Pelosi and Trump are having a spat…again. All because Trump’s doctor gave him an option.

Trump throw a temper tantrum until we find out it was actually Obama who threw the temper tantrum.

Susan Rice’s classified Email is released and the media screams “CONSPIRACY THEORY” again.

And Trump threw the WHO into a stew over the Wuhan flu. Yes, I do like Dr. Seuss.

The Non-Story of the Week

So, Trump made the following admission during his news conference on Tuesday and, for some reason, this was the biggest news of the week. Listen:

So what, you may say? Yeah pretty much. But do you hear the shock of the media?

He’s taking a drug along with zinc and an antibiotic (arith-ma-cy-a-cin – I can’t spell it) that was recommended by his doctor because there were several cases in the White House and several doctors believe that this drug cocktail is good at preventing the disease.

Now, the studies are mixed and there are side effects with the hydroxychloriquin on its own. But the cocktail of zinc and antibiotics relieve those symptoms.

But Dr. Nancy had a comment about it. And let’s say her bedside manner leaves a little bit to be desired. Listen:

Now, obese maybe. But morbidly obese? She can tell that by just looking at him? And when did body shaming become a thing with the Democratic party? Everyone was pointing at the fattest Democrats and calling them morbidly obese. It was kind of funny.

Typical of the media, Trump was asked about this. Here’s his answer:

I thought Trump took the high road in that comment. But I realized he just didn’t know what she had said. On Wednesday, he said she had a mental problem and she responded.

This is such a dumb story. Everyone seems to think that Trump decided to use this drug and started drinking fish bowl cleaner.

No. He has a White House doctor who thought it would help and Trump took it. Story done.

OK, This is the Dumbest Story of the Week

For 40 years, the former president has joined the current president for a portrait unveiling ceremony at the White House.

But it looks like that tradition is kaput in the hyper-partisan political climate of 2020.

MSNBC said:

Trump is unconcerned about shunning yet another presidential custom, and he has attacked Obama to an extent no other president has done to a predecessor. Most recently he’s made unfounded accusations that Obama committed an unspecified crime.

Obama, for his part, has no interest in participating in the post-presidency rite of passage so long as Trump is in office, the people familiar with the matter said.

And here we go with “fake news.”

Trump was going to allow the ceremony. He just wasn’t going to attend. And why should he? Why should Trump honor a President who worked so hard to ruin his fledgling presidency?

It was Obama who cancelled the ceremony. Trump had nothing to do with it.

More lies to make the Bad Orange Man look like the devil and Prince Obama look like a saint.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-interest-obama-wont-join-trump-for-unveiling-of-his-presidential-portrait?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter

Maybe it’s Time to Broach this Subject

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-withhold-michigan-funding-over-illegal-absentee-ballot-plan

The Conspiracy Theory is Looking a Lot Less Like a Conspiracy

On the day of Trump’s inauguration, Susan Rice, a defense advisor, decided to send an E-mail to herself about a meeting she had with several officials from Obama’s White House. Those people included President Obama, Joe Biden, James Comey and UN ambassador Sally Yates.

The E-mail says the following:,

462178659-01-20-2017-Email-From-Susan-Rice

What do you think when you read something like that? Is it me or does this sound like a “cover your ass” email? Kind of looks like it.

She mentions “by the book” three times. She sent the email to herself, not after the meeting, but two weeks later on the day of the Trump inauguration.

What is missing in this email is kind of important. There’s no mention of informing President Trump about the the investigation of suspicions.

Is it me or is she protecting herself from something? We already knows she lies like a demon after the Benghazi debacle.

I think this “conspiracy theory” is going to require some folks to be called in front of the Senate. Just saying.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/498593-read-susan-rices-email-discussing-michael-flynn-and-russia

The Gloves Have Been Dropped

This is why I love Trump. He hates globalism. Because globalists bow to the tyrannical in hopes of control when the tyrannical take over.

Nothing screams the failings of globalism like the World Health Organization.

According to the BBC new agency:

“The letter outlines a 30-day deadline for the body to commit to “substantive improvements” or risk losing millions and US membership altogether.”

The letter is written to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and attacks the failings of the organization since Decemeber.

President Trump called the UN’s health body a “puppet of China”.”

The letter accuses the WHO of having an “alarming lack of independence” from China.

Among his assertions, Mr Trump accuses the agency of having “consistently ignored” what he describes as “credible reports” of the virus spreading in Wuhan at the start of December or even earlier.

Also in the letter, Mr Trump:

• Cites reports that the WHO delayed an emergency declaration under pressure from President Xi Jinping
• Criticises the agency’s praise of China’s “transparency” amid its censorship and lack of international co-operation
• Accuses the WHO of failing to comment on virus-related discrimination against Africans within China
• Says Dr Tedros could have saved “many lives” if he had acted more like Dr Harlem Brundtland, the WHO chief during the Sars outbreak of 2003

President Trump suspended funding for the WHO back in April to the howls of the media. Just in case you forgot, here is the clip from Grabien:

Whatever. The WHO jacked this whole thing up and have cow-towed to China since day 1. They have 30 days to get their crap together which, probably, means replacing Tedros.

And all those Lefties yelling about us leaving the WHO in the middle of a pandemic, I would ask them what the WHO has done to help make this pandemic better? All I see is how mismanaged this whole thing was by the WHO.

It would be one thing if it was mismanaged because of incompetence but this was mismanaged because of the need to bow-the-knee to China. That’s just unacceptable and is not worth $500 million a year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52718309

Sports is finally coming back. And things are awesome.

There hasn’t been a lot of news today so let’s see how the Left wants to change our way of life.

And Trump drops the hammer on the World Health Organization.

Merica!

Kevin Harvick won The Real Heroes 400 at Darlington Raceway, as NASCAR returned to the track after a 10-week hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. South Carolina.

UFC also took to the mat on a Saturday Fight Night.

What a shock that the most American sport, Nascar, was the first sport to take the track. The stadium was empty but I am sure the rating went through the roof. I hate the left-turn circuit so I didn’t see it.But I’m sure I’m in the minority.

I am a huge fan of the UFC. When I saw it on ESPN, I thought it was a rerun. Nope, it was a live fight. Again, the arena was empty and the match-ups weren’t the best. Heck, even the judges seemed to be a little off (some of the judgments were iffy).

But MMA is like fishing. The worst day of MMA is still better than the best Friends rerun.

Baseball has announced tentative plans to play games in July. Stadiums will be empty. Dugouts will be designed to allow for social distancing. And games will be played in regions (as I’ve said before) to limit traveling.

But the biggest change will be the ban on spitting. That’s right! The one thing baseball is known for is being banned. Well, let’s be honest: it’s an advisory. So we’ll see how that works.

States like New York, California and Texas have announced they are ready to open for sports (with measures). Florida, where the UFC hosted their fight on Saturday, has already opened up to sports.

Once sports begin to open, everything should start opening up and we can start getting back to normal.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/kevin-harvick-nascars-darlington-speedway
https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id/29185583/ufc-dana-white-eyes-arizona-vegas-host-30-card

Be Aware

One of the things that scares me more than anything during this pandemic is not getting sick or dying, it’s the weakness that politicians try to make to make government bigger and increase their power.

One of the great things about today is that even democrats are saying it is time to open up the economy, albeit carefully. Of course, everyone wants the economy opened up carefully. Even those heartless republicans that want to kill grandma.

