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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[Hamilton Samuels]

thanks to those who have provided their political ID, but if you could

Can you "check the boxes" that comes closest to pigeon-holing you as I will be trying to comp the Elba self-ID to a larger standardized pool of data. And I'd rather not try to interpret your puzzle pieces.

And my oversight, should have included an Indy party affiliation, but the real definer is the ideology label.

thanks for playing

I did not respond because I reject the labels. 

But you apply them to everyone else.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Stewart was great last night.

"It worked"

great line.

It wouldn't surprise me if the C-19 had its origins in a Wuhan lab and its been covered-up by the Xi govt.

That may be my remaining cold-warrior being suspicious of Chinese-Commies wanting to dominate the world through whatever means and its germ warfare went awry. I'm not sure if thats a  conservative, moderate, liberal or a Q position.

Or all of them, and sensible.

In any case, Bo would probably disagree and say you have to be a picky shopper in the Wuhan wet markets. You can get good bats or not so good ones.

But the bigger political picture is the Repubs seem to want to paper over Trump's gross incompetence and lies and complicity in the disease spreading in this country, and lay the blame elsewhere.

The GOP would also like you to forget that the reason Chynah is a problem today is because of DICK NIXON.

[luee]

I’m glad she confided that to you, Luee, and that you thought fit to share it with us. She must be one of the most tolerant people in the world. Far more tolerant than I would be or can see that she would have any reason to be to be so forthcoming.

Any further insights?

Her husband-brother from another mother explained it to me. Just thought it was an interesting topic to be brought up for analysis and debate.

---As Democrats are trying to quell internal tensions over remarks Rep. Ilhan Omar made last week apparently comparing the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban, Republicans are re-upping their push to condemn Omar and her allies over comments about Israel.---

Meanwhile MTG went to the Holocaust museum and now says the Holocaust was real...

n

But she is not a "progressive", never claimed to be, just a southern belle conservative lost in the dark past. Ilhan actually believes she is the future and the voice of reason based on her childhood experiences in Somalia. Just reading up, this is one messed up society with civil wars and new governments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia

[Hamilton Samuels]

As variations in vaccination levels grow more stark among states - the share of eligible residents in Vermont who have received at least one dose is roughly double the share in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama - these disparities have gone largely unmentioned on weekly calls between governors and the White House's coronavirus task force. "Crickets," one state official said of whether governors with disappointing immunization figures were explaining their challenges and sharing best practices for boosting demand ahead of President Joe Biden's goal of getting shots to 70% of adults by July 4.

"The July 4 goal that President Biden set up is quite frankly not in our sights right now," said Keith Reed, deputy health commissioner in Oklahoma, where just 54% of adults have received at least one dose. Even though infections and hospitalizations remain under control, he said, "we know we don't have enough of the population vaccinated to ensure us against a resurgence. We know the risk is still out there."

Some public health officials have resigned themselves to the reality that many in their community will not budge on shots.

In Wyoming's Sweetwater County, population 44,000, authorities are at a loss for what else they can do to achieve herd immunity.

Sweetwater carries the unfortunate distinction of being the county with the steepest increase in infections in the state with the most new infections per capita in the country. Only a quarter of its residents are fully vaccinated, and public health officials don't see the number budging much higher.

Jean Stachon, Sweetwater County's health officer, said officials held mass clinics, brought vaccine doses to employers and churches and accept walk-ins at the public health office. They have sacrificed extra doses in a vial to vaccinate at least one person. But demand is minimal, even as the virus still looms in the community. Two people died of covid-19 in the last week. Eight emergency room patients were diagnosed with coronavirus in one night.

"As much as the general public figures covid is done, gone and over with, and they don't want to hear about it, the health department wishes the same. It's not so," Stachon said.


Considering that the GOP led states are where there is the most resistance to getting vaccinated, it seems that those who view the world with a right-wing idealogical lens are at most risk for killing themselves and others.

Take a bow. You may make it harder, Red States, to vote, but you're killing your own voters.

https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-infections-dropping-where-people-205837251.html

[Hamilton Samuels]

A man accused of going on a shooting spree across Alabama and Georgia and injuring five people admitted to police that the crime was racially motivated and he was targeting white men.

“Basically, he explained throughout his life, specifically white males had taken from him and also what he described as military-looking white males had taken from him,” Detective Brandon Lockhart said of Justin Tyran Roberts during a preliminary hearing.

Roberts, a 39-year-old black man, was arrested in connection to the shooting spree that left five people injured over three separate incidents in Georgia and Alabama. Police say all five victims are expected to recover.

https://news.yahoo.com/shooting-spree-suspect-admits-police-151200569.html

[Hamilton Samuels]

Leaders of a Massachusetts public school system are encouraging students and staff to file complaints against one another for telling rude jokes, referring to the “China virus,” and committing microaggressions or other “incidents of bias,” according to newly uncovered documents from the district’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

The documents were released by Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit that fights against indoctrination in American classrooms and activist-driven agendas in schools. The documents include Wellesley Public Schools’ policy on “Responding to Incidents of Bias or Discrimination,” and slides from a staff equity protocols training course.

