The long time democratic US senator can't figure out why electric rate increases are up over 40% in three years and are scheduled for another double digit rate increase in 2025. So, he virtue signals by trying to blame the regulated public utility, Portland General Electric. Here is the playing field. PGE is a regulated utility. The electric rates charged to consumers are approved by the Oregon Public Utility Commission whose commissioners are appointed by the governor which had been a democrat since 1987. The electric rates are supposed to be established under Oregon statutes which have been approved and amended by democratic legislators for decades. The democratic legislature and Oregon dem governor have passed "renewable mandates" which require the use of expensive and non-reliable wind and solar generation. The Oregon PUC also mandated the termination of the 550 megawatt Boardman coal generation plant which was demolished in 2022. Much of the solar and wind production comes from the middle of nowhere (say eastern Wyoming) and required/requires billions of dollars in new transmission and grid updates. I wonder who we should blame?
Denying a minor from purchasing cigarettes "consenting" to sexual mutilation is just like a violation of the 14th Amendment in banning interracial marriage or claiming that sexual mutilation has a similar risk profile to taking an aspirin. At least according to our most recent Supreme Court justice who can't define a woman or from our wise latina Justice who compared dog shit to apples. This is the modern democratic party. I'd add what is the functional difference between these two clowns on the US Supreme Court and the dazzler?
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a pivotal case addressing state restrictions on controversial medical interventions, including puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors with gender confusion. At the heart of the case is a Tennessee law banning these procedures for children, with the court’s decision likely to have far-reaching consequences. Will our country protect children from these barbaric and irreversible procedures or not?
As I previously reported, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson humiliated herself when she bizarrely tried to equate banning transgender procedures for minors with prohibiting interracial marriage. She began with a convoluted statement: “Being drawn by the statute that was sort of like the starting point, the question was whether it was discriminatory because it applied to both races and it wasn’t necessarily invidious or whatever.”
It got worse from there.
“But you know, as I read … the case here, the court starts off by saying that Virginia is now one of 16 states which prohibit and punish marriages on the basis of racial classifications.” While it was clear that she intended to invoke historical racial discrimination, the connection to the case at hand was tenuous at best.
The real stretch came when she concluded, “And when you look at the structure of that law, it looks in terms of you can’t do something that is inconsistent with your own characteristics. It’s sort of the same thing.”
The suggestion that anyone could somehow liken laws protecting minors from irreversible and harmful gender procedures to bans on interracial marriage is downright absurd. Jackson’s argument hinged on a confusing assertion that both types of laws were based on “inconsistency” with one’s “characteristics,” a comparison that is frankly laughable and dumb.
But she wasn't the only left-wing justice on the court to make a dumb argument.
While speaking before the court, Tennessee's Solicitor General asked, "How many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits?"
And that's when Justice Sonia Sotomayor promptly jumped in.
"I'm sorry, Counselor," she said, interrupting him. "Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin, there is always going to be a percentage of the population under any medical treatment that's going to suffer a harm."
That's right. Sotomayor, the so-called "wise Latina," compared cutting off the healthy breasts and genitals of minors to taking aspirin.
Which justice made the dumber argument? Jackson bizarrely compared Tennessee’s ban on gender procedures for minors to bans on interracial marriage, claiming that both involve “inconsistency” with inherent characteristics. The analogy was a spectacular failure as protecting minors from irreversible harm has nothing to do with racial discrimination.
Meanwhile, Sotomayor trivialized the issue by likening the risks of permanent, life-altering surgeries on minors to those of taking aspirin. This flippant dismissal of the severe, irreversible consequences of such procedures demonstrates a shocking lack of seriousness.
Both arguments are embarrassingly absurd, making it difficult to determine which is more moronic. One thing is for sure: both are an embarrassment to the court.
If only we had a massive federal department of education and spent the most money per student in the world then that level of commitment for our kids' education would pay off. The new math is working as well as our elites abandonment of phonics for reading instruction. Ern has it nailed, we just need to spend more money for administrators. Nothing says commitment to the kids education like voting for a democrat. Time for another lockdown.
U.S. students' math scores fell sharply between 2019 and 2023 for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to new results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, known as TIMSS. Some countries improved, passing the U.S. in international rankings, writes Erica Meltzer on Chalkbeat.