But, even though we are beginning to open the economy and the tyrants in certain states are now facing court challenges for their suffocating policies, the Left still is proclaiming changes need to be made.

Vox released an article that proclaimed that there are seven changes that need to be made to this country. How these changes are going to prevent a future pandemics. Here’s what they had to say:

Federal Paycheck Guarantee

The idea is a federal paycheck guarantee: As part of it, the federal government would give a direct subsidy to businesses to cover paycheck costs for employees who are furloughed or laid off.

Although these proposals have the potential to significantly reduce unemployment, there are a few reasons they’ve encountered resistance: For one, the cost is likely significant — as much as $600 billion over six months for Jayapal’s proposal — and though the benefits could well outweigh them, this issue has prompted pushback even from Democrats.

One of the more interesting ideas floating around in Congress comes from ideologically dissimilar members; versions have been offered by everyone from progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to moderate Democrats such as Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Doug Jones (D-AL). Republican Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has put forth his take as well.

Recurring Stimulus Payments

Congress already authorized sending one-time $1,200 payment stimulus checks to many Americans. But now, some lawmakers are interested in making it more of a recurring effort.

A number of recurring payment plans have been floated so far. In the House, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Tim Ryan (D-OH) teamed up on a plan that would send $2,000 per month to every qualifying person over the age of 16. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Jayapal released a similar bill that would put $2,000 monthly recurring payments on debit cards for qualifying Americans during the pandemic, and add $1,000 per month for a year after the pandemic ends.

This is a precursor to a Universal Basic Income.

The problem with this is two fold:

• Encourages unemployment.
• Is a huge burden on the government.

Right now, between unemployment and the “stimulus” checks, the unemployed are making more now  than they were when working. People on furlough do not want to go back to work because of this.

Now, I do believe Universal Basic Income may be a thing soon because technology is going to replace a lot of low paying jobs, I do not think this is a thing right now. The reality is: business want people and not machines, especially in the service industries like food services. But this is becoming uneconomical as the governemnt implements higher minimum wages, expensive regulations and benefit requirements.

Automatic Stablizers

“The significant challenge of getting legislation through Congress could also be reduced by implementing automatic stabilizers, which target relief toward unemployment insurance and other existing federal programs for low-income people.

“Automatic” is the operative word here; automatic stabilizers keep expanded unemployment insurance, food assistance like SNAP, and Medicaid assistance flowing to newly unemployed people who need it as long as America’s economy is weak due to the coronavirus. Rather than benefits being tied to an arbitrary end date on a calendar, as they are now, they would instead be tied to the economic conditions. When the economy improves and job numbers rise, the benefits shut off.

A group of Democrats in the House and Senate, Sens. Bennet and Jack Reed (RI) and Rep. Beyer, have released a plan to do this, ensuring assistance gets to those who need it without Congress having to approve more money.”

This is dangerous. Nothing should be automatic. Everything should be investigated.

We also need to be careful with using the Wuhan Flu as an excuse for a weaker economy. This gives people an excuse for not putting their big-boy pants on and working to be self sufficient.

Nothing should be automatic.

Mortgage and Rent Assistance

The first plan, from Waters, Rep. Denny Heck (WA), and Sen. Brown, creates a $100 billion Emergency Rental Assistance program that would help renters who can’t afford their monthly rent pay it, and also help property managers make repairs to their buildings. The money could be used to help renters with future rent payments or with rent or utility payments that are past due. This idea is included in House Democrats’ latest coronavirus bill.

A separate bill introduced by progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) and co-sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus would go much further: a nationwide cancellation of rents and mortgages until the coronavirus crisis is over. Omar’s bill would establish a landlord relief fund through the Department of Housing and Urban Development to get financial assistance to residential landlords who would lose money due to canceled rents.

Right now, people are getting more being on furlough than they would be working. They are getting rent assistance. Why do they need more?

The idea of cancelling rents and mortgages is just insane. What do landlords do about their mortgages? This is just another way to have people controlled and dependent on the government.

Emergency Medicade and Medicare Coverage

Universal Healthcare has never gained any traction because of the $50 trillion price tag. But that doesn’t stop the Left from using the Wuhan flu as a reason for giving it new life.

The high cost of coronavirus treatment has become a major problem patients have had to deal with during this pandemic, and it’s an issue that multiple proposals, including one from Reps. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Gil Cisneros (D-CA), aim to address head-on.

Their bill, the Emergency Medicaid for Coronavirus Treatment Act, would guarantee Medicaid insurance coverage for residents in any state who needed to seek treatment following a Covid-19 diagnosis. Specifically, it enables anyone who has needed this treatment since Trump declared a national emergency earlier this year to obtain Medicaid coverage.

As Vox’s Dylan Scott has written, this bill is significant. Under it, “the federal government would assume responsibility for medical care for every American under these particular circumstances.”

Another bill from Sen. Sanders and Rep. Jayapal, the Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act, would use Medicare to cover medical costs both for uninsured and insured patients during the coronavirus pandemic. Under their plan, Medicare would cover copays and deductibles for those who are insured, and the entirety of health care costs for anyone who’s uninsured.

Medicare for All failed during Comrade Bernie’s campaign, But that does not mean the Left is going to not use a crisis to sneak it in.

Extend expanded unemployment insurance, including to college students and recent graduates

“A major component of the CARES Act is an expansion of unemployment insurance, which, despite many flaws, is directly helping millions of people who have been laid off or furloughed during the pandemic. As part of this expansion, people receiving unemployment insurance get an additional $600 per week, a benefit set to end July 31.

House lawmakers are pushing for an extension of these benefits until the end of next January. Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) is also working on making sure more people are covered by these benefits — which were already made more accessible to independent contractors and self-employed people as part of the CARES Act.”

This is a bad idea. It is extending the motivation to remain unemployed. We need people to want to work. Continually giving them money, especially the latest generation getting out of college, is not going to be the way to do it.

Hazard Pay for Essential Workers

I’m up and down on this one.

• I hate the government defining what is and is not an essential worker.
• This bill is not aimed at doctors, nurses and medical staff but aimed at anyone who works. This is just an extension if giving low wage workers money. In other words, it’s raising the minimum wage.
• News people are considered essential workers. Does that mean that Chris Cuomo, who is already rich, gets hazard pay?
• It gives quite a bit of money to these people: $12 extra dollars an hour. It someone is earning minimum wage, that doubles their salary.
• Who’s going to pay for this? If businesses that remain open and are expected to pay for some or all of this, people will be laid off.
• I’m a little afraid of what the end goal of this. I do not trust politicians during a crisis. My guess is to raise the minimum wage.

What is wrong with all these ideas? They are encouraging dependence on the federal government.

Remember: nothing is free.

When one depends on the government for something, he/she gives up a freedom or strips a freedom from someone else.

Remember: Nothing is free.

Adolph Hitler said that freedom cannot be stripped all at once. It must be stripped a bit at a time. By the time people realize it, it will be too late.

Remember: Nothing is free.

Nikita Khrushchev said that a communist revolution does happen with war. It happens from within.

Remember: Nothing is free.

To say we should wake up is an understatement.

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/18/21246421/congress-stimulus-ideas

I used to love bowling. I would go help my grandfather tend to his apartment building and he, in appreciation, would take me bowling.

