Nearly 2 in 3 voters, including broad majorities across racial, educational and economic lines, believe public schools in the United States are headed off on the wrong track, a new poll shows. Just 24 percent of Americans said that when they think about what children are being taught in public school, they believe schools are headed in the right direction, according to the survey conducted for Grinnell College by the Des Moines-based polling firm Selzer & Co.
The largest gap is among partisans: 83 percent of Republicans polled, and 87 percent of respondents who voted for former President Trump, said schools are headed in the wrong direction. Just 44 percent of Democrats in the poll — still a plurality — and 42 percent of respondents who backed President Biden said the same.
Americans are divided over whether they trust schools to teach about racism. Just 49 percent of those surveyed said they trust schools in their district to teach about racism, including 43 percent of Republicans and 56 percent of Democrats. But 50 percent of Republicans polled, and 38 percent of Democrats, do not trust schools to teach about racism; the share of non-white respondents who trust schools to get it right is lower, 48 percent, than the share of whites, 52 percent.
Selzer pointed to the contrast between the majority that approves of schools teaching respect for people of all races and the deeper schism over whether people trust schools to teach about racism itself as a telling divide. “It isn’t a white supremacist thing, if I could be so bold,” Selzer said. “It is about teaching about racism. That word now has been weaponized. Race, no problem with race. Racism, that’s a call to arms.”
The biggest problem here is that your teachers and teachers unions and even some school boards have very little interest in listening to what Parents are saying. This is prompting (and will continue to prompt) actual laws determining what and how teachers are allowed to teach.
Make no mistake, the changes here are not coming from parents who are suddenly uptight about their children being taught the basics. These are changes in how our public education has turned political and determined that wokeness need to be indoctrinated.Rather than teach what our children need to be taught in order to make in a new global economy, our teachers would rather provide them with opinions and rhetoric about their favorite political topics and pass it off as needed education.
While children in China, India, and other emerging economies are being taught calculus, physics, and computer coding our children are being taught about racism, transgenderism, and being passed to the next grade without being taught the fundamentals for that particular level. Children in the US are graduating when barely a sixth grade education and then expected to compete with the rest of the world. When questioned about this... well, it's about how it is unfair for students of certain color or certain social status to do the same work as students of other colors or other social statuses. We don't want to make them feel bad, so they get a diploma without learning.
It went from everyone gets a trophy to everyone makes the honor roll and gets a diploma.
What is interesting is the push back from educators when they are questioned and criticized. They quite literally seem to have no interest in what anyone else has to say and they appear to have no interest in teaching the subjects that are necessary. They are the educators and they know best about what it is that these children need to be taught. But at the end of the day, they need to hide things and misrepresent everything in hopes they can find a way to justify things. Honesty is not an option. Honesty is their implication.
What is interesting is the push back from educators when they are questioned and criticized. They quite literally seem to have no interest in what anyone else has to say and they appear to have no interest in teaching the subjects that are necessary. They are the educators and they know best about what it is that these children need to be taught. But at the end of the day, they need to hide things and misrepresent everything in hopes they can find a way to justify things. Honesty is not an option. Honesty is their implication.
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Yeah but Trump blah blah blah
So well in fact the Saudi's are now accepting the Chinese Yuan as currency for oil" RRB
That post is at least three step above Rogers level of Macro Economic Understanding.
Maybe someone can teach the Biden Supreme court nominee the basics of the Dred Scott ruling
Somehow, she missed that in all her schooling
What a "great legal mind"
Dems slam Republican ‘race-baiting’ CRT assails against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
TheGrio
Gerren Keith Gaynor
Wed, March 23, 2022, 8:00 AM·7 min read
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee and Stacey Plaskett exclusively speak with theGrio after Day 2 of the Senate confirmation hearings
Democrats condemned GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Republican National Committee (RNC) following Tuesday’s contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing that saw Republicans challenge nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on critical race theory, among other topics.
Speaking exclusively with theGrio, members of Congress lambasted Republicans after Senator Ted Cruz and the RNC used CRT as a political weapon against Judge Jackson.
As theGrio reported on Tuesday, during his 30-minute line of questioning Sen. Cruz attempted to tie Jackson to the legal academic discipline based on a speech in which she mentioned The 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah Jones, and subsequently, called out a list of books about race being taught at a private school in Washington, D.C. of which Jackson sits on its board of trustees.
