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...I’m pretty sure Cardinal Richelieu would like a word...

Feds cancel ‘partnerships’ with groups that oppose
Trump administration’s policies 
...and it’s taken you how long to do this?


...like they don’t already have that.  But what does J-Lo have to do with Teh Gheyz?


...aaahhh, now all is explained.

And in other Freak Show News:

Trans Pedophile Who Made Sadistic
Porn with His Daughter, 7, Demands
Freedom to Conduct Nude Occult
Rituals in His Women’s Prison 
...ummm what was that middle bit, again?

As Kenny posted:

And in Sports News:



Also: “chaos in Mexico”?  Who’d a thunk?

Screaming Down Abuse From Valhalla

Pussification Parade, Wokism

So the Norwegian World Cup football team did a little publicity thing, posing as Vikings as a nod to their fierce, manly heritage:

Personally, I thought it was excellent stuff, well worth hearkening back to their storied heritage and national pride.

But you know what happened next, don’t you?  Predictably, this:

The response to their creative send-off has split opinion in Norway, with woke critics arguing against the aesthetic due to the Vikings’ large-scale raiding, colonizing, pillaging and raping throughout their dominant era. 

The images were ‘chauvinistic and exclusionary’, according to journalist Markus Slettholm of the newspaper Morgenbladet. 

And he went even further in an interview with NRK, saying it is ‘reminiscent of what neo-Nazis were concerned about ten years ago’.

Jane Haug Skjoldli, a researcher and Norwegian academic recently argued that the Norway kits for the World Cup could be seen as ‘hyper-masculine and right-wing extremist’.

The shirts have rune-like writing on the back and Skjoldli said elements of it are ‘unfortunate and typical of neo-Nazi and fascist symbolic language’.

Of course, how triggering for the fainting goats on the Left.  The fact that all these Bad Things happened, sheesh, over a thousand years ago has no effect on the tender sensibilities of today’s hyper-weenies.

Here’s one for the Norwegian team:  guys, when you’re done with the World Cup, sail a longboat or two back into Oslo, do a little Viking pillaging and fire at the Morgenblatt  building, and feel free to assuage yer base Viking instincts on Wossname Scolding or whatever her name is.  (I don’t know what the Viking term is for “pulling the train”, but whatever.)

And if she’s ugly — I’m taking no bets, here — just do it for spite.

That noise you hear will be cheering and laughter from your ancestors in Valhalla.

Vox Populi

Riotous Assemblies

I see that the Micks have the temerity to be angry about yet the latest crime committed by an “immigrant” — one of the many thousands dumped in Northern Oirland by the various British governments of recent times.

Of course, being Irish, they are expressing their displeasure in the traditional manner:

Violent scenes were witnessed in Northern Ireland again on Wednesday as tensions remain high in the wake of an apparent attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast, allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese asylum seeker.

Hordes of black balaclava masked men clashed with riot officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on Wednesday in areas such as the Belfast suburb of Newtownabbey, where a lorry truck was set on fire by agitators. The truck is believed to have been a municipal “gully emptier” used to clean street drainage systems.

A car was also set on fire on Antrim Road in the area, while fires were also lit at the Sandyknowes roundabout, the Belfast Telegraph reported.

Nearby, police were forced to deploy a water cannon to push back a large crowd attempting to break into a Newtownabbey hotel, likely over at least rumours of migrants being housed inside.

Next will be the bombs, I’m guessing.  I’m pretty sure that the IRA Provos still have a few hidden somewhere since The Troubles subsided.

Needless to say, the BritGov is responding in its traditional way, by labeling the protesters as “extreme Rightwing”, suppressing all online mention of the protests as well as going with the water cannons (in stark contrast to their treatment of the BLM-inspired riots a couple years back).

The response from the British government has seemingly attempted to shift the blame for the violence to those commenting on social media, rather than the horrific stabbing attack, footage of which was widely seen and reports indicating that the UK government had granted the suspect asylum after entering into the country illegally.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer vowed to “crack down on anyone who is fuelling this division,” adding that “there is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.”

Tell that to the Beheaders, old cock, and maybe then we can believe you.

When all the smoke has cleared, I’ll just be curious to see what’s left.  Of everything.  Over There.  In the meantime…

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

From, of all places, Southern California:

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said a home intruder armed with a shotgun died Friday night after being shot during an exchange of gunfire with a San Jacinto, California, homeowner.

Here’s the interesting part:

During the confrontation, the suspect fired multiple rounds at the homeowner. The homeowner returned fire, striking the suspect.  The homeowner was not wounded in the shootout but the alleged intruder was pronounced dead at the scene.

Well, so much for that “shotgun is better than a handgun” trope.  (I’m assuming that Our Hero was using a handgun because as usual, the press report is sadly lacking in important details.)  If my assumption is correct, then it drives home what I’ve been saying for years:  aimed, accurate fire beats spray ‘n pray, nine times out of ten.

Which reminds me:  it’s been weeks since I practiced with my bedside gun, so it’s time I remedied that situation.

So if you’ll excuse me…

Streaming

Education

I’m not talking about downloading movies or anything like that;  I’m talking about the practice of grouping schoolkids into classes according to their abilities — something which has been regarded as doubleplusungood by Big Education for a long time.

As always, Joanne Jacobs brings in da numbers:

“It wasn’t long ago that some educational researchers in the UK and Ireland were calling ability grouping ‘symbolic violence’.”

And yet…

Strong students learn less math in mixed classes, concludes a new Education Endowment Foundation study of English middle schools, reports Richard Adams in The Guardian. Weaker students, as judged by prior math achievement, do about the same whether they’re in mixed classes or lower-track classes, University College London (UCL) researchers found. Furthermore, students placed in lower-track classes were more confident of their math abilities than those in mixed classes.

I can attest to this.  Way back in time, we members of the chalk ‘n slate set we “streamed” in just about every class, from A to D where the numbers supported it (e.g. in Mathematics and English), and from A to C for the elective classes (such as Geography, Biology and History).

I remember starting at St. John’s College in the A class for every course, but by the end of my second year I was moved down to the B classes for Mathematics and Science (Chem and Physics, which were combined into a single discipline).  All the other courses, I remained in the A stream (English, Afrikaans and Latin — our French class was so small that streaming made no sense.

Once I’d got over the shame of being “dropped” — and withstood the anguish of my parents, who couldn’t believe that their “straight A” son was no more — I actually found those two courses less intimidating, because I didn’t have to to work with the super-smart Maths and Science geniuses in the A class who regularly got 90%-100% for all their tests, whilst I was lucky to pass.

In the B classes, however, because the teaching was delivered at a much slower pace, I regularly passed all the tests, along the way discovering that my actual problem was that I had no facility for mathematical processing — ironic, really, considering that I ended up being a statistician and data analyst at the Great Big Research Company, and later as a data model algorithm developer as a consultant.

My problem was never getting the thing solved;  I just needed a lot more time than everyone else to get there.  So tests were always going to be difficult for me because of the limited time thereof.  (I proved this when I took the Core Math class at college, yeah in my fifties:  I could barely scrap through tests with a passing grade, but because the final exam was taken in a lab with no time constraints, I ended up with a final “B” grade — my only one in all the courses I took for my B.A. — because while my semester tests were a dismal failure, I actually scored 99% for my final exam, which luckily for me counted for 80% of the total.)

But I wouldn’t have been able to do even that, if my self-confidence hadn’t been bolstered in high school by being able to work at a slower pace in the B class.

So you can put me on the side of people who don’t think that ability grouping / streaming is symbolic violence.