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Jan052022

Episode 470 – THEY DON’T CARE!

Chicago teachers decide they don’t want to work. I have a solution for that.

IS Joe Biden really this disconnect…or just dense.

And a poll is released that tells us why our kids are so jacked up. Unfortunately, I don’t see this getting better.

 

Here We Go Again

We do have new news this week but I have so much from last week. I do need to talk about this because it’s going to happen throughout the country soon. I would be remiss if I just skipped this.

The Chicago teachers union voted last night to start teaching remotely, through Zoom.

According to NBC Chicago:

The rank-and-file members of the Chicago Teachers Union have voted to temporarily transition to remote learning, a move that prompted Chicago Public Schools officials to cancel classes for Wednesday.

While CTU instructed its members to work remotely Wednesday, CPS has said that it will not accept the switch back to remote learning, and instead canceled all classes, sporting events and extracurricular activities scheduled for Wednesday.

Food service will still be available at schools between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m., and COVID testing and vaccination events will continue as scheduled, according to a CPS press release.

The union stated:

“Tonight, as educators, parents, neighbors and community members we had to make the tough decision to support a resolution to return to remote learning in our city’s public schools. This decision was made with a heavy heart and a singular focus on student and community safety.”

This is after we have the statistics to state that teachers are not in danger of getting COVID from students. As a matter of fact, there has yet to be one teacher that died because a student gave her the China virus.

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot said the stoppage was illegal. She said:

“The worst thing we can do is to shut the entire system down. What we need to be focused on is working together. What I’d love to see CTU do is not force an illegal work stoppage. What I’d love to see them do is work hand-in-glove with us to get kids and their families vaccinated.”

Few things here:

  • The stoppage is illegal. Any union that negotiates with a government, with tax payer money, is not allowed to strike.
  • Lori Lightfoot’s message is jacked because she has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country and she just poured gasoline on the fire.
  • She deserves this. She is locking down the city again. What does her messaging say when she locks down the city but the teachers need to teach? She looks like she hates the teachers.

I have some pretty harsh opinions about this whole thing.

First off, stop telling me teachers are f-ing heroes. They’re not. They have a job. A great job. A job that pays them really well to work 6-7 hours a day, 7 1/2 months a year. It does not take much to be a teacher. It’s time to stop treating them like these people fought a war in Iraq. Stop giving them awards.

And it’s not like the teachers are doing a good job. Over 30% of the population can’t read much less do math. I bet none can pass a civics exam. I was listening to a couple of teachers interviewed and I couldn’t even understand what they were saying. If these teachers can’t speak well enough someone like me can understand them, how are they teaching the kids?

Finally, this has nothing to do with the kids. These teachers aren’t thinking about the kids. They don’t care about the kids. The teachers don’t want to get out of their bunny slippers in the morning and go to work. But they do want their pay to continue.

What would I do? I would follow Ronald Reagan’s lead.

Fire them all. Take a month off of school, replace all these teachers with non-union members. Hire them based on qualifications, experience and performance. Kill the union. It’s been done before with the air traffic controllers and it worked. No planes fell from the sky. Lori can give me a call and I’ll teach.

And the kids will learn something.

.https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-teachers-union-cps-at-odds-over-whether-to-return-to-remote-learning/2721246/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/chicago-2-billion-covid-relief-schools

 

Is This Guy Really This Dense?

For Christmas, I went to Costco and bought three bottles of cheap wind and one ribeye roast. I spent almost $200. We also bought firewood because we have a firepit and it’s cold. We used to spend $4.99 a bundle. At Walmart, the wood cost $6.49. That’s a 30% increase.

By the way, that $0.02 decrease in gas is gone. One gas station rose prices $0.20 and the gas station we go to went up $0.05.

Joe Biden, ever out of touch, tweeted:

“We’re ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years. Let’s keep the progress going.”

What progress, now?

  • We have the highest inflation since the 80s.
  • We have a supply chain crisis.
  • We have 10 million open jobs that no one wants to fill.
  • We have a housing shortage.
  • We have a gas and oil shortage.
  • The stock market is tanking.
  • Crime is at record levels throughout the country.
  • Drug addiction s at record highs.
  • Homelessness is at record highs.
  • Suicide is at record highs.
  • The country is broken into two factions. The unity he promised is non-existent.
  • We have a border crisis with 1.8 million illegal alien encounters in 2021.
  • COVID is spiking again with more deaths in 2021 than 2020 (under Biden).
  • We had a failed retreat from Afghanistan that led to the deaths of 13 marines.
  • Iran likely has a nuclear weapon.
  • Russia is threatening Ukraine.
  • China is threatening Taiwan.

That is all in 2021. Does that sound like we had a good year?

This guy is completely out of touch.

Needless to say, the reactions on Twitter were hysterical:

  • Jon Concha: “Ron Klain appears to have been provided access to the POTUS account…”
  • Greg Price: “Which one was the analyst,” posted alongside images of various celebrities, social media influencers, and singing nurses who have recently partnered with the Biden administration.
  • Michael Berry: “Joe Biden has jokes.”
  • Tim Murtaugh: “‘one analyst’ … Ron Klain doesn’t count.”
  • Eddie Zipperer: “No political spin in the world is going to trick people into thinking they have more money in their wallets than they actually have.”
  • Rep. Tom Tiffany: “I didn’t realize April Fools’ Day was in December this year.”
  • James DePorre: “I did not realize that Kamala Harris was an analyst.”
  • Scott Presler: “You walked away from COVID. You never had a plan.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-has-jokes-twitter-slams-biden-for-celebrating-his-economic-track-record

 

No Wonder Our Kids Are So F-ed

Want to know why our kids are so f-ed up? Let’s just look at to who’s raising them.

According to the New York Post:

Nearly one in 10 mothers does not know who fathered their child, according to a surprise new poll in the United Kingdom.

Some things about this:

  • The poll was run by Topp Morning Casino and it polled 1000 women.
  • The result could mean that there are 2.1 million couples where the father isn’t the father.
  • Australia has found that it could be up to 30% of births where the biological father is not known.
  • This has been a trend since the 1970s.
  • Both surveys admit that the percentage is probably a lot lower. There is a high margin of error.
  • Though a study like this has not been done in the United States, sociologists believe that the number might be at 4%.

Why do we even need to do studies like this?

We are living in a world where personal responsibility is considered bad and the government is expected to take care of everyone. People have sex, don’t take any responsible actions and get pregnant. I guess it could be worse. They could be aborting the babies.

There are now commitments to people. The nuclear family has been demonized. Men have been demonized. children are see as an inconvenience and barely in the conversation. Marriage is not a thing anymore. Fathers aren’t in the home.

We are living in a world where people are lying to each other and don’t think twice about it.

Here’s the thing, it’s not going to get better. Children are being raised this way. Worse yet, they’re being taught that this is OK. Children born today are going to do the same thing when they grow up (if they can get off their phones long enough to have sex). They are learning that their satisfaction is more important than taking responsibility for their actions. This is very different from how I was raised.

This also is bringing our culture into into a very dark future.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/28/almost-1-in-10-moms-isnt-sure-who-fathered-their-baby-poll/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow

 

Should We Do This?

France has decided to block certain porn websites from their country because of the lax verification of age these sites are guilty of, allowing children to view their sites.

The Daily Beast reports:

“French authorities have vowed to block five major porn sites this week unless measures are taken immediately to ensure users are over the age of 18,” the report outlined. “France’s Higher Audiovisual Council gave Pornhub, xHamster, XVideos, XNXX, and Tukif a Tuesday deadline for the new restrictions, after which it said it would seek a court order blocking access to the sites, The Times reports.”

These porn sites merely ask users to “mark a box” to confirm that they are adults. “The council said the porn sites are effectively violating the law if they do not create more rigorous checks, such as verification of identity documents proving a user’s age,” the report said.

The council underscored, “Children faced by such content can suffer lasting shock at the very least.”

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) CEO, Dawn Hawkins, released a statement:

“France is seeking to hold online pornography sites accountable in order to protect minors from accessing hardcore pornographic content that is harmful to them. Despite empty assurances, online pornography sites have failed to keep children away from their content because they have no meaningful age verification systems, and in fact many of these sites employ marketing tactics that bring children to their sites. It is past time for pornography sites to be held to account.”

“A growing body of research supports her statements. Early exposure to pornography affects children’s developing brains and normalizes the sexual violence, exploitation and abuse it so frequently depicts. Today’s hyper-online world exposes youth to such content at younger and younger ages through platforms that may seem safe on the surface—including social media. It’s virtually impossible to avoid; one study found that 93 percent of boys and 62 percent of girls are exposed to pornography in adolescence.”

“Modern online pornography is filled with extreme sexual violence, child sexual abuse, racism, and other disturbing and abusive content. Online pornography platforms are designed to hook even casual viewers to seek even more violent and extreme content. We hear from families regularly that their children as young as 6 years old are accessing hardcore pornography despite their best efforts to protect them. The responsibility cannot lie with parents alone.”

This is all absolutely true.

Our kids have a harder time getting an R-rated movie with cuss words than watching a threesome is weird to me. We know this is bad for people. We know it stunts sexual maturity. We know it shows children things that are unnatural and unrealistic.

Billie Elish, the pop singer, admitted that she had a born addiction while she was a teenager. She said that she did things sexually she thought she was suppose to like because of what she saw on these free porn sites. This stuff does affect kids. There’s no question. And, in the United States, we don’t seem to care. We’re not doing anything about it.

Now, don’t talk to me about free speech. This has nothing to do with free speech. Rated-R films are restricted to kids. What I’m saying is we need to restrict porn in the same way. That’s all. I like porn. I don’t watch it every day or every week or, even every month but there are times Josie and I will Pornflix and chill on a Saturday night when the kids are gone.

I don’t know if Pornflix is a thing but Netflix doesn’t have porn, so there you go.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/france-to-block-pornhub-four-other-major-porn-sites-for-lax-age-verification-standards?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter

 

 

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Sep102021

Episode 411 – The Bad and the Good

It’s the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks tomorrow. And, after 20 years, nothing looks to have changed. Let’s talk about what’s going on in Afghanistan on the eve the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

And, because it has been 20 years since 9/11, let’s talk about some of the good things the victims and their families are doing to cope with their experience or loss.

 

Afghanistan 20 Years After the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

Not So Diverse, I Guess

The Taliban is not embracing United States values. Honestly, maybe we could learn something.

The Taliban decided to paint the old U.S. embassy in Kabul. In 2020, the United States and Afghanistan had a peace deal that would allow the United States to add some murals on the embassy. One of the murals that we agreed upon was a mural of George Floyd.

OK, I know, what was their a mural of George Floyd on the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan. I don’t know. Why was their a gay pride flag flying over the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan. My best guess is probably yours too. We are trying to show the world how racist and diverse we are (which is kind of weird).

Guess what? The Taliban ain’t the diverse.

They proved it a step further. In an absolute surprise to the Biden administration, the Taliban did not put one woman within the government hierarchy.

This was really unexpected by Secretary of State, Antoney Blinkin:

God he’s terrible. They’re all terrible.

Do you know how I knew they weren’t going to put any women in the government? Because they said they weren’t going to. It’s against Sharia Law.

