Nayib Bukele 🇸🇻
@nayibbukele
US taxpayers should know that their government is using their money to fund communist movements against a democratic elected (and with a 90% approval rating) government in El Salvador.
It’s not working though 😂
The people of El Salvador won’t go back to that terrible past.
3:27 PM · Dec 12, 2021 //
Nayib Bukele 🇸🇻
@nayibbukele
False accusations?
Is it false that Jean Manes asked me to release Neto Muyshondt (captured in video giving tens of thousands of US dollars to gang members)?
Do you want me to continue?
Brian A. Nichols
@WHAAsstSecty
We condemn @nayibbukele's false accusations against @POTUS and other U.S. government officials, including Ambassador Manes and current Charge d'Affaires Brendan O'Brien.
3:45 PM · Dec 9, 2021 //
What has the US government got itself wrapped up in here? Let’s also note that Bukele, whatever the complaints against him, has actually dramatically decreased the murder rate in El Salvador, and until the pandemic hit, their GDP was rising as well.
I say that to say that the US position here doesn’t make any sense. We work with less than perfect leaders in countries all over the world, including actual dictators. But it’s El Salvador that we want to try to bully over a guy who appears to be legitimately in jail for working with the narcos? Notice that the US has not questioned the validity of charges against Muyshondt. So what exactly is going on here?
One wonders how French would have reacted had he met the real Jesus during His time on the earth. The One Who, long before Twitter, said mean things. The One Who had no problem flipping over tables and using a whip to send people running. The One Who alone was given the authority to judge humanity individually and collectively. The One to Whom sinners and prostitutes flocked because He gave them the love “polite” society denied. It’s no stretch to envision French going full Pharisee on Jesus. As to how Jesus would respond … while French’s condescending elitist fluff and nonsense is fair territory for criticism, aside from that? Not for me to say.
Other than to bring up Jude 1:9.
9 But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”[a]
a. Jude 1:9 Jude is alluding to the Jewish Testament of Moses (approximately the first century a.d.).
While Stern describes the situation in a grossly dishonest way, he reveals the true issue. The argument is about who controls what your children are taught in the way of values. Should you, as a parent, be required to pay taxes to support and send your children to a mandatory system of schooling that indoctrinates your children on issues of race and sexuality and even governance that you find appalling?
Or can you opt-out?
Along the way, Stern confuses the concept of “public education” with a system of state-funded schools. Those things are not the same. Under the case debated by the Supreme Court, a parent can send their child to a state-funded school if they wish. Stern would take that freedom of choice away. In other words, he endorses the position of Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial campaign.
Corey A. DeAngelis
@DeAngelisCorey
Terry McAuliffe: "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."
9:58 PM · Oct 26, 2021
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) VigiAccess database lists adverse reactions (ADRs) reported by people after taking a drug or vaccine. It does not confirm that medicinal products or their active ingredients caused any observed symptoms. //
The Facebook user who shared the graph says: “So would you rather take the WHO drug that has just over 5,000 adverse events reported over 20 years or the one the WHO reports has had nearly 2,500,000 adverse events reported in less than 2 years? Asking for a friend… #AxTheVax #MedicalFreedom #WeWillNotComply”
The “WHO drug” they are referring to is ivermectin, which has been written about in numerous previous fact checks //
Firstly, ivermectin is not a “WHO drug” – //
Secondly, although the figures collated in the chart appear to be accurate as of the date it was created (Nov. 12, 2021), VigiAccess data – a web-based tool for searching the WHO’s global database (VigiBase) – only shows potential side effects that have been reported to its Programme for International Drug Monitoring (WHO PIDM) (see the FAQ section www.vigiaccess.org ).
A WHO spokesperson told Reuters in an email: “Information in VigiAccess on potential side effects should not be interpreted as meaning that the medicinal product or its active substance either caused the observed effect or is unsafe to use. Confirming a causal link is a complex process that requires a thorough scientific assessment and detailed evaluation of all available data. The information on this website, therefore, does not reflect any confirmed link between a medicinal product and a side effect.”
