From Zillow:
Zillow Home Value and Home Sales Forecast (March 2024)
Zillow’s home value forecast calls for 1.9% growth over 2024 – slower than long-term norms but a welcome slowdown for first-time buyers compared to the rapid appreciation seen over the pandemic. This is an upward revision from last month’s outlook, which projected growth of 0.9%. With interest rates still elevated, the modest upward revision is mostly the result of a slowdown in the growth of new for-sale listings. After rising at an annual pace of 21% in February, the year-over-year increase in new listings eased in March to just 4%, indicating that the market remains quite tight for would-be homebuyers. It remains to be seen how new listings will fare in April – the Easter holiday falling in March and the fact that February was a leap year are likely clouding the broader picture.
Zillow’s expectation for home sales was revised slightly downward this month as elevated mortgage rates continue to limit housing demand and sales volume. Zillow’s forecast now calls for 4.06 million existing home sales in 2024, slightly below both 2023’s level of 4.09 million and the previous forecast of 4.1 million existing home sales this year. Even after a better-than-expected sales count reading in February, leading indicators of home sales in the coming months suggest continued softness.
(For the NY Metro Market specifically)
Frist
In the past two days, the Biden-Harris administration has announced a wide range of new rules to protect ordinary Americans.
Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the administration has finalized two new rules affecting patients in nursing homes and receiving home care, as well as the workers who care for them. The first sets minimum staffing requirements for facilities funded by Medicare and Medicaid, and the second concerns how home healthcare companies account for Medicaid funding.
In a speech at the Hmong Cultural and Community Agency in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Harris noted the extraordinary value of healthcare workers. She also explained that about 1.2 million Americans live in federally funded nursing homes, which make up about four fifths of the nursing homes in the country. But the majority of those homes—about 75% of them—are understaffed. This is dangerous and isolating for patients and demoralizing for workers, who have high rates of burnout and turnover.
Now, nursing homes that receive federal funding will have to provide at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident every day, less than the 4.1 hours the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services advocate but enough to require the hiring of about 12,000 registered nurses and 77,000 aides, at an annual cost of almost $7 billion.
Consumer organizations and labor unions pushed for the new rule, but nursing home operators strongly oppose the new mandate, saying it will force facilities to close because of a shortage of nurses. In response, Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra told Tami Luhby of CNN that no one should live in facilities that are unsafe or should receive inferior care. Luhby noted that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September launched a $75 million campaign to increase the number of nurses in nursing homes.
The second rule the vice president announced had to do with home health aides. Medicaid currently pays about $125 billion a year to home healthcare companies, which employ hundreds of thousands of workers providing services for elderly and disabled Americans. These companies have never been required to report how that money was being spent. Now they will be required to spend 80% of the federal dollars they receive on workers’ salaries rather than administrative overhead.
Also yesterday, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a final rule that strengthens the HIPAA medical privacy rule for people from states that ban abortions who seek reproductive health care in states that permit them. In response to threats by Republican state officials to charge women who cross state lines to obtain abortion, contraception, or fertility treatments, the new rule prohibits health care providers, health plans, and other entities from disclosing patients’ reproductive health care records to state officials when they are being sought to investigate or charge patients, doctors, or others.
Today, the Labor Department announced a new rule that would guarantee that salaried workers who make less than $59,000 a year are compensated fairly for overtime work. The Trump administration set the salary threshold for those who did not have overtime protections at $35,568. As of July 1, 2024, the threshold will be $43,888, and on January 1, 2025, it will rise to $58,656. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), former chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, said the change could affect 4 million workers.
“Too often, lower-paid salaried workers are doing the same job as their hourly counterparts but are spending more time away from their families for no additional pay,” acting secretary of the Department of Labor Julie Su said. “That is unacceptable. The Biden-Harris administration is following through on our promise to raise the bar for workers who help lay the foundation for our economic prosperity.”
Also today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3–2 along party lines to ban the noncompete agreements that prevent workers from minimum-wage earners to top executives from changing jobs within the industry in which they work; senior executives can still be bound by such agreements. Initially used to protect trade secrets, noncompete clauses have expanded to cover what the FTC estimates to be 30 million people—one in five U.S. workers. They take away workers’ ability to improve their wages and conditions by quitting their jobs and moving to another company or starting their own. The FTC estimates that the end of such clauses could add almost $300 billion a year to workers’ wages.
