Today's photos are in reverse chronological order, which shouldn't seem odd at all considering that the blog's posts are in reverse chronological order. And yet, never until today had I even thought of putting the photos in reverse chronological order. Today, the photos themselves cried out for reverse chronological order and I was utterly compelled.
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Oh, look. Another 'conservative' nurse out there trying to make the left look bad.
I will not perform anesthesia for any surgeries or procedures for MAGA. It is my right, it is my ethical oath, and I stand behind my education. I own all of my businesses and I can refuse anyone! - Eric Martindale
Number two. I always like the photos with trees in the foreground and their contrasting darkness and framing.
’I own all of my businesses and I can refuse anyone!’
Good thing he didn’t become a baker!!
Today was an anti-ICE boycott day - "No Work, No School, No Shopping". Did anyone notice?
On Joe Rogan’s podcast #2444 this point was made:
A core principle emphasized in concealed carry training programs is that you should avoid physical altercations.
“You don’t get to fight anymore” when you’re armed.
“If you carry, be ready to lose every argument.”
Which makes me think even more strongly that Pretti’s death was suicide by cop.
Mayor Mamdani ordered city police and sanitation workers not to dismantle homeless encampments. Apparently the "warmth of collectivism" wasn't quite warm enough as ten homeless individuals died in the current blizzard and polar vortex.
It's the fab 4.
and once there was a .... creature.
Leftwing tantrum day. Again!
What it takes to reform education.
For at least 70 years, in the US, there was open warfare over whole word/phonics teaching approaches. This was in spite of overwhelming evidence, in controlled studies, for phonics. The teaching profession and schools of education were dead-set against it.
My sisters and I, and then our children, were taught to be good (advanced) readers before we or our kids started school, so in our case it didnt matter. Whole word cant hurt you if you are already reading. The worst that could happen is that it bored our kids; we had that covered too. All ours made it into UC schools STEM, and my daughter finished Summa Cum Laude at UCLA. Thats a win, about as big a win as an individual family can hope for.
Phonics just won this war, largely on the strength of the "Mississippi miracle", wherein all objectively derived best practices were finally implemented in a whole state. There's been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth of course.
We came close to doing this in California @25 years ago, but the teachers unions+ the educational bureaucracy put in a mighty effort and killed it. There are thousands of people in CA that deserve the death penalty, for this alone.
It takes a lot to overcome a recalcitrant bureaucracy. It is a matter of power, not persuasion. You can have all the studies and metrics, and it doesnt matter.
Still waiting for those free Mamdani buses.
Hey Kak and other bots
JUST A FOOT SOLDIER IN THE DEMOCRATS’ ARMY:
Man who falsely claimed he killed Charlie Kirk, diverting police amid chaos, sentenced to prison: George Zinn received a harsher prison sentence after police found child sex abuse materials on his phone after arresting him at UVU.
Another leftist child abusing scumbag.
forgot quote marks above. that is via insty.
1. Heard on MS NOW the organizer of the next No Kings protest on 3-28 assert that Trump is destroying democracy. Omitted that Trump won the election.
What the Dems have done is import millions of Third World aliens to steal elections and work cheap. And then some of them steal billions in government money. Heard today about a scam by Armenians in LA who stole millions for hospice care. Hospice!
All of this crime so that Dems get elected.
This is why the Dems are in open rebellion to the federal government. This is only going to get worse.
Dems want to destroy America.
2. Attorney Abe Lowell interviewed by Jen Psaki. Nice white shirt, great tie and blue sport coat but his pants were too light-colored for winter and he was wearing white socks with those trendy shoes with white soles.
White socks?
He rambled about Trump is a fascist and the Don Reynaldo Lemon was just doing his job.
Jen Psaki didn’t understand the FACE Act.
Lowell whined about the night Lemon spent in jail.
Hoping Lemon gets convicted.
Buwaya:
Love the fact that Mississippi is #1 in reading. Nebraska unionized public school teachers are always complaining and I recite that stat to them. Silence.
Why is the education establishment dead set against phonics?
