I Blogged A Couple Days Ago About How Burning a Koran Excuses a Muslim Stabbing Someone

10/2/25 BBC:

Two Jewish people have died in a car ramming and stabbing attack at a synagogue in Manchester.

The attack came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish religious calendar, and is being treated by police as a terror incident.

Police say they know the identity of the attacker, who was shot dead by armed officers at the scene.

Four people remain in hospital with serious injuries. Here is what we know so far about the attack.

A nation so focused on keeping its Muslim population peaceful should not find this surprising.  I am so glad Britain does not have those icky guns available to commit mass murder.

Even Inanimate Objects Are Racist

 10/9/24 CU Boulder Today:

After the Civil War, laws mandated racial segregation in public facilities across many U.S. cities, requiring separate bathrooms, schools and waiting rooms for people of color and white people. While the last of this legislation, known as the Jim Crow laws, was overturned in the 1960s, the built environment continues to impose boundaries that make certain races feel unwelcome, said Shawhin Roudbari, an associate professor in CU Boulder’s Program in Environmental Design.

Roudbari has been studying how design elements can perpetuate racial inequality in the U.S., hoping to shed light on systemic issues. 

Currently, he is piloting a study exploring how the space and buildings at U.S. college campuses reinforce racial inequality.

“I first became interested in this area because college campuses are a place where young people come during an identity-forming time in their lives,” Roudbari said. “It’s important to learn how they perceive the space around them in a place they have to live for multiple years.”

CU Boulder Today sat down with Roudbari to discuss his research on campus design, racial inequity in architecture and what inclusive design looks like. 

Many don’t think about that when considering architecture. They might think of accessibility issues, like the presence of ramps for people with disabilities, but not about race. 

But architectural design often reflects social hierarchies, and those hierarchies are frequently tied to the history of Western colonization and racism. 

For example, certain classroom setups, like the auditorium-style lecture hall where students surround a professor, portray the teacher as the center of power standing in the middle of the room. This way of learning was made mainstream by Western colonization, which eliminated enslaved or otherwise colonized Indigenous communities as part of attempts to extract wealth or advance supremacist projects like Manifest Destiny (a belief that American settlers were destined to expand across North America). In other non-Western traditions, learning tends to be more communal and decentralized, where people sit around in a circle and share their expertise.

Do the following phrases mean anything to this idiot: "Indian chief", "Chinese emperor", "caliph"?

In your recent study, you interviewed 20 CU Boulder community members, including white people and people of color, about how they perceived the campus. What did you find? 

One issue that came up a lot is visibility. The campus has a lot of big, open spaces, which is great for some. But others pointed out that on a campus with a predominantly white demographic, people of color stand out more in open spaces.   

Many people of color expressed that they felt a sense of being noticed and watched on this campus, because the environment provided little refuge for them to be less visible or even hide in this predominantly white space.

The big lawn in front of the Norlin Library is one example. Students there enjoy playing games or sun tanning. When most people there are white, and my skin color is a bit different, the contrast becomes enough to make people uncomfortable.   

This would be a problem in classrooms, too, maybe even more so.  Solution is simple: do not attend colleges with white people! Clearly, we left that behind with Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Green spaces like this are common across college campuses in the US. Can you elaborate more on how this landscape can be problematic? 

Manicured lawns on U.S. college campuses have roots in our imagination of what elite schools in Europe look like. We want to build a campus that looks like Oxford University or Cambridge University to convey a superior status. So, even though they seem like neutral design elements, they can make non-white students feel alienated because these spaces weren’t designed for them. The architecture of a campus can send subtle messages about who belongs there and who doesn’t.

Excuse me while I laugh.  I thought it was about creating a peaceful environment.  Does any non-white student walk onto campus and say, "This place looks like Oxford.  They do not want me here."

When I first went to university, I was a lower socioeconomic status white person.  (The people that ran universities then could not imagine that concept.)  Was it different?  Yes.  I was grateful for the opportunity to get an education on my way to becoming a research chemist.  Do black freshmen show up on campus and say, "This place does not want me here."  They may not feel like they fit in.  My first year at USC, I felt the same way.  But I did not let that stop me.  They wanted me there or they would not have admitted me and provided a modest scholarship to make up the difference between the scholarship provided by California and USC's hefty tuition.  (I could have attended UCLA.  But the gap between what California would pay and UCLA's much more modest tuition meant that USC was the cheap alternative.)

If you want to see how deep the rot is in our institutions of higher education, look at what  "architecture racism" finds in news.google.com.

Why Is Higher Education Hated by Many Americans

 9/30/25 Campus Reform:

A Fort Hays State University (FHSU) employee is facing backlash after she labeled White men the “most dangerous animals on the planet” and called Charlie Kirk’s assassination “karma.” 

