Kamran previously drew controversy by advocating against the “free mixing” of men and women in public spaces, having argued that “Muslim women aren’t really comfortable with being involved with Muslim men. I’m sure we can have segregated areas, segregated gyms, where Muslim women don’t have to sacrifice their health.”
——————-
Kamran is a woman BTW – a very clever tactic to avoid charges of chauvinism while imposing the veil.
My wife and I recently watched season 1 of “Love on the Spectrum” on Netflix. I think a lot of you would enjoy this program. My wife and I don’t watch much television but this did not feel like a “time suck” in any way. It’s edited very well, the pace is steady. It’s very real. Unlike most reality shows the producers don’t try to manufacture drama. It is also incredibly up-lifting and thought provoking.
It consists of intertwined vignettes of adults with autism as they try to form romantic relationships. I found it fascinating for several reasons. One theme that really has me thinking is the overarching pervasiveness of the need for human contact and affection. Autism “looks” different in all the participants, but a common thread is they are all extremely honest and genuine. They don’t manipulate or conceal. This has helped me to see just how much of this the rest of us often do, especially in the early stages of a dating relationship. Either through a desire to protect our emotions or a desire to convince another person we are someone other than who we truly are, dating can have more gamesmanship than honesty. It is a unique perspective to see the process based almost exclusively on the raw emotion for love and companionship.
As a parent I also kept thinking of the participants’ families and how deeply they must be wishing that the participants can find a romantic companion. You do get to know some of those people and I found myself thinking of their perspectives while their children, siblings, friends… were away on dates.
The show doesn’t do any preaching or teaching. The camera just shows the process and occasionally someone off camera asks a question to keep things moving. Yet, by sharing these stories it preaches and teaches a great deal about humanity, our purpose and forming relationships.
Ben David, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Muslim women aren’t comfortable being around Muslim men. When I was in Cairo, there were gangs of men assaulting women on the Corniche on the Nile. Heavy veiling did not stop the mob.
Conclave watching, for those interested. Lots of information on the X account of Damian Thompson, British, associate editor of the Spectator. Here’s his article from the weekend about Pope Francis’s shielding of sexual predators. Also, on his X account, a new financial scandal involving Cardinal Parolin, considered by liberals as a leading pope candidate.
@Kate:Ben David, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Muslim women aren’t comfortable being around Muslim men. When I was in Cairo, there were gangs of men assaulting women on the Corniche on the Nile.
The United Kingdom is resisting such measures in the name of gender equality…
Yes, I know, I also saw problems in India, of course. Women in the USA who complain about “oppression” of women have no idea what they’re talking about.
I used to belong to an all-female gym. It was nice not to have men looking us over as we lifted pathetic weights compared to what men can do. However, it was a private business. If the new Muslim councillor in England would like to have a female-only gym, let her encourage someone to open one.
Another informative discussion about tariffs from several points of view. The Trump skeptic thought the process should be more cerebral rather than the more chaotic process (as described) of what is happening.
What Trump is doing is the ONLY way to 1. get people’s attention; 2. expose the underlying problems harming US economy; 3. force change.
Also good discussion on the forward momentum of AI, including the problems of “hallucinations”. Trump’s First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W960TW79QCI
THIS is what I believe the USA’s Government laws say, about [Illegal Immigrant’s] getting court hearings, so these immigrants can [keep themselves from being deported] from the USA.
I think this is the TRUTH about this issue:
It’s not what most Democrats in the Congress, + Most Democrat-supporting reporters, are saying to people. These are the discussed, Immigration laws:
1] If you are an illegal immigrant in the US, or “an undocumented alien”, as the Democrats like to call some people- you DO NOT get the right to a hearing before [an immigration judge]…in all situations, to plead why you think you should not be deported,
and
2] If you ask the US, Federal Government for [asylum] in the US…and the US Fed. Government grants asylum to you, [then] that is [one] way you can legally stay in the USA., BUT, as I understand it: you must have a really, serious reason to get asylum from the US Government, like: your home country’s government or other people from your home nation, are politically repressing you, or [that government, or that nation’s people] are threatening your health/survival…and/or your life, because of- your ethnic group, or your political stands, or your racial group…and you CAN’T get just asylum because:
you don’t like your country’s…traditional foods, or you can only get a restaurant job…or a manual labor job in your country, or your country’s police or soldiers like to make fun of your choice of clothing…every day.
