[MAIL] A man wielding a baseball bat was shot a deadd by police in a California Walmart on Saturday, after he reportedly began threatening officers and swinging the weapon towards them in a suspected incident of suicide by cop.
Officers from the San Leandro Police Department responded to a disturbance at the Walmart on Hesperian Boulevard at 3pm yesterday afternoon to accounts of a man attempting to rob the store.
Upon their arrival, police determined there was no robbery but found the suspect menacingly brandishing a baseball bat at the store's entrance, threatening staff and telling passers-by he 'wanted to die'.
The attending officers approached the man and ordered him to drop the bat, however the suspect refused to comply and began walking towards the them, swinging the weapon.
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Things I have found out in a local Walmart's sporting aisle...
Raj, have you ever swung a fully functional flanged mace? The aluminum Little League Slugger baseball bat has just the same feel... sweet! Always thought that it was just the ting for one of those World War Z™ scenarios...
[DailyMail] The suspect of a DART bus hijacking in Dallas, Texas, 31-year-old Ramon Thomas Villagomez, has died after exchanging fire with police and injuring two officers
Villagomez got on the bus and opened fire shattering several windows
He then ordered the bus driver to drive to an undetermined location
Shots were fired at two officers but their injuries are non life-threatening
There was only one other passenger on board at the time
An old and long-defunct NRO communications satellite, Satellite Data System 2, reentered over the South Atlantic at 1341 UTC Apr 18 after 43.7 years in orbit. The satellite was launched in 1976 to relay imagery from the first KH-11 KENNEN spy satellites.
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New threat, new or old traditions. Live will be different, but that calls for new traditions and ways that bring joy to otherwise difficult circumstances.
"Death is inevitable, best you can do is look death in the face and smile." (from the movie "Gladiator")
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Wonder how much C02 goes into all beer products versus Soda products.
Also beer creates CO2 as part of the fermentation. When I microbrewed I didn't need to add CO2. There must be a way to recapture that however they lose it in the mass produced process.
Alleged footage from Harbin, capital of China's Heilongjiang province shows large queue outside the main hospital. Fears there is a large Covid-19 outbreak underway in the city pic.twitter.com/Hj3uXb1EAS (via @LandofYelang)
Spain records large drop in daily virus death toll
[IsraelTimes] Spain registers a sharp drop in the daily death toll from coronavirus, with the number falling to 410 from 565. The total fatalities in Spain, the third hardest-hit country in the world after the US and Italy, have reached 20,453, the health ministry says today. Infections rise to 195,344, with 4,218 new cases in the past 24 hours.
Israeli hospital to begin treating virus patients with cannabis
[IsraelTimes] Ichilov Medical Center will begin administering medicinal cannabis to coronavirus patients in moderate condition, as part of an experimental treatment, Channel 12 reports. Doctors are seeking to use the antiviral properties of cannabis to slow the spread of the virus, it says.
Pence says 150,000 tests being conducted daily in US
[IsraelTimes] US Vice President Mike Pence says 150,000 coronavirus tests are now being conducted daily in the US but suggests that governors and not the federal government are to blame for numbers not being higher. Pence tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that, “if states around the country will activate all of the laboratories that are available in their states, we could more than double that overnight.”
He says the nation has “sufficient testing today” for states to begin reopening their economies as part of the initial phases of guidelines the White House released this week. Governors from both parties have said that while they do have more labs that could increase testing in many areas, they often are unable to do so because of federal delays.
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And you complained then Colorado[?] classified Marijuana dispensaries as essential business.
Well, that settles it. Alrighty, then
[NY Post] The director of a lab studying the coronavirus in Wuhan ‐ the Chinese city where the global outbreak is believed to have originated ‐ denied that the bug accidentally spread from his facility.
"There's no way this virus came from us," Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, told state media on Saturday. "Please don't disappear kill me"
Yuan's denial came days after a fresh round of conspiracy theories ‐ which have been thrust into the national spotlight ‐ suggesting the novel coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan Institute or another similar laboratory miles away in the Chinese city.
President Trump was asked about the possibility at a White House press briefing last Wednesday and said the US was investigating the origins.