I remember, one day, a black kid stole my grandfather’s wallet. We chased him but he got away.

I guess white people are in danger every time they go bowling. At least that’s the logic the New York Times is using.

The Space Force Rises

You might be wondering where my awesome introductory song went. Well, today is special.

President Trump unveiled the military flag for the Space Force. The Space Force will be a subsidiary of the Air Force much as the Marines are a subsidiary of the Navy.

Trump said:

“Space is going to be the future, both in terms of defense and offense and so many other things. And already, from what I’m hearing and based on reports, we’re now the leader in space.”

The flag is dark blue with a delta wing, an elliptical orbit and three large stars that are intended to symbolize the Space Force’s purpose of organizing, training and equipping, according to the White House. It is the first new military flag to be unveiled in 72 years.

During Friday’s presentation of the flag, Trump alluded to the development of a new U.S. military asset.

“We have, I call it the super-duper missile,” Trump said, explaining that it could travel “17 times faster than what they have right now.”

He is probably talking about a hyper sonic missile. We have a ton of other military weapons that were mainly designed to be in space including anti-missile defense systems, lasers for offense and defense and a rail gun system that use electromagnetic energy to launch a projectile. The projectile can be standard ammunition or a casingless projectile such as plasma (which they are also testing).

This is the future. Time for us to grasp it.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/498021-trump-administration-unveils-space-force-flag

Here We Go

There is an opinion piece in the New York Times that is disgusting.

Born in lily-white Oregon, it’s a sport that’s long claimed to be for everyone — even as African-American joggers have been persistently subjected to harassment and worse. – Banner

“Free! Easy! Relaxing! That’s how jogging was marketed in the late 1960s, when the idea of heading out on a regular run was unfamiliar to most Americans. Unlike other physical fitness programs that required heavy, expensive gear, jogging was accessible to all, boosters claimed.

But history shows how untrue that is, and how long the sport of running has maintained this fiction.”

Running has been around for… forever. I can already see where this gal is going.

“When video surfaced of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the young black jogger gunned down in South Georgia, distance runners became a new voice among the usual chorus of social justice activists who grimly parse such tragedies. But among runners, reactions largely differed by one important factor: race.

Black runners recounted their own routines, intended to deflect the sort of suspicions that turned deadly for Mr. Arbery: steering clear of certain neighborhoods, going out only in daylight, wearing an Ivy League sweatshirt to broadcast respectability. Many white runners, by contrast, were aghast that the sense of peace they feel when hitting the open road reflected their racial privilege.”

Here’s a news flash: white people have to do that too when running. You know why? Because there is crime and there are jerks out there.

Now I want to point out: this article already assumes a lot. It assumes the guys which killed Arbery are racists and that’s the only reason they attacked him. It also assumes they killed him only because he was black. Reality is, though the video is ugly, we really don’t know why Arbery was targeted.

These guys could have been racists, they could have suspected Arbery of something, they could just be dumb murders. We don’t know. And the assumption here is dangerous.

“This disparity should come as no surprise: Running has been a pastime marketed primarily to white people ever since “the jogging craze” was born in the lily-white Oregon track and field world of the late 1960s. Black people have not only been excluded from the sport — one survey by Running USA found under 10 percent of frequent runners identify as African-American — they’ve also been relentlessly depicted as a threat to legitimate, white joggers.

The most apparently egalitarian exercise of all, running, is anything but — especially when it comes to race.”

She’s already invalidated her argument.

Running did not start in Oregon and it isn’t a United States sport. People have been running for thousands of years. Subsistence running still happens in Africa and South America. Africa has the best middle and long distance runner in the world.

And this isn’t recent in the United States either. Jessie Owens is black and he won the gold medal in the Olympics in 1936.

I also doubt she ever ran a marathon. Or at least she didn’t pay attention to the people around her. Road races are the most diverse events available. Any race, any age, any body type, any gender can be found. I have had running partners of all ages, races and genders. Why doesn’t she complain about basketball, which is mostly African American, or soccer, which is mostly Latin.

“Let’s start at the beginning, which is 1967: That’s the year a University of Oregon track coach named Bill Bowerman, together with cardiologist Waldo Harris, published a slim volume titled “Jogging,” which became a best seller.

Most Americans then thought of exercise as weight lifting or military-style calisthenics, but the book made a radical proposition: that a “steady, easy-paced run, alternating with breath-catching periods of walking,” was a suitable exercise for everyone, ages 7 to 70. Best of all, this simple activity required “no special skills,” no ”expensive clothing,” and no “health club membership.” All you needed, these running apostles promised, were rubber-soled shoes, a commitment to your health, and the will to head outdoors a few times a week.

Celebrity endorsements and new scientific research on “aerobics” made jogging a craze that spread far beyond the “jogging capital of the United States”: 99 percent white Eugene, Ore.”

There’s your history. Anything about race there?

“Yet the new national pastime never delivered on its promises of universalism. Women complained of being harassed by male passers-by. And at a time when a white middle class exodus to the suburbs had sapped big cities of a vital tax base, many black Americans who lived in these cities could not safely “just go outside” to jog in parks or on the street.””

This is soooo dumb.

• I’ve read a lot of running books. Probably over a hundred. None of them talked about universalism. You know what they talked about? Running. Same as what these guys did in the 60’s in Oregon.
• What does sexual harassment have to do with running? Also, you believe the sexual harassers were always white? Are you kidding me? A jerk is a jerk.
• Her last line blows her argument out of the water. If all the white people are leaving the urban areas because they are racists and don’t want to be around black people and black people are still getting attacked, who’s attacking them? Could it be other black people? Is that racism? Probably not. It’s probably just crime.

“Marketing and media didn’t help: From the cover of People magazine to ads for Nike, which Bill Bowerman co-founded, the joggers were almost uniformly depicted as white. Black Americans pushed back, eager to embrace an activity that would combat the heart disease prevalent in their communities. The black press recommended jogging as a free antidote to “the sedentary trap,” and in Ebony, one full-page color ad for a phone company featured a smiling middle-age couple playfully competing over their five-mile pace. Some took on the stereotype of the white jogger head on: in 1979, a headline in Jet magazine proclaimed, “Jogging Not Harmful to Black Women; It’s Dangerous to White Women, Says Expert.””

I think “marketing” and “virtue signalling” have gotten confused in this day and age.

Marketing is when a certain image runs parallel to a company’s product. An example of marketing is the Lincoln commercials. Matthew McConaughey is shown driving to a party in his Lincoln SUV. He’s blond, handsome, good body (don’t make anything from that), rich, popular and wise. He has an internal dialog about the wonders of the universe.

That’s marketing. Women want McConaughey and men want to be McConaughey. Getting a Lincoln is the easiest way to become or be with Matthew McConaughey.

Virtue-signaling is when a company tries to align itself with some politically correct issue. Benetton,  The Gap, Nike and Levi’s are notorious for virtue-signaling (which is why I don’t patronize those businesses).

This is what this gal is complaining about with Nike. Bowerman didn’t follow the need to worry about political correctness. He wanted to sell shoes. So he put on the most attractive people he could find and they happen to be white. I’m sure he didn’t put any fat people in his ads either.

Here’s the problem: Companies are trying to make money. They need to attract people. Would Nike really sell more shoes with a 400 pound transgender mail African American?