No, those aren’t good reasons to get asylum from the US government.
3] As I understand it- two main ways the US Government can deport you, for being an undocumented immigrant, [Part One]-
if you are [an undocumented immigrant in The US], and [YOU have BEEN in the USA FOR LESS THAN TWO YEARS], then the US Government has the [right] to deport you, [without giving you a hearing to plead your, I-shouldn’t-be-deported-court-case, in front of an Immigration Judge,
and,
Part Two-
if you are an [undocumented alien person], and you are caught inside the US…by police…or by border guards…or by other types of Federal agents, [and you have been living here for [less] than two years], and [you are caught 100 MILES or LESS…inside the USA’s borders], THEN- [the US Government has the [right] to deport you, [without giving you a hearing to plead your, I-shouldn’t-be-deported-court-case, in front of an Immigration Judge].
The situation, [about undocumented Immigrants, and “getting due process”], It’s not what most Democrats in the Congress are saying to the public, + [it is not] what most Democrat-supporting reporters are saying to the public.
A person, or several people, CAN’T just step into the United States, and- 1] “get the due process of getting an immigration hearing, to legally stay in the USA”, just because that person asked for that hearing,
and neither can a person-
2] just step into the borders of the USA, and- “ask for asylum, and GET asylum…from the US Government”, without serious reasons for [needing] that asylum.
There are only a number of ways you can enter the USA, as an undocumented immigrant, and [be granted the legal right to stay in the USA].
You can’t just walk into the USA, and get the right to legally stay in the USA.
On looking at them, US Laws don’t work that way.
I believe that the following news article backs up the statements or ideas that I have said in this comment.
If someone finds the written laws of The US Federal Government, that dispute the statements that I’ve said above, then I’ll gladly say that- I have the incorrect understanding of these laws and regulations.
I believe this is how the USA’s immigration system, works:
This is the news article that I have been talking about:
To quote Alfred E. Neuman, “The Empire Strikes Out”…
Looks like the ball is back in the Romanian Deep State’s (AKA the EU’s) court….
Wild animals who are raised from infants by humans bond strongly with them. Most remain docile and easy to manage, but there are exceptions. Kangaroos can be dangerous, but in most situations they’re pretty docile. We saw some om a wildlife preserve in Tasmania that were amenable to being petted and were quite friendly even though they had free range of the preserve.
I loved the story, “Born Free.” It’s the account of how a family raised Elsa, the lioness, in Africa. They managed to successfully train her to hunt so she could eventually be released back into the wild. The signature scene was when Elsa came by their home with he r new cubs. A joyful ending to a touching relationship between a rescued animal and humans who raised her.
Without such encounters with humans down through the eons, we would never have had domesticated pets and draft animals that have made our lives better.
JJ,
On a slightly related note: Jay Bhattacharya has shutdown the lab that over decades has subjected 1000s of beagles to torture and experimentation. Good for him, I say.
Of course no reporting today in the MSM, though PETA (far from my favorite group) has recognized what he did.
I loved the story, “Born Free.”
==
There was a book and a film. Hear two bars of the theme music to the film and it’s “oh, no, I’ll never get that song out of my head… as free as the grass grows. AUGHHHH”. I think it must have been broadcast on network television every other year during the decade or so after it was filmed.
