Former Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that he is running for Congress in a new district straddling Manhattan and Brooklyn.
“I’m declaring my candidacy for Congress in the 10th congressional district in New York,” the failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate told MSNBC Friday morning.
This really had your correspondent in stitches.
“Polls show people are hurting, they need help, they need help fast, they need leaders that can actually get them help now,” de Blasio added. “I know how to do it from years of serving the people of this city.”
Since the only people that vote in elections now in New York City are hardcore left-wingers, His Idiocy might just stand a chance of winning (the 10th Congressional District of New York is entirely within city limits). For your Tatler though, de Blasio’s election to a second term as mayor was the final straw and it drove him out of the City. He was hardly the first to ditch Gotham and certainly not the last.
Russia is reportedly refusing to take bodies of its soldiers killed in fighting in Ukraine, with corpses piling up in refrigerated train cars outside the Ukrainian capital.
Col Volodymyr Lyamzin, Ukraine’s chief civil-military liaison officer, said several hundred bodies have been collected from the battlefield in the Kyiv and Chernihiv region and brought to a railyard outside the Ukrainian capital.
They are being kept on a train until the Russian government agrees to take them.
“Ukrainian authorities are dealing with this issue because Russia refuses to take them,” he told Al Jazeera.
“Each body testifies to war crimes. If they keep refusing to take the bodies, Ukraine will bury them.”
Civilized nations treat war dead, even foes, with respect. Most western nations do so, including Ukraine. Russia does not. Russia is not civilized.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
—Karl Marx
The Epoch Timesreports the Long March of the Left through the cultural institutions of our country yielded a fresh victory in April, with the announcement by the American Library Association of the election of its new president, Emily Drabinksy. The ALA, like most institutions of its kind, has trended left for decades and though you’ll find nothing on its website concerning the singularity of Ms Drabinsky’s election, you only need turn to social media, Twitter in this case, where ordinarily cautious public figures strangely lose all sense of restraint, to learn just who and what the ALA’s new president is.
Directly being elected to her new job, Ms Drabinsky tweeted this joyous and ebullient message.
I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is SO PROUD I love you mom.
(We’ll ignore Ms Drabinsky’s childish syntax. It’s de rigueur on social media and besides, grammar and punctuation are so bourgeois, even for librarians.)
It didn’t take long for Ms Drabinsky’s comrades to echo her self-praise.
“Congratulations Emily, we’re thrilled to have a comrade as president-elect of the American Library Association!”
Another wrote:
“I’m very excited to have a Marxist lesbian as our ALA President. It’s about time.”
And so it goes. O’Sullivan’s First Law states: “All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.” Such is the case with the ALA. Parents should keep the election of Comrade Drabinksy in mind when taking their children to their local library, especially the children’s department, less for the god-awful titles being added to the shelves–they’re easy enough to ignore–rather, and far more important, the titles being removed.
National Institutes of Health acting director Lawrence Tabak confirmed to lawmakers Wednesday that US health officials concealed early genomic sequences of COVID-19 at the request of Chinese scientists — but insisted the data remains on file.
Tabak told a House Appropriations subcommittee that the NIH “eliminated from public view” the data from the pandemic epicenter in Wuhan, China, before adding that researchers can still access it via an archaic “tape drive.”
Read it all. It only gets worse.
Historians over the years have debated the exact meaning of the phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors, as found in our Constitution concerning causes for impeachment. If this description of it by the American Enterprise Institute is correct, it’s safe to say that there are many officials in the Biden Administration guilty of them.
High crimes and misdemeanors are not limited to actual crimes but extend to an abuse or violation of the public trust in carrying out those duties.
Nothing will happen to these traitors during the present Administration of course, but Deo volente, perhaps in the next. These people should be in jail or better yet, exiled for life to the country of their real employers.
Pro-abortionists, including women in their silly red “Handmaids” garb, disrupted a mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. You have to wonder about these people; do they honestly believe those opposed to abortion will come around to supporting it when beset by ill-behaved harridans shrieking at them? The answer of course is no. They do these things first, for the pleasure of self-righteousness and second, the greater pleasure of making others miserable.
