By the time you comment here (on what ever ethics matters move you), James Woods is like to have been nominated as Secretary of Transportation, and Hulk Hogan as Secretary of Commerce. Interesting times….
Jerry Lee Lewis was amazing, wasn’t he?
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Confronting My Biases, Episode 15: Pete Hegseth’s Tats (Corrected and Revised)
I just saw the photo above on the web.
I’m sorry, I know its a generational thing, I know, I know.
But I cannot stop myself from believing that anyone who gets themselves tattooed like that is an idiot. I always will.
The idea of the United States having the Secretary of Defense with those tattoos is almost too jarring for me to bear. Some are writing that the chest tattoo is a white supremacy symbol. Is it?
This is a big correction: I was hit with two equivalent photos claiming that was Matt Gaetz, and I posted this originally about the ex-Congressman. Gaetz and Hegseth do look a little alike.
For some reason, the idea of an Attorney General being self-branded like that bothers me a lot more than having a Secretary of Defense with them underneath his suit. Hegseth fought “infidels” in the Middle East. Heck, maybe those tattoos will endear him to the military. You know, like if he had a tattoo reading, “Indiannapolis.”
Ethics Alarms regrets the error (kudos to Jg in SF for flagging it.
But the bias remains.
And I’m afraid to think about what Gaetz’s tats look like...
Oh Look! Now That The Axis Has Been Slapped Down By A Majority In An Election, The Washington Post Is Factchecking Nancy Pelosi About Trump!
Wait, I thought it was Donald Trump who lied all the time?
I pay as little attention to Nancy Pelosi as possible, and missed her ridiculous statement after the election, “I don’t think we were clear enough by saying fewer people came in under President Joe Biden than came under Donald Trump.” The Deranged , currently trying to get through life with their heads exploding constantly, will believe just about anything Democrats say in denial of their accountability for Harris’s election faceplant (after all, Trump voters are all racist, sexist, ignorant garbage), and dozens of lies were spread on their behalf during the campaign without factcheckers raising an eyebrow.
But that Pelosi nonsense was apparently too much. It was too much even after the usual “He/She didn’t say what she said or if she did she meant something else” squad, which reliably follows a Democrat’s whopper as reliably as the little man with mustache, the broom and the trash can who followed the Parade of History that began the “Mr. Peabody” segments on “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” rushed to rescue the ex-Speaker. She didn’t mean illegal border-crossers, she mean those deported,” they said. Well, not deported, maybe, but arrested.
Stay Classy, Secret Service!
No wonder Trump has nearly been assassinated twice.
Koryeah Dwanyen, in her self-published book “Undercover Heartbreak: A Memoir of Trust and Trauma”revelas that she succumbed to the alluring pick-up line “Let’s have sex in Michelle Obama’s bathroom!” and travelled to Hawaii with a Secret Service agent she calls“Dale.” “No one will know. If anything, I’m the one who could get in trouble,” she quotes Dale in her memoir. “Like a mile-high club!” he allegedly told her.
And she did have sex in the former First Lady’s bathroom. The story has been confirmed by the Secret Service, according to ABC News. (“Dale” is now otherwise employed.) Meanwhile, Dwanyen says she submitted to his bathroom fantasy because she was in love with the agent. She discovered later that he was married.
Imagine that! Someone assigned to protect a former First Lady and who secretly uses her bathroom as a secret love den would lie. What is the world coming to?
After “Dale” came clean about his marital status, bathroom buddy Koryeah became patriotic and reported the agent to his superiors. He also had revealed classified information to her.
I think Trump should appoint Stormy Daniels to run the Secret Service.
A Super Nelson For These Smug, Obnoxious, Arrogant People Made Stupid and Unbearable By Bias
I can’t resist. I’m sorry. It’s unprofessional of me. But I am so sick of reading the whining, caterwauling, insults and ignorance on my Facebook feed, and this video hit me at exactly the wrong time.
It speaks for itself…
Pssst! MSNBC! Loyalty Is An Ethical Value…
Waiting for my oven to preheat, I watched a bit of MSNBC this afternoon. They were discussing Trump’s early appointments, and the talking heads and panelists must have used the term “loyal” close to a hundred times, all with the tone of voice one would expect uttering the word, “diseased.” The fact that Trump’s appointments suggest that he is only interested in departments heads and advisors who will be “loyal” to him and dedicated to advancing his agenda was relayed to the MSNBC audience as if the panel had discovered that all the individuals named so far are lizard people. Because, as we all know, other Presidents have reveled in appointing office holders who hated their guts.
