High School testing sets bar at lowest level for 'essential skill' in Oregon

High school kids in Oregon don't need to know how to read, write or do math anymore. Their standardized testing scores began to fall continued to plummet in 2017 and fewer than 50 percent of students who took the math portion of the test passed. Only 53 percent passed the reading exam. So the solution for school officials wasn't to teach better, it was to lower expectations. Well, expectations have been lowered so much, they basically don't exist anymore.

Senate Bill 744 orders a review of state graduation requirements and does not require Oregon students in the classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024 to show proficiency in Essential Learning Skills in order to graduate. So rather than providing graduates with a mortarboard and diploma, students will get a dunce cap with a selfie of themselves standing next to the principal. 

The recent law passed the Oregon Legislature in June with a little testimony both for and against the bill.

However, about a month after its signing, newspaper articles and editorials started highlighting the bill, saying Oregon students don’t have to prove they can read, write, or do math to graduate. A Wall Street Journal editorial writes the bill is “Dumbing Oregon Down”.

It started in Oregon before blowing up to national and international coverage. Oregon House Minority leader Christine Drazen appeared on Fox News to talk about it. 

Conservative critics called the bill a misguided effort to support underserved students, [aka the soft bigotry of low expectation].

“Politicians and school officials in Oregon are embarrassed that too many minority children fail tests designed to confirm they’ve mastered the ‘essential skills’ that high school is meant to teach,” said WSJ in its editorial. “So in the name of racial equity, they’ve now done the progressive thing.”

The real problem is that their virtue signaling policy of "everyone gets a trophy" is failing to arm graduates with the requisites they need in order to succeed in the real world.

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Even New Mexico's Democrat AG refuses to defend Gov. Lujan Grisham's unconstitutional gun ban

Self-identifies as a dictator

The New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez refuses to defend Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's illegal gun order, which faces a number of lawsuits. He told the governor in a letter on Tuesday that he believed the so called emergency order violates state and federal constitutions as it bans law abiding folks from carrying firearms in public spaces across Bernalillo County.

Torrez wrote: “I am writing to inform you that my office will not defend your administration in the above referenced cases challenging” Lujan Grisham’s order.

“Though I recognize my statutory obligation as New Mexico’s chief legal officer to defend state officials when they are sued in their official capacity, my duty to uphold and defend the constitutional rights of every citizen takes precedence,” his letter continued. “Simply put, I do not believe that the Emergency Order will have any meaningful impact on public safety but, more importantly, I do not believe it passes constitutional muster.”

Because it doesn't. It's a power-grab and will fail in court, but in the meanwhile, it may be put in place before it is heard there. Predictably, many law enforcement officials have said that they will not enforce the order because they plan to live up to their oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Lujan Grisham is domestic.

Lujan Grisham signed an executive order on Friday that banned open and concealed carrying firearms in Albuquerque and the rest of the surrounding county. The governor enacted the order — to remain in place for 30 days — after a spate of shootings that killed several children by scumbags who obviously will not abide by the order, leaving the rest of the public defenseless. 

She's not the brightest light in the tool shed.

“The tragic deaths of 5-year-old Galilea Samaniego in a recent drive-by shooting and 11-year-old Froylan Villegas in a road rage incident should serve as a wakeup call to everyone,” Torrez wrote. “I encourage you to engage in a more thoughtful and deliberative process with members of the New Mexico Legislature rather than taking unilateral action that infringes on the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens while having little if any discernible impact on the underlying dynamics driving gun violence in our community.”

New Mexico Attorney General tells the Governor that he won't defend her carry ban, saying "I do not believe it passes constitutional muster." pic.twitter.com/ORat27wAvn

— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy)

Torrez, a Democrat, joins a handful of other officials in refusing to enforce or defend the order. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, also a Democrat, said in a statement to social media that the city’s police force would not be responsible for enforcing the governor’s order. Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen announced on Monday that he would not enforce the order either, calling it unconstitutional.

