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This is a yearly routine now, so from next year, I am just gonna bookmark dumb stuff as and when they are said. Anyway, get on with what you are here for. Presenting the stupidest things Indian celebrities have said in 2021:

Why do Bollywood people feel this urge to display their stupidity in every matter? Trust me, if this guy writes a book on heart health, our Indian public will make it a bestseller. pic.twitter.com/zQkEX22ibz

Just a thought to ponder but doesnt the left and right both lead to the same conclusion. Totalitarianism! One does it through nationalism and the the other through socialism. Are we really taking sides for the same outcome?

I so agree with @jordanbpeterson when he suggests that we must be monsters and what great monsters we could be, if only we also knew how to control it. Cause Its not the sword wielder that has the power, its the one who knows how to keep it sheathed that truly controls it.

Kangana should keep her mouth shut. Pathetic to say that 1947 independence was "bheekh" & real azaadi came in 2014. Whatever your political affiliation, this js despicable disrespect to all freedom fighters who laid their lives for the independencepic.twitter.com/JHXPwSJxsz

This could just have been an article with Uday Chopra and Kangana Ranaut competition for the title but let's not go there.

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From John Abraham To Varun Dhawan, 9 Of The Dumbest Things Indian Celebrities Have Said In 2021 - ScoopWhoop

Last week, fifth-grade teacher Amy Parker took the pages of the education site Chalkbeat to celebrate New York Citys initiative to promote culturally responsive education in its public schools. Parker introduces her essay by lamenting that School taught me to hide who I was and what I valued because it didnt assign books with characters who had gay parents. But, at the same time, Parker also complains that she was overly represented in the books [she] read and the classes [she] took.

To make up for this injustice, Parker has now committed herself to providing a culturally responsive and sustaining education or CRSE. This means that she will pick texts on the basis of representation and diversity and emphasize racial and sexual identity in all her lessons. Instead of learning about the world and how to contribute to it, her students will now learn about themselves and how to become agents of change.

For these courageous efforts, New York City will support Parker and other teachers like her with a gargantuan sum of money: Over the course of three years, almost $500 million will be allocated to CRSE so that our students are reflected in what and how they learn.

While everyone is certainly entitled to her opinions, even bad ones, this becomes a problem when it comes with such a high price tag and threatens to become the dominant position of an entire profession. I may not teach in New York, but even here in Texas, this kind of thinking and the policies it inspires are increasingly common in our public schools.

It is worthwhile to consider and rebut Parkers argument, not only because it promotes a radically leftist message to a captive audience of children, but because its bad pedagogy that deprives those children of a quality education.

The most obvious problem, as voices against critical race theory have noted, is the fact that a school classroom is a space intended for the development of knowledge and competency, not ideology and activism. Parker clearly believes the latter and trains her students to see themselves and others through the lens of race and sexuality.

However, people are much more than this. As Aristotle established long ago and Jordan Peterson reiterates today, people can only thrive when they define themselves by their virtues and achievements and find meaning and purpose therein. When they do otherwise, defining themselves by accidental qualities (that is, through things that happened to them rather than things they effected themselves), they will never find meaning or purpose, because there is none.

Society doesnt care what people are; it cares about what people do. And this holds true for any culture and any political system.

Thats why identity politics is a terrible model for public education or any other cultural endeavor, for that matter. It discourages achievement and learning and projects a false reality.

A student in such an environment doesnt bother understanding the world beyond himself, nor does he learn to become a better reader, writer, and problem-solver. Rather, he adopts a mode of thinking that his fate is largely predetermined by labels and systems, and learns that the only way to change his fate is by challenging the system through activism.

One cannot understate just how vicious this kind of thinking is. As Jeremy Adams declares in his recent book Hollowed Out: The big lie is that our students are hopeless, powerless victims. It is a lie that brings passivity and cynicism, that encourages finger-pointing and hate, that is a harmful counsel of despair.