I really do not know what these people actually expected from this 8th century barbarians, now with $83 billion dollars of our weapons.

But we know who is going to be in the Taliban government:

  • Sirajuddin Haqqani, designated a global terrorist by Washington because of close links between al Qaeda and the Haqqani network that he heads, was named minister of interior, with oversight of Afghanistan’s police and internal security. The FBI currently offers a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to his arrest.
  • Mullah Hassan Akhund, who served as foreign minister in the previous Islamic Emirate, which harbored Osama bin Laden and was ousted from power by the 2001 U.S. invasion.
  • Mohammad Yaqoob, the Taliban’s military chief during the insurgency and the oldest son of the movement’s founder Mullah Omar, became minister of defense.
  • Mullah Omar’s brother Mullah Abdul Manan, was named minister of public works.
  • Abdul Ghani Baradar, the head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha, Qatar, and the face of the Taliban during negotiations with the international community, was appointed as one of two deputy prime ministers.
  •  Hard core of the Taliban leadership, and was made up almost exclusively of ethnic Pashtuns.

Not only is there no diversity of sex or race, there’s no political diversity. Non-government sanctioned protests have been banned. Any protests have been violently suppressed.

The administration push to make the Taliban something its not is really being questioned. Here’s Peter Doocy lighting up Jen Psaki…again:

Here’s the problem, they have no answer. Their messaging so far contradicts what we all see is happening, you know they are lying to us. This isn’t going to work out well for them.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/taliban-to-paint-over-george-floyd-mural-in-kabul-replace-with-islamic-slogan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-chief-says-hopes-fading-for-more-open-taliban-government-in-afghanistan-11631175830
https://www.wsj.com/articles/taliban-crack-down-on-protest-led-by-women-in-kabul-11631014019?mod=article_inline

Some Good News

Maybe the Taliban is still a bit worried about the United States.

The Taliban allowed 200 people to fly out of Afghanistan, including 113 Americans and green card holders.

There has been a lot of talk about hostages and the United States going back into Afghanistan so that might have had something to do with it. It will be interesting to see if they continue on with their “good will”.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/taliban-to-allow-200-americans-other-foreigners-to-fly-out-of-kabul-11631173763

I Didn’t Forget to Mention It

Yesterday, Joe Biden made a speech forcing vaccine mandates on private businesses and for non-union federal employees. This is pretty big news. You might be asking why I didn’t mention it? I have a few reasons:

  • I want to talk about 9/11. That is what’s important and what we all seem to have forgotten about.
  • His speech was probably the worst speech I have heard from an American President. I want to edit it and present it to you on Monday. It is one I never thought I would ever hear. It is an example of dictatorial tyranny.
  • Because Biden made the speech last night, the reactions are now coming from the media, politicians and businesses that will be affected by this mandate.
  • And I also need to look at the mandate itself to see if it is Constitutional. I can tell you, right now, it probably isn’t but I need to go over the language.

The only reason I do bring it up right now is because this is a deflection from his disastrous Afghanistan pullout, his horrible jobs report, the crippling inflation and his terrible poll numbers (he’s now in the 30s).

But we don’t have to look at his poll numbers. We just have to listen to the people.

The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is tomorrow and going to be celebrated across the country, especially at the sites where the terrorist act occurred. Joe Biden has plans to go to all three sites: the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Guess what? With his screw up in Afghanistan and the take over of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the people who committed 9/11, the families of the victims do not want him there.

In a big surprise move, Old Joe doesn’t care and is going to go anyway.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-visit-all-three-sept-11-memorials-even-though-some-victim-families-say-hes-unwelcome

 

20th Anniversary of 9/11

Tomorrow, I am going to do another podcast to celebrate 9/11. I am going to go through what happened, minute by minute timeline of the terrorist attack. I think this is important because we seem to have already forgotten what has happened and we should never forget.

It was an important moment that day. Our children lost a lot of freedom that day. They will never know the freedoms that I and my parents have had.

But, today, there are some nice things that are happening 20 years after the attack. I know I spent the first part of this article expressing the negative things that have happened throughout the world but there is good news.

Rest In Peace

One thing most people don’t realize is that not everyone was identified after the dust settled. There were a lot of bodies (and body parts) found that couldn’t be identified and some were not found till years later. But the United States didn’t stop trying.

This week, two more bodies were identified.

According to USA Today:

Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson said in a statement Tuesday Dorothy Morgan and a man whose identity is being withheld at the request of his family are the 1,646th and 1,647th confirmed deaths from the 9/11 terror attacks.

The two deaths were confirmed from DNA analyses of remains recovered from the site. Morgan’s DNA came from remains recovered in 2001, while the unidentified man’s DNA was confirmed from remains found in 2001, 2002 and 2006.

This is important. Families want closure and having the remains of their family members is an important detail to that closure. I hope we never stop trying to identify these people as the technology gets better.

RIP.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/09/08/9-11-victims-identities-confirmed-new-york-city/5771658001/

Good for NPR

My son left me a voicemail the day he died to wish me a happy birthday. I still have that voicemail. It is very important to me and I keep copies of it everywhere including my phone. I also keep his contact information on my phone. It might seem dumb but it’s a big deal to me.

NPR did something that I thought was nice and very moving. Here is a part of the article stating their goal:

Voicemails are deeply embedded into memories of 9/11. On that day in 2001, as people all across New York City tried to get hold of their friends and family, cellphone networks were overloaded. And for some of the victims inside the planes and towers, leaving a voicemail was their last way of communicating with their loved ones.

In the weeks leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, NPR set up an old phone booth in Brooklyn Bridge Park — across the river from the new World Trade Center — and invited people to leave a voicemail for someone they lost that day.

By searching public records, reaching out to national survivors’ networks, and collaborating with facilitators of 9/11 support groups on Facebook, we connected with six people who were willing to share their stories with us — people like Trish Straine, whose husband died in the north tower just six days after their second son was born; and Matthew Bocchi, who was only 9 years old when he lost his father in the attacks. Their individual experiences offer insight into the nature of grief and how it changes — or doesn’t — over time.

Here it is:

Now, I know this might seem a little self-serving and exploitative for commercial value by NPR but I’d rather not look at it that way. And the messages showed the pain and, hopefully, allowed the family members to let out some of their emotions. It also allows us to see the pain these people are going through, even 20 years after the attacks.

So I’m going to give NPR some props.

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/09/09/1033529229/september-11-victims-families-friends-voicemails

This Is Good Therapy

A bunch of family members of 9/11 victims and some survivors are going to the 9/11 Tribute Museum in New York and actually talking about their family members or their experiences to teach people about what happened. Even children of the victims, most of which have limited memories of the tragedy, are going to visit the monuments and museum and talking about their experiences.

The reason this is important is not only for the mental and emotional well-being of the family members. It is mostly to teach the newer generations about the attack and the grievous loss that occurred. Most of the last two generations never knew 9/11 and I think that is probably why there is such polarity in this country.

The terrorist attack on 9/11 brought the United States together. It was probably the most patriotic time in my lifetime that only compares when the United States hockey team beat the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. But, we’ve forgotten. These people are trying to remind us.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/9-11-families-return-to-ground-zero-with-a-mission-trust-me-it-will-get-better-11631179801?adobe_mc=TS%3D1631209755%7CMCMID%3D57984580952917091038866124422853428462%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%40AdobeOrg&wsj_native_webview=androidtablet&ns=prod/accounts-wsj

Some Documentaries to Watch

9/11: A Day to Remember

9/11: Minute by Minute

9/11: The Filmmakers’ Commemorative Edition

 

From George Bush’s 9/11 to Joe Biden’s

Take a look at the article below. It’s great and really sums some things up.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-cynicism-2022-midterms-reconciliation-9-11-sept-afghanistan-al-qaeda-taliban-11631133822

 

 

 

 

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Sep022021

Episode 406 – Let’s Bring a Little Culture

Biden makes a speech and it was a hell of an acting job.

And enough about Afghanistan. What’s happening here?

 

Biden’s Speech

One word: Terrible.

It looked like someone wrote his speech, gave him a shot of meth then pushed him toward the podium.

  • He was yelling. I think he was trying to show how strong he is but it could also be because he was trying to wake reporters up because he was a half hour late.
  • He said this whole thing was a success. Are you kidding?!
  • He inflated the numbers of people he got out of Afghanistan.
  • He said this was the greatest airlift is history, comparing it to the Berlin airlift. Looked more like the Saigon airlift.
  • He said it was a huge success but blamed Trump (twice), the Afghan government and the Afghan military and the people who are stuck in Afghanistan. But the buck stops with him. See the contradiction?
  • He threatened all those who are terrorists and planning terror attacks. Not sure what he’s going to do about it but whatever. It’s talk.
  • Finally, he talked abut his dead son. I’m sorry, but this is disgusting. His son died of brain cancer when he was 46. A twenty-year-old soldier dying from a terrorist attack while being stationed in a war zone that Old Joe crreated. This is a cynical, pathetic attempt to appear empathetic and gain some sympathy.
  • When he finished, he took no questions, turned and couldn’t find his way to the exit.

There was no mention:

  • Bribing the Taliban to get our people back.
  • The executions of the Taliban.
  • The military stuff the left behind.
  • The fact that the Taliban is flying the helicopters are being flown by the Taliban.
  • The fact they are hanging people from our helicopters.
  • Nothing about the dozens of military support dogs we left behind.

But it was Trump’s fault.

It was a bad speech. The stronger he tries to look, the weaker he looks.

 

F- Him

According to the Wall Street Journal, Joe Biden has decided to abandon an Afghan ally, a man widely embraced by the U.S. military. OK, so? Isn’t he doing that with a lot of people?

Yes, he is. But this guy saved Biden’s life while he was in Afghanistan in 2008.

Biden was in Afghanistan with two other Senators: John Kerry and Chuck Hagel. They were on a helicopter in an area of Afghanistan that wasn’t Taliban controlled but was still dangerous. They we hit by a snow storm and the helicopters had to land. They called a U.S. base and a man named Mohammod joined the soldiers to get them out. Mohammod, whose name was kept quiet because the Taliban is hunting for them, joined the soldiers on the two hour, twenty mile trip.

Now, this is a really trusted guy. He’s been on hundreds of trips with our military and was even given a weapon when they might get into a scrap. There are many soldiers that know the guy and are begging Biden to get him out.

Crickets.

Mohammod sent a message to Joe Biden. He’s is currently in hiding from the Taliban with his family.

He said:

“Hello Mr. President: Save me and my family. Don’t forget me here. I can’t leave my house. I’m very scared.”  

Biden has yet to comment about it. Jen Psaki said:

“We will get you out. We will honor your service.”

I won’t hold me breath.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/afghan-interpreter-who-helped-rescue-biden-in-2008-left-behind-after-u-s-exit-11630429285
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/politics/texas-abortion-supreme-court-sb8-roe-wade/index.html

 

Chipping Away

Texas passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country earlier this year. Basically, the law states that an abortion would be illegal after a heartbeat can be detected. A baby’s heartbeat can be detected at about six weeks. If a doctor commits and abortion, he can be sued and given a $10,000 fine plus have to pay the legal fees of the plantive. There is no legal action against to woman who has the abortion.

