Have you heard, Harvard is suing the Trump administration (America) for the billions (up to 9 billion) of dollars Trump has held up because of their complicity with the anti Semitic protests, their anti semitic professors and the anti semitic actions of students on their campus. Yes, they said by holding back the money Trump is infringing on their 1st amendment rights.
Colleges and Universities today are not what they used to be. They are big business. Harvard is in the business of making money, big money. Columbia is in the business of making big money also. Harvard has a 53 billion dollar endowment. Do you know that could pay tuition for every student they have for 100 years. These extremely wealthy Universities take our hard earned tax money, and teach their students to hate Americans that love America. They teach and allow hatred of certain groups of people based on religion. They teach that the rich should pay their fair share, while they are rich and tax exempt, Why? Why are we paying to promote these bigots? How very arrogant can a university be to be this filthy rich beyond anyone’s wildest imagination and sue a country that’s broke and 39 trillion dollars in the hole? How can they think we owe them anything? I’ve heard of Robin Hood socialism, where they rob from the rich and give to the poor, but this, This, THIS is opposite Robin Hood Socialism. This is rob from the poor and give to the rich, the rich being Harvard and Columbia.
How about this, we stop all tax payer funding of these extremely wealthy American hating, bigoted, big money making Universities, take away their tax exempt status, and teach them one of their own lessons, THEY have to start paying THEiR fair share!! J.Goodrich
Sounds good to me! As the Corruption in DC is peeled back I sense the deep hatred for President Trump, RFK Jr. and Musk is intensifying. I pray they stay the course. The Universities knew that the Student loan program was a fool proof method to enrich their wealth.
The student loan cartoon hits the spot. All of Dr. Malone's funnies today are so right on! I don't see how he/they do it - they travel, they run a farm, they host Gonzo, they give insightful speeches, they keep abreast of current events - on and on. They are treasures!
Yes, the Malones are truly American Patriots, & extremely busy with their lives, & at the same time, help so many people with the research they continue to investigate on so many topics; the main topic, the ups & downs on covid & vaccines, is just one favorite topic for me! Plus, the Friday Funnies, & comic strips to help tone down our struggles with information that sometimes gets misinterpreted by fake news! WOW! Thank you both, Doctors Malone!
In reply to James’ comments: As long as our elected representatives control both spending (as recommended by the unelected bureaucrats) AND funding, it will never happen. Remember, Nancy Pelosi said that to find out what was in the bill , they had to pass it. And they did! They passed a bill via Democrat manipulation that dug us a deeper hole in debt and corrupted ever more minds in the process.
I’m begging everyone: PROPOSE a fix!! So far Trump has striven mightily to pour antibiotics on diseased government agencies with little effect. And a recaptured House and or Senate or White House even if 16 years away, will unravel it all.
Our Constitution never imagined a world where half the participants were soulless secular demons in human bodies. With no moral compass. Benjamin Franklin said, this American experiment would not survive without a moral and religious peoples. Despite the welcome resurgence in Christianity, we are a deeply morally bankrupt society!
I want America the good, the beautiful, the shining city on the hill to survive. To do that, some major shift in something has to happen. If you’ve read my ramblings before you know I think the key is FUNDING! Who funds. What they agree to fund.
Not the President, not Congress, not the administrative state, not the Judicial Branch. Citizen taxpayers fund. How it is spent should be decided individually by THEM. All 154 million of them.
Somehow the playing field needs leveling so that no one billionaire gives all his tax wealth to spending proposals that then continue to live on even when no one else wants them.
Given a solution to that, I have a lot of faith in even the dumbest among us to make wiser decisions when it is THEIR money that is being spent, than is currently done by either Congress, the administrative state, or recipients such as the overvalued Ivy League Halls of intellectual perfidity.
Hi Barbara. You may be interested in my later post here re: the latest I've seen on DOGE and some of what is happening. It doesn't address morality per se, but it might help show some of what is changing and how it may create a better grasp of the funding issues. Slow process, but maybe soon we will see improvement?
If changes go positively, MAYBE it will incentivize the populace to believe, and then they will gravitate to our new leader and his team leaving behind the losers.
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
Hi Barbara Lee! I have a proposal; Pam Bondi has to get off Fox News, go to these federal district court judges offices, dis robe them, arrest them for treason and high crimes, they are destroying our republic by trying to stop the will of the people, the voter, that’s #1, #2 Pam Bondi needs to release the Epstein list and start arresting the people that raped the 257 under aged kids, why is Maxwell the only person in jail?? #3 Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino need to start going into these elementary school and arresting people that are involved with grooming and sexualizing children. This would send shock waves through this perverted society we are all forced to live in. The democrats have been building this system for decades with the ultimate goal of making pedophilia legal, these people are sick.
