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George Rebane

The puzzle continues.  About three years ago our cities were empty of indigents’ tents lining the streets and freeway underpasses.  What happened?  Where did all these people and their encampments come from?  If the numbers haven’t increased, then where did all of them live?  And if they have increased, what government policies or private sector factors increased their numbers so that now they dominate the downtowns of major cities across the land.  The only common denominator is the that those urban cesspools are and have been under Democrat administrations.

The Big Question still stands about Bumblebrain's accomplishments.  Can anyone name JUST ONE thing that he's done right since he took office?  That now seems to be a question on more minds as we watch the Virginia governor election returns.

[3nov21 update] Liberal Minds on Display #1 – Unless ‘Critical Race Theory’ is explicitly listed in a school’s curriculum, liberals and their lamestream will deny that any such subject matter is taught in that school.  The same goes for so many other hidden and denied leftwing initiatives and activities, such as ‘socialism’, the existence of which is denied in governance unless every facet of its definition is implemented.  They know that the surest (only?) route to successfully introducing their ideology is through subterfuge.

Liberal Minds on Display #2 – What really makes my heart heavy and continues my eternal lament for our beloved country is that our land is full of Double Dummy Districts populated by voters so desperately ignorant that they keep voting for the same Democrat Tammany Hall look-alikes who continue to screw, blue, and tattoo them.  And they don’t have a clue.

Socialist legislation on parade.  The Dems have to hold the ‘reconciliation bill’ hostage to the concurrent passage with the bi-partisan infrastructure bill because they, as all good socialists, know that voting separately on their outrageously priced ‘human infrastructure’ bamboozle would give it a snow ball’s chance in hell of passing.  Their only hope is that their constituencies continue  intellectually dense as ever, so that no one knows what is the real reason for the hold-up.  And can you believe that in light of that, Team Pelosi and Bumblebrain are comfortable to continue the lie that it is the Republicans who hold up passage of the bill to repair our highways, bridges, internet, etc?

[6nov21 update]  A big hit to Virginia voters, and their kindred spirits across the land voting on rolling back everything from CRT, to vaccine mandates, to defunding police departments.  This is but a glimmer of hope on the sanity of the nation’s electorate pulling back from the progressive/communist policies cliff – nevertheless, all such glimmers enjoy a heartfelt welcome.  When the dust settles, we must remember that such one election does not necessarily assure a nation’s future.

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109 responses to “Ruminations – 2nov21 (updated 6nov21)”

  1. Walt Avatar

    Lets double down on stupidity.
    The DEMS are going to seal their loss come election day.
    Can you say “RED Wedding”?
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-considering-shutting-down-michigan-pipeline
    How stupid can mules get?

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The insanity of the green demons is unchecked –
    Jason Haynes, the director of environmental policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, blasted the Biden administration for its energy policies, telling Fox News that their work on Line 5 is “just one more example of being divorced from reality.”
    “They’re planning to power an industrial nation like the United States on solar panels and wind turbines,” Haynes said, while noting that even the solar panels and wind turbines require “oil, natural gas, nuclear and even coal” to be produced.
    Haynes presented a dire picture of what shutting Line 5 could mean if people are unable to get natural gas or the electricity it provides as the nation heads into winter.
    “I hope it doesn’t end like this, but where I see it going is unfortunately the same thing that happened in February in Texas: People freezing in their homes,” he said, adding, “Most of the time when it’s extremely cold or there’s a real bad polar vortex situation, typically it’s pretty cloudy and there’s not a lot of wind.”
    Explaining he has trouble understanding why some Western leaders seem unable to grasp the importance of reliable, affordable energy and electricity for everyday citizens, Haynes said, “It seems like the only nations that understand that we require reliable, affordable dispatchable energy is China and Russia. And they’re the only ones that are producing energy and they’re more than happy to hold that energy hostage for the rest of the world.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-considering-shutting-down-michigan-pipeline
    😉

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That the kremlin covered for her and her masters loving lennin being unpersoned is reason enough to pull the manchurian candidate –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-comptroller-nomination-trouble-due-232743972.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Get woke go broke #6300863930 –
    Marvel’s woketard Eternals opened to a disappointing $71 million.”
    They don’t care.

