Reads like a novel. A novel recounting the Soviet-ization of America. Read it all!-----How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career

How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career

"...Zimmermann was also the principal clarinetist of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade—that is, until the orchestra fired him last February over accusations of racial harassment. 

To hear his accusers tell it, Zimmermann had insulted, intimidated, and even stalked his black colleagues, going so far as to menacingly drive by their homes. 

Human resources had already warned the clarinetist in 2019 that his behaviors could be grounds for dismissal, the orchestra claimed in its termination letter to Zimmermann. 

His refusal to heed that warning was ostensibly why he was fired in 2020.

• But six of Zimmermann’s ex-colleagues and the orchestra’s own documents tell a very different story. They suggest that Zimmermann himself was the target of a witch hunt, instigated by a black oboist whom Zimmermann had stuck his neck out to help...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for September 25

History for September 25 - On-This-Day.com

William Faulkner 1897

• 1513 - The Pacific Ocean was discovered by Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He named the body of water the South Sea. He was truly just the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.
• 1775 - Ethan Allen was captured by the British during the American Revolutionary War. He was leading the attack on Montreal.
• 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution. Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.
• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when she was sworn in as the 102nd justice. She had been nominated the previous July by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• 1983 - A Soviet military officer, Stanislav Petrov, averted a potential worldwide nuclear war. He declared a false alarm after a U.S. attack was detected by a Soviet early warning system. It was later discovered the alarms had been set off when the satellite warning system mistakenly interpreted sunlight reflections off clouds as the presence of enemy missiles.
• 1995 - Ross Perot announced that he would form the Independence Party.

Glenn Beck: Biden's tax proposal targets bank accounts with more than $600. 'That's NOT for the wealthy. That's for EVERYONE.' - TheBlaze

Glenn Beck: Biden's tax proposal targets bank accounts with more than $600. 'That's NOT for the wealthy. That's for EVERYONE.' - TheBlaze: 

On "Glenn TV" Wednesday, Glenn Beck said he's just as nervous about America's future today as he was in 2007, except this time it's not just the economy he fears is near collapse. Inflation is out of control. You feel it every time you buy anything these days. And now, even with income tax, sales tax, property tax, death tax, capital gains tax, and ESG-related tax rate increases, the taxes you're paying are no longer enough for the government. To ensure you're paying your "fair share," the Biden administration now wants to require banks to report aggregate transactions into and out of all personal and business bank accounts whose "inflows and outflows of an account total at least $600 in a year, or if the account has a fair market value of at least $600."

Facebook Reveals How It Decides What Content to Suppress

Facebook Reveals How It Decides What Content to Suppress: 

Facebook released its updated Content Distribution Guidelines on Thursday, shedding more light on how the tech giant decides what content it suppresses.

While Facebook has previously provided some details on the types of content that receive reduced distribution in Facebook’s News Feed, the updated guidelines are designed to provide clarity and accessibility, Director of Product Management Anna Stepanov announced in a blog post Thursday.

The way we were-----Volkswagen: The People's Car Of Nazi Germany | War Factories | Timeline

Never forget. NEVER!-----Flight of Honor - Florence American (WWII) Cemetery

Joy Reid Complains About 'Missing White Women Syndrome.' So Why Won't She Ever Mention Missing Black Women?

Joy Reid Complains About 'Missing White Women Syndrome.' So Why Won't She Ever Mention Missing Black Women?

"Joy Reid is  racist and homophobic.

Her latest, laughable attempt to prove racial bias in the media is through criticizing what she terms “missing white woman syndrome.” She claims that missing people of color don’t get the same amount of media attention as missing white women.

Reid is leaving a lot out of the equation. Yes, there is a racial aspect to which stories the press will and will not touch, but not in the way Reid wants to believe.

First, missing white women do get attention in the press, as long as their alleged attacker is white. 

If the bad guy is black, the press will shut the story down. 

Indeed, this is racial bias.