Dictator Lujan Grisham responded to Allen in a statement to the NM Political Report, saying that her administration had “given you the tools, Sheriff Allen — now stop being squeamish about using them. I will not back down from doing what’s right and I will always put the safety of the people of New Mexico first.”

He isn't being squeamish; he's being patriotic.

Lujan Grisham said in an interview on CNN: “It’s not for police to tell me what’s constitutional or not. They haven’t supported one, not one gun violence effort in the State of New Mexico including domestic violence protections, universal background checks.”

The guns have not responded to her comments against them.

Hopefully, Lujan Grisham will be impeached and soon thrown out of office.

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American Eagle sues San Francisco mall for letting the city "deteriorate into disarray" and crime to run rampant

While octogenarian Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) plans to run again to represent the Democrat-run, crime ridden city of San Francisco when she will be 84 -years-decrepit, many companies are leaving due to the enormous rise in crime, homelessness, lack of law enforcement and human feces on the streets.

The American Eagle Company, one of the largest remaining tenants in the huge Westfield Mall, is suing the shopping center for allowing it to “deteriorate into disarray” and allowing crime to run amok. Not so ironically, the only person who appears to be safe from crime is Nancy Pelosi, but not so much her husband who was attacked not long ago in his own gated home.

American Eagle operates an enormous space in the mall, and the company accused mall management of neglecting its security and management responsibilities delineated in its lease, according to the lawsuit, 

obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The company alleges that between May 2020 and May 2023, the store was the scene of over 100 "significant security incidents" that includes customers flashing guns and verbally assaulting its employees.

As a result, the staff were left “to suffer and respond to gun violence, physical assaults, burglaries, and robberies,” American Eagle says. [H/T New York Post]

The guns declined to respond to the accusation.

If you think the ice cream is expensive, you should see her freezer

In June, Westfield and co-owner Brookfield Properties said they would default on its $558 million loan for the complex and blamed the San Francisco's government for surging crime that slashed sales and unarmed foot traffic. 

Still, American Eagle believes Westfield is also at fault.

“Westfield cannot walk away from the harm that it has caused without consequence,” states the lawsuit filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court. “It must be held accountable for the damages caused by its failures and broken promises.”

Westfield said earlier this year that foot traffic in the mall decreased to 5.6 million visits last year — down significantly from 9.7 million in 201 and, a 43% drop at a time when its US Flagship portfolio saw a 98% recovery. People are afraid of the violence they see all over the city and don't want to put their lives in their hands just for an Auntie Ann's Pretzel.

Sales declined to $298 million in December 2022 from $455 million in 2019, the company said.

Westfield management has declined to comment because the company has not yet been served the lawsuit, according to The Chronicle.

American Eagle is demanding “all actual and compensatory monetary damages” for breach of contract regarding mall security and maintenance outlined in the lease, which runs through 2028.

The suit comes as a number of major businesses in San Francisco have shuttered their doors, including Nordstrom in San Francisco Centre and a number of other stores at the mall.

Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi enjoys her $12 ice cream from her $24,000 freezer as she hears the latest insider trading information to pay for it all.

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Member Arrested "Auditioning the Finger Puppets" in Public, if you know what I mean

Clinton Monroe-Ellis-Gilmore, 53, and whatever other names he has, is an active member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of mostly gay guys who openly mock Catholics and dress like whore-clowns.

Well Clinton, [let's call him CMEG] was arrested in California last month for indecent exposure for "going into manual override" in public for an hour, according to a sheriff's office report.

The arrest went down at a beachside park after cops received a report of a guy “exposing himself in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle,” the Humboldt County Sheriff’s department said.

The sheriff's report indicates that the incident took place on August 12, at around 6:41 p.m.

“According to numerous witnesses, Ellis-Gilmore had been at that location for approximately one hour, sitting in his truck with the door open, masturbating. The conduct does not appear to have been directed at anyone in particular.”

The arrest took place at Table Bluff County Park in Loleta, California. The park is listed as "good for kids," and for "kid friendly hikes." By California standards, parks that contain only one person engaged in "double-clicking," so to speak, is kid friendly. It's when people wearing MAGA hats tend to hang out in parks that they are deemed unsafe.

