Ahmed hasn’t been paying attention.

Like this is news. Well, the reporter appears to be from Canada, so maybe he was unaware of how bad American education has gotten.


Oregon Governor signs new law allowing students to graduate without proving they can read, write, or do math
An Oregon high school diploma does not guarantee that students who earned it can read, write or do math at a high school level.

Governor Kate Brown dropped the requirement that students demonstrate they have achieved those essential skills by signing Senate Bill 744 into law. She declined again Friday to comment on why she supported suspending the proficiency requirements, reported OregonLive.


It’s been a long time since a diploma meant a damned thing. I recall how shocked I was when I first encountered a basic reading and math test when a applying for factory job back in the early ’90s.

And shocked more when I turned the test in. The clerk wondered what was wrong; did I need help? No, I’m done. Done? Yeah, I finished. Already?

They she graded it and called the HR person. They tried to keep their voices down, but my ears weren’t shot back then.

What’s wrong?

He finished it.

What?

He finished already. And he got all the answers right.

Are you sure?

I checked twice.

That was a ten question multiple guess test of reading, addition, sutraction, and reading a ruler (seriously; pictures of a ruler with a arrow indicating a hash mark, tell ’em what length was indicated). Apparently no one had ever aced it, much less in under ten minutes. It took that long because it was so stupidly simple I was double-checking for some kind of trick.

Things only got worse over the years. Usually I worked in telecommunications; the factory job was a short term fluke. A technical test — whether written or verbal — was normal. But these were jobs requiring experience, so they figured applicants could at least read; they just wanted to check that knowledge of the field matched experience claimed.

But by 2008, when I got hired for a network operations job, they scheduled me for a day of testing.

But it wasn’t tech, to my surprise. Reading. Math (this one included multiplication and division, but not algebra). Following instructions and reasoning. Zero about telecom or electronics.

Finished, turned it in. It took maybe 45 minutes, but it was a lengthy test. And as I was leaving one other guy turned his in. Everyone else in the room was still working.

On my drive home I got a call from the test admin. She thought I’d like to know that I’d passed.

My response was a politely phrased, “Well, duh.”

Diplomas mean jack, and employers have known that for decades.

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Pfizer and Moderna BOTH eliminated their “vaccine” test control groups?!

This makes long-term safety comparison studies impossible.


This is Nuts, Moderna and Pfizer Intentionally Lost The Clinical Trial Control Group Testing Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
The Moderna and Pfizer vaccine tests were conducted, as customary, with a control group; a group within the trial who were given a placebo and not the test vaccine. However, during the trial -and after the untested vaccines were given emergency use authorization- the vaccine companies conducting the trial decided to break protocol and notify the control group they were not vaccinated. Almost all the control group were then given the vaccine.


As if I really needed yet another reason hot to get the jab.

Added: For clarification, if you cannot study both the “vaccinated” test group and the unvaccinated control group to see if the test group develops problems unseen in the control group, then you did no actual drug safety trial. You had no control group.

I am not taking a untested pseudo-vaccine. This explains why nearly half of FDA and CDC employees refused the jabs.

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Hunting Season

In light of recent events, I want to highlight a chapter from my Remedial Practical Civics series, written nearly three and a half years ago.

This was prompted at the time by the unconstitutional, fiat banning of bump-fire stocks. But as the Biden Totalitarian Commie Administration just demonstrated, there no longer is any rule of law. Below are the highlights, but you might want to read it all at the link. Maybe even forward it to the White House.



Remedial Practical Civics 100, Lesson 4: “A hunting we will go!
[…]
Congress blows you off when you object; maybe a staffer even uses your contact as an opportunity to practice a little ID theft. Or maybe Congressman Creep will blow you off with a letter totally unrelated to your concern. The powers that be don’t care. We’re just someone for the Coastal Elites to shit on. Even the EPA is cool with that.

But I suspect you’d go to prison for dumping human excrement on NYC.

The courts? We covered that. They aren’t stopping unconstitutional laws.
[…]
There is no rule of law on which the people of America can rely. That leaves… what exactly?

[Yes, Delaney? Civil war? Good!

