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Biden's announcement he is releasing 15 million BBL's from The Strategic Oil Reserve. This simply means he will have to replace same and more at a later date. He states he will do so when oil goes below $70/bbl. I submit, what this idiot has done is both place our nation in increased danger and second will assure oil does not go below where it is currently. In fact, after his announcement, oil went up.
If this idiot of a president wants to challenge The Saudi Ruler he will not win.+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Never a day goes by that I do not receive multiple calls for money and for a variety of worthy causes. I am inundated with such and here is another:
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Do you know what they're doing to our kids?!
The First
to me
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My fellow concerned American,
Imagine that you’ve just been called into the middle school principal’s office to have a “serious talk” about your daughter.
You’re worried -- is it her grades? Her behavior? Is she hurts.
Instead, the principal tells you that your daughter -- your 12- year-old little girl -- is now your son. That behind your back, the school has been “educating” your preteen daughter -- for months, in total secret -- about how to “transition” her gender.
And they instructed her to keep it hidden from you...because you “can’t be trusted.”
That you, her parent, are not “safe.”
But now, she has a new name. New pronouns. A new bathroom. And you just need to accept it.
Wouldn’t you be furious? I know I would be!
So it’s no surprise that’s exactly how Jessica Konen felt when she was called into her daughter’s California middle school and this nightmare played out in real life.
Now, Jessica is fighting back and suing the school district -- plus the principal and the two teachers who “groomed” her daughter -- and she needs your help to win justice in a court of law.
Will you please make an urgent, tax-deductible donation to the Center for American Liberty and help us fund this lawsuit while generating a nationwide wave of support for Jessica and her daughter?
I hope you will, because as infuriating as that story is, the details are even more outrageous.
Would you believe Jessica’s daughter was just eleven when she was lured by these teachers to join their so-called “Equality Club”?
They first convinced this little girl that she was bisexual. Then, as they sunk their hooks deeper, they told her -- not long after her twelfth birthday -- that really, she was probably “transgender.”
“But don’t tell your parents!” they warned.
In fact, they operated the entire club under a cloak of secrecy.
No permission slips were signed. No attendance was taken. No membership lists were kept. Meetings were scheduled for lunchtime -- instead of after school, like other clubs -- so parents wouldn’t begin to wonder where their kids were.
What were they hiding??
If you’ve followed the growing nationwide problem of teachers “grooming” young, confused students -- you probably know some of the predatory tactics these teachers often use to manipulate vulnerable children into believing they’re “transgender” or “non-binary.”
This case was no exception. In fact, these two teachers even let some of their secrets slip on leaked audio from a Teachers Association conference!
Discussing how they managed to target so many new recruits for their club, one of the teachers confessed: “We totally stalked what they were doing on Google.”
These teachers zeroed in on confused and troubled students and -- instead of helping them -- they further filled these children’s heads with lies and more confusion.
Which is why I’m asking you to make an urgent donation of $35 or more today if you agree with our lawsuit against these teachers, the principal, and the Spreckels Union School District.
My name is Harmeet Dhillon. I’m a lawyer, and the founder of the Center for American Liberty. You may recognize me from one of my many Fox News appearances with Jessica Konen or other plaintiffs my nonprofit organization is representing in lawsuits against government officials who violate Americans’ rights.
Today, I’m asking you to join us in support of Jessica’s case.
It’s clear that the defendants deprived Jessica Konen of her civil rights as a parent, that they conspired to do so, and that they inflicted emotional distress on both Jessica and her daughter.
Those legal claims and more are at the heart of our lawsuit. I believe our evidence lays out a very strong case. But you must remember, this is a California school district and the defense’s case will be funded by the government. And it will pay whatever it takes to defend leftist ideologies.
That’s why, I hope you’ll also consider making a generous donation of $25, $35, $50 or $100 to help fund our case.
The Center for American Liberty is a nonprofit organization, meaning we receive no government funding -- unlike the deep-pocketed defendants in most of our cases.
Because of this, we rely on support from generous Americans who can recognize an injustice and want to see it set right. Our nonprofit status also means your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
We’ve seen evidence of this type of “grooming” at schools across the country. And it’s not just in places like California! Dangerous teachers like this are unfortunately in classrooms across the country. Thankfully, the tide seems to be turning against them.
Earlier this year, Governor DeSantis outlawed teachers from having these sexualized conversations with their young students. And elsewhere, parents have gotten involved with their local school boards to run for office and change policies that have put radical gender ideology ahead of student safety or parental rights.
