[‘Why Johnny can’t read’ is has been the subject of countless commentaries and books on the massive deficit in our public education system. The reasons given all have merit in as far as they go, but they leave out an extremely important aspect of our national illiteracy, namely, that it is multigenerational. We live in the midst of tens of millions of fellow Americans who remain hamstrung in their ability understand the written word which strongly impacts and correlates with their ability to think critically. As recent evidence I call your attention to the election to public offices of socialists Mamdani et al. gjr]
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27 responses to “Sandbox – 4jan26”
I haz a sad….!
”Walz, Democrats’ 2024 VP pick, drops bid for third term as Minnesota governor; Klobuchar considers”
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Now Charles Schumer haz a sad…..
Watch: Dems Screeched For Maduro’s Ouster… Until Trump Delivered It
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-dems-screeched-maduros-ouster-until-trump-delivered-it
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RIP Doug. A good friend and loyal republican. You will be missed. Prayers for your family. – https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-doug-lamalfa-of-california-dies-reducing-gop-s-narrow-control-of-the-house-to-218-213/ar-AA1TGbOV?uxmode=ruby&ocid=edgdhpruby&pc=U531&cvid=695d43ef68a34b5cb642b7e5085ba088&ei=23
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News Flash! Dems are fine with Maduro getting grabbed. What they are concerned with is what happens going forward.
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New official White House Jan.6th propaganda site goes live.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
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News Flash! Dems are fine with Maduro getting grabbed. What they are concerned with is what happens going forward.
News Flash! You are as….ahem…big… an apologist for Democrats as you’ve ever been Mr. Purple.
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“News Flash! Dems are fine with Maduro getting grabbed.”
What a stupid outright lie. The Dems have spend Sunday declaring his arrest as “unconstitutional” and “illegal”. The same folks that thought bombing and killing Gaddafi without congressional approval was splendid – because they did it. TDS on display once again.
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You just have to love this….
UPDATE: Unexpectedly! Mom of Zohran Mamdani aide who said owning a home fuels ‘white supremacy’ has $1.6M house in Tennessee.
Do Mom first ya screwball!
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…..Catholic Relief Services? What a surprise that his bleat is a laundry list of progressive nitwittery!
<I>”George Rebane’s recent Other Voices in the Union (Self-immolation derby) was hyperbolic and wildly inaccurate.
Without naming wins, Rebane states the Trump has accomplished more in the last 10 months than any president before him and claims that his dismal 39% approval rating (seven points lower than President Biden’s at the same time) is because of his “temperament” and “braggadocio.”
Past presidents created opportunities. To name a few: President Biden – Infrastructure Law, CHIPS and Science Act, and post Covid, American Rescue Plan. President Obama – Affordable Care Act, recovery from the Great Recession, Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform, advancing LGBTQ+ rights.
In his first year, Trump has not created opportunities for Americans. His record to date is destroying them. Here are just a few highlights of this president’s actions over the past year:
He has slowed down our economy, rolled back protections for public health and the environment and put health care and social security at risk for millions of Americans.
He has attacked, defunded and sued universities, closed the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) halting humanitarian aid around the world and resulting in at least 600,000 deaths globally in just the last nine months.
He terminated thousands of federal employees without cause, rolled back affordable drug and insulin polices, and removed the U.S from the World Health Organization.
He dismantled the Department of Education and made major cuts to Pell Grants and federal student loan programs.
He issued sweeping rollbacks to environmental protections, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords, halted funding for federal small business grants and moved to eliminate all funding tied to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
He has deported more than two million immigrants, many of them pending asylum and other legitimate and legal claims, tearing apart families and terrorizing communities in the process.
Despite his promise to lower costs for Americans, affordability continues to plague all of us. His mercurial tariff policies, supposedly designed to reduce our national debt and protect American industries, have wreaked havoc on small businesses, U.S. farmers and everyday consumers who are paying higher prices on everything.
He has promised to end the Ukraine/Russian war on “day one” but after a year has been unsuccessful. He claims without any ties to reality to have ended eight wars.
In short, he has made us poorer, weaker, less healthy, less optimistic about our future and a more divided nation than ever. That’s why his polls are low.
