U.S. Commits $1 Mil to End Racism, Ethnic Prejudice in South America Focusing on “Afro-Latinas”

U.S. Commits $1 Mil to End Racism, Ethnic Prejudice in South America Focusing on “Afro-Latinas”

"As part of its foreign policy on “advancing racial equity and support of underserved communities,” the Biden administration is spending a million dollars to eliminate racial and ethnic discrimination, inequality, and systemic racism in South America.
Besides bolstering racial justice in the foreign nations, the U.S. taxpayer dollars will encourage civil society organizations to promote and protect the human rights of communities marginalized by “intersectional discrimination,” according to the grant announcement posted by the government this month...Read all.

Why Is the Left Suddenly Worried About End of Democracy?

Why Is the Left Suddenly Worried About End of Democracy?: 

What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams, and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the left? Some are warning about its possible erosion in 2024. Others predict democracy’s downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of “autocracy” and former President Donald Trump “coups.”

To answer that question, understand first what is not behind these shrill forecasts.

Victor Davis Hanson on Illegal Immigration | Highlights Ep.35

"Victor Davis Hanson explains why illegal immigration undermines American citizenship. In this Highlight from Hillsdale College’s online course, “American Citizenship and Its Decline,” Dr. Hanson reminds us that illegal immigration is a threat to American citizenship because too many parties have too many vested interests and use illegal immigrants in their pursuit for wealth and power."

THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HAS GONE FULL WOKE:

Instapundit--THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HAS GONE FULL WOKE:

And the result is truly astonishing. 

Here is how it recommends that doctors speak:

 Table 5: Contrasting Conventional (Well-intentioned) Phrasing with Equity-focused Language that Acknowledges Root Causes of Inequities

Conventional	Revision
Native Americans have the highest mortality rates in the United States.	Dispossessed by the government of their land and culture, Native Americans have the highest mortality rates in the United States.
Low-income people have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States.	People underpaid and forced into poverty as a result of banking policies, real estate developers gentrifying neighborhoods, and corporations weakening the power of labor movements, among others, have the highest level of coronary artery disease in the United States.
Factors such as our race, ethnicity or socioeconomic status should not play a role in our health.	Social injustices including racism or class exploitation, e.g., social exclusion and marginalization, should be confronted directly, so that they do not influence health outcomes.
For too many, prospects for good health are limited by where people live, how much money they make, or discrimination they face.	Decisions by landowners and large corporations, increasingly centralizing political and financial power wielded by a few, limit prospects for good health and well-being for many groups.

Check out the full report:  Advancing Health Equity:  A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts.

While you’re at it, check this one out too:  Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity.

These folks have seriously lost their minds.-- Gail Heriot 

Lunch video-----War on Boys

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Report: Kamala Harris complains to allies that media coverage of her would be better if she were white and male - TheBlaze

Report: Kamala Harris complains to allies that media coverage of her would be better if she were white and male - TheBlaze: 

According to a report from the New York Times, Vice President Kamala Harris is unhappy with many things — including the way she is treated by other members of the Biden administration, and how she is portrayed by the press. And with regard to the press, she thinks she knows what is to blame: the fact that she isn't white and male.

It always starts small...

 

Don Surber: Left denies there's a shoplifting boom

Don Surber: Left denies there's a shoplifting boom


The Daily Mail reported, "A woman, armed with a pickaxe, was shoplifting at a Los Angeles Rite Aid.
"Shoppers videotaped the bizarre scene on Thursday as the woman walked up and down the aisles with the weapon in hand.
"She reportedly threatened employees and customers and warned that she would come back as she walked out with a basket full of merchandise.
"It comes as LA and cities throughout California continue to be plagued by robberies amid the state's zero bail policies."
There's your democracy. Californians voted to decriminalize shoplifting. 

Californians elected pro-criminal DAs...Read all.

Their outrage is not consistent!

 

China's 'social credit' system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy

China's 'social credit' system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy

• China has been rolling out a system that ranks its citizens based on their "social credit."
• People can be punished if they drive badly, buy too many video games, or steal.
• It's not a unified, nationwide system, but China plans on eventually making it mandatory for everyone.

The Chinese Communist Party has been constructing a moral ranking system for years that will monitor the behavior of its enormous population — and rank them all based on their "social credit."...Read all.

#1 This day 1974----Helen Reddy - Angie Baby (1974)

The surprising new Omicron symptom that you might notice at Christmas dinner

The surprising new Omicron symptom that you might notice at Christmas dinner
"A new Omicron COVID symptom could first alert you to infection as you sit down for Christmas dinner.
...And there is a hint that some people could experience a previously lesser common problem – loss of appetite, the Mirror reported.

Loss of appetite is a common symptom of Omicron, experts say.
...The study compared symptoms reported by people that had tested positive for either the Delta or Omicron variants.
Experts said: “Contributor reports also identified loss of appetite and brain fog as common symptoms...Read all.

"Wokeness"

 

State Senator Is Carjacked by Armed Assailants - Louder With Crowder

State Senator Is Carjacked by Armed Assailants - Louder With Crowder: 

You reap what you sow, I suppose, and karma is a b*tch. And after completely trashing the state’s cash bond system in January of this year, one Illinois state senator is probably regretting her vote in favor of the action.

Important read-----Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does. | Intellectual Takeout

Teacher: Stroking Egos Does Nothing for Students. Raising Expectations Does. | Intellectual Takeout
"...Self-confidence comes not by somebody “giving” it to a student. 

That method quickly fails. 

Instead, self-confidence results when the person knows they got better at something. 

