In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath
Runs the all-time loser
Headlong to his death
He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train it won't stop going
No way to slow down
Oh-oh
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Biden’s Infrastructure Package Will Federalize Local Zoning Laws, Displace Single-Family Homes In Suburbs
Democrats plan to federalize local zoning laws within the infrastructure reconciliation package to displace single-family homes with high-rise, low-income apartments to impact the already purple suburbs.
The reconciliation package plans to implement the destruction of the suburbs via a measure within the package called the “HOMES Act,” which attempts put the federal government in charge of local zoning laws to change local demographics, impacting the already purple voting districts.
According to the measure within the transportation package, any local government that does not comply with the federal zoning guidelines, meaning “ordinances that ban apartment buildings from certain residential areas or set a minimum lot size for a single family home,” the Department of House and Urban Development (HUD) will cut off funding to that city – funding any city needs to maintain their current low-income housing.
Additional consequences for cities keeping their local zoning laws in place would be to punish states by prohibiting them from “receiving taxpayer funded transportation grants of any kind if they refuse to allow high-rise apartments throughout their high density zoning in their suburbs.”
States rely on federal transportation money to fix local streets and highways.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge told USA Today in April, “The result of this sort of investment will be critical to increasing housing options for low- and moderate-income families.”
The establishment media seems very much for the radical-left plan, articulating the destruction of local rule as follows:
A house with a white picket fence and a big backyard for a Fourth of July barbecue may be a staple of the American dream, but experts and local politicians say multifamily zoning is key to combating climate change, racial injustice and the nation’s growing affordable housing crisis.The infrastructure package is now being negotiated among members of Congress that Democrats and President Joe Biden want to pass via reconciliation, a tactic which does not need to surpass a...
Colorado Schools Mislead the Public About Teaching Critical Race Theory
Agree or fail to graduate.
Administrators of the Jefferson County school district, the second largest in the state of Colorado, have publicly insisted that they are not teaching CRT in the district’s schools. But material found on the district’s website and elsewhere contradicts this narrative.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become a hot topic in school districts across the nation. Instead of promoting a colorblind society, CRT teaches students that the world can be divided along racial lines into oppressors and victims and that racism has infiltrated every aspect of our society and its institutions.
Matt Flores, chief academic officer at Jefferson County Schools, was recently cited in the Denver Post as stating that Jeffco Schools do not teach CRT, nor do they teach the precepts of the 1619 Project, a project of The New York Times which seeks to place slavery at the center of American history. The 1619 project has been widely criticized and debunked as ahistorical propaganda.
According to district regulations, Jefferson County teachers who want to present controversial topics in the classroom must first receive permission from the district and must also notify parents beforehand. Controversial materials are defined as “materials that are likely to divide the community along racial, ethnic, or religious lines.” Recent reports cast doubt on whether teachers and administrators are following these mandates.
Barbara Paden, the mother of two children who attend Jefferson County schools, was outraged when her daughter’s assignment about women’s suffrage was rejected by her teacher. Interviewed by the Denver Post, Paden explained that her daughter wrote about an “18th-century women’s rights advocate in France who was beheaded.” Instead of lauding the student for her initiative, her mother explained, the teacher gave her a zero on the assignment and recommended that she “focus on the suppression of Black women’s vote in the 20th century.”
While the Jefferson County School District claims not to promote CRT, this statement is directly contradicted by...
When The Cat Is In The Wrong Cradle...
The phrase cat's in the cradle is a line from a popular song that people sometimes quote to reference the song itself, or the theme of fatherhood, or the theme of not having enough time to spend on a relationship.
My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, Dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
When you comin' home, Dad
I don't know when, but we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then
My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's okay"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"
"We Are F**king Abandoning American Citizens" Says Livid Army Colonel In Leaked Afghanistan Texts
"We are f*cking abandoning American citizens," Army colonel wrote in a frantic series of texts that detail how a group of Americans were rejected at airport as rescue flight awaited.
President Biden declared to a puzzled country on Tuesday that the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan was an "extraordinary success," while his Pentagon portrayed a prosaic, workaday process to repatriate Americans still stranded in the war-torn country.
But text messages between U.S. military commanders and private citizens mounting last-minute rescues tell a far different story, one in which pleading American citizens were frantically left behind at the Kabul airport gate this past weekend to face an uncertain fate under Taliban rule while U.S. officials sought to spread the blame between high-ranking generals and the State Department
"We are f*cking abandoning American citizens," an Army colonel assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division wrote Sunday in frustration in a series of encrypted messages that detailed the failed effort to extricate a group of American citizens, hours before the last U.S. soldiers departed Afghanistan.
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The text messages and emails were provided to Just the News by Michael Yon, a former Special Forces soldier and war correspondent who was among the private citizens working with...
