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Howdy everyone! Welcome to Thursday night. Who should the ONT select in the AoS draft? Meanwhile, in the news this week, I'm told one of these groups of people represents a movement against the United States of America.

The End Of The World As We Know It

Everything You Need To Know About EMPs From A NASA Expert

EMP is the end-of-the-world scenario that scares me the most. I have a friend who has written a book about WWIII opening with an EMP attack. The book is called Mongol Moon. The sequel A Dance of Devils just came out. Highly recommended. In a scenario like The Stand, most people die, but everything is still sitting around for the survivors to use and rebuild. In an EMP scenario, everybody is still here, but nothing works, and nothing is going to work. Scary stuff.

This Is An Outrage

Kentucky Mother Pleads For Help As She Is Threatened With CPS If She Does Not Allow Her Children’s School To Conduct “Unnecessary” Surgeries On Them

In her video, posted on March 18, McQueen explained that in her area of Kentucky, programs are offered for children who don’t have access to healthcare, especially dental work. Her children were sent home from school with a consent form indicating they would receive a free teeth cleaning as part of one of these programs. 

“They have a dentist come out in this big tour bus and they do the cleaning. And was like ok, whatever!” She then explained that she later received a piece of paper in the mail claiming that both of her children had “abnormalities” and she would need to consent for further treatment. McQueen said this took her by surprise, as the children’s family dentist told her that no such abnormalities existed.

“My children go to the dentist on a regular basis – every 6 months to a year. There are no cavities, no decay. I called the school and they said ‘we have no control over that, you will have to wait until the dentist calls you.”

McQueen said that a woman later called her and explained what was “wrong” with her children’s teeth. She then told the woman that it seemed odd that in a matter of 6 months, her children’s teeth were already decaying and that they would need root canals and further procedures. 

The woman told McQueen that they were sending her another consent form, and requested she provide them with her insurance information.

“She told me that once the procedures were being done, which would be done over a consecutive amount of days, that my children would have to miss school because they’ll have to be placed under that laughing gas, anesthesia. I was then told that I would not be allowed to be there. And they would call me whenever it was time to pick them up,” she said.

McQueen immediately became suspicious and refused, saying that she would call her children’s regular dentist instead. After an appointment, the dentist stated that there was nothing wrong with the children’s teeth requiring surgery.

“They both have baby teeth that they are losing but there were no signs of cavities or decay. [Our] dentist showed me the scans,” McQueen said.

No way they should be doing root canals on baby teeth. What for? They're only going to fall out anyway. This has the smell of an unscrupulous dentist getting rich off of doing unnecessary work on kids forced to see him.

Comrade!

Communists Betray Workers, Teachers Unions Betray Students, Civil Rights Organizations Betray Blacks

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- like most communist parties -- came to power as the great defender of workers. 

In reality, the Soviet Communist Party didn't give a hoot about Russian workers. The party was nothing more than a totalitarian organization that used workers to gain power -- and then suppressed the proletariat, just as it suppressed every other group. One of the first things the Communist Party did after attaining power was disband independent labor unions and prohibit workers' strikes. Yes, the "workers' party" banned strikes.
The one major exception was the Chinese Communist Party, which came to power as the great defender of peasants. And the CCP slaughtered about 60 million of them.
This has been the modus operandi of every left-wing group everywhere: Claim concern for some group, and use that group to fool people -- specifically, naive liberals, who share few values with the Left but have frequently served as useful idiots for the Left. Liberals do so to this day.

That's why they're called “useful idiots”

AI Enriching Our Lives

Appalling

What a Miserable Difference Six Months Can Make

Dumpster fire. Train wreck. There are a variety of tried and true phrases to describe this period of painful Biden havoc in which we live. In reality, it's more like being caught in the midst of competing dumpster fires and train wrecks, and there's no place to hide. There also seems to be an endless supply of burning dumpsters and wrecking trains. 

It's been six months since Hamas did what Hamas does, only on a grander, more horrific scale. Catherine covered the reminder for us yesterday: 

As Catherine notes, much of the world has lost its bearings on this issue, and it's appalling, especially here in the United States. 

Last October and November, most prominent Democrats were staunchly sticking by our ally Israel. The raging antisemitism was really only coming from the members of the Squad, who had established it as their brand almost the moment they got into office. Sadly, that's no longer the case.

Career Advice

For many Gen Z students, skipping college for a trade may be their best bet

All of this makes sense, both professionally and financially. Young people can make good money more quickly without incurring the massive debt looming over today’s college grads. 

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 43 million Americans are carrying this burden, with the average borrower owing $37,000.
Meanwhile, after a few years of working, twenty-something tradespeople are buying homes and starting their own businesses. 

The median pay for new construction hires was $48,089 last year, compared to $39,520 for new hires in professional services. According to payroll-services provider ADP, pay for new hires in construction increased 5.1% last year, nearly double the increase for professional services. 
Trade jobs are also less subject to replacement by AI and other technologies. Some tech exec might make good money before student loan payments, but he’ll pay some kid a fortune to unclog his toilet.

That's the route Little is taking, and we couldn't be happier.

And that's all I have for you tonight. I'm under the weather, I'll probably go to bed after posting this, I've had a bad cold kicking my ass for the last 2 days.

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