Thursday, December 03, 2020
Walter E. Williams 1936-2020--RIP American hero!--by Thomas Sowell
Walter E. Williams 1936-2020
"Walter Williams loved teaching.
Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there.
But not in the classroom.
Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day.
And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.
He was my best friend for half a century...MUST READ ALL!
How they "think"-----COVID turns everyone into potential serial killer by breathing | Opinion
COVID turns everyone into potential serial killer by breathing | Opinion:
"If I hold my breath when I hug my parents, will that spare me the Greek tragedy of killing them?
This mental toll will last long after the threat fades.
As coronavirus burns an exponential path of destruction across the American terrain, an insidious blanket of shadow damage is quietly unfurling in its name.
It’s not just the death and scarred lungs.
COVID-19 has turned every man, woman and child into a potential serial killer...Read all.
Facebook and Google Are Buying Up Rivals Despite Antitrust Action
Facebook and Google Are Buying Up Rivals Despite Antitrust Action:
Despite ongoing government antitrust investigations and lawsuits, tech giants Facebook and Google are continuing to finalize deals to purchase rival companies.
Axios reports that despite an antitrust lawsuit filed against Google by the DOJ and reports of addiitonal incoming government antitrust lawsuits, tech giants such as Facebook and Google are continuing to finalize deals to purchase smaller rivals. On Monday, Facebook announced that it has purchased a customer service chatbot startup called Kustomer for $1 billion, the same amount the company paid for the photo-sharing app Instagram in 2012.
The Tragedy of Black Education Is New--Walter E. Williams
The Tragedy of Black Education Is New
"Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore’s school system.
"Several years ago, Project Baltimore began an investigation of Baltimore’s school system.
What it found was an utter disgrace.
- In 19 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were proficient in math.
- In 13 of Baltimore’s high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math.
- In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading.
- The Detroit Public Schools Community District scored the lowest in the nation compared to 26 other urban districts for reading and mathematics at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels.
- A recent video captures some of this miseducation in Milwaukee high schools: In two city high schools, only one student tested proficient in math and none are proficient in English.
World Economic Forum Encourages Plebs To Eat Weeds & Drink Sewage | Zero Hedge
World Economic Forum Encourages Plebs To Eat Weeds & Drink Sewage | Zero Hedge
"The World Economic Forum published two articles on its website which explored how people could be conditioned to get used to the idea of eating weeds, bugs and drinking sewage water in order to reduce CO2 emissions.
Yes, really.
“Finding new plant-based foods is becoming increasingly urgent with the world’s population forecast to grow by two billion in the next 30 years,” states an article authored by Douglas Broom published on the official WEF website
“While farming animals for meat generates 14.5% of total global greenhouse emissions, weeds capture carbon from the atmosphere and can therefore help to control climate change.”
According to Broom, “Weeds can be nutritious and tasty” and are easy to grow.
The article fails to explain why weeds such as dandelion leaves, given that they are so ubiquitous, haven’t been made a staple of western diets already.
“The next time a panhandler approaches your car at a stoplight, point to the tasty and nutritious weeds sprouting up through cracks in the pavement and tell him, “Bon appétit!” writes Dave Blount.
A separate article also published on the WEF website investigates how people can be conditioned to enjoy consuming ‘food’ which on the surface sounds disgusting...Read all.
Lunch video-----YouTube Terminates Free Speech
"Due to censorship, I can't post anything meaningful on YouTube anymore.
My new home is https://newtube.app/user/TonyHeller
Please subscribe today before YouTube deletes my account and you can still find me."
Report: Democrats face voter fraud allegations after ballot review by Dem judge erased Republican lead - TheBlaze
Report: Democrats face voter fraud allegations after ballot review by Dem judge erased Republican lead - TheBlaze:
Democrats are reportedly facing voter fraud accusations in an extremely tight New York congressional race that resulted in a Republican candidate having her lead over a Democratic incumbent completely erased, the Washington Examiner reported. What are the details?
