I have wonderful, fond childhood memories of Christmastime in Boston. It was a magical place in the 60s. Driving along the city streets was a kaleidoscope of lights and colors, as was the Boston Common. The window displays at Filene’s were masterful, and we were always in awe of the Enchanted Village at Jordan Marsh.

The holiday season always ended with a trip to Boston Garden for the Ice Capades. Only now do I realize what my folks must have sacrificed to give me and my sisters those memories? Apparently, the folks in charge of Boston these days do not share my memories or spirit for the holidays. The Presidents of some of Boston’s finest colleges cannot denounce antisemitism and then dare to show up at a Minorah lighting standing next to Jewish students they fail to protect.

The Mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, comes from a Chinese lineage and is the first Asian woman to serve on the City Council and as Beantown’s Mayor. Wu was educated at Harvard, which may explain her role in an incredibly Racist, albeit stupid, incident that happened this week at City Hall.

Related: Busted in Boston – All The Racist Wu’s Down in Wu-ville!

Wu sparked controversy after mistakenly inviting all councilors to an “electeds of color” holiday party. The invitation was erroneously sent to all council members, and when the oversight was discovered, the White council members were sent an Un-Invitation. Whites were not welcome at Michelle Wu’s party. Wu claims it was an honest mistake that the invitation was sent to all members. Talk about compounding a disastrous lack of judgment and a stupid idea to begin with.

I apologize for the second use of the term stupid, but I cannot use any of the colloquialisms of the gutter that I would like to use to describe this entire incident. No, Michelle, the mistake was not the list of invitees but the idea of an Electeds of Color Holiday Party at all. Whoever had that original thought should resign or be fired immediately, including Michelle Wu. This Whites Need Not Attend Party is one of the most offensive ideas and actions I have ever seen by a politician, and there have been many others.

It amazes me that 160 years after the Civil War, we still get mired in incidents of Racism, and when anything excludes people of any color, in this case, White, then it is Racism. In the words of our illustrious Press Secretary, Karine Jeanne-Pierre, “full stop.”

Michelle Wu should be holding up her status as the first Asian Mayor of Boston as a testament to how far the American people have come to be color-blind to Race, Sex, and Color. But not Wu. She had to play identity politics with something so joyous as a Holiday Party, use the worst card in her deck, the Race Card, and turn a party into a national embarrassment.

I was fortunate for two things early on in my life. When my family traveled South every year in the sixties and seventies, I saw first the restrooms, water bubblers, and building entrances designated for Whites and Blacks. I also saw the evolution of Civil Rights and the elimination of these designations, and the mingling of Whites and Blacks in all walks of life. I had parents who didn’t turn our heads away from social injustices but taught us why they were wrong and how we could be better people to never see the world as Black and White. I was raised to be color-blind, and unfortunately, Michele Wu did not have the benefit of the same teachings from her parents.

This has not been a good week for Boston. Mayor Wu and Harvard President Gay have shown how ungrateful they are for the opportunity afforded them by living in the greatest, most diverse country on Earth. They have set Civil Rights back decades—shame on both of these women and on anyone who condones their actions or turns away from their responsibility to hold people like them accountable. To do so is to lower the bar on what is right and wrong with humanity.

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I’ve been participating in an email thread where the main idea is more or less that ‘special education is ruining everything’ in schools.

The craziness that has evolved around special education is certainly not helping.  But I believe the problems we’re seeing in schools are mainly the symptoms of using the wrong tool for the job.

Confucius said that the first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right names, i.e., to use the right words.

I think this is a special case of a more general idea: The first step toward success in any endeavor is to use the right tools.

School is the right tool for one well-defined task: If you have a bunch of people who (regardless of age) are ready to learn the same material (which includes intellectual readiness, behavioral readiness, and motivation), then it can be very efficient to have them synchronously share instruction in that material.

(Having said that, it used to be the case that school was where you could find the highest-quality instruction available in an area. That is no longer the case. In fact, it’s often the opposite — a kid who goes to school has access to lower-quality instruction than he could get at home, over the Internet.)

