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Jewish families in the U.S. and Canada have a long-standing tradition of eating Chinese food on Christmas Day. The first written record of this tradition is from 1935, when the New York Times reported that Eng Shee Chuck, a Chinese restaurant owner, brought chow mein to a Jewish children's home in Newark, New Jersey on Christmas Day.

The tradition may have originated from the lack of other open restaurants on Christmas Day. Many Jews don't celebrate Christmas, and Chinese restaurants are some of the only restaurants open on Christmas Day. Much of the Chinese food is also kosher, as it doesn't mix meat with dairy.

An article in The Atlantic suggests that Jewish people have come to love Chinese food over the years because Jewish and Chinese immigrants made up the majority of non-Christians in New York at the turn of the century.

https://twitter.com/DouglasEmhoff/status/1739319112138957116

Kamala is having Chinee takeout adding her homemade Jamaican Curry that her daddy makes. Matza Balls for desert.

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>>20128853

>For some reason, this reminds me of the origin of the word Kike.

Illiterate joos at Ellis Island wouldn't;t sign their name with an 'X' [Cross]. They would draw a Circle [Kike].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kike

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>Or people that were taught typing a long time ago. Faggot.

notable. Two spaces.

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'' Harvard's Board Gets Failing Grade From NYT for Botching Claudine Gay Scandal ''

townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/12/25/things-are-looking-even-worse-for-harvard-president-claudine-gay-n2632821

Spencer Brown December 25, 2023

AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File

Harvard's embattled President Claudine Gay might have thought the long Christmas weekend would quell the brewing storm of criticism against her that began with catastrophic testimony before House lawmakers about antisemitic incidents on campus and culminated — so far — with some 40 allegations of plagiarism in her limited body of scholarly work.

Then, on Christmas Eve, The New York Times ran another story on the worsening situation, highlighting meetings that have taken place between the Harvard Corporation and academics who are less-than-pleased with the way the school — specifically its 12-member governing body — has handled the turmoil.

Citing "private conversations with donors, professors, and others," the Times reported that "there are signs of tensions among board members," including over a "need to address the billowing storms" battering its public image among even those normally supportive of the institution. But those "who have tried to privately counsel the board say members have shown little concrete impetus toward changing their approach."

As Townhall reported just before Christmas, what had begun as exposés from right-of-center media outlets and reporters with a few instances of alleged ripping-off of other writers' work turned into another complaint documenting dozens more examples of supposed intellectual infringement that caught fire in mainstream outlets. In two notable examples, CNN and The New York Times pointed out how embarrassing the scandal was for supposedly elite Harvard and how their analysis of President Gay's writings turned up "clearer examples of plagiarism."

Since then, both The New York Times and The Washington Post have run opinion pieces saying it's time for President Gay to be gone, publishing the headlines "Why Claudine Gay Should Go" and "Harvard's Claudine Gay should resign," respectively.

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With increasing scrutiny of Harvard, President Gay, and its governing body, however, "the corporation had no specific answers" when pressed for more action by those who met with board members, the Times noted. Instead, "board members offered muted apologies, and promised follow-ups."

One attendee who expressed discontent said that "replacing the university's president might not be going far enough to get Harvard back on course" and that "generational change" was required to address the issues that are now coming to a head.

That includes questions about how Harvard selected Claudine Gay to be its president, announced just about a year ago in December 2022. Quoting the student-run Harvard Crimson, the Times noted that out of "more than 600 nominations" to lead Harvard, the "five-month search was the fastest at Harvard in nearly 70 years."

Even worse, now that the whole situation has come to light — including how the Harvard Corporation "did not disclose that it had been quietly investigating Dr. Gay's academic work since October when it was first contacted by a New York Post reporter about plagiarism allegations — the board's "secretive approach and opacity has made even those who earlier rallied around Dr. Gay uncomfortable," reported the Times. As it should.

Perhaps Harvard sought to bury accusations against Gay because those accusations also implicated its own failure to properly vet her work.

From the Times:

In the past several weeks, more faculty members, donors, alumni, and outsiders have raised questions about the corporation’s apparent failure to vet Dr. Gay’s scholarship before promoting her to the presidency in July and for its subsequent silence in recent weeks.

