Friday, September 2, 2022
Thursday, September 1, 2022
The legacy of unionized, government teachers who refused to show up because of COVID-19: Students in 2022 are performing at a level last seen two decades ago
In math, the average score for 9-year-old students fell 7 percentage points between 2020 and 2022, according to the study. The average reading score fell 5 points. . . . Although it marks a sharp drop since 2020, the average reading score was 7 points higher than it was in 1971, and the average math score was 15 points higher than in 1978, the study found.
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Now just in time for the election lying Democrats, but I repeat myself, want you to think that they and their allies opposed school closings when they were attacking Republicans for wanting them open.
US COVID-19 deaths per day in August 2022 are up 37% compared with the May-Jul average of 373
Deaths per day monthly in 2022:
Aug 2022: 511
Jul 2022: 383
Jun 2022: 363
May 2022: 373
Apr 2022: 426
Mar 2022: 980
Feb 2022: 2,247
Jan 2022: 1,987
Deaths
per day annually still fell through August, but not by much, from 953 through July:
2020: 1,131
2021: 1,310
2022 through 8/31: 896
As with electric cars, rooftop solar energy is great until it blows up and starts on fire: Now they tell us
Between April 2020 and June 2021, solar panels atop Amazon fulfillment
centers caught fire or experienced electrical explosions at least six
different times. ...
The documents, which have never been made public, indicate that between April 2020 and June 2021, Amazon experienced “critical fire or arc flash events” in at least six of its 47 North American sites with solar installations, effecting 12.7% of such facilities. Arc flashes are a kind of electrical explosion. ...
By June of last year, all of Amazon’s U.S. operations with solar had to be taken offline . . ..
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A series of Russian businessmen meets with sudden unexplained deaths
Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil, died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow
Gazprom executive, Alexander Tyulakov, was found dead in his garage near St Petersburg
Sergei Protosenya, a former top manager of Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas producer Novatek, was found dead with his wife and daughter at a villa in Spain
Former Lukoil manager, Alexander Subbotin, was found dead in the basement of a house outside Moscow
Vladislav Avayev, an ex-vice president of Gazprombank, was found dead in a Moscow apartment, also with the bodies of his wife and daughter
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Two days after the storm blew threw Michigan is still #1 for power outages in the US this afternoon
187k are affected in the service area of DTE energy on the east side of the state right now, and 37k are affected in the Consumers Energy service area.
Ann Coulter says Republicans shouldn't waste their time defending their incumbents or primarying them, just vote for the Democrat
Spending energy, time, volunteers [on primaries] is a zero-sum game when it comes to campaigns. We can not waste our time defending incumbents. As bad as Republicans are, there are a lot of bad Republicans, but there are no good Democrats. So do not primary an incumbent. Do not waste the time and money.
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Ann Coulter goes off the rails, blames the Tea Party for Obamacare
She forgets that Obamacare was passed in March 2010, months before the "Tea Party" swept the US House in an historic win with the help of Freedom Works & Co.
. . . the Tea Party candidates lost us a lot of races and Senate seats. We would not have Obamacare if it weren't for a lot of the Tea Party candidates running against incumbent candidates.
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