[HOTAIR] the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... School Board member Alison Collins is under significant pressure to resign after tweets she posted about Asian Americans back in 2016 were brought to light by a parent group seeking to oust her. As I pointed out yesterday, one of Collins tweets said, "Many Asian Am. believe they benefit from the ’model minority’ BS...They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ’get ahead.'" Today the San Francisco Chronicle reports on the significant backlash to those statements.
School board member Jenny Lam called for Collins to resign from the board.
"I’m shocked, dismayed, personally hurt by the remarks about Asian American students, parents and teachers," Lam said, adding the board makes decisions that affect tens of thousands of people and it’s critical to have leaders representing all students.
Lam said she spoke to Collins on Friday.
"I asked, and I think it’s in the best interest of the school district and leadership for her to step down from the Board of Education," Lam said...
Mayor London Breed also strongly condemned the posts, but did not directly call for her resignation.
"All of our young people in our schools need to feel respected and supported, and you simply can’t use words like that," she said in a statement. "Asian people in this country have long faced very real racism, including here in San Francisco, and you can’t just broad brush their experience in a way that is so harmful and offensive.
Mayor Breed didn’t initially call for Collins’ resignation but she has since changed her mind.
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How do you define "white supremacist thinking"? Maybe it was meant as a complement. Does Lam think Asians should think like other minorities and be poor? It's like so many other things that Democrats say and do, it doesn't make any sense.
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This nasty little specimen is the spawn of the same type of biracial left-wing academic hippie freaks as those who gave the world Soetoro and KamalHo.
(BTW, "European Conservative" has been awfully quiet lately.)
[RT] A Bavarian lawmaker has quit his party offices amid a probe into allegations he took bribes to arrange procurement contracts for face masks. He is the fourth politician connected to Chancellor Angela Merkel to resign this month.
Alfred Sauter is a three-decade veteran of the Christian Social Union (CSU), a sister party of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) based in the southern German state of Bavaria. He served two stints as the state’s minister for justice in the 1990s, and until Sunday afternoon sat on the CSU’s board, chaired its financial committee and held the district chairmanship of the CSU in his hometown of Guenzburg.
Sauter relinquished all of these offices on Sunday and paused his membership of the party’s parliamentary group, days before the CSU was due to hold a vote on expelling him.
His resignation came as prosecutors in Munich investigated reports that he took bribes from a supplier of protective equipment to land them a lucrative contract with the state as the coronavirus pandemic hit Bavaria last year. Sauter rejected the allegations of bribery, and claimed that any money he was given personally in relation to the deal was donated to charity. "What charity?" "The Clinton Sauter Foundation"
In a letter to party bosses seen by the Augsburger Allgemeine on Sunday, Sauter said that he was stepping down to deflect bad publicity away from his party, but insisted that he was innocent.
"I am doing this even though I am convinced that I have in no way violated my parliamentary duties or the law," he said. He went on to blast the CSU for even considering a vote on expelling him, writing that "to exclude a member of parliament on suspicion — in my case after a 31-year membership — before clarifying the facts... is incompatible with the constitutional rights of the MP."
A corruption scandal involving a regional political figure wouldn’t usually make international headlines, but Sauter is at least the third elected official this month to resign in the face of similar accusations, all of them members of the CSU and CDU.
The multiple scandals came immediately before voters went to the polls in the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The CDU suffered heavy losses in both states, a dark omen given their previous support for the party, especially in the run-up to a general election in September.
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Scandals just before the vote? Leaked by the opposition? How American!
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(BTW, "European Conservative" has been awfully quiet lately.)
Sometimes we disagree with him but we still respect him and appreciate a commenter who can give us the European viewpoint. It'd be awfully dull if we all agreed all the time.
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In California, our own Governor Newsom has made sketchy mask deals as well.
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If Newsom gets a big handout from Big Buttplug, you know that is next on Wheel of Fauci.
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@ #2 - I meant that as a joke that 'EC' might be wrapped up in this scandal as it had occurred to me that I haven't seen any posts from him in a while. I appreciate his contributions.
It'd be awfully dull if we all agreed all the time.
h/t Red State
...Gov. Noem received quite a lot of initial criticism from groups and individuals on the right for her reluctance to simply sign the legislation as drafted and passed by the legislature. I do not have any information on how active members of her administration were in the drafting of the final language, but I’m certain it did not come as a surprise to her and her staff.