Nuchelle Chance, an assistant psychology professor at FHSU in Hays, Kansas, posted the controversial statements on social media after Kirk’s death. 

“Me thinks the word ‘karma’ is appropriate. Sad all the way around,” she posted on Facebook under the name “NuNu LA Chance.”

Chance doubled down on her comments in a video she posted to TikTok Sept. 29, stating, “It’s always ironic that the shooters, the perpetrators of these mass incidents, they always tend to fit a certain demographic…White American men…they’re the perpetrators of these crimes…the average person sees that and understands that.”

If she misses "mass shooters" a popular claim in Progressiveland, this Statista report answers that:

Number of mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and August 2025, by shooter's race or ethnicity 

Race of mass shooters reflects the U.S. population

Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole. While a superficial comparison of the statistics seems to suggest African American shooters are over-represented and Latino shooters underrepresented, the fact that the shooter’s race is unclear in around nine percent of cases, along with the different time frames over which these statistics are calculated, means no such conclusions should be drawn. Conversely, looking at the mass shootings in the United States by gender clearly demonstrates that the majority of mass shootings are carried out by men.

Call the people who pay most of the taxes in the U.S. (or who are married to them), “most dangerous animals on the planet.”  That's a winning strategy.  Now if anyone pointed out which sexual and racial group commits the highest per capita murder rate, that would be racism.

Yes, keep demonstrating what taxpayers are funding, and ask why DEI is regarded as just another excuse for ignorant racism.

 

I Ordered Up Two Sheets of Carbon Fiber Composite

3/8" and 1/8" thick. I do not know why the 1/8" came out so pretty but if this is an option that I stumbled on, I will do it again.

UPDATE: There is a gloss finish option that is only slightly more expensive    i will use this for all subsequent parts, although at this point, I may already have all the stock I need.  There is a glossy veneer available that has an adhesive backing.  I might buy some and cut to fit existing parts that I have cut. That 1/8" thick sheet is strong and stiff in a way that shames carbon steel.  There are many parts that I originally intended to be 3/8" but now seem like 1/8" or even 1/16" will do fine: parts that have no real load.

How to Lie By Indirection

 10/1/25 AP:

A vote to end the government shutdown hours after it began failed Wednesday, as Democrats in the Senate held firm to the party’s demands to fund health care subsidies that President Donald Trump and Republicans refuse to provide....

Health care demands: Democrats want the health care subsidies extended now, for Republicans to reverse the Medicaid cuts that were enacted over the summer, and for the White House to promise not to rescind congressional spending. Republicans say there’s still time to negotiate on health care this year, but stopgap funding for the government is the priority. Republican claims that Democrats want to provide free health care to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally are false.

If you click through the "are false" link you get a 10/1/25 AP news story that almost says that. 

But immigrants in the U.S. illegally are not eligible for any federal health care programs, including insurance provided through the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid.

Hospitals do receive Medicaid reimbursements — which would be reduced under Trump’s mega-bill — for emergency care that they are obligated to provide to people who meet other Medicaid eligibility requirements, but do not have an eligible immigration status, according to KFF, a nonprofit health policy research polling and news organization. This spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending between fiscal years 2017 and 2023.

So, not direct aid but hospitals treat illegals knowing they will get reimbursed.  The requirement that all hospitals that have ever received national government assistance must provide emergency medical care is a humane requirement.  At the same time, knowing that you will receive such care has to act as an encouragement to stay here.  That the amount of spending is small really means somewhere below $8.8 billion.  In the larger scheme of things this is not huge.  But we are running a huge deficit.  Americans are fairly sympathetic to those in need.  That includes those in need who have a right to be here.

Chutzpah: Once Defined As Someone Convicted of Murdering His Parents Throws Himself on the Mercy of the Court Because He is an Orphan

 The new definition, from 9/25/25 BizPacReview:

A former nonprofit executive who’s been credibly accused of embezzling money to fund her personal expenses is now suing the same nonprofit for allegedly not properly compensating her for her supposed work.

Kyra Worthy, the former executive director of San Francisco SAFE, filed a $26,000 suit against the nonprofit and its last board chair, Dan Lawson, in court last Friday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The nonprofit San Francisco SAFE, or SF Safe, was considered the nonprofit arm of the local San Francisco Police Department.

In January of last year, SF SAFE fired Worthy after an investigation by the city found that she’d “misused public money on luxury gift boxes, valet parking at an exclusive club, and limo services during a Lake Tahoe trip,” according to The San Francisco Standard.

This led to her termination, as well as the bombshell announcement by SF SAFE that its bank account was devoid of any money, which in turn led to the nonprofit being shut down “for the time being.”

