[The Truth About Guns] When we saw the photo of the man who had been arrested for dumping dead animals on the memorial for the students and teachers who were killed in the Parkland school shooting, we wondered why the Prime Minister of Canada would do such a thing. You must go to the link to understand that lede.
Then we read further and discovered that the suspect wasn’t, in fact, the head of government for our neighbor to the north, but rather a 29-year-old Florida Man who was reportedly obsessed with school shooters. According to the AP, Mondragon’s firearms were confiscated in 2018 under Florida’s "red flag" law.
Robert Mondragon is currently being held without bond on charges of removing or disfiguring a tomb or monument (three counts), violation of probation for battery and indecent exposure (five counts) and violation of a risk protection order.
BSO Threat Management Unit (TMU) detectives said on July 20, a school crossing guard discovered a dead duck with its chest cavity cut open on a bench at the MSD Memorial Garden, located outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. On July 21, the school crossing guard found a dead raccoon on the same memorial bench, and on July 31, a deputy found a dead opossum on the bench.
From surveillance video, detectives saw a white Nissan with all black rims or tires with no hubcaps arrive at the memorial shortly after 11 p.m. on July 30. Detectives said the male driver got out of the car and walked to the passenger’s side, then entered the memorial for several minutes before getting back in the car and leaving.
Late Sunday night on July 31, a vigilant BSO Parkland district deputy saw a white Nissan Sentra with illegal window tint that matched the vehicle description from the surveillance video driving slowly in the area of Pine Island Road and Holmberg Road, and he conducted a traffic stop. The deputy said Mondragon was the only person in the car, and the deputy saw bird feathers and blood on the front passenger side floorboard. Mondragon told the deputy he had the dead bird in his car because he likes "the metal and blood smell that emit from the dead animal."
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That was already happening. This is functionally an ad for a product that provides remote private tutoring, which is better than classroom remote teaching but not nearly as good as in-person teaching or especially in-person tutoring.
[FoxNews] A recent report from the Department of Education showed that the reading and math levels of students across the nation declined during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a new online platform is offering parents a solution to help their kids with their unfinished learning and assist students in achieving academic success.
Teachers1on1 is a new online platform that allows parents to choose from a wide selection of certified teachers and tutors to help their children with learning and school work. The platform boasts that over 500 teachers have been approved. All teacher applicants are extensively vetted, which includes a background check and proof of license to teach.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced students and educators to remote learning which many, including Jeff's family and Christenberry, found challenging. Both said the Teachers1on1 interface and the more personalized settings make it a different and better experience than the tools that were typically available under COVID.
"When I would have multiple students in the classroom and then some at home, it was really hard to be able to tell or to make sure that everyone was engaged. You know, being on a screen, especially when their volume's muted, unless I was looking at every single student at one time, was kind of hard when I'm trying to share my screen and all that kind of stuff," Christenberry said. "So, yes, having one student is much easier for the management piece and to make sure that they're understanding and staying engaged because they're expected. They're the only one that is responding versus, you know, half the class that's responding."
Fox News Digital asked Jeff, Woodward, and Christenberry if elected leaders and schools should be pursuing programs like Teachers1on1 to help students who have fallen behind due to the pandemic. All were in agreement that programs like Teachers1on1 would help and that elected officials should enact policies that offer resources to schools or families to pursue this type of one on one tutoring.
"If this was somehow school sponsored and parents didn't have to pay for it, or maybe got a subsidized rate or maybe got a certain dollar amount to use each school year or something like that. That would be amazing," Jeff said. "I think every parent should be using it because they can help with the kid's homework. They can help them really learn deeper in certain areas. I think it would be amazing."
[PJMedia] Recently demoted CNN host Don Lemon was caught like a deer in the headlights Monday night when he asked British royal commentator Hillary Fordwich whether the British royal family should pay reparations, claiming that some in the United Kingdom "want to be paid back." Not who is thinking of doing the paying.
"England is facing rising costs of living, a living crisis, austerity budget cuts, and so on. And then you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they’re wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there," Lemon explained. "Some people want to be paid back, and members of the public are wondering, ’Why are we suffering when you are, you know, you have all of this vast wealth?’ Those are legitimate concerns."
Her response was epic. After initially giving the impression that she agreed with Lemon, she schooled him royally. She skewered him.
"Well, I think you’re right about reparations in terms of if people want it, though, what they need to do is you always need to go back to the beginning of a supply chain," Fordwich replied. "Where was the beginning of the supply chain? That was in Africa, and when it crossed the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? The first nation world to abolish it, it was started by William Wilberforce, was the British. In Great Britain, they abolished slavery."
She continued, "Two thousand naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people, they had them on cages waiting in the beaches. No one was running into Africa to get them. And I think you’re totally right."
The look on Lemon’s face was priceless. Fordwich succeeded in agreeing with him, although for different reasons than he was obviously suggesting. And she wasn’t done with the lesson.
"If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ’Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages?’ Absolutely. That’s where they should start. And maybe, I don’t know, the descendants of those families where they died at the, in the high seas trying to stop the slavery, that those families should receive something too, I think, at the same time."
After she was done, Lemon sat there, stunned for several seconds, before responding, "It’s an interesting discussion, Hillary, Thank you very much, I appreciate it."
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Because a ship's crew didn't have the people and resources to land and go trekking through unmapped Africa, rounding people up.