I'd say low population density has something to do with it and that Dartmouth does have some conservative elements to it that thankfully my student has been part of. I have appreciated the President's adherence to following rules and enforcing them.
Most of the colleges squashed the anti semitism stuff when threatened by Trump to take away their funding. I’m not sure if that’s the case with Dartmouth but these colleges that reformed their policy, many, then praised Harvard for fighting Trump.
The Ivy League are the US oxbridge built and supported by europhiles who have always looked to europe for inspiration, oblivious to the fact that europe has long been short on that particular offering
"Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most prestigious universities in the United Kingdom. The term is used to refer to them collectively"
The situation with Harvard and Columbia is a bit more complex than James Goodrich lets on. I can speak at first hand about Columbia as I live nearby their campus. A quite beautiful campus that used to be a pleasure to walk through is now closed to the general public, due to Columbia's fear of more protests against Israel's actions in Gaza. I should mention that the previous protests held on campus were anti-Zionist, but they were certainly not anti-semitic, as many Jewish students and faculty were participants.
A strong motivation for the protests was Columbia's financial support for the Israeli state, which helps enable the continued killing of women and children (the Israeli air force is literally bombing families living out in the open in tents) in the Gaza strip. Here we have the spectacle of the Israeli state armed with American-supplied bombs, jet fighters, tanks, and attack helicopters, busily attacking the Palestinians, who have none of those things, and we wonder why anyone might be upset. In short, the motivation for these particular protests is very real, and will not go away so long as the U.S. continues to support Israeli genocide in Gaza. And the administrations of Columbia and Harvard are actually supporting this U.S. policy, while some faculty members and students are opposed. That is the real situation with these universities.
There are, of course, other problems with Harvard, Columbia and the like, including their support for "woke" social policies that have been thoroughly discredited, but the matter of Palestinians being slaughtered in Gaza is a little more urgent right now.
Robert although the professors at both colleges push anti semitism and college campuses are not places designed for protesting, (they are places to educate the young) personally I’m not for what Israel has done to Gaza and the Palestinians, you have completely overlooked my point, we are broke Robert and Leo. Why are we giving a university, Harvard, 9 billion dollars, when we are 39 trillion dollars in debt. Focus on the issue not your political view of whatever. We don’t have 9 billion dollars to give Harvard University period. Answer me this why is Harvard with their 53 billion dollars tax exempt???? Focus on the issue Robert not on your politics
I was referring to your statement: "They teach and allow hatred of certain groups of people based on religion." I assumed you were referring to the Gaza issue, which is framed by some as being explicitly anti-semitic, hence "allow[ing] hatred of certain groups of people [Jews] based on religion." If my assumption is wrong I will be glad to be corrected.
I agree that the financial relationship between the government and major universities is incestuous and no doubt leads to much fraud and waste of taxpayer dollars.
Ask me, the citizen taxpayer, who is being extorted of 15% of my income whether I want to fund a for profit private university with billions in endowments and Then in addition pay off student loans. Go ahead, ASK ME!
BTW Robert you didn’t answer the question, why is Harvard and Columbia Tax Exempt? And why are tax payers giving them billions of dollars, it’s not where I want my tax money to go. What to produce anti Jewish liberal bigots. Is that what you want? That’s what they are producing.
They did allow these protest and dozens of these professors have pushed this anti semitic narrative. Why weren’t these protests stopped and the students kicked out of the university? Non were!! Like I said Robert I’m against the complete destruction of Gaza, I think it’s a land grab. Not that I’m pro October 7th, but it could have been handled better for sure. These schools have been complicit with anti semitism. Jewish students were stopped from going to class!
It should be quit a beautiful campus they are tax exempt and we all paid for their campus, even tuitions, amazing, there’s a forest and you ignore to see the trees!
I enjoyed the comments on the comments. The thing I love about what is happening right now is the Trump administration is uncovering waste fraud and abuse, and who know how much we tax payers have contributed to all of the indoctrination? Spend the money on trade schools and infrastructure,
Leo he skipped right over the actual issue, can you not question why we are giving these colleges billions of dollars we don’t have?? While they produce indoctrinated bigots??
James, it doesn’t matter what they produce. No privately endowed for profit school of any kind teaching anything to anyone should be funded with my tax dollars. That is what tuition and endowments are for. Not government! This is lobbyists at work. Get rid of them too. How? Separate spending (proposals) from funding (citizen taxpayer dollars).
04/26/25: James, I am heartbroken that the American Nazi Party (HQ: Harvard and its M-13 affiliates, Ann Arbor, etc.) is down to its last $52 billion dollars. Can David Hogg don a dress, do an impromptu Sally Struthers, and save the party?
