CLIMATE: Bjorn Lomborg writes, “The current climate discourse leads to wasteful climate policies, diverting attention and funds from more effective ways to improve the world.”
COVID LIES: Madhava Setty explains ways the Left deceptively manipulated data to overplay the risk of the virus while dismissing the risk of the vaxxx.
EASTER MEDITATION: [4:29] – You can read/hear more about Lectio Divina online at numerous sites. I’ve included a few. They mostly reiterate what Father Josh says.
GRAMMAR: A whole lot of Leftie Karens were triggered by Kevin Sorbo’s awesome tweet joke. Among those who didn’t make derogatory remarks about his mental health sneered, “Those aren’t even pronouns, idiot” and “Those are verbs, genius.” It’s fascinating to see how people who flagrantly ignore proper English grammar are suddenly very committed to promoting proper English grammar.
HISTORY: [14:44] – This will remind you of Mr. Peabody’s Improbable History, but it’s actually all true. I found more information on the ‘net, of course. LOL The first link is to a copy of Dexter’s unintelligible best seller and the second is about his home. The latter includes more links.
MASKS: From Babylon Bee – With the recent lifting of mask mandates on airplanes, flight attendants have reported an unexpected benefit: problem customers can now be easily identified by their masks. One explained, “We mark out a map of masked fliers, then assign our most grizzled steward to make regular passes to make sure they’re not mask-splaining to their seat-mates, dripping gobs of hand sanitizer on anyone, or causing any ruckus. Those wearing two or three masks and a face shield are granted special attention, and we generally switch to a man-to-man defense for those passengers.“
RACIST MATH: Florida’s Department of Education published some examples from math books they rejected for being too woke. The graphic is one. There are a few more at either of the links.
AOC: “If there’s one thing you’ve noticed about white nationalists, it’s that they have hands. And something they’ve been doing a lot with their hands lately is sending out secret messages in support of white supremacy. If you see anyone doing any of these hand gestures, you can be certain they are a racist and should report them to the nearest racism reporting facility (usually Twitter).” – Babylon Bee
The ADL article explains what the OK symbol has meant for centuries and how/why it is sometimes now associated with White Power.
DEMOCRATS: Decrying billionaires and huge corporations getting special privileges and not paying their fair share of taxes. Also Democrats, raging over the Florida legislature ending special protections and tax benefits that Disney has enjoyed for decades.
EASTER MEDITATION: I grabbed these screenshots from a wood turning video as an opportunity for us to meditate on what God can do with our dirty, rooty, good-only-for-firewood selves … IF we are willing to humbly submit to His loving and acutely uncomfortable discipline.
FAUXTUS: They didn’t give Trump one single moment of break, so NO.
EXXON: “The move has made some within the company upset.” I’m guessing a much larger group is quietly cheering.
FREE SPEECH: In 2020, the University of Central Florida adopted a policy that bans “discriminatory harassment,” which included conduct related to someone’s race, ethnicity, religion, age, or sexual orientation. A group called Speech First sued.
On Thursday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that UCF’s policy likely violates the 1st Amendment by chilling the speech of students who want to advocate against abortion and affirmative action. The decision noted, “It is imperative that colleges and universities toe the constitutional line when monitoring, supervising, and regulating student expression.“
MASK HYPOCRITE: Another Leftie piously virtue signaling about her commitment to public health and safety. Read the archived 2008 article below for Jarrett’s record on health and safety is public housing.
SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter is adopting a policy already in place at Google which refuses advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change. My favorite tweet responses: “Twitter & Google will no longer allow advertisers who deny that cities on the coast of the US will be flooded by the year 2000” and “Mob science consensus doesn’t do the world any favors.”
VFAUXTUS: [1:55] – “One of our highest priorities is sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Just to be perfectly clear, she was talking about Ukraine … not about the United States of America.