The Department of Education deserves to go, save for one part, the NCES, the National Center for Education Statistics. They run the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress), the only school "report card" that covers all states.
I have cited it often.
Its the only thing keeping most states ed departments halfway honest. The "Mississippi Miracle" showed up there, more than anything. Its the ammo you have vs your Nebraska teachers.
@Eva Marie, thank you. If one has been properly trained for a concealed carry permit then you accept that your right to carry a handgun in public carries with it a responsibility not to do anything that can cause death except -- and this is the only exception -- when you use the gun to save yourself or another person from injury or death. When I say that Alex Pretti died of stupidity, I am not being facetious. He went to the protest clearly knowing that he intended to violently engage wiith the ICE officers, yet he brought a firearm with him. Given that he was the aggressor (which he may, in his foolishness, not have perceived), it was perfectly reasonable for the ICE officers to presume that he meant to use it to apply lethal force against them.
Reverse order sunrise for an upside down world.
Re education. From what I can glean about our AI future, the current education paradigm is the blockbuster video business model in the age of streaming. My son is looking down the road and started his four year old in an Acton academy that teaches individual inquiry via Socratic method. Teaching kids how to think, how to take responsibility, how to navigate change. Individual learning plans using AI. If one kid masters a skill, he moves up to the next level; if another needs more time with a concept, his AI serves up reinforcements. It’s very interesting. I’m a trad, but it doesn’t feel like pedagogical trendy. It feels solid. Whole language learning, now that there was some pedagogical fashion.
Why is the education establishment dead set against phonics?
@Original Mike, that's a good question. Both of my sons were taught to read in the same school using whole language. One thrived on it, but the other struggled and was functionally illiterate coming out of first grade. We pulled him out of public school and put him in Montessori, where he proceeded to thrive. He eventually received a Ph.D. in mathematics from a very prestigious university. Brains was not his problem; the whole language approach was the problem.
Phonics is a structured process, and many teachers dislike that, they want to use their judgment/skip the structure and do the more emotionally satisfying things they were taught in Ed school.
Phonics also (usually) comes with centrally controlled evaluations, etc. If you are going to teach dozens/hundreds its an industrial process, not a creative act.
@William50, someone from outside the state of Virginia might look at all those taxes proposed by Spanberger and the Democrats and presume that our state must be in dire financial straits. In point of fact Spanberger's predecessor, Republican Glenn Youngkin, left behind a budget surplus, which I presume the Democrats expect to plunder in their neverending quest for graft and corruption.
Apple just updated the OS on my phone and iPad. Now going through the three week ritual wherein nothing works.
I might add that I am very concerned about the tax on gyms, given that, first, the small gym my wife and I go to barely survived the lockdowns of five years ago, and, secondly, that in our annual Medicare checkups we are encouraged to use a gym three times a week (right now we go only twice a week).
Original Mike said...
Why is the education establishment dead set against phonics?
That question was answered a long time ago. By many people coming to the same answer independently. IIRC, Robert Heinlein, whose wife Virginia wrote an early computer program that could tech anyone with IQ>85 how to read, using phonics, was one of them.
Teaching phonics is boring. Really boring. In a group classroom session required drill, and drill...
"I can refuse anyone! - Eric Martindale"
So he's doing your anesthesia, and halfway through the surgery he sees a MAGA tattoo. What could go wrong? Inspiring.
Imagine if an anesthesiologist announced he wouldn't do LGBTQ, or Blacks, or any woman with a wiener?
Update to my comment at 7:49. The death toll of homeless people who have frozen to death outdoors in New York City appears to have risen to 13. Well, I guess letting people freeze to death is Joe Mamdani intends to reduce the financial burden of New York’s homeless problem.
