Politico recaps some of the Florida Follies. My favorite is the faulty ballot design that, like the infamous butterfly ballot of 2000, may have swung the election.
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Snipes - out
Scott - In
Commander Ballast - out
DeSantis - in
Comrade Gillum - out
Am I missing anyone?
Posted by: Jim Eagle | November 19, 2018 at 08:55 AM
Good synopsis, JiB. For now.
Posted by: RattlerGator | November 19, 2018 at 09:11 AM
Your Latin Phrase of the Day:
Belli viri bellas feminas amant.
Have no idea how I lucked out.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | November 19, 2018 at 09:11 AM
I thought this was a football thread.
Posted by: henry | November 19, 2018 at 09:12 AM
Commander Ballast.
That's funny.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | November 19, 2018 at 09:12 AM
RG,
Frederick is over in Belgium with his Mom visiting his grand-father. He streamed some of the Jags game, and is mad as a wet hornet how they let Big Ben and the Steelers back in the game.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | November 19, 2018 at 09:12 AM
Politico needs to correct the Caputo report for a minor mistake. Palm Beach is to the north of Broward not south, and Miami-Dade is to the south of Broward, not north. All that in an article about mistakes, and errors in the ballot design. LOL.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | November 19, 2018 at 09:21 AM
THE ULTIMATE FAKE NEWS
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 09:27 AM
JiB, I think all of Northeast Florida is pissed off like we've never been pissed off before. It may have been the most disheartening loss I've seen this franchise suffer.
Especially because our hopes were so high, the vibe was so good, all signs pointing in the right direction. Now, we've done a 180 in the seeming blink of an eye. Incredible. Football is just incredible.
Posted by: RattlerGator | November 19, 2018 at 09:35 AM
So you see, henry, this *is* a football thread.
Posted by: RattlerGator | November 19, 2018 at 09:36 AM
And Marc capito is a former reporter for my fishwrap, so he has no excuse.
Posted by: Narciso79 | November 19, 2018 at 09:37 AM
This is the platform of a moribund party awash in dark money yet bereft of genuine ideas for improving the lives of average Americans. And, if gaining power over all three branches of government requires destroying the credibility of our electoral process, the Democrats are for it. Not one called for Abrams to stop accusing Brian Kemp — without evidence — of voter suppression. Not one asked Bill Nelson to stop accusing Rick Scott — without evidence — of meddling with the Florida ballot count. Not one gives a damn about dignity or democracy. All they care about is power — and that is dangerous.
https://spectator.org/democrat-losers-undignified-and-dangerous/
Posted by: rse | November 19, 2018 at 09:37 AM
Did you argue the point re. Blasey with the PWLF? Starting with: “She manufactured the whole story.”?
Posted by: Another Bob | November 18, 2018 at 08:44 PM
I made that very point, AB, during the discussion (I think my quote was that "She pulled it out of her ass!") but my pleasant leftwinger just ignored that point and stuck with her *outrage at the questioning* angle during our interaction afterwards.
So, I'm mulling over what it means when people seem to have no concept of the American right to confront your accuser *and* to do so by testing the veracity of a claim in an adversarial setting? Those senators handled Blasey Ford with kid gloves . . . and she's outraged? Hell, I want Blasey Ford prosecuted.
I mean . . . Representative Joe Kennedy, Democrat-Taxachusetts, put out a completely embarrassing tweet claiming "No survivor should be cross-examined by his or her accused rapist. Ever. Full stop."
https://twitter.com/RepJoeKennedy/status/1063161403824132096
Damn, Joe, totalitarian much ??? Let me see here . . . "survivor" grouped with "accused" and this Harvard grad apparently can't figure out his wrongly presumptive role as judge and jury on an open question.
Alrighty then. What is this from Joe, pure mendacity?
Posted by: RattlerGator | November 19, 2018 at 09:37 AM
Furthermore this is a garbage claim the Senate race was actually closer by 3/1 so what's their complaint.
Posted by: Narciso79 | November 19, 2018 at 09:42 AM
RG,
They start the panel with the idea that people like Thomas, West both Al and Kanye, you, etc. should be considered Uncle Toms? Any person or group that has that as part of their conventional wisdom should be challenged aggressively.
