[ (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”
A little sunlight to disinfect the socialists in FLA –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-gov-signs-bill-permitting-college-students-record-professors
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NPR? National Progressive radio.
Sure Emery, a fine reputable source of Progressive BS.
But I see you don’t go anywhere near my post.
All those illegitimate voters right here in Ca.
Some day you might pull your head out of your ass and see reality.
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Did you read my link to the actual report Walt?
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Did you read mine? Of course you didn’t.
Your a Biden boot licker,, Biden said there were gun restrictions when the 2ND Amendment was written.
I dare you to find those written restrictions.
In other words HE LIED. He also thinks the 2ND is for hunting.
Another bullshit statement.
Just some facts that you will refuse to talk about.
But HEY!! You voted for the brain damaged asswipe.
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Another link you won’t touch,,Emery…
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/23/joe-biden-gun-control-violent-crime-rate-nuclear-weapons/
Yet the Brain damaged one claimed we almost over through the gov. without firing a shot. You know,, “insurrection day”.
A real winner you voted for.
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Sorry Emery,, Biden didn’t “win*” by millions of votes as you tried to claim.
Just 48,000. scattered across the land.
And now that voting is getting a needed fix, Proggy cheating
won’t work a second time.
So lose some sleep knowing Trump will win again.
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The pony tail of ignorance will not be able to deal with the fact the margin in the swing states was razor thin and cali and ny numbers are irrelevant as they always go socialist dem. LOL
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The oh so trendy goes the way all flash things of the moment, not enough vegans to go national after the try it period grows cold and it costs more –
it did not sell as well as expected’ said the wannabe wokesters at hq
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/dunkin-skips-breakfast-with-beyond-meat
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In this discussion I am limiting it to opinions and input as to the Michigan Republican report on elections in their state which found no wrongdoing. Yes I read it Walt. it’s only 40 pages-go for it. You can do it.
Here’s the official conclusion from the report:
Conclusion:
Election officials successfully conducted the November 2020 election, a remarkable achievement given the many challenges officials across the state faced in conducting the election. After the most extensive audits in state history, no evidence of intentional misconduct of fraud by election officials was discovered. Election officials should improve training and procedures to ensure better documentation of ballots received and tabulated, particularly in absent voter counting boards to reduce the number of precincts out of balance. Improvements in training, as well as use of the Qualified Voter File applications, requires a joint effort with local, county, and state officials, and will be a point of emphasis in training and application design for the Bureau of Elections in the current election cycle.
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Speaking of self serving ignorant wokesters –
“If Meghan Markle really wanted to be provocative and challenge people’s views, she would push back on men who abandon their wives, partners, and children and reject the destructive narrative that tells boys and young men that their natural behaviors are inappropriate, toxic, dangerous, and in need of reform,” Gunlock said in a statement to Fox News. “Markle thinks she’s produced something new, but she’s done nothing original or even interesting. Masculine behaviors in boys and young men and traditional fatherhood aren’t the problem. What is a problem in this society is children growing up without fathers and boys being told they are inherently bad or damaged.”
“Meghan and Harry’s hubris and self-importance are reaching new heights as Meghan declares she is reimagining fatherhood for the world with her new children’s book. Aside from the fact that they have been parents for like two hot minutes, I’m not sure we should be taking advice on fatherhood from two narcissistic psuedo celebrities who are estranged from their own fathers,” she said.
“The Duchess of Sussex’s semi-literate vanity project leaves Harry holding the baby,” wrote The Telegraph’s Claire Allfree in another brutal review.
Allfree was also one of many critics to point out the book’s rough rhythm and questionable grammar. In the final line of the book, for instance, Markle takes liberties by shortening the word alone to ‘lone: “Right there on your bench/The place you’ll call home…With daddy and son…Where you’ll never be ‘lone.”
“One wonders how any publisher could have thought to publish this grammar-defying set of badly rhyming cod homilies, let alone think any child anywhere would want to read it,” Allfree wrote. “But that’s planet Sussex for you
https://www.foxnews.com/media/moms-meghan-markles-fatherhood-book
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That how it’s done Emery, ignore all the other evidence.
SCREW the facts. Kinda like how the investigations went.
The DOJ didn’t do ANY looking.