Courts have found that policies like Wellesley’s can have a chilling effect on speech. A decision last year from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said a similar reporting policy at the University of Texas, enforced by the school’s Campus Climate Response Team, “represents the clenched fist in the velvet glove of student speech regulation.”

Attempts to reach Charmie Curry, the director of diversity, equity and inclusion for Wellesley Public Schools, via email an on her work phone were unsuccessful.

Ryan Mills
Tue, June 15, 2021, 8:16 AM EDT

Leaders of a Massachusetts public school system are encouraging students and staff to file complaints against one another for telling rude jokes, referring to the “China virus,” and committing microaggressions or other “incidents of bias,” according to newly uncovered documents from the district’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

The documents were released by Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit that fights against indoctrination in American classrooms and activist-driven agendas in schools. The documents include Wellesley Public Schools’ policy on “Responding to Incidents of Bias or Discrimination,” and slides from a staff equity protocols training course.

Courts have found that policies like Wellesley’s can have a chilling effect on speech. A decision last year from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said a similar reporting policy at the University of Texas, enforced by the school’s Campus Climate Response Team, “represents the clenched fist in the velvet glove of student speech regulation.”

Attempts to reach Charmie Curry, the director of diversity, equity and inclusion for Wellesley Public Schools, via email an on her work phone were unsuccessful.

The Wellesley policy states that “discrimination based on ancestry, race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability or any other state or federally protected category is not tolerated.” An incident of bias is defined as “any biased conduct, speech or expression that has an impact but may not involve criminal action, but demonstrates conscious or unconscious bias that targets individuals or groups that are part of a federally protected class.”

Students are encouraged to report incidents of discrimination “or any concerning pattern of biased behavior” to any district staff member or a trusted adult.

“Reports of any concerning behavior may be made anonymously,” according to the policy, though it adds that, “Anonymous reports are more difficult to investigate and respond to.”



 https://news.yahoo.com/massachusetts-public-school-district-encourages-121641755.html


They did that in the Cultural Revolution in China, as was pointed out, yesterday, much to our local leftists' dismay.

[josh]

Meet the new boss.

Same as the old (pre-Trump) bosses:
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/biden-education-policy-poverty/

It didn't work under Bush or Obama. It won't work now.

[bankshot1]

Attempts to reach Charmie Curry, the director of diversity, equity and inclusion for Wellesley Public Schools, via email an on her work phone were unsuccessful.

She was at a Quentin Tarantino film festival.

I used to work as a counter/delivery kid at a drug store in Wellesley when I was 16-17.

I got great deals, on smokes, popsicles, and rubbers that never got used.

heh

a very affluent community about 15 miles from Boston.

schmucks couldn't tipped for shit.

I think ratting out friends,family and colleagues first caught on in the '30s. It was very European, spread over the continent.
It leads to a very open society.

I can't see a problem in Wellesley or Weston, those tight-assed WASPS will just tell their jokes at the club.

And chuckle.

But fucking Lexington and Concord, where battles for freedom were first fought in this country, they might get a little pissed.

[Hairy Lime]

thanks to those who have provided their political ID, but if you could

Can you "check the boxes" that comes closest to pigeon-holing you as I will be trying to comp the Elba self-ID to a larger standardized pool of data. And I'd rather not try to interpret your puzzle pieces.

And my oversight, should have included an Indy party affiliation, but the real definer is the ideology label.

thanks for playing

I did not respond because I reject the labels. 

But you apply them to everyone else.

Nope. Not everyone. But I call out racism when I see it. Racist.

[LarryBnDC]

A man accused of going on a shooting spree across Alabama and Georgia and injuring five people admitted to police that the crime was racially motivated and he was targeting white men.

“Basically, he explained throughout his life, specifically white males had taken from him and also what he described as military-looking white males had taken from him,” Detective Brandon Lockhart said of Justin Tyran Roberts during a preliminary hearing.

Roberts, a 39-year-old black man, was arrested in connection to the shooting spree that left five people injured over three separate incidents in Georgia and Alabama. Police say all five victims are expected to recover.

https://news.yahoo.com/shooting-spree-suspect-admits-police-151200569.html

Racist AND incompetent!

[LarryBnDC]

Leaders of a Massachusetts public school system are encouraging students and staff to file complaints against one another for telling rude jokes, referring to the “China virus,” and committing microaggressions or other “incidents of bias,” according to newly uncovered documents from the district’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

The documents were released by Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit that fights against indoctrination in American classrooms and activist-driven agendas in schools. The documents include Wellesley Public Schools’ policy on “Responding to Incidents of Bias or Discrimination,” and slides from a staff equity protocols training course.

Courts have found that policies like Wellesley’s can have a chilling effect on speech. A decision last year from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said a similar reporting policy at the University of Texas, enforced by the school’s Campus Climate Response Team, “represents the clenched fist in the velvet glove of student speech regulation.”