Posted by: Gentlejim | November 18, 2018 at 09:14 PM
Well, to be fair to them, they tried to juxtapose the *charge* of being an Uncle Tom with the charge that diverse thought on certain topics are counterproductive for the overall health of Black America.
Your point, however, remains correct. It linked individuality with Uncle Tom, constrained free thinkers with a group restraint, and they framed the talk in ways that limited matters to a discussion held totally within an in-group, liberal place.
But I saw it as a start, and they very much want me to remain involved. I suspect I will. I'm also trying to think through a column for American Greatness that revolves around this right now.
Posted by: RattlerGator | November 19, 2018 at 09:53 AM
RG "and they very much want me to remain involved. I suspect I will."
Wait. RG is a black guy?
Posted by: Old Lurker | November 19, 2018 at 09:57 AM
A Kennedy criticising an accused rapist for questioning their accuser? We truly are living in another dimension.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | November 19, 2018 at 09:57 AM
I was thinking rattler the fellow at the center of this khashoggi kerfluffle gen asiri is their version of Rowan Pope, he's a military officer who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty and when necessary falls on his sword.
Posted by: Narciso79 | November 19, 2018 at 09:58 AM
On topic, and to repeat, the apparent incompetence of state and local election officials is just a means to the end of being able to manipulate the outcome, or at least to try. How hard can it be to design a sensible ballot? To have an orderly vote count?
This crap goes on everywhere, we just only hear about it in states like FL where the vote is close. NY was a disaster too, but no one cares because the vote is so one-sided.
Posted by: jimmyk | November 19, 2018 at 10:09 AM
O was listening to a talk by Yucker Carlson and he said that botth parties are undermining democracy.
Many people in the GOP got tired of either losing elections or electing someone only to see their wishes ignored and promises broken. That is why Trump got nominated.
Once he was nominated all of the people like National Review and such went around badmouthing him and acting like he wasn't a real candidate. And once he was elected they have done nothing but carp, with many of them, like Max Boot, actually going over to support democrat positions like gun control.
Thus, if people had suspicioins that the entire thing was fake, there people (Paul Ryan included) are actively proving it.
And then, the democrats, whom we always have suspected of cheating, actively did so in plain sight, proving that THAT suspicion was also correct.
Good job guys!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 10:09 AM
I really need to remember to hit preview.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 10:10 AM
"Yucker Carlson" seems right somehow.
Posted by: jimmyk | November 19, 2018 at 10:11 AM
*Very* interesting take, narciso.
Posted by: RattlerGator | November 19, 2018 at 10:23 AM
OL, not merely a black guy . . . *the* black guy.
Posted by: RattlerGator | November 19, 2018 at 10:25 AM
:-) RG
Posted by: Old Lurker | November 19, 2018 at 10:28 AM
Trump rally in Biloxi, Mississippi on November 26.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 10:29 AM
Link goes to Washington Examiner article.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 10:30 AM
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
3m3 minutes ago
Of course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long before we did. I pointed him out in my book just BEFORE the attack on the World Trade Center. President Clinton famously missed his shot. We paid Pakistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he was living there. Fools!..
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 10:31 AM
Party of science. Pistol grips make bullets hit harder...
Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
Replying to @DLoesch
Fair question. Rifles. They’re more powerful and cause more carnage when used with a pistol-grip. See @ScottPelley @60Minutes piece. To reduce semi-auto pistol deaths I’d have universal background checks and mandatory reporting on mental health.
Posted by: henry | November 19, 2018 at 10:33 AM
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/19/secretary-ran-zinke-trump-mismanagement-california-fires/
“The president is absolutely right. This is as much about mismanagement over time,” said Zinke who pointed to not only the previous administration but that the problem had been “going on for years.” He suggested going “back to prescribed burns late in the season,” removed dead and dying timber, and sustainable harvest. He pointed to Finland and Germany as examples.
He said “radical environmentalists” have filed lawsuits to let “nature take its course” and that these fires are the consequence of allowing nature to do so.
“I will lay this on the foot of those environmental radicals that have prevented us from managing the forests for years and, you know what, this is on them.”
