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JoelBklyn:
Pretty soon (if it hasn't happened already) 2 + 3 may come to equal 6 -- or just about anything else one's "victimized" and "oppressed" little heart may desire.

Read the following brief article, my friends, and see if the new "revised" math being proposed isn't another one of those items on the Left's woke agenda that lends believability to their favorite adjective..."progressive".

(Note: Don't feel at all reluctant to use the term "bullsh*t" in rendering a just verdict of what follows):

From: THE ROYAL PATRIOT

"White Supremacy in Math? Bill Gates Sponsors New Curriculum"

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding efforts to eliminate “racism” from mathematics lessons in American schools. A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction contains resources and guidance documents to help teachers “dismantle racism” in math, which they claim is derived from white supremacy. Instructions include abandoning requirements that students show how they reach a mathematical conclusion or even that they provide the correct answer. Asking pupils to answer a math question accurately is racist, according to the documents.

“White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” the guidance claims, adding that this causes “educational harm” to non-white students.

The notion of racism in math is not new and is primarily based on lower test scores by black and ethnic minority students. Seattle math teacher Shraddha Shirude says math is a way of understanding the world, and because America is built on “toxic” whiteness, math is similarly influenced. Shirude introduced ethnic math classes to counter an education system that provides only one “master narrative.”

Nevertheless, research suggests that focusing on race in mathematics harms non-white pupils. Luke Rosiak’s book “Race To The Bottom” found that participants in radical race-based programs saw their test scores drop. Ethnicity-based math lessons have been trialed in West Coast states and promoted by the Oregon Department of Education. Still, even though the educational attainment of black students fell, it did not stop race-based education from advancing.

Oregon math teacher Muhammad Rahman, who believes math upholds “capitalist and imperialist” thinking, responded to low achievement, saying he would examine his teaching methods and ensure “I’m the best version of myself.”

To further manage the discrepancies, Oregon’s legislature passed laws allowing students to graduate without proficiency in math, reading, and writing due to high failure rates among minority students. Similarly, the school board in Vancouver, Washington, ended advanced math classes because too many white pupils were enrolled. They forced high achievers to take courses alongside low achievers in the name of “equity.”

JoelBklyn:
I doubt I'll get many thumbs-up for THIS posting -- and that's to be expected -- but if you care to check out and discover one of my all-time favorite cello concertos...well...here it is: The Victor Herbert Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor Op. 30.

I discovered this not-very-well known, darkly romantic concerto, with its driving first movement, long ago as a young teen -- maybe around 14 or 15 and have heard and loved it many times since.

Note: Victor Herbert is probably best known for having written over 40 operettas (e.g., "The Enchantress", "Naughty Marietta, and "Babes in Toyland", etc.), and was "the first composer to write a musical score exclusively for American cinema, the 1916 silent film The Fall of a Nation." This last fact was unfamiliar even to me. (Thank you, Google!)

JoelBklyn:
Fascinating...Exciting...Positively Spellbinding!!

My friends, even if you have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the intricate, easy-to-learn-difficult-to-master game of chess, watch how this 8-year-old "kid from nowhere" nearly crushes a seasoned master in a harrowing game of "blitz".

I found myself drooling with envy over this kid's unrelenting tenacity and blossoming genius.

JoelBklyn:
To all my sharp-minded Trump supporters:

I think -- if you haven't already seen it -- you're going to LOVE this Donald Trump video. I came across it -- thanks to TESITA -- two hours prior of its posting. It is filled with both fervent reverence, celebration and wicked, poking humor.

When it comes to our hero, the reason many of us may appear to our detractors as inexplicable fanatics -- almost as though Trump were the Messiah Himself -- is not because we are allowing ourselves to be gullibly led astray by the false blandishments of this so-called power-driven, orange-haired demagogue...but rather because we have witnessed first-hand -- with our eyes wide open -- the tragic events that have resulted from a psychotic Administration, whose deranged leaders are driven only by their virulent lust for power and ultimately by their total, unchallenged control over every aspect of our lives.

History -- when it finally sets the record straight -- will never forgive these progressive imposters in Washington for their iniquitous attempts to destroy our heritage...to take down and "reimagine" what many historians have proclaimed as the greatest culmination in government ever to come upon the earth.

