I suppose when you have a $26 billion endowment fund you can get away with this

last white man standing

Princeton admits only 129 white American males out of 1,498

Princeton has offered admission to its class of 2025 to 1,498 applicants. According to numbers provided by the University, fewer than nine percent of them (129 out of the 1498) are white American males. Of that small number many — perhaps most — are recruited athletes.

68 percent of the admitted applicants identify as “persons of color.” 14 percent identify as international students. 52 percent are female. 48 percent are male. 

Putting these numbers together, we see that 82 percent of those admitted identify as “persons of color” or international students, while 18 percent are white Americans. Less than half of that small group are male.

We'll all be safe tomorrow

Reports: Biden will claim the executive authority to repeal the 2nd Amendment tomorrow.

He's not insane, he's just ... gone

Mongo have great pain between his ears

Biden promises trains will travel at thrice the speed `of light, or something.

“What we’re really doing is raising the bar on what we can imagine. Imagine a world where you and your family can travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas on a high-speed train close to as fast as you can go across the country in a plane,” Biden said at the White House.

He added: “I tell the kids, the young people who work for me, tell my kids when I go on college campuses: they’re going to see more change in the next 10 years than we’ve seen in the last 50 years. We’re going to talk about commercial aircraft flying at subsonic speeds — supersonic speeds. To be able, figuratively, if you may, if we decide to do it, traverse the world in about an hour, travel 21,000 miles an hour. So much is changing and we have got to lead it.”

The globe’s circumference is 24,901 miles. Biden’s proposed rate of air travel would be more than 15 times faster than the Concorde’s cruising speed. 

Good Lord

14 Coventry Lane, Riverside, priced at $3.395 million, is under contract. I suppose there’s a bright spot: it asked $4.375 million back in 2016, but people, these are not real prices.

But plenty of room for the creditors’ committee

No, not The Babylon Bee, it's Seattle, Jake

Schools reopen, surrounded by hobo camps that the School board refuses to clear. If there’s anything good that will come out of this panic, it’ll be the exposure of our public education system as the enemy that it is.

Seattle students will begin a return to in-classroom learning in April, but parents were left shocked after learning that homeless encampments, located on the grounds of two schools welcoming kids back, will likely remain even after the schools reopen.

“As students at Seattle Public Schools start to return for in-person learning following the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the district continues to grapple with the presence of two homeless encampments that have taken root on a pair of the district’s campuses,” Seattle’s KOMO reported. ‘The presence of the encampments at Broadview Thomson K-8, located at 13052 Greenwood Ave., and Edmond S. Meany Middle School, located at 201 21st Ave., has stirred concern among parents and residents who live in the area. They are outraged that students will be back in class Monday and the district has not yet resolved what they describe as a dangerous problem.”

“Neighbors have been calling on Seattle Public Schools for months to remove the camp that they say has brought increasing problems to their neighborhood,” KOMO reported earlier this week. In February, they say, a woman died of an overdose in the camp, which, neighbors contend, has become a hotbed for illegal drug activity.

The city of Seattle has so far refused to move the camp because, city officials say, the camp is on the grounds of Seattle Public Schools, which must tackle the problem for itself or officially request help from the city of Seattle.

… [The School Board responds]

“The pandemic has deepened inequities, including access to housing. It is a crisis that Seattle must find a solution for and do so compassionately,” the district said in its own statement. “We are aware of an encampment near Broadview-Thomson K-8. While SPS owns property behind the school, the encampment is not on the Broadview-Thomson school campus. It is on the other side of a fence away from school grounds. Seattle Public Schools supports prompt outreach to residents, and efforts to identify long term solutions.”

Seattle reporter Jason Rantz noted that, in leaked emails, the school district actually refused to request the mayor’s office sweep the camps for illegal activity.

“Members of the Seattle School Board demanded the mayor’s office not sweep dangerous and growing homeless encampments on two school properties,” Rantz reported Tuesday. “Seattle School Board President Chandra Hampson and Director Zachary DeWolf tried to stop Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office from sweeping encampments near Meany Middle School on Capitol Hill, and at Broadview Thomson K-8 in Bitter Lake.”

What would we do without the NYT?

April 30, 2020: No vaccine before 2036 [use this as the active link, vs screenshots]

Millions of seemingly educated people read this newspaper and believe that they’re informed.