The declines were "steep" and "devastating," said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. While high achievers held their own, low-performing students lost the most, widening achievement gaps.
"One in five U.S. eighth graders scored below the low benchmark, meaning they lacked even basic proficiency," Meltzer writes. That's way up from earlier years.
The drop in science scores was less extreme, but U.S. fourth-graders now score worse in science than they did in 1995.
Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan topped the rankings. Poland, Sweden and Australia made the greatest gains, passing the U.S. “We have countries leapfrogging over us,” Carr said.
It's not clear whether school closures, which lasted longer in the U.S. than in Europe or Asia, led to more learning loss. But one of the countries that raised achievement, Sweden, didn't close elementary schools or mandate masks. TIMSS now ranks Sweden 14th in math achievement, while the U.S. is ranked 24th.
Every mistake American education made regarding phonics vs whole language, it’s about to make again with math instruction," tweets Daniel Buck. "And once again a handful of gurus and education professors are about to make millions off of miseducating kids based on pseudoscientific theories and vibes."
He's talking about groups of students struggling with problems -- standing up and with white boards! -- instead of listening to a teacher's explanation first. That's not how they do it in Singapore.
Another nothing bergur. Like everything else in this BS US culture when they tell you there's been a massive 7.3 earthquake, 5.0's did more damage 30 years ago.
I'll sort of disagree. First, Fetterman seems to have made a full recovery from his stroke, which wasn't true when he was running as a candidate. Also, the New York trial for Trump was purely selective justice. A federal criminal statute which wasn't charged by even a weaponized DOJ was used to turn New York misdemeanors with an expired statute of limitations into state felonies, something that hadn't occurred before. Hunter was caught because of his laptop and a failure to report millions on his tax return. The actual prosecution was a fake prosecution with a sweatheart deal with Hunter pleading guilty to misdemeanors and no jail time and a promise of no further prosecution. That deal died when it was too much for the federal judge who called BS on the settlement. Compare that with the selective prosecution of Trump's associates with the book thrown at them or the sentences for the January 6th protestors versus the antifa/blm rioters. This was after federal prosecutors let the statute of limitations expire to minimize the criminal charges.
You don't think AOC would use the government to shut up American citizens? barry's cabal and the dementia patient had no problem censuring social media sites. We have lots of free speech repression on college campuses with firings of those who don't toe the part line. Same with big US corporations like with ESPN and Curt Shilling or Levi Strauss with Jennifer Sey. Trump was headed for jail at the behest of Soros DAs or the federal DOJ. Not one Tug leftard has spoken out about the weaponization of the US justice system. Look at the Rittenhouse trial or the current Penny trial in New York.
Levi Strauss’ chief marketer Jennifer Sey has resigned from her position, claiming she was forced out after voicing her opinion that schools should remain open during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In an essay published on writer Bari Weiss’s Substack, Sey—a 20-year veteran of Levi’s who has been global brand president since 2020—said the company’s CEO, Chip Bergh, offered her a $1 million severance package in exchange for her signature on a nondisclosure agreement. However, she said declined so she could “keep my voice.”
They always accuse the other side for what they are actually doing or are about to do. Always. Lawfare. Canceling free speech. Election fraud. Allowing billionaires to hire election workers and put out unofficial drop boxes etc. etc. etc. Votes don't actually show up 3 weeks later in an honest election system.
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The long time democratic US senator can't figure out why electric rate increases are up over 40% in three years and are scheduled for another double digit rate increase in 2025. So, he virtue signals by trying to blame the regulated public utility, Portland General Electric. Here is the playing field. PGE is a regulated utility. The electric rates charged to consumers are approved by the Oregon Public Utility Commission whose commissioners are appointed by the governor which had been a democrat since 1987. The electric rates are supposed to be established under Oregon statutes which have been approved and amended by democratic legislators for decades. The democratic legislature and Oregon dem governor have passed "renewable mandates" which require the use of expensive and non-reliable wind and solar generation. The Oregon PUC also mandated the termination of the 550 megawatt Boardman coal generation plant which was demolished in 2022. Much of the solar and wind production comes from the middle of nowhere (say eastern Wyoming) and required/requires billions of dollars in new transmission and grid updates. I wonder who we should blame?