 After her termination, Worthy immediately began demanding her final paycheck from the “very beginning,” according to Lawson.

Her former underlings are appalled at the fact that she’s filed suit. One of them told the Chronicle that they too never received their final paycheck, nor were they ever paid out for unused sick and vacation time.

But the underlings aren’t appalled at the nonprofit — they’re appalled by Worthy, the woman pretty much responsible for bankrupting SF SAFE with her selfish actions, now demanding the nonprofit pay her.

Speaking of her selfish actions, Worthy is also facing dozens of felonies for stealing from SF SAFE and misusing public funds. She was formally arrested on July 30, 2024.

 

 

Voter Fraud is A Fantasy

10/1/25 Federalist shows the voter status record for the Des Moines School District Superintendent.   He is an illegal alien with a criminal record.  He is listed as an active voter in Maryland--a state he has not lived in for many years.

Any guess on his party affiliation?

Intersectionality Across Sex and Ableness

 A couple years old when progressive insanity was peaking.  11/1/22 Reduxx: Feminist News & Opinion:

A man in Norway is sparking outrage on social media after he was sympathetically interviewed about his decision to begin identifying as a disabled woman.

On October 28, Good Morning Norway (God Morgen Norge, GMN) aired an interview with Jørund Viktoria Alme, 53, an able-bodied male who now identifies as a disabled woman. In the interview, Alme stated that he had always wished he had been born a woman who was paralyzed from the waist down.

 Will some progressive please explain why this is not sick?  Not intersectionality but madness?

Alme, a senior credit analyst for Handelsbanken in Oslo, has received positive coverage in Norwegian media since he first announced his trans-disability publicly on Facebook in 2020. He has given several interviews, often alongside his wife, Agnes Mjålseth.

Despite having no physical handicaps, Alme currently utilizes a wheelchair “almost all the time.”

In addition to gender dysphoria, Alme claims to have a Body Integrity Disorder (BID), citing a “dissonance” between how he perceives himself and how his body functions. “I have struggled with this every day my whole life,” Alme told Vi, a Norwegian outlet, earlier this year.

“It is a cognitive dissonance: in the same way that I experience being a woman in a man’s body, I experience that I should have been paralyzed from the waist down. This is not a desire to be a burden on society. It is about the wheelchair being an aid for me to function in everyday life, both privately and at work,” Alme stated.

 

 

 

The Future of America?

 9/23/25 BBC:

A Muslim man who attacked someone burning a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been spared jail.

Moussa Kadri, 59, saw Hamit Coskun setting alight the text and shouted: "I'm going to kill you" before slashing at him with a knife.

He later told police he was protecting his religion, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Judge Adam Hiddleston handed Kadri a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.

The incidents happened on 13 February in Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, when Coskun, 51, shouted "Islam is religion of terrorism" and "Quran is burning".

Coskun, who is half Kurdish and half Armenian, travelled from his home in the Midlands and set fire to the Koran at about 14:00 GMT, prosecutors previously said.

Kadri approached and asked Coskun why he was burning it.

Coskun could be heard in footage making a reference to "terrorists", and Kadri swore, called him "an idiot" and said "one sec, I'm coming back".

Kadri later returned holding a knife and slashed at Coskun, the court heard.

The judge said that the way Kadri lost his temper was "disgraceful" and that the "use of blades is a curse on our community".

Kadri said to Coskun: "Burning the Quran? It's my religion, you don't burn the Quran."

He later told police: "I protect my religion."

Greg Unwin, defending, said: "This was a response to a very unusual situation that Mr Kadri has demonstrated regret and remorse for.

"His reaction was in the heat of the moment to what he perceived was a deeply offensive act on a holy book."

 One might wonder if this guy belongs in civilized society.  He was not carrying the knife and responded in the heat of the moment.  He left and returned with the knife.  What about the victim?

Coskun was convicted at Westminster Magistrates' Court in June of a religiously aggravated public order offence.

An appeal was lodged with the Crown Court.

Coskun had argued that his criticism was of Islam in general rather than its followers, but District Judge John McGarva said he could not accept this, finding that Coskun's actions were "highly provocative" and that he was "motivated at least in part by a hatred of Muslims".

His case prompted campaigners and some politicians to say it was an attempt to bring back blasphemy law, but the government has said there are no blasphemy laws in England nor are there any plans to introduce any.

 Technically, this is not a blasphemy law but that a distinctio without a difference.

Burning something that is regarded as holy (like a cross, Bible, or American flag) is rude and unpersuasive.  Telling someone who engaged in a premeditated knife attack that his actions are understandable and not deserving of segregation from civilization is a sign of a society that is going down.