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May 24, 2021
Title of posting:#2: Warfare on American streets; NRA style
As I write this, there have been six mass shootings over the weekend of May 22nd and May 23rd of 2021. Six. Mass. Shootings. Six of them. And where is Joel John when it comes to this issue of guns and their mass-proliferation of them on our streets? Silent as always, because, according to his own website, “As responsible gun owners in District 4, we value our right to defend ourselves and our families. As a Lifetime Member of the NRA, and someone who continues his family hunting tradition, Joel will protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Joel is strongly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and should be protected. “
Before we logically dissect his drivel, let’s just point out there have been mass shootings, according to CNN, in (1) New Jersey, (2) South Carolina, (3) Georgia, (4) Youngstown, Ohio, (5) Columbus, Ohio, and (6) Minnesota. Six in one weekend. I would say “thoughts and prayers,” but all the thoughts and all the prayers aren’t doing anything. Action is what is needed, but NRA-for-life apologist Joel John has been bought and paid for by the gun lobby and as such, he will remain bought and paid for, so he will do nothing.
Now, let’s look at his drivel. ” As responsible gun owners in District 4, we value our right to defend ourselves and our families. As a Lifetime Member of the NRA, and someone who continues his family hunting tradition, Joel will protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.” We are not talking about the right to defend yourself, Mr. John. We’re talking about mass shootings. Try to not muddy the waters please. I grew up in gun control in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate NY. I was a Boy Scout and earned my rifle shooting merit badge. I grew up around guns in the 1980s and 1990s. My own high school in NY actually made the first day of hunting season a day off from school so those that hunted could do it, teacher and student. We’re not talking about guns like my army veteran brother’s side arm. We’re not talking with my 30-06 hunting rifle when I grew up, or my pump action shotgun, or my .22 rifle. We’re talking AR15s and military grade weaponry, things that have only one purpose: Killing people.
Yes, Mr. John. I know. Don’t blame the tool, blame the person with the tool. A knife is a tool and it can be used to kill. Ban that, Mr. Katz. That is an interesting take, Mr. John. Allow me to address the talking point.
1) No one HAS EVER COME for your guns! See, there is this thing in the US Constitution saying retro-active laws are unconstitutional. Passing any gun regulation is not “coming from your guns” because, and listen closely Mr. Bought by the NRA, that would amount to an ex-post facto law. That’s in Article One, Section Nine, Clause Three of the US Constitution. Buybacks and people given incentives to turn them in are not unconstitutional. If gun control is passed, all before it are “grandfathered.” It will apply to the future, not the past. Your fearmongering scare tactic is as hollow as your position.
2) The primary purpose of a knife is to cut things, and has been since it’s invention back at the dawn of human civilization. The primary purpose of a car is to get from point A to point B. The primary purpose of dynamite, as stated by inventor Alfred Nobel, was to assist in mining and building. However, when he witnessed people misuse his creation with the intention to kill, he regretted inventing it. The primary purpose of a hammer is the bang in a nail. When you use your gun to cut something, drive somewhere, build something, help in mining, or bang in a nail, a thinking person will accept this drivel of an argument.
3) Have you ever read the part of the Second Amendment before the comma? Do you even understand it? Do you even know what it means? When you read it, we can debate it. To help you, sir, here it is: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,.” What well-regulated militia are you a part of, sir?
Finally, Mr. John comes back and says ”Joel is strongly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and should be protected. “ Except when a gun in involved. Then forget the death and protect and shield the gun. Or pretty much any place else when it comes to a person living. I will guarantee Mr. Pro-Life supports capital punishment and against all reasonable gun control laws. Preborn gets all his attention and will dictate to a woman what she can do with her body. Pre-school needs to fend for themselves, especially, God Forbid, it someone with a gun goes onto a school here in Arizona and tries to re-create what happened in Colorado, Florida, Connecticut, or, most recently, Idaho.
Guns are irreplaceable, according to Mr. John, and your truncated right to own one is sacrosanct. Your right to life before birth is also sacrosanct. Your right to live after and not be shot is up for debate. He will hide behind that it is not in the Bill of Rights, but it is. It’s called the Ninth Amendment: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.“ This is called the “including, but not limited to” amendment.