A lower federal ruled the law was Constitutional and could move forward. An appeals court and the Supreme Court refused to listen to the case. Today, the law goes into affect.

Now, you know what I think about abortion. I’ll give you a review in case you missed the thirty podcasts I had talking about it: It’s murder. Morally it’s murder. Philosophically it’s murder. Scientifically it’s murder. Roe vs. Wade is a garbage ruling and should be overturned. I have debated this about a thousand times and have never lost the debate.

But that’s not what’s great about this law and what anti-abortion states need to do.

The problem with the other laws that might have issues with the appeallet courts is that they make abortion criminal. This law makes abortion civil which is why the courts wouldn’t hear it.

Abortion is not going to be eliminated in this country. That’s because it is too ingrained into society like slavery was. But it can be chipped away until it becomes the moral abomination that it is, just like slavery. Laws like these are how we’re going to do it.

The Left, of course is flipping out.

Nancy Pelosi said:

Here that? It’s a catastrophe that more kids are born.

Here’s Rashida Tlaib:

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-heartbeat-law-goes-into-effect-after-supreme-court-refuses-to-issue-emergency-stay
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/politics/texas-abortion-supreme-court-sb8-roe-wade/index.html

 

What? Again?

Need to wipe your butt? Use one less sheet.

We are now in a toilet paper and paper towel shortage. I thought this was a joke until I went to Walmart and Costco. Costco was out of paper towels and Walmart only allowed the purchase of two packs per family.

Now, I live alone. I have one pack of toilet paper and one pack of paper towels. I’m good for six months. Unless Josie comes over. She uses a lot of toilet paper.

Here’s what happened:

  • Before the pandemic, supply and demand was normal.
  • When the pandemic hit, people overbought paper towels and toilet paper because they thought the world was ending.
  • The manufaturers produced more and more to keep up with demand.
  • Eventually, people had their fill of toilet paper and stopped buying.
  • Companies, overbuying toilet paper, had huge inventories that weren’t moving.
  • Manufactuerers slowed production of toilet paper, below pre-pandemic levels because they didn’t want to have high inventories.
  • People began to run out of their stocks of toilet paper and the delta variant of the China virus popped back up.
  • Stores started running out and ordered more to keep up with demand.
  • Manufacterers now have to run 24/7 to keep up with demand.

Pretty neat how the free market works.

The reason I was interested in this story is because it shows the delicate balance between supply and demand. The manufacturers and stores have to be careful not to get stuck with huge inventories but that’s depended on the customers. The pandemic put supply and demand in chaos and, as we see in this story, it could be a couple of years before the toilet paper industry stablizes. I know that sounds stupid but, when you go to Costco and can only buy one bag, remember that’s why.

It also explains why our gas is going up. Remember, Biden didn’t want to produce oil in this country anymore (prices go up) but OPEC isn’t producing as much oil because of the pandemic and they don’t want to get stuck with a lot of inventory. When Joe Biden asks OPEC to produce more oil so he can keep prices stable, they say no. That’s because they have to keep that balance or oil prices will go sky high or crash.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-are-stocking-up-on-toilet-paper-again-11630431042

 

Running is Racist

The Boston Athletics Assocoiation has had to apologize because they scheduled the Boston Marathon on October 10. That happens to be Indigeious People’s Day.

The directors said they would celebrate Indigenious Peoples Day with a bunch of ceremonies before the race. There’s no way they can cancel this race this close to race day.

Normally, the race is help on Patriot’s day, which this year is October 18th. I’m not sure why they changed the race date and it wasn’t mentioned in the article. Probably because the race directors for the Boston Marathon were all white and racist.

Let’s talk a little about Indigenious Peoples Day…it’s BS.

This was a holiday that was started in Berkley, Californiain 1992 by a bunch of politically correct college students that wanted to counter Columbus Day because they didn’t know anything about history and thought that Christopher Columbus was a racist colonizer that killed all the Indians. That’s BS and I think you’veheard me talk about the Indians in past podcasts. I’ll give you a little overview: The Indians were not peaceful, nature-loving vegetarians like the Left wants you to believe.

Indigenious People’s Day does not celebrate anything specific (Mexicans are sometimes called indigenious people) and it not a national holiday. It is celebrated by some states and a bunch of localities and cities have named it a holiday. Guess what though: People still have to go to work. It seems like it is like Kwanza. Some crap some people made up to make a holiday to counter Christmas which is racist.

That’s a real cynical reason to created a holiday. That’s why I piss on that holiday. The least the hippies at Berkley could have done is make it like Cinco de Mayo so we can drink. But I digress.

Boston, Massachusetts is not one of those cities that celebrates Indigenious Peoples Day. So what the hell are the apologizing about? And when is holding a marathon, one that is far older than this stupid “holiday”, an insult to the Indians?

It’s not. People just need something to bitch about. If I were the race director, I would have told these people to f- off.

Https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-athletics-association-apologizes-after-scheduling-boston-marathon-over-indigenous-peoples-day

 

Knew This Was Coming

The Leftists really want our kids to wear masks. Not for any particular scientific reason.

  • We know kids don’t catch it easily.
  • We know kids don’t spread it easily.
  • We know kids don’t get really sick much less die.
  • We know that cloth masks don’t work.

We do know, scientifically, the masks are actually bad for children:

  • Socialization is lessened by wearing a mask.
  • Speech patterns cannot be analyzed by children when they can’t see a teacher pronounce words.
  • CO2 levels in a child’s blood stream go up because the child is breathing in his own air. This causes:
    • Low oxygen levels.
    • Fatigue.
    • Attention deficit.

But the Left wants all to bend the knee.

Some states have banned mask mandates like Texas and Florida. Well, the Left has found a new way to attack the mask mandates: the American Disabilities Act.

Greg Abbott is now being sued. The lawsuit states that banning mask mandates violates the ADA because a child that pre-existing conditions is put in danger if no one is required to wear a mask. This is not the first lawsuit brought into the courts. I believe there is a couple in Florida suing for the same thing. Their child has pre-existing condition and this couple does want their school to implement a mask mandate.

This lawsuit is going to have some problems:

  • The science on masks it sketchy at best. There are a couple of studies that state masks are actually bad unless an N-95 or KN-95 masks are used and constantly changed out.
  • There was never a need for masks in schools befoer the China virus. The flu kills more children than COVID. Last year, 480 kids died of the flu while only 360 died of the China virus.
  • The above puts another point to it: Why should all children be subjected to masks when the disease affests so few?

These areguements in themselves should be enough to throw this out of court. But here’s the real arguement: The ADA means we have to add things to make it easier for those with disabilities. A ramp for folks in wheelchairs. Handicap parking spaces for those who have trouble walking. Wider bathroom stalls for those who need wheelchairs. It’s not meant to limit a person’s freedom. And I would say forcing my children to wear a face covering is limiting their freedom and my freedom to determine what is good for my children.

This lawsuit actually goes against the ADA. The ADA is meant to expand freedom of movement for a few, not limit movement for the majority to protect the few. I would say limiting my child’s ability to breath is restrictng her movement.

The other major problem with this lawsuit is basing things on what might happen not on the condition that already exists. What do I mean by this? A ramp is put in front of a business because someone is in a wheelchair. You want my kids to wear a mask because someone might catch the China virus and get really sick. That’s not a thing and not what is eant when the ADA was designed.

Here’s the reality: If you have a kid that has a pre-existing condition, you need to take care of your kid in whatever way you see fit without stepping on the rights of my kid and my right to take care of my kid they way I see fit. I don’t want kids to die but kids do die and it’s the parents’ job to protect their children. It’s not my job to protect all kids at the expense of my kid.

 

has https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/08/19/lawsuit-filed-on-behalf-of-14-children-claims-gov–abbott-s-mask-mandate-ban-violates-ada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 367 – My Racist Day

So I did a little experiment with Josie. It required some research but I did learn something.

It is really easy to be a racist.

 

Happy Juneteenth

President Biden signed a bill that will make June 19th, better known (well, hardly known) as Juneteenth.

Biden said during the ceremony:

“I have to say to you, I’ve only been President for several months, but I think this will go down, for me, as one of the greatest honors I will have as President.

“I regret that my grandchildren aren’t here, because this is a really, really, really important moment in our history. By making Juneteenth a federal holiday, all Americans can feel the power of this day and learn from our history — and celebrate progress and grapple with the distance we’ve come (and) the distance we have to travel.”

He also said that this should be a day of reflection. He said:

“We can’t rest until the promise of equality is fulfilled for every one of us in every corner of this nation. That to me is the meaning of Juneteenth. So let’s make this very Juneteenth tomorrow the first that our nation will celebrate all together, as one nation. A Juneteenth of action on many fronts.” 

In June 19, 1865, was the day that Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and told slaves of their emancipation ordered by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.

  • I think this is a good thing and long time coming.
  • I would rather they had celebrated the actual Emancipation Proclamation release date instead of Juneteenth but:
    • January 1 is already a national holiday.
    • June 19th is very obscure.
    • Abraham Lincoln is now being called a racist.
  • What’s odd is CNN and other reporters are saying that Republicans approved this while rejecting Critical Race Theory.
    • Juneteenth is a celebration of Americas ability to move past its own sins because they were evil and not in tune to our Constitution and philosophy.
    • CRT is a refusal to believe the United States and all white people have moved forward. All our systems, our history and white people have never moved past those evils and we are still evil and need to indoctrinate our kids in that philosophy.

Give a mouse a cookie. Any time the Left gets something they want, they want to beat us down to get more.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-signs-juneteenth-bill/index.html

 

My Racist Day

Ibram X. Kendi, the grandson of Critical Theory and the father of Critical Race Theory was asked to define racism. This is what he said:

“I would define it as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas.”

I am not as smart as Ibram is but I speak English. I don’t know what that means. I was taught that if you are asked to define something, do not use the same word in the definition. For example:

“A pencil is made up of the materials that make up a pencil.”

I’m not a PhD in anything so it might be that I’m not smart enough to understand what he is talking about. I know this is true because I read his book and couldn’t understand anything he was saying. I decided to assume I am just mentally deficient to be able to understand the philosophy of such a great mind. The only other conclusion I could come up with is that he’s a complete f-ing idiot and that would be racist because of my white privilege.

After reading how birds and conversation is racist yesterday, I decided to analyze my day and see if I am a racist. I realized I am a racist and I feel bad for it. So let’s go through my day and discuDTss how each activity just proves how I am a racist.