Only the locals would know where and who, and who not, to go round up. Likely, traditionally, the slavers would take first pick, then send the unwanted to market.
[The Street] Automaker Ford Motor joins the list of companies hurt by the inflation-ridden economy.
The news feels like a cold shower for the many consumers who have been waiting many months to receive the vehicles they ordered.
As for those who have just placed orders for new vehicles, the news also renders the delivery schedules for their cars uncertain.
Ford Motor (F) has just said that the supply-chain problems hobbling many companies, but particularly vehicle manufacturers, are far from being resolved.
The covid-19 pandemic both prompted and worsened these difficulties. Societal lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus forced carmakers to halt operations at factories in certain regions. Semiconductor shortages forced them to suspend the production of certain models.
Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine sent raw-materials prices soaring, which increased costs and sourcing difficult, particularly for electric vehicles. Both countries are suppliers of materials needed to produce EVs.
[Remix] Hundreds of the radical Nazis and right-wing extremists online are actually German domestic intelligence agents, and many of them may even responsible for "inciting hatred" and even violence. These agents, who once needed to drink and directly socialize with members of the extreme right, are now running right-wing extremist accounts online in Germany.
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) argues that these accounts are needed to gather information, but critics say that they may also be promoting and actively encouraging radicalism, according to a report from German newspaper Suddeutshce Zeitung.
"This is the future of information gathering," an unnamed head of a relevant state office told Suddeutsche Zeitung.
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"In fact, there are now so many accounts operated by different German authorities that a nationwide agreement has become necessary. Otherwise, these different agents would be targeting each other with surveillance and monitoring."
Deconfliction, meine Damen und Herren, deconfliction!
[IsraelTimes] A parliamentary candidate for Italia’s far-right Fratelli d’Italia party — the favorite to win the upcoming election despite its fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... history — has been suspended after it was revealed that he praised Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... on social media.
The move comes as Giorgia Meloni, the frontrunner for prime minister, tries to improve the image of her party, which is rooted in Benito Mussolini ...former dictator of Italia. He perfected the idea of the corporate state and was all the vogue in intellectual circles until he lined up with Adolf in the Second World War. He wanted Italians to be figli de la lupa, and like the sons of wolves they turned on him when they finally got the chance. He ended his days dangling by his heels in a public square next to his mistress... ’s fascist ideology.
Calogero Pisano, the leader of the party’s local branch in the province of Agrigento in Sicily, and member of its national leadership, is suspended "with immediate effect" from his party duties, says a statement sent to AFP.
He "no longer represents FdI at any level and he is prohibited from using its logo," it says, adding that he has been summoned before the party’s governing bodies for possible additional sanctions.
[Antiwar.com] The State Department announced in August that it will no longer publish World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (WMEAT) reports, which have been released by the US government since the 1960s.
The WMEATs detail US global military spending, arms transfers, and related data for each country in the world. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) included an amendment that repealed a 1994 provision requiring the State Department to publish a WMEAT each year.
"Section 5114(b)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 repealed the 1994 statutory provision that required the Department of State to publish an edition of WMEAT every year. Consistent with this repeal, the Department of State will cease to produce and publish WMEAT," the State Department said on its website.
The State Department said that the report it published in 2021 was the "final edition" of the WMEAT. The 2021 WMEAT covered an 11-year period from 2009 through 2019 and found that the US was by far the world’s largest arms dealer. During that period, about "79 percent of world arms trade by value appears to have been supplied by the United States."
The discontinuation of the WMEAT reports, which reduces the US government’s transparency, comes as the US is shipping billions of dollars worth of arms into Ukraine with virtually no oversight. Since Russia invaded on February 24, the US has pledged $15.1 billion in weapons for Kyiv.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the United States remains the world's largest arms exporter responsible for 38.6 percent of international arms sales between 2017 and 2021, up from 32.2 percent between 2012 and 2016. During the most recent time span, the country supplied arms to more than 100 countries.
The World's Biggest Arms Exporters
Russia remains in second position, but its share has been decreasing. Between 2017 and 2021, the country was responsible for 18.6 percent of global arms exports. Between 2012 and 2016, it had been 24.1 percent.
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The Department of State is a political cesspool of the left. A quote from National Review today:
"An internal document obtained exclusively by National Review provides further detail on how State Department officials must now promote and advance DEI principles to receive tenure and promotions. While that document details uncontroversial promotion criteria, such as ensuring respectful behavior in the workplace, the specific focus on DEI echoes the language of left-leaning activists." (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion)
I'm a gonna guess huuuge discrepancies. Could you imagine just how, if this were a business, to write up product given away vs. inventory valuation, or if that money transfers to Kyeeev -10% then transfers back -10% for purchase at +10%? The IRS would be like, "That's why we need armored cars and cranes."
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The service says that the B-21's average procurement price per unit — the most common measurement of how much it costs to build a jet — has remained within its $550-million-apiece goal, measured in fiscal 2010 dollars. If adjusted for inflation, the equivalent is about $639 million in 2019 dollars, the service said.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Truth About Guns] When we saw the photo of the man who had been arrested for dumping dead animals on the memorial for the students and teachers who were killed in the Parkland school shooting, we wondered why the Prime Minister of Canada would do such a thing.
[PJMedia] Recently demoted CNN host 
/\ That's sort of the point. Don is so naive that he thought he did know what the answer was and that he would like the answer. Surprise!
Breaking the law in order to enforce the law ? 
Tolja so. 
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