Maybe you should read the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights before mentioning it on your platform, sir. It would make you more credible and less of a hypocrite. Just remember that NRA lifelong membership when, God forbid, another mass shooting happens, only it happens in your backyard. But according to the NRA, sir, people shot to death seem to only be collateral damage.
(1)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/new-jersey-house-shooting/index.html
(2)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/north-charleston-shooting-concert/index.html
(3)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/south-fulton-shooting-three-dead/index.html
(4)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/youngstown-ohio-shooting-sunday/index.html
(5)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/columbus-ohio-bicentennial-park-shooting/index.html
(6)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/us/minneapolis-shooting-2-killed/index.html
Candidate posting about Mass Shootings on my campaign website. Please circulate if you agree
https://katzforhouse.org/2021/05/23/2-warfare-on-american-streets-nra-style/Title of posting:#2: Warfare on American streets; NRA style
As I write this, there have been six mass shootings over the weekend of May 22nd and May 23rd of 2021. Six. Mass. Shootings. Six of them. And where is Joel John when it comes to this issue of guns and their mass-proliferation of them on our streets? Silent as always, because, according to his own website, “As responsible gun owners in District 4, we value our right to defend ourselves and our families. As a Lifetime Member of the NRA, and someone who continues his family hunting tradition, Joel will protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Joel is strongly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and should be protected. “
Before we logically dissect his drivel, let’s just point out there have been mass shootings, according to CNN, in (1) New Jersey, (2) South Carolina, (3) Georgia, (4) Youngstown, Ohio, (5) Columbus, Ohio, and (6) Minnesota. Six in one weekend. I would say “thoughts and prayers,” but all the thoughts and all the prayers aren’t doing anything. Action is what is needed, but NRA-for-life apologist Joel John has been bought and paid for by the gun lobby and as such, he will remain bought and paid for, so he will do nothing.
Now, let’s look at his drivel. ” As responsible gun owners in District 4, we value our right to defend ourselves and our families. As a Lifetime Member of the NRA, and someone who continues his family hunting tradition, Joel will protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.” We are not talking about the right to defend yourself, Mr. John. We’re talking about mass shootings. Try to not muddy the waters please. I grew up in gun control in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate NY. I was a Boy Scout and earned my rifle shooting merit badge. I grew up around guns in the 1980s and 1990s. My own high school in NY actually made the first day of hunting season a day off from school so those that hunted could do it, teacher and student. We’re not talking about guns like my army veteran brother’s side arm. We’re not talking with my 30-06 hunting rifle when I grew up, or my pump action shotgun, or my .22 rifle. We’re talking AR15s and military grade weaponry, things that have only one purpose: Killing people.
Yes, Mr. John. I know. Don’t blame the tool, blame the person with the tool. A knife is a tool and it can be used to kill. Ban that, Mr. Katz. That is an interesting take, Mr. John. Allow me to address the talking point.
1) No one HAS EVER COME for your guns! See, there is this thing in the US Constitution saying retro-active laws are unconstitutional. Passing any gun regulation is not “coming from your guns” because, and listen closely Mr. Bought by the NRA, that would amount to an ex-post facto law. That’s in Article One, Section Nine, Clause Three of the US Constitution. Buybacks and people given incentives to turn them in are not unconstitutional. If gun control is passed, all before it are “grandfathered.” It will apply to the future, not the past. Your fearmongering scare tactic is as hollow as your position.
2) The primary purpose of a knife is to cut things, and has been since it’s invention back at the dawn of human civilization. The primary purpose of a car is to get from point A to point B. The primary purpose of dynamite, as stated by inventor Alfred Nobel, was to assist in mining and building. However, when he witnessed people misuse his creation with the intention to kill, he regretted inventing it. The primary purpose of a hammer is the bang in a nail. When you use your gun to cut something, drive somewhere, build something, help in mining, or bang in a nail, a thinking person will accept this drivel of an argument.