1. I woke up early this morning because I had things to do. That’s racist because my life has goals I need to meet on a daily basis and progression in life is racist. Not kidding. Anti-racists are teaching that.
2. My bedroom is also the master bedroom. That’s racist because the bedroom is the “master”.
3. I pee in an American Standard toilet. This is racist because America is a systemically racist country and it is unequitable since other countries whose populations are of people of color do not have running water.
4. I drank two glasses of water. That racist because people of color can’t swim apparently and water is racist.
5. I put on jeans and a long sleeve shirt. My ensemble is racist because in is made of cotton and cotton is a symbol of slavery.
6. My T-shirt has an American flag which is racist because the flag represents oppression of people of color and systemic racism.
7. I went on a three-mile walk. That’s racist because white people walk differently than people of color making sidewalks a symbol of white supremacy.
8. I didn’t wear a mask which is racist because people of color are more susceptible to the China virus and I just don’t care.
9. Calling COVID-19 the China virus is racist against Chinese people.
10. I carried my walking stick that I always carry. That’s racist because my stick is made of oak and oak is a tree and trees symbolize lynching of black people, making trees racist.
11. I listen to Matt Walsh which is racist because he is a symbol of white supremacist hate.
12. When I go outside, I take deep breaths of the morning air. The air is racist because it is polluted, and pollution affects people of color far worse than white people.
13. When finishing my walk, I make a cup of coffee. Coffee is racist because it is cultivated and collected by oppressed and enslaved people in Latin American countries.
14. I watch the Ben Shapiro Show which is racist because Ben Shapiro is a symbol of white supremacist hate.
15. I write my blog post. That’s racist because it’s written in English which is the language of colonialism which destroyed the indigenous people.
16. I watch Louder with Crowder which is racist because Steven Crowder and his minions are symbols of white supremacist hate.
17. I record my podcast spewing my Conservative, racist, white supremacist hate.
18. I was hungry so I ate a 7-11 burrito made of jalapeño and beef. Extra spicy. That’s racist because its cultural appropriation of Latinx culture.
19. I drink water to cool my mouth after eating the extra spicy burrito. That racist because people of color can’t swim apparently and water is racist.
20. Josie came over for her lunch. I made her a grilled salami and cheese sandwich. That’s racist because she is Latinx and I expected her to be over because of my white privilege.
21. Josie peed in my American Standard toilet. This is racist because America is a symbol of systemic racism and it is unequitable since other countries whose populations are of people of color do not have running water.
22. It is also racist because I assumed Josie would be OK with peeing in a symbol of systemic racism and it is unequitable since other countries whose populations are of people of color do not have running water.
23. Josie kissed me goodbye. That is racist because I expected her to satisfy my desire with a kiss because of my white privilege. I think that’s also probably sexist.
24. I like to read and read a chapter from three different books. Reading is racist because it is attained through the education system and all systems are systemically racist.
26. I take a nap. This is racist because I have the white privilege to take a nap and I do it in my “master” bedroom…which is also racist.
27. I wake up and watch The Five on Fox News. This is racist because Fox News is a symbol of white supremacist hate.
28. The hockey playoff game starts, Tampa Bay versus the New York Islanders. This is racist because no one kneels in protest during the National Anthem.
29. I cheer as Tampa Bay wins 4-1. This is racist because the inequitable outcome of the game is representative of the inequitable outcomes between whites and people of color.
30. I make chicken and corn for dinner. Chicken is racist because chicken poop and fart creating carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide pollutes the air. Air pollution affects people of color disproportionately from white people.
31. Corn is racist because it is the food of indigenous people and eating it cultural appropriation.
32. I grilled the chicken and corn. That is racist because it adds carbon monoxide to the air. Air pollution affects people of color disproportionately from white people.
33. I have a couple of Budweisers to drink. That’s racist because Bud is an American beer (sort of) and America symbolizes the oppression of people of color and systemic racism.
34. The owner of the house gave me a Corona and we watched the basketball game. Corona is a Mexican beer so I was appropriating Mexican culture.
35. I decide to watch the movie Shaun of the Dead. This is racist because this British film does not have enough people of color.
36. Watching a British film is racist because of the colonialism of the British to America, exploiting the indigenous people.
37. I’m watching the movie outside and turn on my outside lights. That is racist because I bought the lights at Walmart. Walmart is racist because…well…it’s Walmart.
38. After I go to bed, I go inside and lock the door. This is racist because my implicit bias assumes a person of color will break into my place and rob me.
39. I go to bed. This is racist because I sleep in the “master” bedroom.
40. I fall asleep. This is racist because my white privilege allows me to relax enough to fall asleep.

How many of you actually find it insane that everything I do can be construed to racism? It didn’t even take me a long time to come up with this. I just had to remember my day and remember the past articles I have read. A simple Google search will validate everything I came up with has been thought of before.

It is so easy to demonize people.

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Episode 298 – Rest in Peace, Rush!

Rush Limbaugh passes away at the age of 70.

Texas is a mess and the Left can’t let a good tragedy go to waste.

And Trump lays into Mitch McConnell.

 

Rest in Peace, Rush!

Rush Limbaugh, the monumentally influential media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone, helping shape the modern-day Republican Party, died Wednesday morning at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.

Limbaugh’s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show. “Losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life,” she said. “Rush will forever be the greatest of all time.”

The radio icon learned he had Stage IV lung cancer in January 2020 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump at the State of the Union address days later. First lady Melania Trump then presented America’s highest civilian honor to Limbaugh in an emotional moment on the heels of his devastating cancer diagnosis.

Limbaugh is considered one of the most influential media figures in American history and has played a consequential role in conservative politics since “The Rush Limbaugh Show” began in 1988. Perched behind his Golden EIB (Excellence in Broadcasting) Microphone, Limbaugh spent over three decades as arguably both the most beloved and polarizing person in American media.

The program that began 33 years ago on national syndication with only 56 radio stations grew to be the most listened-to radio show in the United States, airing on more than 600 stations, according to the show’s website. Up to 27 million people tuned in on a weekly basis and Limbaugh has lovingly referred to his passionate fan base as “Dittoheads,” as they would often say “ditto” when agreeing with the iconic radio host.

Here is his farewell during his final broadcast.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-dead-talk-radio-conservative-icon

 

Disaster in Texas

What Happened?

Temperatures throughout the country have been plummeting. Right now, 74% of the country is suffering through freezing weather. Texas is being hit hardest.

In Texas, where temps are hitting 6 degrees. This is the coldest weather in Texas in over a hundred years. Needless to say, power to heat homes spiked and the entire power grid went down. As of this writing, 17 people have already died though more are expected to be found.

Ninety percent of Texas power comes from a company called ERCOT.  Texas governor, Greg Abbott said there will be an investigation. He said:

“This was a total failure by ERCOT. ERCOT stands for Electric Reliability Council of Texas … and they showed that they were not reliable. These are specialists, and government has to rely upon these specialists to be able to deliver in these types of situations.”

Never Let Disaster Go to Waste

Of course, AOC decided this is a perfect time to blame climate change and the fact that Texas did not have green energy.

She was called out almost immediately.

Here are the facts:

  • The power outage had a bunch of problems.
  • Coal and natural gas lines froze.
  • They have two nuclear reactors. One failed because of a frozen emergency sensor.
  • Solar panels were frozen over.
  • Windmills froze over.

 

What the Left is forgetting is that Texas generates the most power from wind in the country.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

The problem is Texas’s overreliance on wind power that has left the grid more vulnerable to bad weather. Half of wind turbines froze last week, causing wind’s share of electricity to plunge to 8% from 42%. Power prices in the wholesale market spiked, and grid regulators on Friday warned of rolling blackouts. Natural gas and coal generators ramped up to cover the supply gap but couldn’t meet the surging demand for electricity—which half of households rely on for heating—even as many families powered up their gas furnaces. Then some gas wells and pipelines froze.

In short, there wasn’t sufficient baseload power from coal and nuclear to support the grid. Baseload power is needed to stabilize grid frequency amid changes in demand and supply. When there’s not enough baseload power, the grid gets unbalanced and power sources can fail. The more the grid relies on intermittent renewables like wind and solar, the more baseload power is needed to back them up.

So, the baseload failed and it failed because there was not enough generation of power from reliable energy like coal, gas and nuclear.

According to ERCOT stats, even though gas and coal failed, wind and solar were a disaster. The only form of energy that performed was…nuclear.

Here are the stats:

  • Coal – 63%; Dependable 13,630 GW; Producing 8616
  • Gas – 61%; Dependable 52,523 GW, Producing 32,108
  • Nuclear – 80%; Dependable 5153 GW, Producing 4141
  • Wind – 45%; Dependable 7070 GW, Producing 3153
  • Solar – 0%; Dependable 304 GW, Producing 0

 

What is amazing is the Nameplate projections. Nameplate projections are what a company says their source will produce.

  • Coal, gas and nuclear are at 100%
  • Wind projects 28,755 GW but produces only 7070 GW. That’s 25%.
  • Solar predicts 4898 GW but only produces 304 GW. That’s 6%.

 

Here’s the thing: we should find alternate fuel sources. Oil is finite and too valuable a resource to burn. But, let the private sector do it. Government standards, regulation and fear mongering are not going to fix anything and will lead, dare I say it, to people dying.

Look at what we have done with the electric car. Five years ago, we could not drive to the grocery store without the damn things running out of juice. Now, we can drive tp Vegas on a single charge. It was the free market that innovates and creates. Not government. You think the private sector doesn’t want to be innovative?

  • Right now, the alternate energy ideas Leftists want to push are inefficient, expensive and actually harm the environment. I think depending on this and forcing everything to change in ten years is going to cost lives. Let technology grow.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abbott-orders-investigation-texas-energy-company-blackouts-freezing-temperatures
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-slams-texas-thats-what-happens-when-you-dont-pursue-a-green-new-deal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-political-making-of-a-texas-power-outage-11613518653?mod=opinion_lead_pos1

 

Trump Unloads

 

The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together with his lack of political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse. The Democrats and Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way! We know our America First agenda is a winner, not McConnell’s Beltway First agenda or Biden’s America Last.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-trashes-mitch-mcconnell-in-searing-new-statement

 

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-mainstream-media-love-affair-with-joe-biden
https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-fact-checkers-twist-themselves-in-knots-defending-bidens-town-hall-disaster
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-falsely-claims-we-didnt-have-a-vaccine-when-we-came-into-office

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/while-millions-not-in-school-biden-tells-girl-that-kids-are-safest-group-of-people-in-the-world

 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-taking-calls-with-foreign-leaders-on-behalf-of-biden-report

 

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Feb032021

Episode 288 – The 1619 Project

One thing I hate about our society, specifically on the Left, is how we are changing everything.

We have changed language. We have normalized in correct language like using “at” at the end of the sentence. We have changed definitions like how we did with the term “gender.” We have even changed the way we use pronouns referring to an individual as “they.”

We are trying to change science because of political correctness. A man wanting to be a woman means that he is a woman, no matter what his DNA says. Gender dysphoria is no longer a mental disorder. We are assigned gender, not born with it. And the world is going to end in 10 years because of weather.

But the worse thing we are doing is changing the history of the United States without adding context to the history of the world. The revision of our history is enunciating our dark moments without acknowledging our successes. The goal of this is to emphasize the failure of the United States and all its systems.

Enter the 1619 Project.

 

What is the 1619 Project?

There is a huge push to revise history within the United States. This revisionist push is not something that just happened in the last ten years. It has been around for almost a century. People like Howard Zinn have written histories that make the United States look like an imperialistic tyranny instead of a country that celebrates freedoms that have been given to us by God, not government.

In Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, a book that was touted by Matt Damon who played a genius in Good Will Hunting, blamed all evils in history on the United States. Slavery, the Native American crisis, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, the wars in the Middle East, even terrorism was all because of the imperialism of the United States. Many of Zinn’s findings were actually debunked by real historians. In fact, there is an entire book written that destroys all of Zinn’s arguments. But this doesn’t matter to the Leftists. The book is being touted as a legitimate history of the United States and has found its way into out high schools and colleges as mandatory reading.