So you pick the irrelevant one. Never mind the states that ignored their own voting laws.
No Emery, I’m not going to play your game of “SQUIRRAL!! look over here!”
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Who cares what you think Walt. I certainly don’t.
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Paul E 8:48, after another of several tete-a-tetes with Walt. – “Who cares what you think Walt. I certainly don’t.”
Uh oh – Careful Walt – that’s what the stalkers always say. Maybe Paul wore out his Ann Coulter doll and has new photos all over his bedroom walls.
When the stalker denies the fatal attraction, that’s usually the tip-off.
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‘Sabotaging the Poor, Selling Out for Politics’
“He was guilty of trying to organize a jail break.”
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sabotaging-the-poor–selling-out-for-politics/
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Biden in a bind.
BIDEN HAS NOTHING TO OFFER ON THE EXPLOSIVE ISSUE OF VIOLENT CRIME [UPDATED]
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/06/biden-has-nothing-to-offer-on-the-explosive-issue-of-violent-crime.php
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Haw …..haw….haw…..hawhawhawhaw…..!
https://babylonbee.com/news/youll-never-beat-the-government-with-just-guns-says-party-that-also-believes-government-was-almost-toppled-by-unarmed-mob-on-january-6
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Andrew McCathy. Too many money quotes to copy and paste.
‘Worried about rising violent crime? You can thank today’s progressives’
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/559760-worried-about-rising-violent-crime-you-can-thank-todays-progressives
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How Federal Cop Control Left Liberals Joyless in Seattle (Also, Tear-Gassed)
Under an Obama-era consent decree, Seattle was powerless to defund police last year. More such surrenders of local control to federal judges are likely as the Biden administration revives decrees.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/06/23/want_federal_control_of_cops_seattle_got_it_complete_with_blast_grenades_and_tear_gas_782088.html
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‘Biden Is Missing His Moment on Crime’
The president is uniquely positioned to pull his party back toward the center on an issue of growing importance to voters. So why hasn’t he?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/biden-is-missing-his-moment-on-crime/
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Majority Again Says We’re on the Wrong Track
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/majority-again-says-were-on-the-wrong-track/?
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Police Data Debunks Joe Biden’s Push For Gun Control
https://www.oann.com/police-data-debunks-joe-bidens-push-for-gun-control/
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Scott O @ 9:06 pm
“Who cares what you think Walt. I certainly don’t.” Ah, the little boy whistling by the graveyard. At least Walt still takes to the man. Dr. Rebane rolls his eyes and answers paul empty when summoned. Paul emery should be grateful someone like Walt is willing to talk to him while he is in the penalty box.
All in all, sounds like another fine opportunity to go walk the dog. “I don’t care what you think”, roflmao. You needs you anyway!
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Fact is indeed stranger than fiction. Rules for Radicals. Oh my.
White House Rewrites History With Claim That Republicans, Not Democrats, Tried To Defund The Police
Unfortunately for White House staff, the rest of the country isn’t as amnesic as their bossman Joe Biden, which is why when press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday tried to pretend it was actually Republicans, not Democrats, who attempted to defund the police, it was easy to call hogwash.
The pants-on-fire moment came in response to a question from Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who asked about Biden’s new “comprehensive strategy to combat violent crime and gun violence” that includes a “whole-of-government approach” to hamper the flow of firearms, provide federal support for local law enforcement, and expand summer programming and job opportunities for young people.
Is the idea that criminals are going to stop committing crimes if they have a summer job? Doocy wanted to know.
Psaki’s response gets a handful of Pinocchios:“……..
https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/23/white-house-rewrites-history-with-claim-that-republicans-not-democrats-tried-to-defund-the-police/
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Hey is that that linda camblle hadrian? Check it out –
Political cartoon of the day: Garbage in, garbage out?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cartoons-slideshow#
😉
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The left has lost the ability to critically think. Paul is a perfect example. The left are simply lemmings who always believe what CNN and the Democrats tell them. Such lack of critical thinking is actually ruining our country.
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Critical thinking to the left means something different… more storytelling. You don’t have to make sense.
Logic and Reason are too, well… white.
