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And then there is the truth.

From the New York Times:

Desegregation Plan: Eliminate All Gifted Programs in New York
A group appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed seismic changes to the nation’s largest school system.

Excuse me?  What?

Is that sky-high, Sandinista-loving, communist fuck going to get rid of gifted programs in NYC?

For years, New York City has essentially maintained two parallel public school systems.

A group of selective schools and programs geared to students labeled gifted and talented is filled mostly with white and Asian children. The rest of the system is open to all students and is predominantly black and Hispanic.

Now, a high-level panel appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio is recommending that the city do away with most of these programs in an effort to desegregate the system, which has 1.1 million students and is by far the largest in the country.

Is there any evidence that the kids in the G&T program are there because of racial bias or is this just the result of academic test scores?

Mr. de Blasio, who has staked his mayoralty on reducing inequality, has the power to adopt some or all of the proposals without input from the State Legislature or City Council. If he does, the decision would fundamentally reshape the segregated school system and reverberate in school districts across the country.

Again, is this segregation based on race or just some kids performing better?

Segregation based on performance isn’t racist.

Also, holding smart kids back out of fairness is torture.  I know.

He risks alienating tens of thousands of mostly white and Asian families who rely on the shadow system of gifted programs and selective schools; if a substantial number of those families leave the system, it would be next to impossible to achieve integration.

Of course it will, it will drive the smart kids of wealthy parents to send their kids to private schools, or move out of NYC altogether.

The proposals, contained in a report to be released on Tuesday, may also face opposition from some middle-class black and Hispanic families that have called for more gifted programs in mostly minority neighborhoods as a way to offer students of color more access to high-quality schools.

More G&T for black and Hispanic kids seems like the smarter plan.  But that is less fair to this socialist fuckwit.

Here we find ourself in a situation in which some radical Leftist read a piece of dystopian science fiction literature as a how-to manual instead of a warning.

This time it is Harrison Bergeron from Kurt Vonnegut’s Welcome to the Monkey House.

Mayor de Blasio has decided to put Diana Moon Glampers in charge of the NYC school system.

Sure the NYC public schools may achieve the lofty goal of perfect racial equality, but it will be at the expense of mediocrity and crushing the souls of smart kids from families that can’t afford private schools, and making sure the NYC public school system fails to produce future doctors, scientists, business leaders, or other high achieving, highly educated professionals.

But that really is the goal of communism isn’t it.  To grind humanity into a lowest-common-denominator muck, subservient and obsequious to a self-selected elite bureaucracy.

He’s going to start by doing this to the children.

OK, folks, here’s a somewhat more in-depth commentary on Drejka’s conviction last night:

Last night “handicap parking spot shooter” Michael Drejka was found guilty of manslaughter, as charged, for the shooting death of Markeis McGlockton. The verdict was returned quickly last night, after the jury had deliberated only a few hours.

ANALYSIS: Michael Drejka Guilty of Manslaughter

I got nothing to say but to go read and learn.

I wonder why.

Not that i going to matter to a Hateful Few:

In an email, Hammer said she was “pleased that this matter has been concluded.

“I have been a registered lobbyist since 1974. That is not and never has been a secret. I have never told anyone that I was not a lobbyist,” she said.

“When lobbyist firm filings first became required in Florida, I diligently sought out advice from the General Counsel of the Florida Senate to ask whether I needed to file anything differently than I had been doing for 30 plus years. I was told that I did not have any additional filing requirements as a lobbyist.

“Thus, in good faith, I relied upon that advice. As the filings are a non-issue to me, I would have done so all along had I been so informed,” Hammer added. “However, I am less than happy that the officials handling and commenting on these matters did not highlight the important point that I did not do anything wrong except rely on the advice of counsel.”

Senate clears Marion Hammer of wrongdoing after compensation reporting probe

she is lucky, if it was federal taxes and relied on the advice of the IRS and they screw up, she still would be guilty of the agency’s mistake.

But I did find this interesting:

“The probe began after a complaint by state Sen. Perry Thurston, a Fort Lauderdale Democrat. He said Friday’s outcome “show(s) the power of the National Rifle Association in the Florida Legislature. It is not a pretty picture.”
….
“Thurston and state Rep. Anna Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat, both filed complaints asking for an investigation of Hammer.

Thurston, in particular, has raised questions in the past about the NRA’s influence over legislation permitting teachers to arm themselves after undergoing training as part of the state’s “guardian” program.

