A quick clip with from RCP, "Mollie Hemingway: Manner With Which Media Covering Comey Story Borderline Delusional."
And at Fox News, the inimitable Charles Krauthammer:
Friday, May 12, 2017
Thanks to the Reader Who Bought John Keegan's, The Face of Battle
Actually, thanks to all my readers for visiting the blog, reading my posts and sharing, and of course shopping through my Amazon links. I greatly appreciate it.
But here I wanted to give a shout out to my reader who picked up a copy of Keegan's, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. That's a classic book. It was cited in the footnotes of my scholarly readings in grad school, all the time. I had kind of a flashback moment seeing the title pop up in my associate's statistics page.
Thanks again!
But here I wanted to give a shout out to my reader who picked up a copy of Keegan's, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme. That's a classic book. It was cited in the footnotes of my scholarly readings in grad school, all the time. I had kind of a flashback moment seeing the title pop up in my associate's statistics page.
Thanks again!
Teaching Racism in K-12 Classrooms
From Matthew Vadum, at FrontPage Magazine, "Leftist educators are corrupting the young":
Teaching Racism in K-12 Classrooms @fpmaghttps://t.co/1s86edlNBO— All American Girl (@AIIAmericanGirI) May 9, 2017
Teachers at Highlands Elementary, a school in Edina, Minnesota, are indoctrinating five-year-olds in order to radicalize them and encourage them to become activists obsessed with race.More.
Public school teachers across America already saturate students with information about racial injustice in America in a nonstop barrage of historic facts and ahistorical nonsense. And in the culture at large, the media, politicians, and the entertainment industry can’t stop talking about race. The last thing any young student in America needs is to be taught about is race. Race matters only to radicals.
Leftists believe you have to get ’em while they’re young and impressionable.
Marxist theorist Paolo Freire advocated in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, that schools be used to inculcate radical values in students so they become agents of social change. Freire held that the so-called dominant pedagogy “silences” poor and minority children and that there is no such thing as a neutral educational system.
Joining Freire in his desire to use the educational system to level institutions is unrepentant communist terrorist and education theorist Bill Ayers, who has long advocated poisoning the minds of the young so they can agitate to fundamentally transform American society.
“If we want change to come, we would do well not to look at the sites of power we have no access to; the White House, the Congress, the Pentagon,” he said in 2012. “We have absolute access to the community, the school, the neighborhood, the street, the classroom, the workplace, the shop, the farm.”
This brings us to Highlands Elementary, which is located in one of the most affluent cities in Minnesota. Its school district is among the best in the state, Daniel Lattier reports at Intellectual Takeout. Highlands students do well in standardized testing: more than 85 percent of its students are proficient in reading and math.
But racial and social justice indoctrination have found their way onto the Highlands curriculum over the past year, according to Lattier. The phenomenon is not limited to Highlands, he adds. “[A] large percentage of students in public schools today are being trained to view the world primarily through the lenses of race, class, and gender.”
Katie Mahoney, who took over as principal of Highlands last fall, is proud of the school’s “Melanin Project.” She tweeted April 26: “Kindergarten tackles the Melanin project! @edinaschools @LeslieStageberg[.]” (Leslie Stageberg is a teacher.)
A poster made of construction paper is shown that reads, "Stop thinking your skin color is better than anyone elses[sic]! Everyone is Special!"
This message in itself isn’t sinister. American children shouldn’t be taught skin color is a mark of superiority, inferiority, or of anything in particular.
But one has to question the appropriateness of getting intellectually, emotionally immature Kindergarteners thinking about skin color at all, before they know how to think critically.
Why the rush?
It is to soften young minds in order to make the indoctrination process easier throughout students’ time in school. If a young child is already self-righteously hyperventilating about race and supposed systemic racism in America, it makes that child more susceptible to other leftist ideas.
The Highlands Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) wasn’t lying when it stated in the banner photo of its Facebook page that “Highlands is Planting Seeds of Change.”
Something else about the Melanin Project is disturbing. Discussions of melanin have an ugly pedigree. Racists are particularly fascinated by melanin.
Radical activists use melanin for political purposes, spewing pseudoscientific nonsense to create the illusion that their warped ideas about race somehow have an empirical basis in science. Melanin itself, a blanket term for a group of pigments, is the primary determinant of human skin color. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun triggers a process by which an amino acid called tyrosine becomes melanin, which protects the skin from sun damage. The thinking is that over time the more a population is exposed to the sun, the more melanin is generated and the darker their skin.
Leonard Jeffries Jr., a black studies professor at the City College of New York, is an influential thinker on the black racist Left. This Afrocentrist academic embraces “melanin theory,” maintaining that melanin possesses supernatural powers and makes those who have large quantities of it smarter and stronger than those who don’t. Blacks are therefore, peaceful and compassionate “sun people,” and are culturally and racially superior to whites, the violent, cruel “ice people.” Melanin empowers black people to “negotiate the vibrations of the universe and to deal with the ultraviolet rays of the sun," Jeffries says.
This fetishizing of human anatomy is surprisingly commonplace on the Left. The low-rent James Baldwin wannabe, Ta-Nehisi Coates, now the toast of bicoastal elites and academics, talks about “black bodies” as objects worthy of veneration without regard to the individuals occupying them. His phraseology is now boilerplate among members of the violent, racist Black Lives Matter movement.
