Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Washington school district considers closures as student enrollment plummets | Fox News
Washington school district considers closures as student enrollment plummets | Fox News
- Seattle schools lost thousands of students during pandemic, and they aren't coming back
- Classroom politicization drives more parents to home-school their children, Texas mom says
- A Texas mother pulled her children from public school to homeschool due to concerns of politically biased teaching in school curriculum and peer discussions.
- "Homeschool's dirty little secret: You end up really liking your kids," she said. "They're enthusiastic about what they're getting into and the things that they're learning."...
Meanwhile, Restoring Sight to Blind People 'Reinforces Moral Superiority of Those Without Disabilities
Meanwhile, Restoring Sight to Blind People 'Reinforces Moral Superiority of Those Without Disabilities"....Let’s begin with the left’s latest insane notion: restoring sight to the blind is yet another example of ableism — the discrimination of and social prejudice against people with disabilities based on the belief that typical abilities are superior — and moreover, disabilities “need no cure.”
...As RedState reported earlier this month, Jimmy Donaldson, more popularly known as “MrBeast,” posted a video to his YouTube channel about how he helped “cure” the blindness of 1,000 people by providing them with free cataract surgery.
Donaldson was promptly both praised and skewered, and on Friday, Tech Crunch contributor Steven Aquino blasted Donaldson as “more ableist than altruistic.”
- Shocked? Me neither. Nothing these wingnuts say or do can surprise me.
Here’s Aquino:
In the broadest lens, the biggest problem with wanting to “cure” blindness is that it reinforces a moral superiority of sorts by those without disabilities over those who are disabled. Although not confronted nearly as often as racism and sexism, systemic ableism is pervasive...
Florida medical boards eliminate loophole allowing minors to receive puberty blockers in clinical trials - TheBlaze
Florida medical boards eliminate loophole allowing minors to receive puberty blockers in clinical trials - TheBlaze:
Two Florida medical boards approved a rule barring minors from receiving nonsurgical gender dysphoria "treatments" like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as part of a clinical trial, Florida's Voice reported Friday.
"This board has reviewed hundreds of studies, we talk to doctors, we’ve received testimony from both sides of this issue, and the overwhelming data does not support [the use of chemical and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria,]" Florida Board of Medicine board member Dr. Hector Vila, M.D. said, according to the same outlet.
IMPORTANT!-----Why 65 Percent of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read
Why 65 Percent of Fourth Graders Can't Really Read - BY RICK MORAN 
"...The pandemic didn’t necessarily cause the problem.
It exposed problems that already existed and were exacerbated because of incompetence and, as it turns out, wrongheaded teaching.
- Consider the fact that 65% of American fourth-grade students can barely read.
This is a result of a radical shift to a new way of teaching children how to read.
What was wrong with the old way?
What was wrong with the old way?
Well, it was old...
- American Public Media reporter Emily Hanford digs into a flawed theory that has shaped reading instruction for decades. The theory is that children can learn to read without learning how to sound out words, because there are other strategies they can use to figure out what the words say. Strategies like “look at the picture” or “think of a word that makes sense.”...
History for February 14
History for February 14 - On-This-Day.com
Jimmy Hoffa 1913
- 1778 - The Stars and Stripes was carried to a foreign port, in France, for the first time. It was aboard the American ship Ranger.
- 1849 - The first photograph of a U.S. President, while in office, was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City. President James Polk was the subject of the picture.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell filed an application for a patent for the telephone. It was officially issued on March 7, 1876.
- 1899 - The U.S. Congress approved voting machines for use in federal elections.
- 1929 - The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in Chicago, IL. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed.Nations.
- 1946 - ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled. The device, built at the University of Pennsylvania, was the world's first general purpose electronic computer.
- 1989 - The first satellite of the Global Positioning System was placed into orbit around Earth.
Monday, February 13, 2023
Exclusive -- Blackburn: DOD Briefing on Chinese Spy Balloon Left Us with Questions
Exclusive -- Blackburn: DOD Briefing on Chinese Spy Balloon Left Us with Questions:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview she and other members of Congress left a classified briefing on the Chinese spy balloon by the Department of Defense with even more questions than before.
NSA Recruiter Accidentally Tells the Unvarnished Truth About What Agency Does
NSA Recruiter Accidentally Tells the Unvarnished Truth About What Agency Does:
It is clear that U.S. intelligence agencies have monitored and manipulated domestic social media accounts to adjust or suppress narratives as they see fit.
Why would the NSA be so keen on hiring Big Tech people who know how to monitor domestic data and potentially leverage it? Does this say more about Big Tech or our American spy agencies? It’s getting more and more difficult to tell them apart as well.
When the NSA is openly recruiting laid-off Big Tech employees on social media and job boards, it should concern Americans. It’s like the spies are hiding in plain sight.
Big Brother is watching. And he might just be watching you.
