Thursday, August 20, 2020
Iowa State prof forbids students to disagree with BLM, abortion. University takes action. - TheBlaze
Iowa State prof forbids students to disagree with BLM, abortion. University takes action. - TheBlaze:
Iowa State University administrators took action this week after an English teacher forbade her students to disagree with abortion, gay marriage, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
What happened?
Students who signed up for ISU assistant professor Chloe Clark's English 250 class for the fall semester learned in their syllabus that they would be "dismissed" from class if they argued against "gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter."
The syllabus stated:
Iowa State University administrators took action this week after an English teacher forbade her students to disagree with abortion, gay marriage, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
What happened?
Students who signed up for ISU assistant professor Chloe Clark's English 250 class for the fall semester learned in their syllabus that they would be "dismissed" from class if they argued against "gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter."
The syllabus stated:
Australia: Authorities Give Themselves Power to Remove Children From Parents to Ensure COVID Compliance – Summit News
- Corona rules becoming more draconian.
Schedule 2 of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 amends the Emergency Response Act 2004 to create new powers during “declared emergencies.”
Section 25 of the act states the following;
—Removal of children
(1) Without derogating from section 25, an authorised officer may, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with any direction under that section, remove a child from any premises, place, vehicle or vessel to a place of residence of the child or to a hospital or quarantine facility, as the authorised officer thinks fit (and may, in doing so, use such force as is reasonably necessary).
A child is defined as anyone under the age of 18...Read all.
"...The media has curled up in Michelle Obama's lap, loudly purring as Cardi B's filthy "Wet Assed Pu**y" plays in the background..."
Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"Two nights in, and the only message the Democrats have successfully sent is how desperate and pathetic they are.
Notable is a glaring lack of policy pronouncements which, in sane times, would have the media asking tough questions - but these are not sane times.
The media has curled up in Michelle Obama's lap, loudly purring as Cardi B's filthy "Wet Assed Pu**y" plays in the background.
Interesting that they treat Cardi B, an "artist" who performs what is alleged to be a song (a generous definition) about having sex to get what she wants and describing that act in graphic detail, as a legitimate and welcomed member of the party (she just "interviewed Joe Biden) - while they still complain about Trump's statements on a 2005 Entertainment Tonight tape.
Never mind that Pedo Bill Clinton (master philadeer, credibly accused rapist and proven intern abuser), violator of the Oval Office, was a featured speaker last night.
Never mind that Pedo Bill Clinton (master philadeer, credibly accused rapist and proven intern abuser), violator of the Oval Office, was a featured speaker last night.
...Folks, these are bad people (I would even go as far as to say evil people) who only love one thing - power.
This is the worst collection of politicians and radicals I have seen in my six decades of life.
A vote for them is a vote for the destruction of America."...Read all.
Senate Intel Panel Found ‘Absolutely No Evidence’ Of Collusion, Faced Roadblocks In Probe Of Steele Dossier | The Daily Caller
The Senate Intelligence Committee said in a long-awaited report released Tuesday that there was no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016, affirming the findings of other investigations into a possible Trump-Kremlin conspiracy.
The report, which clocks in at 966 pages, also offered a scathing assessment of the FBI’s handling of the Steele dossier, which was a key document in the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory.
“The FBI gave the Steele Dossier unjustified credence, based on an incomplete understanding of Steele’s past reporting record,” the report says.
Goodyear Diversity Training: “Zero Tolerance” For MAGA, but Black Lives Matter & LGBT is Encouraged – Summit News
Goodyear Diversity Training: “Zero Tolerance” For MAGA, but Black Lives Matter & LGBT is Encouraged – Summit News:
- Company absurdly argues supporting Black Lives Matter isn’t political.
The slide was presented during a “diversity training” session at the Topeka plant by an area manager and came straight from Goodyear’s corporate office in Akron, Ohio before being leaked on social media...Read all.
AM Fruitcake.
Ya think they might "legally" send out a note to the union brothers "Trump wins, you all get fired"?
History for August 20
History for August 20 - On-This-Day.com
Benjamin Harrison (U.S.) 1833, H.P. Lovecraft 1890, Don King 1931
Ron Paul 1935, Isaac Hayes (Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr.) 1942 - Singer, songwriter, actor, producer, Al Roker 1954 - Telvision personality
1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1997 - Britain began voluntary evacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity of the Soufriere Hills.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Scientists Say Herd Immunity Might Be Achieved At 50% Or Lower: Report | The Daily Caller
Scientists Say Herd Immunity Might Be Achieved At 50% Or Lower: Report | The Daily Caller:
Over a dozen scientists say the threshold to reach coronavirus herd immunity might be lower than they initially projected, The New York Times reported Monday.
