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Please elaborate on this evidence Mr. Zelinsky supposedly has on Mr. Putin and Mr. Biden .

Teaching Critical Race Theory Isn't Education; It's Indoctrination: https://mises.org/wire/teaching-critical-race-theory-isnt-education-its-indoctrination Bailey essentially says that critical thinking might be used by those in power to maintain control, so we need to jettison the concept completely. It is tough to imagine a more openly indoctrinating worldview. Another reason that we should not be surprised when students say they are not taught counterarguments to CRT is that CRT activists frame their hypotheses as axiomatic and therefore beyond question. At the National Race and Pedagogy Conference at Puget Sound University, scholar­-activists Heather Bruce, Robin DiAngelo, Gyda Swaney (Salish), and Amie Thurber presented several core tenets of antiracism. Developed by leading CRT practitioners, these foundational tenets represent how CRT is actually applied. One tenet is particularly revealing: “The question is not: ‘Did racism take place?’ but rather ‘How did racism manifest in that situation?’” The underlying hypothesis (that racism takes place in every single situation) is framed as something beyond doubt to preemptively undercut any disagreement. When folks do have the temerity to question CRT, the reaction of prominent critical race theorists is dismissal. In White Fragility, DiAngelo says that every single white person is fragile. How does she know we are fragile? Because when she calls us fragile, we respond with a variety of behaviors including “argumentation,” “anger,” “guilt,” “tears,” “silence,” and “leaving the stress-inducing situation” (that is, the room where the person is being lectured about their fragility). According to DiAngelo, if you are white, you are fragile. If you disagree, you have proved your fragility. If you remain silent, you have proved your fragility as well. And, of course, agreement is also proof of your fragility. This style of argumentation is known as a Kafka trap. You are accused of something. And if you defend yourself, your defense is considered proof of your guilt. As far DiAngelo and her fellow theorists are concerned, disagreeing with CRT is just further validation. No wonder students are being told there are no respectable counterarguments to CRT. Why do CRT advocates openly endorse indoctrination rather than traditional education? They do this because they see social institutions (including schools) as so corrupt that they only produce fixed, preplanned outcomes. In Is Everyone Really Equal?, DiAngelo and Sensoy posit a zero-sum, bare-knuckle battle between different identity groups in which a dominant group seizes power and uses that power to maintain itself above oppressed groups. Schools play a critical role here. DiAngelo and Sensoy compare schools to the panopticon, a hypothetical prison in which inmates are always watched so that they only do what the prison guard wants them to do. In the same way, DiAngelo and Sensoy believe schools (and other institutions) create a harsh atmosphere of self-policing in which white students are conditioned to do what the dominant group wants them to do; that is, continue to keep their boots on the faces of oppressed groups. If social institutions are so corrupt, seizing these institutions and using them to indoctrinate a new generation of student activists motivated to tear down the structures of the dominant group is a moral imperative. When they are talking to the public rather than to each other, critical race theorists sing a different tune. They insist that CRT is only about teaching an accurate version of US racial history. It is time to call their bluff. There are plenty of gifted scholars, like John McWhorter and Glenn Loury, whose work can be used to teach the checkered history of US race relations without resorting to the indoctrinating nonsense promoted by DiAngelo and many other CRT practitioners. Yet another ideology working to destroy government education.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/thanks-to-ai-its-probably-time-to-take-your-photos-off-the-internet/ Scary stuff. Everyone should just stop using the internet and social media.

CPS: Mom Can't Let Her 3 Kids—Ages 6, 8, and 9—Play Outside by Themselves: https://reason.com/2022/12/08/emily-fields-pearsiburg-virginia-cps-kids-outside-neglect/ In other words, if the Fields ever again let their kids play outside, unsupervised, they might have their kids taken away, or at least face some sort of legal battle. They signed the plan. Diane Redleaf, a long-time family defense lawyer, has seen cases like Fields' many times. It all boils down to "amorphous neglect laws," she says. The law often says that children must be properly supervised, but fails to define properly. "This transfers the decision-making over something as basic as when children can play together in a neighbor's yard to the state's child welfare authorities," says Redleaf. The families' right to raise their kids as they see fit is being eroded. Let Grow, the nonprofit I run, agrees. We are working in Virginia as well as a handful of other states this year—Connecticut, Michigan, and Nebraska—to pass Reasonable Childhood Independence laws, as we have in four states to date. These laws say neglect is when you put your child in serious and likely danger, not any time you take your eyes off them. A month after signing their safety plan, the Fields received notice by mail that their case had been closed, as the agency had assessed the Fields as merely a "moderate risk" to their children. Does that mean they can let their kids, now ages 6, 8 and 9, play in their own yard without risking an investigation, placement on a child neglect registry, or an even worse fate? They have no idea. The Giles County Department of Social Services did not respond to a request for comment. Remember parents, you don't "own" your minor aged children. The State does.

