The Greatest – and Least Acknowledged – Educational System in the World

The Greatest – and Least Acknowledged – Educational System in the World
"Google “America’s best institutions for learning,” and all sorts of websites leap to the screen.

There’s “America’s Top College List” from Forbes...

If asked which is the best institution for learning beyond high school, most of us might answer Harvard or Yale, Stanford or MIT, Princeton or Berkeley.
We’d be wrong.
The best, the greatest, the most far-reaching institution of learning beyond high school is the American military: the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marines.
Think about it.
These organizations take enlistees, young men and women, many of them just out of high school, and train them in a hundred fields ranging from infantry to military intelligence, from mechanic to pilot, from medic to computer technician...

• Not only does the military offer young people job training and educational opportunities otherwise unavailable to many of them, it also teaches life-skills. 
• From their first day in boot camp, they learn the importance of working with others as a team. 
• They learn such valuable lessons as discipline, order, personal responsibility, and perseverance.

In Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World, Retired Navy Admiral SEAL William McCraven relates the lessons he learned from a life in the military. 

He based his book on the 2014 commencement address he delivered at the University of Texas at Austin...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for June 13

History for June 13 - On-This-Day.com

Tim Allen 1953 - Comedian, actor ("Home Improvement")

• 1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British.
• 1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400.
• 1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves....
• 1912 - Captain Albert Berry made the first successful parachute jump from an airplane in Jefferson, Mississippi.
• 1966 - The landmark "Miranda v. Arizona" decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police.
• 1979 - Sioux Indians were awarded $105 million in compensation for the U.S. seizure in 1877 of their Black Hills in South Dakota.
• 1992 - Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards whites.

Ruth Sent Us targets Amy Coney Barrett, her children, and church - TheBlaze

Ruth Sent Us targets Amy Coney Barrett, her children, and church - TheBlaze: 

Far-left activist group Ruth Sent Us implored its followers to unleash protests at the church and home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The pro-abortion activist group hinted at targeting Barrett's children.

Ruth Sent Us – the far-left activist group named after late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — is targeting Justice Barrett over the possibility that she would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Nolte: If Gun Control Worked, Democrat-Run Cities Wouldn't Be War Zones

Nolte: If Gun Control Worked, Democrat-Run Cities Wouldn't Be War Zones: 

Anyone who wants to know what all of America would look like under a Gun Control Regime need only look at Chicago, Baltimore, New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Washington DC, Detroit, Portland, Minneapolis… I could go on…

The way we were-----East German Boy Scout Tank Unit

Green New Deal In Germany

Light at the end of the sick, dark tunnel?-----San Francisco ditches its 'progressive' chief prosecutor and his crime tolerance, writes TOM LEONARD | Daily Mail Online

San Francisco ditches its 'progressive' chief prosecutor and his crime tolerance, writes TOM LEONARD | Daily Mail Online

• 
  How America's most liberal cities have finally had enough of the woke policies that have turned them into lawless cesspits

"San Francisco has been waiting to be rocked by another massive earthquake since 1906. 

On Tuesday night this week, it finally came when the people of America’s most famously Left-wing city voted overwhelmingly to throw out their chief prosecutor — and with him a policy of ultra-woke tolerance of crime that has brought the city to its knees.
Some 60 per cent of San Franciscans voted to ‘recall’ from office Chesa Boudin, a pin-up for the ‘progressive’ Left, midway through his term as the city’s District Attorney..."

Incredible!-----Washington Commanders Fine Defensive Coordinator Jack Del Rio $100,000 for Not Being Leftist Enough

Washington Commanders Fine Defensive Coordinator Jack Del Rio $100,000 for Not Being Leftist Enough

• 
  Jack Del Rio, the defensive coordinator of the Team Formerly Known As Redskins, the Washington Commanders, is $100,000 poorer today, and he is lucky that he still has a job at all, for he has offended the gods of wokeness, and the gods of wokeness are angry and unforgiving gods.

...On Wednesday, Del Rio aroused the ire of all those who think correct thoughts when he tweeted: “Would love to understand ‘the whole story’ about why the summer of riots, looting, burning and the destruction of personal property is never discussed but this is??? #CommonSense.” 

