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re: Erickson: A Sickness Spreads
Posted by djmed on 4/16/26 at 9:11 pm to prplhze2000
Yall slam on Erickson but he preaches on what to do to win elections
Stop stepping on your dick
That goes for trump as well
Stop stepping on your dick
That goes for trump as well
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So, illegal, trans, homosexual, etc
Which boxes are left to check?
Which boxes are left to check?
re: Troops are hungry all the time. Are you kidding me !!!!!!!!
Posted by djmed on 4/16/26 at 8:47 pm to southofyou
Whoa
I thought you were ridiculing the notion
But you were serious ??
Our troops are starving!!!!!!
Reeeeeer
I thought you were ridiculing the notion
But you were serious ??
Our troops are starving!!!!!!
Reeeeeer
re: Newsome used his PAC to purchase $1.5 million worth of his book or 2/3 of all sales.
Posted by djmed on 4/16/26 at 8:41 pm to Night Vision
Perpetual grift
I vote for funding
Somehow funding is used to further securing funding . I can use funding for various expenses. You know, day to day ??
I vote for funding
Somehow funding is used to further securing funding . I can use funding for various expenses. You know, day to day ??
NAACP sues xAI over air pollution near Memphis data center
Posted by djmed on 4/16/26 at 3:31 pm
NAACP sues xAI over air pollution near Memphis data center
(The Center Square) – The NAACP filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against Elon Musk’s xAI, saying the company is illegally operating 27 methane gas turbines in Mississippi to power its Colossus 2 data center complex across the state line in Memphis.
In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, the NAACP says emissions from the gas turbines violate the Clean Air Act. The Colossus 2 data center near Memphis is the primary training facility for Grok-4, xAI’s next generation chatbot.
The NAACP says between August and December, xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech, operated 27 gas turbines in Southaven, Miss., “without an air permit or regard for the health and safety of people living nearby.”
Represented by Earthjustice and the Southern Environmental Law Center, the NAACP is suing to halt xAI’s operations until the company obtains permits, installs the most effective pollution controls available, and pays financial penalties for every day that air quality violations occurred.
In response to the legal action, xAI confirmed commitment to environmental standards.
“The temporary power generation units are operating in compliance with all applicable laws,” a company statement said.
“A data center should not be a potential death sentence for a community’s health,” said Abre’ Conner, NAACP director of environmental and climate justice. “By looking to evade clean air laws to operate dirty turbines that emit pollution and known carcinogens, these companies are following a shameful, familiar pattern: asking Black and frontline communities to bear the toxic brunt of ‘innovation.’”
LINK
:rolleyes:
(The Center Square) – The NAACP filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against Elon Musk’s xAI, saying the company is illegally operating 27 methane gas turbines in Mississippi to power its Colossus 2 data center complex across the state line in Memphis.
In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, the NAACP says emissions from the gas turbines violate the Clean Air Act. The Colossus 2 data center near Memphis is the primary training facility for Grok-4, xAI’s next generation chatbot.
The NAACP says between August and December, xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech, operated 27 gas turbines in Southaven, Miss., “without an air permit or regard for the health and safety of people living nearby.”
Represented by Earthjustice and the Southern Environmental Law Center, the NAACP is suing to halt xAI’s operations until the company obtains permits, installs the most effective pollution controls available, and pays financial penalties for every day that air quality violations occurred.
In response to the legal action, xAI confirmed commitment to environmental standards.
“The temporary power generation units are operating in compliance with all applicable laws,” a company statement said.
“A data center should not be a potential death sentence for a community’s health,” said Abre’ Conner, NAACP director of environmental and climate justice. “By looking to evade clean air laws to operate dirty turbines that emit pollution and known carcinogens, these companies are following a shameful, familiar pattern: asking Black and frontline communities to bear the toxic brunt of ‘innovation.’”