It's -8 degrees in my former home of Butler, PA, and I look at Madison photos and It reminds me of my perennial question: Why didn't the Inuit people just walk south. There is a big warm ball in the sky, and all you have to do is walk toward it. I wonder the same thing about native people of the northern plains. Of course some did, and they never had to wear a buffalo skin again. They could run around half-naked like Tarzan or Lizo, and never lose a friend or family to bitter cold again. Strangely they are expecting snow in Florida, but here we're going boating on the lake tomorrow. Forecast is mid-70's for at least the next 10 days. I'm sorry. I wish I could transport you all out for the weekend. The boat holds 12 comfortably, but we will only be two. The cooler will be full, the sun warm, and the music and views will be sublime. Stay warm, peeps.
That third photograph shows Madison is pumping out lots of CO2 contributing to global warming.
Don Grapefruit has hired Abbe Lowell to defend him from the federal felonies he has been charged with. I suppose he hasn't quite pissed through all the money he made lying and posturing for -- CNN? Whoever.
I find the situation encouraging. I see a substantial probability that Grapefruit will be bankrupted and then incarcerated for multiple years. I assume Lowell will dump Lemon once he has squeezed him dry (hee-hee), but there should be a succession of increasingly seedy (ho!) lawyers representing him, as the damning evidence he collected himself is presented to one or more judges and juries, ending with a federal Public Defender to assist the prosecutors at his sentencing.
Ta-ta, Donny! Be sure to write! It's what you do best!
Lemon should do pretty easy time, once the courts and the shysters have pulped him and drained the juice. He'll likely only get a year or two. And this particular citrus fruit already knows the drill.
According to Wikipedia, "Lemon met real estate agent Tim Malone in 2016, after which the two began dating. The couple married on April 6, 2024, in New York City."
Huh. Dating. Married. Think Tim will wait for Don, while he's doing hard time with the boys at Club Fed? Or maybe they're already fighting over the remaining assets? Think maybe there's a pre-nup? If nothing else, he should get a book or two out of this experience. But I'm afraid he's no Ta-Nehisi Grifts.
Dave Begley rightfully points out that Trump won the election and yet Trump seems to think that all elections that he wins are legal and and all he loses are caused by dishonest vote counters.
So now we have the Feds illegally removing Fulton County voting records that were counted and recounted three times by Republicans.
All that Eff'n Donnie wants are obtaining the names of the voters. Voting is controlled by the states, not the Feds, and how Tulsi was ever allowed to handle a single vote box is beyond my ken.
"All I need are 11,780 votes," which in the end wins him nothing.
’So now we have the Feds illegally removing Fulton County voting records that were counted and recounted three times by Republicans.’
A federal magistrate signed a warrant for an illegal action? That’s an interesting take for sure…
bagoh20 said...
It's -8 degrees in my former home of Butler, PA, and I look at Madison photos and It reminds me of my perennial question: Why didn't the Inuit people just walk south. There is a big warm ball in the sky, and all you have to do is walk toward it. I wonder the same thing about native people of the northern plains
Consider this- they were pushed north by more powerful tribes into less desirable territory- and adapted to the colder climate. Either that or be slaughtered. From AI:
"Approximately 400,000 indigenous people, representing over 40 distinct ethnic groups, inhabit the Arctic Circle across Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia, comprising about 10% of the total Arctic population. Key groups include the Inuit (spanning Greenland, Canada, and Alaska), Yupik, Aleut, Sámi, Nenets, Chukchi, and Evenk. They traditionally rely on hunting and fishing for survival in the harsh, cold climate." Another search show they all share common DNA ancestors. Rather then fighting they likely just intermixed when they met up with others. Not like there were a lot of permanent abodes.
"All I need are 11,780 votes," which in the end wins him nothing.
Really?
If you fuckers had half a brain, you wouldn't have stolen the damn thing in 2020, Trump would've been a toothless lame duck for four years and somebody else would be President right now.
Instead, you gave him four years to plan his revenge and you have three more years to choke on it.
And since the Republicans aren't doing jack in Congress - no matter who wins the interims in November - Trump will still be doing what he's doing now.
And there's not thing one you can do about it.
Why is the education establishment dead set against phonics?
I don't know. And I was PIO for the chair of the House Education Committee during the Phonics Wars of the late '90s. She was mocked as 'The Phonics Queen' while they were going to the mat over whole language.
