Pandemic school closures, 4 years later | The North State Journal

NORTH CAROLINA STUDENTS ARE STILL BATTLING THE EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 SHUTDOWN

"...Cooper and Cohen relied heavily on CDC guidance, as did the Toolkit, yet that guidance would come into question a little under two years later when a Congressional committee found the CDC had allowed the American Federation of Teachers to rewrite key portions of school reopening guidance that had kept most schools closed. In some cases, the CDC had used AFT’s suggestions nearly verbatim...

• North Carolina students were later estimated to be 15 months behind. 
• Students with special needs in the state were hardest hit as remote instruction failed to meet their needs. 
• Two years after the closures, those students were showing a steep decline in academic performance and increased behavioral issues...

This had to go to court?!!

#1 This day 1962-----Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel HQ (1962)

Clarice Feldman - Etana Hecht:Before going into surgery,... | Facebook

Clarice Feldman - Etana Hecht:Before going into surgery,... | Facebook - Etana Hecht: 

"Before going into surgery, @IsraeliPM gave a press conference and dropped some truth bombs.
"What is the focus of international criticism, including American ones?
The criticism that says that the State of Israel and the @IDF are not doing enough to reduce civilian deaths. And that is simply not true."
"Not because I say it. But because the world's greatest urban warfare experts say so, such as General Petraeus, or Colonel John @SpencerGuard of West Point."
"They say that there is no army in the world who did and is doing what the IDF does to reduce civilian deaths."...
Full press conference: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HzWqHPCX48o…

Orbiting the US - Changes Your Perspective of the US

Orbiting the US - Changes Your Perspective of the US - SETON MOTLEY

"......So when I posit the US is imminently destined for economic ruin? 

Nigh no one disagrees - even a little...

The white Africans are particularly well informed - because they have actually lived through their countries actually collapsing.

My realtor is an amazing woman - who was born in Rhodesia. That’s what Zimbabwe was - before it was Zimbabwe...
“Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe is an ongoing period of currency instability in Zimbabwe which, using Cagan's definition of hyperinflation, began in February 2007...

Starting to sound familiar? It should be….

Bank Failures in Zimbabwe: Lessons from the 2003-2004 Bank-Wide Liquidity Crisis:

• “Ironically, the events that led to the bank-wide liquidity crisis are repeating again...

Is this a great country or what!

Counselor fights state rule that prevents her from helping addicts | WND | by WND Staff

Counselor fights state rule that prevents her from helping addicts | WND | by WND Staff: 

In short, consumers often seek out those with experience in specific areas when they have an issue in their own lives that must be handled. In counseling, too, sometimes the best advice comes from those who have had, and dealt with, certain issues.

Must read!! Have Boeing's enemies declared war?-----Why Boeing Should NOT Be Blamed for Plane Malfunctions - Glenn Beck

Or is there another culprit?

"Is Boeing to blame for all the airplane malfunctions we’ve heard about recently? 

Or is there another culprit? 

Glenn recalls a conversation he recently had with a pilot who was tired of the federal government putting all the blame on Boeing. 

• Instead, he argued, it’s the federal inspectors who certify the planes and a lack of pilot training, especially outside of America, that should be called out. 

But do other pilots agree? 

• Is this yet another example of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s accidental or intentional incompetence?..

Transcript

GLENN: Okay. Yesterday, I had a good friend come up to me. And he said to me, Glenn, I can't take the news on Boeing anymore.
And I said, why is that? And he said, well, you know, I was a pilot. And I said, that's right. For American pilots. For years.
He said, yes. So I kind of know something about the airline industry. Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
And he said, aren't all planes that come from Boeing, don't they receive a final check?
Yes. Don't they also receive a final check, from the government...

Poll: 71% of Palestinians Support October 7 Massacre, Majority Wants Hamas Returned to Power in Gaza

“52% of respondents in Gaza said they hoped to see Hamas return to rule the enclave, (…). Among those in the West Bank, 64% think Hamas should run postwar Gaza.”

"More than five months after Hamas-led savage marauders slaughtered more than 1200 Israeli men, women and children, support for the October 7 massacre is at an all-time high among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Palestinians in both the West Bank and the Strip in those who think independence should be achieved through armed struggle...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 2

History for April 2 - On-This-Day.com 

Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist

• 1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore.
• 1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.
• 1917 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress.
• 1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.
• 1958 - The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.
• 1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.
• 1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over.
• 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.

Chinese illegal immigrant who entered southern border convicted of child porn crimes, possessing video of girl under 5 years old | Blaze Media

Chinese illegal immigrant who entered southern border convicted of child porn crimes, possessing video of girl under 5 years old | Blaze Media: 

AChinese national – who entered the United States illegally through the southern border – has been convicted of child pornography crimes.

Tong Sun attempted to illegally cross the U.S. southern border in May 2023 near Roma, Texas.

