#stanley desantis

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Stanley Desantis - Beavis and Butthead - 1993

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Vintage 1980’s Pee Wee Herman t-shirt, SUPER soft & thin | Defunkd

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Clockwatchers (1997) Jill Sprecher

May 14th 2024

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Jumped out of my skin when this popped up on eBay this week: A Stanley DeSantis Susan Tyrrell t-shirt promoting her one-woman show, “My Rotten Life”.

Typical Susu language on the back featuring her stuffed co-star!

Photos by the inimitable Rocky Schenck. 🍸🐾

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Bad movie I have Rush Hour 1998

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to halt plans for a $3.5 billion Ford Motor Co. battery plant over his concerns about Chinese influence cost one of the poorest areas of Virginia a reported 2,500 jobs with potential for more.

If Ford finalized the project, the plant would have gone in the Southern Virginia Mega Site at Berry Hill in Pittsylvania County. More than $200 million has been spent over 15 years to make Berry Hill a premier site and the largest publicly owned site in the Southeast. The plant would have built lithium iron phosphate batteries for Ford’s electric vehicles.

The location still has no tenant, however, after Youngkin intervened in late December to stop plans for the plant in Virginia because of its partnership with Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology. Youngkin first publicly discussed his decision after giving his State of the Commonwealth address on Wednesday.

Local officials said they could not comment on the situation because of a nondisclosure agreement, which is standard in such economic development projects. But Democratic state lawmakers slammed Youngkin, saying he put national politics in front of thousands of jobs in Southside Virginia. (Youngkin is considering a run for president in 2024.)

“During his campaign, the Governor made a promise to bring economic development and manufacturing jobs to our communities that are struggling — especially in rural Virginia — to attract industries that offer competitive wages,” wrote Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, in an email on Monday. “The Governor’s decision to pull Virginia out of the competition for the new Ford facility puts the Commonwealth at a severe disadvantage.”

Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, said in an interview that “to deny [people in the community] jobs because you’re in last place in Republican presidential primaries [is] gubernatorial malpractice.”

“I mean, this is clearly just obvious to me that the Governor’s in some kind of out-China-bashing-contest with [Florida Gov. Ron] DeSantis and Governor Greg Abbott out of Texas,” he added.

DeSantis and Abbott have been among a crowd of Republican politicians who may run for president in 2024.

Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said in an email for this story: “While Ford is an iconic American company, it became clear that this proposal would serve as a front for the Chinese Communist party, which could compromise our economic security and Virginians’ personal privacy."

“Virginians can be confident that companies with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party won’t receive a leg up from the Commonwealth’s economic incentive packages. When the potentially damaging effects of the deal were realized, the plant proposal never reached a final discussion stage.”

The employees of the plant would have been Ford employees. Representatives of Ford and CATL first began visiting the site in the fall. Ford also has considered Michigan for the plant.

Republicans who represent Southside Virginia in the General Assembly — Del. Danny Marshall of Danville, Sen. Frank Ruff of Mecklenburg and Sen. Bill Stanley of Franklin County — did not respond to a chance to comment on Monday.

“I’m unable to speak publicly about unannounced economic development projects,” said Lee Vogler, chair of the Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority and a member of the Danville City Council.

“As RIFA chairman, I am committed to working with all of our partners, locally and at the state level, on recruiting industries to our region, including at the Southern Virginia Mega Site.”

The roughly 3,500-acre megasite at Berry Hill is owned by the Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority, a joint entity involving both Danville and Pittsylvania County.

City and county officials hope to attract major industries that would bring thousands of jobs to the site. They are hoping to land a large deal that would transform the economic fabric of the area, which has lost its furniture, textiles and tobacco industries and is focused on advanced manufacturing.

The authority has owned the park for nearly 15 years, and no industry has located there yet.

The state nearly landed a $5.5 billion Hyundai plant at the site last year that would have brought 8,500 jobs to the region. The plant opted to locate in Georgia, where it was called the largest economic development plan in Georgia history.

On Monday, Youngkin’s office announced an additional $90 million in grants to develop industrial sites in Virginia, including $1.5 million for the still-empty Berry Hill site.

Youngkin’s interest in the Chinese Communist Party follows public statements by DeSantis about the nation with the world’s second-largest economy.

