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It makes sense, only because you let the far right define it for you.
BTW if you think Prez Musk will let the Americans with Disabilities Act get in his way, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Commented: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 @ 4:06 pm By: Big Bob

This makes sense. The United States has plenty of laws in place to prevent discrimination in hiring practices and to protect the rights of workers without a need for DEI. The Equal Pay Act (EPA), Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and Executive Order 11246 governing Affirmative Action Programs for federal contractors until it was recently rescinded. These programs exist to protect employee rights and rely on merit and selecting the most qualified candidates for a position as opposed to other factors such as race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. DEI changed that trajectory focusing more on an individual's identifying characteristics as opposed to merit in decision making.

Commented: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 @ 3:01 pm By: Dave Hudson

Little Bobbie's reading comprehension is not very good. The DEI issue at Endeavor Air was gender based, not race based.But to a race hustler like Bobbie, everything is about race, even when in reality it is not.

Delta's recent offer of $30,000 compensation to each of the passengers is a further indication that regard pilot error was the cause of the crash.

Commented: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 @ 12:24 pm By: Rino Hunter

The Covid era was another time when the New York Times would only report what was "politically correct" under the government narrative. During that period, the oldest medical journal in the world, the BMJ (British Medical Journal) pusblished an editorial blasting media for refusing to report peer-reviewed scientific studies that disagreed with the government narratives, saying such media were going against both freedom of speech and academic freedom. Similarly when govenrment aligned media like the New York Times refused to acknowledge a peer reviewed study by Danish medical researchers that masks did not work against Covid, the Center for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University blasted the propaganda media for the same reasons.

Commented: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 @ 11:36 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Big Bob, Rainy day funds are dumb butted Republican ideas. Every one that has ever been set up has been spent down to nothing as soon as the Democrats or RINO's got back in control. Government need to borrow for real emergencies like wars, etc. The recent borrowing by Democrats and RINO's is to support welfare and give aways to buy votes. That is why we owe 37 trillion dollars. Bob, here is how it works: It is ok to borrow to buy screw driver but never borrow to buy and ice cream cone. Go figure it out.

Commented: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 @ 10:59 am By: Hood Richardson

Am I hearing that indisputable "facts" are being delivered to us from the far-Left echo chamber? Well, I've given BBob ample time to demonstrate a spirit of learning and growing while engaging in interesting dialog. It is not to be.

What he should have said previously is something like for example, Musk perhaps misread that screwed up SSA data and exaggerated the payments, but still there is almost $72 billion in improper payments from the agency, and DOGE is providing a long overdue service.

But no. Instead, race is brought into conversations that have absolutely nothing to do with race and Musk is falsely portrayed as a South African racist with the insinuation that all white South Africans are racist.

Additionally, when he accuses advocates of a color-blind society of being in some way responsible for slavery and Jim Crow, that is highly insulting.

Going back into the catalog of outright false statements, for example the time when he said there were zero free blacks in the antebellum South when there were hundreds of thousands of them at that time. When it is pointed out that he is kinda way off on the crazy pronouncement he doubles down. There are volumes of those type examples.

Not much constructive can come from dialog with that level of hostility and dishonesty other than just letting him demonstrate the lunacy coming out of the extreme Left in this present-day world in which we live. I suppose we should thank him for that.

Commented: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 @ 10:45 am By: Van Zant

Clearly to the MAGA idiots, it is.
Not firing FAA employees, it's nonwhites in the workforce.

Commented: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 @ 10:17 am By: Big Bob

Bolshevik Bob is delusional, as usual, asserting that the left wing narrative is "fact" and the the propagandists of the MSM should be believed without question. He probably thinks Margaret Brennan is objective and believable. Polling data shows that the majority of Americans have figured out that the MSM speaks with a forked tongue and is very, very politically biased.

The New York Times is as politically biased and full of propaganda as Pravda was in Stalin's day. For objective print media, one has to go across the pond to the UK, although staying in New York, you are much more likely to get true and honest news from the New York Post, one of America's oldest and largest newspapers.

Here is just the latest example of New York Times bias. An academic study at Yale University of New York Times coverage of the Hamas-Israel war has found that the Times coverage was biased in favor of Hamas.
papers.ssrn.com

Commented: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 @ 8:11 am By: Rino Hunter

This is one of the many asinine research studies that our tax dollars are wasted on. And it is cruel to animals on top of that. This is one of the areas where DOGE is needed to prevent waste.

Commented: Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 @ 7:54 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

Now that Fauci has been pardoned and he can no longer "plead the fifth" to Congressional committees, I hope Congress will take the opportunity to pump him for everything he knows about others involved in the shady dealings on Covid and other things.

Commented: Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 @ 6:46 pm By: Rino Hunter

They have been planning this for years. Dr. Ralph S. Baric of North Carolina has been helping Fauci prepare this for awhile. Just look at one of the Patents:
patents.google.com

The spike protein depletes oxygen from the red blood cells through out the body.

Commented: Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 @ 5:29 pm By: Jann

Now the Editorial Page Editor of the Wall Street Journal has blasted Margaret Brennan for "censoring speech she doesn't like" in an article in the WSJ.
www.wsj.com

Commented: Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 @ 1:10 pm By: Rino Hunter