"More and more we're hearing the story … we are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation," the president said.
Two reports ‐ one by Fox News and another in the Washington Post ‐ followed, quoting anonymous sources raising concerns that the virus may have accidentally escaped from the facility.
Yuan admitted that the lab is studying "different areas related to the coronavirus," but told the English-language state broadcaster CGTN that none of his staff has been infected.
"As people who carry out viral studies we clearly know what kind of research is going on at the institute and how the institute manages viruses and samples," he said.
He said that since the lab is in Wuhan "people can't help but make associations", but claimed that some media outlets are "deliberately trying to mislead people".
But officials in the past have raised concerns over the safety conditions of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In March 2018, US science diplomats dispatched to the lab issued two "sensitive" diplomatic cables about inadequate safety measures at the lab, the Washington Post reported, citing intelligence sources.
The first cable warned the experiments conducted in the lab on coronavirus in bats "represented a risk of a new SARS-like pandemic," according to the report.
The cable, written by two US-China embassy officials, said there is a "serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory," according to the report.
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One of Xi's biggest failures (IMO) is not executing the entire faculty of Wuhan labs and the provincial leadership. I despise people who are not good at their job.
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Link here to the original reporting by Josh Rogin regarding the State Department researchers' first-hand visits to to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in late 2017 and their "Sensitive But Unclassified," urgent warning about that shithole's lack of any proper safety or containment procedures.
[BREITBART] A professor at the University of North Texas claims in a lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom that he was fired for saying that "microaggressions" are "garbage." A "microaggression," in the language of left-wing academia, is a small and often unintentional slight that allegedly contains prejudicial judgments.
According to a report by The College Fix, Professor Nathaniel Hiers of the University of North Texas claims in a lawsuit that he was fired from his position as a full-time math professor over his criticism of the concept of "microaggressions."
Breitbart News reported in 2019 that Columbia University professor Derald Sue, who helped to popularize the concept of "microaggressions," is now arguing that the concept was being abused by leftist academics. "Not everything is a microaggression," Sue said.
When Hiers encountered a stack of materials in the faculty lounge that explained the importance of ridding society of "microaggressions," he placed them on a nearby chalkboard. On top of the stack, Hiers wrote, "Don’t leave this garbage laying around."
Shortly thereafter, Hiers was fired by the University of North Texas. After Hiers was informed of the decision, he asked a university official to explain why they decided to terminate him. Hiers claims the official gave him a list of reasons, with each reason relating to Hiers’ criticism of "microaggressions."
"When Dr. Hiers asked for a reason, Defendant Schmidt gave several, all related to Dr. Hiers’ critique of ’microaggressions.’ He said it was because Dr. Hiers refused to recant his beliefs, because he would not attend additional diversity training, and because ’[his] actions and response are not compatible with the values of this department,'" the lawsuit reads.
Hiers, who is represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, has argued in the ongoing lawsuit that the University of North Texas, a public institution, violated his First Amendment rights when they terminated him for his personal expression.
"By conditioning Dr. Hiers’ employment at the University on his willingness to surrender his constitutional rights, Defendants have imposed and are imposing an unconstitutional condition on him in violation of his First Amendment rights," the lawsuit adds.
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Apparently his stack of microaggressions triggered a macroaggression. Are they using the metric system? How many is that in dog years?
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because ’[his] actions and response are not compatible with the values of this department,'" the lawsuit reads.
Academic freedom is apparently not one of those values. What happened to diversity, while we're on the subject? I hope Hiers wins big and (what we're starting to see already) it leads to U. of North Texas' bankruptcy.
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To SteveS: Our local Lidl had a boat-load of sugar. I almost bought some, but, rational thought kicked in when I realized I do not need any sugar, so I didn't. Of course, maybe I should have bought one as perhaps I could trade it for a pack of TP down the road.
[JustTheNews] Worsening relations between Moscow and Minsk could turn Belarus toward West, say observers.
The changing relationship between Moscow and Minsk has left nearby Baltic nations increasingly vigilant against a Russian incursion on Belarus, foreign military officials have told Just the News.