And one more thing, isn’t what Jet magazine racist? She refers to that horrible statement as “taking it head on.” What if People Magazine said that, “studies show jogging is healthy for white women and dangerous for black women?” Would that be considered racist?

“Black track athletes, by contrast, were familiar and even celebrated in the United States. But to some white Americans, cheering on an Olympic athlete on television was entirely different from embracing black participation in an activity that took place on the streets of their neighborhood. By the 1980s, jogging had become known as a “yuppie” affectation, like eating croissants, owning a fancy juicer, and working on Wall Street.”

The first paragraph basically is breaking jogging up into the category of the one-percenter. And where is her proof? I lived in Santa Monica and ran along Ocean Blvd and San Vicente Blvd. This was the hot spot to run because of the great paths around the busy streets. There was not race issue. White, black, Hispanic and Asian all ran together. And the neighborhood was white.

My coach was black. He drove an old VW Bug where my family was very well off. I was from a white, Catholic, private school. But the school still hired me. He had no trouble yelling at me when I put in a poor performance or was screwing off.

Does that sound like class

“Blacks were constantly defined in contrast to this “legitimate” white jogger. The consequences could be fatal: In 1980, a white supremacist trying to make a point about the danger of “race mixing” fatally shot two black men jogging with two white women in Salt Lake City.”

I was waiting for this. This is where the exception does not prove (or in this case, create) the rule. I can find bad behavior everywhere. What about the Wilding incident in New York’s Central Park where a group of black kids beat and raped a white woman while she was jogging back in the 80s? Does this proves that jogging is racist against white people?

Of course not. Because it is an exception. They weren’t attacking her because she was jogging or even because she was white. Same with the writer’s statement. The white supremacist did not do his dastardly deed because the black guy was jogging. He did it because he was black. It doesn’t matter what he was doing.

“The African-American periodical The Crisis wrote in 1985 of how blacks were viewed by white runners: “the homeless and downtrodden are most times a ‘disgusting’ irritation to the jogging, orange-juice drinking yuppie who must step over or past them on his or her way to the office.” Nothing solidified this notion of the black threat to white joggers as viscerally as the case of the “Central Park jogger,” when five men of color were wrongfully convicted of raping and attempting to murder a white runner.”

How can we question the intentions of such a non-partisan African American periodical called The Crisis. Does it sound like they are looking for anything racist?

And who did they interview to get that “white” opinion about black joggers? They didn’t ask me or anyone I have been running with for the last 35 years.

Finally, this gal invalidated her article saying that the Wilding incident was a “wrongful conviction.” Those kids did it. They admitted it. They described the incident in great detail. They got off because race was a big thing back then and the prosecutor did some things that might, and I emphasize might, have been unethical. The prosecutor, to this day, says she has done nothing wrong, those kids were guilty and they got off because of politics.

“This racist presumption proved durable: In 1994, when a black jogger foiled a rape attempt in Central Park, the survivor celebrated him as a “black Superman.” But the police and the press minimized him as a mere “do-gooder” and didn’t publish his race, a damning oversight given the rabid coverage of black male perpetrators.

Six years later, when police officers pulled a gun on the Rev. Sheldon Stoudemire while he was running through his Pittsburgh neighborhood with a tape recorder they mistook for a firearm, he lamented, “One wrong move and here we’ve got another dead black man on the street.”

But the most enduring legacy of the racialized experience of recreational running is the surveillance and suspicion to which black people have long been subjected. “If you’re driving, walking, or — God forbid — running (jogging), and you simply look like an African-American, you are subject to a stop-and-search,” reflected The Michigan Chronicle in 1997.”

Again, this minimizes the celebration of black accomplishment (the breaking up of a rape by a black man) which was celebrated. It compares it to nothing.

And let’s look at her examples of white people killing black joggers: one from 1980s by a real white supremacist and something bad that happened (not a killing) by a dumb cop in the 1990s. These do not prove anything. These are exceptions. A real reporter is not going to make a blanket statement over a news article and a couple of horrid events (though one really doesn’t mean anything).

“American distance running is still stubbornly white. The United States is only for the first time sending black female marathoners to the Olympics in 2021, while the competitive amateur and recreational levels of the sport remain overwhelmingly white.

Mr. Arbery’s death and the ensuing outcry is in some ways the latest data point in the sick mash-up of structural racism, gun violence and vigilantism that’s become a hallmark of American life. But it’s also an example of the glaring whiteness of recreational running — a hobby that 47 million Americans embrace in part because of its enticing illusion of universalism, but that has never been, and still is far from, an equal-opportunity endeavor.”

So, let me debunk this entire article with ten lines:

• 2009	Meb Keflezighi	United States	2:09:15
  2010	Gebregziabher Gebremariam	Ethiopia	2:08:14
  2011	Geoffrey Mutai	Kenya	2:05:06	Current course record
  2012	Canceled due to Hurricane Sandy
  2013	Geoffrey Mutai	Kenya	2:08:24	Second victory
  2014	Wilson Kipsang	Kenya	2:10:59
  2015	Stanley Biwott	Kenya	2:10:34
  2016	Ghirmay Ghebreslassie	Eritrea	2:07:51
  2017	Geoffrey Kamworor	Kenya	2:10:53
  2018	Lelisa Desisa	Ethiopia	2:05:59
  2019	Geoffrey Kamworor

All of these guys were the winners of the New York marathon in the last ten years. All are black and one is an American (Meb Keflezighi). I could go further back and the race does not change. I could also list hundreds of black, American runners. Heck, I can introduce to you many because I run with them.

Let’s not forget Michael Johnson, Carl Lewis, Justin Gatlin, Maurice Greene, Jesse Owens, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Tyson Gay, Tommie Smith, Edwin Moses and Donovan Baily, just to name a few. I have run with some of these people in Santa Monica (Carl Lewis and Edwin Moses). They didn’t seem scared or worried about race.

The running community does not care about race, creed, gender and religion. We do not care what language you speak, what you wear or what you practice. During a race, I have worns shorts, sweats, tights and a kilt. I have seen people run naked (ouch for the men). We belch, fart, dribble food and water on out clothes, vomit and sometime pee and poop on ourselves. We don’t care! We are runners!

This article is what it proclaims to fight against: racist. I know it is unpopular to say that racism can go against the white race but it can and does. Even if the racism is coming from an elitist, white woman (Natalia Mehlman Petrzela has a Ph. D. is political history and culture and has worked with Left wing outlets like Slate and HuffPo). The New York Times really needed to edit this trash a little more.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-times-opinion-piece-reacts-to-arbery-case-jogging-has-always-excluded-black-people

Remember Lance Ito? He was the judge in the OJ Simpson trial. What if he did what Judge Emmett Sullivan did to the innocent General Michael Flynn?

Let’s talk about it.

What’s This Whole Thing About?

President Trump has previously floated a “full pardon” of Flynn, who pleaded guilty as part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe to making false statements to FBI agents during his Jan. 24, 2017, interview about his conversations with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, after the Justice Department said in a court filing that they had lost the initial FBI 302 from that interview.

Jan. 24, 2017

Flynn, who at the time was national security adviser to Trump, was approached by a pair of FBI agents for an interview at the White House. They wanted to discuss his communications with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak regarding sanctions in December 2016, which unbeknownst to Flynn had been picked up in wiretapped discussions. This interview would later form the basis for a false-statement charge and guilty plea.