Those are political solutions. Ours is a legal one.
And I believe that, in order to fully purge this predatory behavior from our schools, we need to fight this battle on all available fronts.
Won’t you please help us win this fight in a court of law? Join the fight with a generous donation of $35 or more so the courts, the plaintiffs, the defendants -- everybody -- will know how big the nationwide movement to protect kids has grown.
No parent should have to endure what Jessica Konen and her daughter did, and it’s up to us to use the full force of the law to make sure no teacher is allowed to get away with this again.
Thank you,
P.S. Winning this case will not only get justice for the Konen family, but also strike a blow against these dangerous school policies nationwide.
Which is why I hope we can count on your generous tax-deductible donation of $25, $35, $50 or more to help us win this lawsuit and others like it. Thank you!
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You must do 8 and all at same time unless you are white. Then must be present and show identification:
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Fetterman flips but then he is a politician and thus, should be given a few free rides when it comes to lying:+++
Fetterman Flip-Flops on Fracking, Now Says He’s ‘Always Supported’ It
By Philip Caldwell
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A variety of cartoons, all valid:
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What the Firing of Prof. Maitland Jones Says about Our Democracy
The swift firing of the renowned chemist Maitland Jones by New York University is still being discussed in the academic world and even among the commentariat that generally would have moved on to the next topic the day after the event had occurred.
Perhaps there is something perturbing about an 85-year-old esteemed professor who had had a distinguished career at Princeton before joining NYU being fired under such nefarious circumstances. After 82 of his 350 students signed a petition complaining that his organic chemistry course was too difficult, and that they did not like the way he ran his course, he was discharged. They further claimed that he lacked empathy; empathy towards those students who had family problems and mental health issues. But basically, his workload was regarded as too demanding against the backdrop of myriad courses students had to take aside from chemistry.
That less than a quarter of his students (23.4%, actually), could marshal enough power to have him discharged from a career spanning over five decades is frightening and disgraceful. Not one of the students came forward and publicly identified him- or herself. They signed a petition anonymously—these cowardly perverse members of the Olympics Oppression team who fail to realize that college is designed to provide one with skill sets and information in particular fields and then to certify that the individual has mastered them. Universities and colleges, too, are not just educative institutions. They are ones that, in the ideal sense, weed out those who are unfit to be in them; that is, those who fail to qualify to meet the standards required to be certified as mastering the skills and knowledge in a field, whether it be in chemistry, medicine, history, nursing, the law, or philosophy. We are, though, wedded to the egalitarian progressive idea that everyone who enrolls in a university has a constitutional and democratic right to graduate. Hell hath no fury like a parent whose child, after repeatedly failing all his courses, is given an honorable and noble piece of advice: The academic life is not meant for you. You’re smart, and your smarts lie in a trade school. You’d actually make a superb plumber, or carpenter.
But back to Professor Jones. How did we arrive at a point in our society where 82 village idiots had the temerity to make such preposterous demands, and were granted the institutional power to have their intellectual superior fired from his professorship?
The problem lies in liberalism itself. The over-democratization of all the culture spheres in our American civilization—from the arts, to education, the entertainment world, the worlds of science, and medicine, and finance—coupled with a belief in egalitarianism: the belief that we are all equal. It is such an untenable idea that it is almost embarrassing to comment on it. Certainly, we ought to be equal before the law, and before God we all have equal moral worth. But in intellectual, moral and physical attributes we are most emphatically not equal. Some people are more intelligent than others, more beautiful than others, more frugal, athletically superior to others, and more virtuous than others. However, if we harbor the belief that no one is better than anyone else at anything, then it is just a matter of time before we must democratize truth and all truth claims.
Egalitarianism is not a direct attack on reason and logic or even the traditional criteria for adjudicating among truth claims, although today those methods are cast off as the racist constructs of imperial European white men. The consequence of egalitarianism is that if we are all regarded as equal, then all our personal private truths will be viewed as having equal epistemic value, including the claim, my college course is too difficult and so my professor should be fired.
All truth claims are deemed equally true. None is more truthful than the other except when it comes to those truth claims uttered by those claiming to be victims harmed by an alleged oppressor class. Then their feelings and their grievances become weaponized and constitute unassailable truths against the criticisms or high standards of others. Those criticisms and high standards become codified as expressions of violence and abuse.
Under hyper-democratization there is not any proper vetting. There is no rational discrimination. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs have permanently killed that civilizational requirement.
