Wednesday Shorts: Soros, Supremes, Cards

Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss

Seems George Soros’ Open Society Foundations is slashing its workforce by up to 40% after announcing “significant changes” Friday.

It comes after Alexander Soros, George Soros’s fourth child, was named chair of the organization’s board of directors in December, and just one month after he inherited complete control of the foundation from his father.

The move handed 37-year-old Alexander Soros huge financial responsibility: Open Society controls most of the assets under the management of Soros’s multibillion-dollar family office. In 2021, it allocated more than $400 million to organizations in the U.S. alone.

Alexander Soros, a graduate of New York University and the University of California, Berkeley, told the Wall Street Journal last month that he is “more political” than his father, a native Hungarian whose Jewish family disguised its identity under Nazi occupation and who has given away more than $32 billion of his personal fortune.Yahoo Finance

“More political” from a Berkeley grad..sigh. Just what we need. “Disguised its identity under Nazi occupation” – I always heard that as “collaborated”. Maybe I misheard.

Failing to grasp the concept

Seems the liberal pundits’ heads are blowing up with the revelation that the “gay couple” at the heard of the recent Supreme Court decision which said a website designer COULD religiously object to doing work she though glorified something she didn’t believe in – doesn’t exist.

A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today could refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her. Star Advertiser

The guy cited is straight and married for 15 years, so said talking heads think the whole case should be thrown out. Apparently they miss that a) he was not the reason the original case was filed, but came up later as a cite during the appeals process, and b) the Supremes are involved due to a principle of law being at stake, not whether one was-he-or-wasn’t he husband was quoted.

Cards Get it Right

This one got me. A thirteen year old baseball star committed suicide March 6 due to bullying from his classmates. He was a lifelong Cardinals fan whose dearest wish was to play for St. Louis, and seemed to have the stuff to do it:

Terry was a baseball phenom. There had been talk in Covington about moving Terry up to the varsity team this spring as a seventh grader, said his grandpa, the eldest Terry Badger. He was a third baseman and pitcher who could throw 71 miles an hour and who batted .400 last season, including a home run that sailed more than 300 feet.

Terry had 27 home runs in his career. He signed and saved every one of those balls. He had too many championship trophies to count, too many to fit on the shelves in his bedroom. Terry was looking forward to the upcoming season playing for Indiana Nitro Gold, the top travel team in the Westfield organization’s 13U age division.

But on March 6, in the final moments before he died, Terry believed his life wasn’t worth living. He was tired of the bullying. There were kids at Covington Middle School, the family alleges, who bullied Terry every day, asking if he shopped at Goodwill, calling him a “fatass,” making fun of his shoes, laughing at his haircut, telling him he was worthless.

“I get picked on every (single) day and I hate my life,” Terry said in the video he recorded after school on March 6, before he took his life. “You can thank (Terry listed his bullies’ names) for this.” Then Terry turned off the video and put his phone down.

At Sunday’s game against the New York Yankees, the Cardinals honored Terry in a pregame ceremony. The team presented his family with a custom-made jersey with Terry’s name and number on the back.

His Dad threw out the first pitch to a standing ovation from 40,000 fans.  Oh, and the Cards beat the Yankees 5-1.  Read the article. It’s a good one.

 

 

 

 

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