"We have been watching for Crimea, part two," said a Lithuanian Land Forces officer, in reference to Russia’s 2014 capture of Crimea from Ukraine. "Now we are waiting."
"There are new developments," said an Estonian Defense Forces officer. "Things are getting worse."
Allied since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Belarus and Russia in 1999 signed a "union state" treaty to enhance economic ties between their two countries. Over the years, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko ‐ dubbed "Europe's last dictator" ‐ has voiced qualms about forging closer ties.
"The Russian leadership is demanding that we join the Russian Federation ‐ that's what is in the heads of the Russian leadership," Lukashenko said in 2007. "I don't want to bury the sovereignty and independence of the country."
The treaty drew scant international attention, though, until 2014, when Russia seized Crimea. Some observers then warned that Russia also would expand westward to encompass Belarus, abutting Poland and closing the distance between Russia and its exclave Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.
"That is when the two so-called friends got less friendly," the Lithuanian Land Forces officer said....
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Create a Finlandized neutral zone along Russia's border. Poland can be an exception but there's zero sense in our going to war over Belarus, Ukraine or the Balts.
Banner at restaurant in #CCP ruled #China says: "Congratulations on the #epidemic in the US! We wish the epidemic in dwarf Japan will last forever and ever!" What do you think? I call it anti-humanity. Do these kinds of people have the right to protest again "racism"? #CCPViruspic.twitter.com/N6dODztUI8
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I call it... honesty. If you have ever read a translated Chinese webnovel set in the modern era there is a heavy strain of xenophobia in popular thought there.
"95% of Americans don't deserve to be alive at all!" That's according to the official account of #CCP's Youth League's Central Committee. Why do they say this? Click here to read their reasoning and argument: https://t.co/TlGTyndTtn#CCPVirus#COVID2019#coronavirus
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Extreme paranoia aggravated by class envy, much like that found in the Former Soviet Union (FSU). If you want 'standard' class envy, you can get that a little cheaper in Europe. Bargain basement class envy can be found nearly anywhere in Latin America.
Why do they hate us ?
"The same old caveman-feeling, greed, violence, and hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, and mass struggle, labor-union struggle are tearing our world to pieces."
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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People tend to dislike it when a perp shows open hostility towards their victims. CCP must know this, and are tolerating it, which suggests to me that they are looking for an external enemy which also indicates they are not on solid footing survival-wise.
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/\ ...looking for an external enemy
Consider Europe in the 19th Century and the Middle East today: too many unmarried males is a recipe for disaster and leads to "adventurism". Better they die killing foreigners than burning down the palaces! The CCP's policy of One Child and the people's reaction to it with selective abortion of female fetuses has set up an explosive social dynamic. The CCP's corrupt practices only add further kindling to an explosive potential inferno.
[Express] GERMANY has rattled China after joining the UK, France and the US in a rare attack, after Berlin called out Beijing's responsibility for the global pandemic and even issued a £130bn invoice.
The Express presents the situation a bit more strongly than the situation merits. It’s only a stunt by a German tabloid, designed to embarrass both Frau Merkel — who amply deserves it for all sorts of reasons — and Chinese Premier Winnie the Pooh.
On Saturday, Donald Trump warned that China should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for unleashing the coronavirus pandemic.
President Trump told reporters: "It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t, and the whole world is suffering because of it.
“If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, then there should be consequences.
He said the Chinese were “embarrassed” and the question was whether what happened with the coronavirus was “a mistake that got out of control, or was it done deliberately?”
A bombshell op-ed this week in Germany's largest tabloid newspaper, Bild, joined this outrage by drawing up an itemised invoice for €149bn (£130b).
The list includes a €27 billion charge for lost tourism revenue, up to €7.2 billion for the German film industry, a million euros an hour for German airline Lufthansa and €50 billion for German small businesses.
Bild calculated that this amounts to €1,784 (£1,550) per person if Germany's GDP falls by 4.2 percent, under the title "What China owes us."
China responded by claiming the invoice "stirs up xenophobia and nationalism".
If they all were like this, fhere would be no objection.
