The Evidence Supporting Mask Mandates in Schools Is Weaker Than Biden Pretends by Jacob Sullum

The Evidence Supporting Mask Mandates in Schools Is Weaker Than Biden Pretends by Jacob Sullum
"Wading into the bitter debate about face mask mandates in schools, President Joe Biden is threatening

civil rights lawsuits against states that ban such requirements.

...Yet the evidence that the public health benefits of "universal masking" in K-12 schools outweigh its costs is far less impressive than the president suggests.
Other governments seem to recognize that fact. As David Zweig noted in New York Magazine, "many of 

America's peer nations around the world -- including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy -- have exempted kids...
...But the studies the CDC cited to justify that stance generally were not designed to test the effectiveness of mask mandates....Read all!

#1 This day 1963-----My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels 1963 {Stereo}

If they don't report it, it didn't happen!-----Biden’s Border Crisis Worse than Ever; TV Coverage Drops 96 Percent

Biden’s Border Crisis Worse than Ever; TV Coverage Drops 96 Percent

"The illegal immigration influx along the U.S. southern border has worsened every month since President Biden took office, but the liberal broadcast networks have essentially stopped covering the crisis. According to the latest statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Security, encounters along the southern border rose to a 21-year high of 212,672 in July.

...But while the reality along the border is worse than ever, coverage of the crisis on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts has slowed to a trickle: Just four minutes and 20 seconds for the entire month of July (including weekends), down an astonishing 96 percent from the Biden-era peak of 113 minutes in March...Read all.

Clueless.

 

Rep. Garcia: Thousands of Americans in Afghanistan Is 'a Hostage Crisis'

Rep. Garcia: Thousands of Americans in Afghanistan Is 'a Hostage Crisis': 

Thousands of American citizens in Afghanistan amount to a “hostage crisis,” Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) stated on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

“It is a hostage crisis at this point,” Garcia said. He added, “This needs to be treated like a hot war… The Taliban doesn’t care about words. They care about actions. They are fearful of our military might, they’re just not fearful of this president.”

Afghanistan: $2.26 Trillion of Your Money Spent, Much Squandered on Lavish Palaces for Corrupt Officials

Afghanistan: $2.26 Trillion of Your Money Spent, Much Squandered on Lavish Palaces for Corrupt Officials
"Over the last twenty years in Afghanistan, 2,443 Americans were killed and 20,666 were wounded, as $2.26 trillion were spent in the quixotic and foredoomed hope of transforming the graveyard of empires into a stable, Western-style republic.
But if you were to go to Afghanistan today to try to see the effect of all this profligate spending (which I wouldn’t actually advise, under the circumstances), you’d have an easier time spotting how American money was put to use in the luxury homes of former Afghan government officials rather than, obviously, in actual successes in pushing back the Taliban.
...residence of General Abdul Rashid Dostum in Mazar-i-Sharif...served as first vice president of Afghanistan...from 2016 until February 2020. 

He was a vociferous foe of the Taliban and a key U.S. ally when the first Taliban regime was toppled...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 26

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

Christopher Isherwood 1904

• 55 B.C. - Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar.
• 1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.
• 1939 - The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.
• 1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.

Maybe add "Biden's cooked"?----The One Tweet That Every American Would Probably Agree on Regarding Afghanistan by Matt Vespa

The One Tweet That Every American Would Probably Agree on Regarding Afghanistan by Matt Vespa

"...Trende wrote, "It can simultaneously be true that (a) the initial invasion of Afghanistan was justified, (b) it was time to withdraw and (c) this withdrawal has been managed atrociously."

 

I think most Americans would agree with that sentiment. 

...Oh, and they're also blaming Trump. What else is new? 

But that's not the point, and not even the liberal media went along with the "it's Trump's fault" line. 

There are many reasons why Biden's botching of our withdrawal of Afghanistan can't be pinned on the former president. 

• For starters, the White House knew throughout the summer that Afghanistan was very much sliding toward collapse. 
• The intelligence community knew it. 
• The State Department memos sent days after Biden's "this ain't going to be like Saigon" speech on July 8 stated it. 
• Biden also promised our European allies that Kabul would remain secure and stable, 
• adding that there would be sufficient security personnel to make that happen....Read all.

Sec. Blinken Asked: 'Does POTUS Not Know What's Going On?' - Louder With Crowder

Sec. Blinken Asked: 'Does POTUS Not Know What's Going On?' - Louder With Crowder: 

If you are someone with functioning eyeholes and a brain not made of pudding, you could reasonably think that Joe Biden has no idea what's going on. When he speaks on Afghanistan, he says things that are not true and easily proven not to be true. Whether he knows he's speaking untruths or he isn't being told the truth in the first place is open for debate. There is a good chance that instead of intelligence briefings, Joe Biden is handed a coloring book and a Crayola box of 64. One of the people whose job it is to make our president seem competent is Secretary of State Anthony "Hey" Blinken.

