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Some bright spots in this debacle, anyway... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harvard board bars 13 pro-Palestine student protesters from graduating, overruling faculty Harvard University's governing board rejected an effort from faculty Wednesday to allow a group of 13 students sanctioned due to their participation in pro-Palestine protests to receive their degrees and graduate. The Harvard Corporation veto of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) decision, which The Harvard Crimson described as "unprecedented," underlines tensions between the university's faculty and administration in the wake of mass pro-Palestine protests that have roiled college campuses this year. [...] https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvard-board-bars-13-pro-230843224.html

Partway down in this article, you can click on your state. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Red Lobster closings dot the country. We mapped out where all 99 are located. https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/05/22/which-red-lobster-locations-closing-bankruptcy-map/73800723007/

You can't take your eyes off of it, or of others. It's sad and tragic. A few years ago, I had business in Oklahoma City. A very few months later, the hotel where I'd stayed and the restaurant where I'd eaten were flattened by a tornado.

Public School Valedictorian Wows Fellow Students During Graduation Speech By Reciting Entire Alphabet EDINA, MN — Sources at Cesar Chavez Obama George Floyd High School say that public school valedictorian Wyatt Johnson stunned his parents, teachers, and fellow students by reciting the entire English alphabet during his valedictory address last Friday. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/public-school-valedictorian-wows-fellow-students-during-graduation-speech-by-reciting-alphabet

DOJ Authorizes Postal Workers To Use Deadly Force On Trump When Delivering His Mail U.S. — Unsealed documents from the Department of Justice reveal that postal workers were formally authorized to use deadly force while delivering mail to Mar-a-Lago. "This is standard procedure," confirmed Attorney General Merrick Garland. "We are in no way secretly targeting Donald Trump. We are merely authorizing mail carriers to fire on Donald Trump if he shows up to collect his mail. This is for the safety of our postal workers and is nothing out of the ordinary." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/doj-authorizes-postal-workers-to-use-deadly-force-when-delivering-trumps-mail

Iran Confirms They Are Interviewing Several New Turban-Wearing Bearded Genocidal Psychopaths To Replace Deceased President TEHRAN — Following the death of one of its prominent national leaders, the Iran government confirmed today that they are interviewing several new bearded genocidal psychopaths to replace its deceased president. Despite the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian regime assured its people and the world that it had already compiled an extensive list of ruthless, turban-wearing men with beards as candidates to serve in his place. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/iran-confirms-they-are-interviewing-several-new-bearded-genocidal-psychopaths-to-replace-deceased-president

Biden Placed In Presidential Weeble-Wobble To Keep Him From Falling Down WASHINGTON, DC — According to sources in the White House, President Biden has been given his very own Weeble-Wobble to help keep him occupied and upright in the months leading up to November's election. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-placed-in-presidential-weeble-wobble-to-keep-him-from-falling-down

The Definitive Guide To Getting Through TSA Security To this day, many travelers are left confused and unsure about how to navigate TSA security at the airport. The Babylon Bee is here to make your travel season easier by providing you with the following definitive guide to getting through TSA security: [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/the-definitive-guide-to-getting-through-tsa-security

Prosecution Offers Michael Cohen $130,000 Hush Money To Stop Talking NEW YORK, NY — Prosecutors in the trial against former president Donald Trump offered star witness Michael Cohen $130,000 if he would keep his big mouth shut for a while. "Every time Cohen talks, it totally ruins our case…" Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger told the press. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/prosecution-offers-michael-cohen-130000-hush-money-to-stop-talking

Iranian Government Claims People Dancing In Streets Is Part Of The Mourning Process TEHRAN, IRAN — According to official sources in the Iranian government, the masses of Iranian citizens singing, dancing, and setting off firecrackers in the streets during the five-day public grieving period following the death of former President Ebrahim Raisi are "going through part of the mourning process." "As you can see, the people of Iran are mourning just as hard as they can," spokesperson Fariborz Tehrani shouted over the deafening tones of fireworks and cymbals. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/iranian-government-claims-people-dancing-in-streets-is-part-of-the-mourning-process

Biden Begins Speech By Thanking Iran President Ebrahim Raisi For Coming DETROIT — While delivering a speech at a local campaign event, President Joseph R. Biden thanked Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for coming despite the fact he is now dead. "Ebrahim, are you here? Where you at, Ebrahim? Stand up, man," a confused Biden said, pausing his speech midway through a point about the climate so he could address the dead Iranian president. "We go way back, me and ole Ebby." President Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash Sunday, was not present because he was dead. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-begins-speech-by-thanking-iran-president-raisi-for-coming