Highlands was recently awarded a grant that will allow fourth- and fifth-graders to take part in the Stages Theatre Company’s “Perspectives on Peace” (PoP) project, Lattier notes. PoP is run by Nikki Swoboda, “whose directorial credits include: “Virgin Territory,” which “tak[es] a hard look at the ‘ideals’ of virginity and how those are perceived in society”; and “Ball: A Musical Tribute to My Lost Testicle.”
PoP promotional material states that the project “illuminates current world events and broadens students’ attitudes toward tolerance, respect, understanding, and peace…” A promotional video for PoP that was linked to in an email sent to Highlands parents associates Black Lives Matter with “peace.”
At South View Middle School in Edina, older students are encouraged to get involved in something called Dare 2 Be Real. A presentation slide that begins with “Be The Change You Wish To See In The World! – Mahatma Gandhi” states [emphases in original]...
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Sunny San Diego Morning
Lovely.
At the San Diego Union-Tribune:
At the San Diego Union-Tribune:
While many toiled in the city some played on a sunny San Diego morning. pic.twitter.com/MrySmomBEz
— The Union-Tribune (@sdut) May 11, 2017
Xenia Deli Swimsuit on the Beach
At Drunken Stepfather, "SUGAR BABY XENIA DELI ON THE BEACH OF THE DAY."
BONUS: "Xenia Deli's Naked Beach Shoot from Last Year of the Day."
BONUS: "Xenia Deli's Naked Beach Shoot from Last Year of the Day."
What is Socialism?
Following-up from Tuesday, "Victims of Communism Day."
From the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an awesome video:
From the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, an awesome video:
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Jackie Johnson's Cooler Temperatures Forecast
It'll be cooler Thursday and Friday, and then back up into the 70s for the weekend.
I'm not complaining. It's been mild.
Here's the lovely Ms. Jackie, whose forecast I didn't get a chance to post last night, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
I'm not complaining. It's been mild.
Here's the lovely Ms. Jackie, whose forecast I didn't get a chance to post last night, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:
Krauthammer on Comey Firing and Leftist Backlash: 'Democrats Are Hypocrites from the Day of Their Birth. It's in Their DNA' (VIDEO)
Watch, from today's "all-star panel" on Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier, "Trump defends firing Comey amid Democratic backlash."
Dems have been complaining for months & months about Dir. Comey. Now that he has been fired they PRETEND to be aggrieved. Phony hypocrites!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2017
Joanna Krupa Smoldering Instagram Throwback
At the Daily Express U.K., "Joanna Krupa puts on a very busty display as she goes TOPLESS in smoldering snap: JOANNA KRUPA gave her fans a treat as she shared a topless shot of herself on her Instagram page last night."
BONUS: At the Nip Slip, "Joanna Krupa in a Brown Dress!"
BONUS: At the Nip Slip, "Joanna Krupa in a Brown Dress!"
Anthony Summers, The Arrogance of Power
A timely read, and excellent too.
From Anthony Summers, at Amazon, The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon.
From Anthony Summers, at Amazon, The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon.
Today's Deals
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BONUS: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men.
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BONUS: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men.
Actor Antonio Sabato, Jr., to Run for Congress
The conservative television star was supposedly blackballed from Hollywood after campaigning for President Trump's election last year, at the GOP convention.
He's a stud, and a solid bedrock conservative family man.
We need more guys like him in Congress:
He's a stud, and a solid bedrock conservative family man.
We need more guys like him in Congress:
The former “Melrose Place” actor could be the next celebrity headed to Washington https://t.co/0Co7uQGKJ4
— New York Post (@nypost) May 9, 2017
Constitutional Crisis?
Following-up, from the hyper-dramatic Morning Joe segment (whatever sells airtime, I guess), here's Elizabeth Price Foley, at Politico:
It's a partisan witch-hunt.
Democrats are corrupt, evil, and un-American. It's been six month since the election. There's no evidence of Russian collusion or hacking of our democracy. It's a partisan scam.
Just duck beneath all the bullshit flying today.
Is This a Constitutional Crisis? No. Next question? https://t.co/ipddJ1k2lh @instapundit— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 10, 2017
'Trump made the only legally correct call'It's not a constitutional crisis.
Elizabeth Price Foley is a professor of law at Florida International University.
The FBI director, like all other officers of the executive branch, is an at will employee, which means he can be fired at any time, at the sole discretion of the president. When the deputy attorney general concluded that Director Comey usurped the role of the Department of Justice in his decision not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton, President Trump made the only legally correct call, to fire the director. The country deserves an FBI director who respects his limited role as an investigator, and whose reputation is not sullied by inappropriately political behavior. If there is any ongoing FBI investigation into any of Trump's associates, this investigation can and will continue unabated. This is far from a constitutional crisis--it is a confirmation that the Constitution is working exactly as it should.
It's a partisan witch-hunt.
Democrats are corrupt, evil, and un-American. It's been six month since the election. There's no evidence of Russian collusion or hacking of our democracy. It's a partisan scam.
Just duck beneath all the bullshit flying today.
Olivia Culpo
Lovely.
Beautiful Olivia Culpo steps out in white dress and satin trench in NYC: https://t.co/auAqVpimYV
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 10, 2017
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