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At Alpha, we aim to give excellent service to our customers each and every time. This is why your feedback is important to us. To ensure that our cars and service have the same standards of excellence in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Moorooka, Dandenong, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, we've compiled all of your comments, questions, and feedback. Check out what some of our customers have to say about Alpha Car Hire below.
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Very easy with no fuss.
- Andrew, July 2016
A very happy customer! I've hired with Alpha several times and can't fault their service.
- Keryn, July 2016
Everything went very smoothly.. The car was clean & the service was great!
- Lisa, July 2016
The transfer from the airport arrived within 5min. Your staff went over and beyond there job requirements.. I had a 6 am flight home and I arrived at Alpha at 450... I was at the airport by 5... Excellent service.,friendly staff and great rates...The car was immaculately clean, spacious and very fuel efficient. I will always highly recommend and always use Alpha car rental. Thank you for the great experience... Cheers....
- Ellen, July 2016
We are coming back in april 2017 and will definitely use Alpha car hire again
- Janlyn, July 2016
I found the whole experience using Alpha car hire extremely satisfying and have already recommended them to somebody else who has already used them since my recommendation.
- Mark, July 2016
We always use Alpha for hire & car parking, so affordable and friendly staff.
- Rebecca, June 2016
I am a user of aloha at Brisbane for parking since you took over bap site. Found out about rental of vehicles- brilliant pricing. Won me.
- Susan, June 2016
The venue was easy to access (location and on site layout), the staff were friendly and helpful, the vehicle (3 tonne truck) was easy to operate/drive and in great condition. All in all a really positive experience.
- Robyn, June 2016
I found it a very pleasant experience and the customer service was excellent, especially for a smaller/lesser car hire company. I deal with all the major ones, Kingmill/Thrifty, Europcar, Budget and Hertz where I could of got a vehicle cheaper through the work that I do with them, but I was glad that I went with Alpha and also quite surprise with the service provided by Alpha.. The price was not too bad but overall the service makes a big difference and will get customers returning. Awesome experience from getting picked up from the airport, picking up the vehicle to dropping it off and getting dropped off to the airport.. Congrats guys on an awesome job!!!!!
- Utifila (woody), June 2016
The staff were very pleasant and helpful. The bus driver was very personable and enquired after each client. The car was clean and ready on time and the staff were very friendly and willing to assist with directions.
- Karen, June 2016
Excellent service! We would rent again from you!
- Andrew, June 2016
Very pleased with the service, the rates and the car.
- Oliver, June 2016
Great friendly team!
- Stuart, June 2016
Excellent rates, very friendly and helpful customer service
- Meegan, June 2016
First time renting and very happy, will be back.. Love your uncluttered website. Staff very helpful & friendly.
- Heather, June 2016
Thankyou, we found everything was simple for us oldies.. The staff were very helpful.
- Newton, June 2016
Great service and affordable price!
- Kelly, June 2016
Thank you - extremely happy with overall service!
- Ed, June 2016
Repeat customer - very satisfied!
- Bob, June 2016
Great service fro the team at the kirra beach site, they gave us a great car and when we returned it they were very busy but still made us feel welcome and then they arranged a shuttle bus to the airport the next day.
- Linda, June 2016
Friendly no hassles service - thank you.
- Fred, June 2016
Very pleasant experience overall starting at the service desk until being dropped off by the driver
- Stan, May 2016
A very smooth rental, friendly staff and good car.
- Michael, May 2016
Excellent service and customer support, late model Hyundai was clean and very feel efficient. Will definitely book with Alpha next time I am in Melbourne.
- Scott, May 2016
Jess was very helpful in getting me street by street directions to drive to O'Reilly's Guesthouse.
- Barbara, May 2016
Well done Alpha! Great customer service..
- Shah, May 2016
Nice staff too!
- Garnt, May 2016
It was easy to book but more importantly the customer service has been excellent. That's the main reason why I will continue to hire from Alpha.
- Amarjeet, May 2016
Great, efficient and friendly service. Contacted from airport to organize pickup and they arrived very promptly. Vehicle supplied worked well and economical to use. Upon return of vehicle they provided great service packing all bags in shuttle vehicle to airport. Staff very courteous to make sure you are happy with service.
- Paul, May 2016
Very helpful and friendly staff.
- Jenny, May 2016
Awesome service, friendly staff and no waiting around like the other car hire mobs. We were told to try you guys and we have passed on the goOd word. Well done by all your staff.
- Ashley, May 2016
Great service,everything was to easy, car was clean and pick up was in a timely manner! Absolutely terrific to deal with. I will be back!
- Ahmed, May 2016
Professional friendly service with reasonable price.
- Jue, May 2016
Great customer service overall. Great price too.
- Mara, May 2016
We have always parked our personal car with Alpha, now we have relocated we still use your car hire facility. Always friendly shuttle drivers and quick with the office admin.
- Donna, May 2016
Great service. Will definitely use Alpha again.
- Angela, May 2016
Fantastic, quick and easy process from start to finish
- Sue, May 2016
Matthew is an asset to the company!
- Mathew, April 2016
Have already recommend Alpha to family and friends, top service!
- Jasmin, April 2016
Absolutely! You provide outstanding service and value for money with efficiency and a smile. Super!!
- Danielle, April 2016
Every aspect was great
- Bradley, April 2016
We have booked through Alpha a few times now and always happy with the price and service.
- Frank, April 2016
Good truck and good access for pick up.
- Rodney, April 2016
Great service and very friendly, helpful staff.
- Simon, April 2016
I like the service - very affordable!
- Harjeet, April 2016
Great service from the girls at pick up and delivery. They are very happy just giving customer service.
- Francis, April 2016
Lovely and friendly ladies.
- Georgina, April 2016
Extremely helpful and friendly staff were great to deal with. They were both more than accommodating, well informed and made the whole process a pleasure. I will definitely go back in future. Very happy with the price (excellent value) and the overall experience! I rated average for question 4, as it was a well-used work ute..Not pretty or clean...But its not meant to be. That's the point. I thought its great they have it as part of the fleet.
- Heath, April 2016
All went according to plan. Very happy with the whole process
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Hobos In Paris
..and they goin' gorillas – heh!
Bonjour, everyone! As you all know, Valentine's Day is coming up and I never made a special for this special occasion! I'd mostly rate this PG-13 for some of the jokes and shizzle placed in here. Nothing explict though, just sillyness.
Before you view this, I mean spoil you – this stars the wonderful and ever so talented Blooberry95! Who could also be added to the recurring characters if she's interesting enough, but I haven't told the real Bloo about it though. So, shhh! Hey guys, could friends be Valentines? Just asking, because I got some personal problems of my own, lol.
Anyhoo, here's your description & episodeee..
On Valentines Day, the Hobos travel to Paris, home of the Eiffel Tower, and transform from co-workers to valentines.
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Great news to bring! Codien had informed me on our secret episode-making site. He's doing a bachelor of Journalism, Communications, and Media Studies at UNI in a month – which means his holidays end in a month. Yep, our little Cody is growing up. He misses making episodes, and regrets not making some during his break due to his unfortunate case of Writing Block.
I'm here to bring you the third episode of the season and hopefully I could finish this up before Summer or better yet Mid-Spring. Named after the D12 song, I describe this episode as either controversial or nostalgic. Maybe a little bit of both. Anyhoo!
Also, this was going to be called Haters Gonna Hate 3/2. So, you should probably know what this is about without reading the synopsis. :P
After claiming to be the victim of a hate crime, Zey sues the Hobos over their disliking of one his obsessions.

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One in five youths in several North African countries and Lebanon would like to emigrate in search of better prospects, including those with university degrees, according to a survey conducted for the European Commission.In Tunisia, 53 percent of youths said they wanted to emigrate, according to the report released on Thursday, six years after the "Arab Spring" revolts that swept the region starting in Tunisia in late 2010 .For 28 percent of respondents, a low standard of living was the biggest problem, followed by the economic situation (22 percent), jobs (12 percent) and education (10 percent).For young Tunisians, the ouster of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the country's first free elections in 2011 gave many young people hope that they would break into the public and political realms.


