Things are getting ugly out there. My favorite story that I haven’t written about yet is the New York City school that has kicked out the students so it can house illegal immigrants. The kids will he schooling over Zoom—and we all know how well that works. Guess how the MSM is reporting it, if it is reporting it at all? Media Matters called the play: “Right-wing media melt down over NYC using a public high school to shelter migrants overnight ” during a winter storm. “Republicans pounce!”
Oh…that’s lovely “Emily Pellegrini” above, the sensational digital model created with the assistance on an AI program. After just four months on Instagram, she has nearly 150,000 fans and is well on her way to being a web influencer. I think Natalie Portman should sue, especially since Emily may be a better actress than she is.
But I digress. See if you can find some of the beauty in ethics today.
Ethics Alarms 
Who is wrong here? Is anybody right?
Short explanation:
1. Kid storms the basketball court “after” a win by the home team. (Idiot)
2. In a banana suit. (points for style)
3. The game was not over, as .1 seconds remained on the clock. (Premature idiot)
4. Police arrest banana man. (a ticket or citation was too lenient?)
5. Bail is set. (Don’t know if a judge set bail, or if it was set administratively; a judge could have ROR’d him (release on own recognizance)).
6. Fans take pity and pay his bail. (Idiot enablers?)
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3499662/legendary.-hero.-free.-the-banana-man-who-got-arrested-at-mississippi-states-game-has-been-released-from-jail-won-over-americas-heart
-Jut
1. Idiot, typical juvenile college doofus behavior.
2. I’m just glad he was clothed.
3. Time on the clock means the game wasn’t over, although the winner had in fact been determined. You can’t score 4+ points in .1 seconds.
4. The police likely enforced whatever protocols the school had put in place for dealing with someone interfering with the game. It was (IMHO) nuts to arrest him; just escort him from the court and sit him down unless he is forcibly resisting. A citation would have certainly sufficed. No arrest would have made 5 and 6 moot.
5. I’m not familiar with their bail procedures, can’t comment knowledgeably.
6. Not necessarily idiots, but wrong-headed. Their hearts might have been in the right place, but such behavior shouldn’t be rewarded.
Jim Hodgson,
It appears my Number 6 was ambiguous. It was not that they were idiots who enabled people, but that they enabled an idiot (or serve to enable future idiots by demonstrating that such behavior will not have consequences).
So, you have clarified the issue. Wrong-headed? Compassionate toward the mentally challenged? Unethical?
Does anyone here come out looking good?
-Jut
You know there is something terribly wrong in Mayberry when the boundaries of a basketball court are more strictly enforced than our southern border.
Certainly no one could claim this as their finest hour!
Stoopid… He should have made the smart play.
When conducting an op such as this, make sure you have at least one white banana, one black banana and one illegal banana.
Nomination for Most Unethical Mayor of 2023: Tiffany Henyard of Dolton, Il.
Miss Henyard is the first female black mayor of Henyard. So far, she has caused quite a stir. The allegations include the following.
(1) Travelling around the country first class to places like Las Vegas and racking up large bills on the city dime.
(2) Hiring police officers to her 24/7 security detail and payiin them up to 22 hours/day, 7 days/week. Officers have made up to $6500/week.
(3) The now loyal police are shaking down the citizens. A car show at a public park was cancelled by the police, but Henyard told the organizer it could go forward if it were moved to her property. It is alleged that the police routinely park outside businesses that have criticized her and watch the business all day to intimidate the owners.
(4) She passed a law that if she is reelected, the salary for the job stays at $224,000/year, but if anyone else holds the position, the salary drops to $25,000. This has kept anyone from running against her.
(5) They tried to recall her, but when you get enough signatures to recall the government, the government gets to hold the recall election. So, when the government holds the recall election improperly and is recalled, the government can sue itself for doing its job wrong and a judge will hold that the government isn’t recalled after all because they did something illegal. That’s right, the judge didn’t order a new election, just invalidated the recall.
This might have something to do with the fact that no one informed the public that she had fraud convictions until after she was elected.
So, get out the popcorn on this one.
When people don’t pay attention to who they are electing, they frequently get the government they deserve. The 90+ percent minority population elected her, and I hope they enjoy the logical and natural consequences of their actions. It indeed might be entertaining to watch. As the young people might say, “It sucks to be them.”
