Muda69

There's Little Rationale for Masking School Kids, but Teachers Unions Are Demanding It https://reason.com/2021/09/09/cdc-teachers-unions-masks-nea-covid/ These deaths are tragic. But it is simply not true that a lack of mask mandates is killing Florida teachers. What's killing Florida teachers—and practically everyone else who suffers a negative health outcome due to COVID-19—is a lack of vaccination. Of the 15 who passed away, at least 13 were unvaccinated (information for the other two was not available, though it's likely they were unvaccinated as well). It's reasonable to criticize DeSantis for his efforts to prevent public institutions from requiring employees to get vaccinated, but the dearth of mask mandates has largely taken center stage. The Food and Drug Administration should move much faster to approve vaccines for young kids so that families have the option of additional, over-the-top protection. But there's no compelling reason to make students experience further hardship while waiting for that day to come. Why are teachers unions behaving otherwise? Because it's all about power, that is why. Several times a week as I drive to my workplace I pass children either walking to school or to a bus stop. Many of them are wearing masks, even when they are 50-100 yards away from the nearest individual. They have become completely indoctrinated to mask wearing, and it's sad.

Medicare Is About To Run Out of Money. Democrats Want To Make the Program Cost Even More. https://reason.com/2021/09/08/medicare-is-about-to-run-out-of-money-democrats-want-to-make-the-program-cost-even-more/ Disgusting. Again sacrificing the future of our children and grandchildren.

I agree with your assessment. South Montgomery's wins have been over better programs that Clinton Central and Clinton Prairie.

Yep, a complete clusterf*ck. And of course the U.S. military just leaves billions of dollars of military hardware sitting around for the Taliban to do with what they please. It's insane.

https://reason.com/2021/09/08/the-texas-abortion-ban-violates-conservative-principles/ This could be a very insidious slippery slope. How soon before such a draconian measure becomes law in Indiana?

Biden's Total Financial Surveillance https://reason.com/2021/09/08/bidens-total-financial-surveillance/ I already perform about 50% of my financial transactions with cash, that percentage is now likely to go up considerably. Sorry, the federal government has no business knowing that I, for example, used my debit card to purchase some 2x4's at Menards.

That Bloomington game is a toughie. Both schools are 3-0 and seem to have been beaten similar opponents so far. Going to roll the dice and choose the home team.

A recent lunch from a government school, supposedly in Illinois: Prison food it probably better than this.............

NFL to Roll Out More Social Justice Messaging in 2021 Season https://frontofficesports.com/nfl-social-justice-2021-stadiums-signage/ Uggh. Really thought this would go away after the 2020 season. I don't watch football to be bombarded with political messaging, the jingoism of the national anthem is more than enough.

Hail Satan.

https://mises.org/wire/americas-economy-heading-down-same-road-italys Agreed. Sacrificing the future of this country, bringing economic ruin to our children and grandchildren. We should all be proud, after all "we got ours" didn't we? Piss on the future.

Latest Edu‐Polling: Americans Want Much More Freedom https://www.cato.org/blog/latest-edu-polling-american-want-much-more-freedom

Reddit's Messy Fight Over COVID Misinformation "There can be no room for leniency when people are dying as a result of misinformation on this platform," the open letter continued, ending with a pointed demand: "Subreddits which exist solely to spread medical disinformation and undermine efforts to combat the global pandemic should be banned." Reddit refused to acquiesce, responding instead with a forceful defense of the site's value proposition—"dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy. Reddit is a place for open and authentic discussion and debate. This includes conversations that question or disagree with popular consensus"—and roughly 150 subs went private, putting up protest messages informing visitors of their grievances. It's difficult to tell whether Reddit's decision to crack down on inappropriate user practices was influenced by widespread outcry. When its most recent announcement was greeted with frustrated responses, company representatives continued to defend their concept of the site as a place to explore ideas, even unpopular or offensive ones. But internal Reddit data on forum traffic and upvotes indicate that the people who frequent COVID-skeptical subreddits have a hunger for exchanging heterodox takes on masks, vaccines, and pandemic-era policy missteps. It's fascinating that engagement within such communities is more positive than is typical for other forums. It's almost as if giving people a wide berth to feel as though they can legitimately question the party line is important—something Reddit seems to understand, but most free speech–antagonistic zealots who call for heavier content moderation fail to grasp. "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it," wrote John Stuart Mill in On Liberty. "If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." Today's writers of open letters clumsily imply that barring people from "the opportunity of exchanging error for truth" will result in submissive acceptance instead of heightened suspicion of the approved consensus. This error in thinking sells short just how frequently public health authorities and their mainstream boosters have been wrong on important issues like the lab leak hypothesis, overselling the frequency with which breakthrough infections occur, and simultaneously underselling the benefits of masks (that old "noble" lie!) while overselling the benefits of mask mandates, not to mention officials' persistent attachment to hygiene theater measures that should have been retired long ago or never rolled out. This doesn't fully erode their credibility, nor does it absolve vaccine denialists, many of whom traffic in bad information. It does, however, complicate the idea that skeptics and critics have nothing useful to add, or that their ideas will magically comport with mainstream opinion once suppressed. Kudos to Reddit for mostly sticking to it's principles.

Yeah, only some kind of class action would do anything, although this could be a very large class.

Obviously a Purdue plot.

Final Tri-West 61, Frankfort 14

Hot Dogs score again against Bruins JV. Tri-West 61, Frankfort 14 3:07 left in the 4th quarter.

Hot Dogs score against TW's 2nd/3rd string defense. Tri-West 61, Frankfort 6 8:30 left if the 4th quarter.

Tri-West 61, Frankfort 0 End of the 3rd quarter.

Tri-West scores on another pass play, up 55-0 with a running clock. Tri-West 61, Frankfort 0 5:15 left in the 3rd quarter.

Tri-West 55, Frankfort 0 Halftime

Up 48-0 Bruins still chucking 40 yard passes down the field. Tri-West 55, Frankfort 0 5:16 left in the 2nd quarter.

Tri-West 48, Frankfort 0 10:16 left in the 2nd quarter.

Tri-West 41, Frankfort 0 10:48 left in the 2nd quarter.