Feb. 13, 2017

Flynn resigned from his White House post. The resignation came as he was accused of misleading Vice President Pence and other senior White House officials about those same communications with Kislyak. Pence, after being briefed by Flynn, had said in television interviews that Flynn did not discuss sanctions with the ambassador.

May 17, 2017 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to take over the investigation of Russian meddling and possible collusion with Trump associates in the 2016 election.

Dec. 1, 2017

As part of the Mueller investigation, Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements in his FBI interview regarding his talks with Kislyak. Flynn was charged with lying to federal investigators about whether he had talked to Kislyak about limiting the Russian government’s response to former President Barack Obama’s sanctions for election meddling.

His plea deal involved his full cooperation with investigators in the special counsel’s office.

According to the charging document, the false statements were that:

“On or about Dec. 29, 2016, FLYNN did not ask the Government of Russia’s Ambassador to the United States…to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against Russia that same day; and FLYNN did not recall the Russian Ambassador subsequently telling him that Russia had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request.”

“On or about Dec. 22, 2016, FLYNN did not ask the Russian Ambassador to delay the vote on or defeat a pending United Nations Security Council resolution; and that the Russia Ambassador subsequently never described to FLYNN Russia’s response to his request.”

Feb. 1, 2018

Two months after Flynn initially pleaded guilty, Mueller and Flynn’s attorneys filed a “joint status report” to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan requesting more time.

“Due to the status of the special counsel’s investigation, the parties do not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sentencing hearing at this time,” the filing from Mueller and Flynn attorneys Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony read. “The parties shall file a joint status report by no later than May, 2018, stating whether the matter should be scheduled for sentencing or whether a deadline should be set for filing another joint status report.”

April-May 2018 

A Republican-authored House Intelligence Committee report on the Russia probe was released. The eventually unredacted report said FBI agents did not believe that Flynn intentionally lied about talks with Russia’s ambassador.

“Director [James] Comey testified to the Committee that ‘the agents…discerned no physical indications of deception,” the report said. “They saw nothing that indicated to them that he knew he was lying to them.’”

After several continuance by the Mueller team (about 9 months):

Dec. 4, 2018

Mueller filed a memorandum recommending a lenient sentence, with the possibility of no prison time, for Flynn, stating that he has offered “substantial” help to investigators about “several ongoing investigations.”

“Given the defendant’s substantial assistance and other considerations set forth below, a sentence at the low end of the guideline range, including a sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration—is appropriate and warranted,” the memo said.

Dec. 9, 2018

In a panel appearance with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, former FBI Director Comey was asked how FBI agents ended up at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017, to interview Flynn. Comey’s response provided new details about the circumstances that fueled criticism of the bureau’s conduct:

“I sent them,” Comey said, adding that it was “something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more … organized administration.”

The interview was arranged directly with Flynn, which was not typical protocol.

“If the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel, and there would be discussions and approvals of who would be there,” Comey said, describing how things normally would work.

Regarding his decision to bypass those steps, he said: “I thought: ‘It’s early enough, let’s just send a couple guys over.’”

Now what is not brought up i this timeline is that Flynn was already bankrupt and the FBI was threatening to throw his son n jail. He lost his house. A man who served for over 30 years has to have his life ruined.

Over nothing.

https://www..com/politics/michael-flynn-prosecution-a-timeline-of-trumps-ex-national-security-advisers-case

Uh..The Judge Did What?

Judge Emmet Sullivan‘s decision to allow third parties to submit amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs in former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s case after the Justice Department moved to dismiss it has struck legal experts as “unusual,” if not “outrageous,” while Flynn’s own counsel argues that it should not be allowed in the first place.

“This is an outrageous decision by a judge who’s now placed himself into that, you know, awful category of an activist who’s willing to set aside rules, set aside ethics, set aside precedent, and just go in a direction because he is politically motivated to do so,” former Utah U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman told “Fox & Friends” Wednesday morning.

Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn’s attorney said:

“A criminal case is a dispute between the United States and a criminal defendant. There is no place for third parties to meddle in the dispute, and certainly not to usurp the role of the government’s counsel,” Powell wrote.

Judge Sullivan himself acknowledged that the local criminal procedure rules do not provide for third parties to file amicus briefs in criminal matters, but he claimed that the local rules governing civil cases — which do allow for amicus briefs — “govern all proceedings in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.”

This is adding salt to the wound.

Flynn was accused of lying to the FBI and he pleaded guilty of it, even though the investigators said he didn’t lie, not once but twice. This is something you’ll hear from MSNBC, CNN and all the other lame-stream media. What they won’t tell you is that he was bankrupt due to attorney’s fees and, second time, the FBI threatened to throw his son in prison. I’d plead guilty too.

Now he has to pay more money to attorneys, taking this to the appellate court to get it overturned.

Amicus briefs are usually only used in civil cases, not criminal cases. Can you imagine Judge Ito dismissing the “Not Guilty” verdict in the OJ Simpson case? Or the Family being allowed to speak of Charlie Manson’s innocence after the Manson trial? That’s what’s happening here.

Judge Sullivan is a Left wing hack appointed by President Clinton. This move is just to ruin General Flynn.

Well, the Obama administration might be in some trouble. Especially Sleepy, Creepy Joe. The DoJ released the list of people who requested the unmasking of General Flynn while the FBI was spying on him.

I’m not going to talk about this today. There’s just too much and I want a day to digest this whole thing. But unmasking an American citizen that was being spied on is illegal and carries a 10 year prison sentence.

Suddenly, this doesn’t seem to be a right wing conspiracy anymore.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judges-delay-on-resolving-flynn-case-stuns-court-watchers

It Just Gets Worse

From FoxNews:

Sixteen former Watergate prosecutors have notified Emmet Sullivan, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, that they intend to file an “amicus curiae” (“friend of the court”) brief in the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn after the Department of Justice (DOJ) moved to dismiss the charges against him.

But who are these people trying to destroy a real American hero?

Nick Akerman – Akerman, the first name on the list, is currently a partner at a New York City area law firm, according to his Linkedin account.

But that is not what the former Watergate prosecutor is famous for.

Rather, Akerman is an MSNBC contributor with a long history of criticizing Trump and a Twitter account filled with broadsides against the president.

He Tweeted:

Trump and AG Barr are masters of the “Art of the Coverup” as to Russian interference in the 2016 election — first they ensure Flynn is back in the fold by dismissing his criminal case and now they have let Manafort out of prison for “home confinement.”

Richard Ben-Veniste – Ben-Veniste is a partner at the D.C. law firm Mayer Brown for which he handles civil and white-collar criminal cases.

He does not have the kind of ubiquitous Twitter presence that Akerman has, but was a CNN legal analyst from 2017 to 2019.

In a 2019 appearance on the network, Ben-Veniste called the content of the House of Representatives’ impeachment hearings into Trump’s handling of security funding for Ukraine “extraordinarily disturbing.”

He also saw the Ukraine thing as legitimate.

Ben-Veniste also has a long history working in government outside of the Watergate prosecution. He was the chief counsel for the Democrats in the Senate Whitewater Committee in the 1990s and served on the 9/11 Commission, among several other roles, according to his biography on Mayer Brown’s website.

Ben-Veniste donated $1,000 each to Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., in 2017. He gave Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign $2,700.