In 2019, another document that tries to revise American history was released: The 1619 Project. According to Wikipedia.com:

The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine which “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the United States‘ national narrative”.[1] The project was first published in August 2019 for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the Virginia colony.[2] The project later included a broadsheet article, live events, and a podcast.

 

It is not a year that most Americans know as a notable date in our country’s history. Those who do are at most a tiny fraction of those who can tell you that 1776 is the year of our nation’s birth. What if, however, we were to tell you that this fact, which is taught in our schools and unanimously celebrated every Fourth of July, is wrong, and that the country’s true birth date, the moment that its defining contradictions first came into the world, was in late August of 1619? Though the exact date has been lost to history (it has come to be observed on Aug. 20), that was when a ship arrived at Point Comfort in the British colony of Virginia, bearing a cargo of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s very origin.

Out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal system and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that continue to plague it to this day. The seeds of all that were planted long before our official birth date, in 1776, when the men known as our founders formally declared independence from Britain.

The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year.  Doing so requires us to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. Perhaps you need some persuading. The issue contains essays on different aspects of contemporary American life, from mass incarceration to rush-hour traffic, that have their roots in slavery and its aftermath.

Each essay takes up a modern phenomenon, familiar to all, and reveals its history. The first, by the staff writer Nikole Hannah- Jones (from whose mind this project sprang), provides the intellectual framework for the project and can be read as an introduction. Alongside the essays, you will find 17 literary works that bring to life key moments in African-American history. These works are all original compositions by contemporary black writers who were asked to choose events on a timeline of the past 400 years. The poetry and fiction they created is arranged chronologically throughout the issue, and each work is introduced by the history to which the author is responding. A word of warning: There is gruesome material in these pages, material that readers will find disturbing. That is, unfortunately, as it must be. American history cannot be told truthfully without a clear vision of how inhuman and immoral the treatment of black Americans has been. By acknowledging this shameful history, by trying hard to understand its powerful influence on the present, perhaps we can prepare ourselves for a more just future. That is the hope of this project.

The Goals of the Project

 

This is a complete rewrite of American history. Its goal is to:

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  • Become the new education tool of American history.
  • Change the way our children think about America. They will be our leaders one day. The goal is to change the culture so the future generations will change it politically. Politics is always down stream of culture.
  • Blame America for slavery. Slavery has been around forever and still exists.
  • Make it only that blacks made America what it is today and ignore what we did as a nation.
  • America is evil and must be changed. That includes eliminating our philosophy, accomplishments and successes.
  • Ignore our real history and the struggles we went through to become the successful country we are.
  • Makes racism systemic. It’s not.
  • It ignores the struggles this country went through, black and white, to get where we are today.
  • It ignores how far we’ve come.
  • Demonize an entire race; the white race. This is a document on black supremacy. This is dangerous. When you demonize a skin color, you end up with slavery, gulags and holocausts. Isn’t this what they are fighting against?
  • Ignore that whites are diverse. We are English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Russian, German and many others.
  • Ignore the sins of other civilizations including African and Muslim civilizations.

 

This is some really dangerous stuff. This is changing U.S. history in order to demonize a country, its citizens and the system:

  • Justifies cancel culture. This will kill the economy, kill innovation and kill national pride.
  • Promotes a complete change to the system of the most successful country in world history.
  • Justifies the persecution of those who don’t agree.
  • Creates race superiority.
  • Justifies policies that will hurt the economy of this country, further pushing the need for socialism. Socialism leads to tyranny.

 

Oops! It Ain’t that Accurate

 

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According to the Wall Street Journal article by Elliot Kaufman:

‘So wrong in so many ways” is how Gordon Wood, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution, characterized the New York Times’s “1619 Project.” James McPherson, dean of Civil War historians and another Pulitzer winner, said the Times presented an “unbalanced, one-sided account” that “left most of the history out.” Even more surprising than the criticism from these generally liberal historians was where the interviews appeared: on the World Socialist Web Site, run by the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Party.

A September essay for the World Socialist Web Site called the project a “racialist falsification” of history. That didn’t get much attention, but in November the interviews with the historians went viral. “I wish my books would have this kind of reaction,” Mr. Wood says in an email. “It still strikes me as amazing why the NY Times would put its authority behind a project that has such weak scholarly support.” He adds that fellow historians have privately expressed their agreement. Mr. McPherson coolly describes the project’s “implicit position that there have never been any good white people, thereby ignoring white radicals and even liberals who have supported racial equality.”

The project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is proud that it “decenters whiteness” and disdains its critics as “old, white male historians.” She tweeted of Mr. McPherson: “Who considers him preeminent? I don’t.” Her own qualifications are an undergraduate degree in history and African-American studies and a master’s in journalism. She says the project goes beyond Mr. McPherson’s expertise, the Civil War. “For the most part,” she writes in its lead essay, “black Americans fought back alone” against racism. No wonder she’d rather not talk about the Civil War.

When called out by the socialist organization, Nicole Hannah-Jones doubled-down using race as her justification:

To the Trotskyists, Ms. Hannah-Jones writes: “You all have truly revealed yourselves for the anti-black folks you really are.” She calls them “white men claiming to be socialists.” Perhaps they’re guilty of being white men, but they’re definitely socialists. Their faction, called the Workers League until 1995, was “one of the most strident and rigid Marxist groups in America” during the Cold War, says Harvey Klehr, a leading historian of American communism.

“Ours is not a patriotic, flag-waving kind of perspective,” says Thomas Mackaman, the World Socialist Web Site’s interviewer and a history professor at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He simply recognizes that the arrival of 20 slaves in 1619 wasn’t a “world-altering event.” Slavery had existed across the world for millennia, and there were already slaves elsewhere in what would become the U.S. before 1619.

But “even if you want to make slavery the central story of American history,” he says, the Times gets it backward. The American Revolution didn’t found a “slavocracy,” as Ms. Hannah-Jones puts it. Instead, in Mr. Mackaman’s telling, it “brought slavery in for questioning in a way that had never been done before” by “raising universal human equality as a fundamental principle.” Nor was protecting slavery “one of the primary reasons” the colonists declared independence, as Ms. Hannah-Jones claims. It’s no coincidence the abolitionists rapidly won votes to end slavery in five of the original 13 states, along with Vermont and the new states of the Midwest.

Ms. Hannah-Jones insists “anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country.” Mr. Mackaman calls that claim “anti-historical.” Proving it requires her to belittle the most progressive declaration of modern history: “that all men are created equal.” Ms. Hannah-Jones calls this a “lie” and claims its drafters didn’t even believe it. The abolitionists disagreed. So did Martin Luther King Jr: He saw it as a “promissory note.”

Other things that the 1619 Project gets wrong:

  • Sociologist Matthew Desmond marshals substantially discredited research to tar the whole of American capitalism as a legacy of slavery.
  • Legal activist Bryan Stevenson presents the war on drugs and broken-windows policing as successors to lynching, the Black Codes and other white “strategies of racial control.”
  • Joseph Kishore, the Socialist Equality Party’s national secretary, says the “1619 Project” is aimed at legitimizing the politics of the Democratic Party and at “dividing workers” by race.

 

Other issues about the 1619 Project come from The Atlantic, far from a right-wing publication. They did try to ease the conflict but pointed out that the conflict was started by real historians who had issue with the layman’s history created by the doocument:

Several weeks ago, the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, who had criticized the 1619 Project’s “cynicism”in a lecture in November, began quietly circulating a letter objecting to the project, and some of Hannah-Jones’s work in particular. The letter acquired four signatories—James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes, all leading scholars in their field. They sent their letter to three top Times editors and the publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, on December 4. A version of that letter was published on Friday, along with a detailed rebuttal from Jake Silverstein, the editor of the Times Magazine.

  • The letter sent to the Timessays, “We applaud all efforts to address the foundational centrality of slavery and racism to our history,” but then veers into harsh criticism of the 1619 Project. The letter refers to “matters of verifiable fact” that “cannot be described as interpretation or ‘framing’” and says the project reflected “a displacement of historical understanding by ideology.” Wilentz and his fellow signatories didn’t just dispute the Times Magazine’s interpretation of past events, but demanded corrections.

The letter is rooted in a vision of American history as a slow, uncertain march toward a more perfect union. The 1619 Project, and Hannah-Jones’s introductory essay in particular, offer a darker vision of the nation, in which Americans have made less progress than they think, and in which black people continue to struggle indefinitely for rights they may never fully realize. Inherent in that vision is a kind of pessimism, not about black struggle but about the sincerity and viability of white anti-racism. It is a harsh verdict, and one of the reasons the 1619 Project has provoked pointed criticism alongside praise.

Americans need to believe that, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, the arc of history bends toward justice. And they are rarely kind to those who question whether it does.

 

What Does This Document Ignore?

This document ignores a lot of things.

  • From a history standpoint, the Africans brought over in 1619 weren’t slaves, they were indentured servants. That sucked too. But, after a time, they were freed and given land. Some of those same blacks brought over in 1619, owned land as freeman and owned slaves. Chattel slavery did not really start until later in the century.
  • It ignores that the English Puritans and Spanish colonists did not support any type of slavery. Christopher Columbus got into trouble with Queen Isabella for sending 500 Haitian slaves back to Spain. He was arrested and the slaves were immediately freed and sent home.
  • The Founding Fathers did debate ending slavery with the new Constitution. George Washington actually freed his slaves. Slavery is mentioned in the Federalist Papers. But, because the south depended on slavery and the Union needed to remain unified, the Founding Fathers decided to deal with slavery later.
  • The abolition movement in the United States started right after the Revolutionary War and picked up steam in the early 1800s, well before the Civil War.
  • It ignores the individual and puts individuals into groups based on race. This is evil. This racist. This was done during slavery and Jim Crow. It was also done in Nazi Germany, done in Cuba by the Leftist-revered Che Guevara and is currently being done in China with the Uyghers.
  • Likewise, it groups whites as a single race and all with the same privilege. This is racist. It doesn’t acknowledge that whites also were in their own little castes within the United States. Germans, Irish and Italians are all white ethnicities but were seen as lower class compared to the northern European races. They were treated pretty badly. Jews, also white, were treated with disdain. But none of that matters, they’re all white.
  • It ignores individual’s capacity. If a black man can only get a job as a ditch digger, it is because of racial inequity. If a white man is a ditch digger, it is ignored. There is never an acknowledgement that each have their own abilities.
  • If there is systemic racism in the United States, where is it? What evidence is there? We were systemically racist before the Civil Rights Act but where is it now?
  • It ignores that times have changed and that history is flat within the United States. According to the 1619 Project, blacks have it just as bad today than they did during slavery and Jim Crow which is just ridiculous.
  • It states that all technology and feats achieved by the United States have been abled by slavery, giving blacks credit in areas that just are not true. The light bulb, electricity, space flight, the Internet, computing, cars, television, astrophysics, the plane and jets and other forms of technology are all because of slavery. None of this stuff has anything to do with slavery.
  • The document has no problem stating what America has done wrong but ignores what America has done right throughout history to fix their sins. The Civil War, Women’s Suffrage, reparations for the Japanese interned during World War II and the Civil Rights Act. These never happened and, if acknowledged as significant times in American history, would make America a country that acknowledges its sins.
  • It also brings up the rich black culture and how it affected American culture. Now this is true. Blacks have a great culture that I embrace including dance, blues and jazz music and literature. But American culture seems to be forgotten. Whites had some culture also. Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, John Wayne and Elvis might have a say about that.
  • It ignores the success that blacks have had in this country. Ophra Winfrey is worth billions of dollars. Would she have done that in another country? LeBron James, who is no genius and continually bitches about equity, is worth a billion dollars. Everyone who added to the 1619 Project has a degree is black and from Harvard or Princeton. Does it sound like these people are being oppressed? Stop it.
  • Didn’t mankind have slavery throughout its history? Weren’t the pyramids of Egypt built from slave labor? Weren’t the pyramids of Mexico and South America built on slave labor? Doesn’t China still have slave labor? Not sure? Where the hell do you think your f-ing iPhone came from?
  • Finally, why is there an equity problem in the black community? Why are blacks not earning as much as whites (or Asians)? Why are blacks jailed in disproportionate numbers than any other races including Hispanics? Because of systemic white racism? Then why aren’t there more Asians and Hispanics in jails? Why are white men still the majority in jails and prisons? And what are the examples of unjust imprisonment? None of this is answered. It’s just stated and that’s it.