The conservative media outlet Daily Wire obtained a mugshot of CMEG's booking and it appears that at the time of arrest, he was shirtless. The outlet requested a comment from the Eureka Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence but they did not respond, so Brain Flushings isn't even going to try.

The group made headlines earlier this year after the Los Angeles Dodgers decided to honor them at a “Pride” event. The ass-clowns showed up at the event dressed as nuns and the members used sexually suggestive sobriquets which delighted the mainstream media. In fact, the media defended them from their critics who referred to them as a  perverted hate group and the media then celebrated the cretins for its “dedication to community service.”

CMEG’s initial arrest was only reported by a local Humboldt County website, The Lost Coast Populist, which located many of his old social media posts and first linked Ellis-Gilmore to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

Randy Fleek, a witness who spoke with the arresting deputies, told The Daily Wire that Ellis-Gilmore made no attempt to hide the fact that he was polishing the bannister in public. He said that Ellis-Gilmore parked two spots away from his trailer and had his left leg out the open door of the truck and right leg up on the dashboard with no pants on, which gave him full side view of Ellis-Gilmore “playing with himself.”

“Well this is f***ed up,” Fleek said of what he saw. “It’s obvious. You cannot help but see this guy, he’s not hiding it. He wants everyone to see what he’s doing.”

He added that cars came and went throughout the hour, including some with young women. He also said that Ellis-Gilmore had his shirt on at the beginning but was naked by the end. He said he was happy when the sheriff deputies arrived, possibly because it involved touching him, and took him out of the truck, and got him dressed.

“There’s something wrong with that man. He’s got a weird f***ing desire to show off to the public, to anybody that wants to look at him,” Fleek said. “He puts himself in a position and in a spot that you can’t help but look at the son of a b**h.”

He described the location as “popular” and one where a lot of vehicles come through to look at the ocean which he said made what he witnessed more disturbing. “People pull in to see the ocean, they don’t pull in to see this. But you can’t help but see,” he said of Ellis-Gilmore’s alleged burping the baby.

Pictures on social media place CMEG at numerous events with his husband, Bill Gilmore, who goes by “Saint Gives More” — “Sainthood” in the group is bestowed on only the most dedicated community members.

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Biden's handler turns off his mic when he nonsensically blathers on in Vietnam

PINO Joe Biden was in "the Nam" where he mumbled somewhat incoherently about something until it got to a point whereby whoever is handling him had to shut off his mic. 

Here's what happened.

Biden was asked as to why he had not spoken to the smiling Chinese dictator and President for life Xi Jinping in ten months. He was also asked whether he believes that it would hinder U.S.-China relations, not referring to the one that Rep. Eric Swalwell had with the alleged China spy lovingly referred to as Fang Fang.

The so called President of the free world said that he had met with China's  “number two person in India today,” then slid into saying sympathetically of Xi that  “he has his hands full right now because of rampant unemployment among China’s youth.” 

With all those words spilling out of his mouth, Biden mumbled, “I don’t know about you, but I’m going to bed.”

Then Joe started to free associate with the first words that echoed in his head. “We talked about stability, we talked about the Third World, excuse me, the Southern Hemisphere has access to change. It wasn’t confrontational at all.” 

And lo and behold, someone cut off his mic and he was once again saved from himself. White House Press Secretary Karine Affirmative Action Jean-Pierre announced,  “Thank you, everybody. This ends the press conference. Thanks, everyone.”

At the start of the presser after announcing that he will only call on five "reporters," Biden revealed what we all know:  “I’ll just follow my orders here. Staff, is there anybody that hasn’t spoken yet?” He then turned to the reporters, and ungrammatically declared, “I ain’t calling on you.”