Earlier in the day, the RNC tweeted a graphic of Judge Jackson’s picture with her initials “KBJ” being crossed out and replaced with “CRT” – indicating that the association was a deliberate political strategy.
U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas slammed the RNC’s tweet as “shameful,” telling theGrio that “Whoever or whatever provoked this racial attack should be exposed for their divisive wrong-headed attack.”
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (R) greets Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (R) greets Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“Judge Brown Jackson believes in equal justice in America. She is a patriot who loves this country. Stop this racial attack – enough is enough. The GOP is starting up their meritless smears,” said Jackson Lee. “To try and malign, disparage and denigrate this historic moment, this historic figure is shame on the other person, the shame of the people who provoked this and shame on the RNC.”
Similarly, U.S. Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands told theGrio that Sen. Cruz’s questioning of Jackson over CRT was an act of “race-baiting” and “dog whistles.”
Race baiting and fear of intelligent people.
One of the biggest problems of our nation is that there are a number of rightwing Americans who want LIES taught in our schools.
Lies about science,
lies about history,
lies about sociology,
lies about government.
The following demonstrates how deeply the desire for the teaching of such lies runs.
_________
How Russia and Right-Wing Americans Converged on War
March 23, 2022 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
NEW YORK TIMES:
“As war has raged, the Kremlin’s talking points and some right-wing discourse in the United States — fueled by those on the far right — have coalesced.
"On social media, podcasts and television, falsehoods about the invasion of Ukraine have flowed both ways,
with Americans amplifying lies from Russians
and with the Kremlin spreading fabrications
that festered in American forums online.
“By reinforcing and feeding each other’s messaging,
some right-wing Americans have given credibility to Russia’s assertions and vice versa.
"Together, they have created an alternate reality,
recasting the Western bloc of allies
as provokers,
blunderers
and liars,
which has bolstered Mr. Putin.”
BUT IN SPITE OF THAT
The U.S. Image Soars Across NATO Countries
12:30 pm EDT
With President Biden flying to Brussels Wednesday for a NATO summit, his diplomacy in his first year produced big gains in overseas approval of U.S. leadership,
Gallup reports.
Ukraine Must Win
12:15 pm EDT
Anne Applebaum:
“There must be an endgame, a moment when the conflict stops.
"The Ukrainians, and the democratic powers that support Ukraine, must work toward a goal.
“That goal should not be a truce,
or a muddle,
or a decision to maintain some kind of Ukrainian resistance over the next decade,
or a vow to ‘bleed Russia dry,’ or anything else that will prolong the fighting and the instability.
"That goal should be a Ukrainian victory.”
And of course Qoan paedophile accusations to James.
Attempts to weaken Judge Jackson’s nomination aside, the Democratic members of Congress said that Jackson’s record and performance during the hearings only proved she is well qualified for the job.
“I think it’s more important to indicate that [they] could not criticize the diversity of her background and that she probably stands as the most qualified judge ever sitting in that chair out of 115 nominees to the United States Supreme Court,” Jackson Lee told theGrio. “As a lawyer and 27 years on [U.S. House] Judiciary Committee, [I think] she knocked it out of the ballpark.”
Congresswoman Plaskett said that Jackson “is one of the most qualified individuals to sit on the bench and in the hyperbolic political world that we are in right now, they have to find something with which to eviscerate President Biden’s choice.”
She also criticized Republicans’ focus on past Supreme Court nominees, namely the contentious confirmation hearings of now Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Kavanaugh was infamously accused of sexual assault, which consumed his hearing in 2018, and Justice Barrett drew the ire of Democrats who opposed what they considered to be her ultra-right religious views and the concern that she was being installed by then-President Donald Trump to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision on abortion, Roe v. Wade.
“Because they can’t do that with the actual nominee they’re going back in time to discuss past hearings, which is absolutely ridiculous. To compare Justice Barrett to Ketanji Brown Jackson, who far outweighs her in terms of qualifications, is comparing apples to oranges,” said Plaskett.
“Judge Jackson is smart, is brilliant [and] has been confirmed three times. And in pursuit of this fourth confirmation to the highest court in the land has garnered the endorsement, not just of the civil rights community [and] the Fraternal Order of Police.”
“Her qualifications are impeccable,” he said, “and as Senator Booker made clear…she is a bridge-builder in a way that we certainly need in this country.”