“The corporation should have done their homework, and apparently they did not,” said Avi Loeb, a Harvard science professor who has been publicly critical of the school’s response after the Hamas attack on Israel in which about 1,200 people were killed.

“They don’t engage in criticism the way they should,” Mr. Loeb said of the corporation. “They don’t want the people who disagree with them to speak with them.”

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Faculty and donors say the board members, by declining to be more open, have left important questions hanging over the school and Dr. Gay. Among the most persistent: Why didn’t they disclose the investigation earlier, and when, exactly, did the corporation — and Harvard’s top administrators — first hear of the plagiarism allegations against Dr. Gay? How did a small group of conservative activists seem to know more about Dr. Gay’s scholarship than the governing body responsible for vetting her selection?

And that's the real problem here, isn't it? That Harvard was so blinded by the identity check-boxes of Claudine Gay that they didn't bother to vet her comparatively scant writing?

As a former non-Ivy League college student (and thank the good Lord for that) all my papers were run through a plagiarism checker to ensure originality and proper citations, yet the Harvard Corporation didn't think it was worth skimming their presidential finalists' writing. It seems now, based on the complaints lodged against President Gay, that just one of her works would have lit up the plagiarism checker like the Fourth of July.

So, it seems the Harvard Corporation is in for even more scrutiny and a longer journey of being dragged through the mud along with its president due to the apparent failure to scrutinize Gay's scholarly work and then actively working to keep plagiarism accusations under wraps

— all while getting outflanked by conservatives who have far fewer resources compared to Harvard's $50 billion endowment.

Will it be a case where the attempts to cover for President Gay end up being more damaging

— especially internally — than the alleged crimes of plagiarism?

Time will tell. One thing is for sure: any hopes that the Harvard Corporation or President Gay had of sweeping this under the rug have been dashed upon the rocks of the harsh reality that actions have consequences.

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'' Leftist Idiocy Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving ''

townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/12/25/leftist-idiocy-is-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-n2632808

Kurt Sphincter

25 December 2023

We patriots are lucky to have leftists, if only because our own Republicans are so tragically incompetent – right now, the leftists are inadvertently making a better case against leftism than most of our feckless GOP politicians ever could. The secret weapon of the American left as it marched through the institutions was stealth. It gained power and influence, but largely out of sight, in the shadows, metastasizing quietly while normal people paid attention to other things. But today, thanks to stupid leftists, ideological leprosy has come out into the open before it was able to rot away from our society fully.

These people are a gift. They initiated the ambush before we were fully in the kill zone. Now, we can fight back. For a long time, we did not. For years, we have been hearing stories of far-away craziness. Out there in academia, there were nutty professors and weird rites and rituals, but it was obscure, hazy, and remote. It was not yet in our faces out in the real world, and we could tell ourselves that even back when we went to school, there were always a few nutburgers lurking around the Quad with their “U.S. Out of North America” signs. But now, it’s right there, in the open. Social media helps expose them because many of them just can’t shut up. In Minnesota, you recently had the wonderful @LibsOf TikTok expose some professional Indians at some college babbling on about how America needs to be “decolonized” - which means murdering us, the rightful owners of this continent through our ancestors’ glorious conquest of it. Oh, and it’s not “North America” anymore. It’s “Turtle Island” because, allegedly, some tribe somewhere thinks the continent is riding along on the back of an enormous magical tortoise, and the commies think that we all need to pretend that it’s not weird and that we must nod along.

Of course, the big pony-shaped present under our culture war tree this year is Claudine Gay, the President of Harvard, which is America’s best college ever, according to Harvard. Thanks, Santa, because for those of us out to defeat the Marxists, there’s no better gift than this ridiculous mid-wit with smart girl glasses and a shaved head. Remember, this is a woman who could not explain before Congress and TV cameras that genocide is bad – I will charitably give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she thinks genocide is bad. However, many of her fellow travelers (like the aforementioned Turtle Island residents) eagerly support it not just for Jews but for everyone designated a “settler” or “colonist.” What a spectacle – the president of an allegedly prestigious college word-salading it worse than Kamala after downing a bottle of Quaaludes and knocking back a couple of tumblers of Jack Daniels.

