From Fred On Everything
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stunned attendees at a high school solar eclipse event Monday by claiming the rock-solid moon is a “planet” that is “made up mostly of gases” — before adding she still wants to be “first in line” to learn how to live there.
I suggest sending her. She is the former top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee.
“While little more than a third of respondents (36 percent) could name all three branches of the U.S. government, just as many (35 percent) could not name a single one.
In reading, 628 Patterson High School students took the test. Out of those students, 484 of them, or 77%, tested at an elementary school reading level. That includes 71 high school students who were reading at a kindergarten level and 88 students reading at a first-grade level. Another 45 were reading at a second-grade level. Just 12 students tested at Patterson High School, were reading at grade level, which comes out to just 1.9%.
While people who read political columns online are likely of intelligence above the average, i wonder how many who rail against capitalism, socialism, fascism, racism, and terrorism can define the words.
I recently checked the bios of the members of the House committee on China to see how many read, write, or speak Chinese. None. Thus do we make policy regarding the most important foreign country on the planet.
A friend, a former US Senator, once estimated, dead serious, that ninety percent of the Senate doesn’t know where Myanmar is. If you and I, dear reader, do not know this, it probably doesn’t matter. The Senate engages in foreign policy.
Nuff’ said.
Build back better? Make American great again?
Teach people to read? A lot of Americans only learn to read in prison. Why? In prison, you need to learn to think for yourself to survive. And reading— in its best form—that is, reading AND thinking— helps you do this.
A lot of people who can read — can’t think. Because they can survive without thinking for themselves. Just do what they are told.
Below, my favorite philosopher….
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Yesterday I visited a Tokyo Cafe/ Shelter. These two (boy & girl) are about 3. A little young for Ichi who is 12, but very sweet. Both cats are rescued from the street. More about that another time.
Sheila Jackson Lee’s major achievement in her role as a good black “Aunt Tom” has been to push the Zionist agenda like an excellent dumb mule!
Prison libraries in many prisons have been replaced by tablets with overpriced* streaming for content. Learning to read will cost you.
*Some states have enacted laws to prohibit extortionate fees for these tablets, but still neoliberalism abounds.