some "clever" racists using it intentionally, but it's not what generally happens.