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Wednesday, June 21. 2023

Wednesday morning links

 Climate Change Turns Out To Be a 71-Year-Old Guy Named Ed


 Pandemic Learning Slide Continues for 13-Year-Olds, Making Full Recovery Unlikely


 What Can We Do About Pandemic-Related Learning Loss? Remote school was devastating for many students. In Richmond, Virginia, a plan to switch to a year-round calendar brought promise and pushbac


Spectator:  Why civics test scores are falling in American schools - For the next generation, history isn’t being rewritten. It’s being intentionally obscured


 Why scrapping standardized tests is bad for college applicants


 Florida Teacher Fired for Comparing Students' Skin to Coffee


 The Ideological Subversion of Biology


 Chris Licht and the Decline of Journalism


Chris Christie: We should definitely mutilate children's genitals


 Good News: Biden Regime Just Gave China Greenlight To Invade Taiwan


 The Failing Ukraine Counteroffensive & The Peace That Could Have Been


 Europe in Decline



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re Chris Christie: We should definitely mutilate children's genitals

Christie clearly knows no more about GOP voters than Bud Light knew about their customers.

With this position, he would have more success running with a "D" after his name.
#1 feeblemind on 2023-06-21 08:51 (Reply)
But, Christie is NOT running to be president. He knows he could never rise above a few percent of votes. He is running to destroy Trump. Christie is a hired gun nothing more, nothing less. Christie's expenses/donations are paid for him and after the election he will get a cushy job in payment for his services. Ditto for Asa Hutchison.
#1.1 OneGuy on 2023-06-21 10:35 (Reply)
Florida Teacher Fired for Comparing Students' Skin to Coffee

Coffee? There's the mistake. My black friends taught me about the (brown) Paper Bag Test; you're either darker or lighter.
#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-06-21 09:01 (Reply)
The failing Ukraine counter-offensive? But I've been reassured by the main stream media that it's just a matter of time before Russia collapses. Between the West's sanctions, Putin's debilitating illness, and Russian morale being in complete collapse, a glorious Ukrainian victory is assured.
#3 Jerryskids on 2023-06-21 09:10 (Reply)
John Kerry in his official capacity as climate Czar has said that "we", meaning the U.S. and all nations, must end farming to save the climate. Can you be that stupid? Obviously we know he does not mean that he and his family intend to or are ready to starve to death to save the climate. He means that YOU must starve to death to save the climate.

The conspiracy theorists, who by the way are about 20 to 0 in being accurate when compared to government experts, have said that YOU are the carbon that the elite and WEF want to eliminate. Crazy, huh? Those crazy conspiracy theorists! It's not as though left wing governments in the past have starved large percentages of their population to death in their quest for power LOL!
#4 OneGuy on 2023-06-21 11:47 (Reply)
The very moment John Kerry reduces his carbon footprint to the same level as mine, I'll be right there with him on this.

Until then, I intend to ignore him.
#4.1 JJM on 2023-06-21 13:01 (Reply)
Civics tests and obscuring history. Pretendian Elizabeth Warren is the typical academic that has created the gap between the real world and her pretend world. As a measure of her ignorance, she pretends to not know the record of reconciliation between the north and south soldiers and the efforts to unite the country after the civil war. As a result, her naming commission and an endless range of academic morons think that renaming military posts and tearing down statues and monuments will "better" race relations. Unfortunately, like Obama and far too many academics, she is a true believer of the Gramsci/Marcuse marxists who simply love to stir up hate, bitterness, and distrust. History, for the marxist, is malleable for the purposes of obtaining power and control. What a sad ass creature... and the education system is full of them. See DEI, ESG, and the gender benders.
#5 indyjonesouthere on 2023-06-21 13:01 (Reply)
Putin dismissed the African peace proposals out of hand. The West gave all the wrong singles from before the invasion that he had a free hand. Ukraine begged for serious assistance as far back as 2014 and received very little. If the US and the Euro weenies had responded with a string hand in 2014 the invasion would not have occurred. Putin is a master of opportunism and the West is masterful at providing the opportunity.
#6 willful knowlewdge on 2023-06-21 13:15 (Reply)
And if the US had maintained NATO as a defensive force rather than an offensive force, as in Serbia and the march to the Russian border, there would be no conflict in Ukraine.
#6.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-06-21 13:26 (Reply)
And there wouldn't be a Ukraine today either. Putin feeds the Russian paranoia with 'NATO encroaching on our borders', but he'd find another reason to have a foreign adventure. In the 21st Century we should not be changing borders by force. Given the mess the Soviet Union left in Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War and the history of Eastern Europe, having all those countries in a defensive alliance and respecting each other's borders is a better outcome than most of history there. I'd prefer at this point that 'NATO' be disbanded and a purely European alliance put in its place but nothing is perfect.
#6.1.1 John Fisher on 2023-06-21 13:38 (Reply)
It would be tough to find a Russian leader that was not "paranoid" about invasions considering all those who have invaded Russia. Each of those invasions have been ugly and bloody. I suspect that if NATO disbands in the near future that we will find that most of the conflict will disappear. It is not in Russia's business interests to be in conflict with anyone, least of all a close western Europe that needs Russian resources. How close are we to the US retreating from Ukraine?

https://southfront.org/the-period-in-american-history-that-started-on-25-july-1945-ended-on-19-june-2023/
#6.1.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-06-21 15:23 (Reply)
"I suspect that if NATO disbands in the near future that we will find that most of the conflict will disappear."

I'm thinking it'd be more of a "Now's the time to secure a buffer zone" scenario, and the neighbors had better watch out.

If, that is, Russia had the war stocks and personnel to do so. This doesn't seem to be the case. You could argue they didn't go all out against the Ukraine and they've still got lots to draw on, but that just doesn't seem to be the case from what I've seen.
#6.1.1.1.1 JLawson (Link) on 2023-06-22 02:15 (Reply)
The Titan Tragedy

A very good 20 minute video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dka29FSZac
#7 feeblemind on 2023-06-21 21:06 (Reply)

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