It's been shown to work. See the reading scores of the states who use it (as Begley pointed out).
Why it's almost as if the teachers' unions don't give a damn about actually educating kids.
gadfly, you know perfectly well that "counting and recounting" ballots does not reveal problems with the ballots themselves.
Surely even you can admit that there remains a good deal of - shall we say "lack of confidence"? - let's go with that: lack of confidence about the 2020 election. Is it or isn't it valuable to put that lack of confidence to rest, by proving beyond any reasonable doubt that the election was as "free, fair, and secure" as Biden administration officials* insisted it was?
* You know, the people who told us for four years that Biden was doing handsprings and calculus behind the scenes?
2 people died in Minnesota protests. Media freaks out. It's the end of the world. Non-stop coverage in the media.
17,000 babies found in shipping container. Media freaks out, in the other direction. We can't show this. We can't talk about this. Not a story, not news, media blackout. Silence!
See also Kermit Gosnell killing newborns. He killed 2 people in his clinic every day. So many citizens of the U.S. died in his clinic. And very few people have heard this story. There was another media blackout on it.
There are no pro-lifers in newsrooms.
So it took a pro-choice reporter to shame her colleagues into covering the murders of newborn infants. She wrote an editorial column about the blackout. Embarrassed the fuck out of the NYT and all the rest of them.
There are many, many murders that take place around the world. When one or two dominate the news coverage for days and weeks, while so many are completely ignored, that is an agenda at work.
Which makes me think even more strongly that Pretti’s death was suicide by cop.
I disagree. What's emerging is that Pretti was handcuffed and disarmed when he was shot. I think the killer is in a lot of trouble.
No, the claim that Alex Pretti was handcuffed when he was shot is not supported by available reports or video analyses.
The other point that Andrew Wilson made on the Joe Rogan podcast was that the groups resisting ICE knew that the longer they employed their tactics the more certain they were that a fatality would occur. They were counting on it.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-su30sm-spanish-f18-engage-baltic
"Spanish Air Force F-18M fighter jets intercepted Russian Su-30SM/SM2 fighters over the Baltic region, with the F-18s having operated from Siauliai Air Base in northern Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing operations. "
@Eva Marie, please don’t try to confuse gadfly with real facts. He gets downright psychotic when his made-up facts are debunked.
Wrt those VA tax plans, the Dems torch their whole “affordability” schtick. Not that anyone’s surprised at their duplicity….
Gospace: "Teaching phonics is boring. Really boring."
Doesn't have to be. Sesame street, Electric Company. And nowadays, individual AI instruction. Set anything to music, and it goes from the kid's drudgery to the parent's nightmare earworm.
Imagine the Dipthong Song instead of Baby Shark....CC, JSM
The Virginia taxes are the perfect impetus for making DC a tax free city. Just the opposite of statehood: a fully funded ward of the Nation. No federal tax collection in the District. And Congressional repeal of DC taxes. In exchange, the Mayor submits an annual budget request to Congress.
How could the local pols possibly oppose the move? Do they want to keep their citizens bound by the odious chains of taxation?
And you'd have a huge influx of Virginians and Marylanders, bleeding those states of Dem votes.
I haven't run the numbers, but I doubt DC is a net contributor of tax anyway. Not a huge financial burden to forego its revenue.
Trump has probably thought of this. The Congressional GOP probably lack the balls for it. CC, JSM
“The two most important days of your life: the day you were born, and the day you find out why you were born.”
Mark Twain
At first I thought that was a sex joke. But it might be about finding your mission.
If your income is higher than $40,000 a year, you are in the top 1% of humanity. That’s right, you are rich.
I am a big proponent of gun rights. I have taken many concealed carry classes. All of them emphasized the importance of avoiding confrontation. The gun is for self defense not aggression. All the classes taught what to do when interacting with police while armed. You are taught to keep your hands away from the gun. Obey all orders given by the officer. Announce that you are carrying and ask the officer how to proceed. Pretti did none of these things. He instigated at least one attack by spitting on officers and damaging their vehicle. He didn’t appear to obey officer commands and resisted arrest. I suspect that he didn’t announce that he was armed or asked the officer how to proceed with respect to his gun. If he followed the training he received maybe he woukd be alive.
