Mar 232021
 

City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA

The student got a B in PE, and D’s in English I and Health Ed I. Failed *everything* else. The mother was aware of this. And now that the student is approaching the date when he should have graduated high school, he’s been informed that he will have to repeat *all* of High School, straight back to 9th grade. *Hundreds* of students this school have failed worse than this one. After essentially failing English 1 (he got a D-), he was promoted to English 2. Which he failed. And was then promoted to English 3. Which he failed. He was absent or late 272 times.

The video at the link is entertainingly depressing in a “this is the future” sort of way. Shockingly, the mother claims that her lil’ scholar didn’t “deserve” to be failed. She blames the school for this. The says that her son feels like a failure… and that he *shouldn’t* feel like that. Even though… ummm… he’s a failure. How else to describe someone who got a 0.13 and basically ditched school? “Who do he turn to?” she asks, making it clear right off how someone can fail English. “Don’t he get a chance?” she ax, missing the point that he had four years worth of chances.

The former principal of the school was placed on administrative leave for 17 months while an investigation was carried out. During that time, she made $190,000.

The “city” in question is Baltimore.

The student failed.

The parent(s) failed.

The school failed.

The city government failed.

The voters who kept voting for the machine running Baltimore failed.

The political party running Baltimore is the same one that wants to have complete control over who gets to exercise Constitutional rights.

I’ve mentioned before that I have a fix for this sort of thing. To all appearances, this was a student who wads not only failed by the system and his family, he seemed to have no interest in doing any of the schoolwork himself. OK, fine. For such students, let them out at the end of, say, the 10th grade. tehn let them enter the work force. A few options:

1: Get a real job. Flip burgers, dig ditches, whatever.

2: Go in the the new Works Projects Administration. He and a few hundred thousand or million of his like-mined non-academics can receive pay and training and room and board from the government, and get a chance to see the country. They’d get loaded onto buses or trains and shipped to rural areas to work the farms, doing the jobs that illegal aliens did before the laws were finally enforced and they were all deported.

3: Do nothing. Fine, it’s a free country, can’t, shouldn’t and won’t force anyone to do anything. But also, no welfare of any kind. Ever.

4: After six months of uninterrupted employment or WPA service, they can elect to go back to school… where they will maintain at least a 2.0 GPA and a spotless behavioral record. Or back to the WPA.

 Posted by at 10:48 pm
Mar 232021
 

Obama blasts ‘cowardly’ GOP for blocking gun-control laws limiting ‘weapons of war’ amid Boulder mass shooting

“But we can make it harder for those with hate in their hearts to buy weapons of war”

How can you make it harder? Weapons of war tend to cost TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS for American citizens, along with onerous and rights-stomping regulations. “Weapons of war” are almost never used criminally in the United States.

Go away, Barack. You’ve done enough damage to this country. Your legacy of economic and cultural disaster lives on in BidenHarris; let that be enough for you. Don’t add “helped start a civil war” to your ignominious list of disastrous achievements.

 Posted by at 6:34 pm
Mar 232021
 

This is an interesting looking aircraft, an electric VTOL “air taxi.” it looks like it sprang from the mind of Burt Rutan. No so sure about those vertical lift rotors, though. The range of the Beta Technologies “Alia-250” is to be 250 nautical miles, at which point it needs to recharge. Not sure how long *that* would take; if cars are anything to judge by, it could easily be a number of hours. I wonder how well the aircraft would perform if the batteries were replaced with a small turboshaft engine driving a generator. I also wonder how well it would perform if you removed all the pilot and passenger accommodations, made it autonomous, and loaded it with anti-tank missiles.

 Posted by at 2:34 pm
Mar 232021
 

Let’s see how they twist this into more “white supremacist violence:”

Suspect in Colorado grocery store shooting charged with 10 counts of murder, police say

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the 21-year-old suspect in Monday’s massacre at the King Soopers supermarket in the Colorado city of Boulder, faces 10 counts of murder in the first degree, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold said Tuesday.

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. You can’t get a more MAGA-riffic name than that.

It should be interesting to see the demographics of the victims. (UPDATE: see the end of the post) What I’ve seen so far all indicate a particular ethnic group. Will violence against that particular ethnic group be called out and denounced by the media and out Political Leaders?

UPDATE: A whole bunch of Twitter blue check marks outed themselves as racists… including President Harris’ niece.

UPDATE: This should be considered hearsay until it’s not (I trust “unnamed sources as much as anyone who heard “unnamed sources” claim that Trump colluded with the Russians):

UPDATE: the victims.

All the same ethnicity. Will the media wail about the rise in violence against that ethnicity?

 Posted by at 11:57 am
Mar 232021
 

So as the new Harris/Biden administration came in, they and their allies in Congress started a push for new gun control, up to and including making it a federal crime to own what you already own. But there hasn’t been a lot of forward motion on these bills.

So all of a sudden…

1 Police Officer Among 10 Killed In Boulder King Soopers Shooting

Which follows on from:

8 Dead in Atlanta Spa Shootings, With Fears of Anti-Asian Bias

I suspect that the Alex Jones types will start yapping about these being planned attacks intended to bolster the gun grabber agenda. That seems incredibly unlikely to me, though the timing seems interesting. Less likely than Lefties planning and carrying out attacks like this is the idea that Lefties being in powwer drives whackos slightly more whacko.

Normal day-to-day murders do not float gun grabbers boat, because reasons. But mass shootings? They’ll be on that like a fat kid on a Twix. As a general rule, I never trust any politician or political movement or ideology that thrives on disaster and tragedy. But the fact that I don’t like ’em doesn’t mean they don’t exist or aren’t effective.

UPDATE: And the inevitable totalitarian power-grab:

Thought you were having difficulty finding ammo *now*?

 Posted by at 12:58 am
Mar 222021
 

Once again Project Veritas does the job the rest of the media refuses to, showing how the Biden/Harris administration is stacking up kids in cages like cheap foil-wrapped gas station burritos.

A lot of these illegals are infected with Covid… and they are being packed together. And *then* they’ll be shipped out to various locations across the US, generally “red state” regions. Feel free to guess whether or not this will be interpreted as the administration carrying out an act of biological warfare against red states. Rather than deporting them back across the border, they’re being flown north to near the Canadian border among other places; a further $86 million is being spent to procure hotel rooms in Texas and Arizona to house  illegal aliens. Note that the aliens aren’t paying for these rooms… *taxpayers* are.

 

 Posted by at 2:23 pm