Richard J. Davis – Davis has donated thousands of dollars to Democrats since 2019, including $2,800 to Joe Biden in April 2019.

Carl B. Feldbaum – Feldbaum is currently on the board of directors for BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH), a health-oriented nonprofit. Besides his Watergate service, Feldbaum was previously the chief of staff for late Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., according to his BVGH bio, and wrote the book “Looking the Tiger in the Eye: Confronting the Nuclear Threat.”

Feldbaum gave $2,800 to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in January, $100 to the Democratic National Committee in 2018, and donated to Obama’s campaign on multiple occasions.

George T. Frampton, Jr. – Frampton is the founder and CEO of the environmental nonprofit Partnership for Responsible Growth. Frampton also served in several roles within the Clinton administration, specifically as the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as the deputy director and chief of staff for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s probe of the nuclear incident on Three Mile Island, according to his bio on the Partnership for Responsible Growth website.

Frampton has donated thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates since 2018, including $150 to Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., in 2020 and $250 to Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., in 2019.

Kenneth S.Geller –

He is also the father of Politico reporter Eric Geller and co-wrote a 2019 op-ed in the Washington Post, along with 16 other Watergate prosecutors, advocating for Trump’s impeachment.

Geller donated $200 to Joe Biden in March of this year and $100 to Biden in April of last year.

Gerald Goldman – Goldman, according to his byline on a 2018 opinion piece for NBC News, served as a volunteer attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization that has been sharply critical of President Trump. He is also a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan.

Jill Wine-Banks – She Tweeted: Meanwhile, he’s trying to undermine DOJ, FBI and our rule of law and justice by having Barr dismiss Flynn charges after guilty plea and lowering Stone sentencing recommendation. Dangerous. If reelected, nothing will stop him.

Do you see where I’m going with this?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the-former-watergate-prosecutors-who-are-they

Not a Conspiracy Any More

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05-13%20ODNI%20to%20CEG%20RHJ%20%28Unmasking%29.pdf
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-list-of-obama-officials-involved-in-unmasking-michael-flynn-revealed-the-list-includes-joe-biden
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-requested-unmasking-flynn-on-same-day-that-flynns-name-was-released-to-media-according-to-declassified-docs

We are the richest country in the world. And we happen to be racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic and miserable. But we’re rich. Let’s use it!

And the game changes in a month when the temperature goes to 100 degrees in Los Angeles. And the community activist bureaucrat is not going to have a say. Wait, this is Los Angeles which is in California. Maybe she will.

Money, Money, Money…Money!

From the DailyWire:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other House Democrats unveiled a shocking $3 trillion relief bill, nicknamed the “HEROES Act” — the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act — Tuesday, designed to serve as a fourth coronavirus relief package, The Hill reports.

•  $375 billion bailout for states and cities — even those whose debt problems predate the novel coronavirus and affiliated lockdowns.
• It also allocates $25 billion to the United States Postal Service.
•  the HEROES Act splashes out $1.5 billion on “broadband hotspots,”
• $175 billion to reimburse public health and social services organizations” for health care related expenses or lost revenue attributable to the coronavirus, as well as to support testing and contact tracing to effectively monitor and suppress COVID-19,”
• $3.6 billion to states for “contingency planning, preparation, and resilience of elections for Federal office” — likely code for a national vote-by-mail program.
• It adds $100 billion for healthcare providers, on top of the billions issued as part of the third coronavirus relief package, the CARES Act.
• provides $75 billion to “states, territories, and tribes to address the ongoing needs of homeowners struggling to afford their housing due directly or indirectly to the impacts of the pandemic by providing direct assistance with mortgage payments, property taxes, property insurance, utilities, and other housing related costs.”
• the House is giving $5 million to itself to buy “House imaged laptops due to COVID-19. In addition, this funding will support an increase in inventory of satellite phone, Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspots, and updated satellite bandwidth technologies to meet escalating demand of District Offices during COVID-19,”
•  it continues the $1,200 monthly payments to individual taxpayers for at least three additional months
• Pelosi’s bill gives an estimated $2.5 million to biofuel producers and $250 million to biodiesel.
• Buried in the law are a few odd provisions that don’t require earmarks, including the ordered release of thousands of Federal prisoners and a suspension of cash bail requirements for those being held pending trial and marijuana subsidies (weed is mentioned 68 times in the bill while workers are only mention 20 times!).
• cancels student loan debt for around 16 million borrowers and reduces payments for 9 million more
•  the bill provides around $90 billion to states for K-12 education and $10 billion to higher education, including public universities, in a fund they can access directly.
• The bill also includes a suspension of the SALT caps, which prohibited high-income taxpayers from deducting large amounts of their state and local taxes from their Federal income tax. These were included in the Trump tax cuts.

The bill is meant to be voted on in the House this Friday. It should barely pass. But it is dead when it hits the Senate.

What is wrong with these people?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-unveils-3-trillion-relief-bill-packed-with-handouts-vote-planned-friday

Yeah, This is Going to Work

According to the LATimes:

Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.

I had to do the math. That means this is going to be going on all the way through August.

“We are being guided by science and data that will safely move us forward along the road to recovery in a measured way—one that allows us to ensure that effective distancing and infection control measures are in place,” Ferrer said, adding that the county is counting on the public’s compliance with the orders to be able to relax restrictions.

“Our hope is that by using the data, we’d be able to slowly lift restrictions over the next three months.”

“I am eager to reopen more of L.A. County as soon as it’s safe to do so, in collaboration with our health experts, community leaders, businesses and residents, with best practices in place to ensure our overall health and well-being. These decisions will be guided by the latest science and data collected,” she said in a statement.”I’m confident that the more our communities continue to comply, the sooner we can resume normalcy.”

“We’re not moving past COVID-19, we’re learning to live with it — and we will keep taking measured steps toward a new, safer reality in the days and weeks ahead,” he said in a statement.

Gavin Newsom allowed this crap. I don’t blame him. This is how government is suppose to work. He said that counties should make the decisions. But, this is nuts.

So who is this broad that is making this decision.

Well, she’s the director of public health for the county of Los Angeles. That makes he a bureaucrat. Which means she was appointed, not voted for by the public.

Her education:

Ph.D. in Social Welfare from Brandeis University

Master of Arts in Public Health from Boston University

Master of Arts in Education from the University of Massachusetts, Boston

Bachelor of Arts in Community Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

WTF?! Who is this person to determine policy? She’s a bureaucrat with no science degree or experience.

Here’s what going to happen:

• The economy of Los Angeles will crash and the states economy is already crashing. This ain’t going to happen because Newsom will stop it. It won’t be right away, but not three months.
• Small and medium businesses are going to open and practice the governmental standards.
• People are not going to receive those $3000 checks in a month and they are going to want to work.
• Domestic violence, drug abuse, alcohol abuse and crime are all going to go straight through the roof, overloading law enforcement (who can’t keep people in jail anyway because of the no-bail policy). Citizens will become victims. But the state doesn’t care.
• Those with money will leave Los Angeles and, probably, the state. There go the tax payers.
• It’ll be 95 degrees in Los Angeles by July. People are going to say, “F-it,” and go to the beach.

This is what is going to happen. This thing will not get that far.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/coronavirus-beaches-reopen-los-angeles-county-move-toward-new-normal

Remember this: It’s science until the science interferes with the science that proves one, greater victim group is oppressing another another, lesser victim group. Especially if the greater victim group is Black and the lesser victim group is white. Got it? Neither do a couple of attorneys in Connecticut.

