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[ (Critical Race Theory) isn’t really education at all, not in the sense in which the term has been understood in the post-Enlightenment era. It is closer to pre-Enlightenment religious instruction: the imparting of doctrinal truth with the practical aim of saving souls and reordering the world. Hence its migration from college campuses to K-12 schools, where its practitioners expect to find supple and more-suggestible minds. They have taken to heart the old Jesuit maxim about the first seven years of life. – Gerard Baker in the 22jun21 WSJ (here)]

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382 responses to “Sandbox – 22jun21”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Same news, different day.
    Biden Tells Illegal Aliens ‘Don’t Come’ For TV Cameras, Then Plans To End Program That Sends Illegals Home
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/22/biden-tells-illegal-aliens-dont-come-for-tv-cameras-then-plans-to-end-program-that-sends-illegals-home/
    —————
    ‘Obama Policing Task Force Member Blames Cops For Democrat-Induced Crime Surges’
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/22/obama-policing-task-force-member-blames-cops-for-democrat-induced-crime-surges/
    ————————-
    Washington Post ‘Clarifies’ Error-Riddled Hit Piece On Top Anti-CRT Investigative Journalist
    The article is a part of the left’s response to stinging critiques of the open racism embodied in critical race theory, which has led to Chris Rufo and others being targeted
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/22/washington-post-clarifies-error-riddled-hit-piece-on-top-anti-crt-investigative-journalist/

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Crabb’s latest in The Union is the ugliest misrepresentation yet by the crabbman.
    Invented partisan history.
    How to count the ways? One, there have been a number of attempts to find mass graves of uncounted victims using modern equipment… nothing has yet been found. Also, if a mass grave is ever found, the bones will be of dead black Republicans, and their killers will have been mostly white Democrats. Klansmen were Democrats, after all.
    Crabb, you should be ashamed of yourself.

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  3. George Rebane Avatar

    re Gregory 1242pm – The referenced Crabb cartoon is here. Another sad example indeed of Democrats denying their past, and now attempting to heap it on the shoulders of others.
    https://www.rlcrabb.com/politics/history-deleted/

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That did not last long –
    President Biden’s approval rating among voters in the state of Iowa has plummeted in recent months.
    More Iowans disapprove of the job Biden is doing than approve – Biden has a 43% approval rating and 52% disapproval rating, according to a recent Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll. Five percent of people polled said they are not sure whether they approve or disapprove.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-approval-rating-iowa-poll-kamala-harris
    😉

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  5. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    A little off topic but the supervisors just appointed a new DA to replace the retiring Cliff Newell. Heidi Hall did not support Chris Walsh. Because she was involved in a DUI with the DA’s office and Chris Walsh as the ADA, she probably should have recused herself.

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya think @136?
    😉

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    If they wanted to pull a Woke Coke and see their sales drop, they would have replaced Aunt Jemima with Aunt Maxine on the syrup bottles. Or James Brown in his Aunt Maxie wig. And
    ‘Angela Davis for Aunt Jemima: A Plan for Woke Product Packaging’
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/angela-davis-for-aunt-jemima–a-plan-for-woke-product-packaging/
    Now, what to do with Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies?

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    darn… the Sierra Boomstick Counseling is no longer needed.
    The 9th Circus has put a permanent stay on the Benitez ruling striking down the kali Fun Gun ban… until the 9th has a hearing on it.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Why can’t all Catholics be more like Joe Biden? The Dems love Joe Biden Catholics. Ironically, it’s the Dems who once screamed “Seperation of Church and State!”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-democrat-suggests-stripping-catholic-church-of-tax-exempt-status-if-biden-denied-communion

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 22 June 2021 at 02:30 PM
    Would probably be better for all if Xho Bai Den just gave up his fake piety. He doesn’t need it for voter pandering any longer so it’s really of no use to him.
    He’s not fooling anyone.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    RAWsewage again? This time from “jon”? Nope, didn’t see that float by last evening. Must be fake news.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Lolipop? Yup,, sounds like an all day SUCKER to me.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Bad day for lefties, first the federal hijack of voting crashes and burns and then this –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/22/federal-judge-blm-cant-sue-trump-barr-over-lafayette-square/
    😉

