This is Abe. Abe was a schizophrenic who hallucinated commands from the VOICE OF GOD, after which he mutilated his own genitals (plus a lot of other guys’ genitals!) before nearly murdering his own son. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are called “Abrahamic” religions because they all take this same nutty hot mess Abe to be their founding patriarch. Followers of the Abrahamic religions make up around SIXTY PERCENT of the human population worldwide! Well, no wonder the world’s in the shape it’s in. Don’t be like Abe. Dale Scott
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The US has now proven that countries with nuclear weapons are safe from US attack and will only face a financial sanction. That means every single country will try to get nuclear weapons because they know the US can be held hostage by them. Kim launched missiles, but so far those missiles can not reach the US. But the US claims to have missile shields and other way to defend against such launches. Then what is our real fear with North Korea?
What a stupid cartoon. Is that a boy or girl. And that is the point. You can not tell what gender a person is by looking at them, by their clothing, by the way they do their hair. I have a pony tail. What does that make me. See the problem?
They teach math, science, and reading and writing comprehension in kindergarten? boy, times have changed…“I’d like to discuss that, but it’s time for our shooter drill, then Bible indoctrination and shame time for those who opt out, and then abstinence instruction.”
Teachers aren’t focusing on sexuality. Each teacher focuses on the subject they are teaching. Elementary teachers focus on teaching the basic subjects of math, reading, writing and science. There are sex ed classes (sometimes incorporated in health classes) for older students and that’s when they learn how their bodies function. Why some people are so hysterical about that, I don’t know. By the way, having taught English to high school students for many years, while their hormones are raging, they were thinking about sex even though I wasn’t teaching anything about it They could use some guidance from their parents, although many parents avoid the subject. Parents often have scant ability to understand, teach and communicate with their children about sex.
Biden has called Putin a war criminal and also is calling for regime change in Russia. Rather unprecedented.
When a guest who was scheduled to read to second-graders over Zoom this month didn’t show up, Toby Price, the assistant principal at a Mississippi elementary school, improvised.
Price’s boss at Gary Road Elementary School suggested Price read to the students, so he reached for one of his favorite children’s books: “I Need a New Butt!” written by Dawn McMillan and illustrated by Ross Kinnaird.
“It’s a funny, silly book,” Price, 46, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I’m a firm believer that … if kids see that books can be funny and silly, they’ll hang around long enough to see all the other cool things that books can be.”
The students “thought it was hilarious,” Price recalled. But the superintendent for the Hinds County School District near Jackson, Miss., did not, and about an hour after the event, Price was placed on administrative leave. Two days later, on March 4, he was fired.
The superintendent, Delesicia Martin, who did not respond to The Post’s request for comment, wrote in Price’s termination letter that he “showed a lack of professionalism and impaired judgment” because “the topics described in this book were inappropriate.”
Now, Price is fighting to overturn the district’s decision. His efforts have garnered overwhelming support, he said, with parents, current and former students, and strangers speaking out and donating to a GoFundMe so he can pay for a lawyer and continue to support his family.
Price’s firing is the latest flash point over books in schools, though most of the conflicts have been over thosethat reference race and sexual orientation. In November, the American Library Association called the rate at which books are being challenged “unprecedented.”In several states where new laws are dictating how teachers discuss race in schools, many educators are scared they could lose their jobs over one misstep.
Price said hefears his situation could set a “scary precedent” for teachers in his district. He worries educators will wonder if they have to get approval for every book they read to their students.
“Teachers already have so much else to worry about when they come into a building: One, getting fired over test scores; two, is someone going to come in and shoot up the building? Or am I going to catch covid?” Price said.
The events leading to Price’s firing began March 2, when he organized a Zoom event for second-graders at the Byram, Miss., elementary school. The gathering was to celebrate Read Across America Day, which is Dr. Seuss’s birthday and a day dedicated to encouraging children to read. The plan was to have a special guest read a book to them.
When the guestdid not arrive, Price’s boss asked him to read to the students. Price said the second-graders loved the book, which is about a boy who thinks he needs a new butt after noticing his has a large crack.
Fifteen minutes after the event, Price said, the principal at hisschool called him into her office. According to Price, she told him that he shouldn’t have chosen that book and that parents might complain. Soon after the meeting, he said, he was told the superintendent wanted to see him at the district office immediately.
“They kind of just let me have it,” Price said. “She said, ‘Is this the kind of thing you find funny and silly? Fart and butt and bulletproof butts?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I did until I walked in.’ ”
On March 4, Price was called back to the district office and fired, he said.
Price said he was blindsided by the sudden decision, noting that he has never had any disciplinary issues. Not only does he love working with children, but he also has a family to support, he said. Two of his three children have autism.
Since the firing, Pricesaid, he has not been allowed back into his office to collect his personal items. And though he wants the district’s decision overturned, he’s unsure about returning to the job, since he fears he’ll be scrutinized by senior administrators. He is more concerned with ridding the termination from his record.
Price said he hasn’t heard of any complaintsabout the bookfrom parents and noted that members of the parent-teacher organization wrote to him offering their support. Former students have also spoken out, including one who wrote a thread on Twitter about how “amazing” Price was at his job.