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>>20129143

Gay got hired because she checks all the woke boxes and because she viciously enforced wokeist dogma by participating in woke jihads against woke dissenters. Her school promises to punish you if you are fatphobic; if you threaten to kill all the Jews, though, not so much. That’s different, apparently because girth-challenged are higher on the Official Pyramid O’ Oppression® than G-d’s Chosen People.

She’s no towering genius, either. She is a professor of some fake studies nonsense. She has written thirteen fewer books than non-college president me, who has written thirteen (order my latest now!), and you can count on less than two hands the number of academic articles she has written. Compounding the shame of her paltry CV is the fact that she did not actually write much of what little she claimed to have written. She’s a serial plagiarist, and it’s a delight to watch the university twisting itself into yoga-like contortions to explain how copying other people’s writings without attribution is not plagiarism because and for reasons, and you are racist for noticing she is an academic thief.

The value proposition to outsiders for Haaaaaaaaaaarvard and the other Ivies used to be quality, and this genius has helped reveal that this is all a scam. They are not about quality. They are about leftism. Gay is the quintessential diversity hire, a one-woman – I assume that’s how she identifies and that “she” is her pronoun, though I don’t care – cautionary example of how the use of immutable characteristics as a criterion for evaluating the worth of a human being is sheer immoral idiocy. We always said that this affirmative action crap was crap. We also pointed out that it’s cruel because when race/gender/furry status/whatever is a substantial part of the decision-making for honors and positions, people will assume that it is a substantial part of the decision-making for honors and positions and believe people awarded those honors and obtaining those positions did not do so purely on the basis of merit. Now, I understand the rule is that you must simultaneously demand that diversity be the basis of honors and positions while also vehemently denying that diversity is the basis of honors and positions, but no one obeys that rule. We all know, even the commies. Diversity nonsense cheapens real achievement, and while the recipients will insist that accurately assessing the basis of their honors and positions is racist, everyone is going to do it anyway. Gay is terrific because she is so transcendently terrible that she just trashes the whole poisonous diversity paradigm.

They should not have come out into the light so soon – even cockroaches know enough to scuttle off into the corners when someone flips a switch. But now they are out and in the open, and the rot cannot be denied. This is not like when we were students back on the old University of College campus, where the pinko weirdos were merely local colors. Now those pinko weirdos are running the place, and thanks to these dummies, we now see it. Now, we will act. Cut donations. Cut funding. Sue them. Mock them. Refuse to hire the cogs graduating from these commie conformity factories. Hell, their customers are already taking a pass.

Be thankful for the gift of truth and clarity from Elizabeth Warren’s cousins and the ridiculous Claudine Gay. Now we see you, and now we can ensure that you never control anything again.

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https://youtu.be/tpP5cpdGQTs

Film Director, John Ford made this memorial film for the families of members of Torpedo Squadron 8 in 1942. 45 of the 48 men of Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) were killed during the Battle of Midway. Ensign George “Tex” Gay Jr. from USS Hornet (CV-8), and Ensign Albert K. “Bert” Earnest, and Airman Third Class Harry Ferrier from Midway Island were the only three that survived.

When you visit the Hornet Museum you are literally “stepping into/onto history”. This ship was there at the forefront of WWII in the Pacific where her record of combat accomplishments is legendary. Hornet finished her long career in the news again as she retrieved the Apollo 11 capsule and the astronauts who were the first humans to walk on the surface of the moon.

Today the USS Hornet Museum serves as a “living history” destination at Pier 3 in Alameda, where thousands of visitors walk through her “hatches” reliving history through the sights, sounds and even smells that are uniquely Hornet.

Since the adoption of our charter in 1998, The USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum has become the preeminent Naval history museum on the West Coast. The USS Hornet is the only aircraft carrier in the United States that is recognized as a National and State Historical Monument as well a repository of over 240 years of American naval military and cultural history and achievements, offering extensive resources for national and international visitors alike.

The USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum carries on a rich legacy of “Hornets”, as the first Hornet christened would become one of the most distinguished names in American naval history with her performance in the Revolutionary War. The first two ships in the new Continental Navy were "Hornet" & "Wasp".