My students learned to challenge themselves and overcame a weakness in their education.
Our children cannot compete on a worldwide scale anymore in science and math. 

Yet in the last two schools where I taught, I gave timed tests, and my last school was a mini-United Nations and we outscored any number of schools in one of American’s richest counties.
Students loved taking the tests – they worked. 

Is it time we reintroduce more challenges like these timed math fact tests in schools?"...Read all!!!

Child abuse!!!-----Study: Face Masks DO Harm Children’s Development

COVID rules are being blamed for a disturbing 23 percent fall in young children’s development and cognitive test results.

"Social distancing measures including face masks are suspected of causing young children’s development to have drop by up to 23 per cent during the COVID pandemic, according to a new study.
Brown University...probe analyzed the cognitive development of the youngsters through infancy, childhood and adolescence, and looked at how average development scores in three key areas had been affected during the COVID era – with shocking results...Read all.

AM Fruitcake

 

Michigan News links--Updated often. 12-26-2021

 Michigan News links--Updated often. 12-26-2021

• You live in Michigan?
  
• Lot's of stuff goin' on!
• Most of it aimed at your wallet, your work, your home.
• And your kids!

Muskegon, MI Ranks Among the Worst Places for College Graduates to Find a Job

Meet Muskegon’s new mayor: A ‘man of the people’ with plenty of ideas

Hoarder's son drops off 500 parakeets at shelter before Christmas

Governor Boasts 228 New Jobs; Yet Around 800,000+ Jobs Created Most Years

Nessel 'disappointed' by Biden's silence on Line 5

Wayne State, Oakland moving classes online, citing 'alarming' COVID-19 cases

Alleged Crumbley warning signs: Bird head in jar, mom's affair, troubling drawings

History for December 26

History for December 26 - On-This-Day.com

Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) 1893- Chinese statesman

• 1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.
• 1947 - Heavy snow blanketed the Northeast United States, burying New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours. The severe weather was blamed for about 80 deaths.
• 1982 - The Man of the Year in "TIME" magazine was a computer. It was the first time a non-human received the honors.
• 1991 - The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country out of existence.
• 1996 - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, CO.
• 2004 - Under the Indian Ocean, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent 500-mph waves across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The tsunami killed at least 283,000 people in a dozen countries, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand and India.

Liz Warren blames grocery store chains for high prices and gets torched online - TheBlaze

Liz Warren blames grocery store chains for high prices and gets torched online - TheBlaze: 

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts blamed grocery store chains for high grocery prices, and she faced ridicule and mockery for it online. Critics of the Biden administration have blamed deficit spending for the recent increase in inflation, while some Democrats have tried to pass on the blame to corporations to exonerate President Joe Biden.

The way we were-----The Goebbels Government - Berlin 1945

"What happened after Hitler died? Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels took over as Chancellor of Germany. Discover the full story of Goebbels' brief government in the last days of the Battle of Berlin."

Incredible bravery. And WILL!-----George Day, Medal of Honor, Vietnam War

OBAMA: “Being out of alignment with my values.”

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  --Michael Smith
"A read well worth the investment in time: Rousseau, Guevara, Marx and More: The Moral and Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Left

Hayek observed that the committed collectivist must hold to no morals of his own because the only thing that matters is the success of the plan and loyalty to the leader (which are one and the same).
Such is true. 

We are witnessing this in the Democrat agenda - nothing must stand in the way of their plans and there is no law, rule or moral code that cannot be broken in pursuit of that plan.
The only definition they have for evil is opposition to their agenda.
If you remember, Obama said this quiet part out loud in a 2004 interview Obama did with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times:
FALSANI: “Do you believe in sin?”
OBAMA: “Yes.”
FALSANI: “What is sin?”
OBAMA: “Being out of alignment with my values.”
This exchange is far more revealing than was intended...Read all!

A wonderful story during a time of horror-----How one Canadian town doubled in size after temporarily housing stranded passengers after 9/11 | Daily Mail Online

How one Canadian town doubled in size after temporarily housing stranded passengers after 9/11 | Daily Mail Online

"...After four hours in the air, the intercom crackled to life and a tight-lipped pilot shared some peculiar news.

'We're diverting to Newfoundland, Canada. There are problems in US airspace.'

Minutes earlier, at around 9.00am local time, smoke started bellowing out of the World Trade Centre in New York. 

American Airlines flight 77 and United Airlines flight 93 had also been hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists, who planned to slam the planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol....Read all, a great story! 

US Army to announce development of pan-coronavirus vaccine that protects against all variants: Report - TheBlaze

US Army to announce development of pan-coronavirus vaccine that protects against all variants: Report - TheBlaze: 

After two years of work on the virus, Walter Reed's Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle COVID-19 vaccine completed animal trials earlier this year with positive results. Phase 1 of human trials finished this month, also with positive results, and scientists are looking forward to phase 2 and 3 trials, Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad told Defense One in an interview.

Dr. Ben Carson: Are you kidding me?

"Retired neurosurgeon and former Trump HUD secretary Ben Carson joins ‘Kudlow’ to discuss vaccine mandates and the omicron variant."

Forget not, this beautiful Christmas wish is despised by most of the democrat leadership!----- DeSantis Christmas Message: 'How Blessed' Are...

DeSantis Christmas Message: 'How Blessed' Are We

"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) released a Christmas message ahead of the holiday, reminding Americans how blessed they are to live in a country that “protects our right to celebrate the birth of Christ freely.”...Read all.

Christmas music video-----Mannheim Steamroller ~ Christmas Album

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