WOMEN’S SPORTS: On Friday, the Republican Study Committee formally endorsed H.R. 426, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, introduced by Rep. Greg Steube. The bill would bar schools that accept federal funds from letting biological males compete against biological females in athletic events designated for women or girls. Of course, it has zero chance of passing in Pelosi’s House, but at least they’re making the stand.
GRAMMY: When the Right to Life Party in New York folded, they sent me a letter recommending I register Republican. My initial reaction to the idea of registering Republican was so visceral. I literally felt sick to my stomach! I had no idea that there was so much prejudice in me toward a party that represents about 40% of the country … including my husband who had been registered R for years!
Anyway, I bit the bullet and did it. And the more I learned about the party and interacted with other Republicans, the happier I have been. I’m kinda grateful for the experience, because it has helped me be less annoyed by and more “pray for them” loving toward those who still have that prejudice lurking deep in their hearts.
DIVINE MERCY MEDITATION: “The world was in the midst of the Great Depression in 1931 and the memories of World War I were still very much alive in the minds of Europeans when in Poland a sister of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), is said to have been personally visited by Jesus.
“According to her diary, which was listed on the Index of Forbidden Books for more than 20 years, an image was revealed to her of the risen Lord, from whose heart shone two rays, one red (representing blood) and the other ‘pale’ (symbolizing water), with the words ‘Jesus, I trust in you’ at the bottom. Faustina wrote in her diary that Jesus told her, ‘I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish.’
“When she was canonized in 2000 under the direction of fellow countryman Pope John Paul II, he proclaimed that the Second Sunday of Easter would henceforth be known as Divine Mercy Sunday, thereby widely promoting the devotional practices associated with Faustina’s visions, already popular in many communities.”
FAUCI: CLICK https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1517248989535649794 [1:16] to hear Tony “I AM The Science” Fauci comment on the Florida judge who canceled the federal transportation mask mandates. “This is a CDC issue; it should not have been a court issue.”
“These are the ramblings of a constitutionally illiterate madman drunk on power. The court ruled on the legality, not the science, of CDC’s mandate, and found it was illegal.” – Thomas Massie
Also, he announced he is going to “spend billions of dollars” to make every vehicle in the U.S. military “climate friendly.” Greg Price tweeted, “We will install charging stations in every war zone.”
FLORIDA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=2150634681778722 [5:38] to hear Tucker report on DeSantis and the Florida legislature stripping Disney of the extraoardinary perks it has enjoyed for decades. Democrats (who are always yelling about how billionaires and mega corporations don’t pay their fair share) are very, very upset about this!
FOOD PROCESSING PLANTS: CLICK https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1517341372851703808 [3:39] to hear Tucker talk about the latest conspiracy theory that could be the next true fact. Not The Bee has itemized the 18 plants with links to news reports. Keep in mind that the Third Horseman of the Apocalypse is Famine.
GROOMING: Joel Abbott at Not the Bee says, “There’s been a lot of media flurry about Libs of TikTok since WaPo reporter Taylor Lorenz bravely decided to dox the woman behind the account.
“Because I love you guys, I decided to wade into hours of video from LoTT’s account to compile this short video with the best soundbites over just the last few months.”
IF you can stand it, his 2:19 montage is posted at the link. I recommend having a barf bag handy.
LIBERAL HYPOCRITE: My favorite snark tweet on the masked image – “The important part is that you posted this on social media so we all know what a good person you are.”
PHILADELPHIA: Despite the fact that hospitalization rates were miniscule, city officials re-imposed an indoor mask mandate. Just 4 days later, city officials canceled the mandate, claiming it had “worked”, by which I’m thinking they meant that the peasants had threatened to tar and feather them.
VAXXX: A new study of tens of millions of Europeans found that heart inflammation requiring hospital care was 5 to 15 times higher among people who received ‘rona jabs than among those who did not. Rates were particularly high among men aged 16–24.
Sports fans have seen this problem on display as a surge of heart issues assault athletes. Between March 2021 and March 2022, more than 769 of them have collapsed on the field.
