Saturday night, etc.

Data.

Ok, the brake pads have arrived

So I can hurriedly do the stuff to pull the old ones and replace them and get cleaned up before work,
or
Since nothing's rubbing where it shouldn't, I can wait till Monday and take my time.

Monday it is.

Why more and more people go with "Public schools are child abuse"

On the second day of class her son’s 10th grade English II Honors teacher distributed a “Diversity Inventory” worksheet and called on students to reveal their religion, economic status, and sexual preference.

The students were then instructed to stand under “titles” that asked questions like, “what makes you the most privileged?”

The teacher, who identified herself to students as bisexual, told the class she is privileged because she is white, Mrs. Bartus told me.

“According to my son there were kids that did not want to answer them but she made them,” she said. “The questions are not only inappropriate, but they are none of her business.”
Social Engineering instead of education.  "Your children will be made to think correctly!"

The standard-issue response from the school:
The Wake County Public School System said they have instructed the teacher to discontinue the lesson immediately, the Raleigh News & Observer reports.
“The Diversity Inventory worksheet in question is not a district-approved resource,” they told the newspaper. “We will continue to work with educators on how to effectively lead important conversations connected to identity, culture and other sensitive topics as appropriate.”
"See, we're doing something.  Now shut up and let us get on with indoctrinating your kid in Good Think."

There's another slight problem with the response:
The North Carolina Values Coalition found that the teachers at this school district are involved in a district-sponsored program called WCPSS Equity.

This office promotes a far-left "social justice" curriculum written by the controversial anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center. The assignment, created by Wilson, is taken from lessons found on a website founded by the SPLC called Tolerance.org. The district also contributes to Tolerance.org via articles written by at least one staff member, assistant superintendant of WCPSS, Rodney Trice, who wrote:
Go read the rest.  Enough to get you really pissed off.

Friday has arrived

So has the new data

Messing and McCormack are backtracking something fierce,

including some pretend apologies, after getting kicked back at hard by a lot of people.  Guess they figured they were immune to blowback.

From another actor:
"Let me just say I’m embarrassed for both of them because I know them both, I’ve worked with Debra before. They’re both smart people... they do wonderful work,” he explained. “But, they’re pushing a case that falls apart from the sheer weight of its lunacy, as though the Hollywood community needs to be purged of this social and intellectual hygiene problem called conservative thinking. It underscores the fact that we aren’t receptive to a diversity of thought which is the exact opposite of what you feel the liberal way would be, and I find that obscene."
It is.  These people have become so used to being in the echo chamber of Hollyweird that it's a real nasty surprise to have people telling them "Are you out of your damned mind?"

It seems it was a town hall of "We should control what you eat,

use, We should control everything in your life for the good of the Earth."

Including banning oil and coal...

For the ones that actually believe in this crap, I wonder what plans they have to replace it?  Not just the energy, but everything else produced from it?  Like the fertilizer they'd need to attempt to grow the plant products they seem to think can replace petroleum for lost of uses?

Or is planning ahead something they can't do?  Or just don't care about as long as they're pandering to enough(they hope) voters? 

Another big question: those of these idiots that are True Believers, do they not care about the losses and deaths as long as they're Saving Mother Gaia?

About those bastards with special protection

who hate the idea of the commoners protecting themselves, from a post at Fecesbook by Matthew,

Ocasio-Cortez got into a twitter-feud with Dan Crenshaw over background checks.

"Why are you 'lending' guns to people unsupervised who can't pass a basic background check?" she asked. "... Why on earth would you do that?"

She further stated that this is how "abusers" can get ahold of guns.

So having worked, literally a countless number of stalking and adult abuse situations for the better part of twenty-five years, the last thing women need in an emergency situation where they desperately need to be able to borrow a firearm for personal protection is the fucking federal government.
Go talk to women who have survived rape.
Go talk to women who have been stalked.
Go talk to women who live in fear of being killed by an ex-husband or abusive ex-boyfriend.
Because I have.

And every one, every-single, damn one of them, regardless of how they vote ask me the same thing, "where can I get a gun?, Where can I get training?, can someone loan me a gun, until....until I can SAVE up money to buy one?"

These sons of bitches who work in Washington and are safe guarded every single damn day by sub-machine guns have the fucking audacity to deny people who may not have affordable access to personal protection and literally need to borrow a pistol, or shotgun so they aren't killed by some asshole looking to terrorize, rape and kill them.

Gun control is rooted in racism, and while I understand some of you think it's going to solve something, it's not.
There's more, and it's all gold.  If you're on said Fecesbook, it's located here.

Dolly Parton has probably done more good for kids

than every asshat activist trying to 'improve' education by making it easier to fail up.

And with her own money.

First, anyone who would do this to a family

because "They didn't vote the right way" is one sorry shit of a human being.

"Hey, here's an easy way to fuck up a family for the parents being guilty of wrongthink."
God...

Second, if you think these assholes wouldn't use red flag laws the same way...

There's a park not too far from the house,

and ride the bicycle over there.  There's a pair of Mississippi Kites there, every year, looks like they nest in the area.

I need to take my camera along, see if can get better pictures, the phone images get pixilated when you try to zoom in at a distance.

I hate saying this, but it's still true:

Anyone who trusts the DoJ or FBI(or most any other agency anymore) about anything is a fool.

This is taking "We have investigated ourselves" to a really stupid level.  And yet this is supposed to be comforting to us.  For some reason.

'Shoot until the threat is ended' is the rule if you have ot fire,

and follow that up with "NEVER assume it's over until it's actually over."

When it went to hell, it went fast.  And notice that, even with at least one bullet wound, the bad guy got back up fast and attacked.

The rule I've heard is that, no matter how hurt and pitiful an attacker may look, keep your distance.  This is why.