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Sunday, March 31, 2024

How to Repair the Key Bridge Without Breaking the Bank

Fortunately, it’s possible for Washington to help Maryland rebuild the bridge without driving the nation deeper into debt. - David Ditch / @davidaditch

First, all officials must be clear that the cost of rebuilding should mostly or entirely fall on the owners and operators of the ship...
Second, there’s no need for Congress to authorize new funding to begin the process of clearing the channel and rebuilding the bridge. In 2021, Congress passed a five-year, $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, the largest portion of which is devoted to roads and bridges.

Rather than simply adding to the long-term debt, Congress has many options to repurpose funds from the 2021 bill, including:

Canceling the administration’s $3.1 billion grant to California’s wildly dysfunctional high-speed rail project.
Reducing federal spending on programs for low-priority, local-only infrastructure such as hiking trails, bike paths, and sidewalks.
Pulling forward highway and bridge funds from allocations for 2025 and 2026 so they are available for the project starting in 2024...

How many students know this? Heck, how many teachers know this?!!

Florida Sheriff Issues Awesome Warning to Squatters After DeSantis Announces Crackdown on the Insanity

As "squatting" continues to spread across the country, including by illegal aliens, and squatters have become savvier about their "rights" — which should be zero — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced, "We are ending it,"

If you had been told, say 20 years ago, that if you left your home unoccupied for a period (times vary in different states) and new "tenants" moved in on their own (in New York, for just 30 consecutive days), those "tenants" would acquire legal rights to stay put, for at least the time being, even after you proved ownership, what would you have thought?...

#1 This day 1974-----Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling (1974) (Live)

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook

Scientists Skeptical of Anthropogenic Global Warming | Facebook - Nick Bekant
"Arctic sea ice continues to grow weeks after it typically starts melting.

Extent is higher than 1996, and is one of the highest of the 21st century.
Instead of reporting on this, the press and academia continue to lie about "global boiling" and an imminent ice-free Arctic.

They WILL punish you for even thinking there was fraud!

Illegal migrants who rushed National Guard soldiers in El Paso learn America is a land of laws | Blaze Media

Illegal migrants who rushed National Guard soldiers in El Paso learn America is a land of laws | Blaze Media:

After the incident, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vowed "to arrest every illegal immigrant involved." Texas authorities are now making good on that promise. According to the New York Post, Texas authorities have arrested more than 70 migrants allegedly involved in the incident. They face misdemeanor rioting charges. Sources who spoke to the outlet, moreover, said that Texas authorities have identified more than 200 other migrants they believe were involved in the incident, but federal immigration authorities are not being cooperative. "These people were willing to assault military," a National Guard source told the Post. "They were willing to assault law enforcement. They have complete disregard for our laws."

'Equity-Based Algebra' Is as Bad as You Imagine It to Be

The CMF is a series of policy and curriculum "suggestions" designed to bring "equity" to the math scores of minority students. - RICK MORAN

"...Julia Steinberg has listed a few in The Free Press.

Most students won’t learn algebra until high school. In the past, when that was expected of middle schoolers, the CMF tells us, “success for many students was undermined.”
This means calculus will mostly be verboten because students can’t take calculus “unless they have taken a high school algebra course or Mathematics I in middle school.”
“Detracking” (ending advanced courses) will be the law of the land until high school; students will be urged to “take the same rich mathematics courses in kindergarten through eighth grade.”
Also, "letter grades will be discouraged in favor of 'standards-based assessments.'" It's not very clear what "standards-based assessments" are, but it sure sounds academic and harmless, right?

AM Fruitcake

History for March 31

History for March 31 - On-This-Day.com

Al Gore 1948 - U.S. Vice President under President Bill Clinton

1880 - Wabash, IN, became the first town to be completely illuminated with electric light.
1885 - Binney & Smith Company was founded in New York City. The company later became Crayola, LLC.
1889 - In Paris, the Eiffel Tower officially opened.
1917 - The U.S. purchased and took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.
1918 - For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time went into effect.
1933 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps to relieve rampant unemployment.
1939 - Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany threatened invasion.
1980 - U.S. President Carter deregulated the banking industry.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Biden Slapped with Massive Backlash After Trying to Replace Easter with Trans Holiday - 'Direct Assault on Christianity'

Biden Slapped with Massive Backlash After Trying to Replace Easter with Trans Holiday - 'Direct Assault on Christianity':

President Joe Biden unfortunately lacks tact and is far too senile to ever skillfully maneuver anything except perhaps his 2018 Cadillac he bragged to Special Counsel Robert Hur about. Instead, the aging Delaware politician went guns blazing straight ahead, loudly proclaiming that March 31, 2024, was TDOV.

Why haven't we seen VERY telling study on police & racism | Blaze Media

Why haven't we seen VERY telling study on police & racism | Blaze Media:

“I collected a lot of data,” Fryer, who is also African-American, said. “We collected millions of observations on everyday use of force that wasn’t lethal. We collected thousands of observations on lethal force, and it was in this moment in 2016 that I realized people lose their minds when they don’t like the result.”

Fryer noted that he found “some bias in the low-level uses of force everyday,” which included “pushing up against cars and things like that.”

“People seem to like that result,” he said. “But we didn’t find any racial bias in police shootings,” he continued, noting that he had eight full-time RAs that it took to do the study over the course of a year. When he found the result, he hired eight fresh ones — and the study came back the same.