    Marvel is owned by Disney. Disney is on a mission from God.

    “Explaining he has trouble understanding why some Western leaders seem unable to grasp the importance of reliable, affordable energy and electricity for everyday citizens, ”
    They don’t care.

    There are bureaucrats who tell Western leaders what to say. The bureaucrats are on a mission from God.

    Glad we got that settled.

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  5. Scott O Avatar

    re George’s ‘puzzle’. Here’s one man’s take:
    https://www.takimag.com/article/from-dreamland-to-nightmareland/
    Not the total picture but sadly it does seem to address the main problem.
    Just think – legalized drugs and a guaranteed income!
    Probably not the outcome the lefties considered.
    There is a certain QOL that comes when humans are educated about the past, plan for the future and work earnestly to make it all work.
    The left claims the govt can hand it to you or mandate it. Sorry – you have to get off your ass (mentally and physically) and apply yourself to the full extent.

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  6. Scott O Avatar

    Don 4:38 – “manchurian candidate”
    Hardly – she’s an open book all the way.
    Dwelt in American academe like many other Reds have for decades.
    Slurp up that capitalistic dough and piss on the folk that provided her comfy life style.
    She needs to work on a pig farm in Georgia for a living and then tell us what she thinks.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    re: “The Big Question still stands about Bumblebrain’s accomplishments. Can anyone name JUST ONE thing that he’s done right since he took office? That now seems to be a question on more minds as we watch the Virginia governor election returns.”
    Punchy can! Biden got us out of Afghanistan and got the much needed Infrastructure Bill passed with bi-partisan support, something Trump promised but failed to accomplish. Here is Trump’s exact words from 2016…”.
    Talking points are out. Tout Biden’s accomplishments more, people.
    ——-
    Panicked Ruhle Tells DNC Chair to Tout Biden’s ‘Massive Wins’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2021/11/08/panicked-ruhle-tells-dnc-chair-tout-bidens-massive-wins
    —————-
    Lol of the week:
    Wash Post Fears Right Wingers Will ‘Weaponize School Boards’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/matt-philbin/2021/11/08/wash-post-fears-right-wingers-will-weaponize-school-boards

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  8. George Rebane Avatar

    On Biden’s accomplishments, I direct the readers’ kind attention to the exchange on the topic between PaulE and me that is found in the comment stream of ‘Sandbox – 30oct21’.

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” Wash Post Fears Right Wingers Will ‘Weaponize School Boards’”
    roflmao. That is a totally sweet notion. Ownership of child indoctrination is everything of course, a lesson forgotten by the traditional West.
    I’m about 1/2 way through a book on the Cultural Revolution, partly from interest, partly from looking for modern-day equivalents in terms of understanding via analogy, and was really struck by one thing…what complete animals young people can be. Driven by peer pressure and hormones but lacking responsibility and anything to protect, you can easily end up with Hitler Youth, the Pol Pot Progeny, child soldiers in Africa, and Evergreen College. We’re not to the point here where mobs of 15 year olds are beating their elders, but it’s never far under the surface.
    A smart fellow like Mao basically surfed something barely under control. I wonder if the Progressives really understand what they are playing with, it doesn’t take much to find yourself on the gallows.

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  10. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 1020am – Right; revolutions inevitably devour their own. BTW, does anyone have an updated definition (or understanding) of what it means to ‘weaponize’ something?

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “does anyone have an updated definition (or understanding) of what it means to ‘weaponize’ something?”
    You know, I’ll take a shot at it.
    I think it’s a somewhat dramatic way to indicate that a supposedly neutral party is being steered to political ends. Kind of like Soros-backed DA offices, the FBI, school boards, college administrations, network broadcast news, and senior military officers. Team Red appears to be downright shitty at it from all appearances.
    100 years ago it wouldn’t have mattered as the gubmint wasn’t all up in your business, crazy people had little control over the hinterland and if you didn’t like living in New York under Tammany Hall you could simply move to Wyoming. Now, not so much.