“The man absolutely loved reading and actively encouraged it,” the former student wrote. “Even lending books from his own office for kids to read.”
Tom Angleberger, the children’s author best known for the “Origami Yoda” and “Rocket and Groot” series, told The Post that he has known Price for years. Angleberger said he admires that Price “never gives up” and dedicated a book to him and his family in recognition of his perseverance.
“Mr. Price is dedicated to making connections with kids, to making sure they have a caring adult in their lives and to proving to them that learning and reading don’t have to be boring,” Angleberger said.
Price said he doesn’t regret his decision to read “I Need a New Butt!”
“Kids need silly books,” Price said. “The world is too harsh a place.”
As of early Friday, the book was No. 6 on Amazon’s children’s book bestsellers list.
Thanks to Randy for sending me the link to this story and the reading of the book in question.
Gods fucking damn it do I need to add a comment to this. I am an old, crippled man and I would have fought for this child. I will fight for this and all the children there. When I was in the US army we knew not to shoot kids, we knew not to shoot civilians. I know some bad members of the military have but there were attempts to punish them. It was not a practice sanctioned by the entire military structure. The world once stood together and said never again. Did we mean it? How about we do it again, now before more kids die?
We have sanctioned the president of the attacking country, we have sent arms to destroy the attacking armies tanks, we have given real time intel to help the defender to know where the attackers are. We are involved! We are not by standers. Think if the situation was reversed and we had invaded a country and others were doing what we are to help them, would we see it as being engaged in the war? Yes we would. So we are involved, we are engaged. We are only arguing about how much we want to put in. Right now we are the teen boy saying we will only put the tip in. It never works that way. We need to decide if the 758 billion plus we as a nation spend each year on the US military is worth it. If not, if we are scared to use them because someone else threatens to use theirs, then we need to drastically reduce what we spend on a useless military and return that money to the people as government services such as universal health care and food / housing / education security. The US people don’t have these rights because we have such a large military, the largest in the world by more than the next 12 countries, yet we are afraid to say no to the killing of children and old people? If that is the case it is not worth it.
A man rides a bicycle as black smoke rises from a fuel storage of the Ukrainian army following a Russian attack, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
U.S. President Joe Biden says after meeting with NATO and G-7 leaders that more aid is being sent to Ukraine and that a chemical attack by Russia “would trigger a response in kind.” (March 24)
A Ukrainian soldier undergoes surgery after being injured as the Russian attack continues in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
At least one house was destroyed, and others caught fire, as Russia continued its relentless shelling of Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities. (March 24)
A member of the Ukraine territorial defense unit prepares to go to the front line in Yasnogorodk, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Medical staff transfer an injured Ukrainian soldier to the operating room as the Russian attack continues in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A Ukrainian soldier lays on the operating table before surgery after being injured as the Russian attack continues in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Farmer Valerie Puzakovi, 56, left, poses for a picture with his wife Svitalna, a few block from their home in Yasnogorodk, a rural town where the Ukrainian army stopped the advance of the Russian army, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Damage is seen inside a Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Yasnogorodk, a rural town where the Ukrainian army stopped the advance of the Russian army, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman and her children speak to journalists sitting in their flat without electricity on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People’s Republic control, on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
Local residents gather near a supermarket to get free food and water on the territory which is under the Government of the Donetsk People’s Republic control, on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
A banner with the image known as “Saint Javelin” depicting a saint holding a Javelin, an American-made portable anti-tank missile system, is displayed in a check point in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/ (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the leaders of the European Council during their summit in Brussels from Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
A woman and her children have a meal after fleeing the war from neighboring Ukraine at a railway station in Przemysl, Poland, on Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A volunteer helps an elderly Ukrainian refugee walk along a platform at a railway station in Przemysl, Poland, on Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
16-year-old Julia from Dnipro, who is traveling alone, holds her pet rabbit Baby after arriving to the Lviv main station, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. She was on her way to join her mother and then go on to Poland or Germany. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
A child refugee fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine with her family grimaces as she sits in a bus after crossing the border by ferry at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing, in Romania, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
About 300 people were killed in the Russian airstrike last week that blasted open a Mariupol theater, Ukrainian authorities said Friday in what would make it the war’s deadliest known attack on civilians yet.
In a vain attempt to protect the hundreds of people taking cover inside the theater, “CHILDREN” in Russian had been printed in huge white letters on the ground in two places outside the grand, columned building to make it visible from the air.
For days, the government in the besieged and ruined city of Mariupol was unable to give a casualty count for the March 16 attack. In announcing the death toll on its Telegram channel Friday, it cited eyewitnesses. But it was not immediately clear whether emergency workers had finished excavating the ruins of the Mariupol Drama Theater or how witnesses arrived at the figure.
Still, the emerging picture is certain to fuel allegations Moscow has committed war crimes by killing civilians, whether deliberately or by indiscriminate fire. And it could increase pressure on NATO to step up military aid. The alliance has refused so far to supply warplanes or establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine for fear of getting into a war with Russia.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Friday the reaction to the theater bombing was “just absolute shock, particularly given the fact that it was so clearly a civilian target.” He said it showed “a brazen disregard for the lives of innocent people.”
