25 years? That's the best you can do? Hold our beer.

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House Democrats pass HR1, which will ensure Democrat rule and end 200+ years of freedom.

It incorporates every trick they pulled in November, but as Granny Botox acknowledged to FWIW, “that was too close, because we didn’t control every state; now we will”.

(An excellent summary of the bill and its nefarious provisions can be found here.)

Anything not to be outdone by the Chinee: China ends 25- year experiment with open elections in Hong Kong

Next up: look for national implementation of California’s two candidate open primary law. Passed in 2009, the law eliminated closed-party primaries to all voters and the top two vote-getters move on to the general election giving residents a choice between two Democrats. It’s locked in Democrat rule in Sacramento, and surely Pelosi et all have noticed.

Good and Hard

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267 down, 13,300 to go

267 down, 13,300 to go

San Francisco providing alfresco camping for 300 of its homeless friends, at $61,000 per tent.

Including food, police, and sanitation services. No word whether, like Seattle, they conduct booty bumping meth injection classes; if not, surely that’ll come soon.

In the six "Safe Sleeping Villages" set up by the city of San Francisco during the pandemic, the cost of maintaining a single tent-camping spot is $5,000 per month, or $61,000 per year — more than it would cost to put each of these people in a market-rate apartment.

The insane costs of running these sleeping "villages," which only have space for a total of 262 tents spread across the six sites, makes one immediately think of the criticisms that are leveled against the Homeless Industrial Complex, as conservative commentators are eager to call it. The revelation of the pricetag for the tent program — $16.1 million for the year — came at a budget committee meeting on Wednesday, as the Chronicle reports, via Abigail Stewart-Kahn, the interim director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.

Apparently, supervisors have been operating under the assumption that this program, like the hotel program for the homeless, would get covered by FEMA reimbursement. It turns out, it will not, though Stewart-Kahn said it does qualify as a group shelter.

Well that's different, then

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Where’d everybody go?

Where’d everybody go?

Biden is changing the name of Mexican concentration camps to the friendlier, “reception centers”

Friendlier to illegal aliens, not so friendly to Americans, especially low-wage citizens, who will have to compete against their still-lower paid new friends

In particular, one official said, the new name would mark the Biden administration's intention to use the "reception centers" not for holding people in custody, but for serving as sending-off points for releasing migrants into the United States.

“These facilities are going up, but they're being utilized differently. The direction is very clear. Release them as fast as possible,” said the first person. “If you can’t receive [migrants] from a Border Patrol station, then release them right there, do it. If that area gets overcrowded, they're giving instruction to ICE to then bus them further into the interior of the United States.”

$500,000 watch? Dining at expensive Beverly Hills restaurant? What do you bet he's a BLM, "defund the police" supporter?

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Chickens home to roost come

Chickens home to roost come

Woman shot, companion robbed while dining alfresco at “upscale” [foufou dogs, yes, peasants, no] iL Pastaio

The victim was dining outside celebrity hotspot Il Pastaio restaurant when a trio of suspects targeted her companion’s $500,000 Richard Mille watch, TMZ reported.

A shooter opened fire, hitting the woman in the leg. The crooks fled with the man’s watch, the report said.

The gunshot victim was taken to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries, the Los Angeles Times reported.

(Just noticed this). Check out the babe with the bullet wound: She may not be clinging to life, but she’s got a death grip on her cell phone, probably calling her publicist (yes, she’s dressed like a bag lady, but I understand that’s “the look” among our Californian betters).

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(More) money won't fix this

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Meet the Baltimore school where an 0.13 GPA places a student in the upper half of his class

Calls to shut down a Baltimore high school are growing Thursday following an investigation that found hundreds of students are failing, with the top grade point averages hovering at an abysmal 0.13. 

Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in West Baltimore is being accused of repeatedly promoting students from grade to grade despite failing GPAs. 

Tiffany France, one of the mothers profiled in the Project Baltimore investigation, said she thought her 17-year-old son would be receiving his diploma in June but learned that after four years of attending Augusta Fells, her son is being moved back to the ninth grade. 

According to transcripts, France's son passed only three classes in his four years of high school, earning a 0.13 grade point average. What's worse is that her son's GPA puts him near the top half of this class. He was also late or absent to school 359 days.

There’s certainly room to assign some blame to the parents here: if you know your child isn’t going to school, why don’t you make him go to school?, but the school’s indifference to the massive failure of its mission is appalling.

No one seems to want to take accountability or go on the record as to why so many students have fallen through the cracks. 

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott received backlash Wednesday when he implied during a press conference that education lapses in city schools were tied to a lack of funding.

"We have a school district that's been underfunded by $300 million a year by our state," he said.

The comment brought a swift rebuke from Maryland's Public Policy Institute Director Christopher Summers, who said the city doesn't have an underfunding problem but instead an overspending problem.

"Baltimore City alone is spending 25.2% above the national average," he said.

Here’s the school’s State Report Card, showing mathematics and reading proficiency rates of 5.9% and 5.6%, respectively. These are actually pretty much in line with all inner-city public schools.. Support your local NEA!

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