3) Have you ever read the part of the Second Amendment before the comma? Do you even understand it? Do you even know what it means? When you read it, we can debate it. To help you, sir, here it is: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,.” What well-regulated militia are you a part of, sir?
Finally, Mr. John comes back and says ”Joel is strongly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and should be protected. “ Except when a gun in involved. Then forget the death and protect and shield the gun. Or pretty much any place else when it comes to a person living. I will guarantee Mr. Pro-Life supports capital punishment and against all reasonable gun control laws. Preborn gets all his attention and will dictate to a woman what she can do with her body. Pre-school needs to fend for themselves, especially, God Forbid, it someone with a gun goes onto a school here in Arizona and tries to re-create what happened in Colorado, Florida, Connecticut, or, most recently, Idaho.
Guns are irreplaceable, according to Mr. John, and your truncated right to own one is sacrosanct. Your right to life before birth is also sacrosanct. Your right to live after and not be shot is up for debate. He will hide behind that it is not in the Bill of Rights, but it is. It’s called the Ninth Amendment: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.“ This is called the “including, but not limited to” amendment.
Maybe you should read the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights before mentioning it on your platform, sir. It would make you more credible and less of a hypocrite. Just remember that NRA lifelong membership when, God forbid, another mass shooting happens, only it happens in your backyard. But according to the NRA, sir, people shot to death seem to only be collateral damage.
(1)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/new-jersey-house-shooting/index.html
(2)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/north-charleston-shooting-concert/index.html
(3)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/south-fulton-shooting-three-dead/index.html
(4)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/youngstown-ohio-shooting-sunday/index.html
(5)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/columbus-ohio-bicentennial-park-shooting/index.html
(6)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/us/minneapolis-shooting-2-killed/index.html
May 24, 2021
Title of posting:#2: Warfare on American streets; NRA style
As I write this, there have been six mass shootings over the weekend of May 22nd and May 23rd of 2021. Six. Mass. Shootings. Six of them. And where is Joel John when it comes to this issue of guns and their mass-proliferation of them on our streets? Silent as always, because, according to his own website, “As responsible gun owners in District 4, we value our right to defend ourselves and our families. As a Lifetime Member of the NRA, and someone who continues his family hunting tradition, Joel will protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Joel is strongly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and should be protected. “
Before we logically dissect his drivel, let’s just point out there have been mass shootings, according to CNN, in (1) New Jersey, (2) South Carolina, (3) Georgia, (4) Youngstown, Ohio, (5) Columbus, Ohio, and (6) Minnesota. Six in one weekend. I would say “thoughts and prayers,” but all the thoughts and all the prayers aren’t doing anything. Action is what is needed, but NRA-for-life apologist Joel John has been bought and paid for by the gun lobby and as such, he will remain bought and paid for, so he will do nothing.
Now, let’s look at his drivel. ” As responsible gun owners in District 4, we value our right to defend ourselves and our families. As a Lifetime Member of the NRA, and someone who continues his family hunting tradition, Joel will protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.” We are not talking about the right to defend yourself, Mr. John. We’re talking about mass shootings. Try to not muddy the waters please. I grew up in gun control in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate NY. I was a Boy Scout and earned my rifle shooting merit badge. I grew up around guns in the 1980s and 1990s. My own high school in NY actually made the first day of hunting season a day off from school so those that hunted could do it, teacher and student. We’re not talking about guns like my army veteran brother’s side arm. We’re not talking with my 30-06 hunting rifle when I grew up, or my pump action shotgun, or my .22 rifle. We’re talking AR15s and military grade weaponry, things that have only one purpose: Killing people.
Yes, Mr. John. I know. Don’t blame the tool, blame the person with the tool. A knife is a tool and it can be used to kill. Ban that, Mr. Katz. That is an interesting take, Mr. John. Allow me to address the talking point.