The problem is that those 82 students were let into the future, so to speak. This is the promise of liberalism that, taken to its logical terminal, fulfills. It razes the mountains, so no one has to scale them to get the high view. The mountains are razed, and persons of ability are forced to stoop to meet the lowest common denominator of the masses and reflect back to them a vision of their own uninspiring mediocrity. There is nothing emulative in that picture, nothing on which to pin their aspirational identities; just a narcissistic desire that others kill the highest possible within themselves and adopt stylized vulgarity.
Observe the following: the singer/rapper Lizzo glamorizes obesity when there is nothing glamorous or pretty about it (obesity along with the comorbidities that accompany it, are the number one killers of black women in the United States); gangster-thug rap that celebrates violence, gang, and pornographic culture now permeates all spheres of our culture; in the spring of 2023 UC Berkeley will be offering a course on the female rapper Nicki Minaj called: Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee & Hip Hop Feminisms.
There is no lower place in educational and cultural hell for us to descend into.
Those 82 students are not the cause of the utter moral, intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy that is at the heart of our secular, liberal culture: they are the symptom of a rot that comes from the rampant egalitarianism that emerges from a massive surge of democracy undergirded by ethical and cultural relativism.
Professor Jones is an elitist in the best sense of the term. He is a human being who has embodied standards of excellence in his person and discipline. Elitism in this sense has a moral upshot to both the trait and to the practice of it. It is not an inheritance or an endowment. It is, rather, an achievement earned through grit, honor, resilience, perseverance, tenacity, failure, success, audacity, and merit. One cannot whore one’s way into the pantheon of human greatness by screams, shouts, claims of grievances, or by weaponizing one’s infantile feelings against those whom one wishes would be more compliant and a little less competent.
What we need are more conscientious defectors from the Parthenon of excellence who are complicit in upholding mediocrity and the substandard. They need to break with the herd and stop pandering to obstreperous children and plain dunces out of fear. We need more outspoken individuals who will not be afraid to be part in what may now seem like a Darwinian vetting process. Too many social ballasts have been allowed to raze the mountains and sink the ships traversing the world built by giants. We need rational discriminators who are not afraid to admit to themselves and to others that there is, unfortunately, as hard as liberalism has tried to negate this truism, the following: that some people are simply outside the historical process. Leave them alone to find their way. But do not let them destroy the epoch-making processes and events effected by achievers. Do not let them infect the process with their idea pathogens and embodied mediocrity by destroying a culture of greatness some are trying to create and preserve.
They had their chance to participate, and they failed. Everyone has a democratic right to fail. Failure is built into the nature of reality.
The swift firing of the renowned chemist Maitland Jones by New York University is still being discussed in the academic world and even among the commentariat that generally would have moved on to the next topic the day after the event had occurred.
Perhaps there is something perturbing about an 85-year-old esteemed professor who had had a distinguished career at Princeton before joining NYU being fired under such nefarious circumstances. After 82 of his 350 students signed a petition complaining that his organic chemistry course was too difficult, and that they did not like the way he ran his course, he was discharged. They further claimed that he lacked empathy; empathy towards those students who had family problems and mental health issues. But basically, his workload was regarded as too demanding against the backdrop of myriad courses students had to take aside from chemistry.
That less than a quarter of his students (23.4%, actually), could marshal enough power to have him discharged from a career spanning over five decades is frightening and disgraceful. Not one of the students came forward and publicly identified him- or herself. They signed a petition anonymously—these cowardly perverse members of the Olympics Oppression team who fail to realize that college is designed to provide one with skill sets and information in particular fields and then to certify that the individual has mastered them. Universities and colleges, too, are not just educative institutions. They are ones that, in the ideal sense, weed out those who are unfit to be in them; that is, those who fail to qualify to meet the standards required to be certified as mastering the skills and knowledge in a field, whether it be in chemistry, medicine, history, nursing, the law, or philosophy. We are, though, wedded to the egalitarian progressive idea that everyone who enrolls in a university has a constitutional and democratic right to graduate. Hell hath no fury like a parent whose child, after repeatedly failing all his courses, is given an honorable and noble piece of advice: The academic life is not meant for you. You’re smart, and your smarts lie in a trade school. You’d actually make a superb plumber, or carpenter.
But back to Professor Jones. How did we arrive at a point in our society where 82 village idiots had the temerity to make such preposterous demands, and were granted the institutional power to have their intellectual superior fired from his professorship?
