What girl from Belarus is doing to attend Columbia while Americans mewl about "microaggressions"

http://nypost.com/2016/04/24/getting-an-ivy-league-degree-was-worth-being-homeless/

She may have difficulty getting a foot in the door of a big organization, and even more trouble staying there if she does get hired. In my experience, major corporations and other bureaucracies don't like tough, focused people who keep to themselves. In those environments, social style and relationships dictate employment and advancement. One other thing: she's not good-looking. That's a huge handicap in large organizations, all the hypocritical lying they do there not withstanding.

BTW, when I was an undergrad there was a guy who lived in the student lounges of the dorms. At night he went around campus with bags, picking pop cans out of trash.

He had a hard, isolated look in his eyes. He didn't say much, and I never saw him socialize. His clothing was a bit odd, and his mannerisms were abrupt. He moved through a lounge, like someone being paid by the piece -- or like someone being hunted.

More violence funded by - teehee! giggle! - people wanting to get high.

This is what happens when you don't change the law before you decide it's all about you, screw that law.

Unexpectedly!

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/25/get-ready-for-obamacare-premiums-to-rise-sharply-again/

Remember when you could keep your plan, your doctor and save (family of four) $2,500? good times, good times.

Some predictions from the 1970 earth day:

http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/the_great_die_off/#283313

A taste:

Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.

Science is what happens when you make predictions on your theory, and then find out if they're right, close, or worthless.

Makhzoomi, an Iraqi refugee and senior at the University of California Berkeley, was removed from an April 6 flight from Los Angeles to Oakland after another passenger told crew she overheard “potentially threatening comments.” Makhzoomi’s comments came during a conversation with his uncle.

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2016/04/southwest-airlines-provides-new-details-on-college-student-removed-from-plane-after-speaking-arabic.html/

More than a few people in the USofA have learned Arabic, Pashtun, or Urdu in the past 15 or so years...just because you speak a somewhat exotic language doesn't mean no one within listening distance doesn't understand what you're saying.

"Science is what happens when you make predictions on your theory, and then find out if they're right, close, or worthless."

Which is one reason I'm a global warming skeptic. People who are given a lot of credibility by the government and media have made predictions about times which are now in the past, and none of those things have come to pass. Manhattan is not under water. England still gets snow in the winter. Malaria has not wiped out half of the U.S. population, and the yearly average number of major hurricanes over the past two decades is in line with historical trends.

Good for you, Bern!

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sanders-thinks-about-banning-cigarettes/article/2589395

and the yearly average number of major hurricanes over the past two decades is in line with historical trends

Not to mention the 10 year+ span of no hurricanes striking Florida.

What the word? oh, yea, unexpectedly!

Ukraine still working on the Chernobyl thingy.

No worries!

"Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”"

But he was right IRA. Civilization did end. As evidence I present Justin Bieber. (Though that starvation thing was flat wrong.)

Years ago, one of the teachers at the University I was attending to told us that his other employer (Cargill) did a study of the future of human alimentation. They came with the conclusion that the current methods of farming and the logistics involved around it will not be able to catch up with the population growth. And evenif they do, food that is common right now will be a luxury item in that future.

They also came with the conclusion that the most efficient way of delivering nourishment would be in a form of kibbles for humans.

At the end of the lecture and all the bow wow wow jokes, he said that he was happy he was very old and that he would not live to see if the company's research would be true.

Tar, feathers, rail: some assembly required.

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/25/civil-forfeiture-oklahoma-police-seize-money-intended-for-christian-school-orphanage/

SO IT WAS KIND OF A MIXED WEEK FOR THE NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE:

… http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/232254/

from Amy' article above:

"She was also granted a life-changing $12,000 Levin-Goffe Scholarship for LGBTQI immigrants."

If I was homeless and working for scraps I'd become "questioning" myself.

I am "transfinancial - a rich person trapped in a poor person's body. Help. Send money.

(Gleefully stolen from Facebook.)

Texas police rob Christian band of $53,000.

Correction: Oklahoma police.

Good for you, Bern! ~ I R A Darth Aggie at April 25, 2016 7:44 AM

So, as Senator, why hasn't he introduced legislation to do so?

Or, does he think as president, he can simply order it and take way the livelihoods of thousands of Americans who work in growing, aging, processing, and selling tobacco products? Is he really that ignorant about economics? Is he really that ignorant about how the presidency and the US government works?