ANTIFA MEMBER AND TEACHER SECRETLY ADMITS INDOCTRINATING STUDENTS: ‘I HAVE AN ANTIFA FLAG ON MY [CLASSROOM] WALL’
‘I have 180 days to turn them into revolutionaries’
8 More Politically Correct But Factually False Words And Phrases To Stop Using Immediately
In the face of confusing and inaccurate language diktats from federal bureaucrats, The Federalist is here to help.
If constantly flip-flopping on senseless COVID-19 restrictions hadn’t undermined the credibility of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention enough, the agency appointed itself language police last week with a list of acceptable (and not acceptable) terminology. From instructing English-speakers to deny biological realities with terms like “assigned male/female at birth” to touting unnecessary word salads like “people with self-reported income in the lowest income bracket” (instead of “poor people”), the CDC guide is full of catchphrases that sound messy and cloud meaning.
In the face of confusing and inaccurate language diktats from federal bureaucrats, The Federalist is here to help. Back in April, we brought you “10 Politically Correct But Factually False Words And Phrases To Stop Using Immediately,” including words and phrases like “mainstream media,” “abortion doctors,” and “cisgender.”Here are a few more phrases and words that, no matter how much leftist hacks like the CDC language police will try to pressure you to use them, you should think twice before using.
1. ‘Progressive’
“Progressive” is an inherently positive adjective, implying that anything it describes is “progressing” toward something better. In America, the political Progressive movement that gained steam at the beginning of the 20th century viewed America’s systems of limited government as outdated, instead wanting to use federal power to usher in radical social change.
Today’s self-styled “progressives” follow suit, seeking to use governmental and cultural levers to force social upheaval on Americans. To concede their “progressive” description is to buy into the assumption that anyone who doesn’t support their agendas is backward and regressive. Instead of “progressive,” say “leftist” or just describe the particular individual or group’s agenda more specifically.
Today’s self-styled “progressives” follow suit, seeking to use governmental and cultural levers to force social upheaval on Americans. To concede their “progressive” description is to buy into the assumption that anyone who doesn’t support their agendas is backward and regressive. Instead of “progressive,” say “leftist” or just describe the particular individual or group’s agenda more specifically.
2. ‘Pregnant Persons’
This shouldn’t even need to be said. Women can get pregnant. Men can’t.
The same goes for other nonsense terms like “people who menstruate” or “breastfeeding persons.” To reduce women to their physical and reproductive abilities is dehumanizing and inappropriate, and these terms deny basic biological realities.
3. ‘Antiracism’
Everyone in his right mind opposes racism, but today many agendas that fly under the banner of “antiracism” are actually just racism in disguise. By slapping the label of “antiracism” on these actions and ideas, activists can automatically discredit anyone who challenges them.
As linguist and writer John McWhorter explains, “The new religion might be called ‘antiracism,’ but it features a racial essentialism that’s barely distinguishable from racist arguments of the past.”
In the name of so-called “antiracism,” grifters like Ibram X. Kendi advocate actual racist policies like racial discrimination, and school districts like one in Atlanta segregate students by race. This isn’t antiracism, this is racism redux.
Everyone in his right mind opposes racism, but today many agendas that fly under the banner of “antiracism” are actually just racism in disguise. By slapping the label of “antiracism” on these actions and ideas, activists can automatically discredit anyone who challenges them.
As linguist and writer John McWhorter explains, “The new religion might be called ‘antiracism,’ but it features a racial essentialism that’s barely distinguishable from racist arguments of the past.”
In the name of so-called “antiracism,” grifters like Ibram X. Kendi advocate actual racist policies like racial discrimination, and school districts like one in Atlanta segregate students by race. This isn’t antiracism, this is racism redux.
4. ‘Assault Weapon’
When the left can’t use facts (which is often), they resort to feelings. This is why they deploy the phrase “assault weapon” to elicit an emotional response. Adding “assault” to something makes it sound scarier, and the gun control lobby has been largely successful in convincing Americans there is a cut-and-dried category of guns that assault you and guns that supposedly don’t.
Practically anything — from brass knuckles to a two-by-four to a rubber slingshot — can be used as a weapon to assault a victim. Just because a rifle looks vaguely like the kind of firearm used by military forces does not magically confer “assault” status.
Sometimes, the phrase “assault weapon” or “assault rifle” is used to describe a rifle with selective-fire capabilities (i.e., a rifle that can switch between semi-automatic or fully automatic modes). The terms are often applied to civilian AR-15s, however, which do not necessarily have selective-fire options. (It’s also worth noting that the “AR” in “AR-15” doesn’t stand for assault rifle, it refers to the company Armalite Rifle.)
5. ‘Liberal’...
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