Julie Tolmais

Love my kids, my work, my life

[BostonTea @BostonTea84]

Roland G. Fryer jest rzadkim przykładem czarnego profesora topowego uniwerku, który dostał się na uczelnię nie za kolor skóry, ale za pracę naukową. Nie był oszustem, nie był plagiatorem, nie był obłąkanym mitomanem. Jego problem polegał na tym, że zrobił badania i uzyskał wyniki, które nie spodobały się władzom na uniwersytecie ani lewicowym aktywistom kontrolującym kampus. Mówimy tutaj o Uniwersytecie Harvarda.

"Jeden z kolegów wziął mnie na stronę i powiedział, żebym tego nie publikował, bo zrujnuję swoją karierę. Nie posłuchałem go i opublikowałem, i potem przez miesiąc pod moim domem stała policja, a na zakupy chodziłem z uzbrojoną ochroną. Kupowałem pieluchy dla dziecka w towarzystwie ochroniarza z bronią."

Groźby śmierci wysyłane przez lewicowych fanatyków to jedno. Drugą kwestią jest reakcja władz uczelni. Krótko po publikacji artykułu pojawiły się zarzuty, że Fryer flirtuje z pracownicami w swoim laboratorium EdLabs. Wytknięto mu "niepożądane zachowania o charakterze seksualnym" (głównie werbalne, w tym żarty). Harvard zawiesiła go na dwa lata bez wynagrodzenia, zamknął laboratorium i nałożył ograniczenia. Fryer przeprosił za nieodpowiednie żarty, zaprzeczył jednak zarzutom o molestowanie.

Nie napisałem jeszcze, co takiego odkrył Fryer, że rozwścieczył lewicowych cerberów politycznej poprawności. Otóż odkrył, że amerykańska policja wcale nie strzela i nie zabija czarnych częściej niż białych i że użycie broni przez policje warunkowane jest zachowaniem podejrzanego.

Tak, dobrze przeczytaliście. Tyle wystarczy, aby na Harvardzie chcieli cię zabić.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

So let's recap the story of DSA co-chair Gustavo:

- Lied about being a union electrician
- Father is multimillionaire CEO who fled communism
- Owns multiple mansions, are landlords
- Parents bought him a million-dollar townhouse
- Converted it from two-family to luxury single family
- Reduced housing inventory, displaced two tenants
- Spent another million on renovations
- Didn't use union labor on renovations
- Didn't get proper permits for renovations
- Lived in a Crown Heights apartment in the meantime
- Stiffed landlord, evicted, taken to housing court

And that's what we know so far.

This is the DSA. This is who they are. Spoiled brat rich kids with zero redeeming value. They're all like this.

None of this is new either. There have always been kids like this. The difference is they now have a tremendous amount of power here, and that's a problem.

[Jeff @_Jeffery0]

“Ayaan Hirsi Ali was challenged over her views on Islam and Sharia law… but the debate quickly turned explosive.”

Speaker: Ayaan, you've been quoted as saying that if refugees are coming to this part of the world and bringing their misogynistic views on Sharia law, then they'd better just take a legal U-turn.

People have said Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Donald Trump are speaking the same language. So how do you feel about being on the same side as Trump?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: I've been doing this for about the last 14 or 15 years, and maybe I'm allowed a sigh.

Because number one, I'm amazed at the betrayal of Muslim women who, for whatever reason, have had an education and are able to emancipate themselves from Islamic law, insisting that Islamic law is not what it is and that we don't understand it.

We live in the Information Age. We are literate. Any of us here can pick up the Holy Quran and read the Hadith.

And beyond that, because we live in this age of interconnectedness, we can take a look at the facts of where Islamic law is implemented, what it looks like for everyone, and typically what it looks like for women.

Saudi Arabia is a country that implements Sharia law.

Women are not allowed to drive. They have male guardians. Their testimony is worth half of that of men.

They are subjected to every possible humiliation that you can think of.

Ayatollah Khomeini, in 1979, with a great deal of public approval, became the Supreme Leader. He implemented Sharia law, Islamic law.

One of the first things that he did, he reduced the age of marriage to nine.

Everywhere where Islamic law is implemented, you have exactly that.

Speaker: Who's the "they"?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Those who are pushing for Sharia law and those who want to implement Sharia law.

Speaker: But none of us are, so that's not a matter of debate.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Prophet Muhammad took Aisha, one of his wives after Khadijah died, when she was six, and had sex with her when she was nine.
That is Sharia law.

I do not understand how someone

Speaker: But this is not a debate about Sharia law.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: But this is for Sharia law!
You want to get rid of child marriage? Get rid of Sharia law.

