Posted on 04/07/2025 8:10:51 AM PDT by george76
The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. IOW the IRS rule is only acceptable if the target isn’t leftist.
Imagine if today IRS rules that Harvard’s DEI policies render it taxable. By 4 PM an Obama-appointed judge will file an injunction against the college losing its exempt status. The appeals panel will concur 2-1. SCOTUS will declare the regulation unconsitutional 5-4, with Roberts and Barrett joining the Three Amigas.
We cannot lawfare the enemy. We can only decimate it by any nonviolent means necessary, unless it becomes violent.
Did the article ever get to the point? Random thoughts. I guess schools don’t teach writing anymore and how to organize a paper. You know, state the point then write supporting evidence.
You don’t talk to programmers much. LOL
This. If you cant dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bull$h1t.
*** If you cant dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bull$h1t.***
Sounds just like Kamalala ding dong.
The Congress can remove an Article III judge for misconduct. The statute provides for it.
If the Congress does not remove such judge(s) for misconduct, is the Congress complicit?
I wonder how many Article III or SCOTUS judges are Ivy league alums?
I usually skip articles where the author can’t be bothered to state up front what the article is about.
Should have started with this:
“IRS Revenue Ruling 71-447 said that private schools with racially discriminatory policies did not qualify for tax-exempt status.
Bob Jones University challenged this. It had policies prohibiting interracial dating and marriage among students, which the IRS deemed racially discriminatory. The IRS revoked the university’s tax-exempt status in 1976. The Supreme Court upheld the IRS’s decision in an 8-1 ruling, finding that the government’s interest in eradicating racial discrimination in education outweighed the school’s religious objections.
So... easy way to yank tax exempt status from most universities. Most still practice racial discrimination in hiring, admissions, and disparate treatment of students.”
YAY! to think that bastions of racist discrimination are actually tax-exempt!? Like Harvard, Columbia, Stanford? You gotta be KIDDING!? We’re, in effect, paying (through these immense “tax subsidies”) for this kind of anti-American krap!?
NO WAY! Yank the tax exemption for any college that is discriminating in admissions, hiring, promotions, or financial aid.
Plan B is a full IRS audit—every year—for all universities.
The process would be the punishment—and the universities are our sworn enemies.
I worked on a special challenge related to a proposal. A "big data" data science challenge. I was tagged up with a real Python aficionado. He was well acquainted with all the latest features released from the working groups. The Python code that he produced was leveraging all the latest functional programming constructs. It was so elegant that only he could understand it. FP constructs often make code clearer by composition instead of strict imperative constructs. There was no such clarity in this code. Lots of obscure "magic". I like Python. I use it often, but not like that.
My favorite CS instructor was big about putting comments into code. Literally about 70% of the text in my code were/are comments. (I’m quasi-retired.) As I think about a new procedure/class/function/etc. I type out what I’m thinking at the top as part of my design process. Including the goals I’m trying to achieve and the logical steps I’m doing to achieve those goals. That’s all in a large comment block at the top.
BTTT
I was taught the same thing. I am way past the code writing days. but when I dabble with websites I always include What, Why and How comments.
The same with my program to import my solar telemetry data from my inverters into a DB and query the stew out of it to see if I can find my problem situations. (i.e. should I invest more into insulation so save on winter night time cold weather or is my power consumption more centered around how much I drive our EV even in rainy weather)
Make Harvard, MIT, Stanford, etc. great again! No more DEI, no more “Africana Studies”, hire the best and brightest faculty, admit the best and brightest students, no more Palestinian-supporting Third Worlders!
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