SCHMITT’S CREEK: Eric Schmitt goes fishing for shit…

… in creek full of shit; ends up covered in shit.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6117781-eric-schmitt-jack-smith-hawks-hawkeyes-fani-willis

‘Abolition is the only answer. All social fraternities — alongside the sycophantic sorority life that they exploit — must go. They must go permanently and forever, at Penn State and everywhere else. Reform is simply not possible.’

This appeared back in 2017, when the perverts at Penn State tortured and killed Timothy Piazza.

What happened to Timothy Piazza was a predictable tragedy, and there will be more unless we end Greek life for good. I make no claims that it will be easy. Fraternities have dominated campuses, defied authorities and rebuffed efforts at suppression for nearly 200 years. But in that time we have ended slavery, given women the vote and put men on the moon. Of course we can get rid of fraternities. College presidents, administrators and trustees just have to muster the will to do it. As for the rest of us, we need to keep pressure on them to do so, and keep counting the bodies until they act.

So as you follow what the perverts at Cornell did to the woman they gang-raped, remember: We can get rid of them.

Winner AND Runner-Up, Havel Prize: Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activists.

The Council of Europe in this way marks its disgust at coercive woman-erasure. Bravo.

There’s no “I” in “URINATE.”

“Unfortunately in our society right now, we live in the ‘look at me’ society… It’s about the team and focus on the team, and not so much ‘look at me.’”

Coach blames society for player simulating pulling out his cock and pissing.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/steve-sarkisian-blames-society-for-colin-simmonss-bizarre-unsportsmanlike-conduct-foul

https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/texas-longhorns-colin-simmons-vulgar-sack-celebration-inexcusable-christian-athlete

Senile School Shooter Leaves Teacher in Critical Condition

The last time this happened, the shooter was six years old. Now a shooter more than twice that age has gone and done it again.

Given this latest shooter’s advanced age, I doubt the story will get much play. An armed six year old would-be murderer is much more newsworthy than an armed thirteen year old would-be murderer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Abby_Zwerner

https://abcnews.com/US/13-year-custody-allegedly-shooting-middle-school-teacher/story?id=136820476

“Can’t remember the last time we’ve had this many people shot at one time.”

Yeah, usually they’re, like, successive. Over a few days.

So now all the oogie stuff about the sober living house Presley Gerber died in is coming out.

Bada bing bada boom, the place was run by a dude with a way shady past. UD will now instruct you, step by step, in how to respond to this information.

1.]. Huge tracts of moneyed LA – pharma, movies, investments – constitute one big ol’ Shady Thicket Plantation. If yaint never heard of advanced capitalism, now’s the time to learn.

2.]. The owner’s bad druggy behavior – for which he paid a price – happened two decades ago, in his mid-twenties. He now of course represents for his clients an inspiring recovery story. So give it a rest.

3.] Does he lie on his web page and, for instance, call the place a recovery center instead of a sober living facility? Probably. I assume the website’s full of lies (it’s been heavily edited since people started sniffing around). The drug rehab industry is notoriously skeezy. Let the buyer beware.

4.]. Concentrate instead on actual malpractice, if it’s shown to have occurred. Did the place fail to assess Gerber as needing, say, hospitalization, rather than a bed there?

Sweet! A big gun for…

… a little boy!

‘[Santiago] Schnell’s Sept. 18 email statement to [the campus newspaper, about his virtually total, unacknowledged, reliance on AI to do his writing] was itself “100% AI-written.” 

[A] film review and two op-eds arguing that AI cannot replace human “judgement” and “responsibility” in the domains of Catholicism and academia — returned “75%,” “96%” and “100% AI-written” respectively.

He was just appointed Dartmouth’s provost…

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Excellent journalism from The Dartmouth, reminiscent of Stanford’s newspaper uncovering President Tessier-Lavigne’s bullshit.

But we’re not NUTS.

We left Rehoboth Beach yesterday afternoon.

Sexual Perversity in Madison

‘Wisconsin Frat Members Arrested After Injured Pledges Found Half-Naked In Hot Basement’


‘“Inside the basement of the residence, officers found around 30 … partially clothed males covered in food, condiments and other liquids,” police said.’

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UD’s been following American frat life for ages, and much of it is The Story of O, written by guys for guys. Very edgy, very S and M, very … hot.

“You hear about it almost every day,” [a student in the class] said. “People that are angry, shooting at whoever and taking their anger out on the world.”

‘Fear brings people to the [firearms use] classroom, and the course gives them new reasons to be afraid.’

Basic Pistol.

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It’s how you get Billings Man.

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From comments on the article:

I don’t think I should be eating in Olive Garden and some young guy comes in with a semi on his belt.

I own guns and brought my son up to be comfortable around guns. … One day a year ago, in a terrible state of despondency, he used one of them to take his life. I have struggled to understand whether I had a role in his suicide.

Guns are not designed to protect you. They’re designed to kill you.

“I go downstairs to the first level, and I just hear this big ‘boom,'” one woman said. “And I don’t think anything of it because I freakin’ live in America, but then I see this guy dive behind this car.”

The Voice of America.

UD Loves Her a Nor’Easter.

She’s at the shore, her balcony riding the waves, and all is well.

Storms suit ol’ UD – especially storms over a beach and a big sky. Gusty emotions on wet roads on autumn nights is pretty much UD’s favorite line of poetry. She’s after turbulence.

What all the meteorologists are currently calling an “angry” ocean is nay, not so much. Its trick of looking blue (see Larkin for a version of this phrase) turns over, on occasion, into the immense zinc-and-gunmetal expanse (Merrill) that represents Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential.

‘“Guns are killing our kids,” [Zack] Terakedis said.’

Gee, even in Montana they’re failing to see the adorableness of people dandling Second Amendment doodads on their knees.

Parents in Billings are all ooh ooh cuz a nut across the street from their kids’ elementary school stomps about heavily armed in front of his house. Montana being Montana the dude – even though once a felon! – is free to finger his guns in public. And I dunno why, but even that state’s gun lovers are scared shitless by a totally dangerous asshole aiming large weapons at their kids’ school all day.

They’re demanding someone official do something – but they’re the ones who voted to have the country’s worst gun laws. So enjoy.

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