90 Miles From Tyranny

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

School Board Unanimously Approves Plan to Pay Non-White Teachers More

More "Art" From Barack Obama's Portrait Artist: Kehinde Wiley

If you feel like you live in an alternative universe where reductionism replaces logic and superficiality trumps character, here’s more evidence that you may be right. We might just be living in a racist version of The Twilight Zone.

The Mankato School Board in Minnesota voted unanimously to pay non-white teachers “additional stipends” based only on the color of their skin, according to BizPac Review. If you happen to be born black or Native American and teach for the school district, you ostensibly deserve to be paid more than your peers.

You don’t have to earn the raise for going the extra mile to help students or for actually doing anything at all. The pay raise is based upon the accident of skin color and nothing else. Forget the fact that nobody gets to determine the color of skin they’re born with.

The chair of the board, Jodi Sapp, is no stranger to controversy. She raised eyebrows when she required parents to give their name and address before...

‘We have national gov’t for a reason’: Biden’s chief of staff tweet shaming Trump on COVID did not age well

President Joe Biden was already drawing heavy criticism over the shortage of COVID testing kits as panic over the Omicron variant sweeps the nation but his remarks on Monday when he passed the buck to the states set off a raging firestorm that has also scorched White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain.

The prolific tweeter’s words from last year criticizing then-President Donald J. Trump for not fully mobilizing the federal government to fight the virus, but instead allowing the states to manage the unprecedented health crisis as he should have, has not aged well, resulting in a pummeling from critics.

According to Klain, “I’ve been saying since March that we can’t beat COVID with an “Articles of Confederation” response. We have a national government for a reason. If Donald Trump won’t use it to beat this killer disease, I know someone who will, starting on 1/20/21.”

Once again, Klain’s tendency to shoot from the hip on Twitter has come back to bite him with users taking to the platform to drag him down memory lane.

Last summer, Biden also vowed a “coordinated response from the federal government” in one of his attacks on Trump, falsely presenting himself as the man best suited to bring an end to COVID and restore the nation to normalcy, a promise that he has struggled mightily to deliver upon – and that was before he punted the ball during his conference call with state governors.

Republicans took to Twitter to weigh in after Biden pawned off the responsibility for mitigating the virus to the states.

Also slamming Biden’s flip-flopping was the panel on Fox News’ popular show “The Five” who excoriated the administration and its figurehead, particularly on the lack of availability of test kits which flew off of shelves as terrified people scrambled to find out whether they were infected with Omicron during Christmas week, many who likely didn’t have symptoms as the White House-media fear campaign boomeranged politically.

Klain also stepped in it with a Sunday retweet of a column claiming that...

Finding safety among the "fully vaccinated" is a pipe dream: Corona outbreaks on cruise ships provide a good example of how measures such as vaccinations, a QR exclusion system or 2G rules make no sense. Incessant testing and boosters will not prevent Corona outbreaks in fully vaccinated groups.

It has been clearly demonstrated that even in fully boosted isolated groups, Corona outbreaks still occur. Therefore three jabs combined with negative tests provide no security for those who have been fearful of contracting Covid-19. Their ideal “zero Covid” bubble with no “unclean” unvaccinated people around offers them zero protection.

And while they are now trying to claim otherwise, every single major government health official and pharmaceutical executive had previously categorically declared that Covid shots would stop the virus.

On November 30, there was a Covid-19 outbreak on board the Artania even though the passengers and crew had been 100 percent vaccinated. The ship can accommodate up to 1260 passengers and 537 crew. Three fully vaccinated people on the German cruise liner died from the virus.

On December 5, CBS reported on the the Norwegian cruise ship Breakaway. There were 3 200 people on board and the vaccination rate was 100 percent. The shipowner Norwegian Cruise Line required all passengers and crew to be vaccinated. At least ten people tested positive.

At least one crew member tested positive with the Omicron variant, according to Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL). The infected crew member was from South Africa and had undergone the ten-day quarantine required of employees who join the ship.

Most cruise lines offer so-called “safe bubble” excursions, where passengers do not come into contact with port residents when they go ashore, and NCL relies on all passengers being 100 percent vaccinated.

On the world’s largest cruise ship Symphony of the Seas, dozens of people have tested positive for the Corona virus during a trip. However, all 6 091 passengers and crew had tested negative before the journey commenced and 95 percent on board had been fully vaccinated. Royal Caribbean, the owner of the ship, told CNN that during the tour in the Caribbean, the virus inexplicably made its appearance.

In an effort to stick to the increasingly ridiculous vaccine narrative, the outbreak was blamed “cruise guests who use fake vaccination cards” and “breakthrough infections” while admitting that “no vaccinations are 100 percent effective in...