There are however people even viler than these wretched demonstrators and they are those Catholics, who like the Catholic quoted below, empathize with them.
Another man tells the women to get out. “Respect us,” one man says. “You guys want respect? We want respect, too.”
“I understand,” the man says. “We are with you but please, let us worship.”
No doubt that man, directly after the demonstrators were cleared out, marched up to the aisle and received. So whose is the greater sin: the demonstrators’, likely apostate Catholics, liberal mainline protestants, non-Christians and, naturally, Episcopalians, or that of Mr By-ends above, Catholic, but of the “cafeteria” kind, who heaps on his plate Church teachings he does like and skips those he doesn’t.
Your Tatler wonders, do any of these large corporations conduct surveys to determine whether they will lose or gain customers by appealing to the woke? This seems especially pertinent here considering the market segment to which the Kellogg Company is targeting is least likely to have children and most likely to abort them.
The leak the other day of the upcoming Supreme Court decision throwing out Roe v. Wade was a devious and contemptible act, though your Tatler believes the gloom and doom pronouncements over it are overreactions. The miscreant should not be difficult to find and though for impartiality’s sake staffs of all the justices will have to be investigated, it is more than likely the leak came from the offices of one of the liberals.
This correspondent’s money is on the office of the weakest justice on the bench (though soon to be displaced), Sotomayer, whose clerks no doubt reflect her intellectual limitations and easily capable of perpetrating such a stupid act. Once the guilty party is nabbed, disbarred and, we hope, imprisoned, that ought to be the end of the matter. The Court will survive and possibly even benefit from the debacle. Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit and professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, suggests one result could be the end of the Supreme Court hiring clerks.
The Justices did their own work for the first century of the Court, before clerks were introduced, and arguably their opinions were better. In fact, come to think of it, the Court should probably stop hiring clerks anyway. The original justification was that they would be a transmission belt bringing the latest legal thinking from law schools to the justices. Given the state of law schools today, that’s a bug, not a feature.
As for the caterwauling of abortion advocates over the future Court decision (maybe), who without God in their lives weirdly seem to regard the slaughter of innocents in the womb as some sort of hideous sacrament, the gruesome procedure will still be available in 37 of the 50 states. That number will remain the same for some time, though the Court decision will now allow each state to determine where it stands on the subject . This will not satisfy the screamers of course, who demand unrestricted abortions throughout pregnancy and beyond. Their shrieking will continue unabated as will the killing of unborn babies.
Texas wants to know how it can help workers in gaining skills without getting a college degree.
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s latest “Interim Legislative Charges” document asks the state senate’s Higher Education Committee to study “workforce education” developments.
Patrick . . . wants a report on “state efforts to support access to work-based learning and microcredential [sic] opportunities” such as “apprenticeships, industry based certificates and certifications.”
The committee should examine “competency-based education” and evaluate “the potential benefits of expanding access to work-based learning, apprenticeships, microcredentials” as well as “industry-based certifications.”
The certifications should be “aligned to workforce needs and provide in-demand workforce skills and competencies.”
This disappointingly jargon-filled document, (shame on you, Texas), bears a striking resemblance to the English-product used in modern academe. Its premise seems to be that skills used in the workplace can only be learned in institutions of higher learning, which is precisely wrong. Work skills are learned in the workplace or, if they are particularly complex, in technical schools, found in most towns not long ago before the myth everyone should go to college came to being.
Your Tatler, using his gift of prophecy, predicts the unsurprising recommendation of this study will be, should Texas waste the money and go through with it: skip college and get a job. From day one you’ll be up a hundred grand or more, which will go a long way compensating for your possibly, though increasingly unlikely, meager starting wage.
Even if your job is merely a sales clerk at Walmart, you can still relish the satisfaction knowing your work is of much greater value to society than that of the brain-dead idiot with a quarter-million dollar PhD in Women’s Studies, or any of the other what historian Alfred Muir Whitehill referred to as the “fraudulent disciplines” (which nowadays, sadly, at many institutions, must include the so-called hard sciences).
Dear people of Texas: please don’t squander taxpayer money on this silly and unneeded study. Spend the money on something far more beneficial to the working class in this country: more walls on the Mexican border.
THE TAOS TATLER. 