“Robbing people of their economic liberty also robs them of all sorts of other freedoms,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said. Neil Bradley, head of strategic advocacy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, countered: “If they can issue regulations with respect to unfair methods of competition, then there’s really no aspect of the U.S. economy they couldn’t regulate.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans to sue over the rule.
Other News,
Is a bit too little, way to late……
All are displays of fake caring to ease the world of hurt created by the Clintons and 3rd way Democrates aka Corporate sell out whores. Look up Biden’s vote on privatizing Sallie Mae, Bankruptcy Act, China into WTO, or anything that screwed the future.
The house is already on fire, that is why Orange Traitor happenned. No one wanted Cankle Queen, but the CorpoCrats had to rammed in.
If the country fails, history will show that Clinton and their corporate sell out started the bidding.
Zillow’s expectation for home sales was revised slightly downward this month as elevated mortgage rates continue to limit housing demand and sales volume.
Limit housing demand? I expect food trucks to start parking in front of open houses. Post the house on Friday, go into attorney review on Monday. There’s your model. If 30-year rates make its way into the four range, then you’ll see a flood of homes make a move. That chart above is logical; a plateau in price for a number of years until the shuffle is complete and then… who knows.
The comp rule and non-compete ban will never see the light of day.
Calling them “final” is nonsensical.
From NJ.com:
N.J. home listings up nearly 3%. See how we compare to other states.
New Jersey’s housing market may be heating up again this spring, with the state seeing an increase in the number of newly listed homes compared to last year, according to the latest Realtor.com data.
Newly listed homes increased by 2.91% this March compared to last March, according to the data. A total of 8,356 were listed.
Mike DePalma, a broker manager at DePalma Realty in Millville, attributed the uptick to two factors. Sellers like listing their homes during the spring, he said. In addition, some sellers delayed listing their homes last year because they wanted to purchase another one but were concerned about rising mortgage rates and increased monthly payments. Eventually, he said they gave in and put their homes on the market this year.
“I think when people bought homes or refinanced homes in 2020, they were refinancing or purchasing homes at extremely low-interest rates. For example, my house I refinanced in 2021 and my interest rate was 2.75. If you went to a lender today, trying to get a loan, you would likely get quoted somewhere between 6.75 to 7.5,” he said. “We don’t want to trade our 2.75 for a 7.”
California has it right when it comes to non-compete clauses- the state supreme court has ruled them unenforceable.
Probably the major reason why a high tax and high regulation state like Ca has such a dynamic tech industry and start up culture.
Only the best.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13319915/Fraudster-Jesse-Taylor-infiltrated-Donald-Trump-inner-circle-scammed-donations.html
Newly listed homes increased by 2.91% this March compared to last March, according to the data.
In other words… no change.
OC1 -Probably the major reason? It was quite the opposite, the founders of the movement in California were fleeing the high cost and high regulated areas. One reason computing is moving out of the Bay Area now. Housing prices are GASP is going down now too.
You might understand that if you visited a museum and leaned about history.
https://www.hpmuseum.org/garage/garage.htm
William Hewlett and David Packard moved the Bay Area in the 1930s and worked out of a garage because it was cheap and unregulated. Their startup HP utilized their low upfront costs, and low overhead costs and innovative patented design for an Audio Oscillator to sell at a price point six times lower than their competitors. They were able to undercut the cost plain and simple of much larger established competitors.
Columbia University extends negotiations with student activists over dismantling encampment.
Negotiations? LOL. If I was the president of Columbia: “Yeah, I need 10 CAT C15s in here by tomorrow. We have some cleaning up to do.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/columbia-university-students-reject-a-two-campus-solution
https://babylonbee.com/news/columbia-protestors-clarify-they-only-want-death-to-america-after-america-is-done-paying-their-student-loans
https://news.yahoo.com/lifestyle/3-jersey-spots-list-americas-082031944.html
Bloomfield avenue makes the list of 100 most charming Main Streets.