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 10:37 AM
Part 2:
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
....We no longer pay Pakistan the $Billions because they would take our money and do nothing for us, Bin Laden being a prime example, Afghanistan being another. They were just one of many countries that take from the United States without giving anything in return. That’s ENDING!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 10:44 AM
I have a friend who was a contractor in Afghanistan. His specialty was his intelligence network on both sides of the border. They were able to get to places no one else could.
Apparently the U.S. government knew of Bin Laden's location for over a year before the order was given.
It is my belief that the ISI was instrumental in hiding Bin Laden. They are basically a separate state.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | November 19, 2018 at 10:48 AM
The Sherrod Brown/Jim Renacci contest continues to infuriate me, particularly when some Horde denizen wrote that Josh Mandel refused to share any of his war chest after withdrawal from the race, stating that he was saving it for future campaigns. This is the downside of donating directly to a candidate because I'm sure that a significant number of donors contributed to an effort to unseat Brown. Maybe Renacci would have lost anyway but there's no way to know that particularly because there were a lot of split votes for DeWine and Brown. If what I heard is true, Mandel has an uphill climb for my vote in the future.
Posted by: Captain Hate | November 19, 2018 at 10:54 AM
They will never stop
Stop Shaming White Women For Voting Republican
https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/19/stop-shaming-white-women-for-voting-republican/
Posted by: lurkersusie | November 19, 2018 at 11:09 AM
Julie Kelly
Instead of demanding that the incoming Dem House majority cleans up its act, David French wrote a post-election screed attacking Republicans and falsely claiming a "surge" in white supremacy threatens the Right.
There's no surge, as I explain here:
https://amgreatness.com/2018/11/19/there-is-no-surge-in-white-supremacy/
Posted by: lurkersusie | November 19, 2018 at 11:25 AM
Two great articles you just posted, lurkersusie!
I really like the one from the Federalist.
They go together, though, don't they? The Federalist piece talks about white guilt, and white women not wanting to be called racist - and the French article referenced at AmericanGreatness is just him calling all Trump supporters exactly that.
For decades now, when supposed "conservatives" like French (who I will assume isn't a racist) got called racist by the Democrat Party and the media, they apologized and groveled and threw their fellow conservatives under the bus, even though they had nothing to apologize for.
President Trump, when he's called racist, responds that he's obviously not one, and that the accuser is a liar and a scumbag for making such a fake accusation.
I much prefer the latter approach, and it must just drive French and his fellows INSANE that tens of millions of Americans do, too.
Posted by: James D. | November 19, 2018 at 11:33 AM
((This crap goes on everywhere, we just only hear about it in states like FL where the vote is close. NY was a disaster too, but no one cares because the vote is so one-sided.))
I have to admit that I even wonder about voting here in Arlington, where there hasn't been any outcry over fraud.
To have a one party place handle the voting machines & the counting can't be good. It HAS to be tempting to set up "insurance".
I would love to get a receipt after feeding my ballot into the reader machine. I don't trust the machine settings to count it correctly.
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 11:40 AM
The charge of racism should be leveled at them, too. Not only are they the ones bringing up race all the time, but they've outed themselves as anti-white. And white people, unlike Hispanics or Latinos, are actually members of a race.
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 11:41 AM
There are no words to express what I think about this:
https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/the-obamas-are-becoming-a-billion-dollar-brand/
Posted by: Old Lurker | November 19, 2018 at 11:42 AM
Let me ask a stupid question:
Why did JEB! appoint a partisan democrat hack like Snipes in 2003?
"Hello, Mrs Fox. This is the hen house. Please watch over it and do a good job. I am counting on you."
"Sure, Mr Governor, sir. Define "good", please. Oh never mind. You're gonna love it."
IHTFP.
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 11:44 AM
We must not allow this to happen!
My cousin's left-wing husband just posted an article on Facebook:
Maine’s pioneering ranked-choice election likely to catch on nationally
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/11/18/maines-pioneering-ranked-choice-election-likely-to-catch-on-nationally/?fbclid=IwAR12UMWCMgzGsQxWPtsRMPLQ7I0yzBDGwryTbKJcbOtYFwhvJ0WE5rVjkRk
Posted by: Momto2 | November 19, 2018 at 11:45 AM
Janet "I would love to get a receipt after feeding my ballot into the reader machine. I don't trust the machine settings to count it correctly."