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  14. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    A redux of your 9-month old column:
    23 September 2020, Following the Covid Science (addended)
    George Rebane
    [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 23 September 2020.]
    It covers a number of covid related items, including a letter from a large (Belgian) group of MDs/health folks. None of the bulleted items were ever implemented, including questioning the value of the WHO, or a call on politicians to inform themselves independently and critically about the available evidence – including that from experts with different views.
    How little we’ve learned about complex viral, bio & social functioning.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wow. I see it is safe to dust off my ball cap and come outside. I can smell the love and tolerance in the air. June is Busting Out All Over.
    ‘Leaked Teacher Training Documents Show Iowa Government Schools Classify ‘Make America Great Again’ As White Supremacy’
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/22/leaked-teacher-training-documents-show-iowa-government-schools-classify-make-america-great-again-as-white-supremacy/
    Hmmm. According to the graph, under ‘Covert White Supremacy (Socially Acceptable)’ is Assuming Good Intentions Are Enough. My goodness, if there were ever proof of widespread systematic Liberal racism, there it is all spelled out: Assuming good intentions are enough. Bingo.
    Beware of White Liberal Supremacy.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wait A Second, Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Calls For Tearing Down Highways?
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/21/joe-biden-infrastructure-roads-bridges-highway/
    Ok, what about those who live on the other side of the tracks? What about them?

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Remember Jan 6th!” is their 2022 and 2024 rallying cry.
    WATCH: White House uses Jan 6 Capitol riot as justification for federal voting legislation
    “State legislatures across the country are passing a wave of anti-voter laws based on the same repeatedly disproven lies that led to an assault on our nation’s capital,” Psaki said.
    https://thepostmillennial.com/white-house-hr1-jan-6-justification?utm_campaign=64469
    ———
    More pavers on the road to hell, aka, good intentions.
    ‘Iran’s incoming president shoots down Biden plan to expand nuclear deal to missile program’
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/iran-incoming-president-shoots-down-biden-plan-expand-nuclear-deal-missile-program
    Ok, I lied. I never believed the Iran deal had good intentions as it’s catalyst. Stupid is as stupid does.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Reality bites another millionaire eco dilatant in the ass –
    But local activists insist that his project is invasive and will “destroy the fish breeding grounds” there.
    “Groups like Defend Blackadore Caye and Bonefish & Tarpon Trust organized campaigns against the resort with reported $5M-$15M ‘living homes,’ research station, residents club, and an anti-aging center,” the paper reported.
    DiCaprio has spent years acting as a climate change activist but has made headlines for various eco controversies, like in 2016 when he flew 8,000 miles across Europe and the U.S. on gas-guzzling private jets. It was just one month after he told the United Nations that “our planet cannot be saved, unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground, where they belong.”
    The protesters also slammed DiCaprio’s claims that his plans are eco-friendly. They say his ideas are far less green than he and his developers claim.
    “For DiCaprio to label this plan as environmentally conscious is just a sales pitch,” tour company operator Rebecca Arceo, adding, “He’s a complete hypocrite in my opinion. Fly fishing is a huge deal in Belize for the tourism industry. To call his plan green is totally disgusting.”
    Locals were also incensed that a rich guy from Hollywood came to their homes and claimed he was there to “heal” them by building a resort for foreign millionaires, the Mail reported.
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/06/22/belize-locals-and-fishermen-have-blocked-leonardo-dicaprio-luxury-eco-resort-with-protests-for-16-years/
    😉