GRAMMY NOTES: I have had to wear a mask in public (and sometimes at home) since the mid-80s when I learned I am hypersensitive to a great many common chemicals. When COVID hit, I thought, “At least I won’t be the only one in a mask.” Fast forward to 2022 where masks have become a freakin’ political statement … and not the kind I want to be associated with!
CNN+: “CNN+ the network’s streaming service they thought people would pay for, is shutting down after just a month from launching!!! (seriously) Only CNN could be so out of touch with reality that they thought people would PAY for fake news. Most people wouldn’t watch CNN if YOU paid THEM!” – Mark Dice
DEMOCRATS: James Carville is a long-time Democrat political strategist; in 1992, he helped Clinton beat Bush 1. On Tuesday, he complained that “the problem Democrats have … is that no one fears us. They are weak and all they are going to do is talk bad about each other. Literally, you can’t govern without fear. You can’t have a political party.”
EASTER MEDITATION: After the bodies of more than 100 aborted babies were rescued outside a D.C. abortuary, Father Bill Kuchinsky took charge of them. “I buried the babies myself,” he said, declining to disclose the location. “They are in a peaceful place and will be well cared for.”
EDUCATION: The Evanston/Skokie (Illinois) School District has adopted a radical gender curriculum that encourages PK-3 students to celebrate the transgender flag, break the “gender binary” established by white “colonizers,” and experiment with neo-pronouns such as “ze,” “zir,” and “tree.”
LIFE: When fetal tests show abnormalities, doctors often recommend abortion. But the tests are frequently wrong and, this week, the FDA finally admitted it.
MANDATE: The DOJ has filed an appeal seeking to overturn a federal judge’s Monday ruling which struck down the CDC mask mandate for public transportation. The DOJ argues that the mask mandate was still necessary for “protecting the public health of our nation.”
MSDNC’s medical “expert” offers this counsel to germophobes upset about bare-nekkid faces: “If people want to stay safe the best thing they can do: buy quality masks. And when possible, carry some extra masks—I know this sounds crazy—but if you tell someone next to you on a plane…’I’ve got an elderly mother at home, I’ve got a child with cancer at home, will you please do me a favor?’ Having the people at least closest to you in that row protecting yourself and them can be the best safety. So carry some extra masks with you, carry some rapid tests with you if you’re traveling.”
I wonder if it matters to her whether you actually have an elderly mother or child with cancer …. Or, for example, whether she’s bothered to listen to airline CEOs explain that the air in their planes is cleaner than clean.
LifeSiteNews has compiled a list of 46 studies that confirm the ineffectiveness of masks and 32 more about their negative health effects. You can download the pdf file at the link below.
SCHUMER: On Easter Sunday, Upchuck Schmucker spoke from the pulpit of AR Bernard’s NYC megachurch. Speaking of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS confirmation, he said, “the stone has been rolled away from the tomb.”
Jackson is a radical, pro-abortion, activist judge with a history of giving minor slap-on-the wrist sentences to convicted pedophiles.
Schumer is listed as a member of the Reform Jewish synagogue, Congregation Beth Elohim, in Brooklyn.
TRANS: Kevin Downey, Jr., writes, “A Pittsburgh study from last year states that roughly 10% of teens under 18 years old identify as ‘gender diverse.’ That’s five times higher than the national estimate, and it’s likely garbage. People actually suffering from gender dysphoria are rare. Teens craving attention, acceptance, rebellion, and purpose are innumerable.”
He offers a really sensible explanation for it. “The trans ideology of today is similar to the skinheads of the 80’s. Insecure, lonely, rebellious kids, frequently bored, and many angry at their parents, are looking for an outlet. This is the perfect breeding ground for recruiters from outlier subculture groups like skinheads and transgenders. Both groups offer a built-in social structure, acceptance, and a sense of belonging to a group of outsiders who have never belonged to anything. More importantly, both groups have the ability to make a kid feel ‘special’ because both groups offer ‘purpose’ and both groups consider themselves ‘victims.’ Victimhood, to many, is comfortable.”