Oh, I just mean issues are multi-dimensional, so if people are more deeply grounded, in touch with their/our hearts - beyond the outer aspects, everything goes better.
Yeah, that is a much better plan! Time to stop endowments for these rich, elite universities, Harvard & Columbia, & those large scale colleges that have turned into “corporations” ! Immoral, evil, & greedy! Time for these elites to “drop out”!
"Kids of the future will never know the struggle" LOL! They will, however, inherit a large bin (or two) full of mysterious wires and cables which apparently fit nowhere;)
Got them in the garage waiting to be struck with inspiration. I do have a clip board made from a motherboard someone gave me a long time ago. Will hold a legal pad but is too flexible for anything serious.
I also have several containers with old electronics, a few monitors’ & two hard drives! What to do with all those cables?? Plus, stereo component system, & large speakers, from 1973!!! Refurbish & may resell all? (stereo that is!).
If you have a source for tubes, you should keep the stereo, if not, unless it has sentimental value, sell it. I had a '60s vintage tube type Scott amplifier and tuner. Sold them on eBay, got a nice 42" Vizio TV and a digital Sansui receiver. Using some bookshelf dual 6" speakers and it all works fine for a 12'x18' room. If I need more, I just run it through my bass amp and, shake the windows and wake the neighbors.
I did find an Audio repair person I plan to call tomorrow, just to find out if he can repair whatever isn’t working. I have a Sansui AU-7500 amplifier; a Luxman digital synthesized AM/FM stereo tuner, & a Hitachi turntable. The tuner & amp have power, but my RTR tall speakers must be shot - I play my music loud, but my neighbors are 10-20 acres around me. Since stereo’s now days are mostly electronic, & don’t take plug in cables, & more high tech, I sure hope I can have my system repaired, & play all of my 1960-70’s vinyl!
I hope the repair person you found knows how to work on analog systems with resistors, capacitors, rectifiers, potentiometers, etc. When I was a kid in the '50s, my dad and uncle had a ham shack in one of the storage lockers in the basement of the apartment building we lived in. Uncle was also an electronic engineer for CBS. They'd build gear starting with bending aluminum chassis and cutting holes for tube sockets and then solder all the electrical components together et voilà they'd have transmitters, receivers and a whole lot more. They let me hang out and watch, but the furthest I ever got was to make a crystal radio set for a Boy Scout merit badge. Between the pipe smoke and the lead/zinc solder and rosin, I can still remember the smell of building electronic gear.
I do have 4 linear feet of 33-1/3 LPs though and every once in a while will put one on the turntable and convert it to MP3 through my computer.
Thank you for the notes for the repair guy- I wrote those notes down & will definitely ask questions. He has a 4-star rating out of 5, but ya know, sometimes that can be misleading! Cool you have the ability to know how to convert 33-1/3 vinyl to an MP3 player! My son has transferred most of my 45’s onto CD’s, but that was back in the late 90’s before he graduated high school & went to college! I’m outdated with those songs now, but maybe my son can help me with some updated Technology! He is an electrical engineer after all- different from electronic engineer, I get that! Have a great evening! Thank you for the info, I appreciate all of it!
Right? I have searched for those geeks that love to tinker with old stereos, & bring them back to life! My Son-in-Law tried to get my stereo hooked up, just to see if he could find out the problem, but not happening; now anyway! He even offered to buy me a new record player! Really sweet offer, but I’m holding out for the repair doctor’s check up! LOL :)
I made wind chimes out of a bunch of old 16-bit SIMMs. Just went clickety-clickety-click, but made interesting patterns on the deck when the sun hit the gold contacts.
Thanks for completing and sending the Friday Funnies. Loved the LGBTQ-MS13. Another loser to hang their hats on. Also the lovely woman and kangaroo got laughs from my husband and me. Always enjoy the satire. Safe travels!
"We used to do the hellfire and hard-labor thing, but now we just hold people to their own standards. Way more entertaining."
"Saul? Saul Alinsky? Is that you? How long has it been.... 50 years? Seems like an eternity! How the hell have you been, you old devil you? Should've figured you'd be a big wheel down here; got you at the front desk, huh? Still doing the fourth rule for radicals, I see. Say, can we turn down the thermostat just a smidge?"
Father Schmit, of Bible in a Year, points out that God never wanted a nation ruled by a king. He wanted a nation of righteous individuals who, led by their religious mentors, chose what was right voluntarily. A nation of people who have a valid moral compass and a backbone are as much a defense against evil as a nation of gun owners is a defense against invasion. But the Israelites, looked enviously at the neighbors with their fancy kings and demanded a leader. They got one. And then suffered mightily from the leadership of the very bad ones. Let that be a cautionary tale we are all too familiar with!