Jealous added, “Despite the best efforts of the far right-wing of the Republican Party to burn bridges, the American people at the end of the day want more leaders like Judge Jackson, want more bridge builders, want more people who can earn the respect of the civil rights community and the law enforcement community and that’s why I’m so confident she’ll be confirmed.”
You have lost your mind.
Numerous independent fact-checkers examined this attack on Jackson and determined that it is bogus. The New York Times said Republicans are “distorting” Jackson’s record. The Associated Press said that Republicans “twist Ketanji Brown Jackson’s judicial record.” ABCNews warned of “a flurry of misleading allegations by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley.” Even the conservative National Review described the allegations against Jackson as a “smear” that “appears meritless to the point of demagoguery.”
Cruz and Hawley paid particular attention to one case — that of an 18-year-old Wesley Hawkins. Hawkins was still in high school when he committed his offense, which included sharing child abuse images and videos online and with an undercover detective. A psychological evaluation of Hawkins determined that “there is no indication that he is sexually interested in prepubescent children,” and that “his interest in watching teens engaged in homosexual activity was a way for him to explore his curiosity about homosexual activity and connect with his emotional peers.”
Although the guidelines recommended a minimum sentence of 97 months in prison for Hawkins, even the prosecution felt this was too harsh. Prosecutors recommended two years in prison for Hawkins, and Jackson sentenced him to three months of incarceration plus an additional 73 months of supervised release.
As Jackson explained during the hearing, all child pornography crimes are “heinous and egregious,” because the mere act of looking at such images helps create a market for content that can only be produced by abusing a child. But federal law requires judges to hand down a sentence that is “sufficient, but not greater than necessary” to punish a particular offender. And, in Hawkins’s case, the prosecution, the defense, probation officers, and ultimately Jackson all agreed that the guidelines’ recommended sentencing range was much too high.
Though these allegations are unlikely to derail Jackson’s confirmation — when crucial Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was asked about Hawley’s attack on the judge Monday, Manchin responded by questioning Hawley’s credibility — the stakes here are very high.
For one thing, at least according to polling data, a simply astonishing percentage of Republicans believe or believed in conspiracy theories tying top Democrats to child sex trafficking — as much as half of all Donald Trump supporters, according to a 2020 poll. Last year, 15 percent of Americans said they believed Satan-worshiping pedophiles ran the country.
At least two of the Truthers believe that
A Disturbing Percentage of Americans Fantasize About Racial Cleansing
The United States only makes sense when you accept that it is racist
Milo Woodbridge Williams, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In the United States, we allow people with mental issues to purchase military grade weapons and shoot up schools.
This is not normal behavior. It’s not normal for a society.
When mass shootings happen abroad, the governments of those countries take action to put an end to the violence. In 1996, Australia banned several types of firearms. The result was a dramatic decrease in firearm related violence.
It worked.
Of course it worked.
There are established case studies that prove our society could take action to stop gun violence and save innocent lives, yet we refuse to do so. Obviously, there’s something that matters more to US citizens than the health and well-being of our children. What is it?
The shocking answer has its roots in the Jim Crow era and the institution of slavery. It’s not even a secret. The idea of preserving racial identity is so mainstream that Tucker Carlson’s rants often echo the phrasing of white supremacists. Americans should know that words like “dilute,” “replacement,” and “birthright” all reference racial cleansing.
You hear these words a lot in America.
When second amendment advocates say they “want to protect their homes,” they’re not worried about crime. They’re not worried about their property being stolen. They’re obsessed with the abhorrent and racist concept of ethnic purity.
They demand access to military grade weapons because they want a race war. They believe one is coming. This terrifying idea is far more commonplace than you might believe.
That’s part of the reason why our society allows our children to die in school shootings. That’s why second amendment advocates display such unreasonable hysteria. None of this is a secret. There are many groups in the United States that declare the desire for a race war in plain language, and many more that make only a feeble effort to disguise their true ambitions.
Fringe groups are growing in power and launching violent, organized attacks. They’ve been calling for a race war for decades. They may be on the verge of launching one.