They added: “VigiAccess cannot be used to compare the safety profiles of different medicinal products… and VigiAccess cannot provide sufficient context to make such comparisons possible.”
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday issued a statement protesting against “the military activity of the United States and NATO member states along the perimeter of Russia’s borders, including military flights and dangerous manoeuvres by naval ships.”
The nation has seen 25 tornadoes that killed 80 or more people since 1840, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
These are the 10 deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history:
March 18, 1925: The Tri-State Tornado killed nearly 700 in Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwestern Indiana.
May 6, 1840: The Great Natchez Tornado in Mississippi killed 317.
May 27, 1896: St. Louis area tornadoes killed 305 in Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky.
April 5, 1936: Tupelo, Miss. tornado killed 216.
April 6, 1936: Gainsville, Ga., tornado killed 203.
April 9, 1947: Woodward, Okla., tornado killed 181.
May 22, 2011: Joplin, Mo. tornado killed 158.
April 24, 1908: Tornado in Louisiana and Mississippi killed 143.
June 12, 1899: Western Wisconsin tornado killed 117.
June 8, 1953: Flint, Mich., tornado killed 116.
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Bob Dole's farewell letter:
"I'm a bit curious to learn if I am correct in thinking that Heaven will look a lot like Kansas… And to see, like others who have gone before me, if I will still be able to vote in Chicago."
12:43 PM · Dec 10, 2021 //
What an absolute savage. You have to respect a man who’s willing to exercise a sense of humor at his own funeral, and I think it’s a great thing. This country could use a dose of levity. Too many people are at each others’ throats constantly. //
In short, be the person who has a funeral that makes people laugh, not one that serves as a campaign commercial. Politics is serious business at times, but it’s also not that serious at times. Dole illustrated that perfectly.
While it didn’t change how he did his job, the fact that he’s black and protecting a man the Left has reflexively labeled a “white supremacist” or “racist” put “a different perspective [on things] and I guess being black, obviously, for someone that was being called a racist for over a year and a half … no, they are definitely not racist.”
Willis says he was interviewed with the permission of the Rittenhouse family.
The CBO released another estimate that showed the true cost of the BBB bill after all the “temporary” programs in it are extended. That’s been the Democrat game. Just like with Obamacare, the Democrats wanted the BBB bill to be scored with more years of funding than programs. But that’s not how things work in the real world. So what’s the real number? You may want to grab a towel because it’s going to make your eyes water
Ryan Struyk
@ryanstruyk
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Dec 10, 2021
CBO finds that, if the child tax credit, child care provisions, SALT deduction, health insurance subsidies and more in Build Back Better were made permanent instead of for limited timeline, the bill would add $3.0 trillion to the debt over next decade, instead of $0.2 trillion.
U.S. CBO
@USCBO
CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation project the budgetary effects, including the effects on interest costs, of a modified version of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, that would make various policies permanent rather than temporary. https://cbo.gov/publication/57673
Ryan Struyk
@ryanstruyk
President Biden two weeks ago on possible BBB extensions: "Here is what those critics are not telling you. They’re not telling you that I’ve committed to paying for every single program that extended, if any are, in future legislation, whether that’s for a day or a decade."
11:18 AM · Dec 10, 2021
Breaking911
@Breaking911
REPORTER: “Since the [Smollett] guilty verdict, are there any lessons learned here on rushing to judgement when a crime is alleged?”
PSAKI: “There are lessons learned, perhaps for everybody who commented at the time, including former President Trump.”
3:25 PM · Dec 10, 2021 //
This is the Biden administration in a nutshell: they are never able to take responsibility for anything that they do wrong. They haven’t learned anything at all. There are no “lessons” for them to learn in their mind — that’s why Psaki can’t even mention Biden, she had to deflect to Trump.
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In a farewell letter to the American public, former Senator Bob Dole, who passed away at 98 years old this week of lung cancer, mocked Chicago’s long history of allowing dead people to vote in elections.
Robin Dole, Dole’s daughter, read the tribute during her speech at his funeral in the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
“As I make the final walk on my life’s journey, I do so without fear. Because I know that I will, again, not be walking alone. I know that God will be walking with me,” the late senator wrote. “I also confess that I’m a bit curious to learn and find if I am correct in thinking that heaven will look a lot like Kansas and to see, like others who have gone before me, if I will still be able to vote in Chicago.”
