Thursday, March 14, 2024
West Point ditches ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from mission statement -COLLEGE FIX STAFF
“To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values..."The United States Military Academy has removed the words “Duty, Honor, Country” from its mission statement, a move approved by Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth and Army Chief of Staff Randy George.
- The previous mission statement read “To educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army.”
- The new one reads “To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of professional excellence and service to the Army and Nation.”..
The Temporary Pier and the Question of Why - American Thinker
This isn’t Israel being mean or suspicious; this is Israel learning from experience, and acknowledging reality - John F. Di Leo 
"...But ever since Hamas’s horrific attacks on Israel on October 7 that started this long-needed police action, the global anti-Israel lobby has declared that they need another way to bring in humanitarian aid – one outside Egypt.
They need a seaport, they tell us, to bring in aid directly from the Mediterranean.
Why?
The answer is obvious.
Why?
The answer is obvious.
- The terrorists of Hamas and their fellow travelers have allies in Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Iran, and the United Nations.
- Anyone else who might ship cargo to Gaza would – intentionally – have weaker security checkpoints than Egypt has.
There’s a reason, after all, why Israel hasn’t been allowing relief vessels to serve Gaza, and it dates back to long before October 7.
Israel has frequently caught weapons caches being smuggled into Gaza by sea in the past – always under the guise of humanitarian aid.
This isn’t Israel being mean or suspicious; this is Israel learning from experience, and acknowledging reality...
This isn’t Israel being mean or suspicious; this is Israel learning from experience, and acknowledging reality...
England's top health authority just came out against puberty blockers for children | Blaze Media
England's top health authority just came out against puberty blockers for children | Blaze Media:
Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists, also called GnRHa drugs, have long been used to chemically castrate sex offenders.
In recent years, these sex offender drugs were rebranded as puberty blockers and offered to confused children — despite ample evidence that such treatments create sexless adults, deplete victims' bone density, hamper cognitive development, and produce a myriad of adverse emotional effects.
While these transmogrifying treatments remain legal in American blue states, across the Atlantic, resistance is growing among some early adopters. That's certainly the case in the United Kingdom, where England's top health authority has pumped the brakes on the victimization of children captive to the notion that their sex and gender are somehow misaligned.
Blame Canada: Supreme Court in Canada Labels the Word Woman 'Confusing' and 'Unfortunate' Grateful Calvin Grateful Calvin
Three simple words. Three simple words that effectively and accurately describe a woman."...You'd think this would be easy stuff, right?
Well, not if you are a woke Supreme Court justice in Canada, it's not.
Well, not if you are a woke Supreme Court justice in Canada, it's not.
...'She said she felt his penis inside her and she knew what she was feeling. In short, her tactile sense was engaged. It is extremely unlikely that a woman would be mistaken about that feeling,' read the initial decision. It was this line that drew Martin’s approbation, and the seeming implication that the passage should more appropriately have been 'it is extremely unlikely that a person with a vagina would be mistaken about that feeling.'A person with a vagina. Unbelievable.
This is a Supreme Court justice speaking. Here are Martin's exact words:
Business owners threaten to stop paying taxes until Oakland addresses devastating crime | Blaze Media
Business owners threaten to stop paying taxes until Oakland addresses devastating crime | Blaze Media:
Some business owners in Oakland are threatening to stop paying taxes until the city does something to combat the worsening crime damaging their livelihoods.
Jose Ortiz, the owner of the La Perla Puerto Rican Cuisine, told KNTV-TV that his restaurant has been robbed at gunpoint twice just in the past two years. He says business had dropped by 25% because customers don't feel safe in the area.
No More Floridians Need Apply - American Free News Network
No More Floridians Need Apply - American Free News Network - John F. Di Leo"...But we can state with certainty (Trump's VP choice) who it absolutely cannot be, and not for any shortcoming of their own:
- It can’t be Senator Rick Scott, Senator Marco Rubio, or, especially sorry to say, either Congressman Byron Donalds or Governor Ron DeSantis.
Because they’re all from Florida...
- The Constitution has very few requirements for the president and vice president.
They have to be at least 35 years of age by their inauguration.
They must have resided here in the United States for at least fourteen years (to allow for citizens who might have spent many years abroad in our military or diplomatic service)...
They must have resided here in the United States for at least fourteen years (to allow for citizens who might have spent many years abroad in our military or diplomatic service)...