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow’s Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts’
    “Maddow’s show is different than a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news,” an Obama-appointed judge ruled.
    “Viewers expect her to do so, as it is indeed her show, and viewers watch the segment with the understanding that it will contain Maddow’s “personal and subjective views” about the news. See id. Thus, the Court finds that as a part of the totality of the circumstances, the broad context weighs in favor of a finding that the alleged defamatory statement is Maddow’s opinion and exaggeration of the Daily Beast article, and that reasonable viewers would not take the statement as factual. . . .
    Here, Maddow had inserted her own colorful commentary into and throughout the segment, laughing, expressing her dismay (i.e., saying “I mean, what?”) and calling the segment a “sparkly story” and one we must “take in stride.” For her to exaggerate the facts and call OAN Russian propaganda was consistent with her tone up to that point, and the Court finds a reasonable viewer would not take the statement as factual given this context. The context of Maddow’s statement shows reasonable viewers would consider the contested statement to be her opinion. A reasonable viewer would not actually think OAN is paid Russian propaganda, instead, he or she would follow the facts of the Daily Beast article; that OAN and Sputnik share a reporter and both pay this reporter to write articles. Anything beyond this is Maddow’s opinion or her exaggeration of the facts.
    In sum, ruled the court, Rachel Maddow is among those “speakers whose statements cannot reasonably be interpreted as allegations of fact.” Despite Maddow’s use of the word “literally” to accuse OAN of being a “paid Russian propaganda” outlet, the court dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that, given Maddow’s conduct and her audience’s awareness of who she is and what she does, “the Court finds that the contested statement is an opinion that cannot serve as the basis for a defamation claim.””
    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers
    Oh my. Looks like our local lefties just got pegged. They are not “reasonable viewers” without or without brains, lol
    “In concluding that Maddow’s statement would be understood even by her own viewers as non-factual, the judge emphasized that what Maddow does in general is not present news but rather hyperbole and exploitation of actual news to serve her liberal activism……”
    “The judge’s observations about the specific segment at issue — in which Maddow accused a competitor of being “literally paid Russian propaganda” — was even more damning. Maddow’s own viewers, ruled the court, not only expect but desire that she will not provide the news in factual form but will exaggerate and even distort reality in order to shape her opinion-driven analysis (emphasis added):
    ….and the Court finds a reasonable viewer would not take the statement (Rachel Maddcow’s) as factual given this context.
    The Courts also found that reasonable viewers know that Roberta Maddcow is full of beans, the magical fruit.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    So Lefties,, just how many of you are going to that anarchtic
    wasteland known as Portland on vacation? They have put out the (LOL) welcome mat for visitors. I hear you get a free helmet (black of course) and a souvenir Molotov cocktail.(made out of a miniature whiskey bottle)
    If your real lucky, a spent teargas canister.(signed by a ranking ANTIFA member)

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Woke but not that woke. LOL –
    Joint Chiefs warn against bill aimed at revamping military justice system
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/joint-chiefs-warn-against-bill-204248760.html
    😉

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Walt. Get with the times. Ever since Drugstore Cowboy put Portland on the map and herb shops and artist studios starting popping up in the old warehouse buildings, Portland has reinvented itself as Portlandia. Been like that for a few years. PS: evening brother. Surviving the heat and ready to bitch slap, I see. You are indeed recovering at a nice pace.
    ———————————-
    Portlandia. First, I watched and watched and finally came the long awaited day came when Seattle overtook the Berkeley City Council (and Oakland) was the #1 wackiest place on The Left Coast. Gave all of us Californians a bad name. Brunt of jokes.
    Sure, Seattle has its avowed Maoist socialist(s) on the city council making a way bigger stink than AOC could only dream of…but, but, but….Portlandia’s boytoy mayor almost lost to an straight up Antifa candidate in the last mayor’s race. He did not win by that much.
    Portlandia has jumped into the top spot, overtaking Seattle is short order and leaving Berkeley in distant dust. But, Portland works for just fine. Portlandia is probably already out of date. Never mine.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “….Fear of ostracism is rational. But we are now living in a world in which evolutionary biologists are threatened with losing their platforms for engaging in debate about the source and treatment of a deadly virus; in which prize-winning composers have been professionally ruined for saying arson is bad; in which authors are editing already-published books to placate online mobs. That should scare us far more than losing friends or status…..”
    https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-books-are-already-burning
    But, ya know, blah blah blah some Trump poll or the other blah blah.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Yes Bill,, getting my old self back.
    Water truck duty today. Same tomorrow. It all pays the same.
    I see next week the heat comes back. Now the days start getting shorter. Did Emery sacrifice himself like a good pagan on the 20TH?