The Academic Cheating Problem: It’s Not Just About Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a troubling, if not unexpected report, “Cheating Has Become Normal: Faculty members are overwhelmed, and the solutions aren’t clear.” It begins with an anecdote that would be funny if it weren’t so apocalyptic. A professor caught a student cheating, and warned him that the next time this happened, he would be failed in the course. The student wrote an abject apology, full of contrition and assurances. Then his next assignment was found to be composed by an AI bot. Then, just for giggles, the prof asked the same bot to compose a letter of apology for a student who had been caught cheating. The bot produced exactly the apology the student had submitted, word for word.
From the article:
Comment of the Day: “Wait, WHAT??? Unethical Quote of the Month: NPR CEO Katherine Maher”
Let me begin by thanking commenter Edward for tracking down the source of the Maher quote, which at the time I posted I could not track, and my source, Elon Musk, didn’t help any by not bothering to include it in his post. It is the Ted Talk above, made when Maher was CEO at Wikipedia.
Not to leave you in any unnecessary suspense, I hate her talk with the fury of a thousand typhoons. Any time I hear the “you have your truth and I have mine” New Age blather, I tune out, spit three times, and have a stiff drink. It is a cornerstone of woke ideology and subjective ethics, and I say to hell with it.
Nonetheless, Extradimensional Cephalopod does his usual meticulously fair and open-minded response, this time to my question of whether the statement, “I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done,” could be justified. He does as good a job as I can imagine anyone doing, but I’m not buying. Before realizing I should post this as a COTD, I replied to EC’s post on the original essay’s thread; I’ll re-post it following his (its?) Comment of the Day on the post, “Wait, WHAT??? Unethical Quote of the Month: NPR CEO Katherine Maher”…
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“…what possible context could justify it?”
I can’t guarantee that Maher meant what she said in a benign sense, but such a sense does indeed exist.
Allow me to rephrase the statement in question:
Before: “I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”
After: “I think our obsession with forcing everyone to agree with our interpretations of the available evidence interfered with us finding enough relevant points of agreement that we could establish mutually acceptable approaches on important issues.”
The confusion lies in the conflation of “truth” to mean three different things:
Wait, WHAT??? Unethical Quote of the Month: NPR CEO Katherine Maher
“I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”
—NPR CEO Katherine Maher
Elon Musk posted the video of Maher saying this…
I can’t find the date of that speech or the context of the quote, but what possible context could justify it? If that isn’t pure Big Brother, what is? “Can’t let the truth get in the way of progress!” This is the totalitarian mindset that (I hope) was one of the things enough voters rejected a week ago. This is the ends justifies the means ideology embraced by the Axis of Unethical Conduct, including the news media that lied, dissembled, covered up and broadcast false narratives during the campaign and, of course, long before.
If You Want To Get Depressed Fast, Visit “Level,” Home of Black Paranoia, Self-Pity and Anti-White Racism
Well that was a mistake.
Medium, the pay-walled website for bloggers who don’t produce enough content for a blog of their own, sent me an alert about a new article called “When I Learned My White Friends Didn’t Care About Me” by someone named L.G. Ware. Well, foolishly, I decided to try to read it (I have a limited subscription to “Medium,” I don’t remember why.) When I realized the link was just a tease to get me to pay, I did a little checking around the web and found another version of post on a website I had happily been una-WARE-of before (I’m 11-years-old before my first cup of coffee) called Level. Not only was I presented with L.G.’s whining about how he knows white American hate blacks because they voted for Trump, I was introduced to many black writers who are under the same crippling (for them and for the nation) delusion.
Perusing the site is like having a window on what deliberate racial division-aimed rhetoric from the Left has done to the mind of black America, propelling race relations backwards. It isn’t just that you see either: the level of objective critical thinking these assorted essays—all aimed at black readers: less likely to be challenged that way—reveal also tells us much about how our politicized education system has handicapped large chunks of the public. “All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye” wrote a wise man, but he was white, so I guess nobody reads him any more. The entire Level site is metaphorically yellow. Let’s peruse it a bit, shall we?
L.G. has several posts there, but “The Day My White Friends Betrayed Me” is representative. This was obviously the post his Medium screed was adapted from. Some quotes…
