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-Great Cultural Revolution
Woke Math Comes To California
A taste:
[AmericanConservative] When American universities began to omit standardized testing scores there were concerns that excellence was yielding to dogma. Hard science requires hard numbers. Which is to say that replacing quantitative test data with teacher recommendations, grade point averages, and personal narratives is opting for an approach that is necessarily less scientific, as the information involved is not referenced against a uniform (i.e. standard) set of metrics. Proponents will respond that stepping away from universal ranking is intentional. From their vantage point it’s not about selecting for raw achievement but rather imposing equality of opportunity.

So perhaps it’s only natural that advocates in California are now looking to update the state’s public school curriculum for mathematics. Not content to alter the application process in higher education, officials also want to impose their worldview onto the foundation of science itself. They’ve set their sights on its lingua franca─mathematics─and their reform campaign offers a glimpse of where the United States may be headed.

Norm Matloff, a computer science professor at U.C. Davis, reports that the philosophical undercurrents driving the new guidelines include the notions that showing your work and arriving at the “right” answer aren’t important since they’re relics of “white supremacy.” They also include the belief that accelerated tracks of instruction for gifted students that include more difficult classes like calculus should be avoided.

If you’re surprised by these educational tenets, rest assured that you’re not alone. A group that includes several hundred university professors signed an open letter to Governor Gavin Newsom warning him that “there is no realistic hope for a more fair, just, equal and well-stewarded society if our schools uproot long-proven, reliable and highly effective math methods and instead try to build a mathless Brave New World on a foundation of unsound ideology.”

The warning signs have been visible for some time and now the chickens are coming home to roost. In the 2020-2021 school year the California school system lost over 160,000 students compared to the previous year.

One California father (whom I’ll refer to as Boomer since he asked not to be identified) recently established his own school in the Bay Area. He notes that “our local public school was teaching math at a level about two years behind the international best-practice standard. The fourth grade students were still mastering addition, and just being exposed to multiplication tables.”
Posted by: Photing Shalet8979 || 11/12/2021 09:51 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Surreal.

I wanted to resort to smirks and sneers -- with an ironic post a la "maff be rayciss" or somesuch -- but it's just not funny any more.

This madness isn't aimed at destroying white supremacy. It's a nuclear warhead that will destroy America's technological, scientific and ultimately our economic and military supremacy.

When a future Gibbon writes his history of the decline and fall of the American Republic, there will be a special chapter for the insane destruction of math education across the land.

This must be deliberate. They cannot be this stupid, can they?

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/12/2021 14:13 Comments || Top||

#2  If they're really serious about this, they should institute mandatory classes in learning Chinese.
Posted by: Tom || 11/12/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Might want to avoid crossing a bridge built according to this new, non-racist, math. Just saying...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/12/2021 15:04 Comments || Top||

#4 
They cannot be this stupid, can they?

Don't encourage them.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/12/2021 17:45 Comments || Top||

#5  "Woke meth comes to California"?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/12/2021 22:24 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Jim Darlington - 'None Dare Call it Genocide'
BLUF:
[USSA News] "Never again!" was the great hue and cry, in remembrance of the Holocaust. We’ll never let bullies hurt the weak again. But here we are the greatest nation, effeminate and ’Woke", almost to a critical mass, and sitting in the Devils cross hairs. It will be unfortunate, for us, if he does exist.And he does. He just never cared for the whole Halloween costume thing. He tries his best to seem amiable and harmless.

There is nothing left to do but ask Google for advice.

What can we search? And, of that which we find, what can we trust?

Part I, a simple exercise: If we search under’Proponents of Depopulation’, would it be fair to expect to be shown the craziest "Conspiracy Theorists"first, along with the rantings of the most easily dismissed? Maybe so. But there are so many and their names so often recognizable. Start with Bill Gates and the likes of George Soros. See who you can find among the other Captains of Pharmacopeia. But don’t stop there. Who belongs to the World Economic Counsel? Decide to find 50 such proponents and then find out who they are and how great their influence and power. Find out what they are thinking. Find out what they are planning. Find out how many they think should be set off somewhere to the side, to make the world a pleasant, more enjoyable place.

Part II of the exercise: Search United Nations Agenda 21... Agenda 2030 ... Agenda 2050’. The UN publishes them, but, if you talk about them, you have moved again,outside of that realm of ’Community Standards’, and will be likely cancelled and hushed.

What spirit inhabits this cloud of toxic lies? If it sells, it tells what the sheep will believe. Little lies and then bigger lies and finally monstrous lies.

It came from Chinese bats, a natural misfortune!

The Chinese Communists stopped internal travel out of Wuhan, but let their infected travelers flood the world. Nothing to see there.

Democrats howled against limiting the effects of this act of war...till the claws of the disease were buried deep in the flesh of America. Then they howled at Trump’s supposed failure to stop it.