I am kind of surprised to find out that if I am against the US engaging in warfare on the other side of the world where we have no business, such as how Iran treats protesters, who may or may not have been "peacefully demonstrating," we ordinary Americans will never know, I am surprised to find out that I must be a shill for the side we are fighting in this battle on the other side of the world that is none of our business, and therefore I am some kind of traitor to America,
Some of you guys argue like my ex wife; it's all about emotion and "whose side are you on" and never about the facts of whatever the matter at hand is. I don't get how risking a major war over the treatment of demonstrators in Iran is putting 'America first"
Or are people really mad that if if you look into our reasons too deeply, and realize how shallow the pretext is, it gives the game away and says the quite part out loud.
quiet part out loud.
With the U.S. wresting control of the Panama Canal from the Chi-Coms, Trump sent a strong signal Xi Jinping Pong. Trump sees the Chi-Com long term aspirations where home grown Commie lefties do not. Hence Trump’s move on Iceland ….. er …. Greenland. His approach was a bit ham handed ….. actually vintage Trump …. but he is correct.
Don Lemon has tapped Abbe Lowell to defend him. He specializes in politicians in trouble. Client list:
Don Lemon
Bob Menendez
John Edwards
Hunter Biden
Jim Wright
Dan Rostenkowski
Charles Keating
Joseph McDade
Joseph Bruno
Gary Condit
Jim Gibbons
Lisa Cook
Jared Kushner
Ivanka Trump
Letitia James
From Wikipedia...
As of December 2020, the United States Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section was investigating Lowell for his role in an alleged "secret lobbying scheme" and potential bribery in exchange for a pardon. Lowell was enlisted by California billionaire Sanford Diller to seek a pardon for his friend Hugh Baras.
Lowell's involvement came to light in an August 28, 2020 court opinion by Judge Beryl Howell that found Lowell's communications were not covered by standard attorney-client privileges "because they potentially contained both evidence of crimes and involved nonlawyer third parties." As part of the alleged bribery-for-pardon scheme, Lowell interacted with the White House Counsel's Office, and "according to documents reviewed by the [Wall Street] Journal, Mr. Lowell and Mr. Diller discussed contacting top officials in the [Trump] administration." The scheme would allegedly have involved a donation of more than $300,000 to Republican Party causes. However, no pardon for Baras was issued, and the investigation did not result in criminal charges."
the wiki already deleted bill clinton, robert menendez and hunter biden, funny how that works
Iran has been waging war against the West, for the better part of the last 40 years, first in Beirut, then Buenos Aires, Vienna et al
’If your income is higher than $40,000 a year, you are in the top 1% of humanity. That’s right, you are rich.’
I’ve had my eye on a Gulfstream… ;)
No, the claim that Alex Pretti was handcuffed when he was shot is not supported by available reports or video analyses.
I'm glad to hear that! I read it yesterday, and went "oh shit," but now I cannot find the stupid quote. It was a Republican who was saying it. Not sure if I read it in the Free Press or Racket News or National Review. I'm googling it and I'm not seeing anything about it. So I'm withdrawing my comment until I can find what I read yesterday.
“If your income is higher than $40,000 a year, you are in the top 1% of humanity. That’s right, you are rich.’”
NYC Mayor Madmammy will fix that!
Josh Shapiro is apparently running for president in 2028 and he's already attacking the vice president, which is not strange at all. It's 2025, dude, chill with the campaign.
well as atty general he covered up a murder as a suicide,
his house was nearly burned down by a Hamas nik
I don't know how the Philly DA feels about getting whacked by the Democrat governor, but I like it. That is some righteous blue on blue spanking.
"That kind of rhetoric is unacceptable, it is abhorrent, and it is wrong — period, hard stop, end of sentence," the governor told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier.
