Popcorn: Lewandowski Slapped Around Democrats During Their Trump Impeachment Circus
Matt Vespa
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If one of the zany Democrat candidates is elected and current trends continue this is possibly what our former republic might look like. (See 1 below.)And:
St John's College continues to offer a sane education at a reasonable price and thus, might eventually be deemed a threat to our nation . (See 1a below.)
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America's alternative history and racist exam questions. (See 2 and 2a below.)
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When it comes to technology, Israeli's are brilliant. When it comes to common sense and governance, Israeli's can be the dumbest people on this earth. (See 3 below.)
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What the election may mean. (See 3a below.)
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1)
NEWS FROM THE YEAR 2059
Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest Country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California.
White minorities still trying to have English recognized as the third language.
Spotted Owl plague threatens Northwestern United States crops and livestock.
Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.
Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.
Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.
France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica. No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!
Last Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.
George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2060.
Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.
Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.
85-year $758 billion study reveals: Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.
Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for the third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba.
Japanese scientists have created a camera with such a fast shutter speed they now can photograph a woman with her mouth shut.
Abortion clinics now available in every High School in United States.
Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR (Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge) even though gas is selling for 4532 Pesos per liter and gas stations are only open on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.
Supreme Court rules any punishment of criminals
violates their civil rights.
A Couple has finally experienced Sexual Harmony …they had simultaneous Headaches.
Average height of NBA players is now nine feet seven inches.
New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2060.
IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.
Floruba voters still having trouble with voting machines.
Now, send this to whomever you want and as many as you want, then, guess what ... NOTHING will happen. No miracles, no money, absolutely nothing, except you might make someone smile or become very, very scared!!
Blacks no longer required to attend school.
Stop organized crime, and re-elect no one.
1a)
St. John’s Santa Fe Events
Dean’s Lecture Series | |
| Lectures are free and open to the public and are followed by a question-and-answer period. Recordings and transcripts of lectures are available on the SJC Digital Archives site. | |
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| Karl Walling, Naval War College Monterey Program, will present “Thucydides, the Federalist Papers, and the New World (Dis)order.” | |
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| Karl Walling, Naval War College Monterey Program, will present “The United States, China, and Thucydides’ Many, Many Traps.” | |
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| Maggie Evans McGuinness will present “‘Tel us som moral thing’: Moral Certainty and the Art of Story in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” | |
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CHAUCER AND OTHERS: STORIES AND TELLERS—OPEN SERIES OFFIVE OFFERINGS AND A LECTURE | |
Seminar: Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” and Huston’s Treasure of theSierra Madre | |
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| Maggie McGuinness, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe | |
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Seminar: Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” and Shakespeare’s The TwoNoble Kinsmen | |
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| Maggie McGuinness, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe | |
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Seminar: Chaucer’s “The Manciple’s Tale” and “The Raven,” an excerptfrom Ovid’s Metamorphoses | |
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| Maggie McGuinness, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe | |
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Seminar: Chaucer’s “The Physician’s Tale” and “The History of Appiusand Virginia,” excerpt from Livy’s The History of Rome | |
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| Maggie McGuinness, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe | |
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Seminar: Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and an anonymous worktitled The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle | |
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| Maggie McGuinness, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe | |
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Lecture: “‘Tel us som moral thing’: Moral Certainty and the Art of Story inCanterbury Tales” | |
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| Maggie McGuinness, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe | |
| *This lecture is part of The Carol J. Worrell Annual Lecture Series on Literature. | |
FINNEGANS WAKE: FOUR EVENING OFFERINGS AND A LECTURE | |
Seminar: A Gentle Introduction to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake | |
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| Grant Franks, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe and Adam Harvey, actor, Joyce scholar | |
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Lecture: “‘To multiplie in infinitie.’ The “plultiple” ends of Joyce’s Book ofthe Dark” | |
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| Enrico Terrinoni, Professore Ordinario di Letteratura Inglese, Universitá Per Stranieri di Perguia | |
| *This lecture is part of The Carol J. Worrell Annual Lecture Series on Literature. | |
W.E.B. DU BOIS: TWO SEMINARS AND A LECTURE | |
Seminar: W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk | |
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| Andy Kingston, tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe | |
| THIS SEMINAR IS FULL! WAITLIST AVAILABLE. | |
Lecture: “The Phenomenology of Blackness” | |
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| Michael Sawyer, Colorado College, Department of English | |
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By Ben Shapiro
Last week, Democrats held their first true presidential debate. With the field winnowed down to 10 candidates -- three of them actual contenders for the nomination -- only one moment truly stood out. That moment came not from Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders but from a candidate desperate for attention: Beto O'Rourke. O'Rourke ran in 2018 for a Senate seat in Texas and lost in shockingly narrow fashion to incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. But his persona at the time was more Biden than Bernie: He ran as a unifying quasi-moderate, an Obama-esque figure determined to bring Americans together. In the early going of the presidential race, Beto was figured to be a prime contender: An April poll showed him in a solid third place. But he's faded dramatically; now the once-media darling is polling below 3 percent. So O'Rourke has refashioned himself into a woke warrior. He's declared that he wants to forcibly remove guns from law-abiding Americans ("Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15"), that President Trump is a "white supremacist" posing a "mortal threat to people of color" and that the time has come for race reparations. Most dramatically, O'Rourke has refashioned his vision of American history. In this debate, he laid out his retelling of the American story, saying: "Racism in America is endemic. It is foundational. We can mark the creation of this country not at the Fourth of July, 1776, but Aug. 20, 1619, when the first kidnapped African was brought to this country against his will and in bondage, and as a slave built the greatness and the success and the wealth that neither he nor his descendants would ever be able to fully participate in and enjoy." This version of history is cribbed from "The 1619 Project" by The New York Times, a retelling of American history as a story rooted in white supremacy -- not colored by or affected by white supremacy but rooted in it. Capitalism, criminal justice, lack of universal health care, traffic patterns, Donald Trump's election -- all of it, according to "The 1619 Project," is fundamentally based on America's legacy of slavery and racial discrimination. That perspective on American history, in turn, is merely warmed over Howard Zinn. Zinn, the Marxist author of "A People's History of the United States," sought to recast America's story as a story of hideous ugliness covered with the hypocritical facade of goodness. Never mind that "A People's History" is, in fact, rotten history -- factually inaccurate, wildly disjoined from a more comprehensive examination of time and place, near plagiarized from the work of better leftist historians. Zinn's history has now infused the teaching of American history in high schools and colleges across the country. But that historical retelling is at odds with the better, truer story of America: the story of a nation founded on eternally good and true principles, principles only fully realized for many Americans at the cost of blood and sweat and death. Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's take on American history remains the most honest, as well as the most visionary. While acknowledging that to the American slave, Independence Day represents "more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim," Douglass recognized that the Constitution is a "glorious liberty document," the Declaration of Independence a charter of "saving principles." 2a) Racist Exam Questions?