Concepts of “race war” have a long history in the United States, originating in fears of mass “servile insurrection” or slave revolt in antebellum America. During and after the Civil War, many Americans, convinced or fearful that whites and emancipated blacks could not peacefully coexist, warned of the prospect of race war. Ohio Congressman Chilton White, for example, opposed the arming of black troops during the Civil War, claiming it would end “in a war between the white and the black races.” Late nineteenth-century author Henry Whitcomb Holley warned of the possibility of “race war, just so soon as the intelligence of the negro becomes sufficiently acute to grasp the situation.” Typically, 19th century figures warning of “race war” claimed such a conflict would result in the “extermination” of the black race, although some raised the prospect of a white defeat — White Supremacists Embrace “Race War”
We can’t afford to ignore the crazy people in our population any longer. Trump’s presidency and hate rhetoric has clearly emboldened the worst percentage of our population, and it’s no secret that these groups have been stockpiling weapons for decades.
The American Thinker has your talking points..
Ketanji Brown Jackson's anti-constitutional, pro–child predator views
Today was the second day of hearings on the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a person Joe Biden nominated to the Supreme Court because she's a leftist Black woman. It revealed that she is anti-constitutional and anti-White and has a weird fondness for child sex predators.
Democrats' statements today boiled down to three things: (1) We are so excited that you're a Black female. (2) Republicans are racist for daring to inquire into your credentials and views. (3) Regarding those racist questions, we would never treat a Supreme Court nominee as disrespectfully as the Republicans are treating you. (Their disgraceful treatment of Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Comey Barrett, Clarence Thomas, and Robert Bork has been memory-holed.)
The real focus was on Jackson's disturbing views about child sexual predators, the Constitution, and race. Her answers revealed that she's either very dumb or very dishonest.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) already tweeted out last week Jackson's history of demanding and imposing lesser sentences and other punishments for people convicted of pedophilia or child pornography. His questions focused on an 18-year-old man facing ten years in prison to whom she gave a three-month sentence. The man possessed hardcore stuff:
Videos included those showing a 12-year-old male committing a sexual act, about which Hawley said. "I'm not gonna I'm not gonna read exactly what it was," because of the graphic nature of the content. There was another video showing an 8 year old "committing a sexual act," and still others, showing 11-year-olds, the rape of children by adult males, and "very lengthy and include numerous images, numerous views, sometimes collages, sometimes multiple victims, you see the act and progress, the government goes on to describe some of the masochistic images," Hawley said.
Jackson agreed that the crime was heinous but said she wanted to "redirect[] the defendants' attention" through punishments other than prison (limits on computer use, being kept from children, etc.). Hawley pointed out that her opinions did not give her the right to ignore Congress's laws.
Hawley also pressed Jackson about the fact that she thought the small size of the collection, rather than its appalling contents, mattered. He also noted that Jackson seemed to feel that the defendant (18) was just curious about his "peers" (8- to 13-year-olds) and that she'd apologized for sentencing him. The Post Millennial has an excellent rundown of the back-and-forth.
What's striking is how Jackson's answers so often sound almost logical, but they're not. This surreal quality was especially apparent when she explained why she thought existing child pornography laws are too harsh.
Huh? The sentences before the internet made porn readily accessible were very harsh, but now that porn is so easily available, it's wrong to punish people as hard as in the old days?
Jackson believes that, because she disagrees with Congress, she can ignore the law.
Jackson's views about the Constitution and race are also disturbing. First, she claimed that, even though she sits on the board of a pricey D.C. elementary school, she knew nothing about the way the school taught racial theories derived from Critical Race Theory, and it didn't matter to her work anyway:
In fact, Jackson has long been an admirer of Critical Race theorists and claims to support the doctrines they espouse:
What does this boil down to? It means that a person seeking to be installed as a Supreme Court justice — sworn to uphold the Constitution she's charged with interpreting — buys into an ideological theory that says the Constitution is "roach powder" and inherently racist, making the American nation rotten from root to branch. Her beliefs cannot coexist with being on the Supreme Court. It's like trapping matter and anti-matter in the same space.
I sincerely hope that the usual suspects (Senators Romney, Collins, Murkowski, and Sasse) understand that Jackson's open embrace of the ideas underlying CRT (even if she refuses the label) and her sympathy for child sexual predators prove conclusively that she is unfit for the Supreme Court.
Ketanji Brown Jackson's anti-constitutional, pro–child predator views
As many as 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since the invasion of Ukraine began four weeks ago, according to NATO's first estimate since the war began.
Russia has suffered 30,000 to 40,000 battlefield casualties, including 7,000 to 15,000 killed, a senior NATO military officer said in a briefing Wednesday from the alliance’s military headquarters in Belgium.