Here are some tasks for which school is not the right tool:

• Daycare
• Therapy
• Nutrition
• Transportation
• Hobbies
• Social development (SEL)
• Moral and spiritual development
• Political indoctrination (CRT, DEI)

And yet, those are the tasks where schools spend almost all their time and effort (and our money). If a school is a hammer, then what we are doing with that hammer at various times corresponds to

(1) treating everything as a nail, or

(2) assuming that if a hammer is good for driving nails, it must also be good for cutting wood, drilling holes, driving screws, grabbing items firmly, applying paint, tightening bolts, clamping items together, measuring distances and angles, and so on.

All of which is to say, by using schools to do things for which schools are not suited, we

(1) make it inevitable that we will do a terrible job at all the secondary tasks and,

(2) make it impossible to do a competent job at the primary task.

The only winners in this approach are the makers and sellers of the hammers.

But suppose we made ‘public schools’ into public schools, i.e., schools open to all members of the public, who can come to learn what’s being taught if they want to and if they are ready to.

That would free teachers to actually teach students who want to learn.  And it would allow all those other needs — like therapy — to be addressed through other more specialized, more efficient, and more competent channels — the right tools for those jobs.

 

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In the face of an unprecedented global challenge, our world demands a radical shift in approach. We no longer have any choice. The threats looming over humanity are no longer confined to local issues, rendering traditional practices inadequate. Now, more than ever, we must unite and leverage our collective resources to combat the complex and debilitating challenges that cast a shadow over our planet.

Our problems are not mere parochial concerns; outdated thinking won’t cut it. In this era of interconnectedness, every ounce of our energy must be directed towards solutions rather than wasted in petty disputes and personal conflicts.

But are we truly ready to acknowledge the urgency of this global call to action? Can we set aside our differences for the greater good?

The magnitude of today’s challenges is unlike anything we’ve encountered recently. Conventional solutions falter in the face of the formidably complex and unique situation that defines our world. To confront these challenges, civil disobedience alone is as futile as fighting off a pack of hungry wolves armed only with toothpicks.

We must keep asking ourselves – what innovative strategies can we employ to tackle challenges that defy conventional solutions? How can we foster a collective mindset that transcends outdated approaches?

The threat posed by the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and his cronies cannot be underestimated. Their lack of interest in negotiation and compromise is evident as they barrel forward in their quest for nuclear weaponry, aiming to wield power and intimidate not just the region but the entire world.

Mullahs are ruling Iran with rock-solid resolve to carry out their “divine plan” of imposing their brand of Islam on the world with the help of the Bomb is a terrifying thought.

So, how can we effectively address regimes that seem impervious to diplomatic efforts? Is there room for negotiation, or is a more robust approach necessary?

The first step in addressing these issues is to acknowledge the reality of the situation. Iran’s regime has made significant advances in its nuclear program, which is a cause for concern for the international community. The country has been able to reverse engineer and further develop purchased technological advances, and its knowledge is irreversible. This means that any attempt to stop Iran’s regime from developing nuclear weapons could be futile.

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Mohammad Jafer Mahallati is on indefinite administrative leave. The former UN Ambassador from Iran (1987-1989) has been implicated in his crimes against humanity, but Oberlin College hired him anyway. Now, they are paying him to do nothing.

Not that this isn’t the ideal final form of every liberal college professor, but that wasn’t the original plan. Oberlin was OK with calling a Jew-hating anti-semite their Peace Professor. Still, after Oct 7, the College is officially on the hook and under Federal Investigation after ignoring years of Jafer Mahallati praising violence and assigning “anti-Israel readings to his students.”

 

[Mohammad Jafer Mahallati’s] ouster comes in the middle of a federal investigation of antisemitism at Oberlin based on charges brought by 1986 alumna Melissa Landa, whose story we covered here. Landa is president of the Oberlin Chapter of Alums for Campus Fairness, a non-profit group that fights antisemitism at the school. She filed her complaint against Oberlin with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) back in 2019. On September 29, the OCR announced it is looking into her charges under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI).

 

I’m sure Oberlin will do what it can to avoid complicity as it is still reeling from losing the Gibson’s Bakery case in which a Dean went on a hate-fueled intifada against a local business. The defamation suit cost the College tens of millions in ‘reparations’ owed the Gibson family. This Mohammad thing has a similar woke pit of hell stench to it. The reporting suggests that complaints have been amassed over the years only to be ignored by Oberlin’s enlightened masters until now.