Yeah Ron really cares about those working people getting fucked
Green energy is a scam? Who knew?
Ron cares the same way Bernie cares according to Ern. It's all about feelings, not actual results.
That was quick
Denying a minor from
purchasing cigarettes"consenting" to sexual mutilation is just like a violation of the 14th Amendment in banning interracial marriage or claiming that sexual mutilation has a similar risk profile to taking an aspirin. At least according to our most recent Supreme Court justice who can't define a woman or from our wise latina Justice who compared dog shit to apples. This is the modern democratic party. I'd add what is the functional difference between these two clowns on the US Supreme Court and the dazzler?https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/12/05/ketanji-brown-jackson-vs-sonia-sotomayor-whos-dumber-n4934856
Ketanji Brown Jackson Vs. Sonia Sotomayor: Who’s Dumber?Matt Margolis | 11:00 AM on December 05, 2024
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a pivotal case addressing state restrictions on controversial medical interventions, including puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors with gender confusion. At the heart of the case is a Tennessee law banning these procedures for children, with the court’s decision likely to have far-reaching consequences. Will our country protect children from these barbaric and irreversible procedures or not?
As I previously reported, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson humiliated herself when she bizarrely tried to equate banning transgender procedures for minors with prohibiting interracial marriage. She began with a convoluted statement: “Being drawn by the statute that was sort of like the starting point, the question was whether it was discriminatory because it applied to both races and it wasn’t necessarily invidious or whatever.”
It got worse from there.
“But you know, as I read … the case here, the court starts off by saying that Virginia is now one of 16 states which prohibit and punish marriages on the basis of racial classifications.” While it was clear that she intended to invoke historical racial discrimination, the connection to the case at hand was tenuous at best.
The real stretch came when she concluded, “And when you look at the structure of that law, it looks in terms of you can’t do something that is inconsistent with your own characteristics. It’s sort of the same thing.”
The suggestion that anyone could somehow liken laws protecting minors from irreversible and harmful gender procedures to bans on interracial marriage is downright absurd. Jackson’s argument hinged on a confusing assertion that both types of laws were based on “inconsistency” with one’s “characteristics,” a comparison that is frankly laughable and dumb.
But she wasn't the only left-wing justice on the court to make a dumb argument.
While speaking before the court, Tennessee's Solicitor General asked, "How many minors have to have their bodies irreparably harmed for unproven benefits?"
And that's when Justice Sonia Sotomayor promptly jumped in.
"I'm sorry, Counselor," she said, interrupting him. "Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin, there is always going to be a percentage of the population under any medical treatment that's going to suffer a harm."
That's right. Sotomayor, the so-called "wise Latina," compared cutting off the healthy breasts and genitals of minors to taking aspirin.
Which justice made the dumber argument? Jackson bizarrely compared Tennessee’s ban on gender procedures for minors to bans on interracial marriage, claiming that both involve “inconsistency” with inherent characteristics. The analogy was a spectacular failure as protecting minors from irreversible harm has nothing to do with racial discrimination.
Meanwhile, Sotomayor trivialized the issue by likening the risks of permanent, life-altering surgeries on minors to those of taking aspirin. This flippant dismissal of the severe, irreversible consequences of such procedures demonstrates a shocking lack of seriousness.
Both arguments are embarrassingly absurd, making it difficult to determine which is more moronic. One thing is for sure: both are an embarrassment to the court.
Not sure whether this is necessarily a bad thing - wiping Oregon and San Francisco off the map.
No call for genocide. Don’t twist.
If only we had a massive federal department of education and spent the most money per student in the world then that level of commitment for our kids' education would pay off. The new math is working as well as our elites abandonment of phonics for reading instruction. Ern has it nailed, we just need to spend more money for administrators. Nothing says commitment to the kids education like voting for a democrat. Time for another lockdown.