And that's why my eyes momentarily flooded with tears and my heart burst with pride as I watched the following video. Not out of any kind of childish, hero-worshiping fanaticism...but out of knowing that there was one man out there -- an often rude, brusque, insensitive, at times offensive, but down-to-earth man (with an occasional, pardonable outbreak of foot-in-mouth-disease), who was single-handedly capable of striking FEAR into the hearts of those preposterous frauds on the Left -- and committed wholeheartedly to making America once more the great nation it was under his leadership.

Let this video put a BIG CHEERING SMILE on your face -- as it did mine.

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JoelBklyn:
No, folks -- this ain't Monty Python. These are real, presumably educated, "adult" human beings demonstrating, with shameless sincerity, the kind of insanity that passes nowadays for intelligence and common sense. Try not to die laughing toward the end of the video when black actress, Jennifer Lewis, speaks her mind -- or what's left of it.

Thank you, True Assassin, from whose feed I extracted this video. I'm praying as many sleeping liberals get to see it -- and awaken finally from being "woke".

JoelBklyn:
Easter Sunday?...or Transgender Awareness Day?

Watch this excellent five-minute video to the end. You'll be surprised and delighted (if you think the way I do) with what Caitlyn Jenner (former athlete, Bruce Jenner) said about the ever-pandering Joe Biden.

JoelBklyn:

For those of my friends celebrating Easter and the Resurrection -- I actually don't, but I respect the context in which people choose to place their spiritual beliefs -- here is a most stirring piece of music to emphasize that context...music which brings me to tears every time I listen to it -- the glorious finale from the 1961 film "King of Kings", composed by the late brilliant Miklos Rosza.

Listen to it, my dear friends, with the volume turned up as high as you dare -- AND REJOICE!

JoelBklyn:
Another appreciative "thank you" to yet another liberal destroyer of the First Amendment -- this time Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (How the hell do these cretinous dumbbells ever succeed in getting themselves elected to such high offices?...except perhaps by showing their traitorous contempt for the values that once made this country great.)

"My biggest concern," said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday, "is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways."

That comment came during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, the case that asks if President Joe Biden's administration violated the First Amendment when it sought to pressure social media apps to remove information it deemed harmful. It took almost no time for Jackson's tidbit to set off the viral narrative that she doesn't grasp basic constitutional principles, particularly when considering that the point of the First Amendment is indeed TO hamstring what the government can do in response to speech it may not like.

"Jackson raises eyebrows with comment that First Amendment 'hamstrings' government," wrote Fox News. "Leftists want unlimited government — which is why they hate the Constitution," lamented The Federalist. It was "literally one of the craziest things I've ever seen," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R–Ohio).

JoelBklyn:
To all my Republican friends and, especially, to those of my buddies who, although gay, have enough common sense to realize that competency, along with a proven record of achievement, are truly the qualifications required of a man to send him to the White House.

Thank you RiversDavid for posting the following brilliant Donald Trump add. Despite its theatrical dramatization, it resonates clearly and proudly with the unvarnished truth.

I'll get flack for this, for sure...but, like yourself, I don't give a damn! This is a crucial turning point in our country's history right now. This message must be delivered and seen by as many as possible. Our nation's survival depends upon it.

JoelBklyn:
Here's some "eye candy" for my special friends:

Don Durant (born Donald Allison Durae; November 20, 1932 – March 15, 2005) was an American actor and singer, best known for his role as the gunslinger-turned-sheriff in the CBS Western series Johnny Ringo, which ran on Thursdays from October 1, 1959 to June 30, 1960.

I recall Don Durant from a very fascinating Twilight Zone episode entitled "A Piano in the House" (see link address).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734547/

JoelBklyn:
Here are three brief commentaries on yesterday’s State of the Union speech by Joe Biden.

Senator Steve Daines (Republican, Montana)


Senator John Kennedy (Republican, Louisiana)


Senator Marco Rubio (Republican, Florida)


And here follows the actual address itself in its entirety for those who missed it last night.



(In my own personal opinion, the most stinging slap on America’s collective face was Biden’s cynical criticism of Republicans for not supporting his new border bill to alleviate the crisis at our southern border—which Biden alone was responsible for having created on day one of his presidency.)

JoelBklyn:
Great Britain Has Talent:

Listen to this brief video (only 7 minutes in length) from Great Britain Has Talent -- and see if your eyes don't flood uncontrollably (as did my own) with tears of joy.

