Edukatin ur kidz----------Five Maps That Will Change How You See the World | RealClearScience

Five Maps That Will Change How You See the World | RealClearScience:
"Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so.
Why?
Because the Peters projection accurately shows different countries’ relative sizes.
Although it distorts countries’ shapes, this way of drawing a world map avoids exaggerating the size of developed nations in Europe and North America and reducing the size of less developed countries in Asia, Africa and South America. "

HARDOCP - Rail Gun Goodness From Every Angle

HARDOCP - Rail Gun Goodness From Every Angle:
The Naval Surface Warfare Center just released a video showcasing their fully operational railgun system. 
BAE's Electromagnetic Railgun can send a canister of hate towards a target at a blistering 4,600 MPH. If said target is another ship... Let's just say that living things in pressurized compartments don't react well to instant decompression.

"Between enormous energy requirements, and non-explosive shells that offer limited in-air guidance, electromagnetic weapons are proving a bit unpractical compared to some of the conventional alternatives. At least for now."

The railgun has a long way to go. Here's to eventually seeing all of our Battle-Tech and Macross dreams come true.

Too important to cut!!-----Better Managed Moose Get $203k From 'Critical' Great Lakes Funds [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Better Managed Moose Get $203k From 'Critical' Great Lakes Funds [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative gave $203,874 in 2014 for Indian reservations in Minnesota “to evaluate moose and deer use of habitat sites designed and managed for the benefit of moose.”
President Donald Trump's budget proposes cutting 97 percent of the spending covered under the grant program, which defenders have called critical."

WATCH: Defender Of Israel Blisters Arab States Into Silence At U.N. Human Rights Council: 'Where Are Your Jews?' | Daily Wire

WATCH: Defender Of Israel Blisters Arab States Into Silence At U.N. Human Rights Council: 'Where Are Your Jews?' | Daily Wire:

"March 20, the U.N. Human Rights met to consider yet another item condemning Israel. Hillel Neuer of UN Watch, furious that Arab state after Arab state viciously accused Israel of apartheid tactics, blistered them into utter silence as he pointed out that it was the Arab states that practiced apartheid, snapping to each Arab state: “Where are your Jews?”

Before Neuer fired off his attack, the Palestinian representative stated, “Israel has used the worst kind of abuse … ethnic cleansing and imposing a regime of apartheid.” Forget the fact that roughly 20 percent of Israel’s population is Arab."

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Foreign Students Say U.S. High School Classes Are Absurdly Easy...

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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Foreign Students Say U.S. High School Classes Are Absurdly Easy.

When the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy surveyed foreign exchange students studying in the U.S. in 2001, it found that they thought that American education was a cake walk compared to secondary education in their home countries. And when it conducted the survey again in 2016, it found that exchange students thought that U.S. education was even less challenging than before. . . .

Foreign exchange students’ perceptions of U.S. education clearly depends on their own educational background and their school placement.

 Students placed in underperforming Chicago schools, for example, are more likely to say that U.S. education is easier compared with foreign students placed at top-tier high schools in upper-middle class university towns.

The study doesn’t offer details about these alternative variables that might offer a more granular account of where U.S. schools are succeeding and failing; nonetheless, the overall picture—that teenagers from abroad overwhelmingly think that American schools demand less of them than schools in their home countries—is not exactly a ringing endorsement of this country’s educational establishment.

Well, our educational establishment — like most of our establishments these days, really — sucks."

AM Fruitcake

History for March 26

History for March 26 - On-This-Day.com:
William C. Westmoreland 1914 - U.S. Army general, Strother Martin 1919 - Actor, Leonard Nimoy 1931 - Actor ("Star Trek")


James Caan 1939 - Actor, Bob Woodward 1943 - Journalist, Diana Ross 1944 - Singer


1910 - The U.S. Congress passed an amendment to the 1907 Immigration Act that barred criminals, paupers, anarchists and carriers of disease from settling in the U.S.


1942 - The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.


1953 - Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine that would prevent poliomyelitis.


1995 - Seven of the 15 European Union states abolished border controls.