You think you're the D.A. of Philadelphia, and then you find out you are Sister Souljah.
More Democrats like this, please. Rock on, Shapiro.
"he covered up a murder as a suicide"
Do you have a link?
I found her name, Ellen Greenberg. 20 stab wounds ruled a suicide. That seems very strange.
you have to well motivated, to stab yourself 20 times, you think but like scarborough and his dead assistant in the negligee, with the gash in her head, well thats just coincidence
as with fetterman,, who was the deputy, there is room for improvement I suppose,
Reported federal probe into Ellen Greenberg case could bring scrutiny for Governor Shapiro.
My cynical ass thinks this new federal investigation, by Republicans, has a lot more to do with Shapiro running for President than it has to do with justice for Ellen Greenberg. Why are you interested in it now? Why not 10 fucking years ago?
Time go suspend all federal $$$ to illegals. Time to go after all employers who hire illegals. Attack the fraud in Minneapolis with a vengeance. Watch the Commies squirm.
you have to well motivated, to stab yourself 20 times
honestly, if you have any involvement with the criminal justice system, it's appalling how much injustice happens
I would presume homicide just on the sheer number of knife wounds, holy shit
But the feds investigating it now, 15 years after the fact? That just causes me to despise my own party. Where were you rightous assholes in 2011?
"We don't give a shit about homicide unless it helps our political campaign."
because of the philadelphia and pittsburg fraud apparat, the Dems avoided scrutiny for years,
dr phil, brought out the attention in 2020, its funny how things go,
they cover with a pillow, until it stops moving,
@Lawnerd, +1
"Iran has been waging war against the West, for the better part of the last 40 years, first in Beirut, then Buenos Aires, Vienna et al"
Ever since we overthrew the West's puppet who was safeguarding the Straits of Hormuz for us and keeping control part of the MacKinder heartland, we have been trying to regain control, and alleging atrocities by the people sitting on the square of the chessboard that we want to control.
But thank you for admitting that it has nothing to do with the purported reason of "protecting the protesters."
I am just trying to figure out what America has to do with Europe's squabbles in the Middle East. They are the ones who are hopelessly dependent on the oil there, not us, not Russia, but Europe and China, let them fight it out.
I grew up in Upstate New York, so naturally we learned a lot about the Iroquois, and one image that always stuck with me was the painting of a shaman dancing around a fire and he held a stick with a scary painted face on the end of it, and the purpose of it, it always seemed to me, was to scare his "flock" towards him so that they would demand the shaman's protection.
Yes, we hear a lot of scary things from our government.
Europe is a blood drenched continent, peopled by nations who, we are told, can only be kept from killing each other by us being there.
Russia is part of Europe, but if Russia were to be allowed into the EU, it's size alone would make it the dominant voice in Europe, and if Russia is kept out of Europe, well, then it is inevitable that it will be painted as a threat. It is a tragedy of geopolitics that those seem to be the only two choices that keep Europe's pride intact, and Europe's pride is the most important consideration for Americans who voted for America first.
Jaq said...
Ever since we overthrew the West's puppet who was safeguarding the Straits of Hormuz for us and keeping control part of the MacKinder heartland, we have been trying to regain control, and alleging atrocities by the people sitting on the square of the chessboard that we want to control.
I am all for kicking the Shia out and putting the Persians back in charge.
I am not sure what is wrong with the US having another ally in the ME. If it only takes a few billion dollars to replace the mullahs with the shah that is a good investment a dozen times over.
I am not sure why people are so in the tank for defending the mullahs like this.
During World War II, the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran forced the abdication of Reza Shah and succession of Mohammad Reza Shah. During his reign, the British-owned oil industry was nationalized by the prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who had support from Iran's national parliament to do so; however, Mosaddegh was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, which was carried out by the Iranian military under the aegis of the United Kingdom and the United States. Subsequently, the Iranian government centralized power under the Shah and brought foreign oil companies back into the country's industry through the Consortium Agreement of 1954.[3] - Wikipedia
Yes, Iran has been at war with the West, but for how long? And who started it?