Somebody needs to suck it up and run against her, $25K salary or not. Of course, based on what you’ve written, the police will probably stake out campaign headquarters and follow the opposition candidate around.
No doubt, Sheriff Roscoe will be more than willing to kick out a tail light here and there for good measure.
…but just you remember, President Trump is the existential threat to democracy.
I’m just going to write it…
Ms. Pellegrini should be charged with racketeering. The evidence is overwhelming.
I’m confused. How is an AI influencer guilty of racketeering, or do you believe that all influencers are racketeers and this only the more so because she isn’t even real?
I believe there is a double-entendre that you are missing.
RACKeteering?
Probably too low-brow for you to get.
I got it right away.
-Jut
Well I feel sheepish…
I will defend myself by stating that where I’m from, racks are typically found on the male of the species, and we only count the smaller side. (The rack on one of my step dad’s bull elks is VERY impressive.)
I should have gotten that joke. I had been looking up definitions of racketeering and AI programming ethics to answer this quandry, so you have saved me from more wasted time. Thank you for saving me from my own idiocy today.
I pulled one over on Sarah B. Hell hath frozen over…
As for the “low-brow” comment from Jut, well, I probably had that coming.
Don’t fret, Sarah B. I missed the reference, too.
jvb
Emily Pellegrini, known for the infamous Internet video “Two Girls, 27 Fingers”.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/20/economy/2020-traffic-deaths-black-americans/index.html
Mainstream media finds a widening racial disparity and the cause is “racism, racism, racism”… But the infrastructure didn’t change… Whuhan flu lockdowns worsened the negative effects of the infrastructure?
I first found this trend posted by some social analytics twitter users, but they claimed the trend beginning with the BLM and anti-police rhetoric, concluding that fewer officers and far less enforcement and respect for it in the affected communities resulted in higher recklessness.
Who’s right?
Wallphone, regarding your question Who’s right? I don’t know since the only source data provided is from the CNN article. Therefore, I will only comment on the CNN article. When reading reports like this, I always keep in mind Mark Twain’s quote “Figures don’t lie but liars figure”.
Reviewing the article and some of the supporting documentation, I conclude the reporters are purposely misleading readers, they are incompetent idiots or both. I looked at the facts and spin and what was reported and what wasn’t.
To begin, the title of the CNN report is a highly unethical lie. “Traffic deaths jump for Black Americans who couldn’t afford to stay home during Covid”. The author knows most people don’t read much beyond the title. If you drill down to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data via the links provided in the CNN article, you get a much different picture. The NHTSA report concludes with the following paragraph:
“NHTSA’s research suggests that throughout the national public health emergency and associated lockdowns, driving patterns and behaviors changed significantly, and that drivers who remained on the roads engaged in more risky behavior, including speeding, failing to wear seat belts, and driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Traffic data indicates that average speeds increased throughout the year, and examples of extreme speeds became more common, while the evidence also shows that fewer people involved in crashes used their seat belts.”
The CNN article further states:
“When broken down along racial lines, white pedestrian deaths grew 4%, American Indian fatalities grew 11%, and Asian and Pacific Islander deaths declined 29%. But NHTSA found the largest increase in deaths — 23% — among Black people in what appears to be a stark illustration of which populations could and could not afford to stay home throughout the pandemic.”
This is a serious misstatement. The percentages are correct for racial groups, but it is for all causes, not just pedestrian deaths as stated. The NHTSA makes no correlation between deaths by race and causation.
My read of the CNN report and the NHTSA report is that the increase in traffic deaths is due to personal choice and not racism. There are more inaccuracies, but it is not worth further comment.
Believe it or not, I skipped over two other news sources because they were more racially unhinged than CNN on the topic.
Skipping all news sources, finally found something resembling data-supported conclusions: https://www.nber.org/papers/w30636
CNN blatantly lied. Blacks aren’t affected more because they are walking more, they’re driving more. Recent economic growth in the demographic means more driving by black individuals. The other contributing piece is higher rates of impaired driving.