The RNC tweeted this video:

"I'll just follow my orders here. Staff, is there anybody that hasn't spoken yet? I ain't calling on you." pic.twitter.com/8xSmP94ZZK

Biden attacked those who dispute the climate change narrative, calling them “lying dog-faced pony soldiers.” He stated:

“My brother, he loves famous lines from movies that he always quotes. One of them is there’s a movie about John Wayne, he’s an Indian scout, and there trying to get one of the tribes of America back on the reservation, and they’re on their horses and their saddles, and there are three or four Indians in headdresses and the Union solider basically saying ‘We’ll take care of you, everything’ll be good,’ and the Indian looks at John Wayne and points to the Union soldier and says, ‘He’s a lying dog-faced pony soldier.'”

“Well, there’s a lot of lying dog-faced pony soldiers out there about global warming,” Biden continued. “But not anymore. All of a sudden, they’re all realizing it’s a problem.”

According to TMZ, Biden probably lifted the phrase from the 1952 Tyrone Power flick called, "Pony Soldier." However, the Indian chief in the movie doesn't actually say "lying, dog-faced pony soldier.” He says, "The pony soldier speaks with the tongue of the snake that rattles." So he even had that factoid wrong.

He used that same story in 2018, when he spoke about North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer (R) and then again in 2020 at a New Hampshire campaign event where he called a young woman the same slur.  

It's possible Biden conflated two movies when inventing the phrase "dog-faced pony soldiers." The Tyrone Power movie and a John Wayne movie in which the narrator calls The Duke and members of the U.S. cavalry "Dog-faced soldiers."

And this is the guy 81 million Americans voted for, they say.

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NM Gov. gets her comeuppance on gun-ban move

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-of course) seems to believe that she has the authority to ban law abiding citizens from being allowed to carry guns in Albuquerque and the surrounding county for the next 30 days or more.

The far-left governor signed an executive order Thursday stating that gun violence is a public health emergency, implying that her definition of health is twisted. While health is the state of being free from illness or injury, the gun "health emergency" is more of a societal problem which the left refuses to address.

On Friday, Grisham used her political position to suspend open and concealed carry laws in Albuquerque and the surrounding area and threatened to lengthen or renew her unconstitutional order.

Although she basically agreed that her order might be unconstitutional and she might lose in court, she went ahead and became New Mexico's first dictator.

Her decision was so crazy that even far, far-left anti-gun activist David Hogg criticized her.

“I support gun safety but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution,” Hogg posted on X.

I support gun safety but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution. https://t.co/6GfbOZLc7g

Even far, far-leftist and anti-intelligence Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) had negative words about Grisham's executive order, causing many Republicans to experience the vapors upon hearing his words of reason:

“I support gun safety laws. However, this order from the Governor of New Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution,” Lieu wrote on X. “No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.”

New Mexico GOP state Reps. Stefani Lord and John Block on Saturday said that they were going forward to impeach Grisham.

“I am calling on counsel to begin the impeachment process against Governor Grisham,” Lord said. “This is an abhorrent attempt at imposing a radical, progressive agenda on an unwilling populous. Rather than addressing crime at its core, Governor Grisham is restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Even Grisham believes this emergency order won’t prohibit criminals from carrying or using weapons; a basic admission that this will only put New Mexicans in danger as they won’t be able to defend themselves from violent crime.”

Block said that there was “no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution.”

And what makes anyone on the left really believe that if you take the rights of law abiding individuals to defend themselves, that lawless miscreants would go along with the gun ban? All it serves to do is leave the good people of Albuquerque defenseless.

Elon Musk responded on his X platform to Grisham’s order posting: 

At risk of stating what should be obvious, deliberately violating the Constitution is next-level illegal.

How soon can this person be removed from office?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 9, 2023

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) responded, “She’s nuts, but she’s taking what the tyrants did during COVID (forced jabs, travel bans, closed businesses, suppressed speech — with no laws passed) to the next level.”

She's also doing what the Nazis did to the public by taking away their means of self-defense against a tyrannical government. Who does she think she is anyway? Gretchen Whitmer?

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Comer, Greene and inquiring minds want the skinny on Hunter's hookers: he may be sex trafficking women

"Hey babe, how 'bout a little Hunter"

The House GOP called for the Department of Justice to share information on Hunter Biden's prostitutes. They believe these young women could be sex trafficking victims who need the government's help and support. 