“From server farms to farmland, the Communist Party of China has been worming its way into our nation’s data storage systems and buying up tracts of land near sensitive national security sites,” DeSantis said in September. “By prohibiting the purchase of lands, state contracts with Chinese technology firms, and the infiltration of CCP-affiliated groups such as Confucius Institutes, Florida is leading the way to protect our nation from international foes.”

In his State of the Commonwealth address last week, Youngkin called on the General Assembly to forbid Chinese Communist Party-affiliated entities from buying farmland in Virginia. The Governor’s office could provide no instance of this already happening.

In December, he forbid state employees from accessing the Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat on state-issued phones.

Meanwhile, Surovell is concerned about economic repercussions for future developments after the details of the Ford deal were relayed to the right-wing outlet Daily Caller last month despite the nondisclosure agreements surrounding it.

“Companies ask economic development authorities to sign nondisclosure agreements because they don’t want these types of projects turned into political footballs,” Surovell said. “They want confidentiality so they can negotiate in good faith. I think this is going to result in some real harm to Virginia’s business reputation and ability to attract major investment.”

Hashmi shared that concern. “Other business and industry partners may second guess their consideration of Virginia if the Governor makes decisions such as these that are based on politics rather than effective policy.”

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Citadel's billionaire CEO Ken Griffin becomes GOP $100 million midterm megadonor

Citadel’s billionaire CEO Ken Griffin becomes GOP $100 million midterm megadonor

Ken Griffin, Citadel at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha, Sept. 28, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Citadel’s billionaire CEO, Ken Griffin, is one of Wall Street’s biggest political donors in the 2022 midterms, giving more than $100 million toward state and federal candidates across the country since April 2021, campaign finance records show. The $50 million Griffin has donated to Republicans running in federal…

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edmonton oilers vs florida panthers stanley cup final is so battle of the two most annoying fucked up principalities ever. alberta vs florida we can only hope the arena burns down with danielle smith and ron desantis in attendence

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By: Jason L. Riley

Published: Sep 5, 2023

Yes, this is another September “back to school” column. My apologies. But someone needs to keep pointing out that our national debate over which books to allow in classrooms, or how to teach slavery to middle-schoolers, is far less consequential than the continuing inability of most youngsters to read or do math at grade level.

In Florida, where GOP governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has taken lumps for a couple sentences in a 200-page black-history curriculum, only 39% of Miami-Dade County fourth-graders are proficient in reading, according to a Miami Herald report last year on standardized test results. By eighth grade the number drops to 31%, and math scores are just as bad. Who cares if kids have access to books by Toni Morrison or Jodi Picoult if most of them can’t comprehend the contents?

These dismal outcomes have persisted nationwide for decades, and the racial achievement gap is even more disturbing. The U.S. Education Department reported last year that in 2022 the average reading score for black fourth-graders in New York on the National Assessment of Educational Progress trailed that of white fourth graders by 29 points. This “performance gap was not significantly different from that in 1998,” the report added.

The progressive left’s response to these outcomes has been to wage war on meritocracy rather than focus on improving instruction. The goal is to eliminate gifted-and-talented middle-school programs, high-school entrance exams and the use of the SAT in college admissions. One defense of racial preferences in education for black students is that recipients, including those who go into teaching, are more likely to work in low-income minority communities after graduation. That’s true, but is it what economically disadvantaged students really need, more second-rate teachers?

In his lively autobiography, “Up From the Projects,” the late economist Walter Williams related an incident from his teaching days at California State University, Los Angeles in the late 1960s. A black student approached him at the end of the course and said he needed a B to graduate. The student told Williams that he wanted to teach school in Watts, a predominantly black section of Los Angeles. Williams replied that Watts didn’t need any more mediocre educators. He added, jokingly, “If you’d said San Fernando Valley”—a predominantly white area back then—“I’d have given you the B.”

Williams was appalled that many of his academic colleagues were holding their black students to lower standards. “There was no more effective way to mislead black students and discredit whatever legitimate achievements they might make than giving them phony grades and ultimately fraudulent diplomas,” he wrote. Sadly, the downstream effects of lax standards for black students that concerned him more than 50 years ago have only gotten worse.

Medical students in all 50 states must pass a licensure exam before they can practice. The exam has three parts, and Step 1 is administered at the end of the second year of medical school. It measures your grasp of basic science topics—anatomy, biology, biochemistry, pharmacology—and is highly predictive of how you will perform in medical school going forward.