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:rolleyes:
Democrats throwing him to the wolves to get him out of the cali governor race
Watch these folks elect Katie Porter
Clown World
Clown World
Seattle is circling the bowl
Posted by djmed on 4/15/26 at 3:33 pm
Seattle Police Officers Guild
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“…we are hundreds of officers short. And we have people working extra shifts all the time to just get to minimums. So we are working, delays are sometimes significant. We're trying to improve that as best we can, but people are — we are stretched thin." - Kent Loux President, Seattle Police Officers Guild
facebook vid
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How transgender ideology works
Posted by djmed on 4/14/26 at 3:02 pm
re: Spanberger & crew continue to wreck shop in VA
Posted by djmed on 4/14/26 at 2:33 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
saving democracy
Democrats Are Killing the Country with Racism
Posted by djmed on 4/13/26 at 10:05 am
Democrats Are Killing the Country with Racism
The war on white Americans continues apace.
Wayne Allyn Root — businessman and ebullient, unapologetic conservative — wrote something the other day that caught my eye. Over an article about “The Great American National Divorce,” his headline blared: “Escape of the White People.” Describing the exodus of New Yorkers to Florida and Californians to Nevada, Root noted that interstate migration across America is speeding up. Why? Because Americans who are not die-hard leftists “can no longer live with radical, extreme, self-destructive, communist SUICIDE BOMBERS.”
As Root repeatedly points out, Democrat-run states are destroying themselves. By electing “evil, communist madmen like LA Mayor Karen Bass, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani,” Democrats have ensured that their cities “will soon collapse and drown in a sea of crime and debt.” For decades, Root argues, white Americans have left Democrat-controlled cities primarily to avoid rising crime and crippling taxes. Now they are leaving because Democrats have put targets on their backs.
White Americans, Root writes, are “sick of being the target of Democrats and government; they’re sick of being attacked and demonized; they’re sick of being a piggy bank to pay for everyone else’s bills — in particular, the costs for welfare, food stamps, housing, public schools, healthcare, police, courts, and prison bills for millions of illegal aliens.” They are sick of absurdly high taxes; Democrats’ “woke” culture; and Democrats’ insistence on welcoming and subsidizing “every transgender weirdo, every illegal alien criminal, and every radical Muslim who hates America, Jews, and Christians.” They are sick of Democrats’ overt discrimination against white Americans; the “massive crime wave; defunded and demoralized police; dumbed-down schools that brainwash your children to change their genders; drug dealers on every corner; homeless tents, pee, poo, and drug needles on sidewalks; and cities that look like 3rd-world s-holes.” White Americans, Root concludes, have been pushed too far.
As if to prove Root’s thesis correct with several exclamation points, NYC mayor Mamdani just unveiled a new “racial equity plan” “to solve decades of neglect and discrimination.” Mamdani claims that his administration must take money from white people and hand it to non-white people in order to make up for “centuries of disinvestment in black and brown New Yorkers.” The mayor’s “Chief Equity Officer” and “Commissioner of the Office of Equity and Racial Justice” — a Ugandan-born, Indian-descent radical socialist named Afua Atta-Mensah — promises “to confront institutional and systemic racism within our city and to begin the work of dismantling it.” So a couple of foreigners have taken over New York City, call it “our city,” and are now robbing white Americans because of the color of their skin. They’re proving Wayne Root right in real time.
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The war on white Americans continues apace.
Wayne Allyn Root — businessman and ebullient, unapologetic conservative — wrote something the other day that caught my eye. Over an article about “The Great American National Divorce,” his headline blared: “Escape of the White People.” Describing the exodus of New Yorkers to Florida and Californians to Nevada, Root noted that interstate migration across America is speeding up. Why? Because Americans who are not die-hard leftists “can no longer live with radical, extreme, self-destructive, communist SUICIDE BOMBERS.”
As Root repeatedly points out, Democrat-run states are destroying themselves. By electing “evil, communist madmen like LA Mayor Karen Bass, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani,” Democrats have ensured that their cities “will soon collapse and drown in a sea of crime and debt.” For decades, Root argues, white Americans have left Democrat-controlled cities primarily to avoid rising crime and crippling taxes. Now they are leaving because Democrats have put targets on their backs.