- And the two candidates usually can’t both be from the same state.
What’s that about?
This is where it gets interesting.
Some tell us, two candidates can run from the same state; others say no, the two candidates absolutely cannot be from the same state.
This is where it gets interesting.
Some tell us, two candidates can run from the same state; others say no, the two candidates absolutely cannot be from the same state.
In truth, it’s simple, but it’s not quite that simple...!!
Will we use reverse discrimination to “correct” the gender gap the way we disastrously “corrected” the racial gap?
A persistent myth is that, for the same job, women in America are paid only 84 cents for every dollar that men are paid."I explain below, first, why that myth is false and, second, why it’s dangerous.
That’s defined as any work over 35 hours per week.
That means a man working 55 hours a week is compared to a woman working 36.
- There are the several reasons why it’s false.
That’s defined as any work over 35 hours per week.
That means a man working 55 hours a week is compared to a woman working 36.
- So, a man making, say, $30/hour for those 55 hours for a total of $1650/week is deemed to be making $210 more for a “full time” job than a woman making $40/hour for 36 hours for a total of $1440/week for a “full time” job – even though in point of fact, the woman is making $5/hour more.
- A good example is teaching. About 75% of teachers are women. Teaching is deemed a full-time job even though teachers receive three to four months a year off, just like a male construction worker who works year-round. The result is that the female teacher might well earn less annually than the male construction worker – hence that 84 cents figure – while making much more per hour.
- Among workers who work less than 35 hours a week, it’s women who earn more than men.
But you seldom hear that statistic...
School district’s Mexican-American Studies class: Immigration restrictions are ‘oppression’
A Texas school district’s Mexican-American Studies curriculum says restrictions on immigration are “oppression,” and the terms “illegal” and “undocumented” “perpetuate stereotypes.” - DAVE HUBER
"...In addition, the curriculum highlights a quote from Mexican-American poet Luis Alberto Urrea who says “illegal immigrant” is “A term by which An invading colonial force Vilifies Indigenous cultures By identifying them as An invading colonial force.”
A student learning objective for the unit “Systems of Power and Oppression” reads “Students will able to describe how significant events from 1975 to present have strengthened systems of oppression against Mexican Americans, such as the strengthened immigration laws that made immigration from Mexico harder.”...
"...In addition, the curriculum highlights a quote from Mexican-American poet Luis Alberto Urrea who says “illegal immigrant” is “A term by which An invading colonial force Vilifies Indigenous cultures By identifying them as An invading colonial force.”
A student learning objective for the unit “Systems of Power and Oppression” reads “Students will able to describe how significant events from 1975 to present have strengthened systems of oppression against Mexican Americans, such as the strengthened immigration laws that made immigration from Mexico harder.”...
Illegal immigrant from Venezuela charged after causing car crash that killed 12-year-old Missouri boy | Blaze Media
Illegal immigrant from Venezuela charged after causing car crash that killed 12-year-old Missouri boy | Blaze Media:
An illegal immigrant from Venezuela has been charged with manslaughter after she caused a car crash in Missouri that killed a 12-year-old boy. The New York Post reported that the immigrant was traveling on the wrong side of the road when the crash occurred.
Degrowth - Stossel TV
The left has a new goal: degrowth!"We should “buy less stuff,” forgive debts, grow our own food, etc.
They say this will “build a more just and sustainable society” and “save the planet” from “climate chaos.”
This idea is popular with capitalism-haters...
Climate change may be a serious threat.
They say this will “build a more just and sustainable society” and “save the planet” from “climate chaos.”
This idea is popular with capitalism-haters...
Climate change may be a serious threat.
But reducing global growth won’t help.
It would make things worse...
Norberg points out, “If we didn’t have any economic growth since the 1950s, we would have slightly less global warming, but around half a million more people would die because of climate-related natural disasters. The risk of dying has declined by some 90%, and that’s not because we have fewer disasters. … It’s because we’ve had economic growth.
It means that we improve construction, improve early warning systems, improve health care … we can deal with disasters in a better way.”...
History for March 14
History for March 14 - On-This-Day.com 
Paul Ehrlich 1854
- 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
- 1900 - U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the ratification of the Gold Standard Act.
- 1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12― hours to 93 minutes.
- 1958 - The U.S. government suspended arms shipments to the Batista government of Cuba.(How'd that work out?)
