Where did the years go? It just seemed like yesterday watching Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, etc. and yet it was … 47 years ago? 😳 I enjoyed her comedy acting … I sure hope she was a believer. Texas Governor Greg Abbott Calls For Universal School Choice: Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott is calling for universal school choice through the use of education savings accounts, or ESAs. Democrats oppose school choice because their party is in bed with the teacher unions. Teacher unions don’t want public schools to have any competition, which is just what is needed to make schools better. When government has a monopoly on education, schools have no incentive to improve. The state has already piloted a form of such savings accounts through microgrants made available to select students with disabilities in 2020. “It’s been so successful,” Abbott said of the program. The state awarded $1,500 grants to more than 65,000 students, according to the Texas Education Agency. “But that program shouldn’t be limited.” Gov. Greg Abbott said “every child in the state of Texas” needs access to a voucher-like program that gives parents public dollars to spend on private school tuition or other educational expenses. One of the good things that came out of the pandemic, was the increased scrutiny from parents on public schools. People who are unable to home-school should be able to choose where to send their children. Nebraska Democratic State Senator Proposes Amendment To Bar Kids From Attending Church Events: Legendary poet Maya Angelou is famous for her quote “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” A far-left Nebraska state senator decided to declare war on religious families despite her protestations afterward that she was merely trolling. State Senator Megan Hunt was so triggered over a Republican-backed bill that would bar young children from attending grotesque drag queen shows and penalize the adults taking them that she filed a blatantly unconstitutional amendment last Friday to go after individuals taking their kids to church events like vacation Bible study. Courtesy of the Blaze, here are the full details of Hunt’s blasphemous proposal: Tennessee Democrats Want to Cancel Columbus Day Holiday and Replace it with Super Bowl Monday: Democrats in Tennessee are proposing that the state trade holidays and replace Columbus Day with a new holiday of Super Bowl Monday. Democrats Senator London Lamar and Representative Joe Towns Jr. introduced their bill on Wednesday to suggest that the state dump any recognition of Columbus Day and replace it with a Super Bowl Monday holiday to celebrate the game, which is always on Sunday, according to WKRN-TV. But it appears that there is only one reason for this bill to exist: to serve as another woke attack on Columbus Day. Scientists to engineer woolly mammoth's return by 2027: The long-extinct woolly mammoth is slated for a return to the world stage by 2027, Popular Mechanics reported Monday of biotechnology startup Colossal's ambitious project. Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences began making headlines again after recent press releases highlighting their work on similar projects to "de-extinct" other ancient creatures like the dodo bird. "In addition to bringing back ancient extinct species like the woolly mammoth, we will be able to leverage our technologies to help preserve critically endangered species that are on the verge of extinction and restore animals where humankind had a hand in their demise," said CEO and Colossal co-founder Ben Lamm on the organization's website. One key goal of the project is to save modern elephants from extinction. What is CRISPR or CRISPR-Cas9? An acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, CRISPR is the revolutionary gene-editing technology that could make long-extinct creatures' return a reality. The Nobel Prize-winning genome editing method is described as a "tool for rewriting the code of life." "With these systems, researchers can permanently modify genes in living cells and organisms and, in the future, may make it possible to correct mutations at precise locations in the human genome in order to treat genetic causes of disease," says the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard of CRISPR's applications. https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientists-to-engineer-woolly-mammoth-s-return-by-2027 
Hunt’s amendment calls for blocking youth from “religious indoctrination camp,” which the proposal defines as “a camp, vacation Bible study, retreat, lock-in, or convention held by a church, youth group, or religious organization for the purpose of indoctrinating children with a specific set of religious beliefs.”