Author: Blazingcatfur

Glenn Reynolds is correct: Public education is child abuse

Chicago, which has America’s third largest school district, has long been known for its exceptionally aggressive public teachers’ union that seems wedded to strikes. What it doesn’t seem to be wedded to is teaching. That’s especially true with the Wuhan virus.

Chicago teachers are refusing to return to classrooms, despite the educational and emotional disaster that long-distance learning is proving to be for kids. Instead, six dance teachers offered an interpretative dance explaining why they prefer to stay home and get paid for short hours and minimally effective job performance.

I ran this last night but it’s running again. What the hell is this?

Alex Keaton did it better.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEducation, Education K-12

How lockdown boredom broke the stock market

Reddit users have confounded Wall Street by sending GameStop stocks into orbit.

Companies that sell physical copies of computer games in shopping malls do not usually expect their share price to increase by several thousand per cent in the digital and e-commerce era. They are doubly not supposed to when a pandemic is either forcing shopping malls to close or is keeping fearful consumers at home.

But that’s exactly what has happened to US videogame retailer GameStop.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

300,000 dual citizens in Hong Kong must choose between Canada and China after policy change

Ottawa is growing increasingly concerned about the rights of 300,000 Canadian citizens in Hong Kong, after the territory’s government declared that dual citizens must choose the nationality they wish to maintain.

“Canada is aware of the Hong Kong government’s decision to require dual nationals to declare the nationality they wish to legally maintain while in Hong Kong,” said spokesperson John Babcock. “At this moment, we understand that this policy predominantly affects dual nationals serving prison sentences in Hong Kong. Canada has expressed its concern to the Hong Kong government about the possible loss of consular access that this change implies.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Hong Kong

Disagreeing With Biden’s Transgender Policy Is ‘Incitement’ Now? Facebook Says So…

On Tuesday, Facebook suspended Robert A.J. Gagnon, a prominent Christian scholar on the topic of Bible sexuality, for seven days. His crime? Speaking out against transgender ideology and President Joe Biden’s new transgender military policy. Facebook claimed that Gagnon’s criticism of this government-imposed ideology violated the platform’s “Community Standards on violence and incitement.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny

Rex Murphy: Of course the Liberals didn’t support Keystone. There was no ‘political gain’

Rex Murphy: Of course the Liberals didn’t support Keystone. There was no ‘political gain’

If there is no ‘political’ point for doing the right thing, why waste time even thinking about doing the right thing?

I don’t suppose it would surprise anyone to discover that among the “bicycling community” (everyone is a member of a “community” these days), support for the Keystone XL pipeline is nil; that avid cyclists hold much the same negative affection for oil and pipelines as vegetarians do for sausages and chicken wings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

Report into Julie Payette’s conduct at Rideau Hall finds toxic environment, public humiliations

An independent report examining the workplace culture at Rideau Hall found that former governor general Julie Payette and her deputy Assunta Di Lorenzo presided over a toxic work environment.

Released publicly under the Access to Information Act Wednesday night, the report details allegations from staff members of “yelling, screaming, aggressive conduct, demeaning comments and public humiliations.”

The report said that 43 staff members at Rideau Hall described the general work environment as “hostile or negative.”

Twenty-six people interviewed “used the words ‘toxic’ or ‘poisoned’ to describe the general work atmosphere” at Rideau Hall during Payette’s time there.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, WTF?

The Mainstream Media’s Embarrassing Biden Lovefest

The Mainstream Media’s Embarrassing Biden Lovefest

Their adulation is beyond parody.

When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States at 11:48 a.m. on January 20, it was to be expected that the mainstream media would be ecstatic about the pomp and circumstance of their preferred candidate bringing his half-century of Swamp experience into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", The Media, The Media Lies

‘They don’t want to lose control’: Australia’s competition chief on his country’s efforts to regulate big tech

‘They don’t want to lose control’: Australia’s competition chief on his country’s efforts to regulate big tech

Australia has become a test case for addressing the market dominance of big tech, one closely watched by Canada and the world

Rod Sims, the serious and sometimes feisty head of Australia’s competition and consumer authority, takes a liking to a comparison offered up to describe the battle playing out in his country between news publishers and big tech platforms controlled by Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc.

News is like toothpaste: Consumers want and need it and would clearly suffer if the dominant distributors squeezed suppliers so much that it could no longer be made.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Big Tech Oligopoly", Australia

Germany: Meet Angela Merkel’s Second Successor

Armin Laschet, premier of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, has been chosen as the new leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He is now in a position to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor after general elections this September.

Laschet, a Merkel loyalist and continuity candidate, narrowly beat conservative Friedrich Merz by 521 to 466 votes in a run-off vote by party delegates on January 16. The CDU had previously chosen Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Merkel, but she stepped down as party leader in January 2020 after a series of regional electoral defeats cast doubt on her ability to retain the chancellorship.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

I’ve heard this before somewhere…. Tensions rise as AstraZeneca tells EU promised deliveries were stretch goals

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s dispute with AstraZeneca over vaccine supplies intensified Wednesday as the drugmaker defended itself against claims that it had reneged on contractual commitments and the two sides sparred over plans for further talks.

AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot addressed the dispute for the first time, rejecting the EU’s assertion that the company was failing to honor its commitments to deliver coronavirus vaccines. Soriot said delivery figures in AstraZeneca’s contract with the 27-nation bloc were targets, not firm commitments, and they couldn’t be met because of problems in rapidly expanding production capacity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease"

Biden White House Warns It Won’t Allow Questions From Conservative Media

Biden White House Warns It Won’t Allow Questions From Conservative Media

One of the big sea changes in the Trump administration for conservative media came at White House press conferences.

President Trump and his people opened up the press conferences from the narrow confines of the White House Correspondents Association and the mainstream media to a range of conservative media. That infuriated the media and the Biden White House is predictably signaling that will come to an end.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden"