Twitter has admitted to shadowbanning a tweet by The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis in order to “keep people safe.”
Source: Tyler Durden: “Sorry citizen, some facts are just too dangerous for your own good”
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I’m not sure about what can be done about education. But the first step toward any solution is for the American people to be aware of academic fraud that occurs at every level of education.
Source: College Cheating Scandal, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate
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How about getting the Gooferment out of Gooferment Skrules?
Separation of Government and Education at all levels!
That’s the way to start.
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Bullying is a serious problem that can cause tragic results if measures are not taken to fight against it. According to PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center, more than 1 out of 5 students report being bullied in the US, which is more than 20% of all students.
Source: Mom Shares Story About How Her 9-Year-Old Got Sweet Revenge On Her Bully
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When I was bullied in First Grade, my Mom said: “You stand up for yourself and take care of this. However is up to you, but it’s YOUR PROBLEM, no one else’s.”
Hmmm, be careful what you tell a human being to do. They just might surprise you.
Now everyone in Catholic School in that day and age had a “book bag”. And, being a Catholic School, we always had heavy books to lug back and forth. I think that the good Nuns and Brothers had, as an article of faith, that carrying a big heavy book would impart knowledge by osmosis.
Any way, I was friends with the only black child in my class. Maybe that’s why I was singled out for all sorts of harassment. So the morning after my Mom’s “advice”, first thing, before we assembled in lines by class, I walked up to the biggest of my bullies and, without a word, swung my extra heavy book bag with all the oomph I could muster right “up the chute” to his crotch. Naturally, he went down like a rag doll and started to puke. One of the Brothers ran over and “arrested me” sending me to Brother Principal’s office. It was next to Sister Principal’s office. The Nuns coming by scowled, but more than one of the Brothers gave me a disapproving but wry grin.
My Mom was summoned. She, obviously was expecting something, because she didn’t go to work early like she usually did. So she arrives on scene and goes into the office with a bunch of Nuns and Brothers. After, what seemed to be a long time, I was summoned in. I thought I’d get expelled.
Brother Principal asked my if I was sorry for what I’d done. My mouth, leading its own life, said: “Respectfully, Brother Principal, No.” My Mom half smiled; the Brother who was my home room teacher, definitely grinned. Brother Principal continued: “Well, this is very serious. Will you do it again?” My mouth seized the opportunity: “Again, Brother Principal, with all do respect to you, my school, and my religious training, I can’t lie. Yes, I’ll do it as many times as I need to. But, between us chickens (my maternal grandmother’s favorite phrase), I doubt that I’ll ever need to prove that I’m no push over for any size bully.” Brother Principal was slightly taken back and said: “Well, with that reassurance, I’m inclined to let the matter drop.. Go to class and stay out of trouble.”
I felt ten feet tall.
Evidently, the bully was on “double secret probation” already, and after trip to the ER, a few days rest and home, he returned to school a week later. By the next week, he’d been withdrawn from the school and transferred to another parish school miles away.
And, I never had anyone “mess” with me after that.
I guess my “heroic aura” — or people thought I was bat shit crazy — encompassed the school because my friends, including the black one, were also hassle-free. In fact, the whole school was “bully free” for the three years I was at that school before we moved to the Bronx.
The lesson to me was like when first I heard that Rodney Dangerfield movie line from “Back to School” about the Dylan Thomas poem … “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”:
“Thornton, what does that poem mean to you?”
“It means… I don’t take shit from no one. I’m gonna pass this test. I’m stayin’ in school! Who’s next?”
I might be crazy but, I felt that way that day back in Catholic Grammar School. In the zone. (Whatever that is!) Whenever I’m in that “zone”, I think back to my first time in it and know I can do anything I want to, anytime, as long as Im willing to accept the consequences.
I later found a quote that sums it up.
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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A site to promote the safer far-hand Dutch Reach habit to get out of your car. It prevents dooring ‘accidents’ / crashes that injure & kill bicyclists. You too are safer because you naturally turn & see on-coming traffic before and as you exit.
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Seems like an easy enough change to make in our every day behavior?
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How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class
Source: The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs – The Atlantic
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A USC spokesman said Wednesday that students who applied for admission in the current cycle — which is underway for fall admits — and are tied to the scheme will be denied admission. That includes about half a dozen applicants.The school will also conduct a case-by-case review for current students and graduates who may have taken part in the scheme.
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“Children”?
While one or more individuals maybe be “innocent bystanders” in their parents’ actions, others were involved. I don’t think that “innocent bystanders” should be penalized until them demonstrate that they can’t or won’t meet the standards. Those involved deserve anything they get. Graduates are probably “untouchable”.
What a mess.
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A friend shared a story he heard recently, over eggs and toast at a local eatery. A citizen needed an MRI. He asked the price, and the regional hospital quoted him $1,500. He looked concerned, mentioned that was expensive, and the provider offered that the cash price was $500. Curiously, that $500 is exactly what his insurance plan would have him pay. For a lot of people, this looks like a wash.
Source: Commentary: Ask your health care provider for the cash price | Nvdaily | nvdaily.com
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A peek behind the curtain?
I’ve often thought that there’s a “big club” that I ain’t in to fleece the medical consumer. Gooferment, Big Medicine, and Big Insurance are the conspiring club members.
Argh!
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Reverse mortgages are creeping into the conversation for retirement income options.
Source: How America’s Most Hated Home Loan Is Staging A Comeback
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Hmmm, “most hated”?
I’d reserve that for the sub-prime “no doc” mortgage that caused everyone much more pain!
No?
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SCIENTISTS have built the world’s first time machine — sort of. Working with electrons in the bizarre realm of quantum mechanics, they first created the equivalent of a break for a game of pool. Th…
Source: Scientists have built world’s first ‘time machine’ in experiment which defies the laws of physics
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I’m sure pool players all over the world are waiting for a chance to do a shot over.
Imagine being able to press a “do over” button?
If one could imagine it, how far back would you have to go?
Could one start completely over?
And, if such was possible, what give you any confidence that you could avoid your past “mistakes”?
And what if your current outcome was the “best” of all your possible choices, could you recover back?
A troubling thought experiment fraught with problems.
Like in my youth, I once left the Engineering Building, turned left on Broadway, and walked to the subway at 242nd street with my friends to have a beer at the Pinewood. So instead of studying, I had a hangover. To avoid that “mistake”, I decide now in retrospect to turn right to go to the 231st subway station and, when crossing the street, I’m killed by bus.
See what I mean, if we consider “time travel”, we don’t get to see what’s down the road when we take any particular fork in the road.
Hmmm!
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If you or a family member is injured or dies from vaccines, you must sue the federal government and go up against their attorneys in this special vaccine court.Many cases are litigated for years before a settlement is reached, as can be seen from the report below. One flu shot victim litigated for 7 years before reaching a settlement, and one Gardasil HPV vaccine victim litigated for over 5 years before reaching a settlement, for example.Another Gardasil HPV vaccine victim who suffered cardiac arrest and death, took over 3 years to settle.
Source: Vaccines Continue To Injure and Kill People – LewRockwell
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I’m not an anti-vaxxers!
But, I don’t this the public is being served by the Gooferment interference in the marketplace.
The lack of transparency gives rise to all sorts of conspiracy theories.
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