We may be able to watch some live sports on television soon. But, of course, money is getting in the way.

And what is the media going to do when Trump is gone?

Apples and Oranges…Unless it’s Not Politically Correct

Three high school girls in Connecticut are embroiled in a legal dispute over the state’s decision to allow males who identify as “transgender” to compete on girls’ sports teams. Two boys in particular, Andraya Yearwood and Terry Miller, have been dominating the female circuit for a couple of years. Although they would be middling athletes if they competed against other boys, against the girls they have raked in the wins, together taking the first and second place trophies in some races. The lawsuit filed by Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and Chelsea Mitchell — real girls, all — seeks to put a stop to this abject madness. But just as the track races are rigged against them, so, it seems, is the courtroom.

District Judge Robert Chatigny said:

“What I’m saying is you must refer to them as “transgender females” rather than as “males.” Again, that’s the more accurate terminology, and I think that it fully protects your client’s legitimate interests. Referring to these individuals as “transgender females” is consistent with science, common practice and perhaps human decency. To refer to them as “males,” period, is not accurate, certainly not as accurate, and I think it’s needlessly provocative. I don’t think that you surrender any legitimate interest or position if you refer to them as transgender females. That is what the case is about. This isn’t a case involving males who have decided that they want to run in girls’ events. This is a case about girls who say that transgender girls should not be allowed to run in girls’ events. So going forward, we will not refer to the proposed intervenors as “males”; understood?”

The lawyers are now calling for Chatigny to recuse himself, correctly pointing out that the judge had “destroyed the appearance of impartiality in this proceeding.”

This just shows how partisan this judge is. How can the plaintiffs argue that these boys, who still have male genitalia, have the unfair advantage of being male if the plaintiffs can’t claim they’re male?

What science is this judge talking about?

And what does common decency have to do with this? Isn’t it the decent thing to do is not compete against people that have an obvious physical disadvantage?

This insanity has to stop.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-three-girls-are-suing-to-keep-boys-out-of-girls-sports-the-judge-just-rigged-the-case-against-them

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Major League Baseball has drafted a plan to restart the season in July as long as the teams can sell it to the players’ union on Tuesday.

Team owners are proposing to hold a truncated 82-game season.

Games will be played in team stadiums without fans, unless local rules prevent teams from using their home arenas, in which case teams will be allowed to move games to their practice and spring training facilities, instead.

Travel will be limited and teams will play within their geographic area.

Some rules will be changed, such as the National League’s prohibition against a designated hitter, to create a more uniform system of play since teams will largely be playing within their own divisions. Before every game, players and staff will be tested for the coronavirus, and team rosters will be expanded to 50 players with about 30 players active for each game.

The proposal would link player’s salaries for the 2020 season to the amount of revenue generated this year. In March, the union agreed to cut player salaries on a prorated game-by-game basis, but says the direct tie to league revenues is effectively the salary cap system that union officials have fought against for years.

“We lose money on every single game (without fans),” one league official told The Athletic. “We have to propose that they take something less than they already negotiated. We thought the most persuasive way to make that proposal was to explain: here’s what we’re going to make in revenue and we’ll split it with you and here’s how it turns into player salaries.”

Players’ union executive director Tony Clark said:

“A system that restricts player pay based on revenues is a salary cap, period. This is not the first salary cap proposal our union has received. It probably won’t be the last. None of this is beneficial to the process of finding a way for us to safely get back on the field and resume the 2020 season — which continues to be our sole focus.”

Leave it to the player’s union to worry about money. Maybe they should realize they are in a unique position and go with the flow a little.

I have already said that the first profession league that opens up is going to be the league that makes the most money. Maybe not with fans showing up to the stadiums but with television and advertising. I know I will be watching baseball because I’m tired of watching re-runs of football games.

Looks like the NFL and the UFC have the lead now.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/mlb-teams-reach-consensus-on-july-season-opener-but-face-major-hurdle-with-players-union

Enough is Enough!

According to Vox:

After Trump prematurely declared victory over the coronavirus, lied about US testing capacity, and misled people about how America’s response stacks up to other countries in the world, Monday’s news conference ended with a bang.

His meltdown began when Weijia Jiang of CBS asked him to explain why he seems to be fixated on competing with other countries while 2,000 or so Americans continue to lose their lives each day from the coronavirus. Trump fired back by telling her to “ask China.”

“Don’t ask me — ask China that question,” Trump said.

Jiang, who is Asian American and who previously said that a White House official referred to the coronavirus as the “Kung-Flu” to her face, followed up by asking Trump, “Sir, why are you saying that to me, specifically?”

“I’m telling you,” Trump said, “I’m not saying it specifically to anybody. I’m saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.”

Trump followed that seconds later up by throwing a tantrum when Kaitlan Collins of CNN tried to ask him a question, then storming away.

In sum, Trump’s performance featured a baseless conspiracy about America’s first black president, incendiary comments toward an Asian American journalist, and then a press conference-ending fit. This shtick may have served him well at times, but in the context of the pandemic, one can see why his advisers reportedly concluded weeks ago that these press conferences are doing him no favors.

Yeah… no. Here’s the actual confrontation.

So here’s what happened:

• Weijia Jiang asked a nasty question. Probably because Trump was right about the U.S. response and wanted to throw him off. His answer was appropriate. The U.S. didn’t start this and it wasn’t Trump’s fault that the virus is here. It’s the Chinese Virus that killed Americans, not Trump’s response.
• It takes Jiang a couple of seconds to come up with a race thing and she starts giving him crap. Trump ignores her and calls Kaitlan Collins of CNN, who doesn’t say anything and lets Jiang chirp away.
• Trump calls on another reporter and Collins starts chirping that she was being passed over. Trump rightly says she had a chance to ask a question and didn’t respond. Trump continues to point at another reporter and Collins keeps bitching.
• Trump says thank you twice and walks away.

It didn’t look like Trump threw any type of fit. He just got tired of getting yelled at and walked away. As he should do in every press conference. Nice guys finish last and there’s nothing he can do to win with these people. He could cure cancer and solve world hunger in the same day and they would still accuse him of something.

But what gets me is the nastiness of the article.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/trump-storms-out-of-press-conference.html
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21255214/trump-obamagate-philip-rucker-coronavirus-press-conference

Little More Little Richard

Tutti Fruiti by Little Richard (1956).

I knew this would happen. I’m just surprised it took three days.

We will be killing grandma if we carefully open the country according to the Left. But what ideas do they have?

Even the liberals in California have had enough.

And there is nothing like politicizing the death of a great singer.

That Only Took Three Days

According to Fox News:

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said

“It’s 2020 and this was a lynching of an African-American man. My heart goes out to the family. With the rhetoric we hear coming out of the White House, many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way we wouldn’t see in 2020.”

I would ask a few questions with this stupid statement.

• How does rhetoric promote murder?
• And what rhetoric did Trump use?

We already know that the “rhetoric” she is referencing is about Charlottesville, which has been already been proven to be edited in a way that changed the speech. Outside of that speech, I am not aware of any rhetoric Trump has said that would support this type of violence against African Americans.