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Title: Ghost in the Shell
Year: 2017
Director: Rupert Sanders
Genre: Action
Category: #49 An action movie
There's been a lot of hate for this movie particularly in the lead-up to the release which largely surrounded the choice to have Scarlett Johansson as the lead actress. Given that this film was released as a Japanese anime in the 90's with a lot of success there was a huge concern about casting a white actress and the Hollywood whitewashing that often occurs with modern movies. I certainly think those concerns are justified but I think the creators did a good job of explaining just why she was white even when the film was set in Japan.
I haven't seen the original so I can't comment on the film as a comparison but I will endeavour to watch it at some point and come back to you guys.
At any rate, the premise of this movie is incredibly cool that we could basically take someone's brain out and put it in to a man made body and then use them to fight… and honestly, I don't think we're all that far from being able to do something like that.
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Uber! It's convenient, cheap, and slowly supplanting taxi drivers. It is also a total crapshoot. There's no denying that it's filling the niche left by taxi companies and their pretty sh*tty service. But let's not pretend that Uber is very nice either. The company has been caught in a load of controversies, including topics like "not paying employees", "hiring rapists" and "charging people more after a terrorist attack".
Oh yeah, they did that.
Yeah, it's all because of a thing called surge pricing. Uber has this algorithm that keeps an eye on supply and demand and ramps prices up depending on the time of day. It's gotten them in trouble before when they were caught ramping prices up after massive catastrophes and terror attacks. Charging someone extra money when they're trying to reach safety, or see if a loved one is okay, is a huge d*ck move.
Well the surge pricing has been caught out again! A young couple in Toronto were recently charged $18000 Canadian dollars (about $14000 USD or £10000 GBP) for a teeny weeny 5 mile ride. The journey shouldn't have cost more than $10 but somehow the surge pricing decided that it was worth a lot more.
The couple were later furious to discover that Uber weren't going to refund them. Why? Because they're a bunch of asses. Only after the couple posted about their experiences online and got a load of press attention did Uber relent and give them their cash back.
"We have provided a full refund to this rider and apologized to him for this experience. We have safeguards in place to help prevent something like this from happening, and we are working to understand how this occurred," Uber said in a statement.
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It's going to be quite the week ahead for Ashland University's track and field program.
On Friday and Saturday (April 26-27), the No. 8-ranked men and No. 9-ranked women will compete at the Jesse Owens Relays at The Ohio State University – the last meet prior to the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships (May 1-3 at Grand Valley State).
"Anyone who qualified is in the meet," Ashland head coach Jud Logan said of the meet's qualifying standards. "Of our throwers, every single person we entered got in. I would say about 90 percent of our GLIAC team is competing at Jesse Owens."
In between those two meets, the 2019 NCAA Division II men's indoor national championship team will be honored with a parade and ceremony on Tuesday (April 30) at 3 p.m. DETAILS
Two of the events Logan and associate head coach Ernie Clark are looking to get higher on the D-II rolls are the men's 4x100-meter relay and the men's 4x400 relay. In the 4x100, the Eagles are ranked No. 17 (40.76 seconds) in the nation, and in the 4x400, AU is slotted in a tie for No. 27 (3:14.47).
"We're looking for both of those," Logan said. "The 4x4 will definitely include Myles (senior Myles Pringle). We think we have enough in the 4x1 that we don't stress Myles' injury in the 100 meters."
Logan said Pringle also will go in the men's high jump at OSU. Pringle is tied for 25th in the country at 2.05 meters/6-feet-8¾, and this event and the two relays are the ones the AU men are looking at to round out their scoring potential at D-II outdoor nationals (May 23-25 in Kingsville, Texas).
Ashland boasts three of the top five women's hammer throwers in Division II – senior Mackenzie Leigh at No. 2 (60.74 meters/199-feet-3), senior Natalie Helenthal at No. 4 (59.17 meters/194-feet-1) and redshirt freshman Lindsay Baker at No. 5 (58.04 meters/190-feet-5).
That makes Logan look ahead to the possibilities for the women's team at nationals, given the number of points that will be available in the hammer at the beginning of the meet.
"To be able to do that, and then potentially a Lindsay Baker wins the shot put, then scores up the leaderboard in the discus," Logan said, "and then (junior) Ellie Jindra does something in the high jump. Next thing you know, we've got four girls, and we're finding ourselves talking about being a top-five or six team in the country.
"Two years ago, we weren't having conversations like this. I wish I could find that fifth, sixth, seventh person. It can be pretty lonely and daunting with four girls, because you feel as if, 'if I mess up, we're done.'"
As for the parade/ceremony on Tuesday, Logan is looking forward to his student-athletes getting their moment in the sun.
"We hope that the community, we hope that the university comes out and supports that," said Logan. "Regardless, it's a big deal for us. We're looking forward to that."


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I got this from Rebecca Lately in our USA/UK makeup swap, you can check those posts out here Part One/ Part Two. I had seen all the posts and all the hype surrounding this face mask, so I put it on my wishlist without thinking I would get it! So you can imagine my delight when I did get it 🙂
So let's get into it.
This is a really thick, green mud mask with bits in. It has quite a rough consistency, it almost feels like there is sand running through it. I generally applied this to my T-Zone and chin area, you can see from my fabulous selfie below. It takes about 20mins to dry, sometimes a wee bit longer.
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You can see below what it looks like dry. It becomes incredibly stiff, to the point where it hurts to move your face. Seemingly you can see the dirt coming out of your pores as it dries, personally I've never see this, it just looks like the mask is drying in a lumpy fashion! There is a warm tingling sensation that feels a tad odd the first time you use it, but you get used to it and it stops after a few minutes anyway! Once dry I found it easiest to use a warm wet face cloth to remove it.
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This does definitely give me a very deep clean, much more than other masks I've tried. The only issue with this is that I tend to get breakouts because of it! So do not use this right before an important event, do it at least a week or two before hand. However, if you're skin is in really bad shape (mine was), then this will sort it right out. My skin appears much more radiant and feels smoother after using this, feeling really very clean. A few days after using this mask I tend to apply a lighter mask just to help clear the spots (The Ren Glycolactic radiance renewal mask* generally) that might have appeared and to just generally sooth everything back down. Thus almost resetting my skin on a more balanced, even keel. Sometimes after using this mask my skin can feel a little tight, so I follow it with my serum, or a moisturising mask – again nothing too heavy, but enough for my skin to "relax".
I will only bust this out if in desperate need and it does feel like quite a pamper when I use it. It's unlike any other masks I've used. For me it is entirely worth the hype. Unfortunately my little pot is now empty and I will be considering buying a full size once I've used up my other sample sachet. I'm also very interested in the rest of the GlamGlow range.
From my 15g pot and I got at least five uses, the normal retail size is 50g. This retails for anywhere between £34.99 from lookfantastic* or £37.99 from feelunique* or up to £49.99 from GlamGlow directly. Something to note, it can dry out in the pot if not used, so I made an effort to make sure I used it on a regular-ish basis and never had any issues with it drying out.
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Christmas is coming—but not soon enough, if you ask us. The dark mornings, less-than-desirable weather and the endless to-do lists we need to work our way through before the festivities can begin is all taking its toll. Oh, and it's only Monday, which means we have the whole week to plough through before the weekend arrives once again. To say our mood is low is an understatement.
One way to feel happier or calmer if you're having a stressful day is to use colour to brighten your mood. Colour psychology, a relatively new area of research, explores how different hues affect our state of mind. It may seem too simple to work, but trust us bringing a little colour into your life on a grey, gloomy day can make all the difference. Keep scrolling for five beauty tricks that will make you feel happier in an instant.
wear red for compliments
Red has been found to increase attractiveness in both men and women, so slick on a red lipstick like MAC Lipstick (£16) in Ruby Woo and wait for the confidence-boosting compliments to come your way. A 2010 study by Rochester University found women saw men in red as more attractive, while a 2015 study by City University in New York found that women wearing red were seen as more attractive to men.
Wear blue to feel less stressed
Blue is a relaxing colour: Just think about a clear blue sky or a calm blue sea—you probably feel better already. Colour researcher Nancy J. Stone, a professor of psychology at the University of Creighton, found people feel less anxious about tasks when they see the colour blue. If you have a particularly anxious week ahead, then paint your nails a blue polish and look at them when you're feeling stressed.
