Still Free

Yeah, Mr. Smiley. Made it through the entire Trump presidency without being enslaved. Imagine that.

Monday, November 27, 2023

Garvey's Ghost TV: 11-25-2023: In Time

Rumble:

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4:00 Congestion Pricing Comparison with the movie In Time.

21:00: From The River To The Sea...

33:00: You DO Realize CO2 is plant food...?

43:00: London Plague! Africans Most Affected.

50:00: I Thought Race Was A Social Construct

 

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

NYS is now using the speed cameras on interstates. 

For your safety of course.

"Many New York drivers are unaware that automated speeding tickets are even legal on highways, but a law legalizing the process was quietly passed in 2021 and is now being implemented in the Hudson Valley and other areas around the state."

I'm sure it was silent. 

The New York State Department of Transportation says that these infractions will not result in points on your license and information will not be sent to insurance companies. Because the automated speeding infraction is a civil offense, there are no criminal implications.

No points and nothing sent to insurance companies. Sounds like a money grab to me. I mean if speeding is so dangerous then speeders should be arrested on the spot. You know and I know that the speeding thing is a scam to raise revenue for local municipalities. It is not that there aren't people who  reckless, but this does nothing to address that.  If you're on 87, a three lane wide highway in most parts, with no one around you, doing 80,90 MPH you are not a danger to anyone, including yourself. 

Doing such a speed in a school zone IS dangerous. It's not the speed, it's the conditions and they know it. Now, you, being a danger to nobody will get a ticket [tax] for simply going about your business because some busybody who got elected to office, thinks it's a great idea.

NY residents will vote these people back into office though.

It sure is interesting that as cars gain more and more safety features, that speed limits don't go up but fines do (or are created).

Meanwhile, I saw a guy yesterday with tires is such bad shape that the rubber was peeling away from the steel cords. No police officer will be stopping him. No auto-fine will send him a ticket, and most certainly he is a danger to himself AND those around him. 

Just another example of the government clearly just taxing citizens with false claims of safety.

Gotta pay for those illegal aliens somehow I suppose.

Wednesday, November 08, 2023

So It's Like That?

In the United States, you have a right to stomp on and burn the national flag. You have the absolute right to advocate for ending the US as a sovereign state. I recall back in the day, after the Rodney King verdict, participating in a a number of protests that included many calls to end the US and involved aforementioned flag burning. This all happened on the campus of a private university.  No one in the administration dared even peep about consequences of such actions.

My how times have changed.

"A Massachusetts-based private university has banned a student chapter of the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on its campus amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, becoming the first U.S.-based private university to do so. "

Banning a student organization based on political stands is discrimination. But this is a private university so it can do so, within limits.  But that's not really the interesting part.

 

“SJP has called on its chapters to engage in conduct that supports Hamas in its call for the elimination of the only Jewish state in the world and its people,” the school’s spokesperson said in its statement to The Hill. “Such expression is not protected by Brandeis’ principles of free speech.”

“Students are welcome to express their support for Palestinians in a manner that complies with our rights and responsibilities,” the spokesperson concluded.

This wording is interesting because the university claims that the organization engages in conduct that supports Hamas in it's call for the elimination of the only Jewish state. Note that they did NOT say that said organization supported the  means by which Hamas goes about it's "call". No, they said that the conduct supports the aim. The university has decided that any speech that does not support the state of Israel is  "not protected".

That is mighty strange for a US university. I will remind the reader that it has been standard practice to protect all manner of anti-American speech on university campuses. Why is it that being anti not America, is somehow afforded less "protection"? If anything speech that is anti-American ought to be the "not protected" speech.

Lest you think I protest too much, note that the university goes on to state that THEY are the arbiter of what proper "support for Palestinians" entails.

Ahhh the university as speech police.

It's very interesting to see where alumni and administrations have drawn the line on speech, given they have coddled and even supported speech in it's DEI departments that call for the elimination of "whiteness" (wink, wink).

It would be nice if universities went back to the entire "so long as it is legal" standard when it comes to speech.