Thank you, Barbara! I am listening to Bible in a Year almost everyday and learning so much! Heard the Judges quote there today:) Looking forward to the upcoming stories about kings! Father Mike Schmitz is terrific❤️
God also never intended a church run by hierarchical clergy. All new testament churches were run locally by elders. I know of none today with primary elder leadership, although I did know of one 40 years ago.
"In their own eyes." Right. It is a perception issue. Those Eye Chart cartoons are perfect. The "eye/mote/beam" teaching speaks to that exactly. As did the "hold them to their own standards" one. Ophthalmology issues are just so human.
I’m sorry, doc, but this is clearly the wrong kind of funny. Harvard is not amused!
A third article, by Roberto Olivardia, a clinical psychologist who lectures at Harvard Medical School, gave advice to clinicians on how to respond if parents say they are worried that stimulant medication is muting their child’s sense of humor. The suggested response: Maybe your child was the wrong kind of funny. “Parents should know that not all personality changes sparked by medication are negative,” Olivardia advised. “If a child known for his sense of humor seems ‘less funny’ on medication, it could be that the medication is properly inhibiting them. In other words, it’s not that the child is less funny; it’s that they’re more appropriately funny at the right times.”
A good example of how very intelligent, seriously well educated, professionals propose ideas so stupid that even a genuinely mentally retarded person wouldn’t. And we trust these people with our future leaders !
I’ve been waiting for a local federal district judge to declare war on Russia and force little Mikey Johnson to send another 100 billion dollars to the Ukraine. What will be next, deciding troop movements??
I am so cornfused now. Perplexed. If Perplexity fact checked as False a Babylon Bee meme about DemocRats drinking food coloring knowing Babylon Bee makes up things to lampoon, does that mean the story is actually true?
This is why we never want AIs to do our thinking for us.
Enjoyed today’s Funnies (don’t think any irked me either 😉).
I will say, best laugh came with the montage of former computer and various electronics connectors. Sadly, maybe, I have most if not all of them in my tech closet or tech junk drawers. Even in the age of USB-C, HDMI and Bluetooth, etc., I still use a few of these ancient artifacts - mostly of the analog sort. I also have a Zip-Drive, with a dozen or so discs (no, I don’t use it. Anymore) AND a CueCat - If you have to ask… 🤣
🤔 does that copy also come with its own 3 ½“ disc drive?, or, would that copy of MS-DOS be so historical it came on a 5 ¼“ sloppy floppy? If the latter - d’ya have an appropriate drive, 40 pin ribbon cable and a 40 pin connector?
😂 I’m trying to remember when those 40 pin connectors disappeared. My last full build was Christmas 2014/15 when I built my office main system and a small mini PC for my then wife. Both still run, mine with memory and GPU enhancements, but are now at EOL due to Windows 11. ANYWAY, I don’t recall if I had those connections on that mainboard even 11 years ago.
Jeepers, you make me wanna go down into the bowels of my palatial hut and dig through those boxes and drawers of obsolete goodies just to make sure I have the necessary components to survive the upcoming zombie apocalypse.
Have you heard, Harvard is suing the Trump administration (America) for the billions (up to 9 billion) of dollars Trump has held up because of their complicity with the anti Semitic protests, their anti semitic professors and the anti semitic actions of students on their campus. Yes, they said by holding back the money Trump is infringing on their 1st amendment rights.
Colleges and Universities today are not what they used to be. They are big business. Harvard is in the business of making money, big money. Columbia is in the business of making big money also. Harvard has a 53 billion dollar endowment. Do you know that could pay tuition for every student they have for 100 years. These extremely wealthy Universities take our hard earned tax money, and teach their students to hate Americans that love America. They teach and allow hatred of certain groups of people based on religion. They teach that the rich should pay their fair share, while they are rich and tax exempt, Why? Why are we paying to promote these bigots? How very arrogant can a university be to be this filthy rich beyond anyone’s wildest imagination and sue a country that’s broke and 39 trillion dollars in the hole? How can they think we owe them anything? I’ve heard of Robin Hood socialism, where they rob from the rich and give to the poor, but this, This, THIS is opposite Robin Hood Socialism. This is rob from the poor and give to the rich, the rich being Harvard and Columbia.
How about this, we stop all tax payer funding of these extremely wealthy American hating, bigoted, big money making Universities, take away their tax exempt status, and teach them one of their own lessons, THEY have to start paying THEiR fair share!! J.Goodrich
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Sounds good to me! As the Corruption in DC is peeled back I sense the deep hatred for President Trump, RFK Jr. and Musk is intensifying. I pray they stay the course. The Universities knew that the Student loan program was a fool proof method to enrich their wealth.
I heard today that the student loan program is in the trillion range - I think it was 1.6 trillion. What the heck??