White Americans, Root writes, are “sick of being the target of Democrats and government; they’re sick of being attacked and demonized; they’re sick of being a piggy bank to pay for everyone else’s bills — in particular, the costs for welfare, food stamps, housing, public schools, healthcare, police, courts, and prison bills for millions of illegal aliens.” They are sick of absurdly high taxes; Democrats’ “woke” culture; and Democrats’ insistence on welcoming and subsidizing “every transgender weirdo, every illegal alien criminal, and every radical Muslim who hates America, Jews, and Christians.” They are sick of Democrats’ overt discrimination against white Americans; the “massive crime wave; defunded and demoralized police; dumbed-down schools that brainwash your children to change their genders; drug dealers on every corner; homeless tents, pee, poo, and drug needles on sidewalks; and cities that look like 3rd-world s-holes.” White Americans, Root concludes, have been pushed too far.
As if to prove Root’s thesis correct with several exclamation points, NYC mayor Mamdani just unveiled a new “racial equity plan” “to solve decades of neglect and discrimination.” Mamdani claims that his administration must take money from white people and hand it to non-white people in order to make up for “centuries of disinvestment in black and brown New Yorkers.” The mayor’s “Chief Equity Officer” and “Commissioner of the Office of Equity and Racial Justice” — a Ugandan-born, Indian-descent radical socialist named Afua Atta-Mensah — promises “to confront institutional and systemic racism within our city and to begin the work of dismantling it.” So a couple of foreigners have taken over New York City, call it “our city,” and are now robbing white Americans because of the color of their skin. They’re proving Wayne Root right in real time.
LINK
Rules for Radicals Turns 55: Division Without Deliverance
Posted by djmed on 4/13/26 at 9:36 am
Rules for Radicals Turns 55: Division Without Deliverance
Fifty-five years after Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals landed on shelves in 1971, I am applying to it the only framework that matters: a performance audit. The question is not whether Alinsky's thirteen tactics are morally defensible. The question is whether they worked for the constituencies they claimed to champion. The answer is no — and the data are not subtle. This is not merely a conservative grievance. It is a portfolio performance review. And the returns are dismal.
Alinsky was a Chicago community organizer who inverted Machiavelli's The Prince. Where Machiavelli counseled the powerful on how to hold power, Alinsky armed outsiders with the tools to seize it. His framework thrived on manufactured conflict as the exclusive engine of change. The book's prologue opens by hailing Lucifer as the original radical — the first to "secure his own kingdom." His philosophy was pure pragmatism: ends justify means, and the pressure must never let up. He outlined 13 rules, the most consequential of which was Rule 13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That single instruction has done more damage to American civic culture than any piece of legislation in the last half century — because a framework built on perpetual pressure has no roadmap for governance. Governance requires the one thing Alinsky treated as total surrender: compromise.
His philosophy seeped into the mainstream with remarkable efficiency. Hillary Rodham's 1969 Wellesley senior thesis dissected Alinsky's methods across ninety-two pages, and she corresponded directly with the man himself, who offered her a job upon graduation. She declined in favor of law school — a choice that proved strategically superior to anything Alinsky could have offered. Barack Obama honed the same organizing model as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side before scaling it nationally. Alinsky died in 1972. His tactics found a permanent home in Democratic political strategy.
The contemporary ledger is instructive. Occupy Wall Street (2011) personalized "the 1 percent," sustained maximum pressure, and generated zero legislative achievements. The movement dissolved without a single durable reform. The 2020 "defund the police" campaign produced a documented spike in homicide rates across major cities between 2020 and 2022 — falling hardest on the low-income urban neighborhoods Alinsky claimed to defend. Campus unrest in 2024–25 destroyed open discourse at the universities that have produced more genuine economic mobility than any activist campaign in American history, per FIRE's 2025 campus free speech rankings. In each case, the organizers moved on to the next campaign. The communities they left behind absorbed all the costs
LINK.