 

What is the Goal of this Document?

Not sure who said it but some said, outside of 2+2=4, that math can be manipulated to show whatever you want to show. Physics, with the math in the right places, can prove that an elephant can hang off a cliff with its tail tied around a daisy. Well, so it is with history.

This is pure revisionist history. The document admits it. It is revising history to teach the truth. Problem with revisionist history is it adds what “historians” want you to know and leaves out what they want you to forget. The problems with the 1619 Project: It adds stuff that, flat out, isn’t true and leaves out most of true American history. I think it is a good idea to go through all of the history of the New World and the United States. I think U.S. history starts well before the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.

This document is to change our culture. It is to teach our children the fallacy that the United States is evil, always has been and always will be. The United States is systemically racist. The Left wants that philosophy bled into the institutions: the news media, entertainment and, especially, the education system. Once in the culture, it is a short trip to politics.

Once in politics the system can be changed.

 

What Do We Do?

The Left wants to “counter” systemic racism by, you got it, implementing systemic racism. But the racism will go in a different direction. Let’s listen to Joe Biden, who, in this statement, is promoting systemic racism:

That is promoting systemic racism. Help everyone except white people. Maybe the government will help white women.

When the government will benefit one race over another, that is systemic racism.

When the government supports the change of history to demonize a race, that is systemic racism.

When the government condemns and prosecutes white rioters at the capital building but ignores the $3 billion in damage by BLM and Antifa because of “racial justice,” that is systemic racism.

So what do we do who are concerned with this very disturbing turn of events:

  • Read the Bible and go to church. Many of our philosophies are based on the Judeo-Christian philosophy. Our rights came from God, not government. You might as well know what God said. Include your children. They will need a moral base because they are not going to get it from public school.
  • Read the Declaration of Independence. This document defines who we are as a nation. It is never changing. We are to be in 2021 that we were defined to be in 1776. Make sure your children know about it. Teach them. They won’t get it in public school.
  • Read the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and all the Amendments. This document is the law of the land and gives us the exact process to lead us to be what is defined in the Declaration of Independence. Know that was not defined in the Constitution is a state’s right. Abortion: Not a Constitutional right. Make sure your children know about it. Teach them. They won’t get it in public school.
  • Devour history books. Read history from all sides. I have read Howard Zinn’s The People’s History of the United States. It was crappy and filled with lies, but that’s what your children are learning in school. I like Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s A Patriot’s History of the United States because it is a far more detailed history of America, both positive and negative, and will counter the Leftist narrative on history. Talk to your children about American history. Learn what they are learning and teach them how to be critical of what they learn. They won’t get any counter arguments in public school.
  • Home schooling is not a thing for everyone. It’s just not possible. But talk to your children. Teach them. Teach them morality, religion, history, math and English. They ain’t learning it is public school. Make them read Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and JD Salinger. Their books are banned in public school.

We need to take over the culture. The only way we do it is teach our children.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-1619-project-gets-schooled-11576540494
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project

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Episode 276 – The Skinney

Tell me if you think

Not a great speech. But does any of this sound like sedition? No.

Trump has been banned from Facebook.

Trump has been banned from Instagram.

Trump has been banned from Twitter.

The AG for Washington D.C. has not thrown out the idea of prosecuting Trump for sedition.

And the House is about to impeach Trump again…with eleven days left in his Presidency.

2020 might have ended but the insanity has just started.

Sad and Scary

A witness to the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbit told a local news station that the 35-year-old woman was shot by police after she “rushed to the windows” of the U.S. Capitol as officers told protesters to get back.

According to the news report, Babbit’s husband, Aaron Babbit, saw graphic video clips of the incident and tried to get ahold of his wife, fearing it was her who was injured. Later, the victim was confirmed to be his wife.

Aaron said Babbit, a 14-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, went to D.C. to protest alone. He planned on picking her up later in the week.

I know this is not going to be a popular opinion but I did see the video. Babbit was ordered by the Capital Police to stand down. She crawled on someone’s shoulders and tried to enter. She was shot in the neck and died a short time later. She didn’t listen to police and was breaking the law. The fact she is a Conservative and is a 14-year veteran of the Air Force does not change the fact she was breaking the law and refused to listen to police. She was shot. It was a justified shoot. I’m sorry she dies but, if she had been allowed to do what she was trying to do, more would have done it.

Now that I think the police were justified in shooting an unarmed white woman who was breaking the law, I feel it is appropriate to question the bad.

Sixty police officers were injured and one died of a medical condition. He had some sort of medical condition. Two other rioters dies of medical conditions. There were 68 arrests of rioters.

The explosive devices found at the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee’s officers in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday were reportedly real.

Sources told ABC News late Wednesday that investigators were analyzing the remnants of the devices to find clues about their construction and conducting chemical tests. The investigation is ongoing.

He also said a cooler with a long-gun and molotov cocktails was also recovered from the area around the Capitol. According to The New York Times, a 70-year-old Alabama man was arrested while in possession of molotov cocktail materials and a weapon.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-witness-recounts-fatal-shooting-of-35-year-old-ashli-babbit
https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-explosives-found-at-rnc-and-dnc-locations-near-capitol-were-real

Dozens Arrested in Aftermath of Capitol Riot DC Mayor Calls ‘Textbook Terrorism’

 

Where the Hell Were the Police?

Though the building was soon secured, with protesters arrested or removed, many Americans were left wondering: where’s all the security?

Ahead of the protest, federal authorities reportedly wanted to maintain a “minimally visible presence” to “avoid inflaming tensions,” after months of violent protests and riots in cities across America.

Despite advanced knowledge of the impending protest, United States Capitol Police — the federal law enforcement agency tasked with protecting the complex — declined to request additional support ahead of time from the Department of Homeland Security, according to one senior official.

The lack of manpower was evident in footage posted to Twitter which appeared to show the moment rioters first breached the perimeter set up by Capitol Police.

Terry Gainer, the former Capitol Police Chief, told NPR:

“We lost control of the steps and the areas around the exterior of the Capitol where the skin of the Capitol can be a bit more vulnerable because we don’t anticipate that vigilantes and riotous people are up there that close.”

The National Guard finally arrived and the controlled the scene.

According to The Wall Street Journal:

“Optics” were the main reason National Guardsmen weren’t closer to the Capitol grounds to begin with. “They wanted to avoid the optics of having any U.S. military personnel on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and ordered the officers to avoid straying east of 9th Street in downtown Washington, blocks from the Capitol grounds, officials said.”

Timothy Dimoff, a former SWAT team member who now operates an independent security consulting company, said:

“They knew this group was coming, they knew it was going to be enormous, but they didn’t do any preparation.”

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), chair of the committee which funds the Capitol Police, said:

“It’s pretty clear that there’s going to be a number of people who are going to be without employment very, very soon. Lack of professional planning and dealing with what we knew was going to occur.”

So far, and this won’t be the last story, the police chief of the Washington DC police has resigned. Here’s a news flash: Probably not his fault. Rumor has it Muriel Bowser, who thinks this is a reason for Washington D.C. into a state that she leads as governor, has told the police to stand down throughout the BLM riots. I may be cynical but I’m pretty sure that’s what happened on Wednesday. Heck, she told 500 National Guard troops to stand down.

This is a complicated issue. More investigations, which are worthless, are on the horizon.

The media will blame the following:

  • Trump
  • Conservatives
  • The police

Republican leadership

They’re not going to blame Muriel Bowser, who is using this as an excuse to make her city a state and, therefore, her a governor.

They’re not going to blame to conditioning of the police, who were made to stand back in every riot for the past six months. If a police officer defended himself, he was a racist and lost his job.

They’re not going to blame the media who said that the only way a message could be received is by violent riots.

Remember this?

This is whataboutism and I hate it. Here’s the thing: the police do not celebrate whataboutism. The police are just going to do what they need to do not to get into trouble. That’s it.

The problem with the media is that there hypocrisy is causing this. They justify riots. The accept riots. Now, Conservatives riot and it’s not OK after five months and billions of dollars of damage from Antifa and BLM riots?.

Well, here’s the thing: It’s not OK. It’s not OK when Conservatives riot. It’s not OK when BLM riots. It’s not OK when Antifa riots. The media needs to be consistent to have any legitimacy. But they’re not legitimate so that’s not going to happen anytime soon.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-was-the-security
https://www.dailywire.com/news/dc-capitol-police-defend-riot-response-protesters-armed-with-pipes-and-chemical-irritants-60-officers-injured
https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-vow-to-investigate-police-response-preparedness-after-capitol-breach

 

Are We Seriously Doing This Again?

Just listen:

On Monday, Nancy Pelosi is set to submit articles of impeachment on Monday if Trump doesn’t resign immediately. Trump is set to give up power in eleven days.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-cabinet-considering-removing-him-from-office-multiples-aides-resign-reports-say
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-gop-rep-urges-pence-cabinet-to-invoke-25th-amendment-after-capitol-riots-says-trump-unfit
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-calls-on-pence-cabinet-to-invoke-25th-amendment-remove-trump-from-office
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-push-to-impeach-trump-over-capitol-riots
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-08/pelosi-pledges-to-proceed-with-impeachment-proceedings

 

The Media, Ugh!

Do I really need to do this again? Yeah, because it’s just going to get worse. I think I need to be able to say, “Remember this?”

This first cut talks about the riots, and there were over 500 of them, from May to September and beyond. These riots were run by BLM and Antifa, caused $2 billion in damage and injured 600 police officers. Thousands of businesses were destroyed and we were in the middle of a pandemic. But, as we have found, the China Virus is “woke.” Listen:

Now, this cut is the same media talking about the riot, and it was a riot, protesting Trump’s loss. By the way, the only riot started by a right-wing group. Listen:

See the difference?

Thank you Grabien.

 

This is What We Must Remember

This is completely correct from Marco Rubio.