Downey’s entire piece (PJ Media) is worth reading.
Someone wise, I forget who, described Kamala Harris’ word salads as being like a kid giving a book report on a book she didn’t read. The illegitimate vp was in California, addressing Space Force and she obviously hadn’t prepared. Instead of saying anything of substance she chose to explain the concept of space…to Space Force.
In your daily reminder that Kamala Harris sucks, here she is at Vandenberg Space Force base talking to space experts like they are children:
“Whether it is satellites that orbit the Earth, humans that land on the moon, or telescopes that peer into the furthest reaches of the universe, space is exciting,” said Harris.
She delivered that line like she was reading a book to kindergartners with wide sweeping gestures and over-annunciation.
“It spurs our imaginations and it forces us to ask big questions. Space, it affects us all and it connects us all,” Harris said.
At this point all of the members of Space Force who were forced into Kamala Harris’ space are going, “Oh, so that’s what space is. Thanks, Kamaltoe.”
You may have noticed that what Harris said is actually nothing. She didn’t describe what space is, she just tossed a word salad like: “Space is everything to everyone.”
What are the big questions space forces us to ask? How does space affect us all? How does space connect us all? If you want the answers to these questions you’ll have to read the space book that Kamala didn’t read.
From there, Kamala went on to try to explain the difference between right and wrong, something no democrat understands:
“In recent months, you’ve heard the president and me talk a lot about defending international norms and rules. Rules and norms. Our shared principals that guide the behavior of people and of communities. They are common understandings of what is right, of what is wrong, and what is acceptable,” said Harris.
Until that point, nobody had any idea what “rules” are. Thanks again, Kamaltoe.
Since nobody was paying attention, Harris then invented a new country:
“I’ve met with leaders from around the world. Countries like Singapore and France, Beyran and India,” said Harris.
I’m sorry, who is the leader of Beran? Maybe she said “Bae-ran,” which is her affectionate term for Iran. As we know, the Biden administration loves them some Islamic state sponsors of terrorism.
It’s possible that she actually said “Beyran in India” but that don’t make a lick of sense. The current president of India is Ram Nath Kovind which is close but not close enough.
The point, if there was one, of this Harris visit was to announce that satellites are awesome. Luckily Harris was on hand to explain what satellites do:
“Critical infrastructure like wind turbines that power our homes, well they rely on satellites for connectivity. Satellites help us track the climate crisis,” Harris said.
Damn, satellites are awesome.
This wouldn’t be a Kamaltoe shitshow without some cackling and she didn’t disappoint when she busted up saying the following:
“I spoke earlier this month with Mark Vande Hei, who just returned from 355 days in space on the space station. American record,” Harris said.
Gosh, that is hilarious.
While it sucked for me to watch this pointless speech and transcribe it, the real heroes are the brave men and women of the U.S. Space Force who had to stand behind Kamala Harris, enduring it live. That’s a mission no soldier should be forced into.
CINO: FAUXTUS is planning to eliminate conscience protections for medical workers implemented during the Trump administration as soon as the end of April. Joe “Devout Catholic” Biden claims he is personally opposed to abortion, but supports legal abortion, because he supposedly believes the law should not dictate what other people can or can not do. But where health care workers who are personally opposed to abortion are concerned, he apparently believes the law should dictate what they can and can not do.
CRT: [7:42] – Liberal teachers are ignoring legislative bans by changing a few words here and there. The video is about Idaho. Not the Bee has videos showing the same thing happening in Kentucky – “We don’t really let, like, anybody tell us what to do” – and Iowa – “We just have to change our language.”
DISNEY: In 1988, a child actor told his mother that film director Victor Salva had molested him repeatedly. Salva confessed to the sexual abuse and, after he got out of prison, Disney hired him to direct their 1995 film Powder which, thankfully, did not star a minor.