The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by NATO, said the estimated deaths are based on information from the Ukrainian government, indications from Russia and open-source information. The officer said the number of casualties came from a calculation of three wounded soldiers for every soldier killed. Casualties include killed, wounded or missing in action as well as those taken prisoner.
Earlier this week a senior Pentagon official estimated the Russian military had lost more than 10% of the combat force.
Those were young men who died. When I see it I'm reminded of M*A*SH. Wars are terrible.
A great American immigrant!
Madeleine Albright, the 64th U.S. secretary of state and the first woman to ever serve in the role, has died of cancer, her family said. She was 84.
In a statement posted to her Twitter page, Albright's family wrote that she died Wednesday "surrounded by family and friends."
Albright, born Marie Jana Korbelova, migrated from Prague to the U.S. in 1948, rising in American politics before becoming the secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Last 11 posts are from Roger. Boring. I'm out.
Roger, last Friday you said Joe was restoring US Oil production, got one of your "live updates"?
Has Joe got oil coming from Venezuela and Iran, yet?
One of the biggest problems of our nation is that there are a number of rightwing Americans who want LIES taught in our schools.
Lies about science,
lies about history,
lies about sociology,
lies about government.
The following demonstrates how deeply the desire for the teaching of such lies runs.
Well this particular conservative believes that the United State Public Schools should be teaching what our counterparts are teaching in China, India, Philippines, etc... Friend of mine from Australia is shocked that there is no teaching of computer code even as a choice before high school.
To be clear... our counterparts are not teaching about racism, about transgenderism, or any other "ism" at all. They are teaching them about Math and Science, and things that will allow them to develop into people who will eventually take our high paying jobs and only deal with Americans when they order food at McDonalds (because teaching wokism over math and transgenderism over biology will leave them with the basic skills to ask if they want fries with that order).
Facts don't root for either Party.
Including information about our dark history, is not propaganda.
Several of the founding fathers were slave owners. It wasn't until the 1960s African Americans were not allowed to vote or go to schools with white children...
Teaching kids about that is not going to hate your family.
You are scared of thecoldheartedtruth about our history, because people who think about this world we live in will vote for people who want to make changes. MAGA was designed to go back in history and impose voting discrimination by state law.. Because people like you believe the big lie.
Educated people and well informed people, like me, vote for Democrats.
Anit-Fascits saved the world from Facism in World War Two. The greatest generation in history also created NATO and the cold war. The babyboomers and their parents destroyed The Soviet Union in 1991.
If people like you win, the Russians and the Chinese government will replace the United States from being the best symbol of freedom.
Having a college degree doesn't mean that you are smarter or well informed...
wokism
Propaganda
Having a college degree doesn't mean that you are smarter or well informed...
Nope! Me being smarter and better informed than you has nothing to do with a degree.
Most of the other Republicans letting the racism fly aren't even bothering with the unconvincing walk backs. As with Cruz, the Republican National Committee also made clear that "critical race theory" is just the right's newest effort to craft a racial slur they think they can get away with on camera. The RNC tweeted out this gruesome meme where they replace Jackson's initials with "CRT."
There are just so many more examples I hate to report.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee used her hearing time to hector Jackson about "so-called white privilege." Note that the presence of a twit like Blackburn in the Senate is inarguable proof of the concept. Tucker Carlson of Fox News insisted it has "degraded" and "diminished" the country to have Jackson on the court, and she should be replaced with "a rap star off the street."
The concept of the racist "dog whistle" is a quaint relic from the pre-Donald Trump era. It's all bullhorns and the GOP tweeting memes that would not be out of place on a white nationalist website.
To be certain, this berserker mode racism is sincerely felt. Modern Republicanism is a clearinghouse for every mediocre person who coasts on white and/or male privilege. They are incredibly threatened at the idea that they might have to compete with women and people of color who are smarter than them. Black women, being both Black and women, draw twice as much vitriol. It's a phenomenon so widespread that there's even a specific word for the bigotry they face: "Misogynoir." Witness the endless, pointless hate that explodes from Republicans every time they're reminded that Vice President Kamala Harris exists, which often turns on white men insisting she's not as smart as she very obviously is.
Smart African Americans and Asian women scare the shit out your mind.
You are not smarter and better informed than me.
Ryan James Girdusky
https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1506621609913851911
(Selzer poll - national)
Do you approve/disapprove of the job Biden is doing?