Fifty-five years after Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals landed on shelves in 1971, I am applying to it the only framework that matters: a performance audit. The question is not whether Alinsky's thirteen tactics are morally defensible. The question is whether they worked for the constituencies they claimed to champion. The answer is no — and the data are not subtle. This is not merely a conservative grievance. It is a portfolio performance review. And the returns are dismal.
Alinsky was a Chicago community organizer who inverted Machiavelli's The Prince. Where Machiavelli counseled the powerful on how to hold power, Alinsky armed outsiders with the tools to seize it. His framework thrived on manufactured conflict as the exclusive engine of change. The book's prologue opens by hailing Lucifer as the original radical — the first to "secure his own kingdom." His philosophy was pure pragmatism: ends justify means, and the pressure must never let up. He outlined 13 rules, the most consequential of which was Rule 13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That single instruction has done more damage to American civic culture than any piece of legislation in the last half century — because a framework built on perpetual pressure has no roadmap for governance. Governance requires the one thing Alinsky treated as total surrender: compromise.
His philosophy seeped into the mainstream with remarkable efficiency. Hillary Rodham's 1969 Wellesley senior thesis dissected Alinsky's methods across ninety-two pages, and she corresponded directly with the man himself, who offered her a job upon graduation. She declined in favor of law school — a choice that proved strategically superior to anything Alinsky could have offered. Barack Obama honed the same organizing model as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side before scaling it nationally. Alinsky died in 1972. His tactics found a permanent home in Democratic political strategy.
The contemporary ledger is instructive. Occupy Wall Street (2011) personalized "the 1 percent," sustained maximum pressure, and generated zero legislative achievements. The movement dissolved without a single durable reform. The 2020 "defund the police" campaign produced a documented spike in homicide rates across major cities between 2020 and 2022 — falling hardest on the low-income urban neighborhoods Alinsky claimed to defend. Campus unrest in 2024–25 destroyed open discourse at the universities that have produced more genuine economic mobility than any activist campaign in American history, per FIRE's 2025 campus free speech rankings. In each case, the organizers moved on to the next campaign. The communities they left behind absorbed all the costs
LINK.
By All Means, Let the War Crimes Trials Begin!
Posted by djmed on 4/13/26 at 8:56 am
By All Means, Let the War Crimes Trials Begin!
Trump’s critics cry “war crimes” while ignoring decades of U.S. precedent—revealing less a legal argument than a reflexive, and deeply selective, political outrage.
By Victor Davis Hanson
The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet.
He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
His wording may have been sloppy, but Trump obviously meant that the murderous civilization/culture of radical Iranian theocratic Islam would cease to exist and wouldn’t come back once power plants and transportation systems crucial to the regime’s survival were cut off.
Why do we know that?
Because, unlike in most prior American wars, Trump has never targeted dual-use infrastructure—not in bombing ISIS, not in removing the Venezuelan thug Nicolás Maduro, not in the 2025 bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, and not in the present war—with the exception of a key bridge central to the regime’s efforts to reposition missile assets to avoid air strikes.
Ever since Trump announced that “help is on the way” to the Iranian people, the entire aim of the five-week war has been to selectively target the regime’s command and control and military assets.
The goal was to diminish its threats abroad, while weakening and humiliating the mullahcracy at home—so that soon the Iranian people might at last be able to overthrow the odious theocracy.
Trump’s critics knew all that.
But they see political advantage in tagging Trump as a Strangelovian madman, no different from the Nazi criminals in the docket at Nuremberg.
A few less unhinged people argue that his rhetoric nevertheless comes across as unpresidential.
Perhaps.
LINK
Trump’s critics cry “war crimes” while ignoring decades of U.S. precedent—revealing less a legal argument than a reflexive, and deeply selective, political outrage.
By Victor Davis Hanson
The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet.
He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
His wording may have been sloppy, but Trump obviously meant that the murderous civilization/culture of radical Iranian theocratic Islam would cease to exist and wouldn’t come back once power plants and transportation systems crucial to the regime’s survival were cut off.
