“…The decision to cancel the Pumpkin Parade, where students can dress up in Halloween costumes, came from the Racial Equity Team at Benjamin Franklin Day Elementary School after five years of discussion, the school district said.
“There are numerous community and neighborhood events where students and families who wish to can celebrate Halloween,” a Seattle Public Schools spokeswoman said in a statement provided to KTTH Radio talk show host Jason Rantz. “Historically, the Pumpkin Parade marginalizes students of color who do not celebrate the holiday.(To borrow a phrase from Elizabeth Warren, HOW?!?) Specifically, these students have requested to be isolated on campus while the event took place. (We’d LOVE to hear one…just one!)
“In alliance with SPS’s unwavering commitment to students of color, specifically African American males, the staff is committed to supplanting the Pumpkin Parade with more inclusive and educational opportunities during the school day,” the statement continued, adding that the decision had nothing to do with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
School principal Stanley Jaskot confirmed that the parade was cancelled. “Halloween is a very complex issue for schools. Yes, I agree this event marginalized our students of color.Several of our students historically opted for an alternate activity in the library while the pumpkin parade took place. This was an isolating situation and not consistent with our values of being an inclusive and safe place for all our students – especially students of color and those with a sensitivity to all the noise and excitement of the parade,” Jaskot told Fox News.
The school informed parents of the cancellation in an Oct. 8 newsletter and asked that they not let their children dress up in costumes this year. The newsletter explained that costume parties can be uncomfortable for many children who can’t afford one and that loud noise levels and crowds can also be upsetting for kids, Rantz reported. Instead, students this year will partake in inclusive fall events, like “thematic units of study about the fall” and reviewing “autumnal artwork,” according to the newsletter obtained by Rantz.
David Malkin, whose 7-year-old son attends B.F. Day, called the decision an “exercise in affluent White vanity that is wokeism.” “I don’t see any way in which this actually addresses any inequities to the extent that there are any inequities,” Malkin told Rantz on his show Monday. “You know, this just seems like grandstanding on behalf of the principal and the staff who are predominantly White.”
Malkin, who is Asian, said parents weren’t involved in the decision. “I’m sure they don’t want to hear from anyone of any race or ethnicity that doesn’t really want to go along with them in lockstep,” he said.“
Soooo…a tiny minority primarily composed of young Black males don’t celebrate Halloween…at least in one Seattle elementary school district, and supposedly asked to sit out a parade. So the answer the educated idiots running this complete clusterf*ck came up with…after five years considering what had to be an essentially non-existent problem, is…
And they wonder how people could vote for The Donald.
Now, here’s The Gouge!
First up, since we’re on the subject of why people voted for Trump, the Morning Jolt relates how the…
“This past weekend, Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the Associated Press that there would be no cooperation with the U.S. government or its allies on containing the increasingly active ISIS terrorist group in Afghanistan. “We are able to tackle Daesh independently,” Shaheen declared.
This was something of an embarrassment for the administration, as Shaheen made his defiant announcement of noncooperation while U.S. representatives were meeting with senior Taliban officials in Doha, Qatar — and a representative of the U.S. Intelligence Community attended that meeting specifically to emphasize the importance of counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan.
Despite the Taliban’s public refusal to cooperate, after the meeting the State Department called the Taliban “candid and professional.” (Did you notice that Joe Biden and his administration speak much more harshly about unvaccinated Americans than about the Taliban?)…”
…It is difficult to see or say how the Taliban are behaving differently now than they were a month or six weeks ago. Just this morning, CNN’s Nic Robertson reports that, “Despite soothing words, the Taliban are much as they were”:
As for the bright promises of August, there has been some “recalibration.” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told CNN: “We have not decided about women’s affairs or rights yet, but we are discussing.” Different transport and teaching arrangements were necessary, he said.
So complete was the Taliban’s military victory that they have little incentive to compromise, nor bargain with Afghanistan’s warlords. They have moved quickly to snuff out dissent, whether from social activists, rebels in the Panjshir valley or Salafists who practice Islam differently from the Taliban.
Nor is there any indication that the Taliban are less brutal or violent than before.Foreign Policy magazine confirms that, “The Taliban’s Sharia is the most brutal of all. The Afghan government is imposing punishments that have no comparison elsewhere in the Islamic world.” Summary executions, stoning of women, and beheading and cutting off the hands of accused thieves have returned; court cases and juries are no longer part of the legal system.
Women’s activists and journalists fear being tortured to death, according to NPR:
Atefa, who wants to use only her first name to protect her safety, used to write critically about the Taliban’s attitudes and treatment of women for various Afghan news outlets. Now she’s in hiding.