Overall: 34/52
GOP: 6/89
Dems: 70/13
Indie: 31/52
Men: 33/56
Women: 36/48
Under 35: 27/51
Over 65: 38/51
White: 31/59
Non-white: 40/39
The sound of a dead cat's bounce falling flat.
Don't recall seeing such a uniformed disapproval of a president
and it keeps getting worse
despite big tech and the MSM trying to prop him up
A dismal failure
we are fucked
Judge Jackson initially tried to rebuff Senator Hawley’s attempt to rough her up by dwelling again on the details of child pornography possession cases she had sentenced, saying she had already answered questions about why the guidelines are obsolete and would stand by those old answers. (The guidelines were written when physical mail was how such images were shared, so small differences in volume mattered; now the internet has made sharing of enormous archives instantaneous so the old numbers no longer capture gradations in culpability.) But that approach let Senator Hawley keep indignantly demanding to know why she wouldn’t answer. Judge Jackson then shifted strategy, instead going again through that already-told explanation in great detail — and thereby chewing up the remainder of Senator Hawley’s time.
Mark G
https://twitter.com/lordbuckly/status/1506449813482586112
Men can get pregnant. Food prices are stable. Ukraine is a democracy.
Joe Biden's views
and his Supreme Court pick can't define a woman
we are fucked
Judge Jackson initially tried to rebuff Senator Hawley’s attempt to rough her up by dwelling again on the details of child pornography possession cases
It's pretty simple, Roger. When the Prosecution and the sentencing guidelines both called for two to five years, she was sentencing to three months.
That seems to be a problem that cannot be tossed aside with rhetoric or screams of racism.
If you were smarter, you wouldn't be falling for that nonsense written in that article. But you are not.
Hey alky laws are not "obsolete" until new laws are written
A judge's job is to follow the law
not ignore existing law and write new laws on her own
That's the job of the legislature
stop trying to defend someone who doesn't even know what a woman is
just makes you look even dumber
try going out for a walk
You are not smarter and better informed than me.
Yeah Alky, you’re legend in your own mind
LOL
Blogger The Real Halfbaked Soars Pundit said...
You are not smarter and better informed than me.
Alky, the last two dogs I've had here were definitely smarter and arguably better informed than you.
You needed a union goon to tell which nail to drive and which nail to bend.
EVERYTHING you post here is stolen from someone else.
EVERY-FUCKING-THING.
The 5th Beatle isn't the crazy one in your little duet, alky.
It's YOU.
Having a college degree doesn't mean that you are smarter or well informed...
Alky,
The majority of the dairy farmers (milk cattle ranchers to you) I knew growing up never went past HS. And all of them, to a man, and a couple of women, were in some capacity on any given day:
Herdsmen
Geneticists
Mechanics
Carpenters
Welders
Excavators
Veterinarians
Soil Scientists
Agronomists
And by comparison you haven't amounted to a pinch of shit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UBj4Rbq3ZI
It's too bad no one in your family ever taught you humility. I've never known anyone so lacking in it.
Confirmation Hearings
Graham takes a caustic tone in questioning Jackson
Jonathan Weisman
March 23, 2022, 2:09 p.m.
for The New York Times
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson got into the most heated exchange of Wednesday morning after the senator revived a line of attack on the judge’s sentencing record in cases involving images of child sexual abuse.
For Mr. Graham, the exchange was reminiscent of his angry diatribe during the caustic confirmation hearings of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
The flashes of temper were particularly striking coming from a senator who voted less than a year ago to confirm Judge Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Mr. Graham’s aggressive questioning of Judge Jackson over the past two days — which has included rapid-fire rhetorical questions, frequent interruptions and some lengthy, fiery lectures — suggested that he was unlikely to back her for the nation’s highest court.
UNDERSTATEMENT.
On Tuesday, Mr. Graham made it clear he was still angry that President Biden had chosen to nominate Judge Jackson over his preferred candidate, Judge J. Michelle Childs, who is from his home state. On Wednesday, he seemed to hold Judge Jackson personally responsible for the treatment that Democrats meted out to Justice Kavanaugh: “He was ambushed,” Mr. Graham thundered. “How would you feel if we did that to you?”
But the real heat of the exchange came when the senator revisited accusations that Judge Jackson had been particularly lenient in her sentencing in cases involving images of child sexual abuse. At one point, he said of consumers of child sex abuse imagery, “put their ass in jail.”