Del Rio said: “Let’s have a discussion. Why are we not looking into those things — if we’re going to talk about it — why are we not looking into those things? I can look at images on the TV, people’s livelihoods are being destroyed, businesses are being burned down, no problem. And then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we’re going to make that a major deal.”..."

China threatens war if US interferes with possible Taiwan invasion - TheBlaze

China threatens war if US interferes with possible Taiwan invasion - TheBlaze: 

The threats were made on Friday during the first face-to-face meeting of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe.

"If anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost," warned China’s defense spokesman Wu Qian – who was quoting General Wei.

‘Cackling’ Kamala Harris cements herself as the ‘worst vice president in...

A very BIG difference!-----RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Riots Comparison

RealClearInvestigations' Jan. 6-BLM Riots Comparison | RealClearInvestigations

Highlights:

• The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 23 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot.
• Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases, and prosecutors and judges alike have weighed Capitol riot defendants’ political views in adjudicating their cases.
• Dozens of accused Capitol rioters have been held in pretrial detention for months, where they have allegedly been mistreated.
• In the summer 2020 riots, the vast majority of charges were dismissed, as they were in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. 

A Resource on Violent Political Unrest, Continually Updated..." 

Lunch video-----Will Witt Asks Women What They Want in a Man

Noon-toon

 

Ana Navarro flips out on Jonah Goldberg over gun reform - TheBlaze

Ana Navarro flips out on Jonah Goldberg over gun reform - TheBlaze: 

During a conversation with Ana Navarro and co-hosts of "CNN Tonight" about the tragic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Jonah Goldberg attempted to put America’s problem with mass shootings into "perspective" by citing accurate statistics on gun violence. This did not go over well.

Schizophrenia!

 

The Democrats: 'A Criminal Organization' - American Thinker

The Democrats: 'A Criminal Organization' - American Thinker  By Clarice Feldman
"...unshutter your eyes and let in the light.
Democratic leaders are encouraging lawless, threatening behavior against Supreme Court justices, and their attorney general refuses to enforce the law against such behavior. 

This criminal organization has a huge public relations outfit working around the clock for it, the Major Media, which is why you may have missed this.

It’s hard to ignore the fact that the leaders of the party are openly inciting violence in an effort to force the Court to decide cases based on fear of the mob, instead of the law.

• In May, pro-abortionists began illegal parades around justices’ homes as the draft opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was leaked. Attorney General Merrick Garland did not one thing to enforce the applicable federal law by arresting the protestors. 
• In a bipartisan display of concern, the Senate passed a bill to extend around-the clock security protection to the justices’ families. The House Democrats have refused to sign on.
• Not one single Democratic leader has spoken out in opposition to the terroristic actions against the Court.
• Worse, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer clearly incited this threatening behavior, telling the crowd assembled outside the Supreme Court, “I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.” That clear threat also violated federal law, but don’t hold your breath for Garland to do anything, or Schumer to retract it, or any Democrat to criticize his intemperate statement..."

Math is hard.

 

"The Times buried the Kavanaugh assassination story because he’s a conservative"

Instapundit--The Times buried the Kavanaugh assassination story because he’s a conservative

BILL MAHER: The Times buried the Kavanaugh assassination story because he’s a conservative.

"Katrina Trinko remembers how the Gabby Giffords shooting, perpetrated by a genuine random lunatic, was immediately and egregiously coopted by the media as an indictment of tea-party agitation against Democrats. But the supreme example of the double standard will forever be the attempt by an ardent Bernie-loving progressive to mass-murder Republican congressmen on a baseball field in 2017, news that would have been treated as a national trauma on the order of a major terrorist attack had the partisan roles been reversed. As it is, the story fizzled after a few days...

Flashbacks:

● Reagan historian: Releasing Hinckley signals it’s OK to target conservatives.