==
The film went into production in 1964 and was released two years later. The lead was the handsome Brit Virginia McKenna, who is still alive at age 93. I found a copy of the book in my mother’s sitting room library, one of those 1950s paperbacks which had fallen to pieces. It included a photo section in the middle, as such paperbacks did. She was in 195? an unattractive woman pushing 50. “Joy” was a nickname. She was born in the Hapsburg dominions and her actual name was German ugly. Mr. Adamson was her 3d husband and they eventually separated. Quite a disappointment looking at pictures of Joy Adamson at work. In the intervening years, it did occur to me that it was impressive that you’d elect to spend your life in the Kenyan countryside; they both died there.
Looks like the ball is back in the Romanian Deep State’s (AKA the EU’s) court….
==
The polls of hypothetical match ups between Mr. Simion and his opponent Nicu?or Dan have had results all over the map, with the more recent surveys favoring Dan. The thing is, the totals received by Dan and Crin Antonescu were passably close to the median of their surveyed support, while that received by Simion well exceeded his surveyed support. The pollsters last November had Calin Georgescu at 7% of the electorate and he eventually won 23%. So, there seems to be a nationalist segment of the electorate the pollsters keep failing to locate.
==
We’ll now see if the EU’s minions in the Romanian judiciary are brazen enough to attempt to stop this runoff.
TR,
I assure you your adversaries know immigration law as well, or better than you and have been using it to advise foreign aliens crossing our borders in the past 4 years. The southern border is littered with passports and IDs. Why? The aliens are advised to abandon them prior to processing so their country of origin is unknown; making it harder to refute pleas for asylum.
There are many, many well funded groups (along with attorneys willing to work pro bono) who will use every lever of the justice system to slow and overwhelm an already overwhelmed system.
It will take extraordinary actions by the Trump administration to make headway on deportations.
The administration has been using propaganda techniques to try to convince many to self deport. I think there is some success there, but those abetting the asylum seekers are also good at propaganda and communication.
@Rufus & TR:
Black-letter law is one thing. Regulations promulgated by agencies, policy decisions about enforcement of laws and regulations, and the decisions of judges can combine with black-letter law to produce a very different thing which isn’t necessarily written down in one place.
What is an undocumented immigrant? An illegal alien?
I see, from numerous sources, that the Dept of Ed is sending to those who are in default on student loans notices that collections procedures are commencing.
Welcome to the Real World, folks.
A LOAN implies that someone receiving the money will repay that money to the funder. Some are telling reporters that they are surprised at this. If they are in fact our “best and brightest” they would probably not take out an enormous loan to get a degree that will not generate employment that will let them repay that loan.
They should have known by the Wednesday following the first Tuesday that followed the First Monday this past November that this day was coming. Many evidently did not see it.
@ miguel – Your post from Legal Insurrection about Brown’s ties to Qatar demonstrates two things:
(1) Parents are woefully uninformed (and likely deliberately misinformed)about what their children are studying in school, especially high school (that is not a claim that I did any better back in the 1980& 1990s, but I don’t think the corruption was as deep or broad as it is now, although I did discover, accidentally and somewhat belatedly, that our youngest son’s English teacher was functionally illiterate).
(2) No wonder we have so many anti-Israel, pro-Hamas/Palestinian college students.
A selection of comments from LI:
Robert Chiaradio | May 5, 2025 at 11:51 am
As a 1984 graduate of this place, I am sickened to see the anti-America, anti-Jew, anti-Israel cesspool Brown has become. How ironic that a Choices board member is the one who exposes Christina Paxson’s hand in the Qatari cookie jar. Great work on this. The Trump administration must hammer Brown, and hard. And…Paxson must resign or be fired.
2guyjones | May 5, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Shine a light on all of the Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist petrodollars from the wretched Qatari regime and others, flowing into the coffers of American universities and used to fund a viciously dishonest propaganda narrative and indoctrination campaign that contemptibly vilifies Israeli Jews and Israel as alleged usurpers, whitewashes the bloodstained history and genocidal aims of the Arab invaders from Arabia (dishonestly re-branded as “Palestinians”) and, engages in brazen historical revisionism by erasing Jews’ indigenous history in the middle east (pre-dating the founding of the supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent and pathology-laden ideology of “Submission,” by millennia).