By Walter E. Williams
that its written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against black applicants. It turns out that black applicants failed the written test at a rate much greater than white applicants. That results in fewer blacks being trained and hired as police officers. John A. Olszewski Jr., Baltimore County Executive said: "A law enforcement agency should look like the community it serves. As I have said repeatedly since taking office, I am committed to increasing diversity in the county's Police Department." Baltimore City uses Municipal Police Selection Test. You can examine some sample questions at its website. I'd like to know which of the questions are either unrelated to police work or racist. Many jurisdictions use The National Police Officer Selection Test. You can examine some of the sample questions at its website. Again, I'd like to know which of the questions are unrelated to work or are racially biased questions. In addition, it has been found that MPST and POST are successful predictors of law enforcement training success and job performance. Black performance on police exams is simply the tip of the iceberg of a truly tragic cruelty. That cruelty stands front and center when one examines the education that most blacks in Baltimore receive. Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore's school system. What they found was an utter disgrace. In 19 of Baltimore's high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were proficient in math. In 13 of Baltimore's 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math. In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading. Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma. A high school diploma attests that the holder can read, write and compute at a 12th-grade level. Obviously, the diplomas conferred on students who have not mastered reading, writing and computing are fraudulent. When a person who cannot read, write and compute very well takes a written employment exam, including that to become a police officer, he is going to encounter difficulties. His difficulties are not caused by any racially discriminatory aspect of the test. His difficulties are a result of not having acquired what he should have acquired by the time he finished high school. But that is not how such a person sees it. He sees that he has a high school diploma just as a white applicant has a high school diploma. To him, any difference in treatment and outcomes must be the result of racial discrimination. Thus, the U.S. Department of Justice sued, claiming that the written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against black applicants. The conclusion that Baltimore County's written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against black applicants is tragic. It allows Baltimore public schools to continue to produce fraudulent education. You say: "Hold it, Williams! You can't blame everything on schools." You're right. One cannot blame schools and teachers for students who are hostile to the education process. One cannot blame schools and teachers for a rotten home environment or derelict parents. But there is one thing entirely within the control of educators. That's their power to issue diplomas. When they confer high school diplomas on youngsters who cannot read, write and compute at or near a 12th-grade level, they are engaging in fraudulent conduct. Dr. Thomas Sowell's research in "Education: Assumptions Versus History" documents academic excellence at Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School and others. This academic excellence occurred during an era when blacks were much poorer and faced gross racial discrimination. It's worthwhile reading for black people to learn the capabilities of other blacks facing so many challenging circumstances. I'm wondering when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters to mediocrity. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3) Neither large party has a clear path toforming a majority government. Potentialkingmaker Avigdor Lieberman: Nationalunity government is the "one and onlyoption" on the table. PM Netanyahu: I willseek the formation of a new Zionistgovernment that excludes Arab parties.Benny Gantz: We will work to set up abroad national government.The country's two main political parties, Likud and Blue and White, are deadlocked without a clear path to forming a majority government as of Wednesday morning after 92% of the votes from Tuesday's national election were counted.
Here are the results as of 10:30 Wednesday morning:
Likud: 32
Blue and White: 32
Joint Arab List: 12
Yisrael Beytenu: 9
Shas: 9
United Torah Judaism: 8
Yamina: 7
Labor-Gesher: 6
Democratic Union: 5
The far-right Otzma Yehudit party failed to pass the minimum electoral threshold.
Seeming kingmaker Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday he'll insist on a secular unity
government between Netanyahu's Likud and Benny Gantz's Blue and White parties, which
are currently tied.
Lieberman said that is the "one and only option" on the table.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will seek the formation of a new Zionist
government that excludes Arab parties.
"There will not be and there cannot be a government that leans on Arab, anti-Zionist
parties," Netanyahu said.
Gantz echoed sentiments for a unity government in a post-election speech in Tel Aviv early
Wednesday, saying that political contacts with other parties are already underway.
“I mean to talk to everyone. We will work to set up a broad national government that will
express the will of the people," he said.
Without Lieberman's endorsement, both parties appear to have fallen well short of securing
a parliamentary majority with ideological allies.
However, final results could still swing toward Netanyahu.
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Six takeaways from the unclear Israelelection results - analysis
By LAHAV HARKOV
1. No one has a majority
The results of the three major TV stations’ exit polls left the picture very unclear on Tuesday
night, but one thing is certain: no bloc, neither the Right nor the Center-Left, has a majority
of at least 61 seats. We don’t know for sure which bloc is larger – the Right beat the Left in
two of the three exit polls.