See yellow to feel happier
A study by the VU University in Amsterdam found a link in adults between the colour yellow and the happiness emotion. Get yourself a yellow toothbrush so each morning you see the colour for an instant mood boost!
Wear pink to feel calm
Like blue, pink is associated with the feeling of calmness. In fact, one hue named "drunk tank pink" was found in 1979 by psychologists to drain people of strength if they looked at the shade for two minutes, which is why some prison cells are painted in this colour (it's similar to that of Pepto-Bismol). If you're feeling angry, counteract that mood with a slick of pink lipstick.
See green to boost creativity
A 2012 study by the University of Munich got participants to carry out a creativity test after showing them a coloured screen saver. The green shade sparked the most creativity in the participants every time. If you're feeling sapped of any creativity, then look to keep a green candle on your desk at work to help boost your brain power.
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Amongst organizations such as Universities, SMEs and Research Institutes, there were 32 offers submitted to the European Project FLAME contest which only 6 came out winning. Ubiwhere is one of two Portuguese winning companies, whose pilot to be implemented will take place in Bristol.
The main objective of the project is to create an ecosystem for testing and creation of innovative media content and applications, using the next mobile communications network 5G.
Ubiwhere competed for this contest with the EdgeTube project, a smart solution for video analysis and processing. The goal is to develop an innovative platform where the user can capture video and share with other users simultaneously, optimizing communications in events with a large influx of people, such as music concerts or summer festivals, innovating in the transmission of events and making it almost real for remote viewers.
Users can capture and share video using their own smartphone and with a substantially better connectivity experience. At the same time, the solution based on 5G mobile communications, will allow other users, remotely connected to the platform, to watch these same transmissions, with the guarantee that they will have the best experience possible.
According to Maria Chiara Campodonico, in charge of managing the FLAME Open Calls Steering Committee, it was impressive "the high-calibre of bids in response to FLAME's first open call this year. Among the proposals received, a relevant number not only presented innovative solutions but also demonstrated an high expertise in the Future Media Internet ecosystem". The FLAME Project Coordinator Michael Boniface says this project "represents a significant opportunity for companies wanting to understand the potential feasibility of 5G media platforms and benefits to consumers".
This is an innovative project that reveals Ubiwhere's ability to develop innovative systems in the 5G area and the continued focus on Research & Innovation in European reference projects.
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It's time for the weekly round up of international desks hosted by Julia at Stamping Ground. Now to be honest I was not going to share this week as there is so much going on behind the scenes of my life that are taking much more time than I thought that I'm not getting much time to do some "me" crafting. However, my desk kicked up such a storm and tantrum when I mentioned it that for the sake of peace in the studio I thought I'd better come along and say hello. (If I didn't I'm sure my desk would begin to hide all my essential tools from me!)So here is my place
The Craft Barn as I like the size and price so am just beginning to develop the cover, again there's a bit of work to be done but I have an IDEA! (Peel off's will be involved......)
So there's my place this week, lot's of unfinished stuff, the finished projects are hidden but I'll keep you posted as I finally get these finished. Hope you all have a blessed and wonderful day!
43 comments:
- Sylvia/LittleTreasures said...
OH what a fun post..love the Tag and Vintage Keys.
Enjoyed the previous Craft Barn creation too. You have lots of creative ideas and always a fun stop. Enjoy WOYWW and have a wonderful week.
- 11 January 2012 at 07:01
- jude said...
Im loving your piccies today your steampunk box coming along lovely can't wait to see end result.I know time just seems to fly by before you know it another week and not much time to craft ,im still looking after the sick!But have done wee bit this week s mojo returned .Have fab wedensday whatever your upto.
- 11 January 2012 at 07:06
- Aeryn Kelly-Reitmeyer said...
can't wait to see your finished steampunk box!
- 11 January 2012 at 07:06
- inkypinkycraft said...
Ww there are always so many great things to look at,the steam punk book, is looking great so far, and I love these storage boxes, but wow 99p...a real bargain!! Happy woyww hugs trace x
- 11 January 2012 at 07:32
- Bella said...
Loving seeing the various stages of the Steampunk box...Yip postage is a pest. It often puts me off ordering something on line, especially as we have affirmative shopping in the post office on our end...
- 11 January 2012 at 07:45
- Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...
I could hardly wait to visit your desk because you are always so good about visiting me. I read on one blogger's post that you always sit to craft. I would love to learn to do that, but for now I must stand. Gotta love anything steam punk.
Happy WOYWW (#3).
- 11 January 2012 at 09:26
- Toodles and Binks (Galaxy Girl from UK STampers) said...
Thought I would pop in and hi ... but oh NO you have the Paper Artsy stamps on show .... I've been trying to resist them.
- 11 January 2012 at 09:41
- okienurse said...
great post! Love all the pictures of all the goodies on your desk! I have that set of folders and you will love using the woodgrain one. Thank you for the laser cuts, card kits etc that you sent! I have a project planned to use a couple of the laser cuts on. Thanks for sharing and have a great week! Make sometime for getting in your craft room! Vickie #50
- 11 January 2012 at 09:55
- The Crafty Chick said...
Wow you have so much great stuff going on there, how bout I just come and borrow your desk - I wouldn't get in your way! Honest !! LOL
- 11 January 2012 at 10:09
- Joanne said...
I'm really enjoying watching the steampunk box progress. Your desk looks very interesting and I'm glad it scared you into joining in this week. LOL
- 11 January 2012 at 10:24
- Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards said...
Hi there Neil, thanks so much for for the overview, and for sharing all the bits and bobs - yes agree the steampunk is coming on a treat and love the look of the new goodies too! hope all gies well for the rest of your week. Happy WOYWW! love, Shaz in Oz. x #30
- 11 January 2012 at 10:37
- sandra's crafty corner said...
fantastic neil, i love the dirtessed grungy look but havent a clue how to do it myself, lovin all those distress inks you have, and an amazing project too,thanks for sharing on woyww,
hugs sandra (81)
- 11 January 2012 at 11:21
- JoZart said...
Great desk Neil, thanks for the snoop despite your busy time. I LOVE old keys... always wonder where the doors they opened lead to???
I have a lots of peel off sheets, some slightly used, that a friend gave me as she had to give up crafting. I've had to sort out her stash to sell for charity but the peel offs are just a " FREE GIVE AWAY" If they're any good to you I'll pop 'em in the post. Just let me know if you can use them.
JoZarty x
- 11 January 2012 at 11:55
- GLENDA BROOKS said...
It looks like you climbed way up to take this picture! Lovely space and I love the creation you are working on!
- 11 January 2012 at 12:01
- Chrizette said...
I love your journal idea. I have a few books that I could "cover" - you have planted a little seed in my brain now. Will have to see what I can come up with. Thank you for visiting me today :)
Celestial Things
- 11 January 2012 at 12:07
- Helen said...
So glad you joined in - it wouldn't be the same without you! You always have such fab - and new - stuff going on! Thanks for your visit.
- 11 January 2012 at 12:31
- May said...
I love your journal idea, and that tag is fantastic I must say I love Sir Timmie's embossing folders, your desk is so inviting Happy Wednesday, Hugs May x x x
- 11 January 2012 at 12:44
- Jaki Morris said...
I love your tag.
What an amazingly tidy crafter you are!
I'm gradually visiting more WOYWW
- 11 January 2012 at 13:45
- Rachel K said...
I always love your desk photos. I may start a collection of them. They just look like art installations to me!
- 11 January 2012 at 13:51
- Cathy said...
I always love visiting your desk Neil, so much going on and so much inspiration. Love the way your steampunk box is looking and fab tag.
Cathy xx
- 11 January 2012 at 14:02
- Lol said...
I just love the Steam punk box and everything steam punk just can't seem to get me crafty head around it when it comes to doing it.
Also v jealous of your distress ink collection, I need so many more.
Hugs Lol xx
- 11 January 2012 at 14:09
- MvM-design said...
Love your steampunk box!!
Thanks for sharing your desk.