This is what we must remember.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rubios-emotional-speech-we-have-forgotten-that-america-is-not-a-government

 

 

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Episode 261 – The Truth is Out There…

The fight for the vote continues. The Trump administration does score a victory in court but could it be too little, too late?

Trump is going to make it so that Americans get the China virus vaccine before the citizens in other countries. This is much to the chagrin of the Biden administration.

We need a law that says we have to be alive to vote? Yep, that’s a thing.

And the little green men made me talk about this.

 

RIP Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager, famed pilot, died at 97 years old.

Became the first person to ever break the sound barrier when he flew the Bell X-1 rocket 700 mph in October 1947.

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.

Yeager enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1941 as a mechanic and, within two years, was flying combat missions in England against Nazi Germany.

In 1944, Yeager was shot down over France and, while in the country, he aided the French Resistance. Also in 1944, Yeager was credited with shooting down four planes in one day on two separate occasions.

Yeager, who also flew combat missions in both the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Godspeed to a true American hero whose work prepared us to get into space.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-legendary-u-s-air-force-pilot-chuck-yeager-dies-at-97

 

A Small Win But the Window is Closing

A Michigan judge is allowing a forensic investigation of 22 Dominion vote tabulation machines in rural Antrim County amid claims that votes there were compromised.

Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign attorney, said:

“Our team is going to be able to go in this morning at about 8:30 and will be there for about eight hours to conduct that forensic examination and we’ll have the results in about 48 hours, and that’ll tell us a lot about these machines,” attorney Jenna Ellis said on “Fox & Friends”.

Rudi G. Tweeted:

The order from Judge Kevin Elsenheimer stems from a challenge made by voter William Bailey, who alleges that ballots were damaged during a recounting of ballots in a village marijuana proposal that narrowly passed.

Elsenheimer’s order does not mention the presidential race. The county did, however, draw controversy after an error initially showed that President-elect Joe Biden won, even though Trump was later shown to have won by several thousand votes.

Now, this is not a direct victory for the Trump campaign. Heck, it doesn’t even deal with the Presidential campaign. But this order will look at the machines that Sydney Powell has been bitching about since Trump’s supposed loss. We might get some answers here.

Listen, I don’t know if Trump’s legal team is going to be able to pull this off. My mind tells me that they won’t. There is too much to prove in too many places. Evidence that we should have seen last week is finally being released. It is damning. It shows real fraud. It shows this past election was compromised. It shows Joe Biden was handed this election. A lot of people, including a lot of Democrats, think his election was fixed.

How do we know this is true? Because the media is telling us how clean this election is. And because there is a lot of evidence.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-legal-team-michigan-antrim-county-judge-order-dominion-machines

 

He’s President for Another Six Weeks

I know that President Trump has been telling people that he will win the Presidency even though he seems to be down by a lot. But he is taking steps to deal with some of the important things before he smoothly transitions out of office. Both of these steps are really going to give Joe Biden a headache when he jumps into office.

The first thing Trump did is sign an executive order that states that any China virus vaccine that was made in the United States must be made available to Americans first before being shipped out of country.

A Trump official said:

“The priority is to make sure we distribute these vaccines to Americans before we start shipping them around the world to get international access.”

The executive order comes in contrast to what Biden coronavirus adviser Dr. Zeke Emanuel has proposed doing which is to give the vaccine to other nations before all Americans have an opportunity to receive it.

Fox News reported:

“Emanuel, who served as a key architect of the Affordable Care Act under the Obama administration, co-authored a paper in September in which he encouraged officials to follow the ‘Fair Priority Model,’ which calls for a ‘fair international distribution of vaccine,’ rather than what he and his co-authors characterized as ‘vaccine nationalism. The model allows the country that produces the vaccine to hold onto enough of a supply to keep the transmission rate below 1%, but says that beyond that, the vaccine should be distributed internationally. That means giving away or selling doses of the vaccine before it’s available to every citizen in that country, Emanuel explained to Scientific American.”

Now I do want to make sure you remember. Zeke Emanuel is the one that said no one over 75 (or was it 70) should be provided anything because those folks have nothing more to provide society. How very Marxist of him.

This also puts Biden in an uncomfortable position. Contrary to what people think, Biden is not a lover of the United States. He is a globalist and has directly said that several times in his criticism of Trump. He worries about what other countries think of us and not about the people of this country. The media really screwed us up on this. A “nationalist” is considered a racist (confusing it with “white nationalist”) instead of being seen as an “America first” philosophy. A globalist is seen as a peacemaker though it is closer to a communist. Other countries don’t give a shit about us. Trump pointed this out and put other countries in their places. Biden is going to appease other countries like he did with China and he will do by joining the Paris Climate Accord.

Professor Jonathan Turley, no friend of Trump, said the decision to revoke Trump’s executive order could be a disaster:

“Biden would need to rescind the executive order, which would present serious political issues. The issue could also play badly for Democrats in the Georgia races. Like the special counsel appointment, this could prove positively Machiavellian. The order could also raise some interesting legal issues as these companies take foreign orders. There are transnational companies with cooperative agreements. This could present conflicts if the U.S demands not just an ‘America First’ position in distribution but production.”

But Trump went a step further.

You heard me mention, last week, that the federal government had loosened the ways the death penalty could be implemented. That included lethal gas, electrocution and even firing squad (my favorite as a way to die quickly).

The Trump administration has recently accelerated the pace of federal executions, planning to put five inmates to death before Inauguration Day.

According to the Associated Press, if each case moves forward as scheduled, President Donald J. Trump would “cement” his “legacy as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years.”

I’m pretty sure Trump will be remembered as more than an execution President but whatever.

According to the Daily Wire:

Biden said he would push to eliminate federal executions if elected and create incentives for states to do the same. He has expressed regret for a 1994 crime bill he co-authored that, in part, expanded the types of crimes eligible for the death sentence to include offenses like kidnappings and carjackings.

AG Bill Barr said to the AP:

“I think the way to stop the death penalty is to repeal the death penalty. But if you ask juries to impose and juries impose it, then it should be carried out.”

What?! But that means Congress would have to do their jobs!

He’s absolutely correct. The death penalty has been around for hundreds of years. A person should know that if you kill a pregnant woman and stab her corpse in the abdomen to verify the fetus is dead, that is a crime that could get you a needle. By the way, that is a real crime committed by Lisa Montgomery who is scheduled to be terminated before January 20th.

According to Barr, and me, the death penalty is not a moral issue. It is a legal issue. It is a legal punishment for really bad people. Law and morality have nothing to do with each other.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-sign-coronavirus-vaccine-executive-order-that-will-put-pressure-on-biden
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-administration-ramps-up-pace-of-federal-executions-in-coming-weeks

 

This is Just Fun

In Vermont:

It’s illegal in Vermont to prohibit clotheslines. The law forbids regulations that prohibit “clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources.”

In Tennessee:

According to the Tennessee Constitution, it’s illegal to hold public office if a person does any of the following: “fight a duel, or knowingly be the bearer of a challenge to fight a duel, or send or accept a challenge for that purpose, or be an aider or abettor in fighting a duel.”

How about this one. From the state of New Jersey:

If you’re planning to commit a serious crime in New Jersey, leave your bulletproof vest at home. According to state law, it’s a third-degree crime to wear a body vest while “engaged in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit murder, manslaughter, robbery, sexual assault, burglary, kidnapping, criminal escape or assault.”

I want to thank USA Today for this crazy list. It’s amazing the stupid laws we come up with.

The reason stupid laws are created is because someone did something really weird. Here’s a law that we don’t have in any state throughout the country: You need to be alive to vote. Ahh but we could be on the precipice of fixing this.

According to the Daily Wire:

Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) last week proposed a new bill — the “You Must Be Alive to Vote Act” (let’s call it YMBAVA).

YMBAVA’s intent is simple: “To require States to obtain information from Social Security Administration on deaths for purposes of voter registration list maintenance, and for other purposes.”

“The right to vote is one of the most vital pillars of our democracy, the foundations of which are election integrity and confidence in our democratic processes. The ease with which someone is able to steal the ballot of a deceased person and cast an illegitimate vote should disturb, alarm, and outrage every American citizen, no matter what side of the aisle they sit on. To protect our democratic process and Americans’ faith in our elections, we must ensure that deceased individuals are not allowed to remain on state voter rolls.”

“My bill will prevent any funds from the U.S. Departments of Transportation or Education, with the exception of those going toward law enforcement agency grants, from going to counties of any state that do not annually check their voter lists against the Social Security Administration’s most recent death records in order to purge them of any individuals found to be deceased. All elected officials, from your local city council member to your U.S. President, have an obligation to obey the law and prevent fraud in our elections, and Congress should not be awarding taxpayer dollars to any counties or states that refuse to do the job they swore to do.”

I’m not sure where this law goes. Who are we going to convict when Abe Lincoln votes in the next election? It’s insanity that this has to be made a law and I’m not sure how this is going to work.

God, we are getting dumber and dumber as a civilization. Do you know what’s really dumb? This law could actually be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Let’s face it, no where in the Constitution does it say you have to be alive to vote. Only that you need to be an American citizen and be over 18 years of age.

Just think about that.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-introduces-bill-requiring-voters-to-be-alive-to-cast-ballots
https://www.usatoday.com/list/news/nation-now/weirdest-laws-every-state/53ad0541-3518-4432-adc4-0fec193d389e/

 

Could This Be A Thing?

The chariots of the gods are really whooping those ponies in the last month.

First, the Serious

There are still 24 days left in 2020, so of course there’s time for something that hasn’t occurred in nearly 800 years.

Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in the solar system, will soon line up and look like a double planet, a sight not seen since the Middle Ages.

The rare celestial event will occur after sunset on Dec. 21, 2020, the start of the winter solstice.

Rice University astronomer Patrick Hartigan said in a statement:

“Alignments between these two planets are rather rare, occurring once every 20 years or so, but this conjunction is exceptionally rare because of how close the planets will appear to one another. You’d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky.”

“On the evening of closest approach on Dec 21 they will look like a double planet, separated by only 1/5th the diameter of the full moon. For most telescope viewers, each planet and several of their largest moons will be visible in the same field of view that evening.”

I love astronomy. This is a big event. If you don’t have a telescope, no problem. Regular binoculars will work. I have astronomy binoculars with a tripod. So I’ll get a good look at the planets and their moons though I do not have a light filter so viewing may prove too bright.

But one doesn’t need anything to see it. Just look in the sky at dusk towards the southwest, hopefully it will be clear, and the brightest star(s) you see will be Jupiter and Saturn. They will be very bright.

Go look, it’ll be awesome.

 

Hmm, Alien Mystery?

over the past couple of month, two triangular-shaped monoliths, each about 10 feet high and about 200 pounds have been found in the woods of Utah and California.

The one in Utah was the first found. Non one knows how it got there and there were no clues as to what it is meant to be. The police did look at it and did a little investigation. It remained a mystery until it, as quickly as it appeared, it disappeared. In its place was left a profane message. A witness does claim he saw four men drag the monolith off.

The other, located on top of Pine Mountain, California.

Atascadero News reported:

“The object was welded together at each corner, with rivets attaching the side panels to a likely steel frame inside. The top of the monument did not show any weld marks, and it appears to be hollow at the top, and possibly bottom,” the paper wrote, estimating that it weighs 200 pounds.

