You should probably write about weird things that you’ve seen or have happened to you. The rest of us might learn a valuable lesson.
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I think it’s weird there are so many Muslims in France. We should call them Paristanis and Paristinians.
Archive of entries posted on 19th July 2024
Our Darkest Hour
If the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to 7-year-olds, can 7-year-olds be enslaved?
California teachers were right to severely punish girl, 7, for writing these words under Black Lives Matter drawing she gave to friend, judge rules
Daily Mail | 18 July 2024 | Germania Rodriguez PoleoA California judge has ruled that teachers were right to punish a seven-year-old girl over a Black Lives Matter drawing because ‘she’s too young to have First Amendment rights.’
The first grader was banned from recess and drawing pictures at Viejo Elementary in Orange County after she added the words ‘any life’ below Black Lives Matter on a picture she drew and and gave to a black friend.
The picture showed the words ‘Black Lives Matter’ with four round shapes in various different tones of brown, beige and yellow, which was intended to ‘represent her friends’ who were ‘racially-mixed’.
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This prompted principal Jesus Becerra to tell B.B. the drawing was inappropriate and racist. He then punished B.B. by making her publicly apologize on the playground to her classmates and teachers. B.B. was also banned from recess and from drawing pictures for two weeks.
They inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on her, so I guess she’s too young to have Eighth Amendment rights also.
Their Darkest Hour
King’s Speech: PM Starmer Tells Public to Reject ‘Snake Oil’ Populism, Lays Out Leftist Agenda for Britain
Breitbart | 07/17/2024 | Kurt ZindulkaBritain’s new prime minister has called on the public to reject the “snake oil charm of populism” as King Charles III outlined the Labour government’s legislative agenda for the coming year, which will include a push to fully ban tobacco, a doubling down on the green agenda, an attempt to “reset” relations with the EU and to advocate for Palestinian statehood.
Straight Line of the Day: After Building Barriers Around Glaciers, Scientists…
To avoid sea level rise, some researchers want to build barriers around the world’s most vulnerable glaciers
Science Adviser | 12/7/24 | Hannah RichterOver the past few decades, earth scientists have grappled with the concept of solar geoengineering: cooling the rapidly warming planet by injecting particles high into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, for example. Now, researchers are proposing a new way to battle the effects of climate change that could prove even more costly and controversial: glacial geoengineering, designed to slow sea level rise.
A white paper, released on 11 July by glaciologists who conducted a series of workshops and town halls over the course of 10 months, calls for boosting research into daring plans that would protect vulnerable ice sheets by building flexible barriers around them or drilling deep into them to slow their slippage into the sea.
But these untested ideas are stirring up a backlash among glaciologists, some of whom view them not only as outlandishly expensive and logistically flawed but also as a distraction from the problem of reducing greenhouse gas emissions…..
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Downtown Louisville Skyscraper Repossessed After Defaulting on $28 Million Loan
Whas11 | 07/08/2024 | Jay SkebbaLOUISVILLE, Ky. — A judge recently placed a Louisville skyscraper in a receivership after its owners defaulted on a $28 million loan, according to new court documents.
… [for] failing to make a monthly payment of $142,204.82 [since] November.
