An article at Substack is titled: “It’s Amazing That the Heart of Antisemitism Lies on Campus”
I don’t think it’s surprising at all: anti-Semitism and general political thuggery have been rising on US campuses for more than two decades…and there is historical precedent in the role of German universities in promoting anti-Semitism. See my new post:
Do we need to beware the ides of June? Asking for a friend.
I grew up in the Chicago area and my earliest joys were trees, birds and cloud formations. If you came to my home, you would recognize my affection for trees and birds. It was only last year in reading Tom Holland’s book Dominion that I heard that birds are descendants of dinosaurs. I’m not married to the literal translation of the Genesis creation account but birds are mentioned on Day 5. And if I heard correctly, there is a “missing link” here in the record, like in the human account. No doubt I will learn more in the future as I have decided that when I retire this year, a bird watching society will be my first outside commitment.
Here is Professor of War in the Modern World, Dr. David Betz, from Kings College, London, giving his estimate, yesterday, on how long it will be before an increasingly inevitable Civil War will break out in the UK, likely starting in Ireland.*
Looking at the news coming out of the UK, does it appear that the government there is trying to do anything to prevent such a Civil War from breaking out or, is every step they take, every policy they implement, making it more and more likely that it will break out?
Is this sheer stupidity or, is this a deliberate attempt to get such a Civil War started?
@Snow on Pine:Civil War will break out in the UK, likely starting in Ireland.
I assume he meant Northern Ireland. Ireland and Northern Ireland are like Mexico and New Mexico, or Virginia and West Virginia.
A civil war in the UK starting in Ireland would suppose first a reconquest of Ireland, which is kind of burying the lede there.
Just a comment on the state of birds today where I live.
Habitat change and introduced feral carnivore species are the biggest threats in my part of the world. But I live in Sydney, Australia, and it is a city full of birds. I recall a day 15 odd years ago when some of my sons had a local rugby game. They had to be at the oval an hour before the game for warming up etc, which meant as parents, my wife and I also were there early. Sitting in one spot for the hour before the actual game, I counted 23 different species of birds. A hawk, a flock of short billed corellas, a few fairy wrens and a whole lot more. I now often walk my dog near the oval and a close-by river, and in recent weeks have seen some spoonbills and a pair of red-backed grass parrots. This is on the side of the (relatively narrow) river, and on the other side is Sydney Airport on Botany Bay, so we aren’t exactly talking about an isolated, quiet place. Very recently I saw several native brush turkeys close to where I live, and for about three weeks per year, yellow tailed black cockatoos attack the pine tree across the road from where I live.
There are often sulfur crested cockatoos and of course rainbow lorikeets, which are incredibly widespread in Sydney and the easy coast.
My wife and I travel quite a bit, and I am stunned at the lack of variety of birdlife almost everywhere we go. I am typing this in Manila in the Philippines (my wife of 41 years is Filipino and we come here often), and good luck spotting a bird at all!
Sydney is quite a green city with plenty of trees and varieties of plants. Decades ago, local councils across Sydney started planting native trees in the streets. It makes for a great environment for birds, and non-native plants, mostly from the northern hemisphere, are beneficial in the winter time. Also, not only birds but also Fruit Bats (Flying Foxes), of which there is a colony about a kilometre from where I live, near Botany Bay (ie fairly close to central Sydney)
In Australia, cats and foxes are the biggest problem for birds, but the sheer number and variety of birds in Sydney show that given the right food sources, birds can adapt very nicely with humans. Be thoughtful about the plants you put in your yard from a bird or bee/insect perspective, put a bell on your cat’s collar and you might be amazed at what might turn up in your yard.
I have to end this by pointing out that Sydney (certainly where I live) is overrun by Sacred/White-eyed Ibis (aka bin chickens), and while a lot of Sydney-siders hate them, I find it awesome that such a large bird is able to survive and thrive in a city of 5.5 million people.
I side with the cats against the birds, just as I side with King Kong against T Rex. Mammalian solidarity forever!
Political changers AGAIN. THIS is a fun short video!
“Batya Ungar-Sargon shares the surprising Yale study that challenged her assumptions about race, politics, and identity.”
In 2018, this study said White Leftists talk down or more dumbly to black people than White Conservatives, who do not. (As if to say “you mean we’re trally the paternalistic racists? Not the righties?”)
