Easily the funniest skit on Saturday Night Live was Steve Martin goofing on the King Tut exhibition in New York in a song on April 28, 1978. Martin was fearlessly stupid. One line stuck out.
He gave his life for tourism.
I thought of that today as I read Douglas Murray's column today in the New York Post. The first part was about Liz Truss and I may get to that in a later post.
The second part began, "The President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten has been touring Ukraine. Why? Well apparently to discover such insightful facts as this: that the Ukrainian people are 'in a fight for freedom.'"
Murray dared to ask, "Why does Weingarten need to tour Ukraine´s schools? Why doesn´t she spend more time in America´s schools? Perhaps it´s because if she did she might be reminded of what a rotten job she has done in her job.
"This is the woman who ensured American pupils lost years of education during Covid. While she went on about protecting teachers from the virus she seemed to forget about America´s students completely. Not the least of the consequences of that is that the poorest children in America will be behind for the rest of their educations. Indeed for the rest of their lives."
But the AFT is to education what French fries are to France.
Weingarten is a political celebrity because her union raises money and provides volunteers who elect the Fettermans and Bidens who are ruining the country.
Other celebrities who visited Ukraine to show their support include Angelina Jolie and Ben Stiller. Commander-in-Chief Zelensky somehow has the time to pose for grip-and-grin photos with the stars. It promotes his main goal: getting billions in aid from NATO countries. Some of the money he kicks back to the politicians who are emptying their nations' treasuries in the name of freedom.
Ukraine is a grifter state and Zelensky has no shame.
Early in 2020 -- before the war -- his government declared, "Zelenskyy Moves to Boost Tourism and Travel to Ukraine."
(I don't understand the need for an extra Y. May it is for the same reason Jann Wenner added the extra N to his first name: to look cool.)
The press release said, "The most popular non-conventional travel destination in Ukraine is the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, site of the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster. Chornobyl is likely to attract even more visitors in the future thanks to this year’s critically acclaimed HBO television mini-series about the catastrophe. In July, President Zelenskyy issued a decree on the development of the zone."
There is something ghoulish about visiting a site where a government-run nuclear reactor killed 60 people, displaced tens of thousands more and created the largest no-go zone in the world.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine is unacceptable. Zelensky's refusal to seek peace and end the carnage is just as bad.
War is bad for business unless you are a defense contractor or a general seeking a job with a defense contractor after retirement. When your government is raking in billions of dollars without any accountability, you have no incentive to end the carnage.
I want to see on the tombstone of every man killed in this war this epitaph: He gave his life for tourism.
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I believe the name Randi Weingarten translates to ... crabgrass.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is a synonym for f'n cvnt.
DeleteShe totally needs an hard and dry anal insertion of a rigid...Dick does not like her. Don...hit that button!!;
DeleteI think every red state just needs to outlaw teacher's unions. They clearly don't care one bit about the kids they are educating. My experience at the local level is once a teacher gets in a union leadership position they are worthless in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteAs for Wilensky. Why in the world should he want peace now? Russia has more property than they started with, including the Donbass region they invaded in 2014. Now, he does need to know when the time is right for settling this thing. But I think its ot here yet.
As for the bribes, hell Biden's family has (or had) money coming in from both of these countries. I can't get very excited about any of that anymore.
Albert Shanker the prior head of the teacher's unions sumed it up perfectly when he said" he'd care about students when they paid uion dues."
DeleteSchools should not be run by governments. No government employee should be allowed to vote.
All government Unions need to be disbanded/outlawed. They are the major reason for the out of control bureaucracy and spending. Along with them being a money laundering scheme between them and the Democrat party.
DeleteI know what the two ys mean. The first y is a short i sound, sort of like the i in hit, but slightly different. Looks like this (ы) In Russian. This is found in the word Chernobyl. The Roman i you see in Lenin is actually an "ee" sound -- Leneen
ReplyDeleteThe second y is a consonant known as "ee kratkoye". It corresonds roughly to the English y consonant and looks like this in Russian .. й. Many words in Russian end with "ый" and are generally transliterated as "iy" seeing "yy" is unusual
My spell check always comes out Voldemort Zelynski rather than Valdymir. I prefer the former. 2DC
ReplyDeleteLove it. Cracked me up.
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DeleteYou aren’t kidding. I taught at a middle school and our worthless union president was moved to our school to teach part time remedial math classes. A few weeks into his stint, a video was published of absolute chaos, yelling and screaming, kids riding a skateboard, doing tricks and jumps off the whiteboard and for 15 minutes he is sitting at his desk. He finally got up when two students began throwing punches. He cared not a whit for these students. He is now retired, but heavily involved as a liaison between the teachers and the union.
Total death toll from Chernobyl - about 60.
ReplyDelete"From 1986 onward, the total death toll of the disaster has lacked consensus; as peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet and other sources have noted, it remains contested.[1] There is consensus that a total of approximately 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds to months after the disaster, respectively, with 60 in total in the decades since, inclusive of later radiation induced cancer."
You beat me to it. And of the 60 or so who died, less than 10, probably about 5, died from radiation.
DeleteAnd, for completeness, 1 person died of radiation from Fukishima. Maybe. He got leukemia 5 years after the exposure. Probably, but not definitively, related to his direct exposure.
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DeleteNot to piss anyone off, but tens of thousands is the going libtard claim, sounds way worser than 30 or so and never let facts get in the way of the agenda.
All radiation deaths now attributed to global warming or COVID.
DeleteThanks. I will fix.
DeleteAll deaths can be related to a heart atrack....
DeleteYeah if you believe 60 people died as a result of the disaster and the subsequent fallout I have a great time share invest in Malabo for an astute investor like you.
DeleteSomebody's been hitting the accent aigu instead of the apostrophe.
ReplyDeleteUkraine is a grifter state and Zelensky has no shame.
Describes Brandon to a duh.
Whom the gods would destroy they first make insane.
ReplyDeleteAs long as Washington delivers cash, military assistance, and equipment to Ukraine, Kiev will fight its unwinnable war, and Washington’s ruling political class will profit from the transfer of cash to the Pentagon and the U.S. Defense Industrial Base. But Washington, its NATO allies, and Ukrainians will gain nothing of strategic value, while Russia is likely to grow stronger.
- Douglas Macgregor
Clearly you worked on the 7th floor of state before signing that letter stating the Hunter Biden desktop was Russian disinformation.
DeleteTell us when did you advise Brandon to pull out of Afghanistan?
Is there a more detestable union, and union leader, than the AFT and Weingarten?
ReplyDeleteProbably. We just don't hear about them. Union leaders are in it for themselves anyway.
Delete"Ukraine is a grifter state and Zelensky has no shame."
ReplyDeleteThis is BS Don. Putin started the war in 2014, which was planned back in 2008. Ukraine was working on cutting down the corruption in Ukraine, while Putin was making he sure he got a piece of the action in everything. Zelensky is doing exactly what a head of state should be doing when his country is invaded.