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The NJUHSD board and administration has already been weaponized.
    From the material submitted for today’s board meeting presentation:
    Written Statements and Documents that Reflect CRT in NJUHSD
    1. June 9, 2020 Superintendent’s Message: Racism in our community and the District’s roles
    and responsibilities:
    “…. I remain firmly committed to fundamentally changing individual beliefs and institutional systems that continue to condone and support racism in our community”.
    “…the District will continue to….dismantle systemic racism within our local systems in both policy and practice”.
    “Nevada County’s schools must be part of the solution in creating systems that insure equitable outcomes for all students”.
    2. January 13, 2021 Superintendent’s Message: Recent Events in Washington D.C.:
    “The District has a long way to go when it comes to its own Journey to address internal and external systems of racism”.
    3. District Board of Trustees Policy No. 0415: Equity:
    The Board and the Superintendent or designee shall develop and implement policies and strategies to promote equity in district programs.
    I don’t know who these folks are but what I’ve dug out here is solidly in the Critical Theory , Frankfurt School camp. McFadden should go.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Democrats are lying about critical race theory’
    https://www.aei.org/op-eds/democrats-are-lying-about-critical-race-theory/

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    McFadden:” “…. I remain firmly committed to fundamentally changing individual beliefs and institutional systems that continue to condone and support racism in our community”.
    It isn’t your job to change, fundamentally or not, the “individual beliefs” or “institutional systems” in Nevada County. You are an employee of a school district. Period.

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  15. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Gregory | 10 November 2021 at 02:30 P
    “Nevada County’s schools must be part of the solution in creating systems that insure equitable outcomes for all students”.

    Yayyy…..A’s for everybody!!!

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    no, fish. That’s not what it means… but thanks for playing.
    One side effect of it would be boring the hell out of the kids who keep getting held back because their classmates aren’t keeping up.

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  17. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Gregory | 10 November 2021 at 03:38 PM
    I guarantee you that there is a substantial fraction of the “Equity Set” who thinks it means exactly that!

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Cali leading the way to the bottom –
    California is an anti-racist state, which is why it wants to deemphasize calculus because it doesn’t think minorities can understand it.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-wants-to-deemphasize-math-because-of-racial-inequity/ar-AAQytYP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
    😉

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The obvious distaste from the PM in Paris –
    Even Trump got a kiss! Macron avoids giving VP Kamala Harris traditional double cheek greeting as they shake hands at Élysée Palace
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10187873/Laughing-Kamala-laughs-embraces-Emmanuel-Macron-lys-e-Palace.html
    😉

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    RE: Liberal Minds on Display:
    ‘Critical race theory’ is a fairytale — but America’s fascist monsters are real
    https://www.rawstory.com/critical-race-theory-is-a-fairytale-but-america-s-monsters-are-real/
    —————————-
    ‘Bordering on sociopathic’: Criminologist reacts to Kyle Rittenhouse’s ‘arrogant’ testimony
    https://www.rawstory.com/kyle-rittenhouse-sociopath/
    —————————-
    Rittenhouse judge ‘constantly interferes’ in the prosecution: ex-federal prosecutor
    https://www.rawstory.com/rittenhouse-judge-interferes-trial-prosecutor/
    ——————————
    ‘Trump’s plan to escape accountability for Capitol riot just hit a major snag: NYT reporter’
    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-legal-strategy/
    ———————————-
    ‘Republicans are ready to die of COVID to spite Biden’
    https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-are-ready-to-die-of-to-spite-biden/
    ————————————
    ‘Net closes as January 6 probe shifts to Trump’s role in violence’
    https://www.rawstory.com/net-closes-as-january-6-probe-shifts-to-trump-s-role-in-violence/
    ——————————
    Why Roger Stone and Ron DeSantis are engaged in a ‘MAGA Civil War’: report
    https://www.rawstory.com/why-roger-stone-and-ron-desantis-are-engaged-in-a-maga-civil-war-report/
    [That’s the ‘Flamboyant Roger Stone’ to you, Raw Sewage]
    ——————————————-
    And NOT ONE word about Creepy Sleepy Methane Tooting Joe Biden. Sounds like Punchy’s source of news. Opps, it is!

