Go bake something!

Via Shall Not Be Questioned.

12 years later

Rest in Peace.

This is your government. Wake up.

Your government is willing to steal the homes of its elderly veterans.  How do you think it will treat you?

On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to the curb. 

Movers carted out his easy chair, his clothes, his television. Next came the things that were closest to his heart: his Marine Corps medals and photographs of his dead wife, Martha. The duplex in Northeast Washington that Coleman bought with cash two decades earlier was emptied and shuttered. By sundown, he had nowhere to go. 

All because he didn’t pay a $134 property tax bill.

This is the new America.  When you vote in the statists, when you vote in the despots, this is what you get.  Shame on them, and shame on us for letting it happen.  This country can't collapse fast enough.

Epic fail in the works: US training "select groups" in Jordan, considering Syrian rebels

It's like watching a drunk try the same thing over, and over, and over, not even comprehending the fact that he has failed 18 times already.  Yes, the US CIA is training mujahideens.  What could possibly go wrong?

The Obama administration is considering a plan to use U.S. military trainers to help increase the capabilities of the Syrian rebels, in a move that would greatly expand the current CIA training being done quietly in Jordan, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Any training would take place outside Syria, and one possible location would be Jordan.
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The CIA has been training select groups of rebels in Jordan on the use of communications equipment and some weapons provided by Gulf states.  

It's the classic strategy of Washington.  If a plan fails, double down, triple down, quadruple down, etc., but never, under any circumstances, learn a fucking lesson from your failure.  The lunatics are running the asylum and Osama bin Laden is laughing at us from hell. 

This one's for the Captain

Owch!

Good God, it burns!!!

74% of ACT test takers unprepared for college

A short five months after my post about 80% of New York city high school graduates being functionally illiterate, the Associated Press reports findings by ACT which show that a mere 26% of students taking the ACTs pass all four tests (English, reading, math and science).

The ACT report is based on the 54 percent of high school graduates this year who took the exams. Roughly the same percentage took the SAT — the other major college entrance exam — and many students took both tests. Those who took only the SAT were not included in the report. 

Under ACT's definition, a young adult is ready to start college or trade school if he or she has the knowledge to succeed without taking remedial courses. Success is defined as the student's having a 75 percent chance of earning a C grade and a 50 percent chance of earning a B, based on results on each of the four ACT subject areas, which are measured on a scale from 1 to 36 points. 

Of all ACT-tested high school graduates this year, 64 percent met the English benchmark of 18 points. In both reading and math, 44 percent of students met the readiness threshold of 22 points. In science, 36 percent scored well enough to be considered ready for a college biology course, or 23 points. 

Only 26 percent of students met the benchmarks for all four sections of the ACT test. 

About 69 percent of test takers met at least one of the four subject-area standards. That means 31 percent of all high school graduates who took the ACT were not ready for college coursework requiring English, reading, math or science skills. 

Grade inflation, changing grades to pass students even when they don't possess the knowledge or skills they are supposed to learn, lowering standards at universities, tuition inflation, ballooning student loan debt (which is not dischargeable in a bankruptcy), and finally, the end product, college degree holding debt slaves, willing sheeple who will do whatever the television tells them.  These are the people who are voting for more "free stuff" from big gov working Americans.

Matt Damon must be so proud.

I love robots

However, it's painfully clear no one at DARPA has watched the James Cameron film Terminator.

Update:

I just emailed Boston Dynamics and asked them to install this bust onto PETMAN.