Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Mike]

https://nypost.com/2022/04/10/nj-gender-identity-lessons-prove-parents-were-right-to-worry/amp/

NJ gender identity lessons for first-graders prove parents were right to worry

Starting in September, New Jersey first-graders will learn about gender identity under new sex education guidelines. Parents received sample lesson plans at a Westfield Board of Education meeting in February; one read, “You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!”

[THE_WIZARD_]

Lunacy is now the party platform of the Left. Actually has been for awhile. Woke corporations are willing accomplices. November is going to rattle the cages...and that is a massive understatement.

[lineygoblue]

https://nypost.com/2022/04/10/nj-gen...-to-worry/amp/

NJ gender identity lessons for first-graders prove parents were right to worry

Starting in September, New Jersey first-graders will learn about gender identity under new sex education guidelines. Parents received sample lesson plans at a Westfield Board of Education meeting in February; one read, “You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!”

And states wonder why the public school's continue to lose students to home schooling and private schools. I'd never send my kids to a school district like that.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Let's just hope your kids aren't as tubby as you...

hello

[lineygoblue]

Hey, I'm a lovable tub of lard ...

[THE_WIZARD_]

Yes that's what Mrs. Liney told me last night...

[Hannibal]

And states wonder why the public school's continue to lose students to home schooling and private schools. I'd never send my kids to a school district like that.

If you show up to a school board meeting to protest, you get put on an FBI watch list.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Ukraine: The messaging floating around the last two days is decidedly upbeat for the Russians. The Azov Battalion soldiers, apparently at Zelenski's orders, stopped defending the Azovstal Steel Plant in Mariupol. Videos of the soldiers being walked out then bussed to Russian controlled areas under Russian guard is flying about liberally. Mariupol and the Azovstal steel plant is in ruins - the plant once provided in the neighborhood of 20% of Ukraine's GDP through the export of iron and steel related products. Russia claims they will remove the plant and build a resort in Mariupol. Spokespersons of all stripes representing the Kremlin are cheering and so are milbloggers who initially supported Russia's Ukraine war then started criticizing Putin and his generals, then became silent are back at cheering. I guess you could call them "fair weather" fans.

On the ground, cities and towns in the Donbas region are getting pulverized. There is enormous destruction associated with identifiable territorial gains but there's no breakthrough of Ukrainian defenses of the important city of Severodonetsk. The Russians will likely stall, as they have in the past outside big cities, having already demonstrated the difficulty they have with unseating Ukrainian forces from fortified positions. Trying to do that in Kiev, Kharkiv and Mariupol has been ungodly costly to the Russians in both personnel and material losses. Which brings me to an important point that is being lost in the otherwise upbeat news for Putin.

Paul Krugman wrote a NYTs piece on why Russia is losing the economic war. He titled it How America is Strangling the Russian Economy turning some economic doctrine on it's head. What we hear repeatedly is how much money Putin is making on energy exports and it is undeniable that he is. The EU wants to take steps to cut off that pipeline of money that is allowing Putin to wage war in Ukraine. Good plan but it's taking a long time to gain unanimity among EU members on how to do it and then actually do it.

Few countries within Europe are in a position to just shut LNG and oil pipelines off. The problem for Putin is that you can't do much importing of components necessary to rearm after significant losses suffered in the now 3 month+ long war when companies won't sell it to him. It's an immediate problem for Russia that over time Putin may be able to find ways around that problem but in the immediate battle space, e.g., the next 30-60d, ammunition expenditure rates are unsustainable. This is particularly true of the precision weapons Putin touts he is using, many of these fired from Russian Ships in the Caspian Sea - far enough away to avoid return fires from Ukraine in the form of Neptune Anti-ship missiles.

In short, you'd find it hard to do business on the scale Putin needs to do it presenting suitcases full of $100 bills to whoever it was you wanted to do business with. Russia is about to have it's biggest trade surplus of Putin's presidency. That's not a sign of strong economy as some economists might have you believe. It's a sign of a weak economy. If you can't import the shit you need but are selling tons of product making oodles of cash doing it, you're not in a good situation. What it boils down to, as I've said previously, it's a war of attrition. With western arms flowing into Ukraine and Russia not being able to resupply dwindling stores of war materials due to sanctions, Zelenski holds the upper hand, if not tenuously.

I think the ferocity of the Russian offensives taking place as I write this and almost 24-7 bombardment in the Donbas regions signals that Putin knows he's running out or will run out shortly of beans and bullets. Zelenski has called the battle of Severodonetsk - a key city in the western Donbas and key to extending Russian control from the DNR westward - the "last battle." Based on what we've seen of Ukrainian urban warfare tactics in Kiev and Kharkiv, the touted Russian advances of the last 72h may be luring Russian artillery, armor and troops into lanes of advance to the city center where they become avenues of destruction in a "target rich environment."

[lineygoblue]

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[THE_WIZARD_]

heh

[Dr. Strangelove]

In Texas a school district's librarians are being criminally investigated after having allowed minors to read what "concerned parents" say is pornography. One of the books on the list is Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five"

Below is one of the concerned parents who asked police to open a criminal investigation. She says a local pastor ought to be put in charge in what books are allowed in the school library and not leave the decision to librarians. She says no one's going to miss a couple of controversial books when the library has so many others. Gets a rousing round of applause as she finishes.

[THE_WIZARD_]

STFU

[Dr. Strangelove]

STFU

I wish they'd open a criminal investigation into YOU

[lineygoblue]

She says a local pastor ought to be put in charge in what books are allowed in the school library and not leave the decision to librarians. She says no one's going to miss a couple of controversial books when the library has so many others. Gets a rousing round of applause as she finishes.

Well, the left, and school administrators, seem to have trouble defining what a woman is, what a man is, and what CRT is, .. so if a trusted local pastor with a good reputation in the community can assist them in determining what pornography is, I'd say let the pastor do their job.

[THE_WIZARD_]

I wish they'd open a criminal investigation into YOU

I wish you were dead. Or at least maimed. Maimed is good.