I would drop matzoh by helicopter on the protestors.
BRT,
Those Babylon Bee headlines are hilarious.
I’ve got a noncompete in my contract. But it’s the deferred comp/staged vesting of ownership that’s the real binder. I wonder who would be brave enough to test their noncompete based on this announcement. Would still need expensive lawyers.
The Zillow chart of home values in San Jose is crazy. So expensive even after a fall.
Also crazy is the Austin, TX chart, with a boom in 2022 followed by a mini-bust in price.
I don’t understand why Zillow has so many home markets they track in FL, yet they pick some odd locations – like Deltona and North Port. I didn’t think those were particularly big areas, but maybe I’m wrong. Meanwhile no tracker for NJ at all on the map.
Juice-
H and P didn’t move to Ca to “eascape regulation”- there weren’t many regulations in 1939.
They started up in Ca because Hewlitt was already there, and they wanted to be close to their mentor- an engineering professor at Stanford (both were Stanford graduates).
In any event, non-compete clauses were not a thing back then.
Negotiating with the activist leaders? Send the campus police and NYPD in and dismantle the camps.
Lib: Why are they walking a tightrope?
I am going to start a protest to liberate England from their Norman colonizers- I am pro Saxon!
“In any event, non-compete clauses were not a thing back then.”
I think that was JB’s point…NCs have/had little to do with the development of Silicon Valley. Nearly not as much as Shockley, HP, Fairchild, Intel, etc. laying the base half a century ago….
Non competes are idiotic here.
They might make sense in Europe.
Let people work
grim says:
April 24, 2024 at 8:19 am
The comp rule and non-compete ban will never see the light of day.
Calling them “final” is nonsensical.
Ivys are the dream of liberal and rightwing parents.
Same way NJ rightwinger ain’t moving to GOP controlled south, NJ rightwinger kid ain’t going to Christian southern college. Ain’t happening.
Fast Eddie says:
April 24, 2024 at 9:00 am
Columbia University extends negotiations with student activists over dismantling encampment.
Negotiations? LOL. If I was the president of Columbia: “Yeah, I need 10 CAT C15s in here by tomorrow. We have some cleaning up to do.”
Back in the 2000’s, I worked for a company that had an ESOP, with 5-year cliff vesting- 100% vested after five years, 0% at 4 years 11 mo’s.
Well I was laid off in 2008, about 2 months shy of 5 years. Company told me tough luck.
Over the next few years I kept getting annual ESOP statements. I was like “why do they keep sending me these! I’m not vested.” Eventually I just stopped opening them because it was depressing to see how much $$ I could have had.
But what I didn’t know (and apparantly the person who drafted my separation agreement didn’t know either) was that the laws re ESOP vesting had changed in the mid 2000’s- vesting period max was changed to 3 years.
So a few years later I get a call from my old company asking if I wanted to cash out my ESOP. Huh? Then I did a little research and learned that the law had changed, and I was vested all along.
Turned out my ESOP was worth about $160k. Rolled it over into my IRA.
It was like winning the lottery.
“I think that was JB’s point…NCs have/had little to do with the development of Silicon Valley. Nearly not as much as Shockley, HP, Fairchild, Intel, etc. laying the base half a century ago….”
Fairchild was started by the “traitorous 8”- a group that left Shockley’s firm to start their own semi-conductor company. Probably wouldn’t have been possible if a non-compete clause had been in effect.
Non-compete’s are good for the company that requires them, but bad for everyone else, and the economy as a whole.
And one more thing- I just found out that non-competes have been illegal in Ca since 1862,
3b,
To answer your question about these college presidents. I am sure they want nothing better than to throw the protestors, most now, who are not even students, right into the street. The last thing they want is controversy. Where it gets tricky is keeping the students happy and maintaining their supposed progressive bent, which is what separates Columbia from the other ivies. Then there is maintaining the alum endowment contributions, I’m sure including from many of these stupid kids’ parents. Don’t doubt for a minute that the vast majority of Columbia’s war chest is funded by progressive donors. Sadly, I would bet plenty of these masked Gaza supporting marauders are Jewish kids. Even while some prominent Jewish donors have already pulled their annual pledges. So there are really two scales to balance. The perception to future applicants and protection of the endowment. Personally, I think they should have shut this thing down before it grew to newsworthy. Just like Biden should have told Putin that we’d put boots on the ground prior to his Ukraine invasion. Once you wait and see, you are usually fucked. Even the Israeli army is learning this the hard way. You can’t be tactical. you got to go in missiles ablazin. Humans forgive and forget quickly.