2schmuul | May 5, 2025 at 12:34 pm
Just to be clear a country that allows men to have 3 wives , doesn’t allow women to make any decisions without a male guardian or permission , imprisons gay people and has a second class system for the huge number of migrants in their country that is abusive , gets to determine the “inclusive “ and equitable curriculum for our students and children? Wow
@ miguel – also thanks for the link to Heather MacDonald’s excellent review of the Metropolitan Opera’s new staging of Aida – and the debauching of Verdi’s masterpiece by Edward Said-addicted producers.
I had the pleasure of seeing a live production of a traditional staging in Austin back in the 1970s, and a broadcast of some now-forgotten production in the 1990s. It was shown quite late at night, and our youngest son, probably not more than 8, unaccountably sat up and watched it with me (he has become the most musical of our five).
At the end, he looked over at me and said, “That’s a pretty good show.”
Can’t beat that for audience appeal.
Thanks for the details form the “Born Free” story, Art D.
I should re-read the book and refresh my memory.
That movie and ” Out of Africa” motivated me to visit Africa. We did a three-week tour of the Kenyan/Tanzanian game parks in 1997. That experience showed me why some people fall in love with East Africa and are willing to spend their lives there. It’s strikingly beautiful, varied geography that’s almost as wild as our West was back in the 1800s. It’s a thrill to see the animals still living wild and free. Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, but I sure loved it.
Watching that confirmed my suspicion that Australia is where God stashed all of his mistakes.
SHIREHOME,
Right, not the biggest of the breed.
A close friend of mine married an Aussie and went to live on a ranch in Western Australia. Many years ago she took in a young, abandoned female ‘roo. Nature being what it is, baby ‘roo grew up and became attractive to her kind. Long story short, my friend’s husband was gone for the day and friend, her toddler son, and pet ‘roo were trapped in the house all day as a very lovelorn, very aggressive 7 foot ‘roo went from window to window trying to get in. This woman is used to large animals, horses in particular, and she said it was a terrifying experience.
Australia separated from the rest of the world before the marsupial-placental issue was decided.
As a general rule, the former are not as smart as the latter. Despite 40k years in Australia, the aborigines did not domesticate any native species. Not worth it, couldn’t get them to do anything useful.
Even though they originally filled most of the niches placentals did elsewhere.
There was a marsupial sabertooth tiger in South America…until the continents hooked up and the placentals arrived.
As far as I have heard, no native species are pets except in the “know enough to lie around and show up for chow” definition. Dingos, being descended from feral dogs run away from aboriginal camps have evolved somewhat away from actual dogs and have an odd position with regard to licensing as pets and so forth.
You’d think roos would make pretty good sheep herding assistants….
Is there any crop native to Australia which is part of their commercial ag sector?
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He is not of the biggest of the breed.
I hope they have trimmed his nails. They can be large and very sharp.
Smarter than california rail
https://x.com/Susan_Shelley/status/1919175549232320664
It really is a peninsula of misfit toys
Lovely. I wonder if they can herd sheep.
The mask is no longer needed, and can be discarded.
The era of taqiyya is over.
Europe is lost:
Labour Party Loses Seats to Pro-Gaza ‘Independent’ Candidates in England Local Elections
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/04/leftist-labour-party-continues-losing-seats-to-pro-gaza-independent-candidates/
From the article:
Kamran previously drew controversy by advocating against the “free mixing” of men and women in public spaces, having argued that “Muslim women aren’t really comfortable with being involved with Muslim men. I’m sure we can have segregated areas, segregated gyms, where Muslim women don’t have to sacrifice their health.”