In fact, it seems that her reluctance to sign the legislation as passed stems from the feedback she has received from sources outside South Dakota on how the legislation might be received by interests outside the state — both corporate and others. Now, I know that little Kristi is a darling of the "covid sceptics" crowd. So, I did a little calculation. We know that infection rates depend on population density: the more people per square mile, the more contacts. Now New Jersey has 1210 people/sqmi (square mile) and 2722 covid dead/million. Which works to 2722/1210 = 2.25. South Dakota has 11.1 people/sqmi and 2174 covid dead/million.. That is, 2174/11.1 = 195.85.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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Read a day or do ago (sorry link down the memory hole) that her primary concern is that businesses are complaining that SD would lose out on college bowl games and tournaments if it were signed as is. Looking to exempt college sports. Which, if true, speaks ill of Ms. Noem.
#2
I've been in South Dakota. The square mile comparison is useless. There are enormous areas with few or no people. To use those hundreds of square miles in calculations is useless.
It would be more useful to pick, say, the four most populous counties, or some other area whose population density is equal to New Jersey's.
So, as to the supposed result of the calculations....makes you wonder alright.
Try google earth to get an idea of how SD's population is arranged.
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03/22/2021 7:09 Comments ||
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When conjuring magic numbers, getting the numbers you want to wind up with is the whole point...
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03/22/2021 9:21 Comments ||
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^ "Statistics can be used to support many things, most notably, statisticians"
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No state should be run for the benefit of the NCAA's political position du jour. Ever.
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Wasn't it there where Noem's Sec of State killed a person driving a car and claimed he hit a deer? I think finding a full deck is getting harder and harder.
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BETRAYAL: Noem 'Neutered' Bill Protecting Women's Sports “Gov. Noem’s veto would scrap the vast majority of the bill text and would strip protections for female athletes in collegiate sports in the state. Additionally, it would eliminate all reasonable enforcement mechanisms, neutering the legislation so much as to render it meaningless.”
#13
Not a deal breaker. Gonna do it, do it right with all the legal aspects accounted for. Not gonna do it, can still let the alumni pay for their entertainment and cut funds to public secondary education by specifying that this amount is for women only activities and the participation of a DNA testing male is a violation of that agreement.
If you question whether locking up healthy people is the best possible response to a pandemic suddenly you are a "COVID skeptic"?
All sorts of common slurs thrown at people who ended up being right about Sturgis not being a mass die-off.
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What is the elderly rate in SD? How was the death rate diff than previous years? Hospitals code any death as covid because they make 20-30% above what cms typically pays. Also, pcr tests are non diagnostic as they cannot differentiate URI type, per AMA CPT.
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Since Red State hates Trump they most likely aren't fans of Gov Noem either.
I'm interested in hearing her side of things before I pass judgement.
Bills are often shot down because of things slipped into them or because of unclear wording and such. It is possible something like that is happening here.
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Another hill not to die on? If keeping women from being beaten (literally and figuratively) by mental patients and opportunists in drag isn't a fight worth fighting, what is? You've got to fight back sometime, or its just an endless series of surrenders.
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She sent it back to have certain part re-written. That is not the same as rejecting entirely.
[NYPOST] Republican Julia Letlow easily won a Saturday special election for the northeast Louisiana-based U.S. House seat that her husband, Luke, couldn’t fill because of his death from complications related to COVID-19.
With the victory, Julia Letlow becomes the third woman ever elected to the U.S. House from Louisiana, the first Republican woman elected to Congress from the state and the only woman among its current congressional delegation.
She trounced 11 other contenders to capture the 5th District seat in the primary.
"This is an incredible moment, and it is truly hard to put into words. What was born out of the terrible tragedy of losing my husband, Luke, has become my mission in his honor to carry the torch and serve the good people of Louisiana’s 5th District," Julia Letlow said in a statement.
Farther south, the race to fill a second vacant congressional seat for Louisiana was headed to an April 24 runoff, but the seat was certain to stay in Democratic hands.
Two Democratic state senators from New Orleans — Troy Carter and Karen Carter Peterson — secured spots in the runoff after leading the field among 15 candidates. The New Orleans-based 2nd District seat is open because Democrat Cedric Richmond took a job as a special adviser to President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
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03/22/2021 00:00 ||
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