I always thought the non-competes were to prevent client-poaching.
OC1 says:
April 24, 2024 at 8:35 am
“Probably the major reason why a high tax and high regulation state like Ca has such a dynamic tech industry and start up culture.”
Cali has so many natural advantages that it was inevitable that it would become this country’s economic dynamo. Go back to the 1840’s when it became obvious that Mexico wouldn’t be able to hold onto it — it couldn’t even populate it — and every major world power wanted a piece of it, recognizing the immense value of it’s natural resources, climate and ports (it’s too bad that we didn’t take Baja California when we took Alta California, but that’s water under the bridge and Alta was the prize anyway). In any case, the creative and tech talent that migrated to Cali and built everything from the motion picture industry to the aerospace industry to Silicon Valley, should have ensured that Cali was our dynamo forever. But alas, the corrupt and incompetent Dems that trashed Detroit, now also radically leftist, are showing that they’ll do the same to California.
So what great industries and technologies have the red team states built?
The corn silo? The cotton gin?
So what great industries and technologies have the red team states built?
Dr. Pepper, bootleggin’ and NASCAR. ;)
Libturd says:
April 24, 2024 at 10:55 am
“So what great industries and technologies have the red team states built?”
Cali was a red state when these things were built, but I suspect you knew that. It wasn’t until Governor Moonbeam’s dad, and then Governor Moonbeam himself took office, that the place started to lurch to the left — and off the rails.
Didn’t the computer/semi industry get built in California way back in history when it was a red state? Roughly 1952 through 1988.
Then the leeches came.
This sounds like fun:
The hope is that the technology will eventually produce gene editors that are more nimble and more powerful than those that have been honed over billions of years of evolution.
On Monday, Profluent also said that it had used one of these A.I.-generated gene editors to edit human DNA and that it was “open sourcing” this editor, called OpenCRISPR-1. That means it is allowing individuals, academic labs and companies to experiment with the technology for free.
A.I. researchers often open source the underlying software that drives their A.I. systems, because it allows others to build on their work and accelerate the development of new technologies. But it is less common for biological labs and pharmaceutical companies to open source inventions like OpenCRISPR-1.
“Demolition at the Nabisco site is expected to resume shortly, with state approval. A non-explosive demolition will be undertaken,” said a post on the borough’s website on Monday, April 22.
Another thing America can’t manufacture. A cookie.
Oh you guys.
Stop looking at everything from a political lens. Correlation does not imply causation. And it’s not like the Blue states are really suffering. There are plenty of the same issues in Red states. Ever drive through Tennessee? Heck, how much are farm subsidies? And if things are really so bad in the Blue States, why are they such Economic powerhouses?
“Metropolitan areas won by President Joe Biden in 2020 generated more of the total economic output than metros won by Donald Trump in 35 of the 50 states, according to new research by Brookings Metro provided exclusively to The Atlantic. Biden-won metros contributed the most to the GDP not only in all 25 states that he carried but also in 10 states won by Trump, including Texas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Utah, Ohio, and even Florida, Brookings found. Almost all of the states in which Trump-won metros accounted for the most economic output rank in the bottom half of all states for the total amount of national GDP produced within their borders.”
The whole red state/blue state narrative is getting real old. Go move to Mississippi. I double dog dare you to.
Sweeping generalizations (Old Realtor Edition):
https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1783144030030705091
During the creation of the auto industry in the US, 1910 through 1928, Michigan was very much a Republican state. And these days, most of the growth of US auto production facilities are in red not blue states. Which is why the “build back better” regulations for carmaking have to try to tie government subsidies with unionization, to try to fight back against carmakers fleeing the blue leeches.
Twitter deleted the video. Can’t be found because it is being suppressed.
“So what great industries and technologies have the red team states built?”
