And the math/reading scores BEFORE 2019 were awful!-----School Spending Up, Test Scores Down, by Terence P. Jeffrey | Creators Syndicate

School Spending Up, Test Scores Down, by Terence P. Jeffrey | Creators Syndicate

• Thirteen-year-old children in American public schools were not quite as good at math and reading in 2019 and 2020 as they were in 2012.
• This is despite the fact that American taxpayers invested more money per pupil in the nation's public schools in each of the last two fiscal years than they did in 2012.
  

Bottom line: Increased spending on public education did not pay off.
In fiscal 2012, according to the Census Bureau, the United States spent $10,608 per pupil in its public elementary and secondary schools. 

In fiscal 2020, in the 35 states and the District of Columbia that have so far reported their totals to the Census, the per pupil spending was $14,455...Read all!

Lunch video-----Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs and Most Other Countries Don't?

Noon-toon

 

In-N-Out Burger tells San Francisco 'we refuse to become vaccination police' after city temporarily closes restaurant - TheBlaze

In-N-Out Burger tells San Francisco 'we refuse to become vaccination police' after city temporarily closes restaurant - TheBlaze: 

In-N-Out Burger blasted the city of San Francisco's proof of COVID-19 vaccination requirements after the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) closed one of the popular California burger joint's locations for serving customers who were not carrying the proper papers.

Yeah. The next "wave" of offenses.

 

Cowards fold against woke goons.

Heterodox Academy - Posts | Facebook
"On Monday, city officials voted unanimously to remove the statue from Council chambers, but delayed a decision on where to put it...
...'Removal is a very simple solution that will erase the debate,' Raymond Lavertue, a historian at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, testified on Monday...
NYTIMES.COM Jefferson Statue Will Be Removed From N.Y.C. Council Chambers

You decide.

 

This Winter, We Could Potentially Be Facing Simultaneous Shortages Of Oil, Natural Gas, Propane And Coal

This Winter, We Could Potentially Be Facing Simultaneous Shortages Of Oil, Natural Gas, Propane And Coal

"...the bad news is that prices are rising aggressively from coast to coast. 

 As of yesterday, Fox News was reporting that the price of gasoline had risen “for 22 straight days”.
The main reason why prices are skyrocketing is because supplies are starting to get really tight. 

In fact, it is being reported that the crude oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma could be “effectively out of crude” in just a few weeks…

...may be just weeks from being “effectively out of crude.” The bank’s conclusion: “if nothing were to change in the Cushing balance over the next two months, we might expect front WTI spreads to spike to record highs—a “super backwardation” scenario.”

Needless to say, we have never seen anything like this happen before.
In such a scenario, how high could the price of oil potentially go?...Read all.

#1 This day 1984-----Stevie Wonder I Just Called To Say I Love You

This is why we don't trust ANYONE connected with the medical/political monopoly!-----Beds filling up, Mercy Health Muskegon pleads for more to get vaccinated | WOODTV.com

Beds filling up, Mercy Health Muskegon pleads for more to get vaccinated | WOODTV.com

Hmmm....

• Hospitals drop from 3 to 1.
• Beds drop from 500+ to 200ish.
• Emergency rooms drop from3 to 1.
• Mercy management can't/won't hire enough employees (fired ALL LPNs a few years ago).

But management decisions have NOTHING to do with the disaster that is Mercy Hospital today?

• Mercy Chief Medical officer blames "unvaccinated Population" for ALL of Mercy's woes.
• Yet he offers a fake "stat", "...nearly all ICU patients are unvaccinated and essentially all of the deaths have been in the unvaccinated population...”as proof. 
• Yet, avoids providing ANY proof that ANY of those "unvaccinated" actually have Covid.

Read and weep if you have need for medical services in Muskegon... or most Michigan communities.

“...It is important to note that nearly all ICU patients are unvaccinated and essentially all of the deaths have been in the unvaccinated population,” Dr. Justin Grill, the chief medical officer for Mercy Health Muskegon, said. 

“It really does create an unfortunate burden on our health care system, one that honestly would be easily eliminated with more widespread vaccination....”

"...this is fact!"

 

Parents Sue AG Garland for Violating Free Speech Rights with FBI School-Board Memo | National Review

Parents Sue AG Garland for Violating Free Speech Rights with FBI School-Board Memo | National Review: 

A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of a coalition of parents against Attorney General Merrick Garland, claiming that his recent memo directing the FBI to investigate and potentially prosecute “threats” leveled by parents against school board members is intended to chill speech.