● Bill Ayers Smiles: ‘MAGA is the most extreme political organization in American history:’ Biden warns of Republicans’ ‘ultra MAGA agenda’ and suggests they’ll ban LGBT children from classrooms if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

● Nancy Pelosi tells 2020 Dems, “You have to be ready to take a punch. And therefore you have to be ready to throw a punch—for the children.”...much more, read all!  --Posted by Ed Driscoll

#1 This day 1956-----Percy Faith - The song from Moulin Rouge

Grooming your children!!-----Over $200K being spent on drag queen shows at NYC schools

Over $200K being spent on drag queen shows at NYC schools

• 
  DRAGGED OUT: tax $$ for drag queens in school

"New York is showering taxpayer funds on a group that sends drag queens into city schools — often without parental knowledge or consent — even as parents in other states protest increasingly aggressive efforts to expose kids to gender-bending performers.
Last month alone, Drag Story Hour NYC — a nonprofit whose outrageously cross-dressed performers interact with kids as young as 3 — earned $46,000 from city contracts..."

Worth looking at, don't ya think?

 

New WHO report reverses prior findings on COVID-19 lab-leak theory - TheBlaze

New WHO report reverses prior findings on COVID-19 lab-leak theory - TheBlaze: 

Preliminary findings from the World Health Organization's second investigative team examining the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic leave open the possibility that the virus was leaked from a lab and say further investigation is needed.

Largest US Pork Packer Closing California Plant, Citing High Costs and Red Tape

Largest US Pork Packer Closing California Plant, Citing High Costs and Red Tape

• Smithfields Inc., the largest pork packer in the United States, is leaving California due to high operational costs and red tape.

“...“Smithfield is taking these steps due to the escalating cost of doing business in California,” the company explained.

...Jim Monroe, vice president for corporate affairs of Smithfield, said two main factors drove the company’s decision: high costs and overregulation.
“The cost of doing business in California is significantly higher than other states where we operate. 

• Utilities, for example, are 3.5 times per head higher than our other location where we do the same work. 
• Taxes and other costs are significantly higher,” he told The Epoch Times.
• Meanwhile, it’s also challenging to operate in the Golden State because of the red tape..."

AM Fruitcake

 

History for June 12

History for June 12 - On-This-Day.com

David Rockefeller 1915 - Banker

• 1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
• 1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.
• 1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
• 1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
• 1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.
• 1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 1991 - Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.

Review: Joe Biden's Interview With Jimmy Kimmel - Louder With Crowder

Review: Joe Biden's Interview With Jimmy Kimmel - Louder With Crowder: 

Joe Biden sat down with one of his biggest supporters on Wednesday. No, not anyone from the legacy media. That would mean the people who control Biden have respect for our institutions and Joe Biden has dignity. No, Biden sat down with Jimmy Kimmel. The president has no more loyal base than late-night "comedians." The interview was as cringe-worthy as one would expect.

The way we were-----Top Of The Pops 15.02.1968

Tucker Carlson: Why does Janet Yellen still have her job?

Stephen Moore: Beware: 100% Green Energy Could Destroy the Planet | The Patriot Post

Stephen Moore: Beware: 100% Green Energy Could Destroy the Planet | The Patriot Post

• We are already experiencing the economic damage from the green energy crusaders.

"The untold story about “green energy” is that it can’t possibly be scaled up to provide anywhere near the energy to replace fossil fuels. (Unless we are headed back to the stone ages, which is what some of the “de-growth” advocates favor).

Right now, the United States gets about 70% of its energy from fossil fuels. 

To go to zero over the next 20 years would be economically catastrophic and cost tens of millions of jobs. 

...But we also have to ask whether green energy is even good for the environment. 

Some environmentalists are pointing to a little-noticed study by the World Bank showing that moving toward 100% solar, wind and electric battery energy would be just as destructive to the planet as fossil fuels. 
...Here are some of the numbers. 

Going all-in on batteries, solar and wind would require:

• 34 million metric tons of copper
• 40 million tons of lead
• 50 million tons of zinc
• 162 million tons of aluminum
• 4.8 billion tons of iron

Those tens of millions of windmills, solar panels and electric batteries for cars and trucks aren’t exactly biodegradable. 

So, we will have the most prominent energy graveyard with toxic pollutants that will be 100 times larger than any nuclear waste storage. 

And yet, the Left is worried about plastic straws!..."