WRONG.]
[…]
[Honest Americans] can’t count on Athenian popular support because they’ve been demonized for decades. They aren’t organized because they’ve been keeping a low profile. They aren’t concentrated in one small town.
[…]
In our hopefully hypothetical scenario, you just reduced at least 40,000,000 people to that same desperate status malum prohibitum. Some might give up immediately. Some might fold when faced with force.

But if just 1% of that 40,000,000 said, “Fuck it, I’m taking some assholes out with me,” you’ve got 400,000 heavily armed noncompliant sons of bitches (HANSOBs) out for blood.

Whose blood? For starters, the ones they see as immediately responsible for the mass violation of their rights. Then the idiot celebrities, media hairsprayheads, and ignorant useful idiots [yes, Emma, David, Delaney] who pushed it.

Then they’ll look around and think, “I’ve got nothing left to lose now. How ’bout that mother-effer in the Zoning Department who made me tear down my deck after I spent ten grand on it?”

Or county weasels spending millions of dollars on an unapproved spaceport. Or the principal who threw your kid out of school because he got beat up.

Maybe that neighbor who always mows his grass at 11PM on Sunday night. And sprays his clippings on your manicured yard.

Make your own list. Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, as the lady informed us.
[…]
Show of hands, class. How many of you realized that — up until now — it’s been legal for people to own registered machineguns, mortars, artillery, tanks, and even fighter aircraft? And that people do?

Sure, they’re considered militarily obsolete. Explain that to the bureaucratic and political targets of opportunity who pissed off those owners, as they’re taking fire.

Marvin Heemeyer demolished much of a town with a grudge and an home-armored bulldozer. He specifically targeted the mayor and the town hall. He worked alone. One guy.

Multiply by 400,000. Or 40,000,000.

Maybe even 120,000,000 fresh felons. With nothing left to lose. Go, Janice!

No. We wouldn’t have a civil war. The victim disarming cowards should be so lucky. That would controlled, coordinated, focused. The goal would be restoring a constitutional republic. (The reality might well differ. Civil war is not something I recommend.)

What you “repeal the Second Amendment and take all the guns” types are doing is declaring an open hunting season.

On yourselves.
[…]
Tonight, you get to choose your homework assignments. The options are:

1. Think about what you’ve wrought, and the consequences. Especially to yourselves. Consider your own little email/phone call campaign to tell your Moms and socialist politicians to reconsider this course of action. Fill sand bags, just in case.

2. Revel in what you’ve wrought. Start sharpening blades and stuffing magazines… Oh. Right. You’re the helpless disarmed-by-choice. Sucks to be you. Maybe you should buy ballistic vests. And sand bags. Stuff those plastic backpacks with books!



Pleasant thought, eh?

And they thought a few hundred unruly Trump supporters at the Capitol almost overthrew the government. How much damage can a few isolated lone wolves do though? Here’s something I wrote six and a half years ago. Follow the link, because there are frighteningly enlightening links in the original. But, highlights



[…]
Two separated pairs of people, most seemingly with no or minimal training (guessing; based on unreliable muddia reports, one brother may have gotten some training in Yemen) are tying up roughly 90,000 allegedly trained, and well-armed, troops. a 1:22,500 ratio in manpower alone. Asymmetric warfare rules.
[…]
Four. For a few days.

There are probably at least 100 million gun owners in America.



Have a nice day.

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Peter Grant: The deliberate destruction of the rule of law

The Biden Administration and the CDC just told the Supreme Court and the Constitution to fuck off. Gun owners are used to that in regards to the Second Amendment, so this was no surprise to me. But this is no piecemeal shredding. The re-imposed eviction moratorium ran the Constitution through the cross-cut shredder, into the burn bag, and dumped in the incinerator. I’ve just been trying to get my thoughts in order, to express this best.

But Peter Grant beat me to it. Here are a few highlights, but do read the whole thing


The deliberate destruction of the rule of law
A lot of people don’t seem to understand the real implications of the CDC’s issuing a new moratorium to prevent eviction of tenants for non-payment of rent.

First, this was specifically stated by the Supreme Court to be beyond the CDC’s powers. Effectively, the CDC raised a disdainful finger to SCOTUS and said, “To hell with you, and with the constitution, and with the law. We’re going to do as we see fit, and damn anybody who objects.”

Second, this was done with the full backing of the Biden administration and the liberal, progressive wing of US politics. They did so quite deliberately, because it offers them a new lever to derail America as we know it.

