A Mississippi school district in Biloxi has just pulled Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its middle school curriculum because “it makes people uncomfortable.”
They have done a lot to revive that movie. Now every kid in Mississippi will be watching it.
From Bloomburg via Drudge. Facebook Is Looking for Employees With National Security Clearances.
This indicates that either they don’t understand security or it has changed drastically.
Having a security clearance doesn’t mean they you have universal access to classified data. You are cleared for certain categories ts on a “Need to Know” basis.
Most people who have clearances don’t want to know anything outside his structure. Stay out of trouble that way.. Of course, that may have changed during Obama’s years. They seem to have been very lax.
Let’s end the day with a little political heresy for Never Trumpers. From Pat Buchanan:
Three decades ago, as communications director in the White House, I set up an interview for Bill Rusher of National Review.
Among his first questions to President Reagan was to ask him to assess the political importance of Barry Goldwater. Said Reagan, “I guess you could call him the John the Baptist of our movement.”
I resisted the temptation to lean in and ask, “Sir, if Barry Goldwater is John the Baptist, who would that make you?” What brings the moment back is Laura Ingraham’s new book: “Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump.” Thesis: Donald Trump is a conservative populist and direct descendant and rightful heir to Ronald Reagan.
To never-Trumpers this is pure blasphemy. Yet the similarities are there.
Both men were outsiders, and neither a career politician. Raised Democratic, Reagan had been a Hollywood actor, union leader and voice of GE, before running for governor of California.
Trump is out of Queens, a builder-businessman in a Democratic city whose Republican credentials were suspect at best when he rode down that elevator at Trump Tower. Both took on the Republican establishment of their day, and humiliated it.
Among the signature issues of Trumpian populism is economic nationalism, a new trade policy designed to prosper Americans first.
Reagan preached free trade, but when Harley-Davidson was in danger of going under because of Japanese dumping of big bikes, he slammed a 50 percent tariff on Japanese motorcycles. Though a free trader by philosophy, Reagan was at heart an economic patriot.
He accepted an amnesty written by Congress for 3 million people in the country illegally, but Reagan also warned prophetically that a country that can’t control its borders isn’t really a country any more…..
Wandering Views 
A Mississippi school district in Biloxi has just pulled Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” from its middle school curriculum because “it makes people uncomfortable.”
They have done a lot to revive that movie. Now every kid in Mississippi will be watching it.
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The entire nation is run by idiots!
What they really need is some preacher preaching against it.
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Tychicus, This is why I like 538:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/carmelo-anthony-makes-the-thunder-whole/
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“Watch” = read. I must have been thinking about TV. TV permeates everything.
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Yes. They are laughing at us.
Everyone needs a dose of humility. Americans have been pretty proud for most of my 60 years.
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The latest idiocy coming out of the U.N. – who knew that the “right to life” includes a right to kill unborn babies.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/newspeak-u-n-now-calls-abortion-part-of-basic-right-to-life/
“Come, Lord Jesus.”
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Literature should never make anyone feel uncomfortable, of course. (eye roll)
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From Bloomburg via Drudge.
Facebook Is Looking for Employees With National Security Clearances.
This indicates that either they don’t understand security or it has changed drastically.
Having a security clearance doesn’t mean they you have universal access to classified data. You are cleared for certain categories ts on a “Need to Know” basis.
Most people who have clearances don’t want to know anything outside his structure. Stay out of trouble that way.. Of course, that may have changed during Obama’s years. They seem to have been very lax.
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Ricky,
We didn’t know!
Congratulations, Bob B
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This woman really seems to be snakebit.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/16/hillary-clinton-breaks-toe-falling-stairs-misses-bbc-interview/amp/
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Tychicus, Your coach really, really doesn’t like my new pen pal.
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Let’s end the day with a little political heresy for Never Trumpers. From Pat Buchanan:
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Very little slips past your eagle eyes, Debra.
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