The way we were-----The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time | Crash Course Lecture

Academic Tipping Points

California Won't Let Homeowners Insurance Companies Raise Rates, so They're Leaving the State Instead

Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process. - STEVEN GREENHUT

Reading insurance trade magazines isn't everyone's idea of a great time, but every Californian should pay attention to the latest news in that arcane world. "State Farm to pull out of 72,000 California insurance policies," blared a Reinsurance News headline.
State Farm provides nearly 21 percent of state homeowner policies, so this is big news. Last year, it stopped writing new homeowner policies. Now it's "non-renewing" existing ones and getting out of apartment policies entirely...

This explains much!-----“I did not know he was sick, this is the first I hear about this.”

Ileana Johnson - Yesterday I sat at Panda Express to have lunch.... | Facebook - Ileana Johnson

"It’s always busy and seats are at a premium.

A sweet black lady asked if she could sit by me and she chatted about her quest to buy her 87-year old mom a yellow suit for Easter.

She was having a hard time as this season’s color is lavender.

She remarked how the stores were filled with merchandise and how the economy is so good thanks to “our wonderful president Biden.”

I said, you mean the guy with Parkinson dementia?

She said, with a tone of incredulity, “I did not know he was sick, this is the first I hear about this.”

What else could I possibly say to this woman, among the millions of ignorant voters just like her?
I left shortly after our “conversation” ended.

I wished her a Happy Good Friday.

What's Wrong With America's 'Elites'?, by Laura Hollis | Creators Syndicate

Over the past few years, news items about events on college campuses have come to dominate headlines...And the stories are often negative, if not outright shocking.

...Across the country, Jewish students describe themselves as "living in a climate of hatred and fear" amid dramatic increases in antisemitic conduct, threats, slurs and actual violence...
This week, Stanford University sophomore Theo Baker published "The War at Stanford" in The Atlantic, in which he describes how the Israel-Hamas war has affected his campus...
In 2017, author Charles Murray's scheduled talk at Middlebury College was interrupted by a mob that later physically attacked him and his faculty host Allison Stanger. Stanger's hair was pulled so hard by a protester that she suffered a concussion...

So who are these "elite"?

Rasmussen explains that they are the top 1% of the population. They make more than $150,000 a year. They live in densely populated urban areas. They have not only college but postgraduate degrees. And large numbers of them "went to one of 12 elite schools."...

Not only does this group think it's acceptable to cheat to win an election, but 70% believe there is too much individual freedom in the United States, and an equal number trusts the government — which, of course, they control...
What's going on at our most prestigious and exclusive universities?

How have they produced generations of amoral, condescending authoritarians?

And how do we put a stop to it?...

Old Soldiers' Home will be used to house migrant families | WND | by Around the Web

Old Soldiers' Home will be used to house migrant families | WND | by Around the Web:

(AMERICAN MILITARY NEWS) – With the state’s shelter system bursting with migrant families, the Healey administration announced today that they will open a new overflow site in Chelsea at the Old Soldiers’ Home and introduce a range of work search and permit application requirements for those housed at “state safety-net sites.”

WHAT DID HE LOOK LIKE?

Scientist dispute stupid with, you know, facts

I’ve seen way too much from The Science lately to have held out much hope. - TOM KNIGHTON

"...Yet it seems that at least some scientists still hold truth as important, and they just dropped the proverbial truth bomb on the International Olympic Committee.
From The Federalist:
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) developed its 2021 framework on sex and “gender” around the concepts of fairness, inclusion, and non-discrimination.

This framework leaves it to each sport’s governing body “to determine how an athlete may be at a disproportionate advantage against their peers.”

However, they admonish sports organizations against “targeted testing … aimed at determining [athletes’] sex, gender identity and/or sex variations.”
Instead, it’s up to each sport to “[provide] confidence that no athlete within a category has an unfair and disproportionate competitive advantage.”

The IOC’s sophistic gymnastics to deny sex-based categories in sport prompted 26 researchers from around the world to rebut the IOC’s framework...

Wind turbines and solar panels are not living up to their longevity claims, increasing costs and filling up waste disposal sites.
Inverters in solar facilities, required to convert direct current into grid-ready alternating current, are failing in 10 to 15 years.
A new Australian study blames early failure of solar panels and inverters on humidity and excessive heat from the sun–the source of photovoltaic cells’ energy generation.
Governments have hastily rushed to embrace renewable energy at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, with apparently little insight into some of the shortcomings of the technologies...

You love inflation? Try this!

Concerns regarding the effects of massive solar farms around the country.

So solar farms not only produce more heat in summer than the original land that they were installed on, but they also produce more cooling in winter, thus exacerbating weather extremes

"Solar panels are at best about 20% efficient...

At the same time as they are absorbing light they are absorbing heat from the sun.

This absorbed heat is radiated into the adjacent atmosphere.

It should be obvious what happens next.
When air is warmed it rises.

Even small differences in ordinary land surfaces are capable of creating powerful forces of weather like thunderstorms and tornadoes...

#1 This day 1955: Ballad Of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes (his original #1 song)

Germany's Murder Of Europe | ZeroHedge

Europe will need to invest €1.5 trillion a year from 2031 to 2050. - by Drieu Godefrei via The Gatestone Institute
"In a preparatory impact report, a copy of which has been obtained by the Financial Times before official release, the European Commission estimates that to achieve the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 then 100% in 2050 — the main objective of the "European Green Deal" — Europe will need to invest €1.5 trillion a year from 2031 to 2050...
That is equivalent to 10% of the Europe Union's entire GDP for 2022 -- every year!..