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Talk about stinking up the house worse than creepy grampa joe. Perhaps some leftist affliction she caught from shrillary –
    Kamala Harris panned for using ‘French accent’ to French scientists while touring Parisian lab
    The VP went viral for the ‘cringe’ moment during her overseas trip to France
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/kamala-harris-french-accent-overseas-trip
    😉

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    450 a gallon, HA its more than that here and i heard from friends that its 650/gallon in SF. Creepy grampa joe was reportedly mumbling about the cost of tapioca –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/10/joe-biden-marvels-at-4-50-a-gallon-gas-prices-did-you-ever-think-youd-be-paying-this-much/
    😉

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” California is an anti-racist state, which is why it wants to deemphasize calculus because it doesn’t think minorities can understand it.”
    My best guess is that even the rank and file of the progressives thinks this is ridiculous.
    I think the main takeaway is that we’ve somehow produced a bureaucracy, especially in schools, that is more whacked out than the civilian woke people. True in Nevada County? Dunno, but it wouldn’t surprise me. I expect that school boards and school administrators do 99% of their good deeds with no oversight.
    item: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216019673

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Kamala Harris panned for using ‘French accent’ to French scientists while touring Parisian lab”
    lol. I can see it now.
    DOES YOUR DOG BITE?

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  25. Walt Avatar

    5 bucks a gal for diesel in Linda, gas 4.90.
    And Biden yapps,
    “Joe Biden Marvels at $4.50 a Gallon Gas Prices: ‘Did You Ever Think You’d Be Paying this Much?”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/10/joe-biden-marvels-at-4-50-a-gallon-gas-prices-did-you-ever-think-youd-be-paying-this-much/
    For the love of GOD and all things holy, where is TRump when we need him???

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO—-The Liberal Mind on Display
    Inflation? Here comes the 17 Nobel Prize winners in Economics. 17. 17, 17, 17. Seventeen I say, 17!
    Hypothetical question: Bill T, are you saying 17 Nobel Prize winners are wrong? “Yes I am!….especially considering never right always wrong Paul Krugman in one of those arrogant Nobel Economists.
    Supercuts:
    https://news.grabien.com/story-biden-admin-spending-another-5-trillion-will-make-transitory

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Sandbox seems purty full, so I’ll leave this here.
    Best eulogy ever:
    “Every single witness who testified this week at the trial confirmed exactly what happened. And here are the facts of it: A convicted child rapist called Joseph Rosenbaum was released from a mental hospital and then went directly to join the mob that was burning downtown Kenosha.”
    “Once he got to the riot, Rosenbaum saw Kyle Rittenhouse and immediately threatened to kill him,” Carlson claimed. “Rosenbaum then chased Rittenhouse and tried to pull the gun from his hands. When he did that, Kyle Rittenhouse shot him. So, Joseph Rosenbaum died as he had lived, trying to touch an unwilling minor.”
    -Tucker Carlson

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  28. 🐠niglio Avatar
    🐠niglio

    Posted by: scenes | 10 November 2021 at 07:16 PM
    👍

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  29. Walt Avatar

    So the Proggy press don’t like the judge’s ring tone.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/10/media-pounce-on-rittenhouse-judge-ringtone-usa-cross/
    Now what would they say if his ring tone was from the flick “Hang’m high”?

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  30. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    The defense has a shot at a mistrial, but the judge probably won’t grant it. The defense was right up and a little over the line, but a mistrial with prejudice is a huge deal. I don’t think that the judge will pull the trigger. No pun intended.

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    An Astronomer Cancels His Own Research—Because the Results Weren’t Popular
    https://quillette.com/2021/11/10/an-astronomer-cancels-his-own-research-because-the-results-werent-popular/

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dont trust your bills and the horriable trajectory for our fixed income folks the biggest ssi increase that still lags and fails to include gas and food.
    The lamestream lap dogs are running with the you dont understand how it works. WTF! People see their bills outpace ability from every quarter. Hey but its the green new socialist deal. Screw the citizens and open the borders because they will only suck up your kids jobs and money we can not afford. But they might be a socialist voter from a shithole voter right!?
    https://money.yahoo.com/americans-feeling-lousy-about-finances-doing-fine-195458065.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Great quote about the Rittenhouse trial:
    “CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, who was caught masturbating on camera, says Rittenhouse is lucky it isn’t ‘illegal to be an idiot’”

