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SALEM, Ore. — For Oregonians familiar with the state's ongoing educational woes, this information likely won't come as a surprise — a recent study by personal finance site WalletHub comparing school systems in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia ranked Oregon among the worst in the country.

The WalletHub study compares school systems across a number of different categories, including performance, funding, safety, class size, and instructor qualifications. According to the study, Oregon had among the top three highest dropout rates in the nation, above only D.C. and New Mexico. 

Throwing more money at the problem - always the first "idea" that Oregon Democratics come up with - isn't going to fix the issues; this is endemic, and not something they can just buy their way out from under.

Which isn't to say that they won't keep trying....

 

Rose City Antifarts Are Vewy Upset

Portland’s most recognizable left-wing group has spoken out against a Senate resolution introduced earlier this month that would label anti-fascists “domestic terrorists,” saying the proposal is an attempt to “criminalize dissent.” Rose City Antifa released a statement saying the Republican Party “is explicitly targeting political opposition. If passed, this resolution would be a powerful new weapon for silencing leftists and dissent in the U.S.”

The resolution referenced a June 29 attack against conservative writer Andy Ngo during a mostly peaceful gathering of competing protesters in downtown. Ngo has said he suffered a brain injury. Cruz and Cassidy cited the attack as proof of the dangers posed by “antifa.” The term is short for anti-fascist and generally serves as a blanket description for typically anonymous left-wing activists who say they support using disruptive and sometimes violent tactics to fight hate, homophobia and anti-Semitism.

Effie Baum, a spokesperson for Portland-based “everyday antifascist” coalition Popular Mobilization, said the group signed the statement to show solidarity with organizations that shared its goals of “raising the cost of participation for racists and homophobic and transphobic people.”

Hmm. Maybe they should quit wearing masks and assaulting people; that'd be a good start. In Portland, they've done a lot of damage with their metal pipes and bats - breaking store windows and even busting in car windows (the driver was a woman with two kids in the vehicle on one occasion, and all she was trying to do was get home).

It's hard to sell the story that you're "anti-fascists" when you behave like fascists.

Hard To Argue

The Annual Loon Migration Is Underway

The world’s rich and famous have flocked to a posh Italian resort to talk about saving Mother Earth — but they sure are punishing her in the process. The three-day event will focus on fighting climate change — though it’s unknown how much time the attendees will spend discussing their own effect on the environment, such as the scores of private jets they arrived in and the mega yachts many have been staying on.

Many of the guests, including Obama and DiCaprio — who has his own climate change foundation — have described global warming as the biggest threat to future generations. But according to Italian press reports, the attendees were expected to show up in 114 private jets, and 40 had arrived by Sunday.

Even worse, they're going to talk; thus releasing even more "deadly" CO₂ into the atmosphere on top of the 784,000 kilograms of the stuff they released with their private jets. Not that they're hypocrites or anything....

 

That Didn't Take Long

36 year-old Congressional gadfly Ilhan separated from her husband recently...

Last week DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Omar, 36, has left her husband Ahmed Hirsi — the father of her three children. She has moved into a luxury penthouse apartment in the trendy Mill District of Minneapolis.

She's on her way to her third divorce at the ripe old age of 36, and is apparently already dating again, as she was spotted at an isolated restaurant near LAX with yet another guy:

'I went in pretending I was going for a take-out,' the source said. 'I looked over and said to the waiter ''Is that who I think it is?'' and he said yes. 'He told me he was upset with what she had said and kept calling her ungrateful saying she was a refugee and should be happy that the United States had taken her in.

'He told me they had been holding hands in the restaurant, although I didn't see that myself.'

She left Caffé Pinguini in Playa Del Rey, a beachside enclave in Los Angeles, with a man who took pains not to allow the couple to be photographed. And DailyMailTV has learned that an eyewitness observed Omar and her companion holding hands while dining inside the bistro.

'The bigger question is why they were at this particular restaurant,' said the man who took the video. You don't just stumble across Playa Del Rey on a chilly Sunday evening in March. 'It's so out of the way. It's the sort of place you go when you don't want anyone to know where you are.'

Omar was at the center of a firestorm on the night she dined at Pinguini. The night before, she had praised CAIR saying the group 'was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.' In fact CAIR was founded in 1994.

'There's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it,' Trump told reporters in June.

Who goes out with another man the day after filing for divorce? In America, divorces don't happen overnight.

So let's see: the Minnesota representative has been divorced twice, and has just filed for another divorce. Yet she's out in southern California at what is described as an intimate and romantic little bistro, holding hands with still another guy over dinner. Either she moves incredibly fast, or these two have been an item for a while. Certainly, it calls her trustworthiness into question - and her mental stability as well.

 

From Fixing Cars To Fixing People

Dr. Carl Allamby talks to a patient about their medical history in the emergency department at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital. Allamby recently started working as an ER resident at Akron General. He's a former mechanic and business owner who decided to become a doctor while in his 40s. July 8, 2019 (Gus Chan / The Plain Dealer)

Carl Allamby became an expert diagnostician after spending his childhood ducking his head under the hoods of Chevys and Fords with the older guys in his East Cleveland neighborhood. If a car whined and growled while turning, or if it squeaked on startup, he could run through a checklist in his head, zero in on the problem, and fix it.

Today, after a career overhaul, he does the same thing with people as an emergency medicine resident, having graduated from medical school this year at age 47.

Allamby said he laughed when people warned him about the long hours residents put in. “When you own a small business, an 80-hour week is like a vacation,” he said.

The story's pretty unnecessarily heavy on the racial aspect, but the man himself shines through it all - and he's impressive as hell. This guy's inspirational, regardless of race.

Well worth the quick read.

 

 

Um, I Knew That. Sure Ya Did.

Climate change activists brought traffic to a standstill in the City of London today after mistakenly targeting a building which contains the offices of a leading renewable energy company.

One of the companies still based at 41 Moorgate is Statkraft, a Norwegian hydropower company which describes itself as “Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy”.

An employee at the company, who asked not to be named, said protesters had chained themselves to doors at the front of the building.

It might be a good idea for them to check their facts before staging a "protest", next time.

There were some 200 people involved in the fiasco; just the latest example of herd mentality in action.

 

 

Capital One

The Seattle woman that the FBI busted in the data theft yesterday? Yeah, it's actually a guy who "identifies" as a woman.

Mental illness is a terrible thing.

 

Dog Vs. Cat

A good dog will likely warn you, should the house catch fire in the middle of the night. A cat will start one.

I'll take the dog, thanks.

 

Escalating Violence

When radical progressive Saul Alinsky penned Rules for Radicals, he had a variation of Antifa in mind. They weren’t to be the focus of his ideal leftist community organizing activism, but rather a tool to push the boundaries of civility so the less violent but equally radical “peaceful” counterparts in their movement would appear to be more pleasant and reasonable.

Independent journalist Andy Ngo, who was violently attacked by Antifa in Portland a month ago, has found the latest plans of an organization that pretends like they’re not really that organized. They, in fact, are, and they’re using this to their advantage in their plans to descend on El Paso, Texas.

Local and national organizers are working together to build 10 days of trainings and direct actions for the Border Resistance Convergence in El Paso, TX – September 1-10th. We are calling on affinity groups everywhere to come together and help us address US-funded genocide and local concentration camps.

They're working to purchase an assortment of guns from Mexican cartels in hopes of turning their El Paso events into armed rebellion. What they fail to recognize is that El Paso isn't Portland. Down there, folks have guns and bullets - and considerably more than "10 days of trainings". the residents know all about gun control - as in, hitting the target. Things could get really interesting for those "antifa" types.