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of Emery.(now lolipop) looks like your going to pay more to get your piss poor news.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/supes-hike-sewer-rate/
    “Some Nevada County residents will pay more for sewer fees after a unanimous vote Tuesday by supervisors to increase wastewater rates over the next five years.”

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Teaching tribalism –
    California university holding additional graduate ceremonies for students based on race, sexual orientation
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/california-university-holding-additional-graduate-215529882.html
    😉

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt.
    Hmmm. It just occurred to me that our famous local former News Director went to Oregon ever year, everytime there was the summer solace…..to burn squash and hopefully the smoke rose up and pleased the burnt squash gods. Oregon. Never asked if it was in the Portland Area, but maybe farther south near Rosenberg, where those Shakespearian tragedies are a hit with the audiences. Who knows, who cares. Probably somewhere in Portlandia, a lefty state of mind. Our so called ‘local boy’ went to HS in Seattle. The statue of Lenin has remained untouched in Seattle, even with all the mayhem going on in during the Summer of Love inside the walls of CHOP CITY. Portlandia is closer.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The champ throws his patented big roundhouse haymaker….swing and a miss! He is losing his legs, staggering across the ring. Do the rope a dope, Champ, get to the ropes!
    Oh my. I love it when the Dems do their self-introspection and come away with the magic answer is ‘they didn’t get their message out.” It’s their sure fire winning strategy…again. Keep getting your message out, my furry friends on the dark side of the street. Get your message out.
    Byron York’s Daily Memo: Democrats’ voter ID debacle
    DEMOCRATS VOTER ID DEBACLE. We’ve known for many years that most Americans favor laws requiring voters to produce identification in order to vote. Democrats who passionately claim that voter ID is discriminatory do not have the public on their side.
    Sometimes a new poll comes along at just the right time. And now, as Democrats push a draconian “voting rights” bill that would federalize elections under rules favorable to Democratic candidates, a new poll shows just how unpopular voter ID is. The poll came as Democratic Senator Joe Manchin pushed changes to his party’s bill, including a provision to add a voter ID requirement.
    On Monday, Monmouth University released a survey covering a number of voting proposals. Among the questions, the pollsters asked was: “In general do you support or oppose requiring voters to show a photo ID in order to vote?”
    The headline is that 80 percent of those surveyed — a huge majority — favored photo ID. Just 18 percent said they opposed. That left just two percent who didn’t know, which means that voter ID is an issue about which most Americans have a considered opinion.
    Now look inside the numbers. Among Republicans, 91 percent supported photo ID. Among independents, 87 percent. And among Democrats, 62 percent. Democratic leaders in Washington know that a solid majority of their own voters support a measure some of them have been denouncing for years.
    Looking at the results along racial lines, 77 percent of white voters supported photo ID — and 84 percent of non-white voters supported it, too. Along educational lines, 69 percent of Americans with a four-year college degree favored ID, and 85 percent of those with no degree favored it. When divided by age, 78 percent of Americans age 18 to 34 supported it, 82 percent of those 35 to 54 supported it, and 79 percent of people 55 and older supported it. And on the income scale, 81 percent of people who make less than $50,000 a year supported ID, while 82 percent of people who make between $50,000 and $100,000 supported it, and 76 percent of people who make more than $100,000 supported it.
    Bottom line: Americans support voter ID. They just do. And now, with Manchin’s voter ID proposal and the Monmouth poll, Stacey Abrams, the failed Democratic candidate for governor Georgia who has become the party’s voting-rights heroine, has flip-flopped on the issue and now says she not only supports voter ID but that she has never opposed it.
    “That’s one of the fallacies of Republican talking points that have been deeply disturbing,” Abrams said on CNN recently. “No one has ever objected to having to prove who you are to vote. It’s been part of our nation’s history since the inception of voting.”
    Republicans were quick to point to Abrams has in fact long denounced voter ID. Look at this exchange on CNN from October 2018, when Abrams was running for governor:
    QUESTION: Your opponent, Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, says that those 53,000 voters can still vote on Election Day if they show an ID at the polls. Why is that not good enough?
    ABRAMS: The problem is two-fold. One is that you have 53,000 who — people who are being forced to go through unnecessary hurdles to prove their bona fides. But the second is that you have 159 counties, thousands of volunteer and paid poll workers who are going to be asked to substantially verify that these IDs are sufficient. And the challenges there is, this is a subjective standard…This is simply a redux of a failed system that is designed to both scare people out of voting and make it harder for those who are willing to push through, make it harder for them to vote.
    As recently as this April, Abrams was making the same argument. Other Democrats, like Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, are also trying to move away from earlier statements.
    It’s actually a healthy process. What is happening is that some party leaders had gotten so carried away with fringe proposals, surfing on the support of activists and Twitter voices, that they lost touch with the opinions of their own voters. Now, with Manchin and the Monmouth poll, they are becoming reacquainted with their voters’ views. That’s a good thing.
    Quote unquote.
    The Champ on the ropes is waiting for us to wear ourselves out, then bam, bam, out goes the lights. He is just biden his time.