Besides the fatalism implicit in identity politics, there is also the accompanying push to activism. Does the world really need more activists? Neither Parker nor any leftist educator ever seems to ask this question. Yet this is probably the main concern for most parents. Theyd like to see their kids grow up to do great things and have a great career, not take to the streets and social media to protest old statues and conservative politicians.

Another question no one seems to ask is if kids really need to see themselves represented in the books they read and the media they consume. Is it true that Children are more engaged in class when they can see themselves in their lessons and materials, as NYCs departing Chancellor Meisha Porter attests? In my experience, both as a student and a teacher, this is not the case.

Like many other millennials, my favorite book series in elementary school were Goosebumps, The Great Brain, and Choose Your Own Adventure. I liked them because they were a fun escape from my drab public school experience. Reading about experiences that are vastly different from their own is part of what makes reading compelling, for children and adults alike.

In high school, I enjoyed more dystopian classic novels like Animal Farm, 1984, and Brave New World because they were relevant critiques of my school experience. It wasnt that I identified with oppressed farm animals, or Winston Smith, or John Savage; these books helped me see that public school was indeed a dystopia and that I wasnt crazy.

When I started teaching, it was the same thing. The texts from authors celebrated because of their skin color never seemed especially engaging for any group of students. It turns out that, just like movies hoping to capitalize on identity politics, books that do so will inevitably fail. Kids wont read them, and teachers wont use them.

Parker may gush about the handful of students who have taken her lessons on diversity, equity, and inclusion to heart and have signed petitions for transgender rights and expressed guilt over their racial groups role in history, but she seems relatively indifferent to whether her students can write an essay, graph an equation, or collect data for a science experiment.

All this leads me to think that Parker and other like-minded teachers are not being honest. The classroom she is describing in her essay sounds terrible, but she pretends like all her students really enjoy it. Experience and logic suggest that this simply isnt the case.

It is far more likely that Parker is like the leftist teachers on TikTok who garner positive attention for how well they can indoctrinate their students while teaching them nothing. Her essay in Chalkbeat is just more virtue signaling or shameless shilling, considering that half a billion dollars is being spent on CRSE.

Meanwhile, students at NYC public schools continue to fare poorly in reading and now district leaders are eliminating talented and gifted programs for the sake of equity. Rather than empower their students, New York City educators seem more interested in enabling them with leftist narratives.

This may satisfy the progressive itch now, but it will only compound the failings of public education. Lets hope other cities and states take heed of New Yorks CRSE and do the exact opposite.

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NYC To Spend $500 Million Teaching Kids To Obsess About Sex And Race - The Federalist

Mick McCabe| Special to Detroit Free Press

The 2021 Detroit Free Press All-State teams, from Divisions 1 to 8, as selected by special writer Mick McCabe:

Rec: Cornell Perry, Woodhaven (captain)

OL: Kamari Landers, Dearborn Fordson

OL: Masai Reddick, Detroit Cass Tech

OL: Cole Tinson, Romeo

OL: Amir Herring, West Bloomfield

OL: Danny Rosa, Traverse City West

Rec: Gavin Mesman, Saline

Rec: Teon Armstrong, Davison

QB: Bryce Underwood, Belleville

RB: Ethan Clark, Clarkston

RB: Caiden Sloan, Macomb Dakota

K/P: Adam Samaha, Ann Arbor Huron

DL: Sean Field, Novi Detroit Catholic Central

DL: Michael Williams, West Bloomfield

DL: Danny Honkala, Howell

DL: Tommy Phimister, Novi

LB: Biagio Madonna, Sterling Heights Stevenson

LB: Cross Dobbs, Grand Blanc

LB: Cameron Dyson, Belleville

DB: Parker Picot, Rochester Adams (captain)

DB: Jordan Ramsey, Sterling Heights Stevenson

DB: Joey Kostrubiec, Romeo

DB: Myles Rowser, Belleville

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Rec: Tyler Henry, Roseville

OL: Brett Weaver, Traverse City Central

OL: James Livingston, Dexter

OL: Ethan Gates, St. Clair Shores Lakeview

OL: CJ Aldred, Waterford Mott

OL: Lawrence Nash-Martin, Livonia Churchill

Rec: Quinn Fracassi, South Lyon

Rec: Aaron Rice, North Farmington

QB: Brady Drogosh, Warren De La Salle (captain)