Why do we know that?
Because, unlike in most prior American wars, Trump has never targeted dual-use infrastructure—not in bombing ISIS, not in removing the Venezuelan thug Nicolás Maduro, not in the 2025 bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, and not in the present war—with the exception of a key bridge central to the regime’s efforts to reposition missile assets to avoid air strikes.
Ever since Trump announced that “help is on the way” to the Iranian people, the entire aim of the five-week war has been to selectively target the regime’s command and control and military assets.
The goal was to diminish its threats abroad, while weakening and humiliating the mullahcracy at home—so that soon the Iranian people might at last be able to overthrow the odious theocracy.
Trump’s critics knew all that.
But they see political advantage in tagging Trump as a Strangelovian madman, no different from the Nazi criminals in the docket at Nuremberg.
A few less unhinged people argue that his rhetoric nevertheless comes across as unpresidential.
Perhaps.
LINK
re: Even if programmed to be woke. will AI become racist if it achieves AGI?
Posted by djmed on 4/11/26 at 9:17 pm to RCDfan1950
The potential list of pathogens/ viruses/ deadly bacteria ai could come up with is endless
re: Conservative female journalist attacked
Posted by djmed on 4/11/26 at 8:06 pm to ManBearTiger
Night sticks
Hamas Signals No Retreat: The US Fantasy of Disarmament and Peace
Posted by djmed on 4/10/26 at 10:39 am
Hamas Signals No Retreat: The US Fantasy of Disarmament and Peace
Hamas remains fully committed to jihad (holy war) and rejects disarmament.
The "Board of Peace" is therefore confronting a harsh reality: Hamas, like Iran, is not motivated by deadlines, incentives, or promises of reconstruction. It is motivated by ideology and by war.
In Hamas's worldview, the war is not about the Gaza Strip. It is about reshaping the Middle East -- and beyond -- in its own image.
Any policy based on the assumption that Hamas can be persuaded to disarm is simply detached from reality.
The danger is that this rhetoric is designed to inflame public opinion in Arab and Islamic countries against their own governments, potentially destabilizing countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain that have chosen a path of pragmatism, normalization, and cooperation with Israel and the West.
Hamas remains a partner of Iran's regional war machine, a committed enemy of peace, and a direct threat to the stability of the Middle East.
The question is whether the US is ready to listen.
LINK
Hamas remains fully committed to jihad (holy war) and rejects disarmament.
The "Board of Peace" is therefore confronting a harsh reality: Hamas, like Iran, is not motivated by deadlines, incentives, or promises of reconstruction. It is motivated by ideology and by war.
In Hamas's worldview, the war is not about the Gaza Strip. It is about reshaping the Middle East -- and beyond -- in its own image.
Any policy based on the assumption that Hamas can be persuaded to disarm is simply detached from reality.
The danger is that this rhetoric is designed to inflame public opinion in Arab and Islamic countries against their own governments, potentially destabilizing countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain that have chosen a path of pragmatism, normalization, and cooperation with Israel and the West.
Hamas remains a partner of Iran's regional war machine, a committed enemy of peace, and a direct threat to the stability of the Middle East.
The question is whether the US is ready to listen.
LINK
re: Joy Reid: "Whites can't originally invent anything"
Posted by djmed on 4/10/26 at 10:05 am to Demonbengal
permit me a brief and very incomplete list of things white people have done or invented:
Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera.
Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera.
re: DeCarlos Brown Jr. found incompetent to proceed in Charlotte light rail killing
Posted by djmed on 4/9/26 at 7:50 pm to Indefatigable
I bet they turn him loose
Maybe not tomorrow but within months
Not years
Maybe not tomorrow but within months
Not years
re: If you are confused about whats happening, this may help.
Posted by djmed on 4/9/26 at 7:47 pm to RiverCityTider
Everyone that could “negotiate “ is dead?
Dad gives the school board a verbal smackdown
Posted by djmed on 4/9/26 at 3:51 pm
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