Happy WOYWW!!
Hug Marleen ;-) #4
- 11 January 2012 at 15:28
- TangolikeRaindrop said...
Oh I positively love those keys!
- 11 January 2012 at 16:08
- ScrappnBee said...
It looks like you have a lot going on for one who is not crafting! I think that you are just too modest! Everything is looking Fabulous! Cannot wait to see how things progress and finish up! Thanks for making the desk and all of us happy by sharing! Happy WOYWW! -Amanda 34
- 11 January 2012 at 16:52
- Deb said...
congrats on the win, love the keys, great find!
Happy WOYWW! Debxx#115/116
- 11 January 2012 at 17:18
- Sam said...
A nice bunch of goodies on your desk there. Love those keys and that box looks cool! Show us when you finish it please!!
- 11 January 2012 at 18:55
- Yours Artfully said...
Hi Neil,
Great desk, where did you find those keys?.....very, very nice!!!
Lin #123
- 11 January 2012 at 19:15
- Twiglet said...
I love visiting your desk - there is always something interesting on the go!!
- 11 January 2012 at 19:29
- Kim Dellow said...
Lots of scrummy arty yumminess going on there! Happy WOYWW from #57! Kim
- 11 January 2012 at 21:16
- Katie said...
I love the keys! You're lucky that you don't have to stand on a chair...I practically have to stand on a chair to see the top of my desk!
Happy WOYWW! Katie #10
- 11 January 2012 at 22:34
- VonnyK said...
I love your desk, always so many goodies to see. That steampunk is going to be so fabulous, can't wait to see it finished.
I have some plain journals and don't know how to make them up like you do. Do you give tutorials?
Von #19
- 12 January 2012 at 01:21
- L00py's Craft Creations said...
I'm seeing how many I can get round this way.then when I have finished I'll come back again, that is if I can STOP reading all the posts first Happy WOYWW
LOu P
- 12 January 2012 at 07:53
Scary thought if your desk begins to act like Christine! Let's hope it doesn't lock the door on you! Lovely goodies on display as usual, lots of stuff going on and well done on the win.
Brenda 103
- 12 January 2012 at 13:09
- Sarah said...
I think it's a great look into your crafty world with lots on the go - looking good - and loving those gears! Thanks for the peek in to your crafty space...Sarah at 6
- 12 January 2012 at 14:22
- Julia Dunnit said...
Thanks Neil...oh a pot of Inca!!! Should've guessed! Glad you listened to your desk, you'd just have had a ridiculous umber of emails asking if you're ok if you went missing without warning! Loving the steam punk box...and that you can take your time to complete it, definitely better than my 'rush in and ruin it' method!
- 12 January 2012 at 21:19
- Neet said...
Hope all is well and it is nothing untoward that is keeping you from your desk.
Love the keys, I have a thing for locks and keys and the steampunk box you are doing is coming along great - love the texture on it (I mean the up and down of the cogs etc).
Thanks for sharing and for commenting on my blog - Hugs, Neet xx
- 13 January 2012 at 00:20
- Hazel said...
Lots of lovely goodies in sight - thanks for the peep at your workspace(Hazel, WOYWW 67) x
- 13 January 2012 at 01:02
- voodoo vixen said...
I love the look of the steampunk box... I just know its going to be a stunner!! I never realised you were in a shed before!! LOL... have been thinking you were crafting in a very large cupboard all this time!!
- 13 January 2012 at 04:41
- Cardarian said...
So much interesting things on your desk! Love your keys - I must have a look around the flea market in our town! Your steampunk box is coming along great!
I hope your worries will go away!
Have a lovely week,
- 13 January 2012 at 08:31
- Enfys said...
Hi Neil, I LOVE your tag, just gorgeous, and really enjoyed the crafty peek this week. Sorry I'm a day late - life got in the way
- 13 January 2012 at 21:37
- bohemiannie! art said...
Verrry interesting projects you've got goin on there!
- 15 January 2012 at 02:06
- Jackie said...
Am spending far too much time reading the blogs I'm visiting which is why I'm still visiting WOYWW desks from last week! :)
- 16 January 2012 at 20:44
- Jackie said...
Am spending far too much time reading the blogs I'm visiting which is why I'm still visiting WOYWW desks from last week! :)
- 16 January 2012 at 20:45


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A couple items to share, pardon the self-centeredness, but hey, this is a blog, right?
First, hot off the virtual presses: Radio Berkman has just posted a snappily edited podcast featuring yours truly in conversation with the one and only Ethan Zuckerman about world/whirled music, globalghettotech, jerkbow, tribal, moombahton, and platform politricks, among other things. Go check out the full post here (where you can also stream or DL the audio).
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Second, it took the dedicated team that organized TEDxIrie just a week and half to edit & post the talks to YouTube. You can see them all here, including my own talk — which, in somewhat classic w&w form, tried to pack in a little too much and grooved a little too hard in places — but if you watch just one, it has to be Ebony Patterson's "Fashion Ova Style" (which I'll embed below).
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2 white UConn students arrested after video showed them shouting racial slurs
2 white UConn students arrested after video showed them shouting racial slurs
Students on campus demanded action after video of the incident surfaced, saying it is indicative of broader issues of racism at the school.
October 22, 2019
Two white students at the University of Connecticut were arrested Monday after video that showed them shouting racial slurs prompted campus protests, university police told NBC News.
Jarred Mitchell Karal, 21, and Ryan Gilman Mucaj, 21, face charges of ridicule on account of race, color, or creed. They were released with a court date set for Oct. 30 at Rockville Superior Court in Vernon, Connecticut.
Karal and Mucaj's charges could result in a $50 fine or up to 30 days in jail.
NBC sent emails to the two men Tuesday morning requesting comment but did not immediately hear back.
Campus police learned of the incident from social media footage showing Karal and Mucaj shouting epithets in an apartment complex parking lot, a university spokesperson told NBC News. The men were playing a game that involved yelling vulgar words, university police said, and then started shouting epithets. Karal and Mucaj were walking with a third man, whom police said did not shout epithets and was not charged.
The Oct. 11 incident sparked an outcry on campus, particularly from some black students who said it was indicative of broader issues of racism at the university.
"To just experience that on a daily basis and then having something that gets out to the public that everybody can see and understand, it's really impactful for the rest of us," freshman Mason Holland told NBC Connecticut.
The university last week organized a meeting at the apartment complex where the slurs were heard to discuss the incident.
On campus Monday, students marched to demand further action from the university, and they met at a gathering hosted by the campus NAACP chapter to discuss the climate for students of color on campus.
In a letter published in the student paper Monday, the NAACP also demanded that the university take action after the parking lot incident and another that allegedly occurred at a fraternity.
"If the university does not adequately address and handle these occurrences of racism appropriately, it will create a culture in which racism is tolerated and normalized," the organization wrote, adding a list of demands aimed at making the campus safer and more welcoming to black students.
In a statement, University President Thomas C. Katsouleas said it was important to hold Karal and Mucaj accountable for their actions.
"It is supportive of our core values to pursue accountability, through due process, for an egregious assault on our community that has caused considerable harm," he said. "I'm grateful for the university's collective effort in responding to this incident, especially the hard work of the UConn Police Department, which has been investigating the case since it was reported."
October 23, 2019. Tags: 2 white UConn students arrested after video showed them shouting racial slurs, arrested, Jarred Mitchell Karal, Police state, Political correctness, Politics, racial slurs, Racism, Ryan Gilman Mucaj, Social justice warriors, students, University of Connecticut. Police state, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. 2 comments.
A California bank robber could get extra time in prison because social justice warriors said his mask was offensive
In Santa Monica, California, a bank robber could get extra time in prison because social justice warriors said his mask was offensive.
Here's a still from the security footage which shows the mask in question: (Source)
I support the maximum prison time for anyone who robs a bank.
But I don't think anyone should ever go to prison for doing something that some people consider to be offensive.
In this case, the proposed extra time for the robber is because the mask that he wore was a form of "cultural appropriation" which "violated the rights of indigenous peoples."
The voters and politicians of California are insane.
