Michigan school says 7-year-old boy can't walk home from the bus stop

Michigan Mom Fights School District Rule That Says 7-Year-Old Can't Walk 3 Minutes Home From the Bus Stop - Lenore Skenazy

• The superintendent blamed the “significant liability the district assumes whenever we are transporting students.”

Last year, Tali Smith's son Emmett walked himself home the four houses he lives from the school bus stop. ..

But this year, his suburban Michigan school will not let him do that—too risky.

The school district, Saline Area Schools, is newly enforcing a rule that says a parent or other adult must be waiting at the bus stop to escort anyone in kindergarten or first grade. 

Emmett is in first grade...

Ah! They're waaaay smoorter then me! Now I understand.

 

Ontario Premier Doug Ford caves, pulls anti-tariff ad after Trump blowback * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, the Gateway Pundit

Ontario Premier Doug Ford caves, pulls anti-tariff ad after Trump blowback * WorldNetDaily * by Cristina Laila, the Gateway Pundit: 

Ontario Premier Doug Ford caved less that 24 hours after President Trump ended trade negotiations with Canada over an anti-tariff ad campaign. President Trump late Thursday evening announced all trade negotiations with Canada have been terminated after the government of Ontario, Canada, created an ad campaign using selective audio of President Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.

A General Dilemma the War Department Must Remedy

What shall we do with so many generals whose loyalty seems directed more toward personal ambition and institutional self-preservation than to the Constitution? - Chase Spears 

•  At the height of WWII, America won a global war with only seven, four-star generals commanding a force that numbered over 12 million. 
• Today’s active-duty military force is a fraction of that size, numbering roughly 1.4 million. Yet it now employs 44 four-star officers. 

Each one of them attained promotion to the highest levels by either acquiescent to, or enthusiastically embracing, radical social doctrines that aim to destroy the nation from within...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for October 26

History for October 26 - On-This-Day.com

Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995)

• 1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
• 1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. 
• 1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.
• 1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.
• 1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.

Confirmed! Garland, Wray were pushers behind the lawfare against President Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Confirmed! Garland, Wray were pushers behind the lawfare against President Trump * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

The American people still do not know, and may never know, all of the players in Washington and elsewhere who carried out the Democrat party's lawfare against President Trump over the years. But they now know those who were the pushers behind the agenda: Former Attorney General Merrick Garland, ex-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and ex-FBI chief Chris Wray.

The way we were-----Revolution and War: The Bloody History of Vladimir Lenin

PASSENGERS QUARANTINED AFTER HUGE OUTBREAK, CRUISE NEWS

Read all! - "Gender Ideology" is a core "principle" of the democrat party-----J.K. Rowling on X: "The rewriting of history begins."

"Opponents of gender ideology haven't merely 'endured unsparing criticism'. I haven't simply had been told I 'betrayed real feminism' or received a few book-burning videos. I've been sent thousands of threats of murder, rape and violence. 

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

The rewriting of history begins. Opponents of gender ideology haven't merely 'endured unsparing criticism'. I haven't simply had been told I 'betrayed real feminism' or received a few book-burning videos. I've been sent thousands of threats of murder, rape and violence. A trans woman posted my family's home address with a bomb-making guide. My eldest child was targeted by a prominent trans activist who attempted to doxx her and ended up doxxing the wrong young woman. I could write a twenty thousand word essay on what the consequences have been to me and my family, and what we've endured is NOTHING compared to the harm done to others. By standing up to a movement that relies on threats of violence, ostracisation and guilt-by-association, all of us have been smeared and defamed, but many have lost their livelihoods. Some have been physically assaulted by trans activists. Female politicians have been forced to hire personal security on the advice of police. The news that one of the UK's leading endocrinologists, Dr Hillary Cass, was advised not to travel by public transport for her own safety should shame everyone who let this insanity run amok. Lest we forget, gender apostates have been targeted for crimes such as doubting the evidential basis for transitioning children, for arguing for fair sport for women and girls, for wanting to retain single sex spaces and services, especially for the most vulnerable, and for thinking it barbaric to lock in female prisoners with convicted male sex offenders. Now the political landscape has shifted, and some who've been riding high on their own supply are waking up with a hell of a hangover. They've started wondering whether calling left-wing feminists who wanted all-female rape centres 'Nazis' was such a smart strategy. Maybe parents arguing that boys ought not to be robbing their daughters of sporting opportunities might, sort of, have a point? Possibly letting any man who says 'I'm a woman' into the locker room with twelve-year-old girls could have a downside, after all? Mealy-mouthed retconning of what has actually happened over the past ten years is predictable but will not stand. I don't doubt those who've turned a blind eye to the purges of non-believers, or even applauded and encouraged them, would rather minimise what the true cost of speaking out was, but 'yes, maybe trans activists went a little over the top at times' takes are frankly insulting. A full reckoning on the effects of gender ideology on individuals, society and politics is still a long way off, but I know this: the receipts will make very ugly reading when that time comes, and there are far too many of them to sweep politely under the carpet.

‘Boys Are Stupid; Girls Are Awesome’ – Most TV Shows & Movies Today

That’s because, more often than not, they have just watched something in which the female lead is the smart and capable hero, and the male lead is the bumbling idiot who must be rescued by his female companion. - Daniel Lattier

I let my boys watch the occasional age-appropriate movie or TV show. 

But I usually find myself having some ‘splainin to do with them afterwards.

• For the sake of their self-esteem, I find myself having to clarify that what they are witnessing is a systematic effort to denigrate men for the sake of exalting women, all in the name of “equity”...

