Bari Weiss makes a claim against the New York Times but is anyone surprised?
You’ll be shocked as to why our children are getting fat. Actually, you probably won’t be.
And the media’s war against Christianity continues.
We Already Know This
Bari Weiss used to work for the New York Times a long time ago so she has had experience with them and knows a lot of people there. Then she said something that is so shocking and yet not really on her podcast last week.
Is this really a shock if it is true? Do you listen to mainstream outlet like MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Reuters, the AP, the New York Times and the Washington Post? They all say the same thing that the White House and the Democrats say, all at the same time. I thought the mainstream media was taking direction from the Democrats.
This might not be a story except that this is all kind of illegal. That’s because a news outlet or a social media outlet cannot be government entities. It violates the First Amendment. There is another guy that is suing Twitter and the United States government because he was suspended and, apparently, he has evidence that Twitter was working with the United States government.
More on all this later. I’d love to hear any evidence.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kurtz-bari-weiss-claim-makes-ny-times-look-like-wholly-owned-subsidiary-dems
No, Probably Not the Weather
A new study has found that children are getting fatter. Well, duh. But the study also came up with a reason. That reason is climate change. That’s right! The weather is making our kids fat. This was being pushed by CBS News (what a shock). Listen to this remarkable reporting.
Today’s children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age, a new study found.
The study points to climate change and rising temperatures adversely affecting childhood obesity, as children spend less time exercising outdoors. pic.twitter.com/26WehoLK9I
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) August 13, 2022
I am, first, going to give this guy a break. He did point out the obvious facts. Technology is a big problem. But it isn’t just the Internet, social media, smart phones and video games.
- The government locked our kids up for two years.
- Our education system tells over half of their students that they are bad because of the color of their skin.
- Our education system is worried about the sexuality of their children and enable any delusions.
- And, of course, there is the Internet, social media, smart phones and video games.
I know this sounds like the BS story I would read to get a laugh, but it’s not. This is as serious a story as it gets.
- We are already at a negative population growth rate.
- We are already at an amazingly high drug overdose deaths.
- We have a mental health crisis among teens.
- We have a really high teen suicide rate.
- That suicide rate is going to be a crisis in ten years, if not sooner.
Here’s the problem, the Left always mixes their ideology with tragedy. Nothing ever gets solved. They’re not solving homelessness, drug addiction, crime, the school system, suicides. All they do is say they can solve it by giving them money and power.
No more.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/cbs-pushes-study-blaming-climate-change-for-rising-childhood-obesity-rates/
Attacking the Little Guy…or Girl
Nothing is sacred. According to Fox News:
An 8-year-old girl selling lemonade near an Ohio food festival had her operation shut down by local police after they received a complaint.
Asa Baker was selling lemonade in an alley outside the business where her father works near the Alliance, Ohio Rib and Food Festival last weekend when she says a local police officer asked her to shut down the stand, WJW-TV reported.
Here’s the thing, no one felt good about this. Including the festival that complained.
- “Well, they were really sad that they had to shut me down but they gave me $20 to try and pay for it,” Baker said, explaining that the officer gave her $20 for her to use to purchase the needed permit.
- Alliance Police Lieutenant Don Wensel told WJW–TV that police received a complaint from festival organizers who seemed to be conflicted about voicing their concerns but ultimately officers are required to enforce local ordinances.
- “I could definitely tell he did not want to shut her down, but, I mean, you get a call, he has to do it. He definitely did the right thing, you know, in the situation he was put in,” Katrina Moore, Asa’s mother, told the outlet.
- “In order to get a food vendors license, it only lasts for five days and its $40 for five days so that’s kind of out of the picture. If she wants to sell on the street, she has to get a street permit. If she sells in front of a business, we have to get a solicitors permit,” Moore said.
- Baker’s lemonade stand was up and running again on Friday in front of local business owner Eric Strata’s location where police said they would not interfere. Strata had seen a Facebook post about Baker’s predicament and offered to help with the permit process.
- “He (the officer) had to do his job, but it just felt so unjust to me because she’s 8, she’s just an innocent little girl that wants to be motivated and wants to do something with herself. Why shut that down?” Strata said.
This is just such a sad story. This little girl is going to go places. She’s not sitting on her smart phone doing TikTok videos and watching Friends. She’s trying to be something.
Here’s the thing, only the government was wrong here. Everyone else is blameless:
- The little girl isn’t wrong because she practicing capitalism.
- The police aren’t wrong. They did what they had to do and felt bad about it. In fact, they gave her the money to get the permit.