• Remember Brittanee Drexel? The blonde 17-year-old girl who went missing in Myrtle Beach, SC? Odds are you don’t remember her story because, though she was kidnapped, gang-raped, beaten, murdered, and fed to alligators, horrific details a ghoulish news media would usually fawn over, her attackers were all black men. That can’t make the headlines, though. What would people think?
• What about that time when blonde and blue-eyed Rachel Stephenson was abducted by Raliek Chambers? She escaped hours later. The story never made it to the mainstream media.
• Remember when former model Rebecca Landrith was abducted and killed by Tracy Rollins, Jr. in May of 2021?...Read all.

Read it!!-----Heartbreaking Letter from Jan. 6 Prisoner in Solitary Confinement! DC Gitmo Violates International Codes on Torture

Heartbreaking Letter from Jan. 6 Prisoner in Solitary Confinement! DC Gitmo Violates International Codes on Torture
"Jonathan Mellis, a detainee from January 6th, wrote us from solitary confinement last week.
Mellis has been detained without bond since his arrest in February. 

In May, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan denied his request to be released from custody for a week so he could attend his father’s funeral.

• Here is the direct letter from Jonathan Mellis addressing the American people:

“My name in Jonathan Mellis. 

I am a January 6 Capitol detainee being held in the DC jail. 

In the last 7 months I have experienced and witnessed the most inhumane and hateful treatment of my 34 years of life.
The DOJ and the Biden Administration are doing everything in their power to break me.
I write this from solitary confinement on September 15 with no clear explanation as to why I’ve been isolated or how long I will be here. 

I have been locked in this small concrete cell for over a month at this point. 

They call solitary confinement “the hole”...
...I am currently engaged in a deep spiritual battle. 

I will not let evil win. 

I am strong. 

But it is hard. 

They want to break me. 

I will not let them. 

My love for this country will never end. 

Please do not believe everything you read about me in the news. 

They are crucifying me before my trial. 

I was trying to help the people being crushed by police."...Read all!!!

GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Biden: 'He's done so much damage to this country in less than nine months' - TheBlaze

GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Biden: 'He's done so much damage to this country in less than nine months' - TheBlaze: 

A contingent of Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced three articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden this week, citing the president's failed handling of the crisis at the southern border, his attempt to extend the federal moratorium on evictions, and his bungled military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Washington Examiner reported. Ohio Rep. Bob Gibbs first introduced the articles on Tuesday and was later joined by Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) Brian Babin (Texas), and Randy Weber (Texas), who signed on as co-sponsors.

Why the French submarine deal was torpedoed | 7.30

Voting With Their Feet: Parents Taking Their Kids Out of Traditional Public Schools in Astounding Numbers

Voting With Their Feet: Parents Taking Their Kids Out of Traditional Public Schools in Astounding Numbers

"A new report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools shows...enrollment shifts between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years.

Their analysis shows that 1.45 million children left traditional public schools....

Charter school enrollment increased in all but three of the 39 states that allow them and provided data.

(National Alliance for Public Charter Schools)

According to the analysis:

• Charter schools in the 42 states assessed gained nearly 240,000 students, a 7% increase.
• Public schools, including district-run schools, lost more than 1.4 million students, a 3.3% loss year over year. There was a decrease in public school enrollment in every state...Read all.

Lunch video-----Fireside Chat Ep. 205 — More Secular, Less Free

"America is more secular than ever before, that’s a fact. America is ALSO less free than ever before. 

Is there a correlation? 

How would you react if there was? 

Dennis has his thoughts. 

See if you agree."

Noon-toon

 

Texas Forms Miles-Long Border Barrier from State Troopers and National Guard Vehicles

Texas Forms Miles-Long Border Barrier from State Troopers and National Guard Vehicles: 

Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety and National Guard to use vehicles to create a miles-long barrier to stop the flow of mostly Haitian migrants from crossing the Rio Grande. The vehicle barrier, along with the recently constructed Texas border fencing, effectively blocked the illegal crossings and enabled Border Patrol officials to reduce the population of the Del Rio migrant encampment.