Judging by all the highway billboards I saw on my recent treck to Fla to visit mom and dad, I think the red states also lead in titty bars.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-israeli-hostage-hersh-goldberg-polin-seen-alive-in-a-new-hamas-video
Someone should be blasting the soundtrack of that video out of one the academic buildings on the Columbia lawn. Idiots.
The midwest has had their entire industrial base hollowed out by yahoos on Wall St & Washington. It’s pretty disingenuous to destroy entire areas with outsourcing and then point the finger at them that there’s nothing left.
“So what great industries and technologies have the red team states built?”
Hmmmm….so I wasn’t aware States built industries and technologies…silly me, I always believed people produced and innovated….
OC1, I’m aware of SC history…Shockley himself was a Bell Lab refugee (and there’s a tangent to go down, whether Bell/NJ should have been ‘silicon valley’ but for…).
Point is, your original assertion that the State court’s recent ruling making non-competes unenforceable is the major reason for innovation is way overstated.
Not that I support non-competes, I don’t and I’ve wiggled out from under two…it’s become ridiculous, my SD son has one, signed straight out of University, with his company who is known for making life difficult even for recent grads that try to move. No logic there whatsoever…not sure what a kid straight out of school is going to ‘appropriate’ from a company…
“So what great industries and technologies have the red team states built?”
“Oh you guys. Stop looking at everything from a political lens.”
WTF you talkin’ bout, Willis?
LOL, throwaway comment boomerangs back on you and you’re gaslighting. Priceless.
My wife had to sign a non-compete for a small crappy company in South Brunswick when she worked as their chemist. They built a friggin glorified stirring apparatus.
“Metropolitan areas won by President Joe Biden in 2020 generated more of the total economic output than metros won by Donald Trump in 35 of the 50 states…”
Is it possible to be more intellectually lazy and pointless….
“Go move to Mississippi. I double dog dare you to.”
Go move to Camden. lots of housing ‘deals’ there. JFC Lib.
From Task & Purpose
“Marines outwitted an AI security camera by hiding in a cardboard box and pretending to be trees”
Artificial intelligence can do a lot. Given a large chunk of data, it can process information faster than your average intelligence analyst can. When it comes to certain things, though, artificial intelligence is apparently still lagging behind Marine Corps intelligence.
In Paul Scharre’s new book Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Scharre recounts the story of one AI experiment that was disrupted by a squad of Marines who innovated new ways to sneak around and avoid detection. In just a day, the Marines figured out that the best way to approach an artificial intelligence system designed to identify human beings is to, well, not look like a human.
In practical terms, that meant standing behind a tree or just throwing a cardboard box over their heads.
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The artificial intelligence in question was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Squad X program. The technology was designed to maximize “a squad’s situational awareness, while the autonomous systems allow squads to increase their battle space and area of influence,” according to DARPA.
“What DARPA was working on was developing the ability to identify people in complex urban environments,” said Scharre. “And sense people approaching the squad.”
As Phil Root, the deputy director of the Defense Sciences Office at DARPA, recounted to Scharre, “A tank looks like a tank, even when it’s moving. A human when walking looks different than a human standing. A human with a weapon looks different.”
In order to train the artificial intelligence, it needed data in the form of a squad of Marines spending six days walking around in front of it. On the seventh day, though, it was time to put the machine to the test.
“If any Marines could get all the way in and touch this robot without being detected, they would win. I wanted to see, game on, what would happen,” said Root in the book.
And when the game began, as Root said, “Eight Marines — not a single one got detected.”
Two Marines, according to the book, somersaulted for 300 meters to approach the sensor. Another pair hid under a cardboard box.
“You could hear them giggling the whole time,” said Root in the book.
One Marine stripped a fir tree and held it in front of him as he approached the sensor. In the end, while the artificial intelligence knew how to identify a person walking, that was pretty much all it knew because that was all it had been modeled to detect.
“An algorithm is brittle, and the takeaway from this is that there will always be these edge cases,” Scharre told Task & Purpose. “The real problem for the military is that it operates in an inherently adversarial environment, and people will always have the ability to evolve.”