1) No one HAS EVER COME for your guns! See, there is this thing in the US Constitution saying retro-active laws are unconstitutional. Passing any gun regulation is not “coming from your guns” because, and listen closely Mr. Bought by the NRA, that would amount to an ex-post facto law. That’s in Article One, Section Nine, Clause Three of the US Constitution. Buybacks and people given incentives to turn them in are not unconstitutional. If gun control is passed, all before it are “grandfathered.” It will apply to the future, not the past. Your fearmongering scare tactic is as hollow as your position.
2) The primary purpose of a knife is to cut things, and has been since it’s invention back at the dawn of human civilization. The primary purpose of a car is to get from point A to point B. The primary purpose of dynamite, as stated by inventor Alfred Nobel, was to assist in mining and building. However, when he witnessed people misuse his creation with the intention to kill, he regretted inventing it. The primary purpose of a hammer is the bang in a nail. When you use your gun to cut something, drive somewhere, build something, help in mining, or bang in a nail, a thinking person will accept this drivel of an argument.
3) Have you ever read the part of the Second Amendment before the comma? Do you even understand it? Do you even know what it means? When you read it, we can debate it. To help you, sir, here it is: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,.” What well-regulated militia are you a part of, sir?
Finally, Mr. John comes back and says ”Joel is strongly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and should be protected. “ Except when a gun in involved. Then forget the death and protect and shield the gun. Or pretty much any place else when it comes to a person living. I will guarantee Mr. Pro-Life supports capital punishment and against all reasonable gun control laws. Preborn gets all his attention and will dictate to a woman what she can do with her body. Pre-school needs to fend for themselves, especially, God Forbid, it someone with a gun goes onto a school here in Arizona and tries to re-create what happened in Colorado, Florida, Connecticut, or, most recently, Idaho.
Guns are irreplaceable, according to Mr. John, and your truncated right to own one is sacrosanct. Your right to life before birth is also sacrosanct. Your right to live after and not be shot is up for debate. He will hide behind that it is not in the Bill of Rights, but it is. It’s called the Ninth Amendment: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.“ This is called the “including, but not limited to” amendment.
Maybe you should read the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights before mentioning it on your platform, sir. It would make you more credible and less of a hypocrite. Just remember that NRA lifelong membership when, God forbid, another mass shooting happens, only it happens in your backyard. But according to the NRA, sir, people shot to death seem to only be collateral damage.
(1)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/new-jersey-house-shooting/index.html
(2)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/north-charleston-shooting-concert/index.html
(3)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/south-fulton-shooting-three-dead/index.html
(4)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/youngstown-ohio-shooting-sunday/index.html
(5)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/columbus-ohio-bicentennial-park-shooting/index.html
(6)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/us/minneapolis-shooting-2-killed/index.html
Candidate for Arizona House District 4: Reaction to Mass Shootings this weekend
https://katzforhouse.org/2021/05/23/2-warfare-on-american-streets-nra-style/Title of posting:#2: Warfare on American streets; NRA style
As I write this, there have been six mass shootings over the weekend of May 22nd and May 23rd of 2021. Six. Mass. Shootings. Six of them. And where is Joel John when it comes to this issue of guns and their mass-proliferation of them on our streets? Silent as always, because, according to his own website, “As responsible gun owners in District 4, we value our right to defend ourselves and our families. As a Lifetime Member of the NRA, and someone who continues his family hunting tradition, Joel will protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Joel is strongly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and should be protected. “
Before we logically dissect his drivel, let’s just point out there have been mass shootings, according to CNN, in (1) New Jersey, (2) South Carolina, (3) Georgia, (4) Youngstown, Ohio, (5) Columbus, Ohio, and (6) Minnesota. Six in one weekend. I would say “thoughts and prayers,” but all the thoughts and all the prayers aren’t doing anything. Action is what is needed, but NRA-for-life apologist Joel John has been bought and paid for by the gun lobby and as such, he will remain bought and paid for, so he will do nothing.