Rev. James Woodall, state president of the Georgia NAACP said:

“The modern-day lynching of Mr. Arbery is yet another reminder of the vile and wicked racism that persists in parts of our country. The slothfulness and inaction of the judicial system, in this case, is a gross testament to the blatant white racial privileges that permeates throughout our country and our institutions.”

So there will be a riot in Georgia. Because people cannot just calm their jets until we find out what’s going on.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/atlanta-mayor-calls-ahmaud-arbery-killing-a-lynching-says-trumps-rhetoric-gives-racists-permission

So What’s Your Idea?

This is from Vox.com

But is the public health situation really all that different than when lockdowns began in March? According to epidemiologists, no. Although the situation varies from place to place, now, in general, doesn’t appear to be the best time for Americans to return to close proximity to one another.

There are four main reasons:

Nationally, the outbreak has either peaked or plateaued. But there is a lot of infection still out there.

While the toll of the pandemic has been immense — there have been more than 76,000 recorded deaths in the United States as of May 8 — the vast majority of the population still has not been infected, has no immunity, and is fully susceptible.

This virus is fundamentally very contagious, sneaky, and deadly. That’s as true as ever.

The US has wasted lockdown time: It needs more testing, more contact tracing, targeted isolation of infected people, and the quarantining of their contacts. It also needs more research into social distancing to know what relaxed measures are safe.

This lays out the question: If everyone else’s idea is bad, what is your idea? This is a major thing with the Left, and Vox is as Leftist as it gets. Don’t just point out the problems but bring solutions. Anyone can just regurgitate problems.

Also, the Left’s motives are a bit iffy at best. They seem (sic) to want to keep the economy closed for a boat load of reasons

• The Trump economy was killing the Left and there chances. Keeping the economy closed will ruin the economy and they can blame Trump. This can backfire.
• The Left wants to expand the government. They hope that the “temporary” changes can become permanent.
• The Left wants to change the system. They want the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, universal basic income, free college just to name a few changes.
• The Left wants to replace capitalism, which they see as the cause of this mess, with socialism. This is why the United States has to be the worst while Europe and China are way ahead of us in dealing with this thing (which they are not).

I think articles like this are irresponsible, worthless and dangerous.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/5/9/21251034/covid-19-reopening-economy-plans-missouri-georgia-science
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

Even the Liberals in California are Fed Up

Josie and I went to Newport Beach this weekend. We got sick and tired of being at home. It was awesome!

• We had a great conversation while driving.
• There was no traffic. Unheard of on the 5 and 405 on a weekend.
• We couldn’t find parking and never had so much fun with it. We laughed at all the spaces being marked off by the city to limit the number of people there. It didn’t work.
• No one had a mask on but everyone was social distancing. In fact, we got lectured by a guy who told us masks were stupid.
• Cops were everywhere and the beach and boardwalk were packed. Weird because the beach was officially closed.
• Every store was opened but restaurants had no seating.

Of course, this is California. We saw a guy taking a dump in a bag at a bus stop and wiping his butt with his hand then dump the bag in a trash can. There were also a ton of homeless people, which was surprising. This is a very rich area.

But it isn’t just Newport Beach that is flipping out.

According to the DailyWire:

The Professional Beauty Federation of California will file a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in an effort to speed up the reopening timeline for the barber and salon industry, which has been categorized as a phase three high-risk businesses, along with gyms and movie theaters.

“The PBFC has decided to sue Governor Newsom to force him to reopen our salons much sooner than his vowed ‘months not weeks’ timeline,” said the organization in a statement on Thursday, in reference to comments the governor made last month about stage three and four being “months, not weeks” away.

Newsom has since distanced himself, at least partially, from his nail salon comments, observing on Friday that he has a “deep reverence for those entrepreneurs” and that phase three “may not even be a month away,” according to the LA Times.

“We’re trying to do everything we can to accommodate the needs of every industry, including the nail salon industry, to make sure we do it in a safe and responsible way,” said Newsom.

According to The Daily Beast, the federation has already made up its mind about challenging the governor, and plans to file a lawsuit on Monday

“We were 100 percent behind the lockdown, so that we would not overwhelm our hospitals,” Jones told The Daily Beast. “However, after two months of the lockdown, in which, by Gov. Newsom’s own admission, we have succeeded — we have checked the mark, we have flattened the curve.”

“A lot of our stylists are on the brink of starvation in order to make their leases and make ends meet,” said Jones.

The following is courtesy of CNN:

Tesla filed suit Saturday night against Alameda County, California, after local officials there refused to let the company reopen its Fremont factory.

Elon Musk Tweeted:

“Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately.”

The automaker had planned to allow a fraction of its factory workers to return to work by Friday, but was warned by the Alameda County Health Department in a livestreamed town hall on Friday that such a move would be violating the county’s rules.

“This has been a collaborative, good faith effort to develop and implement a safety plan that allows for reopening while protecting the health and well-being of the thousands of employees who travel to and from work at Tesla’s factory,” the Alameda Health Department responded on Saturday in a statement to CNN Business. “The team at Tesla has been responsive to our guidance and recommendations, and we look forward to coming to an agreement on an appropriate safety plan very soon.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom had issued new guidance Thursday allowing manufacturing companies to reopen, which allowed individual counties to enforce stricter rules. Alameda County’s shelter-in-place rule ends on May 31.

Musk Tweeted:

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas tweeted Saturday, “Come to Texas! We would welcome Tesla HQ in Texas. We love jobs & Texans very much want to open up & get back to work (while still staying safe & following sound science). We make lots of cars & trucks in Texas, and we’d love more!!”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/09/tech/elon-musk-tesla-threatens-california/index.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/time-to-sue-some-of-californias-salons-barbers-prepare-to-challenge-governor

RIP Little Richard

From Tom Scocca at Slate entitled Little Richard’s Music was Dangerous, But So is Freedom

” The contemporary pop charts were extremely queer and extremely closeted, to a degree that’s probably impossible to convey to anyone who grew up on the 21^st century—such a degree that even if you were personally oriented toward heterosexuality and cis identity, it was impossible to shake the sense that everything the popular culture was saying about meaning and desire was confounding bullshit, meant to conceal. The story rock and roll tells and retells about itself, in corny self-important tones, is about liberation and rebellion, but by the time I was out of middle school, that story was being told by Kenny Loggins or the retro-counter-appropriationist guitar freakout of a time-traveling Michael J. Fox. The youth culture had grown up to inflict Reaganism and hair metal on the people behind them. The most dangerous thing would have been not to have heard Little Richard.”

“Little Richard had already heard and lived the contradictions everyone was busily trying to ignore. He was joyously black under white tyranny, flamboyantly queer under straight tyranny, deeply God-troubled under the tyranny of secular commercial fame. It all came clattering and swaggering back out in fury and delight, in well under three minutes, if not two. It seemed self-evident, but nothing ever was (I dubbed the LP onto a cassette and tried popping it into the tape deck in a car full of other guys, and it got replaced with U2 in very short order). ”

Wow! Maybe Little Richard was just a great singer and showed passion when singing because he loved what he was doing.

And, if he was gay, so what (he said he was bisexual)? Why does everything have to be made into some political statement? This guy had to worry about civil rights and Dred Scott and things like that. Was being gay even a thing back then?

Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), better known as Little Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was an influential figure in popular music and culture for seven decades.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/05/little-richards-music-was-dangerous-but-so-is-freedom.html