65%
of Public School 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading; 67% Not
Proficient in Math
Why
am I not surprised? And here's what they don't report in the article
- How many TEACHERS are proficient in the subjects they are supposed
to teach?
And, notice which are the worst school systems - those run by whom?
(CNSNews.com)
- Sixty-five percent of the eighth graders in American public schools
in 2017 were not proficient in reading and 67 percent were not
proficient in mathematics, according to the National Assessment of
Educational Progress test results released by the U.S. Department of
Education.
The
results are far worse for students enrolled in some urban districts.
Among
the 27 large urban districts for which the Department of Education
published 2017 NAEP test scores, the Detroit public schools had the
lowest percentage of students who scored proficient or better in math
and the lowest percentage who scored proficient or better in reading.
Only
5 percent of Detroit public-school eighth graders were proficient or
better in math. Only 7 percent were proficient or better in reading.
In
the Cleveland public schools, only 11 percent of eight graders were
proficient or better in math and only 10 percent were proficient or
better in reading.
In
the Baltimore public schools, only 11 percent were proficient or
better in math and only 13 percent were proficient or better in
reading.
In
the Fresno public schools, only 11 percent were proficient or better
in math and only 14 percent were proficient or better in reading.
More
disgusting news @
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/65-public-school-8th-graders-not-proficient-reading-67-not-proficiet
TRUMP
‘Gangnam Style’ Video Celebrating Korean Peace Talks Takes
Twitter by Storm
Kinda
funky but funny @
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/05/trump-gangnam-style-video-celebrating-korean-peace-talks-takes-twitter-by-storm/
Rosenstein
Admits "You Can't Revoke an Election"
Then
why in the hell are the DimocRATs so hell bent on voiding the will of
the people? Threats of calling the president before a grand jury.
Threats to impeach. Continued whining that he didn't win the popular
vote (which is a lie because millions of votes were never counted.
See references to uncounted absentee ballots.)
Video
and story @
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/fmr-lawyer-asks-why-2016-election-cant-be-rescinded-rosenstein-responds-visual
A
Prime Reason to Vote for GOP Candidates
If
the Dims win, she's gonna run for Speaker. What better reason is
there to keep the majority of the House GOP?
She
also promises to raise your taxes if they win.
Belem,
Brazil Becomes Slaughter Zone
Something
we will never see in the USA media and I can't figure out why. All of
Brazil is in deep trouble, poverty and unemployment rampant.
SAO
PAULO – Local media in Brazil are reporting more than 30 people
have been shot dead in the northern city of Belem since the weekend.
The
G1 news portal says 33 people have been killed since Sunday, when
police officer Maria de Fatima dos Santos was gunned down.
Sao
Paulo, Brazil 24-storey building collapses after huge blaze
So
far, 250 people who'd been living in the building have been
registered after the blaze, city security official Jose Roberto said.
The fire began overnight and spread rapidly, turning the building
into an inferno before it fell down.
Puerto Rico
government officials face corruption probe
About damned time. And
I'm sure this is only scratching the surface.
SAN JUAN, Puerto
Rico – Puerto Rico's chief of staff and three other government
officials are facing accusations of undue influence.
The U.S. territory's
justice secretary said Wednesday there's enough evidence to submit a
case to special independent prosecutors who investigate government
corruption. Among those being investigated are Chief of Staff William
Villafane, Associate Secretary to the Interior Ministry Itza Garcia,
water and sewer company vice president Yoniel Arroyo, and
Administration for the Sustenance of Minors manager Waleska
Maldonado.
Villafane did not
immediately return a message for comment. Garcia, Arroyo and
Maldonado could not be immediately contacted.
The case already
forced a judge to resign after those accused allegedly discussed what
kind of rulings he should issue in a WhatsApp group called
'Coffeebreak.' The judge also resigned as president of the island's
state election commission.
From
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/02/puerto-rico-government-officials-face-corruption-probe.html
And the power STILL has
not been totally restored!
Why a daily sauna
could cut your risk of STROKE by as much as 61%:
One of the things I
truly loved while serving in Europe was enjoy the saunas. (And I
never did get over the embarrassment of siting there when undressed
females entered)
Study finds relaxing in
high temperatures can reduce blood pressure
Saunas have long
been lauded by experts as an easy way to help with weight loss
But the new Bristol
University research suggests they can help with stroke, too
Saunas can aid the
immune system and keep the heart and blood vessels healthy
Much more @
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5683287/Why-daily-sauna-cut-risk-STROKE-61.html
What will probably
happen with the North and South Korean peace treaty
After watching the
video and reading the article, the conclusion it all comes to is
nothing will happen.
