Curmudgeonly Misanthrope

@libsoftiktok @SFUSD_Supe Fed DoE actually provides very little funding for local schools. If you want to get local school power structures' attention, eliminate property taxes and replace revenue $ for $ with an "education tax" shown on every sales receipt in the jurisdiction. Show the people the scam!

@WorkforLife3 @SkinnyFilter HR also universally facilitates whiners, makes truly productive people hesitant to complain about crappy management, and makes it far, far more difficult to terminate people who should be terminated, even in an "at will" environment. If you have an HR department, that's the job.

The use of "undoubtably" was purposeful and ironic, I guess. HR is a reflection of regulations, the company, plus the person in the role and his status. To respond to your "drag on productivity." HR may advertise for, vet, and hire workers. Without HR, there'd be no hiring. Or, line managers would take on those tasks. Outsourcing those tasks allows production people to do what they do best.

Has anyone done a story on why certain airports 35%+ TSA agents not showing up for work, while others have less than 10% absent? And, how a 20% difference workforce makes the security line wait time 10x? Nashville (and others) airport security lines: 20 minutes or less. Houston, Atlanta, New York, New Orleans - 3 to 4 hour security lines. Is it a difference in union power? Cultural? No need to tell me they're not getting paid; that is not a difference b/t airports. Whoever runs the "good" performing airports should get a raise. Maybe give HR a raise, too.

@WorkforLife3 @SkinnyFilter I wonder if your statement is meant to be ironic, because you just trafficked an absolute against absolutism. If so, bravo! Here's another absolute, beyond dispute: the minimum wage is always zero. That said, I'm interested in a counter-exemplar HR department if you have one.

@JeffCoPops @SkinnyFilter 100% is undoubtedly overstating your case. It's a good idea not to traffic in absolutes.

@johnkonrad Man, that's a tough one! My own highly *conservative* 4.0 daughter (34 ACT, dual sport varsity starter) did not! Thank God! I don't envy the decision you're going to have to make.

My liberal 4.0 daughter just got into her dream school. 7% acceptance rate. Absolutely unreal. Insanely proud of her. Now do I rob a bank, push a cheaper school, put her in student loan debt, or dust off the old captain’s hardhat and head back to sea? Decisions. Decisions.

@Heminator In Buckley's famous formulation, I, too, would rather be governed by the first 100 people in the phonebook then by the "best minds" Washington can find.

I would much rather be protected by plumbers than lawyers

@MaryBowdenMD @grok when was the cap on medical resident hours emplaced and to whom does it apply?

The cap on resident hours was implemented in 2003, the year after I finished. Google it. Conrad Fischer is a liar.

@EdWhelanEPPC @instapundit And that's entirely John Roberts's fault. Now, anyway. Prior to that, it's establishment GOP's fault. Vote them all out!

Sotomayor asks a 3-minute question, cuts off response after 10 words, talks for another 30 seconds, cuts off response after 5 words, and again and again.

@MaryBowdenMD @CDCgov Liar. It's due to be published in June right on schedule with the same (albeit questionable) 3 yr delay to compile and sort that there always is. You discredit yourself and our movement with this engagement farming BS. Please stop.

The new normal. When is @CDCgov going to update their cancer data? Does it really take over 4 years to compile cancer stats?

@MattWalshBlog And what's more, the 80% failure rate, while embarrassing and dispositive in proving TSA incompetent, is almost entirely irrelevant bc the real threat to actual security isn't passengers, it's airport staff who have access to luggage areas, and airplane services providers. 💣😱

The current chaos at airports is just another argument for privatizing airport security. TSA agents are horrible at their jobs. The DHS admitted back in 2017 that, when tested, TSA misses up to EIGHTY PERCENT of weapons and contraband smuggled through screening. And now we have to wait in line for three hours because funding for an incompetent agency with an 80 percent failure rate is being held hostage. The whole thing is insane. Get the government out of airport security. They suck at it. And it's just another bargaining chip these sociopaths can use for their own political agendas.

@TroyWright @MaryBowdenMD Totally agree. It's shameful that it took 3 YEARS even 10 yrs ago. But failure to fast track isn't refusal to publish. That CDC "hasn't published cancer data since 2022" is just a lie. They published 2022 data last June, right on schedule, and Mary is grossly distorting that fact

@JeffCoPops @MaryBowdenMD With AI shouldn't take 3 years. 3 weeks at most.

Why haven’t you updated cancer data since 2022?

@ChristopherHale @RRoughRider Nobody cares, papist.

No Christian can defend this godless man.

@LeeAArnold @BarbMcQuade Benedict Arnold, too, performed admirably before he became a fucking traitor

@BarbMcQuade Mueller had a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart

This is not simply a “mean tweet.” This is a character assassination of an honorable public servant, a concept Trump will never understand, all to rewrite the history of Trump‘s own dishonor.

