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Friday, July 28, 2017

Conference teaches K-12 educators how to combat ‘whiteness in schools’ - The College Fix

Conference teaches K-12 educators how to combat ‘whiteness in schools’ - The College Fix:
"A recent conference hosted by an Ivy League university focused on integration and inclusion in K-12 education and included workshops on how educators should face white privilege in their classrooms, challenge microaggressions and address “Eurocentric pedagogical approaches.”...

Other workshops touched on topics such as using hip hop as a form of therapy in schools, instituting restorative justice for student discipline and examining segregation and desegregation."
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Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Transgendered Men Don’t Become Women,’ They Become ‘Feminized Men,’ ‘Impersonators’

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: ‘Transgendered Men Don’t Become Women,’ They Become ‘Feminized Men,’ ‘Impersonators’:

"Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, who has studied transgendered people for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men.”

All such people, he explained in an article for The Witherspoon Institute, “become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they ‘identify.’”"

Retailer apologizes after font makes ‘glitter’ appear to read as ‘Hitler’ | Articles | Main

"The company’s chief marketing officer quickly responded after Twitter users pointed out that a tote bag carried a message that looked quite different than what its design intended.

Marketers and designers take note: Font choice matters.
With the wrong font, a seemingly innocuous tote bag can get misinterpreted as mild hate speech.
Check out the product...from the online retailer BelleChic, which Quotable Life designed and produced.
Do you notice anything off?..."
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Marine dog with cancer gets tear-filled hero's farewell - Chicago Tribune

Marine dog with cancer gets tear-filled hero's farewell - Chicago Tribune
"Hundreds of people in Michigan came together to say a tear-filled final goodbye to a cancer-stricken dog who served three tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marines.
Cena the 10-year-old black lab received a hero's farewell Wednesday before being euthanized at the USS LST 393, a museum ship in Muskegon, and carried off in a flag-draped coffin.

Cena, who was recently diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, was a bomb-sniffer for the Marines until his retirement in 2014.
The celebration for Cena was organized by his owner, Lance Cpl. Jeff Young, who was paired with the dog in 2009 and 2010 while on a combat tour in Afghanistan and who adopted him in 2014.
Cena then became DeYoung's service dog to help him with his post-traumatic stress disorder.
"My whole adult life I've had Cena," DeYoung said.
"When I was 19 overseas learning how to be responsible, I had Cena.."
Read on...hanky time.

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Cable Networks Black Out Coverage on Wasserman Schultz IT Scandal

Cable Networks Black Out Coverage on Wasserman Schultz IT Scandal:

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"Major cable news networks have given no coverage to the burgeoning scandal involving IT staffers to former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

Reporting by the Daily Caller News Foundation has revealed that Wasserman Schultz's top information technology staffer Iman Awan was arrested Monday after trying to flee the country amidst investigations into Awan concerning banking fraud and a criminal cybersecurity probe. "

$2 Million Bathroom | RealClearPolitics

$2 Million Bathroom | RealClearPolitics:
"Did you see the $2 million dollar bathroom?
That's what New York City government spent to build a "comfort station" in a park.
I went to look it.
There were no gold-plated fixtures.

It's just a little building with four toilets and four sinks.
I asked park users, "What do you think that new bathroom cost?"
A few said $70,000.

One said $100,000.

One said, "I could build it for $10,000."
They were shocked when I told them what the city spent.
No park bathroom needs to cost $2 million.

An entire six-bedroom house nearby was for sale for $539,000.
Everything costs more when government builds it..."

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Social Security’s Creeping Fiscal Crisis | International Liberty

Social Security’s Creeping Fiscal Crisis | International Liberty
"...a program that will soon have an annual budget of $1 trillion.
Especially since the tax-and-spend crowd in Washington is actually arguing that the program should be expanded.

...Table VI.G9, which shows the annual inflation-adjusted budgetary impact of the program.
It’s also worth noting that the program already is in the red. Social Security outlays began to exceed revenues back in 2010.
And the numbers will get more out of balance over time..."

Scientists find key 'friendliness' genes that distinguish dogs from wolves - LA Times

"Your dog is basically a super social wolf, and scientists may have found the gene that makes him want to cuddle with you.
A new study shows that friendliness in dogs is associated with the same genes that make some people hyper-social.
The study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, found that structural variations in three genes on chromosome 6 are correlated with how much canines socialize with humans.
An analysis of DNA from two dozen animals revealed that these genes look very different in dogs than they do in wolves..."
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Today's sea-level rise is BELOW normal - Ice Age Now

Today's sea-level rise is BELOW normal - Ice Age Now
This talk of unprecedented sea-level rise is complete nonsense.
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"Today’s sea-level rise is BELOW normal-By Robert Felix
During the last ice age almost all of Canada, along with parts of Europe and Asia, were buried beneath one to two miles of ice.
At the same time, sea levels stood 350 to 400 feet lower than today.
Sea levels were so low that the entire continental shelf, at least in eastern North America, was above water.
Many states on the eastern seaboard were twice as big as today.

New Jersey’s shoreline, for example, stood 60 to 100 miles east of its present location.
Same in the west.
...Why were sea levels so low?
Because that’s where the water came from to create those huge ice sheets.
Literally millions of cubic miles of water had turned to ice.
Then, about 10,000 years ago, the ice began to melt and sea levels began to rise.
Rising sea levels have been the norm
If you run the numbers you’ll find that sea levels have been rising an average of .42 to .48 inches (just under half-an-inch) per year for the past 10,000 years.
Rising sea levels have been the norm, in other words, for 10,000 years.
And that brings us to today.
What are sea levels doing right now?
Sea levels now rising slower than normal
According to NASA, sea levels are rising 3.4 mm (about 1/8th of an inch) per year..."
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This Insane Poll Shows Free Speech In America Is Dying | Daily Wire

This Insane Poll Shows Free Speech In America Is Dying | Daily Wire:

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"It’s a troubling moment for freedom of speech.

For years, the Right has suggested that the Left is the force most dangerous to freedom of speech. From college campuses to attempts to restrict election spending to the push for hate speech regulations, the Left sees freedom of speech as an obstacle.

Now many Republicans are reciprocating."

AM Fruitcake

History for July 28

History for July 28 - On-This-Day.com
Beatrix Potter 1866, Rudy Vallee 1901, Charles Hard Townes 1915

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929, Jim Davis 1945, Sally Struthers 1948

1866 - The metric system was legalized by the U.S. Congress for the standardization of weights and measures throughout the United States.

1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment guaranteed due process of law.

1914 - World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building. 14 people were killed and 26 were injured.

1965 - U.S. President Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.

1982 - San Francisco, CA, became the first city in the U.S. to ban handguns.

1998 - Bell Atlantic and GTE announced $52 billion deal that created the second-largest phone company.

1998 - Monica Lewinsky received blanket immunity from prosecution to testify before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.