RB: Cole Cabana, Dexter

RB: Jorden Collier, Ypsilanti Lincoln

K/P: Luke Silvernale, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern

DL: DJ Caviness, Muskegon Mona Shores

DL: Aidan Wardell, Midland Dow

DL: Caleb Paarlberg, Caledonia

DL: Mason Muragin, Warren De La Salle

LB: Tyler Stolsky, Portage Central

LB: Aidan Vaughn, Walled Lake Western

LB: Tyler Weaver, GR Forest Hills Northern

DB: Jarvis McIntosh, Battle Creek Lakeview

DB: Carson Bourdo, Traverse City Central (captain)

DB: Orlando Trader, Jackson

DB: Jaden Mangham, Birmingham Groves

Rec: TayShawn Trent, Harper Woods

OL: Cam Heiss, Cedar Springs

OL: Brady Ploucha, Dearborn Divine Child

OL: Brendan Schanick, Flint Kearsley

OL: Gabe Landskroener, Riverview

OL: Brady Montie, Allen Park

Rec: Lynn Wyche-El, Detroit King

QB: Tyler Holtz, DeWitt (captain)

RB: Julion McCray, Battle Creek Harper Creek

RB: Christian Stokes, Harper Woods

RB: Nolan Ray, Birmingham Brother Ray

K/P: Nick Collins, East Grand Rapids

DL: Bryce Debri, DeWitt

DL: Josh Rau, Lowell

DL: TyQuarius Irby, Muskegon

DL: Charlie Lovell, Pinckney

LB: Malik Immoos, St. Joseph

LB: Kory Davis, Mount Pleasant

LB: Blake Bailiff, Detroit King (captain)

DB: Markell Gilford, River Rouge

DB: Damari Foster, Muskegon

DB: Aiden Brunin, Cedar Springs

DB: A.J. Martel, Mason

Rec: Saige Slanec, Croswell-Lexington

OL: Ryan Shinabery, Hudsonville Unity Christian

OL: Gino Tribuzio, Ortonville-Brandon

OL: Grant OBrien, Goodrich

OL: Bergen Grochoski, GR Forest Hills Eastern

OL: Kelly Clarke, GR Forest Hills Central

Rec: Landon Mikel, Edwardsburg

QB: Jake Townsend, Croswell-Lexington

RB: Lucas Storm, Lake Fenton

RB: Drew Chandler, Hudsonville Unity Christian (captain)

RB: JaMartae Hogan, Grand Rapids Christian

K/P: Trevor Houseworth, Edwardsburg

DL: Robert Sutch, Chelsea (captain)

DL: Max Muenzer, Lake Fenton

DL: Noah Gradeless, Adrian

DL: Ben Nelson, Holland Christian

LB: Jacob Kundinger, Freeland

LB: Cole McElvany, Milan

LB: Lance Wolford, Imlay City

DB: Logan McColley, Edwardsburg

DB: Cam Chandler, Hudsonville Unity Christian

DB: Luke Grove, Birmingham Detroit Country Day

DB: William Damaska, North Branch

Rec: Zach Person, Kingsford

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Meet the 2021 Michigan high school football All-State teams, Divisions 1-8 - Detroit Free Press

Accomplished coaching agent Trace Armstrong has discussed the possibility of taking a top management position with the Chicago Bears, according to league sources, as ownership mulls sweeping coaching and front office changes.

Armstrong, a former Bears player who is held in very high regard by the McCaskey family and longtime team president Ted Phillips, is very interested in the potential of helping steward his former franchise into better days, and ownership is at least willing to consider the notion of restructuring the hierarchy of the franchise, sources said, as it embarks on getting a new stadium constructed in Arlington. Sources said in this scenario, if the sides agreed to it, Armstrong would oversee football operations with the coach and GM reporting to him; Bears coach Matt Nagy is currently one of Armstrong's clients, but at this point staving off a coaching change in Chicago is remote at best, with a heavy expectation around the league that Nagy is let go.

