MI is one of the worst states!-----American Kids Are Getting Even Worse at Reading, Test Scores Show - WSJ

New national test scores show a continuing slide in reading skills - Matt Barnum and Sara Randazzo 

• The reading skills of American students are deteriorating further, according to new national test scores that show no improvement in a yearslong slide.

The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a basic or better reading level in 2024 was the lowest share since testing began in 1992, results from a closely watched federal exam show. 

Only 60% of fourth-graders hit that benchmark, nearing record lows...
Worsening reading skills have potentially wide-ranging consequences. 

• Test scores have been linked to the economic success of both the nation and individuals. 
• Students with limited reading skills are less likely to graduate from high school; as adults, they are less likely to vote and more likely to be incarcerated...

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History for January 30

History for January 30 - On-This-Day.com 

Dick Cheney 1941 - U.S. Vice President for George W. Bush

• 1798 - The first brawl in the U.S. House of Representatives took place. Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fought on the House floor.
• 1933 - "The Lone Ranger" was heard on radio for the first time. The program ran for 2,956 episodes and ended in 1955.
• 1933 - Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor.
• 1948 - Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
• 1958 - The first two-way moving sidewalk was put in service at Love Field in Dallas, TX. The length of the walkway through the airport was 1,435 feet.
• 1962 - Two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, MI.
• 1979 - The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to return. He had been living in exile in France.

'Powers and abilities far beyond mortal men': Trump turning out to be 'greatest environmental hero' of 21st century * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Powers and abilities far beyond mortal men': Trump turning out to be 'greatest environmental hero' of 21st century * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

"Trump's a climate champion because he's bringing in more fossil fuels from the Western world, where we have the highest environmental standards, the highest technological advances, and the cleanest way to make energy. We're relying less on China, the Middle East, Venezuela, and Russia. This is how it's done. The climate activists should be embracing Trump."

The way we were-----Cold War Motoring: The Communist Cars of the Soviet Union

Victor Davis Hanson: California—New Wildfires, Same Faces

China's spring festival celebration featured a fleet of dancing robots that flexed the country's advancements in robotics

China's spring festival celebration featured a fleet of dancing robots that flexed the country's advancements in robotics
One of the most eye-catching displays was a dance performance in which 16 humanoid robots, decked in festive red jackets, performed alongside their female human partners...

But the company's also known to have made other machines — including four-legged, doglike robots.
In 2024, these remote-controlled dog robots were seen in footage of a military training exercise conducted by China and Cambodia. 

The robots, which could be mounted with machine guns, could move forward, jump, and navigate obstacles...

Pope knows NO shame!

 

Small doses add up: How Big Food and Big Pharma are poisoning YOU | Blaze Media

Small doses add up: How Big Food and Big Pharma are poisoning YOU | Blaze Media: 

“Yeah, you know, the pharmaceutical companies gave them that playbook. That’s where that comes from. So there’s all of these residual contaminants in making drugs, and there’s some vaccines that use something that creates cyanide. It results in the creation of cyanide, and it’s micro, it’s a small amount, and so they say, ‘You’re stupid for thinking that could ever have an impact on a human, such a small amount,’” Shanahan explains.

Company Sends Man Photo of Item He Bought Online Instead of Actual Product

The feds were funding this child-mutilation??!!-----Trump signs order aimed at curtailing gender transitions for people under 19 | AP News

...his latest move to roll back protections for transgender people across the country. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at cutting federal support for gender transitions for people under age 19, his latest move to roll back protections for transgender people across the country.

“It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures,” the order says...

Lunch video-----How They Used Airports To Train Us

Noon-toon

 

A tale of two pardons: Which did the media spend 1,300% more time on, Trump's or Biden's? | Blaze Media

A tale of two pardons: Which did the media spend 1,300% more time on, Trump's or Biden's? | Blaze Media: 

"I don't know about you, but I have a real problem with somebody giving people who work in the government blanket pardons for anything that they might have done wrong. That just doesn't seem like American justice," Beck said on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

"It doesn't seem like a system where you could hold people accountable for what they've done wrong,” he added.

"These are not serious people, they are petulant children - and they need to be punished."

This matters!

 

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook - Martin Dybro Stoffregen 

These two factors checkmates the AGW idea:

• - There can be no radiative warming from backradiation because that would violate the 2. Law Of Thermodynamics.
• - CO2 can not lower the coolingrate of Earth because CO2 has weaker insulation properties than average air.

If anything at all CO2 has a small cooling effect.
Comments:
Hammoud Leigh - C02 is used in industry as a coolant.
Billy Bird - Yeah the ideal gas law predicts this.
And thermalisation from collisions,50k plus in half life, with the rest of the atmosphere robs a trace gas like co2 or methane any possibility of having a noticeable effect with the energy being transferred by convection to the upper atmosphere and then to space by radiation as the lower pressure enables it. 

No measurable greenhouse effect, the unproven theory is wrong!!