Now, let’s look at his drivel. ” As responsible gun owners in District 4, we value our right to defend ourselves and our families. As a Lifetime Member of the NRA, and someone who continues his family hunting tradition, Joel will protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.” We are not talking about the right to defend yourself, Mr. John. We’re talking about mass shootings. Try to not muddy the waters please. I grew up in gun control in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate NY. I was a Boy Scout and earned my rifle shooting merit badge. I grew up around guns in the 1980s and 1990s. My own high school in NY actually made the first day of hunting season a day off from school so those that hunted could do it, teacher and student. We’re not talking about guns like my army veteran brother’s side arm. We’re not talking with my 30-06 hunting rifle when I grew up, or my pump action shotgun, or my .22 rifle. We’re talking AR15s and military grade weaponry, things that have only one purpose: Killing people.
Yes, Mr. John. I know. Don’t blame the tool, blame the person with the tool. A knife is a tool and it can be used to kill. Ban that, Mr. Katz. That is an interesting take, Mr. John. Allow me to address the talking point.
1) No one HAS EVER COME for your guns! See, there is this thing in the US Constitution saying retro-active laws are unconstitutional. Passing any gun regulation is not “coming from your guns” because, and listen closely Mr. Bought by the NRA, that would amount to an ex-post facto law. That’s in Article One, Section Nine, Clause Three of the US Constitution. Buybacks and people given incentives to turn them in are not unconstitutional. If gun control is passed, all before it are “grandfathered.” It will apply to the future, not the past. Your fearmongering scare tactic is as hollow as your position.
2) The primary purpose of a knife is to cut things, and has been since it’s invention back at the dawn of human civilization. The primary purpose of a car is to get from point A to point B. The primary purpose of dynamite, as stated by inventor Alfred Nobel, was to assist in mining and building. However, when he witnessed people misuse his creation with the intention to kill, he regretted inventing it. The primary purpose of a hammer is the bang in a nail. When you use your gun to cut something, drive somewhere, build something, help in mining, or bang in a nail, a thinking person will accept this drivel of an argument.
3) Have you ever read the part of the Second Amendment before the comma? Do you even understand it? Do you even know what it means? When you read it, we can debate it. To help you, sir, here it is: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,.” What well-regulated militia are you a part of, sir?
Finally, Mr. John comes back and says ”Joel is strongly pro-life, believing that every human life has value and should be protected. “ Except when a gun in involved. Then forget the death and protect and shield the gun. Or pretty much any place else when it comes to a person living. I will guarantee Mr. Pro-Life supports capital punishment and against all reasonable gun control laws. Preborn gets all his attention and will dictate to a woman what she can do with her body. Pre-school needs to fend for themselves, especially, God Forbid, it someone with a gun goes onto a school here in Arizona and tries to re-create what happened in Colorado, Florida, Connecticut, or, most recently, Idaho.
Guns are irreplaceable, according to Mr. John, and your truncated right to own one is sacrosanct. Your right to life before birth is also sacrosanct. Your right to live after and not be shot is up for debate. He will hide behind that it is not in the Bill of Rights, but it is. It’s called the Ninth Amendment: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.“ This is called the “including, but not limited to” amendment.
Maybe you should read the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights before mentioning it on your platform, sir. It would make you more credible and less of a hypocrite. Just remember that NRA lifelong membership when, God forbid, another mass shooting happens, only it happens in your backyard. But according to the NRA, sir, people shot to death seem to only be collateral damage.
(1)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/new-jersey-house-shooting/index.html
(2)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/north-charleston-shooting-concert/index.html
(3)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/south-fulton-shooting-three-dead/index.html
(4)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/youngstown-ohio-shooting-sunday/index.html
(5)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/columbus-ohio-bicentennial-park-shooting/index.html
(6)https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/22/us/minneapolis-shooting-2-killed/index.html
May 22, 2021
Just published my campaign website for Arizona LD4 House run against Odious Joel John
I am waiting to get my Act Blue account notice from Act Blue, then I will embed that.
I am sorry if it seems a bit amateurish now. I am doing it myself and my campaign can't afford a professional website as yet.
https://katzforhouse.org/
May 17, 2021
Candidate for Arizona House District 4 update
On Friday, I will be setting up my campaign business account at Vantage West Federal Credit Union here in Tucson. Then I will activate my Act Blue account.
I am running against a well funded, well connected Republican in a district that is 56% Democratic. He is a freshman.