Ever since the group recaptured Herat in mid-August, her neighbors have been telling her the Taliban have been looking for her. In recent weeks, she’s received text messages from unknown numbers, containing grisly video clips. She presumes they’re from the Taliban, warning her of what’s to come.
“One recent video I got shows the Taliban torturing a man to death,” she says. “I am ready to be killed by a bullet, but I do not want to fall into the hands of the Taliban. I don’t want to be cut up into pieces.”
She received a letter from Taliban members earlier this year, and explained: “It said, ‘If the Taliban catch you, they will cut your ears off, and this will be a lesson for others in [your] province’. Now I am in hiding. Even my family thinks I am out of the country.”
Efat*, a 22-year-old woman, and Naveed*, her 16-year-old brother, said they were beaten unconscious by two Taliban members on 18 August. They said they were attacked while going to an English class, which the Taliban members called “the language of infidels.”
Remember — these are the same guys that the State Department called “candid and professional.”…”
“In spite of a generally friendly — and, indeed, often prostrate — press, President Joe Biden did not get much of a honeymoon. In an age of low expectations, Biden manages to underperform.
When he came into office, the economy already had roared back from its COVID-induced interruption, and the vaccine rollout had Americans giddy at the possibility that the epidemic was behind us. It is not the Biden administration’s fault that the Delta variant has since ravaged the country, but there is a sense, far from unfair, that President Biden was dealt a pretty good hand and hasn’t made much of it.
And so President Biden is trying to turn things around in the traditional Washington fashion: by spreading around other people’s money.
Lots of money.
The numbers being thrown around — $3.5 trillion or more — are something close to literally incomprehensible. Yes, all numerate people can define 1 trillion, but it is hard to really get your head around it. When the New York Times erroneously writes $3.5 billion instead of $3.5 trillion, it is easy to make fun of, but it also is easy to see how that goof sailed over the heads of the copy desk.
Here is something for scale:
1 million seconds ago, it was late September.
1 billion seconds ago, Tom Cruise was picking up a Golden Globe for Born on the Fourth of July.
1 trillion seconds ago, nobody had ever written a sentence, planted a crop, or lived in a house, and our ancient ancestors were still finishing off the last of the Neanderthals.
1 trillion minutes ago, Homo sapiens had not yet appeared on Earth.
1 trillion hours ago, T. rex and triceratops were still going strong.
1 trillion days ago, the first life on this planet had only just appeared, and it was all still single-celled organisms.
…And it is clear that the Democrats would still be hellbent on passing that spending as quickly as possible even if the economy were doing one-handed cartwheels through a field of daisies. The only reason for the urgency is the fact that the Democrats believe, not without reason, that while the Republican Party may be dumber than nine chickens and blessed with the spiritual fortitude of a nematode, it probably is still going to have a good off-year election. And so they will do everything short of that Godfather Part 3 helicopter to push that money out the door before they lose control of Congress. Senator Sinema had better figure out a way to call in her votes from some witness-protection hidey-hole in South Dakota.
We do have a serious economic problem right now, but it is not one that can be solved through policymaking magic. Government has two big tools for amping up the economy: monetary policy and fiscal policy. They work through different mechanisms, but they are intended to have the same result: sending a great flood of money sluicing through the economy. Government can do a lot by manipulating money, but money is only a record-keeping system — the real economy consists of goods and services, and there is where we are having some troubles. The economic disruption of the epidemic has left the world with lingering supply-chain issues, making it difficult to produce everything from computer chips to toilet paper — and making it much more difficult to move what is produced to where it needs to be. We can’t deal with those overcrowded ports and hobbled factories by waving the magic legislative wand. Senator Schumer may be surprised to hear it, but he cannot legislate 20,000 eager stevedores into existence.
None of the real trouble in our economy is going to be fixed by new child-care subsidies for middle-class suburbanites.None of it is going to be fixed by debt forgiveness for public-school teachers and government lawyers or by expanded welfare benefits in West Virginia.
There is, in fact, very little real connection between these gigantic spending proposals and our immediate and most urgent needs. But the Democrats are forever committed to producing imaginary solutions to real problems. One problem: Progressive superstitions notwithstanding, once you’ve committed that $3.5 trillion to phony solutions, there is $3.5 trillion less available to spend on what you actually need. We can spend one or two or three or three-and-a-half or five trillion on “human infrastructure,” and still have a half a million containers of cargo floating off the coast of southern California.
President Biden may call that an investment, but it’s more of a pillage.“
Throughout history, every cure Progressives have proposed has always been, and will always be, worse than the disease.