——————-
Kamran is a woman BTW – a very clever tactic to avoid charges of chauvinism while imposing the veil.
My wife and I recently watched season 1 of “Love on the Spectrum” on Netflix. I think a lot of you would enjoy this program. My wife and I don’t watch much television but this did not feel like a “time suck” in any way. It’s edited very well, the pace is steady. It’s very real. Unlike most reality shows the producers don’t try to manufacture drama. It is also incredibly up-lifting and thought provoking.
It consists of intertwined vignettes of adults with autism as they try to form romantic relationships. I found it fascinating for several reasons. One theme that really has me thinking is the overarching pervasiveness of the need for human contact and affection. Autism “looks” different in all the participants, but a common thread is they are all extremely honest and genuine. They don’t manipulate or conceal. This has helped me to see just how much of this the rest of us often do, especially in the early stages of a dating relationship. Either through a desire to protect our emotions or a desire to convince another person we are someone other than who we truly are, dating can have more gamesmanship than honesty. It is a unique perspective to see the process based almost exclusively on the raw emotion for love and companionship.
As a parent I also kept thinking of the participants’ families and how deeply they must be wishing that the participants can find a romantic companion. You do get to know some of those people and I found myself thinking of their perspectives while their children, siblings, friends… were away on dates.
The show doesn’t do any preaching or teaching. The camera just shows the process and occasionally someone off camera asks a question to keep things moving. Yet, by sharing these stories it preaches and teaches a great deal about humanity, our purpose and forming relationships.
Ben David, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Muslim women aren’t comfortable being around Muslim men. When I was in Cairo, there were gangs of men assaulting women on the Corniche on the Nile. Heavy veiling did not stop the mob.
Conclave watching, for those interested. Lots of information on the X account of Damian Thompson, British, associate editor of the Spectator. Here’s his article from the weekend about Pope Francis’s shielding of sexual predators. Also, on his X account, a new financial scandal involving Cardinal Parolin, considered by liberals as a leading pope candidate.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14675793/Peoples-Pope-shielded-sexual-predators-clergy-priest-accused-violently-raping-nuns.html
David Clayton (crickets), tell us about how free Great Britain is again.
https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1919031397139853421
are they learning any lessons,
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/brown-univ-ends-anti-israel-high-school-education-program-after-report-exposes-ties-to-qatar/
certainly Georgetown has not,
@Kate:Ben David, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Muslim women aren’t comfortable being around Muslim men. When I was in Cairo, there were gangs of men assaulting women on the Corniche on the Nile.
Pretty common in India too, not limited to Muslims. Quite a few countries, including non-Mulsim nations like Japan, have women-only sections in public transit to try to reduce such problems.
The United Kingdom is resisting such measures in the name of gender equality…
Yes, I know, I also saw problems in India, of course. Women in the USA who complain about “oppression” of women have no idea what they’re talking about.
I used to belong to an all-female gym. It was nice not to have men looking us over as we lifted pathetic weights compared to what men can do. However, it was a private business. If the new Muslim councillor in England would like to have a female-only gym, let her encourage someone to open one.
its tragic but very irresponsible,
https://x.com/nypost/status/1919094146268021017
https://newcriterion.com/article/saidomasochism/ will we ever be rid of his influence,
Another informative discussion about tariffs from several points of view. The Trump skeptic thought the process should be more cerebral rather than the more chaotic process (as described) of what is happening.
What Trump is doing is the ONLY way to 1. get people’s attention; 2. expose the underlying problems harming US economy; 3. force change.
Also good discussion on the forward momentum of AI, including the problems of “hallucinations”.
Trump’s First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W960TW79QCI
THIS is what I believe the USA’s Government laws say, about [Illegal Immigrant’s] getting court hearings, so these immigrants can [keep themselves from being deported] from the USA.