1996 - The International Monetary Fund approved a $10.2 billion loan for Russia to help the country transform its economy.

1997 - The 39 bodies of Heaven's Gate members are found in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. The group had committed suicide thinking that they would be picked up by a spaceship following behind the comet Hale-Bopp.


1999 - In Michigan, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for giving a terminally ill man a lethal injection and putting it all on videotape on September 17, 1998 for "60 Minutes."


2000 - In Russia, acting President Vladimir Putin was elected president outright. He won a sufficient number of votes to avoid a runoff election.

Male Physical Decline: Masculinity Is Threatened | National Review

Male Physical Decline: Masculinity Is Threatened | National Review:

"Our culture strips its young men of their created purpose and then wonders why they struggle. It wonders why men — who are built to be distinctive from women — flail in modern schools and workplaces designed from the ground-up for the feminine experience. Men were meant to be strong. Yet we excuse and enable their weakness. It’s but one marker of cultural decay, to be sure, but it’s a telling marker indeed. There is no virtue in physical decline."

Why the sudden collapse of North Korea would be hell on Earth

Why the sudden collapse of North Korea would be hell on Earth:
"There is no nation on the planet more dangerous than North Korea — and that's putting it charitably.
The leader of the so-called "hermit kingdom," Kim Jong Un, is the master of his own personal hell six decades in the making.
It includes labor camps described by a North Korean defector as worse than Auschwitz and a population, brainwashed into thinking the Kim family is a god, with no hope for a brighter future or any chance of freedom.
To make matters even worse, Kim is now armed with nuclear weapons that most experts think can hit not only South Korea and Japan, but in the next few years, the U.S. homeland.
By 2020, some scholars believe North Korea could have enough atomic material for 100 nuclear bombs.
But in all fairness, there is one event possibly even more perilous than Pyongyang showing itself capable of launching a nuclear attack on Asia or America. 
Oddly enough, it is something many experts over the last few weeks have been rooting for — the collapse of North Korea's government..."
Read on!

'Snowflake Test' for Job Applicants Weeds Out the Unproductive | LifeZette

'Snowflake Test' for Job Applicants Weeds Out the Unproductive | LifeZette:
"One CEO has been pretty blunt about the people he is not looking to hire.
That’s right:
No snowflakes need apply.
And to make sure he doesn’t hire one by mistake, he’s developed The Snowflake Test for applicants.
Kyle S. Reyes, who heads up Silent Partner Marketing in Manchester, Connecticut, wrote an article for the NewBostonPost this month, explaining the reasons for his test...
...His solution? 

The Snowflake Test.

I implemented something that is going to give HR managers and the PC Police night sweats," he wrote.
"I lovingly refer to it as The Snowflake Test. Anyone who may be a viable candidate for our agency has to take the test before they get an at-bat at an interview."
Some of the questions on The Snowflake Test include:
• What are your feelings about employees or clients carrying guns?
• Should "trigger warnings" be issued before we release content for clients or the company that might be considered "controversial"?
• How do you feel about police?..."
Read on!

In Wake of Rockville Rape, School Superintendent Accuses Parents of Racism - Katie Pavlich

In Wake of Rockville Rape, School Superintendent Accuses Parents of Racism - Katie Pavlich:

"In the wake of an alleged brutal rape at Rockville High School in Maryland by two illegal aliens last week, Montgomery County Superintendent Dr. Jack Smith is accusing parents of racism and xenophobia. He also claims threats are being made against students and schools. "