- 1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 1979 - The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married.
- 1989 - Imported assault guns were banned in the U.S. under President George H.W. Bush.
- 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million for an anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out Islamic militants.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to Ban TikTok in U.S.
House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill to Ban TikTok in U.S.:
The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would ban TikTok if they do not sell the company from its Chinese parent company.
The House voted 352-61-1 H.R. 7521, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill featured 15 Republicans against the bill, 50 Democrats against it, showing that there is strong bipartisan interest in curbing TikTok’s apparent national security threat.
Dershowitz: Who will prosecute Fani Willis and her paramour?
Dershowitz: Who will prosecute Fani Willis and her paramour?:
Alan Dershowitz, a longtime liberal law professor who now is a popular commentator on legal issues, says there is "an extremely strong case" to prosecute Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her former boyfriend, Nathan Wade, for perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Willis, of course, is the Democrat who hired her boyfriend for two-thirds of a million dollars to build an organized crime case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others over their comments about the troubled 2020 presidential election.
In 1972 Colorado passed the Sunshine law; a law that said the conduct of public business should not be done in secret.
Today's neo-Marxist-dominated General Assembly just passed a law that guts the Sunshine law,
"...now allowing legislators to HIDE the conduct of our business from us, to actively conceal discussions about pending legislation.
It's now on the desk of Governor Polis who is expected to sign it.
"...now allowing legislators to HIDE the conduct of our business from us, to actively conceal discussions about pending legislation.
It's now on the desk of Governor Polis who is expected to sign it.
- The neo-Marxists have eroded and sidestepped CO's Taxpayers Bill of Rights which prevents them from adding new taxes without taxpayer approval. They now call everything a fee.
- Now the sunshine law has been gutted and rendered useless because it can easily be sidestepped via email and text....
LEG.COLORADO.GOV
Road diet insanity! They've already deleted this!-----Muskegon, MI: Shoreline Drive Pilot Project
Muskegon, MI: Shoreline Drive Pilot Project
Shoreline Drive Pilot Project
Phase Two of the Shoreline Drive Pilot Project begins soon and will impact all motorists and pedestrians who use this roadway. The goal is to slow traffic, reduce the number of crashes and their severity, and make the roadway safer and easier to cross between downtown and surrounding neighborhoods and the developing Muskegon Lake waterfront. Please find additional information below, including project details, frequently asked questions as well as an opportunity to give feedback to City staff.
What is the Shoreline Drive Pilot Project?
Last fall, the first phase of the project included reducing lanes for six weeks on the four-lane Business U.S. 31/Shoreline Drive along with regularly scheduled maintenance from Seventh Street to Terrace Street. Upon the conclusion of the road work and collection of traffic data during a time last year with fewer events and tourists in the downtown area, a second phase of the study would be conducted in the Summer of 2023.
Traffic control devices will again be installed to temporarily eliminate one lane in each direction. The public space created by the lane reductions will be tested for landscaped plantings, public art, and community gathering areas. With the observations and data from the two test periods, the City's consultant will provide results and recommendations to City officials later this year.
Why is the City interested in discovering better uses for Shoreline Drive?
- Connecting Downtown Neighborhoods and Muskegon Lake | Testing a project that slows traffic by limiting cars to one lane in each direction. Two goals of the project are to create a safer, more people-friendly roadway and to connect the Muskegon Lake waterfront to our downtown and neighborhoods. Additional benefits include better opportunities for development and park-like green space along this corridor.
- We often hear the argument, "there's nothing by the lake to connect to!" Walkable locations on the Muskegon Lake side of Shoreline Drive include Shoreline Inn, Hartshorn Marina, Terrace Point Marina, Boys & Girls Club of the Muskegon Lakeshore, Neal Fitness Center, The Lake House Waterfront Grille and Event Center, Aqua Star Cruises, Cruise and Tall Ship Docks, LST Maritime Museum, Pigeon Hill Brewer's Lounge, Heritage Landing, Bike Trail, Dog Park, GVSU Annis Water Resources Institute, Kayak Launch, Terrace Point Landing, Viridian Shores, and more.
- Increasing Safety | Shoreline Drive from Southern Avenue to Terrace Street carries from 12,000 to 20,000 vehicles a day at speeds 45 mph and higher. In the last 5 years, almost ¼ of crashes in the city where a person walking was killed or seriously injured happened in this area. In the last 10 years, 8 of 30 total crashes where a person was killed within the City occurred on this roadway.