#1 This day 1959-----The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Why do you think think the trans-freaks need to in front of YOUR CHILDREN??!!-----Florida Democratic Party official and 'LGBTQ rights activist' arrested on child porn charges | Fox News

Matthew Inman, 39, hid from officers and tried to delete videos from his phone, authorities say - Anders Hagstrom Fox News 

Authorities arrested a Florida Democratic Party official and prominent LGBTQ activist on child pornography charges this month after he allegedly shared content with an undercover officer.
Matthew Inman, 39, served as treasurer for the Orange County Democratic Party and also as president of Rainbow Democrats, an LGBTQ activist group. 

• The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the middle district of Florida charged Inman with the transportation of child sexual abuse material. Authorities say Inman received and saved several videos "depicting adults sexually abusing young children."
• "In October 2024, Inman traveled to Las Vegas and began talking online with an undercover law enforcement officer posing as the father of a 9-year-old boy. During this conversation, Inman expressed interest in meeting and sexually assaulting the purported child. He also sent [child sexual abuse material] videos to the undercover officer," the attorney's office added...

Never let a democrat-caused debacle go to waste--Ah yes. The left finally "cares" about immigrant children. Yea, right!

 

Dr. Phil embeds with ICE on 'high-risk' immigration mission in Chicago, confronts illegal alien accused of child sex crime | Blaze Media

Dr. Phil embeds with ICE on 'high-risk' immigration mission in Chicago, confronts illegal alien accused of child sex crime | Blaze Media: 

Homan stated, "This is an example of sanctuary cities, right here. We’ve got an illegal alien convicted of sex crimes involving children, and he’s walking the streets of Chicago.”

Homan declared, “Again, the downfall, the problem with a sanctuary city is that people like this [are] walking the street rather than having law enforcement working with federal agents. This is what we’re dealing with."

Homan assured Americans that ICE is conducting "targeted operations" and not "sweeping" raids.

McGraw added, "I know that because I've been involved heading into this. They've identified 270 high-value targets, and what I mean by that is that these are known criminals and terrorists."

"Thank you, President Trump!"

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History for January 29

History for January 29 - On-This-Day.com 

William McKinley (U.S.) 1843

• 1850 - Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
• 1886 - The first successful petrol-driven motorcar, built by Karl Benz, was patented.
• 1916 - In World War I, Paris was bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
• 1958 - Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married.
• 1963 - Britain was refused entry into the EEC.
• 1979 - U.S. President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House. The visit followed the establishment of diplomatic relations.

'Demeaning, patronizing, and unconstitutional': Super-woke state gets sued for blatantly racist action * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Demeaning, patronizing, and unconstitutional': Super-woke state gets sued for blatantly racist action * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

A new lawsuit is challenging the blatantly racist practices of the state in Gov. Tim Walz's Minnesota. It is from the Pacific Legal Foundation and is on behalf of Do No Harm, an association of medical professionals. They are contesting the "racial quotas" that are imposed by the state on its Health Equity Advisory and Leadership Council.

The way we were-----You Might Be OLD If You Remember These Retro Things!

Victor Davis Hanson: Why Davos Hates Trump—And Democracy

Accountable to ... who??!!-----EU COMMISSION IN CRISIS: WHO CAN BE TRUSTED?

The European Union Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, is facing serious questions about corruption, accountability, and financial mismanagement. - Clarice Feldman

• Von der Leyen Under Investigation: Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly under investigation for undisclosed financial links to Pfizer, particularly over vaccine procurement contracts during the pandemic. Can someone embroiled in such allegations truly be trusted to act in the best interests of European citizens?
• Christine Lagarde’s Scandal: Let’s not forget Madame Lagarde, former head of the IMF and now President of the European Central Bank, who was convicted of negligence in a corruption case in France. Yet, she remains in one of the most powerful financial positions in Europe.
• Financial Chaos: The European Court of Auditors’ findings of a 5.6% error rate in the EU’s €240 billion budget expose the Commission’s inability to manage taxpayer money. Where is this money going? How much of it is being wasted or worse—misused?

This isn’t just about mismanagement; it’s about a system that protects its elites while failing the citizens it claims to serve. 

Can we trust an organization that tolerates corruption at its highest levels?
Europe’s sovereignty and future are at stake. 

It’s time for full accountability and an end to this elite impunity.
Jim Ferguson@JimFergusonUK

Biden Admin Quietly Spent $15 Mil To Distribute 'Contraceptives and Condoms' in Afghanistan—and Said Doing So Would Take 'Some Coordination' With Taliban

The $15 million USAID and its partner groups spent to "procure contraceptives," including "oral contraceptives and condoms" in the Middle Eastern nation was part of a $100 million package meant to support "basic rights and freedoms" and empower "women and girls" living under Taliban rule. - Adam Kredo 

• The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) earmarked the cash infusion, which has not been previously reported, last July. 
• It transmitted the funds to Afghanistan in August, according to the funding notice and congressional sources familiar with the matter...

Powerful Republican: Joe Biden's pardons for his own family are not legitimate * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

Powerful Republican: Joe Biden's pardons for his own family are not legitimate * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

A powerful Republican in Congress investigating Joe Biden and his family members for corruption says the former president's last-minute pardons for his relatives are not only "an admission of guilt," they're also not legitimate. "I don't think these preemptive pardons would hold up in court," House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures." "This is an admission of guilt by Joe Biden. Everybody in America knows it."