Male Physical Decline: Masculinity Is Threatened | National Review

Male Physical Decline: Masculinity Is Threatened | National Review
"Young American males are losing touch with a critical element of true masculinity.
If you’re the average Millennial male, your dad is stronger than you are.
In fact, you may not be stronger than the average Millennial female.
You’re exactly the kind of person who in generations past had your milk money confiscated every day — who got swirlied in the middle-school bathroom.
The very idea of manual labor is alien to you, and even if you were asked to help, say, build a back porch, the task would exhaust you to the point of uselessness.
Welcome to the new, post-masculine reality.
This morning, the Washington Post highlighted a study showing that the grip strength of a sample of college men had declined significantly between 1985 and 2016.
Indeed, the grip strength of the sample of college men had declined so much — from 117 pounds of force to 98 — that it now matched that of older Millennial women.
In other words, the average college male had no more hand strength than a 30-year-old mom. 
...I’ve experienced the impact — even as an older adult — of the physical transformation of Army training.
Our culture strips its young men of their created purpose and then wonders why they struggle.
It wonders why men — who are built to be distinctive from women — flail in modern schools and workplaces designed from the ground-up for the feminine experience.
Men were meant to be strong. 
Yet we excuse and enable their weakness. 
It’s but one marker of cultural decay, to be sure, but it’s a telling marker indeed.
There is no virtue in physical decline."

Must-read of the day!-----12 Pieces Of Proof: The MSM Knew Obama Spied On Trump and LIED To Cover It Up | Daily Wire

12 Pieces Of Proof: The MSM Knew Obama Spied On Trump and LIED To Cover It Up | Daily Wire
"What I am about to present to you is what really happened.
All the proof is linked below, but what I'm about to do is what I call "Revealing the Matrix," showing you the truth backed by incontrovertible fact and the media's own words.
Not my words.
Not President Trump's words.
The media's words.
...Our national media has known for months that the Obama administration spied on Team Trump. 
This was not only common knowledge within the media community, it was no secret.
In fact, as you'll see below, for two big reasons, the media was overjoyed that this spying had occurred: 
(1) they got scoops damaging to Trump, and
(2) in their provincial and cultish minds, the very fact that the oh-so pure Obama administration felt the need to spy, could only mean Trump was in bed with Putin.
In fact, the media was actually having a big public party using Obama's spying.
...Suddenly, right around 8 a.m. on Saturday, March 4, the conventional wisdom and public knowledge that the Obama administration had spied on Trump, was surrounded by the media's semantic wagons which were manned by lying journalists armed with hair-splitting.
I don't want to go through all that again, so you can read why Trump told the 100% truth in the first section of this piece.
The bottom line, though, is this …

• Trump accused Obama of spying on him.
• Obama did spy on Trump.
• The media knew Obama spied on Trump.
• The media lied and covered up the fact that Obama spied on Trump.
• We know this with absolute certainty because the media itself told us so. 

And here is all the proof you will ever need to make that case … [emphasis mine throughout]

1. Heat Street - November 7, 2016
EXCLUSIVE: FBI ‘Granted FISA Warrant’ Covering Trump Camp’s Ties To Russia
Two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community have confirmed to Heat Street that the FBI sought, and was granted, a FISA court warrant in October, giving counter-intelligence permission to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Trump’s campaign with ties to Russia.
So let's stop for a moment to make a couple of things clear.
The FBI reports to the Department of Justice, which at the time was run by Obama's highly politicized Attorney General, Loretta Lynch. The author of this piece, Louise Mensch, despises Trump, and if you'll look at the publication date, she dropped this supposed bombshell the night before the election, and did so for reasons I should not have to explain..."
Read on!

Lunch video-----Big Government Kills Small Businesses

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Turkish Dictator Threatens Europe: 'If You Continue To Behave Like This ... No European, No Westerner Will' Walk 'The Street Safely And Peacefully.' | Daily Wire

Turkish Dictator Threatens Europe: 'If You Continue To Behave Like This ... No European, No Westerner Will' Walk 'The Street Safely And Peacefully.' | Daily Wire:

""If you continue to behave like this, tomorrow in no part of the world, no European, no Westerner will be able to take steps on the street safely and peacefully," Erdogan stated during a rally at the Turkish capital of Ankara. Turkey is "not a country to push, to prod, to play with its honour, to shove its ministers out of the door, drag its citizens on the floor."

Erdogan refused to elaborate on what he meant by his remarks, but they were enough to send chills down the spines of Europeans already fearful of radical Islamic terrorist attacks carried out by incoming Muslim migrants passing through Turkey."

They trusted the system-----Fifteen kids reported this pedophile. They left him in the classroom anyway.