Distributional shift, as Scharre writes in his book, is when an AI is trained on one set of data and then forced to interpret something new. If an AI has trained on data of people walking around, it can be duped by a person somersaulting. Or walking behind a tree. Or crouching under a cardboard box.
While an AI can outperform human beings in a specific task, people, as Scharre writes, have a tendency for “mistaking performance for competence.” In other words, an AI can be very good at what it knows how to do. But the AI doesn’t know what it doesn’t know, and it also doesn’t know that it should know what it doesn’t know.
“Humans tend to have a much richer understanding of the world,” said Scharre.
As Scharre told Task & Purpose, artificial intelligence is a rapidly advancing field, and the results of this test are not indicative of its capabilities in 2023. The challenge for the military is “creating doctrine to rapidly spin in what AI technology can do.”
But when it comes to Marines against an AI, Marines remain undefeated.
President Donald Trump maintained he “answered perfectly” when he said there were “very fine people on both sides” of clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“If you look at what I said, you will see that that question was answered perfectly,” Trump said Friday in an exchange with ABC’s Terry Moran.
Inspired a group of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and related groups to schedule the “Unite the Right” rally for the weekend of Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville. There is little dispute over the makeup of the groups associated with the rally. A well-known white nationalist, Richard Spencer, was involved; former Ku Klux Klan head David Duke was a scheduled speaker. “Charlottesville prepares for a white nationalist rally on Saturday,”
I’ll be less intellectually lazy.
Go move to a red state. If your uncle rapes your 12-year old daughter, you’ll be a proud grandfather!
I want to be invited to the gender reveal party.
Stock up on Potassium iodide pills.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-quietly-shipped-long-range-atacms-missiles-ukraine-2024-04-24/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20April%2024%20(Reuters),U.S.%20official%20said%20on%20Wednesday.
Nice to see the lefties on this blog maintaining the stereotype of snobbish liberals.
Libturd,
To be fair, if someone wants to legally have sex with brothers, sisters, moms and sons, fathers and daughters, (and of course also the gay/lesbian combinations of same) as long as they are over 18, NJ is the place to go.
“In New Jersey incest between consenting adults is not a criminal offense, though marriage is not allowed in either state.”
Which reminds me of the funniest song and dance number in the history of film, “Uncle Fucka”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0FJyPa3u1M
Hold: I am sure a proud leftist uncle would never do anything horrific like that.
3b
Limits himself to sniffing their hair?
3:14?
HOw uNpResIdEntIal. Do you realize how genuinely stupid you are!??
Coming from a petty unemployed art teacher who can’t use capital letters properly that hurts so much.
3b says:
April 24, 2024 at 9:54 am
“Negotiating with the activist leaders? Send the campus police and NYPD in and dismantle the camps”
While the Ivies and other blue state schools surrender to the terrorist sympathizers and move students that actually want an education to useless remote learning, one red state has a reminder for the punks: ‘Don’t mess with Texas’
This from Bloomberg: “On Wednesday, hundreds of University of Texas at Austin students walked out in protest, but were met by dozens of state troopers…”
Small: That’s how it should be done. The activist leaders can always make their way over to the Middle East and fight. They would crap their pants, a bunch of ignorant cowards.
3:46 i can’t imagine the depths of your stupidity.
Food for thought:
https://www.thefp.com/p/kids-skip-ivy-league-for-southern-schools
3:54
Just quadruple your iq. That means times 4
Hold: I am sure a proud leftist uncle would never do anything horrific like that. Oh they would. But at least blue states are smart enough to allow a 7th-grader to terminate a rape baby.
LAX,
Thanks for the article, though it was sort of all over the place. NJ kids go to Elon in NC yet are mostly surrounded by northeasterners. U Miami isn’t really a school for southerners, it’s a place for wealthy kids to party, mostly.
The intro is pretty misleading also – I’ll bet there are a minimal number of kids that were accepted to Harvard or the Ivies that turned down admission into those schools to instead attend Elon, Miami, or Clemson. So are kids really “giving up on elite colleges”? More like they put in an early admission bid at an ivy or two, then packed the rest of their reach and target and safety school applications where they’d like to go after they get rejected.
