stuff that would amaze you..

all destined for the garbage heap…
never to get where they were to go
and your points are useless, i have been erased

The only minority of consequence is the individual. The only diversity of consequence, other than for reproductive purposes, are individuals. Any other definition only serves to denigrate individual dignity and devalue human life.

The way it should have been handled is through ex post facto review when there was probable cause to suspect extraordinary discrimination. This is the only process which is capable of preserving individual dignity. The way it was processed was based on the assumption of guilt. This is a perversion of justice and equality, and reflects an extraordinary prejudice and selfish interest.

Of course, your evaluation of Warren, or any other politician or candidate or, for that matter, anyone else in the public eye, depends on what sources you look to for your news, and whether those news sources–depending on their political ideology and agenda (and they always have an ideology and an agenda)-either deliberately ignore, downplay, or report on something, and if they report, will-report fully and fairly on what is happening as regards a public figure like Warren, and her statements and claims.

In this case, as in almost all such cases these days the Internet, what has been termed the “undermedia,” has far more coverage than the MSM.

Breitbart.com is really on Elizabeth Warren’s case, and is “taking her inventory,” and from what they keep finding, it appears that Warren can’t help but lie about just about everything, and to make up or inflate stories to aggrandize herself.

Late yesterday Breitbart.com reported on the video they found of a speech that Warren gave early in her election bid, in which she told her audience about how her grandma, aged 15 in 1889, was driving a buckboard West as one of the early settlers during the Oklahoma land rush, and the touching story of how she lived to be 94, and was able to see Warren graduate from college.

Well, we each have a grandmother on our mother’s side and a grandmother on our father’s side. The only problem with Warren’s tale is that, according to Breitbart’s research, in the year Warren says ol’ granny was driving that buckboard West her paternal granny was not 15 but 2 years old, and she died at age 88, five years after Warren graduated college, and her maternal granny, who was 15 in 1889, and was, indeed, aged 94 when she died, died several months before Warren graduated. So, a “composite” granny? (see http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/01/Exclusive-Video-Shows-Elizabeth-Warren-Telling-Tall-Tale-of-Composite-Grandmother)

If fully expect that, any day now, Warren will be found buttonholing people on the sidewalk, and shoving a grocery receipt in their faces saying, ”see, see, look at this special thing I have.”

Artur Davis is right, it’s time to get off this bandwagon. We needed it for a while to get people used to seeing women and people of color in certain types of jobs (though I would draw the line at hiring UNqualified people, no matter what). But now it’s detrimental even to the groups it’s supposed to help.

No one who has been on the inside of higher ed (well, most higher ed) could deny this without telling a deliberate lie. I mean, it is so openly emphasized that I can’t see anyone being innocently mistaken about it. It would be like claiming not to realize that the military services teach people to kill.

The gist of it was a response to a commenter who said something along the lines of if you were a racist you could use AA as an excuse to question someone’s qualifications (in a job interview, I think). My reply was that you didn’t have to be a racist at all. AA practically forces you to question someone’s qualifications if you know that candidate wasn’t judged by the same standards as everyone else. If you can’t compare two people in a job interview on the same criteria how will you know if you’re getting taken? AA might be really well-meaning but it’s incredibly insidious. It forces people, people of good will, to look at other people differently based on their skin color. You have to protect yourself if you’re hiring someone and going to invest valuable time and money in them.

It’s a problem inherent to AA. The two can never be divorced. One begets the other.

Of course the left is not interested in true diversity. For them its about gender, race, and ethnicity. On the right we should be focused on diversity of opinion and philosophy because (hopefully) we realize we are not aways correct and we are willing to learn from others AND from our mistakes.’

Yesterday it was, “my parents had to elope because my family didn’t like my mother’s Indian heritage.” but Brieitbart.com quickly produced marriage/wedding documents showing that Warrren’s parents married in a conventional church wedding at a church 14 miles from their homes.

Now, today we learn that multimillionaire Warren—who has positioned herself as the champion of the middle class and the little guy, and who has railed against foreclosures and flipping, had herself done some very profitable flipping of foreclosed houses she bought cheap and sold dear (see http://news.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20220601flipping_lizs_credibility_flops/srvc=home&position=0) .