The student loan cartoon hits the spot. All of Dr. Malone's funnies today are so right on! I don't see how he/they do it - they travel, they run a farm, they host Gonzo, they give insightful speeches, they keep abreast of current events - on and on. They are treasures!
Yes, the Malones are truly American Patriots, & extremely busy with their lives, & at the same time, help so many people with the research they continue to investigate on so many topics; the main topic, the ups & downs on covid & vaccines, is just one favorite topic for me! Plus, the Friday Funnies, & comic strips to help tone down our struggles with information that sometimes gets misinterpreted by fake news! WOW! Thank you both, Doctors Malone!
In reply to James’ comments: As long as our elected representatives control both spending (as recommended by the unelected bureaucrats) AND funding, it will never happen. Remember, Nancy Pelosi said that to find out what was in the bill , they had to pass it. And they did! They passed a bill via Democrat manipulation that dug us a deeper hole in debt and corrupted ever more minds in the process.
I’m begging everyone: PROPOSE a fix!! So far Trump has striven mightily to pour antibiotics on diseased government agencies with little effect. And a recaptured House and or Senate or White House even if 16 years away, will unravel it all.
Our Constitution never imagined a world where half the participants were soulless secular demons in human bodies. With no moral compass. Benjamin Franklin said, this American experiment would not survive without a moral and religious peoples. Despite the welcome resurgence in Christianity, we are a deeply morally bankrupt society!
I want America the good, the beautiful, the shining city on the hill to survive. To do that, some major shift in something has to happen. If you’ve read my ramblings before you know I think the key is FUNDING! Who funds. What they agree to fund.
Not the President, not Congress, not the administrative state, not the Judicial Branch. Citizen taxpayers fund. How it is spent should be decided individually by THEM. All 154 million of them.
Somehow the playing field needs leveling so that no one billionaire gives all his tax wealth to spending proposals that then continue to live on even when no one else wants them.
Given a solution to that, I have a lot of faith in even the dumbest among us to make wiser decisions when it is THEIR money that is being spent, than is currently done by either Congress, the administrative state, or recipients such as the overvalued Ivy League Halls of intellectual perfidity.
Hi Barbara. You may be interested in my later post here re: the latest I've seen on DOGE and some of what is happening. It doesn't address morality per se, but it might help show some of what is changing and how it may create a better grasp of the funding issues. Slow process, but maybe soon we will see improvement?
If changes go positively, MAYBE it will incentivize the populace to believe, and then they will gravitate to our new leader and his team leaving behind the losers.
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi
i'll check out your later post too. I've never heard that quote by st Francis... I love it! Thanks for sharing
Hi Barbara Lee! I have a proposal; Pam Bondi has to get off Fox News, go to these federal district court judges offices, dis robe them, arrest them for treason and high crimes, they are destroying our republic by trying to stop the will of the people, the voter, that’s #1, #2 Pam Bondi needs to release the Epstein list and start arresting the people that raped the 257 under aged kids, why is Maxwell the only person in jail?? #3 Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino need to start going into these elementary school and arresting people that are involved with grooming and sexualizing children. This would send shock waves through this perverted society we are all forced to live in. The democrats have been building this system for decades with the ultimate goal of making pedophilia legal, these people are sick.
Absolutely!
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Agreed, but also interesting to me is Dartmouth is not following the crowd here - perhaps being isolated in the mountains has its advantages?
I'd say low population density has something to do with it and that Dartmouth does have some conservative elements to it that thankfully my student has been part of. I have appreciated the President's adherence to following rules and enforcing them.
Most of the colleges squashed the anti semitism stuff when threatened by Trump to take away their funding. I’m not sure if that’s the case with Dartmouth but these colleges that reformed their policy, many, then praised Harvard for fighting Trump.
The Ivy League are the US oxbridge built and supported by europhiles who have always looked to europe for inspiration, oblivious to the fact that europe has long been short on that particular offering
I had to look THAT one up!
"Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most prestigious universities in the United Kingdom. The term is used to refer to them collectively"
a portmanteau. . . oh!
How can they sue for grants? A grant isn’t something you automatically get. To say you are entitled to them is twisted thinking in my book
The situation with Harvard and Columbia is a bit more complex than James Goodrich lets on. I can speak at first hand about Columbia as I live nearby their campus. A quite beautiful campus that used to be a pleasure to walk through is now closed to the general public, due to Columbia's fear of more protests against Israel's actions in Gaza. I should mention that the previous protests held on campus were anti-Zionist, but they were certainly not anti-semitic, as many Jewish students and faculty were participants.