My kid went to Vanderbilt, not a ton of locals attend. It’s in Nashville but most of the kids are imports. 9% of the class is from Tennessee, 7% from Georgia. Versus 13% from NY/NJ. The atmosphere is somewhat different from the NE ivies, and probably a bit more relaxed than Duke. But to really be surrounded by southerners, go to Clemson, Alabama, etc, full of in-state students.
Are we taking bets on Presidential immunity yet?
Lib: Fair enough, but you revised your original statement, which appeared to indicate you believe this activity is more of a red state state thing then a blue state thing. The red state people , know this is how the Democrats/ liberals view them, along with their conservative, church going , bowling league activities, that Liberals find appalling. The NY Times had a good op Ed piece on this subject a couple of months ago , by one of their Liberal columnists.
As was asked by leftwing a few months ago, if this is the feeling/ beliefs of the East and West coast liberals, then why not split the country up?
4:30 Vandy is a great school! Happy to hear they are thriving.
No One: James Madison is another big southern or Virginia school. They used to put all the NJ Freshman students in the same dorm.
You know, when I posted the incestual part of that statement, I wasn’t thinking red state at all. But I can see where the stereotype made so many hear think that’s what I was after. It was always about a females right to do what they choose with their unwanted pregnancies, especially if the reasons given (like the example I provided) were as cruel as I made it. Now I understand where HMB was coming from. Until you just pointed it out, I was surprised by his comment. Maybe I’m not so elitist.
“Are we taking bets on Presidential immunity yet?”
I’m not taking bets. But if there is Presidential immunity, then couldn’t Biden do some terribly illegal things to ensure Trump couldn’t be elected?
Libturd
Valid point. And the genius blue states with their soft on crime , high taxes, and goodies for undocumented travelers are chasing away people to the red states.
Lib – you mean like stuffing drop in ballot boxes?
Very : And the anti- semites at Columbia, and Yale, and other universities? What about them , do they get a pass? Or is it right wing anti semite bad, left wing anti semite good.
Juice,
Why not? Maybe claim BOGO? Elect one year, get one free.
3b, I’m not worried about that anti-semitism yet. Heck, if someone blamed me for something Israel was doing, I would punch them right in their face. Heck, if I was a Jew and attended Columbia, I would find some flesh colored waterballoons, fill them with permanent red paint and would throw them at the camp inhabitants claiming they were Jew tits. But that’s me. I know how to protest.
Lib: Understand. I do think however, Jewish people need to be mindful and watchful of anti semitism now. It’s going mainstream on the left now.
Lib – how about the 300 arrested for protesting in front of Schumer’s house in Brooklyn? The Seder sit in Jews for peace group.
Should they be excommunicated from the tribe?
As long as I’m not being loaded onto a train, or tricked into a group shower, I think I’ll be fine.
It’s a tough call for Jews. Not everything is anti-semitism just as not everything unfair to blacks is racism.
These are mostly dumb kids. Heck, if I was still young and stupid, I probably would be wearing one of those shmatsas on my head too.
Well it’s about to get worse the war funding bills were just signed meaning the pause is over, and the thousand pound US made bombs and 155 mm US made artillery is being loaded as we speak.
Libturd says:
April 24, 2024 at 5:55 pm
“I’m not worried about that anti-semitism yet.”
You should be. But in your case, I suppose the lack of concern is primarily because your kid is at school in a red state, where they don’t tolerate anti-semitism, instead of a blue state where they very obviously do!
Even liberal UT Austin called in the state troopers to clear out anti Israel protesters
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13346507/Texas-Troopers-Palestine-protesters-university-austin.html
LAX,
Actually, some very entertaining trash talking between you and HMB; helped pass the time as I picked up my daughter from art class.
And HMB, Those that can’t do teach. Those that can’t teach retire, abscond with their pension, then do submissive art classes that don’t require proper punctuation.
Hehe.
Juice: I don’t know tbd end result for Ukraine. This additional funding won’t mean they will be now able to defeat the Russians and force them to withdraw from the areas they have occupied in the east, never mind Crimea. The only way I can see Ukraine winning is for NATO/ the west to become directly involved. Were that to happen than it’s WW 3 and nukes. If there is a negotiating settlement and Putin gets to keep most of what he conquered in the east of Ukraine, then he has effectively won. Does he or a future Russian leader come back for more? No good outcome that I can see.