Speaker: Although it embarrasses me on a global stage to say this, child marriage is common in many cultures, including in Hindu societies.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: That's why
Can I just get in?

Speaker: All right, I just want to bring in Farah and Hibaaq.

What you are saying, Ayaan, doesn't really make sense.
I'm glad that you have moved from calling for a war on Islam to saying maybe there is a possibility.

In 2007, when you had that interview with Reason magazine, you said we have to go to war with Islam.

That was shocking for a woman to be advocating for that.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Can I answer that?

Speaker: Let her have a sentence.

Hibaaq Osman: For someone who has actually asked for Islam to be defeated militarily, I am really surprised that you are still saying the same things.
And now you are backpedaling

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamic law.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is
Islamic law

Hibaaq Osman: You cannot come here to talk about reform that does not exist.
Speaker: Okay, I'll tell you one thing: none of these women are constrained by their religion.

Hibaaq Osman: No, my point is you cannot reform anything if you don't have the credibility.

The fact that you said we have to defeat Islam, you surrendered your credibility.
Speaker: Okay, let me get my point in.

Hibaaq Osman: There's no time.
But the point is, those who claim to be able to reform their society have to be in their society.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

August 13, 2022: we cannot admit that the shots don't work because that would undermine our policy to force people to get them.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

The Damning Fauci Diaries https://t.co/2Z2BtOMLty

[Julie Tolmais @wvgstl]

@toddcrowell85 @stoolpresidente And winning over development

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

Haaland walking and pretending like he does not know what is happening 😂

He learned well from the master at that.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

“And what about our sins? Slavery was the original sin, and I won’t sand it down. The founders knew it. Jefferson knew it, and he owned slaves — the hypocrisy was staring right at them, and they kept kicking the can down the road. But here is what a poisoned telling of our history leaves out: the New England colonies began rejecting slavery before England itself did. And when the reckoning finally came, hundreds of thousands of men died on battlefields to make other men free. “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,” read the original lyrics of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. That’s propitiation. One man suffers so others go free. A nation that will bleed that much to right its own wrong is not an evil nation. It is a great one, straining toward becoming a more perfect one. We had a black president. We had a black vice president. Our Secretary of State is the son of Cuban refugees. Anyone telling you the story that nothing here ever gets better is selling you something.”

https://t.co/x00baUJNoo

[Dan @CfcDan_01]

🚨Zlatan Ibrahimovic on VAR after Croatia’s last-minute equaliser vs Portugal was ruled out:*

This referees are doing everything possible for Ronaldo to win the world cup but they will say Messi is the FIFA boy , This ball was never an Offside because the ball didn't touch the Croatia player , This is pure daylight robbery.

"The referee and VAR have just erased what should have been one of the greatest moments of this World Cup.”

"Let’s be clear: if you’re going to cancel a goal in the 90th minute, the evidence has to be beyond doubt. I’ve watched the incident multiple times, from every angle, and I still don’t see anything conclusive enough to overturn it.”

"If you’re in that VAR room for minutes, pausing, zooming, drawing lines to a shoulder, a boot, a heel… it’s not clear and obvious. And if it’s not clear, the goal must stand. That’s the whole point of VAR.”

"The referee has allowed technology to become the main character. But fans don’t fill stadiums or stay up late to watch a screen. They come for football — for drama, for emotion, for moments you remember forever.”

"Croatia showed real fight. They dug in, they scored late, they thought they’d earned a dramatic equaliser to keep their dream alive. Then one decision ripped it away, and that decision will be argued about for years.”

"This is why confidence in VAR is collapsing. It’s no longer fixing obvious mistakes. It’s hunting millimeters that nobody in the stadium can see with their own eyes. That’s not what football is supposed to be.”

"I feel for those Croatian players more than anything. You celebrate, you believe your World Cup is back on, and then it’s gone in seconds. For me, the referee on the pitch and VAR in the booth both got it wrong.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I've ever read in my life.

There is no close second... and it's worse than you could ever imagine.

Here's everything you need to know 🧵

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇳🇴 Norway fans just turned a Boston escalator into a Viking longship

Synchronized “Viking Row” on the way to the World Cup.

This is elite-level fandom.

Writer: Val

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

I’ve only just finished reading the first victim testimony in this report, by a woman named Chloe, and I had to pause multiple times because I couldn’t read through my tears. To know that this has happened, and continues to happen, to hundreds of thousands of white girls, not just in the UK, but undoubtedly in all of Europe, is almost unbearable. This is not a failure of our authorities; it is the ultimate betrayal. Those responsible must pay.