I think this is the TRUTH about this issue:
It’s not what most Democrats in the Congress, + Most Democrat-supporting reporters, are saying to people. These are the discussed, Immigration laws:
1] If you are an illegal immigrant in the US, or “an undocumented alien”, as the Democrats like to call some people- you DO NOT get the right to a hearing before [an immigration judge]…in all situations, to plead why you think you should not be deported,
and
2] If you ask the US, Federal Government for [asylum] in the US…and the US Fed. Government grants asylum to you, [then] that is [one] way you can legally stay in the USA., BUT, as I understand it: you must have a really, serious reason to get asylum from the US Government, like: your home country’s government or other people from your home nation, are politically repressing you, or [that government, or that nation’s people] are threatening your health/survival…and/or your life, because of- your ethnic group, or your political stands, or your racial group…and you CAN’T get just asylum because:
you don’t like your country’s…traditional foods, or you can only get a restaurant job…or a manual labor job in your country, or your country’s police or soldiers like to make fun of your choice of clothing…every day.
No, those aren’t good reasons to get asylum from the US government.
3] As I understand it- two main ways the US Government can deport you, for being an undocumented immigrant, [Part One]-
if you are [an undocumented immigrant in The US], and [YOU have BEEN in the USA FOR LESS THAN TWO YEARS], then the US Government has the [right] to deport you, [without giving you a hearing to plead your, I-shouldn’t-be-deported-court-case, in front of an Immigration Judge,
and,
Part Two-
if you are an [undocumented alien person], and you are caught inside the US…by police…or by border guards…or by other types of Federal agents, [and you have been living here for [less] than two years], and [you are caught 100 MILES or LESS…inside the USA’s borders], THEN- [the US Government has the [right] to deport you, [without giving you a hearing to plead your, I-shouldn’t-be-deported-court-case, in front of an Immigration Judge].
The situation, [about undocumented Immigrants, and “getting due process”], It’s not what most Democrats in the Congress are saying to the public, + [it is not] what most Democrat-supporting reporters are saying to the public.
A person, or several people, CAN’T just step into the United States, and- 1] “get the due process of getting an immigration hearing, to legally stay in the USA”, just because that person asked for that hearing,
and neither can a person-
2] just step into the borders of the USA, and- “ask for asylum, and GET asylum…from the US Government”, without serious reasons for [needing] that asylum.
There are only a number of ways you can enter the USA, as an undocumented immigrant, and [be granted the legal right to stay in the USA].
You can’t just walk into the USA, and get the right to legally stay in the USA.
On looking at them, US Laws don’t work that way.
I believe that the following news article backs up the statements or ideas that I have said in this comment.
If someone finds the written laws of The US Federal Government, that dispute the statements that I’ve said above, then I’ll gladly say that- I have the incorrect understanding of these laws and regulations.
I believe this is how the USA’s immigration system, works:
This is the news article that I have been talking about:
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/what-rights-do-undocumented-immigrants-have-in-the-us/
Hmm.
Some (more) “interesting” news out of Romania.
“Romanian Prime Minister To Resign After Conservative Candidate Crushes Coalition In Do-Over Election”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nationalist-dominates-first-round-romanian-presidential-election
To quote Alfred E. Neuman, “The Empire Strikes Out”…
Looks like the ball is back in the Romanian Deep State’s (AKA the EU’s) court….
Wild animals who are raised from infants by humans bond strongly with them. Most remain docile and easy to manage, but there are exceptions. Kangaroos can be dangerous, but in most situations they’re pretty docile. We saw some om a wildlife preserve in Tasmania that were amenable to being petted and were quite friendly even though they had free range of the preserve.
I loved the story, “Born Free.” It’s the account of how a family raised Elsa, the lioness, in Africa. They managed to successfully train her to hunt so she could eventually be released back into the wild. The signature scene was when Elsa came by their home with he r new cubs. A joyful ending to a touching relationship between a rescued animal and humans who raised her.
Without such encounters with humans down through the eons, we would never have had domesticated pets and draft animals that have made our lives better.