Juice,
America has done nothing but meddle and mess with Russia. Screwed them over after WW2 when deals had been already made. Reagan messed with them even more. Now we still are shoving our fingers in their face.
If America is a glowing pile of ash tomorrow it has no one to blame but itself. It’s due. Been projecting it’s power, fighting wars from a distance. Closest thing it’s had a taste of was 9/11, and that was just a turd. Keep pushing, you never know when someone has had enough.
As usual, the innocent youth that had nothing to do with this will pay the price, as they haven’t lived yet and may never get the chance.
There is a mentally deficient President calling the shots. Elections have consequences.
If I were Putin I would never give up. And after all else fails, turn America, it’s real enemy, into a flaming ash heap.
3B – 60 billion in new weapons, however, they simply don’t have enough boots on the ground to defend a 600 mile long front or take back the captured areas, or deal with the supply chain and maintenance. Estimates are a million Ukrainian fighting age men fled to the EU, US and other places, they won’t go back willingly to get destroyed in those trenches.
Don’t be surprised if American troops end up there, we already have started sending more troops as advisors. In 1962 we sent 11,000 military “advisors” to Vietnam. You can only fire an artillery piece or a tank barrel so many times before it needs to replaced and refurbished. All the 100 plus billion in gear we sent already needs maintenance now and the Ukrainians have nobody trained to do it.
We are ramping up weapons production for the long haul and so is Russia, another Vietnam it might just become.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/20/us-troops-ukraine-00153499
Juice: If American troops end up there it’s WW 3. Maybe the Europeans can go instead.
Cause hamas is so supportive of LGBT community
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13347143/Drag-queen-story-hour-free-Palestine-Massachusetts.html
If it becomes WW3 just remember who stuck their nose where it didn’t belong.
Boomer wants to put the kids in body bags, then sniff the hair of the children.
Gross old goat Biden.
Jew tits!
WSJ Editorial
Universities are supposed to be places where students and faculty can debate politics and other subjects without fear or censure. As the anti-Israel protests spread at Columbia, Yale, Harvard, New York University and elsewhere, however, progressives are claiming that any restriction on the protesters is a violation of free speech.
That isn’t true, and it’s important to understand why. Under its “state action doctrine,” the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment applies to government actions toward citizens. It doesn’t apply to private citizens or institutions except in rare instances when they are acting as government agents.
As University of California, Berkeley law school dean and ardent liberal Erwin Chemerinsky explained recently to anti-Israel students who wanted to protest on his lawn, his property is “not a forum for free speech.”
As a private university, Columbia has the right to set its own rules on speech as part of a contract to teach or study at the school. It does so in a way that is consistent with a public institution’s obligations under the First Amendment. Here’s what Columbia’s Rules of University Conduct say about protests: “Every member of our community . . . retains the right to demonstrate, to rally, to picket, to circulate petitions and distribute ideas” and to “express opinions on any subject whatsoever, even when such expression invites controversy and sharp scrutiny.” The code of conduct protects speakers’ rights even when “ideas expressed might be thought offensive, immoral, disrespectful, or even dangerous.”
Sounds good. But Columbia’s code of conduct says a person violates the rules who “engages in conduct that places another in danger of bodily harm,” or “uses words that threaten bodily harm in a situation where there is clear and present danger of such bodily harm.”
Columbia’s anti-Israel encampment and protests have included physical intimidation of Jewish students and antisemitic declarations. In October 2023, 100 Columbia professors signed a letter defending students who had flooded the campus in support of Hamas’s “military action” on Oct. 7. Columbia has every right to restrict speech or actions that threaten other students.
Protesters also don’t have a “right” to assemble on school property to disrupt the functioning of the university or intimidate students on the way to class. Even at a public university, all these rules would constitute reasonable restrictions on the time, place and manner of speech.
This new progressive embrace of free speech rings especially hollow after years of student and faculty attempts to ban conservative speakers from campus and punish students for alleged micro-aggressions. Those who once claimed speech is violence now claim violence is speech. They don’t understand the Constitution any better than they understand the Middle East.