Stephen Green has the story at PJ Media

This guy with the blue checkmark and the nice position at the New York Times.

He’s the craziest person in the world today.

For not deleting this entire thread and retreating to a quiet life far from the public eye.

Insanity Wrap wonders sometimes if even an opinion writer should maybe get a fact right every now and then.

United Airlines announces: “you'll have a 50/50 chance of survival on our flights, but you’ll die flying the Equity Skies of America — feel better?”

OH hell, anyone can fly one of these things, can’t they?

“Half our new pilots will be hired on the basis of their skin color and gender”

Flush the bilges, from the Commandant down

David H. Berger: “My Marines may die, but they’ll die in a safe space, free from cisgender white racism”.

BUT THEIR TRANSGENDER AWARENESS TRAINING WAS UP TO DATE:

Heartbroken families of fallen Marines, sailor react to failures exposed in tragic AAV sinking investigation.

When a Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicle with 15 Marines and one sailor aboard started sinking off the coast of California on July 30, 2020, no safety boat was in sight.

As the water inside the AAV rose to calf level the vehicle commander went to the top and started waiving the “November” flag ― a blue and white checkered flag indicating a possible sinking, because the ship’s radio communications were down.

The Marine stood waving the November flag for 20 minutes before any neighboring vehicles noticed. As the vehicle was going down, one of the AAV crewman told the infantry Marines in the back to open the rear hatch so they could escape, a slide into the report obtained by Marine Corps Times said.

When the cargo hatch would not open the crewman attempted to open the hatch himself before discovering that the “handle had spun past the open position due to a broken woodruff key,” which delayed evacuation.

Eventually two AAVs moved to help the sinking vehicle. But that quickly made the situation, which was becoming dire, worse.

One of the rescue vehicles hit the sinking vehicle, pushing it broadside into the waves. After one large wave hit, water rushed into the sinking vehicle ― sending it rapidly to the floor of the ocean.
At this point eleven service members were still inside, sinking with their ship in darkness, as the emergency egress lighting had failed. The other five Marines had safely evacuated from the vehicle before it completely sank.

An investigation into the accident showed the sinking was caused by a series of errors starting at the top of the 1st Marine Division, which sent Marines to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, all the way down to the AAV crew, which failed to evacuate the Marines when the water started to rapidly rise inside the vehicle.

All but one of the 11 service members who went down with the AAV were able to escape the vehicle before it hit the ocean floor. But most of those service members never reached the water’s surface.

They all were wearing heavy small arms protective inserts plate carriers. Seven still had Kevlar helmets on and two still had their rifles on their body, weighing them down and preventing any chance they had to get to the surface.

You can’t expect to keep up training and maintenance while also maintaining a full schedule of political indoctrination classes

the few, the proud, the drowned

I'll be talking to my web guru tomorrow about changing comment hosts

After voting to change its mascot from a condom to a tree, Portland school discovers a new problem: people have hanged negroes from tree limbs. OH, what to do, what to do?

If you don’t see the trans-gendered, Pacific Islander persons of color dangling from these branches, you’re waaasisst!

I’m beyond even trying to make this shit up.

The adoption of a new mascot for Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School was put on pause, after concerns about potential connotations of lynching. 

After adopting a new namesake earlier this year, the Southwest Portland high school also wants to ditch its Trojan mascot. A committee comprised of students, staff and community members suggested the evergreens as the school's new mascot. 

"Evergreens are characterized by the life-giving force of their foliage, the strength of their massive trunk, and the depth of their roots—in an individual tree and as a forest of trees," Ellen Whatmore, a teacher and mascot committee member at Wells-Barnett High School said, reading from a resolution. "They provide shelter and sustenance. They have histories that preclude us and will continue in perpetuity after we are no more." 

But just before the Portland Public Schools Board of Education's vote to approve the new mascot Tuesday, March 30, Director Michelle DePass shared community concerns of an unwanted correlation between Ida B. Wells—the historic Black activist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who documented and crusaded against lynching—and a tree which could conjure up reminders of hanging people with ropes from branches.

"I'm wondering if there was any concern with the imagery there, in using a tree ... as our mascot?" DePass asked the renaming and mascot committee. "I think everyone comes with blind spots and I think that might've been a really big blind spot." 

School Principal Filip Hristic told the school board that Wells-Barnett's family has been supportive of the school's efforts to honor and promote her legacy, but shared DePass's concerns.