The Whelan family was rather gracious about the entire thing: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/family-paul-whelan-american-imprisoned-russia-says-warned-brittney-gri-rcna60732

October 17, 2008. Never forget.

https://mises.org/wire/paul-pelosi-attacked-so-naturally-capitol-police-want-more-money This kind of wasteful spending is another results of having a federal government that we have allowed to grow to big and too powerful.

Isn't that what the Success Factor does as well?

It's a government institution, run by politics and politicians. What would one expect?

Report: Purdue's Jeff Brohm finalizing deal to be Louisville's next football coach https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/purdue/2022/12/07/purdue-football-coach-jeff-brohm-leaves-for-louisville-job-scott-satterfield/69701329007/

The Deion Sanders effect is in full force in college football: https://deadspin.com/the-deion-sanders-effect-is-in-full-force-in-college-fo-1849861166 Pandora's box indeed.

https://mises.org/wire/pentagon-fails-another-audit-congress-wants-spend-even-more-defense Accounting like this, of course, would land most private-sector C-suite executives in prison for various financial crimes. Moreover, this is the same government that insists it has the prerogative to spy on most of our banking transactions and that has even recently started demanding that we report every Venmo and PayPal transaction over $600. But that’s not how things work in the government sector. The Pentagon can fail an audit on literally trillions of dollars, and all that means is “there’s room for improvement.” Indeed, rather than tie funding to accurate information about how taxpayer money is spent, Congress this month has mostly been debating how much to increase defense spending. Last week, Congress began hammering out a compromise on increasing the defense budget yet again. Although there continues to be wrangling over the Pentagon’s covid vaccine mandate, and just how many more weapons to send to Ukraine, the proposed budget would be an 8 percent increase over the 2022 budget. Some Republican leaders had sought a slightly smaller increase of 3 to 5 percent, but as is so often the case, the GOP is more than happy to sign off on ever larger budgets so long as they benefit certain interest groups. The White House had sought $802 billion, but the final tally is likely to come in over $840 billion. Trillions Spent on Failure A budget of this magnitude would be at an all-time high in current dollars. Looking at all defense functions, including spending on nuclear arms through the Department of Energy, the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) estimate for 2023 is now $827 billion (see table 5.1). That’s an increase of 7.8 percent over 2022, and an increase of 14 percent over 2009, when the United States government was busy with the “surge” in Afghanistan and various occupation and counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq. The US eventually lost both wars, after spending more than $2 trillion. Moreover, those wars were heavily financed by borrowed money, and American taxpayers may now be on the hook for more than $6 trillion in interest payments. Today, the Afghanistan regime is in the hands of the Taliban, just as it was before the US invasion in 2001. Meanwhile, in Iraq, the US invasion, by destroying the Iraqi state, created a power vacuum that was filled by the Islamic State (ISIS). Today Saddam Hussein’s secular state has been replaced by a pro-Iran Shia regime. Given that the US regime treats Iran as its implacable enemy, it’s hard to imagine how the US regime and its generals could have been less competent in these wars. Another side effect of the wars has been to multiply costs for Veterans Affairs. Veteran services, of course, are essential in recruitment and retainment of troops. These costs ought not to be considered separate from defense costs. They are simply deferred compensation that is promised to soldiers at the time of service. Thus, if we include veteran costs as we should, we find that defense costs have ballooned even more. In the 2023 fiscal year, total defense costs, including veteran expenses, are estimated to soar over $1.2 trillion. That’s up 10 percent from the 2022 fiscal year, and up a whopping 42 percent since 2009. .... But What about Inflation? Supporters of more military spending are likely to complain, however, that inflation has taken a bite out of defense spending and that therefore we ought to measure spending only in inflation-adjusted dollars. The fact that the regime itself has been responsible for this inflation, of course, is supposedly of no moral relevance. Although private-sector real wages have now declined for nineteen months in a row, it is now argued that the taxpayers ought to be taxed even more to finance military spending. The idea here is that government agencies supposedly have a “right” to not be deprived of spending power by the very inflation that the regime created. But, for the sake of argument, we’ll look at inflation-adjusted military spending. Not surprisingly, we find that by this measure, spending has not increased nearly as much. However, when we include veteran spending, defense spending in 2023 will be at an all-time high even by this measure. In 2020 dollars, 2023 spending is estimated to reach $1.03 trillion, according to the OMB. That’s an 8 percent increase over 2022, but “only” slightly up from previous peaks in 2010 and 2020, when spending also hovered around $1 trillion. ... What will all this taxpayer money be used for? The Pentagon doesn’t know, given its haphazard accounting, but we can be sure at least several dozen billions will go to supplementing the $65 billion already spent on aid to the Ukraine regime and the hundreds of billions more already spent to keep up with ongoing “assurances” to the freeloader European member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). After all, Berlin recently announced that it won’t make good on recent promises to raise its own military spending to the agreed-upon standard 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). We can expect to hear plenty of bromides from European politicians about NATO solidarity and the defense of Europe. But it’s clear the Europeans are happy having American taxpayers pay for nearly everything. About this, the US regime—which enjoys being the big fish in NATO—will do nothing. In other words, the US regime has no problems fleecing the taxpayers for trillions of dollars that the Pentagon can’t even keep track of. But the regime is also happy to be complicit in Europe’s insistence that Americans pay Europe’s bills as well. American Imperialism at it's finest. What a colossal waste.