On reading this, she put it away for three months, not wanting to deal with the full consequences of this balloon popping moment.
Hello, birders Les and Sharon W. Here in western North Carolina, about 300 species of birds have been identified (Including migrants). In our new house of only one year, we have so far seen 54 species from our porches. We were blessed to have a large native black cherry tree in the back, and have planted some berry-producing evergreen shrubs and a few more trees for bird cover.
Our daughter recently spent a month in Canberra, Australia, where she walked to and from work chased by large flocks of sulfur-crested cockatoos.
Birds and clouds.
Here are some interesting clouds from April 10th. The cedar tree in the picture had the top three feet broken last Friday when a raven landed on it and snapped it.
Looking at the news coming out of the UK, does it appear that the government there is trying to do anything to prevent such a Civil War from breaking out or, is every step they take, every policy they implement, making it more and more likely that it will break out?
Is this sheer stupidity or, is this a deliberate attempt to get such a Civil War started?
— Snow on Pine
You’re giving the British governing class (which dominates both Labour and Tories) too much credit. They aren’t planning anything right now. They’re scared to death because they’re riding a tiger and have no idea how to safely get off.
Starmer doesn’t dare call an election. If it was the prospect of the Tories back in power, he might do it, even at the cost of his own position, because the Tories are the alternative side of the British Uniparty. But there’s a real risk, if the polls are right, that a snap election right now would put Reform in the driver’s seat, or force Labour and Tory into a ‘grand coalition’ again, which would only pour gasoline on the fire. Labour has a huge parliamentary majority, so in theory they can put off the election for a while yet, but the knives are out for Starmer within the party.
Labour is caught between their uber-educated progressive core and a population that gets angrier and angrier because of the immigration policies that the progressive core is psychologically incapable of giving up on. The Tory elite shares almost all of those immigration priorities.
The progressive core of Labour wants them to start the process to rejoin the EU. But that has very little traction outside that group.
From the POV of Starmer and Co., every option sucks. They’re just trying to figure out what to do next.
And a cornered animal is dangerous.
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An article at Substack is titled: “It’s Amazing That the Heart of Antisemitism Lies on Campus”
I don’t think it’s surprising at all: anti-Semitism and general political thuggery have been rising on US campuses for more than two decades…and there is historical precedent in the role of German universities in promoting anti-Semitism. See my new post:
Anti-Semitism, Political Thuggery, and the American University
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/77003.html
Do we need to beware the ides of June? Asking for a friend.
I grew up in the Chicago area and my earliest joys were trees, birds and cloud formations. If you came to my home, you would recognize my affection for trees and birds. It was only last year in reading Tom Holland’s book Dominion that I heard that birds are descendants of dinosaurs. I’m not married to the literal translation of the Genesis creation account but birds are mentioned on Day 5. And if I heard correctly, there is a “missing link” here in the record, like in the human account. No doubt I will learn more in the future as I have decided that when I retire this year, a bird watching society will be my first outside commitment.
Here is Professor of War in the Modern World, Dr. David Betz, from Kings College, London, giving his estimate, yesterday, on how long it will be before an increasingly inevitable Civil War will break out in the UK, likely starting in Ireland.*
Looking at the news coming out of the UK, does it appear that the government there is trying to do anything to prevent such a Civil War from breaking out or, is every step they take, every policy they implement, making it more and more likely that it will break out?
Is this sheer stupidity or, is this a deliberate attempt to get such a Civil War started?
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2K2O7skuP8
@Snow on Pine:Civil War will break out in the UK, likely starting in Ireland.
I assume he meant Northern Ireland. Ireland and Northern Ireland are like Mexico and New Mexico, or Virginia and West Virginia.
A civil war in the UK starting in Ireland would suppose first a reconquest of Ireland, which is kind of burying the lede there.
Just a comment on the state of birds today where I live.