It mainly kills the old but (uniquely Democrat) Governors sent the infected back to the nursing homes ...out of a sense of compassion!

Just a couple weeks, just a couple months, just until herd immunity, just until the vaccine, just until 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, or now, not until all are vaccinated. Just ’til you have learned to obey and believe. Just ’til Tyranny owns the world.Or millions will die! Step aside, you murderers, or we will break you, for the people’s good. How dare you refuse!

Those, who could read the writing on the wall, have refused to take an untested vaccine. That isn’t a vaccine. The use of which could only have been legal if there were no other remedies. Which there were. So HCQ, Azithromycin, Zinc, Vitamins, Ivermectin, Budesonide and others, all proven safe and effective, are slandered, minimized, prohibited and the organs of propaganda pretend they never existed, pretend that the doctors offering the living proofs of the cured, are every slithering and vile thing. Doctors who would simply think and analyze and heal are threatened with impossible fines and the loss of their licenses. Pharmacies refuse to fill their prescriptions.

These are the results. Billions enough are earned by the Pharmaceutical Corporations to buy most politicians or pay enough lawyers to make the unbending toe the line. A host of extra-legal emergency dictates are announced, that enable a corrupt election. The last one who seemed to stand in the way, seems to have been removed. But we’ll have to wait and see about that.

A novel lie, for a novel virus, that dying "with" a disease is the same as dying because of it, blowing up a flu season’s statistical death-rate norm by a factor of at least ten (while, miraculously, ending any reporting of the flu entirely) and attaining those ridiculous numbers by way of a test that offered massive false positives (acknowledged and dialed back radically the very day that Biden was sworn in). Having taken the same peculiar turn of re-definition as we, the Italian government recently revisited their mortality statistics and announced that, of the previous numbers claimed, only 3% actually died because of the disease itself, while the rest died with the disease (or at least as defined by dubious testing or profit seeking medical authorities). In short, they admitted that the true mortality rate was no greater than the annual flu, unless you were already dying.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/12/2021 10:19 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually, it's well beyond George Orwell.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/12/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  The damage to our economy was mostly self-inflicted by the gummint, backed by media hysteria that inflamed the most hysterical and gullible of our society. the number of deaths makes use of the term "genocide" way, way out of place.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/12/2021 10:38 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
BLM Throws Down the Gauntlet, Threatens New NYC Mayor With 'Riots, Fire and Bloodshed'
[PJMedia] New York BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome openly threatened NYC’s incoming mayor, Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
, with "riots" "fire" and "bloodshed" if Adams sticks to his campaign promise to bring back undercover cops in an attempt to stop gun violence in a city racked with crime.

FACT-O-RAMA! Threatening "riots, fire, and bloodshed" is a "terrorist threat" and is illegal, but somehow Newsome wasn’t arrested. So much for the victimization angle.

I’m thinking aloud here ... would a Proud Boy get arrested for making the same threats?

NYC Police Commissioner Dermott Shea dissolved the undercover anti-crime unit in question in 2020, a year when crime surged nationwide, and New York City set a record for violence.

Why doesn’t BLM want undercover cops on the streets, preventing crime, much of which takes place in black neighborhoods? Because they’re Marxists, duh. Unrest in the streets is in the commie take-over playbook.

And YES, they are Marxists. It was on their website for a long time until someone thought to take it down.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/12/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Why doesn’t BLM want undercover cops on the streets, preventing crime, much of which takes place in black neighborhoods?

Their leaders may be Marxists bit the overall reason is the African American culture in the US includes drug use as a fundamental right.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 11/12/2021 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Not unlike Afghanistan, narcotics and human trafficking drive the urban economy, and possibly more.

USG looks the other way, hinders border enforcement, releases convicted drug dealers, provides unannounced 'middle of the night' deliveries of illegals to urban airports and communities.

And it doesn't stop there.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/12/2021 3:03 Comments || Top||

#3 

Death and Violence have been communicated.
He and those that still support him are now open to arrest.

Maybe he should be taken into "Protective" custody before some civic minded citizen might considers him a deathly threat to others and acts proactively to stop greater harm to others?

BUT! there is the Jesse Smollett way of looking at this.

Hawk Newsome is a cast member on the Race based, color focused, biasly presented BET TV Show "Cop Watch America "

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/12/2021 6:05 Comments || Top||

#4  A chevauchée is coming
Posted by: badanov || 11/12/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ They're not smart enough to understand the strategic concept. More like Kristallnacht -- smash and grab version
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/12/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  *Sigh* RICO in 5,4,3,...never.
Posted by: magpie || 11/12/2021 15:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
PIERS MORGAN: Biden doesn't stand a chance in 2024
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ...and neither does the epically unpopular and useless Kamala so unless Joe finds a new VP to succeed him soon the Dems can kiss goodbye to the White House
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/12/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

BIDEN
A great example of Liberal media induced Group Think.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/12/2021 6:07 Comments || Top||

#2  He didn't stand a chance in his basement in 2020. Fraud approved by the ruling caste made it all possible and will again in 2024.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/12/2021 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, I'm no fan of Piers Morgan, so this take makes me a bit queasy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/12/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Neither did he stand a chance in '16.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/12/2021 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Father time will take care of the worthless SOB as well as his power hungry sidekick Pelosi.