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  29. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2021/55_of_voters_support_election_audits
    I am pretty sure that Democrats are gonna get caught cheating in the election. That’s why they are doing everything to ignore or discredit the audits. Busted.
    Freudian slip.
    https://rumble.com/vc539l-biden-admits-election-fraud-video.html

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    That’s my Gal. She is something special.
    ‘LEAKED CABLE: Hillary Clinton Privately Warned France that Wuhan P4 Lab May Lead to Bioweapon Research’
    More broadly on the question of China’s biological weapons program, Secretary Clinton’s cable noted:
    “The U.S. believes AG members would be interested in any information you can share related to China and North Korea, specifically information related to:
    China’s Institutes of Biological Products (locations in Beijing and Wuhan), to include overhead imagery analysis, if possible.
    Your perceptions of the CBW proliferation activities by Chinese entities.
    Your perceptions of Chinese government efforts to enforce its export control rules.”
    Since the outbreak of COVID19 and questions surrounding the Wuhan lab, Hillary Clinton has never spoken publicly of these concerns, but has attacked people bringing them up as racist, and blamed them for attacks on Asian-Americans, without evidence.
    https://humanevents.com/2021/06/23/leaked-cable-hillary-clinton-privately-warned-france-that-wuhan-p4-lab-may-lead-to-bioweapon-research/

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Poll dancing.
    ‘The honeymoon is over for Biden as approval numbers drop, disapproval numbers spike’
    As his term progresses, Biden’s approval rating continues trending down at a rate significantly faster than that of his Democrat predecessors.
    “According to the firm’s May survey, Biden’s approval numbers are trending down. Perhaps more importantly, his disapproval numbers are rising sharply.
    In the Real Clear Politics average, Biden’s approval rating has drifted down to 52.3% as of June 22, which equals his previous low as president. Meanwhile, his current disapproval average has spiked to 43.6%, just shy of his previous high, and up from 36% at the close of his first week in the White House. (One caveat: The majority of the polls factored into his latest averages do not reflect his recent performance in Europe.)
    During a Monday appearance on “Just the News AM,” McLaughlin repeatedly cited “upside down” support among independents as a particularly ominous sign for the future of the Biden presidency’s popular standing. The president is now underwater among these crucial swing voters, with 47% approving and 51% disapproving. Just 44% of independent voters believe the country is headed in the “right direction,” which McLaughlin says is likely a bellwether for 2022 voting patterns.
    The president’s approval has fallen to just 44% among white voters and 47% with likely 2022 male voters. Female voters, however, remain heavily pro-Biden, giving him a 59% approval rating, while a resounding 87% of African-American voters give him a thumbs-up.“
    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/hold-honeymoon-over-biden-approval-numbers-dip-disapproval-numbers-surge