A student’s numerical score on the Step 1 exam has long been the most important tool in evaluating candidates for the most competitive medical disciplines and residency programs. Three years ago, representatives of the nation’s leading medical groups voted to scrap numerical scores and report the results of the Step 1 exam as pass/fail.

The reason is simple, according to Stanley Goldfarb, an academic physician and former associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school. In a recent book on how social-justice activism has affected medical training, “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns,” Dr. Goldfarb explained that black students underperform on the Step 1 exam. “The solution to the fact that white students score better on the exam was to eliminate reporting scores,” he wrote, which “makes about as much sense as Major League Baseball eliminating batting averages to assure that no ethnic cohort outperforms the others.”

Dr. Goldfarb’s book has an amusing title—which comes from an op-ed he wrote for this paper in 2019—but what it describes is nothing to laugh at. Those who complain about racial disparities in medical outcomes might consider how racial double standards contribute to them. Medical schools have been pressured to relax admission standards for diversity purposes, which has led to the relaxation of grading standards and licensure requirements.

Black doctors are more likely than white doctors to practice in medically underserved areas, but low-income blacks need second-rate doctors even less than they need second-rate teachers. For whatever reason, it seems lost on progressives that addressing the racial achievement gap in K-12 education would go a long way toward addressing the one in medical school.

[ Via: https://archive.is/HXGgR ]

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[ Source: National Student Group Scores and Score Gaps (Reading, Grade 4) ]

[ Source: National Student Group Scores and Score Gaps (Math, Grade 4) ]

[ Source: National Student Group Scores and Score Gaps (Reading, Grade 12) ]

[ Source: National Student Group Scores and Score Gaps (Math, Grade 12) ]

This is honestly the thing that's the most troubling. There are activists in schools masquerading as teachers who insist it's a moral imperative to teach young children complicated postmodern intersectional conspiracy theories, yet can't - or won't - actually teach those same kids to read.

"Antiracist" teachers behaving like black kids don't need to learn to read, and it's more important that they understand their place in a perverted conception of social hierarchy, is a disturbing rehabilitation of the KKK's golden years.

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Paul Gross, Marcus D'Amico, Chloe Webb, Stanley DeSantis, Olympia Dukakis + Laura Linney on Tales of the City (1993)

[closetofcuriosities]

Stanley Desantis - The X Files - 1994

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage 1994 Scooby Doo T-Shirt by Stanley Desantis Size Large Made in USA.

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New episode of Internet Today Daily, this time covering

Ron Desantis has fallen

Biden's AI Robocalls

Jack Burkman PUNISHED

Everyone hates this dumb law

Mr. Beast X Video update

Viral Stanley Cup arrest

Slip and slide Firetruck

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My 2024 Bingo card

-Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet breakup 

-Ron Desantis has a public meltdown(temper tantrum)

-Cole Labrant tries to be a politician 

-Euphoria season three is officially cancled

-Youtube family/Kardashian/royal family tell all video

-The election goes in a way no one expects 

-Kanye gets admitted to a psych ward 

-The downfall of booktok

-Nothing happens between Taylor and Travis(no breakup no engagement)

-King Charles dies

-Trisha Paytas gives birth the day the king dies

-Mitch Mcconnell kicks the bucket

-The Grammys are controversial as shit

-Major the youtuber/tiktoker arrested 

-Politician skincare line??

-Percy Jackson season two gets greenlit

-Someone dies on the 9 month cruise

-The met gala is a disaster 

-Rep and debut tv

-Bieber Divorce

-Gypsy Rose Blanchard influencer era (makeup, skincare, music)

-Netflix is canceled 

-Stanley cups become lame

-Ikea or other hardware store is scandal 

-Trump memoir 

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Parker Posey, Toni Collette, Lisa Kudrow, and Alanna Ubach in Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher, 1997)

Cast: Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Alanna Ubach, Helen FitzGerald, Stanley DeSantis, Jamie Kennedy, David James Elliott, Debra Jo Rupp, Kevin Cooney, Bob Balaban, Paul Dooley. Screenplay: Jill Sprecher, Karen Sprecher. Cinematography: Jim Denault. Production design: Pamela Marcotte. Film editing: Stephen Mirrione. Music: Mader. 