Wouldn't help. They will just rig that machine or lose it, or fiddle with the data as it goes upstream, or any of a thousand ways to ignore your vote, Janet, if it serves their goal.
Posted by: Old Lurker | November 19, 2018 at 11:46 AM
The basis for the self-disembowelment of the liberal component of the American white electorate is "Fear of Envy."
Fear of envy is a malignant spawn of Fear of LOSS, which takes many forms--- Loss of Love, Wealth, Property, Prestige, Social Standing, etc etc etc.
Pure perfect fit for dis-mis-information campaigns and deviant propaganda, the sausage made by the Lying Swine Media production houses of today.
IHTFP.
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 11:47 AM
In 2012 there were a lot of people coming into our little well run voting place, all needing provisional ballots because they supposedly didn't know where they were supposed to go to vote.
It was sketchy because there were so many of them. Lots of older black women.
It was hard to believe that Obama voters from 2008 all of a sudden didn't know where to go vote.
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 11:48 AM
Mom, the sooner that (ranked voting) baby gets killed in the crib, the better.
Posted by: Old Lurker | November 19, 2018 at 11:48 AM
"And white people, unlike Hispanics or Latinos, are actually members of a race."
not sure what your intended meaning is here, Ext.
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 11:50 AM
The Obama's billion dollar brand.... will they pledge to make the trains run on time?
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 11:52 AM
I find it impossible to grant good but misdirected or even ignorant intentions to the likes of French and Goldberg any longer.
They're not just expressing opinions, they're citing and misusing bogus and misleading statistics that they know to be misleading and false. They're not careless; they're maliciously refusing to adapt their worldview to reality, the willingness to do so being one of the hallmarks of conservative philosophy.
Instead they are intentionally warping the world to fit their stilted ideas of how it should be; the universal mark of the rigid ideologue; ideologies being the great enemy of mankind, as pointed out by a former NR giant whose shoes they aren't able to fill let alone fit to clean; James Burnham.
Useless, fastidious, dangerous hacks.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | November 19, 2018 at 11:52 AM
OL @ 11:42
There are PLENTY of words for what I think about it. None of them are suitable for a polite, family blog such as this one.
Oh, wait, some of them are.
"Money lanudering"
"RICO"
"Corporate fraud"
"Thorough IRS audit"
"SEC investigation"
"Federal prosecution"
"Asset forfeiture"
Posted by: James D. | November 19, 2018 at 11:53 AM
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/11/15/what-really-bothers-the-never-trumpers/amp/
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 11:54 AM
Momto2,
Ranked-choice elections are ripe for fraud. All you have to do as a candidate is find 2 mediocre candidates that have similar positions but not as well known, or have had issues in the past. Since they are mirror images of you except for their "issues", they will most likely get the 2nd and 3rd rankings, especially if your opponent doesn't have their "dopplegangers" on the ballot.
But you have to have multiple candidates.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | November 19, 2018 at 11:54 AM
not sure what your intended meaning is here, Ext.
The intended meaning is that Hispanics are Hispanics because they speak Spanish, not because they are collectively members of a "race." They can be white, black, etc., yet we often hear about how people are racist because of what they might say about certain Hispanics.
Latinos are just Hispanics + Brazilians (who don't speak Spanish).
This irks me. Recently, I saw that anti Arab is a form of racism, yet I've always thought Arabs were white.
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 12:01 PM
Why blame any Left wing extremists for the California wildfires?
Solve the problem. Public opinion indictments do noting but inspire deeper recalcitrance by lobbyists and CYA politicians.
POTUS can use the pen NOW to mandate compliance on federal lands, and provide the stick re state lands and private properties.
and POTUS needs to write those EOs with the obstruction of the Ninth Circuit in mind. Club them while simultaneously erasing them and reorganizing them "with cause."
re private properties: are private insurance companies insuring residential properties in fire zones any more. State Farm got out of that business...don't quote me but that's what a local agent told us. Allstate, our company, has local fire fighters (City of Berkeley) doing block by block "inspections" of private property to keep evergreen overgrowth (juniper planted on slopes etc) and weed infestations low-to-non-existent. information is reported to insurers.
many levers to pull to whip the a-holes in Sack-a-Tomatoes into shape. they are crowing that this state is the world's 5th to 7th largest economy but it's being hung by its private parts by environmental extortionists.
enough. stop blaming and start governing on the matter. i don't care whose fault it is. the five families i know in Santa Rosa who lost their homes deserve equal protection under the law. Period.