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  32. Scott O Avatar

    Ah, so now it’s GOOD to send the feds into the crime-ridden cities.
    What a different tune the Dems are singing!
    https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/06/23/doj-launches-firearms-trafficking-strike-forces-democrat-controlled-cities/
    This ought to be interesting to watch. What are they actually planning to do – ‘stop ‘n frisk’? Execute no-knock warrants? Ask politely that they turn in their illegal weapons?
    Will we get a breakdown of skin color of those actually arrested?
    Will ‘underserved communities’ be targeted?
    Film at 11!

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  33. Scott O Avatar

    To follow on with just how the feds will ‘crack down’ on gun violence:
    https://thecrimereport.org/2021/06/23/doj-launches-strike-forces-to-target-gun-trafficking/
    Total hilarity – “Around $350 billion in federal funds will be used to hire additional law enforcement officers…”
    So – they ‘defund’ the police at the local level and then the American tax payers back fill the gap. Pretty cool.
    ““This is a historic amount of funding that the President is making available to cities and states through the American Rescue Plan to invest in a range of tools to reduce gun violence in their communities,” a senior administration told Time.”
    Yeah, all it takes is more and more money.
    The gang bangers will learn quick. Shoot the place up and watch the pallets of money flow in. I guess the trick is to reward bad behavior and then the bad behavior stops?
    And the best is for last –
    “…the administration is also expected today to announce plans to implement a policy that revokes licenses from dealers the first time they violate federal law, according to Axios.”
    Ya mean like selling fire arms to known crack addicts who lie on their applications?

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    New Video Shows University Of Oklahoma Faculty Teaching How To Silence And Punish ‘Problematic’ Conservatives
    ‘In the classroom, free speech does not apply,’ a workshop spokeswoman said. ‘As instructors, we can tell our students no, you do not have the right to say that, stop talking right now.’
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/23/new-video-shows-university-of-oklahoma-faculty-teaching-how-to-silence-and-punish-problematic-conservatives/
    Hmmm. Sounds like the ole ‘Children should be seen, not heard.’

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 23 June 2021 at 11:36 AM
    Scott…..stop being so childish…..everything that you mentioned, Stop and Frisk, No knock warrant service, all of it is all fine now that the right people are in charge again!

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@11:36PM
    “One of the workshop’s spokeswomen, Kelli Pyron Alvarez, said she prohibits “white supremacist ideas or sources” as well as “derogatory remarks, critiques, and hate speech” from her classroom …etc.”
    Well, of course.
    Here, check this out. There’s no homerun of craziness, but it’s worth a look-see.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58k5xe0-WOk
    The girl on the bottom is KP Alvarez. It’s a bunch of children emitting word salad. Getting involved in the Cold Civil War is essentially the only way these folks can achieve any sort of status. In a sane world no one would give a damn what they had to say about anything, but these are not sane times. They are simply surfing a wave and I can’t say that I blame them.

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  37. George Rebane Avatar

    More from Idiot Land – “With Its Power Grid Under Pressure, California Asks Residents to Avoid Charging Electric Vehicles”
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/with-its-power-grid-under-pressure-california-asks-residents-to-avoid-charging-electric-vehicles_3870841.html/

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Great find George!!🤣 Just wait till CNG is outlawed.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    The Proggys whine that the Repubs used the filibuster.
    Yet THEY are the ones who relied on it SO many times.
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/22/jake-tapper-richard-blumenthal-filibuster-cnn/
    “According to Fox News anchor John Roberts’ recent tally, however, Democrats used the filibuster over 300 times in the last year — Republicans used it just once.”