September 17, 2019. Tags: bank robber, California, Cultural appropriation, Day of the Dead, mask, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Santa Monica, Social justice warriors, Wells Fargo. Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. 2 comments.
Miss World America revokes title from Miss Michigan winner Kathy Zhu, who truthfully tweeted that most black murder victims in the U.S. are killed by other blacks
According to this article from CBS News, 93% of black murder victims in the U.S. are killed by other blacks.
A University of Michigan student named Kathy Zhu was recently crowned Miss Michigan. This would make her a contestant in the Miss World America competition.
However, the Miss World America competition revoked Zhu's victory after it was revealed that she had made a tweet where she had accurately and truthfully said that most black murder victims in the U.S. are killed by other blacks.
According to this article from the Detroit Free Press, these are the exact words from Zhu's tweet:
"Did you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within your own community before blaming others."
According to this article from USA Today, the people who run the Miss World America competition claimed that Zhu's tweet was
"offensive, insensitive and inappropriate"
Please note that they did not say that her tweet was false.
I'm no legal expert, but it seems to me that that statement from the Miss World America competition could justify a defamation lawsuit by Zhu.
And I also think she could sue them for revoking her title.
But whether or not any lawsuits are filed, this incident shows just how far political correctness has come.
Social justice warriors don't get mad at people for telling lies. Instead, they get mad at people for telling the truth.
July 19, 2019. Tags: Did you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks?, Fix problems within your own community before blaming others, Kathy, Kathy Zhu, KathyZhu, Miss Michigan, Miss World America, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Social justice warriors, University of Michigan, Zhu. Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. 1 comment.
Poll: Which one of these two Gillette ads do you like better?
Here are two ads from Gillette.
Which one do you like better?
Here's the first ad:
And here's the second ad:
January 19, 2019. Tags: ad, advertisement, Bullying, commercial, Gillette, Gillette hypocrisy, Media bias, Political correctness, Polls, Sexism, Social justice warriors, The Best Men Can Be, woman's rights. Media bias, Political correctness, Polls, Sexism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Hypocrite Ellen Pompeo wants OTHER white people (but not herself) to lose their jobs so there can be more diversity
I had no idea who Ellen Pompeo was when I first read this news article about her that just got published today, so I looked up her wikipedia article. This is how it starts:
Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Kathleen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is one of the highest paid television actors, having signed a $20 million annual contract with the American Broadcasting Company in late 2017. She was honored with the 2007 Special Achievement in Entertaining by the National Italian American Foundation for her contributions to the entertainment industry.
Later on, the wikipedia article says:
Pompeo was then cast in ABC's popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and garnered worldwide recognition for her portrayal of the title character Dr. Meredith Grey. The role on the long running series earned her a Golden Globe nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Award. The character became widely popular, making Pompeo one of the most renowned television actresses. In 2016, Pompeo was ranked fourth in the list of highest paid TV actresses by Forbes, with earnings of $14.5 million; she became the third highest paid female and the fifth highest paid actor overall in 2018 with earnings of $23.5 million. She was also the highest ranked actor from a drama series on the list.
OK. That's fine. Although I myself have never watched Grey's Anatomy, there are obviously a lot of other people who do, and I don't have any problem with that. And I don't have any problem with all of the money, awards, and prestige that Pompeo has received for her work on that show, as well as from her other endeavors in the entertainment industry.
What I do have a problem with, however, is the incredibly huge amount of hypocrisy in Pompeo's statement that was reported in the article from earlier today.
Here's a video of what she said. Skip to 0:24:
This is what she said:
"This day has been incredible, and there's a ton of women in the room. But I don't see enough color. And I didn't see enough color when I walked in the room today. And I had a meeting with the director of another endorsement project that I'm doing. I said, 'You know, when I show up on set, I would like to see the crew look like the world that I walk around in every day.' And I think it's up to all productions to make sure that your crew looks like the world we see. As Caucasian people, it's our job, it's our task, it's our responsibility, to make sure that we speak up in every single room we walk into, that this is not OK, and that we can all do better. It's our job, because we've created the problem."
Then Pompeo starts to cry, just to make sure that everyone knows how much she cares about this issue.
But she's a fake and a phony.
If she truly cared about this issue, then she wouldn't just be asking for other white people to give up their jobs so there can be more diversity.
Instead, if she truly cared about this issue, then she would give up her own job so there can be more diversity.
But Pompeo didn't do that.
She's not willing to give up her own job so there can be more diversity.
She just wants other white people to give up their jobs so there can be more diversity.
She is a hypocrite in the worst possible way.
Shame on Ellen Pompeo for not practicing what she preaches.
November 20, 2018. Tags: Affirmative action, director of another endorsement project, Diversity, Ellen Pompeo, Grey's Anatomy, I don't see enough color, I would like to see the crew look like the world that I walk around in every day, Political correctness, Politics, Porter, Porter magazine, Racism, Social justice warriors, Virtue signalling, we can all do better. Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. 3 comments.
Academic journal caves in to social justice warriors who demanded censorship of a scientific paper
This is first paragraph of wikipedia's article on something known as the "variability hypothesis"
Variability hypothesis
The variability hypothesis , also the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis, is the hypothesis that males display greater variability in traits than females do. It has often been discussed in relation to cognitive ability, where it has been observed that human males are more likely than females to have very high or very low intelligence. The sex-difference in the variability of intelligence has been discussed since at least Charles Darwin. Sex-differences in variability are present in many abilities and traits – including physical, psychological and genetic ones. It is not only found in humans but in other sexually-selected species as well.
Either the variability hypothesis is true, or it is false.
The only way to know is to do research.
On August 28, 2018, Theodore P. Hill, a retired professor of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology, published a scientific paper titled "An Evolutionary Theory for the Variability Hypothesis," which supported the variability hypothesis.
The paper has been put online here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04184.pdf
And here is an archive of that same link: https://web.archive.org/web/20180910143245/https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.04184.pdf
Social justice accused an academic journal of sexism for publishing the paper. The journal acted very cowardly and has since rescinded the publication. Since the journal still owns the copyright, other academic journals are not allowed to publish it.
Censoring the paper has caused it to become far more popular than it otherwise would have been. Apparently, social justice warriors either don't know about, don't care about, or don't understand the Streisand effect.
September 11, 2018. Tags: Amie Wilkinson, An Evolutionary Theory for the Variability Hypothesis, Charles Darwin, cognitive ability, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech, Greater Male Variability Hypothesis, intelligence, Math, Mathematical Intelligencer, Mathematics, New York Journal of Mathematics, Political correctness, Politics, Science, Sergei Tabachnikov, Sexism, Social justice warriors, Theodore Hill, Theodore P. Hill, Variability hypothesis. Education, Math, Political correctness, Science, Sexism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Medical school cancels honor society because whites and Asians were earning better grades than blacks and Latinos
According to this article from NPR, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, in order to get into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, you have to be in the top 25% of your graduating class.
The school is eliminating the honor society because not enough blacks and Latinos were graduating in the top 25%.
I'm not sure how getting rid of this honor society makes anyone better off.
On the contrary – I see this as just one more example of the dumbing down of America's educational system.
As to the issue of why blacks and Latinos are underrepresented in the top 25%, my guess is that the school has lower admissions standards for blacks and Latinos than for everyone else. I could be wrong. And I'd be curious to hear anyone else explain a different reason in the comment section.
A Medical School Tradition Comes Under Fire For Racism
September 5, 2018
Senior medical student Giselle Lynch has plenty of accomplishments to list when she applies for a coveted spot in an ophthalmology residency program this fall.
But one box she won't be able to check when she submits her application is one of the highest academic awards medical students can receive, election to the honor society Alpha Omega Alpha.
It's not because she didn't excel. It's because her medical school, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, put a moratorium on student nominations because it determined the selection process discriminates against students of color.
The award is open to the top 25 percent of a medical school's graduating class and can be a valuable career boost, making students more competitive for desirable residencies and jobs.
Icahn administrators say the disparities in the selection process reflect deeper issues of racial inequality in medical education.
"AOA perpetuates systems that are deeply flawed," says Dr. David Muller, the dean for medical education at Icahn. "We can't justify putting people who are historically at a disadvantage at an even greater disadvantage. It just doesn't seem fair to dangle in front of our students an honorific that we know people are not equally eligible for."