[Rudaw] The lanes of Lavardac, a tiny village in the southwest of La Belle France, are largely silent during the nationwide lockdown, but a rhythmic whir can be heard from the upstairs window of one unassuming house.
It is the sound of sewing machines being used to make fabric coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... masks for the local population by five Syrian Kurdish refugees.
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24 hr rule? Possibly just a deranged a-hole? Took some planning
[NY Post] The man who fatally shot 13 people during a bloody rampage in Nova Scotia was 51-year-old denture-maker Gabriel Wortman, reports said Sunday.
Wortman went on a shooting spree in several towns while dressed as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer and driving a mocked-up RCMP vehicle, according to CBC.
"The fact that this individual had a uniform and a police car at his disposal certainly speaks to it not being a random act," RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather said.
Wortman, who is listed as a denturist, was tracked down by police at a gas station. He later died. The cause of Wortman’s death was not revealed.
Authorities said the death toll, which includes RCMP officer Heidi Stevenson, could rise.
It was unclear what sparked the attack, which apparently began around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, when cops first received a call about "a person with firearms" in the tiny town of Portapique and the area went into lockdown.
A motive for the killings was not known on Sunday night.
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The "mother-of-two police officer" was a member of the same jackbooted thugs who ripped houses apart looking for guns in High River Alberta and never had to answer for it. Barn burners, quasi-military, politically aware Kreisleiters, one and all IMHO.
[DAILYWIRE] In a shocking essay for Harvard Magazine, a professor of law and director of Harvard Law School’s child advocacy legal clinic, claims homeschooling is a threat to children’s rights, a method of promoting white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... , and a drain on democratic society — and even goes so far as to suggest a national "presumptive ban" on the practice.
Harvard is playing host to a "homeschooling summit," slated to take place (at least digitally) June 18-19, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation. But Harvard’s concern isn’t so much whether homeschooling is a viable, cost-effective, and comfortable method of education for many Americans, but rather whether homeschooling is (and homeschooled children are) a ticking time bomb.
The summit brings together a number of "experts" from across the spectrum to discuss the "problems of educational deprivation and child maltreatment that too often occur under the guise of homeschooling, in a legal environment of minimal or no oversight."
Prof. Elizabeth Bartholet is leading the charge against those who actively resist public schools and she believes that the generation currently being homeschooled is an eventual, if not active, breeding ground for racism, sexism, and isolationism.
"Many homeschool precisely because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to public education and to our democracy. Many promote racial segregation and female subservience. Many question science. Many are determined to keep their children from exposure to views that might enable autonomous choice about their future lives," she claims.
In the essay for Harvard Magazine, Bartholet goes one step further, arguing not just that homeschooling is, itself, problematic, but that it should be snuffed out as a practice by the heavy hand of American government.
"Homeschooling, she says, not only violates children’s right to a ’meaningful education’ and their right to be protected from potential child abuse, but may keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society," the article’s author reports.
"We have an essentially unregulated regime in the area of homeschooling," Bartholet claims in the piece. Although every state has basic educational standards (that most homeschooling families not only meet but exceed), she believes that "if you look at the legal regime governing homeschooling, there are very few requirements that parents do anything."
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"Many homeschool precisely because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to public education and to our democracy.
"Ideas and values central to public education."
That's right, we don't want any. Take your leftest indoctrination and WOKE brainwashing elsewhere.
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Yes. Western Civilization was and is a high standard of Caucasian induced Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, scientific revolution and should be honored by Universities, not trashed by self hating, low esteem leftist professors.
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And the "legal regime governing" state schools is a dense thicket of paralyzingly bureaucratic nonsense.
The typical state school student spends 2/3ds of his or her 30-hour school week on mindless bullshit designed primarily to check bureaucratic boxes while keeping him pacified.
Nowhere in the educrats' charter will you find the notions of educational excellence or investigation of ideas.
Just as Winston Smith learned at O'Brien's hands in 1984, every public-school parent learns sooner or later that the purpose and object of the school bureaucrats' vast power is power. It has zip to do with "education."