Law enforcement took Sun into custody, at which time, investigators reportedly discovered child porn on his cell phone.

This Day in History: April 1

Hiding And Rewriting History

Instapundit - BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Sam Bankman-Fried might be eating a lot of rice, almonds and Skittles drink

Instapundit - We are of the same class, you know. We are not plebs to be held to the same standards as others. - Ed Driscoll

"...But like Epstein’s mother corresponding with esteemed New York teacher Gabriel Kotter, SBF’s mother wrote the judge a letter, you know: SBF Is an Empathetic Vegan Altruist MIT Grad!

SBF’s mom submitted a 6-page letter, so I won’t go through it all. But I will give you a flavor of it and give you my argument for why I think it represents something much more than a mother’s plea for mercy.

From the first paragraph, Barbara Fried tells us what matters to her: credentials.

Dear Judge Kaplan: I am Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother. | am also a law professor at Stanford, where | have taught for the past thirty-five years, and before that was an attorney at Paul Weiss in New York and a law clerk on the Second Circuit. 

She is speaking as a highly credentialed person to another highly credentialed person. I am a law professor. You are a judge. We are of the same class, you know. We are not plebs to be held to the same standards as others.

Cringe...

The next part of the letter is particularly precious: Sam is a VEGAN, don’tcha know?...

One of the section leaders for my computer-science class, Hamza El Boudali, believes that President Joe Biden should be killed...

TaxProf Blog - The War At Stanford - Paul Caron

The Atlantic Op-Ed: The War at Stanford, by Theo Baker:
"One of the section leaders for my computer-science class, Hamza El Boudali, believes that President Joe Biden should be killed...I’m saying he is guilty of mass murder and should be treated in the same way that a terrorist with darker skin would be... 

El Boudali has also said that he believes that Hamas’s October 7 attack was a justifiable act of resistance, and that he would actually prefer Hamas rule America in place of its current government (though he clarified later that he “doesn’t mean Hamas is perfect”)....

We’ve had protests in the past,” Richard Saller, the university’s interim president, told me in November—about the environment, and apartheid, and Vietnam. But they didn’t pit “students against each other” the way that this conflict has...

State legislature adopts plan to end 'religious liberty | WND | by Bob Unruh

State legislature adopts plan to end 'religious liberty | WND | by Bob Unruh: 

And they included no provision for exemptions for religious people or groups, "demonstrating their intent to deny religious freedom to Minnesota citizens, churches, and schools and to engage in persecuting Christians and some other religious bodies." He pointedly noted, "If the state can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on 'gender identity,' then it can tell churches and schools what they cannot say or do on other subjects too."

Serious Charge for 18 Year Old Who Killed Motorcyclist in High Speed Crash

Eight Brand New Biden Gaffes ABC,CBS, NBC Have Buried

The gaffe machine that is President Joe Biden let out another howler on Tuesday and the Big Three networks dutifully ignored it - Geoffrey Dickens

"...Biden: “US Has Lowest Inflation of Any Country in America”
On March 14, India Today reported:

US President Joe Biden has made yet another gaffe while speaking about his administration’s efforts to tackle inflation in the country. Instead of saying that the US has one of the lowest inflation rates in the world, Biden said, “We have the lowest inflation rates of any country in America.” 

“Wages are rising faster than prices and now we have among the lowest inflation rates of any country in America. And, still, we are fighting to lower it even further,” Biden said in his address in Milwaukee in the state of Wisconsin.

ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning show coverage: 0 seconds...

Lunch video-----Do We Have Health Care or Sick Care? | 5 Minute Video

Noon-toon

 

Assisted suicide agenda called out for suggesting some people 'better off dead' | WND | by WND Staff

Assisted suicide agenda called out for suggesting some people 'better off dead' | WND | by WND Staff: 

A report from the Christian Institute details how Canada has been "skiing" down euthanasia's "slippery slope," and experts are warning Great Britain not to follow.

In Canada, already, the elderly and disabled are facing pressure … to die.

Do as we demand or your grandparents will die!

 

Good Lord, the media's resurrecting, deifying this serial liar!-----"One Way Back": Christine Blasey Ford on speaking out, death threats, and life after the Kavanaugh hearings - CBS News

"One Way Back": Christine Blasey Ford on speaking out, death threats, and life after the Kavanaugh hearings - CBS News (gotta Love" their choice of photos)

"...Christine Blasey Ford has surfed this break countless times, on good days and bad. She knows just what it takes to summon up your courage and hurl yourself off a cliff.
In September 2018, Ford – a Ph.D. in psychology, a professor at Palo Alto University, and a mother of two – jumped straight into the maelstrom of American politics.
She alleged that Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was then a nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court, had sexually assaulted her in the summer of 1982, when she was 15 and he was 17.
"I am here today not because I want to be. I am terrified."...