R.I.P. Kirstie Alley, Cheers and Look Who's Talking star https://www.avclub.com/kirstie-alley-obituary-cheers-look-whos-talking-1849856727 Truly an American Icon. She will be missed.

Want to Protect Children? Don't Embrace "Safetyism" https://mises.org/wire/want-protect-children-dont-embrace-safetyism Here! Here! We are now raising generation after generation of automatons, not people.

But what percentage of all the schools in 1A and 2A are P/P schools? 10%? 5%? There is the key.

https://inview.doe.in.gov/schools/1011700997/population There are your problem areas regarding extracurricular participation. A "4A" school with a 2A sized athletic talent base, at best.

No, I am not. I am a fan of USA soccer.

Iran 0 - USA 1 Halftime.

Nice picture from this game:

https://deadspin.com/teams-should-be-outlawed-from-wearing-black-1849825452 Agreed. Wearing Black is stupid if it isn't part of your original team/school colors. And that goes for college and high school as well.

https://reason.com/2022/11/28/the-federal-governments-plan-to-track-truckers-every-movement-is-a-privacy-nightmare/ Agreed. This is yet another SCOTUS case on the Fourth Amendment waiting to happen. Yet these government bureaucrats force it down our throats anyway, causing fear and anxiety in the process. It's criminal.

Agreed. Only a true system of promotion/relegation would take the scourge of enrollment-based classification out of the equation.

More football is on television today: https://www.google.com/search?q=usa+vs+iran+world+cup+2022&rlz=1C1RLNS_enUS902US902&sxsrf=ALiCzsZBS_hUoWyb2YtANkLO9F_cepLzkQ%3A1669730167269&ei=dw-GY6n4D-me5NoPu6CH6A4&oq=USA+vs+Iran+wor&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAxgBMgsIABCABBCxAxCDATILCAAQgAQQsQMQgwEyBAgAEAMyBAgAEAMyBAgAEAMyBAgAEAMyBAgAEAMyBAgAEAMyBAgAEAMyBAgAEAM6BAgAEEc6BggAEAoQAzoFCAAQkQI6BwgAEIAEEAo6DQgAEIAEELEDEIMBEAo6BggAEBYQHjoFCAAQhgM6BwghEKABEAo6CggAEBYQHhAPEAo6BAgjECc6EAgAEIAEEIcCELEDEIMBEBRKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQqANY5i1glzpoCHACeACAAdkBiAHMEZIBBjAuMTQuMpgBAKABAcgBCMABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#sie=m;/g/11rq1ym5x8;2;/m/030q7;dt;fp;1;;;

From that Indy Star article concerning attendance:

Kokomo Wildkats.