Fifteen kids reported this pedophile. They left him in the classroom anyway.
ROBERT KEITH BRYAN WAS ACCUSED OF TOUCHING STUDENTS IN 1985, 1992, 1994 AND 2007.
COMPLAINTS WERE BURIED, DISBELIEVED, IGNORED AND FORGOTTEN
PALM DESERT, Calif. – Cait, 10, a fourth grader at Lincoln Elementary School, was erasing the blackboard after class on a Friday afternoon when she was approached from behind by her teacher. 
He dropped his hands on her tiny shoulders, then slid them forward beneath her shirt. 
Cait froze in fear.
“Why haven’t you stayed after school in a while?” Robert Keith Bryan whispered in her ear, according to a police report.
She felt his hands on the bare skin of her chest and his mouth on her neck.
Cait yanked free and ran out of the classroom.
Tears streaked down her face as she sprinted to her home six blocks from the school, then burst into the kitchen and told her mother what had happened.
Her father grabbed a baseball bat and marched back to the school.
When he got there, Bryan was gone.
It was the winter of 1992. 
Cait was not the first little girl to tell on this teacher, and she would be far from the last.
Over a 34-year career in Coachella Valley Unified and Desert Sands Unified schools, Bryan was allowed to continue teaching despite 15 students reporting him for inappropriate touching over five separate occasions.
Bryan kept teaching until 2012, when he was arrested for touching eight more students, then resigned amid a police investigation that eventually sent him to prison.

Saudi Cleric calls for offensive Jihad and death for apostasy: ‘Islam does not allow liberalism and coexistence’ | The Muslim Issue

Saudi Cleric calls for offensive Jihad and death for apostasy: ‘Islam does not allow liberalism and coexistence’ | The Muslim Issue:
"Saudi cleric Sheikh Ayman Al-Anqari cited various hadiths in support of his claims that “coexistence in the sense of freedom of religion… is null and void” and that there are two kinds of Jihad: offensive Jihad and defensive Jihad. 
Offensive Jihad basically means a Muslim has the right to attack the infidel merely for him being an infidel. 
It’s not only a Muslim’s right but it’s his duty to raid and commit Jihad. 
Defensive Jihad means the infidel should surrender, not fight back to defend himself, or he commits war against Islam and must be fought against and slain.

The punishment for apostasy, he said, “is one of the greatest punishments in Islam.” 
Al-Anqari’s lesson aired on the Saudi Al-Ahwaz TV channel on February 16..."

CA Dems propose free tuition funded by tax on millionaires

CA Dems propose free tuition funded by tax on millionaires:
"California state legislators have proposed a bill to make public colleges and universities completely tuition-free by creating a special tax on the state’s remaining millionaires.
Assembly Bill 1356, introduced Monday by Democratic Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, would impose a one-percent tax on incomes over $1,000,000 in order to close “the unfunded gap between existing aid programs and the cost of tuition and fees.”
A press release put out by Eggman’s office asserts that California needs roughly $2 billion to cover the cost of college tuition for all state residents, and estimates that the new tax would generate about $2.2 billion, all of which would be deposited into the state’s Higher Education Assistance Fund for that purpose.
...Jon Coupal, the president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, told the Associated Press that the new tax would “give California citizens who have done well one more reason to move out of California.”
Eggman, however, dismissed that prediction, pointing out that the wealthiest 1.5 percent of Californians already provide roughly half the state’s tax revenue, and that voters have twice approved special taxes on millionaires since 2004."

Podesta Was Board Member Of Firm Linked To Russian Investors | The Daily Caller

Podesta Was Board Member Of Firm Linked To Russian Investors | The Daily Caller:

"The Podesta-Russia connection also could rekindle a new round of questions about Clinton relationships with foreign figures — in this case, Chubais.

Chubais, Russia’s deputy prime minister in the 1990s, owed his personal fortunes to Bill Clinton, who embraced him as a “reformer” in former President Boris Yeltsin’s government. Clinton’s ally instead created a new generation of tycoons who today rule Russia.

Podesta’s role at Joule was largely unknown until last year when the nonprofit Government Accountability Institute (GAI) published a highly-detailed report on Russian ties to Podesta and the Clintons."