In 2008, Disney hired Brian Peck to work on a children’s series. Peck had recently completed a 16 month sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of molesting a Nickelodeon child actor.
In 2018, Disney fired James Gunn after he posted disgusting sexual tweets about young boys. A few months later, the hypocrites quietly rehired him.
EASTER MEDITATION: I wonder if Thomas Jefferson heard something like this at Judgment: “Tom, great work on the Declaration. Now, let’s talk about all that stuff in My Word that you took a razor to …”
KENTUCKY: The Kentucky legislature has successfully enacted HB3, overturning Democrat Gov. Beshear’s veto. The new laws will prohibit abortions performed past 15 weeks, require parental consent for minors’ abortions, prohibit dispensation of abortion pills by mail, and require humane burial or cremation of aborted babies.
Because HB 3 took effect immediately, Kentucky’s two remaining abortion facilities have suspended their abortion operations, rendering Kentucky effectively abortion-free for the time being.
Other measures in HB3 include funding for charter schools, new rules for state welfare programs such as Medicaid and food stamps, a reduction in state income taxes, and an election security package containing several reforms, including a transition to fully paper ballots over the next two years and video surveillance of voting machines and ballot boxes.
LEFTISTS: Proving once again that they have no sense of humor, the author of a satirical tweet was contacted, in all seriousness, by a New York Slime jerknalist. Jared responded, “Hello Victoria, I would love to discuss the incident at your earliest convenience. I was pretty upset about the whole thing. Unfortunately it’s satire that only someone at the NYT would believe. In my time of contemplation, I was wondering how your team deals with the multitude of false stories that you peddle out daily to use as political propaganda and if you could give me advice on how to take my satire to the next level? Best wishes.”
MANDATES: The black line on the graph shows the weekly rate of COVID-19 cases in all the states with mask mandates that week, while the orange line shows the rate in all the states without mandates. The Daily Case Rates graph shows the same lack of mask effectiveness.
Also, “Just landed after a long flight on United, during which a flight attendant announced the mask mandate had been struck down & put up a sign. When we got off, the pilots were smiling. We told them it was wonderful to see their faces again. Majority of passengers were also thrilled.” – Katie Pavlich tweet
PRICELESS: I saw this on FB – The other day I was at the local public park (not a dog park, but dogs are allowed there). We were walking along in a high movement area so I had my dog on a leash. Another dog, off leash, sees us and starts approaching.
My dog needs her space so we start moving away, but the dog got to us before we could leave. My dog was stressing a little so I politely said to the woman, sorry my dog doesn’t want to play and ushered her dog away.
Her dog gets the message and moves on.
Quite good, right? Here comes the juicy part:
As I’m leaving the owner comes to me with a speech more or less like this:
Hey, if your dog is nervous and doesn’t even want to play with other dogs, go somewhere else! Don’t come to the park and ruin other dogs fun.
I heard this and a wave of fury started taking over, but suddenly I think I had a lightbulb moment and switched gears completely.
With the biggest, friendliest smile, I opened my arms as wide as I could and said Ohhhhh! Come here… I want to give you a BIG hug!
With panic in her eyes, she backs up, speechless and quickly starts walking away.
I said “Hey, don’t run, I’m so friendly, come on, I only want to give you a hug! I’m friendly I promise… I just want to Hug You!”
Still speechless and backing away with terror now, I said “Wait, You don’t want my friendly hug?”
She yelled No!
I said “Well neither does my dog! Have a nice day.!!!”
As I walked away, I saw her just standing there, speechless and she was leashing her dog!
SHROUD OF TURIN: In 1988, a sample of the cloth many believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ was cut out for carbon dating. The test returned a result placing the origin of the cloth in the Middle Ages. Skeptics say the test was inaccurate, possibly due to the cloth having been in a fire and/or the section taken having been part of a repair, not the original cloth. Now an Italian scientist has used a new method to examine the fibers that found the cloth is 2,000 years old. He explains the process in the article linked here.