- Addressing Social Inequities | Muskegon, like many urban areas, has a legacy of redlining, highways, urban renewal projects, and continues to face their ongoing effects on marginalized populations. Today, urban highways are commonly known to have led to disinvestment in core cities, accelerated suburbanization, and caused damage to their immediate surroundings. Watch a brief video about redlining here. Watch the 5/9/2022 commission video to learn more about the history of Business Route US-31.
- Fiscal Responsibility | To put it simply, the larger the street the more expensive it is to maintain. Reduction of the size of the street would also reduce the cost of pavement repair and replacement, underground stormwater management infrastructure, snow removal, traffic signal operations, and policing.
Why is the City looking at Shoreline Drive now?
Shoreline Drive is maintained by the City but owned by the State of Michigan (Michigan Department of Transportation, MDOT). For many years, the City has sought to have permanent control of this roadway in order to make it safer for motorists and pedestrians visiting the downtown area and Muskegon Lake waterfront. In advance of MDOT's transportation planning process for updating roads throughout the state, they have offered the City the opportunity to engage the community to reimagine what a reconfigured Shoreline Drive might look like. This pilot study project allows City staff to collect the necessary data to assess the viability of undertaking a multi-year process of making more permanent changes to Shoreline Drive.
How does this impact the future of the lakeshore corridor?
No decisions are being made at this time. The data gathered from this pilot project will inform future community discussions about Muskegon's lakefront and the transportation options to and through downtown. Those conversations could include which transportation modes and which system users are most important to the community, and how to safely accomodate all users that want to get to the lakefront. There are grants available to help our community reimagine what the Muskegon lakefront could look like, and the data gathered from this pilot will strengthen funding applications. Federal regulations do not allow Moses J. Jones Parkway to be included in the pilot project at this time, but the data gathered on Shoreline Drive will help inform future discussions about returning lakefront access to the core neighborhoods affected by the Parkway as well. You can learn more about how Shoreline Drive and Moses J. Jones Parkway are barriers to equitable access to the waterfront by viewing the video on this page.
What were the results of the first traffic study?
Find a summary and the full report under the Supporting Documents section. Below are a few key takeaways:
- Average Time Delay on Shoreline Drive: 5 seconds of additional delay.
- Highest Average Delay on Shoreline Drive: 20 seconds of additional delay.
- Speed Changes on Shoreline Drive: Average speeds were reduced by 3 to 7 MPH, increasing safety for both vehicles and pedestrians.
- Traffic volume on Webster and Muskegon: There was not a consistent substantial change in traffic volume on Muskegon and Webster. Some data showed a slight increase (+10-20 vehicles per hour during peak weekday times) on Muskegon/Webster, and some results showed a decrease in traffic with the Shoreline lane closures in place.
Shot mandate dating back to 1905 gets constitutional challenge
Shot mandate dating back to 1905 gets constitutional challenge:
The NCLA said, "An unelected, unaccountable administrator imposed MSU’s COVID vaccine mandate on all employees and students without an approved medical or religious exemption. Despite claiming to rely on CDC guidance, MSU permitted individuals to satisfy the standard by taking any WHO-approved vaccine, including those that are not FDA-approved. At the same time, and contrary to all scientific evidence and basic principles of immunology, MSU refused to recognize naturally acquired immunity to the virus.,"
Clarice Feldman - Hussain Abdul-t's been six months and thousands of deaths
The non lazy Arab thinkers know that the Gaza War is not the fault of others, but ours."Hussain Abdul-t's been six months and thousands of deaths and we, the Arabs, have yet to sit down for a candid talk, debate what went wrong, what brought us here, how we can correct course.
What we have offered so far are lazy thinkers who found in Western attention a good way of declaring ourselves victims:
What we have offered so far are lazy thinkers who found in Western attention a good way of declaring ourselves victims:
Six months of showing pictures of Gazans as dead, hungry and helpless. That makes up for a great story for white guilt enthusiasts to use us, Arabs, as their props. The brown people who are victims of Western civilization -- liberty, democracy and capitalism.The non lazy Arab thinkers know that the Gaza War is not the fault of others, but ours.
We have failed in producing Arabs who can compete in the global economy, and therefore we blame globalization (capitalism, white man, Martians) for our failure...
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