A surprise?
Not actually. The real
players in all of this are clearly the USA and China. It indicates
that China isn't all that interested in seeing a complete thaw
between the north and south and especially NOT reunification.
So, what does it think
WILL happen. A loosening of visitation rules for families on both
sides and perhaps more economic cooperation. But little else.
At least not right
away. IMHO, I can see what happened at the end of the Cold War when
The Wall finally came down.
Our Sailors Don't
Know How to Sail Anymore
At least that's what
this article declares.
The US Navy
overly relies on electronics and automation, according to the US
Naval Institute, and it could be its downfall in a war against a
major foe like Russia or China.
US Navy figures
have been warning for some time about a lack of fundamental skills
that could lead to the US losing its next major sea conflict.
Russia and China
both have a strong focus on countering the US's ability to access
electronic and automated systems.
"Navigation and
seamanship, these are the fundamental capabilities which every
surface warfare officer should have, but I suspect if called to war,
we'll be required to do a lot more than safely navigate the Singapore
strait," US Navy Capt. Kevin Eyer, former skipper of the
cruisers Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Thomas Gates said in December.
Eyer was speaking in reference to the USS John McCain's crash with a
container ship in the Singapore strait, as
Breaking Defense noted at the time.
I wonder if this isn't
happening to all of our armed forces. Read more @
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-could-lose-next-war-electronics-automation-2018-4
So You Can See
Potholes in the UK
Someone has either a
sense of humor or desperation for the damage done to their vehicles.
Dolls' heads have
been popping up in the southwest of England after one resident took
it upon himself to try and fix a problem with potholes.
Neville Daytona told
Euronews he was "getting fed up with the pothole" in
Wroughton, a town in Wiltshire near to him, and decided to fill it
with dolls' heads to cause "amusement" among residents.
He said he was tired
of getting mad with the potholes and used the heads bought from a
charity shop to do something amusing for residents, making it look as
though someone had fallen down the hole.
Gibson Guitars
Filing for Bankruptcy
Nowhere in the article
(seemingly centered on European circumstances) does it deal with the
US government raiding their facilities over wood they claimed was
protected by environmental laws. (The wood was later returned and
almost all of the instruments were sold)
It does hint that
stores are centered on pros and not first-time buyers.
Legendary guitar
maker Gibson has filed for bankruptcy in the USA. Gibson Brands has a
reported debt north of 400 million euros, with its other musical
divisions like Epiphone or Wurlitzer also in the doldrums as sales of
musical instuments decline.
Once near-ubiquitous
in the hands of stars and guitar heroes from the Beatles to Jimi
Hendrix to Neil Young and many, many more, the guitar is no longer
the instrument of choice for the EDM generation, who are more likely
to buy synthesisers or other electronic kit to make music.
(Hispanic) Network
Hosts Disparage Massive Federal Aid Effort in Puerto Rico
Specifically so-called
"news" hosts at Univision, the biggest and most liberal
Spanish language TV channel. They spew hour after hour of anti-Trump
propaganda to a poorly educated audience who mainly speaks little or
no English.
This article shows just
how much assistance has been given to Puerto Rico and completely
ignores the corruption and just plain obstruction by local
politicians in helping their own people.
Caputo's Statement
to Senate Intelligence Committee
Americans are finally
beginning to see the full vindictiveness of DimocRATs towards anyone
who helped President Trump win his election. An average American's
life destroyed for no other reason than he supported a political
candidate he believed in - someone who was outside The Establishment.
Is this the end of our
republic as we know it?
Here's a snipped of his
comment:
What America needs
is an investigation of the investigators. I want to know who is
paying for the spies’ work and coordinating this attack on
President Donald Trump? I want to know who Dan Jones is talking to
across the investigations – from the FBI, to the Southern District
of New York, to the OSC, to the Department of Justice, to Congress.
Forget about all the
death threats against my family. I want to know who cost us so much
money, who crushed our kids, who forced us out of our home, all
because you lost an election.
I want to know
because God Damn you to Hell.
The full statement @
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/caputos-complaint.php
His 8 minute interview
on FoxNews is @
https://video.foxnews.com/v/5510800310001/?#sp=show-clips
Do Senior Officials
of the DOJ Think They are Independent?