A strong motivation for the protests was Columbia's financial support for the Israeli state, which helps enable the continued killing of women and children (the Israeli air force is literally bombing families living out in the open in tents) in the Gaza strip. Here we have the spectacle of the Israeli state armed with American-supplied bombs, jet fighters, tanks, and attack helicopters, busily attacking the Palestinians, who have none of those things, and we wonder why anyone might be upset. In short, the motivation for these particular protests is very real, and will not go away so long as the U.S. continues to support Israeli genocide in Gaza. And the administrations of Columbia and Harvard are actually supporting this U.S. policy, while some faculty members and students are opposed. That is the real situation with these universities.
There are, of course, other problems with Harvard, Columbia and the like, including their support for "woke" social policies that have been thoroughly discredited, but the matter of Palestinians being slaughtered in Gaza is a little more urgent right now.
Robert although the professors at both colleges push anti semitism and college campuses are not places designed for protesting, (they are places to educate the young) personally I’m not for what Israel has done to Gaza and the Palestinians, you have completely overlooked my point, we are broke Robert and Leo. Why are we giving a university, Harvard, 9 billion dollars, when we are 39 trillion dollars in debt. Focus on the issue not your political view of whatever. We don’t have 9 billion dollars to give Harvard University period. Answer me this why is Harvard with their 53 billion dollars tax exempt???? Focus on the issue Robert not on your politics
I was referring to your statement: "They teach and allow hatred of certain groups of people based on religion." I assumed you were referring to the Gaza issue, which is framed by some as being explicitly anti-semitic, hence "allow[ing] hatred of certain groups of people [Jews] based on religion." If my assumption is wrong I will be glad to be corrected.
I agree that the financial relationship between the government and major universities is incestuous and no doubt leads to much fraud and waste of taxpayer dollars.
Ask me, the citizen taxpayer, who is being extorted of 15% of my income whether I want to fund a for profit private university with billions in endowments and Then in addition pay off student loans. Go ahead, ASK ME!
BTW Robert you didn’t answer the question, why is Harvard and Columbia Tax Exempt? And why are tax payers giving them billions of dollars, it’s not where I want my tax money to go. What to produce anti Jewish liberal bigots. Is that what you want? That’s what they are producing.
They did allow these protest and dozens of these professors have pushed this anti semitic narrative. Why weren’t these protests stopped and the students kicked out of the university? Non were!! Like I said Robert I’m against the complete destruction of Gaza, I think it’s a land grab. Not that I’m pro October 7th, but it could have been handled better for sure. These schools have been complicit with anti semitism. Jewish students were stopped from going to class!
It should be quit a beautiful campus they are tax exempt and we all paid for their campus, even tuitions, amazing, there’s a forest and you ignore to see the trees!
Robert, very insightful - thank you for pointing out the actual issue.
I enjoyed the comments on the comments. The thing I love about what is happening right now is the Trump administration is uncovering waste fraud and abuse, and who know how much we tax payers have contributed to all of the indoctrination? Spend the money on trade schools and infrastructure,
Leo he skipped right over the actual issue, can you not question why we are giving these colleges billions of dollars we don’t have?? While they produce indoctrinated bigots??
James, it doesn’t matter what they produce. No privately endowed for profit school of any kind teaching anything to anyone should be funded with my tax dollars. That is what tuition and endowments are for. Not government! This is lobbyists at work. Get rid of them too. How? Separate spending (proposals) from funding (citizen taxpayer dollars).
Why can’t we just embrace life rather tan death?
And, there's even more than that going on it's a very complex situation.
Is the ‘genocide’ a result of the massacre of innocents in October?
James YES! From your mouth to God’s ears! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
04/26/25: James, I am heartbroken that the American Nazi Party (HQ: Harvard and its M-13 affiliates, Ann Arbor, etc.) is down to its last $52 billion dollars. Can David Hogg don a dress, do an impromptu Sally Struthers, and save the party?
Aha! Ya think that’ll ever happen?
It's all about the name and the connections...
LB - Don't forget the heart...
Not sure I'm following you , Leo but you can have a heart
Oh, I just mean issues are multi-dimensional, so if people are more deeply grounded, in touch with their/our hearts - beyond the outer aspects, everything goes better.
Yeah, that is a much better plan! Time to stop endowments for these rich, elite universities, Harvard & Columbia, & those large scale colleges that have turned into “corporations” ! Immoral, evil, & greedy! Time for these elites to “drop out”!
"Kids of the future will never know the struggle" LOL! They will, however, inherit a large bin (or two) full of mysterious wires and cables which apparently fit nowhere;)
LOL! I have a huge box full that I....well, what DO I do with it? Any suggestions?
Make art! Give it nonsensical pretentious titles! Hire a well-connected agent, sell it for big bucks!
Sell it to a museum! Lol!