Their Bias response team must have ignored numerous calls from the nearest courtesy phone. Lots of calls. It seems the Professor of Peace meant peace through genocide, and hey, once your enemy is dead, there is peace, or you are dead and at peace.

Then, there is the peace of collecting your salary to do nothing while Western elites rend their garments over being labeled racists for suspending you.

Yeah. I bet it’s like that.

 

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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recently pointed out that, according to Woodrow Wilson, “popular sovereignty” embarrassed the Nation because it interfered with “executive expertness.” From Wilson’s distorted view, the modern Democrat Party emerged as a dictatorial political and societal Leviathan.

The Obama-Biden monstrosity used these so-called experts to transform the most historically prosperous society and civilization into a racist, perverted, communist nightmare. So-called experts under these numbskulls have transformed “common sense” into “nonsense.” Our society is experiencing a perversion of sanity to destroy Western Civilization. These demonic experts disdain the fundamental basis of Western Civilization, the family unit, and work tirelessly to destroy the fabric that holds the Nation and, more importantly, our humanity together. The three women Ivy League presidents’ failure to condemn Antisemitism is a perfect example.

These pseudo-experts expect us to believe the entire span of human history, since Adam bit into Eve’s apple, was wrong in acknowledging there are two sexes: male and female. These modern-day alchemists propound a world populated with 72 genders, including transgenderism. The only possible purpose of this malarkey is: “If we can get the hoi-poi to believe in 72 genders and instruct our minor children that, despite their birth sex, they should deny their God-given gender, people will do whatever these perverted experts say.”

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Another principle of Obama-Biden dystopia is intersectionality: a racist and dogmatic diatribe (theory) designed and developed to divide and destroy American society and Western Civilization with jealousy, envy, and hatred based on turning races and nationalities against each other, especially against white people. Love of God and country is being replaced with hate and violent protests.

Finally, these “nonsense experts” tell us it is the gun’s fault when there is a mass shooting by a known criminal whose mental illness is well-known to local authorities. What these perverted experts want is to take away guns so they can control everyone without risk. Remember, 12 million people were murdered in Hitler’s gas chambers!

Putting Donald Trump back in the White House cannot happen soon enough!

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

And a large part of their egos – their vanity – is tied up with the idea that they’re “good people” because they believe certain things.  And, thus, admitting they were wrong not only challenges their view of themselves as superior beings, but… if their beliefs are wrong, then those beliefs that prove they’re superior and moral and all could be wrong, and therefore they’re not superior or moral.

Few have the strength for that level of introspection.

 

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Even in my atheistic days I could not – would not – every have slipped and said “My Muslim faith…” in a conversation.  Nor, as an atheist, would I nor did I ever say “My Jewish faith…”  The fact that he said that was revealing.  Also revealing was how the reporter rescued him.

 

 

 

 

In an actual science, when predictions fail, that weakens the theory.

 

 

 

 

Proving that it’s ONE rule for the proles, and ANOTHER RULE for the plebes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMHO were this any other company, this would have had pols screaming THIS IS FRAUD by now.  I have to admit admiration – when pharma buys politicians and regulators, they stay bought.  I wonder if there’s an “Or else…” clause.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Something very important to remember here.  They’ll back down… temporarily.  But then push forward again.  And you think you’re going to stop them by protesting or writing letters or voting?

Please understand, I am not advocating violence.  But I must also point out that these people are True Believers.  Like the Terminator, they will not stop, ever, until we’re Communists.

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Multiple signs “something” is coming, and soon.  Just look at the furor over the Obama-involved coming Netflix show (setting aside the anti-white stuff).

