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State Politics/Government / Re: Kristi Noem facing petition to remove her from office following dog-shooting story
« Last post by the OlLine Rebel on Today at 08:12:55 pm »
What a long-misnamed org.

Why don’t they just…move on.
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Climate Change / Re: Green Billionaires Press Hollywood To Promote Climate Armageddon In Movies
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 08:12:51 pm »
Just Stop Oil have broken the glass protecting the Magna Carta. "Reverend" Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, are demanding an emergency plan to stop new oil and gas licenses by 2030.

https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1788890364427829368
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World News / Re: Ukraine 4
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 08:11:24 pm »
Weird.   Don't know what to tell you.  Maybe try another browser?  Maybe they're age restricted?  A lot of anti-Russian videos get flagged as inappropriate.
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Virginia / Re: Virginia education board restores Confederate names to schools
« Last post by the OlLine Rebel on Today at 08:11:22 pm »
Saw this on YouTube this morning.  Made comment.  Lots of comments of course about how horrid it is to have anything named after traitors.

Without a hint of irony that invariably these are traitors the,selves, here and now.
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Music Threads / Re: TIE each subsequent SONG together by whatever means you deem relevant, Title/Artist/Theme
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 08:09:21 pm »
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Virginia / Re: Virginia education board restores Confederate names to schools
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 08:07:36 pm »
 :beer:
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Virginia / Virginia education board restores Confederate names to schools
« Last post by Hoodat on Today at 08:06:53 pm »
Virginia education board restores Confederate names to schools

Breccan F. Thies  |  May 10, 2024  |  2:16 pm

A school district in Virginia voted Friday morning to restore the names of Confederate generals to schools, becoming the first board in the country to reinstate such names after voting to remove them.

The Shenandoah County school board, representing a rural and overwhelmingly conservative area, voted 5-1 to restore the Confederate namesakes of two schools after having stripped the names in 2020 in the wake of the death of George Floyd.

The move would honor three Confederate military leaders: Army of Northern Virginia General Robert E. Lee, infantry General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, and cavalry commander Turner Ashby. Mountain View High School will now be named Stonewall Jackson High School, and Honey Run Elementary School will now be called Ashby-Lee Elementary School.

Funds to make the changes will come from private sources as opposed to tax dollars.

Shenandoah County has become the first in the country to reverse the nationwide trend of removing Confederate names of schools.  .  .  .

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/2999685/virginia-education-board-restores-confederate-names-to-schools/
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State Politics/Government / Re: Kristi Noem facing petition to remove her from office following dog-shooting story
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 08:05:49 pm »
This entre story is so incredibly stupid that I haven't investigated the details, but didn't this happen before she was governor? If so, it's utterly irrelevant to her qualifications or fitness to complete her term.
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Music Threads / Re: TIE each subsequent SONG together by whatever means you deem relevant, Title/Artist/Theme
« Last post by berdie on Today at 08:05:32 pm »

https://youtu.be/HEXWRTEbj1I
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Health/Education / Re: Anti-Israel Columbia students defiant as 2 p.m. deadline passes to clear encampment
« Last post by mountaineer on Today at 08:03:50 pm »
John Cardillo
@johncardillo
Biden Launches Investigation of Columbia U for Discriminating Against Hamas Supporters

“the Biden administration’s…launching a “civil rights investigation” into the university for “extreme anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic harassment”.
12:31 PM · May 10, 2024
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Biden Launches Investigation of Columbia U for Discriminating Against… Hamas Supporters
According to the Department of Education, celebrating the mass murder of Jews and issuing a call for "full solidarity" with a terrorist organization is "speech activity".
May 4, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield
FrontPageMag

Is anyone really surprised?

After weeks of bias intimidation by Hamas supporters aimed at Jewish students and faculty, including Khymani James, an encampment leader who had talked to Columbia University officials about killing Jews, the Biden administration’s Department of Education, with the inevitability of a rigged slot machine in Reno, is launching a “civil rights investigation” into the university for “extreme anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and Islamophobic harassment”.

The complaint comes from ‘Palestine Legal’, the same group providing advice to the encampment protesters.

It complains that “Columbia has reinforced the hostile anti-Palestinian environment, including by suspending Students for Justice in Palestine — a student organization that advocates for Palestinian human rights — for engaging in speech activity supporting Palestinian rights” ...
I value my freedom too much to say what I'm really thinking.  :thumbsdown:
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