On election night, freshman Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi (N.Y.) trailed Republican challenger Claudia Tenney by over 28,000 votes. Then, as mail-in ballots were counted over the coming weeks, Brindisi's deficit was erased, and he trailed Tenney by just 100-200 votes, the Examiner noted.
Nasdaq Seeks Board-Diversity Rule That Most Listed Firms Don’t Meet
Nasdaq Seeks Board-Diversity Rule That Most Listed Firms Don’t Meet
"Nasdaq Inc. is pushing to require the thousands of companies listed on its stock exchange to include women, racial minorities and LGBT individuals on their boards, in what would be one of the most forceful moves yet to bring greater diversity to U.S. corporations.
The exchange operator filed a proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday that would require listed companies to have at least one woman on their boards, in addition to a director who is a racial minority or one who self-identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.
Companies that don’t meet the standard would be required to justify their decision to remain listed on Nasdaq...Read all.
Hysteria? Ummm, that's only 2000 patients per state. 16 per hospital. Math is hard.-----COVID-19: Hospitalizations near 100,000; doctors, nurses, beds needed
USA TODAY
Some experts said the total, compiled by the COVID Tracking Project, could soon double.
Robert Glatter, an emergency room physician at New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital, said the country has reached a "dangerous inflection point."
"I wouldn’t be surprised if we stand at 200,000 people hospitalized in the next month," Glatter told USA TODAY.
"Explosive growth of the virus has the potential to overrun our ability to provide care. Not only for patients with COVID-19 but also for basic medical conditions."
Many hospitals will be forced to suspend elective surgeries and other routine operations, set up temporary field hospitals and stretch staff to the limit, experts said...Read all. (USA has 6210 hospitals)
James O’Keefe Crashes CNN Daily Call With Jeff Zucker, Reveals Months Of Recordings
A contractor working at CNN came forward on Monday and released videos that they recorded of CNN President Jeff Zucker appearing to admit that the network is pushing the agenda of the Democrat Party by making all their news coverage about “moves towards impeachment” and telling CNN employees that the only coverage he wants is “impeachment.”
Better to know BEFORE the election-----QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
Instapundit--QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
"QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Shot: Trump’s leaving Biden a Christmas gift of Middle East peace — will Joe throw it in the trash?
● Chaser: Joe Biden’s Dream of a Worse Iran Nuclear Deal.--Posted by
History for December 3
Joseph Conrad 1857-- Author
- 1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
- 1835 - In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy.
- 1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
- 1948 - The "Pumpkin Papers" came to public light. The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
- 1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
- 1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
Wednesday, December 02, 2020
CDC to release revised guidance reducing COVID-19 quarantine time from 14 days to 7-10 | Fox News
CDC to release revised guidance reducing COVID-19 quarantine time from 14 days to 7-10 | Fox News:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to release revised guidance on quarantine time for those who may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus from 14 days to 7 days, for those who have received a negative test, and 10 days for those who have not been tested, Fox News has learned.
Fox News obtained an internal CDC document on Tuesday which outlined the proposed changes. A source told Fox News that the changes have been discussed with and approved by the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Yes, This Makes Perfect Sense: Cities All Over America Are Slashing Police Budgets As Crime Rates Soar
Yes, This Makes Perfect Sense: Cities All Over America Are Slashing Police Budgets As Crime Rates Soar
"If violent crime rates are surging, should the police get more funding or less funding?
You would think that the answer should be obvious, but unfortunately major cities all over the nation are choosing to significantly reduce police budgets right now.
...It is so sad to watch so many of our once great cities degenerate into crime-ridden, gang-infested war zones, and the fact that our economy is crumbling so rapidly is just going to make things even worse...
- Meanwhile, Seattle had seen 55 murders this year as of Monday, the highest level since at least 2008, the last year of data available. The troubled city is also suffering a spike in violent crime, with 8,418 burglary incidents, up from to 7,634 last year, according to police.
