The Mona Shores Board of Education approved a Black Lives Matter resolution at our meeting June 29. The resolution firmly states our conviction that schools should be places for the practice of equality, for the building of understanding, and for the active engagement of all in creating pathways to freedom and justice for all people. It also includes concrete steps we will take to help that vision become a reality. Please read the full text of the resolution below.
MONA SHORES RESOLUTION REGARDING BLACK LIVES MATTER AT SCHOOL
WHEREAS in response to both the current and historically disparate treatment of Black Americans and other minorities, a nationwide movement has arisen to assert that Black Lives Matter;
WHEREASschools should be places for practice of equality, for the building of understanding, and for the active engagement of all in creating pathways to freedom and justice for all people;
WHEREASMona Shores' growth as a primarily white school district occurred as a result of endemic racist housing policies, restrictive covenants, and intentional urban planning that prevented people of color from even entering white spaces, let alone establishing themselves in the city in any permanent way. This historic pattern must be recognized;
WHEREAS Mona Shores Public Schools seeks to address institutionalized racismin our schools and community, and in the future offer spaces for dialogue among staff by supporting and facilitating professional development work related to race and other challenging topics...READ ALL!!!
(The Center Square) – Americans should expect to pay significantly more to heat their homes this winter, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says.
"When asked in an interview on CNN if energy costs would go up, she said, “Yes, this is going to happen. It will be more expensive this year than last year...” Heating prices could increase 50% this winter, the Energy Information Agency warns. ...Likewise, the 5% of households that heat primarily with propane “will spend 54% more – 94% more in a colder winter and 29% more in a warmer winter,” and the 4% of households that heat primarily with heating oil “will spend 43% more – 59% more in a colder winter and 30% more in a warmer winter.”...Read all.
For the past two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, world leaders have gathered at COP 26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to listen to the same message: Disaster is just around the corner.
“The world has to step up, and it has to step up now,” former President Barack Obama said. “When it comes to climate, time really is running out.”
Professional yeller Greta Thunberg demanded the United Nations declare a “systemwide climate emergency,” and force countries to take action.
Press accounts were similarly Chicken Little-esque. If developed nations don’t phase out oil and gas and give $100 billion in “climate financing,” Paul Behrens, professor in environmental change, told Politico that “the only fact about the future I can declare with certainty is that the world as we know it is coming to an end.”
If it all sounds slightly familiar, consider this news story from 1972:
...In 1982, after the catastrophe failed to materialize, the New York Times covered the second UN conference on the environment, which opened “amid gloom”:
The piece quotes Mostafa K. Tolba, executive director of the United Nations environmental program, as saying that if things aren’t fixed by the turn of the century — the year 2000 — the world would face “an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust.’’
In 1989, a senior UN environmental official shaved a year off that dire prediction, saying that if we didn’t fix climate change by 1999, we would have “Global disaster, nations wiped off the face of the earth, crop failures”...Read all.
Democrats have seriously underestimated the frustration that voters, unable to get the things they desire nearly instantaneously, are going to feel, as people such as Jen Psaki crack jokes about supply-chain problems, “the tragedy of the treadmill that’s delayed.” What about rising prices?
Larger vehicles, higher speed limits, and poor road design are among the likely causes of the spike.
"Data on U.S. traffic fatalities in 2020 shocked safety advocates: At a time when people were driving less, deaths jumped.
In fact, they were higher last year than in any year since 2007. And 2021 could be even worse. The federal government estimates that 20,160 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the first half of this year. That’s an 18.4% increase from the same period in 2020.
“This is a crisis,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said...
...Experts don’t know what’s causing the surge...Read all.
1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary Tudor.
1796 - Catherine the Great of Russia died at the age of 67.
1869 - The Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
1903 - Russia's Social Democrats officially split into two groups - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
1904 - The first underwater submarine journey was taken, from Southampton, England, to the Isle of Wight.
1913 - The steamship Louise became the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal.
1968 - NBC cut away from the final minutes of a New York Jets-Oakland Raiders game to begin a TV special, "Heidi," on schedule. The Raiders came from behind to beat the Jets 43-32.
1997 - 62 people were killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt. The attackers were killed by police
In other words, history eventually will sort it all out.
Or as the second-century A.D. skeptic philosopher Sextus Empiricus noted, eventually the truth emerges and cosmic justice is rendered: “The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.”
"WTF was Governor Kate Brown thinking with this? You know what? We don’t wanna know. It looks like a mess of Christmas, fascism, and Hobby Lobby gone really wrong. Just … no.
Unvaccinated people in Austria are under new restrictions due to an uptick in COVID-19 cases.
People who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine are now only allowed to leave their homes for work, groceries or emergencies. The new mandate went into effect Monday.
"We are not taking this step lightly, but unfortunately it is necessary," Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said, according to the BBC...Read all.
A group of former U.S. Navy SEALs who are now running for Congress dressed down the Biden administration for foreign policy decisions, including the tumultuous Afghanistan withdrawal.
Retired Navy SEALs – Ryan Zinke, Eli Crane, Morgan Luttrell, Brady Duke, and Derrick Van Orden – appeared on Fox News this week. The Navy SEALs turned congressional candidates ripped President Joe Biden for leaving Americans in Afghanistan.
"The slurs and smears levelled by the elites are all the more toxic because they have always known these sins firsthand as their own."
"The Left is addicted to projection—the psycho-political syndrome of attributing all of one’s own sins to one’s opponents...
The Privileged Damn Privilege
Take for example, the worn-out charge of “privilege,” as in the phrase “check your privilege.”
This trope originates exclusively from the Left.
Purportedly, it signifies a rigged system in which white males have gained, unfairly and undeservedly, “privilege” to exercise cultural, economic, political, and social control over the “other”—occasionally defined as women, more often “people of color,” and most frequently African Americans. How odd, given that by any indicator the political Left is the party of wealth and privilege.
The wealthiest ZIP codes are found in blue states such as California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York. Twenty-six of the 27 wealthiest congressional districts, gauged by per capita incomes, are represented by liberal Democrats.
Registered Democrats on average have higher incomes than their Republican counterparts.
Democratic presidential candidates have vastly outspent Republicans over the last 20 years.
Note that the old liberal saw about “dark money” has steadily disappeared from the left-wing lexicon (nothing is darker than Mark Zuckerberg’s infusions of cash to warp particular voting precincts).
Likewise, in the once trendy academic trifecta of “race, class, and gender,” class” has been dropped quietly.
The most elite and wealthy institutions in America are predominantly liberal bastions: Silicon Valley, entertainment, universities, professional sports, Wall Street, the mainstream media, and foundations...Read all!!!
"Pineapples are so culturally significant that pineapples adorn the tops of cathedrals, and serve as the domicile of one of the world’s most popular cartoon characters.
An estimated 300 billion pineapples are farmed each year, and a 2021 YouGov poll lists pineapples as the sixth most favorite fruit, ahead of all varieties of apples and oranges."
Progressive ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's dished out misinformation about Kyle Rittenhouse, plus completely invented a hypothetical scenario regarding the controversial shooting to racialize the powderkeg court case. The Vermont-based woke ice cream purveyor was called out for spreading a false narrative online.
"Data on U.S. traffic fatalities in 2020 shocked safety advocates: At a time when people were driving less, deaths jumped.
Purportedly, it signifies a rigged system in which white males have gained, unfairly and undeservedly, “privilege” to exercise cultural, economic, political, and social control over the “other”—occasionally defined as women, more often “people of color,” and most frequently African Americans. 