- The management at the festival weren’t wrong. They were conflicted about shutting her down.
- Even the organizers weren’t wrong because they used regulation to squeeze out every penny they could from their event that they invested in. In fact, they were doing the same thing that little girl was doing: practicing capitalism.
The government was wrong here. They set up regulations that made it that this little girl couldn’t compete with the bigger business. Bigger businesses and corporations will always use regulations to shut down the competition. Maybe less regulation causes more business. More innovation. More competition. More competition creates better products and services. Maybe this little girl’s lemonade was better than what they served at the festival.
Government sucks at everything. The police knew it. The festival managers knew it. Big business knows it. Government makes regulations. Government knows nothing about capitalism.
Think about that the next time your taxes are raised, 87,000 more IRS agents are added, more regulations are created and taxes go up so the government can spend more.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-girls-lemonade-stand-food-festival-shut-down-complaint
The War Against Religion
This is just amazing.
Atlantic contributor Daniel Panneton compared the prayer beads to an AR-15 rifle in his Sunday article entitled, “How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-Opt the Rosary.” Let’s read a little of it.
Just as the AR-15 rifle has become a sacred object for Christian nationalists in general, the rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or “rad trad”) Catholics. On this extremist fringe, rosary beads have been woven into a conspiratorial politics and absolutist gun culture. These armed radical traditionalists have taken up a spiritual notion that the rosary can be a weapon in the fight against evil and turned it into something dangerously literal.
I love when people make up terms like “rad trad”. I have never heard of anything like this.
I will also say that I have never had my rosary anywhere near my gun. In fact, I’ll go a step further, most devout Catholics are peaceful no matter the situation. “Turn the other cheek” is taken very seriously by fundamental Catholics.
Their social-media pages are saturated with images of rosaries draped over firearms, warriors in prayer, Deus Vult (“God wills it”) crusader memes, and exhortations for men to rise up and become Church Militants. Influencers on platforms such as Instagram share posts referencing “everyday carry” and “gat check” (gat is slang for “firearm”) that include soldiers’ “battle beads,” handguns, and assault rifles. One artist posts illustrations of his favorite Catholic saints, clergy, and influencers toting AR-15-style rifles labeled sanctum rosarium alongside violently homophobic screeds that are celebrated by social-media accounts with thousands of followers.
I love the way the media conflates one nut to all Catholics. This is just another way to demonize Christianity. By the way, do you ever see the media do this with Islam? Why do they feel the need to do this? That’s because the founding principles of the country are based on Christian concepts and our country is bad, so the concepts must be bad.
The theologian and historian Massimo Faggioli has described a network of conservative Catholic bloggers and commentary organizations as a “Catholic cyber-militia” that actively campaigns against LGBTQ acceptance in the Church. These rad-trad rosary-as-weapon memes represent a social-media diffusion of such messaging, and they work to integrate ultraconservative Catholicism with other aspects of online far-right culture. The phenomenon might be tempting to dismiss as mere trolling or merchandising, and ironical provocations based on traditionalist Catholic symbols do exist, but the far right’s constellations of violent, racist, and homophobic online milieus are well documented for providing a pathway to radicalization and real-world terrorist attacks.
When he talks of militias campaigning against LGBTQ crap, what he means is we disagree with them. Of course, the radicalism of the LGBTQ is never discussed. Trans-ing kids and drag queen shows in kindergarten classrooms is not radical. Personally, I don’t think we do enough to push back against that crap.
By the way, what right wing violence is he talking about? All these guys claim the is so much right wing, white supremacist violence but I never see any actual right wing and white supremacist violence. All the violence I see comes from the Left, mostly in Leftist cities, and it’s on a daily basis.
The rosary—in these hands—is anything but holy. But for millions of believers, the beads, which provide an aide-mémoire for a sequence of devotional prayers, are a widely recognized symbol of Catholicism and a source of strength. And many take genuine sustenance from Catholic theology’s concept of the Church Militant and the tradition of regarding the rosary as a weapon against Satan. As Pope Francis said in a 2020 address, “There is no path to holiness … without spiritual combat,” and Francis is only one of many Church officials who have endorsed the idea of the rosary as an armament in that fight.
What Pope Francis said was rhetorical, not literal.
This guy is an idiot.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlantic-writer-claims-rosary-is-an-extremist-symbol-with-militaristic-meaning-for-christian-nationalists?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/radical-traditionalist-catholic-christian-rosary-weapon/671122/