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@BuckSexton
The first “insurrection” in history that included harmless grandmothers among the shock troops of the “coup” attempt
But sure, it was just as bad as Pearl Harbor
https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1407659111722987523
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‘Indiana grandmother of five is first sentenced in Capitol riot’
Anna Morgan-Lloyd plead guilty to one misdemeanor charge in exchange for three years of probation.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/indiana-grandmother-of-five-anna-morgan-lloyd-dona-bissey-to-be-first-sentenced-in-capitol-riot-jon-schaffer-donald-trump-qanon/65-422510ae-acf1-4527-8723-cb170b5f9041
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Critical thinking to the left means something different… more storytelling. You don’t have to make sense.
Logic and Reason are too, well… white.
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re: the grandma terrorist
“Her attorney, H. Heather Shaner, said that in the months since her arrest, Morgan-Lloyd expressed willingness to learn more about U.S. history and ultimately “revisited” her ideas on government policy towards different racial and ethnic groups after reading books like Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy” and Dee Brown’s “Burn My Heart at Wounded Knee.” ”
Seriously, it’s hard to get more grotesque than a struggle session. Thanks Team Blue.
re: Cornell
https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP21/class/ASTRO/2034
lmfao
re: Gregory@7:30AM
an oldie but a goodie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14
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Scenes 737am
I need to go decolonize some turds.
All, please excuse the double posting.
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“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up”
~Barack Hussein something something
Army Finally Defines ‘Extremism’ When It Comes to Screening Out ‘Hate Group’ Members. “Social justice content is leaking its way into the military through some mechanism. Now, the Army Recruitment Command uses subjective and easy-to-politicize criteria to identify potential ‘extremists’ who wish to enlist.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/06/23/exclusive-army-recruiting-command-now-hunting-extremists-in-the-application-process-n1456597
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Barry
Did you read the direct post of the GOP Michigan Election Audit report on the election that was released yesterday? For you’re convenience here’s a link
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/BOE_2020_Post_Election_Audit_Report_04_21_21_723005_7.pdf
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Yeah Barry……you should stop right now, drop whatever it is you’re doing, and read Punchy’s link! This of course after he admits to not not reading links posted by others because as a retiree……he’s far too busy!
Just saying!
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re Dr. Rebane’s Jun 23 comment @ 2:50 pm
“More from Idiot Land – “With Its Power Grid Under Pressure, California Asks Residents to Avoid Charging Electric Vehicles””
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ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON COLLISION COURSE WITH REALITY
California’s energy policies are a mess. Ostensibly committed to cutting CO2 emissions, the state shuttered its main nuclear power plant. California has invested massively in wind and solar energy, but since these technologies produce electricity only a minority of the time, California keeps the lights on by importing electricity from other states–electricity that was generated using the reliable sources that California ostensibly eschews.
Then we have electric vehicles. Currently, fewer than two percent of the vehicles on the road in the U.S. are electric. That percentage may be a little higher in California, but it is still miniscule. Nevertheless, California has enacted legislation that seeks to ban gasoline-powered vehicles beginning in 2035. Where the infrastructure will come from to support such a transition in the automobile fleet in the next 14 years is anyone’s guess.
Meanwhile, California’s grid is so inadequate that it can’t effectively charge the tiny number of electric cars already on the road. Newsweek reports:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/06/electric-vehicles-on-collision-course-with-reality.php
“Green” energy policies are a disaster everywhere they are being implemented, but California will probably crash and burn before the other states that have gone down the “green” path.
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Worth a read.
“I loved those first tours. Bouncing off a sweaty stage in an Edinburgh catacomb we then had to get to a gig in Camden by lunch the next day. We couldn’t fit all four of us and Ted’s double-bass into the VW Polo. I think it was Ben who drew the short-straw and had to follow by train with his keyboard. I remember blitzing it down the M6 through the night, the lads asleep beside me. We made it but my voice sadly didn’t, completely shot by exhaustion, I had to mime my harmonies. Being in Mumford & Sons was exhilarating…….”
https://mrwinstonmarshall.medium.com/why-im-leaving-mumford-sons-e6e731bbc255
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A New York appellate court concluded that “there is uncontroverted evidence” that Giuliani “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign in connection with Trump’s failed effort at reelection in 2020.”
so they jerked his license t practice law.. goombah goombah goombah
Do you think mayor Rudy was part of the Trump mob from the beginning, I mean way back and a that is why they never got busted before now?