JoelBklyn:
An Amazing Trivia Fact:

Powell Alexander Janulus

Powell Alexander Janulus (born 1939) is a Canadian polyglot who lives in White Rock, British Columbia, and entered the Guinness World Records in 1985 for fluency in 42 languages. To qualify, he had to pass a two-hour conversational fluency test with a native speaker of each of the 42 languages he spoke at that time.

JoelBklyn:
From a recent fundraising letter from Dennis Prager, the founder of PragerU:

For decades I have been saying that sending your child to college is playing Russian Roulette with their values. There was a one in six chance that your child would come home morally unrecognizable. Recently that has deteriorated to a 50% likelihood of a bad result. Yes, it is that grim.

Students are more morally confused than ever. The anti-Israel protests on campus are all the evidence you need. On the Hamas massacres -- the clearest moral issue since 9/11 -- many students are on the wrong side. Over 50% of students, according to recent polls. And the more elite the campus, the worse the protests.

How is this possible?

It’s because our education system is broken. Not just college, but grammar schools, middle schools, high schools, even pre-schools.

Our schools promote moral confusion, dividing the world between oppressor and oppressed. Judeo-Christian values are the villains in the narrative. And the moral confusion is not only about Israel. We are morally confused about the most obvious differences between man and women. We are morally confused about capitalism vs socialism. We are morally confused about free speech vs censorship.

The only antidote is moral clarity. And the only way to develop that moral clarity is through education. But the public and even private schools are the source of the problem.

JoelBklyn:

LONGING FOR AUSCHWITZ -- by Alvin H. Rosenfeld:

For those of you standing intransigently against Israel -- while those butchering savages (Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, etc.) seek to annihilate it -- you sorely need to read this illuminating article.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/longing-for-auschwitz

JoelBklyn:
To all you well-intentioned liberals out there who, in the next presidential election, are planning to vote unwaveringly for Joe Biden...or Gavin Newsom...or Kamala Harris...or Hillary (Rerun) Clinton...or Michelle (Rumor-Has-It) Obama -- or any other screwball socialist flop the Democrats foolishly believe are destined to replace the one we currently have....PLEASE! -- watch the following brief video below, and think hard and long before casting your vote this November. Our country's survival depends on the choice you make.

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Thank you Clint for calling this video to my attention.

JoelBklyn:
THE GLORY OF THE HUMAN MIND AND SPIRIT:

This is one of those times when I miss New York City TERRIBLY...not for the way it was when I left it -- crime ridden, rat-infested, filthy, flooded with homeless vagrants, police precints defunded, 85% of its residents voting for the same "progressive" liberals repeatedly -- but New York City, in its towering splendor, as a brilliant monument to human ingenuity and achievement:



My eyes always flood with tears when I watch videos like this. I wonder if my readers might feel similarly.

JoelBklyn:
FOX BUSINESS NEWS -- (4 minutes -- worth watching)

LOSER STATE: Kevin O'Leary, of Shark Tank, says he will never invest in NY after Trump fraud ruling

JoelBklyn:
FOX NEWS

Biden's upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, White House says:

President Biden will not take a cognitive test as part of his upcoming physical exam, the White House confirmed Monday.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated that Biden's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, does not believe a cognitive test is necessary. She said O'Connor believes Biden proves his cognitive ability "every day [in] how he operates and how he thinks."

Reporters pressed Jean-Pierre on the issue due to last week's report from Special Counsel Robert Hur that found Biden has significant memory issues.

"Does the White House think that the idea of the president taking a cognitive test as a part of this physical is a legitimate idea?" a reporter asked.

[Okay, try NOT to laugh at this next paragraph]

"I'm just gonna say what Dr. O'Connor said to me about a year ago when [Biden's physical] was released," Jean-Pierre responded. "The president proves every day [in] how he operates and how he thinks, by dealing with world leaders, by making difficult decisions on behalf of the American people – whether it's domestic or it's national security."

JoelBklyn:
The Shameless Cynicism on the Part of the Degenerate Left:

There's absolutely NOTHING they won't stoop to, in order to satisfy their lust for POWER.



Thank you, TrueAssassin, for posting the above video on your feed. The better informed folks are about..."the elderly man with the poor memory"...the better qualified they'll be to vote this coming November.