From the looks of them, it might be sooner than later.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/12/2021 8:28 Comments || Top||

#6  If Biden were to pass it is likely the sympathy could spike Kamala's approval ratings into normal levels again. At least for a time. I have no doubt there are Dems actively running the numbers.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/12/2021 10:59 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm wishing for much sooner.
Posted by: Chris || 11/12/2021 11:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Do we the people of the USA stand a chance?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/12/2021 17:40 Comments || Top||

#9  If Biden were to pass it is likely the sympathy could spike Kamala's approval ratings into normal levels again.

She ain't no LBJ -- well, drop the 'L' anyway
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/12/2021 21:42 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Al-Kadhimi between two assassinations: Security breach leads to U.S.-Iranian convergence
[SHAFAQ] The "liquidation attempt" against outgoing Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in the Green Zone a week ago did not receive the same political and media attention as the "crime" announced at dawn Sunday, which shook the Iraqi political scene and represented a rare moment of transformation to both the internal and external regional intersections.The scoop of the attempted liquidation by three drones will fade in a few days, not only because of how it was carried out but perhaps more importantly, because of its consequences and the questions it raised, starting with the "security breach" of targeting the head of The Iraqi authority in his residence inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, the timing of his presence in that exact place, through to the internal and regional political significance of the failed liquidation attempt.

UNDERMINING THE STATE'S PRESTIGE
Some experts believe that the drone attack on al-Kadhimi's residence is an attempt to undermine the prestige of the state, as well as a warning message from the perpetrators that they are above the constitution and the regime. Therefore they are able to impose their political will.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/12/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Science & Technology
XD-M Elite 3.8″ Compact OSP 10mm Reviewed
[Guns America] Late last year, Springfield Armory introduced the latest evolution of the XDM series of handguns in the form of XD-M Elite series. And those Elites do live up to the name. This new series got some serious upgrades which you can read about here. In short, Springfield evolved the XDM line to compete in a new market of extremely high quality out of the box guns. Mag wells, new META trigger, enhanced stylings- all of which were needed to play with the FN 509 series, SIG P320X5, and Canik Elite.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/12/2021 06:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Have a Colt 10mm Delta Elite and loved 230gr ammo 36,000FP/Sq inch at 50 ft ammo. A good Boar Hunting backup.

But the 23lb recoil slide spring was a major issue in hot weather with sweaty hands.

So I converted it to 40cal shooting 200gr.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/12/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I like my Coonan Classic 1911 in .357 Mag. It also has a recoil spring that will quickly prove you are or are not in possession of a good grip and upper arm strength. Since they aren't made anymore, I don't want to use it much as it's a bit collectible.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/12/2021 9:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Stocking stuffer
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/12/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Stocking to stuff
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/12/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Nasrallah: UAE-Assad meeting means recognizing Syrian Civil War victory
[JPost] Hezbollah leader: Israel suffers "existential fear"; recent IDF exercises in North show fear of Lebanese invasion.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/12/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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Fri 2021-11-12
  Iran-backed Houthis holding US Embassy staff in Yemen
Thu 2021-11-11
  Iran-Backed Militants Storm US Embassy in Yemen
Wed 2021-11-10
  Half-Naked Knifeman Reportedly Shouting 'Allakhu Akbar' Injures Police Officer in Oslo, Gets Shot
Tue 2021-11-09
  Fugitive ISIS operative hunted by the Russian government is arrested at airport in Bogota
Mon 2021-11-08
  Afghans facing 'hell on earth' as winter looms
Sun 2021-11-07
  Assassination attempt on Iraqi PM
Sat 2021-11-06
  Minneapolis leftists threaten to burn down
another police station after election defeat
Fri 2021-11-05
  Miqati Urges Kordahi to Resign, Hits Out at Hizbullah and Its Allies
Thu 2021-11-04
  Turkey probes 30 social media users for sharing tweets suggesting Erdogan died
Wed 2021-11-03
  March 8 Forces Want 'Price' for Kordahi Resignation
Tue 2021-11-02
  Yemen Rebel Strike on Mosque Kills at Least 22
Mon 2021-11-01
  Taliban's supreme leader appears, sez he's not dead
Sun 2021-10-31
  2 Killed by Gunmen at Nangarhar Wedding: Family
Sat 2021-10-30
  KSA Expels Lebanese Ambassador
Fri 2021-10-29
  Sudan Military Leader Fires 6 Diplomats who Criticized Coup

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