The death of English grammar

And clarity of thought.

Grammar is being trashed and butchered in schools these days and instead of students mangling the “King’s English” with slang, poorly placed commas, incorrect apostrophes and mixed tenses, it’s the educators who are doing the dirty work.  

I used to think the reason grammar wasn’t being taught to my kids in the ‘90s was that teachers were too lazy and didn’t like the discipline of following form, or else they had never been taught the importance of using language to communicate thoughts clearly.  

Now I think that the point of not teaching proper language is to make it easier to garble the meaning of words so that clear thinking is impossible.  By constantly changing the meanings of words and phrases, academics and elites can maintain control over who and what is considered correct at any given time.  Standard English just gets in the way.  

If a boy is a he and a girl is a she, how can they convince us that he or she is they?  

For a list of over 100 pronouns and their usage, see the Free Dictionary.

New York Post

Kiel, Wisconsin school district charges kids for using wrong pronouns

By 

Isabel Vincent,  

May 14, 2022

A Wisconsin school district has filed sexual harassment complaints against three middle schoolers for calling a classmate by a wrong pronoun.

The school district in Kiel, a city of 3,600 residents, has charged the three eighth-graders at the Kiel Middle School with sexual harassment after an incident in April in which the students refused to use “they” to refer to a classmate who had switched pronouns a month before the alleged incident, according to reports.

“I immediately went into shock,” she continued in an interview with FOX 11. “I’m thinking sexual harassment? That’s rape, that’s inappropriate touching, that’s incest. What has my son done?”

“I received a phone call from the principal …forewarning me, letting me know that I was going to be receiving an email with sexual harassment allegations against my son,” said Rosemary Rabidoux, whose 13-year-old son Braden is one of the students charged with sexual harassment.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is defending the accused students, and claims that misuse of pronouns is not covered by Title IX, the US Education Department’s statute that protects people from discrimination based on sex in education.

“Title IX sexual harassment typically covers things like rape, dating violence, quid pro quo sexual favors — really egregious stuff,” WILL’s deputy counsel Luke Berg told the network. “There’s nothing even remotely close to that alleged in this case.”

Don’t be a twit

 twit:

A silly or foolish person. 

Lots of twittering going on these days.  Don’t be a twit.  If you are uncertain about how corrupt and foolish so-called intelligent people can be, read what a senior engineer at Twitter has to say about the brilliance and nobility of free speech as a right guaranteed by our constitution.  It’s revolting.  

Project Veritas

MAY 16, 2022

Twitter Senior Engineer Talks Elon Musk Takeover in NEW Undercover Video: ‘Twitter Does Not Believe in Free Speech’ … Admits Employees at Tech Giant are ‘Commie as F**k’

[NEW YORK – May 16, 2022] Project Veritas published explosive undercover footage on Monday night featuring one of Twitter’s senior engineers discussing the dynamics behind internal reactions to the acquisition of the tech company by business magnate, Elon Musk.

In the video, Twitter Sr. Engineer, Siru Murugesan, says many of his colleagues have voiced “this would be my last day if it happens,” referring to Musk’s high publicized intended purchase of Twitter. He also says employees at Twitter are “stress-eating” and “worried for our jobs.”

More significant than those soundbites are the reasons he says employees at Twitter feel this way.

“Our jobs are at stake; he's a capitalist and we weren't really operating as capitalists, more like very socialist,” Murugesan says before adding, “we're all like commie as f**k.”

If we want fewer hurricanes…

…we need to pollute more!  Who’d a thought!  

https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_b755b902-d159-11ec-992c-6f447909cc52.html

Reduction in air pollution likely linked to increase in hurricanes, new study says

NOAA study finds places with less air pollution have more hurricanes

No good deed goes unpunished.

New NOAA research has found that the dramatic reductions in air pollution in North America and Europe during the past four decades is likely linked to a similarly steep increase in the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic, including the Gulf of Mexico.

And the research also shows that in Asia, where industrial development in India and China is booming without similar emission controls, the increased pollution has resulted in fewer hurricanes.

Going underground

 If I ever get back to Fresno, I know what I want to see!

Listen to the fascinating, true story of Baldassare Forestiere who built a wondrous underground garden to get his orchard out of the blazing California heat.  

Atlas Obscura-

books, website and podcasts about the weird and wonderful things in our world:

Podcast on Forestiere Underground Gardens

Forestiere Underground Gardens

In the early 1900s, Sicilian immigrant, citrus grower and visionary Baldassare Forestiere began turning what was useless farmland into a vast network of rooms, tunnels and courtyards as a subterranean escape from the sweltering Central Valley summer heat.

Using only shovels, picks and other hand tools, Baldassare was inspired to excavate for forty years, going as deep as 25 feet underground and spanning over 10 acres. He grew fruit trees and grapevines underground - many of which are still thriving today!

“Reclaim the Net”

 Check out this great new website dedicated to protecting one’s privacy while using the internet:

Reclaim the Net

reclaimthenet.com  

Defend free speech and individual liberty online. Push back against big tech and media gatekeepers.

News articles on free speech and privacy

VPN providers

Private search engines

Private browsers

Free speech friendly video sharing and social networks

Private email providers 

More!

What is your social score?

 I haven’t checked mine yet but it’s on my to-do list for this week.  I don’t need a loan, but I am curious about what information has been gathered about me. Conservative- check.  Despises CRT - check.  Thinks people who voted for Kate Brown are senile - check.  Uses Roundup on my weeds - check.  Never had a Facebook account - check.  Incorrigible to be sure.  ;-)

Ricochet.com

What Is Your ESG Credit Score?

Front Seat Cat

March 22, 2021

Major banks are rolling out a new platform and their lending practices will be driven by your ESG score. ESG stands for your Environmental, Social, and Governance. What, you ask, does that mean? What you buy and sell, what charities you support, and your environmental impact are being tracked and translated into a score. I don’t know who the scorekeepers are, but Glenn Beck’s guest had a friend who checked his Merrill Lynch account, and he was quickly educated.He had a low score of 4.7 and didn’t understand how they arrived at that number.

No, this isn’t China, this is now being implemented here in the US, and it will affect whether you qualify for a car loan, a home loan, a business loan, or if you are a good credit risk if you are applying for other things, like a job. Did you buy a gun for example, or give to a particular political party candidate, or do you purchase meat? What kind of car do you drive, and how often do you drive it? Not kidding – this will have an impact on your freedom in the new world that is unfolding.

Money lenders are grading you by this new system because they are now being graded by the new system. Every company will be graded on their hiring practices and how many minorities and even diverse genders are hired, what their social and environmental footprint is, and they must prove it, as their scorecard will impact their ability to do business in the new world system. Their ideology is also being incorporated into education. From the World Economic Forum’s “The Great Reset,” being implemented into every sector, corner, and cell of our lives, these are the new rules.

They are handing these new systems down to every government on earth. It sounds nuts because it is – the Green New Deal on steroids. No one elected these people or voted on these new systems that will have a direct impact on all of us, but it’s been in the pipeline for years, and we now have the systems in place to support it, like 5G, the social platforms and Big Tech.

What can we do to ensure our rights in a free society under these new rules (and there are more coming) and have you seen things change in your life? My car insurance company offered significant savings if I downloaded an app that would track my driving habits, not just my driving record, but when I drove at night or just during the day and at what hours), how far, how fast, how often I brake; it was very invasive. This is the definition of smart cars, smart cities – the wave of the future that sounds so utopian, modern, and convenient. This isn’t the stuff of science fiction or conspiracy talk. Go on the WEF site and read the circles within circles – between the lines. Every sector will transform the way we live and we are being conditioned to accept it willingly.