I am asking all I know, whether you support my positions or not, to help me make sure this man is not re-elected next year.
I am looking for help both financially in contributions and in help with logistics, like setting up my website (something I have no talent or ability in doing).
Together, we can work to overturn Republican craziness here in Arizona, and in the country, as each journey starts with the single step. As important nationally as Arizona is as a swing state, more Democrats in Phoenix mean a deeper bench for statewide and national offices (House, Senate, etc).
I appreciate your help and understand what I am asking. If you have questions about my platform, please do not hesitate to ask me.
Let's put a social studies teacher into Phoenix, and see where it goes politically.
May 17, 2021
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bars-foreign-curriculum-ownership-some-private-schools-2021-05-17/
For those that don't know about this, let me explain.
There are three major international Curricula:
International Baccalaureate (IB), which offers PYP (elementary), MYP (junior high), and DP (high school).
Cambridge International Examinations, which offers KS1-KS3 (elementary and junior high), IGCSE (9th-10th grade) and A-Levels (AS and A2, which is 11th and 12th)
Advanced Placement, which is all high school.
With this law, PYP, MYP, KS1, KS2, and KS3 are now banned, as they must get a strictly Chinese based education for the mandatory first nine years.
High School doesn't apply.
However, Xi Jinping has banned all AP Social Studies based AP exams from being tested on Mainland China.
Xi Jinping is trying to out-Mao Mao Zedong.
China bars foreign curricula, ownership in some private schools
China's State Council has announced tough new curbs on school curricula and ownership of private schools, the latest in a series of measures intended to tighten control of the country's fast-growing education sector.
The new law, which comes into effect on Sept. 1, halts the teaching of foreign curricula in schools from kindergarten to grade nine (K-9) and prohibits the ownership or control of any private K-9 schools by foreign entities.
China currently has private K-9 schools that teach local and foreign curricula. Ninth grade students in China are typically 15 or 16 years old.
Members of the board of directors or any other decision- making body at a private K-9 school must be Chinese nationals and must include representatives from the regulators, according to the Private Education Promotion Law published on Friday on a government website.
The new law, which comes into effect on Sept. 1, halts the teaching of foreign curricula in schools from kindergarten to grade nine (K-9) and prohibits the ownership or control of any private K-9 schools by foreign entities.
China currently has private K-9 schools that teach local and foreign curricula. Ninth grade students in China are typically 15 or 16 years old.
Members of the board of directors or any other decision- making body at a private K-9 school must be Chinese nationals and must include representatives from the regulators, according to the Private Education Promotion Law published on Friday on a government website.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bars-foreign-curriculum-ownership-some-private-schools-2021-05-17/
For those that don't know about this, let me explain.
There are three major international Curricula:
International Baccalaureate (IB), which offers PYP (elementary), MYP (junior high), and DP (high school).
Cambridge International Examinations, which offers KS1-KS3 (elementary and junior high), IGCSE (9th-10th grade) and A-Levels (AS and A2, which is 11th and 12th)
Advanced Placement, which is all high school.
With this law, PYP, MYP, KS1, KS2, and KS3 are now banned, as they must get a strictly Chinese based education for the mandatory first nine years.
High School doesn't apply.
However, Xi Jinping has banned all AP Social Studies based AP exams from being tested on Mainland China.
Xi Jinping is trying to out-Mao Mao Zedong.
May 13, 2021
https://www.yahoo.com/now/as-california-posts-americas-best-covid-numbers-newsoms-approval-rises-and-caitlyn-jenners-recall-hopes-sink-090021571.html
Their "the sky is falling" gaslighting strategy failed.
Womp. Womp. Woooooooooooomp!
As California posts America's best COVID numbers, Newsom's approval rises -- and Caitlyn Jenner's rec
— and Caitlyn Jenner's recall hopes sink
Conservative critics of California Gov. Gavin Newsom seem to have made a serious miscalculation by seeking to recall and replace him this fall, new data suggests.