TEXAS: A Houston high school teacher has been fired after the porn he was watching on his laptop showed up on the classroom projector. He has been criminally charged with “display of harmful material to a minor,” a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $4,000.
My cousin sent these links to me. As far as I can gather, the main message is that all of the covid crap we’ve endured has been part of the End Times spiritual battle. I have only watched the beginning of the first one and find I just can’t deal with wading through more evil.
Here are the links if you want or need to dive into this stuff.
BIRD FLU: The highly contagious and lethal H5N1 virus has hit Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin. In 2015, the disease killed millions of chickens. In addition, wild birds are suffering. So far, at least 36 bald eagles have died since February.
BORDER: Since FAUXTUS took office, more than 756,109 illegals have been released into American communities. That’s more than the resident population of Boston.
CALIFORNICATION: For the fifth year in a row, public school enrollment has dropped. For the first time since 2000, the state’s K-12 population has dipped below 6 million, with large urban districts accounting for one-third of the drop. School officials say they can’t account for it. Maybe look in the mirror, people.
CHICOMS: According to Not the Bee, “These government thugs (dubbed “Big Whites”) are beating people with sticks, killing pets, and welding residents inside their homes.”
EASTER MEDITATION: The Romans thought Christians needed an infusion of the first century which, come to think on it, had a lot in common with the twenty-first.
EDUCATION: School Library Journal conducted a survey, asking K-12 librarians and teachers to identify book titles they would like removed from and added to summer reading lists. These are the top ones recommended.
Several of the removes, including the number one – “To Kill a Mockingbird” – deal with racism, but focus on individuals of both races who cross the divide. By contrast, the number one and number two adds – “The New Kid” and “The Hate U Give” – appear to center entirely on how raaaaacist White people are.
Given the other titles on the remove list, I’d be totally unsurprised to find that others among the adds promote hopelessness, victimhood, and socialism. But I frankly can’t deal with looking at any more of them.
LIBS OF TIKTOK: [13:27] – Tucker plays some of the clips which, he says, are worse than you imagined. Twitter has shut it down twice. WaPo has gotten involved and, incredibly, the German intelligence service.
LIFE: Jessica Barnes was in college when she found out she was pregnant. She had anxiety attacks on the way to her first three abortion appointments, by which point she was at the legal limit to get it done. So she told God, “I’m definitely having this abortion, I can’t have this baby. I don’t have the means to take care of it so if you don’t want me to have this abortion then you have to physically stop me because I’m just gonna numb myself out and do it even though I’m totally against it.” As she was driving to the appointment, she got a flat tire. The spare was also flat.
MASKS: [5:33] – A federal judge in Florida has ruled that the federal transportation mask mandate is illegal. Tucker reports on the insane Left’s response.
PENNSYLVANIA: CLICK https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1515728625357795332 [2:19] to see “shrieking woke goblins screaming in the faces of black police officers that they are racists [language/migraine warning].” It didn’t end well for one of them and I am SO glad that cop is Black!
S&G: A recent service at Duke Divinity School started out with,
Speaker: Good morning! The Holy and Queer One be with you.
Crowd: And also with you.
Speaker: We want to affirm everyone to be who they truly are to step into the Holy One’s fire that burns away all that says we are not good enough, and refines us by the pentecostal fire to be who exactly The Great Queer One calls us to be.
Everyone: Strange One, Fabulous One, Fluid and Ever-Becoming One, do not allow us to make our ideas of You into an idol.
Speaker: You are as close to us as our own breath, and yet your essence transcends all that we can imagine.
Everyone: You are Mother, Father, and Parent. You are Sister, Brother, and Sibling. You are Drag Queen and Trans Man and Gender Fluid, incapable of limiting your vast expressions of beauty.