Judge Jackson tried to explain how such cases had changed since Congress passed a law that enhanced sentences based on the number of images found in possession of a defendant. At the time of the law, such images primarily came through the mail, and the number of images indicated the lengths that a consumer had gone to obtain them.
But, she tried to explain over Mr. Graham’s repeated interruptions, in the internet age, huge stores of images can be acquired with a few clicks of a mouse.
“You can be doing this for 15 minutes, and all of a sudden you are looking at 30, 40, 50 years in prison,” she said,
when Mr. Graham interrupted,
“Good, absolutely good.”
Judge Jackson, a former member of a federal sentencing commission that examined the issue, continued,
“Senator, I am trying to explain that our sentencing system that Congress created, the system the sentencing commission is a steward of, is a rational one. It is designed to help judges do justice in the terrible circumstances by eliminating unwarranted disparities, by ensuring that the most serious defendants get the longest periods of time.”
That teed up Mr. Graham’s biting closing shot: “We are trying to get people to stop this crap,” he snapped, adding, “All I can say is that your view on how to deter child pornography is not my view. I think you are doing it wrong, and every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited.”
After the questioning, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and the dean of the Senate, called Mr. Graham’s performance “beyond the pale,” telling reporters, “I’m just distressed to see this kind of a complete breakdown of what’s normally the way the Senate’s handled.”
Reporter: "What did you think of the hearings?"
Senator Leahy:
'It was going well until this last last line of questioning which was an abrogation of everything the Senate should stand for. A Republican member went way the over time allotted, ignoring the rules of the committee, badgering the nominee, would not ever let her answer the questions. I ... I've never seen anything like it. I've been here 48 years. Here we have a highly respected and respectable nominee, to be treated that way. No matter what the political might be or what political motivation, to see the badgering of this woman as she was trying to testify -- I thought it was outrageous."
Senators Behaving Badly
5:00 pm EDT
Charlie Sykes:
“As we contemplate the vetting process that gives us judges who are qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, perhaps we also ought to give some thought to the vetting process we use for the kind of people who serve in the U.S. Senate.
“Because, I regret to inform you that, once again, they are not behaving well.”
Anti-Abortion Lt. Governor Once Paid for Abortion
5:22 PM
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), who frequently rails against abortion rights, paid for a woman to have an abortion after impregnating her in 1989, Axios reports.
PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT?
U.S. Military Officials Met with Russian General
5:18 PM
A rare face-to-face meeting between Russian and US military officials last week led to an “outburst” of emotion from a normally stoic Russian general, a “revealing moment” that the Americans present believe hinted at larger morale problems in Russia’s military,
CNN reports.
It’s unclear why the meeting was held or the circumstances behind it.
See the article I added below at the end of the "Why Democrats complain" thread at 4:58 and 5:01 PM.
Tim Young
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1506715245485690883
2016 - Believe all women.
2022 - I'm not a biologist, so I don't know what a woman is.
Hunter is the brightest person Joe knows and his supreme court pick can't even define a woman
btw how all that work going on our southern border
certainly by now you have found the "root cause"
goes by the alias the "big guy"
worst and most corrupt president in history
we are fucked
Hey Reverend....
Did the Republicans stop the vote so they could bring in someone she never knew in High School to say she raped that person at some Party she could not remember, at a house that didn't exist, and with people who denied having any remembrance of it?
Then bring in a attorney (who will become a convicted criminal) pull in a witness who claims she was a 30 year old at High School parties where the nominee was involved in gang rape?
Or did they just ask questions specific to rulings and legal stuff?
Just curious....
Senator Hawley Press Office
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/SenHawleyPress/status/1506732678581735431
Senator Hawley presses Judge Jackson on if she regrets sentencing 3 months to child porn offender despite recommendations suggesting a much higher sentence. She is unwilling to answer.
“Do you have anything to add?”
KBJ: “No, Senator.”
well if she doesn't get confirmed she can go to work on the Lincoln Project
or for a bunch of other pedophile democrats
She can't even defend herself
Izengabe
https://mobile.twitter.com/Izengabe_/status/1506731059219767297
If KBJ was a conservative Republican the media would tracking down the victims of the pedophiles she gave light sentences to for hitjob interviews, highlighting the GITMO terrorist she defended & SNL would run cold open sketches about her not knowing what a woman was.
