I clicked to scoff, but this is actually a very nice story, appropriate for a Sunday

Actress discovers she’s actually an African princess

I’ve always laughed at those celebrities who “discover” that they were queens, famous courtesans, whatever, in a past life — they never seem to have been galley slaves or common prostitutes, say. So I clicked on this one expecting to be rewarded with a chuckle, but it’s not a Shirley MacLaine tale, it’s about a young black girl, adopted by a white family in W. Virginia, seeking out and finding her birth father in Africa decades later. Whole lotta love, including the adoptive parents and the biological father and the village where he now lives. It’s a nice break from the regular news.

Courtesy of reader Emily Littela

The school shutdowns may be the best thing to have happened in public education in 100 years

Back in my college days, if I met a co-ed who looked like she might be worth at least a coffee date, I’d sometimes ask her what her major was. If she answered “education”, I’d drop my estimation of her IQ by 20 points, and move on. Seems like, if anything, things have gotten worse; today, I’d deduct 30 points. With that in mind, I offer Not the Bee’s contribution to the discussion:

Here’s a short jingle to remind you to take your kids out of public school yesterday

second look at keeping schools closed? https://t.co/QaWooCHXrw

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 25, 2021

Container Storage

No longer operative

Surge of 13,000 Central American Minors Expected In May

Customs and Border Protection officials are bracing for as many as 13,000 unaccompanied children crossing into the U.S. in May, according to a report.

“We’re seeing the highest February numbers that we’ve ever seen in the history of the [Unaccompanied Alien Child] program,” a Health and Human Services official told Axios.

The record surge of migrant kids will require a continued expansion of the country’s network of migrant-child shelters, where capacity has already been reduced due to coronavirus social-distancing protocols, the report said.

HHS is working with the Pentagon on securing space on military bases

“Opening our border and encouraging parents to send their children up here and then putting them in boxes sends a clear message to the world”, Sleepy Joe told FWIW. “Message: we care”.

Boston school system shuts down its advanced learning program

The most dangerous game: Woke White Women. School Superintendent Brenda Cassellius

“Too many whites and Asians”

An advanced program for high-performing students at Boston Public Schools was suspended after district officials determined the program would not promote antiracism due to the disproportionate number of Asian and white students, GBH News reported.

The Advanced Work Classes program, which provides an accelerated academic curriculum for students in fourth through sixth grade, will be suspended for one year after Boston Public Schools’ superintendent Brenda Cassellius recommended the school focus on reforming its antiracist policies, according to GBH News.

The program was open to all students in the school district who took a standardized test in the third grade, earned a high score, and won an open spot via lottery. It allows students to study subjects in greater depth, and students are given more schoolwork and home study than the standard curriculum, according to the school districts’ site.

“There’s [sic] been a lot of inequities that have been brought to the light in the pandemic that we have to address,” Cassellius said, according to GBH News. “There’s a lot of work we have to do in the district to be antiracist and have policies where all of our students have a fair shot at an equitable and excellent education.”

70% of students in the program were white and Asian, while nearly 80% of all Boston public schools are Hispanic and black, a detailed study found, according to GBH News. Cassellius said that five schools currently offer the program, and last fall, 453 students applied and 116 students enrolled, the outlet reported.

Asked by FWIW whether it wouldn’t be better if, instead of closing the advanced studies program, her illiterate charges received remedial schooling until capable of performing at the higher level, the superintendent was adamant: “that’s a non-starter”, Cassellius insisted. “If they aren’t passing those tests, then the tests are racist, and we’ve got to get rid of them. And if the colored children can’t do basic math, then no one should be allowed to learn advanced math. You know what they say, ‘better I have no cow than my neighbor have two’. Everybody’s got nothing — that’s equity”

“If you can’t meet your own standards, lower your standards”. Once, that was considered an ironic witticism; today it’s the official policy of the education system of the United States.

Sad.

Above all, a man's gotta keep his respect

I don’ wanna go home!

I skim those few sports stories I don’t simply ignore, but this tidbit from a tale of a disguntled quarterback who wants to be traded caught my eye:

Watson, 25, signed a four-year, $156 million extension last season, but has felt disrespected by the Texans not consulting him on key decisions, such as hiring Nick Caserio as GM and trading star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins last spring.

Oh boo hoo. Someone can disrespect me for half that.

A Vision for You

With Hitler salute, even

The World Economic Forum has released a video that shows what the rich and powerful have in store for us. Sadly this link goes to Not The Bee.

The World Economic Forum in Davos, a left-wing, globalist, climate-change, woke activism organization that pretends to have something to do with economics, posted this video on Twitter seemingly celebrating the "great effects" lockdowns have had in cities across the globe.

Watch and turn on the sound for the most creepy effect.

We’re going to be at the barricades sooner than I’d hoped

Lockdowns are quietly improving cities around the world.