Blessed are the meek, they say. Certainly Iris (Toni Collette) qualifies as meek when, on her first day as a temp at a credit company, she does as she's told and sits patiently for a very long time until Barbara (Debra Jo Rupp), the human resources manager, sees her and scolds her for not letting anyone know she was there. Self-effacing to a fault, Iris soon finds herself with a group of new friends, all temps who have been "temporary" for quite a while (a dodge companies use to keep from paying benefits). Each of them is more outgoing than Iris: Margaret (Parker Posey) is sassy and subversive, eager to point out to Iris ways to do as little work as possible. Paula (Lisa Kudrow) claims to be just passing time while waiting for her big break as an actress. Jane (Alanna Ubach) is engaged and can't wait until marriage frees her from office work. Iris's father (Paul Dooley), meanwhile, is urging her to get a good job in sales, something that her shyness makes her unsuitable for. This is the setup for Jill Sprecher's satire on contemporary work in the kind of office, scored to the artificial peppiness of Muzak, that anyone who ever worked for a corporation that values productivity over creativity, routine over initiative, and regimentation over individuality will recognize. In Clockwatchers, meekness wins out: Iris lasts longer in the job than her friends, even after the company makes their work lives more miserable than ever. But she's bested by an employee even meeker than she is, but who adds sneakiness to the meekness. As satire, I happen to think the film is a little too low key, and that the casting of vivid actresses like Posey and Kudrow, wonderful as they are, works against the mood of the film, but it has the ring of truth throughout.  

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GOP Prez Race Loses Fatties: Only Skinny Hopefuls Left to Wrestle Trumpasaurus!

Yo, listen up! The GOP’s mega rumble for top dog in 2024 just got less squished, with a bunch of wannabe presidents peacing out. Now it's just a few tough cookies left to take on the big, bad Trumpasaurus. But peeps are all, "Yo, is it too late to find some other dude or dudette to wear the big elephant crown?" Stay tuned to see if the GOP can dig up a champ to go head-to-head with the Don! Alright, folks, let's talk about this whole kerfuffle with the Republican candidates trying to be the head honcho for 2024. It's like watching a bunch of muscle-bound dudes at the gym trying to one-up each other by lifting heavier weights, except these weights are states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and the muscles? Well, those are the votes and endorsements they're trying to flex. So, Senator Tim Scott decided to take his ball and go home, which was a total shocker to his crew. Maybe the game got too rough, or the other players were hogging the ball, but either way, he's out. Now, it's like a royal rumble with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis duking it out for the silver medal, 'cause let's be real, Trump's sitting pretty with the gold around his neck, at least for now. Haley's getting some big bucks thrown her way, with billionaire Stanley Druckenmillier backing her up. She's betting big on ads, hoping to spread her name like wildfire. Meanwhile, DeSantis is buddying up with the folks in Iowa, talking about how he doesn't like the same things they don't like, and scoring points with Governor Kim Reynolds. It's like a tag team forming right before the big match. But here's the kicker: while Haley and DeSantis are busy throwing jabs at each other, Trump's in the corner, chomping on popcorn, and loving the show. His team is even tossing out some zingers, calling Haley "Birdbrain" and DeSantis "DeSanctimonious," like they're trying out for a schoolyard insult contest. Now, some smarty-pants out there are saying that this whole scuffle could get nastier once it's just one of them against Trump. It's like when there's only one slice of pizza left, and everyone's too polite to take it, but you know deep down it's gonna cause a brawl. And let's not forget the folks still hanging on by a thread, hoping for a miracle or just enjoying the ride. It's like they didn't get the memo that the party’s over. But hey, you gotta give 'em points for sticking it out. So, what's the game plan for the Republicans? They're trying to figure out who's going to be the champ to take on the big T, but it's a slippery slope, and there's a lot of mudslinging to come. It's like they need to pick the best player for the team, but everyone wants to be the quarterback. In the end, it's all about who can charm the crowd, who's got the best one-liners, and who can dodge the mud the best. Politics, am I right? It's a wild ride, and we're all just here for the entertainment. Stay tuned, 'cause this show's just getting started. SAUCE: The 2024 Republican presidential field is rapidly shrinking. But is it too late to stop Trump? https://apnews.com/article/scott-haley-desantis-trump-republican-president-iowa-c64fa9a5e8ffc0694331d7d148aac5c1 Read the full article