Habitat change and introduced feral carnivore species are the biggest threats in my part of the world. But I live in Sydney, Australia, and it is a city full of birds. I recall a day 15 odd years ago when some of my sons had a local rugby game. They had to be at the oval an hour before the game for warming up etc, which meant as parents, my wife and I also were there early. Sitting in one spot for the hour before the actual game, I counted 23 different species of birds. A hawk, a flock of short billed corellas, a few fairy wrens and a whole lot more. I now often walk my dog near the oval and a close-by river, and in recent weeks have seen some spoonbills and a pair of red-backed grass parrots. This is on the side of the (relatively narrow) river, and on the other side is Sydney Airport on Botany Bay, so we aren’t exactly talking about an isolated, quiet place. Very recently I saw several native brush turkeys close to where I live, and for about three weeks per year, yellow tailed black cockatoos attack the pine tree across the road from where I live.
There are often sulfur crested cockatoos and of course rainbow lorikeets, which are incredibly widespread in Sydney and the easy coast.
My wife and I travel quite a bit, and I am stunned at the lack of variety of birdlife almost everywhere we go. I am typing this in Manila in the Philippines (my wife of 41 years is Filipino and we come here often), and good luck spotting a bird at all!
Sydney is quite a green city with plenty of trees and varieties of plants. Decades ago, local councils across Sydney started planting native trees in the streets. It makes for a great environment for birds, and non-native plants, mostly from the northern hemisphere, are beneficial in the winter time. Also, not only birds but also Fruit Bats (Flying Foxes), of which there is a colony about a kilometre from where I live, near Botany Bay (ie fairly close to central Sydney)
In Australia, cats and foxes are the biggest problem for birds, but the sheer number and variety of birds in Sydney show that given the right food sources, birds can adapt very nicely with humans. Be thoughtful about the plants you put in your yard from a bird or bee/insect perspective, put a bell on your cat’s collar and you might be amazed at what might turn up in your yard.
I have to end this by pointing out that Sydney (certainly where I live) is overrun by Sacred/White-eyed Ibis (aka bin chickens), and while a lot of Sydney-siders hate them, I find it awesome that such a large bird is able to survive and thrive in a city of 5.5 million people.
I side with the cats against the birds, just as I side with King Kong against T Rex. Mammalian solidarity forever!
Political changers AGAIN. THIS is a fun short video!
“Batya Ungar-Sargon shares the surprising Yale study that challenged her assumptions about race, politics, and identity.”
In 2018, this study said White Leftists talk down or more dumbly to black people than White Conservatives, who do not. (As if to say “you mean we’re trally the paternalistic racists? Not the righties?”)
On reading this, she put it away for three months, not wanting to deal with the full consequences of this balloon popping moment.
She adds, she could foresee herself losing all her friends…which she later did! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHm8Pzb4x-A
Hello, birders Les and Sharon W. Here in western North Carolina, about 300 species of birds have been identified (Including migrants). In our new house of only one year, we have so far seen 54 species from our porches. We were blessed to have a large native black cherry tree in the back, and have planted some berry-producing evergreen shrubs and a few more trees for bird cover.
Our daughter recently spent a month in Canberra, Australia, where she walked to and from work chased by large flocks of sulfur-crested cockatoos.
Birds and clouds.
Here are some interesting clouds from April 10th. The cedar tree in the picture had the top three feet broken last Friday when a raven landed on it and snapped it.
2 minutes 38 seconds time lapse of about 2 hours and 38 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djCKuUg2O4A
— Snow on Pine
You’re giving the British governing class (which dominates both Labour and Tories) too much credit. They aren’t planning anything right now. They’re scared to death because they’re riding a tiger and have no idea how to safely get off.
Starmer doesn’t dare call an election. If it was the prospect of the Tories back in power, he might do it, even at the cost of his own position, because the Tories are the alternative side of the British Uniparty. But there’s a real risk, if the polls are right, that a snap election right now would put Reform in the driver’s seat, or force Labour and Tory into a ‘grand coalition’ again, which would only pour gasoline on the fire. Labour has a huge parliamentary majority, so in theory they can put off the election for a while yet, but the knives are out for Starmer within the party.
Labour is caught between their uber-educated progressive core and a population that gets angrier and angrier because of the immigration policies that the progressive core is psychologically incapable of giving up on. The Tory elite shares almost all of those immigration priorities.
The progressive core of Labour wants them to start the process to rejoin the EU. But that has very little traction outside that group.
From the POV of Starmer and Co., every option sucks. They’re just trying to figure out what to do next.
And a cornered animal is dangerous.