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Biden wants to attack guns for the rise in crime.(not the LIB idea of decriminalizing crime, and not prosecuting.)
    OK,, That means we can blame the fork for the morbidly obese.

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Where is our voting expert Emery?
    I’m sure he has a real good explanation for this.
    “California’s November 3, 2020 election was marred by significant voting and registration irregularities, says the Election Integrity Project® California, Inc. (EIPCa), the California Globe reported. There are 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible citizens and that’s only one of the irregularities.”
    https://www.independentsentinel.com/cali-has-1-8-million-more-registered-to-vote-than-eligible-is-this-how-it-went-socialist/

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  42. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 510pm – To a progressive wearing their election-integrity blinders (e.g. PaulE), there can be no evidence of election fraud or irregularity until it is successfully prosecuted. That is a pernicious definition of reality that all leftists hold dear to their heart, no matter how strong is the extra-judicial evidence to counter it. And that is why for them the 2020 election was squeaky clean.

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re:GeorgeR@2:50
    It looks to me like they just want people to time shift their car charging activities outside of peak usage hours…along with all the normal ‘put your thermostat at 78 degrees, don’t run your dryer, etc’ sort of verbiage.
    The sad thing to me is that the natural side effect of shortages is attempts to smooth the usage rather than to increase capacity (‘smart’ appliances, etc). You end up running the whole system at the ragged edge constantly, a funny side effect of getting clever with all of this. When it breaks, it’s really gonna break.

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    Paul Emery

    George
    It as “squeaky Clean” according to Trumps Attorney General Barr as well who was quoted saying ” “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election.”
    In particular, Barr mentioned one claim made by the president’s supporters that voting machines were programmed somehow to skew the results. Barr said the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security looked into those allegations and said they had not found anything to substantiate them.
    https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/940819896/barr-says-no-election-fraud-has-been-found-by-federal-authorities

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    Don Bessee

    Looks like snowball fights in hell –
    Early NYC mayoral results deal blow to teachers’ union
    “We need to identify those charter schools that are failing and those are the schools we need to replace with the schools who are doing a good job. The goal is to scale up excellence,” Adams said according to Politico. “We have too many charter schools and district schools that are not meeting the standards that are needed … to talk about caps and non-caps is just the wrong conversation. What we’re capping is excellence.”
    Adams, a former captain in the New York City Police Department and the current Brooklyn borough president, was considered the front-runner heading into the primary vote, according to an average of recent polls. He has pledged to lead a crackdown on gun violence and reform law enforcement tactics even as he rejected calls among some contenders to “defund” the police.
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/early-nyc-mayoral-results-deal-160328071.html
    😉

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    Paul Emery

    And then there’s this report on the Republican investigation into Michagan elections who affirmed that there was no fraud. Here’s a quote from the main autho of the report, Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Vulcan “no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud,”
    From the Detroit News:
    “Lansing — A long-awaited report on the 2020 election from a GOP-controlled Michigan Senate committee recommended that Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel consider investigating individuals who pushed false claims “to raise money or publicity for their own ends.”
    The suggestion was among the most striking details of the Senate Oversight Committee’s recap of a months-long examination of the presidential election. The report was released Wednesday with its main author, Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Vulcan, saying he found “no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud,” contradicting months of assertions from some members of his own party, including former President Donald Trump.
    “The committee finds those promoting Antrim County as the prime evidence of a nationwide conspiracy to steal the election place all other statements and actions they make in a position of zero credibility,” the report said.
    https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/23/michigan-senate-recommends-attorney-general-investigate-false-election-claims/5312166001/

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    Paul Emery

    That report was just released today. Here’s a link to the actual report:
    https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/BOE_2020_Post_Election_Audit_Report_04_21_21_723005_7.pdf

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