[NPR] Charles McGee, a Tuskegee Airman who flew 409 fighter combat missions over three wars, has died. He was 102.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Sunday announced his death on Twitter, both of them calling McGee an American hero.
"While I am saddened by his loss, I'm also incredibly grateful for his sacrifice, his legacy, and his character. Rest in peace, General," wrote Austin, who did not specify where McGee died.
The Tuskegee Airmen is the nickname of the first African American unit to fly combat airplanes in World War II.
A true heroes.
He and the Tuskegee Airman earned their respect 100 fold over.
All despite the numerous social, racial and other challenges dumped on him and the 300+ other Tuskegee Airman members in life.
They did not use Skin color as an excuse. They rose above the stupid issues of the time and still fought to defend the safety and honor of ALL Americans.
They really stuck it out there.
I have to wonder, what they would have done if they met a modern day BLM Leader.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A woman who was working as a substitute teacher posted a video to social media alleging she was fired by school officials for not "identifying with" a student who "identifies as a cat" after she refused to meow back at the child in class.
"Okay, okay. I've got to rant for a minute," the teacher says in a short TikTok video. Just when I thought school couldn't get any weirder, it did today."
"I'm a sub, and the most important we do is take roll, so the school gets paid. So, I'm looking at the seating chart as I'm going up and down the rows and marking who's here and who's not," the TikTok user, who uses the screen name @crazynamebridgetmichael and has posted several videos in a school setting, continues in the clip posted about four days ago. "I get to the third row and I hear this 'meow!' Uhhh, excuse me? Excuse me?" she narrates.
"I start looking on the ground, through the fourth row—everything's good. Go to the fifth row—everybody's there. Then I hear 'meow!' I'm like, 'Okay, what's up with that? Who's doing it?' And this little girl in the very front row says, 'You have to meow back at him; he identifies as a cat.' Are you kidding me?" she questions.
"I said, 'Is there a litter box in here somewhere?' My sarcasm self: I probably should not have said that," the educator continues in the clip.
"He gets up and he storms out of the classroom, and I'm like, 'Ruff!' Of course, the entire class is laughing. I think, 'Oh, no problem, no foul.' I go to the office—Are you ready for this?—to check out. They said, 'We no longer need your services if you can't identify with all the children in the classroom.' And you wonder why they don't have any subs!" the teacher exclaims on video.
"I told the lady, I said, 'I didn't know cats were considered people; I thought they were pets.' Another school off my list," the teacher concludes the TikTok video that's captioned, "a typical day of subbing! can't make this up..."
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Unbelievably stupid (but not surprising).
identify as Klingon - so everyone better only speak to me in Klingon or I will have you fired.
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Low-hanging fruit arrests, no risk no blow back, arrest a crazy black guy and have to use any physical force, career ending risks or worse. When you can't trust the DA and the department to protect you from lawsuits, MSM hectoring or abandonment for violating the Melanin Exemption, go for the safe and easy route to end-of-watch brewski's.
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So people say we should not compare the treatment of the unvaccinated to the Jews of 1940, the Asians of the early 40's, or the blacks of the 1950's. But tell me the difference now of not being allowed into a city to eat, shop, or check into a hotel because your not vaccinated? The reasons for the segregation of the Jews and blacks were the same as today, they-we are considered diseased, dirty and not worthy of participating in society. The Asians were out of misguided fear, not unlike today. The newspapers today are calling to lock people in their homes or camps until the unvaccinated comply. People say what happened to the Jews, Blacks and Asians could never happen again, never happen here, but it is... Locking people up because of fear. Where are the Jews in America standing up against this? Where are the blacks standing up against this? Where are the Asians? Just like the German civilians, they are either in agreement or are hiding in fear.... Which are you??? What side of the history will you fall into?
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ATLANTA (AP) — A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice swept through parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, knocking out power, felling trees and fences and coating roads with a treacherous, frigid glaze.
Tens of thousands of customers were without power in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Highway patrols reported hundreds of vehicle accidents, and a tornado ripped through a trailer park in Florida. More than 1,200 Sunday flights at Charlotte Douglas International were cancelled — more than 90% of the airport’s Sunday schedule, according to the flight tracking service flightaware.com.