This is allegedly one of the top theological seminaries in the nation.
THEM: The 33% who think things are going well are the same 33% who believe that abortion on demand for no reason at all, up until and even after natural birth, at taxpayers’ expense is a civil right.
TRUMP-RUSSIA HOAX: Five associates of Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign are invoking their Fifth Amendment rights and refusing to cooperate in the special counsel’s investigation. Legal scholar Jonathan Turley says Durham is now moving to give immunity to a key witness.
TechnoFog (link below) does a deep dive into the whole thing, if you’re interested.
GRAMMY NOTES: Soooo … yesterday, the power went out for a few hours, then when the sun came up, we saw this. This kind of fluffy winter wonderland thing is delightful at Christmas time. After Easter, not so much!
2A: I saw this on FB – “The president who made M4s into party favors for the Taliban is telling me again that it’s too easy for Americans to get AR15s.”
DOGPILE: I’ve been using DuckDuckGo, but I recently read that they’re going to limit searches only to “recognized news sources.” Yeah, no. I can’t figure out how to make my default search use dogpile.com, so I just put it on to my tool bar.
EASTER MEDITATION: I dunno if all y’alls got anything out of my Lenten Meditations, but I certainly did and I find now that I’m loathe to suspend them. Fortunately, in the Catholic calendar, the Easter liturgical season extends all the way to Pentecost Sunday and encompasses such major feasts as Divine Mercy Sunday and Ascension. That being said … methinks that, going forward, I will be much more careful how I use the word “excruciating”!
FLORIDA: Florida has officially removed Common Core, banned public schools for teaching key concepts of CRT, and adopted the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (BEST) standards. Gov. DeSantis calls it a “return to the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic.”
As a result, the state’s Department of Education has examined and rejected 28 math textbooks for K–12, because they included Common Core, CRT, and/or “the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics.”
SEL is “the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.”
Can anyone explain to me what “empathy” has to do with adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing accurately? I googled “SEL math” and found entire websites about it. I read some of the stuff, but I still don’t understand it. SEL by itself makes sense, especially for kids like Bunny who really struggle with anxiety. But incorporating it specifically into math lessons? I mean, what?
KINDNESS: I saw this on FB – “I’ve always wanted to encourage a stranger. Yesterday I dropped off my comforter to be washed when I saw a pregnant woman with her kid. I knew she would be a great person to encourage. So I wrote this note and grabbed money from my wallet. Handed it to her and left… It doesn’t take a lot to bless someone.” – Keenya Kelly
MASKS: According to the linked article, there have only been two randomized studies conducted to test whether mask mandates do anything to inhibit the spread of COVID-19. The one done in Denmark showed the masks made no difference; the researchers were forced to rewrite their paper to claim masks worked in order to get their study published.
The one done in Bangladesh supposedly showed that masks slowed the spread, but the study was so badly designed that the author himself wasn’t able to defend his conclusions. And the graph shown above – which showed zero difference – came from that study,but was omitted from the report.
NEBRASKA: Private tour of the largest aquarium in the country [20:05] – I was an avid aquarium hobbyist for about 30 years, but as my health got worse and worse, I had to close down my tanks one by one. At peak, I had 11. It’s been years since we had to empty the last one. I was so pleased to discover this week that I can still enjoy my hobby on YouTube! This is a great channel!
STUDENT DEBT: Squad member Pramila Jayapal tweeted, “Student debt cancellation is racial justice. Student debt cancellation is gender justice. Student debt cancellation is economic justice.”
Yeah, no. Student debt cancellation is no kind of justice, because it forces people who did not sign up for or benefit from what that debt bought to pay it off.
GRAMMY NOTES: One of the things I learned in kindergarten was how to wait patiently while cold milk and snacks were passed out to each child before tackling that glued-for-eternity wax spout. Kids today, with their easy-peasy, straw-pokey, juice boxes just can’t appreciate the struggle!
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