The problem lies in liberalism itself. The over-democratization of all the culture spheres in our American civilization—from the arts, to education, the entertainment world, the worlds of science, and medicine, and finance—coupled with a belief in egalitarianism: the belief that we are all equal. It is such an untenable idea that it is almost embarrassing to comment on it. Certainly, we ought to be equal before the law, and before God we all have equal moral worth. But in intellectual, moral and physical attributes we are most emphatically not equal. Some people are more intelligent than others, more beautiful than others, more frugal, athletically superior to others, and more virtuous than others. However, if we harbor the belief that no one is better than anyone else at anything, then it is just a matter of time before we must democratize truth and all truth claims.
Egalitarianism is not a direct attack on reason and logic or even the traditional criteria for adjudicating among truth claims, although today those methods are cast off as the racist constructs of imperial European white men. The consequence of egalitarianism is that if we are all regarded as equal, then all our personal private truths will be viewed as having equal epistemic value, including the claim, my college course is too difficult and so my professor should be fired.
All truth claims are deemed equally true. None is more truthful than the other except when it comes to those truth claims uttered by those claiming to be victims harmed by an alleged oppressor class. Then their feelings and their grievances become weaponized and constitute unassailable truths against the criticisms or high standards of others. Those criticisms and high standards become codified as expressions of violence and abuse.
Under hyper-democratization there is not any proper vetting. There is no rational discrimination. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs have permanently killed that civilizational requirement.
The problem is that those 82 students were let into the future, so to speak. This is the promise of liberalism that, taken to its logical terminal, fulfills. It razes the mountains, so no one has to scale them to get the high view. The mountains are razed, and persons of ability are forced to stoop to meet the lowest common denominator of the masses and reflect back to them a vision of their own uninspiring mediocrity. There is nothing emulative in that picture, nothing on which to pin their aspirational identities; just a narcissistic desire that others kill the highest possible within themselves and adopt stylized vulgarity.
Observe the following: the singer/rapper Lizzo glamorizes obesity when there is nothing glamorous or pretty about it (obesity along with the comorbidities that accompany it, are the number one killers of black women in the United States); gangster-thug rap that celebrates violence, gang, and pornographic culture now permeates all spheres of our culture; in the spring of 2023 UC Berkeley will be offering a course on the female rapper Nicki Minaj called: Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee & Hip Hop Feminisms.
There is no lower place in educational and cultural hell for us to descend into.
Those 82 students are not the cause of the utter moral, intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy that is at the heart of our secular, liberal culture: they are the symptom of a rot that comes from the rampant egalitarianism that emerges from a massive surge of democracy undergirded by ethical and cultural relativism.
Professor Jones is an elitist in the best sense of the term. He is a human being who has embodied standards of excellence in his person and discipline. Elitism in this sense has a moral upshot to both the trait and to the practice of it. It is not an inheritance or an endowment. It is, rather, an achievement earned through grit, honor, resilience, perseverance, tenacity, failure, success, audacity, and merit. One cannot whore one’s way into the pantheon of human greatness by screams, shouts, claims of grievances, or by weaponizing one’s infantile feelings against those whom one wishes would be more compliant and a little less competent.
What we need are more conscientious defectors from the Parthenon of excellence who are complicit in upholding mediocrity and the substandard. They need to break with the herd and stop pandering to obstreperous children and plain dunces out of fear. We need more outspoken individuals who will not be afraid to be part in what may now seem like a Darwinian vetting process. Too many social ballasts have been allowed to raze the mountains and sink the ships traversing the world built by giants. We need rational discriminators who are not afraid to admit to themselves and to others that there is, unfortunately, as hard as liberalism has tried to negate this truism, the following: that some people are simply outside the historical process. Leave them alone to find their way. But do not let them destroy the epoch-making processes and events effected by achievers. Do not let them infect the process with their idea pathogens and embodied mediocrity by destroying a culture of greatness some are trying to create and preserve.
They had their chance to participate, and they failed. Everyone has a democratic right to fail. Failure is built into the nature of reality.
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I have been attending a lecture series by a dear friend and fellow memo reader on The Constitution. Today we discussed Koramatsu Vs United States.
SCOTUS upheld FDR's Executive Order authorizing The Secretary of War to intern Japanese Citizens and to take their property. The Japanese internees subsequently sued and in the 1980's recovered a pittance from our government.
There are those who claim FDR acted as he did because the Japanese, though citizens, were yellow and their "relatives" bombed Pearl Harbor. His action was found to be totally unconstitutional.