C'mon man, what are the chances that an upstanding young man like Hunter Biden would be part of such a nefarious act?

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) along with Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) requested that information regarding these women be supplied by September 22nd, prior to a possible impeachment inquiry into so called President Joe Biden, the proud father of Hunter, for his possible role in his son's foreign business dealings. One thing we know for certain is that Hunter never registered as a foreign agent. Worse, Joe Biden lied at least 16 times about the business dealings within the family.

“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability continues to investigate whether the Department of Justice … is upholding the rights of victims who were sexually exploited by Robert Hunter Biden,” Comer and Greene wrote to Hilary Axam, the DOJ's human trafficking coordinator and crime victims director Kristina Rose.

As it stands, special counsel David Weiss is preparing to file federal charges against Hunter, who Joe says is the "smartest man I know."

The New York Post reported that Hunter reportedly  used at least $5,000 wired by Joe, to pay a Russian "escort" in Massachusetts. However, there is no evidence that Joe knew the reason why Hunter and his 'smoking gun' needed the cash.

IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler provided a list of young women who likely crossed state lines for whoring services with Hunter. This would be in violation of the Mann Act's prohibition on interstate prostitution and carries stiff [no pun intended] penalties. It was used to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice and main squeeze Ghislaine Maxwell who was sentenced to 20 big ones in the slammer for sex-trafficking underage girls for famous people who you know.

Comer and Greene are demanding to know who at the DOJ compiled a list of sex workers whose travel may have violated the Mann Act and whether “any victims [have] been notified of their statutory rights.”

“[T]estimony from an Internal Revenue Service whistleblower indicated that DOJ compiled a list of potential victims relating to an investigation of Hunter Biden for Mann Act violations,” Comer and Greene wrote.

“These women may be victims under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act and may also be afforded mandatory restitution pursuant to the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act. In light of DOJ’s refusal to communicate in a meaningful way with the Committee, we have great skepticism that DOJ has been adequately communicating with crime victims.”

Hunter Biden testified recently that he was embarrassed by “offensive” content published from his laptop, but he might as well have claimed that he had taken a cold shower and got "shrinkage" if anyone thought he was truly embarrassed. This is a guy who cannot keep from taking selfies in his tidy whities.

Ziegler told the House Ways and Means Committee that Justice Department officials were “compiling” a list of women who traveled across state lines to engage in paid sex. He had been investigating Hunter for over five years.

There will be more to follow in the near future, that you can be certain of.

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CA scientist admits he kind of lied to get his climate wildfire study published

A lying woke so called "scientist" did to science what so called "reporters" have done to journalism: he lied to make his story fit his agenda. Patty T. Brown admitted he "left out the full truth" which translates to the fact that he lied in a fake study published in a former prestigious science journal.

Brown is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and has a doctorate in earth and climate sciences. The liar distorted the findings of his fake studies in order to get it published at Nature and Science magazines, the latter of which ought to change its name to So Called Science magazine. He came clean in an online article in The Free Press, a blog post and a series of social media posts .

In order to try justifying his unethical behavior, Brown wrote in The Free Press: "And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain pre-approved narratives—even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society."

So what makes these journals prestigious? They do not practice science but pretend they do. 

Brown's tunnel vision study was published in Nature on Aug. 30th. It stated that climate change affected extreme wildfire behavior like the devastating fires in Maui and California. The prevaricator finally admits that he "focused narrowly" (which of course is very unscientific) only on the human influence of wildfires rather than focusing on other clearly relevant factors.

Brown blamed his bastardized approach to his study, not on himself for going ahead with it, but on the pressure he and his peers are put through to get published. "Publish or perish" as academics often say.

Still, the alleged scientist is not "disowning" his work by criticizing his approach, but is softening his lack of scientific treatment, his lack of veracity, his unethical standards by calling it less "useful than it could have been."

Patty Brown is less useful than he could have been, and those journals, well you decide how you want to use the paper.

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