https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/u-s-math-scores-show-devastating-decline
U.S. math scores show 'devastating' declineU.S. students' math scores fell sharplybetween 2019 and 2023 for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to newresultsfrom the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, known as TIMSS. Some countries improved, passing the U.S. in international rankings, writes Erica Meltzer on Chalkbeat.The declines were "steep" and "devastating," said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. While high achievers held their own, low-performing students lost the most, widening achievement gaps."One in five U.S. eighth graders scored below the low benchmark, meaning they lacked even basic proficiency," Meltzer writes. That's way up from earlier years.The drop in science scores was less extreme, but U.S. fourth-graders now score worse in science than they did in 1995.Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan topped the rankings. Poland, Sweden and Australia made the greatest gains, passing the U.S. “We have countries leapfrogging over us,” Carr said.It's not clear whether school closures, which lasted longer in the U.S. than in Europe or Asia, led to more learning loss. But one of the countries that raised achievement, Sweden, didn't close elementary schools or mandate masks. TIMSS now ranks Sweden 14th in math achievement, while the U.S. is ranked 24th."American students’ scoresactually started to decline before the pandemicfor reasons that are not entirely clear," writes Meltzer."The U.S. isfailing to meet the challenges of academic recovery,"Stanford economist Thomas Dee told Kevin Mahnken. "Nearly three decades of math achievement growth" evaporated in a few years.Before the pandemic, federal accountability laws were weakened, notes Dan Goldhaber, director of theCenter for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. That may have hurt students who were already behind, he speculates.Every mistake American education made regarding phonics vs whole language, it’s about to make again with math instruction,"tweets Daniel Buck."And once again a handful of gurus and education professors are about to make millions off of miseducating kids based on pseudoscientific theories and vibes."He's talking about groups of students struggling with problems -- standing up and with white boards! -- instead of listening to a teacher's explanation first. That's not how they do it in Singapore.The Fetterman clone is way better than the actual Fetterman!
Like I said they want to kill you!
Another nothing bergur. Like everything else in this BS US culture when they tell you there's been a massive 7.3 earthquake, 5.0's did more damage 30 years ago.
I'll sort of disagree. First, Fetterman seems to have made a full recovery from his stroke, which wasn't true when he was running as a candidate. Also, the New York trial for Trump was purely selective justice. A federal criminal statute which wasn't charged by even a weaponized DOJ was used to turn New York misdemeanors with an expired statute of limitations into state felonies, something that hadn't occurred before. Hunter was caught because of his laptop and a failure to report millions on his tax return. The actual prosecution was a fake prosecution with a sweatheart deal with Hunter pleading guilty to misdemeanors and no jail time and a promise of no further prosecution. That deal died when it was too much for the federal judge who called BS on the settlement. Compare that with the selective prosecution of Trump's associates with the book thrown at them or the sentences for the January 6th protestors versus the antifa/blm rioters. This was after federal prosecutors let the statute of limitations expire to minimize the criminal charges.
Exactly
Democrat, communist, same, same. Need a T shirt with that on it.
Europe is insane.
You don't think AOC would use the government to shut up American citizens? barry's cabal and the dementia patient had no problem censuring social media sites. We have lots of free speech repression on college campuses with firings of those who don't toe the part line. Same with big US corporations like with ESPN and Curt Shilling or Levi Strauss with Jennifer Sey. Trump was headed for jail at the behest of Soros DAs or the federal DOJ. Not one Tug leftard has spoken out about the weaponization of the US justice system. Look at the Rittenhouse trial or the current Penny trial in New York.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jairhilburn/2022/02/14/levi-brand-president-jennifer-sey-resigns-citing-school-closure-disagreements/
Levi Strauss’ chief marketer Jennifer Sey has resigned from her position, claiming she was forced out after voicing her opinion that schools should remain open during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In an essay published on writer Bari Weiss’s Substack, Sey—a 20-year veteran of Levi’s who has been global brand president since 2020—said the company’s CEO, Chip Bergh, offered her a $1 million severance package in exchange for her signature on a nondisclosure agreement. However, she said declined so she could “keep my voice.”
They always accuse the other side for what they are actually doing or are about to do. Always. Lawfare. Canceling free speech. Election fraud. Allowing billionaires to hire election workers and put out unofficial drop boxes etc. etc. etc. Votes don't actually show up 3 weeks later in an honest election system.
Proof. Dazzler will say it's not proof he's an attorney!
#1 name for boys in England, and #4 for all European countries in 2023, was Muhammad.
That entire continent is going to be lost very soon. Jihadists actually reproduce.