Got them in the garage waiting to be struck with inspiration. I do have a clip board made from a motherboard someone gave me a long time ago. Will hold a legal pad but is too flexible for anything serious.
I also have several containers with old electronics, a few monitors’ & two hard drives! What to do with all those cables?? Plus, stereo component system, & large speakers, from 1973!!! Refurbish & may resell all? (stereo that is!).
If you have a source for tubes, you should keep the stereo, if not, unless it has sentimental value, sell it. I had a '60s vintage tube type Scott amplifier and tuner. Sold them on eBay, got a nice 42" Vizio TV and a digital Sansui receiver. Using some bookshelf dual 6" speakers and it all works fine for a 12'x18' room. If I need more, I just run it through my bass amp and, shake the windows and wake the neighbors.
I did find an Audio repair person I plan to call tomorrow, just to find out if he can repair whatever isn’t working. I have a Sansui AU-7500 amplifier; a Luxman digital synthesized AM/FM stereo tuner, & a Hitachi turntable. The tuner & amp have power, but my RTR tall speakers must be shot - I play my music loud, but my neighbors are 10-20 acres around me. Since stereo’s now days are mostly electronic, & don’t take plug in cables, & more high tech, I sure hope I can have my system repaired, & play all of my 1960-70’s vinyl!
I hope the repair person you found knows how to work on analog systems with resistors, capacitors, rectifiers, potentiometers, etc. When I was a kid in the '50s, my dad and uncle had a ham shack in one of the storage lockers in the basement of the apartment building we lived in. Uncle was also an electronic engineer for CBS. They'd build gear starting with bending aluminum chassis and cutting holes for tube sockets and then solder all the electrical components together et voilà they'd have transmitters, receivers and a whole lot more. They let me hang out and watch, but the furthest I ever got was to make a crystal radio set for a Boy Scout merit badge. Between the pipe smoke and the lead/zinc solder and rosin, I can still remember the smell of building electronic gear.
I do have 4 linear feet of 33-1/3 LPs though and every once in a while will put one on the turntable and convert it to MP3 through my computer.
Thank you for the notes for the repair guy- I wrote those notes down & will definitely ask questions. He has a 4-star rating out of 5, but ya know, sometimes that can be misleading! Cool you have the ability to know how to convert 33-1/3 vinyl to an MP3 player! My son has transferred most of my 45’s onto CD’s, but that was back in the late 90’s before he graduated high school & went to college! I’m outdated with those songs now, but maybe my son can help me with some updated Technology! He is an electrical engineer after all- different from electronic engineer, I get that! Have a great evening! Thank you for the info, I appreciate all of it!
Who knows? Stereos might make a comeback like record players did.
Right? I have searched for those geeks that love to tinker with old stereos, & bring them back to life! My Son-in-Law tried to get my stereo hooked up, just to see if he could find out the problem, but not happening; now anyway! He even offered to buy me a new record player! Really sweet offer, but I’m holding out for the repair doctor’s check up! LOL :)
I made wind chimes out of a bunch of old 16-bit SIMMs. Just went clickety-clickety-click, but made interesting patterns on the deck when the sun hit the gold contacts.
Thanks for completing and sending the Friday Funnies. Loved the LGBTQ-MS13. Another loser to hang their hats on. Also the lovely woman and kangaroo got laughs from my husband and me. Always enjoy the satire. Safe travels!
"We used to do the hellfire and hard-labor thing, but now we just hold people to their own standards. Way more entertaining."
"Saul? Saul Alinsky? Is that you? How long has it been.... 50 years? Seems like an eternity! How the hell have you been, you old devil you? Should've figured you'd be a big wheel down here; got you at the front desk, huh? Still doing the fourth rule for radicals, I see. Say, can we turn down the thermostat just a smidge?"
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I’m reasonably sure I used everyone of those connectors. Never knew the names of most of them. Probably still have some of the cables in my junk piles
along with piles of chargers to devices you no longer have. By the way anyone need any floppy disks" 160 mega byte, never used.
I have a couple boxes of unused CD things too.
I think I do too! Lol
My favorite quote today,
Judges 21:25
"In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes."
So many people these days have lost all sense of right vs wrong.
Father Schmit, of Bible in a Year, points out that God never wanted a nation ruled by a king. He wanted a nation of righteous individuals who, led by their religious mentors, chose what was right voluntarily. A nation of people who have a valid moral compass and a backbone are as much a defense against evil as a nation of gun owners is a defense against invasion. But the Israelites, looked enviously at the neighbors with their fancy kings and demanded a leader. They got one. And then suffered mightily from the leadership of the very bad ones. Let that be a cautionary tale we are all too familiar with!
