True Dough
True Dough's JournalAn unconventional listing, but if you like skylights then this might be for you...
Montana living. Big sky country. But the price tag is high. And it does have an industrial feel to it other than the upstairs. Definitely unusual. More pics at the link below.
https://www.zillow.com/homes/19-Badger-Rd,-Ennis,-MT-59729_rb/2080802735_zpid/
Affirmative action: two sides of the coin
A few tweety reactions to SCOTUS's ruling yesterday. Our sometimes ally George Conway (still a conservative), cited a public opinion poll that shows Americans of different ethnicities rejecting affirmative action in college and university admissions:
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1674526039542726656
I like this response from George Takei:
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1674701935436283904
George Takei
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These numbers are similar to how groups once opposed same-sex marriage. Polls don't make things right, and pointing to them doesn't win legal arguments.
And, really, the bottom line for me in this divisive topic is the numbers, which Michael Steele an Joyce Vance make clear are still underwhelming (even with affirmative action) when it comes to post-secondary enrollment:
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1674713527464910849
These are the numbers. Even with affirmative action, roughly 6% of students. The numbers tell the story. Just like they did with voting rights. SCOTUS reverses the progress we are only beginning to make when it ignores them.
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Michael Steele
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Affirmative Action asks schools to consider race as A factor in student admissions, so Black student population at elite institutions must be AMAZING!
Well...
Harvard 6.6%
Yale 6.5%
Brown 7.0%
Princeton 4.7%
Columbia 5.1%
Cornell 5.0%
Share a meal with one raccoon? Fine. A second raccoon? No way!
https://twitter.com/Gabriele_Corno/status/1673952472623198208If you balk the balk...
It is a cruddy way to lose a ball game, but the umps shouldn't be picking and choosing occasions to enforce the rules. Agreed?
Astros' pitcher Ryne Stanek doesn't seem to see it that way:
"The move is beyond minor," he said. "I think that's a pretty drastic call to make considering that play right there the umpire decided the game."
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37911560/astros-fall-dodgers-balk-call
I guess you could categorize this one as a "fixer upper'
More heartwarming photos from this home in Stanwood, WA, at the link below. Bring a hammer and some saws. Maybe a demolition crew! It's just a mere quarter-million bucks, BTW!
https://www.zillow.com/homes/32218-83rd-Drive-NW,-Stanwood,-WA-98292_rb/38544902_zpid/
Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul and Chuck Grassley team up in effort to audit the Pentagon
Do you support this initiative or not, despite the questionable players involved...
WASHINGTON, June 21 As the recent debt ceiling deal increased military spending to $886 billion for fiscal year 2024, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), today introduced legislation that would require the Department of Defense (DOD) to finally pass a full, independent audit in fiscal year 2024. If enacted, the Audit the Pentagon Act of 2023 would require any DOD component that fails to complete a clean audit opinion to return 1 percent of its budget to the Treasury for deficit reduction.
The Pentagon and the military industrial complex have been plagued by a massive amount of waste, fraud, and financial mismanagement for decades. That is absolutely unacceptable, said Sanders. If we are serious about spending taxpayer dollars wisely and effectively, we have got to end the absurdity of the Pentagon being the only agency in the federal government that has never passed an independent audit.
From buying $14,000 toilet seats to losing track of warehouses full of spare parts, the Department of Defense has been plagued by wasteful spending for decades. Every dollar the Pentagon squanders is a dollar not used to support service members, bolster national security or strengthen military readiness, Grassley said. The Department of Defense should have to meet the same annual auditing standards as every other agency.
Taxpayers cant keep writing blank checks they deserve long-overdue transparency from the Pentagon about wasteful defense spending, Wyden said. If the Department of Defense cannot conduct a clean audit, as required by law, Congress should impose tough financial consequences to hold the Pentagon accountable for mismanaging taxpayer money.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-grassley-and-colleagues-make-bipartisan-push-to-audit-the-pentagon-and-end-wasteful-spending/
Coast Guard tracks down and boards drug-running submarine
It takes intestinal fortitude to do this job.
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1671201253479817217
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