Remember the media's outrage at Trump's border management?

 

We are RULED by morons!-----The CDC Made America's Pandemic Worse

The CDC Made America's Pandemic Worse

• The agency didn't just botch the initial test. It resisted mass testing.

"The pandemic was a test of America's public health bureaucracy. 

It failed.
Those failures were legion, and they were spread across multiple officials, agencies, and layers of government. 

But no institution failed quite as abysmally as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which, through a combination of arrogance, incompetence, and astonishingly poor planning, wasted America's only chance to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 before it spread widely...Read all!

Why would a member of congress be against protecting Israeli civilians (Iron Dome)?

 

A sure path to despotism!-----Overwhelming majority of college students say shouting down a speaker is acceptable: survey | The College Fix

Overwhelming majority of college students say shouting down a speaker is acceptable: survey | The College Fix
"Sixty-six percent of college students think shouting down a speaker they disagree with is acceptable to shut down their talk, and another 23 percent believe violence can be used to cancel a speech, according to a wide-scale survey released this week.
The 2021 College Free Speech Rankings, a follow-up on the first survey in 2020, asked over 37,000 students at 159 top-ranked U.S. colleges and universities to share their views about free speech on campus.
...Not only do 66 percent of students say it is acceptable to shout down a speaker to prevent them from speaking on campus, that result is up four percentage points from last year...Read all.

#1 This day 1975-----John Denver - I'm Sorry (Official Audio)

Biden’s Multi-Trillion-Dollar Spending Plans & Tax Hikes Will Have 3 Devastating Economic Consequences, New Study Warns

Biden’s Multi-Trillion-Dollar Spending Plans & Tax Hikes Will Have 3 Devastating Economic Consequences, New Study Warns

• Here are the three main ways Biden’s plans would hurt, not help, Americans’ economic fortunes.

"...The findings are bleak. 

Here are the three main ways Biden’s plans would hurt, not help, Americans’ economic fortunes.
1. Weaker Economic Growth...
2. Lower Worker Compensation...
3. Declining Standard of Living...Read all!

Aren't the dems the "fences don't work" arse holes?

 

Former FDA chief says US coming to a tipping point 'where masks become optional,' criticizes CDC's messaging - TheBlaze

Former FDA chief says US coming to a tipping point 'where masks become optional,' criticizes CDC's messaging - TheBlaze: 

During a Wednesday appearance on the Fox News show, Gottlieb said that he believes mask mandates will begin to phase out. "I think we're going to move to a paradigm where masks become optional, encouraged in certain settings, and it's going to be based on what the overall prevalence of infection is, and what the vaccination rate is, and whether or not you're in an environment where there are vulnerable people." Perino responded, "Yeah, it seems like it's time to move on to that."

With excellent "graduation rates"!!-----Disgusting! Child abuse!-----Maspeth HS diplomas 'not worth the paper' they're printed on

Maspeth HS diplomas 'not worth the paper' they're printed on

• The SCI report confirms a series of Post exposes in 2019 describing a culture of cheating in which students could skip classes and do little or no work, but still pass.--Helayne Seidman

"Maspeth High School (Queens-NYC) created fake classes, awarded bogus credits, and fixed grades to push students to graduate — “even if the diploma was not worth the paper on which it was printed,” an explosive investigative report charges.
Principal Khurshid Abdul-Mutakabbir demanded that teachers pass students no matter how little they learned, says the 32-page report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools, Anastasia Coleman.

• “I don’t care if a kid shows up at 7:44 and you dismiss at 7:45 — it’s your job to give that kid credit,” the principal is quoted as telling a teacher.
  

...The SCI report confirms a series of Post exposes in 2019 describing a culture of cheating in which students could skip classes and do little or no work, but still pass...Read all and get angry!!