Three months ago, a plurality of registered California voters (48 percent) disapproved of the job the Democratic governor was doing, according to a poll conducted by the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Just 46 percent approved. The official recall campaign, which had launched a year earlier but only recently gained momentum, appeared to have a real (if still remote) chance of success.
But something else was happening three months ago as well: California was just coming off perhaps the scariest COVID-19 surge in America, averaging more than 500 deaths every day after enduring roughly 40,000 cases per day since Christmas.
Conservative critics of California Gov. Gavin Newsom seem to have made a serious miscalculation by seeking to recall and replace him this fall, new data suggests.
Three months ago, a plurality of registered California voters (48 percent) disapproved of the job the Democratic governor was doing, according to a poll conducted by the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Just 46 percent approved. The official recall campaign, which had launched a year earlier but only recently gained momentum, appeared to have a real (if still remote) chance of success.
But something else was happening three months ago as well: California was just coming off perhaps the scariest COVID-19 surge in America, averaging more than 500 deaths every day after enduring roughly 40,000 cases per day since Christmas.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/as-california-posts-americas-best-covid-numbers-newsoms-approval-rises-and-caitlyn-jenners-recall-hopes-sink-090021571.html
Their "the sky is falling" gaslighting strategy failed.
Womp. Womp. Woooooooooooomp!
May 11, 2021
Do you know how exhausting it is to read the news and consistently feel like you've entered a parallel universe where the lowest common denominator gets all the attention, says the dumbest things sans evidence, then gets lapped up by the masses like it were super charged sugar water?
I can understand the outrage fatigue this side would have because of these people. And Kelli Ward opened her vapid, empty mouth to "fart" out a turd of wisdom too. And she's running to replace term limited Governor Ice Cream Flinger. But my state has Paul Goser and my soon to be opponent, the odious Joel John. . .the Republican barrel literally has no bottom.
https://www.aol.com/news/republican-anger-dr-fauci-reaches-201740329.html
Republican anger with Fauci reaches new heights - AOL via Yahoo News
Republican rage directed at Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser on the coronavirus pandemic to Presidents Trump and Biden, seemed to reach new heights over the weekend, with former Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro claiming the renowned physician and scientist has likely "killed millions of Americans."
"For whatever reasons, Fauci wanted to weaponize that virus, and he is the father of it. He has killed millions of Americans if that thing came from the lab. Now it's 99.999 percent sure it did," Navarro told former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon regarding an unproven theory that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, that had received funds from the National Institutes of Health, where Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
For the better part of the past year, every time Fauci speaks on the pandemic, some Republicans take to social media to decry him. On Sunday, Fauci's appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" sparked just such a reaction. Asked if Americans might need to wear masks seasonally to prevent the continued spread of COVID-19, Fauci responded, "You know, that's quite possible."
"For whatever reasons, Fauci wanted to weaponize that virus, and he is the father of it. He has killed millions of Americans if that thing came from the lab. Now it's 99.999 percent sure it did," Navarro told former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon regarding an unproven theory that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, that had received funds from the National Institutes of Health, where Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
For the better part of the past year, every time Fauci speaks on the pandemic, some Republicans take to social media to decry him. On Sunday, Fauci's appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" sparked just such a reaction. Asked if Americans might need to wear masks seasonally to prevent the continued spread of COVID-19, Fauci responded, "You know, that's quite possible."
Do you know how exhausting it is to read the news and consistently feel like you've entered a parallel universe where the lowest common denominator gets all the attention, says the dumbest things sans evidence, then gets lapped up by the masses like it were super charged sugar water?
I can understand the outrage fatigue this side would have because of these people. And Kelli Ward opened her vapid, empty mouth to "fart" out a turd of wisdom too. And she's running to replace term limited Governor Ice Cream Flinger. But my state has Paul Goser and my soon to be opponent, the odious Joel John. . .the Republican barrel literally has no bottom.
https://www.aol.com/news/republican-anger-dr-fauci-reaches-201740329.html
May 10, 2021
https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-gop-official-makes-unverified-034507202.html
Ummm. . .can I be a venus fly trap?