Over the past five years, around 3 percent of students chosen for the distinction at Icahn were from a racial background that is underrepresented in medicine, which includes blacks and Latinos. In that same period, about 18 percent to 20 percent of each graduating class at Icahn came from those groups.
The school made the change after Lynch led a group of fellow students in an effort to fight inequality at Icahn. The students collected data on how many students from underrepresented minorities were nominated to the honor society at Icahn and presented it in a series of meetings with school leadership last year.
Lynch, who is black, recalls one particularly moving meeting when they showed photographs of Icahn's past AOA students — and black and Latino faces were conspicuously sparse.
"Where are we? We're nowhere here," says Lynch, remembering her reaction. "AOA is an award of student excellence. What was the argument that was being perpetuated about us if we're not being included?"
Announced in May of this year, the decision at Icahn was a controversial one, because many students and faculty fear that not participating in the award puts Icahn students at a disadvantage when competing for slots in residency programs.
The honor society has existed since 1902 and is a sought-after line on the résumés of medical students across the country. Membership can help students secure training in competitive specialties and is a predictor of success in academic medicine.
Membership is generally open to the top 25 percent of medical students in a graduating class, as determined by their grades and scores on standardized tests, but only about 16 percent makes it in. Each medical school has its own criteria for making final selections including qualities like leadership or professionalism.
Icahn is not alone in selecting a disproportionately low number of minority students for the honor society. A 2017 study in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that nationwide, black and Asian students were less likely than their white counterparts to be selected for the honor.
Dr. Dowin Boatright, the study's lead author and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale, hypothesizes that the disparities may be related to racial inequalities in grading and standardized tests, a phenomenon well-documented in medical education literature. Grading based on clinical performance is subjective, he notes, since it often reflects a global assessment of a student rather than technical skills or performance on a test.
"You're graded on things that are completely vulnerable to bias, like, 'How good is this medical student?' " Boatright says.
Other medical schools are also considering how their AOA chapters can accurately reflect the racial makeup of their student bodies, according to Dr. Eve Higginbotham, the president of AOA board. And at the University of California, San Francisco, faculty and students are debating whether the honor society has a future there.
"Systems we use [for student evaluation] fail to take into account the extra work minorities are doing," says Dr. Catherine Lucey, vice dean for education at UCSF. "[Minority] students have more stressors they have to deal with, low levels of racism that exist in our patients and our clinical environments."
Lucey says that UCSF changed its selection criteria for AOA in 2016 to focus less on grades. The number of minority students selected for the honor society that year increased to match the percentage of minorities in each graduating class.
Dr. Jonathan Giftos, an internist in New York who was president of the Icahn chapter when he graduated in 2012, says disparities in the honor society are important to address because when medical education favors white students that can mean fewer minorities in leadership roles.
"It feels like a layering on of accolades that makes people who are doing well do better, have more access and power and opportunity," Giftos says.
National AOA leadership says that diversity is a priority for the organization, but since every medical school is different, they leave the specifics of how students are chosen up to the school.
"We know that improving diversity will hopefully result in inclusion of talented individuals from different backgrounds, and that will help benefit our patient care," says Dr. Richard Byyny, executive director of AOA. "But the schools themselves need to tackle this."
Muller notes that Icahn has not officially closed its AOA chapter and will still nominate faculty and residents.
And student activists at Icahn aren't celebrating yet. Lynch says she now wants to focus on discrimination in grading and medical school admissions. This, she says, can help address the dearth of minority physicians in different specialities — a problem with negative consequences for the health of minority patients.
"Many of us are still wary," Lynch says. "It is a symbolic gesture, actually. We are interested in the deeper work."
September 8, 2018. Tags: Affirmative action, Alpha Omega Alpha, Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, Dumbing down, Education, Health care, Icahn School of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, mismatching, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Social justice warriors. Dumbing down, Education, Health care, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. 2 comments.
Idiots are protesting against the convenience store where Michael Brown stole merchandise and assaulted an employee
Before Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, this security footage from Ferguson Market and Liquor showed Brown stealing merchandise and assaulting a store employee. Skip to 1:13
Four years later, this brand new article form the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says:
"Protesters believe that the surveillance clip mischaracterized Brown."
The protestors aren't saying that the footage was edited, altered, or changed in any way.
Instead, they are saying that the footage mischaracterized Brown.
They are wrong. Instead, the footage shows exactly what Michael's Brown's character was like.
The protestors have also made the following demands of the store:
Address Michael Brown Jr.'s character.
Close the store for three days on the anniversary of his death.
Create a scholarship in his name.
Find ways to interact and give back to the community.
Stop selling Dormin, a sleeping capsule, and other items that can be misused to get high.
Retain a black-owned security company to protect the store.
The same article states:
… the store ultimately agreed to all of the requests by Wednesday, other than closing the store for three days. Instead, he said, the store would close on the anniversary of Brown's death and provide a free barbecue the day before.
The store never did anything wrong in the first place, so there was no rational reason for the protestors to make these demands, and there was no rational reason for the store to cave in to their demands.
Here's a photograph of people protesting against the store:
The caption under the photograph says:
"Protesters block the West Florissant Avenue entrance to Ferguson Market & Liquor as four Ferguson police officers in two police vehicles keep watch at the entrance to the market Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. Photo by David Carson"
August 27, 2018. Tags: Ferguson, Ferguson Market and Liquor, Michael Brown, Missouri, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Social justice warriors. Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. 2 comments.
By threatening to disrupt classes, Black Lives Matter unintentionally proves that professor who criticized affirmative action is correct
Amy Wax, a professor who teaches at University of Pennsylvania law school, said the school has lower admission standards for blacks than for whites.
Her claim is backed up by this New York Times article:
A 2009 Princeton study showed Asian-Americans had to score 140 points higher on their SATs than whites, 270 points higher than Hispanics and 450 points higher than blacks to have the same chance of admission to leading universities.
Since University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy League school, if falls under that category of "leading universities." The SAT (for admission to undergraduate school) is not the same as the LSAT (for admission to law school), but the basic principle of having different admission standards for different races is the same.
The school punished professor Wax for her statement by banning her from teaching first year classes, but the school has refused to provide any proof that her statement was false.
Black Lives Matter said they will start disrupting classes if the school does not fire her. In my opinion, a much better response would have been for Black Lives Matter to challenge professor Wax to a debate on the subject.
In fact, by threatening to disrupt classes instead of challenging professor Wax to a debate, Black Lives Matter has just proved that professor Wax's claim is correct. Anyone who is truly qualified to get into an Ivy League law school would rather participate in a debate than disrupt classes.
Black Lives Matter has unintentionally confirmed that professor Wax's statement is true.
March 20, 2018. Tags: Affirmative action, Amy Wax, Dumbing down, Education, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Social justice warriors, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania law school. Dumbing down, Education, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
George Washington University launches "investigation" into "harmful" photograph of student holding banana peel
A student at George Washington University recently posted the following photograph on the student's own Snapchat account. The student is holding up a banana peel, and the caption says "I'm 1/16 black."
On a racial offensiveness scale of 0 to 10, I'd rate this as a 1. Others here may disagree. But if you do disagree, then please cite something else which is less racially offensive, but which is not a 0. Because I really do think that this is about the least racially offensive thing (other than a 0) that someone could do.
Well, of course, the social justice warriors have gone way overboard. The student's sorority issued a statement apologizing to "those who have been harmed."
"Harmed" by this photo?
And even worse, the school is launching an "investigation."
An investigation? Because of a stupid picture, with a stupid caption, on someone'e own personal webpage, which does not threaten any physical harm to anyone, and which is not breaking any laws?
That's going way, way overboard.
How about the school just do nothing?
Or better yet, how about the school issue a statement that says freedom of speech applies to everyone, and that the photo was on a personal webpage which has nothing to do with the school, and that anyone who is genuinely traumatized should seek counseling – not because of the image itself, but instead, because of their irrational overreaction to the image?