Iranian President Asks Manager Of Paradise Where All The Virgins Are And If It'd Be Possible To Turn The Heat Down A Tad Following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash over the weekend, the deceased leader questioned the furnishings of Paradise and wondered why it was so crazy hot up there. "I was expecting more virgins…72 of them to be exact," Raisi commented. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/iranian-president-asks-manager-of-paradise-where-all-the-virgins-are-and-if-itd-be-possible-to-turn-the-heat-down-a-tad

More Proof Biden Was Warned About Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal [...] During recent testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Retired General Austin Scott Miller, who had been in charge of our Afghanistan forces at the time, told Congress that he had specifically warned the President what would happen if the pullout was conducted as it was being planned. He was ignored and the results speak for themselves. [...] https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/05/21/more-proof-biden-was-warned-about-disastrous-afghanistan-withdrawal-n3788788

Just How Bad Was Cohen's Performance -- And Merchan's? the scope of Cohen's dishonesty in this testimony is simply breathtaking. It isn't just the embezzlement to which he admitted under pressure, either. Cohen repeatedly and consistently misrepresents himself on nearly every aspect of his testimony, especially regarding his relationship with Trump. Blanche patiently boxes him in every time, usually with Cohen's own e-mails and public statements. The press largely ignored just how comprehensively Blanche planned and executed this cross-examination. Even worse, the media tried to make Cohen's admission of embezzlement into some kind of evidence of his honesty. You have to deliberately ignore everything else that happened in Monday's testimony to sell Cohen as a truth-teller, as you'll see when watching the video. [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/05/22/just-how-bad-was-cohens-cross-examination-n3788846

This article has a link with a playable video. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hamas Hostage Video: 'Here Are the Girls Who Can Get Pregnant' Just remember that the radicals on college campuses across America endorse this as an act of liberation. And don't miss the fact that Western nations want to recognize "Palestine" as a state while Hamas runs Gaza ... and still has not released these hostages. The families of those still held by the terrorists that Norway, Ireland, and Spain just endorsed released previously unseen video taken by Hamas on October 7 showing abducted Israeli women among corpses of other hostages. The families released the video in hopes of restarting negotiations for their release. It is graphic, horrifying, and includes leering commentary about their appearance as well as their fertility: [...] https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/05/22/hamas-hostage-video-here-are-the-girls-who-can-get-pregnant-n3788866

I was inside the court when the judge closed the Trump trial, what I saw shocked me: Alan Dershowitz [...] in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse yesterday. The judge in Donald Trump's trial was an absolute tyrant, though he appeared to the jury to be a benevolent despot. He seemed automatically to be ruling against the defendant at every turn. Many experienced lawyers raised their eyebrows when the judge excluded obviously relevant evidence when offered by the defense, while including irrelevant evidence offered by the prosecution. [...] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/inside-court-when-judge-closed-trump-trial-what-saw-shocked-me-alan-dershowitz

Thrilling Wednesday-on-Thursday report, see man: Zzz'd soundly until alarm, then lazed further, torpid we man. Miu surprisingly calm and quiescent, obviously good miu-sitting care man. Despite the Mexican lunch & din-din, we lost Many (2+2+1) pounds during our trip, whee man. Cloudy, breezy, and not too humid, noticed we man. Decided to mow lawn, in bad need man. Of course, partway in, full sun came out, we man. Many (2+1) thick sweatbands were consumed, perspire we man. Breakfast/lunch/din-din (at Many [2+2] p.m.) was the "Bacon Steakburger Double*" from WhataBurger, leave casa for and ingest we man. *WUOC, financially savvy we man Not bad but probably contains a week's worth of calories, probably not worth it man. A planned hourlong siesta more than doubled itself, obviously zzz-needy we man. Miu awoke from daylong torpor and resumed standard demands for lunch, treats, brushing, play, more brushing, more play, din-din, more treats, and more play, low-maintenance miu man. No party with the rubias tonight, recover we man.

Red Lobster is listed #1 here. Of all these, I think that the biggest blunderers were #7, #8, and #6, in that order. Comments? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ People Are Sharing Famous Companies That Went Bankrupt Over Dumb Decisions, And Now I Finally Know What Happened To Circuit City https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/people-sharing-famous-companies-went-091602853.html

She is black and gay, which is more important.

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It's Wednesday -- time for our Semiofficial Semiweekly VAWA-Thread Joke: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JUST WONDERING An old man was sitting on a bench at the mall. A young man walked up to the bench and sat down. He had spiked hair in all different colors: green, red, orange, blue, yellow, and purple. The old man just stared. The young man said sarcastically, "What's the matter, old-timer? Never done anything wild in your life?" Without batting an eye, the old man replied, "I got drunk once and had sex with a parrot. I was just wondering if you were my son."

That's why I brought it up.

Was hoping that you'd weigh in on it. Denver probably has as big an influence on the state's statistics as does Portland on Oregon's.