So this was brought to not because real malfeasance but because Thurston has a woody against the NRA and wanted to pass a clerical error as a probable felony… interesting.

But ot is OK Mr. Thurston, do not compromise!  You keep digging in her background, you have the support of more than one Chest Thumper® in the State of Florida.

/sarcasm off>

Last week a teenage Israeli girl was killed by a terrorist bomb.  Rina Shnerb was hiking with her father, a Rabbi, and her brother when the bomb exploded.  She was killed and her father and brother were wounded.

This was a bomb placed on a popular recreation hiking path.    Rina was not in the IDF.  This was an attack targeting Jewish civilians.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib decided to Tweet about this attack.

This is absolutely tragic & horrible. My heart goes out to Rina's family. More than ever we need to support nonviolent approaches to ending the Israeli occupation and guaranteeing equal rights for all. Extremism that puts innocent lives at risk moves us no closer to peace. https://t.co/lQ4qrYf6ig

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 24, 2019

Her heart doesn’t go out to Rina’s family.  You can tell by how she pivots her statement to “the occupation.”

For these kinds of Jew-haters, it’s always Israel’s fault when something happens.

As though “the occupation” is what causes some Palestinian to target a civilian family and kill their teenage daughter while they are out for a family hike.

Over the weekend Palestinians in Gaza targeted a music festival in Israel with rockets.  Two of them were destroyed by the Iron Dome.

BREAKING: A few minutes ago 3 rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel. 2 were intercepted above Sderot. Hundreds enjoyed a music festival when the rockets were intercepted right above them.

By chance no one was hurt. Today the Iron Dome saved dozens of innocent civilians. pic.twitter.com/Kh8w99pc9r

— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) August 25, 2019

Going through the media, we see “the occupation” being used to excuse an attack targeting civilians.

By the way, Iron Dome is the most advanced ballistic missile interception weapon in the world.  The support of the United States for Iron Dome is part of a program to bring Iron Dome to the US to protect our troops on the battlefield from incoming short-range ballistic missiles.

When Congresswoman Omar and Tlaib want to end support for Israel, the also want to end the reciprocal weapons and battlefield medicine technology development that Israel provides to us.  So much of the bleeding control and medivac procedures that have saved so many American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan came out of Israel.

As long as the Democrats stay silent on this “blame Israel first” these Jew-haters will be emboldened.

A new policy from Elizabeth Warren announced on Twitter.

A lot of giant companies refer to themselves as “American.” But let’s face it, they only have one real loyalty: Their shareholders. A Warren administration will halt the hollowing out of American cities and create good American jobs. Here’s how. pic.twitter.com/pX0VpRXqqR

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) August 25, 2019

I’m an economic patriot.  I agree with her, more American companies should do more hiring and manufacturing in America.

So what is Warren going to do to encourage companies to do that?

Will she abolish the corporate income tax?

How about abolishing the NLRB?

Will she deregulate the healthcare industry to reduce the cost of insurance on employers?

One thought that I have had to encourage companies to hire in areas of the country that have suffered from a loss of jobs is to defer payroll taxes on employees hired in economically depressed areas.  So if a company buys a shuttered factory in rural Indiana or Ohio or Michigan, a typical rust belt town, and puts locals back to work, they will not have to pay payroll tax on those employees for some period of years proportional to the level of economic depression of that area, i.e., the poorer it is, the longer they can defer payroll tax.

Will she invest in infrastructure, such as roads, to help economically depressed areas attract companies.

Will she reduce the burden of environmental regulations on manufacturing?

Will she make it easier to drill, mine, refine, and build?

Nope.

She endorses the Green New Deal.  She wants to force companies to comply with more restrictive environmental regulations.  She wants to mandate the use of more expensive 100%  renewable energy sources.  She wants to tax companies that make over $100 Million to pay for green energy subsidies.  She wants to increase taxes for healthcare spending.

Pretty much every one of her economic proposals will make is more economically disadvantageous to manufacture and hire in the United States.

So without any carrots to encourage American companies to hire Americans, all she has is sticks.

So what we have here is a bunch of business destroying economic policies wrapped up in something that sounds good.

I agree with Warren that American companies should offshore less and hire Americans more.

I just don’t believe that a business hating, high tax, regulation loving, Left-wing Democrat is the person who can make that happen.