We had a Brown Christmas in these here parts, which, along with the 2nd warmest recorded Christmas Eve and December overall, got the local/regional Global Warming chorus slobbering furiously.
FF to today: 11″/~28 cms of snow so far this week, with another ~ foot/>30 cms falling as I type. The forecast high…THE HIGH!…for Sunday through Tuesday is 0°F/-17.8°C.
Glass half full? The clucking has mysteriously tapered off.
Anywho, it seems like déjà vu all over again, am I right:
(bolds/caps mine throughout)
Dr. David Viner, Senior Research Scientist/ Climate Research Unit (CRU)-East Anglia University, U.K. (of ClimateGate infame) in March 2000: ”WITHIN A VERY FEW YEARS winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. CHILDREN JUST AREN’T GOING TO KNOW WHAT SNOW IS.”
Mother Gaia must’ve taken Think Of The Children to heart, because she dialed up 5 of the 6 snowiest U.S. winters ever recorded (’03, ’08, ’10, ’11, ’13) shortly thereafter.
“In 2001 global warming meant fewer major snowstorms with SOME SCIENTISTS EVEN PREDICTING THE END OF SNOW, but IN 2015 GLOBAL WARMING MEANS MORE MAJOR SNOWSTORMS in 2015”
Huh?
“Some scientists are now saying global temperature rises will lead to more massive snowstorms like the one that covered Boston in several feet of snow this week (mid March 2018) — A COMPLETE TURNAROUND FROM WHAT CLIMATE SCIENTISTS WERE SAYING JUST A FEW YEARS AGO.
“In 2001, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC) reported that ‘milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms.’
“The IPCC doubled down on this claim in 2007, saying that ‘a growing number of case studies of larger settlements indicate that climate change is likely to increase heat stress in summers while reducing cold-weather stresses in winter.’ ”
So Chicken Little was against more snow before they were for it?
“It’s Tough To Make Predictions, Especially About The Future.” Y. Berra
PWS
Paul, it’s STILL snowing here in central Iowa. We got 10 or 11 inches of snow on Tuesday and this snow, which started late last night, has dumped more than a foot of snow. We might see 14-15 inches from this. Then, like you, we’ll be in the deep freeze. -4 for the high on Sunday, -5 on Monday.
Speaking of climate change, I wonder if you saw Frances Menton’s recent piece on Tony Heller’s new software that shows precisely how temperature data has been manipulated to support the climate-change agenda. It’s pretty fascinating.
Stay safe and warm!!
Barbara Lee posted this on Threads.
https://www.threads.net/@zc2125034/post/C16SsQ8ONcl
Given this, is there really a duty to “do the whole Animatrix blot out the sun thing”, as a replier mentioned?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12935725/Donald-Trump-slammed-mocking-John-McCains-arm-injury-got-prisoner-war-Vietnam-six-years-late-senators-daughter-brands-ex-president-piece-s.html
There is no way Trump could have run for the Republican nomination in 2008 or 2012, mock the injuries McCain received during the Vietnam War, and not have it considered as anything except the biggest blunder in any election (not just presidential) campaign in U.S. history. As a matter of fact, when Trump said something similar about McCain in 2015, pretty much everyone assumed this, that Trump effectively ended his presidential campaign.
So what changed between 2012 and 2016?
Okay, going to start a discussion her for the first time, Vivek Ramaswamy.
To me this candidate seems to be what we need. He is blunt, willing to speak to the public in a manner that no other politicians are willing to do. He isn’t peaking to Foreign interests he is addressing the US citizens, so I don’t really need him to be “Presidential”. Welcome to the 21st century , The Media is no longer a useful channel of communication, He is able to literally be in our living rooms at his and our choice.
Vitaeus
ESPN Scandal: Winning Emmys with Fake Names
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/11/media/espn-returning-emmys-submitted-under-fake-names/index.html
I wonder if the Fake Names had the right skin color and private parts….
I was listening to an interview discussing the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Naturally, METI (messaging to extraterrestrial intelligences) was also a subject. The interviewee was adamant that METI was, amongst other things, unethical. Is he correct? Is sending a message into space with the intention it being received by potential alien civilizations unethical? The interviewee believed that the only ethical way to send such a message was after thorough deliberation by the United Nations.