The Crazy Years

The 17 year old daughter is from Mali.
The 15 year old son is from Haiti.
Both were adopted by a pro migration politician a few years ago.

The kids are political props.

Apparently the daughter was upset that the son received preferential treatment. This was not the first stabbing incident.

Both teenagers especially the female have a ‘troubled’ past

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Import the Third World, become the Third World.

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No longer the Canal Street where Feynman bought radio parts in the 1930s and Kurzweil computer parts in the 1960s:

CANAL STREET UPDATE: The 9 “street vendors” arrested yesterday were illegals who had a criminal history of:
-Counterfeit
-Drug trafficking
-Forgery
-Possession of drugs
-Robbery
-Assault (per acting ICE Director Todd Lyons)

There was also a group of protesters arrested yesterday… pic.twitter.com/q3FUUPDGYb

— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says\_) October 22, 2025

🚨NEW YORK’S CANAL STREET IS SAFER: 9 illegal aliens arrested have violent rap sheets including robbery, burglary, domestic violence, assaulting law enforcement, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, drug possession, and forgery.

Under President Trump and @Sec_Noem, criminal illegal…

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 22, 2025
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At last! Goodnews!!!

Chinese LSAT preparation companies have violated the security of remotely administered exams for years, allowing Chinese nationals to access stolen questions and take the place of qualified Americans …

When we consider how much damage lawyers have done to the once-mighty US, this sounds like a true win-win for Americans! First, those Chinese citizens who become US-trained lawyers will go back to China and similarly devastate that country. Then the US citizens who fail to get into law school will have to get actual productive jobs instead of becoming over-paid lawyerly sand clogging up the gears of the US economy.

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More likely, the target is the US.

If they pass a bar they can set up a semi-fake law firm where all the work is done in China (same goes for India) and the staff abroad signs the attorney’s name to things.

Completely non-trial practice.

I have encountered a number of such firms. One MO is that it is a one- or two-attorney firm with a fancy web site that lists strangely disjoint practice areas: real estate; probate; intellectual property… All are administrative practices where the work can be done by a mill abroad.

Also likely such a person can get a DEI position where they do not have to do substantive work. Perhaps as an aide to a Democrat politician.

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I am aware of some engineering companies which work that way. There is a front office in the US to handle marketing and client contact, but most of the actual grunt work is done economically back in China with well-qualified staff – and of course the client knows there is no risk of sub-standard DIE staff. It is all done openly, and the US client benefits from getting quality work at a lower price.

As far as legal matters go, we keep on being told that AI is going to replace most of the grunt workers, whether based in the US or India. Whether that will actually happen, time will tell!

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Grain dole is ending and patricians are paying the legions out of their own pockets

It’s that time in the imperial cycle kids

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People don’t seem to understand that companies aren’t charities working on behalf of the employees.

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This might be a more helpful mindset:

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If Amazon didn’t exist, every single person employed at Amazon (not just the 30k workers laid off) would not be working there. Amazon employes about 1.56M worldwide. Another way to look at this is that more than 1.5M are employed by Amazon.

Furthermore, getting rid of those individuals might make Amazon better. When Musk fired ~70% of Twitter employees, the service improved.

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Harvard reports that it is “failing to perform the key functions of grading.”

Its grading practices are “damaging the academic culture of the College.”

“Faculty newly arrived at Harvard are surprised at how leniently our courses are graded.”

Students say academics feel “fake.” pic.twitter.com/YDkQcO0rAu

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) October 27, 2025
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My wife has had cancer for 22 months. All “care” in one health system - Allegheny Health Network (AHN). She had waited for 3 1/2 months for an appointment for diarrhea (so unpredictable and urgent she barely ever leaves home) with a GI physician. Actually the diarrhea is a sequela of C. diff infection which was caused by the GI physicians who did a colonoscopy in the hospital when her cancer first appeared. The cancer was not from the colon (or GI tract) as it turned out. Merely because they had difficulty passing the scope through the sigmoid colon, they prescribed antibiotics on the small chance they tore the mucosa (antibiotics are not part of the usual colonoscopy). I cautioned them that she had a history of severe C. diff. I was in shock from the diagnosis at the time and not capable of being assertive. I should have simply said “NO Antibiotics” - but in my reeling state, I only warned tham of her history. The real reason they prescribed them was to cover their own asses - not because the risk of a tear exceeded that of C. diff recurrence. Sure enough two months of 20X/day diarrhea followed. It became less frequent, but never stopped for more than a few days. So, not trusting them, my wife refused to ask for an appointment until July 2025.