Fmr. UK Commander in Afghanistan: Biden 'Should Be Court-Martialed For Betraying' U.S. and U.S. Armed Forces | CNSNews

Fmr. UK Commander in Afghanistan: Biden 'Should Be Court-Martialed For Betraying' U.S. and U.S. Armed Forces | CNSNews: 

"I don't believe President Biden should be impeached," said Kemp. "He's the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, who's just essentially surrendered to the Taliban. He shouldn't be impeached; he should be court-martialed for betraying the United States of America and the United States Armed Forces." Earlier in the interview, Kemp said, "[W]hat we're seeing, and what we have seen in the last few days, is -- it's the greatest foreign policy disaster that I have seen in my lifetime of any nature from any Western country."

The way we were-----Why did the Celts Collapse?

Getting worse!-----Australia's China Problem

DESTROYING American education-----New MSU diversity plan would require two equity and inclusion courses to graduate | The College Fix

New MSU diversity plan would require two equity and inclusion courses to graduate | The College Fix

"One of dozens of new initiatives suggested in massive new MSU diversity, equity and inclusion framework

Michigan State University recently published a 77-page diversity, equity and inclusion -DEI framework that lists dozens of goals to infuse the progressive ideology into every aspect of campus life, from curriculum to hiring practices to funding priorities.

• Among the recommendations is to implement “a minimum of two DEI-related requirements in the formal curriculum for undergraduate students,” the document states.
• Another stated goal is to establish a “curriculum task force … to identify ways to incorporate DEI within university-wide undergraduate requirements.”
• To address the graduation gap, the public university plans to offer more one-credit courses and what it calls “inclusive learning communities.”
• The framework also recommends the establishment of an “institutional social justice research fund” for racial equity and justice studies, as well as part of the university’s budget specifically earmarked for diversity, equity and inclusion research.
• To address faculty who experience incidents of unfair treatment, discriminatory practices, and microaggressions, the framework recommends establishing some sort of task force to determine and implement “restorative practices to allow those who have been harmed by behaviors and acts of bias to experience healing and redress.”...Read all!!!

An INTERNATIONAL disaster!

Clarice Feldman 

Mark Bermingham
Look at all this kit we left behind in Afghanistan. 

Whatever advantage we had over our enemies through technical superiority…is gone !!

2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAP’s
-75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M35, Ford Rangers, Ford F350, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles etc
-45 UH-60 Blachhawk Helicopters
-50 MD530G Scout Attack Choppers
-ScanEagle Military Drones
-30 Military Version Cessnas
-4 C-130’s
-29 Brazilian made A-29 Super Tocano Ground Attack Aircraft
=208+ Aircraft Total!!
-At least 600,000+ Small arms M16, M249 SAWs, M24 Sniper Systems, 50 Calibers, 1,394 M203 Grenade Launchers, M134 Mini Gun, 20mm Gatling Guns and Ammunition
-61,000 M203 Rounds
-20,040 Grenades
-Howitzers
-Mortars +1,000’s of Rounds
-162,000 pieces of Encrypted Military Comunications Gear
-16,000+ Night Vision Goggles
-Newest Technology Night Vision Scopes
-Thermal Scopes and Thermal Mono Googles
-10,000 2.75 inch Air to Ground Rockets
-Recconaissance Equipment (ISR)
-Laser Aiming Units
-Explosives Ordnance C-4, Semtex, Detonators, Shaped Charges, Thermite, Incendiaries, AP/API/APIT
-2,520 Bombs
-Administration Encrypted Cell Phones and Laptops ALL operational
-Pallets with Millions of Dollars in US Currency
-Millions of Rounds of Ammunition including but not limited to 20,150,600 rounds of 7.62mm, 9,000,000 rounds of 50.caliber
-Large Stockpile of Plate Carriers and Body Armor
-US Military HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment Biometrics
-Lots of Heavy Equipment Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Excavators"

Report: Facebook Buried Viewership Stats About Vaccine Death Story

Report: Facebook Buried Viewership Stats About Vaccine Death Story: 

Facebook buried data showing that a story reported in establishment news outlets about the death of a healthy doctor who took Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine was the most-viewed on the platform in the first quarter of 2021, according to a report in the New York Times.

According to comments a Facebook spokesman made to the Times, the social network shelved the data so it could make “fixes” first — it is unclear what those “fixes” consist of.

The end of Hollywood...or will they wake up?-----Instant Regret! Hollywood PUNISHED As New Woke Movie TANKS & Director Ca...