Attempts to reach Charmie Curry, the director of diversity, equity and inclusion for Wellesley Public Schools, via email an on her work phone were unsuccessful.

Ryan Mills
Tue, June 15, 2021, 8:16 AM EDT

Leaders of a Massachusetts public school system are encouraging students and staff to file complaints against one another for telling rude jokes, referring to the “China virus,” and committing microaggressions or other “incidents of bias,” according to newly uncovered documents from the district’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

The documents were released by Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit that fights against indoctrination in American classrooms and activist-driven agendas in schools. The documents include Wellesley Public Schools’ policy on “Responding to Incidents of Bias or Discrimination,” and slides from a staff equity protocols training course.

Courts have found that policies like Wellesley’s can have a chilling effect on speech. A decision last year from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said a similar reporting policy at the University of Texas, enforced by the school’s Campus Climate Response Team, “represents the clenched fist in the velvet glove of student speech regulation.”

Attempts to reach Charmie Curry, the director of diversity, equity and inclusion for Wellesley Public Schools, via email an on her work phone were unsuccessful.

The Wellesley policy states that “discrimination based on ancestry, race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability or any other state or federally protected category is not tolerated.” An incident of bias is defined as “any biased conduct, speech or expression that has an impact but may not involve criminal action, but demonstrates conscious or unconscious bias that targets individuals or groups that are part of a federally protected class.”

Students are encouraged to report incidents of discrimination “or any concerning pattern of biased behavior” to any district staff member or a trusted adult.

“Reports of any concerning behavior may be made anonymously,” according to the policy, though it adds that, “Anonymous reports are more difficult to investigate and respond to.”



 https://news.yahoo.com/massachusetts-public-school-district-encourages-121641755.html


They did that in the Cultural Revolution in China, as was pointed out, yesterday, much to our local leftists' dismay.

So nice he had to post it twice!

Cultural Revolution... hyperbole much?

You’re a sucker for Koch sponsored propaganda.

[LarryBnDC]

From the posted Yahoo* article:


”The documents were released by Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit that fights against indoctrination in American classrooms and activist-driven agendas in schools. The documents include Wellesley Public Schools’ policy on “Responding to Incidents of Bias or Discrimination,” and slides from a staff equity protocols training course.”


*reprinted from National Review



“PDE is yet another fake operation acting for right wing billionaires. So who would be dumb or dishonest enough (or both) to fall for the grassroots claim? Fox News, of course.”


And the usual suspects in here...


https://www.masspoliticsprofs.org/2021/04/12/koch-connections-and-sham-grassroots-of-parents-defending-education/

[facilitatorn]

I’m glad she confided that to you, Luee, and that you thought fit to share it with us. She must be one of the most tolerant people in the world. Far more tolerant than I would be or can see that she would have any reason to be to be so forthcoming.

Any further insights?

Her husband-brother from another mother explained it to me. Just thought it was an interesting topic to be brought up for analysis and debate.

---As Democrats are trying to quell internal tensions over remarks Rep. Ilhan Omar made last week apparently comparing the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban, Republicans are re-upping their push to condemn Omar and her allies over comments about Israel.---

Meanwhile MTG went to the Holocaust museum and now says the Holocaust was real...

n

But she is not a "progressive", never claimed to be, just a southern belle conservative lost in the dark past. Ilhan actually believes she is the future and the voice of reason based on her childhood experiences in Somalia. Just reading up, this is one messed up society with civil wars and new governments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia

Their xenophobic militaristic right wing tried to consolidate power with crackdowns once it became clear their programs were unpopular and their figurehead was failing in the early 90’s. Then it got ugly fast.

This is what Israel narrowly avoided spiraling into by booting Bibi, turning him from PM to full time defendant.

It’s a reason to hope we can lock up trump soon before he can cause any more trouble.

CIA bucks and guns fueled the fight there by funding anti-Islamist militias just like GRU bucks and hacks fuel the civil war bent republicans here in the USA today.

[facilitatorn]

A new federal holiday is on its way finally.

American greatness on full display.

Pro tip: don’t reenact any part of the historic rebel failure on this day newly being recognized for its national importance. It’s not about staging murderous alabastard hissy fits. It’s about overcoming them.

[LarryBnDC]

Speaking of ‘American Greatness’ I don’t agree with everything this guy says but he does get his point across...

“... the Biden Administration, the vast majority of the leadership of the Democratic Party, and the ruling political, economic, financial, and cultural elites of the country are pushing critical race theory and the need for America to relearn its history. This relearning of American history focuses on and highlights every flaw, wrong, or crime of America’s past and insists that these are not deviations and exceptions from the norm, but rather the very norm that shapes our American past.

To deal with this unjust past, the American people must embrace and admit their complicity. They now must bear the collective guilt for what was done. All Americans, especially all white Americans are to blame and therefore must constantly admit, make atonement for, and provide full and total restitution for all the injustices committed by America.”



https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/14/grievance-and-forgiveness-or-civil-strife/