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 12:02 PM
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/dan_crenshaw_deflates_antitrump_hysteria_on_face_the_nation_with_common_sense_.html
I hope that we get to vote for Crenshaw as the next president after Trump. I like the idea of having a president who is articulate and also looks lie a pirate and can kill people.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 12:03 PM
I should have said Muslims, instead of just Arabs, because now being anti-Muslim is racism, yet Muslims do not constitute a race. They can be white, black, etc.
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 12:03 PM
This race/not-race thing came up when the networks refused to run the ad about the illegal Mexican cop killer, because it was "racist." Not possibly racist, btw, but objectively racist.
Yet, what race does that guy belong to? He's whiter than I am.
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 12:06 PM
Yucker Carlson
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | November 19, 2018 at 12:08 PM
Fox News reporter Brooke Singman:
Trump blasts Pakistan as 'fools,' charging the country let bin Laden hide there despite receiving US $$
Er, wasn't he calling the Clinton administration fools for giving Pakistan billions?
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 12:11 PM
Last week Howie Carr did a Death Pool segment. I'm guessing someone from the last Death Pool might have had Stan Lee; not sure.
Prompted by texts, he said that no, they would not be allowing Ranked Choice picks, you had to pick one name.
He also pointed out that at the end of the show they would not be continuing to add new picks to the pool as though it was getting run by Brenda Snipes, because the Howie Carr Death Pool has integrity.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | November 19, 2018 at 12:14 PM
Democrat Senators Sue to Block Whitaker From Serving as Attorney General
Both Trump and Whitaker are defendants.
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 12:21 PM
and the Raiders win their second of the season against the lowly Cardinals.
watched the highlights. there was a brief glimpse of Gruden as he ran into the field. you'd think they won the Super Bowl. Ravens next.
one of Harbaugh's former players is playing great D-line for Raiders-- Mo Hurst. Rookies on the Raiders D-line are learning how to play.... Key from LSU et al. the endless rebuilding continues.
meanwhile, in Chicago, Khalil Mack has attained instant iconic player status. could not have happened to a nicer guy or a better city. the NFL is better when the Bears are good.
re boycotting the NFL... everything else has been so hyper-politicized that i refuse to allow my one entertainment leisure pursuit be torched because of a fake issue of police brutality.
just owning it. :D
have a great Monday. the salt mine calls!
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 12:23 PM
That infamous butterfly ballot of 2000 was designed by democrat Therese Lepore. A copy was sent to every registered voter in the county. Copies were published in the local newspapers and was posted on the walls of every voting station with instructions how to vote. And there was a damn arrow pointing to the candidate you wished to vote for.
And this is how it started iirc.
https://www.wnd.com/2000/11/2596/
Posted by: Rocco | November 19, 2018 at 12:24 PM
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/19/after-big-bad-wolf-flop-white-house-correspondents-dinner-scraps-comedian-for-2019/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 12:25 PM
White House initiates process to suspend Jim Acosta’s press pass, Acosta seeks expedited court briefing
More details at the link. (Prof. Jacobson at Legal Insurrection.)
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 12:29 PM
"Yet, what race does that guy belong to? He's whiter than I am."
if he's Mexxykin by governmental birth certification then it means he's a half-breed....indio and Spaniard.
i'm probably with whiter skin that you, Ext, as the Navajo side of the family intermarried in 17th century Nuevo Mejico with agents of the viceroy.
i check can only check one racial box on the census or on surveys, so i check the one that guides my way of life (spiritual and cultural): RED (politely referred to as the racist term "American Indian.")
3 of my siblings are darkies. 3 of us are lily white skinned mestizos.
bottom line, skin color is less the issue than the "cultural compass" of the individual. there are 67 languages spoken in Mexxyko with but 3 (fr, esp, deutsche) owing any allegiance to European influence.
the dude in question can probably get inside places that darkies can't--- but then he opens his mouth to reveal his thinking and voila! got one in the woodpile. a daily occurrence for some of us.
thanks for the explanation.
peace!