Native America and the Mayflower: 400 years of Wampanoag history
Four hundred years ago, the Wampanoag People watched on as a ship arrived on their shores.
It was not the first ship they had seen arrive, nor would it be the last. But this particular vessel and the people on board would have far and long-lasting consequences for their future and legacy.
The Wampanoag Tribe, also known as the People of the First Light, has inhabited present-day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for more than 12,000 years.
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard a case that could profoundly affect the future of education in the United States.
Maine has about 180,000 students enrolled in grades K-12 distributed over 260 school districts. Because of the low population density in some districts, high school students must either attend school in another district or go to private school. Maine has a tuition assistance program that subsidizes tuition for students living in a school district that does not operate a secondary school to assist in this.
Until 1980, the student could use that assistance to attend any school.
the state barred sectarian options after the Maine Attorney General, in 1980, opined that including them as a choice in the program violated the federal Establishment Clause. Me. Op. Att’y Gen. No. 80-2 (1980) (J.A. 35-68). The legislature codified this bar in a statute providing that a student’s chosen school must be “a nonsectarian school in accordance with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.” 1981 Me. Laws 2177 (codified at Me. Stat. tit. 20-A, § 2951(2)).
Eventually, some parents sued, and the case made its way to the Supreme Court as Carson v. Makin. The parents claim that instead of bringing Maine into compliance with the anti-establishment clause of the First Amendment, it actually goes the other way and violates the First Amendment’s right to free exercise of religion.
From my personal perspective, I think a few things are clear. Climate change is real, but from what I garner it’s also completely natural. Our planet is a complicated ball of life-sustaining gases, temperatures, and interwoven ecosystem that spins at just the right angle around a giant ball of gas at just the right distance, and has for millions of years. Even a minor change to that balance could affect the weather on our planet and history shows that has happened to major effect in the past.
I also know that inside the protective bubble that encases our planet, the ecosystem we are a part of has amazingly adaptive qualities. For instance, one of the biggest fears of the climate alarmists is the introduction of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and that somehow greenhouse gases would throw off the entire balance of nature and cause some kind of apocalyptic event.
However, according to NASA, that extra CO2 is causing the planet to undergo a “global greening.” In other words, vegetation is beginning to grow more, and in places where it hasn’t typically been seen before.
The fact is that information that wrecks the church of climate change’s narrative comes out pretty regularly. Denunciations of leftist-born climate models happen within the scientific community with more frequency than you’re led to believe.
a recent video by John Stossel highlighted that despite there being evidence left and right that pokes holes in the claims of the climate alarmists, they refuse to show up and defend their points.
https://youtu.be/b8JZo6PzpCU //
why is it that so many of the proposed solutions require government control of everything? Why isn’t the solution to spring forward with technological development to make something like fossil fuels and coal irrelevant? Why do we need to revert to the failed economic system of socialism and not use the developmental momentum of capitalism to create new technologies and environmentally beneficial products? //
I would like real scientific data to be discussed, not just data that makes it seem like something is leaning in your favor and then declaring the debate over as that very data becomes outdated the following week.
I think the climate is changing as it has for thousands of years. I don’t think the world is going to end in 12 years. I’ve heard the world is going to end enough times without it actually ending. I think we have a lot of time to sit and really understand the global climate and what affects it and introduce solutions that will lessen our impact.
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Ever wonder how your computer knows the song titles when you insert an audio CD? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Ideally, that information would be written onto the disc itself, but the creators of the CD format weren’t so forward-thinking. CD-Text, a later development, does just that, but few players can read it (nonetheless, I still encode it on every disc I master).
Usually, the information comes from CDDB (short for Compact Disc DataBase), owned by a company called Gracenote. When iTunes or another compatible software application sees you’ve inserted an audio CD, it uses the durations of the tracks as a “fingerprint” to calculate a proprietary disc ID. It then queries CDDB with that ID to receive the artist name, CD title, and track list.