"I am not sure why people are so in the tank for defending the mullahs like this."
So if I don't think that the US should get itself involved in Europe's squabbles over control of Arab oil, Europe is a continent with very few resources, given the size of its population, and hence it seeks them abroad, I don't get why it is our problem, and how noticing that makes me "in the tank" for the Mullah's, who are the problem of people who are unhappy under them in Iran, not mine.
Gov Shapiro - a Jew-hating leftist firebombed his house.
"It reminds me of my perennial question: Why didn't the Inuit people just walk south. There is a big warm ball in the sky, and all you have to do is walk toward it. I wonder the same thing about native people of the northern plains"
You have to remember that the people that were here before Europeans showed up were constantly at war with each other. Over water rights. Over fishing and hunting grounds. Over women. Or just because they were good at fighting. These wars were brutal. No quarter given and torture of ones enemies was considered entertainment. Captives were killed if they couldn't keep up. Babies were killed because why have another useless mouth to feed. If the Spanish hadn't lost so many of their horses the plains tribes would still be wandering the prairies using their dogs to carry their goods. The Anasazi didn't build their homes on the sides of cliffs because it was convenient they did that because it was safer. The same reason the Hopi built their high rises on the top of mesas. Easy to defend.
the French and the Germans provided the nuclear program to the Shah, Paul Erdman noticed this in the 70s, a few years before the Shah collapsed,
Mossadecq's supporters, were the ones that put out the black legend, the Shah was a soft touch, when it came to these characters, like the Peoples Mujahadeen
the Future MEK, which have been our source on their nuclear program, they have a base in Paris
two three generations, in, well the pickings for democrats, are slim,
My only point is that none of these conflicts are as simple as the nightly news, and the network opinion shows would have you believe. And given that I am kind of an autist in these matters, I always have to dig deeper, and I have some fundamental beliefs that are really just matters of opinion, and one of them is that the natural resources of a country belong to that country and the people inhabiting that land, no matter what deals were made with imperial powers in the past.
A FIRST! Among all the many days, every day, a bit of adjustment from our ever-faithful, always new Ann.
Sew grateful for you.
john mosby said...
Gospace: "Teaching phonics is boring. Really boring."
Doesn't have to be. Sesame street, Electric Company. And nowadays, individual AI instruction.
None of which involve actual teacher involvement.
"Britain was rich in resources and metals, and this alone would have justified war.” —Tacitus
A teacher could adopt the methods of Children's Television Workshop. Lead the kids in the Diphthong Song, T.I.O.N.-Shun-Shun-Shun-Shun, and other hits. Bit harder to emulate individualized AI for a large classroom, but good teachers have been known to vary their approach for different kids. CC, JSM
I didn't realize until now how good the top pic is because I had only seen it on my phone. It is pintoresque.
https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017591976523354172
“ Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) compared Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to fictional villains on Friday, calling them both a “sycophant” as tensions rise over the administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.
“A sycophant is more than just a ‘yes-man,’” Tillis wrote in a lengthy post on social platform X. “It refers to someone who acts excessively servile toward someone important in order to gain an advantage.”
He added, “They aren’t just being nice, they are using excessive flattery, often insincerely, to get what they want, whether that’s a promotion, social status or favor.”
The senator compared Miller to Grima Wormtongue from “The Lord of the Rings,” who is an adviser to a king.
“He uses whispers and false flattery to control the King’s decisions, all while secretly serving Saruman,” the North Carolina Republican continued in his post. “He is a classic example of a sycophant who uses his position to poison a leader’s standing for his own benefit.”
Additionally, the senator compared Noem to Dolores Umbridge from “Harry Potter,” calling her a “bureaucratic sycophant.”
“She is terrifyingly sweet while she is around those she considers her superiors and she sucks up to authority to gain the power she needs to bully those ‘beneath’ her,” he said.”
Wow, picture one is the best photographic representation of Impressionism I have ever seen.
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