Chuck Ross on Twitter: "The DOD inspector general report on the hiring of Michael Ellis is damning for Sen. Mark Warner and the Washington Post. They claimed that the White House pressured NSA to install Ellis as general counsel. NSA officials completely disputed that to the IG. https://t.co/kJUYaROfVP https://t.co/OrY59MJkcs" / Twitter

Chuck Ross on Twitter: "The DOD inspector general report on the hiring of Michael Ellis is damning for Sen. Mark Warner and the Washington Post. They claimed that the White House pressured NSA to install Ellis as general counsel. NSA officials completely disputed that to the IG. https://t.co/kJUYaROfVP https://t.co/OrY59MJkcs" / Twitter

AM Fruitcake

 

History for October 22

History for October 22 - On-This-Day.com

Timothy Leary 1920

• 1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet.
• 1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
• 1844 - This day is recognized as "The Great Disappointment" among those who practiced Millerism. The world was expected to come to an end according to the followers of William Miller.
• 1907 - The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks.
• 1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.

Leftist Shadow Governments Control A Lot More Than Our Elections

Leftist Shadow Governments Control A Lot More Than Our Elections: 

Many Americans are awakening to the fact that we seem to have no local control of a lot of local things: public schools, our terms of employment, local governments, local elections. That last one popped again recently with the release of my colleague Mollie Hemingway’s deeply reported 2020 election investigation book, “Rigged.”

That book, and some great corroborating independent reporting, show that 2020 election chaos was part of an effective and well-funded plan to help Democrats win by rigging the playing field. One key strategy deployed to that end has become default on the left yet still often goes unremarked and unchallenged. It’s called “advocacy philanthropy.”

The way we were-----How Two Guys are the Reason We Eat What We Eat for Breakfast

How Bankrupt American Cities Stay Alive - Debt [ST04]

"...After several generations, many of these places are financially insolvent, but are propping themselves up with an ever-growing mountain of debt."

China...again??

The Car Shortage Is About To Get A Whole Lot Worse

• 
  A critical element in everything from engines to bodies is in short supply

"...A global shortage of magnesium could result in a near-total shutdown of the auto industry — one that experts say could come by the end of this year...
...Essentially, you can’t make cars without aluminum. 

You can’t work with aluminum without using magnesium. 

And as of December, you may not be able to work with magnesium much — if at all. 

Amos Fletcher, analyst for Barclays, put it succinctly: “If magnesium supply stops, the entire auto industry will potentially be forced to stop.”

...Unfortunately for the car industry, China is also the world’s primary supplier of magnesium — 85% of the world’s supply comes from the country.
The most prevalent magnesium-producing town in China, Yulin, just ordered 35 of its 50 production facilities to shut down...Read all!!

"...strip the big non-profits of part of their tax exempt status?...

Clarice Feldman
"matt: Why not, as a part of Biden's financial and tax reform,

• strip the big non-profits of part of their tax exempt status? 
• Any non-profit that uses money to influence elections should be taxed the same amount as their in kind or other donations.
• This could be extended to the big influencers as well. 

Google, MSFT, FB and all the others. 

Give it teeth.
Much better than going after Mom & Pop."

"Fact checks"=BullShoot!

 

WATCH: Bari Weiss Confronts Brian Stelter Over CNN’s Covid Lab Leak Theo...

"WATCH: Bari Weiss Confronts Brian Stelter Over CNN’s Covid Lab Leak Theory Coverage in Tense Debate"

Claim that they’re “steadily increasing” since restrictions were lifted is just not true.

Claim that they’re “steadily increasing” since restrictions were lifted is just not true.--Paul Joseph Watson
"In an attempt to amplify calls for more lockdown measures, CNBC erroneously reported that COVID hospitalizations in England have been “steadily increasing” since restrictions were lifted when in fact the opposite is true.
The article, written by Holly Ellyatt, attempts to blame people who don’t wear masks for a sustained spike in COVID hospitalizations.
...Don’t expect CNBC’s article to get “fact checked” by anyone though, given that it seeks to bolster the official narrative.
“Now the situation is looking dramatically different, with the country recording close to 50,000 new Covid cases a day — giving it one of the worst daily infection rates in the world,” according to the report.
In reality, as Reuters acknowledges, the rise in cases is being fueled by schoolchildren, who are obsessively tested in order to bump up numbers...Read all!

Lunch video-----NIH and ivermectin

"HIH, Table 2e. Characteristics of Antiviral Agents That Are Approved or Under Evaluation for the Treatment of COVID-19"