Armstrong, who played defensive end for the Bears from 1989-94 and has remained close to the franchise as a prominent alumnus, is a huge proponent of Ohio State coach Ryan Day, league sources said, and Day has been open to considering NFL possibilities in recent years. Armstrong also has strong connections throughout the scouting world and represents numerous current NFL executives. Raiders director or pro personnel Dwayne Joseph, a former teammate of his in Chicago, would also be a top candidate to join a restructured front office with the Bears should ownership opt to go in this direction, sources said.

Armstrong spoke to team officials last month, sources said, as many former players returned to Chicago to honor former longtime strength coach Clyde Emrich, a former Olympic wrestler who spent 50 years in the organization, after his passing. While leaving a successful agent practice would not be easy, numerous league sources said Armstrong's pull to the Bears is unique and he is serious about the opportunity. Armstrong already has strong support among the media in Chicago -- agents have crossed over into management roles in other sports; it's not uncommon -- and there has been an outcry among many in the fanbase about restructuring the organization with Phillips not atop the football operations pyramid.

Day, 42, has had a wildly successful run since taking over Ohio State after Urban Meyer departed, and he has been on the NFL's radar. Armstrong deeply believes that Day, who spent time with the Eagles and 49ers as a quarterbacks coach from 2015-2016, could be a winning NFL coach. Last year the Bears moved up in the first round to select quarterback Justin Fields, who played for Day at Ohio State and whose development is absolutely paramount for a franchise that has not had an elite player at the position for generations.

Armstrong has several other clients who could be candidates to join a regime there in numerous capacities, and he recently helped navigate Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley to USC.

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#MediaBuzz - Sunday, December 12

On today's episode of '#MediaBuzz', Howard analyzes the coverage on Donald Trump's latest legal battles, Biden's call with Putin, and more.

Chuck Todd of MSNBCs "Meet the Press" appeared to defend President Joe Biden from his low approval rating during Sundays show.

Recent polling numbers have shown Biden at approximately 42% approval, with his disapproval at 52%. Certain polls over the last few months have put Bidens rating as even lower.

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However, Todd pushed the idea that these poor numbers were due to situations out of the White Houses control rather than being largely due to Bidens policies.

"It seems as if theres nothing the White House can do to improve their political standings these days. It does feel like every week theres a new poll, theres a new bottom, a new this. And some of it is out of their control," Todd began.

He added, "His two big promises were to get COVID behind us and to get rid of Donald Trump. COVIDs not behind us and Trumps still lurking. Its not his fault."

His guest Boston Globe writer Kimberly Atkins Stohr suggested that the low numbers could also be due to his inability to addressing larger issues such as civil rights and democracy rather than inflation.

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"Its a convergence of a lot of things. You have this pandemic that we cant get behind. You still have people who are struggling economically. Joe Biden also campaigned on a big broad agenda of addressing civil rights and getting people back on their feet after this. This big broad packages. But even after these packages have passed, theres still this constant threat to democracy that we keep talking about," Stohr said.

She also suggested that "most" of the issues causing Bidens low numbers are not his fault but instead because of Republicans refusing to compromise with his agenda.

"Is it all Joe Bidens fault? Of course not, most of it isnt. You have Republicans who are lock solid against him and wont vote for anything no matter how many times Joe Manchin says he wants bipartisanship. So its about where do you assign that blame, who is against every measure including vaccine mandates that could get us past this pandemic. Is that Joe Biden? Where does the blame actually lie?" Stohr said.

Donald Trump & Joe Biden: AP newsroom (AP newsroom)

A new poling survey suggested a close race between President Biden and former President Donald Trump should he run again in 2024. Biden received 46% of support compared to Trumps 45%, but 48% of voters polled preferred to return to the polices from Trumps time as president against 46% who preferred to remain the same.

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