First appointment offered was in mid October. It was changed three times without explanation. Finally, it was canceled on the morning of the scheduled procedure with 3 hours warning. Being a health “care” institution no reason for any of this was given. The new appointment is in three more months. Then, she will likely need a colonoscopy, which will be at very minimum another several months wait.

There’s more. I prevailed on a friend an excellent GI doctor in the other big network in town, UPMC. He will make time to see her immediately when I can get her medical records. This is a routine undertaking. Nonetheless, I’ve been trying to get them for 5 days with only some partial success with radiology images on a disk, which I went and personally picked up this morning. After waiting 3 days for a reply to a routine request on MyChart (AHN’s online portal) the answering message basically said it’s our problem to request records from each individual entity (three hospitals and two outpatient centers), after sending each one a signed release form!! The explanation of how to send the electronic record to the new physician, ran onto to several pages filled with meaningless jargon. It could only be understood by an IT specialist. It was absolutely useless - actually an impediment - to old and/or sick patients! It is irreparably broken.

Even as I am writing this, by phone I’m trying to schedule a carotid ultrasound which my PCP ordered for me. I gave all the required numbers and was then told the diagnosis code is incorrect (the actual diagnosis is correct) so she can’t schedule this absolutely routine procedure. It is MY RESPONSIBILITY to get my doctor to correct it. I politely recounted to her that I have been stymied for 5 days so far simply trying to obtain my wife’s records; that this supposed health system is completely failing to do its most basic duties; that I was done with them.

Sadly and with maximum frustration, I must say this is ABSOLUTELY TYPICAL OF A FAILING NATION AND MOST EVERY ONE OF ITS INSTITUTIONS. Disgusting. Burn it down top to bottom. It can no longer be fixed. Most every day I have to climb back down from levels of frustration that are unbearable. - and that is for ordinary, routine matters. Nothing difficult or esoteric.

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CW – you have my sympathies, and my best wishes for your wife and yourself as you plough through the medical jungle.

Something I have observed over the course of life is that most organizations consist of Islands of Competence in a Sea of Mediocrity. That seems to apply to governments, businesses, institutions, even volunteer organizations. Happy are those who find themselves on an Island of Competence!

An amusing recent tale about my own wife’s experience with cancer treatment in a nearby facility (Christus St. Vincent, in Santa Fe, NM). As part of the chemotherapy, the hospital prescribed an exotic drug which would have to come from a specialist out-of-state pharmacy. Thus she received a phone call from a pharmacy in Tennessee saying they were ready to ship the drug, just waiting for her check for $18,722.

Well, they were dealing with a dyed-in-the-wool shopper. Even faced with death, she baulked at the price. When she mentioned this at the hospital, an administrator tracked her down and had her sign a form. Next thing, my wife got a call from a different out-of-state pharmacy checking her physical address before sending the drug to her by courier.

She asked the obvious question – how much is this going to cost? The answer – $0. Not even a charge for the courier delivery!

The medical industry is a mess, beset with greedy lawyers suing left, right, and center and frightened administrators furiously working to minimize those lawsuits. But it does not look so bad if one is lucky enough to be on an Island of Competence.

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Is JD Vance dressing up as Katie Porter?

pic.twitter.com/TQT7JkRCa8

— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 31, 2025
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What’s missing from this article?

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The sick flier, who was not a New Jersey resident, passed through Terminal B on Oct. 19, between 2:15 pm and 5:30 pm, according to health officials.