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “An Astronomer Cancels His Own Research—Because the Results Weren’t Popular”
    Aside from the normal mistake of apologizing to Team Woke, and perhaps he did kowtow early enough and deeply enough to get away with it, I expect this is all baby research compared to what goes on at a place like Alphabet Inc. When 100% of your work (and probably a lot of your location and conversation) is monitored, identifying high performers is a natural research project.
    I wouldn’t be surprised if pro astronomers wouldn’t bury this kind of thing purely to deal with one of the uglier parts of performance demographics. Age. For all I know, firing all astronomy researchers over 50 gives you a boost to the trade generally in a world where the Iron Rice Bowl is the Prime Directive.
    I don’t know how Google will handle a machine learning exercise that gives you an employee base made purely of Chinese people from a certain province and left-handed redheads of Scottish descent (or something like that). Maybe they’ll just end up as one of those companies that make the HR department an increasingly large empire that mostly just deals with itself. With sufficient millennia of in-group child production, the HR department will produce a species of Homo Ineptus.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Posted by: scenes | 11 November 2021 at 06:51 AM
    Homo Ineptus. Good one. I have resembled that label in days of yore. :). Yes, I voted for Carter the first time and have dedicated my life to pay my debt to society for my foolish and destructive decision in the voting booth while drunk and ignorant. It’s a debt I can never fully repay in this lifetime.
    ————-
    It’s not what was said, but who said it.
    ‘Artificial Insanity? YouTube Censors Issa for Supporting Vaccines’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/alexander-hall/2021/11/10/artificial-insanity-youtube-censors-issa-supporting

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Did anyone here watch/attend the NUJHSD board meeting last night?
    The recording is not yet up on vimeo, and The Union seems to be stalling on its story, saying it’s “developing”.
    I thought it interesting that “District Superintendent Brett McFadden stated at the meeting that the board had received a number of written public comments in advance, and that roughly 131 of these were in opposition to the presentation or in support of the district’s work in areas like equity and inclusivity, while four written public comments were in support of the presentation. The board also received a number of requests to give in-person public comments at the meeting, and the number of speakers was capped at 15.”
    So, “roughly 131” folks made comments a’gin the presentation… before the presentation.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory.
    When the heat first came, McFadden told folks not to show up at the Board Meetings, but rather take their complaints to the State Superintendent of schools. They set the agenda and curriculum, not the locals. His hands are tied.
    Last thing the school boards around here want is to have to face local parents. White Supremists Terrorists like you. Blame the State, not McFadden, lol. How dare parents want a say in the Government’s children.are taught.

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    McFadden:” “…. I remain firmly committed to fundamentally changing individual beliefs and institutional systems that continue to condone and support racism in our community”.
    I know of NO ONE condoning racism in our community.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Interesting that the same percentage of folks who support CRT being taught in government schools is about the same as Kamala Harris’s approval ratings; 26% for Harris, 28% want CRT taught.
    ‘New FDRLST/Susquehanna Poll Shows Biden’s Approval Sliding To 36 Percent, Widespread Disapproval Of Critical Race Theory’
    “Critical race theory, which teaches that white people are inherently racist, is extremely unpopular nationwide across nearly all major demographics, the poll also found. When asked whether they believed critical race theory should be taught in government K-12 schools, 59 percent of likely voters surveyed said it should not be taught, with just 26 percent of voters saying the controversial curriculum should be taught in government schools. Even a majority of registered Democrats — 51 percent — said critical race theory should not be taught in schools.
    Opposition to critical race theory also transcends race, according to the poll. A plurality of black voters polled — 49 percent — said critical race theory should not be taught, with 42 percent saying it should be taught in school. Sixty-one percent of white voters and 56 percent of Hispanic voters said that critical race theory should not be taught in government K-12 schools.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/10/new-fdrlst-susquehanna-poll-shows-bidens-approval-sliding-to-36-percent-widespread-disapproval-of-critical-race-theory/

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Race-Marxists Finally Went Too Far
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/the-race-marxists-finally-went-too-far/
    The far left extremists are in a pickle. They have to argue CRT isn’t being taught in schools out of one side of their mouths and out of the other side of their mouths they have to defend CRT.