📕 Read more: https://t.co/LoTPj7VyGw pic.twitter.com/EFSamua2PB

— World Economic Forum (@wef) February 26, 2021

Paula Bolyard is pissed

This isn’t normal and I refuse to pretend that it is

Can we stop for a minute and recognize the absurdity of what we witnessed in a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday? I turned on C-SPAN and could not believe what I was seeing. A transgender individual—decked out in makeup, jewelry, an ugly skirt, and a hairdo straight out of a 1980s Twisted Sister MTV video—came before a committee of the U.S. Senate and everyone acted like this was completely normal.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was the only person on the Senate HELP committee to question Rachel Levine’s radical transgender ideology, which includes chemical (and possibly physical) castration of minor children without their parents’ consent. What did poor Rand Paul get for his courage and honesty? Charges that the medical doctor is an “ignorant’ transphobe. Where were his Republican colleagues? Sitting in their comfy chairs acting as if having a man wearing lipstick and a dress in the Senate chamber is the most normal thing in the world. They’re cowards who are afraid that the mob will come for them next—and they’re hedging their bets that the whole issue will go away before they’re forced to go on the record about all this trans tomfoolery.

We’ve regressed so far as a society that no one bats an eye when a delusional man who believes himself to be a woman is being put forth as a nominee for a vaunted position in government by the president of the United States. And we’re all just supposed to play along with this fantasy and act as if it’s completely normal. It’s not.

Shockingly, the position Levine is under consideration for is the assistant secretary of Health and Human Services. A man who denies science, believing he can overcome what every cell in his body screams—that he’s a male, packed full of XY chromosomes—is going to be in charge of directing health policy for the entire nation. What kind of mass delusion are we under that we just sit back and pretend this is good for us—for our nation, for our children, and for our health?

I refuse to play along. “Dr.” “Rachel” Levine can claim whatever he wants, but I will not indulge with his fantasies and fetishes. I will not pretend that he is a woman. I can live with calling Levine by his chosen name, but I will not deny both science and the Bible by calling Levine a woman. I refuse to play the game. I refuse to lie.

Somehow I doubt this woman will be invited to join the Smith faculty anytime soon

Health care allocation based on politics and race

I got mine, granny, so screw you

CT Department of Health on Covid vaccinations: teachers first

As Connecticut awaits the arrival of a boost in COVID vaccines, local plans are forming to quickly vaccinate 160,000 teachers, school workers and child care professionals statewide.

In a memo obtained by Hearst Connecticut Media, the state Department of Public Health this week directed local health departments to prioritize this group and to only offer vaccination clinics to the general public “if these support a specific goal of addressing racial equity in the vaccine rollout, target vulnerable communities ... or specifically address other access issues for seniors.”

They’re targeting the least vulnerable adults in the population.

Reversing his stand of Tuesday, Dr. Fauci will now permit vaccinated folks to co-mingle

What’s changed? Nothing, but like everything this quack has prescribed, it’s all politics and optics.

Three days ago he warned that he wouldn’t advise vaccinated people to go out to eat or to the movies, not because it’s dangerous for them but because it’s potentially dangerous for the majority of the population that hasn’t been immunized yet and with whom they’d be mixing in those public spaces. Vaccinated people *could* still spread the virus, even if they’re spreading it less than an unvaccinated person would.

Surely, though, in the name of giving people who’ve done their duty by getting the jab a reprieve from the misery of pandemic isolation, we could encourage those who’ve been immunized to get together with others who’ve been immunized. Fine, yes, be careful with strangers since they might still be vulnerable to infection, but if you know for a fact that all participants in an upcoming social engagement have been vaccinated, why the hell shouldn’t that engagement proceed?

Last night, in an interview with CNN, Fauci agreed. Why shouldn’t it? “Even though it isn’t backed by data,” he said about vaccinated people socializing safely, “it’s backed by common sense.”

This man has helped cause trillions of dollars of damages to America. I expect he’ll have received the Congressional Medal of Freedom by June.

As usual, America’s Paper of Record was way ahead of the story, this time on January 30.

Fauci Spins his handy Wheel of Science to See What Science is Recommending Today

WASHINGTON, DC—In a development no one saw coming, Dr. Anthony Fauci has again changed his recommendation about what to do with masks by consulting his tested and proven "Wheel of SCIENCE."

“Now I know it confuses people when the science changes so quickly, as if we are just making all this up as we go along,” explained Dr. Fauci from his bunker full of neckties. “That’s why I developed this handy 'Wheel of SCIENCE' for us to spin every morning, so people can really see that this isn’t just me saying whatever pops into my head!"

"Now-- let's give this puppy a spin!" he exclaimed as he gave the wheel a mighty turn.

“What will it be today, gang?” asked a giddy Dr. Fauci. "'Masks Cause Bladder Cancer?' 'Eating Dirt Prevents Halitosis?' hmmm..." 

The dial slowed, clicking just past "Cover Your Kids With Grocery Bags" and finally came to rest on: "Attach A Live Octopus Directly To Your Face."

“There it is, folks!  Science has proven that the best way to prevent COVID transmission is to affix a live octopus directly over your mouth, nose, and probably eyes. I’ve been keeping this little guy here for this very moment,” said Dr. Fauci, reaching into an aquarium and plastering the surprised sea creature’s tentacles directly onto his face.

“AAAA!!! AAA!!! THE—mmrghh—INK!! AAA!!!” screamed Dr. Fauci as he thrashed on the floor. The journalists watching on Zoom stared in shock, then went straight to work spreading the news of Dr. Fauci’s latest advice to the masses.