February 3, 2018. Tags: banana peel, George Washington University, I'm 1/16 black, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Alicia Silverstone's "Clueless" character tells us more about Haiti than MSNBC/CNN "journalist" Joan Walsh
In this scene from the the 1995 movie Clueless, Alicia Silverstone's character talks about how horrible life in Haiti is:
Meanwhile, Joan Walsh is a "journalist" who worked for MSNBC for over a decade. She has also worked for The Nation and Salon. Earlier this month, she started working for CNN. Two days after she started working for CNN, she was asked if she'd rather live in Norway or Haiti. She answered:
"I don't know. I don't know. I haven't been to either place."
Here's the video:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Walsh actually did know the answer, but was afraid to say it due to her own political correctness.
A real "journalist" is never afraid to tell the truth. In fact, telling the truth is their entire job!
January 16, 2018. Tags: Alicia Silverstone, Clueless, CNN, Haiti, I don't know. I don't know. I haven't been to either place., Joan Walsh, Media bias, MSNBC, Norway, Political correctness, Politics, Salon, the Nation. Media bias, Political correctness. Leave a comment.
University of Texas at San Antonio department chair Eve Browning threatened a bisexual philosophy grad student with possible "academic dismissal" because he truthfully said there were Muslim-majority countries that executed people for being gay
A bisexual philosophy grad student has left the University of Texas at San Antonio and transferred to another school after department chair Eve Browning threatened him with possible "academic dismissal" for truthfully saying that there were Muslim-majority countries that executed people for being gay.
And the student has this threat on tape. (In Texas, it's legal for one party to record another party without their knowledge, which is exactly what the student did.)
The recording can be heard at https://vid.me/eKq2l
The transcript of the recording can be read at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xCjOb-ysUAo7nqhKng1Rgeo3FxvvMRg1Cx0OtspmTAI/pub
What this means, in addition to its assault on freedom of speech, is that in the hierarchy of political correctness, Muslims are higher up than gays.
October 31, 2017. Tags: Alfred MacDonald, Censorship, Eve Browning, Free speech, Islam, Muslims, Political correctness, Politics, Religion, Social justice warriors, University of Texas at San Antonio. Education, Political correctness, Religion, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Video: social justice warrior spends nine minutes explaining why she stole hat from Trump supporter
In this video, a social justice warrior spends nine minutes explaining why she stole a hat from a Trump supporter.
The thief takes the hat to campus authorities, thinking that they will take her side.
But they don't. Instead, they take the side of the hat owner, get him his hat back, and call the campus police.
September 28, 2017. Tags: Donald Trump, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Social justice warriors. Donald Trump, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Attention Shelby Mayes! Please quote the parts of Ben Shaprio's UC Berkeley speech that caused you "psychological trauma."
The student newspaper at UC Berkeley recently published this opinion column by Shelby Mayes, a person who is described as being "a UC Berkeley student and the membership development director for the Black Student Union."
Mayes writes:
"If your perceived definition of violence is limited to the confines of physical contact, that's probably because you've never had to experience the psychological trauma that comes along with being a Black person in America. I didn't need to be physically harmed to feel violated by my school Sept. 14."
The date cited by Mayes is the day that Ben Shapiro gave this speech at the school:
The speech makes up the first 28 minutes of the video. The rest is a Q&A.
Shelby Mayes, please quote the parts of this speech that caused you "psychological trauma."
September 25, 2017. Tags: Ben Shapiro, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Shelby Mayes, Social justice warriors, UC Berkeley. Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. 1 comment.
UC Berkeley will be offering counseling to students and faculty who get traumatized by Ben Shapiro's upcoming speech
UC Berkeley will be offering counseling to students and faculty who get traumatized by Ben Shapiro's upcoming speech.
I'm not making that up.
This is the webpage where UC Berkeley mentions the counseling:
And this is the internet archive of that webpage, in case the original ever gets taken down:
It says:
Ben Shapiro visit: Campus details logistics and resources
Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017
In advance of talk show host Ben Shapiro's appearance next Thursday, Sept. 14, at UC Berkeley…
Support and counseling services for students, staff and faculty
We are deeply concerned about the impact some speakers may have on individuals' sense of safety and belonging. No one should be made to feel threatened or harassed simply because of who they are or for what they believe. For that reason, the following support services are being offered and encouraged:
Student support services
Employee (faculty and staff) support services
In case you're wondering what all the hoopla is about, here is a recent speech that Shapiro gave at UC Santa Barbara. Skip to 8:22 for the beginning of his speech:
I don't know if that speech is typical of what Shapiro talks about, but it was the first one that showed up when I did this search at YouTube, where many of his other speeches can be viewed:
September 10, 2017. Tags: Ben Shapiro, Political correctness, Politics, Social justice warriors, UC Berkeley. Political correctness, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Did google just unintentionally admit that it discriminates against women?
I would like to hear google's explanation for why women are underrepresented at the company.
By firing James Damore for saying that women are underrepresented at google due to biological differences between men and women, did google just unintentionally admit that it discriminates against women?
August 9, 2017. Tags: Google, James Damore, Political correctness, Sexism, Social justice warriors. Political correctness, Sexism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Video: Hypocrites support affirmative action for college admissions but oppose it for basketball team
August 4, 2017. Tags: Affirmative action, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Social justice warriors, Videos. Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor's training was "fast tracked" so the city could "add diversity" to its police force
Mohamed Noor is the Minneapolis police officer who recently shot and killed an innocent, unarmed, law abiding woman named Justine Damond, after Damond had called 911 to report that she had heard a possible sexual assault taking place near her home.
Officer Moor has not offered any explanation for his actions. He is not claiming self defense.
July 23, 2017. Tags: Affirmative action, Diversity, Dumbing down, Islamization, Justine Damond, Mohamed Noor, Police brutality, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Social justice warriors, Violent crime. Dumbing down, Immigration, Islamization, Police brutality, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors, Violent crime. 3 comments.
San Francisco says it would be "racially insensitive" to let the public see security camera footage of crimes
BART Withholding Surveillance Videos Of Crime To Avoid 'Stereotypes'
July 9, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — In the last three months, there have been at least three robberies on BART involving groups of teenagers.
"I think people are genuinely concerned — they are fearful about the stories that have come out about the recent attacks, the assaults, the thefts," said Debora Allen, who is a member of the BART Board of Directors.
April 22: Forty to sixty kids boarded a train at the Coliseum stop and robbed seven passengers, beating up two;
June 28: A group of four kids assaulted a passenger and made off with a cell phone at Dublin; and
June 30: A woman on a train with about a dozen teenagers had her phone snatched by one them before the group got off at the Coliseum stop. Thankfully, a good Samaritan was on hand to retrieve the phone.
So far, BART has refused to turn over surveillance video for any of these incidents.
Allen told us the agency issued an explanation for why it is being tight-lipped about the thefts.
"To release these videos would create a high level of racially insensitive commentary toward the district," she was told. "And in addition it would create a racial bias in the riders against minorities on the trains."
According to a memo distributed to BART Directors, the agency won't do a press release on the June 30 theft because it was a "petty crime" that would make BART look "crime ridden." Furthermore, it would "unfairly affect and characterize riders of color, leading to sweeping generalizations in media reports."
The memo was from BART Assistant General Manager Kerry Hamill.
Allen emailed Hamill, "I don't understand what role the color of one's skin plays in this issue [of whether to divulge information]. Can you explain?" Hamill responded, "If we were to regularly feed the news media video of crimes on our system that involve minority suspects, particularly when they are minors, we would certainly face questions as to why we were sensationalizing relatively minor crimes and perpetuating false stereotypes in the process." And added her opinion of the media: "My view is that the media's real interest in the videos of youth phone snatching incidents isn't the desire for transparency but rather the pursuit of ratings. They know that video of these events will drive clicks to their websites and viewers to their programs because people are motivated by fear."
Allen says scared passengers aren't being unreasonable — being on a BART train is a vulnerable position.
"This is BART, people are sort of trapped in this train for awhile and they have a right to see what could potentially happen."
She says all this raises questions, "What is the priority of BART? Is the safety of the passenger — of all passengers — is that a lesser priority than the race bias issue?"