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Posted by: Hot Cross Bunz | 24 June 2021 at 10:06 AM
I bet you look adorable with a Ukulele…………
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Well done Joe Biden….Looks like we have an infrastructure bill. that’s something Trump PROMISED and didn’t do.
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Raw Story
@RawStory
Anti-CRT group spotlighted by Fox News circulates article from white nationalist website
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1408117945742528512?
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Now that’s an odd thing.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/24/pelosi-no-infrastructure-deal-unless-second-bill-l/
https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/manchin-says-he-may-sink-democratic-plan-for-infrastructure/
So basically the story is that Biden made an agreement with a group of senators.
Well researched Mr. Paul.
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Now personally I think that ‘infrastructure’ bills are basically cover for a whole batch of government graft and misspending, but here’s Paul’s big story.
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1408103224817639432
“We’ve struck a deal. A group of senators – five Democrats and five Republicans – has come together and forged an infrastructure agreement that will create millions of American jobs.”
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Scenes
Can you outline details on Trumps infrastructure bill that he promised?
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“Biden was obviously tired, speaking in barely a monotone. He couldn’t pronounce “cognitive.””
Heck, Biden has no clue what ‘cognitive’ is, not to mention pronouncing the word.
DON’T NUKE ME, BRO
BIDEN: “Those who say the blood of Patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we’re gonna have to move against the government.”
“If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons“
[But an unarmed mob almost just took over the government, Joe!]
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/06/biden-explains.php
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“Can you outline details on Trumps infrastructure bill that he promised? ”
Can you outline details on Biden’s infrastructure bill that he got five Democrats and five Republicans to rubberstamp?
I wouldn’t mind seeing a detailed version of the bill. You have seen it, right?
My favorite statement of the day…
https://www.thecollegefix.com/naval-war-college-professor-likens-white-privilege-to-getting-free-wi-fi/
“A talk given by a U.S. Naval War College professor on racial and gender issues argued that white privilege is akin to getting free Wi-Fi, an analogy that has drawn scrutiny in center-right circles this week.”
Paul, does your white privilege feel like free Wi-Fi? or does it feel more like a Barcalounger? Just how does it feel?
Well, woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand
Whose wine? What wine? Where the hell did I dine?
Must have been a dream I don’t believe where I’ve been
Come on, let’s do it again
Do you…you, feel like I do?
How’d ya feel?
Do you…you, feel like I do?
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Oh, paul empty loves his subsidized propaganda. Open the tap.
Column: The Media Proclaim Themselves ‘Infrastructure’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/06/04/column-media-proclaim-themselves-infrastructure
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Well first off Paul, your link is a report that was approved by and written by the Democrat secretary of state of Michigan. So I don’t know where you’re getting this Republican thing. Secondly, your post evidences that you trust the government. Isn’t that special.
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Did you actually read it Barry? The Committee is a Republican majority committee and its is main author is Sen. Ed McBroom, R-Vulcan County. Are you contending that the State head of elections changed the report? If so can you link me to where you got that information?
Once again Barry here’s a conclusion from the report:
“After the most extensive audits in state history, no evidence of intentional misconduct of fraud by election officials was discovered. “
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Once again Paul, you trust the government. I don’t. Republican or Democrat. I don’t trust any of them. It is quaint that you still trust these self-serving politicians. We, the People, need to verify what the government is telling us. I don’t know why are argue with you…it is often so “shallow end of the pool.”
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Paul. Did you read it? Second paragraph…first page…
“As the state’s chief election officer, the Michigan Election Law provides the Secretary of State [Democrat Jocelyn Benson] with the authority to prescribe the procedures with which audits will be conducted across the state.”
Further, McBroom is not listed in the report at all. Where in the hell do you dream up this stuff? It is silly.
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Oh. I understand now. Government auditing itself (Michigan) is good. Private individuals auditing government (Arizona) is bad. That’s all you needed to tell me. Got it.
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Talk about the nut jobs in creepy grampa joes circus of freaks –
Biden nominee called for population control to protect environment: ‘We must breed fewer consuming humans’
Tracy Stone-Manning has also come under fire over her ties to an ecoterrorist plot in the 1980s
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tracy-stone-manning-population-control
😉
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