Annoyed by the return of mask mandates? Try this one weird trick!
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embrace the power of “or”
And they've brought in outside help to ensure the quality of that screening
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has flagged some incoming Afghan evacuees as a "concern" as part of the vetting and screening process at military bases around the world.
"It’s exactly why CBP conducted careful and thorough vetting," Keri Brady, assistant director at CBP’s National Targeting Center, said during a call in a transcript obtained by ABC News.
And don’t worry, our people are focused like a laser on the real threat to America:
"In our analysis of online platforms commonly used by anti-government white supremacist and other domestic violent extremist organizations and groups, we are seeing several narrative trends emerge having to do with concerns [about] the relocation of Afghans to the United States," Cohen said.
"In those narrative streams, there have been commentary focusing on potential acts of violence directed at U.S. government, law enforcement and others who are considered to be symbols of the current government structure."
Also related to the nation’s security, we won’t require the refugees to be vaccinated against COVID. “That woud be racist”, White House flack Jen Psaki explained to FWIW. “We send our new friends from south of the border on their way, free to go where they want, without shooting them up with some experimental drug, so it would be unfair to treat these folx differently — we want them to feel the love, just like the lowliest Guatemalan banana peeler.
“And we follow the science here at the White House”, she continued. “Our soldiers will now be vaccinated involuntarily, but that’s because they can infect other people. Refugees, just like BLM protestors and Democrats, are immune from the bug. Which is curious, but true: just ask Dr. Fauci.”
Modern Education
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eating our lunch, but why? How?
Holden sent along a wonderful TikTok video of a contemporary classroom, and while his is the best of the crop and I’ll lead with it, looking at the site (Libs of TikTock, naturally) I found some others that are worthy of an honorable mention.
(I apologize for the duplicate — several attempts to reduce it to just one failed, so I decided the heck with it)
It’s silly to suggest a correlation, but disparate discipline rates for misbehaving students are proof of racism, while 80% of inner-city high school graduates are unable to read, write, or commit arithmetic. While some have suggested that the lack of discipline in these schools unfairly punishes students who want to learn and thus condemns them to poverty, we know that that’s just white fragility speaking and must be ignored; nay, suppressed..
And this bonus track, while not about education, is certainly educational:
Moms Demand Action’s excellent adventure in Afghanistan
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Taliban takes control, confiscates all civilians’ weapons
“Safe at last, safe at last, thank Allah almighty we're safe at last”, trilled Greenwich resident and failed politician Alexis Gevanter when reached for comment in the Khyber Pass, where she’s been recovering from her recent election loss.
“I’m over here with Jimbo Himes, she explained, “helping our new friend Zabahulla with his project to end to all crime and violence — at least I think Jim’s still here; he went off with a couple of men a few days ago to inspect a new camp they’ve established for displaced Kabul residents, and he hasn’t returned.
“Either way, my own work here is done, and I’m ready to come home. Would you be a dear, and book me a flight? My phone doesn’t seem to be working, and no one’s answering at the embassy.”
Like finding three lawyers on the bottom of the East River — it's a good start, but work remains to be done
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take that, you brute!
Parting shot: U.S. drone blows up an ISIS. That leaves, by estimates I’ve seen, 1,999 to go. Plus, of course, another 80,000 Talibanis.
Perhaps this should have been started earlier, rather than on our way out.
gotta run
Where’s Waldo?
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I keep seeing the guy on the right in photos of the shitshow going on in Kabul. Here are two examples, but the reason I first saved one as “Afghan look-alike'“ is I’d already seen him in about a dozen shots. Then I saw him again this morning.
Has anyone else noticed him?
UPDATE: Courtesy of “Putnam Lake” …
Modern Education: Turning children into racists while suffocating them
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not miss emily masters; i might have forgiven her if it were
“You can’t make this stuff up,” is right.
Meet Emily Masters, a member of the Metro Nashville Public Schools board. Here she is 1. talking up teaching CRT in schools but 2. removing her mask in the middle of reading this paragraph because it’s just too uncomfortable:
What was their first clue?
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we’ll need a second opinion
Death of NYC man found with sheet wrapped around head ruled a homicide
Nothing gets past New York’s Finest, not even subterfuges and red herrings.
“Yeah, there were some bolsters over his head, too”, Officer Joe Bolton told FWIW, “so at first, we thought it might have been some sort of self-love pillow talk gone wrong, but Rin Tin Tin stamped his front paws three times, which is his signal to think again, so that’s what we did.”
Couldn't the rag heads just sell off some of the billions of dollars worth of weapons we've just given them?
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“They need to eat”
“You’re not sophisticated enough to understand,” Tough Tony Blinken told FWIW when questioned about this latest raid on the treasury, “and frankly, that’s why people like you should leave the running of the country’s affairs to us experts. We gave those weapons to our new brothers: the helicopters, the missiles, the hundreds of thousands of automatic rifles, even the night vision goggles: 16,000 of those, $80 million bucks. I mean, that’s nothing to the Blackhawks at $21 mil a pop, but you get the idea.
“So — we gave ‘em all this shit and now you want us to take it back, like some goddamned redskin Indian givers? Can you imagine the hurt they’d feel, the distrust we’d cause, if we told them they had to sell some of it to buy rice and beans? C’mon, man! The taxpayers are good for this — trust me.”
RELATED: Taliban using biometric scanners the US left behind to hunt down Afghans who worked with the US
Nawazuddin Haqqani, one of the brigade commanders over the Al Isha unit, bragged in an interview with Zenger News that his unit is using US-made hand-held scanners to tap into a massive US-built biometric database and positively identify any person who helped the NATO allies or worked with Indian intelligence. Afghans who try to deny or minimize their role will find themselves contradicted by the detailed computer records that the US left behind in its frenzied withdrawal…