The scale of devastation in Mariupol, where bodies have been left unburied amid bomb craters and hollowed-out buildings, has made information difficult to obtain.
But soon after the attack, the Ukrainian Parliament’s human rights commissioner said more than 1,300 people had taken shelter in the theater, many of them because their homes had been destroyed. The building had a basement bomb shelter, and some survivors did emerge from the rubble after the attack.
The reported death toll came a day after Biden and allied leaders promised that more military aid for Ukraine is on the way. But they stopped short of providing some of the heavy weaponry that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said is urgently needed. Zelenskky has pleaded for planes, tanks and no-fly patrols over Ukraine.
Moscow is bristling at the tightening noose of sanctions around Russia’s economy, and President Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, characterized the Western pressure as “a real hybrid war, total war.”
“And the goals are not hidden,” he continued. “They are declared publicly — to destroy, break, annihilate, strangle the Russian economy and Russia on the whole.”
The Russian military said 1,351 of its soldiers have died in Ukraine and 3,825 have been wounded, though it was not immediately clear if that number included pro-Moscow separatist forces or others not part of the Defense Ministry, such as the National Guard. Earlier this week, NATO estimated that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of fighting.
In Ukrainian towns and cities that day by day increasingly resemble the ruins that Russian forces left behind in its campaigns in Syria and Chechnya, the misery for civilians grows ever more acute.
In the village of Yasnohorodka, some 50 kilometers west of the capital Russian troops who were in the village earlier in the week appeared to have been pushed out as part of a counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces.
The tower of the village church was damaged by a blast and houses on the main crossroads lay in ruins. Loud explosions and bursts of gunfire could be heard.
“You can see for yourself what happened here. People were killed here. Our soldiers were killed here. There was fighting,” said Yasnohorodka resident Valeriy Puzakov.
Tens of thousands of people have left Mariupol in the past week, most of them driving out in private cars through dozens of Russian checkpoints.
“Unfortunately, nothing remains of Mariupol,” said Evgeniy Sokyrko, who was among those waiting for an evacuation train in Zaporizhzhia, the closest urban center to Mariupol and a way station for refugees. “In the last week, there have been explosions like I’ve never heard before.”
Oksana Abramova, 42, said she ached for those left behind in the city, who have been cut off from communication with the shelling of cell, radio and TV towers and lack the means to escape.
“Many people have no connection yet. All the time I think about how they are, where they are. Are still hiding, are they alive? Or maybe they are no longer there,” she said.
In the capital, Kyiv, ashes of the dead are piling up at the main crematorium because so many relatives have left, leaving urns unclaimed. The besieged northern city of Chernihiv is now all but cut off.
Chernihiv first lost its main road bridge over the Desna River to a Russian airstrike this week. Follow-up shelling damaged a pedestrian bridge, trapping remaining inhabitants inside the city without power, water and heat, authorities said. More than half of Chernihiv’s pre-war population of 285,000 is thought to have fled.
In other developments:
—Russia said it would offer safe passage starting Friday to 67 ships from 15 foreign countries that are stranded in Ukrainian ports because of the danger of shelling and mines.
—The International Atomic Energy Agency said it has been told by Ukrainian authorities that Russian shelling is preventing worker rotations in and out of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant.
—Russia’s military claimed it destroyed a massive Ukrainian fuel base used to supply the Kyiv region’s defenses, with ships firing a salvo of cruise missiles, according to the Interfax news agency. Videos on social media showed an enormous fireball near the capital.
For the vulnerable — the elderly, children and others unable to join millions heading westward — food shortages loom in a country once known as the breadbasket for the world.
In relentlessly shelled Kharkiv, mostly elderly women lined up stoically to collect food and other urgent supplies this week, as explosions thudded in the distance. Fidgeting with anticipation, a young girl watched as a volunteer’s knife cut through a giant slab of cheese, carving out thick slices, one for each hungry person.
Hanna Spitsyna took charge of divvying up the delivery of food aid from the Ukrainian Red Cross. Those waiting each got a lump of the cheese, dropped into plastic bags that people in line held open.
“Among those who stayed, there are people who can walk on their own, but many who cannot walk, the elderly,” Hanna said. “All these people need diapers, swaddle blankets and food.”
The US waited to enter world war 2 until it affected us personally. Same with the world war 1. World war 3 is here now. How will history see the US, as a defender of the attacked people, or weak and fearful of the attackers. Look we are involved. We are sending arms, we are sending intel, we are giving advice, we are giving money, the only damn thing we are not giving is our own ability to save lives. I was a US military man, I served in two branches of the US military. There are things we believe in and the stopping the slaughter of the defenseless is one of those things. Look back at history and see when the US intervened in a conflict. Will we wait until all the women and children are killed and driven out? What is our goal? If we want to save lives how do you say we need to wait because the future life saved is more worthy than the lives of the dead children happening now. It is easy to give support from a world away when our kids are not dying, when our elderly are not going hungry starving to death. The US is a world leader willing to stand up, or we are not and need to stand down. Now we find out where the real spine of the US is.
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