Disney sometimes irks me.

Earlier today, I asked my college son if he'd like to join me at Disney over his spring break.

Except that my pass and the Florida resident passes are blacked out that week. It's unclear why - but my guess is that most Florida universities have spring break that same week, and they don't want a bunch of college students visiting for the week. So they're discouraging it.

And then I read an article...there was an incident at Disney world where a guest wound up pushing a castmember over some triviality. Like the Elaine two-hand shove.

Police were called. The guest was asked to leave the area.

But Disney declined to press charges, and the castmember has refused to as well.

And disney did NOT issue a trespass warning to the guy (meaning he wouldn't be welcome to visit Disney world again).

They said in a statement that the reason was...

(Drumroll)

He owns a DVC property and they'd have to consult with their legal teams to figure out what to do.

They essentially can't bar him from visiting because he owns a time share that he has to use.

Revenue above all!

And don't think for a moment that this won't be abused in the future. Now all DVC owners know they have the upper hand to get anything they want.

TikTok Banned From University of Texas Campus – R…

I will generally agree that Tiktok is a "threat" insomuch as it collects and uses a lot of data. But so do the other social platforms, and as we saw during the insurrection a few years back, they are all equally dangerous in that way. Tell me: do you know how twitter or Facebook use your data?

But tiktok is backed by the Chinese government. And in today's world, that's bad.

So every gop member wants it banned!

And in this case, Texas has taken steps to block it on government devices and public universities. But as the article points out, they block tiktok, but you are welcome to bring a gun on campus.

So something that may abuse your data is bad. But something that will kill you is good.

America's has its priorities so far out of whack.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tiktok-banned-university-of-texas-austin-campus-1234662400/

Could you possibly be any more racist?

Last week, flori-duhs governor announced that he wasn't going to allow AP African American studies to be taught in Florida schools. His statements were telling, along the lines of "there's no educational value"…. Which is sad, but right on brand.

I mean earlier, when the discussion was about Critical Race Theory (and by the way that is an awful name that makes it hard to understand what it is, exactly) he railed against that too. He likewise said it could not be taught here (every time I write something like that, he feels more like a dictator) because "it might make white people feel bad"

Which is up there in the racist speak.

And there was discussion about being sure that we talk about Columbus and glorifying his "discovery of America" and literally whitewashing history to be sure slavery is merely a footnote and that the white slave owners get all the attention.

Yep. You can't let white people feel bad. You have to leave that to everyone else.

Tuas concussion

The NFL and the players association said everything was handled properly with regard to Tua.

To which I say, the whole system is fucked up. And it sure feels like they're acting like Frank Dreben.

Which I suppose is apt. They're clueless, yet somehow manage to be effective (in terms of money and power anyway)

DeSantis’ Dubious COVID-19 Vaccine Claims - FactC…

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/12/scicheck-desantis-dubious-covid-19-vaccine-claims/

Oh look the concussion protocol is whack

Tua got hit "at some point" on Sunday. No one knows when, precisely, but he was not evaluated or taken out of the game for even a single play. Somehow the spotters - whose job it is to watch the game looking for signs of a concussion, especially for who the player the nfl enhanced rules were made for - missed it entirely.

But now he's in the concussion protocol. Having suffered his 3rd (officially his second because of the "neck injury") concussion. Have there been more they've missed as well? Probably.

The nfl, the doctors, the team...they just go about their business. "Yeah he had a concussion, but we can't rule him out next week."

Right.

Which just means the rules are meaningless and the nfl has no clue what it's doing.

On insurance.

"We've told consumers don't expect to see release relief within two years. The legislature needed to take strong action to save the Florida property insurance market.  To tell Florida your price is going to go down, is that realistic? It's not going to happen this year, next year, if ever. Rarely do we see the price of home insurance go down anywhere in the U.S. There's too many factors."

 — Mark Friedlander with the Insurance Information Institute  

If ever. All it does is protect "the industry" … the companies that make money. Not you or me. Good luck to us all.