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I grew up reading (among other things) two sets of books outside of the local school system; the dictionary and a Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia set my mother started buying when I was just a wee lad. The F & W was one of those '$xx.xx for the first four volumes and $x.xx for each one after that every few weeks'. In my estimation, I learned about as much from those two things than I did in K-12, and this is before K-12 went to complete shit, as my high school diploma dates to 1982. Sci-Fi was also high on the list of reading material, for what that's worth.
So I'm doing this stuff solo and unprompted, yet Mr. Harvard Smartypants thinks this represents 'a threat to children's rights' (amongst other things), which is logic turned on its head. Then again, I don't think it's logic at all - how is it possible to be engaged in two sets of learning modes (school & self-study) only to have one of them declared to 'promote white supremacy'? Oh, that's right - this is really the Harvard Smartypants Paycheck Protection Act.
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autodidacts will thrive anywhere. Hahvahd boy is concerned that children will be taught things contrary to his worldview, things like socialism doesn't work. and things like that have a direct effect on Hahvahd boy's bottom line.
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at Insty: ELIZABETH BARTHOLET, THE “KAREN WANTS TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER” PROFESSOR OF LAW AT HARVARD, DOESN’T LIKE HOMESCHOOLING.
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Khan Academy provides free lessons starting at age two years through AP classes. Bill Gates’ foundation is a major donor, so that Harvard law professor can just argue with him about how appropriate home schooling might be.
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Burn the universities down and salt the ground. Even Purdue now has a dean whose function nothing more than promoting "minorities" in stem. White supremacy my ass!
[Citizen Free Press] Boaters participated in a parade in support of the president over the weekend in the Hillsboro Beach Intracoastal waterway, located about 30 miles south of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
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Well the increased suicide and domestic battery numbers haven't been applied yet.
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Mullah, the various stories at R-Burg today would make it seem that more people are "going-up-around -the-bend". Probably, no more than usual though.
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Not in NYC.
Per CDC's weekly report, NYC year to date fatalities from all causes have increased by about 8,000, or 63%, vs NYC's three-year comparable average for 2017-2019.
But CDC data shows total COVID-related deaths account for only slightly over half of that increase.
So that means, whole NYC was diverting urgent healthcare and public safety resources to COVID, 3,500 or so ADDITIONAL (vs 2917-2019 averages), incremental, very likely preventable deaths occurred in NYC.
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Sorry above link is the wrong one Here are the CDC tallies - state breakouts including a separate breakout for NYC are shown toward the bottom of the page
Latest provisional CDC data:
..5,870 NYC COVID-related fatalities year to date
22,286 NYC total fatalities year to date, all causes
= 71% increase vs 3-year average total NYC fatalities for comparable period through mid-April
= ~9,300 additional fatalities in 2020
= ~3,400 additional NON-COVID fatalities so far this year in NYC ... extrapolates to ca. 10,000 additional preventable non-epidemic deaths this year in NYC
"Escape from L.A., New York and just about every place else.
[MSN] As coronavirus infections tore across the U.S. in early March, a Silicon Valley executive called the survival shelter manufacturer Rising S Co. He wanted to know how to open the secret door to his multimillion-dollar bunker 11 feet underground in New Zealand.
The tech chief had never used the bunker and couldn’t remember how to unlock it, said Gary Lynch, general manager of Texas-based Rising S Co. "He wanted to verify the combination for the door and was asking questions about the power and the hot water heater and whether he needed to take extra water or air filters," Lynch said. The businessman runs a company in the Bay Area but lives in New York, which was fast becoming the world’s coronavirus epicenter. Can’t remember the combination. Some might say "Pity." Others might say "Tough $hit."
"He went out to New Zealand to escape everything that’s happening," Lynch said, declining to identify the bunker owner because he keeps his client lists private. "And as far as I know, he’s still there."
For years, New Zealand has featured prominently in the doomsday survival plans of wealthy Americans worried that, say, a killer germ might paralyze the world. Isolated at the edge of the earth, more than 1,000 miles off the southern coast of Australia, New Zealand is home to about 4.9 million people, about a fifth as many as the New York metro area. The clean, green, island nation is known for its natural beauty, laid-back politicians and premier health facilities.