JJ,
On a slightly related note: Jay Bhattacharya has shutdown the lab that over decades has subjected 1000s of beagles to torture and experimentation. Good for him, I say.
Of course no reporting today in the MSM, though PETA (far from my favorite group) has recognized what he did.
I applaud the sentiment.
For someone looking for a second opinion, though….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRT7lf8byw
https://www.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2023/10/19/kangaroo-dog-fight-moos-cprog-orig-bdk.cnn
I loved the story, “Born Free.”
==
There was a book and a film. Hear two bars of the theme music to the film and it’s “oh, no, I’ll never get that song out of my head… as free as the grass grows. AUGHHHH”. I think it must have been broadcast on network television every other year during the decade or so after it was filmed.
==
The film went into production in 1964 and was released two years later. The lead was the handsome Brit Virginia McKenna, who is still alive at age 93. I found a copy of the book in my mother’s sitting room library, one of those 1950s paperbacks which had fallen to pieces. It included a photo section in the middle, as such paperbacks did. She was in 195? an unattractive woman pushing 50. “Joy” was a nickname. She was born in the Hapsburg dominions and her actual name was German ugly. Mr. Adamson was her 3d husband and they eventually separated. Quite a disappointment looking at pictures of Joy Adamson at work. In the intervening years, it did occur to me that it was impressive that you’d elect to spend your life in the Kenyan countryside; they both died there.
Looks like the ball is back in the Romanian Deep State’s (AKA the EU’s) court….
==
The polls of hypothetical match ups between Mr. Simion and his opponent Nicu?or Dan have had results all over the map, with the more recent surveys favoring Dan. The thing is, the totals received by Dan and Crin Antonescu were passably close to the median of their surveyed support, while that received by Simion well exceeded his surveyed support. The pollsters last November had Calin Georgescu at 7% of the electorate and he eventually won 23%. So, there seems to be a nationalist segment of the electorate the pollsters keep failing to locate.
==
We’ll now see if the EU’s minions in the Romanian judiciary are brazen enough to attempt to stop this runoff.
TR,
I assure you your adversaries know immigration law as well, or better than you and have been using it to advise foreign aliens crossing our borders in the past 4 years. The southern border is littered with passports and IDs. Why? The aliens are advised to abandon them prior to processing so their country of origin is unknown; making it harder to refute pleas for asylum.
There are many, many well funded groups (along with attorneys willing to work pro bono) who will use every lever of the justice system to slow and overwhelm an already overwhelmed system.
It will take extraordinary actions by the Trump administration to make headway on deportations.
The administration has been using propaganda techniques to try to convince many to self deport. I think there is some success there, but those abetting the asylum seekers are also good at propaganda and communication.
@Rufus & TR:
Black-letter law is one thing. Regulations promulgated by agencies, policy decisions about enforcement of laws and regulations, and the decisions of judges can combine with black-letter law to produce a very different thing which isn’t necessarily written down in one place.
What is an undocumented immigrant? An illegal alien?
I see, from numerous sources, that the Dept of Ed is sending to those who are in default on student loans notices that collections procedures are commencing.
Welcome to the Real World, folks.
A LOAN implies that someone receiving the money will repay that money to the funder. Some are telling reporters that they are surprised at this. If they are in fact our “best and brightest” they would probably not take out an enormous loan to get a degree that will not generate employment that will let them repay that loan.
They should have known by the Wednesday following the first Tuesday that followed the First Monday this past November that this day was coming. Many evidently did not see it.
@ miguel – Your post from Legal Insurrection about Brown’s ties to Qatar demonstrates two things:
(1) Parents are woefully uninformed (and likely deliberately misinformed)about what their children are studying in school, especially high school (that is not a claim that I did any better back in the 1980& 1990s, but I don’t think the corruption was as deep or broad as it is now, although I did discover, accidentally and somewhat belatedly, that our youngest son’s English teacher was functionally illiterate).