Winter Storm Izzy dumped as much as 10 inches of snow in some areas of western North Carolina as the system moved across the southeastern U.S., said Brian Hurley, a meteorologist with the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
First Sgt. Christopher Knox, a North Carolina Highway Patrol spokesperson, said that by midafternoon, the agency had responded to 300 car crashes and nearly 800 calls for service. Two people died Sunday when their car drove off the road and into trees in a median east of Raleigh. The driver and passenger, both 41-year-old South Carolina residents, were pronounced dead at the scene of the single-vehicle crash. Knox said investigators believe the car was driving too fast for the conditions, described as mixed winter precipitation.
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amusingly Jen Psaki tweeted that she didn't understand why DC shut down because of 1" of snow
this was just 10 minutes after public officials in DC, VA, and MD urged people to stay off roads
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^ well, we now have 1970s-style inflation, crime, corruption and incompetence again, so might as well bring back streaking.
Just hold off on disco, 'k?
[NYPOST] The University of Michigan fired its president Saturday for having a years-long affair with a subordinate, and sending "inappropriate" messages to her on his university email.
The university’s Board of Regents made the decision after receiving an anonymous complaint in December that Dr. Mark Schlissel has "been involved in an inappropriate relationship with a University employee," according to a blurb. A three-page termination letter that cited five emails he sent concluded his "interactions with the subordinate were inconsistent with promoting the dignity and reputation of the University of Michigan."
"After an investigation, we learned that Dr. Schlissel, over a period of years, used his University email account to communicate with that subordinate in a manner inconsistent with the dignity and reputation of the University," the board said Saturday night announcing the removal of the president.
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The big surprise to me is that one of the entitled class actually was accountable for violating his own policies. May this trend spread!
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Oh, I think the Deep Left has a social credit system running already. When someone like this guy, Coomo or Franken gets jettisoned over improprieties with wimmen, it's because they were already slotted for being dumped.
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Could be wrong but I suspect there's much more to this story
[BBC] The pandemic has made the world's wealthiest far richer but has led to more people living in poverty, according to the charity Oxfam.
Lower incomes for the world's poorest contributed to the death of 21,000 people each day, its report claims.
But the world's 10 richest men have more than doubled their collective fortunes since March 2020, Oxfam said.
Oxfam typically releases a report on global inequality at the start of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
That event usually sees thousands of corporate and political leaders, celebrities, campaigners, economists and journalists gather in the Swiss ski resort for panel discussions, drinks parties and schmoozing.
However for the second year running, the meeting (scheduled for this week) will be online-only after the emergence of the Omicron variant derailed plans to return to an in-person event.
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Nothing has stopped Oxfam from an investment strategy to do the same. Thou shall not covet. How much more food could get in the hands and mouths of others were it not for corrupt, incompetent, and power hungry ruling classes.
[NATION.PK] Rawalpindi-Former diplomat Shaukat Ali Mukaddam on Saturday appeared before the court and recorded his statement while demanding death penalty for Zahir Zakir Jaffar, alleged killer of his 28-year-old-daughter Noor Mukaddam.
"Zahir Zakir Jaffar had brutally murdered my innocent daughter without any reason therefore he should be hanged," said Shaukat Ali Mukaddam in his statement recorded by Additional and Sessions Judge (ASJ) Atta Rabbani.
[NATION.PK] In yet another celebratory firing incident, a wedding ceremony in Lahore turned into mourning on Saturday night after two brothers were killed in an gun sex during a wedding function.
According to the police, two brothers identified as Maid and Safdar, died when a wedding party guest had gun sex during the marriage function in the Naseerabad neighbourhood of Lahore.
One of the dear departed, Majid, was constable at Anti Vehicle Lifting Cell (AVLC) department, said police.
The bodies were handed over to heirs after completing medico-legal formalities. Both deceased brothers were close relatives of the bride.
Police have launched an investigation into the matter.
Celebratory firing during joyous events in the country have claimed many precious lives and despite repeated warnings from authorities, the incidents again and again appear to raise serious questions on implementation of laws.
In a similar incident that was reported this year in November, a 7-year-old girl had been killed in an gun sex by a policeman during a wedding ceremony in the Qayyumabad ...a suburb of Korangi Town, if you know where that is... area of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... .
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A woman who was working as a substitute teacher posted a video to social media alleging she was fired by school officials for not "identifying with" a student who "identifies as a cat" after she refused to meow back at the child in class.
Three men and one woman were arrested after staging a sit-in at the Times Square Olive Garden
[NYPOST] The University of Michigan fired its president Saturday for having a years-long affair with a subordinate, and sending "inappropriate" messages to her on his university email.
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[NATION.PK] In yet another celebratory firing incident, a wedding ceremony in Lahore turned into mourning on Saturday night after two brothers were killed in an 