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    CRT and inflation are going to change the trajectory in a good way –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/11/sen-tom-cotton-slams-biden-rising-gas-prices-design/
    😉

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No one has adequately explained just how does the FBI have any jurisdiction in a diary that was found in a hotel by a third party? –
    The raid was a chilling and frightening overreach by law enforcement of protected journalistic work product. O’Keefe has said that his phone offers a window into what other projects he and his staff are working on — projects the Biden Administration may not want him to cover.
    The FBI raided O’Keefe’s apartment about 6 a.m. on Saturday with a phalanx of agents taking his electronics and other information, which they claimed would help discover how the journalist came into possession of President Biden’s daughter’s diary.
    They claim the diary was stolen. O’Keefe denies that characterization.
    The president’s daughter, Ashley Biden’s, diary reportedly contains down, dirty, and disgusting secrets about the Biden family.
    Judge Analisa Torres ordered the FBI to stop exploiting information contained in O’Keefe’s phone and to verify that they’d done so by Friday.
    Unless O’Keefe stole that diary, there’s doesn’t appear to be anything different about O’Keefe coming into possession of the document than what happens every day at the New York Times or Washington Post with their leaked documents.
    Prior restraint doesn’t even begin to cover how intrusive and frightening this intentional intimidation by law enforcement is on a journalistic enterprise.
    The raid is reminiscent of the one conducted by former California Attorney General Kamala Harris into the work product of David Daleiden, who produced a series of explosive videos showing Planned Parenthood buying and selling aborted baby parts.
    The way it looks now, this judge’s ruling is a win for journalism, but journalists who don’t like O’Keefe may not see it that way.
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/11/11/breaking-judge-orders-fbi-to-stop-search-of-project-veritas-founder-okeefes-phone-following-raid-n1532173
    😉

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘California schools ditch A-F grades, citing racial gaps and dropping student achievement’
    “Schools in Los Angeles and San Diego are overhauling the traditional A-F grading system in a bid to raise student grades and eliminate racial achievement gaps.
    A number of Southern California schools and school districts, in a bid to boost student achievement levels, have directed teachers to apply grades based on “whether students have learned what was expected of them during a course — and not penalize them for behavior, work habits and missed deadlines,” the Los Angeles Times spotlighted .
    Student grades have suffered nationwide as a result of school closures and online learning, and in California, only 46% of the projected class of 2022 is on track to meet the state university system’s admission requirements, compared to 59% of the class of 2019, the last full year of schooling before the pandemic.”
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/california-schools-ditch-a-f-grades-citing-racial-gaps-and-dropping-student-achievement
    Newsflash: There are gifted students. How do they fit into equity? By skin color? Race? Privilege? Or born with more natural talent than the average Joe?

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  44. George Rebane Avatar

    DonB 454pm – the only ‘adequate’ explanation is that the FBI has the raw power of guns, people, and lawyers to do pretty much anything they want, especially if in the service of the real political leadership in the country. The Constitution and the US Code be damned.

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gee ya have to wonder what would keep vlad from pulling the trigger again now that he has 0’s jv team headed by idiots who scare no one. If they do trust the joint chiefs chair to order more crt programs to root out the religious from the ranks for a purer force that is a farce.
    Wars start when the enemy senses weakness ya know like this whole admin –
    “Our concern is that Russia may make a serious mistake of attempting to rehash what it undertook back in 2014, when it amassed forces along the border, crossed into sovereign Ukrainian territory and did so claiming falsely that it was provoked,” Blinken said, referring to Russia’s invasion of Crimea. “So the playbook that we’ve seen in the past was to claim some provocation as a rationale for doing what it, what it intended and planned to do. All which is why we’re looking at this very carefully.”
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/10/politics/blinken-ukrainian-presser/index.html
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    Speaking of weaponization, this should surprise no one.
    ” The New York Times has obtained ‘privileged communications’ of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, raising suspicions that an FBI source might have leaked the newspaper confidential data obtained during recent raids. ”
    https://www.rt.com/usa/540049-fbi-veritas-raid-nyt-leak/
    It would probably be simpler to put the FBI and the New York Times under the same management structure. One obvious conclusion is that anyone who opposes Woke Federal Police should probably have a much higher degree of security than they thought is necessary. The genie is out of the bottle and you can safely assume that any figleaf of legal protection is gone. It was probably natural that the Surveillance State would kill the Republic at some point. Whoever was in control when it happened will retain control forever, it’s a kind of political singularity.

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