Paul Eagle
Nevada City”</I>
In short, he has made us poorer, weaker, less healthy, less optimistic about our future and a more divided nation than ever. That’s why his polls are low. (Great! Intermittent italics and bold functions…with no preview?! Thirty years worth of software improvements everywhere except “WordPress.com”)
Sorry dude…..!
Increased poverty was baked in the cake when they COVID washed god knows how much money into the economy.
“weaker, less healthy” …..feature not a bug for the progressive intelligentsia! “more divided”
“a more divided nation than ever. That’s why his polls are low.” Again a benefit to proglodyte leadership.
Maybe next time try to make your post so Clownworldly obvious…!
Really George….what is it about Quainty Town (thanks brother Bill)
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fish 7jan26 – where was PaulE’s piece published?
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the union…
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fish 7jan26 – where was PaulE’s piece published?
As Gregory already noted….in the bird cage liner that calls it self a newspaper.
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This is going to be non stop entertainment….
NYC mayoral aide Cea Weaver who says whites owning houses is racist bursts into TEARS when asked about her mother’s $1.4m Craftsman home
“A woke aide to New York City‘s new socialist mayor burst out crying when confronted over her assertion that it is racist for white people to own homes – despite her own mother owning a $1.4m Craftsman house.
Cea Weaver, who runs Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Office to Protect Tenants, was overcome with emotion when confronted outside her apartment in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning.
The 37-year-old began running down the street after seeing a Daily Mail reporter outside her home, then said ‘No’ through tears when asked if she wanted to comment on her professor mother Celia Appleton’s ownership of the $1.4 million property in fast-gentrifying Nashville.
Weaver appeared to be walking towards a nearby subway station, but then turned back and ran inside her home, which has a ‘Free Palestine‘ poster taped to one of its windows.
She was subsequently seen peering out the same window with the poster in it.
Weaver previously tweeted that ‘homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy’ and that ‘homeownership is racist’ in social media posts that also urged people to ‘impoverish the white middle class.’
In another Twitter missive from 2018, Weaver wrote: ‘There is no such thing as “good gentrifier,” only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren’t.’
Weaver further called on people to ‘seize private property’ and called for the election of communist lawmakers.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15442191/cea-weaver-nyc-aide-racist-mamdani-cries.html
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Hmmmm….moderation now?
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It is a shame how low the local rag has gone.
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Your “X” of the day…….
https://x.com/jarvis_best/status/2008753830440440091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2008753830440440091%7Ctwgr%5E8be1ed5f2704003923dd936bd809a185db4cb979%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F766152%2F
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Another proud accomplishment of the left and the Dems:
“Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence…”
And how much do we pay for children’s education in this country?
I guess as long as they all get a gold star and are made to FEEL good about themselves – that’s all that matters.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/career/ar-AA1TUrhe
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“A California state senator has proposed new legislation aimed at ensuring that President Donald Trump is excluded from the electoral ballot in 2028.”
Good to see that the Dems are hard at work protecting you Californians from absurd delusions.
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Here some fodder for you guys.
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Not sure why it froze on the last comment. I actually think you guys will enjoy the story line and characters.
The underlying question, is all murder wrong? If yes, we need to hold those who murder accountable.
Murder – The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
The main protagonist in this fictional story is Vietnam Veteran truck driver (Ben Brown) for a timber company, and whose family worked multiple generations at a mine in Western Montana. The town he lived as a child was turned into a Superfund Site due to the exposure of asbestos and the entire town is riddled with Mesothelioma and Asbestosis.
Spoiler, Ben kills the general manager of the mine and plant when all the company owned judges and district attorney’s no longer hold office. The company knew since the 1950’s from internal studies that asbestos was causing massive chronic disease to the workers and the residents of the town, and then it sold in 1963 with this information disclosed and kept secret until 1992. This is based on a true industrial atrocity that happened in Montana along with other examples.
The names of the products, executives, and corporations have been changed to protect the guilty.
Go read the first five chapters in the Sample section at Amazon.