[…]

The progressive left had previously gotten away with murder, metaphorically speaking, by stealing last year’s election: but they had not yet demonstrated such open contempt for the Supreme Court and the Constitution. They at least tried to maintain the fig-leaf, the veneer, of legality. They are no longer doing so – and they won’t stop there. They’ll build on that “success” by doing it again, and again, and again.


Fuck. I did not want to go there. But it looks like we are.

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Forget COVID Testing

I want mandated IQ testing for our “experts.” Per CDC Dumbfuck-In-Chief Dr. Rochelle Walensky:


“Our vaccines are working exceptionally well. They continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death, they prevent it. But what they can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.
[…]
“the more we have viral replication, the more we have transmission, the more we are at risk of a new and emerging variant, and that is why it’s so very critical to get vaccinated, not just for yourself, for your own personal health, to protect you from severe disease and death, but to protect you from transmission to others


Care to count the ways that’s fucked?

Vaccines don’t stop transmission, but get vaccinated to prevent transmission.

Get vaccinated to protect yourself from transmission to others.

-psst-, dipshit; check your own data.

And I might note that even as Walensky declares that vaccines “work well […]with regard to severe illness,” leftstream news media keeps hyping that there’s a surge in Delta/SARS-CoV-3 hospitalizations. If vaccines work so well against the Big D, tell it to my niece.

If Walensky took an IQ test, she’d need a cyclic threshold (Ct) of 80 to test positive.

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[Update] -sigh-

Update: See comment below for clarification.


I got an email this morning giving me a heads-up on a Notice of Proposed Rule-Making to change the definition of firearm, because the person hadn’t seen me post anything about it.

I may have mentioned it in passing.

There are times I wonder why I bother with this.

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OK, maybe I will start calling it WuFlu, now.

Apparently the influenza virus vacccine is magically effective against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Uh huh.


Examining the potential benefits of the influenza vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: A retrospective cohort analysis of 74,754 patients
Our analysis outlines the potential protective effect of influenza vaccination in SARS-CoV-2-positive patients against adverse outcomes within 30, 60, 90, and 120 days of a positive diagnosis. Significant findings favoring influenza vaccination mitigating the risks of sepsis, stroke, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), emergency department (ED) & Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions suggest a potential protective effect that could benefit populations without readily available access to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Thus further investigation with future prospective studies is warranted.


Since CMS paid out bonuses for COVID-19 cases, seasonal flu was virtually nonexistent in the US; mainly because virtually no one was testing for it. Flu symptoms? Call it COVID and pocket an extra 15%. Stick ’em on a ventilator and get an extra 30%.

But SARS-CoV-2 was “turning up” in plenty of people, mainly because they ran PCR testing at an insane Ct of 40+ amplifying the hell out of every little bit of fragmented RNA until they could claim a positive for the nucleotides. Those people were most likely sick with the flu (you noticed how the symptoms overlap?), but had been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 (or similar RNA fragments).

So no; it’s rather unlikely that the flu vaccine provided a “potential protective effect” against COVID-19. It just did what it was supposed to and helped with the flu that doctors were carefully — and lucratively — not seeing.

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Quote Of The Day: Eric Worrall


Kerry I think you misunderstand climate skeptics and Republicans.

Some of us might not agree with your politics, but your personal contribution to global warming is absolutely awe inspiring – over a million air miles by 2016. How can any of us mere mortals compete with such a heroic commitment to providing life giving CO2 to the planet?

One day they’ll build statues to you, the man who personally drove back the ice age.
— Eric Worrall, John Kerry Blames President Trump for his Lack of Progress Negotiating Climate Agreements


Puts me in mind of Fallen Angels.

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Brought to you by the same scumbags telling us voter ID is racist.

As usual, some racism is apparently good. If you’re brain-dead Dim-ocrat. But I repeat myself.


Pennsylvania Democrats Call for ID to Buy Ammunition
A bill requiring photo identification to purchase firearm ammunition in Pennsylvania is intended to keep loaded guns out of the hands of minors, according to its sponsor, Democratic state Rep. Brian Kirkland.


Yes, Kirkland does oppose voter ID. No word on how his treatment for the third degree burning cognitive dissonance is going.

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