Comfortably Smug
If a republican had nominated her this would be over
Total trainwreck
Somehow Libs will say having no answers to these questions is girlboss
it should be over
if there wasn't inequity between democrats and republicans
Catturd ™
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1506628367340216324
Breaking …
Dating apps to temporary shutdown until they can find enough biologists to tell people which way to swipe.
If KBJ was a conservative Republican the media would tracking down the victims of the pedophiles she gave light sentences to for hitjob interviews
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! If fucked up only had a brain he might be dangerous......
WOW must have taken you all day to come up with that VERY lo iq
ROFLMFAO !!!
You support domestic terrorism and censorship.
Freedom to Teach Statement
School districts, the most active battlefield in the American culture wars today, are facing an unprecedented number of calls to remove books from schools and libraries, false claims about “obscenity” invading classrooms, the elimination of teaching about evolution and climate change, challenges to the need for making sense of and critiquing our world in mathematics classrooms, and legislation redlining teaching about racism in American history. These actions are putting excessive and undue pressure on teachers, who are caught in the crossfire of larger political conflict, motivated by cultural shifts and stoked for political gain.
Teachers are being maligned as “harming” children and are subjected to constant scrutiny (and even direct surveillance) by many parents, school administrators, and activist groups. Some are afraid to offer their students award-winning books that may violate vaguely stated laws about teaching the history of racism or that may be misleadingly labeled as pornographic. As a result, teachers’ very ability to do their job is under threat.
In their zeal, activists of the current culture wars unfortunately treat teachers as if they are enemies. The truth is that teachers are uniquely important leaders who, in educating current and new generations of students, bear responsibility for this country’s future. They are trained professionals with one of the hardest and most demanding jobs, a job that requires deep commitment, but brings little financial reward.
Teachers need our support; they need our trust; they need to have the freedom to exercise their professional judgment. And that freedom includes the freedom to decide what materials best suit their students in meeting the demands of the curriculum, the freedom to discuss disturbing parts of American history if and when they judge students are ready for it, and the freedom to determine how to help young people navigate the psychological and social challenges of growing up. In short, teachers need the freedom to prepare students to become future members of a democratic society who can engage in making responsible and informed contributions and decisions about our world.
The stakes are too high. We cannot let good teachers leave the field because they no longer have the freedom to do their jobs. We cannot let the education of our children and young adults become collateral damage in partisan political machinations.
Authored by the four professional organizations for teachers: National Council for the Social Studies, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Council of Teachers of English, National Science Teaching Association, and the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Let’s Go Brandon
Russian oil sale to India complicates Biden's efforts
An Indian government official said that the country will increase its imports of Russian oil on Friday, allowing it to boost energy supplies at a discount as its economy struggles to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. The official, who was not authorised to talk to reporters and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the latest purchase was 3 million barrels.
Strained relationship
Although India isn't alone in buying Russian energy — several European allies such as Germany have continued to do so — the decision conflicts with Biden's efforts to isolate Russia's economy with sanctions.
The increased flow of oil could further strain the relationship between Washington and New Delhi, which has already been tested by India's recent procurement of advanced Russian air defence systems. The White House is still considering whether to enact sanctions on India for that purchase.
The issue is being looked at with a “different spin” following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to a US official familiar with the Biden administration's deliberations.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal decision-making.
Balancing act
The oil deal is a reminder of how the war in Ukraine has created a complicated geopolitical balancing act for Biden. Even as he tries to rally countries to oppose Russia's invasion, he also sees India as a critical partner for countering China's rising influence in Asia.
You support domestic terrorism and censorship.
Wow Roger...
Who is "you" and what portion of your feeble mind came to the logical conclusion that some person's "opinion" is now your absolute truth and everyone on the other side of the aisle must believe the opposite.
Did you know that black and white thinking is a trait held by most below average thinkers? In fact, the correlation is amazingly strong. You seem very tied to the "black and white" "us vs them" approach to thinking.
It's why you probably play checkers rather than chess.
It's why you probably play checkers rather than chess.
He plays pigeon chess and he’s the pigeon
Never play chess with a pigeon.
The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over.
Then shits all over the board.
Then struts around like it won
t's why you probably play checkers rather than chess.
Wow Lil Schitty!!!!!!! That's rather white of you!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! How's your job search or are you just day trading?????
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