Holi crapoli!!-----The Gas Stove Fiasco Is Not Over - IER
The Gas Stove Fiasco Is Not Over - IER
"...The reality may be worse because one estimate suggests that 95 percent of the market would not meet the proposed levels.
Since the Department of Energy has greater authority than the CPSC, this is a more serious threat to the use of gas stoves and may represent a “backdoor approach” to American kitchens that the Biden Administration’s war on gas stoves may prefer.
- In a notice of proposed rulemaking, the Department of Energy (DOE) said it has “tentatively concluded” that new energy conservation standards for stove appliances would be technologically feasible and economically justified. The agency proposed new limitations on how much energy electric stove tops (both coil and smooth) and gas cooking tops may consume in a year..
Ron DeSantis Calls for Legislation to End ESG Banking
Ron DeSantis Calls for Legislation to End ESG Banking:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday called for legislation to tackle Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) banking in the Sunshine State.
Speaking behind a sign reading, “Government of Laws, Not Woke Politics,” the governor lambasted the elites injecting what he described as woke banking, or “political ideology into investment decisions, corporate governance, and really just the everyday economy.”
US military pilots say unidentified flying object shot down over Alaska had 'no identifiable propulsion,' interfered with their sensors: Report - TheBlaze
US military pilots say unidentified flying object shot down over Alaska had 'no identifiable propulsion,' interfered with their sensors: Report - TheBlaze:
The unidentified flying object shot down 10 miles off the coast of Alaska had "no identifiable propulsion" and interfered with the sensors of the U.S. military fighter jets that engaged the aircraft on Friday, according to a new report.
An unidentified object the size of a small car with a cylindrical shape, and flying at 40,000 feet off the coast of Alaska.
Lunch video-----Climate Marketing
"Thousands of people take long-haul flights into Denver, then rent fossil fuel powered vehicles and drive 275 miles across the mountains to Wolf Creek Ski Area, which claims they use solar panels to run the lifts.
New Hampshire school bans urinals amid 'gender identity' bathroom kerfuffle; students stage walkout - TheBlaze
New Hampshire school bans urinals amid 'gender identity' bathroom kerfuffle; students stage walkout - TheBlaze:
New Hampshire high school students staged a walkout protesting an unusual compromise that avoided a requirement for students to use bathrooms corresponding with biological sex, WMUR reported Friday.
The compromise bars students from using urinals and communal spaces in locker rooms, with the eventual plan to include enclosing all bathroom and locker room stalls.
Wagner owner says war in Ukraine could drag on for years | AP News
Wagner owner says war in Ukraine could drag on for years | AP News"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The owner of the Russian Wagner Group private military contractor actively involved in the fighting in Ukraine has predicted that the war could drag on for years.
- Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video interview released late Friday that it could take 18 months to two years for Russia to fully secure control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland of Donbas.
- He added that the war could go on for three years if Moscow decides to capture broader territories east of the Dnieper River...
FBI keeps getting burned badly by reliance on liberal sources | Just The News
FBI keeps getting burned badly by reliance on liberal sources | Just The News
- A dossier alleging Russian collusion funded by a Democrat presidential candidate.
- A suggestion that school parents were domestic terrorists from a left-leaning school board group.
- A list suggesting old-fashioned Catholics were extremists from a liberal watchdog on hate speech.
"Three triggers for investigation.
Three blunders that left America's premier law enforcement agency reeling with a black eye.
The FBI's repeated reliance on liberal political and advocacy groups has proven costly in recent years, resulting in high-profile reversals and whispers the bureau has created a two-tier system of justice...
The FBI's repeated reliance on liberal political and advocacy groups has proven costly in recent years, resulting in high-profile reversals and whispers the bureau has created a two-tier system of justice...
Biden’s Big Lie About Social Security and Medicare
Biden’s Big Lie About Social Security and Medicare
- He is once again peddling the false claim that Republicans plan to gut both programs.
- They remind us that Adolf Hitler coined the term in Mein Kampf and that his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, perfected the technique. Essentially, it involves relentlessly repeating a colossal lie until the public eventually comes to believe it. It is little wonder that the Democrats and the Fourth Estate are so familiar with this strategy — they employ it themselves every election cycle.
- Their Big Lie of choice is the perennial claim that the Republicans are plotting to gut Social Security and Medicare. President Joe Biden repeated that yarn during last week’s State of the Union address: “Republicans say if we don’t cut Social Security and Medicare, they’ll let America default on its debt for the first time in our history.”...
Breaking: Department of Defense downs high-altitude object over Lake Huron - TheBlaze
Breaking: Department of Defense downs high-altitude object over Lake Huron - TheBlaze:
The Department of Defense downed a high-altitude object over Lake Huron Sunday afternoon, multiple outlets reported.
"I’ve been in contact with [the Department of Defense] regarding operations across the Great Lakes region today," Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mich.) tweeted around 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
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