(2) No wonder we have so many anti-Israel, pro-Hamas/Palestinian college students.
A selection of comments from LI:
Robert Chiaradio | May 5, 2025 at 11:51 am
As a 1984 graduate of this place, I am sickened to see the anti-America, anti-Jew, anti-Israel cesspool Brown has become. How ironic that a Choices board member is the one who exposes Christina Paxson’s hand in the Qatari cookie jar. Great work on this. The Trump administration must hammer Brown, and hard. And…Paxson must resign or be fired.
2guyjones | May 5, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Shine a light on all of the Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist petrodollars from the wretched Qatari regime and others, flowing into the coffers of American universities and used to fund a viciously dishonest propaganda narrative and indoctrination campaign that contemptibly vilifies Israeli Jews and Israel as alleged usurpers, whitewashes the bloodstained history and genocidal aims of the Arab invaders from Arabia (dishonestly re-branded as “Palestinians”) and, engages in brazen historical revisionism by erasing Jews’ indigenous history in the middle east (pre-dating the founding of the supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent and pathology-laden ideology of “Submission,” by millennia).
2schmuul | May 5, 2025 at 12:34 pm
Just to be clear a country that allows men to have 3 wives , doesn’t allow women to make any decisions without a male guardian or permission , imprisons gay people and has a second class system for the huge number of migrants in their country that is abusive , gets to determine the “inclusive “ and equitable curriculum for our students and children? Wow
@ miguel – also thanks for the link to Heather MacDonald’s excellent review of the Metropolitan Opera’s new staging of Aida – and the debauching of Verdi’s masterpiece by Edward Said-addicted producers.
I had the pleasure of seeing a live production of a traditional staging in Austin back in the 1970s, and a broadcast of some now-forgotten production in the 1990s. It was shown quite late at night, and our youngest son, probably not more than 8, unaccountably sat up and watched it with me (he has become the most musical of our five).
At the end, he looked over at me and said, “That’s a pretty good show.”
Can’t beat that for audience appeal.
Thanks for the details form the “Born Free” story, Art D.
I should re-read the book and refresh my memory.
That movie and ” Out of Africa” motivated me to visit Africa. We did a three-week tour of the Kenyan/Tanzanian game parks in 1997. That experience showed me why some people fall in love with East Africa and are willing to spend their lives there. It’s strikingly beautiful, varied geography that’s almost as wild as our West was back in the 1800s. It’s a thrill to see the animals still living wild and free. Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, but I sure loved it.
Watching that confirmed my suspicion that Australia is where God stashed all of his mistakes.
SHIREHOME,
Right, not the biggest of the breed.
A close friend of mine married an Aussie and went to live on a ranch in Western Australia. Many years ago she took in a young, abandoned female ‘roo. Nature being what it is, baby ‘roo grew up and became attractive to her kind. Long story short, my friend’s husband was gone for the day and friend, her toddler son, and pet ‘roo were trapped in the house all day as a very lovelorn, very aggressive 7 foot ‘roo went from window to window trying to get in. This woman is used to large animals, horses in particular, and she said it was a terrifying experience.
Australia separated from the rest of the world before the marsupial-placental issue was decided.
As a general rule, the former are not as smart as the latter. Despite 40k years in Australia, the aborigines did not domesticate any native species. Not worth it, couldn’t get them to do anything useful.
Even though they originally filled most of the niches placentals did elsewhere.
There was a marsupial sabertooth tiger in South America…until the continents hooked up and the placentals arrived.
As far as I have heard, no native species are pets except in the “know enough to lie around and show up for chow” definition. Dingos, being descended from feral dogs run away from aboriginal camps have evolved somewhat away from actual dogs and have an odd position with regard to licensing as pets and so forth.
You’d think roos would make pretty good sheep herding assistants….
Is there any crop native to Australia which is part of their commercial ag sector?