Rising S Co. has planted about 10 private bunkers in New Zealand over the past several years. The average cost is $3 million for a shelter weighing about 150 tons, but it can easily go as high as $8 million with additional features like luxury bathrooms, game rooms, shooting ranges, gyms, theaters and surgical beds. There's also the option of floating around in remote places in the world for the super-rich. Yachts. For the rest of us, we can wait it out where we are. You might find some plans on YouTube to build your own ventilator.
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Remember a few weeks ago when that Geffen dude had the gall to send via social media a photo and a note about him "toughing it out" on his yacht. What a f'in putz.
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"Here we are, sunning and having cocktails on the forward deck off the coast of Somalia. Look, these nice local fishermen with automatics weapons are coming out to sell us fish....Why the grappling hooks?"
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[PJMedia] It's ironic at a time when 56 million children in the U.S. are being homeschooled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that Harvard Magazine would publish an article calling for a ban on homeschooling.
The article by Erin O'Donnell, headlined "The Risks of Homeschooling," sets up one straw man after another to make the case that the government must step in to protect children from their own parents—who are presumed guilty and ill-qualified to care for their own children. The government must control all. What a good little communist.
Elizabeth Bartholet, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, told the magazine that homeschooling deprives children of their right to a "meaningful education." She cites no law that requires a child to receive a "meaningful" education (because there is no such law in the U.S.) but defines it thusly: "But it’s also important that children grow up exposed to community values, social values, democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people’s viewpoints." (Nothing about reading, writing, and 'rithmetic in her formula, it ought to be noted.)
In other words, she knows that homeschooled children are being taught to think for themselves, and she won't stand for it. Bartholet is no doubt keenly aware that government indoctrination centers have been wildly successful in their quest to force-feed vulnerable children progressive values. One need only spend a short time on a college campus to understand the extent of their success. Abraham Lincoln famously said that "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Social and moral revolutionaries understand that society and culture are shaped in the classroom and they've spent the last 100 years working tirelessly to ensure that the "correct" (read: progressive) values are being imposed on children.
This is not to say that all teachers are hell-bent on brainwashing children to accept left-wing values. Most are not. The vast majority love their students and are passionate about teaching and give no thought to indoctrinating children. But education thought-leaders like Bartholet and the national teacher's unions are determined to ensure that children adopt their liberal values, and that's where the problem lies because they've managed to leverage federal funding to amass an immense amount of control over local education decision-making. Abolish the department of education
Out of one side of her mouth, Bartholet says that parents have "very significant rights to raise their children with the beliefs and religious convictions that the parents hold. Out of the other side, she says there should be limits to the influence parents have over their children.
"The issue is, do we think that parents should have 24/7, essentially authoritarian control over their children from ages zero to 18?" she asks. "I think that’s dangerous," she answers. "I think it’s always dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless, and to give the powerful ones total authority."
Left unsaid, but clearly implied, is that it's ok to put powerful government bureaucrats in charge of powerless children because, obviously, they know better than the parents what a child needs. It takes a village to raise a child, we've been lectured for decades. Except in most educator's cases, they are a village of idiots and we need to keep our kids as far away as possible.
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Elizabeth Bartholet, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, told the magazine that homeschooling deprives children of their right to a "meaningful education."
Rubbish. We had a family in the neighborhood who home-schooled their three little girls. They were some of the nicest, well-adjusted, creative little kids you would like to meet. The neighbors were all very fond of them. Eventually, they moved to a farm about 15-20 miles away.
These days, public school has become a frightening place.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Ref #7: Put a few hours in hanging over one of these possibly ? 
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[BREITBART] A professor at the University of North Texas claims in a lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom that he was fired for saying that "microaggressions" are "garbage." A "microaggression," in the language of left-wing academia, is a small and often unintentional slight that allegedly contains prejudicial judgments.
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts 
[PJMedia] It's ironic at a time when 56 million children in the U.S. are being homeschooled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that Harvard Magazine would publish an article calling for a ban on homeschooling.