It would appear so. The
Assistant AG has been making all sorts of news about threatening the
president. And we all know that the AG is apparently ignoring the
president's call to act on several matters.
Just how long will it
be until the president takes action?
A Rigged System - They don’t want to turn
over Documents to Congress. What are they afraid of? Why so much
redacting? Why such unequal “justice?” At some point I will have
no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get
involved!
The idea that the
Department of Justice is “independent” of the president is
ludicrous. It is part of the Executive Branch, which the President
runs. See Article II of the Constitution. The President appoints the
Attorney General, and DOJ reports to the president just as other
federal agencies do. The President sets policies to be executed by
DOJ, and his Attorney General and the AG’s subordinates carry them
out.
That is how it is
supposed to work, anyway. And it certainly is how it worked during
the Obama administration, when Attorney General Eric Holder described
himself as President Obama’s “wing man.”
What is going on
here? Constitutional illiteracy, to be sure. But also, an open
expression of the view that the federal bureaucracy–the fourth
branch, the administrative state–not only is, but ought to be a
fifth column whenever the President is a Republican. For the Left,
obstruction of the President’s policies by his subordinates is a
positive virtue, as long as the President is a Republican.
More w/links @
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/trump-threatens-the-independence-of-doj-lets-hope-so.php
CNN Flack Asks Sarah
Sanders Dumbest Question in WH History
If it isn't CNN's
Acosta screaming at her, we now find the WH press secretary faced
with the stupidity of other CNN flacks.
Ryan then launched
into a nonsensical follow-up.
“Chaos, hush
money, Russia trolls, Facebook, Wikileaks, D.N.C. Hacks, Comey email
investigation on the eve of the election, allegations of collusion,”
she said, lacking any semblance of basic sentence structure. “Do
these issues give support to those who offer questions about the
president’s legitimacy?”
The White House
press secretary looked confused and responded “I’m not sure I
follow the question.”
Sanders then added
“millions of Americans came out and voted for and continue to
support this presidency makes him pretty legitimate.”
Two Century Old Beer
Recreated by Australian Scientists
They're thinking of
selling it commercially. I wonder how many Aussies will buy it.
World's oldest
surviving beer is brought back to life: Scientists brew an ancient
ale with 'hints of blackcurrant and spices' using yeast recovered
from 1797 shipwreck
Beer bottles on
board an 18th century ship spent two centuries underwater
After being
salvaged in the 90s, the beer has now been recreated by scientists
Called 'The
Wreck - Preservation Ale'. it is said to have 'hints of blackcurrant'
Originally lost
in the 1797 shipwreck, the beer will go on sale later this month
Time travel maps:
Aerial mapping project
shows how dramatically American cities from New York to Las Vegas
have changed over the last 80 years
Historic Aerials is
a mapping project based in Tempe, Arizona, that allows viewers to
compare aerial maps from different years and decades
The project has
collected more than a million aerial maps, some as far back as the
1920s
Historic Aerials is
run by Nationwide Environmental Title Research (NETR) and was started
around 2005
Today, the project
has seven people working on it, but they can publish at least a
thousand images every day
It's amazing to see the
differences. My one comment was the statement that San Diego was
founded in 1848 after the Americans came. The truth is, the Spanish
founded it in 1769 when the mission and presidio came about.
Las Vegas in 1950. When
Las Vegas was founded in 1905, the city limits were north of this
aerial image, which shows only desert. In 1950 the population of Las
Vegas was 24,624, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors
Authority The line in the desert just below the structure is present
day Flamingo Rd.
2013, LAS VEGAS: In
2012, the city's population had risen to 594,294 and in 2016 it
grew even more to 632,912. The desert that had been in this area in
1950 is long gone
California Desert
Marine Base Renamed Due to Cold Winter
The
Duffle Blog is one of the funniest blogs I follow on a daily
basis. Some of the stuff is hilarious and I highly recommend it for
civilians as well as veterans.
This particular piece
headlines that Marine Base 29 Palms has been renamed Marine Base 9
Palms because severe cold and winds caused 20 of the palms to give up
the ghost. Of course, they went to the Departments of the Navy and
Defense for approval of the name change.
Read the piece @
https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/05/marine-corps-twentynine-palms-renamed-nine-palms-after-frigid-spring/
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