Thank you, Barbara! I am listening to Bible in a Year almost everyday and learning so much! Heard the Judges quote there today:) Looking forward to the upcoming stories about kings! Father Mike Schmitz is terrific❤️
God also never intended a church run by hierarchical clergy. All new testament churches were run locally by elders. I know of none today with primary elder leadership, although I did know of one 40 years ago.
I attend one, Mark. In Naples, Florida.
Shout-out to Napoleons. Our daughter is an attorney there. Beautiful place to live.
Consider yourself fortunate. 🙂
I do.
"In their own eyes." Right. It is a perception issue. Those Eye Chart cartoons are perfect. The "eye/mote/beam" teaching speaks to that exactly. As did the "hold them to their own standards" one. Ophthalmology issues are just so human.
Friday Funnies Fun Time! Thanks Dr M!!
I’m sorry, doc, but this is clearly the wrong kind of funny. Harvard is not amused!
A third article, by Roberto Olivardia, a clinical psychologist who lectures at Harvard Medical School, gave advice to clinicians on how to respond if parents say they are worried that stimulant medication is muting their child’s sense of humor. The suggested response: Maybe your child was the wrong kind of funny. “Parents should know that not all personality changes sparked by medication are negative,” Olivardia advised. “If a child known for his sense of humor seems ‘less funny’ on medication, it could be that the medication is properly inhibiting them. In other words, it’s not that the child is less funny; it’s that they’re more appropriately funny at the right times.”
https://gaty.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-clothes-are-fading
A good example of how very intelligent, seriously well educated, professionals propose ideas so stupid that even a genuinely mentally retarded person wouldn’t. And we trust these people with our future leaders !
I'm English. For Americans I always put Lol..otherwise they think I'm serious.
OMG!
I’ve been waiting for a local federal district judge to declare war on Russia and force little Mikey Johnson to send another 100 billion dollars to the Ukraine. What will be next, deciding troop movements??
I'm very disappointed 😞 in Mike Johnson's lack of action 🎬.
I didn't like him but I was willing to cut him some slack because My Favorite President Trump was standing with him.
Now I am still waiting to see what POTUS saw in him!?!?
He sure can send text to beg for money! I’ve received dozens and dozens, as well as from other politicians with their hands out begging.
I'm waiting for any of men representatives having a Town Hall meetings during their 2 week break.
I only heard of some of the women held meetings‼️⁉️‼️
If I were you, I'd tell them: If you want money 💰 schedule a Town Hall!!!!
I'm waiting with you.
Along with in twin brother Jim Jordan!?!?
He seems very blown by the wind, in my opinion.
Yep!
He needs chap stick for his finger 👉.
These are GREAT. I love every one of them. I have a special fondness for the kangaroo one.
I don't know what all the fuss is about with regards to David Hogg.
I think he's been doing a wonderful job.
Give the boy a raise.
Wink wink.
I honestly DO NOT know how the pair of you keep going.
BUT THANK GOD YOU DO!
I am so cornfused now. Perplexed. If Perplexity fact checked as False a Babylon Bee meme about DemocRats drinking food coloring knowing Babylon Bee makes up things to lampoon, does that mean the story is actually true?
This is why we never want AIs to do our thinking for us.
We are happy to hear from you at any time. "Late" is a relative term, and we can use a good chuckle at any "time".
Enjoyed today’s Funnies (don’t think any irked me either 😉).
I will say, best laugh came with the montage of former computer and various electronics connectors. Sadly, maybe, I have most if not all of them in my tech closet or tech junk drawers. Even in the age of USB-C, HDMI and Bluetooth, etc., I still use a few of these ancient artifacts - mostly of the analog sort. I also have a Zip-Drive, with a dozen or so discs (no, I don’t use it. Anymore) AND a CueCat - If you have to ask… 🤣
I've still got a copy of MS-DOS, just in case, you know, I ever have to reinstall the OS... 🙄
🤔 does that copy also come with its own 3 ½“ disc drive?, or, would that copy of MS-DOS be so historical it came on a 5 ¼“ sloppy floppy? If the latter - d’ya have an appropriate drive, 40 pin ribbon cable and a 40 pin connector?
😂 I’m trying to remember when those 40 pin connectors disappeared. My last full build was Christmas 2014/15 when I built my office main system and a small mini PC for my then wife. Both still run, mine with memory and GPU enhancements, but are now at EOL due to Windows 11. ANYWAY, I don’t recall if I had those connections on that mainboard even 11 years ago.
Jeepers, you make me wanna go down into the bowels of my palatial hut and dig through those boxes and drawers of obsolete goodies just to make sure I have the necessary components to survive the upcoming zombie apocalypse.
I have an original mother board from a MacPlus with the Apple team signatures on it.
and, all the cables shown in the image!
You may be late but this Friday was a terrific group of lol zingers. Thank you!