No one in the lecture brought up the fact that, at the time, many believed Truman willingly "nuked" Japan because they were yellow. Our entire class agreed SCOTUS' Koramatsu decision was wrong. was wrong.
Truman maintained he saved half a million lives and injuries. I believe Truman.
I brought up the hypocrisy of liberals and radical progressives who are basically depriving "whitey" today of his constitutional rights on the premise you never let a crisis go to waste. In a sense "whitey" has been incarcerated by deprivation.
When a crisis occurs it provides an opportunity for the "elite big government crowd" to seek the accomplishment of some of their varied goals.
Black citizens constitute around 13% of the population and all illegals (calculated around 20 plus million,) represent about 6% of the current population. Whites are some 38% of the population. So a minority of the population is now able to hold three times their number hostage because of reverse discrimination.
Something is rotten in Denmark and it ain't just American test scores:
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High School Test Scores Are Plummeting, and Not Just Because of the Pandemic
English, reading, math and science are so 2005.
By Robert Spencer
The numbers are as shocking as they are undeniable: American high school students are more ignorant and ill-equipped than they have been in decades or more; in fact, it’s likely that their abilities are at their lowest level ever. The Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday that “average scores on the ACT [American College Testing] college admissions test dropped to their lowest in 30 years, revealing more evidence of the pandemic’s alarming impact on American education.” But it’s not just the pandemic. This is the result of the wokeification of the American public school system. Far too many teachers are spending their time filling their students’ heads with trans and Critical Race Theory nonsense instead of giving them an education. It’s dereliction of duty on a grand scale.
The Free Beacon added that “the average composite score for the class of 2022 was a 19.8 out of 36, according to a report released Wednesday, falling under 20 points for the first time since 1991. This year’s graduates endured the effects of the pandemic for three of their four high school years.”
The pandemic wasn’t even close to being the only thing they endured. In Georgia, PJM’s Chris Queen reported in August, “Gwinnett Schools are now adding gender propaganda to the mix with what one group calls ‘inappropriate gender lessons’ on school-issued Chromebooks that parents can’t access when logging into their children’s accounts on other devices.” In San Juan Hills High School in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., teacher Danielle “Flint” Serio has an entire “queer library” in her classroom. And down the road at Madison High School in San Diego, a teacher has defined “fascist” with words including “Trump,” “white,” “Christian,” and “heterosexual.” The Republican Party, this sage wrote on his classroom whiteboard, “is a fascist organization that no longer fits the category of a conventional Democratic Party.” In a rural, conservative school district in Minnesota, the ninth-grade curriculum includes a book that features explicit rape scenes.
The same kind of indoctrination is taking place in public schools all over the country. And so it is no coincidence at all that “of the ACT-tested graduates, 42 percent failed to meet any of the four ACT College Readiness Benchmarks (English, reading, math, science). Last year, 38 percent of students did not meet any of the benchmarks.” English, reading, math and science? Come on, man! That’s so 2005. Students today have to learn about far more important matters, such as how they can change sexes, and how they’re inherently racist (if they’re white) or perpetual victims (if they’re black). They have to learn about how the Founding Fathers were racist slave owners who deserve only to be execrated and despised.
That’s a lot to pack into one school day. It simply leaves no time for students to devote any attention to learning to think critically, or to express themselves effectively, or to solve challenging problems. What our schools are turning out today are indoctrinated, unthinking lemmings who will accept what they’re told and act accordingly, and simply aren’t equipped to do much of anything else.
ACT CEO Janet Godwin said this about the catastrophic decline in test scores: “The magnitude of the declines this year is particularly alarming. We see rapidly growing numbers of seniors leaving high school without meeting college-readiness benchmarks in any of the subjects we measure.” The Associated Press, however, looks at the decline and sees (surprise!) racism: “The results offer a lens into systemic inequities in education, in place well before the pandemic shuttered schools and colleges temporarily waived testing requirements. For example, students without access to rigorous high school curriculum suffered more setbacks during pandemic disruptions, Babington said. Those students are from rural areas, come from low-income families and are often students of color.”
The reality, however, is that it’s precisely this obsession with race, and all the rest of the Left’s agenda, taking precedence in schools over what they should be teaching about that has caused this problem for students of all races. The public educational system has become a system of far-Left indoctrination, a scandal which is failing an entire generation of young Americans. But any politician who considers tackling this problem has to reckon with taking on the teachers’ unions, and most haven’t yet shown the courage to do that.
And so our nation’s schools are turning out a generation of indoctrinated imbeciles. In fact, that appears to be the goal.
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