In a related item, the Journal‘s Dan Henninger explains how relentless, repeated, perpetual Progressive prevarication has America between a blockhead and a very dark place:
“All the time now, one hears people say, “I don’t know what’s going on anymore.” Or: “Maybe it’s me, but I just don’t get it.” They don’t mean only in Washington. They mean everything. We’re in a crisis of consciousness.
Let me explain.
The reason many have come to feel cut off from reality is that so many others spend their days creating alternative realities.
Washington, to be sure, has become a round-the-clock supplier of manufactured realities. Many Americans, for instance, watch scenes on television of thousands of migrants crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States. Nonetheless, Mr. Biden’s secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, says the border is “closed” and “no less secure than previously.”
Mr. Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, said in August the evacuation of Kabul couldn’t be called “anything but a success.” Ms. Psaki’s skill at reordering reality for Mr. Biden is mesmerizing, and I say without irony that she will be seen as an important figure in the transformation from believing what is real to believing what we’re told is real.
Reality resets have become commonplace. In Chicago some days ago, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx declined to prosecute any of the gang members who staged a broad-daylight shootout in a residential neighborhood. Among the reasons her office gave for not bringing charges was that the gangs were engaged in consensual “mutual combat,” like in the movie “Fight Club.”
The relevant point here is that in our time more and more people—and not just in politics—think they can say anything. We’re living in a Peter Pan world: “You just think lovely wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air.” The credibility cost is zero…”
Or, which is readily apparent to inquiring Conservative minds, their credibility IS zero.
Speaking of inquiring Conservative minds, here’s another octet of extraordinary offerings certain to pique your interest:
(2). In a follow-up to an earlier item regarding the father of a student raped in a middle school bathroom by a “gender-fluid” skirt-wearing sexual predator, Loudoun County Public Schools responded Wednesday to a bombshell report it covered up the sexual assault. In a statement released Wednesday, the district claimed the school board was ignorant of the details at the time of the meeting and only learned of the alleged rape through the Daily Wire’s recent report. Yeah…
Here’s the juice: Anyone who would use Couric’s name and “journalist” in the same sentence clearly doesn’t understand the meaning of the word.
For those interested, Townhall.com‘s Spencer Brown provides a brief history of Katie Couric’s journalistic malpractice. Spoiler Alert: Were she a doctor, she’d have had her license suspended decades ago and likely be serving time for manslaughter.
(7). Which causes us to wonder when The Mob will start birddogging the 36 members of 46*’s SCOTUS reform commission, who’ve likewise refused to parrot the hyper-partisan positions of their patron?
(8). As Matt Vespa noted at Townhall.com, “CNBCfeatured a lengthy post about Shipt, a shopper/delivery service owned by Target that’s exploded since the COVID pandemic. The article was about the service and how it’s handling the “out of stock” crisis in our grocery stores.
China has made over 140 sorties with combat aircraft near Taiwan’s airspace in a four-day period. The act of provocation was met swiftly and decisively by our Defense and State Departments.
At a White House press conference, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned, “First, we are going to vet all of our senior officers to assure that none of them have made any racially motivated jokes about Asians since kindergarten. If anything inappropriate is found out, they will be relieved of command immediately. We want the world to know that we will not tolerate extremism. Secondly, we are going to demand that the People’s Liberation Army use gender appropriate pronouns throughout all their ranks. Let Beijing be warned not to take us lightly on this. We have #respectallgenders hashtags ready to deploy in both English and Mandarin, and we’re not afraid to use them.”
Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, followed with equally stern warnings: “We are in a stare-down with the Chinese military, and we’re not going to blink. I would urge the Chinese government not to misread our hasty, ill-planned, and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan as an indication that America is lacking sound leadership. As we speak, military transport aircraft are en-route to Taiwan with #pleasedontbombus and #gunfreezone hashtags. These too are written in both English and Mandarin and make our message clear to allies and potential foes alike.”
When asked whether the stockpiling of hashtags was premature, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated, “While some see the deployment of these hashtags as unnecessarily provocative, let me assure you that they will actually bring stability to the region and make the world safer. I am personally standing by with a red, white, and blue dress, a piece of posterboard, and a sharpie. I will declare #unitedfortaiwan so fast they won’t know what hit them. I did it for Ukraine and I’ll do it again for Taiwan. Don’t test us.”
Ending the conference by dramatically leaning forward to the microphone, President Biden, scowling behind his favorite pair of aviator shades, warned in a menacing whisper, “Let there be no doubt about the, you know, the thing.” Chinese intelligence officers are not completely sure whether “the thing” is a cryptic reference to a stockpile of nuclear hashtags which the United States has previously denied possessing.
These people are truly as useless as a…
…to anyone other than America’s enemies.
Magoo
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