Baltimore Records Its 200th Homicide Of The Year | The Daily Caller

Baltimore Records Its 200th Homicide Of The Year | The Daily Caller:

Baltimore reached 200 homicides in 2019 after a woman was shot to death Saturday afternoon.
A 32-year-old woman was found in her car Saturday riddled with bullet holes to her head and chest, authorities said. Police tried to resuscitate her, but she was pronounced dead at a local hospital, The Baltimore Sun reported.

Prof calls to get rid of grades because they are 'capitalism in action'

Prof calls to get rid of grades because they are 'capitalism in action'
"A New York professor is calling for the abolition of grades.  
He claims they are not only unfair to students, but that they are a means of propping up capitalism, and as such, academia would be better off doing away with grading entirely.

“Grading takes up much of my time that could be better spent on teaching or otherwise directly interacting with students,” New School professor

...Wolff could face an uphill battle selling this idea to students. 

In March, Campus Reform visited Florida International University to ask students who support socialism whether they would also support the system being applied to their grades. 
Most students were not fans of the idea. 

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Dude speaks truth!

NO WIND TURBINES

NO WIND TURBINES
Christian Berg shared a post.
“They make noise, they're intermittent, they kill your birds, they break down all the time, you have to replace them every ten years.”
President Donald J. Trump criticises wind power and says he has “ended the war on American energy” by putting “our coalminers back to work”.

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UCLA prof on mandatory diversity statements: 'I sometimes wonder whether I could get hired here today'

UCLA prof on mandatory diversity statements: 'I sometimes wonder whether I could get hired here today'
"A new policy requires University of California, Los Angeles professors to show diversity for promotion and merit boards.
...A University of California, Los Angeles law professor spoke out against recent updates to the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, wondering “whether somebody with my ideological views” could get hired at the school today.
...A May 2018 policy mandated that all candidates for faculty positions submit a statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion, documenting their contributions and ambitions regarding the principles, according to The Daily Bruin..."
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Mexico Detaining Fewer Migrants As Crisis Shows Signs Of Waning | The Daily Caller

Mexico Detaining Fewer Migrants As Crisis Shows Signs Of Waning | The Daily Caller:

Fifty-five percent of Mexicans said they believe Central Americans who illegally cross into their country in order to reach the U.S. should be deported, according to a survey conducted in July. Only 33% of respondents to the survey said they supported keeping Central American migrants in Mexico as they await for their asylum claims to be adjudicated.

How high taxes drive the illicit cigarette market - AEI

How high taxes drive the illicit cigarette market - AEI
"...the problem is that high taxes and hence high prices drive illicit markets. 
My AEI colleagues Aparna Mathur and Cody Kallen and I published a paper today in the journal Applied Economics called “The Perverse Effect of Sin Taxes: The Rise of Illicit White Cigarettes”.
In it, we describe the widespread availability of illicit cigarettes and the risks they present, not only to public health and government revenue, but also in how they assist organized crime. 
We specifically look at the fastest growing market, called illicit whites. 
These are cigarettes that are legal in the country of production, but are illegally smuggled into other markets without the payment of applicable taxes..."
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History for August 7

History for August 7 - On-This-Day.com
Nathaniel Greene 1742, John Heathcoat 1783 - Inventor, pioneer in lace making, Mata Hari 1876


Stan Freberg 1926, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer 1927, Garrison Keillor 1942


1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.


1942 - U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.

Gowdy Urges Release Of FBI Informant Transcript, Says ‘There Are Going To Be Others’ | The Daily Caller

Gowdy Urges Release Of FBI Informant Transcript, Says ‘There Are Going To Be Others’ | The Daily Caller:

Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy urged the release of FBI transcripts Sunday that he indicated were taken from conversations a bureau informant had during the 2016 presidential campaign with former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos.
Gowdy, the former chairman of the House Oversight Committee, also said there are likely to be additional transcripts of FBI informant contacts with Trump aides.

The way we were-----Laurie ( Strange Things Happen )- Dickey Lee -1965

Boob-tube-----What's My Line? - Eleanor Roosevelt (Oct 18, 1953) [W/ COMMERCIALS]

That's Embarrassing: McDonald's 'Eco-Friendly' Paper Straws Can't Be Recycled, Plastic Straws Were '100% Recyclable' | MRCTV

That's Embarrassing: McDonald's 'Eco-Friendly' Paper Straws Can't Be Recycled, Plastic Straws Were '100% Recyclable' | MRCTV
"...Whoops!

The BBC has reported that fast food giant McDonald’s has apparently admitted — according to an internal McDonald’s memo, reported on by The Sun — that the newer paper straws they use in the U.K. and Ireland are NOT recyclable.

The ironic part? 

The formerly used plastic straws were 100 percent recyclable.

Supposedly, the problem with the paper straws not being able to be recycled stems from McDonald’s having to thicken the paper they used for the straws because of customer complaints that straws were too flimsy..."

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Gotta read all!---Delingpole: Greenland Ice Melt Shock - The Terrifying Truth!

Delingpole: Greenland Ice Melt Shock - The Terrifying Truth!

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"Greenland just lost 11 billion tons of ice melted in one day because of this shocking weather event known as ‘summer’.

CBS News‘s resident climate expert Ted Scambos [loving the poetry of that first syllable in his surname!] thinks this is worrying and unusual; so does the Washington Post, which declares it “one of its greatest melting events ever recorded”; so too does renowned Canadian alarmist Bill McKibben.

Bill McKibben

✔@billmckibben

As Greenland's heat wave peaks tomorrow, rate of melting is expected to be highest ever recorded. This is ungoodhttps://www. washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/07/31/greenland-ice-sheet-is-throes-one-its-greatest-melting-events-ever-recorded/?utm_term=.01b931914899 …

The Greenland ice sheet is in the throes of one of its greatest melting events ever recorded

The heat dome that caused the extreme European heat wave is now affecting the Arctic, where the Greenland Ice Sheet is seeing one of its most intense melt events on record.

washingtonpost.com

"...Do you not realise that if the Greenland ice sheet goes on melting at this extraordinary rate, then within 12,500 years HALF of it will be gone?

Yes, you read that right. 
In 12,500 years – that’s about twice as far ahead into the future as we are now from the world’s earliest civilisation, Sumer, in 4500 BC – the Greenland ice sheet could be half gone, with almost incalculable consequences for those of us who are still alive.

We have Willis Eschenbach to thank for this timely warning. 
He has been doing the math at Watts Up With That? and this is his finding:

Here’s one way of looking at that. We can ask, IF Greenland were to continue losing ice mass at a rate of 103 billion tonnes per year, how long would it take to melt say half of the ice sheet? Not all of it, mind you, but half of it. (Note that I am NOT saying that extending a current trend is a way to estimate the future evolution of the ice sheet—I’m merely using it as a way to compare large numbers.)...

Paul Homewood isn’t much impressed with the panic-mongering either.

The ice sheet surface mass balance is running well above that of 2012:

http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/

And there is no mention of the fact that the ice sheet grew substantially last year, and also the year before:

The simple fact is that the Greenland ice sheet melts every summer, particularly when the sun shines. That’s what it does. And it grows back again in winter as the snow falls. Indeed, if it did not melt, it would carry on growing year after year..."
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Taxpayers Pay $2 Billion To Fund 30,000 Public Employees In Baltimore, Audit Shows | The Daily Caller

Taxpayers Pay $2 Billion To Fund 30,000 Public Employees In Baltimore, Audit Shows | The Daily Caller:

Taxpayers have paid nearly $2 billion in federal aid to fund 30,000 public employees in Baltimore at local and federal levels, an audit shows.
Baltimore reportedly has 13,522 employees with a combined payroll that exceeds $821 million annually. The mayor’s office paid $7 million in 2018 for the salaries of 111 employees and $1 million for public relations fees, according to an investigation auditors at OpenTheBooks.com conducted.

Their words. Their lips.

Are Schools Replacing Parents? | Intellectual Takeout

Are Schools Replacing Parents? | Intellectual Takeout
"...Tennessee will spend the next year on the task as one of eight states chosen to draft new standards focused on students’ emotional well-being and mental health in grades K-12.

"That means setting benchmarks for what students should know or be able to do in each grade when it comes to skills such as decision-making, self-awareness, social awareness, self-control, and establishing and maintaining healthy relationships..."

...But one has to wonder: is it the school’s responsibility to teach those things, or is it the responsibility of the parent in the home?

Several years ago, former teacher John Taylor Gatto addressed this question in his book Dumbing Us Down. While Gatto implies that parents are the best teachers of social and emotional learning, he also notes that it is difficult for parents to follow through and fulfill their role in this area, largely because the education system has declared themselves the experts in raising children: 

“[N]o large-scale reform is ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged society until we force open the idea of ‘school’ to include family as the main engine of education. If we use schooling to break children away from parents – and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools...we’re going to continue to have the horror show we have right now..."

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Mulvaney: Shootings Not Trump Fault — 'I Blame the People Who Pulled The Trigger' | Breitbart

Mulvaney: Shootings Not Trump Fault — 'I Blame the People Who Pulled The Trigger' | Breitbart:

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said President Donald Trump should not be blamed for mass shootings.
Mulvaney said, “I blame the people who pulled the triggers. Is someone really blaming the president? These people are sick. And until we address why people think this way. This young man —let’s be clear, we know nothing about the shooter in Dayton, we’re just talking about the shooter in El Paso. This was a sick person. You can go and read the things the person wrote, now available to the public, making the person famous.”

D.C. Metro Report: 'Single, Self-Cleaning' Toilet Cost $500K to Maintain...Hasn't Flushed Since 2017 | MRCTV

D.C. Metro Report: 'Single, Self-Cleaning' Toilet Cost $500K to Maintain...Hasn't Flushed Since 2017 | MRCTV
"Washington D.C. is known for being completely full of crap because of the politicians that inhabit it, but this is ridiculous.
The Office of Inspector General, headed by Geoffrey Cherrington, recently came out with a semi-annual report about the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) system, known to locals as the "Metro.
...According to the report:

OI [Investigations] received a referral from OA [Audits] indicating that WMATA spent approximately $500,000 maintaining a single self-cleaning toilet located at the Huntington Metro Station..."

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Well, they don't deny it.