“The City of Atascadero was made aware of the object, and there is no current information about the future of the monument. Being that the obelisk is hundreds of pounds and not attached to the ground, it is possible to fall if pushed and The Atascadero News cautions hikers when near the object,” wrote the News.

This one doesn’t sound like a real alien artifact. I’m pretty sure E.T. wouldn’t need to weld anything or use bolts. I also know that E.T. is kind of a caring guy and wouldn’t want his space antenna to land on Eliot. So, I’m pretty sure that this was dropped off by a couple of guys. But people love this stuff and love the mystery.

And that brings us to the last story.

They’re Out There

According to the Daily Wire:

Retired Israeli Gen. and current professor Haim Eshed told a newspaper in Israel that not only are aliens real, but that the U.S. and Israeli governments have been working with them and President Donald Trump was recently on the verge of confirming their existence.

Eshed, who retired in 2011 as the head of the Defense Ministry’s Space Division, “served as the head of Israel’s space security program for nearly 30 years and is a three-time recipient of the Israel Security Award,” The Jerusalem Post reported. He “explained that Israel and the US have both been dealing with aliens for years.”

Eshed reportedly told Yediot Aharonot:

The UFOs have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet. Trump was on the verge of revealing, but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying: Wait, let people calm down first. They don’t want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understanding.

Wow. I mean, just wow. This guy is 87-years old and had no evidence. It comes right after Trump declassified some documents that discussed Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)

Trump was asked about UFOs by Fox News. He said:

“Well I’m gonna have to check on that. I mean, I’ve heard that. I heard that two days ago, so I’ll check on that. I’ll take a good, strong look at that.”

“I will tell you this. We now have created a military, the likes of which we’ve never had before in terms of equipment. The equipment that we have, the weapons that we have — and hopefully, hope to God we never have to use them.”

What I get out of that is we have a lot of technology and what people are probably seeing is our new defense technology. Some other politicians are concerned about UFOs but not for fear of little green men. They fear this could be technology foreign and it is a national security issue for these things being in the air and we don’t know what they are.

What do I get out of this? We probably don’t have to worry about war of the worlds.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/jupiter-saturn-will-soon-form-first-visible-double-planet-in-nearly-800-years
https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-head-of-israels-space-division-aliens-are-real-trump-was-on-the-verge-of-confirming
https://www.dailywire.com/news/appearance-of-mysterious-monoliths-around-the-world-finally-explained-sort-of
https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-details-emerge-about-the-disappearance-of-mysterious-monolith-found-in-utah-wilderness
https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-mysterious-monolith-appears-this-one-atop-californias-pine-mountain

 

 

 

 

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/24/21579357/parler-explained-twitter-facebook-censorship-donald-trump

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Apr142020

Episode 155 Show Notes – Happy Easter!

Easter is a very special time for Christians like me. This is a special time because of the Wuhan flu. And I don’t think it is a bad thing.

Let’s talk about Easter in the middle of a global pandemic.

 

An Easter Message

I’m a big fan of Easter. The reason is it is very difficult for the secular commercial industry to put their spin on it that makes it a Hallmark card holiday like they did with other holidays.

I know they tried to make it about bunnies and chocolate eggs. I think that failed because the thought of a rabbit giving kids a chocolate egg is kind of disgusting. It just doesn’t work.

I start my Easter week as I have since I was a kid. I just think of what happened and how it has affected the world. It starts on Good Friday when Jesus was crucified. I get a visual every year by watching Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ. That’s a movie that puts me in my place every year. It forces me to realize the suffering Jesus went through. It’s hard to disconnect the celebration of Easter with the suffering of Jesus. And I don’t want that disconnect. Holy Week, heck, all of Lent, is connected.

Suddenly, when seen this way, the whole bunny and Easter basket thing seems kind of irrelevant and petty. And the greatness that is Jesus really breaks out of the commercialism.

But this Easter is special. Very special.

We are all stuck at home, unable to join our families.

But this is not a bad thing. On this holiday, I think we appreciate what we have and what we are missing. Here’s the thing: though we cannot be with our families today, things could be a lot worse. Think of the families that lost a member and were not able to see that person because of this disease. They die in a hospital, alone. That is happening.

Here’s what I think: Easter could not have come at a better time. I think Easter is the holiday of hope and promise, not of bunnies or colored eggs.

I think Pope Francis in his Easter message said it best. The audio has sound bleed from music and another translator but the point at the end of the minute long clip is what I want to talk about:

His message is clear and powerful. I’m going to ad-lib here. the corona virus is a contagion of the lungs and body. But Jesus is the contagion of the heart. The holidays of Holy Week; Holy Thurday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter are contagions of the heart. We, Christians, are reminded of what Jesus sacrificed to save us.

Suddenly, not spending time with family and eating honey-glazed ham is not so important. A Zoom meeting with my parents, my kids and my grandkids was enough. They’re all health and that should be enough to make me happy.

 

President Trump’s Easter Message

President Trump had an Easter message for us. Listen:

I won’t lie: President Trump is clumsy with his words. But he said pretty much what I said in only 48 seconds. Have hope. We’re going to get through this and things will get better.

 

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Christmas Message

Another strong message came from Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is a realist and not the most positive guy in the world.

He said:

“I think faith means different things to different people. People with a strong foundation in faith, I think it’s very, very important when you go through serious, really terrible ordeals that the country is going through, I think faith helps people through this.”

Fauci’s father was a man who had a lot of faith in God.

“His faith was just extraordinary. I was always in awe of him. I think that there are many, many people that way. So, faith is a good thing.”

Fauci also showed hope for this virus going the way of the Dodo. Though he might have let his optimism take the better of him. We still have to think of second waves and things like that. But I appreciate it.

“It’s started to turn a corner… it’s cautious optimism that we are seeing that decrease. Once you turn that corner, hopefully we will see a very sharp decline. Then you can start thinking about how we can keep it that way and prevent it from re-surging.

“I think it could probably start at least in some ways maybe next month. We are hoping by the end of the month we can look around and say, ‘OK, is there any element here that we can safely and cautiously start pulling back on.’ If so, do it. If not, then just continue to hunker down.”

Don’t know if we’re there yet but one can, and should, hope.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-easter-sunday-dr-fauci-says-faith-plays-an-important-role-in-addressing-coronavirus-pandemic

 

Queen Elizabeth’s Easter Message During the Pandemic

Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain has also been taken out of her element because of the virus. She had to make a State of England speech, which she has only done once before. She is feeling the need to calm her country. And she should.

Boris Johnson is the leader of the country but when he was put in the hospital because of the Wuhan flu and had to put the second in command in charge of the country, the person who could control the country most is Queen Elizabeth.

Her leadership in Great Britain may be ceremonial, but her words have meaning. She also released a powerful Easter message.

Listen:

That was a beautiful speech and I have more respect for the Queen of England now more than ever.

With Trump could talk like that.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-of-england-easter-isnt-canceled-risen-christ-gives-new-hope-and-fresh-purpose

 

Andrea Bocelli Live from Duomo di Milano

 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-andrea-bocelli-wows-the-world-with-transcendent-easter-performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 149 Show Notes – Crazy!

The Left goes insane because, apparently, $2 trillion isn’t enough. That two week thing doesn’t seem to be getting steam as Trump decides to quarantine parts of the country. The Kennedy Center gets a $25 million stimulus and and does the unthinkable.  Good job Nancy.

And what things are going to change when this whole thing is over? I posed this question to my girlfriend and she came up with some interesting answers.

 

Remember: You Voted for These Guys

The $2 trillion, bipartisan wasn’t loved by all. Some on the Left thought that it didn’t go far enough. And those who didn’t like it pitched an absolute fit when the bill was changed, removing all the regulation crap that Nancy Pelosi put in it.

One person that through an absolute fit is AOC. She became really ticked off when all the Green New Deal crap was pulled out of the bill. This includes the guarantee by the airline industry be at zero carbon emissions by 2025 if they take bailout loans. How this has anything to do with the Wuhan flu. I have no idea.

Listen to her insanity. If you get the chance, go to my website and look at the video. Her arms are flailing around like a mad person.

Never let a crisis go to waste. I find it amazing that the government shuts down the economy and then the government wants to put conditions on loans to keep these businesses moving during the stopped economy.

But the insane rant of the week came from congresswoman Haley Stevens (D, Michigan). I added the entire video clip. The reason I did that is because I honestly have no idea what she is talking about or what she is trying to say. She just walked up there and started screaming for two minutes. Listen:

Any wonder why Congress hasn’t had approval rating over 20% for the last ten to fifteen years? These people are crazy and are actors, doing anything they can to get attention and power. This gal said nothing. She makes no sense. She just walked up there and started screaming.

I would have gotten the Sargent at Arms to walk up there and drag her ass out of the chamber.

President Trump has been getting a lot of crap for saying that we could be getting back to work in some parts of the country in the next two weeks and we all might be back to work by Easter, which is April 12.  I even heard that from some in my own family.

But Trump, on Saturday, said that the states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut should be quarantined. No one really knows what that means. The restrictions have already been met, especially by Gov. Cuomo in New York. In fact, this seems to be nothing more than an agreement by Trump by what Cuomo is doing.

In fact, no one is really sure what could be done if someone decided to break the quarantine. That little thing called the Constitution might get in the way. But this is an indication that Trump is listening to his advisers and is flexible enough to go against his statements for the betterment of the country.

On Sunday, Trump continued to prove that he will listen to the experts and do what needs to be done even if it means going against what he said. On Sunday, Trump said that we will not hit the peak of infection for another two weeks. We must keep being shut down for, at least, another month, throwing out the whole Easter-thing.

I guess this means I’m spending Easter with Josie.

Everyone thinks this is a bad thing. That Trump being overly positive made him lose credibility. They’re wrong. Trump needs to be positive.

Here’s to thing: we are going to get through this. But, the way Democrats and the media talk, we never will. Trump is setting way points. He’s giving us hope that this thing is going to end and it is in sight. Dr. Fauchi, his lead doctor, is the one who bring us back to reality. Trump isn’t fighting him. He’s not going to fire Dr. Fauchi. But Trump is responsible for making the people stop panicking.

The democrats want us panicking. They want the economy to stop and remain stopped until the election. They don’t care about the people. They care about power. That’s it.

Good Job, Nancy

According to the DailyWire.com, The John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts received $25 million dollars for financial assistance. This was demanded by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.

Well, the Kennedy center took that $25 million, donated $5 million to the Democratic National Committee and then laid all their musicians.

That was a great use of $25 million. Good job, Nancy!

 

How Are Our Lives Going to Change?

How are things going to change in our lives when this crap ends? I have some thoughts. I’m thinking of gathering a panel to discuss this. Just hope I can get enough people. So let’s start with me:

  • Restaurants.
  • Shaking of hands
  • Staying at home when sick.
  • Stocking up for emergencies.
  • Washing one’s hands correctly.
  • Maybe, we’ll also take a little care of each other.

 

 

Another Fun Wuhan Virus Song

 

 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/kennedy-center-lays-off-musicians-after-getting-25-million-in-stimulus-bill

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