- In New Orleans, police funding is being reduced by 11 million dollars and a new furlough policy is causing many officers to leave the force entirely…Meanwhile, homicides are up 60 percent this year, and carjackings are up “more than 100 percent”…
- In Minneapolis, the politicians are still squabbling about how much they want to take out of the police budget…Why they would want to take any money away from the police is a mystery, because carjackings in the city are up a whopping 537 percent in 2020…
- In Los Angeles, the police budget was slashed by 150 million dollars this year...Read all!
Harvard Study Shows the Dangers of Early School Enrollment | Intellectual Takeout
Harvard Study Shows the Dangers of Early School Enrollment | Intellectual Takeout
In just one generation, children are going to school at younger and younger ages, and are spending more time in school than ever before.
"Every parent knows the difference a year makes in the development and maturity of a young child.
A one-year-old is barely walking while a two-year-old gleefully sprints away from you.
A four-year-old is always moving, always imagining, always asking why, while a five-year-old may start to sit and listen for longer stretches.
Children haven’t changed, but our expectations of their behavior have.
They are increasingly required to learn academic content at an early age that may be well above their developmental capability.
- In 1998, 31 percent of teachers expected children to learn to read in kindergarten.
- In 2010, 80 percent of teachers expected this.
Now, children are expected to read in kindergarten and to become proficient readers soon after, despite research showing that pushing early literacy can do more harm than good.
..."When children have educational experiences that are not geared to their developmental level or in tune with their learning needs and cultures, it can cause them great harm, including feelings of inadequacy, anxiety and confusion..."...Read all.
Doctors warn CDC to tell public about side effects of COVID vaccines, number of doses needed
Doctors warn CDC to tell public about side effects of COVID vaccines, number of doses needed:
The first COVID-19 vaccines might be around the corner, but the side effects won't be a walk in the park, doctors say.
That could be a problem given that both of the first vaccines likely to arrive on the market require doses to be given twice. This isn't unusual for a vaccine, but it presents a logistical challenge for an inoculation intended to stop a pandemic.
UN Climate Agency Slapped With Corruption Allegations | Zero Hedge
UN Climate Agency Slapped With Corruption Allegations | Zero Hedge
"The Financial Times recently acquired a draft report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) of audit and investigations, outlining how "fraud and corruption" have been linked to the multibillion-dollar Global Environment Facility (GEF).
FT examined the draft report which described "financial misstatements" that were discovered across UNDP's portfolio of GEF-funded projects around the world.
GEF was set up in the early 1990s with the World Bank to combat climate change.
Its main objectives have been to help fight environmental challenges such as deforestation, species preservation, and pollution control. In recent years, GEF has become an independent organization with more than $21 billion dispersed in 170 countries, including $7 billion in projects managed by UNDP...Read all.
“You are Racist” Classes Will Start Soon Under Democrat Rule
“You are Racist” Classes Will Start Soon Under Democrat Rule
- Over the Thanksgiving weekend, my liberal granddaughter came to visit and made it clear that she thinks Trump and his supporters are racist.
"...When I asked her for even one example of why Trump was racist, she also had no answer. She said to Google it.
She has no real information – no facts to debate. ,,,She is proof that the brainwashing of our youth by the democrats is going well.
Determined to indoctrinate the rest of the country, the democrats are all-in on teaching critical race theory and how the white people in America are all racist and have white privilege.
,,,Recently, a letter was signed by 46 higher education groups in the American Council on Education and sent to Biden asking him to reverse Trump’s executive order against critical race theory and other policies they view to be racist, sexist and personally offensive.
,,,And now we have New Jersey legislators who seem to be in a hurry and have already decided that they don’t want to wait to see who’s going to be president.
They have voted on a bill and passed “social justice” education for their public schools...Read all.
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