@DrDaniel832 @delbigtree @stkirsch Interesting that you failed to cite one. And your market surveillance is pure, utter, unalloyed bullshit.

@JeffCoPops @delbigtree Someone has caught @stkirsch 's obsession with open access data. There are dozens of published trials involving hundreds of thousands of patients and billions of doses with post marketing surveillance world wide. Only conspiratorial nutters think we're suppressing data

I was honored to speak in Amsterdam with 15 of the most courageous scientists, doctors, and truth-tellers on this planet, all in one room. People who have lost careers, been arrested, been silenced, been ridiculed, and who showed up anyway. The audience was asked one question: How many of you know someone in your circle who has been injured, disabled, or died from the COVID-19 vaccine? Almost every hand in the room went up. Almost every. Single. Hand. That is your tipping point. The hands of real people who have buried someone, who are watching someone they love deteriorate, who know in their bones what was done to them and to the people they love. We are so far past the tipping point it isn't even a debate anymore. This fight has cost everyone in that room something. Some of us lost everything. But don't be discouraged - we are winning. This is what the winning team looks like. Not loud, not flashy, not backed by billions of dollars or government agencies, but people who decided the truth was worth whatever it cost them. They needed our compliance. They never got it. Rise up. Talk to each other. Celebrate how far we've come. We are just getting started. 🙏 bit.ly/ICANSupport

@TruthDespiteMSM @HansMahncke @ITGuy1959 True in the criminal sense, but Judge Webber found him in contempt for "intentionally false" testimony. Then once SupCt Ark ruled that the office of prof'l conduct must act, he was tried for revocation of his license and admitted his "knowingly misleading and evasive" statement

@JeffCoPops @HansMahncke @ITGuy1959 The difference here is that Clinton was never convicted for lying. I do appreciate you pointing out his inexcusable behavior.

Your friendly reminder that Kevin Clinesmith was let off with a wrist slap by… (Wait for it) …Judge Boasberg.

@TruthDespiteMSM @HansMahncke @ITGuy1959 There is one: William J Clinton. He should have been disbarred for lying under oath in his deposition presided over by the judge in the case. Instead he was merely suspended for 5 years, against ABA guidelines that countermand any suspension longer than 3 years. Two tiers indeed.

As a licensed attorney, I was so appalled by the treatment received by Clinesmith that I conducted a nationwide search for another example of an attorney with a felony conviction for lying to a federal court that was not subsequently disbarred. I was unable to find one. Clinesmith is a poster child for how the establishment protects its own and an indisputable example of our two-tiered justice system

@FmrRepMTG You are an absolutely disgusting narcissist. This soldier does in an accident in Africa years ago you self promoting fool.

Heartbreaking 💔 THIS is what we thought MAGA was going to end. We believed Trump would end it because he told us he would. This is Trump’s new MAGA and I want nothing to do with it. Pray for our troops🙏because Trump is sacrificing them for Israel.

@MorosKostas @instapundit Or you could just read John Lott and his citations.

Something I've learned in the Second Amendment space: "Law office history" often means "actual history, but liberal scholars disagree with it and hide behind credentialism to deny it." In 2A, what we saw for years was people claiming Scalia "invented" an individual right in Heller, based on nonsense the NRA made up in the 1970s. Insert cite to Warren Burger. So I went and looked at as many pre-1900 sources as I could find on what people thought the 2A meant. I found dozens and dozens of them, nearly all confirming they saw the Second Amendment as an individual right. And not only that, but it was obvious to them, stated matter-of-factly. It's in my pinned thread if you want to see for yourself. (I later found out Dave Kopel did the same 30 years ago and did a paper on it). What was derided as "law office history" was correct. It is the supposed liberal "scholars" that made up nonsense. Birthright citizenship is indeed more debatable than the individual right of the Second Amendment. But it IS debatable, as Wurman and Swearer and others have shown.

@ProfMJCleveland @Heminator Speaking as a guy who has used a ton of ratchets to lift up many vehicles, if the ratchet breaks so it doesn't go down, the best way to undo the lift is to make sure no one you want to come back is in the landing zone then knock the whole damn thing over

When I was in law school, we learned about something called “the one-way ratchet theory of rights.”  This legalistic abomination, pushed by Thurgood Marshall among others, contended that once a governmental entity created a new “right,” it could not later decide to take that “right” away.  It now appears federal district courts are putting the one-way ratchet theory to a new use: if a Democrat administration expands the government, a Republican administration cannot later undo the expansion, even if it uses the same procedural mechanisms.  Government can never shrink; it can only grow.  As with all of The Left’s “legal” theories, The Left always wins.

@RobSchneider Now now now, simmer down Rob. It's only really f*cked up once they get to drive-through euthanasia because, you know, then what do you do with the car?

In Canada, depression can be fatal! Canada no longer has a “10 day waiting period” for thinking about killing yourself. Now they have SAME DAY EUTHANASIA! What a fucked up country!