According to BART spokesman Taylor Huckaby, state law protecting "juvenile police records" prevents them from showing the surveillance video, even though at least one of the people arrested for the April 22 attack is 19 years old. (He cited Cal. Gov't Code 827.9) And, even if the faces of juveniles were blurred, Huckaby says watching the videos would be pointless gawking.
July 11, 2017. Tags: Political correctness, Politics, Racism, San Francisco, Social justice warriors. Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Sweden prosecutes woman for truthfully saying that immigrants were pooping in the streets
Sweden: 70-Year-Old Woman Prosecuted For Complaining About Migrants Defecating In The Streets
May 2017
A 70-year-old Swedish woman is facing up to four years in prison for complaining on Facebook about migrants defecating in the streets.
From Fria Tider (translated from Swedish with Google):
A 70 year old woman in Dalarna prosecuted for hate speech after writing on Facebook that immigrants are defecating in the streets, writes DT.se.
According to the prosecution, the woman via Facebook wrote disparagingly of people with a foreign background.
In a post from 2015, she has written that immigrants "set cars on fire and urinate and defecate in the streets."
This violates the law on incitement to racial hatred, according to the prosecutor.
The accused woman in police interrogation admitted that she wrote the post, but denied that she committed a criminal act.
The evidence against the 70-year-old woman is a screenshot from Facebook.
The penalty for incitement to racial hatred is imprisonment not exceeding two years or, for petty offenses, fines. If the offense is considered to be grave sentenced the defendants to prison terms of between six months and four years.
She's being dragged into court and threatened with jail for a two year old Facebook post which is factually correct.
While the Western media and leftist "human rights" groups will whine about attacks on free speech in places like China and Russia, in Sweden and Germany they're throwing people in prison for writing "anti-migrant" Facebook posts.
July 11, 2017. Tags: Censorship, Free speech, Immigration, Islamization, Police state, Political correctness, Politics, Social justice warriors, Sweden. Immigration, Islamization, Police state, Political correctness, Social justice warriors. 1 comment.
Here's the "hate speech" video (i.e., speech against Islamic terrorism) that got a U.S. tourist arrested in Canada
Here are two videos by a YouTuber who calls himself "Wild Bill for America."
The first video is a speech that he gave when he was in the U.S. In the speech, he criticizes Islamic terrorism.
In the second video, he explains how he was arrested for "smuggling hate speech" in Canada because he was planning to give the exact same speech in Canada, and he had the text of the speech on his IPAD that he was carrying with him.
June 26, 2017. Tags: Censorship, Free speech, Islam, Islamic terrorism, Islamization, Muslims, Police state, Political correctness, Politics, Religion, Social justice warriors, Wild Bill for America. Islamic terrorism, Islamization, Police state, Political correctness, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Hillary Clinton and hundreds of college students switch from anger to silence when they find out that a hate crime of assault and racial slurs by whites against blacks was fake, and that the assaults had actually been committed by blacks against whites
At the University of Albany, three black students claimed that they were the victims of phsyical assault and racial slurs.
However, forensic evidence (twelve different security cameras – some with audio) proved that they had been lying. There was no hate crime. It was all fake. In addition, it turned out that all three of the black "victims" had themselves committed assault against whites.
When Hillary Clinton had thought this was a real hate crime by whites against blacks, she – justifiably so – criticized the people who had allegedly committed it, saying "There's no excuse for racism and violence on a college campus." But now that forensic evidence has proven that it was a fake hate crime, Clinton refuses to criticize the black people who carried out the hoax, despite the fact that these black people were filmed on video committing assault against whites.
Likewise, the hundreds of hypocrite social justice warriors who had – justifiably so – gotten mad and protested when they had thought it was a real hate crime, are now being silent now that it has been proven that it was a fake hate crime, again, despite the fact that the black hoaxers were filmed on video committing assault against white people.
And as far as the black people who committed this fake hate crime? They are getting zero time in jail, despite the fact that all three of them had committed assault against white people.
There is a huge double standard going on here.
June 19, 2017. Tags: Alexis Briggs, Ariel Agudio, Asha Burwell, Fake hate crimes, hate crimes, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Racism, Social justice, Social justice warriors, University of Albany. Fake hate crimes, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. Leave a comment.
Trump should return the Washington Redskins' trademark protection that Obama took away
In June 2014, the Obama administration revoked trademark protection for the Washington Redskins' name because some people thought it was offensive.
This set a horrible precedent.
Just about every R-rated movie includes content that someone would consider offensive, whether that content be violence, sex, profanity, etc. The same can be said for the content of many books, the lyrics of many songs, the content of many paintings, etc. If any copyright, patent, trademark, etc., can be revoked because someone finds it offensive, then I can't even begin to imagine how much damage this would cause to the concept of intellectual property, as well as to the arts, sciences, music, literature, movies, etc.
There is no such thing as a right to not be offended. The whole point of protecting free speech in the first place is to protect speech that some people might find offensive. If we only protected speech that was dull, bland, and non-controversial, there wouldn't be much point to having such protection in the first place.
On top of that – and this will really, really tick off the social justice warriors – in May 2016, the Washington Post reported that the Washington Post's own poll showed that 90% of Native Americans said they were not offended by the Washington Redskins' name.
Let that sink in, social justice warriors.
Anyway, I think it would be awesome – from both a legal point of view, as well as being a matter of principle – if Trump were to reverse Obama's actions on this matter, and return the trademark protection to the Washington Redskins. The legal point of view is that it is not the government's job to determine what is and is not offensive. The matter of principle is that we must stand up to the social justice warriors' irrational nonsense each and every chance that we get.
June 14, 2017. Tags: American football, Barack Obama, Cultural appropriation, Donald Trump, Football, National Football Conference, National Football League, Native Americans, NFC, NFL, Obama, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Redskins, Social justice warriors, Sports, Washington Redskins. Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors, Sports. 3 comments.
More than 50 Evergreen State College professors sign petition demanding "disciplinary investigation" against biology professor Bret Weinstein because he said the school should treat all races the same
I've already written about the nonsense going on at Evergreen State College here and here. And now I have some new information to tell you.
A petition which has been signed by more than 50 of the school's professors states:
"Demonstrate accountability by pursuing a disciplinary investigation against Bret Weinstein according to guidelines in the Social Contract and Faculty Handbook. Weinstein has endangered faculty, staff, and students, making them targets of white supremacist backlash by promulgating misinformation in public emails, on national television, in news outlets, and on social media."
I was raised in a time when civil rights protestors were demanding (quite reasonably so) that people of all races be treated the same.
But today, apparently, such a desire to treat all races the same "endangers" people and makes them "targets of white supremacist backlash."
Folks, if you're considering sending your child to Evergreen State College, here's a little advice: don't do it. In addition to the fact that the professors will try to brainwash them into being idiots, there's also the fact that having the school on their resume will likely act as a repellent to prospective employers.
June 5, 2017. Tags: Bret Weinstein, Education, Evergreen State College, Political correctness, Politics, Racism, Social justice warriors. Education, Political correctness, Racism, Social justice warriors. 3 comments.
Male high school track runner climbs all the way from last place to first place simply by claiming to be a girl
At Cromwell High School in Connecticut, a male track runner has climbed all the way from last place to first place simply by claiming to be a girl.
In this particular case, the person in question has not even taken any gender altering hormones, and has not had sexual reassignment surgery. Instead, the person merely claimed to be a girl – and presto – they moved up all the way from last place to first place.
Radical left wing feminists have no right to complain that this is "unfair," because it is they themselves who created this situation.
As time goes on, more and more "female" sports will come to be dominated by people who were born with a penis and have XY chromosomes, but who simply claim to be female. They won't even have to take the hormones or have the surgery. They just have to say that they are female. Quite a racket that they have started for themselves.
By comparison, men's sports will never have to worry about this. I guess the radical left wing feminists will probably end up referring to this as "male privilege," even though it was the radical left wing feminists themselves who created this "unfair" situation in the first place.
June 5, 2017. Tags: Gender equality, LGBT, LGBTQ, Political correctness, Politics, Sexism, Social justice, Social justice warriors, Sports, Transgender, transgender issues, women in sports. LGBT, Political correctness, Sexism, Social justice warriors, Sports. 1 comment.