‘Leave the World Behind’ Trailer: Julia Roberts Confronts the Apocalypse – The Hollywood Reporter

Now, looming, are warnings about power outages:

 

Power Outages this Winter – But it’s WORSE than that – Get READY

 

 

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Just like our “good and dear friend” Klaus predicted:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cyber-attacks-next.mp4

 

Like many things, I used to think that the whole idea of “predictive programming” and such were just more foil-hat nonsense.  But as the mood of the country darkens, along comes this preview… of an American civil war:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Civil-war-predictive-programming.mp4

 

Also on my Rumble channel:

Preview: Movie of coming American Civil War (rumble.com)

And it could be a combination of things.  Cyberattack.  EMP.  Engineered false flags to create a race war, or civil war… migrants being mated up with the scads of weapons and ammo bought over the decades, particularly under Barackus – and then let loose on those who don’t obey.  They don’t even need specific orders.  Islamic terror cells already here, or Chinese cells, or Russians, or all of the above.

Pay attention to the movies that are about to come out.  Articles.  Online posts.  What’s said on the various talk shows, especially those aimed at the LIVs.  Get as prepped as you can.  Make alliances.  Things can go downhill surprisingly fast.

Remember, they want chaos, uncertainty, despair, fear, and even massive deaths.  All the better to then offer the “benevolent hand” of their one-world government socialist state as salvation.  I will not bet against finding our elections cancelled “temporarily”… and likely worse.

Al’s Conservative Political Views: Can a False Flag Event Cancel the 2024 Election? (alspoliticalview.blogspot.com)

 

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And the problem is so many still do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

I’m getting to that point more and more often.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Is sexual attraction or the absence of it the thing that defines you? To the Cultural Marxist Gender Side-Show, Circus Tent Ring Leaders it is. And like any good self-serving cartel, the more freaks, the better. So, they’ve introduced a new “gender” defining term.

 

 The Canadian Medical Association Journal has introduced the term “greysexual” as the latest so-called “sexual orientation” invented by LGBT activists.    

According to a paper published December 4, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Canada’s top medical association, is now recognizing people who claim to be “greysexual,” meaning they are “experiencing sexual attraction rarely or under specific circumstances.”  …

The article, co-authored by Stella A. Schneckenburger, Michelle W.Y. Tam and Lori E. Ross, introduces “greysexual” as a subsection of “asexual.” 

The report divides asexual into “demisexuality (only experiencing sexual attraction after emotional bonds form) and greysexuality (experiencing sexual attraction rarely or under specific circumstances.)”

 

Jim Henson’s earlier known work was for Sesame Street, and one of the things that resulted from that was the anything muppet. A hand puppet you could get to which you might affix any number of characteristics—different eyes, noses, etc. Once you get past LGB, everything on the social construct we call the gender spectrum is an anything muppet. Most of it is contrived minor differences in personal preference related to sexual attraction. If you applied the same thinking to food across the whole of the human experience, the DSM would be larger than the average Congressional Omnibus bill or a manual on understanding women.

Put another way, and this is critical, medical experts are parsing the gender hairs with notions like greysexual to profit from another clinical diagnosis. This might be about mental health and how clinicians can corral another group of people into therapy dollars and drug treatment kickbacks.

Why else bother? Adding another flavor to the Queer Baskin Robbins menu isn’t going to divide us further though it might divide the alphabet sex squad another angstrom or two as they fight for dominance on the victim-class totem, which seems counterproductive at this juncture. Team unity doesn’t need its gender-blended troops sniping each other into fractious disarray. Not yet.

But because this is Canada, I did have another thought. What if this new “diagnosis” will inevitably be used to recommend more people for Medical Assistance in dying?

Killer Kanada and all that.

 

 

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President Biden, you insult us. You stand at a podium next to President Zelenskyy and tell us all the reasons that we must continue to send Billions of dollars to Ukraine to fund their battle against Putin and the invading Russians. Mr. President, you preach to us that we must continue to spend money to preserve the sovereignty of Ukraine while you have no concern for the sovereignty of America.

Our country is in decline in every measurable parameter, and that, Joe Biden is on you. America was not only a better place under Donald Trump, but it was growing stronger every day. Under your “leadership,” America has taken two steps back for every day forward.