However, the numbers seem to be in the Right’s favor, as the Likud often does better in the
real results than it does in exit polls, and while the Joint List said it might recommend Blue
and White leader Benny Gantz for prime minister, its leaders have been noncommittal and
historically tend not to recommend anyone.
Still, we simply do not know who will be tasked with building the coalition: Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu for a sixth time, or Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, or perhaps, a
different candidate from the Likud, though that is far less likely.
2. All eyes on Liberman As expected, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman could very well be the kingmaker. Liberman’s endorsement can push Netanyahu to a majority, and can put Gantz over the edge
of 61 seats – if the Joint List recommends Gantz, as well.
The Yisrael Beytenu chairman has not committed to a candidate to recommend, though Blue
and White has echoed his call for a unity government without haredim.
3. Unity Liberman repeatedly said that he does not want to sit with the haredi parties, Shas and UTJ,
and has called for a unity government between Yisrael Beytenu, Likud and Blue and White.
Of course, the big parties don’t need him for a majority and could very well form a
government with just the two of them.
However, Blue and White has said it will not be in a government with Netanyahu, as long as
he is under a recommended indictment.
And anyway, Netanyahu has reached out to his “natural partners” Yamina, Shas and UTJ,
and promised to work with them, which means he is working toward the opposite of the
“secular unity government” that was Blue and White’s slogan in the last weeks of their
campaign. Of course, Netanyahu needs the religious parties to get enough recommendations
to be tasked with forming a coalition, but he’ll probably need to abandon them to form a
coalition.
There is another option for unity, which Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev of Likud
mentioned in an interview right after the exit polls came out. Likud could take its right-wing
majority and try to tempt someone from the Center or Left to cross the lines. It could be
Labor-Gesher, or just Gesher. It could be one of the three parties making up Blue and White,
or just a handful of their MKs.
4. Are Netanyahu’s days numbered? It’s a question that’s been asked for years, and the answer was usually no, for those taking
an honest look at the situation. But he didn’t win an obvious majority in this election, and he
has a pre-indictment hearing with Attorney-General Avihai Mandelblit coming up in two
weeks, complicating things even further.
If Netanyahu is not tasked with forming the next coalition, or if a coalition is impossible
with him in it but possible for the Likud led by someone else – someone like Knesset
Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan
or popular Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar – then the Likud might push him out. In the meantime,
Katz, for one, clarified that “Netanyahu was and remains the Likud’s only candidate for
prime minister.”
The Likud rarely replaces its leaders, having had only four leaders in its entire existence,
but it’s not a party of lemmings, either. Its top MKs may not remain loyal to Netanyahu for
long.
5. It wasn’t about the turnout after all Since this election was called there was a concern about low turnout due to election fatigue.
As of press time, the concern seemed to be unfounded. While full turnout numbers for when
the polls closed at 10 p.m. were not available, turnout at 8 o’clock was 63.7%, which was
2.4% more than turnout for the same time in April’s election.
The Joint List did get an expected boost from reuniting after running as two separate blocs
in April, which means, as Netanyahu cried throughout the day, that Israeli-Arab turnout was
likely higher than it had been. Only one exit poll gave the Joint List the 13 seats it had in the
20th Knesset, while the others gave them fewer.
6. The threshold hurts the Right, again It’s ironic. When the electoral threshold was raised to 3.25% five years ago, it was expected
to hurt the Arab parties, which fought it tooth and nail with support from the Left. However
in the past three elections, it was the Right that had parties burn tens of thousands of votes
without being able to clear the threshold.
In April, it was Zehut and even more so, the New Right. This time it’s Otzma Yehudit,
which passed the threshold in half-a-dozen pre-election polls but didn’t make it in any of the
exit polls, just as Netanyahu and Yamina’s leaders warned would happen. In both April and
Tuesday, a right-wing government would have been a near-guarantee had those parties
gotten into the Knesset.
It wasn’t about turnout, after all.
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September 18, 3:15 p.m., Peterson Student Center, Junior Common Room
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