An Arizona GOP official made unverified claims that COVID vaccine turns people into 'potted plants'
A GOP official peddled unverified claims that COVID jabs were turning people into "potted plants."
Jim O'Connor is an elected Republican official in charge of power and water companies in Arizona.
He was attempting to convince company leaders to not impose COVID jab requirements on their workers.
An elected GOP official in Arizona is peddling a false claim that the COVID vaccine not only causes death but turns those who receive the jab into "potted plants."
Jim O'Connor - a state corporation commissioner who was elected in November to oversee companies in charge of utilities like electricity and water - claimed in an interview with local news outlet the Arizona Republic on Saturday that the government was hiding numbers of vaccine-related deaths and serious side effects.
"I'm also aware through other information that many people who have taken the shot, many thousands of people here in the US, are deceased. And the deceased part is the good news. And please don't take that out of context," O'Connor told Ryan Randazzo of the Arizona Republic.
Jim O'Connor is an elected Republican official in charge of power and water companies in Arizona.
He was attempting to convince company leaders to not impose COVID jab requirements on their workers.
An elected GOP official in Arizona is peddling a false claim that the COVID vaccine not only causes death but turns those who receive the jab into "potted plants."
Jim O'Connor - a state corporation commissioner who was elected in November to oversee companies in charge of utilities like electricity and water - claimed in an interview with local news outlet the Arizona Republic on Saturday that the government was hiding numbers of vaccine-related deaths and serious side effects.
"I'm also aware through other information that many people who have taken the shot, many thousands of people here in the US, are deceased. And the deceased part is the good news. And please don't take that out of context," O'Connor told Ryan Randazzo of the Arizona Republic.
https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-gop-official-makes-unverified-034507202.html
Ummm. . .can I be a venus fly trap?
May 8, 2021
SB1458 will ban the following things to be taught in Arizona schools if Gov. Ice Cream man signs it
Holocaust (offends Nazis)
Trail of Tears (offends white people)
Slavery (must teach the good side of it)
Jim Crow (must teach the good side of it)
Chinese Exclusion Act (must teach the good side of it)
Labor movement (anti-capitalist)
My Lai Massacre (anti-American)
Watergate (offends Republicans)
McCarthyism (anti-American)
Palmer Raids (anti-American)
the "Know Nothings" (anti-American)
Civil War (must include the CSA perspective as good)
Evolution (offends Bible Thumpers)
Other religions than Christianity (offends Bible Thumpers)
Different economic theories (anti-capitalist)
Sustainability (anti-capitalist)
Warren Court (liberal indoctrination)
Am I missing anything?
SB1540 is an attempt to neuter the Arts and Humanities, science, and literature.
May 8, 2021
And the odious man I am running against, who claims to be a certified teacher, voted FOR this. It's a 2021 version of the Scopes Monkey Law.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2021/05/05/arizona-bill-would-fine-teachers-discussion-controversial-issues/4961516001/
Arizona 'biased teaching' bill would fine teachers for discussion of controversial issues
Arizona teachers could face a $5,000 penalty if they allow classroom discussions on controversial topics such as racism or fail to give equal weight to divisive topics, under provisions of a last-minute amendment that flew through the Arizona House of Representatives on Wednesday.
The changes to Senate Bill 1532 are intended to ensure students aren't taught that their race, ethnicity or sex determines their character, Rep. Michelle Udall R-Mesa, said of the amendment she introduced.
But Democrats denounced it as an overreach into the classroom and said it was a thinly veiled attempt to stir up public discord about critical race theory and further deepen partisan divides in Arizona.
The changes to Senate Bill 1532 are intended to ensure students aren't taught that their race, ethnicity or sex determines their character, Rep. Michelle Udall R-Mesa, said of the amendment she introduced.
But Democrats denounced it as an overreach into the classroom and said it was a thinly veiled attempt to stir up public discord about critical race theory and further deepen partisan divides in Arizona.
And the odious man I am running against, who claims to be a certified teacher, voted FOR this. It's a 2021 version of the Scopes Monkey Law.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2021/05/05/arizona-bill-would-fine-teachers-discussion-controversial-issues/4961516001/
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