We Don’t Need No Education

Oregon again says students don’t need to prove mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate, citing harm to students of color [More]

That’s one way to make excuses for the subversive scam of teachers’ unions, where incompetence is a feature, not a bug. Create chaos and dependency through indoctrination and ignorance, and add in importing pathway-to-citizenship foreign nationals whose countries can somehow churn out employees with superior technical abilities on a pittance of what we spend per capita on students, and you have all the ingredients for control — of all kinds.

Not that our “single-issue gun rights leaders” dare notice…

[Via WiscoDave]

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Cui Bono?

Guess who else would benefit. [More]

But…but…but…

Tell me that creepy idiot, the Dotard in Chief, doesn’t look and sound like a crazed Dr. Strangelove character. (Look at his forehead and eyes and then look at earlier photos— is he Botoxing to surreptitiously deflect age concerns with an illusion?)

[Via WiscoDave]

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Gunwalker 2.0

Federal prosecutors have charged seven with conspiring to smuggle more than 1 million rounds of ammunition and high-powered weapons into Mexico. [More]

Would it be considered bad form to ask where they’re from and whether border control might work better than gun control?

[Via Jess]

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We’re the Only Ones Fishing Enough

Like geofence warrants, keyword warrants cast a dragnet that require a provider to search its entire reserve of user data—in this case, queries by one billion Google users. Police generally have no identified suspects; instead, the sole basis for the warrant is the officer’s hunch that the suspect might have searched for something in some way related to the crime. [More]

Ah, the old Inspector Clouseau theory of policing…

So what happens if you use Duck Duck Go?

[Via Michael G]

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Rope-Selling Capitalist

“We get everything from an agency saying, ‘Hey, we have one gun that we need to destroy,’ to a client in Michigan—Michigan State Police—which requires thousands of guns to be destroyed a month,” Scott Reed, president of GunBusters, said. [More]

There’s a word for such public/private partnerships, Scott.

[Via bondmen]

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Linked In, All Right…

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What I can’t figure out is how hiding that she was the executive mouthpiece for a company suppressing information on a product a jury verdict found guilty of giving cancer to a black groundskeeper and leaving up her role as Speichen Frau for a “former” Holocaust profiteer is a resume improvement…

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