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What? Really?

When I was in junior high school, it was called Home Economics. That was back in 7th grade. As long suspected, today they "graduate" kids based upon chronological age and little - if anything - more.

A high school in Kentucky wants to ensure that when the class of 2019 graduates they have learned a few essential life skills. To ensure that the seniors are ready for the "real world," Bullitt Central High School hosted an "Adulting Day" where students were able to learn about basic finances and how to cook a meal. 

These professional vegetators just get weirder all the time.

 

Naturally...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection take in a group of illegal immigrants wandering through the New Mexico desert into custody, and a 7-year-old girl whose father hadn't given her food or water for days, begins to have seizures just eight hours after being detained, goes into cardiac arrest, and ultimately dies of dehydration and septic shock.

Do you blame the CBP, which worked to get the Guatemalan girl into a helicopter and to a hospital after she began having seizures? Or do you blame the father who dragged his daughter through the desert for several days?

This is the Trump era, so you know exactly who the media is blaming.

The Women's March said of the girl, "Her death is on this administration’s hands. Just that this is why we can’t stop resisting."

"Shame on our country and shame on Donald Trump," said Shaun King in a tweet with 16,000 likes.

Nope. Shame on her father. It has nothing to do with our country nor with Trump. The Left is so blinded by hatred that little things like facts don't matter to them.

They're not even pretending any longer, which is probably a good thing; there's no longer any question as to who the enemy is.

 

Hypocrisy Continues

TheDCNF wanted to test the commitment of big companies, foundations and outspoken activists who back the Paris accord. The question: Would you support a ban on private jet travel to help stem global warming?

Most companies and individuals TheDCNF reached out to did not respond, including Facebook, Apple, Google and other companies that often tout their “green image.” Not even former Vice President Al Gore, the father of climate activism, responded to TheDCNF’s question.

In other words, they'll keep flying in private jets. You're supposed to take public transit and live in a hamster cage.

AlGore alone - as he and Tipper are divorced - uses an estimated 34 times the amount of energy that you consume.

How interesting.

 

Authentic Fake Forms

It took a while, but the feds finally got around to him.

Federal officials shut down an Oregon man’s website that sold fake documents identity thieves could use to defraud innocent victims. Steven Simmons, who operated www.noveltyexcuses under the company name of Integrated Flight Solutions of Beaverton, agreed to permanently shut down his business as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Simmons, who operated his “novelty” company from 2013 through October 2017, sold bogus pay stubs, utility and cable bills, bank statements, car insurance cards and doctor’s excuses for $19.95. The website touted them as “Quality Authentic Fake Forms! Proven to Work!”

"In a bind? We've got your back!" Well, I guess that's creative, but they really should have taken away his computer toys and internet connection while they were at it.

It's amazing to me that people actually go for this kind of thing.

How about "just live right"?

 

Hypocrisy In Action

Candace Owens: I bought a purse that has a small amount of python on it. I was provided an official “certificate of source” for it because if I cross into California— the purse can be confiscated by law. Imagine a state that has sanctuary cities but demands birth certificates for purses.

We don't have to imagine it; we live with it. Oh, and you also can't bring an apple across the border. Illegal aliens, no problem. Apples, big problem.

 

Oh Puleeze

I've removed animal turds that exhibited greater intellectual capacity than this.

It says a lot about voters in Hawaii. Believe me, Mazie - the rider controls the elephant, not vice-versa. Now, jackasses are a whole different story.

 

Disruption, E-Scooter Style

"This is disruptive technology," said Dr. Christopher Ziebell, emergency room medical director at Austin's Dell Seton Medical Center. "But this time the disruption is disrupting forearms, elbows and heads."

Among other things, like ankles and legs.

And trauma surgeons are reporting daily occurrences in hospitals from San Diego to Denver to Austin. Some of these injuries have been life-threatening; others have left people permanently disabled.

A large part of the problem is that these e-scooter renters don't use helmets or other protective gear; the whole idea behind the things is spur-of-the-moment: "Hey, scooter! Cool!" So their concept is to dump these things onto city streets with no regard for human safety. An added bonus: their "user agreements" embedded into the apps place all responsibility for any issues entirely on the rider. Got an $8000 hospital bill for surgeries, plates, and pins after the brakes failed when rolling downhill? Sorry about your luck.

After Brogan's crash, her husband rushed her to the local urgent care. While waiting to be seen by doctors, she got several in-app messages from Lime saying she hadn't ended her ride and was still accruing charges.

"Scooter unsafe no brakes now in emergency room multiple fractures," Brogan wrote back.

Once out of the hospital, she emailed Lime to fully recount what happened. They had a brief back-and-forth in which Lime told her to file a claim for review. Brogan wrote back saying her out-of-pocket expenses totaled about $8,000 and asked if Lime would repay those losses. She said she never heard from the company again.

Lime declined to comment. Some municipalities are now finally moving to eliminate riders from the equation entirely - they just ban the scooters completely. Many others, however, such as Painfully Regressive Portland, take the opposite approach: "Anything goes, folks; no rules, no protective gear, no problem!"

But hey, let's have a conversation about "common-sense gun control".

 

Hypocrisy

This year’s United Nations climate summit will have a carbon footprint equivalent to the yearly electricity usage of more than 8,200 American households, according to the international body’s own figures. Nearly 30,000 United Nations officials, diplomats, environmental activists, journalists and academics traveled to the heart of Poland’s coal country in Silesia to negotiate the next steps of the Paris climate accord.

It’s ironic then that the U.S. cut its carbon dioxide emissions more than any other country last year, while most of the world, including Europe, saw emissions increase.

Apparently, the UN folks have never heard of things like Skype; nope, they have to fly in to jawbone.

 

At It Again

The professional agitators were at it again last evening at Oregon Zoo, claiming that the organization killed an elephant calf just a day before her sixth birthday.

Whatever they do, the agitators aren't about to let a few facts stand in the way of their fake outrage:

Endotheliotropic herpesvirus is a rapidly progressing and often fatal disease. Elephant calves are particularly susceptible to it.

By "rapidly progressing", they mean "highly aggressive", which is a term typically applied to human cancer patients with nasty sarcomas. When I had one, average lifespan from diagnosis was two years. That's how "highly aggressive" works. In veterinary terms, they tend to use the term, "rapid progression", which amounts to the same thing.

EEHV is present in almost all Asian elephants, both in wild populations and those in captivity. Typically, it only causes mild or no symptoms, but for reasons unknown, it can sometimes come out of latency and cause disease.

Once the disease becomes active in calves, it is usually fatal and will often kill them within a few days, even with intensive treatment.

That's right; contrary to the story line the agitators push, the zoo did not kill the elephant calf - she died from a disease that is common in elephants, and one that is spectacularly lethal when it erupts in young animals. These jerks don't "protest" at hospitals when somebody dies of drug-resistant TB or cancer, but by golly, if an elephant calf dies of a common bacterial infection that is notoriously difficult to treat, then the zoo killed it. Get real.

I guess it makes them feel good about themselves, but that's a sad reflection upon what passes for their lives.

 

Works For Me

A group of migrant women in the caravan announced Thursday that it would begin a hunger strike to protest the slow pace at which the women are being allowed to apply for asylum, as officials from the United States and Mexico are set to meet this weekend to negotiate a plan to process their claims.

From the photos I've seen, they can stand to lose a few pounds.

Irineo Mujica, director of Pueblo Sin Fronteras, said the hunger strike comes at a breaking point in the caravan's negotiations with immigration authorities.

Bring it on. There are legal means for immigration, and we don't need illiterate baby-makers who believe they have some divine right to butt on in. As though they're "special".