Scum pardons scum!-----Outgoing Gov. Cuomo grants clemency to convicted murderers during last hours in office

Instapundit--Outgoing Gov. Cuomo grants clemency to convicted murderers during last hours in office

"THE CIRCLE OF LEFTIST LIFE: Cuomo commutes sentence of radical who took part in ’81 robbery — the father of San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin.

Just hours before leaving office, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo granted clemency to five men, including the commutation of the 75-years-to-life sentence of David Gilbert, a former member of the radical Weather Underground who in 1981 took part in the robbery of a Brink’s armored truck in Rockland County that left two Nyack police officers and a security guard dead.* * * *

Gilbert’s son, Chesa Boudin, was elected district attorney for San Francisco in 2019. His mother, Kathy Boudin, was also incarcerated for decades for her part in the heist, and received parole in 2003.

More here: Outgoing Gov. Cuomo grants clemency to convicted murderers during last hours in office.

Related: Tom Cotton: The Only Good Soros Prosecutor Is a Defeated Soros Prosecutor.--Posted by Ed Driscoll"

Lunch video-----How The Government Sank Our Shipping Industry

"On this (REUPLOADED) episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains to Sarah, Bob, and Ron how the hundred-year-old Jones Act makes the American shipping industry way more expensive than it needs to be. 

In short, an act that was supposed to protect the industry actually ended up killing it. 

Watch the episode to learn how."

Noon-toon

 

Fourteen Elected Republicans Demand Biden Admin Resignations

Fourteen Elected Republicans Demand Biden Admin Resignations: 

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) on Monday joined 13 other elected Republicans who are demanding Biden administration officials resign over the deadly Afghan evacuation.

“This botched withdrawal is currently threatening the lives of our servicemen and women, the stability in the region, and our integrity on the global stage,” Donalds wrote. “As Commander-in-Chief, [Joe] Biden is directly responsible for commanding our brave troops with a coherent, strategically intelligent, and sound operation that keeps our Armed Services, citizens, and allied partners out of harm’s way. He has failed on all fronts.”

Is he wrong?

 

Their enthusiasm for this belies their past interest in the betterment of Americans.

 

Clueless!-----Kamala Harris says to buy Christmas presents - but fails to address Afghanistan in Singapore speech | Daily Mail Online

Kamala Harris says to buy Christmas presents - but fails to address Afghanistan in Singapore speech | Daily Mail Online

"Kamala Harris tells us to buy Christmas presents now, warns about climate change and China - but fails to address catastrophe in Afghanistan in Singapore speech

• Held round table with business leaders and discussed threats from climate change to global supply chains
• She said that people should consider buying their Christmas presents now, but didn't mention Afghanistan
• In a major policy speech later on Monday she issued warnings of threats posed by China...Read all.

#1 This day 1968-----People Got To Be Free - The Rascals 1968 {Stereo}

Not The Best Of The Web Today : Great column from Nathaniel Blake at The Federalist | Facebook

Not The Best Of The Web Today : Great column from Nathaniel Blake at The Federalist | Facebook

Michael Smith shared a link.

"Great column from Nathaniel Blake at The Federalist.

I've been hitting all around this target, but never getting to the bullseye like this.

From the article:

...Blake writes:

"There is ordinary incompetence here — Biden was a buffoon even in his prime — but adding extreme social leftism to the usual political greed and stupidity has been catastrophic, from the military to education to border security. "

But Biden more than just a buffoon, he is delusional. In his mind, he can just ignore the results of his decisions, especially if they go bad. For him, they simply don't matter - they don't exist.

The doddering, the mental pauses and the lack of cogent speech and thought can be chalked up to dementia, but more than dementia, Biden is displaying the anger, the feeling of isolation and victimization, and the complete lack of empathy common to psychopaths and sociopaths.

With three and a half years to go, we have a President who is displaying the characteristics of a serial killer...Read all!!

THEFEDERALIST.COM

Leftists Live In A Fantasy World While Burning Down The Real One

Will we learn from the past?

 

Biden has zero plans to fire any officials over the Afghanistan disaster - TheBlaze

Biden has zero plans to fire any officials over the Afghanistan disaster - TheBlaze: 

Not only have the president's orders stranded U.S. citizens, they've also endangered the lives of thousands of European allies — though Germany, France, and Britain are actually going out to save their people on the ground, while U.S. forces have been ordered not to venture outside the Kabul airport to rescue American personnel — as well as tens of thousands of Afghans who backed the U.S. government's efforts, who are now going to suffer at the hands of the Taliban.

"What Idiots at NBC." (from FB)

"NBC’s Babbling BS Never Stops. 

Quote “Mistrust Of The Police” Is One Reason Murders Go Unsolved. 

What Idiots at NBC. 

Maybe The Reason Is Witnesses Won’t Come Forward Because They Are Afraid of The Perpetrators."

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