You will notice this same prototype in many of today’s family sitcoms where the female lead is usually fit and gorgeous while the male lead is an unintelligent and sometimes unattractive Neanderthal. 

As Barron points out, you’ll also notice it in most of the recent movies:

“And I wonder whether you’ve noticed a character that can be found in practically every movie made today? I call her the ‘all-conquering female.’ Almost without exception, she is underestimated by men and then proves herself more intelligent, cleverer, more courageous, and more skilled than any man...

Memphis crackdown yields 1,000 arrests, 72 missing children found | Fox News

Memphis crackdown yields 1,000 arrests, 72 missing children found | Fox News: 

"From arresting more than 100 gang members to locating more than 70 missing children, our brave federal agents and local authorities are doing incredible work to protect the good people of Memphis," Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday in comment to Fox News Digital. "Tolerating crime is a choice: under President Trump, we refuse to accept the victimization of innocent American citizens and will continue making our cities safe again." A White House official told Fox Digital that there have been 1,309 total arrests since September, when the operation officially launched, including nine arrests for homicide, 52 arrests for sex offenses, 527 for warrants and 132 for firearm offenses.

British missiles used in Ukrainian strike on Russia

Worthy read!-----Why woke women make terrible leaders - by Alex Berenson

It's not just their sanctimony and humorlessness. 

It's their insistence on feel-good nonsolutions to real 

• Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor from 2005 to 2021, as she hectored her citizens to accept 2 million refugees from Syria and other Muslim countries...
• Merkel’s reign ended almost four years ago, but it set Germany in a hole that the country seems unable or unwilling to escape.

In every way, her governing style crystallized the crisis of what the writer Helen Andrews called “The Great Feminization” in an opinion piece that has deservedly received attention in the last week.

• Andrews argues that the rise of the political phenomenon Americans call “woke” actually reflects the rise of women in politics, law, medicine, journalism, academia, corporate America, and other power centers:
• Wokeness arose around the same time that many important institutions tipped demographically from majority male to majority female.

The substance fits, too. 

Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: 

• empathy over rationality, 
• safety over risk, 
• cohesion over competition…

Lunch video-----Victor Davis Hanson: Signs of a ‘Total Systems Collapse’ Are Everywhere.

Noon-toon

 

Zohran Mamdani wants dispatchers to screen 911 calls before police response | Fox News

Zohran Mamdani wants dispatchers to screen 911 calls before police response | Fox News: 

During a mayoral debate last night hosted by Spectrum News New York 1, Mamdani said he would reorganize the NYPD and "trust" dispatchers to "make the determination as to whether there was any indication of violence." He asserted that this approach has been proven to work "elsewhere in the country." "That's probably the worst idea I've heard of in a long time," said Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor of criminal justice at Penn State Lehigh Valley.

"...other than..."

 

This threat, from the party of the "Clinton Foundation" and multi-millionaire, 2 term congresswomen?-----Democrats Losing It, Issuing 'Warning' to Anyone Funding Trump's Ballroom

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) proved the Democrat meltdown is in full swing after he issued a "warning" to anyone who has provided financial funding for the construction of President Donald Trump's grand ballroom at the White House. - Katie Jerkovich
Speaking to MSNBC, the House minority leader said that the building of the ballroom is an example of what Trump's been doing since he was sworn in for his second presidency, claiming that Trump was running "the largest pay-to-play scheme in the history of the country," without providing any further proof.

• "And these people are going to be held accountable, no matter how long it takes," Jeffries continued. "And that's a warning to all of these people participating in this scheming to manipulate taxpayer dollars and, of course, to destroy the People's House...

No cheat'in goin on here!

 

A Long-Overdue Shakeup in Higher Education

New schools, accreditors, and tests—plus new rankings—mean much-needed competition. - Michael Torres

Admissions officers from two of the nation’s elite law schools joined the Advisory Opinions podcast in early August for a conversation about how students earn a coveted spot in their institutions. 

Surprisingly, both lamented the dearth of high objective standards at many of the prestigious colleges and universities from which their applicants came.

• “It’s actually absurd, the level of grade inflation,” said Kristi Jobson, dean of admissions at Harvard Law School. “When you have tons of people with high LSAT scores and everyone is coming with a 3.9 and up, how do you distinguish between people in a way that feels objective?”
• “At one of our top national state schools, just over a 4.0 is at the 75th percentile . . . At one of our Ivy League Institutions, a 3.95 is at the bottom half of the class,” said Miriam Ingber, associate dean of admissions and financial aid at Yale Law School. As a result, she said, “we’ve stopped looking at GPA as a number.”...

#1 This day 1957-----Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video)

Michigan Senator Joe Bellino LOSES IT over Democrat leadership and hypocrisy

“The Head of the Lenawee County Democratic Party, Bill Swift — called for anyone that supported Donald Trump be hung” - Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes

“Complete bullsh*t! 

For years I've watched Democrats and their allies in the media, yes, media, you are complicit. 

They spent years painting Republicans as a party of political violence. 

They told America that we're dangerous, that I'm an extremist, that I somehow threaten democracy itself. 

They said it over and over and over, hoping if they repeat the lie enough, people will start to believe it, and then these same Democrats, turn around and hold a rally called no Kings. — Monroe County, in my backyard at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Hall, posing with an 8647 sign and also a MAGA equals a Nazi sign...

Imagine for one second, if we held a rally out in the lawn and we all wrote, had shirts that said, death to our to Governor Whitmer. 

Imagine what would happen. Imagine the field day the press would have on that for weeks. 

It'd be wall-to-wall coverage” 

This whole speech is amazing!

You hear about this on your media of choice?