Zelenskyy knows who the cash cow is in the world. That is why he comes to America every few months, wearing his battlefield green uniform, to tell us that all of Europe is in jeopardy if we stop funding Ukraine and let it fall. If true, why does he not go to Europe for their cash? It is maybe because they have already seen through the smoke and mirrors. If Putin even hinted at penetrating one of the NATO countries, he would have all of NATO to contend with. Ukraine is not in NATO. That doesn’t mean we should sit back and watch Putin destroy the country, but it should not be our sole responsibility to fund their battle that cannot be won. Instead of more money, we should use our power to get Zelenskyy and Putin to a negotiating table and find a diplomatic resolution to a never-ending, winless battle. After two months, Biden is ready to walk away from Israel, but after two years of funding Ukraine, it is carry on, and Americans should shut up and keep writing the check. Damn, I hope the House stays resilient and does not free up another dime for Ukraine until Biden changes direction and ends the assault by the world on our Southern Border.

It has been evident for some time that Joe Biden had no interest in closing the Southern Border. The rate of crossings is nearly two million a year and rising. For comparison, Joe Biden has allowed more illegal aliens to enter our country than there are people in two Nebraskas. If collected into one geographic area, that area would be the 14th most populated state in the union. There is no end in sight.

To view the footage of the border crossings, don’t bother looking at any of the network broadcasts; you would be hard-pressed to find a family unit. The current flow of humanity is almost exclusively military-aged single men from all parts of the world. We do not have the human resources or data available to vet this many people. Because of those circumstances, we have no idea who has entered and is now roaming our streets. This is safety and security in Joe Biden’s America, and it should worry every American because any of these crossers could soon be our next-door neighbor. That fear has nothing to do with Race or Color, but the person’s character. We have no idea who we let in through our front door.

The illegal immigration and support of a corrupt Ukraine are but two reasons Joe Biden should not be President. Forget Impeachment. Joe Biden should be tried for treason for what he has done in three years to destroy America. Age and mental competency are the least of the concerns we should have about another term of Joe Biden’s Presidency. It is Biden’s motive that we should really examine.

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Like any good grift, when the time comes to move along, you change your name and start over somewhere else to stay one step ahead of the law. But a College isn’t going to just up and move its campus. It can, however, get creative with names.

 

Kent State University has embedded DEI efforts throughout its academics and programming in recent years, creating a new Division of People, Culture and Belonging and adding administrators, faculty, and projects centered around the ideology, a College Fix analysis found.

The new division, established in September, merged the Human Resources department and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion offices. The rebranding came as Buckeye State lawmakers considered legislation to ban mandatory DEI in higher education.

What’s more, Amoaba Gooden’s new title is vice president of the Division of People, Culture and Belonging, according to her faculty bio. She previously served as vice president of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion department.

 

Diversity Equity and Inclusion programs (along with Critical Race Theory and the gender studies basket weaving classes) are Divisive, unequal, and exclusive. They foster distrust, division, and even hate. But the Campus culture is inculcated with that. A process and program, underway for decades, infused with compelled speech components that a college or university accessing public money might have to remove.

Meet the Division of People, Culture, and Belonging.

It’s got a very Maoist ring to it, so I have a few questions. Will belonging apply to all people and cultures and find its way into every office? Old college interview and acceptance rules might need to be scrapped. Anyone with a pulse should be admitted to Kent State (so they feel like they belong) without regard to their ideological or fiscal culture or quantity of belongings.

Undergraduate tuition & fees at Kent State University are $11,373 for Ohio residents and $20,287 for out-of-state students. That’s an unjust class structure abusing people because they belong to another state.

Fini! No more.

What else? Grades have to go. We’ve seen it in progressive bivouacs like Oregon. Math and reading are racist. Grading and achievement are racist. Assigning ratings of any sort makes people feel left out. Team sports? Same problem. The ‘everyone gets a trophy’ generation needs more than a trophy. They need to feel like they belong. Put them on the team and not just on a bench.

Gotta ditch Tenure. You mixed HR and DEI, and nothing says white privilege culture like tenure.

I’m sure there are other opportunities, but you get the point. Not that anyone at Kent State would ever do anything other than protect the destructive agenda of DEI in whatever form they could manage, regardless of how it might contradict the actual operation or culture.

And hey, it is named the Division of People, Culture, and Belonging. Division is in the name, and that’s what we’ll get. So, more of the same.

 

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