As Clown World Turns...

[Traintrack]

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the Pentagon has overcounted the value of the weapons it sent to Ukraine by at least $3 billion. The Defense Department had cited what newly produced weapons would cost, but Washington has primarily sent Ukraine older excess weapons from U.S. stockpiles.

The Pentagon says this means it has an additional $3 billion to spend on military aid to Ukraine—spending that wouldn't require congressional approval. While Congress has the power to set limits on the value of weapons the president can send using this method, the White House has the authority to choose which weapons to send and how to calculate their value.

 

[rsm]

 

[watson503]

In today's episode of "What's Racist Today?"...

 

[rsm]

Enjoy the decline.

Prepare your exit strategy.

IMO. That's what I'm doing.

 

[jaxadam]

Enjoy the decline.

Prepare your exit strategy.

IMO. That's what I'm doing.

 

[Strandberg Junkie]

@watson503

Got a challenge for you.

Find 5 tweets about ridiculously feel good stories that everyone here will read and feel good about.
Be sure to put @Donnie B in the post so I don't miss it.

Or don't. Your call.

It would be a nice change of pace though.

 

[rsm]

@watson503

Got a challenge for you.

Find 5 tweets about ridiculously feel good stories that everyone here will read and feel good about.
Be sure to put @Donnie B in the post so I don't miss it.

Or don't. Your call.

It would be a nice change of pace though.

Here's one feel good story:



I feel good about it, don't you?

 

[WEF Chairman]

Satire

 

[watson503]

 

[WEF Chairman]

Fake

 

[Traintrack]

Moron

 

[WEF Chairman]

Moron

Lame YouTube video is lame.

 

[Treeman]

Fake

No really - they give degrees in African-American studies - I know it sounds like a joke but it is all too real.

 

[WEF Chairman]

No really - they give degrees in African-American studies - I know it sounds like a joke but it is all too real.

I was referring to the ATM bullshit.

But what’s wrong with African-American studies?
Are white people studies the only ones good enough to teach?

 

[Treeman]

I was referring to the ATM bullshit.

But what’s wrong with African-American studies?
Are white people studies the only ones good enough to teach?

How about the study of people? Your focus on race will leave you blinkered.

 

[Strandberg Junkie]

How about the study of people? Your focus on race will leave you blinkered.

Are all people the same?
Are the cultures of each race the same?
The historical backgrounds?

In India they worship and entirely different God than most in the USA do.
Isn't that worth learning about - for students from both countries?



Same question asked a different way.
Why are you singling out African-American studies as something worth mentioning?

 

[WEF Chairman]

How about the study of people? Your focus on race will leave you blinkered.

Sure. Let’s study all people. Via as many viewpoints as possible.

 

[Treeman]

Are all people the same?
Are the cultures of each race the same?
The historical backgrounds?

In India they worship and entirely different God than most in the USA do.
Isn't that worth learning about - for students from both countries?



Same question asked a different way.
Why are you singling out African-American studies as something worth mentioning?

All people are not the same - but African Americans are not some weird breed - they are American people. Their history is our history. Sure the history of India is worth study. But Berkeley is in the USA and it is odd there or anywhere in the states IMHO to focus on the history of a particular race, in this case African American. Nor am I am singling them out - I think it would be equally limiting to offer degrees in Italian American studies or Chinese American studies. And for what it is worth the history of slavery should of course be taught to American kids - not as some special class on the evils of the USA - but as part and parcel of telling the full story of American history.

 

[watson503]

 

[Monkey Man]

In India they worship and entirely different God than most in the USA do.
Isn't that worth learning about - for students from both countries?

Actually Donnie, they have thousands of religions in India. You read that correctly - thousands.

Would prolly require the entire curriclum's replacement in order to cover it all, even in a cursory fashion.

I'm sure we get your point 'though.