Kev
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 12:33 PM
>>>There are no words to express what I think about this:
https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/the-obamas-are-becoming-a-billion-dollar-brand/
Posted by: Old Lurker | November 19, 2018 at 11:42 AM<<<
and what could they possibly have to sell to be so?
Posted by: rich | November 19, 2018 at 12:35 PM
and i'm dumber for reading that Powers article bit that Ex flagged up ...
Posted by: rich | November 19, 2018 at 12:36 PM
"the Senate hasn’t consented to Whitaker “serving in any office within the federal government, let alone the highest office at the DOJ.”"
attempting to shop for some kind of injunction i take it.
is the law re interim appointments going to hold sway over judicial activism?
will Blumenthal and that idiot Hirono going to enjoy some press notoriety if this advances?
public humiliation is likely. but in this Age of Acosta anything is possible,eh?
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 12:37 PM
Coal Shovel meets Acosta's mutt face.
Posted by: Account Deleted | November 19, 2018 at 12:38 PM
Surber notes Mad Maxine is proposing impeachment. (Snopes hasn't admitted it yet, but a YouTube vid is provided).
Deplorable Don provides a helpful list of reasons to help the CongreeLady.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/11/how-to-impeach-orange-man.html
Posted by: JimNorCal | November 19, 2018 at 12:41 PM
This race/not-race thing came up when the networks refused to run the ad about the illegal Mexican cop killer
It's a flexible tool for the MFM. When they need Hispanic not to be a race, they come up with something like "White Hispanic," as with George Zimmerman.
Posted by: jimmyk | November 19, 2018 at 12:50 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/trumps-actions-on-race-speak-much-louder-than-his-words
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 12:56 PM
Today I received a second, more detailed email from the Pres. of Davidson College, where rse & I went before it went totally SJW:
"On Wednesday, November 7th at 7:40 PM, a group called Carolina Workers Collective [commies?] posted ...allegations that a student was posting hateful, neo-Nazi tweets. ... At 8:23 PM, that faculty member alerted Campus Police Chief Sigler, me, ... Dean McCrae and others alerted RLO Student Life and Residence Life staff...Locating the students and ensuring that they would not be on campus was the fastest way to address everyone’s concerns." They were then expelled.
More paragraphs about how earlier "incidents" triggered people but weren't actual hate writing, and how careful the admin/police are about safety.
Previous email: "There are no credible threats to campus." Depends on what the meaning of are is.
She didn't say the tweets were threatening, so enraging a possible neo-nazi (or any young squirt) doesn't sound like a good idea when the campus is wide open (they now have electronic locks on the outer dorm doors. We never locked our dorm rooms). The possibility of engaging them intellectually did not cross their minds.
Posted by: Ralph L | November 19, 2018 at 01:00 PM
Little Yucker Carlson.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | November 19, 2018 at 01:05 PM
Posted by: Ralph L | November 19, 2018 at 01:00 PM
some students got expelled from school for posting something on twitter?
and the administration wants a pat on the back?
Posted by: rich | November 19, 2018 at 01:06 PM
https://www.wsj.com/articles/youre-hired-no-we-dont-need-to-meet-you-first-1542298757?mod=e2tw&page=1&pos=1
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 01:06 PM
How Many Races Are There in the World?
I never liked Oceanians.
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 01:08 PM
you gotta watch out for those Arctician icebacks.
Posted by: rich | November 19, 2018 at 01:13 PM
Photo at link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 19, 2018 at 01:15 PM
Can they quarantine Jim Acosta? Make him wear a cone of shame?
Posted by: Pinandpuller | November 19, 2018 at 01:16 PM
I'm pro-Pacific Islander, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Oceania
Posted by: Extraneus | November 19, 2018 at 01:21 PM
Rich, they used to advertise the school as "a safe place to send your boy" (before it went co-ed).
I'm hoping there were actual threats made, so the admin isn't looney and/or they don't want to frighten the parents, but they're hiding behind privacy laws.
This prez wrote an article for the Charlotte paper about how the women must be believed about sex assault. They've been sued at least once by a sanctioned male student.
Posted by: Ralph L | November 19, 2018 at 01:22 PM
New thread.
Posted by: Porchlight | November 19, 2018 at 01:46 PM