According to scientists, herd immunity will be reached when the virus is unable to spread broadly because there are not enough vulnerable hosts, the Times reported. The consensus among scientists has been that 70% of a population needed to be immune through either vaccination or survival to reach herd immunity, according to the Times, but now several researchers claim that threshold could be 50% or lower.
Over a dozen scientists say the threshold to reach coronavirus herd immunity might be lower than they initially projected, The New York Times reported Monday.
According to scientists, herd immunity will be reached when the virus is unable to spread broadly because there are not enough vulnerable hosts, the Times reported. The consensus among scientists has been that 70% of a population needed to be immune through either vaccination or survival to reach herd immunity, according to the Times, but now several researchers claim that threshold could be 50% or lower.
BLOODBATH: At Least 50 Shot, 5 Fatally, over Weekend in Democrat Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago - Geller Report News
- Horrible. Remember that a vote for Joe Biden in November is a vote for this carnage to come to your city.
- At Least 50 Shot, 5 Fatally, over Weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
ABC 7 reported that the shootings began about 6 p.m. Friday and continued until just before midnight Sunday.
A 12-year-old boy and numerous teens were among the wounded...Read all.
Very worthy read!-----Democrat Party has bought into Critical Theory - and its subset, Critical Race Theory, lock, stock and barrel.
Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Smith
"The Democrat Party has bought into Critical Theory - and its subset, Critical Race Theory, lock, stock and barrel.
Critical Theory (and Critical Race Theory) somewhat defies specific definition because it is twisted to explain every situation, but at a high level, it states that people (in the case of Critical Race Theory, those "people" are whites) construct institutional power structures designed to elevate a preferred class while systemically and systematically oppressing disfavored classes.
Supposedly, this explains persistance of racist oppression in Western Cultures that were largely invented by white northern European Christians and sustained by whites here in America.
Marxist at its root, Critical Theory also states that a primary goal of philosophy is to understand and to help overcome the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed.
But in this postmodernist age, the identification of those who are "dominated and oppressed" - and even the definition of those terms - are relative and very, very flexible. Today, they are defined in subjective terms, much better for political advantage than objective ones. Currently, those subjective definitions stretch credulity, if someone has an iPhone 6 while another has a 11 Pro, the former is assumed to be "oppressed" by the latter.
The purpose of using Critical Theory is standard Marxism. It is used to convince people that the entire system is evil and therefore cannot be reformed, it must be destroyed and a new, more fair system rebuilt. Not so coincidentally, practitioners of Critical Theory believe that system is communism.
The basic (and fatal) flaw of Critical Theory is that it must be applied to the entire structure of society - and an expansive generalization like that is almost always incorrect. Systems and cultures are rarely totally monolithic, this is especially true in free capitalistic socioeconomic systems. People are free to believe what they want to believe in such a system - something not true in the centrally planned and controlled (authoritarian) communist systems.
While there are pockets of racism and "oppression" (depending on how those are defined) in every system, those pockets cannot be legitimately extrapolated to define the entire system. That would be like defining an entire person as chocolate milk just because they just drank a glass of chocolate milk.
The DNC began last night as a grim and morose telethon to raise support and money for those affected and infected with Critical Theory."
Chris Wallace calls out Joe Biden for employing 'basement strategy': 'The damnedest thing I've ever seen' - TheBlaze
Chris Wallace calls out Joe Biden for employing 'basement strategy': 'The damnedest thing I've ever seen' - TheBlaze:
Fox News host Chris Wallace called out presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden last week for what the "Fox News Sunday" host characterized as the "basement strategy."
Biden has been largely absent from the public eye during the coronavirus pandemic, which was not entirely unsurprising given the former vice president's gaffe-prone nature. But even as the Biden campaign prepares to formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination this week, the campaign continues to employ its strategy of remaining out of the limelight.
Fox News host Chris Wallace called out presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden last week for what the "Fox News Sunday" host characterized as the "basement strategy."
Biden has been largely absent from the public eye during the coronavirus pandemic, which was not entirely unsurprising given the former vice president's gaffe-prone nature. But even as the Biden campaign prepares to formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination this week, the campaign continues to employ its strategy of remaining out of the limelight.
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