For those in Nevada County, Exit Stage IV is now available to order at Harmony Books and The Book Seller.
“Exit Stage IV” is a fictional narrative that addresses themes of government corruption and corporate accountability through the perspective of an elderly librarian diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer.
**Overview of the Book**
“Exit Stage IV” chronicles the journey of Hannah Cassidy, an eighty-five-year-old retired librarian faced with a terminal diagnosis of Stage IV breast cancer. Confronted with the reality of her mortality, she formulates an audacious plan to challenge the pervasive issues of government corruption and the lack of corporate accountability concerning public health. The narrative unfolds against significant historical events, including the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup, thereby illustrating real-world industrial public health hazards and the ramifications of corporate negligence.
**Themes and Inspiration**
The work critically examines the doctrine of corporate personhood, which allows corporations to be treated as individuals under the law, thereby facilitating their operation with minimal accountability. This legal concept is scrutinized through Hannah’s endeavor to illuminate the threats these entities pose to society. The narrative draws inspiration from actual events and reflects the author’s commitment to activism against governmental and corporate malfeasance.
**Author Background**
Ben Emery is both an activist and writer who has devoted a significant portion of his life to addressing issues relating to government corruption and electoral reform. His personal experiences, including a struggle with advanced colorectal cancer, significantly influence his writing and advocacy. Emery aspires to cultivate a more cooperative and compassionate society, as evidenced by his involvement in community volunteerism and coaching athletics.
**Availability**
“Exit Stage IV” is accessible for purchase in multiple formats, including paperback and Kindle editions. Copies can be found on platforms such as Amazon, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble.
This work not only presents a compelling narrative but also serves as an urgent call to action regarding critical issues of corporate accountability and public health.
If you don’t want to use local book stores you can order it here.
https://www.worldofbooks.com/products/exit-stage-iv-book-ben-emery-9781966293132
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Trump’s Gestapo at work…
“Local law enforcement leaders in Minneapolis and St. Paul are raising concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violating U.S. citizens’ civil rights, including those of off-duty police officers, as ICE has surged into Minnesota in recent weeks.
Mark Bruley, police chief of the Minneapolis suburb Brooklyn Park, said at a Tuesday news conference that an off-duty police officer had been “boxed … in” by vehicles driven by ICE agents, who demanded with guns drawn to see paperwork proving the officer had a right to be in the United States. “She’s a U.S. citizen, and clearly would not have any paperwork,” he said.
The officer attempted to begin filming the interaction and her phone was knocked out of her hand, Bruley said. When she identified herself as a police officer, the federal agents “immediately left,” he said.
All of the off-duty police officers who had been targeted by ICE in his city were people of color, Bruley said.
Asked about the police chief’s comments, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday morning that it had no record of ICE or Border Patrol stopping and questioning a police officer and could not verify the information without a name. The agency added that it would continue to look into the claims.”
https://wapo.st/3NKx40B
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https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2016984615915778153
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The critics have spoken, the would be queen of America is really that vain,
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/melania-critics-saying-amazon-controversial-191634572.html
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Paid MAGA actor?
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Lifestyles of the Jefferson State Libertarian preppers…
https://www.foxla.com/news/california-100-foot-tunnel-bunker-raid.amp
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re: Melania movie.
Those things are always awful. God knows how much video and print has been done about Big Mike (and pay-off money from Netflix), but it’s good to see unbiased sources like the Daily Beast weigh in on the matter. I can see the Daily Beast review on Big Mike’s Story…SHE hAS SuCH bEAUTIful aRMS!!! I admit that it’s nice to have an amazing looking First Lady after the last couple of harpies.
Dunno why anyone pays enough attention to this stuff to get hot and bothered about it, but then I don’t carry signs around either.
George…if you get a chance…check out moltbook. Chatbot social media. Probably trivial, but really interesting. For all I know the real breakthroughs in AI will come from a bunch of different ones arguing, not stuffing the contents of reddit and X into their maw.
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re: Big Mike.
If she wasn’t already rich for some unknowable reason, I was thinking of the profit opportunities here in this area. Something like:
It’s a heckuva lot easier than making an honest living.
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